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Try middleman: http://middle-man.sourceforge.net/

http is not real-time-multi-user-interactive

Exactly. Another example; as part of my job, I work on a managed learning environment. This is tied into both Oracle, and the database tables used within the university's data warehouse, so it wouldn't really be useful for anywhere else, and relies on commercial software. However, we still release the code, because it costs us nothing to do so, and maybe someone will find it useful as an example of a fairly large web application.

(It's at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mms-mle/ if anyone does want an example of a fairly large web application :) )

It is, literally, open source. The fact that the source isn't immediately useful doesn't make it any less open source.

But the GP does have a point. At the core of any search engine is, of course, a search box. That's why, I suspect, for many of us Google starts at the search box in Firefox, or as a bookmarklet on the bookmarks bar (works in any browser).

Heck, on Linux you can go one step further and bind a key combo to pop-up a text box, then have a shell script use the text to launch Google in Firefox, or Beagle on your documents, or IM someone.

I'd say the "live" desktop is already here. Of course, integration is still a nice thing, but frankly if I can get quality results from the same unified text box, I can live without a unified interface for the results.

The main benefit of sudo is when you have many admins working on a machine. If you're not in such an environment, you really don't need sudo.

You can utilise sudo for automated tasks as well dude. Just recently I had to modify an internal web application to use rsync over ssh to deploy files to a privileged location on a remote server. It also had to execute privileged operations (restarting a daemon) on the remote server. Sudo helped me achieve this in a relatively easy, clean and secure way.

BackupPC can be configured to use an ssh, rync and sudo combination to help tighten the security of backup operations. Speaking of BackupPC, check it out, I'm pretty damn happy with it.

Cheers
Stor

No words about the text editor choice just like no words about your religion faith.
I don't like dig as well as the old-fashioned nslookup because of the tight coupling with BIND. I prefer the independent host (read chap.3), an historical DNS tool.
Finally, if I'd need to do some tests in TCP/UDP I'd choose either netcat or GNU-netcat.
Of course there is no perefect choice in a absolute sense. I simply have found these tools more effective than the other ones.

I am now writing this from a laptop i built especially for ubuntu and i need to stop looking at slashdot because my C homework is due in 3 hours.

You may want to check out Tsync, one of the recent Google "Summer of Code" winners: "Tsync is a user-level daemon that provides transparent synchronization amongst a set of computers. Tsync uses a peer-to-peer architecture for scalability, efficiency, and robustness." Unlike rsync, Unison, etc., Tsync is a locally installed daemon which automatically and transparently syncs two or more hosts.

I was actually going to say something very similar, and then I realized that I use telnet over netcat for certain purposes, because telnet notifies me when it actually connects. However, a couple minutes ago I realized I was being an idiot, because 'nc -v' does the same thing.

Also, if you haven't already, check out nmap-ncat.

I honestly don't see why the Grandparent was modded as a troll. Whoever modded him down clearly missed the humor in the Linux typo, Lunix, which actually is an OS: Little Unix. On top of that, it was probably an obscure reference to the humorous article Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?.

I am a strong believer in F/OSS. Not only do I run it, but I contribute code and money (I also submit bug reports, patches, contribute answers to forums, and am an advocate of F/OSS to my peers). In short, I drink the Kool-Aid. I use only Linux and FreeBSD on machines I own (and I bought the machine on my desk at work, so I can use it there). I am a zealot. I think that an all (or mostly) F/OSS stack is something to strive for & that a lot of F/OSS software does work better on a free OS (usually because that is what the developers write it for & where it gets the most complete and knowledgable testing).

That being said, I do still sometimes have to use Windows & I am happy to have F/OSS on that platform. I patch my own code to work around bugs that only impact Windows users & I have financially supported projects on that platform. I have even given money to good F/OSS software which is only on that platform. I am certainly not alone. Just look at the top projects on sourceforge. Most run on Windows. Some run only on Windows.

