Hello,
I'm updating my public machine image with Ubuntu 8.04
I would like for the Desktop directory in the users home directory to be
non-deletable but still allow the user to download files to that folder (the
files in the Desktop folder get deleted on a reboot).
Right now my work around is a script in the runtime directory that deletes
all of the files in the Desktop directory and then recreates and chowns it
(in case it's been deleted).
Assigning the directory the immutable bit stops it …
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also doesn't allow the user to write in that folder. :(
I tried all the google results I could find, but couldn't find a working
solution.
Any suggestions?
--
-Montana
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I'm looking to pick up a quad core machine. I've been told some
motherboards don't work too well with Linux and BSD. Apparently all
other components work fine. The guys I was going to pick it up from said
they were going to do some research on the matter and get back to me.
This was early May. Looks like I'll have to walk in with a list. So the
question is which motherboards work?
This is a personal machine which will be retired as a server of some
sort when I upgrade again in about …
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"one up" a friend who just picked up one about a month ago and is
running it as a quad 2.5GHz machine. ;-)
Later
Mike
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?sub=true&id=53588
The SPARC is dead, long live Sun... uh, I mean Oracle...
*sigh*
Another half-decent chip architecture bites the dust. PA-RISC. AXP.
MIPS. PPC. SPARC.
(OK, I know PA-RISC got rolled into IA64... which is nearly dead, itself.
And PPC is still alive and well in embedded platforms; I figure IBM's POWER
chips have about the same life expectancty as HP's IA64.)
So when the dust settles, we'll be left with, what, x86-64 - …
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almost more accurate to say *happened* than was *designed*; PowerPC -
carefully hidden under the hood, à la Cell processor or in millions of
devices; and ARM - also carefully hidden under the hood.
Have I missed anything? Are there *any* chip architectures out there other
than x86 that aren't dying or dead *in the public's mind*?
--
-Adam Thompson
<athompso(a)athompso.net>
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FYI...
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:46:17 -0700
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The set-up to the question is I picked up a decently modern wireless
router to play with. I allow no connection to the internet (nothing in
the WAN port). I have a couple of computers I can connect to the wired
ports of the router (assign static IPs within the subnet but outside the
DHCP range). These machines (both *NIX boxes) will provide services such
as a web server and a mud/game server. The router will allow open access
to anyone who wants to connect (I want to provide my own …
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experimentation). Since I have physical control of the hardware I'm not
too worried about security.
Initially I'd like to be able to redirect all http traffic not bound
for my web server to my web server. For example someone trying to get to
Google will get my info page instead. But if someone were trying to
access a different page on the same machine would still be able to connect.
I've done the RTFM thing and got confused. The manual seems to dance
around the issue but doesn't seem to say anything which looks to be
appropriate. The firewall is used mainly to filter incoming (from the
WAN port) traffic. IP filters control the outbound (to the WAN port)
filtering. The routing page talks about routing requests to a specific
IP outside the LAN side. Virtual servers route requests from the WAN
side to a specific LAN address. The port forwarding section looked more
like an extension to the firewall page.
Here is what I'd like to do graphically.
Rule 1:
LAN requests non-192.168.X.Y web page --> Router says "You must mean
192.168.X.Y" --> Router sends traffic to 192.168.X.Y/index.html
Rule 2:
LAN requests 192.168.X.Y/whatever.html --> Router passes along the
request to 192.168.X.Y web server
The question is how can I do this? I know I've missed something, but
the manual didn't seem to help. I'll admit to not checking Google, but
I'm not sure what search terms to use.
This ties in with the wireless questions I was asking a couple of
months ago. After I get this working I'll be looking at authentication
for other services and extending the range of coverage.
Later
Mike
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, June 9. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
TrustedBSD Architecture
The TrustedBSD project develops advanced security features for the
FreeBSD operating system. Features from TrustedBSD have also made
their way into other operating systems, such as NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Mac OS X, and Linux.
Christian Peron is a FreeBSD security developer. He will discuss
the security …
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operating systems. Christian will show us the technical and
architectural changes that the TrustedBSD project made to the
FreeBSD operating system to enhance security. Some of the changes
include separating the access control framework from the security
policy, modifying the kernel to support an auditing framework, and
setting up an intrusion detection system.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
**********************************************************************
Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave.
(between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
(in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm,
so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may
not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not
be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required
to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice
Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also
available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle
parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located
behind the building on Webb Place.
**********************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
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Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your
workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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Subject: [Board] HotCloud '09 Registration Now Open
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:16:05 -0700
From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org>
We'd like to invite you to the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud
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Join academics and practitioners …
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The program includes sessions on:
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