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so far Red Hat has the market since it was the first on the scene as a legit business. It is attacking the right industries (Financials and Gov't-i.e. DoD)

Yes, please.

I have been doing some work for a few mortgage companies recently and their reliance on IE and the windows platform is *very* ingrained.

We need an OSS competitor to Point and get the .asp extension off of the servers in this industry ASAP. Choosing the right CRM project to base this on would be a good start.

Phone systems and Auto-Dialers are big in this industry also. I have been submitting patches to Vicidial which is part of Astguiclient which works with Asterisk.

There is a lot of money to be made in the IT side of this industry, let's get OSS into it next.

Anyone interested, please contact me. I'm not in a position to employ anyone, but am interested in collaboration.

Not to mention hiring on gaim's main developer, Sean, as he posted here http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ on October 12.

Great that Google finally decided to make it available on mobile platforms - but I much prefer the http://gmobile.sourceforge.net/ project.

This is a great article from the standpoint that it gets people thinking about standards compliance and web pages that validate. However, if you actually want your web pages to be correctly renderable on many browsers, you need to be able to send different markup based on the target browser. This is particularly painful for mobile phone browsers, where the specs supported are all over the map. The phone/browser manufacturer may claim XHTML-MP 1.0 compliance, but only support a subset of the actual spec.
In order to make our site compatible with as many mobile phone browsers as possible (I work for 4INFO), we use the WURFL Wall JSP tag library. This matches the browser user-agent, against a database of known devices and capabilities, and renders the appropriate markup. Only after extending that library and updating its device database have wee been able to get our WAP site to render on most mobile phone browsers.

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR

https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3 481994

Of course, you cut off right before I said if one wants simplicity, to just wait and let someone else package it for you. For the geek, like the original poster was, it is simple. For the uninitiated, it's best to just wait until their distro packages it, due to the reasons I gave. The original poster implied a knowledge of shell, so I provided a way for him to do the install in a fairly straightforward manner. If he gave the impression of being less shell-inclined, I'd have said it's best to just wait until the release version. The Gaim team is really good about providing binaries for popular Linux distros.

From http://gaim.sourceforge.net/:

On a related note, the gaim-vv project--which aimed to offer a framework for voice and video support in Gaim--is being merged back into Gaim proper for hopeful incorporation into Gaim 2.0.0. This will be used to support Google Talk's voice as well as MSN and Yahoo! webcams.

Some binary RPMs just showed up on the download page. They weren't there last night when the beta first became available. Looks like they have them for Redhat9 through Fedora4. Sadly, they don't have any Debs up there for Debian/Ubuntu...

I just downloaded and compiled the beta, but I was a little disappointed. Wasn't this version was supposed to have some support for Google Talk? At least, that's the impression I got from this post .

A couple things, if you can't find where to get the windows version (the windows port page hasn't been updated yet) it's here (with GTK)or here (without GTK)

Second, if you want bigger text for everything since the default is fairly small, make sure you install No Theme (or anything BUT the WIMP theme) and then goto your C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0 folder and edit the gtkrc file with notepad or something and change the one line from sans 8 to say, sans 10

There's a few more things I like to do to mine but it's all personal, I thought I'd throw out those two things though.

A couple things, if you can't find where to get the windows version (the windows port page hasn't been updated yet) it's here (with GTK)or here (without GTK)

Second, if you want bigger text for everything since the default is fairly small, make sure you install No Theme (or anything BUT the WIMP theme) and then goto your C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0 folder and edit the gtkrc file with notepad or something and change the one line from sans 8 to say, sans 10

There's a few more things I like to do to mine but it's all personal, I thought I'd throw out those two things though.

Here is the changelog.

Posted anony to avoid karma whoring.

gaim-vv is being merged back into the trunk, so at some point, 2.x should have video support as well.

To me, it seems like their stance on not encrypting passwords is a backwards. Having a non-encrypted passwords policy does not make sense to me, as it leaves things wide open.

Commodore brand purchased by US company

Looks like they're now being described a Dutch company with an American branch.

Meantime, the 30-in-1 C64 joystick built by an amazing C64 developer to be hackable to allow keyboard and disk drive hookup is still $30 or $26/ea for two, thank-you-very-much. And it looks like there's a new version to be released soon too!

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddUsbWebcam

Hack an NSLU2 with Linux ($70-$80).
Webcam with OV511 (varies.. $20-$50). http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/index.ph p

You can use the very same NSLU2 with other possibilities too (e.g. x10 control).

