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at this point there is the open source mtasc copiler, which not only is free, but is much faster and can be customizes the macromedia's.

personally, I use another open source editor called sepy which rocks!

now there are quite a few alternatives to authoring flash content away from macromedia.
no need to create a conspiracy where there is none.
and yes, svg cannot do many things the flash player can, go check it.

Now I just wish someone hacks FreeCiv to have Alpha Centauri stuff, and I'd be happy happy happy!

Are you happy yet?

Their goal, which I think they're close to, is to make AC a pure modpack (ruleset+tileset) and have all the code integrated into mainline freeciv. For now, you need to apply some patches.

hmm i see no mention of thier old name on that site. Do you have any evidence that its the same project?

Actually, the history of the renaming went like this: There was FreeCraft, which included the core engine, Warcraft II data ripper/support files, and Freecraft Media Project (which was supposed to produce free artwork - hilariously blasphemous stuff*).

After Blizzard C&D'd the whole lot, the original developers said bye-bye. New people started the work. Core engine was renamed to Stratagus, the Warcraft II ripper/data thing was called Wargus (which was originally just included in Stratagus, but quite soon split to another project), and FCMP became Aleona's Tales... uh, the web page now says "Wartorn", that project pretty much died because it was so... shall we say... not really going anywhere.

Nowadays, the Stratagus engine runs tons of RTS games - just check out the list in the web page!

Okay, the web sites still don't mention their original names, but you can search for news stories mentioning the Freecraft-to-Stratagus changeover. I believe Slashdot covered it. Yep! They did! (And I believe there was a dupe as well, can't seem to find it right now though =)

If you have cash burning a hole in your pocket, get FontLab; otherwise, get FontForge.

Sorry, but I tried that PDF reader some time ago, although it is good for simple pdf's It tends to crash a lot, it also wont show correctly some other PDF's (I think the ones that does not contain normal characters. Etc etc,

It is good overall but, no, it cant replace Adobe's PDF reader , but maybe xpdf is quite useful also.

Command line interface (CLI) is the way to go for real PBX systems. There is no GUI out there that really takes advantage of all the features of what Asterisk can do. And if you do need a gui to do something, chances are, you shouldn't be running your own PBX.

I guess it really depends on your skills and how much time you want to spend with the phone system. I personally prefer to work in GUI's for most things, as it saves me time from remembering obscure options and switches for hundreds of config files in different programs. Not to mention the additional error checking a GUI will provide, or the quick "summaries" they can give that pull information from various files together to give you an overall picture.

As far as no GUI that can take advantage of everything Asterisk can do -- that's pretty much like saying there's no GUI that can take advantage of everything Linux can do. Asterisk is incredibly flexible, which makes it very difficult to write GUI's. It's somewhat akin to writing a GUI for a programming language (since asterisk's dialplan is really a simple language). I'm one of the developers for AMP, and a common misconception is that AMP is a general GUI for editing any Asterisk setup, when in fact, it's a fairly specific configuration for Asterisk that includes a web GUI. It is really designed for use as a PBX in a small-to-medium sized business. People request things like support for calling cards, but it's just not designed for that kind of application. Of course, there's nothing stopping people from taking the GPL'd source and removing the extensions, IVR, etc stuff and making a configuration specifically to handle a calling card company.

Anyway, the point is you'll never get one GUI that takes care of "all" the features, because there's really an unlimited number of things you can do, and an unlimited number of ways to do them. That doesn't mean that a GUI is worthless. For a lot of situations, using something like AMP will save you lots of time, because you'll just be building the same thing by hand (reinventing the wheel, so to speak). Other times, you'll want a lot of custom stuff and a GUI tool like AMP won't be appropriate. Of course, you can use a mixture of things - AMP has many hooks for adding custom functionality, and there's nothing stopping people from writing additional functionality into the AMP GUI itself.

TripleA

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/

Triplea : an open source axis and allies clone

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/

1. POTS lines will work. You will need an FX0 card per line. Not practical if you need a lot of lines. There are some multi Line FXO cards available. FX0=Hook up to telephone lines. There is a flavor of Intel Modem that will work as a single Line FXO card. They are pretty cheap and would be a good way to build a cheap test or home system.

2. To hook up just plain old phones to Asterisk you need FXS cards. FXS= hook phones up to Asterisk.
Or you can get VoIP phones and hook them up to a 100BaseT or 1000BaseT network. I will probably also want to use a power inserter so you can have power over ethernet or PoE. That way the phones will get their power over the network connection and will not have to have a wall wart.
Or you can use a softphone. A softphone is a program that runs under Windows, Linux, BSD, PalmOS, WinCE, or the Mac that uses your computers soundcard as a telephone.
Your best place to look is the VoIP Wiki http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php.
Another good site is the Asterisk@Home project http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/. It is a Linux/Asterisk distro. Pop it in and you get an Asterisk box. Warning! This is NOT a live CD. It will reformat your hard drive and install Linux and Asterisk on it.

