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At least you can encode your cds to mp3 on both CPU's :)

I use Shaw@Home here in the interior of Saskatchewan, and I have a very static IP (DHCP, yes; changing after lease expires, no -- it renews fine forever).

If you're worried about portscanning, Portsentry is very good. I used its "reverse" bind capability to make it automagically ipchains any fscking portscanner into the ground (FIN/SYN, or standard connect scanner).
The @Home people, irc.home.com, and a friend doing a test FIN scan are the only ones to set it off so far (except for when I tried Win2k on the LAN, and it started probing port 445 for no reasons -- fecking MS). It's really good, and I feel better knowing it's there (and emailing me updates every 15 minutes) :-)
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I've found even the modified search forms (there are several floating around) hard to use given Deja's current breakage. The real lifesaver for me is dejasearch, a command line utility. Throw it a search and it saves the result set to a file which you can then browse. Find it here at Freshmeat.

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

I've found even the modified search forms (there are several floating around) hard to use given Deja's current breakage. The real lifesaver for me is dejasearch, a command line utility. Throw it a search and it saves the result set to a file which you can then browse. Find it here at Freshmeat.

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

Oh no! Well, that just won't do! :) Yeah, I suppose you have a point there... actually, there is a utility on Freshmeat that'll let you open a connecting through AOL straight to the Internet... a quick hack, and certainly not user-friendly though. I'm not worried; AOL will port it over once the user base is large enough, and AOL'ers are the last people who will ever switch to Linux anyway.

look at freshmeat.net they are the largest database of Linux software. Just do a search for NNTP or Usenet or look in their Appindex.

For X I use the Netscape reader but xrn, krn, knode, XEmacs + + + should work. For console/xterm mode I use tin (actually it is probably better than the Netscape reader, much faster), there are several others (anyone still use rn?)

As the other fellow suggested, Squid would provide a nice way to audit what comes in. IJB also provides a nice regexp based blocker (based on URLs, not content). You could homebrew an IJB list that blocks common "XXX" domains, as well as advert blocking. IPchains provides a nice way to completely blocking some machines (I use it as a responce to port scanning, among other things). I'm not sure if there are proxies that filter based on textual content (I think image content would be the hardest, and would likely require Lisp ;)), but Freshmeat might have one listed.
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Another site that comes to mind with the same attitude on releasing their backend code is freshmeat. Go figure.

I agree that there are other OSes which are potentially better suited to embedded system, but many of the hardware limitations to using a bloated desktop OS in an embedded system are gone.. and while Linux may seem bloated next to some of the newer embedded system OSes.. it has a known record for reliability. I mean it takes debuging time to get an OS stable. Also, an open source embedded OS would have a lot less interest then Linux. Plus, these devices will increasingly require programability and the familearity of Joe Programmer with Linux could help. I'm not saing Linux is the best way to go, but it may be the way people actually go for a little while..

I'm still a little bit conrfused about why they said what they did though because Linux really kicks ass in the server world.. and we will probable see *something* in the next few years which says once and for all that microsoft is going noware in the server world. Open source is just too good at the server stuff.


I agree about the education thing.. and one thing to point out is that other countries (France and Mexic at least, right?) are moving all the schools to Linux. Is it possible that our schools will wiat too long and we will give a technilogical advantage to these other countries? It would kinda suck to have a generation of Americans that can only shop online while Mexico imports all our buisnesses because they have lots of cheap programming tallent.

What I really want to see is lots of programmable embedded systems.. so that the children of all these fuckers who can't think their way out of a paper bag will need to learn to program.. and will maybe become more logical thinkers then their parents. Who knows perl could be even be the beginning of the end for religion (I know I getting just plain silly here.. but one can hope).


I have an interesting correction to their MP3 prediction: The internet seems to have contributed a good deal of economic freedom to the arts in general (wintess online commics like Sluggy Frelance), but not to the music world. The solution is for artists to do exactly what the web comics do and commercialize directly. The only problem with this is that people will tend to keep a free mp3 and play it over and over and not get more. The solution to this is to include a web page (or at least links) with the mp3 and have the player's add a button to open up the page. this would allow the musicians to include visual art (so people will actually want ot look atthe page and wont just strip it from the file) and advertising directly.. and draw people back to their site to pay for shirts and other songs. mp3.com is just another label.. the artists really need to directly connect with their fans to make the real money.

