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I have never seen a linux desktop appearance that I would take over the default OS X look.

We've been using Plone for a while now and for me it has a few distinct advantages:

* Plone works *out-of-the-box* and is easy to extend and configure.

* Plone provides excellent workflow support. A Workflow is the editorial chain used to manage documents. Creating new workflows is easy.

* Plone is easily extended with external components ("Products" in Zope/Plone parlance). I run Plone with Zwiki (a wiki extention) and CMFBoard (forums), making for a very rich intranet site with loads of possibilities. Check out the The Collective or the Zope website

* Plone comes with Archetypes, which is a framework which allows for the relatively easy creation of new content types (in Python)

* It runs on Zope which is a very powerfull Application Server and Content Management System. Zope has got a rather steep learning curve, but its documentation has been improved and it has got a very supportive and vibrant user community.

It's just a shame that JSF is, at least out of the box, built on top of JSP. There are some much nicer alternatives out there (Jamon and Tea come to mind), but the industry seems set on using a tepmlating language with no static type checking, and a poor ability to factor templates.

Of course, if you prefer wasting your time hard-coding OpenGL calls and re-compiling for each make of phone, that is up to you, but as a business model its suicide.

Amongst other benefits, including much faster coding/debugging and better reusability, Sun's newfound cameraderie with Microsoft would then pose no risk to the future of my mobile 'phone code. Sun want to both have their cake and eat it, which is not a sustainable model of reality. Microsoft's view is much simpler: they want your piece of the cake, now, or they'll bury you in lobbyists and lawyers. It suits them to leave Scott's delusions intact.

Ruby, I might add, integrates with Java and you can even compile Ruby to Java bytecode if you like. This gives you a choice of JRE or native target. Ooh, let me think, which language would I rather use?

Working URLs:

Windows Binary
Source.

Working URLs:

Windows Binary
Source.

Better links: Windows | Source

Better links: Windows | Source

" What we need is a system with PGP signatures."

Konspire2B

Subscribe yourself to a 'channel' and you'll get a copy of the channel author's public key. Anybody can setup a channel -- choose one which is transmitting the news, data, or media that you're interested in, and mark it as "subscribed".

Each time the channel author puts something on the network, you'll get it, if and only if it's validly signed by the person who created a channel. Someone will advertise a file on particular channel, and if you're subscribed, your computer will request the file and check the signature.

People can build up reputations for the trustworthiness of their channels, just like websites, TV news, or radio shows can. Pseudononymously. Ownership of a channel is simply a matter of holding it's private key.

The network is distributed, and it's a combination of freenet-like deniability (nobody knows if you're downloading something for yourself, or just for the benefit of the network, and it's done automatically on your behalf) and BitTorrent-like speed (everyone who gets a file starts advertising its availability, so the original author disappears into a sea of other people publishing his file, while the available bandwidth increases with each person who downloads the file)

This is not only possible, it's being done on Freenet right now. One relevant project is Frost, an anonymous/pseudonymous message board system that runs over Freenet. It's still real rough around the edges, more a proof-of-concept than a real robust system, but it's a direction for the future.

Found a reference to a Sourceforge project called PeerNews... I'm assuming that the URL is peernews.sourceforge.net or something like that. That URL doesn't work, but the original post I found said that the project was just getting started, so maybe the project hasn't been approved or something. I plan on googling for more...

Anyone have a mirror up for Freenet?

If you are afraid of censorship in whatever form (including the DMCA) then you really should mirror yourself on Freenet.

Freenet is currently the #1 publishing medium for people which censorship is a concern.

There are some programs I expected to be on this distro that aren't.

Tethereal The X version "ethereal" is there, but I've always prefered the text based ethereal
Etherape A cool visual traffic monitor.

Other than that, LAS Linux is pretty cool!

But to be fair to OSDN and Sourceforge, the Slashdot blurb linked to the wrong section of the Sourceforge policy. See instead this section on termination. Essentially, if they are required by law to disable an account or remove content, they will. I agree that they could have pushed back on a simple C&D letter and waited to get sued, but they didn't, and I don't think that's unreasonable given the way the DMCA works in the US.

I don't believe the DMCA is a good, just or constitutional law, and I believe that we are all justified in doing our fair share of civil disobedience against it. But the legal risk to a company here is pretty substantial, not like the mythical risk of standing up to the SCO bullies and their bullshit case - there is a real likelihood that FairPlay does violate the DMCA as it's worded even though the clearest purpose of it is to ensure continued rights to use of legally purchased material.

Looks like you might be able to still donate to this project here. Could help them cover some court fees?

If you are using Linux & Mozilla, then just check out the mplayerplug-in, which doesn't only play everything you want, but also allows you (in the latest CVS version, which is quite stable) to save the file by simple right-click!

My Smart Channels is a web based knowledge management system designed to eliminate the overhead of traditional knowledge management applications. Its focus is on creating a secure, easy to use KMS which easilly links with external sources such as web pages, e-mails, etc.

It's free as a demo, or the company will set you up with a dedicated server for a fee. I've only seen and used it as a demo.

