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There are Open Source variants of these, a few of which I have used as well as some I haven't. Try them out, there are student editions of the commercial packages.

rlab

SciLab

Octave
Euler

Q

Kalamaris
Good luck, perhaps you can review these packages and post a response.

There are Open Source variants of these, a few of which I have used as well as some I haven't. Try them out, there are student editions of the commercial packages.

rlab

SciLab

Octave
Euler

Q

Kalamaris
Good luck, perhaps you can review these packages and post a response.

There are Open Source variants of these, a few of which I have used as well as some I haven't. Try them out, there are student editions of the commercial packages.

rlab

SciLab

Octave
Euler

Q

Kalamaris
Good luck, perhaps you can review these packages and post a response.

The Gallery is my definite favorite. Features and ease of installation are unbelievable.

"Gallery is a slick web based photo album written using PHP. Easy to install (it includes a config wizard), it provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy."

But if you want more choice, have a look around and you will really be spoilt for choice.

On a side note, Slashdot is not freshmeat! Get a clue and learn how to use a search engine !

The Gallery is my definite favorite. Features and ease of installation are unbelievable. "Gallery is a slick web based photo album written using PHP. Easy to install (it includes a config wizard), it provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy." But if you want more choice, have a look around and you will really be spoilt for choice. On a side note, Slashdot is not freshmeat! Get a clue and learn how to use a search engine !

The fact that the website runs IIS and is incompatible with Lynx says nothing about the character of the people who live in the state. Not everyone is an incompetent MCSE (I, for example, have written several useful projects).

Surely I will get moderated down for this post.

-nitrogen

A good starting point might be the RedHat based SuperRescue ISO. It's got everything: drivers, networking (probably not necessary), XFree86, etc. Adding in a DVD player app and taking out the unnecessary bits probably wouldn't take long.

And as a side effect of this project, you could get quite a bit more space by using a DVD-R(W) disc, since a DVD drive is guaranteed to be available.

...nor may you use the Product to create a product or operate a service that is generally competitive with the Product or any other Borland product offerings, including any general-purpose software development tool... - 2.3

Erm, so I have to buy another company's dev tools to rewrite my METAble utility which is a replacement for the "Borland database explorer/ Borland database desktop" apps, so I can continue easily writing database apps with Borland dev tools?

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[ ] Insert Open source advocacy comment here (This message is getting too long and I need to get back to downloading pr0n).

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Please expand alter, add too this comment. Don?t forget to replenish those &s!!

For those of you interested in messing around with SMS from Linux (and Windows), check out this project.
Damn cool, but generally getting it running is a pain (although the site does not state any dependencies, there are a few).

In fact, me and my friends were trying to get SMS working so that a centralised Linux box could be used to play simple games. This way, we got about 5 people on SMS at the same time :-) playing simple word games. But again, for all these thingys to be working, your provider must support messaging from the net (which most do).

Although we did not go any further, it was fun doing it. If someone is interested, I'd be happy to help them start some SMS based centralised gaming (yes, OSS). Nothing great, but even simple ones could be great fun!

Try using BestCrypt from Jetico -- it works on Un*x and Windows. This is a great tool for creating a mountable encryted filesystem (just about every algorithm under the sun is supported, including 3DES and Blowfish).

Also included (which is why this reply is relevant) is the bcwipe utility, which does Department of Defense recommended (5200.28-STD) deletion.

It isn't "free-as-in-speech" but it does have a "free-as-in-beer" evaluation copy.

Check out:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bestcrypt/

and

http://www.jetico.com/linux.html

Of course, this is designed to be far more than an Internet appliance: it uses Linux and can run thousands of applications. The problem is that this is focused on the consumer market, where there are hardly any good Linux applications widely available (check the amount of software available at a consumer electronics chain like Circuit City or Best Buy for Linux compared to Windows or MacOS if you don't believe this.

