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Ubuntu is a live CD that can also install itself. For gamming try cedega. It's free even though their website would make you think otherwise. I don't do much gamming but it's ran everything just fine. (ps: America's Army installs nativly in Linux) Btw, Ubuntu defaultly installs gnome. You can also check out other desktops such as KDE. Diferent people have their preferences, some like gnome, KDE, whatever. The only thing I dont like about Ubuntu is that it installs almost no software (of course, WIndows doesn't install anything). You'd expect things like whois to be default -- and it doesn';t even install firefox! Another thing is the media library. You'll want to install XMMS and build xine all the way from source...after uninstalling Kafine... And the last thing, synaptic package manager. I think the main reason to go to Linux is that it's damn cool. Suberkaramba (desktop applets: weather, graphical bandwidth monitor...), multiple sessions at once (ctrl + alt + function key, startx -- :1), apt-get...

Looks fun. If only flash worked in 64 bit (btw I know the three methods for running 64 flash [in Linux], but two dont work and I don't want to reinstall firefox 32)

oh. Root in ubuntu. You have to use the sudo command. IE, if you want to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg you need to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg The password for root is the same as your log-in password. To get it root@ubuntu $] or whatever type sudo su. PS: A search would have quickly answered your question. This is one of the main features of Ubuntu.

Is it just me or is the problem that he cant start the X server? How would right cliking a desktop that isn't there help him? Plus what kind of desktop uses those menus? I know gnome and KDE don't. Honestly 5614 what are you talkign about? I have a remote feeling that those are windows stuff. Anyway, if you cant find anything at your company's website call customer support. I had to do that once a while ago. It normally gets the synx ranges from the monitor but if you run the wizard it wont search for it and instead asks you (which normally ends up stumping the user). The guy on the other end may seem kind of confused but they'll eventually find the numbers. If you want the graphical wizard I was talking about, run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Run it with -phigh if you just want to "fix your screen resolution" or switch to a different driver.

Zone alarms and Nortan kind of take over your system. I have a windows computer over there that works pretty fine (just reformated) but it's always complaining about one thing or another. When I installed SP2, for example, McAfeee stoped working right and blamed Nortan for it's problems! The irony is that XP did something to screw it up. Everything in windows just gets jammed and jumbled in there. I always like to think that the developers just started typing with out any framwork until they got it aranged in the only possible way it could work. On the spot, "It works! Don't tough anything; you're shjipping it exactally like this!" Hardware is much more convinient if you don't mind web bassed configurations but routers only block requests from the Internet and nothing else. This works well but the problem is that a router cant block applications and calls from the computer like a firewall does.

Port 135 is an inherent exploit in Windows. Your guy probably didn't do anything, at all, but was checking to see if any DCOM-related services were exploitable. Btw the guy's probably from hong kong. I wouldn't bother because your computer could have said that for a number of reasons but you can run whois IP to get the abuse email.

Look in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. WHen you installed it it's gotten some wrong numbers for your sync. Look in the file for something like this Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 28-64 VertRefresh 43-60 Modeline "1280x800@60" 83.91 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841 EndSection Look in your monitor manual or call customer support and ask for the horizonral and virtical sync. Put in the numbers. PS: If you have probablems with screen resolutions we can help you there as well.

That's the exact thing that used to happen to me. I have a thread in feedback or something about it. It seems to work right now and has been for a while. Normally it works for a while and then the immages stop loading... I've learned to cope.

pgp is open source. I'm assuming you're running Windows in which case there are probably binary executables (exes?). Check out http://www.vanheusden.com/pgp.php

My server will let you put "file extentions" in folders and I think it's only for Unix type servers. Windows might have a problem with that. What you seem to be overlooking is that the same security risk is already in place for banner adds. It doesn't have to be an index of a folder, an image can be (as these forums demonstrate) somethinlike immage.php?image=whatever. PHP has the ability to create images. When you get right down to it there could be index.php in the folder image.gif that would output a gif. I used to have a little banner for another forum in my sig that would display people IP address. But yeah, this is a security risk. An inocent banner add can put a cookie on your computer, log information, and do anything a normal PHP file could. This is why there's options for browsers to block "3rd party" cookies and whatnot.

I have the actual article; they sent it in when I first signed up. I don't think photos would be very useful? It's ironic that for last years research project I asked a similar question for an article out of a magazine I lost. (btw, qwerty, do I know you from someware else? BZFlag maybe? The SN sounds familiar)

In PHP it's $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Ah. It makes sense. Plus the food market would evolve to what we prefere.

I don't know anything about firefox's development. It's not a big enough project to keep updating every time they fix something or release a new version. But it seems that every time I install a newer distro there's a newer version on firefox.

Things that aren't very good for you tend to be the best tasting. This makes no sense to me at all. Evolution should have done the oposite: better foods tast better. The more healthy sugars like starch, lipids, polysaccharides, etc should be better then just plain sugar.

