| 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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| 2009/7/4-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53111 Activity:low | 7/4 Is there a web browser available on soda? My employer has a firewall
blocking some web sites.
\_ How about setting up a web proxy on Soda?
\_ Use links :)
\_ lynx?
\_ Best text only web browser is elinks, it even supports some
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| 2006/1/3-5 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:41211 Activity:moderate | 1/3 what's the best terminal program (I just want to ssh from my laptop
to soda) for macosx?
\_ don't like terminal?
\_ What's wrong with /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app?
\_ iTerm looks/works well for me. -scottyg
\_ second.
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| 2006/1/3-5 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:41214 Activity:nil | 1/3 Regarding the WMF vulnerability, is it true that if you're using
Firefox 1.5, you'll always be prompted when there's a WMF image on a
web page? I know those using IE are SOL unless they install the 0-day
patch from Ilfak Guilfanov mentioned here:
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
This part is funny:
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| 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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