Hmm, there are hardly any good windows applications available (check the amount of software available on sourceforge or freshmeat if you don't believe this.) seriously: if you're looking for paying software: you're totally right: no company seems to want to sell linux software, but: try searching for free (both meanings of the word) software: there are more than enough dedicated open source programmers, and the programs they make are all you'll ever need, trust me.

With all this moaning about Apache being harder to set up that IIS, arn't we forgetting about the GUI frontends such as Mohawk and TkApache?

With all this moaning about Apache being harder to set up that IIS, arn't we forgetting about the GUI frontends such as Mohawk and TkApache?

They have done actually done this (from the license at freshmeat):

Borland is only willing to grant you this License if you obtained the Product from Borland or a Borland authorized reseller. If you obtained the Product from any other source you may not install or use the Product.

8. REGISTRATION. You must register the Product with Borland as a condition to your rights to use the Product. You will be prompted to register the Product at the time of your installation or first use of the Product, at which time you will be notified (or directed to online resources explaining) how registration information provided by you may be used and you will be afforded the opportunity to opt out of certain uses of such information.

... nor may you use the Product to create a product or operate a service that is generally competitive with the Product or any other Borland product offerings, including any general-purpose software development tool.

That's not a link, that's a URL. Here's a link.

This comes right after the section on waiving the jury trials in the full license:

14.5 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, then such provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remainder of the provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.

Uhhh... Shouldn't the last sentence read "See above paragraph for an example"? Seriously though, when I read it, I almost thought (hoped?) it was a hoax.

Here is the text of the license agreement. I have been unable to locate this license agreement on Borland's website, so here is the link to freshmeat's mirror of it:
http://freshmeat.net/.misc/borland-license.txt

As an HCI student I can see the interest in writing your own window manager (I'd like to do this myself... although starting from scratch might not be the best way)

If this is actually what you want to do, make sure that you can't customise an existing one before you start all over again - the chances are you could take a simple system like FVWM ie. something minimal, and just put a few custom toolbars and such on it.

Try looking at the source code to other window managers. You can find several on freshmeat that are absolutely tiny ie. a couple of hundred k. The gzipped source for aewm, for example, is apparently under 50k - incredible :P

If you're after rewriting the windowing system itself and you're doing it for HCI related reasons, I think you may be nuts. There may be a good reason to do this but it doesn't spring to mind. Whereas there are - arguably - huge numbers of usability problems with window managers in general... low consistency, little feedback, that sort of thing.

Softerra's LDAP Administrator is pretty good, and they have a freeware version called LDAP Browser. The LDAP Browser/Editor is nice also.

If you are using LDAP as your addressbook, ldap-abook is a nice interface to add/delete/modify entries. Most email clients are LDAP-aware these days and it's convenient to be able to share an address book between my personal and work email accounts.

I've had to roll my own to do system accounts, however. Make ldapmodify your new best friend, or write an interface of your own - there is a lot of support for Perl or PHP LDAP functions out there. Server-side, I've used OpenLDAP and iPlanet's Directory Server, and I prefer iPlanet. iPlanet has a free non-commercial license option, is significantly faster than OpenLDAP, and has hooks to synchronize with an NT or Active Directory domain so you could do all the user administration in Windows and they would propagate over to your LDAP server.

Other fun things you can do with LDAP are:

Handle Unix authentication through pam_ldap
Hook into NIS with the NIS/LDAP gateway
Authenticate through apache with mod_auth_ldap or auth_ldap or Netegrity
Centralize your smtp routing data in LDAP for sendmail

Good luck.

There is a linux kazaa client in early beta, but it works ok and contains no spyware.
You can find it here: kazaa media shell

Maybe something will be added in future releases, we will see.

"Dillo" is the fastest webbrowser and it is the most secure! It supports HTML and nothing more; not even ftp, ftps, https, javascript, java, and cookies. Check it out at www.freshmeat.net over here!

