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I bet you downloaded the 6 updates (7 MB on my machine) 15 times. Ah, if only Microsoft could learn...

Here it is, plain text

Complete with /.'s helpful extra blanks to avoid page widening.

Here's the link to the picture of the French Carte National d'Identite, with helpful added escaping of the apostrophe for added freshness (and with the helpful Preview button used so I have at least some confidence that it'll work...).

> When I can have all my "new window" links open in a new tab instead,
> firefox will be more of a force.

You can:
http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/tabmix/tabmix.htm l.en

No. There's a Gecko 1.8 image in one of the blogs linked by the article. It's one of the better ones there but it *is* wrong. So unless it's regressed since 1.7 you're probably wrong.

Here's a (small) mirror for the Ubuntu & Kubuntu ISO torrents (i386) just in case :

Ubuntu Hoary install disc for i386
Kubuntu Hoary install disc for i386

Here's a (small) mirror for the Ubuntu & Kubuntu ISO torrents (i386) just in case :

Ubuntu Hoary install disc for i386
Kubuntu Hoary install disc for i386

Just two countries who came (late) to the IPTV revolution.
France (Freebox and Wanadoo)
Italy (Fastweb)
These are examples of where IPTV is really booming. Others can point out to Korea or Japan who, as usual, have been the firt to jump into the fray, but in any case the implementation of these IPTV providers in these countries has by no means been hampered by the lack of content
If my experience with Freebox is any proof, any content can be shown, so if at three o'clock in the morning I am watching indiscriminately a show on the French gaming channel (yay Game One!) or discovering the intiricacies of rectal palpation of cows in Belgrade as shown on some eastern european tv which is in the free basic offer of my IPTV, I can assure you the lack of quality content is by no means the same as lack of content. IPTV will be filled with practically every useless tv show on earth

That's simply not true.
BeOS is multiuser, simply it was never activated because it had security holes, and most apps didn't run well on it.

http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/shot_querybase d_multiuser.png

This would be a flamebait if I didn't have this.
May God bless you.

Pi is not a physical constant, it is a mathematical quantity. If you attempt to derive Pi from physical measurements, any error will be a result of measurement error (as either the circumference or diameter will be irrational). Various formulas for calculating Pi have been proven over the centuries, several of which are listed here: URL: http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/pi classic.html >

Given North Korea's poor economy and technological backwardness, they're probably using FreeVMS. And to please the Great Leader, they probably tell him it's pirated. :)

The Kiss Pandas eat, shoot, and rock!!!

It's not FREE (as in beer) !
Compare withg the biggest French ISP where you get what I describe for free...

I don't know where you'd get the idea that I have a lack of knowledge? I work exclusivly with *nix servers at work doing both programming and system management. And to top it off I use linux and KDE on my desktop. So actually I've got a wealth of knowledge about the subject, thanks very much!

Basically you are the typical fanboi, anytime someone posts something contrary to your one true FOSS way, you call them naive or incompetent.

Sorry to piss in your cornflakes, but you're the one with the "lack of knowledge".

Cheers!

Oh you mean like this one ? oh sorry, I didn't see "idle"... mine you cannot know where it is... I'm sure it's a Windows' bug...

nice to know but there is another free util for this: nrg2iso

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/MP3-CD-Burning/dao- burning.shtml/

The "generate_toc.sh" dissappeared in 1.1.7 or so but is available on the net: http://darkoli.free.fr/linux/generate_toc.sh

- Peder

Windows and Linux users can install FC4 test1 on their PC right now without any worry by using the PC emulator QEMU, the free and opensource vmware! Personally, I am already using FC3, and I want to make sure that I like FC4 before I switch. I also want to help find any bugs and report them during the test releases, so that they can be fixed before FC4 goes gold.

Depending on how much cash you are actually willing to shell out, you could also fund QEMU and get the virtualization module open-sourced!

