My approach has been to start all the needed services and then run this small perl script (which I named memhog.pl) to create a process that hogs quite a bit of memory:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $a = "xxxxxxxxxx" x (131 *1024*1024);
This is just a quick hack, you may want to adjust the size to suit your memory size. The server from where this script was copied has 2GB of memory. Essentially I want to page out all the stuff that doesn't get used after starting the server and the related server processes. Of course, given enough time the server would swap out those pages anyway, but this method just does it quicker. After the script has been run, the server will gradually swap in those pages it really needs. OK, doing this may be pointless but I don't care;)
Speaking of Iomega website, it's not accessible for those of us who have the TCP ECN bit turned on. This has earned them an entry in the ECN Hall of shame listing. Their response?... We can revisit this in
several years. It isn't a big deal right now... To be honest, I would be surprised if anybody had a problem talking to
us because of ECN.
FYI,/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn is the switch that controls whether Linux uses the ECN option or not.
I was a sysop for a BBS back in the dark ages before Internet, and one of users once asked me if it was possible to overclock a modem to get higher speeds. I promptly answered: "Do you have an external modem? Good, just replace your current transformer with something that gives you more volts for your modem." He thanked for advice and logged off.
He never called back.
Why yes, I do like reading BOFH stories, why do you ask?
Sorry, but those images are not scanned Euro notes. They are probably some early drafts of the early Euro notes. The EU stars on the backside are different, and the stripe on the right edge of the note is only visible on the 5, 10 and 20 Euro notes. It's a hologram stripe, btw. For comparison, see this wikipedia entry.
Oh, but SCO uses different errno.h files depending on the situation. I tried hard to include a fragment of the errno.h but the lameness filter totally prevented me from doing that. It complained about too many junk characters, but how can I be responsible for the junk in SCO header files? Some logic from errno.h:
Portions Copyright (C) 1983-1995 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
The information in this file is provided for the exclusive use of
the licensees of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Such users have the
right to use, modify, and incorporate this code into other products
for purposes authorized by the license agreement provided they include
this notice and the associated copyright notice with any such product.
The information in this file is provided "AS IS" without warranty.
Portions Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 UNIX System Laboratories,
Inc.
Portions Copyright (c) 1979 - 1990 AT&T
All Rights Reserved
THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
The copyright notice above does not evidence any actual or intended publication of such source code.
Here are the comments from an older version of the same file, specifically 91/06/06. I wonder why they've dropped Microsoft from the copyrights list?
UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
Portions Copyright 1976-1990 AT&T
Portions Copyright 1980-1989 Microsoft Corporation
Portions Copyright (C) 1983-1991 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The information in this file is provided for the exclusive use of
the licensees of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Such users have the
right to use, modify, and incorporate this code into other products
for purposes authorized by the license agreement provided they include
this notice and the associated copyright notice with any such product.
The information in this file is provided "AS IS" without warranty.
Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
All Rights Reserved
THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
The copyright notice above does not evidence any
actual or intended publication of such source code.
I admit that eurotracer.net has extensive information about Euro coins and notes, although I've usually pointed people to Wikipedia because their Euro banknotes page is also pretty good.
But if you're mostly interested in tracking where your notes travel, I'd suggest going to EuroBillTracker instead. I'm suggesting this because we have about 17 times more notes than Eurotracer and thus the chances of getting a hit are much higher. Tracking the notes can be addictive, so beware:)
The RH-supplied latest OpenSSH (3.5p1-11) doesn't seem to accept the "UsePam no" directive that was suggested as a workaround, so if you go ahead and add that line to your/etc/ssh/sshd_config and say "service sshd restart", SSH will complain about an invalid configuration option and refuse to start. Just for your information..
It looks like this has been mentioned on/. before, as seen in this post although his success rate was worse than mine. The name of the show was Silikoni.
Well, if it was Aphex Twin music, I'd be very impressed that their songs were runnable on a C64:)
The broadcast was done by the Finnish Broadcasting Company if my memory serves me correctly. We do have similar laws prohibiting mixing data and radio signals at the moment, but I'm not sure about the law situation some 16 years ago when this happened, it might have been legal back then.
Interesting, but the question is: how did you manage to put the programs on CD, considering that home-made CDs were a bit rare at that time? Or were there commercial programs/games released on CD? Another question, the CDs were probably 74 minute CDs, so wouldn't a simple 90 minute tape hold more data than a CD?
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Forget the "low-powered FM transmitter", try the official radio stations instead.
