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[FSF]: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

Mimor — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:11:08 +0000

Stand up for your freedom to install free software — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software.

When done correctly, “Secure Boot” is designed to protect against malware by preventing computers from loading unauthorized binary programs when booting. In practice, this means that computers implementing it won’t boot unauthorized operating systems — including initially authorized systems that have been modified without being re-approved.

The biggest issue with the “Secure Boot” system, is that it’ll create a vendor-lockin. This has been seen with the android system as well, but it’ll be Microsft pulling the strings on this one.

Some other interesting reads on Secure Boot:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/windows-8-secure-boot-will-complicate-linux-installs.ars

http://www.osnews.com/story/25180

Time Wasters – Part2

Mimor — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:11:06 +0000

Well, this is part 2 of a series of time wasting websites I started here.

In what year will the earth seize to exist? – Pick a date.

You know them, the movies and books about the end of time…
But do you know all references? This website lists them out for you so you can just pick a date as you please

http://web.me.com/lorenmadsen/endings/pick_a_year.html

Play Rock-Paper-Scissors against AI

Ever wondered how good you are in the game rock-paper-scissors?
Test your skills and go against a well trained computer-bot (Artificial Intelligence)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html

Barbie gone bad!

Barbie has always been the perfect blonde… Or that’s what the company wanted you to believe.
Here are the unseen and uncensored pictures of this young blonde girl gone wrong. Well I wonder how much hit’s I get on this previous sentence.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marielclayton/

Do nothing for 2 minutes

Would you want/need to spend 2 minutes doing nothing?
This site can be used as a relaxing tool to help you succeed doing absolutely nothing.

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

Stuff On My Cat

A website full of images from cats with stuff on them.
No, not a cheeseburger…
Be careful… there are quite a lot of times you can press “next”.

http://www.stuffonmycat.com

YouTube – You need to get off facebook‬‏

Mimor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:54:56 +0000

Although I think this clip is wonderful, I would like quite a lot of people to stay on Facebook… That’ll keep the internet cleaner I guess.

Time Wasters – Part1

Mimor — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:45:31 +0000

We all know how easy it is to lose track of time while surfing the awesome internet.
During the last months, I’ve been bookmarking some of the most useless sites that I came across. (Without a reason at that time)
Now I have this folder full of time-wasting websites sitting in my toolbar and wondered whether to delete it or keep it…
So I came up with the brilliant idea of putting the list up here for later referral whilst sharing it with you That’s double karma!
Here we go.

Uncomfotable Moments With Putin

Although I think there could be wound up a lot more of pictures, it’s already an awesome concept.

http://uncomfortablemomentswithputin.tumblr.com/

What’s Osama Bin Watchin’?

On this page you can enter any youtube video and make Osama Bin Laden watch it.
You can make the old man watch Justin Bieber for over a few hours if you’d like

http://www.tomscott.com/osama/

Kim Jong-Il looking at things

No need to explain the content of this page.
It’s better populated than the Putin page and has a higher rofl count.

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Your Mom Was Hot

Have you ever seen the hot-or-not page’s? Well, this is like one of them, but with an extra requirement…

Was your Mom hot? Or your kid’s mom, or your grandmom, or your friend’s mom, etc…Click submit to send us a photo because let’s face it, before your Mom was just your Mom… Your Mom Was Hot!

http://www.yourmomwashot.com/

Just Add Balls

Not sure whether I should call this funny or 200% wasted time… But anyhow, the title itself made me lol at least a bit.

Everything is better with balls in it!

http://justaddballs.tumblr.com/

Those were the first five links,
keep an eye open for the upcoming stuff.

If you have some awesome time wasting links yourself, share them in the comment section.

Must see documentary on Privacy [Dutch]

Mimor — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:04:56 +0000

Yesterday there was this documentary on the state of the internet, privacy and security (in Belgium).
The idea was based on David Bond‘s movie/experiment “Erasing David“.

Dirk Leestmans (journalist) hired a private security audit and asked him to hack Freek Braeckman‘s computer and bank account within the next three days.

Dirk also goes deeper on the different used technologies applied by the Belgian Police force to track people.

