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[OT] More MS sec flaws
by Amol Hatwar 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

More security flaws have been revealed in IE, precisely in the way PNGs are interpreted. One of the people who discovered the flaw has even written a poem on it. Find more news here: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137611 The flaw comes after many sites (especially ones titled to Free Software) stopped using GIFs and started using PNG based images. Is this coincidence? Regards, Amol Hatwar.

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DevFS
by Amish Munshi 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Hello everyone, I was busy for a few days and had delivary to my account off for the mailing lists. Is there anything very major happenning on the list? I am using Mandrake 9.0 and something called DevFS starts everytime I boot up my PC. It takes approx 30 seconds of time during bootup. I realized that the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit causes it to run. # Try to get devfsd if [ -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then action "Running DevFs daemon" devfsd /dev else if ! grep -q "nodevfsd" /proc/cmdline;then # devfs is used but devfsd isn't installed quiet off gprintf " #### your system is currently using devfs but devfsd isn't availlable" gprintf " #### you should disable devfs (add 'devfs=nomount' to the paramaters" gprintf " #### that your bootloader gives to the kernel" # Let devfs being tested, but disable it on /dev action " Disabling devfs (was mounted on /dev)" umount /dev fi fi fi Can I disable it, I do not understand what it is. There is no man or any other info for it. Thanks in advance. Bye.

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Generating images through scripts
by Chetan Vaity 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

I want to create simple images (mostly lines and text) programatically. Has anyone dabbled with Gimp scripting to create images? Or can someone tell me another tool/program which does something similar. - Chetan

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[OT] Economic Times Article "Windows far ahead of Linux: Gates"
by Nikhil Kale 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

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Asus V3005
by Satish Alwani 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Hi I havent yet joined ilug yet.. will do so in a while.. if someone can forward me the exact url.. coz the site only shows me a mail login. Anyways.. I have a Asus V3005 32 MB agp (with respect to http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20020708/005425.htm l) and I'd like to know if anyone has found a workable cure for this. I am trying to use this on Redhat 8.0 Thanks, Satish ilug(a)assid.com

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FYI - Yahoo messenger port change
by Philip S Tellis 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

It appears that the port number for yahoo messenger has changed. While windows clients don't have a problem, the linux client has the port number written in its .ymessenger/preferences file Change 5050 to 23 in there. Same is true for everybuddy - change in the preferences window, or in .everybuddy/prefs gaim too probably. Philip -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater (actually written by Karl Hess)

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Web publishers face worldwide legal liability
by Kiran Nadgir 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

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OT - Topology plotting
by kishor bhagwat 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

hello guys, I'm facing a vexing problem...one of my colleagues is writing a network mgmt system thats queries our WAN devices, collects info on their 'neighbours' and is supposed to plot the topology of the network. so basically...the input to the plotting program would be a list of: nodeID,{set of its neighbours}

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Check out Developement Languages
by Sachin Rase 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

[Fwd: [Ilugc] developer cd update.] -- Regards ----------- Sachin Rase MediaIBC ----------

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I have also been hacked in almost they exact same way you have.
by toeknee 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

I unplugged my cracked linux box from my network. I have tried not to tamper too much with the log messages however after reading your thread I to noticed in my .bash_history file there were very many similarities in your story. Let me know what I can do to help. Im not a linux guru but I did do really well in two unix classes I just took so I sort of know my way around. ToeKnee

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