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Writing a back door is just more coding. Code for a while and see how much extraneous crap you write just for kicks.

This is very much OT, but just use DC-GUI (or from freshmeat).

I have used pinfo when I become rabidly attached to VI-style key bindings.

If your email is worth anything to you, then it makes no sense to rely on a Hotmail account anyway.

If you've never used the internet before - say you're a senior citizen, and you decide to try out the internet - pretty soon you're getting ads for girls sucking off beasts of burden in your inbox - are you likely to stick around?

What people must know (and Barry should inform them of) is that one should be wary to give out personal information on the Internet. If you are careless, spam is going to be the least of your problems.

That doesn't help when you're in a terminal window, which is one of the big advantages to Unix

Agreed...and 'info' is a pain to use. However, I have found pinfo to be quite usable. It behaves similarly to lynx with respect to following links, page scrolling, and searching.

Why do people insist on inventing new and confusing interfaces to programs? Sometimes even it is a huge win for a program to use one that people are familiar with rather than inventing something that might be 1% more efficient for the people who actually bother to learn to use it (of course wasting far more time than could theoretically be saved using the "more efficient" interface). I have noticed this in several GNU programs. Many of them seem to enjoy changing established conventions just for the heck of it. Oh well.

The reality of running a graphical environment (word processor, web browsing) is that you are going to need a reasonable amount of memory. 64M is about the minimum that runs with any acceptable level of performance.

Sigh, the bloat these days is abominable.

I started using GUI's with C64 GEOS, in 64K of RAM, I could use GEOWrite and GEOPaint just fine.

Then I went to an Amiga where I could use a full multi-tasking desktop system in 512K of RAM with no hard drive. In my later Amiga 3000 with 12 meg ram and a little harddrive space I had a completely functional system that I routinely used to browse the web, email, use usenet, desktop publish, render graphics and a myriad of other things.

My first Linux box was an old 486 DX4/100 with 12meg RAM and a 2 gig hard drive, I ran a full X system on that, with KDE no less.

Anyway, my point is, that you shouldn't need all these heavy requirements if all you want to do is use Office type software, send/read email and browse the web - let's face it, that's what people do most of the time.

Now to help with the question at hand, maybe Small Linux would be a good place to start.

What about the guy who's playing MP3's at his desk?

What about the guy who wants to sync to his Palm Pilot?

What about the guy who's using Messenger?

What about the guy who *NEEDS* a specific piece of software to communicate with his peers?

What about the guy who's burning DVD's of classroom presentations?

What about the guy who wants to run mid-priced shrink wrapped applications like Mathematica or MATLAB or IDL

What about the guy who runs small simulations -- the kind of thing a reasonable desktop could do in an evening or a weekend? People who run computer centers often complain about 40 hours of computer time on the big boxes.

In short, what about all the flexibility that the Personal Computer gives the user? Why ins't that included in their "TCO" at all?

• Slashdot... Hardly a surprise here..
• Freshnews.. I really like this news aggregator site, from there, I usually scan OReilly, Kuro5hin, Ars and a few other sites they feature for interesting articles and visit if the title seems interesting..
• Use Perl.. Top 10 journals, mostly
• Google news.. This replaced visits to BBC, CNN and a few others
• Freshmeat.. and a few other shareware sites from time to time
• Joel on Software.. and a few more blogs, like Scripting
• Trillian, Phoenix, Apache and a few more software sites for possible updates...
• Webmail accounts

www.google.com www.slashdot.org www.fark.com www.drudgereport.com www.regexp.org www.willworkforfood.org www.ryanflynn.com www.mp3.com www.sf.net www.perlmonks.org www.freshmeat.net

No Microsoft for many reasons, really. I view Microsoft as the Borg (Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.), so anything Microsoft says can be done with a highly restrictive license scheme, I try to find an Open Source method of accomplishing the same task. OpenOffice or KOffice instead of Microsoft Office, Apache with php3 / Washington University FTPD instead of MS Internet Information Services, etc. The Open Source community also seems to be in closer compliance with net-standard RFC's than MS proprietary products. For example, Mozilla has much better handling of cascading style sheets and web page icons than Internet Explorer, and includes some really nice features such as mouse gestures for page navigation. I use a variant of Mozilla called Phoenix on the help desk. Open source instant messengers, ssh (secure telnet), network protocols, all that stuff can be more easily and cheaply implemented in Linux than in Windows. Avoidance of malicious programs is another reason. Viruses are spread in Windows. How often do you hear about a Mac virus? Malicious web applets targetting Internet Explorer, spyware (a biggie) targetting Windows, having to patch security flaws every week or two because of skript kiddies playing with toys that break into computers, all that gets old. Finally, freely available software. www.freshmeat.net and www.sourceforge.net are good examples. Besides all that, I already have a Windows computer as a desktop that I can play games on. For what I would use a laptop for -- DVD's, music, diagnostic / data recovery tool, etc, Linux would better suit me.

