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I can run Linux on a VAX, too!

Free nvidia drivers might not be that far off anymore.
Take a look at the free haiku drivers that ALREADY WORK!
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdrive r/index.html

Also of interest is this project which aims to make a similar free driver but
for gnu/linux systems.
http://nouveau.sourceforge.net/

Also, regarding ATI cards, I don't know why many people are complaining so much.
I have a radeon 9700 pro in my laptop, using the free dri r300 drivers which perform very well.

Bottom line is: There are skilled people who have already had considerable success in reverse engineering
both nvidia cards and ATI cards, and the more they succeed, the less we will have to depend on ATI and nvidia
for drivers and the more documentation will be written for those chips.

In the long run, we will get our way (ie. good free drivers).

I am refering to the fact that while OpenBSD goes public, after many months of private correspondence, to pressure a hardware vendor to release hardware docs, the Linux crowd does not give any support. That crowd is happy with docs released under NDA (UltraSPARC III support, as an example). Hippocrites.

Linux crowd just sits on the sideline doing nothing

Ever heard of a "tainted" kernel? Ever hear of www.open-hardware.org (not to be confused with www.openhardware.org BLING!) Ever hear of http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhardware/?

Granted, the progress is slow. Many of these projects have been around for quite sometime, with little industry attention.

Personally, I believe that not allowing binary or closed drivers would be progress.

"If Linux expects broader vendor support, the community needs to capitulate to proprietary software involvement," said Raven Zachary, an analyst at The 451 Group.

"If vendors expects broader Linux support, they needs to capitulate to free software needs"

Check out http://vtun.sourceforge.net/. I know of at least one VoIP appliance company that uses vtun links to their home base for updates and managment.

so you can still have a chance to play it in (close to) the original format if you can find an import copy.

Oy, just download FCE Ultra, an open source NES/Famicom emulator, and play the actual original, as well as the original Doki Doki Panic.

You'll need to find the ROMs, of course (no, I don't have them - Why keep an illegal copy around when it only takes about 30 seconds to find and download any game ever created?), but that shouldn't present much pf a problem.

"Yahoo Bar" you say?

25 MB download for Mario 3?

If you're going to infringe copyright, do it properly.

1) Download an open-source NES emulator.

2) Download the Super Mario Brothers 3 ROM.

3) Enjoy. Those of you with an IPS patcher may wish to apply this for enhanced challenge/variety.

All of Mario 3 in under a meg, and no ad/spy/malware.

Gaim might be more useful...

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q1

Of course it will take someone with more time on their hands than this guy: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic .php?t=2365

We at the The Ur-Quan Masters project have set up a web page with some more information and a form to petition Toys For Bob from your browser.

We at the The Ur-Quan Masters project have set up a web page with some more information and a form to petition Toys For Bob from your browser.

In the ed2k world also more and more users begin to notice isp are throttling or blundly blocking users. As a developer one can only tell to the users to switch isp(vote with your wallet). One problem is that isp simply deny everything. An other problem is that in some countries there barely is an alternative. (Portugal, Chile)

Anyway to start I created a wiki page to document those isp's so users know what isp they should List_of_Bandwidth_throttling_ISPs wiki page

There are already 2 emule mods that support protocol obfuscations like utorrent/azareus but since encryption only works if both peers uses it this still is of limited use.

Anyway those mods are neomule and Sion emule

Try to avoid such isp if possible, or contact your local consumer body to take legal action.

This link has already been posted here, but it does not hurt to post it again:
Bad sip at azareus wiki

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If I might make a further suggestion... use http://www.newzbin.com/ which will give you NZB files that work with programs like http://ninan.sourceforge.net/ that make it easy to search and automatically download from NNTP.

I also use personally use http://www.giganews.com/ as my usenet provider since they have something like 70 days of binary retention.

Both the MediaWiki software as well as the database itself are freely available.

While it doesn't look for the closest peers, it does have support "High Speed LAN Transfers" which gives you unlimited bandwidth between peers on the same subnet. It's a start, anyway:

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/changelog.php?versi on=2.4.0.0

If you're serious about the auditing functionality, you need more than just sudo.

