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By admin, October 28, 2010 19:43

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Well it’s good to know that updates bring change.

Many times change brings about a better way of doing things.  Other times it may bring change to old familiar ways and we may not like them.  Take the moving of the Gnome window buttons for minimize, maximize, and close.

The latest version of Ubuntu decided to move these buttons to the left side of the window.  This isn’t so strange.  Many OS’s over the years have had the close button on the top left, but rarely the other buttons.  I understand that Microsoft Windows has set the position on the right and when I adopted Windows as a OS I quickly became quite familiar with this method and today, take for granted their position since both KDE and Gnome Desktops for Linux did the same thing.   However as of Ubuntu 10.04 it’s now on the left.

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By admin, January 18, 2010 17:53

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I try to avoid software thats end of life but occasionally I get stuck with a few programs that just don’t have any updated versions or are tied to a piece of hardware that I need to use.  LCDC is software designed to run little LCD displays you can buy for your computer.  I have one in particular thats over 3 years old now but still runs great.  However it hasn’t been updated well ever.

Today I took to scanning my PC and discovered that some of the plugins for LCDC were infected.  I decided to check the web site http://www.lcdc.cc/downloads.htm for updates, it didn’t appear off hand that any were actually updated, but it does appear that some are not infected and others still are.

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By admin, January 18, 2010 10:07

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When it comes to passwords nearly everyone has their own system to deal with them.  But how secure are they?  Today most passwords under 9 characters are not really deemed secure thanks in large part to the databases that are available to simply look up the passwords.  But aren’t they encrypted or secured from prying eyes you may be thinking? Sure but the most common form is to save them in MD5.  SHA1 and similar variants are uncommon as well as better methods but for the vast array of online web sites, MD5 is considered standard.

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By admin, January 13, 2010 10:00

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Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature.  If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.

To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format.  If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.

So far no comments from Microsoft about this.  Enjoy.

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By admin, December 15, 2009 07:51

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Well it appears they were not really screensavers or themes after all.  Instead they were DDoS related Malware.

The Gnome ‘waterfall’ Screensaver http://jamesfriesen.net/762

The Ninja Black Theme article http://jamesfriesen.net/f6q

A quick fix for these can be found on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349801 and the gory details are http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678

This command below should remove the offending scripts for an infected machine.  DO NOT run this unless you know you are infected.

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/Auto.bash /usr/bin/run.bash /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552