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I didn't realise that.

Could you point me at the NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) equivalent for Linux please? I'd love to have all my C# (Mono) applications run using a single installer under Linux.

David

We don't actually use Asterisk built-in ACD/queues features. We wroteour own and released them as GPL http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/vicidial.html. We have stats out the wazoo, everything the agent does is logged on every call to a database, we can analyze time per call, wrapup time, customer wait time and many other reports as part of our VICIDIAL system.

I saw that a new feature of 1.5 was improved updating of extensions. I assumed I wouldn't have to manually update extensions anymore. Oh well, I should have double checked first. Thanks for the heads up on FLST and add bookmark here. I was able to manually install these.

I was also able to manually install permit cookies, but the toolbar icon is now gone and has inexplicably moved down to the status bar.

Here is my reasons for using both. Permit cookies and Cookie toggle work together as a nice team. I turn off all cookies with the exception of a white list of sites that are allowed. Permit Cookies allows me to manage this easily. I use Cookie toggle to temporarily disable this behavior by turning all cookies on. This is nice when I want to allow some new site to set cookies so I can see what I need to white list for the site to work (some sites set off site cookies that you need to allow). Turning cookies on is also nice when my wife wants to surf without bothering with cookie permissions. I clean these up with permit cookies when I get back on.

I didn't notice that ff1.5 can now bookmark all (ctrl-shft-D). Awesome!

securepasswordgenerator is somewhat redundant but it has more options for generating passwords than roboform.

I already use customizegoogle and I'll try using those options.

I was able to manually install StumbleUpon.

Also noticed that SpellBound 0.7.3 was broken by the upgrade. I had to reinstall to get it working.

All in all, this upgrade was the worse FF upgrade I've experienced yet. 19 extensions didn't update automatically but I was able to manually install 5. I still have 14 extensions that aren't working.

The Asterisk@Home project is part of the way there. It's a prepackaged Asterisk distribution based on CentOS.

The poster didn't mention how many phones/lines they need, but if they need to they can use VoIP internally (for unlimited internal phones), and just hook up T1s from the POTS for as many voice lines as they need (if they are worried about the voice quality/potential unreliability of VoIP providers). Digium has Quad-span T1 cards with onboard echo cancellation, so it should scale to the number of lines that are needed.

last three years. We now have over 250 phones installed at 4 locations(including a call center). We started switching to Asterisk three years ago and grew the system to the point where everythign is Asterisk and we do all inter-office calls over VOIP(IAX trunks). The cost savings in licensing costs alone more than justifies 2 full-time IT staffers salaries.

If you have some time to get comfortable with it, you will be very happy with the control you have over the system and the tremendous choice in phone hardware you can use with Asterisk. And if your company is anything like ours, they will love the cost savings.

Here's a link to a case study presentation I gave at Astricon 2005 last month:
http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/astricon_2005/ Florell_astricon_2005.html

asterisk . try asterisk@home for a quick install/demo of asterisk's power

Stop whining. This is a problem with very few websites (e.g sf.net patch list). Just install MiddleMan (http://middle-man.sourceforge.net/) or Proxomitron (http://proxomitron.info/files/index.html) to modify the culprit headers on the fly (I am sure you have a clue what to modify from the replies). Firefox does exactly what a standard compliant browser should do, don't complain about standards.

The State Board of Elections has told potential suppliers to provide code for all available software and explain why some is unavailable. That's not enough of an assurance for Diebold, which remains concerned about breaking a law...

The problem is, it looks like Diebold cannot follow the letter of the law, because they use Windows (and possibly other third-party proprietary code). The State Board of Elections is implying that this won't be a problem, but the law itself isn't entirely clear, and a judge could easily disagree with the Board of Elections.

Sounds to me like input from the state legislature is needed. Did they intend to ban any voting machines that use proprietary third-party software such as Windows, or did they intend to only require the source code and list of programmers for Diebold's own additions? If the law as written doesn't make this clear, then the law should be modified for clarity.

The law requires a list of programmers, as well as the source code. Can you come up with a list of everyone who has ever contributed code to a Linux distribution such as RHEL? Maybe, but it wouldn't be a lot of fun.