Now I just wish someone hacks FreeCiv to have Alpha Centauri stuff.

The freecivac project might be dead, but it supplied patches to add some SMAC features to freeciv. I took a look at it, but since the Carbonized SMAC runs perfectly well under Mac OS X, I'll stick with the original for now.

Seashore is a simple image editor for OS X, with a native front end that reuses a lot of code from the Gimp. It is still pretty rudimentary, but seems like the right approach to me. This is exactly what the previous poster is talking about. One guy writes a GPL editor, posts it on sourceforge. Right now it is functional and useful. Once it integrates the coreimage capabilities, it will start to be a useful replacement for photoshop for some low-end users. This is exactly the type of project that could take off and put the hurt on photoshop (who just announced that they are acquiring macromedia by the way).

Oh, and i *DON'T* want to have to reboot my machine just to be able to play a DOS only/Win 98 Only/Linux Only/Win NT only game thanx...

Since we're talking Civ here, you don't have to; it runs fine in DOSbox, and I'd be surprised if it didn't run under a similar emulator on Linux.

If it doesn't, I think spending time creating an open source emulator to run those old great games as they were meant to be is far preferable to simply copying one old game. It would certainly take less time than the 7 years it has taken for Freeciv so far.

P.

Yes, with the mighty power of Dosbox! http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ The game is listed in their compatibility database

I'm doing the Documentation for AMP which is probably (IMO) the best admin tool, and it's what is used for 99% of the administration of Asterisk@Home. AMP is rapidly becoming more than just a basic interface to Asterisk tho - the current CVS handles LCR, ZAP Trunks (eg, physical connections to the PSTN via ISDN or normal 2-wire FXO/FXS), Call Groups, Inbound call queues with everything you'd expect ("Your call is 4th in the queue. Your expected wait time is 3 minutes"). The current CVS of Asterisk, when used with AMP, gives you attended transfers, call (audio) recording, and a whole pile of other stuff.

Probably the best thing for someone new to VoIP is to get the latest version of Asterisk@Home (which is 0.9 at the time of this post) and an old machine, a couple of soft-phones (VoIP software that lets you make calls from your PC using your sound card) and a FWD number and start playing.

Feel free to leave me voicemail on my FWD number - 47876 - if you have any questions or comments!

I'm doing the Documentation for AMP which is probably (IMO) the best admin tool, and it's what is used for 99% of the administration of Asterisk@Home. AMP is rapidly becoming more than just a basic interface to Asterisk tho - the current CVS handles LCR, ZAP Trunks (eg, physical connections to the PSTN via ISDN or normal 2-wire FXO/FXS), Call Groups, Inbound call queues with everything you'd expect ("Your call is 4th in the queue. Your expected wait time is 3 minutes"). The current CVS of Asterisk, when used with AMP, gives you attended transfers, call (audio) recording, and a whole pile of other stuff.

Probably the best thing for someone new to VoIP is to get the latest version of Asterisk@Home (which is 0.9 at the time of this post) and an old machine, a couple of soft-phones (VoIP software that lets you make calls from your PC using your sound card) and a FWD number and start playing.

Feel free to leave me voicemail on my FWD number - 47876 - if you have any questions or comments!

I think the point of the secure erasing feature is overwriting the (presumably sensitive) data with useless gibberish which looks like malformed/broken data and/or can't even be construed as a file.

Yes - see the man page for the srm command (that's the Darwin 7.0.1 man page, which is the 10.3.1 man page, but other UN*Xes include it as well).

The "Gutmann algorithm" mentioned therein is presumably the one devised by Peter Gutmann, as described in his paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory.

Not the greatest choice of wording (and spelling), in any case. Maybe "meaningless" would have been clearer?

That, or "scrambled" (which I suggested via the Website Feedback page on the Apple Website), although perhaps "scrambled" is a bit too techy.

I've heard of squeezing Linux into small devices, but a window manager on a space probe is a bit ridiculous, don't you think? TCP just isn't designed to handle that much lag time and network interference.

Actually, it *is* really good for "3D stuff". I'm not sure where you get the idea that it wouldn't be. At Linux World Boston, Emperor Linux was demoing a Sharp laptop with similar technology. They had it running PyMoL in 3D mode, and it was very impressive.

I don't know else what to listen to!

"iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering system for music. You rate the tracks it downloads and the server uses your ratings and other people's to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music."

The biggest problem with license proliferation is that you can't combine OSS/FS programs with each other unless the licenses are compatible. So if your OSS/FS code isn't compatible with the most common OSS/FS license, there's a problem. Especially when you consider that the other OSS/FS software not licensed under the GPL is usually GPL-compatible (BSD-new, MIT, LGPL). If you make sure your license is at least GPL-compatible, then the problems of "how do I combine this software" generally vanish... no matter what, you can license the combination under the GPL, and use the results.

