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This is simple and works VERY VERY reliably (as long as hdb1 bigger than or equal to hda1. With creative mounting, its very simple to copy any os install to multiple disks and tomsrtbt.

1. I'm trying to figure out if that is an observation or a conclusion.

   Especially considering that on any given week we have a report on slashdot about some large project forking. Hell we have more schisms than the Christianity.

Freshmeat shows ~30,000 projects, while SourceForge shows over 70,000. Obviously some overlap, and many aren't for Linux, though I'll guess that most can be run under Linux.

As for Windows, it comes with very little, and most of it is not very handy. To make it useful, you have to drag along extra tools typically including expensive basics like office software unless you know where to find the no $ cost ones. Linux distributions don't have the same attitude as Microsoft so you tend to get a lot of everything and most of it is good (some dreck -- hell I have 926 packages (not 1:1 for apps!) installed here).

If you take just the Windows text editors available at places like Tucows you're still talking about 50+ for that task alone. Now, look at the desktop modifiers and extentions. A lot of them, eh? There are even complete replacements (Litestep, Blackbox, Bluebox, Cloud9ine, Geoshell) and commercial products like Stardock's Object Desktop.

If there were one best way to do it, these tools wouldn't be available for Windows either.

This is both an observation and a conclusion. It's hard to disprove what exists, so I'll even dare to call it a fact.

1. The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

(Which is also quite an old joke. You can even Google for it. :)

With a website, a little bit of work, and a small down-payment against future registrations you can be domain reseller for OpenSRS aka TuCows. No website, you have to pay more. Technically, they are the registrar and you merely resell, but practically there's no difference, you are a registrar.

It's not worth it unless you're going to do 10 or 15 domains, but a few for yourself and a few for your friends and it quickly adds up. You can't beat the price either, unless you're getting registrar service from somebody who's using it as a loss leader to sell other services.

It obviously wouldn't hurt to have a dns server, but it's not an essential requirement as you can always get dns from a web hosting provider.

Duh. Why would the serious geek go anywhere else?

I have been using DNS Central for almost a year now with no problems. I picked them because they are an OpenSRS reseller, they offer a good deal on web/e-mail forwarding, they have optional DNS service, and they were able to transfer .biz and .info names. The two times I needed support help during the set-up, I got very quick responses via e-mail and phone.

I think I'm the best registrar. I signed up with Tucows and only pay $10/year for a domain. Of course, I signed up with them before MyDomain started offering domains for $8.50/year. They handle my email forwarding for free, even though I didn't get a domain from them, but obviously they offer it for those who do get a domain through them as well. I haven't had much downtime at all through their forwarding, and email is robust enough that a little downtime is not that bad. That's who I'd suggest: MyDomain.

how many five year old games still have as active of a community as GPL?

How about the GNOME Games, which are published under GNU General Public License?

Would it even be economically feasible to sell a commercial PC game based on a copylefted engine but with a typical EULA on the assets?

directnic.com. They started off as a little independent shop using opensrs as there back-end system.

I recommend them to everyone I can because they are :

Cheap.

Effecient

and

Reliable

All the things you want in a domain name registrar/service provider.

Cheap, Only $15/year for a domain name and high quality service that you have full control over,
unlike some registrars you can change every setting in your directnic account (such as nameserver information) with great ease.

Move from host to host with great ease, and manage your directnic account with great ease.

Effecient, when you instruct your directnic account management interface to do something,
it does it : instantly with no messing around.

If there is a charge for the extra service, they tell you about in an open, clear, concise and honest manor!
(something very rare these days : integrety).

All the things that directnic.com claim they provide, they provide. Unlike some registrars who just use some lame link to a third party service directnic.com actually do what they say they do, and they do it well.

Reliable, the customer support directnic.com provides is nothing but first class. Whenever I have had a problem, it's been answered (usually within 24 hours, but I am in the UK so timezones are backwards compared to in the US).

I've tried Register.com, I've tried Verio, IMHO directnic.com are the best in the business because they actually do what they say they are going to do.

And it seems many people agree with me too ...

Superior customer support and reliability, is what turned directnic.com from a lowly opensrs.org based registrar into a fully fledged ICANN accreditted domain name registrar.

directnic.com simply rocks. They are the best. that's why I have 24 domain names registered with them. And will continue to register more with them now, and in the future.

Why is this even on the front page? Why not try Google, Freshmeat, Tucows or Versiontracker?

My site has been collecting 3D UIs for some time.

