Hi,
I've had debian for a few months now, but I'm sometimes kept from using it because of some small but nasty problems which I do not always feel for working around them.
I decided to put them all in one post, because I don't want to spam the forum with small simple (stupid?) questions.
So here we go:
1. The usual NTFS-problem. I decided not to switch to some program which allows writing to ntfs, some people discouraged me and said it wasn't reliable.
But I do not have the rights to read from a NTFS disc as a normal user. What can I do?
Also, is there some way that I can allow a normal user to mount an external disc?
2. How can I make my terminal (or any program, for that matter) start automatically when my graphical manager (KDE) is started?
3. Is there a way (in KDE) to make the window control buttons (minimize, restore, close) of a maximized window appear in the very end of the top right corner.
This is a very small detail, but as someone who often uses windows, I'm used to be able to blindingly close my window. It's not that big of a deal, but if it's fixable, I would like to change it :)
4. Security... How can I control which deamons are launced at startup (not X.org related I guess, suchas a sshd deamon), and how can I keep some ports closed to the outside?
I found some tutorial to discover the opened ports, but I couldn't really figure out how to close them. Perhaps there's even a better tutorial you guys know of, anyway, I would like to learn something like this :)
Also, when I close the connection of my NIC to the outside using the command
$> ifconfig eth0 down
and then reinitialize it, ($> ifconfig eth0 up) there seems to be a problem of reconnecting, but it could be that this problem is only for HTTP.
Is this a known problem, and if so, how do I fix it?
Thats all...for now ;-)
I hope you guys can help me with some answers.
Thanks in advance!
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