It's booting to a normal virtual console with a login prompt, and I can log in there and run 'startx' to start X. I've no idea how X is normally started, since it just boots up and there's some kind...
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It's booting to a normal virtual console with a login prompt, and I can log in there and run 'startx' to start X. I've no idea how X is normally started, since it just boots up and there's some kind...
So does anyone know why upgrading to the 3.2.0-43 kernel causes my laptop to boot to a text console instead of graphical mode (using the Nvidia driver)? 3.2.0-40 still works fine, but having to...
I believe it's using the Nvidia driver from there. It's been working OK for about two years, and suddenly stopped working properly with a recent update.
CTRL+ALT+DEL and keep rebooting until it works.
I have a vague suspicion that it's happening any time I don't manually select the kernel to boot in Grub at startup and it just uses the default....
I'm having something similar on 12.04 after updating a couple of days ago. Something like 60% of the time it now boots to a text console instead of the graphical desktop.
For a home desktop system, not being able to share files is a pain. So it makes sense as an Ubuntu policy.
It's not hard to change if you care, and if you do care you should be encrypting your...
Maybe you could have tried reading my whole post, where I was quite clear that it wouldn't stop people who really want to break into your system.
But script kiddies just try a few well-known ports...
Put SSH on a port other than 22 and script kiddies will ignore you in future. The only crackers likely to run full port-scans for SSH are the ones who know you have something they want.
The worst thing a browser exploit can do is install an addon which captures all your banking passwords and sends it to some guy in Russia who steals all your money and uses it to retire to Hawaii....
What are the mount options on that disk? Using noatime or relatime can cause the access times to do things you don't expect, since they're either not updated or only updated in some circumstances.
I uninstalled it because it would thrash my disk for three minutes after booting up and make the system unusable.
And that's ignoring the fact that logging every single thing you do is an insane...
Generating a random number and turning it into human-readable form is essentially what most password generators do.
Personally, I use 'dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 | base64' and then take as...
That means:
1. You give remote users access to a service running on your home system. If it has security holes, they can own your server.
2. If your house burns down, you lose all your data.
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So you're happy that malware in your web browser can upload any file from any user account on your system which doesn't deny you read permission?
Do you mean solid state?
This sounds like a problem others have reported where they appear to write to the SSD but it's dead and ignores the writes. The files are presumably still in the OS disk...
Strange. It's possible that I typed the command wrong, but I was following instructions from the web and it rejected them.
BTW, according to this thread on the mailing list you pointed me to:
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At boot it would sit there resyncing for hours and then when it got to approx 75% it reported a bad block, stopped resyncing and marked the disk as a spare. So clearly the bad block was making it...
So, to answer my own question:
If mdraid has to resync between disks and it finds a bad block on the online disk, rather than just skipping that block and copying the rest, it stops syncing and...
IPSEC. It's very hard to spoof but it's far from simple to set up.
Note that they could still fake an IP address -- anyone can do that -- but they won't be able to talk to any other machines since...
As suggested up above, I wrote an rc.local script which goes through all the users in /home and creates a set of directories in /tmp for cache, etc, which only have permission for that user. Then...
Are you running off the end of your array when you index by x and y?
If bgDescription is not a properly initialised string object, anything could happen when you try to copy a string into it (e.g....
BTW, this RAID was fine as of a few weeks ago. Somehow it's decided to keep the bad disk in the RAID but drop the good one, and refuse to sync over to the good one.
This is precisely the opposite...
I have an mdraid RAID1 in my server with two 3TB disks. I noticed yesterday that it's only running on one of the disks and the other is marked as a spare instead.
I rebooted and it tried to sync,...
Someone was claiming that there was no compelling reason for anyone to stick to an old version of Ubuntu. I suggest that the sudden elimination of established desktop environments is by far the most...
Unity and Gnome 3.
Unity is OK on my netbook, but sucks on my laptop. Gnome 3 sucks everywhere.
I'm not even sure which version I'm running on the laptop now other than it's the one before...