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  1. How bout RPM's for different processor steps on Friday Quickies · · Score: 1

    just name them .p.gcc or .mmx.rpm .386.rpm .p2.rpm


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  2. here's an idea for perl on Unix in Perl · · Score: 1

    let's give perl a commandline switch so it will compile 2 file. then wehnever it is invoked it will test to see if the code has been modified more recently than the binary (it would then recompile). This would be really handy.

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  3. 80's Stuff on Crackers Reportedly take Brit Mil Satellite · · Score: 1

    This remind me of some stuff that cDc (www.cultdeadcow.com) pulled during the 80's. I've heard numverous stories of them moving sats around in orbit. Although the coolest hack they'e pulled is seizing control of NASA's climate control and playing with the temperature controls at mission control.

    Hey! The space shuttle had linux on board once. But it runs some version of DOS for itself I think.

    I would not be surprised if there have been earlier incidents like this but between legitimate govs. I mean you can bet the USSR and the US tried this during the Cold War. It would be cool if hackers used their skills to take out military equipment of repressive governments as political protest.

    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  4. there is nothing wrong with a BSD kernel on Linux Kernel underneath OS X? · · Score: 1

    excpet for the fact its BSD, it is supposed to be Mac, it runs on PPC hardware which is too pricy, and its made by a company thaat calls different computers flavors.... and they mean flavors.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
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  5. Microsoft butt hinge covers up their BackOrifice on Live Nude Quickies · · Score: 1

    But seriously, MS needs these to protect Windows users from getting up the butt whenever a new bug is discovered.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  6. My .02 on Intel Antitrust Trial · · Score: 1

    Intel has a monopoly basically. They drive (READ- control) x86 processor innovation. They will be broken up. Which will be a good thing.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  7. Is there anyone else interested in cracking Barney on Hacking Barney · · Score: 1

    or Furbys? I mean like buffer overflows in the IR protocol, leading to hostile code execution resulting in reprogramming of actions and sounds. In essense, we could create aa Furby worm/virus. How cool would it be to have Furbys advocate Linux to 4-year olds?

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  8. Microsoft could do it better - two CD roms on Mainstream Press for Trinux · · Score: 1

    instead of one floppy? please ms have always written shitty software. Who the hell used / as a command line switch? Jesus. The people responsible for making us here at our computers are the nice capitalists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople at intel who gave us microprocessors. And the LSD using hippies @ apple who gave us the PC. and digital...... Billy stole MSDOS, ripped off windows and pulled Nt out of his asshole to compete with netware and sun. So shutup! Don't mind my grammer bad!

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  9. Nice! on New York Times on Linux · · Score: 1

    This is probably the best written article on Linux that I've seen on real dead trees. I was hoping for a mention of KDE or GNOME but oh well. Yes Linus needs new glasses. And they didn't name Tux!

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  10. Problem is User on Gassee Challenges OEMs · · Score: 1

    Ever considered that? I had a little trouble getting linux up but it runs fine for me and never does all these things. But hey, your typing style is perfect for NT and not Linux. Clickey, clickey the mouse!

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  11. BSD / LSD on Fortune file for Open Sources · · Score: 1

    that old quote about berkeley, lsd and bsd.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  12. The King of Spin[tm] on "King of Spin" Breaks Record · · Score: 1

    Everyone should watch "The War Room."


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
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  13. One OSS OS. Reinventing the Wheel! Flamebait 4 BSD on FreeBSD 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Short post:

    One open source O/S makes makes far more sense than competing ones. Developers need to spend more time making new features rather than making separate versions of roughly the same thing. In an ideal world, everyone would use a base linux kernel for their architecture with custom additions and loadable modules for their specific needs (diff. filesystems, devices, features). I feel that by dividing our resources like this developers are wasting their time by duplicating work. Ideally we'll see optimized and customized versions of Linux- accelerated for servers, for high intensity graphics, etc.


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  14. Punishing NT users on OSS gets a good nod in Security Awards · · Score: 1

    On a side note, the GUI L0phtcrack is shareware. Nice way to punish clueless NT lusers. CLI version is Open Source.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  15. Yuck! on MacOSRumors reports OS 10 Server goes gold · · Score: 0

    Why pay for a half-rate BSD with eye candy for the moron hippie admins when you can have a real BSD or better yet Linux for free. This thing is going to be a dinosaur! It'll need to be backwards compatible with older Mac OS programs. But hey, I bet its better than NT. :) [end flame bait]

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  16. How bout a version for apache's mod_proxy on Why Netscape shows ? instead of ' · · Score: 1

    So it will fix itself! God how tacky! grr.


