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What's the point of using an F-35 to pick off infantry troups one by one?

Well! Maybe this will answer that question!

Linux has no useful apps or games

Are you kidding me? Linux has lots of games. For instance, Linux has XBill (shoot the evil computer crackers), Tux Racer (snowboarding), Tetanus On Drugs (a tetris clone with a twist, literally), all of the GNOME Games and KDE Games, and several id Software games. For more, go to SourceForge Gaming Foundry or Freshmeat's games section, both brought to you by OSDN Keiretsu.

And through emulation and virtualization, you can run even more games. Most of the 2D games run on WINE. Older PC games should run on DOSEMU, plex86, or Bochs with FreeDOS installed. If you have an NES cart reader (hard to find), Linux has every NES game ever produced, through FCE Ultra. If you have a GBA cart reader (easy to find in online stores; look for the Visoly Flash Advance Linker), Linux has every GBA game ever produced, through VisualBoyAdvance.

On the hardware side, Linux supports game port joypads, USB joypads, and even game console joypads connected through a parallel port adapter.

because it was written by a bunch of stupid communists.

One of the most popular video games in the world, Tetris, was written by citizens of a Communist country as well.

...being able to move the mouse pointer between computers (assuming these are separate computers, not just multiple monitors); I assume this indicates some sort of network-transpart clipboard (and that the user is signed onto both computers). cool, that.

You can already do this in X (and have been able to do it since 1996) using X2X, see the Freshmeat page for details, basically it means that the keyboard and mouse on one machine can be used to control a bunch of others (just so long as you can see the screens). No big deal...

Kinda like x2x, except that it will be years before you can do X11 network tricks on Windows.

The Linux UPnP Internet Gateway Device Project

Freshmeat lists the Win32 projects by popularity and by rating. You can probably find more download sites that let you filter by license.

Freshmeat lists the Win32 projects by popularity and by rating. You can probably find more download sites that let you filter by license.

Here is RedHat's take on this issue, which makes a lot of sense to me. If you're interested in trying an alternative to Gnome or KDE, check out WindowMaker, it's fast, stable, simple and has some nice themes.

Of course, there's the problem of different users on a machine. Is it possible to run a proxy that only a single user has access to?

Bookmarks could easily be managed through a small web app. There's a few things like this, check freshmeat.

it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative

Not really... If you look at some other opensource software like.. oh I dunno.. dopewars, I'm sure that the majority of most IBM execs wouldn't support that either. The point is, just because someone is an OSS proponent, doesn't mean that they have to like all open source programs.

You can use excellent xsmbrowser. Also XFCE has samba browsing application - looks very good.

> You seem to expect O'Reilly to act as a shill for open source.

Knowing that he helped validate the term by organising the Freeware Summit Conference, I do not see why would he be excused of supporting it.

By the way, I am not speaking about open source, but free software. By this I imply that all software should be free as in freedom, not beer.

> Why does O'Reilly's position as a book publisher mandate that he is not allowed an opinion?

He is entitled to an opinion, sure enough. But he has an obligation to give well-reasoned criticism a place. Anyone has, but publishers specially, because they control the mass media. And his choice of email messages he quoted seems to imply that all is well with Mac OS X, but the free software community disagrees, and he ignores it. Picturing himself as an open source advocate, and open source as another name for free software -- which it is not -- he should give the real free software community a say.

> if you'd read the piece, you'd see that it contains criticism of Apple as well as praise.

Which criticism, that is too expensive or incompatible with new gadgetry? This are not the real points, but that it is proprietary. I could have missed such a criticism, because the whole piece is so self-congratulatory I nearly dozed before finishing.

I know. I think he must literally be a retard if he can't setup his mail server to deny files with virus attachments. I assume Slashdot is running their own mailserver, so install noattach, a milter for sendmail, and set it to deny any mail that has an attachment that ends in any of the extensions listed here. I mean, do you really need to get .exes and .pifs mailed to you? If you run your own mail server and are still getting virus attachments, the fault is your own. I never touched sendmail before in my life, and I had sendmail+noattach running in a day, plus spam blockage courtesy of spamhaus.org.

If anybody is interested, I've developed WormScan last year, which is a Java-based program (GPL) which can analyze your Apache log files for pretty much anything you want (just plug in your regular expressions). It detects Nimda and CR1+2 out of the box. It's easy to add your own entries to scan for.

According to my logs (please be gentle), I've been hit 650 times yesterday.

Shameless plug, yes. But it does the job and the users of WormScan seem to be pretty happy with it, judging from the emails I've gotten so far.

