I agree with you. Just last night I was trying to install Peanut Linux on an old Packard Bell 133Mhz, 48 MB RAM machine and configuring video display is a nightmare. I was up till 3 AM trying to configure it (selecting different options) but with no avail. Tried every different option from the manual and other listed options. Nothing works yet. Then I thought of trying out Knoppix (which I already use on my other machine 24/7 running squid-proxy, ssh and other stuff) and it came up without a hitch. Atleast now I know that the monitor and video card is usable with linux, just have to figure out what would be the right settings. I am gonna dig more and see if I can find settings used by Knoppix and then use the same with Peanut Linux (I am still a newbie:). I can't run Knoppix on this because it is a little slow and I need GUI. Only one thing is needed from Knoppix now: A stable install on HDD.
There are times when you have an application running on Windows (and not necessarily PocketPC) that you need to port to run on Palm OS. Anyone who has done this even for a smaller code base knows the pain of doing this. An application on Windows may have a main executable and a bunch of DLLs. The article shows how to convert the DLLs to Palm Shared libraries and can be very useful for small and large projects equally. Lot of companies are allowing their employees to use the handhelds of their choice. In such situations you need to port your applications to PocketPC, Palm, Blackberry, add your favourite PDA here.
This is so easy to do that it is getting unnecessary attention. Apart from Net Send command that other have mentioned, there is a single API call which does this programatically. The API is NetMessageBufferSend. You provide either the machine name or the login name to this API and it will send the message popup to the machine or all the machines that the user has logged in from. I wrote a utility long time back which will send message to multiple people. We used this utility when the email system (Exchange servers ofcourse) will go down and we need to send messages to more than one person. It was very useful and effective way of communication at such times. The only thing that is bad about this is that the messenger service is running by default which is prone to abuse. But isn't that the way Windows works (everything running by default) ?
This is nothing new but its good to read about it in media every now and then. When people get to read the same thing again and again they will start believing and consider GNU/Linux as a serious option to Windows (No flames please...this is only for those die hard windows only users). The article is nice but a more detailed explaination of the study as well as more numbers would have certainly helped.
If you just want to get familiar with GNU/Linux then try a CD based distro like Knoppix. Just pop in the CD and restart the machine to boot from CD-ROM drive. It works like a charm and comes with ton of software (almost anything you can think of) in every category. Play around with it and see how you like it. I use it (even run Apache, Squid and other stuff) and I love it (no, I don't work for them or anything). Once you are ready to take the next step and install GNU/Linux on your hard drive you can try Debian (Kmoppix is based on Debian), Mandrake, ELX for starters. They have most user friendly installation and configuration.
Disclosure of information should be protected by law. There are cases in which hackers find bugs in softwares they are using on their own systems. Like in this particular case, the professionals probably found bugs in the OS that was running on their own machine. Such information should be allowed to be disclosed publicly. Whether to contact the vendor before telling rest of the world is a matter of choice and let the hacker decide about it. Smarter vendors will keep an eye on Bugtraq and other such lists. Even more smarter vendors will test their products before selling but thats a different story altogether. Some vendors are arrogant enough to either take a long time to look into the issue or don't provide a patch at all. Public disclosure might put some pressure on them. It might also make the user of the software products aware of the problem and take necessary precautions if possible. Instead of suing the hackers who are doing a service to vendors for free, the vendors should be sued by the clients (but the EULA doesn't allow it in most cases). Its sad that efforts are made to stop the disclosure of information instead of securing the right to freedom of speech.
If you are ready to spend few bucks then try Janus Grid. It has a really good interface, features, help documents, sample code and support. Above all, its fast as hell. I have used it in my projects and an totally satisfied. No I don't work for them.
Won't every possible research done in this matter ? They even had Dr. Felten from Princeton Uinversity demo how it is possible to do it. For more options it just takes a google search. I hope someone from prosecution is monitoring/. because I have already said it and now its well known. Its a very trival matter now.
With Products like IEradicator from 98lite which removes IE from all the Windows OS versions right up to Win2K and still keeps OS usable, would anyone in their right minds ever believe when Jim says "Forget about any business thing. Technically I just couldn't do it." ?
Try Visual MainWin from Mainsoft . This tool claims to make porting from Win32 to Unix (including Linux) very easy with little or no code change. It is said that M$ provided Windows code to Mainsoft to develop this tool. This tool is not open source though. Also, I haven't personally used this tool but will like to hear experiences of those who have.
