Samba: No mount as user.
Posted by coldtobi | 5 Apr, 2010, 22:48For security reasons (CVE-2009-2948) samba ceases to support setuid mount.cifs. Until at least a proper fix has been generated (saw patches for them, but at least in Debian they are not or defunc (Patches: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100326.142523.e959e38d.en.html, details of the problem http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-2948.html )
(IMHO the CVE is valid, but only makes sense in an multi-user enviorment and if you want to store your passwords in some files. Both are false for me. )
However, I need a working system. The other option is waiting until upstreams deciding what's better for me -- a security problem not touching my samba usage or no service at all. (Yes, I'm a little upset by this -- hitten cold by this "improvement" and finding out that they indeed choosen a way to "fix" it by disabling the execution at all. When I read the CVE notice from samba, it could also be done to disable the offending "information leaking" command options when run setuid... Well.)
Well *taking deep breath* lets stop ranting:
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Vote For Earth and Dim the lights tonight
Posted by coldtobi | 28 Mar, 2009, 17:29
Global Warming, Climate Change and Preserving Energy are for sure one of most important topics for our and next generations.
At least if we care for the place we live in.
To underline the importance, the WWF announced a Earth Hour today: At 8:30 pm, turn off all lights that are not ultimatly needed for just one to express that you care.
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Great Movies: War Games
Posted by coldtobi | 18 Jul, 2008, 22:01Do you remember the old style Sci-Fi movies? The ones where the "computers of the future" are shown, at the times where computers where scary and filled up complete rooms. And where reality outreached every imagination of the brilliant directors -- at least seen 25 years later.
One of my favorites is WarGames. As a computer geek this one is especially appealing for me: It has hardware is worth the name. Hackers and a gone-mad supercomputer playing with nukes. Together they playing towards doomsday, as finally the AI is figuring out the difference of reality and games. At last tic-tac-toe will saved the world.
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Small bugfix for Recaptcha
Posted by coldtobi | 8 Apr, 2008, 10:45I found a small bug for ReCaptcha: If you do not select a style, the generated Java Script code will be invalid and therefore the lanugage selection will not work.
Just select a style, for example "red" and everthing works fine.
There also some issues with several templates (for example MinimaPlus) : These issues are CSS related and show themself by a "broken bottom border" of the widget. I am currently trying to figure out how this can be solved without the need of a new CSS file to be included.
If you need a intermediate solution, please mail me for instructions.
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Back from vacation!
Posted by coldtobi | 10 Oct, 2007, 12:20The bad thing on vacations is, that time flys by and that they eventually end. Unfortunatly, this trip was not an exception to that rule.
Okay, 3 ½ weeks are are long time for a vacation, but Canada is such a vast and great land.
My plans are, that I will blog a little about my vacation, spiced with some pictures, but now I really should focus on my master thesis...
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Blogging pause
Posted by coldtobi | 6 Sep, 2007, 23:06The next few weeks, I gonna have no time for my blogging project, as I will not be around any computer. However, instead, I will enjoy lots of nature, beatiful landscape, mountains, canyons, and maybe some really wild animals. And that all in companion with a very special person. She's the One: The girl I married two weeks ago.
So please appologize, but we'll gonna enjoy our honeymoon! 
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Digital Camera Fuji Finepix S9600
Posted by coldtobi | 15 Aug, 2007, 12:55For my upcoming trip, I am planning to buy me a new digital camera. First I was after a digital SLR, but now I found the Fujifikm Finepix S9600.
Its quite an older modell, but the technical details are quite ok.
As I am currently too lazy to quote all the nice details, I just post an amazon.de link to the project, where all the details are available:
