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A Dr. Fun cartoon with ants and a blimp. :)

You know, PROPAGANDA has a nice photo of Michael Jackson's plastic surgery disaster. Its no wonder he wears a mask wherever he goes.. his fucking nose is falling off.

Cheers,

Buffer overflows, printf overflows and the like are a systematic problem. Rather than trying to fix each instance (which is still a good idea), there's an additional safety net in the form of the StackGuard compiler, and the Immunix GNU/Linux distribution. It fixes the problem systematically by checking for stack smashing.

http://www.immunix.org

The ISO images are mirrored at ibiblio.org

I really wish that Red Hat would buy them, fund them, or incorporate their changes.

1) Get:
- 1U 4bays rack mountable chassis from Sliger Designs
- 3WARE 6410 Escalade IDE controller (Choice of 0/1/0+1/5 Raid) on a 90 PCI riser card
- 4 x 75/100GB ATA100 drives (maybe DiamondMax)
- MicroATX mainboard with NIC and Video integrated on board (invest in RAM not in processing power - 750/850MHZ should be more than sufficient)
- Minimum Linux/*BSD OS booting from a read-only 16 to 64MB flash IDE device, loading kernel and a customised Ramdisk root filesystem, mounting Raid devices in R/W mode, starting SAMBA (and/or Netatalk).
A good starting point is Linux Bootdisk HOWTO

2) Choose 0+1 Raid and you get quick and completely redundant 150/200GB storage that can survive the full failure of one disk.

3) Want remote grafical managment from a standard web browser? Go for Webmin or SWAT.

Even the link into everything2 is wrong. `Kadinsky' is apparently some dope smoking coffee house in Amsterdam. Maybe they paint there, maybe not. everything2 is silent on the matter.

Wassily Kandinsky was a painter. Check him out over at Thinker.org, this link ought to get you some of his works. Thinker will probably die under the load. You should also look at This guy's kandinsky page.

There is a really good XML reference on iBiblio called Cafe con Leche.

There is a really good XML reference on iBiblio called Cafe con Leche.

Strange, I have a Satellite 210CT which is technically seen a P120 with 32 Meg RAM and I run Peanut Linux with kernel 2.4.8 and on top of that WindowMaker. Easy compile/install, very sleek.
Peanut comes with KDE2 and a lot of apps....KOffice works perfectly on the machine, tough it is quite long at first load. I already did surfing sessions with Netscape 4.76 with about three browsing-windows open, a LICQ session open plus some other little tools. Works okay to me. I have been using this machine for 4 (5? years) and this was the most accountable upgrade I ever did from W95-OSR2.
Of course the 640x480 resolution might be a little on the low side, but even then with W95 things get cluttered fast too on that res. (Mine does 800x600 and sometimes I find it too small)

The Computer Emergency Responce Center is in Pittsburgh, but somehow I doubt that it was a target.

Camp David, in Thurmont Md, is a possible location that has been said numerous times. It has a symbolic meaning to the Arab world as the location on the Camp David Accords, a 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

I saw Ollie North on CNN, he discounted the Camp David speculation in favor of a military command and control center in Maryland, but I didn't cath the name. Anyone?

Or the plane could have continued onto Washington DC for any number of tagets there.

I know it's just the INTP in me talking, but I have to wonder what kind of civil rights atrocities we're going to be looking at in the days and weeks to come.

If you thought the FBI wiretapping Little Nicky Scarfo on only a search warrant was horrifying, consider the bully stick that will be bandied about now. Encryption is bad. Terrorists using encryption got past all our intelligence. Outlaw encryption now! If we didn't have to go through all that judicial rigamarole to keep an eye on terrorists, we would have done better. We promise we won't wiretap anyone without a magistrate's approval who doesn't really, really, REALLY deserve it.

As shocking and horrifying as what happened today is, and as unbelievable that the intelligence community knew nothing about it (or did they?), I am scared shitless about what we have ahead of us.

See here for a brief explanation of the history of the net.

The anniversary of the signing of the Camp David Accords.

That is not true.

GREAT question! I would think its because of the C base for the kernel, so it would be mostly be for loadable drivers. Hop over to the Cliunux site at www.clienux.com to get one person's opinions on some roles of forth in Linux, and grab the eforthl package from the interim directory at the ftp site at

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/cLI eNUX/interim/eforthl.tgz

to get a minimal forth with the linux OS calls as built in procedures. Of course, the rub is that this is not a full featured implementation like you would get from MPE or Forth Inc., so there would be a lot of sweat equity involved in "rolling your own" for a lot of stuff you could get from libraries in C. However, an advantage of Open Source is that with access to the source, you can follow what the library is doing down to system call level, and then work out which parts you really need to port for the exact capability that you need.

