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You can't just run an installer either, you have to go looking for it in the Windows folder, and delete it, otherwise it keeps running. The really infuriating part is I found a text file in the folder where it is installed that contains a long diatribe about why WildTangent doesn't consider their crap spyware. They can bite me. AOL should not work with these dicks.

This is why I installed GAIM. Problem solved!

Not sure how helpful this will be in huge environments, I live in the small to midsize market, but here are some tools that I have found useful in the past:
Not exactly a monitoring tool, but definitely the most versatile all around auditor I have ever found: Nessus.
Ettercap is a good sniffer.
The MRTG tool has been a godsend when I have had managed devices to deal with, and I have heard very good things about the RRD tool and Cacti.
Tripwire is freely available for Linux and the BSDs, though the Win32 version has not been open-sourced.
One tool I have not been able to find in F/OSS is a Windows event log monitor (though believe me I'm still looking).

Its been /.ed about on multiple occations, but the uClinux distro (if you can call it that?) is what we use on the

We've got really great developers working on the project and even though there is no GUI way of putting linux on your iPod, its in the works. Its still simple to any /.er to do without a GUI and I suggest checking it out.

We're still working on getting the 2.6 kernel working with the iPod. We've only sucessfully got 2.6 working once (I think) and it sounded great! 2.4 doesnt sound as good but it works flawlessly.

Check out the forums if you have any questions or want to help out. We're always looking for new developers. We've also got #ipodlinux on irc.freenode.net

Its been /.ed about on multiple occations, but the uClinux distro (if you can call it that?) is what we use on the

We've got really great developers working on the project and even though there is no GUI way of putting linux on your iPod, its in the works. Its still simple to any /.er to do without a GUI and I suggest checking it out.

We're still working on getting the 2.6 kernel working with the iPod. We've only sucessfully got 2.6 working once (I think) and it sounded great! 2.4 doesnt sound as good but it works flawlessly.

Check out the forums if you have any questions or want to help out. We're always looking for new developers. We've also got #ipodlinux on irc.freenode.net

Though alternatives do exist.

If you've got a cluster or otherwise "clumpy" network, ganglia is the ideal end-user-visible monitoring tool - lots of pretty and informative graphs, multicast based so no heavy network load, no particularly sensitive information unless you choose to reveal it.

For filesystem security, samhain is mature, secure and imho very nice, though the good web-frontend is non-free.

For network security, nessus scan on a daily basis.

After reading a few posts on this thread, I find it peculiar that so many slashdotters don't know that IPSec or related vpn products can be used to secure wireless.

BTW, my torrents used to be slow as well, but after I set my maximum global upload to about 1/3 of my total upstream (you must be using a third-party BitTorrent app to do this, like Azureus), I noticed high increases in download speeds. From what I can tell, your client will be sending so many requests for pieces along with all of its data that it drowns itself out and many of the requests never make it to their destination. And, since no one knows you need those pieces, they never get sent to you. Lowering your global up allows for more headroom.

Why argue when you have this?

Any application that is half decent is included with the major distros or available in binary? That seems like a rather fantastic claim. Someone should inform the people who make this CD diagnostics and ripping program, this telnet chat server, this bridge filter, and this billing system then, because they're obviously not making 'half decent' applications. Obviously, ymmv, but there are plenty of decent linux applications out there that are source-only distributions, and its silly to say otherwise.

Any application that is half decent is included with the major distros or available in binary? That seems like a rather fantastic claim. Someone should inform the people who make this CD diagnostics and ripping program, this telnet chat server, this bridge filter, and this billing system then, because they're obviously not making 'half decent' applications. Obviously, ymmv, but there are plenty of decent linux applications out there that are source-only distributions, and its silly to say otherwise.

Any application that is half decent is included with the major distros or available in binary? That seems like a rather fantastic claim. Someone should inform the people who make this CD diagnostics and ripping program, this telnet chat server, this bridge filter, and this billing system then, because they're obviously not making 'half decent' applications. Obviously, ymmv, but there are plenty of decent linux applications out there that are source-only distributions, and its silly to say otherwise.

Any application that is half decent is included with the major distros or available in binary? That seems like a rather fantastic claim. Someone should inform the people who make this CD diagnostics and ripping program, this telnet chat server, this bridge filter, and this billing system then, because they're obviously not making 'half decent' applications. Obviously, ymmv, but there are plenty of decent linux applications out there that are source-only distributions, and its silly to say otherwise.