Of course, if they clarify that proprietary third-party code is OK, what's to stop Diebold from forming a subsidiary to create proprietary code and licensing it back to Diebold, so Diebold can claim the whole thing is licensed from third parties and therefore not subject to the requirements of this law? I'd be happy to see North Carolina require completely open source software on all electronic voting machines used in the state, and other states follow suit.

Someone mentioned konqi as a viable alternative now for ff ... indeed, konqi has been an excellent browser in the 3.4.x series already: easy on resources, and fast as hell. But to become a real competitor, it needs to be ported to windows. With QT4, that would probably happen. What we really need is lightweight, feature rich and modern Office competitor, and koffice could become one. It is already being ported to qt4 and windows (I saw a demo of kexi on windows). Karbon and Krita received a lot of attention lately, and it shows. Krita is beginning to replace GIMP for me here: it has a very nice and usable UI, lots of features (excellent layer control). Karbon has come a long way as well - it is not yet a viable replacement for Inkscape, but it's getting there. Now only if the rest of the office suite received the same amount of attention ... I know, I know: developers, developers, developers :))

Another nice app is Scribus! It is the best free desktop publishing application, and it is relatively easy to use. It is also needs more marketing I think - there is simply no free software alternative for scribus, yet I haven't heard about it until a month ago. After installing it I was absolutely surprised at its quality!

Is it sufficient for HDTV? I had a Mac Mini before, and was so upset by its speed (for the price) that I sold it. I had used it for graphics for a while, before that frustrated me so much that I put it in the living room to play my XviD DVD backups on my TV (via Apple's DVI->s-video adapter). I was using MPlayerOSX, and got skipped frames rather often - not to mention that I could never quite get the refresh just right with the Mini on my TV, so I'd get visible tearing.

I know it's probably the operating system colliding with drive bandwidth limitations more than anything else. It could also be a software issue - maybe MPlayerOSX isn't the best player to use. But whatever the case, its low ceiling for the $600 I paid for it was not satisfactory. Now I use a similarly priced PC with twice the hard drive (7200 RPM one at that) and RAM in a Shuttle case running an Athlon XP 2000+, a Hauppage PVR-250, and Ubuntu+MythTV. Not as pretty on the outside (though SFFs certainly ain't no beige boxes), but it flies in comparison, and plays my XviD and Vorbis collections just fine. Worth noting that I wasn't doing TV on my Mini, as EyeTV is another $300+; so I can't speak to the performance of TV on Mini (much less, HDTV). But I'd assume that if I had problems playing MPEG-4, pausing/recording live TV can't be much better.

On the other end of the spectrum, my girlfriend has a dual 2GHz G5 tower (enormously discounted as a bonus from work, for working so much damn overtime) which sits in our bedroom, and runs OS X as it was meant to be run. :) Probably down the road, I'll gift her (me) with an EyeTV and give it a good head-to-head with my Myth setup (ignoring price for a while).

You can also search sourceforge.net for audioscrobbler http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=audioscrobble r

Okay, I'm not familiar with all the extensions available for FF. However, the last one can be handled with a filtering proxy of some sort. As mentioned elsewhere you can "F12 u ctrl-R" in Opera to en/dis-able the plugins as well.

While everyone has their own tastes, Opera suits me fine. The only drawback it had for me is the lack of an ftp upload tool, but there are actually ftp clients, so I'm told ;-)

an open source version of Missle Command in their system?

I believe Red Light Linux would include gnaughty as a core app.

you don't have to flash the tsop anymore... a year ago softmods became stable enough to boot from (in fact an xbox v1.6+ doesn't allow a tsop flash anymore)

nowadays they even support more features than an ordinary modchip (virtual c drive, virtual eeprom, mounting of dvd images, etc...)

your idea of using a mythv server and xbox clients is excellent though!

too bad i don't really have the expertise to set up a mythv server in a reasonable amount of time... maybe i'll take a look at Mediaportal.

You ever try K-Meleon? I use it daily and it's starting to pick up activity again. I expect an official version should be out within a month or two with the updated GRE. Although it doesn't have direct support for extensions, most of the time, the guys in the forums can manage to get them to work. It's very fast, very stable.
Give it a try and if you don't like it, oh well.. at least you can say you tried it.

