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Another alternative for GAIM is NAIM.

Mmmmm.... Text-mode AIM.

If you don't want to mount the filesystem, the bash completion project works quite nice with scp. By adding the public key on your computer to the server's authorized_keys file, you can use tab completion when traversing directories or copying files remotely. As a bonus, you get a lot of tab completions with other programs too.

Let's not forget the wonderful combination of ratpoison and screen, as detailed in a great Freshmeat article. I have been using this setup for several months on a slow laptop and found it great (once you get the hang of the keybindings, and customize them so they don't screw up Emacs). Not only does it not take any memory to speak of, but by always seeing everything full screen, you use all of your valuable laptop screen real estate.

Check out Ratpoison and this article at Freshmeat.

Its lean, its mean and everything'll be fullscreen,..
Here is a screenshot taken from this editorial

let me put it to you this way, i don't even Own a mouse on this computer.

shortcuts for browsing
GNU/screen for copypasting

Granted, no speak man nor info == no wm for harry,

But i'll even recap the *entire* 00:05 of 'info ratpoison' in a 2 second blast:

think 'screen' but use ctrl+t instead of ctrl+a
so ctrl+t ? gets you, as expected, the help file,
and ctrl+t c a fresh xterm

Cheers!
Thijs

Its lean, its mean and everything'll be fullscreen,..
Here is a screenshot taken from this editorial

let me put it to you this way, i don't even Own a mouse on this computer.

shortcuts for browsing
GNU/screen for copypasting

Granted, no speak man nor info == no wm for harry,

But i'll even recap the *entire* 00:05 of 'info ratpoison' in a 2 second blast:

think 'screen' but use ctrl+t instead of ctrl+a
so ctrl+t ? gets you, as expected, the help file,
and ctrl+t c a fresh xterm

Cheers!
Thijs

For those not ready to upgrade to Linux 2.5, and for those on other platforms, there is Trickle, a userland traffic shaper for Linux, *BSD and Solaris. It works on a per-process basis (or on groups of processes to limit aggregate traffic consumption), does not require root-level access nor kernel patches, and is, of course, open source.

Instead, OSS developers do what they like and don't cooperate. I can't blaim them for this, I'm very gratefull for the libre software they write for free, but without cooperation MS will win.

See the Too Much Free Software article (and it's comments). There are a lot of examples of programming hours which could be better used ( latest one: ephiphany vs. galeon )

...about MUDs.

First off, the basic premise of this post is wrong. MUDs were always a niche type of thing. There were a few 10 years ago when the Internet was small. There are a lot now that the Internet is big. It's hard to say which has grown faster.

Of course, there are many more long-running MUDs today than there were 10 years ago. When a favorite goes dark, it doesn't mean they are fading away (although it may SEEM like it at the time). When Cats closed, it didn't mean Broadway theater was dead.

More relevant question: Why haven't MUDs broken out of their niche?

Answer #1: They did. EverQuest was an LPC MUD with a graphical front end pasted on it. Some MUDders see EQ as a diabolical competitor leeching away the potential users of "true" MUDs; others see it as the logical next step.

Answer #2: The amount of creativity to keep a MUD lively doesn't scale well. The number of people people creating new content for MUDs eventually defines the size of the niche which will be supported by their creativity. The FaerieMUD Consortium has an interesting solution to this: using the creativity of players themselves to generate new content for their MUD. This is an extension of the long tradition of wizards, immortals and promotion to coders in the MUD community. We have been working on this for a long time, but it is not quite there yet.

Another interesting question: Are there common problems faced by all MUD-coders for which pooled solutions are possible in Open Source?

Two obvious places for this are: A general-purpose backend server for hosting MUDs (the ability to scale might be nice, too); and a graphical front end.

The MUES Project on Source Forge has recently posted Alpha code for the first of these. Several projects have code up on SourgeForge for the second. It's my personal opinion that MUDs will never break out of the niche until these types of problems are well-solved by Open Source software. It's also going to be important to do it right. I can say from personal experience that getting all the things people are looking for in the next-generation MUD is no simple task. The discussion in this paper on CME (Coolest MUD Ever) is very informative.

Here's some reasons not to use Linux.

I'm going to go ahead and assume you're using some sort of UNIX/Linux, and recommend: html2pdf. I think it may actually have a windows version, as well, but I'm too lazy to double check. It's a swell product, either way.

Of course, BSD is the one true way. Best convert now, before this happens to you.

For those of you who have a problem with Xlib, take a look at XCB which is a better API for the X protocol and is is smaller and nicer to code for.

When I get the time, I'm going to port WindowLab to it.

gkrellm is NOT a little program !!! it's a fully feature all-around system monitor, and propably takes less resources than this silly green thing windows have ( you know, the one that said that " like any other app this one will take some resources too" -- i cant' remember the name system monitor or something).
here is a screenshot from freshmeat if you really don't know what gkrellm is. It is more like all the "little apps" combined in one 0.5 MB binary.

checkout freshmeat I am faily certain I have seen projects meant to sync a palm with BeOS and AmigaOS... I may be mistaken though. You also may want to try palmgear as they have a huge repository of palm software.

