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Re: [Wlug] Battlebots / Mind Rover...

by Wesley Allen

Hmmm... Virtual mayhem. No blood. Manical machines? Sparks a-flying? Metal crunching? Death Match???? Count Me IN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I name mine HAL? BTW: I'm (finally) moving out to Westborough area. The Cape Ann LUG is pretty in active and I can't wait to get more involved in the Discussions at WLUG, you guys seem to have a good time! Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:31:22 -0400 >This is very off topic, but knowing that were all nerdy types I figure I'd >get some interesting feed back. > >Loki Games just released a Linux port of a game called "Mind Rover" Marc >Hughes and myself have been having a lot of fun recently having our robots >beat the crap out of each other. > >[quick mind rover synopsis] >you pick a chassis (hovercraft, wheeled, treaded), you put your weapons and >sensors all over the chassis, you then design the logic that drives the >whole contraption. Along with the robots there are different scenarios, >such as capture the flag and maze levels. > >I was wondering how many people would be interested in starting a "Mind >Rover" competition inside wlug. If it were more than 10 people, we could >get a bulk rate on Mind Rover. > >As for the actual mechanics of running the competitions, I'd like some >input. > >Thanks for having an open ear!!! > >Tim. >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

June 26, 2001

Re: [Wlug] new machine questions

by Gary J. Hanley

The Duron is by far the best price/performance platform right now. I just built a Duron 850 with an Asus A7V133 MB, 256MB SDRAM, 30 GB HD, ATI Radeon 64MB DDR, Plextor CD-RW 12-10-40, etc. for less than 800 sans monitor which I already own. You can save more if you buy the lower-end components. I also overclocked the font-side bus from 100MHz to 133MHz which really allows more bang for your buck. To do this you have to "unlock" the AMD CPU multiplier which is not hard, but you need some conductive ink to do this. It's all described here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1345 Even if you decide not to OC the FSB the Duron is still the P/P leader, in my steadfast opinion. :-) Currently I suspect that www.newegg.com is the best place to buy hardware on-line. The prices are really competitive and the service (in my case) was first-rate. -- Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike" <mhardy_mail(a)yahoo.com> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 11:31 PM Subject: [Wlug] new machine questions > Howdy all - > > I'd like to replace my computer (P100) with something > newer and significantly faster (but nothing bleeding > edge; I'm looking for good-value speed). I'm thinking > up to 1GHz (P3?). I want 16/24b color and since I've > been out of it awhile I don't know anything about card > makers anymore (like what's good, compatible, etc.) or > if the std these days is on-board video. > > I've used Linux for years and want something that will > allow me to get/use a scanner (first time; SCSI or > USB? recommendations?) and CD-RW (recommendations). I > have magazines and documents I want to scan and store > on tape or CD. But what's most important is that I be > able to generate some sort of index so that I can > search the scanned documents (like keywords or text). > What do I need for that? Can someone recommend > hardware/software for this purpose? > > I haven't been a 'PC expert' for many years (and don't > want to become one again :->) and am therefore no > longer up on the latest PC technologies by way of mb, > bus speeds, what's a value and what's a waste of > money. Can anyone recommend hardware and someone > local that sells build to order machines (no > brand-names or CompUSA types)? Anything from > Worcester to Shrewsbury to Marlboro to Acton to > Natick, etc. Does anyone buy machines by mail and > have anyone they'd recommend (or who to definitely > avoid)? > > Thanks... > > Mike > mhardy_mail(a)yahoo.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

June 25, 2001

new machine questions

by mike

Howdy all - I'd like to replace my computer (P100) with something newer and significantly faster (but nothing bleeding edge; I'm looking for good-value speed). I'm thinking up to 1GHz (P3?). I want 16/24b color and since I've been out of it awhile I don't know anything about card makers anymore (like what's good, compatible, etc.) or if the std these days is on-board video. I've used Linux for years and want something that will allow me to get/use a scanner (first time; SCSI or USB? recommendations?) and CD-RW (recommendations). I have magazines and documents I want to scan and store on tape or CD. But what's most important is that I be able to generate some sort of index so that I can search the scanned documents (like keywords or text). What do I need for that? Can someone recommend hardware/software for this purpose? I haven't been a 'PC expert' for many years (and don't want to become one again :->) and am therefore no longer up on the latest PC technologies by way of mb, bus speeds, what's a value and what's a waste of money. Can anyone recommend hardware and someone local that sells build to order machines (no brand-names or CompUSA types)? Anything from Worcester to Shrewsbury to Marlboro to Acton to Natick, etc. Does anyone buy machines by mail and have anyone they'd recommend (or who to definitely avoid)? Thanks... Mike mhardy_mail(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

June 25, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Connecting USB device

by Michael Long

How do I go about finding out what device sandisk is associated with? On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:43, you wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:44:40AM -0400, Michael Long wrote: > > I am running SuSE 7.0 and would like to use the USB version of SanDisk > > ImageMate for transfering pictures from my digital camera. When I try to > > mount the device I get the following: > > > > mount usbdevfs > > mount: usbdevfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy > > mount: according to mtab, usbdevfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb > > usbdevfs is not what you want - as the error message says, it's already > mounted. You can see for yourself by looking in /proc/bus/usb/ . What > you need to do is find the device that your sandisk is associated with, > and mount that. Note that you'll need to give a full mount command, as > it's highly unlikely that there will already be an entry in fstab for it.

