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Collective cortex - Java based, but not open source, http://www.collectivecortex.com/ Nariva - Java based, GPL, http://nariva.sourceforge.net/ Terrier - Java based, MPL, http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier/

Although many tools like xsltproc can, in fact, handle good ol' broken HTML, using XHTML makes server side processing easier. I've built a light-weight CMS a few times by simply having a bunch of simple XHTML files which are processed into more fancy XHTML by some XSLT stylesheets that are invoked through make/xsltproc. These stylesheets can read some metadata from a sitemap.xml file and then it's just a matter of publishing the fancy XHTML (with ever-changing cruft like logo's and complex menu structures) using weex.

Also, mixing namespaces can be a very powerfull tool within a CMS. After all, most published websites of more than 5 pages are the result of a process that is more often than not quite complex. Everything that makes complex processing easier, is a win to me.

Nope.

It's also possible to prevent accidental usage of Internet Explorer through both IE and the Windows Explorer with the IE URL Lock Browser Helper Object that I recently released at http://ieurllock.sourceforge.net/

I'm about to deploy it where I work to replace the proxy.pac approach to locking down IE that we currently use so that WebDAV, FTP, and other folder views are not blocked.

1. O(1) scheduler
2. Freenet, TOR, I2P
3. Bittorrent
4. Kademlia (as applied in Azureus)
5. Plugger
6. Autocorrelated music downloads (iRate radio)
7. TiVo (Code is GPLed)
8. "Mindstorms" (less earthshattering, but a good example)
9. The concept of the Wiki
10. The Scientific Method

1. O(1) scheduler
2. Freenet, TOR, I2P
3. Bittorrent
4. Kademlia (as applied in Azureus)
5. Plugger
6. Autocorrelated music downloads (iRate radio)
7. TiVo (Code is GPLed)
8. "Mindstorms" (less earthshattering, but a good example)
9. The concept of the Wiki
10. The Scientific Method

you can put large datastructures in your code easilly enough in borland style pascal.

for example look at the code in http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/b ewareserv/bewareserv/channelcommands.pas?rev=1.17

Two problems with that
1) The p2p network they have developed / using be will restricting access to the UK by using Geo-IP (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoip/).

2) The only Doctor Who episode likely to be broadcast during the trial period is the Christmas Special.

..if FF supported a domain proxy (MS ISA) out of the box. Right now i get things working using APS but this is a one-user-only solution, and not a pretty one even.

I just moved in with some flat mates from college. We have 5 regular use PCs (2 mac, 2 WinXP, and 1 Linux). Our main internet gateway/house file server is a PIII 900 Dell, 2 10/100 Nics (one taking the internet, the other to my Linksys WiFi), 1 gbE NIC connected to my PC sharing my ripped movies, and cds with everyone. The Dell runs Smoothwall, and a shoutcast server (so everyone in the house can play the same music at the same time). My Linksys router runs WiFi Box. There's plans to build a HTPC for the TV room... but we may just wait for the XBox 360.

It's only "well documented" in the sense that there's a nifty little tool that turns all public methods into pretty HTML pages.

The documentation covers the public and protected methods that are available for use by programmers. Private methods, fields, etc. are not important when writing your own classpath since no one should access them anyways unless they are extending your implementation. GCJ contains many private methods within the classes that are not in Sun's JVM, and vice versa.

If you tried to write a (non-trivial) program that used the non-trivial parts of the Java APIs (like Swing), using only the API documentation, it wouldn't work

Its been done before. Heres an example: http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/

I've written parts for GCJ by only using the API documentation supplied by Sun. I won't say it's an easy task. What the documentation says it's suppose to do and what the Sun JVM actually does requires some work on the implementors part. The only way around this is if Sun would allow JVM writers to view their source without worrying about the license concerns.

There are many projects that do it this way. Look at Mono. Working from only a specification is quite common.

OO.o issues, from my understanding, are because the free implementations of the JVM do not work as they should. With some tweaking, this is very correctable.

crap. don't know why it's so hard to find with google/freshmeat (and sf search does not work right now) - but maybe you should check out
http://wpkg.sourceforge.net/

Wpkg or Windows Packager, is a tool that can be used for managing application rollout and versioning.

