Safari's rendering engine is called WebKit and is based off khtml. All the enhancements that Apple made to khtml was brought back to the KDE/Konqueror project.
And yes, WebKit can be embedded (OmniWeb is a fine example of this).
From TFA: "Experts say spyware programs are also necessary for Windows users. Microsoft is offering a free beta version of its spyware program at www.microsoft.com/athome , and Webroot is offering its spyware program free to Colorado residents through April 15 at www.webroot.com Free spyware programs are available at www.download.com"
Of course Claria/Gator is also offering a free version of their spyware program, and it's not beta - it's an official, stable release, available to users from all over the world, and with no date limits!!
There are also other known spyware providers out there, all you have to do is to search the web for some pr0n and warez, and there you go.
Ringtones let you have an 'unique' sound on your phone in order to be certain when it's *your* phone that's ringing... sure, only if it's unique enough.
I recently got a SonyEricsson T630 and it's a pretty good phone. I uploaded a bunch of MIDI songs to it via Bluetooth which I got on various websites, so I paid nothing for these ringtones. My default one is, however, the sound of an old classic phone. I've put some particular melodic ringtones (all of them of classic TV series) to specific persons so I know when one of them is calling while I'm not close to my phone.
Getting a bit offtopic, perhaps someone could help me out with this one. I've got my T630 to work flawlessly via Bluetooth with my PowerBook. I've found Romeo to be a great piece of software for a great part of the SonyEricsson line of phones (it lets you use your phone as a remote control for a lot of applicationes - iTunes, DVD, Keynote, etc. - and is fuly scriptable via AppleScript). What I haven't been able to find, however (and I'm not pretty sure that such a thing exists) is some software for OS X which lets me use my Powerbook as a handsfree set. That's it, whenever I get a call, besides of being able to see who's calling and to pick up the call, I also want to be able to speak through the microphone of the PB and to hear the calling party through the speakers - just like with iChat, and all this via Bluetooth. Has anyone seen that kind of software, does anyone knows if such a thing exists or if it isn't possible at all to do?
Except that almost all of the computers used to send spam are compromised zombie hosts all over the Internet, varying from XP machines to poorly secured (or not secured at all) linux boxes, whose owners have no idea at all that their computers resources and internet connections are being wasted in sending thousands of messages an hour.
Regards,
If both Keynote 2 and Pages uses the same principle on their document formats as the original Keynote, it's nothing but open.
The Keynote documents (.key) are actually directories, not files, which have an XML file (presentation.apxl) and all the images, textures and data files used on it, on its original format (PNG, TIFF, etc.)
So I don't see how could this be 'another propietary Office format'. Given the facts just mentioned anyone could potentially write a Keynote viewer for Linux or whatever OS he/she might choose (or think of a Keynote to Magicpoint converter). Even the transition effects could be somehow recreated using OpenGL, as they're also into the XML file.
You are certainly doing something wrong. I have multiple points OpenVPN setups which only has dynamic IP address on all of them, using a dyn dns server, and it's always up and running.
Here is my config for all of the VPN gw's (/etc/openvpn/${HOST}.conf):
dev tun remote ${REMOTEHOST} ifconfig ${LOCAL_VPN_IP} ${REMOTE_VPN_IP} secret/etc/openvpn/${REMOTEHOST}.key route ${REMOTE_NETWORK} ${REMOTE_NETMASK} vpn_gateway 1 ping 20 ping-restart 60 persist-key ping-timer-rem persist-tun user nobody port 5001 verb 3 resolv-retry infinite
of course substitute all the variable names with your own values.
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.
The editor's note for this article is plain stupid
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I was playing Mortal Kombat when I was 12 and still I wasn't thinking on ripping people's head apart off on the street.
But a native port of GTK+ to OS X (via quartz/Aqua and not using X11) would be of great benefit.
I've been a GIMP user since its early days. I was a former Photoshop aficionado, and by far I think the GIMP's UI is easier to use and more intuitive of that of PS. The right-click menu just rocks, the floating and dockable toolbars and panels are really practical.
Almost 1 year ago I moved from Linux to OS X on the desktop. GIMP is still my favorite image manipulation software, but I would *really really* love to see it more integrated with the OS, as X11 is slow, bloated and unstable and just doesn't looks natural.
