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[Vlad902]

pico -m in X allows you to click

[Elijah]

the ctrl + r tip is a good one ...


keep 'em coming

[sharth]

Originally posted by Chs
If u what to empty the boot record completly, maby u delete all files at the hd, but if u what to format it and i dont work, then u can use this program:

Take a Win98 startdisc and start from it, run debug

Write EXACLY as it says:

A 100
INT 13

RAX
0301
RBX
0200
F 200 L 200 0
RCX
0001
RDX
0080
P
Q

This writes 0 at the disks first 512 bytes, if u what the second drive, change 0080 to 0081

WARNING: I DONT KNOW REALY SURE WHAT THIS DOES! I THINK IT JUST DELETES THE MBR! I DONT TAKE ANY RESPONSABILITY AT ME!

Have a nice day!

//linuxCommand

The first 512 bytes of the hard-drive are the mbr. however, a fdisk /mbr usually fixes any problems you are having. One step under assembly, binary Thats basically what I virus could do to piss people off I think you can also copy that and put it in a .com file on windows and it *should* do the same thing... now i wonder if anyone wants to try it.

[matt95z]

If you can't get X to work use lynx to browse the forums and look for help.

[fancypiper]

Originally posted by matt95z
If you can't get X to work use lynx to browse the forums and look for help.

I use links instead.

[Joe_Atlanta]

Originally posted by fancypiper
In the command line, use the well kept secret of mc (midnight commander), with a file manager, extractor, installer, editor ftp, and probably lots more handy tools I haven't used yet.

Holy Bob! This is great, suddenly the terminal ain't so scarey, like finally getting the old dosshell . A real saviour for us folks who work better with a visible directory structure. Thanks!

[ferreter]

Here's a silly tip, If your going to run bastille via ncurses you have to have the perl-ncurses package or it doesn't work. (took me all night to figure that out darn it)

[Elijah]

Originally posted by ferreter
Here's a silly tip, If your going to run bastille via ncurses you have to have the perl-ncurses package or it doesn't work. (took me all night to figure that out darn it)

bastille doesn't work for me ... yet. Is it good as guarddog (what I'm currently using just now)? I think I've still got those tarballs hanging around somewhere, it's not that very big on my todo list

[fancypiper]

But you keep getting those stupid error messages. Sound familiar?

Try it this way:

[phil@fancypiper phil]$ xhost +local:
non-network local connections being added to access control list
[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -
Password: 
[root@fancypiper root]# export DISPLAY=:0.0
[root@fancypiper root]#

Now you can run that killer gui app as root from your user's account and point and click to your heart's content

You have the terminal to watch for error messages as well.

I suggest using one virtual desktop for this so you will get used to using extreme caution on that desktop. Check, double check and recheck before clicking. You have been warned!

[MMA]

Originally posted by fancypiper
But you keep getting those stupid error messages. Sound familiar?

Try it this way:

[phil@fancypiper phil]$ xhost +local:
non-network local connections being added to access control list
[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -
Password: 
[root@fancypiper root]# export DISPLAY=:0.0
[root@fancypiper root]#

Now you can run that killer gui app as root from your user's account and point and click to your heart's content

You have the terminal to watch for error messages as well.

I suggest using one virtual desktop for this so you will get used to using extreme caution on that desktop. Check, double check and recheck before clicking. You have been warned!

After you do this, is it perminent?

PS: THNX maaann. I saw this somehwere in LNO and tried searching but i get loads of bull****, THNX for that

[ferreter]

Originally posted by Elijah
bastille doesn't work for me ... yet. Is it good as guarddog (what I'm currently using just now)? I think I've still got those tarballs hanging around somewhere, it's not that very big on my todo list

I haven't tried guarddog yet myself so I couldn't tell you. I do know that bastille has been around for a while and does do a decent job of some hardening tasks.

[MMA]

could some one please give me a quick explanation of what guarddog/bastille is.

I already posted saying people should explain what there tip does

Really appreciate it

[red_over_blue]

Here's a trick (needs broadband)

1. First, ensure you have xmms installed with the mpeg layer 1,2,3 plugin.

2. Go to www.shoutcast.com (or any other streaming audio site) and get some streaming audio going (just click "tune in" and then open with xmms)

3. In XMMS: options - preferences - audio I/O - mpeg layer 1,2,3 player - configure - streaming

4. Enable "save stream to disk" and pick the path of a nice fat directory to save to MP3 stream to.

5. Now, press play again on xmms and it will start recording the stream.

6. The fun part... at the CLI, type the following:

at now + 500 minutes

and press enter. You should get another "command prompt" for at, and type:

killall -9 xmms

and press enter. Now do a

ctrl-d

To tell "at" that you are finished.

Then go to sleep. When you wake up, you will have a 500 minute MP3 that you can burn to a CD.

I also used the "at" command, left a blank CD-R in the drive, and had the disk burned for when I woke up!

[ferreter]

Originally posted by MMA
could some one please give me a quick explanation of what guarddog/bastille is.

I already posted saying people should explain what there tip does

Really appreciate it

Bastille-linux is a system hardening tool which will automate tasks such as:
restricting local logon to non-root
set default umask settings
create a firewall w/ monitoring
and many other things

Guarddog I think is just for creating a firewall rule set, not certain if it does anything else.

[MMA]

Now thats smart

Great tip, THNX