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It really never ceases to amaze me how people talk about the PS2 Linux kit as if it's the only way they'll ever get a chance to develop for a real console.

Well, for about $120 worth of hardware (and that includes the console itself, which is still capable of playing tons of great games) you can buy yourself a "Dreamcast devel kit", complete with a BSD licensed toolkit (see SourceForge link), an active hobbyist community, etc. Oh and did I mention, unfettered access to the vast majority of the hardware and to-the-metal performance? How about the ability to burn a CD of your game for anyone who owns a Dreamcast to play it?

Of course, I'm a bit biased, being in charge of the development of said software kit. ;-) So for fairness, I'll also mention the DC Linux port to the Dreamcast, also with a decent amount of hardware and lib support now.

I'm interested in getting a PS2 Linux kit too, but I just want people to be aware that there are other ways as well.

Give me the source to Mail.app, so I can add support for certificates. It's not like your competition is going to steal anything useful out of that excellent, Cocoa-centric app.

You can add your own libraries to Mail.app. Look for the pgp add on @ versiontracker. I can encrypt / sign my mail with gpg that I installed via fink.

All the those apps are able to be messed with if only you knew how. You basically just drop loadable modules into their application directories ( a lot of mac apps are just a directory that holds their resources ).

Jim

Anyone up for some free karma? Explain what mechanism this uses. Is it a meta-front-end for the OWA front-end, or does it actually use MSRPC?

If the latter, what RPC implementation does it use? MSRPC is based on DCE/RPC, for which there is a free implementation on Sourceforge - I'm curious as to whether they're using that or something else.

sudo apt-get install gnome-core

I am assuming you want to play the terminal version, and not the X11 version. Unfortunately, fink does not provide a nethack-nox package.

Here's somewhat spartanic instructions; I am not at my Mac right now, else I'd try this myself, but I hope these are at least some pointers in the right direction.

Download the source; I bet it comes with a configure script. In that case, I would do the following:

Fire up Terminal.app and open at least two term windows (unless, of course, like a real geek, you already have them open). cd to the source directory and type ./configure. It will ask you where you want to install; I suggest /usr/local/. It will ask you about curses and other stuff. This is where it gets tricky. You may not have some of the required includes -- get them via fink (fink install ncurses, possibly?). They are put in a new root-level directory called sw. Tell the configure script where these the includes are. Ways of finding out their location are either browsing /sw and /usr in that second term window, or by running things like which less when asked where the less paging command is, or find / -name curses* when asked about include files. (Sherlock could come in handy, too...)

I guess the configure script will ask whether or not you want X support. Answer no, and you should be safe. Another non-standard setting on Darwin is the name of the C compiler; it's not gcc, but simply cc.

Once that is done, run make and watch the errors fly by. As long as the whole shebang doesn't fail completely, ignore them.

Then run sudo make install (or, if possible and desired, sudo make install-strip, that saves some space) and the files will be placed under /usr/local.

If /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH variable, you will be able to run nethack simply by typing nethack at the prompt.

Another possiblity is that instead of a script that takes you through the configuration process you have a file called Makefile with lots of comments guiding you through the process of editing it to your needs. In that case you can open the file in TextEdit.app or whatever your preferred editor is (pico and vi are two CLI possiblities) and fill in the parameters.

It only becomes easier the next time... I hope I was able to help at least a bit.

As the subject says. Used as a "packet assembly line", it has any sorts of packet generation facilities. libnet.sf.net

Hmm... I wonder what the implications of something like this are on auto responders. I use TMDA to autmotically respond to any emails that I get from people that I don't know. I wonder if an auto response constitutes being served.

Hmmm...

Personally, I'd probably either go with a stripped-down GNOME distro as in the article (though probably straight from the GNOME mirrors, not Ximian) or all the way down to Fluxbox, which has the ever-so-nice feature of tabbed windows, letting you pull tricks like cramming all of your GIMP palettes into one window's size.

