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  1. Re:Site runs on Java on New Community-Run RPM-based Distribution · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    RIFE is not a CMS but a framework to build all kinds of things, in this case a site.
    It's as free as free gets, and it can also be used with open/free JVM's or compiled with GCJ.

  2. somebody's been there, and used the name before on Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters · · Score: 1

    Check out http://www.llnl.gov/linux/chaos/ for the 'Clustered High Availability Operating System'...so much for new acronym, as some other people already pointed to other CHAOS projects as well

  3. 1st source! on J2SE 5.0 Source Code Bundles Now Available · · Score: -1, Troll

    eh..yeah

  4. Veronica / kinkfm on Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    at my previous job we employed an ogg stream for some time..until some (i suspect) MS sponsored company offered to host windowsmedia streams for *free*

  5. drilled a pc speaker out of my ps2 motherboard on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    as the subject says, I drilled the pc speaker out of an IBM ps2 motherboard, as I had a pinball game that drove me crazy with its music, and I couldnt find out how to turn it off. The ps2 was older by then, and not much more then 200 euros/dollars, but still it was fun.
    It still worked after that ofcourse, I think in general you can throw IBM hardware from small buildings and still have it work like before..

  6. bluetooth and linux on Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week · · Score: 1

    Since redhats' 'hobbyist' release of Fedora Core 1, there is very good bluetooth support in Linux, in both GUI and CLI. Other distros also support bluetooth, for more information see (shameless plug) my page on http://datadevil.papuaos.org/docs/bluetooth.php .

  7. stress causes it imho on Computers and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Studied · · Score: 1

    I'm only suffering from pain in my wrists when i'm stressed, and I think it is *the* cause for it. If it was computer-over-useage, i'd have no wrists left....

  8. Re:a very worthy goal! on Distributed Computing Attacking SARS · · Score: 1

    like me yes :P

  9. a very worthy goal! on Distributed Computing Attacking SARS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks more usefull then finding the odd alien out there :P

  10. redhat? on KDE 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Wheres the rpms, or do i really have to wait for rh8.1?

  11. Re:people, Java != Javascript on GeForce FX Reviews Roll In · · Score: 1

    and this javascript doesnt even work in mozilla (!)

  12. people, Java != Javascript on GeForce FX Reviews Roll In · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He probably means javascript rollovers instead of java effects..

  13. Freshmeat.net on How Close is the Open Entertainment Center? · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of it? Theres lots of projects doing these kinda things, altough they could learn somewhat from the XBox hackers who have made cool interfaces for just these kinda things as well..

  14. Re:So much power on one company... on Rekall, Aethera, Kapital... Oh My · · Score: 1

    TheKompany has _no_ power over KDE, it just makes software available to it. It's more the other way round, if KDE doesn't accept pieces of TheKompany, TheKompany has to change their businessplans..e.g Kivio will be free (beer and gpl) in Koffice, but they want to sell commercial Stencils for it..

  15. Use konqueror on Will Browser-Neutral Web Soon Become Thing Of Past? · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    konqueror, www.konqueror.org, is an integral part of KDE. If you want to use the technology without KDE, there is a project that builds the same browser without KDE.
    Both have afaik IE/win* in their browser 'fingerprint', so both work on the site mentioned (which sucks bigtime btw and all asp users should be killed)

  16. Re:A possible approach on Open Source Document Management and Revision Control? · · Score: 1

    searching can be done with my 2 mentioned search engines, ht:dig and umbsearch, who can both use catdoc to read/index Word documtents.
    The same could be used in a cgi script to read word docs, and there are some free word document readers out there as well, their capabilities differing from Word version to Word version.
    I was thinking of a php front end, but Zope sounds ok too.

  17. ideas and suggestions on Open Source Document Management and Revision Control? · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    I've been thinking about this for a longt ime now, and have found some things,but no real integrated solution as of yet.
    I will list the ideas I had here, in the hope someone will take them and build an open source application of it, or maybe I'll get some feedback and will start myself:

    -Posting documents:
    -- Can be done using a webdav enabled server, but I don't know wether it has version control and update messages.
    -- CVS could serve as a tool, but from things like MS Office it just doesn't seem too handy
    -- Have someone update/maintain a database and have the files on a fileserver, with their filelocations in the database. This is up to now the best idea, if you can afford the person to handle the document archiving. This is also limited to finished documents

    - Document formats:
    -- PDF seems good, as it has alot of open source tools to create them and to search them (see searching later on). There are tools to convert everything to pdf, and it has things like copyright protection. IMHO the document format
    -- XML , could be cool, open and easy format, just not many wysiwig tools to create them. Office 2000 is said to create xml docs, but I haven't checked the format out.

