It appears that the machine was
cracked using a ptrace exploit by a local user immediately after the
exploit was posted.
(For the ptrace bug, a root-shell exploit was available on 17 March 2003,
and a working fix was not available on linux-kernel until the following
week. Evidence found on the machine indicates that gnuftp was cracked
during that week.)
In the states, driving on the right started because right handed folks could pull to the right more quickly in the event of an impending buggy collision.
Finally, Anonymous coward reveals himself for the failure that he is. While I'm glad you're happily enjoying your jailbait, statutory rape, prepubescent girlfriend, your articulation leaves much to desire. If you knew anything about the intarnet, and "Internet Explorer", you would realize you only have to log in to a website once (14 keystrokes), and through the magic of a technology called "Cookies" (not food related), you will be automagically logged in when you visit to laugh at the folks who call Slashdot home. And I refute your claim that having a Slashdot username makes one intelligent, I in fact feel dumber every time I come here.
I think its terrible that some people think geeks are condescending, patronizing assholes. Obviously, there are good-hearted geeks like yourself out there, trying to educate people and make the world a better place.
The thing is, these guys are much more attractive then you. This is the answer to all your questions, and the explanation as to why you will never be with a hot chick.
This is why I no longer read Slashdot. Incompetence. Talk about fucking idiots.
They had this idea, hire a bunch of editors, and then "share" the responsibilities, instead of having just one "closed", proprietary editor doing all the work. While you might think would be a great idea, unfortunately this expirement has been a disaster.
First, as the title says, the editors are incompetent. No one would dare accuse them of being journalists, but some basic grammar and spell checking would go a long way to bringing this site up from its current 12-year old Linux fanboy cult status. And also, many of them seem to miss the requirement of actually reading Slashdot to be able to post stories. Yes, you have to read what the other editors have posted on the front page, so you can tell when not to post it again. Yes. Also, are the editors even technically inclined? Many of the more technical stories have the facts completely incorrect, like confusing Java with JavaScript (or ECMAscript, whatever). Basic knowledge that anyone who doesn't spend months learning how to use a text editor just to be able to save, and hopefully quit (if you're lucky..). Obviously Michael is a smelly Linux geek, who hopefully knows a little bit, but with his seething hate for "M$", he sometimes is too busy frothing at the mouth about the latest security hole to proofread the actual story summary.
And then there are the readers. Not to put all the responsibility on the editors as the commentors on Slashdot do, but there are thousands of stupid readers who also submit those duplicate stories to the author. These same commenters fill Slashdot with so much useless drivel and repeated inane humor (all in the quest for the mighty useless Karma), as to make the comments worthless. Even reading at a threshold of +5 rated comments yields "M$ is teh suxor" jokes, BSOD, BSD is dying, Beowulf cluster, Cowboikneal, etc, etc. Slashdot inevitably rehashes the same comments in story after story. And don't forget the mind-think dumb fuck "moderators" who choose to moderate these comments up as interesting. Like "Story: Microsoft unveils new compiler technology. Comment: Since M$ made it, IT SUCKS#$@$!$@# (+5, Informative)". And don't forget the habitual covering up of any Linux faults until they fixed. It's a secret bylaw of the Linux community that you cannot admit any faults until they are fixed (or just adequate). Then you must blindly insist that the solution is perfect, and superior to all other implementations. "Linux doesn't have font problems!" becomes... "Freetype2 is the best font renderer, EVER.", blindly disregarding many important issues, like that many applications do not support Freetype.
Well enough sharing for one day. Hopefully I have revealed the underbelly of the Slashdot cesspool of utter bullshit that passes for commentary, editing, and even fails to make toilet reading material usually.
Sadly because software is being designed to run on Linux, not generic Unix or with a focus on POSIX compliance. The focus used to be on transmitting data as plain text, interoperability, and portability. Now it's just "does it compile on my Redhat box?"
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Congratulations. It's very hard to join, but you have passed the initiation and youare NOW A SLASHDOT LUSER!! Yeeehaw. Pick up your prize here
Teaching english.
Wow, everyone appreciate your detail and exciting anecdote. Hopefully, "some company" will go out of business soon!
But not stupid enough to listen to you, fortunately.
Aww.. We're poor GPL supporters. Everyone cry in synchrony.
Maybe the world would be a better place without Slashdot.
Wannabe programmers could be the most pathetic of the Slashdot crowd.
"I dont hate Linux, just the most of the stupid kiddies who use it"
Keep up the good fight, work on the grammar.
