Do you have the hard drive space to keep the CD images on it? If you do, Daemon Tools lets Windows look at them as CDs - essentially, it lets you mount them. It's free as in beer.
I used this to identify some unknown bin/cue files without wasting a CDR.
I've been considering something similar, just for the experience. Specifically: On the baylisa mailing list, David Weekly noted that he'd "founded the California Community
Colocation Project, a 501c3 non-profit whose mission it is to provide
virtual and colocated Internet access for individuals and non-profits.... If you'd like to help, we'd love your help!
You can find out more about us at http://CommunityColo.net/"
Detached PGP signatures are provided for kernels and their patches - that's what all those.sign files are. These do not care about IP addresses or DNS servers.
You're coming off as angry and proudly ignorant, despite correctly noting the certificates.
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I've been offline for two days, helping friends move...
Something I noticed that wasn't on the help page was rewriting the "install=boot.b" line to "boot-menu.b".
Let me know if that helps, okay?
I got it working on Debian testing
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It's working on my laptop.
Install alien if you don't have it yet, then grab lilo.rpm from one of the SUSE mirrors the author of the eye candy pointed out above. I ran "alien lilo.rpm", then "dpkg -i lilo_21.7.5-55_i386.deb" because I wasn't familiar with the alien -i option...
It works, although my text is all squishy right now. It makes me consider getting the Linux Progress Patch (the homepage is currently fallow, it seems) and gdm or xdm just for uninterrupted graphics.
Yes - LILO version 22.1 is what's in Debian testing, and it's the freshest available from the LILO distribution site - except for the beta, and there's nothing relevant in the changelog for that.
You can track the changes in real-time, or you can let it do whatever then check the files for changes.
In real-time: FileMon installs a driver that transparently tracks filesystem accesses. If you want to see what accesses the drive every five seconds, this is a good tool for it.
If you want to see what files were modified, use programs like AIDE (on Unix) or Tripwire (on Unix or Windows 2k/NT, apparently), or InstallWatch (Windows). If you just want to see where an install program left its files, this is good. If a given program is just reading (not writing) files, or leaving temp files in ignored directories, then this is not effective.
You can examine the source for AIDE & Tripwire, so this isn't a chicken-and-egg problem.
The installer for Progeny Debian Linux was nice, with some nice hardware autodetection. You can fairly painlessly switch between this and Debian. The development of this distribution has halted; the version of Debian after 3.0 will make use of the new installer, but until then it still works as a decent way to bootstrap Debian. I thought its footprint was big, but then I pruned the package list...
(As I type this, I'm trying to get a damaged Progeny cd image to rsync, via dialup, so I can install it on my parents' computer. I _really_ liked it.)
Tornado codes were supposed to make it into the Freenet project. The chunking would distribute large files amongst nodes much more widely, and you get automatically load balanced requests for speed.
I'm not sure whether it ever made it out of development...
I use Debian. In short: Apt-get makes it easy to install & remove packages, without leaving questions about missing components.
If you install something which depends on something else, it will list the extra packages required. Before downloading packages, it mentions the amount of space that will be taken up or freed by the installed / removed packages, and how much needs to be downloaded. If you don't recognize an installed package, you can ask it to be removed, and note if it will force the removal of other packages that depend upon it.
It's not as if you're planning to run it from a cron job anyway... are you?
Using dselect, choosing and installing are separate (like SUSE's package manager); when you choose a package that depends on stuff not installed, a list of those packages appears, letting you either agree or backtrack easily. Downgrading packages, or removing crucial software, requires extra command line arguments or typing a lengthy phrase as a safety precaution.
I was worried about updates modifying config files; when it notices you modified a stock config file, though, at the update it allows you to stick with the old file, go with the new file, view the diffs between the two, and... a fourth option that I forget just now... for each file.
Sorry if this is incoherent, but, well, it's a nice feature list...
"... Nancy Codec can compress with both higher quality and two times compression rate as compared with DV..."
If you want lossless compression, (apparently) you could save 10 to 33% space.
If I remember a study of computer gurus correctly, it wasn't so much that they knew how to use all of the available programs flawlessly (or use the same set of programs, either); instead, it was just knowing where to look to find information on solving the problem.
Look at it differently; the crucial skill might not be rote memorization, but sifting out salient points quickly or just being able to articulate criteria for finding salient information.
If you want a list of modified files, you could use checksumming utilities such as Tripwire or Aide.
If you want to see what filehandles are open - as in, files & sockets - lsof is useful.
