Even more bugs that should have died in 2005..! This time it is Gentoo bug 77873. Perhaps there are a glut of bored open source developers who have time to devote to bugs that really aren't very important
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More dead bugs
Another new year, another bug from the past. The last one was from 2007 but this beats it by over a year. I haven't used KDE or Konqueror for a few years now, but I hope the resolution of KDE…
Posted in Computing
Where bugs go to die
I was surprised today to receive an email about a bug. In itself this isn't uncommon, but I didn't remember the bug very well. The bug in question is Wireshark bug #1850. I was using tshark for a work project…
Highlighting admin comments in the Responsive theme
One thing I like about some blogs is that you can easily see when the admin has replied to comments. It is easy to tweak the Responsive theme to change the colour of these comments by including a few lines…
Ticketweb followup
Ticketweb (a UK arm of Ticketmaster) have confirmed that someone was able to send emails to subscribers fraudulently. Their initial response was covered on the Naked Security blog. A second email was sent out this evening: One part which stands…
Ticketmaster / Ticketweb hacked?
This afternoon I received an email with the spammy subject "Action Required : Update Your PDF Application". I almost ignored it until I noticed that the link inside pointed to a domain owned by Ticketmaster. As I have shopped with…
Fixing vim from macports
After installing vim from MacPorts I noticed that neither the arrow keys or backspace work as expected. The solution is simple, create a ~/.vimrc file with the following contents: set nocompatible set bs=2 Reload vim and voila, insert mode behaves…
Stupid password rules
Today I forgot the password for a site I use only occasionally. This is rare, as I have a number of password schemes that I use to create a password unique to each site. After clicking the reset password link,…
dban on a USB stick
After a number of unsuccessful attempts to get dban on a USB stick using unetbootin, I found the Universal USB Installer instead. This appears to do a better job, making a bootable installation from the latest preview build of dban.…
Posted in Computing
Reporting a phishing site, is it worth it?
So I thought I was being a good internet citizen when I received the following email a week ago: Dear User; Please update to our new server click here to begin http://glacierdesign.ca/phpform/forms/form1.html Thanks and have a wonderful day. Webmaster The…
