I hacked together a quick firefox plugin and posted it on mycroft. You can download it from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html. Search for bittorrent and click on the icon to install.
Did you look into using revision libraries at all? Additionally, what about using hard links when you check out the project? Cached revisions (a complete tarball up to patch-N)? Perhaps you should also consider multi-config projects... Tagged branches? There are plenty of ways to get around the "tla is slow" argument.
Package: cmt Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 232 Maintainer: Anand Kumria Architecture: i386 Version: 1.15-1 Provides: ladspa-plugin Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre6), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre6) Filename: pool/main/c/cmt/cmt_1.15-1_i386.deb Size: 58704 MD5sum: ccff75c4945cd4cf1e12bf37cb7b7930 Description: Computer Music Toolkit (cmt) a collection of LADSPA plugins
cmt -- Computer Music Toolkit -- is a collection of LADSPA compatible
plugins that any conforming program may take advantage of. .
Plugins available are: low/high pass filters, echo/feedback delay filters
with configurable delays from 0.01 to 60 seconds, amplifies, white and
ping noise generators, compressors, expanders, limiters, b/fmh encoders,
drum synthesizers, lofi (low fidelity), phase modulator (phasemod) and
many more .
These plugins are only usable in host applications, of which glame,
sweep and others can be found in Debian. .
For further information on cmt see http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/
You know, one thing I relaly hate about this change is that it makes it more difficult for support staff to download patches, hotfixes, and the like without having a Windows machine to do it. So we have the famous "chicken or the egg" question. I plan on installing an administrative workstation from which to grab these hotfixes and service packs, but I can't legitimately put it on the network until all the hotfixes and service packs are installed! Firewalls help, but have had nasty little problems in the past. For example, in Win2k, the interface is live before the firewalls kick in to protect them. It could be anywhere from 5 seconds to a minute before you're legitimately protected. This is proportedly not true with WinXPsp2, but I'm not taking any chances. Keep the NIC unplugged until you reboot...
I REALLY hate microsoft.
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(Stage Left) Enters the Controllable Regex Mutilator, crm114, with a noticable strut. He's been there, done that.
CRM114 is a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the incoming files or data streams according to the user's wildest desires. Criteria for categorization of data can be by satisfaction of regexes, by sparse binary polynomial matching with a Bayesian Chain Rule evaluator, a Hidden Markov Model, or by other means. Accuracy of the SBPH/BCR classifier has been seen in excess of 99 per cent, for 1/4 megabyte of learning text. In other words, CRM114 learns, and it learns fast.
suprnova.org probably doesn't want to be the world's supplier of content, even without the DDoS part. I find your reasoning completely backwards. Why should your Apache server be the only server?
What?! Don't you think supernova is making money with advertising on their site? They're known as one of the most popular Torrent sites. Do you really think they want to give up that popularity and ad revenue?
Here's a copy of a letter I wrote to the online Magazine editor that this article was posted on.
From: Chad Walstrom
Subject: Comment: Is Linux about to fork?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:43:15 -0600
To: kierenm@techworld.com
I'm writing to comment on the article "Is Linux about to fork?" written
by Paul Krill, posted on the 18th of November, 2004. Paul really
doesn't do his homework, does he? Nor does he understand the
development process of the Linux kernel. Linux has ONLY been around for
ten years, with a well documented idea behind the "fork" he is speaking
about.
Currently, the Linux kernel is at version 2.6.9, with 2.6.10 peeking
around the corner. This is the STABLE kernel, the one receiving most of
the attention over the last year or so. The kernel eventually always
forks to a DEVELOPMENT branch, in this case the 2.7 branch. Is Linux
about to fork? Yes! Does this have any correlation to the Unix idea of
forking? No!
Kernel-Trap.com covered the recent possible changes to the Linux
Development Model in http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3513. In general,
forks are good things in the Free Software environment; it's part of
life.
For a straight FAQ Q&A style of answering the question:
http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/kernel.html#linu x-versioning
Q: How Does Linux Kernel Versioning Work?
A: At any given time, there are several "stable" versions of
Linux, and one "development" version. Unlike most proprietary
software, older stable versions continue to be supported for as
long as there is interest, which is why multiple versions exist.
