Jan 24, 2012 0
The task: take a bunch of photos from my digital camera and burn them to a DVD that would play the photos as a slideshow in any DVD player. (Actually, the task was to figure out how to do this in the simplest possible way, and make a set of instructions for an unsophisticated user [...]
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The auth.log on one of my servers (really, on all of the servers I have access to) is full of stuff like this: Dec 8 03:19:33 localhost sshd[4718]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not allowed [...] Dec 8 03:19:35 localhost sshd[4721]: Invalid user db2inst1 from 10.1.2.3 Dec 8 03:19:38 localhost sshd[4723]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not [...]
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My ISP has apparently made no progress whatsoever with IPv6, but I’ve got an IPv6 enabled VPS. SSH makes it trivial to use that VPS as a SOCKS5 proxy. Just do: ssh -D 8080 myvps.example.com Then set your browser’s SOCKS proxy to localhost:8080. In Firefox on Linux, this is Edit > Preferences > Advanced > [...]
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“AnyConnect cannot confirm it is connected to your secure gateway. The local network may not be trustworthy. Please try another network.” There may be several reasons for this error, which you’ll find on other pages that hit for a search on this string. The reason that I encountered seems to be unique. What I found [...]
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A python-based project I’m working on has a win32 user that I need to support. Until yesterday I’ve been moving to a win32 laptop in order to run python setup.py bdist_wininst so I can produce a self-installing executable. Then I discovered how trivial it is to use wine to do the job: Install wine. (sudo [...]
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ISC’s dhcpd uses this code to check for an already-running daemon: /* Read previous pid file. */ if ((i = open (path_dhcpd_pid, O_RDONLY)) >= 0) { status = read (i, pbuf, (sizeof pbuf) – 1); close (i); if (status > 0) { pbuf [status] = 0; pid = atoi (pbuf); /* If the previous server [...]
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