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Why not create a distributed system consisting of multiple servers with the files split into parts making each part worthless without the others (Pad). Have the locations of the parts of the next release within the previous release, so that only members of the project know the location of all of the files.

Try to look on the bright side; at least it isn't streaming only, so you don't have to use ASF Recorder. Dunno if they've put any self-destructs or other "encryption" in it, but a quick run through UnFuck should take care of that.

Problems with *printf() only occur when the programmer is not careful. Anyone who worries about his code can use stuff like PScan to automatically find any format mismatch. Even gcc itself is smart enough to warn about these kind of errors.

You first could run your archive into something like a Hypermail-style archiver if you prefer HTML (in addition to whatever indexes the archiver creates).

You first could run your archive into something like a Hypermail-style archiver if you prefer HTML (in addition to whatever indexes the archiver creates).

I use a combination of Electric Fence and YAMD.

Electric Fence is portable (including to AIX), and it detects overruns very nicely. It requires that libefence be linked with the program.

YAMD detects overruns too, but it also tracks allocations and deallocations, finds leaks, and produces a superb report about what memory was allocated and where. It seems to be very reliable, and doesn't need the program to be rebuilt. AFAIK it works only on Linux.

Both of these systems will slow your program down, especially if you do a lot of allocations. Fortunately tools like these help you to find the bugs before the symptoms appear (especially if you use the reports generated by YAMD) so you can often run with smaller data sets, or write code to test parts of your application in isolation.

Good Luck,
Molly.

I use a combination of Electric Fence and YAMD.

Electric Fence is portable (including to AIX), and it detects overruns very nicely. It requires that libefence be linked with the program.

YAMD detects overruns too, but it also tracks allocations and deallocations, finds leaks, and produces a superb report about what memory was allocated and where. It seems to be very reliable, and doesn't need the program to be rebuilt. AFAIK it works only on Linux.

Both of these systems will slow your program down, especially if you do a lot of allocations. Fortunately tools like these help you to find the bugs before the symptoms appear (especially if you use the reports generated by YAMD) so you can often run with smaller data sets, or write code to test parts of your application in isolation.

Good Luck,
Molly.

(I don't think I'd hate streaming so much if people had offered it as an alternative, instead of a replacement, and not tried to pass it off as the wave of the future that would replace all that "complicated, time-consuming downloading".

-dj

screaming in digital

So get a C compiler with garbage collection. Better yet, just get a li brary for it.

Freshmeat has an article by the Troll Tech guys talking about why they decided to go GPL.

These are some of the questions that come up to my mind:

Be able to migrate IIS to Apache first, and still be able to access the MSSQL databases (FreeTDS?)

Use a scripting syntax similar to ASP so that the programmers don't have much of a headache learning new stuff (PHP looks like a solution).

Java Server Pages will solve both problems. Sun has worked very closely with the Apache project on making JSP run well under Apache including giving away code and contributing to projects a la Tomcat. Here's a site to give you a quick overview of JSP.

Migrate MSSQL 7 to MySQL, PostgreSQL or other (Which one is better for web development?)

Depends on what kind of Web development you are doing. For the kind of work I have done which is both mission critical (eliminating MySQL) and requires speed (eliminating PostgreSQL) commercial databases have always been the correct solution to solve my problem. Both IBM's DB2 and Oracle 8i are available for Linux and are also very friendly with Apache and Java.

If your site does not traffic in mission critical data (e.g. a bank, major e-commerce company) then MySQL may be the solution that you seek. It is quick, fairly easy to use and heck, slashdot uses it.

Web log reports (I need to generate reports on the web site usage. What weblog report generators are available for Linux? Which ones do you use? Are there any that generate graphs, charts, etc..?)

Look on Freshmeat.


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If you want other bar code scanning hardware try: http://www.csensors.com/index_b.html

Other misc bar-code info (TONS OF IT): http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/
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I found a perl based cuecat decoder on freshmeat this is NOT a mirror, but at least it's something.

until the last Elves and Dwarves had been abducted by UFO's, in a secret plot by the US government, in a deal with the aliens, to remove the Elves and Dwarves from Earth, and provide the Aliens with fresh meat.

