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  1. Gnome CD Master on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Create digital masters on hard disk with Gnome CD Master : https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/ap... also on 13.10 here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

  2. 5 year old tempest in tty pot on 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem was well discussed in 2009 here : A tempest in a tty pot https://lwn.net/Articles/34382... The result was that after a heated debate, Alan Cox was blamed for allowing old code to stay because emacs would loose terminal output and Greg KH was simmoned to stepup as the TTY maintainer. The new TTY/PTY guys became James Simmons, the Frame-buffer guy and C. Scott Ananian, the former jack-of-all-trades for the One Laptop per Child Foundation. Curious enough it were not Linux server systems like RedHat Enterprise who have been vulnerable for almost 5 years, but the popular Linux desktop distro's like Ubuntu.

  3. comment to the mentioned blog article by Steyn on Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed · · Score: 2

    SLAPPstick Farce by Mark Steyn January 25, 2014 http://www.steynonline.com/601...
    "Meanwhile, in the same period [the two-year anti-SLAPP hearing], Dr. Mann has been brandishing his hockey stick out on the campaign trail against Republican candidates. In Virginia, he appeared in the Democrats' attack ads against Ken Cuccinelli, and helped get Clinton's bagman Terry McAuliffe elected governor. When his candidate Mark Herring also prevailed over the GOP in the attorney general's race, Mann crowed and published tweets from his acolytes congratulating him on "two fresh notches on your hockey stick."
    Global warming is apparently not a bipartisan research effort, but more of a Democratic National Committee sponsored science project which initially was given National coverage by Al Gore.

  4. Praetorian Guards reach into Belize on Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize · · Score: 1
    McAfee founder booked on drug, weapons charges, report says
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57428439-71/mcafee-founder-booked-on-drug-weapons-charges-report-says/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
    by Chris Matyszczyk
    , May 4, 2012 5:04 PM PDT

    John McAfee lives in Belize and says that this is all just politics. However, the local Gang Suppression Unit issues a press release accusing him a unlicensed drug manufacturing and unlicensed weapon possession.

    How about revoking the McAfee licenses of the GSU department, and notify the keyboard driven community about IT Security problems at GSU, Independence Plaza, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize, C.A.

    Robert
    --
    Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
    Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
    crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net

  5. Re: Keep an eye on the Bradley Manning case on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning

    Manning was arrested by agents of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command in May 2010 and held in pre-trial confinement in a military jail at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.[1][2][3] On July 5, 2010, two misconduct charges were brought against him for "transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system" and "communicating, transmitting and delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source".[2][7] The charges included unauthorized access to Secret Internet Protocol Routers network computers, download of more than 150,000 United States Department of State diplomatic cables, download of a classified PowerPoint presentation, and downloading a classified video of a military operation in Baghdad on July 12, 2007. Manning is also charged for forwarding the video and at least one of the cables to an unauthorized person.[15] The maximum jail sentence is 52 years.[1]

    Manning faces a pretrial hearing under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, following which his lawyer expects a court-martial in the spring of 2011.[8][1]

  6. Swiss "Banking" on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 0

    The Swiss Government has confiscated $37K in his Swiss Bank account.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_re_us/wikileaks

    "Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange's account". A real Swiss Bank never
    does such things. I don't know about Postfinance, but for Swiss banks
    there's only one exception in such matters, and that is when the
    'client' has made remarks or moves which has endangered the Zionist
    Community, just as happened with Bobby Fischer in Rekyavik. After
    arriving in Iceland in 2006, the UBS Bank of Switzerland confiscated all of
    Fischer's savings. UBS for the first time showed its real face, instead
    of the polished face of independent banking.

    UBS and the Icelandic government collude to plunder all of Bobby's savings account at UBS
    http://crashrecovery.org/home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/index.html

  7. Jonathan Schwartz's fake career white wash on Apple Blocking iPhone Security Software · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On Tom's hardware Jonathan Ian Schwartz gets a career whitewash job.
    After Scott McNeally got booted out of Sun's through Steve Ballmer's $ 2 billion
    "rescue" job to keep Sun running, which effectively shut McNeally up from
    all hostile keynote speech comments about Microsoft, its now Jonathan Schwartz
    who gets his hair greased big time at tomshardware.com :

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Jonathan-Schwartz-Sun,9844.html

    Reportedly it was Schwartz who co-founded [b]Lighthouse Design Ltd.[/b] in 1989 and
    therefor has supplied Steve Jobs his NeXtStep Software. This sounds rather far-fetched
    to me as at the time when Schwartz joined Sun Microsystems nothing of this was mentioned.

    Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
    Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist

  8. our Cash-less society on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    The Federal Reserve and it's bank notes already had a devalued
    reputation. You know, Neel Kashkari etc. The conclusion of this study
    is however very weird. One might even conclude that anyone carrying
    Cash must be a Coke sniffer. It's no secret anymore that the hidden
    rulers want to have a Cash-less society. The story here certainly helps
    in fulfilling this objective. We just need to take care that besides
    the vanishing of Cash from our Society, our Society itself doesn't
    disappear as well.

    Robert
    --
    Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
    Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
    crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net

  9. "IANA root servers go down after UDP port storm" on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1
    "Austrian CERT used data from one of their authoritative DNS server to measure the rate at which the latest DNS patch (source port randomization) is being rolled out to larger recursive name servers. While about half the traffic (PDF) they receive is now using source port randomization, their data suggest that this is due to ISPs who roll out such fixes immediately. The rate of patching has fallen to disappointingly low levels since. If your ISP isn't patched, perhaps it is time to switch."

    I posted this also at Secrecy and the DNS flaw :

    The solution is apparently to start used random selected UDP source ports on the nameserver when answering to DNS requests. Well the new problem has with this solution already been created : "Vulnerability in IANA root servers, servers go down after UDP port storm."

    The only sensible solution is to create a hierarchical slaves.conf access list. WHO are allowed recursive access to higher up bind servers? Besides selection using ip-numbers, one can also be awarded with a valid DNS SEC hmac-md5 key. Ok I know this is Big Brother style stuff. But i don't know of any DNS hackers who like to leave their identity inside nameserver logs.

    The core problem is recursive access to upstream authoratitive DNS servers. ISC should fix this inside bind9. But using random UDP ports opens up a whole new range of even more nasty DoS problems.

    a caching DNS server which gets its cache polluted. If the attack setup is such that faulty DNS info is cached, is then the caching DNS server in error? I don't think so. What is needed is authentication and pgp/checksum info to see if the offered DNS info to be cached is valid.

    Robert

  10. Calculating Primes on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1
    The Riemann Hypothesis is that the locations and density of possible prime numbers can be predicted through the Riemann zeta-function. Well thats just fine.

    What is also interesting to know is that one can generate and calculate primes in a simple and straighforward manner using previous obtained results and primes through a prime number generating function :

    "Calculate Primes"
    by Prof James M. McCanney
    , (c)2006,2007
    http://www.calculateprimes.com/

  11. Re:face-recognition software on China's All-Seeing Eye · · Score: 1

    Why does face-recognition software read to me as submission of mankind
    to machine?

    One should really wonder WHO is demanding this computer based
    face-recognition as any normal human being doesn't need such a pony
    show.

    Why has it become normal practice to store all of our phone and email
    data inside insane huge database networks? Again for a normal human
    being there's no added value in this, except for less obvious reasons.

    For many it has become evident that our average President, Prime
    Minister and Bundes Kanzler have become puppet rulers only. Given the
    rapid increasing impact and importance of these new computer based
    technologies, a real research of WHO our hidden and unknown rulers are,
    is not only forum discussion material for conspiracy theory freaks, but
    has today become a vital real world issue and valid question.

    As Democratic elections have descended into a headstock cupboard game
    only, post-election policies in recent years became independent of
    which party had won. Most of the time the "New" post-election policies
    only subdue the rights and prosperity of mankind.

