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You are thinking of CARDIAC - "Cardboard Illustrated Aid to Computing"

Go here for a reconstruction in Java.

Cheers!
John

Google could have released a client like this: http://jwchat.sourceforge.net/ no? or at least a minimal version that only does text based msging.

IBM is cool now because they're actively 1) paying for linux advertising (related to IBM, but still), 2) writing lots of Linux articles, 3) contributing to linux, etc etc.

Not just Linux, mind! Let's not forget the Eclipse IDE, and a laundry list of various other smaller open source projects that IBM has released and/or sponsored.

While I'm at it, I'll plug a project that's recently made my life more pleasant: Aleks Totic's and Fabio Zadrozny's great work on PyDev, for Eclipse. From that site: "PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python development. It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others."

Huh, so is that where the downloads for Linux & OS X will be?

Linux/OS X(X11): http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
OS X: http://www.adiumx.com/

I don't use Windows, so I haven't been able to try Google's client, but I honestly can't see why anyone would want to use anything other than Gaim or one of its derivatives (i.e. Adium). One Gaim client can support unlimited [I am assuming] accounts using AIM, Jabber (GoogleTalk), Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, Zephyr, Novell Groupwise, .Mac, Lotus Sametime, and somthing called Gadu-Gadu. Why bother with different clients for each messaging protocal?

- Adam

[frozen@frozen ~/.gaim]$ ldd /usr/lib/gaim/ssl-gnutls.so
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7eee000)
        libgnutls.so.8 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.8 (0xb7e94000)
        libgcrypt.so.7 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.7 (0xb7e49000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7e34000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d04000)
        libtasn1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.2 (0xb7cf4000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ce5000)
        libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb7ce0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
[frozen@frozen ~/.gaim]$

Ummm... I use Gaim as my main IM client and I (mostly) use Windows. The only problems I have noticed with Gaim's AIM support are (1) it tends to show more generic error messages (specifically, if you add a buddy to a full buddy list, the official AIM client will say something about too many buddies, but Gaim will just say error adding buddy) and (2) lack of voice and video support, which is being worked on, but I would not use anyway. It that what you were referring to?

As a note, I have gotten a few of my not so techy friends to switch to using Gaim instead of the official AIM client because of its lack of ads and support for spell-checking.

There aren't many Wal-Mart-shelf style open source games out there for a couple of reasons:

1) Most of the effort in developing such games comes from producing content (audio, artwork, models, etc). There aren't lots of people producing this in the OSS world.

2) Most current closed source games have very minimal replay value -- a good deal of the enjoyment comes from one-off events, like watching animations in the game, or plot twists. People that write open source software almost universally are writing something that they themselves can use. Since game elements that only work once or a few times (animations, etc) don't enhance their enjoyment of the game much, they don't happen.

As a result, you find many games in the "a lifetime to master" sort of class. Most of these have minimal graphics and art content, gameplay that either relies on randomly-generated gameplay/levels or human competition (to keep the game fun for the authors as well).

If you look at some of the open source games that diverge from the conventional closed-source world, you will find games of a sort that you cannot find elsewhere, and in many ways are much stronger than their closed-source brethren.

*) Text-based interactive fiction. TADS or one of the many other interactive fiction systems provide years of plotlines that are deeper, richer, and better-written than commercial games out there. There is a learning curve to get into text-based interactive fiction -- once you're over it, you have a vast, excellent library of games available to you.

