The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Gentoo "Whoa" moment of the night

Posted By matt on March 29, 2004


bash-2.05b# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:39:55:4E

         inet addr:192.168.1.106  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

...

bash-2.05b# nmap 192.168.1.106

Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-03-29 23:37 EST
All 1659 scanned ports on 192.168.1.106 are: closed

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.426 seconds

bash-2.05b# cat /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf | grep nolisten
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -audit 0 -terminate

This is the most secure Linux distro OOB that I've ever seen… Not even X is listening (which is the first thing that I turn off).

Damn.

Meanwhile, I'm bulding myself a system – compiling and installing huge numbers of packages and all the packages on which they depend. Real work intensive, right? Wrong – I'm reading a novel. Now, I'm going to bed. It will compile, and be ready for me in the morning.

Gentoo: They do the drudge work. You do the hacking.

Methinks I need some pimp Gentoo stickers.

Hey, – how do you make a computer go “Woof”?

Set it for 115V and plug it in to 230V.

Yes, this happened at work today.


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