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These "canteens" card certainly only carries a crypted "id-number". Your money amount is linked to your name in a database. Such that the memory space used is little (and the chip is cheap). Also, the less the amount of personnal infos are on the card, the less number of privacy laws you have to read. So, in order to cheat the database, you'll have to find the crypto algorithm or to make a bulk copy of another's card. Or maybe, you may crash the system if the card carries strange data that the application can't handle.

Hey, I was wondering, which song do you listen to when you're coding/auditing ? I personally feel my reactivity and typing-speed are increasing when I'm with some techno or electro-ambient music (my friends say "stressing music"). Moreover I always code with free-music. Well, what about you ?

Yep, all this web-things are fun with bash script because wget is simply far too much powerfull (i've heard it will change lead into gold in the next version, but the pre-alpha only changes it into silver). I've done a simple "rfc reader" which download an rfc given its number and display it (with less, but you can improve it). Else, if you want to learn a lot or find ideas, read some scripts in your distro's tools (for example init scripts).

I think you can't test if a number is a prime without testing each number below its square root. no ? so what's the point in finding the primes in a range ? A not too bad way to find them is the "crible d'ératostène" (i don't remember the english name). I once have to code it in Maple language.

Nice scriptting exercize. As i don't know python, i once tried macchanger. Just adds it in your scripts (cron or inet etc..) to fits your needs. http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger

It reminds me the ATARI TOS but win1.01 has more color.

That reminds me of The Revenge Of The Mutant Camel ! It's a shoot'em all where you play a mutant camel with a mutant Goat. YES it's fun ! Else, i'm not bad à tetriNet or Bomberman.

Slackware uses the "KISS" principle. It's not really hard, it just needs time to learn how works linux, what are libraries etc... Whatever, if a "package" is not avaiable for your distro, or if it has problem you'll certainly have to learn how to compile it yourself. If your xserver hangs, if you have a "crappy problem", it's the very same : you'll have to learn what a Slacker *only* needs to learn. That's why i quite disagree with people who say that slack ain't for noobs. The "full_gui_distro_which_install_everything_in_a_click_and_makes_me_a_linux_gu ru" is a myth. Moreover, those who say "noobs need dependencies" may change their credo and says "how deep in linux system do you want to dive ?".... there are also good noobs, curious who learn fast. It's a kind of prejudice to think otherwise. I'm of those who think that if i can't solve a problem, it's more likely to be my fault than the packager's one. I think that dependencies are good for those who want to try fast a lot of different apps (but slackware, suse or another distro with full install, or knoppix dvd reach the same goal). Just an informative note : Zenwalk also have a packages manager with dep, but it only has a few "certified and well-tested" packages. In fact, a quite dumb sentence can sump-up the problem : "the less you have to know to use your distro, the less you learn". (with its variant : "the less you have to know when your distro fits your needs, the more you'll have to learn when it doesn't"). Here's my distro-scale (based on my own opinion and expercience) : ">" need more knowledge than. LFS > Gentoo > Slackware > Zenwalk > Red Hat = Suse = Mandriva > Ubuntu > Knoppix. Then Wallis, where do you want to start ? what do you want to do with your comp ? Do you prefer tutorials with deep explanations or tutorials with some screenshot where the button to click is circled ? Then we can tell you what you need.

I learned from slackware when a man (a uber linux-user) said me he started with slackware and had no problem with it. Well the transition from windows is harsh, but it's bearable if you have time to spend. Now i use Zenwalk. It's a very light distro based on and compatible with Slackware. It also has quite the same install procedure. I run it on a Dell Lattitude 110L (~1200Mhz ; 256Mo ; intel graphic and intel wifi) and only the wifi card need a "configuration" to work (copy a proprietary firmware). Everything else works quite great out of the box. Is really fast. Well, Zenwalk may be cool for beginners i think. Ubuntu is said to be good too.

Humm i think dryed blood in the keyboard is worst than biscuits or cripses pieces.

Well you'll have to put another disclaimer in the beginning. "never punch your friends" I really really hope you'll be up soon man. Don't care if 2x02 is more "raw" than 2x01, your health comes first.

Well, i'll be in Italy for one year (studies) and my web connection will depend on neighbour's wifi. So it will hard to learn french to anyone. I'll grab some CD of "illegal applications" and i'll pass them through the border.

stripping the drm is legal in most of europe , (deffonately belgium & the netherlands) , in canada , and if im not mistaking even the uk ... It's no longer legal in France, speaking to people about this app may cost me 3 years of jail.

It was for school but we weren't really helped : creating a kind of answearing machine that controls electronic switches via the phone, depending of with combination of numbers you press (it was programmed with a fpga).

It's the same with pirates and the p2p-ist. i'll always remember this pic : http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/piratead/CEA_ad.png Also, I agree with sparta, terrorist are terrorist, criminals are criminals and kilobyte is 1024bytes. edit : to stay in the subject, i think each country where the major of the RIAA sell music has a "cyber-criminal-police", and it's quite logical : they (try to) fight against child-pornography, phising, spamming etc... but they've a lot of job and little power

It's me, my English is not very good. I feel that the graphic installer sucks, and Ubuntu doesn't provide any killer-feature (and no root account ). I installed ubuntu twice, the second time i used "automatic partionning" .. i had no boot-loader functionning. I had bad experiences of Ubuntu and didn't find a good reason to use it. Nevertheless i guess Ubuntu fits for "most of users" and i often direct people to it.

I one time asked tlm-project's webmaster which distro is good for starting. He said me he started on slackware, it was a bit harsh but cool for learning quickly what a Unix is. I tried it, bought a book and now i'm still under Slackware or Zenwalk. Ubuntu as a graphical installer but i dislike it, and moreover i feel that the boot is slow ; but of course it has a lot of "user friendly" GUIs now for beginners, i don't know what's the best. Well if you want to try linux Ubuntu is good, if you want to learn it, try another distro with a "hard" reputation (debian or slack). remember, if you want to learn unix, rtfm, stfw and use the "man man" command.

Damn seeing these music or video softwares gives me itches. Evry time i tried one i've gone mad. You rules :P . I'm just able to record mic with audacity and select and extract a scene from a film with virtual dub.

There also is the RIAA-threat method.

Well as LM555 is a "famous" chip. You may find it in some old stuff like alarm-clock. I didn't really looked at the circuit but maybe a quartz may fit.

My languages : - Ruby - Rails - C - Bash - Asm - Xhtml/CSS with accessibility ; assuming it's a programming language (troll) I'd like to learn (or i will or i will have to) : - java - politics :idea:

Simply just say her that a computer is a red pill that helps sleeping. i saw ppl with two or more replies, so, i've a very good advice, it worked good for my little brother, why not for grannies : "hey old-timer ! trust your technolust"

Damn, give me the administrator e-mail adress, we'll chat with him.

Hahaha, excellent :) . I want a copy with an autograph.

Which OS are you running ?? linux (certainly bsd & mac) : ls -l > out.txt I don't know cmd line scripting in windows. Bur DIR list the current directory.