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How many of its programs link to gnutls though? And if I'm not misunderstandig only client software is vulnerable to the cited attack.

> You must also reboot to upgrade sysvinit.

The whole point of the article is that you don't need to upgrade sysvinit or another minimal /sbin/init like those found in the BSDs.

No, it will not.

It's far from obselete: http://sta.li/faq

Yes, it's restored: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html

The problem with Debian Testing is the relatively long freeze periods before a release. Wheezy was frozen for over 10 months.

I use Ansible to manage my laptop: https://github.com/uggedal/playbooks/

I'm currently on day 211 mysef[1]. About 50 of those days were contributions made from my Nexus 4 (Connectbot, tmux, vim) while traveling without a laptop.

1: https://github.com/uggedal/

Switching to the proprietary Broadcom driver fixed all connection issues for me: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/

I used Puppet for a few years (and created a few modules for it https://github.com/puppetmodules). I switched to Salt a year ago. My main motivation were its simplicity (YAML+jinja), lower memory consumption, easier source code both to read and contribute to, and its support for both push and pull based architectures.

If you want to get a feel for how salt looks like when managing some servers and laptops you can take a look at my states: https://github.com/uggedal/states

I "learned" C by writing a smal runit/daemontools replacement. Most of the work was learning the features I needed from libc: http://uggedal.github.io/going/going.c.html

My salt states are public[1] and include among other things setup for nginx/redis/postgresql/uwsgi which powers a few Django and Flask sites.

[1]: https://github.com/uggedal/states

Just 4.5 years after EC2 was available in Ireland...: http://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/DevPay/1924

A contribution to https://github.com/defunkt/mofo got me #71 on January 27, 2008 (https://api.github.com/users/uggedal).

"mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid—in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts"

- http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/

I migrated to https://feedhq.org - its highly readable on both desktop and mobile and its open source: https://github.com/feedhq/feedhq

I migrated all my machines to salt 6 months ago after using Puppet for a few years. It's been pretty painless but I would check out Ansible also before commmiting to a Salt transition.

Salt can be used both in a pull or push fashion.

Sounds similar to my setup: Arch Linux, monsterwm, dwb, urxvt, zsh, tmux, vim. All managed with salt[1] and keeping dotfiles in git[2].

[1]: http://github.com/uggedal/states

[2]: http://github.com/uggedal/dotfiles

zsh has a plugin for fish-style syntax highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Those interested in lower memory consumption and efficiency should take a look at https://github.com/armon/statsite another statsd "clone". Originally a Python implementation statsite is now rewritten in C.

That was embarrasing. Should be fixed now: https://github.com/uggedal/going/commit/15a83397076ffbebe585...

Woulden't bittorrent be beneficial in NZ for popular torrents since not everybody needs to download the entire content through the Southern Cross Cable but instead could download some from local NZ peers?

I just track ~/ directly and add appropriate .gitignore entries to those files which are ephemeral or not part of my local configuration:

https://github.com/uggedal/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitignore

You can get user-based statistics without cookies with:

    (new Image()).src="http://your.tld/track.png?ua=" + encodeURIComponent(navigator.userAgent);

and then parse your logs.

Update: this is just an example, as ars notes the user agent is sent as a HTTP header. But screen resolution etc is not.

Linux 2.6.12 an up implements address space randomization (randomly varies the location of the stack over a 8MB range) which could explain what you're seeing.

I implemented this algorithm by using likes/views in stead of positive/negative votes on http://mediaqueri.es/popular/ and have been quite happy with the results.

The only modern and novel alternative is http://saltstack.org

For reference, the mathematical notation of the hot algorithm is from my master thesis[1].

[1]: http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=81971&lang=en