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I could be off base here, I don't have an XServe, but I am considering it.

The main reason one might want to use OS X Server over GNU/Linux or one of the other BSDs is the UI to the meat of your configuration. As many others have said, if you are a small design shop, you already have a person in house that keeps things running smooth. Odss are good that that person doesn't know or want to know Linux.

You can run quite a bit of your free software on an OS X box also, just look here and here.

The main reason I am looking at an XServe is that dollar for dollar it seems to beat up the competition.

I would really like to see a head to head between a Dual Proc. Xserve, comparable Opteron and comparable Xeon doing mundane tasks like Web/DB.

It's not like we don't already have a decent native mysql administrator already.

The Windows users here at my work swear by Mascon. It's 50 bucks and really cool. Makes my installation of phpMyAdmin pale in comparison. They do make a linux version but it's nowhere near as good as the Win32 version (at least it wasn't last time I looked at it six months ago)

later,
ajay

For me at the moment, Bayesian filters, a technical solution, works best. Yes, it still wastes bandwidth. But if my ISP ran good filters for me (POPFile is adapting itself for this usage), my bandwidth at least could be saved. And the filters do work well.

Technical solutions are a stopgap measure, but the next step is legal and architectural. Make spamming illegal. This would only affect countries that care and spammers who get caught, but the next step will help. Make it harder to hide where you're coming from. This gives even ISPs in lawless countries motivation to stop sending spam, because if their upstream knows its them, they can threaten to disconnect them.

Munging is probably the worst solution, similar to getting an unlisted number. It's even shorter-term than filters, but it sacrifices the medium in the process. It's a bit like not answering the phone during mealtime - yes, it works, but it interferes too much with legitimate communication. If that's your choice, fine, but I think its ill-advised.

It is possible only according to the suits in the government. The p2p traffic accounts for ~2/3rds of the internet traffic nowadays, so unless you have an echelon-type system good luck!

(and that is not counting all the anonimity-protecting nets such as freenet, MUTE, and the new i2p (don't remember link, sorry).

Deviant's cool. They gave Psi some money to add something to the client (details have now escaped me....)

Psi.sf.net

But now they have a link on Psi's homepage.

Dude, this is Slashdot. Here at Slashdot we talk about the joys of such projects as gaim.

This is what XPDE is trying to do (clone the Windows XP interface). Except for the applications part...it provides a shell that looks like the Windows XP one along with a control panel and some other stuff (at least I seem to remember it having that stuff).

Personally, you can pry Window Maker out of my cold dead fingers...but I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop full time for nearly four years. All the software I use works fine on GNU/Linux so I have no need for Windows. I just need a few games (Frozen-Bubble, LBreakout2, Legacy Doom, Quake2), Emacs, a web browser, and a simple DAW for my occasional audio work (Ardour is awesome for this). I'm not a "desktop user" I guess.

I understand that the Fortran compiler may be better than free alternatives.

a centralized server to handle all the requests

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messenger client like Trillian incase you didn't realize that. The servers are provided by ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, etc. Gaim is just an actively developed open source client to them all.

There is a flavour of Gaim that runs on Qtopia by the way, so a Palm port wouldn't be too far off the mark I don't think.

The Gaim developers have done a fantastic job of splitting the Gaim core from the user interface, which has already resulted in a PDA client for the QTopia environment called QPE-Gaim. But porting Gaim to PalmOS I assume is a much bigger task.

The Gaim developers have done a fantastic job of splitting the Gaim core from the user interface, which has already resulted in a PDA client for the QTopia environment called QPE-Gaim. But porting Gaim to PalmOS I assume is a much bigger task.

The Gaim developers have done a fantastic job of splitting the Gaim core from the user interface, which has already resulted in a PDA client for the QTopia environment called QPE-Gaim. But porting Gaim to PalmOS I assume is a much bigger task.

The subject of this post ain't relevent! LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, ya know!

If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)

However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.

Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in compliance of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.

Right now Celestia by default only shows most of the stars in our arm of the Milky Way, plus two or three neighboring galaxies. Any reason why it couldn't be loaded up with the results of this survey at some point?

One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"

I did: MarsClock

Eh? Static analysis can be done in Python. See pychecker.

NTFS is generally kernel stuff. Writing is, at least in 2.4, NOT recommended. The Linux-NTFS people say that the risk of failure is.. big.

But for 2.6 kernels, there's another world. The "new" NTFS drivers are better, and reads perfectly well. Quoting the Linux-NTFS website: The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.

All in all, NTFS isn't reliable except for reading in 2.6 kernels. These NTFS drivers are in the kernel tree.

A good FAQ is at this place

FAT sucks, but works brilliantly for almost nothing. Like temp files.

If you're lucky, the Mandrake folks gave you the availability to write temp files to the USB key (boxed Mandrake Move). I don't know, though.

