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• 7/8 stage superpiplined core
• 32KB Instruction, 32KB Data Caches.
• 2KB Mini-Data Cache to avoid data cache thrashing
• Performance Monitoring Unit (Like on PII and up)

Tried it and saw that it was good... :-)

• OCLUG - Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group - The OLS is always discussed heavily by OCLUG members, especially since the mailing list is hosted by Achilles who organized the Symposium. It's also a great place to meet other local Linux enthusiasts, read about other events, and learn plenty.
  
• Linux.org Events Listing - Go here for a list of many different Linux conferences, events, etc.
  
• Slashdot! - OLS was mentioned several times here....
  

I find humor in the fact that Emmett didn't even provide a link to the Ottawa Linux Symposium website... Anyway a couple others are listed here: Most notable and/or accessible for North-Americaners would be the Linuxworld Expo in San Jose, August 14-17, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase Oct 10-14. Also, here is a list of Corel tradeshows.

If anyone knows of others, please speak up (It took 2 minutes on Altavista to find these).

And I don't see why Slashdot couldn't announce every upcoming conference, or at least every conference that requested announcing. iT's only an inch of screen space... this is supposed to be a community site, after all. Sounds like a slashbox-in-the-making.

imuho

Should all software be free?

hehe....yup! The good software already is.


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After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network

With respect to journalling filesystems...

At my site, we've been using ext3 on production NFS servers for almost a month now, with no trouble in terms of stability. Disk I/O has suffered a big performance hit (less than 1/2 previous performance), but for the better filesystem reliability, it's worth it.

The 2GB file size limit is your biggest problem. If you're going to go with Linux for sure, look into DEC- I mean, Compaq- Alpha hardware. It's a 64-bit architecture, so that limit shouldn't exist there. I haven't ever actually used Linux on Alpha though, so I cannot guarantee that.

As far as the software RAID bit...

The ext3 patch is against kernel 2.2.17-pre9, so we're sticking with that for now. No development kernels for us, here. Once Steven Tweedie's ported it to a moderately stable 2.4-test, I'll look at giving that a shot. From what I understand NFS performance has increased significantly there. Don't know about RAID. Don't know about databases, either, but if that will put a moderate load on your computer, you ought to look at hardware RAID in any case- you'll get better performance by far, if you take the RAID load off the main CPU.

With respect to journalling filesystems...

At my site, we've been using ext3 on production NFS servers for almost a month now, with no trouble in terms of stability. Disk I/O has suffered a big performance hit (less than 1/2 previous performance), but for the better filesystem reliability, it's worth it.

The 2GB file size limit is your biggest problem. If you're going to go with Linux for sure, look into DEC- I mean, Compaq- Alpha hardware. It's a 64-bit architecture, so that limit shouldn't exist there. I haven't ever actually used Linux on Alpha though, so I cannot guarantee that.

As far as the software RAID bit...

The ext3 patch is against kernel 2.2.17-pre9, so we're sticking with that for now. No development kernels for us, here. Once Steven Tweedie's ported it to a moderately stable 2.4-test, I'll look at giving that a shot. From what I understand NFS performance has increased significantly there. Don't know about RAID. Don't know about databases, either, but if that will put a moderate load on your computer, you ought to look at hardware RAID in any case- you'll get better performance by far, if you take the RAID load off the main CPU.

I'm running a standard RedHat box for IP_MASQ in my house with an 8 port hub and it works no problem. I had to install PPPoE stuff too.

Only major problem I have is every now and then (every couple of days) it drops my connection for no apparent reason. This was easily fixable with a cron job running every hour to check the connection.

There's some great resources at linux.org

here's the soundclip of torvalds himself

http://www.linux.org/info/sounds/englis h.au

:)

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DevFS: Linus mandated its inclusion. End of story. Also, it is a simple filesystem, like Ext2, and doesn't tickle problems with the VFS.

shmfs: don't know history of this one, but it is a simple filesystem; prob. doesn't hit the VFS limitations.

ramfs/cramfs: simple filesystems, look like Ext2. Actually support fewer features than does Ext2.

