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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by cpach on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:52AM (#40499770)
In case you didn’t recognize the trope: It’s a reference to the seminal article ‘Smashing the stack for fun and profit’ by Aleph One. Published in Phrack #49, 1996. IIUC that was the article that introduced the concept of buffer overflow exploits to a wider audience. People have been writing ‘X for fun and profit’ headlines ever since.

http://phrack.org/issues/49/1.html

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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by phrotoma on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:06AM (#40499862)
Arcane wisdom. A friend gave me this printed on tractor paper in the 90's and blew my tiny mind.
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by grokkedit on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:12AM (#40499905)
what is a tractor paper?
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by timrichard on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:28AM (#40500046)
On dot matrix and impact (like daisywheel) printers, there were sprockets along the side edges of the paper so that the tractor part of the printer could advance the paper after a linefeed.

It's sometimes called 'listing paper', as it was commonly used to print out listings of your code :

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/noi8xm/dot_matri...

Hmm, wonder what became of my Epson MX80. Much fonder memories than the printers that came after it....

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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by dcminter on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:40AM (#40500146)
Also known as "Continuous Stationery" (one of my Father's customers companies was even called that) because each page was joined via a perforated line or "fanfold" as it was folded into the box with alternating left-right folds along the perforation just as a paper fan is folded.

Often the holes for the tractor feed were also separated from the main part of the page by a perforation so that one could tear it off to leave a more-or-less pristine letter (or A4 over here) page of content.

Fiddling with the left-over narrow strips of hole-punched edging paper was one of those universal habits that you don't even notice until long after it's gone.

(Edit: _a_ I just realised I replied to the wrong parent post and _b_ now I'm wondering if you're somebody I know!)

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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by timrichard on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:18AM (#40500978)
b) I am!
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by dcminter on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:34AM (#40501116)
That's hilarious! When I mentioned the joy of messing with those strips of holes from the paper I was thinking of a specific occasion in a very dull lecture (business studies?) when I built a small paper boat out of them and you and Phil (I think) sitting in the row behind me said it was the only interesting part...

As Pratchett said, "We've all passed a lot of water since those days..." :D

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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by timrichard on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @11:08AM (#40501446)
I don't remember that one, but I do remember a few others! I've emailed to avoid derailing the thread.
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by gtirloni on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:31AM (#40500065)
Epson LX300 was on my wish list for a long time. I didn't have the money at the time, then inkjet happened and the matrix printers became extremely expensive here.
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by phrotoma on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:32AM (#40500074)
heheh, I guess it's (also) a sure sign of my age.
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by orwin on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:57AM (#40499805)
Also, i think this idiom sound nice, and add disambiguation to the sentence ("Root your docker host" can mean something totally different than the OP title)
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by kaashif on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:02AM (#40500335)
What is the other meaning of "Root your docker host" which is disambiguated by adding "for fun and profit"?
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by edward28 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @01:00PM (#40502855)
If you say it with an Aussie accent.
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by orwin on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:34PM (#40507822)
I guess "Enable root on your docker host" was my idea (i'm still a VM guy, i don't know if it make sense on docker, but you never know)
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by ameliaquining on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:21AM (#40500477)
It's much older than that. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-th...
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Re:Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2... by cpach on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:34AM (#40500607)
Ah, yes. You’re right. I see now that I bookmarked that page many years ago and then totally forgot about it!
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