About 5 years ago, right after Apple came out with the first iMac, eMachines came out with a blatant knockoff and Apple successfully sued http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/08/20/ 1345216&tid=3. This website http://ordinateurs.free.fr/APPLE/copies_pc_iMac.ht m is in French but has pictures.

You can use nrg2iso

For anyone interested here are the links to Iomega, to QEMU, and to Damn Small Linux. I got the Iomega used so all of this did wind up costing around $50.

English press release from French Association of Audionautes (L'Association Des Audionautes)

"The Court based its decision on the article L-122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code stating that 'authors can't forbid copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of the copyist.'"

English translation of that law

IANAFL (I am not a French lawyer), but this seems to run counter to previous rulings there. In the U.S., the Supreme Court would likely intercede in a situation like this, but the French Cour de Cassation -- the only higher court than the Cours d'Appel -- can, as Jean-Baptiste explained on FreeCulture.org's Discuss list, "only decide on procedural problems or legal interpretation, not on legal qualification. As we say, 'Cassation is judge of law and not judge of facts' and this case is a matter of facts and not a matter of law..."

We already have an open source replacement for VMWare - It's called Qemu.

It will boot Knoppix CDs, install Windows XP, 2000, and 98, and all the other operating systems I've tried it with.

Maybe not as fast as either VMWare, or Xen, but fast enough to be comfortable.

Windows on Linux is here already thanks to Qemu.

I wrote a simple guide to Running Windows inside Debian a while back which seems fairly popular.

The big difference with Zen is that it requires the operating systems it runs to be modified, whereas Qemu will run any native operating system, Linux, Windows, *BSD, Knoppix, etc without change.

That to me makes it more useful.

QEMU looks like a worthy replacement for VMWare, especially given the recent release of the accelerator module. Fabrice is hoping for corporate support of the project, and IMO he is as deserving as anyone.

QEMU looks like a worthy replacement for VMWare, especially given the recent release of the accelerator module. Fabrice is hoping for corporate support of the project, and IMO he is as deserving as anyone.

And here it is in English.

I'm french so I could read a report from the judgement of the court here :
http://maitre.eolas.free.fr/journal/index.php?2005 /03/08/87-guillermito-condamne-mais-tres-legeremen t
For the while, the only think he is convicted of is that he used a warez version of the antivirus software. He used it because in US he couldn't find the last version.
The judgement is : if in the 5 next years he uses a warez software, he would pay 5000 euros.
The April 12th, there will be a civil responsability judgement to determine what he must pay to TEGAM (the maximum will be 900 000 euros!).

FYI the Freebox with TV + phone is available in most French towns (I'm living in a 100 000 people town). And the offer is actually 20 Mbps, but the real bandwidth depends on the signal attenuation which results from the distance between the DSL adaptator and the telecom central (I've got 10Mbps, far from 2,5 km from the telecom central).

But Free.fr now also offers 10 Mbps down, 320 kbps up (since one month) in roughly whole French territory, for the same cost.

More information is available on:
http://adsl.free.fr

And you can train your French there.

By reading this document, one learns that the guy was convicted for counterfeiting ("Guillermito est déclaré coupable de contrefaçon"). He won't even have to pay the fine (-> deferred sentence). The judge showed a lot of comprehension towards Guillermito, indeed. However, the full reasons are not disclosed as the judgment is not published yet (the court is late). Apparently reverse-engineering is only allowed if you own a legal copy of the software. So he was convicted for reverse-engineering a piece of code he wasn't entitled to use.

According to this blog http://maitre.eolas.free.fr/journal/index.php?2005 /03/08/87-guillermito-condamne-mais-tres-legeremen t/ (oh my god, it's in french!), he was convicted of counterfeiting, i.e using a pirated version of Viguard. The judge said that, in order to be legal in France, reverse engineering should be performed on legaly obtained software.

I suggest you read this article, too, in order to get a better understanding of what the decision really means.

It would be nice if somebody could point to the detailed condamnation and the motivations.

