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and how do I tell Winodws Media Player or WinAmp to access files over SSH?

I decided to take a different approach and run it from a cron job instead, although I think I will use one of the gui for the times where I want to scan immediately after downloading (I can never remember the command line options, although I can probably come up with a generic enough alias)

This is not what I have in mind. I don't want to run a "radio station" style broadcast, I want each client to be able to select which album/tracks/etc... it wants to listen to from each client computer. My current basic setup is: the music directory is shared as a Smaba share, and any PC in the house can open that share and browse it with its own media player (for example windows media player, or winamp) and select the file/albums it wants to play. Maybe this is the best way to go about it, but it requires each client to maintain its own music database relating files to albums/artists, etc... I was told that ther are programs out there that can server the already organized content, for example over a web page, and allow a user to browse by artist/album/genre/whatever and select what they want to play. Also I don't want to run Samba between my home machine and my work machine, I'd rather have something that is a little less of a security risk.

I want to experiment with using my linux server as a source for streaming MP3s so that I can listen to my ripped CD collection from any computer in the house. Depending on bandwidth requirements I would also consider streaming the audio to my workstation at work. The obvious next step would be a multimedia PC or "device" that I could plug into my stereo (which is on a different floor than the PC) so availability of clients adn ease of use may also be a factor. Some of the clients will be windows based boxes. I could simply share the MP3 collection as a samba share, but I was wondering if there are better solutions. Also I can't connect to a samba share from my work computer ( or not willing to anyway). If anyone has insight on why a specific solution is better than a samba share, I'd also love to hear the reasonning. so far all I have come up with is IceCast (www.icecast.org)

I made mine with MS Paint... I know it sucks but it was areally slow day at work and that's all I can get under windows NT. I always meant to make something in photoshop, but then my wife pointed out that I'd have to make it, well, not sickly looking... and what's the fun in that?

start by trying urpme

I reinstalled the latest version of the sun j2re yesterday, so maybe this can help you: Download it from here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html download the xxx-rpm.bin version as root: run it to accept the license agreement and unpack the rpm: sh j2re*-rpm.bin install it with urpmi: urpmi j2re*.rpm I then edited /etc/profile to add: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin I followed the instructions in the firefox help page to instruct firefox as to where java was. Not sure how you handle mozilla but the posts above should point you to the right answer. I did point Konqueror to the new path /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/bin/java but it's not working for some reason. I'll have to figure that one out sometimes but I don't use Konq for web browsing much anymore now that I use Firefox.

per the post above they actually link to ./../usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/ I think I should be able to handle it from here, if not, I'll be sure to post here again.

Interestingly /usr/java already contains two links: j2re1.4.2_04@ jre1.4.2_04@ both of which point to ../../usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/ so it looks like what I probably will need to remove those links as well as the entire ../../usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/ directory.

yuck! Oh well... how do I uninstall? do I just remove the directory? Also, since I'm upgrading from 1.4.2_04 to 1.4.2_06 it should all get installed in the jre1.4.2 (not sure it's the exact name but I would think it doesn't change) so I don;t think I have to worry about the links right?

I read yesterday that an important security flaw had been uncovered and fixed in the Sun java engine. I'm running 1.4.2_04 and the current version on Sun's site in 1.4.2_06. What is the proper procedure to upgrade? If I download the file from Sun and run it, will it uninstall the old version? Do I need to manually remove the old version? If so what's the proper way to do it. Is it possible to get jva as an rpm instead so that I can pick up updates automatically when there are security issuees like this one? Thanks

Is this available as a Mandrake RPM? There are two front-ends for this product: qtpfprot and xfprot, is one better than the other? Any rpms? I do a lot of downloading of windows software from my linux machine and would like to be able to scan it after downloading. Also can I scan samba shares on the window machine? Another free antivirus for linux is BitDefender. Is it any better, does it have a GUI?

WEP can be craked regardless of the password given enough packet captured. I don't know of any ways to force a network to broadcast encrypted packets without being yourself an encrypted station (i.e. knowing the WEP key already) so I'd love to learn how. The only known issue with WPA is if you use WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key as opposed to using a radius server) and if you use a weak password: it has been demonstrated that a dictionnary attack can be mounted pretty effectively. As long as your password is immune to a dictionnary attack, you are fine. Note that the dictionnary attack is used in the authentication phase, so it doesn't matter what encryption you use with WPA (TKIP or AES)

The main purpose for this is to use with my bittorrent client: I run bittorrent in the background using the screen command. I would like a nightly cron job to list all my active screen jobs and emal me the result. "screen -ls" will list how many screen sockets I have active, but I would like to take a snapshot of each, so that I can see what torrents I still have open (I regularly seed 5-10 torrents but not always the same ones). I saw nothing in the man page that would allow a screen to take a snapshot of each screen. Is this even possible? Thanks

