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If you're still boycotting Amazon and/or don't feel like buying it, Hackers is available from this link here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

Look at a good pianist. I don't think the bandwidth limitation is with human hands and fingers. Radio remote controls as used in battlebots are legacy systems, designed to control model cars and kludged to control model airplanes. These applications don't involve combat and really just don't require that much bandwidth.

I also think that microsecond reflexes are probably overkill; useful reflex time is limited by the inherent acceleration and deceleration times of the robot's parts. Even cats and mongeese get by with millisecond reflexes.

I'd like to see somebody design a battlebot where they focus on a high-bandwidth control system rather than a bad-ass weapon. (Most of the weapons end up looking pretty lame anyway.) Video cameras are cheap these days, so no reason the operator can't where a headset that gives him a robot's-eye vantagepoint. There are analog joysticks and 6DOF controllers. Bitstreams from multiple controllers could easily be shipped over a radio channel (though it probably makes sense to keep the video stream separate.

Screaming? Sounds like it.

Flamebait? Definitely.

True? Well, I agree with him, but it's not exactly provable (especially in this forum).

BTW, for those who have whetted their mathematical appetites on the Discover article linked to by his sig., you might want to check out this.

Nope, it's not property. You can't steal it (you can violate copyright restrictions).

See:
US Constitution, particularly Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 (the sole justification in the US for all "IP" - and it doesn't name them or call them property).
Thomas Jefferson's Letters, paying particular attention to his comments on copyright and ideas.
IP Myths, posted previously, and
The Copyright FAQ, also previously posted.

Great idea! Should make portability easier! Too bad we're still far from 1.0. Meanwhile, I'll use GLUI... (Wonder why that one didn't catch on?)

Of course the same lawmakers that made the law could try to change the constitution, but AFAIK that is a lot more difficult.

-Don

The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat

Farmer, 1993: Farmer, F. R. (1993). Habitat Citizenry. In Loeffler, C. E., (ed.), Virtual Reality: A Survey of Technology and Culture. Van Nostrand Rheingold.

Farmer et al., 1994 Farmer, F. R., Morningstar, C., et Crockford, D. (1994). From Habitat to Global Cyberspace. In Proceedings from CompCon '94. IEEE Computer Society.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/communications/ papers/habitat/hab2cybr.txt

Chapter Six: Real-time Tribes. By Howard Rheingold.

The homepage is http://ils.unc.edu/inls183.

Strictly speaking, the materials are copyrighted by me and UNC. But help yourself to anything useful, and feel free to ask if you want to make more extensive use.

• Greg

As covered on slashdot and elsewhere, I was forced to retroactively change my class notes, change my syllabus, and forbidden from demonstrating DeCSS for my Linux Administration Class at UNC-Chapel Hill. Note this was months and months before DeCSS was found to be illegal.

Although at least one deposition taken in the 2600 case identified me and 2 other uses of DeCSS in higher education, I believe I was the only person who actually demonstrated its use in a legitimate classroom context. Or tried to...

Note that the LoC's recent exceptions have done nothing to change UNC's interpretation that it's illegal for me to demonstrate anti-circumvention devices (or DeCSS, anyway) in my class, regardless of how clearly it related to my class content.

• Greg

As covered on slashdot and elsewhere, I was forced to retroactively change my class notes, change my syllabus, and forbidden from demonstrating DeCSS for my Linux Administration Class at UNC-Chapel Hill. Note this was months and months before DeCSS was found to be illegal.

Although at least one deposition taken in the 2600 case identified me and 2 other uses of DeCSS in higher education, I believe I was the only person who actually demonstrated its use in a legitimate classroom context. Or tried to...

Note that the LoC's recent exceptions have done nothing to change UNC's interpretation that it's illegal for me to demonstrate anti-circumvention devices (or DeCSS, anyway) in my class, regardless of how clearly it related to my class content.

• Greg

Second, I'd like to meet Paula Jones, too. If anyone can get her to join the webcast, please do what you can. BTW I was Paul Jones before she was Paul Jones.

Lastly, please do send me questions. I am not "a commercial figure" and I have been involved with Linux and several Linux projects since we took over the US mirror of Linus' distro from banjo.concert.net in 1992 (as sunsite.unc.edu).

