Proud to be part of KubuntuForums

[SteveRiley]

Is it okie-dokie for me to show a little bit of pride? My CloudConnect 2012 speaker bio. Now with KFN goodness!

[DoYouKubuntu]

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It's totally okie-dokie! And throwing in a reference in your bio to your KFN duties is great...well, unless it starts attracting weird, opinionated, vocal members...

[SteveRiley]

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weird, opinionated, vocal members...

We have those?

[oshunluvr]

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Oooohhh, you're famous! can I have an autograph?

Seriously, nice write up. Can you get one of those for me 8)

[SteveRiley]

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Seriously, nice write up.

Thanky-thanky!

Can you get one of those for me 8)

Which are you asking for... your own bio, or your own vocal member?

[Qqmike]

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And here I thought you were just a meat-eating loony tune & DYK basher. Instead, a meat-eating, privacy-security loony tune? You must certainly enjoy what you are doing to give that many public presentations on the topic, and that would be a good thing. Nice to be young ;-) again. Anyone who knows and uses the expression okie-dokie must be an okay guy.

More seriously, I'm sure you know crap cleaner, ccleaner, for Windows and targeted at the average needs for the average user. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

Wishing there were such for Kubuntu; and through the years, we've had various users post the question how to clean their system (Kubuntu OS) periodically.

I took a most basic, naive approach here:
Privacy Cleanup 101
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090100.0
where the approach is to simply manually locate and delete files or info in files; or, for older KDE 3.x, to use facilities like kcontrol (which is very limited, cleaning just some 10 basic files).

Much better is this, by IgnorantGuru who better knows the inner workings of the OS and also has some programming skills:
A new privacy and log scrubber for KDE4, Firefox, & Flash
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3108110.0

Unfortunately, IgnorantGuru is no longer maintaining the kscrubber (as far as I know).

My sense is that doing a privacy cleaner for Kubuntu would be a piece of cake for someone like yourself . At the same time, maintaining it would be quite a possibly PITA & unpleasant job as Kubuntu evolves. But I thought I'd mention this anyway on the long shot that you have some interest or ideas or to simply mention that the issue has been floating around here. And, not having looked at available cleaners recently, maybe there have been some improvements in what's available for Kubuntu, but at the time, other cleaners had various bugs ( ? ), quirks, and limitations (as discussed in those two how-to's).

Nice bio, SteveRiley.

[SteveRiley]

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You must certainly enjoy what you are doing to give that many public presentations on the topic, and that would be a good thing. Nice to be young ;-) again. Anyone who knows and uses the expression okie-dokie must be an okay guy.

I do love my job, yeah... give me a live audience and I'm happy to riff for 90 minutes on, oh, the finer points of pouring a glass of water. And I promise you'll learn something new!

More seriously, I'm sure you know crap cleaner, ccleaner, for Windows

This topic came up in another thread recently here on KFN. I've avoided all forms of third-party "cleaners" because most of them just suck. I've since learned that CCleaner is of a different sort, though.

My sense is that doing a privacy cleaner for Kubuntu would be a piece of cake for someone like yourself.

I'm surprised to learn there's a need for a Linux equivalent. I'd have to do further research into the kinds of crap that a typical Linux installation would accumulate over time. Even then, building a tool like this is probably beyond my limited coding skills.

Nice bio, SteveRiley.

Thanks much.

[woodsmoke]

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Pretty Kewl!

woodsmoke

[Qqmike]

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SteveRiley ... "I'd have to do further research into the kinds of crap that a typical Linux installation would accumulate over time."

Yes, and THAT seems to be the hard part--knowing the inner workings well enough to know WHAT to clean. There's quite a list in the how-to's I linked to, but how does one know, working from scratch, and after each newer version of Kubuntu/KDE & all its running processes (and logs)? IgnorantGuru has written the basic cleaning script (which I could also write by copying his), assuming we know what needs to be cleaned up. It's amazing how much user data-tracks are accumulated while running Kubuntu ... assuming privacy is one's thing.

[GreyGeek]

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Is it okie-dokie for me to show a little bit of pride? My CloudConnect 2012 speaker bio. Now with KFN goodness!

8)

I loved to attend workshops!

uilding a Performance Platform With Programmable Infrastructure

Location, despite what realtors claim, is a constraint, not a feature. Imagine if you could eliminate that constraint and also mitigate the side effects that would otherwise become a hindrance. How will this change the way you develop applications, create and consume information, and interact with your customers? Actually, it isn’t imaginary. WAN optimization is so 2008. It’s 2012, infrastructure is now code, so let’s figure out how to build performance into everything we do.

Location, despite what realtors claim, is a constraint, not a feature. Imagine if you could eliminate that constraint and also mitigate the side effects that would otherwise become a hindrance. How will this change the way you develop applications, create and consume information, and interact with your customers? Actually, it isn’t imaginary. WAN optimization is so 2008. It’s 2012, infrastructure is now code, so let’s figure out how to build performance into everything we do.

[GreyGeek]

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.....
I'm surprised to learn there's a need for a Linux equivalent.
....

As far as application debris the "sudo apt-get autoremove" gets rid of orphan libraries and such. User debris is something else. Installing tar files and other non-repository apps can generate lots of detritus.

[GreyGeek]

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weird, opinionated, vocal members...

We have those?

Somebody call?

[SteveRiley]

Re: Proud to be part of KubuntuForums

I loved to attend workshops!

If they post videos after the event, I'll follow up with links.

Meanwhile...if you have some spare time

• It's the 21st Century: Time to Throw Away Your Medieval Gateways
• Do These Ten Things Now or Else Get 0wn3d!
• Privacy: The Why, What and How

You'll need Silverlight. Sorry.

[DoYouKubuntu]

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weird, opinionated, vocal members...

We have those?

Why, yes! Not me, of course.

[SteveRiley]

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Why, yes! Not me, of course.

Hah. That's your opinion...