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You can download version 1.3 or later and try out for yourself.

You can also download free documentation and manuals here and start experimenting. You'll see gimp has enough functionality to keep you busy for some time. Most of the things you learn on gimp are still valid when (if) you switch to photoshop.

Personally, and regarding basic operations, i found the gimp easy enough, compared to photoshop, but the interface needs to get better on things like rotation. Let's see the 2.0, though.

They're still a software firm. Did you interview with Tim Bray of XML fame, perhaps? The web demo I saw way back when used ODP data and a lot of Java.

Despite the problems with Google, it's still the best place I've found to get good info. The trick is to be very careful about how you search for something by adding in search modifiers such as "-sale" or "-bargain" or "review" to weed out the overtly commercial results. But even then, things have changed and not for the better.

-S

Actually ISO does have a standard for time (ISO 8601).
<date> = yyyymmdd
four-digit year (yyyy), two-digit montho (mm), and two-digit day (dd). Use Gregorian calender.
<time> = hhmmss
two-digit hour (hh), two-digit minute (mm), at least two-digit second (ss). Note that second is floating point, so it could be something like 02.12836192 if that level of precision is required.

For specifying date and time together, use this format:
<date>T<time>

More details of the format are available. There are also many more resources avalable on-line that detail the isues involved with international time and extensibility. Furthermore, most databases have already had to tackle this problem. You will find their solutions to be similar.

Please mod this up if for no other reason because I took the time to properly format the HTML even with all the "Character references" needed for the angle brackets.

> A RDBMS for storing user data is nice, but do you want your /sbin or even /usr/bin stored in an RDBMS?

Why not? Provided the RDBMS is the primary storage component in the database. Speaking of that, not only storage: memory could also be organized in a relational manner.

In the end we'd have a situation similar to Lisp hackers' relationship with Emacs: the RDBMS is my OS, [Linux|Hurd|BSD|whatever] is my microkernel. Nicest of all is that we could even have a relational, functional ([Lisp|Scheme|ML|whatever]) language in the same level occupied by C and libc in POSIX.

> Even with a true database-based system, there has to be a decent way to organize binaries outside of the database.

A relational system would be able to efficiently give any file any number of locations in any number of hierarchical namespaces you choose to.

Just remember SQL is enough, SQL not being relational.

Politicians are useless. Law enforcement bodies don't even have cyber-crime issues anywhere on their priority list, much less the resources to fight it.

I encourage the population to engage in a number of active efforts to negate the value all these advertisers have, and their tendency now to bombard us all into oblivion with their repetitive, misleading and obnoxious messages.

* When you get spam, report it to Spamcop. Don't even bother with cutting-and-pasting the html source, the web hosting companies of spammers don't care about complaints. Make sure the complaints go to the ISPs who manage the IP space the spammer is operating from. But more importantly, when you report spam to spamcop, the source gets immediately flagged as a spammer and thousands of systems around the world refuse to accept mail from the source. It's VERY effective and the sooner you report spam, the more effective it is. The crap messages don't even get to peoples' mail servers this way. It WORKS!

* Turn off your TV and refuse to let yourself be turned into a quivering ADHD blob with the constant barrage of commercial suggestions. If you must watch TV, do yourself a favor and get a TiVo (it will be the best money you ever spent) and record what you want, when you want, take back your life and best of all skip the commercials!

* If you're feeling the need to waste time complaining, send a letter to your congressman and senators telling them that if they don't put more resources into cyber-crime enforcement you'll make it the center of your life to ensure they can't get elected to anything ever again.

* Spread the word that the only realistic solution to spam is licensing outbound mail relays via a sanctioned body that is nowhere near as incompetent as ICANN. We need an opt-in, international SMTP mail relay whitelist with ethical rules for being included.

* If you've had any bad experiences with companies who've ripped you off, do us all a favor and put up a web page on it and list it with the search engines. Peoples' apathy towards getting railroaded encourges the continuation of these scams. Know someone who's been burned by home-mortgage scams? Publish it! Put it out there forever. Every little bit helps to educate the feebleminded populace,make them more skeptical of suggestions (as well as editorial packaged as "news") and negate the value of quantum advertising.

