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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and the Gang,
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the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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<p><em><font color="#990000">There is no guarantee that your questions
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here will <b>ever</b> be answered. Readers at confidential sites
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anonymously - just let us know!
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A>
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<dt><a href="tag/bios.html"
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><strong>!!: Meet The Answer Gang</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Dial-on-demand users should know:</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>XFS ....font server...true font</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>A tired Newbie attempts Linux (again)</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>I've had no response to a long letter of several weeks ago!? --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><strong>Sometimes, we just don't know what to say</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>I need a windows-linux solution --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><strong>Bulk File Transfers from Windows to ???</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Cannot Login Question</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>LG 24 - Tips: Yet another way to find</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Deleting a file that thinks it is an option --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><strong>Dash it All! Coping with ---Unruly--- Filenames</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>aol instant messanger behind lrp (linux router project) box --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><strong>File Tranfers with AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>reverse dns</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/10.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Closing Ports</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>The Best of: Burning .iso files under Windows</strong></a>
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<br>So you can get that linux disc you need
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<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>A tired Newbie attempts Linux (again)</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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Greetings, dear readers, and welcome to another exciting installment of
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The Answer Gang.
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One of our crew has come up with an amusing bit of text to send to people
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who are amazingly off topic, for example, completely non-computing matters:
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<blockquote>
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<a href="misc/tag/droids.txt"
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>These Are Not The Droids You're Looking For</a>
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It gave me a belly laugh when I first saw it. Some who get this <em>are</em>
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asking computer questions, tho - solely about a certain Other OS. Perhaps
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amazingly, a few of the Gang don't mind working with MSwin. And certainly
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questions about mixing two or more operating systems are juicy and we love
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answering those (if we actually <em>can</em>) but this just isn't the place for
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a question that would be answered much better at the Win98 Megasite:
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<blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.cmpnet.com/win98"
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>http://www.cmpnet.com/win98</a>
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</blockquote>
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Oddly enough I don't think I've seen any MacOS questions roll through. But
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these sort of notes happen often enough that I've got my own little
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"answering machine style" note:
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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<a href="misc/tag/youve-reached.txt"
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>You've Reached The Linux Gazette Answer Gang</a>
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If that's the only peeve we have left I think we're doing alright. Now
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for stuff that's about our favorite penguin playground - Linux!
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As it's been around a while and many of the commercial distros are
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releasing their new versions with 2.4 kernels and various modern bugfixes,
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I know an increasing number of truly Newbie users who are taking the plunge.
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Given the context I know them from, they're not generally dumb people, but
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they have been led to believe that the hassle of a full install will be
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worth it for the security they will gain.
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Unfortunately, the gain doesn't happen automagically. Okay, the average
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setup is a little better out of the box than Windows. But it's like buying
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a car with a car alarm and other "smart sensors" -- they're no good if you
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can't find the clicker to turn them on. Or if you can turn on the alarm
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but not roll up the windows and close the convertible top.
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Or if you find the clicker covered with cryptic phrases like "IPchains"
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and "construct a filter to block UDP..." This is nonsense to a lot of
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people. There are tools which claim to help toughen it up, except that
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if they don't explain what they're doing, you have no idea what they helped,
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or whether they are hindering something that you actually need to do.
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Beyond that, there's simply that anything that had to go through the
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publishing industry is out of date. Your boxed distro may have taken a
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month and a half to hit the shelves - while they're proud of getting 2.4.2
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in there, 2.4.5 is already released and pre6 is cooking along. And so on.
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If you don't make arrangements to update to the security patch versions
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as soon as you're a working system, you'll be wide open to something.
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</p>
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<p>
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Pleasantly, tools to help people tweak firewall rules are actually starting
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to get usable. Distros increasingly resist, or have ways of tracking, suid
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binaries - which are dangerous not so much because of that feature, as that
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they are almost always suid root, the most dangerous account on the system.
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Distros make it increasingly easy to always get the latest, and the major
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ones seem to have websites where you can keep an eye on how they're doing.
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</p>
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So as we approach Independence Day -- which in the U.S. is a celebration
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of determining our own destiny -- take a few thoughts towards those unknown
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souls who set the first policies you depend on, and towards your own ability
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to choose how you are defended. The price of liberty... is eternal vigilance.
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>Copyright ©</a> 2001
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<BR>Published in issue 68 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> July 2001</H5>
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