It's like swaret, another package management for Slackware and is very similar to apt-get for Debian.
A little while back there was a smear campaign against slapt-get by the developers of swaret. I think this issue has been resolved, but that's how I found out about slapt-get. You can read the comments (Nov 25th 2003) on the slapt-get link to freshmeat above.
Phynd does not limit itself to certain types of files. It really is more of a general-purpose archie.
The search, however, CAN be limited. You can make it so that only certain categories show up as search options. So if you only want people to search for.jpgs and.gifs, you could enable that category. Of course, you'll want to disable the (search all files) option, otherwise it's all sort of useless...
I remember archie... archie never worked. In fact, the archie icon was animated, it was a side view of the archie comic character, and the mouth would move up and down... that's all it would ever do... I never actually found anything using it.
I used to run a Phynd server for a little over a year while in the Berkeley dorms... it was actually pretty cool, but it's not like Napster.
Basically, the Phynd concept is actually very basic: scan all SAMBA shares (i.e. windows shares), store the results, put in a file/DB and then make a searchable webfront or application. FlatLAN is actually a separate, user-friendlyish application to the webfront. Scanning only takes place every couple of hours, so it might miss a couple computers. Also, if people turn their computer off, the shares are still listed in the database, but aren't accessible. It isn't updated in real-time like Napster/KaZaA/
The reason this is popular, in case you don't know, is that you're just searching all available shares and downloading them at the speed of the internal network... mmm... 100Mbit switched network... it was quite useful, especially if you're looking for bigger files.
While I think that the RIAA does have a point, I mean, honestly, why would you put a compressed (.zip/.rar/.arc) category or a mp3 category to narrow searches down?
However, they do miss a really great aspect of Phynd: it can be used as a security scanner. Since a lot of new computers do come with their computers sharing the entire harddrive (in the same way some trojans do), it's easy to figure out who needs to secure their computer.
Another legit use is actually sharing ISOs... no, I'm not talking about your latest w4r3z fix, but the latest Linux ISOs. I was able to pull Slackware 7.1 (I think it was 7.1) off the network at a cool 2-4MB/s which is much faster than trying to grab it from a mirror at 50-100K/s.
I wanted to say a couple things about this as a lifelong resident of Santa Cruz:
Where would they ban the Segway from being used? The article just says the sidewalks but doesn't specify which ones.
Perhaps the largest areas with foot traffic that I can think of in Santa Cruz is either UCSC or Pacific Ave, where a lot of businesses are. (Any other Santa Cruz folks wanna pipe in, these are two places that I think of that have a lot of people).
If Santa Cruz were to ban it from just Pacific Ave, that would make sense because it is already crowded as it is, having a Segway there is NOT going to help anyone other than getting in the way of pedestrians.
They already ban skateboards and rollerblades on Pacific Ave, why allow Segways?
If Santa Cruz were stupid enough to ban it from all sidewalks in the city, that would be quite moronic. There are plenty of places that it would be kind of nice to have. Santa Cruz is small enough for a Segway to be a reasonable commuting device (although a bike would be better). As I mentioned before, they banned skateboards and rollerblades on Pacific Ave, but they do allow them in other parts of the city, so a city-wide ban doesn't seem likely.
Having said that, I personally think the Segway will fail in Santa Cruz. Considering that it can typically travel faster than a normal pedestrian, the Segway's best place would probably be in the bike lanes as opposed to the sidewalks. I believe Segway argues otherwise and calls it a pedestrian vehicle.
However, Santa Cruz, as political and anti-corporate, anti-national-chains, pro-bike, etc. as they are, they don't really have that many bike lanes. If you were to just glance at the opinions page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel (the local newspaper), you would have people complaining about a lack of bike lanes. If you were to ride your bike in Santa Cruz, you might notice this as well.
I think that for the Segway to succeed, they REALLY need to figure out how to market these things. By that I mean, they need to figure out where these things belong. I believe Segway says it should be on the sidewalks. I personally think that at the speeds they are capable of, they need to be in the bike lanes.
I heard about this from a friend of mine at church. Apparently, it's sort of like "retainers for your eyes" in that you wear these contacts when you go to bed, take them out in the morning and you have perfect vision for the rest of the day!
No surgery involved and you can stop wearing them if it doesn't work out, so it's totally reversible and a non-permanent solution.
The only way we have been able to verify that a Win2K box have been taken care of is when we do it ourselves... unfortunately, this only happens when we've already shut off the connection to compromised machines.
