Talk about a coincidence... I just found and installed Vector Linux lastnight on a Celeron 333Mhz with 128Mb of ram and I think it's an amazing distro. It runs great and I'm going to use the computer as an internet workstation in a guest bedroom for Internet browsing and to have gaim for instant messaging. I was very impressed and I highly recommend that people give it a try on some older machines and see for themselves.
The requirements are a little bit heavier than the parent poster said, but it's not too far off.
This is almost like APRS for bad guys. Maybe they can call it CRAP (Criminals Reporting Automatically their Position).
I like the idea for bad guys, but like in the previous article about GPS tracking, I think there are quite a few people against tracking everyone.
Just wrap your ankle in foil... Problem solved. What would happen if the person is inside and there is no GPS signal, would the cops be sent every time to the last GPS location that was received?
I can see it now... "We have found spyware on your system: firefox, thunderbird, gimp, openoffice, filezilla, nvu, and gaim. Would you like to remove and visit our online store?"
It was in 1986, I was 6 years old and my dad had a 286 12mhz with 1MB of ram that he used for his business. On the weekends he would bring (lug) it home from work and let us mess around on it. He had backups of everything he needed and he had a friend who was good at computers, so he was not worried about us breaking it. I would want to play games on it like castle and sub, but he would make me go through "Learning DOS" which ran off of a 5 1/4" floppy and would save my progress. Once I completed a lesson he would allow me to play my games. I'm glad he did that because it was kind of neat being 6 years old and knowing how to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys. It must have made an impression on me because now I'm a systems administrator!
I find that with the whole virus/worm/spyware thing, the best solution on our end is education about what these things are and what you can do on your part to avoid getting them.
Is there any website out there where there is maybe a pdf that you can print out for people who are just starting out with computers and explains what viruses, worms, trojan horses, and spyware is and how to avoid them. I have searched google but haven't found anything that is good for a beginner.
I would like to find something that you can give to a parent or friend and have them read it and keep it by their computer as a reference as to what they should and shouldn't do when it comes to email attachments and avoiding spyware.
From what I can tell from searching google, it goes for about $150
What is Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite?
Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite is a kit bundled with Buddy software which enables two to five users to share the computing power and resources of a single computer (Host PC). All users can simultaneously perform any tasks that they would perform on a standard Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition. With Buddy B-680 Premium, additional users are supported by adding PCI video cards and monitors along with USB keyboards & mice, Buddy USB Audio Hub, USB & Video combo cable, and speakers (optional).
For Buddy-680 Lite, additional users are supported by adding PCI video cards and monitors along with PS/2 keyboards & mice, Buddy USB-to-PS/2 converter, USB & Video combo cable, and speakers (optional). Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite enables two users (up to a maximum of five users) to work simultaneously on the same or different software applications, share a printer, CD-ROM drive, and even surf the Internet independently with one phone line, one ISP account and one modem. This saves tremendous costs!
How does Buddy software work?
Today's PCs are extremely powerful. Even while you're working on your PC, a significant portion of the PC's processing power goes unused. With our latest developed Buddy software, two to five users* can share the computing power and resources of the Host PC at the same time.
I have a question... I was thinking about doing this for some computers here in our library, but aren't you worried about someone using the available "tools" on the distro, such as ethereal, nmap, netcat, etc... to do some damage, or do you have a custom Knoppix with these and other network tools removed. I would just be worried about making some of the programs included on the CD available to the wrong people, and make it look like I'm providing a "hacking station" for whoever wants to use it.
This is a very cool way of using a knoppix disk, and quite some time back I started a thread on knoppix.net about creating a Kiosk Knoppix for just such a use, with all of the network tools removed. Kiosk Knoppix would just have the basics for an internet terminal: a browser, an office suite, and some type of instant messenger, etc..
Here is the link to the forum post (it should work once knoppix.net is done being/.'ed): http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2534
Thanks for the respect. Although I'm not a librarian, I am a sysadmin for several libraries as well as a ham!
librarians = the original "search engines"
It seems like in order to get the best use out of this unit, you would need more than just two tuners. I have DSR7000 DirecTivo and it has two tuners, and I still get conflicts with trying to record more than two shows at a given time. I wonder what kind of issues you would run into with this unit. You have all of this storage space, but not enough tuners to record with if you have multiple shows playing at the same time. I know there are quite a few times when there are movies playing on other channels that I don't want to watch right now, but would love to record them if only I had more tv tuners to allocate.
