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According to US patent 6,327,652 that is indeed correct-- unsigned code simply doesn't get any access to secured data, and may not even be allowed to run on the same desktop as signed code. If the boot sector doesn't pass the BIOS's signature check, it's not given access to the machine private key, and therefore can neither unlock locally stored encrypted content nor pose as a trusted system to other machines on the net. The only bait-and-switch here is the possibility of a concerted push by software or content producers to require a trusted runtime. One minor wrinkle is that this will require boot-selector programs like LILO to either be code-signed or be unable to properly boot signed operating systems.

Additionally, there is a lot of resistance to open-source solutions in the network administrations on college campuses. Most colleges have Novell or Windows based infrastructure everywhere but the science and computer/engineering schools.

Instead of rolling your own, check for software others have written. OpenACS is a good start, but there's tons more. Search Freshmeat.

Check out valgrind It's like Purify, but it's free.

Valgrind. It's the first thing you should use when you've detected a bug. If it's a memory related bug, nine times out of ten, it will find it immediately, as well as several potential bugs you didn't even know about.

For playing media there are already many solutions for all intersting platforms, and the only reason for using WMP would be for the DRM stuff...which no-one honestly likes.

I have to disagree here. My quest last week was to find a decent media player, on any platform, and I failed. The only requirement for "decent" was that it supports my needs, mainly a 100gig+ mp3 collection.

There are many "solutions" on different platforms, but they all solve the same problem. Do a search on freshmeat for XMMS. About 128 projects come back. So flip through those and you'll see what I mean. Dozens of people all built the same solution, without seeming to look at what was already out there before they went off and coded some Apache+mod_perl or Python or XMMS Plugin or whatever. There must be 40 implementations of a media player with an album/artist/song-centric interface, but none of them have an AutoDJ (ala MusicMatch) or AutoPlaylist (ala WMP9) feature, which is absolutely critical when you start pushing beyond ~20 gigs of music. When you want a new playlist for your party, being able to filter on your library by "Dance Music", "Very good or better", "Techno, Latin, or Party Rap" is incredibly useful. Maintaining playlists, and adding to them as you acquire music over time is much less worthwhile, and you have huge problems when you change the location or filename of any of your files.

I've got a little worksheet I threw together from my notes on last week's failed quest, detailing what features I think an mp3 player needs to have to handle that size of library, and an analysis of all the ways the current offerings fail. Check it out. I promise I won't say anything else until you get back.

Ok, assuming you've read that... Any good MP3 player needs to copy most of MusicMatch's functionality, which WMP9 does a pretty good job of, with a few notable exceptions. But MusicMatch isn't tenable because of its horrible library back-end DB implementation. Ugh. At least I can load all my files into WMP9, it just doesn't index them as well as MusicMatch does. Either way, both of these apps are Win only, which pisses me off when I'm on Linux. Anyone have any ideas about coding something in Mozilla's XPFE?

I wish the community had a simple mechanism for finding out what projects are already out there, and avoiding duplication of effort without meaningful contribution. I thought it was freshmeat, but apparently that doesn't work for everyone... Ironic that all the entries I read about on freshmeat hadn't seemed to do a search of freshmeat before starting their own projects...

For playing media there are already many solutions for all intersting platforms, and the only reason for using WMP would be for the DRM stuff...which no-one honestly likes.

I have to disagree here. My quest last week was to find a decent media player, on any platform, and I failed. The only requirement for "decent" was that it supports my needs, mainly a 100gig+ mp3 collection.

There are many "solutions" on different platforms, but they all solve the same problem. Do a search on freshmeat for XMMS. About 128 projects come back. So flip through those and you'll see what I mean. Dozens of people all built the same solution, without seeming to look at what was already out there before they went off and coded some Apache+mod_perl or Python or XMMS Plugin or whatever. There must be 40 implementations of a media player with an album/artist/song-centric interface, but none of them have an AutoDJ (ala MusicMatch) or AutoPlaylist (ala WMP9) feature, which is absolutely critical when you start pushing beyond ~20 gigs of music. When you want a new playlist for your party, being able to filter on your library by "Dance Music", "Very good or better", "Techno, Latin, or Party Rap" is incredibly useful. Maintaining playlists, and adding to them as you acquire music over time is much less worthwhile, and you have huge problems when you change the location or filename of any of your files.

