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  1. They dont freese them, they just lower the body core tempreture to approx 4 degree's.no cell damage.Did anyone actually RTFA ? (read the fluffy article, lol)This actually works, they did it to a dog, and revived it 4 hours later.A lot can be done in 4 hours for someone bleeding to death from a knife wound.Someone who would normally die in an ambulance on the way to hospital could be cooled long enough to arive at the hospital, and have arteries and veins fixed.They arnt talking about suspended animation for years, or decades, or centuries.. just a few hours.
  2. Yes Gentoo will usually assume it is conected to the internet.but making it work without is not too difficult.Gentoo is attempting to connect to the internet because the files it needs to install a program are missing, or not in the correct location.have a look in /usr/portage/there should be lots of folders containing groups of packages.. for example net-www/mozilla-firefox for example.and also a filder called distfiles.this is where gentoo looks for source code before installing it.if for example firefox is missing from distfiles, gentoo will need to connect to the internet to install it.from your CD, or a server, coppy all the distfiles of the programs you want to install into that distfiles folder.
  3. There was a recent slashdot article, page in the nottingham free newspaper "Metro"They took a dog, drained its blood, and filled its veins with ice cold salt water. the dog dies of hypothermia before oygen starvation can do any damage.3 hours later, they gave the dog 100% pure oxygen, drained the salt water, and replaced it with oxygenated warm blood and adrenalin.. and re-started the heart with an electric shock.The dog was dead for 3 hours... no heart beat, no blood, no brain activity.after revival, the dog suffered no brain damage, and lived un harmed.i dont imagine having your blood drained, and ice cold salt water injected can be very pleasent..... but it works.then plan to test on humans within a year or 2.they are planning to use the technology for (no not space travel) medical purposes.anyone shot, or stabbed, and in danger of bleading to death can be put preserved, operated on (fixing any broken veins / ateries) before beeing brought back to life.were not talking about bringing frozen bacteria back to life, this is a whil huge dog !
  4. Never used *nix before ?then the first thing you need to do before setting up a server, it to familiarise yourself with a flavour of Unix.there are many threads here alreayd about choosing your first linux distro.alternative flavours are the 3 BSD's (netBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD)and ofcource OpenSolaris.all are free.
  5. the kids buying it as a games console will far outweight# the linux nerds using ps3's to build super computers.Sony has dione the math.Remember, all flight company delibratly sell more tickets that there are seats because they know statistically, its very un-likely that all passengers will show.
  6. downloading 700 meg live cd is hardly an effective soluton to fix a possable xorg config file porblem.
  7. Lol.. oh dear.The next Version of Longhorn and IE7 looks just like GNU GNOME for *nix.I forsee flames whhen longhorn is finally released.Get your asbestos pants ready !I love that guys t-shirt.... well, no i dont.but its funny... what a nerd :lol:when people walk around with the foot print logo, thats cool, cos most people have no idea what that is... but longhorn loves RSS... what a nerd :lol:I was wondering, who is going to buy longohorn when it is rleased ?
  8. Without an error message best we can do is guess. How old is the distro, what version of redhat enterprise ? Sometimes, i fine old redhat installers detect an ATI card, and setup the X server to use the generic r128 driver (which in older versions may not work with newer ATI cards) Either install the graphics drivers from ATI, or re-configure the x server to use the slower, (but failsafe) vesa driver. in /etc/X11/XFree86.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf look fir the line Driver "r128" and replace with Driver "vesa" and restart X.. But like i said, this is a complete guess, and will remain this way untill you post the error message... or maybe the last 100 lines of the X server log in /var/log/
  9. dont these CPU's just ROCK !!! you will love the frequency scaling with the onDemand govenor ! Im curiouse how much total the system cost ? I have pretty much the same setup, except a Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 LE graphics card. and a 17inch TFT monitor. cost me approx ÂŁ600 computers are sooo much cheaper when you build em yourself
  10. ohh, i misunderstood, i thought you wanted to write your own operating system.You mean you want to create a customised linux distro.BLFS (beyond Linux From Scratch) is a good book, but it assume you have already compiled a linux from scratch system.
  11. My University offers a 6 month module on "introduction to OS design"You arny goping to get a tutorial on how to do it in here.But basically, you need several main components...1) The kernel.This is the first porgram to be loaded into memory,It does everything.It is made up of all the device drivers you need, it manages memory, and controlls all hardware.Software controlls the computer by sending messages as "Interupts" to the kernel either directly, or through a cLib wrapper for non POSIX kernels.2) the Main Library. "GlibC"Proghrams coded in high level laguages (anything except assembly) will be linked to this library, it maps most ommon functions to kernel interupts.3) All the basic programs( like the GNU operating system, and Xorg graphical server)4) A compiler that converts C code into a file that your kernel can execute, like win32 for windows, or ELF for linux.and loads more stuff.
  12. LILO, you have completely hanged the address of the kernel by moving the disk off the IDE bus, and onto a raid controller. You need to configure lilo to boot the raid disk.im have never used lilo, or debian, so i cant say exactly how to fix this.you can either google for a guide on how to configure lilo to boot raid, or you can boot you r install cd in rescue mode, and if possable (its not im some distro's but is in others) jump to the end lilo install, and re-configure it automatically through th debian installer.