*) Rogue/Moria/Angband/Nethack games. There is a whole genre of "dungeon crawler" games like this. They traditionally have limited graphics or just text (though there are exceptions, such as Falcon's Eye and Egoboo). If you have played Diablo or the console versions of the Baldur's Gate games, you've played a game inspired by these (but with far more simplistic gameplay, if more graphics). Dungeon crawlers involve you moving a character deeper and deeper into increasingly dangerous dungeons underground. Most levels are randomly generated, so that each play is different. In general, there are two families of dungeon crawlers -- Nethack, which is in the "sit down and play a quick game" category, and Moria, which is in the "a single game may last for a week and you probably still won't win" category. Nethack, which has many years of people hacking on and improving and extending the game code, is mostly oriented towards figuring out the staggering number of interactions between game elements. A few examples: if it's a full moon outside in real life, werecreatures in the game will be affected. And then there's the Kosiak example:

"Eat a floating eye corpse and you'll get ESP, which will allow you to see enemies anywhere on the map, but only while blinded. To take advantage of it, you may want to drink a potion of blindness, or preferably, find and wear a blindfold. Of course, while blindfolded, even with ESP you won't be able to see inanimate objects on the floor--when you find piles of items, your character will have to "feel" for them. Oh, and you won't be able to read scrolls. Whoops! In that pile of items you just felt is a cockatrice corpse--fortunately you were wearing gloves, otherwise you would've been turned to stone just by touching it. But now, blind and protected, you can pick up the cockatrice corpse and use it to attack monsters--now your enemies will turn to stone when you strike them! Unfortunately, their inventory turns to stone as well. Hey, no problem--you've

Debian for OS X = Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Apparrently the commits are send by a a single person. I hope that he does not stop. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum _id=38662

Did you all note that google talk uses an open codex for voice chat
http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#codecs

I hope that this fact will spark some extra life into the promising gaim-vv project
http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/

Just like the Apple kool-aid drinkers will always correct someone who calls an Apple a "MAC", the Gaim developers always correct people who spell Gaim "GAIM". At least they always used to when I hung out in their IRC channel. It's called Gaim! See the faq: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Perhaps mind-share rather than market share should be the consideration here. Joy is a research language, exploring new ways (paradigms?) of programming, in the same space as languages such as Haskell (functional) or Factor (concatenative).

I just add a bit on that list from top of my head.
Although I think the listed app goes beyond what the so called 'average pc user' wants, but there goes...

1. Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ )

2. Email - Sylpheed ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ )

3. I think Evolution is more like in this place.

4. Lately "Sound Juicer" is taking more attention too

5. VideoLAN aka VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) and Ogle ( http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ ) [and Goggles ( http://www.fifthplanet.net/goggles.html ) for Ogle GUI wrapper] for DVD watching.

6. There are plenty way to do this, but the typical ones could be 'Jinzora' ( http://www.jinzora.org/ ) and 'MusicPD' ( http://www.mpd.org/ ), even plain Apache does it fine too, in a way.

8. If you want easier to manage iptables wrapper, Shorewall ( http://www.shorewall.net/ ) and there are other wrappers too.

9. KOffice ( http://www.koffice.org/ ) and by individual components, Abiword ( http://www.abisource.com/ ), Gnumeric ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ), Gnucash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ )

10. Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) or Sodipodi ( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ) for vector graphics.

11. Miranda ( http://miranda-im.org/ ). Windows only.

13. Hmm , Samba? ( http://www.samba.org/ ), WedDAV (Look parent post), FTP (plenty ftp daemons, ex : http://www.proftpd.org/, http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ etc)

16. GPhoto ( http://www.gphoto.org/ ), EOG ( http://www.gnome.org/ ? ), GQView ( http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ ). The latters are for just viewing mainly.

20. FreeNX ( http://www.nomachine.com/ , http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) http://www.poptop.org/ ), L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd ), RP-L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rp-l2tp/ )

24. Postfix ( http://www.postfix.org/ ), Sendmail ( http://www.sendmail.org/ ), Exim ( http://www.exim.org/ ), Cyrus ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ ), Xmail ( http://www.xmailserver.org/ ), qmail ( http://www.qmail.org/ )

25. Spamassassin ( http://spamassassin.apache.org/ )

26. Same as above.

27. XSane ( http://www.xsane.org/ ) for sane frontends.

30. Buzzmachines ( http://www.buzzmachines.com/ ) I could be wrong...

31. 'various GUI frontends' - X CD Roast ( http://www.xcdroast.org/ ), K3B ( http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ )

32. Don't know any opensource ones...

I just add a bit on that list from top of my head.
Although I think the listed app goes beyond what the so called 'average pc user' wants, but there goes...

1. Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ )

2. Email - Sylpheed ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ )

3. I think Evolution is more like in this place.

4. Lately "Sound Juicer" is taking more attention too

5. VideoLAN aka VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) and Ogle ( http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ ) [and Goggles ( http://www.fifthplanet.net/goggles.html ) for Ogle GUI wrapper] for DVD watching.

6. There are plenty way to do this, but the typical ones could be 'Jinzora' ( http://www.jinzora.org/ ) and 'MusicPD' ( http://www.mpd.org/ ), even plain Apache does it fine too, in a way.

8. If you want easier to manage iptables wrapper, Shorewall ( http://www.shorewall.net/ ) and there are other wrappers too.

9. KOffice ( http://www.koffice.org/ ) and by individual components, Abiword ( http://www.abisource.com/ ), Gnumeric ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ), Gnucash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ )

10. Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) or Sodipodi ( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ) for vector graphics.

11. Miranda ( http://miranda-im.org/ ). Windows only.

13. Hmm , Samba? ( http://www.samba.org/ ), WedDAV (Look parent post), FTP (plenty ftp daemons, ex : http://www.proftpd.org/, http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ etc)

16. GPhoto ( http://www.gphoto.org/ ), EOG ( http://www.gnome.org/ ? ), GQView ( http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ ). The latters are for just viewing mainly.

20. FreeNX ( http://www.nomachine.com/ , http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) http://www.poptop.org/ ), L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd ), RP-L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rp-l2tp/ )

24. Postfix ( http://www.postfix.org/ ), Sendmail ( http://www.sendmail.org/ ), Exim ( http://www.exim.org/ ), Cyrus ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ ), Xmail ( http://www.xmailserver.org/ ), qmail ( http://www.qmail.org/ )

25. Spamassassin ( http://spamassassin.apache.org/ )

26. Same as above.

27. XSane ( http://www.xsane.org/ ) for sane frontends.

30. Buzzmachines ( http://www.buzzmachines.com/ ) I could be wrong...

31. 'various GUI frontends' - X CD Roast ( http://www.xcdroast.org/ ), K3B ( http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ )

32. Don't know any opensource ones...

I just add a bit on that list from top of my head.
Although I think the listed app goes beyond what the so called 'average pc user' wants, but there goes...

1. Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ )

2. Email - Sylpheed ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ )

3. I think Evolution is more like in this place.

4. Lately "Sound Juicer" is taking more attention too

5. VideoLAN aka VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) and Ogle ( http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ ) [and Goggles ( http://www.fifthplanet.net/goggles.html ) for Ogle GUI wrapper] for DVD watching.

6. There are plenty way to do this, but the typical ones could be 'Jinzora' ( http://www.jinzora.org/ ) and 'MusicPD' ( http://www.mpd.org/ ), even plain Apache does it fine too, in a way.

8. If you want easier to manage iptables wrapper, Shorewall ( http://www.shorewall.net/ ) and there are other wrappers too.

9. KOffice ( http://www.koffice.org/ ) and by individual components, Abiword ( http://www.abisource.com/ ), Gnumeric ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ), Gnucash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ )

10. Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) or Sodipodi ( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ) for vector graphics.

11. Miranda ( http://miranda-im.org/ ). Windows only.

13. Hmm , Samba? ( http://www.samba.org/ ), WedDAV (Look parent post), FTP (plenty ftp daemons, ex : http://www.proftpd.org/, http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ etc)

16. GPhoto ( http://www.gphoto.org/ ), EOG ( http://www.gnome.org/ ? ), GQView ( http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ ). The latters are for just viewing mainly.

