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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The autodetection routines for some linux modules can tie up the machine for several seconds at a time. By trying to open devices not present on the machine, a local user can disrupt service considerably. A very simple exploit is victim$ ls /dev/*/* repeatedly. A suggested fix is to remove or chmod 0 device nodes for hardware not installed on the

...write access to 0x00150000 at address 0xb7d75cbc (thread 0009), starting debugger... First chance exception: page fault on write access to 0x00150000 in 32-bit code (0xb7d75cbc). After that comes a register dump, stack dump, and 28 lines of backtrace. Where do I go from here? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

Could someone tell me why -interline is required to run Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee? How does one turn off -vstretch? For someone to fix this, where would one look in Wine's source code? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

I upgraded my machine from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid and now I get stuttering audio. I'm running the closed-source nvidea driver and a realtime kernel, like before the upgrade. Any ideas as to how I can speed up audio? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

...661.org/tmp/synthinvent.png [1] http://synthesizers.com/synthinvent.html. I'm the one Roger noted at the bottom regarding Ubuntu 9.04. I've since upgraded to 10.04 using this /etc/apt/sources.list entry: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu lucid main -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

Hi, I am building my own TCP daemon for easing some routine admin stuff... I am no expert on security,. I would really appreciate it if someone sent me some pointers to writing TCP daemons that are hacker-proof( i know there is nothing like that...but I do not want to be making mistakes in coding that are well known.. ;) The daemon runs as root....so that is why I am woried.... Thx, Arni

I've downloaded Wine 1.1.7 and unzipped it onto my desktop. I've printed out the readme file and have followed the quick start by running ./tools/wineinstall (I'm doing all this by mouseclicks - no terminal). A dialog box flashes and then nothing happens. I can't stop this dialog box long enough to see if there is an error msg, so I don't know what is happening, except I

I''d like to hear some suggestions about securely administering a system remotely. Here''s the application: a project is going to scatter some server machines around the US. The server machines will be running Linux, with the only network servers being a custom application. Ignoring the separate question of physical security, how can I remotely check the system''s