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* Administer multiple servers
* Support for PostgreSQL 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x and 8.0.x
* Manage all aspects of:
    o Users & groups
    o Databases
    o Schemas
    o Tables, indexes, constraints, triggers, rules & privileges
    o Views, sequences & functions
    o Advanced objects
    o Reports
* Easy data manipulation:
    o Browse tables, views & reports
    o Execute arbitrary SQL
    o Select, insert, update and delete
* Dump table data in a variety of formats: SQL, COPY, XML, XHTML, CSV, Tabbed, pg_dump
* Import SQL scripts, COPY data, XML, CSV and Tabbed
* Excellent language support:
    o Available in 26 languages
    o No encoding conflicts. Edit Russian data using a Japanese interface!
* Easy to install and configure

Yes, and I am planning to test the method and use it in a future version of my system to chat with dolphins, which now works for simple series of whistles, Leafy Sea Dragon at https://leafy.dev.java.net/ and at http://sf.net/projects/c2h/

I have been planning to find and use such a technique for over 25 years. The timing is excellent as my first complete version of the program was released earlier this year and is ready for such a grammar discovery technique.

Your are invited to test the advertised technique and write a Java package that the c2h/leafy project(s) could use.

I must also state the following:

- very few scientists are interested in dolphin communication research involving 2-way acoustic interaction. Why? I don't really know, except that I suspect that most are scared of looking bad, off-the-wall. I think that real progress in this field will first come from non-scientists, maybe from serious whale watchers and maybe from geeks like us.

- no computer system (at least no non-military system) can reliably understand human communication; language understanding can only be done by brains so far (not necessarily a human brain though).

- grammar discovery is helpful for trying to research a human or non-human language but grammar is not understanding.

- other types of animals use complex 2-way acoustic communication, for example, elephants.

- different species of cetaceans have different types of 2-way communication, for example, blue whales communicate much differently than dolphins, and I would not be surprised if dolphins do not understand blue whales.

cheers

Drawing your windows quickly

The rate at which windows are drawn is not a heavy drain on my productivity. How about you?

If something goes into the pool, it has motion, then if that area stops having motion for more than 10 seconds, send an alert.
Try the program "motion" http://motion.sf.net/
It draws a lined box around the motion just like their $60,000 system does.
It wouldn't be hard to then add a little code that watches that area for non motion. It's all open source so it's easily modified and the hard part of detecting motion is already done for you.
In the pool situation, as long as objects keep moving then there's no alert.
The camera would have to be mounted completely stable so the background never changes or moves. The "motion" program has a mask file feature so you can mask off areas that you don't want to detect, like possibly the top part of the pool water.
The "motion" program project would probably appreciate the code addition. It's a great program for home security cameras and Linux makes the whole thing cheap, automated by scripts and stable.
You could do this for the price of a PC or two.

For old systems, http://kmeleon.sf.net/ is your best bet. Granted, it's Windows-only, but it has a Gecko base and is insanely fast.

The MUTE net was designed do be anonymous. I don't think it has reached critical mass, though.

Present a working system that really is relational

There are Alphora Dataphor (federated), Duro (library), and Rel (in development). Not to mention former systems like G-Exec and IBM BS/12.

Hans had produced a real advanced working filesystem

But he can't justify it as being better than an RDBMS.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by your last comment, but if you mean you want a graphical file manager you can control pretty well with your keyboard, then ROX-Filer might be nearer what you want.

You can easily browse to a different folder with the keyboard; just type / and then edit the path (with tab completion) to where you want to be. If you want to enter a single command, you can just type ! then the command, or quickly open an xterm here by typing x for more complicated commands.

It's not perfect; I don't think it's possible to move or copy files without using the mouse or using the ! command box. You might find it more suitable than using Nautilus. (Or you might not: Nautilus might support all of these things, it's been some time since I've tried to use the Gnome file manager—version 1.2 or something—and it's changed a lot since then.)

(Those keybinds I've given mightn't be defaults, actually. You might need to investigate the right-click menu to find out (and change) them.)

