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Just in case you haven't gotten enough suggestions yet, I thought I'd post my favorite. The only reason I ever found it was so that I could stream music to my Rio Receiver without a windows box, but it has evolved much since then and can now stream any kind of media(including shoutcast and other stream sources)to multiple clients. It can do much more than that...Just check out the home page.

Since I know the /. crowd loves screenshots here's one of a client streaming music, checking out the server status(who is streaming what song), and editing a couple playlists. Here's an architecture overview of how it all works.

Just in case you haven't gotten enough suggestions yet, I thought I'd post my favorite. The only reason I ever found it was so that I could stream music to my Rio Receiver without a windows box, but it has evolved much since then and can now stream any kind of media(including shoutcast and other stream sources)to multiple clients. It can do much more than that...Just check out the home page.

Since I know the /. crowd loves screenshots here's one of a client streaming music, checking out the server status(who is streaming what song), and editing a couple playlists. Here's an architecture overview of how it all works.

This is a job for Sourceforge! Try selecting "mp3 server" and check the "require all words" box.

Bit Torrent is spyware?

The official bittoreent client and the popular variations like abc and shadows are not spyware but there are a few around that have adware/spyware added. It's open source, opportunists are free to do that sort of thing.
You may have mispelled when searching like the people who end up at the fake site kazza.com instead of kazaa.com

This badass robot was actually sponsored by the Sawfish Window Manager. They are looking for a new mascot. Something strong enough to fight that damn OpenBSD blowfish in the ocean. :)

shfs website

step 1, keep all mp3's in a central place
step 2, have ssh access
step 3, locally shfs mount mp3s
step 4, ...
step 5, profit!

ok, shfs allows you to mount a remote filesystem while only having ssh access. Simply mount the mp3 dir and point xmms or whatever at it and play. Works flawlessly for me.

I use edna. it has it's own web server and lets me browse all my mp3 music and stream it to my brain while i'm at the university. and very easy to set up.

http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/ looks promising.

..is an effective solution for your problem. Find it here. I would extoll its benefits directly, but the page linked does quite an effective job there.

One simple way to address this problem would be to replace these vulnerable "buffers" with something that will not overflow

I am currently building a library. While the application has nothing to do with providing an alternative to buffering input, I did implement a method to allow the programmer to feed data one byte at a time. The idea originated not from a security stand point, but a convience stand point. Because I would be using the library, I though it would be nice not to have to worry about managing buffers. (It's also quit nice that one of the applications is a dictionary, thus this feature could be use to scan key strokes and would be able to tell exactly when a string of characters is no longer a part of any word).

I know this does not solve the general problem, but it would be nice if more libraries came with methods that allow the programmer to avoid the use of buffers.

take a look at a project I admin and develop on over at sourceforge. Its called jaimbot. Its an AOL IM library and modular AIM bot for plugging in things like this to AIM. We have all sorts of modules (offline and group messenging, stock quotes, games, news, weather, tv info, movie times, ski conditions, etc, as well as an intertaining chatterbot by using MegaHal) and its very simple to add new ones. Follow the link for more details.

Scott

With PDFCreator, Word makes PDF files that look just like those that Acrobat Distiller spits out. Just print to PDFCreator.

I can dispute your points, and it's hard to stay level when things get posted that are outright wrong.

All ipod like devices play mp3's

Well then, that pretty much knocks your original point out of play, doesn't it?

My point is that AAC DRM is no better then WMP DRM

Really? Find any WMP-based service that is as generous with user's rights as iTunes' DRM. Or *any* other music service for that matter.

MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows.

So? I seem to recall you saying "why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?"

You have to get Apples approval, afaik, to interopt with the iPod.

That's absolute nonsense. If anyone needed a hardware manufacturer's "approval" for 3rd party software to work with their hardware, the technology industry would be crippled. Does "reverse engineering" mean anything to you? Check out fair use guidelines for interoperability, then observe projects like GTKPod who pretty much disclaim a complete lack of support from Apple right off the bat.

And for the record (other replies in the thread) I'm not by any stretch an Apple "fanboy"; I'm still wrestling with the fact that I own any sort of Mac to begin with. The rest of my 10+ boxes run Linux. I just very much like my iPod and iBook, and am willing to defend bullshit statements made against them, just as I would for Linux or anything else I know and like.

Well, we might not have clippy, but we have Vigor

... inspired by User Friendly

Is one of my favorite window managers going to have to change its name again?

a decent mascot for the Sawfish window manager.

If so, tell somebody at xbox-linux

Or grab the nifty new (v1.1 released today) md5deep. Computes MD5, works recursively and most any platform too.