For our KMS (in a group of about 14 people), I setup PHPWiki, which given the fact that I'm using the default file system based database, I installed and configured in less than 30 minutes.

PHPWiki is straight hyperlinked text only, but it's useful for archiving those "how-to" e-mails that I send over and over. I just cut-n-paste what I wrote before, and send the text along with a link to the original. However, despite my urging, my teammates keep saying "I'll try it", but they haven't put any content on it.

Better yet is the mplayer plug-in for Mozilla.

NMAP Port scanner from insecure.org

SATAN the aformentioned Security Admin Tool for Analyzing Networks.

TripWire for checking when someone's trying to access your system, and stopping them.

Shorewall a relatively easy to set up firewall-in-a-box for Linux.

Read my journal for the full scoop. Couple of points:

1. The mouse problem has been there since RedHat 8, possibly earlier.
2. NTFS support is not available for Core 2.

my AAC/MP3 collection - yes, they're "recoverable" but not without literally a week or more of work sitting over the CD drive, rewriting lousy CDDB entries

1. Find its fonts without having to edit the XF86Config file 189 times and install some half-working font server for the other three fonts.
This seems to be in work now: X.org release notes
2. Upgrade Gnome and KDE applications without having to install yet ANOTHER version of glibc. That or statically link everything and quit pursuing dynamically-linked utopia. I think there's enough disk space now.
This system was first installed 2 years ago and I have only one version of glibc installed ( 2.3.2-r9)
3. Have a file manager that isn't linked to every single library on the system, so that if one library is upgraded/replaced, it doesn't make the file manager useless.
ROX rocks
4. Make it so these problems can be fixed without changing distributions. Your current distro being Windows 2000 or Windows XP?

The kind of user who wants to use the standard format for audio compression that is widely used today, was widely used yesterday, and will be supported long into the future. The amount of work done on the mp3 spec is incredible -- check out LAME, which offers speedy, high-quality compression. Ars Technica's Machintoshian Archaia forum had a long thread about optimizing LAME for OS X. I can't find the thread, but I think it indicates that there's still good reason to encode using MP3s.

That's not to say there's anything wrong with using AAC. But mp3 still works for me and numerous others. Until a compelling reason exists for change, I'll continue ripping my CDs to mp3.

it is open source and on sf... so even if it's dmca'd to oblivion, maybe they'll take development out of the country ;)

although dmca did effectively kill the warforge bnetd project, so who knows.

-fren

(note to moderators: read the whole thing before moderating "off-topic")

I remember reading (linked from SlashDot) a year or two ago that MS loses $100 on each X-Box sold, this was before the LAST price drop...

This reminds me of the moron my sister works for... he was pricing something they sell below their cost, so they lose money on each sale. When she pointed this out to him, he said "We'll make it up in volume!"... and he was dead serious!

Anyways, back on topic... since Linux runs on X-box, we should probably buy these for steaming media-servers or something, just to help MS lose more money! ;)

there is already a bunch of SIP talking linux soft-phones and supporting software.

kphone
linphone

some other supporting software
galago
sarp
sipimp

look at the freeworlddialup forums for lots of chatter about SIP softphones and using images on cisco hardware.
assorted other softphone downloads here.

there is already a bunch of SIP talking linux soft-phones and supporting software.

kphone
linphone

some other supporting software
galago
sarp
sipimp

look at the freeworlddialup forums for lots of chatter about SIP softphones and using images on cisco hardware.
assorted other softphone downloads here.

there is already a bunch of SIP talking linux soft-phones and supporting software.

kphone
linphone

some other supporting software
galago
sarp
sipimp

look at the freeworlddialup forums for lots of chatter about SIP softphones and using images on cisco hardware.
assorted other softphone downloads here.

Buy one linux server, and then discover the wonders that are ping and SNMP. Simple tools such as Nagios and MRTG (or NRG or Cricket) can do wonders for helping spot problem switches/routers and congestion spots.

For example, every device we have is pinged 3 times every minute, and queried for bandwidth usage every 5 minutes. This has helped in finding bottlenecks, and the occasional switch that reboots every few minutes. (MRTG alone convinced the higher ups to buy new gear for our Datacenter and give it a dedicated link to the Core).

Also, setting up a wonderful SNMP trap server can be very useful. It allowed us to find a switch that likes to reboot at random intervals (the switch is 5 years old and being replaced this weekend). Of course, having it send a trap whenever a switch reboots is just the start of what certain switches/routers can do.

Also the use of Snort to sniff traffic that can be potentially malicious can be very helpful in tuning firewalls and finding those script kiddies. (use ACID for a pretty front end)

Another nice tool is NTOP Does almost everything NetFlow does and has a pretty graphical frontend built in. (I recently used this to find out that one of our firewalls was sending gigs of syslog data to the wrong server.)

And with the mention of syslog, might as well throw out a link for syslog-ng. yet another useful tool.

Basically the point of this is to say that sometimes it's best to let your equipment do that talking. They'll usually tell you what's wrong, just as long as you've set them up to do so. I found that once we put a lot of these tools into full production, we were able to cut down on our need to sniff the line whenever problems came up. This isn't to say that Ethereal isn't needed. That's hardly the case. Its use is still huge and shown all the time.

