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1:41 AM
I'll just leave that there
 
2:20 AM
wow...
opensslrampage.org/post/83007010531/… Wonder if that commit is courtesy #NSA ?
(I mean, the one that introduced it, not the one removing it)
Although, I wonder, since they just stripped that out, does it now continue without entropy?
 
I'm kind of feeling like I want to switch to GnuTLS now
 
2:42 AM
Wonder how it compares to NSS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations ... Wikipedia tells me GnuTLS can do DNSSec
 
@strugee obviously he needs to buy another computer
 
@mikeserv I have no idea what you're talking about because you didn't use a reply
 
@mikeserv use the little arrow besides a message to reply
 
I wonder how he even managed to post on a Unix site using a different os.
 
@Braiam he knows how, he just refuses to on the grounds that it requires a keyboard
 
2:54 AM
Really pleased with this, think the script I wrote here is going to be a permanent addition to my toolbox
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A: How to find the driver (module) associated with a device on Linux?

GraemeTo get this information from sysfs for a device file, first determine the major/minor number by looking at the output of ls -l, eg $ ls -l /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 17 12:26 /dev/sda The 8, 0 tells us that major number is 8 and the minor is 0. The b at the start of the listing...

 
and apparently can't be bothered to get an addon
 
must be a result of that SSL xss thing I read about in the paper...
 
@mikeserv the hell? that doesn't make any sense
SSL is at the transport layer
XSS occurs at the application layer
 
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Q: SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

Tim Stone Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...

^ no excuses
 
2:59 AM
I did get the addons. They don't work on android.
 
@mikeserv you're on a mobile device?
 
It doesn't make sense?!? Must be because I'm posting on a Unix site from my android...
must be a result of that SSL xss thing I read about in the paper...
 
@mikeserv Android has a Linux kernel. not that it matters much
@mikeserv it posted fine. but it didn't make any sense.
SSL and XSS aren't at all related.
 
No...? Youd think they'd mention something like that in the newspaper... I think I'll write the editor....
 
been drinking?
 
3:04 AM
Haha. No. Just trolling while little Michael Peppa Pig's on the main machine.
@strugee I was originally talking about this. Then it got fun.
 
@mikeserv being thoroughly drunk, have you considered contributing to OpenSSL?
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No, but it does sometimes make me want to take up drinking again
Michael wants to know what's so funny. I told him it was Grandpa Pig.
 
3:50 AM
@derobert I meant you by the way. That was a very good joke.
 
 
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6:12 AM
@xiaodongjie hi
 
6:32 AM
@derobert convergence.io
 
 
7 hours later…
slm
1:49 PM
@Graeme again nice work
 
Yeah @Graeme, that was a damn fine answer.
 
slm
2:12 PM
@terdon - I think the bounty's Graemes. I've been racking my brain looking for another method. I still think there's a backwards way of taking lsmod output and then finding devices that are using these but have been unsuccessful thus far. Also the output of lshw looks like another method. But the output is tricky to parse.
 
2:34 PM
@slm lshw isn't much use since it only shows low level drivers. hwinfo is another program to play with though. You can do stuff like hwinfo --disk --only /dev/sda. Unfortunately you need to know the class of the device first or you have to look through a dump of everything . Really pleased with the script I wrote though since I don't think there is anything else that gives the same info, it is a good one for the toolbox.
 
slm
3:16 PM
@Graeme - I mistyped, I meant hwinfo. But the output is tricky to parse
 
3:47 PM
Hi. I want to ask. Does a person who handles data center need to know a lot about computer network? How about the level of computer network knowledge compared to network engineer (CCNA/CCNP/CCIE level)?
 
slm
I would say yes you do need a fair amount of networking understanding if dealing w/ a datacenter.
 
how about the knowledge level if use CCNA/CCNP/CCIE as the measurement?
 
4:05 PM
I use du -h to find the space a directory uses. Is there a faster way?
This also spews out a ton of output, a line for each file.
 
4:22 PM
@slm how about the knowledge level if use CCNA/CCNP/CCIE as the measurement?
 
slm
@RonVince - not sure what you're asking me
Understanding vlans routing subnets etc would seem to be at a min. the basics if dealing w/ datacenter
 
4:39 PM
@slm I mean is it required to have the level of knowledge of CCNP/CCIE to deal with data center? I assume that the CCNA is a must.
 
 
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5:41 PM
I just answered this question:
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A: How can I upgrade MySQL in Debian using apt-get?

Faheem MithaRebuilding the experimental 5.6 MySQL sources from experimental on wheezy is easy bordering on trivial. However, you will need lots of disk space, after the build was completed, the build directory was using 5.2 GB. Also, it takes a while to build - I didn't bother to time it, but allow a couple ...

But I don't know how to test the resulting packages. Can anyone tell me how to connect to a mysql server?
 
6:35 PM
Hey
Quick Question : I have one public IP and assigned to one Linux server and Now I want that this system can be access using hostname instead of numeric public IP address. I will buy the hostname also from provider but how I can configure it Any help ?
 
7:00 PM
@TGMCians Hostname -> IP mapping is performed by DNS, once the name is in DNS, that's usually all there is to configure. The only exceptions are things like name-based virtual hosting in Apache.
 
that's ok
only simple change name based virtual hosting in your Apache configuration file ?
 
@FaheemMitha mysql -u root to try as the mysql root user. If you've set a password for that user, mysql -u root -p
@TGMCians if you're using name-based virtual hosting, yes.
 
perfect
 
@derobert mysql -u root -p passwd?
 
-p tells it to prompt for a password
 
7:06 PM
@derobert so i discovered. i got a prompt at least. thanks.
 
Hi all, I have a question regarding NFS.
If the hostname is not present both in /etc/hosts.allow as well as /etc/hosts.deny, I see that the host will be allowed access.
Is this correct?
 
Thnx @derobert :)
 
@Ramesh Yes, see hosts_access(5)
 
@derobert, thanks. will look into it.
 
And, by the way, questions are supposed to go on the site :-P
 
7:13 PM
@derobert, yeah. But this was a simple question. I did not want to clog the site with just a one liner question :)
 
 
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10:28 PM
@FaheemMitha du -sch will at least not give you all the output, -s means silent, doesn't print the size of each subdir and -c makes it print the total. It should take a little less time too.
 
@terdon hi. back from your trip? I've been trying to finish writing a reply to your email.
Oh, and thanks for the info.
yes, du -sch works pretty well. must try to remember that.
 
11:30 PM
@slm hah, it appears you beat me to rejecting unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/43729 ... unfortunately, the site discarded my reject message which explained better :-(
 
slm
11:45 PM
@derobert Sorry. That edit was a waste anyway. 2 typos and a don't care about change of Notice to NOTE:.
 
@slm not your fault the site does silly things like ask someone to do work, then throw it away without warning
thankfully, it wasn't much work.
 
11:57 PM
man. quiet day.
@derobert did you check out Convergence? I gave it a try and it's broken. unmaintained. there's an active fork though
but it has no public notaries
this was prompted by our discussion on SSL the other week, btw
 
I took a quick look at it. Too busy to really look...
 

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