>I use Ubuntu Linux as my Desktop OS of choice at work and haven’t tried KDE for years now. After the recent Gnome bashing from Linus Torvalds, I decided to take a look at KDE again (hey, maybe he’s right, you never know!) so I installed the latest Kubuntu version on my personal Notebook and frankly, I (still) didn’t like what I’ve seen. The icons are just too, well, toonish….
Gnome has it’s flaws, but I still think it has the cleaner interface and it does what I want it to do ^^

>I got my 15″ PB from Apple two weeks ago, and yes, it has the grey horizontal lines I called AppleCare and the (very friendly) support guy told me, Apple is aware of that, but they don’t classify it as a problem so they won’t replace it!
Dear Apple, I don’t pay CHF 3000.– for a Notebook which has a screen problem! And I don’t think it’s a good excuse just to tell me that it’s not that serious. It is! I don’t see them when I’m programming or do some other text intensive work, true that, but as soon as I watch a movie or just a picture they get really annoying.
Another thing I can’t get used to is the small Enter button… most of the time, I miss him when I type :-/ Oh, and why did Apple place the @ sign at the G button? On a german keyboard, you have to press Alt Gr + Q and on a Swiss German Alt Gr + 2….
Ok, enough Powerbook bashing for today

>Here’s a short description how to get MacOSX and NIS together if you have no GUI (or the GUI doesn’t work as expected…).

1. open /etc/hostconfig
2. edit NISDOMAIN=-NO- to NISDOMAIN=yourdomain.nis
3. mkdir /etc/lookupd
4. echo LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent DSAgent NISAgent > global
5. killall -HUP lookupd
6. check your config with lookupd -configuration. The output should be something like:

morpheus:/Users/Shared root# lookupd -configuration
ConfigSource: file://etc/lookupd
LookupOrder: CacheAgent NIAgent DSAgent NISAgent
MaxIdleServers: 4
MaxIdleThreads: 2
MaxThreads: 64
TimeToLive: 43200
Timeout: 30
ValidateCache: YES
ValidationLatency: 15
_config_name: Global Configuration

7. test NIS with ypcat group and id username

>I had some troubles with WordPress recently. Someone uploaded an almost 1 Gig movie onto my webspace, which wasn’t that funny… they also installed a backdoor. My webhoster (and I) weren’t very pleased with that, so I decided I kick WP off my space and use something I don’t have to care about if the server or the software is updated.
I think they used the “recently” announced XMLRPC hole in PHP to do that stuff (especially if my webhoster didn’t update PHP, thank you btw.).
So I’m now here on blogger