RMS in Calgary
I attended Richard Stallman’s talk on “Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks” at the University of Calgary last Tuesday, February 3. Coming over from a job interview down south of the city I was a bit late so I had to stand at the back of the packed lecture hall. I found [...]
How to Disable known_hosts in ssh
I’ve been working on building custom live linux systems for a while now. The problem is, everytime I reboot the live linux machine and I ssh/scp to it, I get this message: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping [...]
Incompetent in Tech Support
This week I ended up doing mostly one thing: providing technical support for 2 projects which I was working on. I went horribly. I can either blame myself for being inept in expressing technical instructions to someone with limited technical capability, or I can blame that person for being such. Personally, I consider the first [...]
Bad kernel 2.6.22 and autofs
The new kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 in Fedora 7 repo has an auto mount bug. Also reported back in 2.6.22.1-27.fc7, USB flash drives won’t automatically mount. Reverted back to 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 and all is well. Also, update autofs package. Earlier version that came with the Fedora DVD shows automount hogging up CPU! On top command, it shows up [...]