I bet half the folks think of a CGA display 40x25 text mode when they hear the name "Amiga".
why? because thats all the PC had when the amiga of the time was showing 4096 colours (HAM) at 640x512?
it lways seemed unfair that the amiga, which had damn advanced for the time graphics and sound, was written off as a mere "games machine" yet what drives new pc hardware now?
don't bother with using ssh then. try a proper VPN client. ipsec if you have a hankering for messing about, otherwise, if you're talking unix on both sides, then something like openvpn works great. one command run on each side and "bang" you have a virtual interface with an IP address you can route down and everything inbetween is encrypted with blowfish (or whatever openssl cypher you specify).
you can get complicated and do it all with keys and ca's etc but you could just used a preshared key. it works great for me.
and if you route down it then tcp, udp and icmp all work fine as it's a virtual network interface, ie any tcp/ip traffic will flow over it fine.
now tell me bluetooth does that connect hands free kit to your phone ?
well, several manufacturers, BMW for one, have a bluetooth option so that the hands free bits are intgrated into the car's internal systems. ie once you pair the car and the phone together then you don't need to take your phone out of your pocket or anything, the car justs acts as a bluetooth headset for the phone.
firewall's aren't restricted to preventing the outside talking in. they can also prevent the inside talking out. it's a radical concept I kow but there you go.
many of the low-cost NICs that they shipped with the DSL modem had the same MAC.
I thought mac's from the factory had to be unique and if you foun 2 with the same mac you could send it back and get a new one. the whole reason ethernet works is because the mac's are unique.
Does not the current IPv6 address allocation standard specify using your MAC address as the suffix portion of the IPv6 address?
no, for self configuration then it usually uses your mac (padded with a couple of bytes that escape me atm) as it's guaranteed to be unique, but if you want you can set it to be what you like.
I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves
it is, and when the mahcine comes online then it has that address burned into it's eeprom, but you can change it quite easily and that'll last until the next reboot (aiui)
If someone creates a program to easily do the change
what, like ifconfig?! *gasp*
no major routing issues silly. mac addresses are local lan specific and the default address with the card is gaurantee'd to be unique. if you purposefully make 2 ethernet cards on the same lan have the same mac address then "interesting" things oculd happen.
hmm.. just had a quick squizz through 'man XF86Config' and you might be right. well, under one ServerLayout perhaps.
while I don't know the situation you're in here. perhaps an alternative would be to have 2 ServerLayout sections, one for each screen and start X twice, one with -layout and that should give you 2 Xservers with 2 keyboards, but I don't know if you could share one mouse between them, do you need to do that?
oh, I got xinerama to work, I just didn't like it so switched it off:) for me, I'd rather not have windows spanning monitors as theframes get in the way and would annoy the hell out of me. the only time I reckon I would be likely to go for xinerama is if I had one ofthose 23" iiyama tft's which can take 4 inputs, I beleive, and display them all tiled on screen at the same time. there there would be no border so then I would be happy to do it. but when there are borders them I am happier with seperate heads. my wish to be able to move things form one to another is the same as my with to be able to move X clients from one server to another in the general case.
Kudos to all the UK ISPs who refused to obey this ridiculous government order...
it's not an order yet. right now it's a request. when it becomes an order then it becomes alot more difficult to refuse and thats when we'll see who has guts enough to refuse and risk the consequences. if one ISP refuses then they are in a world of trouble, if they all do then the government is in an interesting position as that would be widescale, very public civil disobedience. I wonder what would happen...
err X supports this now and has done for quite some time. I've had my work box with 2 gfx cards, 2 mointors but onoy using one mouse and one keyboard. the 2 displays ran different window managers at different resolutions (not running xinerama) and I just dragged the mouse from one screen to the other. worked as it should.
iirc the only thing I couldn't do was to drag an already running app from one X display to another.
If you are in a public place, then you are in public, and I can take your photo and publish it to my heart's content.
but ironically it's possible for big ben itself to be copyrighted...
english law allows someone to copyright a building so that people can be prevented from taking pictures. it's the only form of copyright in the UK that a) requires registration and b) requires justification as to why it shouldhbe copyrighted. ie you can't copyright your council flat in peckham cos it's boring (a matter of opinion I know) but some qualified, radical architect could design a glass master*cough*piece and copyright it so you would be breaking the law to photo it, even thoughtit might be in the middle fo town.
and ppl say that the law is an arse? can't imagine why!
it's an 250mhz R4400 indigo2 and although I'm not really in a position to check, I've lent the monitor cable to a friend and I've not got an appropriate ps2 style serial adaptor. I've turned it on and I'm ping scanning to see if I can find what IP address I set it to but that might take a while... (just the 10/8 network;)
however, the co I got it off only had one and they gave me the cd's with it and they are all 6.3 oh, 6.2 even, whoops, okay, maybe you're right:)
*sigh*
okay, point being, 6.2 ain't 6.5 which I want to get installed on it before I give it a serious play. however, no-one I know seems to have a copy that they might accidentally trip over and insert into a cd copier *ahem*
I've got an old sgi indigo2 currently with irix 6.3 on it and most of the freeware I've found seems to be for irix 6.5, so my sgi has been in the cupboard. I'd like to give it a go again but I want to get some decent tools on it (like ssh for example;).
