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Also I forgot to mention this: If anyone is willing to write a good CSS for DocBook XML content and GNU Public License it, please feel free to post at @ Linux Document Project Blog . Thanks.

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Use a box to build yourself a new box so you can run Box inside of Bochs on your box!

Use a box to build yourself a new box so you can run Box inside of Bochs on your box!

I'm surprised redhat has stuck with gnome this long as their DE of choice. It is more usable, and that's why I am glad personally they have.

With so many of the gtk programs riviling the qt equivalents, I wonder why companies always flock towards Qt.

do you feel lucky

I load up my phpToDo page, always see my important todo stuff before doing anything else. Has worked for me for years.

Ok, there is one additional database access language I know of: <a href="http://newsql.sf.net">NewSQL</a>.

Ok, there is one additional database access language I know of: NewSQL.

Too bad the built-in rate-limitting in the AIM service kills this. The Smarterchild people had the same problem so they had to get special accounts that weren't rate-limitted.

For those who use these services, rate-limitting is that which prevents you from sending too many instant messages too quickly, and too many instant messages to too many recipients too quickly. The servers penalize you for the more messages you send until you can't carry on a conversation, and then they time out and the rate-limitting wears off. This happens in both the oscar protocols and in the TOC protocols used by things like the Minitik project. The rate limits do not wear off when you sign-off, either.

"Attestation is crucial for this application by allowing the voting server to make sure that the user's voting software has not been altered on the disk."

Since he refers to it as the "user's" voting software, I must assume this would be for home users, not some central polling location. If it's at the user's premises, it shouldn't matter if the user's software has been tampered with. A simple cryptographic hash can be used to ensure that the vote was not tampered with en-route.

"Trusted Computing will solve this problem by allowing the server to make sure that the game client software is clean and unmodified."
First off, many "cheats" don't modify the existing client at all. Instead, they act as wrappers to drivers, or even hack the driver itself. Plus, how can you be sure that the computer doing the checking is really a computer at all? I've written a patch for bochs that lets me tag a specific set of bytecode, and have bochs execute another set entirely. This system would pass any sort of memory check just fine, but none the less can easily be used to cheat.

"Without such a technology, cheating is only going to get worse, demoralizing players and driving them from the games."
Actually, Trusted Computing games would be even less likely to sell. Look at the distribution of games now: how many [non-console] games come out on CD vs DVD? How long have DVD drives been out? The long and short of the matter is that game designers are out to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. The people most likely to modify the game and keep it interesting (mods are a large part of why people still buy half-life one) are the people most likely to be turned off by TC anyway.

"Using remote attestation, player software could confirm that the casino was using a certified and validated software package for its game play calculations, one known to be free of bias and to give the player an honest chance."
And then the casino simply proxies the connection and modifies the output to tell you you lose anyway. Different type of cheating, only now since it's "Trusted", it's even harder to catch.

"Secure I/O prevents the financial application from being spoofed by false or malicious inputs, and protects the privacy of the user by insuring that other software cannot see the information that the financial application is presenting on the screen."
One need only look at email viruses and scams. People are already dumb enough to do it on their own anyway. Trusted computing just means that the bank can finally shift the blame to the consumers instead of the bank (possibly even when it's really not the consumer's fault). Whether you consider this a good thing or bad is a matter of opinion.

"Trusted Computing can alleviate this problem by allowing the formation of a new kind of VPN, one which will only allow trusted applications through the firewall."
How many attacks come through a VPN? Not many. Plus, the ones that do can simply attack the services offered (buffer overflows, race conditions, etc.) This is another case of "it's trusted, so it must be ok" thinking. Remember, trust is something that can compromise your security.

"P2P software can limit the amount of data available to the end user of the machine, so that he does not see which other computers in the network his data comes from".
Ok, even if the software disables netstat, there's nothing it can do about ettercap, or even a hub and a decent network sniffer. Even if the software were flawless, all the **AA would have to do is start a download, and start logging network traffic. Plus as an added bonus, the P2P clients can now refuse to run without or connect to spyware-free clients.

"The step of reading messages, decrypting and mixing them, can be fully protected within the TC security boundary. No longer will the operators of remailers be aware of how their machines are

"Attestation is crucial for this application by allowing the voting server to make sure that the user's voting software has not been altered on the disk."

Since he refers to it as the "user's" voting software, I must assume this would be for home users, not some central polling location. If it's at the user's premises, it shouldn't matter if the user's software has been tampered with. A simple cryptographic hash can be used to ensure that the vote was not tampered with en-route.

