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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!

Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.

Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.

I agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.

Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.

Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.

I agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.

Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.

Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.

I agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.

Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.

Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.

I agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.

Check out Freshmeat for what you seek. A search on 'help desk' brings up a page full of options, of which about 5 or so are what you seek. Of those 5, 3 of them version 1.0 or greater, so I think that they may be stable/robust enough for you to use. Ben

Salieri writes, "Ever notice how it's sometimes very difficult to tell which is the real or relevant link in the article write-up? Perhaps the editors can distinguish where the main attraction is." He then clicks preview to make sure the links work.

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I've taken SNMP data from radio network nodes, dropped it into Gnuplot, and placed on a web page a rotating GIF of a 3-D contour plot showing what the error rates are througout a building. There also are tools which can be interfaced to external data. I've used network configuration data to produce charts (although TkIned has tools to do this already).

Some of the cool April Fool's jokes I found:

• Freshmeat lists Linux-2.4.3-NSA1 (the first Linux kernel released by the NSA) http://freshmeat.net/releases/44655/
• The Register has been acquired by Microsoft! http://www.theregister.co.uk/

I've actually wanted one of those boxes for a while.

I would say that there is a LOT of potential there. You could have it synch with your addressbook and read the caller ID data. Thus, you would be able to tag who called and e-mail you that information.

I'd say that your best bet is to encode it in some sort of well-compressed file format, once you get it off of the modem. MPEG layer 3 would work just about anywhere, so you'd probably want to just use that as the file format.

I would say that for everything but the actual MP3 audio, and perhaps even the audio, you might just want to use PostGreSQL to store the data. It's accessible under Linux, and it's also accessible via ODBC with PsqlODBC. That way, you have the option for multiple interfaces. You can write a windows and Linux binary client, plus a web-client (Which is nice if you are at the office and want to check the home phone messages).

And, of course, check out Freshmeat to see if there's anything useful. I found KPhoneCenter and the VoiceModem Kit.

I've actually wanted one of those boxes for a while.

I would say that there is a LOT of potential there. You could have it synch with your addressbook and read the caller ID data. Thus, you would be able to tag who called and e-mail you that information.

I'd say that your best bet is to encode it in some sort of well-compressed file format, once you get it off of the modem. MPEG layer 3 would work just about anywhere, so you'd probably want to just use that as the file format.

I would say that for everything but the actual MP3 audio, and perhaps even the audio, you might just want to use PostGreSQL to store the data. It's accessible under Linux, and it's also accessible via ODBC with PsqlODBC. That way, you have the option for multiple interfaces. You can write a windows and Linux binary client, plus a web-client (Which is nice if you are at the office and want to check the home phone messages).

And, of course, check out Freshmeat to see if there's anything useful. I found KPhoneCenter and the VoiceModem Kit.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/forkbombdefuser/

It's licensed under the GPL.
Fork Bomb Defuser (rexFBD) allows you to configure the max_forks_per_second and max_tasks_per_user parameters, at the time of loading the module. Any possible Fork Bomb is detected using these parameters and is defused (deactivated) in real time. The uid of the user who started it, as well as the time it was started is logged in /var/log/messages for the system administrator to take action.

You mean koules is not a Linux game!
You must be joking... :)

People have been churning out CD writer apps for many years and there's no apparent reason that one couldn't have been contracted out here as well, unless there's some reason the work has to be tightly coupled to the main system.

I'm not insinuating anything, and your response seems rather defensive. I'm saying it doesn't make sense to me -- as a former Apple technical lead -- that these particular critical features should have slipped. I have speculated on one possible reason, but I'm by no means committed to that possibility as the one and only truth. If all you can see is an insult to a beloved kernel, that's your interpretation, not mine.

Porting cdrecord would be a good test of the possibility that problems in Mac OS X scheduling are involved in the slip.

Tim

Yeah. Unless it's vim. Or vile. Or elvis. Or nvi.

Yeah. Unless it's vim. Or vile. Or elvis. Or nvi.

Yeah. Unless it's vim. Or vile. Or elvis. Or nvi.

Yeah. Unless it's vim. Or vile. Or elvis. Or nvi.

I can see the need for the RH Network if you're updating a lot of machines but for personal use there are a lot of alternatives (see Freshmeat) that do the job perfectly. I for example run a little utility called "frmps" as a cron job - it simply checks every night if there are any new rpms available, installs them and mails me a report. That's all I need to keep my system current automatically.

And come on folks, their business model is to sell support. Of course they will charge for it, and they should. This is no news.

Because of its all in all crappy command line interface, I gave up on up2date on my machines that don't have X.
I use rhup, a free (you don't get charged ten bucks to use it) utility to download updates for you.