There will be a new security campaign similar to the bandwidth campaign we have (Be Nice to the Net) It has so far been a fairly effective educational campaign to inform residents about avoiding bandwidth wasting activities.
1) Just because someone is in a CS class doesn't necessarily qualify them to know how to setup and maintain a network. CS courses (if taught properly) will teach you the Science (the art of programming, if you will)... I know CS students that can program and design software really well, but can't fix their computer if it started spouting errors, yet on the other end, I know people that are superb with their computer skills (in terms of using, fixing, troubleshooting, etc.) but can't program their way out of a paper bag.
2) You can also check the OS version by running an nmap on machines to see what ports are open... Win2K/NT have some ports open that Win9X machines do not... this is only one method and it is definitely NOT foolproof... I'm not quite sure how their registration/security model works.
Just for the record, I work for Residential Computing at UC Berkeley (the analog of Resnet at UCSB, except it's at Berkeley:), so you know I'm not completely talking out of my ass.
This has been a topic of discussion recently at our office mainly because there have been a tremendous number of security issues relating to Windows 2000 (not so much with NT since these are students, not corporate users). I personally think that the move is a little drastic, but it will be interesting to see how this pans out at UCSB (especially how they will enforce it).
There will be people talking about how secure/insecure Win2K is. Allow me to give a common trait to all of the compromised machines:
1) Blank Administrator Password 2) Unpatched Windows (i.e. no Service Packs installed)
In nearly ALL the compromised machines, the computer is not updated and has a blank Administrator password.
The easy solution: install SP3! An easier solution: set an Administrator Password!
All really simple solutions that would prevent 99% of the issues we have encountered thus far.
So I said it was a security problem. How is it a bandwidth problem?
Allow me to point to the DarkIRC and Nimda security bulletins we have written up by our security.
So you've got a zombie, what do you do with it? A number of things:
1) use the compromised machine in a DoS attack 2) use it as a FTP server 3) use it as a IRC bot...
A script kiddie can just use a machine on a fat bandwidth pipe at will to his liking. It's definitely NOT fun when the pipe is already clogged as it is with folks and P2P apps.
So there you have... if you don't think it's a problem, it IS a problem. There are too many calls about this to our helpdesk to have it be a minor issue that everyone else makes it out to be.
http://www.phynd.net/intro/ Phynd differs heavily from Kazaa or Napster. Phynd is NOT an mp3 file sharing service, nor is it a file sharing service at all. The Phynd server is not a server from which you download files. No files are kept on the server itself. The files you download are actually kept on another person's computer. Anyone is able to access these files through windows file sharing (samba file sharing, Microsoft sharing protocol), if there is no password protecting them. What Phynd actually does is spider throughout the net and catalog all non-passworded shares into a database. A basic difference that lies between Kazaa/Napster and Phynd is that Kazaa and Napster use their software to create the ability to share files, and then use their software to download and distribute files. With the Phynd server, downloading is performed using built-in windows functionality. If Phynd were never to exist, you would still be capable of downloading files from another users' computer. The Phynd server merely provides a searchable index of shared files on your network, much like Google and other popular search engines provide a searchable index of web pages. When you search using Phynd, and click to download a file, you are no longer connecting to the Phynd server, but to a different person's computer (much like clicking on a webpage link returned to you from a web search engine). In this case, its the same as clicking on the share in a computer in Network Neighborhood.
For you Berkeley Dorm folks, http://gimlix2.reshall.berkeley.edu/phynd/
According to Rabaey, each node in the picoradio network will draw no more than 100 microwatts of power, three orders of magnitude less than 802.11b's 300 milliwatts. The benefits of such a low power network are obvious: no batteries are needed because each node can harvest all the energy it needs from its environment.
As a current student in Professor Rabaey's classes, I can say that his ideas are pretty damn cool when he explains it in his own way.
Sure, it's neat that his nodes will need no energy because it "harvests" energy from it's environment.
Development is actually going on so that the "harvesting" actually comes from the natural vibration of a wall! [site: dailycal.org]
So what do you get, a bunch of folks each developing their own thing: nodes the size of a button that you just stick on the wall and it just works.
1) As a matter of fact, meats contain several key protiens that the body uses in maintaining healthy skin, hair, and nails.
What he's talking about is that there are basically 20 amino acids in which all proteins can be synthesized from (amino acids = protein building blocks). There are eight essential amino acids that the body CANNOT sythesize on its own and must come from an outside source. Meat is a convenient source for all eight amino acids in one food.