I am posting this from the Dillo webbrowser...get it on www.freshmeat.net here! This webbrowser is fast! And its lack of support for ftp, ftps, https, javascript, java, frames, and cookies is what lets you browser the internet without worry and without having any security risks! Please try it out people! It isn't as fast as Lynx, and doesn't support alot, but it's a contender for breathing life into that aging 386 and 486 desktop running icewm!

I am posting this from the Dillo webbrowser...get it on www.freshmeat.net here! This webbrowser is fast! And its lack of support for ftp, ftps, https, javascript, java, frames, and cookies is what lets you browser the internet without worry and without having any security risks! Please try it out people! It isn't as fast as Lynx, and doesn't support alot, but it's a contender for breathing life into that aging 386 and 486 desktop running icewm!

(...raises hand)

Well the "Dillo" webbrowser launches faster than a gassy turd pulled by gravity! It launches fast! It's the best X11/GTK+ Webbrowser for slow computers! It can't download other files intelligently yet, but I gave the author a hint to use a way of downloading files like the Ximian GNOME's native webbrowser, with an external program called "gtransfter" or "gtop"... I can't remember the name. So, that if for some reason the browser were to crash, the files being downloaded would not be stopped. So far, Netscape and Microsoft Internet Expl(or|oit)er will take file downloads with them as they crash. I remember I once tried downloading the LinuxQuake3 demo from ftp.cdrom.com about 7 months ago and Netscape crashed in the middle of the download! AIEEEEEEEEE! It was a big loss, so I did it again, taking about 90 minutes to download, and I got it perfectly and the next webpage I visited caused Netscape to crash. Lucky I got it in time, I guess...

Check this out, too:

Hasas

It's for sonar, but the beamforming technique is applicable to phased arrays.

Microsoft designed its own Windows operating system ontop of DOS because they are a bunch of cheap bastards that think compatibility with the old DOS-mode 1980's WordProcessors and cruddy SVGA programs and games is a feature and Microsoft implies stability in their advertizing, but dump any promise of stability in their End User License Agreement. Linux is the opposite, but simply can't guaruntee stability on certain combinations of hardware. I must admit that the latest batch of discension among newly converted-to-Linux users can be credited to RedHat. RedHat deserves a pat on their back. Mandrake too for following RedHat closely as they took the long walk off the short bridge...a pat on the back for losing any "won-over people" because RedHat chose to corrupt the Linux building block mechanism by using GCC version 2.96!

Do you know how many tech support problems I help answer on www.linuxquake.com/messageboard are from RedHat and Mandrake users? I find it hillarious that Mandrake based their 8.x releases on RedHat's 7.x releases. Sure it is stable to a certain point; but I can't overlook that RedHat killed alot of people's ideals of what a Linux operating system could do for them because by using GCC over version 2.95, many programs, like the simple yet convenient MPlayer, have a difficult time compiling with certain optimizations. Thankyou RedHat for using GCC 2.96 and thankyou Mandrake for being a mirror image of RedHat's crusty ass.

The point is this... When I tried RedHat 5.2 over 2.5 years ago, I was impressed. I was impressed becaus my measely non-MMX Pentium 150MHz computer /with 48MB of RAM got some deserved stability and bugfixes as opposed to Microsoft Windows 95. That old computer /with RedHat Linux 5.2 proved to me a better edu-tainment tool than Microsoft Windows of any release, and I enjoyed fast and stable multi-tasking. Thanks goto RedHat for their earlier works. My old computer, to date, can be found at my local computer-equipment preservation archive, buried under 7 billion tons of landfill. Now that RedHat has the greatest software to work with, they fucked up their distro's build. The 7.x series is bad. In numerology, 7 is supposedly a magic number for perfection. RedHat demonstrated such perfection. RedHat demonstrated poor leadership and management in their release and have lost my advocacy for their product. Also, I never liked the name of their company because it instilled the thoughts of a "Russian American's" Linux(Red Commy bastards). I now advocate SuSe Linux Professional edition version 7 simply because that distro is automated better than RedHat's 7.x distro, includes more software and better documentation for the same cost as RedHat's distro, and because SuSe was built using GCC version 2.95.2; which means it retains Linux as the most stable desktop to date.

