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Re:Some simple things
http://freshmeat.net/projects/athena-delete/
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Re:Turn it off
Then, open a web browser in one window and a terminal in the other...
I have a triple-headed system and strongly suggest getting ion3 or ratpoison. I use ion because it's more customizable and also lets one jump in and out of a "normal" window manager mode. Just be sure to rebind the keys right away. The default bindings must have been made by a cracked out baboon. I rebound all of my windows manager functions to chords involving the two windows keys since no linux programs seem to attempt to grab those keys.
Then get firefox, gnu screen, mc or git and your choice of emacs or vim and learn how to use them without the mouse. You'll be amazed at how much this speeds up your ability to work.
I started using ratpoison after I noticed that I tended to jump back and forth between a couple of full-screened apps, or I was spending time with two or three apps tiled on the screen. I figured that it didn't make sense to have all the bling when I never cared about it.
This works particularly well with a multi-headed setup. I keep mail and aim open on one monitor, emacs and other primary applications on the center monitor and web and documentation readers on another. This has made me
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Re:Turn it off
Then, open a web browser in one window and a terminal in the other...
I have a triple-headed system and strongly suggest getting ion3 or ratpoison. I use ion because it's more customizable and also lets one jump in and out of a "normal" window manager mode. Just be sure to rebind the keys right away. The default bindings must have been made by a cracked out baboon. I rebound all of my windows manager functions to chords involving the two windows keys since no linux programs seem to attempt to grab those keys.
Then get firefox, gnu screen, mc or git and your choice of emacs or vim and learn how to use them without the mouse. You'll be amazed at how much this speeds up your ability to work.
I started using ratpoison after I noticed that I tended to jump back and forth between a couple of full-screened apps, or I was spending time with two or three apps tiled on the screen. I figured that it didn't make sense to have all the bling when I never cared about it.
This works particularly well with a multi-headed setup. I keep mail and aim open on one monitor, emacs and other primary applications on the center monitor and web and documentation readers on another. This has made me
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Re:Some simple things
I use libtrash, it is a very good trash implementation at the system call level, so, it works with any terminal you want it to.
Also, if you decide to use it, I sugest taking a look at Cleartrash, that you can use manually to clear the trash or put at your crontab to remove the files after they are kept at the trash for a while.
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I'd recomend root-tailRoot-tail home page and freshmeat link. random screen shot.
About: root-tail is a program that allows printing of text directly to the X11 root window wherever you choose, much like running rxvt with a pixmap background but without the hassle and with more features.
Some code I use with it (there's TONS of options):
sudo root-tail --justify -g 600x250+20+350
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*yawn*
who looks down at their mouse anyway? In the past, my mail server used to sit beneath my stereo anyway, so I just ran one of the keyboard LED programs you can easily find with a little bit of searching to see how many messages I had in my inbox when I got home. The server, of course, was headless. What I did was rip the logic board out of an old keyboard, drill some holes in a front drive bay panel, plug the 'keyboard' into the back of the computer using another hole drilled in the back, and voila..instant status lights on a budget. I used the other two for network traffic (the mail server happened to also be my firewall).
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Re:It's sticky tape now, huh?
a really good one might be _very_ expensive
Try $600, and that's for the PC and 24-bit DAC, and quality microphone.
wtf does he mean? http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavesurfer/ why a totally free waveform analysis software...
albeit, this solution is dependant on the quality of your waveform digitalization, so the 'quality' will never exceed the capabilities of the DAC, but it's definitely more precise than any off the shelf hardware you mentioned. -
Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Re:RubbishWhen you buy the SBS product from MS, the OS, SQL, Exchange, and numerous other apps are shipping in the shrinkwrap. It's on multiple CDs because that's too much stuff to put on a single CD. The install, though, is customized to do the whole thing as one process.
Did they compare SBS with any Linux distro? No. They compared the base Windows OS with a full Linux Distro.
Of course you're not going to find something with SQL Server's horsepower bundled in with any of the distros you mentioned. There's a reason that MySQL isn't generally compared to MS SQL or Oracle, etc. They're not in the same class.PostgreSQL, Firebird, SAP & Ingres.
