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You're kidding, right? I own a Linux company. I'm the active leader of a Linux Users Group. I write free software.

Your need to see a doctor about your knee... it jerks too much, don't you think?

I think your post exemplifies my complaints about elitism.

My old 486DX33 from 1993 is also still in continuous use. I upgraded it to AMD 5x86/133 several years ago, and maxed out the memory to 32MB. It now runs NetBSD and functions as the DHCP server, samba authentication server and backup DNS for my home network. It also hosts a DLT-III tape drive for network backups. All SCSI as well, running off an AHA-1522b HBA. I did get a nice VLB SCSI HBA for it, but it refused to boot when it was installed. The MB apparently didn't like the card trying to do bus mastering or something. Whatever.

I also have an old Pentium-200 fished out of the dumpster running as the gateway/NAT machine and primary DNS for my home network. It was pretty bare to start with -- no HD, memory, video, etc. I picked up 128MB of RAM on eBay, a used 23GB full-height HD and AHA-2940 HBA to get it going. It also runs NetBSD. Pretty, it ain't, but it gets the job done.

My old 486DX33 from 1993 is also still in continuous use. I upgraded it to AMD 5x86/133 several years ago, and maxed out the memory to 32MB. It now runs NetBSD and functions as the DHCP server, samba authentication server and backup DNS for my home network. It also hosts a DLT-III tape drive for network backups. All SCSI as well, running off an AHA-1522b HBA. I did get a nice VLB SCSI HBA for it, but it refused to boot when it was installed. The MB apparently didn't like the card trying to do bus mastering or something. Whatever.

I also have an old Pentium-200 fished out of the dumpster running as the gateway/NAT machine and primary DNS for my home network. It was pretty bare to start with -- no HD, memory, video, etc. I picked up 128MB of RAM on eBay, a used 23GB full-height HD and AHA-2940 HBA to get it going. It also runs NetBSD. Pretty, it ain't, but it gets the job done.

At work, we have a Sun IPX running Solaris 2 that we use for cross-platform development. We're just now thinking about replacing it with a Sun Ultra 60 because our budget allows it, but we've really had no problems with the IPX at all.

At home, we have a 133MHz 5x86 (a pin-compatible version of the 80486 from AMD) with 32MB of RAM running NetBSD that is functioning quite well as a DHCP, DNS, NT PDC. The only problem I've run into it is trying to get it to be a tape backup server, but I think that's too much to ask of a 486, so I'll move the tape drive over to faster machine. Here's a picture of it.

Their site is not racist, it's just not politically correct. Honesty and truth are not politically correct nowdays.

Most arabs hate jews in general and Israeli jews in particular. Why then should Israelis want their children to play with "palestinian" ones?

Jews are not illegally occupying Arab land, it's in fact jewish land. Why it's called Judea? Read some short info on subject http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=30617

Rabbi Kachane was a bright, brave and honest man. He predicted everything you now see in Israel. Read his books. He was a prominent leader of Jewish people. That's why leftists defamated him, that's why his party was banned. That's why arabs killed him. They also killed his son.

P.S. It's your site http://disturbance.dhs.org that REALLY freaks me out. It's ugly and completely useless.

P.S. FYI, most arabs also hate you, just because you're American. Didn't 9/11 teach you anything? There was a great celebration in Gaza when WTC was destroyed.

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here is a copy of the worm client for those interested (17k rar).

be warned, this will mess up your system if you're not careful.

yes, i knowingly ran the worm, what can i say, i was bored/curious :)

Crestron and AMX are only a few (but the best known) of the many companies that have these solutions already.

They aren't cheap but they are tres cool.

As an aside, they all use wires as wireless tend to be for cheap products that are installed by the homeowner after the fact. Real home automation systems are very complex and are usually installed at build or renovation time by professionals.

Check out Enlightened for more links and info.

I run a StarWars RPG where Duct tape is dark on both sides by Imperial Edict just to pervent that joke

Yay! A BeOS fan :)

Way back when, I had a triple-boot of RedHat 6.2, BeOS R4, and Windows 98.

BeOS R4 was unable to use my Voodoo Banshee (still my only display adapter, btw), so I was in glorious greyscale - and I still loved it. I bought R4.5 as soon as I could, with Banshee support. It was awesome :) Shortly thereafter, I deleted my RedHat partition (after using it for three months).

