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eMule still works. I am finding more and more garbage these days when I use its search feature for video and programs, but for music, it works pretty well.

There are also sites like TV Underground and ShareReactor that provide good ed2k links.

Sure, unless you count: K-19, K-11, K-27, K-140, K-429, K-222, K-123, K-314, K-431, K-192, K-8, K-386, TK-208, K-279, K-447, K-508, K-208, K-210, K-216, K-316, K-462, K-38, K-37, K-371, and K-367.

Those are submarines which experienced nuclear accidents from just the Northern Fleet of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Too lazy to look for the Pacific fleet accidents..

The Russian Northern Fleet Nuclear submarine accidents

Linux.Org.Ru, perhaps the largest Russian on-line Linux community officially considers "Linux-XP" offtopic: http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=2307077&lastmod=1238366650084

"As long as Oracle keeps pretending Russia doesn't exist, we'll pretend licensed Oracle software doesn't exist" ((c))

Well, I'm sure you would be glad to know that you'd be in fine company. Feynman was deferred from the draft because the psychiatric tests indicated that he was insane.

here is a good explanation

I'm a pretty big fan of Drupal myself (the only thing I've got against it is I don't care for PHP much), but I've got to agree with you that the Drupal forum module, while basically functional, is really ugly.

I like SMF for a forum app, and there is a pretty good SMF bridge Drupal module that handles user synchronization between the two, and gives you few nifty blocks for showing recent posts and other SMF information in Drupal sidebars. It's worked pretty well for me in a couple projects.

well i agree my reasearch lead me to http://biomark.org.ru/

Mozilla Browser Javascript Regex Parsing Error Discloses Memory to Remote Users - Apr 5, 2005 Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Browser in Javascript regex parsing. A remote user can obtain portions of browser memory. The browser's javascript implementation does not properly parse lamba list regular expressions. The vulnerability resides in 'js/src/jsstr.c' in the find_replen() function. A demonstration exploit is available at: http://cubic.xfo.org.ru/firefox-bug/index.html

Already been done!
OEone HomeBase.
Check out this screenshot:
http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/bigbBdSgP.jpg

Although it's hard to find info about it, the product integrated OpenOffice into a Desktop written entirely in XUL.

...The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System...

/*
* Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
* specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
*
* @(#)subr_rmap.c 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92
*/

What is the copyright/ownership status of these old versions of Unix?

The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) own (at least): Unix research editions 1 to 7, PWB/UNIX, Mini-UNIX, 32V, System III and System V. Those parts of 2.xBSD which are derived from SCO's stuff is also copyright by SCO. Non-derived parts of anything are owned by someone else (e.g the Regents of the University of California for the BSD stuff).

None of the stuff owned by SCO is freely available, nor is it in the public domain. You must still be covered by a Unix source license in order to have legal access to this material. However, you can obtain a UNIX source for free from SCO's web site.

http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/PDP-11/Trees/2.11 BSD/sys/sys/subr_rmap.c

The second one is code is VERY old...

See here, and here.

How many textbook references do you think you can come up with?

I'll wager that code is also in BSD

From this thread
This goes at least as far back as 1982 and is under a BSD license. Nothing to worry about here.
subr_rmap.c [pdp11.org.ru] 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92

I think that it looks like SCO's snippet, doesn't even belong to them, compare following which is: Copyright 1986 Regents of the University of California

That's BSD

Here's the earliest implementation people have found so far, from 1979 (before SCO was "born"):

http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/mal loc.c.html

And here's where it was part of BSD 2.11 circa 1992:

http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/PDP-11/Trees/2.11 BSD/sys/sys/subr_rmap.c

Oh, how I hope the mainstream tech press "gets" this.

SCO did a big dog and pony show yesterday at their conference. They also raised their claims, and according to them, there are "millions of lines" of offending code which they have identified by "rocket scientists" using "spectral recognition" and "pattern analysis".

