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I just searched for 15 minutes on Google, and I would be extremely surprised if any project anywhere displayed TomeRaider files under Linux.

Perhaps you can get an EPOC emulator to run it under linux, or (doubt it exists for Linux; seen it on Windows) a PalmOS emulator. Then there's always WINE. Or, you could run the palm-OS emulator under WINE. Either way, frankly I don't understand why you'd want to run on Linux what is a fairly low-interest application. tomeraider + viewer returns 1,100+ hits, versus 25,000+ of gpl pdf viewer -- d'you know, PDF is an open format now. View a linux browser e.g. here, which is GPL'd, but of course the most robust and mature free-to-use Linux solution is Adobe's. See first two entries here, to create and view PDF files respectively. (Free to use.)

As the bylines say, Tomeraider's just a "freeware application for the TomeRaider format available for PalmOS, EPOC [a PalmOS competitor -3-state], PocketPC and Windows platforms."
And that's it.
Why you would want to run under linux what seems mostly to be a format supported under handhelds is beyond me....

It doesn't seem serious to me. Forget about it.

Besides, learn PDF-making software and I'll be happy to receive your documents exactly as you intended them to look without your having to do anything outside of instant, no-tweaking WYSIWYG, and without a proprietary format.

Wanna' know why MS word is so popular in the office?
Cuz' the document you get looks like the document I sent, and you can edit it as such, and return it, and the document I get returned looks just like it did when you finished working on it.

Can't say that of many widely used document formats...

Therefore, let's all adopt PDF.

It's democratic. It's Free. It's..... OPEN SOURCE!

I just searched for 15 minutes on Google, and I would be extremely surprised if any project anywhere displayed TomeRaider files under Linux.

Perhaps you can get an EPOC emulator to run it under linux, or (doubt it exists for Linux; seen it on Windows) a PalmOS emulator. Then there's always WINE. Or, you could run the palm-OS emulator under WINE. Either way, frankly I don't understand why you'd want to run on Linux what is a fairly low-interest application. tomeraider + viewer returns 1,100+ hits, versus 25,000+ of gpl pdf viewer -- d'you know, PDF is an open format now. View a linux browser e.g. here, which is GPL'd, but of course the most robust and mature free-to-use Linux solution is Adobe's. See first two entries here, to create and view PDF files respectively. (Free to use.)

As the bylines say, Tomeraider's just a "freeware application for the TomeRaider format available for PalmOS, EPOC [a PalmOS competitor -3-state], PocketPC and Windows platforms."
And that's it.
Why you would want to run under linux what seems mostly to be a format supported under handhelds is beyond me....

It doesn't seem serious to me. Forget about it.

Besides, learn PDF-making software and I'll be happy to receive your documents exactly as you intended them to look without your having to do anything outside of instant, no-tweaking WYSIWYG, and without a proprietary format.

Wanna' know why MS word is so popular in the office?
Cuz' the document you get looks like the document I sent, and you can edit it as such, and return it, and the document I get returned looks just like it did when you finished working on it.

Can't say that of many widely used document formats...

Therefore, let's all adopt PDF.

It's democratic. It's Free. It's..... OPEN SOURCE!

Check out Bessie the Annhilator. It does a great job at grading even if it doesn't do the rest of what you asked. It's written in php and is very extensible.

djbdns is a great codebase, but it's starting to suffer from a few issues. Find a vulnerability and you're not even allowed to release a fixed version! The license is in some ways _more restrictive_ than (dare I say it) Microsoft's Shared Source.

There hasn't been a djbdns release since 12-Feb-2001 and the project is bound to go stale sooner or later if djb does not renew his interest. How many companies or networking professionals out there are going to use DNS software which has a single human point of failure? I won't even go into the "hit by a bus" argument.

Granted, djbdns comes with some cute gimmicks like the "security guarantee". But for all of BIND's problems, the fact that it's open source makes it the better option in this case. Better the devil you know..

[] Most smaller networks don't need a large (and dare I say buggy) installation of BIND.
[] May I suggest djbdns rather than BIND? Its creator says "every step of the design and implementation has been carefully evaluated from a security perspective. The djbdns package has been structured to minimize the complexity of security-critical code. dnscache is immune to cache poisoning. It is advisable to use the package as a secure alternative to BIND."
[] May I suggest Dnsmasq , which is described by its creators as a "lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill".

