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  1. Craig Anderton and Paia by Josh+Picker · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Affordable, Functional Audio Mixers?

    there's a man named Craig Anderton who publishes a book that is more or less exactly what you're looking for. it's called "Electronics Project for Musicians" and you can probably get it from Amazon or i know you can get it from Paia.

    speaking of Paia, i believe that they sell a mixer kit for like $30 or something.

    Electronic Projects for Musicians by Craig Anderton

    also, just check out Paia for all your musical needs, because they really have the best kits out there and you can always build cheaper and better than you can buy.

  2. Re:Okay, then why doesn't AOL charge for AIM? by King+Ruin · · Score: 1 · on ESR says Microsoft is right, for once

    The protocol is still open. I still have my copy of the protocol that I got when I downloaded and installed TNT (the AIM client for emacs).. You are free to build your own AIM client if you like, however you cannot register AIM users. the FREE registration can be gotten from aol's website www.aol.com/aim/. Microsft asked people for their AOL usernames and passwords just to use the Microsoft AIM client. Aol considers this a violation of account security and as such, they turned disallowed the use of the microsft messenger. If microsoft were to redesign it so that the user's information remained secure AOL would probably allow it.

    ---- begin cut and copy ----
    The following opinion piece by Barry Schuler, president of AOL's Interactive Services Group, appeared in the 7/27 edition of USA Today.

    Back in 1985, nearly a decade before the World Wide Web was even invented, America Online Inc. pioneered the concept of instant messaging. We believed that connecting people in new ways was key to building a new medium -- and for the past 14 years we've been striving to build online communities.

    We've always recognized the importance of making these instant messaging tools available to everyone, so we've made them an interal part of every one of our services. But we recognized that the Internet is an open system, and not everybody wanted to subscribe to AOL, so about two years ago we created a free version called AOL Instant Messenger. Anybody could use it -- whether they chose to be members of AOL or not. And any company could distribute it -- even our competitors. In the past year, we've taken our
    commitment to openness to a new level by working with companies like IBM to enable them to embed instant messaging into their Lotus products.

    So nobody is more committed to facilitating communications between people, and to making these tools broadly available, then AOL. And now that other companies are also interested in instant messaging, we're equally committed to interconnecting their systems with ours so that instant messaging can work like e-mail or the telephone.

    We were disappointed last week to see that instead of working with us, Microsoft took steps to work around us -- and possibly put the tens of millions of people relying on instant messaging at risk. Micosoft chose to breach the security of instant messaging by asking users to surrender their passwords, and they also breached the security of AOL's internal system by accessing it without authorization.

    We have reached out to Microsoft and urged them to work with us to develop a standard that respects the security and privacy of instant messaging users. Their only response has been to continue to attack our system and compromise our users' online safety. That's wrong, and it's not the way to develop an open system that puts consumers first and builds a medium that we can be proud of.
    ---- end cut here ----

    thats all there is to it folks. If microsoft simply tried to work WITh Aol to design a good instant messenger program there would not have been a problem.

    King_Ruin

  3. Re:Not as I understand it by Yakko · · Score: 1 · on ESR says Microsoft is right, for once
    TOC (TOC to OsCar) is different from OSCAR itself according to the TOC FAQ

    Seeing as how MS apparently reverse-engineered OSCAR, and OSCAR isn't open... it's like StarDivision reverse-engineering the .doc format for the latest incantation of Office. *shrug*

    (unless .doc is indeed open and there's a publication detailing it somewhere. Highly doubtful, tho)

    --

  4. Re:Y'all are forgetting... by generic-man · · Score: 1 · on ESR says Microsoft is right, for once

    There are already ad-free Instant Messenger clients, like QuickBuddy and Instant Messenger for Java. TiK, which is written in TCL/TK (and even runs on Windows, with proper runtime) is also ad-free.

    Oh, and by the way, all of these ad-free services still work, even amidst all these IM wars.

  5. GAIM AIM by jezzball · · Score: 2 · on Messaging Software Wars
    I feel that everyone is missing a very important point here. GAIM is not AIM. AIM is based on the Oscar protocol, whereas GAIM (and TiK, and the Java client, Quick Buddy, and Tac, and others) are based on the Open TOC protocol. Completely documented, etc, and maybe slightly lacking in features atm but still working. There has been some concern in the TiK community recently as our web page (hosted by AOL) has disappeared, but if AOL is merely asking GAIM to remove the logo but is still providing free servers for a free protocol, I feel that them merely asking GAIM to remove the logo is not very important.
    So yeah.

    Note - above page for TiK does not work afaik - ymmv

    Jezzball

  6. GAIM AIM by jezzball · · Score: 2 · on Messaging Software Wars
    I feel that everyone is missing a very important point here. GAIM is not AIM. AIM is based on the Oscar protocol, whereas GAIM (and TiK, and the Java client, Quick Buddy, and Tac, and others) are based on the Open TOC protocol. Completely documented, etc, and maybe slightly lacking in features atm but still working. There has been some concern in the TiK community recently as our web page (hosted by AOL) has disappeared, but if AOL is merely asking GAIM to remove the logo but is still providing free servers for a free protocol, I feel that them merely asking GAIM to remove the logo is not very important.
    So yeah.

