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I'm not sure spell-checking can really be made to work because, by definition spell-checkers flag anything that is not in the allowed list (also called dictionary) as an error. But source code always contains tons of identifiers that are not real words, like pid, ret, req, riid, etc. The problem is that there are hundreds if not thousands of them in a large project and that you get a ton of new ones making the maintenance of a custom directory a pain.

But I've been annoyed by spelling errors too and what I noticed is that the same errors come over and over again. So what I did is write a script that specifically checks for common typos. And I've very imaginatively called it 'typos'.

What's great with this approach is that, no matter whether you're writing a C, Perl, PHP or HTML file, 'seperate' is never going to be a real word. So we can identify these with no cumbersome custom dictionary, and a very very low false positive rate.

Typos is open-source (GPL) and has no dependency that I know of (besides perl). So you can try it out just by downloading it, making the script executable, and running it with no argument on your source:

• Readme: http://fgouget.free.fr/typos/Readme.txt
• the script: http://fgouget.free.fr/typos/typos
• Git repository: git-clone http://fgouget.free.fr/typos/.git

One french ISP (http://www.free.fr/) actually plans to bring FTTH in the whole city over the next few years using the sewers to avoid costly digging.

How is Xen 'nicer' than kqemu or lguest?

This is the 'Monte Carlo' method, yes?

I read some months ago about progress in computer go made this way. I went looking to download one (hoping for a freely available version), but all I found was a small bit that played 9x9 - or maybe it was even smaller.

Damn I can't think of any major science/tech developments it would be good to have back in 2004... :s/P

What, you mean this Cell?

Well, you're in luck, because Kaffeine can do exactly that. When combined with w32codecs, you can play just about anything. It's very nifty, and I'm very satisfied with it.

I'm using openSUSE 10.2, and I had to recompile Kaffeine and install DeCSS to watch encrypted DVDs. Unfortunately, Novell compiles Kaffeine and libxine with encrypted DVD support disabled by default, but it's straightforward to recompile it using rpmbuild to include DVD support. 3rd party repositories out there, such as PackMan, also have precompiled Kaffeine packages available if you don't want to recompile Kaffeine and libxine.

here's the bl's that i am using with sendmail that would go into your siteconfig.mc file -- that through trial and error -- i have found have zero false positive hit rate... n.b. that the XXX.r.mail-abuse.com (RBL) & XXX.q.mail-abuse.com (QIL) bl's require that you to have a subscription to Trend Micro Advanced Email Reputation Services at http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/ne twork-reputation-services/index.html -- you can get a free trial at https://nssg.trendmicro.com/download/trial/trial-s ervices.php?id=66 --
make sure you select "Email Reputation Services, Advanced". you would then replace the "XXX" in the below with the activation code they would send you:

FEATURE(dnsbl, `XXX.r.mail-abuse.com.', `"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/RBL; see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup?ip_addres s=" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `zen.spamhaus.org.', `"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/ZEN; see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `bhnc.njabl.org.', `"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/BHNC; see http://www.njabl.org/lookup?" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `bl.spamcop.net.', `"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/COP; see http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `list.dsbl.org.', `"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/DSBL; see http://www.dsbl.org/listing?" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(rhsbl, `dsn.rfc-ignorant.org.',`"550 Mail from domain " $`'&{RHS} " BLOCKED/DSN; MX of domain dose not accept bounces in violation of RFC 821/2505/2821, see http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domai n=" $`'&{RHS}')

FEATURE(rhsbl, `bogusmx.rfc-ignorant.org.',`"550 Mail from domain " $`'&{RHS} " BLOCKED/BMX; MX of domain contains bogus address information in violation of RFC 1035/3330, see http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domai n=" $`'&{RHS}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `XXX.q.mail-abuse.com.', `"450 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/QIL; see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup?ip_addres s=" $&{client_addr}')

FEATURE(dnsbl, `safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net.', `"450 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " BLOCKED/SAFE; see http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?" $&{client_addr}')

i also use the http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist greylisting package as well as spamassassin with some custom score tweaks available at http://iconia.com/user_prefs. all this keeps my mailbox as well as other users at a college radio station and a commercial asp with lots of public email addresses on their respective websites relatively spam free.

respectfully submitted,
geoff goodfellow

Some of my thoughts, in no particular order:

- The Officially Sanctioned API (TM) for OS X apps is Cocoa. This is basically an extension of OpenStep. So is GNUStep. GNUStep even aims to implement Cocoa's extensions so as to allow Cocoa apps to be linked with GNUStep. However, for the time being, compatibility is incomplete and only at the source level. You might have some luck compiling GNUStep apps on Cocoa/OSX, but not running compiled Cocoa apps on GNUStep/Linux.

