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Bootstrap is the interesting issue.

It is indeed. The bittorrent DHT solution is based on Kademlia (or the BEP for Bittorrent specifically). If you google a bit you'll find a few papers and some interesting things, including attack vectors. I'm implementing a version of Kademlia at the moment to have nodes in a network find other nodes for accepting work in a distributed environment, and bootstrapping the thing is "the weakest link". You could set up multiple bootstrapping nodes, but suppose that a network failure takes out your access to the bootstrapping nodes you're basically humped when you want to join the network.

Sure, once a node is online and given enough other nodes stay online enough of the time, it would be possible to have a persistent network.

What you're referring to is known as "churn" and provided the network is large enough it becomes less of an issue. There's actually an interesting paper on churn in Kademlia, but I'm sorry to say I can't seem to find it anymore. As it turns out, Kademlia is quite resistant to churn provided there are enough nodes in the network. Not really surprising, but it's a nice read if you want to know how resilient the network is without having to test it yourself.

I suppose you could do something like search google for random torrents, join in, test the folks you connect to for being part of the decentralised network, grab network info from there etc. It still uses google as a central reference point but it would be more robust than having some sort of hard-coded 'peer tracker' server, or using any sort of brute-force port scan of the internet.

My current solution involves trying multicast and if that fails a broadcast to find other nodes if the bootstrap servers are down. This usually allows you to find other nodes on the LAN (depending on the network configuration) and once you have a single node in the network you can start doing lookups. Few admins like the idea of you "scanning" the network to find other nodes, understandably. Of course, this method of discovering nodes has disadvantages as well, for instance you could have a segment blissfully unaware of another segment in the network until the bootstrap servers come back online.

However for typical bittorrent use I doubt that this particular strategy will work. The work I'm doing has little to do with bittorrent, or how P2P is traditionally seen by the bulk of its users. I doubt that the implementation I'm working on is directly usable for another problem than the one I'm working on.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

Compile it yourself.

For those who haven't seen what the AC parent is talking about, there's a screenshot here, with a reasonably innocuous URL that shouldn't get you in too much trouble with your employer's IT department...

Provided you don't work for the US Government, Amazon, mastercard, Visa, or paypal... or any other place that has a way to decode sourceforge project IDs .AND. a proscription against tools like LOIC.

And, it's about what you'd expect from a bunch of /b/tards.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hivemindloic/files/Source/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

I only wish they didn't use something retarded like .NET. Apparently it's possible to get this to work in Mono, but it's a complete PITA.

Because their own games won't run without a jailbreak, and the console makers have managed to successfully sue sources of jailbreak tools out of existence.

Why is this a troll? If I want to create a Nintendo DS game right now, I can either:

a) Grab a DS, a flash loader, devkitPro / libnds, and code something up on my own time, for free.
b) Be a well-known game developer already that Nintendo approves of, sign an NDA with them, and pay Nintendo upwards of $50,000 for an official devkit.

If Nintendo (and other console manufacturers) were more open with development, they might not be seeing their platforms cracked so fully.

"Kid, you have no idea what you're talking about." - by metrix007 (200091) on Monday December 06, @07:03AM (#34458496)

OK/again: Show us all where I have "no idea what I am talking about" then, & on any of the 15 or more points I put up on HOSTS files then.

Strange how you avoid doing that LMAO! That's all I have asked for here... you run away from it, each time too! Funny that (not), so, please, do "go for it", because I will make you eat your words (easily).

(I.E./E.G.-> I've had tons of trolls like you try it, and they fail on every "so-called point" they've stated, & for years now - that's because I've thought this out, too bad my naysayer trolls like you haven't (look at your b.s. response here, lol, after all. No specifics @ all from you...)).

Now, as to my "not knowing what I am talking about" as you stated above? The day you've done more, earlier, and in equally respected publications in the art & sciences of computing that I have (while you were still in diapers I also wager strongly):

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

Lastly, lately (this year)?

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

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Once more - The day you can show more & superior accomplishments in computing than I have? THAT is the day you can talk like that to myself. Show us you have, ok?

I also possess 2 degrees related to and directly in the Computer Sciences (1 from a VERY respected college in the Northeast USA where the best schools are no less), both in MIS & CSC... do you? I doubt, just based on your trolling and avoiding disproving my points on HOSTS files.

(Why do I get the feeling that "Mr. Troll" here in metrix007 will avoid that too, just like he is avoiding telling us where my points on HOSTS files here are "wron

http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change. ... So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process."