"Trusted Computing will solve this problem by allowing the server to make sure that the game client software is clean and unmodified."
First off, many "cheats" don't modify the existing client at all. Instead, they act as wrappers to drivers, or even hack the driver itself. Plus, how can you be sure that the computer doing the checking is really a computer at all? I've written a patch for bochs that lets me tag a specific set of bytecode, and have bochs execute another set entirely. This system would pass any sort of memory check just fine, but none the less can easily be used to cheat.

"Without such a technology, cheating is only going to get worse, demoralizing players and driving them from the games."
Actually, Trusted Computing games would be even less likely to sell. Look at the distribution of games now: how many [non-console] games come out on CD vs DVD? How long have DVD drives been out? The long and short of the matter is that game designers are out to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. The people most likely to modify the game and keep it interesting (mods are a large part of why people still buy half-life one) are the people most likely to be turned off by TC anyway.

"Using remote attestation, player software could confirm that the casino was using a certified and validated software package for its game play calculations, one known to be free of bias and to give the player an honest chance."
And then the casino simply proxies the connection and modifies the output to tell you you lose anyway. Different type of cheating, only now since it's "Trusted", it's even harder to catch.

"Secure I/O prevents the financial application from being spoofed by false or malicious inputs, and protects the privacy of the user by insuring that other software cannot see the information that the financial application is presenting on the screen."
One need only look at email viruses and scams. People are already dumb enough to do it on their own anyway. Trusted computing just means that the bank can finally shift the blame to the consumers instead of the bank (possibly even when it's really not the consumer's fault). Whether you consider this a good thing or bad is a matter of opinion.

"Trusted Computing can alleviate this problem by allowing the formation of a new kind of VPN, one which will only allow trusted applications through the firewall."
How many attacks come through a VPN? Not many. Plus, the ones that do can simply attack the services offered (buffer overflows, race conditions, etc.) This is another case of "it's trusted, so it must be ok" thinking. Remember, trust is something that can compromise your security.

"P2P software can limit the amount of data available to the end user of the machine, so that he does not see which other computers in the network his data comes from".
Ok, even if the software disables netstat, there's nothing it can do about ettercap, or even a hub and a decent network sniffer. Even if the software were flawless, all the **AA would have to do is start a download, and start logging network traffic. Plus as an added bonus, the P2P clients can now refuse to run without or connect to spyware-free clients.

"The step of reading messages, decrypting and mixing them, can be fully protected within the TC security boundary. No longer will the operators of remailers be aware of how their machines are

Let's see:

1- The Free Software Foundation
2- The Open Source Initiative
3- The Open Source Development Labs (They employ Linus Thorvalds)
4- The Source forge

That's only a few of the more obvious ones. I'm pretty sure they'd knew what to do with a few hundred million dollars each.

And yes, the EU could decide to fund various universities with that money for various open-source projects, or set up their own foundation to best spend the cash on worthy F/OSS developers.

DRI? DRI's a good thing... now we can have 3D games on our ebooks!! Yay!

...gaming is next to be rearranged by OSS and ultracheap top quality stuff. As I said the other day.
Unless MS comes forward with DX9 and some good tools for Linux I don't see this taking off.

Install a free alternative like ffmpeg.

and there really isn't a simple console (text-mode) editor geared for DOS/Windows users available on Linux.

I assume you are looking for an interface with the basic CUA (Windows) keybindings? Unfortunately, AFAIK, full support for CUA seems to be virtually impossible in the generic case of remote terminals (due to ESCaping keycodes and the ancient keyboard limitations kept alive by terminal emulators -- e.g. this is the reason you have to hit ESC twice in mc to register a single ESC), but in the specific case of the Linux Console (which has direct access to hardware), this is possible.

Many editors have CUA bindings, though to varying degrees of success. e.g. Emacs or Jed. Unfortunately, some of the time it feels like a hack and a few might even require manually modifying Linux's keymappings.

Perhaps the closest I've found is SetEdit, which is based on a port of the TurboVision text-mode windowing library, which is very comfortable for me since I used to use the old DOS Borland IDE, which also happens to have an OSS Linux version called Rhide.

I love text-mode and I think a lot could be done to improve it in Linux; particularly, "fixing" the ancient terminal system and providing for modular non-linear behavior. Sometimes I don't want to deal with the 100MB+ required for X (not to mention GNOME & KDE for apps that are dependent upon them), but I'd like a non-linear interface.