Dunno how, i messed up with the url, the original ./ article is here and it point to the freshmeat one that talk about the use of screen and RatPoison as windows managers (and they're both a must-try).

As clarification to this, The AntiDesktop is almost what I mean. However I want my kde panel at the bottom of it and I want to be able to full screen apps over the console if I wish.

I'm sure there are plenty of projects out there that use Qt. Qt has been around for a very long time, and is quite mature. This isn't something that just sprang up overnight.

• Freshmeat :154, 849
• windows shareware

• Freshmeat :154, 849
• windows shareware

You could always just remap some of those useless keys to do something else.

lukemftp (the standard FTP client on NetBSD) will do HTTP too.

Looks like it's mostly dead: last update to the FAQ comes from 1996. I have found a reference in freshmeat from 2001, though.

You can run a HTTP and FTP on the same port using an app called JavaSwitch. Doing this can actually make FTP a little more secure.

Let's say you use JavaSwitch and have it accepting HTTP and FTP traffic. You can set JavaSwitch up to run on port 80 (the "standard" port for webservers). Now when someone scans your ports all they will see is port 80 open and assume that all you are running is a webserver when in fact you are running a webserver and a ftp server. This still doesn't help the fact that FTP is a clear-text protocol and shouldn't be used anyway. Stick with SSH.

You can get JavaSwitch here.

... dibs, for example, uses it:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/dibs/

Not if the PROM is configured to require a password to boot from an alternate device, or to boot up at all.

Or you can use a one-time password system like S/Key for authentication. That's what I do whenever it's necessary for me to log in to my machine at home from campus, anyway.

Of course, this doesn't help you with email or website logins, but it's a step in the right direction.

I doubt if we'll ever see online banking, webmail and so forth adopt more secure authentication mechanisms, but maybe after enough fiascos like this, universities and libraries might adopt a dumb terminals-and-smartcards approach (such as SunRays).

PHP is "the one" for me!

Now with the gtk extensions it does a mighty fine job on the server or on the client!

It has the ease of text manipulation of Perl without all the nasty hacks in syntax. It's cross platform, free, and performance is good. (Probably better than Java, since my own testing indicates it's considerably faster than Python)

It makes a good, all-around scripting language for sysadmining, UI management, etc. and it even makes a good case for fast web development!

Among other things, a web server (yes, a replacement for Apache!) has been written in PHP!

I figure that with all the noise of "web services" this, and "cross platform" that, there's a good chance that PHP could be the "next big thing"...

Yeah, I use PHP an awful lot.

It uses mplayer to open video files, so anything that mplayer can open, LiVES will let you edit.

AS someone working in a Regional TV station I would love to be able to switch our production facilities away from the MS based systems we are using now and move them to a Linux based system.

I am starting to write something for this myself but I would like to know how close we are to actually achieving this aim. I have looked at several of the packages on offer such as KDENLIVE and Cinelerra but none of them are what I would call studio ready.

Well I keep hoping.

Beautiful. I love CBG with a passion.

PLUG

I made a fortune file for him. You can grab it here.

I've also got one for Ralph Wiggum, which is here.

They were both based on the Quotable Homer file, which is located here.

/PLUG

Beautiful. I love CBG with a passion.

PLUG

I made a fortune file for him. You can grab it here.

I've also got one for Ralph Wiggum, which is here.

They were both based on the Quotable Homer file, which is located here.

/PLUG

Beautiful. I love CBG with a passion.

PLUG

I made a fortune file for him. You can grab it here.

I've also got one for Ralph Wiggum, which is here.

They were both based on the Quotable Homer file, which is located here.

/PLUG

You could just access AIM through a box set up to connect w/ AIM and send it to you via telnet. An example is a box w/ Bonim. It is self explainitory. I honestly don't believe that blocking ports and firewalls do too much, if you are determined, smart and want to break out.

The web site is down at the moment but you can see the Freshmeat project page. The shell script is quite small, and easy to understand (at least I understood it, the last time I was looking at it ....).

He followed this

He might just didn't get the joke.

