User: popechunk

Re:That's nothing....

On: Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes

Speaking of getting fucked, I just went to Windows Update to install these, and it installed Windows Genuine Advantage without warning me that it was going to. I'd been avoiding installing it. But when I just went to grab these patches, it told me that Windows Update itself needed patching. I okayed that, and it said, "Installing Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool," or some such other sneakiness. Tricksie fucks.

Re:Once the camel's nose is in the tent.....

On: Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility?

This IS training. Think of it as these cheap shmucks paying you for training. Learn AD on their network, and then go get a job at a better shop.

Re:One Line (Though a long one)

On: Chemical Words List

Using Mathematica to find all of the English words made of element names: 2800 hours

Having some punk on /. do it with a UNIX one-liner: Priceless

Spyware Warrior

On: Antispyware Shootout

This might be a little out of date, but it's still my favorite review site. It talked me into paying for Giant right before MS bought it, which is too bad, because it was the best one I'd ever used.

Re:Severs

On: Sun President Says PCs Are Relics

One could also say centralized servers are relics also, with the advent of peer to peer networking (Bittorrent, etc).

How do you suggest I run my web server, email server, database server, time server, DNS server, e-commerce site, etc over p2p?

Re:Virus data

On: Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected

What's wrong with this picture?

Infects all executable files in same folder as the virus and the /bin folder.

And the fix?:
If your Symantec antivirus product detects Linux.RST.B, delete the infected files.

I guess to be really safe, you should also go ahead and rm -rf /

Re:What a joke

On: China Telecom Blocking Skype Calls

uh, sorry for replying to myself, but I think I found what you were talking about. Is this it?.

BTW, according to this, we came in 10th! w00t!

Re:What a joke

On: China Telecom Blocking Skype Calls

I can't find a copy of the UN study you're citing regarding best countries to live in. Do you have a link to the original?

Re:Wikipedia:DTrace

On: Solaris DTrace To Be Ported to FreeBSD

I know that there are not a ton of Solaris SAs on /. (compared to Linux/MS), but can anyone w/ a lot of prod Solaris experience tell me if upgrading to Solaris 10 (to get at this feature or others) is really worth the effort?

Is this mostly a developer tool, or is it useful to SAs, too?

Are you seeing most 3d party software vendors supporting Solaris 10? Zones?

Re:Apps...

On: Why New OSes Don't Catch On

It's too bad java sucks, because something like that could really lower the barrier for adoption for new OSes.

Re:I feel pretty safe under Fedora.

On: How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence

I worked! Awesome!

I also wrote a script to make it easier on me. You're welcome to a copy if you want. Just email me at:

james dot bouressa at gmail dot com

And I'll shoot it over to you.

Re:I feel pretty safe under Fedora.

On: How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence

I'm doing something stupid.

I ran this to create a filesystem:

mke2fs -T ext3 /dev/loop1

But when I try to mount it, I get this:

# mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/test /enc/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/test,
or too many mounted file systems

BTW, my home machine uses a 2.4 kernel, which I do not believe supports cryptsetup :-(

I'm doing this on my work workstation, which is FC3 with a 2.6 kernel.

I really appreciate your detailed response!

Re:I feel pretty safe under Fedora.

On: How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence

I use the built in crypto in Fedora (the device level encryption passed to a loopback file mounted under /enc).

How do you do that? Have a pointer to a man page, FAQ, or tutorial I could look at?