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This is in offtopic response to your sig. You should check out the spellbound Firefox extension.

... and there is Luma for point and clickness. Macs also love OpenSLP. I suppose an enterprising techie could put together a collection of LDAPpy binaries, call it Linux Directory Services and sell it for thousands. But doesn't O'Reilly have a good LDAP book?

I don't mean to sound like a troll/rude person, but all those abilities you listed are mainly server specific, right?

Wouldn't it be nice if Linux got some nicer device drivers (ATi, are you listening? ;-) ) for the desktop users? OpenLDAP is in practice really nice, all it lacks (IMHO) is some decent documentation not written for Novellish zealots (no offence meant, really!) and/or people growing up with the LDAP spoon in the mouth?

However, the desktop side is pretty lacking but maybe not as bad as the laptop side. Ever had a look on ACPI implementations on non-IBM laptops? Sleep states are a horrible thing!

As a final note, configuration for OpenLDAP can be pretty easy with the right tool, which in this case happens to be phpLDAPadmin! It's a pretty sweet tool if you ask me :-)

Just my $0.02 anyway...

checkps is a program to detect rootkits by detecting falsified output and similar anolomies. The ps check should work on anything with /proc, the (currently incomplete) netstat check is more linux specific

also webshare, now called oliver is nice.

...I never said I was a master debater. :) I know I lost the argument with you a while back. ;P Off to try out OpenBSD once again and see if it suits my needs. It hasn't been ported to Xen yet. :(

there are plenty of links in the mirrored article to other resources.

Yeah, the QT and KDE dependencies kind of suck, but what are you gonna do. I run Gentoo with Gnome, but there are a couple of programs that I use that require QT and there is just no getting around it. QCad and LyX come to mind. I was really bitching to myself about LyX depending on QT until I read somewhere on the net that LyX's author is the founder of KDE! Oops hehe. On Gentoo, compiling QT takes a couple of hours on my AthlonXP 2400+, but such is life. You can bet I don't upgrade that puppy very often.

By the way, for those interested, here is a MIDI file that I wrote using Rosegarden a while back that I am using in my game project Space Commander

My Rosegarden creation: commander.mid. For some reason the Verizon server seems buggy and doesn't serve the file properly in FireFox, but I was able to download it using "wget http://mysite.verizon.net/b.d.hilton/commander.mid ". My Netwinder webserver is down right now so all I have is the Verizon webspace to post stuff.

Yeah, I like the sawtooth instrument. So what, I'm a rock'n'roller d00d.

I haven't tried this particular file, but Media Player Classic plays Real stuff ok.

"phpFileManager is a complete filesystem management tool on a single file. Features: server info, directory tree, copy/move/delete/create/rename/edit/view/chmod files and folders, tar/zip/bzip/gzip, multiple uploads, shell/exec, works on linux/windows"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpfm/

Here's one that has worked well for me in the past: Owl Intranet Engine

FSGuide is a Norton Commander-clone for the web, which might be useful when you do not have shell access to your server, but want to perform various file operations. As a hosting provider, you can even give this tool to your hosting users, so they can access and modify their files through FSGuide - or you can use it yourself as a system administration tool.

If I imagine a noise and manipulate the controls of Rosegarden expertly, will I get the noise that I'm looking for?

To be able to do that, you'll probably want something like a modular softsynth. For Linux, there's ams. That combined with a virtual keyboard like vkeybd is enough (given the "expert manipulation" part). Something like Rosegarden could then act as the "player" of the synth (which is like the "instrument").

If you really want to get down to the bits and bytes, there's pd.

The easy road to all this is to install the AGNULA Linux disribution, which comes with a shitload of software.

There is the fink http://fink.sourceforge.net/ project, Gentoo for Mac OS X http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/, Darwin ports http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ or you could just install linux.

Also check out versiontracker.com for a lot of Open source software with pretty GUIs.

The camera is just a generic video camera with a composite output. It's connected to a BT-848 video capture card in a Linux PC. I then use motion to detect motion and capture images. I then have some Python scripts I wrote that upload the captured images to an FTP server.

I'm afraid I had to block access to my server from Slashdot. I don't have enough bandwidth for the onslaught.

Duncan.

http://motion.sourceforge.net/

The victim, Duncan Grisby, is the developer of the excellent omniORB CORBA ORB.

