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Then you may be interested in lightweight C++ . A C++ to C converter which is more "K&R" as the author sais.

http://freshmeat.net/releases/131350/

About: xMule is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network. Currently supporting various Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability than the competitors.

PS: If anyone knows of such OSS projects, advice gratefully accepted... :-)

You may give a look at Freshmeat's Office/business section... I didn't look much further but there seem to be quite a lot of good stuff.

Freshmeat Project

Back in the day, fsp was much better than ftp because it did not keep open connections per client, and used much less memory. This was very important when you had 100 request and only 8 meg of memory. Yes a server with 8 megs at one time was possible.

Get it on Freshmeat

DNSHijacker is one tool that facilitates DNS spoofing.

Mutt is text-based, can't easily import the messages that I already have

You didn't try very hard did you?

Seek FreshMeat, and you will find

mbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx format mailboxes to the standard RFC822 mailboxes used by programs like Pine, Eudora, and Netscape.

This took me about 5 seconds to find, and 15 seconds to post the link. You owe me 10 seconds.

Well, that's it, but there's no sign of gksu on my machine (running Gnome 2.2 with XD2), but...

Here it is.

Thanks.

I don't know about the windows version of ltools, but the C command line utils it provides do not work very well under Unix. It doesn't allocate addtional blocks for a directory after a relatively low number of files are copied into a directory and a few other things. Maybe it's been fixed in a recent version or the guy is concentrating on the Java/C# implemenatation. I was very disappointed in it, so I wrote my own set of tools using the ext2fs library to read & write to an ext2/3 filesystem on a partition or a filesystem-in-a-file. Well, I've wanted an OS X machine, so I guess after documenting the damn thing, I better start porting. Crap.

Everyone who runs a box on a cable modem or on a network should consider getting the LaBrea tarpit. For those who don't know, this software is used to slow down worm activity, however it can be used to hang DMCAbot as well.

Have this listen to port 21 on your networks and watch DMCAbot hang indefinately (your mileage may very).

Also, just to cause lots of fun, try doing the following: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=142 | gzip -c > (MSOffice|PacMan|Zelda|Matrix|.gz) and let DMCAbot spam ISPs with worthless crap until they add an SMTP deny rule.

Anyway, just some ideas. :)

I personally think Qt is made irrelevant by both of the others because they are not missing anything Qt offers. The tools that come with Qt may not be bundled with them, but comparable tools do exist and can be used free of charge, and most often as Free Software. Qt's biggest weaknesses are its relic called "MOC" and its business orientation. Yes, it's GPL, but not for MS Windows, so you're not really free. FOX and (especially) wxWindows offer similarly advanced sets of widgets and techniques, so you might as well throw Qt away. In terms of portability, it's the same, and wxWindows even adds OS/2 portability. Believe me, I don't want to be unfair to Trolltech or upset dedicated Qt developers. I tried to be objective, and that's my objective conclusion. Maybe we can discuss this point in the comments for this article.

There is a disturbing trend of recent articles that engage in Qt/KDE bashing. Can't help wondering whether it is really a coincidence or not. For instance, here's another freshmeat editorial from a few months back.

...in brinance a command-line driven ledger app. I like it. Have a look.

maybe the whole shebang is incorrect. Like trying to do advanced math using roman numerals.

Maybe the route to go is to remove complexity that is there to ....... if you can't dazzel them with brilliance then baffel them with bull Shit....

There is just a hand full of repetitive concepts that can be used to enlighten not only the users but tech people as well. Like switching to the decimal system including the use of the zero place holder, that suddenly makes the advanced math of roman numeral system childs play under the decimal system.

Perhaps the place to start is in what we call "computers" and lets start calling them what they really are.... "automation machines" used for taking complexity (made up of simpler things) and making it easy for the user to use and reuse..... so that the user too can automate what the do...

BUT that would require providing the user with the simple tools to enable them to do so, such that they would far more easily come to understand computers and inturn enable them to find a common vocabulary and understanding in talking with Tech people, if they would even then need to. Like the difference that the zero place holder made in simplifying math...

Between the proprietary commercial IP bitch slapping of keep the consumer in the dark, companies like MS and their de-evolved dos-shell.... and Free Software, Open Source, Open Software....

Where do you think such user friendly changes will more likely happen?

Hint: Virtual Interaction Configuration

DVD support is the only reason I keep a Windows partition.

ogle, xine, and mplayer.

autoconf. automake. autoheader. autogen. libtool. autom4te. All these things need to die. Anybody who has used these tools knows they are an abomination, yet they're used for something like 90% of Unix/Linux packages. There was a article on this on freshmeat recently.

