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For the server side use SSH from cygwin and for the client side I really like TTSSH as an extension to Teraterm. It also looks like there is now a TTX SSL and an SSL OTP available too. By the way, all of these have source available.

Teraterm is an excellent open-source terminal emulator for Windows machines, which Robert O'Callahan has extended to incorporate SSH.

The two problems with TeraTerm are:
1) the weird license prohibits distributing any fixes to the core code (you can only distribute add-ons, which it supports). Luckily the core is not buggy, it's just got some areas where improvements could be made.
2) it reportedly compiles best under Watcom C/C++, which was (until now) a rare beasty.

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Now then, on to my story:

So the other day this microsurf's telling me about how NTFS has journaling, started taunting me about my eight-minute fscking those sixty gig puppies, and I admit it kind of had me kind of almost maybe a bit uncomfortable, not envious mind you, just a bit, mostly it was just a little hot in the room is all. I excused myself, saying I had to google, and that I would be right back. Five minutes later, I had my response. (And implemented, too! Download today.)

Moral of this story? Turn off those [domain] tags in your preferences if you haven't yet! It totally ruins my train of thought :(

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m iso socially aware artistic geek pen-pal, m or f, in '1337 edu. jazz, poetry a must.
email me (click my user info for addy) if you're interested.

I just got xcruise, a file browser that creates your fs into a galaxy, to work to work on OS X (need to have x working). I discovered it while sleep deprived at 3am and found myself getting lost in /usr. Though practically useless, it is pretty impressive. No 3D libs needed.

screenshots

xcruise files

now even quicker !! this page claims it has a world record

3023mhz !

While I agree that it is vitial that people contact their representatives with their concerns and support organizations like the ACLU and the EFF, another thing you can do to defy mass survailance efforts like Carnivore is to use encryption whenever possible online. I'm sure there are other /.ers out there who know a lot more about the subject (please speak up!), but I wanted to add what information I can for those who might not already know. Here are a few suggestions of ways I know to use encryption:

• Email

• You can encrypt your email communications with others who are also willing to get the right tools. Probably the easies tool is PGP (there's also an international page), or for the free software crowd GPG. PGP makes this pretty easy to use under windows with almost any program with its encrypt clipboard contents feature, but there are also plugins for verious email programs.

• Terminal Sessions/Telent

• Most people probably know about it, but there's ssh, openssh, and if you're using Windows check out Tera Term and its ssh extension.

• Instant Messaging

• My appologies to the *nix crowd, but I don't yet know much about instant messaging on those platforms (soon); however, if you use windows I have seen several instant messaging clients that support encrypted chatting. I suggest Trillian, which is awsome anyway, free, and has encryption features. As far as *nix goes, I'd check out the big ones (e.g. Jabber) and if it isn't in there by default, look for plugins.

This certainly doesn't solve all the problems. The biggest is web browsing. You can use anonymous web browsing tools such as Anonymizer, but that is admittedly kind of a pain. I don't have any good suggestions there. I'd be interested in any other ways others have found to incorperate encryption into their online communications.

have you already tried XCuise for linux ?
Quite cool as a 3D file navigator. You can only cruise .. but we could imagine a file Explorer with links to some programs using associations .
That would be cool ( Even if bnot productive ..)

I agree -- 64C sounds too high. Here is a good article on the subject from Via Hardware.

I recommend the following three steps to cool it down:

1. Run H.ODA's WPCREDIT/WCPRSET and set the ACPI HALT cooling on, if your processor is running at under 1.33 GHz or if you're not running Win2K. This will keep your idle temperature down. See the end of the VIA Hardware article for the admonition about CPU speed and Win2K stability.
2. Use Arctic Silver II thermal paste. I bought some at Fry's and it's pretty cheap. It brought the temperature down 2-3C under load.
3. Try the NoiseControl Silverado fan, if it fits in your face. North Americans no longer have to buy it from Germany, as Plycon sells it in the US now.

I have a 1.2GHz Athlon which I run at about 1.35GHz by upping the FSB. My IWill KK266 board claims that it idles at 26C, and it gets up around 41C during heavy use, and 49C in a tight loop.

I have a shutoff at 50C, which it last reached when Outlook went into a tight loop overnight. I ran a program called MBM to check on it, and it recommended a program called Shutdown Now to shut down and power off in case of alarm. Unfortunately, I hadn't noticed that Shutdown Now was nagware, and my system was up all night at 50C, sending me pages every 5 minutes. When I got to work in the morning, there was a pop-up dialog saying to please send in $15 to them before it would shut off my computer. Talk about lame! It would have been fine to nag a boot time, not not at shutdown time! I'm just glad the program didn't fry my CPU. Anyway, I replaced it with the NT Resource Kit program called shutdown.exe that took a little bit of mousing around to get into MBM's configuration, but no way was I going to give money to the guy who almost fried my computer.