• Install Linux on any free partition on any drive -- during the install process, dont bother installing a boot record or boot sector anywhere.
• Copy grldr.exe and menu.lst from http://grub4dos.sf.net/ into c:\ .
• Edit c:\menu.lst to point to the correct partition, directory, and filenames for any/all of the kernel and initrd's you installed on the linux partition:

  title Debian Linux on first partition of second hard drive
  kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdd1
  initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.10.img
  
  title DOS/Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP on first hard drive
  chainloader (hd0,0)+1
  rootnoverify (hd0)

• Add

  C:\grldr="Linux, et al via GRUB"

  to c:\boot.ini .

• New kernel? Just add it to c:\menu.lst like you added the first one.
• Old kernel, new options (e.g., /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 single)? Copy-n-paste the old title/kernel/initrd entries in c:\menu.lst, change the title, and add the new options.
• If you screw up an entry in menu.lst, you can still enter grub directly during boot and grope around for the right partition/directory for the kernel/initrd. Then write them down, boot up, and fix them appropriately in c:\menu.lst.
• Want to boot by default into Linux? Change the 'default=' line in c:\boot.ini to point to your grldr entry.
• Dont want to run Linux anymore? Just remove the line from c:\boot.ini.

• Install Linux on any free partition on any drive -- during the install process, dont bother installing a boot record or boot sector anywhere.
• Copy grldr.exe and menu.lst from http://grub4dos.sf.net/ into c:\ .
• Edit c:\menu.lst to point to the correct partition, directory, and filenames for any/all of the kernel and initrd's you installed on the linux partition:

  title Debian Linux on first partition of second hard drive
  kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdd1
  initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.10.img
  
  title DOS/Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP on first hard drive
  chainloader (hd0,0)+1
  rootnoverify (hd0)

• Add

  C:\grldr="Linux, et al via GRUB"

  to c:\boot.ini .

• New kernel? Just add it to c:\menu.lst like you added the first one.
• Old kernel, new options (e.g., /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 single)? Copy-n-paste the old title/kernel/initrd entries in c:\menu.lst, change the title, and add the new options.
• If you screw up an entry in menu.lst, you can still enter grub directly during boot and grope around for the right partition/directory for the kernel/initrd. Then write them down, boot up, and fix them appropriately in c:\menu.lst.
• Want to boot by default into Linux? Change the 'default=' line in c:\boot.ini to point to your grldr entry.
• Dont want to run Linux anymore? Just remove the line from c:\boot.ini.

Good idea, but what business can be build up with projects like opencyc?

http://opehncyc.sf.net/

Who needs AI? Why do AI solutions not scale? Whenever AI people sell "usable stuff" it is exaggerated. Whenever AI people provide nice stuff you do not know what to do with it.

where is the japanese 5th generation computer gone?

Who uses AI expert systems?

Why isn't there prolog installed on my machine?

Where are the neuronal network processor chips?

Why do search engines need no AI semantic net or AI language analysis.

why is there no fulltext translation tool?

Why are AI problems usually solved by non-AI methods?

The closest thing to an official e17 file manager, evidence (http://evidence.sf.net/ inherited the typebuffer and it's quite helpful. you just hit ESC to open it up and start doing your thing... there are other options/capabilities for it, but you can check the man pages for that info. Evidence is an awesome, if somewhat buggy, file manager (I've had problems with mime types and stability issues with the default theme)...but it's also pretty groundbreaking...or at least it was when first released. I'd recommend it, and I hope to see a version someday that swaps out the GTK code for more nice EFL stuff!

Encrypt your emails using GPG, connect to Google IM using Gaim and use the gaim-encryption plugin (http://gaim-encryption.sf.net./ Forward all your connections through random anonymous SOCKS proxies (remember, SSH can do that for you too, and there's a few places that offer free shell accounts). That should give you a little privacy.

It's not "being paranoid" when they really are out to get you.

I use SIM (Simple Instant Message), it was the closest to Miranda-IM I found for Linux.
Anyone out there has manage to connect to Google talk using this client? I haven't found the right config yet.. :/

The user name is mynick@gmail.com or just mynick?
The Jabber server is talk.google.com or gmail.com?
Do I check the 'Register new account' checkbox or not?
SSL or not?

You must be thinking of Trillian encryption, which, last I checked, is snake oil. Gaim-encryption uses a reasonable implementation of PKI... the key is supposed to be passed in the clear, hence its designation as the "public key." It's still not trusted unless you can verify the key's fingerprint with the key's owner.

