Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:00:52AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.01.09.0229 +0100]:
| > | > > PrintMotd no
| > | > > PrintLastLog no
| > | > 
| > | > commented out.  didn't do anything.  
| > 
| > You want those line not commented out.
| 
| good point.
| 
| > | /etc/init.d/ssh restart
| > 
| > Nah, just 
| > 
| >     /etc/init.d/ssh force-reload
| > 
| > that way you don't kill any current connections (I did it minutes ago
| > before I came home :-)).
| 
| restarting only restarts the master daemon. all running daemons in
| charge of existing ssh connections persist. i do it all the time. try
| it.

Oh, ok.  I checked the --help output, saw "force-reload" and figured
that would work.  (I still quit mutt first just in case)

| > Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
| > device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
| > simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards.
| > Pegasus is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's
| > staggering.
| > 
| > http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
| 
| yeah, adding that to my collection. so far:
| 
| after you install windows xp, you have the option to create user
| accounts. if you create user accounts, by default, they will have an
| account type of administrator with no password. way to go!
| 
| the remote desktop feature of windows xp is really nice (and *novel*!).
| as a micro$oft consultant can *remotely* disable the personal firewall
| and control the system. we'll ignore the fact that this tampering with
| the firewall is not logged, and more importantly, that the firewall
| isn't restored when the clowns from redmod are done with their job.
| 
| micro$oft dns service terminates abnormally
| when it receives a response
| to a dns query that was never made.
| fix information: run your dns service on a different platform.
|                                                             -- bugtraq

Wow!

-D

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