I don't think you'll find something as ready-to-go as SharePoint, either - all of those things come with significant support resources, multi-language material, etc. Exchange alone (with the full OWA) is a beefy install. I don't think that this discussion is really about how many disks the install spans, is it?Take your pick:
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Just wanted to mention.
A more open altenative for Norton Ghost is Ghost For Linx. Only downside: no multicasting.
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Hack your value/key pairs into EXIF data
While Im unsure if Gallery allows you to create, edit and query 'meta' fields with each image I do know that it reads, stores and can query the EXIF fields of all imported images. One way to be able to store (once)/query (many) your custom data fields would be to initially fudge those values into the EXIF fields of each scanned image. Yes it would be weird to search for 'last name' with a 'camera model' query, but it would work.
Anyway this is probably how you'd want to go about this:
1. Scan doc to file
2. use an app or library to OCR the fields you want
3. Add EXIF fields/data to the image with perl (CPAN EXIF modules)
4. dump image into gallery. Gallery parses out and stores your crap in query-able EXIF fields.
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Re:catch up and be open (SIP standard compliant)I wish gizmo would get their act together and get the linux client packaged in something other than an ancient
Their deb file is up to date (released Nov 7/05), so you must be saying that you think deb itself is ancient, right? Perhaps you could try using alien (http://freshmeat.net/projects/alien/) to convert the deb into some non-ancient format.
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Still believing
Personally I respect the contributions of RMS very much and appreciate that if in 1983 he did not apply his endeavour towards what he believed[1] is right, I would not have the OS I am typing this comment on.
His vision of a free operating system has been realised but is most well known by the name of it's kernel.
His vision of free software has been realised but is most well known by a name chosen to appeal to business.[2]
Despite names it does not change who was first to conceive of and then apply themselves to what they considered to be a better alternative to what existed at the time.
It appears that he is doing the same thing as in 1983.
oh yes, he also co-authored my most used command
[1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
[2] http://freshmeat.net/stats/
[3] $ man ls
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The real file manager of tomorrow is...
Jfilerunner
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Try this one...
http://freshmeat.net/projects/planner
It aparrantly used to be called MrProject. -
Re:Mapping...
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Re:I just want ssh
You can run FloydSSH on ANY MIDP1.0 (read Java) compatible mobile phone with GPRS or 3G support. That's just about any phone you can buy today.
I used to use it on my Motorola v500 and it even manages a 40x25 character terminal and uses the keypad as hotkeys for commonly used commands. Seems quirky at first, but it works and well.
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Re:Don't know about interactual, but...
I think parent is correct. I've heard you can play these on ogle. download here.
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Re:Dr. Greene once said
There are people selling such things for Perl, the first to spring to mind is perl-obfus carried upon Freshmeat.
That is slated pretty thoroughly over at Perl Monks.
I wonder how many people have paid for this
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Slashdot | How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD?
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Forget Decryption by Propaganda13 (Score:1) Thursday November 10, @10:52PM
Re:Decrypt ~and~ analyze by BiggerIsBetter (Score:2) Thursday November 10, @10:55PM
mostly analysis, I suspect by SuperBanana (Score:2) Thursday November 10, @10:57PM
I think that this was yet more control freakery from a government that feels free to execute (no pun intended) a shoot to kill policy against its citizens, lock them away for handing over encryption keys (and if the file is just noise rather than encrypted data, oh well) abolish trial by jury, remove double jeopardy and generally treat us like its property rather than its employers.href="//ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid =167966&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=158&tid=93& tid=4&mode=thread&pid=14004575#14004856">Re:Commis ar Blair by Anonymous Coward Thursday November 10, @11:08PM
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AWStats is a PHP application?
Um, AWStats isn't written in PHP, but in Perl. This isn't a PHP worm, it's a CGI exploit which happens to target PHP apps, plus the occasional Perl app.
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Thank Goodness!
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dollars to do so. The American Council on Education (ACE) filed an appeal with the circuit court last week against the new rules that Carnegie Mellon Chief Information Officer Joel Smith referred to as "definitely an overkill."
Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994, telephone companies must pay to maintain their systems so that federal agents can easily obtain wiretaps. The most recent orders under this act, issued by the FCC, asks that institutions providing Internet access also reengineer their systems accordingly within the next 18 months. Carnegie Mellon is one such institution. With a subpoena and the flip of a switch, federal officials could have access to e-mail accounts and online information of any student at compliant universities.
