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I currently use Fire which has become pretty stable now.
Its interface, while still not apple-slick, has a lot more to offer over Psi, which is actually a KDE application.

A very simple Jabber program is Nitro which I alternatively use.

Since it's really hard to find now that Cisco bought Abacus I thought I should provide a link. I'm glad Craig put up the sentry family of tools again. I loved portsentry. I do wish it had a few more features. Perhaps I'll add them myself someday.

DOSBox really isn't meant to run things too far up the flagpole.

I'd recommend running Bochs for stuff between Windows 3.11 and Windows 98. It's more contained than DOSBox but it's nice and free and does a decent job. It works better in Linux than Windows too. Bochs rochs the sochs. (sorry, I just had to.)

I don't know about DOSemu/FreeDOS, but DOSBox says it can. (Well, for 688 Attack Sub -- dunno if the +8 means anything.)

No, that's Karamba and SuperKaramba, not Konfabulator....

Just looked at DOSBox and the screenshots for the cvs version look promising if you want to run win 3.11

I like this idea. Maybe you can ask the open source iTerm project to add this and the table-cell feature. Or maybe you can contribute some code. No need to start anew.

We're almost there with real, live updating, smart playlist support now (which no other third party iPod-capable app has yet, that I know of).

I run Windows 3.11 on top of my latest Mandrake install using DOSBOX. It'll run lotsa old games as well, though a nifty PC helps somewhat.

Hell, who needs Windows when we've got SEAL? ;-)

Short answer: No. Well, maybe if you have a copy of OS/2, but it doesn't really work well.

Here is a link to the official Dosbox site. link

That's where you use DOSBox, a DOS emulator (mainly) for old games. It doesn't play all dos games yet but every release gets better.

There is always GNU Darwin [gnu-darwin.org]. It's no Mac OS X, but it uses the same kernel.

Or you could emulate your x86 processor to act like a PowerPC one with PearPC [sourceforge.net], and then install Mac OS X. Might be best to go with the real thing, though.

If I'm understanding what you're looking for (I've never seen Sniffer Pro in action), I think EtherApe might do it. It hasn't been updated since January of 2003, but the current version works fine for me.

There are also a lot of integrity checkings tools, that if well don't count as "antivirus", at least they report changes that could mean something nasty running, and not to forget things like chkrootkit.

If you are looking for a proven open standard methodology for performing security tests, then Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) is the way to go.

In addition, there is the linux distro of Trinux, which includes most of the common linux open source security auditing tools.

It's hardly more than 3ddesktop.
I run it all the time as a desktop switcher for Gnome.
The difference with 3ddesktop is that it doesn't use all your CPU just sitting there, and it doesn't look like a sad attempt at making the whole desktop 'experience' 3-dimensional. Some things are better in 2D. Desktops are one of them. There's nothing to be gained from having a window slant into the background. It certainly doesn't aid in getting work done. Yeah maybe it looks cool. So does 3ddesktop, and it's actually functional.

Personally, I'm waiting for Enlightenment to fulfill my need for eye candy. And yes I realise I'll be waiting a while. At least it have the word 'Java' smacked at the front of it in some sad, desperate attempt at building mindshare for their slow-arse POS flagship product. Jesus - imagine if this thing were actually written in Java ( put up your hands everyone who likes playing those First Person Shooters that are written in Java, you know the ones, the .... um .... the .... well .... the .... Oh, I've forgotten the names ).

Plus Sun sux. Their attitude towards Microsoft is displayed in a new light next to their attitude towards Linux ( specifically RedHat ).

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No mention of virtual desktops in Tiger, so for now we have to assume it isn't going to get them.

Seems like a no-brainer to at least include an option for virtual desktops if you would like to use them.

Oh well, at least there's Desktop manager. Still it would be great if this were built-in.

Can I uninstall IE for example? (Please don't tell me about the "uncheck IE" box in add/remove components)

Absolutely. Find iexplore.exe and delete it. No more Internet Explorer. The only thing that remains are the HTML rendering libraries and other associated libraries that it requires at runtime. Can't delete those without breaking the system as there are components that rely on embedding IE's HTML rendering. But then again, the same thing is true of e.g., Konqueror. You can remove the konqueror executable but if you delete libkonqueror.so (or whatever it's called) you'll find that all those KDE apps that embed Konqueror are broken.

