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In that case, click here to make your head explode...

Seriously, that argument hasn't been true for years. In fact, Java makes more use of native code. The Java APIs mostly call native implementations (like zlib for instance), and bytecodes are turned into native code with JIT compilation.

If you want a JIT compiler extension for Python, you can try Psycho.

Gambas kind of does that, actually (re-implement Visual Basic)...Java doesn't, really. If they'd turn it into a scripting language for apache, I bet a lot of asp coders would abandon ship...

I thought the same thing until I started digging down into it - beleive it or not, Flash's file format, called "SWF", is a somewhat open standard (you can download it from Macromedia from here, and you're allowed to implement it without licensing restrictions, but neither is it GPL'ed) and has been implemented by at least open source project, so you don't even technically need Macromedia Director to create Flash stuff. Writing SSWF scripts feels a lot like programming. Now I just wish I could think of something interesting to do with it...

Sharing files amongst different platforms has most always resulted in using samba

SMB is only one of many file sharing protocols. Samba is generally only used when you want a Windows machine to use filesystems on a *nix fileserver. That's it.

But Windows is hardly the whole world. There's also NFS (pretty much the standard in the *nix world), Appleshare (what Macs use. To mount *nix filesystems on a Mac, you generally run netatalk on the *nix box, though OSX supports NFS natively too.)

Actually, you can get NFS clients and servers for Windows from several places, and they generally work pretty well once one realizes how NFS differs from SMB.

To mount a Windows file system on a *nix box, you can use smbfs if it's a Linux box -- and note that smbfs is not the same as Samba. Another option is Sharity (previously Rumba) which takes SMB and converts it to NFS.

And in addition to SMB, Appleshare and NFS, there's also Netware, Coda, InterMezzo, DFS, AFS, and many others, and nowadays they're all pretty much multi-platform. This page gives a nice summary of some of the more popular network file sharing methods.

Of course, network file sharing is not the only way. Sneakernet still works, for example. People have been taking floppy disks out of one computer type and putting them into another computer type for as long as computers have had floppy drives, though it probably didn't usually work until both Macs and PCs had 3.5" drives and the Macs learned to talk FAT. And today, USB and firewire drives, if formatted FAT, generally work in Mac, Windows and *nix systems and probably others, and are often used to share files ...

shfs works also quite well & enable to mount "scp shares" and make them use by any program.

the story poster is the the author of the program, see http://chungles.sourceforge.net/contacts.php

anyway, i wouldn't see it as a replacement of samba which is a true file sharing system, it's more of a file transfer tool.

OpenSTA - A web server load testing tool.

Basically, you record a path or multiple paths through the website. Then you setup multiple machines and threads to randomly walk those paths through the website. You'll want enough machines/connections to the network so that you can flood the web server's outbound connection.

Bonus points if you do log analysis prior and base your "paths" through the site to match the most frequent ones seen in the log files.

You can also do some extrapolation about upper-end, even if you only drive a particular component to 50% or 75% of maximum. We use this to find bottlenecks in our dynamic content, to find out where we need to focus on first (CPU usage or network usage).

The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open
software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software
should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing
that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they
can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the
same time.

Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts
for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general
has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs
are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are
great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged
with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?

They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for
stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems!
Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and
tinkering with it so that it can run Linux.
Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game
machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and
how they avoid answering the question.

They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.

http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.

Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux
community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source
programs.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936269,00.asp

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux
movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.

The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end,
steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big
business that is killing Linux.

The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of
others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal
whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.

So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you
had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux
will be out of business.
And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your
entire business on software that is supported by a community that
promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?

Food for thought.

The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open
software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software
should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing
that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they
can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the
same time.

Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts
for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general
has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs
are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are
great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged
with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?

They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for
stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems!
Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and
tinkering with it so that it can run Linux.
Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game
machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and
how they avoid answering the question.

They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.

http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.

Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux
community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source
programs.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936269,00.asp

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux
movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.

The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end,
steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big
business that is killing Linux.

The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of
others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal
whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.

So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you
had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux
will be out of business.
And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your
entire business on software that is supported by a community that
promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?

Food for thought.

The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open
software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software
should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing
that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they
can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the
same time.

Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts
for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general
has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs
are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are
great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged
with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?

They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for
stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems!
Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and
tinkering with it so that it can run Linux.
Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game
machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and
how they avoid answering the question.

They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.

http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.

Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux
community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source
programs.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936269,00.asp

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux
movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.