Hope this helps

By then the average desktop will be powerful enough to handle this smoothly. 3D Desktop. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

Thats a pretty vague question, and you didn't provide enough information to really answer it right, but here's some recommendations.

Assuming you have managed switches, collecting per-port data with SNMP is a great first start. I think Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/ is a great system for collecting this data, but I prefer Drraw (http://web.taranis.org/drraw) for graphing the data. For an example of the power available by combining these two tools, see http://stats.net.cmu.edu/

Once you've got that, install Net-SNMP's snmpd on your host and collect & graph interface stats for your unix servers as well. If you don't have managed switches this may be good enough on its own. You can also graph load average, memory usage, etc.

For actually analyzing your network traffic I suggest Argus, http://www.qosient.com/argus. It's a network traffic auditing tool, think of it as tcpdump for flows instead of packets, or as netflow on crack. You can easily record complete flow statistics for your entire network for later perusal. All you need is a network topology that allows you to sniff most/all of the traffic. A span port on a switch is usually sufficient. If you've already got a snort server and it has enough processing capacity you can just run argus on the same host.

Speaking of which, if you don't have a snort server you probably want one. Nessus as well.

For monitoring/alerting I recommend Mon (http://www.kernel.org/software/mon), but then I'm biased.

And once you've tracked down what machine(s) are causing the problem, do you have records of which machines belong to which users? (Insert plug here for CMU's NetReg system for management of DNS and DHCP, which provides that. (http://www.net.cmu.edu/netreg) I'm biased on this one as well...)

Oh, and my money would be on poorly timed overlapping network backups, saturating a switch uplink. Just a guess...

There already is a program with the same name. I use it, and it is the default in many Linuxes http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

We already have that.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

It's not even Google or AOL related. :)

And no, i'm not a microsoft fanboy, i've been using Linux since 97 and I really like it where it shines. But if you have even a little objectivity you can't say the stuff they're putting here is not interesting...

That's ok.

It's just that as a real linux user you can appreciate the open source, the free price, the helpful documentation, forums and HOWTOs, the solutions tailored for experienced users, thin clients for for almost nothing compared to Windows Terminal Server, uber-cool backup solutions (BackupPC)

Don't take me wrong. I use XP at work and home, and Linux where it has merit, a volunteer organisation. It's just that you giving a vaporware-list, just doesn't make me want Vista anymore than I want to reinstall from Windows XP AGAIN.. How about waiting for a real product?

uhhhh Gaim is already here: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

or http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/

1. I don't need everything ripped immediately (practice patience)
2. I used none of my primary time - wasn't a priority.

Has anyone sold a laptop on Ebay? I've sold two used, working laptops on Ebay and had what I would call inordinate interest from Eastern Europe and Hong Kong. I received multiple emails from different buyers asking if I would ship internationally. I said no because my gut was telling me something was wrong here.

What I think is there were one of two things going on:

1. They're buying used laptops and recovering data on them to steal bank account numbers, passwords, etc.
2. They're buying them with someone else's Paypal account or some other money that's not theirs.

I wipe machines using Boot and Nuke but still it creeped me out.

Moving metadata with the media shift is the real trick though, eh?

Not really. FLAC's metadata is nearly trivial to extract. With the aid of FLAC's format page and Python's "struct" module, I was pulling out the Vorbis comments in about in an hour. From there, it's a simple matter to add those tags to LAME's arguments when piping from FLAC to LAME for the transcoding.

I'm currently evaluating Python IDEs at the moment myself, starting with Wing IDE Professional, and while I don't have any conclusions yet, I can list what the current state of the market looks like.

Black Adder, has a "GUI designer with all the features of Qt Designer and generates Python and Ruby code." I can't seem to find pricing information on their website at the moment; I'm guessing the "Cannot connect to database server error" text is where an add-to-cart button is supposed to be. Their license is proprietary and the product is not free for redistribution, but source code is included.

SPE - Stani's Python Editor features the wxGlade GUI designer as a plugin. Open source, GPL license.

Komodo Professional (US$295) has a GUI builder that uses Tkinter. (There's a $29.95 "Personal" edition, but that lacks the GUI builder and is restricted to non-commercial use, where "non-commercial use is defined as tasks for which you are not paid. If you are using Komodo as part of your job, you must purchase Komodo Professional.")