We could also use a recommendation based radio system.. it could be as simple as a page which refreshes periodically to artists pages which send you sample mp3s.

A random prediction: we are probable ripe for a more serious intrest in electronic music from achedimic circles.. music theory could probable start taking things like wavelets and some newer math into account.. techno may really turn into the new classical that everyone wants to see.


A point I sould make about the e-commerce backlash prediction.. such a backlash will probable not effect the real technology stocks like MS, IBM, VA, RedHat, CISCO, etc. nearly as much as the stocks like Amazon and eToys.


Another random prediction: People (including open source developers) will become much more interested is practical applications of AI.. Slashdot will have a good AI to moderate down trolls.. and one of the serious mp3 players will implement some AI playlist stuff like I did in SmartPlay (it's a little Gtk-perl mpg123 front end which uses a primitive AI and well though through user interface to decrease the time you waist fucking arround with your mp3 player.. but it's buggy as hell as I only wrote it to convince people with more free time that they sould rewrite it.. and to give myself a better player).


Wow.. I went on for a while..

Jeff

Freshmeat Editorial, 25 Dec 1999:
Coding Standards - Good Idea or Subtle Evil?

I'd agree with Theorem 2 posited therein.

if you think you have seen your share of cool screensavers, think again.

bomb just blows all of them out of the water.

according to its author, its a visual-musical instrument. It produces animated organic graphics in response to the keyboard, audio music, or on its own. It runs on the console, under X11, or with xscreensaver.

get it here : draves.org/bomb.

building on the great php3, php4 goes where no asp has gone before..

i can't wait to see php repeat apache's success over other proprietary solutions.

and, according to the buzz on the street, it is already happening..

i guess its time for asp2php ..

ZOPE success stories

comparison of slashdot-alike web-based discussion apps like squishdot, etc.

compare and contrast of OPENSOURCE application servers

God damn! All I've seen here is a bunch of bitchers and whiners complaining about how there is now another WM...Jesus H Christ!! It's not like ice just appeared!! It's been out fer years! I've also heard a bunch of people complaining about how it isn't configureable...try icepref!! I hope no one was saying that it is bloated, and eats too much memory...it has to be the fastest, most lean WM I've ever used...don't believe me? check out freshmeat's page Also...its not like it is Just Another GNOME WM...it was out way before GNOME..and GNOME compliance was added when GNOME came out..

I can see your point, but I feel offended that you are saying that aimed at Ice...its been out for a long time, and it is now reaching a one point oh release..it probably could of reached that last year some time...but version numbers don;t mean jack to OSS developers (ie slack) if you don't believe me, check out freshmeat's page on ice..loads of good shit said about them.

Hurrah - a one point oh release of my favorite WM! Currently I'm still using dfm to provide that little bit of 'extra desktop functionality', but it looks like by the time I upgrade mobo/CPU again Gnome will have ironed out most of the few remaining stability issues.

junkbuster
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"We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."

You need a TT font server like xfstt!

We don't need more applications... We need better applications. Instead of saying, "I want to write my own web browser," why not contribute to Mozilla instead? Instead of writing "Yet Another MP3 Player," contribute code to one of the more established ones.

You're missing the point on how Open Source software development produces better software. If you think in terms of evolution or "software Darwinism", then the variety of 30 competing projects is a good thing. Instant Messaging on Linux is still a new niche where a lot of experimentation is going on. Eventually, things will settle down and a few successful clients will emerge. If projects like Jabber are any indication, then the end result is going to be software that is better than commercial alternatives...a common theme with OS software.

You do highlight an important challenge: developing reputation managers for Open Source. Something like Epinions.com, but geared to our community. Something to help you seperate the wheat from the chaff.