Just do a search for "public key infrastructure" (PKI).

from the site: Gajim is a Jabber client written in PyGTK. The goal of Gajim's developers is to provide a full featured and easy to use xmpp client for the GTK+ users. Gajim does not require GNOME to run, eventhough it exists with it nicely. Gajim is released under the GNU General Public License for windows, & lots of linux distros including an auto-package ...package.

Personally i take all of this Google "thing" (*paranoid*) with some doubts, the concentration of information (a LOT of personal data) never will be good.

I use Jabber(i use it from centericq, imcom, Gaim, kopete, among others) for a long time ago, and i REALLY try to all my friends start using it, but they still use the (lack of "geek" features and stability) MSN Messenger. I really wait the Google IM program, becouse jabber exist for some time ago, and IMHO doesnt have ANY reason to use the Google servers. The good thing of this news is that maybe with the Google IM all my friends (and everybody) start using a FREE IM protocol (i say that for Jabber)

I'm trying to get back to my roots. I'm planning on building one of these .

I've been designing the software for it, and although I haven't had time to work on it for about a week, it's coming along nicely.

Shameless plug: AFX

I just need to think of a better way of describing what it is in the project summary.

and IRC from 1988 still beats them hands down.

Well, yes and no. I too used to poo-poo the "instant messengers" until I was forced to use AOLIM (not the real AOLIM of course, Gaim instead) for work. I use both IRC and IM, but for completely separate purposes.

IRC's defining characteristic is that you have to connect to a server and join a subject-related channel in order to chat with anyone. With IM, you sign onto one global network and then you can chat with whomever you want as long as you know their screenname. IRC is used for talking to people that I've never met, but share at least one common interest. IRC is ideal for, say, getting software support or yakking on about the latest Star Trek movie with complete strangers.

My IM buddy list, by contrast, is composed entirely of people that I know personally outside of cyberspace. It's good for tossing quick messages and having short coversations with friends, family, and business associates that I wouldn't ordinarily bother to call.

yes. the CVS (development) version of amsn supports msn webcam (not videoconference) ...it uses libmimic, which has previously been reported on slashdot.

I run a project that aims to be a java port of CherryPy. Supports all free vms and is very lightweight.

OOWeb

I don't know why you're complaining about the 9250 - it's probably the best card ATI do. It's the fastest performing model that actually has usable drivers for it.

From my experience, Echo 2 is by and large the most complete and stable AJAX toolkit for Java. It has a very nice pure Java swing-like API and is very extensible. The Online Demos are very cool and definitely worth a look. If Atlas is the AJAX framework for .NET, Echo2 has got to be the equivalent for Java.

I've used it on TrackIt for a few weeks now and in my opinion, it is head and shoulders above any open source Java web framework, AJAX enabled or otherwise.

I just finished about 4 months of work writing two AJAX apps using PHP with javascript and while the end result is what we were hoping for and the app runs beautifully, it took me a tremendous amount of time to code it as compared to a standard fat-GUI-app that runs on the client machine.

I basically did a port of the functionality I had in two Perl/TK apps, but I wanted portability and easy updates of code and I had just done a stress test of AJAX in Firefox and IE and they both seemed to handle the load OK so I started developing.

I did not use any tools aside from a text editor and the browsers to test in. The tools like SAJAX just created bloated code that crashed the browsers once things got too complex for them so I decided just to hand-code it from there on. I built in some session security and user authentication both of which ended up working rather well.

These apps are querying other pages to get updates on phone system extensions statuses(from Asterisk) and other bits of information and updating DHTML elements constantly, so they do generate a lot of HTTP requests and use at least three times of the bandwidth that the fat-client perl/Tk app used to, but the database and web server seem to take the traffic OK and we thought that both of the browsers did too until we did some time tests.

We were able to leave the AJAX app running in the same Firefox session for over 2 weeks before we had to reboot the machine for other reasons which was wonderful and much longer than we thought. But, Internet Explorer never lasted a day. It seems that in the ActiveX element that handles XML requests(IE itself doesn't do it internally like Firefox does) there is a memory leak and within 2 hours our app was chewing up over 120MB of RAM and was getting slower. We tried several fixes and the only way to get the memory back was to kill the iexplore.exe process(This was on IE5.0 through 6.1). And that is the reason we recommend only Firefox for intensive AJAX apps.