Tim manages at the same time to only reproduce emails that do not go for the jugular against his Apple eulogy, and to ignore the strikingly good contestation published at freshmeat.

It is like his other blunders, creating proprietary documentation for free software and starting the whole open source useful innocents propaganda that confused so much the free software message: he puts his foot in his mouth, and then ignores criticism, or put only rehashing of old arguments as a counterpoint, perhaps hoping critics will go away...

It is all right for the likes of you and me to ignore some criticism, but for him, a publisher to do that so openly and so often, and having the advantage of being, well, a publisher... he should know, and behave, better.

I know this is a bit off topic, but for the folks who are interested in trying another live linux cd, I suggest taking a look at knoppix.

It's a really neat distribution, something you could give to your friend if he's interested in what linux is all about.

ps) If you have trouble downloading iso from their mirrors, I have a small mirror here

To me, the most critical thing in the Linux market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the Linux market?

Almost a year ago, Alan Cox and myself, expecting the linux market to expand, hired Marcelo Tosatti to maintain Linux 2.4. The the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of our lives documenting, improving and adding features to Linux. Now we have reiserfs, ext3, a robust VM, UML, and the 2.5 development tree. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000,000.

The feedback we have gotten from the thousands of people who say they are using Linux has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought Linux (less than 10% of all computer owners have bought Linux), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on GNU/Linux worth less than $2 an hour.

Why is this? As the majority of users must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?

Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at Berkeley for some problem you may have had. Berkeley doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the CD's and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 10-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in Linux software. We have written 3 stable kernels, and are writing Linux-2.5, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to Linux users. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.

What about the guys who re-sell Linux, such as linuxmall.com, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give
Linux users a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.

I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at:

3940 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the Linux market with good software.

Linus Torvalds
Transmeta Corporation

http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-orbit/?topic_id= 51

PHP-ORBit is a PHP4 module which can be used to easily access services that communicate via CORBA. This is achieved by wrapping the lightweight CORBA ORB "ORBit" used in GNOME.

Isn't Google just great?

This claims to be able to scan for open proxies on ports 80, 8080, 1080, or 3128. Never used it so I don't know how good it is. I saw it on Freshmeat and thought I'd pass it along.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/icradius/?topic_id=4 3
It's cross platform (I've run it on both Solaris and Linux). It's really fast too.

Umm... have you read the comments about OSDN turning off banner adds, there's very little thanks to be had, the first posts neer the bottom of the page make for the best read.

An easier way to configure printers, complete M$ Office interoperability

You mean aside from CUPS and Crossover Office?

CUPS has a number of front-ends to it that are *very* easy to use, and provides an easy, GUI-oriented way to deal with printers - as its freshmeat writeup says, "it has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users."

Crossover Office isn't Free (and I don't run it for precisely that reason), but if the only thing tieing you or your company to Windows is the need for complete Office support, it's the most promising option out there. General word processing is better served by AbiWord, in my opinion, but this is not a sticking point of any note anymore.

I like the transparent panel quite a lot, but my god, GTK makes everything else look like shit.

... think that this was so wrong of Apple. Looking at the screen shot of xtunes on their own webpage, the similarities are very striking, including the top bar (which copies nearly identically the top bar of iTunes... compare xtunes screenshot to iTunes screenshot).

Apple did a nice thing by warning them first, instead of just taking out a full subpeona and outright attacking them. Maybe they could have done the really nice thing and not have lawyers do the contacting... but with lawyers, it's hard to ignore them and you know that they're most probably really from Apple, not some weirdo trying to scare you. That said, the similarities between the two are very striking, almost an pure copy outside some icon changes.

Hopefully the sumi people can just let this pass and make some good changes to their interface. I must say, as an iTunes user, that there are bits of the interface which I wouldn't mind to see improved, including adding some additional buttons which I used quite frequently on my old MP3 player, Macast.

-Jellisky

For users of GNU/Linux who would like to peep on others on your tcp/ip network: Driftnet

I wont tell you about the pics of a Ballroom-Gown-Wearing-Cross-Dresser who appeared on my GNU/Linux box here in my cube about 15seconds after firing Driftnet up.. scary...

Been doing universal remote control on my Linux box for well over a year now. I use the IRman for input, LIRC + some translator code/macros on the Linux box and the RedRat2 for output. It means I can use any remote as my "one" remote. I use the X10 for both input and output, remotely turning on/off the mp3 player in the office from the living room...

I use the RedRat2 + some code on my linux box to control my PVR's. Which means I can pull up a TV window and setup recordings using mouse and keyboard! Pretty close to what you want. See

Xr3 - A/V Control Package for Linux

Also checkout XMLtv for pulling down TV guide data into local XML files and converting them to html pages.