As long as a way to install, upgrade and uninstall a given software package silently (ie programmatically) can be found, then using this tool is a snap. It runs as a service on Win2k and XP (perhaps others) and causes the given machine to keep itself up to date with the central repository and profile status (xml files on a server). There's even a html back-end under way to manage the xml files.

http://wpkg.sourceforge.net/

When I start a desktop application up that is written in Java it feels sluggish.

I assume you have a fairly recent JVM installed, no? Click here, use it to clean out your hard drive, and tell me if it improves your impression at all. Another really great Java app is Azureus. Are you already using it perhaps? There also used to be a really great Gnutella client called Furi up until Limewire stunk up the place. (In all fairness to Limewire, it has gotten better too. But they really need to ditch the custom L&F for something more platform standard.)

I suppose it's something of a double edged sword. As Java gets better fewer people realize that it's Java. Which means that the old ideas never die.

If you want people to stop calling Java slow, then by all means, speed it up some more, but don't get upset when people call a spade a spade, and don't call them stupid for doing so.

*sigh* The Swing GUI is actually running faster than Windows apps. Various tests have been done that have shown that during heavy GUI updates Windows programs skip several updates while the Java program always displayed every update in the same period of time.

If I can ask an honest question, what was the last Java GUI you used? Be honest, because I'm really curious at what is continuing to give Java a bad name.

All programming languages suck.

True 'dat.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's still difficulty simply distributing it, isn't there?

You're wrong. Java is completely free to bundle in binary form, and the Java Research License on the Mustang development path only requires that any recipients agree to the JRL license. No commerical use of the source code is allowed without negotiating a license with Sun.

As far as I can interpret the license, there is no issue with bundling it with Linux OSes. However, the upper-echelons of the OSS community have demonized the JVM and have found a few nits to pick. I'm already working with Sun to get clarification for them since the ones I've talked to don't want to do a tiny bit of legwork.

Or do you define "main OSS community" as "the subset of OSS developers that don't like Java", in which case that's pretty much a tautology and not worth mentioning?

More or less what is considered the "movers and shakers" of the OSS community. For example, we've heard from both Stallman and de Icaza about how "evil" Java is. Personally, I just think they're jealous (especially de Icaza) but it doesn't help Java's image any.

I don't feel the need to specifically attack Stallman for it though, and I think it's unjustified when you do it.

Sorry, but he is the leader of the FSF. AFAIK, blame rests squarely with him. If we're going to blame anyone that is. I really don't care that Hurd is not done after 14 years, but when you contrast it to the FSF's policy of "set it free" (i.e. "give it to us") you have to wonder why they think they'd be a better custodian?

And if we're talking about Java we're only talking about a collection of libraries, a syntax, and some compiler technology. The FSF have implemented those things multiple times.

If that were true, we wouldn't be talking. We'd be using GCJ/Kaffe and everyone would be happy. The reason why everyone isn't happy is that GCJ/Classpath/Kaffe have not been successful in producing a complete JVM. It shouldn't be as hard as they make it out to be, but for some reason it is.

If you choose to, you can decompose most software into smaller components. But I guess it suits your agenda to only do it for GNU and not for Java.

Nonsense. Let's do it right now:

GCC vs. JavaC -> GCC is obviously more complex.
GCJ vs. Hotspot -> Hotspot has some of the most complex technology ever developed for

This may be useful for building custom install packages, then running them through domain login scripts,

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

OCS Inventory

No what you asked for dirrectly but this is what we've been using to do something similar. This will tell you everything that's installed on the machine. What hardware it has, BOIS, free space etc. All in about 10 sseconds. After that is has sections for fixes, comments, changes etc.

We looked at getting just ticket tracking (which is basically what your wanting) and realised we wanted inventory tracking more.

What we are looking forward to is OCS Inventory is planning to work with the GLPI project so you want use the OCS Inventory backend and use and extended OCS Inventory + GLPI front end.

If your mainly wanting ticket tracking about hardware you may be more interested in GLPI which I talked about before.

Lastly here more products that do issue tracking.

