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Yet oddly, for, searching for some wild term like, oh "DVD burning" gives..K3b, right as the first result. Who'd have thought using sensible search terms might give sensible results? Not you, apparently.

install the RPMS for your distro, and after that its a breeze to burn/read your DVD stuff from the commandline:

http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html

Robert

I guess the reason for no mention of k3b on freshmeat is more kde's braindamaged way of packaging applications

Wrong. Freshmeat has a page for k3b, independent of any larger "kde-tools" package. But you can't find it by searching by reasonable keywords like "DVD burn"- you have to already know that k3b is what you want to search for.

The problem's not the completeness of freshmeat, but the lack of a good way to browse/search.

That's because Freshmeat's search is now powered by Yahoo! Weeeeeeeeee! Don't belive me? Just look under the search box on the front page.

...with tkDVD and xcdroast. Had these both on my system for quite some time. Most likely require dvd+rwtools and growisofs.

...with tkDVD and xcdroast. Had these both on my system for quite some time. Most likely require dvd+rwtools and growisofs.

Yeah neither is SPI I suppose, for that I use an old via 600 underclocked to 433 running without a fan and astaro linux firewall. The CPU gets up to 60 degrees but the firewall itself runs stable. I've had uptimes in the 100 day range.

I would have thought that we linuxers had understood how to connect to the net through dialup by now...

Still, it's nice(?!) to see them take it seriously enough to release software for linux, even if it's been done several times before...

You had a 486 in 1994? I envy you...I was dialing into a local BBS over 1200 baud using Telix on a 8086. My parents had all the cool hardware...a Tandy 286, and a homebrew 386.

(And as a result of my Telix experience, I thoroughly love minicom. Add a serial-to-telnet converter, and have fun.)

All the linux players will use

http://freshmeat.net/redir/libdvdread/17926/url_tg z/libdvdread-0.9.4.tar.gz http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/l ibdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2

So go get em'

PenGun do What Now ???

Possibly. I've never used it, but convertfs sounds promising.

Some of you guys may not suggest Fedora for a linux beginner, but wait, I have seen quite a few users hop on to linux, completely abandoning Windows right with Fedora Core 1, and they are actuallly happy with it!
Installing applications are not that hard unlike the earlier days. I recommend rpm.pbone.net to find your applications packaging for Fedora, I have been 99.99% successfull! And with the brand new Yum, staying upto date is always a breeze.
I also recommend adding Dag Wieers repository in your yum configuration and this particular one releases very useful applications/updates. Needless to stay, once you load fancy themes and eye-candy like gDesklets you really can grab the eyes of people around you while giving you a pleasurable user experience.

> So how long until everything in the home has its own IP address and script kiddies decide to get their kicks messing with your air conditioning during a heat wave?"'

How about Now?

I use Mozilla Thunderbird to view my hotmail account using Hotmail Popper which allows me to save all my hotmail e-mails locally so I never run out of storage

I just logged into my Hotmail account directly (I rarely do this any more, thanks to this), and found that my mail limit was upped from a paltry 1MB to a whopping 2MB!

Seems like there is a kind of "reverse FUD" thing going on here...

So far, it seems like it is all rumors.

First we heard that they were going to up to 250MB. Hasn't happened yet. Now 2GB. I'm not holding my breath.

If Hotmail would actually filter spam, and do something about the headache-inducing interface, -that- would be an improvement. Thank goodness for gotmail!

More info on how ordinary mortals can train themselves to perform at this level, in particular how does he memorize words like gey without knowing what they mean? (Does he have a just have a kind of photographic memory but not care what words mean? Is this not bad?) Anyway I am going to have to look on freshmeat..

.. 20 seconds later .. so maybe we are talking about Anaquiz which seems to help you memorize the dictionary (is this why he doesn't know words' meanings but knows which are legal?) The anaquiz screenshot is quite intriguing. I think the story link to the unix program must be anaquiz.

I see also the Judge scrabble adjucation system, and Scrabaid which seems to be a scrabble coach.. any other links to tools for improving memory (I remember a mnemonic trainer story a year ago) would be interesting.

For example in a story of Robert Heinlein's called Have Spacesuit Will Travel in which an engineer teen hacker successfully refurbishes a spacesuit and later makes good use of the distances of the planets from the Sun which he had luckily memorized with a cool limerick. Any other modern limericks or ways to memorize constellations and other astronomical phenomena would be quite useful if anyone knows of them.

More info on how ordinary mortals can train themselves to perform at this level, in particular how does he memorize words like gey without knowing what they mean? (Does he have a just have a kind of photographic memory but not care what words mean? Is this not bad?) Anyway I am going to have to look on freshmeat..

.. 20 seconds later .. so maybe we are talking about Anaquiz which seems to help you memorize the dictionary (is this why he doesn't know words' meanings but knows which are legal?) The anaquiz screenshot is quite intriguing. I think the story link to the unix program must be anaquiz.

I see also the Judge scrabble adjucation system, and Scrabaid which seems to be a scrabble coach.. any other links to tools for improving memory (I remember a mnemonic trainer story a year ago) would be interesting.

