Anon Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 02:16AM
OS2 was brilliant for avoiding hackers Woberto, I don't know if it would handle
web pages these days but I don't regret it. Solaris, never tried it. Linux,
using that now! I used to read a lot about computers (bought two computing
magazines each month) and did analysis programming back in the day, discovered
Linux and... it just works. No more computer magazines. I refuse to touch
Windopey 10. Someone in this house has it on their PC and... it's your PC, you
bought it, it's software you bought... but yank law and business practise say
otherwise: the rich do to the poor, the strong do to the weak. Add the spying.
Add the disabling of other people's software. Try removing a program you
don't want.
woberto Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 05:40AM
The SUN Sparc 5 was always referred to as "a Solaris machine" when I
started paying attention to servers.
This one is small, Sun made some big boxes, and the Sparc could be stacked
(before racking).
Solaris is probably still running Apache on an old Sparc for some websites in
Bulgaria or some place.
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 06:17AM
Solaris is doing a hell of a lot more than that, I can assure you.
OS/2 I never really played with. Experimented a little running a BBS back in the
day as it was nicer than desqview to use for multitasking; but it was so
resource hungry for the time. I just didn't have the memory/CPU for it.
Linux is everywhere and on everything.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 07:12AM
Linux is a lot more secure than most OS's as it doesn't automatically answer
unsolicited connections (like answering the telephone). Any hacker must first
know what brand of Linux you are using, and there's so many. One is so small it
runs off a data card designed for a camera - it has everything except modern
graphics. Even that could have changed by now.
The spooks use variants of Ubuntu, they don't touch Windope, so when someone
trolls a forum you're on and 'accidentally' releases a screen shot with a
bookmark called "ASIO Login" (or some other intelligence service) it's
not them.
Strangely, the most secure operating system, from the user's point of view, is
North Korean. They fortified an existing Linux with a catch: it places a
hidden watermark (another tab in metadata?) on every file, so if they find
something they don't like, they instantly know everyone who had the file. They
correctly view it necessary to automatically spy on everyone as the paranoid
yank establishment do. Or should I say, as their paranoid wealthiest make their
taxpayers fund, until they squeeze the last cent out of the country and walk
away as it crashes and burns. It's fiat currency after all.
I wonder if a vengeful Trump will make gold's value fiat? That would be really
interesting.
I wonder where Israel is getting the money to keep prosecuting this war? It
would be really interesting if investors in Basic Industries Group (BIG) found
their dividends have dropped, and their balances soon to follow. BIG is run by
MEGA, and they are Mossad agents.
In prosecuting the information war (truth is the first casualty of war) and
censoring posts in forums that replace the freedom of the internet that was,
your choice of operating system will matter. And where you communicate.
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 08:32AM
Quote
Linux is a
lot more secure than most OS's as it doesn't automatically answer unsolicited
connections (like answering the telephone). Any hacker must first know what
brand of Linux you are using, and there's so many.
Not overly true these days. We're a very long way away from Windows 95/Windows
NT and Winnuke and similar tools. Everything comes from the base codeset;
whether it's the kernel or the software on the system, it's all pulled from a
shared public git or similar repository. Sure each "brand" might
compile it themselves; and some will throw in an extra few flags/requirements on
the kernel and various applications that others don't. But the core code to
basically everything is the same. The value that companies like Red Hat etc
provide is some tweaks which allow for more enterprise based management and
licensing vs outright security.
As an example; pretty much every Linux runs OpenSSH of some description. It
doesn't matter what brand of Linux you're running. If you allow that port to be
accessible to the public unrestricted, and it has a vulnerability.. then you're
done. The key is to stop the remote connection proceeding from bad actors to the
system to begin with and keep your systems patched. A 5 year old unpatched Linux
system is as insecure as anything else.
If you're running software, and there's a security defect for it, then you're as
vulnerable as anything else. Linux isn't inherently more secure than Windows
these days, at least for remote connections. If you have physical access to any
system, you have no real security.
woberto Report This Comment Date: December 05, 2023 09:52PM
I haven't had any root privileges for a long time so I wouldn't know what's on
any of the servers that I share.