However, I advocate SuSe for regular family users. My desktop system, on the other hand, was built under plan of LinuxFromScratch and I wouldn't dare install any other modern-ized distro on it. All the Linux distros are too bloated and will overwhelm my computer's harddrive. I can care less about eye-candy, but I advocate SuSe to families just because of the modern eye-candy and its stability and large applications selection. However, though I advocate SuSe for making such a greate distro, their installer is real nice and offers 100% installation of all their software easily and efficiently at only 6 GB. You heard me correctly, six gigabytes! SuSe is a nice distro and they must be installing six gigabytes of something good. How does it compare with Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX? BLOATED! My favorite distro offers you to install BLOAT, but it doesn't have to be that way... Still, there is that little twitch in the end-user's brain that says he needs 100% installed and this is what he gets, 6GB of bloat!

What this means to someone migrating from MS Windows is alot of stability(pun intended). If you know what Operating system is stable, easy to use, has a nice file-managing GUI, a beautiful desktop, and is really stable and compiles programs perfectly, then the MS Windows users WILL convert to that operating system in a heartbeat! Software is software and they see something new, fun, and pretty! When they discover it offers a large list of commercial games and free games, they'll wallow in stable-happiness bliss.

I just got back from Fry's electronics and saw a Mac OSX box with a kernel crash from darwin due to a memory access exception, I saw a Microsoft Windows XP laptop frozen, and approximately 18 yards from that heard of desktop extravaganza was the row of commercial Unix software exhibits: sporting Yellow Dog Linux, RedHat Linux 7.x, SuSe Linux 7.x, Kandara Linux, freeBSD and its PowerPak, and Mandrake Linux 8.x. Do I dare offer my assistance to a sailsman and a small audience of 17 people on the installation and administration of Linux on a PowerPC, a Sony VAIO, and an Athlon-based desktop? I think I'll try offering some guidance next time I'm in there. I'm at Fry's electronics once a week to buy something anyways, so while I have 3 hours to blow, I can have fun with a stable OS teaching everyone the basics, like...

use an eMail client,
use Netscape and Mozilla,
use Gnome's and KDE's file manager,
why the file system is the way it is,
howto manage users,
howto setup a printer and share it with other Linux users,
howto integrate Linux with Microsoft Windows computers using SAMBA,
howto share files and printers with Microsoft Windows users,
howto download, compile and install new programs from sourcecode,
howto use a gui to manipulate a tar, tard'gzipd', and a tar'bzip2'd file and benefit,

And of'course tell them and demonstrate conclusively why and where Microsoft has lied to them about Linux, virii, and about Microsoft software on their website.

-oh wait, that's what they learned just to use Microsoft Windows! That must mean the average Microsoft Windows user has a brain and knows the basics of computers already! Now they just need help with some Unix primitives and be able to trust a free operating system for their daily tasks and they're set...

I think K&R style is pretty good. Personally I code to the Linux kernel standard, which is quite similar to K&R.

Speaking as one who is about to undergo a major rewrite of a minor program (actually, not even a program.. [shameless plug]Palace is my XMMS plugin), which was based on XPLSISNJASP, I can say I understand and appreciate all the comments shared in this discussion. If the XPLSISNJASP source code had been cleaner, non-leaky, commented, etc., it wouldn't have taken me a month to figure out how it works, just so I could pick up where the authors left off over a year ago. The code in releases up to 0.1.3 is in likely worse state, but 0.2.0 should be the "killer app" of parallel port light shows. I plan to incorporate all the applicable advice from this article. Anyone who's interested can e-mail me (my address is in the Palace readme) and see how my rewrite works, suggest features for the new Palace, and learn from my mistakes.