    Note - above page for TiK does not work afaik - ymmv

    Jezzball

  7. AOL's "open source" AIM clients are gone now too! by Dusty+Bottoms · · Score: 1 · on Messaging Software Wars

    Has anyone else noticed that Tik (the TCL/Tk client) and TNT (the Emacs Lisp client) that AOL developed have been missing from their web site for about a week now? Going to the AIM web site and clicking on the links for the above give you an empty page now. Do you suppose AOL's yanked these as well? Lucky for me, I already have the source... 8-)

  8. More submissions by SEWilco · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Significant Documents of the Internet
    Not all of these are online.

    Hardware

    • Teletype ASR-33, teletypewriter very popular as a computer terminal.
    • Popular Electronics, January 1975, cover story: MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer.
    • Apple II with its color graphics and multiple easy-to-access expansion slots.
    • IBM PC and its corporate desktop success providing cheap hardware for all.
    • IBM's MicroChannel bus and its failure showed the popularity of open hardware.
    • Hayes modem command set allowed modem control without custom device driver.
    • VGA graphics. Finally the IBM PC could show reasonable images. Web browsing later became a significant side effect.

    Software

    • VisiCalc. Killer App. Welcome to "electronic spreadsheets." A reason to buy a computer.

    Early Computer Magazines

    • People's Computer Company, an organization promoting personal and community computing. A computer newspaper before there were computer publications. Community Memory was an early idea for sharing computer databases at computing storefronts.
    • dr. dobb's journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, an early proponent of publishing source code. Evolved into Dr. Dobb's Journal.
    • Byte magazine, its huge 50,000 copy beginning and eventually the first computer magazine to appear on general magazine racks.
    • Kilobaud magazine, very popular hacker magazine, often with sources (remember programs on vinyl sheets for playback from phonograph player into cassette interfaces?).

    Conceptual

    • Homebrew Computer Club. Build your own computer if you can't afford a small CDC or PDP to heat your house. I was designing a TTL personal computer until the 8080 appeared; sure was nice to have quad NAND DIPs.
    • Xerox PARC center with its influential network and user interface experiments.
    • MECC: Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium" spread timeshare computing to all Minnesota school districts, then Apple computers. I worked there in the 1970's. State of MN has since sold it.
  9. Re:TiK still downloadable from AOL by copito · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging

    FWIW, you can get http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/tik-0.75.tar. gz and apparently all previous versions as well.
    --

  10. TiK still downloadable from AOL by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging
    Yes. Although the web page is missing, the tarball is still there.

    http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/tik-0.74.tar. gz

    --

  11. Re:What about the battery life of a wireless by cornice · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Multiple Webcams and FreeBSD
    Read a little further than the title please. This is wireless in the sense that the camera isn't wired to the display. See this.

    Actually this is a great way to go. Borrowing this link from below, you can switch video input into a capture card. Any combination of coax wired and wireless (I'm not sure if you can use more than 1 X10 device in a building.) cameras should work. You can even use 2 capture cards and use both output streams if you need more speed. I think your server should be able to compress and write the images fast enough.

    It's inexpensive, fast and flexible. Hmmm this may be able to help me solve the mystery of which of my 2 dogs is eating my remote controls...

  12. Re:Microsoft should document DCOM first.. by acarey · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging

    When Microsoft documents their proprietary
    protocols, they will have earned the right to
    ask other companies to do the same.

    Let's kill two birds with one stone here... :)

    On DCOM, the following should get you started. It took about 20 seconds to find on MSDN, but I couldn't be bothered reading any more indepth (the basic premise is that the protocol is called "Object RPC", the link below returns all MSDN documents on it - there are quite a few!):

    http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/r esults.asp?SearchArea=&SearchArea=%2C+%2C+%2C+&nq= true&Boolean=PHRASE&submit1=search&chkM= on&qu=ORPC

    Now, back to being on-topic: AOL have also documented their protocol as part of Tik:

    http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/

    So the issue is not one of protocol documentation, but protocol _control_ (he who owns the protocol has the right to change it arbitrarily), and that's the contentious (and, from Microsoft, hyprocritical) part...

    Cheers
    Alastair

  13. And Unix (Tcl/Tk) client home page disappeared by Alexey+Nogin · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging

    The Unix (Tcl/Tk) AIM client (called TIK) home page ( http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/) went blank several days ago. Must be related...

  14. TiK is the casualty of this, and more articles by matasar · · Score: 5 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging
    The scariest (to me) thing to come out of this is that the TiK and TNT open source clients have disappeared from the AIM Web site. That alone doesn't make me feel very good about the new owners of mozilla. As much as I hate to say this, I think MS is right on this one.

    Also, geeknews.net has been keeping up pretty well on this.

    Here's a news.com article, too:

    Another interesting thing is that MS released a "fixed" build, which AOL then broke again. Round and round we go.

  15. TiK is the casualty of this, and more articles by matasar · · Score: 5 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging
    The scariest (to me) thing to come out of this is that the TiK and TNT open source clients have disappeared from the AIM Web site. That alone doesn't make me feel very good about the new owners of mozilla. As much as I hate to say this, I think MS is right on this one.

    Also, geeknews.net has been keeping up pretty well on this.

    Here's a news.com article, too:

    Another interesting thing is that MS released a "fixed" build, which AOL then broke again. Round and round we go.