I know the GIMP developer aren't to blame for this, but a native port of GTK+ and its related tools to the OS X framework would be great, to eliminate the dependency on X11 and get a more 'at home' feeling with the app. It was already done for Windows and OS X *should* be easier AFAIK because all the underlying *NIX stuff is already there.
Fast User Switching, just two years after Windows XP introduced it.
OS X has had the called 'fast user switching' from day 0, ever since 2000 when the first release of OS X was announced.
It has been always present on UNIX-like operating systems and it's called su
So no, Microsoft didn't introduce it.
Nothing new to see here, move along
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There is a professional production 3D modelling software which has been doing this for years, it's called Z-Brush. Of course its UI is much more sophisticated (and complicated), but you can already see on its website that the results which can be achieved by its use are impressive to say the least.
BTW the colors for this slashdot section are _horrible_.
Does anyone around has used Xen on a real production environment like, say, a VPS provider? What About Linux Vserver (http://www.linux-vserver.org/)?
What are the real differences, besides the technical paravirtualization of Xen and the fact that the guest OS must be 'ported' to it in order to run it, and that Linux Vserver is for running Linux only? I mean in terms of performance, feature-richness, security, stability and scalability of both the host and guest OS? What about work under non-x86 architecures, like PPC/PPC64 or native AMD64 support?
I haven't been able to decide yet which would present an ideal solution for a partitioned VPS environment, so any help from you would be greatly appreciated.
I've seen in the Apple tech specs page that the Airport Express base station has a 10 user limit, where as the Airport Extreme has a 50 user one. Where does those devices applies their user limitation? Allocable IP addresses via DHCP? Bandwith? Or is there anything else?
Instead of shouting out stuff like that in a forum like this, you should probably write to the hardware manufacturers so they can *officially* support Linux on every and each of their products. There your crying will be much more useful.
It has a very similar licencing scheme to what RAV used to offer (before they were bought out by The Evil Empire. They license by domain, with a maximum of 3000 users.
It integrates easily with any MTA (works as a proxy), including my favorite qmail. Runs over Linux and various *BSD's. I've succesfully installed it over Debian (even thought only RPM packages are provided - they can be easily converted to.deb or whatever other package format your distro uses with the help of Alien). And you could always use it together with ClamAV, to doule-check your mail messages for viruses.
They also offer an antivirus solution for Samba servers, which provides real-time scanning and blocking of files when opened/closed from the network. It comes with a fixed price for server with an unlimited number of users and shares to protect.
The recomendation may com from a little closer - my company is a Vexira Reseller. But all in all it's a good solution and IMHO it has the most convenient licencing scheme.
It's an iBook G4. I'm now a happy and proud owner of such a machine, and user of both MacOS X Panther an Linux on it.
The first thing I did when I got my hands on it was to re-partition it's hard drive and install Panther. Then I followed the instructions on setting up the mother of all Linux distributions on it from here.
I did the initial install of the Debian GNU/Linux base system (not without having to use a different kernel image for the ATA support, among other things to fiddle with), but then I started to take a serious look at OS X. It's an impressive operating system, with such a lovely and responsive GUI but the real power of UNIX I'm all used to underneath. I installed lotsofopensourcesoftware that I've get used to and couldn't live without. It all works so smoothly and nicely along other native applications, such as iTunes, Mail.app, Safari, Keynote, etc. - you get the best of both worlds. You have fink, you have darwinports, there's even OpenOffice.org. And if you're a developer, you also got Xcode from Apple. As I said, the both of worlds. And for some extra bucks you can get back some of your most beloved features from the Linux world: WindowShade X is a fine example of it.
Panther is also packed with some neat features not present anywhere else. Finder, for example, if one of the best file manager I've ever used. And Expose - I really miss it when working on Linux. One of the most useful enhancements a desktop environment could have get, it's not only eyecandy.
But then the necessity came and striked me hard. I have a small Linux consulting company. I was in a meeting with a customer the other day, and he wasn't so convinced that Linux could be a _viable_ alternative on the desktop. He thought it was just a black screen with UNIX-y commands and such. And there I was, with my iBook with Debian loaded on it but with no desktop environment to show off. Just a black screen with UNIX-y commands and such.