Screen is a step in the right direction, though it is not (initially) very user-friendly (not using Windows/CUA keybindings ;)). I've also found the simpler dtach to be useful at times.

I don't know why more non-linear text mode applications aren't created. I've found a few that are made as independent ncurses apps, but, ideally, I think they should all use some standard text windowing environment. Recently, I noticed Twin which looks familiar (tvision?), but doesn't seem to be very actively used... and I don't know if it supports CUA keybindings.

Hope this helps.

and there really isn't a simple console (text-mode) editor geared for DOS/Windows users available on Linux.

I assume you are looking for an interface with the basic CUA (Windows) keybindings? Unfortunately, AFAIK, full support for CUA seems to be virtually impossible in the generic case of remote terminals (due to ESCaping keycodes and the ancient keyboard limitations kept alive by terminal emulators -- e.g. this is the reason you have to hit ESC twice in mc to register a single ESC), but in the specific case of the Linux Console (which has direct access to hardware), this is possible.

Many editors have CUA bindings, though to varying degrees of success. e.g. Emacs or Jed. Unfortunately, some of the time it feels like a hack and a few might even require manually modifying Linux's keymappings.

Perhaps the closest I've found is SetEdit, which is based on a port of the TurboVision text-mode windowing library, which is very comfortable for me since I used to use the old DOS Borland IDE, which also happens to have an OSS Linux version called Rhide.

I love text-mode and I think a lot could be done to improve it in Linux; particularly, "fixing" the ancient terminal system and providing for modular non-linear behavior. Sometimes I don't want to deal with the 100MB+ required for X (not to mention GNOME & KDE for apps that are dependent upon them), but I'd like a non-linear interface.

Screen is a step in the right direction, though it is not (initially) very user-friendly (not using Windows/CUA keybindings ;)). I've also found the simpler dtach to be useful at times.

I don't know why more non-linear text mode applications aren't created. I've found a few that are made as independent ncurses apps, but, ideally, I think they should all use some standard text windowing environment. Recently, I noticed Twin which looks familiar (tvision?), but doesn't seem to be very actively used... and I don't know if it supports CUA keybindings.

Hope this helps.

Lots of solutions have been suggested -- VMWare, a self-signed root certificate, various driver hacks, and hardware hacks all the way down to a quality microphone.

For that matter, what about ReactOS? And what about user feedback?

Most users would not buy a DVD that required them to play it on a computer. Somehow, I'm guessing the hardware on any "trusted" DVD player will be _very_ easy to hack -- something like a modchip? Add to that the fact that we already have non-compliant DVD players, and most of us don't want to go buy a new one.

As for me, I will quietly sit here borrowing CDs from people and ripping flac files (or buying them from magnatune), and as soon as DVD burners or terabyte storage gets cheap enough and a good format is available, I'll be ripping full-quality DVDs.

Once they've got us all locked into an Orwellian DMCA scheme, I laugh and pull out my multi-terabyte archive of stuff, release it onto Kazaa, start giving away burned copies on street corners with only a license that insists that for each copy I give to someone, they must burn two for someone else...

This is not because I'm evil, and I hope that I will never end up doing that. I would rather use something like Magnatune and actually pay the artists and be completely unrestricted in how I use the music. I would rather still use Creative Commons licensed stuff, but honestly, I haven't seen The Matrix nearly enough times. Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, and Jimi Hendrix are all still damn good. I don't need to buy new music, and so I would start the piracy like mad if I ever thought that such things would be limited in their use.

I would probably choke to death on rage when I could no longer listen to classic songs about freedom, or even songs from ICP and Limp Bizkit about breaking heads for no reason in absolute disrespect of authroity, without surrenduring my freedoms to a central authority -- without playing them all on some offshoot of Longhorn.

I almost did anyway when I heard Metallica bitching about Napster -- I wanted to throw some of their own lyrics back at them. Lyrics like "So fucking what?" was my first reaction. My next reaction was somewhat longer: "All the justice pain and greed money talking" but I'm not sure that's actually what's being said. Either way, the whole song "And Justice For All" rebels against exactly what I thought of Metallica as doing.

Check out Multisync it's an all-in-one sync for Linux (ah la InfoSync for MS) it currently supports Evolution, QTopia, Palm, SyncCE, SyncML and others (like IR sync to cel phones).

I've had a little trouble with my SE Z600 and it but for evo and pda stuff it works really well.