"The Department of Justice wants 24/7 access, whenever they need it, and they want remote access. We find that too extremely burdensome in terms of money, staff, and technology," said Maureen McFalls, Director of Government Relations for Carnegie Mellon and the coordinator of Carnegie Mellon's response to this issue. According to an ACE press release, the cost to universities could be upwards of $7 billion, or at least $450 extra on each student's tuition bill.
"Burdensome is really the best word for the new rules," McFalls added.
"Colleges and universities have a long history of working with law enforcement agencies pursuing criminal investigations and are proud of our working relationship," said Sheldon E. Steinbach, ACE vice-president and general counsel, in the same press release. "When you evaluate efficiency versus the incredible cost of compliance, we just dont think it makes a lot of sense."
According to the new rules set forth under CALEA, federal agencies want to be able to access a private institution's network from almost any location at almost any time. Currently, universities take special precautions to make this kind of remote access very difficult, in order to prevent online crime.
"We do recognize the need to be in compliance and cooperate with law enforcement," said Smith, "but it happens very rarely that they need this kind of access, here or nationally." According to a report from Educause, a nonprofit organization that deals with online issues in higher education, there were 3468 wiretaps ordered by local, state, national, and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts in 2004. The report also stated that the number or wiretaps on campuses is extremely small.
So how is Carnegie Mellon's administration reacting to these new proposed regulations? The school plans "to work through the appropriate channels for the University to make our views known, just as a matter of fact, that it would be very costly for every student in every college," said University Provost Mark Kamlet.
"We are going to review the AAU [Association for American Universities] and ACE actions and perhaps take our own if we feel that we may have something different or more important to say than t -
Re:I beg to differ
There are a number of different title-bar styles that come default in XFCE, including some darker colored ones. Of course, you could always make your own
Anyway, I'm not sure XFCE is really better than *box, but it is a bit easier to maintain and setup. Also, I really like GTK2, and XFCE is nice and speedy too... -
Re:Riiight.
What, you must mean apps? Well, I doubt someone will bother redoing firefox in GORM, but even for those KDE and gnome apps that you just must use, get a gnustepish theme. Gtk2step (gnome) and newstep (kde) both come to mind. Much nicer than the fugly widgets they have by default. I've even been working on an opera skin, myself.
Future projects of mine: patches for gimp/inkscape (ala gimpshop) that will move vertical scrollbars to the left, and replace file dialogs with Next-styled ones.
And for those that want things just a bit more OSXish than NeXTish, try out skippy (exposé) and kxdocker (OSX dock). Both work well in windowmaker (kxdocker needs you to upgrade to the latest windowmaker and you have to edit the configuration manually). My desktop looks somewhat weird, what with the NeXT dock on the left side for dockapps, and kxdocker at the bottom to lauch apps (had 4 minidocks at one point). Heh, and the orange on black xterms so that they look like old monochrome amber terminals... -
Could name more interesting tools...
I don't think the tools he mentions are that interesting at all. In fact, many of the tools have nothing directly to do with sysadmin activities at all. I love abcde too, but what does have to do with Linux administration. GNU Screen does the same things as the default terminals that come with KDE (kterm) or Gnome (gnome-terminal), specifically one window tabbed consoles and detaching. The use of emacs or VIM or even nano is preference/needs based and could be the focus of an entire article, as it has been done before.
The only tool that was mentioned I found that I thought was worth mentioning was rsync. This is simply because it is not as well known as other tools. Although, its use has spread. I find people using scp or something else, manually or scripted, for things that would be handled much more efficiently with rsync.
To be fair, dig was worthy of mention, for the simple fact that many people who have become used to using nslookup don't know that another tool exists, perhaps even on their machine, that they may find more advanced. Also, pwgen could be useful, but not crucial by any means. I guess some of these tools may solve some annoyances people may have, but not necessarily working to improve or make the role of a sysadmin dramatically easier.
It would have been more useful to mention some monitoring tools or some web applications. For instance, tools that I would mention that help syadmin activities include the following:
- Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/ is a PHP application that uses RRDtool/SNMP to monitor server performance and usage (like disk space, CPU, load average, logged in users, and a lot more).