XMLtv

• The BSD-style program run by /sbin/init
• The Plan 9 shell

Couldn't you have been just a little more creative in coming up with a name? Geez. Now we get:

---So how do i do this Red Carpet update thing again?
---rc channels to list the available channels.
[pause]
---It says channels: No such file or directory
---Huh? That's weird...

This project uses Linux 2.4.x to develop a free stand-alone VMS environment. I am hopeful to see this project succeed. I think they're also in need of developers.

If you're interested:

FreeVMS Project Homepage

freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeVMS

The FreeVMS Archive: By Date

If you are into rolling your own, then take a look at the Look at mod_auth_mysql Apache module. It's basically .htaccess file kind of access control except the user info is in a MySQL DB. So you can do updates/inerts/whatever on the database via your perl and get close to what you need as far as access control without having to write files in the docroot.

You might not be able to make it fine-grained enough, but if you have a thing where each user (for instance) gets their own directory or something then it might work pretty well for you.

And if you are not into rolling your own anymore, check out Moveable Type.

-B

Oggasm
mp32ogg
Mp3 to Vorbis

Oggasm
mp32ogg
Mp3 to Vorbis

Oggasm
mp32ogg
Mp3 to Vorbis

But of course there's a converter. Here's one right over at Freshmeat called mp32ogg. Seems to work fairly well, too, but since mp3 is lossy, and ogg is lossy, you might lose a little quality. I never noticed anything, though.

Lots o' stuff here.

http://twiki.org/

A few other Wiki solutions

The good news is Jaguar include already an Openldap server

(just take a look at /etc/openldap in a terminal)

But you'll need a schema that work with Entourage or other address book.

And you'll have to start properly the slapd deamon (not easy, the standard config of apple for openldap seem to be really buggy)

But if somebody successfully succed I have a schema and a small php program to manage a shared address book on top of ldap.

I've been doing this for several months now, it does work, but it takes some doing...

Start off with the streaming URL that your radio station offers... You'll want to open this in wget, and download the data inside. You'll have a 2nd stream inside this file, and some other info as well... The stream is what we're most concerned with... Download that stream with ASFRecorder. Link here. This will take up some disk space so don't leave it going when you're not listening (I usually let it write for 8 to 9 hours a day, and it fills up 100 megs or so, which I delete at the end of the day). Now, you can use the AVI plugin for XMMS to play this file on your computer. Link here.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to e-mail me at phaseburn at phaseburn.net and I'll try to help ya out...

Best reguards

I've been doing this for several months now, it does work, but it takes some doing...

Start off with the streaming URL that your radio station offers... You'll want to open this in wget, and download the data inside. You'll have a 2nd stream inside this file, and some other info as well... The stream is what we're most concerned with... Download that stream with ASFRecorder. Link here. This will take up some disk space so don't leave it going when you're not listening (I usually let it write for 8 to 9 hours a day, and it fills up 100 megs or so, which I delete at the end of the day). Now, you can use the AVI plugin for XMMS to play this file on your computer. Link here.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to e-mail me at phaseburn at phaseburn.net and I'll try to help ya out...

Best reguards

I've used all the pgp wrappers for Pine and I personally have found the best one is PinePG. It's minimalistic, when you send it gives you the option to sign or sign+encrypt and it securely caches the passphrase. It auto unencrypts and verifys the messages.

Combining Quintuple Agent, a password-memory program that also interfaces with gpg, and PgpEnvelope, a very nice text-menu-driven pine-compatible gpg / pgp interface will get you the same thing.

Combining Quintuple Agent, a password-memory program that also interfaces with gpg, and PgpEnvelope, a very nice text-menu-driven pine-compatible gpg / pgp interface will get you the same thing.

Yes, these methods can all be easily circumvented to somebody that really wants to get in.

1. Enable WEP...and enjoy the 20% bandwidth loss. Airsnort.

2. Change the default SSID. SSIDs are not needed to zero down on the AP. Triangulation and GPS are effective enough.

3. Disable "broadcast SSID". The beacon frames can easily be captured otherwise. Attack by enabling your cards monitor mode (not to be confused with promiscious mode which only captures packets on the current network), sniffing all air traffic.

4. Change the default password of your access point. However, I'd like to point out even changing ones password can be insecure. My access point, and I'm sure others as well, send the admin password in a urlencoded form, unencrypted, in plaintext for anyone with a monitor-mode NIC to sniff.

5. Control access via MAC addresses. Spoofing as trivial as ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01; ifconfig eth0 up. On OpenBSD use sea.c. Use arping to sniff MACs.