Watch the video:

http://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.1014456

Who’s there? – Invalid ssh user

Mimor — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:59:44 +0000

So, It’s been a while since I’ve set up my home server to use it as a swiss army knife at home and on the road.
Now I was wondering on the system’s integrity.
First step was checking /var/log/auth.log
To do some quick’n'dirty check I’ve ran the following command

grep “Invalid user” /var/log/auth.log | less

This resulted in quite a nice list:

Mar 13 20:13:21 tuxbox sshd[31985]: Invalid user oracle from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:21 tuxbox sshd[31988]: Invalid user test from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:24 tuxbox sshd[32001]: Invalid user demon from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:25 tuxbox sshd[32007]: Invalid user test from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:26 tuxbox sshd[32011]: Invalid user abcd from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:26 tuxbox sshd[32014]: Invalid user abc from 82.165.193.197
Mar 13 20:13:27 tuxbox sshd[32017]: Invalid user tt from 82.165.193.197
Mar 14 07:44:29 tuxbox sshd[22844]: Invalid user adi from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:32 tuxbox sshd[22854]: Invalid user salina from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:35 tuxbox sshd[22865]: Invalid user cadi from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:37 tuxbox sshd[22863]: Invalid user adi from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:39 tuxbox sshd[22876]: Invalid user inger from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:43 tuxbox sshd[22888]: Invalid user adi from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:43 tuxbox sshd[22883]: Invalid user cady from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:45 tuxbox sshd[22895]: Invalid user adis from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:48 tuxbox sshd[22907]: Invalid user muie from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:49 tuxbox sshd[22911]: Invalid user cai from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:52 tuxbox sshd[22917]: Invalid user alesa from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:54 tuxbox sshd[22929]: Invalid user muie from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:55 tuxbox sshd[22932]: Invalid user cailin from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:44:58 tuxbox sshd[22944]: Invalid user foster from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:04 tuxbox sshd[22969]: Invalid user braila from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:09 tuxbox sshd[22984]: Invalid user domnul from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:15 tuxbox sshd[23000]: Invalid user conor from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:24 tuxbox sshd[23014]: Invalid user excalibur from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:30 tuxbox sshd[23037]: Invalid user soft from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:36 tuxbox sshd[23050]: Invalid user peste from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:42 tuxbox sshd[23063]: Invalid user lookoo from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:47 tuxbox sshd[23077]: Invalid user trandafir from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:45:57 tuxbox sshd[23099]: Invalid user dinamo from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:46:05 tuxbox sshd[23116]: Invalid user steaua from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:46:10 tuxbox sshd[23134]: Invalid user frati from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 07:46:16 tuxbox sshd[23147]: Invalid user colombo from 124.232.130.2
Mar 14 09:53:53 tuxbox sshd[7154]: Invalid user direccion from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:31 tuxbox sshd[9634]: Invalid user simon from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:35 tuxbox sshd[9643]: Invalid user server from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:38 tuxbox sshd[9652]: Invalid user linux from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:43 tuxbox sshd[9660]: Invalid user info from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:50 tuxbox sshd[9681]: Invalid user operator from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:55 tuxbox sshd[9690]: Invalid user guest from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:09:59 tuxbox sshd[9709]: Invalid user webadmin from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:05 tuxbox sshd[9722]: Invalid user user from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:09 tuxbox sshd[9732]: Invalid user user from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:12 tuxbox sshd[9741]: Invalid user ftp from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:16 tuxbox sshd[9750]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:19 tuxbox sshd[9759]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:23 tuxbox sshd[9769]: Invalid user test from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:28 tuxbox sshd[9781]: Invalid user soporte from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:31 tuxbox sshd[9789]: Invalid user postgres from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:34 tuxbox sshd[9798]: Invalid user henry from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:38 tuxbox sshd[9806]: Invalid user admin from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:41 tuxbox sshd[9816]: Invalid user test from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:45 tuxbox sshd[9824]: Invalid user user1 from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:48 tuxbox sshd[9838]: Invalid user user2 from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:52 tuxbox sshd[9847]: Invalid user user3 from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:55 tuxbox sshd[9856]: Invalid user user4 from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:10:59 tuxbox sshd[9870]: Invalid user username from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:02 tuxbox sshd[9879]: Invalid user username from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:06 tuxbox sshd[9888]: Invalid user testing from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:09 tuxbox sshd[9897]: Invalid user webadmin from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:12 tuxbox sshd[9905]: Invalid user trixbox1 from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:15 tuxbox sshd[9914]: Invalid user testing from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:19 tuxbox sshd[9922]: Invalid user test from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:24 tuxbox sshd[9931]: Invalid user xbox from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:27 tuxbox sshd[9943]: Invalid user mysql from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:31 tuxbox sshd[9952]: Invalid user mysql from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:34 tuxbox sshd[9961]: Invalid user mysql from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:37 tuxbox sshd[9973]: Invalid user mysql from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:49 tuxbox sshd[9999]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:53 tuxbox sshd[10012]: Invalid user phpl from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:11:56 tuxbox sshd[10021]: Invalid user user from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:00 tuxbox sshd[10030]: Invalid user maggie from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:03 tuxbox sshd[10039]: Invalid user usuario from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:07 tuxbox sshd[10048]: Invalid user usuario from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:10 tuxbox sshd[10056]: Invalid user usuario from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:13 tuxbox sshd[10065]: Invalid user user from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:17 tuxbox sshd[10074]: Invalid user user from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:20 tuxbox sshd[10082]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:23 tuxbox sshd[10091]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:27 