  16. TiK is the casualty of this, and more articles by matasar · · Score: 5 · on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging
    The scariest (to me) thing to come out of this is that the TiK and TNT open source clients have disappeared from the AIM Web site. That alone doesn't make me feel very good about the new owners of mozilla. As much as I hate to say this, I think MS is right on this one.

    Also, geeknews.net has been keeping up pretty well on this.

    Here's a news.com article, too:

    Another interesting thing is that MS released a "fixed" build, which AOL then broke again. Round and round we go.

  17. Possible Option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3 · on Ask Slashdot: Multiple Webcams and FreeBSD
    See "Nuts & Volts" magazine, May 1999 (Vol. 20, No. 5) They demonstrate a simple RS-232-controlled video switcher for up to 16 sources. This is combined with a video capture card and some basic software (Win98-based in this case, but could easily be adapted to anything) to switch among the video sources and capture frames. With only 6 of the inputs used, the frame-per-second rate desired should easily be attainable.

    I've got a spare copy of that particular issue. I could mail the article (address?) or perhaps scan it or something, if it might be of any use.

    The switcher is available from the author in both kit and pre-built forms from http://members.aol.com/ncdcat/. Select the "A/V Switching" link.

    Hope that helps.

  18. Re:Reading not your stong suit, Doug? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Less Television in Online Homes
    I was able to find even more conclusive evidence that you are wrong. From an AOL press release:

    The new study indicates that households with Internet access watch, on average, 13% less television than those households that are not online. That works out to an estimated 32 hours less of television viewing monthly per household.

    http://www-db.aol.com/corp/ news/press/view?release=683&

  19. Re:misinterpretation, perhaps? by TMB · · Score: 1 · on Less Television in Online Homes
    Nope... here's a clearer version.


    The new study indicates that households with Internet access
    watch, on average, 13% less television than those households that
    are not online. That works out to an estimated 32 hours less of
    television viewing monthly per household.


    [TMB]
  20. Re:Try again. by TMB · · Score: 2 · on Less Television in Online Homes
    From the hourse's mouth:


    The new study indicates that households with Internet access
    watch, on average, 13% less television than those households that
    are not online. That works out to an estimated 32 hours less of
    television viewing monthly per household.


    So, yes, it is one hour less per day.

    [TMB]
  21. And then there's Anime by oni · · Score: 1 · on Virtual Models Come To Life
    The Japanese have always been way ahead of the US in depictions of virtual women. They have also explored the concept quite frequently in various animated movies and TV shows. For example, the movie Macross+ featured a computer generated rock star named Sharon Apple. Especially interesting in the movie is not how she was rendered, but how her AI was developed.

    There are of course other examples, like Video Girl Ai. But if you're really interested in Anime, you must watch Ghost in the Shell. IMHO it's better by far than even The Matrix. How can you consider yourself a geek if you haven't seen Ghost in the Shell??

  22. Where to get power/prog by Sloppy · · Score: 2 · on CDNow Merges with Columbia House

    I listen to the same genres, and have found that there is no best store, but rather, I rotate around among a group of stores, each with it's own strengths. CDNow was one of them, but I must say that they have a problem with things always being backordered.

    Anyway, here's some of the other places I use:

    • AltaMira: ugly web site and it's awkward to set up an account at first, but he makes up for it in selection and service. He's a specialist; the general selection is limited, but the Powermetal selection is very good, with some progressive stuff too.
    • Laser's Edge: Another specialist store like AltaMira, but in progressive rock/metal rather than powermetal.
    • CD Quest: although their metal selection isn't as good as the specialists, they're not bad. Kinda like CDNow, I guess. Unlike CDNow, they have been excellent about actually filling orders, instead of letting me wonder if it's ever going to actually ship. Prices are good too. They have nearly completely replaced CDNow's old role for me.
    • Amazon: Since I place an order for books from them about every other month anyway, it's no extra trouble to throw a CD or two in. They will occasionally have a low price on something. Often useful for "mainstream" metal.
    • Also, some record labels will take direct orders, sometimes even undercutting the "real" stores. I don't know why the stores tolerate this, but I'm not complaining. Particularly note-worthy is CenturyMedia where they'll sell just about anything on their label for $11, and several other labels for $12. Metal of all types.
    Between the aforementioned stores, I've been getting my power/prog metalfix pretty reliably. You really don't need CDNow.

    Hope this helps. :-)

  23. here's a few by goon · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Cryptography in Mail software?
    for the latest (win 3.x/9x/nt, unix and others) PGPi software (legal non US export controlled software) look here......

    here's some more stuff,

    Search results

    59 programs matched your search criteria.

    Aegis Shell (16-bit) 3.0.8

    • Author: AEgis Research
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: shell16.exe
    • License: Freeware for personal use
    • Homepage: http://www.aegisrc.com/Products/Shell/
    • Description: Developed for those who need to secure their e-mail with PGP, but do not like the DOS command prompt, PGP Windows Shell provides push-button control to PGP.

    Aegis Shell (32-bit) 3.0.8

    • Author: AEgis Research
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: shell32.exe
    • License: Freeware for personal use
    • Homepage: http://www.aegisrc.com/Products/She ll/index.htm
    • Description: Developed for those who need to secure their e-mail with PGP, but do not like the DOS command prompt, PGP Windows Shell provides push-button control to PGP.