Here are links to some of the 3DUIs that are available today:

- FSN (pronounced "fusion") produces a cyberspace rendering of a file system. This was the original 3D file system navigator shown in Jurassic Park ("Hey, this is UNIX. I know this!").
[Screenshot] | [Download] (IRIX)

- FSV is modelled after FSN, but runs on Linux. FSV lays out files and directories in 3D, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- Xcruise lets you fly through a filesystem in 3D as if it were interplanetary space. Directories are represented as galaxies, files are represented as planets (whose mass is determined by the file size), and symbolic links are represented as wormholes.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- TDFSB is a 3D filesystem browser for Linux. Take a walk through your filesystem!
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- Visual File System is a 3D file system visualizer for Windows. The tool scans a drive selected by the user, and then models the contents of the drive in 3D, based on the directories that are selected in a tree browser on the side of the display.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- 3Dtop is an extension for Windows that represents desktop icons in 3D, letting you to fly around your desktop. You can create coloured spotlights, background and floor textures, "paintings" (bitmaps), clocks, and "flags" that represent shortcuts.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- ROOMS turns a Windows desktop into a 3D world. You can see the world either through a first person perspective or with a map view, and you can populate the world with sounds, animated images, and 3D icons.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- CubicEye organizes windows into a navigable cube. Cubes can be arranged by thematic or functional subject matter, and can be explored either individually or collectively as part of a more comprehensive structure of multiple cubes representing various areas of interest.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- Vizible WorldViewer distributes windows across the exterior and interior surfaces of spheres, providing the means to visualize and navigate large numbers of web pages and data sources simultaneously.
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Enjoy!

-FB

Enjoy!

-FB

... are there any good side- or top-scrollers for linux?

... are there any good side- or top-scrollers for linux?

Its only Microsoft style innovation we're talking here (in future referred to as Microvation).

The way you do things is take an existing product or range of products, copy 'em, brand 'em and market 'em to hell.

e.g.

Take NEC's personal robot and call it a Robie.

Take the common idea of controlling another device with a PDA and make it sound like a pocket PC microvation

And of course, you really need an advanced research division to come up with a "a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites"

I was going to have a dig at the "The system uses compression technology to turn photos into data and encryption techniques to make forgery nearly impossible"...but hey - its just waaaaaaaay to easy.

Bottom line. Nothing new to see here.

-Sould

A few that some newbies may not have thought about:

FreshMeat, which will do a lot for your Linux software needs.

SourceForge for GPL software hosting (CVS and bug tracking, even)

For a more general software needs, VersionTracker, which started with Mac software, now lists Mac, OS X, Windows, and Palm software. For anything other than Macintosh listings, though, it tends to be somewhat limited.

Tocows also lists a lot of software. I have not looked through their Linux listings, but the Mac listings are pretty decent.

I personally use Tiny Persona Firewall. It doesn't have tons of features but it does the job. Every time a program tries to access the internet, I'm given the option to block or allow and can set up rules accordingly. So when adware tries to get out and report home, I block it's network connection. (Ver. 2 is free)

In addition, it is nice because I can stop Outlook Express from accessing images from HTML docs, and may programs with built in images for ads can have their ads blocked as well.

There are other such programs, I just don't know much about them.

Off topic a little...

Broadband aside, one of the reasons Internet connectivity in England is so fast is that pretty much all of the ISP's are housed in 2 buildings - Telehouse City and Telehouse East. This is doable because England is so small (about the size of Florida). Therefore, if you connect to another UK site the chances are your interconnect is over a 100Mbit (or even faster) LAN connection.

Is it the same way in South Korea? If so local Internet must be blindingly fast!

I would love to see this happen on a Global Scale and it is getting close with peering points such as MAE East/West, Telehouse (New York, London, etc.), Amsterdam and Frankfurt to name but a few hosting servers with mirrors of major websites. TUCOWS being an excellent example. In a few years, bandwidth will cost next to nothing and hardware is already getting very cheap. All it takes when the prices go down is some smart routing and DNS. :-)

Maybe I'm just dreaming...

I'm not entirely sure, but some companies, such as id with Quake III, have released SDK (Software Development Kit) in order to help players create their own maps and stuff (see e.g. this Linux Quake III SDK). But other companies, such as EA with Battlefield 1942, haven't released any SDK for their game engine. But many mods have been created for BF1942 without an SDK: Desert Combat, Black Hawk Down, Soldier9's Realism Mod, and others.

If you do a search on Google for 'battlefield 1942 mod', the first thing that appears is this petition :-)

I know after years of not having any money, and using shareware for free, I LOVE that I can afford to pay people who make shareware, and support independent software.