When using freshmeat, I usually have to scan several entries. By looking at their various summaries, Web pages, and frequently by trying out a few packages, I filter out the projects that don't seem to be very well supported. This usually works, but it is time consuming, and doesn't take advantage of the fact that someone else with similar interests as mine probably just did the same thing a week ago. Collaborative Filtering, which is just a form of reputation management, would come in real handy. In fact, I'd be suprised if FreshMeat wasn't already working on this.

"Golgotha seems to have dies (www.golgotha.com), but maybe it was becuase it didn't come with an OGL renderer."

I'm not closely involved with the Golgotha team, but I've downloaded the source a couple of times and been impressed by what they've produced. I note that you point to the wrong URL for the primary Golgotha home page: http://golgotha.opengames.org I also note that they updated the news section of the homepage just a few days ago, Dec 16th, so the project still looks quite active. I'm sure it was just a simple mistake, but a check on freshmeat would have given you the link: here's the Freshmeat Golgotha appindex entry.

I look forward to Golgotha's release eventual 1.0 release, and soon thereafter my enjoyment of the completed game. :-)

Why does AOL continue to maintain the TOC server? TOC is an ASCII-based protocol for interfacing to OSCAR, the "native" AIM server. TOC was created to interface to TiK, AOL's former TCL/TK based client meant to run on Linux as an alternative to the Java client. AOL no longer has TiK available for download and FWIU no longer maintains the client. Clients on TOC (such as gAIM and TiK) don't display ads because they don't talk to OSCAR, which feeds them.

AOL bought Mirabillis, and thus ICQ. I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to add advertising to ICQ clients.

Why was AOL interested in developing Linux-based AIM clients in the first place, considering that AOL's main interest is in gaining users to their online service? Note that there is no AOL client for Linux. Yes, TCL/TK and Java are platform-independent but the obvious uses are for Linux since Windoze users will use the native clients which are MUCH faster and require no external software (JDK or TCL/TK).

Sherlock exists for *nix as well - FreshMeat has a page on it...
/*He who controls Purple controls the Universe. *

xwrits is break software. It reminds you to get up from your computer and take a break every so often. It monitors your typing and mouse usage.

Compared to similar programs for windows it's pretty crude. However, it's effective.

One of the most important things you can do to avoid/prevent/cure typing injuries is to make sure you take adequate breaks. This does not mean lunchtime--this means every 10-15 minutes you get up and stretch.

Programs like xwrits remind you it's time for a break.

The word from CNBC (in my xawtv window) is that LNUX goes public at 12:40 Eastern. The anchor (Sue Herera) just said (@12:28 ET) that "this is shaping up to be the biggest IPO ever."

(Disclaimer: I have been allocated 140 shares. Hence my interest...)

Go to freshmeat and type in 'junkbuster'. :)

It's a personal filtering proxy that has the primary focus of replacing ad banners with a clear 1 square pixel gif image... it, however, has the added bonus of replacing your browser ID tag with something you specify (ie, you're a large corporation that has microsoft users inside, but externally, it looks like everyone is running netscape- great for image) as well as blocking cookies entirely from anyone you don't trust. Very cool software.

It has a windows port, a linux/unix port, and a MacOS port, and, if you just want to try it out, I believe there is a trial proxy server that you just specify in your netscape prefs.... last I checked it was purposely speed limited so that you would just install your own.

Best of all, it's free.

This works best with the whois from: http://freshmeat.net/appind ex/1999/10/30/941297803.html

http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/89 0390921/

Another good web log analyzer is "webilizer":

http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/88 4569634/

Hope this helps.

Try MRTG, a nice tool for obtaining SNMP info. I use it for reporting utilization on my routers, others use it for modem usage, processor utilization, memory usage, uptime, basicly whatever you can get a MIB on. Also, freshmeat.net returns about 17 hits on a search for "SNMP". Google returns about 6206 hits on a search for SNMP from their www.google.com/linux page.
Some of it looks very usefull, of-course I have yet to do a search on Google that does not return good results.

It would appear they're doing that now. Check out the entry for Empath over at freshmeat.

