chmod 000/usr/sbin/artsd?
Or, in Gentoo just put -arts in the USE= section of make.conf. Then anything you install from then on will be compiled without arts support - KDE, xmms, whatever.
Just cook up a sufficently secure password that is at least 12 characters long and then use it everywhere.
Are you kidding me?
Hey, head off to my homepage, and register with your username, and your "use-everywhere" password. I'll have some fun once I've brute forced it. Perhaps my system stores the plaintext version? Or maybe I'll just sniff the HTTP, and see it there.
Just installing an OS and then letting the machine run idle for a few hours doesn't strike me as a particularly good test; for good QC you'd want heavy processor usage and disk I/O, in order to make sure that everything gets correctly stressed. That implies some sort of special software (which needs to be deleted afterwards);
What you seek is installing Gentoo from the Live CD! Plenty of disk, network, and CPU activity there.
In fact, the assumption that root will be running almost everything seems to be built into Linux and most of the Linux distributions I've used.
What?
Apart from binding to 1024 (why is that still a root requirement - can't we just disabled it?), most software doesn't need to be root. Please give me some examples. (I could be wrong, of course).
What would you think if your doctor required you to understand every medical detail of that operation you need before he does it? You trust him to know his shit, that's what you pay him for, right?
Pardon me, but not a fucking chance.
I am perfectly capable of researching and understanding medical issues, and indeed I do. Of course, I'm not a doctor, and doctors have much more training and experience than me.
However, before I take any medication, or am put for surgery, I want to understand perfectly why the doctor thinks that is what's best for me. (Emergencies notwithstanding). And I'll definitely question him, and ask tricky questions if I think he's trying to fob me off, or doesn't really understand the field he is dealing with.
Doctors are intelligent people. I'm an intelligent person. There's no reason why I can't understand what they do.
Moreover, doctors are human beings. They get tired, stressed, depressed, complacent. Two eyes/minds are always better than one.
It would not be surprising to me if Vista fails and by fails I mean that most people will stay with XP and a larger minority moving to MacOS X or Linux resulting in marketshare loses for Microsoft.
Mitchell, and Webb, for the non-UKians here do a very funny show called Peep Show which I only found out a few months ago, and have been raving about ever since!
So only emerge stable versions of software that you know are safe. Why would my compiled binary of postgres/apache/ssh/bash be any different to the Redhat/Debian version if I use the same versions, the same GCC, no crazy CFLAGS the same Glibc, etc?
I tried to like Debian. I really did. But for example, the hassle with installing mod_security for Apache on it was immense. Along with many other things, I just couldn't be bothered.
mysqldump, stop mysql, unmerge it, emerge new version, and restore?
Anyway, it sounds like you're blaming Gentoo for something that is MySQL's fault. (Assuming that the format was changed, and not just the db dir location). It's probably because you went from 3.x to 4.x or similar.
I say You-bun-too. However, I'm English, and we tend to say "yoo" in places where Americans say "oo". Stupid. Consumer. News. Although I've heard people here saying Consoomer, and Noos over here recently, which irks me.
I must say that the Slashdot way of tagging irks me. I think tags should have hyphens between words, much like they do in their "from the the-slow-down dept". Makes it more readable.
Any-tagging-stuff-I-have-to-write-will-use-hyphens as who knows what analbum is?
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from the whoops-our-bad dept.
Just out of interest, what is the etymology of "my/our bad"? Our bad what? Mistake?
Can we have a tag: usaonly?
Crap, gotta kill artsd again...
/usr/sbin/artsd?
chmod 000
Or, in Gentoo just put -arts in the USE= section of make.conf. Then anything you install from then on will be compiled without arts support - KDE, xmms, whatever.
How's the light down in that basement?
:)
Ouch
Just cook up a sufficently secure password that is at least 12 characters long and then use it everywhere.
Are you kidding me?
Hey, head off to my homepage, and register with your username, and your "use-everywhere" password. I'll have some fun once I've brute forced it. Perhaps my system stores the plaintext version? Or maybe I'll just sniff the HTTP, and see it there.
Mmm! Hayabusa!
If you love bikes, and you haven't seen these, you should.
Is it wrong that I want one of these?
Just installing an OS and then letting the machine run idle for a few hours doesn't strike me as a particularly good test; for good QC you'd want heavy processor usage and disk I/O, in order to make sure that everything gets correctly stressed. That implies some sort of special software (which needs to be deleted afterwards);
What you seek is installing Gentoo from the Live CD! Plenty of disk, network, and CPU activity there.
In fact, the assumption that root will be running almost everything seems to be built into Linux and most of the Linux distributions I've used.
What?
Apart from binding to 1024 (why is that still a root requirement - can't we just disabled it?), most software doesn't need to be root. Please give me some examples. (I could be wrong, of course).
It doesn't really matter if you're going to run "make install" as root though, does it.
What would you think if your doctor required you to understand every medical detail of that operation you need before he does it? You trust him to know his shit, that's what you pay him for, right?
Pardon me, but not a fucking chance.
I am perfectly capable of researching and understanding medical issues, and indeed I do. Of course, I'm not a doctor, and doctors have much more training and experience than me.
However, before I take any medication, or am put for surgery, I want to understand perfectly why the doctor thinks that is what's best for me. (Emergencies notwithstanding). And I'll definitely question him, and ask tricky questions if I think he's trying to fob me off, or doesn't really understand the field he is dealing with. Doctors are intelligent people. I'm an intelligent person. There's no reason why I can't understand what they do.
Moreover, doctors are human beings. They get tired, stressed, depressed, complacent. Two eyes/minds are always better than one.
I think I heard the same thing when XP came out.
Mitchell, and Webb, for the non-UKians here do a very funny show called Peep Show which I only found out a few months ago, and have been raving about ever since!
So only emerge stable versions of software that you know are safe. Why would my compiled binary of postgres/apache/ssh/bash be any different to the Redhat/Debian version if I use the same versions, the same GCC, no crazy CFLAGS the same Glibc, etc?
I tried to like Debian. I really did. But for example, the hassle with installing mod_security for Apache on it was immense. Along with many other things, I just couldn't be bothered.
mysqldump, stop mysql, unmerge it, emerge new version, and restore?
Anyway, it sounds like you're blaming Gentoo for something that is MySQL's fault. (Assuming that the format was changed, and not just the db dir location). It's probably because you went from 3.x to 4.x or similar.
The most well known nuclear power station is still unblurred.
Let's see these "qualifications" you have then....
Are you? I'd always read you as being 40ish from your posts.
A sort of grumpy, gruff, bearded, cynical UNIX admin, who doesn't like this young upstart Linux.
Tell me I'm right!
Do you say Me-xi-co, or Mexico? Espan~a, or Spain?
What about: In the past, I have never been to Borneo.
I'd heard of Ardour, but I think I'll give Rosegarden a try. Thanks for the tip...
I say You-bun-too. However, I'm English, and we tend to say "yoo" in places where Americans say "oo". Stupid. Consumer. News. Although I've heard people here saying Consoomer, and Noos over here recently, which irks me.
From the page: Adobe Flash Player Download Center Linux (x86)
Notice that? Not everyone running Linux uses x86. Now shut up.
It is in the UK.
I must say that the Slashdot way of tagging irks me. I think tags should have hyphens between words, much like they do in their "from the the-slow-down dept". Makes it more readable.s as who knows what analbum is?
Any-tagging-stuff-I-have-to-write-will-use-hyphen