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  1. Re:Apple Rapidly Losing Its Cool on OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    No need for amarok, just do this. ls * > ./playlist && mplayer -shuffle -playlist ./playlist Or ls */*.mp3 > ./playlist && mplayer -shuffle -playlist ./playlist :) mplayer for life, bitches.

  2. Re:I did on A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    You cannot shittalk Windows 3.1. It was great in the day - it NEVER crashed. Ever. I remember messing around with mspaint and such in it as a child. I loved it.

  3. Re:Big brother here we come! on License Plate Tracking for the Average Citizen · · Score: 1

    Arre those legal? And where does one get one?

  4. Due to this.. on It's Official - AMD Buys ATI · · Score: 1

    A source reviled to me that Apple is now pulling all of their products off of the shelf. Ya can read more on http://paulmer2003.com/?p=117

  5. Re:What was the question again? on The State of ATI Drivers on GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    The state of ATI drivers on anything but OSX is utter shit. I got a Radeon 9700 Pro from a friend (currently have a nVidia GeForce 5200 FX) and I tried adding it, and I couldent get it to work with linux or windows. I took out old drivers and everything, but it didnt work. Worked very well in OSx86 though :)

  6. Pisses me off that... on Slashback: Wikipedia Correction, NASA Tape, BPI Rejected · · Score: 1

    ...These laptops are probally going to some suburb. I wish these kind of things happened where I live, in like Oakland California...Has anyone even fucking SEEN schools in Bay Area innercity? Among the nations worst. Fucking arnold said he cared about education no :(

  7. What was exploited..? on Debian Server Compromised · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone know what in particular was exploited? TFA dosent give a flying fuck of information.

  8. Re:Seems unlikely on End of Win 98 Support May Boost Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Should have used Gentoo, and audacious :) USE="mp3 flac aac vobis wma" emerge media-sound/audacious :). Gentoo, ftw.

  9. Re:Parents censoring media.. on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    You dont see gangbangs and rapes in R rated movies fyi....

  10. Parents censoring media.. on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    As a child, my parents didnt disalow me from watching R rated films, filter my internet and such. And yet, some how, im just as normal and sane as next person (and I never shot up my school or anything!). I fail to understand why parents want to censor what their children want to see....

  11. Currently the site is... on The Software Internet Database · · Score: 1
    Down. Hellova start.
    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/hsphere/local/home/moonwink/softwareidb.com/ includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31 Too many connections
  12. Whats with.. on Freedb.org Ending · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..The lag it took them to make this post? Last NIGHT I was reading about this. Pfft.

  13. Hahaha on Mysterious Website Actually Social Experiment · · Score: 1

    Its funny that so many people made such a big deal out of this. I was talking to this one guy on IRC who was paranoid about it - he thought it was going to attack him (lol). There was even a #eon8 channel made on EFnet..Around a hour before it went to 0, it got flooded to hell. I dont understand why people got so worked up about it..

  14. Re:My thoughts.. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I'm just reposting this, because my last posts formatting got screwed..Figured noone would read it if it was. [blockquote] Of course if he glines me I just SSH to my box, kill unreal, edit the conf to change my oper pass for good measure, and restart unreal (glines/klines/etc are volitile). [/blockquote] Or rather, why not just SSHin, edit config file and add a gline/shun exemption and change operator pass. 'killall -HUP ircd' and hop on. Gline him, and remove all of the glines he set. [blockquote] If you have a network you might have a bit of a problem, since you'd need to distribute the new conf to all admins [/blockquote] Not really. Because A.) Why have your oline on all servers? And your O:line shouldent have user = *@*...If it is, die. [blockquote] One last thing occured to me... the services connect password... if someone had THAT, they could connect their own services (if the server was set up to allow services from any host, which is a poor configuration) [/blockquote] Whom the fuck uses a configuration like that :S [blockquote] connect using an IRC client (not sure if that's possible, I'll have to experiment with that on my own server)and pose as genuine NickServ [/blockquote] Easily (Just the /identify probally wouldent work). All they need to do is connect, oper up and just change their name to NickServ (On unreal that means they would need to be Global Operator or higher. On hybrid/ratbox it would mean the operator would need a auth{} with 'resv_exempt'. If the hacker just got oper access this would mean they would be fucked as they wouldent have a auth{} line allowing them to be resv exempt). [blockquote]Aliases would work, hostmask would show as legit services.[/blockquote]Unreal checks that the NickServ user has a uline before making the ailas work. The only way you can get a uline on unreal is if you have access to OperServ RAW or are using the m_uline module from QuakeIRCd.

  15. Re:My thoughts.. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Still, fact remains that lilo is a moron for having just his user in oper mask. Should have been a ip. Stupid.

