Once again, somebody had criticized a new GNU/Linux distribution for not being friendly enough to new users. This time the target is RMS's Mostly Slax, and the person criticizing is Bruce Byfield in this blog post.

As I understand it, the distribution has been pulled for now. But my comments here are more on Byfield's points of criticism. Specifically, this statement bothers me:

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The task:
To mount a remote truecrypt volume locally, using sshfs.

The problem:
truecrypt /home/xri/sshfs-mounted-remote-directory/remote-truecrypt-vol /media/truecrypt1
gives an error message with "permission denied"

The solution:
a) Edit /etc/fuse.conf (or create it), and make sure it has this line:
user_allow_other
b) When mounting the sshfs remote directory, use this option
-o allow_other

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There are sometimes when you will have to forward all your proxy requests to a parent proxy, we maybe will have so many proxys on the network but what that hell.

After configure you squid proxy (I have a <a href="http://soad1982.blogspot.com/2009/07/squid-initial-set-up.html">quick start here</a>) you will just have to add a couple of lines to redirect the proxy settings.

I know squid could change sometimes the lines, so here is the version I've...

Ubuntu is switching the default search from Google to Yahoo!

Those of you testing out the development version of Ubuntu Lucid should notice a change in Firefox very soon. The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu Lucid and upgrades will be Yahoo! and not Google. Canonical have struck a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! which generates income for the company. This money should help pay the wages of Ubuntu Developers employed by Canonical.

There appears...

A short story about Infernet Exploiter usage in popular P2P app "Shareaza".
It was last summer, when SourceForge wasn't so bad and I was always sitting and helping on their channel @ freenode, and, also, I was a windowz user.
Persons:
_AnywhereIs_: me
Ryo-oh-ki: Shareaza developer

Local time: GMT+06 (in DST)
Channel: #sourceforge
Place: IRC.FreeNode.net
Date: June 13-14, 2009

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