::sigh:: Sitting at the local high school and setting up a Linux ipmasquerade gateway... what I need, and I haven't been able to find, is a program that filters through the packets to forward and logs time, source IP and URL of the websites that pass through my gatewaybox. No browser proxy, just works on raw packets. Anybody know if something like this exists for Linux?
Yes, it's Big-Brotherism; no, I didn't like it either.
False board, perhaps? A few points which I thought of while looking at their "photos" of the cards and reading over the site:
The slot cover on both just looks fake, and don't seem to be attached at the right angle on the card.
In both images, I for one would like to know why there appears to be an Adaptec logo in the lower-left corner.
How do you add processors when they appear to be packaged (I can't remember the acronym at the moment) with extremely small pins that need to be soldered to the board with an expensive rework station?
How would a stock SETI client run on a custom-architecture missile control chip?
If these really are photos of cards that do exist, I apologize, but there are just too many technical details that are off here. BRTB
Macs have had dual-head capability for years... we had a IIci at school for the longest time that had its onboard video and another Apple-made videocard, a normal 14" color monitor and a huge 21" (at least) monochrome display. Same kind of configuration I've used with some Mac 5500's, LC 575 and 580, a 7600/132... as far as I know, just add a 2nd video card/port and it just works. Laptops are especially nice cuz they already have 2 video "ports" - one for the LCD and the other for an external source.
1. Using a propane torch to sweat soldered-in 256Kx1 DRAM chips out of scrapped non-PC memory boards so you can get all 640K on your motherboard for cheap.
Even more fun - soldering memory chips on top of others to get lowercase support on old TRS-80's.
2. Salvaging ribbon cable connectors for reuse in new configurations. Extra points if the connectors originated on non-PC hardware.
Done it...
3. Recovering and reusing an old stepper-motor-indexed hard drive with a defective track-zero by gluing a little tab of metal onto the index wheel to offset physical track-zero in a bit on the platter. Extra points if this means you have to reduce the cylinder count by a few to get it to work.
All I can say is... huh? =]
4. Getting a 720K 3-1/2 floppy drive to work with DOS 3.3 on your XT motherboard.
Done that too... and using a strange Microsoft-made 8088->286 upgrade board (its biggest selling point was "Runs OS/2!") =]
5. Powering PC hardware with more than one linear-regulated power supply.
::looks over at his linuxbox with 5 120mb-540mb IDE hard drives, 2 old 1x cdrom's and 2 powersupplies:: 'Nuf said.
6. Fitting a standard-spacing motherboard into a case that started out with a different motherboard with non-standard spacing for expansion cards.
Not only requires a screwdriver, but a hacksaw's good too, and a file is nice to have...
7. Overclocking a motherboard by actually replacing the quartz crystal (or clock module) on the motherboard itself.
Ah, the days of the original IBM AT...
8. Using a null-modem cable (must be home-made) to transfer files from one computer architecture to another.
PC->TRS-80... great stuff there too.
Sometimes the old hardware can work just as well and is always a helluva lot less expensive... and of course you get the fun factor of hacking your case all to hell...
I know this is OT, but what're you using to do that? =] Right now we're using Ghost over IPX and that kinda slows down the network a bit when we try to put images on a whole lab a once... i'd be very interested in seeing a multicast system for this;)
No significant problems from here, running (at school) an FIC something-or-other board (AMD chipset) w/ 650mhz Athlon and Slackware 7.
Only issue I had with this config. is the trouble I had getting UDMA to work - I had to work in a 2.3.99-pre kernel; of course, UDMA is always a pain to get working... now if I didn't use a wrong hdparm -X and screw up the partition it'd work even better;)
Looks like SlashCode... but it isn't... unless CmdrTaco finally gave in and rewrote a PHP3 version, and then proceeded to release it to them without telling anybody;)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am) but, if the flash RAM is really just a 16MB CompactFlash card, couldn't you just replace it with a larger CompactFlash card (I think they go up to 128mb) or even one of those tiny IBM CF-slot microdrives for 330mb? More than enough to put all your basic Linux+Xwin into...
Well that would remove about 90% of the users right there... mode bandwidth for us!
Seriously... how would these licenses be issued? What 'test' would you have to take to get one? Who exactly would be giving out the licenses? And how would you write into every single piece of Internet software the checks for a license?
