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Re: Here’s how to patch Ubuntu 8.04 or anything where you have to build bash from source

gb3 — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:45:49 -0000

Looks like you have a couple of errors in this code. Also, version 4.3.27(1) has been released since you've posted this which solves a few more Shellshock vulnerabilities .

Here is a slightly modified version of your code that works:

mkdir src
cd src
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash...
#download all patches
for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 1 27); do wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash... done
tar zxvf bash-4.3.tar.gz
cd bash-4.3
#apply all patches
for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 1 27);do patch -p0 < ../bash43-$i; done
#build and install
./configure --prefix=/ && make && make install
cd ../../
rm -r src

Re: Earth Hour

lovingrose — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:36:18 -0000

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Re: Earth Hour

Car Games — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:47:55 -0000

cool stuff

Re: off to FOSSCON

Felicia — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:57:00 -0000

Hey that sounds way cool...it's great your getting away for such an awesome weekend. Blog about it in detail please.

Re: “…But our princess is in another castle!”

Conzar — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:04:06 -0000

I am playing SC2 Beta (got my key from Amazon then canceled the pre-order -- sneaky eh). SC2 Beta has been working great for me until Patch 13. Bliz pretty much killed their servers with this patch and is effecting everyone.

As for the SC with Broodwar, how did you fix the Battlenet graphics problem?

Re: “…But our princess is in another castle!”

Mike — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:09:20 -0000

Original all patched up via PlayOnLinux. I preordered SC2 and supposed to get a beta key but I never got it.

Re: “…But our princess is in another castle!”

Sara A. — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:38:22 -0000

I can't wait for next year! It would be more fun if i didn't have so many commitments those days...Maybe i'll even be able to take the day off of work. Glad it was a success...and i am always willing to support you in the things that interest you and find a common ground to the things that interest you. 4 batches of cookies this year...how many next year?

Re: “…But our princess is in another castle!”

Conzar — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:34:54 -0000

Did you have the original Starcraft w/ Broodwar running perfectly or SC2 Beta?

Re: “…But our princess is in another castle!”

Thomas W. Harper — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:34:10 -0000

Mike thanks for coming to the Intel LANFest Nor'Easter 2010 LAN Party, I have been receiving a lot of positive feedback especially about the quickness of the Team Fortress game, I had a few people ask if that was really running on Linux they where pleasantly pleased to find out it was. I my self have been running a Linux distribution the last past couple of weeks and am enjoying it immensely. Cant wait to see what you will be bring to the Event next year. Looking foward to seeing you out on the trails.

Eviltree

Re: ANYTHING BUT THE BUTTONS! redux

Jason — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:04:35 -0000

There's no need to keep them on the left side, it's ugly and impractical. Also the ordering just feels weird. You can change it back to the 9.10 default - http://web-guide.appspot.co... . If I wanted an unintuitive OS I would just run Windows.

Re: The Gnome war on features continues…

ibfrog — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:22:19 -0000

check apps->nautilus->preferences->always_use_location_entry in gconf-editor to get rid of the buttons in nautilus.

Now if I could only figure out how to get rid of the buttons in other file selection dialogs.

Re: fortune for the day

CatLadyDiary — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:34:17 -0000

Re: the system is down

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:24:20 -0000

That's exactly where I got it from .. hands down my favorite episode

Re: the system is down

IcyJ — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:22:37 -0000

Your title reminds of Strong Bad's email "Techno"... "The system is down.. the system is down.. do do do"

Re: the system is down

derande — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:19:58 -0000

thanks! i've been wondering what's going on for the past 2 days.

Re: the system is down

Alan Pope — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:05:19 -0000

Thanks for posting this. I have a couple of friends who needed access to medibuntu recently. Have passed this info on.

Re: the system is down

Chad — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:48:52 -0000

There seems to be a DSN problem making the repo inaccessible.

Add this to your etc/hosts file:

88.191.101.8 packages.medibuntu.org

I was able to install medibuntu packages fine after making this change. Rumors are this will be fixed tomorrow.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

tab — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:16:32 -0000

Thank you for the tip. Just what I was looking for.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

jeffanthony — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:46:19 -0000

Awesome, I've been trying to set up a reverse vnc server and the documentation for ubuntu jumps all over the place and still appears to be incomplete. Appreciate the heads up, I've used TV for Windows and it's a decent program, even allows for you to reset the remote computer and rejoin when it boots back up.

Re: Cat plays with iPad. That is all.

CatLadyDiary — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:30:53 -0000

it's fine use of the technology.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

vivalostioz — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:58:29 -0000

Don't come up with any suggestions to use telepathy or whatever. Try TeamViewer and you'll see that there's no application excactly like that. And it's quite popular. For me it's great news because I use only Ubuntu at home and I'm member of the JDowloader developement team - in that team we use TeamViewer for years to support users that have any problems. The users (mostly windows users) just have to download TeamViewer Portable (just a single zip file) and don't have to configure anything but aending the generated password and ip. It's that simple...

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

Mike — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:06:04 -0000

Not sure about RHUB(it looks like there's a very limited 25 minute demo) but Bomgar has no free solutions. Only a 30 day trial.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

jenn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:02:48 -0000

On-premise solutions like RHUB and Bomgar also offer more control for access and security since there are more deployment methods available.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

John — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:44:19 -0000

If you look at the .deb, it's just the Windows executable packaged with Wine and a bit of desktop integration (menu entry and a custom Wine config). Running or installing the Windows version under Wine directly works just as well with the bonus of being a smaller download and a smaller install. But kudos to TeamViewer for making it work under Wine and for taking the trouble to package it up in a self-contained, easy-to-use way.

Re: Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!

Mike — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:28:51 -0000

Still requires opening ports on a firewall. This is not possible in some cases and less desired in most. TeamViewer is a solution that resolves this as well as being compatible for Windows and Mac as well as Linux.