killall -9 *orrent*
rm -rf/mnt/storage/downloads/*
There, I should be safe now.
Personally, I would prepare and then light some thermite on top of the hard disk and wait for the resulting white hot iron to burn through the case and melt the platters before I would rest easy.
We do that, we lose our support (not allowed to use "non-authorised parts" from a "non-authorised supplier"). How would they even find out? (unless someone tells them)
My educational background was in C/C++ programming (command line on Unix systems) and during and immediately following school most of my hobby programming was in Borland C++ Builder. About 2 years ago I discovered PHP and went wild with that.
My story is very similar, only I learned PHP first and then moved on to C++. (Like you, I started with Linux command line apps) Before I learned how to use Eclipse, I used Kate for my C++ work (and even Vim once or twice!)
For PHP coding, I've grown quite accustomed to Bluefish.
I've had the Ubuntu installer (and things like qtparted/gparted) break NTFS partitions to the point of being unbootable by resizing them to free up space. Has this been fixed?
I found out later that you need ntfs-resize (part of ntfsprogs package) to resize NTFS safely, and for some reason, it was not included by default, IIRC.
If I'm ever downright paranoid about keeping something really important secure, I prepare several GPG keys (4096 bit) and encrypt the data, and then encrypt the encrypted text, again and again. I then keep the different keys in different places, so to read my message someone would have to acquire multiple private keys and passwords.
I don't like to blame the victim but who clicks a link in an email? Really.
More people than you think. Many of them aren't sophisticated enough to look at the URL of the site they are about to visit and notice the absence of the proper domain. Something like http://95.32.56.224/to/be/or/not/to/be/sucker.html (example, not an actual link) definitely isn't Paypal, but they don't figure that out until their browser (hopefully) sends up the phishing flag.
to the point where I stopped checking email on a regular basis from a few accounts due to the insane amounts of spam I got
Are you able to set up Spamassassin for any of those accounts? (it can even run client side through some email apps) I've been using it for awhile now and on a fairly dense setting (level 2) it gets practically all of my spam, and still lets the good stuff through.
people will not be able to save because of the Fed's efforts to prevent saving from occurring.
Many people don't save because there is no real incentive to save anymore. These days, the average bank around me (So Cal) offers roughly 3% or less for savings accounts. CDs are slightly better, but not by much. Am I supposed to be grateful for that? (inflation aside) When I put my money in the bank, the bank makes much more off of it than I do by loaning it out to other people at prime rate or better. Why should I help banks make money in return for a pittance when my money can be put to work more effectively elsewhere?
The only way to get ahead is to invest in appreciating assets. IRAs and 401Ks are good for supplementing a well-rounded investment portfolio, but there's no way I would stake my entire future in them alone.
Why don't they hire people who know what they're doing instead of picking just whoever off monster.com or whatever idiotic thing they did that resulted in such a pathetic state of security? If I ran the IT systems for them, I'd say you really know what you're doing or you're fired and that's that.
I have a hunch that it's simply because the good people aren't willing to work for what the Pentagon is willing to pay. Public sector jobs are very seldom as lucrative as what can be found at the right places in the private sector.
You will see reams and reams of crapware installed on linux PCs too if it ever takes off. Even Apple can't resist pushing their.Mac at you and putting some trial applications on the machine.
However, unlike Windows, a clean generic copy of your distro can be had from the internet for practically nothing (aside from the trivial costs of a cd-r disc and the power and bandwidth used to obtain and burn it) and still be a completely legit replacement for the OEM version.
It's much different from having to torrent a clean copy of Windows to replace your crapware-tainted OEM version.
Think of it in the terms of the English major, you know, those dime-a-dozen students who will end up working at Burger King and Mr. Chows Empire Chinese Buffet, or they go to Hollywood to work as waitresses while they wait for their big break. The English major takes a load of literature, English, American, Russian, Manga, and poetry from Bacon/Shakespeare to Ginsberg to Hughes to Tupac, and writing from haiku to freestyle with a goofy footed pentameter (trademark and patent pending). None of this is particularly helpful to someone who wants to come out of school with business writing skills.
You're thinking of an English major with a special emphasis on literature, which is indeed quite useless unless you are planning to go into education. Other subsets of the English major don't cover literature that deeply. For example, I am an English major with special emphasis on rhetoric and composition (which is mainly business writing) and I am also a fully certified technical writer. I only needed two classes on literature to get my diploma; the rest of my classes were of a more practical nature.
As a bonus, I have several years of CS stuff under my belt, so I could probably do that as well.
And besides, Alabama is almost like a 3rd world country.