Linux version numbers follow a longstanding tradition. Each
version has three numbers, i.e., X.Y.Z. The "X" is only
incremented when a really significant change happens, one that
makes software written for one version no longer operate
correctly on the other. This happens very rarely -- in Linux's
history it has happened exactly once.
The "Y" tells you which development "series" you are in. A
stable kernel will always have an even number in this position,
while a development kernel will always have an odd number.
The "Z" specifies which exact version of the kernel you have,
and it is incremented on every release.
The current stable series is 2.4.x, and the current development series is 2.5.x. However, many people continue to run 2.2.x and
even 2.0.x kernels, and they als o continue to receive bugfixes.
The development series is the code that the Linu x developers
are actively working on, which is always available for public
viewing, testing, and even use, although production use is not
recommended! This is part of the "open source development"
method.
Eventually, the 2.5.x development series will be "sprinkled with
holy penguin pee" and become the 2.6.0 kernel and a new stable
series will then be established, and a 2.7.x development series
begun. Or, if any really major changes happen, it might become
3.0.0 instead, and a 3.1.x series begun.
Package: sc Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: math Installed-Size: 428 Maintainer: Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> Architecture: i386 Version: 7.16-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1) Description: Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings "Spreadsheet Calculator" is a much modified version of the public- domain spread sheet sc, which was posted to Usenet several years ago by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling. It is based on rectangular table much like a financial spreadsheet. . Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things like graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and quite easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it.
In Minnesota, XCEL Energy allows customers to elect to purchase a percentage of their electricity from wind-powered technologies. Now that my financial situation is a bit better, I'm considering paying 100% of our electricity bill on wind power.
file+[GLUE] and optionally, grep. GNU File is a nice utility to determine file types. From there, you could use some sort of glue language, such as Python or Perl, to perform the necessary actions when certain filetypes are found: decompress, index, etc.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't a plugin style grep utility already out there.
You know. I'm disappointed that/. would get this wrong. Although the content of this topic has it right, why would you then title it with "hacked" instead of "cracked"? Of all places,/. should be setting the bar by using correct terminology.
If I were given free reign to decide how to design the network, I would quickly install the Linux Terminal Server Project. Without going into a lot of details, here are some of your benefits:
Reuse older equipment
Operate diskless terminals (less moving parts, less breakage)
Centralized Management
Put money where it counts, in the servers and network infrastructure
Leverage the security of Linux (No Windows boxen getting infected)
IMHO, 90% of the operations office staff and library patrons perform do not require specialized, personal PC's. Diskless "thin" clients are by far the least problematic with respect to hardware failure or OS maintenance.
Unless you absolutely require Windows clients, which I highly doubt given that most Library databases are searchable via Internet or Intranet sites, stay away from them. If the recent IE exploits hadn't scared you away yet, nothing will.
I think you're going to have more issues with the hot-swapability requirement than with anything else. By requiring "inexpensive" RAID, you'll probably be looking at Parallel ATA or SATA IDE hard-drives. In order to have true "hot swap" capability, you will have to look into a hardware solution for RAID. In particular, you need a card that can handle not only the RAID portion, but the power management of the devices as well (this excludes your Promise and Highpoint cards). Software RAID or partial-software drivers are typically poor in this aspect (Windows and Linux alike).
Additionally, you will need sleds for most of your drives that are compatible with your RAID card. This isn't a difficult requirement, but be sure to consult the RAID card vendor for solutions that they support or know work. You can mount your spare drives internally w/o sleds; it's the "broken" drive you're interested in swapping out, not your spare(s).
My recommendations: 3ware Escalade 9000 series SATA cards. These are hardware RAID PCI cards that work in both Linux and Windows environments. If you go with the four disk controller, do RAID 10. If you go with the 8 disk controller, you can manage it into multiple arrays and have your choice of RAID's based on your application needs.
Now, if you're pinched for cash and running Linux, use a simple software RAID level 1 with three disks (one spare). Set up your disks pin-out to "Cable Select" so that when you pull out your "broken" disk, you'll still be able to boot (some BIOS's are really picky about that). The spare isn't necessary, and you won't have hot swap, but it'll be cheap and relatively reliable (with respect to hardware RAID 10).