I have a similar, but less mature product than you. In fact I'm doing something that replicates a lot of your functionality and will ultimiately replicate most of what you do (hah ;P ).

http://freshmeat.net/projects/tasklist/?topic_id=1 015

You project seems not only more mature than mine, but more powerful too (I had functionality like sub-tasks in the previous version, but I have chosen to re-impliment them to allow for a more flexible product in the long term, I wish to adapt the software to be used as a call tracking & bug tracking tool in future, as well as a trouble ticket system).

IMO, I'd say the biggest hurdles for your project probably are:

a) The interface.

b) The J2EE dependancy.

The Interface:

I think your interface is definately not the worst I've ever seen, but it's not very slick or easy to use. For some reason this doesn't seem to hurt programs like Remedy, but I think in the long run, it will. I think ~90% of similar software suffers from this problem. Represending complext functionality with a simple and easy to use interface on the web is hard, because you have to rely on coding your own rotines to emulate things like 'tab like' functionality (because most of us do not want to resort to frames, though I find it can be nice to use iFrames if avalible).

I'd be very happy to help you with your interface if you like? I'm no Java wizard, but I have been using Java on and off since 1998 and I know some pretty funky ways of doing neat stuff in HTML (take a look at my app if you like ;) which I think could be useful. Email me at iain_collins@mac.com if you'd like to discuss it (or if you want some code to rip off :)!

The J2EE dependancy:

While I think this would not be a hurdle for an established killer app, I think it could stop some users. There are a lot of task list style apps out there, most of them are half baked (a bit like mine:) but this means people will flit from project to project and only devote a small amount of time to each application.

If users have to install J2EE to run your software then they need to be sold on the idea that it's worth the hassle of all that clicking/typing to install (users are lazy, of course), and they will deduct the time/hassle it takes to install J2EE from your project (which can count against you). Now I'm very much in favor of Java, but I think that's true, and worth mentioning. :)

I think having a working and reponsive demo site helps work past a lot of the negative aspects of needing to install J2EE, but I think the more you can sell your product on the site as a 'professional' product with a 'quality' feel the better you are to combat this :).

Good luck with your project btw, and get in touch if you'd like to work on the UI!

The most important thing is that it is useful to you.

I recently listed a project on freshmeat as well as posted information to usenet newsgroups where some will find it relative and interesting to the newsgroup.

The description was edited by a freshmeat editor and could probably be written differently to attract a little more attention. But this project is not going to die, cause I won't let it... Cause it's useful to me, and that's the most important I can think of.

It seems likely that the project is Free Realty.

John.

What is missing much of the time is honest labelling. At download.com, much of what is called "free" or "freeware" is really crippleware.

That is a valid point, but it is however not open source software you are refering to. The post was talking about the "Open source community" and if you search Freshmeat instead of Download.com you will find a quite different result. Let's not confuse OSS with the crippled spyware you find at Download.com.

If you read the original post the arguments was Ice vs. KDE. Now ICE itself can work as a windowmanager for KDE. What I was responding to is why use KDE type configurations rather than a more typical ICE. I don't have any opinion on ICE as a pure window manager in the sense you mean it vs. KDE's built in Window manager.

If I look at ICEWM themes ICE from an end user prespective doesn't look like anything (as is true with most window managers with different styles of thems). Its a pure framework. So it does or doesn't have icons on the desktop

Just as SDL_image provides additional image loading, SDL_sound provides additional sound loading, SDL_mixer provides a nicer interface to SDL's audio layer, and SDL_ttf and SDL_bmf add font loading interfaces, there are add-ons for primitives (SDL_draw, SDL_gfx, SDL_prim, sge) and GUIs (paraGUI, SDL_gui, wGui, GUIlib, aedGUI).

As you note, SDL is really a simple audio and framebuffer abstraction, and that's all it's ever been intended to be. A quick glance at the SDL library page, however, gives a quick idea of how extensions are kept modular, and how many there are for almost all reasonable applications of SDL.

Or, to put it another way, the tools are there -- but do you really want them in the core if all you're after is a simple framebuffer?

I offer as the pragmatic language of the future, Toadskin. It's all you need. It has all the power of BrainF**k and all the friendliness of Forth. So let's get those HR systems ported folks!