* Forget client-side e-mail filtering as a spam solution. It will never work and it is a black hole of resources, time and money. Filtering is good for viruses and idiots who still insist on clicking attachments, but it won't ever do much for the spam problem.

* Encourage your ISP to employ relay blacklisting to thwart spammers so they can't even connect to remote systems.

* If you still find yourself occasionally watching tv and are annoyed at misleading ad campaigns, do what I do: dial the 1-800 number repeatedly over the course of the commercial's airing, making the advertiser's efforts counterproductive and sending a message that you're tired of being bombarded, emotionally manipulated and lied to.

* Don't buy any products advertised in any manner in which you find offensive or annoying regardless of the quality/desireability of the product.

* If you still feel your penis isn't big enough, just go to the local store and buy some multi-vitamins or just deal with it. You don't need a bigger penis, newer car, a George Forman grill, closet organizer, no-money-down real estate, second mortgage, questionable mexican placebos packaged as drugs, or to see Holly hump a German Shephard. Pick up the phone and go hang out with friends who like you for who you are and don't buy into the media's constant message that you're inadequate and money will solve this.

From your article: ...``What would happen if everybody did this?"

Are you very familiar with Immanuel Kant's philosophy? I like his Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative, the principle you refer to there.

Good article.

Do what else online? But crap?
write a webpage, setup ftp, http, mail, etc. servers, write a program, improve a program, read slashdot, be an editor for the open directory project, and there's a lot more after that.

But if I told you I had something that would not just cure but outright prevent cancer and specifically the most lethal cancer, the type that causes 30% of all cancer deaths, wouldn't you be interested?

It's not sexy, it's not high-tech, it's not at the cell level, but I have a vaccine for the most lethal cancer. It's called tobacco prevention. It's proven effective and cost effective.

Tobacco product causes 30% of all cancer deaths in America.

The most effective way of fighting those deaths is not at the cellular level, when the cancer has already started. The most effective way is prevention, reducing tobacco consumption as rapidly and effectively as possible.

This is not sexy, doesn't involve high tech -- and there's nothing high tech cancer cures have ever delivered that even comes close.

Put yourself in an oncologist's shoes and think about it.

Better yet, think about all the people you know, and chances are you knew someone who died from tobacco product. You should. This product kills 1 out of 5 Americans.

You want to fight cancer? Stop it before it starts. Learn about tobacco .

Learn about the scope and scale of the problem, the big picture

Learn about what tobacco product does to the customer, to those nearest the customer, to all of us:

Learn how tobacco product is engineered, marketed, and spread across the globe:

And, if you decide you do want to do something about this, learn what and who you will be fighting, and how to fight effectively.

It's not sexy, it's not high tech, but it's nothing less than a vaccine for cancer, and it works.

If anyone considers that such URL-blocking should be open-sourced, take a look at DMOZ, which maintains a classification of nearly every website on the internet, as RDF which can be parsed into categorised URL lists:

Data can be downloaded here, and the site list is about 300MB in size.

Actually, the directory is simply a reformatted version of the Open Directory, so MS would have to fight yet another OSS project to get control of Google's directory. Nutch looks like it could be the open source candidate, and AllTheWeb is the closed source candidate for a new search engine (it can search for audio or video). AllTheWeb doesn't have a Usenet search, but they do have a file search (think of putting ANYTHING in the filetype: parameter). Maybe Deja.com could buy Google Groups back (if GG were bought by Deja.com, the domain would be available - deja.com points to groups.google.com)...

... when it comes out. I'm just guessing on the content of this article since it's already Slashdotted and no one seems to have posted a copy, strangely enough, but it seems that he's beored with over-defined "games" that require significant blocked time effort and mandate certain types of social interaction to achieve anything "fun".

Frankly, maybe you should re-visit the type of "game" you play. I plan to start Uru (aka Mudpie, aka Online Myst) as soon as it comes out for just this reason. You completely free to explore on your own, and you're also able to explore with others, if you so desire.

More info:

Open Directory Project on Myst

Uru Live

Double Choco Latte is part of GNU Enterprise. It has nice screenshots.

Dmoz has a bigger list of project management tools.