The checksummers take a couple of minutes to check timestamps, and at least a few minutes for checksumming; lsof could be scripted to run in a loop, I guess. These are tools for use at intervals. If you want to get a continual log, look at strace. If you want to be able to reverse the changes, you could try chroot, or back up your system, or use a test system.
DVD decoding in software? A DVD FAQ suggests a 400Mhz PIII if you don't use any hardware acceleration.
Adamation's personalStudio at least _alleges_ a 600 Mhz machine as a minimum for real-time video effects previews, etc.
Last year, someone at The Perl Journal wrote about capturing video and comparing individual frames; IIRC, using a specific optimized module, he captured video without dropping frames with a dual 500 Mhz machine... The Perl Journal site is down (pending transfer of ownership, probably) and I don't have that issue handy.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are killer apps - I mean, I don't know where to look for info on MPEG4/Divx:), but, well, what kind of application are you thinking about?
proto.ocm is 57344 bytes. So. About 26 gigabytes of checksum data for _that one_ file.
I thought the other solution was not feasible anyway. This is somewhat possible but very very silly.
Here, aim.exe is 24576 bytes long. This gives (24576*24575)/2=301977600 combinations. MD5 is a 128-bit hash, so this makes 16 bytes per combo: about 4.8 gigabytes worth of data. This is _if_ only aim.exe is involved; someone here mentioned that dlls might be included too.
I had other problems with the paper:
I like Freenet, but it's not a lightweight process, and its speed (latency, rather) might be an issue too.
AOL could block proxies by IP address; they haven't done this yet, I believe.
It just seems like a clunky workaround, especially with these numbers. Perhaps we could use an offshore Freenet MD5 server, but it's overkill.
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It made me laugh.
Do you have the hard drive space to keep the CD images on it? If you do, Daemon Tools lets Windows look at them as CDs - essentially, it lets you mount them. It's free as in beer.
I used this to identify some unknown bin/cue files without wasting a CDR.
I've been considering something similar, just for the experience. Specifically: On the baylisa mailing list, David Weekly noted that he'd "founded the California Community Colocation Project, a 501c3 non-profit whose mission it is to provide virtual and colocated Internet access for individuals and non-profits. ... If you'd like to help, we'd love your help!
You can find out more about us at http://CommunityColo.net/"
Is this a new LithTech Engine? Or is this the one that comes with the Fruit Fucker 2000?
PETA was suing to have ads involving happy talking cows taken off of the airwaves, because the ads were misleading.
Because, you know, most people simply accept whatever talking cows say, instead of wondering if maybe those cows are just acting happy.
Detached PGP signatures are provided for kernels and their patches - that's what all those .sign files are. These do not care about IP addresses or DNS servers.
You're coming off as angry and proudly ignorant, despite correctly noting the certificates.
I've been offline for two days, helping friends move...
Something I noticed that wasn't on the help page was rewriting the "install=boot.b" line to "boot-menu.b".
Let me know if that helps, okay?
It's working on my laptop.
Install alien if you don't have it yet, then grab lilo.rpm from one of the SUSE mirrors the author of the eye candy pointed out above. I ran "alien lilo.rpm", then "dpkg -i lilo_21.7.5-55_i386.deb" because I wasn't familiar with the alien -i option...
It works, although my text is all squishy right now. It makes me consider getting the Linux Progress Patch (the homepage is currently fallow, it seems) and gdm or xdm just for uninterrupted graphics.
I think it could make my parents go "ooooh."
Yes - LILO version 22.1 is what's in Debian testing, and it's the freshest available from the LILO distribution site - except for the beta, and there's nothing relevant in the changelog for that.
OpenSSL provides lots of hooks for various types of crypto. OpenSSH (probably) just hooks onto those.
Heh. Wishful thinking...
In real-time: FileMon installs a driver that transparently tracks filesystem accesses. If you want to see what accesses the drive every five seconds, this is a good tool for it.
If you want to see what files were modified, use programs like AIDE (on Unix) or Tripwire (on Unix or Windows 2k/NT, apparently), or InstallWatch (Windows). If you just want to see where an install program left its files, this is good. If a given program is just reading (not writing) files, or leaving temp files in ignored directories, then this is not effective.
You can examine the source for AIDE & Tripwire, so this isn't a chicken-and-egg problem.
>> I had a friend run the Progeny installer, and when it tried to auto-detect his GeForce2 video card, it exploded, leaving Progeny half-installed.
