Although Linux is a mature OS now (15+ years old) people are still wondering what’s it like or how good is it. As I said in a previous post I don’t think Linux is for everyone. It sure isn’t for those people that ask stupid questions an google, looking for a quick answer.
Let’s do a little comparison.
See any differences between the 2 images?
Me neither.
Those of you that are familiar with Squirrelmail know that it uses a script to perform general checking “to make sure everything works like it should” <– quote from the INSTALL readme file.
While I can agree this is actually useful as it can detect errors such as wrong permissions or plugin compatibility issues, I don’t understand why the sysadmins leave the script on the web server after the installation, accessible to everyone. The script generates output which can reveal sensitive information about the server, especially when verbose logging is enabled.
I’ve been looking for a workaround for quite a while since Amarok developers didn’t put this on top of their priority list. As of version 2.1.1 the player still doesn’t have a proxy setting option in the Settings menu and this can get really annoying when you deal with multiple machines and play music on all of them behind a proxy server.
The only (reliable) solution I’ve found was to manually add the proxy settings to ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc:
[$Version]
update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r3
[Proxy Settings][$i]
ProxyType=1
httpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
I found this workaround on a very useful Ubuntu forum. If you have other solutions please share.
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