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I thought you guys said lunix was more secure? I installed gentoo like you said and it asked if I wanted to install NSA selinux but i though only windows was backdoored?!?
Lucas Peterson
Guy using osx to ssh into centos here.
Tab complete now enabled - works for commands. I can just copy and paste the filenames in terminal though for now...
some commands: ctrl-r to find a command from the history ctrl-a to go to the start of the line, ctrl-e to go to the end ctrl-w to delete a word, ctrl-y to paste the word you deleted
Ryder Nelson
Hacks for bash:
2.) bind '"ESC[Z": menu-complete'
Usage example: Type part of a command and cycle through possible autocompletitions (like zsh) via SHIFT+TAB.
Parker Long
>shell-fu.org/lister.php?top btw, this should go in the OP IMO. these commands have been really useful for me. in bash, you don't need to type whole commands or press keys a hundred of time like a fucking retard
If it's progressing with the number of bytes written does that mean it's actually cloning correctly?
What happens then if the device is unreadable at a certain point?
Brandon Clark
Anyone on Manjaro? How long since your last update?
Jaxon Baker
Reminder we have two threads on /t/ - Torrents
Training videos for GNU/Linux (torrents) Ported videogames (torrents) We have one thread on /vg/ - Video Game General, support because year of the GNU/Linux desktop motherfuckers!!!
Josiah Cruz
About time I heard a good explanation of when pushd is useful. Thanks for posting.
Connor Cruz
some more commands.. (I just learned a few, too!) ctrl-u to delete everything from the cursor to the start of the line ctrl- ← or → to jump from word to word alt-d to delete the next word
Jaxson Campbell
nice
btw, also read the comments. for example, as shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=54#comment-4 says, the first command listed there can be reduced to alias webshare='python -m SimpleHTTPServer'
and I found that this could be reduced further: alias webshare='python3 -m http.server'
Michael Davis
Did you know that on some distros like Ubuntu you already have a running apache server?
Well, people can disable it. sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
Mason Clark
what's wrong with that? ubuntu is made for ppl who just want everything werk out of the box
Jason Green
I'm on Debian, it seems to run by default as well.
Caleb Ramirez
Edit /var/www/index.html and create a sweet browser startpage. :)
Hudson King
that's not the point of , though... by running "python3 -m http.server", you can share ANY folder. this also works on windows... think about the possibilities. of course this won't execute any programs, it will just help share files
William Edwards
Urgent: If I run SSH on a laptop and it tells the computer to perform a command, can I take the laptop out into an environment where it cant connect?
Please no bully
Jace Rodriguez
ssh user@host command args
will execute the command with the args... you could just copy the output in a new file in the other system you should tell us what you need to do, though
Colton Fisher
You'll need to elaborate a bit more... I want to say 'yes' but your question isn't very clear.
Robert Morgan
I have a home server. And a laptop. I have ssh'd into the laptop.
I am running a very slow dd from the laptop
Will it keep going if I move the laptop out of a place where it can connect to the server?
Matthew Rogers
SSH'd into the server with the laptop*
I need to go to work - probably with the laptop - soon. So I am wondering if that will mess it up.
You selected it during the installation. (The step where you also selected your DE)
Lucas Campbell
So I've got this.
What do I do now? (This is a shot from the laptop)
Kayden Powell
I don't even need to open this to know it is mostly about mint and manjaro
Xavier Ramirez
>say fedora is best >say instructions are clear >footnote says they're hard to find
0/10 garbage tier shilling
Michael Gomez
bg
Kevin Baker
Cool.
So now that I've done bg, does that mean it's running on the server and I can leave?
Or do I terminate it as here and then do bg when I return?
Thanks. You're a hero
David Phillips
once bg is done it's running in the background on the server and when you get back you can run kill -USR1 $(pidof dd) to show the progress (if it hasn't finished by then).
Robert Hall
my watch -n5 'sudo kill -USR1 `pgrep ^dd`' started again automatically
You're a smart guy :)
Liam Torres
you don't need to specify the port but yeah, I forgot to mention, you CAN specify the port... and the default port is 8000
>manjaro Tell me, what's insecure with using Manjaro, wise memer?
Ian King
Not that there was ever any reason to expect the slightest hint of security from ubuntu.
Hunter Wilson
>kill -USR1 `pgrep ^dd` why not pkill dd?
Brayden Gutierrez
because I don't actually know what I am doing
Ryan Bell
Who do you think Richard Stallmans waifu is?
Blake Lopez
That bleeding colors effect is acutually nice. Is there a way to do this with imagemagick?
Eli Collins
the most elusive of them all.
freedom
Joshua Robinson
what's wrong with KDE ?
why is it not getting love ?
Tyler White
It's like 9 PB with all its dependencies.
Adrian Fisher
I'm imagining she's an autistic furry.
Luke White
Nothing wrong with it per se but it's not everyones cup of tea. Most configurable but as usual, the more freedom you have to fuck around the harder things are to use (generally speaking). Most of us poorfags don't like it because it is resource heavy compared to the alternatives hence our 5 year old laptops can feel sluggish.
William Harris
Folk around here seem to tend toward minimalism, myself included.
I like the polish of KDE, but it just seemed so busy, and was slower to load on my Asus shitbook.