No fruits, vegetables, plants, etc. that I know of contain all eight (I might be wrong). However, like the poster said, a balanced diet is a key factor. Certain combinations of foods can provide all eight. Common "ethnic food combinations" can provide them, like beans and a corn tortilla (only one I can think of off the top of my head).
For a list of the eight essential amino acids and some common food sources for them, go to http://www.puttingitright.com.au/aminoacids.htm
For the chemists, see http://www.nidlink.com/~jfromm/chem301/chem302r.ht m
Now he's throwing mail on the night shift at a
U.S. Postal Service distribution center for $13 an
hour.
I don't know about you folks, but as a college
student studying for an Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science degree,
I find that $13 an hour is pretty good (well, for
me anyway). I've got two jobs, one tech, one non
tech and they BOTH pay less that $13/hr.
And don't you get some sort of benfits working for
the USPS? I heard they have some really sweet
retirement plans.
Slashdot Mirror
Just a heads up, Symantec AntiVirus flagged synchroplastikum as trojan horses and deleted upon unzipping.
I tried running them under a VM, but that didn't work either.
It might be overzealous, but it's not worth it to me to possibly infect my computer for a brief moment of awesomeness.
YMMV.
Darth Brooks? I forget his name
Hey... isn't that the country singer that went to the dark side?
The computer world has a name for this: premature optimization.
Did anyone do a double-take on that sentence...
All I was thinking when I read that the first time was was, "Is that what they call it now?"
It's because it's using the Intel 263 Codec... a brief Google search shows that you can download it from this webpage...
Here are coral cache links to the actual codec downloads:
Intel 263 Codec for Win NT/2K/XP
Intel 263 Codec for Win 95/98/ME
Okay guys... what's up?
Did Santa take away your Net connection or something?
I'm pulling 115k/sec on the video downloads and 200k/sec from Blizzard's ftp site...
May I also recommend slaptget?
It's like swaret, another package management for Slackware and is very similar to apt-get for Debian.
A little while back there was a smear campaign against slapt-get by the developers of swaret. I think this issue has been resolved, but that's how I found out about slapt-get. You can read the comments (Nov 25th 2003) on the slapt-get link to freshmeat above.
From my fortune after reading the comments:
"He who hoots with owls by night cannot soar with eagles by day."
Next thing you know, there will be a "Eat less, exercise more" fortune on an article about obesity.
Hey moderators, why is this marked as funny?
I think it's pretty damn insightful.
Pot, Kettle... Black.
... email.
And if they receive one more email for enlarging sexual organs and becoming rich from home: they're going to go nuts.
... a nice Slashdotting!
Click away: newscom.com
nomadness.net has had postings in its forums about hacking and upgrading the Jukebox Zen back in December 2002 / January 2003.
More recently, a guy has created a complete guide to upgrading your Creative Labs Jukebox Zen to 30/40/60GB.
Enjoy!
Phynd does not limit itself to certain types of files. It really is more of a general-purpose archie.
.jpgs and .gifs, you could enable that category. Of course, you'll want to disable the (search all files) option, otherwise it's all sort of useless...
The search, however, CAN be limited. You can make it so that only certain categories show up as search options. So if you only want people to search for
I remember archie... archie never worked. In fact, the archie icon was animated, it was a side view of the archie comic character, and the mouth would move up and down... that's all it would ever do... I never actually found anything using it.
I wanted to try karma whoring... here ya go:
DirectConnect
Phynd
FlatLAN
I used to run a Phynd server for a little over a year while in the Berkeley dorms... it was actually pretty cool, but it's not like Napster.
Basically, the Phynd concept is actually very basic: scan all SAMBA shares (i.e. windows shares), store the results, put in a file/DB and then make a searchable webfront or application. FlatLAN is actually a separate, user-friendlyish application to the webfront. Scanning only takes place every couple of hours, so it might miss a couple computers. Also, if people turn their computer off, the shares are still listed in the database, but aren't accessible. It isn't updated in real-time like Napster/KaZaA/
The reason this is popular, in case you don't know, is that you're just searching all available shares and downloading them at the speed of the internal network... mmm... 100Mbit switched network... it was quite useful, especially if you're looking for bigger files.
While I think that the RIAA does have a point, I mean, honestly, why would you put a compressed (.zip/.rar/.arc) category or a mp3 category to narrow searches down?