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  17. Hackers on Hacker Generation Gap · · Score: 1

    Without people like L0pht, we would have no privacy, no security and no idea that we lacked both. (My US$ .02)

    On a security note, check out my new Windows file system DoS attack. FAT filesystems are naughty.


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]
  18. old school on Open Letter to the Emulation Community · · Score: 1

    yeah. I remember the old school emualtion days.... When running apple ][ sotware was simply cool enough. For me emulation was a way of revisiting my childhood, nintendo, commies, apples. As the emulators became better, the scene become was invaded by warez kidz looking to get games for free. I deleted the last of my emulators and its roms a year ago. RIP

    anyone have a decent dos apple][ emulator?


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  19. How come I never meet girls like this? on Faster Encryption Algorithm Found By 16 Year Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Dammit! I never meet cool girls like this. I'm lucky if I can find a girl who can use AOL and knows basic HTML. Oh well... maybe in college I'll find lots of highly attractive girls who would find me more attractive than the rest of the 90% male population. Wait. Maybe I should goto a liberal arts school.


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  20. Apache mod_access problem in 1.3.4 on Linux, Apache & Gnome Updates · · Score: 1

    Anyone else have this



    order deny,allow
    deny from .gov
    deny from .mil
    deny from .fed.us
    deny from .gov.us
    deny from .arpa
    allow from all



    and it didn't work for poop.... but it did b4


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  21. So recompile. on Apache passes 2 million hosts · · Score: 1

    yeah.. I was hoping for a more general solution so I can control all of my headers completely.... alas no :(. I wanted to be a wiseass and manipulate them dynaically.

    oh well


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  22. Possible to overwrite HTTPD Header? on Apache passes 2 million hosts · · Score: 1

    Apache is bitchy and makes you put
    'Server: Apache/1.3.3' in your headers. mod_headers won't let you overwrite or append to this. However I KNOW it is possible because one
    "ServerTokens" directive will include modules you have installed... Has anyone written something to force headers on Apache/1.3.X? Bad enough that people can tell what webserver (and version) you're running (so they can attack it) but by default Apache will send what OS you use to anyone who connects. And if "ServerTokens Full" (I think.), they'll know what OS you run and ALL the module versions you have installed. I usually don't support security through obscurity, but this is an added layer so script kiddies can't scan every host for certain exploitable versions. On the same note, I'd recommend a lot of you sendmail users figure out a way so sendmail doesn't blab its version so all the spammers and people scanning for weak hosts don't find you. The same goes for ftpd `SYST` replies and telnet login banners. I know software like nmap (ftp://GeekMafia.dynip.com/security/network-scanne rs/nmap-2_02.tgz) allows pretty accurate remote OS detection but there is no need to blab your vulnerabilities to the world.

    (Damn I'm off topic!)


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  23. yay! on Apache passes 2 million hosts · · Score: 1

    I'm glad to see Apache doing well. I have found that is the BEST webserver out there. SSL, advanced logging, cookies, security.... everything. Even the Win32 version is great. I would tell all of you IIS users to move to Apache-Win32. It is perfect on NT!


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  24. RE: all of the below on LoU's Iraq/China Attack Correction · · Score: 1

    a lot of l0pht, phrack, cDc, etc. people write GNU stuff under their real names. In addition, phrack often includes kernel mods for *BSD and Linux.


    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]

  25. RE: Why? on LoU's Iraq/China Attack Correction · · Score: 1

    > ...would we want to check out your site. Like
    > there aren't enough exploit sites out there
    > already. I'll take my hax0ring elsewhere,
    > jerkwad.
    OK. Thanks for the intelligent remarks. Ok... I'm sorry I don't have AOL4Free and ICQ flooders. I really wanted to give you those. Oh.. I'm sorry I can't give you precompiled copies of smurf in rpm format. You'll have to `gcc -o smurf smurf.c` yourself.
    > Wait, since you're the "Geek Mafia" (that's an
    > oxymoron, moron!) you'll probably come and break
    Gee, I never knew that that was an oxymoron. Thanks for pointing it out.
    > muh legs or something right?
    No.. I think I'll stay here and throw insults at people on slashdot. After all I am the Anonymous Coward.
    > Go back to China you wannabe communist pig.
    What do I have to do with communism? And by "pig" I assume you mean, "cop" or "facist?" Please.

    Ex Machina "From the Machine"
    xm@GeekMafia.dynip.com [http://GeekMafia.dynip.com/]