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Does Adium include Rendezvous support? I consider Rendezvous a worthwhile feature in iChat and I'm even considering switching back from Fire because of that (HHOS). (In due fairness to Fire, Rendezvous support is on their to-do list, though it hasn't been implemented yet.)

Why the double standards? Lots of flaming on Slashdot when someone confuses "GPL" with "public-domain". Lots of whining about Disney strip-mining the public domain. Why is none of this criticism levelled at authors of GPLed software who esssentially do the same thing?

Dont forget about TorrentSpy

Overnet (eDonkey) or eMule is pretty cool too.

Have you looked into Kazaa lately??? It's ABSOLUTELY the same stuff that was there 12 months ago, and networks like kazaa are the ones monitored by the RIAA (still ~ 4 Million users online)

Quality has even improved during the last months with IP-Block-Lists getting more updates and Apollon+gIFT (TRY THIS FOLKS, GREAT CLIENT) having matured...

See...

Apollon@SF.net
gift-fasttrack (got updates lately...)

Frankly, Bittorrent++'s GUI is too slow for my taste, and I don't think it's based on the latest BT protocol. These are BT clients I recommend:

• Azureus (the best in general)
• BitComet (limit to 1 port, for minimal internet browsing slowdown. But that prob. is why it doesn't have to fastest download performance, although you may have good mileage with a bit of tweaking)
• TheShadow's (one of the oldest "experimental" implementation, a mod of the official BT client with useful featrues)

Frankly, Bittorrent++'s GUI is too slow for my taste, and I don't think it's based on the latest BT protocol. These are BT clients I recommend:

• Azureus (the best in general)
• BitComet (limit to 1 port, for minimal internet browsing slowdown. But that prob. is why it doesn't have to fastest download performance, although you may have good mileage with a bit of tweaking)
• TheShadow's (one of the oldest "experimental" implementation, a mod of the official BT client with useful featrues)

As im sure alot of /.'s are aware their is a program out there called Bittorrent.

My preferred client is Bittorrent++.

Now, if you like to download stuff in an environment that kinda reminds me of the ol audiogalaxy days I strongly recommend you try out Suprnova.org. Obviosly this is still subjective to riaa 'snooping' as the clients dont appear to support ip range banning, but since they are Open source, anyone can be free to implement any sort of riaa spoofing/protection.

It took me all of 2 minutes with Google trying to find links for all the software you mentioned - and greatly enriches your post.

Other than that, thanks for the pointers.

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ImageMagick

K3b - DVD/CD burner software

Plone - The most mature open source CMS.

Mamboserver - Not as mature or featurefull as Plone, but very nice as well.

OfflineIMAP - Simple, reliable, powerful

Kstars - and KDE Technology in general

The ones that are almost there but could use a hand to make them more intuitive:

GNUCash - Can't wait for their Gtk2 version.
Mr. Project
KOffice - has a great technological underpinning.

Big question - does it have an SSH client?

What? For the Nokia Series 60 platform? Yes!

I SSH into my workplace UNIX box from my Nokia 3650 moderately regularly. The SSH client for SymbainOS is a port of PuTTY and can be found here.

for those who still have a powerpad around, try this

Somebody's already on it

5: Argue that tools that can, and are infact, be used for both lawful and unlawful purposes should not themselves be illegal.

Good point. But such tools usually have some redeeming quality to them. What can p2p do besides share music files and porn?

Two clues, little man:

Aspell

Will to power

What I do care about is the way IE handles all shorcuts/favorites as "individual" files.

But continuing each projects separetedly wont make one desktop become better faster.

Since I don't see anyone else bitching about it yet, I'll do the duty...

Last summer, the Mozilla maintainers removed support for the MNG file format. This was a Bad Thing[tm]. See someone else bitching about it for more details. The relevant bugzilla bug is 18574, available at this url (cut and paste, since they block links from slashdot):

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574

MNG supporters have revolted and are operating out of mngzilla.sf.net

Also, has anyone got LilyPond working on OS X 10.2(.8)? It looks like an interesting idea -- completely automated notation, done right so that it doesn't need any tweaking, with no GUI and input from a text file (with optional translation from MIDI files &c) -- but installation was a pig. It needs fink, so after spending 800MB of my HD and many hours downloading and compiling that, I try LilyPond and get a compiler error! I don't have time right now to try to find out why...

