Just a quick announcement: Heartland will be going down for essential maintenance in a few minutes.
It should only be down for a couple of minutes, but during that time the site will be unavailable.
The update & subsequent reboot will be to patch GHOST - a newly discovered security hole in the software running on the Heartland servers:
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/laws ... nerability
Server going down for essential maintenance in a few mins
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sisterswiki.org has also been patched.
What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
mh wrote:Well done!

Seconded

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This is one advantage of running a bleeding-edge Arch Linux system. I'm on glibc 2.20 and have been since December. The vulnerability was apparently fixed by 2.18, released August 2013.
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Fwiw:
Upgraded according to these instructions:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... nerability
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followed by a reboot.
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
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ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.10) 2.15
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... nerability
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
mh wrote:Well done!



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Perfect!...Quiff Boy wrote:sisterswiki.org has also been patched.



*btw, this year I won't be able to send you some tribute before April ...

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This is a common failing in Linux users at my workplace. (I'll get my coat).markfiend wrote: blah blah blah Arch Linux system. I'm (on) glib blah blah blah.
Seriously though, I don't understand any of the posts on this thread but am very grateful to those who do

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yes please....two sugars. ta.markfiend wrote:N00bQuiff Boy wrote:Ubuntu
IIRC Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't configure Debian"

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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:This is a common failing in Linux users at my workplace. (I'll get my coat).markfiend wrote: blah blah blah Arch Linux system. I'm (on) glib blah blah blah.


And I believe the traditional response to linux distro-wars is Nah, I'm not really into Pokémon.
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