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Looks like the Scotty/Tkinetd pages are still up - I guess that they are hosted in another building, thank goodness.

Press release Twente Police 25 November 2002

Confession concerning fire UT

The 26-year-old man from Hengelo detained on Friday afternoon has confessed that he also started a fire on the grounds of the University of Twente on Wednesday morning 20 November 2002. In this fire two wings of one of the buildings on the grounds were completely destroyed and damages caused of between 40 and 50 million euro.
The 26-year old was detained Friday afternoon after witnesses had observed the start of a small fire in another building. On the directions of these witnesses the 26-year old could then be detained.

On the how and why of the arson on the 20th no further announcements can be made at this moment. The suspect will be undergo further questioning on this.
We can announce that the 26-year old is an employee of the University of Twente. The University staff has been informed of his confession by now.
He will be brought before the magistrate in Almelo today.

The arsonist is an employee of the University, which must come as quite a shock to those involved. The University released a short statement to the press

English text here.

it was a really good server.

You won't missing it much once you see that it's really a depressed server (may be from all that fire).

Too bad it's offline. Here's a mirror for those who haven't seen it.

Probably an old one but it would appear relevant.

Anyway, cool experiments using a microwave oven, of course, include the grape experiment (leading to ball lightning, preferably), and the actual microwaved ball lightning experiments.

Also be sure to check out some of these other ones. I especially like the soap.

Be sure that you can defend yourself against the parents, though, as they will likely not be very pleased, and will want to rip your lungs out, or some such mischief.

Have a ball (lightning).

Freedom shouldn't be an eyesore...

To reduce the server load for those guys, the tar.gz is als available here: reborn-i386-1_0.tar.gz Tom

Parallelism primitives? Why not include something like JCSP in the basic Java specification?

It's great being able to define Processes + Channels instead of dicking around with all that synchronized wait silliness. Thanks heaps to Prof. Peter Welch and his team for their work.

Also, apparently there is another CSP implementation for Java called or CTJ, haven't used it, however...

Courtesy of good ol' Google:

Sunsite.dk HTTP, Denmark -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Qkaka HTTP, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Utwente HTTP/FTP, Netherlands -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Planet Mirror HTTP, Australia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
VLSM HTTP/FTP, Indonesia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
E4A HTTP, Italy -
English and italian binaries.
Edumail HTTP, Belgium -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Giganet HTTP, Hungary -
Mirror with sources, binaries.
GD TU Wien HTTP/FTP, Austria -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stud FHT-Esslingen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
3Way FTP, Hong Kong, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
RWTH-Aachen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
PWR Wroc FTP, Poland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Sunsite Cnlab-Switch FTP, Switzerland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
CHG FTP, Russia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Mirror AC HTTP, United Kingdom -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Unam FTP, Mexico -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stardiv FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).

Thanks OpenOffice team!

I don't have KDE III running yet, but I noticed in the other posts in this thread that people can even get better anti-aliasing.

The trick is to do some "subpixel rendering", as explained in the Sub-Pixel Font Positioning on UNIX mini-HOWTO.

A screenshot of KDE 2.2 with this kind of AA turned on can be found here.

I've got a mirror that should be fast. http://niihau.student.utwente.nl/openoffice feel free to try that one

I've got an official mirror at: http://borft.student.utwente.nl and ftp://borft.student.utwente.nl which contain the latest builds for the 641D release as well as the 642 release (which is a testing only release) For more info see the abow url

I've got an official mirror at: http://borft.student.utwente.nl and ftp://borft.student.utwente.nl which contain the latest builds for the 641D release as well as the 642 release (which is a testing only release) For more info see the abow url

I just made a full mirror (only the gameman part ofcourse).

Mirrors @ De Schacht page

Enjoy the pics, well at least untill I'm ./ed...

-Olaf

I just made a full mirror (only the gameman part ofcourse).

Mirrors @ De Schacht page

Enjoy the pics, well at least untill I'm ./ed...

-Olaf

Some other potentially dangerous experiments with CD:s, light bulbs and other objects in microwave owens can be found here. Looks interesting, but I personally wouldn't do that in my own kitchen.

the "funny things to do with your microwave oven" page

I like the one with the CDs !!

I have that at home. I thought I was clever too. Now to buy more PC's to use up all the names...

