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Since we're on the subject, others have mentioned Nagios and MRTG of course. Be sure to check out JFFNMS (Just for fun). Horrible name for what it does, since it's quite powerful. For Big Brother users, I would recommend checking out Hobbit Monitor as a replacement of the server portion. It's compatible with the BB client, but has far more features and includes some basic MRTG graphs.

I have yet to find an all in one integrated open source solution for monitoring (cpu, processes, port reachability), alerts (email, sms, etc). The closest I've found is JFFNMS, but writing alert rules and such is difficult to say the least.

While on the subject, if it's not too terribly off-topic, what do people use to bill based on network usage (MRTG, RRD). Both claim that you should NOT bill off of that information, but I have yet to find any other open source solution.

--falz

Try running your Spectrum emulator in Scale4x or hq4x mode and seeing if it makes the pixels sharper.

Don't forget about the big brother clone, hobbit.

SF.net at: http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
Live example at: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/

Actually, System Shock's environment is basically 2.5D

Ah true true, my memories must have been tainted :) I thought I recalled travelling underneath sections of the map, but that must just have been clever map design as you say. this page shows that it was more advanced than Doom though, allowing you to stand on objects etc. Made it very close to 3D without actually beeing 3D.

For example, scenario with two machines in the same campus LAN - one is a bouncer and the other is a publisher. And bouncer probably duplicates packets to many IPs and only one of them belongs to the publisher and publisher sends ack directly to the leacher spoofing IP of the bouncer. can be tricky to figure out what is going on without log of all IP headers on all participating gateways and routers.

there are two ways in the existing code to hide real identity. Using bouncers and spoofing IP. For spoofing IP in Java you will have to add dummy IP interface in your system. I am not sure does your connection allow IP spoofing, but we can run tests. IP spoof in LAN is always possible and can be interesting in some situation. Try this help http://rodi.sourceforge.net/helpRodi.html#Lesson%2 03

The other way to protect the connection is DSA signature. Rodi client can be configured to discard unsigned packets. Because Rodi is UDP based protocol and is completely connectionless typical IP port scan will not discover the Rodi node if Rodi client is configured to drop unsigned packets.

One of the possible applications is a message collector. Let's say that you are an extremely good listener. But you do not like to talk much. you can publish an IP range (not one IP, but a subnet containing 2 or more IP addresses). leachers looking for sensitive data send requests (see Rodi chat help) and you log the messages, but you never ack, because messages are not signed. This is what i call a message collector. If in 24 hours from the first request the data appears somewhere on the NET and can be found with regular search this is a pure coincidence. It can be extremely hard to follow all IP's and trace spoofed IP addresses.

Message collector does not have to have uplink, which is interesting in sense that this is probably first "half duplex" internet application. or message collector can send acks via a bouncer (with some delay) or spoof IP and send ack, and so on.

On one of the Rodi web pages (probably "general questions" section of the help) you will find following example. Imagine that you knock all doors on a street and ask for milk (you probably should use some well defined knock), but nobody opens the door and suddenly in one of the windows you see hand giving you a glass of milk. can you know what door exactly you have to knock to get that milk ? not really, because you have no idea what is going behind the doors (phone calls may be ?). ... and not even by knocking one door and waiting some time, because such behaviour can be easily discovered and such customer blocked.

Well if you want to visit a website that utilizes Java, you need Java.
If you want to install and run Java based applications (in my case Azureus and Jedit) you need Java.
I guess some people need Java and some don't.....

Well if you want to visit a website that utilizes Java, you need Java.
If you want to install and run Java based applications (in my case Azureus and Jedit) you need Java.
I guess some people need Java and some don't.....

The kde-redhat guys do a great job keeping KDE up to date on Fedora.

The good news is that Gnutella continues to run strong. I actively share a few Gigabytes of free content including operating systems, free music, public domain image archives and so on via gtk-gnutella which you can acquire from the sourceforge project pages for the gtk-gnutella project. Open up both TCP and UDP ports inbound for whatever port you choose to operate it on, and it performs at least as well as bittorrent, but with amazingly useful searching and filtering options.

