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http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/

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Dr. Paul,

Thank you for participating here at Slashdot. This site I have affectionately called the "center of my world" for many years. I should note to you that I would die to protect you Sir in order to bring back a sound monetary system to our nation.

"Intellectual Property" is a term used these days to encapsulate ideas of copyright, patent protection, a hint of trademark. But this term is a misnomer. As we all recognize some legitimacy to each of the three, we cannot condone the banner "Intellectual Property".

Software is a special case concerning Patents. Europe doesn't even have patents on software. Software is a mathematical function which exists in nature. As such it must not be given special protection.

The area of software should receive great and special attention with an emphasis on preserving the freedoms to create and share. Much has changed in the last two decades. No longer does the US Government need to encourage nor protect innovation in the realm of software. Authors are freely collaborating with any and all who would care to participate for the benefit of self and others. Users can no longer trust software which they cannot trust how it was written.

Patents in software and in communications are hampering growth in software. Only very large corporations can sustain these insane litigation awards for patent infringement. Small, innovative companies are freightened to try bringing things to market for fear of being sued.

You understand the "Inflation Tax" better than 99.9% of the population. Let me introduce you to another tax called the "Patent Tax". Some have estimated that $20 of each copy of Microsoft Windows goes towards paying legal fees and licensing of patents. Why should schools have to pay for copyright when copies for educational purposes are supposed to be free?

Free Software authors have developed systems to be freely used by the public and now an enemy rears it's ugly head saying "That software infringes on hundreds of our patents". I'm sorry we are writing code from scratch and we imitate best practices within the industry to serve the public good. If Microsoft had their way they'd be enslaving every Linux user claiming that they've used software that doesn't pay for licensing fees.

I could go on and on about this. When elected, please pay a great deal of attention to the Electronic Freedom Foundation ( eff.org ).

Encryption.
Please before you are elected President of these United States of America, generate a PGP (GnuPG is better) key. This way we can determine whether writings from you are truely from you as others can determine that this message is also mathematically authentic.

Economy:
Thanks for suggesting the book "The Creature from Jekyll Island". I read 120 pages of it so far.

I lost the silver Ron Paul coin that you signed :(

Yours Truely,
Joseph William Baker
Burlington, Wisconsin
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Just to add to QuantumRiff's sentiments, calling spam "solved" by spam filters is like calling world wide conflicts "solved" by the arms race.

Take a look at FireGpG ...it plugs into firefox, works great with gmail.

It you're using Firefox then FireGPG could be what you're looking for.

There is a firefox plugin Firegpg that you can use with gmail to encrypt, sign, and decrypt email.

I dunno if it works with yahoo....it might...

http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ is a plugin to firefox that alters the gmail UI to integrate with gpg. It adds all the signature and encryption options locally after it is in your browser.

It isnt as slick as integration with a local client, and it will definitely blow away search, and it will effectively make it a local email client for the encrypted mails, but its an option as well

Check out the GParted Live CD. http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
Its a nice Partition magic clone. I've been using it recently instead of windows own disk management

After dd is done, remove A, replace with B, then boot off the gparted cd. Fix the partition size and make sure it is bootable.

If using dd doesn't work check out PING (Partimage is not Ghost) http://ping.windowsdream.com/
I don't think it can image from 1 disk directly to another, but you could make an image of drive A and save it on a third drive. Then restore from the image to drive B. A bit more work, so try the dd method first

I was recently looking into secure communications and revisited hushmail, discovered it was compromised (this story isn't new). I believe there is no good encryption solution available that doesn't involve both the sender and receiver running the same software.

Once you make that compromise the solutions multiply. For windows I really like truecrypt for file/disk encryption and firegpg with gnugp to do web based email encryption.

http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ And I think I remember a Greasemonkey script that made S/Mime over GMail possible.

FireGPG?. Quoting the website:

"FireGPG is a Firefox extension under GPL which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG. FireGPG adds an contextual menu to access to some useful functions. We will support some webmails. Currently, only Gmail is supported (some useful buttons are added in the interface of this webmail!)."

