Re: Potential Hack in sudo?

2007-04-16 Thread Derek Burdick
Steve wrote: touch ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful sudo /bin/bash su root passwd "mynewpassword" And it worked! .sudo_as_admin_successful just suppresses the sudo help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1406199 sudo /bin/bash made you root su root is redundant passwd changed the passwo

Re: newby having issues with Grub

2005-07-07 Thread Derek Burdick
Turn off optimizations when compiling GRUB. I had a similar problem with GRUB hanging after it showed GRUB and this fixed it. This page will also help you with GRUB errors. Your specific issue is mentioned and the suggested fix is to turn off autodetection of hard drives in the BIOS. http:/

Re: Ping's definition of mdev

2005-06-17 Thread Derek Burdick
I disagree. If you have (x -1) * (x - 1) you get x*x -2x +1 To get x*x -1 you would have to do (x-1) * (x+1) Sasha Pachev wrote: > Looking at the code, i'm not sure they are even calculating the standard deviation correctly. They are using this formula: > dev = sqrt( (E (sqr(x)))/N - sqr(

Re: Ping's definition of mdev

2005-06-17 Thread Derek Burdick
nd patch: s/mdev/sdev/g on ping_common.c w00t! Josh Coates www.jcoates.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Burdick Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 12:28 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: Re: Ping's definition of m

Re: Ping's definition of mdev

2005-06-16 Thread Derek Burdick
I found the answer. It is the standard deviation. mdev stands for mean deviation. Derek Burdick wrote: I searched the man page and google but can not find a definition for mdev, which is a returned statistic when ping exits. Does anybody know what it is measuring? I have looked through

Ping's definition of mdev

2005-06-16 Thread Derek Burdick
I searched the man page and google but can not find a definition for mdev, which is a returned statistic when ping exits. Does anybody know what it is measuring? I have looked through the code and determined mathematically what the algorithm does, but I don't see any relevance to networking.

Re: Random shutdowns

2005-04-01 Thread Derek Burdick
A CPU running hot will report through ACPI as well. I would imagine once it became critical that the motherboard would shut itself down, or atleast it should. Ryan Erickson wrote: If the fan that was failing was 3-wire, it reports whether it's spinning to the motherboard, and if it's not spinni

Re: C++ Template: Table Class

2005-03-16 Thread Derek Burdick
David Smith wrote: I'm looking for a template class that'll let me setup aribtrarily wide tables. Something like this: std::table< int, int, float, int > myTable; ... iter = myTable.find( int, int, float ); Or something like that. The goal is to setup some lookup tables and reuse the same code f

Re: AIM TOS change

2005-03-14 Thread Derek Burdick
Dan Wilson wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:17 -0700, Eric Jensen wrote: Steve Dibb wrote: That is tricky, but with enough exaggerated "hax0r" and various security, malware, virus, etc scary stories you can convert most of those types. Something like "AOL *might* read your conversation!", all

Re: For the record...

2005-02-14 Thread Derek Burdick
Many people still slap on windows 2000, although I agree XP is more common nowdays. _However_, this laptop is older. It came with Windows 98, and so Windows 2000 was newer than the laptop or at least contemporary. I wouldn't dream of XP on it because XP would be too slow. I suggest you try XP

Re: Linux Memory Kung Foo

2005-02-04 Thread Derek Burdick
Matthew Frederico wrote: I was thinking something like strace that I could attach to the process, and look at all the memory segments of that running process.. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:06:19 -0600, Matthew Frederico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a developer here who deleted a running program