one day I'll get hold of a 6.5 set of cd's and then I'll have another go.
in this arena is a system whereby you grab your wireless lappie, sit in ton somewhere and connect to the nearest/strongest wireless signal. it assigns you an address automatically and nat's you onto the internet. the owner of the WAP (and indeed, wired connection it's connected to) should have priority over the bandwidth so that he doesn't really notice you and the others intruding. however, when he's not using the connection it's available for you to use.
the system should be able to cope with a WAP or connection the wap is connected to going down (ie find another wap and get a new address). the wap's should have the intelligence to realise that the owner is using all the bandwidth on the wired connection and route your data to another nearby wap which isn't congested. it would be very cool if the wap could up your bandwidth by allowing you access to both it's own wired connection and any of nearby wap's (3 wap's, all on 2 meg lines, 6 megs of bandwidth available).
I can also see a need for some form of authentication, ie taking responsibility for your actions when you use someone else's connection. otherwise there is scope for alot of abuse.
I think that people would be happy to share their andwidth if it doesn't impact them too much, after all it's a sharing, caring thing. I mean in this system, the owner would be able to utilise the unused bandwidth of his neighbours too.
whats the realistic difference in this case? you are paying someone specifically to create something for you. it's like paying a company to create bespoke software. if it's completely specific to you then I'd expect you to get the copyright.
Slashdot Mirror
I bet half the folks think of a CGA display 40x25 text mode when they hear the name "Amiga".
why? because thats all the PC had when the amiga of the time was showing 4096 colours (HAM) at 640x512?
it lways seemed unfair that the amiga, which had damn advanced for the time graphics and sound, was written off as a mere "games machine" yet what drives new pc hardware now?
dave
argh!
you've got the tune running through my head now!
dave
don't bother with using ssh then. try a proper VPN client. ipsec if you have a hankering for messing about, otherwise, if you're talking unix on both sides, then something like openvpn works great. one command run on each side and "bang" you have a virtual interface with an IP address you can route down and everything inbetween is encrypted with blowfish (or whatever openssl cypher you specify).
you can get complicated and do it all with keys and ca's etc but you could just used a preshared key. it works great for me.
and if you route down it then tcp, udp and icmp all work fine as it's a virtual network interface, ie any tcp/ip traffic will flow over it fine.
dave
now tell me bluetooth does that connect hands free kit to your phone ?
well, several manufacturers, BMW for one, have a bluetooth option so that the hands free bits are intgrated into the car's internal systems. ie once you pair the car and the phone together then you don't need to take your phone out of your pocket or anything, the car justs acts as a bluetooth headset for the phone.
dave
informative? my arse
firewall's aren't restricted to preventing the outside talking in. they can also prevent the inside talking out. it's a radical concept I kow but there you go.
dave
Here I only mention two mayor problems with games
the only mayor problems in my games have been in simcity 3ku where the game has had a huge problem with it's mayor, ie me...
*sigh*
sorry
dave
many of the low-cost NICs that they shipped with the DSL modem had the same MAC.
I thought mac's from the factory had to be unique and if you foun 2 with the same mac you could send it back and get a new one. the whole reason ethernet works is because the mac's are unique.
dave
Does not the current IPv6 address allocation standard specify using your MAC address as the suffix portion of the IPv6 address?
no, for self configuration then it usually uses your mac (padded with a couple of bytes that escape me atm) as it's guaranteed to be unique, but if you want you can set it to be what you like.
dave
I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves
it is, and when the mahcine comes online then it has that address burned into it's eeprom, but you can change it quite easily and that'll last until the next reboot (aiui)
dave
If someone creates a program to easily do the change
what, like ifconfig?! *gasp*
no major routing issues silly. mac addresses are local lan specific and the default address with the card is gaurantee'd to be unique. if you purposefully make 2 ethernet cards on the same lan have the same mac address then "interesting" things oculd happen.
however, it's not a secret, honest.
dave
hmm.. just had a quick squizz through 'man XF86Config' and you might be right. well, under one ServerLayout perhaps.
while I don't know the situation you're in here. perhaps an alternative would be to have 2 ServerLayout sections, one for each screen and start X twice, one with -layout and that should give you 2 Xservers with 2 keyboards, but I don't know if you could share one mouse between them, do you need to do that?
dave
depends whether you can get Xinerama to work
:) for me, I'd rather not have windows spanning monitors as theframes get in the way and would annoy the hell out of me. the only time I reckon I would be likely to go for xinerama is if I had one ofthose 23" iiyama tft's which can take 4 inputs, I beleive, and display them all tiled on screen at the same time. there there would be no border so then I would be happy to do it. but when there are borders them I am happier with seperate heads. my wish to be able to move things form one to another is the same as my with to be able to move X clients from one server to another in the general case.
