My new rail clamps have arrived!
September 11, 2008
August 29, 2008
Where has customer service gone…?
…It’s alive and well in the home appliances world.
On the heels of my wonderfull experience with KitchenAid I had to return one of my Henckels knives because a crack appeared in the blade. I wrote to them to see what the cost of repair was. They told me to ship them back the knife. I did that and promptly forgot about it for four weeks. Today my brand new knife arrived for free!
I am so glad that companies still stand behind their products. Too bad it’s a German company and not an American company.
August 25, 2008
Oh Mighty Isis
So at the ball game today I decided to see how good the iPhone app is that recognized songs and allows you to purchase them. Between each inning they play music and I have wonder what some of the songs are. So, I started up Shazam! and well… Shazam! it recognized every song!
This app rocks!
August 23, 2008
Yubico’s Yubikey
I received my two yubikey’s today. I quickly found the wordpress plugin and it JUST works after adding the plugin and setting up my account. Now I want to see if I can use this for my unix login and all other forms of authentication.
August 20, 2008
I am not who you think I am.
Digging through my old email archives I found this:
Ok, I learned something really cool today from Sun.
How can you tell if a process is chroot’d or not? ps gives you no clue, nor does the kmem.
Here is a neat trick to figure this out. You have to love those kernal hackers!!!
% ps -aef | egrep nscd
root 1022    1 0 09:21:20 ?       0:00 /bb/bin/nscd
% crash -d /dev/mem -n /dev/ksyms
dumpfile = /dev/mem, namelist = /dev/ksyms, outfile = stdout
> p #1022
PROC TABLE SIZE = 30000
SLOT STÂ PIDÂ PPIDÂ PGIDÂ Â SIDÂ Â UID PRIÂ Â NAMEÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â FLAGS
47 s 1022    1 1022 1022    0 50 nscd          load
> user 47
PER PROCESS USER AREA FOR PROCESS 47
PROCESS MISC:
command: nscd, psargs: /bb/bin/nscd
start: Thu Oct 24 09:21:20 2002
mem: 1fd, type: fork
vnode of current directory: 300041d98e8, vnode of root directory: 300041d98e8,
[rest of output deleted]
Run crash, then “p #pid”, then “user SLOT”
The fact that it lists “vnode of root directory” means it is chroot’d.
pretty cool 😉
