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I think I have not installed my kubuntu properly, because I have the whole shebang here, not a dumbed-down version.

Here's a shot of a relatively vanilla KDE K menu vs a freshly installed Kubuntu K menu. In the graphics menu, only GIMP and Openoffice Draw wouldn't be there in a completely vanilla menu, that leaves 13 items vs Kubuntu's 5. Also note the complete omission of "Development", "Edutainment", and "Games".

Now, for a shot of the KDE "Control Center" vs the Kubuntu "System Settings". If you count them, there are 62 items in the left tree for the Control Center, not including the Konqueror branch. There would be even more if I had built in Bluetooth support (like Kubuntu does), but I don't have any bluetooth hardware. For Kubuntu's System Settings, I count 27 items.

See the pattern yet?

She has an ADSL router modem and since the IP address changes frequently I have put a link on her desktop to a site which will tell her what the IP address of her machine is.

You don't need a static IP for what you describe - using a service like http://dyndns.org/ is a perfectly reasonable alternative.

Cheers,

Roger

If you'd like to track the (global) location and the time of the Mars rovers, or the time for any location on Mars, you can do so on your Palm Pilot with MarsClock, written 100% (coded, compiled, debuged) on my Palm with OnBoardC.

I have some workarounds via my department, but unfortunately my only option for a full website seems to be serving it on my office iMac, with an ungodly long URL.

17.12.7 Which Backup Program Is Best?

dump(8) Period. Elizabeth D. Zwicky torture tested all the backup programs discussed here. The clear choice for preserving all your data and all the peculiarities of UNIX file systems is dump. Elizabeth created file systems containing a large variety of unusual conditions (and some not so unusual ones) and tested each program by doing a backup and restore of those file systems. The peculiarities included: files with holes, files with holes and a block of nulls, files with funny characters in their names, unreadable and unwritable files, devices, files that change size during the backup, files that are created/deleted during the backup and more. She presented the results at LISA V in Oct. 1991. See torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs.

You can make Tor very easy to use with any application (on Windows or other VMWare/OpenVPN supported OS) with JanusVM:
http://januswifi.dyndns.org:85/

When you start the Windows VPN connection to the VMWare virtual machine that PPTP network becomes you default route. All DNS lookups, http requests, and other TCP traffic is now transparently routed through Tor. Simply disconnect the VPN to terminate anonymous onion routing...

Also see the user documentation: http://januswifi.dyndns.org:85/Instructions.htm

Transparent proxy avoids many common problems with explicit SOCKS configuration and DNS leaks. Worth a look...

You can make Tor very easy to use with any application (on Windows or other VMWare/OpenVPN supported OS) with JanusVM:
http://januswifi.dyndns.org:85/

When you start the Windows VPN connection to the VMWare virtual machine that PPTP network becomes you default route. All DNS lookups, http requests, and other TCP traffic is now transparently routed through Tor. Simply disconnect the VPN to terminate anonymous onion routing...

Also see the user documentation: http://januswifi.dyndns.org:85/Instructions.htm

Transparent proxy avoids many common problems with explicit SOCKS configuration and DNS leaks. Worth a look...

It is possible ... and not too difficult instructions here

You are seeing the truth, but you're still in the CNN-type mode of thought that puts Israel (and it's well-groomed politicians in expensive suits) on "moral highground", making their actions mere responses to those terrible terrorists. This is pure nonsense.

The ratio of civilians killed intentionally by Israel to those by Hizbulla is not even funny (even though I'm not a hizbulla fan). And Israel's history as a continuous violator of Human rights is so well-known it has made anti-Israel rhetoric obsolete. Also, the zionist notion that the "life of one Jew is worth that of a thousand Arabs" was official government stance all through the days of Golda Maeir, and is acted upon today very strictly.

I came upon this today, almost by accident. The sexual harassment part is particularly interesting, and the woman doesn't sound like she's making it up.

As the new maintainer of the A/UX FAQ, I keep hoping to learn more about it. Unfortunately the author didn't bring up anything I didn't already know. That said, the page or two he had is a good summary for those that have never used A/UX before.

Buy a cheap USB joystick and have it emulate a mouse using Joy2Mouse. It's quite similar to the buttons on some laptops, and is what I use at work. As for a keyboard, try one of those split keyboards, personally I like the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

I'm an open-source developer (Ultima Linux, PyWord – just to name a few. And yet I'm living on the east coast of the U.S. In fact, so's Red Hat. Not to mention Slackware, now in Minnesota, or even MySQL, who's all the way over in Sweden. I've also noticed a lot of my users tend to be from European countries – Germany, France, Sweden, England, Ireland... and that's only counting a small handful. Oh, and Linus himself is in Portland, Oregon, which is a bit closer but still not in the valley. So unless I'm missing the point entirely, I'd have to say the article must be completely wrong...

