Very helpful for html mistakes, or menu changes/additions etc…

Ubuntu 9.10
Only interested in compass (not ruby).
Here is what I did:

apt-get install rubygems

gem sources –add http://gems.github.com/
(because I’ll use it later)

gem install haml

gem install chriseppstein-compass

At this point the the command “compass” wasn’t working.
I had to add “/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin” to /etc/environment

I hope this helps someone else.
Thank you again for the info.

There’s a lot of talk about permission and how they will protect the user in Linux as long as they don’t run anything as root. But that doesn’t really protect the user, it mostly protects other users on the system. If I receive an executable it can do something like:
rm -rf ~/ (delete my entire home directory)
in a billion different ways. Bye bye years of data. Fine I can restore from backups, but that is a real pain… Sure /usr is safe, other users’ home directories are safe, but all my files are dead and gone.

Worse the virus/malware can open a TCP connection and send data to the cracker’s server. It could send him all my emails (if they are not encrypted) and any non-encrypted file I have access to. Again it can’t send him other people’s files, but do I really care about that or do I care about my personal data?

It can also install a server running on a port >= 1024 and listen and let the cracker log in to my machine. Ok this is with my permissions not root’s, but once the cracker has local access, there are often ways of compromising the system and gaining root privileges. If he can do that it’s game over for everyone! Yes I know a firewall can block this, but then you need a firewall and it is not installed/enabled on my Ubuntu/Debian systems by default.

So yeah if the user wants to be able to run executables from emails or from the internet they are at risk of all of that. I mean you can use public key cryptography and have the sender or the provider sign the package with their private key. But that just confirms that the sender/provider is really the one who generated that package, it doesn’t mean they are trustworthy.

Is there really anyone who knows all the people they get software from over the internet? Even software in source code form can do all this. I mean sure you can look through the code and find out, but there can be thousands/millions of lines of code. Sure if you get all your software from the Ubuntu or Debian servers you are fine, but I often find interesting software from other sources.

And there’s no easy fix. I mean I don’t want to be asked for confirmation by the OS each time one of my file’s needs to be deleted, or each time I make a TCP connection.

I could be wrong, and I’d love to see a system that could run arbitrary code with zero risk of hurting the user, I just don’t think that’s realistic.

I can’t get GIMPshop to work though. I’m all new to Ubunto so it’s all a bit cunfusing.

How do I get the shortcut in the menu to point towards the GIMPshop executable when I have no idea where I can find the application on the HDD?

Where should I put dowloaded files that I want to install?

Is there a nice internet based guide to the very basics of Ubuntu?

I hope that someone can help a poor noob….

A couple of months ago, when I heard rumours about a possible replacement for Rhythmbox, I decided to give Banshee a try. I must admit that at first I liked it, the way it was thought, its features, its polished GUI, the development promises behind it, etc. It had anything I actually wanted, and didn’t crash at all. But so did RB, anyway. However, in the meantime I also had the time to try other applications, like F-Spot, Tomboy. After more than one month I had become accustomed to it all. Then I bumped into a couple of exchanges which introduced me to this “MONO/anti-MONO war”. Nostalgically, today I decided to play some music in my good old RB: as soon as I hit the play button, the song started at once. Isn’t it silly that such a trivial fact surprised me at all? This brought me back to last year, and to the reason why I decided to ditch Windows: Linux did exactly what I told it to do, while Windows was whimsical and had me wait for it to complete whatever it was secretly doing in the background. Now, when I found extraordinary the fact that I told RB to play music and it did it instantaneously, I realised that Banshee took all the time it wanted to do the same – sometimes up to 6-7 seconds. And the same was when scrolling albums, opening menus, searching for songs (especially – while RB takes less than 1 sec!), and everything else – starting and quitting included. RB is as fast as light, which is really what I expect from my music player – and my OS as a whole. I don’t want my OS that tells me to wait, and makes me do what it wants: those were Window$ times. Now I uninstalled Banshee, F-Spot and Tomboy, and got back to use RB and Gnote (I didn’t really use a photo manager before, I only wanted to try one out, so I won’t miss it). And now I have my Ubuntu back: light apps, quick response, extraordinary performance. Here is the point, from a simple user: I must have a computer that does what I want, when it begins to be the other way around either something is wrong, or there must be Bill somewhere around (or both – watch out =)!). And I can swear that if Ubuntu is going to give me that distorted low-performance experience I will ditch it the very same day. No doubts about it!

In a distribution which is trying to reach the 10-secs boot-time goal I don’t think such delays are exactly what Canonical is expecting, and what its end-users would find acceptable. This is why, in my humble view, MONO will not find ample space in Ubuntu in the future. Conversely, it will not find me around anymore =), but that’s not as important… or is it?

XP cannot natively read the ext2 or ext3 filesystem.
Your system is supposed (in many cases) to have cookies – They are often used for session control in dynamic web sites. For example I configure my browser to remove all cookies when I close the application.
Antispyware and antivirus are two different things completely.]
I have never ever had to install antispyware applications as I do not install spyware in the first place. The permissions system in Linux makes it somewhat immune to “warez and virus” attacks. Sure there are a few Linux based viruses, but again it’s problematic because of the permissions system. To be effected negatively by such thing, you would have to be logged in and operating your system as the root account! (Which one should never do, hence the need for commands such as sudo and su). :)
I work in an environment where the best protection is an antivirus device directly connected to the network (along with the firewall). ;)

This post will help you: Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

ok thanks… i was just wondering if it is possible using a avg linux anti-virus…

since i have a storage drive and it seems infected by a virus on that worthless windows OS.. of course i want a clean storage drive and the virus that i got seems to be self replicating, i mean it creates a clone of itself…

right now it seems to stop when i’m using ubuntu… but it is making me paranoid and hoping it won’t affect my linux side or i was hoping to keep my mind at ease is to eliminate it using my linux OS + avg anti-virus software…

a bit off-topic… sorry

I’m no expert, but I’ve never heard of a Linux virus. I currently do not use it on desktops, only on mail servers.
Hope this helps.