Things To Download 122
I've taken the liberty of combining together a number of different submissions we've received. First off, Network Magic recently came out with a new version of their software (tour on link). It's Windows-based primarily, but having tested it out on Mac/Linux/Windows-mixed network, it's worth checking out. Another individual pointed out that SourceForge Enterprise is now a 15 seat free download; you can also grab the ISO in Torrent form. (SourceForge is made by the other arm of the company that owns Slashdot, VA Software). Lastly, a couple of folks seem to have rediscovered the joy of Audioscrobbler and sharing the stuff via last.fm. Fun stuff.
sourceforge? (Score:5, Informative)
trac is much better. way cleaner and simpler interface, and _excelent_ integration with subversion.
also, it's free.
http://trac.edgewall.com/ [edgewall.com]
Re:sourceforge? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:sourceforge? (Score:1)
I've had better milage with tying Mantis in with Subversion, works well for large quantities of development projects. Okay there's no wiki included with such a setup but it's not hard to set one up. As always YMMV.
Re:sourceforge? (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Re:sourceforge? (Score:4, Interesting)
They really need to streamline the installation so the standard (say) Dreamhost domain can run it before they can take over a lot of this market.
Re:sourceforge? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:sourceforge? (Score:2)
They really need to streamline the installation so the standard (say) Dreamhost domain can run it before they can take over a lot of this market.
#emerge trac
Then do whatever configuration. Done.
Another poster mentioned "app-get trac" (
Re:sourceforge? (Score:2)
I'm running the latest version of trac (manual download & install) supported by all it's libraries (apt-got)...
That's on a server I have root access to though -- If you can't install the one or two packages it depends on via apt (eg, you aren't root) you need to build everythiong from python up for yourself :-/
I do wonder why it isn't in the one-click install list though, surely it can't be that hard for DH to push the necessary support libraries to all their servers? As said, it's painless once the
Re:sourceforge? (Score:2)
Re:sourceforge? (Score:2)
However I have tried the sfee free edition a couple of weeks ago and I was quite impressed
Re:sourceforge? (Score:3, Insightful)
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
Re:sourceforge? (Score:1)
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Re:sourceforge? (Score:3, Informative)
One thing going for them is that with a 504MB download for what can't be more than a few MBs in code if you try really hard, surely pr0n is in
Re:sourceforge? (Score:2)
Except that Trac does something completely different from Sourceforge EE. I'm currently evaluating options for setting up a common "intra-Sourceforge" to cut academic application development costs, and SFEE is currently on the top of the list while Trac isn't on the list at all. Too bad that the sales people at SF don't seem to want our money at all, they don't seem to be very good at answering email.
I'm of the opinion, though, that open sourcing SFEE would quadruple their sales pipel
New Amanda (backup software) release download (Score:3, Insightful)
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html [zmanda.com]
no problem, it will not be "used" (Score:2)
Oglepoly. (Score:2, Funny)
Two more and you'll be an octopus.
Audioscrobbler = last.fm (Score:1, Redundant)
Submitter is a dolt... Audioscrobbler started off as a school project, but after a while, they went commercial, and are now last.fm.
It's the same technology, it's just a new marketing name for it.
Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:2, Insightful)
Last fm [www.last.fm] is a standalone player that implements the Audioscrobbler functionality. Audioscrobbler is STILL available in plugin form for Winamp [www.last.fm], iTunes [www.last.fm] and Windows Media Player [www.last.fm].
Perhaps the submitter is a dolt but at least he read the fucking page.
(Last fm == Standalone player) && (Audioscrobbler == plugin)
LK
Re:Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:1)
Comment is not very insightful, as it merely says the same exact thing as I was saying; the change is in marketing names, not anything else.
Audioscrobbler effectively became last.fm (try going to ; it simply redirects to last.fm.
So while the plugin is still called Audioscrobbler, it's not like it's a separate product; in fact, before the site and plugin used to be called Audioscrobbler, and now just the plugin is. But again, it's just a name change.
I suppose you can say that when they went commercial,
Re:Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:1)
No, I didn't repeat you. You are incorrect. Last fm is a standalone player. Audioscrobbler is a plugin for myriad players.
