scponly-4.6-1.4 under debian amd64#

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What do you do when a friend wants to send you some special digital xmas present? Setup a ftp server or use your existing ssh infrastructure to create a secure connection between both? I decided to do the latter one because last time I did it was only an emerge scponly which created everything for me.

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  • [1] https://narfation.org/2008/12/24/scponly-4-6-1-4-under-debian-amd64

Mathematical quiz#

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@Zoby [1], this time it is my program you should try to analyse. It isn't that hard but I hope you have some fun with it. As small hint: it is related to a mathematician who participated in an infamous project.

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  • [1] https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~loto/
  • [2] https://narfation.org/2008/12/17/mathematical-quiz

Testing linking behaviour#

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While fixing linking problems of libg3d on windows I checked the binutils ld man page again after years and noticed that there are some useful parameter to check for linking misbehaviour on linux. In some rare situations it is a design decision of upstream and not a really "bug" but in most cases someone forgot to link against a library and his current system configuration hides the problem from him. So it isn't a good idea to insist on a bug in upstream or "fixing" it without listening to upstream - unless you liked the the infamous openssl random number genererator bug [1] in debian related distributions.

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  • [1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0166
  • [2] https://narfation.org/2008/12/09/testing-linking-behaviour

Shared ssh connections#

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OpenSSH has some really nice unknown options which you find from time to time per accident. One of them is to share a connection between different sessions. It helps a lot when you are using multiple connections to a host or using zsh autocompletion over ssh and must wait until the connection was really established.

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  • [1] https://narfation.org/2008/12/08/shared-ssh-connections

Settler 2 TNG under Wine#

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After porting some free software to an unfree operation system I've chosen to run some unfree software on a free operation system (ok, just wanted to play some kind of vikings godfather). An interesting target was "The Settlers 2: The Next Generation" or in german "Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation" v1.11757 because I found some positive comments inside wine's appdb [1] and Ubisoft is selling it at a cheap price at the moment.

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  • [1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9001
  • [2] https://narfation.org/2008/11/28/settler-2-tng-under-wine

Older 2008#

  • [1] https://narfation.org/2008/11/28/s3d-under-cygwin
  • [2] https://narfation.org/2008/11/28/s3d-in-debian-new-queue-
  • [3] https://narfation.org/2008/11/23/libg3d-under-cygwin
  • [4] https://narfation.org/2008/11/14/book-meme
  • [5] https://narfation.org/2008/11/12/libg3d-0-0-6-4-in-lenny-soon
  • [6] https://narfation.org/2008/10/13/scanning-to-searchable-pdf
  • [7] https://narfation.org/2008/08/28/s3d-0-2-1-is-here
  • [8] https://narfation.org/2008/07/21/mirror-subversion-repositories
  • [9] https://narfation.org/2008/03/14/the-it-crowd-season-2-dvd-easter-eggs
  • [10] https://narfation.org/2008/01/09/del-icio-us-links-for-2008