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If you mean just the original installation, download the ISOs (this one's Red Hat Fedora, but you can Google for another) using bittorrent (I use Azureus). I believe that the Knoppix Live CD distro has its own installer.

Go here to see when the ISS will cross in front of the moon or sun (use proper filtering on the sun!). Some results showing considerable detail.

Go here to see when the ISS will cross in front of the moon or sun (use proper filtering on the sun!). Some results showing considerable detail.

Check out the GATOS project. They might have code that will let your card work.

You could use that card for sure as a video card, and both 2D and 3D will work (using DRI). If you can't get it working as a TV card, you could always get an inexpensive TV capture card, such as an ATI TV Wonder.

steveha

Lately, I have been seeing more and more high-quality Free Software games, many of which would benifit from powerful graphics cards:

Neverball and Neverputt
Battle for Wesnoth
Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid
Project: Starfighter
Pydance
Freedroid and FreedroidRPG
GLTron
Armagetron

Many of these are as high-quality as any proprietary game.

(As far as I can tell, you are using "commercial" as a synonym for "proprietary".)

Lately, I have been seeing more and more high-quality Free Software games, many of which would benifit from powerful graphics cards:

Neverball and Neverputt
Battle for Wesnoth
Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid
Project: Starfighter
Pydance
Freedroid and FreedroidRPG
GLTron
Armagetron

Many of these are as high-quality as any proprietary game.

(As far as I can tell, you are using "commercial" as a synonym for "proprietary".)

I wonder if any non-Microsoft®Office® spreadsheet program supports VBA scripting? Being able to run such useful Excel® programs as Pacelman and Excellence would be very important for the FOSS community. Apparently there has been some effort to make a Visual® Basic® interpreter for Linux, but the project doesn't seem to have made any progress.

The only reason I can think that the RIAA is pushing for more money is that they know their time left is very limited. They are therefore bilking as much as possible from the market while they can.

I say we begin to hasten their demise and support projects like MUTE and other secure filesharing methods that are sure to evolve quickly.

For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." - 1 Timothy 6:10

NVidia seems like the only choice for me, since only ATI's most recent line of products (ie: expensive products) are supported.

DRI covers virtually all of the ATI chips up to the 9200.
FGLRX covers everything from the Radeon 8500 to 9800.

The only remaining problem is that some commercial developers just assume Nvidia is the standard. DRI in particular has come a long way. I've been using a Radeon 8500 with Michael Daenzer's DRI packages for Debian with few problems. Out of 30 commercial Linux games I have, 3 don't work properly: Descent 3, Savage and Heavy Gear 2. Savage's problem is trivial to fix, the others I'm not sure about.

I'd rather see ATI release the 3D specs on the R300 chips than see further improvements in the FGLRX driver.

Libpst's website is actually http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox . My mistake.

Outlook:

In Linux, you can use the program "readpst" provided by libpst, libpst.sourceforge.net

In Windows, Mozilla Mail will import it (through the OLE interface), and Mozilla Mail's mailboxes are in standard MBOX format. Everyone in UNIX, and many many Windows programs, can import MBOX.

If you don't have to play the latest and greatest and want to play older games, DosBox lets you play hundreds of older DOS games on Linux and other operating systems. It basically emulates a DOS PC complete with sound card. Many older games that cannot be played in Windows XP/2K run well under DosBox's Win32 port as well as under the Linux ports.

A Good IDE? Try Anjuta. It's not perfect but it works.

As for Linux development as a whole, it's got some really nice tools. It takes a while to figure out which tools exist (I only just realised that gprof exists and now use it daily!) but there's a whole bunch of really useful tools just waiting for somebody to use them :-)

Presumably this is done using Wine? Their home page is slash-dotted so I can't check. This page mentions DirectX so maybe they have some deal with TransGaming and are using WineX?

"...more detail to security will have to be maintained to ensure the safety of the systems you are running."

Oh you mean like SELinux, UML Linux, File System ACL's, and Chroot jails? Oh I feel much more comfortable about Linux's security future than Windos.

Try FLAC for non-lossy compression of WAV files...

Well, any application you write can interface with spelling programs to do it... Gaim has done it for a long time. Or you could just use the utility in KDE or Gnome that looks up words for you. Or you could keep a dictionary by your desk. Or you could use Google. Or...

Why hasn't someone set up a second internet over the main one, where IP allocation is dynamic, and untracable? You're only tracable through your IP address, so if you get allocated a random one, and routing still works, and you throw in a little IPsec, voila.