DISCLAIMER: I will admit I haven't read the article yet, so I probably am missing the point, but may as well post anyway, since this is Slashdot ;-)

But I know of osCommerce, which is a pretty popular storefront solution... and then if you do a custom solution, I have a PHP/MySQL database manager that can be used for the site's backend. Not sure how useful it would be for your site – I originally wrote it for MadTux, a Linux download site, and their needs are admittedly more than a little more specific than most sites would need – but may as well offer it if you have any use.

Hi,

I created a small website with MediaWiki, which is dedicated to collect Prior Art against this patent. This will help Red Hat and might prevent the same patent from beeing issued in Europe, Canada, Japan and other countries.

Let's show the world that this wasn't a new invention in 1998 !

http://helpredhat.dyndns.org/

• Tabbed Chat - have a tab for each of your peers
• Encryption
• Tells you when the user is typing a message - their name goes bold
• Tells you when the user's box is locked - their name goes italics
• Saves peer and tab configuration

I refuse to consider any password secure unless it's at least 16 random alpha-numerical characters, uppercase and lowercase, generated via a random password script. My own password on all my machines was generated with this random password generator I wrote in Python, and I've been using it well over a year on every single one of my machines without a single problem. My root password, of course, is 32 characters long, and entirely different altogether.

If it helps, I did write the one password down for the first few months, and after that I managed to memorize it and just threw the paper away altogether. Both the passwords were, of course, saved in a hidden file in my home directory, readable only by me, and protected by at least one of the passwords with the end result that no one would get in without my permission. And eventually, I memorized the root password as well. Took a while, but I did!

Hell, after my first few rounds of trial-and-error, I managed to write most of the programs running my site in only a couple days (the first Überpage was written literally overnight, and updated to MySQL in even less time – just to name one example).

“But it would've been nice to see a comparision between MMCache and eAccelerator as well.”

I live in San Francisco, so I'm going to put on my reporter's hat and go to the AT&T building, to ask some questions.

http://room641a.dyndns.org

I don't care, honestly; I guess it depends not so much on personal preference but on the site itself. The program I wrote to run my personal homepage and a few other sites, Überpage, just mixes all the code together, because it's a really simple program and not intended for heavy-duty re-designing. On the other hand, I'd have to say that something more complex like WordPress probably would be best separating the code and content, because it makes designing custom themes so much simpler.

Either way, though, I still have one golden rule: Content and presentation stay separate. PHP and HTML is fine, but HTML and CSS, or even worse table formatting? No way!

I don't care, honestly; I guess it depends not so much on personal preference but on the site itself. The program I wrote to run my personal homepage and a few other sites, Überpage, just mixes all the code together, because it's a really simple program and not intended for heavy-duty re-designing. On the other hand, I'd have to say that something more complex like WordPress probably would be best separating the code and content, because it makes designing custom themes so much simpler.

Either way, though, I still have one golden rule: Content and presentation stay separate. PHP and HTML is fine, but HTML and CSS, or even worse table formatting? No way!

I may be completely wrong here, because my newest laptop is from around 1998, but I don't really think that a brand-new machine should pose much of a problem for Linux. I've got a couple laptops, both running Linux, and most of the difficult setup work was mostly because of older ISA sound cards (probably nonexistent in modern machines).

Few quick tips from someone who's been there, done that:

• I'm not too sure about built-in wireless, but if you have an external adapter I find that NETGEAR makes pretty good ones. I just use the NdisWrapper module, too lazy to switch to anything else.
• The video card is likely to be the trickiest thing on newer machines. Try finding one with either an ATI or nVidia chipset, because they tend to be the best-supported on Linux; if the open-source drivers don't work, they have their own proprietary ones that will likely work.
• Sound shouldn't be too difficult; ALSA should have no problem.
• If the machine has a built-in Ethernet port, it should be fine, but beware of modems. Most of the modems sold these days are really cheap ones designed to work with Windows only, so I'd say try finding an older PCMCIA modem if your machine still has the slot. I recommend a Motorola Montana, my own 33.6k one is more than enough for when I'm traveling away from a wireless network.

You may want to try a few LiveCD's out on your machine; some distributions may work better than others – I recommend Ultima Linux, mostly because it's my distro, but others are good too. May also be worth checking out EmperorLinux, they sell laptops pre-loaded with Linux so they're practically guaranteed to work.

