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Interesting that CA is pushing for inclusion of a kernel auditing facility in 2.7. That sort of functionality, required in a number of federal contexts, is already available in a Linux-compatible, GPL'ed code base, from Intersect Alliance down in Australia. The Snare project patches the Linux kernel with auditing instrumentation, making it possible to detect abnormal system call activity that other methods don't.

Solaris has had something like this for a long time in the form of BSM, as had Windows. Even Mac OS X has preliminary BSM support in Mac OS X Panther. It would be very great to see this kind of functionality as a config option on the Linux kernel, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

Go to the site and check it out.

Here is a description:

MusicScript is an open-source music scripting language for linux. It is capable of creating complete songs from a script, using drum machines, synthesizers, samplers, and many effects. MusicScript was created by David Piott as an alternative to the limits of real-time music programs. With MusicScript, there can be an infinite amout of loops, tracks, samples, effects, etc. You create the song as a script file, which MusicScript will interpret and turn into a wav file Its a very basic program but it gets the job done and is very easy to learn. We also got this to compile in fink and work perfectly in OSX. So now we use it in Linux and OSX

There already is a fairly widespread musical notation format in use on the web. It's called ABC. There's even a Sourceforge site for it.

That said, ABC isn't perfect - it's evolved in many ambiguous and incompatible ways over the years, making it difficult to code a common parser. MusicXML might be better suited for that job, or for professional use.

For casual use, though, ABC is tough to beat.

I find it hard to believe that the "open source community" could be responsible for this DDOS against SCO.

Note to aforementioned putz:
Why do you think SCO has been using inflammatory language? You're being played. Buying a bumper sticker from Thinkgeek doesn't make you part of the Linux community or anything else worthwhile. If you think you're coding skills are so hot, get out of your mom's basement and try playing with the big boys for a while. Go to Source Forge, pick a project that you can help and do something worthwhile for a change.

Just my humble opinion.

http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/index.html

It's the stable implementation on the 2.4 kernel series. It also works for 2.6. There's a detailed howto...

Use the latest version, I've had no problems with it. Basically, try with a small system partition and , if posible two swap partitions, one of them larger that your RAM. You could use the mandrake partition manager to get some space back from XP and install this. OR Partition magic, if you have that available to you.

install a basic system with almost no apps, but the gcc compiler, XFree86 server, sound drivers, net card, etc. Try this thing, and if it works, THEN you can install apps over it or maybe reinstall with a bigger partition. If it doesn't work, just scrap it and wait for it on distro. Even if useful, I reckon we all have better things to do than fight our OS's :)

anyway, backups are GOOD for you, specially if by mistake you manage to wipe out your partition table :)

A verb oriented interface. A very interesting looking app, with a radically different paradigm.

HomePage and Screenshots

A verb oriented interface. A very interesting looking app, with a radically different paradigm.

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"A lot of the information is encrypted, so we have to decrypt it," said Sharon Ruckman, a senior director of antivirus software maker Symantec's security response center. Symantec has had about 40 reports of the virus in the first hour, a high rate of submission, Ruckman said.

What has been described here sounds very similar to the SSG-SESM solution from Cisco Systems. This has been around for a very long time. I have been part of a project to implement an SSG solution for traffic accounting on a University network. We capture and redirect clients that have not logged in to a login page and once they have been authenticated, their browser continues to the originally requested location.

In other projects this has been implemented as short DHCP leases and a bogus DNS that returns the same address for any hostname asked for. See NetReg2 for more details.

Not one of those customizations of the xp desktop, but a new way to think the interactions between apps, files, devices and actions.
The gui sucks right now, but the concept is interresting and refreshing.
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""Linux in currently unable to take advantage of Centrino's wireless networking devices, without, that is, prying $20 from your thin wallet to buy Linuxant's DriverLoader"

Not true. I'm using the open-source ndiswrapper project together with the win32 drivers, and it works, although a bit buggy. See here"

I see. I hadnt noticed that there was a free driver. But the ndiswrapper is still the same as the Linuxant's DriverLoader solution with the exception that you dont have to pay. Its still not a native linux driver, it relies on a windows DLL, and as many people have commented, its not entirely stable.

My favorite download manager is wget (if RMS is reading this, I really meant to say GNU wget). Thankfully, I don't have a DirecWay connection, but if I did, I'd make use of the --limit-rate option.

Wget has been ported to Windows, too.

You could try using Ratpoison and screen. Of course, there are a number of projects that seek to change the way various information is handled/presented/etc. See, for example, Chandler, Haystack,Gnome Storage, and WinFS. These all seem to be addressing the fundamental problem of managing ever growing amounts of information on personal computers.