Doug Hanks, a SAGE member, started with sudosh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudosh/) and now has released Enterprise Audit Shell (EAS). There's a very basic web page and PDF at http://download.strchr.net/, as well as a nice graphic explaining how it works (http://download.strchr.net/eas-layout.png).

Copying from the text of the email announcement a few weeks ago, the list of improvements over Sudosh includes:

* Conforms to COBiT
* Utilized ITIL best practices
* Enterprise-view of UNIX access
* Enterprise-level audit reporting tools for Sarbanes-Oxley
* Customizable audit reports via CSS
* Embedded transactional, ACID-compliant SQL92 relational database
* Load balancing
* Disaster recovery
* SSL encryption
* SSL Public Key Infrastructure authentication
* Audit file transfers and remote command execution when used as a login shell
* Configurable default shels
* Audit logs are digitally signed for integrity
* Client and server configuration files for easy management
* Idle session timeout
* Display corporate policy before eash session

It looks like a serious auditing tool for serious Unix shops.

For simpler needs there's also Kerberos `ksu` as a replacement for sudo, for shops that have already solved their centralized authentication.

They helpfully suggest using it, as mac os x cannot natively write to an ntfs partition

I had to get some data off some old NTFS win2k hard drives laying around and all I had was my USB drive case and a mac. I found a source forg project that did the trick: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

Of course this was on my 10.2 computer a while back and according to the site it doesn't support newer 10.4 versions of OS X, but perhaps they can rememdy that someday.

http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ It's stable and it does everything a web calendar should do.

Toys for Bob haven't made games for PC's for a long time, even if a sequel would be made, what platform(s) would be able to run it?
I really hope that the sequel gats made, and also that it wouldn't be limited to just game consoles.
Star Control was fun, and Star Control 2 is one of the best games ever!
If you haven't tried it, do yourself a favor and go get it at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Posted anon to avoid karma whoring...
I highly recommend the open-source "Star Control Timewarp". It's awesome:

http://timewarp.sourceforge.net/

If you haven't played this classic game, then go to http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ . The 3DO version source was released under the GPL and the music and art is free to distribute with the source.

I, for one, welcome our new Ur-Quan Overlords. (ducks)

Have you actually read your link or do you know anything about what you're talking about ? It can be dowbnloaded from here.

You can compile the ppp_mppe module into your linux kernel. It's free and supported!

Details for gentoo linux are here:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-gentoo.pht ml

While the config is the same, the package management depends on which distro you use. If you get stuck, you can google "ppp_mppe howto your-favourite-distro", I'm sure you'll find more details. :-)

Mushy

My tentative suggestion -- given that I have no Apple computers and no experience with BootCamp -- would be to take the bootloader from ReactOS for its Win2k-like behaviour and stick it and grldr from the Grub4DOS in a primary-4 (as in fourth primary partition as the MBR looks at it) partition a couple of megabytes in size, then you have primary-2 and primary-3 and their extended partitions to use with your GNU/Linux installation. The Grub4DOS may need its Grub.exe and its stage-specific files updated to cope with EFI booting, and this may be the stumbing-block of the enterprise. Good luck!

You all may know that OpenSource isn't much loved by the ordinary users because of a range of reasons. The OSDL survey (http://www.osdl.org/dtl/DTL_Survey_Report_Nov2005 .pdf) shows that even the majority of the Linux users wish for Windows-Only applications. Novell's cool solution website (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16798 .html) proves that their users (customers) prefer Windows-Only applications. And the thread at LinuxQuestions.org (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthrea d.php?t=105955) gives more hints. To solve this I've a vision outlined in here (http://wyoguide.sf.net/papers/Cross-platform.html ).