June 24, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Connecting USB device

by Frank Sweetser

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:44:40AM -0400, Michael Long wrote: > I am running SuSE 7.0 and would like to use the USB version of SanDisk > ImageMate for transfering pictures from my digital camera. When I try to > mount the device I get the following: > > mount usbdevfs > mount: usbdevfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy > mount: according to mtab, usbdevfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs is not what you want - as the error message says, it's already mounted. You can see for yourself by looking in /proc/bus/usb/ . What you need to do is find the device that your sandisk is associated with, and mount that. Note that you'll need to give a full mount command, as it's highly unlikely that there will already be an entry in fstab for it. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */ -- Larry Wall in doio.c from the perl source code

June 23, 2001

Connecting USB device

by Michael Long

I am running SuSE 7.0 and would like to use the USB version of SanDisk ImageMate for transfering pictures from my digital camera. When I try to mount the device I get the following: mount usbdevfs mount: usbdevfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy mount: according to mtab, usbdevfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb I have tried to RTFM and found quite a bit of info but do not know how to pull it all together in such a way to mount my drive and get the pictures off of the CompactCard. Any hints on how to get this thing working would be a great help. Thanks, Mike

June 23, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Help

by Andy Stewart

Steve, Could you tell us a little bit more, for example, what did you do, and what did Applix do that you didn't expect? I have Applix Office 5.0 running on SuSE 7.1 with no problems. Have you insured that you've met all of the prerequisites of the software, especially that you have the correct versions of libraries available? Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

June 22, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Someone's hammering....

by Theo Van Dinter

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:29:38AM -0400, Peter Gutowski wrote: > Jun 22 05:17:53 host SERVER[18075]: Dispatch_input: bad request line '..... > > followed by a lot of binary bytes ending in "/bin/sh" > > I'm guessing that whoever is trying this is [so far] being kept out, but I guess I'd like to know what is being hammered on as "SERVER" doesn't provide much help. Any ideas? Well, I would probably do a few things -- 1) Verify that this person hasn't broken in yet (check for odd accounts in /etc/passwd, look for rootkits -- you'll probably want to go boot off a CD for this, verify that system binaries haven't changed (ls, login, telnetd, sshd), etc.) 2) If PID 18075 isn't constantly running, it's probably something out of inetd. I would probably set up a packet sniffer and watch traffic to your box. That will hopefully tell you 1) which daemon is being attacked, and 2) what IP/network/etc is attacking you. 3) Once you have enough information, I'd firewall the attacker out and contact the remote administrator about the security violation. And if you haven't already, make sure you're up-to-date WRT packages. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. (By jdege(a)winternet.com, Jeff Dege)

June 22, 2001

Someone's hammering....

by Peter Gutowski

I recently installed logcheck on my RH 7.0 systems and have been comforted and possibly entertained by how well it works. However this morning I started getting lengthy messages indicating what appears to be somebody trying to break in via a buffer overrun. I get this... Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 22 05:17:53 host SERVER[18075]: Dispatch_input: bad request line '..... followed by a lot of binary bytes ending in "/bin/sh" I've ad a couple "spurts" of this already today on two different systems; lasting about 2 minutes and then dissappearing. I'm guessing that whoever is trying this is [so far] being kept out, but I guess I'd like to know what is being hammered on as "SERVER" doesn't provide much help. Any ideas? -- Peter Gutowski <peter(a)linuxchamps.com> // tel.: (413) 587-3957 "When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered." --George Washington, _Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior_

June 22, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Battlebots / Mind Rover...

by Doctor Orbitz

I usually have quite a bit of problems running games in Linux, but if there are enough people, sure I'm in. Orbitz Keller, Tim wrote: >This is very off topic, but knowing that were all nerdy types I figure I'd >get some interesting feed back. > >Loki Games just released a Linux port of a game called "Mind Rover" Marc >Hughes and myself have been having a lot of fun recently having our robots >beat the crap out of each other. > >[quick mind rover synopsis] >you pick a chassis (hovercraft, wheeled, treaded), you put your weapons and >sensors all over the chassis, you then design the logic that drives the >whole contraption. Along with the robots there are different scenarios, >such as capture the flag and maze levels. > >I was wondering how many people would be interested in starting a "Mind >Rover" competition inside wlug. If it were more than 10 people, we could >get a bulk rate on Mind Rover. > >As for the actual mechanics of running the competitions, I'd like some >input. > >Thanks for having an open ear!!! > >Tim. >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

June 21, 2001