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I miss some programs like this, there is also avi splitter to grab something out of an avi (mpeg4 content I think it works best with) without reencoding. Are there any equivlents for linux?

This is what I started using instead of VirtualDub:

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I don't know if they do auto commercial detection yet, but there's at least some "next black frame", "previous black frame" buttons that make manual commercial deletion easy.

I also seem to remember that they can't split without encoding unless the parts you're cutting out correspond to keyframes; if you try to cut a segment that ends on a random non-keyframe, it'll have to do a tiny bit of reencoding to turn the first non-cut image into a new keyframe and to encode the following few images up until the next old keyframe.

There is also a purely software-based solution that doesn't lose quality: QEMU. Install this emulator, instal Windows inside there, install drivers for the emulated SB PCI sound card (they already have the needed signature), and redirect the emulated sound output to a wav file. You'll get a bit-precise copy of the sound.

You're joking, but I've been able to make it spend 12 hours over 24 in the GC for real : http://raphael.jolly.free.fr/text/gc.png (ok it was a tricky symbolic computation, and this is a very very special case just below the heap space limit)

For OSS Mac stuff, a good guide is OpenSourceMac.

From my point of few I do not see any reason why the hard drive of a cooperate laptop computer should not be encrypted as soon as the mobile computer contains sensitive data (and it usually does). In my opinion it is just irresponsible to carry any mobile device (laptop, USB stick, etc.) out of the company if the data is not secured there, and the series of data leaks known to us all proves this. It might be a bit more inconvenient, it might cause some overhead in computing, but in my opinion this measures needs to be done.

I have a Linux laptop (IBM T30, 2GHz Pentium 4) and I have not a full disc encryption, but /tmp, /var, /usr/local, /home, /root and the swap area are encrypted (256bit AES). With the 2.6 kernel series it has become easy to set up encrypted partitions with dm-crypt and recently with my new acquired external harddrive I started to use the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) which makes it even more convenient to have encrypted drives (now I can give away my external harddrive to a friend and he can use it without knowing my key, the system allows up to 8 keys and each of them can be revoked easily). I have never noticed any lack in performance and nowadays computers are even faster than my Pentium 4.

Further, if it comes to data loss due to a lost key, then may I ask, where is the backup? I have a backup of my system, for sure encrypted (Dar is here for me a great help). In a cooperate setting backups should be standard as well (harddrive failures happen as happen that keys get forgotten). So loosing a key should not be a problem. One does not need to encrypt the backup either, after all the encryption should only prevent data from being read when the laptop gets stolen and into wrong hands. If the backup is secure in the cooperation than there is nothing (big) to fear if it is not encrypted.

So what point really justifies to take the risk of data leak in a cooperate setting??

There are already YouTube downloader-converters and standalone .flv converters for the iPod.

Windows users can already paste a url into iTube, and it will download YouTube's .flv files, convert them to .mp4 format, and add them to iTunes, which will then sync those movies to your iPod.

Mac users can already paste a url into PodTube, and it will download YouTube's .flv files, convert them to .mp4 format, and add them to iTunes, which will then sync those movies to your iPod.

SUPER is another Windows program that converts .flv files to .mp4 for iPod.

iSquint is another Mac program that converts .flv files to .mp4 for iPod.

Every one of the programs I mentioned are freeware.

Er, conversion to what? Islam? Muslims in India have a well-oiled Caste system already. Read about the Ashraf/Ajlaf divide The Qomiyat of Swat, Pakistan and Bengal and the jajmin/Kamin separation.

Among Muslims, the Ashraf are regarded as those descended from Arab stock and are mandated by Fatwas to be "superior" to those converted from Hinduism, called "Ajlaf". even among the Ajlaf we have the "Arzal" who are treated as untouchable. To quote a scholarly paper Arzals are those:

"with whom no other Muhammadan would associate, and who are forbidden to enter the mosque or to use the public burial ground"

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/12109.html

http://stateless.freehosting.net/Caste%20in%20Indi an%20Muslim%20Society.htm

Read this famous book by Ambedkar (I already spoke about him in a thread earlier), a Buddhist by the way, who exposes the entire Muslim Caste System in South Asia:

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00amb edkar/ambedkar_partition/410.html

Also, read:

Aggarwal, Patrap. Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India.
Social Stratification Among Muslims in India by Zarina Bhatty

and "Political theory in the Delhi Sultanate by Mohamed Habib" when the Muslim Castes of Ashraf/Ajlaf/Arzal was established by religious sancation through the Fatwa-i-Jahandari.

