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Journal Journal: Survivors restoration

Transform decoded from the BBC's D3 digital copies of the quads to Digibeta. DVNR cleanup and some manual work on bad dropouts etc afterwards. There was no telecine work, I doubt the original films still exist. (Steve Roberts)

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Journal Journal: Accessing existing files in a chroot jail

Cut and pasted from LWN:

  how can you have an app that runs in the chroot jail access files that are in more normal locations?

    Debian on AMD64
(Posted Dec 2, 2004 9:16 UTC (Thu) by subscriber gevaerts) (Post reply)

mount /etc/passwd /chroot/etc/passwd -o bind
mount /etc/shadow /chroot/etc/shadow -o bind
mount /etc/group /chroot/etc/group -o bind
mount /home /chroot/home -o bind

should do the trick. Of course, using ldap authentication the first three are not needed.

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Journal Journal: Vsftp to provide ftp/s

Generation of private key:

openssl genrsa -out vsftpd_key.pem 1024

Generation of Cert:

openssl req -new -x509 -key vsftpd_key.pem -out vsftpd_cert.pem

Combining: cat vsftpd_key.pem >> vsftpd_cert.pem

And this is pointed to in vsftpd.conf: rsa_cert_file=/path/to/cert/vsftpd_cert.pem

Alternatively:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem -out etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

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Journal Journal: Perwill / Screener applications OpenLook and WindowManagers

Finally fixed a long-standing problem in that Perwill (and presumably anything else built with the 'Screener' cross-platform toolkit) wouldn't work with any window manager other than MWM or Enlightenment, because it used the OpenLook UI if available, and the menu bar was inaccessible.

A bit of strings & grepping and some luck resulted in:

export SCLOOK=motif

Which works at least with the new multiwm in Cygwin/X x-org

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Journal Journal: VNC & Nedit

To prevent unrecognised keysym errors when running nedit under vncserver, add this to .xmodmap

keycode any = KP_Enter

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Journal Journal: What if your firewall blocks realmedia?

Yesterday, I wanted to view a real-media stream off the web. At work, our firewall blocks Real streams...

Eventually I found a neat way round it. Head over to workspot.com, click on the 10-minute no-signup demo, launch mozilla, go to real, download the realplayer8 plugin, fire up a shell and install.

Go the stream URL and open with the newly installed realplayer application. No sound, but job's a goodun - even over the VNC link.

Apart from a font glitch, went pretty smoothly.

What other funky things could you do in 10 minutes ?

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Journal Journal: Magic incantations for Windows:

To register an arbitrary DLL:

regsvr32 blah.dll

To re-register Office components to stop them complaining on document-opening:

msexcel /unregserver | /regserver

winword /unregserver | /regserver

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