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Re:oh yohoo, quicktime
I performed a search on google and found:
http://www.appwatch.com/Linux/App/1170/data.html
http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3
These appear to be libraries, not an actual player. I'll search around later, but I suspect if folks are looking for a QuickTime player they may be disappointed.
Look for a program called 'xanim' for starters. Another app which _might_ have quicktime support is 'xmms'. -
Two other ~$600 DVD recorders, Linux support
If you want a ~$600 DVD recorder, you already have a couple of other choices.
At $629 on PriceWatch, the Pioneer DVR-A03 that a number of posters have already mentioned writes DVD-R at 2X, DVD-RW at 1X, as well as CD-R and CD-RW.
At $535 on PriceWatch, the Panasonic LF-D311 writes DVD-R at 1X and DVD-RAM (1X for 2.6GB, 2X for 4.7GB), as well as reading the usual CD formats, but apparently not writing any CD format whatsoever.
Currently, to the best of my knowledge, the only Linux software that can drive DVD writes is proprietary (sorry, there really is no good link for it). I am not sure whether complete information on how to drive these DVD writes is given in the SCSI-3 standards on www.t10.org or whether some additional information is needed. Any pointers to this information would be appreciated, as I might get ambitious one of these days and try to hack cdrecord or cdwrite to control these drives if nobody beats me to it.
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Re:ASN.1 "compression" vs XML
Bruce, I had to flame the guy a few posts up from you, but he has a 6-digit slashdot userid. Nobody cares how obtuse the wire encoding is because here in the Cenozoic era, we have learned to walk upright and also to use labor-saving software to analyze our protocols. My favorite is ethereal but you might like to browse some others.
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Re:Trivial isnt the word for it
IIRC the OpenBSD crew got a hold of some old crufty "free" (as in license) ssh/sshd program, cleaned it up, added a ton of feartures, cleaned it up more, audited the source, released it and currently is maintaining it. IMHO the OpenBSD/OpenSSH team is doing a hell of a good job with this.
That "old crufty 'free'" SSH-1 implementation you mention is none other than Tatu Ylonen's (aka SSH.com's) SSH-1 implementation. And it was only any kind of crufty because the last version that had a forkable license was about 1.2.12 (I could be off by a minor version or two). OpenSSH set about reimplementing (on their own) the same features that were in the present release of SSH.com's ssh.
OpenSSH is not perfect. It has had interoperability problems with SSH.com's ssh (arguably because SSH.com had strayed from the SECSH reference design, but strict standards adherence does not always useabilty make). It also still supports the SSH-1 protocol, which is inherently flawed. While this is nice for sites transitioning to SSH-2 (or for people concientiously using SSH-2 but having to deal with admins elsewhere who are less on the ball), it's allowed the SSH-1 protocol to linger in the community longer than Tatu would have liked. And he's been very noisy about that fact. Even though there have been pretty much no reports of anyone actually exploiting SSH-1 just yet.
Point is, OpenSSH comes straight out of SSH.com's source, though its been much-updated, as opposed to other SSH (-1 and -2) implementations like FreSSH and ossh, which were reimplemented from the ground up.
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Information (Cutting through the Jargon Fog)
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Their definition of "open"
But how open is open? - they don't seem to say what definition they are using!
Or do they? I looked in the site dics and found that OSD's definition of open source is any software under a license approved by the Open Source Initiative, from free GPL2, BSD2, X11, and Clarified Artistic to flawed QPL, BSD1, and Python 1.6 to too-vague-to-be-free Original Artistic. (Sources: free | open)
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No SMP yet though
The little thread this started noted discrepancies in the number of CPUs reported in the bootlog (4, 8, and 1). There are 4 CPUs in the machine, it supports 8, and the native 64bit Linux port supports 1. But the 32bit Linux port (emulates 32bit on the Power3) supports SMP. I'd be interested to see a performance comparison between the 64bit native and 32bit emulation kernels.
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daily builds
I was happily chugging along on the daily builds until sometime around the first of the month. Apparently, they decided to stop asking what color preferences you want and instead use the colors associated with your gtk theme as the default colors for text/background for the displayed pages. Sites like appwatch are unreadable because they chose to use the secondary foreground color so I'm still using a build from about a month ago. The bug's been in bugzilla since Feb 2nd along with a patch and they still haven't bothered to check it in. I thought they were supposed to be in the process of fixing the bugs right now rather than adding "features". The other thing that sucks is I had to fire up Netscape 4.7 to post this because the text entry seems to break at every line so when you insert long URLs, it chops them up so they don't work. I'm still trying to find that one in bugzilla...
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Appwatch
Yes, appwatch
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Re:Let the mirrors grab it first!
If you check appwatch, you'll see that 2.2.18 has been available for quite some time, maybe you should check to make sure your information is correct before you go flaming.
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How about Zope?Check out Zope (and the ZDP).
It's an open source web application server and it would make the job you're referring to a snap.
Some sites which use Zope:
www.zope.org
www.technocrat.net
appwatch.com
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lame and vague
I'm not convinced, and being told about the wonderful fruits of the internet doesn't make me think that the CEO's are hip and with it.