As far as the shell access thing goes, I think there are two valid choices:

1. Use chrootssh along with some security settings in ssh that limit the user to only using the rsync command. There used to be a really good tutorial on doing that but I can't find it at the moment. Try this one for now or google around. There may be some other methods of doing this (I'm thinking Apparmor or SElinix).

2. Use a virtual machine as the host. Take your pick, VMware, Xen, UML, VirtualBox, whatever. Then lock down the VM like crazy as you see fit since it only has to serve this one purpose.

Probably best would be to use a virtual machine running the chrootssh stuff with Apparmor or SElinux limiting the filesystem access. The best of all for the hyperparanoid.

Already similar things out there but with robots, not pacman. Here's one of the more popular Java/.NET versions:

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

This wasn't the first. There are a whole stack of them for the C language.

NASA will also announce that space exploration will terminate due to the discovery of a planetary shield erected around Earth.

For more information, please go here.

As long as something like ICANN its needed... the system its broken

Something like Netsukuku its needed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku

Osiris forums and Retroshare IM are only partial solutions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_(Serverless_Portal_System)
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/index.html

So you want Vigor?

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

Are you talking about modifying existing pdf files, or simply creating new ones?

OpenOffice/LibreOffice has a PDF Import extension which does a pretty good job of editing, i also found via a very quick google search a pdfedit program on sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

As for creating pdf files, there are countless programs for doing that, openoffice, pdflatex, virtually anything that can print to postscript combined with ps2pdf etc etc etc.

Sure, HTML is preferable to PDF for web content, but PDF is a pretty good format when used appropriately.

TL:DR metrix007 for Off topic trolling.

"It must be nice to have that much free time." - by metrix007 (200091) on Monday November 29, @02:08PM (#34377556)

I post what works, point-blank man. As to free time? I have as much as the next guy does (and my home, car, & all else is FULLY paid up/I am the "clear-title" owner also, so, I am fortunate enough to not have to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet is all - I wonder, can YOU say the same?).

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"I just don't get what APK's deal is." - by metrix007 (200091) on Monday November 29, @02:08PM (#34377556)

We know what yours is, because you don't even SAY what you feel it is I am "doing wrong", first of all.

Secondly? Well, you can read my 1st post, and get an idea (as far as how I use HOSTS files), provided you can read (but it's pretty clear you are just trolling).

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"He is clearly ignorant/misinformed" - by metrix007 (200091) on Monday November 29, @02:08PM (#34377556)

Well, to that? I can only say, the day you've done more & better (& earlier) than I have in the field of computing:

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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

Lastly, lately (this year)?

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

This may have been a Slowloris DoS attack by some patriotic 2600 guy, not necessarily a massive coordinated multinational assault. That perl script is effective on threading web servers including Apache. I just tested it out, took down my badass 100mbps server (just the web server stalling up until the script is aborted) with a dinky server on a DSL line just by opening up a bunch of TCP sockets really really slowly, using less than 20KB/s. That's Tor friendly.

Then I installed mod_qos, tried to attack myself again, no slowdown, problem solved.

If this attack gets the right amount of attention it could turn a lot of people on (4channers mainly who are yapping up Slowlaris as their replacement for LOIC) to DoSing with this software. So for those of you using Apache, you may want to fire up mod_qos (Apache2 instructions). Actually you may want it regardless for general performance purposes.

Umm... Qtjambi (QT's Java bindings) has been available for ages, although recently Nokia transferred the ownership to community, but from the looks of it, the community is very active and the releases are on track.

Good post, just wanted to add that there are bindings for Java available, see here

there are 'higher-level' GUIs written in opengl too - Plib's PUI for example or other 'game' programming environments. Its easy to reuse their code for LoB GUIS, and you can add some great effects added in there when needed too :)

Examples for ioquake3
Examples for XreaL
Examples for Cube 2
Examples for Irrlicht
Examples for Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine
Examples for Crystal Space
Examples for Blender Game Engine
Examples for Panda3D

It's quite obvious that all of these engines are much more advanced than Darkplaces. Darkplaces doesn't even do basic stuff like HDR lighting, DOF or parallax mapping. You could reproduce most effects in Darkplaces with shaders in ioquake3, which is basically just a cleaned up id Tech 3 engine. Then there is the issue of poor performance in Darkplaces...

Examples for ioquake3
Examples for XreaL
Examples for Cube 2
Examples for Irrlicht
Examples for Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine
Examples for Crystal Space
Examples for Blender Game Engine
Examples for Panda3D

It's quite obvious that all of these engines are much more advanced than Darkplaces. Darkplaces doesn't even do basic stuff like HDR lighting, DOF or parallax mapping. You could reproduce most effects in Darkplaces with shaders in ioquake3, which is basically just a cleaned up id Tech 3 engine. Then there is the issue of poor performance in Darkplaces...