I haven't used it or Hushmail*, but it looks interesting. It does lack the portability, though. Maybe it could be made to work with Portable Firefox.

* I trust no one with my private keys.

I wonder about possibly booting a computer from a GParted-LiveCD and reformatting it with the GParted partitioning program on the live CD instead instead of doing it from under Windows. That might be safer. I am not sure if the Linux live CD let a trojan on the hard drive autorun or not (probably not). It is a free live CD which runs Linux and contains GParted which is an easy to use partitioning program. Afterwards, the self-booting CD could be removed and Windows booted instead.

I am not an expert or a technician, but it is something that I have occasionally used on my two computers at home when repartitioning, replacing or adding a second hard drive. They were both Linux computers however, so haven't actually tried it on my only Windows computer.

GParted-LiveCD
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I wonder about possibly booting a computer from a GParted-LiveCD and reformatting it with the GParted partitioning program on the live CD instead instead of doing it from under Windows. That might be safer. I am not sure if the Linux live CD let a trojan on the hard drive autorun or not (probably not). It is a free live CD which runs Linux and contains GParted which is an easy to use partitioning program. Afterwards, the self-booting CD could be removed and Windows booted instead.

I am not an expert or a technician, but it is something that I have occasionally used on my two computers at home when repartitioning, replacing or adding a second hard drive. They were both Linux computers however, so haven't actually tried it on my only Windows computer.

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Well, you can install GnuPG on your own machine, and if you want to use webmail...you can use firefox and the add on ...seems to work decently.

I find it best to run your own email server...and try to set your friends up with GnuPG keys and show them how to encrypt stuff...

There's Tuxfamily http://www.tuxfamily.org/en/main and GNA on http://gna.org/

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re: http://www.joar.com/certificates/

I read your MAC OSX article/how-to.

What? Not one mention or link to information on GPG http://www.gnupg.com/

and/or PGP???

http://www.pgp.com/

I support and use the former and recommend the latter to my Microsoft locked-in friends.

What about enigmail http://enigmail.mozdev.org/for Thunderbird

or firegpg http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ for firefox?

Open your mind. .mac is not the end-all and be-all...

P.S. Note that this post is signed with firegpg.
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Bill Arlofski
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Have you tried FireGPG?

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Just as a point of interest, how does proving that something came from a particular computer herald in a new world of truth and justice as opposed to encrypting it with a public key. If my bank sent me, say, a signed, encrypted XML file containing my statement, I could forward the relevant components to a lender with a session key.

I'm not sure how Trusted Computing reintroduces trust to computing. Being able to prove that a file came from a particular computer doesn't prove much to me. Surely, we can do most of the nice things that is planned for TC with public key encryption - albeit without the dubious DRM benefits that the TC platform could potentially inflict upon us?

I can see advantages in the TC approach, but I don't know how this protects us against abuse by the hardware manufacturers working in concert with the large software manufacturers.
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Hmmm... I just did a Google search and found FireGPG and Gmail S/MIME. FireGPG looks like what I want, although both are missing drafts support. That is, GMail autosaves drafts, and the proper thing to do, if possible, would be to encrypt the draft addressed to the user, but FireGPG ignores this problem (for now) and Gmail S/MIME disables autosaving entirely (for now). I will setup FireGPG and see how it works.

Google is in bed with the CIA: http://www.disgrunt.com/blog/2006/10/27/former-int elligence-agent-says-google-in-bed-with-cia/ Have any of you guys seen the new gmail? I won't use it

Allow me to introduce to you the happy little extension FireGPG. Of course, you can't search encrypted mail in gmail. But you can certainly send and receive it with google none the wiser about its contents.

Anyway, any unencrypted mail you send is almost certainly already read by a government computer and scanned for keywords and/or patterns, so it's already indexed by the federal government without google's help, and I don't know what you're so concerned about.

well, there's a beginning at http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Models#Armchair under GPL or Free Art or CC-by-sa licenses, that's friendly to libre-software developers at least... and even textures http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures#Bricks if you need them.

well, there's a beginning at http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Models#Armchair under GPL or Free Art or CC-by-sa licenses, that's friendly to libre-software developers at least... and even textures http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures#Bricks if you need them.