    BetweenUs

    • Author: TamoSoft
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Commercial, try before you buy
    • Homepage: http://www.tamos.com/bu.htm
    • Description: Encrypted peer-to-peer chat, conferencing and file transfers. PGP-compatible mode allows the usage of existing PGP keys for encryption and authentication. Full support for PGP version 5.5.2 and higher.

    Calyspo 3 PGP plugin

    • Author: MCS, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://www.mcsdallas.com/mcs/calypso/
    • Description: Email plugin for Calypso E-mail Client.

    Claris Emailer plugin

    • Author: Network Associates, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: MacOS
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pgpi.com/download/
    • Description: This plugin integrates PGP with Claris Emailer. It is included in the PGP 6.0.2i distribution.

    CryptoEx 1.0b4

    • Author: Glueck & Kanja
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Commercial (free beta-versions available)
    • Homepage: http://www.glueckkanja.de/
    • Description: A professional PGP extension for Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange. The client-based, transparent extension has been fully integrated into the familiar email user environment. It automatically recognizes encrypted emails and offers an easy-to-use keyring administration. CryptoEx works with both the US and the international version of PGP. A user-friendly adminstrator tool helps distributing CryptoEx and managing user options in large Windows networks.

    Emacs auto-pgp

    Encryplet 1.0

    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: MacOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: encryplet-10fc1-as.hqx
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pu b/pgp/2.x/mac/encryplet-10fc1-as.hqx
    • Description: AppleScript droplet which makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt files by drag-and-dropping them onto a Desktop Encryptor icon.

    Eudora 3.x and 4.x plugin

    • Author: Network Associates, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pgpi.com/download/
    • Description: This plugin integrates PGP with Eudora 3.x or 4.x. It is included in the PGP 6.0.2i distribution.

    Eudora plugin

    • Author: Network Associates, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: MacOS
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pgpi.com/download/
    • Description: This plugin integrates PGP with Eudora. It is included in the PGP 6.0.2i distribution.

    Gibbon PGP Front-End for EPM 1.2

    • Author: Gibbon Computer Products, Inc.
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: OS/2
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: gcppgp12.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.gibbon.com/catalog/pgpfe.html
    • Description: The Gibbon PGP Front-End is an E language macro that creates a PGP menu on the EPM menu bar. This allows menued use of PGP whenever you are using the EPM editor. Since both NewsReader/2 and LAMail use EPM, this will allow seamless integration of PGP into your Newsreader and E-Mail.

    Gui4PGP 2.0

    • Author: Sascha Ott
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: g4p20.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://www.lanobis.de/~sascha/gui4pgp.ht ml
    • Description: Full Windows95 conform * Almost no DOS-windows * Read PGPs textoutput in the Gui4PGP-editor * En-decrypting/signing via hotkey * Copy text to clipboard, push hotkey - ready * Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer * Multilanguage * Register own file extensions - decrypting simply out of the explorer * Treeview of the public keyring * Define your own user-buttons * All keymanagement commands built in * Simple en-and decrypting in the internal editor * Choose user with only a mouse click - and much more!

    Lock & Key 3.1

    • Author: Walter E. Heindl
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: lk32v310.zip
    • License: Shareware ($19.95)
    • Homepage: http://www.voicenet.com/~wheindl/lock &key.htm
    • Description: Lock & Key integrates PGP functions into the Windows 95 Explorer. Right-click to encrypt a file. Double-click to decrypt. Decrypt to QuickView/+. Choose a recipient from a drop-down list. Supports signing files, viewing signatures, adding keys, viewing the keyring, and Win95 long file names. Version 3.0 adds: multiple language support; context-sensitive help; an integrated editor for composing messages; open or print a decrypted file; append your public key to outgoing messages.

    MS Outlook 97/98 and Exchange plugin

    • Author: Network Associates, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pgpi.com/download/
    • Description: This plugin integrates PGP with Microsoft Outlook 97/98 or Exchange. It is included in the PGP 6.0.2i distribution.

    MS Outlook Express 4 plugin

    • Author: Network Associates, Inc.
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pgpi.com/download/
    • Description: This plugin integrates PGP with Microsoft Outlook Express 4 (not 5!). It is included in the PGP 6.0.2i distribution.

    MacPGP Control 1.0

    • Author: Raïf S. Naffah
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: MacOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Shareware ($15)
    • Homepage: http://www.deepeddy.com/pgp/
    • Description: AppleScript application that offers an easy-to-use, more Macintosh friendly user interface to MacPGP 2.x.

    MailPGP 1.3

    • Author: Sami Tolvanen
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: lk32v310.zip
    • Requires: mfc4.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.iki.fi/st/mailpgp/
    • Description: MailPGP is an advanced, yet fast and easy-to-use Windows user interface for PGP. MailPGP conveniently integrates PGP with every program that uses the clipboard and does not require any space from the screen since the window can be minimized to the taskbar notification area. PGP is run on the background and the DOS window is shown only if necessary. You can encrypt, decrypt and sign messages on the clipboard just by clicking the taskbar icon. The most important key management functions are located on a pop-up menu. You can also easily encrypt and decrypt files by choosing them from a file dialog, or just by dragging and dropping one to the program window. Requires properly installed PGP 2.6.x or newer and mfc40.dll.

    Mailcrypt 3.5.3

    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x/5.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.nb.net/~lbudney /linux/software/mailcrypt.html
    • Description: Mailcrypt is an Emacs Lisp package which provides a simple interface to public key cryptography with PGP 2.x/5.x, as well as GnuPG.