OCS Inventory

No what you asked for dirrectly but this is what we've been using to do something similar. This will tell you everything that's installed on the machine. What hardware it has, BOIS, free space etc. All in about 10 sseconds. After that is has sections for fixes, comments, changes etc.

We looked at getting just ticket tracking (which is basically what your wanting) and realised we wanted inventory tracking more.

What we are looking forward to is OCS Inventory is planning to work with the GLPI project so you want use the OCS Inventory backend and use and extended OCS Inventory + GLPI front end.

If your mainly wanting ticket tracking about hardware you may be more interested in GLPI which I talked about before.

Lastly here more products that do issue tracking.

Okay, this is way too close to my personal project so I HAVE to plug it (sorry). http://www.dustrunners.com/ It's in the early stages yet, but that's the basic idea. Creative Commons source, lots of raw materials to use, and an attempt to open the source of a show. Oh, and I'm also looking for a PHP dev for the companion FOSS project here: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cpvs.

Phew. Plug done. I'm sorry if your eyes are watering.

Speaking of mail..

Mail.app now doesn't support the httpmail plugin.

Again.

Just after it was updated.

How annoying.

BTW, I'd be very interested to see a this Linux browser based on Webcore, have you got a link (or even a name?)).

I love this program. http://typefaster.sourceforge.net/

Simple, clean, big, clear, and easy to use.

My standard deal is 20% off for balloons and other educational uses. I also donate freebies from time to time for good causes.

Oh, and of course, it's all Open Source. BSD license. And the firmware's recently been rehosted on SourceForge.

As I mentioned, you need a silent install. For F., there's different ways to do that:

1. Use FrontMotion's MSI for Firefox
2. Follow the instructions and created your own MSI using MakeMSI (which is free as in beer, not speech)
3. Follow the instructions on Unattended's wiki and roll a silent install from the .exe

Check this out, it looks like a really good solution.

http://msi-repository.sourceforge.net/

Hi Wally,
There are many softwares available that can repackage an install as an MSI. You can than repackage your updates to Firefox, etc and apply using Group Policy as you are used to. There are even some OS efforts (http://msi-repackaging.sourceforge.net/)

I hope that you don't let software distribution be a stickler here. The benefits to rolling out Firefox, etc are many.

I think you are looking at it the wrong way round. Use deploying Firefox to give people a choice and also give yourselves in the IT Department a choice.

For example if you deploy an MSI for Firefox (www.frontmotion.com is a great package), lock down and configure as needed (http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm - disclaimer: that's my project!), and you give both your customers (ie. academic staff and students) a choice of browser and yourselves a back-up plan if you suddenly need to lock down one of the browsers in case of security issues, etc.

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

This is a great way to script installation of windows machines. You can put any applications you want into the system and use it to push machine upgrades out.

FirefoxADM is a way of allowing centrally managed locked and/or default settings in Firefox via Group Policy and Administrative Templates in Active Directory Latest news about FirefoxADM at http://spaces.msn.com/members/in-cider/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm

Unoffical Firefox MSI builds can be found at
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

Official Firefox Msi installers will be avaible in the 1.1 release nightly msi builds can be found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/latest-trunk/ the nighlies are not ready for general use yet, but are availbe for testing.

If Linux, then follow the advice of the poster who told you to use Debian -- its package management is, IMNSHO, The Best, Ever! (tm) for Unix. If you can't go with Debian, then look at using rsync. We use that here (maybe 50 FreeBSD workstations and servers), and it's great: add stuff to The One True Machine and it shows up the next morning. We synchronize the usual suspects this way: /usr/local, /usr/X11R6.

If Windows...well, I presume you've got AD or some such. We don't (I'm trying to get away w/o a MS server in the house), and I've just come across wpkg. Looks pretty good, with two caveats:

1. You need silent installations of things. MSIs or silent .exes are good, anything with a window is bad.
2. The documentation is most charitably described as "scant". (Hoping to add to it at some point.)

What about apt? apt-proxy? apt torrent, if you don't want to hammer your servers?