One can also combine using Qt Designer (licensed together with Qt; both GPL and proprietary license options available) with one of the above or with Wing IDE Professional (US$179) or PyDev (Eclipse Public License) which both look promising. Wing IDE Professional includes source code, though like Komodo, it is not free to distribute. (There's also a $30 Wing IDE Personal edition, but it's missing a number of key features from Professional that I would think just about any Python programmer would want, even for hobby use, so I don't really consider it an option. It also has a "non-commercial use" restriction, like Komodo.)

This should be possible using 4 LCD panels and a virtual desktop, if you have issues with getting 4 VGA cards in to a box then you could us something like DMX and a couple or dual-headed machines. The biggest issue (apart from the size) is aligning the images; this can be done with careful projector placement or - if your feeling particularly adventurous - you could project the smaller converging images onto a mirror before they are magnified. This would mean that you only need to do the adjustment at build time (and occasionally; as parts tend to shift) however any mistakes you make will be magnified. The upside is that it will be easier to create the 4 images as one continuous image. Not tried this myself, would be interesting to hear from anyone thats attempted anything similar.

The main Gaim developer was hired by Google and given the low-down on the Jingle project some time ago, and it'll be added to the Gaim-vv system that's apparently coming in Gaim 2.0.

Yeah... The BETA is out tomorrow. It's called "Gaim-vv"

If only someone would code this idea.

Boa Constructor http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/

Are there other editors that can put comments in a different font?

UltraEdit lets you put comments in italics (as well as choice of color, etc-- all the usual syntax highlighting). Not sure if that is what you mean though. It is a text editor, so the actual font can't be controlled from within the file.

Still, anyone who's thinking about checking out Notepad++ should think about taking a look at UltraEdit. It's got a nice set of tools and is reasonably extensible (macros and templates). I began using it about 10 years ago, and have done quite a bit of web development and a few Perl based projects with it.

Another one that I've been looking at lately is Programmer's Notepad. It is not as strong as UE in some ways (more limited in regular expression replacements, for instance), but it is FOSS, which would be more compatible with a teaching project I'm thinking about. (The Portland FOSSL: a Free and Open Source Software Laboratory. Intent is to start developing an office workforce that is competent in OOo, Firebird, Tbird, etc... and also provide local businesses with an opportunity to explore the feasibility of going to FOSS products.)

UltraEdit
Programmer's Notepad
Notepad++

Does this certification actually mean anything, or is this just yet another Microsoft maneuver to be able to a government/corporate entity "See, we meet specification XXX that you demand software that you use have."

Microsoft did this with POSIX support for Windows NT; NT's Posix is next-to-useless (they don't have fork(), for example) but Microsoft got it so that they could tell the relevant people "See, NT is posix-aware."

Another example: Internet Explorer for Solaris. Probably one of the most horrible browsers out there; Microsoft only did it so companies that said "We standardize on one browser for all users" could standardize on IE. Microsoft had no real intention of supporting Solaris.

In fact, I will go so far to say that Microsoft's proposed "open document format" doesn't exist because Microsoft has any intention of opening up their format, but so that Microsoft can meet Massachusetts' requirement to have an "open" format. This is why Massachusetts should continue to tell Microsoft that they will not use Office Vista until it supports the Open Document standard.

So this doesn't sound like a typical anti-Microsoft post, I will say that Microsoft products are far easier to learn than the Linux equivalents, and that Microsoft made some beautiful fonts the blow away anything for Linux.

Semi-OT, but Eclipse also has a plugin to support Ruby development and many other languages (overview).

Cdex : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos

for windows systems, it's all you need. otherwise:
#!/bin/bash
cdparanoia -B;
for files in *.wav; do lame -b $files; done;
rm *.wav;
easytag &
done

Indeed, there have been countless iterations of different UIs throughout the history of graphical computing. Linux alone has dozens of disparate DEs and WMs. Fluxbox, FVWM, Window Maker, Enlightenment DR16, XFCE, KDE, and Gnome are among the most popular and most current and stable examples. Keep in mind, of course, that the 'nix desktop is experiencing a huge evolution right now, with projects such as ToPaZ (storyboard) and Luminocity, Appeal with Plasma, SymphonyOS' Mezzo desktop, and Enlightenment DR17.

