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One more problem is that you can see the edges, where the walls join. I think this could be solved with a sphere, but I'm not sure how they are going to do fullimmersion 3D without headtracking (now talking about the Oxford project). The cool thing with the VR Cube and all CAVEs out there is that you can acctually leen over an object and see what behind it, this adds alot to the feeling. So I hope the Oxford guys understand that that they have to have headtracking.

Anyone got a sub $2000 headtracking system? (Tracking at least four objects)

Just because I'm sitting at school right now trying to finish a small project in it, I'd like to add Erlang to that list. It's kind of neat, actually.

In the IT University , part of KTH (Royal Technical University) in Stockholm, Sweden, students pay a low motnhly fee for their laptops that they use all over the university buildings with their integrated wireless LANs. Of course, like most universities in Europe, this is a public university, meaning that you don't need to pay for the courses. To be accurate, in some EU countries students pay a little annual fee for their studies in public universities (ex. Spain: about 500 $ a year), but in Sweden that is completely free. In fact, the Swedish government pays the students about 250 $/month for beeing students.

Only one problem... it didn't happen.

Instead, IBM's Ope nAF S web site contains only a FAQ and documention. The downloads page contains only: "Source Downloads are not yet available. Please check back later!"

Unfortantly, the FAQ page still doesn't answer the frequently asked question on everyone's minds: When can we expect the source code or was the announcements for vapor-code?

In the mean time, the Arla, NFS v4 and Coda projects provide alternatives to OpenAFS while also delivering something International Business Machines has failed to follow through on... providing the source code.

OK, I admit, I am bored...

Well, I wouldn't expect Linux to incorporate it, if only because I doubt the IBM license is compatible with the GPL. What I'm wondering about is arla, the existing free AFS implementation (I can't find what the license is, though I think it's GPL). It's amazing how many different kernels they support with that thing (a reason it won't/doesn't need to be incorporated into Linux). The server support is only experimental, but they client has been a blessing for those of us who wanted to use AFS but didn't want to wait for Transarc to release a new module to upgrade our kernels.

This is great news, even though we just bought AFS...oh well. I wonder what the guys at the arla project will do now?

We have no such computers on campus so that is always from the outside. Ktelnet has a built in ftp and pop klient and you dont have to be admin on an NT machine (Its mostly microsoft users that has these problems) to run it, so we recomend that program.

Some companies are so paranoid that the wont allow users to telnet to the outside at all, and thats probably the largest problem for our students (they tend to work at such companies after they graduate)

/das Ix

For MacOS, there's NiftyTelnetSSH, which includes SCP support. (and decent, fast terminal emulation, unlike NCSA telnet.)

All these programs are gratis, but NiftyTelnet might not be libre. (PuTTY and pscp are.)

For Unix, of course, there's OpenSSH.

For VMS, there's an FAQ, which recommends a server and a client.
#define X(x,y) x##y

Speaking as a system administrator for a college network with 18000 users I would say the main threat is from inside the network. We have banned all forms of unsecure comunications on our network (telnet, ftp, pop) and the amounts of "hackers" an malicious behavior has decreased tremendously.

Kerberos pretty much solves all our problems (almost)

NOTE: all users can still telnet and ftp of course, but they have to use Ktelnet, ssh or such

/das Ix

i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...

I found this "top secret" web page at pbs. Cheesus, here's the nuclear HOWTO (plutonium not included). Ok, here's the picture gallery - you guys pick one, someone's knocking at the door.

There is more info about the author, Bob Shaw here.

Orbitsville also won 3rd Prize in the 1976 John W. Campbell award for science fiction.

Shoot the moon? Hell, says Prof. Alexander Abian, why not just blow it up?

Sadly, Crank.net says he died of a heart attack. His homepage is still up at at Iowa U., and a fan has archived THE ABIAN LIST. See the gumption of a man who named the mass of the Cosmos at the big bang after himself (scroll down a bit). Finally, see the greatness of the man reflected in his exchanges with James "Kibo" Parry and Archimedes Plutonium.

Anyhoo, see the Dyson Sphere FAQ for more.

