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me, being a boring sod, having needed to use Whois a lot wrote an excruciatingly simple php front end for whois

http://thefridge.me.uk/whois.php

oh the joy of running off of my xbox sitting beside me here

well i'd agree there i'm a gentoo user all over the shop, except for on my gaming pc. windows i'm afraid to say. gentoox is indeed very nice. however, i do feel it would benefit from a larger developer base, but it should still have shallax as the top dude. development of a linux distro is, i've bee...

leave me alone

it was late at night the two times i did it, i wasn't thinking straight.

plus i'm suffering from caffeine withdrawl

woo, glad to see i wasn't cracking up yeah, i got hacked 5 times in a month, i tried the nuke-cops security fix thingy, but someone still managed to hack it, so until i find the time to program my own site engine (after all these blasted A Levels) i deleted the admin panel secure to the max ^^ *goes...

well i scan my hard drive regularly for spyware.

and considering it happens on my linux box too

and also i use opera

i find it unlikely..

it doesn't work, and i only noticed because i got a popup error saying host byo.ro unreachable.

for some reason when i load a page on the gentoox website it attempts to forward me to http://www.byo.ro a few seconds after the page has loaded

i'm getting concerned mainly because it is using phpnuke and i had a hellish time with hackers on nuke making it forward to some virus infested website.

forget it

i found the information i needed in the gentoox FAQ

i looked in there before, why didn't i find it...

TheXbox root # etc-update Scanning Configuration files... The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/crontab /etc/._cfg0000_crontab 2) /etc/inputrc /etc/._cfg0000_inputrc 3) /etc/mailer.conf /etc/._cfg...

yeah, i do go through them and i merge which ones seem fairly harmless

i don't merge the new fstab for example...

hmm, if i copy the output of etc-update here can anyone tell me which ones not to merge?

sparkle you say? hmm anyroad i found out i did a reinstall anyway. worked then i ran emerge sync then magic then later: emerge sync && emerge -u system && emerge -u world && reboot and it booted fine then i ran etc-update and i merged the updated config files.. it seems that ...

hi i was setting up my xbox as a server to take over from my main server, TheFridge (it's big and white y'see), while i rebuild it. however, my dad went and put a drill through a mains cable and blew the fuses, so now i get fsck errors on boot, and it can't check the drive because it has to mount th...