Once you get the ball rolling, extending a Forth application is a fairly natural process, so it makes a lot of sense to build the application to exactly what you need, and the extend to meet new needs later, when they arise.

I personally would like to migrate to Slackware or Debian because I'd like to configure my system to my needs. Peanut comes "as-is", which is not a bad thing for starting of with Linux, IMHO. I started downloading Slack 8.0 once, but 600Meg is indeed just too much for my slow connection :-(

Oh, and for the "programming-own-drivers" part: I never touched a driver in my life and everything seems to work quite well for me. The only thing that was a bit harder was to make a weird (actually, just uncommon) SCSI PCMCIA card run. I once stated that problem in a comment on /. (while staying ontopic) and someone promptly redirected me to a site which had the info required to make it run.

Dance monkey boy. Dance!

Well I guess it depends on how you measure "speed". Do you mean perfomance time related to the application itself or do you mean time to market? Which is more expensive for a company - hardware or humans? The human cost is often overlooked when we speak of how "speed is of the essence".

I know plenty of developers that like Java simply because it's easy to program and you can roll out applications relatively quickly when compared to C++. Now I know that statement is opinion and everyone has an opinion, but saying that Java is slow is misinfomed. Given that applications are so network-centric these days, Java can truly shine in a server environment where the resources are plenty.

But to be honest, comparing these two languages is not fair. Here is a good article on why they are apples an oranges

Since we're talking to newbies here: you can check wether your hardware is supported using the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. Once you've chosen a distribution, also check your hardware with their lists since boot-floppies and installers may not support everything the kernel supports.

On the webpage it is stated: 'All the toolkits available here at System 26 can be freely incorporated into your apps, royalty-free, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, or "GPL"'. So why isn't the description at the top of the page "A GPLed GUI Component Stockpile For Linux And Win32 Developers"? "GPLed" is the precise description of the license, not "Open-Source".

You asked me where other free references etc could be
found online.

Hogan Books has a pretty nice list:


ftp://hoganbooks.com/weball.zip

`Numerical Recipes in C/F77/F90'. I think it may be
included above.


http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Reci pe s/

Mostly science books, but has `A Simplified
Introduction to LaTeX'.


http://samizdat.mines.edu/


Of course, the Linux Documentation Project has its
HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs and Guides in .ps or .pdf or
sometimes .dvi format:


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/othe r- formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini /o ther-formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc- pr oject/

Adobe keeps all of their specs online; the PDF and
PostScript language references, stuff about TrueType
and the new Compact Font Format, etc etc.


http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technote s/ main.html

`Thinking in PostScript', posted by the author in some
ridiculous proprietary format, as well as in PDF.


http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/book-download.sh tm l

A whole variety of programming books; most seem to be
available in PDF/PS:


http://www.free-book.co.uk/computers-internet/pr og ramming/index.htm

A variety of free online programming references.


http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/onli ne references.shtml

You asked me where other free references etc could be
found online.

Hogan Books has a pretty nice list:


ftp://hoganbooks.com/weball.zip

`Numerical Recipes in C/F77/F90'. I think it may be
included above.


http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Reci pe s/

Mostly science books, but has `A Simplified
Introduction to LaTeX'.


http://samizdat.mines.edu/


Of course, the Linux Documentation Project has its
HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs and Guides in .ps or .pdf or
sometimes .dvi format:


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/othe r- formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini /o ther-formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc- pr oject/

Adobe keeps all of their specs online; the PDF and
PostScript language references, stuff about TrueType
and the new Compact Font Format, etc etc.


http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technote s/ main.html

`Thinking in PostScript', posted by the author in some
ridiculous proprietary format, as well as in PDF.


http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/book-download.sh tm l

A whole variety of programming books; most seem to be
available in PDF/PS:


http://www.free-book.co.uk/computers-internet/pr og ramming/index.htm

A variety of free online programming references.


http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/onli ne references.shtml

You asked me where other free references etc could be
found online.