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Maybe someone can answer why some packages are really outdated. Examples? readline 2.2.1. We're at 4.1, and I remember someone from RedHat saying at a list that 4.0 wasn't included because it isn't binary compatible with 2.2.1. But it was before a beta for 6.0. slang 1.2.2. We're at 1.4.0, another major release. No need to mention tcl/tk 8.0.5. We're at 8.3.0. OK, they'll be all in 7.0. Now think about including IceWM, Pavuk, Qps, Kim, among others useful applications. The svgalib graphics library is now depracated and DOSEMU moved to Powertools. I wonder why. And their versioning scheme isn't accurate. As an example, lynx-2.8.3-2 means what? The final 2.8.3 wasn't released. We're still at 2.8.3dev22. IMHO unfortunately RedHat actually is focusing on newbies and including too much useless (I said popular?) applications. I may consider switching to Slackware in my next installation. But it's still a great Linux distribution.

Check out this link.
Also interesting (about a quarter of the way down is links to propulsion tech).
I even remember seeing an aluminum disk being shot straight up into the air on a documentary about next gen space propulsion systems (the documentary was on Discovery (I think) sometime late last year. I know they had Lawrence Kraus on it).
The only difference I see is the material for the sail.
Jon

CAVERNUS
- Check out applications to download. My personal favorite is Crayoland. :) There are also some early papers about the CAVE somewhere there

CAVE QUAKE II
- Quake II in the CAVE? What's cooler then that? It's quite unnerving fighting a Tank that's literally taller then you.

Teleimmersion at EVL
- Connecting CAVEs

Welcome to CAVERNsoft
- How to connect CAVEs

Center for Parallel Computers - VR-Cube
- The 6-walled CAVE in sweden. My office-mate saw this, said it was the most immersive experience he's ever done. Forgot where he was!

Ascension Techology Corporation
- These guys make the magnetic tracker we're using.

Welcome to Polhemus!
- another type of tracker

Pyramid Systems
- they'll build a CAVE for ya

AMPRO Corporation
- We use their projectors

CAVE Programming
- Some information on programming for the CAVE

CAVEdev::main
- Some other cool projects for the CAVE

enjoy!

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http://www.pdc.kth.se/pro jects/vr-cube/photo-gallery.html

There is rxtelnet and kx. kx is an authenticating proxy and is really simple to use through the shell script rxtelnet. It does not require any changes to the X server. It comes with KTH-KRB. I think it works with Heimdal as well.

There is rxtelnet and kx. kx is an authenticating proxy and is really simple to use through the shell script rxtelnet. It does not require any changes to the X server. It comes with KTH-KRB. I think it works with Heimdal as well.

You'll find KRB4 at http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/ and KRB5 at http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/.

You'll find KRB4 at http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/ and KRB5 at http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/.

I would recommend that you use Heimdal. It's a Kerberos V implementation made primarily in Sweden.

--thi

I noticed this as it just became a debian package

2nd: Watermarking is a benefit to individuals and freeware/copyleft/whatever. A number of free graphics (backgrounds, icons, etc.), including mine are deliberately watermarked. (In my case by hand). Almost every graphic has a small area that is a single color. For these areas, make a unique id in a different unused color and then change that color to have the same rgb as the surrounding areas. This way, if someone is using your work in a method you don't permit (aka, selling a quake mod using your graphics) you have a method of proving what was done. The same technique can be used with multiple colors if necessary. (The 1st 16 colors are only used in a "glider" [from the old game of life] pattern. (16 colors allows you to repeat the pattern a LOT)

There are ways to completely bollux the watermark. A simple soultion should be to laminate the copies. I doubt that the watermark could be properly read through the lamination and removing the lamination should ruin the copy effectively enough.

Here's my question to slashdot: Do we find it offensive when companies copy the works of individuals and do we want methods to prevent this (for example Sun's actions with Blackdown's code)? If so, do we believe that corporations have the same rights to try to protect their works from individuals (recent articles on MP3 and DVD)? I almost wonder if we believe that the rights of "us" are more important than the rights of "them". - bonsai -

Why use up perfectly good places for life to evolve when you have much better control of your
environment on artificial structures that you can make from raw sunlight and loose asteroidal materials?