For example in a story of Robert Heinlein's called Have Spacesuit Will Travel in which an engineer teen hacker successfully refurbishes a spacesuit and later makes good use of the distances of the planets from the Sun which he had luckily memorized with a cool limerick. Any other modern limericks or ways to memorize constellations and other astronomical phenomena would be quite useful if anyone knows of them.

More info on how ordinary mortals can train themselves to perform at this level, in particular how does he memorize words like gey without knowing what they mean? (Does he have a just have a kind of photographic memory but not care what words mean? Is this not bad?) Anyway I am going to have to look on freshmeat..

.. 20 seconds later .. so maybe we are talking about Anaquiz which seems to help you memorize the dictionary (is this why he doesn't know words' meanings but knows which are legal?) The anaquiz screenshot is quite intriguing. I think the story link to the unix program must be anaquiz.

I see also the Judge scrabble adjucation system, and Scrabaid which seems to be a scrabble coach.. any other links to tools for improving memory (I remember a mnemonic trainer story a year ago) would be interesting.

For example in a story of Robert Heinlein's called Have Spacesuit Will Travel in which an engineer teen hacker successfully refurbishes a spacesuit and later makes good use of the distances of the planets from the Sun which he had luckily memorized with a cool limerick. Any other modern limericks or ways to memorize constellations and other astronomical phenomena would be quite useful if anyone knows of them.

More info on how ordinary mortals can train themselves to perform at this level, in particular how does he memorize words like gey without knowing what they mean? (Does he have a just have a kind of photographic memory but not care what words mean? Is this not bad?) Anyway I am going to have to look on freshmeat..

.. 20 seconds later .. so maybe we are talking about Anaquiz which seems to help you memorize the dictionary (is this why he doesn't know words' meanings but knows which are legal?) The anaquiz screenshot is quite intriguing. I think the story link to the unix program must be anaquiz.

I see also the Judge scrabble adjucation system, and Scrabaid which seems to be a scrabble coach.. any other links to tools for improving memory (I remember a mnemonic trainer story a year ago) would be interesting.

For example in a story of Robert Heinlein's called Have Spacesuit Will Travel in which an engineer teen hacker successfully refurbishes a spacesuit and later makes good use of the distances of the planets from the Sun which he had luckily memorized with a cool limerick. Any other modern limericks or ways to memorize constellations and other astronomical phenomena would be quite useful if anyone knows of them.

mp3splt is a simple command-line/GUI tool for doing this kind of thing. There's a windows version available.

...with what Linux geeks are accustomed to.

There already is one:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/hashzip/

If you have quickview installed on your machine, you can see what DLLs a program use in its Import Section (from the PE header). Else i would recommend OllyDBG (free) or PE Explorer ($$$).

I can recommend the HT Editor for editing all sorts of executable files (Windows and Linux/Unix).

Ulrik

If you're looking for something really low end to use at home, check out NASLite

You know there are panther and aqua themes out there that look and behave quite similarly to the mac theme. find them at Themes at freshmeat

Only one problem though. I am yet to work out a way to have my address book shared between Thunderbird and SquirrelMail. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Ideally pine could join in on the shared address book action too, but that's not overly unnecessary.

Start at Freshmeat and search for what's available. Or, you could go all out and setup OpenLDAP on your internal network. I don't know if Thunderbird or SquirrelMail can access LDAP directories, but I'd be very surprised if they couldn't. I haven't done this myself, though I use the same setup as you minus SquirrelMail (I never access my personal email away from home, and if I'm not on my laptop with Thunderbird I can always ssh directly to the server and read it with mutt).

Couldn't find anything? Didn't try very hard. :|

One search alone generates quite a few apps that fit into your stated requirements. I'm sure if I tried I could find you a lot more.

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cafe&section=projec ts&Go.x=5&Go.y=14

Has the /. community been hiding in a dark cave someplace? Back Orifice, Netbus, and Sub7 were all available YEARS ago. All three offered graphical user interfaces which allowed the exploiter to launch programs, change text, take screenshots, and many other wonderful functions (in the case of Back Orifice there was even a plugin system called Butt-Plugs). As time has passed Netbus has even become a commercial remote administration tool. The only thing that was required was a little knowledge of a network exploit which allowed the execution of remote code. In many cases it wasn't that difficult to come by. In other cases it was easy enough, especially in the early years, to send an e-card to someone. In the beginning, if any of you remember, e-cards were often self-contained .exe files and it wasn't that uncommon to receive an .exe e-card. Additionally many people who were studying computer science would write cute nifty little programs for their girl/boyfriends/family members.

So what's so bad about metasploit? It does little more than automate the installer for a concept which isn't new. If anything the public may start to see the real value of those of us who have been labeled as paranoid freaks for the last 10 years. This is the dawn of an age when the computer security expert may begin to receive the respect that we deserve. Previously we had been pooh-poohed by the general public aided in their derision by self-important sysadmins with the personality characteristics of the Simpsons' comic book guy.

do they have one for links?

(Developers: If you use 'make install', there should be a 'make uninstall')

You should be using CheckInstall.

You invoke it with "checkinstall -t r" instead of "make install".