That's because you have never experienced the simple greatness that is Galeon. For years now Galeon has been a quick, reliable, and incredibly useful browser. Even with all the effort on other browsers, such as the Johnny-come-lately efforts such as Phoenix and Firebird, none yet come close to the usability of Galeon.

Galeon has a very high level of fit-and-finish: buttons in convenient spots, easy to navigate, and a very comfortable feeling when using it. And I'll give three specific examples of really small details that make all the diffence:

1. Thought put into tabbed browsing. Like the others, or more accurately, before most of the others, Galeon has tabs, and the little X to close a tab is conveniently located right on the tab itself. No other browser does this, but it improves the usability immensely. It is mousing over to the X at the far right of the screen every time to close tabs that has me shutting down Mozilla and friends and running back to Galeon.

2. Thought put into blocking ads. How many times in other Mozilla-derived browsers do you want to block ads from one server or another? If you're like me, its several times a day. In Galeon, when you right-click on an image, one of the options is to "Block images from <Server Name Here>". In all other Mozilla-derived browsers you first have to right click and click "Properties" so that you can learn the server name - is it DoubleClick (yes, definitely block) or the same server that all the other images are coming from (no, definitely don't block)? Then you can go back and right click in the images and say "Block all images from this server."

3. Blocking pop-ups. OK, lots of browsers have this now, but Galeon was one of the first.

Try Galeon. In my opinion, version 1.2.13, the "stable" version is much better than the latest 1.3.X. I suppose that would be the small part of this post that is relevent to the "rewrites are bad" topic :).

So in summary, if you are looking for a fast browser that is just a browser, very easy to use, use Galeon. Or wait a long time for Firebird and the others to rewrite until they become Galeon.

Source Navigator or Eclipse a try?

Both are cross-platform IDE's that allow you to change out compilers, do class browsing and analysis, etc. One is a mix of C/C++ code and Tcl/Tk code, the other is based on Java.

Real Mindstorms programmers use either Not Quite C (NQC) or lejOS and Java.

C/C++

A free Mind for Mindstorms and other robots is available in Forth, for when the Mindstorms robot has enough user-fillable RAM to load in the AI4U Mind.

pbForth has long been a Forth programming language available for the "brick" of the Lego Mindstorms.

An Aibo robot fan site features the JavaScript version of the free AI Mind.

AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programer's Manual is an alternative AI textbook that describes the Robot AI Mind in the 34 diagrams of 34 chapters corresponding to 34 mind-modules.

Ruby
Java
Python

Good times!

The complete album is available in these formats:

• 44k/16bit WAV : 622meg zip file of perfect quality WAV files.
• FLAC : 314meg zip file of perfect quality FLAC files. (about FLAC)
• OGG : 84meg zip file of high quality OGG files. (about OGG)
• 128kb MP3 : 56meg zip file of 128kb MP3 files.
• MP3 VBR : 74meg zip of high quality MP3 VBR files. (about VBR MP3)

You didn't say what platform you were on, but if you're on Linux, you might try EasyTag. It comes with my distro (SuSE); it may already be on yours. Don't let the cheesy web site fool you. It's a great little program. It can backfill id3 tags from filenames, or rename files according to id3 tags. It can do whole trees of files at once (like to label the artist). It has a neat feature which will autonumber a whole directory of files to track numbers. I've been using all of these features to clean up my own ogg collection from all the different ways I've ripped my own stuff over the years.

While I cannot in good conscience encourage people to become new users of Speak Freely nor developers to invest time in working on it, the entire state of the program as of the final release will remain available indefinitely on SourceForge as separate CVS archives for the Unix and Windows versions. I will make no further additions to these archives, but others are free to download them for their own private development purposes and/or create new projects on SourceForge to develop derivative programs in whatever form they like.