    If one accepts such considerations as real world facts, its not far
    fetched to conclude that the hidden and unknown rulers are not human
    but most probable are computer based machines, hybrids or even cyborgs.
    An interesting essay on this was already written in the year 2000 :

    "Why the future doesn't need us"
      by Bill Joy, Wired, April 2000
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

  12. Einstein and the Maxwell equations on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    Afaik, Einstein and many others were presented with 'adjusted'
    Maxwell Equations according Dr. Heaviside in 1875.
    In 1993 Art Bell had a radio interview with Al Bielek, where
    Bielek said the following:

        "Thomas Bearden has gone through this also, and derived the fact
          that the original Maxwell equations as written by Maxwell in the
          hand written versions, which are well over a hundred years old, are
          _not_ what is currently taught in the universities, because Dr.
          Heaviside in 1875, because they were hard to understand, and they
          could not accept the idea that in the denominator E, as the
          electrostatic field, was in Maxwell's original equations stated
          that it propagates instantaneously throughout the universe, which
          would immediate violate all of the ideas of relativity and c being
          the limiting speed of everything in the universe.

          So that part has been eliminated basicly from most of the college
          texts. You may have some texts that show the original but I'm not
          familiar with every book that is around. But nonetheless they
          normally teach the truncated version developed by Heaviside in 1875
          which was an attempt to simplify those equations and make them more
          understandable."

    So there's something hidden from public knowledge inside Maxwell's equations.
    I made a webpage about this :
    "Dark Matter, a result of the heliocentric doctrine "
    http://crashrecovery.org/fixedearth/

    See also
    "Interview with Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden"
      by Terry Patten and Michael Hutchison
    http://twm.co.nz/beard_interview.htm

    Robert

  13. Keyboard JitterBug eavesdropping on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Dell key-logger hoax has probably the best decoy story to move
    professional hackers/security staffers into the wrong direction, as in
    May 2006, USENIX published the following research article :

    "Keyboards and Covert Channels"
      by Gaurav Shah, Andres Molina and Matt Blaze , 2006-05-17
      Department of Computer and Information Science
      University of Pennsylvania
    http://www.usenix.org/events/sec06/tech/shah/shah_ html/jbug-Usenix06.html

    In it the authors demonstrate that todays unwarranted wire tapping NSA
    activities, normally don't result in much success as serious internet
    users routinely apply encryption into their communications, like IPSec
    tunneling, ssh, VPN access connections, secure web-traffic https when
    i.e. doing Internet banking activities.

    However, secret service found a clever approach to all this, by
    covertly installing a Keyboard JitterBug into your keyboard. Here's
    how to secure your most trusted keyboard :

    Keyboard JitterBug eavesdropping
    http://crashrecovery.org/internet/#jitter

    where i may add, that lock picking _ALSO_ has been the best hoax ever
    on public display. Why? How many people today design their _OWN_
    locksmith locks? All installed door-locks worldwide are somehow sold in
    stores, hence its products and replacement keys are in the archives of
    the local secret service.

    Robert

  14. Slashdot War mongers on Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The big bankers want their iran war. funny to see how
    slashdot is lending space for that purpose.

  15. NYTimes snitches on RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team · · Score: 1

    a new word has emerged inside the dictionaries : mafiaa :
    "RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team"
    I guess its a lota gibberish as the New York Times has made the
    contribution. Out of these troubles times (the era of the Lee Harvey
    Oswalds), a new set of names, has emerged :

    "Matthew Kilgo, an official with the Recording Industry Association
      of America,"

    So today one is warned to be very aware of names like : Kilgo, Kelso, Kilroy...
    One wonders if the whole treat was written by New York Times snitches :

    "In December, not long before the bust, I spent a week with DJ Drama
      and the Aphilliates in Atlanta."

    The scoop is at the bottom of the report : "Samantha M. Shapiro is a
    contributing writer." You gotta be pretty dumbed down as a newspaper editor
    to put snitches on your regular team.

    Robert

  16. building a custom bike/car on Vista vs. Cairo - A Microsoft History Lesson · · Score: 1

    Vista should be compared with the construction of
    a custom build bike/car to be displayed at Detroit's Autorama
    and hopefully will draw the last 8 cut.
    Well it might make the best 8, but Vista will never be
    a winner in real day practice, because no-one is going to
    drive a $1 million cost custom to the supermarket or even
    to the next state or cross country.

    Vista is not the next industry desktop workhorse,
    certainly not of what i have seen. Being the biggest bad ass
    ballmie bully on the block might pull it through, but
    it won't make much friends.