Recent shareware fees paid:

• 10 licenses of the Opera web browser
• A ton of Chank's fonts
• Limewire
• UltraEdit

Whenever I need a program/tool, the first places I look are TinyApps (very small software for Windows), and Tucows.

I sure HOPE it's not just me that's out there doing what I can to support the independent shareware programmers!

Ripped straight off the side bar :

Will 3D user interfaces ever take off? With ever-growing 3D processing capabilities available on standard PC hardware, it seems only natural to pursue UI directions that take advantage of this awesome power. Moreover, the generation of users now emerging has had access to video games for as long as they could remember. As the line between video games and PCs becomes blurrier, the time may have come to think about how to apply 3D visualization techniques for more day-to-day computing tasks.

Here are links to some of the 3DUIs that are available today:

- FSN (pronounced "fusion") produces a cyberspace rendering of a file system. This was the original 3D file system navigator shown in Jurassic Park ("Hey, this is UNIX. I know this!").
[Screenshot] | [Download] (IRIX)

- FSV is modelled after FSN, but runs on Linux. FSV lays out files and directories in 3D, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- Xcruise lets you fly through a filesystem in 3D as if it were interplanetary space. Directories are represented as galaxies, files are represented as planets (whose mass is determined by the file size), and symbolic links are represented as wormholes.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- TDFSB is a 3D filesystem browser for Linux. Take a walk through your filesystem!
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- Visual File System is a 3D file system visualizer for Windows. The tool scans a drive selected by the user, and then models the contents of the drive in 3D, based on the directories that are selected in a tree browser on the side of the display.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- 3Dtop is an extension for Windows that represents desktop icons in 3D, letting you to fly around your desktop. You can create coloured spotlights, background and floor textures, "paintings" (bitmaps), clocks, and "flags" that represent shortcuts.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- ROOMS turns a Windows desktop into a 3D world. You can see the world either through a first person perspective or with a map view, and you can populate the world with sounds, animated images, and 3D icons.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- CubicEye organizes windows into a navigable cube. Cubes can be arranged by thematic or functional subject matter, and can be explored either individually or collectively as part of a more comprehensive structure of multiple cubes representing various areas of interest.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- Vizible WorldViewer distributes windows across the exterior and interior surfaces of spheres, providing the means to visualize and navigate large numbers of web pages and data sources simultaneously.
[Screenshot]

Hmm...

Yeah...then we'll finally get a zip program called Winzip, and a media player called Winamp...
Maybe even a few that include the whole word!

IANAL, but don't you think that some of these would have been sued already if they had a copyright on Windows? Copyrights, like everything else, are domain specific. VERY domain specific. Also, I'm fairly certain they don't have a copyright on Windows, but rather a copyright on "Microsoft Windows."

If someone knows different and has a link, please let me know...

Hmm...

Yeah...then we'll finally get a zip program called Winzip, and a media player called Winamp...
Maybe even a few that include the whole word!

IANAL, but don't you think that some of these would have been sued already if they had a copyright on Windows? Copyrights, like everything else, are domain specific. VERY domain specific. Also, I'm fairly certain they don't have a copyright on Windows, but rather a copyright on "Microsoft Windows."

If someone knows different and has a link, please let me know...

Hmm...

Yeah...then we'll finally get a zip program called Winzip, and a media player called Winamp...
Maybe even a few that include the whole word!

IANAL, but don't you think that some of these would have been sued already if they had a copyright on Windows? Copyrights, like everything else, are domain specific. VERY domain specific. Also, I'm fairly certain they don't have a copyright on Windows, but rather a copyright on "Microsoft Windows."

If someone knows different and has a link, please let me know...

Hmm...

Yeah...then we'll finally get a zip program called Winzip, and a media player called Winamp...
Maybe even a few that include the whole word!

IANAL, but don't you think that some of these would have been sued already if they had a copyright on Windows? Copyrights, like everything else, are domain specific. VERY domain specific. Also, I'm fairly certain they don't have a copyright on Windows, but rather a copyright on "Microsoft Windows."

If someone knows different and has a link, please let me know...

If you're looking for a registrar with good morals, you can't beat OpenSRS. They have VERY strict policies against things like spamming, invalid whois and cyberquatting, and will never get in the way of you transferring your domain out of their system if you're not happy. If you'd like an OpenSRS reseller with good prices, check out web.com who sell domains for $8.99US. If you'd like to check out some others, check out the (randomly generated) OpenSRS referral list.

