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Fedora and Slackware still ship it.
rpm -qa|grep xmms
xmms-faad2-2.7-8.fc25.x86_64
xmms-1.2.11-27.20071117cvs.fc25.x86_64
xmms-libs-1.2.11-27.20071117cvs.fc25.x86_64
xmms-normalize-0.7.7-11.fc25.x86_64
xmms-flac-1.3.2-1.fc25.x86_64
xmms-pulse-0.9.4-17.fc24.x86_64
slapt-get --show xmms
Package Name: xmms
Package Mirror: http://slackware.mirrors.tds.n...
Package Priority: Official
Package Location: ./slackware64/xap
Package Version: 1.2.11-x86_64-5

Oracle is trying to give customers a reason to use their half-assed clone of RedHat Linux rather than Redhat's or SUSE's.

FTFY.

In a way, it's kind of nice. Oracle will have to ensure RHEL compatibility of kSplice, whereas out-of-the-box it appears the only normally supported options are Ubuntu or Fedora. And since kSplice is GPL2, that means that the community will benefit from Oracle's generosity and public-minded support.

No, he isn't, he just has another approach which is equally valid but does not work for *me*. I often need to use software which I do not have the time to completely assess (and it's not weird fringe stuff, Adobe and Microsoft products are on that list too). The other issue is that ipfw is more network and less application focused, but ipfw is not hard to set up - there are GUIs such as WaterRoof and Flying Buttress available if you spend 10 seconds on Google. There is a good intro to OSX ipfw available as well (at least, *I* like it, YMMV :).

His approach would be an upfront analysis and then tune ipfw accordingly. The problem for me with that is that software often does a lot of things you don't really know about - updates are a classic, which only happen every so often. In the ipfw case you'd end up with a failure to update and you'd have to go and dig to find out what happened and why retrospectively.

My approach is to install the code after I have checked its origin and scanned it for malware(*), and then monitor where it's going when it talks to the Net. I caught a couple of interesting things that way (in which case I tend to fire up Wireshark and have a good look at what it's trying to do), but it does mean that I occasionally have to adjust things on the fly. This way, my filter learns and will not bother me other than when an application decides to do something new. I do, however, pay the price that I risk getting interrupted (something I hate) but this approach works best for me at present.

The disadvantage is that this approach requires a very clean approach to installation, and presents a slightly greater risk. His approach is very low risk, but is more labour intensive. Different shades of grey..

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:csaNGT3VYK0J:www.mozilla.org/community/mirrors.html

Some (not all) direct Links

North America
http://mirror3.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Europe Mirrors
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Asia
http://jp-nii01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Japan Mirrors
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://kyoto-mz-dl.sinet.ad.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Mid East Mirrors
http://mozilla.saudi.net.sa/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

South America
http://mozilla.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Belarus
http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

http://mirror3.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9 hasn't been hammered yet...

Didn't find 3.1 myself, but did find 3.3 circa 1996

http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-3.3/

I checked the full file list from the path to the Windows download and the Mac version isn't there yet - just the SDK. Checking the mirrors now.

http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.1.0/

JG

I hope they answered "yes", because it is.

"Downloading music" is certainly not a crime. Violating someone's copyright is, but it's not something that's inherent in downloading. For example, you can download these songs absolutely legally, and there are plenty more.

TDS also does this and it's one of the reasons I cancelled service and went with a more local DSL provider.

TDS Telecom has started doing this recently, as well. I'm not sure if their services are available in Canada, but I figure others should be made aware of it if they weren't already. Is there a list of ISP's and how they rank as far as net neutrality and subscriber privacy/rights are concerned? Not that the masses would care, but it would be nice to know which companies to avoid.

http://searchguide.tds.net/index.php?origURL=http://invalid.xyz

Direct links to win32, en-US, from the official mirrors:

http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://mozilla2.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://pv-mirror02.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://mozilla.mirrors.easynews.com/mozilla/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe


Other international sites (navigate to appropriate OS and lang)
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/
http://mozilla.ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/mozilla/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/
http://mozmirror01.true.nl/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/

For more, see google cache of mirror list here:


http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:_PnqbgP1GpIJ:www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html+firefox+3+download+mirror&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

<?php
if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"AppleWebKit")) {
/* print a file to the desktop exploiting safari */
header("Location: http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.0.14.exe");
} else
if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE")) {
header("Location: http://getfirefox.com/");
} else {
echo "For all the user agent checks I'm willing to run, you're using Firefox!";
}
?>

Mac Janitor certainly isn't scareware, nor is it fake:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html

I love to bash Microsoft as much as the next guy, but have you ever used or setup a windows/citrix terminal server?
Terminal services on Windows is stupidly easy to install, setup and run. Not only that but i've never had problems with it. If you honestly think LTSP is easier to install and setup than then explain this long winded installation guide. Then install say windows server in a vm and run terminal services and compare how easy it is to install and setup.