You don't need to agree with the GPL at all; lots of companies who certainly aren't wholehearted supporters of it use the GPL for completely pragmatic reasons.

For more info, see Make your Open Source Software GPL-compatible. Or Else.

I just tried loband and it resembles with w3m or lynx would display. It's true the text probably isn't getting compress, but text usually isn't the issue with low bandwidth, though text is highly compressible.

But looking at the source of the file I just downloaded. What it basically does is strip off the css and replace with its own. images will get a link to the actual image, which doesn't get compress anymore. I don't see any compression at all either.

Another problem I see with this is that what loband is doing seems to be able to be done on a client side app instead of a server side app. With the server side app, it seems to be a waste of bandwidth to and from loband.

Likely possible through some indirect manner and some additional work. I don't know garageband, but I suspect it can export individual tracks to mp3, etc. Get someone to do this, and re-assemble the tracks in an Audacity project.

This is really interesting in terms of possibilities. Imagine having some Qt type license for music where if you released a song under this license, another artist could modify it freely and redistribute it provided they also have it in the same multi-track format for future revision. Open music. Collaboration by anyone.

I couldn't RTFA because it's coughing up Internal Server Errors, but how is this different from the "web accelerators" that have been available for years? The one we currently use at my work is RabbIT - it reencodes images to a lower quality, saving bandwidth, and also gzips the pages. It makes browsing on a 56k seem signifigantly faster. Sure seems very similar to what this is doing, and certianly isn't anything revolutionary.

Personnaly I find the Gimp to be better for me than Photoshop. Mind you, I'm doing web design and 3-d textures, if I was a photographer I'd most likely prefer PS.

I am a musician, and one of the reasons I switched to Linux was because of greater flexibility in the audio area. Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour, Timdity ++, Jack, and Stompboxes, along with a few other apps, have more than replaced Cubase for me, and work with significantly less latency.

While Freecraft may have been "cease and desisted" by Blizzard, the source is still out there on various "cease and desisted software" sites.

Personnaly I find the Gimp to be better for me than Photoshop. Mind you, I'm doing web design and 3-d textures, if I was a photographer I'd most likely prefer PS.

I am a musician, and one of the reasons I switched to Linux was because of greater flexibility in the audio area. Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour, Timdity ++, Jack, and Stompboxes, along with a few other apps, have more than replaced Cubase for me, and work with significantly less latency.

While Freecraft may have been "cease and desisted" by Blizzard, the source is still out there on various "cease and desisted software" sites.

Personnaly I find the Gimp to be better for me than Photoshop. Mind you, I'm doing web design and 3-d textures, if I was a photographer I'd most likely prefer PS.

I am a musician, and one of the reasons I switched to Linux was because of greater flexibility in the audio area. Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour, Timdity ++, Jack, and Stompboxes, along with a few other apps, have more than replaced Cubase for me, and work with significantly less latency.

While Freecraft may have been "cease and desisted" by Blizzard, the source is still out there on various "cease and desisted software" sites.

The samples are AIF format inside the archive (inside a DMG file).

Audacity is a fantastic quick-and-dirty multitrack editor, but you'd have to reassemble the samples, I don't think there's a converter. It's a wxWindows app, so it's gui is the same across unix/x11, mac & windows.

Ardour for linux is more pro-strength, but the same problem exists -- you'd have to convert the tracking by hand.

Since we're on the topic of shameless plugs, I might as well link to DGuitar, a Guitar Pro style program written in Java. I use it on my FreeBSD system to read .gp3,.gp4 files. The project is only a few months old but already has the ability to read the files and play them in MIDI.

Linus did the right thing because all the open source SCM solutions sucked for the past few years.

But they don't! http://aegis.sourceforge.net/ is free, absurdly powerful, and I can't imagine why Linus doesn't consider it, unless its the line in the aegis docs about kernel development being difficult if you follow the normal aegis process of requiring successful test passes - but (a) you could just turn of the tests and (b) that's because at the time those docs were written, a two machine setup was the way kernels were developed - but UML or Xen on one physical machine make such tests far more practical, even useful and desirable, for large sections of the kernal than they were a few years ago.

yum update firefox. love it.

Well, you can implement cheaper and less robast hand-tracking camera system with little coding using open sourced Augmented reality system - ARToolkit. Put small ARToolkit markers on the gloves as described at this article (photo, and implement some gesture recognition (for example that one )

This is kinda offtopic, but I've found bfilter to be a more effective ad-blocking solution. Since it's a proxy server, it works with any browser.
Disclaimer: I'm not associated with bfilter's development in any way, I'm just a happy user.

