Re: powerbook with nmap superpowers

[Geoffrey J Gowey <gjgowey () gmail com>]

Well I'll explain my hatred of ubuntu and why I advise developers to  
steer clear of it.  3 years ago I tried developing a java application  
on a clients ubuntu based desktop and that is when I opened the can of  
worms.

The short of it is that ubuntu heavilly and stringently embraces  
Unicode end to end through out its entire system.  The problem with  
this is that they have to patch and modify everything including  
libraries to get this to work, but it doesn't completely work as these  
modifications bring about other problems.  However, these problems are  
typically ones that will only be encountered by developers or  
specialized apps (like nmap).

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Jonathan Gallant  
<blackdog.tasha () gmail com> wrote:

> > Not to knock ubuntu (I'm really not trying to start a distro flame  
> > war), but
> Not to worry :) I'm not particularly attached to any distro.
>
> Following on your suggestion I popped in a Knoppix livecd, but I
> couldn't compile nmap, so I used the original binary from my ubuntu
> system with the same results. However I really hadn't tested anything
> new - just the same binary compiled with the same gcc compiler running
> on knoppix.
>
> Nmap on windows worked great, and I thought perhaps ubuntu is
> compiling nmap funny so I converted the nmap-5.0 rpm to deb and
> installed that. This gave me the "lots of info" I was looking for and
> without the "Access Denied" error.
>
> I'm quite interested in why nmap compiled on ubuntu would give me less
> access than nmap compiled/packaged somewhere else. My next test I
> suppose is to compile nmap on a completely different system as you
> suggested. Would you know what weird things ubuntu does to their
> binaries? We are talking about gcc now, and not nmap since I had
> compiled nmap myself. Why would an ubuntu gcc compiled nmap give me
> less access than some other gcc compiled nmap? Or is it some
> dependency library that ubuntu doesn't pull in but the rpm did?
>
> cheers,
>
> J

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