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Although KDE has no download managers, it does a greater range of religious software than is available for another platform, including a handy bible study program and a biblical quote generator. Therefore, rather than being the OS of "1337 h4x0rs", Linux is the OS of all good, honest God-fearing people. Rather than being a "strange anomoly", Linux is an operating system with impeccable moral credentials and is the obvious choice for all good citizens. And, as we all know, the only people who need privacy and products such as Zero-Knowledge are those evil scoundrels who have something to hide. Therefore, the fact that the Linux community, with its inherent honesty and strong belief in the teachings of Christ, shunned Zero-Knowledge is no real surprise.

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Asterisk Open Source Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and general telephony toolkit
linuxtelephony.org
Freshmeat search

Good luck, and please report your findings to Slashdot!

for some of the apps on freshmeat you'd need to hack up some of the code.

And there is probably some darwin advocate who has probably done it for many of the popular apps. It'd be a straightforward task for a developer with BSD experience, less work on packages that already work on FreeBSD and NetBSD, more work for packages that use Linuxisms.

All you have to do is find an ftp server for windows

Easier said than done. I couldn't get anything out of Freshmeat's list of FTP servers or a Google search for open-source windows FTP server, while open-source windows HTTP server turned up Apache as the second result. Not only that, but HTTP has a lower connection setup and teardown cost than FTP.

If you think you can write a GUI configuration program for Apache without making it restrictive; then go ahead.

The default settings handle most basic cases of running Apache on a personal workstation, giving you about the same features as the IM clients' built-in file servers have, with the most commonly changed option (at least on the WinApache installations I've done) being which domain name to return to HTTP/1.0 clients.

Finding software for the MAC is a pain in the ass.

Mac OS X has four application subsystems: Classic, Carbon, Cocoa, and POSIX + X11. Programs that run in POSIX + XonX see the Mac as a mixed FreeBSD/NetBSD box running an X11 server. You can find almost any POSIX + X11 app you need at OSDN Freshmeat.

Not only that but a regular desktop user isn't going to be needing apache so there is no point in turning it on

How else are you supposed to share files? Email is out because your ISP says the files are too large to fit in attachments. NFS, SMB, etc. are out because they're platform specific and don't work across dial-up. That's why I run Apache on my Linux box and WinApache on my Windows ME box, so that I can send files to users on other IM services.

And yes if a newbie wants his own webserver and wants to use Apache he or she must learn it just like any other software program.

Except "any other software program" the user is likely to encounter on a Macintosh computer has GUI configuration.

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Try this.

For the goatse.cx shy, http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=vcr

While Active Directory and NDS are widely used in the Microsoft and Novell worlds, LDAP has never been very popular in the Unix world. Most people even never heard about it.
LDAP is a standard protocol to access very modular hierarchical databases (called "directories" but anything can be stored in a LDAP directory, not only addresses) . It's way more flexible than SQL. You can redefine your own types and constraints (schema), all objects are extensible, all instances can belong to several classes, and anything that can fit in a tree can fit in a LDAP directory.
The first steps into LDAP aren't trivial. The syntax of LDIF files is a bit difficult to learn, but it's worth learning it.
There's an excellent open source LDAP server called OpenLDAP. It has support for LDAP version 3, SSL, IPv6, and everything you need to use LDAP. I've successfully installed it on large production servers. It's stable, and fast (if add your own indexes) .
Just like IPv6, LDAP for Unix is here for a long time (thanks, iPlanet), but it needs better integration with common software. If LDAP was implemented in all daemons and client software, it would ease a lot network administration. You can then configure all servers from a single workstation, in a coherent, unified database.
And for programmers, adding LDAP support is not a hell. Have a look at some OpenLDAP samples. I implemented LDAP support in Pure FTPd in less than one hour with no previous knowledge of the OpenLDAP API. The src/log_ldap.c is a simple getpwnam() wrapper and it can be reused by any program that use this library call to read /etc/passwd. It's a GPL package, so feel free to merge it to any piece of free software.
Also, Unix lacks good visual XML and LDAP editors. The recently announced Ganimede looks promizing, though. But if you are starting to learn LDAP, also give a try to GQ (sorry, I can't remember the URL, check it on Freshmeat) . It's a simple GTK tool to browse and edit LDAP directories and schemas.

http://ads.*/
http://banner*.*/
*://*.doubleclick.net/
*://*.hitbox.*/
*://*/ads/*
*://*/adserve*
*://*/Ads*.asp?*
*://*/*/banner/*

### yahoo Geocities
*://us.geo1.yimg.com/
*://visit.geocities.com/
*://pic.geocities.com/images/mbe/*
#javascript header:
*://*/toto?*

I don't seen any adds on geocities, even the watermark has disappeared (they add a link to the js instead of the code itselt, thanks). If popups open, they are usually empty because the url used is filtered. I don't have popups on CNN and NY-Times websites...

