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Yes I think that whould be a lot beter, imagene the governer asking around about prices ibm, microsoft, sap, sybase and oracle. Which then make huge contributions (and becouse those contributions are supposed to be puplic record they might even start bidding already) and the governer then heads over to www. and picks postgresql ;-)

Where I work I have my IBook and a Tibook... We have a Linksys Wap 11, hacked which is used for an occasional HP or Sony notebook with addon cards, and basically all time access for our Mac's... The signal strength between the Tibook and Ibook is more than negligible.. This is measure in Yellow Dog linux using the WaveMon program on freshmeat Generally speaking, on a scale of from the restraunt next door(a four or five on the WaveMon program on the ibook, which translates to a 0 on the Tibook> to within 2 feet of the wireless access point the difference between the ibook and the tibook is always at least 10 points, with the tibook on the low end.... If this isn't empirical evidence I don't know what is...

well, two basic parts: hardware and software
first of the hardware is pretty independant of the os, just pick the highest quality capture card you can afford that is supported in linux, add a reasonable camera, sound card, and a nice modern machine of any kind. I use a bttv card, which works well for me, but of course it depends on your exact needs, and the camera that you hook up to it. As to software:
SDL, mostly used for game programming, but has some of the capabilites needed for capturing, sound recording, etc.
v4l the basic component of all video type stuff under linux-you can see the list of crap it supports there, but it doesn't really have facilities for actually capturing to something like mpeg.
avifile everything you want in a capture API, will let you output to all kinds of formats.
mplayer I have heard that they support capturing now, but haven't used them for that, but is what you will be using for playing back the files you capture.

My recommendation would be to use the VCR project, and one of these for audio. VCR uses avifile to record the video in your chosen format, and will record the audio also, but if you want seperate files for audio and video, it is simplest just to use the mic in with another program.

Let me know if you have problems--it's remarakably similar to what is already done to record television programming, with higher quality requirements, so you should be able to take advantage of all the PVR projects out there.
Or you can let me do it-send me the requirements, 1500$, and I'll send the box back a week later
;-}

I think it's kind of pretty, but i miss the sorted "sections" (anime scifi etc)

You can browse by the sections at:

http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/930/?topic_id=9 30

Stick to KDE-look for your KDE themes, themes.org doesn't even have one KDE 3.0 theme

External audits are good because they bring in experts who focus on finding vulnerabilities in your network. These experts will come armed with a variety of vulnerability assessment tools to perform their audit. The only problem is that it will almost always happen less frequently than vulnerabilities are discovered, so this should only be 1 part of the overall solution.

You should adopt this practice internally, because if the tools are set up to check for vulnerabilities, you can be much more proactive about finding them than simply by scheduling consultants to come every few weeks, months, year. There are a variety of tools available, both freely and commercially.

A good tool will be updated frequently, check a lot of bugs, including the most critical (SANS Top 20, BugTraq, CERT.

Free Tools
SATAN -- Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
SAINT -- Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool -- based on SATAN, GNU
SARA -- Security Auditor's Research Assistant -- similar to SATAN/SAINT check the Freshmeat page
NESSUS -- another free tool

Commercial Tools
ISS has a variety of tools avaiable depending on your needs
NeXpose -- try the free demo, great ui, demo only lets you assess 1 IP at a time though :( Here is a review
A Networking Computing article on Vulnerability Assessment tools. Reviews many of the major vendors (so I won't list them all). Includes some of the free tools.
Here is another overview of security tools to get you started.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) was designed to centralize email information, I believe. If stored/implemented with a database, what more would you need ?

I think querying through SQL would satisfy most of us.. and be very useful in corporate environments (for example, query all email sent from a user to support), and it's already done by some projects like DBMAIL.

Anybody out there with experience using these ?

BTW, there's an extensive database of IMAP products including some that make the data accessible via LDAP... hours of fun!

I to have lamented about users not participating in the IT process. Some users fail to realize that this is not a one person operation. I cannot help you if you do not help me.

Freshmeat Internet::Log Analysis

Rebuttal Number 1:
Do you need the source code of an operating system as a user of that operating system? That is, should you be paying your people to study the intricacies of how the operating system is built and stuff like that?
No, most people don't. There's actually a easy way out of having the simple end-user getting lost in the C and asm... Err, just don't look in the code.