In case anyone has read this far, the apps are GPLd and available on sourceforge. They are apps that extend the functionality of Asterisk PBX phone system extensions. You need to have Asterisk and the astGUIclient suite installed in order to test them:
astGUIclient project page

MATT---

Freemind is a mind map tool written in Java. I use it on Linux and Windows. I can live without it for my day to day work... http://freemind.sf.net

Lambda oor Lambda

at least something very similar to it, and patented by Sony: www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartskin BTW one of the developers of smartskin is the author of effectv.sf.net i'd rather add that slashdot news are getting lousier every day, please keep it up.

OK, I have an idea. Let's stop with the stealing of music, and let them do whatever they want to stop us from copying it. There's a simple answer - don't buy it. Instead, create and listen to free content.

Let's get behind iRATE radio, and really get it into shape (http://irate.sf.net./ As a piece of software, from the user end I must confess its user interface leaves a lot to be desired. It's unpolished, unfinished, and has a variety of major missing pieces and flaws. BUT.

I use it quite a lot, because it has something that few other programs have. CONTENT. Legal, free content. Much of it I don't care for (the same could be said of normal radio, for that matter) but the more people involved, the more attention it gets, the better a) the software will get and b) the content will get. As more people prune out the truly bad and things get more interesting, it can (maybe even will) snowball.

I think iRate, or some fork thereof, needs some major improvements, granted. They need to:

a) Update their music selection algorithms, give users a choice of algorithms and a way to indicate genra preferences, and provide a default download pack of the highest rated music to start with (don't start new users with the worst or random, start them with the best! any marketer can tell you you've gotta hook them before you can reel them in.)

b) For goodness sake make the interface modern and more useful as a music player! Model it on iTunes, or whatever other good ones are out there(Rhythmbox isn't too bad) but get off the feature starved java interface.

c) Hook in bittorrent with some kind of legal download only constraints, and give content creators the opportunity to distribute their music using this system if they license it under creative commons terms.

d) Have an elected membership which reviews songs BEFORE they go on the bittorrent network, and have them either give it a yea or nay. Then have two options - the filtered bittorrent, with music that has at least undergone minimal quality control, and the unfiltered madness :-)

Let's show the commercial world that community spirit still exists, and can survive on its own. Open source did it for software, now let's do it for music. Sure it might be harder than for software, but who would have bet on open source 20 years ago? Let's give it an honest to goodness shot, and see if it can be made to work.

Is it just me, or does anyone else not care to remember BBSes? I ran several in my day, and the internet does everything they do, better.

Half and half. I loved the client-side part of it enough to clone Qmodem 4.x and use it all the time at work. (I work with buoys running an embedded Linux on PC/104 hardware.) I think for interactive text-mode stuff BBSes were more advanced than the current Internet. For example, transferring files across multiple firewalls that you can ssh through is hard without Zmodem or Kermit -- see Sourceforge for a number of zmodem-over-ssh solutions for that. Also, at low speeds (less than 14.4k) BBSes ruled. And the community aspects were nice.

OTOH I like Usenet a lot more than Fidonet because of its coverage and depth -- Google groups goes a long way in finding fixes for obscure technical problems. The community-ish WWW sites (LiveJournal, MySpace, Match.com, etc.) are a lot better at getting people connected than BBSes, and eBay, Amazon, and Wikipedia rock.

(God do I miss tradewars though).

I'm still playing :) Find yourself one of the many telnet'able BBSes and join a game. You'd be surprised how much better 3.x is over TW 2.09g, and the newer helpers are amazing (but I still play manually).

There's always Gaim and Miranda IM if they're looking for simple and efficient multi-protocol messengers.

There is a nice Linux turn-by-turn GPS navigation program called RoadNav (http://roadnav.sf.net./ It uses TIGER data, which it auto downloads, to give you step by step directions. It also gives you satellite image overlays. I am surprised so few people have heard of it.

This upcoming release of the Quake 3 source code coincides nicely with the latest r300 project update (http://r300.sf.net/): the open-source ATI R300 drivers (for Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700 and 9800 cards) have been moved into the Mesa CVS at http://freedesktop.org/.

See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for more info about Radeon cards and chipsets.

That's true, but BeOS fans are all fawning over Haiku, not YellowTab :)

Now this in its current state resembles a YellowTab install far better than Haiku does, but the BeOS fans are still fawning over Haiku instead :)

Every businessman knows people go by emotion.