I've got a little worksheet I threw together from my notes on last week's failed quest, detailing what features I think an mp3 player needs to have to handle that size of library, and an analysis of all the ways the current offerings fail. Check it out. I promise I won't say anything else until you get back.

Ok, assuming you've read that... Any good MP3 player needs to copy most of MusicMatch's functionality, which WMP9 does a pretty good job of, with a few notable exceptions. But MusicMatch isn't tenable because of its horrible library back-end DB implementation. Ugh. At least I can load all my files into WMP9, it just doesn't index them as well as MusicMatch does. Either way, both of these apps are Win only, which pisses me off when I'm on Linux. Anyone have any ideas about coding something in Mozilla's XPFE?

I wish the community had a simple mechanism for finding out what projects are already out there, and avoiding duplication of effort without meaningful contribution. I thought it was freshmeat, but apparently that doesn't work for everyone... Ironic that all the entries I read about on freshmeat hadn't seemed to do a search of freshmeat before starting their own projects...

Perhaps I am simply luckier, but I have never had xpdf get the bounding box wrong in either fashion you describe.

Regardless of luck, I search for text in xpdf without trouble* at least several times a week, for months.

Check it out, at freshmeat, for example.

* by `without trouble', I don't count xpdf's nearly overbearing ugliness as `trouble'. :-)

I immediately started searching for an RPM equivilant and found that checkinstall works for RPMs, .debs, and Slackware.

FYI, checkinstall can be found here. This and apt4rpm makes admining Redhat machines a lot more fun.

Check out secure delete.

Scoop on Freshmeat

he used this, it was on freshmeat frontpage til this morning.

I wrote this a couple of years ago while working in a small shop (350 users, complex environment)... Editorial: The Egoless Admin.</shameless-self-promotion>

I still agree with it. Your job is that of architect, carpenter, plumber, electrician, handyman and, finally, janitor.

Now, in a much larger shop (tens of thousands of users, hugely complex environment), I'm learning and relearning the lessons and seeing again that the more thought you put into the first four jobs the less you put into the last two. That, and that very few- including most other techs- really understand good system design. You better be opinionated and you better be right most of the time or everything will end up a mess.

Hanzim - Score: Excellent

• 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

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

check out 2diskxwin I thinmk they are developing sumthing like this

It's called "Open Source", a few of you may have heard of it.

There's a big group that controls a bunch of it called GNU -- they're wacky and pronounce the 'g' in GNU.

There's even a open source kernel called "Linux" started by some European guy. He works for some other company that does processors but spends a lot of time on the Linux thing.

Anyways, just wanted to point some folks at some other volunteer possibilities..

Don't know if it's what the poster was originally talking about, but this went past the pages of freshmeat's new OS X section mentioned on /. a few days ago.

Don't know if it's what the poster was originally talking about, but this went past the pages of freshmeat's new OS X section mentioned on /. a few days ago.

Downloaded it. Tried it. I found it to be fairly crashy, but I like the idea.

Anyway, for those who like an XP desktop environment and window manager but want their apps to look like they do in XP, check out the TrueBlue gtk+ theme; it's not an exact replica, but it captures the feel. Also, if you like the puffy "Luna" window decorations, you might want to check out the Lunatic theme for sawfish.

Happy theming!

Downloaded it. Tried it. I found it to be fairly crashy, but I like the idea.

Anyway, for those who like an XP desktop environment and window manager but want their apps to look like they do in XP, check out the TrueBlue gtk+ theme; it's not an exact replica, but it captures the feel. Also, if you like the puffy "Luna" window decorations, you might want to check out the Lunatic theme for sawfish.

Happy theming!

See freshmeat. This isn't from Apple, though ...

mesgui is a really simple GUI I created. It runs under OpenGL. It compiles under windows and linux, but I haven't tested it in macOS.

It only has about 10 widget types, so if you want something simple, try this out.

here's the tar file
screenshot

mesgui is a really simple GUI I created. It runs under OpenGL. It compiles under windows and linux, but I haven't tested it in macOS.