For all I've been able to (quickly) find, he has been condemned for intellectual property, namely counterfeiting.
One possibility is that it's becausehe has published source code, which looks strange because it would be probably be the fair use (short citation for eduction).
But it's probably because he pirated Tegam's software and didn't buy it.

You can also read on this lawyer blog that

"Il ne faut pas interpréter cette décision comme une condamnation du (EDIT : full disclosure), à mon sens : la même chose faite sur un programme licite ne tomberait probablement pas sous le coup de la loi."
So that it is NOT condemning full disclosure and that such publiction made on a legal software wouldn't be sanctionned.

At the moment, it really looks like some people are screaming as loud as possible about that, but until the details are know that just PR operations from Guillermito and the others.

I can't afford to reboot my box to try the LiveCD because I'm currently running a computation.

You can make use of WINE in conjunction with QEMU to achieve execution of x86 Windows binaries on a PPC.

That's the problem with all solutions involving an external data collection program, just like locate, they never get in sync. Why on earth don't people use BFS ?
Since I have no use for google to search my own files, I'd rather mount google to search the web itself :D

I manage the website for a locally-produced radio show called "News from Neptune". We distribute episodes of the show under a Creative Commons license in three formats: Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex.

My father has a MacOS X machine (one of the early dual-CPU G4s) and his installation of MacOS X is fully updated as of the time/date stamp on this post. I was curious how easily MacOS X users could play the show file. We tried to play a FLAC-encoded episode of the show using the QuickTime player program.

He installed the FLAC QuickTime component without a problem, and then he downloaded a FLAC-encoded episode of the show to test (streaming the FLAC show was not working). Despite the FLAC component being installed, the FLAC file was not registered to work with the QuickTime Player so double-clicking the file was not going to do the right thing (but he knows how to change this to make it work this way in the future). He went through the file requestor to open the FLAC file.

There was a noticeable delay (about 15 seconds) before the audio began playing (a slower machine might mean a longer delay). Judging by the length of the delay, we guessed that the FLAC file was being converted (in its entirety) to something else. Then he saved a .mov file (not self-contained, a pointer file) using the QTPlayer program. He was left with a small (~180k) file. This file is not large enough to do anything but point to some other file--reading the strings in the file confirms it. This file points to the FLAC file (not a decoded equivalent).

The kicker: Quitting the QTPlayer, and double-clicking on the newly-made .mov file started the QTPlayer and played the file instantly with no delay. Opening the FLAC file still imposed a delay to play. iTunes would only allow him to place the .mov file into an iTunes library. We didn't try doing anything with iTunes beyond this (such as burning an audio CD).

Off the cuff, this gives me the impression that Apple is imposing an unnecessary delay with the FLAC file.

http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/

This is not out of the realm of possibility, though there are other cheaper solutions then vmware, such as QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

I know with VMWare, you can configure the HD's as Undo or Non-Persistant.

And Qemu has snapshot mode (-snapshot), so there are some useful bits in both.

He become eligible for an upgrade once he slays a dragon.

But Qantas run damn near an air-bridge Sydney Canberra. The flights leave every 30 mins and only take half an hour (including all the fiddling around)

If you do get a choice, go through Melbourne when flying in from overseas. Yes you'll spend half an hour longer on the plane, but immigration and changeover from international to domestic in Melbourne are *so* much more relaxed and easy. In Sydney you can have long lines at immigration, then to get to domestic they make you take a fricking bus that leaves the airport first thing (uh-oh), randomly loops around some freeway ramps (driver drunk?), then veers straight back onto the airfield through a gap in the fencing (isn't that illegal?), where it executes an entire ice skating program (watch out for the triple toe-loop!) before it finally drops you off at the domestic terminal - which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be right next to where you left 20 minutes earlier. You could have walked over in a minute or two, at the risk of being sucked into the odd jet engine, and/or chased by outraged Quantas employees (top speed: 2 mph).

