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I meant to say this link.

I guess you could deduce it, but anyway.

A quick check through my history, and a look at open terminal windows, tells me that most of what I do with the command line is directly related to what I would consider the Operating System. I see a ton of ls, cd, more, dig, tar, gzip, etc. I also see myself using ssh to do OS-type things on other *nix machines. The second place for frequency, though probably first for amount of time using, goes to all of those vim sessions. Lastly, I see a lot of Perl and gcc.

Essentially, I don't use a lot of newly developed tools - or even, for that matter, tools that are still being heavily developed. I don't use the command line to browse, and I don't use it to check mail (though there are a few pines in there). The core of my user experience still feels like it's commands, but in fact, the mindless things that take most of my time are done in a graphical environment (like typing this post). The only tools I see myself using that aren't older than me are tools used for security work (a wonderful list of which you may find here), and the occasional bout of StreamRipper.

Somehow, after this post, I feel less like a console jockey than I thought I was. A better question might be: what do console users need?

Cursed GTK count?

how much development there is on it I don't know, but
slrn is very nice newsreader.

Sometimes it stops, and I thought at first the assault was over, but I think what actually happened is that whoever was sending me the virus just had their PC turned off. After a while, the onslaught starts up again.

I think it would be great if their ISP were to cut them off.

My hosting service is supposed to have ClamAV installed, as well as spamassassin, but for some reason they're not working, and I can't get ahold of tech support, possibly because they're overwhelmed right now.

What I do is copy my spool file to my home directory each day, truncate my original spool file, and filter out most of the viruses with a procmail script that looks for Zafi's Subject lines. Here's a snippet:

:0
* ^Subject:.*You`ve got 1 VoiceMessage
{
:0
/dev/null
}

I (and the company I work for) use ASSP and have been very impressed with its results. Spam in my boss's inbox went from 100-200 messages per day down to a handful... I'd like to see it compared to the other anti-spam packages mentioned.

Would be interesting to see how that message sample reacts against more spam filtering technologies, or even webmails with spam protection integration.

There are already spam packages that do this, at least the collaborative part. Vipul's Razor (which is under the Artistic license) at the personal level and Brightmail (which is closed and not free) at the enterprise/ISP level, off the top of my head.

What protection does it have against users (intentionally or unintentionally) adding non-spam to the database, thus blocking legitimate e-mail to everyone who uses Razor?

People have done this before by adding mailing list posts to Razor. But SpamAssassin doesn't automatically block messages listed in Razor, it just assigns them a higher spam score.

Razor has some protection too, like the truth evaluation system - see this page for info.

I have been using spamprobe for some time, with the webfilt front-end, and I'm very pleased with the speedy spamprobe program (written in C++).

I receive approximately 10 legit emails/day and about 300 spam/day. I have only had 2 false positives overall (that's 2 out of about 100,000 total emails received) and on average only 2 spams/day split past the filter. Now I'm testing Spambayes on one of my most spammed accounts, but it's definitely much slower than spamprobe and not more accurate as far as I can tell.

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The link in the article points to SpamBayes again.

I'm part designer, part 3D artist by day, and at night (when I have any energy left) I "just draw" on the old Wacom tablet, usually.

What grabs me? Well, money is nice but frankly, I don't need it. What I'd like to contribute to is a project I see value in. Something that will let me learn the ropes of what it's like to work with other people through the OSS model, because I never have before; I've only ever been a corporate monkey where the dynamics are presumably quite different.

That said, there aren't many projects that have grabbed me by the collar and said, "WE NEED YOU TO HELP US MAKE IT LOOK GOOD." The only apps that I've ever considered helping out with were Inkscape which shows a lot of promise for a vector graphics drawing package -- but isn't looking for designers as their road map is mostly replete with "stuff needs to be reprogrammed"; and Freevo, which blatently advertises that they're looking for (skin) designers. I think I'll be helping design a few skins for Freevo, because they look like they really want it, and I love the package and want to give something back to that community.

Since your project isn't done yet, selling on the basis of "giving back" because people like your project is pretty unlikely. That doesn't mean you might not gain a little interest by publicising what it's all about, though. Worst-case scenario, it's really dull and the requests are few -- at least the people that do volunteer will be in for the long haul, whereas signing up sight-unseen might result in a few people abandoning ship early on.

I'm part designer, part 3D artist by day, and at night (when I have any energy left) I "just draw" on the old Wacom tablet, usually.

