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checkout iTerm. http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
enjoy. -b

You can do that already with iTerm. It adds what every other terminal application has: tabs.

I've used NTSyslog with success to pipe Windows event logs to a syslog daemon on a unix box.

You want tabs? Try iTerm. Horrible name, but it works quite well!

-andy

It is a well kept secret that the new Finder of Leopard will have a 3D interface that is navigated by flying through an oil refinery like layout of 3D block buildings...

Yayyyy! A native Carbon port of FSV!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tolven

Now, my last recruitment company got my resume in PDF only.

And they were still able to strip your contact details out and replace them with their own... Foxit PDF Editor & PDFedit. There's several others out there as well...

While I think we should promote OO.o adoption as much as possible (it's what I use daily), there are PDF exporters out there that are more transparent.

For Windows: PDF Creator
For Linux you can add a generic PS printer to print to PDF: Ubuntu instructions

There is NOT support for ODF built into Office 2007. Microsoft started an open-source project to add that to Office 2007

However, if I recall correctly it does not put the option to save as an odf file in the "save as..." dialog but rather in a separate section. (screenshots of the converter are here)

Sun has their own ODF filter which makes ODF just another option in the save as dialog but according to that post there are some issues with Office 2007 reading ODF.

Why not just write a cross platform game instead of a Linux or Windows game? It is actually easier than writing a DirectX game, because of the advanced libraries. Try writing a game with Irrlicht-library for example. You can even select whether to use DirectX or OpenGL as a rendering engine for the same code you write and it takes only about 20 lines of code to write a working program that will load a 3D-object from file and display it.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut012.html

If you don't like Irrlicht, you can always use Ogre 3D or Crystal Space or even SDL with OpenGL.

Heck, if i can RDP to my home PC from the road

Sure, it's running Linux, if it doesn't come with it then just install rdesktop (and tsclient if you need a gui for it).

Not really. The DSKY was just an IO device. The CM had two and the LM had one. There was also a sort of "virtual" DSKY in both vehicles that was used from the ground. The ground sent DSKY keystroke codes as commands and got DSKY display codes in the downlinked data.

The project I work with is at http://nassp.sourceforge.net/

>>>>> I realize your request is for "intel" MacBooks... but for those of you with PPCs or Developers...

I'm pretty sure Mac On Linux (MOL) won't work for intel machines, but if it did it would more or less do what you want. A short search shows it probably doesn't work, maybe someone should look at porting it to intel hardware (if its doable).

The feature list for processors http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php /Features doesn't mention anything remotely intel.

I think for now the VMWare (answer already given by other posters below) is as good as its going to get. That is simply the problem with closed source stuff.

For those of you reading this post looking for solutions for PPCs though, MOL is probably the way to go.

Mac On Linux supports all of the PPC architectures well, and I've got linux and Mac OS X co-existing nicely
by booting into Ubuntu linux (6.10) and then running Mac On Linux with my OS X install.

Effectively I have Mac OS X in a window on my second workbench and can switch from one OS to the other easily.
I use both linux and mac apps depending which one I like better.

Having a 12" PPC with NVidia closed source crap, I cant run the os in a separate screen yet but with SDL drivers and a screen sized window I get pretty close.

The only thing that doesn't work well in Mac OS X for me right now is sound, (but the MOL team is working on it).
Network etc. is all available (with some configuration, through a TUN device), and a Samba drive lets me access my linux drives from inside MAC OS X (running in MOL).

The only reason I don't boot only into linux is that Sleep, and Video out don't work courtesy of NVIDIA closed source crap... (Admittedly they make nice graphics cards, but I will be choosing my set of hardware based on how well they support open source, which likely means it likely won't be an NVIDIA card, given my current experiences, grumble, grumble ;) ).

MOL can be found here: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/.
My personal thanks to the MOL team.

(Go ahead mod me off topic if you want, but there are still many users reading about this that have PowerPCs)

>>>>> I realize your request is for "intel" MacBooks... but for those of you with PPCs or Developers...