[] Most smaller networks don't need a large (and dare I say buggy) installation of BIND.
[] May I suggest djbdns rather than BIND? Its creator says "every step of the design and implementation has been carefully evaluated from a security perspective. The djbdns package has been structured to minimize the complexity of security-critical code. dnscache is immune to cache poisoning. It is advisable to use the package as a secure alternative to BIND."
[] May I suggest Dnsmasq , which is described by its creators as a "lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill".

What I was looking for was a site that had mp3's, or preferably ogg's for use in demos of the lives project

Strangely enough, I couldn't find such a site anywhere, although there seemed to be plenty of sheet music and midi files. Does anybody know of such a site, or is it simply the case that there is no public domain music any longer ?

Alternatively, if you are a musician, and would like to donate some music to the project, please contact the author at the email address on the project page.

"I refuse to bow to the conspiracy. When I came across a mint condition IBM ThinkPad 755C in a local garage sale, I realized that I had an opportunity to make a point. Hardware is only as old as the software that it runs."
What a coincidence, I just bought a 755CD from a garage sale for $20! I put Debian on it, and I generally use ratpoision and screen (as referenced by this article at freshmeat) for my "desktop"...

The documentation is written under the false assumption that mod_perl as a DSO is unstable. I have been using mod_perl as a DSO for some time now and it works fine for me. I've herd of issues with it one Solaris/x86 but thats about it. IMHO all 3rd party modules should be compiled as DSOs.

Also the article fails to mention the advantages of running a local proxy with the mod_proxy_add_forward module.

Having Biometrics is neat-o but I need tools that work with what I have already have in place. I need to generate my S/KEY on my laptop when/if my Visor dies (can we say PalmOS Emulator). No what happens in you Biometric PDA dies, hope they will provide software and readers I can uses on my laptop or workstation for those days that PDA just doesn't want to work.

I've found that when I forget to take breaks from the coding, I'm a lot worse off in general: eye strain, neck stiffness, back discomfort, arthritic wrists, etc. The best tool I've found so far is quite simple but very effective: xwrits. It's been mentioned here on slashdot several times before, but I think it's worth repeating for those who haven't seen it before.

xwrits allows you to specify the interval between breaks, duration of breaks, and many other useful things like whether you should get the finger when you ignore the warning. :-) (BTW, has anyone tested it on OSX?)

Many of us are "example learners" as opposed to "book learners".

Considering the number of tetris clones I can find at Freshmeat I'd have to agree with you.

Uh. Or you could just ssh to a trusted server and run TAC on the command line. Anyway, one ssh session is less distracting and easier to minimize than all those AIM windows.

It was odd.. the last place i worked at, the ONLY port they blocked was ssh. They didn't monitor that i was aware of, but i suppose that in the case they did decide to monitor someone they just really, really didn't want them to evade that monitoring..

I don't see what the big deal about this is, it's not like you couldn't find this stuff out in the past without this.... and for free no less.

I work at a college, and the network admin here wanted to try out this mini-distro called PLAC for Portable Linux Auditing CD. Basically it's supposed to be small enough to be burned onto one of those business card sized CD's, and they're bootable. So basically you can pop it into a CD drive and boot a machine to this auditing software. Well, since he wanted to try it out, we setup a small box just inside the firewall here to see what it could find. Well... to be honest, it found a lot. It could grab URL's that people were looking at, emails that they were sending out, and yes, even AIM messages.

The amazing thing is that it would sniff the network packets, but yet report everything in a simple, easily-readable format. It's amazing how much private stuff on the internet isn't private.

This makes me appreciate licq with an SSL connection even more.

corkscrew allready provides a tunnel over port 80, all you need to do is configure gnomeeting to use port 80, then you have secure VOIP over the mostly web port.

The only way for them to stop VOIP, is to shut down EVERY PORT!

--Benjamin McFree is one cool dude

Another auto-configuring live CD is Cool Linux CD. It's based on Red Hat 7.3 with XFS support, uses IceWM, and contains OpenOffice, Mozilla, Opera, Sylpheed, Pan, Xchat, Licq, mplayer, xmms, and VMWare.

I wouldn't just hand it to a Windows user and say "try this". The hardware auto-detection works well enough, but you still have to login and start X manually. Since it uses RH's configurator, it will initially display the standard RH desktop while setting up then it restarts into IceWM. But once you've got it running and explain that there is no "Explorer" or "Start" button, it's dead simple.

