Even better would be an apache module
shipped with the default apache setup
that adds the blocking meta-tag to all
pages with appropriate mime type
(text/html).
I think Adaptec's DirectCD lets you
treat the CDR/CDRW as if it's just another
(slow) drive. But you need special software
to be able to read these packet-written
CD's. (Do they use UDF?)
Perhaps you could get away with this;
maybe you need to have two sessions on the
disc as a hybrid ISO/UDF since it would be
difficult to get windows booting from
a packer-written CD before the driver is loaded.
From the source of www.transmeta.com: (dunno if this has been posted already, but I couldn't find anything about this in the comments on this page)...
<!-- Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it: Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world. On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do. Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site for everyone on the Internet to see. Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all of the real details as soon as they are available. -->
When I inserted a 3dfx voodoo graphics PCI card into my K6-2 based computer, the keyboard stopped working. I tried booting up both with and without the 3d card plugged in, and it really seemed this new card was the reason for keyboard malfunction.
I then somehow got a crazy idea that perhaps the metal edge of this expansion card was interfering with the motherboard in some obscure way.
The fix: I put some duct tape along the metal edge of the card to "isolate" it from the rest of the computer, and you wouldn't believe it, everything worked!
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If you can think of anything that requires a mouse in Windows, speak up (...)
Yeah, I can think of one thing. Booting windows. If you do not have a mouse plugged into your computer while booting Win9x GUI, you just get a silly dialog box saying "it's ok for you to plug in a mouse now", and it won't proceed until you do so. Which brings me to a rather silly point....
I installed win98 from scratch on a friend's computer, and I didn't have a mouse plugged in during setup. Everything worked well until the final reboot to start up Win98 for the first time. Then (of course) that stupid "insert a mouse now" dialog box popped up. I inserted a mouse, but it didn't work. Reboot, Reinsert, Check IRQ, Change serial port, it didn't work.
Then i realized: Apparently Windows 98 SETUP did not detect a mouse during install, since, of course, there was no mouse installed; so Win98 SETUP decided not to install a mouse driver. I couldn't get into windows to install a mouse driver, since it demands to detect a mouse first (which isn't really easy to do without the driver).
So I wiped the harddisk, spend another hour reinstalling *WITH A MOUSE PLUGGED IN DURING SETUP*, and what do you know, it worked.
The windows key sends unique scan codes, which would correspond to the scan codes of "F13", "F14" and "F15" keys (or something like that).
Print Screen is a fun button to detect, because (IIRC) it sends 3 (or was it 5) scan codes in direct succession. But neither key is "a nightmare" to detect. You just have to special-case for PrintScreen's specific scan code sequence.
also, the windows key isn't a 'normal' key, it fires an intrupt, or does somthing else like that (I think).
You're wrong here. The windows key is just like any other key. If you've ever programmed your own keyboard handler to sit on IRQ 1 and poll port 0x60, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's been a while since I did it myself, but IIRC, the windows keys use what would logically be the scan codes for F13, F14 and F15.
You know, you could always implement it so that for each byte (8bits), you have to hit the button to send a "start bit". If you hit the button, send 8 bits and release the button, no more input will be expected until you again whack it to signal yet another "start bit". Kinda like serial communications.
No, i don't think so. Makedev chokes on it, and according to some docs in the kernel source tree, it seems there are only two MAJOR/MINOR nodes reserved for DSPs. Sucks, doesn't it?:)
Hi. I've been running several versions of the Windows 9x family. In short, I've installed and used Win95 v4.00.950, Win95 OSR1 v4.00.950a, Win95 OSR2 v4.00.950b (aka build 1111), Win95 OSR2.1 v4.00.1212a, Microsoft Memphis (win98 developer release) build 4.10.1415, Microsoft Memphis beta v4.10.1500, Microsoft Win98 release candidate 3 v4.10.1900, Microsoft Win98 [PWA] v4.10.1998, Microsoft Win98 Retail v4.10.1998 (yes, the last two are different), Microsoft Win98 Second Edition beta v4.10.2162 and now Microsoft Win98 Second Edition final v4.10.2222/3.
