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phpns a while back, and it’s been used effectively on one of the sites I designed. However, it’s missing one feature that would make it so much more useful for me: an upload facility. I started hunting around for a decent, simple file upload script that could be incorporated into phpns, and found Silentium Uploader from HyperSilence.net. After spending a couple of hours playing with it, I now have hacked Silentium into phpns. Like peanut butter and chocolate…they go great together! The download is available here: http://www.noidea.us/download.php?f=phpns-upload-patch.zip. I’ve also submitted it to the phpns developers if they want to incorporate it into their next version (if there is one…)
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CBQ.init to do some limiting of outbound SMTP traffic. You see, I run a mailing list that has multiple large attachments that are resent to 50+ subscribers, and trying to send that out effectively kills my DSL line. When I set up the new server, I set up CBQ.init 0.7.3 using the same configuration as on the old (Fedora Core 1) machine. Today, I found out that my limiting was not working…seems that there is an error in the CBQ.init script that prevented it from running correctly. The error manifests as follows:
[root@server rc.d]# ./cbq.init compile
find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument (, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments. find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument (, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.
The error is actually a mistake in the find command syntax of two lines in the script. Here is the corrected script (those are line numbers in front).
577 ### Get a list of configured classes
578 CLASSLIST=`find $1 -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -or -type l\ ) -name 'cbq-*' \
579 -not -name '*~' -printf "%f\n"| sort`
580 [ -z "$CLASSLIST" ] &&
581 cbq_failure "no configuration files found in $1!"
582
583 ### Gather all DEVICE fields from $1/cbq-*
584 DEVFIELDS=`find $1 -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -or -type l \) -name 'cbq-*' \
585 -not -name '*~'| xargs sed -n 's/#.*//;
586 s/[[:space:]]//g; /^DEVICE=[^,]*,[^,]*(,[^,]*)?/ \
587 { s/.*=//; p; }'| sort -u`
The change is the location of the -maxdepth 1 argument: it must be immediately after the last path in the statement, and before any other options. The original looked like this:
### Get a list of configured classes
CLASSLIST=`find $1 \( -type f -or -type l \) -name 'cbq-*' \
-not -name '*~' -maxdepth 1 -printf "%f\n"| sort`
[ -z "$CLASSLIST" ] &&
cbq_failure "no configuration files found in $1!" ### Gather all DEVICE fields from $1/cbq-*
DEVFIELDS=`find $1 ( -type f -or -type l ) -name 'cbq-*' \
-not -name '*~' -maxdepth 1| xargs sed -n 's/#.*//; \
s/[[:space:]]//g; /^DEVICE=[^,]*,[^,]*\(,[^,]*\)\?/ \
{ s/.*=//; p; }'| sort -u`
After making this change, the script works as expected! I’m posting this on the off-chance that someone else might be having the same issue I did, and this will help them, too. Oh, and if anyone is interested, here is my script to limit SMTP outbound traffic on my 3Mbit/768Kbit DSL line. It’s called cbq-0256.SMTP-out:
DEVICE=eth1,3Mbit,384Kbit
RATE=256Kbit
WEIGHT=25Kbit
RULE=,:25
Good luck!]]>

This article by Peter Gutmann talks a lot about the DRM risks and limitations in Windows Vista (especially if you have SPDIF or component video), but several items mentioned are important to malware fighters as well, especially regarding future reverse-engineering issues. Executive Summary:

Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.

about:config — browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 10 Install Tabbrowser Preferences: tabbrowser_preferences-1.3.1.1-fx.xpi Edit UserChrome.css (in user profile directory): /* Disable “List all Tabs” Button */
.tabs-alltabs-button {
display: none !important;
} /* Disable Container box for “List all Tabs” Button */
.tabs-alltabs-box {
display: none !important;
}
/* remove new tab button */
.tabs-newbutton { display: none; }
Edit: one more tweak for download dialogs
Edit the file %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsHelperAppDlg.js Find the line // hide featured choice
edit the line below that:
this.mDialog.document.getElementById(“normalBox”).collapsed = true;
change “true” to “false”
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