What grabs me? Well, money is nice but frankly, I don't need it. What I'd like to contribute to is a project I see value in. Something that will let me learn the ropes of what it's like to work with other people through the OSS model, because I never have before; I've only ever been a corporate monkey where the dynamics are presumably quite different.

That said, there aren't many projects that have grabbed me by the collar and said, "WE NEED YOU TO HELP US MAKE IT LOOK GOOD." The only apps that I've ever considered helping out with were Inkscape which shows a lot of promise for a vector graphics drawing package -- but isn't looking for designers as their road map is mostly replete with "stuff needs to be reprogrammed"; and Freevo, which blatently advertises that they're looking for (skin) designers. I think I'll be helping design a few skins for Freevo, because they look like they really want it, and I love the package and want to give something back to that community.

Since your project isn't done yet, selling on the basis of "giving back" because people like your project is pretty unlikely. That doesn't mean you might not gain a little interest by publicising what it's all about, though. Worst-case scenario, it's really dull and the requests are few -- at least the people that do volunteer will be in for the long haul, whereas signing up sight-unseen might result in a few people abandoning ship early on.

The first thing that comes to mind is the "motion" project. It's a nice motion detection program for webcams. Saves drive space by only saving frames where something seems to be moving. You can also have it make movies of the motion frames, which makes it really easy to "check the logs".

Anonymous P2P will likely 'solve' these lawsuits, the technology is coming along nicely.

I think that I2P and Mute need some developers though if you are interested.

After installing SP2RC2 and noting that everything was working fine, I went and re-set bblean as shell, and walked away after rebooting... When I came back, I had a BSOD; something about Login (I was too panicked to read it that closely).

I managed to get back in by logging into another account I had in XP and replacing the custom shell program with a renamed copy of explorer.exe and everything worked fine after the next reboot.

I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me; but I noticed SP2 wouldn't install with bblean running as shell, and it looks like it was for a good reason. Be careful. :)

Another good one is Ogre. It's purely a rendering engine, which lets you choose your collision/sound/networking/whatever else libraries, but there are a few engine frameworks springing up around it. It's fast, very clean, and capable of a lot of current generation effects (well, it has full shader support, so I guess it supports most anything you can code a shader for). If C# is your flavor, Ogre has a cousin called Axiom that is just as functional. Axiom is intended to be a game engine, but is very much in its infancy, so there isn't too much besides (rock solid) rendering in place there yet. Still, though, both are very clean and excellently designed, and are both well worth a look.

I watched some S/VCD mpegs via ssh tunnel using AAlib, more of a gimmick, but neat. I do have problems with sound, and havn't found a perfect solution. Piping sound doesnt always works. But I suspect a mp3 server would fix the problem.

Strange how streaming, capturing, or even using Video over a network is overlooked on retail software. I'd love a retail version of xbox media player that can capture (timeshift)video.

ffmpeg was originally designed for exactly this kind of thing. The only problem with it is that it's pretty much under permanent development, but it's generally considered very high quality. Will support any video card supported by a Video4Linux interface, IIRC.

not production ready, but the only sourceforge altenative I am aware of: drbs

I've installed the game using Loki's Far Cry installer for Linux.

More installers from Loki.

Good luck ;)

I've installed the game using Loki's Far Cry installer for Linux.

More installers from Loki.

Good luck ;)

in between you may take a look a free alternatives, e.g. drbs

totally disagree. I think the GoogleFS is a much more valuable commodity than the search algos.

there are projects to create something free, that
does the job of the google fs, e.g.:
drbs

And then be prepared to continue filtering out spam (although with my setup, of the 100+ daily messages that would get into my inbox without filtering, I now get about 10, all marked as spam, with the rest getting blocked by the rbl lists and some custom rules).

Google should consider "giving back" by providing a platform for services to run on -- a PlanetLab for the SourceForge world. Google code isn't about a single server, it's about clusters of servers, and few people have the budget and experience to set up distributed clusters on their own.

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ATI's goal is to offer a complete HDTV solution for an MSRP of $199. The package will include the HDTV Wonder, a Remote Wonder and a yet to be determined antenna. Throw in a potent Multimedia Center 9 and you have the makings for a sweet HDTV experience. To get the full experience of the card, users will need to use it in conjunction with an ATI graphics card to take advantage of such features as ThruView and Video Desktop, but the card will work with other DirectX 9 compatible OEM products otherwise.