They could have provided the aliens with fresh meat, slash dot, source forge, and think geek without killing any elves or dwarves.

Noticed SciGraphica on FreshMeat today. They're aiming for something similar to Microcal Origin. I've never use it, so I can't comment on it.

Not necessarily a valid argument, as you can read in an old Freshmeat editorial, where representative of both Debian and RedHat made really interesting points on the subject.

If I'm correct, according to this page, freshmeat alone contains over 10k apps (look for the appindex figure). So...

Also available at your local neighborhood freshmeat

Even better, Pierre-Phillipe Coupard of Lineo Inc. has written a driver for the CueCat that captures the escape sequences, decodes the data, and echoes it in human-readable format to /dev/cuecat (which you obviously have to create)

This is a good thing(tm) because the escape sequence is alt-F10, which makes it a real pain to try and use the cuecat from a linux console (unless you have a useable vt on tty9)

It's early code, so there's obviously work to be done, but I've tried it and it does work pretty well for v.0.0.1

See the freshmeat appindex record at http://freshmeat.net/projects/cuecat/

re: tie it to Amazon to catalog books... Amazon returns information in a highly unstructured format, so this might be tricky. However, somebody just released a package on FreshMeat to do queries against the Library of Congress, which can return information in a structured format for nice, easy database insertion. It's a Perl script, and it comes enabled for Oracle, but I haven't been able to test that. Too busy porting it to MySQL.

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All generalizations are false.

...not to support "trusted client" systems... they're just bad news.

Fear not! We have Vigor

dudle

dudle

There are a number of issues involved in porting Windows apps to any sort of Unix platform of course, but I'm particularly curious about two, for now.

First, the registry. Obviously there's no registry in the sense that Windows has a registry. There are all sorts of options, gconf springs to mind. Naturally MS won't use any of them, or any other pre-existing utilities or libraries for Unix. MS's porting to Unix will be as self-contained as physically possible, much like StarOffice. So my assumption is there will be a central MS registry that all the ported apps can access. The interesting thing is, this means (Unless they move to a binary or encoded registry) that non-MS apps will also have access to it, which could make for some very interesting hacking.

The other issue that springs to mind is the fact that the vast majority of MS's development history hasn't involved actual multi-user OS's such as Unix. So will they bother taking advantage of that power, possibly implementing user-specific registries, will it only function for the user that installs it (Like StarOffice), or will it be global and blind to which user runs it? I don't really know what to predict here, but my instinct is that they will follow StarOffice's lead, and tailor their apps to function specifically for the user that installs the app. This will fall into line with Corel's blasphemous one-user Linux distro nicely, I imagine, but again, I'm not sure what to think.

Like Sony PCG-C1XS Picturebook Camera Capture you mean?

How does he find the time to work on so much neat software?

For my box (which is not online 24/7, but still) I use the Abacus Project's Portsentry (http://www.psionic.com/) and pmfirewall, available here. I find this to be quite sufficient.
cheers
cw

If all you want is a pretty interface, then maybe all you need is a basic GUI client. If you want power, though, you should look into MH, which allows you to do anything you could possibly want directly from a terminal window, or within one of several front ends (including a fine GUI client). You can even chain together commands to do complicated things (or write shell or Perl scripts that do), search, sort, and filter messages, have custom commands for writing to or replying to mail from mailing lists, and so forth. The big downside with MH is that each message is its own file, and each folder is a directory, which can mean some wasted disk space. On the other hand, having every message be its own file means that you can manipulate each message separately with shell or Perl scripts.

The main front ends for MH (outside of the various shell commands) are mh-e , an Emacs interface, and exmh , a TCL/Tk GUI client (previously mentioned by Tet). (xmh included with the X Window System, is severely outdated.) Several graphical clients can also be used as front ends for MH (although that support mostly consists of being able to read from or write messages to MH-style folders). (The links in this paragraph are to sections of the on-line version of O'Reilly's MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, now called MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers. How many other e-mail tools have an O'Reilly book dedicated to them?)