I used to use a few local (Orlando) BBSes when they were still operational... now that everyone I know has an Internet account we all tend to just use our IRC network (iChat.org) and its Memo Service, etc. for our online communications. And we have a Quake server setup with Team Fortress on it for hours of shoot-your-best-friend-with-the-sniper-rifle fun - seems to replace those BBS doors pretty well;) File transfer? That's what the DCC function on IRC is for... and a few of us use an FTP box for those times we can't all be online at the same time. And since it's all real-time and we try to keep a friendly atmosphere we have kept the community sense together, even though we're spread throughout the world - try that with a BBS.
Try irc.iChat.org:6667 or www.iChat.org for anyone that's interested in seeing what we do to replace our old friendly BBS systems.
I actually got into Comdex Spring @ Atlanta when I was 9 or 10... took a LOT of arguing between my dad and the officials, but when I started talking about 'specific products I was going to be evaluating,' they gave me a funny look and a special badge and walked me down the escalator onto the convention floor.
Pays to be able to spew out senseless technobabble... =]
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.
I started using Linux about 2 years ago. Back then I kept hearing all these really bad stories about Slackware ("ick, that's the LAST distro you should get..."). Being new at it, I tried to download RedHat. I don't think I even got to the copying-the-software step because of repeated SIG11 errors... For some reason, I just didn't like Debian. =]
Slackware has always worked best for me. It installed perfectly on all my hardware (no SIG11's) from a lowly 386/4mb/120mb (yes, it'll still run on 4meg hardware) to my current 350mhz/32mb/2gb.
Package maintenance on Slack? Too much of a hassle. It's always seemed logical to just download the source for a new program, fix the Makefiles to the right path and install it over whatever old version was there. Never had a problem compiling anything on libc5 either... not even on the current Slack3.4-based server at my school. (If you could still call it Slack-based... I've replaced about half of everything from TGZs =])
Yes, I know Slack doesn't have any fancy control panel Xapp or one-click installation, but those have always seemed a little too simplistic. Better to open up pico and fix the config files yourself... you learn better that way =]
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::sigh:: Sitting at the local high school and setting up a Linux ipmasquerade gateway... what I need, and I haven't been able to find, is a program that filters through the packets to forward and logs time, source IP and URL of the websites that pass through my gatewaybox. No browser proxy, just works on raw packets. Anybody know if something like this exists for Linux?
Yes, it's Big-Brotherism; no, I didn't like it either.
BRTB
- The slot cover on both just looks fake, and don't seem to be attached at the right angle on the card.
- In both images, I for one would like to know why there appears to be an Adaptec logo in the lower-left corner.
- How do you add processors when they appear to be packaged (I can't remember the acronym at the moment) with extremely small pins that need to be soldered to the board with an expensive rework station?
- How would a stock SETI client run on a custom-architecture missile control chip?
If these really are photos of cards that do exist, I apologize, but there are just too many technical details that are off here.BRTB
What IRC networks does this thing search, anyway?
BRTB
Macs have had dual-head capability for years... we had a IIci at school for the longest time that had its onboard video and another Apple-made videocard, a normal 14" color monitor and a huge 21" (at least) monochrome display. Same kind of configuration I've used with some Mac 5500's, LC 575 and 580, a 7600/132... as far as I know, just add a 2nd video card/port and it just works. Laptops are especially nice cuz they already have 2 video "ports" - one for the LCD and the other for an external source.
BRTB
1. Using a propane torch to sweat soldered-in 256Kx1 DRAM chips out of scrapped non-PC memory boards so you can get all 640K on your motherboard for cheap.
Even more fun - soldering memory chips on top of others to get lowercase support on old TRS-80's.
2. Salvaging ribbon cable connectors for reuse in new configurations. Extra points if the connectors originated on non-PC hardware.
Done it...
3. Recovering and reusing an old stepper-motor-indexed hard drive with a defective track-zero by gluing a little tab of metal onto the index wheel to offset physical track-zero in a bit on the platter. Extra points if this means you have to reduce the cylinder count by a few to get it to work.
All I can say is... huh? =]
4. Getting a 720K 3-1/2 floppy drive to work with DOS 3.3 on your XT motherboard.
Done that too... and using a strange Microsoft-made 8088->286 upgrade board (its biggest selling point was "Runs OS/2!") =]
5. Powering PC hardware with more than one linear-regulated power supply.
::looks over at his linuxbox with 5 120mb-540mb IDE hard drives, 2 old 1x cdrom's and 2 powersupplies:: 'Nuf said.
6. Fitting a standard-spacing motherboard into a case that started out with a different motherboard with non-standard spacing for expansion cards.