Spamassassin is great! I've never had large problems with spam (4-5 per week at most), but using Spamassassin, Vipul's Razor and reporting everything to both Razor and SpamCop has drastically reduced the amount of spam I recieve. I still keep a copy of every spam I recieve for statistical purposes (and a highscore list with Spamassassin :-) ), and so far everything has been fully automated using procmail rules and spamassassin.

So far, my spamassassin high score is 25,2 -- and 5 is enough to trigger the spam filters.

I would just like to point out
1) Shell Accounts: server X can be blocked, but shell server Y may be open ... telnet to Y, use a bunch of "wget" from X, tgz the files, post from Y to a ftp, and download from the ftp ... are these people going to also ban every free-website (like tripod, 50Megs, etc...)

2) IRC: how will this prevent people from distributing materials through IRC? Banned websites merely have to set up an IRC server, and this plan again fails.

3) Anonymous Proxies: YES they are out there, in case other people planning to ban them too are here looking, the exact addresses will not be listed:: but anyway, suppose that there's a proxy at Y ... then one accesses X through Y ... is every anonymous proxy going to be banned too?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I just don't see this happening any time in the near future with the current techonology. Furthermore, a glance at the freenet project tells you that it's _never_ going to happen under the current system.

Just my $0.02

The project page at sourceforge has some info up, but I haven't seen a lot of documentation for it.

Jim

Kinda offtopic, but I'm wondering if anyone has any links to some nice games for Linux. I've been playing LBreakout2 non-stop, but other than that (and of course Q2), I've yet to find any nice games that I like.

This isn't a troll or anything, I'm genuinely wondering if anyone has suggestions.

It's funny you mention both handhelds and Smalltalk. I'm working on Dynapad, a PDA operating environment written in Squeak, a derivative of Smalltalk-80. I'm doing so mostly to make up for the pitiful state of handhelds, at least as far as I'm concerned. I want a system that works for me, not some toy.

A company makes an innovative software product, and can't remain afloat, thanks in part to the pathological cheapness of the Linux crowd.

Keep it up, cheapskates, and Linux will never grow (in the desktop market) beyond being a hacker toy.

I hope you're happy; I'm sure Bill Gates is delighted by how savagely you treat your own.

`Our own' are hackers. Our own are those who appreciate freedom. You, you animal, are most definitely not one of our own. Aures habet, sed non audiet. Or something like that; my Latin is rusty:-)

[1] I believe that the game industry is the one case in which free software does not necessarily make sense. It does for games such as NetHack, but for Quake and its ilk. Granted, I'm not certain that Quake and its ilk really are games. And I entertain a certain fancy that in a world of free software we'd have the graphics of Quake and the intricacy of NetHack. Still, I am quite willing to pay for the efforts of artists.

And no, I don't consider programmers artists in the sense that painters are. And I'm a programmer myself.

I've never run it myself for an extended period of time, but played with it on my own and other iPAQs. I wasn't impressed. I could get an entire distro, sure, but what does that get me? It was designed for running on a PDA, and it shows. It does do the extra things that software running on a PDA should, to make the experience more coherent. It's an expensive toy. A fun one for many people, I do not doubt it. Because of this, I'm working on my own PDA environment (Dynapad) this summer. If may not be what you want, but it's what I want. out of a PDA. A software system that is personal and dynamic for a PDA, not just a port from the desktop, with the addition of a floating soft-keyboard.

Having character recognition like on Palm OS isn't *real* HWR. Graffiti and xscribble are *character (or glyph) recognition* schemes not handwriting recognition.

Real HWR is the HWR that can be found on the Newton, or WinCE devices using Transcriber or CalliGrapher. That is, I write on the screen in my real handwriting and it translates it to text. It's quite a bit faster and more natural than using a CR scheme like Graffiti. And Linux doesn't have it, making it a waste of time for a PDA platform for me.

