Re: [clug-talk] OT - Computer Paranoia

[Frank Ledderhof]

I agree with others that's likely cron jobs, but...one sure-fire way to 
avoid being "owned" in the middle of the night is to turn it off.  After 
all - and I just _hate_ to add to your paranoia - cooling fans die, too, 
even fresh out of the box.  Anything from big fat industrial mothers 
used in process control equipment to the #^$*& puny #$^&#$ little 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@& beggar that sits on my MB chipset.

Me, I never leave the house with the puter running - but then, I don't 
run a server.  However, if I did, I would run two of them in parallel.

Whenever I do development work, I back up: 1. daily; 2. anytime I've 
cracked a problem of any signifigance.  (Complete with revision 
history.)  IMHO, comprehensive data backups should be min. weekly on a 
production system, with incremental backups daily on one to two weeks' 
worth of rotating media.  At home, you can safely back up monthly unless 
you're working on a term paper, in which case 1 & 2 above should apply. 
 Every week or two if you're making a LOT of config changes.


Hmmm, let me put that another way...I never leave the puter running when 
I depart from the house!  LOL

Frank
Andrew Graupe wrote:
I think my linux box might be 0wned, because it makes "processing 
noises" in the middle of the night (might this be xscreensaver?).


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