I'm pretty sure Mac On Linux (MOL) won't work for intel machines, but if it did it would more or less do what you want. A short search shows it probably doesn't work, maybe someone should look at porting it to intel hardware (if its doable).

The feature list for processors http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php /Features doesn't mention anything remotely intel.

I think for now the VMWare (answer already given by other posters below) is as good as its going to get. That is simply the problem with closed source stuff.

For those of you reading this post looking for solutions for PPCs though, MOL is probably the way to go.

Mac On Linux supports all of the PPC architectures well, and I've got linux and Mac OS X co-existing nicely
by booting into Ubuntu linux (6.10) and then running Mac On Linux with my OS X install.

Effectively I have Mac OS X in a window on my second workbench and can switch from one OS to the other easily.
I use both linux and mac apps depending which one I like better.

Having a 12" PPC with NVidia closed source crap, I cant run the os in a separate screen yet but with SDL drivers and a screen sized window I get pretty close.

The only thing that doesn't work well in Mac OS X for me right now is sound, (but the MOL team is working on it).
Network etc. is all available (with some configuration, through a TUN device), and a Samba drive lets me access my linux drives from inside MAC OS X (running in MOL).

The only reason I don't boot only into linux is that Sleep, and Video out don't work courtesy of NVIDIA closed source crap... (Admittedly they make nice graphics cards, but I will be choosing my set of hardware based on how well they support open source, which likely means it likely won't be an NVIDIA card, given my current experiences, grumble, grumble ;) ).

MOL can be found here: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/.
My personal thanks to the MOL team.

(Go ahead mod me off topic if you want, but there are still many users reading about this that have PowerPCs)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcl/

It's been so long since we set it up, I frankly don't remember the details... but it has been running for years now without incident.

enjoy!

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There is such a thing for PPC Macs. It's called Mac-On-Linux.

http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/

If you're looking for a ticketing system with worklogs and project planning, check out:

http://outreach.sourceforge.net/

It's not actively maintained at present, but we would do so if enough companies signed up for support.

On a related note, we are about to release another tool, which has a powerful work-flow engine:

http://bflow.sourceforge.net/

The Web site is incomplete, and the software will be released next month. Check it out.

If you're looking for a ticketing system with worklogs and project planning, check out:

http://outreach.sourceforge.net/

It's not actively maintained at present, but we would do so if enough companies signed up for support.

On a related note, we are about to release another tool, which has a powerful work-flow engine:

http://bflow.sourceforge.net/

The Web site is incomplete, and the software will be released next month. Check it out.

eticket http://eticket.sourceforge.net/ is a newer fork of osticket that's being actively maintained. (osticket doesn't seem to be available currently.)

Avalanch is conceptually similar to a combination of BitTorrent and PAR2 http://parchive.sourceforge.net/. Instead of requiring that each block in the file be received, some (or all?) blocks are actually just values that plug into linear algebra equations that allow reconstruction of the original file. Once you have received enough unique blocks, you can run the data through the equations and get the original file (you don't need specific blocks).

Take a look at DCL http://dcl.sourceforge.net./ It has served me rather well in the past.

I thought the same thing. It looked like a trip back to 1998. For a Mac lookalike, I use Baghira and rearranged the window buttons. This is their screenshot. Now that looks like a Mac!

I thought the same thing. It looked like a trip back to 1998. For a Mac lookalike, I use Baghira and rearranged the window buttons. This is their screenshot. Now that looks like a Mac!

And steal some decent fonts for Linux and make sure your favorite distro has 'em.

If you steal, your favorite distro won't include them or will remove them some day and you will be the one that violates the law.

Contribute to DejaVu project and add CJK symbols

You know, you are allowed to use something other than your birthday, your pet's name, and your favorite Transformer as passwords... Some of us use random sequences of characters. If you can't remember such a thing, use a pronounceable string of letters (make it plenty long), such as generated by pwgen. It is much easier to remember a string of sounds that is perhaps 4 syllables long than a string of characters which is 12 characters long.

I learned that actually creating the NTFS partition isn't possible.

