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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>TTY Problems In Fedora 16</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45072-tty-problems-in-fedora-16/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, i just installed fedora 16 on an old computer of mine but cant switch to any of the tty screens using the ctrl+alt+f-keys. I used to use fedora 14 and they worked fine there but then i figured it was time to upgrade and now, nothing. <br />
<br />
I have no idea what the problem is, can anyone help me out with this?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45072-tty-problems-in-fedora-16/</guid>
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		<title>Watching my drives fill</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45031-watching-my-drives-fill/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a geek and want to see trending data of the free space of all my drives (summed up). Here's the cron entry I added:<br />
<br />
<pre class='prettyprint'>0 18 * * * date | awk '{print $1", "$2", "$3", "$4", "$6", "}'| head -c -1 | cat &gt;&gt; /home/xlogicx/logs/server_usage.csv; df --total | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $2", "$3", "$4", "$5}' | cat &gt;&gt; /home/xlogicx/logs/server_usage.csv</pre><br />
<br />
The csv has this as it's first line initially:<br />
Weekday, Month, Day, Time, Year, Total, Used, Free, Percentage<br />
<br />
A sample line that the command produces in the csv is:<br />
Sun, Dec, 17, 18:00:01, 2011, 9511873444, 8248258400, 1227300728, 88%<br />
<br />
It runs everyday at 6pm. the --total on df is great for a poor-mans RAID (several independent drives in a server not RAIDed). I specifically don't use -h because it reduces precision; harder to notice subtle changes.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45031-watching-my-drives-fill/</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[Linux &#38; Secure boot]]></title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45013-linux-secure-boot/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft recently announced it plans on releasing its windows 8 machines (machines with the windows 8 compatibility logo) with the "secure boot" scheme (which i hear has already been cracked) that could lock out Linux systems and other free software. That's not much of a problem but if vendors  begin making this an industry standard without adding features to let the user switch secure boot off or authorize software manually this could be trouble. <br />
<br />
<br />
For further reading see:<br />
<a href='http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/</a><br />
<a href='http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-foundation-proposes-to-use-uefi-to-make-pcs-secure-and-free/9827' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-foundation-proposes-to-use-uefi-to-make-pcs-secure-and-
free/9827</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/45013-linux-secure-boot/</guid>
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		<title>Best for customization?</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44855-best-for-customization/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[So I've gotten to that point in fandom where I love Linux so much that I actually WANT to spend 50 or so odd work hours customizing my next distro from the ground up. I want something that will be secure, fully stocked in terms of features, and I'd like it to be 64 bit. My computer, although 2 years old now, is by no means a lightweight, and can run just about anything you can imagine, so there are very few limits here. How about it Nix users, which direction should I be pointing this thing?<br />
<br />
Per usual, pic related...sorta.<br />
<a href='http://geekisawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Guitar-Hero-610x600.jpg' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://geekisawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Guitar-Hero-610x600.jpg</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44855-best-for-customization/</guid>
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		<title>What did you have before linux?</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44832-what-did-you-have-before-linux/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I had Windows 7.  Now I've migrated to Ubuntu and am staying there.<br />
<br />
All I regret is: 1) should've never used Windows, 2) should've at least migrated <em class='bbc'>before</em> spending $120 to upgrade to Windows 7 three months ago.<br />
<br />
Now all I need is a nipple ring.  Jk..lol.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44832-what-did-you-have-before-linux/</guid>
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		<title>Cant find wireless with AnitX linux</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44695-cant-find-wireless-with-anitx-linux/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, I have a Acer i3 laptop and I have both Windows 7 and AntiX linux installed.Windows 7 works fine but when im running AntiX I cant dectect my wireless at all. I think it may be some thing to do with linux not being able to find my ethernet card. Even when I type my wireless information manually I still cant find it.Does this sound familier to anyone???? Thanks for any suggestions. <img src='http://www.binrev.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/dark/blink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44695-cant-find-wireless-with-anitx-linux/</guid>
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		<title>Trying to boot from USB again...</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44687-trying-to-boot-from-usb-again/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Im trying to run a live session of arch on my netbook and im running into many issues.<br />
First off the .iso image i downloaded for arch is only 160 mb which seems a bit small for an entire os, but ill bite. Ubuntus live usb creator wont let me select it either to send to my thumb drive (4gb) so i tried to do it in terminal<br />
<pre class='prettyprint'>
sudo dd if=(arches path) of= /dev/sdb1
</pre><br />
All it did was extract and not make it bootable... I tried to boot from it twice and it gets skipped even when i tell the bios to boot from it, i get a menu with only ubuntu and mem test.<br />
i got my directions from here<br />
<a href='https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Putting_installation_media_on_a_USB_key' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Putting_installation_media_on_a_USB_key</a><br />
<br />
any pointers or different GUI friendly gnome based distro i should try?<br />
My linux knowledge is intermediate, but stable.<br />
<br />
thanks a million.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44687-trying-to-boot-from-usb-again/</guid>
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		<title>hasee f420s bios unlocker</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44678-hasee-f420s-bios-unlocker/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[hi, I'm a newbie need ur help on hasee f420s bios unlocking code thanx]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44678-hasee-f420s-bios-unlocker/</guid>
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		<title>a happy couple</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44566-a-happy-couple/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I found these useful, I hope you do as well. Making these helped me learn some basic but useful things about bash, linux and python.<br />
<pre class='prettyprint'>
#!/bin/bash
##
### netmon.sh - use nmap to watch local network for active hosts
## Note: don't forget to set 'NETWORK' to your subnet
#
export NETWORK="10.0.1."