The chip can do 100 gigaflops

Thanks to the /.er who pointed out to me you -can- compare apples and oranges, but I'll run with the metaphor for a while anyway

The nVIDIA figure is obtained by adding together operations in what is essentially a hardwired pipeline, and chances are not every so called floating point operation is done at even single precision. It would be a waste of silicon if nothing else. So an NV20 Gflop isn't the same as a CPU Gflop.

Someone will point out its not strictly a hardwired pipeline, what with pixel shaders and stuff, but my point is that if you did treat it as a programmable device, you'd likely only be able to get an order or two of magnitude less floating point performance on any other application than what it's designed to do.

Still, you can use a single OpenGL rendering pass as a SIMD instruction if it takes your fancy.

There are people who collect this stuff rather avidly. I'm on the ClassicCmp list, which you can also join in order to find someone who will take it off your hands. You didn't say where you live, but these collectors are pretty widely distributed. Or if you don't want to join, email me and I will post it for you.

Me personally, even though the idea of a hard drive that sounds like a 747 taking off sortof appeals to me, I don't have a spare 20 amp circuit to dedicate to it either, and it would generate too much heat in the Phoenix summers. How big is it? If it's just one rack and happens to be in Phoenix, I might be tempted anyway.

The WHO are the people who successfully rid the world of smallpox

Try some facts:
Japan experienced yearly increases in small pox following the introduction of compulsory vaccines in 1872. By 1892, there were 29,979 deaths, and all had been vaccinated. [1] Early in this century, the Philippines experienced their worst smallpox epidemic ever after 8 million people received 24.5 million vaccine doses; the death rate quadrupled as a result.[2]

As for

may soon succeed in eliminating polio

(1) Trevor Gunn, Mass Immunization, A Point in Question, p 15 (E.D. Hume, Pasteur Exposed-The False Foundations of Modern Medicine, Bookreal, Australia, 1989.) (2) Physician William Howard Hay's address of June 25, 1937; printed in the Congressional Record.

1. Politicians like to go after anything fun, not just video games. One of the big things about Communist countries is that just about anything fun was outlawed as Western decadence, misery was state mandated and seen as productive. In this country, the Christian Right represents the character of Thomas Gradgrind from Dickens' Hard Times who hated imagination:

Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe.

'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.

Sissy blushed, and stood up.

'So you would carpet your room - or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband - with representations of flowers, would you?' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?'

'If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.

'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'

'It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither, if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy - '

'Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are never to fancy.'

'You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind.'

'Fact, fact, fact!' said the gentleman. And 'Fact, fact, fact!' repeated Thomas Gradgrind.

'You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact. We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact. You must discard the word Fancy altogether. You have nothing to do with it. You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. You don't walk upon flowers in fact; you cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in carpets. You don't find that foreign birds and butterflies come and perch upon your crockery; you cannot be permitted to paint foreign birds and butterflies upon your crockery. You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls. You must use,' said the gentleman, 'for all these purposes, combinations and modifications (in primary colours) of mathematical figures which are susceptible of proof and demonstration. This is the new discovery. This is fact. This is taste.'-- Hard Times, by Charles Dickens

2. The Christian Right has demonstrated, over and over again, that anything which is frivolously entertaining will be hounded and attacked, through legislative means if possible. This, frankly, is social engineering. The same social engineering that Republicans claim only the Left wants to do, as they hypocritically engage in it themselves. Republicans have no problem driving someone out of business if their business doesn't fit into the realm of grim, joyless productivity, and the only way a business can survive this assault is through bribery (protection money!). The reason why Hollywood is not credibly threatened is, of course, because all their bribes are paid up. Of course, these bribes also allow them to engage in social engineering of their own, such as the DMCA.

Now, the Democrats are also social engineers, and more horribly than that, they've caught the Christian Right's "gray-pajama" dictatorship disease (at least the Gore ticket has). But at least they aren't liars, they admit they believe in social engineering..

You people act like the only part of the Bill of Rights anyone ever needs to worry about is the Right to Bear Arms. Well, since I don't own a gun and don't plan to in the near future, that Right is irrelevant to my personal life. Why should I care about such an abstract issue compared to something that is going to have a real, measurable impact on my life? I may never own a gun, but I've bought plenty of games in my 31 years.

Understand, though I am not far away from libertarian Republicans on many issues, I will never vote Republican again in my life, ever. The Republican party is evil as it is currently constituted, and I'll never trust it enough to believe it has changed.

