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Just found this academic paper called "Influence of Vehicle Tilting On Its Performance" (PDF, 4 pages) regarding test results from what seems like a forerunner of the Mercedes design:

http://www3.fs.cvut.cz/web/fil...

Interesting results.

You're probably thinking of http://www.makerscanner.com/ which is opensource. Here it's a video of David3d scanner. But there are other opensource programs that don't require a laser like VisualSFM http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ and CMPMVS http://ptak.felk.cvut.cz/sfmservice/?menu=cmpmvs, or PPT GUI http://www.arc-team.homelinux.com/arcteam/ppt.php.

I'm an electrical engineer at an American college with a bilateral agreement with CTU. They have a very different but still interesting English language engineering program, and a few CS classes. The school is free if you speak Czech (unlikely), and not too expensive if you only speak English. They are very amenable to fitting their schedule to yours if your school is on any kind of werid system (we have 3 10-week terms instead of two semesters, so we took our exams and left early without any problem) Prague is the mst dynamic and amazing city too, and the Czech Crown makes everything a bargain. Czech out their courses (hah!) to see if there is anything that grabs you. http://fel.cvut.cz/en/

SRPMs for the updates are available on the mirrors just like the binary packages.

http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/mandriva/old/updates /7.2/SRPMS/

there's the SRPMS for the 7.2 updates. That release is six and a half years old.

I am entirely sure that any FSF representative, lawyer or reasonable person would consider our source availability to be beyond adequate and well into 'generous'. All the Mandriva public mirrors carry the source code for every package. What more can you realistically ask for? You seem to be just making trouble for the sake of making trouble.

For a start, you don't understand what 'source' is. The binary RPMs that make up the distribution you get on ISOs are not 'source', and that's what you're moaning about. The 'source' is all this stuff:

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Man drivaLinux/official/2007.1/SRPMS/main/release/

How long would it take someone who hasn't paid for Club access to find them?

Well, for a start, I don't see what paying for Club access has to do with anything. 'A mirror list' is not among the privileges of Club membership. So I don't know where you get that argument from. Second, when you Google for 'Mandriva Mirrors', the CookerMirrors page on the wiki is result #4, the 2007.0 mirror list on api.mandriva.com is #10, and the Club mirror finder (which works for non-Club members) is #6. So the answer to that would be 'not very long', I think.

The GPL has precisely nothing at all to do with the provision of security updates. That's clearly an absurd argument. You can release a product under GPL (or any other software license) and never update it. Notwithstanding, mirrors that carry the /old tree where old releases go to die have all the old updates available. http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/mandriva/old/updates / has updates back to 7.2. (In case you're wondering, I found that by Googling for mandriva-old : it was the first result).

You are also badly misreading it in terms of where the source code is to be made available. The paragraph you quote is not compelling the source to be made available in the same place as the binaries. It's saying that if you, say, sell a GPL-covered product as a time-limited download, then it's OK to provide the source in the same place; you don't have to make it available permanently as a non-time-limited download, and if the buyer doesn't download the source at the same time as they download the binaries, hard cheese. In other words, it's entirely irrelevant to the situation we are discussing.

I'm sorry, but it's getting to the point where it's hard to assume good faith on your part. And your understanding of the GPL is clearly sorely lacking.

What are you talking about? When FC5 was officially released I installed it (the 64-bit version) on my main workstation (AMD 64 3200+, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200). It installed the kernel headers for me after I selected it. Even with the stock kernel, I had OpenGL (I bought the 9200 specifically for the open source accellerated drives), and even VMWware Workstation's drivers compiled successfully after using the vmwware-any-any updates. yum update works flawlessly.

Since them I've done about a dozen test installs in VMWare and have deployed it to over two hundred computers, including PII's, PIII's, P4's, K6-2's, Athlons, Athlon XP's, and Athlon 64s with various ATI and nVidia cards (which are now accellerated). I have not had any problems like you describe.

Are you mixing incompatible repositores? Like RPMForge and Livna? I use these:

Dries
FreshRPMS
KDE-Redhat
Didier (Enlightenment)

I agree that VMS has a very high probability of being prior art on the patent. Within VAX/VMS Condition Handling was done using hardware instructions, but it certainly appears that Borland's approach is just a software implementation of this. For a good description of VMS Condition Handling see http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/vms73/v73/5841/5841pro_026. html#cond_handling_chap. Any other old VMS hands have comment?

