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>> Speed is everything,

ORLY? http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

If you want multiple connections, try axel.

It is easy to do this with command line tools. Here's one that might help:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/clusterssh/

But -- when IT policy becomes this draconian, it's probably time to look for another job elsewhere.

People need to be trusted enough to be able to install the tools that they need to get their job done in the most efficient manner that they know. There is no way for a centralized IT to be able to move as quickly as those they serve.

Yes, IT customers do need to be policed to a certain extent, but to a greater extent, this is a management issue better handled in an environment of trust between a manager and his employees.

Heartbeat + HAProxy + nginx. We're using a combination of these to replace our aging BIG-IP setup. HAProxy does the actual HTTP load-balancing, whereas nginx is serving up all the static media (pics, etc).

Heartbeat + HAProxy + nginx. We're using a combination of these to replace our aging BIG-IP setup. HAProxy does the actual HTTP load-balancing, whereas nginx is serving up all the static media (pics, etc).

Heartbeat + HAProxy + nginx. We're using a combination of these to replace our aging BIG-IP setup. HAProxy does the actual HTTP load-balancing, whereas nginx is serving up all the static media (pics, etc).

They've also made their 'distro' available, see http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttlinux/ and their gpl page http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl

In the side bar when I saw this story there was a release for this http://freshmeat.net/releases/294719/

Has anyone tried it on an eee pc?

ie. has it ever been proven that attaching a 'must share' clause to a license (ie. GPL vs BSD) actually results in more people sharing code.

Everyone that launched a GPL project? There's plenty software that otherwise would never have existed in the first place, because they weren't happy to release it under the BSD license. Freshmeat got a license breakdown:

http://freshmeat.net/stats/

It tells me about 70%+ are GPL licensed, 6% BSD licensed and the rest a good mix. Maybe or maybe not the 6% get more patches per project, but in volume it seems pretty clear to me that people start GPL projects and unless there's a really, really huge difference between OSS initiators and OSS contributors, which I doubt, the GPL makes more people share.

Have you tested partimage on such a FS? I am not trying to "sell" partimage, I am just curious if it is capable to restore the FS on which Ghost would choke.

Sigh. I miss the old days of wmaker discussion with Trae and the gang. I wonder if my old themes are still out there?

EDIT: Well shit!
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drew/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/pimp_/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drewbw_lusis/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/dystopia/

God I feel old.

Sigh. I miss the old days of wmaker discussion with Trae and the gang. I wonder if my old themes are still out there?

EDIT: Well shit!
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drew/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/pimp_/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drewbw_lusis/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/dystopia/

God I feel old.

Sigh. I miss the old days of wmaker discussion with Trae and the gang. I wonder if my old themes are still out there?

EDIT: Well shit!
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drew/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/pimp_/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drewbw_lusis/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/dystopia/

God I feel old.

Sigh. I miss the old days of wmaker discussion with Trae and the gang. I wonder if my old themes are still out there?

EDIT: Well shit!
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drew/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/pimp_/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drewbw_lusis/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/dystopia/

God I feel old.

TortoiseGit (the port of Tortoise) isn't quite there yet, and git-cheetah (a recreation from scratch of Tortoise) distinctly less so, but there definitely is an Eclipse plugin, jgit / egit.

git-gui is not that horrible, if you don't want as tight integration.

You could take a look at Tulip: http://www.tulip-software.org/

Here's a good place to dig around:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/135/

My company also has an XScale board which interacts with an FPGA for data collection. When the project first started it ran 2.4 (along with GCC 2.95) and generally sounds very similar to what you're doing.

Things have come a long way in the embedded Linux world since that time. Besides the TONS of additional features present in the the 2.6 kernel, I'm fairly certain you'll find that the vast majority of device vendors are only going to be writing drivers for the 2.6 tree. If you're upgrading to a new board I doubt you have a choice. Be comforted though, 2.6 is great (even for embedded XScale processors).

Your comment "This implies that I'll need to re-create a Linux RAM disk from scratch along with the tool chain" seems reminiscent of the old days where building cross compiling toolchains was a marathon. I highly recommend checking out Crosstool-Next Generation and OpenEmbedded if you're looking for the current state of the art in embedded Linux.

Catch up with the times, QT 2.2 was released under LGPL. The license issue is no longer an issue and is old news.

Do you have a source for that? All the links I've found on google say that isn't true. For example:
"Qt 2.2 To Be Released Under the GPL" http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/180/
"Qt 2.2 Released under the GPL" http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/qt.php

Of course, TFA's author apparently couldn't be bothered to do that either...

I recently discovered gnofract4d and it reminds you that, whatever you think about CPU usage for web browsing or programming, computers still aren't fast enough :-p. It's like the old days when the first thing you'd do with that shiny new Pentium-66 workstation was to see how fast it could run Fractint. It seems we have to wait at least a decade for high-resolution fractals zoomed in real time. (There is XaoS but it has a limited choice of fractal types and needs to interpolate pixels. The answer may be to use GPU hardware, as FFFF does, but preferably using a compiler like Brahma that translates a high-level language to GPU calls.)

a small app that lists the apps being used on any installation and allow the user to save the list to disk

You mean like this?

