is the start of a method for finding out whether you have any compromised keys in your posession.
ideally, the 'less' command would be replaced with either a 'grep' command for some sort of script. Unfortunately, I don't know (nor do I have the time to figure out) how to create a compromised key. Having a compromised key would let me figure out what to grep for...
if anyone else knows what the regex supplied to grep should be, please share!
Oh, dear... it looks like the censors forgot to go through this source. There are dirty words in there. My virgin eyes will never be the same!
There should be a parental warning on this release. Imagine, a company like id teaching children to swear?? I should sue!
(it's good to see that other people bitch out their code every now and the;)
Re:Collecting E-mail adresses? For spam?
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you could implement the most amusing (and satisfying, perhaps) unwanted-email solution I've yet run across.
The scheme is this: you write a script that keeps track of the addresses of the people you don't want mail from. Every time it sees another mail from them, it incrememts the counter and sends them a polite message informing them that you do not with email from them any more, and so long as they contintue sending you email you will keep returning their email.
Now, the fun part of this scheme is what you do with the counter. Everytime you send their mail back to them, you send them 2^counter copies of your polite note. Of course, you inform them that this will happen within the text of your note.
Simple? Effective too. Sadly somewhat hypocrytical as your mass emailings may be construed as spam (or whatever) by the offenders. But this is the internet! Trouble yourself not with such issues as morals, ethics, or bandwidth wastage. Implement this scheme immediately!
Of course, you could just write a procmail rule to redirect their mails to/dev/null (but that wouldn't be as much fun)
Excite mail doesn't check the email address you supply then. I just opened an account there with the email address of i.dont@think.so and all worked fine.
Of course, they reserve the right to kill that account if they find that I've given them bogus information, but so what? It's just a throwaway account.
And god, what a good theif you'd have to be to steal one of those copiers. I'd like to see someone do a smash'n'grab when you need a flatbed truck and a crane (well, an engine hoist would probalby do) to move the damn thing.
In order to purchase the really high end copiers (where this started IIRC) you HAD to register the product with the vendor. Thus they knew who owned every single one of their machines, except the ones that were stolen, etc.
heh, acutally it could have altogether different content. I've seen the case on IRC (ok, it's not the same, but the principle applies) where people who want some privacy from the general luser but who still want curious people to be able to find them create a channel with as offensive (or boring) a name as possible and then talk about things completely unrelated to the purported topic of the channel. (how's that for a convoluted, long, almost unreadable sentence?)
So, while it's unlikely that alt.pictures.erotica.pre-teen.hardcore will carry anything other than what's advertised (I certainly haven't checked), it's possible.
So in order to determine whether the material is indeed objectionable, they'd have to check, and possibly violate the law by posessing (for however a short time) child pornography. Ugly situation for the censors to be in.
I don't think this would be too useful. given the military histories, if the army found out about this form of surveillance, they'd have to react.
how would they react? Why, by killing all of the REAL snakes off in the affected area. That way, all snakes must be spies, and can thus be detected. Foolproof. The environment, you say? Bah, we're fighting a war here, can't you see that?
IIRC, these regulations just make it easier for people (read companies) to get export licences.
in no way to they do away with the requirement that you obtain a license before exporting strong crypto.
of course, the getting of a license takes money, and, gee, free software folks don't have the money...
shit happens again, the gov't looks after its sponsors first. they're not doing this becuase they want to free crypto, or because we're making a noise or because they reasise that it's stupid. they're doing it because the companies will take thier campaign money elsewhere if they don't. bah.
hmm. odd. I've got a cybex autoboot commander 1xp (what a mouthful) here at work & run 3 linux boxes & 1 sun box off it, and machines reboot just fine without having to switch to them. the plug in module cards seem to just assert all of the proper lines to pretend that all the proper devices are there as soon as it detects power (or something)
the proprietary cables do suck though. that's the only downside i've found.
Hey, did you notice that your first name choice (Renta) was the same (after shifting all the letters left by one position, and wrapping letters that fall off then end -- i guess you could call it an anagram, but that would be too easy) as the first work in all caps in your post?
RENTA ARENT
pretty nifty, eh? and this post is as random and twisted as the subject might make it out to be:)
of course my work laptop is grumbling now, because I tried to set that as my "active desktop" background. see i figured "finally a reason to view my desktop as a web page!"
but I was wrong. it'll only let me view it in a window on my desktop. what fun is that???