Oh, and is it true that it's bad form to reply more than once to a topic? I'd never heard of that one before....

One of these days, I knew it'd bite AvantGo users in the ass... Because it uses open protocols on an open device [1], it is immune to getting screwed when a company like AvantGo, which uses proprietary technology, decides to change their business plan!

[1] Not open source or open schematics, but the OS is very open. Using NewtonScript, a language that resembles Self, Smalltalk, and Lisp but using a more C-like syntax, one can develop on the Newton itself or the desktop. Code developed on the Newton can replace parts of the OS or other installed apps. You can call methods and use objects from any app, without them being explicitly exported. A platform truly for a hacker. Unlike those Linux PDAs, which have the otherhead of using something like GCC (ha!), or don't have anywhere near the system-reflectivity even whem programs are written in a language like Python. Dynapad hopes to fix this, bringing it one step further, to a completely open system.

Actually, I've used nothing but Solaris on my Ultra10 at home for years. But, then when I had to move overseas, I sold everything, and bought a laptop. My friend works at Apple, and got me a good deal on an iBook. This things rock.

OSX really is the nicest Unix I've ever used. I can play The Sims and CivII, and with the adddition of Fink, you even get nice things like apt-get! It's great.

So, just for the record, I'm a old-skool-Unix-to-MacOS X boy, and it really does rock my socks. I recommend it to anyone. It's extremely Unix-y, but with a great frontend.

I was thinking it would be funny to suggest someone start work on an open-source, GPL'd DRM scheme.

Luckily I checked SourceForge first, because there already is such seemingly contradictory work going on.

OK, I searched SourceForge and I found something, csrdrm.sf.net. Is that what you were talking about?

The DRM option for C Spot Run is an external library with decompression and decryption. If you were refered here by C Spot Run then you are missing a module of the form csrdrmXX.prc where the XX is some number and letter combination.

The csrdrm project on sf.net:

Project: C Spot Run Digital Right Management
Digital Rights Management example library for C Spot Run.
Foundry Member: :Handheld Foundry

• Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
• Environment: Other Environment
• Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
• License: zlib/libpng License
• Operating System: PalmOS
• Programming Language: Assembly, C
• Topic: Cryptography

Project UNIX name: csrdrm
Registered: 2002-01-15 21:13
Activity Percentile (last week): 0%

I was thinking it would be funny to suggest someone start work on an open-source, GPL'd DRM scheme.

Luckily I checked SourceForge first, because there already is such seemingly contradictory work going on.

OK, I searched SourceForge and I found something, csrdrm.sf.net. Is that what you were talking about?

The DRM option for C Spot Run is an external library with decompression and decryption. If you were refered here by C Spot Run then you are missing a module of the form csrdrmXX.prc where the XX is some number and letter combination.

The csrdrm project on sf.net:

Project: C Spot Run Digital Right Management
Digital Rights Management example library for C Spot Run.
Foundry Member: :Handheld Foundry

• Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
• Environment: Other Environment
• Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
• License: zlib/libpng License
• Operating System: PalmOS
• Programming Language: Assembly, C
• Topic: Cryptography

Project UNIX name: csrdrm
Registered: 2002-01-15 21:13
Activity Percentile (last week): 0%

I was thinking it would be funny to suggest someone start work on an open-source, GPL'd DRM scheme.

Luckily I checked SourceForge first, because there already is such seemingly contradictory work going on.

OK, I searched SourceForge and I found something, csrdrm.sf.net. Is that what you were talking about?

The DRM option for C Spot Run is an external library with decompression and decryption. If you were refered here by C Spot Run then you are missing a module of the form csrdrmXX.prc where the XX is some number and letter combination.