LK
Re:Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:2)
Audioscrobbler and Last.fm have existed for quite some time. Last.fm is the "commercial" side of the company, while audioscrobbler was (as you state) the name of the plugin that lets you update your online profile.
Now, they have been two very related things since the beggining, (when there was NOT a stand alone player).
There was a time when the two pages where completely different. Now they are just the same.
"last.fm" in a sense is nothing more than a name. The "stand alone player
Re:Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:1)
http://www.audioscrobbler.net/ [audioscrobbler.net]
Check it out.
Re:Audioscrobbler != last.fm (Score:1)
No, Last.fm is a company and website.
Last.fm Player is the player application that they produce.
Audioscrobbler is the brains behind both the player and the website.
They are all owned and developed by last.fm, and the last.fm website effectively subsumed the original Audioscrobbler site.
Audioscrobbler wasn't always just the name of the plugin, it was the whole website and tracking system as well!
Not exactly what you were saying.
Re:Things To Download - Try imeem (Score:2)
Say it ain't so Joe! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Say it ain't so Joe! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Say it ain't so Joe! (Score:1)
Re:Say it ain't so Joe! (Score:1)
Yes (Score:2)
Re:Say it ain't so Joe! (Score:5, Funny)
Network Magic? (Score:2)
Re:Network Magic? (Score:3, Interesting)
I currently have three computers all running XP, all in the same workgroup and they can only access each other by IP address. It's a PITA to share files and printers. I'm very computer literate and could probably do some research to figure out what's going wrong. Iit's not exactly on the top of my list, and it might be worth the price for network magic to solve the problem for me.
Re:Network Magic? (Score:3, Informative)
This is because NetBIOS browsing is (ahem) t3h suXX0r. It's never been dependable. If you want to browse by NetBIOS name (computername), you need to resolve that to an IP address. A WINS server can handle that for you. If you want to browse by hostname (FQDN), you'll need to resolve that to an IP address. An internal DNS server can handle that for you. But network browse lists o
Mod Parent Up (Score:1)
I Thank you, Mr. Nougat, for your post. I fear no one else will
Re:Network Magic? (Score:5, Insightful)
Windows XP has horrible networking. If you are on Domain, you get to offload the pain to a domain admin (unless you ARE the domain admin...) but for workgroups, the suffering is all yours.
Right now I have a network with the following characteristics:
The current situation is this:
Machine A can see Machine B, and can look at, upload to, and download from B's folders.
Machine B CANNOT see Machine A at all.
Machine B can see Machine C.
Machine A can see Machine C.
Machine C cannot see ANY machine.
Another form:
A-->B
B-->C
A-->C
So to get a file from A to B or from B to A is easy, go to A, copy to or from B.
Getting a file to C is also easy, just go to A or B and put the file on or take the file off of C.
So technically I can "do" any possible transfer.
Damned if it isn't STUPID and MESSED UP though.
Oh and don't even go to printer sharing. The original idea was to have A act as a print server for B and C. Of course nobody can actually see A, so that didn't really go over that well.
Mind you I have NEVER seen a Windows network setup as eloquently as a *nix network. On *nix, I just go to any machine and lo and behold, I can see every other machine on the network, use any printer, and if I login to multiple machines at the same time (most often using SSH) any changes I make to a file in my home directory on machine A is almost instantly transferred to ALL other machines that I am logged on to. This is incredibly convenient for testing network client/server apps.
Windows, in comparison, has this entire synch on login/logoff thing going on, and the login process can take upwards of 2-3 minutes per machine! (Depending on the stupidity of how the domain was setup, some domains work better than others...)
Now when it comes to network printing, Windows domains have got *nix beat.
"Well what you do on *nix is you memorize the printers magic number, no, there is no searching GUI listing of printers setup, then you drop to the command line and pipe the file you want to print to the printer."
Okay....
Yes, I have seen *nix networks setup better than that, but I have encountered that level of stupidity too many times. Thankfully I have never needed to print a file with graphics in it (or any file that is not in plain text) on such a network!
In conclusion, we, Computer Scientists, are complete and utter idiots who cannot program a decent system for the life of us.
Something so simple, so very very simple....
