Oddly enough, Ubuntu Edgy Eft (and I'd guess Debian Etch as well) use dash instead of bash.
For the bootfloppy, yes:
stefan@nano:~$ apt-cache show dash Package: dash Priority: optional Section: shells [...] Description: The Debian Almquist Shell "dash" is a POSIX compliant shell that is much smaller than "bash". We take advantage of that by making it the shell on the installation root floppy, where space is at a premium. . It can be usefully installed as/bin/sh (because it executes scripts somewhat faster than "bash"), or as the default shell either of root or of a second user with a userid of 0 (because it depends on fewer libraries, and is therefore less likely to be affected by an upgrade problem or a disk failure). It is also useful for checking that a script uses only POSIX syntax. . "bash" is a better shell for most users, since it has some nice features absent from "dash", and is a required part of the system.
Until Adobe finally gets their Linux support done for Flash 9 (they skipped flash 8), websites should not be requiring anything later than Flash 7. That is the latest player available for Linux.
No, you are wrong. I even got a debian package with flash 9:
Not to mention the linux-ism that expects that sh is ALWAYS bash.
/bin/sh should always be/bin/bash. Everytime I have to use a commercial unix system, logging in feels like entering a time portal: No history, no path in prompt, nothing comfortable.
4. because bash seems to think that sometimes you use x and sometimes you use $x
What's so special about that? If you want the variable, use "x", if you want the value of it, use $x. $ tells the shell to evaluate the next token as an variable name and fetch its value.
Hey, FON, are you reading this? Sadly, even shell code in comsumer devices is often deeply flawed. Which is a good thing, if you want to install a new firmware - and a bad thing, if an attacker does it for you.
When you get your DHCP lease, your computer will report to the stack what OS you're using, what version level, what patches, what anti-virus software that's active -- all that kind of stuff. It will have the ability to restrict your network access if you have a down-level machine
So my trojan will be reporting values honored by the DHCP servers. This system is still relying on the information sent by the (possibly infected) machine, so it is not secure in any way.
And "5 bucks" is equal to "free"? Of course "La Fonera" is available in other countries, but it seems that the free offer is limited to germany and austria.
It would be an interesting task not to let your Fonera route visitors directly towards the internet, but to pass them through a TOR proxy of some sort. That way, you could hide the connection between the IP address given to you by your ISP and the activites those Linuses, Bills and Aliens are doing with your connection.
First at all, it isn't called "La Fonera". "La" in Spanish is just the "The" article, making it the Fonera, a Fonera, or how you want to call it.
I am aware that "La" is an article in Spanish, but the device is called "La Fonera" on the german FON website ("Hol dir deine gratis La Fonera" == "Get your free La Fonera").
So, when will american citizens occupy the canadian embassy until the canadian foreign minister steps on the balcony and announces: "We have come to you to tell you that your departure..." *cheeringcrowd*
This is because PayPal can't just grab funds from one of your charge cards, or else you could just reverse the charges.)
So you cannot reject an transaction that pulled money from your bank account? I am not used to those strange checkings and savings account stuff, but this surprises me. Here in germany, you can object to any "Lastschrift" within 6 weeks, leading to a rollback of the transaction.
So they are trying to build a machine that can decide whether arbitrary code is malicious or not - I highly doubt that this is possible in respect to Rice's Theorem. It basically says that every aspect of an complex system cannot be decided. A well known example is the halting problem: You cannot decide whether a turing machine (or an algorithm running on it) will ever come to a stop, or is going to loop forever. And since binding processing time via infinite loops could be considered malicious behaviour, and most script languages are turing complete, an automaton will never be able to decide if a specific piece of code will harm your system. It is possible that certain aspects of a program (opening files in strange places, writing to files that should not be written to) raise suspicion, and certain chracteristics of code might also leed to detection similiar to the work virus scanners do - but I still prefer the good ol' evil bit.
Sure, but by creating a homebrew script, I would have to reinvent useradd - search for a free UID, search for a free GID, do some sanity checks, create the home directory - kind of annoying if the only thing I wish to do is keeping useradd from editing/etc/(passwd|group|shadow) and instead accessing the LDAP directory.
stefan@nano:~$ dd if=/home/stefan/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/dvd
dd: opening `/dev/dvd': Read-only file system
stefan@nano:~$ uname -a
Linux nano 2.6.17.9 #1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 21 11:16:59 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Does not work here.
