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Ramblings about Debian GNU/Linux

Security and Privacy on the Internet

Posted 08-12-2010 at 04:31 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 08-29-2010 at 01:12 PM by craigevil

Tags anonymity, firefox, pgp, privacy, security

If you are really worried about privacy there are a few things you can do including:
Use the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox and use the
Easy Privacy list
using a hosts file to block the multitude of clicktrackers
If you want to do the same thing without having the hosts file slowdown, dnsmasq offers similar functionality and it seems to be pretty snappy. Also, it allows you to use DNS for your LAN to boot!
Using Tor
Using a VPN, Linux VPN Masquerade HOWTO: Background Knowledge...

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Grokking Debian GNU/Linux

Posted 08-06-2010 at 03:58 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 04-05-2011 at 12:24 PM by craigevil

Tags aptitude, debian, gdebi, packages, synaptic

Before asking here or on the <debian-user> mailing list, you should read the Installation Guide,
or if you already have Debian installed, the Debian Reference.

Please read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" - http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html before posting any questions.The more you know the better you can explain your problem(s), which in turn makes it easier for everyone to help you.

The Debian Installation Guide for Squeeze...

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Trouble shooting ALSA on Debian

Posted 07-17-2010 at 10:02 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 08-10-2010 at 06:59 AM by craigevil

First go through the ALSA checklist:
1) add yourself to the 'audio' group (log out and log in again) , as root add username audio, where username is your user's name
2) use alsamixer and unmute channels and raise levels (also try muting some channels & toggle jack sense)

--$ alsamixer <Enter> {You will be able to control the volumes and balance through the keyboard.}

For KDE
Press: Alt+F2
Then type: /usr/bin/kmix {Click 'Run'.}...

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Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web

Posted 06-30-2010 at 02:55 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)

Tags debian, google, searching, surfraw

Are you tired of clicking the search box in Firefox to do searches or changing the search engine. Then surfraw is definitely for you. Get rid of the searchbox and use Surfraw.

Surfraw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote:

Surfraw (Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW) is a free POSIX-compliant (ie. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License and written

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REAL Firefox on Debian

Posted 06-29-2010 at 08:11 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-03-2010 at 07:35 AM by craigevil

Tags debian, firefox, iceweasel

This is all I do to use Firefox rather than Iceweasel.
1) download Firefox
2) extract to my /home/Downloads
3) symlink plugins by doing:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/plugins

4) open iceweasel with iceweasel -profilemanager and create a profile for Firefox
5) copy my iceweasel profile to the new firefox profile
6) create a text file called Firefox.desktop

my Firefox.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
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