It only has about 10 widget types, so if you want something simple, try this out.

here's the tar file
screenshot

Note that freshmeat started as a directory of opensource unix software. For many people (including myself) that is still it's primary function. There are already a million search sites for Win32 free and shareware applications; there is no need for freshmeat to turn into another one.

As to windows opensource software, the most important entry, Cygwin , is there. Additionally, there are a lot of other crossplatform programs that happen to compile and work on windows listed under the Trove Windows category.

And a somewhat facetious aside... Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, despite their somewhat POSIX compliance, and the availability of Cygwin/DJGPP, are still not an acceptable Unix to some of us (meaning me :). The primary lack is that of a decent terminal (one that supports vector fonts, full VT100 emulation, easy window size changes, etc.). Note that I am talking about a local terminal... for remote connections, you can use Putty, which is relatively decent. The two "best" ways that I have found to get a decent term on Windows are:

• Install Cygwin, setup up sshd and ssh in to localhost with Putty.
• Install X11 of one kind or another, and use an XTerm

Note that freshmeat started as a directory of opensource unix software. For many people (including myself) that is still it's primary function. There are already a million search sites for Win32 free and shareware applications; there is no need for freshmeat to turn into another one.

As to windows opensource software, the most important entry, Cygwin , is there. Additionally, there are a lot of other crossplatform programs that happen to compile and work on windows listed under the Trove Windows category.

And a somewhat facetious aside... Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, despite their somewhat POSIX compliance, and the availability of Cygwin/DJGPP, are still not an acceptable Unix to some of us (meaning me :). The primary lack is that of a decent terminal (one that supports vector fonts, full VT100 emulation, easy window size changes, etc.). Note that I am talking about a local terminal... for remote connections, you can use Putty, which is relatively decent. The two "best" ways that I have found to get a decent term on Windows are:

• Install Cygwin, setup up sshd and ssh in to localhost with Putty.
• Install X11 of one kind or another, and use an XTerm

Replying to my own post, I think a better example than Mac OS X is PalmOS. There's no way that you could reasonably count PalmOS as a Unixlike operating system (or at least, any such definition would be so broad it would have to include almost any modern OS). Yet Freshmeat happily lists PalmOS-only software. Windows software? Oh no, we can't have that, this is a Unix site. Please, Freshmeat, consider ditching the Unix bias (particularly as a large chunk of Mac OS X applications will not run on any other Unix system) and accepting submissions for software running on all operating systems, even that one from Redmond we're not supposed to like.

PS: Yeah, I know, it's not all that populated yet. But hey, it's a start. We'll get there.

Many people submit information to freshmeat regarding software that only runs on the Win32 platform. Such people sometimes become confused when we reject such submissions, since they are under the impression that freshmeat will list any Open Source project. It is true that freshmeat is a big supporter of Open Source, but there are a few problems that would result if we did not limit freshmeat to software for the Unix-like platforms.

Many people submit information to freshmeat regarding software that only runs on the Win32 platform. Such people sometimes become confused when we reject such submissions, since they are under the impression that freshmeat will list any Open Source project. It is true that freshmeat is a big supporter of Open Source, but there are a few problems that would result if we did not limit freshmeat to software for the Unix-like platforms.

Windows stuff is here. There's tons of it... far more than OSX stuff.

The Windows people are just, generally, more concerned with getting stuff done than whether or not they get their own cool unique hostname like whiney Mac people demand... :)

You mean like this?

I can only find one piece of software listed in the section - HTML Converter 2.0.

Here is a freshmeat link to a project that converts from PST files to traditional unix mbox files. It also has some support for converting into KMail files.
libPST

Linux's ideas about how interfaces work don't translate well in the game world.

Just so that some reader doesn't take this joke the wrong way, I should note that Quake III Arena works on Linux. It's possible to use SDL to configure the keyboard into a keydown/keyup mode to provide the input expected in an arcade style game.

Imagine typing 'strlft' to strafe left!