20. FreeNX ( http://www.nomachine.com/ , http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) http://www.poptop.org/ ), L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd ), RP-L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rp-l2tp/ )

24. Postfix ( http://www.postfix.org/ ), Sendmail ( http://www.sendmail.org/ ), Exim ( http://www.exim.org/ ), Cyrus ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ ), Xmail ( http://www.xmailserver.org/ ), qmail ( http://www.qmail.org/ )

25. Spamassassin ( http://spamassassin.apache.org/ )

26. Same as above.

27. XSane ( http://www.xsane.org/ ) for sane frontends.

30. Buzzmachines ( http://www.buzzmachines.com/ ) I could be wrong...

31. 'various GUI frontends' - X CD Roast ( http://www.xcdroast.org/ ), K3B ( http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ )

32. Don't know any opensource ones...

I just add a bit on that list from top of my head.
Although I think the listed app goes beyond what the so called 'average pc user' wants, but there goes...

1. Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ )

2. Email - Sylpheed ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ )

3. I think Evolution is more like in this place.

4. Lately "Sound Juicer" is taking more attention too

5. VideoLAN aka VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) and Ogle ( http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ ) [and Goggles ( http://www.fifthplanet.net/goggles.html ) for Ogle GUI wrapper] for DVD watching.

6. There are plenty way to do this, but the typical ones could be 'Jinzora' ( http://www.jinzora.org/ ) and 'MusicPD' ( http://www.mpd.org/ ), even plain Apache does it fine too, in a way.

8. If you want easier to manage iptables wrapper, Shorewall ( http://www.shorewall.net/ ) and there are other wrappers too.

9. KOffice ( http://www.koffice.org/ ) and by individual components, Abiword ( http://www.abisource.com/ ), Gnumeric ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ), Gnucash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ )

10. Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) or Sodipodi ( http://www.sodipodi.com/ ) for vector graphics.

11. Miranda ( http://miranda-im.org/ ). Windows only.

13. Hmm , Samba? ( http://www.samba.org/ ), WedDAV (Look parent post), FTP (plenty ftp daemons, ex : http://www.proftpd.org/, http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ etc)

16. GPhoto ( http://www.gphoto.org/ ), EOG ( http://www.gnome.org/ ? ), GQView ( http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ ). The latters are for just viewing mainly.

20. FreeNX ( http://www.nomachine.com/ , http://freenx.berlios.de/ ) http://www.poptop.org/ ), L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tpd ), RP-L2TPd ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rp-l2tp/ )

24. Postfix ( http://www.postfix.org/ ), Sendmail ( http://www.sendmail.org/ ), Exim ( http://www.exim.org/ ), Cyrus ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ ), Xmail ( http://www.xmailserver.org/ ), qmail ( http://www.qmail.org/ )

25. Spamassassin ( http://spamassassin.apache.org/ )

26. Same as above.

27. XSane ( http://www.xsane.org/ ) for sane frontends.

30. Buzzmachines ( http://www.buzzmachines.com/ ) I could be wrong...

31. 'various GUI frontends' - X CD Roast ( http://www.xcdroast.org/ ), K3B ( http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ )

32. Don't know any opensource ones...

Dunno about you, I'll be using Gaim

I've been using http://adium.sourceforge.net/ for a while now, it totally rocks.

Ach!
I can't belive I forgot Pingus!

BTW- the racing game is Torcs- http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

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I hope people realize that you can be a Microsoft Windows users and still use most, if not all, of the open-source software mentioned here. To me, the deal-breaker, the must-have, of the open-source software is GIMP. Unless you're a professional graphic artist employed by a company that is willing to buy the $600-a-pop Photoshop for you, GIMP is a perfect alternative. The Windows version of GIMP can be downloaded from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html. It's a small 11 megabyte download; no reason not to try it.

I've never taken one single computer graphics class in my life and I've managed to learn how to use GIMP and created dozens of graphics for my blog at http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/.