While I cannot in good conscience encourage people to become new users of Speak Freely nor developers to invest time in working on it, the entire state of the program as of the final release will remain available indefinitely on SourceForge as separate CVS archives for the Unix and Windows versions. I will make no further additions to these archives, but others are free to download them for their own private development purposes and/or create new projects on SourceForge to develop derivative programs in whatever form they like.

While I cannot in good conscience encourage people to become new users of Speak Freely nor developers to invest time in working on it, the entire state of the program as of the final release will remain available indefinitely on SourceForge as separate CVS archives for the Unix and Windows versions. I will make no further additions to these archives, but others are free to download them for their own private development purposes and/or create new projects on SourceForge to develop derivative programs in whatever form they like.

This is one of the reasons I use SpamProbe. It uses two-word pairs.

steveha

No, it definitely looks like a Gnome or KDE theme (from what I've seen). FVWM95 looks like stock Windows 95, except the fonts are off a bit.

I've got an MSDN subscription at my company, so I was installing and using SFU for awhile. Other posters have noticed that SFU's version of grep is slow, though, so I did a bit of research and I've taken to installing the Win32 ports of the GNU utilities also. There's a SourceForge project called UnixUtils that ships a bunch of them in either a zip file (unzip to %systemroot%\system32\) or as a binary installer. They work natively within cmd.exe, so there's no need to use a separate shell as SFU does.

It is missing a few things, but between grabbing SFU for its commands like ls and cp, and the unixutils package, you get the best of both worlds.

I enjoy using the Win32 ports of some gnu utilities found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.

I thought about using the MS SFU, but didn't want to pony up $99. Now that it's free... maybe.

Can anyone shed some light on how they compare? I use mostly gawk, sed, grep, and general sh scripting.

Thanks!

• S3 Virge
• S3 Savage IX/MX
• Trident video (VLB & PCI)
• Matrox Millenium & Gx00 cards
• ATI Mach64*
• SiS 3xx/Xabre*
• nVidia TNT/GeForce*
• nVidia GeForceFX*

• S3 Virge
• S3 Savage IX/MX
• Trident video (VLB & PCI)
• Matrox Millenium & Gx00 cards
• ATI Mach64*
• SiS 3xx/Xabre*
• nVidia TNT/GeForce*
• nVidia GeForceFX*

to quote the author, he "will never" release the source code. At least with a big company like Microsoft you've got some security that they're not going to suddenly shutdown -n and disappear. But if you're planning to invest your eggs in SkyOS as anything more than a toy, you're doing so without security, much like how BeOS users had with an OS from a small company.

SkyOS is receiving tons of attention. Whereas Syllable, which is being developed openly, under the GPL, and at a faster rate, is not. And why? Maybe because SkyOS's website burns through ~35gb of screenshot bandwidth per month, or its geekcooler or something. But it isn't fair to compare this project with Linux in 1991. Linus liberalised his licence from what it was originally to make it freer for others to use for their own purposes. Whereas SkyOS was relicenced and has withdrawn source-code availability with the de facto promise to "never" release it again.

I'm glad to hear it. Meet Syllable.

POPFile, the spam-filter software I use, has support for that built-in, you can specify manual mail-filter rules that will be applied instead of the bayes filter for matching messages.

I don't use it, though, as the regular filter seems to be doing an acceptable job without manual intervention.

--
Benjamin Coates

From their FAQ:

Can I use Morphix as a easy Debian Installation CD?
Yes, its one of the quickiest way of getting a Debian Linux systems installed.

There is an icon on the desktop for every GUI-based mainmodule. Try it, and follow the questions!

For screenshots:
check the Gallery, or
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/drupal/Morphix/s cree nshots

The installer is also available in the Morphix submenu. In LightGUI 0.3-6 the icons have been deactivated, but the submenu can be accessed via the submenu next to BabyTux, or mascotte :)

From their FAQ:

Can I use Morphix as a easy Debian Installation CD?
Yes, its one of the quickiest way of getting a Debian Linux systems installed.

There is an icon on the desktop for every GUI-based mainmodule. Try it, and follow the questions!

For screenshots:
check the Gallery, or
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/drupal/Morphix/s cree nshots

The installer is also available in the Morphix submenu. In LightGUI 0.3-6 the icons have been deactivated, but the submenu can be accessed via the submenu next to BabyTux, or mascotte :)

That'd be Syllable. Syllable is cooler than SkyOS anyway...

