I'm not a subscriber (I pay in cash at Microcenter and decline to give personal information, thankyouverymuch), so this is a pretty old issue (Spring 2003), but there's some interesting stuff. I've always been amused by the cross section evident in 2600. You've got the true security researchers (who are floating papers in things like [...]
Great. Thanks guys. Schedule the damn thing as the “last Friday of July”.
Just one more damn thing I have to go update in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* so that calendar(1) works right. Assholes.
Specifically:
[...]
calendar.christian Christian holidays. This calendar should be updated
yearly by the local system administrator so that rov-
ing holidays [...]
Recently, I upgraded a few Solaris 7 (sparc) machines from OpenSSH 3.early to 3.6p1. I don’t know exactly what interaction broke, but all of a sudden (very old, non-SECSH-compliant) F-Secure (or “commercial SSH2″) clients stopped connecting. Of course, the PuTTY client that I’ve told people to use still worked fine… but there were a few [...]
Really, this isn't sour grapes; it's justifiably not all that newsworthy, but I want to record it somewhere…
Several days ago, Slashdot posted this article about the cyberangels.nl domain having been taken over by an anti-spam group, Spamvrij shortly after cyberangels.nl's hosting service had revoked ownership of the domain names.
Spamvrij started receiving all of the cyberangels.nl [...]
Google for “weapons of mass destruction”, quotes included.
Gets you here.
I especially like the Pinochet reference.
Warning: high propeller-head content that I'm not going to bother translating into the English. Apologies.
Since I wrote this batch of sour grapes, I've taken action so that foolishness like this doesn't rear its head and piss me off quite so much in my daily activities.
That's action like this in my dotfiles:
REAL_OSTYPE=`uname -s`
export REAL_OSTYPE
if [ "x${REAL_OSTYPE}" [...]