The gtk-gnutella folks (who do an excellent job, but could always use more contributors) spend a fair amount of time working out counters for spamming and poisoning techniques.

The good news is that Gnutella continues to run strong. I actively share a few Gigabytes of free content including operating systems, free music, public domain image archives and so on via gtk-gnutella which you can acquire from the sourceforge project pages for the gtk-gnutella project. Open up both TCP and UDP ports inbound for whatever port you choose to operate it on, and it performs at least as well as bittorrent, but with amazingly useful searching and filtering options.

The gtk-gnutella folks (who do an excellent job, but could always use more contributors) spend a fair amount of time working out counters for spamming and poisoning techniques.

The loss of Eldred_v._Ashcroft was bad enough. Essentially Congress now has unlimited power.

Having Supreme Court Justicies like Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't help. She and her mother are outspoken attorneys in favor of unlimited IP rights and unlimited congressional powers. Remember kids, if you extend a law for 50 years every 10 years, ad infinitum, that's not "unlimited"!

Now we're seeing things like the JRMI Model Train SDK project getting sued (1/2 pg. down) for $300,000.00 for infringing patents. The impact of this kind of suit on small software developers, whether free or closed, will be devastating.

And the DMCA getting new provisions that treat IP violations like drug crimes...forfiture of property! That's right, if little Bobby downloads a song from the internet, the RIAA can seize your house, car, property, etc.

Yay America! The land of freedom and liberty!

KDE is broken in the latest Fedora release, which doesn't really surprise me given the fact that Red Hat has always had abyssmal support for KDE.

I think applications like Konqueror File Manager, K3B for burning CDs and DVDs, AmaroK for listening to music, Kaffeine for watching movies, etc are a must for a desktop computer. It's a shame that Red Hat doesn't put more resources into ensuring KDE is usable on their systems.

Anyway, I'll stick with ArkLinux, Kubuntu and openSUSE since KDE actually works on those distros.

"Then, once I get the system up, the network keeps getting thousands of "too many interrupts" - Even unplugged from the switch!"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=e1000+int erruptthrottlerate&btnG=Search
ftp://download.intel.com/design/network/applnots/a p450.pdf
http://lwn.net/Articles/152989/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000

I'm not sure about Flash 8, but what I used to do is use Ethereal to look at the HTTP traffic when the video player first initiates the connection. You can get a direct link to the FLV that contains the video this way and use FFMPEG to convert the FLV to some other format. Of course, you need to have Flash installed for this to work.

I've used Madman for over a year now on my home Linux PC. Its AutoDJ feature alone blows anything else I've tried out of the water; typically when I'm at home I don't much care what I'm listening to as long as something's playing in the background. So I click AutoDJ and forget about it, though I may skip past the odd song I'm not in the mood for, or that I don't like at all - and since play count is one of AutoDJ's rules it'll take that into account as it continues. Add a built-in webserver and I can stream my tunes to my computer at work, or my brother can download them. You can also write plug-ins for it. I can't think of anything else I need to do with it, and I certainly never want to go back to organizing my tunes manually, with directory structures and standard file names and that stuff. Gets really cumbersome when you've got thousands of files.

When you have a huge music collection, things get damn difficult to find. I can't understan why a lot of post suggest using iTunes or Winamp to manage it. What you use to play a file is whatever you like, it may even be mpg123 or alsaplayer etc... But i think that the submitter is really looking for a full-featured app or script to do massive tagging, massive renaming, rational organization of files in folders and so on.

It would be really useful to check missing tags on musicbrainz and detect double files (in huge collection is common to have more copies of the same file in different locations, and maybe with different tags!)

Tagging and renaming may be done with easytag, but everything else?

The only useful thing in iTunes is the "Show Dupluicates" menu entry.

