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Please let's not associate the Einstein icon with this crank science garbage.

How about a picture of a perpetual motion machine? Any of the zillions of diagrams out there would suffice. Something like the logo at the top of this page would be pretty good. And for added kicks, this device is actually patented.

Otherwise, I suppose a picture of a hand crank would work about as well.

(and let's tag this article as "crankscience")

Check out these photos here of lithium polymer batteries (commonly used in r/c models) in action... SUPER FUN HAPPY BURN THE HOUSE DOWN TOYS!

http://www.lyrc.com.ar/en/index.php It is used e.g. in http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowse r.html

I think in scenarios like this an OSS alternative would be a no-brainer. Are there any OSS virtualization software suites in development right now (besides Wine)?

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.htm l

qemu does both. Not OSS (yet) - but free as in beer.

I guess you can give winpooch a try. It's open source and all. http://winpooch.free.fr/

It's a shame no one is working anything VMS or QNX-like though...

FreeVMS exists at http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html.

I'd be suprised if there is no GPL tool that suits your needs.

No, with firefox adblock I just need to download the adblock filter lst and never worry about ads.

Actually, Knoppix can be run under Windows using qemu: see the Slashdot article WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix!

All you need to do is insert the Knoppix LiveCD during a Windows session, let autoplay do its thing, then you are given an option of running Knoppix right from Windows. I never tried networking with it, so I don't know how it well it does that.

• xrick is an excellent Rick Dangerous reimplementation
• REminiscence is an excellent reimplementation of the Flashback engine
• raw is an excellent reimplementation of the Another World engine. Its author has stopped distributing it at the request of Eric Chahi, the author of Another World, who has started selling a high-res version. There's a very interesting making-of on that website, by the way.

• xrick is an excellent Rick Dangerous reimplementation
• REminiscence is an excellent reimplementation of the Flashback engine
• raw is an excellent reimplementation of the Another World engine. Its author has stopped distributing it at the request of Eric Chahi, the author of Another World, who has started selling a high-res version. There's a very interesting making-of on that website, by the way.

• xrick is an excellent Rick Dangerous reimplementation
• REminiscence is an excellent reimplementation of the Flashback engine
• raw is an excellent reimplementation of the Another World engine. Its author has stopped distributing it at the request of Eric Chahi, the author of Another World, who has started selling a high-res version. There's a very interesting making-of on that website, by the way.

As far as support for multipage documents goes, we will have to support multipage documents once SVG does (it's a feature slated for SVG 1.2, which hasn't been finalized yet). Until then we're sticking to the released versions of the SVG standard for the most part.

As far as documentation goes, we do have a manual, but I can't blame you for not knowing about it, given there's no option for it in the help menu. We need to decide what we're going to do with it really -- integrate it in the app, or shell out to a browser pointed to the online version. The former means integrating an HTML viewer of some stripe; the latter's probably easier, but still hairy to do in a cross-platform fashion.

For what it's worth, we do also support converting vector objects to embedded bitmaps (Edit|Make a Bitmap Copy from the menu, or Alt+B); it's a relatively new feature (introduced in 0.43, I think), so it's possible the version of Inkscape you tried didn't have it.

Lastly, 0.44 does integrate with littlecms for display purposes, so we've got the beginnings of CMS support now. It's still a long way from what you'd want for printing (namely, speccing specific spot or CYMK process colors) though. Officially upporting Pantone is probably never going to happen because of Pantone's agressive patent and trademark enforcement policies, but you might see "underground" user-created Pantone swatch sets emerge.

Oh. Actually, there's one other deficiency you didn't highlight: printing. Our EPS and PDF export has improved a lot in recent releases, but printing directly from inkscape STINKS. We will be working on that. While our primary focus is indeed on SVG and the web (hence that stuff gets implemented first), we aren't uninterested in the print world.

One last thing -- could you do me a favor and please file a bug (or even just reply to this post and I'll file a bug) describing what we do wrong with punctuation in vertical text? If you can provide some test cases or expected/actual image pairs that'd be ideal. Unfortunately vertical text isn't a feature any of the main developers use personally, but it is one we want to support correctly.

