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http://freshmeat.net/browse/252/

If you go here and have a look you will see some interesting programs that meet your needs. I was looking for some biochem programs the other day in this web site.

... are M$ being particularly blatant this time? Surely they have heard of Montevista Linux before now? For the simple reason it is fast becoming one of the most popular embedded OS's thanks to it implementations with TomTom's GO GPS product., which over here in the UK is soaring in popularity. Are they perhaps going to try and cloud the issue with releasing embedded Windows Vista and hope to profit from the confusion?

Ok ok Maybe it is a little paranoid, but better be paranoid cause you never know who is watching you.

I maintain and run AvantSlash, which is a script that allows people who are using PDA's and mobile phones to view a specially cleaned up version of Slashdot designed for the limited bandwidth and screen size that they have.

Unfortunately, however, the account with this code in was recently deleted (through no fault of my own) and I don't have a copy of the latest code.

If anyone has version 3.1 of AvantSlash (ideally the full archive, but the script and config file would be a start), I would really appreciate it if they could drop me an email to silver (at) ewtoo (dot) org.

Unfortunately I won't be able to run the site any more due to bandwidth restrictions (although I will still maintain the code) but if anyone has the ability to host it, then please get in contact with me.

Thanks!

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Try Freshmeat!!

Look at Kismet[1] for wardriving - GPS and Festival integration if you can get the whole kit running.

Maps? we don't need no stinkin' maps - we need broadband!

[1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/kismet/

Is there a way to implement one time passwords with ssh?

Yes, there's several. Some SSH software has S/Key support (eg OpenSSH "./configure --with-skey"). The most current S/Key implementation seems to be the one in Wietse Venema's logdaemon package.

You can also do OTP through PAM or BSDauth if your platform supports those, eg pam_skey, pam_opie (OPIE: One-time Passwords In Everything)

Several systems have either S/Key or OPIE support natively (OPIE seems to be becoming the more popular of the two).

Windows still needs to defrag the filesystem? Linux's ext2, and I'm sure many other modern filesystems, are designed so fragmentation isn't likely to happen in the first place. That is why you don't see many defrag utils for Linux. The only project I know about, the guy gave up because someone pointed out it wasn't needed.

As for expensive monitors, if people understood anything about computers, most home users wouldn't pay more than $50(us) for the thing. Sony sold new Playstation 1s (after #2 was out) for $50. A computer made with the same parts as a playstation would be overkill for what most home users need. Use a CD for the programs, and flash cards to store documents &etc. Yes, some would want more storage, but they could just buy a fileserver for the whole house.

It wouldn't be able to play graphic intensive games, but for most computing tasks it would be good enough. The only problem: computer salesmen, Bill Gates, and "modern" programmers do all sorts of things to keep this from being reality. End the bloat and start selling to people what they need.

There's always freshmeat to search for options. EZTorrent appears to be what you want. mod_bt also looks promising if you're using Apache 2.x.

There's always freshmeat to search for options. EZTorrent appears to be what you want. mod_bt also looks promising if you're using Apache 2.x.

There's always freshmeat to search for options. EZTorrent appears to be what you want. mod_bt also looks promising if you're using Apache 2.x.

There's always freshmeat to search for options. EZTorrent appears to be what you want. mod_bt also looks promising if you're using Apache 2.x.

Oh actually it's a program called picwiz she installed that integrates itself into konqueror. She just clicks on a folder, or selects a bunch of files, right clicks, and selects resize images.

Pretty slick.

I don't use RHEL or Gnome, so I can't comment on that.

Now firstly with XMMS, that is a linux clone of Winamp with some new features. They say on their website "It was modeled after winamp from the Windows operating system." And now you're going "it looks a lot like Winamp"? If that bothers you use Amarok which looks nothing like Winamp.

Secondly KDE only looks like Windows if you want it to. Whether Linspire or Mandrake design their UIs to look like Windows is their problem, but most actual users of KDE don't have their systems looking that way, definitely not me. With a few simple downloads (which will probably be available in your distribution - it is in Debian at least) you can have it looking like Mac OSX. Now are you saying that KDE looks exactly like Mac OSX?

The main difference between KDE and Windows is that you can pretty much infinitely customise how KDE looks (can't say the same about Windows). My desktop, FYI, looks nothing like Windows.

Layer 7 patches

I second this, too. We use Nagios at The Internet Archive, and a trivial Nagios plugin wrapped around /usr/sbin/hddtemp which can be used to monitor the temperature of your servers' hard drives.

Nagios can be made to do any of a variety of things when a plugin returns a "CRITICAL" status, like send emails, call beepers/cellphones, etc.

-- TTK

Ragarding Qt vs wxWidgets comparison, you may want to read this: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928/

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1699/

Crack Attack.

Programs like this one

http://freshmeat.net/projects/imsniff/

should be more than enough reason to switch to a different IM.

Cool! I'm taking a week off right now to write a sploit for it.