- j

Everyone on slashdot seems to think that 32K games is far too many - where are they getting them, quantity over quality, etc. From the interview:

"HomeLAN - From statements on your web site, it appears as if the Phantom will be based on PC tech and that regular PC games will be able to be played on the console..."
"Steve Chilton - Infinium Labs will be announcing hardware configurations within the coming weeks."

So it seems there may be a possibility that this system is running on PC hardware. If so, maybe it will be emulating other systems and consoles. If such is the case, they've got a huge pool of games to draw from, all the way back to the Atari or whatever came before that.

If you look here you'll see this:

"We will be working with developers to develop a licensing model to distribute all of these titles electronically to our customer's.[sic]"

If they are emulating other systems, they obviously have to work out a licensing model with developers to ensure what they're doing is legitimate.

Also on the same page, they mention this:

"There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles..."

That would imply that they've got 32K commercial games, most likely ones released for computers (not just PC) and consoles. It would also imply that they're not just talking about all the crappy shareware games you can find on tucows.

As far as multiplayer is concerned, most games are already that - just not "online" multiplayer. Mario Brothers is multiplayer for example. If the Phantom is actually going to be emulating games, maybe what they're planning to do is make these types of games (i.e. multiplayer games where all players/controllers are physically at the same console) work over the internet. Back to Mario Bros. - I could be playing Mario on my Phantom, while somone else across the planet is playing Luigi on theirs, and the systems are linked online.

Don't get me started on their Transfer practices..

You gota love Verisignas idea of a domain transfer approval request..

It's a 2 page email thats 90% Please stay, here's a great deal!!.. nowhere in the subjet or the first 3/4 of the message does it mention anything about a request for approval.. only at the bottom in the fine print do you find the link to approve the transfer..

OpenSRS (Tucows) went out of their way to help me get away from Verisign and explain thier deceptive practices when it comes to domain transfers.

Well, Tucows seems to be doing quite well (especially in their last three quarters). They have diversified into other businesses, but their primary income is still related to domain name registration.

- j

Plus lets look at it from a pure financial arena. Back in "the day" Network Solutions was basically the only place to grab a domain name, but that's not true anymore. Check This out for a little taste of why NetSol is screwed in the market. I remember switching from NetSol, to register.com to finally, Tucows OpenSRS which is dirt cheap. But NetSol is like the microsoft of the DNS world where people know it as being fairly big and its security sucks.

With the trtouble to get MY OWN DOMAIN out of their database, I hope they go bankrupt and never set up anytype of ecommerce site again. Does anyone have anything positive to say about netsol, I mean they really were and are a horrible company that overprices everything. I mean look at verisign now, the prices for a "virtual certificate". Insane.

if sites like Freshmeat and Sourceforge were set-up more like cnet's download.com we would see more people
Start them off like I did, five plus years ago, with Tucows, and absolutely disgusting, but cnet, style site.

Yup, yup, yup.

I use Gnutella and Overnet to share some free 3D & Poser files I've created; I also do a lot of animations just for the heck of it that are not really something I want to include in my regular portfolio, so they get shared also.

If I wanted to do any up or downloading of anything illegal, I would surely not use a service that reports exactly who I am to anyone who wants to know, when there are fine packages like Freenet freely available (something I also share on gnutella; I had the thought once or twice that countries that block Freenet installer downloads might NOT be able to block one of the gnutella clients....just doing my part for world freedom).

There are many, many legitimate uses for P2P.

Wow. I really got Link-Happy on this one.

TPF is great packet sniffing software. It allows you to determine which apps are allowed to receive incoming TCP connections, or make outgoing TCP connections, or receive incoming UDP connections... and which ones aren't. It also allows you to stop Net BIOS name resolution as well as other neat stuff. It gives you much more control then Zone Alarm does. Really a great piece of software.

TPF used to be freeware. You can pick up the shareware version here. You can still find the old freeware version (which I use) here.

For the record, I use both Zone Alarm and Tiny Personal Firewall.

like this ... i was shocked, too ...

Agreed. But how do you do that on Linux? Linux and friends are supposed to be well suited for programmers, but C and Perl are not really for kids (or beginners in programming anyway).

There are a few Basic interpreters for Linux, but it looks like all of them are of the old-fashioned "interactive linenumber-oriented interpreter thing". Not the userfriendly editor+compiler like in Qbasic (or Turbo Pascal 6). (A beginner would be scared by separate editors and compilers etc.) And then, where to find a good Basic tutorial that is adapted to the particular basic dialect?