This seems like ARM trying to get everyone adopting their standards. You can bet that ARM IP will be all over it. The ISA will be ARM, communication will be AMBA and the only standards complient accepted development platform will be the ARM SDT.
ARM is trying to get more and more fortified in their mobile phone market and its very difficult to do anything different. Thats why they can charge redicelous prices for their toolkits and the favours to universities (such as discount/free software) have now stopped, because now if you are going to learn low level mobile application coding then it simply has to be ARM. No need for them to attract and convince people to use them any more.
We even wrote our own debugger so we wouldn't have to payt the ARM tax.

Ok, this has nothing to do with Mozilla.

I suppose that it is true that many of the people who work on these projects just like to hack away at projects. The whole spirit of hacking does say that you should just work away at whatever you want. But all of this is missing an important point. The point being that another main reason for the existence of these projects, which is the desire of the individuals who work on them to come up with good alternative software. If OSS developers support fewer applications, then it's more likely that these applications will be of higher quality. Wouldn't it be better to have few good applications rather than many not-quite-as-good applications?

And in case you're interested, the article I'm discussing, titled "Too Much Free Software," can be found here.

I recall reading an article that was posted on Freshmeat that said that the open source development community should only work on developing the more popular open source software projects. It was said that the projects on sites like Sourceforge with low activity levels should just be abandoned so that open source software that stands out will be get the most attention and so it will be more likely to be considered superior. What is your opinion on this? Do you think the Open Source Community should rally behind the big projects?

You're here on Slashdot where, as you know, you have the opportunity to tell much of the community what to do. Here's your chance to direct us. :)

So I'm happy to see the /. editors reminding everyone that this isn't just another piece of warm, fluffy, cute free software to configure && make && make install with open arms.

Funny, i seem to remember that a couple of weeks ago we were all up in arms about the automake/autoconf/etc configure hell in freshmeat editorials and ./ articles. For example this editorial.

And what you say about it being c# based, can also be said about java, perl, ruby, eifel, python and so many other languages.. Whats more, you could even say that the semi-pseudo-false attempt to platform & library indipendence that comes with these autoconf based projects is a nightmare inherint with using languages that do not have the abstraction that java, c#, php, etc can offer..

So i can only conclude that the original remark about c# & mono is pure, unadultarated, medical strength flamebait, unless you feel you need to open up the can of worms about language 1 vs language 2 with every reference to software.. To me it seems this article was about a program, and not a holy flame war about language choices

Ps, ofcource he is gonna write this software in c#, if that is what he has been working with recently and he feels is apropiate to the job. Your statement sounds very much like the infamous "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" and spinning this out of control to some paranoia conspericy theory about ximian trying to make us all run their mono runtime.. Get a life man! ;-)

Are you implying, based on the date on this page (which came up in the Google search you linked to), that a sendmail root exploit brought down the WTC?

When I am writing code I like to use the product for a while and get the feel of what is going on and visualise all the functions that get called while it is executing. Its imprtant to get a vey basic version of the system going to get the idea of how its executimg. Thesame goes for hardware design. When I was designing a cpu it really helped to see the schematic view of the system executing instructions and the values flying around. Much easier to understand than looking through the design.
When writing a language or an input method try it out before writing any code. When I wrote a language called chump I wrote whole pages of code in it and only then started writing the compiler. I had to change many things in order to make it usable which I wouldnt have guesses if I didnt use it for a substantial ammount of time.

By the way, you all should be using one-time passwords on public terminals, too. If you run Linux, install the S/Key PAM module. FreeBSD supports OTPs out of the box.

Once upon a time I wanted an MP3 streaming server, none of the ones I looked at did what I wanted. So I did the standard thing and designed my own.

After releasing my first version to freshmeat I had about five subscribers to the project.

These subscribers gave me patches, feedback, and encouragement.

Doing a websearch for the project name I discovered by accident that the the package made it into Gentoo, and similarly Netbsd without any feedback or involvement from myself!

The next step was my becoming a Debian Developer so that I could upload it there - and not worry about other people doing a bad job without me. (Not a real concern; I had wanted to join Debian for some time anyway).

Now life is good - I've no idea if it's in RedHat because I've not touched it for years, but SuSE include it the *BSD's and Gentoo cover it, and Debian gets the latest versions all the time.

Freshmeat lists 120+ subscribers to the project, and it's probably on the verge of becoming an official GNU package sometime soon.

