I finished the paper today. But I’m not as relieved as I thougt I would be.
Hmm.
Maybe I took to much time. Darn.
Maybe it needs a little before everything calms down again…
Monthly Archive for June, 2004
From a mail posted to bugtraq:
[Quote] —–Original Message—–
From: DR
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:10 AM
To: bugtraq [at] securityfocus [dot] com
Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys EvilWell I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys albumto support them.
It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs “helpful” copy protection software on
MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems. I’m not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually purchasing said media now… they don’t deserve my money if they choose to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies put signatures into their products for this crap.
They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the aforementioned malware already and can save us some time with instructions on how to remove it… thanks in advance.
caveat emptor,
–dr [Quote]
…”Daniel der Zauberer” - Ein Film mit und über Daniel Küblböck.
*Ack!*
[Quote] Your Rights Online: Beastie Boys’ New Album Silently Installs DRM Code
from the but-the-beastie-boys-are-so-countercultural dept.
“After more than five years, the Beastie Boys have released a new album. It seems that the retail disc is bundled with a copy protection autoinstaller which silently silently puts itself onto the listener’s computer. Many listeners are up in arms and some are venting their frustrations on the band’s website.” [Quote]
I’m so not going to buy there album.
*pfft*
[from /.]
problem:
* Checking root filesystem…
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0×342 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 5002239/4781453 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is clenly unmounted
Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay.
Checking internal tree..finished [ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write…
* Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write :( [ !! ]
Solution: Remove the space in /etc/fstab between noatime, and notail.
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs noatime, notail 0 1
should be
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
DOH!
More to come…
I’ve had enough. I kicked debian from my HD. When it comes to OS I see myself still as an enduser. If there is a problem i have to rely on the fact, that somewhere on the net is the solution for my problems. But for debian I would have to study a whole new science. Right now I’m giving gentoo a try. They have a very good tutorial which I’m following. But I will kick this too if it takes longer than - give or take some extra miuntes - 16 hours. If this is the case I will wait until Knoppix is advanced enough to recognize a centrino chipset.
The only thing which where a little disturbing so far: The minimal kernel doesn’t seem to have german keymapping and here my LAN-card was eth1 when it was eth0 on debian. Although “emerge system” needs to be restarted whenever there is an error.
More to come…
Edit for forgotten words. Dammit.
Edited on Jun 17th 2004, 18:23 by jeck
I checked my GMail-account today. There it was: Another invitation? I am not sure how I deserve this but again I’ll look for a worthy candidate.
promise! :-)
This took some time. In the end setting up grub is not that difficult, but there is no site with an easy-to-understand-explanation. For now I’ll just post what I did, but maybe later I’ll write a little more:
- Boot from SystemRescueCD
- Mount debian-partition
- Copy grub from SystemRescueCD to debian-partition
- Run “
grub --no-floppy“ - enter:
root (hd0,2) - enter:
setup (hdo) - Reboot into debian
- change grub.conf (menu.lst should link to this file) into:
——————————–
#
# jeck’s boot menu configuration file
#
# Boot automatically after a minute.
timeout 3
# By default, boot the second entry.
default 1
# Fallback to the first entry.
fallback 0
title Windows Xp
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
# For booting Linux
title Debian
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3
——————————–
Helpful Links:
http://www.linuxforums.org/tut…wto/Multiboot-with-GRUB-2.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gr…l#Installing%20GRUB%20natively
More to come…
Edited on Jun 14th 2004, 14:03 by jeck
First stage of installazion went smooth. The only things that may have put off a ‘normal’ user where: You have to know two things about your network card, more precisely the kind of chipset and that your LAN-device is called eth0.
It only became different after that: After the first stage Debian let’s you choose wether it should rewrite the boot block, create a boot disc or do something yourself. Since there is no floppy (this would be a solution considered unpractical anyways) and I want to keep Xp I have to install a boot loader.
Since - naturally - this should be open source to and I have not so fond memorys if LILO I decided to go for GRUB. One geek once said: The more cryptic something is, the more I like it. He liked GRUB very much.
More to come…
Resizing the partitions was a bliss. The tool qtparted on the SystemRescueCD is a “partition Magic”-Clone for Linux and works just as well. Xp gave me a little shock cause it complained about data inconsistency, but after some CHKDSK and the installation of the “new” harddrive (incl. two reboots) all was well again.
More to come…
Today is free! Even the guy whose internet connection I was supposed to fix canceled the appointment because he helps at the polls.
Nothing is planned. Everything is possible! I think I’m going to take a bath…
…and then enjoy the rest of my free day. Yehaa!
Spending geektime took it’s toll. I resolved to give linux on my mobile machine a try. Although gentoo has a much cooler logo, I decided to go for debian cause there are many people who recommend it and I found some manuals on the web:
Debian/unstable auf dem Asus M2400N mit Kernel 2.6.
Linux on Laptop Asus M2400N
Linux on the Asus M2400N
Debian GNU/Linux on Asus M3410C (other machine, same chipset)
To resize my (NTFS)-harddrive I’ll use SystemRescueCD which utilizes NTFS Resize.
More to come…
Edited on Jun 14th 2004, 14:51 by jeck
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