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  1. Re:Perl uses smarter text algorithms than most peo by Ranger+Rick · · Score: 1 · on Larry Wall Announces Perl 6
    Oh, you mean this?

    Oh, sorry, that's C. C++ can't use C, can it? ;)

    :wq!

  2. Re:Time for an 'open' USENET search website? by harmonica · · Score: 2 · on Deja Linking Ads Within Usenet Posts?

    There is GPL'd technology available for text indexing and compression: MG (for Managing Gigabytes).

    No idea on how to get the free web-based Usenet server running, though ;-(

  3. Re:RMS right to make money from software. by Raphael · · Score: 3 · on Slashback: Insectivores, Persistence, Domaination

    If Troll Tech wanted to have "GPL with a commercial exception", they could simply license Qt under the GPL and offer a separate commercial license for sale like other companies do.

    You did read this and Matthias Ettrich's comments here?

    Unfortunately, even Matthias Ettrich misses the target in several of his replies (arguing about something different for what James Ramsey wrote and not adressing the real issues).

    As I wrote at the bottom of this article on Advogato, there are a few things to keep in mind when you read the articles and comments posted on Freshmeat:

    • There are no problems if you distribute a GPL'd program using Qt, as long as you only distribute the source code. But the GPL and QPL are incompatible if you distribute a compiled executable, because it would be a derivative work (see the explanation below) and the GPL does not allow the distribution of derivative works unless all parts of the work can be released under the GPL, with some exceptions that are debated in the editorial. For example, according to the exception stated at the end of section 3 of the GPL, it could be possible to distribute KDE binaries if Qt can be considered to be a standard part of the operating system and KDE is not distributed together with Qt (which would be a problem for all Linux distributions).
    • The GPL cannot force you to change the license of other pieces of code and it cannot force you to use the code in some specific way (in fact, it allows you to do almost whatever you want with the code for private purposes), but it can (and does) prevent you from re-destributing the GPL'd code if you do not meet some conditions. One of these conditions is that all parts of a derivative work must be distributed under the GPL (see section 2b, the so-called "viral clause").
    • If you are the author of a piece of code, you are free to distribute it under any license and to change the license (for new versions) at any time. However, this is only possible if you are the only copyright holder. If you have used any code that was contributed by someone else, then all contributors must agree on the new license. This is a problem because some KDE applications (not many, fortunately) have borrowed some code from other applications and it is not easy to get the agreement on the "Qt exception" from all authors and contributors. So although more than 90% of the KDE code could be considered to implicitely have the "Qt exception" because the code was written specifically for KDE, the status of the remaining parts of the code (especially in KDE applications that are not part of the core) should be clarified.
    • Some people say that we need a new version of the GPL without the viral clause, because the current version is too restrictive and the new one would solve the KDE problems. But they fail to understand that some authors of GPL'd code do want this restriction, and chose to release their code under the GPL precisely because of it (this does not necessarily apply to all authors of GPL'd code, but those who are in that category cannot be ignored).

    I recommend that you read Sam Tobin-Hochstadt's diary entry on Advogato (16 Jul 2000), in which he describes what is a ``derivative work'' according to the copyright law (17 USC Sec. 101). Since KDE falls in this category, section 2b of the GPL requires all parts of the derivative work to be published under the terms of the GPL. Parts of Qt (at least the macros and types defined in the Qt header files if you are linking dynamically, or even the whole Qt library if you are linking statically) are included in KDE binaries, and therefore must be re-distributable under the terms of the GPL. This is in conflict with the QPL version 1.0 (used for Qt 2.0), which adds some restrictions that are not compatible with the GPL. Even the QPL version 2.0 (planned for a future release of Qt?) would not solve these problems, as discussed in the Freshmeat editorial.

  4. Re:RMS right to make money from software. by Raphael · · Score: 3 · on Slashback: Insectivores, Persistence, Domaination

    If Troll Tech wanted to have "GPL with a commercial exception", they could simply license Qt under the GPL and offer a separate commercial license for sale like other companies do.

    You did read this and Matthias Ettrich's comments here?

    Unfortunately, even Matthias Ettrich misses the target in several of his replies (arguing about something different for what James Ramsey wrote and not adressing the real issues).