Here's a few "Good" open source games. There are quite a few others out there. Sure, there may not be UberLeetHardcoreGamerOrgyOfTheMonth, but there are high quality ones out there if you look, plus Opensource ports of many classic games (not listed)

Planet Penguin Racing- http://projects.planetpenguin.de/
FlightGear- http://www.flightgear.org/
Armagetron - http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike (see also the WC Privateer remake)- http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Frozen Bubble-
      http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
      Live java version- http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Quake 3 - http://liberatedgames.org/game.php?game_id=90
Scorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
ChromiumBSU - http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

This is just what I could think of in a few minutes- There is a really great 3d Nascar style game on the Suse 9.2 DVD, but I can't remember it's name while I'm at work.

Here's a few "Good" open source games. There are quite a few others out there. Sure, there may not be UberLeetHardcoreGamerOrgyOfTheMonth, but there are high quality ones out there if you look, plus Opensource ports of many classic games (not listed)

Planet Penguin Racing- http://projects.planetpenguin.de/
FlightGear- http://www.flightgear.org/
Armagetron - http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike (see also the WC Privateer remake)- http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Frozen Bubble-
      http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
      Live java version- http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Quake 3 - http://liberatedgames.org/game.php?game_id=90
Scorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
ChromiumBSU - http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

This is just what I could think of in a few minutes- There is a really great 3d Nascar style game on the Suse 9.2 DVD, but I can't remember it's name while I'm at work.

Hoe of destruction..
It's locked in a cabin right next to that farmer's house. The lock is not pickable nor can it be unlocked by magic. I don't think the farmer does tell of the way to find it. He just hints to it.
The key is in a dead fish on the banks of the lake near Cove.
In one of the 200 dead fishies..

I'll check out the roof of the blacksmith though.. First time I hear about it, and I highly doubt it's true.
I think I still have Exult installed somewhere..

TripleA is an open source version that is very well done and allows you to play the 1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition (what the old computer version was) or the new revised edition (which is the 2004 version you're talking about). It also let's you load any kind of variant rules/boards that other people of come up with.

Very nice, very free, very open source...

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/ :-)

I also use GAIM on Windows, but my reasons are because the AOL official client pissed me off, and Trillian (while pretty) had certain little things that I didn't want to put up with in my daily IM client.

Anyway, I looked into the Summer of Code, and one of the projects I was thinking about submitting a proposal for was UPnP (I did submit a proposal, but not for this). From what I read in the project description, UPnP is a protocol that makes communication a lot simpler when communicating across NATs. And guess what! This is exactly what is holding up the file transfers, direct connect functionality, and presumably A/V chat.

Looking just now at the blogs for the participants - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/planet/ - it *seems* that file transfer is working, at least through the Oscar protocol, but I can't test it since I'm at work. Someone else want to try it?

Gabber is taken... they might call it Google Buzz or similar.

Play Scrabble!

/Has no shame.
//Play, its good for you!

Any chances for a linux client that does video?

No.

If they launch an IM based on something like GAIM from source forge http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ where people could access all buddies from all the different services using only one program they would grab the market share real quick.

I recently bought a manual Bridgeport milling machine, and am in the process of converting it to CNC.

I will be using Linux EMC to control it. This is a program which uses Linux + either RTAI or RTLinux for realtime. It does 6-axis control, and has pluggable kinematics modules (ie, it can control X-Y-Z milling machines, Stewart platforms (hexapods), radial arm robots (like the PUMA 560), etc).

The G-code interpreter is actually the reference RS274NGC interpreter, originally developed at NIST. There is still some NIST involvement inthe project, but it's mostly community-driven now.

I am also using an FPGA-based step pulse generator made by Pico Systems, and excellent servo drives made by GeckoDrive. (no links to prevent slashdotting) The external step generator isn't necessary, I'm just using it because the step rate I can get from a PC parallel port isn't high enough for my machine. The resolution of my machine is 40000 steps/inch, or 0.000025" per step, and the PC can only generate around 25k-50k pulses per second. Since I want faster rapids than 60 IPM, and I don't want to sacrifice resolution, I Need the faster pulse generation of the external board.

