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I am not a Java Programmer (yet) and its just second time I was abt to use a Java Program on Linux.
Just followed their instructions for getting the Looking Glass up and Running and Yo!. That was a Fantastic Experience. Check out my Snapshots captured using KSnapShot tool when the looking Glass was running over the TWM Window Manager. This was on a Dell Optiplex Gx260 having onboard Intel845 Video Card running Fedora Core2. When it really gets full fledged, believe me, all the desktops is going to be like playing a 3D game. Whole new features and a good extension to the present desktops. So Sun, I forgot what the business-men are saying, Kudos for your Technology!!!

Hussein put himself in power long before we got involved.

You want lots of integration. Give it time; it will come. The free software world is made up of a bunch of unconnected projects; people add features on. One of these days, people will start adding the integration features. GNOME 2.x certainly has the plumbing for the sort of app-to-app communication you are wishing for; in fact, if you look at what the initials G-N-O-M-E stand for, it's the Network Object Model that will make this integration possible.

Read Miguel's famous rant "Let's Make UNIX not Suck".

As for how to train bogofilter which emails are spam, may I humbly recommend you read my own article on the Linux Journal web site:

Fight Spam with SpamProbe

I used SpamProbe but you can use the same approach to use BogoFilter.

steveha

You are so right.
This has been going on for years.
See this reference to a 1996 article to explain just why this has become so predictable.

Isn't it just so wonderfully convenient that this offer comes right as a large nation like India is considering teaching Linux in their schools.

The connections go wayback. Read Steven Levy's book Hackers about the origins of the hackers at MIT from the Tech Model Eailroad Club. Chapter here

What I'd like to point out is that many of these motivated students will try to learn about whatever system they're given even if the information isn't readily (legally) available... they'll hack and decompile to learn stuff on their own. The unfortunate consequence is that a group of talented, motivated and intelligent people are subtly encouraged to commit criminal acts to build their skills and learn more simply because the systems they are using are closed source. It's no wonder that the public has latched onto the idea that a hacker is a bad person.

Providing these promissing, budding software engineers with open source systems to learn on makes it much easier for them to learn much more information without forcing them to commit criminal acts. I think it makes a lot more sense to encourage the curious students to learn as much as they can and to hack away to improve systems rather than scold them, discourage them and ultimately lead them towards a state of mind that glorifies theft and cracking.

slogg vorbis is shit. Stop whining about your fucking audio codec that no one will ever fucking suport because no one wants it. MP3 is the standard and ogg will fade away into nothing.

Firstly, how can a codec that's gaining momentum "fade into nothing"? It's not mainstream now, but neither were computers, UNIX, digital audio, etc.

Second, more and more companies are picking up OGG Vorbis support. Why is that? Well, let's see. It's a completely FREE codec that is continually getting better. It's supported by an organization that's dedicated to creating free multimedia codecs for use in open, free, and commercial use -- all without charging a cent. Most importantly, however, OGG Vorbis IS superior to WMA and MP3. If you think otherwise, try looking into some of the various listening tests. Or check out Vorbis' Listen page. If you're such a blind zealot that you won't actually test various codecs, you have no right to praise or flame any codec for any reason.

Grow up and leave the technology details to people who know what they're doing and talking about.

One of my seniors at college had done something similar for his final year undergrad project, a short description of which could be found here.

He'd connected a PIC to one of the ethernet cards (the system had two Eth0 and Eth1) and had implemented a simple HTTP into the ROM.

Only Eth0 could access Eth1, so you could access Eth0 through a webserver and send/receive requests, which would be translated into queries for Eth1. Eth1 would selectively process these queries by just looking into the request string, and trigger responses in the micro-controller.

The micro-controller could in turn use these requests to perform pre-determined operations, like switch operations, or even analog operations.

This way, he could use a web based interface to control external devices. You could put up the server on the web, and you can access the lava lamp in your room from the net :-)

It's old, but this is the only implementation that I know which can perform analog operations too (like he make it do /non-pre-determined/ stuff and perform things like tuning of a radio).

Very interesting stuff.

If you'd bothered with Google, you would have found it, maybe here.

For the weekend sysadms, like me, a conversion will not be started before getting a FAQ