    As I wrote at the bottom of this article on Advogato, there are a few things to keep in mind when you read the articles and comments posted on Freshmeat:

    • There are no problems if you distribute a GPL'd program using Qt, as long as you only distribute the source code. But the GPL and QPL are incompatible if you distribute a compiled executable, because it would be a derivative work (see the explanation below) and the GPL does not allow the distribution of derivative works unless all parts of the work can be released under the GPL, with some exceptions that are debated in the editorial. For example, according to the exception stated at the end of section 3 of the GPL, it could be possible to distribute KDE binaries if Qt can be considered to be a standard part of the operating system and KDE is not distributed together with Qt (which would be a problem for all Linux distributions).
    • The GPL cannot force you to change the license of other pieces of code and it cannot force you to use the code in some specific way (in fact, it allows you to do almost whatever you want with the code for private purposes), but it can (and does) prevent you from re-destributing the GPL'd code if you do not meet some conditions. One of these conditions is that all parts of a derivative work must be distributed under the GPL (see section 2b, the so-called "viral clause").
    • If you are the author of a piece of code, you are free to distribute it under any license and to change the license (for new versions) at any time. However, this is only possible if you are the only copyright holder. If you have used any code that was contributed by someone else, then all contributors must agree on the new license. This is a problem because some KDE applications (not many, fortunately) have borrowed some code from other applications and it is not easy to get the agreement on the "Qt exception" from all authors and contributors. So although more than 90% of the KDE code could be considered to implicitely have the "Qt exception" because the code was written specifically for KDE, the status of the remaining parts of the code (especially in KDE applications that are not part of the core) should be clarified.
    • Some people say that we need a new version of the GPL without the viral clause, because the current version is too restrictive and the new one would solve the KDE problems. But they fail to understand that some authors of GPL'd code do want this restriction, and chose to release their code under the GPL precisely because of it (this does not necessarily apply to all authors of GPL'd code, but those who are in that category cannot be ignored).

    I recommend that you read Sam Tobin-Hochstadt's diary entry on Advogato (16 Jul 2000), in which he describes what is a ``derivative work'' according to the copyright law (17 USC Sec. 101). Since KDE falls in this category, section 2b of the GPL requires all parts of the derivative work to be published under the terms of the GPL. Parts of Qt (at least the macros and types defined in the Qt header files if you are linking dynamically, or even the whole Qt library if you are linking statically) are included in KDE binaries, and therefore must be re-distributable under the terms of the GPL. This is in conflict with the QPL version 1.0 (used for Qt 2.0), which adds some restrictions that are not compatible with the GPL. Even the QPL version 2.0 (planned for a future release of Qt?) would not solve these problems, as discussed in the Freshmeat editorial.

  5. Re:You missed one thing... by Kickasso · · Score: 1 · on Corel Sells GraphicCorp Division

    See here. The wery first sentence. Unfortunately winehq seems to be down right now so I can't find it there.

  6. More Freenet interviews by Fawking+DSL · · Score: 1 · on Ian Clarke on Freenet
    From here:

    June 30, 2000: MP3 Summit Ian at MP3 Summit webcast
    You can find Ian's hour long talk at the MP3 Summit about 1 hour 8 minutes into the Wednesday webcast.

    June 16, 2000: Guardian Free market fight for music moguls
    Interesting article in a British national newspaper.

    May 27, 2000: LA Weekly Genie 1, Bottle 0
    Very amusing article on Freenet and copyright. Highly recommended.

    May 24, 2000: Channel 4 News Hackers stay one step ahead
    A very cool news item talking about recent attempts by the British government to censor the Internet and how Freenet will make this very difficult. Includes text and streaming video of the item.

    May 23, 2000: Libération L'anarchie est au bout du clavier
    An interesting French article about Freenet, concentrating on the freedom of information aspects of the system rather than just copyright.

    May 12, 2000: National Post Napster secured page in Internet history
    Interesting description of why Freenet is not vulnerable in the same way that Napster is, although I must say that their "final thought" is slightly perplexing!

    May 12, 2000: O'Reilly Network Gnutella and Freenet represent true technological innovation
    A nice article concentrating, for a change, on the technical side of Freenet and Gnutella. Reasonably accurate, although it understates the efficiency improvement that Freenet should provide (describing it as of comparable efficiency to the WWW where it should be much more efficient).