Sure enough this vision can only become true if many of you choose to participate which of course means a lot of work for all of you. But exactly here comes the Google SoC into play it would allow to get your own project be converted to conform to the wyoGuide guidelines (http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/guidelines/conten t.html). So I encourage any project to apply for the Soc (http://code.google.com/soc/) to make it

• conformant to the guideline so any user may feel comfortable
• conformant in the code so any developer may feel comfortable
• conformant in spirit so the Ubuntu bug #1 (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1) gets finally tackled.

So don't fear to apply even if your project is just a small one since when your project is converted it most probably will attract more users and more developers, soon surpassing any project which doesn't care.

If you are just a user of a project make the developers aware of this. You might even check the guidelines yourself and help in testing. Or you might help in suggestions for corrections, etc. Tell it to your friends, your university stuff or anywhere else. Just make this vision become true and the first Top inhibitors of Linux desktop adoption gets finally solved.

O. Wyss

What will GOOG do to stop the same outright shambles this time round?

The page you linked to says nothing about outright shambles. He specifically says "I don't want this post to be seen as bashing either SoCcers or mentors". The page offers some excellent comments and suggestions for 2006, and I'm glad to see that Google is listening (Chris responded in the comments). Some of the suggestions are also meant for us mentors. The Nmap project is proud to have been invited to participate in SoC again for 2006, and we are looking forward to it!

You can call it "outright shambles" if you want, but all the emails I have from participants talking about how much they learned and enjoyed the program speak otherwise. And was it valuable to the Nmap project too? Take a look at their efforts and decide for yourself:

• Doug Hoyte nearly tripled the size of the version detection database, and added OS/device type/hostname detection using the version detection DB. He made numerous other improvements as well.
• Zhao Lei added more than 350 OS detection fingerprints to Nmap, bringing the total to 1684. He also helped design a 2nd generation OS detection (stack fingerprinting) system.
• Adriano Monteiro designed and implemented an advanced Nmap GUI and results viewer named UMIT (screenshots).
• Ole Morten Grodaas designed and implemented another advanced Nmap GUI and results viewer (its nice to have choices in open source!) named NmapGUI. Details and download here)
• Chris Gibson has written a sweet little network tool named Ncat, which takes the venerable Netcat in an interesting and extremely useful direction with features such as connection brokering, socks proxying, and much more.
• Paul Tarjan added the runtime interaction feature to Nmap. While Nmap is running, you can now press 'v' to increase verbosity, 'd' to increase the debugging level, 'p' to enable packet tracing, or the capital versions (V,D,P) to do the opposite. Any other key (such as enter) will print out a status message giving the estimated time until scan completion.

They did much more -- these are just some of the highlights. So I, for one, am looking forward to continuing these outright shambles again this year! But at the same time, there is always room for improvements . So I appreciate Gerv's constructive criticism.

-Fyodor

What will GOOG do to stop the same outright shambles this time round?

The page you linked to says nothing about outright shambles. He specifically says "I don't want this post to be seen as bashing either SoCcers or mentors". The page offers some excellent comments and suggestions for 2006, and I'm glad to see that Google is listening (Chris responded in the comments). Some of the suggestions are also meant for us mentors. The Nmap project is proud to have been invited to participate in SoC again for 2006, and we are looking forward to it!

You can call it "outright shambles" if you want, but all the emails I have from participants talking about how much they learned and enjoyed the program speak otherwise. And was it valuable to the Nmap project too? Take a look at their efforts and decide for yourself:

• Doug Hoyte nearly tripled the size of the version detection database, and added OS/device type/hostname detection using the version detection DB. He made numerous other improvements as well.
• Zhao Lei added more than 350 OS detection fingerprints to Nmap, bringing the total to 1684. He also helped design a 2nd generation OS detection (stack fingerprinting) system.
• Adriano Monteiro designed and implemented an advanced Nmap GUI and results viewer named UMIT (screenshots).
• Ole Morten Grodaas designed and implemented another advanced Nmap GUI and results viewer (its nice to have choices in open source!) named NmapGUI. Details and download here)
• Chris Gibson has written a sweet little network tool named Ncat, which takes the venerable Netcat in an interesting and extremely useful direction with features such as connection brokering, socks proxying, and much more.
• Paul Tarjan added the runtime interaction feature to Nmap. While Nmap is running, you can now press 'v' to increase verbosity, 'd' to increase the debugging level, 'p' to enable packet tracing, or the capital versions (V,D,P) to do the opposite. Any other key (such as enter) will print out a status message giving the estimated time until scan completion.

