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Re:Compiled client for linux by FuzzyBad-Mofo · 2004-02-12 08:00 · Score: 4, Informative · on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

Check out Azureus, a cross-platform graphical BitTorrent client written in Java. It's highly configurable and works well on this Linux box.

Re:DAMMIT... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-12 07:51 · Score: 0 · on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released

I had a load of fun and games trying to get Fedora to share my internet connection (coming in through one ethernet card) to the Windows XP computer in the other room used by my family (on the other one). Despite following a nice tutorial I found through Google, I couldn't get it to work.

I set up Internet connections sharing in two minutes flat with Firestarter for Fedora Core 1.

Graphics and Multimedia software for Linux by gnugnugnu · 2004-02-12 06:37 · Score: 1 · on LiveLinux CD for Computer Summer Camps?

It almost goes without saying that you should look at the GIMP and perhaps also look at CinePaint. Make sure to compile and inlude more extra plugins. Also make absolutely sure to set the gimp to run using the --no-data and other options to make it as fast as possible.

I would aslo highly recommend Inkscape for Vector Graphics. Inkscape is a recent fork of the Sodipoid codesbase and has a much more user friendly interface.

ALready is one, Bochs ... by molarmass192 · 2004-02-12 05:37 · Score: 2, Informative · on WineConf 2004 Wrapup

Take a look here. Granted it's not as polished as VMWare and not as speedy but it's progressing.

Re:Have a nice cup of flaming hot death! by MooKore+2004 · 2004-02-12 05:11 · Score: 1 · on WineConf 2004 Wrapup

Wrong

CocoaMySQL by elliotj · 2004-02-12 02:27 · Score: 1 · on MySQL Administrator v1.0.1a-Alpha Released

Try CocoaMySQL if you're looking for an OS X GUI. It's great.

Get it here.

Re:Fun with Torrents by wheany · 2004-02-11 21:13 · Score: 5, Informative · on Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released

There are clients that support multiple trackers.
I use Azureus.

Re:BitTorrent links for the Mac version? by h0tblack · 2004-02-11 20:50 · Score: 4, Informative · on Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released

OS X UT2004 torrent

If you already have the file, please join the swarm anyway, the more seeders we have, the better this will work. To join as a seed, just download the .torrent file and open it in your client of choice as normal, but point the location to save the demo, to the location of your already downloaded demo.

Will people please leave their torrent windows open once they've downloaded the demo. Suggested clients: Official BitTorrent client Azureus Java client

Re:BitTorrent links for the Mac version? by h0tblack · 2004-02-11 20:50 · Score: 4, Informative · on Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released

OS X UT2004 torrent

If you already have the file, please join the swarm anyway, the more seeders we have, the better this will work. To join as a seed, just download the .torrent file and open it in your client of choice as normal, but point the location to save the demo, to the location of your already downloaded demo.

Will people please leave their torrent windows open once they've downloaded the demo. Suggested clients: Official BitTorrent client Azureus Java client

Fink (plus advice for fink on 10.3) by WasterDave · 2004-02-11 12:58 · Score: 4, Informative · on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark

I'm not the first to say it, but if this seems interesting, you should try fink. I had it on my old 10.2 machine and spent a chunk of this morning installing it onto my 10.3 machine and had a few hassles. Words to the wise:

* Install the X11 SDK since lots of things need it to build against. Do this *first*. It's on the XCode disk, or the file you're looking to download is X11SDK.pkg.

* Then just use the binary installer to get Fink going. 19 meg and worth every byte.

Also, use Sao's place as a quick reference.

Cheers,
Dave

i dunno by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-11 12:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark

That GNU-Darwin people decides not to link to proprietary libraries is, of course, a result of them using the GNU Public License so extensively and now because of that decision the primary Darwin development platform is no longer supported in this project!

This makes me shake my head and wonder what the fuck? This project is not only shooting itself in the foot by choosing a platform not fully supported by the OS, but is also screwing over the real meat of Darwin's userbase: PowerPC owners. This move is akin to opening a car garage (in America) whose mechanics are all experienced in servicing American cars, and then changing policy months later, stating that the garage will only work on foreign models.

Where is the fucking logic?

Seriously, am I the only one who is wondering who the Hell is in charge at that project? Kool-Aid Man? This move makes so little sense I can't tell if the people at GNU-Darwin are really that stupid, or if I am waking up in alternate realities every damn morning. I almost kind of hope for the latter.

This is the GPL in action, Mac faithful. Get down on your knees and kiss Apple's butt for choosing the BSD license.

An alternative.. by nadavspi · 2004-02-11 12:13 · Score: 5, Informative · on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark

An alternative to DarwinPorts, is Fink, which uses debian tools (apt-get, dkpg).
The package database indexing is a little screwed right now, so I can't give an exact number of packages..
but there are at least 500 packages in stable, and at least 300 in testing (It's rising as I type this..)
It has the usual stuff, including KDE and Gnome2.4

Re:Another International 'success' story PSILINUX by turtleshadow · 2004-02-11 10:50 · Score: 1 · on Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing

An other international success story. These intrepid persons have been quitely working through the ARM tree of Linux to get a working kernel and PDA based on Psions abandoned product lines of PDAs.

