jamesbond wrote:...Build it and they will come

Sounds like a house of ill-repute, which resembles what some women have said about my workshop, though I'm sure they were thinking of a different kind of establishment than I was.

Thanks jamesbond, Now posting from a separate Fatdog 710 installation using Firefox 57.0. So far, so good. However, this appears to stop me from using NoScript. (Yes, I know about enabling legacy extensions. I'm waiting for the Quantum version release as a pure extension, not playing software Jenga ...

...Use the updated update-firefox.sh script (not available yet - will be in next release), it automatically installs gtk3 and libapulse... Grrrr. No problem with gtk3 and libapulse, but I need that updated update-firefox.sh. (I don't trust myself anymore to make significant changes to scripts. Too ...

Any word on updating to Firefox 57, released November 14, 2017 ? I believe this breaks the assumptions used in running as spot, plus those in the update script, due to new restrictions on writing to system files in Linux versions. I'm sticking with Firefox 56.0.3 and Google_Chrome-11122017 (64-bit),...

Just to contribute a little light to the subject, I'll link an article on the original debate between Tannenbaum and Torvalds . I am also interested in the microkernel approach for hard real-time systems, but want to avoid the copying that took place in early MINIX. Avoiding this takes a radical dep...

Estonia has recalled all of its national ID cards with chips based on RSA encryption after a new attack became economically feasible . They are in the process of issuing new ID with chips that use elliptic curve cryptography. This is probably not the only country affected. Note: Estonia is particul...

My reason for noticing absurdities and circular logic have to do with painful experience overseas. If the official way seems to prevent anything from happening, and people are still driving automobiles, to pick a random example, it becomes clear to me that there are hidden channels of operation. In ...

The truth here is that this particular charge is probably true, but deniable. That is hardly the whole story. Any antivirus which depends on scanning for files which match a database of signatures and uploads suspect files to servers managed by the company that created it can be used this way. The m...

Thanks for mentioning Tomato , which will help others. My experience is from over a year back, and I was not aware of problems with DD-WRT support, I had merely seen that a patch was now available. Unfortunately, it seems Advanced Tomato , which I would need for a dual-band router, only supports the...

Meanwhile, there are new vulnerabilities to deal with in WPA2, and here's why it will take a while to fix them . The problem in this case is not necessarily that the device itself will immediately be compromised and become part of a botnet, it is that an attacker may be able to read traffic on that ...

Just want to mention that there is a patch for Debian Stretch for the WPA2 Krack attack. This puts it ahead of many other distros.

For those with older routers that may be affected, but will probably not get new firmware from the vendor, you may want to install firmware for an open-source router like DD-WRT or Tomato. So far, I have not seen patches for these, but with source code available for Debian patches these might be fix...

Also described on Ars Technica . From a message sent to others: This is an example of the insane state of the art in IT security. I took a break from reading security material while sorting books to donate to the Friends of the Library book sale, and this came out when I wasn't looking. How can anyo...

My reason for comparing Yahoo! to Facebook was about their reliability as information providers, not algorithms for advertising. If their security for personal information was so poor, and a breach was not fully revealed for 4 years, there is no telling what happens to information swept up into thei...

What's your guess about the next outrage? When we have a crisis about nuclear proliferation (to pick a subject at random) will the interest and searches result in someone selling fission initiators for implosion devices? ("Just add plutonium and explosive lenses, and you're ready to fricassee m...

Remember how one draw for using a M$ system in a business was the stability it offers, (at least if you buy the Professional version.) I have been helping close friends who are tied to such machines at work with their home machines, but I drew the line at W10. (My original concern was the "tele...

Here's a story from Vice news about a Facebook ad for bump stocks displayed to one of their own reporters shortly after the massacre in Las Vegas. These are the people who are going to fix Internet problems with fake news, hate speech, etc.? I'm willing to bet the decision was made by an algorithm.

I want to remind people that even if your computer can run unusually hot there is no requirement to do this all the time. I have an 8-core AMD machine I can use for some heavy computational tasks, but if I wasn't running it flat out, I could set the governor to limit speed and still get acceptable p...

This is unlikely to work with typical machines running Puppy Linux, but it shows how to use those unusually hot gaming machines I always wonder about people buying. What do you do with them when you are not blasting stuff to atoms yourself? You run a cloud computing service and provide home heating ...

Glad you make it. I didn't know you also live in that area. I've been following CNN news with worry for friends who live there since Saturday morning (your Friday night). For those who aren't aware, this youtube video explains why Irma is so scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxKH_v8b-8 . The ...