Now (a few years later), I can't use BeOS (due to my Duron CPU, I think, complicated by a broken floppy drive) - so Windows XP is my GUI OS of choice. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. ;-) On my server machine, however, I run FreeBSD. Without XWindows, and with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor.

I enjoy Windows XP (Pro), given that I'm very accustomed to the oddities of Windows. I can use it effectively for my needs. I haven't had a failure yet, and I haven't needed to reinstall it, either.

I'd still like to run BeOS every once in a while, though. Vision was a great IRC client. SoundPlay + BeInYourStereo was an awesome combination for MP3 playing. I even designed a custom skin for it :) I wish someone would port it to FreeBSD, though.

Yay! A BeOS fan :)

Way back when, I had a triple-boot of RedHat 6.2, BeOS R4, and Windows 98.

BeOS R4 was unable to use my Voodoo Banshee (still my only display adapter, btw), so I was in glorious greyscale - and I still loved it. I bought R4.5 as soon as I could, with Banshee support. It was awesome :) Shortly thereafter, I deleted my RedHat partition (after using it for three months).

Now (a few years later), I can't use BeOS (due to my Duron CPU, I think, complicated by a broken floppy drive) - so Windows XP is my GUI OS of choice. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. ;-) On my server machine, however, I run FreeBSD. Without XWindows, and with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor.

I enjoy Windows XP (Pro), given that I'm very accustomed to the oddities of Windows. I can use it effectively for my needs. I haven't had a failure yet, and I haven't needed to reinstall it, either.

I'd still like to run BeOS every once in a while, though. Vision was a great IRC client. SoundPlay + BeInYourStereo was an awesome combination for MP3 playing. I even designed a custom skin for it :) I wish someone would port it to FreeBSD, though.

Hmm, with everybody talking about Linux audio tools, I suppose this is my opportunity to plug GNUsound. GNUsound is now in version 0.6, and it's developing very well. If you need a fast, straightforward sound editor, you will want to give it a try.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the client and server to talk to each other? I'm using JakusMinimus' code and am able to run the server, but I've been unable to get it to communicate with clients.

I've made a short write-up of my situation here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

you're not the first with that idea

Well, Ardour definitely will meet your mixing needs. If you're looking for a simpler but also powerful editor that's more like Cool Edit you might want to try my program GNUsound as well.

Ardour is a bit overkill for my needs, and Audacity is too slow for my taste, so I wrote GNUsound. You might want to give it a try.

He might want to try GNUsound.

Sure--I'll let you be in my network if I can be in yours.

(Apologies to Bob Dylan. If you want to hear it, it's somewhere in here.)

The campus network here at Iowa State University is indexed by software called strangesearch. There have been a few concerns about the legality of running a network search engine which is used primarily for sharing music, movies, and porn. Recently, four students were arrested for sharing child pornography. The interesting thing is that without StrangeSearch, law enforcement would have never seen material on the students' computers! (Ever try to look at files shared on several thousand individual computers?) For this reason, nobody plans to shut down strangesearch.

A version of FreeNet for colleges/LAN, however...

It seems to me that if p2p software allowed people from a specific school to look for files on each other's computers first, and to go outside of the campus only when necessary, a lot of bandwidth would be saved.

Interestingly enough, Iowa State University has implemented something of the sort...or rather, the students have implemented it as a matter of necessity.

At ISU they have a search engine called StrangeSearch that searches the local network for files shared on other people's boxes. The intranet at ISU isn't throttled, but if you go over a certain amount of bandwidth per day, you get moved to a shaped line that severely limits your throughput from the Internet. Thus, very few people doing actual downloading from the Internet and massive sharing of the files once they get inside. Which, to me, seems reasonable.

I consider my MP3 collection to be fairly large as collections go, and I'm more likely to run out of disk space on the three drives in my computer (total 320 GB) than to hit 32767 songs.

However, I do consider it to be a problem I will eventually run into. Hopefully Apple will address it in iTunes 4.0.

While we're at it, we should also mention ACiDDraw, which some people prefer over TheDraw under DOS. Wanna draw under *nix? Try TetraDraw.
For Win32 there's a promising little app called PabloDraw. The SourceForge page hasn't been updated for a while, but there's a newer, more stable version circulating. Ask around.

The above mentioned are all fine and dandy for blockstyle, newschool and ansi, but if you want to draw oldschool (and don't have an Amiga with CygnusEd lying around), you might want to use something like UltraEdit for Windows (or some other editor with vertical block selection) with SAC-OS.FON, a modified (added pixels, doubled height to fix perspective) Topaz font.

