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Usually webmin would be the best bet, but they don't seem to have a Wake on Lan module yet.

I suppose you can take one of the hundreds of perl WOL scripts and pretty easily(though not completely pain free Google: "perl wake on lan"), issue a WOL command.

Simply install this QuickTime compoment.

And it's "Vorbis" audio. "Ogg" is just the container format.

Hi,

They've already started a project for this at http://mod-torrent.sourceforge.net/

Done, by accident.

The ISPs specifically mentioned on the mailing list I was talking about were Comcast, NTL (England, Ireland, Wales) and CFaith.

One guy thinks maybe buried in the Comcast legalese it says "unlimited access" means access at any time, but not for an unlimited length of time.

I've never received any complaints myself, but as an avid DC++ user I am waiting for it to happen and wondering what the highest odds outcome is if I ignore the warning.

You're probably looking for surfraw

I realize this is a bit offtopic but does anyone know how I can pitch shift mp3s in realtime? Is there something comparable for Macs?

Is it open source? I wish there was more adult open-sores software. UBH running from cron is what I use currently to automate porn consumtion, but I'm sure there are tons of other opportunities....

I don't know about "realtime". Audacity is an interactive sound editor that, I believe, has a GUI pitch-shifter. PDL can certainly shift pitches on existing files (just fft, pad or clip, and fft back), but the interface is a little lower level than you seem to be looking for.

freedb.org haven't added a general purpose search to the cddbd server. It can only be searched by discid.

The full-text search is still labelled experimental in CVS, though the page at freedb.org doesn't warn about that anymore.

I've chosen to download the database to a local server and tweak the server code (in C-- I'm nowhere with Perl) to allow full-text searches. I ripped about 30 CDs with EAC before I knew how to set the tagging options right so I'm missing track numbers.

freedb.org haven't added a general purpose search to the cddbd server. It can only be searched by discid.

The full-text search is still labelled experimental in CVS, though the page at freedb.org doesn't warn about that anymore.

I've chosen to download the database to a local server and tweak the server code (in C-- I'm nowhere with Perl) to allow full-text searches. I ripped about 30 CDs with EAC before I knew how to set the tagging options right so I'm missing track numbers.

On the other hand, even a rabid Media Center fan like me has to admit that nothing else comes close to the iTunes+iTMS combination for buying music online.

But since I've switched to only downloading free music that's not too big an issue for me.

Fuck perl, just use EasyTag

Nullsoft's privacy policy is listed here.

Why would you want to use your audio player to encode, and encode to mp3s at that? Get the right tool for the job, CDex to make ogg, flac, or even mp3 if you so desire. And you can go to RareWares to obtain updated dll files for encoding via CDex. I don't see any problem with a Pro version so long as necessary functionality from a media player isn't taken out.

first of all, that is GNU/emacs. Second of all, did it ever occur to anyone that a text editor should be used for editing text. It should not give you html tags. it should not color your code. it should just display what you wrote. next thing you know we'll be seeing GNU/Clippy. "it looks like you're designing a web page. it looks like you're designing a web page." wtf. text editors should not be made up of over a million lines of code. what happened to the good old days of vi. screw RMS, he should have stuck with compilers.

The GNU/Clippy? Well, it is not afaik available for emacs, but it is for vi, vim, and xmms... It is GPL so you can always port it if you wish... :)

And just so Python isn't left out...here's one for Python!

At the risk of shameless promotion, check out Star Control: Timewarp, downloads are here. It runs on Windows and Linux, and can support up to 8 people at a time in hot-seat multiplayer (on the same computer with keyboard and joysticks). You can also play with two computers on the internet or LAN. There's a lot of cool ships and game modes, similar to the fun and excitement of melee fights from Star Control 1, 2 and 3.

This game is a lot of fun, it's open source, it's Linux friendly, and it's Star Control, baby! Check it out!

Go look at Voodoo Chat. I know of several sites that run it. It allows for moderators, kicking / banning users, and user profiles. It works pretty well, IMHO.

MCH

It's nice to know you can do this, and I've used the modules referenced for custom fixes. But don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to: EasyTag probably does 90% of what you would write something custom for.

MP3 is patented, and the patent holder is not willing to license encoders on royalty-free terms.

Then how do these guys let you rip to MP3 for free?

Konspire2b looks like a better option than BitTorrent for distributing news. You could have a channel mapping to an RSS feed and just wait for the news to come to you. No polling intervals and low bandwidth requirements for the operator. With BitTorrent you still have to poll for updates and this removes that requirement.