    May 12, 2000: Het Nieuwsblad Vrijheid van downloaden
    A Belgian article about Freenet.

    May 10, 2000: Houston Chronicle Software developer pledges to foil all intellectual property watchdogs
    A version of the article below, doesn't require that you register.

    May 10, 2000: New York Times The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
    One of the better articles; concentrates on the copyright issue. Requires free registration.

    April 27, 2000: PCFormat Daily FreeNet
    A brief article on Freenet.

    April 27, 2000: Heise News-Ticker World Wide Anarchy: Netz ohne Kontrolle
    A German article on Freenet.

    April 26, 2000: CNET.com Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net
    Entertaining article with some nice quotes.

    April 17, 2000: The Irish Times Anarchy Rules Alternative Web
    A rather amusing article on Freenet.

    April 16, 2000: Freshmeat Client As Server: The New Model
    An interesting article discussing distributed systems and how systems like Freenet are actually in a similar spirit to the original Internet.

    April 13, 2000: El País Freenet propone una red sin censuras, alternativa a la WWW
    A Spanish article about Freenet.

    April 10, 2000: Slashdot.org FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions
    A very informative interview conducted by the readership of SlashDot.org, probably the closest thing to a FAQ, aside from our faq.

    March 25, 2000: ABC News Freedom on the Net?
    A rehash of the New Scientist article below, but likely to reach a much larger audience.

    March 25, 2000: New Scientist Out of control
    A "big bad Internet"-style article, but it is reasonably well researched and seeks the opinions of those who might be considered Freenet's opposition.

    March 23, 2000: Heise.de Ein Netzwerk, das Zensur unmöglich machen soll
    A German article on Freenet.

    March 14, 2000: OLinux Freenet, a polemic concept to deal with WWW
    An English translation of a Brazilian interview with Ian Clarke. Focuses on the technical aspects of Freenet, and goes into a reasonable amount of detail as to how the system works.

    March 10, 2000: Webwereld Anoniem Freenet ultieme schuilplaats voor piraten
    A Dutch article on Freenet. My Dutch is a little rusty but it looks like it is primarily inspired by the Wired article below.

    March 8, 2000: no spoon FreeNet : le réseau anonyme distribué qui supplantera le Web
    An excellent French article on Freenet, draws an interesting parallel between Freenet and the writings of Neal Stephenson.

    March 3, 2000: Need To Know sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering
    A brief but excellent article again approaching Freenet from a pro-freedom standpoint.

    February 24, 2000: PigDog Journal Get in on the Ground Floor of Freedom
    A very positive little article describing Freenet and why they think it is interesting using some rather "colorful" language.

    August 14, 1999: Brave Gnu World FreeNET
    One of the first articles about Freenet back when it was 100% theory. Still an excellent introduction to the way Freenet works.

  7. FreeS/WAN by hempguy · · Score: 1 · on Open VPNs On Unix That Support Windows Clients?
    First, I'd like to say, that I share the tought that Ask Slashdot is getting lamer & lamer. If I would post this question 6 months ago, it would be rejected immediately and I would have to go to freshmeat. Which I did. Altough I am not using a VPN in a professional environment (yet?), I'll explain my situation.

    We have to networks (each of them have around 5 M$ clients, and 1 Linux box as firewall). I installed FreeS/WAN on both machines -- the documentation is pretty good -- and in NO time all network neighborhoods showed the Win-clients of the other network. I understand that the recent releases even have improved road warrior support! I don't know anything about the other programs mentioned here, but I know for sure that Linux (and FreeS/WAN) makes an excellent VPN gateway.


    my € 0.2

    -8<--

  8. Solutions by Ex+Machina · · Score: 2 · on Open VPNs On Unix That Support Windows Clients?

    http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=v pn

  9. Re:It's all about standards and driver implementat by Inoshiro · · Score: 3 · on Linux Gaming: A Field Report

    1) Linux drivers are not at all like Windows drivers. We have loadable modules, not VxDs. You could setup a system let people download a Makefile + source + shell script to auto compile, copy to /lib/modules/{kernel}, and insmod/add to /etc/rc.d structure very easily. Which would address your point.