Indeed, his cell phone started the fire, but it was the physical properties of the components of the phone that attributed to it. I theorize that the action of flipping his cell phone open generated static electricity (plastic parts moving against each other), which generated the charge that ignited the fuel.
What I find wrong with the electoral college is that ALL electoral votes from a given state go to the winnner of the popular vote. If the electoral votes actually represented the distribution of popular vote, in the 2000 election for the state of Florida, 13 votes would have gone to Bush and 12 votes would have gone to Gore. I don't have the time to compare every state, but I imagine we would have had a much closer race (if that is possible), and possibly a different outcome. This is an exercise for the bored. It would be interesting if someone could point out a site that displays these results.
I think you're being a bit too optimistic here. You simply cannot get away from the problems of scalability of this model. How do you propose to keep the voting citizenship informed of every bill and how it might impact their lives if it beocmes law?
How do you propose to maintain the art form that is used to write laws? Yes, I do mean art form. Laws need to be succinct, definitive, and without loopholes. Our full-time politicians and their lawyer-trained assistants have a difficult enough time with this.
Representatives are elected as watchdogs for those of us who don't have enough time to participate ourselves. They are our eyes and ears.
How do you propose from keeping big-money lobbiests form paying off the voting population? Don't you believe that voting activities and political activism wouldn't be monitored by special interest groups in any way they could manage. Even in a guaranteed anonymous vote, people will want to become involved in the political and democratic process. Wherever laws are written, you will find special interest groups and lobbiests.
Structuring a democracy in the manner you depict, although idealistic, isn't very practical. Yes, many improvements to the democratic process can be realized through electronic voting and informative websites, but it isn't the magic pill you invision. Let's not forget that not everyone has access to or wants to use the Internet.
I'm not an advocate of the "ignore the problem and maybe it will go away", but I can't help but feel that the highly public coverage of SCO's charade is nothing more than a method to inflate their stock. I honestly don't care any more.
Perhaps I'm placing too much faith in IBM, Linus, Red Hat, Novell, and numerous parties in their fight against the cancerous SCO, but I honestly believe that SCO has absolutely no chance of winning. If they did, we may as well quit our jobs right now before the market crumbles under their letigious ambitions drive us into the ground.
Let me reitterate. SCO, you have no chance of winning. Quit now and forever hold your peace.
...and your public key doesn't enter the Debian keyring unless you're a Debian Developer. Regardless, it is still an interesting topic for the end-user to keep tabs on. It will eventually affect how they use Debian.
Even if Debian stops supporting (distributing binaries and bug-tracking) non-free software, a new non-free repository will likely spring up quickly. Bruce Perens has already reserved the domain name nonfree.org (check 'whois nonfree') for this very purpose. It only needs a project team to implement the site/mirror/lists.
The problem isn't about listing contributors or copyright holders in a reasonable manner. The problem is with the "advertisement clause". With the exception of Public Domain licenses, in which the copyright holder waives his or her rights, or legal transfers, copyright of a work does not transfer with the work. Therefore, even in GPL compatible licenses, the original copyright holder MUST be listed in the copyright notices for the software. It doesn't mean that every copyright holder must be mentioned in ADVERTISEMENT for the software.
This type of clause is not there for legal reasons, rather for ego boosting and free advertisement. "I wrote this, therefore you must include me in all public advertisement." It burdens any distributors to include the advertisement clause with any archive, CD image, or boxed sets they make available to the public. This advertisement will cost money somewhere along the chain of disbursement. Whether it is in the cost of publication or the number of bits downloaded on the Internet, money is the issue. So, XFree.org expects distributors to foot the bill for advertisement of XFree.org's product. Do you now understand why distributors are rejecting the software?
And the flexibility allowed by C# is a lot better than that afforded by C/C++. The time to market is quicker, to boot. Lower time developing = Lower cost of making a program = Cheaper programs, more quickly updated.
This could be an argument for any number of languages: Python, Ruby, and even Delphi. IMHO, C# is a perfect example of NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome on the part of Microsoft. It urked them to no end that Sun was able to come up with a successfully marketed general application language.
If you feel the need to disagree with this license, make your voice heard via the statistics Microsoft collects in their license webform. Click "no". As tempting as it might be to download the software and port it to Linux, as someone mentioned, don't do it -- if you don't agree with the license.