Improved XPilot

The first version of Xpilot was ready in 1991 and it was split into a server and a client in 1993 to facilitate internet play. See The Story of XPilot.

Fortunately the developers of XPilot were clever (or lucky) enough to separate the model and the view into the server and the client, respectively. Since the the model resides in the server exclusively, a client can't break the 'physical laws' of the game, which unfortunately is possible by clients of some other games.

An additional benefit of the strong separation of model and view is that players are not influenced by other players network latency (lag), since the server is aware of all the players positions and current action (e.g. key press/mouse click). In relation to the server, clients merely act as 'dumb terminals', sending input events from the user to the server and displaying info it receives from the server as graphics in the game window.

The downside of this is of course that 'locals' get an (unfair) advantage over 'lagged' players by receiving information earlier and thus are able to act faster.

The XPilot client is very configurable and it's easy to change it to display as much graphics as one prefer or one's system can handle. Since the client (and server) is open source, you can even (easily) change it to display information differently from 'official' versions, or synthesize information to 'enhance' your client, but still you can't break any of the game's (server's) physical laws by 'hacking' your client ;-)

Watch videos of almost *any* kind in Media Player Classic (MPC) -- best app I've used in a long time!

MPC

It runs on Linux and Windows and supports nifty themes.

http://www.zinf.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinf/

Nothing that a nice copy of CDex can't fix.

It's more of a chat system, than simply a chat room.

Code http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethereal-realms/
Website: http://ethereal-realms.org

And yes, it's released under the GPL

The OSI approved SleepyCat license is used with a number of software projects including XAO Apache Web Services and the very widely used dual licensed Berkeley DB software products. The WayBackMachine has a WinterSpeak interview from 2001 with Sleepycat President & CEO, Michael Olson on How to make money with the GPL ...

Berkeley DB is embedded in network infrastructure products like routers and switches, DNS and Web content caches, email servers and clients, ... Companies like Cisco, Sun, HP, IONA, Amazon and Sendmail use Berkeley DB. Open source projects like Cyrus, Squid, RPM, Postfix, and MySQL include it.

The OSI approved Reciprocal Public License (RPL) while used infrequently is reportedly more viral than GPL, actually extremely viral per Technical Pursuit which dual licenses Tibet potentially requiring payment under TPL Biz licensing when not in compliance with RPL.

Are there other projects, licensing & circumstances of note that might be similarly surprising or problematic to OSS/FS users ???

The OSI approved SleepyCat license is used with a number of software projects including XAO Apache Web Services and the very widely used dual licensed Berkeley DB software products. The WayBackMachine has a WinterSpeak interview from 2001 with Sleepycat President & CEO, Michael Olson on How to make money with the GPL ...

Berkeley DB is embedded in network infrastructure products like routers and switches, DNS and Web content caches, email servers and clients, ... Companies like Cisco, Sun, HP, IONA, Amazon and Sendmail use Berkeley DB. Open source projects like Cyrus, Squid, RPM, Postfix, and MySQL include it.

The OSI approved Reciprocal Public License (RPL) while used infrequently is reportedly more viral than GPL, actually extremely viral per Technical Pursuit which dual licenses Tibet potentially requiring payment under TPL Biz licensing when not in compliance with RPL.

Are there other projects, licensing & circumstances of note that might be similarly surprising or problematic to OSS/FS users ???

I've been playing this game since my final year of college. If your office is full of Tetris fans, then load this on your workstations and have fun.

Quadra homepage

even tenebrae should run reasaonably on those machines from the sound of things...

Marathon (now known as Aleph One) was a fantastic multi-player FPS from the time of Doom. This was a Mac-only game that we played in a lab with typically 4-6 people at the same time, and it was a blast. Mostly just straightforward fragging fun (before "frag" was a word). It ran very well on the first Powermacs (66MHz machines), so it should just squeak by with the P4/1.7GHz.

Armagetron is also a very good networked game. I don't know about commercial games since I can't afford them, nor pirate in order to support Linux gaming ;P.

Armagetron is a networkable, 3D light cycle game, as seen in Tron the movie. Check it out at http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/. Latest version even supports Internet multiplayer!

> I just wanted to point out that you are wrong about the license issue.

And so are you...

GTK is LGPL
Qt is trilicensedGPL on X11 and OSX (not Linux) (licensed under the GPL, the QPL, and the Qt Commercial License)

Qt is uni-licensed under Windows (commercial), although a rapidly evolving port of Qt/x11 to native GDI exists on windows.

