Firmware remote vulnerability in Intel business products
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Subject: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 19:49:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: I love OpenBSD <lampshade(a)poczta.fm>
To: misc(a)openbsd.org
INTEL-SA-00075
There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products.
Can I preview a bitlink before clicking on it?
https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/230650447-Can-I-preview-a-bitli…
Arstechnica:
http://bit.ly/2qyHCQn
Semiaccurate:
http://bit.ly/2pB2MjO
Intel's PDF:
http://intel.ly/2qAK4G0
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Hi,
I have a box that is usually headless, but when I do some updates that
need a reboot (new kernel for instance), I like to have a screen
connected or at least handy just in case I need it for whatever reason.
Well, I did some updates on my box and the screen was crackling, so I
removed it (it was old and not worth fixing). I connected a different
screen and all was good for pre-boot and part of post boot, then it
turned off and the box didn't continue to boot.
I was thinking something screwed up with the initrd, but I couldn't
even successfully boot a live-usb distro. Then I thought that it
might be the motherboard or something else that would need a
replacement box.
In the end, I plugged in another screen and the boot process completed
without any issues.
So strange that the screen would cause this problem. I have seen a
screen cause issues during Windows boot up too long ago (from memory I
think it was only that the display wouldn't show up until very late in
the boot process), using a different screen was perfectly happy. I
think that screen was the same one that failed me on Linux just now,
so it might just be a dud screen with something weird about it.
Anyway, just thought I would pass on my experience in case it might
help someone else with a similar problem.
Cheers
A.
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Hi,
I love vim, but something has been annoying me lately with it.
Turns out at some stage the "treatment" of the mouse changed and it
interfered with me being able to easily copy and paste normally from
or too the terminal.
In case anybody else has been similarly annoyed, there is an easy fix.
set mouse=
Add that to your vimrc.local or .vimrc files (no quotes) and let your
terminal handle your mouse selections as it normally does, avoiding
vim interference.
Thanks to my son for alerting me to the fix.
I'm sure others have all sorts of vimrc settings, some might be
interesting and worth sharing. So what do you have?
Cheers
A.
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I was casually googling " filesystem "do not fragment" option" ;
and was distracted by a reference to ReFS;
seems to share some features of BTRFS.
eg https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NDA
Comments , rants, invective.........:-)
regards Rohan McLeod
stripes theotoky via luv-main wrote:
> Has anyone seen this behaviour with skype on Linux?
>
> I just changed my password and tried to log in, Skype rejected the new
> password even though they sent me an email confirming the reset.
>
> I reset it again same result.
> I reset it for a third time same result
> On the fourth reset it worked fine.
>
> The only thing I can think is that the first 3 passwords all had a y
> or a z in them and I have my location with Skype set to the UK while
> my keyboard is Swiss German which has the y and z changed over.
>
> Is it even possible for a system to get confused like that? Or is this
> perhaps just normal Microsoft / Skype behaviour?
Not sure about " Microsoft / Skype behavior" but after similar problems
with lock-outs and reset problems;
on Paypal (whether due to my ancient browser, my ancient OS or some
kind of reset-delay glitch at Paypal);
I transferred my money out of the account and closed it! I am now
looking at alternatives to Paypal;
eg Transferwise see https://transferwise.com/au
regards Rohan McLeod
Placeholder for a possible recap to come. (Greetings from a
relatively sane part of the USA, California.)
----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> -----
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:16:11 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com>
To: skeptic(a)linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: [skeptic] Trump in a (British) Nutshell
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
Quoting Laurie Forbes (laforbes(a)telus.net):
> “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
[...]
> "If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
>
> https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/
One difficult aspect of summerising The Toddler-in-Chief to an
international audience is that any honest recounting of his failings as
to competence, integrity, intellectual capacity, morals, and half a
dozen major aspects of life inevitably seems to outsiders like a gross
exaggeration, mere absurd and tedious ranting against a political other.
It does no good to say 'No, really, I don't see Republican politicians
as sui-generis horrible, and here's a list of the ones I've voted for.'
Uninitiated listeners will _still_ assume you're merely a bit unhinged.
I have an analogy from my personal life. Upon marrying Deirdre in 2000
and having her mother Cheryl move into our house from Courteney, BC,
later that year, I tried several times to warn them about interactions
with my sister: 'Michele will attempt to pry about my personal doings,
by subtly pumping you for information, because she will know you to be
not yet on your guard. You need to know, please, please know, that
Michele is both the most manipulative and the most offhandedly dishonest
person you will ever meet. You should always classify anything she
asserts to be fact as unconfirmed until proven otherwise, never take
what she says on faith, and, most important of all, any time she asks
questions about my personal affairs of any sort, please, please, please
refer her to me for what she says she wants to know, and do not answer
such questions. Just don't. You probably think, being new to this,
that my request is unreasonable and outlandish: That's OK. I don't
mind, and I completely understand that reaction. All I ask is please
humour me. Do not answer any question from her about my personal
affairs. Assume that if I wanted to know, I'd have told her, and that
if she should be told something new, I should always and every time be
the one to decide that, and never you. So, respect my privacy, I beg of
you. Do _not_ just have carefree give-and-take with Michele. She'll
play you for a fool, and I'll pay the price, which will be extremely
vexing. I don't want to be the seriously annoyed guy saying "I told you
so", so please just humour me.'
Naturally this did _not_ work, because Deirdre and Cheryl didn't take
the request seriously and blabbed details of my medical and work life
about the second or third time Michele casually dropped questions about
them, which information Michele then maliciously used to my detriment,
and Deirdre and Cheryl just reacted with 'Gosh, who knew that she was
manipulative and dishonest? There's no way we could have known.' Yeah,
thanks, folks. Great job of having my back.
For years, I would occasionally post roundups covering current American
problems (mostly political) to a mailing list in Melbourne, NSW, but
I've not been able to get around to climbing Mount Toddler (covering
his stunning feat of combining incompetence, pervasive immorality, a
seeming allergy to ever telling the truth, historic corruption, a total
absence of leadership traits, all the management habits of a Mafia capo,
probable creeping senility, probable foreign corrupt influence, an
inability to comprehend democracy, and a love for violent dictators whom
he obviously envies) or detailing the GOP slow coup, and haven't yet
done one of my roundups since before the November 2016 general election.
To borrow Leisureguy's term (in the blog post), the topics are fractal,
for starters. And also, one risks sounding unhinged if one is
forthright and detailed about them.
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Jason White via luv-main wrote:
>
> While installing Linux recently, I found that Windows 10 would only
> shrink the NTFS partition to approximately half of its previous size.
> I read claims via a web search for information on this subject that
> there are metadata in the middle of an NTFS partition, and Microsoft's
> tools won't reduce the size of the file system beyond this point. I'm
> not sure how accurate this is, although it's consistent with the
> observed results.
>
To be clear are you claiming this is an intrinsic limitation of NTFS
partitions or just the tools that MS provides ?
MS tools for partition management eg "Computer Management-Storage-Disk
Management" have always lagged well behind 3rd party tools;
eg Partition Guru http://www.eassos.com ; Partition Magic
https://www.partitionwizard.com/
regards Rohan McLeod
