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Sorry, the correct link is this one.

I'd like to make a point about NWN and it's expansions from the builders/server admins point of view.

When I made my mod I wanted to make a fun balanced place for those who had NWN to play. I think I did a pretty good job of that and many a player has had fun slaying dragons and such so I think I succeded in that regard. However...

Then they released SoU. Not only did they make it very hard for the people who had NWN mods to edit any of the scripts that were now included in SoU unless you made your server SoU only, but even if you kept your module in NWN mode both NWN and SoU players could join and play. Needless to say the SoU players had a great advantage as they had more spells, feats, and classes to use. The balance in my mod was totally disrupted and even though I was able to fix some of the things that SoU broke, I simply was not willing to put the time in again to rebalance my module. (Would have requried many many hours of testing and tweaking.)

Now, with HoU the rules have changed again and rather drasticly. More new spells, feats, classes, and last but not least levels beyond 20.

The time and effort that I would have to put into making my mod even playable by everyone would be staggering let alone the thought of rebalancing the encounters and quests.

It appears the way that BioWare has chosen to impliment the xpacks has made it such that they can't impliment a disallow SoU/HoU players from using the features that they give the game but it is a great dissapointment to me. After nearly a year of hosting I'm quite sure that I will soon be forced to pull down my servers as HoU players come online and upset the balance.

NWN is an amazing game. I would not have put so much time and effort into making a mod had I not liked the idea of it, but after watching SoU trash my module and now HoU ready to blow it out of the water I'm a little sad.

Overriding sys_brk() is not enough, because the problem actually exists in do_brk() which is used in other parts of kernel (for example bifmt_elf.c) - and the bug can be exploited from them.

I've writen a patch which can fix this flaw without reboot - it uses /dev/kmem to alter running kernel (actually to modify begining of do_brk()) and one LKM.

It can be downloaded from here.
But I'm no kernel expert and this patch was written in rush(and it's pretty poorly written), so use it with extreme caution.

A few weeks ago, I received this spam offer for 1 acre of land on the moon for $29.95.

Oh, say - being threatened by the FBI any time you watch a video? Getting fined or even jailed for linking to de-CSS or the Diebold memos?

Be original, create your own trolls.

Will this do?

OBEY HACKER
http://infidels.ath.cx/obey/obey-hacker.gif

There is a good tutorial page Here. It shows how to do stuff step by step on the 49G/G+.

Lots of screenshots and other info (including one with a '128MB free memory' window!)

Here is the real way to stop AT&T:
http://spark.ath.cx/att.htm

But it's not just sequencing that is becoming accessible to bio-newbies, proteomics is the next step and the current head of the NIH is surprisngly proactive about open government funded databases. In fact, he's taking flack from industry people about his ambitious proposal for a large molecule mapping project.

And then speaking of drop at a time instead of useless but impressive sounding mega cluster number crunching, how about this one --in India, they've gone through copies of all the written literature they could find on Proteins and using individual human researchers instead of computers, they've mapped out all known protein interactions. The definition of "known" is the cool part because this wasn't done by a machine, it was done by real people. Apparently they organized the project using ZOME which is an open source App Server that can run on Knoppix Live CD. Pretty cool stuff.

I'm really into all this stuff as I've started a news forum focused on biotech for students and newbies with an emphasis on biotech. It's still not ready for prime time, but I've already got about six links to some cool stories if you're interested.

BioPacific.ath.cx

e-mail address munging programs ("piranha at ely dot ath dot cx")

Did I unmung it correctly?

There is a patch for djbdns, but they're not official so I wouldn't reccomend blindly using them.

What would you call `official patch for djbdns', one released by DJB? Forget it. ;) There are no `official' patches for any djbware.

The ignoreip2-patch with ignoreip-update posted on dns@list.cr.py.to seem to be the Right Way for now.

IBM had a RISC chip called the 801 way the hell back in time but never commercialized it, and so the ARM was the first RISC CPU that anyone was able to buy. I went hunting for dates once and wrote this writeup on E2 which has the dates of these assorted processors. The 801 is from 1979, the ARM2 in 1985 (ARM1 is also in 1985, but never commercialized) and ROMP in 1986. POWER happened in 1990. There is enough time between 801 and ROMP, and further enough time between ROMP and POWER, to ensure that each processor somehow advanced the others, if only because IBM was busy laying their share of the groundwork for how RISC processors and processors in general would work. IBM has always advanced the science of computer technology by at least their fair share, if not more.

Other interesting factoids for those too lazy to visit the link, or to wait for the page to load, though probably anyone who has drilled down this far will fire it up in another tab or window; The Motorola 68020 (1984) was the first 32 bit processor. The first general-purpose 16 bit microprocessor was the Texas Instruments TMS9900 in the TI 99/4(A), in 1976.

I know about AIX on the RT, I know that was the primary OS, but the fact is that the system tanked because it was mismarketed as a PC, though it's true it was priced like one, scaled up for performance. I managed to track down both AOS and BSD 4.3 (IBM and not IBM, as you apparently know) for my RTs.