That way it'll be more like other MTAs. ;)

Wow, this thread is much Much MUCH farther into the bizarro world than usual, even by the lax non-article-reading standards for Slashdot. NeoOffice/J IS WRITTEN IN JAVA with some Carbon for native Mac goodies. What the heck do you think the "/J" stands for?

This 800x600 screenshot should survive a slashdot throttling.

try "tilda". here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tilda/

Try RefBase, and get everyone in your department to use it. Then you'll have a dept-wide database of references, just a few clicks away, and easily inserted into your LaTeX documents via BiBTeX. Its the way.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/refbase/

About:
refbase is a Web-based multi-user interface for managing scientific literature and bibliographic references. It offers powerful search tools and automatically generated citation lists.

http://www.refbase.net/

There's a few other similar projects listed on Freshmeat that may fit you better, just search for "bibtex".

Baz

Lets just call it Joe.

surf the web with Joe.

Hmm, too late I think. Joe already exists.

Everybody knows that Batman uses the Bat Standard Distribution. And that he uses the Bat Window Manager.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwm/

IT's widely said that you can go between the two without difficulty.. it's not like learning one precludes using the other.

I learned using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. Excellent package, but the demo version ticked me off cos it doesn't explain before you start that you're only gonna learn 1/3 the alphabet for free. It's cheaper than Mavis (nice gal, but I think she only knows QWERTY, and she has an unseemly crush on Bill Gates), much easier than the free stuff (including dvorak7min with "nastiness", and the online Basic Course in Dvorak).

Other than having my fingers conditioned to find the home keys quickly, knowing QWERTY didn't help me learn Dvorak. It felt like I was learning typing over again, but I think I learned faster than were I a keyboard newb.

I found that if I didn't know where a key was, my finger gravitated toward the QWERTY location. However, once I'd hit the lesson for a particular key, the QWERTY reaching would stop even tho I didn't quite remember the Dvorak location. That was the full extent of the confusion for me.

Since all my typing is on computers, if I had to learn all over again, I'd just learn Dvorak.

What's this?
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php? form_cat=309

or this? http://freshmeat.net/browse/839/ What about http://fink.sourceforge.net/ or http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ or http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/?

Finally this http://www.apple.com/opensource/.

RMS is interested in his personal crusade, not freedom. Freedom must not have artificial limits.

A Gronk replacment is already available. It's called Grind. I use it all the time. (I should, since I wrote it.)

The point, dear poster, is that if something as simple as getting two program to play sound through a common mainstream card AT THE SAME TIME like you can do in Windows is beyond the abilities of someone with JWZ's skill and obvious capability, well. I'd say that reflects pretty bloody badly on ALSA and the whole "Linux on the desktop" in general.

I'm guessing this wasn't the only thing that pushed him over the edge, more of the last stroke in a "death of 1000 cuts" scenario that I see played out with others. Hell, I run a dual XP/Fedora system and I alternate between the two based largely on which one is pissing me off less at the moment. And the sound thing does suck ass. So did fighting to get my Radeon 9800 going in multi-monitor at anything above 2048x768. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux to death, and would not run anything else for my servers, but the desktop experience is lacking. Basic, basic things just don't work or aren't there like they are in Windows or OSX. Like playing two sounds at once. Or easy multi-monitor configuration. Or sharing a drive

Instead of people going "Oh, poor baby, suck it up!", we as Linux users and developers should be taking this for exactly what it is: Someone pointing out why their Linux usability experience sucks so goddamn bad that they go to something else. Instead of saying "that's how it is, get used to it", we should be working on FIXING IT. Not bringing out 253 browser projects.

Main website

GAMMA is a high-performance, low-latency, non-routable protocol, designed for clusters on a single LAN. The web page isn't that well written, but the code itself seems prety solid and is for the 2.6 kernels.

http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/passwordms

There was an article about password storage and management some time back in the "Linux Journal". I think this is the article on their web site here:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7853

http://freshmeat.net/projects/whisperim/ end to end encrypted jabber client

I just found this: "Stop the Autoconf Insanity".

http://freshmeat.net/projects/atlantis/

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cwirc/

Other solutions? Check out also CWirc (morse over IRC, with paddle and sounder). There's even bots and qsb/qrm generators.

This is the only reference to TA I've found was there another that was better?

And what would really be cool(er) is to give them a XPDE session that incorporates their original Windwoes XP profile, yet run every application with WineX. I would love to have the crack accompanied by a webcam feed of them seeing the Linux kernel boot spit all that l33t matter on their screen, and then seeing that their favorite appzzz are like running sooo slow (thanks WineX). Let's start a anticipatory poll on what we would see and pundit from the webcam feed...