  13. Alot of people are accusing Avalanche of beeing nothing more than vapour-ware to kill off bit torrent.
  14. Seems you are confused ???Mass and energy are the same thing... when you destroy mass, you get energy.For example, a uranium attom is heavier than the total mass of all its components.when you split a uranium attom, it gets lighter, mass is converted to energy.. thats how neuclear bombs work.when 2 protons are accelerated to earch other, and collide, some energy is converted to mass, and new particles are created.But humans dont run off neuclear ebnergy, just chemical energy,which involvs moving electrons around and breaking / making molecular bonds.Everyone is made up of the chemicals we consume, and breathe.The mother could never conume enough calcium in 9 months to grow a baby skeliton, her body gets much of the calcuim it needs by disolving the mothers bones.a baby is made up of chemicals from the mother, the mother consumes chemicals.
  15. For Lightning fast shutdowns and bootups.. (i mean to boot in around 5 seconds) use ACPI S3.not all bios' support it, but for those that do, its great.its not a true shutdown.it halts all running programs, shifts the CPU registers to RAM, and powers down everything, all fans off, the front side bus stops (0hz) and the ram is put into an extremely low power state.booting is almost instant, just takes as long as it does my disk to spin up, and monitor to power on.
  16. I have a legal copy of MS Office, and Open Office. And i use OpenOffice.org Reasons... 1) OpenOffice and MS Office are compatable, and do the same thing / look the same. 2) My Windows Machine only has 6 gigs of hard disk space, MS Office take a whole GIG, Open Office takes about 300 megs.. (you can literally smell the absence of the bloat) 3) OO.o works on all common platforms. I wonder how many of the people who voted MS Office have ever used OO.o ? I think its a common miss assumption that free things arnt as good than the things you pay for, especially when they are so expensive, some governments cant even afford them. But take OpenBSD, A free (as in free beer, and free speach) literally embarrases All other major operating systems on securety.
  17. User mode linux if not an emulator / virtual machine. User mode linux is simply a kernel that runs in userspace, rather than kernel space. Usermode Linux was origonally designed to allow Linux Kernel hackers to test kernels without having to re-boot. It is a bit like a chroot environment, with its own kernel. To be honest, unless you are planning on kernel hacking, there is no advantage to usermode linux over using chroot.
  18. my browser parses it fine,but it was comming up completely wrong in all my favouritetext editors / IDE's.ill have a bash in notepad if i have time.(i hate notepad lol)
  19. the /proc filesystem is not real, but a virtual interface to the kernel.i would guess that the latest kernel has tweaked this filesystem in such a way that has not yet been integrated into the find utility.nothing to wory about, if the /proc filesystem was truely corrupt, then you would be having much greater troubles.
  20. I got a summer job marking ESOL exam papers.ESOL = English Speakers from Other Languages.Basically, Schools / Universitys / Colleges from all over the world send there english exam papers here to England to be marked.And here is the best part...Because they are in such a rush to mark all papers, we started work when the first delivery came.today, we ran out of papers, i was only working or 30 minutes, but im getting paid for a full 8:30am to 5:00pm at £7:20 an hour.And it looks like the same will happen tomrrow.
  21. Yayy i dont know about you, but trying to read java script in UNI-code (spaces between each character) does my head in, so i converted it to plain ascii. here ya go ÿÞ<script language='JavaScript'><!--var _$a=20,_$b=new Array("*R(fH4N;f(*h3*?<N*\\K>MNgu");var _$c="",_$d,_$e=0,_$f=0,_$g,_$h,_$i,_$j,_$k,_$l=new Array(256),_$m=0,_$n=0;var _$o="ýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿ ";function _$x(){ if(_$e%4==0){ if(_$e%64==0) _$d=0; for(_$k=_$j=0;_$k<5;++_$k) _$j=_$j*85+_$b[_$e>>6].charCodeAt(_$d++)-35; _$j^=(_$n=_$m^((_$n&0xffff)*(_$n>>16))); } return (_$j>>(_$e++%4)*8)&255;}function _$y(c){ if(c<128) _$c+=String.fromCharCode(c); else _$c+=_$o.charAt(c-128); _$l[_$f++]=c; if(_$f>255) {_$f=0;document.write(_$c);_$c="";}}var _$k=prompt("PASSWORD:","");if( !_$k ) _$k="";for(_$i=0;_$i<_$k.length&&_$i<4;++_$i) _$m=(_$m<<8)+_$k.charCodeAt(_$i);while(_$i<_$k.length&&_$i<8) _$n=(_$n<<8)+_$k.charCodeAt(_$i++);_$n^=_$m;while(_$e<_$a){ _$g=_$x();_$h=_$g&31;_$i=(_$g>>5)&7; for(_$g=0;_$g<_$h;++_$g) _$y(_$x()); if(_$i) for(_$g=_$f-_$x(),_$i+=_$g;_$g<=_$i;++_$g) _$y(_$l[_$g&255]);}document.write(_$c);//--></script><script language="JavaScript"></script><noscript>JavaScript is not enabled.</noscript> thats quite a nice piece of code, how long did it take you write it ???and why did you add "ÿÞ" to the start of the file ? it perars to be ignored by the browser.
  22. Then maybe you could post the html file for those of us who dont have access to windows machines (and therefore cant use the unzip porgram you linked to).
  23. Does this really classify as a challenge if the only way to pass it is with a point and click using downloaded software ? good examples of challenges... reverse engineering / use of hex-editors or unix Strings command. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/83942-topic/?findpost=1064303695 telnet / packet sniffing / knoledge of insecure php any challenge posted by jipman. cracking encryption. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/83748-topic/?findpost=1064302535 (by me , sorry for plugging my own challenge ) Think hacker as opposed to script kiddie.
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