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I've heard of those, I think. I've also heard of images, though, which is why I use w3m.

DOCS documentation is 'outside' of code. I feel you should be able to read the code and know whats going on (within the confines of a 'API')

What, like Vigor? (original UF strip here)

Here is what is PHP4's OO model is capable of:

SiG

So whereas with Bit Torrent, if you finish a download and move on, you lose even the potential to share it again.

Not if you start the torrent again.

This need to restart each torrent manually is a limitation not of the BitTorrent network but of one specific client's GUI. The one-download-per-window GUI of the official BitTorrent client somewhat encourages the user to close each client soon after each download completes, if only to free up precious System Resources on Windows 9x and taskbar space on Windows pre-XP. However, another popular BitTorrent client called Azureus lists multiple active torrents in the same main window and can show their "details" in a tabbed MDI. In effect, it achieves nearly the same "cache" behavior, as it continues to share other files it has downloaded until the user unshares them.

This popped up six windows which installed both the default-homepage-network hijacker and also some nasty stuff [...]

This crashed Windows Media Player and then it was overwritten with a small windows executable (I have it if you want it) - this was called wmplayer.exe and was in the Windows Media Player folder. The real Windows Media Player had been deleted. [...]

The next time a WMP media file was accessed the new wmplayer.exe file ran and installed lots of adware, junkware, spyware etc, etc. [...]

AVG free edition sygate personal firewall and Spybot seach and destroy (site down) will complete your collection nicely. Might want to have a look at Hijack this and this tutorial as well.

Yes, this is a lot of work for the price of keeping windows running. Some people don't have a choice... Me, as soon as my favourite IDE gets ported to Linux, I'll swap ;-)

Seriously though, if there are any other tools you guys use to try and keep windows secure, please share.

Beep. Wrong.

They have stuff under the CPL, such as WIX.

The SSI is something else, it is aimmed at companys, and includes stuff like WinCE.

but it's a interesting change of policy

This change is not from today, the change started with WIX under the CPL.

Anyway, if you make a CPL program better(and if it's not yours) you can't earn money with this, only if it helps you to make other things, but who created the program can earn money with your code.

The want the media atention and to be the good guys with this things. Them whem someone talk about Microsoft be against open source software they will say: "we released XX softwares under open source licenses, how we can be against our softwares?"

Well, a bit of Googling turned 'em up: Windows Template Library (WTL) and Windows Installer XML (WiX).

Well, a bit of Googling turned 'em up: Windows Template Library (WTL) and Windows Installer XML (WiX).

Sounds interesting. If the custom bootable iso creator works as well as it's supposed to it'd be a godsend to those of us who have to put together kiosks vel sim. fairly often.

One complaint though: I wish the author would quit calling it an "operating system" as if it wasn't yet another source-based [Linux | GNU/Linux] distribution. Sure, call it a meta-distribution like Gentoo, but don't get carried away. I'm glad he did so in the writeup; I hope he'll change the webpage too.

One question though: why isn't there a Sourceforge or Rubyforge page for the script? Also, there seems to be a namespace conflict with an in-development Ruby-based Enhydra clone.

In case people are curious, the Gaim developers seem to be collaborating with the Trillian folks like they did last time Yahoo broke. (Here's the bug about the breakage.)

Apparently there will be a release out tonight with the fix included.

The key is really not the Squeezebox, but the SlimServer software that it connects to. It keeps track of all the players connected to it, and allows you to manage playlists individually or for a synchronized group from a central location.

To answer your question, I'd like to describe how I use my setup. The Squeezebox has an LED display (2x40, I believe) that is easily readable from across the room. I can sit down and pick up the remote, turn on the Squeezebox, and then either load a saved playlist, browse through my music, search for a specific song, or load up an Internet radio stream. All of these activities are intuitive and simple (the search functionality uses the number buttons on the remote to input letters in the same way as cell phones without predictive spelling), and anybody should be able to handle loading up a playlist with a quick introduction.

This is all possible with one Squeezebox and the included remote. For more complex configurations, you can use the web-based frontend that the SlimServer software provides, which allows you to manage playlists and control all connected devices, either synchronized or independently. For example, I can do a search based on artist name (which is easier with actual keys), and browse through the results to form a particular playlist, which I can then save to my Saved Playlists folder and load into any Squeezebox. If I have linked players, they will share a playlist and controls; if I do not have them linked, they will have individual playlists and be able to be controlled independently. Also, the web-based interface includes all of the functionality of the remote, such as play, pause, next track, on/off, etc.