If you use it and like it buy something nice? </ObPlug>

It doesnt say on the pages how he reverse engineered it.
It would be nice to have a system which emulates a whole machine (ala vmware but open) and then open some ports from the emolation to the real hardware. This way Windows assumes its running on a real machine but you have full snooping on the interface with the hardware.
It wouldnt take too long to write a simple x86 emulator for KMD. And a nice tool to decide what areas whould be feed straight through to the real hardware would make it much easier to make drivers for other win only devices. It would also be useful to test the linux drivers but you can allready run linux in user mode.

I read both articles and I dont think it is an ARM. I wouldnt be suprised if they did write their own ISA. They have been working with IBM on the micrcores for the playstation 3 and writing a nice low power ISA with MM instructions seems quite likely to me. There are many tools to easily adapt compilers and debuggers to any instrcution sey you like. I suspect it is actually multiple core and controlibly speculative. That way you simply dont waste power but get reasonable performance.

It would be nice if sony had another instruction set on these chips. Linux can adapt very quickly to new architecuyres unlike some commercial software. Gcc is especially easy to adapt to new architecture and with tools like KMD you can have a whole compiler assembler debugger withing days reather than starting from scratch.

Its nice that companies now have a choice to make their own chips because the software is portable across architectures.

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There is Versiontracker, which is very popular in the Macintosh community.

I'm not sure if it's free to list there, but with the amount of low-quality software on there I can image it is.

Oh, and there's Freshmeat too.

A few that some newbies may not have thought about:

FreshMeat, which will do a lot for your Linux software needs.

SourceForge for GPL software hosting (CVS and bug tracking, even)

For a more general software needs, VersionTracker, which started with Mac software, now lists Mac, OS X, Windows, and Palm software. For anything other than Macintosh listings, though, it tends to be somewhat limited.

Tocows also lists a lot of software. I have not looked through their Linux listings, but the Mac listings are pretty decent.

Well, for open source stuff there is always SourceForge and Freshmeat.

lintad

i use it at home for voicemail, all of my roommates just browse to http://voicemail/ and they can listen to mp3s of every message we receive

-dk

Well the CPU and DSP have allready been designed in the past. All this project needed to do is the software.
My university has a third year student doing ogg vobid decoder for our ARM boards. All that has to be done is to get the original source and replace the IO functions with hand written ones to interact with flash memory reather than files. Then you just load your ELF with a debugger and watch the thing squeak.

This is not rocket science. If the thing was done using proper application specific units and layed and they had to reverse engineer the ogg format then I would be impressed.

For those portage/apt-get/ports fans I suggest taking a look at Swaret which fetches and installs (and upgrades) packages straight from your favourite slack-mirrors...

You can always try NCPfs. Novell clients for M$ crap and Macs abound. Set up a Linux box as a server, and have all the others mount it. Or, track someone down who has some old Novell 4.x discs... ;) Those are a dime a dozen, too.

Personally, I'd just use Samba, but NCPfs is another option that fits the criteria of your question, as far as I can tell.

This Server to Server feature is called FXP.

Heres a decent cmdline version i find quite useful.

I checked the site, and I couldn't find any mention of handwriting recognition.

There are handwriting recognition programs available for Linux, including several under the GPL, but you are correct that the Lycoris website, which does have a "keyboard free" section, only seems to mention a software keyboard (xvkdb perhaps?) and not handwriting recognition as such. I too would be interested in a clarification of this, although I suspect the virtual software keyboard is the only form on 'keyboard free' input available at the moment (it is what we use on our GNU/Linux tablets as well).

A more important question for me, as an administrator who works for a firm that deploys several dozen GNU/Linux tablets (Fujitsu Stylistic 3400s and LPT-600s at present) is, do they have a list of supported tablets and are the latest Fujitsus on that list? Such a list would be invaluable when it comes to evaluating new hardware, and if their distro is as good and seemless as they make it sound, we would certainly buy a copy for consideration.

Alas, their website seems to be very lacking in that information as well. Hopefully someone from Lycoris is reading this thread and can comment and/or update the information on their web page.

Actually devfsd does (see here). Most distros use DevFS + devfsd these days (notable exeption off the top of my head is RedHat).

I think what C and C++ really lack is the option to turn on array range checking. Sure you can drop a couple grand for a purify license or learn to use valgrind, but it should be an easy-to-switch compiler option.

But is there any way of making gtk+2 look like gtk+1's default theme? Everyone seems more interested in making really fancy themes. But I rather like gtk+1's old grey theme, whereas gtk+2's default is vomit-inducing.

Thankyou.