If you are OK with Micro$oft potentially using your contributions for profit royalty free, go ahead and contribute. No one will begrudge you. It's your choice.
Bogus argument. SSH is large, but its functionality is well received. If you're looking for a small, simple encrypted remote login client-server, look into SSL(and SASL) enabled telnet. netkit ships with SSL support now. ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit. (The netkit README does not suggest running telnetd, however. Take it as you will.) The FSF also has a telnet daemon under the GNU inetutils project. I don't see SSL encryption, but I do see kerberos.
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I hacked together a quick firefox plugin and posted it on mycroft. You can download it from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html. Search for bittorrent and click on the icon to install.
Did you look into using revision libraries at all? Additionally, what about using hard links when you check out the project? Cached revisions (a complete tarball up to patch-N)? Perhaps you should also consider multi-config projects... Tagged branches? There are plenty of ways to get around the "tla is slow" argument.
The cmt plugins are used with the following audio editor programs: gnusound, beast, sweep, muse, and jack-rack.
Package: cmt
.
.
.
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 232
Maintainer: Anand Kumria
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.15-1
Provides: ladspa-plugin
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre6), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre6)
Filename: pool/main/c/cmt/cmt_1.15-1_i386.deb
Size: 58704
MD5sum: ccff75c4945cd4cf1e12bf37cb7b7930
Description: Computer Music Toolkit (cmt) a collection of LADSPA plugins
cmt -- Computer Music Toolkit -- is a collection of LADSPA compatible
plugins that any conforming program may take advantage of.
Plugins available are: low/high pass filters, echo/feedback delay filters
with configurable delays from 0.01 to 60 seconds, amplifies, white and
ping noise generators, compressors, expanders, limiters, b/fmh encoders,
drum synthesizers, lofi (low fidelity), phase modulator (phasemod) and
many more
These plugins are only usable in host applications, of which glame,
sweep and others can be found in Debian.
For further information on cmt see http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/
You know, one thing I relaly hate about this change is that it makes it more difficult for support staff to download patches, hotfixes, and the like without having a Windows machine to do it. So we have the famous "chicken or the egg" question. I plan on installing an administrative workstation from which to grab these hotfixes and service packs, but I can't legitimately put it on the network until all the hotfixes and service packs are installed! Firewalls help, but have had nasty little problems in the past. For example, in Win2k, the interface is live before the firewalls kick in to protect them. It could be anywhere from 5 seconds to a minute before you're legitimately protected. This is proportedly not true with WinXPsp2, but I'm not taking any chances. Keep the NIC unplugged until you reboot... I REALLY hate microsoft.
In Minnesota, XCEL Energy allows customers to elect to purchase a percentage of their electricity from wind-powered technologies. Now that my financial situation is a bit better, I'm considering paying 100% of our electricity bill on wind power.
file+[GLUE] and optionally, grep. GNU File is a nice utility to determine file types. From there, you could use some sort of glue language, such as Python or Perl, to perform the necessary actions when certain filetypes are found: decompress, index, etc. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a plugin style grep utility already out there.
You know. I'm disappointed that /. would get this wrong. Although the content of this topic has it right, why would you then title it with "hacked" instead of "cracked"? Of all places, /. should be setting the bar by using correct terminology.
IMHO, 90% of the operations office staff and library patrons perform do not require specialized, personal PC's. Diskless "thin" clients are by far the least problematic with respect to hardware failure or OS maintenance.
Unless you absolutely require Windows clients, which I highly doubt given that most Library databases are searchable via Internet or Intranet sites, stay away from them. If the recent IE exploits hadn't scared you away yet, nothing will.
Additionally, you will need sleds for most of your drives that are compatible with your RAID card. This isn't a difficult requirement, but be sure to consult the RAID card vendor for solutions that they support or know work. You can mount your spare drives internally w/o sleds; it's the "broken" drive you're interested in swapping out, not your spare(s).
My recommendations: 3ware Escalade 9000 series SATA cards. These are hardware RAID PCI cards that work in both Linux and Windows environments. If you go with the four disk controller, do RAID 10. If you go with the 8 disk controller, you can manage it into multiple arrays and have your choice of RAID's based on your application needs.
