For someone who was brave enough to try the crashing link supplied by the Register, does this kill the whole machine, or just X? And can you salvage things without rebooting by using either a virtual term or logging in via ssh?
Yes, linux doesn't crash:-) You can still access through telnet/ssh. You can't switch to a virtual terminal, though.
Guess Tom isn't cool enough or rich enough to get his hands on Apple's 22 "Cinema Display
Actually he said he'll cover those beasts in a future article. 4th paragraph in this page:
"If you spend a lot of time surfing the Net, you might want to consider purchasing an LCD display. The best option would be a 17" or 18" pivot-enabled monitor. But we'll get to these larger models in another comparison..."
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Here in Portugal the Portuguese Post has some stickers you can put in your mailbox. Then they won't put publicity there.
And it is illegal for anyone but the Post Office to put stuff in someone else's mailbox. (I think the fact that most mailboxes are *inside* the buildings also helps)
I use Linux as a server - and that's one of the BEST features of Linux on a remote server - it never needs to be rebooted.
That is absolutely true, and that is one of the main reasons why I use Linux.
However, they (the linux programmers) should not forget to create more awesome features because sooner or later Windows won't have to reboot constantly.
A similar situation is the windows-crashes-a-lot thing. Sure, linux is very stable but I hear people saying all the time that Windows 2000 is very stable too.
I am running the a linux port of the bsd ftpd and it might be vulnerable to
a similar attack,
ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 playlandFTP server (Version 6.5/OpenBSD, linux port 0.3.3) ready.
Name (localhost:user): ftp
331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls ~{
200 PORT command successful.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
in inetd I find an error stating that the ftpd process has died unexpectedly
Nov 28 14:21:28 playland inetd[82]: pid 16341: exit signal 11
You're right, of course, but here's the mind blowing thing: even without one of these nifty little commercial-skip features, hardly anyone watches commercials anyway. Seriously, commercials are mostly just for going to get a drink or using the bathroom.
I used to think like that, too. I didn't watch any commercials, no! Of course not.. duh! Who watches those?
But this year I went to visit my cousins in Brazil. And most TV networks have different commercials for different states. However if you watch TV through satellite (I think they have that because there are many places where an antenna can't pick up the signal properly)
you have no commercials! The TV just turns black. No image, no sound.
And there we were. Stupidly looking at a TV. It made me realize two things:
We shouldn't watch much TV, it's stupid. (at least in my country people watch a lot of TV)
Most people do watch commercials, otherwise in my example we wouldn't be staring at the black TV.
And even the ones you watch are not of much effect.
OK, so, hopefully, not everyone would stare at that TV in my example. But you agree that you do watch some.
Then, what do you think the effect should be? I bet sane marketing people aren't expecting everyone who watches the commercial to go and run to the mall and buy the product. Of course not.
The main point of a commercial is to let people know that the prodcut exists! People don't consider buying stuff they don't know that exists, right?
Anyway, I don't watch commercials. Although I must admit some are pretty funny. I like the ones from Nike ® and Levis ®:-)
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For someone who was brave enough to try the crashing link supplied by the Register, does this kill the whole machine, or just X? And can you salvage things without rebooting by using either a virtual term or logging in via ssh?
Yes, linux doesn't crash :-) You can still access through telnet/ssh. You can't switch to a virtual terminal, though.
Guess Tom isn't cool enough or rich enough to get his hands on Apple's 22 "Cinema Display
Actually he said he'll cover those beasts in a future article. 4th paragraph in this page :
"If you spend a lot of time surfing the Net, you might want to consider purchasing an LCD display. The best option would be a 17" or 18" pivot-enabled monitor. But we'll get to these larger models in another comparison..."
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Here in Portugal the Portuguese Post has some stickers you can put in your mailbox. Then they won't put publicity there.
:)
And it is illegal for anyone but the Post Office to put stuff in someone else's mailbox. (I think the fact that most mailboxes are *inside* the buildings also helps)
I don't receive snailmail spam at all!
I use Linux as a server - and that's one of the BEST features of Linux on a remote server - it never needs to be rebooted.
That is absolutely true, and that is one of the main reasons why I use Linux.
However, they (the linux programmers) should not forget to create more awesome features because sooner or later Windows won't have to reboot constantly.
A similar situation is the windows-crashes-a-lot thing. Sure, linux is very stable but I hear people saying all the time that Windows 2000 is very stable too.
Oops, I meant the linux port of the bsd-ftpd, sorry.
Anyway, they say it's not exploitable. It's a glibc glob() bug.
According to this BugTraq post, bsd-ftpd might be vulnerable too!
Re: *ALERT* BID 3581: Wu-Ftpd File Globbing Heap Corruption Vulnerability
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:36:19 -0500 (EST)
From: "script0r" script0r@axenet.org
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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I am running the a linux port of the bsd ftpd and it might be vulnerable to
a similar attack,
ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 playlandFTP server (Version 6.5/OpenBSD, linux port 0.3.3) ready.
Name (localhost:user): ftp
331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls ~{
200 PORT command successful.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
in inetd I find an error stating that the ftpd process has died unexpectedly
Nov 28 14:21:28 playland inetd[82]: pid 16341: exit signal 11
You're right, of course, but here's the mind blowing thing: even without one of these nifty little commercial-skip features, hardly anyone watches commercials anyway. Seriously, commercials are mostly just for going to get a drink or using the bathroom.
I used to think like that, too. I didn't watch any commercials, no! Of course not.. duh! Who watches those?
But this year I went to visit my cousins in Brazil. And most TV networks have different commercials for different states. However if you watch TV through satellite (I think they have that because there are many places where an antenna can't pick up the signal properly) you have no commercials! The TV just turns black. No image, no sound.
And there we were. Stupidly looking at a TV. It made me realize two things:
And even the ones you watch are not of much effect.
OK, so, hopefully, not everyone would stare at that TV in my example. But you agree that you do watch some.
Then, what do you think the effect should be? I bet sane marketing people aren't expecting everyone who watches the commercial to go and run to the mall and buy the product. Of course not.
The main point of a commercial is to let people know that the prodcut exists! People don't consider buying stuff they don't know that exists, right?
Anyway, I don't watch commercials. Although I must admit some are pretty funny. I like the ones from Nike ® and Levis ® :-)
Also, if Sid doesn't have it then http://incoming.debian.org/ has it! I just read about it in another post.
Although perhaps you have to be careful with those packages, right?