I'm on a Dell Vostro laptop with an attached 21" monitor. Running XFCE on
Ubuntu 12.04:
[1064]victor@victor-Vostro-3550:/nfs/temp/ebookgen/clover$ uname -a
Linux victor-Vostro-3550 3.2.0-43-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15
03:33:33 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[1065]victor@victor-Vostro
Hi Victor,
> A popup is generated, but when it goes away the underlying window
> content is not restored - or rather, something is restored to the
> temporarily overwritten area but it seems to be being written to the X
> desktop itself.
Is there compositing being used, perhaps just for the popup
On 25 September 2014 12:28, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
> Is there compositing being used, perhaps just for the popups? When did
> this start going wrong?
>
To be honest I don't know whether compositing is being used I'd imagine
not, as this is running a fairly low level environment.
It just starte
Hi all,
Please be aware of a serious security vulnerability that has been
discovered in BASH.
I received notification of this from a web hosting company I use
regarding CentOS but it applies to all Linux distros. Please update
ASAP, especially web servers etc.
Below is the message they se
I saw some really bad features like this a while ago in Chrome, but I
waited a while and it got better again. I'm running Arch, so due to rolling
updates you can often just "wait out" bugs and they go away again!
I think it's to do with new GPU accelerated rendering tricks, which can
expose buggy
Centos/RH fix not 100% complete and you'll have to do this again.
also check if your web servers are running cgi scripts as bash scripts
this is a bigger problem in general as it's prone to alsorts of abuse
--
Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK
On 25 September 2014 13:30, Paul Stenning wro
On Thursday 25 Sep 2014 16:38:03 Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Centos/RH fix not 100% complete and you'll have to do this again.
>
> also check if your web servers are running cgi scripts as bash scripts
> this is a bigger problem in general as it's prone to alsorts of abuse
The real problem with
Hi Terry,
> There must be millions of similar devices out there, eg TVs, routers,
> network storage, fridges even. Whose going to sort them out?
The machine has to be running bash; lots of smaller devices run a
lighter shell, e.g. dash, or Busybox. And to be vulnerable, there has
to be a means
On Thursday 25 Sep 2014 16:58:31 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > There must be millions of similar devices out there, eg TVs, routers,
> > network storage, fridges even. Whose going to sort them out?
>
> The machine has to be running bash; lots of smaller devices run a
> lighter shell, e.g. dash, or B
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