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Month: April 2006

  • VoIP for free anyone?

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    VoIPStunt.com. Free VoIP phone calls to landlines all around the world.

  • Readers of Crypto-Gram post their Terrorist Scenarios

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    “Terrorists use MySpace and other websites to get in touch with misguided teens. They help supply them with weapons and supplies and organize dozens of school shootings simultaniously.” and other plots here. Get informed and stay protected.

  • Twiki Hack – Make your Twiki act like a Database

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    I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or intrigued to learn that you can hack your twiki so that it acts like a dynamic table with forms for adding or changing content. This guy uses it to build a bug tracking system, but you could conceivably build any simple table based system this way and retain…

  • Sudo

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    Recent versions of sudo in sarge restrict the environment variables that can be used. This is an important security feature that stops people gaining unauthorized priviledges (programs may interpret these environment variables and launch other processes). For most purposes this is too restrictive because its stops DISPLAY and SSH agent variables. Add this line to…