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That's not true at all. I've hashed it out with a few corporations over wvWare, my MSWord reading library. Usually the threat of action is enough to have the infringers quaking in their boots, and coax them into complaince. When it's not enough, you've got the FSF all-too willing to come to your aide:

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violatio n.html

Regarding these cases, Eben Moglen (the FSF's general legal counsel) once told me that the reason you've never seen a GPL violation case go to court is because it's always a slam-dunk case that will be decided in your favor; that it's always in the infringer's best interest to settle out of court. I don't know how self-serving that statement was, but it's worth pondering at least. It's been my experience, in any case.

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Just use gaim then. Install the gaim-encryption plugin and you're good to go. http://gaim.sf.net/

You forgot:

0. GAIM with GAIM Encryption - Multiprotocol, multiplatform IM client and its encryption module that encrypts any IM protocol you use

It also maintains the same look and feel across Windows and Linux and is a key component when helping individuals and organizations get off Windows desktops. It may the closest thing I've seen to cross-platform OSS perfection.

My current customer (~6000 employees) already uses Thunderbird and Firefox, and they are begging to get onto Linux desktops. I introduced them to this pair recently, and the first few pockets of users are starting to show up. They've considered setting up their own Jabber server, and I'm still helping them get a better understanding of how it works (not my main job there).

Get a good client in first, then change the protocol. Wash, rinse, repeat enough times until the underlying OS is irrelevant.

You forgot:

0. GAIM with GAIM Encryption - Multiprotocol, multiplatform IM client and its encryption module that encrypts any IM protocol you use

It also maintains the same look and feel across Windows and Linux and is a key component when helping individuals and organizations get off Windows desktops. It may the closest thing I've seen to cross-platform OSS perfection.

My current customer (~6000 employees) already uses Thunderbird and Firefox, and they are begging to get onto Linux desktops. I introduced them to this pair recently, and the first few pockets of users are starting to show up. They've considered setting up their own Jabber server, and I'm still helping them get a better understanding of how it works (not my main job there).

Get a good client in first, then change the protocol. Wash, rinse, repeat enough times until the underlying OS is irrelevant.

Also http://fire.sf.net/ Fire with GPG.

Another one: http://gaim-encryption.sf.net/

VLevel is exactly what you want. It works by continuously but gradually changing the gain throughout the file. It has a lookahead buffer of a few seconds, so unlike a compressor, it never has to change the gain too quickly. This preserves "contrast," so for example if a quiet part was being made loud, the gain will decrease a little while before the big bombastic crescendo, so you'll still get the effect.

For Windows, the best way to use it is with the plugin for Foobar2000, an awesome windows audio player. On Linux, you can use it as a LADSPA filter, which can be plugged into XMMS.

giFT and MlDonkey (don't miss the DOT when typing the URL, wwwmldonkey.net is a spyware), have both clean-room implementation of FastTraker and are both open-source. (and both work under linux).

For now there's nothing wrong with it but depending on the votation in EU about patents, things may get a little problematic.

BTW: FastTracker is also the name of a sound module tracker made by Triton (now Starbreeze).

If you're using Gaim, try the GUIfications plugin. You'll never miss a message again.

...but iRate has certainly changed my taste in music, and without any paranoia about opening services to the 'net.

don't forget http://p7zip.sf.net/ when talking about large archives; the 7Zip formats regularly beat rar; I had a 280MB file compress down to 54MB with rar a -m5, and down to 17MB with 7za -ultra. 7Zip has the added benefit of being less encumbered than RAR or ACE, and more open in use of algorithms.

I haven't updated it in a while but Nariva http://nariva.sf.net/ is a java-based open-source desktop search engine I wrote and use. I'm the only one working on it, so it's going a bit slow, but it works for me.

Regards,
Christopher.

It is a Vega Strike mod, hence the link to VS (as the GPL engine) in the /. article.

What the article doesn't really mention is that the Privateer Remake development crew is mostly Vega Strike developers. I believe Privateer is one of the games that inspires the VS developers, although VS itself is a very different game universe. Once the VS engine was in a position to make a Privateer Remake possible then they poured a lot of effort into making it.

I look forward to future releases that should continue to improve upon the graphics 'ported' from the original Privateer and bring the remake further up to date.

I use jPodder, an open source client that can be told to just drop the files on the file system.

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Back in the day, I helped out bring PHPSlash out of a funk and cobble up a couple of releases for the team. I eventually became one of the project leaders for a few years and was nice to most of the people on the lists.