Actually, Quake 1 did have such commands; you used them with the bind command in the console or in the init file. For instance, it was common to add +mlook to Q1's init file to keep mlook turned on permanently without having to hold down a mouse button.

What was the first FPS game to have a command console? The popular Doom source ports have one now; if ROTT didn't have one, it probably will after a couple months when the ROTT source ports begin to flood into VA Software's web sites.

I just wanted to point people to
a project that tries to catch buffer
overflows under linux.

freshmeat entry
homepage

>My TV has a better picture.

Say what now?

>Season Passes.

If only it were Europe and we had standard DVB stuff, instead of the duopoly in non-standard Satellite TV we currently have. It would make viewing TV on your computer a pleasure, and you could buy any channel you want, not some moronic package that makes you buy a wildlife channel because you want TLC.

>Searching by category. Everyone so often, I like to go look at say, all the movies, coming up & Tivo the ones I've wanted to see.

Again, this is really more the result of the duopolistic control of satellite TV (soon to be monopolostic in America, unfortunately) rather than something that's actually impossible. You can also put some of the blame on Canada for our inane CRTC.

>The interface. Any way you cut it, Tivo did a great job here.

This is true. Although there are Tivo-alike projects out there (running on Linux!), however, the ones with Tivo-style features are for DVB. Some of them approach many Tivo features, I'm told.

Here's one of the projects. Here's some that'll work minus the DVB (I think).

If you want to go ahead and give DVB a try, there's some free programming on Telstar 5, but I doubt it'll be anything like what you get on DirecTV.

Hi, this article seems a bit 'stale' to me. It states that samba is at 2.2.4 at the time of writing and according to my latest Freshmeat notification:

This email is to inform you of release '2.2.7' of 'Samba' through freshmeat.net.

The changes in this release are as follows:
A security hole has been discovered in versions 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 of Samba that could potentially allow an attacker to gain root access on the target machine. The word "potentially" is used because there is no known exploit of this bug, and the Samba Team itself has not been able to craft one. In addition to addressing this security issue, this release also includes thirteen unrelated improvements.

The defendant did not write the program in questing, the state hasn't got the faintest idea how a computer works, and decss is not that (technically) exciting compared to libdvdread.

Have there been any legal issues with libdvdread?

wv (formerly known as MSWordView) is a library that understands the Microsoft Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats (".doc"), and is able to convert Word documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser. It also allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats (like RTF, PostScript, and PDF), and is currently being used by Abiword as its word importer.

There is a whole section on freshmeat.net devoted to Sound Synthesis. I've used Reason, and it's a nice package, but I guarantee you that it's more than you need (it's VERY resource intensive as well). It's like using Photoshop because you like to crop and resize images, when The GIMP works great for that purpose.

There is a whole section on freshmeat.net devoted to Sound Synthesis. I've used Reason, and it's a nice package, but I guarantee you that it's more than you need (it's VERY resource intensive as well). It's like using Photoshop because you like to crop and resize images, when The GIMP works great for that purpose.

Hmm how fast is the decompression? I wonder if its quick enough for movie decoding, a Movix cd with a 1.6GB DivX ;-)...that would make for some nice quality.

Sarcastic or not, here. Lets you create compressed filesystems (including CD-ROMs) that can only be read under Linux, particularly those live CDs that are stuffed beyond capacity.

I didn't see that the NTLM proxy problem was fixed on Bugzilla (23679), but I am sending this from Mozilla 1.2.1 and it is going through my company NTLM proxy! Before I had to run a python script that I found on Freshmeat (Python Script) in order to get it to go through. It now appears that Mozilla finally has it built in.

I will bite! W00h00!

Great discussion...maybe:
1. Nuclear Bomb HOWTO
2. Coca-Cola's recipe
3. Electronics manufacturers
4. I agree, everything *is* free

As if courtrooms were closed source...no, they're open, exception to the Federal Government (theives at large locking their own doors to hide their shameful actions).

As if food were closed source...no, we are given the basic ingredients list upon request: in paper or plastic bag, packaged to go. And McDonalds has proved they are not cooking their products in lard as of yesterday: gosh my mouth is sticky.

