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Besides that, how about spamming such a link in "Storm worm" type emails? Wouldn't that be fun? Something like: Thousands killed in Storm Kyrill

ROTFL

The following is the honeypot link. I wonder -- if everybody on slashdot follows this, will they arrest us all?

http://uploader.sytes.net/12/05/4yo_suck.rar.html

And then, what would they charge us with? Perhaps, imitating criminal URL clicking?

This is one of the reasons open standards are important. Not that open formats last forever, but at least they are documented, which means there's some hope of deciphering them after the software that does so is no longer maintained. Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of how to make the actual data survive...hard disks and tapes demagnetize, optical disks become translucent or otherwise unreadable, etc.

I had posted this a while back on my blog about similar issues: http://pdavid.sytes.net/blog/archives/36/

for whatever the banks do, i'm sure it's the best
coz i would do so if there's millions counting on it

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I made this for work, but it's useful all over the place.

The computer game prepares for version 0.2.8, featuring support for non-square arenas.

http://visualconcepts.sytes.net/

Is this for newbies?

http://savescooter.sytes.net/

This is a great law for the time period, but soon, the law will be broken. http://savescooter.sytes.net/

Just checked and I have 2GB, yay http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

networks I can see

That "SMC" network covers the entire building due to multiple people using SMC routers with the default.

Yay, bittorrent is here to stay!

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Who doesn't violate the GPL anymore?

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Since I got my first digital camera two years ago (which was on my phone) I've taken over 1200 photos (do the math!) for almost the same reason. To me, life is about living (cliched, sorry!). But human memory being what it is, when we forget what we've lived, what proof do we have that we lived it - it would be like we never did these things at all. Even the monotonous day-to-day stuff should be remembered because, as you say, it makes up 95% of our life.

Photographs and cameras can't change that of course, but they can help - just like keeping a diary, even if it's just a personal log of what you did that day. So if something happens - no matter how small - I always try and snap it so I can remember it later. And of course, sharing it with friends is a good plan - especially if half your friends live a world away (I'm a TCK, grew up abroad), and the other half were there anyway and want to download the images and show them to their friends...

But don't trust these (very valuable, IMO) fragements of your life to an anonymous web service! In 20 years, flikr could be bust, absorbed by some other company (and their free service discontinued, your photos deleted). I'd bet money they wont be around to show your great-grand-children. Add to that the time it take to upload each and every one of your photos... I don't see the point, to be honest! I run my own Apache webserver on Fedora, a custom rig that also routes traffic for my network. I've even written a PhP script that generates a gallery-listing of all images in a folder, and uses GD to create thumbnails. Comments can be submitted as well, and as the filesystem is the database, adding a new image is as easy as copying it into a directory (or creating a new directory (album) to hold it in!) Anyway, my point is that I trust online services like Xanga (blog), Geocities (Website), Flikr (photo) about as far as I can throw them. And I know that no matter weather I be running Windows Server, FreeBSD, for Fedora in 50 years time, I'd far rather be responsible for me own treasures than someone I've never even met!

My point is, yes, I completely agree with you, but dont trust some free webservice!

Daniel
Somerset, UK
DJCF.Sytes.Net, DJCF.Sytes.Net/gallery

Since I got my first digital camera two years ago (which was on my phone) I've taken over 1200 photos (do the math!) for almost the same reason. To me, life is about living (cliched, sorry!). But human memory being what it is, when we forget what we've lived, what proof do we have that we lived it - it would be like we never did these things at all. Even the monotonous day-to-day stuff should be remembered because, as you say, it makes up 95% of our life.

Photographs and cameras can't change that of course, but they can help - just like keeping a diary, even if it's just a personal log of what you did that day. So if something happens - no matter how small - I always try and snap it so I can remember it later. And of course, sharing it with friends is a good plan - especially if half your friends live a world away (I'm a TCK, grew up abroad), and the other half were there anyway and want to download the images and show them to their friends...

