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Not one but two instances of content-free karma whoring! Amazing.

If you're not in a hurry to just download the archive (warning: this is fucking huge, specifically 511MB), let's take a closer look at some of the pertinent points of that licence:

• "You may use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this License." In other words, no commercial use, which means no inclusion in Linux distributions and such. The only way they want anyone to be able to fetch Allegiance's source code is through their clickwrap licence.
• "If any of the Software is in binary format, you will not attempt to modify such portions of the Software, or to reverse engineer or decompile them, except and only to the extent authorized by law." Too bad if you want to examine the binary data (graphics, audio, maps...) in order to, say, figure out the formats and make your own.
• "Microsoft is granted back, without any limitations and on a royalty free basis, the rights to reproduce, install, use, modify, distribute and transfer your modifications to the Software source code or data." In other words, all your changes are belong to them, and they're thoughtfully granting themselves distribution of your code without the licensing restrictions which you get hammered with!
• "If you breach this MSR-SSLA or if you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to the Software or anyone's use of the Software, your license to the Software ends automatically and you shall destroy all of your copies of the Software immediately. Section 5 of this MSR-SSLA [the self-granting of unlimited distribution rights, just quoted] shall survive any termination of this license." In other words, if they decide in their infinite wisdom that you're breaking their licence, you have to send all your work into the crapper.

My opinion (for all the piddling amount that an anonymous coward's opinion counts for)? Fuck this and find a Sourceforge or Freshmeat project to chip in on.

I always get my KDE for Red Hat (and Fedora) from the kde-redhat project. The project's lead Rex Dieter is doing an awesome job of keeping the latest KDE packaged as rpms that are available via apt-get with all dependencies worked out. Upgrade is as easy as

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Car Talk will now be available via the Windows Media Player, rather than RealMedia. That's right, we're unceremoniously dumping RealMedia.

Why? Because, for a long time, we've had tons of complaints about RealNetworks. And the one that ticks us off the most is the perceived trickery they use to sell their premium products. This is just our opinion, mind you, but it's shared by enough of our listeners, that we finally decided to take action.

Here's the problem. In order to hear our audio, you have to go to Real.com and download their "free" RealPlayer. But when you get to the web site, the free player is harder to find than Osama Bin Laden at night. And the site seems to do everything it possibly can to get you to "buy" a player instead. You have to work very hard to get the free player. And we think that stinks. And get this. It stinks so much that it even makes Microsoft look good by comparison. That's something, huh?

We've heard from many of our fans that have been duped, and who have accidentally shelled out their hard-earned dineros. And we won't even get into the ways that the RealPlayer tries to take over your computer once you install it. So, after surveying the alternatives, we're switching to Windows Media Player (which works on Macs, too).

For those of you who don't yet have the Windows Media Player installed, you can get it for Windows--for free--at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window smedia/9ser ies/player.aspx

And for Mac--for free--at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window smedia/soft ware/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx for OS X or
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ down load/mac71.aspx for OS 8.1 and up

Listening to Car Talk is painful enough by itself. You don't need more angst. If you'd rather take Car Talk with you, you can also download the show anytime by clicking on the Audible link at:
http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ (Cheapskate alert: fee *definitely* involved.)

Freenet

How will they stop piracy when they can't track the pirates?

I'm going to take this opportunity to plug Haccess, A set of fast, cross-platform, thread-safe C++ libraries for accessing Microsoft Access database files.
So far written entirely by my friend Oliver, it badly needs some dedicated C++ programmers to help out. I believe it has already made its way into OpenOffice as a filter.

• Gnutella
• OpenFT
• IRC

I would imagine that it is not affected... perhaps this is a good time to plug it. Get it from here. Just Media Player Classic is also available.

Palm Linux runs on many 68k Palm Os devices.
As much as Linux can run on very low end devices the typical Linux PDA is still a very high end device. It's not a simple PIM.
You can run a web server from a Linux PDA but a typical PalmOs PDA makes a wonderful PIM.

I've both a Handspring Visor and a Zaurus infront of me right now.

The handspring is a great device for GPS, e-mail, cell phone or what ever... I even have a digital voice recorder module.