I made a list of elements with their atomic number, their two-letter abbreviations, and their dutch translation plus a perl script that makes the DNS zone files (forward and reverse)

magnesium IN A 10.4.0.12
ip12 IN CNAME magnesium
mg IN CNAME magnesium

It's public domain now... Get it all on one of my old web pages here

It uses the tld ".elements" (duh).

You need to change the perl script or zone files with a find-replace if your IP range is not 10.4.0.x though...

Have fun...

PDF - http://liquid.student.utwente.nl/files/mirrors/WP1 06.pdf

HTML - http://liquid.student.utwente.nl/files/mirrors/WP1 06.html

Have fun...

PDF - http://liquid.student.utwente.nl/files/mirrors/WP1 06.pdf

HTML - http://liquid.student.utwente.nl/files/mirrors/WP1 06.html

Oh, sheesh ... a minute and a half with Google turned up the following if you really want to see the circuit.

http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/misc/text_cir/f _asci2.htm

Warning, this circuit Really Is Dangerous.

I use TCM (The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling). It has UML editors for static structurre diagrams, use-case diagrams, activity diagrams, collaboration diagrams, component diagrams and deployment diagrams, plus a few others that are being implemented. The web address for TCM is www.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm. I don't know too much about UML, but I do enjoy using the diagrams.

Since the Lunar power Station came online...

Aluminum Hats a no longer for wackos

Check out those Northern Lights (in Florida)

Forget four poster bed sleep in a faraday cage

Metal Orthadonics fall out of favor

Peeps rise up from their cellophane prisons and attack their masters

Floresencet Lights no longer need to be connected to the power grid

Just because we can does not make it a good idea.

Having read your link I see a new use for rader: blowing up cd's.

I did the CD in a micro wave also some time to show the lightning effect (Some people tell to put a glass of water in the Microwave not to destroy it). I guess they can use radar also to get the CD effect.

No need to tell here the use for this:
-AOL/Compuserve thingies. (where do they store these things?)
-copy protection......

-- As for my rabbit i have to say

It's about how the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens as decoys against NATO troops. Quote: "It was funny listening to NATO claiming to have destroyed some 20-30 MiG-29s when I knew that we have had only 16 of them at the beginning of their attacks."

Nice to see a more practical application of ant systems. The past year I have been working with ant systems in a more academic setting: optimizing dynamic problems (problems that change over time) using ant systems. Travelling salesman to be more precise, but my salesmen (sales-ants?) encountered traffic jams.
The research can be found here
Next idea: ant based routing. Get rid off BGP, use ants :)

Question: Is there any reason you need to actually open up the monitor for these modifications? From the description, it sounds like you could simply hack together an MGA connector which takes in (see what pinouts your monitor requires here) and you're done. Solder a couple of pots at the V and H lines on the connector and put a project box around it and you've got a portable visualizer. Yes?

It could get very ugly

"Sorry I'm late, I had to take my car to therapy."

--Curby

The University of Twente is not far from where I live. Time to break out the camping gear, work up a presentation, strip the laptop of anything important, and call in sick.

The Netherlands have the best hacking conventions in the world. The Galactic Hackers Party was held in a converted church in the middle of Amsterdam, attracted over a thousand, and generated a lot of (mostly mis-reported) press. Hacking at the End of the Universe was even better. HiP attracted way too many people, but was the first where lots of corporate security types attended just to hear what kinds of cracks and exploits were really available.

It is pretty amazing the organisers have managed to get the use of classrooms and access to the university's internet connection. They are paying for this with corporate sponsorships and are selling tent space to corporations. Too bad the economy isn't very good right now, a couple of years ago many big corps would have put up tents just to recruit the best techies in Europe. OSDN should send some of the /. crew, and write it off as a tradeshow expense.

And the UoTwente is home to the Simple Web SNMP package.

the AC

At the University of Twente there has been a robot called Marvin as long as I can remember. There seem to be a lot of resemblances between the two.
"Our" Marvin just doesn't have a function whatsoever :)
The other Marvin

There is a {free | open source} product which is called TCM.

It is not specifically an ERD editor, but provides a set of various diagramming editors and tools.

Overall I like it, but since it attempts to support a lot of diagrams, I don't perceive it as very strong in the ERD area.