Well, that's the theory. Unfortunately, despite their best intentions, many drivers get it wrong. They either "forget" to put a certain number of APIs into their glue code, and call those directly from the binary part. Or, all functions are covered, but they access structures directly. Or any other kind of SNAFU. Smacks more of lack of testing or proper development procedures than lack of foresight.

NVidia gets it right (even to the point that their driver works flawlessly with 2.6 kernels. But not with SuSE's X servers, but I'm more inclined to blame SuSE for that...).

VMware gets it mostly right (no problems with any 2.4 kernel, but you need a third-party patch for 2.6 kernels).

Realtek (and, unfortunately many others...) get it wrong, and don't seem to work on anything more recent than 2.4.18.

I want to use my MIDI keyboard for entry

Try the following:

• Hans Lub's emacs/MIDI input mode
• Nicholas Sceaux' Emacs/MIDI input mode
• RUMOR a command line monophonic MIDI/lilypond entry tool.
• LilyComp a graphic entry tool, for those that don't read music well.

I don't want to learn another syntax. Now what?

There are other options: it is possible to create the music in another format. Supported formats include

• MIDI: LilyPond includes midi2ly, a program that translates a MIDI file to LilyPond.
• ETF: LilyPond includes etf2ly, a convertor for the Finale ETF format (about ETF)
• ABC: LilyPond includes abc2ly, a convertor for the popular ABC format (about ABC)
• MusicXML. Guido Amoruso's xml2ly will convert MusicXML to LilyPond. (About MusicXML.).

Who do you think is more, or less, likely to have assault rifles in the home: Bush backers, or Kerry backers?

And who do you think is the most threat with an assault rifle, a Bush backer or a Kerry backer?

The following is a full list of the primary and secondary mirrors that have Firefox 0.8 builds. This list will also be maintained and updated.

Apologies for not listing one per line, but slashdot rejects posts with "too few characters per line".

North America: mozilla.isc.org (http) mozilla.isc.org (ftp) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (http) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (ftp) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (http) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (ftp) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (http) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (ftp) mozilla.gnusoft.net (http)

Europe: sunsite.rediris.es (http) sunsite.rediris.es (ftp) sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (ftp) ftp.cvut.cz (ftp) www.artfiles.org (http) ftp.rediris.es (ftp) ftp.rediris.es (http) ftp.task.gda.pl (ftp) ftp.task.gda.pl (http) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (ftp) (Windows only) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (http) (Windows only) ftp.mirror.ac.uk (ftp)

Asia/Australia: ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp (ftp) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (http) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (ftp) ftp.nctu.edu.tw (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (http)

• 
  bttv/v4l patch
  
  bluez kernel patch (bluetooth)
  
  matrox frame buffer patch
  
  alsa 1.0.1 kernel patch
  
  hostap (accesspoint sw for prism hardware)
  
  qc-usb (quickcam express driver)

Easy-peasy:

Go here and download this.

Decompress. Run runme.pl as root. This will reconfigure your vmmon and vmnet modules, then ask you if you want to re-run vmware-config.pl (which you will probably need to do). Look for the kernel loader messages saying that VMware's services are up and running, boot your VMware guest. Don't change your networking settings.

Caveats:
1. I am running VM 4 on NVidia GForce2 MX 400 equipment. Previous versions of VMware may not work. Also, NVidia's binary module will probably complain after compiling 2.6.0.
2. I'd back up my VMware config files if I were you...
3. The update script may ask you if you want to look for binary modules. That'd be nice. However, I run Debian and thus don't have an RPM option. Also, it's 2.6.0 - there won't be a module available for it yet. Be prepared, the script needs to recompile, not go on a wild goose chase.

All told the procedure takes about literally five minutes. I've had it running since test8 without problems. Now if I only get the damn IDE-CD thing to work...

Easy-peasy:

Go here and download this.

Decompress. Run runme.pl as root. This will reconfigure your vmmon and vmnet modules, then ask you if you want to re-run vmware-config.pl (which you will probably need to do). Look for the kernel loader messages saying that VMware's services are up and running, boot your VMware guest. Don't change your networking settings.