When I connect to a remote box from Windows, I use the free ttssh extension to the freeware terminal program Tera Term. When it asks you for a password, it captures everything in a dialog box, and sends the password as one chunk.

For those using a command-line version, who are really paranoid, you can just vary the rhythm of your strokes (type along with your music!). Or use RSA authentication. :D

But in general, I don't think anyone needs to worry about this unless they've got a bulls-eye on their backs.

Teraterm (available for free download here) has several SSH extensions. I beleive one of them has you type in the password all at once and then sends it as a single string, which means that key timing can't be determined. Just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix

The only program I ever found to use your laptop IRDa port as a remote was RemoconCon, which I never got to work on my laptop. Also the other problem I've read is that the IRDa LEDs are tuned to a different IR frequency than remote LEDs so an IRDa port has a very poor working distance of only a couple feet. You'd have to stand in front of the tv holding your laptop to use this. Kinda defeats the point! Another program to check out is OmniRemote for the Palm. While the Palm has the same IRDa/distance issues as a laptop, PacificNeoTek sells an attachment that "boosts" the signal and gives it decent coverage. It turns your Palm into a Pronto!

Try tera term pro It's much better than the standard windows telnet client.

Forget that X-Windows source code rip with security issues (also known as "NT Terminal Server" ;-) and save some dough by just use a SSH client with port forwarding (like TeraTerm + TTSSH and VNC). It works great at my company, letting me support my notebook and other roaming users while they are on the road. TeraTerm+TTSSH is cake to setup, and you can configure it so all a user has to do is click an icon to connect with port forwarding.

-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith

OpenSSH runs great on my Red Hat boxen. The source and executable .rpms are downloadable .

FiSSH is being turned over to MIT, and as soon as they unscramble their (currently hosed) distribution and apply the known patch for Win98 compatibility (thot Win95/98 ran the same apps? think again) there will be a freely available SSH client for Winblows lamers, um, I meant mainstream users, built from True Free Open Source! Yay!

TeraTerm SSH is another Win32 client, but not really open source, because Teranishi-san has disappeared and the license is oddly written, but it does work for most purposes.

For file transfer, don't use FTP, use rsync.

TeraTerm Pro is free and the SSH extenstions for it are also free. It is the client that I always download when I am on the road and need SSH access to my home machine.

A quick look through WinFiles terminals section should turn up others. SecureCRT and ZOC are not the only SSH enabled terminals out there.

Have a look at Tera Term, a freeware terminal emulator for Windows for which ssl and ssh plugins are available.
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Change is inevitable.

This is done in the BFS filesystem which is part of the BeOS, which you can download here. The "People" address book database in the BeOS is entirely implemented in the filesystem.

The structure and implementation of the filesystem are described in detail by Dominic Giampolo in Practical File System Design with the Be File System, ISBN 1558604979.

I use the BFS in my applications I write for the BeOS - not just to store files, but I specifically use its indexed attributes for fast keyword searching in Word Services for the BeOS and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

While Be's implementation of the BFS is proprietary, there is a GPL'ed read-only Linux implementation of it available here

Daniel Berlin, a BeOS developer who also programs on Linux, has provided an update that works with the 2.4 kernel

I don't think the attributes are available from Linux in the Linux version of the BFS, but they could be and to do so I think would be a significant addition to the OS.

Mike

Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

For those wondering, here is the FL Mask program they article is talking about.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/V A013065/index2.htm

All I did to get R5 on its own partition was to format one of my extra partitions to BFS, and did a 'dd if=/BeOS/image.be of=/dev/hdb4' (change to whatever partition you want it on), and then made sure that there were no Folders name BeOS in the root directory of Linux or Windows (when BeOS loads it looks for these folders on all partitions it can read and then boots images from that dir. If you have more than one then it boots all of them which gets weird).

I still have to use the boot disk to start, and unfortunately Linux doesn't have BFS support yet (you can try at this page, but I couldn't get the patches to work), so I can't boot it with LILO. Hopefully I'll be able to find LILO for BeOS so I won't have to use the boot floppy or boot from windows anymore.

You can get the TTSSH plugin for TerraTerm. It supports port forwarding, rsa authentication, shosts, etc...

• TerraTerm
• TTSSH

Both are fully free.

tera term pro

This is your lucky day. Buy yourself a candy bar.

First, download and install Tera Term from here.

Then, install the "TTSSH" SSH-module from here.

Instant bliss!The best part is, it costs nothing. Yessir, you can even find the sources. Installation is trivial point-and-clicking, and there are no export restrictions.

Happy happy joy joy!

As long as you want Windows solutions, I've found Tera Term to be a most excellent terminal emulator for Windows. When combined with TTSSH it makes an excellent free, secure client for Windows.

Resizing needs some help (every time you resize it, it clears the screen), but other that that, it's worlds above any other terminal emulator for Windows. Of course, I still haven't tried rxvt for Windows.

