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| location | San Francisco, CA | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | May 13 at 13:22 | |
| stats | profile views | 6 |
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Apr 26 |
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Universal extractors This is exceptionally aesthetically pleasing for a shell function. One caveat would be that you'd want to make sure you've got all the relevant binaries installed, or remove lines for those you don't have installed. |
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Feb 25 |
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How can I install Skype in Fedora 14 64 bits? How about yum install libXv.i686 ? |
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Oct 23 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 23 |
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When does the Puppy linux security model make sense? The few network services installed by default on Ubuntu or other popular Linux distributions are a trivial vulnerability. Running as root by default is a more significant vulnerability, though significantly mitigated if running an OS from a LiveCD. It is not necessary to run as root if running an OS from a LiveCD, however. |
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Oct 23 |
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When does the Puppy linux security model make sense? "Shields Up" simply checks the status of a range of ports, as a test for a security problem common on Windows installations ten years ago. Modern operating systems only open ports when they have system services listening on those ports. |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jan 12 |
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Why is bash standard on Linux? As I understand, the POSIX standard specifies required features for the Bourne shell, at /bin/sh, and most Linux distributions depend upon shell scripts written to use the Bourne shell. BASH is at base an enhanced version of the Bourne shell, and /bin/sh is actually a link to /bin/bash, that when executed runs with just the Bourne shell features. |
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Dec 29 |
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Any way to restart a Linux machine via SSH if the root filesystem is not working? That sounds interesting -- but isn't there a considerable security risk involved? Allowing a server to be rebooted via a single ICMP packet seems like a denial-of-service attack waiting to happen. |
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Oct 16 |
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What is the proper way to automate SSH/local command? When ssh is used to pass commands, it automatically closes the client session when the commands complete. |
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Oct 16 |
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games directory? @Gilles, on my Ubuntu system, I notice most of the files in /usr/games are owned by root:root, with the usual permissions. Two are owned by root:games, with the "set group ID" flag. |
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Oct 16 |
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games directory? @uray, yes, it's "games" as in entertainment and fun stuff. There are occasionally programs that are useful but have a whimsical element, such as xcowsay, which causes a pop-up graphic of a cow with a text message for a user. |
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Oct 16 |
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“supervisory” software for school rooms Ubuntu includes by default the packages vino, a VNC server, and vinagre, a VNC client. vino can be configured within a GNOME GUI interface; it has to be explicitly set to allow remote connections, optionally with a password. Finding the config file, and editing it on each workstation via a shell script, might be best, but if there are only a small number of student computers, it may be easier to go from computer to computer and set it by hand. |
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Sep 29 |
answered | Is there ever a reason to use `cat` when you've got `less`? |
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Sep 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 8 |
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Does mkswap check that a partition is a swap partition before formatting it? The virtual swap space is enctypted with a randomly generated key which doesn't persist between reboots, so the virtual swap space has to be re-created with a new key at each boot. |
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Sep 7 |
asked | Does mkswap check that a partition is a swap partition before formatting it? |
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Sep 3 |
awarded | Teacher |
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May 25 |
awarded | Scholar |
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May 25 |
accepted | Do rndc keys expire after a year? |
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May 25 |
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Do rndc keys expire after a year? At this point, I'll have to write the issue off as an odd glitch that cleared up with a restart. |