  16. Re:IRC is dead. Use Jabber. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I have better things to do with my time. If you do not wish to read my post, thats your biz - I couldent give a shit less. Have a good one, ~paulmer

  17. Re:IRC is dead. Use Jabber. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    You can just die, right here, right now. Pull your head outta your ass, IRC is plenty secure (as long as it is deployed intelligently). Services rock, they arent 'afterthought hacks'. anope services includes all the options you need, hell, the ircd itself, without any services, has everything you need! And how can jabber not netsplit? Anything connected can split. And if jabber cannot link, its a piece of shit thats unscalable. And if it dosent split, it dies dies. Boom goes the whole thing. Good point asswipe.

  18. Re:Anope passwords are hashed. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    [blockquote]I'm not sure what algorythm, but I have Anope set up to use MySQL, I'm looking at the anope_ns_core table right now and passwords are stored as a 128-bit hash.[/blockquote]anope uses MD5 encryption which is totally useless for their databases. But, Freenode dosent use anope, they use dancer-services.

  19. Re:My thoughts.. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    [blockquote] Of course if he /glines me I just SSH to my box, kill unreal, edit the conf to change my oper pass for good measure, and restart unreal (glines/klines/etc are volitile). [/blockquote] Or rather, why not just SSHin, edit config file and add a gline/shun exemption and change operator pass. 'killall -HUP ircd' and hop on. Gline him, and remove all of the glines he set. [blockquote] If you have a network you might have a bit of a problem, since you'd need to distribute the new conf to all admins, [/blockquote] Not really. Because A.) Why have your oline on all servers? And your O:line shouldent have user = *@*...If it is, die. [blockquote] One last thing occured to me... the services connect password... if someone had THAT, they could connect their own services (if the server was set up to allow services from any host, which is a poor configuration) [/blockquote] Whom the fuck uses a configuration like that :S [blockquote] connect using an IRC client (not sure if that's possible, I'll have to experiment with that on my own server)and pose as genuine NickServ [/blockquote] Easily (Just the /identify probally wouldent work). All they need to do is connect, oper up and just change their name to NickServ (On unreal that means they would need to be Global Operator or higher. On hybrid/ratbox it would mean the operator would need a auth{} with 'resv_exempt'. If the hacker just got oper access this would mean they would be fucked as they wouldent have a auth{} line allowing them to be resv exempt). [blockquote]Aliases would work, hostmask would show as legit services.[/blockquote]Unreal checks that the NickServ user has a uline before making the ailas work. The only way you can get a uline on unreal is if you have access to OperServ RAW or are using the m_uline module from QuakeIRCd.

  20. My thoughts.. on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    People should not use /msg nickserv pass on connect. They should be using scripts that check that nickserv is on a certain server (services.int, services.* etc etc) and its hostname matches.The IRC server should also have *serv juped/qlined so nobody can set their nick to *serv.
    Of course, if someone was able to nab lilo's password, every user password may have been ripe for the taking.
    What im wondering is, WHY THE FUCK ISNT HIS O:LINE IP RESTRICTED? Did he use one password for both the ircd ssh and his operline (if they were the same hacker could add himself a oline or add his ip to his oline..)? Either way, hes a moron.
    The details are still unknown, but these events raise scary questions about the actual security of FreeNode and other organizations like it."
    Not really. If he had his shit setup correctly this would have never happened in the first place.
  21. I'm not sure whom I hate more... on Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    The republicans or the democrats...

  22. Stop being lazy.. on Windows Servers Beat Linux Servers · · Score: 1
    ...It's no secret that Windows admins have a harder time with Linux and I agree something needs to be done to help them (us) take the plunge with confidence...
    What a bullshit excuse! I have been proficient with Linux, and Unix in general, since I was twelve years old! It simply takes a mix of curosity and patience. There are all kinds of guides you can find online on everything from deploying a LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) to deploying/admining Samba to setting up a cups print server. Stop being a slack ass.
  23. Re:New layout? on The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Personally, I conider the new layout to be an EXCELLENT improvement. However, one thing that really bugs me, is that each comments rating is all the way on the right side..So while im scanning threw posts my eye has go to right to left and such..Unlike before when all the important imformation was in one cluster....Annoying. Anyway, about the top 100 list, im dissapointed Ubuntu made the list. Ubuntu is nothing special, its just a fucking distro. I can consider hundreds of things better than fucking ubuntu!

  24. Is it just me... on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Or does this thing look like a childish toy?

  25. Re:wow on DesktopBSD 1.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    Gentoo does not 'ship' with practically anything (Besides basic libs and other necessities :)