On the flipside, I wonder if this means that WINE has moved from the part where MS ignored them and will begin laughing at them. :) I also wonder how much code from the WINE project (and probably DOSBox) made it into Windows XP for backwards compatibility? ;P I think DOSBox does a much better job of running old DOS games on XP than XP does.

You have to figure that MS bought Connectix for their virtualization technology so that they could actually dump backwards compatibility from the core OS and just use limited virtualization for better backward compatibility. At the same time by dumping all that cruft from the core OS, they can make the OS something more advanced. XP was a pretty big leap from Win2K in that direction (dropping support for CPUs below P II for example). I would have to guess that Longhorn is going to be an even bigger jump which is why it's taking so long.

-If you use the "Out-lame" Winamp plugin in the Output Stacker in place of "Out-disk", you can convert straight to MP3. It still encodes no faster than realtime, but this is a great way to conserve space. WAV(Out-disk) is still recommended if you are burning CDs and want to keep as much quality as possible. I can confirm that this all works.

-You can run multiple instances of Winamp at once, each converting its own song. Each instance's playback will not interfere with any of the others, illustrating the fact that this is not simply recording the music off of your soundcard. Doing this, you can get FAR MORE than 252 full 80 minute CDs within 14 days. I can confirm that this works.

You can transcode(MP3) or decode(WAV) X albums in the time it takes for the longest track on the album to elapse. And since you're not limited to only tracks from one album at a time, you can trans/decode as many tracks as instances of Winamp your computer will run limited only by your computer's resources.

Quote from Napster's official statement: "It would take 10 hours to convert 10 hours of music in this manner."

With the updated methods, you can convert 100 hours or 1,000 hours or 10,000 hours of music in 10 hours. The only limit is your computing resources.

I hate it when files are recorded with different volume levels

You should try this, a nice, free mp3 volume level normalizer which doesn't re-encode the mp3 in any way. Only limitation is the normalization is done on a ~1.5dB discrete granularity (which in practice is completely acceptible).

get the LAME output plug in, it will create and tag an mp3 for you

Um, Freecraft didn't have anything to do with Blizzard's authentication. It emulated non-Battle.net version of Warcraft II and (AFAIK) implemented its own network protocol. Heck, Warcraft II didn't even have CD keys or any other authentication stuff that plagues us today!

Still kind of understandable that Blizzard got mad about the name of the project. Though only kind of - I don't see exactly how this thing threatened them anyway. In any case, they haven't gone after Stratagus - same code, different name.

Plus, I was under the impression bnetd folks wanted to implement authentication, but Blizzard didn't want to do that...

Somebody coding for Shareaza wrote an X86 assembly version that's significantly faster than the C++ version they were using, too...

SourceForge does not accept projects that don't use OSI-conforming licenses.

Am I missing something? This definitely does not appear to be the case.

regardless of zany SFX, i reckon it's about time gnome does something about it's icons.

there's always been something 'smoked' or 'damp' about them.. themes should be called "Journey to the Mushroom Planet" or "Camping in the Rain". the 'My Computer'(ish) desktop icon is a metaphor so tired it yawns on it's own. this said, the http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/screenshots/gorilla .jpgGorilla theme however is getting somewhere, i don't know why the gnome-devs don't make that the default theme.

is it a case of lagging sentamentalism? gnome itself has evolved into something extremely useable. why are the icons still lost in a pipe-dream?

think i'll just stick with X.org and http://icculus.org/openbox/

It won't impact it much, because they always welcomed Other/Proprietary Licenses.

what about burning melting dialog boxes?

K.

> Maybe they meant the Keynote graphical transitions within presentations?

Yes.

> Anybody know if I'm missing something?

Probably this: Desktop Manager

I purchased a TurboNet card for the inside expansion slot. This gives me true 100mbit access. 900mb in 30 minutes... right.. try 10 minutes with this sucker.

Upgraded the image to 3.0 with the Instant Cake imaging CD. This also includes all the cool tools like tivoweb, tivoftp, etc..

All that remains is to extract the MPEGs to my computer. And that is handled with TyStudio. Its a client/server operation and works very well.

Now see? That wasn't so bad. Oh, on eBay my Series1 was $56 including shipping!

You mean Vigor 2.0?

OSX is shiny, but I'd rather have virtual desktops, built in and on by default, instead of zooming trash can icons. Expose is cool, but it seems like a hack to get around the lack of virtual desktops

MythTV has more than what you need since it has the live playback/pause capability. Freevo doesn't have as many features as MythTV but it seems exactly what you describe. Basically a VCR, a jukebox, and a few extras.