But you don't have to take my word for any of this. The SlimServer software is written in Perl and available under the GPL from SlimDevices for download here. There is also a Java Squeezebox emulator called SoftSqueeze available here, which completely emulates the interface of an actual Squeezebox and is indistinguishable to the server. Download the server software, play around with having a SoftSqueeze player running on a couple of computers, and see how you like it. There's also an active community of third-party developers writing plugins and fixing bugs, so if there's a particular feature you want, a helpful suggestion on the mailing list might work wonders.

Let me know if there's anything else you have questions about. I love my little toy, and am more than happy to extol its virtues at every opportunity. =)

Yes, phpPgAdmin has been enormously improved in the past 1-2 years. It's getting pretty comparable to phpMyAdmin. Huge kudos to Christopher Kings Lynne for resurrecting it.

http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/

Not familiar with PDO. Been using adodb and it's been working well.

http://adodb.sourceforge.net/

• shell: bash
• editor: vim
• email: mutt
• audio playback: cplay front-end
• mixer: aumix
• irc & im: irssi
  • im/irc gateway: bitlbee
• web browser: w3m
• p2p:
• • client:giFTcurs
  • daemon:giFT
• news aggregator: raggle

The other reason is that next to my main desktop at home, I have a nice little text-based LCD terminal (actually a partially disassembled 486 laptop) that I IM on -- saves screen real estate and I don't have to get offline when I'm doing stuff like kernel driver debugging that requires me to shut down X...

I have a laptop sitting on my desk next to my computer, where I run AIM and Winamp and other such things while I'm working on my desktop. I also use Synergy to share one mouse and keyboard between them when my desktop is working. It's like having a separate monitor when I need one, and a separate computer when I need that too. Best of both worlds. =)

These are more powerful, less subject to interference, have a Phase Loop Lock (PLL) circuit that keeps the signal solid. After that, the antenna you choose becomes the biggest issue. Use a yard-sale cast-off PC, throw your favorite light distro on it and stick it in the attic, with the transmitter hanging off of it.

For controls, use a web interface to your media player software, and you can hit it from any PC on your network. You can run streams, local MP3 or OGG files, internet radio, XM satellite radio, whatever. Put the smarts in the flexible, inexpensive, commodity hardware and hide it away.

Directions located at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Goddamn, that makes me feel geeky.

I don't know, I thought this was one more of these clients.
Actually I have been using ICQ services for years, first with Everybuddy, then with Fire.

I guess they don't want Linux/BSD, Etc users to be able to talk to their IM folks.

revenue from user connected to trillian: 0

revenue from 0 users left behind using the official Yahoo client when everyone else has changed to miranda: $0

Oh, well. They're just creating a new challange for the rev-eng'ers. I say: Just forget about it. Let yahoo have their own little net. They can create their own little usenet too if they want to.

Let's start with the shell--zsh is by far the best one I've used. It has everything.

Moving on, Links (web browser) and Naim (AIM/ICQ/IRC client) rock. The only issue with the former is that Links doesn't support cookies, so I have Lynx in case I want to post on /. or something.

I don't have a console mail client on my machine--I have other methods of getting my email. For accessing my email account with my uni, I ssh into my uni's shell account and use pine from there or I use Links to access the Squirrelmail setup on my web server (over HTTPS, of course). To access my fastmail.fm account, I just use Links to access their web interface (they support both web and IMAP access for free).

For downloading stuff, I use giFTcurs, the btdownloadcurses.py BitTorrent client, and the venerable wget, depending on what I'm looking for and where I'm downloading from.

And, for the part that will generate the most flamage, my text editor of choice: Joe! Its interface is just as simple as nano, but with more features, such as find/replace and decent copy/paste, using text selection. On a related note, I use most as my pager--coloured man pages are good.

And, finally, who could forget NetHack?

Hmm...now I have an urge to find out how to make live CDs, so I can make a ``CLI survival kit'' live CD. Well, maybe not, as I'm too bloody lazy, but it's an idea...

Let's start with the shell--zsh is by far the best one I've used. It has everything.

Moving on, Links (web browser) and Naim (AIM/ICQ/IRC client) rock. The only issue with the former is that Links doesn't support cookies, so I have Lynx in case I want to post on /. or something.