Then I was laid off, got depressed, and lost all my drive to code. After about a year of no work the first break I got was from a guy who I helped install phpslash on the phpslash-users list years prior.

--Ajay

well, this isn't full blown yet, but it's a good start.

If you have (or get) Mac OS 10.3 or newer, it will come with Apple's X11.app, which, when you launch it, provides a fully functional installation of X. I just tried the select-to-copy and second-button-to-paste method in it, and it works perfectly, even when my "second button" is actually option+click my trackpad's button. Within a window, and between windows.

You can also install any X program that's been ported to PPC Darwin (and some that haven't!) easily from source, including all the most popular window managers, if you prefer them to the Finder. I'd recommend looking up Fink, a Debian-style package manager for OS X. I've had nothing but excellent luck with it.

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swsusp2 works like a charm on most modern 'tops.

Druid is what you are probably looking for, and it reliably and almost painlessly integrates with the hsqldb/Base front and back ends.

if you're looking to try it out, want to come help port gvcard (http://gvcard.sf.net/) to use Yahoo Local as well as Google Local?

My post was modded "informative" because I actually play with BIOS's.

Good for you. I've played with them too.

Because you've hand-waved away the BIOS level reporting into "ACPI does that for you"

I didn't say that, I said: "The PC BIOS most important function, [other than IPL], is to properly describe the hardware (IOW ACPI).". With emphasis on describe. And it's really funny you should pick on ACPI, because the raison d'etre of ACPI was precisely to runtime remove involvement of BIOS in hardware management, and make BIOS just hand-off the needed descriptive data at boot to the OS to allow the OS to do the runtime management, via the OS's own ACPI interpreter.

The ACPI data is to an extent a mostly static blob of data in the BIOS ROM. The BIOSes job wrt ACPI is to adjust/tweak this template at *boot* and then hand it to the OS, whose own interpreter will be doing the heavy lifting during runtime - no BIOS involed.

(such as setting boot-on-power-failure behavior, setting boot device orders, enabling serial console, hard-coding IRQ's and other stuff I do at least once a month)

Playing with the setup menu is something you consider low level stuff? And you feel qualified to tell slashdot how important the BIOS is and, more to the point, why? ;)

You're simply describing settings in the CMOS data affecting initial setup and bootstrap - irrelevant after OS is booted. You can even manipulate these settings from within your OS quite easily (if you know which bits in the CMOS do what, you can figure that out reasonably easily enough if you want.).

A lot of ACPI functionality is deduced guesswork:

ROFL. ACPI is a published, documented specification by Intel. (It's a rather huge set of specs, but it's documented none the less. The Linux ACPI interpreter is actually written and maintained by Intel staffers.). BIOS vendors often manage to screw up the ACPI data, however the beauty (relatively seen, at least, in context of PC firmware) of ACPI is you can decompile that, fix it and override it if you want. See the Linux ACPI site.

open source BIOS would remove a huge amount of the guesswork and make the code controllable and reparable.

I agree. Though, not because of ACPI (for which open source interpreters *already* exist. ACPI data is machine dependent and requires proper specs for hardware, slightly orthogonal to open source BIOS).

All of the various IM clients on the planet have different interoperability APIs, and "approvals" required to interoperate. This makes life difficult for everyone. If you want to help create a standard cross-IM-client plugin architecture, take a peek at http://imnarrator.sf.net/.

Emacs doesn't have Clippy, but VI does. :-)

(This was inspired by the webcomic User Friendly, specifically the January 2000 storyline.)

Free Software is not Open Source. Do I want an Open Source system? Hell no! I want an entirely Free system from software down to the hardware! I use GNU/Linux because I support the idea of Free Software, not because it doesn't cost me money to use. In fact, it does cost me to not use non-Free software; some of it isn't as usable as the proprietary counterpart and may require me to work on the code itself to make it do what I need.

But I have the freedom to modify the code if I want to. I'd like this with my firmware too. OpenBIOS is promising for the firmware replacement. The Open Graphics Card project is progressing and will finally give me a decent graphics card that is well supported and documented (I have a Radeon 9100; it is the last ATi card I will purchase since they to have gone down the path of not even providing specs to the DRI developers...so no more Matrox, ATi, nVidia, ...).