And on Windows, K-Meleon (a Gecko-based browser that does away with XUL completely) is many percentage points faster than FireFox. Many many many. And renders the same as any Gecko browser does. And has NO accursed download manager. Oh, did I mention it's faster?

Seriously though, I don't get why so many FireFox partisans try to detract from the advances made by the monoloithic Mozilla team. What's good for the monolothic package is good for everyone. There are many good reasons why the Moz team hasn't dropped development on it in favor of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox & Thunderbird.

I'll leave you with some observations about Mozilla 1.6, Firefox 0.8, and K-Meleon 0.82:
- Monolithic Moz is the most stable of all browsers on all of my systems, without exception.
- On my systems, monolithic Moz and Firefox have identical loading and rendering times. Rendered results are also identical on all pages I regularly visit or have bothered to try.
- On my systems, Firefox loads much more quickly than monolothic Moz without the loader. In Windows, K-Meleon cold boots faster than any other graphics-based browser I have installed can warm boot, including IE and Firefox. Only Lynx is faster for me.
- Installation of XPI packages is less annoying on monolithic Moz than on Firefox, because monolothic doesn't have to wait for the stupid taskbar pop-up alert to disappear before shutting down completely. K-Meleon doesn't do XPI, but the hooks to extend it exist in the plaintext preferences files, and there are several packages that exist to extend K-Meleon.
- Clearing cookies and cache is easier in Firefox because of the location of the buttons.
- The "Extensions" prefs panel in Firefox is a good idea.
- Monolithic Moz has the more complex, but more configurable, preference panel than Firefox. K-Meleon is even more complex and even more configurable.
- Monolithic Moz has the better search options (Search sidebar with sortable search engine categories).
- Firefox has the better image blocker, because it displays the server name in the context menu, while monolithic Moz doesn't yet.
- Among Gecko-based browsers, only K-Meleon provides a proper means to spoof your UserAgent string for stupid websites.

End result, I use Lynx and K-Meleon for quick browsing (Lynx in Linux and Windows for info and things like /. - yes I'm in Lynx now - and K-Meleon in Windows for graphics/media-dependent pages), Mozilla for big projects, testing, email, and some extended browsing because of its stability, and Firefox for playing around (compatibility testing, feature testing, non-critical tasks). Of them all, I would only really consider Firefox to be optional. Just my opinion.

If you really want small and fast, w3m 0.5 is out as well.

Use http://sqlrelay.sf.net/

Is when using Debian to install gnaughty bites you in the ass.

Mostly true, but it depends on what you need and where you search.

Several sites list very good mac freeware, including apple.com.
The best thing is that it's easy to find simple scientific programs like calculators, plotters and such, that are rather hard to get for Windows. Probable cause - scientists who use windows buy expensive programming environments and sophisticated scientific software, scientists who use macs have compilers for several languages within the system and make minimalistyc scientific software for themselves.

And there's always sourceforge and the platform=MacOSX filter...

DVBackup

It may be a little bit overkill for recording a radio program (although I've used the software for that before), but why not try the (open source) Audacity?

I abandoned PHP several years ago after having to deal with its many warts. It's not like you can't get things done in PHP, but it's often kludged and awkward.

If you want a toolkit/language that won't make site maintenance hell, OpenACS (tcl) or Zope (python) is probably a better bet.

I discovered Webware, which is an application server, framework and toolkit. It's python, but doesn't force an ideology on you (like Zope does). I've been using it for 3 years and I haven't looked back.

Apple has developer mindshare not because of iTunes, but because it comes up with things like iTunes before anyone else does.

Apple didn't come up with the idea behind iTunes any more than the Rhythmbox developers, this Wikipedia article explains how it is based on SoundJam MP from another company and Apple just hired the people and bought the app. I would not be terribly surprised if there was something comparable even before that.

For all the talk of GPL != theft, there sure are a lot of clones of non-free software out there.

The "GPL != theft" part makes you sound a lot like a troll. Where did you get the idea that writing a similar app to an existing one is anything even remotely comparable to theft? It happens all the time even in the non-free software industry. More on that a little later.

How many Aqua GTK themes, now? And they *all* missed the point. It's not about pinstripes. Even Apple started backtracking on the pinstripes a bit. Pinstripes are the chrome, guys

People made Aqua GTK themes because they wanted them. It hasn't much to do with what direction GNOME, KDE or the free software desktop is taking. Why not rant about Windows XP which also has this Aqua theming craze and how Microsoft just doesn't get it?