    MandelSteg and GIFExtract 1.0

    • Author: Henry Hastur
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: Unix / MS-DOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x/5.x/6.x
    • Filename: MandSteg.tar.Z
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.unicorn.com/pgp/m-readme.html
    • Description: These two programs allow you to hide confidential data in fractal GIF images, giving an increased level of security compared to sending PGP-encrypted email over the Internet.

    Mollusc 1.0

    • Author: Net Services
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: mlsc100.exe
    • License: Commercial, try before you buy
    • Homepage: http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-servi ces/pgp/
    • Description: Direct interface to your e-mail software - you don't have to cut and paste. Extensive key management including Key Server functions. Mollusc currently supports Eudora Pro (v2.2 - 32 bit), Eudora Light (1.5.2 and 1.5.4), Pegasus Mail 2.40, WinCIM 2.0, Ameol, Free Agent and Netscape 1.2N.

    PGP Encryptor Interface 1.1

    • Author: John Navas
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpjn.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/w inpmail/helpers.html
    • Description: Integrates seamlessly into Pegasus Mail for Windows (Version 2.23 and above), making it easy to protect email messages with secure PGP public ke encryption and/or digital signatures. NB! Only works with the 16-bit versions of Pegasus Mail.

    PGP Extension for Microsoft Exchange 1.10

    • Author: Jon Whalen
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpext.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~jon/
    • Description: PGP Extension is an add-on for Microsoft Exchange that allows execution of basic PGP commands from the Exchange menu.

    PGP Manager (16-bit) 1.3

    • Author: Ollivier Civiol
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpman13.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://www.voicenet.com/~jank/astec/ pgpman.htm
    • Description: Sporting a friendly front-end, PGP Manager allows you to type in your message then Encrypt it and send it through the mail. PGP Manager Supports the Windows MAPI SubSystem. When an encrypted message is in your mailbox, it will show in the main combobox, click and read. PGP Manager requires PGP 2.6 and up (some functions require PGP 2.6.3i (multiple recipients)).

    PGP Manager (32-bit) 2.2b

    • Author: Ollivier Civiol
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpmgr22b.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://www.voicenet.com/~jank/astec/ pgpman.htm
    • Description: Sporting a friendly front-end, PGP Manager allows you to type in your message then Encrypt it and send it through the mail. PGP Manager Supports the Windows MAPI SubSystem. When an encrypted message is in your mailbox, it will show in the main combobox, click and read. PGP Manager requires PGP 2.6 and up (some functions require PGP 2.6.3i (multiple recipients)).

    PGP QuickFront 1.0

    • Author: Ross Barclay / Ugali International Corp.
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pqf.zip
    • Requires: vbrun300.zip
    • License: Shareware ($25)
    • Homepage: http://www.netacce ss.on.ca/~rbarclay/ugali/crypt/quickfront.html
    • Description: PGP QuickFront works as a companion to PGP WinFront. It uses the clipboard so thus can interface with any Windows application. The encryption and decryption is automatic. It also makes signatures and check signatures.

    PGP REXX 1.2

    • Author: Lueko Willms
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: OS/2
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://nick.secant.com/pgprex.htm
    • Description: PGP REXX consists of seven REXX scripts to automate PGP usage from your OS/2 internet mail program. PGP REXX works with Post Road Mailer, PMMAIL and MR/2 ICE.

    PGP Windows 1.1

    • Author: Roger Kurrat
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpwin11.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage:
    • Description: PGP Windows offers an easy to use interface to PGP. Includes key management and clipboard integration.

    PGP Winfront (16-bit) 3.1

    • Author: Ugali International Corp.
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pwf31.zip
    • Requires: vbrun300.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.netaccess .on.ca/~rbarclay/ugali/crypt/winfront.html
    • Description: PWF provides a very efficient way of accessing the full functionality of PGP through an intuitive Windows interface.

    PGP Winfront (32-bit) 4.0

    • Author: Ugali International Corp.
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pwf32402.zip
    • Requires: vbrun300.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.netaccess .on.ca/~rbarclay/ugali/crypt/winfront.html
    • Description: PWF provides a very efficient way of accessing the full functionality of PGP through an intuitive Windows interface.

    PGP-PM32 0.7 beta

    PGP4Pine (aka PAPP)

    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gator/pgp 4pine/
    • Description: PGP4Pine, also known as "PAPP" ("Pine And PGP") is a Perl script to integrate pgp into the popular mail reader Pine.

    PGPClick (16-bit) 2.5

    • Author: Robert Wilson
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpclk16.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.ncinter.net/~rewilson/PGPClic k/
    • Description: PGPClick was written to simplify use of PGP encryption for email applications. Once properly set up, most encryption and decryption can be accomplished with just one or two mouse clicks. PGPClick works well with email readers, newsreaders, text editors, word processors, and almost any program that edits text.

    PGPClick (32-bit) 2.5

    • Author: Robert Wilson
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpclk32.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.ncinter.net/~rewilson/PGPClic k/
    • Description: PGPClick was written to simplify use of PGP encryption for email applications. Once properly set up, most encryption and decryption can be accomplished with just one or two mouse clicks. PGPClick works well with email readers, newsreaders, text editors, word processors, and almost any program that edits text.