Of all these versions, i must say that Windows 98 Release Candidate 3 (build 1900) has been the most stable of all the above versions. I think I never had one single BSOD during the two-three months of using it. Upgrading to the final version of Win98 introduced several bugs and crashes. Also, while using the SE beta, I had a general feeling that it was a lot more stable than the "final" version of Win98 SE. Do Microsoft add bugs to the final version and keep using the release candidates/internal builds for themselves? Seems very strange....
I've got a Soundblaster AWE 64 and a Gravis Ultrasound MAX in my linux box./dev/sndstat tells me I have three digital audio dsp's (I'd guess that's 1 on the SB, 1 using Classic GUS playback and 1 using the GUSMAX Codec). Problem is, it seems that Linux 2.x does not support more than two dsp's (/dev/dsp0 and/dev/dsp1).
Do I have to switch to Commercial OSS or ALSA or something else?
At least in Norway I believe it is legal to reverse engineer a program if your intention is to make your own program compatible with the existing piece of software. If I understand this correctly, that means you are allowed to disassemble winword.exe trying to figure out the.doc file format if you intend to write a.doc loader for your own word processor.
wouldn't it be possible to write out gif files without using LZW compression? I don't know the details of LZW - is it possible to just write the "obligatory" escape codes and output the stream in raw format?
Although the files will grow considerably in size, it'd be better than nothing!
I don't know about the voodoo3, but displaying video with a voodoo1 3dfx card is slower than using a standard bitblt with normal 2d graphics hardware. The 3dfx "accelerator" is a hardware polygon renderer, and drawing texture triangles with light shading and fog won't help speeding up MPEG decoding.
Re:what's the fscking deal?
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OK, i forgot to add this part:
"..and trick this clueless linux newbie into running the shell script as root"
Do you think the Linux newbie, who most likely is spending 98% of his uptime being logged in as root because he couldn't be bothered writing 'su' and then a lengthy password every time he wants to play Quake, would even bother thinking about the possibility of being trojaned?
And anyway, the shell script could at least add a telnet daemon which allows password-less logins to the *user* account, to the user's crontab.
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There's been "rootkits" available for most flavours of UN*X for as long as I can remember. If running a "undetectable remote administration service" constitutes a security hole in the OS, I guess the only OS that does not contain such a security hole must be something along the lines of DOS 1.0.
Writing a "Back Orifice Linux Edition" isn't exactly hard. Create a shell script or something similar, mail it to someone who have just installed Linux at his home PC, trick him into running it, and what-do-you-know, the shell script might just add a telnet daemon (suitably UUEncoded in the shell script) which runs at port 31337 and allows root logins without a password to his inetd.conf. Does this mean that Linux has a security flaw?
Can we now expect all Canadians to be the victims of subliminal messages causing the entire nation to become a bunch of M$ droids buying all the products they sell?
Some time ago, I bought a miro hiscore 3dfx PCI grpahics card second-hand, and discovered (to my surprise) that it also featured a composite video out plug (is that's what it's called?)
I don't know if this would apply to you, since this graphics card already converts the signal to the type my TV expects, but anyway:
I wrote a simple DOS TSR which hooks the video interrupt (0x10), and in case a text mode (0x3) or 320x200x256 (0x13) mode is selected, the TSR will reprogram the VGA timers to synch with 50hz instead of the default 70hz. This also works with ModeX-style modes. It's called vga2tv and you'll find a DOS.COM and the assembly source on my homepage, http://xcene.flipp.net (under "releases").
Of course, with Linux you can just use SVGATextMode to select any 50hz mode you'd fancy.
Red Hat Linux, i think I tried with 5.2 some time ago, won't let you install with less than 5mb ram either, but if you've got the software on the system in some way or another, it will run (although very slowly) with 4mb or even less.
Say, at the college where I study, you don't graduate unless you take shitloads of math courses, study various assembly languages and write some funky OpenGL apps. Where did you get your education, if you have no math background at all? I'd be worried.... (and I am, I've got math exams in just about three weeks from now!);)
Slashdot Mirror
60 minutes? The patch is only about 1.4mb (bz2).
Even better would be an apache module
shipped with the default apache setup
that adds the blocking meta-tag to all
pages with appropriate mime type
(text/html).
I think Adaptec's DirectCD lets you
treat the CDR/CDRW as if it's just another
(slow) drive. But you need special software
to be able to read these packet-written
CD's. (Do they use UDF?)