Reducing the license count is good, but put those apps under the BSD license instead. That way folks can use your program without their hands being tied. They can even make a product out of it, make some money, and feed changes/improvements back into the program. I've had folks send in contributions to PMD and say that if it was GPL'd they wouldn't be contributing their code.

And the fact that Compuware wraps PMD and calls it OptimalAdvisor? More power to them! Maybe they'll contribute a bug fix or two, and maybe I'll sell a couple more copies of the book. A rising tide, as it were...

I'm guessing that the future of programming lies within languages in which you can easily define a domain specific language to solve your problem. Good languages to write DSLs: Lisp dialects, Ruby, Factor, Smalltalk. When code is data, you have a really powerful language. That's where the future lies IMO.

I have Crimson Editor, and it was decent for a simple text editor. The macros can make it easy to generate and test code quickly too.

But what I really prefer to use now is this Eclipse Plugin, Colorer which does do the above mentioned highlighting for recognizing inline code. Well I haven't tried it on PHP, but it recognizes a lot of languages and syntaxes, and worked well with JSP.

IIRC, she [Sandra Johnson] is the head of one of IBM's Linux Technology Centers. It was pretty interesting and I got to skim the book for a while. Looked good, but I always have the fear that books like this get outdated fast. It had half a page on top -- I told her to include htop in the next edition. No plug is as shameless as when you do it in person. ;)

It's great news. The only problem is that today with enterprise-ready UML, Xen et al. we serious computer scientists no longer need VMware being any more open to begin with. You missed the first train so don't beat the dead horse now.

It's great news. The only problem is that today with enterprise-ready UML, Xen et al. we serious computer scientists no longer need VMware being any more open to begin with. You missed the first train so don't beat the dead horse now.

I remember having to dig into the registry entries to get PCI IDs of devices, then looking them up on sourceforge. But those days, astonishingly, are past. Windows XP's Device Manager has a nice bit where it has a "Details" tab, with "Hardware IDs". For instance, the 3C905-TX in this computer reads as PCI\VEN_10B7&DEV_9200&SUBSYS_100010B7&REV_6C
. And yes, it does this for unknown devices as well. So no more registry digging.

The problem with their "recovery mode" being seriously weaker than the equivalent linux console boot... well, that's a whole 'nother issue.

--grendel drago

I don't think a GUI platform can call itself complete until it's got an IDE that's worthy for programming.

I disagree... I'm not a fan of your monolithic IDEs at all. My GUI is an IDE:

• ROX-Filer, which is highly customizable and integrated with the shell
• XEmacs or vim as your preference goes, which are two highly advanced programmable editors
• bash, zsh, csh, or your other favorite shell
• autotools for building

These tools combine into an "IDE" that is my desktop. I have the best-in-class for every component. Beats a jack-of-all-trades IDE that lacks in any number of regards and takes huge resources.

I would agree with you pretty much spot on. I bought an iMac G5 about the same time ago, and I've since put GNU/Linux back on.

This despite the fact that Linux doesn't run very well on iMac G5s. No sound, no sleep stuff, no fan control (though now it's the middle of winter in the sensible half of the world, it just sounds like the middle of summer when I was running Mac OS X).

GNU/Linux has native support for things like multiple desktops (I find Codetek was sorely lacking despite the $40 fee, and it was probably the best of the lot) or sloppy focus. Copy-and-paste works properly GNU/Linux/X. You can get decent browsers to run on GNU/Linux, but I searched high and low on OS X, but disappointed at every turn. It also has a file manage that works the way it should and doesn't feel like an ungodly cross between half a dozen different ideas for human-computer interaction. It also has a default theme that doesn't suck. And even if it did, you can change it trivially.

Sure, GNU/Linux can feel thrown together (and particu'ly my current setup), because to a large extent it is. Sure, it misses out on (useful) eyecandy. Sure, it doesn't have brilliant driver support for things like 3D graphics card or exotic hardware (though for the vast array of hardware it does support, it's more plug-and-play than I remember Windows).

Also, the fact that many graphic designers use MacOS X means that the best themes tend to be MacOS X creations. You need to install some piece of shareware to get them to run, though.