Evidently, all it can do is read and, possibly, write to an existing NTFS file system.

That's no good.

Then there is the fact that third party NTFS drivers can cause corruption.

After FAT, ext2 comes closest. Clearly it is well supported in Linux. The OS X driver does all of those things, but it causes kernel panics (definitely not acceptable). I'm not sure, but I think the Ext2-IFS driver for Windows supports creation; it definitely supports reading and writing.

"If students use an older version of Microsoft Office at home, it is usually possible to translate their projects back and forth between different versions of Microsoft Office,"the letter said. "However, this can be a tedious process, and information may not be always be translated properly."

Basically what they're saying is, "We standardized on crappy software that probably isn't even compatible with its own previous version, so you better buy the newest one too so your kids won't be stupid."

Having worked in a school district IT department was a real eye-opener. There were tight budgets with no money for building critical infrastructure. But we'd all be damned if we didn't have the latest versions of Office and new computers to run them on.

I pushed open source wherever possible, even in the back-end, but it was a real uphill battle. We'd buy the $299 Adobe Acrobat when all they needed to do was make PDF files, and for that, something like PDF Creator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ is great - and free. And even after I demonstrated how easy it was to use and how good the results were, there was still resistance.

I wonder what kind of break the school district gets for pushing parents to upgrade?

Access rights are not maintained. All users can access all the directories and files of an Ext2 volume. If a new file or directory is created, it inherits all the permissions, the GID and the UID from the directory where it has been created. With version 1.10a of the software there is one exception to this rule: a file (but not a directory) the driver has created always has cleared "x" permissions, it inherits the "r" and the "w" permissions only. See also section "What limitations arise from not maintaining access rights?".
The driver treats files which have got a file name beginning with a dot "." character like other files, but not as hidden files.
The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)
Neither different code pages nor UTF-8 encoded file names are supported. The driver always uses the current code page of Windows.
Alternate 8.3-DOS names are not supported (just because there is no place to store them in an Ext2 file system). This can prevent legacy DOS applications, executed by the NTVDM of Windows, from accessing some files or directories.
Currently the driver does not implement defragging support. So defragmentation applications will neither show fragmentation information nor defragment any Ext2 volume.
This software does not achieve booting a Windows operating system from an Ext2 volume.
LVM volumes are not supported, so it is not possible to access them.

Actually, OS X can read and write ext2/3 with this bit of software:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

Like the Windows software you mention, it works as ext2, which means no journaling; it read and wrote to my ext3 partitions just fine when I used several years ago (IIRC).

i've had good experience using ext2 on osx via http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

i haven't tried the latest version, but on my x.3.9 powerbook, it was able to read and write a usb external hd with no issues.

of course, this doesn't address the issue of windows accessibility.

Linux and Mac both have native UFS (a.k.a Fast File System) support, windows can also support UFS: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/

and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ for max os x.

I looked a little and found ext2 drivers for OS X too. Of course the real problem is whether any random computer you want to plug your portable hard drive into may not have these drivers.

Since MacOSX is BSD based, I would be willing to bet that similar projects and support can be found (but, I Am Not A Mac Fanboy).

On Windows, you are pretty much stuck using either NTFS or FAT. FAT volumes can not be created in windows larger than 32GB. Although, you could create the partition using 3rd party tools to get beyond that limitation. I have had some success mounting ext3 partitions using Ext2 Installable File System For Windows or Ext2 File System Driver for Windows.

Personally, from my experience, VFAT or NTFS are about your only options.

Since MacOSX is BSD based, I would be willing to bet that similar projects and support can be found (but, I Am Not A Mac Fanboy).

On Windows, you are pretty much stuck using either NTFS or FAT. FAT volumes can not be created in windows larger than 32GB. Although, you could create the partition using 3rd party tools to get beyond that limitation. I have had some success mounting ext3 partitions using Ext2 Installable File System For Windows or Ext2 File System Driver for Windows.

Personally, from my experience, VFAT or NTFS are about your only options.