He's not criticizing them for choosing their own license, he's criticizing them for choosing a not-so-open license and calling it open source.
slight difference, but important.
Re:Try installing Slackware as a newbie!
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heh. I did this too:) Except that the machine I tried to do it on was a brand-spakingin-new P100 (late '94 i think) and it had a (wait for it...) PCI bus in it.
Sadly, linux didn't support PCI at that time. Boy was i mistified, then disappointed when I found I couldn't use the operating system I'd just spent several hours trying to install.
I tried again (same stack of disks even) 6 months later and everything just worked. "cool" thinks I, and then I got to learn all about unix admin.
those were the days (when i had the time and inclination to spend hours/days thrashing about blindly figuring out how things worked)
I honestly doubt that even close to 'all' of the paper used in the US is from tree farms. I know that the pulp & paper industry in canada (especially on the west coast, where i'm from) does, indeed, cut down large swaths of untouched forest to make newsprint (and other fine products). At least they did when I was still watching.
as many other people have commented, hemp would make wonderful paper. You get (i think) 4x as much product out of an acre of hemp as out of an acre of forest. And for some reason, hemp grows like a weed:)
I haven't played with battle.net, but I just got my friend's machine (behind my masq box) to work with the MSN gaming zone.
Doing so involved the use of yet another experimental kernel networking feature: fwmark forwarding (look for it in the network options in the kernel).
The first thing to do is to find out the port ranges that the gaming system (battle.net, the zone, whatever) need to access.
second thing to do is to (other than being familiar with the firewall & masq tools) is to do a 'man ipmasqadm' and look for the section called mfw.
That should be about it. You might even be able to get multiple boxen to work with at the same time (mfw allows redirection of ports to multiple simultaneous internal machines, if i read the docs correctly).
the third thing, of course, it to get all the command line parameters correct for ipchains and for ipmasqadm:)
anyway, i hope this helps someone, if you have more questions, email me, but this is most of what i know (it only took me ~30 mins to set it all up -- ms acutally had good docs for what port ranges were required)
Re:XFree86 could be a little more open
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I don't know if there would really be much of an increase in release speeds. In fact, it would probably end up rather like Mozilla. (imho)
At the last count that I saw, xfree had ~1.5 million lines of code. That's a whole lot of code to understand before you can start to do any serious development.
it would a rather hefty time commitment, and xfree strikes me as the kind of project where you'd want to know how the whole thing works before you started mucking around too much.
who knows about 4.0, though. a lot of things have been rewritten from scratch, if i read correctly. could be a whole different ballpark. but i doubt it.
Cool. My room-mate of last summer (who was visiting from australia for a year) gave me the impression that most any person in hi tech was welcome. 'course, she wasn't a techie by any stretch of the imagination, but...
mostly i'm just disapointed that my thought of being able to travel a little bit, hang out with friends and work all at the same time is less attractive now.
the thing is that the big (read: important) companies who want what they perceive to be the best solution will throw whatever money at the problem they have until it goes away.
even a savings of 1/2 million dollars on software licensing would be something like 7-10 competent sysadmins (i don't really know the going rate for sysadmins these days...). for a company that might have anywhere up to 100 computing facilities that need to be managed... staff costs rule the day.
so, anyway, my point is that cost really doesn't matter to the larger folks in town. important for the small companies to be sure, though.
if you read the link at the top of the article called "how it works," you'll see that it's possible to focus individual pixels, and to make the images differ slightly between the left and right eyes. This is enough to produce true 3d images (as the brain is used to pervieving them, and not as we've trained ourselves to see them on monitors).
I have a funny feeling that this would end up being a truly disturbing quake experience, and a truly nauseating descent experience... i think i'd want to be wearing a seatbelt when playing games. heh.
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ideally, the 'less' command would be replaced with either a 'grep' command for some sort of script. Unfortunately, I don't know (nor do I have the time to figure out) how to create a compromised key. Having a compromised key would let me figure out what to grep for...
if anyone else knows what the regex supplied to grep should be, please share!
Oh, dear... it looks like the censors forgot to go through this source. There are dirty words in there. My virgin eyes will never be the same!
;)
There should be a parental warning on this release. Imagine, a company like id teaching children to swear?? I should sue!