Reiser: Linus said that ResierFS would not be included in 2.4. It also has to do a lot of work around shortcomings of the VFS, for which Viro has been unhelpful. Fat chance it'll be included when working against that. It's irrelevant that Reiser makes his living off of his FS, although stupid of him to make that argument.

The whole "ReiserFS thing" is not a red herring. Regardless of how "together" Hans gets his act, fact remains that his ideas and patches are being ignored. And he's bringing up real problems. HFS has to resort to some of the same silly kludges as he does. This problem has been popularized by Reiser, but isn't just Reiser's problem.

SurfsUp said 2.5 was going to focus on fixing the VFS. I hope so. A generic, stackable filesystem interface would be a good thing.

...but then, I'm using Java (at home: OpenGL)...or I might use CodeWarrior on my iMac.

Some people may not be this lucky.

Very interesting. Its a good idea: Free access to information. The problem that I see is the overall lack of computers in South America. Sure, rich families will have them, but most people will not. Still as the article says, terminals will be installed in public areas.

Again, though, how many people will use them? Here in Canada the level of literacy is (IIRC) about 80%. What is it like in South America? You cannot use the internet without a functional ability to read.

With the spread of this idea it gives all the more reason to donated your used systems to South American countries, its better than sending them to landfill. I know that there was an organization here in Canada that was sending used systems to Cuba (yes, its Central America...)

If "free" (donated) PC's begin to become common, I wonder what OS they will use? I sure hope its a free one. Competition would still be good too.

are you aware of the governm,ent conspiracy relating to tinfoil hats you see they supposedly cover the mind conrtol rays from the secret death satalites but they actually amplify the secret telsa death ray so that the government can kill those that know the truth while leaving their servants like katz and taco to rule the world without the tinfoil hats because the government is actually conspiring to create an anti-conspiracy conspiracy advocating the tinfoil hats as a means of mind control because instead of takeing wawy the mind contorl rays the tinfoil hats actually amplify them so that thje government can peer into your mind and make you work in line with them and control all that they hold sacred so that you will simply become a mindless drone of the worldwide government conspiracy yes that's what the UN is a worldwide governemnt conspiracy designed by monica lewinsky who is actually a secret cia officer designed to steal missile launch codes from bill clinton so that the cia will be able to have control over the us nuclear missile aresonal so that the un and the new world order headed by the us nsa and cia will be able to hold control over the world via a long range interncontrinental ballistic missile range specifically designed to oppress the peoples into creating a workforce so that the rich shall prosper and the poor shall be forced into nazi-style deathcamps for trying to expose the truth and you will be send to the end of the world and back to expose the truth and nobody will listen because of the tinfoil hat conspiracy and the amplified government mind control rays from the secret nasa death satalites.

Oh man, that was some bad $3 crack.


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Ever seen the Transmeta webpad? OOoooOOhhh I want one of those.

Quite so. Kinda like the ARM-based NewsPAD of old, innit. Hope it's rather more successful.

Has anyone ported linux to ARM?

Yes.

Has anyone ported linux to ARM?

Heh, what kind of a question is that?

http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/

Also, the uh.. is it Corel now? Or Compaq? Whoever the hell owns the netwinder, it's an ARM box, and tiny and nice.

Also, in response to the other guy, asking why someone would want ARM vs Transmeta, the answer is that code can be natively compiled for ARM, but the xmeta chip will only do translation. I dunno if there's any actual difference in that, speedwise, since they're both pokey little chips.

I do think that you can do ASM for ARM, and not for Xmeta. Could be wrong, tho.

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The problem is that Napster only has one use, transfering MP3 files. ... A more general system such as gnutella does not have these kind of problems.

But with the Wrapster archiver, an MP3 file need not contain an MPEG audio layer 3 stream to be sent using the Napster software. Wrapster is your typical tar(1)-like archiver, but it makes archives (*.wrapster.mp3) that Napster can shoot over the Internet. To put it another way: <whore>you can use Wrapster and Napster to distribute the latest version of a certain OS kernel so that the official servers don't get slashdotted when 2.4 is released</whore>, especially if you napigate to an opennap server.