Current I've got about 115 GB of MP3's (Live shows downloaded from archive.org and bt.etree.org, and ripped CD's). I use EasyTag to make sure everything is tagged correctly and the filename in a format of "Artist - Track#(Leading 0) - Trackname" then off they go to a file share with a FirstLetterofArtist/ArtistName/Album format. This makes it pretty easy to find something to burn, transfer to the iPod, or play on XBox Media Center. For playing on a computer however, I've installed Ampache. This makes it pretty easy manage/playback the whole thing in a easy to navigate format that will automatically pull cover art from Amazon and keep track of most popular played and recent additions automatically. It seems to work overall pretty well.

Tuniac

I've come to like musikCube for a Windows player and indexer. It finds files automatically if you give it the directory and, if the files are tagged correctly, you get a decent search it seems. I don't have that much music ripped to my computer, though, so I don't know how it handles larger collections for sure, but it looks promising. (The support for FLAC is what made me download it in the first place.)

I would like to set up a hard drive on my dedicated Linux box with my entire music collection in FLAC format, then set it up as an SMB share so that I can access all my music over WiFi from wherever in the house. I teach music lessons, and this would be really handy if, during a lesson, I thought of a recording I wanted to play for my student and I had my laptop there. (Organizing/cataloging my CD collection would be another alternative, but not nearly as interesting.) Might be a summer project for me. I have come to like abcde as a ripper. Under Linux, be sure to turn off cdparanoia if you ever want the ripping process to finish (link isn't using abcde, but the reasoning is the same, and cdparanoia options can be specified in the config file for abcde).

How about something like this? I personally haven't tried this one (I don't listen to too much music myself), but I'm organizing my movie collection using a mySQL database ("wuff's moviedb"). Incidentally, this looks like it can play your music too, and an awesome plus is being able to access your database from anywhere!

You don't have to use that one...just go to SourceForge and search for something like "movie database". I personally prefer the PHP/mySQL ones, but you may have different needs :)

GTK in Java is a "Look and Feel" not a competing GUI component kit.

It's a look and feel option in swing, but it's also a competing GUI compenent toolkit. They're two separate things. The latter is distributed by Debian.

Obviously spammers are trying to get through filters by making their email appear legitimate. The closer spam looks like legitimate email traffic the harder it is to block them without also blocking some legitimate email.

But the spammers are caught in a bit of a catch-22 situation, especially when it comes to distributed spam-blocking tools like Razor, DCC, etc. If a spam is obviously forged then it's easy to flag as a spam. But alternatively if a spam has non-munged contact information, whether an e-mail address, a URL, or even a phone number or snail-mail address, those are all strings that it's VERY easy for filters to test against.

First off, the "essential" codecs xine has you download are only a fraction of the codecs available in the "all" packages

Xine does support the "all" package of codecs - I use it!

In addition, even if it did support all the binary DLLs, those are only a fraction of the codecs MPlayer supports. These include: qtx x264 xvid libavcodec real dshow/dmo win32 faad2 libmpeg2 liba52 mp3lib libtheora tremor libmad gif opendivx libdv amr_wb amr_nb xanim faac musepack libdts speex twolame toolame liblzo.

Try doing some research before posting... you even mention codec's which are supported by ffmpeg (e.g: libavcodec).

Mozilla Public Licence 1.1

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefrog

Precisely. Pretty much everyone I know uses Gaim or Trillian, and my typical family calls for tech support and spyware removal usually involve uninstalling AIM in favor of one of the two.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Have you bothered to check Freshmeat or Sourceforge for projects similar to yours? I've been looking for a Point of Sale system, and many of the freely available software systems to something similar to what you ask. The rest is just finding a contract programming team (check your local LUG) to customize the package.

Freshmeat

SourceForge

At least in this case Free Software provides an opposition to companies doing whatever they wish. If one can install Gaim, then there we aren't really at the mercy of AIM's bundling decisions.

Check out Joseph Hemler's "Network Security Tools" book referenced here; it's got a chapter on using PMD to do just that.

And yup, PMD has an Eclipse plugin; docs for installing it are here.

