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Comment Re:Isn't this a dupe? (Score 2, Interesting) 281

by tayhimself (#29978008) Attached to: Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root

Ran off my Ubuntu 9.10 fresh installed desktop:

#cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr 0 ... Oh shit.

Is it possible that you are running wine or some other emulator program. The only software similar to an emulator I have is Virtualbox on my 9.10 desktop and it still has the 65536 setting.
Anyone else can shed light on this?

Comment Re:Isn't this a dupe? (Score 4, Informative) 281

by tayhimself (#29977850) Attached to: Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root
This solution works, please see the links below. However I would reccomend seing what your settings are on your system
$ sysctl -n vm.mmap_min_addr to find what your setting is.
On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS servers (including Xen kernels) and on 9.10 desktops it is 65536. Not a big deal.
http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-July/025805.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26831/info

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 376

by tayhimself (#29675023) Attached to: Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status
I think this is a little bit of an exaggeration. Or I am very mistaken.
I update nightly on test servers using aptitude safe-update and weekly on the production ones but I don't check the logs it's all automated.
It just depends on the situation, some people might be better served with weekly or monthly cron based updates. FYI, this is Ubuntu 8.04 server with Xen.

Comment Re:rdiff-backup: like rsync with versioning (Score 1) 272

by tayhimself (#29452483) Attached to: Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station
Another vote against rdiff-backup. I have had it die on very large directories with many small files with perl overflow errors. Google for rdiff-backup errors and you will find a wealth of information.
Between Ubuntu 6.06 and 8.04 the rdiff-backup protocol changed and there was no way to get the new rdiff-backup talking to the old one. No switch to change protocol etc.
Bacula is definitely superior, but nothing beats a commercial solution if you have the money and need disaster recovery bare metal restore.
Apple

Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone 226

Posted by kdawson from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.
Jaime Leifer writes "The cover of the June 1, 2009, issue of The New Yorker, entitled 'Finger Painting,' was drawn by Jorge Colombo entirely on his iPhone — a first for the magazine. Colombo, a New York-based artist and illustrator, uses the iPhone's Brushes application to vibrantly depict New York street scenes." There's a video recapitulating the creation of the piece, omitting all of the undos.
The Internet

Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report 232

Posted by timothy from the no-no-we-got-it-from-the-internet dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a storm brewing in Canada as the prestigious Conference Board of Canada has been caught plagiarizing US copyright lobby group documents in a report on copyright reform. The report was funded by the Canadian copyright lobby as well as by the Ontario government. The Conference Board has acknowledged some errors, but stands by the report, while the Ontario government admits spending thousands of dollars and it now wants some answers."
NASA

Astronauts Begin Final Spacewalk To Repair Hubble 94

Posted by CmdrTaco from the wave-while-you're-up-there dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Astronauts John Grunsfield and Andrew Feustel began the fifth and final spacewalk of their Hubble Space Telescope repair mission this morning at 8:20AM. During their spacewalk the two will install the second battery group replacement in an equipment bay above the Wide Field Camera 2 and next to the compartment where the first battery set was installed on the second spacewalk. Each of the battery module weighs 460 pounds and contains three batteries. The batteries provide electrical power to support Hubble's operations during the night when there's no sun to power the solar arrays."
Biotech

13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online 126

Posted by CmdrTaco from the will-c0de-for-f00d dept.
Lucas123 writes "The Personal Genome Project, which opened itself up to the public on April 25, has to date signed up 13,000 of the target 100,000 volunteers needed to create the world's first publicly accessible genome database. Volunteers will go through a battery of written tests and then offer DNA samples from which their genetic code will be derived and then published to help scientists discover links between genes and hereditary traits. While the Personal Genome Project won't publish names, just about everything else will be made public, including photos and complete medical histories. Scientists hope to some day have millions of genomes in the database."
Media

Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68

Posted by timothy from the how-bosses-expense-ipods dept.
Russ writes "Our corporate media delivery platform is in the process of being refactored (at long, long last), and one of the preferred requirements is the ability to serve streaming video to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, similar to the way YouTube does it — show a screen shot, and when the user taps it, the video should play full-screen and landscaped automatically. The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done. From what I can tell, YouTube still fires a Flash object to the iPhone despite its lack of Flash support. I have, to a certain extent, been able to review some of YouTube's Flash code and get a hack working on our platform (no screenshot, not landscape, but does play automatically), but I'm sure I'm missing a 'trick of the trade' somewhere that makes the process transparent to the user. Has anyone out there done this before, and if so, how? The standard (and non-standard) Quicktime object/embed codes seem to only provide partial functionality on the iPhone/iPod."
The Internet

Calling BS On the BSA Global Piracy Report 138

Posted by Soulskill from the i-think-that-stands-for-bachelor-of-skepticism dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Business Software Alliance released their annual global piracy report earlier this week. In addition to the usual claims of software piracy (PDF) and the grudging acknowledgment of open source software, Michael Geist noted that the report ultimately undermined one of the BSA's core arguments — that countries which enact DMCA-style legislation experience significantly reduced piracy rates. Questions have also been raised over the BSA's methodology, as has happened in the past."
Biotech

"DNA Origami" Could Allow For Controlled Drug Delivery 29

Posted by timothy from the biotech-ransom-possibilities dept.
esinclair writes "As reported in Nature News, researchers have designed a method which allows DNA strands to be formed into cubes and other designs by oligonucleotides. The uses of this DNA origami are still being developed. One possibility for them is to be used as a drug-delivery system. The fact that scientists have also come up with a method to lock these structures and use 'keys' to unlock them would conceivably allow for a controlled delivery system."

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 307

by tayhimself (#27849515) Attached to: An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6
The function naming convention needs to be fixed as well as the argument lists that you mention. The naming scheme is a little haphazard. Although if you use eclipse or another dev suite, autocompletion of the function names etc does save having to constantly look it up.

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