I don't have a console mail client on my machine--I have other methods of getting my email. For accessing my email account with my uni, I ssh into my uni's shell account and use pine from there or I use Links to access the Squirrelmail setup on my web server (over HTTPS, of course). To access my fastmail.fm account, I just use Links to access their web interface (they support both web and IMAP access for free).

For downloading stuff, I use giFTcurs, the btdownloadcurses.py BitTorrent client, and the venerable wget, depending on what I'm looking for and where I'm downloading from.

And, for the part that will generate the most flamage, my text editor of choice: Joe! Its interface is just as simple as nano, but with more features, such as find/replace and decent copy/paste, using text selection. On a related note, I use most as my pager--coloured man pages are good.

And, finally, who could forget NetHack?

Hmm...now I have an urge to find out how to make live CDs, so I can make a ``CLI survival kit'' live CD. Well, maybe not, as I'm too bloody lazy, but it's an idea...

I really like using it with Evolution however I am curious if anyone knows of anything that would work faster and as efficient in conjuntion with Evolution?

I realise that OpenNap is probably no longer fashionable, but I still occasionally browse it using the Linux Napster Client (nap). It has to be kept up to date though, as various OpenNap changes seem to break it with some frequency (the last was the disappearance of Napigator).

rlwrap is a great program for adding history and editing to braindead database vendors' command line clients (e.g. DB2, Sybase).

The nice thing about w3m is it works so well as a HTML viewer for mutt and snownews. In fact, even on my X11 desktop I keep a w3m window open next to Mozilla for quick lookups.

Ade_
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Just use AView for ASCII image rendering; then we just need MacroMedia to open up Flash for an AA-based plugin. Judging by BB I bet it could look pretty good.

Just use AView for ASCII image rendering; then we just need MacroMedia to open up Flash for an AA-based plugin. Judging by BB I bet it could look pretty good.

> tdl. Completely command-line todo list manager.

I personnaly like to use hnb (Hierarchical NoteBook) which you can use for todos but also for writing and managing lots of small notes.

I use wget all the time, even when I'm working with an X11 browser.

I use wget all the time, even though I mainly use Windows. It's a great as a quick and simple downloader. No dealing with clunky GUIs or "download accelerators". Just open a console and "wget url", or "wget -c url" to continue a file. You can get it as part of Windows ports for Unix utilities package.

What is Xterminal?

Xterminal is a Object Oriented User Interface with a client-server architecture. The main purpose is a friendly interface for the UNIX operating systems. It is designed to be used to build text-based applications in C++.

It consists in a complete object oriented library including multiple, resizeable, overlapping windows, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, buttons, scroll bars, input lines, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Mouse support, advanced object management, events handling, communications between objects are provided, too, bundled with a complete programmer's manual.

As far as console apps go i would have to say that ettercap has to be one of the most versittile network analizers, not only is it good to sniff for any unknown traffic, but you can go ahead and watch other's AIM conversations

I live in text mode. Here's a selection of my preferred apps. Most of these are still in active development (though some are more active than others).

screen. Simply indispensable. It slices and dices console sessions. Pretty much everything I do, I do in screen. I've a page elsewhere that describes everything screen does for me.

zsh. My shell of choice. Think of all the good features of bash, ksh, and tcsh rolled together. (Without much of the ickiness, particularly the csh heritage.) Personally, the killer application of zsh was that fact that not only did it have context-sensitive completion but (unlike tcsh) it shipped with hordes of completion definitions right out of the box. Type 'dpkg -L fo<tab>' and zsh will autocomplete on the Debian packages currently installed on your system. With an ssh-agent running, type 'scp otherhost:fo<tab>' and zsh will ssh to the other system and autocomplete on the files available on that host.

irssi. The best IRC client I've come across, certainly beating out IrcII, BitchX, and even epic. Multiple windows, extensible, tons of plugins available.

bitlbee. This is actually an IRC-to-Instant-Messaging gateway. It allows me to use irssi and the IRC environment with which I am so familiar to also deal with those of my friends and family who insist on using the various IM services.

snownews. curses-based RSS aggregator. I shopped around a bit before finding an aggregator that I liked. snownews does everything I need.

mutt. Possibly the best mail client around, GUI or not. While pine is okay (and simpler to use), mutt is much more customizable and scales better to large volumes of email.

procmail. Again, not exactly command line, but essential to my email usage.