Brian

If you're a linux user, check out ixbiff:

http://ixbiff.sourceforge.net/

It maps keyboard LEDS to mail directories.

Pretty handy, at least if you use your scroll-lock LED to check on your scroll lock status as often as I do.

Try K-Meleon, it is Gecko-based but lacks most of FF's faults.

Galeon recently released v 2.0. Considering that most /. users claim to hate windows and love linux, it saddens me that such a feature rich browser gets completely ignored.

Loads of Linux links:
http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/

courtesy of some folks in my LUG

I use a set of python scripts developed to integrate XBMC with my myth backend

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/

These are pretty much like having a xbox optimized mythtv frontend. I was booting into linux to run mythtv for a while, but couldn't stand the 5min boot. I've been using this alternative for over a year and it has had a very high WAF. :)

I can't tell you the last time I used the xbox to play a game. I use it as PVR frontend on a daily basis.

try this:
http://enlightenment.sourceforge.net/

Blueflops, 2 floppies, that's it, net connection, graphical web browsing, irc, etc. Outstanding, I run it on an old toshiba lappy with 16 megs ram and a floppy drive.

Austrumi 50 megs of coolness and no more. It does need more RAM though than a lot of other small distros, 128, but it loads into the RAM then, spits the CD back out freeing up the optical drive, and is wicked fast.

For under 100mhz, try something like blueflops. I have it running pretty nippily on a 33mhz laptop.

You're correct that native Linux support for WiFi NICs is limited, but fortunately, you don't need native support if the laptop is ix86. ndiswrapper will allow your Linux kernel to use a Windows driver for virtually any NIC you care to name. I use it myself for a card with a Broadcom chipset, works like a charm.

You're correct that native Linux support for WiFi NICs is limited, but fortunately, you don't need native support if the laptop is ix86. ndiswrapper will allow your Linux kernel to use a Windows driver for virtually any NIC you care to name. I use it myself for a card with a Broadcom chipset, works like a charm.

This is code copied from the C source. Most of the source code files say ".java" in their filename, but I hope that no JAVA developer from the 21th century writes code this way.

The effort should be saluted, but the time spent really is not worth the effort.

Atlas is open-source and is a pretty good alternative. It is only a few percent slower than libgoto in most cases.

I use libtrash, it is a very good trash implementation at the system call level, so, it works with any terminal you want it to.

Also, if you decide to use it, I sugest taking a look at Cleartrash, that you can use manually to clear the trash or put at your crontab to remove the files after they are kept at the trash for a while.

Oh you mean like SDL?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdljava/

BTW, you can program the RCX in a C dialect: Not Quite C (NQC). Or you could reprogram the RCX with BrickOS operating system and code in straight C/C++

BTW, you can program the RCX in a C dialect: Not Quite C (NQC). Or you could reprogram the RCX with BrickOS operating system and code in straight C/C++

Mindstorm is a perfect example of the problem. They had a $200 set, and once you bought it, there wasn't any hook to make you buy more. So no one did. It didn't matter that they made huge profit on that $200 set that would have probably been more like $20 to create. If you aren't continuing to buy, then they failed.

Look, this is arrant nonsense. I was 45 when Mindstorms first came out, and I don't have any kids. I was one of the first purchasers, and from what I've read 50% or more of all Mindstorms sets sold have been sold for use by adults - people who simply would not have bought other LEGO products. Furthermore, since I bought my Mindstorms set, I've bought masses of other Technic LEGO, and other stuff like rotation sensors, additional light sensors, additional motors, and so on.

LEGO could develop a whole new audience with Mindstorms. They'd need to get rid of the awful firmware it comes with and bundle instead some of the many enthusiast-developed alternative firmwares (e.g. TinyVM, BrickOS, pbForth). It would be nice also to have a USB or serial port, to make interfacing things like GPS systems easier. A more powerful processor and more memory would be great. But there is a big adult audience out there for mindstorms - people who want to tinker with robotics - and that audience has far more money to spend than kids have.

LEGO are missing a trick here. They need to rebrand Mindstorms as an adult focussed product, add more compute power, and raise the price. They'd have a run away winner.