The GIMP is a clone (and if you don't believe it, compare things like the order of the layer transparency menu to Photoshop's).

Again, even Adobe didn't originally come up with Photoshop. Just like Apple, they bought it after they saw what it was. (Wikipedia link. Drawing/image editing programs certainly have a long history before it as well. GIMP isn't the only clone either, there's other proprietary software such as Paint Shop Pro that is even closer to Photoshop as far as the look and feel go.

Blender couples the simplicity of emacs with the interface of vim.

Well, that's something original, isn't it? Some people think Blender's UI's just great.

XMMS is a clone. OGG Vorbis is a conceptual clone -- it may not share any code with MP3, but you can't tell me it isn't essentially an "oh, yeah, we can do it too" situation, even if it's for all the best reasons. OpenOffice is complete garbage: it's ugly and unstable compared to the ten-year-old wopro my Mac Classic runs.

And for every app you've mentioned there's also a lot of non-free clones and in many cases the dominant ones aren't the original appearances of the application type. Ogg Vorbis? It actually tries to improve (succesfully?) on the idea, providing better audio quality and/or smaller file size. There's AAC, mp3pro, WMA and a bunch of others too, you know. Why not whine about them too? What you said about Ooo.org pretty much applies to any modern Office suite.

Okay, so there's Nautilus. That's the only thing that's really pushing any part of the envelope as a desktop app. And maybe Kudzu. Other than that, it's just a little chrome on Xerox PARC, Microsoft, and Apple.

The desktop metaphor is still going strong after around 30 years (so's UNIX, by the way). The problem with lack of innovation in UI design is not just a GNOME or a KDE problem if you want to view it as one. If you want to see UI innovation you really shouldn't bee looking at the desktop environments that as their very goal are trying to provide the dominant user experience based on the 30-year-old metaphor. How about checking out something like Ion, Fluxbox and others from the plethora of available window managers? You could still also look at some of the more original stuff brewing for the big traditional environments, such as the kicker replacement called Slicker. In my opinion, GNOME has managed to stand u

• Nerds cannot think like users and expect that every user should either work hard to understand the system or quite simply fuck off and not use their software;
• Users' expectations are far too high from a bunch of tech-types who have no understanding of users' needs.

Hmm I'm not sure about that, but anyway, Linux-on-the-desktop has not done localisation very well. It seems to be one seriously strenuous effort to translate KDE to another language, let alone the actual applications. The problem with Microsoft's approach is it will only yield translations into official languages.

Syllable's (freesoftware desktop OS, fairly mature, hardly anyone has heard of it I know) translation system will work along the lines of having external content catalogues. This means both the OS and software apps won't need to be altered or recompiled in any way in order for text and images etc to be translated to another language. You could create a new translation and have the app switch languages without having to restart the program. This is good because you won't need a programmer to perform translations, and there's a great deal of fexability in the system. You could create your own contructed language and character set, translate the OS and all your apps, and just use it.

A million years ago (1998?) Wired published a whole edition on Push as the Next Big Thing. It was the first time I was really aware of them being totally wrong. Or perhaps just a bit ahead of their time.

While I think this is a neater solution, there is another product that does exactly the same thing, allow you to subscribe to channels and received pushed content via incentive compatible (you get faster speeds if you upload more) swarms.

It's called kast.

What about the shared hosting we do is via User Mode Linux we offer root access on a shared host, but everyone is totally seperate at a lot lower cost than dedicated.

Rus

There's a big difference between actual anonymity and perceived anonymity

go on knock yourself out

Morphix

has a bootable , live cd based gaming distro

DOSBox is a PC emulator, sort of like Bochs, but designed explicitly for running DOS games.

Just a comment about the HDD, you'd want to do it via tFtp instead (look at what JWZ did to get things booted - look at "kiosk") or Movix would be interesting for this project as well.

Finally (and probably the easiest), you can get compact flash adapters for these things which would allow a solid state minimal linux distro to be booted, then pull the images from a share elsewhere through a cron-jobbed xsetroot with random images. (I did this exact thing once).

To refer to JWZ again, Webcollage is REALLY COOL on one of these.

I just want a network appliance that does ftp/smb/nfs deamons without the overhead (and cost) of a PC.

I want to use my MIDI keyboard for entry

Try the following:

• Hans Lub's emacs/MIDI input mode
• Nicholas Sceaux' Emacs/MIDI input mode
• RUMOR a command line monophonic MIDI/lilypond entry tool.
• LilyComp a graphic entry tool, for those that don't read music well.

