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August 29, 2008

Political FUD

Filed under: Items from the Quibbler — Darkavich @ 9:31 pm

I have been paying attention (my first mistake) to some of the comments made after McCain picked his VP choice. The biggest issue I have read is the inexperience of the governor of alaska. So I thought I would do a quick Wikipedia search of all the past presidents and see what their experience in public office was before they were elected as vice president or president. I found the results interesting:

Washington (No government experience, military only)
James Monroe (governor for 3 years and 4 months)
Andrew Jackson (senator for 16 months, governor for 8 months)
Zachary Taylor (no government experience, only military)
Millard Fillmore (no experience before elected VP)
James Buchanan (senator 4 months)
Abraham Lincoln (two years in House of Representatives)
Ulysses Grant (no experience, military only)
Chester Arthur (no experience)
William McKinley (4 years governor)
Teddy Roosevelt (2 years governor)
William Taft (1 month Governor cuba)
Woodrow Wilson (26 months governor)
Herbert Hoover (no experience)
Franklin Roosevelt (3 years governor)
Dwight Eisenhower (no experience, only military)

Take the results as you will… All I point out is don’t always listen to propoganda and FUD. Educate yourself and make sure your decision is your own and not just being a parrot of the news media.

August 25, 2008

Oh Mighty Isis

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 10:01 pm

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

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:36 pm

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 21, 2008

maryland rocks!

Filed under: Items in the Pensieve — Darkavich @ 8:12 pm

I was driving back from frostbug, MD to baltimore and searched for a decent radio station. I found a classic rock station. Not a station like we have in california that plays the same 100 songs by the same artists.
The next song turned out to be a song I have not heard in a while. “One of These Days” by Pink Floyd. An awesome song! Then they played other classic rocks and then more obscure great rock songs!

Who needs Cleveland when you have stations like this!

August 20, 2008

I am not who you think I am.

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:58 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 ST  PID  PPID  PGID   SID   UID PRI   NAME        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 😉

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