comment by jim, 3 weeks ago

I might mention that there are still some jpegs that will crash the quicktime encoder that are valid according to jpeginfo, but it gets most of them.

comment by jim, 6 weeks ago

I just built dfu-programmer for etch with these steps, and attached it to the parent article (I guess I should implement attachments for comments.)

Go to the Debian packages page for the Lenny package.
Download the original source and debian diffs.
Unpack the original sources
tar -zxvf dfu-programmer_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz
Apply debian patches...
zcat dfu-programmer_0.4.3-1.diff.gz | patch -p0
Hop in
cd dfu-programmer-0.4.3
Build packages
fakeroot ./debian/rules binary-arch
Fail... fix x flags on rules
chmod +x debian/rules
Fail... install libusb-dev
Success! I now have a dfu-programmer_0.4.3-1_i386.deb in the parent directory.
I can't test it, my only Etch machines are remote servers, but it installs ok and I expect it works.

I probably should have modified the version number to mark it as an Etch build, but this works for private use.

anonymous comment, 6 weeks ago

hello

can you tell me how to install dfu-programmer on debian etch?
i can not find the package with apt.

greetings remo

anonymous comment, 7 weeks ago

I successfully started a converted windows vista evaulation vhd I'm still fighting with the mouse and vnc :)

anonymous comment, 7 weeks ago

the bsod is probably a 7b error (inaccessible boot device, you may need to fix system registry hive to use standard ide but it's tricky and you need a windows box or of course a working windows vm :D)

contact me if interested (sherpya@netfarm.it)

anonymous comment, 7 weeks ago

I've fixed the compilation error and made it 64bit aware, I still need to test it anyway here the download link:

http://oss.netfarm.it/download/vhd2img-64bit-aware.tar.bz2

(use wget or direct link, a link from a page will cause 503)

anonymous comment, 3 months ago

Hello again,

Well, err, uh, duh! I poked around in the .c file and removed the whole license preamble then it compiled just fine. Sorry about that. It worked great but the resulting .raw and converted .qcow2 file give me a BSOD when run with kvm.

Thanks,
Patrick.

anonymous comment, 3 months ago

Hello Jim,

This looks like just what the doctor ordered but it failed to compile for me:

Did I do something wrong or do you have any suggestions to help fix it?

Thanks much,
Patrick -> patrickkirchner AT yahoo . com

Current Directory = /tmp/vhd2img
-->make
cc -g -MMD -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -Werror vhd2img.c -o vhd2img
vhd2img.c:38:38: error: missing terminating ' character
vhd2img.c:59:37: error: missing terminating ' character
vhd2img.c:67:67: error: missing terminating ' character
make: *** [vhd2img] Error 1

comment by jim, 4 months ago

Oh cruel Apple. 12 hours after releasing the Apple Store they processed my application and sent me a key to test on my iPhone.

Decisions.

comment by jim, 5 months ago

I think a better tool would be one that used a central repository with a copy of each package and called on the observed machine to generate on the fly signatures of files with a random seed.

A truly nasty rooter could still thwart that by faking things in either the C runtime library or the appropriate system calls.

comment by jim, 5 months ago

Going forward:

I will have to drop dcc. Their licensing is no longer free enough to be distributed by Debian. That will slow more messages, but in practice anything dcc catches is also caught by spamassassin.

I'd like to add an adaptive whitelist out front to prevent false positives and give me a stream of known good messages for training the bogofilter. I haven't found one I like yet, but I keep looking. Maybe I'll have to write it.

comment by jim, 5 months ago

An extra note on bogofilter:

Bogofilter is built with a single user in mind. I'm sure it works better when it has a single user's mail to think about and can rely on the human to tag the false positives and negatives.

In a 150 user common filter you can rely on exactly 0 of them to report their miscategorized spam. If you try to force them to comply you will find that 10% of them do it backwards and pollute your statistics so badly you have to erase everything and start again.

That said, it works quite well and is speedy and doesn't rely on external network servers so it makes a good first line of defense.

anonymous comment, 5 months ago

If you want to collect apache statistics with Munin you need to enable extended server status in apache.

ExtendedStatus On <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from munin-server.mydomain.com </Location>

If your web server does not bind to localhost (127.0.0.1), you need to define the server status URL in your /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node config file.

[apache_*] env.url "http://servername.mydomain.com/server-status?auto"

anonymous comment, 5 months ago

If you run sendmail as your mail server munin has 3 plugins that are in the base Debian install. Link all 3 into your /etc/munin/plugins directory. One, sendmail_mailqueue will work out of the box. The other two depend on sendmail stats files that do not get created in a base Debian install.

To enable stats logging you must manually create the stats files.

# touch /var/lib/sendmail/sendmail.st
# touch /var/lib/sendmail/sm-client.st

Once these files have been created, with sendmail write permission, sendmail will start logging to them. Gotta love sendmail, "If you create the log file for me, I will write to it."

You can test your mail statistics file creation manually with the mailstats command.

comment by jim, 6 months ago

Interesting observation when using a single fail2ban on multiple machines. It catches horizontal sweeps much sooner. Today I noticed it catch someone that was making one try at root on each of my machines. The merged auth.log files tripped my 10 hour ban after one attempt on each of three machines.

anonymous comment, 6 months ago

Hi - Your motion detection scheme is very interesting! I wonder if you have had a chance to develop it further?
Thanks
Steve
sgulick (at) wildlandsecurity.org

comment by jim, 6 months ago

More robot chatter:

fandango
tatuazh

So if a tattooed robot offers to dance the fandango with you, you should know it only wants sex.

comment by jim, 7 months ago

I have made contact with the robots. We should all be afraid. Thus far the robots have attempted to add these comments:

SEX
SEX
SEX SEX SEX LOVE
zubav1na-ps1h1chesk1e-bolezn1 except the digits 1 are supposed to be the letter 'i', I just didn't want to get indexed by it.

I suppose some filtering software will now block my site because it talks about sex.

comment by jim, 7 months ago

Oh look, there is a similar function for scanf(). You can do something like...

char *adj = 0;

sscanf(somestuff,"Some %as stuff", &adj);

... but only if you are using GNU libc. I got burned when I used this in a daemon and then moved it to OpenWRT where they uses a different libc.

comment by jim, 7 months ago

Eww, nasty double spacing of the code segments. I'll have to think about how to fix that. Safari put each line into its own div for some reason.

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