    2) I fail to see why you are saying this. DRI does this now. Linux 2.4.x-pre supports your USB devices now (and will be released RSN :)). The only missing glue is the input API. Perasonally, I wouldn't mind it if SDL became standard. It works on almost everything now.

    3) I'm not sure what you're aiming at. Putting game binaries in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/games with the data files in /usr/local/games/lib/{game name} is an accepted standard.

    Btw: OpenDoc is Corba, and is alive and well in Gnome, etc. Please keep your facts straight.
    ---

  10. Steganography, decoy tactics, and volume by mbrubeck · · Score: 1 · on Earthlink Refuses To Install Carnivore
    When you want to use crypto without anyone knowing, you use steganography ("hidden writing"). For example, there are free programs (like steghide) that will hide an encrypted message inside an image file or other large binary file. The resulting file will appear almost identical to the original image, but with the correct key and algorithm the encrypted message will be revealed.

    You can also use decoy tactics -- sending a lot of fake encrypted messages in addition to your real ones. Some of my mathematician friends' ideas of a good time involve sending large blocks of white noise to suspicious overseas addresses. "Gotta keep the NSA on their toes." This has the added advantage of defeating traffic analysis (sometimes it's enough just to know when and where messages are sent, without knowing their contents).

    And of course, if all traffic is encrypted then encryption won't be grounds for suspicion. This is a major goal of Phillip Zimmerman, who said in an interview:

    There's safety in numbers. An argument could be made that as a matter of solidarity with the rest of the population you should encrypt your email.

    If we lived in a society where everyone sent their messages on postcards instead of envelopes--I'm talking about written communications on paper--then anyone who decided to use an envelope would draw suspicion because while everyone else was using a postcard this guy decided to use an envelope, therefore he must have something to hide.

    Fortunately we don't have that kind of social expectation. There's nothing suspicious about putting your mail in envelopes. So there should also be nothing suspicious about encrypting your electronic mail.

  11. Re:Deterrant solution by JordoCrouse · · Score: 1 · on Ebay Seeks Federal Assistance In Banning User

    Hey, sombody moderate this guy up. Thats the most elegant solution I have heard yet.

    I expect to see an apache module on freshmeat before this weekend is out!

  12. Re:Why four display adatpers? by Emil+Brink · · Score: 1 · on IBM's 5.2M Pixel Flat Panel

    Never do math (even with the help of the excellent grpn calculator) late in the afternoon. Since every frame is 20 MB, 9 MB is clearly not even enough for a single frame, so never mind the mention of double buffering above. Thanks.

  13. New version of CUPS released today by mbrubeck · · Score: 1 · on IETF Working On New Printing Standards
    Speaking of CUPS and IPP, CUPS 1.1 was announced today on Freshmeat. Among the new features is IPP 1.1 support.

    There's also a very informative comment attached to the freshmeat announcement.

  14. Try out Linux distributed computing today! by Nelson+Minar · · Score: 1 · on Future Of Internet-Based Distributed Computing

    My company, Popular Power, has had commercial distributed computing software out since April. We just put out a Linux version in response to a Freshmeat Petition, check it out!

    Our system is pretty neat; we're doing real work (researching flu vaccines), and our client is truly general purpose in that we can switch the kinds of work we're doing on the fly with no re-install. We're lining up customers now; we'll switch over to paying work as time goes on. We're also planning an open source release of the client software.

    I truly think this kind of computing, along with other distributed systems like Gnutella, is the future of the Internet. For a good overview of this field, check out Howard Rheingold's article in the new August Wired, or this Wired news article.

  15. One machine at a time? One OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on New Remote Configuration App For Linux
    Are all these tools really restricted to one machine at a time? Or Linux? The challenge isn't automating the administration of a single machine, it's do the right thing for multiple machines. Most machines will be the same, but some will be substantially different. The right tool would help unify administration of both...

    And then you have the issue of nomadic machines like laptops and PDAs. When they use your network, you need to assert some administrative control over the resources they use. Has anyone attempted tools to help with these?

    Don't suppose anyone even remembers cfengine? Or has looked into GUIs for PIKT? Or any of the other tools that already exist?