Besides, there's two other segments of users not being addressed here. The first is people who actually by gosh *do* need the source code. There may not be that many, but their work is usually quite important/far-reaching and it affects those who do not need the source code. The second class Mr. Gates has overlooked by his unfortunate choice of wording is those who 'want' to look at the source code. If Mr. Gates needs a clarification of why someone would want to look at source when they don't need to, then his money's no good on thinkgeek.

Rebuttal Number 2:
That's something that for a few percent of the price of the PC you can buy a commercial operating system, where all the work of testing it, supporting it, delivering it, is included for a few percent of that price of the PC
Hm, I haven't the foggiest notion what Mr. Gates is trying to say here. It seems Mr. Gates holds the basic rules of grammar in as low regard as he does the GPL. Either that or he's excited about seeing Yoda in the new episode. Or perhaps he himself has no idea what he means. If he'll wrap that last one up in proper grammar, I'll be happy to respond.

Rebuttal Number 3:
For customers who want source code -- universities, large customers -- we provide that.
Doubtful. If Mr. Gates offered source code upon demand, to universities by way of example, I think we would have seen it by now. Any half-decent university would have jumped upon an opportunity such as this. Anyone out there with a university that counts MS as a supplier? Think you could provide feedback what happens when you say "Hey, we're a university, we have a big contract with you, and we'd like the source code." ? Hmm, large customers... anyone got any really fat relatives?

Rebuttal Number 4
Then you get to the issue of who is going to be the most innovative. You know, will it be capitalism, or will it be just people working at night?
OK, what we're saying here is that it's capitalistic gain that is the prime instigator of innovation. This means that you can't write a good book if you're not being paid shovel-loads. And you can't compose great music if you're not getting rich off of it. And you're not a decent football player unless you're playing with Real Madrid or Man U. Mr. gates, I beg to differ as strongly as possible.

Rebuttal Number 5:
And the farmers will go home at night and work on the source code. (Laughter.)
If doctors can code, I don't see a problem with farmers coding. Oh, and I'm sure a farmer would laugh derisively too at the notion of a software magnate going home to tend to his crops and feed his livestock at night too.

Rebuttal Number 6:
packaged software costs are never more than, say, three, four percent of any significant project
3-4%? What kind of computer do you base this calculation on, Mr. Gates? I can only imagine this figure would be accurate if you operated a Cray at home, or if you were referring to the cost of the RedHat CDs you bought. In other words, your math needs work as well as your grammar, I'm afraid.

# end of rebuttals - for now

As a final aside, I find it significant that most of the points in Gates' response concerned the welfare of the supplier/producer/seller. Mr. Gates appears to be wilfully disregarding that the GPL was designed to serve the user of the code, not the owner/writer. We really shouldn't let this man shift our focus away from this.

Silly man.

I have a plain Hauppauge Bt848 card. With vcr or mp1e, combined with cron, I record TV programs regularly even with DivX encoding. mp1e doesn't do DivX, but gives you the advantage of being able to play the mpeg while recording it, so you can pause, rewind and fast forward TV...sweet.

I have a plain Hauppauge Bt848 card. With vcr or mp1e, combined with cron, I record TV programs regularly even with DivX encoding. mp1e doesn't do DivX, but gives you the advantage of being able to play the mpeg while recording it, so you can pause, rewind and fast forward TV...sweet.

• Timeliness
  • When I am searching for a software product it's not a leisure activity, rather it's usually directly related to my job and I 'm looking for a solution
  • now (a lot of contracts depend on finding existing sofware to handle certain features off the bat as a base). When I have to wait more than a few minutes for the registration key (yes, I use a real, albeit HoTMaiL, address) I go to the next resource.
• Internal Server Error, or [ODBC Error], etc
  • I can't believe how many times I've gone through the torturous sign-up process only to find an error in the download process. Perhaps your potential clients are getting an error -- or, perhaps some other inconvenience? This happened to me more than once at Sun.com.

For example, I spent a long time looking for a decent in-the-browser page editor for hosting clients to edit their pages online. I looked for a long time, actually not starting out in the open source realm for some reason, and tried many of the low-cost closed source page editor solutions (mainly perl based). Most were simply some form of "here's a TEXTAREA field with the page code; have fun". The few attempts at a WYSIWYG editor, in the commercial offerings I found, were laughable. But then I found Richtext Editor on sourceforge. WOW! This is the slickest in-page editor I've seen to date. Yeah, it has a ways to go, but provides an incredible headstart to getting there. Will I contribute back my changes? Of course -- that's the way you "pay" open source projects. Love it. It only works with IE 5+ - for now (and 92% of thise visting our sites use IE 5+).

