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1. EZTV RSS Feed
2. Azureus
3. RSS Feed Scanner plugin
4. VLC

You'll get every Jon and Steve episode, plus a lot of others. It's your TV. Own it.

1. EZTV RSS Feed
2. Azureus
3. RSS Feed Scanner plugin
4. VLC

You'll get every Jon and Steve episode, plus a lot of others. It's your TV. Own it.

Here's the source code to it. It's still possible to finish if you can generate enough interest in the idea.

Unfortunately, Crack dot Com was a victim of poor project planning, and Golgatha showed it. It was always one of those "cool ideas" that was never quite fleshed out into something playable. While larger companies can manage to survive such poor planning through deep pockets, it's the kiss of death for smaller ventures like Crack dot Com.

It's too bad that companies always feel such pressure to follow up one success with others even when they're not ready. Had CdC taken more time to develop the technology and concepts they wanted before plunging into a 30K/mo burn rate, they might have become a big player in the industry. :-(

It would be cool if Dell could make sure that dual boot people could reinstall windows in a differently sized partition, though -- if they could make sure that you get the installation CDs or whatever else you need to do that. I haven't really been following things, but I hear that some people get machines with ghost backups of windows instead of a real install CD. That sort of thing is a problem from a practical point of view for a linux guy who wants the ability to dual boot.

I am writing this running Gentoo on a Dell that came without any real install CD, as you describe. However, resizing the primary windows partition was easy enough using the GParted LiveCD (which works well even with NTFS partitions). The only thing that bugs me is that the install CD is replaced by "restore partitions" that occupy two of the primary partitions in the partition table.

The automagic part is a bit spooky when it comes to data shared among threads. If you have large reporting systems that share big data caches in the jvm, but that can process in multiple threads, doesn't this data have to get copied between all nodes needing it over the network? Seems like this could be a good solution for applications that are compute but not data intensive, and that don't require many shared resources.

We have one the biggest, most complicated java based web delivered applications on the internet, but our solution is to remove common state from the application processing machines-- they are stateless number crunchers. State (common data) is maintained in nodular cluster databases. Application load is easily distributed using load balancing in front of the application servers based on parameters like cpu and other resource load ( we use mod_athena from http://ath.sourceforge.net/ ). You can farm out to commodity systems this way.

Mark Wolgemuth, Production Architect
Employease, Inc. ( www.employease.com )

Check these out for decent technical graphics and voluminous data analysis:

http://labplot.sourceforge.net/

http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html

http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/

These are typically better than oocalc for more sophisticated analysis (labplot uses the very powerful GNU Scientific libs as backends). Also, better 3-D graphics using the qwt libraries.

Check these out for decent technical graphics and voluminous data analysis:

http://labplot.sourceforge.net/

http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html

http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/

These are typically better than oocalc for more sophisticated analysis (labplot uses the very powerful GNU Scientific libs as backends). Also, better 3-D graphics using the qwt libraries.

Check these out for decent technical graphics and voluminous data analysis:

http://labplot.sourceforge.net/

http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html

http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/

These are typically better than oocalc for more sophisticated analysis (labplot uses the very powerful GNU Scientific libs as backends). Also, better 3-D graphics using the qwt libraries.

Give Synergy a look.

And it's not like iTunes or Windows Media Player are any better. They're hogs, too.

Tried Media Player Classic, a simplified media player for Windows with the Windows Media Player backend and a WMP 6.x style frontend?

? "hello world"

My vote goes to CoolPlayer too, an excellent little player. You can get it from here: http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ It saved my bacon once, I needed a player on a NT 4 based dedicated audio logger, so no usb, no CD drive and no network. CoolPlayer was the only player I could find that would fit on a single floppy! Simple but effective, small and stable; if only more software was like that.

For some time, I have had a media box set up at home (behind the couch) running Azureus. Combine that with Hamachi, Firefox, the ConQuery extension and the WebUI plugin for Azureus, and I am a right click away from downloading any torrent I want whereever my laptop is. Tivo's got me beat though, because I can't do it from my phone (yet...).

