FAQ

• Q: When I make a copy of tinfoil hat, it starts to boot then fails.
  A: Usually this is a bad floppy or a bad download. Check the PGP or MD5 checksum. If the checksum is good, then try a different floppy.
• Q: Do I have to worry about TEMPEST if I have an LCD monitor?
  A: Of course. Remember, the screen isn't the ony thing you have to think about. There's also the keyboard, disk drive, power supply, mouse, etc. That said, I can detect my big old monitor about 10 meters away, and my LCD laptop screen about 2.5.
• Q: Your "Video game" mode isn't what I expected, since it doesn't use the arrow keys or the mouse.
  A: Video game was the best short explanation I could come up with. Doing this properly would require curses + gpm programming, and there's probably enough room on the disk to add the bloat that would bring. Contributions are welcome, or I may get to it eventually. Sneaky Pete Is a mouse based password entry system, but it requires java and X windows, so it is never going to fit on the floppy.
• Q: Why doesn't the floppy I got at codecon match the signature above?
  A: because I screwed up & wrote a nvram.md5 file to the floppy I then used as a master. I had to remove that file from every floppy. The result is that the MD5sum of the codecon floppies should be: 3608290765de7d5283a1a22813677a56
• Q: How do I undo that horrible screen in paranoid mode?
  A: Type "contrast" at the command prompt, or play with ctheme.
• Q: Is this really a 1.0 stable release?
  A: Think of this as a linux kernel 1.0 . Yes, it's stable to the best of my ability, and has been tested, but not for very long or by many people.
• Q: What sort of hardware is required to run tinfoil hat?
  A: Any 386DX or faster IBM compatible with more than 8 megs of RAM. Pretty much any PC made in the last 8 years will work fine.
• Q: where do I send complaints, bugs & feature requests?
  A: anonymous AT nameless DOT cultists.net
• Q: What is the license for this distribution?
  A: The scripts, documentation, and the distribution as a collection are released under a modified BSD license. Obviously, other people's software in this distribution retain their original licenses.