Well, here's one on SourceForge that I wrote a number of years ago and only recently have started working on again (there's no recent release at the moment, but soon): cRPL, which is the beginnings of a stack-based RPL programming language.

There's also linleech, which, again, I wrote many years ago and have ceased development on. There's no homepage for that project anymore, but a few years ago someone decided to pick the project up and include it in Debian and OpenBSD as a package:

Debian
OpenBSD

Work and whatnot have kept me from doing much work in the free software arena, but in another week or two I'll be making my first release of a Java-based remote execution tool (check the project page for a link), so it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to this whole free software thing. Yes it's been a long time since I've published any free software but at least I've contributed instead of sitting on Slashdot and paying lip service.

You must be joking! You complain about the security holes of Red Hat Enterprise and enthusiastically embrace Microsoft software? That is very interesting! :-)

Who said I was enthusiastically embracing Microsoft? I was just making the point that free software has the same problems that closed source software has, thus rendering the original poster's joke to be, well, not a joke.

Right! And why haven't you installed the Superior Software to them as well?

Because I never said Microsoft's software is the superior software? I just find the desktop experience to be superior. You'll also noticed that I make no mention of those machines being desktop machines. They're server machines. You see, unlike clueless zealots such as yourself, I don't believe in an all-or-nothing philosophy. Whereas you make it very clear that the "truth" is that Linux is better than Microsoft bar none, I don't think so. It's better in some areas, and worse in others.

Uh, have you SEEN Java games that use OpenGL? It's a disgrace. I can't believe people like you bother to defend it.

I have, but apparently you haven't. Let me introduce you:

Wurm Online
Cosmic Trip
Alien Flux

In my experience, C or C++ is faster across the board, regardless how piss-poor the coder is.

You mean, in your bias C or C++ is faster across the board. From your first paragraph, it seems obvious that you've never used any serious Java apps. OTOH, it may very well be the result of a new syndrome that's been forming. People don't know they're using Java! A perfect example of this is the #1 BitTorrent app, Azureus. It looks and works so good that no one questions what is under the hood!

> the lead deveolper just isn't a Sopranos fan?

Heh, no, but the guy who did the logo is.

I'm that third type.
I run a website that is used by about 2,000 people per day.
My unobfuscated email address is at the bottom of every page.
So I get a tremendous amount of spam along with a decent amount of real mail.
I use the Spam Bayes Outlook plugin and it works as well as I need it to.
It sorts my mail into Spam, Possible Spam, and Inbox.
Anything with a score below 5% remains in the Inbox.
Anything with a score of 5% to 97% is sent to possible (usually about 20 emails per day).
Anything with a score above 97% is sent to Spam (usually about 160 emails per day).
At some point during the day I'll check out the Possibles and either delete them as Spam or return them to the Inbox.
Every couple of days I'll scan through the Spambox and delete all Spam.
I've only ever caught one misclassified "good" message, and that was what prompted me to raise my threshold to 97% (it had been at 92%).
I get a lot of very short emails with mangled syntax, and that looks spammish ('How do I join ur site?' is typical).

I think the Real value here is the fact that the mindshare is shifting. The main issue with the Net is not a lack of good codecs, it's a lack of people using them. You need mind share from bigger names (Real, Novell, RedHat to some extent) so that the content *providers* are encoraged to used the tech. Most sites are already a mess with offering Media Player, Real, and Quicktime, I can see why (though I don't entirely agree with it) they wouldn't want yet another format.

This is where DRM rears it's ugly head as well. People want you to see things, but not copy them. If I have the source, I can do anything with any content you stream me. Most execs don't like that.

I guess I'm a baby steps kinda guy, let me have an open source player, with black box codecs first. The rest will come.

Personally though, I'm watching gStreamer. If we can nail down decoding *and* encoding into moduals that people can then build into real tools, then we'll *really* see things happen.

Looks bad for evil M$.

Full on Windows is not competitive in it's native language, so the notion of "stripped down sounded odd to me too, but what I found was even more surprising. Just a little reading is very enlightening. No one but Microsoft and end users will know what's going into the package but Windoze is even less competitive in Thai.