Can you give me an example of something that is eye candy without serving as a visual cue?

You've never heard of 3ddesk, have you?

My offtopic friend, all you need to do is become a master of this tool, formflood. It's on sourceforge and will allow you to single-handedly slashdot any page with a form(i.e. Phishing sites). Enjoy!

This will probably use Microsoft Sender ID which is incompatible with open source. This would be a really big problem. Fortunately even AOL rejected it. Meanwhile Yahoo has developed DomainKeys, which are compatible with open source.

While it is disappointing to see ISPs dropping Usenet support doing so will hardly kill it. The awesome part of Usenet is it is a naturally distributed network of systems. It doesn't take much to carry the text-only traffic of Usenet, especially considering the price of processing power and network bandwidth anymore. Binary feeds take quite a bit more but if you want the basics the barrier of entry is relatively low.

While web-based forums have gotten very popular in the past few years they simply do not have the advantages of Usenet groups. A forum is limited by a single server/cluster's capacity in terms of both bandwidth and processing power. An angry admin, hacker, FBI raid, or backhoe can take down even the largest of web forums. It would take a lot of doing to kill a newsgroup. A couple of yahoos with spare Linux boxes could keep a group going without much effort. Forums also fall down when it comes to availability. To access a thread on a forum you need to be connected to the web. A newsgroup's posts can be downloaded once and held onto for as long as you'd like. This is a feature mailing lists also have over web forums, the entire history of the list can be stored in your local mail spool. While a forum is likely to be public accessible the sum of its content is rarely available for anyone to mirror if they have the prerogative.

Programs like Leafnode allow you to create local mirrors of feeds while Usenet-Web can process those spools to make them available to anyone with a web browser. Emoticons and oversized picture signatures are little reason to use web forums in lieu of newsgroups.

You could try running it thrrough the HTML tidy program and see what happens.

Graham

...but they don't have that pause at the beginning while a 20MB+ VM spins up, they don't have Microsoft shipping mutant versions of the standard, and they're a lot more fun to write.

Finally, as a Java afficiondo, you can have the best of both worlds in at least two different ways as well.

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

However, it is still questionable whether systems like ERP could be developed successfully as OSS projects.

It is funny how sourceforge lists several ERP-systems then. And the list goes on, by the way.

Fluxbox has tabs for all its windows.

Fluxbox has tabs for all its windows.

I'm looking for a roughly similar "solution" - adequate performance with redundancy and lots of storage space. A "SAN" ("Storage Area Network" - one of the current buzzwords going around these days) might be useful.

Either iSCSI (if you want economical and standards-based) or Fiber-Channel (if you're wealthy and the speed of writes to the hard drive array is critical) based boxes of hard drives seems to be an option, and from the point of view of the server (or whatever computer is using them) they are just another hard drive. Or so the materials I've read say. (Think of them as an external RAID box...)

iSCSI seems to be limited to 1Gb speeds (unless you can get your hands on 10Gb ethernet cards and switch, which I gather are now available), which to me seems perfectly adequate for most file-server type uses. It looks to my still-new-to-the-area eye that you can also do a lot of potentially useful tricks because of the standard IP-based nature of the data transfer (such as being able to mount a "hard drive" directly over the internet or a LAN, if you have some reason to need to do so). Fiber-channel is faster (2Gb seems to be typical, 4Gb is apparently getting fairly established, and 8Gb is available if you're made of money) but requires specialized and fairly expensive hardware ($500+ for each fiber-channel interface card at the LOW end, as I recall, plus several thousand for the fiber-channel equivalent of a "switch".)

On the subject of iSCSI, there seem to be active projects with both "target" (iSCSI device server) drivers and "client" (iSCSI device mounting) drivers for Linux on Sourceforge...

Corrections welcome, of course...

Incidentally, that's not to be confused with "NAS" ("Network Attached Storage") which as far as I can tell is a buzzword used by people due to the fact that "file server" doesn't sound "cool" any more...your "NAS" might be using a "SAN" to store the drives that it is serving...

In any case, this may be me trying to "hijack" this Ask Slashdot, but what do people here think of the "SAN" concept and its implementations?

I'm looking for a roughly similar "solution" - adequate performance with redundancy and lots of storage space. A "SAN" ("Storage Area Network" - one of the current buzzwords going around these days) might be useful.