There are also other end-user (working) anonymous-p2p programs such as:

• I2P
• AntsP2P
• Mute (It has an anonymity bug so do research on this one before using it).

The site Anonymous-p2p.org has a good list of anonymous p2p programs as well.

There are also other end-user (working) anonymous-p2p programs such as:

• I2P
• AntsP2P
• Mute (It has an anonymity bug so do research on this one before using it).

The site Anonymous-p2p.org has a good list of anonymous p2p programs as well.

What I did to combat annoying advertisements was to install AdZapper on my Smoothwall box. I rarely see any ads (including Flash-based ads). Plus my pages load a lot faster since I don't have to wait for 3rd party links to respond.

"Examples please?"

I might ask the same thing.

Ok. Here is one. My first draft took me about three hours to put together, and maybe another three hours over the course of its life in terms of code rework and bug fixes. At the same time, it has saved me at least 6 hours per week in log file review. Sometimes I still need to review the log files (if it turns up false positives) but then it still saves time because I already know what I am looking for.

Another common one is creating a script on remote servers which looks something like this:

ssh gateway_act@metatrontech.com -R 2223:localhost:22 -R 8001:localhost:80 -i /root/.ssh/key
and then making it setuid saves a bunch of time in allowing me to remotely access the servers when required without giving me an always on connection.

Other examples include a 2-hour script which I put together to automate moving files around on my network (f. ex. offloading logs from the firewall).

Indeed my firewall is so heavily automated that the only maintenance I do is in reading the two firewall reports it sends me every day.

It is also not merely a question of time as a raw constant. I could just simply not maintain my firewalls at all (this would save time). But to do so would not be wise. So by writing scripts, I can accomplish a lot more with the same quantity of time and run a better network. Indeed I cannot think of any scripts written by reasonable admins which result in a net decrease in productivity.

I think you missed the boat on this one.

Windows 2000 has had Win95 / 98 / NT SP4 compatibility layers since service pack 2. They're just not turned on by default, because Win2k is still sold as a "professional" OS.

In addition, Win2k's DOS emulation layer is fairly complete, but it lacks XPs attempt at sound emulation. That's no problem, thanks to VDMSound. You get an additional benefit with VDMSound because it initializes most of the important aspects of the DOS environment for you

Hell, when all else fails, there's always DOSBox.

I use 2000 at home all the time to game.

Well, one of the reasons why I have restarted a couple of times is that in The Beginning I would just rip 'em as they were; later, I would use CDDB to insert useful info; still later I started to use CDDB/FreeDB purely as a template, editing the info to ensure consistency and correctness. Then I decided to alter my "consistency default"...
Seems to me that once you've gotten the data off the disc, altering the data info in a structured, batchy way is nigh-on impossible.

Compared to choosing an audio format, it's at least as difficult to choose a "media library manager" that's smart about that additional info, instead of just a player that thinks of music as individual files.

I've found SnackAmp to be useful but (not very pretty), and JuK) to be prettier but not as useful. Comments?

The unichrome link is broken:

http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

For those too lazy to cut n paste:

http://swatch.sourceforge.net/
http://www.snort.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/

For those too lazy to cut n paste:

http://swatch.sourceforge.net/
http://www.snort.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but port sentry with a little tweaking can clean up what you describe really well - automatically drops the results into a firewall or hosts.deny.

Only problem is that it's not much of a user friendly program, can on rare occurances block IP addresses that were not intended to be blocked, so it takes a little bit of an active hands on approach.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/

using VirtuaWin

i suggest to spoof IP source address. see project Rodi http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml

Photoshop fine, with a wrapper http://codeweavers.com/, though I far prefer Gimp for all my design and image processing. iMovie? i don't know what that is, though iTunes runs fine apparently.. most Linux users use gtkpod http://gtkpod.sourceforge.net/ as an iTunes replacement however.

Something like this might be a good start.

Not really. It might have been at one time, but basically owning the browser scene for so long made it lethargic in comparison to newer browsers. (Or even Links.)

If you're just looking for benchmarks, I'm sure you can find instances where IE is fast(er) than another browser, but it's also likely the other way around.

Unless you really DO mean SoaB terms. Or if you are one of those that believe it is the only web browser.

I've found p2p-radio to work pretty well- now they just need more stations, and hopefully some will start supporting aacplus.

Look at dvbackup project

Also worth mentioning the immensely useful IPCop Support Web (note that this used to be .net, but that's dead for some reason). IPCop rocks, though the default traffic shaping capabilities are pretty rudimentary (the web interface is a bit limited, you can always edit the files in /var/ipcop/shaping), but there's a thriving mod/add-on community: do a search for 'shaping' in the aforementioned forums for help. You might want the take a look at the layer-7 filter dicussed here. I'd consider going for a few other mods, too, such as the Advanced Proxy, URLFilter and maybe the IPCop Addon Server with the BlockoutTraffic module.