" PsiLinux is a project to port the unix-like operating system Linux to a group of palmtops produced by Psion, and related machines such as the Geofox One. At present, working linux systems can be installed on any of the Series 5, Series 5MX, Series 5MX-Pro, Revo (Revo+, Mako) machines (NOT the Series 3). Linux on the Series 7/netBook is rudimentarily working."

IF Psion is looking at jumpstarting anything Linux they have a very sound basis to work from. If anything the should open or binary source the S5MX 's power code and other nice things like audio recording.
They had a strong following for their proprietary language OPL but burned most of those shops with the demise of the palmtop product line.

There were fantastic pieces of OPL software that I'd love to run under linux but can't such as Plan5 the only project management software useful for a PDA.

Re:embedding into applications? by dustmite · 2004-02-11 09:32 · Score: 1 · on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

For wxWindows users, there is also wxMozilla.

Re:embedding into applications? by Jorrit · 2004-02-11 09:09 · Score: 1 · on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

Check out the following screenshot where Mozilla is being put on a polygon in the Crystal Space 3D Engine. This feat was done by the VOS Project:

Mozilla on a 3D polygon

Greetings,

Re:embedding into applications? by WWE-TicK · 2004-02-11 06:40 · Score: 1 · on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

I', using the wxMozilla wxWindows component to be able to embed the Mozilla HTML rendering widget into an application I am working on. The downside is that it instantly adds a whopping 10MB to the whole package.

Re:Why does mozilla get all the press? by Dalcius · 2004-02-11 06:30 · Score: 1 · on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

"With Mozilla if we don't like where the project is heading we just fork it. With Opera there is no out."

A good example of this is Galeon. It uses the mozilla rendering engine, Gecko, but has features like crazy. Not the Opera throw-everything-on-the-screen, display-500-options style (which I don't care for myself), but the features that are easily configured or ignored. For instance, you can right-click almost anything including the buttons in the toolbar for relevant options (e.g. right click Home -> Set Current Page as Home). Space will page down, alt+arrow keys do intuitive things. Ctrl+Mouse Wheel will zoom text. Features that are easy to ignore and awesome to use.

The new GTK2 version is still catching up with the features of the original, but I'm a complete addict to the interface. I use Firebird on Windows but haven't settled in and don't think I will.

Just another good example of why I like OSS: something for everyone.

Cheers

autofs etc. by tubabeat · 2004-02-11 06:22 · Score: 3, Informative · on TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature

Wouldn't automount / autofs fall under the same shadow?

No, autofs/ automount automatically mount media (be that an NFS share or whatever) when they detect it is needed (so the process is demand driven rather than media driven).

Perhaps you're thinking of supermount

No by crlf · 2004-02-11 06:17 · Score: 4, Insightful · on TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature

Automount and autofs trigger filesystem mounts on directory traversals, not on media insertion.

Maybe you were thinking about vold or some other similar project.

The problem with OPIE by TekZen · 2004-02-11 05:10 · Score: 1 · on OPIE Finally Works With Original Sharp Zaurus ROM

I hate that whoever stole my Zaurus 2 years ago has a free way to put an OS back on the device!
Argh!

But, I will probably install OPIE when I save up enough cash to but the next Zaurus.

-Jackson support the cause

There's a "Linux for Psion" project... by tcopeland · 2004-02-11 04:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing

...on Sourceforge here, screenshots here.

The mailing list seems pretty active, which is usually a good sign...

There's a "Linux for Psion" project... by tcopeland · 2004-02-11 04:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing

...on Sourceforge here, screenshots here.

The mailing list seems pretty active, which is usually a good sign...

There's a "Linux for Psion" project... by tcopeland · 2004-02-11 04:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing

...on Sourceforge here, screenshots here.

The mailing list seems pretty active, which is usually a good sign...

Re:I Got Shut Down The Same Way by Famatra · 2004-02-10 20:33 · Score: 1 · on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

My anti college site is offline too - for the same reasons. The forums and content got too hot for the administration and they wanted to go to court. I did once - and won hands down - but I was still out the money. So, in the end they still win. Cause they have the tuition of thousands of students and I don't. There is no free speech in America anymore unless you are rich. Any one that tells you other wise is a liar, wrong or both.

Well if you feel you cannot speak out effectively then you should try other means of expression, like anonymous p2p sites like Freenet.

Freenet , and some other anonymous p2p applications, exist exactly for this kind of court threatened censorship. The only drawback to this medium is since everything is anonymous you must be more discerning of what you read, so stupid / gullible people need not bother installing it.