Either iSCSI (if you want economical and standards-based) or Fiber-Channel (if you're wealthy and the speed of writes to the hard drive array is critical) based boxes of hard drives seems to be an option, and from the point of view of the server (or whatever computer is using them) they are just another hard drive. Or so the materials I've read say. (Think of them as an external RAID box...)

iSCSI seems to be limited to 1Gb speeds (unless you can get your hands on 10Gb ethernet cards and switch, which I gather are now available), which to me seems perfectly adequate for most file-server type uses. It looks to my still-new-to-the-area eye that you can also do a lot of potentially useful tricks because of the standard IP-based nature of the data transfer (such as being able to mount a "hard drive" directly over the internet or a LAN, if you have some reason to need to do so). Fiber-channel is faster (2Gb seems to be typical, 4Gb is apparently getting fairly established, and 8Gb is available if you're made of money) but requires specialized and fairly expensive hardware ($500+ for each fiber-channel interface card at the LOW end, as I recall, plus several thousand for the fiber-channel equivalent of a "switch".)

On the subject of iSCSI, there seem to be active projects with both "target" (iSCSI device server) drivers and "client" (iSCSI device mounting) drivers for Linux on Sourceforge...

Corrections welcome, of course...

Incidentally, that's not to be confused with "NAS" ("Network Attached Storage") which as far as I can tell is a buzzword used by people due to the fact that "file server" doesn't sound "cool" any more...your "NAS" might be using a "SAN" to store the drives that it is serving...

In any case, this may be me trying to "hijack" this Ask Slashdot, but what do people here think of the "SAN" concept and its implementations?

Indeed you can do the procedure you describe on per case basis, but you can not in reality to filter the content through some application level traffic analyzer

there is another problem with such device (see http://larytet.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml)
Traffic shaper keeps/records all existing TCP connections or 'flows'. Because performance of the box is expected to be high they probably use special kind memory like CAM. It is very fast but has limited size. One can check how reliable the box is and create multiple dummy TCP connections and run them in the background. You can call it stress test. Every desktop can create about 60K connections simultaneously. i think that reasonable number of connections somewhere on the order of 2-10K. Every connection costs may be 32-64K RAM depending on OS and TCP/IP stack settings. Average CMTS supports between 20-100K of modems. If 10% of modems establish 2000 conenctions each we are talking about 10M connections. If single record size is 16 bytes we have 160MB data base. There is no way to store it in CAM memory. If Ellacoya equipment attempts to terminate TCP connection (or PROXY the TCP session) the most painfull for this device is going to be establish of TCP session. My wild guess that they can handle no more than 200K connections/s. It means that for 50K users CMTS we have to establish (and immediately close) 5 TCP connections/s for every one of 50K IP addresses to bring the system down.

Indeed you can do the procedure you describe on per case basis, but you can not in reality to filter the content through some application level traffic analyzer

there is another problem with such device (see http://larytet.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml)
Traffic shaper keeps/records all existing TCP connections or 'flows'. Because performance of the box is expected to be high they probably use special kind memory like CAM. It is very fast but has limited size. One can check how reliable the box is and create multiple dummy TCP connections and run them in the background. You can call it stress test. Every desktop can create about 60K connections simultaneously. i think that reasonable number of connections somewhere on the order of 2-10K. Every connection costs may be 32-64K RAM depending on OS and TCP/IP stack settings. Average CMTS supports between 20-100K of modems. If 10% of modems establish 2000 conenctions each we are talking about 10M connections. If single record size is 16 bytes we have 160MB data base. There is no way to store it in CAM memory. If Ellacoya equipment attempts to terminate TCP connection (or PROXY the TCP session) the most painfull for this device is going to be establish of TCP session. My wild guess that they can handle no more than 200K connections/s. It means that for 50K users CMTS we have to establish (and immediately close) 5 TCP connections/s for every one of 50K IP addresses to bring the system down.

it can be argued that in the data exchange networks is is not required to know real identity of the publisher, but just is this publisher reliable or not. iot makes actually huge difference. There is no need for exchenge of the keys. content providers hacve to install key server (pay attention that this is NOT your regular certificate server where real identities are stored) where they keep nicknames and public keys. any peer of the network can access the database and check received with the data nickname against the stored in the database nickname and public key.
All packets are signed by publishers. see also http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml#authori zation