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As a reminder, you can't inject with a Centrino, Hermes, ACX1xx, Aironet, ZyDAS, Marvell or Broadcom chipset because of firmware and/or driver limitations.
Note: You can't inject with OpenWrt devices.

I recommend Atheros or HostAP chips for professional hijacking. (e.g. Atheros/madwifi, Prism2.5/HostAP) See http://rfakeap.tuxfamily.org/.

I'll probably be modded to hell itself for posting this on a KDE /. article, but:
if you are a Gnome kind of person, try GnomeBaker or Graveman for your cd/dvd burning needs.

I've found Soya to be a very friendly Python-based 3D engine. It also has ODE physics built in, so that might be useful, too. It also works closely with Blender models. In addition, the developers are very responsive, and they've produced a number of tutorials to get people up to speed quickly. Not sure if the software you'd like to integrate with has Python bindings, but this is a good option if it does.

Soya 3d This is a 3d library for python built on top of openGL. I find it's a lot higher level than calling OpenGL directly. It handles collision detection, rendering, animation, model loading etc, with a very shallow learning curve but still flexible.

Well, if it's just for the sake of the argument :-)

http://freshrpms.net/
http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/
http://www.aucs.org/rpmcenter/rpms.html
http://www.niemueller.de/projects/extrpms/

Those were just the ones I have bookmarked. You could find more with a web search.

try out Multi-aterm, the site is down right now, but until it's back up you can check out the google cache Multi-aterm has transparency, and tabs, and is pretty fast.

> I'm still ITCHING to see OpenMosix ported to 2.6.x at least, and I'd love to see > it built into the next kernel series.

I think it's unlikely that oM will get into the mainline kernel in anything like its current state. It adds a lot of stuff, and is intrusive on the rest of the kernel (adding hooks to system calls and other kernel internals). Then there's the oM File System, oMFS, which is still buggy and not all that great anyway. Moshe Bar's talking about replacing it eventually. Right now, oMFS crashes the kernel under high load. There are still some bugs in the 2.4 version that we haven't tracked down yet, but that seem to be causing crashes.

Tab (Vincent Hanquez) does have an experimental port of oM to 2.6, but don't touch it if you're not planning to make a good bug report _when_ it crashes. I haven't tried it yet myself, and I've been doing some kernel hacking on oM for 2.4.x.

Right now, we're not aiming at 2.6 yet. We're trying to fix things up, and make a best-ever release of oM (for 2.4.x).

If you don't want all that bulk of Knoppix, then try two of its derivatives:

1. Damn Small Linux, which is 50MB and fits on those business card CDs. Keep a few in your wallet, so you can pass them out to friends.

2. Flonix, which is 60MB and fits on those small CDs and also has another distro that fits on bootable USB Flash pen drives. I have a combination of DSL and Flonix on my 64MB keychain USB flash drive, along with DOS, and the Redhat network installer (all bootable from my syslinux menu). Talk about a useful keychain :)

It would be fantasic to be able to hit a button, have something read the RPM database and automagically reinstall a APT based system (leaving /home and /data and /specified intact).

rpm -ivh http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms- kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-19-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm

:-)

Or go read about apt-rpm.

Actually, you're in luck. The story goes a little like this. Someone enjoyed GNU/Linux enough but felt none of the distros out there really got the right idea, so he decided do make his own non-commercial distro. Debian was born. Now, a guy in Germany decided 3 years ago it would be cool to have this great distro to-go, and so Knoppix, the Live-CD saw the light. Couple of years later, someone wanted it even more portable, so he trimmed it to fit on a tiny "business" card CD and called it Damn Small Linux. Later, another guy with too much time on his hands decided it would nicely fill a void on his USB key, and modified DLS 0.36 just for that purpose. Yay! You could now boot it from USB. But he was too shy to give it a name.

The latest chapter is called Flonix, and trust me, it won't be the last.

There's Flonix - a Knoppix based distro. Theres a USB key edition and a CD edition.

