Link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5688968.html#5688968

 

 

For those who wish to have their nix screen locked manually or automatically and dont want to install big/bloated screen saver applications here are 3 good very light and minimal solutions:

For X:

• xtrlock 
  Size of files: 7 kB 
  Homepage: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xtrlock/
  Description: A simplistic screen locking program for X
  License: GPL-2

 

For TTY:

• vlock 
  Size of files: 53 kB
  Homepage: http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~toidinamai/vlock/vlock.html
  Description: A console screen locker
  License: GPL-2
  

And to make it work with a timer:

• xautolock  
  Size of files: 32 kB
  Homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/screensavers/
  Description: An automatic X screen-locker/screen-saver.
  License: GPL-2

Here goes an example:

$  xautolock -locker xtrlock -time 5

xautolock will tell  ( locker) xtrlock to activate after 5 minutes idle

For help type:

$ xautolock -help

 

Adding it to your Window Manager like fluxbox startup :

$ echo xautolock -locker xtrlock -time 5 >> .fluxbox/startup

 

 

The blog service has been updated to the latest version.

While freethinker.ws is a valid domain until 2011, there are plans to change all it's services to a new domain.

The reason behind this move has to do with the marketing use of the .ws domain around the web.

Recently freethinker.ws was offline for some time. The reason was due to faulty hardware and also its replacement as well as capacity upgrade. (another 1TB HD was added)

This are almost 100% at the moment, but some downtime minutes should be expected since things are being "fine tunned".(kernel compile reboots)

This is the first of 2 big downtimes to happen. The second one will be much later and it will happen to have the whole internal network changed and rebuilt.

So here is are new toys:

HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One Printer - A909g (CB023A)

Detail: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-18972-238444-12019-3328086-3752454-3752455-3752457.html

Video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3371588/hp_officejet_pro_8500_wireless

review:
http://www.pcrush.com/product/All-in-One-Multifunction-Printers/281912/HP-Officejet-Pro-8500-Wireless-34-ppm-4800-x-1200-dpi-All-in-one-Printer?refid=1057&clnk=281912

And an ASUS P5Q premium board

check this baby out
http://asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=QPhR6dGjcvkYnazE&content=specifications

Among its way cool features like its on built in mini OS that allows to be online using a browser, pidgin IM and skype i have to point out my favorite:

14 USB ports ( hell yah i needed those)
10 Sata HDs ( well... 12 TB on the go)
4 PCIE Video cards. (way too cool. now i can add more monitores to the 3 existing ones)
4 ethernet plugs (router box!)
oh and of course... 16 GB Ram also sound good .

Everything runs with gentoo linux and for those wanting to know about compatibility here are a couple links:

Printer: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-576049-highlight-.html
MotherBoard: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-793817-highlight-.html

note: if you plan to use this board with linux i recomend you to check my topic about its support.

Motherboard Details:

P5Q Premium

CPU

Intel Socket 775 Processors for Intel® Core™2 Extreme/Core™2 Quad/ Core™2 Duo/Pentium® dual-core/Celeron® dual-core /Celeron® Processors
Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors
Supports Intel® 45nm multi-core CPU

Chipset

Intel P45 / ICH10R with Intel® Fast Memory Access(FMA) support

Front Side Bus

1600/1333/1066/800 MHz

Memory

4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR2 1200/1066/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture
Please refer to http://www.asus.com or user manual for Memory QVL.
Please refer to http://www.asus.com or user manual for Memory QVL.
When installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended.

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot at max. x16 link (blue)
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot at max. x8 link (white)
2 x PCI Express x16 slot at max. x4 link (black)
1 x PCIe x1
2 x PCI
CrossFire
Support ATI CrossFireX™ technology, up to Quad CrossFireX

Storage

Southbridge
6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports
Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10 Marvell 88SE6121
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology)
4 x SATA 3Gb/s (orange and blue)
Supports EZ Backup and Super Speed functions

LAN

Quad Gigabit LAN controllers
Marvell 88E8056® Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2, Teaming, and Redundant

Audio

ADI® AD2000B 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- Support Jack-Detection, Multi-Streaming, and Front Panel Jack-Retasking
- Coaxial/Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
- ASUS Noise-Filtering

IEEE 1394

LSI 3227 2 x 1394a ports

USB

14 USB 2.0 ports (4 ports at mid-board, 10 ports at back panel)

ASUS Unique Features

ASUS Exclusive Features:

- ASUS 16-Phase Power Design
- Express Gate SSD

ASUS Power Saving Solutions:

- ASUS EPU-6 Engine
- ASUS AI Nap

ASUS Quiet Thermal Solutions:

- ASUS Fanless Design: Heat-pipe solution
- ASUS Fanless Design: Stack Cool 2
- ASUS Fan Xpert

ASUS Crystal Sound:

- AI Audio 2
- ASUS Noise Filtering

ASUS EZ DIY:

- ASUS Drive Xpert
- ASUS Q-Shield
- ASUS Q-Connector
- ASUS AI Direct Link
- ASUS O.C. Profile
- ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
- ASUS EZ Flash 2

Overclocking Features

ASUS AI Booster
Precision Tweaker 2:

- vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.00625V increment
- vDIMM: 64-step DRAM voltage control
- vChipset (NB): 55-step chipset voltage control
- vCPUPLL: 64-step reference voltage control
- vFSB Termination: 40-step voltage control

SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection)

- FSB tuning from 200MHz up to 800MHz at 1MHz increment
- PCI Express frequency tuning from 100MHz up to 180MHz at 1MHz increment

Overclocking Protection:

- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)

Special Features

ASUS MyLogo2
ASUS Data Guardian--TPM support
Back Panel I/O Ports

1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse combo port
1 x Optical + 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF Output
4 x LAN (RJ45) port
10 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
8-channel Audio I/O

Internal I/O Connectors

2 x USB connectors support additional 4 USB ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
1 x IDE connector
1 x COM connector
6 x SATA connectors (red)
4 x Drive Xpert SATA connectors (orange and blue)
1 x CPU Fan connector
3 x Chassis Fan connector
1 x Power Fan connector
2 x IEEE1394a connector

Front panel audio connector

1 x S/PDIF Out Header
Chassis Intrusion connector
CD audio in
24-pin ATX Power connector
8-pin ATX 12V Power connector
Power on Switch
Reset Switch
System Panel (Q-Connector)

BIOS

16 Mb Flash ROM
DMI 2.0
AMI BIOS
PnP
WfM 2.0
SM BIOS 2.4

Manageability

WOL by PME, WOR by PME, WOR by Ring, Chasis Intrusion, PXE

Accessories

1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
1 x FDD cable
8 x Serial ATA cable
2 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
1 x eSATA + 1-port 1394 (4-pin) module
1 x TPM module
1 x Q-Shield
1 x User's manual
1 x Optional Fan
1 x 3 in 1 Q-connector (Retail version only)
Support Disc

ATX Form Factor
12 inch x 9.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm )

Recently i was told that someone that i sort of know (man) celebrated 50 years of marriage.

This man deserves a statue ! Without a doubt he deserves a statue !

Why ? is simple...

Take a look at Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa).

He was in jail for 30 years and soon as he got out; he filed for divorce .
While this other guy did 50!

Thats 20 more !

any more doubts ?

A while ago i added the irc network through Tor as hidden service (read here) and today i decided to do the same for freethinker's webhosting.

From now on all web hosted services are available with through Tor hidden service on port 80 and 443.

The current Tor hidden service address for httpd services is:
snfzp6jry3vf5ij2.onion

Link: http://www.sabayonlinux.org

For those that dont know; sabayon is a binary gentoo distro.
So here it is gentoo at is best as sabayon.

Possibly the best live cd out there.

Sabayon Linux or SabayonLinux, (formerly known as RR4 Linux/RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution created by Fabio Erculiani.

A couple years ago i tried it as RR64 and chated a bit with Fabio Erculiani.
My outstanding congrats for his work since RR4/RR64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabayonlinux

note:
Sabayon Linux differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire system from source code, the initial install is made using packages which are pre-compiled and bundled with the source code. Sabayon Linux currently supports the x86 and x86-64 platforms.

Link: http://www.modsecurity.org

Once again modsecurity does messes it up.

This time with phpbb custom codes such as these: http://www.modphpbb3.com/viewforum.php?f=17

At the moment with mod_security 2.5.9 and phpbb 3.0.5 all BB custom codes posted on that page are able to be installed (loaded).

All, execept the google video code: http://www.modphpbb3.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=314
This one also fails: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=579376&start=2100

The output of this problem is shown as:
Method Not Implemented
POST to /forum/adm/index.php not supported.

Solution:
Unload your mod security to confirm that the problem is caused by it.
Do not simply reload apache; restart it.