I only get to root MySQL (which can possibly be just as dangerous!).
I install and train on SAP these days and because they are big companies I only
ever get to install the odd client.
When windoze 95 & 98 was taking off as terminals used inside factories,
warehouses and the like, I had a Red Hat boot disk specifically for resetting
passwords.
I am pretty sure you couldn't hack, reset or even delete a windows password
these days.
But then again you don't need to thanks to all the "apps" that are
running on clients which allow the hackers in.
The bottom line is windoze is insanely prolific, so teenagers with too much time
on their hands have intimate knowledge and cruel intentions.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 06, 2023 05:21AM
Pulse, I had forgotten that bit about across the board software so... Also, I
am certain I proof read my post and typed
"They correctly view it unnecessary to spy
on everyone".
What gives?
Woberto... windoze... I haven't heard that in a long time, and yes, it was about
Windows 95/98 security, or lack of it. A software called Guard Dog did wonders,
until I was dumb enough to say that's what I was using, and Black Ice.
You're right about the apps too, but it's not just that it's prolific. My beef
with the ASX is two fold: we don't need to 'update' CHESS to whatever's
happening on Wall Street as it doesn't matter. And Java! It's the most
dangerous thing I ever came across, except windope 10.
Think about java for a minute: the Pentagon is a war machine, it pursues
Washington's interests, it funds Google and Google provide all those java
scripts that are popular for what reason? And they have updates...
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 06, 2023 08:16AM
JavaScript was created in conjunction with Netscape and SUN MicroSystems
(creators of aforementioned Solaris) several years before Google was founded.
It's the reason the web stopped being completely static. This very site contains
JavaScript elements.
Maybe I'm hacking you too?
woberto Report This Comment Date: December 06, 2023 11:49AM
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 07, 2023 12:19AM
No pulse, I don't think you're hacking me. Unless you find something like the
following offensive:
I've advised some people to leave their house to one of the kids and the other
gets money.
If you don't care, and, as you haven't deleted any of the essays I've put on
this site then, no, you're not going to the effort. As the people who would be
offended don't understand computers, or not enough, they paid for the hacking
(or got the taxpayer to, from the DPP budget to Lyonswood Investigations). To
the point:
1. Leaving a house to one of your kids and the other/s get money means
transferring wealth within the family, when some people believe only their
group/political party have a right to wealth - that it's wasted on the rest of
us (I'm now very much in the bad books);
2. If a child and their family moved in to their parents home they would
instantly plug in to the same social networks. These, when they represent
generations, eventually organise regular events and become society, when some
people believe society is exclusively for them and their group/political party.
Barbecue or recitals, t-shirt and shorts or tuxedos, it doesn't matter, society
always, eventually, gets involved in politics. It becomes particularly
sensitive when desperate social climbers can only earn the money they do through
the group/political party - so anyone who just got a job through their life
would never be referred to here;
The real point is 3. A social network, covering generations and large, will
pass on advice to the next generation that's not bound by marketing. Most of
the members of the group/political party, who think money is just wasted on the
rest of us, that we have no right to wealth, are not aware of that. That is,
once the larger group has helped assimilate wealth from the many to the few, a
smaller group within will do to the larger group. If that's your clever scheme,
how far would you go?
It gets really stupid: people who believe in the liberation of the strong from
the plea of the weak, or variations of wording on those lines, each group told a
different wording, so most of them can be turned on any of the others, yet they
don't have biceps - they've been told, they're too stupid to notice.
I doubt they know what java is, but I wasn't disputing the origins of java.
Yes, I like being able to select, cut/copy/paste from a webpage or as I've done
typing this, compared to typing in DOS, but I understand you can do that in
FreeDOS?
Funky Cold Medina Report This Comment Date: December 07, 2023 06:28AM
Ahem. OK, here’s what we've got: the Rand Corporation — in conjunction with
the saucer people — under the supervision of the reverse vampires — are
forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal
of dinner! We’re through the looking glass, here, people...