The biggest problem with people mistaking Slashdot for Freshmeat is that there is rarely enough information given for a good software announcement. That said:

XFree86 is a freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System that runs on UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating systems.

Author:

The XFree86 Project <XFree86 at XFree86 dot org>

Homepage:

http://www.xfree86.org/

Tar/GZ:

ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.3/

Changelog:

http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.3/RELNOTES.html

Trove categories:

Old Appindex :: X11 :: System

Summary of updates in 4.0.3.

Some temporary file-related security vulnerabilities are fixed.
Screen corruption problems and palette saving problems with some Neomagic chips are fixed.
'XFree86 -configure' problems are fixed in some drivers (including sis and i810).
A problem with some plain S3 ViRGE cards is fixed.
Some Xaw incompatibilities with Xaw6 are fixed.
Some XKB files are updated.
Some trident driver updates, including fixing acceleration for the Cyber9388.
A palette saving problem in the vgahw module is fixed.
Support for the wsmouse protocol is added for OpenBSD/i386.
A load problem with the sis driver module, and some depth 24 problems are fixed.
Support for the "PD" variant of the ATI Rage 128 is added.
Support for GNU Hurd is updated.
Some TrueType font problems are fixed.
The mga driver doesn't attempt to drive the G450 if the "mga_hal" module isn't available.
A problem with bold font simulation in xterm is fixed.
The (DPS) stub files created by pswrap are now compatible with the Adobe version.
Some glint driver problems are fixed.
Support for building on OpenBSD-current, and multi-thread support for OpenBSD are provided.
A problem with the ThinkingMousePS/2 protocol is fixed in the mouse driver.
Support for the Render extension with Xinerama is added.
A DGA-related server crash is fixed.
Some Chips & Technologies driver bugs are fixed.
Some tseng driver bugs are fixed.
Some Alpha platform updates are included.
Support for the GeForce3 is added to the nv driver.
Misc build-related issues are fixed.
Various documentation updates, including a reworked XFree86(1) manual page.

I purchased a Voodoo5 5500 not because I saw 3Dfx commercials (I'm in the U.K. and we don't get them); but because they allowed Daryll Strauss (who implemented Glide for Linux) to open-source his code and 3Dfx provided XFree86 developers with full documentation for the whole Voodoo range.

Which is more than nVidia have done; and which is why you will find full and comprehensive support for *all* Voodoo cards in XFree86 4.0x - and that is more than you get with nVidia; who are always a full XFree86 release behind with their 'closed-source' drivers!

I got rid of my TNT2 when I found out that nVidia couldn't even be bothered to support the XRender extension with their 0.9.5 driver release and nobody at nVidia would reply to my e-mails asking if/when it would be supported. The XFree86 2D-only support provided support for XRender but then I couldn't use the 3D acceleration of the TNT2 for anything.

Indeed, my computer doesn't crash now while playing Unreal Tournament using OpenGL with the Voodoo5 - why ? - because nVidia's drivers don't fully support SMP and freely admit in the driver README file that it can cause random lockups on SMP machines.

Add to that the number of problems people have been experiencing with these drivers, enough to add comments to the Freshmeat project page here.

If I am going to experience random lockups while using my machine; then I might as well be running Windows :-P

P.S. No, j00 d0n't 0wn a11 u5 3Dfx u53r5, nVidia does (seeing as though they bought out 3Dfx), so get yer facts straight!

Have a look at the vitality index on Freshmeat. An example is available at the bottom of their stats page.

Have fun //Johan

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BTW, if you want to create UDF filesystems, you need the UDF utilities which you can get from http://freshmeat.net/projects/udf/

There's a GPL'd Java app called WeirdX that functions as an X server. Since That covers the remote X on win9x part. I'm don't know of any way to use it securely, though. (hmm, maybe that would be a good project, a Java ssh client with X forwarding...)

Check out WeirdX. It's hosted on SourceForge and also has a project page on Freshmeat.

WeirdX is a GPL'd Java-based X server and even has ESD support. It should run great any operating system which has decent Java support (including Windows and MacOS).

Hopefully this is what you're looking for. If you're willing to try an X server for DOS, then I suppose Java is even more than adaquate. (:

The ability to work on lower bandwidth links is not the only thing that needs to be addressed with X to make it feasible for the sorts of applications mentioned above. What we also need is some way of disconnecting and later reconnecting to a previous session. Just like screen does for terminal sessions.
I don't imagine that this would be *that* a feature to add to X, with a caveats - like the screen size, bitrate etc not changing. Since low bandwidth links also tend to be less reliable (going out of range with mobile phones etc) this would be really useful and is a good reason why people often use VNC between linux systems even though they could be using X.

hehe, and to help train for that MCSE, get the MCSE Trainer

Oddly enough though, on Linuxgruven it talks about how the market has been so bad for technology companies, but not them!