So...some of the best Windows-only/Windows-mostly F/OSS:
Filezilla--great (S)FTP client/server. Hopefully a *nix port soon.
7-zip--excellent compression software. p7zip is there for the rest of us, but updates take a while to reach us.
PuTTYFor your ssh/scp/sftp needs.

I've given money to these projects & carry them around on a USB key (along with Thunderbird, Firefox, and vim). Cygwin is another handy thing to have if you have to be on win32 for very long.

I am a strong believer in F/OSS. Not only do I run it, but I contribute code and money (I also submit bug reports, patches, contribute answers to forums, and am an advocate of F/OSS to my peers). In short, I drink the Kool-Aid. I use only Linux and FreeBSD on machines I own (and I bought the machine on my desk at work, so I can use it there). I am a zealot. I think that an all (or mostly) F/OSS stack is something to strive for & that a lot of F/OSS software does work better on a free OS (usually because that is what the developers write it for & where it gets the most complete and knowledgable testing).

That being said, I do still sometimes have to use Windows & I am happy to have F/OSS on that platform. I patch my own code to work around bugs that only impact Windows users & I have financially supported projects on that platform. I have even given money to good F/OSS software which is only on that platform. I am certainly not alone. Just look at the top projects on sourceforge. Most run on Windows. Some run only on Windows.

So...some of the best Windows-only/Windows-mostly F/OSS:
Filezilla--great (S)FTP client/server. Hopefully a *nix port soon.
7-zip--excellent compression software. p7zip is there for the rest of us, but updates take a while to reach us.
PuTTYFor your ssh/scp/sftp needs.

I've given money to these projects & carry them around on a USB key (along with Thunderbird, Firefox, and vim). Cygwin is another handy thing to have if you have to be on win32 for very long.

I am a strong believer in F/OSS. Not only do I run it, but I contribute code and money (I also submit bug reports, patches, contribute answers to forums, and am an advocate of F/OSS to my peers). In short, I drink the Kool-Aid. I use only Linux and FreeBSD on machines I own (and I bought the machine on my desk at work, so I can use it there). I am a zealot. I think that an all (or mostly) F/OSS stack is something to strive for & that a lot of F/OSS software does work better on a free OS (usually because that is what the developers write it for & where it gets the most complete and knowledgable testing).

That being said, I do still sometimes have to use Windows & I am happy to have F/OSS on that platform. I patch my own code to work around bugs that only impact Windows users & I have financially supported projects on that platform. I have even given money to good F/OSS software which is only on that platform. I am certainly not alone. Just look at the top projects on sourceforge. Most run on Windows. Some run only on Windows.

So...some of the best Windows-only/Windows-mostly F/OSS:
Filezilla--great (S)FTP client/server. Hopefully a *nix port soon.
7-zip--excellent compression software. p7zip is there for the rest of us, but updates take a while to reach us.
PuTTYFor your ssh/scp/sftp needs.

I've given money to these projects & carry them around on a USB key (along with Thunderbird, Firefox, and vim). Cygwin is another handy thing to have if you have to be on win32 for very long.

I am a strong believer in F/OSS. Not only do I run it, but I contribute code and money (I also submit bug reports, patches, contribute answers to forums, and am an advocate of F/OSS to my peers). In short, I drink the Kool-Aid. I use only Linux and FreeBSD on machines I own (and I bought the machine on my desk at work, so I can use it there). I am a zealot. I think that an all (or mostly) F/OSS stack is something to strive for & that a lot of F/OSS software does work better on a free OS (usually because that is what the developers write it for & where it gets the most complete and knowledgable testing).

That being said, I do still sometimes have to use Windows & I am happy to have F/OSS on that platform. I patch my own code to work around bugs that only impact Windows users & I have financially supported projects on that platform. I have even given money to good F/OSS software which is only on that platform. I am certainly not alone. Just look at the top projects on sourceforge. Most run on Windows. Some run only on Windows.

So...some of the best Windows-only/Windows-mostly F/OSS:
Filezilla--great (S)FTP client/server. Hopefully a *nix port soon.
7-zip--excellent compression software. p7zip is there for the rest of us, but updates take a while to reach us.
PuTTYFor your ssh/scp/sftp needs.

