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Okay, looks like someone here has a career in manually pleasuring penguins.

"It drops [MSN] connections all the time"
This was a problem a few versions ago. 1.0.0 (and indeed the few releases prior to it) have worked excellently for moi.

Well la dee da for you. If you had the cranial capacity to look at the changelog you'd be well aware that they have not addressed this issue at all. This means, senor narcicist, that if it worked for you before it'll work now. But thanks for coming out.

"[Gaim] displays a big, mandatory connect window whenever it tries to reconnect."
Only for people that are too fucking stupid to explore the preferences.

Yuh huh. And that preference would be where? I configured it up the ying yang and even (gasp!) installed a plugin or two. My complaints are about features that are unaddressed by the programmers for whatever reason. Wow buddy, never get a job in QA.

"I had to terminate the client while watching a movie during an internet outage because it kept superimposing messages over BSplayer every 5 minutes."
Another case of the previous issue. This can all be disabled if you have a little bit of IT nouse and a few grey cells. It's just a checkbox or two, nothing too difficult, y'know.

Indeed, if this were programmed in, I would do it. Alas, nay. Instead you've hurt the GAIM staff's feelings by making their omission appear easy to implement. ... You realize we're talking about GAIM here right? Maybe you've just misspelled Trillian. G-A-I-M. I'll spell it again for you if exceedingly that long acronym caused too many CRC errors in your brain's buffer.
...... did he say "nouse"?

"The file manager is absolute garbage"
I have to say I never tried using Gaim as a file manager. I always mistook it for a multi-protocol IM/chat client. *shrugs*

Then you may be interested to learn that, in this astounding day of rocket ships and test tube babies, some IM protocols allow file transfer. Yeah, it's amazing, so take a minute to catch your breath. True, someone added the feature to drag a file onto the chat window to send it, but recieving files is a nightmare. Upon recieving a file, the programmers could have left the file manager tasks to the OS instead of writing their own crappy one. Instead, they implemented a very substandard one which is incapable of remembering where you want to save incoming files. My point is that just because a bundled feature is not a program's main feature, it doesn't mean there is any excuse for it to be poor.

(Of course, if you refer to the open/save dialogs, they're Gtk2.4 related and you can't really blame the Gaim guys for that.)

Read my original post again and you will quite plainly see that I do. A poor worker blames his tools.

"the directory shortcut buttons point to ridiculous places"
Erm, change them. ?

How? There is no feature in the GUI. "Then why don't you edit the source, you twit" you shall retort. Well, my fatheaded friend, you must understand that no good program relies on user source editing in order to make it function the way you want it. It's called ergonomics, intuitiveness, useability... sorry, I forgot who I was talking to. "E-Z". Got it? You sure?

"GAIM is nowhere near ready for 1.0."
People have said the same about, oh, I dunno, Windows. But that reached version 2-frickin-thousand a few years back.

You can spot a simpleton a mile away when their only argument is badmouthing Microsoft without actually saying why. It's the Linux snob's way of crawling into the fetal position. Even if this was true, you're saying that it's okay for GAIM to prematurely declare version 1.0 because another programmer has done it in the past? Sure, if you're a corner cutter scrounging for

Phonegaim will not merge, because the code is too different from gaim. However gaim-vv will eventually merge. See this bugreport for extra info http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=993724&group_id=235&atid=35023

Just in case anybody interested hasn't heard of it, the ATLAS library is a C / Fortran 77 library for linear algebra (which is a significant part of scientific programming). It tunes itself at compile-time, to your particular processor and number of CPUs (and whatever else might be affecting your FP performance) by doing tests.

The author also has some quick n' dirty notes for floating-point issues.

I cannot find a way to use a private key file in Filezilla. Some servers (such as mine) require key based authentication. WinSCP3 is a free, easy to use open source SFTP and SCP client. Unfortunately, it doesn't support FTP! I end up using a mixture of both because of each's limitations.

Even though the current version is windows only, Filezilla 3 will be cross platform.