  16. Re:PAM support in Mac OS X? Or LDAP support? by Phroggy · · Score: 1 · on Merging Unix And Mac OS
    Without replying directly to the article... Does anybody know if Mac OS X definetly supports PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)? Or do the user and group management of Mac OS X support LDAP? In the whole world I havent found any hint on this. For me (and thousands more, I assume) this is very important, because it would be the most convenient way to integrate Macs into a heterogenic environment of Linux and Mac OS X servers. What a dream...

    Mac OS X uses a NetInfo database, and all username/password queries are passed to a NetInfo daemon. This daemon can be configured, I believe, to query PAM or LDAP instead. NetInfo has been ported to Linux as well, so that might help, since NetInfo actually looks to be pretty cool.

    --

  17. [OT] Usenet binary downloaders by mistered · · Score: 1 · on ITU Agrees On V.92 standard

    Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:

    For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy

    For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)

  18. [OT] Usenet binary downloaders by mistered · · Score: 1 · on ITU Agrees On V.92 standard

    Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:

    For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy

    For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)

  19. [OT] Usenet binary downloaders by mistered · · Score: 1 · on ITU Agrees On V.92 standard

    Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:

    For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy

    For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)

  20. [OT] Usenet binary downloaders by mistered · · Score: 1 · on ITU Agrees On V.92 standard

    Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:

    For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy

    For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)

  21. [OT] Usenet binary downloaders by mistered · · Score: 1 · on ITU Agrees On V.92 standard

    Some apps to make use of your bandwidth:

    For Windows, free (banner ad supported): BinaryBoy

    For Linux: Binary Grabber, brag, Glitter (GUI), PicMonger (GUI), Usenet Binary Harvester (perl)

  22. what trolltech is responding to by nocent · · Score: 4 · on TrollTech Responds To QT Accusations
    This article by Joseph Carter entitled "Why Debian doesn't include KDE" is what Trolltech is responding to.

    Among other things, Carter wrote:

    The draft license seen by me last before release of the final QPL was GPL compatible. I was proud of it. So, it seemed, was Troll Tech. And then the final license was released, undoing the parts of my work which made the license GPL compatible, but retaining enough to satisfy the definitions of "Free" many distributions (including Debian) use.

    But the license issue remains. Qt is not non-free software. But it's not GPL compatible either. Some KDE core developers admit this privately, but won't do so in public because of the implications: that much of KDE is not legally distributable until they contact some people that are damned scarce these days and make the necessary arrangements.

    There's a lively debate on that page already.

  23. Re:Other software...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents?
    The freshmeat appindex is a good place to look for programs.

    cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat]
    ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat]
    network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser
    ftp clients - [freshmeat]

  24. Re:Other software...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents?
    The freshmeat appindex is a good place to look for programs.

    cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat]
    ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat]
    network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser
    ftp clients - [freshmeat]

  25. Re:Other software...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents?
    The freshmeat appindex is a good place to look for programs.

    cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat]
    ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat]
    network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser
    ftp clients - [freshmeat]

  26. Re:Other software...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents?
    The freshmeat appindex is a good place to look for programs.

    cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat]
    ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat]
    network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser
    ftp clients - [freshmeat]

  27. Quicktime in Linux by einstein · · Score: 1 · on Goodbye Geek Compound

    Cmdr Taco...you were saying that you can't play quicktime movies in linux...I just happened to stumble upon this over at freshmeat... it appears to be a quicktime player for linux...I'm still downloading it, hope it works.

  28. Re:Could be good but...new ERP companies!!! by RalfM · · Score: 1 · on Baan IVc/V - The First Open-Source ERP?
    ERP has traditionally been an area in which
    • software cost is minimal, compared to the
    • real big money charged for tailoring
    This is the Open Source dream! This is what is always touted as the business model for the OS or GNU or etc software specialists.

    The benefit here is that the industry is already accustomed to paying for the follow up service. The license cost is the entry price, and if it's $0, then smaller organisations may come in. They know that it's not an off the shelf product that anyone can just install (sound familiar?).