It was called the ICS (Internet Chess Service) and I remember playing games on it and getting a rating in 1991. There was quite a ruckus when Daniel Sleator converted it to the ICC (Internet Chess Club) in 1992, a commercial operation. Previously it had been free. I remember people ranting on USENET about the coming commercialization of the Internet, and predicting that within ten years time it would cost fifty cents to ping a server. FreeICS came into being soon afterwards. It used the same client/server protocol as ICS/ICC and you could configure a client to work with either server (ICC charged for the logon). The FreeICS server software is online with a GPL license.

Based on their (lack of) responsiveness so far, I would not recommend them. I have switched to using the madwifi driver (with a different wireless card).

That's the best compression/encryption you can get.

Actually, I hear lzip is better at the compression and offers encryption inasmuch as you can make it computationally infeasible to reconstruct the original message without knowledge of it.

StrangeBerry is involved in a lot of networking projects, including UPnP and Java Port of ZeroConf.

Obviously this is going to allow for some level of interaction between your TiVo and equipment on your LAN, be it your router, your PC and/or your Mac. This could lead to an interface betweeen your TiVo and iTunes using Java. Maybe it is about pulling down content over broadband to your TiVo, though DRM concerns immediately come to mind. Maybe it is both.

Only time will tell.

Strangeberry released a java version of Rendezvous/Zeroconf. It actually works. The code is now open at sourceforge. I've used the code and the discovery works well, even under windows.

Having something like Rendezvous/Zeroconf working for Tivo is key to making it even simpler to intergrate a Tivo into a home network.

Simpler to use = deeper consumer penetration

I've simply removed from my laptop the Intel Pro Wireless 2100 WiFi Mini-PCI card and replaced it with a Atheros 802.11a/b/g chipset. The Multiband Atheros Driver for Wifi (aka MadWifi) is well supported under Linux. It even has a great FAQ.
The card I bought is an IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN MiniPCI Adapter (IBM Part Number: 31P9701), and works flawlessly under REHL3.

Indeed. If you look at the Linux Atheros driver, Atheros and/or the people who licensed the proprietary bits from them provide a Hardware Access Layer (HAL) module that's binary-only. The rest of the driver can then just be GPL; the HAL takes care of hiding the precise details of talking to the card and doing all the FCC-compliance bits.

I bought the Intel card because I had the choice of Broadcom, which TMK has zero plans to release a Linux driver, and Intel, which has announced plans to. Both suck and will require ndiswrapper, but at least I can theoretically get native drivers for the Intel card in the future. [I just bought a Dell, after trying to get a laptop from other vendors for about 5 months; those were the options for the wifi card.]

I like your method, though. The problem with a HAL driver module is that it has to support your kernel; a .o file that gets wrapped into a module will be able to deal with different kernels better than having the binary bits be a whole module. niiiice.

Or Linux users can use the free ndiswrapper

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

This is an open source implementation that allows linux users to load their windows drivers and use their WiFi cards.

Its still very new, but there has been some success with the centrino chipset, as well as Admtek, Atheros and Broadcom cards.

Strangeberry were known for jRendezvous (a java zeroconf library). It's moved to SourceForge, for future reference.

I think the series 2 tivo uses rendezvous, which is the only connection I can think of between the two companies.

What ever happened with Line?
It claimed to be able to do something similar (running unmodified Linux applications in Windows). I came across it a few months ago, but was dissapointed that its development apparently ceased in 2001.

Everyone knows about Cygwin which is a POSIX layer and distribution of GNU software for Windows. You can compile and run a lot of packages, including X applications.

Line
takes this a step further by running unmodified Linux binaries on Windows, but it's not currently an active project.

ISTR that one of the 32-bit DOS extenders (EMX perhaps?) had some wacky scheme to run the same binaries on Linux, Windows and OS/2.

A really good troll makes every word in his sentence a link so that his point seems valid.

You don't even have to visit the sites, just google something like "linux vs windows", grab relevent links and include then in your post. No one will read them anyways, and believe you because you provided plenty of background Info and reputable sources (computing.net included!). They will have to believe your Pro-Windows rant.

Linux isn't a Toy OS. it's used by google. Who provided you this Informative post :)

SC2, the game with the wackiest aliens, cleverest dialogue, bleepiest music, and kickassingest combat has been remade! Freeware, open source!! Go fetch NOW because it's a real beauty to behold!! The Ur-Quan Masters

The project you had in mind might very well have been iRate Radio, available for free over on Sourceforge.