Seriously, why would anyone *doubt* that delivering software is much better than linux? If there's something wrong in windows, is software packaging and delivery. Did you realized how you 3rd party programs don't have methods to update automatically? (hell, lots of programs even need to be uninstalled by hand before installing the new version, no "upgrade" support)

In Linux, you have things like APT. With APT, you can update ALL your software, not just the a few Microsoft apps. You can configure it like tou want, adding several lines from different servers in your sources.list, setting priorities in apt.conf, use P2P to automate it with a cron job. We are years ahead of Microsoft in this are, IMNSHO.

Try DCL http://dcl.sourceforge.net/ out. It's in use by a large group of people, is very stable. Unlike most of it's competitors it's extremely easy and fast to get setup and yet provides a very featureful interface.

Using a tool called FUQID, which queues Freenet file requests, one could easily run a list of forbidden CHKs against a disk image. If the number/size of whole files containing naughty stuff is significantly higher than predicted by your node's uptime, you are in trouble.

...you disconnect your machine from the network and take a list of Content Hash Keys for illegal content and see if the node produces them from the cache.

That's not quite "decrypting" your cache.

From the Freenet FAQ

Why hash keys and encrypt data when a node operator could identify them (the data) anyway if he tried?

Hashing the key and encrypting the data is not meant a method to keep Freenet Node operators from being able to figure out what type of information is in their nodes if they really want to (after all, they can just find the key in the same way as someone who requests the information would) but rather to keep operators from having to know what information is in their nodes if they don't want to. This distinction is more a legal one than a technical one. It is not realistic to expect a node operator to try to continually collect and/ or guess possible keys and then check them against the information in his node (even if such an attack is viable from a security perspective), so a sane society is less likely to hold an operator liable for such information on the network.

A UI without drop shadows? It's incredibly fast and efficient? That sounds to me an awful lot like Window Maker, Openbox, Fluxbox, BlackBox, aewm, flwm, and about 1/2 million other window managers already available for Linux.

A UI without drop shadows? It's incredibly fast and efficient? That sounds to me an awful lot like Window Maker, Openbox, Fluxbox, BlackBox, aewm, flwm, and about 1/2 million other window managers already available for Linux.

And if $20 is too much, you can go open source: http://typefaster.sourceforge.net/

A program we decided to use in a 6-person shop was the HelpDesk Issue Management (also known as helpmeict). Simple to set up.

No, actually, this is specifically something which freenet is not intended to solve. The "attack" here is where somebody breaks into your house and compromises the terminal you use to access freenet. Obviously this is always going to work. If you had bothered to read the project website you would note that they explained this.

It so happens that they can do something about this specific attack, and they will. But it was never an objective and it won't stop a really determined attacker.

We're working on it. Right now Slash just uses MySQL's MyISAM FULLTEXT indexing, which is kinda 2001. It's a cheap solution that we've limped along with for quite a while. But we've rewritten our search code to be modular, anticipating a better solution that we can plug in, once we find one we like. Our top contenders right now are Lucene and Kinosearch.

Wikinews currently has a human-maintained RSS feed here, and a feed of all new pages here; as I replied to the other poster, code for category RSS feeds has been written. It has been temporarily deactivated for security concerns, which should be addressed in the next few days.

Or, as a shameless plug :-), install my recently-released IE URL Lock from http://ieurllock.sourceforge.net/ so that users cannot use Internet Explorer except for Admin-approved web sites via a regular expression-based allow-list.

Very cool project - the screenshots posted by the parent comment show nicely that the Tübingen Project forgot to adjust the colors - due to the Doppler effect, colors change dramatically.

Lightspeed is a simulator for velocities at c and below. Screenshots are available.

Lightspeed is a simulator for velocities at c and below. Screenshots are available.

Jikes RVM runs on IA-32 and PowerPC running Linux, AIX, and OS X. The Jikes RVM is implemented in Java and is self-hosted.

There are additional details on freshmeat.net.

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see http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml

my company firewall blocks access to all proxys and Websense blocks access to all proxy related web sites, for example http://larytet.sourceforge.net/betaTesting/websens e.PNG

General anonymity application look also http://www.anonymous-p2p.org/rodi.html http://board.planetpeer.de/index.php is anothe place