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@Moonlit: precisely. You could make a tin foil hat. It does wonders, and protects you from the radiation that Heliosat3 was really made for. [/consipracy]

The way I see it, everything causes cancer these days. My high school has three cell phone towers each less than 100 yards from each other right outside of the football field (In fact, one of them doubled for the light tower). Each is complete with a nice yellow sign. (Well, actually it was yellow and said that "Radio emissions at this site exceed FCC rules for human exposure" - but you get the idea.)

So why, might I ask, is Microsoft providing Best Buy with anti-Linux media? They have acknowledged open source as a threat. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/micr...ining_materials

If you want to host files to stream to another device, you won't need any codecs on the server. It just needs to hold the files; the client takes care of decoding it. Definitely go for Ubuntu if you're scared of Linux for some reason. Server 2003/08 is way too much overkill, and why settle for mainstream? Let's compare: Linux - Free. Windows Server 2003 R2 Basic - $999. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...ng/pricing.mspx

I use Fedora 11 on my desktop (Pentium 4, 758 Mb RAM) - but it's 7 years old, has become obsolete, and now the DVD RAM drive won't boot any of the disks I throw in. So it's in dire need of a hardware replacement but I like Fedora because it's fast - so less precious down time. It can archive things faster and 11 boots in 20 seconds even on that machine. I use Ubuntu Intrepid right now on my Gateway CX210X tablet because it was the only distro I could get my tablet working in, and everything works great. No hardware issues (questionable tablet issue xorg interfering with the display when X shuts down, but no harm done. It just looks funny seeing the usplash all tiny.) and I'm keeping up with all the latest software like Firefox 3.5 and such automatically. So Ubuntu for desktop, Fedora for server, even though there is absolutely nothing wrong with Ubuntu server. It's all just Linux to me.

I like to think of the cold/warm boot technique as a 5 minute get-in, get-out operation - like what spies would use. The trouble isn't getting into the machine, it's getting what's important off of it. So I suppose this would be useful in some cases, such as if what information is needed is something that can be memorised or copied quickly then yes, by all means take the time to unlock it. Otherwise the sure-fire method is just to take the whole thing to run forensics on. /my_two_cents

Not on the client end, no. That's the beauty of teamviewer and NAT. But the viewer client is the only thing I've gotten working in WINE, and I do not want to setup XP (even in a VM) just for this - I want it to work seamlessly, so Linux for the server please. I'd just like this to work on Linux and windows just to be flexible. I suppose a reverse VPN is what I want to achieve - that is the client connects to my server, then having the server be able to navigate to the share on the client (or whatever other service it is running, like http or ftp). Navigating on the rest of the LAN would be nice too. A sort of remote workgroup ?reading: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN

SERVER @ 5.4.3.2 ====== INTERNET ====== CAFE @ 6.7.8.9 -- ROUTER ---------- client running samba server. ^ Server has port 22/whatever open What I mean is have client connect to the server at 5.4.3.2 and set up a tunnel. Instead of the server contacting client, the client contacts the server. After setting up a tunnel, the server connects to samba through the tunnel, so when the server looks at the share on \127.0.0.1\share over the tunnel, it sees the samba share on the client.

There must be away (or perhaps not). reverse ssh can be done - that is having a client connect to a server and the server getting the client's shell, and so can tunnelling. http://www.bitvise.com/file-sharing something like that, only in reverse.

How would one go about connecting to a windows file share over the WAN without a forward facing address (all on a windblo$ machine, behind a linksys with no forwarded ports for example)? For example while on a public Internet connection connect to my server using either an ssh tunnel or netcat, and then the server would use that tunnel to a file share either on that computer or a share on the LAN. ssh is prefered as security could be an issue here.

I've seen in sporting goods places like Bass Pro Shop and Cabella's they sell 500ma@12V panels intended for charging the battery of a deer feeder for around $70. That and a small lead-acid battery should give plenty of solar wifi goodness. They also have panels made to keep a car from going dead in storage; I've seen a really cheap one and a really good one at Bass Pro Shop in the boating isle, but I'm sure it can be found elsewhere.

According to the tutorial you would have had to format the drive before you began so any data you had on the drive would have been destroyed from this. I'm actually amazed that that tutorial didn't have a "NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED - BACKUP YOUR DATA" thing going on there. Throw it on your linux box and install/run gparted to delete the old partition and make a new one. Fdisk would work too. It should show up as a /dev/sd* device even if it has a bad partition on it.