(it's good to see that other people bitch out their code every now and the
you could implement the most amusing (and satisfying, perhaps) unwanted-email solution I've yet run across.
/dev/null (but that wouldn't be as much fun)
The scheme is this: you write a script that keeps track of the addresses of the people you don't want mail from. Every time it sees another mail from them, it incrememts the counter and sends them a polite message informing them that you do not with email from them any more, and so long as they contintue sending you email you will keep returning their email.
Now, the fun part of this scheme is what you do with the counter. Everytime you send their mail back to them, you send them 2^counter copies of your polite note. Of course, you inform them that this will happen within the text of your note.
Simple? Effective too. Sadly somewhat hypocrytical as your mass emailings may be construed as spam (or whatever) by the offenders. But this is the internet! Trouble yourself not with such issues as morals, ethics, or bandwidth wastage. Implement this scheme immediately!
Of course, you could just write a procmail rule to redirect their mails to
Excite mail doesn't check the email address you supply then. I just opened an account there with the email address of i.dont@think.so and all worked fine.
Of course, they reserve the right to kill that account if they find that I've given them bogus information, but so what? It's just a throwaway account.
And god, what a good theif you'd have to be to steal one of those copiers. I'd like to see someone do a smash'n'grab when you need a flatbed truck and a crane (well, an engine hoist would probalby do) to move the damn thing.
:)
I'd then like to see them get away with it
In order to purchase the really high end copiers (where this started IIRC) you HAD to register the product with the vendor. Thus they knew who owned every single one of their machines, except the ones that were stolen, etc.
press shift-alt-numlock and you've got the keypad to use as a mouse.
arrow keys move. pressing two keys simultaneously speeds the movement up (otherwise it's painfully slow).
5 clicks. / changes it to left click, * to middle click, and - to right click (i think). + double clicks in whatever click mode happens to be engaged.
it's not the easiest thing to use, but useful for when your mouse just won't work (whether because of your wrists, or cat chewed cable).
heh, acutally it could have altogether different content. I've seen the case on IRC (ok, it's not the same, but the principle applies) where people who want some privacy from the general luser but who still want curious people to be able to find them create a channel with as offensive (or boring) a name as possible and then talk about things completely unrelated to the purported topic of the channel. (how's that for a convoluted, long, almost unreadable sentence?)
So, while it's unlikely that alt.pictures.erotica.pre-teen.hardcore will carry anything other than what's advertised (I certainly haven't checked), it's possible.
So in order to determine whether the material is indeed objectionable, they'd have to check, and possibly violate the law by posessing (for however a short time) child pornography. Ugly situation for the censors to be in.
I don't think this would be too useful. given the military histories, if the army found out about this form of surveillance, they'd have to react.
how would they react? Why, by killing all of the REAL snakes off in the affected area. That way, all snakes must be spies, and can thus be detected. Foolproof. The environment, you say? Bah, we're fighting a war here, can't you see that?
IIRC, these regulations just make it easier for people (read companies) to get export licences.
in no way to they do away with the requirement that you obtain a license before exporting strong crypto.
of course, the getting of a license takes money, and, gee, free software folks don't have the money...
shit happens again, the gov't looks after its sponsors first. they're not doing this becuase they want to free crypto, or because we're making a noise or because they reasise that it's stupid. they're doing it because the companies will take thier campaign money elsewhere if they don't. bah.
hmm. odd. I've got a cybex autoboot commander 1xp (what a mouthful) here at work & run 3 linux boxes & 1 sun box off it, and machines reboot just fine without having to switch to them. the plug in module cards seem to just assert all of the proper lines to pretend that all the proper devices are there as soon as it detects power (or something)
the proprietary cables do suck though. that's the only downside i've found.
IIRC, they're still on the web (though not as comprehensive as I remember them). http://www.brokersys.com/snippets/
they'd be a good start for something, in any case. There are lots of goodies (though some really old, irrelevant stuff too) in there.
Hey, did you notice that your first name choice (Renta) was the same (after shifting all the letters left by one position, and wrapping letters that fall off then end -- i guess you could call it an anagram, but that would be too easy) as the first work in all caps in your post?
:)
RENTA
ARENT
pretty nifty, eh? and this post is as random and twisted as the subject might make it out to be
ug, back to work.