Have you given a thought to this guy's work? The links are funky because he moved servers, but PhotoSeek indexes documents as well. Not sure if this is what you're after, but it does a variety of formats and such.

--grendel drago

Have you given a thought to this guy's work? The links are funky because he moved servers, but PhotoSeek indexes documents as well. Not sure if this is what you're after, but it does a variety of formats and such.

--grendel drago

I said, you can't hide from them--no sir, old bob. don't even try.
they hear everything. they got that trackin' device on ya! they can find you anywhere--anytime! it's in the tooth. right, bob? but I fooled 'em, old buddy!

Full mirror at
tuxserver.ath.cx/~durin/gnome2.4/

Someone has set up an LCD connected to the web here. Please spam it.

As I am interested in CPU architecture, I tried to find some technical info on the chip. I didn't found much, except a large powerpoint file which I failed to download. Slashdot effect? I wonder if they can read/produce such .ppt files under their Midori Linux ;-)

However, there is much more talk about their embedded character generator! This sounded very funny to me. A character generator in a CPU??!?!

After browsing around, I found that the vice president of Culturecom has been working 20 years with chinese character encodings. I guess the board of directors has a lot to say about what the chip real estate should be used for ;-)

I also found this link explaining somewhat more. (Is it normal practice for UCLA to comment on market opportunities for Chinese companies in scientific papers?)

Anyway, Culturecom seems to have invented an encoding for chinese characters that encodes brush strokes. This seems to be a good idea, and is likely superior to the outline encoding used in TrueType. It is probably a nice algorithm. But they don't seem to want to publish this algorithm. The idea is to "embed" it in a chip, and sell the chips instead. ($25) Maybe this makes sense in china where patents and copyrights are routinely violated, but I personally think that the chip real estate could probably have a better use.

Speaking of copyright violations; their web site says that they are selling Midori Linux for only $50. I wonder if that includes source code and a GPL license?

And we can't use a tool like PWDUMP? to grab the hashes remotely? Also, This FREE tool will sniff windows 2k traffic. Yes, Kerberos is one solution.. and disabling NTLANMAN will help as well, but how many enterprise environments are there that don't support mixed mode? Maybe a better question is how many HAVE TO support mixed mode because of the problems with the microsoft version of Kerberos communicating with the long standing tried and true version of Kerberos that ALL other platforms use (and have used) for years?

I've seen tools to crack Windows NT passwords for years now, most of them in the form of a Linux bootdisk (I keep one here, in case of emergency, break glass...)

Granted, this is different, as the Swiss in this article basically reverse-engineered the algorithms for password encryption, whereas all the bootdisk does is re-hash the registry entry containing the desired password.

FYI, Sizzle is out there, and will be adding menu creation and possibly encoding support within the next few months. Check it out

Oh no you won't!

Get some smoke detectors, and check the thing every month to make sure the battery works. Yup I said battery, because the AC one's are not much good if the power goes out, ups fails. I bet 9 out of 10 of you will find a faulty smoke detector. Nothing beats

• smoke dectector
• telephone with 911 service
• some buddy's and my favorite toy's

I would go with the same kind of system used over a fork lift charger. It has a simple 10 pounds of extinguishment with a heat activated autodispensor. This way you can take the whole thing in for maintence, recharging. Why not use CO2 extinguighers?

http://tuxserver.ath.cx/~durin/www.meow.org.uk/sta n/xserver/

Please use it to make mirrors as well as view the page. Thanks.

...on my mountain bike. The rear linkage is 6061 Aluminium. I love this frame, it continually impresses me how fast you can change direction in the rough stuff. The suspension design also lends itself towards minimal energy loss while climbing -- you'd swear you were on a hardtail sometimes.

Run your own caching DNS which gets its info straight from the root servers. Still not perfect, but much better. Also useful against primitive DNS censorship techniques which are used in some countries. In a home environment, I recommend an OpenBSD router, which will do this and much more. Tutorial here.

I think this explains a lot.

Check out his website:

http://kenbonilla.ath.cx/weed/index.htm

Please use conese.ath.cx instead. Goatse.cx is a copyright violator of my personal site conese.ath.cx.
Darl McBride

Please use conese.ath.cx instead.

CODA or NFS even solve everything that you might want to do with filesystems. NFS is by no means solid but it does keep working through things like network outages. You can reboot an NFS server while a file write is taking place. The app will just sit there until the server comes back up, finish the write and carry on as before. CODA, which is getting stable now does some really advanced stuff, like disconnected operation.

While a bit long in the tooth, CONESE was an experimental acadenic file system from back when they were cool. (I think it was devised by a guy named Conese at the University of Naples.) It was written for 2.0, but someone ported it to the 2.2 series, but it has long been abandoned and I don't think it compiles under 2.4.

Interesting these scams pre-date email. Since Nigeria grew wealthly through trade routes it is acceptable practice to do what we would call a scam.

To them it is simply a game that is played out as part of normal business. Traders win some and lose some between themselves but it kept them alert and trained for foriegn scams, and people who worked scamming the trade routes professionally.

I found the Centre for Online Nigerian Email & Spam Enterprise to be a good reference for those who are interested.

