AntiOnline Spring '05 Giveaway - Quick Tip Posting Thread

I will enter..BUT.. not for the prize..

I suspect that there will be hidden exclusions.. like: open to residents of the USofA only...

I take it that "Beware of Geeks wearing GIF's" is not in..

Always back-up files in multiple (at least two) locations, you never know when you're going to accidently overwrite a file.


Visit thread for reference :)

"To know an Operating system You need to break it many times. To better Secure your System you need to know how to break into it. If you dont want to know your System your only a User"

(not exactly word for word..this dope forgot to key it in Notepad then C&P..)

Here is another:

When posting Tutorials Informational Posts: Edit the post in a text editor, check it is readable, and Spell check. Then C&P into the Post/Thread.

Oh and :

RTFM: Read The Flaming Manual: IF you have a problem: Read your software/hardware manual, Check the manufacturers/publishers Website, Use Google or any Search. Then post the question.

And the one I will nag about :

Help Us Help You: If ytou have a problem with something, What is it, Who made it, What is the Problem, What have you done to try to fix it.. Try and describe as clearly as possable.. And DON'T PANIC..

Ahh yes very important:

When looking for help.. BE PATIENT.. The People who are able to help you don't live in your TimeZone.

There that will do for now..

-Wireless Routers are very useful, but disable the wireless if you're not using it. It could prevent unnecessary risks to your network.-

OR

-Before using a wireless router, ask yourself: DO I REALLY NEED THE WIRELESS? Many people use wireless routers even though their PC is 3 feet away from their router and they're hardwired to it. If seldomly needed, disable the wireless when not using it-

WinXP ships with an "Administrator" account and the hackers know this. Change the name of this account and make 0wning your box much more difficult for the blackhats!


Further research finds this tip already submitted by angry bob...oh well, easy come, easy go.

If you're going to rename admin make sure no apps you use need that or they will break. (I didn't submit this as I'm not sure of it's "quick tipness" but if anyone thinks it is one tell me.).

If you have a choice, and don't have any legacy software to be compatible with, use Blowfish as your encryption. It's a lot harder to crack with a dictionary, and unlike KD5 doesn't have many recent problems. On SUSE Linux you can select up to 4096 encryption which is very high. I once let john the password cracker go wild on my 2.40 GHz box for 3 days with only one entry in a password file, it used 99.9% of the processor power for 4 days and didn't find a thing.


Second tip I just added with this one:


Always remember that a password, is nothing more than security by obscurity. It's only secure if others don't know it, so DON'T ever write it down. Just recently I went to a gas company who deal in client financial data, and the passwords for the routers were on a sticker on the back of the routers. Don't ever do this, I found it, would you trust ME with your account information?


^ True story. It was last Wednesday.

If you use Free BSD and see a UID 0 (root privs) account named toor, don't worry, you're not rooted, toor is an ``alternative'' superuser account (toor is root spelt backwards). Previously it was created when the bash(1) shell was installed but now it is created by default. It is intended to be used with a non-standard shell so you do not have to change root's default shell. This is important as shells which are not part of the base distribution (for example a shell installed from ports or packages) are likely to be installed in /usr/local/bin which, by default, resides on a different filesystem.

OK...I submitted this a couple of years ago and evidently it didn't pass muster but hey...it's still good advice in my book....

When filling out web-forms ALWAYS select "under 13" as your age....the drop-down doesn't specify the units as years so how do you know they don't mean decades (that makes me 4)? The point is, if you select under 13, by law that website cannot collect any information about you other than your IP, web browser, etc....nothing personal allowed.

I am entering for T shirt (I never won any thing in my whole life) so here goes

"Before making any E-transaction make sure that you see a lock sign in the bottem left corner of the browser.Also make sure that the site has a valid certificate"