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The vision will be carried on as Arizona will host the 4th Annual “Copper on Dirt”. USAC Silver Crown, USAC National/CRA Sprint Cars and USAC National/Western States Midgets will all take part in a sensational racing spectacle at Tucsons USA Raceways for two nights on February 19th and 20th marking USA Raceway as one of only two dirt track venues to host USACs Triple Crown all in one event.
via The 4th Annual “Copper on Dirt” – Auto Racing Forum | Big West Racing Forum.
What is the hottest thing in music right now? A pair of video games ? Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Anyone can play. The games allow you to become a member of the band. Each game offers a range of pop music hits on game controllers that look and feel like guitars and drums. What makes these video games so much more impressive than “air guitar” is that through the use of something called the instrument game controller the player actually experiences the visceral feeling of performing music. You can even improve if you practice.
xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
This is the flowchart you should use after reading about technology ;-)
via YouTube – Vesti.
The Bureau of Communication – Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence.
Now that’s amusing.
Cleaning Up
From a high level, the Bourne script would essentially ssh into each target machine, do its thing, and then exit. As part of its “thing”, the designer of the framework wanted to make sure the script cleaned up after itself so subsequent runs of the framework would not re-process old data. To accomplish this, one of the enhancements after the initial release was to add two cryptic variables that redundantly contained the project name and the version being tested. Utilizing an unpatched flaw in sudos setup to gain real root access, the script would then do the following as part of the clean up:
rm -rf $var1/$var2
Ordinarily, this worked just fine, but the co-op student was unaware these SPECIFIC variables needed to be set. With them being left blank, the following was the end result upon execution of the script:
rm -rf /
With the script running as root on a setup with NFS which, in turn, granted access to everything on the entire UNIX/Linux network and a few Windows Servers via SAMBA, the script had a chance to do a good bit of damage… and it did. Home directories, file repositories, customer data, test results, all seemingly evaporated into nothingness.
via Bourne Into Oblivion – The Daily WTF.
My favorite shell commands
This page contains a selection of funny database video’s, humor for DBA’s and database developers.
YouTube – A Boy and His Tuba–Episode 1: The Brass Ceiling.
RetroLoop Tuba Man
Late Thursday, Bare Bones Software released version 9.2 of BBEdit, its popular text and HTML editor. The software retails for US$125 for new users. The new version, a 15.4 megabyte download, features the following fixes and improvements:
via O’Grady’s PowerPage – Your Mobile Technology Destination.
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