For an editor, you have a lot of choices. While there are the command line ones, I assume that you want something in X. My suggestions would be Kedit (a great notepad/wordpad replacement) or use something like Koffice/OpenOfficfe if you want something more like Word.

There seem to be at least a few versions of BASIC for linux. You could also just run QBasic in DOSemu :)

As shells go, I think that bash is the easiest, but that's just me. It's the default anyway.

As for other things make sure to put on Konqueror/Mozilla/whatever for the web, and don't forget to put a few games on (XBill! XBILL!).

That should hopefully get you started. My only other suggestion would be to get a list of programs from the teachers that the students like/use (or just categories) and try to find versions/replacements for them. Or just wait untill someone asks for a program ("Mr. Teacher, I want a program to paint happy faces in") and find one.

That makes me think, I belive that the Debian Jr. project has quite a few good programs aimed at little kids. Debian Jr. is here

What the fuck are you doing on Kazaa to get Anime? Get Hotline, then after a while when you have accounts on good servers, you can download the latest anime a few days after the DVD comes out... in Japan. Of course, it requires a bit more effort since you have to fill people's request and find servers, but it's well worth it.

I have been using FreeRip for about a year, with no problems whatsoever. Even has CDDB supports, and can rip to wav's and Ogg as well. Enjoy!

I am willing to bet that when they said "freeware" they were thinking TuCows and fly-by-wire or 13-year-old VB h4x0r in his basement.

I'm sure your boss(es) need a good clue-bat to the head and they'll be fine.

If you need a RAR utility for Linux, check this page on Tucows.

I don't get it, why don't you just do a search at tucows and download one of several emulators that are listed?

I don't get it, why don't you just do a search at tucows and download one of several emulators that are listed?

I don't get it, why don't you just do a search at tucows and download one of several emulators that are listed?

I don't get it, why don't you just do a search at tucows and download one of several emulators that are listed?

I don't get it, why don't you just do a search at tucows and download one of several emulators that are listed?

Unless you are absolutely wedded to Outlook, there are good alternative programs. Mind you, I've been happily using mutt on Linux for a while, so my suggestions may be out of date, but:

* Eudora: this is a nice (very configurable, for a Win/Mac GUI program) mail client. Good filtering capabilities. Has a commercial version and a free version (without filtering abilities) called Eudora Lite.

* Netscape Communicator: Well, I suppose it's okay. Everyone and their brother already has it installed. Has support for SSL certs, though I kind of think that PGP is the way to go instead.

* Pegasus Mail: supposedly good -- I didn't like the interface much. Free.

* Mulberry: Good client if you're into IMAP -- if you're on a always-on Internet connection and move from computer to computer, like a LAN environment. Good security features.

There are also a lot more Windows and the Mac. Honestly, I don't know why so many people use Outlook -- it isn't the fastest, most scalable, most secure, or most powerful. Its interface isn't that incredible. It *is* installed by default on a lot of systems, but that's about it.

Unless you are absolutely wedded to Outlook, there are good alternative programs. Mind you, I've been happily using mutt on Linux for a while, so my suggestions may be out of date, but:

* Eudora: this is a nice (very configurable, for a Win/Mac GUI program) mail client. Good filtering capabilities. Has a commercial version and a free version (without filtering abilities) called Eudora Lite.

* Netscape Communicator: Well, I suppose it's okay. Everyone and their brother already has it installed. Has support for SSL certs, though I kind of think that PGP is the way to go instead.

* Pegasus Mail: supposedly good -- I didn't like the interface much. Free.

* Mulberry: Good client if you're into IMAP -- if you're on a always-on Internet connection and move from computer to computer, like a LAN environment. Good security features.

There are also a lot more Windows and the Mac. Honestly, I don't know why so many people use Outlook -- it isn't the fastest, most scalable, most secure, or most powerful. Its interface isn't that incredible. It *is* installed by default on a lot of systems, but that's about it.

I found that a small proggie called Kauffman Mail Warrior is pretty much what i need,
there are plenty of 'bloatware-free' mail clients out there, try looking in the email section of Tucows and i am sure there will be something to suit your tastes ...

God, it is common knowledge... Even tucows has a lot of stuff about this in the "Learn Web Design" section.

This *must* be an all-time low... or just a sign that The (Hopefully) Great Slashdot Blackout (April 21-27) is about to start...

God, it is common knowledge... Even tucows has a lot of stuff about this in the "Learn Web Design" section.

This *must* be an all-time low... or just a sign that The (Hopefully) Great Slashdot Blackout (April 21-27) is about to start...

Broadcast 2000c (dated 15th May, 2001) is available from tucows.