Those unused sectors will most probably be full of binary zeroes, which compress to almost nothing.

And if not, just run over it with SecureDelete's wipe-the-empty-space utility. If you don't have that to hand, this command will do near enough:

dd if=/dev/zero of=zeroes; rm -f zeroes

You'll need to run those once on every real partition.

Distributions do a great job redistributing stuff, but don't do a great job working with the package authors themselves. The net-snmp package is an extremely hard one to maintain, for we support a really large number of operating systems for code which is very operating system sensitive (the architecture ifdefs in some portions of the code will drive you mad. Trust me.) net-snmp is redistrubuted through a number of distributions, and let me tell you that almost no bug reports get to us that are entered into distribution bug tracking databases. It's a nightmare, and because we can't continously search other bug databases for problems, we frequently are left out.

To make matters worse, the distributions often fix things. RedHat and other RPM packages simply roll their own patches into their redistribution and don't send it to us. FreeBSD has a ports tree that contains patches for projects that the projects themselves may have never seen.

I'll never forget the first time I opend the source rpm of the net-snmp package from redhat. There were 3 patches in it that I had never seen for bugs I didn't even know about. Why hadn't I heard of them? because the RedHat package maintainers didn't notify us that they had fixed something.

Finally, what's even worse is that all of the RedHat source RPMs are GPLed. Our package uses a BSD license and thus we can't pull the patches out of the RPMs and apply them to our source without getting explicit permission to re-license it.

The proper thing to do would be to probably search freshmeat for the project page and look at the documentation. Maybe submit it to both the package maintainer and to distribution maintainer if you really have the time (ha!).

My personal plea to the distribution maintainers: help the package authors out! Please!

Maybe I just haven't bothered to look hard enough,

Like maybe an actual search?

but I didn't know there were any other Open Source name servers out there.

You mean, like these?

• CustomDNS
• DENTS
• djbdns
• dnsmasq
• DNSJava
• dProxy
• MaraDNS
• MyDNS
• pDNSd
• Posadis

djbdns doesn't count and we both already know that

Ah, I see. It's not "Open Source" software because it isn't published under an "Open Source" license, right? (sigh) Dan Bernstein is a total security freak. He doesn't trust ANYBODY. He especially doesn't trust anybody to distribute modified, binary versions of his software, ruining his reputation when one of their "enhancements" results in a security hole. This already happened once when a Qmail add-on was discovered to have a security problem, and thereby tarnished Qmail's otherwise perfect security record.

So he ONLY authorizies distribution of his ORIGINAL source code. No modifications allowed, except as diffs to the originals. And if you apply those diffs and something breaks, don't blame him; blame the author of the diff.

You might disagree with Dan; he's a hard-nosed, inflexible so-and-so. But he's got style, and his programs are a beautiful model of efficiency.

The Open Source community could use a few more people like Dan.

and we both already know that so don't bother with beating that dead horse.

Such Style! Such Wit! Such Argument! Such Rhetoric! Such Unquestionable Authority!

Such a sterling example of my sigfile:

I wrote a Slash clone that doesn't require a dedicated server or root access. You can find it on freshmeat, project name is YAWNS.

It doesn't do everything Slash does, but it covers the main stuff - articles, comments and weblogs. Polls are in development Right Now so will be in the next posted version, a few weeks at a guess. The biggest missing feature would be moderation I guess...

There are a few other Slash clones out there too - several in PHP, and one or two in other languages. YAWNS is written in Perl, and has the singular distinction of actually producing standards compliant XHTML as output, something that Slash falls short on as do (as far as I'm aware) all the other clones.

Regards,
Denny

In no particular order:
* Forget tcsh and get bash, copy it to /bin, add it to /etc/shells, and change root's shell and your shell.
* Go to The Fink Package Database and snag a ton of cool Open Source apps.
* Mount /home from somewhere.
* Usually stay away from /etc 'cause most of that stuff is ignored.
* Forget sudo and enable root access (I forget how, I don't have an OS X box in front of me), then use su.
* Don't delete ~/Library, that's where all your preferences are saved.
* Load XDarwin in rootless mode and run x2x way cool.
* Get the absolute latest autoconf, automake, etc that recognize Darwin.
* Don't forget to click "Require Password" in your screen saver.
* Put your own pictures in, er, somewhere in your home directory (don't remember where) so the screen saver can display them in its slide show.