Mindstorm is a perfect example of the problem. They had a $200 set, and once you bought it, there wasn't any hook to make you buy more. So no one did. It didn't matter that they made huge profit on that $200 set that would have probably been more like $20 to create. If you aren't continuing to buy, then they failed.

Look, this is arrant nonsense. I was 45 when Mindstorms first came out, and I don't have any kids. I was one of the first purchasers, and from what I've read 50% or more of all Mindstorms sets sold have been sold for use by adults - people who simply would not have bought other LEGO products. Furthermore, since I bought my Mindstorms set, I've bought masses of other Technic LEGO, and other stuff like rotation sensors, additional light sensors, additional motors, and so on.

LEGO could develop a whole new audience with Mindstorms. They'd need to get rid of the awful firmware it comes with and bundle instead some of the many enthusiast-developed alternative firmwares (e.g. TinyVM, BrickOS, pbForth). It would be nice also to have a USB or serial port, to make interfacing things like GPS systems easier. A more powerful processor and more memory would be great. But there is a big adult audience out there for mindstorms - people who want to tinker with robotics - and that audience has far more money to spend than kids have.

LEGO are missing a trick here. They need to rebrand Mindstorms as an adult focussed product, add more compute power, and raise the price. They'd have a run away winner.

If you want to save screen estate there is a little tool here http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu which can help you. On Windows there was a tool named RunIt, which is quite handy. You can configure your most often used applications and then it's gone. When you want to start one you simply put the mouse cursor to the rightmost position on the screen and press the right mouse button. The menu pops up and you can start your aplication. This is a replacement I wrote which runs on Windows and on Linux and it is one of the application that I couldn't live without it anymore. The Windows version has some drawbacks because of the way how the windows are managed, but the linux version works great.

Use Xsu to get a graphical su login automatically when you need it (configuration varies). Instead of opening a new terminal and typing "su [enter] password [enter] vi /etc/mpd.conf [enter]," you'll just be typing "password [enter]" whenever you need to access something as root.

Use a graphical file explorer like Rox to navigate and sort through directories quickly. Don't rely on ls for everything; it is far faster and more flexible to organize files graphically. Dragging a box and one click-drag can replace dozens of keystrokes across multiple commands.

If you always startup X after you login, then have X startup automatically. No reason to type "startx" every time.

Use Conky for system monitoring.

Let normal users halt or reboot the system if appropriate. In many, many cases it's silly to maintain the *nix default behavior of only letting root shutdown/reboot the system. If you're running a server with dozens of remote users then yes, this would be unwise. If it's your personal workstation though, it's completely reasonable.

Use "slocate" instead of "find." Pardon me if this is obvious, but I still see too many *nix diehards waiting for "find" to finish when there's a perfectly up to date slocate DB ready for searching. "find" is nearly obsolete.

Have your drives automounted with Submount. It's pretty sad that something like this is not standard in the 2.6 kernel. Typing a command every time you want to read a CD looks pathetic to the average Windows user used to autorun or clicking "My Computer."

That's all I have for now. Basically, I liberally automate outdated procedures (which many *nix users still tolerate). This makes day-to-day operations much smoother overall, and doesn't disrupt tasks by having to constantly bring up new terminal windows.

Go Here, I think that enlightment.org is down,but definitely check it out. It's my fav. Linux. Go to EliveCd to get a nice live version that you can install to the hard drive if u like it enough. Then check out this review for some good tips. Enjoy:)

I like VLC and use it on my mac... but not as much as I like Media Player Classic, which I use on my PC.

MPC is smaller, more versatile, and less tempremental.

There are at least two solutions to decoding WMV3 video stream in OS X. But you know the first one is a horrible Microsoft implementation and the other one is a licensed codec package from Flip4Mac that you have to pay. Currently, neither can't do what everyone wants... WMV3 video + MP3 audio in AVI container, which is the biting deficiency, and compounded by the fact that some anime file releases use exactly THAT format thanks to the existence of WMV9 VCM in Windows. Ugh.

