Posts by jailbird

Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413,
814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses

Re: Good for Huawei

Because NAT is a kludge that breaks many things (eg, SIP), unless you use yet even more kludges (STUN).

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates

Re: "that integrates the Linux guest more closely with its Windows host."

Uh, no. WSL1 was another NT “personality” that basically just performed Linux syscall emulation. It ran directly as part of the NT kernel.

WSL2 just uses a slimmed down Hyper-V for the most part, so it’s a VM using VT-x/SVM.

WSL1 was more performant, but required more work on MS’s part to keep the syscall emulation up to date with newer Linux kernels. It also meant that not every Linux kernel feature was available (cgroups, etc). It’s also why WSL1 worked on machines without hardware-assisted virtualization.

That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices

Re: Its confirmed to be cups-browsed

I wonder if this is a separate issue. The cups bug says it is a DoS, while the Tweet for this 9.9 says it's a RCE.

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Re: Ask the Oracle

Oracle Linux has always used upstream Red Hat SRPMs, it has never been based on CentOS, ever.

There's both a plus and a negative to Oracle Linux: They actually fix bugs that Red Hat doesn't, especially in the toolchain (gcc, binutils, libc). The plus is that bugs are fixed, the negative is that it means it is no longer 100% bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL. Is this normally a problem? No, but for some people it might be.

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

Re: The unthinkable option...

Replacement barrels and such for 1911s usually require handfitting anyways, unless you get parts with such loose tolerances that your accuracy goes out the window

Re: The unthinkable option...

Except that it does. Check out a Pickle Gun on Wikipedia.

Re: Handgun?

Done and done.

There's an insane number of laws involving firearms (eg https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/guide/federal-firearms-regulations-reference-guide-2014-edition-atf-p-53004/download is just federal, not state) and they're already heavily enforced/punished.

Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds

Re: Very risky move for Apple.

True about the import.

As for the place in the wrong location, did you use the prominent "Report a Problem" option? It's pretty quick to fill out, drop the pin where it really it, and hit submit. They usually get fixed fast.

Apple Maps added offline maps not too long ago, so you can do the same download of map data ahead of time for places with no mobile coverage.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Beyond me

Actually, the Windows user/file security is much more advanced than normal POSIX ACLs, it's why NFSv4 ACLs were modeled off of it.

That doesn't mean that Microsoft actually USES them like they should, though.

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build

Re: Didn't have enough yet ?

Business? Unlike Red Hat, Oracle Linux isn't paywalled, it's as free to use as Alma or Rocky. You just don't get support without paying.

Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk

Re: RHEL not vulnerable.

Actually, no, RHEL9 and CentOS 9 Stream are NOT patched, I just checked. In fact, the RHEL9 package hasn't been updated since April and the CentOS 9 Stream package was updated a month ago. So there's no way they're patched.

Your "yum" command is invalid and will produce a list of every available package. the dnf man page straight out says:

--cve=<cves>, --cves=<cves>

Include packages that fix a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Ex‐

posures) ID (http://cve.mitre.org/about/), Eg. CVE-2201-0123.

Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo, upgrade and

offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) commands.

Notice 'list' isn't listed.

# dnf repoquery --cve=CVE-2024-6387

Will return.. nothing