Something like this? :)

Pixie is a Renderman-compliant renderer that happens to be open-source. There used to be an example of subsurface scattering on previous versions, although not present on the latest version (even though subsurface scattering can still be achieved with the renderer). Highly recommended.

The windows XP firewall, contrary to popular conception, isn't a full fledged firewall. It only deals with incoming conections and has no ability to monitor outbound or aplication trafic. While this is effective in securing from threats such as recent worms and such, if the computer was to be infected, it could open ports for remote users/hackers/crackers to conect and use your computer acordingly without user intervention.

The good thing about it (and the only good thing about it) is that it's built-in, and available to select during setup, right off the CD, and has been, since NT 4.0.
The XP SP2 firewall is somewhat better.

If you're looking for a more fully fledged firewall for post-install use, you could consider the open source tdifw.
It's not interactive, but it works a charm, especially for rolling out to a loads of workstations of unwitting users. Too bad it requires a reboot though.

kcachegrind is a wonderful and very visual (=intuitive) tool that really helps you profiling (i.e. a frontend to valgrind). Instead of showing how much time is spent in a particular function, it shows how many instructions are executed in that context - often a much better approach, as functions may be waiting (and necessarily!) most of their time.

Altogether, with gprof and kcachegrind, it's pretty simple to find bottlenecks in an application. One of my colleagues added/helped add support for reading python profiling logs, so profiling python works well, too.

Then, install these apps:

• OpieReader (aka QTReader). Reads Palm DOC files, zTXT, Plucker, HTML, plain text (normal or gzipped), and ppms text (I don't know what that is). It's very configurable for your Zaurus's hardware buttons, and Zaurus units have native screen rotation abilities already.
• qpdf2. This is a full PDF viewer that will let you open standard, untranslated PDFs. There is no need for any sort of desktop "conversion" program like you see on some other platforms. It's an awesome program and handles embedded fonts and graphics just like you'd want it to.

The device itself runs on Linux with Trolltech's QT/Embedded, and ships that way from the factory. Although there are not yet any Linux tools to sync with the newest ROM versions (MacOS X tools may exist), there are these workarounds available:

1. You can install a VNC server on the PDA to help you with data entry, and use rsync to back it up. (This is my preferred method.)
2. You can re-flash the unit with any of the numerous custom ROMs out there. Check out OpenZaurus, which is a Free Software fork of the QTopia environment that comes with it. TrollTech's free QTopia Desktop is available for Linux and can sync with that, as can several other tools like KitchenSync. Or, you can check out PDAXROM (formerly Cacko) for a true X11-based environment.

The one requirement of yours that it will fail is price. Depending on the unit, expect to pay at least $600 (some of the higher-end ones go for that much on ebay). But this unit is much more capable than $600 units from Palm, Sony, or HP/whatever. It really does behave similarly to a laptop, given that it runs a *real* OS. A quick scan of the Zaurus Software Index will reveal all sorts of programs, and you can easily compile others (yes, you can run gcc on the Zaurus itself, too). If you look at it in that light, it's good deal.

A binary can choose different code paths to follow based on the CPU it's running on; games do it all the time.

Did you see this latest Python JIT-alike btw? I think it was on SlashDot not long ago.. ah, Psyco. Shame I don't like Python, but it makes for a nice proof-of-concept to show that high level and dynamic doesn't have to mean slow (as if SmallTalk and friends haven't already done that).

Shameless plug: Use SynCE to connect a Windows CE or Pocket PC device to Linux, FreeBSD, etc.

I've had a Sony Clié SJ-30 for a year and a half, and I love it! It is an excellent size for my hand and pocket, it has a nice, bright 320x320 color display, a jogwheel for scrolling through pages, and a memory stick slot for plenty of storage.

I use Weasel Reader for reading Gutenberg Etexts, Mobipocket Reader for reading etexts from Baen books, as well as Plucker for web clippings. I also carry along Ultralingua dictionaries so I can look up words when reading French language Gutenberg etexts (ahoy, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!)

My Sony makes a fantastic e-book reader.. I probably use it for that function as much as for anything else. At 320x320, the screen is easy to read, the high-res fonts are very comfortable, and the backlight is great. It fits easily into my pocket, and I carry it wherever I go. It's USB based, and I sync documents to it from my Red Hat 9 Linux system without problems.