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 07, 2023 07:16AM
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 08, 2023 04:29AM
Funky, that's funny. But it's desperate social climbing, not normal mindset.
It's desperate as there's never enough places on the publicly funded gravy
train. It's not the only too-clever-by-half scheme you can pick holes in:
In the 1990's it was encapsulated (or when the above people heard of it, then
later I did) that 'Marriage distinguishes the elite". Therefore the word
'partner' has been pushed in schools and universities, to lock in who will be in
the lower level of society (Liberal, the pretend conservatives in Australia,
play Labour, I don't know how or how well, I've just heard the boast, but Labour
seem to think it will bring about Marxism). I know someone with a Phd who uses
the word, and of course they have a Phd income. It's ridiculous, but it's
serious.
Here in Australia we had an election where the voters, myself included, booted
that same party out for using marketing techniques as a form of government - it
was stupidly insulting to all of us. Whilst the party are now throwing their
former morally righteous great leader under the bus for losing the election (as
if he did all the bad things by himself), if anyone is (God forbid!) dumb enough
to vote them in they will try the same thing again and expect a different
result. They need it to work, due to the scheme above (you can pick holes in
that too).
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 08, 2023 05:17AM
When I was working in the UK I worked with a guy who got his PhD in computer
science. I asked him why and he replied "I worked hard once so I never have
to work again". He got jobs easily and cruised along in them doing as
little as possible, knowing he'll be first choice on the next application due to
the PhD.
My ex got her PhD in chemistry. Ended up an IT project manager.
PhDs and the people who hold them aren't the be all and end all..
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 08, 2023 08:43AM
"PhDs and the people who hold them aren't the be all and end all.."
I know pulse, I could carry on for paragraphs about a few Phds in law who've
never actually practised it, but that's not what I was saying.
Back to java: select update 'warhead', apply (string=country). You abolished
cash and cheques, you destroyed your physical currency, you refuse to sell your
assets to yanks, now none of your webpages, including bank webpages, work. How
are you going to fight a war without money? It's straight Manifest Destiny.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 13, 2023 03:15AM
Pulse, do you mean that Windoze and Linux now both run off the same kernel?
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 13, 2023 09:05AM
No I mean most Linux are fundamentally the same, just different packaging
systems; and Windows has made massive strides in security to be broadly on even
terms.
Microsoft is one of the largest contributors of code to the Linux kernel in the
last few years.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 14, 2023 12:23AM
"Microsoft is one of the largest
contributors of code to the Linux kernel in the last few years."
Uh ohh... When I used windoze 98 I was constantly being sent a tcpip kernel
driver from a front with a professionally photographed bunch of models,
including a black man, billing itself as an organisation dedicated to demanding
some sort of computer honesty from "The government", and there's only
one nation dumb enough to imagine there's is the only government. I have the IP
address at home, will post it later.
tcpip kernel driver... naturally I blocked it.
woberto Report This Comment Date: December 14, 2023 12:42AM
Mainline Linux kernels are safe...
...because I said so. NO evidence will be given.
All that stuff is way over my head and first year Computer Science students
probably learn it but don't need to understand it.
[
itsfoss.com]
The bottom line for me is this;
If something dodgey is going on as MS then we would probably never know.
But if something dodgey is going on with the mainline Linux kernels then there
is a whole community that will call it out and get it fixed (and flame on).
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2023 12:10AM
tcpip kernel driver sent from: 212.76.56.117
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2023 06:31AM
route: 212.76.48.0/20
descr: ASTER Sp. z o.o.
descr: ul. Domaniewska 50 , 02-672 Warsaw
descr: Poland
remarks: +----------------------------------------
remarks: | plese send abuse notification ONLY to |
remarks: | |
remarks: | abuse @ upc.com.pl |
remarks: +----------------------------------------
origin: AS6830
mnt-by: UPC-PL-MNT
created: 2012-06-01T07:35:32Z
last-modified: 2012-06-01T07:35:32Z
source: RIPE
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2023 04:29AM
For whatever reason I'm only getting this:
file:///home/laptop/Downloads/Traceroute%20printout.png
But... POLAND! It was dressed up as something yank. All in English. What I
don't know is if I still have the screen cap from my data CD from the windoze 98
days.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2023 04:31AM
Bah!! How do you upload an image in a comment pulse?