No matter what the OS, you are going to have to install a driver/patch on at least one of them to get support for some filesystem unless you use something like FAT.

http://www.fs-driver.org/ ext2 for windows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ for osx /shrug

ext2 is supported everywhere and it's far better than fat32 or ntfs. for windows, http://www.fs-driver.org/ and for osx http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

There are ext2 drivers available for windows. ext2 is just ext3 without journaling. It should be a viable option.

Haha- so this is the sort of article that I miss when I sleep? Anyway, I have collected some links that somebody might find useful to go start some more research. Maybe setup a basement lab or something.

-- General
* Irazoqui's neurotransceiver [pdf] [2003] The problem with Irazoqui's device is that it is maybe 1% power efficient, so maybe some electronicists can come around and make some suggestions to improve the coil design and so on. He did his testing on rats, not humans.
* Direct brain interface bibliography from the University of Michigan
* Gleamed from an article below: wireless visual cortex implant publications
-- EEG
* Controlling computers with EEG signals
* EEG via soundcard from OpenEEG
* Wireless EEG
-- Slashdot goodness
* Scientists couple nerve tissue with semiconductors
* Post re: neurosilicon junction with PDF
* Thinkware
* Good post w/ links on neurocomputation
* Brain slice experiments
* Neuroscientists at MIT doing direct neural interfaces- but this post sets things into perpsective as well as this one
* Single neuron recordings w/ ref
* Sorry to dash your hopes, but ...
* Autonomously adjusting electrodes? and more
* Artificial hippocampus and stimulating neuron growth / neurogenesis ... with Prozac?
* Implant a chip inside your head- though it does not discuss the specific surgery skills you would need
* Working nerve chip of silicon and snail neurons
* Re: Kevin Warwick- interview- the so-called "Captain Cyborg" since '98 or something
* BrainPort
* Fusing neurons with computers
-- More
* Artificial vision
* The vision quest
*

Haha- so this is the sort of article that I miss when I sleep? Anyway, I have collected some links that somebody might find useful to go start some more research. Maybe setup a basement lab or something.

-- General
* Irazoqui's neurotransceiver [pdf] [2003] The problem with Irazoqui's device is that it is maybe 1% power efficient, so maybe some electronicists can come around and make some suggestions to improve the coil design and so on. He did his testing on rats, not humans.
* Direct brain interface bibliography from the University of Michigan
* Gleamed from an article below: wireless visual cortex implant publications
-- EEG
* Controlling computers with EEG signals
* EEG via soundcard from OpenEEG
* Wireless EEG
-- Slashdot goodness
* Scientists couple nerve tissue with semiconductors
* Post re: neurosilicon junction with PDF
* Thinkware
* Good post w/ links on neurocomputation
* Brain slice experiments
* Neuroscientists at MIT doing direct neural interfaces- but this post sets things into perpsective as well as this one
* Single neuron recordings w/ ref
* Sorry to dash your hopes, but ...
* Autonomously adjusting electrodes? and more
* Artificial hippocampus and stimulating neuron growth / neurogenesis ... with Prozac?
* Implant a chip inside your head- though it does not discuss the specific surgery skills you would need
* Working nerve chip of silicon and snail neurons
* Re: Kevin Warwick- interview- the so-called "Captain Cyborg" since '98 or something
* BrainPort
* Fusing neurons with computers
-- More
* Artificial vision
* The vision quest
*

Why not host your own blog on your own server? I mean sure, you're still subject to the possibility that your ISP may block your server if you get labeled as a "terrorist" or "dissident", but you'd likely have more control over your site (even in terms of what ads, if any, you wanted to serve on your site). Pick up a second-hand computer, install your favorite distro and have a go. If you do, try Thingamablog, I love it.

Azureus has both OSX port, and Telnet UI plugin. It also has HTML web UI, which works fine with my cell phone (Nokia 9500, uses Opera).

Azureus has both OSX port, and Telnet UI plugin. It also has HTML web UI, which works fine with my cell phone (Nokia 9500, uses Opera).

