Roundtable September 2014

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14 participants
18 discussions

IBM "clicky" keyboards
by Adam Thompson 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Enough people have wondered/asked/complained to me about this that I'm posting this now as a public service. IBM Model "M" keyboards are still available, *NEW*, today. They are expensive, but they are the original design that you can use as a melee weapon. The catch is that they don't say "IBM" or even "Lexmark" on them. They are available for purchase from the manufacturer, Unicomp, who can be found online at http://www.pckeyboard.com/. You can also find some vintage NIB units from time … [View More]

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SpamAssassin false positives on DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q?
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I mentioned this problem at the last round-table session, but didn't get a solution, so I thought I'd post it here, just in case anyone has any suggestions to offer. I'm still seeing a whole bunch of false positives in SpamAssassin, since an update was installed in mid-September on a CentOS 5.7 system, for a rule called DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q, which is only supposed to be triggered when the "Date:" header has a date that is 4 days to 4 month ahead of the date in the "Received" header that … [View More]

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big scanner
by Trevor Cordes 27 May '15

27 May '15

Does anyone have big (like tabloid or bigger) scanner they want to sell? Even an ancient SCSI or parallel one might be ok. I just want *big*. Do they even make scanners bigger than legal or tabloid?

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Solaris fix for the bash bug
by Kevin McGregor 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

I'm trying to apply IDR 126546-06 to our Solaris servers. One of them (eventually) went fine. The second one I tried failed with this message: ERROR: IDR 126546-06 cannot be applied until all Interim Relief/Diagnostics are backed out. Dryrun complete. No changes were made to the system. Okay, so how do I find a list of IDRs I need to back out of? This is Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10s_u9wos_14a SPARC (SunOS <server> 5.10 Generic_142909-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490). Both … [View More]

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Desktop SSDs
by Kevin McGregor 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Does anyone have an opinion ( ;-) ) on which desktop SSDs to buy or avoid in the ~250 GB size? How about the Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB SSD SATA3 SandForce SF2281 <http://www.ncix.com/detail/kingston-hyperx-fury-240gb-ssd-82-100152-1342.htm> ? (E.g. $140 + tax & shipping from NCIX) Kevin

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any MTS employees here?
by Adam Thompson 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Any MTS employees here, who know where to report this internally? athompso@t5400:~$ dig @dns1.mts.net in mx mymts.ca ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @dns1.mts.net in mx mymts.ca ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21118 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mymts.ca. IN MX ;; … [View More]

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bash + procmail vulnerabilities
by Trevor Cordes 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Wonderful, another day, another big bad security hole... or two. Run your patches! First up: bash: $ env x='() { :;}; echo OOPS' bash -c /usr/sbin/nologin OOPS This account is currently not available. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/10 claims: > In many common configurations, this vulnerability is exploitable over > the network. I'm trying to guess how? In what instance is some program allowing network vectors to set env vars, especially without sterilization? … [View More]

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ssl cert renewal warning/anecdote
by Trevor Cordes 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

People who manage (paid for) SSL certs (for web servers, etc), don't make the same mistake I just did. It was renewal time and I did what I always do: blindly hit renew on my cert provider/reseller control panel. I get the cert, install into apache, restart, then boom: [ssl:emerg] [pid 11648] AH02565: Certificate and private key mydomain.blah:443:0 from /etc/pki/tls/certs/mycert.crt and /etc/pki/tls/private/mykey.key do not match AH00016: Configuration Failed After a very brief WTF moment, … [View More]

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multi-platform encryption
by Dan Martin 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I am in need of encryption software that would keep files encrypted on the cloud as well as local on all machines. Here is what I'm looking for: Downloaded files saved to a particular folder on a Windows 7 or 8 machine would automatically be encrypted (after a prompt for passphrase). Ideally, this folder would be in a Dropbox or Google Drive folder, or on a thumb drive. No record of the unencrypted file would remain on the local PC (I am not worried about pieces of it on swap). I would … [View More]

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Fwd: MbOUG: Welcome to our next exciting event on Sep 23!
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

I'm passing this along in case any of you might be interested in learning more about Oracle Linux... I have no affiliation with MbOUG, so please respond to <info(a)mboug.org> if you want to register or have any questions. (Please don't just reply to this e-mail.) Gilbert ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *MbOUG Info* <info(a)mboug.org> Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 10:28 AM Subject: MbOUG: Welcome to our next exciting event on Sep 23! You are cordially invited to the … [View More]

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Roundtable September 2014