I personally have never found one that did what I wanted without making me do too much. That applies to bosses as well.

BTW, if Verisign is trying to defend itself as "just trying to be helpful", I offer this rebuttal. I compared Versign's search with ODP's on search topics with which I'm familiar. Verisign wasn't even in the same ballpark. The Versign search results were heavy on their advertisers and light on content. For helpful, you'd be better off with someone else's help.

There are lots of misguided rants on the Net, and even some good stuff... but there are lots not yet there, specially if the authors are the kind of ethical lone rangers who don't get alond with corporate sponsors, or if the subject matter simply isn't simple or fashionable enough to be cheap to produce and publish on spare time.

For example, there is lots of stuff about various SQL and pseudo-SQL (think MySQL) implementations, but woefully little about the relational model of database management; there is lots about fashionable application servers, but little about their more solid antecessors, namely TP monitors, and the whole theory of transaction processing.

Not to mention real books that convey in-depth information are so much more pleasurable to read, at least until we have GNU/Linux UMTS handsets to read digital text.

• contractor punch lists
• P.E.R.T. charts
• A replacement for Microsoft Project
• Emergency notification call list trees
• Web site content change propagation update tool
• Human Resource function support (Did Bill, tell his department? How about Sue? ... )
• Legal case tracking
• And of course, nachos :-)

dmoz, because it's open.

also Wikipedia, if it counts.

For example Node A searches only for movie reviews. Anyone seaching for anything related to movie reviews would be pointed to Node A.
Node B would find results for movie stars and therefore be linked up to Node A.

Each node could could handle multiple subjects and many nodes could have redundant subject coverage.
It wouldn't necessarily be a direct replacement for Google but it could provide some interesting results.

But it sounds like Google is already doing it better than WhittleBit. The system that you describe is much harder to abuse since it is analyzing what the user actually does rather than what the user says. The only case where I can imagine the Google technique failing is if the user clicks on a site that s/he likes, but has already seen, then immediately clicking back to Google. Also, doesn't Google already incorporate sites from dmoz.org? That is another 'human touch.'

I didn't read all the comments, but I'm surprised nobody posted some of these links:

Another case in Slashdot, some years ago. An Australian got his money back.

Windows Refund Day

Windows Refund category in the Open Directory Project.

I bought an used laptop (3rd hand!), and it didn't have M$ Windows, but SUSE. I formatted it anyway, and installed Debian :-)

If everyone started downloading legal music instead, we would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start buying CDs from indie bands, and seeing their shows, instead of enriching the major labels every time you buy a Britney or New Kids CD. The RIAA would also have no cause to complain - these music downloads are not copyright violations because the artists give you permission to download them.

Probably the best known site for downloading MP3s is of course MP3.com . See especially their genre index . Click the link. You will be quite astounded at how many genres there are.

Unfortunately the website usability of MP3.com is atrocious, and their streaming audio seems to be buggy - I can't get it to work in either Explorer or Mozilla. To get an MP3 file to download to your hard drive, you have to register, which I'm sure will result in merciless spamming. May I suggest registering with a throwaway email address from spamgourmet ?

The Open Directory Project has Bands and Artists and Styles indices. Not all the artists offer downloads, but the site says they list 48,000 artists and I imagine many of them offer downloads.

There are better sites for hosting MP3s than MP3.com. Some of them allow you to buy the band's CD from the same page as the MP3 download. Among them are The Internet Underground Music Archives, CDBaby, Epitonic.com, Lulu, SoundClick, Matador Records and insound .

Monotonik provides BitTorrents with zip files containing 60 to 100 MP3s apiece available here.

If you prefer the higher quality, patent-free Ogg Vorbis files you can find several download sites here . Ogg Vorbis players are available for many platforms - WinAmp will play them on Windows, and I understand iTunes on Mac OS X supports Ogg now. There are open source Linux ogg players and encoders, even an open source fixed-point decoders for embedded applications where the CPU doesn't have floating point hardware.

There are also peer-to-peer applications for distributing legal music. See Furthur Network and konspire[2b] .