  17. Re:A very delicate and sensitive issue on Microsoft Patent Deal Could Leave Novell Behind · · Score: 1

    I didn't make this up. You can try to /join that channel, if you want
    to find out. They have a policy that politics oriented URL's are not
    allowed on the channel. Recently it also includes URL's which report on
    politics concerning the issue of Open Source and Linux.

    It's a choice by the operators, fair enough, but if this is becoming a
    trend inside the Linux community, i predict that Linux won't make be
    making great inroads. Opponents of Open Source and Linux adoption in
    businesses and institutions seem to have slipped down to the policy of
    "dirty politics", as that's all they seem to have left which works from
    their current position.

    You can call me a Troll for stating it like this, but facts seem not to
    contradict this view.

    Robert

  18. A very delicate and sensitive issue on Microsoft Patent Deal Could Leave Novell Behind · · Score: 0, Troll

    I got a permban on my local #linux irc channel for commenting about the Novell/SuSE deal
    and the remarks from the Samba Developers :

    http://wiki.linux-irc.net/wiki/Stock_Speaks

    Here's how i got kicked :

    http://crashrecovery.org/irc-bulle.html

    Robert

  19. Iraq disaster on Rumsfeld Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    The pentagon was talking about "operation Cut'n Run",
    maybe only Rummy has figured out what that meant.

    Robert

  20. Saddam's wife could not recognize her husband on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    In 2004, a couple of months after Saddam's capture, the Russians published a weird thing :

    "Saddam's wife could not recognize her husband"
    http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/12494_sad dam.html

  21. Linux is RedHat's core business on Red Hat Says They'll Be In Linux Long After Novell · · Score: 1

    Linux is RedHat's core business.

    About the Novell/Microsoft inter cooperation agreement?

    http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2006110301 426NWMSNV
    http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=200 6-11-03-014-26-NW-MS-NV-0010

    Robert M. Stockmann - Subject: sad Outlook for Novell
    ( Nov 3, 2006, 02:46:50 )

    "Novell has never had a foothold in the Desktop business, why would
    Microsoft allow them to gain foothold on the Desktop market? If
    linux is going to get a foothold in the Desktop Market, Microsoft
    will make sure they are the ones supplying it. In this way their
    agenda, whatever that maybe, can still be fullfilled.

    1. Munich selects Linux on the desktop, with SuSE GMBH as native
    support company in mind
    2. Shortly after SuSE GMBH is bought up by Novell
    3. Novell is remolding the SuSE desktop by making Gnome the
    standard desktop and KDE the extra option. KDE is to be outphased.
    see
    http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=200 5-11-04-018-26-OP-SS-NV-0067

    4. Microsoft officially endorses the 'Novell' version of the Linux
    desktop, by funding it.
    5. The 'Novell' Linux desktop is getting further adjustments to
    get it Americanized, Microsoftized if you wish. Novell will be
    doing all the hard labor.
    6. Some BIG date will be set, after which 'Novell' (MS approved)
    Linux Desktop is announced through Corporate Boards and CEO's as
    the only one fit for corporate use in business. Other Linux distro
    vendors will be put more and more in harms way to survive. They
    will use the same arguing/advocacy like hey have used the mandatory
    Outlook Agenda to have MS Exchange installed in businesses.
    7. Novell Linux Desktop will in the end be able to fullfill all of
    the overt and secret agenda wishes by Microsoft, or at least
    hookups are available.
    8. The Linux Desktop for use in business will become a new
    Novell/Microsoft monopoly.
    9. Microsofty will introduce a 'superior' Linux Desktop to
    'Novell' Linux, and Novell will be forced out of the Desktop
    Market, which is what Microsoft has always been aiming for.
    10. Microsoft will starting hunting down other Linux related
    commercial software companies and buy em out and destroy.

    In short : Microsoft will like they have done many times: work
    close with Novell, copycat essential gear from Novell linux into
    Redmond Campus. When the time is right there will indeed be

  22. Re:fiction, fact or satire? on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    Stan Lee is a government shill? How should i know that? He sure boosted Marvell Comics
    to Corporate adulthood. Is such success just pure luck which can happen
    to anybody? I used to believe that though, it was called the American Dream.
    Today I don't believe that careers or success just happen out of the blue.