Enterprise Architect is very nice, since you can do forward and reverse software engineering with it.

However, if you do not have the budget allocated for it, a good compromise is StarUML,
which became very nice and usable lately and has the same "feeling" and menu-driven approach
like the old Rational Rose and Enterprise Architect:

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/staruml/files/staruml/5.0/staruml-5.0-with-cm.exe/download

As for Rational Rose, the first original version was very good with some known quirks until it
became IBM Rational Rose and was converted into a "super Eclipse" plug-in.

So, if you enjoyed drawing UML diagrams in the old Rational Rose,
then Enterprise Architect and StarUML are the tools that you are looking for.

And if you do not like to draw with a mouse then Graphviz Dot and a good text editor is for you:
http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php

For tracking issues / documents and schedule,
I can recommend either BugZilla, Mantis or BaseCamp:

http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

http://www.mantisbt.org/

http://basecamphq.com/

As for the actual writing part, your company should already have a good set of Word Templates,
to document the actual Sofware Requirement and Specification (SRS), Sofware Design Document (SDD),
Change Request Document (CRD).

Once, you got those set up, then we mostly use MantisBT or BaseCamp to share, comment and track them.

As for producing code documentation, the choice are: Doxygen, JavaDoc, NDoc, JsDoc:

http://www.doxygen.org/

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index-jsp-135444.html

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/

Enterprise Architect is very nice, since you can do forward and reverse software engineering with it.

However, if you do not have the budget allocated for it, a good compromise is StarUML,
which became very nice and usable lately and has the same "feeling" and menu-driven approach
like the old Rational Rose and Enterprise Architect:

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/staruml/files/staruml/5.0/staruml-5.0-with-cm.exe/download

As for Rational Rose, the first original version was very good with some known quirks until it
became IBM Rational Rose and was converted into a "super Eclipse" plug-in.

So, if you enjoyed drawing UML diagrams in the old Rational Rose,
then Enterprise Architect and StarUML are the tools that you are looking for.

And if you do not like to draw with a mouse then Graphviz Dot and a good text editor is for you:
http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php

For tracking issues / documents and schedule,
I can recommend either BugZilla, Mantis or BaseCamp:

http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

http://www.mantisbt.org/

http://basecamphq.com/

As for the actual writing part, your company should already have a good set of Word Templates,
to document the actual Sofware Requirement and Specification (SRS), Sofware Design Document (SDD),
Change Request Document (CRD).

Once, you got those set up, then we mostly use MantisBT or BaseCamp to share, comment and track them.

As for producing code documentation, the choice are: Doxygen, JavaDoc, NDoc, JsDoc:

http://www.doxygen.org/

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index-jsp-135444.html

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/

Enterprise Architect is very nice, since you can do forward and reverse software engineering with it.

However, if you do not have the budget allocated for it, a good compromise is StarUML,
which became very nice and usable lately and has the same "feeling" and menu-driven approach
like the old Rational Rose and Enterprise Architect:

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/staruml/files/staruml/5.0/staruml-5.0-with-cm.exe/download

As for Rational Rose, the first original version was very good with some known quirks until it
became IBM Rational Rose and was converted into a "super Eclipse" plug-in.

So, if you enjoyed drawing UML diagrams in the old Rational Rose,
then Enterprise Architect and StarUML are the tools that you are looking for.

And if you do not like to draw with a mouse then Graphviz Dot and a good text editor is for you:
http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php

For tracking issues / documents and schedule,
I can recommend either BugZilla, Mantis or BaseCamp:

http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

http://www.mantisbt.org/

http://basecamphq.com/

As for the actual writing part, your company should already have a good set of Word Templates,
to document the actual Sofware Requirement and Specification (SRS), Sofware Design Document (SDD),
Change Request Document (CRD).

Once, you got those set up, then we mostly use MantisBT or BaseCamp to share, comment and track them.

As for producing code documentation, the choice are: Doxygen, JavaDoc, NDoc, JsDoc:

http://www.doxygen.org/

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index-jsp-135444.html

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1884922&cid=34357774 Now, there you go, once more, for your reference again... take a good read, & "drink it in, & digest it", ok?

(You only did that to yourself, & the /. community here modded you right into the dirt where you belong... LMAO!)

Additionally? Well, judging by your "swift reaction" to what I wrote you in that URL above?? Ah, nothing like striking a nerve in a troll who got himself "modded down" as flamebait as you did for being nothing more than a troll!

