A bigger curiosity for me is that NTFS also often eats away lot of space that really should be free – to the point of having zero free space left. That “eaten away” space is miraculously reclaimed after reboot so much that sometimes even over 100 GB may be free again, lets say for example on a 600GB drive. Closing open file handles to big files does help sometimes too, but not as much as rebooting.

Getting sticky! There are three special permissions: SetUID, SetGID and Stciky. They have different meanings when used on normal files compared to directories.

“Sticky” is spelt “Stciky” in the blog post (see snippet above)

]]> http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/#comment-2815318 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:02:30 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2909#comment-2815318 Most of us instinctively knew what the author meant and simply passed over the typo. But if “your” going to play Internet grammar Nazi, then you probably should know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” especially when offering unsolicited grammatical advice.

your vs. you’re = English 101 🙂

In other words, judge not, lest ye be judged…

]]> http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/26/listen-to-pandora-in-your-terminal-via-pianobar/#comment-2810675 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:14:13 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2082#comment-2810675 Sorry, forgot to mention that notify is only appropriate for OSX

]]> http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/26/listen-to-pandora-in-your-terminal-via-pianobar/#comment-2810674 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:13:49 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2082#comment-2810674 no need for all the growlnotify stuff. Try this notify script instead:

http://pastebin.com/gWie2TJq

]]> http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/#comment-2807219 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 01:30:57 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=2909#comment-2807219 This may be also useful https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2012/12/20/the-network-connection-status-icon/

]]> http://blog.superuser.com/2011/06/09/better-know-your-wireless-router/#comment-2793456 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:34:27 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=3367#comment-2793456 This is a good post but with one or two incorrect pieces of information and one or two missing ones, most of them have been covered by other posters but a couple I feel need correcting or highlighting.

MAC filtering has often been a point of contention in posts about wifi security. Whilst I commend the author on pointing out that MAC addresses can be changed it is not the case that a valid MAC address needs to be known in order to subvert the so called “security” that MAC filtering offers. You can in fact simply clone an existing mac, if the station owner happens to be operating at the time this will cause a MAC conflict. Different hardware and software of the stations handle this in different ways and very few will actualy do anything at all. Sadly these days software and firmware is rushed out the door to meet target deadlines and is rarely tested properly. It is not realy feasible to block the MAC as there is no real way to determine if you are blocking the genuine device of the spoofed one. Company’s do not want support calls so will simply go with the option that will generate the least ammount of support calls. At best MAC filtering is only of use to prevent an unwanted station accidentally connecting!

The best advice I found in this post is to employ the highest level of packet encryption the devices support and it was refreshing to see CCMP described correctly for a change.

The last piece of advice I can offer as indeed the author did is to employ the most random complex key that you can. The only issue this can sometimes raise is that not all software and firmware will support the full 63 characters laid down in the standards. In my experience I have found 60 characters has best security whilst avoiding any bugs thay may bite!

I would also recommend using a group key update interval of a non standard value such as 26 or 47 minutes for example though if you are employing CCMP with a good lengthy PSK and most certainty not using the factory SSID then this is a little overkill and within the realm of the foil hat brigade!

In conclusion this is one of the better articles I have come across with a good deal of thought and effort put into it. A refreshing change from the usual “turn on mac filtering and use your dogs name as your PSK” posts that sadly still wander arround the internet.

A big thumbs up from me for the author. 🙂

Stuartbe.