But I skipped the MP3 player due to cost.

The Zaurus is much more powerful and slightly more bulky. MP3 player built in movie player available extra.

The PalmOs device is ok for viewing pictures but I need the Zaurus to edit those pictures.

Also certen limitations on the Palm... I can't e-mail pictures from my Handspring but I can from the Zaurus.

Talk to Prometheus Radio. They help LPFM's get setup, they've done several "barnraisings" now that help the new community stations in everything from software, to RF engineering, to how to do community news.

A few volunteers associated with that project have developed some software called Flow STL, which manages the link between the studio and the transmitter.

Ditto here, only in our first semester we studied NASM on Linux x86 architecture. It was my school's first attempt at using Linux from the start, and there we kinks in the program. One reason I liked using the x86 architecture, however, was that I could easily do all my assignments at home and it gave me the opportunity to mess with things outside school

Open source has made some inroads into broadcasting, but not many. For the most part anything in a radio station will run on Windows or a more proprietary system.

The starting point is usually sound recording and editing. Unfortunately the available Open Source products are still a fair distance from matching the functionality of say Adobe Audition or Pro Tools. Still though do check out Audacity for a simple editor which can handle many tasks.

Beyond editing there have been a few people in Canada who have developed Linux based audio logging systems, and stations in many places who catalog music using Open Source software.

Automation is still the land of proprietary software, although Scott Studios has been working on packages that run over Linux.

A good source for information (assuming you're a community radio station) is the member e-mail list for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters or either of the radio-tech or pub-tech mailing lists for broadcast engineers.

Finally, you might want to hook up with the Prometheus Radio Project, the leaders in community LPFM. Ask for Pete Tridish.

SwingSet is an open source toolkit for writing database-aware/enabled Swing applications.

Back when I depended on a dialup connection, I used xringd. By having the phone line the modem was on ring in a certain pattern, I could command the computer to dial up (using diald). Then a line in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local would mail me the IP address the PPP server assigned the computer (this was before DynIP or DynDNS). I'd then be able to log into the machine. Pretty darn cool for 1996.

...might be to use a higher level language wrapper like Ruby/GTK.

Prototyping an app will probably take less time if you don't have the compile/link cycle... worth a try, anyhow.

Time to make your home on freenet.

Its sad that the world is coming to this.

(aim,icq,msn,yahoo)

While I'm not sure about other platforms' options, if you're on Mac OS X, Fire is an excellent multi-protocol client, covering AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, and irc in one package.

dsniff, ettercap

Lack of good 'free' Windows software to do so? I haven't found any yet.

CDex is pretty good. Supports MP3, Vorbis, ect.

Just skip this and program in much better JVM based languages than Java:

Scala
Nice

Anyway, I'd recommend doing a google search for 386intel.txt. This is Intel's documentation for the 386 chip, including systems programming stuff. This is the file Linus used. The modern version of this documentation is available here for the Pentium III, split up in three. You'll need all three, but the third in the series is most relevant.

After you get booting, you'll need some documentation for various devices when writing drivers. I used "The Indespensible PC Hardware Book" by Messner and it was pretty good. I guess there are also good websites available and you can always look at how Linux or *BSD does it.

Anyway, you might be able to skip the Intel documentation if you use someone else's bootloader, but I don't recommend this. One of the points of this project should be to understand the machine inside and out from boot, so write your own bootloader and object code loader. Once it can run your C code, you'll get a feeling of satisfaction, which should be another of this project's goals.

I used an older version of VMWare for testing, but I highly recommend bochs nowadays. Bochs seems designed exactly for this stuff, so you can run a debugger right away and you don't need to go through the older debugging route which was to write a serial port driver as soon as possible and get a remote debugger working over that (easiest way to do remote debugging in VMWare and real hardware).

I'd recommend nasm for the assembler bits. It can do 16-bit code for the bootloader and it can spit out unadorned object code so you don't have to bother with parsing ELF and extracting what you need (although you'll need to do this eventually when you get to C, but you can at least delay that until after you start booting).