Perhaps you could get away with this;
maybe you need to have two sessions on the
disc as a hybrid ISO/UDF since it would be
difficult to get windows booting from
a packer-written CD before the driver is loaded.
From the source of www.transmeta.com:
(dunno if this has been posted already, but I couldn't find anything about this in the comments on this page)...
<!-- Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans
until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate
what Crusoe processors can do.
Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see.
Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications.
Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted
to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site
in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all
of the real details as soon as they are available. -->
When I inserted a 3dfx voodoo graphics PCI card into my K6-2 based computer, the keyboard stopped working. I tried booting up both with and without the 3d card plugged in, and it really seemed this new card was the reason for keyboard malfunction.
I then somehow got a crazy idea that perhaps the metal edge of this expansion card was interfering with the motherboard in some obscure way.
The fix: I put some duct tape along the metal edge of the card to "isolate" it from the rest of the computer, and you wouldn't believe it, everything worked!
If you can think of anything that requires a mouse in Windows, speak up (...)
Yeah, I can think of one thing. Booting windows.
If you do not have a mouse plugged into your computer while booting Win9x GUI, you just get a silly dialog box saying "it's ok for you to plug in a mouse now", and it won't proceed until you do so. Which brings me to a rather silly point....
I installed win98 from scratch on a friend's computer, and I didn't have a mouse plugged in during setup. Everything worked well until the final reboot to start up Win98 for the first time. Then (of course) that stupid "insert a mouse now" dialog box popped up. I inserted a mouse, but it didn't work. Reboot, Reinsert, Check IRQ, Change serial port, it didn't work.
Then i realized: Apparently Windows 98 SETUP did not detect a mouse during install, since, of course, there was no mouse installed; so Win98 SETUP decided not to install a mouse driver. I couldn't get into windows to install a mouse driver, since it demands to detect a mouse first (which isn't really easy to do without the driver).
So I wiped the harddisk, spend another hour reinstalling *WITH A MOUSE PLUGGED IN DURING SETUP*, and what do you know, it worked.
Amazing.
The windows key sends unique scan codes, which would correspond to the scan codes of "F13", "F14" and "F15" keys (or something like that).
Print Screen is a fun button to detect, because (IIRC) it sends 3 (or was it 5) scan codes in direct succession. But neither key is "a nightmare" to detect. You just have to special-case for PrintScreen's specific scan code sequence.
also, the windows key isn't a 'normal' key, it fires an intrupt, or does somthing else like that (I think).
You're wrong here. The windows key is just like any other key. If you've ever programmed your own keyboard handler to sit on IRQ 1 and poll port 0x60, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's been a while since I did it myself, but IIRC, the windows keys use what would logically be the scan codes for F13, F14 and F15.
You know, you could always implement it so
that for each byte (8bits), you have to
hit the button to send a "start bit". If you hit the button, send 8 bits and release the button, no more input will be expected until you again whack it to signal yet another "start bit". Kinda like serial communications.
No, i don't think so. Makedev chokes on it, and according to some docs in the kernel source tree, it seems there are only two MAJOR/MINOR nodes reserved for DSPs. Sucks, doesn't it? :)
Hi. I've been running several versions of the Windows 9x family. In short, I've installed and used Win95 v4.00.950, Win95 OSR1 v4.00.950a, Win95 OSR2 v4.00.950b
(aka build 1111), Win95 OSR2.1 v4.00.1212a, Microsoft Memphis (win98 developer release) build 4.10.1415, Microsoft Memphis beta v4.10.1500, Microsoft Win98
release candidate 3 v4.10.1900, Microsoft Win98 [PWA] v4.10.1998, Microsoft Win98 Retail v4.10.1998 (yes, the last two are different), Microsoft Win98 Second
Edition beta v4.10.2162 and now Microsoft Win98 Second Edition final v4.10.2222/3.
Of all these versions, i must say that Windows 98 Release Candidate 3 (build 1900) has been the most stable of all the above versions. I think I never had one single
BSOD during the two-three months of using it. Upgrading to the final version of Win98 introduced several bugs and crashes. Also, while using the SE beta, I had a
general feeling that it was a lot more stable than the "final" version of Win98 SE. Do Microsoft add bugs to the final version and keep using the release
candidates/internal builds for themselves? Seems very strange....
