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Currently using OpenSuSE 11.4, Lubuntu 10.04, Zipslack-custom (from Slackware 8 originally, just so heavily modified I don't think I could build the image in any other distribution or version!) and Knoppix (currently 5.01 but I've just this minute pulled in the torrent for the latest version EN-DVD).

shocking nonsense

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/krypto/passphrase-faq.html

One way of evading the cultural diminution of passspace entropy is through a selection technique known as "shocking nonsense." (Google)

(from here):

"Shocking nonsense" means to make up a short phrase or sentence that is both nonsensical and shocking in the culture of the user, that is, it contains grossly obscene, racist, impossible or other extreme juxtaposition of ideas. This technique is permissable because the passphrase, by its nature, is never revealed to anyone with sensibilities to be offended.

On the face of it the idea sounds good. But I would not use it without some additional care, because you never know under which circumstances you will be forced to surrender the passphrase. Then it better not be, for example, something brutal up the police, if you get my meaning.

Anyway I don't see how this is supposed to help with pins.

For Cisco VPNs, you would want vpnc, not OpenVPN. The N900 (of course as a normal Linux computer) can run both. I assume it is not the only phone with VPN support, but I don't know.

No. Atari 2600 joysticks are not serial; they're 5-bit parallel.

Fück! I already called an electronics store and asked the exact question, and the guy told me that joysticks are serial and should work, no problem. It's a good thing I haven't ordered already. Looks as if I either have to see whether I can get some of the mentioned adaptors here in Germany or go the DIY way. Given that I haven't soldered in 20 years, I'd rather do the former. ;-)

I just called the local computer store and they said they'd give me an adaptor for testing. I'll report back later, after a trip to the basement. :-D

BTW, most adaptors support bidirectional xfer.

What is this Windows 7 thing you're talking about? Is that what they did after XP? I upgraded from Windows 2000 to Linux and OSX. ;-)

Ordinarily I'd be thinking to myself "get your ___ the ____ up out of Brazil already", based on my experiences on nesdev.com/bbs, but now it appears Brazil isn't the only place with prohibitive import duties.

Well, it seems Germany isn't any better. Plus, it seems to be like pure chance whether you make it through customs only with VAT + customs handling fee (which would make a combined 30-40%) or if other charges apply. It doesn't usually make any sense, really.

Thank you for the ammo that I can use against LAN-party fanboys in future Slashdot discussions.

Had you ever hosted one, it would have been easy for you, too. ;-) Once you're married with three children, you don't happily re-arrange the furniture to invite a handful of mid-aged geeks to put their boxen in your house, drink soda and beer, watch porn, trade warez and order buttloads of pizza. Instead, you tell the wife "we're just playing in front of the TV", which will be approved, whereas the first variant, well, I don't want to spoil it for you. Being married is great in many aspects, really. But not in all. ;-) Plus, I'd really be too lazy to organize a LAN these days.

With a plasma, you see afterimages of the 8-bit games' HUD. The burn-in effect, though it's apparently less pronounced than with older plasma, is one reason why I prefer LCD.

I hope that wont be too prominent. My plasma is pretty recent, I got it as a present two years ago and don't even have burn-in from the stations' logos.

And most home PCs are next to a desk, not in a TV cabinet.

Ha. My TV cabinet is self-contained (running off DVB-T, all media stuff in it, but only 1 power cord coming out, nothing more) and has wheels so that I can push it wherever I want. Also, my computer is an iMac which can be put anywhere easily, too. And finally, my office is next to the living room, and they share huge sliding doors (the house is from 1914 and has some fancy features indeed *g*). So I'll just open the doors, connect the Mac and the TV via HDMI and enjoy.

I'm off, looking for an ancient joystick to test with VICE, Stella and MAME. :-)

"Shocking nonsense" isn't actually a bad idea.

Yes, Kile makes things easier. Pictures still kind of go where they want, but they are always the right size and perfect if you use eps. Hint: "convert image.png image.eps" does not make a vector graphic but it does make things easy on LaTex. For graphs, use gnuplot which has eps as a format choice.

Don't forget about kbibtex for your references. If you use it as you research, you will have a good database of everything you uncover about a particular subject. Reference tracking and style management is a LaTex strong point.

Finally, always look for a LaTex template when submitting work. Every good journal has one and it typically tells you exactly what you need to do to make it work. There's no need for Jedi Skills when you have the Source!