    I could imagine a group of people getting together, taking on the open source management of the ERP (BAAN or whatever, maybe even working on the current projects such as http://linas.org/linux/xacc/projects.html or like the business specific attempts such as http://linudent.sourceforge.net/ and http://freshmeat.net/appind ex/1999/10/05/939153658.html) and then giving it away for free and making money from the tweaking. Start your own SAP killer, targeted at small businesses and build up from there...


    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  29. And even more astounding story by SurfsUp · · Score: 3 · on The Great Internet Con

    On freshmeat yesterday, a GPL compressor for still and moving images that does Low Bit-Rate Image and Video Coding with Weighted Finite Automata, outperforming JPEG and is competitive with fractal and wavelet compression. Efficient enough to decode movies in software. I grabbed the code and checked out the demo images: it does seem to work.
    --

  30. Here are some links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2 · on "Free" Assembler And Emulator For The 68HC11/12?
    Have you had a look at EVBU? It's a GPLed 68HC11 simulator.

    Freshmeat is your friend. This then points you at the ASM11 assembler, which then leads you to the 68HCxx webring.

    That should get you started.

  31. Re:lmfao by iCEBaLM · · Score: 2 · on Oil Slick Threatens African Penguins

    you realize you flamed me because you didn't think i was funny. i think that makes you the retarded one. or at least the intolerant one. oh well...i guess i'll just thank god that i'm only subjected to your opinions on a relatively obscure environmentalist-geek website.

    Actually, I flamed you because I, quite frankly, thought your post was tasteless, irrelevant, and a waste of bandwidth and hard drive space. Does this make me intolerant? Perhaps. Maybe I'm justified in my intolerance however as you seem to be lowering the median IQ of the human race I belong to.

    btw - as far as 'on-topic' is concerned. if i go to hear a person speak at a convention on linux...and they start to digress about how they hate cheeseburgers or some such gobledeegook, is that not 'off-topic'? even if they organized and funded the convention?

    These are not quite parallel. The only thing slashdot claims to be is "News for Nerds, Stuff the Matters." and I find it rather insulting that us "nerds" would not think the environment matters.

    you can approve of whatever they do at slashdot. - that's your right....just fucking admit the story was digressionary.

    I admit no such thing. I suppose if the only thing you want to read about on slashdot is the latest release of KDE, maybe you need to start going to freshmeat.

    Maybe if sengan had actually posted more than 2 stories in the long history of slashdot you'd have a leg to stand on with that 'it's whatever they want the topic to be' argument.

    I really don't see how that hinders my argument, whether it's hemos, emmett, cliff, or sengan posting the penguin article, whats the difference?

    -- iCEBaLM

  32. Dante by divbyzero · · Score: 1 · on Non-Windows Clients Working Behind MS Proxy?


    According to Freshmeat, there is a program called "Dante" which might help. I haven't tried it myself, though.

    But my grandest creation, as history will tell,

  33. Re:ReiserFS? by iCEBaLM · · Score: 2 · on Has Linux Development Become Too Political?

    Agreed, but this is something for the reiserfs crew to implement. FWIW, I'm unaware of a free util for resizing ext2 at all, is there one?

    Well, there's ext2resize and GNU Parted but I've never used either.

    Hmm.. sounds like S.T. should could use some help, being so swamped and all. There must be _somebody_ who has the skills/desire to help him out. Unless of course, he doesn't _want_ any help (Hubris, anyone?). A backward compatible journalled fs is to much of a good thing to let languish like that.

    I'm not sure on this one, there has to be someone else, sure, but I don't know if people have asked to help, submitted patches or not, etc. We need a journaling filesystem, it's too long in the making...

    vi or EMACS, Perl or Python, Gnome or KDE, man or info, ad nauseum.

    Pico, C, enlightenment, text. :)

    The flame wars break out because people take things as personal attacks and egotism contributes to the lashing out in response.

    I agree with you, but I'm not so sure the case is so cut and dried here. I think someone doesn't want to include RFS, not based on its technical merits, but for some other reason. I mean there simply is no reason NOT to include it. I've read through the lkml archives and I haven't seen one, not one good reason not to include ReiserFS in the kernel and flag it experimental.

    I spent a good amount of time as an audio engineer (no more, thanks), and as far as I can tell you the hackers ain't got nuthin' on the "rock stars" when it comes to egos.