Is it so obvious?
This /. story talks about who is responsible when closed source software fails. To quote:

"Kinda answers the old open source FUD question 'who you gonna sue if something goes wrong?'. According to the WA courts, nobody." The opinion is available here, and a dissenting opinion by two of the judges is also available. "

To clarify the issue, allow me to quote from: http://nl.linux.org/geldterug/license.ht ml

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

So if it's closed source, you have nobody to sue.
If it's open source you have nobody to sue, but you can fix it yourself!

The choice seems obvious.
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You have overlinked this article. Just because you know the URL of Linux doesn't mean you need to use it.

Try the links here. Look at the ASDM mini-how-to and the backup with MSDOS Mini-HOWTO.

Beyond that, you might consider the following approach to development, which I have found to work quite well:

• Use Python. If you don't know the language, you can pick it up very quickly. It scales well to large projects. And since it's interactive, you save a lot of development time by skipping the compile and link steps.
• Use a cross-platform GUI library. wxWindows is a good one. There are others that have Python bindings -- see this list for a few.
• Once you get something working, you can optimize the hot spots, and then rewrite the performance critical parts in C, C++, or Java, all of which interface nicely with Python.

Here are some other distros using partionless installs: PhatLinux, WinLinux2000, and DOSLinux. Information o nthese, as well as a great number of other Linux distros are available at linux.org. Please remember the loopback distors are slower than normal distros due to the nature of their filesystems. They are great for people wanting to try Linux, however. All you have to do to uninstall the system is delete 1 directory.

Here, thank you

Here at Queensland University of Technology (BNE - AUS), they use Linux (mainly Redhat 6.0) a hell of a lot in the IT Labs. For all the network admin, management, comparative network systems, etc.. subjects, RH6.0 is used. They sell it in the Computer Shop and there are numerous books (mainly rubbish Unleashed ones) in the bookstore.

For the Operating Systems subject, it is split between Unix (SysVR4 - redhat) and NT4. All this in 13 weeks (ouch, it used to just be the unix in all that time!). In that we cover csh, shell scripting in sh/bash, i/o, pipes, memory management, etc...
For projects / assignments, we have to write a C parser for unix, and for NT, a basic device driver. we haven't been given the specs for the VxD as of yet however.

In the previous subject - Computer Architecture - we had to write a mouse driver (for DOS of course) using Assembler, now wasn't that one fun boys and girls!


My $0.02
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Does this mean that Alan Cox should stop drinking?

I think you missed the point. There are computers in Africa, believe it or not. It's not entirely unpopulated. S. Africa for example. They feel the same pressures over there regarding this issue, I would imagine. Enough to create the need for open source, apparently.

I would agree. &nbsp South Africa is considered by the WTO and most of the world as being a fully industrized (not developing) country (eg., they have nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.), no different than most European countries.&nbsp I would expect that majority of the use of Linux would occur there first and spread via the OAU to major cities in places like Zimbawe, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, Ethiopia,and Kenya. &nbsp For example, TUCOWS (a major Linux distributor), has locations in South Africa, Zimbawe, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Kenya, and Egypt. &nbsp And if you go to this link, you will note that there are *9* South African Linux Users groups listed and here you will see that there are 4 LUGs in Egypt. &nbsp There are Linux references (link and "counter") for Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Togo, et. al. &nbsp I also expect that they are also already big users of the *BSDs right now.

Note that with many of those countries, you have 2 classes - the very wealthy, who have access to everything including the net, and the poor. &nbsp The continent is not what Hollywood or the National Geographic has portrayed it as being. &nbsp Once the colonial puppets are finally booted out and the continent stablizes a bit, you'll have a near 1 billion person potential market there, and a number of large businesses have already considered this fact and are opening up shop there.

I think you missed the point. There are computers in Africa, believe it or not. It's not entirely unpopulated. S. Africa for example. They feel the same pressures over there regarding this issue, I would imagine. Enough to create the need for open source, apparently.