    - Searching(2 options as I see it)
    -- In the catalogueing plan one can easily search the database for the documents
    -- In other cases , look at umbsearch or ht:dig, who both search files, and can be enhanced by using parsers for pdf and Word documents.

    comments at the above email address


  18. Re:Clarification on Linux Intranet Application and Collaboration Software? · · Score: 1

    We already have the intranet ready for HRM management, things to do email and discussion are easy to implement too, all based on php/apache/mysql.
    If you want to know more, feel free to contact me at my email address, do not forget to remove the n0spam bit..

    Maarten

  19. intranet application/document sharing on Linux Intranet Application and Collaboration Software? · · Score: 2

    Intranet and document sharing are two different things. Intranets can be a carrier for document sharing, but can be alot of other things too, as in our case, for example project planning and other financial things.
    Document sharing is also a difficult topic to comment on, because document sharing can be easily done by sharing directories/folders on a linux machine with samba, so windos users can access them, but if you want more then that, you'll have to built them yourself.
    As for applications like Microsoft's office tools and Notes, they often promiss things like "easy sharing of documents", but wether those functions are really usefull is not proven.
    One can think of solutions like using php, embperl or another scripting language in combination with Apache and samba to share and describe documents, with extra stuff like document history or short comments in a database, for example Mysql or postgres.
    We are currently investigating the document sharing options, looking at the commercial offerings, and will be either building our own system for it, and maybe opensourcing that, or helping out Midgard , which has very promissing plans in these directions too.

    M.Stolte, &Samhoud NetVenture
    www.samhoud.nl

  20. project managment on Open Source Project Management Guides? · · Score: 1

    bugzilla is an idea, www.mozilla.org, under projects, they also share other software/ideas for these kinds of projects.
    I do hope more people post ideas, cause i'm also looking into this subject right now for my business...
    If i find the time, i'll write some stuff about how it is done at themes.org, where i do community work.

  21. Re:Allows Linux client to use Exchange? on HP's OpenMail to support Linux · · Score: 1

    ehh..
    Exchange 5.5 does imap...and all kind of other more open standards stuff, but if you want more stability, i'd go with the exchange 5 server....which unfortunetaly doesn't do imap...So it's what u want..more open standards en younger (younger with M$ is more buggy), or older and more stable...we went for the latter, so i'm stuck with VMWare to read my mail, and most importantly, check my calender....The calender bit seems to be overlooked here...if one doesn't need the calender bit of exchange/outlook, all kind of other (even free in all aspects) servers come to mind..
    cyaz

  22. Re:Linux competition is GREAT!!! on SuSE 6.2 in August · · Score: 1

    Again, the included packages you mention are not free (i mean the free beer free here), but are for personal use, or shareware.....
    AND , if windows were allowed to include all of this, Microsoft would be more then happy to, and in that way, kill the competetion....

  23. vmware included on SuSE 6.2 in August · · Score: 2

    "Such programs include VMware 1.0, a shareware program"
    Excuse me, but if people want to try this out and pay for it, can't they just download it themselves? It's not to big and all, and why do we put shareware(==buyware) on cd's you already paid more then enuff for?
    Is it me, or Debian the only distribution really understanding Linux spirit?

  24. also on a ftp in europe as far as i could tell on kha0S Linux - It's all about Security · · Score: 1

    "The new snap is up. It can be obtained at the following sites:

    ftp.replay.com

    Due to U.S. restrictions on the export of cryptographic material, 0.99-pre4 is not available at ftp.kha0s.org
    "
    this is from their own site...www.kha0s.org, and the ftp site they mention there, ftp.replay.com DOES have the .4.....
    weird eh?

  25. Re:in english please on Ballmer: Apache is simply better · · Score: 0

    Well..i'd translate it if i had the time, but don't think that a reason for an english translation is slashdot's server location, since using english is more something like helping ALL the world to read these articles..