Check out Joseph Hemler's "Network Security Tools" book referenced here; it's got a chapter on using PMD to do just that.

And yup, PMD has an Eclipse plugin; docs for installing it are here.

> using the new-ish(JDK 1.5) StringBuilder class

Sounds like a good rule for the migrating ruleset!

I was working with a team of classmates on a software engineering project last fall, a C# digital photo organizer (note that it's a way-pre-1.0 release, even though it's quite functional now). We used the exiv2 library for EXIF/IPTC metadata reading/writing. A couple of weeks before the final deliverable was due, our app started nondeterministically throwing an AccessViolation Exception (something that C# does when an unmanaged library accesses invalid memory). We traced this to the exiv2 library, and, having the code, all the way to the offending function call. I didn't have enough C++ experience to realize what was going on (a string manipulation function was being called on a raw char buffer, not a null-terminated string), but I asked the developers on their forum, and they realiezd what was wrong and offered a patch two days before the project was due.

Most of this would have been impossible with a closed-source library. We would have had to either move to another library (and there aren't many which actually write EXIF/IPTC) or stick with the ugly hack of a workaround that I came up with initially. It sort of worked, but was terrible for performance and conceptually hideous: since the invalid memory access was nondeterministic, we wrapped the whole thing in a while(true) try/catch block and just kept trying to do the metadata operation in question until it succeeded.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooo-word-filter

Actually, it's posted now:

OpenDocument Fellowship Software page has a link to the SourceForge OpenOffice filter to Microsoft Word XML plugin project.

Back to Rodi - i would appreciate any feedback you can find time for. i am trying to make the application usable and i intend to continue the development. my e-mail latytet at yahoo dot com or you can post anonymously on the Rodi message board http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=49 6953 we can discuss issue of the bouncers. i think there is some misunderstanding about bouncers, because bouncers in no way are mandatory and in general case nothing prevents you from using chain of public bouncers like, for example, in Tor. Command line interface allows plenty of flexibility in how you use the client and what you do it with it. You can run similar to DC++ hub or implemenet small completely distributed (WASTE?) network of trusted peers

Java was a natural choise to bring prove of concept fast and get feedback from the users. unfortunately the feedback remains zero. among planned steps is implementation in C# (Mono) and small embeddable C/C++ agent

Actually, aMSN really got me laid once the webcam plugin was integrated. That's how I met my girlfriend and then... well, you don't want to know :p Thank you aMSN and keep up the good work!

C:\Documents and Settings\davygrvy>NSLOOKUP -type=any BLUESECURITY.COM
Server: cns.sanjose.ca.sanfran.comcast.net
Address: 68.87.76.178

Non-authoritative answer:
BLUESECURITY.COM internet address = 127.0.0.1
BLUESECURITY.COM nameserver = 127.0.0.1
BLUESECURITY.COM
primary name server = ns1.mdnsservice.COM
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.mdnsservice.COM
serial = 743932014
refresh = 10001 (2 hours 46 mins 41 secs)
retry = 7200 (2 hours)
expire = 2419200 (28 days)
default TTL = 86400 (1 day)
BLUESECURITY.COM MX preference = 100, mail exchanger = 127.0.0.1
BLUESECURITY.COM MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = 127.0.0.1

C:\Documents and Settings\davygrvy>dig.exe @dns.netvision.net.il
members.bluesecurity.com +all

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @dns.netvision.net.il members.bluesecurity.com +all
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 959
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;members.bluesecurity.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
members.bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN A 72.36.247.10
members.bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN A 206.225.91.229
members.bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN A 64.15.129.18
members.bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN A 66.197.244.214

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN NS nypop.elron.net.
bluesecurity.com. 3600 IN NS dns.netvision.net.il.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns.netvision.net.il. 86400 IN A 194.90.1.5
nypop.elron.net. 86400 IN A 199.203.1.20

;; Query time: 250 msec
;; SERVER: 194.90.1.5#53(194.90.1.5)
;; WHEN: Thu May 04 01:13:25 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 201

MPUI http://mpui.sourceforge.net/ works well as a Windows front end for MPlayer. I keep it on a USB flash drive so I can always play media files

There is a VNC like that. Get ultra-vnc along with the rc4 plugin. Generate your very own secure key and away you go.