Too bad MythPC's track record for supporting ATI hardware hasn't been the greatest. If your on the windows side of the fence I suggest looking at Media Portal. Its fairly new to the HTPC scene but looks promising and works with just about any card.

Being a Radeon 7500 All in Wonder user I'm very happy to see the HDTV Wonder as a PCI card. I was sure when I bought my AGP 7500 AIW it was going to be the last card I would need in a very long time.

DOSBox is available for Windows, too. From their screenshots, it looks like they've gotten Windows 3.1 to run under it. Dunno if you can install something like Win95, though.

Or DosBox from Windows XP.
Really.

but a nifto OS that can combine a few computers and let me run stuff across them trivially? -THAT'S PRETTY COOL-

Yes, it is, and it's called OpenMOSIX.

There's a Ruby-Eclipse project... last release was in May of this year, so perhaps it's pretty active...

Wine hasn't been under the LGPL from the beginning (which dates far far back to the 90's). WineX is derived from Wine from the era it was still licensed under the X11 license that allows this. The main Wine tree was re-licensed under LGPL partly due to TransGaming's actions (they promised to contribute all their changes back to the main Wine tree but they didn't) and some of the Wine developers wanted to prevent similar from happening from in the future and thus they changed the license to LGPL under which, as you stated, that couldn't happen. Not all developers agreed that Wine should be under LGPL so another fork, ReWind was made that continues to use the X11 license. Interesting is that the LGPL'ed main tree can pull patches from ReWind but not vice-versa. Most contributors to Wine however dual-license their patches so that both trees can benefit from the efforts (and also WineX since TransGaming can use source from the ReWind tree if they want to).

The SwingWT project gives you the best of both worlds for developing your Java GUIs. It's an in-progress implementation of the Swing and AWT apis using SWT to draw the widgets. Looks much, much better than Swing, but still lets you use the nice API that many developers like. And for platforms where SWT isn't running, you can go back to the normal Swing classes. Java 1.5's Swing is supposed to be much more themeable and support anti-aliased fonts, so that will mitigate a lot of Swing's ugliness.

Old DOS demos also work well in Dosbox. Even the Gravis only ones I've tried work fine with the emulated Ultrasound driver.

This might be a troll, but I'll bite.

Don't like GNOME? Use windowmaker. If that's still too fat for you, use oroborus. Still too big? Try setting your window manager to "twm".

Don't like OpenOffice? MS Office isn't much better...maybe you'd better stick to HTML and CSS with Bluefish. Or maybe vim or Emacs.

FireFox still too slow? As long as you're dropping features by moving away, try w3m or lynx...two very capable text-based browsers.

Don't have a 3D accelerator? Play software-rendered Quake. Or (using that same project) use the SDL's aalib target.

... this: VDOWall.

It's quite the same idea, but not as sophisticated ... yet.

• Microsoft Netmeeting on Windows (still included in XP, even if it's "hidden" inside Program Files)
• Gnomemeeting on Linux
• OphoneX for OS X.

That's the bad solution. You need to open loads of ports and it is still tricky to get to work.

I suggest using AIM/iChat on Windows/OS X since audio and video is the best in the business. Also works through firewalls without need to open ports. This solution isn't available for Linux afaik, but it might be in the future. The protocols are open.

If anyone's interested in Python support in Eclipse, I use and recommend pydev. It's certainly incomplete, but it has syntax highlighting, a class/method browser, realtime syntax checking, and there's a debugger which I couldn't get working.

All of these will interoperate. They get tricky when used behind NAT. The best option I have found in that case is to use a gatekeeper.

Gnomemeeting for Linux

OphoneX for OS X

Netmeeting for Windows

it's not abandoned, the new webpage is here it works on windows, linux and macOSX+X11. It has encryption and is compatible with any RTP or VAT programs. Check the FAQ here

it's not abandoned, the new webpage is here it works on windows, linux and macOSX+X11. It has encryption and is compatible with any RTP or VAT programs. Check the FAQ here

Also remember speakfreely It has been going for 12 years or so, and is open-source cross-platform unix/windows. Recently work on it has revived, and it now uses the speex codec. (some details here: http://www.2pi.info/software/sf_speex/) It is a project in need of more developers though. So it's a project to think of where some positive work can be done rather than complaining that some other project doesn't have the source.

This is going to happen. Your "can't do" attitude indicates you're not going to be the one to do it. That is all.

