Monday, April 11, 2011

And A Link from LifeHacker .. Installing a Hackintosh

http://lifehacker.com/#!5672051/how-to-build-a-hackintosh-mac-and-install-os-x-in-eight-easy-steps
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Hope to come back one day to try this out..

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Friday, April 8, 2011

a bit on thread id


how to get a thread's ID in c/c++ gnu, gettid() is not implemented

pid_t gettid(void);

can be replaced by the following system call :

#include < syscall.h >
pid_t tid = (pid_t) syscall (SYS_gettid);

Thread ids obtained from pthread_self() are in a different format..
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

On SELinux :A good introduction from linuxsecurity.com

SELinux or Security Enabled Linux.
Just did attr -l
to find an attribute selinux.
Went on to find about SELinux to get "Hacks from Pax"


Article 1: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120567/49/
Article 2: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120622/49/
Article 3: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120700
Article 4: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120837/169/
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Tip:
To list inode of a file: ls -i OR stat |grep inode
To find file from an inode: find -inum