The graphics card thing is a really good example of why we should demand Free Hardware. Unless you give up your Freedom and use proprietary drivers, you no longer can use a modern graphics card and get 3d acceleration under X. Printers are another good example; look at how many printers have no Ghostscript backend because the manufacturers refuse to provide specifications for their proprietary protocols. Specs are nice but open hardware documentation would be nicer since we could then e.g. reprogram the printer's firmware to support PostScript (or if it is too slow for that, something like PPA that we have decent drivers for).

The Neuros has had its firmware and even full hardware specs released! Neuros Audio isn't going out of business; not even close to it. The hardware schematics release may not be immediately useful but the firmware release is; things are progressive with FLAC support and soon MPC, things that never would have happened if the firmware had remain non-free software. Look at Rockbox too. The Rockbox firmware is far superior to the stock firmware.

Free Software needs to run on a system that is Free down to its lowest level. We live in a world now where everyone is trying to kill us with things like hardware-based Digital Restrictions Management. We must demand at the very least Free firmware for the hardware and good enough hardware interface specs to actually do something with the firmware (stuff like e.g. the Verilog for the ASIC doesn't matter so much when you have that, but it would be nice to have).

Why make it look like windows?

Maybe because, when you make something original, you are ignored.

It's true. Lately I've been noticing that living in the open source universe can be a lot like attending high school: everything is a popularity contest. If you're not one of the "cool kids" you don't get any attention, even if what you're working on is more mature, more sophisticated, and just plain better than what they're working on.

Whats in it for you:

* No cash. Money is fleeting, glory is forever!
* Contributing back to Open Source Software
* Name recognition from working on a very popular Open Source Project
* Great resume experience
* Networking with a global team of professional developers, system administrators, security experts and professional photographers who work for companies such as Sun, Google, and Microsoft.

I sincerely hope this is some kind of joke for you to get more mod points. No one would be THAT stupid! Why would stop writing softwares because of ONE stupid patent? Just host everything on Sourceforge (here is the link as it seems you don't know what this is: http://sf.net/) and do whatever you want.

You may be prevented by the law to write such software but I consider myself independant of all the stupid laws written all over the world. If this is not the case for you, just move to Canada or Europe; I would NEVER stay in such an awful country as yours!

Did you check the links? I'm actually pointing to a specific language where null pointer (OK, references) errors at caught at compile time. It *is* possible.

What about using a language where null pointer errors are caught at compile time? Oh, I guess our compiler must have a brain the size of a whole solar system to be able to do that.

What about using a language where null pointer errors are caught at compile time? Oh, I guess our compiler must have a brain the size of a whole solar system to be able to do that.

For starters, you probably don't need to take the grandparent's rant too seriously...

To answer your question, OS X includes a lot of UNIX server software out of the box - Apache (with mod_ssl, IIRC), PHP, Postfix, OpenSSH and an FTP daemon (the name escapes me). These are enabled and disabled by ticking boxes - laughably easy. (And for the technical, you can still hack around in httpd.conf to customise your setup.) MySQL is also very easily installed. For the rest, use Fink - it's apt-get for OS X.

OS X Server is a somewhat different beast. It includes all of this UNIX goodness and more, plus a slick interface (Server Admin) for configuring it all. But if you're buying a Mac mini, I can't see you needing this - it's a computer for home use, and Server is enterprise-grade stuff. Kinda like running Windows 2003 Server on your Shuttle, but even weirder.

Even so, I'd hold off on buying the Mac mini for the moment. 10.4 is not far away and will bring a host of new additions to the already-impressive OS X feature set.

iqu :)

Like this?

Just a thought.

Interestingly, my HP sitting over in the corner had the same cartridges installed in it for over 18 months, and it never had a problem using the above drivers.

People keep saying that none of the browsers (especially IE support XForms so it will never take off.

What they fail to realize is that XForms is not necessarily a client-side technology and can be used *right now* in ALL major browsers.

Take a look at Chiba for a server-side implementation that works pretty well. No plugins to install!

I hacked an N64 down to it's bare essentials, and put it in my PC.

It's powered by the PC's power supply and the video and audio cables are run through my digital TV tuner card so I can play it in all it's deinterlaced glory using tvtime, although it can be plugged into a large TV or a projector and a loud stereo.

It's great at LAN parties. Nobody can resist the attraction of a GoldenEye deathmatch. >:D

He's also been behind the ffmpeg project for a long time. Most Linux users probably use a fair bit of his code when watching videos.

