[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation

I got this security update with aptitude on my own Debian GNU/Linux server and now when I use VIM with sudo (I think) sudo no longer passes the $HOME variable over to VIM, and VIM looks for $HOME/.viminfo by default. I guess $HOME is set to NULL inside sudo, so whenever I exit VIM it bitches about not being able to write to my viminfo file. (for more info about viminfo errors go here and search for the string viminfo-errors)

To fix this I have to do `sudo vi -i ~/.viminfo`, or `sudo -H vim`… for now I will alias “sudo” to “sudo -H”…

Update: after looking at the manpages more, if I set the “always_set_home” flag in my sudoers it will imply “-H” all the time, very nice.

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Now we no longer have to click “secure login” to switch to SSL login… I guess Yahoo got a tiny bit smarter…

Sign in to Yahoo!

What does “Submits over SSL” mean?
When you sign in to Yahoo!, you’re now protected via industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. This means that your password is more secure in transit when you sign in.

I cvsup’ed the ports tree on my client’s new server and did a ‘portmanager -u’, :lol:, it deleted itself! I’ve used portupgrade for years but the latest FreeBSD Handbook mentioned portmanager. I tried and liked it. Oh well…

Google Groups : mailing.freebsd.cvs
Remove portmanager. Author has withdrawn permission to distribute it.

From this teardown of the Intel-inside iMac, it contains a Broadcom PCIX wifi chipset. And according to this press release, the BCM4311 supports 802.11a/g. So I guess these rumors were not exactly true, at least not for the iMac, we will have to wait for somebody to take apart a MacBook Pro to find out what’s in those… well, the time will come… 🙂

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A lot of idiots asserted that “Macs are overpriced”, I usually don’t care enough to argue with them coz there is no point and I have better stuff to do with my time and energy. But when asked by some of my acquaintances, I would try (briefly) to explain that if you compared apples to apples Macs are actually quite reasonably priced. (if they kept arguing I would usually drop it coz there is no point convincing them. I’m a shareholder but a very small one, unfortunately.)

Previously PCs and Macs actually shared very similar hardwares, but it was still hard to compare performance without getting into benchmarks. Now with Intel inside we can compare them easier, and notebookreview.com compiled a pretty good table. As expected the MacBook Pro is pretty damn competitively-priced. Check out this link:

Apple MacBook Pro Preview and a Value Proposition for Buying It

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