Comment Re:This is the real story! (Score 5, Informative) 36
Another note : the current SVN build of nmap fixes all the known bugs being addressed in 5.21. So if you like dev builds... there you go.
Comment This is the real story! (Score 5, Informative) 36
5.20 was released 4 days ago. Of note, Nmap 5.21 is already going to be released within 7 days due to some bugs. That's news!
Also Zenmap has been stable since September 2008 and its first inception was released in a dev build in July 2007. Not news!
Comment you don't need anything over 2gb (Score 1) 900
For the average non-graphix oriented linux user in the modern 2-16gb-of-ram-world, a swap space of 2048mb is enough. To go over that means your hard drive takes longer to seek over a larger area. I'm sure there may be situations that demand more than 2gb of swap space, but as an average* linux user with say 4gb of ram, you don't NEED 8gb of swap. its overkill and you will actually see a performance DROP instead of increase.
*by average I mean most common uses of linux, not average experience.
Choosing an SSL CA? 94
zentigger asks: "I am looking at renewing some SSL certificates and checking out the various vendors. I seems that just about every major CA has some reason for not using them. Verisign is just evil, Thawte is owned by Verisign, Geocerts has a bad habit of spamming, and Godaddy uses a stupid chained cert that doesn't work for some appliances we have (and they won't let me check out using Firefox). I realize that I could just use a self-signed certificate, but we have too many stupid users that get all confused and whiny when something pops up and asks them unexpected questions. So I put it to you, Slashdot: what CAs do you recommend and why?"
