Ravi, A Capitalist

I was searching for formosan termite control a while ago, to get some termite problems solved in my place. Below is what I got from Wikipedia about termites.

Termites, sometimes incorrectly called “white ants”, are a group of social insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera. (This has been challenged by recent research, see taxonomy below.) Termites mostly feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung, and about 10% of the estimated 4,000 species (about 2,600 taxonomically known) are economically significant as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests. Termites are major detrivores, particularly in the subtropical and tropical regions, and their recycling of wood and other plant matter is of considerable ecological importance.

As social insects, termites live in colonies that, at maturity, number from several hundred to several million individuals. They are a prime example of decentralised, self-organised systems using swarm intelligence and use this cooperation to exploit food sources and environments that could not be available to any single insect acting alone. A typical colony contains nymphs (semi-mature young), workers, soldiers, and reproductive individuals of both genders, sometimes containing several egg-laying queens.

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Here is a list of open source equivalents that I found at http://www.xboard.us/showthread.php?t=45587

I am pasting the contents of the page below, so that we can still get to see it just in case thepage goes away into archives or something in some time.

Commercial Software Category Open-Source Equivalent AntiVirus Tools (eg. Norton, McAfee) No open-source tools recommended
Use Grisoft AVG or AntiVir
Application Servers (eg. IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic) Enhydra
JBoss
JOnAS
Tomcat (servlet container)
Zope
Asset Management (eg. Intuit, Peregrine, Remedy) IRM
Audio Editing (eg. Sony Sound Forge, Syntrillium Cool Edit) Audacity
GLAME
Backup Utilities (eg. CA ARCserve, Legato, Veritas) Amanda
BackupPC
Bacula
Rsync
BioInformatics (multiple highly specialized vendors) Open BioInformatics Foundation
OpenInformatics
Business Graphics (eg. Microsoft Visio) Dia
Kivio
OpenOffice Draw
StarOffice Draw
Xfig
CD / DVD Burning (eg. Adaptec RecordNow, Roxio CD Creator) ECLiPt Roaster
X-CD-Roast
Configuration Management (eg. IBM Rational ClearCase) Arch
CVS
OpenCM
PRCS
RCS
Stellation
Subversion
Content Management Systems (eg. Documentum, Interwoven, Vignette) Bricolage
Drupal
eZ publish CMS
Joomla!
Lenya
Mambo
OpenCMS
opensourceCMS
PHP-Nuke
phpWebSite
Plone
PostNuke
Xaraya
CRM Applications (eg. Microsoft CRM, Siebel) Anteil
Compiere
SugarCRM
vtiger CRM
Database Software (eg. Microsoft Access, SQL Server) Firebird
Gaby
Ingres
Knoda
MySql
Novinyl
PostgreSQL
Qddb
Database Tools (eg. Crystal Reports, ERWin, Microsoft Access) Agata Report
DBDesigner 4
mySiteMaker
OpenRPT
Total Rekall
Desktop Publishing (eg. Microsoft Publisher, Quark Xpress) Scribus
Directory Servers (eg. Microsoft Active Directory) OpenLDAP
Disk Imaging (eg. Norton Ghost) Mondo
Partition Image
E-mail Applications (eg. Microsoft Outlook Express) KMail
Mozilla and Thunderbird
Sylpheed
Ximian Evolution
E-mail List Manager PHPlist
E-mail Servers – POP and SMTP (eg. Microsoft Exchange) Exim
qmail
InterNetNews
Majordomo
Postfix
SendMail
SquirrelMail
E-mail Servers – IMAP Courier IMAP
Cyrus IMAP
UW IMAP
ERP and Financial Software (eg. Oracle, SAP, Intuit QuickBooks Compiere
GNUCash
GNU Enterprise
NOLA
Open for Business
OpenMFG
SQL Ledger
Tiny ERP
TurboCASH
webERP
FAX Server (eg. Biscom) HylaFAX
File Compression (eg. PKzip, WinZip) 7-zip
Ark
bzip2
gzip
Flash Viewers (eg. Macromedia Flash) Flash for other OS’s
Forums, Blogs (Weblogs) or Bulletin Boards EasyMoblog
