iphitus

If there are people who want your IP AND have the capabilities of exploiting you, then they won't have much trouble getting your IP whether you use TOR or not.

Once a year is pretty good for an IP for an dsl connection!

Yes I downloaded TOR but cannot start it - there are no instructions, hence nothing changes.

Could you advise me how to start the program.

 

Why hide I.P.?

And Why not?

 

I guard my self against bad unhealthy interests besides It is absolutely normal to hide IP address like concealing any other personal information from the third parties.

 

* You close your door so that nobody can come into your residence.

* You hide your mobile phone number if you want so. Millions of people do it. So why not?

It's not really. An IP address isn't anything personal or special. Most people will have dynamic IP addresses, changing, so it's certainly not like a mobile phone number. You'll have a dynamic IP too.

Why not? Cause you can't! TOR doesn't really hide your IP address. You've still got one, and need one to connect to the internet. You get it from your ISP. So if the government for example ever want's to know your IP address, all they need to do is ask your ISP (depending on countries laws). Easy!

TOR is also often blocked. Many sites wont permit TOR connections, and many email servers will flat out reject TOR as TOR is often abused to send spam. So you may find that you won't be able to send your email over tor... starting to defeat the point of setting it up, isnt it.

So you can feel fuzzy wuzzy if you want. But it doesn't make a difference.

James

If there's nothing else you want, you could always do a ctrl-a and delete the lot.

Or do ctrl-a and then unselect the ones you actually want to keep if they're in the minority.

Or open the command line :P

You can use Tor, but it's a little bit of effort.

Why would you want to 'hide' it in the first place?

Regarding the hardware list... google "linux hardware compatibility list". They've got significant problems with remaining up to date as well. I still see people say that hardware is unsupported when there's a native driver. Additionally, most questions about hardware support are current pieces of hardware, and these tend to take a while to make it onto HCLs.

As far as iphitus goes, he's just basically saying it's a bad idea and that it's going to fail and there's no way it can be interpreted any other way.

I said those suggestions as stated probably wouldn't go great. I didn't say that it couldnt be interpreted another way or implemented differently.

Just like marketing a product... we need to find some way to be different from existing attempts. Simply making yet another multi distro forum alike LQ won't guarantee success. People only see the successes, and assume if you emulate that, success will come. It's not so. There's heaps of forums that never make it off the ground.

I don't mean to be a cold shower, but something has to be done differently to gain a reasonable membership - embedding flash video won't be enough.

Constructive criticism or advice is one thing. But these kind of negative statements don't help at all. How about saying I'd be happy to answer Arch questions? If everyone took the attitude you're taking nobody would ever start anything. If paul had taken that attitude 7 years ago this board wouldn't exist. Maybe we will fail but don't condemn us before we even get started. A little support sure does go a long way.

I don't mean to condemn you, but so far you've failed to respond to any criticism in this thread with anything but "don't be so negative!", and have yet to define a sound purpose or concept for this new forum.

I'm not saying these ideas won't work, but they need more development and some way of dealing with the various issues surrounding. It's easy to say "I'll deal with Arch issues" -- but one person won't be able to solve them all, and I won't always be around. As a result, you get a linuxquestions.org clone. (Personally, I'd just reply to them all with: http://bbs.archlinux.org where they'd get a quicker and better response, and I do that here now)

This board is great. Even if mandriva is going down the drain, there will exist a mandriva community for a long while.

I was asking for suggestions for distros, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, Fedora, and more. Linuxquestions has over 350,000 users and it has a old, tired interface. I think we would handle situations as they come up. Plus we plan on including more than just distros. That's where we need suggestions as to what users would want.

And as a rule of thumb, the support on LinuxQuestions is pathetic. The users should be going to the respective distro forums instead anyway.

Tutorials/Documentation/FAQs -

These need two things - Writers and Updaters.

We don't have those. Our faq section here is in many places, out dated or incorrect.

It's a noble idea. But there's better ways of doing it. Wiki's are superior to forum based documents in so many ways. Most distros have their respective wiki and that's where the documentation should be. Putting them elsewhere just fragments them and makes them harder for people to find.

This new board has capabilities that IPB doesn't. For instance we can imbed videos which is one of the suggestions we had for a board. And we can try and diversify and add features that will make the board appealing. paul's already working on a hack for a new portal for this. I'd really like to see suggestions for forum topics. It doesn't just have to be linux distros. It can be anything.

Features won't bring people in. Nobody is going to join because we have awesome video embedding abilities (it's a feature of dubious use anyway). Take a look at the Arch forums... bigger community than here, yet the simplest cleanest forum software.

The features here? I hardly use them. The core functions of a forum are to make threads and respond to threads. As long as a forum can adequately do that, anything else is cruft.

Too much negativity, and not enough support. Call me condescending if you wish, bit I'm disappointed in the attitude some of you have adopted in this discussion.

Nothing wrong with criticism. If the idea can't handle the simple criticism that's being offered, it's going to have a hard time ever getting off the ground. I have every hope that it works, but I don't see much chance that it will - and I tend to be optimistic.

