Interesting OS Problem: chmod -x chmod
I seem to be finding quite a lot of interesting OS material to read nowadays. Here’s a kick ass example of one of them. What if an idiot decides to do “chmod -x chmod” These lecture slides describe how to fix that problem in detail: chmod -x chmod View more presentations from José Castro.
iLugHyd, Sloppy pace, Confusion.
I just returned from iLugHyderabad’s meeting. It was fun. I met a lot of interesting folks who had dabbled with the new release of Fedora. It is not like I am tempted to try out fedora but it was fun meeting the Fedora enthusiast Rahul Sundaram. Let me recollect what happened during the meet. The [...]
What I am up to these days
I have not been able to post a lot these days as I am all tensed about applying to colleges and so on, it is indeed a very stressful process. I have shortlisted a few but I think it is better I don’t shoot only for the top few and also look at tier 2 [...]
Filesystems with versioning support.
We developers can’t do without versioning can we. We write crap html to test our parser and end up committing this as well to the server and then move back to a previous version so that those who use svn to get the bleeding edge version of the software do not get your useless html [...]
Feisty fawn, first observation
I got my feisty cds this morning. I installed feisty immediately and considering that one of the ubuntu devs on #ubuntu told me that feisty’s way of handling storage devices had changed, I immediately did: shriphani@psp-laptop:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda3 UUID=1a97343a-e3ed-48e2-9db4-ea67228fb1aa [...]