People like you screw up the cause of Linux advocacy by lying through their teeth, because all it will do is people will try it out, get frustrated then go back to Windows and complain about "how much linux sucks" to their friends.
Lying or sugar coating it simply screws it up for those of us trying to gently push people away from Microsoft and other expensive solutions.

It's available on the ftp site so the mirrors get updated before the official release tomorrow:

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/fir efox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/

-- Rick

Oh yeah, tours never make profit. I don't know about you but with $80 million gross, there seems like a little bit of profit to be made in touring to me...

All good news, but, what happens when a new distro needs some hosting and bandwidth?

TDS again? Well old ones anyway.
http://mirrors.tds.net/

1. Download the file here.
2. Open the .dmg file.
3. Drag Firefox to your Applications folder.

If you want to uninstall later, you just drag Firefox to the trash.

Installing and uninstalling works exactly that way for 99% of Mac apps.

We'll never be modded up for these kinds of private conversations...

I honestly believe that, if you are either leaving your Mac running or are regularly running Brian Hil's MacJanitor, you can recover the extra room. I think that part of the reason why you are recovering so much is because you have not truly dragged in all of your old preferences and settings and are re-creating them on the fly after you have all ready done the upgrade. The result is a system where you really didn't save much space at all, once you have initially run all of your old applications under the new system.

The only reason why I can see the need for a new install like you describe is in the event of a serious failure, like a hard disk crash, lightning strike or some other issue (like Katrina or Rita).

I used to spend a lot of time on OSX FAQ and found it a very valuable resource, though not too many of the members know a lot about Palm gear.

I shall try to add you to my "Friends" list here.

Including the TDS Internet one (I think they've taken the link down from the main site until they're up-to-date).

ftp://eclipse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/eclipse.org/ecli pse/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//port able1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeun e1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bure au1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//port able1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeun e1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bure au1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//port able1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeun e1.swf

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bure au1.swf

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Ideally, Virex should prompt you for your admin password, then run a scan process as root over the other users' folders. It sounds like right now it just runs with your privileges, which (properly) do not allow you access to the files of any other user.

Until Virex uses the correct method to gain superuser rights, try an app called Pseudo http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.ht ml which lets you launch a single GUI app as root from your own login session.

Download the torrent

New stuff include

• Gnome 2.10.1, which makes the desktop a lot faster than before
• X.org
• Simplified update- and package management
• Much faster boot process
• Better laptop support (ie suspending, hibernating, processor frequency scaling)
• Kickstart support for automated largescale installations
• Live CD and Install CD both use the new debian installer infrastructure
• UTF-8 by default
• A program for collecting information about what hardware works and what doesn't
• Kubuntu - complete KDE 3.4 based version of Ubuntu

Stuff people are going to bitch about

• No graphical installer. The current installer is extremely simple and has been streamlined even further in this release. A graphical installer is planned for the next version (Breezy Badger).
• No menu editor installed. One can always edit the files by hand, or install kmenu or something similar for gnome. The official gnome menu editor just didn't finish in time.
• No DivX or MP3 support. These are simple to add though and anyone coming from debian will probably already know of the Marillat repositories. Just look at the instructions in the wiki or use Hoary After-Install helper or another script to do the dirty work for you.

OSDir has published a lot of screenshots of Ubuntu.

Oh and if you are interested to know if your laptop or other piece of hardware is supported, some info can be found in the wiki on the Hardware support-page

Primary mirrors

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Europe

Other mirrors

Australia Canada Croatia Czech Republic France Germany Germany Ireland Italy Lithuania Namibia Netherlands Norway Portugal Portugal South Africa Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States

OS X looks for a creator code first, and then for an extension. That's why some files, which have creator codes, don't open up with the program you set as default.

Each program has a different creator code. This means that you can have two different files of any type, like JPEG pictures, which open with different programs.

Say you had a bunch of JPEGs that you wanted to look at and not edit. Those files could be set to open with Preview, while a different bunch of JPEGs, which you edited a lot, could be opened with Photoshop.

Apple sets things this way because it offers more flexibility than Windows offers. Imagine you were a movie editor, and you had some movies you wanted to edit, and some you just wanted to view. Because of creator codes, you could set some to open with MPlayer, and some to open with Final Cut Pro. It wouldn't be nice to have every movie open in Final Cut Pro by default.

