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The FSF Savannah server has been hacked. The statement indicates a similar attack vector as the exploit against the Debian systems. However, it had been hacked nearly a month ago and was not detected until December 1st. For those that are not familar with it, Savannah is the FSF version of Sourceforge, hosting both GNU and non-GNU Free Software projects. It has not yet been determined whether any of the projects' source code has been modified. Read the full statement for details. One thing is certain though, with Debian, Gentoo and now the FSF being exploited in the same month, the open source/free software community is clearly under attack.

"(...) tiny Linux (...) distributions containing all the software to boot (...) and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world
(...)
MoviX is now able to boot also from (...) USB pen, CF card and from the net."

Why not just use CramFS?

Ext2 (Linux) File System Driver for Windows NT 4.0 - Old. But still useful.

Take a look at wxArt2D (which really should get merged into at least the contrib branch of wxWindows some day). It's a downright spiffy little library. I'm not sure if theres any Python bindings, though...

Not Ruby, but I'm working on a Python library for Doom called Omgifol in which I recently implemented a complete API for editing levels (the version on SF is quite outdated, though, nothing to see there).

I don't know how useful the level editing features of the thing will end up being, but I have some ideas of making a random level generator similar to Slige with it. Using a language as powerful as Python, it should hopefully be possible to create stuff more advanced than Slige's linearly arranged square sectors ;-)

Ext2FSD - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/

That works nicely for me on both Win2k and XP if you're after a deeper implementation.:)

Last time I used it, it did read/write on ext2 and read only on ext3.

What I'd *really* like, however, is a JFS driver for windows. (IBM JFS, that is)

Robert.

"Its been proven lots of times, heck, people still play QUAKE1 because of the mods!"

I couldn't agree with you more. However it's not just mods that keep people playing Quake I, it's ports. John Carmack unleashed a horde of ports to several of id's best games by releasing the source under GPL, which gives fans a chance to play games like Doom in OpenGL or on a cellphone, or even revamping Quake with today's graphics hardware support like per-pixel lighting and stencil shadows.

I'm currently playing Tenebrae Quake, and it looks amazing on my GeforceFX 5900 Pro.

Personally, I use a FAT32 partition to transfer data from one OS to another I know I'm not the only one.

Guess we need to get the ext2 driver working a little better, though. Just in case.

Check out SpamBayes - Outlook plugin. Bayesian filtering for Outlook 2000/XP/2003 - written in Python...

After trying Blackbox, I was hooked. Then, Fluxbox, a newer & better Blackbox, came along!

Flux kicks ass on tiny laptop screens or dual UXGA flatpanels. :-)

After trying Blackbox, I was hooked. Then, Fluxbox, a newer & better Blackbox, came along!

Flux kicks ass on tiny laptop screens or dual UXGA flatpanels. :-)

You may already have seen this. It works like a charm for me.

hotwayd is a hotmail-to-pop3 gateway that runs through xinetd. I'm actually piping my mail through hotwayd *and* popfile without any problem.

And, much as I'd like the money, I think this advice should be free. :)

Here.

I hear you can get a native, Trolltech-provided Qt 3.2 Windows free edition on the CD-ROM that comes with the upcoming re-edition of the Qt book, too, if you can't want for the above project to reach completion.

Otherwise, a decent alternative is wxWindows (not as clean and elegant as Qt, and thus requires a bit more code for a given task, but still very decent, don't worry).

Thank you.

• "However, the compromised system had both an IDS and a file integrity checker installed"

• "However, the compromised system had both an IDS and a file integrity checker installed"

Lets give the RIAA what they want.

Don't download commercial music that you are not allowed to possess.

Instead, try iRATE and get free, legal mp3s.

You don't have to pirate music, and you can still kick the RIAA where it hurts (mindshare).

Yup on the POP3 thing - check out:

YahooPops

Mr. Postman

Yup on the POP3 thing - check out:

YahooPops

Mr. Postman

And I don't see why it'd be too hard to modify the current bayesian filter that identifies messages matching "spam" and have some parallel ones identifying any old kind of mail.

Fluxbox is a featureful offshoot of Blackbox. I use it on small screens as well as on large screens connected to slow computers. A nice simple design, with just enough information on the taskbar to make everything flow smoothly.