We would like to use OpenOffice.org as a cheaper replacement for MS Word 2002 but so far we've been hampered by the lack of a suitable medical dictionary. With MS Word we can use Stedman's medical spellchecker which includes all the words we need. Unfortunately when I talked to them they weren't interested in producing an OpenOffice.org version.

The only possible alternative I've found is the Medical Words open source project. But's it isn't anywhere near complete enought and isn't being actively updated much. It would cost us far more to have our own employees update the list with thousands of additional words than just to continue paying MS Word license fees.

So, can anyone suggest an alternative medical spelling checker that is known to work with OpenOffice.org?

There is an open source Rexx, and it's very good. Check out regina-rexx.sourceforge.net for details.

Still no reports on what the sawfish eats.

Linux on iPod

xox,
Dead Nancy

Does anyone actually use RealAudio for anything other than radio and sampling small audio clips? The quality is usually crap, but the format itself should never be used anyway. mp3, ogg-vorbis, and flac all seem like better options. Heck, with 4 GB, many people could encode all or many of their CDs with FLAC.

It's taken a bit of time, but I've managed to get our office to take open source tools seriously.

Open Office is finding it's way on to more desktops, as are other applications.

Tools like Audacity are great when you have a level designer who wants to tweak a short audio clip, but you can't justify spending the money you did on Sourceforge for the audio guy.

The next step is getting companies interested in donating to the projects that they find useful, be it in code time or a few bucks for project hosting costs.

MSFT claims that an additional cost of using OO is that it doesn't come with an email client, unlike Office (Outlook), so 'customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an email application'. I think it is noteworthy to point out that there are many free email clients, notably Evolution and KMail on Linux, and Mozilla Mail, Scribe, Mahogany, and YAMM for Windows/cross platform.

Media Player Classic, available from here can open video from a device (such as a camcorder) and show realtime video across firewire.

There's a Windows port of dc available. It's part of the bc package.

Check out this site:

SwingWT

Most of java is already available as GNU software. If you really want an open source java, it's not that far off. SWT from IBM is open source, and the library I mentioned above allows you to compile any program natively with gcj and deploy it on a target platform.

The Java VM is open source. It is the libraries that are not. Remember GCJ works fine. It is just that they have not managed to create all the libraries that Sun include with their VM.

Also, Blackdown Java is free and is shipped with some Linux distributions such as Gentoo. The Blackdown Java does include Suns libraries though.

A benefit of opening the source could be a tighter integration with existing OS such as Linux. Gnome or KDE, for example, could include native support for Java programs. This would be faster and better integrated than running through Suns VM.

However, I do understand the business world and Sun has an obligation to its shareholders to make money and not give away their assets, unfortunately.

If people desperately want more Java integration then perhaps this is what you should help out with: http://jnode.sourceforge.net/portal/

Is it some kind of private fork of GCJ? Or does it work like Kaffe?
I'm confused.

I guess you could reverse-engineer kissme or SableVM, if you had to... but why bother making or using a proprietary JVM, when there are so many good (and improving!) free ones?

As far as viewing movie times, there's a project on sourceforge called JavaHMO which is a Java-based replacement for TiVo's Home Media Option server. In addition to the normal functionality of playing mp3s and viewing photos, it allows you to view local movie times and weather forcasts through your TiVo's HMO menu. I played around with it a while ago and though it was rough around the edges at the time, it showed some nice promise. I'm not sure what it's like with current versions.

More information at the u-boot homepage. The u-boot README file lists all the architectures, supported platformas and options.

Credit goes to Wolfgang Denk, the father of the project.

Best wishes,
A firmware engineer

More information at the u-boot homepage. The u-boot README file lists all the architectures, supported platformas and options.

Credit goes to Wolfgang Denk, the father of the project.

Best wishes,
A firmware engineer

how much can FOSS implement C# before MS will change the implementation?

Not too much, given that Microsoft has submitted C#, .NET CIL, and .NET CLR to ECMA for standardisation. Microsoft may have a bit more leeway changing Windows.Forms, but I see nothing stopping a Win32 developer from choosing Gtk# rather than Windows.Forms.

I submitted a support request to SF about it, and they said (rightfully) that it is AOL's problem.

I submitted a support request to SF about it, and they said (rightfully) that it is AOL's problem.

hotway does the same thing, for Hotmail. Haven't tried it myself, but my brother has told me he's really quite satisfied with it.

>>I mean does LinuxBIOS initialize hardware and then load my kernel for regular operations?

It initializes the necessary hardware and then loads any "payload." The payload can be anything--A kernel image if you have enough space on your flash part, a bootloader to boot from over a network or local disk, etc.

Currently the Lightning cluster (Ranked at #6 @ top500.org) uses LinuxBIOS to load a bootloader (Etherboot or FILO, I forget which) which then loads a kernel and BProc. No spinning hard disk, no CD-ROM, just an added solid state flash device on the IDE bus containing a bproc-patched kernel with a driver for the interconnect and bpslave. The rest of the operating system for slave nodes, which is only a few kilobytes, is pulled down over the network (Not necessarily ethernet) and loaded into RAM.