- Some people tried to get Darwin binary compatibiltiy into NetBSD. However, the project is now dead, purportedly due to lack of user interest. This is the only Darwin binary compatibility project I am aware of. What this means is that, at the moment, you can only run Darwin (AKA OS X) executables on Darwin.

- QEMU is a fast and open source emulator that can be used to emulate, among others, x86 PCs, AMD64 PCs, and Power Macs. This should allow you to run OS X as a guest OS. If you use QEMU to emulate an x86 on an x86, or an x86 or AMD64 on AMD64, it should run close to native speed. That is, as far as the CPU is concerned. Other hardware, graphics hardware in particular, will not have native performance.

- I've been a GNU/Linux user for over ten years. I also used Mac OS X for a couple of years. Eventually, I got frustrated with it and installed Linux on my iBook. I've never looked back. Of course, I am primarily a GNU/Linux and BSD user, which causes the little (sometimes significant) oddities of OS X to frustrate me. If you're primarily an OS X user, this will likely work the other way around.

- GNU/Linux does have some definite advantages over OS X. Just throwing down a few: more customizability, easier maintenance (given a decent package manager, such as apt-get), better compatibility with open-source software, and several possible advantages that depend on your choices: lower memory usage, lower latency, lower disk usage.

- Given that you have a Mac, OS X also has some advantages over GNU/Linux. Among others: it supports your hardware (what you get from Apple, anyway; Linux has the edge when it comes to third-party hardware), companies are more likely to support it (think software, hardware, and manuals), and ... well, can't think of anything more right now.

- As for why there is no compatibility layer yet: probably just because it's a monumental task. Think about how old Wine is and how well it works. Then think about Apple's yearly OS upgrades. Then consider that Apple has also moved architectures (PPC -> x86) since the introduction of OS X, and probably will again (x86 -> AMD64 - they ship that hardware, but the OS is still at least mostly x86). Then look at GNUStep and the instructions for building it (you're allowed to shiver at this point). A Mac OS X compatibility layer won't happen anytime soon.

Some of my thoughts, in no particular order:

- The Officially Sanctioned API (TM) for OS X apps is Cocoa. This is basically an extension of OpenStep. So is GNUStep. GNUStep even aims to implement Cocoa's extensions so as to allow Cocoa apps to be linked with GNUStep. However, for the time being, compatibility is incomplete and only at the source level. You might have some luck compiling GNUStep apps on Cocoa/OSX, but not running compiled Cocoa apps on GNUStep/Linux.

- Some people tried to get Darwin binary compatibiltiy into NetBSD. However, the project is now dead, purportedly due to lack of user interest. This is the only Darwin binary compatibility project I am aware of. What this means is that, at the moment, you can only run Darwin (AKA OS X) executables on Darwin.

- QEMU is a fast and open source emulator that can be used to emulate, among others, x86 PCs, AMD64 PCs, and Power Macs. This should allow you to run OS X as a guest OS. If you use QEMU to emulate an x86 on an x86, or an x86 or AMD64 on AMD64, it should run close to native speed. That is, as far as the CPU is concerned. Other hardware, graphics hardware in particular, will not have native performance.

- I've been a GNU/Linux user for over ten years. I also used Mac OS X for a couple of years. Eventually, I got frustrated with it and installed Linux on my iBook. I've never looked back. Of course, I am primarily a GNU/Linux and BSD user, which causes the little (sometimes significant) oddities of OS X to frustrate me. If you're primarily an OS X user, this will likely work the other way around.

- GNU/Linux does have some definite advantages over OS X. Just throwing down a few: more customizability, easier maintenance (given a decent package manager, such as apt-get), better compatibility with open-source software, and several possible advantages that depend on your choices: lower memory usage, lower latency, lower disk usage.