The csrdrm project on sf.net:

Project: C Spot Run Digital Right Management
Digital Rights Management example library for C Spot Run.
Foundry Member: :Handheld Foundry

• Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
• Environment: Other Environment
• Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
• License: zlib/libpng License
• Operating System: PalmOS
• Programming Language: Assembly, C
• Topic: Cryptography

Project UNIX name: csrdrm
Registered: 2002-01-15 21:13
Activity Percentile (last week): 0%

First, some kudos to the GnuPG team. I think this is one example of free software really taking over a given market. I only know of one person who uses the commercial version of PGP, and that's because his job requires it. Everyone else I know uses GPG.

Now:

For those of you lucky enough to be using MacOS X (go ahead a flame me - I've been using Unix for ten years, and MacOS X rox my sox), just grab a copy of GnuPG from Fink and install GnuPG.

After that, grab a copy of PGPMail from Sente, and use the easy, one-drag install. It's still in beta, but it's damn nice integration.

For reference, I'm running MacOS X 10.1.3. When I send an email to someone whose public key is in my keyring, I just click the button "Encrypt" before I click send. Voila. When I receive something encrypted, I have the option of having it automatically decrypt, or I just click "decrypt" in the toolbar. Very nice.

Hardware YUV translation. The only thing that makes video playback bareable in Linux on my box.

Yeah, that probably helps a lot, I use it on my G400. I thought you meant hardware mpeg encoding support.

Can you also watch the item being recorded or does this box act as a standalone video server?

Umm, not sure what you mean exactly. I've patched NVrec:DIVX4rec to use the Matrox G400 back-end scaler (=hardware YUV -> RGB) to display the frames being encoded to disk on the TV as well. If you just wanna watch stuff without recording there's fbtv (WinTV video-in -> Matrox G400 TV-out).

After a recording is finished, I can watch it on the TV using mplayer and the mga framebuffer driver for TV-out.

I have not used the DivX codecs in my testing.

Well, I can really recommend the Xvid MPEG-4 (=DIVX4) encoder. It is open-source, and plug-compatible with the older divx4linux encoder.

I put up some more info on the Freevo project website.

There are MPEG decoder cards, but they are barely supported in Linux.

You don't have to use custom hardware. Use mplayer which can easily decode MPEG-[124] video/audio (MP3 is really MPEG-1 Layer III audio) in realtime on an normal machine (mine's a P-III 500 MHz), using no other hardware than the CPU (which of course has MMX etc).

2) TV-OUT technology simply doesn't exist in the US for Linux.

I'm using a Matrox G400 DH to display video-out from Linux on a regular NTSC TV. It works just fine. TV's here don't have SCART, but you can buy a cheap Radio-Shack RF modulator box for Video->RF.

The most promising technology is with the ATI-AIW card. I have heard some folks have mixed success using a framebuffer but in framebuffer mode, all video acceleration is lost.

Video acceleration? What do you need it for? The framebuffer works just fine for me to display DivX movies.

3) It takes an _aweful_ lot of processor power to perform real-time MPEG-encoding.

My P-III 500 MHz does realtime DivX (MPEG-4) and MP-3 encoding of 320x240 29.97 Hz (NTSC) video. Granted, it can't do 640x480, but it is good enough IMHO for casual viewing. I made a test clip to show what I mean (1.6 MB DivX4 AVI, 14 seconds).

4) Cost is just enormous.

I use one machine (P-III 500MHz) as a dedicated box next to the TV in the living-room. It has a $50 WinTV card for video capture and a ~$50 Matrox G400 Dualhead for TV-out. I have the large harddrives on my regular Linux box, using NFS for file sharing.

Check out gift.

Hmm, kinda. The parts are there, but no-one has put them together in a neat package yet. That's probably since Linux video software has really taken off in just the last 6 months.

There's mplayer which is a great player for any video-format out there. It can even play DVD's, although it doesn't have menu support like Ogle. It can also rip DVD:s to MPEG-4 (a.k.a DivX) using a couple of different encoders. Xvid is my favorite open-source MPEG-4 encoder, it's also got good reviews on Doom9 (good place for DivX info!).

