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I think they're just enabling MD5 on the BGP sessions. It's already specified in RFC 2385 - Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option. It's basically a $600k program to manage the logistics of turing this on. I do give props for Network World for making a mundane task 5 whole pages.

I prefer RFC 2541. The Mark 1 Air Gap is still the gold standard of security.

To be fair "physically inaccessible" shows that they sort of get it, but they wrap it up in so many buzzwords that it'll never get implemented.

I actually kind of split between using the xCode editor and VIM

I've always worked in Emacs (yeah, it is more an OS than an editor) using the JDEE plugin that provides full support for Ant.

Recently I thought about pulling together a flash stick with a list of tools I use but wanted to be able to run regardless of the host I plugged into. I considered various scripting languages like TCL, PERL and Python, and decided to find what Java tools were available. I figured I was likely to find a JRE installed on a machine (maybe not a JDK though).

I grabbed Netbeans as it can be installed on a thumb drive because you can define relative paths in configuration file (except for custom defined libraries which are all fixed path??) and some other tools.

I configured Ant on the drive as well.

Netbeans works fine, a reasonable tool. On the rare occasions I've needed a GUI painter it works well, though defaults to a Java 6 layout manager (Group) so you have to be careful. But the debug support is what I really liked.

I used it for a while (and tried Eclipse) but could never get the hang of it controlling everything, so I installed a Windows Emacs build and Linux Emacs (static) build on my thumb drive and configured either a .bat or .sh file to launch that would setup the pathing to the .emacs file.

Granted I can't use it on OS X unless I get a different binary, but this works for me because once you have the Emacs binary, all you need is the LISP files for your programming.

YMMV, but I found that just getting the editor I have worked with for years available on multiple hosts was worth more than a cross platform IDE.

The way most people keep up to date on network news is through subscription to a number of mail reflectors (also known as mail exploders). Mail reflectors are special electronic mailboxes which, when they receive a message, resend it to a list of other mailboxes. This in effect creates a discussion group on a particular topic. Each subscriber sees all the mail forwarded by the reflector, and if one wants to put his "two cents" in sends a message with the comments to the reflector.

You know, I don't see anyone following this RFC. So, as it stands, it seems these RFCs aren't always adhered to.

No, in fact, you are missing the point. People have lots of reflexes. Having a reflex is not the same as being able to perform a task that depends on that reflex. They most certainly do not have a reflex for breastfeeding...They have a reflex for suckling, which is not the same thing at all.

As you are clearly speaking from zero experience, and just as clearly, have never breastfed anything, I'm going to treat your Wikipedia knowledge with the contempt it deserves, doubly so, because you didn't even bother to look up the correct article. Read down to the "Conditions that interfere with breastfeeding" section, then have a nice big glass of STFU on me.

I suggest you inform yourself before you talk to an actual girl.

Linux Documentation Project ~ Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition ~ Linux Newbie Administration Guide ~ LinuxCommand.org ~ Linux From Scratch ~ FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages for Red Hat 9

There've been discussions here and here.

The idea is to load services in parallel, and replace the ancient Init system. Windows NT supposed does this; still, it's no match for a hand-tuned minimal init system, such as this or this. I tried this back in 2003, and had my desktop open in a maximum of 5 seconds. Bios ~1 sec, Kernel load time ~ 1 sec, Services+GUI ~3 secs. This was on a 1Ghz Celeron, with 128MB RAM. It also helped that I was running Sawfish, with no desktop widgets(no menus, toolbars, anything). Just a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to launch the apps I used. I stopped installing any new distros after that - none of them could offer a better user experience than what I had. It also helps in gaining a better understanding of your system - what are each services used for, how to do file system recovery, and esoteric details.

This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but maybe...

http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/woc1/?PHPSESSID=11 cac8f0a67d00d32c3f73b81a592429

Surely you mean saves you having to write code that is required, but pretty bog standard, like the basic structure of a class definition etc...

I'm a digital artist. I use gimp.app on a G4 Mac mini running OS X Tiger. The current download of gimp.app is universal, so it should work on an Intel Mac. Apple X11 is required. Install it from the Tiger installation DVD. Easily done.

I launch Apple X11 and then launch Gimp. This never fails.

There are tutorials and a discussion forum at the Gimp User Group. That said, I plan to buy the book.

Gimp's inscrutability is half the fun for me. I experiment with the controls. Things happen.