What could they remove for this obvious region based dumping project? Calc? Notepad? The clock on the button bar? Oh wait, I see that they have a "stripped down" version of Office Standard, itself already stripped down.

I have to wonder what they could remove from such a basic set of software. Office Standard comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, email client and a presentation program and DRM that you have no control over. I suppose they could remove the presentation software and leave the user with ascii or Microsoft's crappy html code generation for information sharing. Spell checker, do they have a Thai spell checker? Do they have Thai anything at all? The user will still be looking for a paint program, pdf writer, a browser and email client worth using and third party software to do anything real that's business related. Who knows when M$'s not talking?

Microsoft Thai page does not say as far as I can tell without their special software. They have the same bogus "facts" presentation, but you have to have "active scripting" to have the right characters appear. Mostly, the site is in English, the rest is broken, some advert that is. M$ gets its ass kicked by Gnome's beautiful Thai page which rendered perfectly with Mepis / Debian unstable. This page is fun too!

Given the above differences in software quality and the ease of "piracy", I doubt that M$'s little dumpting scheme is going to work. Their "People's Software" initiative might suck in a few clueless government types but people who know software are going to continue to chose Linux. They could give their stuff away and it would not be taken up.

Open source won't use Java until Java is open source. Most OSS developers are wary of traps like that.
(Which caused reluctance to using Qt, which sparked the Gnome project. Now Qt is free, of course.)

Java is certainly going open source. Not Sun's java, but there are plenty of open-source VM:s, and compilers, and a full implementation of the class library in the works.

I predict that, when these projects reach sufficient maturity (AWT/Swing support being the achilles heel in all the above), we will see widespread adoption of Java in the OSS community.

What Sun does will have little impact on the OSS community unless they get serious about open source and put Java under a tolerable license.

(If someone's curious about what is bad about the Sun license, see Dalibor Topic's post here, containing a point-by-point comparison to the Open-source definition.)

Is there an IE theme available for Mozilla or better yet Firefox? This would make it a lot easier for people like my grandmother who had to re-learn what all the buttons did when i sent her to Firefox.

I don't think those are available for recent versions, but you might want to try the K-Meleon browser, which uses the Mozilla rendering engine and puts a native Windows front-end on it that looks a lot like Explorer by default (but is themable).

GFS was well-liked at supercomputing centers I have worked with until Sistina dropped the GPL license in favor of proprietary. They did this very suddenly and without warning. It pissed off a lot of potential users and the open source community. It has since fallen out of favor.

This move by Red Hat gives new life (and resources) to GFS beyond the OpenGFS Project that has also been continuing to work on the code.

Another recent development in this area is HP's decision to productize Lustre. Lustre is perhaps the most prominent and promising HPC filesystem.

SGI also announced a major deal last week involving Luster:

The new file system is expected to sustain write rates in excess of 8GB/sec and demonstrate single client write rates of more than 600MB/sec. To achieve this performance, the new file system will leverage Lustre, an open source, object-oriented file system with development lead by Cluster File System Inc., with funding from DOE. Lustre currently is used on four of the top five supercomputers, including the PNNL cluster based on 1,900 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.

This is pretty nifty. It's more of an admin tool than a general use tool though. It only requires some scripts running on the server side. The client side needs a kernel module.

Aside from the "we've paid for the data" argument (Ordnance Survey are thieves of our taxpayer-funded mapping), you can see some weather arriving by getting xplanet to download a cloud map (thankyou university of aberdeen and meteosat, for providing that), and have the current cloud image overlaid on maps as your deskop background.

WTL is a set of template classes from microsoft that make it easy to implement fairly complicated GUIs. A lot like MFC, but simple, lightweight, and templated.

It's available under the Common Public Licence and is hosted on sourceforge here

Simply save this file to your windows drive that contains the spreadsheets, rename to XLS2HTM.vbs and run. Edit the file to Change the SaveAs constant and the file extension you want and away you go. To get better results converting Excel or Word files to HTML also use HTMLTidy (tidy.exe) along with this config script

XLS2HTM.vbs.txt

Bug reports to code@NOSPAMBOTSoranda.com

You forgot to show her how to avoid giving the RIAA money at all... You're heart seems to be in the right place, but next time this happens, show them iTunes + RIAA radar. For those that want free, send 'em over to iRate. Encourage those who care to do these simple things, and bands will quickly find out how unpopular it is to be affiliated with those thugs.

