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Sunday·20·May·2007

autossh vs TCP resetter //at 00:49 //by abe

from the lick-my-ass-script-kiddie dept.

LUG-Camp 2007 in Interlaken is nearly over, and I’m reading my mail as usual using ssh, screen and mutt on the server. But the ssh connection resets every few minutes. According to the LUSC people (who are running the gateway) some script kiddie is running a TCP resetter somewhere in the network.

I remembered that I read about autossh in the Debian package list once a while and that it sounded cool but I had no use for it yet. Until now.

I’m writing this over the same crashing ssh connection and I’m typing without taking big notice of the quite often occurring connection resets:

autossh noone.org -t 'screen -rd'

It just works. :-)

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Saturday·25·March·2006

SuSE sucks! //at 02:24 //by abe

from the frustration dept.

Since SuSE closes the security support two years after release and the recent KDE JavaShit remote code execution hole wasn’t patched as fast as I would have expected it (the patch came out after the upgrade I’m writing about here) in the SuSE 9.0 which was installed on my 2.66 GHz AMD desktop at work (it started as in 2002 as a SuSE 7.3 on a 400 MHz box and has been upgraded since then to 8.0, 8.2 and 9.0 IIRC), I decided, it’s now really time to upgrade to SuSE 10.0. (Although 10.1 will be out soon, I just don’t want to wait for it.) And since my boss only wants SuSE boxes and neither Debian (which I would prefer) nor Gentoo (which a colleague prefers), I couldn’t simply install Sarge on this box although I would have chosen that option if it would have been available.

Since my former SuSE experiences told me that this would mean a lot of trouble, I took notes from the beginning, once for the blog and once for my boss to show him, that most trouble doesn’t come from me being a power user used to being allowed to touch any config file (like I am on Debian).

Preparations

So I begin with the preparations: Starting the 400 MHz Debian Woody box on my desktop (whose operating system is more than a year older than SuSE 9.0 and still has security support, yeah!) I usually need to build custom Debian packages for customers. There I could chat in IRC and took notes while trying to upgrade and get the whole thing working again.

When everything was ready, I put the SuSE DVD in — just to notice, that it’s just a CD-ROM. So I put the SuSE 10.0 CD1 in the CD-ROM drive and typed “sudo shutdown -r now” in the shell. The box starts shutting down and tells me:

Please stand by while rebooting the system…

But it didn’t reboot. I waited for several minutes, nothing happend. Well, seems as if the SuSE upgrade already starts as I expect it to end: Horrible.

Read more…


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Thursday·02·March·2006

I love and hate Unicode //at 02:30 //by abe

from the love-and-hate dept.

When I first saw Joey’s wish for a Unicode bumper sticker, I just parsed

 I [?] Unicode

as a little bit sarcastic »I ♥ Unicode«, but when nion posted it, too, I noticed, that it may also be read as »I ☠ Unicode«. Maybe, that this — both — is exactly what Joey intended to say, and I have to acknowledge this: I hate Unicode in my mutt since Sarge because it doesn’t work with screen out of the box anymore, and I hate Unicode in my Emacs since Emacs 20 because it screws up everything. But I love Unicode in my irssi and on the web. Strange world. But this virtual bumper sticker expresses that feeling somehow perfectly.

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Bei manchem Spam ist man froh, daß SpamAssassin ihn nicht erwischt… //at 01:38 //by abe

Aus der Lustiges-in-der-Inbox Abteilung

Mir ist zwar noch nicht klar, warum der SpamAssassin diesen Spam nicht erwischt hat, aber ich bin froh drüber. Denn diese automatisierte Übersetzung ist zum totlachen:

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:17:30 +0000
Subject: LifeProfit Inc.
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_44,DNS_FROM_RFCI_DSN,
        HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART,MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,NO_REAL_NAME
        autolearn=no version=2.64

LifeProfit Inc. kann Ihnen helfen, Ihre Traume zu zwingen, sich, bekommend
das monatliche Gehalt, das das Internet einwirkt, zu verwirklichen.

Um mit LifeProfit Inc. zu arbeiten, brauchen:
? Ein B?rger Deutschlands zu sein
? das Vorhandensein der Rechnung in der Bank
? die Vereinigung des Computers zum Internet
? ist ein wenig es Ihre freie Zeit

Wie es arbeitet:

Arbeitend f?r uns wie die Bezahlung, Die den Manager bearbeitet, werden Sie
Teil Aus der neuen Tendenz im weltumfassenden Banksystem. Die Pflichten Die
Lage ist einfach, und das Einkommen hangt nur von Ihren Bem?hungen ab.

Sie Sollen - die Zahlungen der Sendung zwischen unseren Kunden, die Ihr
Interesse von jeder Operation bekommen, machen.
Hauptsachlich werden es 5 %, mit jeder Sendung, die Ihr Interesse z?chten
wird. Unsere Kunden bekommen 1000 EURO zu 20000.

www.lifeprofit.com

LifeProfit Inc. sorgt sich um Ihr Bl?hen. Machen Sie Ihr Leben besser
zusammen mit der LifeProfit Inc.!

Und daß Postbank und Deutsche Bank jetzt zur Deutschen Postbank fusioniert haben, weiß ich auch erst seit dieser netten Mail:

From support@deutsche-bank.de Tue Sep 20 21:53:14 2005
From: PostBank <support@deutsche-bank.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:45:19 -0400
Subject: PostBank online banking
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616
X-Spam-Level: ****
X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML,
        FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RATWARE_RCVD_PF
        autolearn=no version=3.0.2

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   Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
   In Verbindung damit, daß wir in unserem Land in eine schwierige
   Situation mit online - Banking geraten sind, wurde uns empfohlen, alle
   online - Konten von unserer Bank zu kontrollieren, um die
   "Tageskonten" festzustellen, die von den Betrügern dazu benutzt
   werden, das gestohlene Geld zu waschen. Demzufolge bitten wir unsere
   Kunden inständig, das Formular einer Kontobestätigung, das sich auf
   unserer offiziellen Web-Seite befindet, auszufüllen.
   Jene Konten, die bis zum 27.08.05 auf diesem Formular nicht angegeben
   werden, werden bis zur Feststellung der Bedingungen ihrer Eröffnung
   und Benutzung blockiert. Diese Revision betrifft sowohl die
   Privatkunden, als auch die Firmenkunden.

   Wir bitten um Verzeihung für die Unannehmlichkeiten, die wir Ihnen
   bereitet haben, wir hoffen auf Ihre Hilfe und gegenseitiges
   Verständnis.
   Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
   Sicherheitsabteilung,
   Postbank.de
      © 2005 Deutsche Postbank AG

References

   Visible links
   Hidden links:
   1. http://postbanking.net/

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Klasse, nicht?

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He was born 1975 at Villingen-Schwenningen, made his Abitur at Schwäbisch Hall, studied Computer Science with minor Biology at University of Saarland at Saarbrücken (Germany) and now lives in Zürich (Switzerland), working at the IT Support Group (ISG) of the Departement of Physics at ETH Zurich.

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