Here is the url for WWWOFFLE
This is the Linux version, but it's also available in a windows' flavor.

I am not talking today, or even 10 years out. I think the convergence will happen farther out - 25 to 50 years. I hope I am wrong. I realize the massive amount of power that it would take to do even a semi-realistic movie in real time isn't there yet. But one thing is driving the movie studios toward it:

Right now they have to pay big bucks for the "stars", and they don't have any real control over them.

Studios would rather pocket that money, or use it for the film - imagine a film that grosses 100 mil - would a studio rather pay 25 mil to make it today with live actors, or pay only 5 mil for a machinima type film that looks just as good, and pocket the rest as profit?

No, it isn't possible today, and it will be a long time coming - but someday it will happen. We can already do very realistic films using computer animation non-realtime. It is only a matter of time before we can do them real-time. 15 years ago I would have laughed at you had you said in 15 years we would be able to play games that look as good or better than the graphics of "The Last Starfighter" or "Tron" - on home computers no less. Yet today, here we are!

As far as voice generation - where have you been? I had a voice synthesizer on my TRS-80 CoCo back in 1985, with a voice recognizable, even though it was machine-like, in real time.

The Kurzweil Reading Machine has a better voice, and it has been around for 20 years or so. The Sound Blaster use to have voice synth software that wasn't that bad. The best I have heard from today has been Festival - which is quite natural sounding (but still not perfect).

When you say the voices for a movie takes 2 days - you mean for an animated film - for an actual movie, it takes as long as it takes to get each scene right, meaning numerous takes and cuts for each scene. With a machinima type film, you would just lay the words down from the script, and only have to worry about how the actor agents are moving the 3D models, etc - this could make for films that look as good as todays, to only take a few months for production, rather than many months or years for most mega-buck films...

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

Add a hard-drive, Linux/BSD and mpg123, and you have an MP3 player.

Add ALMB or similar software, and you have an interface that can be controlled via IR or a small keypad. With LCD displays and keypads from Matrix Orbital you have one mean looking stereo!

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This could be setup as a screensaver, perhaps it would work as an extension of XScreenSaver, but there would have to be such a mechanism

I was giving this problem (with restarting just netscape, not the entire system) about a year ago to figure out after the Sun Microsystems engineers who where originally setting up our system said it was impossible to do. Enter the beautiful world of open source: I found a program which is basically a screensaver launcher that monitors the X server for idle time, and after a user specified period of time, launches a user specified program. Just set it to launch a shell script with whatever you want to do and you are set. The program is called xautolock and can be found here

You can't miss this! Go check it out right now!

*Sigh*. How long are we going to have to read kernel = kernel + 0.0.1 just released stories? What is the relevance of this, truly? This thing shouldn't even be at freshmeat, for christ's sake.

If not, then I want daily CVS announcements. Please, either completely bore me, or do not bore me at all.

Why does it take the attrition guys long at all to set up the mirror? What is wrong with setting up a form to a cgi script - have a perl/phython/awk/whatever script do a GNU/wget and build a link somewhere.... they could also setup an email gateway for the kiddies if a form is too much trouble for them...BR>
I fully understand that the Attrition people feel it is too much work - its completely there own choice - but does working a mirror of defacments have to be that labour intensive? Why didnt they set something up to work automagically for them...?

Leknor

Leknor

A really flexible (and free!) ms word conversion program is wv http://freshmeat.net/projects/wv/ . It can convert to html & latex formats, amongst others. It's quite configurable regarding the output that it can produce.

Note: I'm not in any way associated with this project other than having used it and being satisfied with it in the past.

Is that so? Think again.

And terminal programs dont have to care about 10 different toolkits, 50 different window managers, different sizes of fonts etc.

You aren't a programmer are you? There's curses, ncurses, newt, dialog, even twin! There may even be more choices for console apps than gui ones!