tuxbox sshd[10100]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:31 tuxbox sshd[10114]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:34 tuxbox sshd[10124]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:38 tuxbox sshd[10132]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:41 tuxbox sshd[10141]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:45 tuxbox sshd[10151]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:48 tuxbox sshd[10160]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:52 tuxbox sshd[10169]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:56 tuxbox sshd[10177]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:12:59 tuxbox sshd[10188]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:03 tuxbox sshd[10196]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:08 tuxbox sshd[10205]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:11 tuxbox sshd[10218]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:15 tuxbox sshd[10227]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:19 tuxbox sshd[10241]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:23 tuxbox sshd[10250]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:26 tuxbox sshd[10260]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:30 tuxbox sshd[10269]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:33 tuxbox sshd[10278]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:37 tuxbox sshd[10287]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:40 tuxbox sshd[10296]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:44 tuxbox sshd[10304]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:47 tuxbox sshd[10314]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:51 tuxbox sshd[10323]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:55 tuxbox sshd[10332]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:13:59 tuxbox sshd[10342]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:02 tuxbox sshd[10352]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:06 tuxbox sshd[10361]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:09 tuxbox sshd[10374]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:12 tuxbox sshd[10382]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:15 tuxbox sshd[10390]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:19 tuxbox sshd[10399]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:22 tuxbox sshd[10408]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:26 tuxbox sshd[10417]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:29 tuxbox sshd[10426]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:33 tuxbox sshd[10435]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:36 tuxbox sshd[10443]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:39 tuxbox sshd[10452]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:43 tuxbox sshd[10460]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:46 tuxbox sshd[10469]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:49 tuxbox sshd[10478]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:14:53 tuxbox sshd[10487]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 10:15:03 tuxbox sshd[10504]: Invalid user oracle from 118.69.202.195
Mar 14 17:53:46 tuxbox sshd[4219]: Invalid user test from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:48 tuxbox sshd[4224]: Invalid user testuser from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:49 tuxbox sshd[4229]: Invalid user test1 from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:50 tuxbox sshd[4234]: Invalid user test from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:52 tuxbox sshd[4238]: Invalid user test from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:53 tuxbox sshd[4243]: Invalid user test from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:53:55 tuxbox sshd[4248]: Invalid user testing from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:54:03 tuxbox sshd[4276]: Invalid user admin from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:54:04 tuxbox sshd[4281]: Invalid user admin from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:54:06 tuxbox sshd[4286]: Invalid user admin from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:01 tuxbox sshd[4486]: Invalid user jeep from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:02 tuxbox sshd[4490]: Invalid user alan from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:03 tuxbox sshd[4495]: Invalid user jim from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:05 tuxbox sshd[4500]: Invalid user postgres from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:06 tuxbox sshd[4505]: Invalid user stuff from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:08 tuxbox sshd[4509]: Invalid user tom from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:09 tuxbox sshd[4514]: Invalid user adam from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:13 tuxbox sshd[4528]: Invalid user gov from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:16 tuxbox sshd[4538]: Invalid user pgsql from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:17 tuxbox sshd[4542]: Invalid user adm from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:20 tuxbox sshd[4552]: Invalid user postgres from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:23 tuxbox sshd[4561]: Invalid user email from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:24 tuxbox sshd[4566]: Invalid user oracle from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:25 tuxbox sshd[4571]: Invalid user users from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:27 tuxbox sshd[4576]: Invalid user user from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:28 tuxbox sshd[4580]: Invalid user test from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:30 tuxbox sshd[4585]: Invalid user david from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:31 tuxbox sshd[4590]: Invalid user lynx from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:32 tuxbox sshd[4595]: Invalid user music from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:34 tuxbox sshd[4599]: Invalid user user from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:35 tuxbox sshd[4604]: Invalid user user from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:36 tuxbox sshd[4609]: Invalid user user from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:38 tuxbox sshd[4614]: Invalid user user from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:39 tuxbox sshd[4618]: Invalid user rpcuser from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:41 tuxbox sshd[4623]: Invalid user rpcuser from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:55:42 tuxbox sshd[4628]: Invalid user guest from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:31 tuxbox sshd[4808]: Invalid user apple from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:36 tuxbox sshd[4823]: Invalid user brian from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:43 tuxbox sshd[4852]: Invalid user log from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:45 tuxbox sshd[4857]: Invalid user qmailq from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:46 tuxbox sshd[4862]: Invalid user qscand from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:52 tuxbox sshd[4881]: Invalid user rosa from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:56:53 tuxbox sshd[4885]: Invalid user rosa from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:57:44 tuxbox sshd[5071]: Invalid user video from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:57:45 tuxbox sshd[5075]: Invalid user admin from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:59:19 tuxbox sshd[5406]: Invalid user guset from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 17:59:32 tuxbox sshd[5454]: Invalid user guest from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 18:00:30 tuxbox sshd[5658]: Invalid user apache from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 18:00:31 tuxbox sshd[5663]: Invalid user david from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 18:00:33 tuxbox sshd[5668]: Invalid user web from 81.1.192.16
Mar 14 18:00:34 tuxbox sshd[5673]: Invalid user cyberjohn from 81.1.192.16
etc…