Emacs itself gives you several additional mail reading alternatives, including mh-e (of course), VM, rmail, MEW, and gnus, which is primarily a newsreader, but can also be used to read mail. (Especially good for very high-traffic lists, as it will do threading and scoring just like it does for newsgroups.)

Both exmh and mh-e (with mailcrypt) support PGP and GPG encryption, signing, and decryption.

If you don't just trust me and devote your life to MH, your best bet is to do a search on freshmeat and try all the mail clients that sound interesting. That's lots easier if you're using a Debian system or one with RPMs that will allow you to install packages, play with them, and then easily remove them and all their assorted fluff. As always, be sure to make a backup of your mail spool before you start messing around with it!

My first e-mail experiences were with VAXen and IBM mainframes. I started using MH with my first Unix account, and I've never found anything more powerful or flexible. I've tried lots of graphical clients, including Novell GroupWise 4, Eudora, Outlook, Communicator, Outlook Express, and NeXT's Mail.app, and found them all frustrating in one way or another.

My current setup uses nmh as the base system; exmh as my main reader; and mh-e for replying to mail. I use fetchmail to download my mail, and mailagent (from CPAN) to filter it, catching most spam and automatically filing real messages into the appropriate MH folders.

(To be perfectly fair, Outlook was the prettiest client I ever used, but it was still too complicated to set up and too limiting. Not to mention the nightmare that is Exchange.)

However, for more open-source clients for ICQ and AIM, try Micq for console, and GAIM for AIM. Search freshmeat.net for more...

This was discussed in an editorial on Freshmeat a little while ago. The editorial has a couple problems, but on the whole it's pretty good. There are still a few kinks to work out (it's not always easy to tell if information is accurate, and no one's going to want to vote on whether it is or take the time to reload to get the official page), but it's a step toward a workable scheme.

Alien works pretty good , it makes tgz , rpm , deb , slp =)

There are several apps that will let you play Real Player files on Linux.... this is one of them...


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The fact that it's in Real format doesn't bother me -- I've got trplayer :) What DOES tick me off is the genius that made the hyperlinks with Javascript instead of a good old A HREF. Bad web monkey -- no cookie for you!

TCP is the culprit alright. Remember, the internet's explosion was an accident.

What Al Gore and friends were aiming for was the "National Information Infrastructure." The NII was in many ways the exact opposite of the internet - EVERYTHING is pay per page, everything was a trusted client . No rights ever devolved to the consumer.

Richard Stallman's The right read is based on the legal framework contemplated for NII.

Now the NII died a pathetic death based on it's technological stupidity and the internet bloomed based on sharing resources being an inherently more efficient approach.

But this really hasn't altered the agenda of those who contemplated the NII. The goal of creating a pay-per-view, trusted-client system stayed in the back of many minds during the whole internet boom.

Today, the internet is no longer the goose that is laying laid the golden egg. It is the golden egg itself. So it makes every bit of sense that wolf will now want to come and cook the goose. The DMCA is a signal for this game to begin.

Liability is a tricky subject. It is based on intents - did you make that booby trap so that someone would die or not? But there are two sides to that. One is "did you have the specific intention for X to happen," the other is "did you have the intention to prevent X from happening." The latter is what just about anyone can tripped up on. It's easy to see how liability could be manipulated so that building something that was absolutely general purpose could be considered a crime.

All you really to bring this about is a large enough scare story to bring the heat down on everyone. (guess where do all the stories of "child molesters" come from anyway?). It seems logical that this kind tactic would indeed lump napster, hackers, and crackers into a single boogey man to be feared by the hapless citizen. Could it reach the "inventers of TCP/IP" for creating a insecure network - possibly.

Far fetched, perhaps. But once you finish reading The right read - please notice that every hypothesis is backed by actually planned laws of that time. Unix will outlawed. Windows CE will be the only OS allowed to consumers.