Indeed, there have been countless iterations of different UIs throughout the history of graphical computing. Linux alone has dozens of disparate DEs and WMs. Fluxbox, FVWM, Window Maker, Enlightenment DR16, XFCE, KDE, and Gnome are among the most popular and most current and stable examples. Keep in mind, of course, that the 'nix desktop is experiencing a huge evolution right now, with projects such as ToPaZ (storyboard) and Luminocity, Appeal with Plasma, SymphonyOS' Mezzo desktop, and Enlightenment DR17.

Have you ever tried PyObjC? XCode already has language files for python (IIRC), and PyObjC exposes the entire Cocoa/Carbon libs via an Objective C bridge.

MythstreamTV ( Link )already broadcasts recorded programs from mythtv (linux/qt based PVR software) over the internet. It is basically a PHP front end for a couple of shell scripts that control VLC that you have to compile specifically for this purpose. I am currently assisting with making a rich client/AJAX implementation of the interface as it was very basic. The people developing the rest of the package are working on adding features like streaming live television with the ability to change channels using the VLC PVR module. Its a pain to get MythstreamTV to work on most linux boxes as compiling VLC and FFMPEG from source is required and is not exactly cake, but getting something like Knoppmyth takes the pain out of it. -Rich

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyeclipse

There's certainly one for Ruby so I'm guess Perl and Python shouldn't be far behind.

... or use notepad++, which kicks ass.

If you want plugins for a big heavy IDE for Perl and Python then Eclipse still works just fine. For Perl there's EPIC, and for Python there's PyDev. Both are reasonably mature, quite featureful, and generally pleasant to work with.

The only reason to be using vi/Notepad/whatever is if you are wanting to stay away from big heavy IDEs. That's not to say that isn't a perfectly sensible reason, just that the existence or not of VisualPerl and VisualPython really doesn't have a lot to do with it.

Jedidiah.

If you want plugins for a big heavy IDE for Perl and Python then Eclipse still works just fine. For Perl there's EPIC, and for Python there's PyDev. Both are reasonably mature, quite featureful, and generally pleasant to work with.

The only reason to be using vi/Notepad/whatever is if you are wanting to stay away from big heavy IDEs. That's not to say that isn't a perfectly sensible reason, just that the existence or not of VisualPerl and VisualPython really doesn't have a lot to do with it.

Jedidiah.

Try Hours for Palm: http://hours.sourceforge.net/ .

Can you imagine the nightmare of trying to install a standard operating system on 1,000,000 random previously-junked laptops? Or providing any kind of support? Or spare parts?

I think those donated laptops are probably better utilized in smaller-scale scenarios like a drop-in centre. Take a look at what these guys have done in creating a standard Debian-based distro for use on marginal hardware. (It's a very impressive project, proves what kind of talent exists in the K/W area)

There's poverty close to home, too, and close to home in the developed world is probably a better place to use this kind of hardware, where there are lots of geeks close by to lend a hand.

No. Look at the screenshot of the modded Konqueror for example: http://baghira.sourceforge.net/pix/finder.jpg.

I agree as a Mac OS X user myself that it's a fairly spectacular translation of how the widgets look. But there's so much more to UI than how the widgets look. It's about how it feels and how it works. It's about making the sidebar automatically downsize the icons, making sure as many items as possible can fit before it puts a scroll bar in there. It's about having that question mark in the title look like a button, similarly to the other buttons in there (this is just a general style rule - Mac OS X's help button never appears as a title bar widget). It's also about leaving out the pinstripe background from the icon view, because it never ever appears outside of the window chrome itself - you wouldn't normally have "window gray" in there, would you?

Aqua in Mac OS X isn't a skin, it's the whole UI. There are exactly two (official) skins (called appearances) in Mac OS X - Graphite and Blue, which change the title bar widgets, the Apple menu and the Spotlight icon to be gray or in color. I can appreciate the effort put into this kind of stuff, but for all intents and purposes, you're certainly not getting "Aqua". You're getting something that vaguely looks like the "Blue" appearance, and a Konqueror sidebar that looks like the Finder sidebar, and that's a world of difference.

Sillaj : A PHP/MySQL application to track time on projects and tasks. No billing though.

Freenet: Version 0.7 of Freenet aims to create a scalable darknet, where users only connect directly to other users they know and (at least marginally) trust. The core innovation in Freenet 0.7 will be to allow a globally scalable darknet, capable of supporting millions of users. (DEFCON 13 presentation by Ian Clarke and Oskar Sandberg)

Tor: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.