Azureus has both OSX port, and Telnet UI plugin. It also has HTML web UI, which works fine with my cell phone (Nokia 9500, uses Opera).

Is there an OSX client with similar functionality?

For 2000 and XP, you want Windows Services for Unix or SFU. The download includes a complete - though basic - POSIX environment, a working GNU build toolchain (and yes, sources for all GPL code), and NFS server and client abilities. You shouldn't need to do anything except run the self-extracting download archive and run setup.exe. The installer will provide options to enable setuid and case-sensitive behaviors in the filesystem used within the subsystem, which should be used as a number of programs need them. The version of Perl included with the installer is obsolete and probably not worth installing; I'll get to that in a sec.

For Server 2003 and Vista, you must first enable the Windows component called the Subsystem for Unix Applications (SUA). This can be done by going to the (Add/Remove) Programs control panel - there's an option on the side for enabling Windows components. In Vista at least, you can also enable NFS and Unix-style printer connectivity here. You will then need to install the Utilities and SDK for the SUA, which is available for Vista/Longhorn and for Server 2003. On Vista there will be an additional install option to enable su-to-root behavior, required for programs like sudo - this option is important because by default, the Administrator account is disabled in Vista and privilege escalation is achieved through UAC. Although UAC can be used to start a Unix shell as root/admin, it cannot be used to change a shell's permissions while it runs. If you install sudo this becomes possible.

In all cases, you will get two Unix shells, the Korn shell and the C shell, in your start menu. Either one will start the subsystem and run a login process that creates the necessary environment variables and such. However, there are a few notable lacks. One of them is that while x11r5 and x11r6 client libraries are installed (with the r6 libraries used by default), there is no X server. Thus far I haven't managed to port x.org to Interix (the name of the subsystem "OS") so I use a win32 X server, specifically xming which runs on everything including Vista. The second major lack is a package manager or any software beyond the most basic requirements. For resolving this issue there are a couple options; the two I have tried are InteropSystems and NetBSD pkgsrc.

Both provide a good number of commonly used programs, and support the Interix platform. However, there are some major differences: InteropSystems primarily distributes binaries, with an eye to very easy package management and rapid usability. It also integrates better with Windows, doing things like adding a Start menu link for the Bash shell if you install their package. There is a fairly good forum for assistance and mostly it's a very easy out-of-box experience. However, their package tree is somewhat limited, and installing older versions of some libraries is trickier than it might be. They suuport all versions of Interix, from 3.5 (XP-era SFU) up to 6.0 (Vista's SUA). NetBSD's pkgsrc, on the other hand, is mostly source-based (although there are some pre-built packages for Interix; roughly as many as InteropSystems has, in fact). It takes longer to compile from source, and the initial download is hefty. However, a much wider selection of packages is available (although there's no guarantee they'll all work; indeed some, such as the X server, are flagged to not even attempt to build in Interix) and the packages are presumably optimized at least somewhat for your system during compilation. It's harder to find the right packages at times, though, and I have yet to get even the source-based boo

I used to have a Treo 270 and run Onager over GPRS to control mldonkey which is a general P2P-tool that also handles bittorrent. That was like five years ago.. Though it didn't last too long; mldonkey evolved faster than onager. Every phone since then has included a webbrowser that you can use to control, for example, mldonkey over a web interface.

The only thing I see is garbled text with xemacs, a garbled cursor when moving between screens with Xinerama, Google Earth failing to start without adding a hack, and general slowness with my screen saver running maybe one frame per second.

The only issues I've run across are sluggish compositing (ran into this when experimenting with a Mac OS X-lookalike theme) and...hmm, I think that was it. While most of my computers are equipped with nVidia video, I have a workstation at work with a Radeon 9200 and a notebook that uses the Radeon Xpress 200M chipset. Getting accelerated video working on both of them has been no more difficult than getting accelerated video working on nVidia cards...it's just emerge ati-drivers instead of emerge nvidia-drivers, followed by some slightly different changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

(Turns out that the workstation uses an open-source driver, but I know the notebook uses the ATI driver because the open-source driver doesn't support it.)