But don't trust these (very valuable, IMO) fragements of your life to an anonymous web service! In 20 years, flikr could be bust, absorbed by some other company (and their free service discontinued, your photos deleted). I'd bet money they wont be around to show your great-grand-children. Add to that the time it take to upload each and every one of your photos... I don't see the point, to be honest! I run my own Apache webserver on Fedora, a custom rig that also routes traffic for my network. I've even written a PhP script that generates a gallery-listing of all images in a folder, and uses GD to create thumbnails. Comments can be submitted as well, and as the filesystem is the database, adding a new image is as easy as copying it into a directory (or creating a new directory (album) to hold it in!) Anyway, my point is that I trust online services like Xanga (blog), Geocities (Website), Flikr (photo) about as far as I can throw them. And I know that no matter weather I be running Windows Server, FreeBSD, for Fedora in 50 years time, I'd far rather be responsible for me own treasures than someone I've never even met!

My point is, yes, I completely agree with you, but dont trust some free webservice!

Daniel
Somerset, UK
DJCF.Sytes.Net, DJCF.Sytes.Net/gallery

i'd say it'd be foolish just for that fact alone, but stating that both firefox & mozilla both got their core from the gecko browsing engine, this point really stands mute --- http://spinhex.sytes.net/

Firefox will come through

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Thats the problem with blogging, you can be read from around the world, without even knowing that person...

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I wouldnt trade my mouse for the world

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Sooner or later, we can just walk around with our laptops with internet. Anywhere we want... Just think

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HP makes crap... I expected this. Leaders stink, computers stink... it all stinks

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ITS MICROSOFT

Microsoft must have done this

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i hate the FCC, just let me be me... I forgot the rest of the words --- http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

More power to linux

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More power to Apple! --- http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

Hacking is ok, as long as you dont change anything :) ----- http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

It's cool and all, but its just not a Mac -------- http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

Spam is bad and the most legal of legal actions should be taken against it. The Virginiains will learn though, that spam is very bad. ---- http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

First of all: this game needs a broadband connection even though some play it over dial-up.

I recommend ArmagetronAdvanced -- "Another version of the simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron"
But note it has a lot more depth to it than appears on first sight, you do not only fight the other players but lag itself (how fitting isn't that for a game based on Tron?). It's not to everyones taste but if you get hooked... well I could only say welcome :)

This is a multiplayer somewhat tactical action/racing game (actually it's not only multiplayer, one can play singleplayer as well and modifying the AI of the bots is easy). It is open source (GPL), mature but in active developement/embellishment (recently the creator: Manuel Moos aka Z-man, joined the ArmagetronAD team after a break), and has a good (and more varied than average I would guess) community. The game is available for both windows, anything linux, freebsd, and osx. The different themes/models&skins are also useable on all the different operating systems afaik.

A while ago we had a great player in our community called Majination who was paralysed from the neck down like you. He played with a mouthstick and was damned impressive (it can be a hard game). He hasn't been around lately but many people drop off for some time to rescue their education/job/relationship, then again some don't *big grin*

I don't know the exact setups he used to play. The play itself consists mostly of turning left or right (timing & grinding is crucial), there are other controls in addition (especially glancing can be useful but sound gives some of the same info) but they aren't neccessarily needed (Majination also used the chat available within the game).

Links:
Original Armagetron (defunct but with historical info & links):
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge ArmagetronAD project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/
Main page and forum (both social and development):
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1360

There are plenty of good quality servers in both europe and america (lag can be an issue in the game but over time you learn to "know" the lag, compensate for it and use it to your advantage).

Also note that the gameplay is very varied depending on a lot of different server settings, most noteably speed, grid size, rubber, trail behaviour, and trail lenght. So if you don't like one style of play try another server with another style. Some servers also force mode of viewpoint or other camera settings.

Btw I recommend this game to absolutely everybody: it's a hidden gem of an open source game imho and it will just continue to get better and better in true OS style.

http://ktd.sytes.net/archives/2004/11/19/fun-with- rss-and-halo2/

For the record, the sig in question is "Ask me for a Gmail invite.".

"Time to update your signature =) We've all gone through the hype Google managed to pump during their IPO phase by releasing an ALPHA version of GMail, and never doing a full release (their PR claim it's beta quality but i beg to differ). Especially now that Yahoo Mail has a search very similar in power to that of GMail"

The Gmail interface still is pretty far ahead of the current Yahoo! one. It remains the best webmail service IMHO.

"I see few reasons to desire a GMail invite."

So... that would be why you didn't ask me for one? I'm a bit lost as to why you felt the need to elaborate further on the matter.