The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end,
steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big
business that is killing Linux.

The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of
others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal
whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.

So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you
had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux
will be out of business.
And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your
entire business on software that is supported by a community that
promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?

Food for thought.

On that note, I've become convinced that the folks behind psp-linux.org are fools or scammers. Their posts in the forum show a deep lack of skills/knowledge (they thought they could start by hacking on debian-mips/had no knowledge of Magic Gate), they say "only a small minority is qualified for this project" (you have to apply to contribute), and they keep asking for donations to get the work done faster. I've posted some (polite) criticism on these points, and had my posts deleted.

These guys seem to be the ones to watch.

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

it worked four me...

Are you sure about that? It seems like that claim could easily go to Agent USA or Corewars (or something else entirely - Lisp hackers are notorious for inventing clever amusements (like Emacs (which probably has a Corewars-mode (oh, it does)))).

After reading the IEEE article, it seems less like they re-named a honeypot, but more like they expanded on the LaBrea Tarpit http://sourceforge.net/projects/labrea.

I have 512/256kbps broadband (it's from a downstream supplier of BT broadband wholesale). The ADSL connection worked perfectly for 7 months using a Thomson Speedtouch 330 ADSL USB modem and the pppoa3 driver giving nearly the maximum download bandwidth of 490-500kbps. I had no complaints about the quality of the service.

Then, suddenly on Wednesday 9th March 2005, my phoneline went totally dead (both for voice and ADSL). BT Fault Repairs phoned to say they had had to replace the line card in the exchange. At exactly the same time and from that date onwards, the ADSL download speed was suddenly greatly reduced to only 120-130kbps and the pppoa3 driver keeps crashing and giving millions of errors like:

pppoa3[15084]: Cell had wrong VPI(0)/VCI(0) (OAM?) PTI=0x00
pppoa3[15084]: CRC error in an AAL5 frame(repeated hundreds of times)

Every few minutes, after hundreds of these errors, the driver seems to hang; no packets flow and according to strace it seems that pppd is stuck waiting in read(). This is very frustrating because the connection has to be re-started and it takes about 15 seconds to be re-established.

Even more strangely, on 1st May 2005 the download speed suddenly increased to 300-320kbps but the pppoa3 errors and hanging are continuing.

I've tried running the driver in threaded and non-threaded modes, with sync or async options, as well as trying the pppoa2 driver instead but the errors and hanging problems remain. I emailed the pppoa3 driver authors Benoit Papillault, Francois Rogler and Edouard Gomez to ask if they knew of such a problem but they never replied.

Both BT and the ADSL supplier say that all of their tests show both the phoneline and the ADSL service should be working normally. The ADSL supplier denies there is any problem.

Has anyone else had a similar problem which started very suddenly?

Or find the fastest ;)

http://fastest-cvsup.sourceforge.net/

Done and done.

Why does Jnode OS get no media attention on Slashdot ? The whole point BSD is that it's secure . Well this java os is more secure than BSD because it is programmed with the most secure language.

It's always great to hear from the /. peanut gallery of people who don't develop Open Source, who use lots of Open Source, but who don't generally donate any time, effort, or money to Open Source sound off on subjects like this, but maybe you'd like to hear from someone who is running an Open Source software project which does have a sponsor.

My project, the jSyncManager, has had a (somewhat indirect) sponsor for the past six months. Basically, this sponsor (who runs a department at a large University) needed an Open Source, platform neutral solution for synchronizing PalmOS-based handheld systems in the healthcare field, and decided to use the jSyncManager. In turn, they hired me on as a consultant to the project, doing Open Source software development.

This has been useful, as I've been doing Open Source development full time for the past year. It gives me a chance to work on my projects. The output I create for them is Open Source (GPL). And I have some funds I can now use towards the jSyncManager Project. They have also donated resources back to the jSyncManager Project.

I'm not going to get rich off their funding and the resources they've donated (sending me new handheld hardware was a huge boost, for example) -- but it's more than enough to support the needs of the project.

So please take a moment to take a look at their project (TAPAS). I would have continued jSyncManager development even without them, but their support has been a huge help, and has allowed me to do things like eat on a regular basis :).

Brad BARCLAY
Lead Developer & Project Administrator,
The jSyncManager Project.

There is such a component. However, QuickTime 7 broke it. I don't know that Apple is helping the project, but it seems to be aware of it. See the most recent comment on bug #1144430, "Ogg Vorbis Support Broken in Tiger," which includes comments from the QuickTime engineering group.

