ben_bai

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by ben_bai 8y ago
MacBook G4 sure... newer ones may have problems. To new users/new hardware I would recommend an usb stick with the network installer and then try to install to the usb stick and check what is working. Also check if you PC is listed her
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by ben_bai 8y ago
It does work if you do it manually. The nested softraid will not be assembled at boot. Thus oficially unsupported.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
Of all the Windows version Win2k still has a special place in my head. Way better/stabler than Win95/Win98. For a long time my goto OS, I finally considered switching to XP SP2 but then Linux entered my world.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
Fabric of spacetime is the name for the 4 dimensional "space" we live in/can observe. But the word space is already defined to 3 dimensions so better call it something else, like fabric.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
Except raising prices is the only thing that has the desired outcome. If PCs use only half the wattage that they used to consume... great now I can afford to run 2 for the same price.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
It's Chromium without Google integration, too.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
that's what -ffreestanding and others (-nostdlib) are for. C is not cheating, the compiler assumes you work on user level stuff. Want to write bare metal (kernel) then you need to tell the compiler.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
To be fair most tmux use cases are: ssh -> tmux -> start something -> ctrl-b d -> logout and maybe later: ssh -> tmux a to check the status.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
Way too young to be a sysadmin back then but still remember all those things. Still got a bad habit from Win95, whenever the system seems sluggish I have to move the mouse around, because when the mouse didn't respond under Win95 it wa
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by ben_bai 8y ago
The trick is to unveil all the files the server needs to operate on and then lock further unveiling. This way bugs/exploits of the server can't suddenly go read/write to i.e. /etc/passwd.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
How about 17 seconds? https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/#tlbleed-w...
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by ben_bai 8y ago
httpd(8) only supports the FastCGI protocol. If you want to run your "legacy" CGI programs you need a wrapper. The chosen name for this wrapper is slowcgi(8). CGI always spawns off an new process for each request, and always was s
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by ben_bai 8y ago
W^X (W xor X) which means memory is either writeable or executable. Guess what, OpenBSD maps code only executable and not writeable.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
"Throw a rock, you gonna hit something" --- Ted Unangst, about OpenSSL I guess it's true for most Software. 1 bug per 1000 LoC is pretty standard.
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by ben_bai 8y ago
1) reading code, spotting standard bugs, or with domain know-how spotting logic errors. 2) static code analyzers (i.e. llvm scan-build). Lots of false positives, still requires 1). 3) fuzzing (i.e. afl). Usually some setup needed, still req
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by ben_bai 9y ago
OT: I did, it asked me to select traffic signs. No picture had any. Not marking anything is not an option. So I marked 2 traffic lights and a gas station sign. Accepted. :(
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Patch applies files created with diff. Diff has 4 different output formats. One of those formats is basically a batch script with ed instructions. For patch to work correctly you have to allow executing ed commands (internally or by spawnin
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by ben_bai 9y ago
What happened to good old returning NULL when no memory is available? No let's do overcommit (malloc always works) and OOM-kill some random process when under memory pressure!
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Google glass without mirrors?
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Except that the dude is measuring every individual cell (remaining capacity, resistance, ...) and then builds his power packs from the good cells. Just look at his channel, he has lots of videos about the process and multiple thousand cells
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by ben_bai 9y ago
In a .h file? Have to agree with userbinator.
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Ever tried blender? Yes, it has an (Standalone) video editor build in. https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/
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by ben_bai 9y ago
If all else fails they are shredded and made into painter mats, industrial rags or even sound proofing panels.
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Oh it's never that easy. It happens 20 layers deep, with configuration set a certain way... only every Friday the 13th. I.e. MacOS is based on UNIX/BSD, root is all powerfull. So root is disabled form login with <star> passw
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Most likely nobody uses /bin/true (/usr/bin/true). Executing true without the pathname will run the shell embedded function.
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by ben_bai 9y ago
This is exactly the OpenBSD implementation.
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by ben_bai 9y ago
I only subscribe to OpenBSD but there have been 24 fixes, in the last weeks, for issues reported by Ilja van Sprundel. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&w=2&r=1&s=Ilja+van+Sprundel&...
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by ben_bai 9y ago
3 engine landing burn. That thing came in HOT.
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by ben_bai 9y ago
/dev/urandom is a perfectly good source for random numbers. Because it's fed from the kernel which is gathering all kinds of entropy, including mouse movement interrupt timings. Bad implementations not considered. One problem
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by ben_bai 9y ago
Providing good random numbers should be done by the OS (kernel and libc). Don't try to fake it in userland. Please wiggle your mouse for 1 minute so we can gather entropy for you AES key. REALLY?

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