- Given that you have a Mac, OS X also has some advantages over GNU/Linux. Among others: it supports your hardware (what you get from Apple, anyway; Linux has the edge when it comes to third-party hardware), companies are more likely to support it (think software, hardware, and manuals), and ... well, can't think of anything more right now.

- As for why there is no compatibility layer yet: probably just because it's a monumental task. Think about how old Wine is and how well it works. Then think about Apple's yearly OS upgrades. Then consider that Apple has also moved architectures (PPC -> x86) since the introduction of OS X, and probably will again (x86 -> AMD64 - they ship that hardware, but the OS is still at least mostly x86). Then look at GNUStep and the instructions for building it (you're allowed to shiver at this point). A Mac OS X compatibility layer won't happen anytime soon.

Your Treo does wifi

There is wifi available for it

and has a touch screen?

Are you being obtuse? Palms have had a touch screen since they came out over ten years ago.

And how much does the "sold separately" expansion card for the MP3 player hold?

I don't know what you are talking about, but TCPMP seems to play my OGGs just fine from any of my SD cards, which I've been using since I had a Palm m500. It's also handy to take the SD card from my digital camera and upload the pictures to my webserver via my Treo.

Does it also run OS X?

No; that's one of the reasons I like it :)

That screen sure is big.

Yeah, it's about 75% the size of the iPhone's screen. Not too shabby, especially considering that it came out on the market years ago.

Watch movies on it do you?

I do, with the aforementioned TCPMP, which I have source to. "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is my current favorite. I also play NES and GameBoy games, keep track of my car's mileage, keep track of my finances, keep track of my passwords, administer my servers remotely, read books, get directions, browse the web, etc, etc. Hell, I can even write and run software, right on my Treo! I haven't been paying attention, is Apple allowing people to even *load* third party software on the iPhone yet? How about that battery, can you swap it out with a spare like I can on any of my Palm devices and cell phones? Can you expand the memory? $600 is a lot, but I can buy a Treo 650 and 15 1GB SD cards for that much money. Plus I wouldn't be locked into a single provider. Or I could even wait three months and get a fully open-sourced phone with even more features, and port all the software that I use to it.

You're "does it run OSX" bit gives you away: you're an Apple fanboy, and the only reason you replied was because you didn't have points to mod me down. Face it, the only thing new that the iPhone brings to the cell phone world is Apple's marketing power.

"This bill was written solely to upset the current relatively free market of broadband. "

Because we have an aggressively pro-competition regulating agency in France, you have a dozen way to get broadband in most cities. And you basically can't get anything below ADSL2+ those days.

At the moment I pay 29 euros a month for 24/1Mbps, HDTV service, and free international phone (analog and voip). They also provide me with a free router, Wifi AP, HDTV PVR set top box and analog telephone adaptor.

No cap on data, no filtering whatsoever, no shaping. Quality of service is good, and has been improving steadily. You have the occasional day long outage (two last years, none this year so far), but other than that downloading speeds are stable and pretty much max out my line 24/7.

And the reason for this is that ARCEPT has been given a lot of power to enforce competition in the broadcast market. None of those services are subsidised. They haven't been so successful with cellphone, OTOH. But they're working on it.

29.99, ADSL2+, includes TV and free international calls (VoIP). Free modem and HDTV PVR set top box provided.

All that in socialist France. The only gov't improvement is in aggressively enforcing competition. You know, the real free market thing, not that corrupt semi-fascist oligarchy you have in the US.

Yes, and if I myself is allowed a bit of shameless advertising, I actually wrote
a game guide/FAQ for First Life . It can be found here :

http://mickmils2.free.fr/shorts/LifeFAQ.txt

I am sure most people here will find it most helpful.

This sounds a lot like Tom Bearden's MEG.

http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm

And how will they compete with Free software anti-virus?

There's a utility called Unlocker for that, pretty handy when a mystery program is holding up a file from deletion.

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Sux is your friend, despite its name.

I really like Unlocker. A little freeware explorer extension that shows you what processes have locked a file, and lets you choose what to do about it.

