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Chances are that you run linux so download it from sourceforge originally it was developed on SGI and people posted links to that, the sourceforge version is probably more up to date. Enjoy, I tried it but didn't find it that useful. Reason is that the display is flat, i.e. 2D and twisting and turning in 3D using odd combinations of 3 mouse buttons and 3 keys (Ctrl,Alt,Shift ) just to open a folder is somehow too much work, a simple command line or double click works better.

well, i guess it would be nice, to just reach through my monitor
grab the oog file i want to play, and squeeze it til it plays.

but in reality, thats far from it.. but i guess there are some
great 3d likeness applications for the *nix platform:
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/ & http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.ht ml
...hopefully this will spark some interest!
--kingpunk

Not quite a "real" 3D UI, it does have some cool effects for switching between virtual desktops. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

Quite honestly most any GNU/Linux distro will slow them way down (assuming their not using a hardware keyboard capture device). If they get get physical access to your machine you're screwed reguardless of the OS.

1. How will this work on a Linux machine?
With the security that is the hallmark of a Linux box, how do law enforcement officials expect to tap into someone's computer if they are running Linux? At best they could only monitor the user account they installed the software for.

I'll probably be modded troll for saying this, but linux OOTB is LESS secure from this sort of attack than any modern windows. At least the win2k/xp variants will check out critical system files at startup, so if one of them is replaced it will be corrected. Linux isn't even that secure - one could replace any of dozens of executable files on a linux machine - or even just edit root level scripts with a text editor in knoppix - and make the system record every keystroke from login.. and you'd likely never know it.

But more importantly, you're thinking way too high level. Every machine has a BIOS and a boot sector, and most every PC uses the same code-compatible CPU. All it would take is two variants - a mac version and a lintel version. Stick it on the boot sector while the house is unoccupied and bingo. Better still, just flash it into the BIOS or infect the NVRAM.

This is but one example of the need for the linux community to get over the allergic overeaction to TCPA enabling technologies and work toward making linux the frontrunner in this regard. Any box will always be vulnerable to physical attacks, but there's a LOT we can do to protect our systems that isn't being done now on any ootb distro.

A 35 million pixel screen would rock for Half-Life 2. Where can I get me one? Looking at the picture, it's kind of like 3 monitors stuck together, so maybe I'll save some money and only get 1/3rd of the setup. How much can that cost? I mean, really.

Here's what you'll need at minimum:

• A lot of display devices (monitors, projectors, whatever)
• Sufficient video cards to drive the above (with new cards, you could do 2 devices per card if you have the appropriate cards, X configs, and the like).
• A sufficient number of nodes to run the cards.
• The fastest interconnect you can afford.

If you've built a large setup (where "large" means "more than eight screens"), the openGL performance will suffer. In that case you can also install Chromium which can work with DMX to provide a more efficient path for the openGL commands. [The DMX glx proxy broadcasts the gl commands to all nodes, Chromium can provide a tile sort that only sends the gl calls to the appropriate nodes.]

Assuming you can get all the above running, there's still plenty of work. Just keeping eight projectors color balanced will eat up a few hours of your week. If you want to do frame-locked stereo on your power wall, things get even more complex (and expensive -- nvidia 3000G/4400G cards aren't typically in the discount bin at Fry's).

Have fun, openGL stuff looks really cool on powerwalls... :-)

A 35 million pixel screen would rock for Half-Life 2. Where can I get me one? Looking at the picture, it's kind of like 3 monitors stuck together, so maybe I'll save some money and only get 1/3rd of the setup. How much can that cost? I mean, really.

Here's what you'll need at minimum:

• A lot of display devices (monitors, projectors, whatever)
• Sufficient video cards to drive the above (with new cards, you could do 2 devices per card if you have the appropriate cards, X configs, and the like).
• A sufficient number of nodes to run the cards.
• The fastest interconnect you can afford.

If you've built a large setup (where "large" means "more than eight screens"), the openGL performance will suffer. In that case you can also install Chromium which can work with DMX to provide a more efficient path for the openGL commands. [The DMX glx proxy broadcasts the gl commands to all nodes, Chromium can provide a tile sort that only sends the gl calls to the appropriate nodes.]