If you don't want to delve into details (attributes, constraints) and remain on a fairly high level (entities), this might work for you.

Usual disclaimer: It's 6 month ago when I tried it, it might have improved a lot...

Personally, I use W2K and a product called DeZign, which is reasonably priced and offers a cripple ware version for download and trial.

Good Luck..

One: memory is dirt cheap right now. seriously. a 128mb stick of pc100 is like $40 where I live. see pricewatch.com for more US prices. If you live somewhere else I don't know if this point would be relevant. So you could probably at least approach the "ok performance" range, especially if you have family that would be sympathetic for your school-related need of an upgrade.

Two: argoUML, a GPLd and reasonably decent java UML program. (argouml.org) It performs just fine on my machine (450mhz, 128 mb of pc100 ram).

Three: TCM, the toolkit for conceptual modelling. Haven't played with it much but it looks pretty nifty. Also it isn't in Java. Again it runs fine on my machine. Does stuff besides UML too, I'm new to this whole modeling/specifying bit, so some of the functionality didn't make much sense to me.

Look at the Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling It runs under Linux and Solaris and is distributed under the GPL. It can be used to design tables, trees, ER diagrams, UML(use cases, collaboration diagrams, etc.), data and event flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, and many other types of documents. It can output data in PostScript, encapsulated PostScript, or FIG. I've used it for projects before and it offers pretty much all of the functionality you would get from a program like Visio. (And if you drop the TCM diagrams into LaTeX, you'll get something that looks better than anything you could hope to produce on "that other platform".)

Good luck!

And you can't use your own drawings of Animaniacs cartoon characters any more than you can use wooden hand-carved renditions of Disney's mermaid as a fish restaurant logo...not without permission.

I have a tattoo of Disney's mermaid on my right leg, and I had it tattoo-ed without permission. I even published it on the net, and I'm still waiting for the cease-and-desist letter...

- Iwan

At a conference a few weeks ago (Learning to Behave - TWLT17 in Twente), there was a speaker from University College Londen who talked about "Efficient Cloth Model for Dressing Animated Virtual People".
I couldn't find the whole article online, but a very rough overview is here.

thankfully i'm not at his team, Hit2000 isnt really a team. Me and Nohican are with RooT66 (http://root66.student.utwente.nl). Hardbeat (with who I did apache.org) aren't with Hit2000 either. Gerrie Mansur used a way to view server side scripts, meaning he knew the passwords the server used to LOCAL connect to the database. Well that was his great hack, lets spoof 127.0.0.1 from your home cable modem? (no way i work at his cablemodem company :)

Corinth is and has been a town in Greece for more than 2,500 years. People who live there are known as Corinthians
An ancient rival to Athens, it manufactured many classic vases. Its rivalry with Athens directly precipitated the P eloponessian Wars. Subsequently, in 146 B.C., Rome completely destroyed Corinth.
Nevertheless the city rebounded in time for St. Paul to write to Christians living there.
It is completely ridiculous that - if priority over such a widely used name is granted to anybody - that it should be given to some Brazilian soccer team and not to the city of Corinth itself.

Corinth is and has been a town in Greece for more than 2,500 years. People who live there are known as Corinthians
An ancient rival to Athens, it manufactured many classic vases. Its rivalry with Athens directly precipitated the P eloponessian Wars. Subsequently, in 146 B.C., Rome completely destroyed Corinth.
Nevertheless the city rebounded in time for St. Paul to write to Christians living there.
It is completely ridiculous that - if priority over such a widely used name is granted to anybody - that it should be given to some Brazilian soccer team and not to the city of Corinth itself.

I should be able to dial 064 028 067 061 and get a prerecorded message with today's News for Nerds headlines. Or dial 192 215 176 126 to listen to my playlist of unsigned bands on my hands-free phone. Or dial 216 033 238 007 and have rsynth read me my spam.

Numbers look familiar? They're the IP addresses of the respective web sites. A "phone number" for voice over IP would be a static IP address.

I think the open source community needs to spend more time in the software design phase. Where I work, we don't code until we have TONS of diagrams/description of logic done. Overall, I think it leads to a much better product.

Documentation and DOL are extremely important... reminds me of a development tool that I have used that would compile psuedo code... haha. Funny stuff.