--Brian

First, qpopper is slow as hell, because it copies the user' mbox before working on it. Using cucipop in a 14,000 user environment decreased the load from 25 to 6. See cucipop's freshmeat entry.

Second, you should choose a better hash function. Usernames are hardly good distributed, so you will have to deal with many collisions. I'd go with MD5 here, because it is quite fast and is distributed very well.

I found HotJava working quite OK.
It's kind of slow on my machine, but it's very usable.
It renders tables very fast... Just try it on Freshmeat. I just love it :)

Thanks for your time.

While it's neat that there is yet another browser project being worked on, this is hardly newsworthy. If you follow the link on the right hand side of slashdot over to FRESHMEAT.NET, you will find that they have two whole categories for web browsers. One is under console/web browsers and one is under x11/web browsers.

While it's neat that there is yet another browser project being worked on, this is hardly newsworthy. If you follow the link on the right hand side of slashdot over to FRESHMEAT.NET, you will find that they have two whole categories for web browsers. One is under console/web browsers and one is under x11/web browsers.

There's already an open source project for that, Festival. It's voices sound kinda bad, it also supports the closed source voice assembler mbrola. Combine that with /dev/speech, and you have a pretty awesome setup. I have a script to do '$command && echo $command done > /dev/speech', crank up your speakers and you get instant notification!

There's already an open source project for that, Festival. It's voices sound kinda bad, it also supports the closed source voice assembler mbrola. Combine that with /dev/speech, and you have a pretty awesome setup. I have a script to do '$command && echo $command done > /dev/speech', crank up your speakers and you get instant notification!

I think it was Jamie Zawinski who said that every application seeks to expand until it can read e-mail. I would add the corollary that the really bloated applications expand until they can browse HTML.

For example: there is Emacs/W3, which just released version 4.0. To quote the Freshmeat entry: Emacs/W3 is a full-featured web browser, written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, that supports all the bells and whistles you will find in use on the web today, including frames, tables, stylesheets, and much more. Emacs/W3

Now, I happen to use XEmacs. It's my favorite editor. I couldn't code without it, debug without it, or even read e-mail without it. But I can browse the web without it, and I think building an emacs-based browser is just way over the edge.

As the wise man said, though, Your Mileage May Vary.

--JT

I'm writing an application called GNU Keyring with the best features from all of these, and it's also GPL'd so that you can assure yourself of its security. You can find it at Freshmeat 942590261.

Don't be so lazy. It took me 10 seconds to find it on slashdot. It's called Caitoo.

Yes, thanks. Well you must be fast because it took me 30 seconds to get to the page and find it - and another minute to determine that one of the two hits returned by the search wasn't applicable. I guess I didn't make my point clearly the first time. 90 seconds per geek - needless waste of geek time. Multiply that by 1,000 geeks, that's, um, 25 hours - time that would have been better spent debugging Mozilla or something. That is why the original poster would have been more thoughtful to do the search himself, then post specific information, ideally, a link. Sure, it's also good to say "I just searched freshmeat to find this", that's useful too. Notice how the posts that include specific links to useful things tend to get moderated up immediately.

Have you checked out a filtering application for your HP printer. I have a HP 820Cxi that I have working with Linux.

Try this filtering program listed on Freshmeat called ifhp.

Just trying to help you save some cash!

But then, about 30% of my spam is addressed to my own e-mail address...

I've released a product (yeah, yeah, here comes the commercials) called spamstop, which does this and has many other rules. Couple it with the RBL, DUL and others (if you can -- not everybody runs their own SMTP mailer, you know!) Check out its Appindex record. (Well, calling it a product is a bit too much, but it's effective enough.)

Anti-spammers, unite!

/* Steinar */

Yes, it's possible. Check Freshmeat and do a search for 'virus'.
You'll find links to the Daemons/Anti-Virus section come up...

Yes, it's possible. Check Freshmeat and do a search for 'virus'.
You'll find links to the Daemons/Anti-Virus section come up...

What. the sort of attitude that finds a broken box to install OpenBSD on, complains when things go wrong and doesn't know about
a) Debian's package management
b) the 'cruft' utility
on the Linux scene?