Assuming you can get all the above running, there's still plenty of work. Just keeping eight projectors color balanced will eat up a few hours of your week. If you want to do frame-locked stereo on your power wall, things get even more complex (and expensive -- nvidia 3000G/4400G cards aren't typically in the discount bin at Fry's).

Have fun, openGL stuff looks really cool on powerwalls... :-)

To reaffirm what the article said building linux clusters is very simple. In fact certain distributions such as bccd and cluster knoppix specifically for that. Although configuring clustering softwares such as pvm mpi lam mosix etc wouldn't be a problem, I prefer something which has almost everything build into one package thats why I like the above distros. In fact I built a cluster (using BCCD) at home and used it to render images built from povray. I used pvmpov for the rendering on a cluster part. Although there were only four machines the speed difference was evident. And above all making clusters is extremely cool and shows the paradigm shift towards parallel computing.

Dune 2 plays very well on Dosbox. I should know, i tried the game not too long ago to see if it was as good as i remembered and spent a couple of hours playing, nonstop. I should've known better...

I'm a huge advocate for Open Source, etc. as I imagine you are. But you're setting unrealistic expectations here. Every product can't be "open". These guys put up capital to buy a range of the broadcast spectrum. They're going to need to recoup their investment and then some. So, yes. They're going to charge fees.

If you're looking for a 'free' laptop TV solution, here you go. USB TV tuner with linux drivers. It'll pull in whatever normal broadcast tv you can receive.

OnboardC is a full C compiler for PalmOS. There's a Perl for PalmOS project on sourceforge, but it's been in the "planning" stage since 2001, so I wouldn't hold out much hope. TuSSH is an SSH client for PalmOS.

Exposed as a creep. Seriously, it's sad to see someone as bright as yourself spend so much energy trying to humiliate a fellow slashdotter. Hopefully your just a kid as I'd hate to think an adult would post such filth.

Shameless plug: An open source Apache Lucene based search engine with a plugin mechanism for searching other file types: http://nariva.sourceforge.net/.

I'm working on an open source Lucene-based desktop search engine named Nariva http://nariva.sourceforge.net/. It has a java plugin-type preference framework for indexing files of particular types and the whole thing is open so you can write your own indexer. It's still beta, but it works.

Oops. Forgot some quotation marks there so if you're too lazy to check Google, you can find Fink here.

Try http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/

I have Internet access at home, at work and at all the customer sites so my data is always in reach. Plus I no longer have to worry about charging/replacing batteries

Here's a link to some http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#cdwriting/ I haven't tried any so I can't tell you how they work.

• Every single language you've mentioned there are NOT maintainable. Why? Cause they're all interpreted dynamic languages. It's fun and all to write in these languages and get stuff done with them but as soon as you spot a bug you have a hell of a time to ... blah blah ... not suitable for production systems.

This is a myth, and has been proven false countless of times, such as by these guys, or these guys, or even these guys, or, God forbid, you may have heard of these guys.

First, the term "interpreted dynamic language" is vague and misleading. Interpretation has nothing to do with code maintainability. (You can interpret C, and you can compile putatively interpreted languages such as Java and Python to native code; indeed Java has been natively compiled for years, and the fact that it is just-in-time compilation is irrelevant).

And what does "dynamic" mean? Do you mean a dynamically, as opposed to statically, typed language? Do you mean runtime introspection? Self-modification and metaprogramming? Runtime name resolution? What? I suspect you mean a combination of these. Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Haskell, Lisp and OCaml have these features. C++ can be considered a "dynamic" language, as can Java, C#, etc. So why do you claim that these languages are not maintainable?

These newfangled languages are more rapid to develop in than lower-level languages. Maintenance is simpler because the languages are simpler, higher-level and more easily maintained. For example, the absence of a separate compile/link cycle means I can get from changing a source line to testing the source line quicker.

In many cases, reproducing or debugging a bug is simpler in, say, Python than in C, because the infrastructure itself is simpler. Pure Python, for example, does not have memory access violation errors; there's no way your Python code can read or write an invalid pointer, write beyond the end of a buffer and so on; a whole class of pointer errors, most of which have security repercussions, are annihilated by this feature. Similarly, Python uses exceptions, so nobody can forget to check and propagate a function's error return value.