To convince SCOforum attendees of their case, SCO showed obscured slides which supposedly proved copying.

Research reveals that the code fragment SCO showed in one of their slides, doesn't even belong to SCO - it's from BSD. See for yourself, the code originated from, and is Copyright 1986 Regents of the University of California! And, while they might have more up their sleeve, it's is revealing that the most compelling example they can show at their forum, doesn't even belong to them!

Also:

This bit here
and this bit here
and this bit here
and this 2.4 bit here
and this v6 bit here
and this ? bit here
and this pdp 11 bit here
and this manpage bit here

rm

There seems to be nothing of value here. As pointed out by Starborn this comment goes at least as far back as BSD 2.11, which, according to the file, is from subr_rmap.c 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92

...

The linux version is slightly modified with some differing variable names, but the algorithim seems to be nearly identical.

We've been discussing this on the gentoo forums just now, and we've found that:
1) Their example is from the IA64 port of linux 2.4 (its not in 2.6)
2) Their example can be traced back to 2.11BSD
3) The greek in the sco code is actually english, with the font changed to english (Stupid obfucation attempt) heres what it says:

"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"

We're still discussing it on the gentoo forums here

The only thing that shows up being even close between the Linux kernel and the versions of Unix with source available is what seems to be a derivative of malloc and mfree in ate_utils.c

ate_utils is/was part of the NUMA code for IA64. It has been removed from the latest development and prepatch kernels (it's obsolete, from what I've read.)

There are some less interesting similarities between the signal handling code, but that's hardly remarkable. How many ways can you write a switch statement?

The key thing to remember though is that SCO doesn't actually claim they wrote the code. They claim to own rights in code that IBM wrote. I would bet that it's safe to assume that a detailed inspection of AIX and Linux 2.4.21 will reveal similarities. The question is, does IBM have the right to relicense code they created?

PDP lovers from russia created this site
(in Russian),http://translate.ru can help.
Some links to live systems and fans
here

Well, I haven't seen the article, cause it's been slashdotted, but to all that talk about wine virii execution - look at this (the author of the screenshot is C-Pro).

Besides, I mean, just as with any other tool, you need caution. If you run wine as root with the whole tree as e: then sooner or later you're gonna regret it. The level achieved by wine emulation is amazing, so there are going to be security flaws if you don't know what you are doing, just as with any product with functionality as extensive as wine's

In order for this to work, each time you give a site an "F", you should be contractually bound so that if it turns out that the site is legit, then you are the one that gets in trouble: you would have to pay a fine. Then, in order to give people a motive for using this plug-in, the company should pay bounty money to the vigilante via a Paypal type system.

My antidotum would be a website like this:

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A fine guaranteed.

OK so I'm posting this far to late to get it modded up, but anyway....

For those of us Pocket PC owners who've seen that it's been ported to Palm and are upset with the lack of a PocketPC version, well there is one!!:

Nethack 3.3.1 for Windows (98/NT/2000/CE)

This kicks ass! Handheld support for ARM, MIPS, and SH3, good job Alex!

For more general PocketPC gaming news, check out Pocket Gamer

As for other cool retro stuff for the Pocket PC, check this out: FreeCiv port of Pocket PC, not yet released but coming soon hopefully. Here are a few screenshots to keep you going 'til they give us something to download (watch out for the popups though)

Happy gaming,

ManxStef

I was just about to suggest Driller, but it seems to be just a different name for the one you suggested! According to this article it came out in 1987. IIRC it was released for Spectrum/AmstradCPC/C64, and I've a vague memory there was even an early PC version.

It used solid 3D, was first-person perspective, and you did have a laser to shoot with, so it seems a valid candidate for first ever FPS.

Can anyone better that?

Amiga: phah! ZX Spectrum rules! :-) If you can get it to run there, you can get it to run anywhere. (I know it is not true....)