Fluxbox is a featureful offshoot of Blackbox. I use it on small screens as well as on large screens connected to slow computers. A nice simple design, with just enough information on the taskbar to make everything flow smoothly.

Ratpoison

Alternatively you can get wmakerconf to remove the dock, workspace applet, etc. Also would recommend editing ~/GNUstep/Default/WMWindowAttributes to remove titlebars, resizebars, and window borders.

Give fluxbox a shot, it uses almost no space at all except for a little slit. And the app menu appears by right clicking on the desktop.. Although iBooks only have one mouse button don't they.. WELL Then, NEVERMIND..

Perhaps XFce would suit you better. The panel can auto-hide and everything.

Klowner

Not sure if you're requiring icons or don't mind being a console jockey, but give evil windowmanager a try. Guaranteed the only thing on your screen will be the windows themselves.

Project Web Form Flooder may be of some interest to you.

As promised, there's a new tool in town. Project Web Form Flooder is still in beta, but it's functional in flooding spammer's websites with plausible data. Java source code only right now, but I'd imagine the ./ crowd can deal with that.

If we flood spammer's websites with garbage data, maybe, just maybe we'll do a little to remove the profit motive in spamming, and once there's no money in it it'll end.

Isn't it time we stopped crying and started doing something?

I have little patience from people who complaint about stuff that is easily resolved. If you are not motivated about security at work fine but you should have some level of motivation for your personal email and other information. Try password safe it works really well and its free. For those too lazy to find it on their own

Use pwgen. It creates random passwords of arbitrary length that are easy to memorize due to sounding like english, but that are actually total gibberish and so can't be guessed through dictionary attacks. It really works. I haven't managed to forget a pwgen-generated password yet. (And I am notorious for forgetting details) Also, it tends to generate passwords that pass the inane password rules some sysadmins dictate (whereas the password shall have at least one number, whereas it will be at least 8 characters in length, whereas it shall use at least one uppercase letter, ...).

Every machine I own has a unique root password, and I have a shared user password for all machines that are inside my home, and a unique user password for machines that are "out there".

I've even noticed I can not use a password at all for months at a time, and come back to the machine and remember it (because I remember what it sounds like).

For the really adventuresome...
There's pnmstitch (as either part of the netpbm package, or as a standalone utility).

Command line image stitching. Yeah!

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For the really adventuresome...
There's pnmstitch (as either part of the netpbm package, or as a standalone utility).

Command line image stitching. Yeah!

/* ---- */

For the really adventuresome...
There's pnmstitch (as either part of the netpbm package, or as a standalone utility).

Command line image stitching. Yeah!

/* ---- */

Do you know of anything equivalent in quality and/or speed to TMPGEnc? As an alternative, do you know how to get TMPGEnc working under Wine? The last time I tried (maybe a year or so ago), I didn't get very far with it.

Star Control 2 (now GPL) (I always win)
xpuyopuyo (she always wins)
Chu Chu Rocket for dreamcast (anybody's guess)

After reading Philip Greenspun's Dec 1st blog rant, that is pretty much the way I feel about MIT's OpenCourseware. Who could have imagined that the same institution that gave us X, Project Athena, Kerberos, the AI Lab, the Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, and of all people Richard Stallman, would turn their back on all this tradition? Call me naive, but I actually believed that OpenCourseware was built upon open-source philosophy, that MIT had undertaken a plan similar to the Chalk Dust portion of my Open Slate project. How sobering that even at MIT, IT decisions are made the easy way -- read something in a magazine, hear something at a vendorama, buy Microsoft and hire contractors to build it.

Okay, so Philip Greenspun is a Harvard man. Hardly a disinterested party. This may explain the motivation for writing the piece, but I see no reason to discount his facts.

I am sooooo disappointed! Time to reach for a Bud. You know why I drink Bud? Because they still deliver it with those horse-drawn wagons. Sometime you have to brush a little manure off the edge of the can, but hey, that's life!

Visit the Open Slate Project featuring Chalk Dust.

Looking for a decent password?

"apt-get install pwgen" for a program that can produce (among other things) pronouncable passwords.

Or grab some dice and go to: Diceware.

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it fits the bill. Personally I just wish Google would open source what they use for their Catalogs site...but maybe DocMGR or something similar will do the trick...

It's at http://docmgr.sourceforge.net/

Maximus for UNIX.

Hella cool, I say. I found this last night!