Honestly, any modern Palm OS based device should have USB and a good 320x320 screen, and any of them that you look at should make a good EReader. The Sony's may still be particularly good with their jogwheel, however.

I actually use Palm Reader because the selection of books available in that format is large, even though it's proprietary. (It's about day's work with debuffer to crack the encryption BTW, though it's more than my life's worth to actually say whether or not I've done it.)

Palm Reader has a great built in reference mode. I have the entire unabridged Webster on it - fantastic!

I've configured the side button (usually to activate the voice recorder) to launch the reader so if I'm waiting in line at Safeway it's about 1 second to go from boredom to reading a good book.

On the down side - you can read for a few hours, but don't expect to read all night without a recharge.

If you want to beat the crap out of your Python/Perl program speedwise, try porting it to Pike...

Or use the Psyco runtime compiler for Python. It gets to within 50% (or more) of the performance of C in many cases.

From the page:

PXES Universal Linux Thin Client Features

Supported servers and protocols

• Unix/Linux supporting XDM
• Microsoft Terminal Server using RDP
• Citrix using ICA
• VNC using TightVNC
• LOCAL local graphical session with simple desktop
• LTSP or K12LTSP
• IBM Host using 3270 or 5250 emulation (soon)
• Telnet emulating ANSI terminal
• SSH
• Tarantella using proprietary protocol
• Nomachine using NX

Boot methods

• PXE network card included in most modern PC hardware
• Etherboot to boot from diskette or EPROM
• CD-ROM
• Hard disk
• DOC DiskOnChip and DOM DiskOnModule
• USB Storage

Hardware requirements

• Processor: x86 architecture (i486, i586, i686, VIA C3, etc.)
• BUS: PCI recommended (although ISA works)
• RAM: 32 Mb recommended (16 Mb minimum)
• NIC: see supported card list in Readme
• Video: see supported card list in Readme

Local devices

• Diskette
• Hard disk
• CD-ROM
• Printers parallel, serial and USB
• Serial devices (bar code reader, etc.)
• Audio

Supported operating system

• Linux
• Solaris
• AIX
• SCO
• BSD
• HP-UX
• Microsoft Windows NT4
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows XP

LAMENESS FILTER SUCKS

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From the page:

PXES Universal Linux Thin Client Features

Supported servers and protocols

• Unix/Linux supporting XDM
• Microsoft Terminal Server using RDP
• Citrix using ICA
• VNC using TightVNC
• LOCAL local graphical session with simple desktop
• LTSP or K12LTSP
• IBM Host using 3270 or 5250 emulation (soon)
• Telnet emulating ANSI terminal
• SSH
• Tarantella using proprietary protocol
• Nomachine using NX

Boot methods

• PXE network card included in most modern PC hardware
• Etherboot to boot from diskette or EPROM
• CD-ROM
• Hard disk
• DOC DiskOnChip and DOM DiskOnModule
• USB Storage

Hardware requirements

• Processor: x86 architecture (i486, i586, i686, VIA C3, etc.)
• BUS: PCI recommended (although ISA works)
• RAM: 32 Mb recommended (16 Mb minimum)
• NIC: see supported card list in Readme
• Video: see supported card list in Readme

Local devices

• Diskette
• Hard disk
• CD-ROM
• Printers parallel, serial and USB
• Serial devices (bar code reader, etc.)
• Audio

Supported operating system

• Linux
• Solaris
• AIX
• SCO
• BSD
• HP-UX
• Microsoft Windows NT4
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows XP

LAMENESS FILTER SUCKS

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From the page:

PXES Universal Linux Thin Client Features

Supported servers and protocols

• Unix/Linux supporting XDM
• Microsoft Terminal Server using RDP
• Citrix using ICA
• VNC using TightVNC
• LOCAL local graphical session with simple desktop
• LTSP or K12LTSP
• IBM Host using 3270 or 5250 emulation (soon)
• Telnet emulating ANSI terminal
• SSH
• Tarantella using proprietary protocol
• Nomachine using NX

Boot methods

• PXE network card included in most modern PC hardware
• Etherboot to boot from diskette or EPROM
• CD-ROM
• Hard disk
• DOC DiskOnChip and DOM DiskOnModule
• USB Storage

Hardware requirements

• Processor: x86 architecture (i486, i586, i686, VIA C3, etc.)
• BUS: PCI recommended (although ISA works)
• RAM: 32 Mb recommended (16 Mb minimum)
• NIC: see supported card list in Readme
• Video: see supported card list in Readme

Local devices

• Diskette
• Hard disk
• CD-ROM
• Printers parallel, serial and USB
• Serial devices (bar code reader, etc.)
• Audio

Supported operating system

• Linux
• Solaris
• AIX
• SCO
• BSD
• HP-UX
• Microsoft Windows NT4
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows XP

LAMENESS FILTER SUCKS

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Any machine since about 2001, PXE boot is part of Intel's WfM spec and the PC99 guidelines. Older machines can use Etherboot or Netboot, either on floppy or burned into a PROM that goes onto the network card.

