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I was having difficulty connecting to the broadband cable modem through ethernet using the Motorola SB5100 and switching between desktops. Here is what I found for troubleshooting the connection:

1. Put the cable modem in stand-by mode
2. This will enable the internal DHCP Server of the modem when the Cable Modem is disconnected from the Internet. You will then be assigned a dynamically assigned IP Addresses by the Cable Modem DHCP Server which keeps trying to refresh after 10 seconds. These addresses are assigned from an address pool which begins with 192.168.100.11 and ends with 192.168.100.42.
3. Bring up the SURFboard Configuration Manager located at http://192.168.100.1
4. Go to the "Configuration" page and "Restart Cable Modem".
5. Turn on the Modem from it's Stand-by mode.
6. The cable modem should now pick up your latest MAC Address and you will be assigned the IP address provided by your ISP in the next refresh.

Happy Surfing !!

While scanning compressed files, several Antivirus, Trojan and Spyware scanners might suffer from a denial of service condition while attempting to extract an archive that contains intentionally malformed content in it.

Details Vulnerable Systems:
* Norton Antivirus 2002
* Norton Antivirus 2003
* McAfee VirusScan 6
* Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
* Windows XP default ZIP manager (report's wrong size of compress ZIP files.)
* F-Prot 4.4.2 for Linux
* Panda Antivirus
* Linux uvscan scan engine 4.3.20 (McAfee)

It is possible to construct an archive containing a file or files that will cause a denial of service condition when a scanner attempts to extract the contents of the archive. Usually files within archives are completely extracted before scanned, which gives rise to this vulnerability.

The Linux kernel bug allows a simple C program to crash the kernel, effectively locking the whole system. The security hole affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x kernels on the x86 and x86_64 architectures.

The flaw was by accident discovered by Stian Skjelstad when he was doing some code tests while on vacation. He was quite surprised when he discovered that the code he was trying froze his machine. He reported it to the Linux-kernel mailing list and the gcc bugzilla 2004-06-09.

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My Handspring Visor Deluxe finally died after a long spiel of 3 years getting trashed around. I also used it as my cell phone with the Springboard module, Sprint Wireless Digital Link attached to it. So, I was cut off from the World without my Wireless swiss army knife!! I had to act fast... Got a sweet deal on eBay and upgraded myself to a brand new "Visor Neo"! The seller aparently found it after a year in hiding, when the wife bought it, opened it up... read through the manual and decided that it was too dificult to set it up and use it, so put it aside. Lucky Me!!

Amsn is a clone of the original MSN Messenger, having the same look and feel.

This project is a modified and multilanguage version of Compu's Messenger (CCMSN).It's a Tcl/Tk script as was CCMSN and Tcl/Tk must be installed to run it. This means it is multiplatform and can run on any OS having Tcl/Tk installed (Linux, Windows, Macintosh).

Visit Amsn's homepage

It is currently fairly complete with features such as :

# Sound for Events
# Look and Feel similar to original MSN Messenger
# Multilanguage (Around 40 languages currently supported)

Creating a Patch File:

diff -Naur olddir newdir > new-patch
- or -
diff -Naur oldfile newfile >new-patch

A Note concerning Patch and the number of Directory Levels used:

Try to make sure when creating a patch file that you have the same number of directories levels for both the olddir path and newdir path. For Ex:

--- old/modules/pcitable	Mon Sep 27 11:03:56 1999
+++ new/modules/pcitable	Tue Dec 19 20:05:41 2000

The above diff would work ok as a patch.

--- old/try1/other/modules/pcitable	Mon Sep 27 11:03:56 1999
+++ new/modules/pcitable	Tue Dec 19 20:05:41 2000

You may have problems with the above diff working as a patch. Note that the first one has 4 directory levels mentioned and the 2nd one has only two. I would suggest modifying the --- and +++ lines to make the directory structure in both to be the same number of levels deep.

Using the Patch Command:

patch -p0 < new-patch
patch -p1 < new-patch

Which one of the above patch commands you use depends on your current working directory.