Convert to Christianity? Dalit Christians are the among the most persecuted people in India right now. Read about Bama Faustina, a Dalit Christian, who has exposed the atrocities committed on Dalit Christians by the Christian clergy

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/09/16/stories/13160 17m.htm

http://www.womenswriting.com/writerdetails.asp?wri terid=116

In the book "Sangati":
http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/L iteratureEnglish/WorldLiterature/India/~~/dmlldz11 c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTY3MDg4Mg==

Christian churches in India are largely controlled by upper caste Christian Priests and nuns. Low-caste Dalit Christians are discriminated against by the upper-caste Christians. The extent and practice of untouchability within the Indian Christian community have been researched. Chapels for Dalit Christians are often segregated from Christians of a higher caste. Other churches admit Dalit Christians, but keep separate pews for them. Dalit Christians are buried in separate cemeteries. In addition, Dalit boys are not allowed to be altar boys or lectors.In addition, there are various instances of economic discrimination where Dalit Christians are not allowed to own arable land by upper caste Christian clergy. In many Christian communities in India, bonded labor is still practiced. As a consequence of the discrimination, Dalit Christians tend to be very poor and undernourished. Dalit Christians are denied education by the Upper Caste Priests and nuns. Very few Dalit Christians are involved in administrative services, except for the few who reconverted back to Hinduism.

http://indianhope.free.fr/site_eng/article_5.php3

The only realistic religion to convert to would be Buddhism, which is no biggie because Buddhism originated in India only. However, the movement is being taken over by violent extremists and anti-Hindu bigots who have even gone so far as to side with Islamist terrorists in Kashmir who ethnically cleansed millions of Hindu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl#Screenshots.2C_sc reencast.2C_demo_video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws

I used this script to install both compiz and xgl: http://sonique54.free.fr/xgl/xgl.htm it saves alot of time getting it started (at least in Debian Testing (Etch)).

Eat your heart out Mac users :]

-- Now that I'v used the second of my two 'allotted' post per day because of my 'Terrible Karma' rating.. I'm off to make /. management look even more ridiculous by posting as AC or other various means!

I'm honestly more interested in someone coming up with cheap, long term archival storage. Hard disks have gone so far past our ability to archive information it's beyond comprehension.

There is a very good reason to install Firefox via your distribution's package management system. If another packages relies on the Gecko libraries to embed a web browser (examples: Eclipse, Listen), and you installed Firefox manually, you'll wind up with two copies installed.

Actually, on Ubuntu you'll probably wind up with both Mozilla and Firefox installed (grr), but you see my point.

Whoa, slow down there.

I love Debian, especially the Ubuntu flavor. I've been been using Linux on and off for 5 years. My day job as a .NET programmer does not afford me the kind of time I would have liked to learn, but I'm progressing better now that I no longer use WinXP at home (unless via mono, wine, or VMware;).

I am sincere about free software ideals. I am extremely grateful to have tens of thousands of free software packages at my fingertips, and yearn to see my own software in that list one day. I am currently adding DAAP client and server support to the Listen media player.

I personally lean towards MIT, but license zealots need not apply... If my software one day winds up tangled in a petty argument such as this, it would be time to don negotiating hat and come to the table willing to make a concesion or two. Debian and Mozilla Corp. appear unwilling to do concede anything.

I also believe that Mozilla is building a brand based on those exact same ideals. Building a sucessful (trademarked) brand is hard work, and legally requires Mozilla Corp. to defend that trademark. I think the Mozilla brand is as worthwhile as Debian to the open source world.

We want to succeed, don't we? If yes, we must play by the rules, even if we don't like them. Most importantly, we must get along.

My problem with this silliness is that it pollutes the Firefox brand and further fractures free software in general.

I could truly care less that I feel the need to run a script to get the "official" Firefox icons, or if I must download an extension so it can be called "Firefox". That said, "Iceweasel" is at least contrary if not condescending.