I would like to give you a real world example:

In the company where I work we are selling a (closed source) mission critical J2EE application suited for thousands of simultaneous users.

This application run on the Open Source (LGPL license) J2EE server JBoss. The reason we selected JBoss instead on one of the many closed source competitors was quality, not price. The price of even the most expensive J2EE servers is peanuts compared to the price of our application.

But a company like where I work (where mission critical applications are deployed on top of Open Source software) needs the best possible technical service and support for the Open Source software it runs on top of. One day of downtime is estimated to cost up to about US$3 million for the average installation of our software.

For JBoss a group of core developers saw the need for technical service and support for companies like mine. They formed a company to give service, support and application development advice.

Of course the company I work for is a customer of JBoss Inc., and we are very happy with their services. In one case we reported a problem with JBoss server clusters. After some communication we got down to the root cause of the problem, and within a few hours they had a patch ready that solved a race that could lead to a distributed deadlock condition.

I don't think that JBoss Inc. directly contributes money to the JBoss project. But they contribute a lot of resources. They have most of the core JBoss developers on their payroll, and these developers are also working on the JBoss project. They host the bug database of JBoss, and recently they also starting hosting the CVS repository.

Disclaimer: I may be biased since I contributed code to JBoss years ago, but I have never been affiliated with JBoss Inc. (except that I work for a company that is a customer of them).

Not until it runs well on our existing Windows boxes, and can access a central server for Calendaring, etc.

Hopefully it's not too far off. I am eagerly anticipating the stable releases of Novell's port of Evolution to Windows.

No, seriously.

qtcomponents has not been updated in almost a year and has to my knowledge never really worked. It is open source, but according to a bug posted by an Apple developer, it uses the now obsolete SoundManager and will have to be rewritten to use CoreAudio before it'll work again.

The other component, while being even longer since it was last updated, worked great. Although it had a few annoying bugs, it was quite usable right up until QT7 landed, and now it doesn't work at all. It is not open source, so you're pretty much out of luck.

Has anyone found any alternative way of getting oggs to play in iTunes?

Read the pearpc-devel mailing list or the PearPC.net forums - there are updates to the code daily! Just because they haven't released a new stable version, it doesn't mean that the development is dead. The developers of PearPC are working on OpenBIOS support, enhanced Altivec and hwmmu.

But I noticed that the Harry Potter trailer is out and I can't get that one on my linux box. I can download the .mov file but this is just a bootstrap of somesort. Some of them have the actual .mov file in them as a URL and you can get this out with a Hex editor. The Harry Potter one doesn't though. Anyone know how to get the actual trailer, please?

It's a relative reference. You found http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/harry_potter_gob let/hp_gobletoffire-ref.mov. Download that file. Run "strings hp_gobletoffire-ref.mov" and look at the result:

[...]
url
)hp_gobletoffire_m240.mov
[...]
url
)hp_gobletoffire_m240.mov
[...]
url
)hp_goblet offire_m320.mov
[...]
url
)hp_gobletoffire_m320 .mov
[...]
url
)hp_gobletoffire_m480.mov
[...]
url
)hp_gobletoffire_m480.mov
[...]

So grab one of those files from the same URL base: http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/harry_potter_gob let/hp_gobletoffire_m480.mov

You could also try mplayerplug-in, which can figure out the reference; personally, I don't like having videos playing embedded in my browser, so I always just dig out the URL and download them.

Unfortunately, the audio codec in all three is Quicktime audio (QDM2) rather than AAC or MP3, so mplayer and other players can't play it without binary-only codecs. The Narnia trailer, on the other hand, uses MP3.

Get mplayerplug-in. It handles embedded movies quite nicely.

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

Unfortunately, IE is updated with the Automatic Windows Updates, while Firefox is only updated by us when a new Windows template is rolled out on all the computers every 6 months or so.

Some Firefox MSIs are available:

• http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
• http://www.webheat.co.uk/firefox.php
• http://msi-repository.sourceforge.net/

It's kernel 2.0 or 2.2 only if I remember...

[from the original website]

Although a number of people have shown some interest in recent times in doing work on StegFS or developments of the idea (e.g. http://stegfs.sourceforge.net/), no-one seems to have had enough energy to actually do anything.

Anyway, this is (was) mentioned on ./ a couple of times before.

Actualy, you can do multipul desktops on windows.
the first time I saw it was in a program called litestep (if that isn't up there's an older version here).
Not only did it do multipule desktops it also skins them too. There's tons of other shell replacements like it at shell city. Some are better than others thou.....

