security via obscurity works great ...until it doesn't

mikeb, I can't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. The recaptcha service offered by google is implemented by individual website operators, whenever/wherever they choose to do so. You're saying "has nothing to do with preventing spambots", but that's the only context I've ever se...

PGP. How many of the security minded folk actually use it?

The all-too-obvious answer is: "both of them"

OP question was: Why not keep a list of IP addresses and use those instead of DNS? A public IP does not necessarily have to resolve to only one domain name. It is possible to have multiple domain names sharing one public IP address. This is a convenient best practice for hosting companies and organi...

Systemd is a dependency of synaptic

it's not indicated as a dependency here:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/synaptic

Maybe you have "Treat recommended packages as depends" selected in preferences, and you wind up with extra, indirect, dependencies?

For installed programs which are missing from menu, visit /usr/share/applications and use a text editor to inspect the launchers for the affected applications. KDE (also gnome) often stupidly/selfishly distribute *.desktop launchers which unnecessarily contain a line stating: OnlyShowIn=KDE Trinity ...

lead a horse to water but ya can't make him drink? What's the cure for NIH (not invented here) Syndrome? In the debianDog thread (and others, IIRC) I've repeatedly mentioned here in the puppy forums that antiX Linux already has "all this stuff" -- liveboot, flexible persistence modes, on-d...

gjuhasz, did you build firefox or did you just download/install then create a .pet file for it?
As Sylvander mentioned, firefox gui is displaying hu localization. I haven't yet figured out how to change it to english.

Quick " install from windows and boot into Puli " instructions: 1) attach a pendrive which has already been "made bootable" by unetbootin for some other distro 2) delete everything except "ldlinux.sys" and "menu.c32" from the pendrive 3) copy to pendrive the e...

Or you could patch the firefox source

Patched or unpatched, have you ever successfully built a recent version of firefox?
Asking because I'm uncertain that my system (2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, 4Gb ram) could handle it

Gparted - does anyone know how to ensure no ext4 journal created under Gparted - have I just missed some checkbox? gParted and Parted have no ability to custom format a partition. It assumes if you`re using ext3 and ext4, then you must want them for the journal. journaling is supported (or not) by ...

My thought was "eventually" to make 4-6 "user accounts" for various purposes Creating additional user accounts later via a script, as needed, frees you to setup just one additional set of configuration files, in etc/skel (One, in addition to the set pathed under /root and the se...

I`ll find out where to put the Geany syntax file geany config file paths http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#configuration-file-paths The system path is $prefix/share/geany, where $prefix is the path where Geany is installed (see ). The user configuration directory is normally: /home/use...

for reference, here's how JWM menu updates are handled in antix (see attachment)

fred, seems like a UTF-8 vs UTF-7 mismatch, as in:
the parser expects UTF-7, but your editor is configured to SaveAs UTF-8

"UTF-7" ~= "ascii"
idunno. I do recall seeing that (UTF-7) mentioned in the freedesktop.org spec page I linked in my earlier post

Above, I typed an incorrect path. Should be ~/.local/share/applications Maybe you're seeing missing .desktop files among the packages in "oldstable" and "stable"? Across the more recent package versions (testing/unstable repos) I can't recall noticing many which lack a .desktop f...

If Debian truly adopts desktop files... I have received no reply to my post at the Debian forum. It`d be nice to hear it from them. "adopts"? How about: "embraces". Yes, debian embraces the org.freedesktop.pullyourhairout spec for desktop-entry files. http://standards.freedeskto...

nooby Shackel is calling you if your stomach and your brain and your doctor allows it

three times only and the shovel and the penguin and most of all the rabies shot

javascript which had windows flying open all over the place...seems like the browser was going doo lally but made doing anything impossible...cant remember how I forced it off...crtlaltdelete or backspace or perhaps the power button. After restarting firefox was a little upset and wanted to take me...

FWIW, the now-defunct livarp distro used xdm, and employed a dmenu solution to present a chooser: #!/bin/bash # a simple session-selector ########################### # session list # ------------ choice=`echo -e "01: vtwm\n02: dwm\n03: ratpoison\n04: wmfs\n05: dwm_reloaded\n06: spectrwm\n07: ev...