So I spent the whole night that day googling around and finally got my iBook to work nicely with Linux 2.6.2, supporting almost every single feature that's present on it except for Airport Extreme and the sleep functionality, which are not supported: sound, networking, USB 2.0, firewire, the combo drive, the ATI Radeon 9200 with DRI, the special function keys, the CPU frequency scaling. I even configured it to use an hfsplus partition for the/home directory, so now I have a single home for both Linux and OS X. Same desktop, same config for common programs.
There are still some things that Linux can do better than OS X. Like OpenOffice.org or GIMP. Certainly both programs do exist for OS X but their performance and overall integration with the rest of the system is not so good.
The conclusion of it is that, even if MacOS X is one hell of an operating system, Linux is fun. I love to use the same plataform on my x86 desktop I've grown used to for more than 6 years than on my PPC based laptop. And I still have the chance to reboot and use Panther for the amusement of it.
One thing that I've been thinking of lately that is really a limitation for end users to adopt linux in the desktop is the (un)ability to easily share resources in a LAN environment.
I might be wrong at this, but I haven't seen in either GNOME or KDE something like 'right button click' -> 'share this folder' option, to get a list of the known users and automatically add it to the samba/nfs shares/exports list. If someone knows about some work being done in that direction, that would be a Godsend.
Kopete is one of them, and AFAIK it is (or will be?) the official KDE IM client. It supports multiple protocols and is based on a plugin system.
And just in case you're wondering for its name, Copete is like we call here in Chile to the alcoholic beverages (like booze), and the main Kopete developer and author is chilean.
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Safari's rendering engine is called WebKit and is based off khtml. All the enhancements that Apple made to khtml was brought back to the KDE/Konqueror project.
And yes, WebKit can be embedded (OmniWeb is a fine example of this).
Regards,
From TFA: "Experts say spyware programs are also necessary for Windows users. Microsoft is offering a free beta version of its spyware program at www.microsoft.com/athome , and Webroot is offering its spyware program free to Colorado residents through April 15 at www.webroot.com Free spyware programs are available at www.download.com"
Of course Claria/Gator is also offering a free version of their spyware program, and it's not beta - it's an official, stable release, available to users from all over the world, and with no date limits!!
There are also other known spyware providers out there, all you have to do is to search the web for some pr0n and warez, and there you go.
Ringtones let you have an 'unique' sound on your phone in order to be certain when it's *your* phone that's ringing... sure, only if it's unique enough.
I recently got a SonyEricsson T630 and it's a pretty good phone. I uploaded a bunch of MIDI songs to it via Bluetooth which I got on various websites, so I paid nothing for these ringtones. My default one is, however, the sound of an old classic phone. I've put some particular melodic ringtones (all of them of classic TV series) to specific persons so I know when one of them is calling while I'm not close to my phone.
Getting a bit offtopic, perhaps someone could help me out with this one. I've got my T630 to work flawlessly via Bluetooth with my PowerBook. I've found Romeo to be a great piece of software for a great part of the SonyEricsson line of phones (it lets you use your phone as a remote control for a lot of applicationes - iTunes, DVD, Keynote, etc. - and is fuly scriptable via AppleScript). What I haven't been able to find, however (and I'm not pretty sure that such a thing exists) is some software for OS X which lets me use my Powerbook as a handsfree set. That's it, whenever I get a call, besides of being able to see who's calling and to pick up the call, I also want to be able to speak through the microphone of the PB and to hear the calling party through the speakers - just like with iChat, and all this via Bluetooth. Has anyone seen that kind of software, does anyone knows if such a thing exists or if it isn't possible at all to do?
Regards,
Except that almost all of the computers used to send spam are compromised zombie hosts all over the Internet, varying from XP machines to poorly secured (or not secured at all) linux boxes, whose owners have no idea at all that their computers resources and internet connections are being wasted in sending thousands of messages an hour. Regards,
Man, I just clicked on the details of this story to post *exactly* what you said ...
Why, oh WHY would you want to buy your wife a PC when she asks you for a MacMini!! WHY?!?!
I'm gonna get one for my wife as soon as they become available here.
Have you ever used Keynote?