Sort of like a Dyson Sphere? Sounds neat, but I'd say it's a bit beyond our technological capacity at the moment. Until we get to that level, maybe would should stick to planets until we grow out of our technological adolescence.

We should explore other worlds, but we should live in space where all aspects of our environment would be at our control: gravity, temperature, pressure, topography, atmospheric composition, design, ecology, zoning and most obviously whether we allow those Windows riff-raff on board.

And you forgot the most important one: Sex in near-zero-gee would be lots more fun! :-)

(Heh .. the first time I previewed this post before submission, I had mispelled "important" in the above sentence as "impotant". How ironic.)

Hm, perhaps you should check out Behaviour, a mechanics simulator written by an old friend's kid brother. :) Caveat: it runs only on BeOS, and I've never used it. Follow link for cool (?) MPG movies.

Let me know how this sounds. We establish a proxy mesh, so that all unencrypted requests for controversial material hit the originating server from non-sensitive territory. We encrypt the connection from our browser to the proxy for untraceability.
SSL improves upon PGP/GPG for this purpose. If you are used to PGP terminology, read 'certificate' as 'public key', and 'certification authority' as 'someone the browser trusts.'

1. GPG/PGP is not a stream cipher. The proxy couldn't pass any part of the file on until it had received the whole thing. In contrast, a streaming cipher like SSL can work on data - and pass it along - as it flows in.
2. It is already in browsers. In Netscape 2+ and MSIE 3+, you even can add new Certificate Authorities; having Verisign sign your certificate is not strictly necessary, but still useful.
3. An implementation (with source) is available both inside and outside the United States. SSLeay is a freely available implementation of SSL.
4. It can handle other protocols. SSLeay has been used in a secure telnet application. See section 16.2 of the FAQ pointed at above for info; the link may fail due to spaces in the anchor name.

The Internet Junkbuster Proxy, Muffin and RabbIT are all filtering proxies, well-adapted to block PICS quickly. These could also anonymize well, to avoid signalling the browser locale to the webserver. Squid is adapted for speed and caching, but not-at-all for filtering; I doubt it has any hooks in the code for that.

Try ESR's Retrocomputing Museum.

The paper is available here (in postscript).

At the talk I had the impression that the softwware was free. I cannot find it on their (skimpy) web site though.

From their description, 25,000 users wouldn't begin to make it sweat.

Archon did rock ... but I must say, by far, the best game ever was M.U.L.E.

I still think of the soundtrack and get all teary-eyed over it. Boom boom buh buh boom ...

It took the computing power of three Commodore 64s to put a man on the moon. It takes the computing power of 1000 Commodore 64s to run Microsoft Word. Something is wrong here, and it ain't NASA.

Why? Because AFS is better than NFS. More secure, more flexible and faster.

Then there's Coda aswell.

STAR OFFICE 5.1 Download Sites:
FTP SITES:
Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
TU Clausthal - Germany
Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich
Star Division - Germany
Star Division - Germany
AARNet Mirror Project - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

HTTP SITES:
Sun SITE USA at University of North Carolina - UNC Chapel Hill
Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
Sun SITE Nordic at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - Stockholm
Sun SITE Belgium
Sun SITE Northern Europe at Imperial College - London
Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich

You might want to check out Arla, which is a free AFS client implementation. They also include an experimental AFS server.

About two years ago I tried the Transarc Linux AFS client. It worked but was a real pain in the a**. It was a kernel module distributed in binary form only, and always for a very old kernel (which, incidentally, didn't support all of my hardware). Perhaps this has changed.

-Tom

See also http:/ /www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/compi lers/free/part2/faq.html for a PL/M compiler, and http://home.sol.no/~egilk/download.html for a PL/M to C converter.

While you're at it, [Plug] check out my classic computers site and the Vintage Computer Festival.[/Plug]

There is a free implementation of AFS on http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/

Why do you reject AFS? If you don't like that Transarc's version isn't free, why don't you get a free AFS?

And arla provides an AFS client for free.

No, you don't. Not if you compile the module yourself. Try arla, the free AFS client.