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It’s 01:09 here in Vienna Airport, there’s still 4 hours until my flight check-in, I’m bored and my battery is running low,

As you can see, there are only few people in here, most of them are Spanish football fans returning home.

Well, not Internet, but Firefox 3.0 downloads actually.

Here is a funny trick to mess up with someone’s bash prompt: change it to look like a Windows one
To do so, add the following line to his ~/.bashrc file:

export PS1='C:${PWD//\//\\\}>'

See it in action:

While getting my nightly fix of reddit programming news, I come across this entry about a cryptography song called “Crypto”:

You can download the mp3 file and get the lyrics from Peteris Krumins’ original post.

The exploit allow local users to gain root access using a “proof of concept” exploit. The exploit worked on my machine (Kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2).
The bug report:

• Launchpad Bug #190587
• Gentoo Bug #209460

And here’s a working patch:

--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const struct iovec __user *iov,
                if (unlikely(!len))
                        break;
                error = -EFAULT;
-                if (unlikely(!base))
+               if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, base, len))
                        break;
 
                /*

Links
Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

Images
I hope those pillars are strong
PICTURES: Australia’s Monster Motorbike
Firefox crash
It’s cold
Making the city work together LOL

Videos
Gigantic Mech Animals are a Seriously Stylish Way to Travel
Personal helicopter
Frozen Grand Central

Geeky (click at your own risk!)
Richard Stallman does not use a web browser. At all.
Richard Stallman is the new Chuck Norris
GRUB/Chainloaded CD-ROM