Well it seems I’m back on the air after some nasty haxors (probably script kiddies) managed to root the box 
Prime suspect #1 is somebody’s insecure PHP code (not mine, of course 
). It’s times like this that really cements my recently found hatred for PHP. I’m thinking if I need to do any new sites that aren’t big enough to warrant Java, then I’ll have to look into something else. Python? Ruby? Hmm, there’s always too much new stuff to learn in this line of business….
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Nasty haxors
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007A tale of two Ubuntus
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Ok, so yay, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) got released.. upgrade time! Now with debian, such things are normally just a simple ‘dist-upgrade’ away – I’ve had my firewall box at home running Etch for a while now, with no problems at all. Now, I have what I would consider pretty similar set-ups at home and at work.. both were running the AMD64 version of Dapper, and both had beryl/nvidia drivers set up from the same sources etc…
Home: Upgrade process died.. I think apt segfaulted half-way through. This, for some reason left the machine completely un-bootable. I managed to boot with the live install CD, chroot into the install, and continue the dist-upgrade. Eventually I managed to get all the dependencies in order. Then X wouldn’t start with the nVidia drivers. Ok, changed to the open-source ones, X would start. Nothing I tried could get the binary drivers to work. *sigh* All the important data on that install I have in version control (svn) on another machine, so I’m going to format and re-install this one
Work: In contrast, the actual upgrade itself went 100% smoothly. Why this would be the case and work, and not at home, I have no idea. Couple of small niggles though:
- Eclipse refused to start, it was choking on a missing mozilla library of some sort. Turns out this is a bug in Eclipse, which has a workaround in the form of an updated jar file: https://eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174547. At least now the internal browser actually works in it!
- Trac quite broken, as it had been previously installed in Dapper with Python 2.4. Feisty uses 2.5. I had to install a different mod_python for apache, and install and patch ClearSilver 0.10.4 from source.
- I also had to recompile all the Trac plugin eggs so they were built against Python 2.5
- X / Beryl / binary nVidia drivers all upgraded 100% perfectly.. go figure..