# Cleanup 
function cancel() {
  echo ""
  echo "deleting /tmp/netmon.tmp.."; rm -f /tmp/netmon.tmp
  echo "killing all instances of nmap.."; killall -g nmap
  echo "killing all instances of netmon.sh.."; killall -g netmon.sh
}

# Make sure to catch ctrl-c for cleanup routine
trap cancel SIGINT

# Check if nmap is installed 
if &#91; -f `which nmap` &#93;
  then
    touch /tmp/netmon.tmp
    while true; do nmap -sP $NETWORK*|grep $NETWORK &gt; /tmp/netmon.tmp; sleep 30; done &
    while true; do clear; echo "Local Network: "; cat /tmp/netmon.tmp; sleep 7; done
  else
    # If nmap is not installed tell the user and quit
    echo "nmap not found: install nmap and run again" && exit
fi
</pre><br />
<pre class='prettyprint'>
#!/usr/bin/python
##
### getip.py - get external ip from ipchicken.com
##
#
import httplib

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("ipchicken.com")
conn.request("GET", "/")
resp = conn.getresponse()

if resp.status != 200:
	print resp.status, resp.reason
	exit()
elif resp.status == 200:
	output = resp.read()
	output = output&#91;output.find('&lt;font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#0000FF"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'): 
		output.find('&lt;A HREF="javascript:makeLink()"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;')&#93;
	output = output.strip('font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#0000FF"&gt;&lt;b&gt;')
	output = output.strip()
	output = output.strip('&lt;br&gt;')
	print output
else: 
	print resp.status, resp.reason
	exit()
</pre>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44566-a-happy-couple/</guid>
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		<title>Whats desktops do you guys use?</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44503-whats-desktops-do-you-guys-use/</link>
		<description>Just curious, trying to make conversation. As I stated in a previous post I recently switched from Fluxbox to LXDE and I like it a lot because it runs great on my low end system and it just works great too. So what do you guys use for a desktop and why?</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44503-whats-desktops-do-you-guys-use/</guid>
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		<title>Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44502-lightweight-x11-desktop-environment/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since switching to LXDE I see no need to use any other desktop environment. I absolutely love it.<br />
<br />
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 22:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44502-lightweight-x11-desktop-environment/</guid>
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		<title>using linux or freebsd on the viliv n5 (or other umpcs)</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44434-using-linux-or-freebsd-on-the-viliv-n5-or-other-umpcs/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi.  I'm looking at maybe getting the Viliv N5 (or maybe the UMID bz, though it looks a bit tacky) and I hear that it has the Intel Poulsbo GMA500 graphics chipset.  Are there any good drivers for that for Linux or FreeBSD or like what's the actual state of that situation?  It seems many of the articles I read about that situation are fairly old and that I would have thought something would have changed by now. In particular, I want to know if 3D acceleration is even possible so I could play some games on it (then again, some things like from Steam for example can run in software mode).<br />
<br />
Also there's the networking issue.  Less of an issue though because both FreeBSD and Linux can use ndiswrapper to deal with that, but a native driver would still be nice.<br />
<br />
Thank you.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44434-using-linux-or-freebsd-on-the-viliv-n5-or-other-umpcs/</guid>
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		<title>Gained root - now what?</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44413-gained-root-now-what/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I found a box running Arch Linux, which I thought I'd try to exploit for learning purposes. A quick nmap showed it was running an exploitable server, so I managed to get a shell - and from there I really didn't have much of a problem finally gaining root. The fact that even I could get into the box tells me that this guy did absolutely nothing to secure it.<br />
