2009/4/22-28 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:52894 Activity:nil | 4/22 ok, here's a little networking puzzler. I haven't been able to access
youtube for a couple weeks. Couldn't figure out why. Happened on all
browsers. traceroute did weird stuff and then timed out. Finally I
got so frustrated I setup firefox to ssh tunnel through soda.csua,
which worked great. Then, I kill the ssh proc, quit FF, and now,
I can access youtube just fine from any browser. wtf? any
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2008/8/5-10 [Computer/Networking] UID:50788 Activity:nil | 8/5 It looks like my company has started blocking HTTPS tunneling.
I used to do this by tunneling SSH through the HTTP/HTTPS proxy
server, but this seems to have stopped working. Does anyone know
how the implementation of tunneling detection works, and whether
there are widely available implementations? We run a bunch of MS
stuff, so I imagine we're running an MS proxy server or something.
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2006/7/20-22 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:43747 Activity:low | 7/20 How can I get IMAP over SSL to work (I'm using Mail.app)?
I've set the port to 465, checked SSL, set auth to Password,
and entered my username and password. I don't get an error but my
messages don't get delivered. TIA.
\_ derrr, corrected, I meant SMTP (outbound).
\_ 993/tcp open imaps
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2006/4/18-20 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42775 Activity:moderate | 4/18 Some thoughts about securing a machine. Feel free to add your
expert opinions. --ricky
* Securing a machine that allows interactive logins by users
is _very_ hard.
* Reduce suid binary to absolute bare minimum.
* Perform automatic _remote_ checksums from a machine that is
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2006/4/11 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:42722 Activity:nil | 4/11 telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
(from soda)
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2005/12/20-22 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:41097 Activity:nil | 12/20 I'm trying to determine the cause of an curious behavior: When
I login to a Linux box from my Mac (rxvt in X11), there is
some lag on the text output during the printing of multiple
lines of output. When I login to a FreeBSD box from my Mac,
there is no lag. Curiously, when I login to either the FreeBSD
box or the Linux box from my Linux laptop, there is no lag
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2005/12/7-9 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:40898 Activity:low | 12/7 After I start a background job from tcsh in an xterm, I try to exit
the shell. But it stays around until the background job exits. Is
there a way to tell the shell not to wait for the background job to
finish? Thx.
\_ Yes.
\_ How?
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2012/3/29-6/4 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54351 Activity:nil | 3/29 A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
card--no game)?
\_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
most machines were custom built.
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2009/11/4-17 [Computer/SW/P2P, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53495 Activity:nil | 11/4 Holy cow, I got a warning from my ISP that they were notified
by BSA/baytsp.com that I was copying music/video/software.
Do they do port scan or something? That's a first for me.
\_ They hang out on P2P networks and track IP addresses. -tom
\_ I believe they are paid by content providers to perform this
monitoring service, so you should only run this risk with content
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2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate | 10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
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2009/7/28-8/6 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:53213 Activity:nil | 7/27 I have an actual technical question here. My MySQL DBA tells me
that I can't expect a MySQL port to be able to run effectively
on more than a two CPU box, he says that the extra CPUs will
sit there unused. Is this true? I have a bunch of new quad core
servers that I would like to use as Database machines. -ausman
\_ It's not that simple. If you stress test your new fancy multi core
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