Now, if you're pinched for cash and running Linux, use a simple software RAID level 1 with three disks (one spare). Set up your disks pin-out to "Cable Select" so that when you pull out your "broken" disk, you'll still be able to boot (some BIOS's are really picky about that). The spare isn't necessary, and you won't have hot swap, but it'll be cheap and relatively reliable (with respect to hardware RAID 10).
What I find wrong with the electoral college is that ALL electoral votes from a given state go to the winnner of the popular vote. If the electoral votes actually represented the distribution of popular vote, in the 2000 election for the state of Florida, 13 votes would have gone to Bush and 12 votes would have gone to Gore. I don't have the time to compare every state, but I imagine we would have had a much closer race (if that is possible), and possibly a different outcome. This is an exercise for the bored. It would be interesting if someone could point out a site that displays these results.
How do you propose to maintain the art form that is used to write laws? Yes, I do mean art form. Laws need to be succinct, definitive, and without loopholes. Our full-time politicians and their lawyer-trained assistants have a difficult enough time with this.
Representatives are elected as watchdogs for those of us who don't have enough time to participate ourselves. They are our eyes and ears.
How do you propose from keeping big-money lobbiests form paying off the voting population? Don't you believe that voting activities and political activism wouldn't be monitored by special interest groups in any way they could manage. Even in a guaranteed anonymous vote, people will want to become involved in the political and democratic process. Wherever laws are written, you will find special interest groups and lobbiests.
Structuring a democracy in the manner you depict, although idealistic, isn't very practical. Yes, many improvements to the democratic process can be realized through electronic voting and informative websites, but it isn't the magic pill you invision. Let's not forget that not everyone has access to or wants to use the Internet.
If this isn't a hoax (it's not April 1st yet), it's quite amazing that the frog has lived as long as it has. That frog is lucky, I tell ya.
I'm not an advocate of the "ignore the problem and maybe it will go away", but I can't help but feel that the highly public coverage of SCO's charade is nothing more than a method to inflate their stock. I honestly don't care any more.
Perhaps I'm placing too much faith in IBM, Linus, Red Hat, Novell, and numerous parties in their fight against the cancerous SCO, but I honestly believe that SCO has absolutely no chance of winning. If they did, we may as well quit our jobs right now before the market crumbles under their letigious ambitions drive us into the ground.
Let me reitterate. SCO, you have no chance of winning. Quit now and forever hold your peace.
This post needs to be modded up and it's parent modded down for being misinformative.
Things to keep in mind:
- Debian measures the "freeness" of software by the Debian Free Software Guideline(DFSG)
- Non-free software as measured by DFSG may be free from a different metric
- Debian != FSF
Even if Debian stops supporting (distributing binaries and bug-tracking) non-free software, a new non-free repository will likely spring up quickly. Bruce Perens has already reserved the domain name nonfree.org (check 'whois nonfree') for this very purpose. It only needs a project team to implement the site/mirror/lists.This type of clause is not there for legal reasons, rather for ego boosting and free advertisement. "I wrote this, therefore you must include me in all public advertisement." It burdens any distributors to include the advertisement clause with any archive, CD image, or boxed sets they make available to the public. This advertisement will cost money somewhere along the chain of disbursement. Whether it is in the cost of publication or the number of bits downloaded on the Internet, money is the issue. So, XFree.org expects distributors to foot the bill for advertisement of XFree.org's product. Do you now understand why distributors are rejecting the software?
This could be an argument for any number of languages: Python, Ruby, and even Delphi. IMHO, C# is a perfect example of NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome on the part of Microsoft. It urked them to no end that Sun was able to come up with a successfully marketed general application language.
If you feel the need to disagree with this license, make your voice heard via the statistics Microsoft collects in their license webform. Click "no". As tempting as it might be to download the software and port it to Linux, as someone mentioned, don't do it -- if you don't agree with the license.
If you are OK with Micro$oft potentially using your contributions for profit royalty free, go ahead and contribute. No one will begrudge you. It's your choice.
Bogus argument. SSH is large, but its functionality is well received. If you're looking for a small, simple encrypted remote login client-server, look into SSL(and SASL) enabled telnet. netkit ships with SSL support now. ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit . (The netkit README does not suggest running telnetd, however. Take it as you will.) The FSF also has a telnet daemon under the GNU inetutils project. I don't see SSL encryption, but I do see kerberos.