<br />
Inside, I found out that this is a workstation, full of personal files to the user. Not of much use to me, although I saved some accounts/passwords for usable websites (thanks to saved passwords in ~/.mozilla/). I don't want to ruin this guys life in any way, so Facebook accounts etc doesn't interest me.<br />
<br />
Now, as root, I want to make sure this box will be available to me in the future, for various purposes. Unfortunately it was obvious to me that this guy shuts down the computer at night, and he has a public dynamic IP.<br />
<br />
<ul class='bbc'><li>First off, I anonymously registered an account at no-ip.org, and installed a daemon which updates the DNS-records whenever the IP changes. This enables me to at least reach his box, as long as he's not suddenly behind a firewall.<br />
<br /></li><li>I setup a new account with a generic name (such as "ptd") and sudo privileges, and placed the home directory under /var/spool/&lt;username&gt; to ensure it's at least a bit more hidden.<br />
<br /></li><li>I deleted all logs which witnessed on my activities, and replaced them with symlinks to /dev/null, to make sure that nothing was saved in the logs when/if he discovers I'm connected.<br />
<br /></li><li>I renamed and moved the "/usr/bin/who"-application to "/usr/sbin/wat", so I can see him when he's logged in, while not letting him see me. My hostname shows up with that script. Is there any other way to disable that without replacing the program with a fake one compiled from scratch? Is my hostname visible anywhere else? /var/log/lastlog points to /dev/null, as well as /var/log/auth.log.<br />
<br /></li><li>I installed an FTPd which can enable me to access files, or store files on his box.<br />
<br /></li><li>A polipo proxy was added, to get me another way of accessing the internet "anonymously". I'm thinking about installing OpenVPN instead...<br />
<br /></li><li>I also installed a keylogger which logs all physical keystrokes into a stealth file, available for me by SSH or FTP.</li></ul><br />
<br />
So, what have I missed? Any tips would be great, since I'm not very experienced in being stealth online. Of course I did all this from a WiFi-network which isn't mine, and I spoofed my MAC-address beforehand.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44413-gained-root-now-what/</guid>
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		<title>Kinda-Noobie to linux question</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44320-kinda-noobie-to-linux-question/</link>
		<description>The question is in the description, namely what Word processors do you all like.  I have used linux for a little while, but now want to move over to doing all my articles in Ubuntu 10.4.  I still run windows but always start my  VirtualBox as soon as I power on my computer.  I am trying to move to Linux full time but have yet found all the programs I want.  I just want you suggestion on what word processor I should use. Thanks for any replies.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44320-kinda-noobie-to-linux-question/</guid>
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		<title>Ubuntu and D2L</title>
		<link>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44235-ubuntu-and-d2l/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[{edit}<br />
I was chasing the wrong rabbit.<br />
<br />
Using Ubuntu 10.4 and 10.10:<br />
<br />
Problem:<br />
<br />
  Could not login to D2L (Desire 2 Learn)<br />
  Entering the correct un/pw would not allow entry, it would just ask for the un/pw again.<br />
  Entering the wrong un/pw would pop-up a java window saying you're wrong, and redirect to a different (pseudo help) page.<br />
<br />
  If your university/school has a one-stop with a link to login to D2L, Clear your cookies at the D2L login page and it'll let you right on in.<br />
  Logging out of one-stop isn't enough, there is a cookie crumb interfering. Or simply bookmark the D2L page and totally avoid the one-stop page. <br />
  This might just be a local thing with my University.  YMMV<br />
<br />
This doesn't seem to bother win7 at all.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/44235-ubuntu-and-d2l/</guid>
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