Personally, I think the hardest thing with new machines isn't the software, it's just re-adjusting to where everything is. I tend to like having the CD drive on the front, one of the "full-size"-ish keyboards that keeps that little block above the arrow keys intact, and the PCMCIA slot on the left hand side, but maybe that's just me.

Hope you find a machine you like :-)

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• I want to be able to access the site on any standards-compliant browser, and
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• The hell with it, it's just not Linux techie-like to ignore Web standards!

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• I want to be able to access the site on any standards-compliant browser, and
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• The hell with it, it's just not Linux techie-like to ignore Web standards!

Why not try one of the following:

LH-ABC or ABC_OKC

Borh of these are forks of the popular python-based open source bittorrent client ABC which runs on Linux (and is itself based on BitTornado which extended from from Original Bittorrent Core System, coded by Bram Cohen). These forks should therefore also in turn run on Linux. LH-ABC and ABC_OKC both have support for RSS.

uTorrent a very small and popular closed source Microsoft Windows based bitorrent client. Has extensive support for RSS and can be run on Linux using Wine (I don't know how successfully but I know it can and has been done).

G3 TorrentAnother open-source Python based bittorrent client the Original Bittorrent Core System, coded by Bram Cohen. It has support for RSS and runs on Linux (I think).

Rufus Another open-source Python based bittorrent client (based on G3 Torrent) with support for RSS and runs on Linux (I think).

ZipTorrent Another closed source (and supposedly small) Microsoft Windows based bitorrent client. Has support for RSS, other than that I don't know anything about it.

This can be done quite easily with Reed-Solomon coding. In fact, you don't need the majority of the nodes, but simply an arbitrary N set of nodes, with an arbitrary M nodes as redundancy. N=1 and M=1 is basically RAID1. N = n and M = 1 is simply RAID5, N=n and M=2 is RAID 6.

In fact, I wrote a RSRaid driver for Linux for my thesis and did some performance testing on it. I'll save you the 30 pages and just tell you that the algorithm is far too CPU intensive to scale up very well for fileserver use (my original intent,) but I did conclude it could be used as a backup alternative to tape. Hmmmm.

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Contact me if you'd like to play with the code. I never did any reconstruction code, but the system did work in a degraded state, and was written for the Linux 2.6 kernel.

On my home server (may be a tad slow), http://toveling.dyndns.org/kenburns/

You can spend $0 if you use a decent linux distro combined with a dynamic dns service that offers a free system such as dyndns. Services like these can be updated via a little server application that checks your IP address every 15 minutes or so and updates as needed and chances are that any time you sit down to access your e-mail, the server will be up and accessable even on a dynamic ip.

'Cause he seems to have bought me out, too!

O.K. so these aren't really lightsabers.

No, but with a 5-second exposure you can make them look like one. :)

Apple had A/UX at that time, and it runs decently on my IIsi with only 17MiB of RAM, which wasn't "extravagent" at the time. Apple could have built on that foundation. I wonder why they didn't. The biggest problem I'd see with adoption going forward was that it was the crufty old MacOS bolted on top of Unix, rather than integrated into it.

I believe the question was "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"

(a la Asimov: http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm)

Can't help on a Mac, but did run into the same problem with my own HTPC using Windows MCE. I found two utilities that allow you to control the speed of your optical drive, check them out if interested:

http://cdbremse.dyndns.org/cdbremse.htm - page and installation are in German, but tool has English menus. Tool is shareware, I believe the author will take payment in the form of crates of Pepsi Light.

http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=nerodrives peed.html - Nero DriveSpeed

Connect a photo-transistor up to a pulse LED-style power meter if you've got one and run a cable back to a parallel port on your Linux box.

You can then log the power consumption for your entire house including those difficult to tap devices like ovens and HWCs.

Minor appliances like desk lamps and laptop power supplies do show up, but it would be good to have some bayesean analysis algorithms that attempt to determine the most likely cause of a sudden rise/fall in usage. Something like "spike detected - which of the folling appliances have you just switched on?".

I've set it up similarly to this guy

You can see how much power I'm currently (heh) using at http://grt.dyndns.org/powerlog

http://oxley.dyndns.org:6969/torrents/cspdcomichig h.pdf.torrent?342108855A7D6662F9F7E7870FD8BB06E9C6 0ACC

Have fun

You do know that "lilo" is a boot loader, right?

http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/

It's been around quite a bit longer than Lilo and Stitch...