Gimp isn't the only art software in my toolchest. Corel Painter IX.5 is the best paint program that I use. There's also an old academic version of Photoshop 6 on the Classic layer.

It's silly to limit oneself as an artist to just one program.

What does rfc4291 know anyway. Everybody knows that RFC 2470 is where it's at.

Also worth mentioning (and related) is the Java Development Environment for Emacs, which makes analysing and traversing a large Java project a whole lot easier, with integrated class management, wizards, skeletons for creating classes and javadoc comments. You can get JDEE from its homepage.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

• Charging for QoS without making some arrangement to make sure that QoS will be honored throughout the network.
• Implimenting QoS based on Source not Protocol

• Charging more for raw bandwidth after Implimenting QoS.
• Charging more for QoS rated bandwidth based on protocol.

Why not just bundle OpenOffice.org and a couple other free applications with the CD?

Now that I have a chance to painlessly dip into the Windows world, what I'd like to ask you is, what Windows software amazes you?


http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.theopencd.org/
http://osscd.sunsite.dk/
http://www.winlibre.com/en/index.php



Enjoy.

but it still doesn't approach Photoshop's ease of use or flexibility.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. I suppose pointing out "Layers->Colors->Curves" isn't going to do any good, either, is it? I mean, what the hell is this? Are you people forced to use a computer with your hands cuffed behind your back or something? Right-click. That's what the right mouse button is for. Explore *every* submenu, in order. Open a test image and run *every* menu entry on it. You don't even need to open this free book or read any of my tutorials or read anybody else's tutorials. Everything's right there. If you don't like it, don't use it, but stop insisting that all the functions don't exist. It's dumb. You have just as much access to Google as anybody else, presuming you don't live in China. And then people wonder why we get frustrated.

As I've said before, I'm *dying* to see Photoshop ported. So *Adobe* can deal with you people instead of we GNU/Linux users.

Look what he had to say to the GimpShop guy - http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=2721 - heaven forbid somebody try and improve on his oh-so-holy project!

Yes, it is HIS project, but the second you GPL the code, it's out of your hands and flaming people for trying to do something new with your idea is petty. You aren't by any means required to provide support to the forks (I'm sure he has no love for the FilmGIMP/CinePaint devs either), but a lack of civility makes your own project, nay, OSS at large, look like a giant group of elitist pricks.

I wrote this a while back, I seem to remember something about it not working right but don't remember what.
"I will cover updating loki_update, but this should apply to updating anything from Loki.

First, download the update file.
I did this with the command: wget ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/lokigames/updates/loki_up date/loki_update-1.0.12-x86.run
Make it executable, and then run it with the --keep paramater. This will create a directory named loki_update-1.0.12-x86. Enter that directory.
Get the version of loki_patch that works with newer versions of glibc from here.
Make sure you are in the new loki_update directory, and then replace the loki_patch in bin/Linux/x86/ with the loki_patch you just downloaded.
Now, just run update.sh and the update should proceed normally.

This has been tested with Tribes 2 in addition to loki_update. The only difference was that to completely update Tribes 2, you must install many patches in the order they were released. I used loki_update to show what patches needed to be installed, and then simply installed then with the method described above."
Basically you just need a binary that is compatible with your current glibc version. I'm sure there's a way to install an older glibc version and make the game use that instead, but I don't know how.

• Linux: Chrony. Works very well for dial-up when you not are connected all the time.
• Windows: NetTime. Although no longer an active project, this program still works perfectly and is in my opinion better than the "official" windows service.

This guide helped me greatly when I started out with Linux: Linux Newbie Guide. I didn't see it on your list. Ahh, I remember back when I started out and I had no idea how to install a program in Linux. I was like "WTF, what's the equivalent of a .exe???". This guide showed me the light. :)

My reply in length: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIMP INTERFACE. What YOU, the frustrated user need to do, is go find some documentation on it http://gug.sunsite.dk/docs/Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/ and perhaps join a forum or two http://gug.sunsite.dk/. If you don't see the howto or doc that addresses your problem, you need to ask about it in the forum. If the feature you ask for isn't there, ask if there's a script-fu extension that does that. If there isn't, well, somebody's just gonna have to write one, aren't they? Either learn script-fu and write it yourself, or patiently wait for somebody else to do it. Remember, in the open-source world, unless you're pretty wierd and your needs are that narrow, somebody else has already solved the problem which you are trying to solve.