Turns out ripping out the shell in windows isn't that hard.

These days I just use the normal shell and some random tool that came with my nvidia card that let's you have multipule desktops. Handy when some game blows up your refresh rate (civ 3).

If you really want package management, get Fink, or Gentoo, or DawrinPorts, or BSD's ports.

Like developing a new C library thats secure and fast.

Or how about help developing a java operating system for high security.

I've already been doing this for quite some time now with Azureus, and the Swing Web Interface plugin alongside RSS Feed Scanner plugin (to download TV shows automatically). There's even an IRC bot plugin to allow control over an IRC network/channel.

Why is my way better? Well, the default BitTorrent client is somewhat lacking feature wise. Azureus is more powerful and gives you more control over what to do with the torrents when they are done downloading. Not to mention the support for trackerless torrents in the latest version. As for encryption goes... uh, why? The only people who have access to my "files" are those that are on the network. And the Swing Web Interface plugin has password functionality with HTTP SSL (you need GPG to be installed).

I've already been doing this for quite some time now with Azureus, and the Swing Web Interface plugin alongside RSS Feed Scanner plugin (to download TV shows automatically). There's even an IRC bot plugin to allow control over an IRC network/channel.

Why is my way better? Well, the default BitTorrent client is somewhat lacking feature wise. Azureus is more powerful and gives you more control over what to do with the torrents when they are done downloading. Not to mention the support for trackerless torrents in the latest version. As for encryption goes... uh, why? The only people who have access to my "files" are those that are on the network. And the Swing Web Interface plugin has password functionality with HTTP SSL (you need GPG to be installed).

I've already been doing this for quite some time now with Azureus, and the Swing Web Interface plugin alongside RSS Feed Scanner plugin (to download TV shows automatically). There's even an IRC bot plugin to allow control over an IRC network/channel.

Why is my way better? Well, the default BitTorrent client is somewhat lacking feature wise. Azureus is more powerful and gives you more control over what to do with the torrents when they are done downloading. Not to mention the support for trackerless torrents in the latest version. As for encryption goes... uh, why? The only people who have access to my "files" are those that are on the network. And the Swing Web Interface plugin has password functionality with HTTP SSL (you need GPG to be installed).

I've already been doing this for quite some time now with Azureus, and the Swing Web Interface plugin alongside RSS Feed Scanner plugin (to download TV shows automatically). There's even an IRC bot plugin to allow control over an IRC network/channel.

Why is my way better? Well, the default BitTorrent client is somewhat lacking feature wise. Azureus is more powerful and gives you more control over what to do with the torrents when they are done downloading. Not to mention the support for trackerless torrents in the latest version. As for encryption goes... uh, why? The only people who have access to my "files" are those that are on the network. And the Swing Web Interface plugin has password functionality with HTTP SSL (you need GPG to be installed).

• Uses native threading (posix threads). Full thread implementation including Thread.interrupt()
• Object references are direct pointers (i.e. no handles)
• Supports class loaders
• Efficient thin locks for fast locking in uncontended cases (the majority of locking) without using spin-locking
• Two word object header to minimise heap overhead (lock word and class pointer)
• Execution engine supports basic switched interpreter and threaded interpreter, to minimise dispatch overhead (requires gcc value labels)
• Stop-the-world mark and sweep garbage collector
• Thread suspension uses signals to reduce suspend latency and improve performance (no suspension checks during normal execution)
• Full object finalisation support within the garbage collector (with finaliser thread)
• Garbage collector can run synchronously or asynchronously within its own thread
• String constants within class files are stored in hash table to minimise class data overhead (string constants shared between all classes)
• Supports JNI and dynamic loading for use with standard libraries
• Uses its own lightweight native interface for internal native methods without overhead of JNI
• JamVM is written in C, with a small amount of platform dependent assembler, and is easily portable to other architectures.

GTK+ dependencies:
http://xpad.sourceforge.net/

For KDE:
http://pim.kde.org/components/knotes.php

Replying to my own post, sad...

Does anyone know if any of the bits of the Silicon Graphics accelerating apache project were ever rolled into Apache 1.3.x or 2.x?
http://aap.sourceforge.net/

I don't buy ATI video input cards for a purely practical reason -- I hate paying a $100 premium for a card that I'll eventually upgrade and have to shell out that $100 premium again if I want to keep the same capabilities.

1) Who is going to code their applications? Schools will have to hire hoards of developers to write custom code. Nearly all IT shops are against this, in favor of COTS.