    I think we all know this from the rantings that unnamed rock band. Thank god too, if we had people as bad as THEM in our community I think we'd have a full blown civil war.

    -- iCEBaLM

  34. Re:ReiserFS? by iCEBaLM · · Score: 2 · on Has Linux Development Become Too Political?

    Agreed, but this is something for the reiserfs crew to implement. FWIW, I'm unaware of a free util for resizing ext2 at all, is there one?

    Well, there's ext2resize and GNU Parted but I've never used either.

    Hmm.. sounds like S.T. should could use some help, being so swamped and all. There must be _somebody_ who has the skills/desire to help him out. Unless of course, he doesn't _want_ any help (Hubris, anyone?). A backward compatible journalled fs is to much of a good thing to let languish like that.

    I'm not sure on this one, there has to be someone else, sure, but I don't know if people have asked to help, submitted patches or not, etc. We need a journaling filesystem, it's too long in the making...

    vi or EMACS, Perl or Python, Gnome or KDE, man or info, ad nauseum.

    Pico, C, enlightenment, text. :)

    The flame wars break out because people take things as personal attacks and egotism contributes to the lashing out in response.

    I agree with you, but I'm not so sure the case is so cut and dried here. I think someone doesn't want to include RFS, not based on its technical merits, but for some other reason. I mean there simply is no reason NOT to include it. I've read through the lkml archives and I haven't seen one, not one good reason not to include ReiserFS in the kernel and flag it experimental.

    I spent a good amount of time as an audio engineer (no more, thanks), and as far as I can tell you the hackers ain't got nuthin' on the "rock stars" when it comes to egos.

    I think we all know this from the rantings that unnamed rock band. Thank god too, if we had people as bad as THEM in our community I think we'd have a full blown civil war.

    -- iCEBaLM

  35. The obvious answer... by TheGeek · · Score: 1 · on Why Develop On Linux?

    ...is really that when you develop for Linux you don't have to deal with Microsoft bullshit licensing issues, Microsoft (lack of) support, HUGE costs for development packages (as opposed to a quick visit to Freshmeat).
    TheGeek

  36. VisualStudio + Linux... =) by phlake · · Score: 1 · on Why Develop On Linux?
    I use VisualCafe (at home: VisualStudio) to code in, save to a Linux Samba share, compile with javac (at home: gcc). or compile for windows...

    ...but then, I'm using Java (at home: OpenGL)...or I might use CodeWarrior on my iMac.

    Some people may not be this lucky.

  37. VisualStudio + Linux... =) by phlake · · Score: 1 · on Why Develop On Linux?
    I use VisualCafe (at home: VisualStudio) to code in, save to a Linux Samba share, compile with javac (at home: gcc). or compile for windows...

    ...but then, I'm using Java (at home: OpenGL)...or I might use CodeWarrior on my iMac.

    Some people may not be this lucky.

  38. Re:Multimedia by Stonehand · · Score: 1 · on Why Develop On Linux?

    mpegs? Try freshmeat.net; ISTR that there's an entry for smpeg, and one for mtv. The former is SDL based, and therefore has... issues, if you've got an Aureal Vortex-based card.

  39. Re:Initial steps into programming by Signal+11 · · Score: 1 · on Who's Afraid Of C++?
    Sorry, but the biggest problem I've had in programming isn't the learning curve.. it's finding a use for it. I need projects big enough to say "check this out, see what I built!" without it being some kind of monolithic undertaking.

    My problem with learning to program has been with finding the discipline and commitment to debug the think and Just Make It Work.. which takes up so much of your time it's well beyond "funny", and also that I just don't have any projects small enough for me to tackle and gain experience.

    My first-ever "serious" C program was mp3db, a 1500 line simple database program (open file, read last 128 bytes, build structure, dump to database, repeat). 1500 lines to do that!!!

    anyway.. just me ranting.. pay me no mind.. =)

  40. It's been done... by gaudior · · Score: 1 · on Unmaintained Free Software Projects
    A much more useful nice for this sort of page would be more like a code/project archive or library - a place to steal code, get ideas, and act as a sort of museum for software.