Asher Bell
there was an email where he was talking about a woman he met. She already had a man in her life but they were libertine. Stallman replied he didn't mind that and asked her to be her honorary girlfriend. I've been looking for the screenshots of those mails for a long time. It was posted one in Sup Forums
Leo Bennett
It feels like it's too bloated
Camden Mitchell
ofc he'd be a cuck...
Wyatt Davis
actually, he wouldn't be a cuck, he would make another man a cuck.
Cameron Bell
>fuck around with ubuntu for first time in years >paid software in their retarded "app store"
What the actual fuck? It's not like commercial software, it's shitty attempts to clone things like top and youtube-dl sold for $3.
Joshua Robinson
[flicks lights on and off] Welcome to hell! Welcome to hell!
Joshua Ortiz
openSUSE Tumbleweed or Antergos? Too lazy to fuck around with vanilla Arch, call it whatever you want.
Which one and why?
Easton Gray
>We have one thread on /vg/ - Video Game General, support because year of the GNU/Linux desktop motherfuckers!!! I guess you're the same guy from the other day. As I said, a linux thread in /vg/ won't be successful that's why /fglt/ is the unique place you can talk about linux gaming. Maybe another place would be the steam group or a chat group (irc, telegram, discord... anything).
And I'm surprised my pasta survived from the thread we did few weeks ago.
Michael Nguyen
>5 year old laptops can feel sluggish. what kind of cpu do you have ?
my main laptop is a core2duo from mid 2000
Zachary Miller
I'm really happy because I just got PCSX2 working out of the box with no fucking around on Debian.
Persona 3 with my dualshock 4. Feels fucking comfy, man.
Oliver Gutierrez
oh for fuck's sake
Zachary Bennett
Set your clock back to 1969.
Ian Allen
>please work around our ineptitude The official motto of /fglt/
Zachary Ross
Anyone here play Civilization V?
I've noticed that on Linux it crashes after it's been open for a long time, say 2 hours
How can I troubleshoot why this happens, since it doesn't provide any error prompts? It just straight up closes
Gavin Howard
i7 2670QM. More than enough for whatever I throw at it. core2duo and upwards are fine for most applications you'd use a laptop for I find so you're ok mate ;)
Joshua Jenkins
wtf ? is that real ?
Jose Rodriguez
...
Nolan Davis
I play it a lot and never had a single issue, and I play it for hours.
Best way would be to launch it from the terminal, you should have the logs written here I think. Run steam from the terminal or can try to launch civilization 5 from the terminal directly. The binary file is here : ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid\ Meier\'s\ Civilization\ V/Civ5XP
Luis Edwards
Never gets old. Stallman's a player.
Dominic Nguyen
>want to uninstall (then reinstall) Firefox in Debian >The following packages will be removed: cinnamon-desktop-environment
That's a no, then?
Nicholas Barnes
you really deserve your dubs. Thx man
Jaxson Hughes
Why do you want to uninstall and reinstall Firefox? You can just wipe it to default settings
I agree it's a bity crappy though that some things are just seemingly glued to the rest of the DE. Maybe someone can help you though with a command I'm not aware of
Question: did you get anti-aliasing working? in my game the options for AA are greyed out.
Carson Murphy
I've the other parts too. (If anyone want's to merge them). 1/4
Mason Richardson
2/4
Noah Allen
3/4
part 4 already posted
Nathan Thompson
>rms: >open >rms: stopped reading there kek
Carter Cooper
How secure are launchpad PPAs?
Charles Hernandez
Xubuntu 16.04 >in software and updates, have security updates to download and install automatically But they don't. Instead, I manually have to run software updater and install. >software updater and ubuntu software separate Confusing, even more so when when each have separate updates, e.g. install all updates from software updater, but ubuntu software still lists updates to install, and vice versa. Why are each installing from different repos and not performing the same tasks? Is such fragmentation even safe from a security standpoint?
I mean, Christ, what a mess.
Matthew Jones
Ubuntu is kind of a mess, yeah. But it has a nice coat of paint on top so it fools you into thinking they have their shit together
Luis Roberts
> Snowden's example
Who can honestly say this was not treason?
> A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report declassified in June 2015 said that Snowden took 900,000 Department of Defense files, more than he downloaded from the NSA.[77]
Sebastian Myers
>There are still burger-friends who view Snowden as anything short of a hero
God damn, you guys are thick
Colton Garcia
Everytime when someone mentions Edward Snowden, everyone should stand up and cheer:
>I am a contrarian faggot who has done nothing relevant with his life so he feels the need to play down the accomplishments of others
Carson Johnson
As far as I know, it's a recent development from the URL in OP's image. Check their site and they probably have more info
Nathaniel Campbell
>CIO Journal: With Edward Snowden and the NSA revelations, do you think that general awareness of security and privacy and individual rights has been raised?
>Richard Stallman: Yes, that’s a very good thing. Snowden is a great hero. Three cheers for Edward Snowden.
>CIO Journal: Why, in your opinion, is he a hero?
>RS: Because he told us about the dirty things our government and other governments are doing to us secretly. There’s a famous question: who watches the watchmen? Now we know the answer. Whistleblowers like Snowden watch the watchmen if they can. This is why we must make sure it’s safe to be a whistleblower. If we want democracy, we must make it safe to be a whistleblower. But, that’s not easy to do with all the surveillance there is because the surveillance is used to identify whistleblowers.
