This is a hint for all those who are happy users of IA-64 and Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) and would like to upgrade to 9.04 (karmic). The upgrade process is as simple as editing /etc/apt/sources.list,  changing hardy to karmic and doing apt-get dist-upgrade. After that however, you will experience a blank screen with flashing cursor after [...]

Peteris Krumins has recently written in his blog a very nice article on basic security of sysadmins. He exploits, or… maybe a better word here is… evaluates a door that is there in ldd for ages, but neverthelesss not many sysadmins are aware of it, while checking user programs with ldd from root account. This [...]