Why people don’t see what they have at hand?

Looks like I am left to wonder about why to get nearly any kind of materials for school from people from my class I have to put up with services like Rapidshare or Sendspace.

It wouldn’t anger me that much if not for one, simple reason. Every student in my school has an unix shell account with public http directory and SSH access. Nearly everyone of them isn’t harmed by stupid firewalls enough not to use SCP to put said materials in their ~/WWW/ directory, from which it would be available to anyone with HTTP access. Okay, our school’s link is not very fast, but those files also aren’t in multiples of 100 MiB’s anyway. And all they have to do is a simple SCP session to copy the file, instead of going thru all the junk of aforementioned services.

And yes, thanks to said services I can not download those materials….

Maths-CS-Physics profile… buahahaha.

P.S. At least class test on Linux comes next week. I’m going to laugh my lungs out. Over.

“We are Borg..” no no no, that’s not it…. “We are Ducks”

We are Ducks.
You will be vetted.
Your private affairs will become public.
Resistance is futile.

Oh, and to be clear: vetting is for “lustracja”, which in this case means checking one’s files left over from old communist Security Service in Poland…

In Polish:

Jesteśmy Kaczki.
Zostaniecie zlustrowani.
Wasze prywatne życie zostanie upublicznione.
Opór jest daremny.

Now I only need a Duck version of Borg Cube and one of Kaczynski twins as a Borg… with a duck on the head (or maybe use yellow armor?) :-)

Looking for Hardware Crypto

After short pondering about how everyone having a computer, and what worse, an internet access of any kind is suspected criminal not only in USA but also in many other countries, I have decided to get myself a hardware crypto card so that a whole-disk crypto wouldn’t be slow :-)

So I am now looking for PCMCIA/ExpressCard 34 crypto accelerator supporting at least AES256, especially one with open specification or at least a commercial driver for linux (I could sign an NDA for that :D).

Maybe I’d just build one myself? The cost could be probably similar and I think I could get a group of people to rise funds for several cryptography chips in order to build security devices….

Or maybe it would be possible to just use an FPGA with cores from OpenCores. The only problem would be getting a PCI-Express bridge, so it could use 250 MB/s transfer rate instead of 60 MB/s (which is practically unsustainable) of USB 2.0.

Networking problems? Use tcpdump.

Every day can bring new knowledge :-) Lately, due to very bad quality of my GPRS link, I started keeping an open window with tcpdump in it, checking if the link works at all without introducing additional traffic.

It also showed me that I need a dns cache :-P as a big amount of requests were DNS requests about the same hosts. Like lots of queries for “AAAA? google.com” :-)

Also, after downloading winxp64 drivers for my AirForceOne (bcm43xx) WiFi card, I finally have a working WiFi. The reason for my troubles before was found to be incorrect firmware and I lost my patience for looking into correct firmware file…Nevertheless, ndiswrapper works like magic :-)

“Free Week”…..damnit

Well, the so-called free week had come and gone by. At least for others, as I still have 1 day off. Not that I want it. Cause for the whole week (to be specific, even before that but not so heavy) I was ill and still am. Way to go, ne? -_-”

Of happier things, I had to host another (or rather first) 18th birthday party for my family. While it wasn’t bad, I couldn’t get anything done and it also happened during my worst time with this stupid illness. And there were no cute girls, to quote Rughalt. At least not ones who satisfy all requirements.

And I for most of the time, I couldn’t get a slightest thing done on my CS class project….argh…