More true than you know. Whereas the U.S. is personified by an old geezer wearing a weird stovepipe hat, France is personified by Marianne, a rather attractive lady. For a long time, her official likeness was based on various sexy Frenchwomen, starting with Brigitte Bardot and ending with Laetitia Casta. Since 2002, alas, the model has been anonymous.

The fact that some KDE fan chose a name that's already in use just creates confusion. Ah, the joys of the open source world.

I've been doing video editing with Avidemux. It's a nice little program for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

There's no gcc for hardware yet.

The only one I'm aware of is OliveBSD.

http://g.paderni.free.fr/olivebsd/

Haven't used it myself, however.

You can also use http://adblock.free.fr/adblock.txt or the Filterset.G Firefox extension to keep your filters up to date.

I just added a rule to my WinPooch to give me a prompt about reading "?:\Autorun.inf".

I don't get it... An ISP in France, called "Free" (sic) http://free.fr/ offers for 30 euros/month Internet (DSL 20mb/sec), TV (80 channels including HD TV and VoD) and phone (local, national and international (US fix/mobile, China, UK, etc.) for free/unlimited). Why people still pays for phone calls ?!?

run the installer from your hard disk http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.htm l

bullshit. i've got an old sff as a server and ipaq as a workstation -- very small, can't hear them, draw ~30W each.

VCS/2600

The proper name is "Atari Video Computer System". VCS was just a shortening. The name was only changed to 2600 when the more powerful 5200 was released.

5200

The proper name was Atari 5200 SuperSystem. Granted, without the 2600 "VCS", the name wouldn't have meant much.

7800

7800 ProSystem

Intellivision

The name stood for "Intelligent Television". Which actually conveys a lot. Especially to the 80's generation who were used to everything having "-Tron" appended to it.

You forgot "Nintendo Entertainment System", which also means quite a lot.

The rest of the names were pretty abstract without knowing a thing or two about video games. :-)

Nicolas Cannasse ( http://ncannasse.free.fr/ ) from http://www.motiontwin.com/ created both haxe and neko. NekoVM is a virtual machine, neko a language, nekoML a meta-lang and mod_neko the apache extension; all by one guy. Haxe will be used in production but only by people looking to build flash, ajax or dhtml based sites (ie: neither myself or the OP). I am looking forward to using neko/mod_neko for a project as soon as the JIT is done.

Like free vms? http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html

Why did you waste your time posting that URL? I checked-out "FreeVMS" and found the web page hasn't been updated in three years. Most of the vital parts of the OS are "not started - people needed".

I used to make a very good living managing OpenVMS systems so I'm pretty familiar with that OS. I wouldn't waste ten seconds downloading that piece of crap (freevms).

If you add Winpooch to ClamWin, it becomes realtime. You also get antispyware, etc. from WinPooch. It's a good combo, but it can intimidate some users. I usually recommend ESET's for-pay NOD32 over everything.

Don't forget avidemux.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

If you are used to virtual dub on Windows, it's probably going to be the quickest to pick up.

prosper881 "I've just logged on this ,english speaking, WEB site. I hope that other non-english speaking, french for exemple, feel unsatisfied about something (anything will do the trick for me).Consider this message as a introduction to a new exiting conversation! At least I hope.
I'm mainly inrerrested by LINUX OS which I've been hearing about for so long.
Seeing that I just got my new internet ADSL link and I'm very interrested by the freedom aspect of all this.
Who can help me instal LINUX on my computer??"

prosper881 "I've just logged on this ,english speaking, WEB site. I hope that other non-english speaking, french for exemple, feel unsatisfied about something (anything will do the trick for me).Consider this message as a introduction to a new exiting conversation! At least I hope.
I'm mainly inrerrested by LINUX OS which I've been hearing about for so long.
Seeing that I just got my new internet ADSL link and I'm very interrested by the freedom aspect of all this.
Who can help me instal LINUX on my computer??"

Clamwin + WinPooch = Awesome Open Source AV solution for Windows Desktops.

