Linux

I've tried Ubuntu a few times in the past, but for my tastes the default installation has been a bit bloated

Had a quick play with both Ubuntu and Debian live USBs and got the same feeling about Ubuntu being bloated. Debian seemed a little cleaner.

I think I'll settle for Debian Jessie when I get some free time to make the switch.

Tacx Training Software 4.

I run Ubuntu and am trying to get TTS4 to run. Obviously it doesn't run in Linux. It barely runs on Windows. Like many others I tried Wine without success. My next step was a virtual machine. I have installed WinXP on a VirtualBox VM and successfully installed TTS4, but whenever I try to launch the software it immediately crashes. I have no clue where to go from here. Anyone has experience with TTS4 on Linux?

I've just switched to Linux Mint (after about twelve years on Windows XP with various Linux side-systems) and am liking it so far. Some glitches but I doubt I'll do anything with my computer that it can't handle. I went for it because I never liked KDE or the Ubuntu desktop, and Cinnamon (the Mint user interface) seems made with much more care.

Unfortunately the way Mint is engineered makes it impossible to be sane, but hey, small steps.

Oh, not the best time to have switched to Mint. Did you see this in the news?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

Naturally, I'm not going to be doing any engineering. :)

It's working fine for me so far. As I said, some small glitches, but nothing major.

I wasn't aware of the breach when I switched but a knowledgeable friend tells me that my version is fine (downloaded well after the event).

A fairly specific query. When I'm sorting my photos in my photo editor I like to be able to copy or move them to different preset directory with one key press. Irfanview on Windows does this fine (F7 to move, F8 to copy). I've been running Irfanview on Wine but it's a bit clunky.

Any suggestions for a program that can do this on Linux?

You can map keys to actions in gconf (if you're using Gnome), and probably in whatever windows management tool you are using.

Cheers but I don't think that's exactly what I'm looking for (but could be wrong).

I want to scroll through pictures to review them and then press a key to move or copy that specific picture. Not sure that mapping a key to an action would do that as it wouldn't know what photo I was trying to move.

If you can script it, you can bind a key to the script, and make it context specific - e.g. when there is focus on that application, and not elsewhere or at a different time

You could even do this in the application itself, if you felt like rooting through the source, adding in a few lines, then recompiling...

Good good :)

I've had to quickly spin up a linux box (Ubuntu) for some 3rd party PHP stuff.

What's the best way of giving the 3rd party access to this box so they can dump their files on it?

I've got a user that can get in via SSH (me) and I've created another user that can get in via SSH (them) but erm, private keys, passwords, email, wtf?

Should I get them to generate keys and then install their key? Or am I missing something? Either way it seems to involve sending around a key. I'm having a massive brainfart with this and of course they need it stupid quick.

Set up a jailed sftp user?

They do key gen and send me public key which I add to authorised_keys, right?

No convict jokes.

I guess it depend what they need to do. They might not even need file system access. SFTP might be enough. Assume they will be dropping a pile of files in /www but dunno what else. Maybe messing with htaccess files and mod-rew Apache settings? What else do php sites need?

Correct! If the user has very limited permissions, home dir is pretty much all they can access.

That depends on how you're running the PHP site. Make sure you harden the install if you run apache.

Harden how? I'll leave that shit up to them, fuck it. If it gets hacked it's their shit.

Make sure it's running as its own user and group.
Same for PHP, depending on how you run it (i.e. FPM).

And of course directory permissions, disabling what you don't need, proper limits, outgoing connections etc, listening to the right host headers only ... blablabla

Did you already get that I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING HATE Apache/PHP? Only thing that augments this pile of crap into the stinkiest place know to mankind is Wordpress.

I'm sure it'll be a WordPress site...

in which case, make sure your network is safe from it. See the Panama Papers ...

https://www.combell.com/en/blog/panama-papers-huge-leak-caused-wordpress-plugin/

It's in its own VPC with rules that should prevent it touching anything I actually care about.

They've not responded yet so still don't know if they only need sftp or if they need box access.