If your users are using Windows then try WinSCP.

I remember back in the day, probably 3 or 4 years ago, when gaim was a much smaller but up and coming project, I had a stupid issue involving my password not working.

It turned out that the developer's either forgot to include a key, or there was a little kink left in the reverse engineering procedure. In particular, some code listed all the acceptable characters for passwords, i.e., AOL's protocol accepted the _ (underscore) key, but gaim didn't.

Conclusion? My password didn't work. I was quite confused. Then something magical happened- I looked at the code, and found the list of accepted symbols. I added my key of interest (although it turned out there were others too), and tada, my first patch at the age of 19. A couples year later and I have one of my own opensource projects (http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/). The point? Gaim will always be a fond memory for me because it was my first blood helping the free software world, and in some way it contributed to my desire to write my own project.

Note that a new version of FileZilla is under development that is cross-platform (Linux + Windows). link

Project Home Page

From a very satisfied FileZilla user.

Note that a new version of FileZilla is under development that is cross-platform (Linux + Windows). link

Project Home Page

From a very satisfied FileZilla user.

WinSCP on SourceForce

Most people get the two side view of the world, and it's open source. Supports SCP and SFTP.

Project UNIX name: desk3d
Registered: 2002-08-08 08:57

If you are considering a dual opteron with Gentoo and vmware because you still need windows, forget it!

Get two Socket 754 athlons (3000-3400ish) and put Gentoo on one, Windows on the other.

It's much more practical... you could load the Linux machine with storage (software Raid5 with SATA drives) and maybe put a Raptor in the Windows machine (which could be a SFF for LAN parties, if you like)

Thats what I do... a Gentoo AMD64 syste as a web/file server, a Winddows one for games. Both double as workstations.

You can either use a KVM switch or preferably go with Synergy if you have dual monitors.

Roughly what i was going to say. No offense to the developer, but we already have the excellent FileZilla.

What ads? http://amsn.sourceforge.net/

Filezilla.

-g8

Yeah. It's called "httpmail" and uses WebDAV. More information can be found here and here.

Maybe they'll add an extension for Mozilla/Thunderbird one of these days.

it is a bloated toy (using Berkeley DB for versioned tree storage is just the most bizarre decision)

Blast! I already reserved that name for good stuff. I guess after this, either http://spit.sourceforge.net/ will get very unpopular, or it will get many, many page hits (possibly after introducing the word 'Anti' in my meta tags or so)

The day a Gecko or KHTML browser comes out for Windows that uses native widgets, I'll switch from IE.

You haven't been paying attention.

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

"BEWARE - Way too proprietary! It currently only works with ONE planet!"

Try this. I don't think it has paging capabilities though.

DOSBox

Sam and Max works fine for me.

This is all a bit sad. Sanjay is actually carrying the blame here for a lot of things that occured on the watch of his predecessor Charles Wang.

Charles was CEO during a lot of the time here, but was very disciplined about not usine emails etc. Charles jumped ship once things started to look bad, and Sanjay, who may not be lilly-white, looks like he's going to carry all the blame.

Sanjay may not have been financially perfect, but he none-the-less cleaned things up and did a great deal of good for Computer Associates. He turned it from a 'vendor of last resort' to being a half reasonable company to deal with, and introduced the beginnings of an ethical culture.

I have a personal interest in Sanjay, as he was responsible for the first open source project in CA (my java ldap browser: http://www.jxplorer.org/ / http://sourceforge.net/projects/jxplorer) and put in train the events that led to CA embracing linux and open sourcing their Ingres database. He went to a lot of effort to change the internal culture of CA (which used to be just plain feral), and in general things improved greatly under his reign... it was very sad to see him go, and I hope he survives the court action.

Particularly because you can't remove it from your home page. Unfortunately, my bugzilla to fix this was ignored.

