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Journal Journal: Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade/install NVidia

Nvidia drivers weren't loading. Error: could not allocate memory:

Solution:
Apparently this is a known bug, and i had to do the following to fix this:

edit /etc/default/grub
find the option GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and add nopat, so for me this looked like

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nopat"

run sudo update-grub

Source:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/37590/nvidia-drivers-not-working-after-upgrade-why-can-i-only-see-terminal

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Journal Journal: FDA and Security Patching

There is a common misconception that the FDA has to approve security patches on systems. This is not the case. The FDA attempts to clarify this issue with the following statement:

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm189111.htm

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Journal Journal: Secure file upload/download in Django

Original Link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340776/secure-static-media-access-in-a-django-site

Quote:
EDIT: How I ended up solving this after reading Van Gale's answer and this:

Google

Submission + - Google Announces City for Gigabit Trial (blogspot.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google announced today that they've chosen Kansas City, Kansas for their gigabit internet project. They'll be offering the service beginning in 2012, and plans to look into bringing ultra high-speed internet to other cities in the future.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Anonymous leaks Internal Bank of America Emails (nytimes.com)

euphemistic writes: Reportedly the information Wikileaks was set to disclose about a particular bank back from December, "a massive batch of internal Bank of America emails" has been leaked. While the site hosting it seems to currently be down due to the obviously gigantic amount of traffic interested in this leak, the leak is said to pertain to the Bank of America's improper foreclosure on homes. "The report came from a former employee with Balboa Insurance — a risk management and insurance firm. The employee reportedly corresponded with Bank of America employees and was told to falsify loan numbers on documents to force Bank of America to foreclose on homeowners."
Security

Submission + - Apple asks security experts to examine OS X Lion (edibleapple.com)

An anonymous reader writes: For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won’t hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. But Apple's looking to change that.

This past Thursday, Apple doled out a beta of OS X Lion to developers. In conjunction with that, Apple is also reaching out to noted security experts and offering them free previews of OS X 10.7 so that they can take a look at Apple’s new security measures and reach back to Apple with any thoughts and concerns they might have. Indeed, Apple is becoming a lot more security conscious these days, not only in terms of reaching out to security researchers but also in its personnel hires.

Comment Potentially not cost effective for spammer (Score 0) 71

Unfortunately I don't have real data to backup my fading memory... however, IIRC from my previous job experience, spammers pay a fraction of what Amazon is charging to send spam. This isn't to say that someone isn't going to try to abuse the system.

This, however, might be a great service for quasi legal spammers -- businesses that send "newsletters" to customers who "opted in" to receive mail from the business and all of the people they sell personal information to.

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Journal Journal: Remastering Ubuntu 10.10 with UCK

As of Nov 5th, 2010, there is a bug with uck (Ubuntu Customization Kit) that prevents remastering Ubuntu when run on Ubuntu 10.10.

The problem arises because mkbootmsg was placed in another package, it is now in gfxboot-dev (instead of just gfxboot).
This would cause a 'command not found' error.

The workaround is installing gfxboot-dev like this:
sudo apt-get install gfxboot-dev

Enjoy your new custom Distro!

PHP

Journal Journal: LDAP + PHP + SSL = headache

Apparently... LDAP hard codes the path of ldap.conf to
C:\OpenLDAP\sysconf\ldap.conf

In order for LDAP to not require a valid certificate, one must add the following contents
to that file:

TLS_REQCERT never

Source:
http://lists.horde.org/archives/sork/Week-of-Mon-20040503/001578.html

Comment Suggestion (Score 0) 180

Brazil's market stock has a "kill switch" that turns off trading in cases such as these. If the stocks take a nose dive because of a computer glitch or
because of a human typo, the kill switch automatically closes the market for that day.

That would be a great feature to add to our stock markets here in the US.

Software

WebKit2 API Layer Brings Split-Process Model 95

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "Anders Carlsson and Sam Weinig over at Apple just announced WebKit2, a rework of the WebKit engine that powers Chrome and Safari. This new version of WebKit incorporates the same style of split-process model that provides stability in Chrome, but built directly into the framework so all browsers based upon WebKit will be able to gain the same level of sandboxing and stability. AppleInsider has a writeup, and the team has provided 'high level documentation' as well. Both Palm and the Epiphany team are going to be happy about this."
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Journal Journal: How to clear test orders from Magento!

After thousands of dollars of fake orders to get your magento store integrated and running... you will
probably need to clear out all those tests.... Here is how you do it:

http://www.eliasinteractive.com/blog/magento-ecommerce-how-to-reset-all-test-order-information-and-set-unique-prefix-for-orders-invoices-shipments-and-credit-memos

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