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  1. Re:Cut their own throats, so to speak by MikeBabcock · · Score: 1 · on Without Jobs, Will Open Source Suffer?

    This, I think, is the reason why OSS is generally of poor quality (generally speaking) compared to closed source competition.

    While you're trolling, here's some fodder:

    • Commercial version of faxing system that is more reliable than Hylafax please?
    • Commercial web server that's more reliable than Apache please?
    • Commercial E-mail software more reliable than Thunderbird or even Mutt?
    • Commercial software that can compete with Python or PERL in their markets?

    Yeah, NASA standardized on Python because it sucks, that must be it.

    There's a lot more FOSS out there than you may be aware of, and its a lot higher quality than you're giving it credit for. Kraptasticapp123 doesn't count; I can find a million of those on 'commercial' shareware CDs.

  2. What about HylaFax? Re:EFF vs Internet Fax Patents by davidwr · · Score: 1 · on EFF Attacks Online Gaming Patent

    Send a fax over the web for free, powered by the open-source HylaFax faxing program.

    TCP.INT has been at it since at least 1994. In '94 it was an email-to-fax gateway.

    HylaFax dates back to the '90s at least.

  3. Loving my Linux From Scratch, kernel 2.6.11.12 by qualico · · Score: 3, Informative · on Vanilla Kernel 2.6 Stability vs 2.4?

    Built a Hylafax http://hylafax.org/ system on top of the latest v6.1, LFS http://linuxfromscratch.org./
    Details:
    3GHz Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 1Gb RAM
    11,878.40 BogoMIPS Total, 250Gb Hard Drive
        GCC 3.4.3
        Samba 3.0.14a
        HylaFAX 4.2.1

    Gotta say it's way ahead of expectations.
    I won't touch another distro now for my mission critical.
    Although, Knoppix, http://www.knoppix.org/ and Ubuntoo, http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ are great "insert CD and run" distros, for workstations.
    Working with SlackWare seems effortless also, http://www.slackware.org/.

    Was fortunate enough to meet the fine gent who started the LFS project: Gerard Beekmans
    Highly recommended support for the project, even if it's just $5 for a beer via donations :->, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/contribute.h tml or a much needed "hints" writeup, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/.

  4. Re:Good. by ccozan · · Score: 1 · on Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine

    We are using hylafax :)... never paid since then paper or toner. See http://hylafax.org/.

  5. Re:Stacking the deck of Fax Cards by Kent+Recal · · Score: 1 · on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack

    Whats really surprising is that the platform of choice recently for a fax server seems to be winblows server 2003...

    Really? Whats wrong with HylaFAX?
    Looks quite promising to me even though I haven't tried it, yet.

  6. Free tools to do the trick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on How to Stop Rampant Junk Fax?

    Set up Hylafax. to retrive your faxes and notify you by email when they come int.

    By default fax programs use tiff files which are not very web friendly. Most people prefer pdfs which is why the fax2pdf project exists.

    With a little bit of effort you can set up a machine that retrieves all your faxes and delivers them by email. You print only the ones you want, delete, or archive the rest.

  7. Is it possible to slow down a fax transmission? by Dahan · · Score: 4, Interesting · on [Junk]Fax.com Fined $5.4 Million
    I got tired of junk faxes wasting my paper, so I switched to using a fax modem and Hylafax. I still get a lot of junk faxes, but at least I can rm them.

    Anyways, it'd be kinda fun if it was possible to somehow detect a junk fax (maybe an empty TSID is good enough? All the legit faxes I get have a TSID) and then deliberately try to keep the faxer on the line as long as possible, running up their phone bill. Force the modem to 300 baud or something like that :) Maybe request retransmissions too (I don't know if faxes even support that). So is this possible?

  8. OT: Telefax over ISDN works by j7953 · · Score: 1 · on Upping The Softmodem Code Bounty -- To $20,000

    Telefax over ISDN already works on Linux (well, I haven't tried it myself yet), at least with ISDN cards from AVM. They offer Linux drivers for their Fritz! Card series which implement CAPI 2.0, so the cards can be used by Hylafax.

    AFAIK, it also works with active ISDN cards because they do the signal processing in hardware, but those cards are quite expansive.

  9. Hylafax and WHFC by Goner · · Score: 3 · on Ask Slashdot: Linux Fax Servers w/ WinTel Clients?

    I just set up a similiar system at work with one old AMD k5 and three microso~ win95 boxes. The AMD linux box is a samba server, gateway, and fax server. It runs hylafax which isn't too hard to install. The sucky machines which crash alot run WHFC. This works like a charm, you can print from WordPerfect and it brings up a little window asking you what the number is. You hit send, and it emails you if the fax went through (or if it didn't). It really put my boss over the edge with enthusiasm for Linux. Email me if you have specific questions on how to get this to work.

  10. Re:Faxing by barnesa · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Linux Fax Servers w/ WinTel Clients?

    G'day,
    I agree - I've just set up Hylafax myself... looking pretty damned good! and it has a nice email2fax gateway interface that runs through sendmail.
    HylaFax URL --> http://www.hylafax.org
    Very good software :-)
    Regards,
    Andrew