They will laugh at you if you teach them MySQL.

It's called Braille.
A Freshmeat search turns up quite a bit of information about using it on posix OSs.
Here's the Linux braille tty driver.

Wouldn't Gnunet make a dandy medium for spreading TV Listing updates around? One person enters a listing item, and the whole TV coverage area can get the update.

Vik :v)

Ok, I'm biased because I know a lot of people who work/used to work on the project. But TWIG has always been a great mailreader, if you're into the web-based mail reader sort of thing. It's a PHP-based client that, in addition to mail, it has newsgroup capability, a scheduler, and a bunch of other keen things.

TWIG links:
twig.screwdriver.net
TWIG on Freshmeat.

Also, be sure to query 'twig' on sourceforge to see a few other projects that involve TWIG.

POP3 is easy

Music Player Sakura
Programming Language D
File Princess Ren

Music Player Sakura
Programming Language D
File Princess Ren

Does it really matter that it runs linux if it sucks as a PDA? It might have a Gee-Wiz cool factor, but if it sucks it sucks.

I guess that depends on you. If you rely heavily on MS products to get your job done, then ya.... it's probably not that great. I
would never expect it to play nice with windows but I'll bet it plays nicely with *nix.

I haven't had the opportunity to use one of these yet so I'm talking out my ass here but I would expect to be able to do some of
the following:

compile ssh client/server
compile a NFS client/server
compile a samba client/server

That would make it play pretty nicely over a wireless network. Take that into account, and the fact that there's a whole slew of
other apps available:

Freshmeat
SourceForge

and that it supports java out of the box, I can't really see how this is bad. That is unless you're too reliant on MS.

I think the real problem is the same is it has always been for anything other than a MS product.

Go to Freshmeat sometime and click on "Random Project" a few times. You will notice that, of all the open source projects in the database, most of them have no vital signs.

It's pretty pointless to put any time-sensitive features in your product if, as chances may be, you probably will stop working on it at some point and won't have the interest or time to pick it up again.

Don't count on somebody else maintaining your code for you: the other interesting statistic on Freshmeat about most projects is that nobody else really cares about them either. Even once-popular programs tend to fade away over time.

I wrote a mostly cross-browser (tested on Windows/MacOS 9 & X/Red Hat Linux, in Mozilla, Netscape4 & 6, Opera, IE5+) javascript/dhtml drop menu script. It's lightning fast because it renders the different menus to actual HTML divs instead of instantiating tons of JS objects, but at the expense of some customizability. Actually, you can still access everything in JavaScript, so the customizability is up to you. The best part is its less than 100 lines of JavaScript.

Oh, and it's got an object-oriented PHP api, so you can hook it up to your database-driven sites easy enough. I wrote it because I found the others ugly to have to interface with PHP, and they all seem to slow the browser to a crawl (even on my AMD 1.4GHz w/ 512MB DDR-RAM).

You can see it in action at this site, which is about to be re-launched. It's Open Source, but it's currently only downloadable through a package called Sitellite CMS, in the beta download. I'm preparing a new release of the core application framework behind this project, which is the Open Source part, which includes the drop menu stuff. That part is all contained in the 'saf' directory, and the drop menus are in lib/GUI inside that.

If you don't want the PHP API, you're of course free to just take the JavaScript from the source on the link above.

Bah! Anyone who uses Lynx is a weenie. Real geeks use netcat.

The Bill of Rights and Constitution protect individual liberties from the government, not the "right" to steal music, so even considering constitutional arguments with regard to copying music makes no sense.

Most people would consider it an individual liberty to be able to use what they paid for in any way the choose, whether it be ripping a CD to mp3, ripping a DVD and encoding to some other format (requiring DeCSS), or just owning a computer that has an unrestricted memcpy() . It's considered a basic right to bear arms, so are you telling me it's not, to own something that can copy bits?

Reasonable people agree that the creator of a work should compensated for his efforts, hence copyright - but it has no basis in the constitution.