I tried to migrate an existing file and NIS based system to LDAP - I had no problem with setting up PAM and openldap, however I did not find a replacement for the Debian adduser program, so I would have to hack my own user management tools. Does anyone know an alternative to this?
I remember spending nights playing Enemy Territory, just because I wanted to earn just "one more star". So instead of playing a quick match, I quit after I got General - at 3 o'clock or worse.
There once was a medicine developed to replace morphine and opium, having the same reliefing effect while avoiding - and even curing - addiction to those powerful drugs. The product was so successful that it was used for many applications, even for cough suppressants. However, it was later discovered that this marvellous medicine had similar side effects as the drugs it was intended to replace. This once "non-addictive" medicine was called Heroin.
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Another movie remake.
Hey, FON, are you reading this? Sadly, even shell code in comsumer devices is often deeply flawed. Which is a good thing, if you want to install a new firmware - and a bad thing, if an attacker does it for you.
So my trojan will be reporting values honored by the DHCP servers. This system is still relying on the information sent by the (possibly infected) machine, so it is not secure in any way.
No, worse: It's Prolog.
There are many gui frontends for nethack, I especially like this one for my Nokia 770 :-)
The SSH key on the FON server. It prevents this kind of spoofing.
And "5 bucks" is equal to "free"? Of course "La Fonera" is available in other countries, but it seems that the free offer is limited to germany and austria.
It would be an interesting task not to let your Fonera route visitors directly towards the internet, but to pass them through a TOR proxy of some sort. That way, you could hide the connection between the IP address given to you by your ISP and the activites those Linuses, Bills and Aliens are doing with your connection.
I am aware that "La" is an article in Spanish, but the device is called "La Fonera" on the german FON website ("Hol dir deine gratis La Fonera" == "Get your free La Fonera").
So, when will american citizens occupy the canadian embassy until the canadian foreign minister steps on the balcony and announces: "We have come to you to tell you that your departure..." *cheeringcrowd*
This is really old stuff, I just checked my IRC logfiles and found it - exactly 9 months ago.
Indeed. Internet Explorer is a fine browser, I use it all the time on a new windows installation - to download Firefox.
No, we're out since two guys tried to blow up trains here.
So you cannot reject an transaction that pulled money from your bank account? I am not used to those strange checkings and savings account stuff, but this surprises me. Here in germany, you can object to any "Lastschrift" within 6 weeks, leading to a rollback of the transaction.
So they are trying to build a machine that can decide whether arbitrary code is malicious or not - I highly doubt that this is possible in respect to Rice's Theorem. It basically says that every aspect of an complex system cannot be decided. A well known example is the halting problem: You cannot decide whether a turing machine (or an algorithm running on it) will ever come to a stop, or is going to loop forever. And since binding processing time via infinite loops could be considered malicious behaviour, and most script languages are turing complete, an automaton will never be able to decide if a specific piece of code will harm your system. It is possible that certain aspects of a program (opening files in strange places, writing to files that should not be written to) raise suspicion, and certain chracteristics of code might also leed to detection similiar to the work virus scanners do - but I still prefer the good ol' evil bit.
Sure, but by creating a homebrew script, I would have to reinvent useradd - search for a free UID, search for a free GID, do some sanity checks, create the home directory - kind of annoying if the only thing I wish to do is keeping useradd from editing /etc/(passwd|group|shadow) and instead accessing the LDAP directory.
stefan@nano:~$ dd if=/home/stefan/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/dvd dd: opening `/dev/dvd': Read-only file system stefan@nano:~$ uname -a Linux nano 2.6.17.9 #1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 21 11:16:59 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Does not work here.
I tried to migrate an existing file and NIS based system to LDAP - I had no problem with setting up PAM and openldap, however I did not find a replacement for the Debian adduser program, so I would have to hack my own user management tools. Does anyone know an alternative to this?
I remember spending nights playing Enemy Territory, just because I wanted to earn just "one more star". So instead of playing a quick match, I quit after I got General - at 3 o'clock or worse.
There once was a medicine developed to replace morphine and opium, having the same reliefing effect while avoiding - and even curing - addiction to those powerful drugs. The product was so successful that it was used for many applications, even for cough suppressants. However, it was later discovered that this marvellous medicine had similar side effects as the drugs it was intended to replace. This once "non-addictive" medicine was called Heroin.
This reminds me of Maemo Mapper for the Nokia 770.