Oh, yea, before I forget? You also said this, directed MY way:

"I hope CA continues raping your corpse." - by wampus (1932) on Saturday November 27, @09:22AM (#34357612)

CA's only "raping themselves" -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml and there's the proof (in CA being caught doing accounting scandals and getting busted for it)... what goes around, comes around, eh? LMAO!

However, since you apparently like being modded down (lol) & roasting yourself into charcoal?

Well... how you spend YOUR time is up to you I suppose (lmao), but, I'll continue doing things like this list shows below, instead (try it yourself sometime, unless you like continuing being a troll and being modded down (lol) for it, as well as your evidencing yourself as a "ne'er-do-well"):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

Lastly, lately (this year)?

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

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What do I have to sa

When I read the headline I thought "why would anyone care?" There are plenty of good, free engines out there already.

ioquake3
XreaL
Cube 2
Irrlicht
OGRE
Crystal Space
Blender
Panda3D

And if John Carmack doesn't go back on his word, id Tech 4 will soon be free.

Not that it was really ever all that difficult to write a DBase III program to dump the entire database comma separated.

It wasn't.

gee I thought it was the Network Simulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/files/allinone/ns-allinone-2.34/ ns-3 is still in development: http://www.nsnam.org/

Are you confusing Audio Data Compression with Dynamic Range Compression? They're completely different things. Also, turning things up create a fake belief that they sound better, as an aside.

Sometime, if you ever have the time, you should try taking a FLAC file, compressing a copy to MP3, AAC, or any other codec you like, inverting the phase in something like Audacity and play it against the original. You'll hear all the things that you're missing in the MP3.

I am going to do my shameless plug and advice my own project:
http://dungeonhack.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
The idea is to make a first person rpg and see how much size and content we can do with the procudal generation alone. Aka, the spirit of daggerfall.
The problem is that we are still in early early alpha stage: Engine is being rewritten because we have legacy from 2002! Due the lack of coders we are at 2-3 people doing the rewrite, which means it is slow. Since there is no good way of importing yet, nor the shaders implented, it will still take time before models are made.
The worst part is that the procudal is still in the early early stage of being planned, we want to do a xmas demo which involves just generating a fuckhuge procudal forest where spiders spawn, with a inn giving out a fetchquest in the middle of it.
I think it will be something to look at in half a year towards 2 years, if we ever get somewhere. Then we might have gotten far enough for a chance at building a community capable of making the game.

A remake of Quake with all the same levels, monsters and gameplay, but with just the rendering quality updated, would be my perfect game.

Tenebrae
Darkplaces

How disappointing.

The game was waaaay ahead of its time with a large variety of weapons, alternate ammo and power modes, gobs of explosives and grenades and landmines, upgrades for the player (jumpjet boots, powered skates, night/infrared vision, a camera for the back of your freaking head!), stat boosting drugs with side effects, objectives/tasks, cyberspace in that laughable 1990's 3d style... Oh, it's glorious. AND IT WAS RELEASED IN 1994!

I suppose I'll just have to keep hoping to interest in remaking the engine or remaking the game using the System Shock 2 engine rekindles.

At least Thief got a decent remake of sorts on Doom 3 engine. http://www.thedarkmod.com/

Surprised nobody has suggested denyhosts yet. I used to get my port 22 knocked on at an average of once per second, for months. For convenience I didn't feel like changing my ssh port, and it didn't worry me much because it is my personal machine with root login turned off, and with good passwords on all other login accounts. But as someone else mentioned, it filled my logs and made it hard to notice the more important things... After installing denyhosts, the ssh dictionary attacks were blocked almost immediately and almost entirely.

Then you sir write crappy code. Please don't blame a language for not being portable, if you insist on using proprietary extensions.

Please define "never true" with regards to Squirrel:
http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

Try reading the sourceforge page instead. http://sqlninja.sourceforge.net/sqlninja-howto.html#s1. It's not a pen testing tool. It's an exploit tool.

http://nmap.org/ this says in the introduction:

"map ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing."

From reading the minutes:

"Argument for SQLninja to be added to Fedora is that it is a 'penetration testing tool.' "

Try reading the sourceforge page instead. http://sqlninja.sourceforge.net/sqlninja-howto.html#s1. It's not a pen testing tool. It's an exploit tool.

My gut is that there is something fundamental we aren't getting. Like we are missing some basic software pack. It' works, but when ever we try to add models to it, specifically the tools need to create trains and rails, it never loads them.

A lot of stuff that people use to build things in garry's mod doesn't come with the game.
There are some addons that are so widely used that they're practically required. At a minimum I would recommend "PHX Model Pack 3" and "Wire Mod".