By the way, there is also the PXES distribution, which is similar to TLSP, but claims to have simpler configuration. I haven't tried either yet, so I can't vouch for the claim.

Any machine since about 2001, PXE boot is part of Intel's WfM spec and the PC99 guidelines. Older machines can use Etherboot or Netboot, either on floppy or burned into a PROM that goes onto the network card.

By the way, there is also the PXES distribution, which is similar to TLSP, but claims to have simpler configuration. I haven't tried either yet, so I can't vouch for the claim.

Any machine since about 2001, PXE boot is part of Intel's WfM spec and the PC99 guidelines. Older machines can use Etherboot or Netboot, either on floppy or burned into a PROM that goes onto the network card.

By the way, there is also the PXES distribution, which is similar to TLSP, but claims to have simpler configuration. I haven't tried either yet, so I can't vouch for the claim.

If they could work on other enhancements to LTSP or X such as "screen" like session management or vnc session management or load balancing like Citrix.

I think its greating them getting involved, LTSP is quite a mature project and while I'm not quite sure what kind of extra value they would add hopefully they will be looking at solidifying LDAP/Edirectory integration and other enhancements (like bandwidth optimisation).

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Clam Anti-Virus yet. They even have a Windows port and a Windows GUI frontend.

I'm interested in: what's the best distro with regards to Arabic support? I've been studying Arabic for a year or two now and I enjoy tinkering around with Arabic on Linux, but sometime's it's so hard to get things to work! (I recently tagged some of my Arabic-language mp3s with Arabic Unicode in the id3 tags, and so far the only player I've found that will display the Arabic tags is the Beep Media Player (gtk2 fork of xmms).

Dlugar

P2P: XP: KazaaLite, Emule Linux: Emule

P2P: XP: KazaaLite, Emule Linux: Emule

They might also want to consider changing the server software. OpenBiblio looks like a pretty nice system. I'm not sure how adequate it would be though considering I have only used library software a few times lately.

I have a little micro-atx box running LEAF as my firewall.

It has a 133mhz Pentium, passively cooled, and boots off a 16MB compact flash card. It consumes under 30 watts.

The MPIO FL-100 already havea mirrored surface. You can also but the FL-100 at your favorite retail outlet. No USB port though. But it does have some Linux support

P800 Ogg Vorbis Player
Agile Messenger IM client

Okay, so it's not many, but they are out there, and if you really want free apps, download the SDK:

http://www.symbian.com/developer/

I'm assuming you meant the reflective kind...

You don't need this vapourware when you have frottle already available for free.

It works. Works well. It's free.

It's already in use of large wireless WAN's and retrofits to existing consumer grade wireless kit.

ClamAV has a windows version, and an OE plugin.

It doesn't do continuous scanning, but I usually switch that off, on the basis that if I'm scanning everything as it comes in I'm not likely to have written a virus to file in the first place.

Nice easy installer, and everything. http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

I saved the .torrent file and loaded it into Azureus because, frankly, I haven't ever taken the time to get Bittorrent working with Mozilla.