The system includes exactly the kind of collaborative rating you mention, designed to figure out what sort of music you like. You train it kinda like you train a spam filter, 'this one's good, that one's bad', such that over time it gets better at predicting what you might like, based also on the ratings of people with similar rating patterns as your own.

HTH

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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts written in blood...

I could easily imagine a productive environment based around GNU screen and a terminal-based editor, mail client, news client, and IM client. Throw in something like w3m, and other for images, its good.

Yup, that's pretty close to the way I've worked for most of the last year or two. For me it's screen, of course, along with:

• editor - vim,
• mail client - mutt,
• news client - tin,
• web client(s) - a combination of w3m, lynx, and wget for most downloading tasks,
• spreadsheet - sc, which is surprisingly useful,
• P2P client - mutella, though I think there are console options for other protocols,
• IM/IRC client - irssi along with the fantastic bitlbee (and if you haven't heard of bitlbee before, take a look).

...and then I use good 'ol ratpoison for my window manager in X for the occasions that I need graphics (ie. some web browsing, viewing PDFs, playing graphical games).

Strike that. In most cases, multi-tasking can be very counterproductive. Shell escapes and $EDITOR_OF_CHOICE is good enough.

It varies :-), though I agree generally speaking. I'm using KDE3.2beta at the moment for a bit of a change, though most of the action is still inside my screen(1) terminal(s). You do tend to (or at least I tend to) find yourself more productive when you don't have stray graphical bits and pieces around the place to distract you.

Of course if you need the GUI for your normal working environment (ie. you're developing a GUI app), then, well there's not much you can do but live with it. :)

Looking at the sourceforge site, someone says he's successfully installed an almost-unmodified Debian distro with this thing. here

Unfortunatelly there are no binaries up on their SourceForge page yet, although they do have the source up.

This does look very intresting and will save me rebooting to switch between Linux and Windows apps.

Shawn Fanning is an idiot. This is not a troll. He releases a PTP system that is so inherently unthought out and stupidly illegal and try to make a go of it. He wrote a program in VB that was what it was because he couldn't implement anything more complex. Sure, some of the beauty of Napster was its simplicity. But this is also the reason we are in a jam with PTP systems like we are today. Without Napster we would not have the RIAA court cases. We would have Gnutella systems, Bit Torrent etc free from lawyers and everyone would be happy.

The reason we have distributed systems in the first place is due to the destruction of Napster. If Napster had never existed, I'm inclined to believe P2P would be nowhere near as widespread as it is today, or that it would even exist at all.

That said, I see no need for any software that allows the recording industry to make money. We simply don't need the recording industry anymore. All we really need are artists, and fans. Woe be to the recording industry when the likes of iRate and CDBaby meet. It's clear that we've got the distribution thing covered with the internet. A system like iRate handles the task of getting the artist exposure with fans who will appreciate them, and a store like CDBaby handles the obvious financial needs of the artists. That's really all the current recording industry does now.

So why do we need to include the bastards who sue 12 year olds again?

With live CDs, having highly-targeted Linux distros is not much different than having an application that you just happen to launch by booting from CD. A robust, 85%-defined-via-a-distro-builder app meta-distro would make creating targeted live CDs as easy as creating application installers. One could even picture a dual-purpose CD, designed to either install an app on an existing Linux or boot into Linux for people who are not Linux-ised yet. But, creating such a targeted live CD seems to be still in the land of people who are more likely to use Gentoo than, say, Mandrake or Fedora. If the innovation came off a common Morphix-like framework, then some percentage of that innovation will improve the framework, making it all the easier for kernel n00b's like me to create a live Linux CD.

I agree with you there; Collaborative Filtering and "smart mobs" are the way things will increasingly be done. It will take a while to get there though because it conflicts with the current money being made in top-down Command & Control mode vs. bottom-up, self-organizing emergence mode.

iRATE radio is a great example of this. It adapts to your tastes in music over time, with no ClearChannel dictating the flavor of the month.

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I believe BlackBox and FluxBox are both written on top of Xlib. I've hacked around with the source code a bit and Xlib looks pretty unwieldy. Good thing there's Gtk for all my application needs =)

I can't believe no one thought of this classic game, but I guess I'll be the first to suggest some sort of remake. How about an updated version of Tetris? I think that would be well-received (if nothing else, at least for the fact that it's never been done).

That game has been neglected ever since it first came out and no one has yet to make a clone of it (to the best of my knowledge).

the remake of Pirates! is currently under development by Firaxis Games. It should see a release later this year.