The configuration file here modsecurity regex rule is:
/etc/apache2/modules.d/mod_security/40_generic_attacks.conf
40_generic_attacks.conf

Rule ID: "950006"

Regex:

ModSecurity: Access denied with code 501 (phase 2). Pattern match "(?:\\b(?:(?:n(?:et(?:\\b\\W+?\\blocalgroup|\\.exe)|(?:map|c)\\.exe)|t(?:racer(?:oute|t)|elnet\\.exe|clsh8?|ftp)|(?:w(?:guest|sh)|rcmd|ftp)\\.exe|echo\\b\\W*?\\by+)\\b|c(?:md(?:(?:32)?\\.exe\\b|\\b\\W*?\\/c)|d(?:\\b\\W*?[\\\\/]|\\W*?\\.\\.)|hmod.{0,40}?\\+.{0,3}x))|[\\;\\|\\`]\\W*? ..." at ARGS:bbcode_tpl. [file "/etc/apache2/modules.d/mod_security/40_generic_attacks.conf"] [line "133"] [id "950006"] [msg "System Command Injection"] [data ";\\x22 id"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [tag "WEB_ATTACK/COMMAND_INJECTION"] [hostname ""] [uri "/forum/adm/index.php"] [unique_id "SleaIcCoAUEAAEnHCPoAAAAA"]

note: there are other bb google video codes that also fail for the same reason
note: as i pubished this; mod security also blocked me again

As i read and see quite a few news about the wild against humans, there is one thing that i keep on noticing. It is always "an attack" against mankind.

Well lets see... we "humans" (or we like to call ourselves that way due to some self important reason); go into the wild, invade the animal kingdom, hunt these creatures, kill them, keep them in cages for personal enjoyment, mess up their natural habitat and destroy their habitat; and in the END when some of them retaliate; we CALL IT an attack on US ?

Shark Attack (properly done by the shark who did what he is suppose to do by his natural right)
Of course the humanoid, also did what his stupidity told him to do.

Here is another video of a bright intelligent humanoid:

The list could on as i read about another "animal defense against" humanoid presence as a mother saves a son from a cougar attack.

And homo sapiens call this events "attacks" when these creatures are just defending themselves?

click here for good advice when life gets hard due to your own decisons.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Remember the Year 2000 problem ?

well.. there is a new one now ... the 2038 year one.
Here we go again.

This problem seems to affect 32 bit operating systems and i ask; if i am using 64 bit systems in 2009; who will be using 32 bit systems in 2038 ???

By then any intelligent brain will be using a 128 bit operating system and hopefully we will have quantum computing at home

The year 2038 problem (also known as Unix Millennium bug, or Y2K38 by analogy to the Y2K problem, known as the millennium bug) may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970.[1] The latest time that can be represented this way is 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond this moment will "wrap around" and be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as a date in 1901 rather than 2038. This will likely cause problems for users of these systems due to erroneous calculations.

more ...

Link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102721

Question: What is best to use? WEP or WPA ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn

Discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102721

Hacking Cracking Video Tutorial Collection here

I have been noting this for while now by continuous occurrence.

This example may help you to notice if your long time cool IT buddy got himself into trouble.

Ever wondered where that IT buddy of yours that you used to see online all the time went ? What happened to him ? Is he gone ?

What happened to that online buddy that was always there for an intelligent information keystroke with you ?

Well search no more.
There are 3 reasons why a guy who has a brain, suddenly looses it.

1: drugs
2: wrong people to hang out (bad company, gangs and so on)

and finally ... the third one: women.

And this set of the factors, says it all. Drugs, gangs, women.

If you have an online buddy or even an outings buddy that all of sudden is "gone", trust me ... its one of those 3 things for sure.

And when he comes back; you will notice that for a while he doesn't seem to know how things work anymore. You talk to him about something that he used to know with his eyes closed and he just went back no n00b state.
It's like they are still making decisions with their lower body parts

Around me ... they all confirm my suspicions in the end and yes... its always a girl.
As for me, i always inform the ladies that i use my upper head to think and make decisions.

Guys... learn something or check this

Link: http://www.unixtimestamp.com

Here is something useful that i just needed to use to edit some user_reg dates in mysql phpbb db.

Simple and efective

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358456

Earthlings is a 2003 multi-award winning documentary[1] written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson and co-produced by Persia White. The film was narrated by Hollywood actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings also features an original score by musician and activist Moby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlings_(documentary)

It is pathetic how primitive mankind is while it stands so sure of its so called called civilizational process.

Self explanatory