Sunday, February 10, 2013

How do I maintain my privacy on a Shared Network? I use Linux/Fedora.?

Q. I use someone's network in my home (roomate's) and my system is Linux/Fedora. How do I make sure that someone cannot look and see what sites i'm visiting, my passwords etc? A step by step would help.

A. First, always use secure http for web sites that have accounts (username/password). Your password will be encrypted (usually via openssl). So no one snooping your local home network can see any login passwords. Likewise, always use secure shell (ssh) for shell logins. Same reason.

The IP addresses of the sites you are visiting, however, will be available to anyone snooping your network connection. You might be able to hide those through a proxy service, but unless they encrypt the target IP address (or URL) you can still be tracked by your room mate.

Look into "Tor", for example.

can i install ubunto over the previously installed windows 7 and fedora, and is it safe to do that?
Q. i installed windows 7 and then installed Linux fedora. and they are running cool. now i want to install Ubuntu. so can i install Ubuntu over the Linux fedora??
and is it safe to do this, thanks in advance to you guys :)

A. Yes, whenever you choose the type of installation, select run both systems and thats it

Issue CPU Running Linux Fedora 9 on VirtualBox?
Q. I have a host operating system of windows vista business 64 bit with 4g ram and an intel centrino 2 duo core a T9400. So i tried running Linux Fedora 9 x86_64 through virtual box but it says my cpu is an i686 and is not compatible. But intel centrino 2 should be 64 capable. Why isnt this working?

A. It is quite correct. The virtual CPU you were trying to run Fedora 9 on *is* an i686 and is not compatible. You were not installing Fedora on your physical CPU but on the virtual CPU that virtualbox creates.

Note that the 64-bit build of virtualbox won't help you. It still does the same thing, it just does it better on a 64-bit OS.



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