As long as you have a towel, there’s no need to panic!
I studied the log in detail and there were luckily no successful logins other than my own (with a valid keypair).

Quick solution to do a first line of defense:

sudo apt-get install denyhosts

DenyHosts:

DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by Linux system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks).

Now the only thing I needed to do next was configure DenyHosts so that it’ll sync the known blocked ip’s from the official DenyHosts database.
How to do this is well explained in the configuration file.

sudo nano /etc/denyhosts.conf

You can set the email, purge and sync options.
Adjust like you want.

After not such a long time you can list the denied hosts as follows:

sudo less /etc/hosts.deny

New items on my wishlist

Mimor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:18:56 +0000

Thanks to Zhann, whom pointed out to these 2 fine books, my wishlist got (even) longer.

1. Time management

This collection of time management tools addresses the very specific needs of embattled system administrators everywhere. Bestselling author Thomas Limoncelli shows you how to manage interruptions, eliminate timewasters, prioritize based on customer expectations, automate processes for faster execution, and much more. It’s the first step to a more productive, happier you.

Time management

2. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook!

This twentieth anniversary edition of the world’s best-selling UNIX system administration book has been made even better by adding coverage of the leading Linux distributions: Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This book approaches system administration from a practical perspective and is an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals. It details best practices for every facet of system administration, including storage management, network design and administration, email, web hosting, scripting, software conﬁguration management, performance analysis, Windows interoperability, virtualization, DNS, security, management of IT service organizations, and much more.

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook!

So, mom if you read this and you’d like to surprise me with something… This is it!!! You know I love you!

Check out: The upcoming events at Whitespace

Mimor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:36:39 +0000

Don’t forget to check out the Whitespace’s upcoming events page.
There’ll be quite a lot of nice talks in the upcoming weeks.

http://0×20.be

Twirssi error: Timestamp out of bounds

Mimor — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:39:44 +0000

I just found my twirssi inactive.
When loading the script and authenticating with oath enabled, I got the error:

-!- Irssi: Error in script twirssi:
Timestamp out of bounds

This is (most likely) the result of a wrong system date/time.
Quite easy to solve, just sync it to an NTP server.
Open a terminal and enter:

ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Try to load the script again and login.
All should be fine now.

Wrong time in Windows on Dual Boot system.

Mimor — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:23:27 +0000

When you have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu you might experience some time travelling when rebooting to windows.
To solve this, simply boot into Ubuntu and edit the /etc/default/rcS file as sudo and change the UTC value from yes to no.
It should look like this

TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
UTC=no #Set according to your system (BIOS) clock.
VERBOSE=no
EDITMOTD=yes
FSCKFIX=no

These values are being used by the scripts at /etc/rcS.d/ that get invoked during boot (even in single user mode)

To be clear, this is not an Ubuntu error. It is simply the Windows that never assumes the system-clock to be in UTC.

If you wish to adjust this in the Windows installation execute regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

Change the RealTimeIsUniversal value to 1.

If you’re simply looking for a wach to change your hardwareclock on linux you can check my other article on Changing date and/or time on Linux.