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Fri, 07 Apr 2006

Red Hat [your transitive verb here] Fedora Foundation
Try this news google "Red Hat" "Fedora Foundation" this week and discover just how many useleless and sensational transitive verbs journalists can come up with.


So far, we have:
  • cancels
  • axes
  • gives up on
  • doffs
  • unstitches
  • closes

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Wed, 11 Jan 2006

Hacking Anaconda
Kicking myself for forgetting, I just had to spend an hour re-remembering how to properly hack the Red Hat / Fedora installer known as anaconda. Here it is so I won't have to kick myself again: 

$ mkdir temp1
$ sudo mount -o loop netstg2.img temp1/
$ cp -a temp1/ temp2/
Then patch temp2/ or make whatever changes you need: 
$ mkcramfs temp2/ netstg2-patched.img
$ sudo umount temp1
$ rm -fr temp1/ temp2/
However, I discovered something new. The image has grown so large that older/pristine releases of util-linux hit the MAXENTRIES hard limit in mkcramfs. The trick is to use a more recent build that incorporates the patch written for bug 171337.

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Fri, 03 Dec 2004

Unit #4579
Bwahaha! Life in the open source machine. 


http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

Wednesday Colin Walters said:

> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:27 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > This page now contains only past dates.  How will we know what to do next?
>
> Unit #4579, you are malfunctioning.  Until given direction by the Fedora
> Collective, you must return to State 0: drool at desk.

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Tue, 14 Sep 2004

Cisco IOS 7 Deobfuscate
This spring, I hacked up Riku Meskanen's ios7decrypt.pl script, and added WEP key translation and supposed extra keys.
Basically, it adds a new translation table for hex and a mask to keep the salt on the table. The result is named ios7deobfuscate.pl.
Why publish this now? Because this is the umpteenth time this summer that I have had to "recover" an IOS password or WEP key. In today's example, the cuplrit who forgot to jot down the WEP key was your's truely. Thank you Cisco, for using weak senseless faux-encrypytion so that I might be able to recall--with a maximum of effort--the digits I previously keyed into your equipment.

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