You can change or erase creator codes in Mac OS 9 or in classic using Resedit. You can change or delete creator codes in OS X using several different programs. I use one called xFiles. xFiles can also batch-change file attributes. If there's no creator code, OS X will choose the program based on the extension.

The issue seems to be solved in the latest trunk, which seems pretty stable to me.

Looks more like a space-marine theme.

I was hoping to see them go back to a gothic look like the original Quake or Heretic.

Slashdot this torrent

...I recommend Ray Carlsen's Home Page

During the past few months I've been creating a 3d model of my current/future house in AutoCAD. Easy access to arial photography has allowed me to add a bit of realism to the rendered drawings concerning ground color, tree positions, road, etc. I've also added the neighbors houses to see how the my house will look in the setting.

To the point, these arial photos brought me to the realization that a garage would be better suited to the east side of the house rather than the west, where the driveway is currently... There's more space between me and my eastern neighbor which will provide a more balanced perception of property lines. This isn't a decision that benefits me as much as it does the neigborhood. Granted, I probably could've realized the imbalance without the arial shots, but would I have? Is it usefull for a local government to release information that may allow citizens to make better decisions concerning their property? Nice neigborhoods attract business and residents (aka people to steal tax money from ;) after all.

I started the project with shots from http://terrafly.fiu.edu but later upgraded to some fancy hi-res color shots from www.globexplorer.com despite the price. And on the subject of local governments releasing aerial photos this one has released all of theirs... Unfortunatly I'm just outside of their field of view.

Here's the product if you're interested. It's hardly finished, but better than nothing.

I don't know if apple has a gui config tool for any of them, but they are all very good, once you have them configured.
There is some control over ipfw in the Sharing preferences pane, but it doesn't allow much more than opening ports for specific services.
You can however download an application called Brickhouse that allows a much greater range of control, and will even show you the firewall rules that ticking a load of checkboxes generates.

ftp://mirror2.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/test /1.92/i386/iso

1. Are you bisexual?
2. Are you a mulatto?
3. Are you a bisexual mulatto?

• Are you bisexual?
• Are you a mulatto?
• Are you a bisexual mulatto?

brian hill made a nice shareware GUI app for configuring natd/ipfw. it's called brickhouse. i use an old beige G3 with an extra PCI ethernet card as a firewall router running standard Jaguar 10.2.8 and it works fine.

Brickhouse is a great tool you can use for free (or pay $25 in honorware fee), and offers a nice GUI for setting up the routers and firewalls built into OS X. It hasn't been updated in years, but really doesn't need it. I'm sure there are others as well, give VersionTracker a search . . .

Perhaps this will help:

"The Unix subsystems on Mac OS X were originally written for machines that were typically never shut off. Mac OS X inherits this assumption in version 1.x, and has many system maintenance tasks that are scheduled to run between 3 am and 5 am. In addition, there are scripts designed to run weekly on weekends, and once a month in the middle of the night.

If these maintenance tasks are never run (such as on a laptop that is always shut off at night), many log files and system database will grow extremely large or fail to get backed up."

Mac Janitor fight this problem. Find it here.

Leo does a great job with what you're asking for. It's really intended to be more of a programming tool than a writer's outliner, but it still does the job of outlining beautifully, and has some nice perks thrown in. Plus, it's free.

I've used it for organizing book chapters, and it does that job beautifully. I even have a friend who uses it for outlining, writing, and then automatically outputting finished text in LaTeX. That goes way beyond my needs of simple outlining. Unfortunately, Leo doesn't let you print your outline directly to paper. You have to follow an exporting command, and in the process you'll lose your outline's hierarchical format.

Take a look at BrickHouse, an interface for configuring the rules for ipfw. It provides a combination of a simple interface that still provides much more flexibility than the interface that Mac OS X gives you, plus conveniently allows you to edit the rules in the configuration file manually if you wish. Yah, you could do this using $EDITOR_OF_CHOICE, but I find this more convenient.

For example, VCR/TV repair places in my town are either struggling or have already gone out of business. Things are so cheap these days that you might as well buy a new one when the old one breaks.

And this one:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/ce/gripes.t xt
under "Most of all, I hate waste"

I think the quote, "Equipment is built with the dumpster in mind, not the repair shop." is particularly telling, especially coming from a tech.

For example, VCR/TV repair places in my town are either struggling or have already gone out of business. Things are so cheap these days that you might as well buy a new one when the old one breaks.

And this one:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/ce/gripes.t xt
under "Most of all, I hate waste"

I think the quote, "Equipment is built with the dumpster in mind, not the repair shop." is particularly telling, especially coming from a tech.