• Abiword - Word processor, supports .doc, .rtf, GPL.
• Open Office - Whole Office suite, including a database frontend and BASIC macro language.
• Perl - Scripting language
• Python - Scripting language
• Cygwin - UNIX emulator. Can create Windows programs, reliant on a cygwin1.dll.
• MinGW - Port of some of the UNIX utilities (BASH, gcc, vi...) to Windows.
• djgpp - UNIX emulator for DOS.
• Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird - Web browser, e-mail client, IRC client, lots more.
• Filezilla - FTP client.
• xchat - IRC client.
• putty, pscp, psftp and others - Telnet/SSH clients.
• Gaim - Client for IRC/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/AIM and more.
• gzip - Compression (usually better than .zip).
• tar - Extracts/Makes tar archives.
• bzip2 - Totally ace compression (usually better than gzip).
• Info-ZIP - Support for .zip. Good free substitute for Winzip.
• 7-zip - Support for multiple compression formats.
• frhed - Hex editor
• Ext2fs - Several programs for doing Ext2 under Windows.
• Antiword - Converts documents out of the proprietary .doc format.
• MySQL - RDBMS.
• Apache - Web/Proxy server
• sendmail - Mail server
• squid - Proxy server
• freeamp - Audio player
• winlame - MP3 encoder
• cd-ex - MP3/OGG encoder?
• gimp - Very detailed graphics program.
• imagemagick - Graphic manipulation. Provides the 'convert' utility under UNIX.
• freeciv - Civilisation clone.
• gnuplot - Plotting package.
• TightVNC - A fork of VNC, with enhancements.
• RealVNC - The original VNC.
• rdesktop - Access Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktops.
• Nmap - Well known port scanner.
• John the Ripper - Password cracker. Does NT and MD5.

• Abiword - Word processor, supports .doc, .rtf, GPL.
• Open Office - Whole Office suite, including a database frontend and BASIC macro language.
• Perl - Scripting language
• Python - Scripting language
• Cygwin - UNIX emulator. Can create Windows programs, reliant on a cygwin1.dll.
• MinGW - Port of some of the UNIX utilities (BASH, gcc, vi...) to Windows.
• djgpp - UNIX emulator for DOS.
• Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird - Web browser, e-mail client, IRC client, lots more.
• Filezilla - FTP client.
• xchat - IRC client.
• putty, pscp, psftp and others - Telnet/SSH clients.
• Gaim - Client for IRC/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/AIM and more.
• gzip - Compression (usually better than .zip).
• tar - Extracts/Makes tar archives.
• bzip2 - Totally ace compression (usually better than gzip).
• Info-ZIP - Support for .zip. Good free substitute for Winzip.
• 7-zip - Support for multiple compression formats.
• frhed - Hex editor
• Ext2fs - Several programs for doing Ext2 under Windows.
• Antiword - Converts documents out of the proprietary .doc format.
• MySQL - RDBMS.
• Apache - Web/Proxy server
• sendmail - Mail server
• squid - Proxy server
• freeamp - Audio player
• winlame - MP3 encoder
• cd-ex - MP3/OGG encoder?
• gimp - Very detailed graphics program.
• imagemagick - Graphic manipulation. Provides the 'convert' utility under UNIX.
• freeciv - Civilisation clone.
• gnuplot - Plotting package.
• TightVNC - A fork of VNC, with enhancements.
• RealVNC - The original VNC.
• rdesktop - Access Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktops.
• Nmap - Well known port scanner.
• John the Ripper - Password cracker. Does NT and MD5.

• Abiword - Word processor, supports .doc, .rtf, GPL.
• Open Office - Whole Office suite, including a database frontend and BASIC macro language.
• Perl - Scripting language
• Python - Scripting language
• Cygwin - UNIX emulator. Can create Windows programs, reliant on a cygwin1.dll.
• MinGW - Port of some of the UNIX utilities (BASH, gcc, vi...) to Windows.
• djgpp - UNIX emulator for DOS.
• Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird - Web browser, e-mail client, IRC client, lots more.
• Filezilla - FTP client.
• xchat - IRC client.
• putty, pscp, psftp and others - Telnet/SSH clients.
• Gaim - Client for IRC/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/AIM and more.
• gzip - Compression (usually better than .zip).
• tar - Extracts/Makes tar archives.
• bzip2 - Totally ace compression (usually better than gzip).
• Info-ZIP - Support for .zip. Good free substitute for Winzip.
• 7-zip - Support for multiple compression formats.
• frhed - Hex editor
• Ext2fs - Several programs for doing Ext2 under Windows.
• Antiword - Converts documents out of the proprietary .doc format.
• MySQL - RDBMS.
• Apache - Web/Proxy server
• sendmail - Mail server
• squid - Proxy server
• freeamp - Audio player
• winlame - MP3 encoder
• cd-ex - MP3/OGG encoder?
• gimp - Very detailed graphics program.
• imagemagick - Graphic manipulation. Provides the 'convert' utility under UNIX.
• freeciv - Civilisation clone.
• gnuplot - Plotting package.
• TightVNC - A fork of VNC, with enhancements.
• RealVNC - The original VNC.
• rdesktop - Access Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktops.
• Nmap - Well known port scanner.
• John the Ripper - Password cracker. Does NT and MD5.

Enjoy!