Use a trust method by macdaddy · 2004-02-10 16:54 · Score: 4, Interesting · on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

I vote for a trust method or mechanism to weed out the trolls. A review from a student that has only submitted a single review should have very little weight on the professor's overall score. In fact it should receive a low "trust" rating on the website. As that student submits more reviews of other professors that student's "trust" rating should increase. Think of it like karma; until you prove to a subset of the masses that your comments (reviews) are ontopic, well-written, and worthwhile your karma (trust rating) won't be high enough to adversely affect the thread (professor). This would be one simple solution.

Along these same lines they could implement a peer review process for review submissions. A new user's review could be kept in limbo until, say, 10 other reviews (perhaps once they reach a certain level of "trust") have given the ok to it. Effectively these Trusted Reviewers would act like moderators and weed out the intentionally inflamitory reviews, spam, or poorly written reviews from the well-written and on-topic reviews. The anti-spam project Razor uses something similar to this called the Truth Evaluation System or TeS. It's all done automaticly, using spam reports and revokes to ascertain what a registered user's confidence level should be.

Why can't something like this be implemented to solve their problem? It still doesn't prevent a person from commiting libel but it does help weed out the intentionally imflamitory reviews and blatent personal attacks on educators. I've often commented on how I think such a review system should be used on Slashdot for the moderation system. I think all negative-scoring reviews should be confirmed by a second moderator before the post is scored. This would be best accomplished by not penalizing the moderator for participating in the confirmation process by losing a moderator point.

Re:rimuhosting.com by rimu+guy · 2004-02-10 16:10 · Score: 1 · on Virtual Server Hosting?

Thanks for the reference! We also have a Fedora distro available now.

Now, it may be because I've drunk the UML cool-aid, but UML servers are a great way to host. Whether is for a personal blog or a corporate website.

cf. shared hosting you have control over everything (except the kernel which is usually provided by the hosting company). It is common for people to install and reconfigure all their core services. But I've even had customers install a different distro - e.g. moving themselves from RedHat to Gentoo. Seriously.

cf. dedicated servers you usually get a much better deal. For example at $20 you're getting dedicated server functionality. Cheap dedicated servers start at around $80/month from reputable hosters. Compared to the low-end server you'd get for that, our servers are typically dual xeons with RAID and regular backups.

And UML in general is nice, stable, and - of course - Open Source.

So, back to the lead topic, for a business environment UMLs make a lot of sense. At one end they are a step up from shared hosting. They have better file security (i.e. you're not sharing a file system with 2000 other users and hoping that your hoster has secured their server properly). You can run run your own firewall. You can configure multiple domains. You can control what changes are made to your environment and when they are made. And you get better resource sharing with other users on the host server - i.e. your VPS gets an equal share of the server resources.

And at the other end - the dedicated server end - of the business hosting market VPSs still have a place. There are less hardware hassles to deal with. And usually the server is going to be better speced and perform better than a dedicated server for the same dollars.

Oh, and UML servers make perfect backup/failover boxes it you are running an uber dedicated server somewhere else. e.g. see how easy it can be to do automated rsync backups. And if you ever need to experiment with hosting your site on a 2.6 kernel, then UML is the way to go.

And just so that this post doesn't appear too self-serving :), you can see a list of UML hosting providers over on the Jeff Dike's UML site here: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/uses.html

Re:What about the flip-side? by Takara · 2004-02-10 15:37 · Score: 1 · on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

I tend to find that the good professors give you the "irresponsible comments and criticism" right upfront and in class.

Submitted for your review: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You can't just sleep through my class then hand in shit assignments like this. Sit down, pay attention, or get out"

Put it on a website? Well sure, might be better off using FreeNet for something like that though...

Suggestions: Fun stuff by k4_pacific · 2004-02-10 14:53 · Score: 1 · on LiveLinux CD for Computer Summer Camps?

I would recommend include lots of Open Source games, since we are targeting kids here. If they get hooked on the games, they are likely to pull the CD out again when they get home. Also, I would include OpenOffice with the hope they may try to use it with their homework too.

Also, since many of these kids probably have AOL at home, I would include pengaol so they can connect to the internet. I've never used it myself, as I have a REAL ISP, but you may want to look into it.

Emacs would be a good choice too, just because "doctor mode" seems to impress people. I showed it to a friend's Mom who knows nothing about computers, and she was totally FREAKED OUT that the computer was able to talk to her.

FreeNET by ikewillis · 2004-02-10 13:39 · Score: 5, Informative · on What The Internet Isn't

"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," John Gilmore famously said.

Indeed, and this is exactly what FreeNet is designed to do:

http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

Perhaps the fear of every government everywhere, FreeNet allows for secure and anonymous communication.

Re:Millions switch to Linux: Not likely soon. by jaavaaguru · 2004-02-10 10:17 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months

This is one huge step towards having what these people want, IMO. You can even have OpenOffice with the Plastik style of KDE 3.2. A great office suite, and a great desktop environment, merged. And they've even managed to the the look and feel of the two products integrated more closely than MS has with Office XP and Windows XP ;-)

Re:when are they releasing this patch to consumers by EverDense · 2004-02-10 10:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months

I don't know when the official patch will be out, but here is something to help in the mean time:

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