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What do you think of this Libertarian candidate web site in terms of accessibility, taste in design, and content? I am its webmaster, and I tried to make it pleasant for the average Slashdotter, besides the expected audience. I'd like to hear feedback.

Gaim is, though, part of the Open Source Software CD which I maintain.

BitTorrent alleviates the whole problem.

definitely recommend this compilation over about five others I've tried in the past. [IMHO] the variety of programs and monthly updates make it the most useful.

http://pmw.myip.org/oss/

Also see this one.

Your list is quite thorough, but most of the things you listed and dozens more are already on the CD compilation that I update monthly:

http://pmw.myip.org/oss/

Please tell me what you think. :-)

Looks kind of like this

• Open Source Software CD
  
• GNUwin
  
• The Open CD
  

Here is a picture of the *BSD developer

whoops...that last should be

The for-Windows Open Source Software CD

OpenOffice.org
KNOPPIX
Mandrake LiveCD
Debian installation CD
Fedora
The for-Windows

Can anyone think of any more? Mandrake and RedHat aren't likely to want people selling copies of their software, they'd probably want you to buy it from them, instead.

A software compilation to the OpenCD is the

Open Source Software CD

...which is updated monthly with the latest versions of the most popular, high-quality open-source software out there.

Anyone can download it via BitTorrent.

Be sure to check it out.

Not nessecarely. Did you try myip when they still offered a free service?

If you registered a subdomain, it was up and running and available within one minute.
I believe this can be done with subdomains only, but then again, I am not an expert

Here is a CD you are talking about in the last paragraph.

This is my project, which seems to fulfill the goal: Open Source Software CD, updated only two days ago with the latest software versions.

Get a BitTorrent download here!

BitTorrentized.

BitTorrentized.

I realize that this post is very late in the game, but I hope that at least someone finds it useful.

For almost the entire past school year my English 3 AP class participated in online discussions that I hosted with phpBB. It's still up for a few more days, so you are welcome to check out the kinds of discussions we had. It seems that EVERYONE found it useful and there are plans in motion to run one next year, but expand it to multiple AP English classes.

Take a look.

It's very funny, only yesterday i published on a mailing list my proposal for a new syslog daemon architecture:

Syslog Daemon Architecture

I wrote this document for the msyslog project.

And then, today, i noticed the sdscsyslog announcement on Slashdot! :-)

There are many similarities between their architecture and my proposal:
- modularity
- extensibility
- scalability, etc.

However, I'd like to see a page written using proper HTML + CSS and use no deprecated tags (like FONT) to go bad in the next version of IE or Netscape/Mozilla.

Seemingly perfect HTML.

// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohin ted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min", 16);
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" );
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
pref("font.director y.truetype.3", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice");

// AA with Bitmap scaling.
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable", true);
//pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.always", true);
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.min", 16);

// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohin ted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min", 16);
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" );
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
pref("font.director y.truetype.3", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice");

// AA with Bitmap scaling.
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable", true);
//pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.always", true);
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.min", 16);

It seems fine in Galeon (using Gecko from RC3). The only small problem I can see is that the bottom cuts off a little bit of the shopping cart stuff, but it's still perfectly usable. Maybe there's something I'm missing. Is this how it's supposed to look?

Here we are:

http://pwhite.myip.org/linux-mirrors.php

Screenshot of the old Chimera browser.

Using the Freetype2 libraries, Mozilla 0.9.9 can do beautiful anti-aliased text on Linux. And of course AA is supported by default on Windows and Mac.

If I were to build a house, there are a few things I would do. Many others would have diffrent ideas, but I'll just throw in my two cents here.

First off, I would find a room somewhere in the house of which I would make my wiring closet. Generaly, you want this to be somewhere in the middle of the house and undisterbed. Under stairs, a spare closet, a small room, a section of the garage, whatever.

In this room, which will be for ever more be your wiring closet, there are a few things you want to avoid: Anything that could bring in moisture. Water pipes, sprinkler systems, avoid all that. Also, avoid florecent lights if possible, as they add alot of interfirance to communication lines.

Next, get some kind of conduit to each room. The wider, the better. If you want 2 or more places in each room wired (say, 2 oppesite walls) have a spot in the room where they split off from. All your communication wiring is going to go through this conduit: Phone, Cat 5, Cable TV... But not power. Power should have it's own route.

I picked up at my local Ace Hardware store a bucket of 6500' of tested 210 lb. pull cord, and it was $35. Buy this, and with the wires you pull, keep a line of this stuff in the conduit as well. If you have to pull another wire, make sure you pull another lenght of the pull line. Do this, and you can upgrade for the future.

Fiber is wonderful stuff, but it's extremely expensive. If the future of fiber is anything like what we have here, you will get a fiber connection to a 10/100 8 port switch, and it's Cat 5 through the rest of the house. That's the most likely situation I can see for the future of Fiber to the home.

Now, lable every conduit, so you know which room each pipe leads to. If you need to get the Pull line though, but you don't know how, here's a trick: Get a fairly powerfull shop vaccum, a plastic bag, and a roll of 10 lb fishing line. Suck the bag though with the fishing line tied to it, then pull your first pull line with the fishing line. After that, just remember to always leave a pull line behind after you pull again.