Maxima would probably be your best bet
It is an implementation of Macsyma written in LISP and will compile and run fairly well on almost any machine
The syntax is easy to learn and the program is fairly powerful yet approachable
Even if it's not exactly what you're looking for, it is an extremely valuable tool

s/could/can/

my replacements for those two ugly citizens has been Rhythmbox and Galeon.

Check out bochs.

I prefer webplay for all of my Internet-jukebox needs.

Icecast does the work of sending the audio to clients, right? How does one stream audio to the Icecast server from a UNIX machine?

I use darkice

When you call realloc, you're very likely to cause the data to be copied from the old buffer to the new buffer. This is very high overhead. [...]

Yeah, people who live outside US and Europe can afford many luxuries for sure.
I work on the development of software for Telcom in a Brazilian company using J2EE framework. Some of our software is exported, but they pay us U$12,000 a year with no benefits, whatover. Its less than U$7/hour. With that payment one cannot afford luxuries, even in Brazil. A cheap computer, for instance, costs about U$1000, a cheap car U$10000.
If some company decided to outsorce its operations to Brazil, I suppose they could pay us better salaries. Thats what you call overpayment sure. I call it, a dign salary.

from SC2 - The Ur-Quan Masters:

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend, for a time."

Here's to hoping that time is a very long time!

I loved some of the concepts behind linux, but I think Linux's greatest advantage is also it's greatest weakness. The fact that there is no central governing body for most projects means that you get lots of fragmentation (X11: freedesktop.org, fresco, XFree; Distros: Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, etc) which makes it very difficult to stick to one standard. Thankfully, over time some projects fork (gcc) and wind up becoming the project that takes over. It's this fragmentation that helps linux adapt so rapidly. However because of all this, developers can't code for one toolkit api, one kernel api, etc. Mac OS X, to linux users, is like linux controlled by ONE group who says yes or no to all issues so that the complex fragmented software base can concentrate on one goal: a good consistent end user experience. I honestly would say Mac OS X couldn't exist without Linux or BSD because it wouldn't be where it was today without the OSS community. People complain that OS X is too proprietary, but i believe it is the perfect mix. On one hand you have OSS software. On the other hand you have commercial software. It's truely the best of both worlds! Isn't this what many linux users want? Linux grandma can use? Companies to write native software? Games? Gaim and KMail side by side with safari and photoshop? You don't have to wait if that's what you want. Linux is a great server OS, but mac os x has it by leaps and bounds as a good desktop platform. Am i saying Gnome and KDE should die off and we should all just use mac os x? of course not. But i am saying if you want a usable unix desktop now, not later, you don't have to look much further.

...some unused variables and such-like in there, though, as reported by PMD.

An interface designed for DnD saving will not encourage maximised windows, or it will let you use a panel/taskbar-with-shortcuts-to-folders. ROX does both.

Any GTK+ 2 window manager should be enough. XFwm4 from XFCE and Sawfish 1.3 are probably good bets. You might want to through in a desktop environment too; I recommend ROX, some would suggest XFCE. These are both relatively light-weight environments.

(I'm presently using Gnome 2.4 with ROX-Filer as my file manager because Nautilus sux0rs IMHO.)

I'm speculating here (I haven't seen XGrid specs yet).

If (and only if) XGrid is one of the Single System Image clustering technologies like opnMosix, then things like MPI jobs are pretty nice to work with on these kinds of clusters.

In openMosix, the load balancing system simply migrates individual MPI processes to nodes that are the least loaded (and which are projected to provide the maximum instantaneous throughput for the job).

Assuming that XGrid has a similar architecture (a big assumption), having a commercial implementation working across Apple's relatively stable hardware platforms (with AltiVec doing vectorized floating point behind the scenes on each node) sounds like a pretty decent cluster implementation to me. Now, as always, Apple must work on cost.

You are correct that only certain kinds of problems "work" well on LAN clusters. But experience shows that a sufficiently motivated computational scientist can adapt many more "big grunt" problems to various weird-and-wonderful architectures than might be apparant at first glance.

Adapting codes to fly on "true" supercomputers (e.g. Big Iron vector machines) is just as much an art form as adapting them to fly on MPI.

YMMV.

Check out Ardour for your mixer/recorder, JACK for your input framework, Hydrogen for drum machine (You'll love the samples at ns_kit) JACK-rack to stack your amps & effects, which you can get tons of at LADSPA.

But even after that you haven't spent your $50 yet!

Check out Ardour for your mixer/recorder, JACK for your input framework, Hydrogen for drum machine (You'll love the samples at ns_kit) JACK-rack to stack your amps & effects, which you can get tons of at LADSPA.

But even after that you haven't spent your $50 yet!

Check out Ardour for your mixer/recorder, JACK for your input framework, Hydrogen for drum machine (You'll love the samples at ns_kit) JACK-rack to stack your amps & effects, which you can get tons of at LADSPA.

