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Not necessarily. There are many variables in the equation, from the "many eyes" checking open source, to the obscurity of closed source. However, there are many techniques used to find vulnerabilities. Being closed source does not prevent disassembly, and analysis. Once such method is the 'genetic algorithm', another popular technique is 'fuzzing'. This is well beyond my sw33t sklz, but I can vaguely follow the principles. Remember though, there are a lot of smart people out there. "In this paper, Vincenzo Iozzo presents how to effectively fuzz with no knowledge of the user-input and the binary."

So much faux sympathy.

Oh how I hate those ads. In other news, and veering wildly on-topic, I discovered how to fix a totally stuffed graphics system on (Debian-based) Linux. sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia* sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx* And reboot. Much to my surprise all was well when it restarted.

@simonhayes Can I suggest you use realmd (made by Redhat, but available in Ubuntu from 14.04 onwards). Realmd is by far the simplest way of joining Linux to an AD domain. Once you have your machine working using the realm tool, try what @mjk suggests in their post: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/nix/153923-ubuntu-mount-windows-share-logon.html#post1319895 Centos and Redhat use sssd and realmd by default when you attempt an enterprise login, so it's definitely the way forwards compared with smb authentication. This is about the best write-up on realmd for Ubuntu by some margin. Utilising Kerberos/AD auth in Ubuntu 14.04 with realmd - Myles Gray If you need the full manual for realmd, it's provided by RedHat. If you can say one thing about RedHat, it's that their documentation is second to none. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Windows_Integration_Guide/ch-Configuring_Authentication.html One thing missing from this is that Ubuntu will not let you login with a user that it doesn't know about. To allow a free text input for the username (e.g. domain\me) you must change a setting in the lighdm 'Greeter' screen you see right at the login screen. Edit the file: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf and add this line of code to the file. greeter-show-manual-login=true I've distilled the meat of this into my mini-cheatsheet, pasted below.

Yes, but it will install a whole heap of stuff you probably don't want (Libre Office, for example) Will Webmin work for you? http://www.unixmen.com/install-webmin-ubuntu-14-04/

Tim Roth could play Sepp Blatter. Again. Fifa film flops at the box office - BBC News

Probably cohorts doing a remote shutdown. Here's a discussion and solution. windows 7 - My colleague often shuts down my machine through the LAN - how do I prevent it? - Super User

And font rendering in the Windows kernel. What could possibly go wrong with that? Security researcher casually drops Adobe Reader, Windows critical vulnerability bomb | ZDNet

I recently found a great phone app for music which I really recommend for a personalised radio-like service. It's totally free, and there are no adverts. MixRadio | Home Page It used to be only available for Windows phone, but the people in their strategic board decided to go after the last remaining 97% of the market. A cunning move. When you first start it, take a little time to go through the 'what do you like?' picker to choose your tastes. When this is done, you can create mixes from genres or artists. You can download up to 4 mixes for off-line listening. It's not like Spotify - you can't pick songs or albums. You can't rewind and you get 6 track 'skips' per hour. Sounds limited? Well, try it and see. I love it.

Self builds/conversions are only a problem for regular insurance. A specialist broker will quote for a custom van. https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/other-insurance/ A friend of mine had a Vito van for his work. He's a kitchen fitter, so he built a custom interior which slid in and out of the van when needed. He kept in the garage when not camping. It was quite something. For what it's worth, which may be nothing, having owned a VW camper, if I ever wanted a camping van I'd probably get a regular van and put some basic camping equipment in the back. From experience, all you need is bedding and a cooker. Carp beds, despite their strange name, are a luxurious camp bed. http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/chill-out-3-leg-bed-p157146

Go to Google and type in 'what happened to the dinosaurs'. I had a crazy result (as described in the links below), so I reported it as 'Incorrect' as a crank site. Dinosaurs? Google Gives an Answer from Creationism, Not Science. Here's Why... What happened to the dinosaurs? – Greg Laden's Blog

That sheep was on the rampage. The driver should have done a ewe-turn and got the flock out of there. I bet he gets fleeced over the repairs.

Well, no, not really. This should be a must-read as a warning against junk-science and even junkier press coverage. I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

Here's something so obvious I completely overlooked it. Libre Office's 'BASE' database application. https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/ I'd be quite happy using this for small applications. It has a nice front-end for table design, data entry, relations, reports and queries. Being free means the kids can download it for home use. I think it's well worth considering. Another advantage is that the entire database is stored in a single file. Manual/tutorial : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e8/BH40-BaseHandbook.pdf

I'm not into football at all, but I found this helpful background info.

Sweepstake time: I bet they've used a 16 bit integer to store the 'free space' value when they check the disk. You can get weird results when the MSB is set with signed binary values.

Tell awk to print the 3rd line. awk '{ if (NR==3) print $0 }' output.txt If you want to remove spaces, awk '{ if (NR==3) print $0 }' output.txt | sed 's/ //g' Or you could use tail -n3 output.txt If the file could be variable length, then you'll want the grep with the 'After' switch to print the line after your match. The tail prints the last line - the second line of the two-line output. grep -A1 -- "-----------" output.txt | tail -n1 The two hyphens before the search string are to stop grep expecting parameters, as the search string is the 'paramaters ahoy!' character. Put the sed at the end to strip spaces. Saving the output is easy. Just pipe the result to a file with >newfile.txt or append with >>newfile.txt full example: awk '{ if (NR==3) print $0 }' output.txt | sed 's/ //g' >> results.txt

Once noticed, this can't be unnoticed. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-part-of-no-totally-dont-you-understand

.... watching these lunatics. The stunt at 3:12 should not be performed at home.

That's brilliant!

@CAM take a gander at this tutorial, see if it's of use. It covers the basics, code to create tables and data, as well as queries. It looks OK. SQLite tutorial SQLite is the most widely used database system in the world, so it's a good thing to learn anyway.

I don't want to divert you if you have a plan already, but I'm a big fan of SQLite. https://www.sqlite.org/ It's a server-less system, so the database files are totally portable and can be moved anywhere. This makes management easy. SQLite is everywhere, on your phone, in your car, your TV... If you fancy a GUI to administer your SQLite databases, there's a rather nice Firefox add-on to do just that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ I've developed systems on Linux using SQLite and Python, and migrated them straight to a Windows machine and it ran with no modifications. Anyway, just a thought.....

I think you'll like this: Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong

Slamdunk! I present irrefutable proof that dinosaurs existed. Put this in your pipe.... Facing the Allosaurus | Creation Museum Bit shaky on the age, only 6,000 years or so, but it's a start.

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