Hogan Books has a pretty nice list:


ftp://hoganbooks.com/weball.zip

`Numerical Recipes in C/F77/F90'. I think it may be
included above.


http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Reci pe s/

Mostly science books, but has `A Simplified
Introduction to LaTeX'.


http://samizdat.mines.edu/


Of course, the Linux Documentation Project has its
HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs and Guides in .ps or .pdf or
sometimes .dvi format:


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/othe r- formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini /o ther-formats/


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc- pr oject/

Adobe keeps all of their specs online; the PDF and
PostScript language references, stuff about TrueType
and the new Compact Font Format, etc etc.


http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technote s/ main.html

`Thinking in PostScript', posted by the author in some
ridiculous proprietary format, as well as in PDF.


http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/book-download.sh tm l

A whole variety of programming books; most seem to be
available in PDF/PS:


http://www.free-book.co.uk/computers-internet/pr og ramming/index.htm

A variety of free online programming references.


http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/onli ne references.shtml

He was NOT prosecuted for his speech (officially - the speech could very well have provoked Adobe/FBI). He was charged with a DMCA violation for selling, FROM RUSSIA a product which violated the DMCA. He was in RUSSIA at the time of activity which the US is officially prosecuting him for. It was legal there.

It would be like me, here in beautiful Nevada, driving 75 in a 75 mph zone and travelling to Connecticut and getting a speeding ticket for having driven 75 because the maximum speed limit in Connecticut is only 55.

Moby Dick, by Hermen Melville, may be freely downloaded as zipped ASCII text at ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext91 /moby.zip, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Enjoy.

Fundamentals and Design

• The Art of Computer Programming - D. Knuth (essential)
• An Introduction to Database Systems - C.J. Date
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practices - Foley and van Dam
• Object Lessons - T. Love
• Bringing Design to Software - T. Winograd (editor)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - E. R. Tufte
• Envisioning Information - E.R. Tufte
• Visual Explanations - E.R. Tufte

• A Discipline for Software Engineering - W.S. Humphrey
• The Deadline - T. DeMarco ("A novel about project management"!)
• Death March - E. Yourdon ("The Complete Software Developer's Guide to 'Mission Impossible' Projects")
• Rapid Development - S. McConnell
• Code Complete - S. McConnell

• The Social Life of Information - J.S. Brown, P. Duguid
• The New New Thing - M. Lewis (on Jim Clark)
• Startup - J. Kaplan (GO Corporation)
• Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
• Dealers of Lightning - M Hiltzik (Xerox PARC)
• Insanely Great - S. Levy (Macintosh)
• Bootstrapping - T. Bardini (on Doug Engelbart)
• High Stakes, No Prisoners - C. H. Ferguson (Vermeer Technologies)
• How the Web was Born - Gilles and Cailliau (the best history of the web - from CERN to W3C)

For the dark side, see Don Knuth Finally Sells Out, Doctor Fun

1) It should be named Chango, not "Mono". Somebody needs to brush up on their Spanglish.

2) The biggest problem with Mono is not in what it does--it's in what it will do. In short, .Net is a leverage tool made by Microsoft. Its a teeter-totter with a fat kid on one end..Anyone who steps up and sits on the other side of the plank isn't going to have much fun, because the fat kid dictates the fun. Imagine this scenario if you will.. Microsoft keeps their implenetation constant for the entire development cycle of Mono. Then waits for Mono to become a commonly accepted feature on Linux desktops, same as Gnome is now. Then *whack*, the fat kid jumps off the teeter-totter..Microsoft breaks their own standard, and effectively breaks Mono in the process. The Linux community is sent scrambling to find a way to level the plank again while the fat kid laughs. You have a situation where .Net can remain untouched, but the Linux community's development effort is in a continual state of upheval trying to keep up.

A couple days ago I wrote a post about this, which 10 people said was interesting, and another 10 people said was total flamebait -- About how this is Gnome's mentallity. They dont want to take the lead. They want to permanently fix themselves into second place because (big surprise) being able to imitate the leader is a cozy existance. It's been like that for years -- They steadfastly refuse to do or accept anything even remotely unique and try it out.

Meanwhile, Mono consumes more and more metric tons of brainpower to keep it stable, and all the while, Microsoft uses it as something they can point to and say "Hey, look. See, we told you, the Open Source development model is flawed."

The saddest part about all of this is that I actually do believe the people running the show in Gnome's inner circle are stupid enough to walk into that trap. You gotta hand it to Microsoft.. They've elevated the science of mental trojan horsing to an art form.