Could you then go put a tag on a person's home that you don't like, and have it point to a website that is all about how big of a jerk he is?
Not that I would want to do that, but I have heard of people getting their hands on those stickers that sets the alarms off in retail stores, and sticking them to the back of people browsing around so that when they walk out the exit it looks like they stole something.
Maybe there should be a show on a major station that is like "Mail Call" but for geek questions. I know there are shows on TechTV like this, but I think if TLC or Discovery channel had one, it would reach more of the average Joe.
Maybe there should be a show on a major station that is like "Mail Call" but for geek questions. I know there are shows on TechTV like this, but I think if TLC or Discovery channel had one, it would reach more of the average Joe.
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I have an example of what you what you can do with this. K12LTSP... It's a terminal server that pushes a KDE desktop with tons of apps and works great in almost any environment (espically classrooms) and the server can use openMosix to be clustered for more horsepower so that you don't have to have a really expensive server to run many clients.
With cluster Knoppix, when the server starts getting bogged down as you add more thin clients to it, just pop this cd in a spare computer and you can add more nodes as you need to boost the server's horsepower.
Many schools are using it, and I'm using a customised version of K12LTSP that I put together that pushes a browser only to certain terminals for patrons to use our online card catalog here at the library (I locked down the browsers using ipchains so they can only get to our card catalog site).
Check it out here
A lot of this is really just about having fun and seeing what you can accomplish and what you can learn. At least for me, thats what it's mostly about.
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Okay, I'm done...
Talk about a coincidence...
I just found and installed Vector Linux lastnight on a Celeron 333Mhz with 128Mb of ram and I think it's an amazing distro. It runs great and I'm going to use the computer as an internet workstation in a guest bedroom for Internet browsing and to have gaim for instant messaging.
I was very impressed and I highly recommend that people give it a try on some older machines and see for themselves.
The requirements are a little bit heavier than the parent poster said, but it's not too far off.
Here are the requirements from their website:
1. System Requirements
- VectorLinux 4.3 Download Edition (minimum requirements):
Pentium Classic 166 MHz
32 MB of RAM
At least 835 MB free of hard disk space plus 64 MB of swap space.
To have a more comfortable experience with VectorLinux 4.3 we would recommend a 233 MHz (MMX) processor with 64 MB of memory as a minimum.
This is almost like APRS for bad guys. Maybe they can call it CRAP (Criminals Reporting Automatically their Position). I like the idea for bad guys, but like in the previous article about GPS tracking, I think there are quite a few people against tracking everyone.
Just wrap your ankle in foil... Problem solved. What would happen if the person is inside and there is no GPS signal, would the cops be sent every time to the last GPS location that was received?
Now how am I supposed to find the time to get all those TPS reports done!
I can see it now... "We have found spyware on your system: firefox, thunderbird, gimp, openoffice, filezilla, nvu, and gaim. Would you like to remove and visit our online store?"
It was in 1986, I was 6 years old and my dad had a 286 12mhz with 1MB of ram that he used for his business. On the weekends he would bring (lug) it home from work and let us mess around on it. He had backups of everything he needed and he had a friend who was good at computers, so he was not worried about us breaking it. I would want to play games on it like castle and sub, but he would make me go through "Learning DOS" which ran off of a 5 1/4" floppy and would save my progress. Once I completed a lesson he would allow me to play my games. I'm glad he did that because it was kind of neat being 6 years old and knowing how to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys. It must have made an impression on me because now I'm a systems administrator!
"This is a Unix system. I know this." - Lex.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeImages/F ilm/JPark/
I really like the google guide.
http://www.googleguide.com/
I used it a few times to teach some classes on how to search the internet.
Keep adding Os in google and see what you end up with
www.gooooooooooooooooooogle.com
This was the highest one i could find at the moment.
It's amazing what some people will register these days.