But even after that you haven't spent your $50 yet!

Mars24 has been ported to a Palm Pilot:
MarsClock

It's sufficiently C-like to suit anyone who has done C/C++/Java/Perl/... but high level enough to be a feasible extension language.

Of course it depends on what type of person you expect to use your extension language. Are they programmers?

Ignoring the legal side of things for a minute, it would be possible to block unrequested popups at the ISP level. The filter could run through a simple http proxy and merely strip out the offending javascript code.

Of course, the devil is in the details, I would venture to say that blocking all unrequested popups would be difficult with more obfuscated javascript code. Of course, the more complicated processing you perform, the more CPU you require. Unless you had a really really big proxy server cluster, or very few users, I imagine even casual web browsing would saturate any one server. Obviously, you would be text parsing every web page that passes through your proxy. That's some pretty intense workload.

The whole deal with users who don't want the feature, just don't make it a transparent proxy. With your ISP installation cd, you can automatically change the IE connection settings to use your special popup kiling proxy, but by default, it will just be regular internet. Saavy users could turn it off at their discretion.

OSS solutions are available. Just from a search at freshmeat, there's middleman, an http/https proxy which, among other things, can filter out popups.

I frankly would love to see something like this in production. You're absolutely right in that you cannot trust users with their own machines. Recommending alternative browsers and addons will invariably leave you supporting them, this is a huge pain in the neck and could be avoided with a centralized solution as you have suggested.

There's nothing that says that ALL of the elements of a critical system have to be open source (GPL flamewars aside). On the other hand, most of the infrastructure of a modern system (military or otherwise) is the same as any other IT system, except for having stricter reliability requirements (ie: no single-point-of-failure allowed / short recovery times). In fact, these are the same infrastructure requirements that most commercial entities would love to have, but generally can't justify on a cost basis.

Take clustered storage systems -- truly reliable (ie 0.99999 or better uptime) systems require redundant drives and redundant data paths. Proprietary implementations are expensive, but while open source implementations are gradually becoming available (ie: OpenGFS), they still have performance, scalability, and reliability limitations. There should be no reason for a military development program NOT to contribute to OpenGFS, and leverage the results for their infrastructure, even if the rest of their software is classified.

My only concern would be announcing to the world that specific strategic and tactical systems were using specific hardware and specific software -- a studious researcher could use that sort of information to estimate performance limitations. On the other hand, there are plenty of professional and industry journals that publish the same information today, often in more detail (Aviation Week has guys camping in lawn chairs ... Janes has their sources too) so I wouldn't worry a whole lot about it.

So I wouldn't necessarily Open Source the data analysis software for an air traffic control system, but I might use an Open Source infrastructure for storing the track data for playback.

Nice explanation. Two points:

One, one part of that economy of scale is that it is very often useful for a company that has taken Free software and modified it for internal use, to release those modifications back to the original project. The advantages are that it is now someone else's job to keep your modifications compatible with new versions of the software, and that some other company may actually improve your code and also release it back, for you to use. The first of those (stay compatible) is my favorite reason for releasing stuff back.

The second point is: Have you tried SCID? I think it's a really great chess database application and it works on both Linux and Windows.

H.323 relies on UDP communication, which is always a problem with routers. Many routers (such as the 3Com OfficeConnect broadband router) come with built-in "NetMeeting support", ie. H.323 support.

An approach for making sure the connections work is to make a VPN tunnel with, for example, OpenVPN, which is cross-platform and not too painful to configure. I mention it because I feel like if I go with OpenVPN, I can be confident I will succeed, and not have to worry about things that are out of my control, like support of "routers"/"firewalls". However if I just want a one time solution and I can spend 10 minutes configuring my "router"/"firewall" box, I guess that may be a much easier approach than using OpenVPN.

Larry

What's more, it's Free Software, dual licensed under the GPL or their "binary only" license. If you pay for it, part of it will even go to the EFF and Xiph foundations. Check out the OggS project page.

AIM has a Malware bug going arround called BuddyPicture.net, it infects a users profile with a link to BuddyPicture.net which in turn infects the computer using laxed activex settings in internet explorer.

Now go use Gaim poeple.

--Joel

For people who have a Linux server around the house,
BackupPC is a pretty good solution that can fetch files to backup through Samba and Rsync ! Nice web based interface, too.

...not too bad, some duplicates found by CPD.

That's not really spam. I think they call it an arp flood?

It could be someone using ettercap to sniff on a switched network. Good stuff, ettercap is.

They're working too hard. Just use linux as the hosting environment. Heck, Win2k has been confirmed to run on the xbox because of some guys at the Xbox-Linux projects. Anything that can run on top of linux can run on the xbox.

We use it at our 50+ PC routers.