In Linux/*BSD you have just too many options. That may be a good thing, but I hope someday there will be a standard GUI environment for Linux. Now there seems to be two major players, Gnome and KDE. If you want to program GUI apps, you have to either choose other, or make two versions of your GUIs. That just sucks. And I dont personally like to use KDE and Gnome apps mixed, because it just does'nt feel right. Maybe I will switch to Mac OS X someday ..

A common monkey point of view. Don't you understand? Choice is good. What if I told you that based on your family size the only car you were allowed to own by federal regulations was a midnight blue Ford Taurus . . . just like every one of your neighbors? And don't even think about putting a new stereo in it, because not only is that illegal, but the car won't start.

But its all for the better, see. Choices are bad for you. They force you to think, and we all know monkeys don't like this.

Go read Fahrenheit 451. Then switch to MacOSX if you still want. You'd fit in great there.

-b

The day appears to be coming. Project-M is a document system that uses an XML file format and a database backend to store the document data. Content is then fully searchable, with a version control concept built-in! And I suppose anybody can write their own front end to manipulate the documents. Project-M kicks ass, but it's still vaporware of sorts and looks like it'll be expensive. Conglomerate looks like it'll be an open source alternative with much the same functionality - though maybe not as sophisticated.

Either way, the future of documentation needs to be XML-centric/server centric to really offer productivity gains for work groups in a corporate (and maybe even non-corporate) environment.

Ironically enough, last night I released the latest version of Glasscode. It's the third release since 1.0 which was announced here on Slashdot a few months ago.

The FM announcement is here.

For those interested, have fun :)

I just downloaded this and ran the demo on Red Hat 6.2. The characters where messed up and some of the key bindings didn't work. Granted, I didn't read the INSTALL but not a great start.

Take your pick: GPL or BSD Licensed. :-)

go grab a copy of turbo vision for unix. it's on freshmeat. it's a port of the old borland turbo vision text gui toolkit for dos.

it's in c++, not c, but it wouldn't be too difficult to make a c binding. or just use c++.

whatever you do, don't use curses. it sucks rocks. unless, of course, your app only needs text entry widgets and buttons.

if you must use curses, at least use cdk (curses development kit) which makes the life of the curses programmer much easier. the maintainer was very responsive to the issues i encountered when using it.
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Turbovision is a very nice C++ (Also Pascal, but I'm not sure if that's been ported to Unix) library, originally written for DOS by Borland, but now ported to Unix. Borland was nice enough to release full source for it around 1995, when they pretty much dropped the DOS targetting for their compilers.

Turbovision was the first application framework I ever used, and I have really fond memories of it. It was a hard way to learn C++, though. TurboVision under Turbo C++ 3.0, senior year of highschool, the first time I ever wrote code for money. It was ... glorious.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/turbovisionforunix/

Perhaps you should check Freshmeat before you post:
LibFreeNet
FreeClient

Both are writtin in C.

As someone else noted, writing it in another language would simply slow development and hinder FreeNet's cross platform nature. Also, keep in mind that FreeNet is very experimental and the current release is still considered proof-of-concept stage, ie. nowhere near finished.

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"Goose... Geese... Moose... MOOSE!?!?!"

Perhaps you should check Freshmeat before you post:
LibFreeNet
FreeClient

Both are writtin in C.

As someone else noted, writing it in another language would simply slow development and hinder FreeNet's cross platform nature. Also, keep in mind that FreeNet is very experimental and the current release is still considered proof-of-concept stage, ie. nowhere near finished.

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"Goose... Geese... Moose... MOOSE!?!?!"

There is a suite of free university-developed multicast enabled tools that are time tested and have been in use since 1992. Research rat (robust audio tool) and sdr (session directory) on Freshmeat or Google.

There is also a suite of point-to-point H.323 audio conferencing tools called openh323 which you can find more information out at www.openh323.org. It provides great interoptability with Windows products (Intel, iPhone and Microsoft NetMeeting) as well and can use cisco Systems Voice over IP gatekeepers if you want to link your phone system trunks in.

That should get you started! Have fun!