I think convmv may be what you're looking for.

Trust me, once you watch starwars 2 on mplayer and the flying cars (Jedi council window) are like Queen Elizabeth's guards (i.e. they don't go smoothly at all) you switch to xine immediately. (yeah, I know -autosync. Hasn't improved much on my system). Don't get me wrong, mplayer is great - just not on my system. And I'm not going to pay 34$ to get commercial oss drivers.

If you're running a 2.3 servlet container, drop in the jCIFS NTLM HTTP Authentication Filter. It's available here:

http://jcifs.samba.org/

but the latest jar is here (website a little broken):

http://users.erols.com/mballen/jcifs/

All you need to set is the domainController init parameter. There's also a base servlet for pre 2.3 containers that don't support filters.

Also take a look at the Davenport project which permits IE users (and I suspect Mozilla users now) the ability to browse the entire WAN using the negotiated NTLM pawssword hashes as a WebDAV folder or using plain HTML. Again, uses jCIFS.

Yes, someone who measures his room response and compensates for this (real-time is a bit overkill?) is better off. But hey, people don't want to do this. (if you want something for linux, look at this program for a start).

Also the whole press statement is a buzzword hype indeed. The words on the lense technique don't make sense, but the company who filed the patent knows their technology is not perfect, but can help a little, read their PDF's. Also the author done some serious research, although you need access to the AES library to read his articles (which I have :-).

It is not a standard horn technique (as a compresssion driver, (JBL 2445 and such)), merely a craftly construced baffle. Nothing world shocking, but perhaps their is some truth in it (anybody heard a demo of this?).

Sad that such a topic shows up on Slashdot without mentioning open source solutions which are cheap to free. Check out Digital Room Correction and BruteFIR for instance.

I use GPG Mail with Mail.app and it's great, combined with GnuPG for OS X.

I also use Tiny Fugue in the terminal to connect to a journal community chat server. You need Apple's free Developer Tools to build it though, but it works perfectly.

I also use NcFTP for all my ftp needs. It used to be included with 10.1.x, but Apple stopped shipping it with 10.2.x, instead favouring the basic BSD ftp, which they improved in Jaguar. I prefer NcFTP though, and had no problems building it from source with the Developer Tools.

The huge bonus I've found with OS X's terminal is the way it integrates with the "consumer" side of the OS making command line work more conveinent. For example, if I'm not in the mood to drill down into a directory to upload a file in NcFTP I can just drag it onto the terminal after typing "put [space]". I can also command+click links in TF to open them in my browser. These tricks work in the shell too, often handy for perfoming operations on files deeper in directories that I don't want to navigate to by typing them out. (Yes, yes, I'm lazy).

" aldap is designed as a groupware, Web-based, central contact manager. It can supplement end-users' personal address books or stand alone. It includes Perl scripts to create an empty LDAP tree ready for data entry, or if you have an existing Outlook contact database, import them easily. Its features include Add Organizational Units, Add entry, Search, View, Print, Modify, Delete, VCard export, Outlook conversion tools, plenty of end user help, and more."

As the creator of aldap I can tell you there's people using it on OSX, Windows, and Unix / GNU Linux systems. A live demo is available on the the project home page.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/trackballs/ This project is very similar.

This would be a good time for TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE to become an inherited parameter controlled by setrlimit/getrlimit. It would also be a good time to get a binary structure interface to /proc/self/maps, much like VirtualQuery in Win32.

uh, hold on a bit before you run out there and conquer the market:

1.quantlib is really used for pricing derivatives and checking the risk profile of options positions. it kicks ass, but i don't think you'll really be able to use it in a real time data feed scenario. i mean, most trading desks (i'm talking professionals not mangy ass day traders) only use something like quantlib once or twice a day. it just takes too long to calculate the greeks (especially the vega) since it's usually done numerically.

2. if you do want to play around with quantlib in a way that is much superior to trying to integrate it with octave and gnuplot (talk about the lego-land approach!!), try this R Quantlib.

3. don't know what you want to do exactly, but probably something like LinuxTrader would be plenty for your needs. what you really need is an efficient way to display a lot of news and quotes. anything else is probably overkill. i mean, what do you really think you're going to do anyway???

Turbovision was an old Borland library for DOS, with C and Pascal bindings, which addressed the niche you're looking for. There's supposedly a free port to Unix. I can't vouch for it personally, but check out this Freshmeat project page.

1) Klaus Knopper. If he can put 2 Gigs of software into a 700MB iso, I'd like him to have the (compatible as advertised?) 1000MB version to play with, too.

