False positives form chkrootkit

August 19, 2004

A quick FYI this morning I ran chkrootkit from a PORTS install on FreeBSD 4.9 this morning. It comes up with a few "INFECTED" files as so:

Checking `chfn'... INFECTED
Checking `chsh'... INFECTED
Checking `date'... INFECTED
Checking `ls'... INFECTED

There were no other errors. To be safe I built and used the GCC Fileutils including gls and again chkrootkit said the same files were infected. A quick web search found a few people having this problem with FreeBSD 5.x but no mention of 4.9. A quick trip to chkrootkit.org and I downloaded and installed the new version and it didn't show the problems. Unfortunately there is no mention of this in the changelog that is a part of the readme other than "small bugs corrected".

Playboy publishes olympic blogger

August 18, 2004

It appears that in spite of International Olympic Committee regulations banning athletes from publishing to Blogs while in the Olympic Village, Playboy is publishing one. The page is Amy Acuff's Olympic Diary. Acuff, a high jumper for the United States has been making a splash recently as she and a handful of her Olympic athlete colleagues have posed for magazine spreads in mens magazines including Playboy, FHM and Stuff.

What is needed in OS X web browsers

August 17, 2004

I'm experimenting with OmniWeb 5. It is a great web browser. It occurs to me though, as I'm still unable to read my bank statements with anything but Internet Explorer, and the older statements are n PDF format that the OS X web browsers need to be able to display PDF inline. Why can't they? PDF rendering is built right in to the OS... Is it a webKit shortcoming? Wherever the issue lies it should be addressed sooner rather than later.

Court refuses to hear case again

August 16, 2004

The 9th circuit court is refusing to reconsider its May decision upholding Oregon's assisted suicide law. The refusal follows a ruling in May by a three-judge panel of the court that upheld the law in Oregon v. Ashcroft. Stemming from Oregon voters' passage of the Death with Dignity Act the case pits state's rights to make their own laws against the Bush Administration's attempt to further regulate every aspect of a person's life from pre-conception to post-mortem.

Apple Remote Desktop 2.0 crashes when you click scanner

August 16, 2004

I've been battling an annoying problem with Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) where it crashes when you click on the "scanner" icon to run a scan of the network. Several searches had been unproductive until I found this article in the knowledgebase today. The thing is that even though it has "crashes" in the title a search for crash and the ARD product won't show it. Once you click scanner you have just a second when the program opens to move it back to "master list"... but that is a tiresome work around.

So the hint says you can only have 29 network ports in your active configurations. This means you can't have more than 5 "locations" set in network preferences because there are some ports (internal modem) that even if you don't use you can't delete.

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