Gnocatan, the Gnome 2 settlers of catan clone, is a lot of fun.

there are two versions:
The original xpilot
improved xpilot

If you were a fan of scorched earth then scorched3d shouldn't disapoint. link

Try few free (of cost) games:

strategy

FreeCiv - new version was just released, FreeCiv is not as good as Civ3 in single player, but it's very playable in mp

TEG - if you want simple strategy (it's risk clone)

lgeneral - panzer general clone

action

RTCW ET - IMHO best team action game

Cube - simple multiplayer FPS, with nice graphics

Armagetron - 3D tron implementation

sport

CannonSmash - table tennis simulation

foobillard- billard simulation

misc

Scorched 3D - scorch (or for younger slashdot users: worms) clone

Try few free (of cost) games:

strategy

FreeCiv - new version was just released, FreeCiv is not as good as Civ3 in single player, but it's very playable in mp

TEG - if you want simple strategy (it's risk clone)

lgeneral - panzer general clone

action

RTCW ET - IMHO best team action game

Cube - simple multiplayer FPS, with nice graphics

Armagetron - 3D tron implementation

sport

CannonSmash - table tennis simulation

foobillard- billard simulation

misc

Scorched 3D - scorch (or for younger slashdot users: worms) clone

Try few free (of cost) games:

strategy

FreeCiv - new version was just released, FreeCiv is not as good as Civ3 in single player, but it's very playable in mp

TEG - if you want simple strategy (it's risk clone)

lgeneral - panzer general clone

action

RTCW ET - IMHO best team action game

Cube - simple multiplayer FPS, with nice graphics

Armagetron - 3D tron implementation

sport

CannonSmash - table tennis simulation

foobillard- billard simulation

misc

Scorched 3D - scorch (or for younger slashdot users: worms) clone

Try few free (of cost) games:

strategy

FreeCiv - new version was just released, FreeCiv is not as good as Civ3 in single player, but it's very playable in mp

TEG - if you want simple strategy (it's risk clone)

lgeneral - panzer general clone

action

RTCW ET - IMHO best team action game

Cube - simple multiplayer FPS, with nice graphics

Armagetron - 3D tron implementation

sport

CannonSmash - table tennis simulation

foobillard- billard simulation

misc

Scorched 3D - scorch (or for younger slashdot users: worms) clone

The idea of XML-based interface definition has been around well before XAML. There are a ton of XML user interface languages around: http://xul.sourceforge.net/. Hell, Mozilla is built around it: http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul

PS Doom

as a long time player of Asheron's Call 1, I can say I really am a fan of Turbine

they have a community oriented live development team, in fact, many of the developers came from the AC fanbase

AC has a thriving 3rd party development community, and while Turbine/MS doesn't officially support 3rd party apps, they're unoffically very supportive, and more developers have originated from that community

And I just hope Plex86 (or some other similiar OSS project) evolves and supports multiple OS:es soon. An open source alternative would be nice.

Add the unstable repositories from the KDE for Red Hat project to /et/apt/sources.list. Do an 'apt-get update && apt-get ugrade', restart X and you should be off like a prom dress.

Although now that I think about it, I'm not sure if they have RPMs built yet. Go poke around their ftp server or wait a couple days and check. But I can say with 100% certainty that using apt (yum) and their repositories is by far the easiest way of getting a new verion of KDE on a /Red Hat|Fedora/ box.

-B

One Word fluxbox, its quick it looks nice and on a P-133 doesn't take all day to load.
You can get it here

Good points - I'll admit that exporting Eclipse across a LAN is perfectly fine, but over a 144 ISDN link from home it's a lot more problematic. I'd argue that a lot of it depends on your work habits, though. In your coffee shop example, I'd certainly have a current version of my dev environment on my laptop, so no need for a mad dash back to the office, and no need for network activity except to interact with the source control system.

Now, if you could get Eclipse running with Cursed GTK, then maybe you'd have something you'd consider usable from a performance perspective. From other perspectives, you might have a different reaction :-)

Everybody loves free stuff. Once people find out that opensource software is just as good/better than proprietary software, we are doing good. There needs to be a major push starting with educators and librarians on the benefits of opensource software. If there are any teachers/librarians reading this, please make software like this available to your students! What about mass distributing open source software akin to the mass mailings of AOL CD-ROMS?

I can state without reservation that the open source tools you mention (MRTG/RRD, OpenNMS) are mediocre to the point of unusability.

Can't say anything about OpenNMS, but I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of Cricket. Scales well, and the configuration isn't too bad once you get past the initial learning curve. Uses RRDs for sample storage. I'm in the process of phasing out MRTG in favor of Cricket at the ISP I run.