Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: OT: Farewell Windows Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:49:09 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <4b288676-8710-4eab-9962-b72fd8efa804@googlegroups.com> <8d106b9a-cb7a-4f89-a913-1dde4f129217@googlegroups.com> <051ef26c-7dfe-4150-8ddf-f95f3c2d66fe@googlegroups.com> <2bd3dd19-78e4-45cb-a896-4647cd0b938d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:41239 On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:40:04 -0400, Bernd Paysan wrote: > We bought an Eee PC from Asus with pre-installed Ubuntu ... > Now you can feel stupid again, Rod for once is right (he rarely is): The > popular distributions *do* work for clueless newbies. Clueless newbies > don't have to unlearn habits. > Whenever I report things, I always find other people who experienced the same. This isn't the first newsgroup where I've mentioned similar issues, usually in reply to someone else who posted their almost identical issues first. So, comparing a pre-installed, optimized Linux, which was customized to the specialty hardware of a netbook, to an install it yourself Linux distro on a normal x86 PC is the same type of comparison? ... That would seem to be comparing apples to oranges to me. This version of Linux worked when I installed it. However, it had both TCP and UDP ports open on the internet, services exposed to the internet, printer sharing through the internet enabled, and automatically attempted to mount network drives on the internet, etc. The Opera browser was even setup for an existing email account, an Opera sync account, and had pre-installed UUIDs. I can only assume one of the developers for the distro accidently activated it by mistake or copied it from an unstrusted source. Just yesterday, I found it was attempting to mount a share on the internet. The installed script was only supposed to check the internal network for mountable shares which were part of a certain default groupname, but it would fall back to checking DNS for name lookups when no local shares were found. One DNS server returned a valid IP instead of NXDOMAIN which happened to have a network share. P.S. I'd be worried about the girl if she's so paranoid to lock you out. I'd also be concerned that she was going to websites that have computer virii. That's a indicator that something is amiss. I.e., good websites don't have malware and virii unless they've been hacked. Rod Pemberton -- Scientists now say we'll experience a mini-ice in 2030. So, I guess we need more global warming today ...