Other Methods for calling the patch command - using standard input of patch:

cat new-patch | patch -p0

Other methods for calling the patch command - using a "here document":

patch -p0 << EOF
--- old/modules/pcitable	Mon Sep 27 11:03:56 1999
+++ new/modules/pcitable	Tue Dec 19 20:05:41 2000
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 0x0e11	0xae10	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Smart-2/P RAID Controller"
+0x1000	0x0010	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Integrated Array Controller"
+0x1011	0x0046	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Smart-2/P RAID Controller"
 0x0e11	0xae32	"tlan"	"Compaq|Netelligent 10/100"
 0x0e11	0xae34	"tlan"	"Compaq|Netelligent 10"
 0x0e11	0xae35	"tlan"	"Compaq|Integrated NetFlex-3/P"
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@
 0x1000	0x000f	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c875"
 0x1000	0x0012	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c895a"
 0x1000	0x008f	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c875J"
+0x1000	0x000a	"sym53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c1510"
 0x1000	0x0701	"yellowfin"	"Symbios|83C885 gigabit ethernet"
 0x1000	0x0702	"yellowfin"	"Symbios|Yellowfin G-NIC gigabit ethernet"
 0x1011	0x0001	"tulip"	"DEC|DECchip 21050"
--- old/usr/share/kudzu/pcitable	Sun Sep 26 17:11:23 1999
+++ new/usr/share/kudzu/pcitable	Tue Dec 19 20:05:41 2000
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 0x0e11	0x3034	"unknown"	"Compaq|QVision 1280/p"
 0x0e11	0x4000	"unknown"	"Compaq|4000 [Triflex]"
 0x0e11	0xa0f3	"ignore"	"Compaq|Triflex PCI to ISA Bridge"
+0x1000	0x0010	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Integrated Array Controller"
+0x1011	0x0046	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Smart-2/P RAID Controller"
 0x0e11	0xae10	"cpqarray"	"Compaq|Smart-2/P RAID Controller"
 0x0e11	0xae29	"unknown"	"Compaq|MIS-L"
 0x0e11	0xae2a	"unknown"	"Compaq|MPC"
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@
 0x1000	0x000f	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c875"
 0x1000	0x0012	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c895a"
 0x1000	0x008f	"ncr53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c875J"
+0x1000	0x000a	"sym53c8xx"	"Symbios|53c1510"
 0x1000	0x0701	"yellowfin"	"Symbios|83C885 gigabit ethernet"
 0x1000	0x0702	"yellowfin"	"Symbios|Yellowfin G-NIC gigabit ethernet"
 0x1000	0x0901	"unknown"	"Symbios|61C102"
EOF

For the "here document", patch will read all the following lines, up until it reaches the delimeter that we specified after the << symbol. The delimeter we choose must appear at the beginning of a line, and must appear alone. In our case we are using the delimeter EOF. EOF has no special meaning, other than the fact that it is not likely that we would have a reason to type EOF at the beginning of any given line.

Levels in the Patch Command (-p0 or -p1?):

The -p option will optionally strip off directory levels from the patchfile. For Ex: if you have a patchfile with a header as such:

--- old/modules/pcitable	Mon Sep 27 11:03:56 1999
+++ new/modules/pcitable	Tue Dec 19 20:05:41 2000

Using a -p0 will expect, from your current working directory, to find a subdirectory called "new", then "modules" below that, then the "pcitable" file below that.

In *nix the "kill" command needs to know the pid(process id) of the process to kill it. So i decided to code a bash script to kill a process by name :

#!/bin/bash

if [ $1 -eq ""]; then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
get_proc=`ps -e -o pid,command | grep $1`
echo $get_proc > get_it
get_pid=`gawk -F" " '{ print $1 }' get_it`
kill -9 $get_pid
fi

The script is quite messy and certainly needs more improvement.

Google.com is undoubtedly the most popular search engine in the world. It offers multiple search features like the ability to search images and news groups.However it's true power lies in it's powerful commands that can be used and misused.I am writing this article on the basis of my experience using google and trying out ideas when i am bored.Now enough of lecturing...let's get

down to business.)

Hosting Backup is a set if PHP command line scripts that provides an easy way to backup hosted Web sites to your local computer. It works with sites hosted on Linux servers with MySQL databases using FTP.

HouseSpider is an Java applet that adds indexing and search capability to your web site. It can search by two methods, by spidering through your site or by searching a cached index file. Spider-searching is slow, but very easy to set up and requires no maintenance. Cache-searching requires only a little more attention to set-up and is very fast, sometimes even faster than server-hosted cgi programs. HouseSpider also supports compression (in zip-format) of the index file. HouseSpider has 100% support for i18n (internationalization). It is already translated to several languages. And best of all - it is free!