posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

Lots of (bad) publicity for LinuxWorld over the weekend over a story posted by Maureen O’Gara on the linuxworld.com web site. The story was refuted by Groklaw which then got Slashdotted . The sad thing is that there was a discussion among the editors just a few weeks ago about Maureen’s material appearing so prominently on the web site and the problems with this story in particular. Nothing was done to correct the problem with [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Linux & Open Source

I’m seeing a weird crash of Firefox (1.0PR) on a Debian testing box apparently due to Firefox trying something that GrSec doesn’t like. Specifically, kernel: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0 by (firefox-bin:3092) UID(1000) EUID(1000), parent (firefox-bin:30648) UID(1000) EUID(1000) This is still on 2.4.25 though, so I should probably update that. Curiously, it only happens when visiting amazon.com and only then sometimes, though pretty regularly on that site. I [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget

The filter for TCPDump to exclude 802.1d traffic: ‘not ether proto 0.42′ See tcpdump’s source file llc.h for more information.