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My .cshrc file. ~/.cshrc.

My .bashrc file. ~/.bashrc.

My .zshrc file. ~/.zshrc.

My Blackbox style file.
chernobyl.

Downloads.

These files are uuencoded because the tripod.com setup does not allow you to download files like *.bz2 and *.zip files. Since these are GNU/Linux files, I am encoding the files this way so they can be easily downloaded and uudecoded simply. It is best to create a new folder to save the files into so when you uudecode them you can easily find the files that are created.

My sysinfo program.
sys.txt.
Download this into a new directory & type uudecode sys.txt to undecode. This will give you sys.tar.bz2, then type tar -jxvf sys.tar.bz2.
Or here:http://one. fsphost.com/goten/sysinfo.kdevelop-1.0.tar.bz2.

Target Puzzle Solver. Solves the smh.com.au Sydney Morning Herald Target puzzle. Download this and type uudecode target.txt. This gives you target.c. Program written by Rod Johnson , November 6, 1995. I have hacked on this program to make it better and easier to use for a CGI script.

Configuration files.

My fvwm config file. This gives a Windows/Fvwm95 look with some very nice Window Decorations and a good color scheme. But without the ugly Windows wallpaper. That really does not look good.
~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc.
Also needs this optional perl script in your $PATH.
~/bin/fvwm-desktop.

My .emacs file.
~/.emacs.

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  1. GNU/Linux  pages.

My GNU/Linux Page.

Creating a loopback filesystem. 


[ $ ]-> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=512 > out.img
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 23.2713 s, 23.1 MB/s

This creates the initial file that will be our filesystem.



deusexmachina:/home/goku/Code # mkfs.ext3 out.img
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
out.img is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
131072 inodes, 524288 blocks
26214 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67633152
64 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2048 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 32 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

You need to run /sbin/fdisk out.img and create a filesystem on the loopback device. This is not too different from using it in the conventional way, but you will need to visit the extra commands menu and set the cylinde rs. Set the value to 1024 and then r to go back and create the partions. Then you have this as the results of all your hard work. I have mounted it under /mnt/sdb as a loopback device and I can now copy and modify files inside it. A good way to hide sensitive files if you encrypt the filesystem.



[ goku@2.6.18.2-34-Aragorn ]
[ Jobs 0.PWD: ~.bash 3.2.0. ] [ 1 ]
[ 01:15:48 ]
[ $ ]-> mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda2 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/sda on /mnt/sda type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=goku)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,size=144m)
/dev/hda4 on /mnt/hda4 type ext3 (rw)
/home/goku/Code/out.img on /mnt/sdb type ext3 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
/dev/hdc on /media/dvd type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=goku)

I have put this filesystem to good use now and I have installed Damn Small Linux on it. Now I can boot it with qemu and load DSL whenever I like. Totally cool indeed. I used qemu -net none -hda out.img -hdc /dev/hdc -boot d. I ran the installer and setup the distro and I was done. I have my own installation I can run on my Linux desktop. There is a similar system for creating a file that contains a swapfile.

GNU/Linux has it good, I installed Apache http server from source code then ran /usr/local/bin/httpd -k start as root and it worked straightaway. Much better than the time I tried to set it up on Windows '98. That was quite frustrating. I had quite a time using that Operating System. I do not wish to repeat that ever again. Now we have Windows Vistatmwhich is alleged to not work with the Apple Ipodtm. You would need to purchase a Zune and put up with the shit software that M$ expect you to use. I would not use that for all the Spice on Dune. I am happy with Xmms and storing my music on the hard drive. I have an xmms playlist file in the directory and I can load it up instantly and play my music. The Microsoft Software is reputed to be unstable and slow. Far worse than Media Player 9. Amarok is much better and supports the Ipodtm. And it does not need DRM and all the other proprietary annoyances that plague closed source software. It even got a mention in APC magazine. Australian Personal Computer magazine. This is a great compliment to the hard work of the Amarok team.