What a waste of space that post was...

Then again, Linux boxes running VSftpd and any DNS server besides BIND 4/8 (like This one, or this rather shameless plug) are safe from remote root exploits.

- Sam

Remember that crappy software that M$ wanted to foist on us to relieve us from "under-linked" sites? Slashdot seems to be using the open source version thereof.

Actually, Ximian RedCarpet does update your whole system too and shitload of more, for example, provides you with all demogames from Loki (and yes, it also does provide all those redhat updates as rhn (allthou rhn might provide content earlier than pushing the stuff to public ftp's))

And yes, Ximian does develop "truly useful and unique linux app". Its called Evolution. Ofcourse its matter of taste but to me, there's no real comparison in *gui* emailclients field. There's only evolution.

Ive now read some of the most moderated posts and they all claim this is a good thing because ximian pays for bandwidth. While this most likely true, i want to question this a bit. I use redcarpet allmost daily, but as "educated" user, i use mirrors. No, i urge you to go into and look those channel urls.

Lets start with Debian Potato channel..

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/ma in /binary-i386 (thats hardcoded path in channels.xml)

Now tell me how ximian pays bandwidth for that mirror ?

Most of the other channels are then again located in strict list of mirrors that provide ximian's one filestructure. Lists contains sites like sunsite.dk, rpmfind sites, few lug sites and universities. It kinda strikes me odd that these sites that serve free (and linux) software for free are new being used for commercial purposes.

We dont want to forget either that atleast in the past, ximian has used akamai network (atleast when i first installed ximian gnome i was so amazed how frigin fast it installed straight out of network and then i did traceroute to the install server which was akamai host and hell, *only 2 hops* from my laptop. Data was coming from machines that where located in my work's datacenter.)

So lets summarize this scheme a bit. Ximian is providing a tool called redcarpet and ximian generated xml metadata for redcarpet and providing content from basicly, publicly and freely acessessible ftp sites. And they want me to pay 10 us dollars for that ? Or are they now starting to use akamai for also redcarpet channels which then again, really shouldnt cost that much because transfers are onetime only (im not familiar with akamai's prices)

In the end, hell no, im going to pay 10 us dollars for eyecandy ftp browser even thou i use it quite a lot. It will be a lot easier for me to remove redcarpat and install autoupdate (which has no gui but its really great tool for keeping anything rpm based up to date, hell, i have even setup my own ftpsite for my company's servers and they poll stuff nightly from one place, thus i can verify all upgrades then then put them on one place and everythin is updated next morning)

My conclution is that ximian will not succeed with this mind of thing. Even thou i really really really do want them to do just that. I use ximian as my desktop and i wouldnt do any real work if there where no Evolution. I hope you guys best and really do hope you manage but personally, im a bit pessimistic.

I know this will definitely be better than a Netpliance I-Opener because it is legal, low power , self reliant on its own portable power source, has 802.11b, and it makes a great picture viewer on my wall. I'm going to buy 3 of 'em as soon as I see them available. And I will run an X Server or FrameBuffer driver ontop of Xlib, use the program "chbg" to cycle the picture in the root of X, and use the "gtkmotd" program as a template for a better program to pop-up a window and display weather forecast, stock market data, Quake3:Arena server status of games.linuxgames.com, and whatever else I can think of to bring shame to Bill Gate's implementation of a flat-screen on every wall in your house.

In general I agree that bugs are a fact of life, like death and taxes. However, there are coding styles that can minimize the number of buffer overflows in code:

• One can create a special string library which is resistant to buffer overflows (strings being structures which a "maximum length" value). For example, my DNS server uses such code to minimize buffer overflows (the string library is documented in man pages).
• One can write code in a style where the possibility of the code being placed in an "unknown state" is minimized.
• One can avoid strings wherever possible

It is possible, with today's knowledge of security issues, to code in a style which makes these kinds of security holes very unlikely. Look at Dan Bernstien's code. Look at Chris Ferret's VsFtpd.