Not only requires a screwdriver, but a hacksaw's good too, and a file is nice to have...
7. Overclocking a motherboard by actually replacing the quartz crystal (or clock module) on the motherboard itself.
Ah, the days of the original IBM AT...
8. Using a null-modem cable (must be home-made) to transfer files from one computer architecture to another.
PC->TRS-80... great stuff there too.
Sometimes the old hardware can work just as well and is always a helluva lot less expensive... and of course you get the fun factor of hacking your case all to hell...
BRTB
BRTB
I know this is OT, but what're you using to do that? =] Right now we're using Ghost over IPX and that kinda slows down the network a bit when we try to put images on a whole lab a once... i'd be very interested in seeing a multicast system for this ;)
BRTB
the question everybody'll REALLY be asking is, WTH is a DEKSTOP? =]
BRTB
No, but it'd have a certain html-rendering engine intergated into it... ;)
No significant problems from here, running (at school) an FIC something-or-other board (AMD chipset) w/ 650mhz Athlon and Slackware 7.
;)
Only issue I had with this config. is the trouble I had getting UDMA to work - I had to work in a 2.3.99-pre kernel; of course, UDMA is always a pain to get working... now if I didn't use a wrong hdparm -X and screw up the partition it'd work even better
Why have swap run the same speed as RAM... just make the swap act AS the RAM ;)
Well, at least we'll have a choice... CD-RW based RAM or little chips based on that FMD-ROM technology we saw here on Slashdot a few months ago...
;)
Oh well, at least we won't have to rely on Scotch tape to hold our data....
Looks like SlashCode... but it isn't... unless CmdrTaco finally gave in and rewrote a PHP3 version, and then proceeded to release it to them without telling anybody ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am) but, if the flash RAM is really just a 16MB CompactFlash card, couldn't you just replace it with a larger CompactFlash card (I think they go up to 128mb) or even one of those tiny IBM CF-slot microdrives for 330mb? More than enough to put all your basic Linux+Xwin into...
Well that would remove about 90% of the users right there... mode bandwidth for us!
Seriously... how would these licenses be issued? What 'test' would you have to take to get one? Who exactly would be giving out the licenses? And how would you write into every single piece of Internet software the checks for a license?
Doesn't sound very plausible to me...
I used to use a few local (Orlando) BBSes when they were still operational... now that everyone I know has an Internet account we all tend to just use our IRC network (iChat.org) and its Memo Service, etc. for our online communications. And we have a Quake server setup with Team Fortress on it for hours of shoot-your-best-friend-with-the-sniper-rifle fun - seems to replace those BBS doors pretty well ;) File transfer? That's what the DCC function on IRC is for... and a few of us use an FTP box for those times we can't all be online at the same time.
And since it's all real-time and we try to keep a friendly atmosphere we have kept the community sense together, even though we're spread throughout the world - try that with a BBS.
Try irc.iChat.org:6667 or www.iChat.org for anyone that's interested in seeing what we do to replace our old friendly BBS systems.
I actually got into Comdex Spring @ Atlanta when I was 9 or 10... took a LOT of arguing between my dad and the officials, but when I started talking about 'specific products I was going to be evaluating,' they gave me a funny look and a special badge and walked me down the escalator onto the convention floor.
Pays to be able to spew out senseless technobabble... =]
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.
Maybe you saw me there... I was probably 10 or 11... took lots of arguing but I got in =]
Found in the HTML of Transmeta's website:
[!-- There are no secret messages in the source code to this web page. --]
I started using Linux about 2 years ago. Back then I kept hearing all these really bad stories about Slackware ("ick, that's the LAST distro you should get..."). Being new at it, I tried to download RedHat. I don't think I even got to the copying-the-software step because of repeated SIG11 errors... For some reason, I just didn't like Debian. =]
Slackware has always worked best for me. It installed perfectly on all my hardware (no SIG11's) from a lowly 386/4mb/120mb (yes, it'll still run on 4meg hardware) to my current 350mhz/32mb/2gb.
Package maintenance on Slack? Too much of a hassle. It's always seemed logical to just download the source for a new program, fix the Makefiles to the right path and install it over whatever old version was there. Never had a problem compiling anything on libc5 either... not even on the current Slack3.4-based server at my school. (If you could still call it Slack-based... I've replaced about half of everything from TGZs =])
Yes, I know Slack doesn't have any fancy control panel Xapp or one-click installation, but those have always seemed a little too simplistic. Better to open up pico and fix the config files yourself... you learn better that way =]
Oh well, enough of my rambling...