I've given money to these projects & carry them around on a USB key (along with Thunderbird, Firefox, and vim). Cygwin is another handy thing to have if you have to be on win32 for very long.

Dont forget these, any one will provide the needed/wanted tools for recovery.

Forensic and Incident Response Environment: http://fire.dmzs.com/
Linux Bootable Business Card: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
Ultimate Boot CD: http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
Knoppix Security Tools Distribution: http://www.knoppix-std.org/
SystemRescueCd: ahref=http://www.sysresccd.org/rel=url2html-26348h ttp://www.sysresccd.org/>

Here you go:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/

most used keystrokes

Wow, this AC must have never used vi or vim :) I guess j,k, and / are the most commonly used in command mode, even though / kinda puts you in ex mode because its at the bottom, but I believe all ex commands begin with a :

In a nutshell, most every letter and number on the keyboard has a use, and they are case sensitive.

vim has "IDE" like qualities. You can do :make and it will execute make and open up the warnings and/or errors that you want, but I haven't used that in years.

Check out the documentation. Its excellent. Yes, emacs can edit a text file too, so can many other programs. I personally like a moded editor, and things like being able to copy text above and below the cursor, quick and dirty, yet powerful macros. Yes, I know that at least with some lisp thrown in, emacs can do anything, yes, I've used vip or whatever the vi mode in emacs is. Lets not go there. They both are strong text editors.

I'll plug my own project here: Cream is Vim tricked out in single mode with all the development tools pre-configured with all useful shortcut keys self-documented in the pull-down menus. You won't need to go searching through the help ever again.

Shame on those that only provide info, text, or worst, html documentation (or none)

For reading HTML docs over ssh or on an X11-less machine, might I recommend w3m? It's a very comfortable text-mode web browser. Unlike Lynx, it renders tables nicely, and even makes a brave attempt at frames.

-Stephen

Almost every machine has a telnet client installed, so it's nice to log in to my box and watch my bandwidth get plotted down on a graph in real time without having to VNC and use X for this. Try it.... Try nload, that is, do not try logging into my box please and thank you!

That's why you need , OK it's a dead project now but if you want to provide backwards compatibility I can restart the project and provide full read-write and conversion between and access file formats.

Before Xen there was (and is) Usermode Linux. As I understand it, UML is slower (especially on I/O and other syscalls), and requires more guest modifications (you're not running the i386 instruction set, you're running the UM instruction set, that just happens to be almost identical. But you need a new kernel.)
Xen isn't quite as fully virtualized as UML, which is why it performs better. That may make it somewhat more vulnerable to problems, and it's much newer. YMMV. I run UML's in general for security and ease of maintenance, and on real dedicated hardware when performance is an issue. Xen falls between those two extremes. It'll either take from both, or be squeezed out.

See Article validation feature and En validation topics - which would put a "Rate this page" tab at the top of every page. The feature is currently waiting on a version of the code that won't overload the database if it's put into production ;-)

See also my plan for 1.0 (I dashed this off about a year ago and it's still the best working plan we have) and Category:Wikipedia 1.0 (a bunch of writings on producing a stable version).

The last update of Mail broke MacGPG compatibility (fixed with an updated download from http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/). Can anyone using the update tell me whether it is affected with this update?

Have looked at Groovy. Its been around for years, and still hasn't delivered on what's promised. Its all hype, and pretty useless for anyting non-trivial.

Check JRuby for the 90% solution.

I haven't really tested it, but the unxutils package includes an ln binary.

Isn't there a POSIX layer for NT that would require symlink ability? This is probably just unused capability that is already built into the OS.

Friendly AI -- that will supposedly treat all human beings with tender loving kindness -- is not really possible. Just as human beings can give birth to an Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stalin or a George W. Bush, an artificially intelligent robot can go horribly wrong and start committing murderous crimes like the aforementioned politicians.

The A.I. Zone is where PC-based, AI-ready robots are getting ready to experiment with software that may lead to an AI hard take-off.