oh, I got xinerama to work, I just didn't like it so switched it off
dave
Kudos to all the UK ISPs who refused to obey this ridiculous government order...
it's not an order yet. right now it's a request. when it becomes an order then it becomes alot more difficult to refuse and thats when we'll see who has guts enough to refuse and risk the consequences. if one ISP refuses then they are in a world of trouble, if they all do then the government is in an interesting position as that would be widescale, very public civil disobedience. I wonder what would happen...
dave
Resurrect the multi-headed display
err X supports this now and has done for quite some time. I've had my work box with 2 gfx cards, 2 mointors but onoy using one mouse and one keyboard. the 2 displays ran different window managers at different resolutions (not running xinerama) and I just dragged the mouse from one screen to the other. worked as it should.
iirc the only thing I couldn't do was to drag an already running app from one X display to another.
dave
Something about MMOG's draws a lot more women.
are you sure they weren't duped by the ads for a company dealing in "Online Roleplaying Game And Simulation Machines"?
dave
does unreal tournament run under bsd(I don't thinks so)?
:)
actually yes, it does. I've got it installed at home on my freesd box, using hardware accelerated opengl too.
Do Sim City, Black & White, and other Windows games run under Linux(I don't think so)?
well, I also have loki's simcity 3000 unlimited for linux running on freebsd too
dave
If you are in a public place, then you are in public, and I can take your photo and publish it to my heart's content.
but ironically it's possible for big ben itself to be copyrighted...
english law allows someone to copyright a building so that people can be prevented from taking pictures. it's the only form of copyright in the UK that a) requires registration and b) requires justification as to why it shouldhbe copyrighted. ie you can't copyright your council flat in peckham cos it's boring (a matter of opinion I know) but some qualified, radical architect could design a glass master*cough*piece and copyright it so you would be breaking the law to photo it, even thoughtit might be in the middle fo town.
and ppl say that the law is an arse? can't imagine why!
dave
no, I do :)
;)
:)
it's an 250mhz R4400 indigo2 and although I'm not really in a position to check, I've lent the monitor cable to a friend and I've not got an appropriate ps2 style serial adaptor. I've turned it on and I'm ping scanning to see if I can find what IP address I set it to but that might take a while... (just the 10/8 network
however, the co I got it off only had one and they gave me the cd's with it and they are all 6.3 oh, 6.2 even, whoops, okay, maybe you're right
*sigh*
okay, point being, 6.2 ain't 6.5 which I want to get installed on it before I give it a serious play. however, no-one I know seems to have a copy that they might accidentally trip over and insert into a cd copier *ahem*
dave
I fell in love with the window manager. This article doesn't mention it at all.
well, ot be brutally honest, it does mention it, just says absolutely notihng about it, see:
"The window manager included on IRIX is the 4Dwm"
dave
I've got an old sgi indigo2 currently with irix 6.3 on it and most of the freeware I've found seems to be for irix 6.5, so my sgi has been in the cupboard. I'd like to give it a go again but I want to get some decent tools on it (like ssh for example ;).
one day I'll get hold of a 6.5 set of cd's and then I'll have another go.
dave
You need an M3, and you need SMG (the Sequential M Gearbox).
Sequential Manual Gearbox as I understand it
dave
in this arena is a system whereby you grab your wireless lappie, sit in ton somewhere and connect to the nearest/strongest wireless signal. it assigns you an address automatically and nat's you onto the internet. the owner of the WAP (and indeed, wired connection it's connected to) should have priority over the bandwidth so that he doesn't really notice you and the others intruding. however, when he's not using the connection it's available for you to use.
the system should be able to cope with a WAP or connection the wap is connected to going down (ie find another wap and get a new address). the wap's should have the intelligence to realise that the owner is using all the bandwidth on the wired connection and route your data to another nearby wap which isn't congested. it would be very cool if the wap could up your bandwidth by allowing you access to both it's own wired connection and any of nearby wap's (3 wap's, all on 2 meg lines, 6 megs of bandwidth available).
I can also see a need for some form of authentication, ie taking responsibility for your actions when you use someone else's connection. otherwise there is scope for alot of abuse.
I think that people would be happy to share their andwidth if it doesn't impact them too much, after all it's a sharing, caring thing. I mean in this system, the owner would be able to utilise the unused bandwidth of his neighbours too.
thoughts?
dave
region 2 encompasses europe, japan and south africa iirc, so not just the northern hemisphere.. or even just pal/secam (japan being ntsc)
dave
not being married, I have never hired a wedding photographer to take photo's, I've no idea what is "standard". it doesn't mean I like the situation.
dave
whats the realistic difference in this case? you are paying someone specifically to create something for you. it's like paying a company to create bespoke software. if it's completely specific to you then I'd expect you to get the copyright.
dave