On the other hand, I've got Tivo beat because I can do what I want with the media I get this way.

For some time, I have had a media box set up at home (behind the couch) running Azureus. Combine that with Hamachi, Firefox, the ConQuery extension and the WebUI plugin for Azureus, and I am a right click away from downloading any torrent I want whereever my laptop is. Tivo's got me beat though, because I can't do it from my phone (yet...).

On the other hand, I've got Tivo beat because I can do what I want with the media I get this way.

If you've got a Mac and want to play with making nice desktop applications, I can't recommend RubyCocoa enough. It's a Ruby/Objective-C bridge that allows you write Cocoa Mac applications in Ruby.

Never, ever, ever, ever start a beginner programmer with Java. The OOP features are guaranteed to confuse the poor soul and turn him/her off to programming forever. The best option is to start a new programmer off with a traditional BASIC variant such as SmallBASIC. Such BASICs can be used to teach a new programmer about how software executes one line after another (don't laugh, this is a big problem for new coders), control structures, and how the computer stores/interprets numbers and strings.

I only wish we still had command line interpreters around. It was so nice when beginners could execute their instructions directly OR add them to a program. It made playing around and learning so much quicker.

Once they graduate to more complex programming, something like C is a good choice to introduce concepts like functions, data structures, pointers, libaries, compilers, and linkers. Once they get to the point where they start prefixing every function with a module name, then its time to introduce them to OOP and Java. The Java stuff should make a lot of sense at that point. ("You mean I can group these functions... err... methods together, then store the data inside that grouping so that I don't have to pass a STRUCT around? Sold!")

The result of this education is that you'll have a well-rounded programmer who's ready to run out and attack any problem. New languages should be easy for him/her to grasp, and they should be looking to learn more computer science beyond just language constructs.

Let's stop referring to it as a programming language too, please.

I sympathise with your sentiments, but VB is a turing machine just like all the rest of them

Give Coolplayer a try. http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

For light users, I would recommend esmtp + fetchmail + mutt/thunderbird/evolution or simply esmtp + mutt. esmtp is so easy to configure with several lines of code and supports features like TLS. Neat and simple. Mutt supports mbox, pop3 and imap. Exchange is so bloated for personal use. And sorry, the nice things like esmtp are not available under Windows.

Linux Router Project

Which already tanked, but was an open source floppy disk firewall-router-telnet-ssh installation that could run on a 486 with a single floppy and 2 network cards.

The user community of LRP morphed into Leaf and continued on where LRP left off... Check out their sourceforge site.

PDF looks the same anywhere, is reasonably read-only (ie, you have to purposely edit a PDF, and know how to do it), and doesn't have all of your previous edits and other info embedded it the file like .doc does.

Well some people are working on it:
http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net/

Ah that last post is where you just proved you don't know what you are talking about. SSH was designed to be a secure protocol for a man in the middle attack. It does absolutely nothing to secure the server. Its not secure in the way you were using it above.

  To do what you want you use things like having SSH come in via restricted shell into a chrooted environment. Etc... But basically you shouldn't be running a Unix at all if you can avoid it, Unix isn't good with untrusted users who have reasonable access to the system.

Kodos is not yours to give...

Actually, Kodos is released under the GPL, so it *is* yours to give.
;-)

How does this compare with Linux Network Block Device? Sounds very similar.

There are pretty mature commercial tools for this stuff, as well - Veritas' VVR replication comes to mind.

any more than "Linux" or "Mac" are, and should not be written as if it were.

See the FAQ.

In fact it would be more like XINS, which is a framework that runs within a Java environment (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.) which also supports automatic load-balancing, fail-over, without losing requests, lossless re-initialization, etc. etc.

This would bring Python to a new level of professional server-side applications.

Funny. Sourceforge gives out SSH accounts to anyone and their dog.