For the TV-in recording part you can use a $50 WinTV card and the Video4Linux drivers. On top of that you need an audio-video capture application that can use encoders such as Xvid and Lame to encode to MPEG-4 (video) and MP3 (audio). I use NVrec. If you try the NVrec suite, use the DIVX4rec app (with the Xvid library instead of divx4linux which isn't maintained anymore). On my P-III 500MHz I can compress 29.97 Hz (NTSC) 320x240 in real-time to 800 kbit/s (video) + 80 kbit/s (audio). It takes about 5 hours to make a one-pass encoding of a DVD, so with a faster CPU it's probably possible to do real-time de-interlacing and encoding of 640x480 video.

A drawback is that NVrec is a command-line app for recording, I'm working on a patch for real-time preview on Matrox G400 TV-out. Or if you have a fast enough computer you might be able to run mplayer on the file as it is being recorded. This would allow for Tivo-like pause and resume. It might be a problem with AVI files from NVrec though since I don't think they're streamable.

Now, to put all of this together you need some kind of control application. That's not really that hard to write compared to all the other pieces (mplayer, xvid, nvrec). I've been working on one for the last couple of months, and have an alpha version that is usuable. It only supports the Matrox G400 for TV-out, and is a little crude, but it works good enough that I have it hooked up to my TV for everyday use. It's controllable by a remote control (see Lirc), using a very simple text-menu system to view tv, play avi/mpeg/mp3/dvd, record tv-in and rip DVD's. I'm getting ready to put it up on Sourceforge as Freevo within the next couple of weeks.

The application is written in Python which is great for stuff like this. Once the basic stuff is done, it might be cool to make a plugin architecture where you could interface to other stuff. For instance, with OSD (on screen display), it is easy to add things like new mail notification while you're watching TV. Or new Slashdot headlines, ICQ chat notif, phone caller ID interface, www control, etc. And, of course, an interface to some kind of tv-guide.

I haven't really found any other complete applications like this. Not that I've looked that hard, I'm always looking for an excuse to write software. mplayer might end up with all these feaures eventually, it is improving at an incredible rate at the moment.

Use both.

OMNI is supported directly in ESP GhostScript, a version of ghostscript maintained primarily by the CUPS maintainers.

You can use Windows 2000 Server/Adv.Server directly. No need for Citrix as a go-between. Save yourself quite a bit of money. If it's the cross-platform compatibilty you want, RDesktop allows any Unix machine to connect to a Windows NT 4 or 2000 Terminal Server.

The advantages of thin clients are quite impressive. For one thing, instead of a lot of unused CPU power going to waste on idle machines while others are at their max, the resources are shared evenly among all those connected.

Centralized management is WONDERFUL. Before (and currently on the video-intensive system) I would just make one simple change to the system, and spend just over an hour cloning the ~40 systems in each lab room. Of course, what makes that more interesting is knowing: before I came, they were just using Ghost to clone hard drives from a fileserver. At ~70 Minutes per system, I'm amazed they could manage the lab before I showed up.

Freenet is a free p2p transfer protocol used for webpages. Although for me it is dirt slow, isn't this what Box is describing. Every machine both a server and a browser.

Actually, some types of music will get better compression than that, like some classical and jazz. I have some Ella Fitzgerald that gets 5:1. But usually classical gets around 50%, pop/rock gets 60%, and death metal 70%. I have a comparison of different genres and different codecs on the FLAC site:

http://flac.sf.net/comparison.html

Since the KT guys haven't even released an encoder yet there's no way to see how they measure up.

1. razor (I recently posted a message about it on /.)
2. A "teergrube". This is german for "tar pit". In the ice age, animals like mammoths trapped into them, today the spammers shall trap into them. Lutz Donnerhacke wrote an interesing FAQ about it, you can get it from here (english, of course). IMHO every ISP should run such a teergrube on his SMTP host.

That's effectively the idea behind Berlin.

