Think of all the software you install on your computer as windows on a battle tank. Every app is another window where armor used to be. The next time you get hit with a virus, the chance that it’s aimed at one of your windows just increased.

The default out-of-the-box installation should delete any additional anonymous users after installation and disallow remote logins completely, but it doesn’t. At least all you have to do is run the mysql_secure_installation script to do so.

Python’s keyring lib supports Windows win32crypto, Mac OS X’s SXKeychain, KDE’s KWallet, Gnome’s keyring, and encrypted or unencrypted password files. When your application wants to store or fetch data from the keyring, it will just work.

Get a developer key and install Unbuntu on a usb disk so you can boot any XO from the USB disk without modifying your XO laptop. All production XO laptops have firmware security enabled when you receive them. Once unlocked, you can run any operating system you want.

I think it’s easier just to setup the google repo and fetch it all at once. blah, blah, blah, Done. Launch it via “google-chrome” or from the gnome toolbar. That’s it for installing on Fedora 12. If you’re looking for Fedora 10 or Fedora 11, try these links…

Switch to the console by pressing CTRL-ALT- (The neighborhood button is the one on the left with the most dots where you see other XO’s and wifi hot spots around you) and install xcompmgr.

I found the easiest way to get all the dependencies out of the way was to attempt to install Fedora’s oprofile, oprofile-devel, and oprofile-gui through YUM. But instead of installing them, just find out their dependencies and install those.

boot.iso should be enough to get you going. You should be able to find it on most fedora mirrors. The one I just downloaded was only 147 megabytes.

You might need to look at an RPM file and figure out what it needs, retrieve it by hand, and install the packages yourself.

GNU GRUB is easy to set up, it’s just got it’s own funky syntax that you don’t really see anywhere else.
GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader
GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader derived from the original GRUB. It is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. …