If both Keynote 2 and Pages uses the same principle on their document formats as the original Keynote, it's nothing but open.
The Keynote documents (.key) are actually directories, not files, which have an XML file (presentation.apxl) and all the images, textures and data files used on it, on its original format (PNG, TIFF, etc.)
So I don't see how could this be 'another propietary Office format'. Given the facts just mentioned anyone could potentially write a Keynote viewer for Linux or whatever OS he/she might choose (or think of a Keynote to Magicpoint converter). Even the transition effects could be somehow recreated using OpenGL, as they're also into the XML file.
Regards,
You are certainly doing something wrong. I have multiple points OpenVPN setups which only has dynamic IP address on all of them, using a dyn dns server, and it's always up and running.
/etc/openvpn/${REMOTEHOST}.keyr nobody
Here is my config for all of the VPN gw's (/etc/openvpn/${HOST}.conf):
dev tun
remote ${REMOTEHOST}
ifconfig ${LOCAL_VPN_IP} ${REMOTE_VPN_IP}
secret
route ${REMOTE_NETWORK} ${REMOTE_NETMASK} vpn_gateway 1
ping 20
ping-restart 60
persist-key
ping-timer-rem
persist-tun
use
port 5001
verb 3
resolv-retry infinite
of course substitute all the variable names with your own values.
Best regards,
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.
I was playing Mortal Kombat when I was 12 and still I wasn't thinking on ripping people's head apart off on the street.
But a native port of GTK+ to OS X (via quartz/Aqua and not using X11) would be of great benefit.
I've been a GIMP user since its early days. I was a former Photoshop aficionado, and by far I think the GIMP's UI is easier to use and more intuitive of that of PS. The right-click menu just rocks, the floating and dockable toolbars and panels are really practical.
Almost 1 year ago I moved from Linux to OS X on the desktop. GIMP is still my favorite image manipulation software, but I would *really really* love to see it more integrated with the OS, as X11 is slow, bloated and unstable and just doesn't looks natural.
I know the GIMP developer aren't to blame for this, but a native port of GTK+ and its related tools to the OS X framework would be great, to eliminate the dependency on X11 and get a more 'at home' feeling with the app. It was already done for Windows and OS X *should* be easier AFAIK because all the underlying *NIX stuff is already there.
Fast User Switching, just two years after Windows XP introduced it.
OS X has had the called 'fast user switching' from day 0, ever since 2000 when the first release of OS X was announced.
It has been always present on UNIX-like operating systems and it's called su
So no, Microsoft didn't introduce it.
There is a professional production 3D modelling software which has been doing this for years, it's called Z-Brush. Of course its UI is much more sophisticated (and complicated), but you can already see on its website that the results which can be achieved by its use are impressive to say the least.
BTW the colors for this slashdot section are _horrible_.
Yes, it's called DiscTree:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/disctree
Best regards.
Does anyone around has used Xen on a real production environment like, say, a VPS provider? What About Linux Vserver (http://www.linux-vserver.org/)?
What are the real differences, besides the technical paravirtualization of Xen and the fact that the guest OS must be 'ported' to it in order to run it, and that Linux Vserver is for running Linux only? I mean in terms of performance, feature-richness, security, stability and scalability of both the host and guest OS? What about work under non-x86 architecures, like PPC/PPC64 or native AMD64 support?
I haven't been able to decide yet which would present an ideal solution for a partitioned VPS environment, so any help from you would be greatly appreciated.
The iPod Video (or Video iPod, VideoPod, or whatever you want to call it) one step closer.
I know, mod me down redundant, but I just had to say it.
Regards,
Hmmm perhaps because Novell _OWNS_ SUSE now?
Regards,
As they, Microsoft, are the ones who bought RAV Antivirus exactly one year ago, just to make it disappear from the market.
RAV had one of the best and most attractive (in licensing terms) AV solutions for Linux and other *NIX mail and file servers.
Regards,
I've seen in the Apple tech specs page that the Airport Express base station has a 10 user limit, where as the Airport Extreme has a 50 user one. Where does those devices applies their user limitation? Allocable IP addresses via DHCP? Bandwith? Or is there anything else?
Instead of shouting out stuff like that in a forum like this, you should probably write to the hardware manufacturers so they can *officially* support Linux on every and each of their products. There your crying will be much more useful.