    Why don't you listen to George Carlin :
    http://crashrecovery.org/George_Carlin.mp3

    Cheers,

    Robert

  23. Re:fiction, fact or satire? on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    "relly, your paranoia is unbecoming."

    Who said i was paranoid or scared? Maybe you got a little
    paranoid yourself.

    All what i wrote down is my interpretation of what has recently
    happened, and what can be found inside books. by numerous authors
    who are dead serious on the matter. And yes the books of
    RAW sadly enough, i think, were for the sole purpose to prevent
    New Ager's to really find out was was going on.

    If there's a nasty truth due to come out in the open, what does
    the establishment tend to do? They create comic books about the matter,
    extend it into the absurd by adding fiction, and launch some braindead
    video games about it. Capice?

    Robert

  24. fiction, fact or satire? on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although i never heard of RAW, i see he was the hero during the New Age era, where
    he mixed rare known facts about the Illuminati, with fiction and occasionally added
    some jokes. I guess in the heydays of his work he was very popular amongst people
    who knew something about this cult.

    However things have changed, This Illuminati, Kaballa, Mason stuff has turned out
    to be not fiction or satire but the scary truth. Just remember Hugo Chavez's
    recent appearance inside the U.N. What happened at the U.N. is of major importance.
    Hugo Chavez steals the show at the U.N. quoting from Noam Chomsky latest book
    "Hegemony or Survival" [1]. Although wearing a normal suit, he did a almost genuine act
    of exorcism from behind the council speakers table:

    http://www.niburu.nl/showarticle.php?articleID=143 86
    http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/9/23/213219/ 005/59#c59
    http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_ 23036.shtml
    http://www.counterpunch.org/chavez09202006.html

    "The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right
    in the house.

    "And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here.
    Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur still today.

    Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president
    of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil,
    came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of
    the world."

    The real media file can be found here :

    "Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan Pres., at U.N. General Assembly"
    rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter092006_chav ez.rm

    Recently Greg Palast did a exclusive interview with Hugo Chavez from
    his home in Venezuela :

    "Hugo Chavez: An Exclusive Interview with Greg Palast"
    http://www.gregpalast.com/hugo-chavez-an-exclusive -interview-with-greg-palast

    pnm:rm.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/1985000/video_19856 70_ven22_palast_vi.rm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/ar chive/1985670.stm

    So why is this a important breakthrough? It seems the tide is turning.
    If Bushes hegemony was a reality, Hugo Chavez would never been able to
    make this speech. Also remember that the President of Iran recently
    made his heroic appearance in New York. The crock hunter may have died,
    but here's the real hero :

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/iranian-presid ent-steals-the-show-in-new-york/2006/09/22/1158431 902380.html

    As the plot is folding, the analogy with Tolkiens trilogy, The Lord of
    the Rings, is certainly there. "The Evil Eye" on top of the pyramid is
    evident. The analogy with the Ring to rule all others Rings may not
    seem so straightforward. It seems that this Ring is commonly known as
    the holy grail, but the holy grail is a hoax in itself. So what is the
    holy grail in fact? Chris Everard from EnigmaTV made a serious attempt
    [2] to explain things. He claims that the full knowledge and
    understanding of a scripture called The Cabballah is what ordinary man
    can give ultimate power with the culmination in power the capability to
    kill someone with a

  25. the EU better watch out on Vista to Create 50,000 Jobs in Europe · · Score: 1
    As seen in Michael C. Rupperts book 'Crossing the Rubicon' page 159 :

    (http://crashrecovery.org/us-army-unix.jpg )

    "It was also not by coincidence then that, in the same winter of 1994-95, McCoy revealed to me that he was using former Green Berets to conduct physical surveillance of the Washington, DC offices of Microsoft in connection with the PROMIS case. FTW has, within the last month, received information indicating that piracy of Microsoft products at the GE Aerospace Herndon facility were likely tied to larger objectives, possibly the total compromise of any Windows-based product. It is not by chance that most of the military and all of the intelligence agencies in the US now operate on UNIX or Macintosh systems."

    Robert M. Stockmann