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by dfa0 12y ago
Why does a dog lick his balls?
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by dfa0 12y ago
Wow, this costs more than a Chromebook!
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by dfa0 12y ago
Xubuntu is the simpliest,light-weight choice that still has a lot of functionality available if you want to turn it on. I am grateful for this choice.
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by dfa0 12y ago
I know upgrades are supposed to work, but they almost never go 100% percent right. Use dpkg/synaptic to backup your installed packages and backup your /home...then commit to the time to going fresh install. If you use LTS release
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by dfa0 12y ago
The reason to secure your network is a good reason to secure your car. Your network and your car can/will be used by bad guys to do bad things. You should care.
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by dfa0 12y ago
Ciphers to avoid DSS, MD5/RC4, SHA-1. Ciphers to prefer ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256 A pretty good source/guide: https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-cip... You'll need
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by dfa0 12y ago
Another reminder to use strong, non-default credentials on something that is the edge of your network. I'm still amazed by how many people drive around leaving their cars unlocked.
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by dfa0 12y ago
Yeah, but the American dreams is to have one good idea and milk it for the rest of your natural life, then pass on the rights to your offspring who can milk it...and so on. That way you can exponentially create useless people.
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by dfa0 12y ago
We don't know how much oil exists,but we do know it is finite. The sun's energy will out last us all, millions of times over. Plants have it figured out. We should ask them. Plus what happens when we are ready to leave Earth? S
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by dfa0 12y ago
Vote with your bits[and dollars] if you disagree. Nerd rage alone is fruitless without tangible follow-thru.
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by dfa0 12y ago
Slashdot beta, a new redesign, is causing quite a stir these days amongst the vocal majority.
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by dfa0 12y ago
I had no idea about IIS using a different implementation. The More You Know...
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by dfa0 12y ago
If it was your sole purpose in life to bust dams, and then suddenly you were given a cache of unlimited dynamite...what would you do? To the point, when the nature of a thing is to foo and you remove all obstacles from that event, expect po
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by dfa0 12y ago
He's running on a Windows box?[IIS]
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by dfa0 12y ago
/4chan mode off/
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by dfa0 12y ago
When companies stop focusing on innovation, they start focusing on the bottom line so anything without a easily visible revenue stream gets cut. aka short-sighted thinking is the final stage of most business before sale to the chop shop.
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by dfa0 12y ago
I know/have-worked-with too many MDs to believe that they are also hackers. I am contending that the hacker is the missing part here.
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by dfa0 12y ago
I use hacker here is a broader sense than someone who writes an app for $platform and names it $-er(terminated with r instead of er).
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by dfa0 12y ago
Just imagine if we had a few thousand hackers working on this stuff full-time, what could be accomplished. Here's hoping it happens.
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by dfa0 12y ago
Much easier to just manipulate the brain... It is how a large portion of this country works already.
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by dfa0 12y ago
On a linux box: [For each set of certs used for each of your public facing sites...] 1. Open a terminal[cd into] /etc/path_to_ssl_certs_folder[per site]. Ex. /etc/ssl/nginx 2. Regen the certs [example nginx mail ser