This is highly unofficial, but if you want to upload your World of Warcraft statistics to WoWHead in Linux, then you might be able to do so by using the following script. You will need curl and wget installed.
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Please help set a world record of most downloads in 24 hours by downloading a copy of Firefox 3.0 in the next 24 hours starting at 18:00 GMT today. Download yourself and get all your friends to do so as well. Only one download per computer is counted towards the record. More info on the record attempt.
Firefox 3.0 Download record countdown timers.
P.S. The SpreadFirefox web page is down at the moment. Overloaded less than 2 hours before the go time.
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“Thou shalt not whine” was written under his desk. I just discovered him recently and was presently surprised by his directness in questioning politicians and challenging them to explain things that they have said before. Like a Howard Stern of politics. Not shy to respectfully question the existing assumptions, but (unlike Howard) still remaining neutral and not drawing conclusions himself. He will be missed.
P.S. I do however feel the NBC could have included some other news in the Nightly News of the day as well. Dropping everything and just covering one man seams a bit excessive to me.
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With the cost of plane tickets approaching 2000 USD it is rather hard to sell me going to the Debconf 8 as that can be approximated as 3-4 months of my income. I did apply for travel sponsorship, but due to some kind of brainfart I misread “Amount I am unable to fund myself” as “Amount I am able to fund myself” and thus asked for far less money than I actually need. Therefore, after the Debconf team strictly stated that the requested amount can not be changed at this point, it has become clear that I cann’t come to Debconf 8.
/sadpanda
I would still love to come if there was sponsorship money to cover my fare and even suggested putting me to the end of the sponsorship priority list, but apparently that is not happening. Have fun, and see you all in Spain in 2009.
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After catching a glimpse of John McCain on Saturday Night Live (SNL) I decided to watch a full show to see if is good enough to add to my daily US news lineup (which currently consists of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and NBC Daily News).
From the very start the comedy level is pathetic with fake laughter gushing out over something that is apparently was supposed to be funny. Combined with the pretense of “smart comedy” that says - “If you don’t laugh when we laugh, you just don’t get it.” which is pure old brainwashing aimed to make people stop thinking. Very far from anything I would call good TV.
BIG INTRO WITH BIG VOICE. Useless Americanisms. And then Steve Carell does the most stupid and idiotic ‘6 RedBulls’ routine that I’ve ever seen. Are the writers still on strike? “There can be only one Democratic nominee” was a bit better, bit still rather simplistic. “Deal or no deal” was an even dumber one. “Two assholes do karaoke” actually was even worse. “Japanese Office” was nothing but a cheap pun of the *American* version of the Office with a few Japanese words. I think it went on for 5 minutes, which was 4 minutes and 55 seconds too long for something of such horrible production value. Another John McCain appearance, while misreading the teleprompter (not on purpose), was actually the highlight of the show.
That shows two things: John McCain is so desperate that he feels it is acceptable to appear on such a low quality show and that SNL is overrated - even a politician can do a better job at comedy then the SNL staff.
That Usher guy song was on the same level as the jokes of the show, so no hard done there.
News were almost ok. Not nearly as good as The Daily Show, but better then the rest of the show. Not a single item was chosen to make people think, just the opposite. “FitTV” bit was .. well .. pointless. So was CPR bit. And the ‘Bless this child’ bit.
In summary, I’ve never seen a more pointless and badly made show. That thing could pass for good in 60s or maybe even 70s, but to consider that show good nowadays in any country with reasonably developed TV would be just insanely dumb.
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“… Today is the first day in office for President Barack Obama … In other news, Hillary Clinton is still on the campaign trail and is not giving up …” - best ever joke about the current US election. I think it was from The Daily Show, but I cannot be certain.
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Eric, I cann’t claim to 100% understand the situation but after glancing trough the logs of the discussions and of the patches the conclusion I came to was this - OpenSSL used supposed randomness of the uninitialized memory as an added source of entropy (interesting hack, but not an example of good coding as such). Valgring caught that problem and the Debian maintainer during a cleanup fixed it. Making such a fix can be considered a preventive step against possible attack vectors by poisoning the uninitialized memory. He took it up to upstream, they did not raise red flags, but did not quite merge the ‘clean up’ patch either. It fell through the cracks.
The problem is that in the same file, in another function all other sources of entropy were being merged into the pool of randomness using exactly the same code line as the one code line flagged by Valgrind. The maintainer assumed that the second code line has a similar function to the first and commented that one as well. AFAIK that also did not show up in the emails to the upstream list.
So we have:
I am impressed by the swift action of the people involved in fixing this. And while I think everyone can find some lesson be learned here, I think this is another good example of free software in action. And I hope that in the aftermath of this we will find ways to prevent this from happening in the future without stifling our progress.
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http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
Īsumā - visas pēdējos divos gados uz Debian sistēmām (ieskaitot Ubuntu, Knoppix, …) ģenerētās SSH atslēgas, SSH serveru sertifikāti, SSL sertifikāti, x509 sertifikāti, OpenVPN atslēgas un DNSSEC atslēgas ir uzskatāmas par nedrošām. Nekavējoties atjaunojiet libssl-dev, libssl0.9.8-dbg, openssl un libssl0.9.8 pakas uz jaunākajām versijām un uzģenerējat jaunas atslēgas.
Sīkāk:
Serveru administrātoru darāmais:
Blogsudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradesudo rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host*
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I am having a problem of my tiny Fonera router restart on me endlessly whenever I have two laptops with Azureus running connect to the network, so I started to investigate. I could not get any meaningful error messages from the router before it reboots and the only weird thing I could find in the statistics was the huge number of active connections. When I have one laptop with Skype running, Firefox browsing a few pages and Internet radio playing the number of active connections was around 200. Starting Liferea for RSS bumps that to 300. Nothing serious. However, as soon as I start Azureus (with no active downloads!) the number of active connections jumps by 400-500, starting one download adds another 300 connections. That is despite setting a maximum global limit of active connections to 100 in Azureus preferences. After 5-10 minutes the number of connections goes down to 500 (with one download active), but with two laptops with Azureus in the same wireless network the initial spike is high enough to kill the router in 2-3 minutes, force it to reboot and then do it all over again, and again, and again …
No I am thinking whether to spend around 50€ for another router or try to work with Azureus folks to try to fix this. 
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From http://159.18.52.69/raw/983493
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 12, in module
from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib
ImportError: No module named ext.reader
Fix/workaround:
+ sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python%s/site-packages/oldxml' % sys.version[:3])
from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib
I had an old Python script doing some XML work and after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 I started getting the above error message and had to use the above fix because the Ubuntu packages of python-xml moved the xml.dom.ext.* to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/oldxml for some reason. Have not looked at the latest Debian packages. Does anyone know why such back-compatibility breaking change was introduced? All I find on Google are the people getting bitten by this bug and no reasoning or even discussion behind the change.
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