First, who exactly decides what "reasonable people" are? Second, copyright was originally more "reasonable" at a 7 year term, then more "reasonable people" came along and now look where we're at. Finally, "it has no basis in the constitution" is just wrong, because the Constitution is the sole source of authority for the Federal Government to make laws. If copyright didn't come from the Constitution, then it is an illegal law.

MegaCorp Inc. wants everything regulated, which is never going to happen.

Hellooo, DMCA, SSSCA. We said the former was "never going to happen", and it did. The latter... won't pass this year, maybe. The future is not a very bright one, though.

Slashdot types want everything free as in beer, which doesn't encourage creation.

Uh, hello, first off "Slashdot types" (of which I believe I qualify) likely want more: everything free as in liberty; free as in beer is just a nice extra. This "doesn't encourage creation"? What do you call these:

• The Linux kernel. (Free as in beer, liberty)
• Most of the software on Freshmeat.
• All of the software on SourceForge.
• The Debian, RedHat, and multitudes of other distributions, some of which make money, some of which are purely nonprofit.
• All the other free software not mentioned here.
• All the music written and art created (and on record) for thousands of years done for whatever reason besides making a buck. (Hint: being an artist for a living was traditionally very hard, and few made it.) I personally know a number of people who write music purely because they enjoy doing it. If this isn't creativity, what is?

So until someone finds a decent way of paying artists aside from CDs, books, etc. people are going to keep stealing digital things because it is a better way to distribute.

Or maybe that business model just isn't going to work anymore, so they better get a different job or find a different way to make money. There is no guaranteed individual right to make money on a given venture. The reason we originally had the copyright was to further society, not line corporate pockets. Artists can control their work, possibly making money for a short period of time, then work is returned to the public domain. That's not how it works anymore.

As usual, the extremes on either side of the argument need to be tempered to find a workable solution. And it isn't going to be found in the Constitution.

No. The end has already been determined. Like a Myrddraal, MegaCorp Inc. has already been killed, but they're too dumb to realize it, and it doesn't mean they're not still dangerous (see DMCA and SSSCA).

Except it's not as easy as just feeding in the file and saying "find it", partly because google only allows you to feed in a few search terms and partly because it sounds like the files have been modified from their origional form.

Another problem is that it's very likely that the source files will only be stored within tarballs, which google doesn't index (not that I've ever seen at least -- would be a nice feature though seeing as how they do decode office docs and the like). The key will probably be then, to search by the names of source files, unique looking variable names, or phrases from the comments. With luck, some of these things will manifest themselves in some sort of on-line discussion about the source, such as diffs posted to mailing lists or something of that nature.

Another thing to try -- if you know the nature of the origional program that the source was taken from, go to Freshmeat and look though projects of that type and see if you can find a match.

-"Zow"

Before I begin: click here if you're a "-1: off-topic" weilding stifler of discussions.
[Note that this is read-only so far. Now say oooooh and back away from the moderate button.]

Now then, on to my story:

So the other day this microsurf's telling me about how NTFS has journaling, started taunting me about my eight-minute fscking those sixty gig puppies, and I admit it kind of had me kind of almost maybe a bit uncomfortable, not envious mind you, just a bit, mostly it was just a little hot in the room is all. I excused myself, saying I had to google, and that I would be right back. Five minutes later, I had my response. (And implemented, too! Download today.)

Moral of this story? Turn off those [domain] tags in your preferences if you haven't yet! It totally ruins my train of thought :(

--
m iso socially aware artistic geek pen-pal, m or f, in '1337 edu. jazz, poetry a must.
email me (click my user info for addy) if you're interested.

My mouse driver's chronicles are written by kodometer, but hey... I won't publish them any time soon. :)

Exchange 2K is different. It's built around SMTP, POP, LDAP, and iCalendar. It's using standard protocols. Where are the UNIX clients to support them?

Proxy servers, They might not be cacheing 8080 or other Proxy ports. Check http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

Bouncers - You set this program on an external server on a port thats not filtered. You just point your browser at this IP/port and your outside your filtered isp. Check www.freshmeat.net

SSH, tunnel or route from an external box.

Really, If you cant go through it, go around it, either with software or networking.
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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? - George Carlin

I have been using VNC for a year now to connect from machines around my campus to my linux desktop. The biggest problem I see is the ability to get to the current state of the desktop computer. VNC is setup to spawn off a new x-session and desktop with each vncserver.