As for VLC, it needs an OPEN-SOURCE decoder. Specifically, it'll be adapting something that ffmpeg guys are doing. That team has been tackling WMV3, a.k.a. VC-1 / VC-3 / WMV9 stuff for about a year now. They put preliminary support in, what, February? Apparently, peeps have so far gotten the key frame to decode, but it freezes there.

So what I'm saying is, it's nice to donate to VLC guys, but help ffmpeg guys first.

• ion | ratpoision; Pane-based (v. window-based) window managers. Little to no wasted screen real estate. Significantly reduced mouse usage.
• emacs: Wickedly powerful text editor/operating environment.
  • WhizzyTeX: Updates DVI in another window as you edit TeX/LaTeX.
  • AUCTeX: Very powerful emacs extensions for TeX/LaTeX.
• fetchmail + procmail + mutt + spamassassin + msmtp: No-nonsense mail reading and sending.
• bash completions: Quasi-telepathic tab completion.
• Firefox
  • Adblock: Saves an astonishing amount of screen real estate.
• screen: Among many other abilities, screen+ssh can provide VNC-like capabilities for your terminal sessions.

Of course, unless you actually wanted your remote file system mounts to actually be something more than a hack and used something like Fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) where file system syscalls can be handled by behavior defined in user space.

sshfs and smbfs work like a charm, although they have some...amusing "file systems" listed as well. (Such as a representation of a relational database as directories and XML files....)

The website is really: http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/
We don't have the ability to maintain the superkaramba.com site as Adam is not available currently to help, and he owns the superkaramba.com domain.

Themes can be found here: http://kdelook.org/index.php?xcontentmode=38

Want to make the most of your screen real estate? Try using a tiling window manager, such as ion or (my favorite) wmii. If you're an emacs fanatic, try ratpoison; the keybindings are similar. You'll never resize again.

• Build Tool - Ant (http://ant.apache.org/)
• Unit Test - JUnit (http://www.junit.org/)
• Application Framework - Spring (http://www.springframework.org/)
• Security Control - Acegi (http://acegisecurity.sourceforge.net/)
• UI Framework - JSF (MyFaces) (http://myfaces.apache.org/)
• J2EE/Web Server - JBoss/Tomcat (http://www.jboss.org/)
• OR Mapping - Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org/

To the best of my knowledge there is still no crack for the Xbox that doesn't involve hardware modification.

There's a simple, Free exploit that uses a buffer overflow in MechAssault to run unsigned code under the security restrictions of the game itself; one of the things it can do is write files to disk. Appropriate files can replace or modify the Dashboard, allowing unsigned code to run with no restrictions and act as an operating system. Such code exists Freely for older Xboxen; for newer ones, there is technically illegal code with the same effect.

("Technically illegal" because it was built with an unlicensed copy of the Xbox developer's kit.)

SourceForge downloads page - get "MechInstaller", dd that to a drive that you can hook up to your Xbox, and load one of its saved games with an original (not "Platinum Hits") version of MechAssault 1. See xbox-linux.org.

This would be great for TuxKart http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/ and SuperTux http://supertux.berlios.de/! Or would these be more appropriate on a hacked Revolution http://www.nintendo.com/revolution?

Tux Racer? bzFlag?, pfff, everybody knows that Moagg is the one and only game any linux user will need!! ;-)

Having said that, it would make more sense for IM programs to add this functionality.

Gaim has support for "buddy pounces" which allow you to set an action (such as a notification which can be anything from a pop-up window, IM box, and sent message to just a simple sound) for any event (an IM, change in state, even typing) a person on your buddylist triggers. They can also be set to repeat. They can even be used to piss people off by having it send a message to them whenever they start or stop typing. That can get really annoying, believe me.

If you mean virtual desktops as in those provided by VirtuaWin for windows or the pager applet that's in practically every Linux desktop environment, then yeah, those are useful.
That thing in E16, on the other hand, where you move the mouse to the edge and suddenly you get another desktop (without changing the pager..)... that's annoying as hell. I forgot what it was called. I disabled it as soon as I figured out which feature was causing that. :P
VirtuaWin, btw, is stable, fast, and small. It may not offer fancy things like changing wallpapers on the other desktops, but is that really necessary? And I think there may be a plugin for that anyway...