Which ports? I think people misunderstand how that works. The timeout is limited to the shell session you have open -- it does not effect...
If you're on dial-up maybe. For me, it takes 10-15 seconds to download.
Never been a problem for me.
No. Think of it like this: / is the root of the filesystem. Everything branches out, like a tree, from it. Every directory under / will be...
Hopefully your contact revoked his key on the keyservers. Because once the keys are uploaded, they cannot be deleted. They must be revoked by...
NSA invented SELinux! And it is not a "version" of Linux -- it is a kernel patch the NSA developed to provide Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) and...
LOL double LOL ROFL Double ROFL Please God don't let your friend be someone within the DoD tasked with protecting computer...
Easy. Don't use Windows. Problem solved.
Only problem with Banshee is it's written in C# using Mono. A lot of Linux FOSS purists hate that for ideological reasons (mainly that M$ owns C#...
I get them all the time. Sometimes I will see 500 messages suppressed, etc.. Also, PA wont play my system sounds. I actually hate PA but I...
I like the new Ubuntu a lot, and this is coming from a guy who used to build his OS from Gentoo stage3 tarballs. I just like the ease of use and...
You don't have to manually partition but I recommend it. The reason being is that it's good to have a separate /home partition for your personal...
Exaile is an Amarok clone (or tries to be) and I find it pretty good in functionality but just ugly in interface. That leaves Audacious,...
Chkdsk is next to worthless because M$ doesn't document really how it works, doesn't open the source code, etc. Further, none of the error...
LOL You are designing encryption software and have never even heard of Diffie-Hellman public-key cryptography? That is bad, very bad. That's...
Yes, the GnuPG forums are where you want to go. A lot of real experts (developers, cryptologists, etc.) post there and also answer newb questions...
I use Gmail e-mail encryption all the time with the Enigmail PGP plugin for Thunderbird. You don't have to use FireGPG as Gmail can be configured...
Ubuntu automatically installs logrotate which automatically rotates the logs. If you go into /var/log and see a bunch of *.tar.gz files, those...
Use BSD or OpenSolaris so that you can get the benefits of ZFS. It's an amazing filesystem developed by Sun that no one else can touch. You can...
Easier would be to just use Virtualbox in Windows and install Mint there. it will be faster than a LiveCD and not as much hassle as setting up a...
Yep. Any encryption software that does not make its source code available just simply cannot be trusted. Two of the world's leading...
This is why SSL sucks and should never be trusted for anything really sensitive. The whole third-party certificate authority idea is just a bad...
I don't really care about this as i use Linux and GnuPG for my e-mail encryption and LUKS-dm-crypt for WDE. What does concern me is that Symantec...
That's bull. Linux works better OOTB than Windows does because it has more drivers. When I install a Linux distro, I don't have to do anything...
Kind of ironic isn't it? The AV industry is partly responsible for this madness. If it weren't for them telling people they need AV, people...
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