They did much more -- these are just some of the highlights. So I, for one, am looking forward to continuing these outright shambles again this year! But at the same time, there is always room for improvements . So I appreciate Gerv's constructive criticism.

-Fyodor

Voice/Video support for Gaim was one of the Summer of Code projects last year

No it wasn't. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/

While gaim has been working toward voice and video support, that's been up the the gaim-vv fork. Their work has been dumped back into the main 2.x.y development tree. The framework for voice and video is currently in the 2.0.0 betas, but it's not been enabled yet.

HTH

I realize that the program is called Summer of _Code_, but I think a lot of open source projects could benefit just as much from dedicated QA or documentation work. I mean, I've seen a lot more people complain about gaim's instability than its lack of a "music messaging" feature =P.

This is one of the nice things about Camino (as a Cocoa application, it gets access to OS X's builtin spellchecking), but it might not stack up will against the current build of Firefox in terms of other features. There is always spellbound. I've been using the development version (which works with Firefox 1.5) and I have found it to be excellent. It may be nicer to have built in spell checking but spellbound is a good alternative. (And it works on most OS's)

Anonymizer annouced plans to support Chinese citizens for free. With plans to change, dns, ip, etc. on a regular basis to avoid blocks. Who knows if it'll work. BoingBoing covered this the other day. There are probably many others, with good info available on FreeNet.

Seeing a lot of X10 bashing here and rightly so. It is what it is - cheap and full of quirks. I use it to 1. turn my porch lights on in the evening and 2. record motion events (e.g. front door, garage etc..) I use a hacked up version of the excellent X10Controller http://sourceforge.net/projects/x10controller/ I find it quite reliable w.r.t. the motion events, but less so w/ the porch lights (maybe works about 80% of the time).. was better until I installed a UPS. To improve the reliability I simply send multiple on events. The light will eventually go on, maybe not exactly at dusk. I bought the smarthome phase coupler (plugs into dryer outlet) and solved the 2 phase problem, for the most part. So in short you just have to accept the reliability issues decide if you can live w/ something that works most of the time, or shell out the cash for something better.

While I agree, I have to say [and I feel dirty by saying so] that I am glad that AOL is around for one simple reason: AOL Instant Messenger. Not because I have a particular liking for the program or protocol (I actually use GAIM [http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ but because EVERYONE in my age bracket uses it. Or as close to "everyone" as is reasonable to say -- at my university and every other where computers are prevalent... which is every university!

Though there are better things to use, AIM is so simple that non-tech savvy high school and college students can use it with ease, and its user base is massive. Even when I graduate and enter the workforce I suspect that people of my generation will continue to use it for as long as it is around, and it this role as a "universal" communication device that makes it so valuable.

We blocked MySpace a few weeks ago

Ditto for my shop. Websense tracks approx 2500 unique web surfers on our network. I could find no business-related reason for someone to access *.myspace.com from our network so it is now blocked by Websense. Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) graphs since then show that our Internet pipes are a little less busy during the day.

Good riddance!

Unfortunately, most Mac programs won't run without the nice fancy GUI around. :-/

That's not geekery, that's comedic nonsense.

Undecimber is a real month often used in the Lunar Calendar. You'll find it in many time keeping APIs such as java.util.Calendar and the International Components for Unicode. Anyone who's done even a cursory study of alternate calendars should know that.

*huff* More geekery, indeed!

Well I found this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/palm2ical/

Written in Java, I'll give it a go.