ClamAV is an on-demand scanner. Do not despair: with WinPooch, you can make it a resident scanner. Alas, I only read about it here on slashdot and didn't try it myself. Anyone here knows how good it is?

I personally use AVG Free Edition and it works just fine. It's non-intrusive and does its work well. That's the reason why I didn't uninstall it to try out WinPooch.

"THe only downside is that it doesn't yet have a real-time process scanner" http://winpooch.free.fr/home/index.php

More pentenance:
http://kisco.free.fr/download/stable_window_demo_i book.mp4

Bert
(Couldn't find it on Google at first. Gasp).

Actually, the Neo games were ports. But both carts had the same program data on them, and the system selected which program data to use. There's a problem when using something like the UniBios or a Debug bios to switch a NeoGeo AES into MVS mode on certain carts. Some of the attract screens will be garbled because the AES lacks the fonts and other data used during the attract screens.

See: http://unibios.free.fr/knownissues.html

Absolutely nothing does. It's actually quite possible to get Darwin programs to start and run with a NetBSD kernel which has COMPAT_MACHO (or was it COMPAT_DARWIN) compiled into it. That feature doesn't completely emulate IOKit yet, but it does allow XDarwin to properly work: http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html

Additionally, there's OliveBSD, which is based on OpenBSD 3.8. From the website:

OliveBSD is a LiveCD based on OpenBSD 3.8 with graphical environment and various softwares like Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, Gaim, Xmms, etc.

" vim 7.0+ features
if version >= 700

" activate spellcheck, toggle with F6, starts ON
setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
noremap <silent> <F6> :set spell!<CR>
inoremap <silent> <F6> <c-o>:set spell!<CR>

" turn on omni-completion when available
au Filetype * if exists('&omnifunc') && &omnifunc == "" |
\ set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete |
\ endif

endif

I'm a long-time-VIM-hater-turned-lover. I've been working with Linux systems for years, but always refused to learn my way around VIM, choosing to stick with nano instead. Why for the love of god not at least make Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Q or 'quit' or SOMETHING work???

After sitting through a presentation of a heuristic analysis of VIM in one of my HCI classes, where VIM was ridiculed for being the most un-intuitive, un-user friendly pieces of software since MS-DOS, I never thought I'd find myself using this tool... and actually LOVING it.

Well... fast forward a few months... I got fed up with nano's lack of a search-and-replace feature, and didn't feel like learning awk or sed. I finally decided to give vim a serious try. The key was finding this cheat sheet.

Now I love it... I'm cw'ing, y'anking, dd'ing away. Mind you I still prefer Eclipse for full-fledged development, but there's nothign like super quick and efficient scripting with vim.

Learn it. It's worth it.

I don't know how many songs I have, but it's about two solid weeks' worth. I use gmusicbrowser. It's got integrated tagging (no more opening EasyTag to change the artist name on one song), mass tagging (select a whole album and it brings you to a really slick dialogue where you can change the artist/album/genre/etc. en masse, and in a lower pane, the song names individually). It also has autofill for mass tagging (looks at the filename, you can specify it to read as artist, album, track, song or what have you).

The search and filter functions are fantastic, and the ability to delete tracks from the disk without leaving the application is handy.

It can use either gstreamer or MPG321 and OGG123 for playback. In the fords of Ferris Beuller: "I love it. It is so choice."

http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowse r.html
Is great for big music collections, fast, custom flags, good masstagging, customizable wheighted random mode, customizable interface and more ...

Yes, http://kineox.free.fr/DS/

and now that they have XIP and WiFi working it is starting to be a bit useful.

Hatsumi is also a chiropracter and artist as well. You can read a bit more about him here. If you'd like to see what a 73 year old ninja looks like in motion, check him out here. Even at his age, he moves much more fluidly than most, and easily throws around guys half his age.

I'm currently a student in the Genbukan Ninpo Bugei dojo, headed by Soke Tanemura Shoto, a former student of both Hatsumi and Hatsumi's teacher, Takamatsu Toshitsugu. Another ninpo ryu is the Jinenkan ryu, although I don't know very much about that particular school.