Honestly I think the GBA Movie player is a better deal that that($20 + CF card), although you need to either PassMe or FlashMe your DS to use Moonshell, which plays MP3s, JPEGs, and movies at full rez.

Anyhoo, I'm using a FlashMe DS and a GBA Movie player with MoonShell. The Datatel will probably be a bit easier to use, but it is more expensive.

Disclaimer: didn't RTFA.
So:
I'm going to be able to access not just applications in my browser, but a whole OS?
Gosh, think of the security implications - where are my files being stored, blahblah.
FUCKING DYNDNS, APACHE & a JAVA VNC CLIENT
Although the rest of the posts seem to suggest that the article actually has sweet F.A. to do with anything.
As an aside, I have heard it mentioned that it is possible to pay for a subscription to slashdot, is the posting of this article some kind of incentive?

Here's what I say: If you don't mind a slightly slower Internet connections and have no intentions of being /.ed, a home server is perfectly acceptable. I myself used to use GeoCities, Tripod, etc. a lot, but after a while kept having to move over because so-and-so had X feature that I wanted... drove me nuts, trying to find a free host that suited my needs.

Eventually I figured that since we have broadband I may as well set up my own machine as a server. Used to run off my desktop – not a good idea – but now I've got a dedicated machine that's been re-purposed as a server. Everything I need (PHP/Python, MySQL, as much space as I need, NO ADS...) and then some.

And this machine hasn't been too much of a problem even though (1) we've got about six or seven machines online ALL AT ONCE at any given time, including the server, and (2) since it's hosting what's now a fairly well-known Linux distro – my own of course, link to DistroWatch to save me bandwidth – and haven't had a problem.

I think the trick is really to just know what you're doing. Don't over-burden your connection, optimize your site for efficient bandwidth usage, use technologies like BitTorrent if you plan on distributing lots of large files, and things should be just fine.

Oh, and one more suggestion: Go with Linux... yes, I'm saying that partially because I'm a Linux developer and therefore would be somewhat biased, partially because it's better optimized for that type of thing, and partially because spending $1000+ on Windows Server for a tiny personal site [or even a large one like mine...] is just overkill. :-)

I think the only time I've ever been able to tolerate a cell phone's Web browser (or a cell phone, for that matter) was during the summer when I used it to hack an MSN connection on my laptop. Long story short, it didn't really involve anything illegal, I just had to Google for a nameserver that would work. After that things were perfect, or at least as perfect as things can be on a dial-up connection... :-)

Since then the most mobile Internet-accessible device I've put up with is my slightly newer Dell Latitude CP with a NETGEAR 802.11b adapter – which is now replacing my old Micron XPE that I've had for years and years and years and years... don't get me started on all the horror stories I have of hacking Internet connections with that thing!

Everyone else here seems to be saying "reformat the computer," and I'd have to second that nomination. (Third? Fourth? Fifth?) I remember that I had to do that once with our family's only Windows XP machine – the rest are all Linux boxes, with maybe one or two 98SE installs – not just because of the spyware and stuff loaded up, but also just because of that stupid junk Dell pre-installs. There's a good reason I'm a Linux guy!

Of course, now no one at my place worries much about spyware or viruses anyway, because that was over a year ago, and I've converted everyone to Linux by now!

Oh, by the way, CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT RE-FORMATTING A COMPUTER! COMES WITH FREE SCREENSAVER AND RINGTONE! ;-)

First off you need to know that I have recognized that an attack from the United States Government onto one's PC will leave rootkits that no anti-spyware company will know about. Consequently, the higher the stakes, the higher the paranoia. XXClone Freeware has the cure for the paranoia by eliminating the fear of the unknown. It does this remarkably well by eliminating the unknown. The trick for me now, when building small 120-200Gb systems for friends, is to have a batch file swap two boot.ini files on partition 1, which is a 5Gb clean install called RestoreDoNotUse. The second and third partitions, called say, System1 and System2, are both set larger, around say 13GB. The XXClone Freeware Full Backup alternates to the other quickly formatted partition 2 or 3. After the backup, the system restarts onto the freshly backed up partition. XXClone does not image partitions but copies each file that it sees, leaving rootkits behind. Here's the full story behind my discovery. http://ingridx.dyndns.org/Privacy_Statement.html

creationism, ID, and evolution are not even necessarily contradictory.

let's say "God created intelligently, and his creations evolved."

thus picking one of creationism, ID, and evolution would be nonsensical, because if you believed this statement (I do not but that is a digression) then you then "believe" in all 3.

evolution is not a theory that deals with the origins of the universe.

creationism and ID are not beliefs (I did not say theories) that deal with the progression, proliferation, and diversification of life.

how did the universe begin? how did life begin? what was before that?

asimov had a fun story about it called The Last Question that is a nice little read. Arthur C Clarke has a short called The Nine Billion Names of God that isn't terrible reading either.

if this kind of thing interests you, The Abolition of Man might interest you as well, or even Chesterton's Orthodoxy.