Are anyone drawing oldschool under Linux, and wanna share what tools they are using? Kwrite has block selection, but finding a descent (Well, familiar) font is pretty hard. Yes, courier can be used, but I'd rather wanna use SAC-OS. If anyone knows how to convert it (Windows bitmap font) to something that is usable under Linux, feel free to do so :)

For more info on the ascii scene (Which still is alive, mind you), check out Acheron.org, or pop by #ascii or #sac on EFNet. People are also organizing oldschool ascii compos on #oscompo/EFNet on Sunday evenings, but I'm not sure if there has been any activity there lately.

...but apparently not yet, seeing as how the site is thoroughly down.

When I get it, I'll rip it, and you can download it here.

I don't have The Matrix on DVD yet, just a DivX version I downloaded from LimeWire, so this seems like a good buy to me.

I've been marking up a map with locations reported by CNN.. it shows the path the shuttle was on as it went down. It's here. - Steve

At the risk of /.ing myself, I'll say that I have a really excellent bootleg of the Two Towers on my computer:

ftp://louise.dhs.org/Movies/Two%20Towers.mpg

It's ripped from four VCDs I got from a friend of a friend, originally ripped from the DVD given to the people who review movies for the Oscars.

Okay, /.ers, bring it on...high traffic hasn't crashed my dual-1.25 GHz Power Mac G4 yet, and it won't do it this time!

The fear of getting one's door kicked in will be an initial threat to keep people from "drawing attention to themselves", but once, say, I'm thrown in jail for hosting this site, my friends and parents may want to see the law changed.

Not that I could actually be thrown in jail (under this law, anyway) for owning a computer like Louise, since she's a download-only server for everone but my friends, so there's no way for people to pay me for the material they download. But the first paragraph still works as a hypothetical situation.

That's why I say, go here for all your musical needs.

The law is perfectly reasonable; it's unfortunate that the type of completely unreasonable use of it you describe is almost inevitable. It would be nice if the statute had some clause specifying that the retail value is the value at the time of the supposed piracy.

If legitimate downloaders like the /.er above get really, really lucky, maybe some liberal judge will set that as a precedent...but seeing as how the wealthier side of a legal dispute seems to get their pick of judges, that seems unlikely.

Meanwhile, I'll continue with my completely illegal activities.

What if I use an FTP server to share my files and don't let people upload? Then I can go on using LimeWire to download things as long as I don't use it to share files, right?

That way, when I'm sharing, I'm not doing it in return for more copyrighted material...though I'm still depending on others to do so if I want to continue to download stuff.

The only hole I see in this is that it'll be hard to get files on LimeWire if I'm not sharing anything, because people don't like to share with leeches. If there's a legal hole anyone can think of, I'd like to hear it...'cause I'm nervous.

You just know that whoever did this is a /.er, and has been for a long time.

This is such a huge community of technically-savvy people, even if most of us are ligitimate users--from lowly personal FTP site administrators to professional sysadmins for major corporations--some among us are the type who crave attention and/or power by any means, including bringing down the Internet in its entirety for a few hours.

I suppose we can't start seeing one another as suspects, though. As is the case with actual terrorism (I agree with other posters who argue that this isn't real terrorism), that type of reaction would be exactly what the perpetrators are hoping for.

Man, you just posted it to slashdot. It is no longer hypothetical.

Sheesh, I thought my university's Residential Computing department was to blame. They've been pretty damned unreliable all year, but if everybody's having this problem I guess it's not their fault.

So the Internet, which is supposedly impervious to a nuclear barrage, has succumbed to a simple attack from some moderately skilled hacker(s). Amazing how much more damaging sheer traffic volume can be than a physical destruction of the network, eh?

At least people will soon be able to continue downloading things like this. (Beware, it's > 3 gigs--a long download from my slow connection!)

Okay, so TCPA is not evil, as I had been led to believe. I have a nagging question about it, though, that I need answered before I consider it a Good Thing.

Let's say I'm sitting and twiddling my thumbs, or serving rather a lot of MP3's to the Internet at large, or something, and my computer crashes. Uh-oh, the hard drive can't be read. Looks like I need to boot from another drive to fix it. Trouble is, when I try to do so, TCPA interrupts and tells me I'm trying to boot from a different system, which isn't allowed. How do I repair my drive?

