Warg!

[silveradept]

Oh, yeah, I was working on a post when my machine crashed. How aggravating.

However, you get early-morning update because late-night was my thing last night. So:

Definitely amused with W Ketchup, the condiment to go with your Freedom Fries.

If I were feeling particularly nasty, I'd make mention that the techniques describes on this page about "thought reform" looked remarkably similar to the techniques used by cults and major religions alike. I'm not feeling nasty, so I'll leave it up to you to go harass the page builder on that.

I got my slackware disks from shadesfox, and I'll be itching to try them out when I have a free moment... Which could very well be next week. Thanks for the fun. Let's see if they do well for me.

And that's all from my side of life.

Comments

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Feel free to ask my any questions, especially if you can track me down on IM. The only sugestion I can think of immedately is that you will want to disable all the 'services'. This is things like the ssh daemon, web servers and the like that only open security holes on desktop systems.

[silveradept]

Are there instructions for doing so on the discs? And then, if I should wonder if I need such "services", will something be able to tell me which ones I really do need?

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Well, selecting services that should start after install will be easy enough. I'm not sure if it gives a description of servies, but they are mostly for servers, like appletalk daemons, apache web server, mysql, things like that. The only one I have enabled is sshd, and that is so that I can login remotely.

[silveradept]

I see. So I probably should take a poke or two around the configuration programs to see whether or not I can do it the "easy" way? (If there's a hard way, I'll probably be very scared of screwing something important up)

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

belive it or not the hard way isn't much more difficult then the easy way. As oppoosed to highlighting "httpd" and making sure there isn't a star next to it, the hard way to turn it off is 'chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/httpd.rc". Well, the file name may be wrong, but that is the basics. The only other gotya I can think of is best solved by having a second hard disk dedicated to your first Linux install. It is always easier if windows has a full disk and linux has a full disk.

[unspeakablevorn.livejournal.com]

That ketchup is hilarious.

Vorn

[silveradept]

I know. Proves that there are people of all ideologies in this country.