My reply in brief: What the hell exists in the universe that is any kind of complicated at all that teaches itself to you? When pianos have interfaces that allow you to sit down your first time and play a concerto without your knowing anything about music at all, when a camera is invented with an interface that makes you look like a glamourous fashion model in every frame without your having to even bother combing your hair, when a stove is invented whose interface is designed so that we can all cook like Emeril Lagasse even if all we've ever done before is microwave burrittos, then we'll justify criticisms of Gimp's interface, thank you very much. As my sig says from time to time: "Stealth Bombers are more difficult to operate than tricycles BECAUSE THEY CAN FLY!"

My reply in length: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIMP INTERFACE. What YOU, the frustrated user need to do, is go find some documentation on it http://gug.sunsite.dk/docs/Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/ and perhaps join a forum or two http://gug.sunsite.dk/. If you don't see the howto or doc that addresses your problem, you need to ask about it in the forum. If the feature you ask for isn't there, ask if there's a script-fu extension that does that. If there isn't, well, somebody's just gonna have to write one, aren't they? Either learn script-fu and write it yourself, or patiently wait for somebody else to do it. Remember, in the open-source world, unless you're pretty wierd and your needs are that narrow, somebody else has already solved the problem which you are trying to solve.

My reply in brief: What the hell exists in the universe that is any kind of complicated at all that teaches itself to you? When pianos have interfaces that allow you to sit down your first time and play a concerto without your knowing anything about music at all, when a camera is invented with an interface that makes you look like a glamourous fashion model in every frame without your having to even bother combing your hair, when a stove is invented whose interface is designed so that we can all cook like Emeril Lagasse even if all we've ever done before is microwave burrittos, then we'll justify criticisms of Gimp's interface, thank you very much. As my sig says from time to time: "Stealth Bombers are more difficult to operate than tricycles BECAUSE THEY CAN FLY!"

1998 called. He wants his quippy line back.

You've got a piece of shit that has not fundamentally changed in ten years

XFree, init.d, etc. KDE and GNOME stopped innovating a few years ago and they're not trying to make themselves more relevant by adding panels and widgets to the same bloated codebase. In the meantime, installing a font on Linux is a nightmare. OS X is ahead of Microsoft and us by a mile. What's your excuse?

XFCE is innovating. There's a lot of innovation on the server side. Mono is (although a clone of a microsoft tech) extremely cool in ways Java never was. But it's not enough...

The greed heads and control freaks

http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=2721

Those in glass houses...

Looks like you need a vacation or something.

Here is a link to the complaints mentioned in the article. Apparently the lead developer of the Gimp didn't agree with a fork that would lead to a "terrible waste" of resources. Near the end, though, he seems to leave a door open for those changes to be contributed back to some degree.

Some of the reactions:

• "[Y]ou aren't doing anyone a favor by doing this. I'd appreciate if you kept your changes for yourself."
• "No, I won't help you. What you are up to is a horrible waste of time and resources."

OpenNTPD is EVIL. It "connects" to the NTP servers too often.

Consider using chronyd instead.

https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/pipermail/timekeepers/ 2005/000941.html
http://chrony.sunsite.dk/

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]

The interesting part is, that if read the HTTP specification, and then interpret accordingly, this string contains three product tokens and one comment. The product tokens are "Mozilla/4.0", "Opera", and "7.54". So actually it does not identify itself as MSIE, neither does IE. The [en] part is syntactically wrong, and really should have been part of a comment. Another mistake is that "Opera" and "7.54" are given as two different product names. Adjusting according to the specification, the user agent string should have been "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera/7.54 (en)"

I'm sure if you count what browsers really identify themselves as, Mozilla will be a clear winner. Mozilla, IE, and FireFox all identify themselves as Mozilla.

If the article had been named "Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as Mozilla", it would have been technically correct.

Six characters long? It's three in Emacs (sop) with abbrevations.

Code completion, I have found, is slower than knowing what the hell you are typing. And if you DO know what the hell you are typing, then code completion actually sucks quite hard because it interrupts you while you are typing something.

Eclipse is nice for some things, I like the auto-fixes and sometimes load code into Eclipse after I've spent a while actually writing in Emacs. But for actual code creation I still find Emacs to be a lot quicker because of its overall flexibility in a task at hand, between macros and abbreviations and user-defined functions.