Even so, lately the iBook has been taking several seconds to login, where it used to be about 2 seconds when we first got it. Not sure why, but cleaning out ~/Library always seems to help. If not that, then it's probably something in /System or /Library. I'm not too thrilled that OS X seems to exhibit its own version of "registry rot," slowing down over time. I'd like to say that sort of problem only afflicts MS users but it's not my experience with OS X. Hopefully they're working hard on fixing and optimizing this stuff - and before it gets to a point where I do think it's too slow!

MacOS X has three mainenance scripts called "daily", "weekly", and "monthly". They are scheduled (in crontab) to run in the middle of the night by default. These scripts clean out a lot of the cruft that can accumulate over time.

The problem is if your Mac is asleep or off when the script is scheduled, they don't run. You either need to redo the crontab file to schedule the scripts for when the computer is on, or use MacJanitor to invoke them manually. Try MacJanitor, if it takes an obscene amount of time to run the scripts, then they've probably never been run.

I cannot believe he didn't even mention turning on your firewall (which is so simple in OS X, since a GUI interface to the ipfw software that has always been there is now available right in System Preferences). It is very irresponsible to tell people to set up a server without telling them how to protect it. Come on. (I use BrickHouse instead of Apple's interface, but they both provide a GUI interface to ipfw, so it's pretty similar, just more full-featured.) Also, the author does not mention alternatives to Sendmail. Many people consider Postfix to be superior. See Installing Postfix and UW IMAP on MacOS X Server for instructions on setting it up for OS X.

I would like to distinguish between the techniques of literate programming and the practice of literate programming (LP) as it has always been done before Leo (traditional LP). The key technique of LP is what might be called "functional pseudocode." For example, here is a fragment of code that can be written in Leo:

def spam():

done = false ; result = None
while not done:
<< do something complicated >>

return result

In contrast to the technique of literate programming, the practice of traditional LP has focused on the central role of comments, and lots of them. Here is where Leo radically parts company with the LP tradition.

One's view of the proper role of documentation in a project hardly matters to Leo. You are free to use comments as you always did, though you will probably find that LP as implemented in Leo helps you out in unexpected ways. I discuss at length and in great detail the relationship between traditional LP, comments and Leo here. In short, discussions about the role of comments in programming (literate or not) do not get to the heart of Leo.

In fact, Leo often reduces the need for comments. Indeed, it is good style to organize Leo outlines like a reference book. Well-designed Leo outlines act both like self-updating tables of contents and self-updating indices. This is in marked contrast to the "stream-of-consciousness" or "narrative" style typically employed in traditional literate programming.

In my view, the essence of Leo is this: Leo makes outline organization the most important part of a program or a project. Both code and documentation could be considered secondary. At every moment, the overall big picture of a function, class, module, file or project is always at hand. Moreover, Leo makes outlines structure a part of the computer language. For example, I often define a Python class as follows:

class myClass:

<< declarations of myClass >>
@others

The @others directive acts as a reference to all the text in all the outline nodes which are descendents of the node containing this class declaration. Such nodes are copied to the output (derived) file in the order in which they appear in the outline. The reference << declarations of myClass >> ensures that those declarations precede the methods. There are several other ways that outline structure is important in Leo; I won't discuss them here.

Leo fully exploits the organizational power of outlines. A single outline typically organizes an entire project. Outlines can handle large amounts of data with ease. Moreover, it is possible to clone any part of an outline so that changes to one clone affect all other clones. This is feature makes it possible for a single outline to contain multiple views of a project. For example, when fixing a bug, I clone all nodes related to the bug and gather them in a new part of the outline, called a task node. This task node effectively becomes a view of the project that focuses exclusively on the bug. Any changes I make to code are propagated to all other clones.

Earlier I mentioned that a well designed Leo outline acts like self-updating tables of contents and self-updating indices. Tables of contents you get for free: an entire outline is the table of contents. Clones create self-updating indices. For example, each task node acts like the index entry for that particular task.

- Edward K. Ream

Indeed, Leo often eliminates the need for comments, and certainly "roadmap" comments typically used in traditional literate programming. I discuss the roles of comments and literate programming here

- Edward K. Ream

However, as the creator of Leo, I would like to say that Leo does not, in fact, make documentation primary; it makes organization primary. In a sense, both code and documentation have secondary roles. So your view of the proper role of documentation really doesn't affect how you might use Leo.

I discuss the roles of Leo and documentation and literate programming in detail here

- Edward K. Ream

Or you can just use Apple's Disk Copy to create AES-encrypted and password-protected disk volumes. Just be sure not to put the password in your Keychain (it's selected to do that by default when it prompts for a password at mount). It's free and already installed with MacOS X.

There's a shareware tool for this -- pesudo.

Paul