My trace attempt isn't going past Telstraglobal.net in Sydney.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2023 06:06PM
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 17, 2023 01:33AM
Quote
Bah!! How do
you upload an image in a comment pulse?
You can't; you can link to images on this site with the image ID (eg 79903)
between [image] and [/image] tags which will show a thumbnail and link to the
image on the site; such as
Or you can link to externally hosted images with the URL to the picture between
[ img] and [ /img] tag such as
You can also use eg the full size images from here doing that one.
You can't just upload directly into the comments.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 17, 2023 01:36AM
It turns out the sender IP address in a tcp packet does not have to be the real
one. I don't know if the edition of Black Ice (firewall) I had at the time
simply read the packet header - so it may have nothing to do with the Poles
(that would make more sense to me). There's no telling where the real IP
address was.
Someone could have used a pre-existing facility. Or just bought space on a
server.
But how do you actually do that pro?
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 17, 2023 01:46AM
[
security.stackexchange.com] is probably a reasonable explanation of what
you're asking, but not how you do it.
It's incredibly difficult on a modern operating system. The 3 way TCP handshake
is practically impossible to guess the correct response number on anything since
about 1995.
Anon Report This Comment Date: December 17, 2023 02:09AM
The 3 way TCP handshake is practically
impossible to guess the correct response number on anything since about
1995.
Oops, the one I spoke to in person today also mentioned UDP, so I may have them
mixed up. I'll read that link but it may have to remain a
mystery.
woberto Report This Comment Date: January 07, 2024 01:49AM
Anon Report This Comment Date: January 08, 2024 11:09AM
Thank you for that woberto.
I haven't had a problem with linux until today: I was looking for some
infographs from a site I quit due to increasing amounts of rubbish, only to find
it's easily now 90% rubbish, and had to reboot multiple times. It was at a
public library. I repaired broken packages, one was fixed, and now the browser
starts up and runs readily.
But until today I just haven't had a problem. Not with linux anyway.
Crosswalks... who calls them that?
Anon Report This Comment Date: January 25, 2024 12:37AM
Problem seems to have been solved, by reinstalling everything. Moral of the
story: always install your OS on a separate partition, so reinstalling is just
half an hour and doesn't interfere with your data. I'm back at the same library
for the second day in a row, no reboots, no issues.
A larger schematic for you Woberto:
[
www.plus613.net]
Mind you, yours is simpler, so probably more useful.
Pulse, do you want to make another category 'Schematics' or do I just upload
them when I can be bothered finding them.
pulse Report This Comment Date: January 25, 2024 01:20AM
That image failed to upload properly. Not sure why.
Anon Report This Comment Date: January 25, 2024 02:18AM
I tried to upload it again and it says "Plus613 is down", yet this
works. I'll try something else just because. No, as soon as I press the '+add'
button it's the same, faceplant image.
Anon Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2024 04:50AM
This one uploaded fine:
[
www.plus613.net]
But as soon as I tried the other one it's the faceplant page again. Is 2.6mg
too large for a .png? Doesn't matter, I'm deleting it anyway, it's too
complicated and will be redundant soon.
pulse Report This Comment Date: January 26, 2024 05:32AM
It's not the size, it's not coming through as a valid image.
Anon Report This Comment Date: February 17, 2024 06:51AM
Talked to a retired carpenter who gets family hand-me-down laptops. Yes, it's
slow, yes, it has Norton. I told him about Windoze initialising software every
time you boot, even if you don't use the software, so it's slowed down. Told
him about shouldIremoveit.com.
But he asked if that's also the case with mobiles. Anyone know? Do all apps
only start if you press the button or are they draining battery like wifi and
bluetooth?
woberto Report This Comment Date: February 17, 2024 07:14AM
I have been using Ubuntu Touch for the last 10 years (except for work
phones).