This is just the nature of the two projects. Of course Firefox is going to get fixed faster: it's open source! Closed projects are always going to be a little behind.

Here's a little coding fun...duplicate the output from a windows program for Linux... ---background My Internet randomly gets really slow and stays that way, usually until I reset the modem. For instance, 5 minuets ago before I started writing this, it was 262 K. I just noticed that it sped up because scienceforums loaded normal, at 3042 Kb... I've called customer support, a couple times, but most of the people keep saying "we don't support Linux" and just stop at that. Two people went through and tested my downstreamSNR, transmit power, and were pretty useful. One had me do a complete modem reset, informed me that a lot of customers fix this by getting the latest modem, etc, but the rest just say "that exe file doesn't run on Linux" and refuse to do anything else -- it's company policy, I guess, to receive the output. Like they just dont feel like even trying because they have an excuse to not help. I do have a Windows computer, unfortunately it's really screwed up right now (after installing macafee -- this is why I run Linux...) but I did run it once. It outputted a bunch of pings, etc...what I want to do is write a program that does the same thing on Linux. I'm trying bash because it seems pretty easy. I've never programmed bash. It would be something like !#bin/whatever....I already forget how to start the program ping yahoo.com -c 4 tracerought 68-117-144-001.dhcp.chtn.wv.charter.com netstat -a etc It seems pretty easy to do. However there are a couple of things that are throwing me off. Like, Tracing route to XP-686 [68.117.159.247] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XP-686 [68.117.159.247] Trace complete. Would this be tracerought localhost? Also, when the program finished, it told me "give tech this number: 68.117.159.247 and send in the diagnostics.txt" I have no idea what 68.117.159.247 is. I dont think it's my IP address...but it shows up a few times in the diagnostics. Any ideas? Anybody that wants to do this, go ahead. Here's the output: (ps - this is computer science, not necessarily help) edit:here's what I have. I'm confused about these numbers. The very first ping is 68.117.159.247 which corosponds to "IP Address" in windows Ip config. It pings/traces 24.158.85.2 which is "DNS Servers." How do I find these numbers? Also, what netstat option should I use and how do I output the equivilent of (I think) ipconfig? Here's what I think it should be #!/bin/bash ping "IP ADDRESS" -c 4 traceroute "IP ADDRESS" ping "IP ADDRESS" -c 4 traceroute ... ping "DHCP SERVER" -c 4 traceroute "DHCP SERVER" traceroute "DHCP SERVER" -m 30 ping "DNS SERVER" -c 4 traceroute "DNS SERVER" -m 30 ping "DNS SERVER-2" -c 4 traceroute "DNS SERVER-2" -m 30 ping 127.0.0.1 -c 4 traceroute localhost -m 30 ping www.yahoo.akadns.net -c 4 traceroute www.yahoo.akadns.net -m 30 ping metalab.unc.edu -c 4 traceroute metalab.unc.edu -m 30 ip configurations netstat -something

This is the most untrue and overused statement I hear about this. It's easy to point out this claim isn't true for Linux because Linux makes up most of the Server market yet Windows servers are still attacked more...seeing as this is off-topic I don't feel like going through the whole shibang but I talk about it a little in my Linux article at my website.

insane_alien and a couple others: You just insulted my sister! lol, she's one of the "religious" people that think science "will eventually go to far." I think it's more ignorance then anything else. A lot of people my age are religious but grow out of it, not turn secular, but just loosen up. I think the general conclusion is correct. This is why we need education.

In Fedora (and I havn't seen it do this anyware else) firefox will auto go to websites (w/ feeling lucky) by pressing the middle scroller. It's very annyoing because your push down to open a page in a new tab! If I miss the link or something, boom! It sends me to some random location bassed on my last copy! I've meant to change this but havn't got around to doing it.

I was really flaming these lamers. Not necisarily the lamers in IRC that talk all gay (h4ck0d), but idiots that think they know something but actually don't. I agree w/ JPQuiceno about my "bolded" statement with the exception that most hacking is in fact illegal. The diference is that a hacker isn't really doing anything wrong. Only a cracker would steal passwords for paysites. Again, what I honestly think seperates lamers from hackers is simple. The ability to hack comes with knowlege. A lamer reads howto articles and goes around using script kiddies. Still others lamers don't know anything, at all, yet incist they do. This conversation is actually pretty immature.