Here's why: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashcompletion/. The more people attribute features to a distribution, the more insane I get.

My previous place of employment was a Mac shop, where I discovered the wonderful pbcopy and pbpaste commands. Why they aren't a standard part of every X windows distribution, I'll never know, but they are damned handy.

What they do is allow you to read and write from the cut-and-paste buffer from the command line. "pbpaste" will print the currently copied text to stdout, while "pbcopy" will replace the buffer with stdin.

Fortunately, there are some third-party X equivalents for this, such as xsel or xclip, which can be adapted to work in the same way.

Rougly equivalent:

pbcopy
xsel -i --clipboard
xclip -in -selection clipboard

pbpaste
xsel -o --clipboard
xclip -o -selection clipboard

My previous place of employment was a Mac shop, where I discovered the wonderful pbcopy and pbpaste commands. Why they aren't a standard part of every X windows distribution, I'll never know, but they are damned handy.

What they do is allow you to read and write from the cut-and-paste buffer from the command line. "pbpaste" will print the currently copied text to stdout, while "pbcopy" will replace the buffer with stdin.

Fortunately, there are some third-party X equivalents for this, such as xsel or xclip, which can be adapted to work in the same way.

Rougly equivalent:

pbcopy
xsel -i --clipboard
xclip -in -selection clipboard

pbpaste
xsel -o --clipboard
xclip -o -selection clipboard

like the single floppy embedded linux? http://freshmeat.net/projects/natld/

What I'm trying to understand is why you're using a pharmacy to manage your data. Doesn't really sound like their specialty.

You mean like this? Of course it hasn't been updated in a while...

Well, it's obvious that you don't know what Loonix is.

Real question is: 'why haven't we heard of it before?'

Maybe i'm not good enough with Google, Freshmeat, and the like. I have been looking around for a decent Exchange-replacement for several months, and never encountered Zarafa before.

Are they good enough or is it just another open-source project that's gonna die in the egg?

Try again....

...but it certainly is done. The projects I've found that do much the same thing are NOT being run by kids in their basement, but serious, large-scale research centers that need to do wide-area RAID.

dCache
iRods
OPeNDAP
PVFS
TPIE

...but it certainly is done. The projects I've found that do much the same thing are NOT being run by kids in their basement, but serious, large-scale research centers that need to do wide-area RAID.

dCache
iRods
OPeNDAP
PVFS
TPIE

...but it certainly is done. The projects I've found that do much the same thing are NOT being run by kids in their basement, but serious, large-scale research centers that need to do wide-area RAID.

dCache
iRods
OPeNDAP
PVFS
TPIE

...but it certainly is done. The projects I've found that do much the same thing are NOT being run by kids in their basement, but serious, large-scale research centers that need to do wide-area RAID.

dCache
iRods
OPeNDAP
PVFS
TPIE

I'd say nobody read the EULA.

Some examples available here:
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/366/

It's not the language's fault that programmers suck. If you hate JavaScript because it is hard to read and understand, Perl has a worse reputation in this area. Yet, I've worked with Radius server code in Perl 5 years ago that's well commented and well documented, and it was a pleasure to work with.

If you doubt my experience with JavaScript, I'm currently a core developer at FCKeditor (note my name in my homepage), and in 2005 I've written a large scale AJAX app from scratch that's now still being developed and extended by a team of 20+ developers, and is currently being used by multiple cities to manage their citywide Wi-Fi installation.

But of course, credentials are useless in technical discussions. I told you that only because you asked. My point is, it is entirely possible to write easily readable code in JavaScript, Perl or C - as long as you have good development practices in place (e.g. have good coding conventions, code reviews, good comments, good documentations). FCKeditor's internal code doesn't have good documentations right now but we have the former three items, and after a month the code base was easy to work with. Everything in CKEditor 3 is going to be well documented with JSDoc. I recommend you to go take a look at it.

And... finally, if you *need* to have declared variables because you make too many typoes... Ctrl-P in vim is your friend. ;)

So I wrote it myself. http://freshmeat.net/projects/manent

Manent does it - I'm welcoming collaboration. Check it out at http://freshmeat.net/projects/manent. I'm not leaving my email here but you'll find it if you drill down to the project website.

Well, it's feature list is exactly what you want and some more :). Here's the project description:
Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup, automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote system to detect changes.
Check it out: http://freshmeat.net/projects/manent. It's under active development (the UI and the setup are currently in fetal stage) but the basic functionality is there and is well tested.
Disclaimer: I am the author.

Areca might work, I'll have to give it a spin. Thanks.

No problem. Note that my post is not an endorsement of Areca, I just searched freshmeat for ftp encryption and perused a few of the matches. Have a read through the other results, you might find something else worth looking at.

Not sure what sort of budget/skillset you're working with, but it'd also be pretty trivial to script up a solution that does what you're after too.

For this reason, I wish that things like the zoidberg shell would hurry up & mature. (Yeah, yeah, I would work on it myself except I would probably be about as useful as the namesake Dr. Zoidberg is as a doctor.)

"Ask not what you can do for your shell, ask what your shell can do for you!"

