Hit the Penguin!
Posted by muesli in
Video Games
Tuesday, January 20. 2004
This is probably the most simplistic and funny web-game, I've ever seen! It's named Smack the pingu! and its rules are simple:
1. Click the mouse once, and the penguin will jump off the rock.
2. Click the mouse again, and Yeti will strike the penguin to get him flying as far as possible.
321.1 is my record till now
First Opteron with integrated Keyboard
Posted by muesli in
Tech & Net
Monday, January 19. 2004
Or was it just the other way round?
KDE Debian Packages are online!
AMD64 Buffer Overflow Protection
Posted by muesli in
Tech & Net
Sunday, January 18. 2004
Like almost all processors, AMD's chips detect buffer overflows and trigger an overflow exception that crashes an application or operating system, said John Crank, Athlon 64 product manager. But AMD's chips take the additional step of designating any code that enters the processor after the overflow exception is triggered as nonexecutable, he said. Otherwise, if the overflow exception was caused by a malicious attack, rather than a programming error, the new code can open the way for the attacker to place software programs known as "trojans" inside the PC, giving that attacker control of the PC, Crank said.
If something similiar gets implemented in the Linux kernel, this would really improve a server's security.
Awaiting mine!
KDE CVS Head Packages for Debian
Posted by muesli in
Tech & Net
Sunday, January 18. 2004
It's already early in the morning and I'm still compiling KDE CVS Head packages for Debian. I'm going to do this at regular intervals (probably nightly snapshots), soon. I still have to set up some automation for this time-expensive process.
The packages will then be uploaded to http://rs.fuzz.nl/muesli/, some server-space Rob Lensen donated to this project. Thanks Rob!
I will notify you here, as soon as this project officially starts. Of course, you're invited to have a peek at this URL, whenever you want
Anything else happening? Yes, I'm awaiting an Athlon 64 3.2! I will set up my new desktop on this machine, and it sounds really promissing:
- Athlon 64 3.2
- MSI KT800 Neo
- 1GB DDR400 CL2.0
- Raid-0 SATA 2 x 80GB
If the GCC port for the x86-64 infrastructure isn't too b*tchy, I'll hopefully be able to provide KDE CVS packages for AMD64 systems, too. That would be neat
Good night, err morning.
muesli
Fanta Berry Blue
Posted by muesli in
The third place
Sunday, January 18. 2004
I love Vanilla Coke. I enjoy a few other Coca Cola Products, but this time I almost spit my drink over the keyboard: Fanta Berry Blue.It tastes the same way it looks: Ugly. If I ever wanted to drink a mixture between Persil and urine...
a) it would have tasted just the same way.
b) I would have told you!
Bah. Directly after opening the bottle, almost visible chemical vapors are surrounding you, which won't leave the room for the next hours.
Where is my Coke?
...muesli
Debian World Domination
Posted by muesli in
Tech & Net
Thursday, January 15. 2004
He wrote a script, which converts your current distribution to a basic Debian setup. It also cleans out the traces of your old distribution and backups your "/etc". Home directories aren't touch at all, of course.
Quoting Guillem:
I've made now publicly available the script I've been working on
to substitute in runtime any distribution to Debian. It does not
convert in the sense of mapping all previous installed packages to
the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system or tarball and
cleans traces from previous distribution, from there you are in a
purified environment. =P