Now if only the WM had "focus follows mouse" and iTunes played Ogg Vorbis.

Space.app, which is free as in beer, in one such solution that provides multiple virtual desktops on Mac OS X. VersionTracker is to Mac OS X what Freshmeat is to Linux.

If you just want multiple terminals, maybe mouse, but no X overhead, try Twin. I use it and it really works great.

A quick search on freshmeat churned out butterx

I'm with the other poster (and more picky); I want a de-centralized client that can read from multiple servers.

A PHP / CGI / Java client that is WAP-accessible would be nice. I've seen a good PHP-based (including WAP) webmail interface with calendaring support, but it didn't have any support for groupmail / calendar features outside its own database.

phpprojekt is the one I was looking at, I think.

The good human can recognize when the algorithm should be tweaked. For example, gzip_x86 decompresses 5% to 45% faster than gzip by focusing on the negative number of bits remaining, and allocating the registers accordingly. A person can ask enough questions to determine that incrementing both sides of a less than preserves the relationship (and then apply transitivity), while the careful compiler is stuck with the possibility of overflow.

Humans also can have a wider range of adaptation to external constraints, for example small space limits on boot loaders. And no compiler known to me has ever on its own initiative recognized and used dynamic code (runtime code generation) where appropriate.

It's kind of a shotgun effect. Sourceforge and freshmeat are perfect examples. At freshmeat you just need to filter on popularity to see what I mean. The well run projects that are tools community finds useful and stable will tend to be at the top. But you will typically have a choice among several project. You don't have to take the top one.

Microsoft can't do that in public. We've seen proof of that time and again. Their closed source model has gotten them in trouble time and again.

Ye Gods, Man! Have you gone insane?!

I eagerly await the day when X is replaced by a much better structure, but why on earth would I want to replace *everything* -- from simple ASCII text on up -- with someone else's dipshit idea of "the Next Great Thing"? PDF? I say "buy a clue!"

Wanna talk bloat? Have you bothered to check what your memory usage is lately?

Quartz? Sure, very sweet, and I'm even hoping that some of that snazzy tech leaks back and influences whatever replaces X. However, I would hope that the Free/Open version DOES NOT take a page from Apple's new playbook and screw people out of one of the best parts: skins, themes, and the ability to tweak to your heart's content.

And finally...gee, how to put this nicely?...Ummm, OS X IS NOT UNIX! [look at the definition of "netinfo"] I've been hearing all this harping about how it is a "revelation" and "UNIX GUI done right", etc. ad naseum. Sadly OS X has more in common with Windows than it does UNIX. It lends itself to some of RedHat's goofiness and I gave up on them a loooooooong time ago.

Now before the whining sets in "it's all supposed to be so easy" and "real people shouldn't have to edit text files to use UNIX", I say "bullshit!" I have yet to meet the person who was born knowing Windows, let alone computers; so why is it that the world suddenly has some great fear of LEARNING? Read a man page, get a clue, hack around, and have some fun for BOB's sake! Think of a GUI as the hard candy shell around the nut of your system: Fancy, nice to look at, but not really the point. Personally, I prefer a customized FVWM2 with all the bells and whistles I want. Not Apple, not RedHat, not some other knob with grandiose ideas of providing me a "pleasent user experience".

Lines is the perfect theme for me. I run Gnome/Sawfish with nothing but a single edge panel set to "tiny" for launching apps and keeping track of my desktops. Throw this in with Xinerama and I'm only wasting 24x1200 pixels out of 3200x1200. Key shortcuts are your friend.

F.O. Dobbs

Find the GNU page here. It's the VT100 equivalent of the "Antidesktop" -- check it out.

Why use this DVORAK ? Maybe use ABCDEFG ?

WindowsNT uses the microkernel design

Er, no. It started off as microkernel, but things keep getting but into kernel space for performance reasons: thusly.

If history had changed and Minix took off instead of Linux, would we be better off today with the superiority of a microkernel design?

Hehe.

In conclusion: microkernels may or may not be theoretically `better', may or may not perform better, but they are fuckloads more work to do right.

I'll second this. Specifically, what I'm looking for is a KDE theme that matches this GTK theme and this XMMS skin. KDE Look, this site where most people tell me to go, didn't really have anything appropriate. Just a lot of Aqua clones.

If you want a fast window manager combo, how about ratpoison+screen?