Have to agree. As it happens, I've been looking around lately for some higher-level design tools, and unfortunately, there's not a lot out there in the free-software realm. freshmeat lists Libero and TCM, which look good, but probably aren't the ultimate in software design.

Speaking of doc, what do you guys feel is the best tool for managing it. I mean something akin to doc++ or Doxygen. Are there any other better solutions?

I haven't really used any of the doc-generating programs out there-- but let me mention gtkdoc, which for C API's is probably the best of them all. (See here for an example-- ain't it beautiful?) It works through Docbook SGML and the Jade processor to produce HTML, TeX, man, and anything else you have a stylesheet for. Unfortunately, the whole thing is a b**** to get working. It's a huge mess of Perl scripts and weird Makefile rules, I tried it one day and barely made it out alive :-(

(But man, results like that GLib documentation would be worth it!)

Of course, however, all those tools assume that your approach to documentation is placing specially formatted comments (Javadoc-style or otherwise) above each of your module/type/function definitions. I don't know of a better way to go about it-- tying the implementation and documentation together makes it hard to neglect keeping the docs up to date-- but it surely isn't the only approach.

The reason microwave radiation heats up food and liquids isn't the power output,

Try again. My experiments with microwave attenuation, S band 2.4GHz and X band 10GHz, show otherwise. I found most organic things absorb high frequencies into heat. Here's a quote from this link that looks into microwave behavior:

It's a common misconception that the microwaves in a microwave oven excite a natural resonance in water. The frequency of a microwave oven is well below any natural resonance in an isolated water molecule, and in liquid water those resonances are so smeared out that they're barely noticeable anyway.

Here are some more unwise things to do with microwave ovens and a link to microwave myths.

More interesting stuff:

Here are some more ways to destroy your microwave oven (not recommended!)

Hi all...
(Sorry 'bout the slight off-topic, this was too good a chance...)

Yeah, I'm in a similar situation (plan to graduate about one week before the show, but from a Dutch university). Looks like a great place to meet & greet the local IT crowd. (Networking's all that counts :-) ).
So Ottawa is the place to be for IT-guys? I was thinking of Montreal, but hints about the best place to be for IT are greatly appreciated. Good to hear anyway they've got

<SHAMELESS PLUG>If you happen to know anyone who could help me get a job in that area (Canada has that cute little 'you can get 12 months working experience here' visum for recent graduates) I'd like to hear about it... and I guess you could cash in on a little bonus from my future employer... Anyway, getting a job in Canada from this side of the big lake is kind of hard. Anyway, check my site for a little more info. (Darn! Have to update that one REAL soon!)</SHAMELESS PLUG>

For another project that does something like this (I think) see:
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/P rojects/olive.html

Here's some miscellaneous URLS's:
http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html
http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Archives.html
http://gxsnmp.scram.de/
http://www.cforc.com/cwk/net-manage.cgi
http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/software/utwente.html
http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Papers.html

Here's some miscellaneous URLS's:
http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html
http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Archives.html
http://gxsnmp.scram.de/
http://www.cforc.com/cwk/net-manage.cgi
http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/software/utwente.html
http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Papers.html

One interesting idea this leads to is the adoption of Doom as the basis for a 3-D visulaization interface for network and system management.

Imagine extending things like Ganymede, Scotty and relational asset databases to auto-generate .WAD files represtenting network maps, zonefiles, LDAP directories, SNMP agents and so forth, and using a modified Doom interface to select and perform actions on objects.

I never got into .WAD design back in the day, but surely there are tools out there for turning architectural floorplans into .WADs, too.

The big issues would be (1) the one-map-at-a-time design of Doom, which would make it hard to toggle between physical and logical views of networks, and (2) the fixed-target UI of Doom, which is good for the game, less good for this. Marathon, with its mouse-positioned gunsight, may not have been as good a game, but it would have made a bettern WAN visualization tool out of the box.

I just wrote a beginning of a pun on this article... You might want to have a look at it. It is located on my computer.

You can send me adjustments in the form of a diff patch - that would be much appreciated. I only made a beginning.

should be

ftp://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/Mirrors/ftp. windowmaker.org/pub

It's nice of you all to mention my system as an alternartive download location ...

but next time point to my Full ftp.windowmaker.org mirror instead of my own little personal WindowMaker-section ;-)