Incidentally, the Flonix install instructions say to run syslinux for Windows under XP, but all I get is a "ERROR 3246: Boot sector read failed" error. Anyone know how I can syslinux my USB key if all I currently have running is XP?

There's Flonix - a Knoppix based distro. Theres a USB key edition and a CD edition.

Incidentally, the Flonix install instructions say to run syslinux for Windows under XP, but all I get is a "ERROR 3246: Boot sector read failed" error. Anyone know how I can syslinux my USB key if all I currently have running is XP?

Linux.com had a link to this distro just a few days ago Flonix It's only a little over 60mb and allows you to install other applications should you have more space.

> Anyone want to get together and work on an open-source auto-update package?
No.

I think a major portion of your concern is the ability to get a job in a different market after graduation. While I do not know about the advantages of the programs offered overseas, I do know of two things that will capture a potential employer's interest. A well known school (even if it isn't known for their CS degree), and what extra curricular projects you have been involved with.

For example, if you come back to the States with a Doctorate in Computer Science from Oxford University, and contributed heavily to the SATA, USB2, and Firewire code in the Linux Kernel, your interviewer will drool at the opportunity to have you working for them. On the other hand, if you come back with a Doctorate in Computer Science from St. Etienne Community College, and contributed heavily to gwine (with no disrespect to Sylvain Daubert or his work), your potential employer might be asking you where St. Etienne is, and what gwine is ("is that related to the Wine is not an emulator project?").

What's wrong with you guys?

# apt-get install myperl

http://apt.freshrpms.net/
http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/

Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions.

Ok, so upgradeability seems to be the submitter's main concern with Red Hat, but there's another solution: you can get apt for Red Hat here (more information here), and the repositories are kept by groups of volunteers -- just like Debian. Now the so-called end-of-life for Red Hat, well, isn't.

The default repository at ayo.freshrpms.net is just peachy, has all RH updates so far and a few extras. I created another source to include the mozilla RPMs from mozilla.org and that works fine too. The sky is the limit.

APT for RPM

All of a sudden Red Hat is a pleasure to administer, even with Rawhide packages.

You could use Red Hat's up2date, even with an arbitrary command line, but I like apt.

Apt-rpm I thought up2date was the total "shiznit" until I found apt-get for rpms. One thing, it helps me find crap I don't need. The other day doing a dist-upgrade, it was going to upgrade xchat. And I though, I don't use xchat! So I removed it. Who knows, maybe someone will port emerge to redhat. :P

> Gotta love how they don't link to project Gutenberg on the books page. :D

Nor do they link to free-as-in-speech software sites like SourceForge, Savannah or TuxFamily. I presume they've seen those are dangerous terrorists advocating - horror ! - sharing and cooperation. Even when they want to show a human face, the MPAA & Co. are pretty transparent...

Although good in theory, in practice the RPM technology experienced problems with dependencies.

Get apt-get for rpm. I don't even bother to register at rhn.redhat.com for getting that 'up2date' to work. :)

Here is a link to arkane I only fiddled with it for a few minutes and I was impressed with the graphics.
Java Web Start made the installation very easy, just a couple of clicks and no mental effort required.
I ran this on a windows machine, I would like to hear from anyone who tried it on Linux. The only thing that stops my moving totally to Linux is the lack of games, so bring on more Java games!

or, get apt-rpm from, say http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org, and then from the command line

sudo apt-get install openmotif21

and it will be magically installed.

Actually, apt-get has been ported to RedHat. You can get it here. Free (RHN-less) updates and you just change sources.list and `apt-get dist-upgrade` when a new release comes out.

once the downloads were done, it turned out that these packages required more packages. After the 2nd round, I gave up.

This happens mostly with RPM based Linux distributions that don't use APT-RPM. APT goes out and downloads a package's dependencies automatically.

• Visualization of scientific data (protein molecules, for example);
• Rendering of images for films;
• Or maybe just making your ordinary applications faster (see, for example, gliv for an image viewer which uses OpenGL).

I missed a dot. It should be apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org instead of apt-rpm-tuxfamily.org.