1 Dec 2003 04:45
1 Dec 2003 14:06
Re: Re: alg Digest, Vol 5, Issue 72
David McNett wrote: > On 29-Nov-2003, Jim Westbrook wrote: > > Interestingly, I just removed the full-blown version of Mozilla in favor > > of the lighter weight Firebird browser. However, for mail I still use > > Netscape 4.80. Yet another example of Linux having more options than > > anything else these days. > > Which of the programs you mention is not available for Windows? That really wasn't the point. The point was that there are options on just about everything in Linux. I'll admit that I didn't phrase the previous post very well. JimW
1 Dec 2003 16:15
Re: History Lesson
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 21:45, Dan_Lee Vogler wrote: > http://news.com.com/2009-7349_3-5111410.html?tag=st_pop To bad they didn't get the story right. My first experience with what we now call a "virus" was in 1975. (Technically, it was a trojan, not a virus.) It was written by John Walker of Autocad fame. Look at http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/pervade.html for more information. The damned thing seems to have come in on an OS release tape and withing days had spread all over our mainframe. We had to shut down operations and purge it. Then it came back. We had to search the file system using the binary signature to kill all copies, and then it came back... Bob Pendleton > > _______________________________________________ > ALG Mailing List http://austinlug.org/mailman/listinfo/alg -- -- +---------------------------------------+ + Bob Pendleton: writer and programmer. + + email: Bob@... + + web: www.GameProgrammer.com + +---------------------------------------+
1 Dec 2003 17:38
Re: History Lesson
While it's possible they just changed it a few seconds ago, they did in fact mention Pervade in the side box and the timeline. In fact, now that I read farther, they spend several paragraphs and a whole section of the article talking about it. You must be spending too much time on slashdotOn Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Bob Pendleton wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 21:45, Dan_Lee Vogler wrote: > > http://news.com.com/2009-7349_3-5111410.html?tag=st_pop > > To bad they didn't get the story right. My first experience with what we > now call a "virus" was in 1975. (Technically, it was a trojan, not a > virus.) It was written by John Walker of Autocad fame. Look at > http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/pervade.html for more > information. -- -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/ | System Admin - UT iSchool =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | shanew@... Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.ischool.utexas.edu/~shanew
1 Dec 2003 18:44
Re: History Lesson
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 10:38, Shane Williams wrote: > While it's possible they just changed it a few seconds ago, they did > in fact mention Pervade in the side box and the timeline. In fact, > now that I read farther, they spend several paragraphs and a whole > section of the article talking about it. > > You must be spending too much time on slashdot(Continue reading)
1 Dec 2003 23:13
Re: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory
If you have not seen this... >>> debian-security-announce@... 12/01/2003 14:17 >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-403-1 security@... http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman December 1, 2003 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : kernel-image-2.4.18-1-alpha, kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386, kernel-source-2.4.18 Vulnerability : userland can access full kernel memory Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CAN-2003-0961 Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit by the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams quickly revealed that(Continue reading)
1 Dec 2003 23:24
Re: [Techtalk] Debian -> Gentoo
Since I run Gentoo I thought I'd take a stab at this. I was unclear what the second issue was. And it was said by Ricky Buchanan--> > There are several important programs (Mutt and TF, > to name two) which I need to manually download and compile because I > need different compilation options than Debian defaults too (eg in Mutt > I need --enable-buffy-size but the maintainer doesn't like it - I asked > :\) Gentoo works with everything being compiled from source, so it would solve this problem. My suggestion would be to read the docs on Portage (go to the www.gentoo.org site and look through the link for User Documentation). Portage is the packaging system that the command "emerge" works with. > and others where I like to run the most up to date dev version but > only the stable version is packaged. I take it this is issue #2? If so, this would also be solved. You can run anything because you can compile anything from source. If there is not yet a package for foo-latest-12 you can go get the source from their website or sourceforge.org, and compile it yourself. You can run as bleeding edge as you like. > Also, is there any way to "side-grade" my running system from Debian to > Gentoo without actually delting everything and starting from scratch? > Really I just want to get rid of apt, swap in Emerge, change whatever > is inecessary and *boom*. But I imagine it's not that simple.(Continue reading)
2 Dec 2003 00:18
Access
A friend asks me if there is an open source program for data bases with a slick gui interface for mysql or postgresql similar to M$ Acess. -- -- John E. Pearson Los Alamos Computers 2144 41st St. Los Alamos, NM 87544 pearson@... http://www.laclinux.com
2 Dec 2003 01:28
Re: Access
Check out Mysqlcc on the mysql website. It's more similar to MS Enterprise Manager, but it's a graphical way to edit databases and stuff like that. Jonathan Huizingh ----- Original Message ----- From: "John E. Pearson" <pearson@...> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:18:59 -0700 (MST) To: The ALG General Discussion List <alg@...> Subject: [alg] Access > A friend asks me if there is an open source program for data bases > with a slick gui interface for mysql or postgresql similar to M$ Acess. > > -- > John E. Pearson > Los Alamos Computers > 2144 41st St. > Los Alamos, NM > 87544 > > pearson@... > http://www.laclinux.com > > _______________________________________________ > ALG Mailing List http://austinlug.org/mailman/listinfo/alg
2 Dec 2003 01:33
Re: Access
Check out OpenOffice.org. They have the capability to integrate with mysql (using ODBC). http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/ For a howto check out: www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:28, Jonathan Huizingh wrote: > Check out Mysqlcc on the mysql website. It's more similar to MS Enterprise Manager, but it's a graphical way to edit databases and stuff like that. > > Jonathan Huizingh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John E. Pearson" <pearson@...> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:18:59 -0700 (MST) > To: The ALG General Discussion List <alg@...> > Subject: [alg] Access > > > A friend asks me if there is an open source program for data bases > > with a slick gui interface for mysql or postgresql similar to M$ Acess. > > > > -- > > John E. Pearson > > Los Alamos Computers > > 2144 41st St. > > Los Alamos, NM > > 87544 > >(Continue reading)
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