There are those who say "Don't put phone lines and coax cable next to Cat-5!" and "Buy the sheilded Cat-5e that's supposed to be Cat-6 rated, or you won't get a good connection!" While that's all good and dandy, don't worry about it that much. You can get fairly good connections with fairly poor wiring, and I've seen it. I even know a guy who puts his Ethernet, Phone and Appletalk all though the same unsheilded Cat-5 cable. And it works great. While phone wires aren't generaly sheilded, they are not really that bad compared to other hazards your going to have to get buy with your wiring. Coax is sheilded by nature, and Cat-5's twists are designed to prevent some of the interferance you'll get. This was all thought out long ago, so don't sweat it.

Looking into the future, yes: you may have Fiber optics. You also might be using 802.11g wirless, or even perhaps some other undrempt type of connectivity. You can't always know what's going to come... but hey, you've got the conduit to put it in, so you're set.

Pathway

Doesn't render in Galeon for me.

It doesn't render in Galeon 1.0 or Mozilla 0.9.6, both of which are extremely modern browsers.

Just use CGIProxy. It installs easily as a CGI script for Apache or any other web server. I run it on my home computer to use when I'm at school and need to access a blocked site.

This project is great, since it hopes to create a universal module that can be plugged in easily to any MUA.

But for those of you who happen to run mutt, you don't have to wait for S/MIME support -- see this site for details. It's not universal or modular, but it exists now and it works.

Take that! And that!

Take that! And that!

A mirror has been made: http://tomcrooze.myip.org/napster.html

Simple. Let's say I like the "look and feel" of your website and decide that I'm going to use your design that you came up with on my page. Yep, that's right, I just click View Source, and copy and paste the html, changing nothing but the content.
You probably wouldn't be too happy about that, would you? That's exactly what's happening to Apple. Apple pioneered the GUI, and they deserve to have other people respect their creations. Apple's R&D team probably spent several million dollars designing the interface for OSX, and it would be wrong for some other company to snatch it up without paying Apple it's dues. That is why we have law's to prevent this.

The same scenerio occured several years ago when eMachines copied Apple's design for the iMac in their eOne computer. The courts ruled that Apple owned the design of the iMac and eMachines was forced to stop production of the eOne. You open-source zealots can be raving lunatics sometimes. Not everything is free for the taking.

this is going to be great! i've always wanted to see the people of slashdot again. i got pics from the last time right here.

What we need is to collect open content (see Opencontent web site, Andamooka) and create online tools for organizing and redistributing it.

This worked for open source software (who doesn't reuse other people's code?), but open content is a little different b/c the typical content re-user isn't technically proficient like typical code-reuser (programmer) is. Those who are need to create the necessary tools. This is part of the discussion going on in the FreeBooks project.

Dave

I'm a participant of the Freebook Project because free (liber) educational materials are very important. From our site, there is a list of free books on all sorts of topics.

We discuss issues related to producing and promoting free books, and we are collectively writing a book on free books.

Please help us out if you are interested.

I'm a participant of the Freebook Project because free (liber) educational materials are very important. From our site, there is a list of free books on all sorts of topics.

We discuss issues related to producing and promoting free books, and we are collectively writing a book on free books.

Please help us out if you are interested.

I'm a participant of the Freebook Project because free (liber) educational materials are very important. From our site, there is a list of free books on all sorts of topics.

We discuss issues related to producing and promoting free books, and we are collectively writing a book on free books.

Please help us out if you are interested.

I'm a participant of the Freebook Project because free (liber) educational materials are very important. From our site, there is a list of free books on all sorts of topics.

We discuss issues related to producing and promoting free books, and we are collectively writing a book on free books.

Please help us out if you are interested.

The Freebooks Project was started a few weeks ago from an article here on Slashdot about Free/Open Source Physics (or other scholastic) Textbooks. The author of that article, Ben Crowell, proposed and helped start this project.

We decided that since our interests had more to do with the idea of writing free books than writing physics books, that we'd write a free book *on* writing free books.

Even though we've only had a few weeks, we've got many of the technical hurdles tackled and are getting down to collecting thoughts and ideas, brainstorming, and filling in the website. And if you're interested in lending your support to this cool (and critically needed) service to the open source and free software communities, check out the site, and join our mailing list.

The Freebooks Project was started a few weeks ago from an article here on Slashdot about Free/Open Source Physics (or other scholastic) Textbooks. The author of that article, Ben Crowell, proposed and helped start this project.

We decided that since our interests had more to do with the idea of writing free books than writing physics books, that we'd write a free book *on* writing free books.

Even though we've only had a few weeks, we've got many of the technical hurdles tackled and are getting down to collecting thoughts and ideas, brainstorming, and filling in the website. And if you're interested in lending your support to this cool (and critically needed) service to the open source and free software communities, check out the site, and join our mailing list.

Already done.

Also, I think it's worth saying that almost every browser that currently exists is based on (and actually credits, if you'll check those trusty About dialogs) NCSA Mosaic.

Just food for thought.

The wheels keep turning, but the rat in the cage is already dead.

- ice

In case one of the other mirrors runs out of steam, you can also play with it at here. Have fun.