Tin soldiers and Bush are coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Votes counted in Ohio
/ Dm - F C /:
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning US down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew them and
Found them dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
"/lib/ld-linux.so.2/home/luser/runMEnow" will work
Wrong! This is old bug that is fixed in current standard kernels.
See AC:s message below. I checked from the kernel source that the patch is indeed included in Fedora Core 1. It is not possible to circumvent the 'noexec' flag and run binaries off a 'noexec' partition by using ld-linux.so.2 or any other executable loader. Not in Fedora, neither in any other current Linux distro.
"/lib/ld-linux.so.2/home/luser/runMEnow" will work, even if you mount/home with "-o noexec"
Interesting! If this is a problem, how to solve it? Is there a secure version of glibc available? Does grsecurity help? How does SELinux (future Fedora Core 2) handle this?
If users are dumb enough to open a password-protected zipfile in what sure looks like an obvious virus-generated message to me, aren't those users dumb enough to be convinced to chmod +x &&./runMyVirus
I have installed several Linux desktops in my workplace (replacing old winboxes). I always mount home as noexec. So even the dump users will be safe. Because/home has to be on a separate partition, I use LVM (so that I can resize/home later if needed).
I've been suprised for the positive comments. One user asked me after few days with Linux DT: "What is this machine? It's kind of cute and easy to use!". "It's Fedora, sort of Linux" I replied. "Oh, really? Linux! I've never used Linux before.. Maybe I should have something like this at home, too?";-)
From the article: "There are two ways that spreadsheets, as we know them, distort our thinking and lead to bad decisions. The first distortion is the use of point values and simple arithmetic instead of probability distributions and statistical measures... The second distortion caused by conventional spreadsheets.. is.. Illusion of Control"
The problem as I see it: it's so easy to type in some numbers and draw a chart. People who do not fully understand what they are doing (some sort of statistics) will get visually impressive results. And when it looks nice it becomes truth.
Q: Are there any tools that will let me fill in forms in pdf?
Yes, acroread. But it provides output only via printing. When run on a pdf with a form to fill in acroread reports the following : "To save form data you need to have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Approval. This form can be completed and printed from Reader; however to save the data you need one of the viewers noted above."
However, it is fairly easy to partially circumvent the above and direct PS to a file instead of the printer. Then you'll have the completed form in PS format. PS can then be easily be converted to PDF using ps2pdf. This doesn't let you edit the form later, you would need to start over in acroread. (Unless the edits required are small, then editing the Postscript file before creating the PDF file is quite possible as Postscript is just another text file).
Re:PVRs are already making TV unrecognizable
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For those of us who still don't have one:
PVR = Personal (Digital) Video Recorder
Tivo = Commercial PVR including special hardware and service.
You can get the same features (and more) for free (like beer) with Linux and
Mythtv.
Long errata for a thick book.. These books that include a lot of code (and therefore a lot of errors) should be sold on CD (or other digital media) so that they could be patched afterwards with errata(s).
And wouldn't it be nice to search information from regex-book with some regex? Haven't found a PDF-reader that can do that yet!
> why are they not looking into changing the climate of another neighbour of ours: Venus?
Yeh, and why do they not stop changing the climate of this planet: Earth? If that could be achieved, will there be no such hurry out of here in the first place...
Slashdot Mirror
If there were a list of these 100 000 domains somewhere I would be interested in adding it to mail server's spamassassin.
ARTIST: Neil Young
:
:
TITLE: Ohio
Lyrics and Chords
Tin soldiers and Bush are coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Votes counted in Ohio
/ Dm - F C /
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning US down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew them and
Found them dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
/ Gm7 - / C - / Gm7 - C - /
Unbelievable but true: TriangleBoy e.g. SafeWeb is CIA funded project.
And that anonymous-surfing technology turns out not to be very safe after all.
"/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /home/luser/runMEnow" will work
Wrong! This is old bug that is fixed in current standard kernels.
See AC:s message below. I checked from the kernel source that the patch is indeed included in Fedora Core 1. It is not possible to circumvent the 'noexec' flag and run binaries off a 'noexec' partition by using ld-linux.so.2 or any other executable loader. Not in Fedora, neither in any other current Linux distro.
"/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /home/luser/runMEnow" will work, even if you mount /home with "-o noexec"
Interesting! If this is a problem, how to solve it? Is there a secure version of glibc available? Does grsecurity help? How does SELinux (future Fedora Core 2) handle this?
If users are dumb enough to open a password-protected zipfile in what sure looks like an obvious virus-generated message to me, aren't those users dumb enough to be convinced to chmod +x && ./runMyVirus
/home has to be on a separate partition, I use LVM (so that I can resize /home later if needed).
;-)
I have installed several Linux desktops in my workplace (replacing old winboxes). I always mount home as noexec. So even the dump users will be safe. Because
I've been suprised for the positive comments. One user asked me after few days with Linux DT: "What is this machine? It's kind of cute and easy to use!". "It's Fedora, sort of Linux" I replied. "Oh, really? Linux! I've never used Linux before.. Maybe I should have something like this at home, too?"
From the article: "There are two ways that spreadsheets, as we know them, distort our thinking and lead to bad decisions. The first distortion is the use of point values and simple arithmetic instead of probability distributions and statistical measures... The second distortion caused by conventional spreadsheets.. is.. Illusion of Control"
The problem as I see it: it's so easy to type in some numbers and draw a chart. People who do not fully understand what they are doing (some sort of statistics) will get visually impressive results. And when it looks nice it becomes truth.
Q: Are there any tools that will let me fill in forms in pdf?
Yes, acroread. But it provides output only via printing. When run on a pdf with a form to fill in acroread reports the following : "To save form data you need to have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Approval. This form can be completed and printed from Reader; however to save the data you need one of the viewers noted above."
However, it is fairly easy to partially circumvent the above and direct PS to a file instead of the printer. Then you'll have the completed form in PS format. PS can then be easily be converted to PDF using ps2pdf. This doesn't let you edit the form later, you would need to start over in acroread. (Unless the edits required are small, then editing the Postscript file before creating the PDF file is quite possible as Postscript is just another text file).
For those of us who still don't have one:
PVR = Personal (Digital) Video Recorder
Tivo = Commercial PVR including special hardware and service.
You can get the same features (and more) for free (like beer) with Linux and Mythtv.
Long errata for a thick book.. These books that include a lot of code (and therefore a lot of errors) should be sold on CD (or other digital media) so that they could be patched afterwards with errata(s).
And wouldn't it be nice to search information from regex-book with some regex? Haven't found a PDF-reader that can do that yet!
JOna
Yeh, and why do they not stop changing the climate of this planet: Earth? If that could be achieved, will there be no such hurry out of here in the first place...
jb