6. Disable DHCP in your wireless router. Static IP addressing, subnet range determined from arping. Private addressing:

• 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
• 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
• 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

7. Change your IP subnet. See above.

8. Move your access point away from windows. No match for high-gain antennae.

Hope this helps an aspiring black hat! Remember, no network is completely secure. WaReZ anyone?

Yes, these methods can all be easily circumvented to somebody that really wants to get in.

1. Enable WEP...and enjoy the 20% bandwidth loss. Airsnort.

2. Change the default SSID. SSIDs are not needed to zero down on the AP. Triangulation and GPS are effective enough.

3. Disable "broadcast SSID". The beacon frames can easily be captured otherwise. Attack by enabling your cards monitor mode (not to be confused with promiscious mode which only captures packets on the current network), sniffing all air traffic.

4. Change the default password of your access point. However, I'd like to point out even changing ones password can be insecure. My access point, and I'm sure others as well, send the admin password in a urlencoded form, unencrypted, in plaintext for anyone with a monitor-mode NIC to sniff.

5. Control access via MAC addresses. Spoofing as trivial as ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01; ifconfig eth0 up. On OpenBSD use sea.c. Use arping to sniff MACs.

6. Disable DHCP in your wireless router. Static IP addressing, subnet range determined from arping. Private addressing:

• 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
• 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
• 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

7. Change your IP subnet. See above.

8. Move your access point away from windows. No match for high-gain antennae.

Hope this helps an aspiring black hat! Remember, no network is completely secure. WaReZ anyone?

I have had good luck with the neat little program called siege. It can stress a single URL, multiple URLs, follow links from a root URL (simulating an actual user), and have many multiple concurrent connections active. At the end, Siege can tell you all about the server performance, latency, etc.

I really like one of the other poster's idea about having a load tester read actual log files from Apache, then simulate real user activity. The only problem I can see with this method, is if you changed the layout of your site, all the program would get is a bunch of 404s. However, if one were so motivated, one could hack up such a thing relatively easy, I think. analog can parse Apache/httpd log files, could'nt be all that hard. Siege works well for me, though, so I'll stick with it.

Well, any spam fighting must start with spam recognition, which has to involve some filtering. So this probabilistic technique is as good as any other for yet another approach to single out spam messages.

Now when you are 100% sure that something you've received is spam, it's time to complain to the sender's providers to have his account closed ASAP (and the upstream providers, and spamcop etc.)

The best approach is hand-written complaints. Being lazy, I use SpamBouncer to do the job for me (and I have actually received a couple of manual followups to these autocomplaints leading to reported spammers' account closures).

1. add AutoDia/Dia2Code/Dia2SQL/DiaCanvas etc, daVinci Presenter (nonfree), JGraphPad, ObjectArtist, ...
2. Add JProjectTimer, Ma href="http://www.logilab.org/pygantt/">PyGANTT, jgantt/DayOrganiser, Narval::ProjMan, QtGantt, ...
3. Add KOffice, SIAG Office, gobeProductive (nonfree today, being groomed for GPLing as you read this, ...
4. One thing missing so far is a PDF editor; there is no problem with tools for making, viewing and converting PDFs.
5. Can't go past PuTTY for making Windows useful! (-: Try also WinSCP, and there are many GUI ssh managers available for Linux.
6. Mozilla's great. There are also `lite' versions (SkipStone, Galeon etc) and alternatives like Konqueror.
7. What can I say?
8. That's as bad as using an autodialler (the best way of forgetting numbers that I know of): what do you do when Password Safe or the system it runs on gronks and you need one of the passwords in it to restore a backup of it? Nevertheless, Free equivalents abound.
9. sorry, afk for now.

Ask slashdot is becoming increasing ridiculous, with the answer to almost every question found at either google or within OSDN. I don't mean to flame the editors, but it would be good if they would be a little more selective WRT ask slashdot.

For those of us who want to get into movie processing right now Cinelerra-1.0.0 has just been released :)

Having said that, when you're writing a large piece of code, much of the code probably isn't number crunching; its schlepping data back and forth between solvers, doing I/O, etc. For that, FORTRAN is fairly limited; so you use other languages.

You use the right tool for the part of the code you're writing. We are working on a large simulation code; our numerical solvers are all in FORTRAN, and we have no intention of chaning that; however, we use other things (C, Python) for higher-level tasks. And this is how it should be. People who argue about `Language X rocks!' or `Language Y sucks!' Just Dont Get It. All the languages still in use are still in use for a reason -- they have certain things they're good at. And so you pick the right tool for the job.

Sourceforge? Freshmeat? Probably many more, but those are two i can think of off the top of my head. Look at sourceforge's Software Map