Unfortunately, musicians are often not very good website designers, so poor usability is a significant obstacle to getting music directly from artists' websites. If you're a musician, and you'd like to know how you can improve your website so more people will download your music, please read my article If Indie Musicians Wanted Their Music Heard....

Finally, there is the problem of finding the music that's actually worth listening to. The labels do serve the (somewhat) legitimate purpose of picking out the good from the bad. But we can do that ourselves with legal downloads by using collaborative filtering, for example by downloading our music with iRATE, which you'll find at

If everyone started downloading legal music instead, we would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start buying CDs from indie bands, and seeing their shows, instead of enriching the major labels every time you buy a Britney or New Kids CD. The RIAA would also have no cause to complain - these music downloads are not copyright violations because the artists give you permission to download them.

Probably the best known site for downloading MP3s is of course MP3.com . See especially their genre index . Click the link. You will be quite astounded at how many genres there are.

Unfortunately the website usability of MP3.com is atrocious, and their streaming audio seems to be buggy - I can't get it to work in either Explorer or Mozilla. To get an MP3 file to download to your hard drive, you have to register, which I'm sure will result in merciless spamming. May I suggest registering with a throwaway email address from spamgourmet ?

The Open Directory Project has Bands and Artists and Styles indices. Not all the artists offer downloads, but the site says they list 48,000 artists and I imagine many of them offer downloads.

There are better sites for hosting MP3s than MP3.com. Some of them allow you to buy the band's CD from the same page as the MP3 download. Among them are The Internet Underground Music Archives, CDBaby, Epitonic.com, Lulu, SoundClick, Matador Records and insound .

Monotonik provides BitTorrents with zip files containing 60 to 100 MP3s apiece available here.

If you prefer the higher quality, patent-free Ogg Vorbis files you can find several download sites here . Ogg Vorbis players are available for many platforms - WinAmp will play them on Windows, and I understand iTunes on Mac OS X supports Ogg now. There are open source Linux ogg players and encoders, even an open source fixed-point decoders for embedded applications where the CPU doesn't have floating point hardware.

There are also peer-to-peer applications for distributing legal music. See Furthur Network and konspire[2b] .

Unfortunately, musicians are often not very good website designers, so poor usability is a significant obstacle to getting music directly from artists' websites. If you're a musician, and you'd like to know how you can improve your website so more people will download your music, please read my article If Indie Musicians Wanted Their Music Heard....

Finally, there is the problem of finding the music that's actually worth listening to. The labels do serve the (somewhat) legitimate purpose of picking out the good from the bad. But we can do that ourselves with legal downloads by using collaborative filtering, for example by downloading our music with iRATE, which you'll find at

Probably the best known site for downloading MP3s is of course MP3.com. See especially their genre index. Click the link. You will be quite astounded at how many genres there are.

Unfortunately the website usability of MP3.com is atrocious, and their streaming audio seems to be buggy - I can't get it to work in either Explorer or Mozilla. To get an MP3 file to download to your hard drive, you have to register, which I'm sure will result in merciless spamming. May I suggest registering with a throwaway email address from spamgourmet?

The Open Directory Project has Bands and Artists and Styles indices. Not all the artists offer downloads, but the site says they list 48,000 artists and I imagine many of them offer downloads.

Better sites for hosting MP3's than MP3.com are Epitonic.com and insound.

If you prefer the higher quality, patent-free Ogg Vorbis files you can find several download sites here. Ogg Vorbis players are available for many platforms - WinAmp will play them on Windows, and I understand iTunes on Mac OS X supports Ogg now. There are open source Linux ogg players and encoders, even an open source fixed-point decoders for embedded applications where the CPU doesn't have floating point hardware.

There are also peer-to-peer applications for distributing legal music. See Furthur Network and konspire[2b].

I'm sure if more people availed themselves of the wide variety of music available for free download, we will make short work of both the RIAA and ClearChannel. Our lives would also be richer for it.

Probably the best known site for downloading MP3s is of course MP3.com. See especially their genre index. Click the link. You will be quite astounded at how many genres there are.

Unfortunately the website usability of MP3.com is atrocious, and their streaming audio seems to be buggy - I can't get it to work in either Explorer or Mozilla. To get an MP3 file to download to your hard drive, you have to register, which I'm sure will result in merciless spamming. May I suggest registering with a throwaway email address from spamgourmet?

