I got booted with this message after watching a replay of a guy using an aimbot to instantly target my head while simultaneously being able to see everyone in the game, right through the walls.

Links to file UNC paths are disabled by default in just about every browser except Internet Explorer because it is an easily exploitable security vulnerability. Malicious sites could detect your operating system or installed applications by checking default installation paths, or worse, browse your cookies, sifting for sensitive data. As system vulnerabilities are discovered, files related to exploits could also be detected.

The default installations of Fedora 12 (64-bit intel and 32-bit ppc, at least) are really bloated. There are tons of new packages that don’t belong in a default installation. There are a ton more than I just don’t have any need for. To be fair, you can do a net install which gives you a smaller footprint to begin with and you have the option to customize the installations to avoid installing anything you don’t need in the first place. But do I really need special support packages for specific Lexmark printers by default? How about cheese, ivtv-firmware, or fpaste?

My old method was to install some sort of flash player plugin named something like “libflashplayer.so” and copy it from /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 to the plugins directory under “~/.mozilla/plugins/”. But now that’s old school. All you need to do in Fedora 12 is:

I’m going to redirect http://blog.rootninja.com to the main site. I don’t know why I didn’t just do this in the first place. I’ve always left it over here on its own. But it’s all on the same Virtual private server. Anyway, this is really easy to do in lighttpd. First, redirect all “www.rootninja.com” traffic to “rootninja.com”, because that other page is useless.

With Samba using a clustered database, you can now export the same shared storage (this is only on the gfs2 file system - I haven’t seen any testing on ocfs2) on multiple nodes in an active/active samba cluster. The storage on clients that mount this export will be available when active failover occurs from one server node to another.

I’ve heard the arguments for the agile developement method from people all for it and people who don’t care for it, and even people who just don’t care at all. I think it all boils down to the fact that the project management style and tools really just don’t matter. Pick a methodology and stick with it. Or better yet, choose what will work in your organization and take the best parts from several of the popular “fads” — use what works. The skills of the programmers matter more than which way you want to tackle planning, meetings, and management’s visibility.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the PC does have a config file with settings that are modifiable. You can open the config file in notepad and edit away. Don’t remove anything or add extra lines or your game will crash. It’s also against your legal terms of use psycho-babble i’m sure.

Csync is a bidirectional file synchronization tool. The developer’s main purpose for csync is to implement roaming home directories for Linux clients using a central file server using PAM to synchronize when the user logs in and out. Instead of being it’s own protocol, by default using port 873 or whatever, it can use other protocols such as http, smb, or sftp so there is no need for a server component. Though I wonder how it compares in the nitty-gritty performance aspects which really matter when synchronizing lots of data over the Internet.

I finally got a reply to my request for Google Wave. And my first message was that I have a few invitations I can send out to friends. I had a friend that got on before me by getting an invite, but he said he didn’t get any invitations to send out. It reminds me of when gmail was beta and you got like 99 invitations to send to other people. So is there anyone out there that wants an invite?