Of course, as a Mac user, I guess I don't have to worry about this much anyway (Apple still hasn't signed up for TCPA, right?). Besides, maybe in the Wintel/*nix-other-than-OS-X world I know so little about, there's a simple way to overcome this. But wouldn't a simple way to overcome it involve using software to make the switch? It's either that or jumpers on the motherboard, right? So the question stands.

Somebody fill the void in my brain! I long to know!

I'm posting this using a computer running Mac OS X Server. Do you think I paid for it? I'm a college student (==broke). Of course I didn't throw away $1000 on some OS just so i could serve my music (on Louise) more easily (ah, the irony). I found Server on LimeWire (a Gnutella client)...along with MS Office X, Adobe Photoshop, and countless other pieces of software.

It's not that I haven't ever paid for software, it's that the software I've paid for cost what it was worth: $7-10. So much for cost not being a motivating factor behind file sharing. Bigger apps are obviously worth more, but $400 for Office is exhorbitant. The one normally priced piece of software I've bought was a $90 disk utility called Data Rescue X that seemed to be the only thing that would get my music back after one of my hard drives crashed. But you'd better believe I tried the software first.

Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games aren't so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.

This would be more accurate:

Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games are so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.

I don't buy something I can't try first. I buy shareware, I buy music I've already downloaded, etc. If I were in the market to buy a car, I would want to take it for a test drive; this is no different.

Incidentally, I think if more people would take this shop-around attitude to purchases, more people would have Macs...but I'll stop there before the moderators shout, "Off-topic!"

So don't use P2P...get your music directly from me.

Louise: Serving the music piracy community since 2002; serving the cinema piracy community since 2003.

Not that I guarantee quality of all my files...but I do go through and weed out duplicates and broken files every once in a while, to keep some semblance of quality in the collection...this is, after all, my own personal MP3 collection as well.

Where did you get the $.5-1 million figure? I'd bet the RIAA invented those numbers to aid them in their fight against piracy and fair use.

[Posted using a dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac running Mac OS X Server 10.2.3 and serving up 60 gigs of music to whoever wants it. Visit ftp://louise.dhs.org/ for more details.]

you are a sexist even if it is proper english.

Sounds a lot like BFS.

If memory serves me correctly, the BeOS team was originally trying to do a pure database filesystem (no hierarchy), but found (in the early '90s) that the performance hit was too heavy on the hardware of the time.

Excellent point on the russian sci-fi. The Strugatzki brothers science fiction is quite possibly the best ever written. However, some of their books are too distinctly russian to be easily understood/enjoyed by a north american (see Monday starts on saturday). I would recommend their more philosophical works - "Hard to be a god", "Roadside Picnick", the trilogy "Prisoner of Power", "Beetle in the Anthill", "The Time Wanderers". All these have been translated into english, so I highly recommend them to any sci-fi fan. You will not be disappointed!

For newer good russian science fiction, try Henry Lion Oldie. This is a pseudonim for 2 ukranian authors that write some of the best science fiction i've ever read. Their historical science fiction "The hero must be alone" and the "Odesseus" books are simply brilliant. To see a sample of their writings go to Oldy Homepage - there are a few stories translated. This again is excellent scifi, better than most i've read.

Finally, i'm surprised that Neal Stephenson hasn't been mentioned more often. I immensly enjoyed the book "Snow Crash", and though it's not really science fiction, "Cryptonomicon". His essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line" is also a great read, and is avaiable on the net for free - In the beginning was the command line.

Oh.. I'll back it up with an image.

The server that is hosting the picture is in the room in the picture.

No, really. Something is seriously wrong.... Who did I go down on, and why don't I remember it?

According to my copy of the BeBook it was actually:
double is_computer_on_fire()
Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
and of course the classic:
int32 is_computer_on(void)
Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.

(source:
http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook/The%20Kernel%20Kit /S ystem.html)

Those were the days.

A corrolary of Shannon's theorem on channel capacity is that the greater the capacity of the channel, given an amount of noise, the greater power is necessary for it to maintain a given rate of information transmission. In other words, the faster you want to pump the data, the more power needed to transmit.

Therefore, while these chips may need little power to receive, what about transmissions? Would possibly thousands of 19 mbit/s transmissions floating around in the GHz band possibly have an increased detrimental effect on living things? Sure it's small, but would it be a factor at all?