    PGPClip 1.4.4

    • Author: Michael Meyer
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pcl1_1_4.zip
    • Requires: vbrun300.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserv e.com/homepages/michael_p_meyer/
    • Description: PGPClip utilizes the clipboard for most PGP functions. Provides immediate desktop access to PGP functions.

    PGPSort 1.0

    • Author: Ståle Schumacher Ytteborg
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: Unix / MS-DOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpsort.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: ftp://ftp.pgpi.com/pub/pgp/2.x/ pc/msdos/pgpsort.zip
    • Description: Sorts PGP public keyrings and (optionally) removes bad keys.

    PGPn123 (freeware) 1.0 beta 5

    • Author: Alpha1 Enterprises
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pn123-05.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.pobox.com/~alpha1/epgpn123.htm
    • Description: PGPn123 floats above your e-mail application in the form of a toolbar, making it possible to click a single button to sign, encrypt or decrypt your messages. PGPn123 has been found to work well with Eudora, Agent, Netscape, Pegasus, and a few other products.

    PGPn123 (shareware) 1.8

    • Author: Alpha1 Enterprises
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pn123e18.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://www.pobox.com/~alpha1/epgpn123.htm
    • Description: PGPn123 floats above your e-mail application in the form of a toolbar, making it possible to click a single button to sign, encrypt or decrypt your messages. PGPn123 has been found to work well with Eudora, Agent, Netscape, Pegasus, and a few other products.

    PGPoMAGIC 2.4

    • Author: Jens Bruhn
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pom24.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://members.aol.com/PGPoMAGIC/
    • Description: PGPoMAGIC features a "fast clip board" mode that allows you to highlight and capture text for encryption in any editable window. Decryption with only one mouse click. This version now supports things like networks (PGP may be somewhere in the net, the keyrings in an other directory and PoM may be in a third directory; all users can use PGP with their own configuration) and multiple keyrings

    PGPsendmail 1.4

    PGPtoGUI

    PGPwho

    PMMail/2 2.0

    PgpEudra 1.02

    • Author: Hans Bausewein / Comerwell Software
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 3.x/95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpeudra102.zip
    • License: Freeware for personal use
    • Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~comerwel/pgpeudra/
    • Description: PgpEudra is a PGP-shell that runs as an extension to Eudora. It adds a menu item "Run PGP..." to Eudora's "Message" menu, thereby making receiving and sending encrypted mail very easy. It supports just the basic PGP tasks encrypt, decode, sign and check signature. No copy and paste needed anymore. Works with both 16 and 32 bit versions of Eudora.

    PowerPGP (16-bit) 2.0

    • Author: Joe Fennin
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: ppgp2-16.zip
    • License: Shareware ($20)
    • Homepage: http://www.frontiernet.net/~jfeen in/powerpgp.html
    • Description: PowerPGP lets you write and encrypt messages. After that you can cut and paste your message into any windows based e-mail program.

    PowerPGP (32-bit) 2.20

    • Author: Joe Fennin
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: ppgp2-32.zip
    • License: Shareware ($20)
    • Homepage: http://www.frontiernet.net/~jfeen in/powerpgp.html
    • Description: PowerPGP lets you write and encrypt messages. After that you can cut and paste your message into any windows based e-mail program.

    Private Idaho 2.8b3

    • Author: Joel McNamara
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pi28b3.exe
    • Requires: vbrun300.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/pi.html
    • Description: A PGP/anonymous remailer utility for e-mail software. Supports direct sending of SMTP e-mail, as well direct receipt of PGP messages from POP3 mailboxes. Also supports multiple NYM servers, NYMS, multiple PGP keys for signing, etc., support for C2.org remailer, usenet posting through remailers, and more.

    Privtool 0.90 beta

    • Author: Mark Grant
    • Category: Email client
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.unicorn.com/privtool/privt ool.html
    • Description: Privtool is intended to be a PGP-aware replacement for the standard Sun Workstation mailtool program, with a similar user interface and automagick support for PGP-signing and PGP-encryption. Privtool runs on Linux and FreeBSD as well as SunOS and Solaris.

    Pronto Secure 1.13

    QDPGP 2.60

    • Author: Gerard R Thomas
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 5.x/6.x
    • Filename: qdpgp.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.wow.net/community/grt/qdpgp. html
    • Description: Email plugin for Pegasus Mail. Supports encryption/decryption, generation/verification of signatures, addition of public keys to keyring.

    SafeMail 2.0 beta5

    • Author: Highware, Inc.
    • Category: Email client
    • Platform: MacOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x/5.x/6.x
    • License: Commercial
    • Homepage: http://www.highware.com/main-sm.html
    • Description: OpenPGP compatible email client.

    Stealth 1.1

    • Author: Henry Hastur
    • Category: Tool
    • Platform: Unix / MS-DOS
    • For use with: PGP 2.x/5.x/6.x
    • Filename: stealth.zip
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.unicorn.com/pgp/s-readme.html
    • Description: Stealth is a simple filter for PGP which strips off all identifying header information to leave only the encrypted data in a format suitable for steganographic use.

    WPGP 1.6

    • Author: Jack Gostl
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: wpgp160.zip
    • License: Shareware ($40)
    • Homepage: http://www.panix.com/~jgostl/wpgp/
    • Description: A Windows/PGP integration tool with a point and click interface between Windows applications and PGP. With WPGP, simply click on a window; WPGP will extract the text from that window, process it through PGP, and place the result back in the window. Includes a drag & drop file encryption interface.