From the referenced article - "The passwords are so-called "phase one" passwords, and must be combined with a second password to access the network, the source said. " 99% chance they are using some form of Cisco device as their VPN concentrator (most like a VPN3030, ASA or 7200 series router). If they are these passwords (one per group) are in what is called a pcf file in every employees computer that is allowed to connect. Heck, if you use a Cisco vpn it is on your computer in the following location - C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles . The group pass is encrypted with weak encryption that is commonly cracked to allow linux laptops to connect using vpnc. You can do it on the web here - http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode

The thing is, this group password's primary use is to segregate users into different buckets. E.G contractors may have on password, with different authentication methods, while permanent employees are in a different bucket, with their own authentication methods. The key thing, is that once this first password is provided, the end user still has to provide a unique username and password to gain access. So in effect, having the group password alone is meaningless.

On top of that, I frankly would not be surprised or peeved if a network engineer had possession of PCF files for the network he is responsible for. What is next? Is the DA going to try to prosecute him for having diagrams and configs of the network he is managing on his laptop?

Linux From Scratch would be a good fallback position if building what you want on top of Gentoo or Arch didn't turn out to be as comparatively easy as it was supposed to be. It'll make you do a lot more work, but overcomes the snags through brute force of documentation, assuming little foreknowledge.

For a distro you can actually work in, the minimalist boot options of Knoppix would let you do a quick restart of X and see what your apps do in something like what your final release image is like. If nothing else, it's going to be the easiest way to explore the different minimal GUI's out there. If Monoppix has all the same boot options, it sounds like a perfect fit for the machine you want to do your coding in.

Is for them to finally document the extensions that are using to IPSEC. If you don't have Windows and the Cisco router is using firewall requirements, then only MS-Windows is capable of connecting. This is not implemented for other platforms - at least this what I found with Linux and MacOS X. The guys working on vpnc are almost doing a better job with their client, but they still need more information to add the firewall compatibility.

http://ftp.uni-kl.de/24C3/matroska/24c3-2273-en-toying_with_barcodes.mkv

See this website for mirrors, other video formats and the rest of the videos of the 24C3-conference (some of them are really interesting, videos with a 'de' instead of 'en' in the filename are in german). http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Conference_Recordings

Happy new year, gentleman/women :-D

The Cisco VPN Client sucks arse. There is, however, a much more comfortable and less-sucky free as in speech userspace-implementation for that kind of VPN available at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/

I use it to connect to customer's not having set up OpenVPN every day, and it never failed on me yet. Give it a try, you won't regret it. :-)

I know of several Highlevel-to-Lowlevel language translators (e.g. Java-toC, Oberon-to-C, you name it) that have been around for decades. Surely, you cannot get a patent for doing the same thing with a different language, can you. Can you?!?

Compiling something to JavaScript in the browser environment is about as obvious as compiling to C on Unix. Case in point, here are a few other X-to-JavaScript compilers pulled off the top of my head: Python, Prolog, Oberon, etc. Seems pretty obvious to me. Not that that has ever prevented the US Patent Office from granting a patent, of course.

The knoppix tracker would also seem like a good choice. There's usually a fair amount of seeders, and you'd get the benefit of exposing them to a very high-quality linux live cd at the same time.

Depends on what's running server end. VPNC works great, IMX.

* net-misc/vpnc
            Latest version available: 0.3.3-r1
            Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
            Size of files: 58 kB
            Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
            Description: Free client for Cisco VPN routing software
            License: GPL-2 BSD

Cisco makes a client themselves too but it sucks. I have used vpnc successfully in the past on my laptop with the ipw2100 drivers to get on the wireless network here at UIUC.

I ran cedega for a while, but even doing hardware swaps (my windows and linux machines are identical except for the video card) CoH ran about 10-20% slower on average in framerate.

This would probably have been okay but as I sad that was average. Standard deviation was way up there, which was the problem. Smooth smooth smooth smooth frame-per-second-crawl-for-3-seconds smooth smooth smooth. Didn't look like it was a lack of memory issue or what-not.

...everything hasn't gone to eDonkey yet!

Given that your audience has a range of technical ability, just showing them software isn't going to cut it. One idea would be to grab a bunch of customised knoppix distros. For example, there's a Linux Audio LiveCD which, if topped up with lots of Creative Commons samples, would probably allow you to have a pretty good attempt at some on-the-spot DJing (disclaimer: I haven't tried the CD, I have no idea if it's any good). I don't know if there's an equivalent for video, but that would also be cool. And, of course, there's always Games Knoppix. Burn a bunch of each type and pile 'em up on the table so people can grab whatever they want on the way out.

Two important caveats: firstly, make sure the CDs run properly on the demonstration computer - I know that Knoppix has some trouble with my mum's new LCD monitor. Secondly, if you want to demo more than one LiveCD, you'll probably want to have more than one machine rather than waiting for each Knoppix instance to shut down and the next one to boot up.

