Since this thread is too old to resurrect, I have to make a new one. I said that I had yet to find a scenario where mounting /tmp as noexec...
Needing a DHCP server running just means you need to go into your router's settings and enable DHCP for the local network. Usually this is on by...
The biggest tell used to be Flash and Java revealing your GPU driver as Oracle or VMWare. Now on the Jondonym test and Browserspy.dk the GPU...
Re: Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords There is certainly a reciprocal relationship between different areas of government...
Re: Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords There's a lot of ambiguity here. In plain English, if your password is "divulged" to...
~ Snipped as per TOS ~ Anyone know what hashing algo they used on pw's?
Don't Windows Live accounts do this too? What about Apple and Amazon/Kindle?
If you want to learn it, the Bodhi guide is great and there are a lot of blogs and Nixcraft articles on Iptables. But as a regular user you...
This is as fascinating as it is scary, can't wait to hear more about it. This was one of my first thoughts too. Rope 'em Stuxnet style!
Another vote for Maya. LTS stability is always welcome and unless you need a specific version of something in Nadia, the biggest difference...
@Elapsed Good article, thanks for posting. Never seen that site before. @Dave This should be helpful. It's for Firefox and forks, put the url...
HTTPS would encrypt the web traffic, but server logs will still show when you made the connection, and the IP you made it from. Then you can...
Which will generally do more to protect/hide than nearly anything else in that list. Most of that stuff doesn't mean much when the claws are as...
Their mail exchange servers are one each in Norway, Netherlands and Iceland. http://ip-lookup.net/?82.221.99.153 Thanks for posting, updated...
Always nice to see another solid Mint release. An added treat is that Cinnamon 1.8 should be backported into Maya and Nadia any time now.
Thanks for the code snippet. Most cover art methods of browsing I saw were like you describe. Rhythmbox, Quod Libet, Gmusicbrowser, and Clementine...
If you want to get creative you can Mintify Xubuntu pretty easily and that certainly beats replacing what you've already installed, IMO. You...
You made a valiant effort Mrk. Thanks for the rant. Something's gotta give. Hopefully progress comes from this rolling release business we...
Everyone loves a good media player. In Userland, managing your music library is more important than kernels, ASLR, ACLs or any of that lame stuff....
Upgraded an Xubuntu 12.10 machine with no problems. Boot time is noticeably faster and some heavy-ish programs (Libreoffice, Vbox, Banshee) seem...
@Blueshoes Package management is package management, not simply installing & uninstalling programs. Nearly anyone is familiar enough already with...
The Iron Man movies come to mind here. 3D touch environments which makes me think back 15 years watching Star Trek Next Generation and someone...
Does that mean this Blue build affects all the other Start Menu programs too? I don't know anything about how they work.
Yes, Gnome 3.4. The package gnome-shell-core will give you MUCH less other Gnome bloat than the full gnome metapackage. Even then you can use...
That was a large part of why Mint Debian went to the semi-rolling release. It's more stable than Debian Wheezy, which is what Mint Debian was...
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