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GNU is Not Unix

(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412

Posted by timothy from the bonus-if-it-uses-10-fingers-at-once dept.
Count Fenring writes "Since the Vi version of this question was both interesting and popular, let's hear from the other end of the spectrum. What are your favorite tricks, macros, extensions, and techniques for any of the various Emacs? Myself, I like 'M-x dunnet' ;-)"
Data Storage

US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search 623

Posted by timothy from the fair-enough dept.
bfwebster writes "Orin Kerr over at The Volokh Conspiracy (a great legal blog, BTW) reports on a US District Court ruling issued just last week which finds that doing hash calculations on a hard drive is a form of search and thus subject to 4th Amendment limitations. In this particular case, the US District Court suppressed evidence of child pornography on a hard drive because proper warrants were not obtained before imaging the hard drive and calculating MD5 hash values for the individual files on the drive, some of which ended up matching known MD5 hash values for known child pornography image and video files. More details at Kerr's posting." Update: 10/28 16:23 GMT by T : Headline updated to reflect that this is a Federal District Court located in Pennsylvania, rather than a court of the Commonwealth itself.
PC Games (Games)

Bioshock 2 Trailer Released, Platform Information Revealed 85

Posted by Soulskill from the pretty-pictures dept.
arcticstoat writes "If you've played Bioshock, you'll know it can be a tough choice deciding whether you're going to kill the cute (yet evil looking) Little Sisters and extract their ADAM, or let them live. Your choice even affects whether you're given one of three possible endings of the game, and their story will now continue to be told in the sequel. 2K Games has just released a trailer for the new game, showing what appears to be a grown up Little Sister, still clutching a toy, while the city structure of Rapture springs up around her. No gameplay is shown, but it does give a hint as to what the game will be about, and it looks as though the game may take you onto dry land." Gamespot initially confirmed the trailer's authenticity after it was leaked last week. A representative from 2K Games also mentioned Bioshock 2 was "destined for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms."
Censorship

Submission + - [PIC] NSFW on the front page on Digg.com

Submitted by Shadow_139
Shadow_139 writes: I just noticed this this morning I don't know how long its been like this cause I normally don't notice ad's but have a look, It looks like a screen shoot from a video of a girls locker room taken with a hidden camera in a vent...... I'm no prude and have not problem with porn but this is weird image as a front page main ad.

http://digg.com/ — Have a look at the MetaCafe Ad just under the Top 10 on the left-hand side

Screen Shot — In case it is changed.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p60/BOFH139/DIG G_METACAF_NSFW_CROP.jpg
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Microsoft admits the Xbox 360 scratches discs

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An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft admitted this after 2 broadcasts on the subject by the dutch television program Kassa. Microsofts states: "It is possible that scratches on discs can arise as a result of regular use." The hardware magazine that examined the complaints has some aditional information on the case. Dutch customers can get their consoles fixed, and broken games replaced. The situation for customers from other countries is unclear.
Toys

Submission + - very original casemod (PC inside a stuffed beaver)

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uncle bone
uncle bone writes: "my english is very bad so i would waste your time giving a big description. In more than 10 years thats simply the crazyest casemod i *ever* had seen. i even wondered if was april fools joke, but on the site there is a very well documented photo diary of the build process. http://216.240.139.101/ (yep, i found the site in there, but i dont know for shure if this is a dinamic ip) if the site is down, at least there is a hotlink to a photo of the site (on another one). http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/compubeaver.jp g (i had found in here first) if anyone plans to really post this, please rewrite this to a better descriptive version."
The Internet

Submission + - How To Run Cisco IOS On Your PC

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An anonymous reader writes: Started in August of 2005 by Christophe Fillot, Dynamips is a Linux and Windows based application that is used to emulate the hardware of the Cisco 7200 and 3600 series routing platforms. Unlike traditional router simulators" Dynamips allows you to boot real Cisco IOS software images and build complex network topologies to test the functionality of IOS on your desktop PC. As of November 2006 Dynamips currently supports Ethernet, Serial, ATM, and POS interfaces for the 7200 series routers and Ethernet, Serial, and Etherswitch modules for the 3600 series routers. Best of all Dynamips is open-source and free to download!

To run Dynamips first you must install libpcap or winpcap depending on your platform. Windows users will need to install winpcap 4.0 or later which is currently in beta.

Next download the appropriate Linux or Windows executables for Dynamips. To do this I would recommended to download the Dynagen installer package, a front end written by Greg Anuzelli which uses an INI-like configuration file to provision the Dynamips emulator.

Next you'll need a Cisco IOS software image for a 7206, 3620, 3640, or 3660 router depending on which platform you will be emulating.
The rest of the article is here.
http://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/iosonp c.htm

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