As for cost, EMC is free. Servos are expensive as hell from normal sources, but there are plenty on eBay for $125 - $150 each. The servo drives are $110 each, and the interface board (which also has lots of digital I/O) is $250. Add in an old slow PC (Pentium 333, for example) for $10, and you can do the whole motion control thing in the $1000 range, plus the actual machine.

I know that the health care industry is generally focused on finding a profit somewhere, but I like this new spin on sharing amongst medical professionals. Sourceforge has a ton of medical software, but I'm not aware of many shared hardware/design communities out there in this field.

I know that the health care industry is generally focused on finding a profit somewhere, but I like this new spin on sharing amongst medical professionals. Sourceforge has a ton of medical software, but I'm not aware of many shared hardware/design communities out there in this field.

Only the basic version of Trillian is free and it works only on Windows. I would rather recommend GAIM.

You might want to follow the NASA World Wind project. It does the same thing as Google Earth and is open source.

If I remember correctly there is a "2D" port to Linux, by which I mean you can only view directly towards the surface of the earth and can't tilt it to see land elevation.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ - main site
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/ - "fan" site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/ - sf site
http://ww2d.berlios.de/ - 2D port

Cheers,

Roger

I also wrote my own weblog software... completely in BASH. After I recently got a LiveJournal Account, I've been thinking about coordinating the two.

From what I've seen, it would be best to just mirror the contents directly: LiveJournal has exceedingly well community support in terms of OSS clients for posting/archiving/more. Personally, I use Charm, which is written in python, and has a filter-mode so that I can just pipe my post to Charm and it gets on LJ.

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I want to believe you I just need to be more convinced :)

Too bad the name exists already for the Dream DRM receiver http://drm.sourceforge.net/, which is, for one, a dream come true.

Some useful features that it has which Tripwire doesn't is the ability to monitor kernel system call tables for changes (a common attack vector), and to run as a daemon to alert on changes immediately.

Its definitely worth a look.

I haven't personally heard of anyone using Osiris or Samhain in production.

I had to look them up:
Osiris
Samhain

It's a known bug.

DRM == closed, by necessity, since if you can see the code or understand the protocol, you can break it.

Not true. DRM is just an extension of encryption theory, where a party trusted by the originator (the PC) verifies that someone (the owner) has authority to get at what the originator is sending out. DRM simply provides a means for the PC to be trusted by the originator.

This could be very handy for things like online banking (no more spyware) or in businesses (guaranteed locked-down desktops).

That's why Linux will never be DRM compliant

Really?

In the 'drm future' there isn't supposed to be any idea of 'open' just dumb devices that are little more than souped up DVD players.

Sure, if you've got a Windows PC. The most likely "doomsday" scenario I forsee is that you'll be able to run any OS you like but so many services will demand that your PC is "trusted" that there will be little point in running something "untrusted".

To be honest, the RSS vs. Atom thing is a lot like DVD+R and DVD-R - at this point they might as well be interchangeable.

Just about every feed parser handles both Atom and RSS feeds. Using a tool like Magpie RSS (PHP) or the Universal Feed Parser (Python) the format of any given feed is entirely transparent to application developers. RSS 1.0? RSS 2.0? Atom 0.3? It all gets processed by the parser in a nearly identical way.

Already tools like Movable Type/Typepad or WordPress generate both RSS and Atom feeds by default. The vast majority of users don't know and don't care which feed format they're reading so long as it works. Both the toolkits and the applications use both formats and there's really little reason why they can't continue to support both.

There doesn't have to be a single "winner" in the syndication feed wars. Atom and RSS can exist together for some time, and arguing that this is a zero-sum game in which one and only one feed format can exist is ridiculous. As long as the difference is transparent to end users, and relatively transparent to developers, neither format will totally conquer the other.

DReaM is is already in use

Hello? Is this thing working??
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It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than most alternatives I looked at before goign with this system.