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byvolkerdi
2022 @06:07PM
(#63157378)
Attached to: Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for Authenticated Remote Users
Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.
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byvolkerdi
6, 2021 @02:18PM
(#62087781)
Attached to: At EA, It Can Take a Whole Day To Change 3 Lines of Code
Thus spake the master programmer:
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
be maintained."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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byvolkerdi
021 @11:17PM
(#61426480)
Attached to: Study Reveals New Details On What Happened In the First Microsecond of Big Bang
Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.
92294253
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byvolkerdi
7 @02:42PM
(#54774515)
Attached to: Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License
Linus, is that you?
90730499
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byvolkerdi
2017 @05:17PM
(#54315975)
Attached to: Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die?
There's a COBOL shop in my small town that contracts for corporations and the government. I know several COBOL specialists in their 30s. It's actually an extremely lucrative field to get into these days, with good pay and job security.
Rewriting all that COBOL code in some other language would be bound to cause major problems.
89868157
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byvolkerdi
17 @01:07PM
(#54060189)
Attached to: Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound
All you need is the --enable-alsa configure option. The resulting Firefox will prefer PulseAudio if it is present, but will use pure ALSA if it is not.
84289221
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byvolkerdi
2016 @01:58PM
(#52368291)
Attached to: Severe Flaws Found In Libarchive Open Source Library
Really? I've not been able to find anything other than a new release. The patches might be in git, but they are not easily found.
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April 12, 2016 @01:59PM
msm1267 writes: Weeks of anxiety and concern over the Badlock vulnerability ended today with an anticlimactic thud.
Badlock was the security boogeyman since the appearance three weeks ago of a website and logo branding the bug as something serious in Samba, an open source implementation of the server message block (SMB) protocol that provides file and print services for Windows clients.
As it turns out, Badlock was hardly the remote code execution monster many anticipated. Instead, it’s a man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service bug, allowing an attacker to elevate privileges or crash a Windows machine running Samba services.
SerNet, a German consultancy behind the discovery of Badlock, fueled the hype at the outset with a number of since-deleted tweets that said any marketing boost as a result of its branding and private disclosure of the bug to Microsoft was a bonus for its business.
For its part, Microsoft refused to join the hype machine and today in MS16-047 issued a security update it rated “Important” for the Windows Security Account Manager (SAM) and Local Security Authority (Domain Policy) (LSAD). The bulletin patches one vulnerability (CVE-2016-0128), an elevation of privilege bug in both SAM and LSAD that could be exploited in a man-in-the-middle attack, forcing a downgrade of the authentication level of both channels, Microsoft said. An attacker could then impersonate an authenticated user.
78199259
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byvolkerdi
2015 @01:46PM
(#50857575)
Attached to: Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon
MINIX is obsolete.
77039293
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byvolkerdi
2015 @11:00AM
(#50645215)
Attached to: FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format
FLIF will never kill PNG anyway as long as it keeps linking to libpng.
75031725
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byvolkerdi
015 @02:35PM
(#50242733)
Attached to: Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink
I've had no issues with Soylent 1.4/1.5 producing the kind of room-clearing gas that earlier versions did. It's really rather disappointing.
73018189
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byvolkerdi
015 @04:21PM
(#49739711)
Attached to: Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs
When's the last time it was every six months?
Hint: It was probably sometime back when the release was two CDs, and not 6 CDs and 2 double-sided DVDs.
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byvolkerdi
15 @05:21PM
(#49642857)
Attached to: Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods
If their plan is to get more third parties to go along with their DRM, then they haven't really learned a thing yet.
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byvolkerdi
2015 @01:13PM
(#49480179)
Attached to: NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly
No, Linus needs to use his finger.
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byvolkerdi
2014 @01:13PM
(#47854461)
Attached to: GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD
By what strange theory does Slackware support systemd? And how is the conversation being "held back"? At least on LQ, I think it's been discussed to death to the point where there's really nothing new to say about it.
I can say one thing for certain: you do not know that anything concerning systemd in Slackware is likely or not. Hell, *I* don't.
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