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KDE takes 20 seconds to start up and each application takes a couple of seconds to load.

Prelinking the libraries and applications is supposed to help in this area. See the Gentoo guide to prelinking for more details.

Reading Gamespy just reminds me that I hate the color green. It's almost as bad as the colors for the logo for the Slashdot games section.

It reminds me of all of the themes for various things that look like this.

I've never understood why they chose such a garish color scheme for the X-Box either.

Let's see... they may use different software ? There's quite a lot of good opensource (and portable) software.

Here's the Freshmeat page for the project.

Hack N Slash RPGD: Go here to download the free client. (Recommended)

Or just telnet to games.microwavesoft.com:7000
Source is available here.

Here

Also, if you're looking for GUI goodness, there's a front end available for TinyFugue called Crescendo. Their main site is "closed for maintenance" (read - dead), but last time I tried the app worked pretty well.

Why is this even on the front page? Why not try Google, Freshmeat, Tucows or Versiontracker?

and then send myself the email from there.

I raise all hell when I find a comunity based site that does this...

Like mailing lists?

Like Kuro5hin ?

Like Fark ?

Like Freshmeat ?

/. doesn't seem to allow you to send a private message or email to a user at all based on a comment, but if they get a story submitted, it almost always gives their email address right there. It's often spam-proofed, but not in any difficult to decipher manner.

Looks like you've got a lot of `all hell' to raise. And I wasn't even looking hard -- I was just going down my bookmarks.

In fact, I can only think of one site that does what you've suggested -- Ebay. They used to give email addresses, but now let you email through their system instead. They may say it was done to cut down on spam, but I'm pretty sure the real reason is to keep track of the emails sent, so they can make sure that people aren't offering to buy stuff outside of the system (depriving Ebay of their commission), `interfering' with auctions (like telling the top bidder that the seller is a crook), stuff like that.

With Free Software we get the foundation for the next step.

How about the determination to make programming something most anyone can do, in their spare time and without all the required resources of knowledge and experience that is so much required today?

Programming is the act of automating complexity (made up of simpler automations) in order to make its use and reuse easy for the user.

ie a quote from an MS empolyee exposing the user entrapment of programming...

What better way to insure Free Software, but to make it much much easier to produce?

General automation tools where dynamic automations can be created, even to produce code, compile it, and run it... all in an automated manner.

Holodeck style programming...

You think RMS has been up agains Resistance?

It ain't over with, the fight for freedom in software. Not yet!

Totally agree. Who wants to slow their machine down with the window manager? Also, it tends to be the smaller window managers that are trying out new ideas. My current favourite is WindowLab, it's small and the author has managed to combine a number of influences and totally original features really well IMHO.

An IMAP proxy can help to reduce the load caused by this situation.

For presentation abstraction, HTML::Mason is, for me at least, unbeatable. I've worked with a lot of CMS/web app frameworks (from homegrown to classic MVC through various OS frameworks to various commercial ones (Interwoven, Vingette ), and I've found Mason just rocks. For folks that prefer other models and like Perl, there's EMBPerl and Template::Toolkit, which I believe /. uses (and it is faster, performance-wise, than Mason, too.)

There is very, very little perl in our presentation layer. The only place you'll find it is the same place you'll find something verysimilar in other languages/frameworks, for things like looping over returned values, changing presentation based on the user, or, in some cases, as Mason specific components; for instance (autohandlers, in the lingo) for controlling classes of pages, or (in the case of dhandlers) drop in components for doing things like resizing a directory of images on the fly and caching the new size, or rendering pages as PDF, or XML, or CSV, or...

Also, as I said, many people don't like perl - they find it, as you said, cryptic. That's religious, and I won't argue it, aside from to say I personally don't find that at all. Everyone likes something different. The handcuffs Java requires drive me nuts (Date formatting, anyone? Factory Factories?). I will give you that a newby or lousy coder can probably write obfuscated perl faster than they can obfuscated Java. I've taken over projects with some truly fucking _ugly_ Java, though, so don't doubt that people do it. And just go peruse Freshmeat PHP code. There's a lot of truly exemplary cases of Code To Scream By there, just waiting for a harried admin to install, become dependent on, and then have to modify...

I personally believe that the language doesn't matter when talking about maintainability; the coder does (modulo things like BrainF*ck and Intercal). Perl by a good coder can read almost like English. Ours doesn't; we're heavily OO and our web-related libraries are influenced heavily by the DOM. As a data point, we contracted a Java coder who (after picking up Perlisms in an afternoon), figured out what was going in the application in question on very quickly - the time between hire and productive code for her was about a week. Try that in a Java or C shop. (Granted, she's a really smart gal. Hi, Antonia!)

