User: 42forty-two42

Re:Hello

On: Root-server switches from BIND to NSD

"edotrial" team?

Re:darn, you beat me to it

On: Router Holes in BGP Threaten Net

Then I'd have someone do the same with the upstreams. Or just have them physically pull the plug.

Re:darn, you beat me to it

On: Router Holes in BGP Threaten Net

Now... think about how you connect in to fix one of those, if it doesn't stay up long enough for you to remote in. :)

I have someone connect a terminal directly to the router. Simple, no?

Re:Not all terminal emulators were susceptible

On: Getting Hacked Through Your Terminal

I'm using konsole 1.2 in kde 3.1, is that affected?

Re:Most exploits

On: Getting Hacked Through Your Terminal

Here's how to do it on linux:

• Reboot the computer, somehow.
• Append 'init=/bin/sh' to the kernel command line at boot, then resume the boot. You will be dropped to a root shell.
• mount -t proc proc /proc
• mount -o remount,rw -t (root fs type) (root fs device) /
• passwd
• Enter the new password
• mount -o remount,ro -t (root fs type) (root fs device) /
• umount /proc
• exec /sbin/init
• The system will resume its boot. The root password will have been changed.

Re:Eh??!

On: Lead Scientist Responds to Questions on Root Server Queries

You could add a line to your bind.conf to hardcode the authoraitive nameservers for $dnsbl.

Re:Whats a root server query?

On: Lead Scientist Responds to Questions on Root Server Queries

Close, but not quite right. The root DNS servers have the primaty purpose of listing authoraitive name servers for the top-level domains (.com, .net, etc). These servers then resolve the single-level domain (slashdot.org) and give it's authoraitive nameserver, which gives an IP.

Re:cache / copy / mirror of page is here (mod up!)

On: Anticipatory Scheduler in Kernel 2.5+ Benchmarked

Here's the canonical one: http://www.kerneltrap.org/node-592.html
It's exempted from the slashdotting message.

Separating devices?

On: Anticipatory Scheduler in Kernel 2.5+ Benchmarked

The static copy of the story dosen't indicate if the I/O scheduler blocks on all filesystems, or separately on each one? Ie if I have a read on filesystem A, would another write on filesystem B be affected?

Re:Pay-per-view?

On: Examining Microsoft Update

Doh, spoke too soon. Only the first few pages are free.

Pay-per-view?

On: Examining Microsoft Update

I think not. It works fine wthout any kind of login or credit card info.

Re:A good plan?

On: Nethack 3.4.1 Released

Open a tin of salmon to get rid of cursed rings

Any cursed tin wil do that, IIRC, and sometimes uncursred ones as well. Use a towel to reverse the effects. :) TDTTOE

Re:Nethack rules!

On: Nethack 3.4.1 Released

I started playing this game a week ago again and now it got an update .. haven't noticed any boulder / landmine bugs though.

You got lucky. In 3.4.0, pushing a boulder onto a land mine will destroy your game. The new version is save/bones compatible, so upgrade now.

Re:The normative source, is of course, the source

On: Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink

The code implementing the about:kitchensink or whatever it was

Re:The normative source, is of course, the source

On: Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink

I don't see it in there.

It's inevitable

On: Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination?

Scripting is an artificial distinction. Both scripted and compiled languages are turing-complete.

Mirror?

On: NES PC

It's been slashdotted - does anyone have a mirror (preferable with images)?

Re:Quicktime is NOT A CODEC!

On: Good News For Creating Quicktime On Linux

HTTP 403 Forbidden. 'nuff said.

Re:No fork() support?

On: uClinux Ported to the iPod

How would you multi-task, then? Would a signal unblock vfork()?

Re:MP3 Decoder?

On: uClinux Ported to the iPod

Could that setup be used for SMP?

Re:Firewire Filesharing

On: uClinux Ported to the iPod

You don't need TCP/IP for that, only firewire.

No fork() support?

On: uClinux Ported to the iPod

From the FAQ:

Since we are running on uClinux the fork() system call is not supported.

If so, how do you run anything? I though the only way to execute an app was with fork()...exec()...wait()?

Re:Best way

On: Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files?

So, like Freenet, then?

Think about where you're posting from

On: Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files?

Mirror slashdotted webpages!

Re:I can't see this being a go, any time soon.

On: Distributed Internet Backup System

Really? Let's see you brute-force a 65536-bit DSA key, then...