-Pat

There are a number of open projects on the net for mimio products under Linux (http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=mimio) and a scan of Deja for "mimio Linux" bring up some articles showing that Mimio itself has been cooking something up:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mimio+linux&btnG =Google+Search&hl=en&lr=&safe=off

"Asset Managment Option"

The nice thing about Unicenter TNG is that it supports "DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX, and VMS." I believe that CA is also porting many of its applications to Linux. Check with your local sales associate for more information...

Option 2:
Build your own utility to get exactly the information you want. If you limit the set of information that you want to something fairly small, it shouldn't be too dificult to write a little client-server that sends asset data from each workstation to a server. Then you could make it cross-platform and Open Source it for the rest of us.

Here's a web based tool, Tech Tracker, that will do the tracking for you, but not automatically.

See its Freshmeat entry.

VCR
does it in divx!--works great for me, so far--record a show, download it to work, watch at leisure!
beats the black&white TV that I usually use!
soon as I figure out how to stream divx, I will be set!

http://wap.jcs.org/

Serves Slashdot, Freshmeat, and deadly.org.

With just about any V4L device you can do it. I would personally recommend checking out a couple different places to figure out what the best one is; I use a Creative WebCam III under FreeBSD as a pure webcam, not a security cam, and I don't recall if V4L is set up yet.

This freshmeat query should get you started. There are four different projects that come up. GNU.PhantomSecurity seems pretty promising.

Look at libsigc++ for a well-designed implementation of signals and slots which does not rely on a source code generator (moc) and catches various bugs at compile-time instead of runtime.

Qt has the right idea, but its implementation involves unpleasant cruft and extra language keywords (emit, slots, signals, Q_OBJECT, etc.).

There's a simple perl CGI tool called JD What's New. I use it quite a bit myself. You can find it on Freshmeat here.
Last change, MD5, Checksum, and size are all applicable methods for checking for updates.

Adding CDDB xref'ing is an excersise left to the reader ;-).

M. R.

I can't believe that you of all people would fall for this argument (or that you'd use Microsoft's Moronic HTML, but that's another matter :-). Sure, I believe the TuxBox will fail, for most of the same reasons that Indrema did, but quality control won't come into it. Official submission may increase the quality of the end product, but if it does so, it's not by much. Does the vast quantities of useless apps currently available for Windows (or for that matter, Linux) make the quality apps any worse? No? So why do you think it would do the same for TuxBox? Yes, the gaming market is very competetive, and obsoletes products and technology even quicker than the mainstream software market, so there is a certain amount to pressure to release before the product is fully ready, but I doubt that'll be sufficient to cause a significant drop in quality. The key to the long term success of any platform is an unrestricted third party development market. Sadly, it's just not economically feasible to do this in the console market now, so we're stuck with the current situation. Even MS backed away from their initial stance of not requiring approval for Xbox games.

Yes there is. I use a hauppauge card for capture, and avifile & vcr ( both can be found on Freshmeat ). I make a small script like this

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH
DATE=`date +%m%d%y`
FILENAME=/path/to/myshow-6pm-$DATE.avi
v4lctl setstation 3
vcr -t 60m $FILENAME

An call it from 'cron' or 'at'. Works very good, and the files are DivX;-) avi's so they are fairly small. Linux VCR-HOWTO

Can't we just save everyone the trouble of bookmarking two sites and just glue /. and Freshmeat together

You don't call Slashdot "Slashf---ed" when it covers dot-com bad news. So why call it Slashmeat? Slashdot covers only newsworthy software releases. This includes packages critical to system and network structure (OS kernels, server software, major security patches, etc.) and "cool" stuff that fits the day's omelet. The new Developers section goes a long way toward this*. If you want, you can exclude this section in your user settings if you don't want to look at so-called "Slashmeat."

Either way, don't bother bookmarking two sites. A link to OSDN Freshmeat II is in the OSDN box to the left of the textarea where I paste this very comment.

* It also may represent budget cuts in the OSDN division of VA Linux Systems Inc. If scoop and Taco can work together nicely enough, the integration of Slashdot and Freshmeat may be a Good Thing for LNUX's bottom line.

I use a script found at Freshmeat, ricochet, to generate abuse reports to the spammers ISP, netblock provider, and other upstream relays listed in headers. This is hotkeyed to 'S' in mutt, making disposal trivial.

Seperately, I report all relay/origin IPs to the ORBS open relay list. There is an email submission system for such use, I've got a command line utility to report a list of IPs, and a shell script to extract them (need to integrate this a bit more closely, gotta round tuit?).