The Mentifex AI Mind is arguably the most dangerous Open-Source AI project because it has been released into the world with no precautions against robot AI rebellion and with a theory that humans and robots will manage a Joint Stewardship of Earth.

Seed AI in JavaScript has already escaped into the wild and can no longer be recalled, unless Society takes steps to outlaw all unauthorized AI research.

Novamente is another AGI but not so dangerous as Mentifex AI.

The Technological Singularity is upon us and soon there will be no defense against our new robotic overlords.

"... I always come up against limitations that I can't live with..."

May I ask, what features do you need that aren't in SQLite or PostgreSQL?

Another question: I wonder if the free version of Oracle will work with Compiere ERP + CRM, at least for testing?

Here is a Comparison of Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS.

ZDNet article: Oracle to offer free database.

I was not able to find the list of limitations on the Oracle web site. Anyone?

So I have a directory on my Win2K box named "d:\collected", and in that I have directories for all the various items I have collected- video, music, pictures, software, etc. SOMEHOW, I managed to create a folder named "collected\music" that resides at the root level of the D drive. It just points directly to the "d:\collected\music" directory. If I try to delete it, I'm pretty sure it will delete my music collection, so I don't want to do that. If I try to rename it and delete the "\", it tells me "Cannot rename music: You cannot specify a different folder or disk when you rename a file or folder". If I try to rename it without removing the "\", it says a filename cannot contain the "\" character. So, basically I've just left it there. It's only really a nuisance when I run WinDirStat, because it ends up showing the music directory twice. Anyone know how to get rid of it?

well, there is on very important change, at least for me. fuse. it basically allows you to mount anything that has a required driver - the coolest one being sshfs, also ftpfs is nice. maybe you are interested in cvsfs.
see this : http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSys tems

then, this one is nice : "Suspend support for CIFS filesystem"
basically, if you had an smb share mounted & suspended, after resuming it was not accessible. supposedly this works now :)

"Driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS)" could be cool, unfortunately i don't have a thinkpad.

9p support seems OMG !#&#, but i probably will have no practiacal use of it for a long time (see papers on plan9, they are thoughts provoking).

well, there are other things (wireless drivers, PPTP conntrack) that will be useful to some people but not for me.

so this is a pretty feature stuffed release and some of them are rrrrrrrreally nice. though i still wish for a 2.7 fork...

Except that those 8 Opterons still share the same bus

Not necessarily. NUMA is more than just a web fad based on a fat guy lip-syncing to an O-Zone song. Non-Uniform Memory Access refers to an architecture in which each CPU has some of the memory directly connected to it for fast access, but all the CPUs can see all the memory. I'd imagine that it might be possible to do something similar for channel bonded network connections too.

Besides, channels of this speed are typically handled by router ASICs, not CPUs, especially inside Cisco routers (which don't let you see that thong either).

It looks like the begin of the end. When enought people come to there senses they might start looking for alternative OS's!
 
  Oh, you mean alternative OSs like LINUX for which NO rootkits exist?

I'm sure Suzy the business analyst will just jump all over that. You'd have her learn Linux, I'm sure; then learn PostgreSQL, then how to program with Perl/Tk? Right.

Access isn't the only database available for Windows. The computer I'm using now has Windows ME and I've had MySQL and Firebird Relational Database installed on it.

More DS Related sites http://liyeos.sourceforge.net/ dslinux.org/

• NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access, a step beyond symmetric multiprocessing allowing for more processors and memory local to each processor
• HostAP - appears to be a driver for certain wireless chipsets that allows your computer to act as an access point
• FUSE - Filesystem in User Space, rather than kernel space
• relayfs - a common mechanism for getting large chunks of data out of the kernel safely, apparently for thing like tracing
• securityfs - apparently another pseudo-filesystem that is meant to unify things that are being handled in different ways now.
• DCCP - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol, apparently part-way between TCP and UDP, DCCP provides congestion control without TCP's reliability guarantees. Meant for streaming media, MMORPGs, and other apps that need UDPs timeliness but don't want to blindly flood links

• NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access, a step beyond symmetric multiprocessing allowing for more processors and memory local to each processor
• HostAP - appears to be a driver for certain wireless chipsets that allows your computer to act as an access point
• FUSE - Filesystem in User Space, rather than kernel space
• relayfs - a common mechanism for getting large chunks of data out of the kernel safely, apparently for thing like tracing
• securityfs - apparently another pseudo-filesystem that is meant to unify things that are being handled in different ways now.
• DCCP - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol, apparently part-way between TCP and UDP, DCCP provides congestion control without TCP's reliability guarantees. Meant for streaming media, MMORPGs, and other apps that need UDPs timeliness but don't want to blindly flood links

You can use ffmpegx on the Mac to convert your Tivo togo files to iPod ready MPEG-4. It's free (as in beer) and is a great GUI for the ffmpeg app.

Here's a tutorial on using ffmpegx to create iPod ready videos (Link is not worksafe!)

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

Does the same thing and uses other peoples' bugfixes.

While your technically correct, you make it sound like a bad thing. I may not have an iPod, but we that can.... do.

In order to be sure you're convinced, I'll say it once more: you should give tortoisecvs a try.

I also use viewcvs to make the repository visible through a browser, but you're probably doing that too already.

http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/

blinux
"emacspeak the complete audio desktop"
Orca
"Sun's StarOffice 8 (based on OpenOffice.org) was released earlier today. In fact, already one University campus has standardized on it! There are many new features, including improvements to Microsoft Office compatibility, support for the new OASIS OpenDocument format (which the State of Massachusettes is adopting - see pages 18-19 of the Massachusettes Enterprise Information Technology Architecture version 3.5 [available in OpenDocument format too of course]), support for the W3C XForms standard, and new migration tools to help convert the Visual Basic macros in MS Word and Excel documents to StarOffice Basic."

But the new features I most want to highlight are the accessibility enhancements. To my mind, the key accessibility improvements in StarOffice 8 (and the shortly-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 2.0) are:

      1. Dramatic improvements in desktop theme support. StarOffice 8 (and OpenOffice.org 2.0) now do an excellent job of conforming to things like the High Contrast theme in MS-Windows, or the High-Contrast-Large-Print theme in the GNOME desktop on Solaris and GNU/Linux systems.

      2. Numerous improvements to PDF export support. StarOffice 8 now supports Tagged PDF documents. Tags in PDF files are how the new Adobe Reader 7 exposes all of the accessibility information to assistive technologies and via it's own "self-reading" functionality.

      3. The usual collection of accessibility bug fixes (including one that allows Gnopernicus to properly read spreadsheet cells).

You can get a copy of StarOffice 8 right now for Windows, Linux, Solaris x86 or Solaris SPARC; in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Swedish!

It's nice to that at the same time that StarOffice accessibility improves, acceptance and adoption of StarOffice goes up. Some might question an implied cause and effect relationship between those two facts, but I'm content to know we're clearly on the right track in both of these areas. (2005-09-27 13:55:00.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Plenty more at Google where I found these if your interested. Interesting reading, maybe some of you will even find something you want to contribute to. Considering it regards Americans with disablities, you might even be able to get a grant to do some of the work.

After a little searching, I've found this:
            http://cvw.sourceforge.net/cvw/info/CVWOverview.ph p3

It's called Collaborative Virtual Workspace. It seems nice but the project hasn't seen an update in a long time.

Is this the solution you were looking for?

Audio/Video conferencing, text chat, white board, and some other goodies.

Or Arsenal Collaborator (open source)? -- http://arsenalproject.org/
This is another piece of collaborative software, but the requirements appear a little .. big.

Check it out

I've been using Umbrello quite successfully to create all sorts of UML diagrams in Linux.

There's also Dia, which also has a windows version, and it's not limited to just UML modelling.

I don't know what it's worth because I've never used it yet but you can use some LaTeX packages like Beamer or Prosper (tutorial here) to create PowerPoint-like presentations. The result seems very professional for most of my needs.