When Henry Hyde proposed a law for the whole country similar to the one in Indiana (except for the fact that it covered more types of media) it was the Democrats in Congress who stood up to them.

The Republican party belongs on History's scrap heap, just like the Whigs.

Slashdot keeps mangling my html. Specifically the closing "/a" tags. Let's try again.

Slashdot didn't "rip" that story. It published a link to that story. You're making the same indistinction that the MPAA and the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan is guilty of.

And by no means does New Scientist own a copyright on the UNC researchers' results ...

Slashdot keeps mangling my html. Specifically the closing "/a" tags. Let's try again.

Slashdot didn't "rip" that story. It published a link to that story. You're making the same indistinction that the MPAA and the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan is guilty of.

And by no means does New Scientist own a copyright on the UNC researchers' results ...

And by no means does New Scientist own a copyright on the UNC researchers' results ...

And by no means does New Scientist own a copyright on the UNC researchers' results ...

Scientific papers (with specs) at: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/teleimmersion/p ubs.html

-m

Scientific papers (with specs) at: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/teleimmersion/p ubs.html

-m

The projector look like COTS stuff (as the military loves to call them
check the picture at http://www .cs .unc.edu/Research/stc/Pics/May2000Demo/Demo/DCP_16 91.JPG

UNC has a graduate CS department. Not undergrad. Undergrads have to join the math department, and "focus" on CS, which (as of '97) meant taking 4 or 5 CS classes. (See here).The graduate department is indeed amazing, and it's cool if you know someone in the graduate department so that you can get in some of the neater VR experiments. But as an undergrad, that's as close as you will probably get to the interesting parts. In fact, when i was there (3 years ago) the first 3 CS classes (Comp 14,15,114 ) weren't even taught in Sitterson (which is the brand-spanking new mutli-million dollar CS building)....

err. as the guy who started sunsite^Wmetalab^Wibiblio, I should pipe up. the project which preceded sunsite was an internet bulletin board server called laUNChpad. it was our goal, as it is now, to help make information sharing possible world-wide. Sun was nice enough to help foster that project for a number of years as was Cisco, Real, and others. Red Hat was a sponsor to some extent from early in that company's life. And we will be announcing some other sponsors soon.

UNC has one of the best CS departments in the country, but it is a very research focused department. NCSU, where i went to school in the late 60s, has a different focus for their department of CS which is also a fine program. But the information sharing work is not in CS but at UNC in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science where I hold joint appointments.

The UNC computer support folks, called ATN, run AIX, Solaris, Linux and other OSs as they feel is appropriate.

ibiblio is most certainly a part of UNC

It's kinda funny that Bob Young donated alot of money to UNC to change the name of Sunsite^H^H^H^H^H^HMetalab^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HIbiblio, but never tried to push Red Hat down UNC's throat (AFAIK, UNC still uses AIX for their main student mail/shell server).

Oh yeah. Maybe it's because there's no engineering department at UNC. Or undergrad CS department. Makes you wonder how Sunsite ended up there in the first place.....

"What an outrage! That money's MINE, you hear? Do you have any
idea how little ninety million dollars can buy, these days?"

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.

There is a group at UNC using a Phantom to provide tactile feedback when manipulating viruses. These things start around $10,000 though.

• 6-DOF Haptic Rendering
• inTouch Modeling and 3D Painting
• the nanoManipulator (the coolest, although the site is partially down)

• 6-DOF Haptic Rendering
• inTouch Modeling and 3D Painting
• the nanoManipulator (the coolest, although the site is partially down)

• 6-DOF Haptic Rendering
• inTouch Modeling and 3D Painting
• the nanoManipulator (the coolest, although the site is partially down)

There are some newer books, such as the HomeBrew HomePages Put YOU On The World Wide Web, or The Hacker Crackdown. These are books which have been explictly gifted to the public domain, or to Guttenburg itself.

There are some newer books, such as the HomeBrew HomePages Put YOU On The World Wide Web, or The Hacker Crackdown. These are books which have been explictly gifted to the public domain, or to Guttenburg itself.