Essentially, straight IP, especially over Ethernet, provide no guarantees of low latency and high bandwidth. While VoIP doesn't really need much more than 50kbps for tolerable quality, you really do need to keep it reasonably constant, so that the various adaptive bits can do their thing. Latency of more than about half a second, though, especially variable latency, is a killer. If you want to do soft realtime applications, like telephony, with a reasonable chance of it working once you start approaching the capacity of the link, then you need to design the protocol around it from the start. BT's CACX, for instance, solved most of these problems before IP even existed.

There is always a risk when extending an existing, and popular, language, such as Java, that you might accidentally change the semantics in ways which introduce bugs in working programs. The implementation of enumeration types, in particular, has some problems with name collisions, which could potentially break some (admittedly badly written) code. Plus, no-one wants another C++. The more expressive the language becomes, the harder it is to understand and the easier it is to write absolute crap.

If they'd done this with a Dreamcast it would have been even cheaper, plus they'd be able to run a 2.4 kernel and not just that crufty old 2.2 job that's in the PS/2 Linux kit. And before any of yahs start whining on about the matter of a lack of disks, yer wrong. We've got a filesystem driver for the DC's VMU so we could store all of 128kb of data :-> (see this for more details.).

Seriously, I know a lot of you like to laugh at console developers but we're hacking away at high powered boxes.

I don't really have anything to say about this story, but I could use some slashdot effect right now. So uh.. sorry for the spam.

Click on the link - you know you want to.
http://op.ath.cx/~tma/rtprof-usage/
You've gone too far - the link is above.

If you fill out the questionnaire I'm very grateful, thanks.

Consider this:
1) Many of todays multiplayer games are closed-source/proprietary(Q3, Americas Army, Halflife)
2) Many of the cheats for todays multiplayergames are open-source/free(OGC HL/Q3 Bot, Evilhack America's Army Bot)

So... before you jump at the cheaters, who are really the bad/good ones?

If you're *really* interested, read this and this. Otherwise stick wtih 4.8 until NVidia supports 5.x.

Yep see #4 in the May 14th article on this site.
brI think it's time to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The sewage has killed it anyway.

1. Doom3_PCVersion-E3-Traile.rar
2. doom3.zip
3. Doom3-E32003-PCTrailer.zip
4. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
5. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.avi 6. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
7. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
8. doom_3-e32003-full_video-hires.zip
9. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip
10. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip
11. doom_3-e32003-full_video-lores.zip

I'm sorry to say that I've yet to find a really satisfactory and impartial comparison, much less, one that is up to date. I've had to do all of my own testing to figure out what settings do, and how codecs compare. Mainly xvid, divx4/5, sbc, and ffvfw. As I stated earlier, I've found xvid in it's latest incarnations(Koepi and Umaniac's versions are easy to find, and work great, in my experience) are the best, and the doom9 xvid forum is a great place to give feedback to, and get information from, the creators of this robust and customizeable codec.

This is probably the closest thing I could find to an impartial comparison, displaying unpostprocessed, and postprocessed images from many different codecs. Unfortunately, when I tried the link, it didn't respond, hopefully it will be back up.

Hope it helps.

It depends on the game, certain games can actually be faster than they are in windows, it all depends on the game. Some games will be slower.

What matters is, we will have all the Windows games that matter. This means we win. What I'd like to see transgaming support next is AsheronsCall.

You have the tools to build a linux compatible AsheronsCall here AsheronsCall server emulation

All you have to do is vote on it.

heya Gropo's Dad...
have you figured the mail problem yet? I can see all the options necessary to change my outgoing and incoming mail servers...there doesn't seem to be any thing preventing me from changing them to my hearts content...

I have had experience with ISPs that prevent me from sending mail through them if I am not currently connected through them...though reading previous posts it seems that you--or your son--would have already considered that...

I love playing Quake 3 online, but I suspect there are a number of players cheating. I haven't been able to find many resources to Q3 bots, and other cheat methods other than this site: http://ogc.ath.cx/ Anyone know of other ways people in Q3 cheat?

For my undergraduate dissertation I'm doing something very similar to that. I've written a realtime profiling tool that can be attached to any single threaded binary. Additionally I've written a realtime GL based call graph drawing frontend to the profiling tool. I should be releasing it in the next month or two. Screenshot:

Tuxracer in realtime

I gave up too soon. As several people pointed out careful re-reading of the documentation and the use of a d-link router allowed me to do an FTP install.

One reason I thought I couldn't do a FTP install before was that I'm on DSL with PPPoE. My solution was to hook my box into a dlink router that was already set up to handle the special connection.

So now I have it running on my box and am having fun setting it up as a gateway/firewall. If anyone else is trying the same I suggest this how-to as a good addition to the standard obsd faq: http://real.ath.cx/BSDinstall.html

Thanks all, for the info and kicks in the ass :-)

Sukotto

Tarball of mirror

It's a long discussion thread, so the pic's are about 1/3-1/2 the way down.

Found here

Gotta love a 'corporate', 'professional' website that gives Kazaa Lite as one of their downloads :)

Lovely.