2) Jorg Schilling, whose cdrtools is the easiest (well, my favorite) way to burn ISOs under Linux, for obvious reasons ;)

Dome I'm just using it for DFD/ERD but it handles most diagrams I've ever heard of.

fvwm is indeed faster than Metacity with GNOME or kwin with KDE, but the following are much faster still (being based on 9wm or its descendants):
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

fvwm is indeed faster than Metacity with GNOME or kwin with KDE, but the following are much faster still (being based on 9wm or its descendants):
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

fvwm is indeed faster than Metacity with GNOME or kwin with KDE, but the following are much faster still (being based on 9wm or its descendants):
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

Enlightenment is hardly light weight now is it? I always recommend the following to those who want a faster desktop experience:
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

Enlightenment is hardly light weight now is it? I always recommend the following to those who want a faster desktop experience:
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

Enlightenment is hardly light weight now is it? I always recommend the following to those who want a faster desktop experience:
lwm
PekWM
WindowLab

Using prelink will also provide additional optimization.

No, you've got it wrong.

Monica is a small monitor calibration tool.
Phoebe is a Redhat release.
Rachel is a resource loading toolkit for Java Web Start/JNLP

No, you've got it wrong.

Monica is a small monitor calibration tool.
Phoebe is a Redhat release.
Rachel is a resource loading toolkit for Java Web Start/JNLP

but not all web backends require transactions or even subqueries.

But here's what puzzles me: if you don't need complicated queries (and I'm told MySql takes a serious performance hit even with something as simple as multi-field primary keys), why bother with a relational DBMS at all? Why not use a simple indexed record engine, like Berkeley DB?

Personally, I like Blackbox or IceWM with ROX file manager. I run a small K12LTSP in my classroom, and the kids have now problem with the IceWM/ROX filer combo. And these kids are all Win9x/XP users. The school has WinXP on all the computers - except mine {-:

These are all the server-based tools mentionned in the above discussion:

Active PHP Bookmarks
Bookmarker
Bookmark4U
PHP Bookmarks
Sitebar

Oops, looks like its this (jukebox) that you want instead.

mplayer is one of the best players Ive come across, but mplayer just 0wnz. And there was a time, where the only decent player (mpeg only) was mtv *ick*, how things change. take a look at freshmeat mplayer is teh best! ;) good luck to A'rpi.

Also try these:

FreeSCO - great for routers

tomsrtbt

DemoLinux

RIP Linux Rescue System

SuperRescue CD

Morphix

For Windows software, take a look here

I got an ethernet card from 9thtee a while back, it is great! I then got a program called "tivoweb" which lets me remotely record, and even search future listings with a REAL keyboard (I like to compare it to my NetFlix list every now and then and queue up movies on the TiVo that I don't care about all those DVD goodies).

Then there is my e-mail on my TiVo with the shameless plug of tivo_mail that I found a while back and people seem to like it. ;)

- RR

If you're interested in rolling your own, give these a look:

Freevo

MythTV

If you're interested in rolling your own, give these a look:

Freevo

MythTV

My high school television studio runs a multi-mac FCP shop, and swears by it. Most of the production that comes out of the lab is just as good as packages you'd see on CNN. Keep in mind that the students need about a week of training before they are off cutting news packages.

As far as software costs go, if a well-designed, full-featured commercial product comes out, there is no reason Slashdot should ignore it. When you spend your money on an Apple product, you get a tightly integrated piece of hardware/software that will work right, the first time, when you have no clue how to use it.

Also, what Free OSS tools? I did a search and came up only with Kino. A far cry from FCP or even iMovie.


On the other hand, I think professional applications like 3D animation software, pro audio editing, and the like is needed in the OSS/Linux arena. It's these apps that sell the OS.

Windowmaker should run on a 486 as well. It is only slightly more resource hungy then fvwm if any. As long as you have 16 megs of ram you are set. If not then save up $25 and buy a 64meg fpram stick from crucial.Make sure its 30-pin fast page or fpram which is the only one that will work with your 486 laptop. 72 pin is for the desktops and 30 is for laptops.

You will notice a tremendous speed improvement with a simple ram upgrade and windowmaker will probably without it can run fvwm. The requirments are similiar. Look at the screenshots.Its also easy to add programs and menu's unlike fvwm.

Windowmaker is just a simple window manager like fvwm and not a desktop.

The problem with this situation is that no one but the isp and the attorney general knows which sites are being blocked.

It shouldn't be too hard to determine which sites are being blocked.

There are 255 x 255 x 255 x 255 possible sites, giving a grand total of 4,228,250,625 possible sites. Testing all of them, at the rate of once a second, would take 48938 days or 134 years. (Also note that many are invalid, like 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1, 10.x.x.x, etc.)

Now, a machine should be able to test far more than one a second, and given a distributed testing platform (something like distributed.net or folding@home), many PA computers could be used to determine which IP addresses were unreachable.

The test would be easier if the ISP gave a page saying "This web site has been blocked" instead of just making it unreachable. (But if it was unreachable, we could have computers outside of PA which test the unreachable sites to see if there is actually content there.)

There must already be tools available to test whether a website exists and is working properly. Searching Freshmeat.net, I found the NIST Web Metrics Testbed tool suite which might be a starting point.

Given a couple weeks work, we could make the list public ourselves.

I'm down with Linux audio stuff as long as we don't have a ton of different apps and stuff.