I've been having a DNS leak that's been driving me insane for the last week. Every time I went to google maps it would show where my house was. Other places that would show your location would show the city i live in. I cleared cookies, went thru a proxy(on top of a VPN) and other stuff. Nothing made it stop. I thought google was the NSA. Then when I was setting up my nic to allow jumbo packets I finally figured it out. My fucking internet provider will use IPv6 for DNS along with regular IP. Sneaky bastards. I disab;ed IPv6 totally in the OS and now google doesn't know where I am.
add these lines to sysctl.conf to disable ipv6 in Linux Mint:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
then reboot
I can only presume that you're actually Edward Sn0wden switch... as no other explanation seems to suffice re: the intricacies you delve into in a (presumable) attempt to improve your privacy.
On a far more pedestrian note, I just wanted to share with other Linux users (and those who might use it in the future) a neat little program I've known about for a while but only recently got around to trying: it's called Phatch and it's a simple tool for batch processing images.
YES, I know you can create macros for big graphics apps like GIMP and Photoshop, and yes, there are countless such tools for Windows and Mac OSX, but not an endless variety for Linux (but as in most cases except for games, there IS a sufficient supply of Linux apps for most tasks and tastes .
Phatch lets you apply image processing operations to a group of images at one time. It's not ultra-intuitive to begin with, but easy enough once you run it a couple times. This is handy if you need to downrez images for posting to an auction site, or add a watermark or copyright notice, make crops, rotate images, or rename files in bulk, etc...
You can DL/install it from the software repository of your favorite Linux distro (i.e.: the Ubuntu Software Center, etc..) or from the app website itself: http://photobatch.stani.be/ ...DL page here: http://photobatch.stani.be/download/index.html It also is available for Windows and Mac OSX btw. Dox are here: http://photobatch.wikidot.com/ For those too lazy to click links but still curious to know what kinds of image processing operations Phatch provides, here's the full/current list excluding third-party operations:Auto Contrast - Maximize image contrast
Background - Put colour under transparent image
Border - Variable border to the inside or outside
Brightness - Adjust brightness from black to white
Canvas - Crop the image or enlarge canvas without resizing the image
Color To Alpha - Make a background with fixed color transparent
Colorize - Colorize grayscale image
Common - Copies the most common pixel value
Contour - Draw a contour around image edges
Contrast - Adjust from grey to black & white
Convert Mode - Convert the color mode of an image (grayscale, RGB, RGBA or CMYK)
Copy - Copy image file
Crop - Crop the image
Delete Tags - Delete Exif or Iptc Tags
Desaturate - Fade all colors to grey
Effect - Blur, Sharpen, Emboss, Smooth, …
Equalize - Equalize the image histogram
Fit - Downsize and crop image with fixed ratio
Geek - Execute external command
Geotag - Geotag an image file
Grayscale - Fade all colours to gray
Highlight - Add a highlight effect
Imagemagick - Blur, Polaroid, Shadow, Unsharp…
Invert - Invert the colors of the image (negative)
Lossless JPEG - Rotate, flip, grayscale and crop
Maximum - Copies the maximum pixel value
Mask - Apply a transparency mask
Median - Copies the median pixel value
Minimum - Copies the minimum pixel value
Mirror - Symmetrical tile texture
Offset - Offset by distance and wrap around
Perspective - Shear 2d or 3d
Posterize - Reduce the number of bits of colour channel
Rank - Copies the rank'th pixel value
Reflect - Drops a reflection
Rename - Rename image file
Rename Tag - Rename an Exif or Iptc Tag
Rotate - Rotate with random angle
Round - Round or crossed corners with variable radius and corners
Saturation - Adjust saturation from grayscale to high
Save - Save an image with variable compression in different types
Save Tags - Save only metadata (lossless)
Scale - Scale an image with different resample filters.
Shadow - Drop a blurred shadow under a photo with variable position, blur and color
Sketch - Transform to a grayscale pencil drawing.
Solarize - Invert all pixel values above threshold
Tamogen - Tone altering mosaic generator
Text - Write text at a given position
Time Shift - Shift Exif time
Transpose - Flip or rotate an image by 90 degrees
Watermark - Apply a watermark image with variable placement (offset, scaling, tiling) and opacity
Write Tag - Write a new value to a metadata tag (exif & iptc)