Seriosuly, you need to give yourself two hours minimum for the changeover in Sydney, while one hour should suffice in Melbourne. Net gain: half an hour, and a lot of nerves.

What educational software packages are available for Linux?

I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly, but off the top of my head (and a little freshmeat help):

Primary school level: Gcompris is great, has a large bundle of games targetting everything from spelling to geography to math, and is easily extensible.

Astronomy: Both Celestia and Stellarium provide great tools for teaching kids of all levels about our universe.

Mathematics: You can use basic spreadsheets if you like, but there's also Octave for vector and matrix mathematics and Maxima (and several others that I can't recall right now) for symbolic algebra.

Chemistry: There's stuff like Ghemical and Gperiodic which aren't half bad for exploring various chemistry concepts. Then there's stuff like GenChemLab which is pretty neat.

Physics: There's physics simulation software like Physics3D , and there are others around if you care to look.

Computing: Well, you've got all the programming tools you want, but also things like DrPython to make it easier/fun for students (even at lower school levels).

General knowledge: Wikipedia is accessible from anywhere.

Okay, there's a science bias there, but it's not a bad start for what I can think of, or find in 2 minutes of freshmeat.

Jedidiah.

What educational software packages are available for Linux?

I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly, but off the top of my head (and a little freshmeat help):

Primary school level: Gcompris is great, has a large bundle of games targetting everything from spelling to geography to math, and is easily extensible.

Astronomy: Both Celestia and Stellarium provide great tools for teaching kids of all levels about our universe.

Mathematics: You can use basic spreadsheets if you like, but there's also Octave for vector and matrix mathematics and Maxima (and several others that I can't recall right now) for symbolic algebra.

Chemistry: There's stuff like Ghemical and Gperiodic which aren't half bad for exploring various chemistry concepts. Then there's stuff like GenChemLab which is pretty neat.

Physics: There's physics simulation software like Physics3D , and there are others around if you care to look.

Computing: Well, you've got all the programming tools you want, but also things like DrPython to make it easier/fun for students (even at lower school levels).

General knowledge: Wikipedia is accessible from anywhere.

Okay, there's a science bias there, but it's not a bad start for what I can think of, or find in 2 minutes of freshmeat.

Jedidiah.

But the base project can emulate sparc/sparc64 and ppc, thats no small feat, even if they dont run terribly fast. For the older cpus like the 32 bit SPARCs, an emulated sparc environment might be almost as fast as a hardware sparc system, given the power of the current crop of x86 cpus.

Supported target and source processors

I have to admit, the thought of running MacOSX/PPC and Solaris10/Sparc64 VMs simultaneously on a Linux/x86 box makes me go weak at the knees. I wonder if Alpha support for Target CPU is in the works..

I'm good at them, and I still couldn't get much out of those besides a headache. Here's a bunch of better ones, just to show that they don't suck universally.

Not true, QEMU natively supports SPARC architecture, and ARM and MIPS processor support is mentioned on the roadmap page:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/roadmap.html

Other processors will likely be supported, although reverse engineering will be a necessary component:

http://www.liveammo.com/LiveAmmo_Reverse_Engineeri ng_Training.htm

I stand corrected. Though I have to point out that Bruce's first point (how it works) is redundant. And his second point is kind of questionable. The difficulty of making the IA-32 do this sort of thing is precisely why VMWare has no real competitors.

Well, I just checked qemu's website and you're right - it does just run x86 application code directly unstead of emulating it.

In addition, he has implemented a complete C99 compiler, and a software modem (unfortunately incomplete), which is the hard part of making open-source WinModem drivers. Also, an emacs clone which also happens to have full Unicode support (including bidirectional editing), *and* a built-in HTML/CSS2 renderer with WYSIWYG editing.

And if that wasn't enough, he has won awards in the IOCCC twice. If that doesn't prove he's a true coding god, I don't know what would. He has done all of this in his free time, for no pay. I think it is safe to say that he *really* deserves a sponsorship.