For the curious who don't want to follow the line, that's RFC 2401.
as to what it talks about, you'll just have to have a look, 'cause I'm not telling :)
man, that kicks all ass!
of course my work laptop is grumbling now, because I tried to set that as my "active desktop" background. see i figured "finally a reason to view my desktop as a web page!"
but I was wrong. it'll only let me view it in a window on my desktop. what fun is that???
He's not criticizing them for choosing their own license, he's criticizing them for choosing a not-so-open license and calling it open source.
slight difference, but important.
heh. I did this too :) Except that the machine I tried to do it on was a brand-spakingin-new P100 (late '94 i think) and it had a (wait for it...) PCI bus in it.
Sadly, linux didn't support PCI at that time. Boy was i mistified, then disappointed when I found I couldn't use the operating system I'd just spent several hours trying to install.
I tried again (same stack of disks even) 6 months later and everything just worked. "cool" thinks I, and then I got to learn all about unix admin.
those were the days (when i had the time and inclination to spend hours/days thrashing about blindly figuring out how things worked)
mmmm, isn't nostalgia great?
I honestly doubt that even close to 'all' of the paper used in the US is from tree farms. I know that the pulp & paper industry in canada (especially on the west coast, where i'm from) does, indeed, cut down large swaths of untouched forest to make newsprint (and other fine products). At least they did when I was still watching.
:)
as many other people have commented, hemp would make wonderful paper. You get (i think) 4x as much product out of an acre of hemp as out of an acre of forest. And for some reason, hemp grows like a weed
Dead simple. Not hard at all. Check out the Multiple Ethernet howto at the LDP. Change /etc/lilo.conf. run lilo. reboot. done.
I haven't played with battle.net, but I just got my friend's machine (behind my masq box) to work with the MSN gaming zone.
:)
Doing so involved the use of yet another experimental kernel networking feature: fwmark forwarding (look for it in the network options in the kernel).
The first thing to do is to find out the port ranges that the gaming system (battle.net, the zone, whatever) need to access.
second thing to do is to (other than being familiar with the firewall & masq tools) is to do a 'man ipmasqadm' and look for the section called mfw.
That should be about it. You might even be able to get multiple boxen to work with at the same time (mfw allows redirection of ports to multiple simultaneous internal machines, if i read the docs correctly).
the third thing, of course, it to get all the command line parameters correct for ipchains and for ipmasqadm
anyway, i hope this helps someone, if you have more questions, email me, but this is most of what i know (it only took me ~30 mins to set it all up -- ms acutally had good docs for what port ranges were required)
I don't know if there would really be much of an increase in release speeds. In fact, it would probably end up rather like Mozilla. (imho)
At the last count that I saw, xfree had ~1.5 million lines of code. That's a whole lot of code to understand before you can start to do any serious development.
it would a rather hefty time commitment, and xfree strikes me as the kind of project where you'd want to know how the whole thing works before you started mucking around too much.
who knows about 4.0, though. a lot of things have been rewritten from scratch, if i read correctly. could be a whole different ballpark. but i doubt it.
Cool. My room-mate of last summer (who was visiting from australia for a year) gave me the impression that most any person in hi tech was welcome. 'course, she wasn't a techie by any stretch of the imagination, but...
mostly i'm just disapointed that my thought of being able to travel a little bit, hang out with friends and work all at the same time is less attractive now.
I was thinking that Australia might need or want another hi tec employee. Guess I won't go work there after all.
ah, well. some dreams die hard, others die easy.
the thing is that the big (read: important) companies who want what they perceive to be the best solution will throw whatever money at the problem they have until it goes away.
even a savings of 1/2 million dollars on software licensing would be something like 7-10 competent sysadmins (i don't really know the going rate for sysadmins these days...). for a company that might have anywhere up to 100 computing facilities that need to be managed... staff costs rule the day.
so, anyway, my point is that cost really doesn't matter to the larger folks in town. important for the small companies to be sure, though.
if you read the link at the top of the article called "how it works," you'll see that it's possible to focus individual pixels, and to make the images differ slightly between the left and right eyes. This is enough to produce true 3d images (as the brain is used to pervieving them, and not as we've trained ourselves to see them on monitors).
I have a funny feeling that this would end up being a truly disturbing quake experience, and a truly nauseating descent experience... i think i'd want to be wearing a seatbelt when playing games. heh.