Unfortunately, neither VLC nor MPlayer can be included as libraries in other multimedia applications. Having to work with an embedded instance of VLC and MPlayer is a pain and not conducive to extending functionality in object-oriented fashion.

Xine and its corresponding library Xine-lib, on the other hand, can be used as libraries inside other frontend applications such as Kaffeine and AmaroK. This allows the frontend apps to focus on what they do best: GUI, usability and eyecandy, while the multimedia-intensive parts can be neatly accessed through an API.

If you just take the free phones your provider offers, then games won't be that great. But if you get a decent phone and have a decent provider there are plenty of free games. There are ports of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Frozen Bubble. There are also free or cheap emulators for the Genesis, the NES, and the SNES.

If you just take the free phones your provider offers, then games won't be that great. But if you get a decent phone and have a decent provider there are plenty of free games. There are ports of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Frozen Bubble. There are also free or cheap emulators for the Genesis, the NES, and the SNES.

They can have my StreamRipper when ........

Word 2003 also has a feature by which you can lock the available formatting styles to the ones you have defined. If you go to Tools > Protect, and elect to protect the styles, it will disallow any manual formatting: the user must pick from one of the available, defined styles.

But of course, I switched to LaTeX: TeXShop and BibDesk make it a joy to use on the Mac.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=153754

Use a simple application to record the sound output of your PC sound card. Click "record" just before playback starts and click "stop" when the song ends.

WOW does that take waaaay too much effort! And after all that, you still need to fix the ends of the file and then properly tag them. And even then, you still have a 128Kbps stream serially transcoded, resulting in artifacts even my half-deaf grandmother could pick out.

Streamripping takes far less effort. Tune WinAmp to a streamed station playing the genre you want, start Streamripper, and go to work/school/bed. Eight hours later, you'll have practically the entirety of that station's high-rotation playlist, properly tagged and at a quality of up to VBR384Kbps. (I have yet to find a stream doing better quality than that, and even as something of a sound-quality-elitist, I have to admit that comes as close to CD quality as I can tell in any listening environment I can afford).


Or better yet - Just borrow the CD from a friend and rip it yourself.


Or best of all, BUY THE CD (preferably directly from the artist)! I have no qualms about downloading to check out a band, but if I like them, why wouldn't I want to give something back?

Try looking here.

Trust me, you need at least sed, awk {aka gawk} and grep if you are working with plain text files.

AFAIK, the code you write in Visual Studio runs on your computer, not the lego RCX. Your RCX has to remain pointed at the IR transmitter attached to your computer at all times so it can be controlled, which is pretty lame. If you really want to do something interesting with an RCX, you'd be better off with "Not Quite C" which allows you to write high-level code that runs on the RCX brick autonomously.

• Create a new graphical frontend and powerful results viewer
• Generate graphical maps from the Nmap XML output (you can take inspiration from projects like fe3d and Cheops/Cheops-NG).
• Create a web interface for scanning your networks and reporting the results.
• Become a performance Czar, whipping out your profilers and introducing your own algorithms to make Nmap run even faster while using fewer resources.
• Create a brand new interpretation of the venerable Netcat and Hping utilities.
• Add scripting/module support to Nmap so it can be used for vulnerability assessment or more intrusive application discovery.

I think those are some of the coolest projects, though the page lists others (and is always growing as I get new ideas). And don't forget, you can always propose any new idea you come up with -- don't feel limited to that list.

And while we hope you consider Nmap, remember that you can increase your odds by applying to multiple projects. I've seen some pretty cool ideas from the other organizations.

-Fyodor

Another similar P2P project that appears to be a bit further along is rodi.sf.net.