D'oh.

And as for this:

I simply LOVE the way that OpenBSD sends root a daily listing of all the file permissions changed and actual diffs of the configuration files in /etc. ... One way or another I need to have this functionality on my Linux servers.

So why the heck doesn't he write the same thing and shut up about it? A quick perl or even shell script involving find, diff, sum (md5sum) should easily suffice and could probably be knocked up in under 5 minutes flat.

It is *not* "Linux's fault" that no distro either he or I know about do this as standard (and his review would be wrong in giving this impression): it's also not something that should come "with linux" so that as you open the box, the whole sodding lego falls out just the way you want it to work; it's something that needs implementing and filing away under an appropriate section of Freshmeat. And then you educate the folks who'll be using - nae, administering!- these boxes to USE freshmeat properly!

The worst part is that it's not only from Slashdot that people are stealing info without credits. Take Apps sites for example: the are only two worthy sites at the moment, Freshmeat and AppWatch. All the others just suck up their announcements. Like Linuxberg, IceWalkers, and others. What good is it to present second hand information on the Net these days? I just hope that the general public can see the difference between the original work and effort and the sucked up crap.

Searching Freshmeat for this? I just did and here is what I found:
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/10/03/93897 2901.html
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/08/21/93526 0021.html
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/01/31/88628 8615.html
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/10/12/93976 0444.html
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/12/90294 2850.html

That's just what I found on the first page... I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to combine parts of each of these to produce something to fit your exact needs.

rbf using Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 with Linux 2.2.13.


LONG LIVE ALPHA!!!

A freshmeat search will let you know where to find TripWire. It's a utility that keeps track of various aspects of files (size, permissions, checksums) and alerts you when files have changed. It's a bit of a pain to set up initially, as you want some files to remain exactly the same (/bin/ls), some files to change content but not permissions (/etc/passwd), and some files you just don't care about (/tmp/*). Figuring out how much stuff you want to keep track of takes a lot of time, but when you're done, you can build a database of exactly how all your important files are supposed to look. Once you've done that, you can set TripWire to run periodically, mailing you any deltas.

Here at Miami U., we run TripWire on just about all of our production platforms. If we do get hacked, we should know about it within minutes.

One more note; TripWire recently went commercial. I've noticed their licensing has become much less free over the last year or two, to the point that you can only get the 2.0 version as a "Red Hat Linux binary" without forking over about $500(US). They've still got their Academic Source Release available for free download from their website.

clayton

So, what's the point of the proposed repository? I guess, it wouldn't be very useful to implement the functionality that we already have all over again. What would really be needed is a site that makes it easy (especially for less experienced programmers) to find the library (or component, if you insist) that they need.

A search on freshmeat isn't terribly effective if you do not already have a rather clear picture of what you are looking for. In other words, it would be helpful to provide an index that makes it easy to find the functionality that you need. The index could then for example point to the freshmeat entry of a selected software component. Organising such an index in such a way that it is easy to navigate is definitely a challenge, but it would probably also be very helpful.

Chilli

So, what's the point of the proposed repository? I guess, it wouldn't be very useful to implement the functionality that we already have all over again. What would really be needed is a site that makes it easy (especially for less experienced programmers) to find the library (or component, if you insist) that they need.

A search on freshmeat isn't terribly effective if you do not already have a rather clear picture of what you are looking for. In other words, it would be helpful to provide an index that makes it easy to find the functionality that you need. The index could then for example point to the freshmeat entry of a selected software component. Organising such an index in such a way that it is easy to navigate is definitely a challenge, but it would probably also be very helpful.

Chilli

Well, the freshmeat appindex record for the asp2php translator I mentioned is here. However, in my experience it doesn't work too well with complex ASP pages - you still have to go in and fix up a bit my hand.

However, people with large websites probably aren't just wed to ASP. Usually you have to access backend components, and that usually means DCOM, SQLServer, etc.

I'm not sure that this pricing change will affect many large customers. Our best best is to get in with the small businesses and work up. That's how Microsoft did it!