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Skriven 2009-11-27 11:32:16 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: botched it up
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-> 27 Nov 09 00:45, you wrote to me:
-> 
->  RC>> Whoa nellie, you are gonna blame your mishaps on me now, well as
->  RC>> Spock would say "fascinating".
-> 
->  WC> You are the one who recommended removing the Nvidia card.
->  WC> Don't you recall?
-> 
-> Ah, thought you were going to blame the rootin on moi.

Not at all.
 
->  WC> THAT resulted in an unbootable system.
-> 
-> It still was worth the attempt.
-> 
-> (Given the initial complaint or difficulty)

Given what I learned through the experience yes and
I've got a really good idea about how to get the two monitors
going at once.

->  RC>>> There is something to be said for Ubuntu's sudo system. The
->  RC>>> privilege elevation is temporary.
-> 
->  WC>> Uh, Slackware has sudo as well you know.
-> 
->  RC>> This is the education you need.
-> 
->  WC> Nope, I'm aware of the vulnerabilites that entails.
-> 
-> and you are now well aware of the vulnerabilities surfing from the root
acct
-> entails.. ;)

Just an error due to my being tired and forgetting to shut off the network
card, soon that will be the default. 

->  RC>> You sound like Linux is as big a target for malware as "that
->  RC>> other OS".
-> 
->  WC> No, it's traveling in on a known exploit of Flash which I told you
->  WC> about 2 /12 years ago and you dismissed.
-> 
-> I dismissed you getting exploited by the stuff that plagues "that other
OS"..

Nope, I've confirmed my suspicions twice now due to my own
negligence with regards to security protocols.

Also until I set up my auto .flv to .mp4 conversion
I've made libflashplayer.so read only do diminish the risk
there somewhat so access cannot be gained through there.

Thus no one else of my self can allowing incoming alterations
or access through that file.

-> You dont have WINE or CROSSOVER installed do you?

Wine no, whatever for?
To emulate the OS I hate?

I've no idea what crossover is but the name implies
an emulator of sorts. 
 
->  WC> I'll be removing libflash.so so as to remove this threat.
-> 
-> If you dont need youtube or such.

For now my copy in .mozilla/plugins has been set to chmod -w

->  WC>> But that would have required me reboot with the cable modem
->  WC>> powered.
-> 
->  RC>> How so, your computer would still function, even if you never had
->  RC>> internet turned on, you once had to deal with dial-up?
-> 
->  WC> I believe I am aware of that.
-> 
-> Then why did you say you needed your cable modem on to power the machine
up?


As I forget the original context here I cannot say
but there was a reason.

->  WC>> You call it troubleshooting when a after market driver splash
->  WC>> screen clobbers you before you can even enter the BIOS?
-> 
->  RC>> Yes, by eliminating the card that produces that splash screen so
->  RC>> that you can enter the BIOS. Troubleshooting an issue is achieved
->  RC>> by back tracking through is common denominators until the cause
->  RC>> is identified.
-> 
->  WC> And only the BIOS, tomorrow when rested I tackle the rest of the
->  WC> remnents of that crappy driver.
-> 
-> You do know that no driver you installed into Linux controls the splash
screen
-> on computer powerup, Linux isnt event awake yet.

Completely aware of that, it's why it WOULDN'T boot to CD
even though that one has the DSL release on it.

Until I get the CD-ROM drive going again I've no recovery tools
as the vmliuz image files, all of them for 2.6.27.7
are too big to fit on a floppy and the BIOS
circa 1998 won't boot from a Flash drive.
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