Emacs. My text-mode editor of choice. Feel free to substitute XEmacs or vi (preferably vim) at your own preference. I prefer emacs to vi, though I know a decent amount of vi, as any sysadmin should. I actually like XEmacs a little better than GNU Emacs, but GNU Emacs has better UTF-8 support.

w3m. There's also links; I'm not tremendously familiar with it because w3m fills all of my needs and it used to be the case that w3m had better HTML support than links, but I don't believe this is any longer the case. Of note is the fact that w3m can do tabbed browsing, though it's not multithreaded, so you can't read one tab while another is loading. Also, if you run w3m with a valid $DISPLAY, it can even show images in the pages it displays.

moosic. This is a music jukebox. The features that distinguish it from other such programs are twofold. First, it runs as a standalone server; you interact with it via a command line client. (In theory, a curses or GUI client could be written, but to my knowledge none yet has.) Second, it's customizable with regards to how it plays music. It has a config file where you tell it what programs to use to play various music formats (it does come with reasonable defaults). Someone elsewhere in this article pointed out mpd; I'll have to look at that, but it at least doesn't appear to support the various MOD formats.

mplayer. It does more or less require some graphical output (X, framebuffer, whatever), but it's run and displays it status in text mod

I live in text mode. Here's a selection of my preferred apps. Most of these are still in active development (though some are more active than others).

screen. Simply indispensable. It slices and dices console sessions. Pretty much everything I do, I do in screen. I've a page elsewhere that describes everything screen does for me.

zsh. My shell of choice. Think of all the good features of bash, ksh, and tcsh rolled together. (Without much of the ickiness, particularly the csh heritage.) Personally, the killer application of zsh was that fact that not only did it have context-sensitive completion but (unlike tcsh) it shipped with hordes of completion definitions right out of the box. Type 'dpkg -L fo<tab>' and zsh will autocomplete on the Debian packages currently installed on your system. With an ssh-agent running, type 'scp otherhost:fo<tab>' and zsh will ssh to the other system and autocomplete on the files available on that host.

irssi. The best IRC client I've come across, certainly beating out IrcII, BitchX, and even epic. Multiple windows, extensible, tons of plugins available.

bitlbee. This is actually an IRC-to-Instant-Messaging gateway. It allows me to use irssi and the IRC environment with which I am so familiar to also deal with those of my friends and family who insist on using the various IM services.

snownews. curses-based RSS aggregator. I shopped around a bit before finding an aggregator that I liked. snownews does everything I need.

mutt. Possibly the best mail client around, GUI or not. While pine is okay (and simpler to use), mutt is much more customizable and scales better to large volumes of email.

procmail. Again, not exactly command line, but essential to my email usage.

Emacs. My text-mode editor of choice. Feel free to substitute XEmacs or vi (preferably vim) at your own preference. I prefer emacs to vi, though I know a decent amount of vi, as any sysadmin should. I actually like XEmacs a little better than GNU Emacs, but GNU Emacs has better UTF-8 support.

w3m. There's also links; I'm not tremendously familiar with it because w3m fills all of my needs and it used to be the case that w3m had better HTML support than links, but I don't believe this is any longer the case. Of note is the fact that w3m can do tabbed browsing, though it's not multithreaded, so you can't read one tab while another is loading. Also, if you run w3m with a valid $DISPLAY, it can even show images in the pages it displays.

moosic. This is a music jukebox. The features that distinguish it from other such programs are twofold. First, it runs as a standalone server; you interact with it via a command line client. (In theory, a curses or GUI client could be written, but to my knowledge none yet has.) Second, it's customizable with regards to how it plays music. It has a config file where you tell it what programs to use to play various music formats (it does come with reasonable defaults). Someone elsewhere in this article pointed out mpd; I'll have to look at that, but it at least doesn't appear to support the various MOD formats.

mplayer. It does more or less require some graphical output (X, framebuffer, whatever), but it's run and displays it status in text mod

Would it be possible to get this to work over Xgrid?

At the high school I am teaching at, we have a lot of hardly used G4 eMacs and iMacs, and I would like to use them for something and perhaps even earn a little newsblurb about the school. I have been thinking about working with they SysAdmin to cluster the things and put them to good use. Xgrid seems like a good way to get them all working together, but I am very inexperienced in these sorts of things...

Any suggestions?

On a side note, it amazes me how many schools seem to have "jumped on the technology bandwagon" but after getting the equipment, really seem to have no idea what to do with it...

...but I still miss trn...

You can still get it, at least as source code, from here. I still use it and it works reasonably well.

It has a nice, friendly Configure script that'll get it to build on modern Linux systems without any fuss.

