Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread kellyremo
How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Debian install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx

Re: if the file changes send email about diff

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
The file only contains plain MAC addresses, separated with a new line: Like: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F1 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 Or: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:32 -0800 frank thyes <fr...@anotheria.net> wrote On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 05:33 -0800, kellyremo wrote: >

OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These buffers often end up acting as a bottleneck for network throughput of SC

"https is faster on amd64?"

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions per second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit kernels? is this true, or i am just misunderstanding somethi

How to set GNOME-panel to several columns if needed?

2011-02-03 Thread kellyremo
http://i.imgur.com/rUKeu.png how could i configure the GNOME-panel to have several columns [if there are many applications]? ~~like this: http://i.imgur.com/ElgAA.jpg Thank you!

internet connection tester script

2011-01-28 Thread kellyremo
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rykHdvBh bix.hu and www.yahoo.com are "pingable" test sites. 127.0.0.1 could not be pinged [firewall drops all icmp] i have a "oneliner" that echoes if theres "internet connection or no". $ ping -W 1 -c 2 bix.hu >& /dev/null && ping -W 1 -c 2 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/

NOD32 on Linux

2011-01-23 Thread kellyremo
Anyone using it? http://beta.eset.com/linux What are the experiences? Does it slows down the pc? Do we need it?

putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread kellyremo
"to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages: - Memory is way faster then HDD/SSD, so it could speed things up - "S