From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 22:38:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A27EE636 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa06-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa06-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.192.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BA887B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa06-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id ZydG1n0074XeM0101ydGm5; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:37:17 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:37:22 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: a low-level question; and one about ASCII solitaire [klondike] Message-ID: <20140305223722.GA17759@ethic.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:38:53 -0000 ===== Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. guys, two, three weeks ago, I wrote this list about a solitaire game that did not involved X; it was simply ASCII: I found it in ports around 1994-5 and played it on breaks, etc, etc. --i *still* want to ask if anybody remembers playing Klondike where "9D" == "9 of diamonds" and "KC" == "king of clubs"; because it was easy to play and required only "hjkl" and "spacebar." but I just watched a short TED video that I believe everyone should watch. I've been meaning to pose a more serious qstn about public-key encryption. like:: will phil zimmerman's program still be unbreakable for at least a few centuries? --Sidebar: when I first taught myself C {circa 1979} an early program did encryption. it was slow on the pdp-11/70, but unless you guessed the password, you were 99.97% out of luck. sadly, like the solitaire program, it got lost. Anyway, watch the following on "gov't surveillance, then read on. It mentions Linux as a target; that finally got me to write http://on.ted.com/a038u === other than the stuff on jottings.thought.org that may be "found" in a hundred years, I dont have much worth looking at. I have//have HAD a hardware firewall for years, &c, &c. So: has any *BSD wizard invented any new crypto-ware *yet*. more important: anybody know where the ASCII klondike prog is? ...save my shoulder. tia, y'all, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.