Alabama does have poor areas, but so does every state. On the flip side of the coin, There are upscale places in Alabama, just like any other state. (The Mountain Brook suburb outside of Birmingham, for example. Parts of Hoover, Vestavia, and Homewood also stand out)
In its current stable build, (the one released with Gutsy) Dolphin is simply not ready to replace Konqueror. Dolphin lacks basic things like tabs and tree view, essential in any serious file manager. I also really miss the "copy to" and "move to" features that are on the Konqueror file manager context menu, but not the dolphin menu. The new bookmarks pane in Dolphin is currently useless to me because I can't move files around by dragging to it (dragging a file onto the home folder icon, for example, does not copy the file to the home folder but instead adds it to the panel), and without tabs, it just isn't that useful.
I used Dolphin for about a month before I went back to Konqueror as my file manager. Nautilus is also good if you like a simpler interface, but in terms of features, Konqueror is one of the best file managers that human civilization has ever created.
Otherwise the salespeople are the same caliber as what you find at BB/CC/CompUSA, but they think that they're better than their counterparts.
And that's only if you get a good one. When I was younger and more naive, one of their sales reps outright lied to me about a laptop warranty, and I ended up paying $200 (pure profit for them) for what basically amounted to nothing. He said that the extended warranty covered physical damage, (complete with a loaner PC) but it turned out that it only covered software damage (i.e. windows reinstall, which I had been doing myself for years) The sales guy said anything he had to to get the sale, and now he's in the wind, never to be seen again.
The markup on their stuff is pretty bad, and while I've never been burned on their rebates in the past, I know people who have been.
I hope Frys enjoyed that $200, it's the last they will ever get from me. Eternity will come and go before I ever step into a Fry's again.
I've been running Ubuntu (since Edgy) on my laptop for about a year now with heavy use and my laptop works as well as it did on the day I got it.
I known for awhile that having the "laptop mode" option enabled in/etc/default/acpi-support can be bad for your drive, but it is disabled by default.
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For PHP coding, I've grown quite accustomed to Bluefish.
I've had the Ubuntu installer (and things like qtparted/gparted) break NTFS partitions to the point of being unbootable by resizing them to free up space. Has this been fixed?
I found out later that you need ntfs-resize (part of ntfsprogs package) to resize NTFS safely, and for some reason, it was not included by default, IIRC.
If I'm ever downright paranoid about keeping something really important secure, I prepare several GPG keys (4096 bit) and encrypt the data, and then encrypt the encrypted text, again and again. I then keep the different keys in different places, so to read my message someone would have to acquire multiple private keys and passwords.
Packet sniffing would also be a way to find out.
More people than you think. Many of them aren't sophisticated enough to look at the URL of the site they are about to visit and notice the absence of the proper domain. Something like http://95.32.56.224/to/be/or/not/to/be/sucker.html (example, not an actual link) definitely isn't Paypal, but they don't figure that out until their browser (hopefully) sends up the phishing flag.
The only way to get ahead is to invest in appreciating assets. IRAs and 401Ks are good for supplementing a well-rounded investment portfolio, but there's no way I would stake my entire future in them alone.
It's much different from having to torrent a clean copy of Windows to replace your crapware-tainted OEM version.
I think that force choke and/or lightning would be a more suitable thing to use against the RIAA.
As a bonus, I have several years of CS stuff under my belt, so I could probably do that as well.
The method in TFA sounds like it would really scratch up whatever you're trying to test. Is there a way to run a test without damaging the object?
Is the iDisk connection encrypted, or is it wide open?
This sounds like a job that some sort of graphical SSH frontend could do better. (since OS X has ssh support built in)
In its current stable build, (the one released with Gutsy) Dolphin is simply not ready to replace Konqueror. Dolphin lacks basic things like tabs and tree view, essential in any serious file manager. I also really miss the "copy to" and "move to" features that are on the Konqueror file manager context menu, but not the dolphin menu. The new bookmarks pane in Dolphin is currently useless to me because I can't move files around by dragging to it (dragging a file onto the home folder icon, for example, does not copy the file to the home folder but instead adds it to the panel), and without tabs, it just isn't that useful.
I used Dolphin for about a month before I went back to Konqueror as my file manager. Nautilus is also good if you like a simpler interface, but in terms of features, Konqueror is one of the best file managers that human civilization has ever created.
Never fear, most of it seems to be mirrored at archive.org.
The markup on their stuff is pretty bad, and while I've never been burned on their rebates in the past, I know people who have been.
I hope Frys enjoyed that $200, it's the last they will ever get from me. Eternity will come and go before I ever step into a Fry's again.
I've been running Ubuntu (since Edgy) on my laptop for about a year now with heavy use and my laptop works as well as it did on the day I got it. I known for awhile that having the "laptop mode" option enabled in /etc/default/acpi-support can be bad for your drive, but it is disabled by default.