Do they have that much money to waste? Fact is, Rapid Application Development in Linux is no big monster. You can always develop in RealBasic and compile the executable to run on Linux, that if learning curve is a problem.
Otherwise they can develop in Java: Look at Skype, Limewire, Azareus, Digichat.
Java is cross-platform you know?
Simpler languages like Tk/TCL are also cross-platform and easy to program in.
Fact is VB programmers are used to recycling ActiveX components which are very unstable, bulky and guess what support is now obsolete. Windows 2000 very soon will also lose support

2) Who are they going to call for tech support? How much does that cost?
Forums, Google, Articles, Books. People are badly accustomed with bad support that charges enormous rate; when it is known that people that work for them don't have a clue but follow from an answer manual. I know this girl that is clueless about computer and works for an IT Support Centre answering the phone.
Plus Linux hardly need as much support as Windows. It doesn't decay and corrupt so easily, it doesn't get so readily infected by nasties.

3) Who sets the standards for interoperabily?
I hope you don't think it should be Microsoft.
Interoperability is not a challenge for Linux, many internet cafes with solely Window clients run Linux on the background. Many corporates have their mail server sitting on Linux.
Can't comment on Mac though, never used it.
But can assure you - that with many more OSS education-related arising, Linux is by miles a cheaper better and saner idea.

The good thing about Microsoft is that you can always blame them if something goes wrong - so that can be handy for school admins.

Some version of GCC are forbinden to be used with partical versions of Linux. You just try building a kernel 2.0.0 on a modern GCC it will not build.

Basicly I could give you a turbo C++ compiler and tell you to build linux and it would not work.

quality assurance (QA) team. http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ The linux test project. The autoscripts that do a whole pile of tests on the kernel to make sure it builds right and does not have defects.

Ie your fault needs to be added to the test kit.

Without a GCC version no one can tell if you are just building it with the wrong GCC.

Testing is improving. Its better than Microsofts. Less flaws get past on most of the time.

• sshd / ssh access on a machine "at work" (preferably, don't use port 22)
• Install rabbit
• Tunnel the port 9666 to your browsing machine

This could be quite useful if you connect via GPRS and pay data by the megabyte... or if you're travelling to an unfriendly country and don't want unfriendly people to snoop on your browsing habbit.

Doesn't let you even look at the source code.

No, you'll have to download it yourself and fire up your favourite text editor to do that.

...someone will post a how-to on building your own card reader so the paranoid curious can read just what's on their card.

There are a lot of apps that use Rendezvous (Bonjour) and it's nice to see exactly what's going on. There are a lot more things using it than you might know. Gaim uses it to chat with iChat users, most modern printers use it, sshd, ftpd, httpd servers and clients use it, etc. etc. etc.. If you'd like to see what information is being exchanged, check out Rendezvous Browser. It's lists all the Rendezvous services that are being advertised on the network.

After you've dug into that you might want to check out Rendezvous Proxy which lets you create custom Rendezvous beacons, advertising services for servers which don't have native Rendezvous support and servers which aren't in your LAN (Rendezvous messages stay within subnets). The tutorial even shows how to make slashdot appear in your Rendezvous bookmarks. :)

Andrew Kuchling wrote a very nice overview of the Zeroconf technology.
Complete with a pure Python module implementation and some example programs.

Can somebody explain to me what ZeroConf has got over UPnP? There is a lot of industry momentum around UPnP already (most routers ship with it for instance), it's an open standard, and there are open-source implementations of it as well. Is ZeroConf a result of Apple not-invented-here, or does it do something fundamentally different than UPnP?

I have used this program before to make "secure" point to point voice calls with friends.

http://www.speakfreely.org/

How hard can it be to encrypt packets? How hard can it be to tunnel the VoIP through an SSH tunnel?

So, my free solution here would be to install OpenSSH (yes there is one for windows and its free) and putty. Then you just redirect the port of the VoIP thing and that's it. You just have another setup like that in the other end.

http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Now for a commercial SSH tunnel, use Tunnelier.
http://www.bitvise.com/products.html

Now, I know that in government or any private company or industry money MAY BE a limitation... This is cheap and it has good licensing schemes, so no "buts."

Your IP phones are belong to us... (the unencrypted ones at least) get it?

Have a good one.

Obviously, they used lzip, the most advanced file compression utility ever conceived! (note: files compressed with lzip cannot be restored to their original state) Ah, now the IBM strategy becomes clear..

lzip.