IMAP Copy

Good hardware. Bad management. But that latter one is the fundamental reason I've recently decided to drop the Sparc Architecture in projects I work on. The one I do have that architecture is relevant is BICK. It lets you build a Linux bootable ISO image to make a CDR that can boot your own customized CD based system on either Intel x86 or SUN Sparc architecture even from the same CD. The reason I did that wasn't the trickery of doing 2 architectures on one CD, but rather, because I have worked with SUN machines many times, and having such a tool would be cool (e.g. carrying around one rescue CD for both architectures). However, for several reasons I have decided to drop SUN Sparc from the next version. This serious attitude problem Sun has is a major component of the reasoning (and is also why I will not select SUN hardware for future use in my business). The fact that they won't work with the OpenBSD team isn't by itself the reason I do this, but it is quite representative of an overall problem with SUN that is the reason.

My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.

No worries. Just keep Evolution and Galeon. I switched from GNOME2 around KDE 3.1RC2 and haven't looked back. If you're worried about consistent look (feel is another story) then you have a couple of options.
You could get the Geramik theme for gtk 1.x and 2.x this will match the default Keramik theme in KDE, and even inherit any color changes made in the kde control center! This is what I did, and now the GIMP, GAIM, and Pan (and mozilla/phoenix) all match my KDE desktop perfectly.
You could also try the Wonderland theme (called BlueCurve in RedHat) from the RedHat Artwork package. It will theme gtk 1.x/2.x and kde consistently.
Another more difficult option would be to use the Liquid theme for kde, and dig up some Aqua[Graphite] themes for gtk. Since Aqua-ish themes exist for everything that is skinnable, you get a reasonably homogenous desktop.

With a little effort, you can have a beautiful and consistent Unix desktop, regardless of which apps you need to run or which desktop you choose.

... I tend to think the Helix client, alone or incorporated into a WM player, is the right way to go.. Or at least pick _ONE_ good framework and avoid massive effort duplication ... (and that was only up to the G's!)

It seems there's an awful lot of video players that come from a number of "itches" or "brushing up on linux multimedia programming" urges, with little attention paid to usability, and that really doesn't serve the USERS as well as a more focused app.

... I tend to think the Helix client, alone or incorporated into a WM player, is the right way to go.. Or at least pick _ONE_ good framework and avoid massive effort duplication ... (and that was only up to the G's!)

It seems there's an awful lot of video players that come from a number of "itches" or "brushing up on linux multimedia programming" urges, with little attention paid to usability, and that really doesn't serve the USERS as well as a more focused app.

... I tend to think the Helix client, alone or incorporated into a WM player, is the right way to go.. Or at least pick _ONE_ good framework and avoid massive effort duplication ... (and that was only up to the G's!)

It seems there's an awful lot of video players that come from a number of "itches" or "brushing up on linux multimedia programming" urges, with little attention paid to usability, and that really doesn't serve the USERS as well as a more focused app.

We're working on this exact thing. Our project is called dashpc, and while it's still in it's infancy, the code can be found on freshmeat and sourceforge. Our site is here.

We currently have GPS capability, Kismet, ODBII interfacing, audio, etc.

We can always use help, so anyone truly interested in this and programming skills (java preferred) feel free to help out.

Basically what this guy did was realize that the MAC-generation algorithm in spoofing software Wellenreiter has a weakness, namely that the OUI's it generates aren't all legit. (OUI is the organizational unique identified which is in the first few bits of the MAC address.) Also see helpful Sourceforge description of Wellenreiter.

He similarly points out limitations in denial of service tools: AirJack and FakeAP software. However, this isn't the same as giving a general technique for analyzing MAC addresses on 802.11b, something which was strongly implied in the original post.

That behind me, my thonghts on DNSSEC. The main problem with DNSSEC is that DNS itself has no concept of security; any attempt to add signatures has the issue of having to graft on signatures to a system not designed to have signatures. For example:

• A DNS packet can only be 512 bytes long; that really is not enough room to fit a signature.

• How do you sign the statement "this host name does not exist"? All of the solutions have a problem. We either have to put a private key on an internet connected computer, or we have to reveal all of the host names that exist in our network.

• Digital signatures add a good deal of workload to already overloaded recursive DNS servers.

- Sam

Get a copy of _The Practice of System and Network Administration_ by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan. Read chapter 15 (Help Desks) and implement it faithfully. For real-world system and network administration topics, this is the best book I've run across. There's a FreshMeat review available.

There's also a website at www.sysadminfocus.com, but get a dead-tree copy as there's not much on the website.