Well, servers aren't laptops. This article suggests the HDD killer is laptop-mode http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/2...ive-killer-bug/Is there any substance in this report?

That's not seagate. And that's got nothing to do with the hardware itself. It's the software in use.

laptop-mode is disabled by default..... Too aggressive powermanagement settings by laptop-mode will cause the head of your harddrive to park and unpark too often......

Laptop mode is a pretty awesome set of scripts that can help save a tonne of power.

In this situation, laptop mode is off by default, and these distros are including overly aggressive default settings.

That ubuntu bug is terribly misleading too. There's people running around like chooks with their heads cut off expecting their drive to fail tomorrow because they misread the output of smartctl. This apparent "issue" isn't something new. It's something that will sat there for years until someone panicked. Hard drives aren't actually failing left right and center, otherwise we'd have heard about it by now.

I don't see the point. Distro specific forums provide far better support.

*shrug*

There's not much, if anything to gain from x86_64 for the average user, except maybe headaches with flash/java/codecs/closed source.

x86_64 uses more ram, and takes up more room too.

Hi Everyone,

 

So...I took iphitus' advice and looked some more at networkmanager. I noticed that there were tools in place for it in KDE (I'm a KDE user). So I gave the

 

sudo yum install knetworkmanager

 

and i can connect flawlessly via wireless networking. So, I'm totally curious why NetworkManager can do this, but I couldn't from command line. Are there CLI tools for networkmanager?

 

JME

probably just issuing the wrong commands. Or alternatively Fedora was overriding them. *shrug*

WD has always said they don't support Linux on the hard drives (unless they changed this recently). Seems like all Seagate is doing is saying the same thing (except also formatting it NTFS). Probably just means if you install linux, have a problem, and contact their tech support you'll get the "go away, we don't support your kind here" response.

there's nothing from Seagate that actually says that they "aren't supporting Linux". Just a stupid article with no references.

Given the amount of sales in drives for servers and large storage... seagate are hardly going to say to those users "something wrong? oh you run linux, your problem" anyway.

and its probably not someone, rather 'something' -- a worm or a bot.

[root@localhost qc-usb-0.6.6]# urpmi kernel-source-2.
Packages kernel-source-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1.i586, kernel-source-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1.i586 are already installed

Then either your kernel source doesnt match, or the build process for the driver cannot find it.

RTFT. Read the thread.

KDE4 is not complete, and the interface is NOT representative of the final interface.

The KDE4 release was to announce a stable _FOUNDATION_ -- the libraries and technology that KDE4 is built upon.

While I think they have versioned it differently, or named the release better, that's the way it is. the KDE4 desktop itself is NOT stable or ready for use.

Buried. There'll be better information on the gentoo wiki and in their documentation.

[edit]: I did discover recently that my Sony DVD burner is no longer Linux-compatible (I used to be able to burn DVDs with it, but apparently the Linux kernel has surpassed the firmware on it). I tried moving the drive to my wife's computer to upgrade the firmware on it, but it still didn't work...so I just bought a new one (not Sony).

Doesnt neccesarily mean that it's "linux incompatible". Could be a kernel/cdrecord bug getting in the way. Particularly seeing as it used to work.

I dislike sony as much as the next person.... but -- If it worked on Linux when the drive came out... and the kernel was upgraded and the drive stopped working -- that's not sony's fault.

That's just a stupid stupid article.

For a start... you can reformat a hard disk

And secondly, Linux SUPPORTS NTFS.

Google ntfs-3g, fast, stable NTFS support. And it's seamless as any other file system (unless your distro has it implemented crappily).

on my laptop it just flicks a nifty little red light on and off :P

Post /proc/mounts and see what is actually mounted.

/dev/sdX can change between kernels depending on various factors. UUID's will _not_ change. So while they're long, at least you know they're right. Labels are better cause they're at least human readable ;)

I'm still not sure exactly what the problem here is. Are the title's just wrong, or are the wrong partitions being mounted in the wrong spots?

Are they both getting it wrong or just one?

Give us real information and details."it doesnt work" tells nothing useful.

What update broke it?

Is linux offering any errors?

Output of dmesg and lsmod

You can just blacklist the module for the sound card you don't want and linux will ignore it, no need to mess about in bios. But if you still want to do the bios update.... you could provide us actual errors from the boot "it didn't boot" says nothing.

James

so just swap them around in the later mandriva? the underlying name really shouldnt matter so long as the right one is mounted at the right spot. you can do that in diskdrake iirc.

the _best_ solution would be to use labels or uuid's to mount the partitions. Then you'd always have the right one mounted as those names are static and will not change.

kernel source isnt installed

Use WPA if you can, unless you have hardware that requires WEP, which should keep you covered.

Disabling SSID broadcast does nothing to hide the network, and will prevent some computers from detecting the network.

Oh... and change the router's password. Surprising how many people fail to do this.

Linksys WRT54G's are good for most people. The GL is better, but it's a little more pricier.

make sure that dbus and hal are actually running too.