- phpMyAdmin/phpPgAdmin/phpLDAPadmin
- syslog-ng/php-syslog-ng (http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-syslog-ng/)
- Gregarius (http://www.gregarius.net/) is an a nice web RSS reader. I use this to keep up with the latest version of software releases, a lot of times using the RSS feeds available for all SourceForge.net projects, or otherwise using a feed that may be available on the software's website. Tiny Tiny RSS is another nice RSS reader (http://bah.spb.su/~fox/tt-rss/)
Since I work on a university campus, web applications help a lot b/c I can be in any lab or at home or on any PC and know exactly what is going on with all systems and even the development of the software that is used on them (RSS). But web applications are usually considered useful because access to them is easy and sometimes leave less room for human error. -
Alternative IM system without an IM client...
I might as well take this opportunity to plug my open-source "IM" system (CMC), Gangplank, which doesn't require an IM client.
Gangplank was written to support the standard TELNET protocol, meaning any standard TELNET client can be used to connect to the system. Despite not using a custom client, the server supports remote character echo, full (RFC-compliant) TELNET protocol support, Emacs-style line editing, input redrawing when output occurs, and a full input history buffer -- all in a nonblocking, single-process server driven by a select() loop. The system lacks some features (like file transfer), but it is well-suited for a community of people to communicate with each other via text messages. The server is fast and efficient, and it should be able to support thousands of users on a single server. (I've never been able to test the limits of the server, but it uses negligible CPU time...)
And to stay on topic, using a TELNET client should protect you against "IM worms" since there are a wide variety of independent TELNET client implementations on various operating systems, TELNET has been around for decades and standard clients are probably fairly well debugged by now... -
Re:Powerpoint??
I don't know what it's worth because I've never used it yet but you can use some LaTeX packages like Beamer or Prosper (tutorial here) to create PowerPoint-like presentations. The result seems very professional for most of my needs.
The only tool I used up to now was OpenOffice.org with some Xfig drawings for the graphs, there is no point in using Windows+PowerPoint if you generate a PDF you can use everywhere (unless you want to edit it with Microsoft Office...)
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A small server can save sanity - The open ten stepI have set up and supported remote sites and home based telecommuters. Listen to my advice, listen very carefully and save your sanity and driving : Find an older PC, at least PII 300 with 256 MB memory, to set-up as a headless ( no display or keyboard ) server and firewall. A simple web based interface can be used to Start/stop the modem and server, all other maintenance should be handled remotely via ssh, webmin and vnc.
1) Install a second NIC or connect the modem directly to the server. Connection to the Internet should be though the server and connection to the Office should be though a VPN on the server.
2) Install a new IDE Hard drive in a 3.5" removable rack and tray. The drive should be than big enough for the operating system (Linux of course) and copies of some of the local desktop partitions. A telecommuter can shut down the server and bring in the HD during the day to resync and repair.
3) Install DHCP demon to allocate local IP addresses, DNS and gateway settings. If the desktops are network boot capable then install TFTP to remotely boot KNOPPIX via PXE. IF the desktop OS is constantly crashing, the user can select PXE boot, network KNOPPIX. The user can then be instructed over the phone to enable ssh server to allow remote repair and reimaging of the desktop partitions from copies on the local server.
4) Partition the desktops with as small as required C: ( or in the case of Linux the root ) partition for software. When software is install, use dd and netcat via live KNOPPIX to copy a snapshot of the partition to the server. You can allocate the remaining free space as a persistant partition where documents are stored. ( Consider hireing someone who knows how to customise Knoppix for your setup.)
5) Install/Enable VNC on all the platforms, but only allow incoming connections from the local server ( which is redirected over a SSH tunnel ).
6) For local backup, create share directories on the desktop accessable by the server. On the local server create loopback encrypted file systems, unmount and copy the images to the desktops shares in chunks, using redundantcy if enough space is available on the desktops. Checksum ( MD5 is enough ) each piece.
7) If the network load to the Office is takeing up all the available internet bandwidth or the connection is just too slow then install proxy servers on the local server and consider using a distributed filesystem ( OpenAFS is still the best )
8) If phone charges are eating into the budget, and the internet connection is good enough, then install Asterisk on the local server ( upgrade the server to a Celron 800Mhz or better ) and a card with enough FXS ports for each local user. Don't bother with software based phones/headsets. The phone will work when the desktop does not.