I would agree. &nbsp South Africa is considered by the WTO and most of the world as being a fully industrized (not developing) country (eg., they have nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.), no different than most European countries.&nbsp I would expect that majority of the use of Linux would occur there first and spread via the OAU to major cities in places like Zimbawe, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, Ethiopia,and Kenya. &nbsp For example, TUCOWS (a major Linux distributor), has locations in South Africa, Zimbawe, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Kenya, and Egypt. &nbsp And if you go to this link, you will note that there are *9* South African Linux Users groups listed and here you will see that there are 4 LUGs in Egypt. &nbsp There are Linux references (link and "counter") for Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Togo, et. al. &nbsp I also expect that they are also already big users of the *BSDs right now.

Note that with many of those countries, you have 2 classes - the very wealthy, who have access to everything including the net, and the poor. &nbsp The continent is not what Hollywood or the National Geographic has portrayed it as being. &nbsp Once the colonial puppets are finally booted out and the continent stablizes a bit, you'll have a near 1 billion person potential market there, and a number of large businesses have already considered this fact and are opening up shop there.

You mean this :)

Here is a wonderful link for more information regarding Linux and its current state on Network Computers.

It has _much_ information on the subject.

As for the price of distributions, they seem to want to make some money off it by selling free support and/or a book with the distro. There is nothing wrong with that, but I don't like the impression it gives to new users. (i.e. the impression that linux is expensive just like windoze. (it isn't because you can legally copy it, see below, and because you don't have to buy any more stuff to do useful work.))

Of course, the best way to get into linux is to find a local LUG, since you can ask questions, and get extremely useful info about how to set up linux to work with the local ISPs unfriendly setup. Even better, you can take your computer to a meeting and have some expert hackers work on getting your (random hardware X) supported, etc. Also, you can get someone with a fast 'net connection and a burner to make a CD of the distro of your choice for $2 a CD. (even ones like Stampede, which is available only by download. I don't know if Debian is being sold or not, I heard something about a retail Debian. (and I _don't_ mean Corel's linux.))
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I think one solution that has been overlooked in this discussion is that there are ways of (at least somewhat) validating people's identities for the purpose of corresponding on email with a congressional staff.

If it is the goal of the office to cut down on the spam they recieve, why not set up a system where you can fill out a form, and the rep will send a snailmail letter to the address (obviously in the rep's district) with a user/pass for a web-based email system or something similar. I suggest this not because I think it is the most efficient or even what I would prefer, but congresscritters seem to have a desire to attach identity to a meatspace address.

Similar, systems could be created using PGP and the associated 'web of trust' that can be assigned to key signatures. (This is extremely unlikely to happen until I'm old and gray(er) as it is a bit too technical for the average critter's staff to deal with.)

To illustrate this, the last time my congressional rep (Sam Johnson) came to town for a 'town hall' meeting, I queried his aide that was supposed to be 'point' on tech issues and he had no idea what PGP is. Considering the legislation that has been submitted ojn the topic, one would think he would at least know about the most popular encryption program outside of DES

Some congrescritters have something similar to this set up off of their house/senate webpages. I actually got what appeared to not be a form letter from a query I made to one of these systems. Admittedly, such a system is a hell of a lot more trouble to use than regular email, but I suspect this is considered by the office as it weeds out those not willing to take the time to set up an account with them. I have a couple of these set up, but it's been so long since I used them I forgot how I signed in :( This is where a program I recently started using would have come in handy. Hope I won't get slammed for this, but I'd like to recommend 'gpasman' as a linux program that will help you to keep track of user/pass combos for websites or other systems. You can find it at http://gpasman.nl.linux.org/. It is similar to a (win) tool offered by Counterpane Systems called Password Safe (binaries and source). I use them both. Too damn many accounts and passwords to keep up with these days!

Z

"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."

ARM Linux on the SA-1100

While the SA-1100 doesn't have the cool code emulation bit, it does run at 200+ MHz at half a watt. The chip also includes vga, irda, and audio codec support. All of that for a half-watt, max.

I still think the Transmeta announcement is cool, but not because of the low-watt linux claim.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

When I started with Linux in 1995 I was really impressed with its interface and nothing on the console has bettered it.

As for Emacs, you have to be joking. I like Emacs as an editor but the interface has a lot to be desired, you can't call it intuitive.

Pine's interface is easy to use but not as good as the Midnight Commander.
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I think that keeping your eyes on what is happening at colleges is the best way of keeping your eyes on trends that will soon be mainstream. One case of this was mp3s. The rampant use of them on college intranets was widespread 3 years ago. It seems just now this is being reported (Wired) .