Indeed. And every once in a while, Sourceforge gets hacked. And they have a trained staff of admins who attempt to very carefully lock down the systems and separate the user logins from the systems that run web services and code repositories. (Which is why you can't blow away your own code tree. You have to ask SF to do it.)

The only thing that's funny here (which isn't even funny) is that an inexperienced admin made his box 100% public without taking the standard precautions that every admin worth his salt would take. He blindly trusted that his Mac would be configured to do something it wasn't designed for, and he got burned. Well, DUH. I had a friend who's RedHat Linux box was remotely rooted several times without the attacker being given a shell account. Does that mean that Linux sucks at security?

You might want to investigate how the people writing Linux drivers for the Broadcom bcm43xx ( Airport Express ) went about it. One team sticking to write the specs, and a seperate one working from the specs into a working driver.

http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/progress

That is not how you spell Gaim
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q1

I started out using LyX like some of the other posters here, but I eventually just cut out the middle man and moved to plain LaTeX with vim as an editor. Get latex-suite for vim - it makes things a lot easier and faster. It took a little getting used to, but is now quite simple to use.

Sorry but http://vtcalendar.sourceforge.net/ is not even close to what Outlook has. This is the main selling point of Office - you schedule a meeting with other people, all of which come from Active Directory. You can see who is free and who is busy at the time, doing recurring meeting, yadda. Someone needs to write a decent Exchange clone (can't be hard - it's a large bucket of sh** powered by an access database). Once Open Office has this ability to integrate and share docs people might start considering it as an alternative. Also developer support too.

Does that version controle highlight changes in the document and allow you to create a table of changes?

Does it work when you not connected to the network filing system?

Can it be exported with the document so people in other companies can view the changes?

Does it intergrate well with email systems etc....

You could use webdav or CVS for versioning and some scripts to update the revision history in the document, they come a lot closer to allowing external edits, but they still don't cut it, especially when you want to look at changes in the document.

You could always write a plugin for reisterfs or use one of the FUSE versioning file systems, but then your stuck using linux or freebsd.

Does that version controle highlight changes in the document and allow you to create a table of changes?

Does it work when you not connected to the network filing system?

Can it be exported with the document so people in other companies can view the changes?

Does it intergrate well with email systems etc....

You could use webdav or CVS for versioning and some scripts to update the revision history in the document, they come a lot closer to allowing external edits, but they still don't cut it, especially when you want to look at changes in the document.

You could always write a plugin for reisterfs or use one of the FUSE versioning file systems, but then your stuck using linux or freebsd.

Maybe there's no step 3 in regards to instant messaging. With Jabber being open and being used more and more (Google Talk is a Jabber account), with tools such as Gaim (heck, even with iChat you can connect to all IM protocols), I fail to see how any corp could be making money out of instant messaging protocols...

GAIM allows you to write plugins in a variet of languages including python and C++ (and anything else that can link to dynamic libraries). Of course, I don't really see a massive need for IM plugins. All this announcement means is that we will see a million COM host AIM clients with crappy UIs.

To create fine presentations with LaTeX, try the "beamer" class. The package comes with great documentation. See http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

emerge latex-beamer
for all your presentation needs and keep enjoying the power of LaTeX
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

I don't know about the rest of the Office suite, but for Outlook, my experience is exactly the opposite. When you have a small to medium business all with computers on an active directory domain, it's nice that your email client can authenticate from your logon, and the shared calendar / contacts / etc are done nicely.

I mean, I use thunderbird, and I think office is way overpriced. But, for what it is, outlook 2003 is a pretty good business product. It's relatively secure (compared to past iterations), the shared calendar is easy to use (yes there are open source alternatives, but integration and ease of use are hard to match here), and with Small Business Server, the outlook web interface has a lot of Ajax and DHTML type features which make it look almost exactly like you're at your computer. It's very well executed.

~Will

And for those that do not believe me, I have:

Text processor
Spreadsheet
Presentation creator
Oh, and a great bibliography management system (nor MSOffice or OOo get close enough to this)

Oh, and it also has a sql mode to communicate with SQL databases, and lets not talk about its scripting capabilities! (VBA ppppffft).