My first post was sarcasm, here is my unsolicited opinion: Use the official icon. Call it Firefox. And fuck Mozilla "approving" the patches you use with your own distribution. Make the Firefox package "Suggest" extension(s) that allows you to change the name and icon.

Please elaborate. I would like to know specifically what you can do on the Windows version that you can't do on the Mac version. These must be functionality difference, so you can't say "keyboard shortcut XYZ doesn't work on the Mac," since the Mac version likely uses a different keyboard shortcut. Also, your calling it a "scary application" indicates your tolerance for difference.

For most things I have to do I can usually map the suggestions in HowTo articles aimed at the Windows version of MS Office more or less directly to the MS Office 2004 programs on my MacBook Pro but there are still some differences in functionality and number of features between Word/Excel/Powerpoint for Mac and the Windows versions. From what I have been told by MS Office power-users the Mac version usually limps behind the Windows version in terms of features. Personally I am plenty happy with Office for Mac, even when I am writing illustrated manuals or books up to 150 pages long, but for power users the lack of support for some advanced features in Windows and Excel in particular is a deal breaker. Another major gripe that people have with Office for Mac is that they just bought a new Intel Mac and although every other application just races ahead on the new machine, MS Office for Mac is dog slow. This is of course because Office is running on top of Apple's Rosetta but most regular users don't stop to think about the implications of that fact, all they care about is that Office for Mac is dog slow. I'll be interested in seeing how the next version of MS Office runs on the Intel Macs because MS Office 2004 pretty much sucked on my old G4 Powerbook but that wasn't Microsoft's fault. The G4 processor was simply in dire need of replacement. Then there is also the Aqua port of Open Office which seems to be coming along fine but they need developers.

CANADIAN TROOPS ARE IN IRAQ

Sigh the driver does work in OpenBSD but not well. Damien who works on the IPW driver in OpenBSD but which IIRC is also used by Net, Free and OpenSolaris! has been trying to get documentation so he can write a proper OPEN SOURCE driver
i.e.
From: http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/
"I've started to work on a driver for Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network adapters, as found in recent Centrino(TM) laptops. Needless to say, this driver won't require any binary-only user-space daemon to operate, contrary to the Linux driver provided by Intel®. Such daemons that must execute as root and have complete access to the hardware are unacceptable for this project."

They are also asking people who use ANY OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEM to complain so perhaps intel will change their policy regarding firmware licensing, right now a few of the sell out commercial linux distros can distribute the firmware because they have signed restricitve agreements, however the terms are completly unacceptable to many.

Nope, because the constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper ©King George the First, Nov. 2005

Speaking of off topic, how can the site you linked be so cool and yet not fix this?

While you're at it, fix this

Yes this box looks like a big breakthrough for not so computer literate people looking for getting in touch with friends and relatives using today's technology.

However, this almost comes like shadow over the Free Telecom's new Freebox which comes with router, Wifi-MIMO connection, HD TV tuner and something like 50 free channels and a total of 200, including all the international ones like CNN, BBC and many others, a VoIP phone system with free calls to landlines all over Europe (free calls to Australia, the US and Canada for instance!)

I keep going: Possibility to watch TV on your computer using VLC or use it as a multimedia player to send video and audio stream to the box that then displays it on your TV and sends the sound to your HiFi system through the Optical connection. Ah yes also video on demand with films that you can replay and fast forward for 24hours just as a DVD.

Of course it can provide very fast Internet connection (28Mb/s), obviously runs Linux and all that comes for the ridiculous price of 30 per month (they just lend the box to you!!!)

All that to say, with such as competition on the ADSL market in France, no wonder why Neuf Cegetel is trying to catch with such an offer...

Yes this box looks like a big breakthrough for not so computer literate people looking for getting in touch with friends and relatives using today's technology.

However, this almost comes like shadow over the Free Telecom's new Freebox which comes with router, Wifi-MIMO connection, HD TV tuner and something like 50 free channels and a total of 200, including all the international ones like CNN, BBC and many others, a VoIP phone system with free calls to landlines all over Europe (free calls to Australia, the US and Canada for instance!)

I keep going: Possibility to watch TV on your computer using VLC or use it as a multimedia player to send video and audio stream to the box that then displays it on your TV and sends the sound to your HiFi system through the Optical connection. Ah yes also video on demand with films that you can replay and fast forward for 24hours just as a DVD.