What the heck is wrong with us? It should NOT be complicated. I have had times where, when on a LAN, it was faster to BURN A CDR than to try and get networking up and running. Some times networking works, some times it doesn't. When it does, great, when it doesn't, oh well.
Computers should not be non-deterministic.
I really love those situations when two identical machines in identical states have the same operations applied to them in the same order, and two different results end up happening. That is cute folks, really cute[1].
[1]By cute I mean "Somebody should be pounded in the head with a sledgehammer".
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2)
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2)
The strangest thing that has happened to me so far: Ever since the last reinstallation of my parents' Windows (on a clean hard drive, no less) NTLOGON refuses to accept any login from the network. No configuration issue, no nothing. All requests get denied with a "wrong password", even for the passwordless, permi
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2)
That's weird. Last I checked, CUPS has automatic printer sharing (using UDP broadcast). When I set up a LaserJet on my sister's computer, it could instantaneously be used on all other computers on the same link (of cour
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2, Informative)
Microsoft likes to advertise how "simple" it is to setup a Windows XP network.
If I need to spend that much time learning, then it isn't simple.
Anyways, I have spent oodles of time setting up networks, in my experience, when
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Your hub is from '97? Wow. Are you sure it's not a hub issue? You've swapped/replaced the hub to verify this?
My home network consists of:
1 XP desktop
1 XP desktop (wireless)
1 XP laptop (occasionally wireless)
1 98 desktop
1 linux desktop (acting as web server)
1 w2k desktop (acting as firewall/router - don't ask, it was NOT my first choice
All are connected to a
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
You do realize that hubs are simple electrical repeaters, and unless my old hub violates the laws of physics that it should work just fine?
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2, Informative)
What I was trying to show in my orig post is that I have a system that is in some ways similar to yours (multi-XP), and in other ways
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Ah, now, I am in Computer Science, so my tendency is to think that one of my kind messed up somewhere. :)
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Now I have had that type of thing happen. One time there was a power surge through my cable tv line that managed to blow my network gear. I had a cable modem, which is plugged into the cable line. Damned if that wasn't the ONLY wire that was
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2)
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Now why the HELL would I go and setup a SECOND DHCP server and a SECOND DNS on top of the ones that already exists on the other end of my hub?
Also, maybe you didn't realize this, the software linked to in the article is for HOME NETWORKS. Why the hell should someone need a DNS/DHCP server to send a file from Computer A to Computer B when both computers are ALREADY on the same network?
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
The situation is better now than it used to be - when I held LAN parties in the late 90s, at least 2 hours would be spent each time yelling "My computer can see yours, can
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2)
Because that's how TCP/IP works. Why the hell should I use the steering wheel on my car when I want to drive to the shops? Oh wait, you have to.
Windows does automatically assign a 169.x.x.x IP if you cannot get a DHCP server. This is a hack designed to help you get up and running, not run a network on a permament basis. For one, it only occurs after a length
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
If that was true, then none of my machines would be able to access any of the other machines, but some of my machines CAN access other machines.
And I do have DNS resolving set up, just fine.
Maybe I should explain the (overly retarded) network layout a bit better:
I am in an apartment complex. The entire apartment is on a stupid switch[1] (it d
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Oh, typing IP addresses in w
Re:Network Magic? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Network Magic? (Score:1)
Unsurprisingly, getting that in Linux took me under a minute, gui-only. I don't want to sound like a linux fanboy, but Windows networking will never be really easy if anything but the basic features
And this does what for me? (Score:1)
Re:And this does what for me? (Score:2)
What if you payed for your big fat pipe but already have 10 porn movies in the "to wank" queue. You could still do something to prevent your isp from benefiting from their overbooking.
Re:And this does what for me? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And this does what for me? (Score:2)
Sourceforge (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Open [wired.com] Source [computerworld.co.nz] is [zdnet.co.uk] totally [eweek.com] unprofitable [arstechnica.com]
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
The volunteers aren't directly rewarded financially (as if that was our motivator!). I write software because I enjoy writing software (though I don't call my software "Open Source" - it's Free Software).
Just because the relationship isn't directly finnacial doesn't mean that the relationship is exploitive (though some companies do actively exploit our communities - Microsoft and Apple in particular have used code without returning improvements).