You also have to take into consideration that Microsoft uses more buzzwords and advertisement tricks to play a psychology game on customers.

Speaking of bad OSS UI graphics, check out Fire for OS X http://fire.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

Most buttons are just silhouettes of men, as if that explains anything.

I have to agree, OOo is nothing short of butt-ugly on KDE. Huge buttons, ugly fonts, colors not matching your desktop settings, etc. But it's not always true that open source community can't provide eye candy.. Baghira anyone?

I am eagerly waiting for the day when I would be able to run kde natively on windows. That would be sweet:) cygwin port of kde is ok but rather slow. http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

Or you could use JSCTP, which is just as easy as openining two sockets.

This sounds somewhat similar to TIPC which we're using in some projects where I work. Like UDP it is message based, but it provides a reliable message transport. It also runs in the kernel as a protocol stack. It does have some differences, though. It is not based on a source and destination, but rather a publish/subscribe mechanism which sounds similar to the SCTP multi-homing support. With the publish/subscribe, one or more clients can indicate that they're interested in a certain service. When that service becomes available or disappears on the node, cluster, or network (depending on the scope of configuration) the client stack will automatically notify it.
It also has the concept of priority in it, so that messages may be prioritized.
Unlike SCTP, however, it does not run on top of IP but is its own protocol that runs directly over the wire, which means that it cannot be routed across an IP network. It is great as an internal embedded messaging protocol, but not as useful when a network is involved.
TIPC is also not connection oriented. There is no connection setup required to send messages much like UDP.

-Aaron

Desko. It's a Rails project I just recent started. There isn't much to show just yet but the plan is to create an open source online desktop that can integrate with other web apps like gmail and writely. I'm working on getting gmail integration first and then i want a taggable filesystem. http://sourceforge.net/projects/desko

There is a famous controversy, described here:

http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_docs/bnf.html

Some accuse this guy of bogarting the credit.

IPMI is very powerful. An IPMI session starts with a Presence ping Any machine with IPMI hardware should answer a "presence ping" on UDP port 663. This identifies an IPMI-capable machine, and returns some vendor info. Anyone can send this. This should work even if the machine is "turned off", as long as it has standby power and is on a LAN.

Then, there's a challenge-response authentication sequence. More on this later.

Once you're in, here are some of the things you can do:

• Power up the system. Power it down. Force a hard reset. Force a power cycle. Force a phony overtemperature condition (in hopes of getting a clean OS shutdown.).
• Disable front panel controls (power off, reset, and standby buttons.) Yes, that's really in the protocol. See section 28.6 of the specification. Remote control can also lock out the keyboard and blank the screen.
• Set system boot options Or, what OS do we want to run today? These include useful tools like "bypass user password".

There's more. Much more. Basically, you can remotely take over the machine, turn it on, inventory the hardware, load an operating system, boot it up, and talk to it.

IPMI's back channel can do more than this. With some help from the operating system (and yes, it's supported in Windows) you can do more remote administration functions. This is great for administering your data center remotely. But it has darker implications.

Supposedly, most machines are shipped with IPMI mostly turned off, unavailable until a program is run on the machine to load in the keys that enable it. Supposedly.

Thus, all it takes for IPMI to be a "backdoor" is for a set of secret challenge/response keys to be preloaded into the IPMI chip. There's no way to read those keys. Short of taking the chip apart, gate by gate, there's no way to tell if there's a backdoor in there. Or a set of keys might be loaded by the system integrator before shipping the system. You can't tell. So that's where to put a backdoor, where no one can find it.

There's an open source, OpenIPMI, for sending IPMI commands on Sourceforge. Send "Presence pings" to the machines you have and see if they answer.

:) or even better use asterisk@home and it's only a single line change to set your outgoing caller id (eg. all my lines have the same caller id even though I use 3 different services to make the calls) http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Dean