2 Gorillas sitting against a tree.

Just installed Knoppix 5.1 as my main OS on my hdd and then installed OpenSuse 10.2 to /dev/hda4. It installed it's own bootloader over the existing Knoppix one, but kept the knoppix entry. Now I have two GNU/Linux distros installed to the one machine. The bootloader installation was done without prompting, but worked perfectly. Try that with Windows XP and Vista... I am very happy. And my rpm's of xmms, larswm lame and mp3blaster installed perfectly in Suse. On my Knoppix installation, I am working at the console, with a kernel building on one, mplayer playing a CD on another and writing this on a third. And it works quite well indeed. Just type mplayer cdda:// to play a CD Audio disc with mplayer. Nice and easy. And as I said, I can use the Alt->arrow combination to change virtual consoles which is better than pressing alt-F2 for example. It is a much faster method of switching screens. Unless you are using screen, but I dislike that program. Mp3blaster is a good choice for playing mp3s. You load in your xmms playlist and play any track you want on the text console. I have disabled the CD sound in alsamixer and the CD still comes through. Totally cool. I hate having the CD level up which introduces noise. Better to extract the actual data on the fly from the disc and play that. It is binary data after all, and I get crystal clear CD quality music the way it should be. Now I have unplugged the CD audio cable from the DVD drive and I can still hear it. But having the CD audio cable to play music through is such a 20th century concept and belongs in the dark ages. I would be very upset if Windows Vista does not support the direct digital audio extraction that I am using on Knoppix 5.1. The OpenSuse KDE 3.5.5 desktop has a Windows Vista styled start menu with instant Beagle searching built in. So if you are looking for your fish document then you can easily find it. You just click in the search box and type "fish" and it will be found instantly. Windows Vista users are stuck with a GUI to locate(1).... Which is fast, but not the same as Beagle. A good thing about the OpenSuse 10.2 installation is that it backed up my boot sector of my hard drive to /boot on /dev/hda4 so that if I uninstall Open Suse, (not likely,) I can restore the correct boot sector on the hard drive. I bet Windows Vista does not have this type of feature. I bet. I just upgraded to Kernel 2.6.20.2 and it worked perfectly with my machine first time. The preemptive kernel option makes the machine faster than using the default kernel, and disabling SMP support for a single processor desktop machine makes the kernel run even faster. As well as optimising the kernel for size as shown below.



#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-Lorien"
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3=y
CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y
CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y
# CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
CONFIG_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
CONFIG_RELAY=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
# CONFIG_TASK_XACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is not set
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
# CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
# CONFIG_SLOB is not set

And my Processor setup.



#
# Processor type and features
#
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_PC is not set
# CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set
# CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set
# CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set
CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=y
# CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set
# CONFIG_PARAVIRT is not set
CONFIG_X86_CYCLONE_TIMER=y
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
CONFIG_M586=y
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
# CONFIG_MCORE2 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MK8 is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MGEODEGX1 is not set
# CONFIG_MGEODE_LX is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
# CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32 is not set
# CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64 is not set
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y
CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
CONFIG_VM86=y
CONFIG_TOSHIBA=m
CONFIG_I8K=m
CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
CONFIG_X86_MSR=m
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m

And finally the Graphics setup for the framebuffer.



#
# Graphics support
#
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_DDC=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
# CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set
# CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS=m
CONFIG_FB_PM2=m
CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000=m
CONFIG_FB_ARC=m
# CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set
CONFIG_FB_IMSTT=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_HGA=m
CONFIG_FB_HGA_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX=m
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C=y
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FB_I810=m
CONFIG_FB_I810_GTF=y
CONFIG_FB_I810_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_INTEL=m
# CONFIG_FB_INTEL_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FB_INTEL_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C is not set
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY=m
CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y
CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE=m
CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_FB_SIS=m
CONFIG_FB_SIS_300=y
CONFIG_FB_SIS_315=y
CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC=m
CONFIG_FB_KYRO=m
CONFIG_FB_3DFX=m
CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=m
CONFIG_FB_CYBLA=m
CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT=m
CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_FB_GEODE=y
CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX=m
# CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX_SET_FBSIZE is not set
CONFIG_FB_GEODE_GX1=m
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION=y
CONFIG_FONTS=y
# CONFIG_FONT_8x8 is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
# CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_7x14 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6 is not set
CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_10x18 is not set

#
# Logo configuration
#
CONFIG_LOGO=y
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=m
CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_DEVICE=y
CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE=m
CONFIG_LCD_DEVICE=y

Now I am using the OpenSUSE 10.2 Gnome 2.16.1 desktop, and I have the deskbar plugin on the top panel. I can instantly search my machine and find any document or application I want. And the CD audio works without the audio cable from the DVD drive. Totally cool. This makes it better, as I can switch off the CD sound level in alsamixer and it still works. Saves having the noise introduced by the CD audio cable. I have just tried running an old Unreal Tournament demo with wine and it ran perfectly. And the original Unreal. Very nice indeed, I just wish I could run Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun, then I would be totally happy indeed.

Here is a screenshot of the Nautilus file manager supplied with the GNOME desktop. Which totally rules over the explorer shell. Just look at the thumbnail previews for office documents. This is a good feature, and unlike Windowstm XP it shows the amount of diskspace remaining in the status bar. A feature that should be brought back. And it is very fast as well. Although, regarding the diskspace option, I also get a notification pop-up that appears from the GNOME panel when I plug in a USB drive that has little disk space remaining. Very useful, and the GNOME system monitor has a tab that can display disk free space for all of your mounted partitions.

I am talking about the SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 GNOME desktop in case you are using Ubuntuu and your GNOME desktop does not have the same features. But most of them should be fairly common across different GNU/Linux distributions.

The Nautilus File Manager provides a very easy to use and fun file manager and integrates very well when I am using FVWM and I can run nautilus to provide icons on the desktop.

