Category: Errors
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Ventrilo 2.1, Vista, and Surround 5.1
Helene’s new Vista pc seemed to be working fine, except for Ventrilo 2.1 (the free and, well, illegal version). It managed to connect, but no sound was coming out of it. Not when someone was talking, and not when there was a status message (like a join/connect/…). I tried every out- and input device in…
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Console Hamachi
I wrote before, that the console version of Hamachi didn’t seem to generate tun/tap driver errors. But after rebooting my Mac I was no longer able to start Hamachi. Nazgul:hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-osx yeri$ ./hamachi start 25 19:08:15.659 [ 0] [14306] tap: connect() failed 2 (No such file or directory) So I guess I’ll have to wait for…
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Hamachi(X) on Leopard
When playing with KisMAC, I noticed something weird in my /var/log/system.log; $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) posix_spawnp(“/usr/sbin/tuncfg”, …): No such file or directory $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) Exited with exit code: 1 $date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds tun is (trying) to restart every 10 (!) seconds. I tried updating Hamachi‘s tun/tap drivers, without…
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Multiple Memory Access Vulnerabilities Linux Kernel
Well, it had to happen… Yesterday evening two of our linux boxes were exploited. I had to try it out for myself; and yes, it really does work. 😐 Booted up my Ubuntu in Parallels, installed build-essential & ran that program! sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc what-ever-the-file-name-is.c ./a.out This is what it looks like: My-oh-my……
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Bootcamp
For a few courses I’m following at school, I need to be able to run Windows. As I’m owning a Macbook Pro (with Leopard) that shouldn’t have to be any problem using Bootcamp. I created a 5 Gb partition and installed WinXP a few weeks ago. So far all fine. As I don’t really like…