1. It need not cost the publisher much to "publish" a [data object] under this protocol, so there would be little need to turn down requests (unless the publisher wished to maintain a certain level of quality in its [published objects]) (most publishers won't publish crap)

2. if (a) place(s) were made available to list works published under this model (sorted into different categories) I think more people would at least consider looking at the products.

sort of like freshmeat

but not entirely

You might also want to check out this editorial at freshmeat (Negotiating for Nerds)

Yet another reason to use programs like Junkbuster. It's not everything you should use for secure surfing, but it's a start.

Hahah, yeah. My first internet connection was this weird box thing that piggybacked on our phone line at the dorms at Purdue (forget what they're called). It was a 19,200 uncompressed connection that took us right to a terminal, so no PPP.

I used slipknot for a while on it until I figured out how to get slirp working (anyone remember slirp?! Emulated a slip connection over a terminal... I seem to recall seeing that it's still being developed... ahh yeah, here it is.)

Hell, it was worth installing slirp just so you could compress the damn 19,200 connection. Damn, those were the days.

:wq!

Yup, doesn't matter. The copyright genie has left the bottle. At least for audio. I can envision no practical solution to the problem which the RIAA faces. Except perhaps for one.

Here's what I mean:
- With or without Napster, millions of users will be exchanging audio tracks on the internet. Gnutella, Usenet, IRC, whatever. If all of those go away (which of course they won't), new forms of distribution will appear.

- With or without encryption of the source content, the audio files will continue to appear. If you can play the music to a speaker, you can record it back to an MP3 (or other audio format). Many times without even making the DA-AD loop! (a la vsound and tools like it.)

- The problem isn't Napster. It's people exchanging copyrighted music. And with the convergence of readily available Internet bandwidth + useful audio codecs, the potential for mass distribution of unlicensed music is overwhelming. The RIAA is desperately holding its finger in the dike, but these efforts will be, of course, to no avail.

- The only solution I can envision: offer a better alternative. That would need to be something free or near-free. Convenient to the user. Better than Napster. Maybe a $.20 download that comes with a color .PDF of the liner notes and a fan-club registration card. Easy to burn onto a CD. Something that preserves more of the artist's envisioned format. Fast. Easier access to the songs you are looking for. More reliable downloads. Pick your own important features.

- And don't think for a second that audio files are the only type of media under threat: Video will follow soon behind, as will other media types as they become available on the Internet and the bandwidth becomes sufficient to transmit them.
It's plain to me that the result of the Napster case won't make a significant difference to the MP3 exchange phemonenon on the internet. It is, however, a very important case for the precedent it sets. Keep a close eye on it.

Don't forget xpdf.

The napster alternatives arent being sued, so they servers will presumably not be shut down. They have a low enough profile that the RIAA will probably never come down on them. So, while napster works, use it, and then transfer to another. Fresh Meat should have plenty of options. The one my friends use is called Gnutella. good luck getting music for free, i'll still be using vinyl, -Kabloona

There are heaps of open source clones out there that connect to the napster servers. Try a search on freshmeat.

There are heaps of open source clones out there that connect to the napster servers. Try a search on freshmeat.

Freshmeat GPS search finds a few possibilities on the first page (although one of them is Mayco's GPSd which was already mentioned).

There's a solution to this. It's called freshmeat.

More significantly, the company repeatedly has tried to stymie independent developers working on Napster-compatible software and Web sites.
Is that true?
http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?que ry=napster
The only napster clone I've used is Gnapster, which (mmmmm.... Aqua GTK theme) works IMHO faster and more efficiently than the Windows client. I haven't heard anything about Napster trying to shut these people down. I'm sure they could easily tweak their protocol a la AOL to make it incompatible with the reverse-engineered stuff. I don't see what they've done that's selfish at all, except try to stop people from SELLING merchandise pertaining to them without permission.

The process of encrypting information in another medium is called steganography.

Karma whorish links ahead:

http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/

http://www.thur.de/ulf/stegano/

http://freshmeat.net/appind ex/1999/10/16/940080510.html

Nobody, and I mean nobody, really pays any attention to the .com and .org distinction anymore anyway. Here is an example. ; Here is another