I don't want to post this to every Zope story, but I feel your pain: try Webware for Python as an alternative to Zope. It's basically a servlet server (with some high-level APIs built-in) written in Python. Performance is good --although less than a good Java server to be honest-- and it's less restrictive than Zope (you can use a text editor or an IDE to develop code).

Freenet is beautiful idea, as the freedom of speech is continued to be threatened.
Please insert the content of bnetd.org into Freenet and publish the KSK key on the frontpage of bnetd.org, but don't make it a link, since linking is only for outlaws.
This should have been done before posting these news on /.. Many users would have tried freenet, just to see if they could get to bnetd.org's content.
Hopefully a few will stick to FREENET

I'd consider making my own Tetris game if only to avoid paying $60cdn for shitty Tetris Worlds.

No, you can't make your own Tetris® game because Blue Planet Software aka The Tetris Company owns a trademark on the name "Tetris". You can make a falling tetramino game, but you'll just have to call it something different such as Quadra or freepuzzlearena.

And what's so bad about Worlds? It has Tetris, The New Tetris, The Next Tetris, a clone of Quadra, and two new variations all in one cartridge. That is, other than the fact that speed levels 13 through 15 are practically unplayable.

As previously mentioned, the Sourceforge project page of bnetd is still working.

Also up is the project's CVS repository on Sourceforge, which can be retrieved with the following commands (if you have CVS installed):

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bnetd login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bnetd co bnetd

A snapshot of the current bnetd CVS repository is available at: http://kainga.quasarnet.org/~trisk/files/bnetd-cvs .tar.bz2. Let's get this as widely distributed as possible...

You want xplanet and a big ass flat screen monitor that you can hang on the wall :)

Anyone who wants to use this for xplanet (a very cool globe program for *nix) can. There's a nice 2400x1200 version floating around somewhere, that combined with Hans Ecke's scripts, will create just awsome images for your desktop.

Check out Space for multiple desktops. Not quite true multiple desktops but I can't imagine OS X without it.

... but if you are a control freak (like myself), Zope can be too constraining. On the other hand, Webware for Python provides a clean, very OOPy, servlet server written entirely in Python. It's not necessarily better than Zope (Zope is by far more mature) but it does offer you more control over your app.

giFT (which is now GNU Internet File Transfer) has implemented OpenFT and its now working quite well in a good "alpha" state. It still needs work, but it is getting better every day. Check it out, it's definitely headed places.

It has not yet, it lives on in it's two new forms, OBOS and PalmOS.

Instead of a floppy, why not use a cdrom? It can hold alot more, has faster load times, and many other features.
PLAC - Portable Linux Auditing CD

LNX-BBC

LBT

No matter who they are, fight them with razor! razor is a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filtering network, and it rocks. I hardly get any spam anymore, and if I get one, I can report it to the network, and other razor users won't see that email anymore.

There are several applications running on top of Freenet that solve some of the problems, one of which is Frost which allows you to search files, and has BBS features. The other way that people are running indices which people can submit information to. These are linked from the initial Freenet banner. Content Of Nice is one of these on the 0.4 network.

I really beleive that good documentation coupled with good code is the reason that some projects prosper and others fail. Maybe they have the balance right, the system is ludicrously easy for Windows users now. On the plus side:

They have a Wiki system on their homepage which allows you to add to the documentation easily (had this been available 6 months ago I would have)

The code is nearing a stable level (Datastore bug gone)

Usefull non-Pr0n applications are been developed such as Frost.

Is anyone keeping an official list of 'desktop software that looks good and isn't horribly bloated like almost everything else seems to be these days, not like back when I were a lad' (tm)? I nominate Dillo and Icewm

I agree! But instead rox i recommend emelfm which is fast and powerfull "nc-like" file manager.
Then gqview for image browsing, gnumeric as spreadsheet and LyX as word processor.
Er... you wrote "looks good" - so maybe LyX isn't a good example here ;-)

Cheers,

Toby Haynes