Of course it can provide very fast Internet connection (28Mb/s), obviously runs Linux and all that comes for the ridiculous price of 30 per month (they just lend the box to you!!!)

All that to say, with such as competition on the ADSL market in France, no wonder why Neuf Cegetel is trying to catch with such an offer...

We can get this 2 boxes for 30 euros a month too:
http://adsl.free.fr/wifi/
ADSL 8 Mo hub 4 ports ethernet or wifi

the multimedia box is linked through ethernet or wifi too
-Television: http://adsl.free.fr/tv/
-40 Go hard disk with tv recording, timeshifting, ftp access to put divX (mostly xvid right now) -vlc inside and possibility to view tv and your own movies from a remote PC, possibility to configure one of your PC as media center and watch or listen from it through your tv or hifi
-free phone (even to the usa and some other countries)

See the logo on the bottom of the page: linux everywhere for many years
name: free.fr

We can get this 2 boxes for 30 euros a month too:
http://adsl.free.fr/wifi/
ADSL 8 Mo hub 4 ports ethernet or wifi

the multimedia box is linked through ethernet or wifi too
-Television: http://adsl.free.fr/tv/
-40 Go hard disk with tv recording, timeshifting, ftp access to put divX (mostly xvid right now) -vlc inside and possibility to view tv and your own movies from a remote PC, possibility to configure one of your PC as media center and watch or listen from it through your tv or hifi
-free phone (even to the usa and some other countries)

See the logo on the bottom of the page: linux everywhere for many years
name: free.fr

As to where I learned this... all hail Popular Mechanics. An article way back in the late 70's demonstrated these, but not to make ions... they demonstrated a grid powerful enough to take off. Imagine a perfectly silent helicopter with no moving parts, trailing a thick heavy power cable (because they couldn't generate enough electricity onboard to lift it on its own). Definitely a nifty idea.

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

Who will save us from these robots once the evil Dr Wily takes control?
Megaman!
(seriously, anyone else think it looks like this one?

My ISP gives me 20M/1M unthrottled DSL for 30 euros a month. I can max it all the time with no problem. They also sell dedicated boxes with 100Mbps ethernet in their datacenter, unlimited bandwidth, 1G RAM 160G HD. If you look into their infrastructure, well ... they did what it took. It took a lot, but they're profitable. The thing is, they did'nt spend much money on marketing or advertising -- they did, however, invest a lot in R&D. They designed their own set top boxes, DSLAMS and hosting appliances. They bought out or rented gigs after gigs of backbone.

In the end, trying to castrate your users is going to cost you a bit of money, and more importantly, a lot of credit.

It is NOT mandatory.

Turn down your sound (in the OS X volume control), or mute your speakers.

Restart.

Tada! No startup sound.

There are also applications and Applescripts that will do it automatically for you:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/startupchimesto pper/Startup%20Chime%20Stopper.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 005165919533
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16780

By the way, the Apple startup sound is more akin to the PC Bios Boot-Beep. It's a hardware test, and it will play a different sound if there is a video card failure or ram failure, something which prevents the system from reaching the GUI.

Answered my question. It does.

You should check out DAR. It does exactly what you want. It's free under the GPL.

It's command line based and you will need to read the documentation before using it, but it does what you want.

I set up Mac-on-Linux (MOL) to run Canon's proprietary driver in OSX and export the printer to the network from the MOL virtual host. (MOL makes that all fairly easy.) Now I can print from any host on the LAN. The only drawback is that I need to have both the physical and virtual hosts up to print. Right now I do that manually, but I am working on running MOL at boot time so I only need start the physical machine, which is what I would have to do even if there were Linux drivers for the printer.

I haven't tried running the Windows driver (since I have a Mac hardware), but I am pretty sure one could also set up an x86 emulator, such as Qemu, to run the proprietary Canon driver in Windows to achieve the same effect. For all I know, it might work better. I'm not sure how easy it would be to export the printer to the LAN, but I suspect it would involve Samba.

Sure, it was a pain to set up, but it works and works well. Long term? I probably won't buy another Canon unless they start supporting open source drivers like they used to. HP and Epson still support open source drivers, but HP seems to be taking a beating for reduced quality, judging by the comments above. Fewer comments seem to condemn Epson's quality so that is what I will likely buy the next time. Either that or I will finally save up for a postscript laser printer.