This is part of the FAQ

The program uses Linux Userland File System (LUFS) which "moves the filesystem implementation to UNIX userland where the Microsoft Windows filesystem is completely unarmed by Captive jail of chroot(2), setuid(2) and setrlimit(2)."

I hope this answers the question.

JFMILLER

Hmmm... You're right. I missed that part, and I assumed (wrongly) that the existence of TopologiLinux meant that the driver had solid write support.

I doubt they will ever port to intel. But to answer your other question, yes a huge number of gnu/OS apps run under OSX. Checkout this site:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Have you tried this?

The authors claim the new driver works for read/write, and is stable. I don't dual boot myself, so I haven't tested it, but there seems to be a solution that's not a hack.

For Windows NT 4.0
For Windows 95
For Windows NT/2000/XP
For DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, BeOS, MacOS...

...Or am I overlooking something (I'm not a Linux user...yet)?

You got your facts wrong, that's all.

You're overlooking something. Actually, quite a bit....

ext3
Resier/Resier4
JFS
XFS

Gah, there goes one of the USP (Unique Selling Points) of Salvare - still, it's useful (to me at least) to have a small rescue/workstation CD supporting apt-get, removal of CD and a Debian installer.

Note to self: check in to CVS the Debian installer script

I was 1:140/137 (I think 137 .. it's been 4 or 5 years now).

I'm surprised I can still find webpages for Fidonet and Binkley term, but they're there.

I makes me wish Maximus run under Linux. Then I could have it setup so that you could telnet in and register an account, and it'd be like a really cool version of the webforums -- more interactive, pretty, and less garbage. I've never really liked web forums, except for a few (Slashdot, Kuro5hin) which have decent layouts and threading of comments :)

Oh, what's this? Looks like someone did release it... it's Maximus, and Squish message format, and more.

Maybe we should organize a real, online BBS setup? Not the old Fidonet, but something new?

Sounds remarkably like a tiny version of Fidonet. Fidonot had many zones, regions, nodes, and points. It standardized the serial interface via FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serias-Interface-Layer), which many early BBS software used (such as the Maximus package I used), and the mail programs.

Through it, you could have message echoes, file echoes, you could offer files for remote login (I had BBSes from Texas dailing in to my Saskatoon BBS and requesting libraries I'd written, it was cool), and request files from remote BBSes. You could also send them via file echoes, so they'd be scheduled and sent between the nodes when the optimal time to call was (I used BinkleyTerm as my front end, it handled all that).

Towards the end, the technology was really advanced. Maximus version 3 ran on NT, OS/2, and DOS. It had a complete VM and language you compiled to byte code, as well as the MECCA display language. Using it, you'd make MECCA files that were like templates. It could insert anything, and would be tranlated on the fly to ASCII, ANSI, AVATAR, or (thanks to v3) RIP (remote image protocol) -- which was a very fast remote EGA-like display. Mecca itself was internally similar to Avatar.

The VM language (similar to Pascal and Basic) allowed you to automate it further. Naturally, none of the local teenaged sysops who barely understood computers used Maximus; they were all busy using Renegade with some ansi pack to be leet. I "tricked out" my BBS by having it send long and pretty ansis at the users as much as possible, since this noticably increased my callbacks. People always seemed surprised at what I could do with Maximus ;)

Anyways, that's my trip down memory lane for the day.

I forgot to mention Gphoto which runs on many flavors of Unix.

It'd only really be practical if you put together a massive collection of .torrents (like the suprnova database) in a .zip file and then used BT to download that.

Good explanation, but it still wouldn't work. (This is an interesting problem that you'll run into in a lot of areas of computer science, though I don't know whether it has a name.) Basically, each .torrent points to a file. The contents of that file may not be changed without invalidating the .torrent link. Thus, the contents of the file must be known at the time of propagating the .torrent. Thus, the file may only reference older .torrents -- that is, .torrents that were already in existence at the time the file was created. So if the only reference someone has to obtain BitTorrent information is a .torrent file, they may only ever reach .torrents created at or before the creation time of that .torrent.

Your solution would reduce load over the existing system, but from the fact that the parent mentioned chicken/egg, I suspect that they want to use BitTorrent as a complete solution.

There are systems that allow providing forward references -- allowing one to reach newer files. These systems require the use of encryption, not just hashing, however. kast and freenet both use public key cryptography to provide exactly this service.