Any phone that asks you to install an APP is 1) Bloatware and 2) Stealing all
your data.
Even on iPhones, which I fucking love, the "Torch" APP has access to
almost your entire phone.
Android allows people to make the APPS that we really want but in order to
release an APP for free you need to sell the collected data to make some money.
Sadly if an APP is pretty good, it will soon become one you need to purchase,
but purchasing an APP does not mean they don't sell your data.
Having said that, these APPS usually only steal the data, causing the chewing up
of resources, when they first launch.
I de-googled a couple of Android phones but unless you lie flashing unknown apps
you are stuck with Aptoid store to download apps. The Aptoid service is fine but
the apps are shite.
Anon Report This Comment Date: February 17, 2024 08:02AM
Thank you woberto, and that's why I don't have a smart phone. Will remember
Ubuntu Touch.
Anon Report This Comment Date: February 17, 2024 09:01AM
Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, Office of the eSafety Commissioner of
Australia
Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors and
spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech
industry at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe.
Her career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit
sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft
spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing
government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Director
for Safety and Privacy Policy and Outreach.
In other words there's no privacy or safety for you. She's also loyal to an
alien power, whose establishment imagines Australia, Britain and Canada will
side with it in any war against India, when, as India is part of the British
Empire and Commonweath, it's natural and logical we will side with India against
america in such a war. Their establishment is too imbicilic to understand that.
Here she is at the World Economic Forum.
[
www.plus613.net]
Anon Report This Comment Date: May 02, 2024 04:03AM
Back to this again:
- Went to a library, connected online, security update, disconnected and left (I
don't remember why I bothered going to the library).
- Same library another day and I can't go online, but I can at the apartment I'm
currently house minding.
- Another security update and the new laptop battery, instead of giving about 6
hours use (4 if downloading), it's 2 hours.
- Fix broken packages, back to about 6 hours!
This is the upteenth time I've had to fix broken packages since the trouble at
the front of the other library above. No problem before. Getting annoyed.
Linux Mate as I don't like apps, and Mate is lighter on the system. It's an old
XP era laptop and my best movie player, 200GBs of oldies and music, works
beautifully on a widescreen TV.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Anon Report This Comment Date: May 05, 2024 01:04PM
Having said that the battery life indicator started misreporting. Someone's
using badly written software. That's the thing about Linux, so many flavours,
new releases every six months, things added or updated only if they are done (no
Microsoft style patches). It's just thorough.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 07, 2024 07:48AM
There is only one Linux for PC/Desktops and that is Ubuntu.
Everything else is just a flavour and you have to be prepared to hack it out for
your specific hardware.
That can be a lot of fun but is not for everyone.
Ubuntu, especially LTS versions (LifeTime Suport) is where everyone should start
there Linux journey.
pulse Report This Comment Date: May 07, 2024 09:49AM
Mint is an arguably better place for desktop users that don't want to go too
deep into the tech; or go for one of the fancier desktop environments.
And it's Long Term Support not LifeTime because it doesn't .. you know .. give
lifetime support
It's 5 years. All of plus613 runs on LTS
releases and they've always been true to their word. It's been solid.
Also, goats.
woberto Report This Comment Date: May 07, 2024 09:25PM
Shut up pulse, you nerd!
Yes you are correct, of couse.
I always tell people it's Lifetime because you can always upgrade from one LTS
to the next but you often get issues with other versions, flavoirs or custom
kernels. If you go for custom repositories that's on you.
So you will have an up to date and functioning Ubuntu for the lifetime of that
PC or laptop.
pulse Report This Comment Date: May 08, 2024 02:24AM
Yep more or less. So long as you're not doing it on your 486, which support was
recently dropped from the mainline kernel. You'd need to compile your own in
future, or carry on with kernel 6.0.
So, time to stop rocking that PC from 1993. Damn, I'm gonna have to upgrade the
sites again