Buy one linux server, and then discover the wonders that are ping and SNMP. Simple tools such as Nagios and MRTG (or NRG or Cricket) can do wonders for helping spot problem switches/routers and congestion spots.

For example, every device we have is pinged 3 times every minute, and queried for bandwidth usage every 5 minutes. This has helped in finding bottlenecks, and the occasional switch that reboots every few minutes. (MRTG alone convinced the higher ups to buy new gear for our Datacenter and give it a dedicated link to the Core).

Also, setting up a wonderful SNMP trap server can be very useful. It allowed us to find a switch that likes to reboot at random intervals (the switch is 5 years old and being replaced this weekend). Of course, having it send a trap whenever a switch reboots is just the start of what certain switches/routers can do.

Also the use of Snort to sniff traffic that can be potentially malicious can be very helpful in tuning firewalls and finding those script kiddies. (use ACID for a pretty front end)

Another nice tool is NTOP Does almost everything NetFlow does and has a pretty graphical frontend built in. (I recently used this to find out that one of our firewalls was sending gigs of syslog data to the wrong server.)

And with the mention of syslog, might as well throw out a link for syslog-ng. yet another useful tool.

Basically the point of this is to say that sometimes it's best to let your equipment do that talking. They'll usually tell you what's wrong, just as long as you've set them up to do so. I found that once we put a lot of these tools into full production, we were able to cut down on our need to sniff the line whenever problems came up. This isn't to say that Ethereal isn't needed. That's hardly the case. Its use is still huge and shown all the time.

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Or you can check out Desktop Manager and get multiple desktops on OS X for free.

lo, their son flux will be the star of the family.

I've recycled a bunch of old pentium-class machines that were headed for the landfill by setting up a "smoothie" and giving them away to ppl

I found that bering works GREAT booted off of a CF card using a CF/IDE adapter board -- so literally NO moving parts and VERY configurable.

Use GNUMP3D http://gnump3d.sourceforge.net/

You can have your cake and eat it, too.

I think the arguments that stick in favor of Lin-on-Mac would be the ability to slim the OS to a more elemental state for performance's sake and perhaps code equivalence against other machines in one's workflow. On the other hand, where can I get a pdf-based window manager that leverages my beefy GPU rather than leeching cycles from my CPU?

I'm pretty sure Yellowdog uses yum as well now. The repository list has entries for it, and the SourceForge page for what appears to be the original updater hasn't seen an update in years.

http://ffpf.sourceforge.net/

includes libpcap support, but is more extensible (filter language bindings) and efficient (kernelspace & userspace processing).

btw: I'm one of the developers.

Another tool that compliments Ethereal, is EtherApe. It's a graphical network monitor that tells you what's talking to what. Useful to find out what's sucking up most of the bandwidth.

If the documentation is something such that the other users would be able to help you write (and edit) the documentation further, then use a wiki. I suggest looking the most well-known wiki, and at PHPWiki.

Basically, a wiki will allow them to easily edit and update the documentation without needing to know HTML code, nor needing to have upload/write access to the documentation directory.

If you're the only one who's allowed to edit or make notes on it, then I'd say the best thing to do is start from the top down, and just keep writing as long as you can. The easiest definition of "the top" is usually the starting pount of the app, essentially doing a depth first search. The problem is, if you go too deep, you'll never get the other areas. So, I'd suggest going no more than 2 screens/areas (or 1, if it's really lengthy) deep before moving back up to the top to go on to the next section.

Once you've gotten all of the major/immediate stuff written, go through again and do the next 2 or 3 deeper pages/areas. Keep repeating this cycle until you have everything written.

I use Ultr@VNC from here. It works better the Real, and tight in my experience. If I recall correctly it incorporates all the features of the other VNC's and adds a few new ones, like file transfer, chat, etc.

Ettercap

Netcat as well, seeing as we're going old-school here.

Soko

ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP, UDP and ICMP across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

Etherapeis a free pretty picture of who's talking to whom and what language (protocol) they're talking.

Works great.

What happened to the Gaim systray icon? - As of 0.65 systray functionality has moved into the docklet plugin, labeled "System Tray Icon" in Gaim's plugins section (under Preferences). You will need to load this plugin for the systray features to work.

And Perl, and AppleScript. (John, how could you of all people forget to mention ASK???)

I've built Gaim for Windows before, and I think it would be quite similar to building The Gimp 2.0 since they both use a lot of the same software...

The basic idea is to install cygwin, and use make and python and perl and all that other stuff the build process needs, but replace the compilers and libraries in your path with the ones from mingw.

See here for more info:

Windows Development - gaim

When installing or compiling UNIX apps that have been ported to Windows, especially ones using GTK+, all kinds of crazy things end up happening with confused DLLs. Sometimes Gaim tries to use ActiveState's Perl and that breaks something, or tries to use some of Cygwin's libraries. What we need is something like the LSB that governs how UNIX-compatible environments (Cygwin and MinGW mainly) should work on Windows. That would be a big help to folks like me who must use Windows (No, trolls. I can't use Linux. I have reasons. Go away.) but want to have appilcations and environments that are UNIXey.