9) Set up a Linux server at the Office that operates as a thin client application server. Allow remote access though both FreeNX and VNC. Create login accounts and logins that operate as virtual meeting rooms, with multiple users logging in via VNC. Use VNCserver with a screen size of around 1000x600, that will operate via a VNC viewer on any 1024x768 desktop. Use phone based conference calling for voice -- it's a lot less hassle for the users
10) Add the ususal list of cross platform applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, OpenOffice etc.Do the open ten step and save yourself and your santity from all those hours driving from site to site.
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Re:Great solution, but...
You seem to have this idea that it's all about "slamming" someone or something - really, it's about answering the question that's been asked.
Your assertions to date are that:
- Flumotion is useless (first post)
- My post is useless (second post)
Both were stated as what I'd categorize as "slams": the first a sarcastic comment masquerading as a quasi-joke that the submitter wants for people to actually use the streams (incorrectly implying that nobody uses the formats that Flumotion provides); the second an incorrect assertion that I uselessly brought up a candidate that was vastly inferior to the other candidates (the "unicycle" in a comparison of two cars).
To make them less of a slam, I'd recommend, respectively, that you state that few are willing to install the codecs required (or use the Java applet) to use the free flumotion server, and that the price makes it the same as the other two candidates (both are fair assertions), and secondly (going with your analogy, that it's like I was bringing up a Buick when discussing whether one should buy a Honda or a Toyota, and that it's not what the poster wanted (again a fair asssertion).
It appears to me that the submitter may already have the resources in place to use QT, but wants to know if there is some advantage to WMV. Or maybe not - perhaps no resources are in place, but the submitter would like to weigh the pros and cons of each solution.
Precisely. We don't know exactly what's going on; not enough information has been provided. I was bringing up a rather unknown third option that the submitter probably didn't know about and he/she can take or leave at his or her discretion. The offer is no better or worse than the other candidates; each have their plusses and minuses. But if I didn't say anything, the submitter probably doesn't have the information; this may well be the worst or best solution for him/her. We simply don't know, and now at least the submitter has a little bit more information than when he/she started out. Or exactly the same information, if he/she was already aware of Flumotion. But reading the post and information only takes a few minutes of their time and I'm hurting nobody by presenting additoinal choices.
Does Flumotion even run on OS X? Doesn't look like it to me.
According to Freshmeat, it does. Googling for "flumotion osx" will give you even more information. Unfortunately, the project page doesn't say.
Or did you intend for the submitter to go out, buy a box, install Linux, and then run Flumotion?
You ignore the fact that they may well have a Linux (or maybe BSD box too) laying around, or that they could install it on an existing box. Notably, it appears that they have to install Win2k3 Server for the Windows Media option anyway, so this isn't a huge deal. Yeesh.
And that would be "free" how?
Because they don't necessarily have to pay for either a box, nor the OS, nor the server. Time is potentially the same in similar scenarios (e.g. already-installed-os, got to install a server with the OS, etc.), so it's potentially a wash, depending on the unknown factors that only the submitter knows. I gave him/her the information; he/she can decide with a few minutes of research what he/she wants to do (or not) with Flumotion.
Does anyone in their office even have experience with Linux, or is it your intent to have them learn a whole new OS in addition to a whole new streaming media server?
Quite possibly. Or they could install it with common MacOS X utilities. We don't know; I gave him/her the information and they can decide.
As to my intent , it is merely to give the poster what is probably to him or her new inform
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What about a AoE and c-jbdc and maybe Mysql?
Storage with AtaOverEthernet. The cheapest Midium size storage...
And write a fs wrapper to acces clusterd jdbc proyect...
And mysql as file repository?
Ata Over Ethernet
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aoelinux/
Ata Over Ethernet tools
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aoetools/
c-jbdc
http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
Mysql
http://mysql.org/ -
What about a AoE and c-jbdc and maybe Mysql?
Storage with AtaOverEthernet. The cheapest Midium size storage...
And write a fs wrapper to acces clusterd jdbc proyect...
And mysql as file repository?
Ata Over Ethernet
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aoelinux/
Ata Over Ethernet tools
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aoetools/
c-jbdc
http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
Mysql
http://mysql.org/
