Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Would route add heanet.dl.sourceforge.net 127.0.0.1 help? Or map heanet to a non-routable addy in /etc/hosts... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD
2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that simple. http://xkcd.com/538/ indeed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.ukwrote: Perhaps I should start putting together some statistics to make my case more forcefully. I fought the same battle at the Univ. I attended (as a student). They were an M$ shop as well and had issues with me running OpenBSD. I stuck to it and finally got a straight answer from the Dean of CS: I don't know anything about OpenBSD...please just use Windows and be like everyone else!. Odd, I thought that one role of higher education is to teach critical thinking, which by definition means disagreements will (and should!) occur. Apparently I was wrong. I later took a independent study at the same Univ. I wanted to compare security records for various OS's (FreeBSD and OpenBSD being listed in there). This was rejected in favor of me doing security research for Windows...so I wrote a program to demonstrate why Admins shouldn't blindly trust even system code (Windows Server 2003...stuff like netstat and task manager) and demonstrated that to the graduate level network security class (I was an undergrad at the time). I completely gave up when the grad students followed suit with the dean and tried arguing with me that my code was hacked together specifically to exhibit the behavior I was trying to demonstrate...as if it wasn't *real* and it couldn't be used to a malicious user's advantage. I guess it doesn't exist in the security world (according to the previously mentioned grad students) if it's not mainstream thinking...I feel sorry for the companies that depend on those idiots for security. If they've bought into M$ FUD, no amount of statistics/code/demonstrations will help. I'd skip the statistics in favor of putting together a resume. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com wrote: mpdscribble: Failed to create pidfile /var/run/mpdscribble.pid: Permission denied Here my conf file /usr/local/etc/mpdscribble.conf : # The location of the pid file. mpdscribble saves its process id there. pidfile = /var/run/mpdscribble.pid Just a shot in the dark, but can't you change the pidfile to a user-writable location in the conf file and save yourself the permissions headaches? Something like $HOME/mpdscribble.pid ? Have you tried that yet? -- Computers are like air conditioners... They quit working when you open Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote: Good luck the community has tried for years to get it and adobe seems to not care Leandro F Silva wrote: Hey guys, Let's vote to have a native i386 / amd64 flash player \o/ .. We just have to create an account and voting on the link below =D http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1060 And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Windows 7 source under the GPL. Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: basic
That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows programmers who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GUI. And while we're at it, let's re-write the shell in .NET...you know...for performance reasons. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Computers are like air conditioners... They quit working when you open Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
