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• Since it uses the Linux kernel NTFS support

• it's NTFS support is presumably as unstable as that in the Linux kernel (which claims to be quite immature). I didn't test it in deployment, but I didn't figure it was worth it. Some previous poster told me it worked for him, though.

• And he told it to me without being an ass about it. Learn some respect. Read the post before commenting, please.

• Since it uses the Linux kernel NTFS support

• it's NTFS support is presumably as unstable as that in the Linux kernel (which claims to be quite immature). I didn't test it in deployment, but I didn't figure it was worth it. Some previous poster told me it worked for him, though.

• And he told it to me without being an ass about it. Learn some respect. Read the post before commenting, please.

I'd be very glad if someone could point me to an encoding process where I can't hear the difference on that one, even on everyday equipment.

Developers might also want to check out Open SceneGraph which has the ability to automatically output your game/flight sim/visualisation project in stereo at the flick of an environment variable.

Yea, everyone is changing over to MUTE, using Bittorrent or Freenet.
That should screw up some stats!

MUTE protects your privacy, unlike other networks!
Get MUTE at:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

Folks looking for a decent spam filter should check out ASSP. It's a SMTP proxy written in perl. I've got it up and running on my MS Exchange server, but apparently it supports virtually any platform that supports Perl. It has a good web based interface that makes configuration a snap.

Yup, new tactics are being employed. For example, I built a nice private, encrypted peer-to-peer network using WASTE. Kazaa, and all the viruses/fake files/incorrectly named files/spyware/trojans are a distant memory. ;)

FSF claims, in their FAQ and the preamble to the LGPL, that any linking to a GPL library makes the whole program derived. However, they do not give reference to any statute or judicial interpretation that supports their statement. IMHO, linking does not necessarily make a derived work.

I decided to distribute my library (tkgeomap.sourceforge.net) under the GPL with some trepidation. It is a library, and I worried that FSF's statements about linking would scare away proprietary developers, who have helped me in the past. Then I noticed the GPL does not contain the word "link" anywhere in the license (just do a search). In my view, if your program falls on its face without my library, then it's a derived work. If your program is still functional without my library, and my stuff just adds some optional features, then your program is independent. For example, if you have a big database program that occassionally spits out latitudes and longitudes, and you add link in my library to draw some maps with them (that's its job), but your database program works fine without maps, then the database program is independent, and exempt from my distribution requirements. I would still require you to GPL any modifications TO MY WORK needed to enable the link, if any, but the main program is all yours. I would objectively say that if you can load and unload my library during runtime, you are independent. If the linking is static or startup-dynamic, there will be gray areas.

That's my opinion, which isn't backed up by statutes or precedents, either. All I can do is indicate circumstances under which I might make a complaint, which is how most legal boundaries are set, anyway. I hope open source does not become a bonanza for lawyers. Hopefully, developers who use other licenses and end up in the gray area will contact me, and if need be, I'll issue a license amendment to the effect of "Copyright holder of library A accepts that program B uses the library but is otherwise independent, and therefore exempt from the distribution terms of library A." Court is the last resort.

Already been done. Also, Morphix can fufill most of your other requests, although it's not point-and-click customizable quite yet.

Already been done. Also, Morphix can fufill most of your other requests, although it's not point-and-click customizable quite yet.

Try morphix, its knoppix without the kitchen sink, fits on most USB drives. I havn't used it pesonally, but i've heard good things.

I've used Knoppix on an old P200/128 ram and it worked fine. I eventually did a hdinstall of Knoppix so I would not need the CD anymore. My kids used it for months with no problems. I put Fedora on the same machine and it ran like a dog. I eventually went back to Knoppix.

I've also played around with Movix, Mandrake Move, and various other smaller live distros. I switched my $199 preinstalled Lindows machine from Walmart.com over to Mandrake based on my good experience with Move.

Being able to express unpopular topics or even matters deemed to be too taboo by a restrictive society and even being able to discuss them is what makes (semi-)anonymous systems such as Freenet and Mute so important these days.

I don't know Mute (will look it up now, thanks), but Freenet has its own moral dilemma, brought about because everybody has their own idea what constitutes free speech and what is allowable in a free society.