I played around with this. Not very useful for me, but it may work for you. It doesn't export to postscript, but it exports to HTML. :-\ Give it a look. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

Also, when the highest visibility ed2k link pages -- sharereactor.com and jigle.com -- were taken down a few months back, worthy whack-a-mole replacements appeared within days. The same thing would happen if suprnova.org's (BT) mirrors were somehow killed off.

The only way to really kill p2p is to kill freedom itself with police state measures like mandated DRM infesting everything you touch, and even then there are workarounds.

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Look at Retroweaver. This is a project aimed to make Java 1.5 features work on previous JVMs (by weaving bytecode). They have a nice explanation why JDK 1.5 is incompatible with 1.4 somewhere on their site.

Of the four reasons you listed explaining why you "think XP + .NET is a great choice instead of using a simple microcontroller with assembler code", only one is an actual reason. It's true, windows device drivers are really commonplace, to the point that using off-the-shelf hardware with any other OS can be a pain. *note* The other three reasons you listed are in no way related to XP and/or .NET, let alone are they explanations regarding their superiority. As an electrical engineering and computer science student who has been following along with the Open Automation Project on sourceforge, I assure you that Microsoft Windows is in no way a great choice of platform for a project like this *UNLESS* it's Microsoft that's making the project possible through funding.

Sure, there's plenty. Just like the commercial world, the majority of software development is to meet in-house requirements.

Here's one that I was originally involved with.

In that case, it made sense to use an open license, since the project was jointly funded by the US DoD and the Swiss government, with programmers from several former Soviet Bloc countries contributing code...

This sounds a lot like an implementation of Mixmaster for TCP.

This sounds like a reinsertion of all the technology that has gone into anonymous mailers over the years (see MixMaster.) I hope that they aren't re-inventing everything and repeating the same mistakes. The existing technology should be mostly portable from the application layer to the session or layer.

I was at a presentation by the guy behind MixMaster and was impressed by all the thought that has gone into the various generations of the application. They even had it generating fake messages so you can't do traffic analysis.

Some of the newer bit torrent clients like Bit Tornado and Azereus will allow you to set the priority for downloading specific files within a torrent. You could set your first CD as low priority or not to download and have it work on fetching the others.

You might even be able to fool bit torrent into thinking that the file for CD1 is done by copying it into the folder it creates for Mandrake 10.1 Beta.

Either way you'll help out the BT network

The problem isn't that it's no unified installer.
The problem is that it's (in good ol' linux tradition) quite a lot of them around.

http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/ looks very interesting.

Another one (which I don't remember the url to, talked a bit with one of the developers - its still in beta) also automatically merged with the local package management (like getting deps, regging as a package), and also supported user-only installation transparently.

The real problem (as I see it) is that few or none are using them.

Or Pornzilla, for that matter...

"I have a solitary Windows machine at home for gaming. Lots of nice hardware to play great games."

Dude, you can do it!

Minesweeper
Hearts
Solitaire
Maj-jongg

Check out the free Desktop Manager for all your virtual desktop needs. It uses undocumented Apple APIs, so it's very fast and looks great!

Also, both Windows and Linux x86 can be run on OS X under BOCHS (slow), and QEmu (quick). QEmu has the added benefit of both being a hardware and pure-cpu level emulator for a wide range of (target and host) systems.

It's called porthole. emerge porthole. Porthole

802.11x is a real problem. Chances are that you were lucky enough to have a card that has a chipset that has a Linux driver. I know that the newer Prism chipsets (almost every Linksys in existence for the last 2 years) don't have linux drivers. It really, truly is a 50-50 proposition on if it works or not. To know if it will work, I use Knoppix, which has all the hardware detection, and every wireless driver built in. If wireless works with it, then you're ready to rock, otherwise, you will need the windows driver, and a pay-ware program known as ndiswrapper. So, there are options, but it is probably the area where things are the furthese from being perfect. I know we had a TON of hurdles to clear at our last install-fest, where we had about 30 laptops, they all wanted linux, and we pulled our hair out trying to get them to work. And this was all back in May, and a lot has not changed since then. Until the companies release specs or drivers, or until someone reverse engineers it, then it won't work quite right.

Windows doesn't have native bzip2 support, and you don't need cygwin.

GnuWin32 provides bzip2.

You can also get a Windows executable direct from the main bzip2 site.

-AC

Windows doesn't have native bzip2 support, and you don't need cygwin.

GnuWin32 provides bzip2.

You can also get a Windows executable direct from the main bzip2 site.

-AC

Maybe try BackupPC, which I believe supports rsync and SSH on Windows (with cygwin).

Here's another good site on backing up Windows machines.