The main problems with it are that the Q00L new features are poorly documented, as is how to turn them off, and the that the source code is terrifying. Remember, this was the program that Larry Wall was going to rewrite just before he got distracted by Perl, after which it switched maintainers before finally being (apparently) abandoned.

Still, for all its problems, I haven't found a better news reader. I considered XEmacs GNUS for a while but configuring it is harder to do than just writing your own news reader.

For IRC, I use irssi. It's neat, small, fast, and does what I need it to. Also, I haven't had the need to change any of its stock options yet - I like it the way it is. Other candidates are BitchX (annoying autoaway etc.), ircII (too much configuring, maybe?), or CenterICQ (don't like the interface for IRC).

CenterICQ is my app of choice for IM. It's quirky sometimes, and once segfaulted, but other than that, I have had 0 problems with it. Also, it supports a variety of protocols.

For web-browsing, I use links. I've tried lynx and w3m, but links just "does it" I guess :). It's got support for more stuff. Also, I find the -g option nice, something the other two don't have IIRC.

I've tried Emacs, Pico, Nano, ed, etc. etc. etc., but so far, nothing has replaced my addiction to Vim. Maybe I'm a masochist, I don't know.

When I'm at home in console mode, I usually use Alt+Fx to switch between different apps, and use screen to keep irssi and centericq running. When over ssh, I use screen. Sometimes, I run out of VTs, so I use screen to group things inside the VTs. When in X, I just keep things in separate rxvt windows.

For entertainment, I have either NetHack, fortune -o, or bash.org (aww shit, slashdotted them, they're down enough as it is!) in links. :)

-- Chris

I know that UltraVNC (Win32) can do single windows, This can be extremly handy over slow WAN links. I would imagine that one of the many flavours of VNC available for *nix can do this too.

Yeah, but w3m doesn't farking support <font color="..."> tags, even though it DOES do color menus and such! I constantly get pressure at work to switch back to Outlook, and one of the arguments given is that I can't read "proper" email responses where people color-code their responses to separate them from others. I'm using an ansi terminal, why should I have problems displaying colored emails?

autonuts-mutella

uses Soundex algorithm to download unique files using mutella (a command line gnutella client). saves me hours of time.

requires mutella:

If you liked gnut you might try mutella.
It supports a nice CLI and HTTP interface. But at 11 months since an update it may be dead too.

Heck, I just compiled up Quakeforge last night to try it out on my little laptop here (Athlon XP-M 1600+ (1400Mhz), 352MB, 32MB shared video ram, S3 Savage video chipset) and was amused to see I was getting between 40 and 75 fps at whatever the heck the default resolution was. Well inside the 'Playable' range.

I'm disappointed that Id refuses to offer a "data files for open-sourced games" (i.e. Doom 1, Doom 2, Quake 1, Quake 2) disk or download at a reasonable price - I asked about it and got back a shocked "Oh, no, we'd NEVER do something like THAT!" as though I'd asked them if they'd consider auctioning off their genitals on E-bay or something...Since they're charging "new Quake I box" rates last time I checked ($30+) for a simple download of the original Quake disk alone, I just can't quite justify the cost at the moment. But I'd pay that much for permission to use (no support, even no media [i.e. download disk image only]) the quake 1, quake 2, and Doom 1,2 datasets to go with Quakeforge and the various DOOM ports...

That being the case - anybody know any good free "total conversion" datasets that don't require the original ID datasets? OpenQuartz appeared to be working on one, but they haven't had an update in over 2 years...

Go try slrn. Works just sparky fine fer me.

Dopewars!

Takes capitalism back to the source...

Will the format of input and output files change?

Yes. The new format is XML-like (though not legal XML).

These are not just for "old" machines, but also for remote work, and just the apps you use regularly when working primarily with a CLI -- especially an editor.*

'nuff said.

*) Be it emacs or vim. Both also come with GUI's.

SoX is very useful for sound processing. Try it :)

aalib

Not necessarily an app...but love it when X is down.

Being able to manipulate conversations exactly like emacs buffers is extremely powerful.

along the whole "ssh to the home linux box to do things they won't let me do at work", mutella is a kickin' gnutella client. it also has a nice web interface which is a bit easier to use ... perhaps it could use the ncurses treatment, but it still rocks.

speaking of consoles -- i wish Ximian would enable a console-only mode for Evolution, which they say is doable. if they did it would be THE killer app on this list.