From: Nuno L. <lu...@nl...> - 2004-09-29 01:06:26
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Joe Wells, dando pulos de alegria, escreveu : > Where is the "/PAE" switch supplied? How can I tell if it is on? How > can I tell if my machine has DEP/NX (and what is this anyway?)? As Steve Frank said, the "/PAE" switch is a boot.ini configuration switch. They are for servers usage, not normal users, so not documented in normal user documentation. DEP is the new SP2 security feature that protects from some virus, by using the NX feature that some new processors have. Basically, it avoids some buffer overflow exploits, by not allowing to execute code from normal memory. This feature is mostly only present on AMD64 processors. > I'm currently afraid to upgrade to SP2 (it's just sitting on my hard > disk waiting for me to click on the little icon in the tray) because I > don't understand the implications of this issue. You should be safe to upgrade (and I would recommend you, as many other security fixes are included). If you don't have an AMD64, PAE will not be enabled by default, so current colinux versions will work ok. Regards, ~Nuno Lucas |