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Not unless your grandmas phone was touch tone

Pulse dialing still works nearly everywhere. Indeed, some people are skilled enough to do pulse dialing by flashing the hook the required number of times.

Like me.

Get on my level.

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BMO

HOWTO: http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/...

http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/jenny07.txt

As the title says. Read the Trixbox review: http://oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/asterisk_vs_ trixbox.txt

I completely agree, multimedia is a serious problem in modern binary Linux distributions. Multimedia is the reason that I choose to use Gentoo Linux on my desktop/server. I want MP3 support. I want to watch encrypted DVDs. I want to watch Real videos without that confounded RealPlayer 10. It's all completely possible and completely legal if you're using Gentoo or any other source based distribution. Furthermore, it's legal to install such programs onto any Linux distribution provided you build the source yourself and do not install a binary.
After using Ubuntu on my laptop for some time I decided I needed to watch a movie on my laptop. Of course, Debian's apt system is completely foreign to me and I wasn't about to learn a new package manager after becomming used to Gentoo's portage system.
So I decided to install MPlayer and Xine-Lib from source, among other utilities. I believe this is the howto I used: http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/ubuntu.t xt
So it's got me thinking I should write some scripts to perform this installation automagically. I'd really like to get some kind of project running to collaborate with others.
Do you guys think such a project would be successful? Scripting up an installer for all these programs would be really easy if I had a howto to go by, so do you all think people would be OK with such an installer? Would you find such an installer acceptable for your own personal use?
I'll probably go ahead and write some scripts and tell my fellow Gentoo users what I've done, but I'd appreciate any experiences or thoughts fellow Slashdotters have.

I've written a few articles for 2600, which seems to have a brotherly attitude towards Phrack. Though, some people consider 2600 to be Phrack-lite, which I can totally imagine. The quality of articles in both magazines have decreased slightly over the years. More so in 2600 imo. Could that be blamed on authors or just on subject matter? I think with the mass amounts of people that have access to both publications, mixed with the 'leet' people growing up into the professional world where this type of magazine may be frowned upon, leads to stale articles and "How to use Kazaa behind a firewall" articles. Either way, there's always a few good informative articles in either magazine, so it's sad to see one go. You could always read one of them, then go to the other for "the other stuff" without getting duplicate info. Now we just have to check out even more independent magazines, like Binrev (http://www.binrev.com/ and radioshows like RFA (http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/).

The ARTS

BinRev

Default Radio

Radio FreeK America

There are a great number of interesting underground talk radio shows which have sprung up as of late, many of which deal with network security, computer programming, software piracy, individual privacy issues, etc.

I recommend the following shows:

The ARTS: Artscene Radio Talk Show - show archive
BinRev: Binary Revolution - show archive
RFA: Radio Freek America - show archive

and of course we can't forget Emmanuel Goldstein's Off the Hook which has shows dating back to 1988:
2600's Off the Hook - show archive

TEXTFILES.COM also stores a huge library of other radio shows and rants at its newly branded AUDIO.TEXTFILES.COM.

radio freek america,
hacking/phreaking/politics
recorded in bedrooms with a few people on a 3way call. lots of calls to interesting numbers. i think it is very entertaining. you may not.
there was a hundred or so episodes, its no longer going on.
anyone else listened to this?
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/radio.html

-Code