Funny, I also carry a thumb-drive with a removable memory card slot. It's this generic one floating around online: http://www.supermediastore.com/supermedia-handy-4i n1--usb-20-flash-memory-card-reader-yellow.html

I think they're a great idea, because I can move with the SD card market as flash memory becomes denser and denser. Speed hasn't been a problem, either. The thumbdrives support USB 2.0 and my SD card seems to be capable of a very decent data transfer rate.

I have a collection of Windows tools on the drive. Not Linux tools, because I can usually accomplish whatever it is I'm doing in the Linux environments I encounter day to day.

Network Tools:
* Raw TCP/IP transfer -> netcat ( http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/ )
* SSH/Telnet -> putty ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ )
* Port Scanner -> SuperScan4 ( http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/super scan.htm )
* Classic Port Scanner -> nmap ( http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html )
* Packet Capture and Analysis -> WireShark setup ( http://www.wireshark.org/download.html )

Editors:
* General -> vim 7.0 ( http://www.vim.org/download.php )
* Hex Editor -> xvi32 ( http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi 32/xvi32.htm#download )

Development:
* Tiny C Compiler ( http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ )
* nasm ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=6208 )

Misc:
* Lightweight Windows md5sum -> md5summer ( http://www.md5summer.org/download.html )
* Process Explorer ( http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplo rer.html )
* MP3 Encoding -> RazorLame with lame ( http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php )
* Terminal Emulator -> TeraTerm Pro ( http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.h tml )

The folder is 26.7MB.

I live in France, where I have Free as an ISP. The ADSL service is 24Mbps and comes with an ADSL Wifi-MIMO equipped modem (built-in 5 port switch as well), and a Wifi "Television box", that streams MP4-Encrypted HD content over the Wifi without problems. And the content is drop-dead beautiful. In addition, I can receive a second HD stream to my computer while one is playing on the TV, though my Athlon 64 3000+ sometimes struggles with the HD content...

(For those that want to be jealous, I pay 29.99 for this service, which includes a fixed IP, 100 Channels of mixed HDTV and standard digital TV, and unlimited calling to everywhere in 40 some countries, including the US.)

If you're interested in going, you should give this guy a call. He looks like he needs a date.

Puh-lease, I can't believe France is not mentioned.

24 Mbps (ATM, 19.6 Mpbs IP) in all towns from 20K residents up, 150 free worldwide television channels (some of which HD), rock bottom prices for extra private channels, free VoIP plug-a-regular-phone-in communications to 28 countries including most of the western(ized) world and even mobile phones in the US (15 hours on the phone to a female friend in Australia ? 0.00 !)... and no catch in the contract.

All that, for 30 ($38) per month, with at least 4 different ISPs doing it, so the price is rapidly heading down to 25 if not 20.

Seriously. http://www.free.fr/. Not called "free" for nothing.

OK, so I guess this is not mentioned in the article because there is no PC World publication in France (apparently), where the IT magazines market is pretty saturated by some big press groups already. But really, this is information which has been cited on /. itself many a time.

This is why I run winpooch http://winpooch.free.fr/. It's not a firewall, but it does allow me to monitor my outgoing connections, and apply rules to them. For example, I can have it prompt me for every outbound, just announce when an outbound connection is established, or allow all outbound. Same thing with inbound. More complex rule sets are allowed as well.

It's not gonna save me from a worm itself, but it will tell me when I have a worm or rootkit making outbound connections.

And it allows me to use ClamWin to do on access scanning, tells me whenever an application tries to change the registry or system files, and provides a simple method to determine most of the potentially damaging processes running on my machine.

Best of all it's opensource.

...because it has a good interface for managing a lot of songs and playlists. I have yet to see (although if someone wants to point one out I'd be interested) a Linux application that is the equal of it...They want something that's a media player, a library manager, a file uploader, an ID3 tag editor, and a portable-device-syncronization manager.

Ask and ye shall receive. gmusicbrowser

I've got mine up to 1024x768 with the emulated Cirrus Login, and with the newer versions the VBE emulation should let you get a lot higher:


From the qemu Documentation

If you are using Windows XP as guest OS and if you want to use high resolution modes which the Cirrus Logic BIOS does not support (i.e. >= 1280x1024x16), then you should use the VESA VBE virtual graphic card (option `-std-vga').