More often than not, errors that surface in these languages are high-level problems, which is good, because those are simpler than the ones involving someone forgetting to call free() on an allocated buffer or accounting for overflow when shifting a bit mask.

The uncertainty involved in the dynamic typing/late binding model of such languages is compensated for through unit testing.

Oh, and JavaScript, a "dynamic language", is being used by Google in a production system, and Google is known to use Python and Ruby in their systems. I suggest you call them up and tell them their languages aren't suitable.

Sourceforge's Top Downloads eMule, the top project, has 80 million downloads. Gaim, for all its awesomeness, has about 5 million. I'm not farmiliar with how they track these statistics, but I assume that is for all versions over its entire lifetime. As with the FF downloads, this is easily skewed by people downloading it more than once, or from a different source.

That defeats the whole purpose of BitTorrent. The reason it is used is because it alleviates load from servers. Once enough people have the entire file, and are seeding it, download speeds are huge.

The big problem, however, is for those of us with assymetric connections (like Cable and DSL). Basically, it uses all of your upload, and chokes your download, which seems to be your problem, so I'd recommend getting a different client (pretty much every client save the Official Client has upload limiting), my personal favorite is Azureus. Be warned though, your download speed is determined by how quickly you are uploading (for the most part), so being cheap and giving something around 1 k won't get you anywhere.

On my crappy 3 Mb/256 kb connection, I have my global upload limited to 10 kBps, and BT works wonderfully for me.

You can donate to bzflag on sourceforge. I did. . But the total amount of donations could buy a pizza for each of the registered developers :(

You can donate to bzflag on sourceforge. I did. . But the total amount of donations could buy a pizza for each of the registered developers :(

Got something against Clickable links?

<a href="http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/">Ultimate Boot CD</a>

Its not hard.

I initially thought PDFCreator was the bees knees, as it was packed with features, and even encouraged my employer to remove all the unlicensed copies of Acrobat and replace it with PDFCreator.

However once I had actually deployed it, I discovered it had a problem with overwriting shortcuts - this possed a major problem because my co-workers used desktop shortcuts to quickly access shared and deeply nested folders.

I even reported it as a bug five months ago, and it still hasn't been fixed. Until it is fixed, I don't think the program is ready for general use.

Try http://www.cdshell.org/. It's a scriptable menu that you can use to boot multiple floppy images off of cds, not sure if it works for usb keys but it's worth a try. With some tinkering you can boot linux or windows live cds but if it's too big to fit in a floppy image, you can only do one of each per disk (or usb key in your case). I have a cd built with it combining http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.ubcd4win.com/ and a couple other tools I've found usefull

Hi, I'm the coordinator for the FreeDOS Project, and webmaster for FreeDOS.org. Looks like we're getting a minor slashdotting. Thanks, guys! :-) In case the main page becomes unavailable, you can use this list of mirrors instead:

slashdot.php or slashdot.html

The primary mirror site is at sourceforge:

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/

Hi, I'm the coordinator for the FreeDOS Project, and webmaster for FreeDOS.org. Looks like we're getting a minor slashdotting. Thanks, guys! :-) In case the main page becomes unavailable, you can use this list of mirrors instead:

slashdot.php or slashdot.html

The primary mirror site is at sourceforge:

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/

upload away.

• Strip
• Keyring
• Cryptopad

Lots easier to work with multiple places (home, work, web, etc.)

• Strip
• Keyring
• Cryptopad

Lots easier to work with multiple places (home, work, web, etc.)

Well, if you're a Mac users, there's already OGG support for Quicktime and iTunes.

Quicktime OGG component

It's actually been out for quite a while... the only problem is that the OGG support doesn't automagically carry over to the iPod.

7zip works on Linux as well (p7zip.sourceforge.net)

I recommend looking into the SINAPSE Project (http://www.sinapse.org). SINAPSE is a free, open-source student community tool (we like to call it a nexus, not a portal). It's written in PHP (on SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sinapse), and it's a strict CMS system (no open editing - each app has controlled input and output). It's Developed at University of Oklahoma (go Sooners!) and run by students there.

