Not too long ago, I bought a Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, thinking that this
amount of horsepower thrown at the Firefox problem would make it go away.
Wrong, I was still seeing sluggish 2000ms+ response time to such simple things
as pulling up a dropdown or even echoing characters in a form. The proc
On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
>
> A few of my public-facing Linux systems have been compromised over the
> years, usually through old versions of server software. However, none of
> my SELinux-protected systems have been compromised to date.
I've had two. One was a remote NFS e
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:28:18PM -0400, MBR wrote:
>
> My question is, what do typical Linux users do WRT protecting their
> systems from malware?
Use good passwords. Shut down services you aren't using. Use a
firewall as another line of protection. Use NoScript and AdBlock
or the equivalents
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:44:52PM -0400, MBR wrote:
> On 7/20/2011 8:01 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > Macintosh is a much harder target than Windows/NT simply because of
> > the OS architecture. Similarly, Linux is a harder target than Windows
> > for reasons similar to Macintosh.
> Besides the f
On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:44 PM, MBR wrote:
>
> Besides the fact that users generally aren't logged in as root, what
> other aspects of the Unix/Mac/Linux architecture make Unix a harder
> target than Windows?
The oldest security flaw in Windows/NT, from 4.0 onward, has nothing to do with
being lo
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 19:28 -0400, MBR wrote:
> My question is, what do typical Linux users do WRT protecting their
> systems from malware?
A few of my public-facing Linux systems have been compromised over the
years, usually through old versions of server software. However, none of
my SELinux-pr
On 7/20/2011 8:01 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Macintosh is a much harder target than Windows/NT simply because of
> the OS architecture. Similarly, Linux is a harder target than Windows
> for reasons similar to Macintosh.
Besides the fact that users generally aren't logged in as root, what
other
WRT the "if you use X then you may be vulnerable" type of
vulnerabilities, is that why Ubuntu switched to Wayland?
Mark
P.S - That's a joke, I say, that's a joke, son. -- Foghorn Leghorn
P.P.S. - Thanks for the quick answer.
On 7/20/2011 8:01 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2011, at 7
On Jul 20, 2011, at 7:28 PM, MBR wrote:
>
> There's a general belief that Macs aren't
> targeted as much as Windows systems are. Also, the fact that you're
> generally not logged in as root limits the potential damage.
More the latter than the former. There *is* Macintosh malware out there, b
Basically the same thing you do for Mac. Nothing.
It is possible for java related malware to find its way onboard, but I
have never seen it.
If you are paranoid about it, turn off java in your browser.
Poeple also do run AVR on Linux systems, but typically it is for
scanning files shared
with wi
Although I've done software development under various flavors of Unix
since 1980, I haven't done much administration on anything Unix-like in
a long time. And for the past decade or so I've used laptops running
some flavor of Windows. Currently I'm still on XP.
Having just installed Ubuntu (N
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:56:56PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> While I'm on this winning streak, let me ask one question I've never
> been able to get an answer on: I *HATE* the fact that all these iptables
> log messages take over /var/log/messages. I've seen ways of writing
> them elsewhere in
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