Regards,
It has a very similar licencing scheme to what RAV used to offer (before they were bought out by The Evil Empire. They license by domain, with a maximum of 3000 users.
.deb or whatever other package format your distro uses with the help of Alien). And you could always use it together with ClamAV, to doule-check your mail messages for viruses.
It integrates easily with any MTA (works as a proxy), including my favorite qmail. Runs over Linux and various *BSD's. I've succesfully installed it over Debian (even thought only RPM packages are provided - they can be easily converted to
They also offer an antivirus solution for Samba servers, which provides real-time scanning and blocking of files when opened/closed from the network. It comes with a fixed price for server with an unlimited number of users and shares to protect.
The recomendation may com from a little closer - my company is a Vexira Reseller. But all in all it's a good solution and IMHO it has the most convenient licencing scheme.
For more info visit: Vexira Website.
Regards,
It's an iBook G4. I'm now a happy and proud owner of such a machine, and user of both MacOS X Panther an Linux on it.
/home directory, so now I have a single home for both Linux and OS X. Same desktop, same config for common programs.
The first thing I did when I got my hands on it was to re-partition it's hard drive and install Panther. Then I followed the instructions on setting up the mother of all Linux distributions on it from here.
I did the initial install of the Debian GNU/Linux base system (not without having to use a different kernel image for the ATA support, among other things to fiddle with), but then I started to take a serious look at OS X. It's an impressive operating system, with such a lovely and responsive GUI but the real power of UNIX I'm all used to underneath. I installed lots of open source software that I've get used to and couldn't live without. It all works so smoothly and nicely along other native applications, such as iTunes, Mail.app, Safari, Keynote, etc. - you get the best of both worlds. You have fink, you have darwinports, there's even OpenOffice.org. And if you're a developer, you also got Xcode from Apple. As I said, the both of worlds. And for some extra bucks you can get back some of your most beloved features from the Linux world: WindowShade X is a fine example of it.
Panther is also packed with some neat features not present anywhere else. Finder, for example, if one of the best file manager I've ever used. And Expose - I really miss it when working on Linux. One of the most useful enhancements a desktop environment could have get, it's not only eyecandy.
But then the necessity came and striked me hard. I have a small Linux consulting company. I was in a meeting with a customer the other day, and he wasn't so convinced that Linux could be a _viable_ alternative on the desktop. He thought it was just a black screen with UNIX-y commands and such. And there I was, with my iBook with Debian loaded on it but with no desktop environment to show off. Just a black screen with UNIX-y commands and such.
So I spent the whole night that day googling around and finally got my iBook to work nicely with Linux 2.6.2, supporting almost every single feature that's present on it except for Airport Extreme and the sleep functionality, which are not supported: sound, networking, USB 2.0, firewire, the combo drive, the ATI Radeon 9200 with DRI, the special function keys, the CPU frequency scaling. I even configured it to use an hfsplus partition for the
There are still some things that Linux can do better than OS X. Like OpenOffice.org or GIMP. Certainly both programs do exist for OS X but their performance and overall integration with the rest of the system is not so good.
The conclusion of it is that, even if MacOS X is one hell of an operating system, Linux is fun. I love to use the same plataform on my x86 desktop I've grown used to for more than 6 years than on my PPC based laptop. And I still have the chance to reboot and use Panther for the amusement of it.
Regards,
One thing that I've been thinking of lately that is really a limitation for end users to adopt linux in the desktop is the (un)ability to easily share resources in a LAN environment.
I might be wrong at this, but I haven't seen in either GNOME or KDE something like 'right button click' -> 'share this folder' option, to get a list of the known users and automatically add it to the samba/nfs shares/exports list. If someone knows about some work being done in that direction, that would be a Godsend.
Regards,
You are a little bit confused over this one. KHTML is the Konqueror/Safari html rendering engine, like what Gecko is to Mozilla/Galeon/Firebird.
Kopete is one of them, and AFAIK it is (or will be?) the official KDE IM client. It supports multiple protocols and is based on a plugin system.
And just in case you're wondering for its name, Copete is like we call here in Chile to the alcoholic beverages (like booze), and the main Kopete developer and author is chilean.
Regards!