The Open Directory Project has Bands and Artists and Styles indices. Not all the artists offer downloads, but the site says they list 48,000 artists and I imagine many of them offer downloads.

Better sites for hosting MP3's than MP3.com are Epitonic.com and insound.

If you prefer the higher quality, patent-free Ogg Vorbis files you can find several download sites here. Ogg Vorbis players are available for many platforms - WinAmp will play them on Windows, and I understand iTunes on Mac OS X supports Ogg now. There are open source Linux ogg players and encoders, even an open source fixed-point decoders for embedded applications where the CPU doesn't have floating point hardware.

There are also peer-to-peer applications for distributing legal music. See Furthur Network and konspire[2b].

I'm sure if more people availed themselves of the wide variety of music available for free download, we will make short work of both the RIAA and ClearChannel. Our lives would also be richer for it.

And how about it being the new home of the Open Directory Project too? Just a thought..

I must say that while working at a VA hospital last year I was very much impressed with their computer system.

The VA is the largest healthcare organization in the US, so they have the resources to build their own system. Contrary to what I was expecting, it is intuitive, just plain works, and IMHO blows away the stuff from Cerner or Meditech.

They have been working on it for twenty years, so it has the advantage of maturity, but even the newer bits such as windows interfaces running on Citrix are nice and stable.

Some background on the system can be found here.

Seems that is is mostly implemented in MUMPS so they score poorly in the buzzword complience department.

Anyways, I was just surprised that the government sometimes does seem to "get it".

Question: What would you substitute for Powerpoint?

Instead of using images.google.com, why do you not go to websites specialized on this topic?

Go to dmoz.org and browse through the categories a little bit, you will come up with following categories:

• Photography: Stock: Royalty Free
• Graphics: Clip Art: Public Domain
• Graphics: Clip Art

• also check here

All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.

You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.

Instead of using images.google.com, why do you not go to websites specialized on this topic?

Go to dmoz.org and browse through the categories a little bit, you will come up with following categories:

• Photography: Stock: Royalty Free
• Graphics: Clip Art: Public Domain
• Graphics: Clip Art

• also check here

All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.

You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.

Instead of using images.google.com, why do you not go to websites specialized on this topic?

Go to dmoz.org and browse through the categories a little bit, you will come up with following categories:

• Photography: Stock: Royalty Free
• Graphics: Clip Art: Public Domain
• Graphics: Clip Art

• also check here

All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.

You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.

Instead of using images.google.com, why do you not go to websites specialized on this topic?

Go to dmoz.org and browse through the categories a little bit, you will come up with following categories:

• Photography: Stock: Royalty Free
• Graphics: Clip Art: Public Domain
• Graphics: Clip Art

• also check here

All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.

You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.

If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I would want to sack any Microsoft board of directors that used the company's resources for anything other than increasing the bottom-line.

Really? Does that mean if a company had the opportunity to take action resulting in the deaths of many, many people, that you as a shareholder would be in favor of it as long as it benefitted the "bottom line"? That saddens me, and certainly such things happen (not really talking about MS here, it could be any company).

But many investors' wishes are more complex than that. Witness the growing number of "socially responsible" mutual funds. Those investors (and I'm one of them) have more on their mind than driving the stock price up at any cost.

Most of the action in the world of free music is people making old, public-domain sheet music available on the web, sort of like Project Gutenberg does for books. Here is a relevant Open Directory category. (Just so you don't think I'm a total whiner, here is some PD music I've transcribed myself.)

Doh, not my day.
Here ya go. Looks like the server is kinda erratic tho.

Schaum's aren't designed to be used as primary texts (believe me, if they were they'd cost a lot more); they're meant to serve as supplementary texts. Having seen the light I'd say skip the college algebra and take a crack at abstract and linear algebra first but that's just me...

That all said, take a gander at DMOZ's listing of online math texts. My general experience with people publishing online math / science texts is that they're really glad when people report errata.

