Recent content by sn8ke

S
PowerShell coming to Linux

I believe it mostly stems from those who attempt to protect free software and do not support MS in any shape or form and feel any support for their products supports their bigger wrongdoings. I wouldn't equate the Linux community with OSS community either really, there is a significant amount...
- sn8ke
- Post #5
- Aug 22, 2016
- Forum: Open Source
S
A mult-factor authentication system. I need feedback

Standard captcha is poor and annoying. The more advanced ones are a bit better and harder to crack, but not by much and at the price of readability/annoyance. That's why bigger companies stopped using them. No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA is better but requires using their services (security notes). I'm...
- sn8ke
- Post #13
- Aug 13, 2016
- Forum: Security
S
"Golden key" leaked by MS, secureboot is not secure anymore.

Defective By Design. Seems keys weren't actually leaked, as in no one can sign things as MS, but rather can self sign things or install unsigned things. Still I think this is good news in that it may wake more people up as to why this kind of thing is bad and should not be supported. I wonder...
- sn8ke
- Post #2
- Aug 12, 2016
- Forum: Security
S
migration questions

When you install WINE it will be in ~/.wine. A dot before a name means it is a hidden directory. Navigate there via $ cd ~/.wine. $ ls -a will display hidden files. Doing it inside a desktop environment will vary depending on which one you are using, you'll have to check the manual. KDE is...
- sn8ke
- Post #2
- Aug 12, 2016
- Forum: Open Source
S
Laptop Power Issues

I'd guess this as well. Cheap, but annoying as hell to work on. Since you've already disassembled it you're halfway there. Those things are usually some of the most poorly done pieces built in a laptop sadly. Like half the broken laptops I've recovered are usually that. Might be able to just...
- sn8ke
- Post #5
- Aug 12, 2016
- Forum: Laptops
S
Sell off one PSU to buy another?

I'd never purchase a used PSU unless it were from a friend whose word I trust. People do buy them though, but as mentioned you'll have to price it pretty low especially for that brand and age. So low that I wonder if it would even be worth the effort, rather than to just keep it as a backup...
- sn8ke
- Post #7
- Aug 12, 2016
- Forum: Power Supplies
S
Laptop buying help

Yeah not having any reviews makes it tough. The fact it's so new would make me feel comfortable that it would be better performance wise compared to that Ideapad, but I'd be concerned with the screen and keyboard since there's no detailed information. I very much doubt it will be worse quality...
- sn8ke
- Post #9
- Aug 12, 2016
- Forum: Laptops
S
Owncloud setup help

You're welcome! If you have another question just post back. I am actually more of a fan of CentOS/RHEL. I actually even run CentOS as a main desktop OS. The only reason I am using Debian is because it was already installed, and since it was just going to sit there after setup, it didn't...
- sn8ke
- Post #7
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Open Source
S
Laptop buying help

I know I seem biased towards Lenovo, but in that case I would lean toward the HP Pavilion. Lenovo quality starts to drop off and even out with other companies in the lower end models, and that Ideapad scores 9.47 on DeltaE2000 (lower is better, 10 is considered poor), 57% sRGB and 39% Adobe RGB...
- sn8ke
- Post #7
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Laptops
S
Owncloud setup help

Yeah CentOS is just a gratis version of Red Hat Enterprise except with all the references to Red Hat removed (there's still some laying around), lack of professional support, and it uses the CentOS repositories (and 3rd party) instead of official RHEL ones. Though you can add those too if you...
- sn8ke
- Post #5
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Open Source
S
How do you pay for your VPN provider?

Ah, I remember that old gem. It's bundled with Tor isn't it? I know it used to be anyway. Also Wired doesn't block my adblocker. Works great on FF with uBlock Origin, noscript and js manually disabled. What are you using? The article is basically a copy/paste of Moxie Marlinspike's article...
- sn8ke
- Post #51
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Security
S
Owncloud setup help

I have a custom owncloud installation, but not running on CentOS. However, I do run RHEL/CentOS elsewhere so I know my way around both. Which repo did you install from? Or did you manually install the tarball from their site? The guides do vary slightly from version to version but any guide...
- sn8ke
- Post #3
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Open Source
S
How do you pay for your VPN provider?

There's always the option of browsing only via text/CLI. Lynx is the old school king, but Links is actually nice and pleasant to use. I use it quite a bit when I'm doing research/studying and need as few distractions as possible on the web. It has optional image support too. Or for added...
- sn8ke
- Post #48
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Security
S
Laptop buying help

Yeah, their prices are quite high unfortunately. Their secondhand prices are extremely low however and it's pretty easy to find them in near mint condition for 1/4th of the retail cost or less depending on the model. They are used by governments and businesses all over the world, and they...
- sn8ke
- Post #5
- Aug 11, 2016
- Forum: Laptops
S
Raspberry PI 3: cannot connect wifi to my router.

You can try to just update Raspbian, sure. NOOBS can install Raspbian or a different OS and provides a GUI based install, that's all. I suggested he use NOOBS since it was a brand new device and he was using the SD card that came with it, which was likely an outdated version. It's also just...
- sn8ke
- Post #7
- Aug 9, 2016
- Forum: Open Source

RESOURCES

Top Bottom