Consequently, I see many Freenet users (who generally support free speech) bemoaning the presence of child pornography (one of the biggest taboos out there, it seems) on the Freenet itself. Mashed together into one sentence it's actually funny: "Information should not be repressed, but the jerk who posted that should be shot."

From the article:

So if you want to figure out what we can't say, look at the machinery of fashion and try to predict what it would make unsayable. What groups are powerful but nervous, and what ideas would they like to suppress? What ideas were tarnished by association when they ended up on the losing side of a recent struggle? If a self-consciously cool person wanted to differentiate himself from preceding fashions (e.g. from his parents), which of their ideas would he tend to reject? What are conventional-minded people afraid of saying?

It'll be interesting to see what taboos are created as a result of an internal conflict...

solutions:

1. use lynx inside xterm and change the font of an xterm to change the width
2. add a new feature to whatever browser you're using: edit the stylesheet
3. like the previous but WYSIWYG: enter edit mode and drag the borders of html markup...

Being able to express unpopular topics or even matters deemed to be too taboo by a restrictive society and even being able to discuss them is what makes (semi-)anonymous systems such as Freenet and Mute so important these days. In a way, it's this centuries' way of doing what Hans and Sophie Scholl did in the 1940s.

Without freedom of though, freedom of expression and freedom of the press, conformity is pretty much the only way. Look at it this way - all great men (CEOs as well as philosophers, politicians; the list goes on) were special in their thinking or understanding of things. That's what made them truely stand out from the "regular" masses, and that's often what made them a success.

Being able to express unpopular topics or even matters deemed to be too taboo by a restrictive society and even being able to discuss them is what makes (semi-)anonymous systems such as Freenet and Mute so important these days. In a way, it's this centuries' way of doing what Hans and Sophie Scholl did in the 1940s.

Without freedom of though, freedom of expression and freedom of the press, conformity is pretty much the only way. Look at it this way - all great men (CEOs as well as philosophers, politicians; the list goes on) were special in their thinking or understanding of things. That's what made them truely stand out from the "regular" masses, and that's often what made them a success.

But... But...

Without rewriting the wheels we wouldn't have so many iTunes clones!

Don't buy Seagate's low end HDs, I have lots of trouble with them. Their high end IDE HDs(in a different series) and SCSI drives are okey. I don't like System Commander neither, another trouble maker. You may want to try Smart Boot Manager instaed. It's small(30k), OS independent, srable, and safe(based on my experience on a few machines). It can boot any partition with an OS loader installed(yes, even logical partitions), and, best of all, it also boots CD-ROM(even the slave!) and removable media. So there is no need to change boot sequence in BIOS any more. Oh, of course it's OSS and free. Good luck!

I'm not sure about the game, but the Cube engine looks good. There's also the Crystal Space engine.

If you know what you're doing with email, and use a statistical filter such as spamprobe (or SA/other bayesian) from procmail, consider joining the community wpbl experiment. This is essentially an IP blocklist built automatically, in real-time, from many statistical filters (no manual user action ). IPs from mail are automatically extracted, classified as spam or good by your bayesian filter, then reported to the central server 24 hours a day. This is not like spamcop.

IAX is firewall-friendly, just open port 5060 or 4569 for UDP traffic.

Precompiled binaries, screenshots, etc, for Win32 and Linux and Mac OS X are here

As another poster mentioned above, ohphone (the OpenH323 app) has been ported as part of the core of XMeeting. Check here for the ohphonex application.

How about combining IPchains, MythTV and/or Freevo with MisterHouse and some X10 equipment on a commodity $300 1.5-2 Ghz machine?

Fine, here is your link. Google is your friend.

The great thing about Bayesian filtering is that it's adaptive. So they would have to dramatically increase the rate at which they discover and use filter-killing tricks for this to work.

But I worry that eventually, some companies that advertise via spam will learn to speak in a human voice. Surely this is possible for some products or scams. Advertisements don't have to look like advertisements, especially if they are only trying to pique your interest in a product that you will then go buy (or vote for) offline.

Even you will have to read the message carefully to realize that it's unsolicited bulk email. In such cases, we can't expect good accuracy from Bayesian filters, and the message will take more of your time.