And then what should he do with the existing iMac, ,throw it away? He still should put Linux on it (YDL or some other distro). The point was made in an earlier post that running Linux on PPC hardware gives the user a consistent operating/user environment across platform architectures. While one could install Fink, there are still differences in the development environment that delays porting from a regular GNU/Linux environment to the BSD/OSX environment. YDL essentially is Fedora Core (1?) on PPC, so going back and forth from an Intel-based machine is relatively painless.

Try dosbox.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 /

>I wonder if this type of exploit could be prevented if the library was written in, say, java instead?

Sure it could be prevented. It can also be prevented when written in C. See release 1.2.6rc1.

If you're starting the arguement that Java is inherently more secure, and therefore everything should be written in Java, it's not worth the flamewar.

As an aside, I wanted to point you toward a virtual desktop pager for OSX that I've been using and really like:

http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/index.php

Why not just install Vstream on the Tivo and Tivo-Mplayer on the remote PC?

share with whomever you want. ...or FTP the video off the Tivo and watch it in regular Mplayer?

Of course, getting some scripts using rsync over ssh or something like that won't be that hard,
but anyway, I recommend you to check out BackupPC.

When my research group decided to build one, I was incharge, opted for OpenMosix and after a tweaking period worked really well. Now with the various bootable CDs with OpenMosix (PlumpOS, BCCD, Quantian, ClusterKNOPPIX...), tests and upgrades are done by just pressing reset !

Of course with clusters your mileage may vary.

You should maybe look into IBM's SWT. I'm using Azureus, a Java bittorrent client using this toolkit, and it integrates fairly well with my Gnome desktop. It even puts an applet in the notification area.

The flagship SWT app is of course the Eclipse IDE.

I also hear Java 1.4.2 includes a GTK look & feel for Swing. Hopefully the Jedit texteditor I use for coding will be updated to support this.

• are your apps parameter study serial jobs? (interconnect doesn't matter much - just use gigE)
  
• already written MPI apps? (few large messages? many small?)
  
• OpenMP only? (you need large SMP nodes)
  
• do they need large bandwith or low latency or both?
  

Perhaps it is lossy, too?

Maybe it's LZip.

LK

The "best" and "most up-to-date" implementation will always be on Windows

Yes. But face it: .NET apps are being written. People are using it. It's not like it's going to just go away if you ignore it. Being "up-to-date" isn't really a big deal either. People don't want to code for a moving target. Platforms reach a certain level of maturity which most people are satisfied with, (Java 1.1 to 1.2 was a big jump, and 1.4 to 1.5 "5" is another one, but between there the differences weren't so big) and that's all you need to keep up with.

Windows.Forms isn't "standardized" by ECMA, and it's very Windows-centric. Mono needs Windows.Forms in order to run GUI-based .NET applications

Not quite correct. You can make GUI-based .NET apps using other libraries than WinForms, such as GTK#, which in fact is what the Mono crew officially recommends.

Even though Java is proprietary, Sun has bent over backwards for years to get the community involved and keep the community involved.

I'd say they've done a lousy job, from the OSS community standpoint. There is no good free implementation of Java yet. Because Sun is possesive when it comes to Java. NOT because of forking or anything like that.

If Sun was scared of forking, they'd make the Java Compatibility Kit freely available. It costs thousands of dollars, terms that no OSS developer could possibly agree to. Sure Sun wants a community, but only on their terms. Sure they're far better than MS, but they're not 'bending over backwards' either.

Then you missed out. I'm playing through the Hordes of the Underdark expansion on my PowerBook at the moment, and it's excellent (yes, you can install the PC NWN expansion packs fine on the Mac with the free OpenKnights installer). There's plenty of user-created modules to start on once I've finished, and then I'll start looking into visiting the persistant worlds people are hosting.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/votehelp/

It currently appears to be little more than a gleam in one activist-programmer's eye. But this project - or one like it - should be pursued at all cost. There is nothing at all precluding an open source voting machine from superseding Diebold's pathetic offering. I'm sure progressive cities like Portland, OR would be open to such an offering, at least at the grass-roots. We are learning a lot about the value of OSS from organizations like Free Geek.

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I have to plug the Ur-Quan Masters, which is IMHO the very best one on one deathmatch game ever available, even if you don't count all other of its pluses. Much older then Quake (1/2/3) too.

Unless, of course, free software can match commercial equivalents.

Really, I get slightly more.

For windows the best thing for DVD ripping since sliced bread is Gordian Knot and if you still want to get the most retarded version out there try this. Remember 321 studios made a simplified front end for DVD copying built on some shoddy code, they might have become better in a few generations but the free stuff still works better.