These
Re:Sourceforge (Score:2)
Better for Slashdot. (Score:5, Interesting)
o/t: Is this a porly concieved Slashvertisement???
Re:Better for Slashdot. (Score:1)
heh heh
Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:5, Informative)
This is Slashdot, after all, did we forget?
Okay, sorry, Last.fm is kind of free, but still they need to restore the ability to play an mp3 stream with the player of your choice, not just their clunky custom software.
Regarding Player of Choice (Score:1)
Re:Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:1)
2. Click wrench icon
3. Click "Use external player"
4. ???
5. Profit!
This is not perfect, of course, but it still gives you the Last.fm player's controls like "I love this song," "Ban this song from my personal radio station," and "Skip to the next song."
Re:Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:3, Insightful)
Um...and just WHY would anyone be interested in downloading any of this non-free garbage? Especially Sourceforge.
Um... for support?
This may not appeal to the hobbyist, but some people here are in the business of developing software.
Paying a few hundred dollars per month so to have someone accountable for your support applications may work out to be a lot cheaper than spending your valuable time doing it, or hiring someone for that task.
Re:Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:1)
If anything, open source support should be cheaper for the customer due to FOSS support companies competing to support a variety of open products, rather than the customer getting stuck with a single vendor for each piece of proprietary software they buy.
You seem to be under the illusion that all FOSS software is only suitable for hobbyists and won't work in a business because nobody will support
Re:Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:2)
Of course it can. Which is why, when making a purchasing decision for software, you need to consider _all_ the alternatives and pick whatever's best. Including both FOSS and commercial/proprietary stuff.
Ideology should have, at best, a secondary place in the decision. I've seen as many companies get bogged down with open source stuff that was chosen for poor reasons (i.e. because it was free r
Re:Can you say more Non-Free than cheap beer? (Score:2)
This is Slashdot, after all, did we forget?
I'll not mind pointers to any interesting program, "free" or "non-free," however you choose to define it.
I haven't the faintest trace of ideological purity or political correctness when it comes to the use of my personal computer, which is why, I suppose, I am a likely candidate for migration to Vista.
That said.
I have been frustrated more than once in trying to find free
SourceForge prices... (Score:2)
The On-Demand product is $100 per developer per month ( $50 for first project ).
For the MicroISV type companies, the firms SF.net would appeal to most, that might be a bit steep. Especially compared to downloading the open source components and configuring them for themselves.
How about a bare-bones offering for about $10-20 per developer per month, and charges additional based on usage?
Network Magic? (Score:1, Troll)
Hamachi (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Hamachi (Score:2)
Re:Hamachi (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Hamachi (Score:2)
Re:Hamachi (Score:2)
Hamachi'd computers will not be able to communicate with 5.x.x.x I-net peers if Hamachi is running.
Re:Hamachi (Score:2)
I thought that a zero-configuration VPN was too good to be true, but after successfully using it behind a few very restrictive firewalls, I'm willing to believe it's true. As a nice bonus, the security is very good. It's definitely the coolest bit of technology I've used this year.
Things to download? (Score:1, Funny)
But... (Score:1)
Clog the tubes.... (Score:1, Offtopic)
I have to say this to that senator btw: "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...."
Any alternatives to Network Magic? (Score:1)
Then I went through auto-update land and it all came tumbling down. ^%%!!!!*****! (and then the "wizards" that "auto-muck" without checking if they have permission added in their damage) Attempts to re-configure and return to functionality failed. (Even did system restores on everything to back when it was all healthy and wor
Network Magic could be great.... (Score:2)
If they could add adjustable polling intervals/schedules and (the single biggest ommision) notification on failure options (page, email, SMS, etc) it would be really useful for monitoring in small shops.
Re:What the heck (Score:4, Insightful)
1) Have a separate TCP/IP configuration for each network (I hear this will be added in Vista. Blah.)
2) Manually choose which AP I wish to connect to, if there are more than one around.
Re:What the heck (Score:2)
Network Magic is specifically *FOR* Windows uses, in as much as it is *FOR* morons. I generally consider that to be the same thing.
Re:What the heck (Score:2)