As for that cool trick of "show me all the places my constructor is invoked" - well that's what the JDE Cross Referencer is for:

JDE includes a facility for creating and utilizing a cross-referencing database to enable you to quickly locate all the callers of any particular function. This functionality is very useful for quickly figuring how unfamiliar code works, and useful for doing certain tasks such as renaming functions. Be advised that this only finds direct callers, and cannot detect calls via Java's reflection mechanism. The cross-reference database must be kept in sync with the project code, however the database generation is generally quick. The remainder of this section explains how to configure and use the cross-referencer.

(from the JDE Users Guide)

Of course Eclipse has the same liability about not finding callers that are really invoking a constructor dynmically which is why people don't end up using such features all that much.

Eclipse is the way of the future though, it's nice to see a really strong generic IDE platform develop. I have no doubt someday some clever person will embed a fully functional Java version of the Emacs editor (no the keybindings alone are not enough) in Eclipse and then I'll be all set.

People who use IntelliJ seem to like it a lot better though, I have to say.

GUG - the GIMP User Group, derived from

GIMP - the GNU Image Manipulation Program, derived from

GNU - a recursive acronym for GNU's Not UNIX.

If you thought that was impressive, how about the HURD. HURD stands for "HIRD of Unix Replacing Daemons", and HIRD stands for "HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth". That's TWO MUTUALLY RECURSIVE ACRONYMS!

Yes, NASA are definitely behind the times.

Asking how they stack up is a bit of a biased question. Autopackage isn't meant to compete directly with RPM/DPKG or replace them, it's meant as a complement. They are designed for different things. For instance, a package of gnome-terminal makes no sense because that's a core part of the OS and autopackage is meant for third party applications. Capabilities RPM needs like auto-shlib-dep discovery are done differently in autopackage and vice-versa.

Asking how they stack up is a bit of a biased question. Autopackage isn't meant to compete directly with RPM/DPKG or replace them, it's meant as a complement. They are designed for different things. For instance, a package of gnome-terminal makes no sense because that's a core part of the OS and autopackage is meant for third party applications. Capabilities RPM needs like auto-shlib-dep discovery are done differently in autopackage and vice-versa.

If you're trying to convince your organization to switch to open-source offerings, it's easier to bring up an integrated solution such as, "We can switch to the Mozilla Suite" than to have to sell three or four different projects like, "We can switch to K-Meleon for browsing, Trillian for IM, Thunderbird for email," etc.

I see nothing wrong in offering three or four different projects -- especially since that's how it all works anyway. A GNU/Linux system is composed of thousands of little projects. Windows, too, is based on lots of smaller programs. Normally, of course, these are all included simultaneously in the same O/S "package" (by that I mean the installation CD, not an individual RPM or whatever package), but if that's the problem, I'd suggest checking out the Open CD.

For that matter, I would be more cautious about switching to one mega-program that replaces five or six of my current programs simultaneously, since that affects a larger part of my desktop in a shorter amount of time. Better to switch out one component at a time and get used to one at a time instead, if you ask me.

Just because you hate Sun don't diss the real contributions they make to Linux by paying for engineers to contribute significantly to Gnome, X, and all the other stuff most Linux users depend on every day.

They don't seem to be too shy about stepping up to the plate when the need arises either.

I can tolerate a little mud slinging from Sun's management as long as they put their money where their mouth is.

The Open Source Software CD

Also included is a mini-golf game using the same graphics and engine : neverputt
Find them there : http://icculus.org/neverball/#download Note you will need a DLL if running winXP without service pack, but i cant recall the name (easy to find via google)

Maybe a billard game such as foobillard would be suitable ? Of course, this means you'll lack a bit of the "advanced" features such as ball spin, etc., but it could just be fine.
find it here : http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/

Maybe you would be interrested, if you type with Dasher, or any other quick typing method, to try out some roleplaying forums (fora?)

Good luck, don't hesitate to send message if you want me to inform you when i find more suitable games.

What kind of fantasy land are you living in? Sure, if you are willing to dick about all day with apt pinning and use outdated software, maybe you can avoid it. It's a bit of a mission.

But if you want to use the latest versions of things, even if you use Debian you'll have to compile sometimes. Check out the users on the Ubuntu lists bitching about how Inkscape 0.41 just missing the upstream version freeze. Check out Fyre, a cool app for generating images from de Jong maps - note the lack of a Debian package. On Fedora far more software is not in the repositories than is.

