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answered how to view Linux files in a window from the windows machine
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comment How to keep Linux running after hard drive removal?
Swap or no swap, if any binaries are loaded from the drive that disappears he may also run into problems. So don't load code from that drive either.
Nov
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comment Missing space in Debian
@Rob - OK. What do you think of the other points?
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revised Missing space in Debian
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answered Missing space in Debian
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May
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comment NTFS file system reference
ntfs.com does not look like an official website to me. The WHOIS record shows some random company in Ontario. It looks like this company also sells backup and repair solutions. Strangely they also have a lot of speculation about WinFS, which was planned for Vista but was canned.
May
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comment Changing file permission to execute
chmod +x asper.sh. Also, this is not really a Stack Overflow question. Maybe superuser? Server fault?
Jan
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comment Where and how are custom startup commands configured in Linux?
Linux is developed in a decentralized manner. The people who write your init scripts are quite separate from the people who write your kernel. As such, different distributions have different init scripts.
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accepted What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
Dec
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comment What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
OK, I see the part of 802.11i-2004 that says that. You're right.
Dec
19
comment What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
Also, it seems that OpenBSD, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X all support using hex keys. The only problem I have encountered is the Maemo UI not liking it -- but the XML file that backs the configuration supports it.
Dec
19
comment What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
From RFC2898 cited by @studiohack - Throughout this document, a password is considered to be an octet string of arbitrary length whose interpretation as a text string is unspecified. In the interest of interoperability, however, it is recommended that applications follow some common text encoding rules. ASCII and UTF-8 [27] are two possibilities. (ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.)
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comment What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
Hm. So it would seem based on my reading of the RFC that the PBKDF2 function doesn't depend on it being printable ASCII characters, and should do fine with binary data. I think I'll still just generate 256 bits using a secure RNG... (I'm not so confident it would be impossible to guess though. There are small odds that this will end up generating something that happens to collide with a weak passphrase. :P)