Password question.

[Steven Vollom]

Mosair Alves Santana wrote:
>
> Boa Noite!
>
> Antes  de mais nada , quero me desculpar, pois vocês tem se esforçado 
> em transmitir a mim todas as minhas necessidades, mas falta a 
> principal: É por isso, que estou discontente com o LÍNOX, pois até 
> para salvar, copiar e colar, não funcionam, só para terem uma base, eu 
> pesquiso via internet , copio e na hora de colar nas pastas não há 
> como efetuar, e isto me faz nervoso, pois às vezes são coisas que é 
> útil a mim, nos estudos... por isso, estou insatisfeito com línox, não 
> está me atendendo bem e adequadamente.... Desculpe-me
>
> Abraços de Mosair Alves Santana.
> **
>
>
>     Bruce Marshall wrote:
>     > On Sunday 23 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>     >
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >> Thanks Paul. You better understand my situation. I truly wish I had
>     >> the security concern. I live and am totally alone. I may see one
>     >> person a week, and then they are not someone who has time to
>     talk. I
>     >> see the mailman once in a while.
>     >>
>     >
>     > But you must also be concerned about someone coming in from the
>     outside and
>     > being able to become root even though they are 100's of miles
>     away. That is
>     > part of the reason for security.... and the reason for having a
>     firewall.
>     >
>     >
>     I don't want a lack of security. I want the firewall. I currently
>     have
>     a 2 digit login. I do that because of the difficulty I have typing in
>     something safer. Absolutely anyone could break into my machine as
>     it is
>     now. My limitations are something I have to live with. I will never
>     leave the computer on when I leave my studio. So anyone who wants to
>     break into it will have to figure out an unrelated to anything
>     bunch of
>     letters, cases, symbols none of which include my grandchildren's
>     name,
>     my dog, any name in the bible or any book, I am talking about I
>     learned
>     a 37 digit password that doesn't mean anything at all to me. There is
>     nothing I can reference it to. I know it can be broken, but not as
>     easily as most of everyone else's. If it was safe to do, I would
>     put a
>     totally unrelated 1gb password on a thumb drive and increase my
>     security
>     even more, I just don't feel that insecure. I would like to be more
>     secure than I current am. So if you all are worried for my sake, I
>     virtually have an open door. You might be interested you can only do
>     this when you make a fresh install, Kubuntu will not let you
>     reduce to
>     an easier password than the one you are using unless on first
>     installation. Bruce, I love you. You have never been anything but
>     kind
>     to me. I have similar interests with your wife as an artist. Why
>     would
>     you or anyone want to take a freedom from me? I would never do that
>     with you. I am perhaps the most responsible person you know. I don't
>     break my word ever, anymore. I don't hide any of my weaknesses. I
>     have
>     no pride. I literally love every moment of my life anymore. Why
>     should
>     I have this freedom taken from me. It is unAmerican. I realize that
>     Kubuntu creators are in Africa. At least that is what I am told. But
>     you are an American. We thrive on freedom.
>
>     You do not have to give me the answer I need, even though it would
>     be an
>     act of kindness. I will either get what I want or change to an
>     operating system that provides it. The forum has made me lose
>     confidence in it. I am not asking for the right to murder an unborn
>     child, granting my request will hurt no one at all, even me. I am a
>     careful man. And apparently you who try to protect me have the
>     knowledge, or why would you not tell me it can't be done. As you can
>     see, I care deeply for serious matters, even though you may not agree
>     with me. And I am always going to care for those of you that I have
>     become friends with, even if I have to give up Kubuntu. I am weak and
>     old, and unimportant, and still I will not be under the will of
>     others,
>     save for GOD and HIS perfect Son. I would swallow razor blades for
>     them
>     if I thought it would please them at all. But I resist this country I
>     love, every time they strip us from another freedom. I wear a
>     seatbelt;
>     maybe I would and maybe I wouldn't if not forced to. It is just
>     another
>     form of taxation without representation. I never got a vote on the
>     issue. I hate taxing addictive things even though I disapprove of
>     alcohol and cigaretts or gasoline, because it has become such a
>     necessity in our way of life. I hate turning a criminal lose
>     because of
>     some stupid decision made by a judge somewhere in this country
>     which was
>     used to get a guilty person out of jail. I want their kind of freedom.
>
>     When two people oppose each other in court, why is their usually some
>     kind of compromise rather than complete exhoneration and penalty
>     to the
>     extent of the crime. All of this is the same thing to me. Nothing I
>     have used for examples is more or less to me than refusing the
>     freedom I
>     ask. To me, right is right, and wrong is wrong. I don't even want
>     quarter when I am the one judged.
>
>     My prayer to GOD, when I may be guilty of offending HIM is, I
>     desire HIS
>     discipline, full measure, when I am wrong, and HIS supernatural
>     support,
>     when I am right and subject to a stronger opponent. I don't want
>     to get
>     away with anything. I want HIS forgiveness when my heart is truly
>     repentant, and not until. I want HIM to be a little more forgiving
>     with
>     you and those others I love, but not for me. I want to be better
>     than I
>     am. I also want my Root Shell pre-password protected, if I can also
>     have a safe shell to work from.
>
>     Cordially,
>
>     Steven
>
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Dear Mosair,

I don't know how to use the translator yet, and I am not sure if you are 
speaking Spanish, Italian, or perhaps Portugese, but the language looks 
somewhat familiar.  I will save this email and learn how to translate it 
and get back to you.

I think you are saying to not quit using Linux.  If that is so, don't 
worry my friend.  Where could I go to.  Certainly not Vista.  I just 
wanted those who were trying to help me, for my sake, to stop trying so 
hard, and help me solve my problem anyway.  You have to be missing a 
finger to know how important it is. 

If you think about it, when you take a stuck lid off a jar, it requires 
all your fingers to be the same length to be strong enough to get it 
off.  Just missing the end of one, eliminates any strength you would get 
from the missing one and those that follow.  All and the only strength 
comes from the ones near the thumb.  Also when one finger is shorter, 
you have to stretch to reach the upper keys.  And with a hard wide 
insensitive to touch end, it is hard to hit only one key, and you don't 
get any help from your sense of feeling.   Anyway, I could never leave 
Linux, it would take me away from this forum.  And since you are writing 
me from this forum, I already know I like you.

As soon as I can get this translation thing figured out, let's be 
friends.  I think you wrote once before and I failed to understand and 
did not respond.  Please forgive my laziness.  I can't wait to 
understand what you have to say.

Cheers! Ciao, and Cordially,

Steven

Cordially, my friend,

Steven