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Forum: Linux Chat 15th June 2013, 12:29 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 325
Posted By stevea
Re: Encrypted email client

T'bird and Evo' (probably others) will manage cert based crypto w/o any plugins.
Forum: Using Fedora 13th June 2013, 04:55 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 264
Posted By stevea
Re: systemd: how to see and configure what's enabled in each "runlevel"?

systemctl show --no-pager -p "Wants" runlevel0.target
Forum: Servers & Networking 13th June 2013, 04:11 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 692
Posted By stevea
Re: Cannot resolve DNS on first attempt

No - the reported problem was that the first DNS request failed; it's perfectly normal (or are least common) for routers to not retun a falure report when the hopcount is exceeded (which is how...
Forum: Wibble 12th June 2013, 04:57 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,101
Posted By stevea
Re: 5 Shocking (But Not Surprising) Things About Microsoft

Exactly - there were FOUR 2:1 stock splits (a factor of 8) between 1995 and the present.
The peak share price for M$ on a split adjusted basis was in late 1999, at almost $60 compared to today's...
Forum: Using Fedora 12th June 2013, 02:43 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 408
Posted By stevea
Re: bitcoin rpm ??

Well this isn't a wibble, but ....

Despite the Fed printing (and even more in Japan) we are not seeing much inflation (yet?). So that argument doesn't hold water. To understand inflation you...
Forum: Hardware & Laptops 12th June 2013, 01:29 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 778
Posted By stevea
Re: Hardware to avoid?

ABSOLUTELY - Broadcom does not support Linux well in their wifi driver/firmware. I've used these on a job project and worked closely w/ the driver and it's a nightmare. Worse than RealTek !


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Forum: Hardware & Laptops 12th June 2013, 12:26 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 778
Posted By stevea
Re: Hardware to avoid?

Aside from Vid - I'd TRY to avoid Realtek network parts.
The wired stuff 'mostly works' but maybe with issues and certainly mediocre to poor performance.
Some Realtek wifi interfaces stink to the...
Forum: Wibble 11th June 2013, 11:44 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 439
Posted By stevea
Re: Network Theory Gaps

The two links above are lousy - not general networking info.
One is a Linux/Unix oriented view of packet filtering/firewall (nearly useless aside from Lin*,Uni*)
The other is strictly about...
Forum: Servers & Networking 11th June 2013, 11:16 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 462
Posted By stevea
Re: NFS mounts and permissions

I actually implemented an NFSv4 client on few year back (on a non-Linux OS) but I can't remember the admin details either. Certainly the idmap.conf and the 'fake' domains are part of the picture BUT...
Forum: Security and Privacy 8th June 2013, 02:41 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

There isn't. even in theory any way to calculate entropy of an existing password. OTOH it's obvious that a username like 'joe' is vastly more guessable than a username like '2gq},vt%L'

The max...
Forum: Hardware & Laptops 8th June 2013, 02:16 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 564
Posted By stevea
Re: Best way to keep a patched kernel?

It looks to me like you only need to patch the i915.ko drive which is compiled as a module. So you just need to pull the source for that one module, apply the patch and build against the kernel...
Forum: Security and Privacy 8th June 2013, 01:09 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

Yes, generally (15+ w/ upper/lower case + numbers (punctuation is a plus) is going to exceed nominal 100 bits of entropy and probably 120 bits). BUT the characters need to be unpredictable. You...
Forum: Security and Privacy 8th June 2013, 12:43 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

Sorry joe - that was me trying trivial passwds. I see you've taken the system offline.
no offense meant either way.
Forum: Security and Privacy 8th June 2013, 12:20 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

No ! IF you were willing to use high-entropy usernames and IF you had a mechanism to make he usernames secret from others & processes (Linux does not, some secure BSDs have a passwd.shadow and other...
Forum: Security and Privacy 7th June 2013, 10:45 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

The firewall entries allow an incoming packet to reach the stack on that port (tcp or udp). BUT your system can send any outgoing packets AND if you establish a TCP connection (as with http & https)...
Forum: Security and Privacy 7th June 2013, 10:19 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

That's security-by-obscurity - not real security. If anyone believed your method was useful, then you should select a 'hard' username like '2bOZsQCaHp7QnTV761WZ' but that's nonsense. The other...
Forum: Security and Privacy 7th June 2013, 09:41 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

You and I agree, but it is a minority view. When ppl read security articles they learn to fear the root account. This is important on a multi-user system or one that manages data or accounts for...
Forum: Using Fedora 7th June 2013, 07:40 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 374
Posted By stevea
Re: SSD filled until it's full

The 'discard' mount option IS the TRIM option. It allows the kernel to TRIM deleted blocks from the fs mounted that way. It works thru LVM and mdadm in recent kernels. The manual 'fstrim' command...
Forum: Security and Privacy 7th June 2013, 06:38 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,519
Posted By stevea
Re: How Safe Am I?

IF you aren't running a webserver, then why are you leaving port 80 open ?
Have you configured ssh to be available on port 80 ?
That's the primary flaw I see here.

Personally I would disable...
Forum: Wibble 7th June 2013, 10:11 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 992
Posted By stevea
Re: Steve Bummer says REORGANIZE

M$ has already experienced a decade+ of flat stock prices, and now it's obvious to even the dullest that M$ must change So when Balmer says "wer're gonna change x, y & z" he's just regurgitating...
Forum: Hardware & Laptops 6th June 2013, 10:10 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 617
Posted By stevea
Re: SD card reader doesn't work

I'm glad you found and answer and that you reported the form of solution - that's generous to the community (that also serves you).

NO -you did not give the info I asked for - the info that...
Forum: Wibble 6th June 2013, 09:50 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,101
Posted By stevea
Re: 5 Shocking (But Not Surprising) Things About Microsoft

Right - they don't care abt ~20% of their $71B revenues (ignoring games for another ~12%). :blink:




Very bad simile - if you believe as sidebrnz does that elephants can't tapdance, then...
Forum: Using Fedora 6th June 2013, 05:14 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 374
Posted By stevea
Re: SSD filled until it's full

BTW - *IF* it is in the file system, and is a single large file, then this command will show the ten largest files currently opened

lsof -s | cut -b 63- | sort -n | uniq | tail -10

May get you...
Forum: Using Fedora 6th June 2013, 04:57 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 374
Posted By stevea
Re: SSD filled until it's full

"Disk usage analyzer" is the binary called 'baobab' will help you find anything growing n the filesystem space
BUT I think you have a different problem.

It's completely abnormal for a reboot to...
Forum: Hardware & Laptops 6th June 2013, 04:33 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 617
Posted By stevea
Re: SD card reader doesn't work

Just an FYI for next time.
It REALLY helps to include all the context info.

lspci is nearly useless. You always want to post "lspci -nnk" so we can see the drier installed and the device ID....
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