I recommend Tera Term Pro and the TTSSH extension if you must use Windows. Or use MindTerm, which is a Java-based SSH client. I've used both, and they both work well with any SSH 1.x server. (Including OpenSSH.)

YES, there IS a PC IrDA remote-control program out there... took me a hell of a long time to find... RemoCon-Con. 2.8 still has some Japanese in it but 2.9 (coming soon) should have everything in English.

Has presets for a bunch of Japanese-built devices (Toshiba, Sony, JVC, Pioneer, etc) but it can learn anything through the IrDA port. And you can program macros. And timers. Only thing I don't like is an annoying sound effect when you press a button... there's probably a way to turn it off but I don't know it yet.

Register it (it's $25) - it's worth it.

Well, that covers the shell, but how about XFree? Also, I've found the MS-included telnet to be just about the worst implementation I've ever seen. I've found the free Tera Term to be quite acceptable. Tera Term seems to support most VT emulations well, works as a straight terminal emulator over the Com ports, supports huge scroll buffers, alternate screen geometries well and has a good scripting language. It even includes source, but it's copyrighted, not lefted.

Free is a big win for me. I keep the distribution Zip (943KB) in my breifcase so that I can install it on any machine that I happen to have to use at the moment. As a consultant, you never know what PC I'll have to use next. Sometimes it's more convenient to use a customers' desktop than my laptop. Even a tiny shareware payment is too much for me to keep track of. If NTCrt (Van Dyke) had a personal use license, that would allow me to use it on as many machines as I want, as long as it was me using it (requiring uninstallation if I used it on a customers machine), I might consider NTCrt.

Anybody have experience with any other source-available or Open Sourced Telnet/terminal emulators for Windows?

As for being a US citizen and coding outside the US it appears to have been done relating to at least one ssh product. TTSSH is a free SSH client for Windows. It is implemented as an extension DLL for Teraterm Pro by Robert O'Callahan roc+tt@cs.cmu.edu

Although the last update was Dec 98 so it is possible that he is now in jail.

excerpt:
"November 3, 1998: A lot of people have been asking me when TTSSH will support SSH 2.x. Unfortunately SSH 2.x is a very big, complex protocol and looks a lot of work to implement from scratch. Also, it looks like it will be hard to integrate all its features into Teraterm without significantly modifying the design of the main Teraterm application. There's no way I'll have enough time overseas in the foreseeable future to undertake this project, sorry. I hope there are other people with more time and freedom... "

That seems to indicate that the work was done outside the US.

As for other forms of export, I would guess that you could always do what was done by theEFF or with PGP.
Remember it is only the electronic export of crypto that is the problem.

You! Reading this article! Do you use ssh and pgp? If not, why not? You're part of the problem!

If you're not using PGP (yet), drop by http://www.pgpi.com/ and have a look around. http://www.pgpi.com/cgi/download-wizard .cgi will let you easily determine exactly which version of is appropriate for your OS and location. PGP installation is pretty straightforward and there is ample online documentation and tutorials. Not only does PGP become more useful each time a new person starts using it, but the more people we have using PGP routinely the harder it will be to remove our freedom to do so. There's no reason not to use encryption, except for inertia. And I guarantee it's not as hard to install or use as you may be thinking.

Using a nice pgp-aware mailer like mutt is a nice step, too.

If you ARE using telnet or rlogin or ftp, then you have problems now and you don't even realize it. Did you realize that every time you telnet or rlogin or ftp to a remote host that you are transmitting your username and password in clear text? Sniffing passwords is a trivial task, mostly due to the widespread use of insecure protocols such as telnet. ssh is a drop-in, secure alternative for telnet, rlogin, rsh, and ftp. Not only is it secure, but it's easier to use and more featureful as well. On top of security it adds such features as compression, encrypted traffic, encrypted tunnels, and completely automatic and secure X11 forwarding. Plus with RSA Authentication you can eliminate passwords entirely. A cracker can't crack a password that doesn't exist.

Unix users can obtain ssh from ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/ and have it up and running in a matter of minutes. I recommend the 1.2.27 version of ssh (as opposed to the v2 platform) due to licensing difficulties with the v2 platform. Non-unix users have even more options.

For Win32 there's SecureCRT (http://www.vandyke.com) which is an excellent, albeit commercial solution. There's also a very nice, free implementation of ssh which works with Tera Term. You can grab it from http://hp.vector.co.jp/author s/VA002416/teraterm.html

There's even an opensource ssh for win32 at http://www.chiark.greenend.o rg.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html although I must admit that I'm not sure I trust an ssh implementation done by a guy who refuses to implement RSA Authentication.

For Macintosh, I understand that there's a nice plug-in for NiftyTelnet at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jon asw/freeware/niftyssh/ although I've not used it.

There's never been a better time to be more secure. Simply by installing a couple of easy-to-use applications you could be on your way to a more secure, more private computing experience. Your data is yours, and here are two ways to ensure that it stays that way.

Yeah, I ripped this shamelessly from my .plan -- so sue me, it's still useful information...