In the states, driving on the right started because right handed folks could pull to the right more quickly in the event of an impending buggy collision.
Only four topics? This will just not do. I demand at least five icons per story.
Line numbers, functions with parentheses, semi-colons, wtf langauage is that supposed to be?
Good news: 95% of Slashdot readers use Windows and can use the free Excel Document Viewer.
And I mean that free as in the classic term, like you know, before it was hijacked.
No that's just what happens when you actually use Linux, and escape from the dirty hippy Linux junkie reality distortion field.
And Redhat developers were caught stealing BSD code, big whoop.
2 22 3&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/143
The open source community can use more pirates like you. Maybe you'll work at Microsoft and can steal some code from them.. I mean liberate!
Finally, Anonymous coward reveals himself for the failure that he is. While I'm glad you're happily enjoying your jailbait, statutory rape, prepubescent girlfriend, your articulation leaves much to desire. If you knew anything about the intarnet, and "Internet Explorer", you would realize you only have to log in to a website once (14 keystrokes), and through the magic of a technology called "Cookies" (not food related), you will be automagically logged in when you visit to laugh at the folks who call Slashdot home. And I refute your claim that having a Slashdot username makes one intelligent, I in fact feel dumber every time I come here.
Could this be why reading OSS documentation makes me want to pull my hair out?
I think its terrible that some people think geeks are condescending, patronizing assholes. Obviously, there are good-hearted geeks like yourself out there, trying to educate people and make the world a better place.
The thing is, these guys are much more attractive then you. This is the answer to all your questions, and the explanation as to why you will never be with a hot chick.
This is why I no longer read Slashdot. Incompetence. Talk about fucking idiots.
... "Freetype2 is the best font renderer, EVER.", blindly disregarding many important issues, like that many applications do not support Freetype.
They had this idea, hire a bunch of editors, and then "share" the responsibilities, instead of having just one "closed", proprietary editor doing all the work. While you might think would be a great idea, unfortunately this expirement has been a disaster.
First, as the title says, the editors are incompetent. No one would dare accuse them of being journalists, but some basic grammar and spell checking would go a long way to bringing this site up from its current 12-year old Linux fanboy cult status. And also, many of them seem to miss the requirement of actually reading Slashdot to be able to post stories. Yes, you have to read what the other editors have posted on the front page, so you can tell when not to post it again. Yes. Also, are the editors even technically inclined? Many of the more technical stories have the facts completely incorrect, like confusing Java with JavaScript (or ECMAscript, whatever). Basic knowledge that anyone who doesn't spend months learning how to use a text editor just to be able to save, and hopefully quit (if you're lucky..). Obviously Michael is a smelly Linux geek, who hopefully knows a little bit, but with his seething hate for "M$", he sometimes is too busy frothing at the mouth about the latest security hole to proofread the actual story summary.
And then there are the readers. Not to put all the responsibility on the editors as the commentors on Slashdot do, but there are thousands of stupid readers who also submit those duplicate stories to the author. These same commenters fill Slashdot with so much useless drivel and repeated inane humor (all in the quest for the mighty useless Karma), as to make the comments worthless. Even reading at a threshold of +5 rated comments yields "M$ is teh suxor" jokes, BSOD, BSD is dying, Beowulf cluster, Cowboikneal, etc, etc. Slashdot inevitably rehashes the same comments in story after story. And don't forget the mind-think dumb fuck "moderators" who choose to moderate these comments up as interesting. Like "Story: Microsoft unveils new compiler technology. Comment: Since M$ made it, IT SUCKS#$@$!$@# (+5, Informative)". And don't forget the habitual covering up of any Linux faults until they fixed. It's a secret bylaw of the Linux community that you cannot admit any faults until they are fixed (or just adequate). Then you must blindly insist that the solution is perfect, and superior to all other implementations. "Linux doesn't have font problems!" becomes
Well enough sharing for one day. Hopefully I have revealed the underbelly of the Slashdot cesspool of utter bullshit that passes for commentary, editing, and even fails to make toilet reading material usually.
A tip: You can abbreviate linux users, as "lusers". It makes it so much clearer as well. Hope that helps.
uh huh
Try --alt-preset-standard, I haven't been able to hear any artifiacts since I started using that. You have good taste in music, btw.
Sadly because software is being designed to run on Linux, not generic Unix or with a focus on POSIX compliance. The focus used to be on transmitting data as plain text, interoperability, and portability. Now it's just "does it compile on my Redhat box?"