We all see what we want to see, I suppose. How about:

- Konqueror's KIO abstracted protocol interface
- Extensively reliable plug-in based software (IM, firefox, etc). Do you remember what generic software extensions were like in 1995?
- Dancing tree filesystems
- MPEG4/divx/ogg vorbis, theora
- Hashing-based multipart/swarming P2P clients
- Freenet - New Linux VMs and schedulers
- Mouse gestures
- Bayesian spam filters
- MOSIX

No innovation? Open your eyes.

They don't need budget/time/employees/skill. All they have to do is put up a Sourceforge page, give it about a week, and their perfect bug-free open source DMV software will magically appear.

I use both Yahoo Messenger (and love it) and MSN Messenger (and loath it) on Windows.

I know I can get GAIM, or Trellis or any of a dozen all-in-one IM clients out there.

However, one of the reasons I keep using both of them is if someone half a planet away wants to talk to me in voice. I cannot dictate nor influence what client they like best nor have installed. I want to be able to talk to them when I want to.

Until gaim-vv is a reality, and works well with MSN and Yahoo IM networks, I have no choice but continue to use two IM clients on my machines.

I used DSPAM for a while. I started using it with the Berkeley DB backend, and that worked reasonably well. . . it was fairly fast, but database corruption was almost impossible to avoid. I don't think I ever managed more than 3-4 weeks without my DB getting killed.

So, then I started using an SQL database. That worked great for a while, except it was slow. Now, admittedly, I'm running my mail server on an old machine (Dual Pentium Pro 200's, with 450MB RAM), but DSPAM was horrible. With more than half a dozen e-mails to process at a time, it would just choke. And the space issue. . . my spam-data database got over 300MB within a couple of weeks! And, yeah, I was processing a lot of mail, but come on. That's just not right.

Finally, I decided it just wasn't worth it. So, I tried an alternative that the DSPAM author has spoken fairly highly of, CRM114. That thing rocks! Within a few days, it was catching most of the spam, it runs much faster than DSPAM or SA, and it has fixed-sized spam token databases, so unless you explicitely increase the size, they won't grow past what you set them up for.

I can't see myself bothering with any other spam filter anytime soon.

With Edonkey2000, the program remains connect whenever you are online, so you may be vulnerable to hackers, as the program will not operate from behind a firewall, but there is no spyware.
It has adware, but that can be disabled when installing. Both eDonkey and eMule do work behind a firewall, though. The only restriction is that you then can't download from other sources behind a firewall.

Some additions to the descriptions:
edonkey - the speed suffers from the fact that the "chunks" you mentioned are 9500KiB in size, so the propagation in other networks, for example bittorrent with its "chunk" sizes down to 16KB, can be much faster.

kazaa - doesn't exactly have a reliable resume feature as the files are only partially hashed

dc - clients like the open source dc++ offer identification of files by hashes. This requires compatible clients on both sides, though, so it's indeed often "search by name and size"

the donkey has security issues
Nice try, but you forgot the proof.
In case you meant "privacy": all three networks you mentioned are on the RIAA/MPAA's watchlist and don't make attempts at hiding their users. Remember the 5 DC-hub operators recently busted?

I have friends that insist on using MSN too. They're problem. If they get owned, it ain't my fault! I've tried to get them to switch.

I use Gaim on Win XP, and the new 1.0 works great! Jabber is the bomb, too.

It is called NTML authentication.

-jsl

Other tools which I have come across, but haven't really worked with: Axiom (symbolic computations, CAS); Scigraphica (graphing); opendx (data explorer + visualization).

I've actually never really used R (by the time I came across it, I was done with my physics labs), so I can't really compare any of the others to it. But it definitely looks like one of the tools that I should add to my suite.

Other tools which I have come across, but haven't really worked with: Axiom (symbolic computations, CAS); Scigraphica (graphing); opendx (data explorer + visualization).

I've actually never really used R (by the time I came across it, I was done with my physics labs), so I can't really compare any of the others to it. But it definitely looks like one of the tools that I should add to my suite.