As much as I have a personal interest in this topic, I find it pretty odd to be appearing on Slashdot. News for nerds? Maybe, but not very tech-oriented. Still, glad to see that the real ninja are getting some recognition other than the Real Ultimate Power crap. The real history of the ninja is much more fascinating and entertaining than any drivel some goober on the internet can make up.

If anyone is interested further in any of this, feel free to email me, I'd be happy to converse on it. :)

I've set up a PPTP VPN using a Ubuntu 5.10 server and PoPToP. All you need is to port forward the PPTP port to the set-up server.

Windows has the client native to the system. Linux can compile PPP and the PPTP client, and w/kernel 2.6.15+ you don't need to patch the kernel to get MPPE encrypton/compression. Solaris, alas, needs some patching. I googled this:

http://mcarpenter.free.fr/Dev/pptp.php

All works fairly well.

> Please show me a Virtual Machine that can run Windows, or Linux so good that you don't even know its there.

qemu. To average Joe Windows User, it's good enough. It's slower than native, but spyware, IE, etc. slow down Windows anyway.

Gregory Montoir started writing an open-source interpreter for the Another World data files in 2004, but was contacted by Eric Chahi who asked him to stop, because he was planning to release the Hi-Res edition for the PC (err, Windows actually). Gregory agreed and pulled the sources (and kept working on other projects, such as a similar interpreter for Flashback).

His work was not completely lost however: two ports to less popular hardware platforms were created using the interpreter, and Eric Chachi allowed them to be distributed in binary form. This is how the GP32 and Dreamcast ports came to be. However, it seems the Dreamcast port is mostly abandoned, and was very buggy to begin with.

More information here:
http://cyxdown.free.fr/raw/

The only link to something that looks like a Dreamcast binary I could find
(the page says it is buggy and doesn't allow the game to be completed):
http://dcreload.free.fr/ficherawdc.php

By the way, the interpreter for the Flashback data files is here
(it works very well under Linux, the game can be finished, it has nice graphics modes; great work!):
http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

Gregory Montoir started writing an open-source interpreter for the Another World data files in 2004, but was contacted by Eric Chahi who asked him to stop, because he was planning to release the Hi-Res edition for the PC (err, Windows actually). Gregory agreed and pulled the sources (and kept working on other projects, such as a similar interpreter for Flashback).

His work was not completely lost however: two ports to less popular hardware platforms were created using the interpreter, and Eric Chachi allowed them to be distributed in binary form. This is how the GP32 and Dreamcast ports came to be. However, it seems the Dreamcast port is mostly abandoned, and was very buggy to begin with.

More information here:
http://cyxdown.free.fr/raw/

The only link to something that looks like a Dreamcast binary I could find
(the page says it is buggy and doesn't allow the game to be completed):
http://dcreload.free.fr/ficherawdc.php

By the way, the interpreter for the Flashback data files is here
(it works very well under Linux, the game can be finished, it has nice graphics modes; great work!):
http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

Gregory Montoir started writing an open-source interpreter for the Another World data files in 2004, but was contacted by Eric Chahi who asked him to stop, because he was planning to release the Hi-Res edition for the PC (err, Windows actually). Gregory agreed and pulled the sources (and kept working on other projects, such as a similar interpreter for Flashback).

His work was not completely lost however: two ports to less popular hardware platforms were created using the interpreter, and Eric Chachi allowed them to be distributed in binary form. This is how the GP32 and Dreamcast ports came to be. However, it seems the Dreamcast port is mostly abandoned, and was very buggy to begin with.

More information here:
http://cyxdown.free.fr/raw/

The only link to something that looks like a Dreamcast binary I could find
(the page says it is buggy and doesn't allow the game to be completed):
http://dcreload.free.fr/ficherawdc.php

By the way, the interpreter for the Flashback data files is here
(it works very well under Linux, the game can be finished, it has nice graphics modes; great work!):
http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

If you have the data files you can still play Flashback. Go here for a remake that works with SDL. The author also did a similar remake of Another World but has removed his source code for that on a request from Eric Chahi (it's still around though).