phpBB
Pivot
Thingamablog
WordPress
YaBB
Yet Another Forum.net
Graphics and Image Editors (eg. Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop) CinePaint
GIMP
ImageMagick
Inkscape
Karbon
Sodipodi
Groupware (eg. Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes) dotProject
Horde
Kolab
Lucane
Mimerdesk
OpenGroupware
Open-Xchange
phpCollab
phpGroupWare
PHProjeckt
TUTOS
Help Desk (eg. BMC Remedy, FrontPage Heat, Intuit Track-It) Bugzilla
Information Resource Manager
OneOrZero
phpSupport
php Support Tickets
RT: Request Tracker
HTML Editors (eg. DreamWeaver, FrontPage, HomeSite) Bluefish
Mozilla Composer
Nvu
Quanta Plus
Instant Messaging (eg. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!) Ayttm
Gaim
GnomeICU
Licq
Integrated Dev Environments (eg. Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio) Anjuta
Eclipse
GLADE
GNU Compiler Collection
GNU Project Debugger
NetBeans
XEmacs
Learning (or Course) Management System Moodle
Modeling Tools (eg. IBM Rational Rose, CA AllFusion) ArgoUML
Network Diagramming and Monitoring Cacti
Ethereal
Etherape
JFFNMS
Kaboodle
MRTG
ntop
RRDtool
Snort (intrusion detection)
Network Management Tools (eg. HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS) BO2K
Cheops
Nagios
OpenNMS
Webmin
Office Productivity Suites (eg. Microsoft Office)
GNOME Office
KOffice
OpenOffice
StarOffice
Operating Systems (eg. Microsoft Windows) freeBSD
freeDOS
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OpenSolaris (Sun)
Samba (file/print services)
PDF File Viewer and Creator (eg. Adobe Acrobat) GhostScript
PDFCreator
Personal Financial Managers (eg. Microsoft Money, Intuit Quicken GNUCash
Grisbi
jGnash
Personal Information Managers (eg. Microsoft Outlook) Aethera
KDE-PIM
Linux Organizer
TreeLine
TuxCards
Ximian Evolution
Photo Album Manager (or Photo Organizer) digiKam
Portal Servers (eg. Microsoft Sharepoint, Plumtree, Vignette) Gluecode (built on open source)
GridSphere
JBoss Portal
Liferay Portal
Metadot
Presentation Software (eg. Microsoft Powerpoint) OpenOffice Impress
StarOffice Impress
Privacy (eg. Pretty Good Privacy) AxCrypt
GnuPP
GPG
TrueCrypt
Programming Languages Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Project Management and Collaboration (eg. Microsoft Project) Achievo
GanttProject
GanttPV
Mr Project
NetOffice
Open Workbench
Outreach Project Tool
Planner
TUTOS
Remote Access (eg. Symantec pcAnywhere or VPN appliances) OpenVPN
rdesktop
Stunnel
tinc
UltraVNC
VNC – Virtual Network Computing
Security (eg. firewalls, scanners) Firestarter (firewall)
IPCop (firewall)
Nessus (scanner)
Nikto (scanner)
Nmap (scanner)
Paros (proxy)
SmoothWall (firewall)
Spam Filters (eg. MailWasher, SpamEater) MailScanner
POPFile
SpamAssassin
SpamBayes
Spreadsheets (eg. Microsoft Excel) Gnumeric
OpenOffice Calc
StarOffice Calc
Terminal Server (eg. Microsoft Windows Terminal Server) Linux Terminal Server Project
Test Tools (eg. IBM Rational, Mercury Interactive, Segue) Apache JMeter Load Tester
JUnit Testing Framework
Open-Source Test Tools List
Text Editors (eg. Microsoft Notepad) Emacs
gedit
gnotepad+
JEdit
Vim
Text File Merging (eg. Araxis Merge, Microsoft WinDiff) WinMerge
Video Editing Jahshaka
VirtualDub
Video Players (WinDVD, PowerDVD, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer) MPlayer
RealPlayer for other OS’s
Virtual Meetings (eg. Microsoft NetMeeting / Messenger) GnomeMeeting
Web Browsers (eg. Microsoft Internet Explorer) Galeon
Konqueror
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Web and FTP Servers (eg. Microsoft IIS) Apache HTTP Server
FileZilla
ProFTPD
Squid Proxy and Cache
squidGuard Access Controller
Word Processors (eg. Microsoft Word) AbiWord
OpenOffice Writer
StarOffice Writer

Proprietary Add one.
Open Source Software (OSS) 3D Studio Max / Maya / Lightwave … Add one.