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I agree with you. Just last night I was trying to install Peanut Linux on an old Packard Bell 133Mhz, 48 MB RAM machine and configuring video display is a nightmare. I was up till 3 AM trying to configure it (selecting different options) but with no avail. Tried every different option from the manual and other listed options. Nothing works yet. Then I thought of trying out Knoppix (which I already use on my other machine 24/7 running squid-proxy, ssh and other stuff) and it came up without a hitch. Atleast now I know that the monitor and video card is usable with linux, just have to figure out what would be the right settings. I am gonna dig more and see if I can find settings used by Knoppix and then use the same with Peanut Linux (I am still a newbie :). I can't run Knoppix on this because it is a little slow and I need GUI.
Only one thing is needed from Knoppix now: A stable install on HDD.
- Jalil Vaidya.
There are times when you have an application running on Windows (and not necessarily PocketPC) that you need to port to run on Palm OS. Anyone who has done this even for a smaller code base knows the pain of doing this. An application on Windows may have a main executable and a bunch of DLLs. The article shows how to convert the DLLs to Palm Shared libraries and can be very useful for small and large projects equally. Lot of companies are allowing their employees to use the handhelds of their choice. In such situations you need to port your applications to PocketPC, Palm, Blackberry, add your favourite PDA here.
- Jalil Vaidya
This is so easy to do that it is getting unnecessary attention. Apart from Net Send command that other have mentioned, there is a single API call which does this programatically. The API is NetMessageBufferSend. You provide either the machine name or the login name to this API and it will send the message popup to the machine or all the machines that the user has logged in from. I wrote a utility long time back which will send message to multiple people. We used this utility when the email system (Exchange servers ofcourse) will go down and we need to send messages to more than one person. It was very useful and effective way of communication at such times.
The only thing that is bad about this is that the messenger service is running by default which is prone to abuse. But isn't that the way Windows works (everything running by default) ?
- Jalil Vaidya
This is nothing new but its good to read about it in media every now and then. When people get to read the same thing again and again they will start believing and consider GNU/Linux as a serious option to Windows (No flames please...this is only for those die hard windows only users). The article is nice but a more detailed explaination of the study as well as more numbers would have certainly helped.
- Jalil Vaidya
If you just want to get familiar with GNU/Linux then try a CD based distro like Knoppix. Just pop in the CD and restart the machine to boot from CD-ROM drive. It works like a charm and comes with ton of software (almost anything you can think of) in every category. Play around with it and see how you like it. I use it (even run Apache, Squid and other stuff) and I love it (no, I don't work for them or anything). Once you are ready to take the next step and install GNU/Linux on your hard drive you can try Debian (Kmoppix is based on Debian), Mandrake, ELX for starters. They have most user friendly installation and configuration.
- Jalil Vaidya
Disclosure of information should be protected by law. There are cases in which hackers find bugs in softwares they are using on their own systems. Like in this particular case, the professionals probably found bugs in the OS that was running on their own machine. Such information should be allowed to be disclosed publicly. Whether to contact the vendor before telling rest of the world is a matter of choice and let the hacker decide about it. Smarter vendors will keep an eye on Bugtraq and other such lists. Even more smarter vendors will test their products before selling but thats a different story altogether. Some vendors are arrogant enough to either take a long time to look into the issue or don't provide a patch at all. Public disclosure might put some pressure on them. It might also make the user of the software products aware of the problem and take necessary precautions if possible. Instead of suing the hackers who are doing a service to vendors for free, the vendors should be sued by the clients (but the EULA doesn't allow it in most cases). Its sad that efforts are made to stop the disclosure of information instead of securing the right to freedom of speech.
- Jalil Vaidya
If you are ready to spend few bucks then try Janus Grid. It has a really good interface, features, help documents, sample code and support. Above all, its fast as hell. I have used it in my projects and an totally satisfied. No I don't work for them.
- Jalil
Won't every possible research done in this matter ? They even had Dr. Felten from Princeton Uinversity demo how it is possible to do it. For more options it just takes a google search. /. because I have already said it and now its well known. Its a very trival matter now.
I hope someone from prosecution is monitoring
- Jalil
With Products like IEradicator from 98lite which removes IE from all the Windows OS versions right up to Win2K and still keeps OS usable, would anyone in their right minds ever believe when Jim says "Forget about any business thing. Technically I just couldn't do it." ?
- Jalil
Try Visual MainWin from Mainsoft . This tool claims to make porting from Win32 to Unix (including Linux) very easy with little or no code change. It is said that M$ provided Windows code to Mainsoft to develop this tool. This tool is not open source though. Also, I haven't personally used this tool but will like to hear experiences of those who have.
- J