Whhoops, link for the lazy here: http://edsadmin.sf.net

That looks pretty sweet. Good LDAP administration tools are hard to find.

Whoops, link for the lazy here: http://edsadmin.sf.net

-Mark

RPC vulnerability from 2 years ago taken advantage of by several worms since.

Use PostgreSQL or FireBird (yes, there are Win32 versions) which don't run with elevated privileges and you won't risk a Slammer.

Microsoft first makes the software, and then nails it down after the fan sloshes to a halt. Almost everyone else makes it secure from Day One.

CSer

Personally, I've moved away from use of C++ serialization, and prefer to write custom "save" code. It may take longer, but it's easier to debug and to maintain upward compatibility.

since I felt I had to wait too long to download the mp3, I created a magnet-link, via which you can download it with (hopefully) higher speed.

You need a magnet-capable program like http://limewire.com , http://phex.kouk.de or similar to use it. ( more to be found on http://magnet-uri.sf.net/ )

As soon as you have those installed, just click the following tiny-url, which expands to a magnet-uri (slashdot broke the magnet):
http://tinyurl.com/55t4z
This is the original magnet:
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:O2VKJMYGJAG7ABSEXQX2L 7VX7JG3VX NY&dn=2005-02-15-martin_on_slashdot.mp3&xs=http:// edrikor.dyndns.org:9845/uri-res/N2R?urn:sha1:O2VKJ MYGJAG7ABSEXQX2L7VX7JG3VXNY&xs=http://217.227.153. 86:9845/uri-res/N2R?urn:sha1:O2VKJMYGJAG7ABSEXQX2L 7VX7JG3VXNY&xs=http://images.slashdot.org/articles /05/02/martin_on_slashdot.mp3

For those, who have the Phex cvs-version installed, there's also a magma-list (MAGnet MAnifest) with the magnet to the mp3 avaible here:

http://gnuticles.de/magma-lists/martin_on_slashdot .magma

Arne Bab. http://draketo.de/

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

Anjuta does this, IIRC. I've never used it for C++, but it certainly helps autocomplete members of C structs. I stopped using it because I found the package-management stuff a bit annoying, but it's quite a good program overall.

Ah, you beat me to it. I'm doing some wxPerl development (for FreeMED) at the moment, and moving from one platform to another is trivial. I especially like the use of native dialogs for file-selection, color-selection, printing and so forth. If it's all done right, you don't even know that the app uses Wx. (I didn't know that Audacity did until quite recently.)

(Though I wish Wx::Config were implemented in the Windows/ActivePerl port. I had much desired to make use of it.)

--grendel drago

I'm not sure if this should be a reply to someone else's comment, so I'll start anew.

I'm the guy who helped port the gaim-encryption plugin FROM Linux over TO Win32. (The opposite of the article and this topic, I know). But, after I sent the patches back up to the maintainer, he was able to easily carry it in his source tree.

I used Cygwin and MingW to handle the compilation with his original autoconf, etc. build environment. Of course, there was the requisite GTK+ libraries, etc. that went along with it too. But the magic was MingW and Cygwin.

Perhaps this could give the various developers some insight that "it really can be done".

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What kind of fantasy land are you living in? Sure, if you are willing to dick about all day with apt pinning and use outdated software, maybe you can avoid it. It's a bit of a mission.

But if you want to use the latest versions of things, even if you use Debian you'll have to compile sometimes. Check out the users on the Ubuntu lists bitching about how Inkscape 0.41 just missing the upstream version freeze. Check out Fyre, a cool app for generating images from de Jong maps - note the lack of a Debian package. On Fedora far more software is not in the repositories than is.

Blind fanboyism won't get us anywhere. Even if the best case scenario, which right now probably means Ubuntu, there are serious problems with desktop software installation on Linux.

There is a lot of interest in solutions from users, developers and commercial ISVs (eg LSB/OSDL member companies). There are a few projects experimenting with new approaches, check out my own: autopackage, or Thomas Leonards Zero-Install.

In particular if you want to test Fyre, try the autopackage I made of it: Fyre 0.10svn. Both Fyre and autopackage aren't quite version 1.0 yet, but both are very close.

That build needs GTK 2.4. I have a build locally I will upload soon that adapts to the GTK features available at runtime (using relaytool) and therefore only needs GTK 2.2, but can still use the new file selectors and other features if they're available at runtime.

Although it is for small groups, WASTE is an example of what can come. http://waste.sf.net/