Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

2012-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:00:31PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: Oh it goes well and truely far beyond that. Some pinhead decided to move /var/run to /run without leaving a symlink or informing and updating packages. /var/run is a symlink to /run in 12.04. Perhaps you ran into a

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-08 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:03:48PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: Sent from my Motorola Xoom On Apr 7, 2012 5:44 AM, Dale Amon a...@vnl.com wrote: At one point I tried to build a 'special' statically linked ssh... an effort that didn't work out... with the idea of

Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it

2012-04-08 Thread Dale Amon
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:55:25AM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: LastPass may be secure today, but it is trivially easy for LastPass (or a hypothetical attacker who gains access to LastPass's infrastructure) to compromise that security simply by replacing the javascript code which does

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 13:55 +0100, Dale Amon wrote: There weren't many choices in 2001 or 2002 when I was looking into it. Do you have any suggestions on one that might be particularly useful? It doesn't have to be terribly fancy, just enough so you can get a shell and 'fix things'. I used

Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

2012-04-08 Thread Dane Mutters
On the contrary, I found Michael's rant refreshing. Politically correct rants look like a lot of nitpicking over nothing. ... But of course a little We shouldn't do this, it's a bad idea just gets an enthusiastic push-back from strong-headed visionaries that think they're onto