1. Only allow those ports that are absolutely necessary - i.e. HTTP, FTP, SMTP,...
2. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
3. Err on the side of being too restrictive.
4. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
5. Absolutely keep up to date with your virus signatures and patches for your workstations and servers.
6. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
7. Find a few quality security web sites (securityfocus.com, cert and others - check out DMOZ for a nice list of links...) and put them on your daily visit list. Make sure to go to several sites daily and use them to triangulate on what's relevant and important.
8. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
9. Visit the IT Security Cookbook and enjoy!!!
10. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
11. If you're running a web server on your network, check out the open web application security project. The OWASP Top 10 is a great tool to get you to think about how your web sites can be made more secure
12. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.
13. Know that you're not ever going to secure everything 100% , but if you make security one of your daily duties and take a proactive approach to security instead of a reactive approach, you'll do better than 99% of the networks out there. Just be diligent, use common sense and stay on top of patches/updates and you'll be fine.
14. Review log files daily. Make it part of your religion. Log files. Review. Daily.

> you can't own up to a simple oversight

I did say I was sorry, and did explain why I didn't care to read into the page referred, and I did correct my negligence. What else do you want, chest thumping?

> you feel it's your place to make judgement calls on the value of words

And why not? Do you think Marketspeak isn't misleading, or that it is useful or beautiful?

> I'm not familiar with "relational prescriptions and proscription"

I would refer you first to Christopher J Date's and Hugh Darwen's The Third Manifesto there isn't much on the site, I point it to you more as a reference to the book. I keep some more links at DMoz, and if you have a tough skin you can try Chris J Date's and Fabian Pascal's Database Debunkings.

Sorry about not doing a write-up, but on one hand I am looking for a job now and on the other I don't think Slashdot is the place to do education (as opposed to discussion).

> What if you could easily generate the SQL from the XML, or vice versa?

Well, assume that the XML schema did convey all the possible information in SQL. SQL is the standard, why create yet another language? Now assume the XML schema can convey even more information than SQL. In this case, I would rather use something terser, clearer, more straightforward such as Tutorial D or D4 or any other declarative D.

> Torque can automatically generate the XML from an existing database, though it's not flawless yet. So you don't have to duplicate your effort, if you started with SQL.

That would be kinda OK, if I can continue keeping my SQL and just regenerate the changes incrementally and transparently.

But I fool myself: I don't actually like OO, I would rather program functionally. The real problem isn't to have something to interface SQL and OO, but something to replace SQL that would be fully relational and thus satisfy OO requirements.

As a wise man once said - "Documentation is like sex, when its good, it's very very good, and when it's bad, its better than nothing". Oh, and The Open Directory Project can be helpful when looking for links for help.

Shameless plug -- they might find my Interactive Color Wheel to be quite fascinating and educational.

I don't have any favorites, but DMOZ has a huge selection of kid-specific links here.

Well for goodness sakes. This is a guy who has his own category in Google Directory, under Computers, History, Pioneers.

Well, it's really DMOZ's directory in rearranged order, since Google uses them as the source of their indexes:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/History/Pioneers/Engelba rt,_Douglas

Easy to overlook, since it's always a switch when Google has to outsource...

dmoz.org?

Also provides content for the Google Directory.

All human-edited, of course, which was what Yahoo was once so proud of.

If I want to look through sites that have been picked by humans, I know where the Open Directory Project is. I know where Yahoo's directory is. I know that google can show open directory content sorted by page rank. Its not so hard to go there on my own. Most of the time I search for things that are far more obscure than what will be listed in the descriptions of sites in a directory.

... though I do wonder whether providing the Web APIs altogether is a very smart move from a purely commercial brand-building perspective. There are tons of Google add-ons floating about the place. GoogleAlert is a relatively new kid on the block.

According to Google and Dmoz, DDR is classified in the Music and Dance genre. The Dmoz structure changed about 2 years back though -- before then the genre was called "Rhythm and Dance". I'd just call it/them "Music Games" myself though :)

It is both a value and the greatest risk introduced by the advent of the web, that now fringe ideas can be sought out and the relitively few indeviduals who share these ideas can congregate and cooperate to advance their ideals in a society where those ideas are in the extreme minority. In fact, you can now insulate yourself from reality by seeking out nerws sources and those of similar fringe ideoligies, and limiting your world view, by surrounding yourself with those who share your fringe ideals.

