I store certain information on my server rather than on my local PC. For example, I may have passwords that I either want to access from multiple locations* or that I want shared with other individuals. To ensure that the passwords are not compromised, I encrypt it with the public keys of whomever should have [...]
Categories: Shell Scripting,Uncategorized
Tagged: cryptography, gpg, pgp, security
The GNU General Public License is a free software license (one of many) created to protect the four essential freedoms of software users. Those freedoms are: Freedom 0. the freedom to use the software for any purpose, Freedom 1. the freedom to change the software to suit your needs, Freedom 2. the freedom to share [...]
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I recently read this story on Slashdot: Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers The idea is that Microsoft wants to create a system whereby it will gather physical statistics on a user and alter the game play around those characteristics. For example, as the article mentioned, an obese player may be cut off from [...]
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When BETA testing Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), I noticed that the whole boot process wasn’t so fast. This was primarily due to Grub 2 hanging for nearly 35 seconds each boot. I haven’t the time to figure out what Grub is trying to do in that amount of time, but I did notice a solution. I [...]
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For security purposes, I don’t run sshd on the default port (22). This gave me some problems when attempting to use the command ssh-copy-id. Ideally, you’d expect the following to work: 1 ssh-copy-id -p XXXX -i ‘~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’ username@host However, that didn’t do anything but output an error: Bad port ‘umask 077; test -d .ssh || [...]
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This is an issue that has irritated me enough that I feel I should post my work-around. On Ubuntu (I’m not sure since what version – I’m currently using 9.04 Jaunty), I’ve noticed that every once in a while, gnome-screensaver would hang when I tried to log back in. Let me clarify a little. When [...]
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For a while, I was having a problem on my Ubuntu server. After creating a user, I noticed that tab completion didn’t work properly. In fact, it went so far as to output an error:
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“ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now.” – More information here The name of the treaty sounds innocent enough, but what are they not telling you? This [...]
Categories: Free Software,Uncategorized
Tagged: Free Software, FSF, liberties
Some time ago, while using Gentoo, I modified the kernel to stop a wireless problem I had been having and forgot to make a post about it. Now, I’ve switched by to Ubuntu (didn’t have time to administer Gentoo and compile everything, and I missed Ubuntu). Luckily, version 8.10 BETA was released just a few [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux,Uncategorized
Ah – the weather in NY is finally starting to look up. I’m sure it’ll be a while yet before it is consistantly warm, however it gives me a wonderful glimpse of how things will be. In spring/summer, the quality of my work (as well as quantity) tends to increase. Hopefully this means MyCustomBB will [...]
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Tagged: MyCustomBB
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