Version 3.1 of the Red Orchestra UT2004 full conversion mod is out. Great free (if you have UT2004) WWII "realistic" FPS. See here: http://redorchestramod.gameservers.net/ (linux download at icculus.org)

I want to address a few misconceptions: Cracking WEP requires a very large number of packets, if the traffic on your network is light, it will take weeks to gather enough packets to crack the key, not an hour like someone mentions. Of course. in the case of neighbours' kids, they had enough time to gather plenty of packets. MAC filtering is a very weak form of protection since most wireless clients will let you change your MAC address. It will only catch the case where the intruders are being sloppy. Again maybe that's the case with teenager that downloaded a couple of tools of the Internet. Disabling SSID broadcast does very little also. The access point sends a beacon several times per second and advertizes its network name (SSID): all this does is preven t a casual "wardriver" from findinf out the name of your network. The problem is, whenever a station associates with the access point, it has to specify the name of the network, so all you have to do is wait for a station to associate. Finally most stations will "probe" fpr access point on their current ESSID, in wich case the stations will be broadcasting the SSID for everyone to hear. If you're serious about security, you want a ta minimum WPA-PSK with TKIP encryption. It is the simplest of the secure solutions. It ensures that each station gets a different key, so different stations can't understand other stations' traffic (with WEP, everyone uses the same key) also TKIP basically changes the "WEP" key for every packet being sent out, making it much much harder to crack. If you want to be paranoid, find hardware that will support the AES encryption standard. And of course, first thing first, make sure you changes the default password in your router/access point. One of my neighbours is still using the factory default despite my warning him about that fact already.

Looks like a Marathon based FPS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon/

define "profile"? if you go in Mandrake control center and choose hardware, does it have thr info you need? the KDE control panel also has a hardware section that'll tell you about hardware, interrupts, DMA channels, etc...

You might want to look at gnuplot, I'm not that familiar with it so I can't tell you if it really does what you want.

Does anyone know of an equivalent to TorrentSpy ( http://torrentspy.sourceforge.net/features.shtml ) for linux? I'd mostly like to know: - how many peers - how many seeds - how many distributed copies - which files are fully downloaded on a multifile torrent All except the last one are available in the windows "experimental" client (BitTornado) but I don't want to run the torrents on my windows machine because it's not on 24/7 and I want to seed several torrents: Ideally I would like a command line solution that I could run over SSH though.

My first goal is to have a machine that works without too much fuss (MDK 10 was quite a bit of fuss, lm_sensors took forever to get working, I still can't sue the KDE desktop sharing, oh, and there was also that bug in printerdrake...) My next goal is to learn something in the process, which usually involves a bit of fussing... I'm guessing I'd first try SUSE since I have it on DVD (never installed it) and I hear it works pretty much out of the box (although will it do everything I want it to?) My next choice would probably be FC2 or 3 because let's face it, just about everything is built for it and I still prefer to install rpms than compiling everything. The next choice would probably be Gentoo, if I'm going to have to compile, might as well compile it all right? Probbly a pretty good distro for learning, but I'm worried it mught be too much fuss...

Did anyone with this problem solve it by going to 10.1? I have 10.0 pretty stable and configured to my liking so the only incentive for me to go to 10.1 this point would be to get this working since x0krfbserver is really slow and I still haven't figured out why it's not working. A google search brings up more people with the same problem but no answer. I'm not even sure Mandrake recognizes this as a bug so I'm not sure they even changed it in 10.1.

That's weird, I'm getting a similar behavior (but not exactly the same) for ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinu...ates/10.0/RPMS/, except that some of the upgrades installed prorerly but not others. However the problem I get is "the useranme and password is not correct", some times followed by "curl failed: exited with 10 or signal 0". I was using the command line, not the control center but that shouldn't matter. EDIT: it's got to be a server busy issue, every time I rerun it, I pick up a few more rpms while others still fail.

That's weird, things should feel pretty smooth on your machine. Do you have hardware acceleration enabled for you video card? this would be the most likely culprit for things not feeling smooth. I'm not sure how you do it for an ATI card, but installing the NVIDIA drivers on my machine (XP2700+) sure helps make things feel more snappy. Also your drives should use UDMA mode, you can check if they do with hdparm, although I would expect Mandrake to have set them up properly. There used to be instructions on the 'net on how to setup gcc to optimize your build of linux components (google for it), although if you really insist on compiling everything I would use Gentoo, which does it by default. I'm guessing your problem is graphic drivers related though, you have a powerful enough processor and enough RAM that mdk-10 should run smooth out of the box.

You probably will have more luck posting in a Unreal dedicated user forum, or read sone of the UnrealEd docs and tutorials available online. Google is the answer.