Every now and then my harddrive will start whirring away, when it shouldn't be, and as far as I can tell there is no easy way to tell which process is the culprit in XP. Hell, you ever get one of those "this file is being used by another program" messages and have no idea what program is responsible? I've had to boot into safe mode just to delete a file. And it was an .avi not a system file or anything.

Hell, you ever get one of those "this file is being used by another program" messages and have no idea what program is responsible?

Unlocker is your friend to deal with this problem.

And the encryption chips or CPU based encryption is not directly accessible to emulation, not without paying a genuinely unacceptable performance penalty in use.

Hey, I use Quartus II 7.1 as well, with an FPGA board. The the only program that prevents me from living in Ubuntu full-time. I have had no problems with the USB Blaster under XP, either running native or virtualized under QEMU, on a Linux host. I can't recommend QEMU enough!

Ignore the rude responses- they are not indicative of the entire slashdot community although I agree that it has the tendency to reinforce certain stereotypes.

The troll mod probably happened because your original post has a few characteristics common to posts by people who are just trying to start a fight. The VI comment in particular is an often fought argument. Additionally your complaints seemed to be caused by a lack of experience. Which was your point of course but it wasn't obvious in the post.

By the way- welcome to Linux!
I agree it has a steep learning curve when you have to do system administration tasks. It doesn't for ordinary usage. My wife, a novice computer user compared to most Slashdot readers, uses it for wordprocessing, movie editing, music, email, and browsing with no problems (or explanations from me) at all.

If you will be using VI for a while I would highly recommend going through the tutorial with the vimtutor program. You might also try this "quick" reference: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html
While multiple tabs don't work well for a terminal application, VI's syntax highlighting is second to none and it is very feature rich. I use it on windows now as well because I can't stand how slow my coding is with VC's default editor.

Stick with it. It grows on you.

If only somebody could let me in on how they remember all these damn commands and keystrokes...

The VIM Quick Reference Card is nice. Hang it on your wall.

Free, in France. It's a fairly standard package locally (although just the TV bit, not the VLC bit, others tend to use more proprietary tools). They all offer similar packages modelled on whatever Free came up with (they tend to lead the market atm), that is ADSL2+, TV and IP phone with 20 or 30 free countries for about 30 € / month. No capping, static IP, reverse DNS, servers allowed, FTTH coming this year. No IPv6 though.
(details may vary with the ISP but that's fairly typical for ADSL, cable has more restrictions)

Though personally, I'm waiting for the opposite - a way to d/l VC games onto a cartridge for use in DSes.

http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/sabre.jpg Sabre rattling you say :0) That's my favorite ship since it has the most firepower of a small ship, and can still launch powerful interdiction spheres, which can keep people in a small area from running away.

On topic -- "Eve War 1" has reached a pitched fever, and it seems that both sides of this metagame way too much. It's a great game, and there is a huge amount that you can do to increase your influence, one of wich seems to be to discourage others from playing through a smear campagin. I'm just glad I'm with the scrappy group that is in it for the spaceship pew-pew, and not in evewar politics :-)

I've played games with other companies, and was suprimely unsatisified with their philosophies and practices. Claims that they would do unscrupulous things to change the outcome of the game just seem silly to me given their approach t othe game. CCP is a solid company, who does interact with the playerbase to make the eve experience rich, and to add new features. There have been multiple examples like corporation shares, where the idea came from the players first, it was implmented with a trust-based system and then the developers later added a game mechanic to make new aspects of the game grow.

I'll be glad to see the end of eve war 1 and the end of silly metagaming from player groups like this.

I pay 29 EUR a month for 24 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up. Plus free international phone. Plus wifi. Plus TV. Free PVR which I don't even use for lack of a TV. Also 1 GB of hosting space, unmetered.

Within a year I should get 50 Mbps (symmetrical) FTTH.

http://www.free.fr

That must be why you're so late in the game. This French ISP used Videolan Client to do the exact same shit, and delivered years ago. Probably cost them a whole lot less, too.

In France we have free, which gives us 28Mbit ADSL (1Mbit up) with a static, 200 TV Channels (HD ready) and a phone line with unlimited free calls to 49 countries for a whisker inside EUR30 a month. These guys are making a profit of this too. It amazes me what you guys put up with in the US when it comes to voice & data connectivity, let alone entertainment! We have two for good measure.

