Re: highly secure live CD distro
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Date: 03/02/05
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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:13:23 -0500
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:14:23 -0800, tnozh wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> First, I want to thank you all again for all your inputs. They are
> most interesting: I really appreciate you guys taking the time and
> effort to answer a wannabe-admin-newbie like myself. This just goes to
> show that the alledged RTFM attitude of free software users is
> (largely) a myth. Thanks to all!
>
You have truly heard some helpful advice from knowledgeable people here.
I think your good attitude and care in the words you wrote are what served
to put the lie to the myth of the RTFM attitude. Thanks to you for that!
> Second, I need to do some RTFMing myself and educate myself about
> iptables. I have found a couple of rather thorough articles on the
> web, but they are written with a more educated person in mind than
> myself. So if any of you can think of a "Iptables for Newbies" type
> of step by step article somewhere, preferably with examples (in
> English, French, Russian, German, Spanish or Italian) please let me
> know.
>
I want to take extra care that this doesn't sound like a RTFM response.
Many of us who sometimes try to write and post free and helpful
information may actually be knowledgeable _and_ fairly articulate. That
doesn't necessarily make us good writers or educators. And with free,
unedited web publishing, there are no other editors, publishers, technical
writers, proofreaders or re-writers in the loop. That's why we can do it
for free (as in free beer). Those types of people, whose skills we count
on to publish useful printed books from which children in school can
learn, also need income on which to live. And that is why good books cost
money.
As painful as it might be to be spending hard cash that is or might be
hard to come by, you might want to consider buying a book (a printed
book). If you have a good bookstore nearby, look long and hard at whatever
they may have on their shelves. A well written, printed technical manual
is often worth far more than a hundred good usenet replies. And you get
to keep it all, preprinted.
I am not a lobbyist, advocate or employee, and there are certainly
other sources. I have had good experiences with books from O'REILLY,
available at www.oreilly.com. I bought almost all of my copies at Barnes
& Noble Booksellers.
One book that I found interesting and helpful with my initial iptables
(and other) efforts is:
LINUX SERVER HACKS (First Edition)
by Rob Flickenger
Look at page 87, NETWORKING, and especially starting at page 91, section
47. iptables Tips & Tricks. It will get you started as a knowledgeable,
capable iptables user and script writer.
> Again - thanks for everything. I might come back with some questions
> in a while.
>
I am reasonably sure that from each of your respondents, you are welcome
without reservations. Please get knowledgeable and experienced, and help
with an occasional pointer to another perplexed newbie OP. Additional
questions are welcome; without questions this NG wouldn't have much point.
And while I am reasonably fast typer, I hate to tie up everyone's
bandwidth when what I thought needed to be said has already been said.
But maybe it really hasn't been. And anyway it has been a good thread.
Best wishes.
> Kind regards,
>
> TN
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