Try different kernel parms at boot, or shuffle your PCI cards around. At any rate, you're lucky - my IRQ only goes up to 15. ;-)

Try boot: parm " pci=bios " (? IIRC) to see if it will boot; then you can DL the source, recompile the kernel and test at your leisure.

--See this for more info:
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/knoppix-chea tcodes.txt

The DVD boots into German by default, but this can be changed with the "lang=us" cheatcode(several other languages are also supported).

Has anyone noticed that their comments section (12 languages, 8 architectures)!

Has anyone noticed that their comments section (12 languages, 8 architectures)!

Has anyone noticed that their comments section has already been hijacked?

Looks like its time for sites to do some XSS auditing before they put up their sites, and make sure people can't just post arbitrary garbage by stuffing the query strings.

For those of you running active data on port 80 (or 443, or https/https on any public port), please PLEASE take the time to understand XSS and avoid coding sites that allow it to happen. Yes, even major sites like Perl.org and Yahoo.com have some pages that are NOT xss-safe.. but they're working on it. Are you?

Things you might consider:

Kubuntu Live CD (Info at Kubuntu.org)
Games Knoppix (Although the 0.2 release is accidentally missing a file manager. Also, the 0.2 version is not a "upgrade" of 0.1 - it has a different list of games, though they do overlap.)
Linux Live Game Project

All three of these are based on KDE, and so should be relatively familiar-looking for a Windows user. If you are comfortable enough with "Mac-like" theme, you can also try:

Ubuntu Live CD (Info at Ubuntulinux.org)

All of these are live CDs, which means that you can boot into them and try them out to your heart's content, without harming your existing windows installations. Those 5 CDs (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Games-Knoppix 0.1 and 0.2 and LLGP) are what I give out to people to try out linux... Because there are games, they don't feel like it's so scary...

In order to get used to the command line (if that is one of your goals) the following may be useful:

The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface? (an alternative perspective on the "scary" command line)
and
The CLI Series at Linux.com (Start at the last one on the last page "alias cat and pipe meet grep" and work your way up at your leisure.)

You may want to read and/or contibute to GrokDoc:
GrokDoc

http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~renn/

>Bittorrent has plenty of legit uses. But do you really think that's
>what most people use it for? I'd say most are looking for porn, movies,
>software, etc.

I think you greatly underestimate the legal uses of Bittorrent.
Just the Knoppix torrent:
http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

Accounts for more than 80 TeraBytes.

I use gvpe with this tun/tap driver and it works quite well:

http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/

Could you just grab the source and build it under Tiger?

ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.8 .1-2005-04-08-DE.iso
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.8 .1-2005-04-08-EN.iso
If you have BitTorrent, PLEASE do dont use these.

ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.8 .1-2005-04-08-DE.iso
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.8 .1-2005-04-08-EN.iso
If you have BitTorrent, PLEASE do dont use these.

You could always try arguing that BitTorrent saves campus bandwidth for popular downloads like Fedora Core, Knoppix, and Firefox.

Two of these trackers are actually run by universitites..!

knoppix tracker

Fedora tracker

xandros tracker

Bittorrent is also the fastest way to download Knoppix. I can never find a mirror that provides over 100kB/s, but through Bittorrent I get 650kB/s (My ISP's limit, not Bittorrent's) within seconds of adding.

...but here's where to grab it once it is released:

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

Passive walkers exist since the 90s (or even before).
A quick googeling gave me the following:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.ph p?id=37

And an almost passive construction:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.ph p?id=71

Passive walkers exist since the 90s (or even before).
A quick googeling gave me the following:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.ph p?id=37

And an almost passive construction:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.ph p?id=71

Games Knoppix

The Linux Game Tome

Two simple extensions to the BitTorrent protocol would eliminate the need for trackers:

No, that won't work. (Prehaps you elided major bits in the service of brevity...)

Allow peers to download the torrent from one another

That part could function, but would be of low utility. It might be fun to see what other files some host is seeding, but that won't get you very far.