I haven't studied the low-level spec for this purpose, so I wonder: could you make it work on some of these old devices? (The Spectrum wasn't great for comms: no real Basic support.) I have this vision of a computer museum with all the old computers connected via Bluetooth to the toaster and my wrist-watch.

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"Where do you come from?"

In terms of overall Internet connectivity, Kazakhstan is ranked along with countries like Burma and some African countries, at the very bottom of the list. What's more, the government is very interested in NOT allowing people free access to the Internet and all the un-censored information that's on it. In particular the government is concerned with opposition sites, like Eurasia.org, based in neiboring Russia and at one point ordered the few tightly controlled ISPs to block requests for the eurasia.org.ru domain. And recently, again in an article on Eurasia.org, I found that the Kazakhstani government is sending a delegation to Burma to learn from Burmese experience of cencoring internet access with the presumed intent of implementing similar techniques in Kazakhstan.

Now, when I talk about Kazakhstani government, I usually mean the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has a long history of rigging election, making adjustments to the constitution that will allow him to remain president for life, blocking the parliament from making changes in the constitution. He is also the 9th richest man in the world, and that in a country with rapidly decreasing population and GNP, not to mension the pitiful standard of living. Human rights activists are not happy with Kazakhstan, that's for sure.

What all of this translates into, is the fact that someone like me, a 24 year old man that doesn't come from a rich Kazakhstani family, first accesses the internet at the age of 23. (And I consider myself a computer geek, think about non-geeks in contrast). It also majority of people who have the internet access come from rich families, who in most cases are to some extent involved in the not very ethical accusition of wealth, and are not interested in openness of the opinion. That's why they seem to spend most of their time in chat rooms talking about sex...(my personal observation, from trying to find a good discussion board or chat room to talk with my former compatriots about Kazakhtani politics)

I'm a recent immigrant to the US from Kazakhstan (came here 1 year ago) and my parents and little brother are still there. I have a little of my own and my wife's writings on my web site about Kazakhstan, however, it's only marginally related to the topic at hand.

Anyway, now you know a little about Kazakhstan, even if you can't yet spell its name.

In terms of overall Internet connectivity, Kazakhstan is ranked along with countries like Burma and some African countries, at the very bottom of the list. What's more, the government is very interested in NOT allowing people free access to the Internet and all the un-censored information that's on it. In particular the government is concerned with opposition sites, like Eurasia.org, based in neiboring Russia and at one point ordered the few tightly controlled ISPs to block requests for the eurasia.org.ru domain. And recently, again in an article on Eurasia.org, I found that the Kazakhstani government is sending a delegation to Burma to learn from Burmese experience of cencoring internet access with the presumed intent of implementing similar techniques in Kazakhstan.

Now, when I talk about Kazakhstani government, I usually mean the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has a long history of rigging election, making adjustments to the constitution that will allow him to remain president for life, blocking the parliament from making changes in the constitution. He is also the 9th richest man in the world, and that in a country with rapidly decreasing population and GNP, not to mension the pitiful standard of living. Human rights activists are not happy with Kazakhstan, that's for sure.

What all of this translates into, is the fact that someone like me, a 24 year old man that doesn't come from a rich Kazakhstani family, first accesses the internet at the age of 23. (And I consider myself a computer geek, think about non-geeks in contrast). It also majority of people who have the internet access come from rich families, who in most cases are to some extent involved in the not very ethical accusition of wealth, and are not interested in openness of the opinion. That's why they seem to spend most of their time in chat rooms talking about sex...(my personal observation, from trying to find a good discussion board or chat room to talk with my former compatriots about Kazakhtani politics)

I'm a recent immigrant to the US from Kazakhstan (came here 1 year ago) and my parents and little brother are still there. I have a little of my own and my wife's writings on my web site about Kazakhstan, however, it's only marginally related to the topic at hand.

Anyway, now you know a little about Kazakhstan, even if you can't yet spell its name.