I'd be interested to hear what you would pay for an equivalent service over there - I figure it's at least 3 figures and quite probably an order of magnitude more expensive.

There's a live DVD here: http://en.opensuse.org/Download

However, I don't think you need to go that far.

From what I've read, the Rage II drivers are in Xorg, and are part of the atimisc X server. They will be automagically loaded if you specify the Xorg module "ati".

If you've got a working Linux install, I'd try that.

Here's an xorg.conf that was automatically generated by the Debian X config utility. http://brenta.free.fr/IMG/txt/xorg.txt

I have no knowledge of Debian at all, but it seems to be a valid result from a google search.

As you can see:
Section "Device"
        Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage IIC 215IIC (Mach64 GT IIC)"
        Driver "ati"
        BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
        Option "UseFBDev" "true"

Uses the Driver "ati" . I believe you should have no problems with your card, and shouldn't have to download anything to get it working. Has it given you trouble before?

I've had an ATI card refuse to boot with a given motherboard once, which was weird, but wasn't anything I could fix from Linux. Other than that, I've never really had a problem with older ATI cards, just newer ones which aren't supported by the built-in Xorg drivers.

Is your webcam in this list.. if not, maybe you could contact that guy.

What did you expect from something called 'Naked Objects'?

SubtitleEditor. A screenshot. It is a little bit unstable, but works like a charm.

SubtitleEditor. A screenshot. It is a little bit unstable, but works like a charm.

I use Passreminder . It has a "memory stick" version and is java based and works on both Windows and Linux off my FAT based usb flash drive. Stupid html formatting not default.

"Class of 2005":

Carla, Brian and Phil: IP Lawyers
Dental surgeons 'Be' and 'Mole'
'Tone-toke': Astrophysicist
Messy Mel: Brain surgeon
'Liz': Senator
Wufus: Neurologist

Lighten up Millersville, sheesh

Go away MacTroll...

Meanwhile, from the source of the web site: <meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 1.1.2" />. I thougth this had quite a familiar look, it looks quite a lot like the web site I made with iWeb myself... Except I did not remove the "made on a Mac" logo to please the zealots.

He should have also given the project's page :
Here is the link

This is specially important because the most logical place people would try first, the official SF project, is lagging behind and not up to day.

Thank you, Michel Xhaard, for your wonderful work. Thanks to you my own Logitech webcam, as webcams of other geeks around the world, have worked wonderfully for the last few years on Linux.

I'm quite thankful to Mr. Xhaard for his contributions, but how's about throwing some scratch to the man who single handedly wrote QEMU (One of the best VirtualPC-alike packages for multiple platforms, and whose code is helping the Xen virtualization project) , KQEMU (The fast VMWare-like add-on for QEMU), FFMPEG (The FLOSS project whose codec is helping Xine, you're probably using to view streaming video if you're not on Mac/Windows codecs), TCC (a tiny standalone C compiler, which in one demo was used to compile Linux from source and boot in ) ?

The guy's name is Fabrice Bellard, his site is also on free.fr , http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/

-f yuyv
-f yyuv
-f yuvy
-f gbrg
-f jpeg

I was going to grab one of the cheaper webcams but thought they'd probably be a problem in linux (as the cheapo's are a problem in windows sometimes as well)

It's nice that there is a quality rating for each camera

http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

Are any of these cameras true usb2 cameras? I'd like to avoid the usb1 slideshow.

You only need an email address (or phone number) to send paypal money. And here you go: mxhaard@magic.fr

Paypal link: Send money - Enter email or phone

-- Note: It's on his website as well: http://mxhaard.free.fr/apropos.html

It actually has quite nice quality/features for a cheap camera: metal body, LED's that turn on in low-light, and the picture quality is actually quite nice. I recently started using it again and just went through the process of digging up drivers that would compile against my newer kernel.

One point of confusion is between the article's GSPCA/spca50x drivers, and the SPCA50X drivers on SF.net

The latter I had run into first, but it won't compile against my newer 2.6 kernel. Luckily, I was able to find the mxhaard drivers, which worked nicely, and get the thing going after a little while.

All said, big Kudos to Michel for gifting us all with well-working cheap webcams!

The man wrote 350+ drivers. How about some link love for him, slashdot? http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html