Now we hear about other benefits of the big pipe. Those kids just keep moving the target further and further away for the private corps who are trying to satisfy the public - it is really great. If any large corporation really wanted to see what is going to be cool in a couple years (or months?!!?) they should employ (and listen to) a panel of college tech student. If they don't the students may just have to do it themselves.

Yeah.

Of all the sites that could use a good defacing, this would be one of them. At least redirect their traffic to RedHat or some other decent Linux site.

I have followed the Broadcast 2000 development for a while, and I am both impressed by and thankful for their work. The drivers appear to be the missing link. Unfortunately, on the Broadcast 2000 page, they skip the issue of drivers, simply saying that any "Video4Linux" drivers will work, without so much as providing a link to a Video4Linux project page.

At least it's a good sign that they're sticking to a standard, rather than creating their own drivers. Unfortunately, the driver situation seems to be quite a mess. There's Video4Linux, Video4Linux 2, LiViD, and other projects and I'm not sure how they're related. Most of them seem to support mostly TV-in-a-window cards rather than full-motion video capture.

It looks like work on the Matrox Marvel drivers is coming along, which is good for me because I just bought an Athlon 550 and Matrox Marvel G400-TV! >geek gloatCineGX which seems to have disappeared. The idea was to create a framework for handling video, applying filters and codecs in a pipelike fashion. That would mean that you could, say, stream an AVI file from your disk, and show it as a picture within a live TV feed, showing it on the screen and spitting it into an MPEG2 file on disk all at the same time (provided you have enough processing power and/or hardware assistance). Most editing could be reduced to problems of mixing and matching streams and filters. The editing GUI would exist only to provide a project management function.

Can you comment on possibilities for developments relating to transaction processing and database management systems?

"For instances" to make this clearer include:

• RHAT has apparently been putting work into the availability of raw partitions that the major DBMS vendors prefer to the use of native filesystems.

  Ala SCT-RAW , raw i/o patches

• TP monitors such as BEA Tuxedo as well as message queueing systems such as IBM MQSeries.

  There's one "libre" option, Isect

Check the vendors' list at linux.org, and Alt-F for laptops. There are a couple of them, and not only in US: Hong, Malaysia, US (1, 2, 3).

About the pronunciation, Linus has the definitive word on that, I'm sure.

Unrelated, I, too, have from time to time a mild form of RSI, which I always attributed to my work, combined with hobbying at home behind my own computer. Now I'm getting afraid, that would it come to real harm, I'll have to answer slightly embarrassing questions about my imaginary love-life. Pictures in my mind: "And, sir, how often would you say you resort to take matters in your own hand, eh?" and then getting my claim revoked. That does not bear thinking about.

Mazur
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. -- Terry Pratchett in "Wyrd Sisters".

We are a small Internet development shop, running a few servers and a mixed bag of development stations. Currently, there are three Linux boxen on our network, running the latest RedHat releases. We are looking to put in three more systems, for a total of 5 running some Linux/UNIX like OS.

• A MySQL server box
• A Firewall
• A Mail/Fileserver
• 2 Webservers running Apache / PHP(Zend)

When we perform this upgrade, we are willing to change operating systems if there is a demonstrable benefit. Due to recent slashdot postings we have started looking at OpenBSD as our server OS. Now, we do understand that RedHat is not the only Linux distribution available, but we don't really want to get into a Linux/Linux war here. We don;t mind changing if we should for technical reasons - but the Linux world seems more hip and vibrant, and we really like the penguin T-shirts we have... so if we can stay on Linux then we want to.

So far, we like what we hear about OpenBSD - but we don't know if the things we like are inherent in the relative designs of OpenBSD or if they are results of policy choices by the OpenBSD team. If they are the results of policy decisions, then with any luck a Linux distribution could be found that exhibited the same characteristics?