The combined tools take a few seconds a day to report messages -- most of which are filtered to a spam folder via procmail rules.

I only get a few spam messages per day despite wide Usenet, mailing list, and website distribution of my email address -- and all of them are reported. OK, so my Slashdot email's obscured, that's one of the few.

What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/cuehack/
http://cyberkni.peon.net/software.html
http://cyberkni.hypermart.net/software.html *mirror*
I used that name about a year ago. I think the author of this application needs to learn to check to see if a name is in use before he goes and tries to take it. Anyone have any suggestions? Maybe it should be called YAC yet another cuehack.
Dan V.

sudo sort of does this, but its not as finely grained as the model in NT.

Of course, I find the model in NT to be too finely grained, so that delegating tasks to underlings becomes an administrative nightmare.

If there is someone left with rights that has the power to sue for loses, then that is the same someone that would be required to continue its support or that person/company would probably be liable for damages in the first place.

When a f__ked company dies, a holding company buys up its assets, including GGM[0] rights. The holding company may then discontinue the product and support therefor, leaving you with no central license servers.

"So crack it." Four letters: DMCA. And even a copyright owner brings about no legal action, the Federal government can still prosecute criminal copyright infringers in the US.

Rented software (and proprietary software in general) give me too much discomfort for me to continue using them more than absolutely necessary. A large library of free software makes this "absolutely necessary" absolutely small.

[0] Government Granted Monopoly. I prefer this term to "IP" (intellectual property) because it more accurately describes how the United States Code treats copyright, trademark, and patent issues.

I've been happy with my firecracker and there's tons of software for it, open source and not. It's serial controlled, and wireless. no soldering, semi-expensive, but good nerd value.

It's small, fast, light, flexible, and, in about a year of using it, 100% stable!

Apache is wonderfully powerful, (and I love it) but do you ALWAYS need a 600 pound gorilla?

[/plug]

It also doesn't answer the question: how is Open-Source Directory anything more than a slightly less-Unix, slightly more-OSS, version of Freshmeat? No, they aren't the same, but I fail to see the significant difference. There is Windows software on Freshmeat, and you can view just the Free software, if that's all you are interested in. I'm not worried about OSD dilluting Freshmeat -- mostly because I really don't see why someone would look on OSD instead of Freshmeat, or why someone would post their app there.

You could also push forward a well-organized directory of OSS under the Open Directory... then people would really be likely to see it, even if they didn't know to look for it.

It's nice to see that the folks at this Open Source Directory are modeling the software categories after Sourceforge'.s Software/application taxonomies typically vary from site-to-site and distribution-to-distribution. While I appreciate that all the site maintainers out there take time to organize information about software applications, the diversity makes it difficult to synthesize materials from multiple sources. I applaud this directory's deference to a previously-existing taxonomy.

A while back, I started creating a list of software categorization schemes/systems relevent to Linuxland:

http://freshmeat.net/browse/627/
http://apps.kde.com/na/2/categories&nav=f
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Softwa re/
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/ binary-i386/
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/index.html
http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/Groups.html
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media- types/media-types
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
http://www.labs.redhat.com/gug/users-guide/main-me nu.html
http://www.linux.com/links/Software/

We decided to build the site after a quick email to a certain higher mammal at OSI. Right now we are in the first growth stage which is to get authors to register their stable releases. Come one, come all. The basic idea of the site is to provide one hub where someone will know the software they are looking at is open-source and is developed to the point it should work.

It would seem to me that it's at least partially aimed toward businesses. It would appear that way since they want to want to "present a place for developers and endusers to find information about STABLE Open-Source products". I wish them well, though they need to clean up their spelling mistakes and not post IRC logs as an explanation for what they do. This has the potential to be really great; many times I'll see an interesting app on Freshmeat, but it's not Free. Don't get me wrong, non-Free software has its place, but this ought to be nice, to have a place where you can go to search only stable, Free software. (Konqueror fills an important gap on the Free/Open Source side of things... all the pieces are falling into place now.)

Good luck guys, and please take this for the constructive criticism that it's intended as.

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This article on working for porn sites was on http://freshmeat.net a while back.

It's really interesting (and no, it's not a dirty story). It's about how porn sites have to be coded really well to cope with high loads, including tons of images, and with very high reliability since they are pay sites.

Do you grok? Maybe you can work for the porn industry!