As if software were closed source...no, the machine code is there and nobody can pattent digital logic 1 and digital logic 0. But wait, here come the DMCA to prove that even you can be told what you can and can't do with the click of a mouse.

As if Electronics manufacturers don't release specifications and parts lists...no, you buy the end-product and you sacrificially break-open your documented(in progress) parts list.

Everything should be free...no, wait, someone dedicated themselves to the labor already; it's payed-for. In essence, it is free :p

How many people benefited from the construction of planet Earth? Is planet Earth open-source and does planet Earth have an Uber Entity? Is Planet Earth's Uber Entity enforcing patents? (Yes) Is planet Earth's Uber Entity named "GOD"? (No) So, what is preventing everything from being free (not as in beer)? Patents, and the entities that enforce them (DMCA), are what continually beat-down the freedom of living in a non-patented world.

Freshmeat? SoucreForge? or Google? Oh you have? Crap.

Get the release and report bugs if you can find !

OpenQVIS?

www.google.com/search?q=OpenQVIS returns 4 results, 5 if you allow omissions.

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=OpenQVIS&section=pr ojects returns No Matches.

What is it? Where can I find it?

Of course NeWS had interesting ideas (but wasn't opensource, so died).

The Berlin server could have been an interesting alternative. Unfortunately, it seems stalled, and the design around CORBA might be wrong. I definitely think that a GUI server should be protocol based (like PicoGUI and X11)!

An alternative could be to write a widget server running under X11. I actually did code (under GPL) such a stuff see Guis and Guis page for details and downloading. Please send me any feedbacks!

Guis's main ideas are: requests from client to GUIS are on a pipe, carrying Lua script for GTK2. replies from GUIS to client are either XML or Lispy syntax.

Xemacs might claim to be (also) a widget server.

Actually, I also think that the current widgets available in toolkits are unappropriate. I am missing a generic structured editor widget (able to edit generic syntax trees, perhaps with an XML representation).

First, define what you mean by "nicely". No one can help you unless you can explicitly enumerate your requirements. That said, look at Evolution?. It's similar to Outhouse Express. Tools exist to convert .PST files into standard mbox or mdir formats, so you can use any mail client you want.

Synchronization with my palm pilot

JPilot? Dunno, I have a Zaurus and use Qtopia Desktop, which works fine.

USENET. I started out reading usenet on trn, but I'm not sure I can move from Forte Agent & Xnews to TRN.

trn? Where have you been for the last 10 years? There are plenty of other Usenet clients for Unix-like systems available. Pan and Knode for the GUI, slrn and emacs for the console. Pan is similar to Agent.

IRC.

Never been too involved in IRC, so can't offer any suggestions.

Office apps.

OpenOffice has worked fine for me so far, but very little that I do requires "office" functionality. If I want to write text, I use a text editor.

"MultiMedia". From Winamp to Divx to every other codec under the sun used to encode avis, mpgs and the like. Much of that goes away when you abandon windows.

Really? mplayer has played every movie I've thrown at it, except for Sorenson V3-encoded stuff, and they've managed to get that working partially now. Also, a friend of mine gave me a movie that was encoded in something that the default version of 'Doze Media Player that came with Doze2K couldn't play, but mplayer figured it out immediately (and reported the encoding was MS DirectShow 2.0, of all things! Sigh.)

Yahoo/AIM/ICQ messengers & chat rooms

I hear good things about GAIM, but I don't care much for instant messaging. Chat rooms? Yuck.

Digital camera and CF reader

Difficult to answer without details. Most digital cameras with USB cables act like USB Mass Storage devices; you plug it in and do "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera" and that's it. CF readers are similar if they're USB, if they're PCMCIA, you replace /dev/sda1 with /dev/hde1. You want real advice, post the details to comp.os.linux.hardware.

I can deal with using pine for email, but how do I convert 60 megs of emails in OE into something usable in linux?

You don't have to deal with Pine if you prefer something else--I know it's hard for you to believe, but great advances have been made since 1995. Try LibPST to convert PST into mbox, then you can use any mail client that understands mbox (every sane mail client understands mbox.) HTH, use your Usenet-posting knowledge if you need help since Slashdot sucks as a tech-support forum.