I've got a Soundblaster AWE 64 and a Gravis Ultrasound MAX in my linux box. /dev/sndstat tells me I have three digital audio dsp's (I'd guess that's 1 on the SB, 1 using Classic GUS playback and 1 using the GUSMAX Codec). Problem is, it seems that Linux 2.x does not support more than two dsp's (/dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1).
Do I have to switch to Commercial OSS or ALSA or something else?
now script kiddiez will fly around on skateboards phreaking from public phone boots in true "Hackers" (the movie) style...
I'm no lawyer, but...
.doc file format if you intend to write a .doc loader for your own word processor.
At least in Norway I believe it is legal to reverse engineer a program if your intention is to make your own program compatible with the existing piece of software. If I understand this correctly, that means you are allowed to disassemble winword.exe trying to figure out the
Then again, I might be completely wrong.
wouldn't it be possible to write out gif files
without using LZW compression? I don't know the details of LZW - is it possible to just write the "obligatory" escape codes and output the stream in raw format?
Although the files will grow considerably in size, it'd be better than nothing!
I don't know about the voodoo3, but displaying
video with a voodoo1 3dfx card is slower than using a standard bitblt with normal 2d graphics hardware. The 3dfx "accelerator" is a hardware polygon renderer, and drawing texture triangles with light shading and fog won't help speeding up MPEG decoding.
OK, i forgot to add this part:
"..and trick this clueless linux newbie
into running the shell script as root"
Do you think the Linux newbie, who most likely is spending 98% of his uptime being logged in as root because he couldn't be bothered writing 'su' and then a lengthy password every time he wants to play Quake, would even bother thinking about the possibility of being trojaned?
And anyway, the shell script could at least add a telnet daemon which allows password-less logins to the *user* account, to the user's crontab.
There's been "rootkits" available for most flavours of UN*X for as long as I can remember. If running a "undetectable remote administration service" constitutes a security hole in the OS, I guess the only OS that does not contain such a security hole must be something along the lines of DOS 1.0.
Writing a "Back Orifice Linux Edition" isn't exactly hard. Create a shell script or something similar, mail it to someone who have just installed Linux at his home PC, trick him into running it, and what-do-you-know, the shell script might just add a telnet daemon (suitably UUEncoded in the shell script) which runs at port 31337 and allows root logins without a password to his inetd.conf. Does this mean that Linux has a security flaw?
Can we now expect all Canadians to be the victims of subliminal messages causing the entire nation to become a bunch of M$ droids buying all the products they sell?
Damn it, it's monday and I think I still have a hangover =)
The DOS TSR I wrote is called "tvtsr", not "vga2tv"...
Some time ago, I bought a miro hiscore 3dfx PCI grpahics card second-hand, and discovered (to my surprise) that it also featured a composite video out plug (is that's what it's called?)
.COM and the assembly source on my homepage, http://xcene.flipp.net (under "releases").
I don't know if this would apply to you, since this graphics card already converts the signal to the type my TV expects, but anyway:
I wrote a simple DOS TSR which hooks the video interrupt (0x10), and in case a text mode (0x3) or 320x200x256 (0x13) mode is selected, the TSR will reprogram the VGA timers to synch with 50hz instead of the default 70hz. This also works with ModeX-style modes. It's called vga2tv and you'll find a DOS
Of course, with Linux you can just use SVGATextMode to select any 50hz mode you'd fancy.
just my $0.02 etc. etc.
Red Hat Linux, i think I tried with 5.2 some time ago, won't let you install with less than 5mb ram either, but if you've got the software on the system in some way or another, it will run (although very slowly) with 4mb or even less.
I guess you never checked out "doskey" which was
included with MS-DOS since v5.0 ?
jeez... you can't compare 4dos with dr-dos! :)
4dos is just the shell, dr-dos is the whole
"kernel"
Say, at the college where I study, you don't graduate unless you take shitloads of math courses, study various assembly languages and write some funky OpenGL apps. Where did you get your education, if you have no math background at all? I'd be worried.... (and I am, I've got math exams in just about three weeks from now!) ;)