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Ok, i guess the first thing to say to introduce myself is that I hate introducing myself. I know that somehow this is suppose to be a way of saying these are my interests, this is what I am about, I do such and such as a hobby etc.

It always feels as though I am trying to give myself a bigger ego. It's big enough.

I grab old tossed out computers from trash bins around town and try to get them to work, usally installing Fedora Core on them. I currently do not have a working linux box, so I am stealling my wife's Microcrap computer to write this.

I also write bash scripts, and mess around with encryption, remailers and such. (GPG, MD5, mixmaster, cyberpunk, steghide, entropy/freenet) mainly to help provide a means of secure communication for human rights activists.

Other then that I work with Indymedia (http://bc.indymedia.org) and a varity of organizations connected with it as an information broker. In other words I'm broke.

I guess anything else you want to know about me can be found in the URL's in my sig.

Hehe
In Romania, people don't throw computers in the trash bin. No, that would be a sin
Everything we have out dated, we SELL. I've sold a 486DX (+ monitor + kb + 2 btn mouse) with 30$. If i'd go to your country and scavenge all those computers, i'll be rich in mine
Anyways, hi and welcome

Is this the Wolfe as in Wolf, the guy i know

Rommaster wrote:Is this the Wolfe as in Wolf, the guy i know

Not likely. I live in Vancouver BC Canada for starts and don't know anyone who goes by the nick Rommaster even online. Plus, I've always spelled it with an "e" on the end.

But then again, I'm involved on so many fronts, (rainbow family, IMC, Green party etc etc) ya never know.

Strafe wrote:Hehe
In Romania, people don't throw computers in the trash bin. No, that would be a sin <snip>

I still think it is a sin here. Many a time I have gone to a college, or university trash bin here and taken last years oldies. Sometimes, they are even complete systems, but most of the time they have a lot of the guts removed.

hey :-)
if you wanna to trow a PC trought window don't do this send it to i'll find where to use it :-)

It's a shame what goes on in the real world
My highschool (ex-highschool ) has 15+ complete systems (14", 586, lan adapters - well, except 2, i don't know where did they disappear ) and they're just sitting there. Nobody uses them anymore... they would make a good donation to anyone who truly needs them, but you know how people tend to be... STUPID. "Why should we give them to somebody else ? Let's keep them here until they're full of rust and dust.".

Restecp.

Strafe wrote:It's a shame what goes on in the real world
My highschool (ex-highschool ) has 15+ complete systems (14", 586, lan adapters - well, except 2, i don't know where did they disappear ) and they're just sitting there. Nobody uses them anymore... they would make a good donation to anyone who truly needs them, but you know how people tend to be... STUPID. "Why should we give them to somebody else ? Let's keep them here until they're full of rust and dust.".

Restecp.

it hurts really but that's reality... most people are like that, just dunno why?

...because people are just plain stupid. And i'm shocked to see an invasion of stupid people coming our way - wasn't like this 50 years ago. It's probably just my opinion.

that's what i observed too

I have two new boxes on the go with fedora, but in both cases the mouse is not being set up. (I have a hunderd of the little critters of all kinds so this is either a mobo problem or a stupid mistake on my part)

Any ideas?

I really want to get a few ideas running straight on one of my own boxes before I request a shell.

Wolfe

Fedora you say ? My latest version of RedHat is 6.2 (2.2.* kernel).. yeah, it's really TOP-NOTCH, i know I'm not into much except Slackware, but i'll do my best to help you.

If you installed Fedora visually, you haven't probably selected the right port for your mouse (is it PS/2 or COM ?).. I haven't had any problems with my mice (and i've tried quite a few distros and mice - ranging from KNOPPIX, SuSE to Corel, RedHat, Mandrake,Slackware etc)

In most cases, this should work:
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2

But you can also specify -t <something else>
Please refer to gpm -t help for more options or man gpm

I've been a little pre-occupied.

My cat puked on my monitor and fried it!

Anyway I'm back, and working on unode again.

Hello and welcome, Wolfe. You're interested in encryption? So you could try to decode the polynomial in my signature. It's easy. If you've got it, then you could mail it to me. Get my public key with one of:

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gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys CE402012
gpg --keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com/ --recv-keys CE402012

=D

mm_freak wrote:Hello and welcome, Wolfe. You're interested in encryption? So you could try to decode the polynomial in my signature. It's easy. If you've got it, then you could mail it to me. Get my public key with one of:

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gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys CE402012
gpg --keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com/ --recv-keys CE402012

=D

Hmmmmmmm TWO be or not TWO be LEET that is the question....

lol