Will it install on my P-P-P-Powerbook?
Is there any website out there where there is maybe a pdf that you can print out for people who are just starting out with computers and explains what viruses, worms, trojan horses, and spyware is and how to avoid them. I have searched google but haven't found anything that is good for a beginner.
I would like to find something that you can give to a parent or friend and have them read it and keep it by their computer as a reference as to what they should and shouldn't do when it comes to email attachments and avoiding spyware.
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/products_buddy_info.htm l
From what I can tell from searching google, it goes for about $150
What is Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite?
Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite is a kit bundled with Buddy software which enables two to five users to share the computing power and resources of a single computer (Host PC). All users can simultaneously perform any tasks that they would perform on a standard Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition. With Buddy B-680 Premium, additional users are supported by adding PCI video cards and monitors along with USB keyboards & mice, Buddy USB Audio Hub, USB & Video combo cable, and speakers (optional). For Buddy-680 Lite, additional users are supported by adding PCI video cards and monitors along with PS/2 keyboards & mice, Buddy USB-to-PS/2 converter, USB & Video combo cable, and speakers (optional). Buddy B-680 Premium/Lite enables two users (up to a maximum of five users) to work simultaneously on the same or different software applications, share a printer, CD-ROM drive, and even surf the Internet independently with one phone line, one ISP account and one modem. This saves tremendous costs! How does Buddy software work? Today's PCs are extremely powerful. Even while you're working on your PC, a significant portion of the PC's processing power goes unused. With our latest developed Buddy software, two to five users* can share the computing power and resources of the Host PC at the same time.
There used to be a product that did this.t ml
I think the name of the product was Buddy B-200
Here is a few links
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/products_betwin_info.h
http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Hardware/104120
How about oreOS?
Nothing like dunking my server in milk... yum!
Dang, now I'm hungry for oreos.
They have google and froogle. I wonder if they will call this Locoogle, or Locationoogle?
Just a thought...
I have a question... I was thinking about doing this for some computers here in our library, but aren't you worried about someone using the available "tools" on the distro, such as ethereal, nmap, netcat, etc... to do some damage, or do you have a custom Knoppix with these and other network tools removed. I would just be worried about making some of the programs included on the CD available to the wrong people, and make it look like I'm providing a "hacking station" for whoever wants to use it. /.'ed):
This is a very cool way of using a knoppix disk, and quite some time back I started a thread on knoppix.net about creating a Kiosk Knoppix for just such a use, with all of the network tools removed. Kiosk Knoppix would just have the basics for an internet terminal: a browser, an office suite, and some type of instant messenger, etc..
Here is the link to the forum post (it should work once knoppix.net is done being
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2534
Thanks for the respect. Although I'm not a librarian, I am a sysadmin for several libraries as well as a ham!
librarians = the original "search engines"
It seems like in order to get the best use out of this unit, you would need more than just two tuners. I have DSR7000 DirecTivo and it has two tuners, and I still get conflicts with trying to record more than two shows at a given time. I wonder what kind of issues you would run into with this unit. You have all of this storage space, but not enough tuners to record with if you have multiple shows playing at the same time. I know there are quite a few times when there are movies playing on other channels that I don't want to watch right now, but would love to record them if only I had more tv tuners to allocate.
Not that I would want to do that, but I have heard of people getting their hands on those stickers that sets the alarms off in retail stores, and sticking them to the back of people browsing around so that when they walk out the exit it looks like they stole something.
Maybe there should be a show on a major station that is like "Mail Call" but for geek questions. I know there are shows on TechTV like this, but I think if TLC or Discovery channel had one, it would reach more of the average Joe.
crap, wrong thread oh well...
Maybe there should be a show on a major station that is like "Mail Call" but for geek questions. I know there are shows on TechTV like this, but I think if TLC or Discovery channel had one, it would reach more of the average Joe.
A lot of this is really just about having fun and seeing what you can accomplish and what you can learn. At least for me, thats what it's mostly about.
I thought it was powers of two?
32bit = 2^32 = 4Gigs memory space
64bit = 2^64 = alot more than 8gigs
This would mean that it is far greater than twice as much information.
I could be WAY wrong since I suck at math.