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I wasn't trying to sound like a jerk, if that's how it came off. I was truly just wondering why you hadn't fired it up yourself. I'll install it in a VM though and mess around with it... Hopefully I'll learn more about Linux in the process :)

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Is it out yet?

Why not just try the Live System or install it on a virtual machine and check it out for yourself?

I confess... I was given a Teensy, and have done absolutely nothing with it... I would like to start and contribute what little I can, but I want to understand what all is going on. I HATE not understanding things... I want to work in C because I've dabbled in C, but never really got into it because I wasn't good enough to code anything useful... With the Teensy though, I will have good reason to practice C (which is how I'll begin to remember the different things and advance in general). I've been looking over various source code files, header files, and even makefiles in an attempt to understand it better, but I've not really gotten anywhere. I KNOW I will have many questions while developing, so I've made this post where I can keep all my questions as they arise. For now, I would appreciate it if somebody could explain to me, line-by-line where possible, what this snippet does: // Teensy 2.0: LED is active high #if defined(__AVR_ATmega32U4__) || defined(__AVR_AT90USB1286__) #define LED_ON (PORTD |= (1<<6)) #define LED_OFF (PORTD &= ~(1<<6)) // Teensy 1.0: LED is active low #else #define LED_ON (PORTD &= ~(1<<6)) #define LED_OFF (PORTD |= (1<<6)) #endif #define LED_CONFIG (DDRD |= (1<<6)) #define CPU_PRESCALE(n) (CLKPR = 0x80, CLKPR = (n)) #define DIT 80 /* unit time for morse code */ void morse_character(char c); void morse_P(const char *s); const unsigned char morse_code_table[]; int main(void) { unsigned char i; // set for 16 MHz clock, and make sure the LED is off CPU_PRESCALE(0); LED_CONFIG; LED_OFF; I don't understand the definitions and how they work exactly, for one, and I also don't understand how a definition can be called as a... declaration, I guess? I also read somewhere about a dev channel on IRC, but I can no longer find it. If somebody could point me to it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

According to this forum post, it will only boot as USB1.1 and can take a while (up to 3 minutes, evidently). Have you ever just left the computer running for a while to see if it eventually does boot? You might also want to take a look at PLoP.

You might not actually own it. Quite a few ISPs "rent/loan" out the modems they install. If you didn't buy it from a store/internet/whatever, I'd call your ISP up and ask them if it's actually yours. Tell them you're thinking about upgrading or that you're thinking about moving and want to know if you can sell it/take it with you. Telling them you plan on voiding the warranty might raise some red flags.

I used Acronis once, when I bought a new hdd for my laptop. I only performed a direct drive-to-drive image though, so I'm not too familiar with it. I've used Clonezilla a few times, and it's always been up to par. Like I said though, the main reason I like it is because no time/space is wasted imaging the unused blocks on the drive.

I'm not sure if you would be able to copy all of the files for the persistent system into its own folder, but you can try. If not, you can of course just keep all of the files/folders on the root of the drive and essentially all you would have to do is modify the syslinux config options to make them work with GRUB4DOS in your menu.lst, which is almost effortless (just take a look at the files in the syslinux directory and you can figure out what you need to put in your menu.lst). If you have multiple OSes that use the casper squashfs filesystem, you may want to take a look at this.

Casper directory needs to be on the root of your drive, or do this.

I like CloneZilla because it can clone only used blocks (of supported filesystems), so space/time is saved not copying the unused blocks of a drive.

The image may look blank/empty in whatever software you're using, but it's not. Just burn it, boot from it, and see what happens.

Because Ophcrack is not the only password cracker... and Windows logins are not the only place password based authentication is implemented...

But I would think he NEEDS a tunnel, because Server B isn't open to the public. If I'm wrong, please elaborate.

Just setup a dynamic SOCKS proxy between your PC and Server A and then change the Filezilla settings to use the localhost proxy you created.

I'm not trying to sound elitist or anything, but I haven't ran a real-time anti-virus in at least a year or so. Sandboxie/VMs are good enough for me IF I even need them. Just be smart and conscious about what you're doing, and most of your problems will disappear.

You are probably going to end up implementing SSH or VPN in one way or another. There are quite a few Java SSH clients that you could probably pre-configure. KiTTY is a great way to distribute a pre-configured SSH client for Windows users. A quick google seems to show that creating a VPN using ONLY Java isn't possible, although I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong. Another problem with VPN is the user will have to have admin privileges.

I use USB Image Tool from http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/ The download page can be found on the right.

Take an inventory of all of your things before the first meetup and after every subsequent meetup. I'm not saying all people steal, but it wouldn't hurt.

LOL is having Avast your idea of having your PC setup "correctly?"

or just not do something idiotic like this in the first place...

Can anybody find VaKo's post? A good thing about other search engines staying in the game, or at least trying to, is the competition they bring. Without competition, Google would not be what it is today.

Congrats on being featured on Hack a Day.

Open an explorer window: Tools -> Folder options... View Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" Apply Ok Now see whether it's menu.lst or menu.lst.txt

http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+backup FTW?