Quit bitching. No I haven't played it, but I imagine it'll play like any other Acclaim BMX game. I'm not judging the game, nor am I saying I don't care about the situation. I'm not complaining that they won't sell it, I'm saying their attitude is childish.

I know plenty about the situation. Wal-Mart are being a bunch of babies. It's just a game.

Oh, and XXXL shirts are porn shirts. Or so I hear. I also hear that XXX chilli sauce is hugely popular in the porn industry. XXXX is an Australian beer, obviously because XXX isn't enough to portray the vast amount of nudity involved in the brewing process.

Finally, 24cxxx is an opensource project for programming EPROMs (obviously with library support for pumping out porn).

Grow up.

I tried to setup mod_throttle for a site where the requirement was 'No more than 1gig per hour'.

I actually found this incredibly hard to do, it's fine for slowing down the incoming requests when lots of them start coming in, but hard to make it keep track of total traffic served.

I think it should be fairly straightforward using the 'volume' directive, but I could never quite get it to work out properly.

My solution was mod_curb which is dedicated to just doing that. (It doesnt handle virtualhosts yet, but it will do by next weekend.

Is this better than say, Group Compiler?

Software like this may help combat this in the future. Imagine your own computerized voice mail system... give you friends an access code (31337? *laugh*) and all other calls get diverted to a "Remove me from you list" type message.

Anyway rh 8 sucked for web development and I had to downgrade back to w2k to run perl, mysql and apache. (rh 8 used perl 5.8, apache 2, a crippled mysql, and no cgi support for perl!).

Of course my definition of "problem" may be different from yours. If ./configure says clearly that I need a library and I can go to freshmeat or the application's website and download and install that library, I don't consider that to be a "problem".

Much better would be to pass out free cd's that let people turn their computers into region-free DVD players without installing anything. Linux bootable discs that only play movies are great things. This lil project seems to be pretty good as a start: MoviX.

Heh, you must mean linux users. Remember, Mac users aren't allowed to tweak their UIs anymore.

Hi,

Did you miss the one application does one thing well paradigm?

>Pine can't hold my calendar and sync with my palm, and itegrate all that with my e-mail.

That's because Pine is an email program. It isn't a virtual operating system like Emacs, nor is it sucking at the teat of an operating system like Outlook.

If I want to backup my palm (which I just got for $39 CDN -- WOW), I'll soon be using coldsync because programs that do just one thing well make sense to me.

And, when I want to use a calendar, I'm certainly not going to use an email client. That'd be like going around the world by making bridges across the continents. I'll be using something like this.

When I need to syncronize my mail, I'll use this.

If I really want everyone scrunched into one application, I'll use this.

I haven't even scratched the surface of available applications yet...

You windows people amuse me.

In the future, you might want to search freshmeat before you assume windows does it best.

Hi,

Did you miss the one application does one thing well paradigm?

>Pine can't hold my calendar and sync with my palm, and itegrate all that with my e-mail.

That's because Pine is an email program. It isn't a virtual operating system like Emacs, nor is it sucking at the teat of an operating system like Outlook.

If I want to backup my palm (which I just got for $39 CDN -- WOW), I'll soon be using coldsync because programs that do just one thing well make sense to me.

And, when I want to use a calendar, I'm certainly not going to use an email client. That'd be like going around the world by making bridges across the continents. I'll be using something like this.

When I need to syncronize my mail, I'll use this.

If I really want everyone scrunched into one application, I'll use this.

I haven't even scratched the surface of available applications yet...

You windows people amuse me.

In the future, you might want to search freshmeat before you assume windows does it best.

I know i saw a library a while ago on freshmeat that supplies a new unlink() function. This version will move the file into a trashcan area rather than just delete it. it could be worth investigating. after a quick search, it's apparently called libtrash.

I don't really know the software, so i can't vouch for it, but it seems to be taking a sensible approach. of course, the whole idea breaks if you use the kernel nfsd, so be careful with that.

We're actually working on something like this already. We'll see if we can't integrate this into the dashpc project. We're working with the guys at freediag and hopefully they'll be able to help us integrate the ODBII codes into the dashpc codebase.

We'll probably end up recording all the codes into a public mysql db that can be queried or integrated into the core code.

This would allow the UI to display the EXACT problem ("Your 3rd spark plug from the left is firing oddly - please check") instead of just "check engine". Very good news indeed.