Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 149

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Like many people interested in bringing computer security awareness to the public at large, some eight years ago I was thrilled to get acquinted with sudo. A great tool for giving specific admin rights to specific users in a very granular way, with great semantics… And allowing for a degree of flexibility much higher than my needs, honestly. I think it was the Canonical crew who first thougt of using it backwards, “solving” (for some definition of solution, of course) the long-known problem that desktop users cannot be bothered to understand they are using a normal account which is, for...

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It is hard. Some parts of life are just continuous joy. Some are hard. This is a hard part for me. At one time, I feel the urge to come to my dearest and closest people -and even to the complete unknown ones, such as probably you are, anonymous reader- and speak of whatever comes to my mind. At times, I just want to shut up. Completely shut up, not even talk with myself. And that is a big problem. My stupid self does not shut up, and keeps thinking over and over. Anyway… Good friends, anonymous bystanders: A new...

Rhonda, The webinterface for it doesn't require any authentication at all, leading technically to anonymous translations all over the place. The so-called "review" process consists of the same not-existing authentication, leading to a situation where unknown people can put in whatever they like and have other (or potentially the same) unknown people acknowledge that. The language team has actively chosen that way because it was said that bad translations simply won't happen and that the review (three people opening the page and clicking onto a button) will not let that happen. Well, it happened. And is happening all over the...

I have been maintaining several minor sites hosted at Dreamhost for about a year. And since over one month ago, my personal website is with them as well. And I must say, I am very pleased with them. No, not (well, not only) because they run Debian on their servers, nor because they are probably the cheapest game in town (I paid something like US$200 for a basically unlimited package , for three years), but because of their degree of responsability and personal service. Responsability? Aren’t they well-known for their network outages? Why, yes, of course - Today’s example is...

Madduck complains about the lack of attractive data plans for mobile phone providers in Switzerland. Madduck: As always, you will have to remember there are many people confronted with a much worse situation than yours. Up to a month ago, I never envisioned using my phone for anything besides… Well, talking. But yes, since I got my new gadget, I keep playing with GPS or using it for simple things that require Web access and do not require much interactivity (the suckiness of a 12-key keyboard is überhuge!) - Provided, of course, that I am near a WiFi hotspot, of...

What’s the best way to join a community, any community? Little by little. I have been working with Ruby on Rails for well over a year already, even given a talk (at Encuentro Nacional Linux y Software Libre ENLi) inviting other people to use this very nice and well thought out environment. But, so far, I’ve been only a end-user, not really giving anything back besides minor bug reports. Well, it’s not as much as to say that I’m now a contributor - this is just a first statement of intent. I have worked a bit on several bits of...