    WinPGP (16-bit) 4.1

    • Author: Chris Geib / Geib Enterprises Network
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: pgpw41.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/home pages/CGeib/
    • Description: Allows you to access the features of PGP while remaining in Windows. Also supports directory encryption and has good key managment features.

    WinPGP (32-bit) 5.0

    • Author: Chris Geib / Geib Enterprises Network
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • Filename: winpgp5a.zip
    • License: Shareware
    • Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/home pages/CGeib/
    • Description: Allows you to access the features of PGP while remaining in Windows. Also supports directory encryption and has good key managment features.

    dirtypgp

    • Author: Carsten Meyer (carsten.meyer@home.gelsen-net.de)
    • Category: Shell
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://195.145.169.13/~cmeyer/dirtypgp
    • Description: PGP 2.6.3i shell for X11.

    elmpgp 2.4pl24

    pgp4pine

    • Author: Chris Wiegand (cwiegant@urgentmail.com)
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x/5.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.dimensional.com /~cwiegand/linux/pgp4pine.html
    • Description: PGP/GPG filter for pine, enabling you to manually and automatically decrypt and encrypt email messages.

    psMail 1.1

    • Author: Bill Cohee
    • Category: Email client
    • Platform: Windows 3.x
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://mville.edu:8000/~bcohee/psmail.ht ml
    • Description: psMail (Pretty Secure Mail) is an offline mail manager designed for people who wish to send/receive encrypted email through their online service or Internet access provider. psMail is composed of two seperate modules; an Inbox and a OutBox. psMail:InBox manages and decrypts email sent to you. psMail:OutBox manages and encrypts email that you are going to send.

    zmail PGP script

    • Author: Aldo Valente
    • Category: Email plugin
    • Platform: Unix
    • For use with: PGP 2.x
    • License: Freeware
    • Homepage: http://www.rhein.de/~aldo/zmail.html
    • Description: Script for integrating PGP with zmail.

  24. What doesn't kill us..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NT Beats Linux in Round 2

    only makes us stonger.... :)

    Anyone like those dragon ball z cartoons.... :)

    http://users.aol.com/suboner/Zen/

  25. Re:Creativity by Machupo · · Score: 1 · on Slashdot T-Shirt Design Contest

    I used Tux, but that's not the message of my t-shirt... it's just that i have absolutely no talent when it comes to art (heck, i even failed 5th grade sculpting -- i.e. clay ashtray class). It's pretty neato tho, considering that i gave Tux a flip-top head* (copyright of Reach, or something, cause that is a really funny commercial). Neways, this comment has kindof gone off at a tangent from where it started off, so i might as well drop my url...

    Talk about horrible scripting... i think i did this when i was 13 and just decided to cut and paste this time :)

    niiiice long link for those of us who forgot our glasses!

  26. Interesting Link by Vertigo1 · · Score: 1 · on CIA Sculpture Code Partially Cracked

    This is an interesting link. It may provide some insight into the solution? .

  27. after the first 20 million... by z1lch · · Score: 2 · on Review:Nudist On The Late Shift

    What is most refreshing about Po Bronson is his angle...he digs in and examines real life human issues that everybody can relate to whilst adeptly gutting the organic underbelly of the mutant gold mining beast which is Silicon Valley. A sociologist first and an autoptician second. And a hell of a story writer...

    Keep your eyes peeled on his personal site for the full skinny.

    Now back to working on that first 20 million...

  28. The Current System is Broken by Detritus · · Score: 1 · on Software Regulatory Body?
    The value of the time that I have wasted reinstalling various IBM and Microsoft operating system products is far in excess of their retail price. Buggy compilers are another huge time sink.

    I would like to see a law that eliminated the bogus license agreements that disclaim all warranties and responsibilities. Unfortunately, the trend in the proposed revision to the U.C.C. (Uniform Commercial Code) is in the opposite direction.

    The current economic/legal system rewards companies that release a buggy POS now instead of reliable software later. This has to change.

    Software reliability can be measured and improved. It takes time, money and training. Here is a quick overview of Software Reliability Engineering by John Musa, who is one of the pioneers in the field.

  29. Cantina MP3 here: by ToyKeeper · · Score: 3 · on A Quivering Mass of Star Wars
    For the mp3... http://web.wwa.com/~xene/cantina.mp3 (4.2MB, 192Kb/s)

    WAV version: http://members.aol.com/manitsas2/cantina.wav (8-bit mono, 1.93MB)

    :)

  30. Re:Which is more useful? (OGR is here, now!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Seti@Home Now Has Teams

    Actually, you can participate in the 23-mark Optimal Golomb Ruler search already, and you can even help find good starting points for distributed.net's future OGR searches (when that happens):

    http://members.aol.com/golomb20

  31. They never really ported FX!32 by Erik+Corry · · Score: 1 · on Compaq's Tru64 may include KDE, GNOME, RPM
    The version of FX!32 they did for Linux (em86) doesn't include the dynamic recompilation technology, it just has the x86 interpreter. That's why it's so slow.

    According to this Deja News article em86 is no longer supported. This seems a pity.