Blind fanboyism won't get us anywhere. Even if the best case scenario, which right now probably means Ubuntu, there are serious problems with desktop software installation on Linux.

There is a lot of interest in solutions from users, developers and commercial ISVs (eg LSB/OSDL member companies). There are a few projects experimenting with new approaches, check out my own: autopackage, or Thomas Leonards Zero-Install.

In particular if you want to test Fyre, try the autopackage I made of it: Fyre 0.10svn. Both Fyre and autopackage aren't quite version 1.0 yet, but both are very close.

That build needs GTK 2.4. I have a build locally I will upload soon that adapts to the GTK features available at runtime (using relaytool) and therefore only needs GTK 2.2, but can still use the new file selectors and other features if they're available at runtime.

emacs is highly productive for java - just see http://jdee.sunsite.dk/ -

Emacs was an IDE before the term "IDE" was invented, godammit.

Won't Free applications and even entire Free operating systems continue to support machines that have Treacherous Computing turned off?

Are cheap, easy to setup and mantain, highly flexible and very cost-effective.

Depending on what you're planning to do, you can use any of the several VPN implementations out there, just to name a few:

* PoPToP, a PPTP server, compatible with the VPN client that Windows has always has,
* vpnd, really easy to set up, ideal gw to gw VPN solution, seems a little outdated but works great over slow links,
* OpenVPN, a highly portable, flexible and multiplatform VPN solution, which supports gw to gw and gw to host style VPNs,
* etc. There is also LinVPN, FreeS/WAN / Openswan, et al

Best regards.

EAC is an audio grabber for CD-ROM drives

Anything from Systernals

Anything from AnalogX

Anything from GNU Win II

Anything from TheOpenCD

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ is what you want.

A cd full of good and open source software, a must!

The cd includes
From the page:

* OpenOffice 1.1.3
* AbiWord 2.2.1
* PDFCreator 0.8

Design

* GIMP 2.0.5
* Blender 2.35a
* Dia 0.94
* TuxPaint 0.9.14

Internet/Networking

* FireFox 1.0
* Thunderbird 1.0
* Mozilla suite 1.7.3
* Gaim 1.1.0
* Filezilla 2.2.9
* TightVNC 1.3dev6
* WinHTTrack 3.32-2

Multimedia

* Audacity 1.2.3
* Celestia 1.3.2
* CDex 1.51

Utilities

* 7-zip 3.13
* Notepad2 1.0.12

* SciTE 1.62

Games

* Sokoban 1.187
* Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.8
* Lbreakout 2.4.1

in this order . .
http://nonags.com/
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm
http://www.doom9.org/ (click on the download button on the left)
http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/
http://www.komando.com/shareware_index.asp
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best.htm

Do I need to mention sourceforge and freshmeat?

Not sure if http://skype.com/ is listed in the above lists - it is surely worth mentioning but sometimes requires a USB headset purchase to tweak it, which is well worth the expense since this software often rivals Vonage service in quality when calling pots lines (non-free) and blows away anything when calling pc to pc (free).

http://grouper.com/

http://www.ultravnc.com/ is almost always my preference over tightvnc.

Realplayer is not that bad if it is tweaked - you have to look for the setting that disables automatic ownership of filetypes.

http://kerio.com/ is my firewall preference over ZoneAlarm and Sygate, although the windows xp built-in is is usable. Kerio keeps an eye on changing files via an md5 hash.

http://grisoft.com/, in most cases, would be my recommendation for AV software.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/ is great if you have the connection for it.

And if you want more free software then download emule.

um uh . . erase that last line

Personally, I've used theopencd in the past to do things like set up my sister's and father's computers to be a bit more idiot-proof, but I'll bookmark this one too.

Seriously speaking my desktop right now looks like a Full screen X0rg-cygwin + Fluxbox running - like this. With lots of Xterms and ssh logins :)

Have a look at http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/

firefox
putty
gimp
gvim

...Actually, just check out the openCD

That sums it up pretty well.

One thing that amuses me is sites that include the MD5 checksum on the download page. Yes, because if someone got in and changed the tarball, they sure wouldn't even bother updating that MD5 string at the same time! ;)

One such site is TheOpenCD's download page. See any md5sums for their iso's on anything but the mirrors themself? While projects like OpenOffice gets things done right.