I've always avoided shell scripting as much as possible. Here is an example of the kind of thing that drives me nuts about shell.

$ touch "file 1" "file 2" foo bar
$ for i in *; do touch "$i.titles"; done
$ ls
bar bar.titles file 1 file 1.titles file 2 file 2.titles foo foo.titles
$ grep -l beer `find . -name \*.titles -prune -o -print`
grep: ./file: No such file or directory
grep: 2: No such file or directory
grep: ./file: No such file or directory
grep: 1: No such file or directory
$ find . -name \*.titles -print -o -exec grep -l beer {} /dev/null \;
./file 2.titles
./bar.titles
./file 1.titles
./foo.titles

One needs to remember to quote the touch used in the for loop because of the spaces in some of the names. However, when using find with backticks, the spaces in the names become part of the delimiter of the list of file names. An alternative version of the find command works, but only if one remembers to use the later instead of the former.

The idea behind Zoidberg is not new or unique. From the copyright for Zoidberg, it seems that it was first released in 2003. However, scsch, to Scheme what Zoidberg is to Perl, seems to have been around at least as long as 1994. And one should remember Genera, an operating system in which everything was Lisp from the ground up, and dates back to the early 80s. A Lisp listener was a "shell", from what I can tell, having only a second hand familiarity with it.

But I personally like having the combination of Emacs and inferior processes, especially SLIME. With it, I'm able to switch between Emacs GUI, Emacs lisp commands, Emacs key commands, Common Lisp, or even just running a standard bash shell all from within one environment. So I can use the shell command approach, returning one big string as a list of files, with the same problem of file names with spaces looking like separate elements of the list, Emacs lisp code, or even Common Lisp code.

LAMP-USER> !$(find /home/dkick/tmp/duff -name *\.titles -prune -o -print)
"/home/dkick/tmp/duff
/home/dkick/tmp/duff/bar
/home/dkick/tmp/duff/foo
/home/dkick/tmp/duff/file 2
/home/dkick/tmp/duff/file 1
"
#<SB-IMPL::PROCESS :EXITED 0>
LAMP-USER> (remove "titles" (list-directory "/home/dkick/tmp/duff/") :test #'equal :key #'pathname-type)
(#P"/home/dkick/tmp/duff/bar" #P"/home/dkick/tmp/duff/file 1"
#P"/home/dkick/tmp/duff/file 2" #P"/home/dkick/tmp/duff/foo")
LAMP-USER>

For this reason, I wish that things like the zoidberg shell would hurry up & mature. (Yeah, yeah, I would work on it myself except I would probably be about as useful as the namesake Dr. Zoidberg is as a doctor.)

"Ask not what you can do for your shell, ask what your shell can do for you!"

Consider Manent (http://trac.manent-backup.com , freshmeat entry: http://freshmeat.net/projects/manent). It can currently back up local directory to a remote repo, so you can easily set it up to run at your server to back up to your home, and in the future it will be able to back up an FTP directory.
It is extremely efficient in backing up a local repository. A 2GB working set should be a non-issue for it. I'm doing hourly backups of my 40-G home dir.
Disclaimer: I am the author :)

Does anyone have any experience with this tool?

You can use Bugzilla and Subversion using scmbug (http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/). It's a set of scripts you use as svn hooks. Setting it up is not really user-friendly but once it's set, well... you don't have to touch it anymore.

You can solve a bug using the following comment on a svn commit:

bug 42: resolved fixed
blablablablah (real comment)...

BTW it works for other control and bug-tracking systems...

The Windows key is the only modifier key that the applications don't use. This means you can use it for global shortcuts, e.g. Win+F to launch Firefox or Win+Del to mute the volume.

I do this under Windows using AutoHotkey (tutorial) and using xbindkeys on Linux. It's very handy.

Try conspy, very handy utility.

...is a fine book by M. Tim Jones if you want a nice overview of programming some "AI" techniques. I wrote up a review of it on Freshmeat. There's a second edition out now... and here's a translation of some of the example code from C to Ruby.

But that doesn't mean they're good. Diet monitoring? Try this, or any other free web service that does it *without* needing your medical history. Fitness Monitoring? Doesn't Wii Fit do this? How about a simple spreadsheet? Travel? Is it that hard to look at The Weather Channel before you leave?

Honestly, this just sounds like candy-coating a terrible idea so that people will buy into it. None of the ideas on that page are lacking a non-Google implementation assuming you're not too lazy to do some footwork.

Then again, if you are too lazy, maybe whatever ill effects you receive from using Google's service are deserved...

No, there are FOSS alternatives that approach Visio functionality, so there's obviously demand.

This is another example of Microsoft's ubiquitous format lockin.

There are projects to reverse-engineer the VSD/VSS file formats, but it's complicated, and there are a number of closed sub-formats being used as well.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctris/

I'm sure it is possible.

My favorite terminal based game however is slash'em.

What do you want me to say about your blood meter ? .. you already said it was an FDA thing.. I could go into using wine to run it, but I doubt that will satisfy you.

Your happy in your world and there is nothing wrong with that. I only pointed out the CASE tool thing because you said there was none for Linux.