To resolve the problem, VNC reccomends that you connect to the VNC server on your local machine, as well as with remote machines. No matter what they say, the quality is ass and it's slow. Noticibly slow.

Krfb, thankfully, seems to have remedied this problem by creating a bit of KDE software that exports the original X server for remote connections. When you connect, you see your desktop in the exact condition you left it in, not a new X session.

Has anyone used KRfb?

Tool is already available

There are a whole bunch of webmail implementations on Freshmeat; do any of them fail to suck?

My friends who use Yahoo all also have other ISPs, including web pages, and only use Yahoo so that they can check their mail from anywhere. (They then download their Yahoo mail into a "real" mail reader via the formerly-free POP3 service, in order to archive it at home.)

It seems to me that if these folks were to install a webmail CGI on their own web pages for their private use only, they wouldn't need to use Yahoo at all to get location-independence. That's something most people would be able to do without needing root access on the HTTP server machine, assuming the ISP allows the running of CGIs at all. But there are so many packages, it's hard to guess whether any of them work, or whether any are of similar levels of usability to Yahoo's CGIs.

Any opinions?

Failing that, are there any decent "screen scrapers" that can log in to Yahoo's CGI interface and extract the HTML presentation of the messages into a Eudora/Netscape-compatible "mbox" folder? That would be a fine substitute for their POP3 interface.

Active Spam Killer

"Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically."

This should cut down your spam down to zero.

Phillip.

Etree uses the Shorten codec, which in my experience will compress hi-fi audio to about 3/5 of its original size. A Phish show is typically about 1 GB compressed.

Personally I'd like to see FLAC getting used... in my most recent tests, FLAC blew Shorten out of the water in both speed and compression ratio. Plus FLAC is free as in speech but Shorten is free only as in beer.

Losing connections is less of a problem than you might think... many siteops run *NIX FTP servers, which as a rule are quite reliable. Some of the Win9x servers are less reliable, but that's when you thank god for FTP Resume.

• Marcelo Tosatti's homepage is here.
• There is also the Marcelo The Wonder Penguin site that has some info about him, but is currently down (Google cache).
• Advogato personal info
• Slashdot interview from December.
• Freshmeat has his comments on the kernel (scroll down a bit).

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/338/

It gets a resounding thumbs up over there as well - I'm a first year Computer Science degree student at the moment but I'm sorely tempted to get it anyway, it looks like this one isn't going to get outdated any time soon.

And related stuff that may interest you...
* BioPython
* BioCORBA
* BioXML
* BioJava
* BioRuby
* BioExchange Software tools (other tools for working with bio*, interesting.)

Does the VAIO use an AMD CPU? If so, look up lvcool.

Last time I checked, though, lvcool had a critical race condition that locked up the machine after a few minutes. I have fixed this race condition, so mail me if you're interested.

Marko

No, they have no rights that are not moral rights. Since it is far from clear that there is such a moral right... is also follows that they may or may not have such a right. [...]If there is no need to loan a copy, they how can the authors be so upset over "piracy" ? Clearly, it's not theft at all.

I'm going to presume you're not just trolling, although it's hard to tell. Here's the scoop:

They put the software out there and say "If you're going to use this, pay us; if you don't think it's worth paying for, don't use it." If you take their software, use it, and don't pay, from their perspective it's hard to interpret that as other than a big "fuck you".

Do they lose anything? For an individual case, it's hard to say, but statistically, it's certain: at any given price, some of those people would have paid, and all of them would have paid at some price. $50 too much? How about $5? $0.50? $0.000005?

Do you gain something? Assuming you're not a moron, sure, or you wouldn't have bothered to invest the time to take their work.

So you get something for nothing, and they get nothing for something. Great deal, eh? Maybe it's unclear whether they have a "moral right", but it's pretty clear that you have no right, moral or legal, to boost their work and then step up on a soapbox and wag your finger at them.

So if you aren't going to bust open your piggy bank and send them a little dough, howzabout you stick to the tens of thousands of packages that were given away freely? Or better, maybe go out and write something?

Herbix : "Herbix is a Linux server that fits on a floppy. It supports ipchains and can serve FTP, HTTP, IRC, DHCP, SMTP, and IDENT."