When I was young (circa 1987 or so), there was a weekly radio show for computer enthusiasts. It had an interesting feature: they were broadcasting C64 programs on the air, and anyone with a tape recorder and a radio were able to record the programs and then run them. It actually worked pretty well, all the programs I received that way worked nicely. A really efficient method for transmitting programs, I'd say.
When viewed with an email program that understand HTML, the above fragment is displayed as "We can consolidate your bills into just one monthly payment and help achieve the following:". However, notice the random characters inside the comments -- what if they were encrypted orders to detonate a bomb at some specific location?
For some LCD screens it's enough just to let the screen go to standby/suspend mode, pressing the on/off won't really benefit that much. For example, my LG Flatron 1810B is specified as consuming "less than 3W" of energy when in suspend or standby, and the same "less than 3W" when turned off(!). I haven't measured the consumption, though.
Hmm.. I'm no expert on PS, but could this concept be used for more malicious purposes? How about a program that stays resident like yours, and when an interesting page is printed (say, the word "password" occurs on the page), it'd store the page or the interesting parts of it in memory for later reprinting. The reprinting would be done by printing a special "flush" page at a convenient time. Could someone fluent in PostScript please enlighten us?
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My approach has been to start all the needed services and then run this small perl script (which I named memhog.pl) to create a process that hogs quite a bit of memory:
;)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $a = "xxxxxxxxxx" x (131 *1024*1024);
This is just a quick hack, you may want to adjust the size to suit your memory size. The server from where this script was copied has 2GB of memory. Essentially I want to page out all the stuff that doesn't get used after starting the server and the related server processes. Of course, given enough time the server would swap out those pages anyway, but this method just does it quicker. After the script has been run, the server will gradually swap in those pages it really needs. OK, doing this may be pointless but I don't care
I think you missed Windows security fixes, Adobe Acrobat and WinSCP.
Speaking of Iomega website, it's not accessible for those of us who have the TCP ECN bit turned on. This has earned them an entry in the ECN Hall of shame listing. Their response? ... We can revisit this in
several years. It isn't a big deal right now ... To be honest, I would be surprised if anybody had a problem talking to
us because of ECN.
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn is the switch that controls whether Linux uses the ECN option or not.
FYI,
I was a sysop for a BBS back in the dark ages before Internet, and one of users once asked me if it was possible to overclock a modem to get higher speeds. I promptly answered: "Do you have an external modem? Good, just replace your current transformer with something that gives you more volts for your modem." He thanked for advice and logged off.
He never called back.
Why yes, I do like reading BOFH stories, why do you ask?
Sorry, but those images are not scanned Euro notes. They are probably some early drafts of the early Euro notes. The EU stars on the backside are different, and the stripe on the right edge of the note is only visible on the 5, 10 and 20 Euro notes. It's a hologram stripe, btw. For comparison, see this wikipedia entry.
I've told you this before, but you really should remove that goatse.cx poster from your wall, it frightens chicks.
Oh, but SCO uses different errno.h files depending on the situation. I tried hard to include a fragment of the errno.h but the lameness filter totally prevented me from doing that. It complained about too many junk characters, but how can I be responsible for the junk in SCO header files? Some logic from errno.h:
"old, crufty environment" -> oldstyle/errno.h
"Xpg4v2 environment" -> xpgv2/errno.h
"Xpg4 environment" -> xpg4/errno.h
"Posix environment" -> posix/errno.h
"Pure Ansi/ISO environment" -> ansi/errno.h
"Old, Tbird compatible environment" -> ods_30_compat/errno.h
"Normal, default environment" -> just the standard errno.h file
Some of the comments, dated 94/12/04:
Portions Copyright (C) 1983-1995 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
The information in this file is provided for the exclusive use of the licensees of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Such users have the right to use, modify, and incorporate this code into other products for purposes authorized by the license agreement provided they include this notice and the associated copyright notice with any such product. The information in this file is provided "AS IS" without warranty.
Portions Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. Portions Copyright (c) 1979 - 1990 AT&T All Rights Reserved
THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. The copyright notice above does not evidence any actual or intended publication of such source code.
Here are the comments from an older version of the same file, specifically 91/06/06. I wonder why they've dropped Microsoft from the copyrights list?
UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
Portions Copyright 1976-1990 AT&T
Portions Copyright 1980-1989 Microsoft Corporation
Portions Copyright (C) 1983-1991 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The information in this file is provided for the exclusive use of the licensees of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Such users have the right to use, modify, and incorporate this code into other products for purposes authorized by the license agreement provided they include this notice and the associated copyright notice with any such product. The information in this file is provided "AS IS" without warranty.
Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
All Rights Reserved
THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
The copyright notice above does not evidence any
actual or intended publication of such source code.
Of course it's a LGL map -- if it weren't, FBI would bust their ass. Distributing ilLGL maps is a crime, you know.
I admit that eurotracer.net has extensive information about Euro coins and notes, although I've usually pointed people to Wikipedia because their Euro banknotes page is also pretty good.
:)
But if you're mostly interested in tracking where your notes travel, I'd suggest going to EuroBillTracker instead. I'm suggesting this because we have about 17 times more notes than Eurotracer and thus the chances of getting a hit are much higher. Tracking the notes can be addictive, so beware
Um, no.
man sshd: keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive, meaning that usepam and UsePam and UsePAM are equivalent.
The RH-supplied latest OpenSSH (3.5p1-11) doesn't seem to accept the "UsePam no" directive that was suggested as a workaround, so if you go ahead and add that line to your /etc/ssh/sshd_config and say "service sshd restart", SSH will complain about an invalid configuration option and refuse to start. Just for your information..
Looks like they don't mind running the site with MS IIS..
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:41:02 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 9968
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSCQTDCQR=LOIJLJLDKNKPNCHPPLIDNBBG; path=/
Cache-control: private
Isn't this pretty much the same idea that Apple had some time ago?
Sad to say it but there really are some sicko's out there...
.. well, interested in such images)
Oh really? (hint: don't look unless you're
:) It's a small world..
/. before, as seen in this post although his success rate was worse than mine. The name of the show was Silikoni.
It looks like this has been mentioned on
Well, if it was Aphex Twin music, I'd be very impressed that their songs were runnable on a C64 :)
The broadcast was done by the Finnish Broadcasting Company if my memory serves me correctly. We do have similar laws prohibiting mixing data and radio signals at the moment, but I'm not sure about the law situation some 16 years ago when this happened, it might have been legal back then.
Interesting, but the question is: how did you manage to put the programs on CD, considering that home-made CDs were a bit rare at that time? Or were there commercial programs/games released on CD? Another question, the CDs were probably 74 minute CDs, so wouldn't a simple 90 minute tape hold more data than a CD?
Forget the "low-powered FM transmitter", try the official radio stations instead. When I was young (circa 1987 or so), there was a weekly radio show for computer enthusiasts. It had an interesting feature: they were broadcasting C64 programs on the air, and anyone with a tape recorder and a radio were able to record the programs and then run them. It actually worked pretty well, all the programs I received that way worked nicely. A really efficient method for transmitting programs, I'd say.
Oh yes. Here's an excerpt of an actual HTML mail that I received just a few seconds ago (no kidding!)
s t o<!--69mmaa1pexd-->ne <br>d he<!--6lmv9k1zkj17sx-->lp achie<!--5my15e3y59yvl-->ve
W<!--46jq8c1th8zav-->e c<!--aj9ljc101w7w3-->an conso<!--da7zq11y1s-->lidate
yo<!--fvuygn1ybyh0e3-->ur bi<!--fadm0927fjcz-->lls in<!--7c04qy2madz6k-->to
ju<!--c6vh5j2rrxgn41-->
mon<!--8abwm21wqapw-->thly pa<!--trnntizw6rn72-->yment
a<!--592r8h3ym1u-->n
t<!--eoor4v63f2-->he foll<!--m74b39gb19df-->owing:
When viewed with an email program that understand HTML, the above fragment is displayed as "We can consolidate your bills into just one monthly payment and help achieve the following:". However, notice the random characters inside the comments -- what if they were encrypted orders to detonate a bomb at some specific location?
And I'm only half kidding...
Something like IP2Country perhaps? They don't do the filtering, but they have a largish database of countries and network addresses.
For some LCD screens it's enough just to let the screen go to standby/suspend mode, pressing the on/off won't really benefit that much. For example, my LG Flatron 1810B is specified as consuming "less than 3W" of energy when in suspend or standby, and the same "less than 3W" when turned off(!). I haven't measured the consumption, though.
Hmm.. I'm no expert on PS, but could this concept be used for more malicious purposes? How about a program that stays resident like yours, and when an interesting page is printed (say, the word "password" occurs on the page), it'd store the page or the interesting parts of it in memory for later reprinting. The reprinting would be done by printing a special "flush" page at a convenient time. Could someone fluent in PostScript please enlighten us?
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/.ed someone's email server, as if slashdotting the web server wasn't enough. Shame on us.
OMG, now we've
I was hoping to see a title like "Michiganian Beats Spammer With A Baseball Bat". THAT would have been more to my taste.