Category: dinosaur
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what’s up, mac?
Why don’t any of the host configuration checking tools work on the mac? CIS, Bastille, ossec (they don’t do conf checking on mac, plus they claim to check CIS compliance on other platforms and don’t), etc. Just want something simple to run that would check the basics, try to crack a password or two,…
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Time Traveling with Lou
In 2009 Joe Viglione wrote A Study of Lou Reed’s Berlin and Rock & Roll Animal Albums; in it he said: Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were as potent a duo as Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, and the four make-up the “Golden Era” of both The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed, that period when the recordings…
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Die, WP, Die!
Really? This little line solves so much. Sometimes I wonder what devs are thinking, if anything. Tnx to KG for figuring this one out. <pre>define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);</pre> <span style="text-align: left;"> They’re not alone. Don’t get me started on Centos.
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looking for a good man(1)
I like documentation. Programs should have it. But on the heels of the man path thing I did some more looking on my Snow Leopard System. Finding all the SUID files outside the traditional /sbin areas shows a few more (e.g. “find -x / -type f -perm -04000 -ls”.) Looks like 15 files, 8 of…
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walk like a /usr/bin/man
Sometime, probably in the paleozoic era, I wrote a little perl script I just came across again. At the time I was frustrated by commands in /bin or /usr/bin not having documentation, even on a cleanly installed system… I guess I would think if something is important enough to install on a system you might…