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Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:21:08 +0200

On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 10:59:02AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:34:02 +0200
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > 
> > > Don't rely on that.  The OS can create a paging file whenever it sees
> > > fit, your configuration notwithstanding.  E.g., what do you think
> > > happens when your laptop hibernates?
> > 
> > My OS doesn't create "paging files". I told it not to. "Hibernation"
> > only happens to RAM (so it's actually a deep sleep).
> > 
> > Perhaps under Windows you, the user, have no say over all of this.
> > With a civilised OS you do :-)
> 
> Famous last words.
> 
> Seriously: you should talk to your CISO, if you have one.  You _think_
> you control everything on your "civilised" OS, but that's an illusion.
> Unless you build your machines yourself, from the ground up, and also
> code all the software that runs on it.

You just moved the goalposts. We had it about paging files (which in
my case would be a partition, but I disgress). I control that. I don't
control the IME, alas.

At my current employer we haven't a CISO, we are too small (or well,
I'm half of that, of sorts).

Cheers

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