Some people I have talked to have been telling me about their Windows XP machines and how they are always rebooting it and updating their antivirus software and antispyware. And they are almost proud of the fact! They are so used to this they just accept it. But Windows Vista will introduce more srict DRM and some new security features, but most people will just turn it off if it keeps popping up windows asking for permissions to perform something with root privileges. I know this for a fact. People want to sit down at the machine and do something, without having to switch to Administrator mode first. Although most users run in Administrator mode anyway, as most software will not work in a LUA. Because of the laziness of the Windowstm programmers, and the laziness of the programmers of the software that will not work.

And programming for DirectX is another matter as it limits games to Windowstm, when if they used SDL, it could be more portable. Zdoom is a good example of this, it comes in a source package and it can be compiled on Linux or Windows with the same Makefile. Try that with a commercial game. Although Half Life 2 runs on GNU/Linux with Cedega, it is not an ideal solution. Better to have a GNU/Linux binary like Doom3. Prboom also is a good Doom source port that is available for Windows and Linux. And also FreeBSD Unix. And is my preferred Doom source port.

I was once setting up a computer for someone, a Pentium III 500 and the shop had installed Norton Anti-Virus and spybot which made the machine slower than before, even though they had installed a new 80GiB hard drive. With 7200RPM speed. But having bloated software like that installed does not help, and it made the machine totally unusable. It took up all of the CPU and the computer was was way too slow to use. So slow that I had to quit the spybot scan and call it a day. Total Shite. Who would want to put up with something like that. Having multiple layers of Antivirus, Antispyware and software to protect against malicious computer users that want to break into your machine. If that machine in question was running OpenSuse 10.2 with the KDE 3.5.5 desktop, it would be very fast indeed with the 384MB of RAM it has. Windows '98 is quite laboured running with all that anti-spyware and anti-virus.

But GNU/Linux has many good things to it's credit. Like the ability to have many text consoles to switch between with the ALT->right arrow combination. And Xemacs. A totally awesome editor. And the KDE and Gnome desktops, which are derided for being memory hungry, but are faster than the Windowstm Explorer shell. FVWM is faster still, being a very old Window Manager. And in GNU/Linux, you can send messages to other text consoles. Just type echo "Hello Friend" > /dev/tty3 as root, for example, and the message will be sent. I just tried this with myself logged in at text console tty3 and typing the command from tty2 using sudo. A great way to show off GNU/Linux to your friends. Or if you use an Xterm on a KDE 3.5 desktop like I do then try echo "Hello Mate" > /dev/pts/0 this works as well, just type tty to get the device name. Some distros setup the Windows&tm; key to switch virtual consoles. Nice indeed. Now there actually is a use for that key!.

GNOME Nautilus File Manager. Mozilla Easter Egg.

The Mozilla Easter Egg. Click on this link: about:mozilla. This should also work with Mozilla 1.7. I have had it work with Firefox 2.0 and Epiphany 2.16.1.

Misc GNU/Linux goodness.

Below you can see a screenshot of Quake running in Xdosemu. This game runs just as fast as with a native DOS session. Quite fantastic. And the sound works perfectly. boom.exe also runs fine with dosemu, and I am trying to get zeth running with this emulator. I have tweaked the dosemu configuration to within an inch of it's life and I am rewarded with a good game of emulated Quake! Those people cursed with running Windows XP could try dosbox in order to get Quake running. That might work. quake.exe will not run in Windows XP by itself. Maybe not even winquake.exe, but this is a GNU/Linux page and I am not concerned with that. Although the quake2 Debian package running with Knoppix 5.1 is nice too. I love to visit Stroggos. But runnin the old original Unreal with wine is quite awesome. I was playing the Nali castle map and I shot at the top of a table that had books on it and they were blown off the table and bounced around the room. One book landed on top of a table on top of another book and bounced a couple of times and came to a halt. Totally sweet.

Quake v1.08 runs well in xdosemu and is easily controlled when I use the CONTROL->ALT-HOME key combination to activate the mouse grab. I just played a game in episode one and had no problems at all. Below I have included a very useful script to remove bad symlinks in the current directory.



function badlink()
# From Atomic magazine #43 August 2004. http://www.atomicmpc.com.au
{
	DEFAULT=$(tput sgr0);
	FILELIST=.badlink.list

	[ -e $FILELIST ] && $( rm -fr $FILELIST )

	function checklink()
	{
	for badlink in $1/*; do
		[ -h "$badlink" -a ! -e "$badlink" ] && echo \
			\"$badlink\" >> $FILELIST
		[ -d "$badlink" ] && checklink $badlink
		done
	}

	for directory in `pwd`; do
		if [ -d $directory ] ; then
		checklink $directory;
		fi
	done

	if [ -e $FILELIST ] ; then
		for line in $(cat $FILELIST); do
			echo $line | xargs -r rm | echo -e "$line \
				-removed"
			echo
		done
	rm -fr $FILELIST
	else
		printf "Bad symlinks not found.\n\n"
	fi
} # End Atomic function.
Very useful GNU/Linux links. Quake running in xdosemu!.