One last thing - ignore the naysayers. It seems lots of people thought it important to post that you shouldn't be doing this but should instead be contributing some drivers to another project or something like that. Whenever someone in the open source community says this, they're almost always non-developers. Most of us write code on our own time because we find it satisfying and this is one of the most satisfying projects you can undertake. This project is also a kind of "coming-of-age" experience (for lack of a better word), like writing your own compiler or creating a GUI API or window manager. Users won't understand. That's OK. We understand.

Our open source SwingSet toolkit for making the Swing components database-enabled/aware will now be much easier to install/distribute. Hooray!

Java is probably the most popular language today;

No it isn't, and it never will be.
Check sourceforge.

You probably just imagine this that because you probably program in Java sometimes and read the glossy Java developer mags. Silently you're afraid you are missing out on all those other wonderful languages that you don't really understand. I call that wishful thinking out of fear.

regards,

Walden.

ModTorrent

Mute Filesharing is one of the projects talking about ant technology, with a pretty thorough description of how they use AntTech.

Mute Filesharing is one of the projects talking about ant technology, with a pretty thorough description of how they use AntTech.

I used to use that successfully too. The only problem was that Outlook has no way to supress the "new mail notification" icon in the task bar for filtered messages. I got tired of being told I have new spam every ten minutes.

I switched to PopFile, for which there is an Outlook plugin called Outclass. This has worked more ore less as effectively as SpamBayes, but it has one important advantage. It disables Outlook's notification icon in the tray and generates its own.

Peace at last.

I am using this combination with an Exchange server. It also works with POP.

It depends on if you got new drivers from DRI recently as well. If you got binary drivers (from the snapshots), you're out of luck, since I just discovered that the binary drivers are broken for now. Supposedly, they should be just fine from CVS, but I didn't get them to compile. After nuking my X11R6 directory and reinstalling X, however, accelleration works just fine again.

If you're curious, the page I finally found that told me they were broken is buried here.

Try Azureus. It's an open sourced bit torrent implementation written in Java that I like a lot more than the other ones I've tried. You can set the max upload rate among other useful settings.

OPENWRT!

http://openwrt.sourceforge.net/

The need for tag bits is also why OpenGenera, the successor of the operating systems of the Symbolics Lisp Machines (which had 36 bit words, with hardware support for type checking) was implemented on the Alpha, so it could efficiently emulate the custom LispM hardware. Of course, choosing the Alpha of all 64bit platforms has now proven to be in line with a long history of Symbolics making exactly the wrong stategic decisions... There have been rumors about a port of OpenGenera to the 64bit G5 Macs, but they are as yet unconfirmed, and even if it would work out, I doubt that there is any significant market for an OS written in Lisp, running in an emulator, for $5000 per installation, even if it is still a damn impressive system.

They have kernel "2.2.25-3-SECURE", updated August 20, 2003.

While it's not a major game from one of the big game studios, it is a heck of a lot of fun. It's basically a 3D (actually uses 3 dimensions, not just a 2D game with 3D graphics) puzzle game. You play as Kiki, and your goal is to get to the exit. The best part is it free and the source code is available for download.

BTW, I want to sell my copies of UT2003 and American McGee's Alice.

Enhydra, an Open Source Java-based Application Server, was recently installed on an XBox using Xebian.

I had submitted a story about this the day it happened (a few days ago) but for some reason it didn't make the cut. I guess underpowered web servers are sexier than underpowered application servers..(?)

Once properly hacked you can telnet to your TiVo and purge the keystroke logs! (in /var/log, where else!?) Not to mention the other nifty capabilities, like web-based control and Video Extraction...

That version of Wine is gone, and from the comments in the thread it looks like it was very old too.

Darwine looks pretty interesting though. If only my MacOS X coding skills were more up to par.

Yes we have. As I understood it, Microsoft has pretty much let the Core Fonts out to the wild, much to the dismay of Monotype and other companies who created the fonts... The license allows free distribution in unmodified form.