Basically, advertisers adapt. A parallel example: If we get too good at zapping TV commercials with our TiVOs, they'll switch to more insidious product placement in the shows, so that the commercials are indistinguishable from the content.

Collaborative spam-filtering methods like Vipul's Razor might hold more promise. But the character of spam could shift to evade these filters, too. Spam might eventually come to resemble a bigger form of junk snailmail, or telemarketing -- where there are lots more advertisers but each one does a better job of targeting to a smaller list of customers (thanks to database companies like Experian). By flying under the radar with smaller lists, an advertiser might be able to stay out of the database of known spams. (With a small list, few recipients may bother to report the spam, so you can't distinguish it from solicited bulk mail that has been accidentally or maliciously reported as spam by several people.)

In the long run, I think we have to solve spam in the email architecture. I've always thought hashcash was the most promising idea, and it is now being pursued at Microsoft Research. There are also more radical proposals like Tripoli.

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well there is this project at sf but it doesn't have anything than a bit of protocol discussion - this originated in this thread, but it has been stalled since November.

This being a standard protocol, these apps will communicate with each other. However, H.323 relies on UDP communication, which is always a problem with routers. Many routers (such as the 3Com OfficeConnect broadband router) come with built-in "NetMeeting support", ie. H.323 support.

Other applications I know about, but haven't tried: iVisit, Marratech, PictureTalk, vrvs (open source).

> but I don't believe that there's any {0|o}pen {S|s}ource
> SIP applications functional yet

Actually, I think KPhone is exactly along those lines.

...Apple Mail has done this since Panther came out. Emails can be viewed as threaded discussions.
I don't know this "Panther" thing (but then again, it's 4 years since I saw a Mac switched on), but when I started to use email and news (at home - we still aren't allowed to use it [officially] at work) I was using a system that treated email and news with exactly the same user interface. That was in 1992. I doubt that MS would be able to patent this, not that it'll stop them trying).
So 'Mutt' did this in the Ancient Days? Fine. Suits me. MS-Mutt will probably cost 20 times as much as GNU-Mutt in TCO, require a quad-Xeon instead of a 386sx-16 and run at 1/4 of the speed. But no way could anyone compete with MS on providing security patches!
BTW, the mail/ news system is Virtual Access, and is working it's way through the process of going Open Source (stripping out the 3rd-party libraries and code segments, that sort of stuff. IANAP.)

For example, iRATE Radio is a free (as in speech) downloader that fetches MP3s from websites that provide free, legal downloads. It uses collaborative filtering to learn your tastes and select songs based on the ratings of other users who like the same kind of music you do. iRATE's database of MP3 URLs has 46,000 tracks registered.

My article has a Creative Commons license. I urge you to copy and distribute it. In addition, I'm looking for help in translating it to languages other than english. The first such translation, to Romanian, was performed by an incredibly helpful fellow named Ciprian Mihet: Legaturi catre Zeci de Mii de Download-uri Legale de Muzica.

The article also discusses what you can do to make peer-to-peer filesharing of music legal. That's a realistic possibility, considering that more Americans share files with p2p apps than voted for George Bush in the last election.

That's why I want to get every US p2p user to read my article before the upcoming US elections, in November of this year. I want copyright reform - meaning much more than just the repeal of the DMCA - to be a central issue in the upcoming election.

As I recall, someone developed a plugin for Ogg Vorbis support in iTunes. Seemingly, the introduction of AAC should of done nothing to detour the popularity of .ogg. Of course WMA is a different story.

Okie dokie. So I assume you agree a javascript challenge/response system is sufficient to protect against a passive man in the middle attack (aka sniffing). SSL is sufficient for this as well.
Now, it is true such a system could be vulnerable to an active man in the middle attack, but the very same applies for SSL, as ettercap has shown.
Active man in the middle attacks are darn hard to prevent, and SSL alone is not sufficient to do it.

Not flaming here, but you may be comparing apples to oranges. You are complaining that /. reports every active Microsoft worm while it is out there, actively infecting multiple computers, but does not report every vulnerability affecting Linux machines. Slashdot doesn't tend to report new vulnerabilities affecting Windows, unless it comes as something spectacular, such as 6 high risk holes announced at once.