Then, get involved in SAGE and USENIX. These are common problems, and talking about them with a body of folks who know how to solve them is going to much more productive than posting to Slashdot ;-)

I don't want a phone/MP3/PDA/GPS/condom dispenser. A device like that would be too big. I want a small phone, a small GPS, a small MP3 player, and a small PDA.

Four things to remember to keep charging and swapping batteries? No thanks. I have enough trouble remembering to put my cell phone in the charger, and pretty much gave up using my Agenda PDA because if I remembered to put the cellphone on the charger I'd forget the PDA.

What I'd like: Linux-based (of course!) cell phone with good data access, and a few simple on-board apps, like prescibble and mupo from the Agenda. Forget more complex PDA apps - give me a unit with good enough display and input that I can use the web. With GPS, please, since a "where the hell am I" moment can happen anytime. Built-in camera, like Japanese cell phones, a nice bonus for sudden snapshot opportunities.

(I've been thinking that a camera that uploads images quickly would be great for activists and whistleblowers - if the cops or security try to confiscate your camera and your photos, your images are already up on a server somewhere.)

I'm curious how you handle DNS issues with a dynamic IP. My first instinct here would be a problem propogating changes when your ISP gives you a new IP. Is there a service for people who need domain name to dynamic IP resolution I haven't heard of? Links...

There are *many* services that do this. Let me list the two that I've used:

1. The first one is free and doesn't require you to buy your own domain. Simply create your own name in one of a bunch of available names, download one of the automatic update clients, and off you go.
2. The second one is free if you register your domain with them. You can either register a new domain with them, or transfer your domain to them. Doing so means paying at least some amount of money in order to create/transfer your registration with them for a minimum of (I think) one year. But the cost is no more than the standard registrars are getting... so it's sorta free. In any case, they also provide dynamic dns service.

Dude, I can't do a damn thing about what your ISP allows on the net. If someone doesn't like it, they won't accept traffic. What I'm saying is that an ISP should be able to let you run your server and block port 25 from everyone who isn't so we can all stop getting spam delivered from personal firewall software.

What I hear you saying is that you want an ISP that you don't have a relationship with to impose some rule on me, one of their paying customers, by filtering outbound port 25. I'm saying that you're external to the realtionship between me and my ISP. You don't, and shouldn't, have any say in that relationship. That should be between me, their paying customer, and them. And all of this talk about filtering port 25 comes down to someone else defining the rules between the ISP and their customers. Someone else imposing their will on something to which they have no relationship.

I hate spam as much as the next guy. Really I do. But I'm not willing to live in a filtered internet to get rid of it. That just seems too much like censorship to me. And as long as I'm the paying customer, and there's sufficient ISP competition, I'll be the one defining the terms of the relationship.

Tim

One word: mod_gzip.

I live in India, and SMS works like a charm here. Its incredibly useful in places where you can barely find any other way of messaging anyone. There are too many places in India where you wont find a phone booth, but you can always SMS away! Another advantage is that here, incoming SMS is free. Even, if you're on pre-paid, and you've run out of cash on your card, people can still message you. Delivery receipts are a boon too.
I find SMS so useful that I wrote up an app to use it as a remote monitoring tool for servers anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. :)
Check out SMSTerm at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsterm

Nikhil.

yeah.. just go with fluke and get it over with. If you dont have the money, then you need a laptop at both ends running any of the many network monitoring tools out there.

Search for software: http://www.freshmeat.net

The best open-source software I've seen for teaching the basics of Japanese writing are:

Hanzim - Score: Excellent

• This is a really superb Chinese ideograph tutor (also quite good for learning the Japanese kanji which are mostly identical to Chinese) with bilingual English-Chinese translations based on radicals.

Kanatest - Score: Very Good

• This is a handy (Japanese) katakana and hiragana tester.
• 
  The calligraphy is very good too.

The best open-source software I've seen for teaching the basics of Japanese writing are:

Hanzim - Score: Excellent

• This is a really superb Chinese ideograph tutor (also quite good for learning the Japanese kanji which are mostly identical to Chinese) with bilingual English-Chinese translations based on radicals.

Kanatest - Score: Very Good

• This is a handy (Japanese) katakana and hiragana tester.
• 
  The calligraphy is very good too.

here's no reason why 99% of open source projects actually need to market themselves - they don't need to make money,

• Get users, it's much easier to work on something that people are using than working on something that noone else is using.
• Get developers, getting help for some problem you want/need solved is a big thing
• Getting feedback, it's very helpful to have external auditing of your code, or I compiled your program on blahSystem and this is what happened, or even just getting comments from people who've done similar things.
• Getting recognition, after all that works it's nice to get the warm fuzzies :)