Did you look on freshmeat? All you have to do is look!

Access is just being used as the front end. [...] Access is definitely not good for multiusers dbs, unless you have a backend to it.

I performed a quick search on Freshmeat for you. Here's the results (filtered for stuff that's actually relevant, I think). In no particular order:

CYCAS - not sure if it's open-source, but will run on Linux and BSD and looks pretty powerful

Jcad - written in Java, this is an open-sourced CAD which works with DXF file formats. Not the most powerful of tools out there, but it's a start

iCADis - can't tell much from the site, but it might be worth a try. Uses GTK and is covered by the GPL

OCTree - looks like it has a really innovative interface. Not sure about the license though.

Varicad - for mechanical engineering. Looks good, but unsure if it's open.

QCad - seems to be one of the better ones, and it's open.

That's all I can find. You can judge yourself if you need it to be 100% open-source, if you need it to be free, and if you need it to run on a particular platform. Perhaps you might settle on a combination of these, since it doesn't look likely that you'll find something that meets all 3 conditions (assuming you were looking for it).

If you're a programmer, then by all means help out with one of the open-source projects out of the ones mentioned above. Lots of them could use things like improved rendering (speed, effects etc), and the ability to load lots of different file formats.

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I thought they meant this FIPS! I figured it was taking it a bit far making a disk partitioning program in to an Advanced Encryption Standard, but you never know... ;-)


"I may not have morals, but I have standards."

You can, take a look at this fresmeat article!

Szo

I don't really understand what's so interesting about Deja's code. Should be no major problem to create a search engine / interface with all the code that is out there for indexing etc. and all the capable people willing to write / enhance free software.

The archived postings are the interesting part. At groups.google.com it says that there is a terabyte of data. Maybe it could be made available for download per FTP, one tar.bz2 file per month per newsgroup. Different projects could then try to use the data... Tools like MG (Managing Gigabytes) can create an inverted index that reduces textual data to about 40 percent and is searchable. Well, that's still 400 GB, but HDDs are getting cheaper all the time ;-)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/srm/

I don't think you looked very hard...

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
http://www.k-3d.com/projects/sdpxml.shtml
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmlforc++/
http://www.vividos.de/index.php?page=projekte.xmlp p

I think that's the best way to go, but there does need to be a way to get data in "on the road." So far, this is all I've seen from the open source camp, and it does have it's issues.

• X-Based, so the PDA needs to be X-Based
• Not all X programs accept events from other applications, so they are effectively useless for this kind of thing
• It takes up screen real-estate, you have to have it to type and to have it you give up screen space

Hopefully, these guys will embed some kind of graffiti in it making it a complete solution.

Works for me.

Linux firewalling also allows user-level filters -- packets can be directed to programs for filtering.

There nothing worse then trying to get information from a site and having the whole site renderd unusable by "modern code".

There was a time when I had no option but to use my laptop to surf the web and with its small harddrive X was just too big to use just for the benifit of a GUI browser.

links/lynx/w3m were all incapible of viewing the site of the manufacture of the laptop. What was I to do?

I was to say that I would never buy that brand of computer again.

If they can't display in plain text then they lose all my buissness.

Txt browsers are the fastest means of getting to real information on the web without all the distraction of corp america trying to get me to click on this and win that.

Altavista was even so nice as to know that you were using a txt browser and give you a readable page. Google looks great in txt or GUI.

The comand line is your friend. ibpconf.sh

I am using Sylpheed, it's quite a quite good 3 pane gtk mail client, rather stable, handles international character sets.

It does the job rather well for me. (small, fast, user friendly)

I, too, would like to see some fairly robust front ends come out with support for IPTables, but I think it will take some time. I expect something like this when the distributions start incorporating the 2.4 kernel (i.e. firewall-config under RH 7.0).

In the meantime, realized that 2.4 includes backwards support for IPChains as long as you compile it into the kernel.

The OpenNap servers are *very* good. I don't think I've used a Napster server for several months now. Grab gnapster and get this and you are good to go.

[Fucking code snipped coz Slashdot filter no longer accepts C source code because it detects 'junk characters' - WTF!?!?!]

I don't think I need to tell people on this list why that's absolutely
horrible; I'm just pointing out that code is still released today with
crap like this. I would have thought we'd learned this lesson years
ago with the AFS, krb4, Netscape, et al vulnerabilities.

The key concept is the storage engine driving the groupware server - all of the messages and data need to be stored somewhere.

I'm no DB geek by any definition, but has anyone thinking about this considered what/how the database ought to work? Is it possible to
implement a solution built on top of MySQL or Postgres, or something else that might scale well?