On 04/08/2012 11:14 PM, Dane Mutters wrote:
John,
So, while I'm, in fact, all /for /speaking bluntly, I also see the
quandary that speaking too bluntly produces when being "wrong" (for
the "owners" of a work) would mean that the months they spent on a
particular project would all be for not
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> On the contrary, I found Michael's rant refreshing. Politically correct
> rants look like a lot of nitpicking over nothing.
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> But of course a little "We shouldn't do this, it's a bad idea" just gets
> an enthusiastic push-back from strong-headed "visionaries" that think
> they'
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 13:55 +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> There weren't many choices in 2001 or 2002 when I was
> looking into it. Do you have any suggestions on one
> that might be particularly useful? It doesn't have to
> be terribly fancy, just enough so you can get a shell
> and 'fix things'.
I us
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:55:25AM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > LastPass may be secure today, but it is trivially easy for LastPass
> > (or a hypothetical attacker who gains access to LastPass's
> > infrastructure) to compromise that security simply by replacing the
> > javascript code whi
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:03:48PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
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> Sent from my Motorola Xoom
> On Apr 7, 2012 5:44 AM, "Dale Amon" wrote:
> > At one point I tried to build a 'special' statically
> > linked ssh... an effort that didn't work out... with
> > the idea of havi
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:00:31PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
>Oh it goes well and truely far beyond that. Some pinhead decided to move
>/var/run to /run without leaving a symlink or informing and updating
>packages.
/var/run is a symlink to /run in 12.04. Perhaps you ran into a
cor