Sega released a beautiful football game in all respects. Game play, intelligent AI, and graphics. Unlike Madden, it is fun to play for real football fan (not just a video game fan). EA, I guess, couldn't phathom actually scrapping the cruft-filled Madden franchise, and rebuilding a better football game from the ground up. No... They let their lawyers work out a way to keep themseleves in the black.

EA is a bunch of Bastards!

I created a page to parse the XML for my stats on my site with a little help from my friend Kick the Donkey. The stats, for some reason, come oldest first, so we had to switch it to be reversed, showing the most recent game at the top. It's a lot cooler than having to check Bungie.net all the time, and has links that will take me straight to each specific game. Also, and more importantly, I can't check Bungie.net from work, where most of the guys I play with are, so this helps a lot with bragging-in-your-face rights the next day. All in all, pretty cool, and you can check it out at my site, here. Strange the number of games they picked to list in the XML file though. Not 30, not 35, but 34. Huh?

1. Document Management
   Checking documents in/out, versioning, etc
2. Portal Management
   Slash, Nukes, etc.
3. Web based Content Management Wikis, Blogs, etc.

• TikiWiki
• Drupal
• CMS Made Simple
• Jaws
• Wordpress
• MediaWiki

Brillant!

You're 100% right. Hotmail pages contain a lot of content that doesn't just take a long time to transfer, it takes a long time to render and eats a lot of CPU. Fine on a P4 sitting on a cable modem, but you can't assume that. Gmail requires a newer browser, which is a software upgrade.

Also, the hotmail interface is stupid. It's like using a plastic spork. The spam filtering sucks. My hotmail account is now used only when I need to sign up for something. I log in, clear out all the junk (it fills up in about a day), get the sign up message, and then leave it again.

Gmail is better in just about every way. The only thing I'd want is more encryption.

I have 6 invites. Contact me.

You're absolutely right; Man and Superman rocked. I havn't actually read it, but I was lucky enough to see it performed by a rather good acting company in Bristol recently. Smashing reviews from The Guardian, et al. And it was so funny...

Here's what I thought of it.

Parent is correct - broaden your horizons! Go see a play!

That's why you use a good password..

I wrote this for my own use (I might be logging the results, and it doesn't use SSL, so don't use it yourself), but IMO an 8-character password from there will be good enough if your shadow file (or equivilant) isn't publically accessible. What system doesn't restrict your attempt rate anyway?

(if only so I can justify unleashing wget)

http://homestar.sytes.net/airpwn/

Parent deserves the karma, so don't mod me up until he gets to 5. :)

i've been to duke university (dropped out cause of finaincial aid trouble) what crazy junk is this

Website :: binary revolution

Done, except for the holes - buggy

Good points, but:

a) If your keys are stolen you can just update your DNS info with new keys, it'll only take a few days to propagate, and DNS security is reasonable to strong.

b) If a particular ISP is misbehaving, you can blacklist them, or filter them more agressively by other means. Once you know for sure who everyone is, blacklisting becomes much easier and much less damaging.

c) Cryptographic signing is well understood, large key sizes are practical, hardware acceleration is cheap, and signing/verifying a message is easier than running spamassasin on it.

d) DNS based authentication is the one thing I've heard that I can't reply to with this.

When it can fold this , I'll be impressed!

Third largest supercomputer is NOT at Weta Digital

The real shame with the clip-show is that Andromeda's first one was so brilliantly conceived and executed that it's been used as an example of the best you can hope for in a clip show.

The reason of course, is that the writers of these codebases tend to be college kids who do it as a hobby, and don't have the money to pursue legal action. The aforementioned Medievia is actually a huge racket, and according to some estimates they've made >$250K over the years by selling items to addicted players. See his link for more information, as well as this one.

I wonder if you're aware that medievia is based on stolen code, and that its owner has no right to sell items for money, which is a violation of the DIKU license. They used to mention the DIKU codebase upon which the mud is based in the game, but removed the credits when all of this came to light. I have no objection to someone asking for voluntary contributions sufficient to keep the game running (rather than selling powerful items under the guise of "donations"), but this guy makes a large profit from his business, and is a quite hypocritical about it too. Read this for more info.

A few screenshots up at this site show the game in action - nothing major though.

A few nice servers running, one with 5 players right now. Looks like a nice game.