However, they do miss a really great aspect of Phynd: it can be used as a security scanner. Since a lot of new computers do come with their computers sharing the entire harddrive (in the same way some trojans do), it's easy to figure out who needs to secure their computer.
Another legit use is actually sharing ISOs... no, I'm not talking about your latest w4r3z fix, but the latest Linux ISOs. I was able to pull Slackware 7.1 (I think it was 7.1) off the network at a cool 2-4MB/s which is much faster than trying to grab it from a mirror at 50-100K/s.
Damn you RIAA...
I wanted to say a couple things about this as a lifelong resident of Santa Cruz:
Where would they ban the Segway from being used? The article just says the sidewalks but doesn't specify which ones.
Perhaps the largest areas with foot traffic that I can think of in Santa Cruz is either UCSC or Pacific Ave, where a lot of businesses are. (Any other Santa Cruz folks wanna pipe in, these are two places that I think of that have a lot of people).
If Santa Cruz were to ban it from just Pacific Ave, that would make sense because it is already crowded as it is, having a Segway there is NOT going to help anyone other than getting in the way of pedestrians.
They already ban skateboards and rollerblades on Pacific Ave, why allow Segways?
If Santa Cruz were stupid enough to ban it from all sidewalks in the city, that would be quite moronic. There are plenty of places that it would be kind of nice to have. Santa Cruz is small enough for a Segway to be a reasonable commuting device (although a bike would be better). As I mentioned before, they banned skateboards and rollerblades on Pacific Ave, but they do allow them in other parts of the city, so a city-wide ban doesn't seem likely.
Having said that, I personally think the Segway will fail in Santa Cruz. Considering that it can typically travel faster than a normal pedestrian, the Segway's best place would probably be in the bike lanes as opposed to the sidewalks. I believe Segway argues otherwise and calls it a pedestrian vehicle.
However, Santa Cruz, as political and anti-corporate, anti-national-chains, pro-bike, etc. as they are, they don't really have that many bike lanes. If you were to just glance at the opinions page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel (the local newspaper), you would have people complaining about a lack of bike lanes. If you were to ride your bike in Santa Cruz, you might notice this as well.
I think that for the Segway to succeed, they REALLY need to figure out how to market these things. By that I mean, they need to figure out where these things belong. I believe Segway says it should be on the sidewalks. I personally think that at the speeds they are capable of, they need to be in the bike lanes.
I heard about this from a friend of mine at church. Apparently, it's sort of like "retainers for your eyes" in that you wear these contacts when you go to bed, take them out in the morning and you have perfect vision for the rest of the day!
No surgery involved and you can stop wearing them if it doesn't work out, so it's totally reversible and a non-permanent solution.
A google for Accelerated OrthoKeratology brings up a lot of info.
I definitely recommend taking a look into this!
The only way we have been able to verify that a Win2K box have been taken care of is when we do it ourselves... unfortunately, this only happens when we've already shut off the connection to compromised machines.
There will be a new security campaign similar to the bandwidth campaign we have (Be Nice to the Net) It has so far been a fairly effective educational campaign to inform residents about avoiding bandwidth wasting activities.
Two comments about this:
1) Just because someone is in a CS class doesn't necessarily qualify them to know how to setup and maintain a network. CS courses (if taught properly) will teach you the Science (the art of programming, if you will)... I know CS students that can program and design software really well, but can't fix their computer if it started spouting errors, yet on the other end, I know people that are superb with their computer skills (in terms of using, fixing, troubleshooting, etc.) but can't program their way out of a paper bag.
2) You can also check the OS version by running an nmap on machines to see what ports are open... Win2K/NT have some ports open that Win9X machines do not... this is only one method and it is definitely NOT foolproof... I'm not quite sure how their registration/security model works.
Just for the record, I work for Residential Computing at UC Berkeley (the analog of Resnet at UCSB, except it's at Berkeley :), so you know I'm not completely talking out of my ass.
...
This has been a topic of discussion recently at our office mainly because there have been a tremendous number of security issues relating to Windows 2000 (not so much with NT since these are students, not corporate users). I personally think that the move is a little drastic, but it will be interesting to see how this pans out at UCSB (especially how they will enforce it).
There will be people talking about how secure/insecure Win2K is. Allow me to give a common trait to all of the compromised machines:
1) Blank Administrator Password
2) Unpatched Windows (i.e. no Service Packs installed)
In nearly ALL the compromised machines, the computer is not updated and has a blank Administrator password.