That's not a complete list of my grievances with MacOS X. And I'm not saying GNU/Linux is perfect for everyone--yet. But penguins and apples just don't compare.

<PLUG>

If you want to try something altogether larger, more powerful and more flexible, then check out the ACK --- this is a compiler toolchain written by Andy Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs that was released under a BSD license a few years ago. It supports K&R C, ANSI C, Pascal, Modula 2, Occam, Basic and Fortran, and supports a whole bunch of (slightly elderly) architectures. A subset of the compiler comes with Minix, if you've ever used that. Ever wanted to run Occam programs on your Apple I? Yep, you can do that.

It's way, way smaller than gcc, astonishingly faster, much easier to port new architectures for, and produces adequate if not brilliant code.

</PLUG>

At work, a competition was formed. If you're interested, I can look up the rules we used.

I'm going to attempt to set you straight for the umpteenth time here, ALMAFAGTE.

Actually, the name of the kernel (when we speak of "names" in the sense that you and other RMS groupies use when you claim that "Linux" is the name of the kernel) is NT. Really, I would be perfectly happy if you called my system that runs Windows XP SP2 an NT box, because that's basically what it is.

Now, in the case of Linux, people have been calling it by this name for a long time. There's no sense in confusing people and forcing them to call a system GNU/Linux on accounts of RMS and you having an issue with wanting recognition for your work. Do you really want to separate the community on accounts of names? Isn't this sort of like what happened in the United States Civil Rights Movement, when people were divided by names like "Nigger"?

Why can't you just be happy that people use the system? The GPL will still protect your rights regardless if you call things by what you and other radicals consider to be the "proper name." I don't see you campaigning for people to call Gaim or Mac OS X GNU/Gaim or GNU/Mac OS X, as the GNU compilers made each of these possible. What's up with that?

Methinks you and the rest of the GNU/FSF whackos are just upset that without Linux, you'd all just be a group of hackers that nobody would want to be around on a hot summer day.

Dijjer already does that now.

I started a project to do this 2 years ago. But due to changes in JXTA and other factors, it just fizzled out like so many projects on SF :(

http://freenet.sf.net/

it's slow, but it works.

Some of these hotels/motels run pretty amateur operations for their "high speed access", so having a hub wouldn't surprise me at all.

Even if the network is switched, one could just use a simple ARP poisoning tool such as ettercap to poison the MAC address table and make the switch go into "hub mode".

Recently, I was at a Super 8 Motel in Addison, TX for business. I had alot of free time at the motel, so I got in my laptop and used the wireless. The connection was painfully slow, 3000-8000ms pings to everywhere. I fired up ettercap (ARP poisoning isn't nessecary on wireless, but ettercap is still a cool sniffing tool regardless) and saw that some bonehead was saturating the T1 with Gnutella downloads of pornographic pictures.

I could care less that he is looking at porn, but he was hogging all the bandwidth. I solved the problem by "stealing" his IP address and generating some traffic to keep the the ARP table of the motel's router associating the "stolen" IP address with my MAC so that he could not use the internet.

Don't like Blender's interface? Try K-3D (GTK based, nothing to do with KDE). It's still kind of early along, but it's interface is alot more like Maya and Max's.

Second that. The other day, my boss & I (both Linux support ppl) were advising a client about how they could use ThinStation (http://thinstation.sf.net/ ) and its rdesktop client to connect to Terminal Services servers. One of our vaunted MCSE dudes (the co. supports clients' Windows and Linux, servers and desktops) leaned over to me with a puzzled frown:
MCSE: "Dude, what's he *talking* about!!??"
me: "Huh?"
MCSE: "He's telling them to use RDP from Linux to connect to Terminal Services ?? !! ??"
me (puzzled frown): "Yeah.. so?"

This back-and-forth continued for half a minute, till I understood the problem. I (non-MCSE, non-engineer) had to explain to the great MCSE that RDP was a protocol, Terminal Services was M$'s name for the service, and rdesktop on Linux just *happened* to speak RDP and so could connect to TS. Whereupon he leaned back with folded arms and one raised eyebrow, as if to say "Are you kidding me, dude?".

I had had enough, so I left it at that.

No doubt, there are quite a few GOOD or GREAT MCSEs. Even less doubt that they sorely regret the kind of tests that allow lamers to wear the same badge as them.

Whew!
A.C.