I just tried it with no luck. All it boots to is a the _ cursor. Nothing else. brenix's solution Doesn't seem to work for me - The USB drive just falls through in the boot process and goes on to boot the hard drive. I've got nothing on the Ubuntu forums for 2 days. You'd think it would be really simple in an OS that already uses grub. Maybe we're caught up too much with grub4dos and need to look towards plain grub for computers.

Never mind - I guess I just thought about it wrong. Never really thought that grub was part of the master boot record; I imagined it was the thing that was booted by the boot record. A simple '# grub-install --root-directory=/media/disk /dev/sda' fixed the problem. I thought It was just the MBR that changed....

So I was experimenting trying to get grub on a flash drive from ubuntu 8.10 when I accidentally ran: install-mbr /dev/sda instead of on /dev/sdb. Now when I boot up all I get is a 'prompt' that reads 'MBR' initially and then changes to 'MBR: FA:' a few seconds later. Does anyone know how I can restore the original boot record? Grub seems to be fine and isn't really the problem here - just the master boot record needs to be pointed in the right direction. Anyways if I can't get it I'll probably reinstall. Thanks in advance.

# Please install GRLDR boot strap code to MBR with the bootlace.com # utility under DOS/Win9x or Linux. It appears that it works with this utility, but I can't get it going. I've tried 4 different tutorials that all end in different BIOS errors like "Disk is not bootable - insert system disk" or "BOOT ERROR". I've also tried install-mbr on the disk with no success.

I've been trying to get grub running on my flash drive with grub4dos in Ubuntu Linux. I downloaded the zip archive and found that bootlace.com is a native executable. So after formatting it as FAT32 I ran bash$ sudo ./bootlace.com /dev/sdb Disk geometry calculated according to the partition table: Sectors per track = 63, Number of heads = 255 Success. and then copied the grldr to the root directory, created a new menu.lst file and threw it into my desktop to boot up and get: Press hot-key to boot previous MBR, any other key to start GRUB... Timeout : 0 Try (hd0,0): EXT2: Try (hd0,1): EXT2: ....... Try (hd2,3): invalid or null BIOS: Drive=0x0, H=2, S=18 where it continuously reads/writes to the flash drive from there, but nothing else happens. What is being done wrong? I tried loading grub with grub-install but that didn't help any. I'm guessing it's an action handled by PEtoUSB, but I could be wrong. Any thoughts? EDIT: Sorry, this should have been under questions.

Chances are the password that needs to be cracked isn't yours in the first place.

Although it's probably not the real reason, but I think that the threat of "Exploding cats" forced the project into a small corner. [see episode comments]

So do you mean whenever you pass a radar gun it sends the coordinates to twitter? I'm a tad confuzzled here. There are radar detectors that have gps for the soul purpose of locating speed enforcement zones. But I personally think they are a waste because they have portable radar speed detectors that pop up everywhere.

Just wait - you'll change it and find out the router whitelists traffic.

Just don't put your head in front of it while in use. Probably not good for you.

Firefox 3.5 is pretty rockin... and stable. :) Install ubuntuzilla and run ubuntuzilla.py -a install -p firefox I'm pretty contempt using Rhythmbox with magnatunes.com. Sun virtual box for either those rare occasions or to run pretty much whatever. Wine has gotten much better after hitting version 1.0, and PlayOnLinux/Wine Doors is a must for the best wine experience. Cinelerra for high powered video editing, with the occasional combination of kino and avidemux. QDVD author for publishing. OOO for Writer/Publisher/Drawer/Presentation. A few nautilus scripts here and there, namely send to image shack. Makes my life a tad easier. ArkNinja: CrossOver Chromium? The native 'development' version is at 3.0.195.1, but still has no flash support.

I don't think so. I've been running that setup for nearly three years and have had no problem; then again, the LCD I got on clearance with one stuck pixel I haven't managed to fix yet and a bit of problem with brightness/contrast (Or at least I think it's a problem - probably design thing). And CRTs are pretty good at shielding most of the radiation.

Get a new copy of explorer.exe for your system and try running it. If that still doesn't work, use either command prompt or tasklist/taskkill to end any present explorer.exe tasks.