1) 8( "Oh no, that hotfix musta got rid of me blue screens of death with more detailed info!"
2) 8D "Finally! Now I'll know Micro$oft's secrets kept on muh compooter."
3) :O "Pan Pan Pan; WTF yo, my console line printer can't take this! Who the hell makes a win virus backwards compatible wit 286? I need to send my pen-pal in Soviet Russia a warning by skipping with 2 meter @#!*&^!"
4) -Z- "Mein Furher, thy boot is mein commnand."
5) (*o*) "From my parents basement in New Jersey, into CowboyNeal's mouth I stab with this bratwurst and dorritos!"

Sounds like the tragedy of the commons rearing its ugly head.

The smarter thing to do would be to integrate your point-of-sale system (which you can get linux-based) with your AP so that when someone buys something their AP access code prints on the receipt. Keying in the code gives you a 'dose' of internet access for, say, 15 mins.

http://www.chillispot.org/ (I wonder if this would fit in a WRT54G distro?)

I've never had much luck with otto. I have used Icecast to relay ogg files which were streamed from Ices or mp3s from Muse. I'd simply replace "stream" with a dedicated client. You can also broadcast/mix "live audio" (station ids) into the stream using Darkice. I've can also recommend Shoutcast.

I've used the above and am confident you can build a solution around them. Freshmeat shows tons more.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/livesupport

Soooo.... if it has X11 technology -- can it also run an NX client?

If it does, any internet connection would present the opportunity to me to also connect to my FreeNX or my NoMachine NX server... (Yes, I run _both_, and they are great!)

To confirm you're not a script... WTF is this. POS argh?

ID3 mass tagger
http://freshmeat.net/projects/id3/

This has worked great for me. Now stop complaining, if you weren't begging to do things the long slow painful hard way, then you wouldn't be using linux now would you? Sadist! :-D

Anyways, there's many matches when you search freshmeat for id3. Or better yet, use the source. You have nothing better to do that invent the linux solution, and code it up into a nice friendly package, and host it, and provide tech support to the rest of the world... for those of us who want such features but are too lazy or incompetent to do it ourselves. TIA!

In fact, I never go to google.com. I use the "Quick Search" feature of Firefox to do all my searches (g for google l for google/linux img google images def for google define fm for freshmeat man for man pages cpan for perl modules w for wikipedia and so on..)

There's also a handy extension that allows me to select text and open a right-click menu with all those searches for that text.

• I run daemons for logging my data into the database
• I use a web server on the database side (thttpd) with cgis that let me access the database in certain ways.
• I have cgis written in both c and python
• Keep it simple: each cgi is self contained, small and does only one thing well.
• The front-end (written in wxpython) queries the database over the web and display pretty graphs
• Replies from the webserver can be compressed/encrypted if need be

At the moment, I have my mind set on using sqlite. If I decide to change database for X reason, I don't want to get screwed. I found a wrapper called libsdb which I may use... the same SQL queries can be proxied to a variety of databases (oracle, progresql, sqlite...). The one thing I could lose in sqlite3 is the ability to join records in a table spanning across different files. Well... I don't know if that could speed-up my queries or not. Will need to try and check.

This tutorial I also found useful.

NX is better than VNC because of the fact it uses the X protocol means it can take advantage of any local hardware acceleration on your local workstation (the faster than local effect I'm talking about). NX is better than plain remote X because it reduces or eliminates the level of needless roundtrips between server and client needed to do common tasks, and uses JPEG compression to send large bitmapped objects. Also, it runs over SSH, so it's completely encrypted unlike either VNC or plain remote X.

(No, I don't work for NoMachine. But if I ever needed to set up a Linux terminal server, I'd buy their software.)

Heck, my cell phone has a USB plug, but I'll be damned if I can't use it for more than just synchronizing my address book.

On Linux check out Gnokii and Gammu. I have a cheap phone and I've been using a combination of Gammu, ImageMagick, and Sox to upload/download my own pictures and sound. MIDI sites and software can be handy also.

Agree with you about the wasteland that is the mobile ringtone/media industry.

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Don't be a programmer-bureaucrat; someone who substitutes marketing buzzwords and software bloat for verifiable improvements.

Heck, my cell phone has a USB plug, but I'll be damned if I can't use it for more than just synchronizing my address book.

On Linux check out Gnokii and Gammu. I have a cheap phone and I've been using a combination of Gammu, ImageMagick, and Sox to upload/download my own pictures and sound. MIDI sites and software can be handy also.

Agree with you about the wasteland that is the mobile ringtone/media industry.

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Don't be a programmer-bureaucrat; someone who substitutes marketing buzzwords and software bloat for verifiable improvements.

Heck, my cell phone has a USB plug, but I'll be damned if I can't use it for more than just synchronizing my address book.

On Linux check out Gnokii and Gammu. I have a cheap phone and I've been using a combination of Gammu, ImageMagick, and Sox to upload/download my own pictures and sound. MIDI sites and software can be handy also.

Agree with you about the wasteland that is the mobile ringtone/media industry.

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Don't be a programmer-bureaucrat; someone who substitutes marketing buzzwords and software bloat for verifiable improvements.