Blender Open source 3D modelling and animation.
ppModeler 3D modeling software distributed free of charge.
Wings 3d 3D modler
Access Add one.

Arrange Very new, uses web browser for front end, any DB supported by PHP for the backen
Bond Database gui development tool
Gaby Small personal database using GTK+.
Knoda Tables, queries, forms, reports. ODBC/MySQL support.
MySql light and powerful.
Novinyl Flatfile KDE casual database.
Open Office 2.0 Version 2.0 is awesome!
OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Base module) currently in beta stage
PostgreSQL
Qddb Casual database with report generator
Rekall Most similar to Acess 2000′s ADP files used to access another database
SQLite Very small database but fully functional
Acid Music Add one.

Audacity
Rosegarden 4 Rosegarden is an open source digital audio workstation program developed for Lin
Wired Wired aims to be a professional music production and creation software for linux
Adaptec Toast Add one.

Cd burner xp pro shareware(unlimited) cd burner application. free
ECLiPt Roaster
gcombust Not so updated lately, but one of the better Gnome(GTK) frontends
K3B K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux systems optimized for KDE
xcdroast Will be shown at CHLUG September 10 meeting.
Adobe Acrobat Add one.

Adobe 7
Foxit Reader single file, thumb drive friendly
GPdf
KPDF KDE PDF viewer for KDE 3.2 and up
PDFCreator !! Do not confuse with PDF Creator !!
Xpdf
Adobe Illustrator Add one.

Inkscape Slighly light on features, but the ease of use ranks up there with CorelDraw
Karbon seems to be the new name for KIllustrator
OpenOffice.org2 Draw
Sketch
sodipodi Nice vector drawing program
The GIMP
Adobe Photoshop Add one.

GIMPshop The GIMP with menus and shortcuts like Photoshop.
Photofiltre Not quite as advanced as photoshop, but has many of the same useful features.
Positron OpenSource Non-Liniar Video Editing
THE GIMP
Adobe Premiere Add one.

Cinelerra
kino
OpenVIP
Adobe Type Manager Add one.

Adobe- After Effects Add one.

Altova XMLSpy Add one.

EditX Everything thats in pro is here. open-source edition avail
MlView
Xerlin WILBNI U had a few columns 4 users stars, platforms supported, sw desc
Apple- Final Cut Pro Add one.

Arabesque (NetManage) Ecco Pro Add one.

Araxis Merge(http://araxis.com) Add one.

araxis
Araxis merge
KDiff3 Very good Diff/Merge tool.Works on both Windows/Unix
meld 3 way merge, Unicode support, directory diff…
WinMerge Pretty good file comparing tool but definitely needs improvement
Arcview Add one.

GRASS
JUMP
Quantum GIS
SAGA GIS
SAGA-GIS
askSam Add one.

ASP Add one.

mod_perl
mod_python
Mono
PHP server side scripting language
Autodesk Autocad Add one.

A9CAD A free 2D CAD drafting software.
BRLCad Powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
ProgeCAD LT 2006 Not Open Source, but freeware AutoCAD Clone for Windows
QCAD computer aided drafting in two dimension…
SagCad SagCAD is a CAD/CAM of 2D. Designed for the X Window System, it uses the GTK+ 1.
Varkon Cad 3D – Expert users
Babylon Add one.

Band-in-a-Box (pgmusic.com) Add one.

Best Software Timeslips Add one.

Journyx
Blackboard/Web CT Add one.

Dokeos Learning Content Management System to create an on-line school
Moodle AFAIK, no 1 open source LMS/VLE
Blue Screen of Death Add one.

Linux
No OSS alternative available
Bulletin Board Software Add one.

FUDforum FUDforum is a highly customizable forum package, with a large feature set.
PHPBB
vBulletin work on linux just fine
wtcBB
Camsoft ChemOffice Ultra Add one.

MDL IsisDraw However,only ChemOffice files (for mole are accepted by most scientific journals
Coldfusion Add one.

PHP Putting the “P” in LAMP
Zope
Corel Bryce 5 Add one.

Blender
Crystal Reports Add one.