Bowie J. Poag
Project Manager, System 26 GUI Component Stockpile

I'm glad to see that FIJA's been getting some of these things put explicitly back into the books... laws that require judges to inform juries that then can, in fact, make their decisions regardless of the law.

It's not an easy choice to make, but it is a legal choice.

That was a great article, thank you for linking it. I went looking for more information and found the Fully Informed Jury Association's home page, for anyone who's interested.

Guns don't kill people ...

ratty
the rodent in the machine

You can even install some premade Immunix packages on top of Mandrake or Redhat. I'm successfully running apache, bind, pidentd, and openssh from Immunix conveniently on top of my good old Mandrake 7.2. I got it from the nice mirror at ibiblio and just installed them like any other package.

There is minor overlap in functionality between the two kernel-based and glibc-based subsystems, but it seems to me that the rest of these methods are all complementary. Do any of you know of a comparison between them or any analysis of them together?

Relevant criteria would include the development methods, objectives, and priorities such as the fact that as far as I know, LIDS and everything from Immunix only run on IA32. :( Then there may be technical superiority or optimization. They're all open source compatible so we're covered that way. Any other criteria?

To recap:

• either LIDS or SubDomain for kernel level ACLs for processes
• either libsafe or FormatGuard for glibc format trapping
• portsentry for IDS and port scan protection
• StackGuard to compile all your buffer overflow sensitive binaries (or use those made from Immunix)
• What else?

Dr. Fun has a most appropriate cartoon for today. Except that it doesn't mention Katz by name...


--

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200107/df2001 0710.jpg

Ultimately, it'll be pay-per-thought. We'll have cybernetic devices inplanted into the bas of our skulls to meter incoming content. Video/audio can then be sent encrypted all the way to our brains where final and untappable decryption takes place. Even think "Exit light... Enter night! Taaaake my hand! Off to never never land!" and ka-CHING, your credit account is charged a small fee

I believe this is what you're referring to?

The whole AT&T farce you mentioned did happen.

The guy(s) who "stole" the AT&T documents (E911 Document) was none other than Erik Bloodaxe and his fellow Legion of Doom members. Bloodaxe up until a couple years ago was also editor of Phrackmagazine.

The whole imbroglio surrounding the E911 document is mentioned in Bruce Sterlings book: The Hacker Crackdown: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier. Bruce Sterling placed this huge book on Project Gutenburg free for anyone to download. It is a good book and has a lot of info on the history of hacking, (pre script-kiddie days) as well as Operation Sundevil which was responsible for the confiscation of the computer systems of Steve Jackson Games, (GURPS RPGs) mainly because they had a BBS, and had Cyberpunk role playing game information on their boxes.

we'd be happy to host your site and any other not-for-profit information sharing site (.org but not .com) on http://ibiblio.org/

Not only didn't I hack up prefs.js to add those customizations, but I didn't even read the release notes when I installed 0.92! Know why? I wanted the browser to work, and turning Java and Javascript off is fast and doesn't disable anything I like. These arguments are for another time and place-- like on Bugzilla. OB Ontopic: X10 has some neat gadgets, but a man ust take his stand somewhere. I've tossed a respectable amount of money at them for their home automation hardware and enjoyed the product-- once I realized that even their appliance modules can't control a fluorescent light in normal use for more than 8 months. One time you turn it on, it'll have been fried. I lost two fluorescent lights within 2 weeks of each other-- the only two in my house on X10 appliance modules-- and none of my other fluorescent lights were harmed. If you keep that restriction in mind, there are still lots of interesting things you can do, but nothing in my house that justifies the price. To answer the question from your .sig, no I didn't compile my kernel today, I did that last Sunday. I did just compile the latest version of Wine though. I found out last month that I can use Quicken with a minimum of bugs.

He has many hundreds of usenet posts, ideas about converting an existing house to 100% solar, low cost and warm homeless shelters, and is conducting solar heating experiments, all using inexpensive / easily obtainable materials.

If you're interested in solar heating, you should check him out.

No, it was Otis School of Art and Design. The whole story.
bukra fil mish mish
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Monitor the Web, or Track your site!

You can download the drawmap source code right HERE.

The one thing that bothers me most is not the tracking itself (as scary as that is), but one particular sentence: "It saves lives by discouraging speeding."