You might want to contact Toys for Bob for an update for Archon as well as the (mentioned below) Mail Order Monsters as Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III may be able to help there. They were the ones who released their Star Control II to us as the somewhat updated Ur Quan Masters.

I once tried SuSE Live (I think it was version 7.0, but I don't remember). It didn't work.

You sure do know what you're writing about... Actually, knoppix works more than fine. When my university was hosting the particle physics conference of the national phyisical society, we set up two "internet cafes", one featuring ordinary PCs, the other a bunch of notebooks, all running knoppix with no problems. And that was a year ago. I used knoppix when I bought my notebook, which came without windows preinstalled, but I wanted to see it worked before I took it home, so trusting in God or whoever else is responsible for making things work, I just popped in the knoppix CD and bootet the computer. Actually, I was an idiot and didn't see the pixel failure in the middle of the screen, but I won't blame that on knoppix ;-)

If you want to have a gnome desktop from a live CD, try the Morphix Gnome module. Last time I downloaded it, it worked nicely, definitely better than Gnoppix. This distro's work seems to have been interrupted for a while but they are just reemerging from the sort-of-dead.

FreeDroid might make you happy.

but, but ... thats tuxracer, no?

close enough ... wouldn't be hard to finish the Penguin Adventure maps in Tuxracer format, anyway ...

I suspect that only a minority of Slashdot-ers will recognize what I'm talking about, but any game in the trilogy deserves a remake on it's own; the whole trilogy deserves a remake, even more.

Lucky for us, that's already in the works. In fact, it's being simultaneously ported for Linux and Windows as well as OS X, AND it's an Open Source project. If I had any programming skills (alas, I don't), I'd be in on the project. As it stands, I'll have to wait until Pfhorge (pronounced "forge," for the uninitiated) comes out to make any contribution.

Anyhow, for those interested, the project is called Aleph One; the main site can be found here, and the SourceForge site can be found here.

~UP

• LiteGUI - a small, lightweight desktop, that provides things like a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, browser, email client, IM-software and media player (avi / mpeg).
• Gnome - a desktop for people that want more than the basic tools. However, there is little you can't do with this cd image (full printing support, photo-camera tools, a few games and OpenOffice to work with Word-documents, for example)
• KDE - a desktop that is between LightGUI and Gnome when it comes to the amount of tools pre-installed. Like Gnome, there is support for multiple users, but it doesn't contain OpenOffice, and hence doesn't deal with Word-documents as well.
• Game - a small lightweight desktop with only a browser and a lot of Open Source games, and one or two Free commercial demo's/games.

• LiteGUI - a small, lightweight desktop, that provides things like a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, browser, email client, IM-software and media player (avi / mpeg).
• Gnome - a desktop for people that want more than the basic tools. However, there is little you can't do with this cd image (full printing support, photo-camera tools, a few games and OpenOffice to work with Word-documents, for example)
• KDE - a desktop that is between LightGUI and Gnome when it comes to the amount of tools pre-installed. Like Gnome, there is support for multiple users, but it doesn't contain OpenOffice, and hence doesn't deal with Word-documents as well.
• Game - a small lightweight desktop with only a browser and a lot of Open Source games, and one or two Free commercial demo's/games.

Here's your Bayesian filtering for Outlook. Microsoft is also distributing a Bayesian filter with Outlook 2003, but get this - it's pre-trained and can't learn any more!

If you're running Linux and you don't want to mess around with a database but you still want a PVR, you can use furious_tv and ftv_gnome (the GNOME front end for furious_tv, hosted at the same site).

Movix is a useful suite of applications for audio and video files. Not a full media center but allows booting from various devices and auto launching media files on the boot media or can connect to a network resource for media files.
I've used it for creating self booting cdroms that launchs some divx movies.

>>Sounds like they are using LinuxBIOS plus some apps for the quick boot option.

What makes you think that? Just because they use Linux as part of their project does not mean they're necessarily using LinuxBIOS.

Besides, if they are then where's the source code? There is that little issue about the GPL...

As a writer of two (1, 2) man pages, I can say that I find the syntax of roff not that bad. I guess you get used to strange languages once you learn more of them. If you find roff hard, try writing Perl scripts without any alphanumerical tokens.

As a writer of two (1, 2) man pages, I can say that I find the syntax of roff not that bad. I guess you get used to strange languages once you learn more of them. If you find roff hard, try writing Perl scripts without any alphanumerical tokens.

Get pinfo then. It's much more usable than that crappy info.