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I understand the risk. So what's the best tunable?

What's the best tunable to increase write cache for any hard disk on the system. I want to dedicate up to 1GB of system RAM to caching disk writes. On Mint 18.3.

I have years worth of emails on Gmail that I'm not comfortable leaving in the cloud (no matter who the cloud email provider is). I'm thinking of archiving it to local Thunderbird but want that replicated. I also use Resilio Sync (private cloud to other computers). My plan is to have Thunderbird pull...

The forum needs a category dedicated to security discussions... No one should be using passwords to protect SSH to begin with, use keys... http://gosecure.net/2018/02/14/chaos-stolen-backdoor-rising/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/raw-sockets-backdoor-gives-attackers-complete...

Past versions of TeamView allowed script access to another computer with...

teamviewer -i RemoteID

No longer works with V13. Has the notation changed?

I have a Thinkpad S1 Yoga with Mint 18.3/Mate 1.18. On the login screen, the touchscreen works fine. The pointer is precisely located wherever touched. But after logging in, the pointer is several inches to the right of where touched. Any idea what might be executed/changed after startup to change b...

I haven't been following thread closely lately and it's grown quite a bit with more links I can get to. What's the bottom line at this point? I've seen a lot of firmware/kernel Mint updates recently and have applied them - am on 4.13.26 on all laptops. Is this about as reasonably secure as we can ex...

The patched kernel is listed in Ubuntu's Package pages, but has not made it to the mirrors, I guess. I added the Xenial repository and I am already running the latest Xenial kernel available. Ubuntu lists 4.4.0.104-109, but the latest in the mirrors is 4.4.0-104. I am using the lts kernel. I have i...

Here's 4.4.110 kernel, released Jan5...
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.110/

Tom's Hardware on the issues. Claiming 30% performance loss overblown for most apps...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel- ... 36208.html

Postgres and Redis most impacted.

Nevertheless, a good opportunity for AMD to gain some momentum.

Agree but these will be useful for those who just web browse, use web-based apps and maybe Office apps. The 20 hour life for less computing power is a good tradeoff for many. As a power users, I often just need a portable web machine.

This thread needs to be renamed to "BIOS with IME has a severe security flaw".

I have a couple laptops that are vulnerable according to the Intel python script, can't be shutoff in BIOS and no BIOS updates available anymore. Is there something Ubuntu/Mint can do to mitigate the risk at least some?

Microsoft is taking another stab at ARM-based laptops/tablets and it may work out this time. They are touting 20 hour battery life. Would love to have Mint on 20 hour laptop. Any chance that Mint will be ARM-based in not-too-distant future and able to install on Windows ARM laptops? https://arstechn...

Nice to see Mint 18.3 support Flatpak in Software Manager as Flatpak tends to keep up with latest versions before other repositories. Now LibreOffice can be updated to most recent without having to do manual upgrades, though it does launch more slowly given the nature of separate libraries. Would li...

A MATE/caja update just came out today that now allows dragging files/folders on the panel.

Yay, so nice to have this back!

A MATE/caja update just came out today that now allows dragging files/folders on the panel.

Yay, so nice to have this back!

Burning an image with USB Image Writer doesn't work, has an error with no explanation.
Tried USB Stick Formatter and it says that it formatted but when mounting it still has old data and still read-only.

Didn't realized USB sticks can expire for writes, I guess that is what happened.

I have an old Lexmark USB stick formatted as FAT32 that for some reason now only mounts as read only for either Linux or Windows. There is no readonly switch on the stick. I was able to copy data off but now can't even format whether under Linux or Windows, says read only. Tried GParted, hdparm -r0 ...

Doesn't disabling AMT solve this? There are Windows tools to disable AMT supposedly at the BIOS level if not directly available via BIOS. If AMT is disabled from Windows, will it be disabled when booting Linux?

Some questions..

If the home router is patched are all unpatched WiFi devices connecting to it via WPA2 not vulnerable to this?
If say a WiFi printer isn't patched long term but the router is, can the printer data or connect password be monitored?