The consequences of the Andover sellout have already been felt. When Appwatch opened up they were blackballed by slashdot. Appwatch competes with freshmeat, but that doesn't mean that freshmeat should be the endorsed site from slashdot.
I think someone this weekend had a great idea with regard to allowing all posts to be seen and voted on. I challenge the uber-moderators of slashdot to really open and let the readers vote on the stories which matter to them, along with being able to read what is rejected.
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Re:How is VA going to make money with this?
It's just AppWatch with host, PHP, a bad design, money, and publicity. Hmm, yes, nothing is free.
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Not news, not Fresh
"kornyone writes "Freshmeat listed XFree86 3.3.6 as being released,".
Oh CmdrTaco. It was announced 12h before Freshmeat at AppWatch. Now you can see what Fresh really means, right? You refused to run our announcement, so live with it, little corporate toy. -
Freshmeat isn't a stardard, thank you.
And AppWatch was the first site to announce 1.0.0 (and all previous versions). You have choices dude. And yes, why not at
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If you like to maintain 4 zillion scripts...
...and throw away machine cycles, maybe PHP _is_ cool. But if you rather have an organized, object oriented web development interface, with multithreaded persistent database connections, a standalone web server, plugable modules and no overhead per call, try Zope. All the great new sites use it, like AppWatch, Technocrat and iMacLinux. Why? How about going from drawing board to full featured site in 2 weeks? And please don't mention the PHP + MySQL combo, the MySQL license sucks. OpenSource rules, I don't care about the rest.
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But AppWatch is
This site seems to work and look good with text based browsers. It's also better IMHO than freshmeat. And it only support OpenSource projects! Argh, why the hell it's not being supported by us? AppWatch
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RPMs available
RedHat recognized the importance of this new version of Samba by making RPMS available immediately after the official release. You can get them on the latest release of RedHat RawHide, the development series of RedHat. Note that these are not official production RPMS, but should work fine. RPMS for bind 8.2.2pl3 are also available in the same directory.
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Other sites that suck up information
The worst part is that it's not only from Slashdot that people are stealing info without credits. Take Apps sites for example: the are only two worthy sites at the moment, Freshmeat and AppWatch. All the others just suck up their announcements. Like Linuxberg, IceWalkers, and others. What good is it to present second hand information on the Net these days? I just hope that the general public can see the difference between the original work and effort and the sucked up crap.
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Zope
MySQL sucks. Have you ever read the LICENSE it comes under?? Try Zope. And take a look at some Open Source sites that use it daily, like AppWatch and Technocrat.
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Zope
MySQL sucks. Have you ever read the LICENSE it comes under?? Try Zope. And take a look at some Open Source sites that use it daily, like AppWatch and Technocrat.
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Upload to Metalab, Announce at AppWatch
I don't know why you need to register another site. Metalab is actually the best place to upload your files, and is mirrored all around the world. AppWatch is the only site that tracks only OpenSource projects that are actively developed and good. They also don't seem to like broken links (check their FAQ). No need to reinvent the well. Metalab AppWatch
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This already exists: AppWatch
If the issue here is an Open Source-only Apps site, it already exists. Check out AppWatch.
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Re:Not Freshmeat
I agree totally. But there is no need to despair, because there already IS an Apps site that is OpenSource only: AppWatch. No commercial stuff, only apps announced on the same day, a "not-maintained-means-useless" policy, and a real effort to keep the information updated and organized. I think that with very little modification AppWatch could become this new GPL (or rather OpenSource) repository. All the GNU stuff is already there, and over 650 OS apps are already catalogued and being tracked.
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Re:bah.
Who's paying for it it not important, the important thing is to do it right. That is why all the media hype and the bogus companies that pretend to support Open Source get in the way instead of helping out the movement. Just ignore them, and go for trully OS sources of information and software, like GNU, Technocrat and AppWatch.
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andover.net or opensource community?
Gee, have you noticed how our favorite opensource sites have started linking to the "ANDOVER.NET PARTNER SITES" and not to the other opensource sites?
here's an example: appwatch.com - not a bad site at all, and yeah so maybe freshmeat did it first, but is andover.net keeping them (and anyone else who's not in their clutches) out of the opensource spotlight?
when nobody's making MILLIONS of dollars from opensource stuff, it's easy to stay fair and impartial, but when the people running the sites have to answer to management and not the opensource community, things change
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It all sort of sucks. Those of us who haven't made our millions off opensource yet and still code/compile/etc becuase we actually LOVE to do it seem to be the ones getting the short end of the stick while other get rich from our work.
maybe slasldot/andover should offer a financial reward for slashdotters who post stories and moderate... that seems plenty fair to me. Share and enjoy, right? -
Re:How come my apps don't get on /.?
Weird that you would mention Open Source. How come non-OpenSource stuff like Netscape gets special treatment? If you want a site that really supports Open Source, try AppWatch. You'll also find out that E 0.16.0 has been announced there several hours ago, full Changelog included.