This allows the crackpots who were once spread thinly throughout society, to become a meaningful force within modern social styructures.

Google has positioned itself as one of the few gatekeepers between the majority of internet users, and these fringe ideas. It is neither right nor wrong, that the management of google has deemed certain material, not worthy of delivery to users. Google as a corporation has a mission; to deliver the greatest shareholder value. Google management has decided that in order to deliver the greatest value, they must provide results which the greatest number of users, find acceptable, appealing, or otherwise paletteable. They're in this to make money, not as a public service. That's what the Mozilla Directory Project is for.

--CTH

http://dmoz.org/Adult

Then click on something like image galleries, and free, or if you want, avs, pay, or whatever. All categorized for you, and from what I've seen, virtually no popups and great descriptions.
The movies section also has a free section, although this needs to be added to in my opinion.

URL: http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/links.html

System information and emulators

Commodore 64/128

The Commodore 64 is based on the 6510 CPU, which is a 6502-derived 8-bit CPU. It has 64k of RAM and 16k ROM which includes a BASIC interpreter and some basic I/O services. Graphics is provided by the VIC chip which has 16 colors and a maximum resolution of 320x200 in hi-res mode. It provides a 40x25 raster of characters in character mode. The three voices of digital sound is produced by the SID chip.

The Commodore 128 is an extended version of the Commodore 64 that contains a 8510 CPU which is capable of 2 MHz operation and can address 128k RAM (hence the name Commodore 128). It also has a Commodore 64 compatibility mode which is extremely similar to a regular C64 but with a few minor differences.

The SuperCPU is a 20 MHz 16-bit 65816-based computer that is plugged into the back of the Commodore 64 or 128. It uses the C64 keyboard and joysticks for input and the VIC and SID chips for audiovisual output. The SuperCPU is capable of addressing several megabytes of memory and is usually used together with a 16 megabytes RAM expansion board.

There are no SuperCPU emulators avaliable.

• The VICE emulator is capable of emulating a large number of Commodore machines. It emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, most of the PET models, and the CBM-II. VICE runs under Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and a number of other host systems.
  
• Joakim Eriksson's Web C64 emulator, written in Java, runs as an applet within a web browser.
  
• Per Håkan Sundell's CCS64 emulator works under Windows and DOS.
  
• The ec64 emulator is developed for Linux and was originally written entirely in x86 assembler.
  
• An article by Simon N Goodwin about C64 emulators.
  
• The Commodore emulators category in the Dmoz has more links.
  

Commodore 64/128

There are plenty of alternative operating systems for the C64, mostly written in 6502 assembler. Some of them are far from complete, however, and only appear as dark shadows on a few web pages - MagerValp's SMOS and my own osT are among those.

• GEOS from 1986 probably is the most well-known graphical operating system for the C64. It is still sold commercially by CMDKEY.com.
  
• LUnix NG is an open-source multi-tasking operating system with TCP/IP/PPP-support, a *nix-like command shell, and a number of *nix-like utilities such as ls and cp.
• Craig Bruce's ACE is a text-based single-tasking operating system for the 64 and the 128. It provides a *nix-like command shell, a text-editor, a terminal program for the SwiftLink RS232 interface, as well as device drivers for a lot of devices
  
• GeckOS/A65 is a multi-tasking operating system with TCP/IP support and a *nix-like command shell.
  
• Wheels is a version of GEOS that requires RAM expansion to run.

With its 20 MHz and megabytes of memory, the SuperCPU is powerful enough to run fully-fledged graphical operating systems that rival early Machintosh or Microsoft Windows systems.

• Wings is a TCP/IP-enabled graphical operating system for the SuperCPU. It includes a MOD music player, JPEG viewer, web page download utility, etc.
• JOS is an older version of Wings.
  

TCP/IP and PPP connectivity

To surf the web, send or read email, etc., the first step is to actually get in touch with the Internet. This requires both physical access to an ISP, either via a modem and a phone-line or an Ethernet broadband connection, and the TCP/IP software running on the C64.

There are a number of programs that make it possible to reach the Internet with a C64/C128.