Features we like about OpenBSD:

• It seems like the release/testing cycle is extremely carefully controlled. While a freewheeling machine with lots of OpenSource code on the desktop is a good thing, for a server it seems that a smaller group exercising testing/release control is a more controlled system.
• The integrated crypto looks great, the one time use passwords look like a big winner here.
• There are a lot of references to OpenBSD's security and stability - but none with any specific examples or technical backing.
• The file layout on OpenBSD seems like a winner, it looks like things live in a well thought out and logical set up - not in a mishmash like RedHat.

Assumptions:

These systems will be running the server software they need, and X11 + (Gnome||KDE) for administration and so on. They will not be running the latest stuff from Linuxberg or a bunch of things that would be on a desktop OS. So we are going to try very hard not to introduce any instabilities. We aren't going to be compiling running games, sound drivers and the like that integrate directly into the kernel.

The questions are:

1. Is OpenBSD more secure in some fundamental way that a well maintained Linux distribution?
2. Is OpenBSD more stable than a well maintained Linux distribution?
3. Will the OpenSource software we normally need (firewall, Apache, PHP4, Perl, Python) and so on probably compile on OpenBSD?
4. Does OpenBSD have something like clustering support (Beowulf) and failover?
5. Is the performance of a well maintained OpenBSD system better than a well maintained Linux distribution?
6. Does Linux have anything like the one time use password system?
7. Does OpenBSD support multiple CPU's better then Linux?

Thanks for taking the time, and hopefully we can keep the flames down to nothing and talk about technical issues this time.

Unfortunately, Slashdot is much like other discussion forums in that the vast majority of the other participants are unable to read your mind.

Please tell us what your requirements are. It's nice and all to hear about your current solution, but what you described says absolutely nothing about what you need.

Does your application require fullscreen 30-fps video, periodic stillframes, or something in between?

What kind of processing do you need to do? Does it need to be realtime? Could it be done in software on a fast CPU (like an Athlon)? By edge detections are you talking about simple convolutions with a Sobel filter or something much more involved?

What are you trying to use OpenGL to draw? Are you just using it to do 2D edge detection, or are you rendering a 3D scene? How is it related to the video inputs? Are the video cameras digitizing control points, to manipulate a model in realtime? Are they digitizing textures, to map on various surfaces in realtime? Or is it something completely different?

Anyway, the Video4Linux web page has information on available video input solutions, such as BTTV, and Linux3d.org has links to most of the major OpenGL-related projects.

A sixteen-way Symmetric Multi Penguin Alpha machine -- to play Space Invaders on a Speccy emulator, just for the hell of it

Linux 2.4/XFree86 4.0/KDE 2.0 (by Xmas, yeah - right)

World Peace

Bill Gates' head on a spike (ok, that's counted in the last one)
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Some people might get paranoid at the thought of all their passwords being contained in one file. Gpasman at least uses a publicly known algorithm to encrypt the data, instead of just using a secret formula like most of the Windows programs do.

Use either gpasman:

GPasman homepage

or kpasman:

KPasman homepage

to keep all your passwords safe and secure. :-)

Visit the FUD-counter site at:
http://fud-counter.nl.linux.org/

The project is still new and we could use a few volunteers to help us out...

ftp://ftp.linux.org/pub/kerne l/SillySounds/english.au

Why not ask those classy fellows at Loki Entertainment Software to port it to Linux

I sent them an email asking for a Linux port of Blizzard's StarCraft and I recieved this reply within a couple of hours:

>Please port StarCraft by Blizzard to Linux.

Blizzard has taken a "wait and see" approach to Linux gaming. If the sales numbers are up there for our current releases, then they will be more willing to negotiate with us to port their great titles to Linux.

We hope you'll be happy with our upcoming announcements. We expect to port 16 titles next year alone.

Cheers,

Kayt Sorhaindoh
Loki Entertainment Software

So lets all buy up the current selection and lure more gaming companies to Linux!

And Wolfenstein was and still is awesome :)

Alan Cox (in his daily log) talked about fixing K7 support when his Athlon arrived.

(August 19th entry from this page) "AMD Athlon arrives at last. Its fast, very fast and the kernel is not yet optimised for the K7. The first problem I found is that 2.2.x with MTRR support crashes on boot on the K7. Fixed that with some bits from Linux kernel that had been done without a K7 or docs by someone who guessed very well indeed. "

So get 2.2.13, it should work :-)
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