Certainly it is. And for those who use high-ASCII or UNICODE, it isn't a valid technique. That doesn't mean that it isn't a valid technique for the millions of people who don't use anything outside the normal ASCII characters.

I use POPFile, which is a perl Baysean filter. It works quite well even with spam which includes garbled words. I haven't tried playing with it yet, but it seems like it would be relatively straightforward to check for the number of words which are not already in its dictionary. Aftern the initial training, an email with more than a few new words is highly likely to be garbled spam (or from someone who received a new Thesaurus for Christmas.)

whether it would not be easier to simply install a debian system from scratch and change the settings myself.

For a local system doing the clean install is fairly straightforward. The place I see this having the most value (for me at least) is converting the ubiquitous RedHat virtual host to Debian. It can be done without a tool like this (see here), but it's a PITA (particularly if there's only two partitions - setting up the Debian migration install in the swap partition is a hassle).

{,/usr}/sbin -> /Systems/Applications
{,/usr}/lib -> /Systems/Libraries
{,/usr}/bin -> /Applications

Would be nice if this catch on within the rest of the Un*x world. AFAIK so far the ROX Desktop is the only non-NEXTSTEP/OSX system implementing this concept. I wonder how version dependencies would be handled though. Perhaps /Libraries/Libname/v.xx/blah?

I seem to recall an alternative to Fink that provides OSX-style .app bundles for Unix apps, but the project name escapes my mind at the moment.

Gaim has a well working implementation of Yahoo authorization. There was yet another one claiming to be complete posted to the mailing list this week, that I don't think got accepted. Why not just port one rather than reinvent the wheel?

main()
{
printf("Jorkapp is a programmer");
main();
}

a centralized server to handle all the requests

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messenger client like Trillian incase you didn't realize that. The servers are provided by ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, etc. Gaim is just an actively developed open source client to them all.

There is a flavour of Gaim that runs on Qtopia by the way, so a Palm port wouldn't be too far off the mark I don't think.

a centralized server to handle all the requests

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messenger client like Trillian incase you didn't realize that. The servers are provided by ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, etc. Gaim is just an actively developed open source client to them all.

There is a flavour of Gaim that runs on Qtopia by the way, so a Palm port wouldn't be too far off the mark I don't think.

Your page contains malformed HTMl. You have to put a semicolon after < or it won't (and shouldn't) work in most browsers.

As for your filter, it's inherently unscalable for several reasons.

1) Some of your phrases are found in legitimate emails. Certainly plenty of non-spammy emails, such as receipts (these are really hard to deal with) and legit mailing lists, would get caught by this. I've sent plenty of mails that match your patterns. For instance, s=splhigh(); {critical region} splx(s);. Also, I've sent messages which say "If you have received this in error", (plain text) mails discussing javascripts, and mails refering to spam and viruses.

2) The non-domain regexes will be obfuscated in most spam anyway; see the article.

3) An automated process for harvesting domain names would suck. You'd have to watch out for good names getting put on there by mistake, etc. So you have to enter it all by hand.

Rather than calling a message certain spam if it has one of these phrases, it should only be marked as probably spam. Which is exactly what a Bayesian filter does.

I use CRM114, which does Bayesian phrase analysis and white/black listing. Instead of working with words, it uses phrases up to 5 words long, including phrases that skip a word. Its tokenizer (the weakest part of any spam filter, but in this case the easiest to edit because most of it is in a script) is pretty good, and no spam has gotten through it in half a year, and only a few false positives (mostly receipts). I don't get much spam in the first place, but this is still pretty impressive. The downside of CRM114 is that its data files are huge and it can sometimes be piggish on memory and CPU. This might preclude its use in huge domains, but for a few dozen it should be no big deal.

aRts was supposed to be a sound server for KDE. GStreamer is far from that, it's a multimedia framework - that's one level higher. aRts failed to be a proper sound server, precisely because it was designed to be - guess what: a realtime softsynth. JACK, on the other hand, IS a soundserver.

The computer is not just a browser, office suite and MP3 player.