I don't want to learn another syntax. Now what?

There are other options: it is possible to create the music in another format. Supported formats include

• MIDI: LilyPond includes midi2ly, a program that translates a MIDI file to LilyPond.
• ETF: LilyPond includes etf2ly, a convertor for the Finale ETF format (about ETF)
• ABC: LilyPond includes abc2ly, a convertor for the popular ABC format (about ABC)
• MusicXML. Guido Amoruso's xml2ly will convert MusicXML to LilyPond. (About MusicXML.).

Freenet (among others) already deal with that, through extensive proxying.

Install it today - you will need it working tomorrow.

Konqueror is part of KDE, which isn't available for Windows

Small correction: the mplex program isn't from MPlayer but from mjpegtools.

Ogg WHAT?
Are you talking about using Ogg Vorbis as the audio codec? Yes, it is very good. I wouldn't use anything else for either my CD rips or DVD rips.
Or are you talking about the bastardisation of the Ogg container format that is the OGM container format? Do some googling. From the mailing list postings I saw, the Ogg guys aren't too happy about this effort by one windows programmer to hack the Avi/VfW information into the Ogg container format. If that's what you're referring to, and using, I recommend you instead look at the Matroska container format. It's much more flexible and is slightly more efficient space-wise than OGM. Mplayer supports it, don't know about Xine. There's a Matroska splitter/demuxer thingy for windows, don't know about Mac OS/X support.

dvdauthor is a very good software.

It certainly isn't point&click dvd creator, everything has to be written in xml files defining dvd structure. But it has support for buttons, multiple menus of all types (i.e. root, title, subpicture etc). It also allows to write programs running on DVD Player virtual machine.

dvdauthor also contains software to multiplex graphical and textual subtitles into mpeg2 stream (spumux) as well as software to extract subtitles from existing mpeg2 stream, such as VOB files (spuunmux).

You will need lots of other programs to create your dvd videos, like mplex from mjpegtools, some mpeg encoder (transcode or mencoder from mplayer), toolame and/or ffmpeg for creation of proper mpeg2 audio tracks, sox for occasional resampling of audio (dvd needs 48kHz sound whereas audio is often available in 44.1kHz).

If you think it looks cryptic, you are right: it is. But after a while one manages to handle this whole mess and with the help of several scripts make his own video dvds with separate audio tracks, chapters, multiple subtitles and much, much more.

Robert

FYI, I've been listening to the pre-season games in MS Media Player format using Firefox and mplayerplug-in on Debian unstable.

Re the NTFS thing, see Captive. Sure, it's not going to be included in any mainstream distribution soon -- but it's still a damn nifty piece of software.

Check out iRATE radio. It is a collaborative rating system that downloads music from groups that have explicitly permitted their music to be released for free. It also has the nice effect that it gets things based on how much you say you liked the other stuff, and what other people thought of it. As time goes on, what it picks for you gets better and better and you find out about all kinds of artists (and styles!) that you wouldn't have otherwise heard of.

It is an open source project, so if you feel like hacking some code for an entertaining project, developers are welcome.

After a while, you end up with a nice "I'm not supporting the RIAA labels" feeling, also :)

iRATE gets you free & legal mp3s without disriminating in regards to your location in the world. It also promotes the little guys and tries to save the world from sucky radio.

NOW, I can say THANK GOODNESS no more lockups in Fedora from DriverLoader BS

Ya know, I've been using ndiswrapper for quite some time, and it hasn't crashed my machine yet.

More like an open-source interface to a closed-source firmware.
You still have to go here, agree to a EULA and download a binary image to be able to use this module (I found it humorous that Intel's download site admonished me for using Firefox on linux, and suggested I upgrade to IE6 or NS6).
You use the driver by doing:
modprobe ipw2100 firmware=/usr/share/firmware/ipw2100-1.0.fw
where ipw2100-1.0.fw is the current binary firmware image.

However, you're going to have a field day with the IPSEC/SSH users who've found pipes unencumbered by such. That, and people who start getting plain evil and doing something about that filter. Not to mention when they've turned a P2P network's traffic into incomprehensible packets, and/or traffic that adapts to get highest queues to deal with the QoS problem. Good luck, it's only a matter of time before that packet shaper goes useless...

Reminds me of vi + clippy = vigor :)

It requires mod_rewrite, specifically. Gallery does it, for example.