Mike's Jukebox Distro : "Mike's Jukebox Distro is really just a floppy image that you add to a CD full of mp3's, using it as the El-Torito boot image. It has a complete Linux kernel and madplay, along with BusyBox. A simple shell script uses "find" to get a list of all mp3's on the CD, and it then plays each of them in order. tty3 is used for the player output, tty1, and tty2 have shells to allow the user to "play" while it's playing music."

RIMiRadio : "RIMiRadio is a floppy disk distro of Linux and an Icecast server."

floppyfw : "Floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on the floppy."

BBIagent Router : "BBIagent is a single floppy Linux-based router for sharing a broadband Internet connection. It also serves as a firewall to prohibit intruders from accessing your LAN. You can create your own BBIagent router software (a diskette file image) on our server based on your hardware configuration (NICs) and connection protocol (e.g. PPPoE, PPPoATM or DHCP). It is very easy to install and use."

Coyote Linux : "Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for people who have an Internet connection that they wish to share with other computers on a LAN. In addition to connection sharing, it also provides firewall services to help protect the internal network. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to share an Internet connection."

Tom's RootBoot : "rtbt is the most Linux on one floppy disk for rescue recovery panic and emergencies, contains tools to keep in your shirt pockets, is useful whenever you can't use a hard drive and contains about 100 rescue tools."

Pocket Linux : "Pocket Linux is an almost minimal, one floppy linux system designed to quickly convert PC workstation into secure linux-based workstation using ssh to connect to remote host (other networking clients are also supported). It supports bootp for determining host IP and other network parameters (there's also manual configuration possible, but bootp is recommended). In addition to workstations equipped with a network card (ethernet or arcnet), you can also use Pocket Linux on a PC equipped with a modem. Modem is automatically detected and then PPP connection is made."

Trinux : "Trinux is a minimal Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads its packages from an FTP/HTTP server, IDE filesystem, or additional floppies, and runs entirely in RAM. Trinux contains the latest versions of popular network security tools that can be used to conduct security research, analyze network traffic, and perform vulnerability testing."

Hopefully this list is helpful to those of you just starting to think about tiny distros.

No support for Reiserfs! Tom says he will work on it sometime though. My favorite at the moment is Ramfloppy - has nowhere near the same amout of utilities, & no networking support though. To fit everything in these days, you'd need to go to two floppys. The author of Paud said that people preferred a single floppy & wouldn't use Paud if he moved to two.

So far it seems that everyone has failed to actually read what he wrote. It's not like he hopped on freshmeat and searched for "torpedo guidance system" and actually found something to work with. His quandry is most likely whether or not using open source tools for his project requires his project to be open source. This is an easy answer as you can generate all the code you want using open source tools and then release it under any license that makes you happy. The Marine Corps Warehouse Management System is powered by Red Hat 6.0 and compiled using gcc. While the number of $500 toilet seats we have in warehouse 5 is not really a matter of National Security, it still may be a peice of information that enemies could develop intelligence with, so the system specifications and code remain closed source. We are not violating the GPL because our system is not based on GPL'd code.

Although, to keep everyone happy, you may have to name your project GNU/Submarine.

I tried mentioning this in a thread, but it was too quickly drown out. There is a free product that does ld_preload style memory leak detection. It even does memory allocation profiling, so you can find that hidden 'for' loop that is responsible for that extra 15MB of allocated memory. The gui is done with gtk+, so it's easy to use, and will run on most any linux distro these days.

It's available at http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/
Freshmeat has an entry for it as well.

Sick of fake censored "news for nerds" well then BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! here is some real sites!

Where slashdot gets most of its news
The best news from the best sites
Where the kernel release news BELONGS!
Not news, but its one of the most popular geek sites out there, visit it if you haven't yet!

FUCK ROB MALDA he is HITLER!

fscktv

There's no need to manually Google Whack anymore.

Check out this project on Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/googlewhacker/

MONOLINUX :: Imagine There's No Windows. It's Easy If You Try.

... I'd still really love to see ROT-13 encoding/decoding in the mailer a la netscape.

As a workaround, get xclip and bind something like the following command to a key:

xterm -geometry 80x10 -e bash -c "xclip -o|rot;sleep 60"

or

xclip -o|rot|xmessage -file -

This will open a window with a rot13 version of whatever is in the clipboard. Hence, to get a rotated version of your text, you mark the text that should be rot13'ed and press your bound key. Not too elegant, but not too difficult either.

This is my Experience with the techno-confused.