Here is the server for the simulation league. I helped code a team for one of my college classes; it was pathetic :). The University of Amsterdam Trilean team has won three years straight. You should check it out; their team kicks some serious ass. If you're interested in the simulation league, be sure to check out the publications by the Trilearn team. The Master's thesis especially is a must read for anyone attempting to write a client. Tons of information on everything from self-localization to optimal-pass-determination.

GnuMeric, as with the rest of GNOME 1.4 or KDE 3.1.4, runs just fine on Windows when compiled in the Cygwin Linux API implementation. You can also use Cygwin as a host for XFree86, this is the only way to get a free, fully featured X-server on Windows.

References.
Cygwin homepage
Gnome 1.4 apps for Cygwin
Cygwin Gnome homepage
KDE on Cygwin homepage

Cygwin is a brilliant tool to help manage a migration from Windows to Linux. I don't know why we dont hear of it more.

GnuMeric, as with the rest of GNOME 1.4 or KDE 3.1.4, runs just fine on Windows when compiled in the Cygwin Linux API implementation. You can also use Cygwin as a host for XFree86, this is the only way to get a free, fully featured X-server on Windows.

References.
Cygwin homepage
Gnome 1.4 apps for Cygwin
Cygwin Gnome homepage
KDE on Cygwin homepage

Cygwin is a brilliant tool to help manage a migration from Windows to Linux. I don't know why we dont hear of it more.

GnuMeric, as with the rest of GNOME 1.4 or KDE 3.1.4, runs just fine on Windows when compiled in the Cygwin Linux API implementation. You can also use Cygwin as a host for XFree86, this is the only way to get a free, fully featured X-server on Windows.

References.
Cygwin homepage
Gnome 1.4 apps for Cygwin
Cygwin Gnome homepage
KDE on Cygwin homepage

Cygwin is a brilliant tool to help manage a migration from Windows to Linux. I don't know why we dont hear of it more.

I've seen all the usual goodies mentioned (Ethereal, tcpdump, nmap, nessus) but I found when it comes to detecting a virus infection I find Etherape impossible to beat.

The main reason for that is that etherape actually maps out live traffic patterns (and volume) on a network. I personally am quite surprised it's not a default part of more security bootdisks. You'll spot an infection straightaway as they tend to 'broadcast' on the network.

As for protection, host checksumming has one disadvantage: it's AFTER the fact...

Good luck - you'll need it. You may want to remind your boss that being negligent with CC data might lose you your merchant status, and losing customer date could result in lawsuits from clients or, in EU countries, a harsh fine from data protection regulators. IANAL but frequently involved in cleanign up situation you just described...

That being said, IT IS WORTH IT

I agree and in my case, it is much better than SA. I have incorporated it into p3scan[1][2] also. Now you have the option of using SpamAssassin or DSPAM when checking your pop3 mail.

[1] http://p3scan.sourceforge.net
[2] In the development branch.

If viruses/worms/trojans spread by email are your biggest concern, an obvious solution would be to scan all incoming email.

If students are using the university-supplied addresses, the university's server should be doing some sort of virus check - there are numerous commercial (pay) solutions available depending on your config (Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, RAV, Sophos, etc), and there are even some open-source ones, such as ClamAV (which is updated very frequently, and is, of course, free) which you can integrate into your mail system.

If your university doesn't want to modify it's existing server, you can "front-end" the existing mail server with another server running a virus-scanning solution, such as the open-source MailScanner, which simplifies integrating virus and spam scanning into a mail delivery program (it can use ClamAV, for instance), which would then forward the email to the existing server once scanned.

As well, if you wanted to be extra careful with 3rd party email addresses, you could block POP3 and IMAP ports to any server other than the university's at the firewall, so that students would be forced to forward their 3rd party mail to the university's server (which would be scanning for viruses). Or, you could set up the firewall to redirect all POP3 requests to a box running POP3Vscan (again, open source, so free), which is a "transparent" proxy would scan incoming POP3 email for viruses. Not sure if there's an equivalent IMAP proxy solution, however...