JasperReports
Papyrus XML reporting tool
DirectX Add one.

OpenGL
Simple Directmedia Layer
DivX Add one.

FDDSHOW Exellent filter to read divx xvid and more …
FFMPEG/libavcodec Lots of codecs including MPEG4
XviD Faster encoding and better quality than DivX
DocuMagix PaperMaster Add one.

DVD Viewer (WinDVD, PowerDVD, Windows Media Player, Realplayer) Add one.

Helixplayer open source media player for Linux, Solaris and Symbian.
Mplayer
Ogle
Totem
VLC I feel is the best dvd player for Linux
Xine
ERP Add one.

Compiere Good alternate for SMB
OpenMFG This software may have ‘open source’, but it is by no means free.
OpenMFG Other ERP programs run in UNIX, this one is specifically opensource
ERWin Add one.

Agata Produces schema diagrams, reports and graphs from many database (New Link)
Agata Report Will produces schema diagrams as well as reports and graphs from many databases
DBDesigner4 build dB schema for MySQL
Etherman Add one.

Etherape
Ethereal network analyzer, open source
Finale Add one.

GNU Lilypond Music Typesetting Software
Fineprint 2000 Add one.

Fruityloops Add one.

LMMS Looks Great, GUI as beautifull as Fruityloops
Getright Add one.

Downloader for X
GIF Add one.

MNG Multi-image PNG
PNG
Granada Primary Branch (educational) Add one.

Groove Add one.

OpenGroupware Mission: To create, as a community, the leading open source groupware server…
Homesite HTML Editor Add one.

Bluefish Excellent HTML editor for Linux
Nvu A Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop like Dreamweaver for Windows
Quanta Plus
HP OpenView Add one.

Argus
Big Sister a clone of Big Brother
Cheops
Nagios Network/systems monitoring
IBM DB2 Add one.

MaxDB Certified by SAP for use in their products
ORACLE
Insightful S-PLUS Add one.

R
Java Virtual Machine Add one.

Firebird (interbase)
IBM J2SDK IBM’s Java Virtual Machiene for Linux
JSP Add one.

PHP php hypertext preprocessor
Lotus Improv Add one.

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Ever feltlike lookin like an LAPD cop and show off your gear to friends? Wear the same type of clothes, carry knives, get footwear, holsters, under armour and tactical gear and stuff?

Well, L.A. Police Gear, Inc. was founded by Los Angeles area Police Officers. The business has grown and changed greatly over the years and now serves the general public, military personnel, security professionals, and of course police officers

This should be the best video editing software in known memory. And there is no real equivalent for this softwre in open source. And it is not available for linux. Too bad, it is available only for Windows.

Bill did put in a lot of bugs for windows, but he created something else as well to Windows. It is a licnese. And so, other software people who wanted to produce software commercially followed suit. Companies like Adobe would never get into open source. They need the money if they want to develop, and they dont really want to serve theopen source community.

As long as it is not open source, they wouldnt bother to bring it to linux. It is not a software for everyone. It is for professional video editors, and they would certainly pay the license fee for the software.

What is the difficulty that they find in making a Linux verstion of the software? Well, there are too many distros of linux. Linux is opensource, and they really cant charge much to get their software paid for by a linux user. Graphics is still regretfully low in Linux, while Windows gives good eyecandy.

However, as long as you can pirate windows, you can pirate premiere too. I think it is best for all software developers to generate a fund for their company, and move everything to open source, or atleast make the software free and restricted.

I dont need premiere. I dont do video editing. Im not that creative anyways, and I dont shoot videos. But earlier I was using premiere to convert the video formats of my favourite porn, stuff like AVI to MPG conversion and MPG to DVD and stuff. Though there are a lot of open source equivalent for these video conversions, I still prefer Adobe Premiere for the job. I must say, it rocks.

If you have a good set of contacts, leads and a mailing list, your marketing and sales part would be a lot simpler. Have you ever thought about it that way? When we are talking about mailing lists, we are not talking aboutmailing lists downloaded from some yahoo group or collected illegally. We need good Opt In email ids, and email ids that are sure to respond. We wouldnt be wanting to be sending mails just to any id that we have and end up wasting our time you know.

And we could also use a telemarketing team, and sites like salesprospects.com can provide us with telemarketing list and many other details of prospective clients who would really show some conversion.