*****This file should be named hckrs10.txt or hckrs10.zip******

so i opened up a folder on this here computer, and realized that a guy on my icq list had sent that to me a few months ago, i'd just never bothered to look at the .zip file!
and scarier yet, i seem to remember reading the
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**
**Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**
*These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations*
once even before that
talk about some irony/coincidence
speaking of computer related books, I had my copy of Masters of Deception in spanish class today, and my teacher told me he heard it was a good book! the more i talk to that guy the more i like him. he seems to me like the type that sat on his Commodore 64 and dialed up to a few BBS's in the glory days of hacking. I thought that about him the 4th or 5th day of class. long story eh?
anyone got anymore good computer related books to reccomend?
Rock 'n Roll, Not Pop 'n Soul

iirc, SLS was the first linux distro. i can't find much about it anymore, but it came on an old (1994-5) infomagic cd set i used to have. slackware was based on SLS.

[sunsite|metalab].unc.edu has reference to MCC Linux 2.0+, circa 1996. i recall it also being onr of the earliest distros.
--

If you don't feel like spending the next three months of your life tracking down an original copy, you can always download the Project Gutenberg Etext and read at your leisure.

D.

I'm currently living in almost this exact setup. There are four of us living in a 4 bedroom apartment (although only 2 of us qualify as geeks) 3 guys and a girl. Beautiful Chapel Hill, NC, home of the TarHeels and iBiblio. CAT5 running throughout the apartment. DSL connection, squid proxy, junkbuster to get rid of ads (sorry slashdot) a central cd-burner and mp3 server so that we get some true file sharing going on. It's a pretty mixed environment--PPC Linux, macOS9, Windows 98, Windows 95, RedHat 6.2. Using NFS, netatalk and SMB, we all talk pretty well together. I'd recommend a dedicated firewall and a dedicated "media" server if you're going to run a similar setup--the one linux firewall box that we have pulls double duty and it hurts.
The important thing to remember is, people gotta get along before you introduce things like dedicated, high speed internet.

For anybody interested, the basic idea behind "Hyper-Z" is a few years old. The best description I've seen is Hansong Zhang's dissertation (based on a paper he gave at Siggraph '97). He calls it "hierarchical occlusion mapping" - I guess the same ATI marketdroids who gave us "Pixel Tapestry" and "Charisma Engine" were to blame here...

It's an interesting technique, for several reasons. For one, it doesn't require massive amounts of scene preprocessing, which means that you can display much more dynamic worlds than if you were tied to an expensive BSP data structure. For another, at some point in the hopefully not too distant future we'll move from Z-buffers to A-buffers (conceptually, a linked list of depth values per pixel) to remove the ugly need to sort transparent polys. For obvious reasons, this is going to stress the hardware, and a way to perform en masse depth rejections would be a great help.

It gets worse.. If any of his friends take it out of his closet after October 28th, DC can sue them for anti-circumvention under the DMCA.

The unfortunate part is that it takes a long time for the nonsense to get straightened out due to way to many self interested lobbyist groups that only care only about one thing and will never lessen to common sense. Many of them are small, but all too many of them are way to large, the tobacco industry, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) (Determined mothers are the worst offenders of the bunch), Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (IIHS) (there care nothing about safety, only saving insurance companies money and will rather see ever Interstate highway with a speed limit of 50 or less). See my now outdated RDU page for more information on the latter two. Even though the latter two look like they win most of there battles, they don't win them all. The National Speed Limit is now a goner despite IIHS wishes. The unfortunate part is that it took over 14 years for it to happen.

The basic point is eventually things do get better in the United States, it takes way to long for things to happen. So keep on fighting and have faith in the System, just expect to waste way to mush time and money fighting through bureaucrats and layers neither of which tend to demonstrate very much common sense.

The unfortunate part is that it takes a long time for the nonsense to get straightened out due to way to many self interested lobbyist groups that only care only about one thing and will never lessen to common sense. Many of them are small, but all too many of them are way to large, the tobacco industry, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) (Determined mothers are the worst offenders of the bunch), Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (IIHS) (there care nothing about safety, only saving insurance companies money and will rather see ever Interstate highway with a speed limit of 50 or less). See my now outdated RDU page for more information on the latter two. Even though the latter two look like they win most of there battles, they don't win them all. The National Speed Limit is now a goner despite IIHS wishes. The unfortunate part is that it took over 14 years for it to happen.

The basic point is eventually things do get better in the United States, it takes way to long for things to happen. So keep on fighting and have faith in the System, just expect to waste way to mush time and money fighting through bureaucrats and layers neither of which tend to demonstrate very much common sense.