In addition to that a quick search for ipod on Gnome Files turns up Banshee , Rhythmbox , Listen and Yamipod>{not open source} , all of these look like nice options for iPod and music library management under linux but Banshee and Listen really stand out. No DRM of course but there is an entry on codeweavers' site for iTunes though i've no idea how compatible it is at this stage.http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/bro wse/name?app_id=134

I don't know what VMware has, but qemu has support for it's own COW (Copy-On-Write) filesystem. Essentially, you give it a base disk image, and then any changes to it are written to a special file. When the machine is loaded, this "diff" is applied to the base filesystem, and you have the full altered system. The advantage is that the COW (the diff) image is much smaller than the whole filesystem.

My hometown of Peekskill New york got hit with a meteorite back in the 90's. It crashed through the back of an old junker car belonging to 17 year old girl. She was in tears. Turned out she got about 80,000 USD for the rock and the car. It was only known car to be hit. The car and meteorite went on display in Museum Of Natural History and other museums around the world. It was also filmed going across sky in Washington. Every year around this time I hope for my car to get hit. A view of meteor in sky before it hit is on this cool meteor site:

  http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/index_en.html

Qemu can install and run Windows from inside Linux.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Virtual PC can run Linux distros, you just have to try it. I've had Gentoo run and livecd's based on FreeBSD (PC-BSD and DesktopBSD) and OpenBSD (OliveBSD).
And there's also Qemu which is available for *nix and Windows. Together with the kqemu accelerator it runs Windows very fast on *nix and vice-versa.
(currently running Windows in Qemu on FreeBSD 6, Ubuntu 6.06 desktop in VMware server on Windows XP and Windows in VMware server on Ubuntu 6.06 desktop)

Note that, apart from the alternatives that have already been mentioned, there's also an excellent open source implementation of x86 (and more) emulation; QEMU (link leads to a frontend, original can be found here).

Just wait for..

IP Over Time.
http://kadreg.free.fr/ipot/

Indeed! http://xavierphoto.free.fr/droits.php
What's funny though, is that according to the articles 9 and 1382 of the French civil code, you could get sued for publishing the image of a building/property if it the image tempted tourists or thieves to visit it.

You can hate them even more cause they have Internet (up to 20Mb/sec), unlimited local/national/international phone calls and more than 100 TV channels for only $35 (29 euros, http://free.fr/ in french) and they have this since 2004. And they even can use their dual (GSM/Wifi) mobile phone for unlimited mobile phone calls at home.

I know, my brother lives in France, when he calls me on my mobile here in US, he pays nothing (nothing on top of his DSL subscription) and me, I pay to receive a foreign call (thanks Cingular) ?!? I hate him.... :)

"Free phone" stands here for unlimited phone calls. Actually, all major french ISPs (the 5 biggest) provide already unlimited local and national phone calls. Even one (http://free.fr) provides unlimited international calls, yes, international, here is the list of countries : http://adsl.free.fr/tel/tarifs/index.html (in french, gratuit means free, i.e. no extra fee on top of the monthly subscription). And the monthly subscription is only 29.99 euros i.e $35/month, this includes up to 20Mb/sec DSL + unlimited phone calls + 100 TV channels + VoD + Wifi/MIMO router + etc.

Why can't we have this in US ? Why can't we have this at least in the Bay area ?

If you wish to try out Plan 9 without burning a CD and rebooting, Free OS Zoo offers an image of Plan 9 (108M) that works fine with theQemu emulator.

Step-by-step instructions for a Debian-based distro:

1. sudo aptitude install wget unzip qemu

2. wget http://www.oszoo.org/ftp/images/plan9_060327.zip

3. unzip plan9_060327.zip

4. qemu -net nic -net user plan9/plan9_compressed.img

5. A window with Qemu will pop up. Press Return a few times, and you'll reach the commandline.
   

Other tips:

• Press Ctrl+Alt to toggle mouse-grab
  
• Press Ctrl+Alt+f to toggle fullscreen
  
• Note that Plan9 is intentionally relatively minimalistic, compared to Linux
  

Good luck!

Christopher Walken has a solution for hiding the earbuds too: http://john.savage.free.fr/steve/nickroulette22.jp g