But there's also Times, which is a standard PostScript font. A crappy bitmap version ships with X11. You can buy a PS version of the font from Adobe, I think. There's a magnificent free version, URW Times, which is pretty damn good. I guess nobody will notice the difference unless they look really hard - the typeface hasn't changed that much since 1930s or so, and you can always explain the slight rendering differences with "oh yeah, this Linux stuff is still beta, I won't get 100% accurate rendering anyway". In short, cheat. =)

I was fairly lucky. I got an LG VX4400 before I new it was so well-supported by BitPim. With that, and a $20 cable from Radio Shack, (get the one for the VX-10 - it has a serial adapter in the USB that works with Linux, the VX4400 cable does not), I'm able to upload any .MID file to my phone to use as a ring tone.

The only trouble was finding a nice midi tone that I liked. I created a file that was just 8 beeps in a row. It's very distinctive, yet simple.

I still hate a lot of the crap on my phone, like the "get it now" garbage. I'd love to remap that to "address book" or something like that.

Plus, I'm damn irriated that my phone says "GPS" in big letters on the back, but I have little control over it and can't get any data from it. What a crock of sh*t. Oh yeah... and why can't I terminate a call when I'm on a hands-free set without opening the phone up? That GPS label would make a great button for answer/hang-up.

But, all-in-all, it's been a decent phone.

Linux as I see it doesn't have the exact font "Times New Roman" as part of the default install.

So install it then.

...DOOM.

With updated source code available, plenty of improvements, and lots of ways to create your own maps, there's plenty to do before HL2 comes out!

Enhydra, an Open Source Java-based Application Server, was recently installed on an XBox using Xebian.

I had submitted a story about this the day it happened (a few days ago) but it didn't make the cut.

1. I actually am waiting for portage to calculate dependencies on my P4 3G. The reason is that I first check what would be emerged, before I actually have it done. I don't mind the build taking a long time because I'm not waiting for it to complete, I just run it during the night.

   And as far as language choices are concerned, somebody I know has made an alternative to portage in perl and already it was a *LOT* faster in calculating dependencies. I'm not saying I know why, I'm just stating a fact.

2. There are times when I have to do a reinstall and I would like to do an automated one. The Gentoo Linux Install Script is hopefully going to fill that void.

Considering that people now-a-days are installing Linux on them, doesn't it seem like users are shooting Microshaft in the foot? Granted all the fair use crap that I'm going to be flamed with but seeing things from the marketing side of things, it's just more profitable to make the HDD an add-on.

And on a side note, what's going to happen to the "WinTel" pact going on when this finally makes it to market? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Use Media Player Classic.

Install Quicktime and Real (or their alternative versions), disable or delete their players, and just use MPC for everything (you don't even need to install separate DVD software anymore).

Also watch Syllable. It's a GPL desktop operating system that doesn't have any of KDE or Linux's bloat problems.

You'll need cygwin too, get it first if you don't have it already. (Make sure you install XFree86 packages from cygwin).

KDE3.2 for Windows should be available in a few months' time... :-)

You'll need cygwin too, get it first if you don't have it already. (Make sure you install XFree86 packages from cygwin).

KDE3.2 for Windows should be available in a few months' time... :-)

You can get RH 7.3/8/9/Fedora packages here: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net
The 3.2 release isn't available yet but I'm sure it will be soon. (I'm running the last beta right now)

Why do solutions always have to cost money or put control is some company's hands? I call bullshit. So here, people, are your solutions to spam:

User-level: spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin and spambayes are all very effective statistical filters with bayesian components. Train them well and you will see next to 0 spam, with just about no false positives. I dare say these will filter mail better than a human could do visually.

Those statistical filters aren't scalable. Running a large ISP is more your thing? Then install DCC at your site and enable greylisting on top of it. This will catch nearly all your spam, and false positives are rather rare.

All this software is free and actively developed. There, I've just saved you from spam. Where's my 200 USD consulting fee?

Why do solutions always have to cost money or put control is some company's hands? I call bullshit. So here, people, are your solutions to spam:

User-level: spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin and spambayes are all very effective statistical filters with bayesian components. Train them well and you will see next to 0 spam, with just about no false positives. I dare say these will filter mail better than a human could do visually.

Those statistical filters aren't scalable. Running a large ISP is more your thing? Then install DCC at your site and enable greylisting on top of it. This will catch nearly all your spam, and false positives are rather rare.

All this software is free and actively developed. There, I've just saved you from spam. Where's my 200 USD consulting fee?