Check it out.
http://pygame.org/

http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/

My only qualm with it is far as torrents are concerned is you don't get the statistical data you get with a client like Azureus - BitTorrent Client or G3 Torrent. But it is a nice "all in one" app. If only overnet weren't so freakin slooooooooooow.

My only qualm with it is far as torrents are concerned is you don't get the statistical data you get with a client like Azureus - BitTorrent Client or G3 Torrent. But it is a nice "all in one" app. If only overnet weren't so freakin slooooooooooow.

Sorry Charlie....

I use Shareaza to connect to overnet and the overwhelming majority of clients I see on the network are in fact, eMule.

That works in Shareaza also.

No X = less drag and better security.

What the best of all worlds?

Shareaza allows eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella2 (Their extension) and even Bittorrent.

It's now open source (GPL), and has a SourceForge project.

Gnutella still rocks, Gnutella2 (G2) allows for better search results and eDonkey is another option for those of you who want to expand your options.

Granted, it doesn't work *great* with eDonkey, but I've downloaded quite a few files from eDonkey users fine. And having one interface for Bittorrent and a normal P2P is nice.

• Gnutella support
• Gnutella2 support
• Edonkey2000 support
• BitTorrent support
• Free!
• No Spyware.
• Open Source. Really!

WASTE

This in and of itself will not be the end of spyware. However, I believe that this is a starting point from which we can eventually build a system of enforcement which will hunt for spyware and prosecute people who develop and/or utilize it.

Still, good Internet practices are a good starting point for the rest of us can implement now. This entails doing some research in addition to some common sense. Tools such as Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware are excellent in addition to being freely available and for real. There are a slew of other software claiming to be able to remove spyware when in fact they are spyware themselves! (anyone ever see the web banner ads, "Your computer may be infected with spyware..."?) Believe it or not, Microsoft actually has some good starting information for users of the Windows OS who are interested in what spyware is and how they may take some steps to protect themselves. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/d evioussoftware.mspx

I recommend that users research as much as they can about what spyware is, the damage that it can do your your computer,your network, and your personal information. From there, one can learn some simple steps to avoid it. My personal recommendation is that if you are looking software, consider open source solutions. SourceForge is a great resource http://sourceforge.net/ Being that the code is openly available, open source is naturally not a desirable form of software for those who wish to do you harm. This does not mean that it is completely impervious to malicious coders, but at least you know that others will be able to see the code and blow the whistle upon the detection of any such inclusion.

1. Install this.
2. Click on a Suprnova link.
3. Enjoy.

There are Python bindings. They are here. Enjoy!

The iRiver ... comes with a -rather bad- databasing application

check out: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jirr/
and be sure to try google next time !

Probably. iPods do. I think it's just a matter of finding hackers that are crazy (or bored) enough to set it up.

I'm building the latest on all of my clients' mail exchangers and our primary boxen. ;)

Here's the command to install/upgrade 3.0 via CPAN:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell;
cpan > install Mail::SpamAssassin

(many lines, type in the administrator's e-mail address, say no to network tests)

exit

#

Very difficult stuff. :) Keep up the good work.

Oh! Some link whoring as well:

SpamAssassin Milter for Sendmail - Filters everyone without procmail

SpamAssassin Milter Quarantine - Quarantines spam messages and sends summaries in digest for 1 or more times daily rather than simply delivering to the end user.

I only get about 75% reduction because SA-Learn doesn't seem to work very well.

Try CRM114 My SA results weren't very good either, despite training it with a year's worth of both spam and non-spam, and two month of continuous re-training. CRM114 was easier to train even though its author recommends that you do NOT train it with your spam cache. Its accuracy was only about 50% at first, but within two weeks it was over 90. After about three months, I'd guess its accuracy is around 98% - not quite the 99.94 its author claims, but still very good. My only gripe is about the occasional false-positive, but it does have a whitelisting feature you can use to make sure mail from known correspondents doesn't get misclassified.

Does anybody know if version 3.0
works with sa-exim??