Linux

Somehow I doubt that would be worth the paper it's written on if those copyrights fell into the hands of, say, Microsoft or Oracle.

I really wish Red Hat didn't include SElinux in their builds. As far as I can tell, the only role of SElinux in the universe is to break stuff.

the only reason I liked kde was because it had a gui debugger and gnome did not, but now I have eclipse and constantly fighting the tide is a pain in the ass, and ubuntu uses gnome by default so why fight it.

I always used to use DDD, which was Motif/Lesstif based... that is, back before I ruined myself on Java.

I tried DDD I really did. I wanted to believe, but the truth wasn't out there.

That's funny, because I used to think I hated object-oriented programming *until* I learned Java. Of course, the baseline of my experience was C++.

C++ is bloody awful. Java is a step in the right direction, but not perfection yet...

Why was the mantle of "the standard OO C" taken by C++ and not Objective-C ?

Why was the mantle of "the standard OO C" taken by C++ and not
Objective-C ?

becuase objective c REALLY REALLY sucks.

I happen to like C++ more than anything else I think. I'd use it for everything if eclipse didn't make java so easy.
And there's still as far as I know nothing as easy as jsps and servlets for making web services for C++.
certainly nothing that integrates with eclipse as well as java and jsps do.

It's too bad, because if everybody spent as much energy on c++ as they did java, we'd spent a lot less time waiting for our computers to do things.

I know, old argument.

But as for objective C, have you looked at it? Sure it's supported natively in gcc or whatever, but it's the hackietst piece of shit I've ever seen in a language. Whitespace makes more sense than objective C does.
C++ at least kind looks like C.

And although I agree with pete on most things, I just can't go along with that whole "send the object a message and it'll deal with it" late binding mentality.
What's the point of throwing a message at an object if you don't know ahead of time if it's not going to work.
so if you know it's going to work or not work, why bother with the late binding?

But that's not what I wanted to ask.
IG: a while ago you posted a neat script to scan for people trying to hack login and block their IP if they were.
I've got the block the IP Part, but I don't remembe rwhat you used as a triggering device to detect that an attack was coming in in the first place.

So I did something really stupid. I did apt-get uninstall gtk-2.0
well little did it occur to me it would then go about uninstalling every gtk program.
By the time I noticed, damage had been done.
time to upgrade to 10.4 (I was 9.10)
And guess what. Everything's broken.
Sigh. Yet another day wasted on all this crap.

Oh, and now my raid zero drive is resyncing. Why is it doing that, all I did was upgrade ubuntu.

I know we go through this every time I upgrade ubuntu....


So why stop now, here's an ongoing multi message rant about all things that broken.
of course vmware wouldn't start, but I found a patch, and the patch was wrong, so I found the patch to the patch and eventually got my vmware working again.
so now I have a phone and a vpn to work.

But they broke screen, or byobu as it is now called. sigh.

no flash and no sound either.
It's always the same things that break each time.

on the plus side I was now able to install gtkmm which was giving me all sorts of problems with 9.10 saying I was trying to do the impossible.
That's what started this whole thing.
so I got screen working, but no flash and no sound (have to wait for raid0 to resync before I reboot or it'll start all over again) so it might be fixed when I reboot.
But now I can start (6 hours later) to try and write a gtk program. Gaah.

so I rebooted. Bad idea. Now I get kernel panics as soon as gnome starts up.
ugh. Any suggestions how to diagnose kernel panics?
nothing in dmesg...

I've got the block the IP Part, but I don't remembe rwhat you used as

a triggering device to detect that an attack was coming in in the first

place.

Simple -- create an account called 'admin' with password 'admin' and set your script as the account's login shell. If you want the script to trigger even faster, create more obvious named accounts with the password set to the same as the account name (such as oracle/oracle, or use samples from previous breakin attempts).

ahhh right.
I was thining of grepping on auth.log but then I'd have to worry about range of log since x time and blah blah.