The commodity hardware is available. The software is available. It has been done before.

This might not be true in your area, but there are enough wide-open broadband + 802.11g access points in my area to anchor a freewan mesh of any size without even paying for internet access at all. Please note that many people (myself included) run their access points wide open deliberately.

Investment cost to host a freewan cell (802.11g) is about $100 upfront and $0 for ongoing costs. To anchor it to an ISP with acceptable TOS (or one that's known to turn a blind eye) is a minimal monthly many of us are already paying. Contrast that with the corpnet million dollar towers and the municipal $50 million dollar 802.11b networks and you begin to understand why the little guy has the advantage here.

When the mesh grows to the point where it's got consumers in the six figures, you can bet somebody is going to want to connect to it badly enough to pay the freight, and then the monthlies go away.

Apart from a solid municipal commitment to fiber-to-the-door, (and perhaps even then because of the side benefits) I don't see this not happening all over the country in the near future.

Of course, YMMV.

>I was a bit taken aback that the install ran slower >then windows 2k on my celeron 400.
>When i say slower, i mean that browsing the web >took longer and programs took longer to load and >execute. Windows took longer to move around the >screen. Menus took longer to "pop up." Basic stuff,
>really.

I've got the release of KDE that came with RedHat 9, and I will say that it has gradually been winning me over, lately. Konqueror is a very useful file manager when in twin-pane mode, and Konsole also makes my life a lot easier.

That said, one thing I have noticed is somewhat poor performance on slower machines, and even on my own setup (Celeron 1.7, 512 Mb ram) things can get a bit choppy at times. I would tend to conclude that KDE is built primarily for aesthetics and secondly for functionality, with efficiency being a fair way down on the list of priorities.

If you're sufficiently computer literate that a few less frills won't bother you, I'd recommend Fluxbox, a smaller and lighter window manager which from what I've seen has become rather popular with the LFS crowd in particular. XFce is another possible choice, and personally I've always been a huge fan of Enlightenment. E can be a bit slow initially, though...you'll need to turn off some of the more frivolous additions such as the desktop micro-window and so on, but I used to run that on a Celeron 400 myself and had no problems.

I didn't used to like KDE at all I will confess, but I've learned recently that it does have it's place. Resource efficiency however is not what it was designed for, so you really need to have the horses to drive it.

Apt configuration is nowhere near as straightforward as apt config in Fedora or Debian or urpmi config in Mandrake. There is only one repository, which collects RPMS from various sites like Packman, and is mirrored (partially) by only two or three sites. When you run apt under Suse, it insists on upgrading almost every package The documentation on the APT for Suse website is shit and completely confusing. When I had SuSE 9.1 Pro installed (and tried to install apt) it depended on some obscure RPM that was not included on the SuSE CD's, and was not available from the APT for SuSE website (hopefully they fixed this.)

Apt for SuSE barely works.

I should've phrased my YaST comment better. YaST seems to have the capability to use online repositories like APT to automatically download dependancies, however it is poorly documentated, and, well, there aren't any repositories.

thanx for mentioning our cool XiStrat project. and to the pleasure of all fans we can tell that it's quite alive, we have recently updated the online manual dealing with the upcoming 0.6.90 release, which is admittedly still some months away (deep mathematics you see). nice contributions and patches are always welcomed. bye for now

Amazingly, after a few hours of tinkering, I just got onto slashdot using a Broadcom BCM5406 g card. Guess what the first article I read is.

Broadcom won't release drivers or specs for their wireless chipset and prevent any OEMs who use thier chipset from doing so. So there are only really two choices, other than throwing their hardware in the trash, or using Windows, and those are Linuxxant WLAN Driverloader or open source NdisWrapper.

I chose NdisWrapper because it is OS and I did not have to pay for it.

In the future I will simply refuse to purchase any hardware from companies who will not release driver specifications.

As someone else mentioned - FreeWorld Dialup is a great way to go for voip:

- standards based
- Free
- Windows, Linux and pocketpc clients available
- Call 800 numbers and more
- Call to/from vonage customers
- get free phone number and have people call you
- Get a wisip phone (WiFi SIP) and you have the closest thing to a IP mobile phone you can get.

FreeWorld Dialup

I'm currently running windows and ipaq (pocketpc 2002) clients fine. And calling my home vonage service - no problem!

http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

Completely anonymous too. Albeit slow as a snail on valium.
An increase of users is supposed to equal an increase in speed. Unconfirmed.