Caveats:
1. I am running VM 4 on NVidia GForce2 MX 400 equipment. Previous versions of VMware may not work. Also, NVidia's binary module will probably complain after compiling 2.6.0.
2. I'd back up my VMware config files if I were you...
3. The update script may ask you if you want to look for binary modules. That'd be nice. However, I run Debian and thus don't have an RPM option. Also, it's 2.6.0 - there won't be a module available for it yet. Be prepared, the script needs to recompile, not go on a wild goose chase.

All told the procedure takes about literally five minutes. I've had it running since test8 without problems. Now if I only get the damn IDE-CD thing to work...

Petr Vandrovec is golden for VMWare stuff, which often shows up at http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

Larry

Search code could be this way as well. Randomly change the code and have an external program measure the speed of the searches. If the searches are improving, the external program supports that virus line... if it's get slower, then it would kill it off.

You have pretty much just described a genetic algorithm. I can thoroughly recommend this book as a good starting point for learning about genetic algorithms.

Now at a station near you !
Windows : Linorg Projeto Brasil ISC | IndianaU | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | PAIR | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT

Linux : IndianaU | ISC | BehrSolutions | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | pair | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT Belnet | KULeuvenNet CVUT Sunsite FUNET

We also had the HP 48G in high school, and I have to say that even to this day I stutter wuth four-function calculators because, instinctively, I try RPN.

Regardless, I think it could be a legitimate concern for test proctors - I never got it to work, but remember talk of a program that would allow your HP to act as a television remote control.

Even when we started using the HPs in class in 1994-ish, the NYS Regents (and, I believe, the AP test people) had disseminated some information that proctors should be aware of calculators with IR capability and cover the ports with electrical tape.

Good question.. There are some patches for matroxfb around, but they no longer apply cleanly...

The claim about distributions not optimizing for newer CPUs is not true. They usually use something like -march=i486 -mcpu=i686, which means it uses instructions that at least i486 knows, and optimizes them for i686 CPUs. I personally doubt recompiling KDE with better compile flags that those in distro shipped packages makes noticeable difference. Things like prelink, O(1) scheduler, better mapping of binaries into memory, or code optimizations of KDE are things that may make difference.

BTW, even this may make for sure more difference that recompiling : http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/download/tips.html

I don't see where this article is talking about optimizing other then self-compiling. Better read the KDE performance tips.

• Don't do this unless you've made backup and know how to undo any mistakes! You may make typing exceedingly difficult in X if you make a mistake. Also note that I have not tried these particular steps; something similar, yes, but I'm working from memory here.
• First, choose a keyboard layout that you are likely never to use. Like, say Albanian (al). In KDE, go Control Panel -> Accessability -> Keyboard layout, select "Enable keyboard layouts", and select "Albanian" from the list of additional layouts.
• Next, assign a key to switch keyboard layouts. In KDE, this is in the Control Panel, under Accessability -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Switch to Next Keyboard Layout.
• You may need to restart KDE in order for the changes to take effect.
• Next, edit the Albanian keymap (found in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/al) as root. It doesn't look as though the Albanian keymap includes anything for the number pad (which means that it just defaults to the basic definitions), so you'll have to add the keypad in. Look in /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 for the line <NMLK> = 77;; it, and everything below it until <KPDL> = 91; refers to the keypad. You should be bright enough to figure out which lines map to which keys. Add these lines to the Albanian map, then conform it to look like the rest of the keymap. This means removing the numbers, adding in the "[" and "]", and adding the keysymbol that you want displayed (see the list at /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h).
• Restart X, cross your fingers, and play away!

Too bad the whole prune story is a hoax.

Well, have you seen these? Especially check out the one called 'tube'

Here's a great site if you just want to learn a little more about genetic algorithms and how they work. The Java applets on the pages are kinda interesting too.

http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/


Dave

KDE users/gesture lovers give it a whirl! I currently have gestures mapped to start up Konq, Konsole and to lock my screen.

Try Hunt.

Easily allows you to do quite a bit: packet-sniffing, ARP/DNS spoofing, session hijacking, etc.