At these sites:

• GameBytes
• Suite 101

A pity I missed this one, it's always nice to know what companies are planning to do, and a large percentage of game development goes on in Europe.

Fun Facts about Happy Birthday to You
"Most Embarrassing Copyright" illegally registered
--

WTF were you thinking, HP?

1. http://xgov.net/dvd/DeCSS.zip and http://xgov.net/dvd/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://www.2600.com/news/1999/11 12-files/DeCSS.zip/ and http://www.2600.com/news/1 999/1112-files/css-auth.tar.gz
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
6. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
7. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
8. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
9. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
   
10. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
11. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://frozenlinux.com/local/decss/in dex.html
    
13. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
14. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
15. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
16. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
17. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
18. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
19. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
20. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
21. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
22. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
23. ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
    
24. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
25. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
26. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
27. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
28. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
29. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
30. http://humpin.org/decss/
    
31. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
32. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
33. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
34. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
35. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
36. http://www.irgendeinedomain.de/decs s/index.html
    
37. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
38. http://killer.discordia.ch /Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
39. http://linuxvideo.org/
    
40. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconV alley/Port/3224/
    
41. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/user s/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
42. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
43. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downlo ads/DVD/
    
44. http://perso.libertysurf. fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
45. http://users.drak.net/bem ann/software/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://users.drak.net/bemann/so ftware/css/DeCSS.zip
    
46. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/decss
    
47. http://www.angelfire.com/myband/decss/
48. http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~davi d/dvd/
    
49. http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
    
50. http://rockme.virtualave.net/
    
51. http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444t2v/
52. http://www.quintessenz.at/q/index.html
53. http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
    
54. http://www.fortunecit y.com/tinpan/tylerbridge/679/dvdcss.html
    
55. http://www.crosswinds.net/~valo/DeCSS/
56. http://members.home.com/christopherlee/ dvd/
    
57. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
    
58. http://63.225.181.97/decss/
    
59. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
60. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
61. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
62. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
63. http://www.cgocable.net/~jdionne/css/
    
64. http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/s lashdot/
    
65. http://www.capital.net/~mazzic
    
66. http://24.108.23.121/DeCSS/
    
67. http://ananke.hack.pl/
    
68. http://www.geocities.com/donotsueme/
    
69. http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
    
70. http://donotsueme.homepage.com
    
71. http://www.homestead.com/donotsueme/ index.html
    
72. http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/
    
73. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/donotsueme/
    
74. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/
    
75. http://209.178.22.9/protest/
    
76. http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/dvd
    
77. http://www.geocities.com/RainFor est/4360/decss.zip
    
78. http://www.altern.com/tfagart/decss.zip
    
79. http://www.itouch.net/~jm/dvd.html
    
80. http://ils.unc.edu/inls183/resources .shtml#DVD
    
81. http://avdira.cc.duth.gr/~kkonstan/css/
    
82. http://www.multimania.com/sxpert/decss/
    
83. http://www.posexperts.com.pl/peopl e/wrobell/css/
    
84. http://www.koek.net/dvd/
    
85. http://www.cyberchrist.org/freecss.html
    
86. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cybe rchrist/freecss.html
    
87. http://www.planet.net.au/~coram/
    
88. http://www.geek.co.il/css/
    
89. http://www.datacomm.ch/adrien/decss/ index.html
    
90. http://home.rmci.net/bert/fuckthelawyers/
    
91. http://unimatrix.dyndns.org/fucklawyers/
    
92. http://www.isn.net/~dsimeone/DeCSS.zip
93. http://logical-solutions.com.au/DeCSS.zip
    
94. http://www.sarahandcasey.com/decss/
    
95. http://www.fsp.com/
    
96. http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~echerry/dvd
    
97. http://www.mafkees.com/dvd
    
98. http://dB.org/dvd/
    
99. http://dcwi.com/~wench/decss
    
100. http://dvdcss.newmail.ru
     
101. http://www.subcor.com
     
102. http://www.frankw.net/decss
     
103. http://danger-island.com/~dav/any.lawyer.who/quote s.this.url/gives.permission/for .his.residence.to.be.searched/any.bootleg.audio/vi deo/tape.found/nullifies.legal.and.moral .standing/
     
104. http://www.fortunecity.com/vi ctorian/parkwood/95/DVD/
     
105. http://www.asleep.net/dvd
     
106. http://members.xoom.com/NiKeX
     
107. http://www.geocit ies.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2819/index.html
     