This is why I feel that Solaris is slowly dying: Becuase Solaris has, for whatever reason, lost the motivation to replace their codebase with the features that a modern Linux system has. Some Solaris administrators are so afraid of change that they don't want to replace the Solaris userspace with the vastly superior Linux userspace. Like Eric Raymond said to the idiots that think making Python a requirment to build the kernel is a bad thing, progress happens.

- Sam

Here's the link in case you want to try this out:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ettercap/"

Being on the @home broadband network, I can tell you that the REAL killer apps are still the Nimda and CodeRed worms which continue to run loose on many machines. Talk about a bandwidth siphon! I can't think of anything else that's sucked as much bandwidth as these guys.

My generated report indicates over 152,000 attacks since June!

That report was generated with WormScan, a neat tool for analyzing your Apache logs. I should probably disclose that I'm the author of WormScan - feel free to give it a go against your logs.

Damn, I spoke too soon. Here it is after all.

From the article:

Animals are to be sourced from zoos and parks around the world.

Wait a minute, the source code for a hippo is available? How come I've never seen this here?

Use checkinstall. You should be able to download it from freshmeat where I remember getting it.

• QuakeNet
• Undernet
• DALnet
• OpenProjects

...a few with a gui. i prefer rip. if you look around on freshmeat there are quite a few more.

Er, I was trying to link floppyfw, which most probably know about, I suppose. Oh well. Moderators, you know what to do.

I have never used it, but you might try gmplayer.

Beware it is only at 0.0.2.

Yes, I too use sawfish (cuz it roxxx), and yes, I have the same problem with the GUI. This is really our problem tho, I'm sure if I knew more Lisp I would be able to post the solution.

Screen, the full screen window manager has built-in support for several common braille displays. Many distributions ship with screen and so are very accessible from a terminal. If you want to know more about screen's accessibility features, see this page .

Found this on Sunday night. Works lovely. And it's open source too, what more could you want?

Bottom line, Windows has an ungodly more amount of software out there. That fact was used against them in their lawsuit. Take a look at download.com's Windows > Audio > Music Creation category, 182 downloads. Then check out the Linux > Multimedia & Design, note the 2 broad categories mixed, 94 downloads. Download.com isn't very open source orientated, but check out freshmeat's Multimedia
> Sound/Audio > Sound Synthesis category, 37 projects. More than half of those 37 are below version 1.

• vi (vim by default and nvi if you opt for it)
• emacs (GNU emacs by default and Xemacs if you opt for it)
• gedit
• ed (the standard editor ;-)
• xedit

• vi (vim by default and nvi if you opt for it)
• emacs (GNU emacs by default and Xemacs if you opt for it)
• gedit
• ed (the standard editor ;-)
• xedit

• vi (vim by default and nvi if you opt for it)
• emacs (GNU emacs by default and Xemacs if you opt for it)
• gedit
• ed (the standard editor ;-)
• xedit

Go to Contacts. Pick Tools -> Addressbook sources from the menu.

Hit the Add button.

Under the Basic tab: Account name can be whatever you want. Server name should be the IP address of the Exchange server. Check the "Requires Authentication" checkbox, and enter your e-mail address (the address of your mailbox on the Exchange Server).

Under the Advanced tab: Leave the port at 389, the default. Under search base, enter a string of text like this:

ou=My_Facility, o=My_Company, c=US

If you don't know what to enter for ou and o, you've got two options. If you have a nice Exchange admin who doesn't mind you using an unsupported e-mail client, you can ask them. Otherwise, you can use an LDAP browsing tool to check out the Exchange server.

Make sure you enter the country code! (that's the c=US in my sample above). Leaving this out made my addressbook not work.

For search scope, pick "Sub."

-Abe