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/sou rces/
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/so urces/

• ftp://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/
• http://planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntrl.net/pub/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW /clients/mozilla/
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WW W/clients/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ftp/mirrors/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/site/ftp.mozilla.o rg/pub/
• ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/netscape-source/
• ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• rsync://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://mirrors.xmission.com/mozilla/
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/
• http://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.mo zilla.org/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/packages/netscape/mo zilla/
• ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
• ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/infosys/www/bro wsers/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/mirrors/mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/

• http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• ftp://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• rsync://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp2.mbp.ee/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub /

• ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Networking/www/Mozilla
• ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/
• http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/www/Mozilla/ ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/mozilla -->

• ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.c3.hu/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.szentimre.hu/

• ftp://ftp.EUnet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• http://mozilla.fresh.co.il/

• ftp://ftp.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla ftp://his.ktarn.or.jp/pub/mirrors/mozilla/ --->
• ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.crl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.etl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.exp.fujixerox.co.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla /
• ftp://ring.nacsis.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Mozilla/
• http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla

• ftp://ftp.hpcnet.ne.kr/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/network/client/web/m ozilla/

• ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/network/www/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.global-one.pt/pub/Packages/Mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/WWW/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.sunsite.kth.se/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.fredan.org/mozilla/

• http://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/

• http://www.mozilla.sk/pub/

• ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/WWW/mozilla/
• rsync://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/WWW/mozilla

• ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/ ftp://ftp.gbnet.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.gbnet.net/public/mozilla/ -->
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/sou rces/
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/so urces/

• ftp://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/
• http://planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntrl.net/pub/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW /clients/mozilla/
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WW W/clients/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ftp/mirrors/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/site/ftp.mozilla.o rg/pub/
• ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/netscape-source/
• ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• rsync://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://mirrors.xmission.com/mozilla/
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/
• http://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.mo zilla.org/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/packages/netscape/mo zilla/
• ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
• ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/infosys/www/bro wsers/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/mirrors/mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/

• http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• ftp://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• rsync://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp2.mbp.ee/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub /

• ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Networking/www/Mozilla
• ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/
• http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/www/Mozilla/ ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/mozilla -->

• ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.c3.hu/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.szentimre.hu/

• ftp://ftp.EUnet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• http://mozilla.fresh.co.il/

• ftp://ftp.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla ftp://his.ktarn.or.jp/pub/mirrors/mozilla/ --->
• ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.crl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.etl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.exp.fujixerox.co.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla /
• ftp://ring.nacsis.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Mozilla/
• http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla

• ftp://ftp.hpcnet.ne.kr/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/network/client/web/m ozilla/

• ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/network/www/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.global-one.pt/pub/Packages/Mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/WWW/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.sunsite.kth.se/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.fredan.org/mozilla/

• http://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/

• http://www.mozilla.sk/pub/

• ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/WWW/mozilla/
• rsync://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/WWW/mozilla

• ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/ ftp://ftp.gbnet.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.gbnet.net/public/mozilla/ -->
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

Have a look here and here. The speed problems with KDE are in fact being scrutinised in interesting ways.

1. Suppliers

Digikey absolutely rules. Largest variety of everything electronic. Very easily-navigated site. No minimum order ($5 handling charge if your order is under $25).

Jameco is a good second choice. Especially good for lots of different cheap power supplies.

With Radio Shack, this should be all you need for now.

2. Learning Resources

Someone already pointed you to the various cookbooks. TTL cookbooks are especially good places to start at your level.

A great online resource used to be ePanorama.net, but they're 404ing at the moment, so maybe they're gone for good and they'll be back.

Circuits Archive has lots of simple circuits you can peruse to see how stuff gets done at the lowest level, just like the cookbooks.

3. Advice

Stay away from FPGAs initially. I think you'll find the architecture and associated design process too big a piece to bite off at this point, and not worth the effort.

Focus on TTL and learning what functions are available in various packages (track down an old "TTL Databook" from TI; they don't print them anymore but they're much handier for learning and browsing than online equivalents, which assume youknow what you're looking for). See this for high-level descriptions and this for pdfs of actual datasheets.