If Google set up servers behind China's firewall and only indexed what is accessible via routes available to be followed from those servers, then they aren't censoring anything and would not know what to flag as being censored. More to the point, this is the same as Google indexing what is available on the public servers of news outlets, and news organizations are censoring information all the time. For example, today I was the 619,996 person who saw an "Incredible Video of George Bush Drunk???" at http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2685392?htv=12&ht v=12 My first impression was that this was a digital spoof. I imagine most others would think the same. Consequently no one could blame a news organization for not covering such items. Imagine the cognitive dissonance if they did. When Google doesn't index what is not there, how can it know that censorship took place? But what if the film was more authentic? Who's to know? What about the real case of a young Bill Clinton dressed in a Russian uniform shouting, "You're out numbered 10 to 1". The old cold war propaganda-era 16mm film, "No To Silent Death", made by the Russians, was discovered in an abandoned trade office when the Soviet Union failed. Thousands of news people have seen the detailed forensic evidence at http://ingridx.dyndns.org/ but none will publicly acknowledge its existence. Instead it is left alone for the spies to get their rocks off.

Apparently the guys at my school district all want to kill me or something. I remember just a couple years ago, you could get away with just about anything – now they've got a proxy server that blocks everything, even my own Linux system / school project, and (anti-)virus software that never stops running. All the control panels have been locked down, you can't even access the Task Manager or lock your screen to keep other people from using it. And of course they're always spying on us me, too – they think I'm some trying to take them down all because I managed to use an SSH tunnel to pass through to my own machine to work on a LEGITIMATE SCHOOL PROJECT.

Hmm, if that isn't overzealous security I don't know what is.

Yup, when last needed it was very short and specialized localization of how long weekdaynames map to short ones. That's available from glibc (sortsof), but not everything that I needed.

When I rewrote it for C# I just broke up the structure and used inline strings instead of real data. This then would be picked up by gettext (whatever C# is using).

example: fluffydate, it's plugin for blosxom, so brevity and ease of distribution is needed. like NO required XML -files/associated perl modules. As few places to break as possible too. FWIW, perl's nested structures suck donkey balls big time as well, but at least it makes it possible without sticking shovel halfways down my ass.

My setup:

• A 6 year old IBM NetVista (cost 100 NZ dollars)
• Wordpress (free)
• Ubuntu(free)
• Dyndns(free)

Setting up taught me things I didn't know about MySQL, Apache and Ubuntu and I don't have to rely on a third party provider.

Profit???

My setup:

• A 6 year old IBM NetVista (cost 100 NZ dollars)
• Wordpress (free)
• Ubuntu(free)
• Dyndns(free)

Setting up taught me things I didn't know about MySQL, Apache and Ubuntu and I don't have to rely on a third party provider.

Profit???

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Digg is actually better. Slashdot is old and ugly. Its content is decided by editors, the layout looks like it was made in windows95's heyday and its a dinosaur. Digg on the other hand is new and "growing", they use a flashier, better looking layout, yet the site is still simpler then Slashdot. The content is decided by the submitters and you can get that content via audio and video podcasts.

I never could stand slashdot. The layout and just overall feel of that site was/is bad.

I don't like slashdot's layout. It's ugly and cluttered. The colors make me wanna puke.

Slashdot users agree that Digg.com's entries are a lot more current that the ones posted at Slashdot.

99% of slashdot users have self-diagnosed themselves as suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. Most slashdot users consider themselves "smart" when in fact they are simply of average intelligence, but have more free time and a higher sense of ego. This can be seen in the forums where spelling and usage errors are prevalent in condescending, arrogant rants, identified by containing the phrase "people are stupid" at some point in the post.

I prefer Digg for my tech news and I've found some really nice sites that way.

I prefer Digg. I used to check /. but I didn't like it as much

I like Digg better anyway, much more and more interesting news.

What I can't stand, even less that the site and the proseltyzing editors, are Slashdot's users- overweight, effeminate cubicle shit. At least I don't have to wear a goatee and suck linux dick to participate on Digg I cant stand Slashdot, I will only Read it when its linked from somewhere else

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