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accidentally rm -fr /etc

gfdsa — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:26:59 +0000

If you ( better not you, but **** happens) remove your /etc on redhat/centos 5 and you still have an open remote root shell, here is what you have to do to make sure you still can reach the host (I wouldn’t write it if I had a backup):

0. Say f***********ck, take a deep breath and don’t panic

1. Make a prayer ( whatever god will do, even Einstein, nobody hears you screaming anyway )

2. Restore /etc/resolv.conf, opendns will work if you don’t remember what are the servers

3. copy/paste/wget this from another redhat host:

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 25 00:37 security
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 30 13:47 selinux
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 643 Mar 18 20:44 group
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1653 Mar 18 20:45 passwd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 18 20:48 ssh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 18 20:54 pam.d
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1848 Mar 18 20:55 nsswitch.conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 8515 Mar 18 20:55 protocols
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 188 Mar 18 20:56 hosts.allow
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 375 Mar 18 20:56 hosts.deny
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 212 Mar 18 20:56 hosts
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 17 Mar 18 20:57 host.conf
-r——– 1 root root 1358 Mar 18 21:01 shadow

Some of these maybe not needed, but just in case

4. edit passwd/shadow/group to add local users, hopefully you don’t have much and you remember who owned what to recover the ids

5. generate host keys like:

ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -C ” -N ”
ssh-keygen -q -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -C ” -N ”
ssh-keygen -q -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -C ” -N ”

6. try to ssh to the host

7. repeat with strace until it works

8. get a lot of coffee and start to recover other stuff

What’s up with SPAM ratio? What will your send me next email marketer?

gfdsa — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:36:38 +0000

As Neil Schwartzman in returnpath blog says about McAfee email report which shows that overall amount of email has grew up whenever the SPAM ratio remains the same:

The very bad news: Overall email volume is way up so the amount of spam has gone way up too. Translation: there is a lot more crap clogging up the system.

and the obvious advice:

For marketers a move toward smaller amounts of relevant email is way past due. Consumers simply aren’t able to keep up with the volume and will tune out more and more. Does this mean people will give up on email? Nope, but they will be more and more choosy — choosy about what they sign up for, choosy about what they stay subscribed to, choosy about what they open and read. You want be the email they open every time. You can do it.

And this is SOOOOO TRUE…..

Read the McAfee Report here

Researchers say that a pint a day may work as well as a low dose of aspirin in preventing heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks

gfdsa — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:35:57 +0000

http://www.fitsugar.com/Health-Benefits-Drinking-Guinness-Really-Good-You-7709620

Internet Filtering: New Zealand joins the growing crowd

gfdsa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:28 +0000

Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands.
Sad.
Here is what their opposition says:

Does New Zealand have internet filtering?

Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from May 2007 to September 2008.
The system is now running with Watchdog joining it on 1st February 2010, and Maxnet on 26th February 2010.
Other ISPs are being invited to join.

I am not particularly interested in what technical details of this are. It is not going to work anyway. But I am terribly sorry for the budget money spent for useless ( for citizens ) stuff instead of improving the quality of the infrastructure and overall digital awareness.

Primo… Secondo…

gfdsa — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:33:46 +0000

Pizzzaaaaa

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation

gfdsa — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:50:12 +0000

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation.

With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.

To sit on this technology or merely use it as a bargaining chip would be a disservice to the free world, while bringing at best limited short-term benefits to your company. To free VP8 without recommending it to YouTube users would be a wasted opportunity and damaging to free software browsers like Firefox. We all want you to do the right thing. Free VP8, and use it on YouTube!

Dear Google,

With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash).

torrents.ru no more

gfdsa — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:22:50 +0000

Russian prosecutors have closed domain delegation of torrents.ru which is a 4-30m users torrent tracker. Arguably the largest one in .ru zone. In a couple of hours the tracker came back under another domain name.

The Russian Internet is full of speculations though the idea is clear, western copyright fighters just have got another bone from Russian government. Once pirates haven Russia is eager for western money and there are dozens of demonstrative actions taken by their law forces against illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted material. Just to show. Why demonstrative ? compare it to PirateBay shutdown. It is not that hard to find who is behind the website and do legal actions against them. Ineffectiveness is the first sign of dummy operations.

But it does make me think louder about all this story with illegal content. I don’t really get the reason they still fight. Is it just greediness or what??

There are millions of downloaders in the world that steel movies just because renting or buying it legally is totally uncomfortable. We are in 2010. So just accept the Internet. Change your model and stop hunting the money you will not get. I will be among the first ones to pay for good quality, official, in whatever language I prefer movies I can download directly from publisher website.

Oh yeah, it breaks your business because you don’t know how many people will watch it, so you can’t apply theater model, you don’t know for how long I will keep it so you can’t charge the rent. And you can’t sell it to me like a DVD in the store because I can just copy it (you know I can copy whatever I see on a computer screen, right?). Pretty deadlock for you.

When something old gets deadlocked there has to be innovation to replace it. So just innovate you old farts, let it go, give it to young people with open minds. I will still go to the movies. I’m convinced my son will too. So here, take the my money for not going when movie doesn’t worth it. Here take my money for getting a movie without spending my time for blockbuster.

I think the reason is that businesses are driven by old farts. Nothing more.

A fact of life

gfdsa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:42:19 +0000

After Monday and Tuesday even your calendar says WTF

Another project to be doomed?

gfdsa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:51:29 +0000

Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun’s already-decimated APO (Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun’s Accessibility Program Office.)

Open Letter to Oracle here

Now it’s more like offense if they close it

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat

gfdsa — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:29:23 +0000

Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds | VentureBeat.

Here you go. Another “useless” thing made by Sun bites the dust.