When you boot from the Progeny CD, hit F4 to see the info on the text install. Pass the booter an extra parameter, "secondstage=text".
(I got the CD image synced this morning, and I'm about to try installing this on my parents' computer...)
The installer for Progeny Debian Linux was nice, with some nice hardware autodetection. You can fairly painlessly switch between this and Debian. The development of this distribution has halted; the version of Debian after 3.0 will make use of the new installer, but until then it still works as a decent way to bootstrap Debian. I thought its footprint was big, but then I pruned the package list...
(As I type this, I'm trying to get a damaged Progeny cd image to rsync, via dialup, so I can install it on my parents' computer. I _really_ liked it.)
Tornado codes were supposed to make it into the Freenet project. The chunking would distribute large files amongst nodes much more widely, and you get automatically load balanced requests for speed.
I'm not sure whether it ever made it out of development...
I use Debian. In short: Apt-get makes it easy to install & remove packages, without leaving questions about missing components.
... are you?
... a fourth option that I forget just now ... for each file.
If you install something which depends on something else, it will list the extra packages required. Before downloading packages, it mentions the amount of space that will be taken up or freed by the installed / removed packages, and how much needs to be downloaded. If you don't recognize an installed package, you can ask it to be removed, and note if it will force the removal of other packages that depend upon it.
It's not as if you're planning to run it from a cron job anyway
Using dselect, choosing and installing are separate (like SUSE's package manager); when you choose a package that depends on stuff not installed, a list of those packages appears, letting you either agree or backtrack easily. Downgrading packages, or removing crucial software, requires extra command line arguments or typing a lengthy phrase as a safety precaution.
I was worried about updates modifying config files; when it notices you modified a stock config file, though, at the update it allows you to stick with the old file, go with the new file, view the diffs between the two, and
Sorry if this is incoherent, but, well, it's a nice feature list...
"... Nancy Codec can compress with both higher quality and two times compression rate as compared with DV..."
If you want lossless compression, (apparently) you could save 10 to 33% space.
This might be a temporary quirk, but right now, sweetcode.org works better.
If I remember a study of computer gurus correctly, it wasn't so much that they knew how to use all of the available programs flawlessly (or use the same set of programs, either); instead, it was just knowing where to look to find information on solving the problem.
Look at it differently; the crucial skill might not be rote memorization, but sifting out salient points quickly or just being able to articulate criteria for finding salient information.
That's T9 from Tegic. I've got it on my cell phone, and it's useful (even though it guesses "lands" instead of "james").
Hey, there's a Java X Server that's only 562,232 bytes long (tar.gz) - does this make anything over a meg a bloated application?
If you want to see what filehandles are open - as in, files & sockets - lsof is useful.
The checksummers take a couple of minutes to check timestamps, and at least a few minutes for checksumming; lsof could be scripted to run in a loop, I guess. These are tools for use at intervals. If you want to get a continual log, look at strace. If you want to be able to reverse the changes, you could try chroot, or back up your system, or use a test system.
DVD decoding in software? A DVD FAQ suggests a 400Mhz PIII if you don't use any hardware acceleration.
Adamation's personalStudio at least _alleges_ a 600 Mhz machine as a minimum for real-time video effects previews, etc.
Last year, someone at The Perl Journal wrote about capturing video and comparing individual frames; IIRC, using a specific optimized module, he captured video without dropping frames with a dual 500 Mhz machine... The Perl Journal site is down (pending transfer of ownership, probably) and I don't have that issue handy.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are killer apps - I mean, I don't know where to look for info on MPEG4/Divx :), but, well, what kind of application are you thinking about?
proto.ocm is 57344 bytes. So. About 26 gigabytes of checksum data for _that one_ file. I thought the other solution was not feasible anyway. This is somewhat possible but very very silly.
Thanks! I can save a bit of typing now.
Here, aim.exe is 24576 bytes long. This gives (24576*24575)/2=301977600 combinations. MD5 is a 128-bit hash, so this makes 16 bytes per combo: about 4.8 gigabytes worth of data. This is _if_ only aim.exe is involved; someone here mentioned that dlls might be included too.
I had other problems with the paper:
I like Freenet, but it's not a lightweight process, and its speed (latency, rather) might be an issue too.
AOL could block proxies by IP address; they haven't done this yet, I believe.
It just seems like a clunky workaround, especially with these numbers. Perhaps we could use an offshore Freenet MD5 server, but it's overkill.