One of my friends has a PSP that he connects to the Internet with at my school. To be frank, he has no idea what the hell he’s doing. He calls it hacking, “the PSP can get onto any kind of network; it will hack anything” he’ll say “on some networks you have to try a couple times but the firewall will eventually break, no matter how powerful.” I hear all kinds of people talk about hacking or computers, like they’re proud to know an elementary level piece of information and then try to sound like they know what they’re talking about. The reason his PSP will connect to our network is because the router wont ask for a password to jump on. Anybody can connect to the network. In fact, the public computer are set up with the purpose to only allow authorized users over the network yet it’s very easy to use them differently. Log on locally as administrator or if that doesn’t work, unplug the ethernet cable, and create a local account to use. Most admin are really dumb, especially if safe mode isn’t password protected (du)! But then again, so are most computer users. Hacking is using a system in ways which a normal user might not think of. Many think, even beyond “start this program and it’ll hack AIM,” that hacking is all about gaining “unauthorized access” to a computer and that it’s all about breaking the law. These three myths can’t be further from the truth. It may not be legal in all cases, yes, but this is far from what hacking is about. Knowledge is power. Hacking is about knowledge, curiosity, learning how a computer does something. Most people that go online to learn how to hack will run into people called lamers. They talk “in numbers” and generally refuse to tell these newbies anything at all. Anybody can download a script kiddie and “exploit” a computer running Windows. This is nothing to be proud of. Some 60% of workers have intentionally tried to download a virus before. A cracker is somebody that breaks into computers just to **** them up. This is what Hollywood portrays it as, a crime. We all know that at school, at work, in libraries, there is Internet censorship. Blocked websites with valuable information or online games. How do you think this is accomplished? A filter, maybe? Like a firewall or proxy? If it sees “adictingames,com”or the accompanying IP address on the blocklist then it won’t let you through, simple as that. The way PHProxy works is simple. From my computer, which is not blocked, it requests the website you want to go to, alters the links to link back through the proxy (so you don’t accidentally go off the server), and then sends that data to your computer. When the firewall sees it, it checks out ok even though it originally came from a blocked website. Think outside the box, it’s obvious. For those of you that know a little more about computers, there are other proxies that you can put in your connection settings that’ll do the same thing. The PHProxy doesn’t always display data correctly because the HTML has to be modified. You may have used proxies in the past to “hide” your IP address, but it works for both ends. Like I said above, any lamer can walk up to a computer and create a boot file or delete a computer’s license key. Anybody can use my website to brag about how they can hack censorship at their school. In fact, anybody can download the script and put it on their own site! If you want to look cool to your friends, all you have to do is open up a shell and type a few whois, tracert, or telent over a mail server. They’ll think you’re some kind of genius. Is that all you want? But to anybody who knows anything at all about computers, these kind of people are lame. This is why I wrote this, a rant about wanabe and even pretend illegal computer crackers. I don’t claim to be a hacker. I don’t even know as much as most people generally think I do. What I do know comes from curiosity and general experience. After all, with knowledge comes the ability to hack. Learning about hacking takes a lot of time and requires a lot of reading and studying. If you’re proud because you can connect to your neighbor’s wireless network then you’re being immature. You’ll seem smarter if you go over and secure the router then you will trying to impress your friends. If I had to write a paper about hacking for English, my thesis would be this. With knowledge comes the ability of hacking. For example, SSI has the ability to retrieve files and execute Unix commands. I wonder, what could you do with that kind of information? Say that a website has different color schemes dependent on a PHP GET variable, ?s=blue and two SSI includes for bluetop.html and bluebottom.html, ie [ index.php?s=blue ] <!--#include file=”bluetop.html” --> Document content <!--#include file=”bluebottom.html” --> If you have experience with PHP then what’s called code injection wouldn’t come as a surprise. The programmer may be doing something like this, <!--#include file=”<?php echo $_GET[‘s’]; >?top.html” --> You probably wont be lucky enough to find a website that actually does this because it has a very obvious security exploit. Make ?s=index.php” -->go ahead and write a nasty SSI script. Even if it’s using CGI or something else, by already knowing how to program in PHP, you’d have a general idea of what’s going on behind it all. Somebody who doesn’t know SSI or anything about programming would not be able to do this. This is why, if you’re not a coder, you’re not a hacker. There are plenty of online tutorials and books you can pick up. Just have a general idea of the syntax used, especially perl, c, and javascript. General information, like CGI will dump anything over 1024 bytes. No cut and past script kiddies, only knowledge. A lamer is limited by examples given in howto articles, a real hacker is only limited by his knowledge and ability to research. Real hackers don’t lame about how they can brows the Internet w/ their PSP. Stop pretending. If you’re already playing with Linux, know a programming language, and are curious about hacking, go buy some books. The “learn to hack” books are a wast of time. Get one on XP, Unix, or encryption. Teach yourself how to secure a router.

To H2SO4, you say you're not attractive. What women find physically attractive has nothing to with your physique. Stand taler, don't slouch. If your body language is submissive then it's not attractive. I know this sounds gay, but look at the guys in like maxim magazine. Change your style similarly and display their body language. Looks really don't matter as much to women as they do to guys. IMO, walk slower, move slower, do everything slower including blinking! Walk tall w/ your head up. Lean back in chairs. Take up space. Slouching is bad. Leaning in with your feet under your chair is bad. etc etc Be calmer, if you're figiting, people notice.

2 or 3, not 1.

I would think that there're scripts available that'll copy an entire databass. But what do you mean you don't know the password? If you are currently using the SQL databass then the password will be in the scripts running it. IE, look in your PHP files.