    Of course a version that worked with Wine to run x86/NT programs would be cool, but I rather doubt Compaq would want to release their FX!32 technology. They have worked on it for years, and it looks like they are better at it than anyone else. Intel needs something like this for McKinley (according to rumour it has no hardware support for x86 code), and perhaps even for Merced if the rumours of poor x86 performance are true.

    I guess they could just rely on a combination of NIH and the GPL to stop Intel using it.

  32. Re:Stars! The purist turn-based multiplayer game by Robin+Hood · · Score: 1 · on Review: Civilization:Call To Power
    You forgot to mention the Stars! website, Waypoint Zero, where you can download a demo. The demo limits you to tech level 10 in all six research fields and the game ends at turn 80. It's a good introduction to this (far too addictive) game. For a huge list of other Stars!-related websites, see the Stars! Websites page on Waypoint Zero. Stars-R-Us is a particularly good one (yes, for once a *good* website in the AOL.COM domain!).

    Another good place for more information about Stars! is the rec.games.computer.stars newsgroup. There you can talk to other people about Stars! strategy, find out about new multiplayer games starting (the usual method is to play one turn per day, sending in the turn files by E-mail. There are also "blitz" games played in about 4 hours on IRC somewhere -- the channel is #Stars! and the server is StarLinkIRC (*not* StarLink), although I could be wrong about those because I haven't been there too often) and read humbling posts by the "greats" of Stars! such as Jason Cawley (hi Jason!) and others. By the way: before you join any multiplayer guide, read the Stars! Strategy Guide, otherwise you will get yourself creamed in your first game.

    How addictive is this game? Let me put it this way: whenever I click on the URL box in Netscape to type in a URL, I have to restrain my fingers' urge to automatically type "www.webmap.com/stars/websites.htm".

    And the authors, Jeff and Jeff (known as "the Jeffs" or "Jeff^2" on the newsgroup) have the best response time I've seen of any closed-source project. Despite the fact that they're trying to devote their entire time to Stars! Supernova (the next version of Stars! which will have fancy graphics and introduce some pretty major play changes), they still respond with new patches not only to bug reports but also to game-balance issues!

    Summary: Get Stars!. Read the Strategy Guide. Read the newsgroup.. Play the game. Be happy.
    -----

  33. Another Free Photomosaic program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on May Ten Quickies


    http://members.aol.com/suboner/Zen/

  34. How I survived... by ch-chuck · · Score: 1 · on Voices From The Hellmouth

    Gawd, the whole thing almost sounds like Heathers or the Toxic Avenger or something.

    I must have gotten lucky to survive Hellmouth High by signing up for 'vocational', which meant spending half the day away from the main school engrossed in Electronics, which I really enjoyed, no matter what anyone thought. But that was mid 70's.

    Chuck

  35. Open Source vs Windows by Uart · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft redefines Open Source

    (Yes, that means you too ZDNet!)

    ZDNet is full of idiots, they can't figure out that "Anonymous Coward" ISN'T a person, its a group of anon. posters. You think they would get it when they realized that A.C. argues with itself. Oh well, not everyone is as smart as we are.

    BTW, anyone who would PAY John C. Dvorak to write the crap he writes is someone i would LOVE to work for. (easy $$)

  36. Catch a dork - wrong spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Melissa Creator tracked using MS's ID numbers?

    Sorry - the e-mail address is skyroket@aol.com (without the 'c' in 'rocket').

    EH

  37. Catch a dork by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Melissa Creator tracked using MS's ID numbers?

    MSNBC has an article on the supposed "source" of the virus, and towards the bottom is a picture of the "original posting" to alt.sex. You can make out the e-mail address of SkyRocket believed to be the originator. Boy, I'd hate to have to check his e-mail tonight! ;-)

    EH

  38. Eeh.. by gavinhall · · Score: 1 · on Mess with N64 and PlayStation Memory Cards on PCs

    Posted by Scott Francis[Mechaman]:

    The DexDrive has been out for awhile. Although I didn't know they had a N64 version. Note that the ones produced by the PSX one are compatible with PSEmuPro. And vice-versa, "cards" created with PSEmuPro work just fine transferred back to a real card.
    For DIY-type people, the PlaySaver appears to work just as well, was out long before the DexDrive, and only costs as much as a floppy cable, some minor parts, and some sweat. I need to get working on mine..

  39. ordering 'em online by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Hands-on Review of the SGI Visual Workstations

    for anyone who's interested, you can order SGI VPC's cheaply here.

  40. Selling out to The Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dilbert, the cartoon, UPN 7:00 Tonight

    Show was rather ho-hum. Perhaps the best part would've been Elfman's theme music, "The Dilbert Zone," except for one little thing...

    It's just a rehashed version of the theme he used for the little-known 80's B-movie, "The Forbidden Zone."

    How perfectly Dilbertian. Simply re-heat and serve. Anything for a buck, I s'pose.

  41. copyright by orabidoo · · Score: 1 · on Music Industry scores the closing of www.lyrics.ch
    the radio isn't any better, it's largely controlled by the big music industry too, it's actually their main way of telling you what to listen to. besides, the sound quality is annoying, there are ads, and they don't play what *you* want to hear.

    my solution is, as much as possible, to mail order from small labels who do it for the love of the music, like Wayside or New Sonic Architecture or the Artist Shop, or even better directly from the artists, when they offer it. This way they get most of the money.