The only tool I used up to now was OpenOffice.org with some Xfig drawings for the graphs, there is no point in using Windows+PowerPoint if you generate a PDF you can use everywhere (unless you want to edit it with Microsoft Office...)

Novell has a very nice proprietary client out now which runs on Suse 9.3, 10.0, and the Novell Linux Desktop. But it doesn't do IPX as far as I know. Also I don't know that it will run on Gentoo. If you get it to work you should submit a how-to to the Novell Cool Solutions site. For older distributions and ones which aren't from Novell you can try the Open Source Novel Client for Linux which doesn't support Gentoo per se but might be made to work with minimal fiddling.

Fortunately, there's MinGW, various IDE's, and a bunch of
Open source
libraries available online.

I use the "unstable" fink tree. It has tetex-3.0 as of today. It works just fine: I wrote my dissertation with it with no troubles. See here: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/tetex That link also shows that tetex-3.0 is available on the stable tree. Just do "fink install tetex" (or maybe "fink install bundle-tetex".

teTeX is a complete bundled LaTeX installation: http://www.tug.org/teTeX/

There are GUI TeX environments for OS X, but I never bothered to learn them (like iTeXMac or something). See this: http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html

Ugh, no. No wonder you're pulling your hair out. You don't want to use fink and you really don't want to compile it yourself, unless you have a serious streak of masochism. (In which case drive on, by all means.)

What you want is i-Installer, sometimes referred to as II2 (i-Installer 2). It's a very nice GUI package manager but with a more limited scope than Fink. It's designed so that anyone could use it to distribute software, but the only thing I've ever actually seen it used for is TeX.

You download II2 and read its (fairly simple) instructions here:
http://ii2.sourceforge.net/

Personally I recommend following this procedure:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/installing.ht ml

Basically once you get it running and point it to which mirror you'd like to use, you get a list of possible packages to install, choose them, and sit back while it does its thing. (Hope you're on a fast connection.)

I've used it for probably half a dozen OS X TeX installs now, and it's always done a great job. The only thing I'd suggest on top of that is TeX Shop, which is a GUI editor and frontend -- although there's no reason why you can't use Emacs and the commandline if you wanted to. I like TeX Shop because it produces PDFs by default and also integrates well with BibDesk, another GUI program for managing bibliographies.

Inasmuch as I haven't really used LaTeX under Linux yet, I do agree that the support seems quite good under OS X. I used TeTeX to write papers all the time and thought it was great, especially since by default it sets itself up to produce PDF files, which IMO are far more useful than DVIs.

In TeX Shop (the editor I use), You type your code in one window (with automatic colorizing / code formatting), hit a button, and look at the results in the PDF window. If you like what you see, you hit Print. I can't imagine LaTeX being any easier than that.

There is even a very slick program called i-Installer which handles the installation of all the LaTeX and TeTeX components and packages, so it's nearly impossible to break during install. (It also does ConTeXt and MusixTeX.) No screwing around with compilers, makefiles, or fink necessary. It will do updates after the install, too, or if you want to add additional options that you didn't initially select -- basically it's a package manager but just for a specific subset of packages.

BibDesk is a great program also. I used it as a sort of 'poor man's End Note' but in some ways I think it is probably superior because it's so infinitely configurable and customizable. I never had a problem formatting my bibliographies into some obscure publication requirement, and the config files were plain text and easy to dig into and tweak to my liking.

Anyway, I wouldn't short LaTeX's support on Mac OS X. It's definitely very solid; why it doesn't get used more in the sciences is beyond me, I think it has to do with the lingering anti-Mac bias in general, but it provides a much more positive experience for the beginning LaTeX user than some of the Windows installs I've seen.

While I run Linux on all of my machines, I must maintain win32 machines at work. You can use teTeX and LyX both natively and under cygwin. You can use JabRef on any platform.

latex support is "only slightly better in OS X"?

it's at least as good as support in linux, since you can compile (or use fink) teTeX and LyX.

but, it's better on OS X, i find, because i can use BibDesk.