HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

Was: “The Ur-Quan Masters for Debian (problem & solution)”

The Ur-Quan Masters is a 100% free implementation of original 3DO console version of Star Control II and there is also aditional optional speech package, package with original 3DO music and tree add-on remix packs for download. I ran into a problem not finding the game executable when I had installed The Ur-Quan Masters (on my Debian Etch stable/Lenny), a fantatic game I had come upon years ago originally. “…far journey, a space odyssey encompassing the realms of science-fiction and role-playing.“. It had both, fantastic single player adventure and a 2 player dualing game that really got me addicted before even trying the single player. (more…)

Checking, with WordPress.com Stats, for search terms had led people here (always interesting) one search was “freebsd daemon wallpapers“. Obviously it led to my earlier post, Linux vs. Windows wallpapers, with image featuring Tux and BSD daemon.

This made me look for BSD wallpapers so that in future people ending here for BSD images will find what they were looking for. So for more of these BSD images head to FreeBSD Image Gallery - Ultimate FreeBSD and BSD image collection.

A second site for good BSD images is BSDnexus. That second image on right is from there.

In the end, despite the lower image glorifying BSD even over Tux/Linux I shall make it clear that I do have a huge respect for BSD (and like the maskot) but for me, if I have to choose, Linux wins hands down. And please, no comment war on this. Civilized comments are ok, even wished. In the end it’s just matter of personal preferences and BSD does rock.

Okay, I just shamelessly copied this entry with minor modification from one of my favorite blogs, Steve Parker’s uRandom, but I felt it was important enough. The entry at uRandom quoted another webpage and linked to it. Below is just a copy of what Steve has on his entry.

From the page:

In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the passports of two very unaware US citizens

Do watch the 5-minute video: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/video-hacker-war-drives-san-francisco-cloning-rfid-passports/.

Btw, Steve, if offended about me copying your entry, take contact and I’ll remove or rewrite the thing. Hope you wont though ;)

Someone had googled the text in title of this article on google and end up on my site.

To restart sshd on Fedora just run (as root on console): /etc/init.d/sshd restart

I hope that clears things up.

I must say before anything else that this is not guide to installing Safari on Linux. You can find one for installing Safari under wine here.

I want to ask if anyone has had success with this guide? I tried it and apart from succesfully loading the default home page I havent managed to load any other webpage - not even google - with it and the window has really bad graphical glitches all the time…

I would personally like to get this browser to run under Linux just to test my site with it - specially since one commenter here posted a claim that this site does not show correctly on Safari. So if anybody has had success just let me know what version of wine and safari you have and what extra measures you had to take, if any, to get it work correctly.

So, on my last post, “1,234,567,890th second since UNIX epoch. Where will you be?“, I predicted that on that particular second in time I would propably be sleepind or high. But I wasnt. Instead I was very sober and still awake - watching Futurama movies with my friend. It was all good time but now it’s gone. Still asking, what did *you* do on that moment?

“At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?” - from Bell Labs

Surely you would want to find out what time this second comes in your local time? Well, provided that your *nix system has perl installed you can run the following command in shell:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

Here in Finland this will not happen on Friday 13th but very soon after midnight on Saturday. More precisely at “Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 2009″, as was reported by the above line of perl code… I myself will most likely be high or sleeping at that very moment - where will you be?

P.S. See also: One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! by Jon maddog Hall & The 1,234,567,890th second approacheth at Linux-Watch.

Lately I have been somewhat bored with my regular computer activities, programming, hacking, and such. Almost so badly that I decided that I needed something else to get addicted at or I would get depressed… So I decided to pick up my old hobby and passion: computer games - 1st person shooters that is.

So I got myself a copy of Half-Life. Yes, some consider it old but I still love DooM, so age was not an issue - and there is a huge amount of games that I always planned to play but never got to. Half-Life is one of them and it has been reviewed excellent and also highly praised by most of my friends (well, one said it sucks). And it was mentioned to work perfectly with Linux+Wine.

So, it’s been 2 days since I started and I got hooked into it right away. Yesterday I in fact played it for several hours without any breaks - boy did my mouse hand hurt after the session :) So thats it for now, time for my other hobbies.