They can be downloaded and updated via SVN:
https://phoenix-storms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phoenix-storms
https://wiremod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wiremod/trunk/wire/

Adding a folder in gmod's "addons" folder and putting the files in it is sufficient for installing an addon.

Additionally, content from other source games such as Half-Life 2, TF2, and Counterstrike is also widely used. Installing those may help with missing models/textures.

My gut is that there is something fundamental we aren't getting. Like we are missing some basic software pack. It' works, but when ever we try to add models to it, specifically the tools need to create trains and rails, it never loads them.

A lot of stuff that people use to build things in garry's mod doesn't come with the game.
There are some addons that are so widely used that they're practically required. At a minimum I would recommend "PHX Model Pack 3" and "Wire Mod".

They can be downloaded and updated via SVN:
https://phoenix-storms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phoenix-storms
https://wiremod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wiremod/trunk/wire/

Adding a folder in gmod's "addons" folder and putting the files in it is sufficient for installing an addon.

Additionally, content from other source games such as Half-Life 2, TF2, and Counterstrike is also widely used. Installing those may help with missing models/textures.

You can even do it with a Gtk app.

I used to hope for something like that myself when I was a teenager, I considered trying to write a racing sim a few times, at least in 2D if not 3D, but that idea ended up falling by the wayside.

Here's a list of good physics engine type tutorials including many links to Brian Beckman's tutorials, they're great if you want to learn more about car handling or simulation.

If you wanted to see some real code that implements realistic car physics then have a look at TORCS :)

A cross-browser, multi-platform, open source tool is BleachBit to delete evecookies, but for Firefox, this looks like

don't know about that one

The Allegro library is similar to SDL but comes with a lot more convenience functions.

or even if it's one of the supported packages.

liballegro4.2 is in universe, unlike libsdl1.2debian which is in main. I've been spending weeks trying to learn SDL and write counterparts to fill some of the API gaps *cough* no bitmap font support *cough* no pitch control on SDL_mixer *cough* so that I can port some of my projects from Allegro to SDL.

But I do know applications can still opt to use Alsa directly

Allegro uses ALSA, but PA has virtualized ALSA and doesn't support the sample format that Allegro is trying to use. An app compiled for Allegro for Windows works in Wine with sound (albeit choppily), but sound fails to initialize in Linux.

Making Linux competitive with Windows? I thought that's what FVWM-95 was for! :^)

That's funny, I'm pretty sure the HP drivers that came with my system are much smaller than that. Let me have a look....

....ah, yes: 8.7MB

$ yum info hplip
...
Name : hplip
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.10.6
Release : 1.fc13
Size : 8.7 M
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
URL : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
License : GPLv2+ and MIT
Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides : drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.

Oh, do you have to go to a manufacturer's website to download your printer driver along with whatever crapware they stuff into it? How antiquated...

Linux is Unix, and X is a part of any proper Unix.

INVALID

I use Linux exclusively. At work, where I'm required to use Windows, so I run several Linux virtual machines. My kids run Linux. My servers run Linux. 90% of my Linux machines do not have X or any other windowing system. In my previous job, 100% of all Linux systems (several thousand) had no X server, hell, 99.99% of them were headless.

Linux is not Unix, it's LIKE Unix. X is not Linux - X runs in many environments - including OSX and Windows

ARP poisoning is pretty easy to protect against.

Really, a service like FaceBook I wouldn't expect to be very secure. You're already sharing your information with the rest of the world, someone else accessing your account is simply going to cause you some annoyance. Not that big a deal. Amazon I would expect to secure their communications though, so it's disturbing that they don't.

There are some esoteric non-English based programming languages out there. Just imagine the fun porting this and similar OSS programs!

People know how to do better: http://www.educationrevolution.org/
We don't for all sorts fo reasons related to social power (see John Taylor Gatto).

See also my essay on learning "on demand" instead of learning "just in case":
    "Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools"
    http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

Education can have several goals in this descending order:
* To help a person grow as a person
* To help a person be a good citizen
* To shape a person into someone elses' vision of a good consumer and good worker and, for a few, a good obedient professional with the "right" politics

Those three aspects of "education" are regularly confused, and usually most of formal schooling (especially when test-driven) has to do with the last of the three which is often at odds with the first two.

See also for how the third aspect goes on into grad school:
    http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

http://monodevelop.com/ http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ http://csharp-studio.sourceforge.net/ http://xacc.wordpress.com/ That would be four other c# IDE's three of which are multi-platform.

Augh, messed up the link to Skim.