108. http://www.execpc.com/~unicorn/dvdmirr or.htm
     
109. http://members.xoom.com/chapter3/Mamma No.htm
     
110. http://wiw.org/~drz/css/
     
111. http://merlinjim.freeservers.com/dvd/
     
112. http://www.visi.com/~adept/liberty
     
113. http://mikedotd.penguinpowered.com/deccs
     
114. http://www.ct2600.org/2600-DVD.html
     
115. http://magic.hurrah.com/~fireball/dvd/
116. http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd
     
117. ftp://ftp.foon.net/pub/decss
     
118. http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/css/
     
119. http://earnestdesigns.com/dvd
     
120. http://www.satl.com/~satlpop6/
     
121. http://xempt.darpa.org:81/decss/
     
122. ftp://cm-d0415.resnet.ucsc.edu/p ub/css-auth.tar.gz
     
123. http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user /mycroft/css-auth/
     
124. http://www.eyrie.demon.co.uk/derek/dvd/c ss
     
125. http://ananke.hack.pl
     
126. http://budice.ancients.net/www.free -dvd.org.lu/
     
127. http://defiance.darktech.org/decss/
     
128. http://kesagatame.tripod.com
     
129. http://www.angelfire.com/pokemon/decss
130. http://www.gnosis.cx/download/DeCSS.zip
     
131. http://bone.powersurfr.com/DeCSS/
     
132. http://wakeupthe.net/dvd/
     
133. http://everest.yooniks.org/dvd
     
134. http://cubicmetercrystal.com/decss/
     
135. http://analyzethis.acmecity.com/triboro /90/
     
136. http://homepages.together.net/~ib nzahid/DeCSS.zip
     
137. http://www.save2600.8m.com
     
138. http://people.ne.mediaone.net/dantepsn/
     
139. http://members.xoom.com/mxpxguy/dvd/
     
140. http://decss.fall0ut.com
     
141. http://vedaa.tripod.com/decss.html
     
142. http://members.xoom.com/iox
     
143. http://www.hackunlimited.com/dvd/
     
144. http://hem.fyristorg.com/police/css.htm
     
145. http://elknews.netpedia.net/dvd/
     
146. http://www.idrive.com/decss/web
     
147. http://quintessenz.at/q
     
148. http://www.clug.com/~vodak/dvd/
     
149. http://www.nacs.net/~vodak/dvd/
     
150. http://ny2600.iwarp.com
     
151. http://www.wpi.edu/~nassar/dvd/
     
152. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~castongj
     
153. http://www.geocities.com/cold_dvd/
     
154. http://www.projectgamma.com/deccs/
     
155. http://members.xoom.com/mogreen/decss/
156. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
157. http://www.angelfire.com/de2/decss/dec ss.htm
     
158. http://www.krackdown.com/decss
     
159. http://www.ithink.org/dvd/
     
160. http://www.fortunecit y.com/skyscraper/motorola/1415/decss.htm
     
161. http://chaz.fsgs.com/misc/DvD/
     
162. http://www.linuxstart.com/~kv ance/projects/decss.html
     
163. http://www.darkkingz.com/DeCSS.zip
     
164. http://come.to/intelex
     
165. http://ebmedia.net/dvd/
     
166. http://www.geocities.com/decss_forever/
     
167. http://revolution.3-cities.com/~spack/dv d/
     
168. http://www.geocities.com/Sili conValley/Software/8762/
     
169. http://members.xoom.com/s_o_sam/help.html
     
170. http://smokering.org
     
171. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz
     
172. http://dlsf.org
     
173. http://home.rmci.net/bert/dvd
     
174. http://thrash.webjump.com/decss.zip
     
175. http://linux.uci.agh.edu.pl/~outlaw/ decss.html
     
176. http://debian.mps.krakow.pl/mirror/css/
     
177. http://www.fission.org/~mangino
     
178. http://212.187.12.197/decss/
     
179. http://www.clarkson.edu/~andrixjr /decss/DeCSS.zip
     
180. http://www.geocities.com/Capitol Hill/1583/dvd.html
     
181. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
     
182. http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/dvd.htm
     
183. http://www.members.home.net/normanlorrai n/
     
184. http://home.swipnet.se/~w-18931/decss/
185. http://home.soneraplaza.nl/qn/prive/v alhalla/
     