Allow peers to exchange lists of neighbours

There is no such thing as a "neighbor" in bittorrent. There are "peers" and "seeds" (which are just peers at 100%). But merely listing off the other peers someone knows won't solve anything- after all, today's peers aren't aware of any peers aside from those working on the exact same *.torrent file. (In the case of 2nd-generation clients like Azurues, the process is aware of all torrents to which that user is connected. That increases the graph connectedness, but not by much)

For the neighbours list to be at all interesting, there would have to be a new mechanism added to maintain a portion of a dynamic mesh- each peer must strive to be aware of at least ~10 other random peers, distinct from those working on the same download. That's new code unlike anything already in bittorrent. Far more important than writing that code is convincing users to run it (instead of just stripping their clients down to the original bittorrent functionality). If I author a 100% legal file (like a Knoppix ISO), my goal is in seeing that file get maximum distribution. I do NOT want to devote my bandwidth and CPU resources to maintaining a dynamic global mesh whose primary utility is to copyright infringers evading prosecution. (If they weren't afraid of government suppression, then the same functions could be accomplished more efficiently with centralized websites, like the just-terminated Supernova)

And then, even if a (nearly) fully-connected global mesh of bittorrent peers is created, you still haven't outlined any searching function. A peer could search for a file by exhaustively walking the mesh and downloading every single *.torrent for pattern-matching, but that's monstrously inefficient. Far better searching could be added with a few new message types, but it would require much time and bandwidth; easily more bandwidth than the actual contents of the shared files! (Indeed, the biggest technical challenge to the Gnutella protocol was how to optimize that searching- a job that was neither easy, nor wholely successful) A strongly legal user (such as a corporation distributing patches for their commercial software) will not enjoy a continual flood of search requests for Paris Hilton videos. "Our customers can find our torrent on our web page! Why would we even want searching in the protocol? I'll have to check with legal, but I don't think we can install this P2P stuff..."

P2p filesharing apps have 3 features that can be peerified:
0. Mesh maintenance
1. Filename searching
2. File content transfer

The Kazaa and Gnutella networks function because the same program does all 3, and end-users have little ability to selectively disable (One can't download without forwarding some search requests). BitTorrent only implements one of those features, rendering it simpler and more elegant (especially if you follow the Unix design philosophy. "Do one thing & do it well"). For (legal|illegal) torrents, the first 2 functions are handled by (google.com|piratebay.org).

It would be worthwhile (at least for intellectual satisfaction) to create a P2P solution to the first 2 functions as a bittorrent complement, but such would be best done in a separate application. It should sit in the taskbar updating the mesh, pop up a window to search for a file, and then hand off the actual downloading to the user's favorite bittorrent client. ("CRL invoking BT")

I agree.

Tetris like games have a market of their own. FPS is not for livecd kind of people yet. Think tetris like arcade.

Games knoppix disapointed me because the games are not acessable fromthe desktop, and i wonder if all the games are accesable from the menu.

I recommend downloading it via bit torrent here.

The "russian" suprnova is up and works fine and at least the loki people are putting up some kind of fight so the technology isnt just considered illegal outright.

Not to mention that BT is the P2P app with significant non-infringing uses that are more than just theoretical, and past the "I upload my crappy basement-produced MP3s for the world to see" level. Frankly, this kind of use interests me a thousand times more than the next Britney Spears pirating system.

A torrent for you.

This is just a link reposted from further up, currently this torrent is flying down - im going at 117kbps with 2kbps uploads (im not throttling at all and ports are forwarded)

And here's the BitTorrent Link:

BitTorrent for Games Knoppix 3.7

(Mods: Sorry if this is redundant. I didn't see one immediately available...)

A bittorrent tracker is available at: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

Enjoy!

Singular - A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations

I don't know if it's a bit too advanced, but still an excellent program.

KNOPPIX 3.7 has just been released

Crank up your torrents!

For those who don't already know, (quoting the site), "KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."

For those of you that might not know, Knoppix can be downloaded much faster (usually) via a BT. The main BT download page is here.

Download KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN from here

Download KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN from here

There are German versions of Knoppix available from the first link I referenced.

For those of you that might not know, Knoppix can be downloaded much faster (usually) via a BT. The main BT download page is here.

Download KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN from here

Download KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN from here

There are German versions of Knoppix available from the first link I referenced.

For those of you that might not know, Knoppix can be downloaded much faster (usually) via a BT. The main BT download page is here.

Download KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN from here

Download KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN from here

There are German versions of Knoppix available from the first link I referenced.

What point are you trying to make overall? That bittorrent should be illegal because there are other sources of the files?

No problems with bad labels here. Video Game Demos (those things are getting huge!). Sourceforge clearly labels the downloads and organizes them in a way that BT doesn't.

HUH? I have very good luck and speed with torrents when compared to a more conventional mirror. Check out the latest stats for this Knoppix torrent. Over 30k downloads and roughly 20TB. The link to the torrent download is on the same page that lists the conventional mirror sites, what is mislabeled or hard to figure out? Are you making stuff up?

Using your line of thought, we should ban FTP because you can use http to get files also.

Google would be better for most of this.

How many files have you downloaded from Google? I bet it was NONE. Google will help you FIND the link to what you search for. That link can be a ftp, http, or bittorrent link to the actual content.