• LUnix NG contains a TCP/IP stack and a PPP implementation which makes it possible to reach the Internet using a modem and a dial-up ISP.
  
• GeckOS/A65 also contains a TCP/IP stack, but no PPP dialer.
  
• My own uIP TCP/IP stack has been used for some time to run a web server on a Commodore 64. uIP currently does not include a PPP dialer.
  
• Novaterm 10 contains a PPP dialer and enough TCP/IP code to be able to run telnet over the Internet.
  

SuperCPU

All of the above mentioned SuperCPU operating systems have TCP/IP support.

• The Wave is a web browser for the SuperCPU (and not for the Commodore 64/128 as the web page claims) that runs under the Wheels operating systems. Here is another page with information about The Wave (that also falsely claims that The Wave is for the Commodore 64/128). The latter page also includes screenshots of The Wave in action.
  

Small graphical user-interfaces (GUIs)

User interfaces for embedded systems range from the simple buttons on the front of a washing machine to those of fully fledged web browser type interfaces on information stations. The underlying technology varies from simple electronic circuits to full-scale PC compatibles.

• PicoGUI is a GUI architecture designed for embedded systems to desktop machines. It does not require any supporting GUI system and can be used on anything from graphical screens to text based systems. Their smallest target system are handheld terminals and the compiled object code size is on the order of hundreds of kilobytes.
  
• Microwindows/NanoGUI is a graphical user interface system designed to run without support from an underlying system. On 16-bit systems Microwindows is about 64k large.
  

The smallest web browsers are usually specially designed for the limitations of embedded systems and other specialized computers such as car navigation systems, set-top boxes and medical equipment. There are also a few small web browsers for old DOS PCs available.

• Interniche's NicheView Portable Embedded Web Browser is probably the smallest full-featured web browser around with its 35 kilobytes code footprint. There is also an additional JavaScript module available.
  
• AU-systems' AU Mobile Internet Browser supports both HTML/TCP/IP and WML/WAP as well as SSL. It occupies 340 kilobytes of code (plus an additional 190 kilobytes for the protocol stacks) and uses 5 kilobytes of RAM when idle (plus 8 kilobytes used by the protocol stacks). Extra RAM is used when downloading web pages.
  
• The Fusion WebPilot Embedded Micro-Browser supports much of the features found in modern web browsers including frames, authentication, and JavaScript. The web page does not specify memory footprint.
  
• MicroDigial's Graphical MicroBrowser supports tables, frames, images as well as FTP as uses 260 kilobytes of code memory and requires a minimum of 210 kilobytes of RAM apart from that. A demo version is available.
  
• The 2net Alice Web Browser is intended for handheld computers and PC based architectures and requires 400 kilobyte of free RAM and 200 kilobytes of code memory. It includes a TCP/IP stack.
  
• WebBoy is a fully-fledged browser with SSL support intended for 386 DOS boxes with more than 4 megabytes of memory. Includes a TCP/IP stack.
  
• The Arachne web browser runs under MS-DOS or Linux and requires at least 1 megabyte of memory. Does not include a TCP/IP/PPP stack.
  
• Lynx is probably the most well-known text-based web browser around. It is ported to many different operating systems and architectures including MS-DOS.
  
• The Off by One Web Browser has been labeled as the smallest web browser ever, but is quite large in comparison with other small web browsers. It is 1.1 megabytes large and requires support from an underlying Windows operating system.
  
• Mirko Sobe's BOSS-X HTML browser for 8-bit Ataris is not a full web browser, but an off-line HTML viewer with hyperlinking abilities written in three days.
  
• The pre-alpha v0.3 GEMWeb browser supports 640x480x16 VGA.
  
• The Atari Phoenix Web Browser is a non-existant vapor-ware web browser project intended for the 8-bit Ataris.
  

Whoops - full list of RSS content aggregators from the open directory project here.

The Open Directory License, used by dmoz isn't a copyleft but was authored roughly for "DB data". At Bitzi we use the similar OpenBits License. One could also choose a Creative Commons license. Or maybe the GNU Free Documentation License. Also see the FSF's licenses page. I wouldn't get enthusiastic about any community contributed data project until license issues are clarified.