186. http://www.robotslave.net
     
187. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/freedom/
188. http://www.corova.com/dvd/
     
189. http://2600.dk/mirrors/css/
     
190. http://dvdcrack.homepage.com
     
191. http://www.copkiller.org
     
192. http://www.worldcity.nl/~frank/dvd
     
193. http://members.xoom.com/iamkeenan/master/
     
194. http://www.adulation.net/css/
     
195. http://homepage.interacces s.com/~mycroft/decss/DeCSS.zip
     
196. http://underground.pl/dvd/
     
197. http://members.xoom.com/nyc2600
     
198. http://zerosoft.hypermart.net/warez/ DVDcrK.txt
     
199. http://www.deforest.org/CSS
     
200. http://nickd.org/decss
     
201. http://www.xenoclast.demon.co.uk/main.ht ml
     
202. http://www.ctol.net/~ross/css-auth.tar.gz
     
203. http://www.xenoclast.demon.co.uk/main.ht ml
     
204. http://www.ctol.net/~ross/css-auth.tar.gz
     
205. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconV alley/File/3635/
     
206. http://members.xoom.com/a1010_2000/
     
207. http://decss.globalservice.hu/
     

xmcd the orginal cddb-client has AFAIK always been GPL and it still is. xmcd certainly includes the disc-id algorithm. Originally, the cddb server software was also GPL, but newer versions is not. The software FreeDB is running is based on the original GPLed software

qmail is an excellent choice for securely replacing sendmail.

DJBDNS may be of some help.

ipchains is your friend...

-pf

I was talking to the agenda guys yesterday. Nice folks and I wish them well. However, I have one problem with their product. I don't want a desktop linux on my handheld. This actually seemed to be one of the selling points for these guys. "Watch, you can run an ls command. This thing even has inetd!" Yeah, so? Do I want to mess around with configuring lengthy text files on my handheld? Sorry. It's fine to have these things as part of the system, but the interface is going to have to change. Accessing the command prompt from a 2"x3" screen is not going to work, even with the chiclet keyboard they seemed to be selling as well. Do yourselves a favor, go check out PocketLinux. With as much praise as I'm heaping on these guys, you'd think they were paying me. Have no fear, I'm just an OpenSource Documentation guy. I just think the pocket linux guys kick ass.

Many people forget that almost every religion (except perhaps Buddhism) has a colorful story about the origin of the universe.

This brings up the question - why should only Christian theology be taught as an "alternative" to evolution? There is no particular reason why it should be the default creationism among the scores of religious theories.

Islam considers that the universe arose out of vapor, Hinduism posits an infinite recursive loop of creation and destruction, and a cherokee religion proposes that the universe was created by a water beetle.

I have no idea what the creation theories are in Zoroastrianism, shintoism, taoism, confucianism, animism, but I'm pretty sure they're wild and wonderful.

Of course, you might say that the majority of Kansas/american students are christian; but then, does the origin of the universe depend on the population % of your local area? that would be quite a theory indeed.

Since proponents of creationism say that kids should be taught both theories and allowed to decide for themselves, we could agree to teach creationism (of all religions). Let's give them the choice, dammit! So....a typical biology book would now have 30+ chapters to discuss creationism theories, and 1 to discuss evolution.(Many countries do this, but they teach them in a class on "World Religions" instead of "Science"; but nevermind, it's the same content, who cares what the class is called?).

Anyway, this brings up another question - why offer "alternatives to science" only on evolution? Since so many people believe creationism should be taught in schools in *science* class, why not teach the biblical concept of oceans and the earth as an alternative to geology (noah's boat and the parting of the red sea are guaranteed to be crowd pleasers in comparison with boring cross section charts of the earth)? Is there any reason why only evolution should be presented with an alternative? After all, nobody has gone to the center of the earth or the sun and REALLY proved what's there; they are merely theories speculated upon by scientists, and they often turn out to be wrong.

Can some proponent of creationism answer these questions? Thank you.

w/m

My experience (one of the TNT2 cards, and a voodoo2): it autodetected the cards automagically, but I didn't have the modelines for my monitor (DOH!), but a quick look-at-your-old-config-files gave the modelines I needed. The man pages are a TON more helpful than they used to be, too.

RH 7.0beta can be gotten from a few mirrors if you can't get onto ftp.redhat.com (I got it from ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/ redhat/redhat-7.0-beta/pinstripe)

-Brian