When you're ready (which might be immediately) choose a microcontroller family to bone up on and stick with it. It's a huge waste of effort relearning architectures, instruction sets, and development tools for different families. For your purposes, either the PIC (from Microchip), 8051 (Intel et al.), or AVR (Atmel) will do fine (and they're all available from Digikey). I chose the AVR for the following reasons:

a) Wide (enough) range of parts, from 8-pin to 64-pin, 1K ROM to 128K ROM, various arrangments of on-chip peripherals (including A/D).

b) Cheap, from under $2/chip (single-piece) to under $30 for their fanciest.

c) ALL members of the AVR family contain on-chip FLASH ROM for program storage and can be programmed in-system directly via your PC serial port. This makes a HUGE difference (compared to external ROMs or on-chip EPROM) during prototyping.

Some people will suggest the BASIC Stamp from Parallax, which is a fine product which I've played with. My beef with it is it's expensive ($30 or so, I think) and all you really get for the money is a Basic intepreter. I think you'll find assembler for these chips so simple you don't need Basic. You can also get separate free Basic compilers for all of them.

Good luck.

So you're claiming your KDE needs 450MiB memory? Wow, I wonder how I managed to run it on a machine with just 96MiB RAM and 128MiB swap (and a lot of free memory was still available).

Seriously, understanding 'top' or 'ps' output is not that simple as it seems. The formula for computing used memory from numbers given by 'top' is : Used_memory = mem used + swap used - cached - buff . Now go again to measure your memory usage, and if your number is still higher than 100MiB for plain KDE, there's something wrong with your install. For me, the number for a booted computer with plain KDE started is less than 50MiB (I'm not sure how much exactly and I'm not going to close all apps and logout just to find out).

Also, important portion of KDE's memory usage comes from gcc/glibc/binutils inefficient handling of C++ libraries ( see http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/linking2 ). This is being worked on.

It would be nice if this got moderated up. I'm getting tired of repeating it.

See mine windowscheater , it can find memory positions of lives, money and other integer numeric values in programs and change them. Works on windows 9x, newer versions not tested.

Note that I have left windows platform (now I use linux), so I'm not interested futher development of this.

You can get the patch here.

-Fialar

Austria
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Vienna)
Canada
http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/Linux/mandra ke/mandrake-8.0/iso/ (Alberta)
Czech Republic
ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/iso/ (Prague)
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/iso/
France
ftp://chronos.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/linux/dist ributions/Mandrake/iso/(Belfort)
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/iso/ (Paris)
ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/mandrake/mandrake/iso/ (Versailles) Germany
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Chemnitz) Spain ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Sevilla) United Kingdom
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Canterbury) United States
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/iso/ (Georgia)
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com /Mandrake/iso/
ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributio ns/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ (North Carolina)

I'm using vmware with 2.4.7 and it works fine.

What basically failed were the vmmon and vmnet modules. You can download them here. But remember not to follow the instructions this time. Ungzip the files, rename them to vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar, copy them to your vmwareinstalldir/lib/modules/source directory, and then do a normal "vmware-install" or "vmware-config".

I wouldn't mention this, but 2.4 is supposed to be the STABLE tree. If the interface is changing, that's what the 2.5 series is for.

Something as big as compatability with VMWare ought to be checked before releasing.

Anyway, get all your 2.4.6+ (and older) VMWare kernel fixes here:

ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/

I'm currently using VMWare with 2.4.7.

Professional users of Linux are still hurting for credibility, and this kind of thing just does not help.

M. R.

I think you're confusing two different security concepts.

Inital Sequence Number guessing is only useful for spoofing "new" connections or blind spoofing. Thus the "Inital" part of the term. Basically you are blind spoofing communication between A and B (while your are C), to take advantage of some trust relationship between A and B.

As pointed out in many posts this attack was done by Kevin Mitnick. Basically one of Shimomura's unix boxes had root level .rhost that trusted another one. Kevin spoofed packets from the trusted computer to execute a "echo '+ +' >> /.rhosts" then just rlogin. To help the attack Kevin also SYN flooded the the trusted computer so that it would not respond with RST packets. This type of attack is called blind spoofing and is usually difficult to do. There are programs out there that will do this. ie: ADM-rsh

Session Hijacking is what you are reffering to. This is taking over an already established connection. In this attack you use the fact that you can sniff or obtain the sequence numbers already in existance by an extablished TCP connection and inject spoofed packets to interupt or tack of that session. Tools suchs as hunt do this type of attack.

As a computer security consultant, this story seems silly to me.

see CERT advisories dating back to 1995... as well as bugraq discussions about it...