>> How are kernel updates done if it is the latter.

Since all the hardware is same for a cluster like Lightning, a kernel update can be done pretty easily with the bpcp (BProc copy) command if you have a new kernel sitting on the master node. I haven't used it in a while, but I think the command goes something like: bpcp vmlinuz 0-N:/boot/vmlinuz, where N is the last node. The syntax is very similar to RSH/SSH, but you can specify as many nodes as you want so you don't need any shell scripts to count up for you. I guess you might also need to tell bpsh to mount a boot partition, depending on how you have it set up.

If you have your kernel in the BIOS, then you have to rebuild and reflash. With the magic of BProc, you don't even need to put the BIOS flashing utility (See their flash_and_burn utility) on the slave node. Just run bpsh 0-N flash_rom newbios.rom. LinuxBIOS even provides fallback functionality so if something goes horribly wrong during this process or the new image doesn't work it can automatically load an old image that does work.

These are just a few of many possible configurations, of course. There are no strict guidelines as to how a LinuxBIOS system must be used. It's extremely flexable, which is one of its main appeals.

SVG is a perfect format for interactive visualizations of dynamic data.

For example, here is an interactive genealogical data visualization that was produced using XSLT transformations and published as a RESTful service via a Java servlet. The sourceforge project has more information on how the visualization was produced.

Use SVG as a medium to visually repurpose data to create your own interpretation of the world!

SVG is a perfect format for dynamic media works combining text, hyperlinks and graphics.

For budding web comic artists wanting to quickly generate SVG out of raster images I recommend the open-source Delineate raster to SVG converter.

Some SVG poster art is on the Delineate gallery page.

SVG is a perfect format for dynamic media works combining text, hyperlinks and graphics.

For budding web comic artists wanting to quickly generate SVG out of raster images I recommend the open-source Delineate raster to SVG converter.

Some SVG poster art is on the Delineate gallery page.

To convert raster images into SVG, I recommend the open-source Delineate raster to SVG converter.

The Delineate gallery page has several web poster art SVG images, including my favorite war and peace.

To convert raster images into SVG, I recommend the open-source Delineate raster to SVG converter.

The Delineate gallery page has several web poster art SVG images, including my favorite war and peace.

To convert raster images into SVG, I recommend the open-source Delineate raster to SVG converter.

The Delineate gallery page has several web poster art SVG images, including my favorite war and peace.

FYI - POP3 access is only available for Yahoo! if you pay for. I forget what the actual yearly costs are, probably around $30. However, Yahoo!POPs is freeware that you can access your Yahoo! mail on. It sets up a localhost for the SMTP and POP3 server, and it remotely accesses yahoo! and translates the HTML email pages. Very incredible free program!

You can get the latest version of REXX, Object REXX, for FREE, for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 (which comes with "classic" REXX, which you can update to Object REXX).

There's also NetREXX, which compiles to Java bytecode.

For open source fans, there's Regina Rexx, available for almost all platforms. Debian users can "apt-get install regina-rexx".

cheers.

Well, I guess they're not in the box yet, but it's close at least for ink jets :

HD Inkjet Drivers

but I can't find 0.10.3 anywhere!

It's not on the offical ftp site: ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/

Nor is it on the source forge page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=255

YOu never tried sourceforge did you? ;-) I found this, I don't know it it's _exactlt_ what you are looking for but there's others. phprpg

I've been using Frame for about 5 years on Mac and Windoze: documenting software, writing scholarly papers, and some modestly-creative writing. Some of the things I have done I don't think I could have done in any other software. I know (La)TeX, I know OO.org, but I'd have bought Frame for OS X without hesitation -- I *loved* it.

TeX is wonderful, Knuth is a god. But try getting your support people to write doc & tutorials in it. And try thinking that a non-technical dissertation looks like it'll ever be publishable staring at that sort of markup, even if it is in a nice OS X GUI like TeXShop. If using TeX, however, I do like (the idea of) the Cocoa-app Bibdesk.

I'm hopeful for OO.org, but, well, I don't like it, not yet. Maybe it reminds me too much of my year using M$Word, maybe it's too slow, maybe that download took too long, or the project too seemingly amorphous. I also like the promise of things like the Pybliographer project and it's plug-in for OO.org.

What I use for (scholarly) writing now on OS X: Mellel. It doesn't have all of Frame's page-formatting features yet, but it seems to be on the right track with OpenType for broad language support. They seem really eager to ensure that those who like Frame and Nota Bene will be happy in their app. As for a nice writing experience on OS X most similar to Frame, this seems the best chance.