How many more studies have to come out proving that speeding does not cost lives? Just a 10 mph increase in highway speed limit reduces fatalities 5 to 10%. Check out this one study in California. Most driving accidents are caused by lack of full attention to the road (18 to 21 year olds playing with the radio, mid-twenties talking to passenger), and of course drunk driving. If anyone would bother listening to the studies made we wouldn't have such low speed limits and fatality rates would drop.

And as an added bonus there wouldn't be so many cops whose only job is to ticket speeders!

(Can you tell I've gotten a few speeding tickets in my time?)

---

(no one's tried to hack this for the Linux ... yet).

I do believe you're wrong... :-)


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/driver s/ linux-powerglove.README
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/drivers/ linux-powerglove.tgz
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/menelli.html

These links are the README, driver files, and schematic for the Menelli box interface (Which looks a LOT like the one mentioned in your links) for the PowerGlove...

(no one's tried to hack this for the Linux ... yet).

I do believe you're wrong... :-)


http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/driver s/ linux-powerglove.README
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/drivers/ linux-powerglove.tgz
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/menelli.html

These links are the README, driver files, and schematic for the Menelli box interface (Which looks a LOT like the one mentioned in your links) for the PowerGlove...

I wrote 'journaled filing system' but I really meant something else. However, I don't think NTFS is a journaled filing system. You may verify this for yourself by reading this site if you like.

I had my comment completely wrong, though. I was actually thinking of a volume manager around a file system. The volume manager works in tandem with a journaled filing system to record changes made to a file to a kind of database. This would allow someone to 'roll back' the file to a prior version.

I don't know if there's an open source version of this sort of thing available, but Veritas provides this. I've never used this product myself, though.. I don't even know if it works for Windows.

And, some ever helpful links:Turbo Vision For Unix and Turbo Vision. Two different ports. Judging by their freshmeat entries, I'd go with the second one.

``The open source world can't even come close to providing real corporate applications such as CAD and structural analysis, and slews of other engineering apps.''

I take it that by ``corporate applications'' you mean those that you spend too much money on or those that come in glossy boxes. You've, obviously, never heard of the NASA's COSMIC software library that used to be administered by the University of Georgia. For the cost of distribution, like the FSF, you could obtain applications of the sort you listed... with source code. UofG doesn't do the distribution any more but it's been taken over by Open Channel Software and can be found at http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/. You can even ``adopt'' an application and get involved in the development of enhancements. Another potential source is the DECUS software archive (now called `Encompass'); there's a slew of software available. A lot of it's systems management related utilities but the semi-annual symposium collections used to contain a bunch of gems that we found useful. And I sure hope you know about the FTP archives on ibiblio. Of course, if what one's really looking for in a ``corporate application'' is someone to sue, I suppose these won't fit their needs.

I will agree with you that many commercial packages for UNIX cost more than they should. But to say imply that there aren't more cost effective solutions, and are open source to boot (no pun intended), is just naive.

--

Who knew? A judge that uses common sense, which seems to be a scarce commodity nowadays. I would reference today's Doctor Fun (link seems slow) cartoon for what most people think of judges, TV judges being only a part. It seems obvious that the preditory nature of Rambus' actions in the past regarding synchronous DRAMs is finally coming to light in the courtroom. More power to Infineon!

Was it in 3D? "Habitat" is one early implementation of a virtual world, although in 2D. I'm not sure when it was first launched, but it was somewhere around 1985/6 I'll wager.

Everyone interested in virual worlds know about it. Those of you who do not, search the web for papers by F. Randall Farmer, some of which you'll find here, the most famous of which is The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat.

Recommended reading.

The story is public domain and is freely available at project gutenberg.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"

SuperID
Free Database Hosting

Here is a copy of flatland online from project gutenberg. Great fun to read.

It's nice to see that the folks at this Open Source Directory are modeling the software categories after Sourceforge'.s Software/application taxonomies typically vary from site-to-site and distribution-to-distribution. While I appreciate that all the site maintainers out there take time to organize information about software applications, the diversity makes it difficult to synthesize materials from multiple sources. I applaud this directory's deference to a previously-existing taxonomy.

A while back, I started creating a list of software categorization schemes/systems relevent to Linuxland:

http://freshmeat.net/browse/627/
http://apps.kde.com/na/2/categories&nav=f
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Softwa re/
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/ binary-i386/
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/index.html
http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/Groups.html
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media- types/media-types
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
http://www.labs.redhat.com/gug/users-guide/main-me nu.html
http://www.linux.com/links/Software/