It tracks the files copied during "make install" and turns them into an RPM. Cleaning them out is then just as simple as "rpm -e <packagename>".

Offtopic: What in the hell do I do with my game, assuming I do finish it?

lsof is a start.

> Name me five open source products that aren't simply
> a clone of a commercial products.

Pick any five you like

In software business it's all about implementing the 10 or 20 things users want to do with their computers, so i don't expect very much "really new" software, be it OS or CS, since VisiCalc and Mosaic :-)

Check out Howl, which is cross-platform (Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X/MS Windows 2000 & XP)

Freshmeat is your friend.

You do realize that MatLab runs in Linux if you're willing to licence it, which it seems you are under windows...

Anyway, a quick freshmeat search showed me that Nulab, Yorick, Scilab, FrAid and Lush are all possible replacements, depending on the application. Moreover, many of those refer to Octave which might be suitable, depending on your needs.

Likewise National Instruments makes LabVIEW for Linux, and freshmeat says to look at Flow Designer and TACO as potential free replacements.

If the two are used for related purposes, then consider RobotFlow which came as a result under both searches...

Just in case you decide to retry the system at a later date...

Wrong. Switches learn mac addresses, so by sending crafted packets you can hijack traffic intended for other switch segments. See ettercap

Of course I could read other posts before hitting "Reply", as mentioned in another thread:
bash completion
is a good start.

1) programable tab completion

5) multiple commandline commands are not rewritten as commands with ';' in them (what I typed is what I get, see 4)

Powertweak, which provides basically a user interface for lots of fun /proc entries that most of us would have never otherwise taken the time to play with. Webmin is pretty damned useful. But the vast majority of all system maintenance comes by way of bash, perl, cron, and mysql. ALL of my configuration files are in a MySQL db that's rewritten every 5 minutes if the 'dirty' flag is set to 'y'. Extremely useful for writing your own front-ends for system configuration.

And here if you can't get it from sourceforge:
Vega Strike

Never mind. Found it.

No, it won't. Longhorn will have a (pseudo) 3D desktop environment? Have a look here and here for Linux projects so far ahead of what Longhorn is offering in the 3D dept that they'd likely make BillG wet his pants.

Longhorn has database capabilities for finding files easily? Linux has had this for years, and now has things likethis, too.

Longhorn has the ability to group users' files for easy access? Linux can too.

Want smart agents, the software for which is GPLed and a ton easier to set up than Microsoft Agent? Here.

For exotic technologies and bleeding-edge applications, Linux is *not* being forced to play catch-up. Microsoft are, and they know it.

No, it won't. Longhorn will have a (pseudo) 3D desktop environment? Have a look here and here for Linux projects so far ahead of what Longhorn is offering in the 3D dept that they'd likely make BillG wet his pants.

Longhorn has database capabilities for finding files easily? Linux has had this for years, and now has things likethis, too.

Longhorn has the ability to group users' files for easy access? Linux can too.

Want smart agents, the software for which is GPLed and a ton easier to set up than Microsoft Agent? Here.

For exotic technologies and bleeding-edge applications, Linux is *not* being forced to play catch-up. Microsoft are, and they know it.

No, it won't. Longhorn will have a (pseudo) 3D desktop environment? Have a look here and here for Linux projects so far ahead of what Longhorn is offering in the 3D dept that they'd likely make BillG wet his pants.

Longhorn has database capabilities for finding files easily? Linux has had this for years, and now has things likethis, too.

Longhorn has the ability to group users' files for easy access? Linux can too.

Want smart agents, the software for which is GPLed and a ton easier to set up than Microsoft Agent? Here.

For exotic technologies and bleeding-edge applications, Linux is *not* being forced to play catch-up. Microsoft are, and they know it.

No, it won't. Longhorn will have a (pseudo) 3D desktop environment? Have a look here and here for Linux projects so far ahead of what Longhorn is offering in the 3D dept that they'd likely make BillG wet his pants.

Longhorn has database capabilities for finding files easily? Linux has had this for years, and now has things likethis, too.

Longhorn has the ability to group users' files for easy access? Linux can too.

Want smart agents, the software for which is GPLed and a ton easier to set up than Microsoft Agent? Here.

For exotic technologies and bleeding-edge applications, Linux is *not* being forced to play catch-up. Microsoft are, and they know it.

No, it won't. Longhorn will have a (pseudo) 3D desktop environment? Have a look here and here for Linux projects so far ahead of what Longhorn is offering in the 3D dept that they'd likely make BillG wet his pants.

Longhorn has database capabilities for finding files easily? Linux has had this for years, and now has things likethis, too.

Longhorn has the ability to group users' files for easy access? Linux can too.

Want smart agents, the software for which is GPLed and a ton easier to set up than Microsoft Agent? Here.

For exotic technologies and bleeding-edge applications, Linux is *not* being forced to play catch-up. Microsoft are, and they know it.

Better late than never. VM has had virtual folders for 13 years.

Do a search on freshmeat.net. MyDNS also runs straight off MySQL.

Do a search on freshmeat.net. MyDNS also runs straight off MySQL.