Anyway, you do have low-cost options for preventing these things in the first place.

For starters-Yahoo offered POP access till April 2002, for free. You could have downloaded all your mails at any time. Even after POP went paid, YahooPOPs will let you download all your yahoo mails to your POP client. I've been using this combination for over 5 years now-where's the problem? They can continue with 6 MB, goto 1 GB, hell, 1 TB-I get all my mail into my POP client when I want to. I have mails archived all the way from 1999 on my PC. For ads-use AdMuncher Again-where's the problem? I haven't EVER been subjected to a single ad, popup, driveby activex or anything in the last five years. Use Admuncher-and you won't have to care about seeing any ad ever again. Yahoo's pages are absolutely clean and ad free for me-they've always been.

I don't see whats so great about being able to store all your emails ever received on some company's servers. What happens if, years later, Google gets taken over, or closes down? Would you rather have all your mails sitting pretty there? Recall when Google took over Dejanews and made it Google Groups-many people were upset that all the dumb posts,profanities and flames they'd made years earlier would now go public. Do you still trust someone else to store every single mail you've ever sent?
Then again-that's me.
Now that we've addressed two major issues-mailbox size and type of ads-what's left? Oh, yeah, 'I trust google but not $COMPANY'-a view expressed by many people here. Just what's so great about them? Any company is in business for one thing and one thing only-PROFIT. Google is not a charity. There's NO telling how their current user friendly stance may change after the IPO. Look at Apple-people held out Steve Jobs as some great evangelist who's come to save the world from evil Microsoft and IBM-he's another bird of the same feather. Recall the Playfair vs iTunes controversy a couple of months back (should be somewhere here on /.) In the end-Google is a great company no doubt-but they're not infallible. They've provided excellent service till now, there's no reason however to expect that they won't serve up something unpleasant in the future.

Also, when seeking help.. Its a good idea to at least mention which print spooler, and driver your using. Is CUPS so ubiquitous that we should assume thats what he is running? When printer shopping, stick with HP at home. They work great, and have an official open source driver for Linux.

WTF?
If FTP or HTTP protocols have the "capability" to telport the damn file to me on DVD doesn't matter. The fact is that the way browsers and ftp clients operate now is to pull the whole damn file from a single source, and although there is an option to request a chunk and to restart broken transfers there is no auto-discovered-multi-source-simultaneous-distribu ted-crypto-integrity-checked option. Note that several comments here are alluding to pattern of standards and protocols evolving and replacing each other based on changes in the world in which the protocols live, such as this - asymetrical internet connections and wide spread interest in participating in serving content have made single sourced services [conventional http and ftp servers] less attractive. The same way http servers/clients made gopher et al less attractive back in the day. Those two things taken together make things like:
bt
White Water
konspire2b (which hasn't gotten enough attention IMO)
much more attractive for distribution of non-webpage content/files. Why? Tons of distributed upload capacity and interest and relatively huge download pipes - I can dl at 3 Mb/s but server X cannot by itself fill that pipe, but 47 DSL users can.

Please explain in more depth how you think http and ftp already cover the ground covered by bt and white water and/or what capabilities of http and ftp that we are ignorant of, then it might be more clear what you are having trouble with.

I don't know if I should post to an Ask Slashdot that I started, but...

I am motivated by the desire to accomplish something (impressive). Fear has never been a motivating factor for me to get something done (tough I have been motivated by fear to leave a situation).

The responses to this thread begs the question "Are the software developers on Slashdot typical of the industry?"

-Jackson
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I can't believe that I didn't see any suggestions for the kind Live Music Archive. The live music archive is THE source for high quality open source music!!! There are many great artists there. You might need to get a copy of the mkwACT for converting SHN or FLAC to convert the files to .wav

Some of my favorites include:
Steve Kimock Band
Steve Kimock & Friends
Zero
Yonder Mountain String Band
Yo Miles
Motherbug
Charlie Hunter
Top Level All Bands

enjoy!!!