You can see it in action at OU (The Sooner Information Network - http://sin.ou.edu), Baylor (Baylor Information Network - http://bin.baylor.edu), Purdue (HAIL - http://hail.purdue.edu), Southern Miss (The Varsity - http://thevarsity.usm.edu), California University of Pennsylvania (CalYou - http://calyou.cup.edu), SW OK State U (LIFE - http://life.swosu.edu), and Eastern VA Medical School (http://student.evms.edu)). There's also a similar site at William and Mary (SIN - http://sin.wm.edu) that's not running SINAPSE, but should be.

SINAPSE Consulting (http://www.sinapseconsulting.com) also makes some for-pay add-ons like LegiSlate which allows SGA's to do their Legislative processes online (voting, tracking, attendance, etc.) It's in action at OU (http://congress.ou.edu), OK State (http://www.osusga.com), Central Arkansas (http://uca.mysga.com), and very soon at Rhode Island, Illinois Institute of Tech, and U Texas - Arlington (and possibly Miami).

We have a similar policy at work... and it is applied (with random expire times) on over 40 different server boxes.

Since our dev environment is on a Windows platform, I use Password Safe and have it generate/store new passwords for me for all of the production machines.

Sure, it is a pain because I have to fire it up and put in my one secure password to get to the other passwords. But, at least it limits my security exposure to one bastion host (the shared drive on the LAN, so my encrypted password database is backed-up).

There's an mplayer plugin you can get for Firefox (or any Mozilla browser). I viewed the Quicktime WotW trailer in-browser with that just fine. I didn't try the Yahoo! link.

You can't run NetBSD on it yet but Linux is coming along nicely: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/

I use the open source PasswordSafe The original was written by Bruce Schneier who worked on an AES finalist and runs CounterPane Security and writes the CryptoGram Newsletter

The program saves all your passwords in an encrypted file, which you then keep on your USB keychain. You only have to remember one password to open the safe, and then you can copy/paste your different username/passwords to the site that needs them. As long as you keep the data file on your keychain (and keep that with you) then you should be fairly secure. You can alse make all your passwords 12 digit random alphanumerics (though some idiotic places limit your password length, never figured that one out...)

I recently started using Keepass, an open source, encrypted database for storing all your login/password information. Keepass uses AES and Twofish for encryption, and also gives you the ability to generate passwords, based on several criteria (upper/lowercase, special characters, extended ascii characters, etc.) All you need to remember is a "master" key that unlocks the DB.

http://keepass.sourceforge.net/features.php/

My Slashdot password (as if it needed much security), is 101 bits, and I couldn't tell you what it was if I wanted to. I just open up keepass, select "copy to clipboard", and paste the password when prompted for login info. Keepass clears the clipboard after 10 seconds, and stops functioning if you haven't used the program in 30 (?) seconds.

I think it's great. Up until now, I had four fairly insecure passwords that I rotated among dozens of accounts/sites. This is much easier, and MUCH more secure.

Don't forget gaim, my personal favorite.

works in galeon, my favorite web browser :)

CDex for Windows and Grip for Linux

on the development side, there's MTASC, an open source ActionScript 2 (typing, classes...) compiler. lot's of programs can export swfs for graphics to go with the code you write with it.

not really, even though it is an open format. some time ago there was an openlgx project that was suppoused to be an open source engine and ide:

http://www.flashmagazine.com/html/441.htm

but it didnt come through...

I do use a great open source actionscript ide written in python:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sepy

Our Exim 4 server uses Bagley.

Unlike other systems for Exim 4, it does not require fancy recompilation of the Exim 4 binary and can just be plugged in to a vanilla setup.

You greylisting interval(24 hours) is totally braindamaged.

Evan's original suggestion is 1 hour.

I use 1 minute, and that works just dandy.

If you are using Exim 4, then you can use the Bagley greylisting system. Unlike other systems for Exim 4, it does not require fancy recompilation of the Exim 4 binary and can just be plugged in to a vanilla setup.

You forgot: I'm using Gaim and I didn't notice anything at all.

Please for the love of God look into Gaim. Far less bloated, no ads, and it just plain works.

How about this one?

The stats show 47.2% activity in the last week, and it is listed as 'mature', or level 6.

This could perhaps be exactly what is needed to relinquish control of cross-platform network gaming from the likes of GameSpy. It just needs more exposure, since hardly any game developers are likely to have heard of it.