This is a very well known "vulnerability". The most famous use of this vulnerability was by Kevin Mitnick to attack Tsutomu Shimomura's computers.

Basically one of Shimomura's unix boxes had root level .rhost that trusted another one. Kevin spoofed packets from the trusted computer to execute a "echo '+ +' >> /.rhosts" then just rlogin. To help the attack Kevin also SYN flooded the the trusted computer so that it would not respond with RST packets. This type of attack is called blind spoofing and is usually difficult to do. There are programs out there that will do this. ie: ADM-rsh

Tools like nmap test for ISN randomness. Just about all unixen are atleast pseudo-random, which makes the attack almost impossible to do to two computers that you can't sniff traffic to or from.

If you can sniff traffic from either box then the problem of hijacking connections becomes much simpler. At this point it doesn't even matter what the ISNs are because you can just sniff them. Tools like: hunt are the preferred tools for session hijacking. hunt even has ARP spoofing so that you can sniff over switched enviornments.

1) Is this "problem" has been around since the mid-80's why has it never been exploited?

A bit of digging found the tool HUNT which exploits the problem.

Here is an introduction to Genetic Algorithms:

http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/

Here is another example of a Generic Algortihm put to use, this time to apparently massively improve the wiring and therefore performance of Beowulf clusters:

http://www.arstechnica.com/c pu/2q00/klat2/klat2-1.html

What does CorelDRAW provide that GIMP doesn't (or couldn't)?

CorelDraw 9 is actually a small suite of packages, including CorelDraw, Corel Photo-Paint, a font navigator, a texture explorer, a bitmap-to-vector tracing package and various image distortion tools. So, to answer your question, the functionality provided by CorelDraw 9 that the GIMP doesn't do is vector-based artwork, rather than pixmap. This is still an area of the Linux application base that is not fully up to speed yet - there are various applications which do vector-art/vector-design on Linux, such as Dia, Sketch, KIllustrator, Xfig (ancient but still useful) and it's successor GTKFig, GYVE and Impress but many of these are as yet incomplete or have fallen by the wayside. That's not to say that CorelDraw 9 is necessarily the best vector art package out there - I'd like to see the latest Adobe Illustrator on Linux too - but it is a welcome filling-out of the application base.

There are several things in the Windows package which it will be very interesting to see what Corel do with regards to porting them, or if they are simply ommitted. For example, the MS Visual Basic for Applications scripting language used for automation of CorelDraw 9 - drop or replace? - and the Digimarc Digital Watermarking software, something I'm currently unaware of anything like this on the Linux platform. Plus the usual glut of a thousand TrueType and Type1 fonts you get with any vector or DTP package these days.

Whether Corel Photo-paint 9 holds a candle to the GIMP (I don't honestly know, since I haven't used Photopaint since v5) is vaguely irrelevent, since it is the vector art package in this lot that will probably be of most interest to most people.

Cheers,

Toby Haynes

It was also the fastest aircraft of World War II, with the exception of some (but not all) jet aircraft.

Uh, no. The Mosquito was quite a nice plane, but even the fastest one -- the prototype -- had a top speed of 429 MPH. This could be exceeded by quite a number of piston-engined fighters on both sides. It was able to make quick raids, however, and in the absence of extremely quick reactions by air defense, it could escape most of the time. (Note that its top speed *is* higher than that of the modern jet-powered A-10 Warthog tank destroyer...)

It was faster than the in-service fighters, such as the Spitfire Mark I and the BF-109D, that were in service when the Mosquito took its first flight. That may be how this whole myth started.

The fastest propeller-driven aircraft of the war was probably the Dornier Do335, which had a reported top speed of 475 MPH. This unusual plane had a propellor at the front and the back, thus minimizing drag relative to wing-mounted engines like the Mosquito or twin-boom aircraft like the P-38. The Me-262, a jet plane, had a top speed of 540 MPH.

The Mosquito's top speed was considerably greater than that of any other propellor-powered aircraft of the time, with early models reaching speeds around 500 mph, or higher.

Last I saw, the world speed record for propellor aircraft was just under 500 MPH, set by a heavily modified P-51.

(All speed ratings based on level flight, dive speeds could be considerably greater.)

Another relevant site is here