Posted 11:25 PM by dave yates
Look what slashdot just added:games.slashdot.org
coolness

Posted 11:15 PM by dave yates
In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson is a 1999 essay about operating systems. This
is a very enjoyable read; informative and entertaining too.

Posted 12:19 AM by dave yates
In yet another "why you should switch story".....

Why you should switch to the Mozilla Firebird.

Posted 7:03 PM by dave yates
Here are two links to why Mozilla is superior to Internet Explorer:

1. 101 things you can do in Mozilla;

2. Why use Mozilla.

Posted 10:23 PM by dave yates
Here is a a link to a very good online book called Free Radical.
Check it out. It's the first online novel I have ever read. I was not dissapointed.

Posted 11:46 PM by dave yates
I found a very coolprogram/utility/eyecandy today. It's called gdeskcal.
It can be had here.

Posted 8:49 PM by dave yates
From the The Sydney Morning Herald:

Some features about software covered by the EULA:

* copying was prohibited
* could be used only on one computer with a maximum of 2 processors
* cannot be used as a webserver or fileserver
* required registration after 30 days
* could stop working if hardware changes were made
* updates could change the EULA if the company so wished
* could be transferred to another user only once
* the new user must agree to the licence terms (no specification how this could be achieved)
* imposes limitations on reverse engineering
* gives Microsoft rights to collect information about the system and the its use
* gives Microsoft the right to supply this information to other organisations
* gives Microsoft the right to make changes to the computer without having to ask.
* warranty for the first 90 days
* fixes, updates or patches carry no warranty

Some features found in the GPL:

* freedom to copy, modify and redistribute the software
* precludes one party from preventing another from having these same freedoms
* provides coverage for rights of users to copy, modify and redistribute the software
* no warranty as there is no fee
* can be sold if the user so decides and services for such software can be charged for
* any patents must be licensed for everyone's use or not licensed at all
* modified software must carry no licence fees
* source code must be provided
* if there is a change in license, the general terms of the existing one will be maintained.

Posted 1:19 AM by dave yates
Posted another laptop screenshot. This one is running fluxbox. I have just recently rediscovered the joys of fluxbox. Runs supremely on my PIII 450 laptop.

Posted 12:34 AM by dave yates
Want to read a GREAT book about computer hackers? Then go here.
It's free too!
It can be downloaded here.

UNDERGROUND: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier
by Suelette Dreyfus

From the Underground website: About Underground

Underground is the compelling true story of the rise of the computer underground and the crimes of an elite group of hackers who took on the forces of the establishment.

Tracing an international ring of computer hackers which spanned three continents and nearly a decade of computer crime, author Suelette Dreyfus weaves a gripping tale against a backdrop of cutting edge technology. Underground uncovers the previously hidden story behind hackers from 8LGM, The Realm, the publishers of International Subversive and other linked Internet hacking groups. These elite hackers were the cream of the international computer underground and broke into tens of thousands of computers, belonging to some of the world's most prestigious institutions including Citibank, the Pentagon, NATO, the FT 100, NASA, Lockheed-Martin, Deutsche Telekom and Australian Telecom. After hacking the Defence Data Network's NIC, some had total control over the most important computers on the Internet - computers which would let them stop communications across the entire net. They divised methods of making free and untraceable telephone calls to hide their activities, invented worms, stalked, hacked and thumbed their noses at security experts such as Eugene Spafford & Cliff Stoll and reporters from the New York Times. They monitored the police -- while the police monitored them. The hackers came from all walks of life, gathering on-line in Germany from Australia, Europe, the UK, the US and Canada, to pursue their targets with an obsessive fervour.

Irreverent, sometimes brilliant and always obsessed, many of the hackers found themselves addicted to their illegal behaviour. Some fell to drug addiction and madness, others were convicted and jailed for their crimes.

Riveting as the finest detective novel and meticously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations by the Australian Federal Police, the FBI, the Secret Service, the DST (French Secret Service) and Scotland Yard, and the resulting trials; their life on remand, on the run accross America, in prison, mental hospital and beyond.

Based on more than two years of writing and research drawn from hundreds of exclusive interviews and telephone intercepts and over 30,000 pages of court documents, Underground is the first hacking book published out of Australia and the only one to delve into the mind and world of the international computer hacker. Critically aclaimed, it has been said that Underground is the only book to examine the computer underground with real depth and insight.

Posted 8:25 PM by dave yates
LinuxHardware.org has a very good article on the state of Linux gaming.
Read it here.

Posted 7:03 PM by dave yates
Testing new beta for Chronicle Lite Blogger client. Author of Chronicle Lite, Paul S. Hawke, was kind enough to email me, letting me know of the new beta.
Cool software. Multi-platform blogger client. :-)

Posted 8:59 PM by dave yates
The latest DOCTOR FUN.

Posted 11:59 PM by dave yates
Added latest laptop screenshot running RedHat 9 with WindowMaker.

Posted 7:23 PM by dave yates
Watched "The Ring" last night. I am gonna watch it again with the wife tonight. This movie should scare her pretty good; she will probably think it's weird though. Cool and original. Not quite as good as it was hyped. A-

Posted 7:16 PM by dave yates
Happy Resurrection Day! Thank God, Jesus lives!

Posted 11:19 PM by dave yates
Just finished watching "DOGTOWN and Z-Boys", a documentary about the birth of extreme skateboarding. If you were a male under the age of 18 in the mid 70's, and owned a skateboard, then you will love this film. Great film.

Posted 11:27 PM by dave yates
"Spirited Away" is an excellent movie. Wonderful.

Posted 7:25 PM by dave yates
I really like this Chronicle Lite blogger client. I still haven't figured out the save and edit functions. it's alot quicker this way though.
I recently found a copy of "Uplink: Hacker Elite" and bought it.
A very orginal game. If you like computers, you will like this game.
And, it runs on linux!
I am gonna watch either "Spirited Away" or "The Ring" tonight. I hope I am not dissapointed.
My next movie purchase wil be "The Animatrix" due out on 6/3. I was wanting to watch this before the May 15th release of "The Matrix Reloaded", but since I am broadband challenged, I guess I will have to wait.

Posted 10:48 PM by dave yates
This post was submitted using a java blogger client.

This blogger client (Chronicle Lite) is available at:
http://chronicle.caffeinatedbliss.com/lite/

This makes it way too easy to do this. Probably want have anything more to say, but it's fun now. I am easily entertained.

Posted 9:59 PM by dave yates
I may be Inheriting a PowerMac G4. I will know more in 2 weeks. This would be really cool. I wonder how my two linux machines will like the company.
No complaints whatsoever with RedHat 9. RedHat just keeps getting better and better. It evens runs on my Japanese Panasonic "Let's Note "laptop. I can't read the keyboard or the bios (cause they are in Japanese) but RedHat runs just fine on it. Especially after installing WindowMaker on it. The lap top is a 450mhz PIII with 196 mb of ram and a 4 mg video card.
My desktop is a Athlon 1.4 Ghz T-bird with 756 mb of DDR ram and a Geforce3 64 mb graphics card .

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 1400.116
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2791.83

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4349 Thu Mar 27 19:00:02 PST 2003
GCC version: gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

Posted 11:29 PM by dave yates
Added RedHat 9 screenshot.

Posted 12:07 AM by dave yates
Installed RedHat 9 on Thursday. I love it. I will be posting screenshots later this week.