IM: Trillian (needs to be replaced with a Jabber client + aim/yahoo transport)
Been done. gAIM for Windows. Why not clutter up our 100% closed source, proprietary monolythic OS with all sorts of inferrior extensible, modulized open source apps? ;)

IRC: Chatzilla
Well, here's another cross-platform solution: XChat. It has a nifty tabbed based chat management system. Of course, if you want the true Windows/IRC experience, get mIRC, load it up with tons of scripts (both self-activating, and manually activated), and go running through the networks of the world. Just watch out for the UNICODE nasties (mIRC doesn't support UNICODE)

Firewall: Sygate (needs to be replaced)
I can't speak for Sygate, but ZoneAlarm is pretty good, in my opinion. (With exception to games) this is the only closed source recomendation I have here, but what Windows experience is complete without some closed-source freeware/shareware?

This fun game: Typing of the Dead
This one is definately worth a try. Quite fun! It's a little old, but worth it. Speaking of old and worth it, see if you can locate a copy of Commander Keen. It's not really Windows (DOS, actually), but I doubt you'd see it on a Mac.

Add to this the fact that most successful OSS software a) scratches an itch for the developer, b) will be used for years and c) is useful in a pre-finished state. Games, well, 0 for 3. I once got an assignment at work to do some genetic algorithm stuff and, having that as the context, made a Java framework to do the work in and GPLed the framework. But I'll never say "Dang, I really need to play My Dream Game". A project needs continuity in both users and developers or it will end up like the 99.9% of game projects on sourceforge that die before reaching pre-alpha. But its a catch-22, how do you hook in users to play the game (for development periods lasting months or years) before it has any fun gameplay? The most fun games, the ones that are fun enough for people to fork over money to play, typically are used and discarded in a matter of weeks! Then there is the completition feature. Think of Apache, Linux, or Mozilla a couple of years ago. Were they as feature-rich as they were today? No. But Apache gave you a functional web server, Linux was a functional OS, and Mozilla a functional browser. A 20% completed web server will serve web pages. A 20% complete game will *suck* (don't believe me? Spend an hour looking around sourceforge.). It probably won't even show the promise that will sucker folks in to stay the long haul getting it to 100%.

My first thought - will linux run on it? And it it seems so/

I'm a Linux user, more specifically a Window Maker user, who had to use Windows. Window Maker has a simlar interface, as I understand it, to Mac OS/X. Here are the apps that help me suffer through my daily Windows experience:

* Productivity (spreadsheet)
I stay away from Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice.org. It runs faster and preforms all the same tasks that I need to preform under Office.

* Graphics
As far as Windows goes, you can't go wrong with Photoshop. On linux I use the Gimp. For image viewing, I use gqview on both Linux and Windows (windows version: http://gqview-win.sourceforge.net/). Its fast and works well.

* Utilities (spam, anti-virus, FTP etc)
Spam identification should be done on the server side, but just in case MailWasher is awesome (http://www.mailwasher.net./ For antivirus, I use BitDefender. I'm old school, so WS_FTP is the only way to go.

* Games
Thats why I have Nintendo. Computers are my interface to the 'net and a tool. Don't do much gaming.

* Online enhancements (e.g. toolbars etc)
FireFox. There is no better browser period.

* Other
Coming from OS/X your going to want YzDock. The homepage is missing, but you can download it from numerous locations, just google for YzDock. It is, as you probably have guessed, an implimentation of the OS/X dock on Windows. There are other docks out there but this one works the best, at least for me.

Outside these apps, I use a number of utilities you may or may not be interested in as well. The quick utilities I use on every install can be found at http://arthur.jfmi.net/win/. WinRoll is used to shade windows. I find shading and not minimizing is far more productive. Cygwin.com is useful if your into the Unix interface. Cygwin provides a POSIX layer, X-server, Bash shell, and much much more. VNC is great for remotely managing desktops. VirtuaWin sets up virtual desktops. Tweakui is a great tool for ridding yourself of annoyances on Windows.

I hope this helps.

A tool, only in the derogatory sense of the word

And...

FileZilla.

Amazingly well-written OSS app that supports secure FTP via SSH2, which is actually pretty rare yet very useful. Go grab it.

(yes, I know it works on other platforms, but it works very nicely on Windows)