The easy solution: install SP3!
An easier solution: set an Administrator Password!
All really simple solutions that would prevent 99% of the issues we have encountered thus far.
So I said it was a security problem. How is it a bandwidth problem?
Allow me to point to the DarkIRC and Nimda security bulletins we have written up by our security.
So you've got a zombie, what do you do with it? A number of things:
1) use the compromised machine in a DoS attack
2) use it as a FTP server
3) use it as a IRC bot
A script kiddie can just use a machine on a fat bandwidth pipe at will to his liking. It's definitely NOT fun when the pipe is already clogged as it is with folks and P2P apps.
So there you have... if you don't think it's a problem, it IS a problem. There are too many calls about this to our helpdesk to have it be a minor issue that everyone else makes it out to be.
Time for Phynd!
http://www.phynd.net/intro/
Phynd differs heavily from Kazaa or Napster. Phynd is NOT an mp3 file sharing service, nor is it a file sharing service at all. The Phynd server is not a server from which you download files. No files are kept on the server itself. The files you download are actually kept on another person's computer. Anyone is able to access these files through windows file sharing (samba file sharing, Microsoft sharing protocol), if there is no password protecting them. What Phynd actually does is spider throughout the net and catalog all non-passworded shares into a database. A basic difference that lies between Kazaa/Napster and Phynd is that Kazaa and Napster use their software to create the ability to share files, and then use their software to download and distribute files. With the Phynd server, downloading is performed using built-in windows functionality. If Phynd were never to exist, you would still be capable of downloading files from another users' computer. The Phynd server merely provides a searchable index of shared files on your network, much like Google and other popular search engines provide a searchable index of web pages. When you search using Phynd, and click to download a file, you are no longer connecting to the Phynd server, but to a different person's computer (much like clicking on a webpage link returned to you from a web search engine). In this case, its the same as clicking on the share in a computer in Network Neighborhood.
For you Berkeley Dorm folks, http://gimlix2.reshall.berkeley.edu/phynd/
Okay folks, it's been what, two years now since 2000 hit. I don't care whether the new millennium hit in 2000 or 2001, but please, DOUBLE N!
MillenNium.
Hell, even the bn.com link has it with two n's.
According to Rabaey, each node in the picoradio network will draw no more than 100 microwatts of power, three orders of magnitude less than 802.11b's 300 milliwatts. The benefits of such a low power network are obvious: no batteries are needed because each node can harvest all the energy it needs from its environment.
As a current student in Professor Rabaey's classes, I can say that his ideas are pretty damn cool when he explains it in his own way.
Sure, it's neat that his nodes will need no energy because it "harvests" energy from it's environment.
Development is actually going on so that the "harvesting" actually comes from the natural vibration of a wall! [site: dailycal.org]
So what do you get, a bunch of folks each developing their own thing:
nodes the size of a button that you just stick on the wall and it just works.
Pin-and-Play anyone?
(infomercial voice)Set it and forget it!
1) As a matter of fact, meats contain several key protiens that the body uses in maintaining healthy skin, hair, and nails.
t m
What he's talking about is that there are basically 20 amino acids in which all proteins can be synthesized from (amino acids = protein building blocks). There are eight essential amino acids that the body CANNOT sythesize on its own and must come from an outside source. Meat is a convenient source for all eight amino acids in one food.
No fruits, vegetables, plants, etc. that I know of contain all eight (I might be wrong). However, like the poster said, a balanced diet is a key factor. Certain combinations of foods can provide all eight. Common "ethnic food combinations" can provide them, like beans and a corn tortilla (only one I can think of off the top of my head).
For a list of the eight essential amino acids and some common food sources for them, go to
http://www.puttingitright.com.au/aminoacids.htm
For the chemists, see http://www.nidlink.com/~jfromm/chem301/chem302r.h
I know someone on the site asked this, but he never explains it.
:)
Did the death of N'Sync look neat or not?
Maybe they go out doing that jumping Bye-Bye-Bye dance move they do.
Now he's throwing mail on the night shift at a
U.S. Postal Service distribution center for $13 an
hour.
I don't know about you folks, but as a college
student studying for an Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science degree,
I find that $13 an hour is pretty good (well, for
me anyway). I've got two jobs, one tech, one non
tech and they BOTH pay less that $13/hr.
And don't you get some sort of benfits working for
the USPS? I heard they have some really sweet
retirement plans.