    Freshmeat
    --

  41. Re:How to Fix the GIMP User Interface by Dandy · · Score: 1 · on What's Ahead For The GIMP?
    The GIMP will take off when the UI is fully customizable; Making the UI maximally customizable should become the GIMPs next great goal.
    This is actually a highly achievable goal with the help of libglade.
  42. URLs of software that opens Office docs by dan_bethe · · Score: 1 · on Why Can't We Reverse Engineer .DOC?
    Here is a list of applications that can open Microsoft's proprietary file formats. But first, I ask you all what good even an open standard is from a company who champions most of the world's business and personal document formats, if that company doesn't follow their own standard? We must script one copy of Office such that it acts as a cgi-bin, converting all submitted proprietary docs into an open standard.
    • http://www.wvWare.com/, maybe the best open source Word converter? Formerly "mswordview", it's a library and a front-end app, which is currently AbiWord's converter.
    • word2x
    • AbiSource, a company producing an open source, cross platform, comercial office suite. Their motto was "SHOW ME THE SOURCE!!!", which we had to scream at the March 1999 Linuxworld Expo in order to get their t-shirt.
    • Adobe FrameMaker for Linux -- Not sure if it does Office, but it's a commercial word processor!
    • VistaSource / ApplixWare -- Cross platform, partially open source, complete office suite and integrated development environment in the form of either a local app, or as a Java-based thin client plus app server architecture. Compare to StarOffice. My experience has been that you can send an un-convertable Office document to Applix's closely-monitored community support mailing list, and they will attempt to modify Applixware's import filters around it, and send you a patch. How cool is that?
    • S un StarOffice. Very good as well. Complete office suite. StarOffice and Applixware are capable of replacing Microsoft Office for literally most people.
    • Corel Wordperfect -- See also Corel's Linux distribution.
    • KDE's KOffice -- Open source office suite.
    • Freshmeat.net's index of office apps
    Here is a list of how to buy books for tutoring you on how to use these products, including reviews and price comparisons, and free shipping from Buy.com. In order of my personal preference. Any others? Perhaps some that are embedded in the ton of entries in Freshmeat's office index? Let's hear some authors pipe up! Slashdot's html submitter seems to be busted, so try to fix the above urls by removing their spaces!
  43. Re:Slashdot is repeating itself by TheGreek · · Score: 1 · on Programmers Will Debut Free MP3 Alternative
    I think I might just find my news somewhere else that ALWAYS brings news and fresh info on open source products.

    Freshmeat.

  44. Re:3D style Interface is interesting? by Glytch · · Score: 2 · on Berlin 0.2.0 Released

    I believe you're referring to XCruise. It's pretty useless as a file manager, but fun to play with and show off to non-X friends. You don't even need an expensive graphics card, OpenGL or Mesa to run it.

  45. Re:HP ScanJet _5_P by FunkyChild · · Score: 1 · on Easter Eggs in Open Source?

    This isn't an easter egg either, but its incredibly cool. I found this program going through freshmeat the other day.

    What it does is, it displays different bar-code like patterns on your screen in a timed sequence depending on what song you want. The RF noise generated by the monitor when it displays this, can be picked up on an AM radio at the right frequency, and you hear the tune! It's amazing to hear basic music on the radio that not only is being broadcasted by your computer, but by your monitor!

    The link to it on Freshmeat is here:

    "Tempest For Eliza" : http://freshmeat.net/appind ex/1999/08/24/935505539.html

  46. Re:Ding dong! by fsck · · Score: 1 · on Justice Department Decides To Break Up Microsoft
    drivers for Windows that can read ext2fs partitions natively?

    http://freshmeat.net/appind ex/1999/11/27/943756349.html

    Explore2fs
    John Newbigin - November 27th 1999, 21:32 EST

    Explore2fs is a Windows program which allows read & write support for Linux filesystems, and works under NT, 95, 98 & 2000

  47. Oops, hosed the links by BoLean · · Score: 3 · on Open Source Weather Network?
  48. Oops, hosed the links by BoLean · · Score: 3 · on Open Source Weather Network?
  49. Oops, hosed the links by BoLean · · Score: 3 · on Open Source Weather Network?
  50. Oops, hosed the links by BoLean · · Score: 3 · on Open Source Weather Network?