It is not recent news that Nvidia published new drivers for my legacy cards and ever since I'm happy camper spending more and more time in KDE4.
It is really interesting how fast KDE guys developed such monster software suit. It was January 2008 when I installed preview version with single way to start application, using Alt-F2 to start "Run As" window and type in command name. Now is March 2009 and, with current version 4.2.1, I have almost all that I need. I'm long time KDE user and I need many little things that you can't find elsewhere.
The only problem is that transfer of settings between KDE3 and KDE4 is not always easy. In some parts difference is irrelevant, you can just copy files with settings and it works, in other it is better to create new setup from scratch.
Since my $HOME is old, it will take some time and good truck to move all that to KDE4. Young guys that have first touch with Linux trough KDE4 are happy, they will never learn why old geezers have Konsole at the top of most used applications.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
People of openSUSE
I said only Portal and then the other day Carlos asked again for volunteer. Now I have People of openSUSE too.
It shouldn't be much work, except for initial setup and permanent search for candidates. Considering involved work, Carlos kept good tempo of one interview a week. On the other hand, weekly one would need few years to interview only people that are recognized as openSUSE members right now.
Hopefully there will be more people interested for this part of community life.
It shouldn't be much work, except for initial setup and permanent search for candidates. Considering involved work, Carlos kept good tempo of one interview a week. On the other hand, weekly one would need few years to interview only people that are recognized as openSUSE members right now.
Hopefully there will be more people interested for this part of community life.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
How much of anonymity is left?
For those that want anonymity is better to turn off computer and do something else.
See information displayed in Google gadget GeoIP on the right side.
That much reveals your IP address, but, beside cookies that everyone knows about, there is actually more information that leaves computer. For instance, HTTP headers that bowser exchange on every contact with any web server. It is not much, but a lot more than people suspect.
Digest answer on question what are the http headers you can see on List of HTTP headers. To see what information comes from server you can use, for instance, DJ Delorie web site HTTP Header Viewer , or to see what your browser is telling to server you can use another HTTP Header Viewer created by Eric Giguere, and finally, if you want to know both at once, try Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer.
You can see all that and much more using program Wireshark. It is serious network analyzer, not only HTTP header viewer. It has it's own training program. Although, if your only need is to see what your computer is talking to Internet reading frequently asked questions should suffice.
It is standard part of Linux, in other words, it is either on installation DVD, or it can be downloaded and installed using distribution specific installation program . For my favorite distribution openSUSE that is Software Management module that can be found in YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) .
There is much more about privacy and anonymity on the web.
Nice texts and tests on privacy and security you can find on Steve Gibson's http://www.grc.com .
There is also SecurityMetrics portscan that can tell you few more bits.
See information displayed in Google gadget GeoIP on the right side.
That much reveals your IP address, but, beside cookies that everyone knows about, there is actually more information that leaves computer. For instance, HTTP headers that bowser exchange on every contact with any web server. It is not much, but a lot more than people suspect.
Digest answer on question what are the http headers you can see on List of HTTP headers. To see what information comes from server you can use, for instance, DJ Delorie web site HTTP Header Viewer , or to see what your browser is telling to server you can use another HTTP Header Viewer created by Eric Giguere, and finally, if you want to know both at once, try Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer.
You can see all that and much more using program Wireshark. It is serious network analyzer, not only HTTP header viewer. It has it's own training program. Although, if your only need is to see what your computer is talking to Internet reading frequently asked questions should suffice.
It is standard part of Linux, in other words, it is either on installation DVD, or it can be downloaded and installed using distribution specific installation program . For my favorite distribution openSUSE that is Software Management module that can be found in YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) .
There is much more about privacy and anonymity on the web.
Nice texts and tests on privacy and security you can find on Steve Gibson's http://www.grc.com .
There is also SecurityMetrics portscan that can tell you few more bits.
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