If you're reading security sites, then you're "doing it right", and that's what you need to focus on. You. I run Jay's IPTables Firewall. I occasionally check LinuxSecurity, but instead I usually visit their Packetstorm mirror and try out some of the latest exploits against my various machines just to see if I'm vulnerable. I also check CERT weekly, NIPC's Cybernotes biweekly, D-Shield and Incidents.org biweekly, and update Nessus and check my firewall biweekly. I don't have any open ports, so I rarely check for updated Snort rules. I do check my MRTG reports about once a day to see if an inordinately high amount of traffic is flowing through my firewall. There's so much that everyone should do all the time, that there's hardly enough time to complain about how much focus a web site places on reporting one OS'es actively exploited holes vs another OS'es potential vulnerabilities. In the time to read this, you could have been reviewing the Top 75 security tools and seeing where they fit in your environment, even if your environment is your house.

I agree. For people who want a free, open source solution which can make distributed off-site backups as large as you like with built-in encryption and error correction I recommend the Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS).

What you're looking for is Freenet.

Yup, you can download it right here.

You may want to check out RARS, a simulator framework in which you can write programs to run in a simulated auto race against other programs. I haven't messed with RARS in a while, but at the time I was using it, (IIRC) your driver was a C++ class that received a huge struct as a parameter and returned a small struct indicating the direction you wanted to steer and a number indicating gas/brake magnitude.

But what do I know -- my car could barely make it around the track without running into the wall.

The Aibo Kennel Club Robot AI Mind is one example of how primitive but evolving AI Minds are spreading outwards across the 'Net from the original Swarm-Hives.

These Robot AI Minds have the overriding advantage of being based on the (by default) most State-of-the-Art AI Mind Theory.

AI4U -- the foremost alternative AI textbook describes how to design and built these robot AI Minds.

The Cobalt software can be found at: open.CobaltQube.org and the ROM can be found at SourceForge.

...for the common man like STunnel, FreeSWAN, or OpenVPN, how long can it be before people are just using private networks between family and friends at home to do IM, P2P or even Windows File Sharing? I've moved in this direction already with my family and friends. All it took was a little of my time to set up SSH clients with Local and Remote forwards that my family and friends initiate connection to my server with. Then they just access the Jabber server I run or, the internal mail server using IMAP, or the recipe database I've created, etc... Since some of my friends and family are Windows bound, I've been able to get them to use the Exodus client for Jabber with cygwin SSH to communicate with me. We even share RDP and VNC sessions. So... what does this have to do with the article? I would argue that there are a good number of people out there doing more than just IM, P2P or web browsing and they are probably doing it via tunneling. It can't be long before this becomes a part of the OS (even for Windows) to allow people to share data in new and very secure/private ways. It's done wonders for the support I offer my friends and family too...

Yes, it is...

Try giFT. It connects to Gnutella, OpenFT, and FastTrack (Kazaa's network).

There's also a lot of different clients for it (even one designed to look like Kazaa. Personally I can't vouch for any of them except Apollon, as that's the only one I've tried, but it works great.

Try giFT. It connects to Gnutella, OpenFT, and FastTrack (Kazaa's network).

There's also a lot of different clients for it (even one designed to look like Kazaa. Personally I can't vouch for any of them except Apollon, as that's the only one I've tried, but it works great.

Maybe you should look at this. ASCII art still lives in Japanese BBS (now web-based, of course), as "Mona-art"

Maybe an even better idea is Pyro?

There should be a small, secure graphics driver in the kernel, with libraries or shims on top that implement virtual consoles, the framebuffer device, SVGAlib, X11 driver, etc. Oh wait... sounds like KGI. Too bad Linus flamed them to a crisp.

And now Linus says Linux on the desktop is 'the only part I care about'. I laughed out loud at that. Desktop = graphics, and graphics under Linux sucks big time.

A Google Search (dina tersago belgium) on a supermodel babe yields as it's first result, not a bunch of spam/pron sites, but a new Linux project ? WTF ? hehehe...

The project has a sourceforge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/davedina.

No files there, but the CVS is being used and you can get to the web CVS archive to look around via http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/davedina

The project has a sourceforge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/davedina.

No files there, but the CVS is being used and you can get to the web CVS archive to look around via http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/davedina