I'm not sure what you're getting at about integration with other languages. I'm probably misunderstaing what you're getting at, but it integrates well with just about everything I've ever tried. C is no problem, Perl actually uses TCL for TK, SQL is handled just fine, I know there are glue packages for Python, Ruby, Java and others, there are CPAN modules for ASP, and probably things I'm missing. There's Web Services(tm) for everything else. And Parrot wight change the landscape again, when it is done, although that remains to be seen. Code in what makes you happy.

I haven't tried it, but the following project seems to imply you can: ooo-macro

• 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 :-)

• 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 :-)

• 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 :-)

serel - fast boot software serel is a utility that helps computers to boot faster by adding synchronization and integrity- checking to the operating system's "service startup" phase, allowing services to be started in parallel. The software supports the visualization of services, dependencies, and timings.

Like TrancePhreak said, there are various engines and whatnot. Crystal Space. ExNihilo. Graphics3D (well just a library). Irrlicht. OGRE. Probably many more. I haven't really tried them out much, so I don't know how well they work. I know Crystal Space has been around a while and seems popular, so it is probably somewhat mature. If you really want an open source game engine, just look around and help out.

The latest Unix client for Yahoo! (1.0.4) was released just recently. From the Freshmeat notes:


The last release of Yahoo! Messenger based on the GTK1.2 codebase, this is mainly a bugfix release with a lot of stability, rendering, and speed fixes. It adds some enhancements and features such as an Addressbook tab, tab-aware URLs, active identities, and many archiving enhancements. More details and information are available via the publicly-accessible Yahoo! group, which provides a mechanism to interact with the Unix client developers.


The group referenced is here.

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Download the Windows icons and convert them to xpm with ico2xpm.

There is: WIPE.

Posted by Cliff on Thursday September 11, @04:45PM
from the prime-time-league-contenders-yet? dept.
grugruto asks: "A lot of open source solutions are available to scale web sites with clusters but what about databases? I can't afford an Oracle RAC license but can I have something more reliable and fault tolerant than my single Postgres box? I have seen this recent article that looks promising for open source solutions. Do anyone have experiences with clusters of MySQL , Postgres-R, C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?"

If you're using Java, you might want to check out the Clustered JDBC project

-D

That said, for my wife and other non technical users, KDE is wonderful. I hope the stable release comes soon.

No one can tolerate DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks in this Information Age economy that relies so heavily on the Internet.

Although it takes a different form, that's what SCO is trying to do in convincing people that they must license SCO software to use Linux. I don't support DDoS as a concept, including when SCO does it.

At a minimum, IP sources should be checked to assure that copyright contributors have the authority to transfer copyrights in the code contributed to Open Source.

So SCO ensures that all employees have the authority to transfer copyrights to code contributed in their private developments, does it?

This is what global corporations will require. And it is these customers who will determine the ultimate fate of Open Source - not SCO, not IBM, and not Open Source leaders.

I decide what gets into My Projects, not global corporations. Hell, I don't even know who uses my products. That's the point with open source.

In copyright law, ownership cannot be transferred without express, written authority of a copyright holder.

Look, I'm a Law student. Anybody who's read the GPL knows that it doesn't transfer ownership at all. Ownership is retained; certain rights are licensed in respect of that ownership, including the right to freely redistribute on the same terms. This statement is simply not legally correct.

It is easier for some in the Open Source community to fire off a "rant" than to sit across a negotiation table. ... respect for intellectual property is not optional - it is mandatory.

Listen to yourself! Declaring something to be "mandatory" is not negotiation! While what's said here is technically true, the inference of "respect" is that that respect has not been honoured, a factually dicey proposition.

I call bullshit. You need to go RTFWebsite

ESR has already stated how he feels about being the guidon holder for open source.

1. Take my job, please.

2. Understand my job, please.

Further, if you can find someone who will do all of that, and perhaps more, you need to send him an e-mail, because he wants to know about it. Why not use this as a starting point when you're looking.

As for what ESR has done for the Open Source Community-at-large, ponder this, batman: You need the idealists, the pragmatists, and yes, even the more wild. Why? Because the community they're speaking in the name of, and the communities they're speaking to are just as diverse. It will be these men, and the relevant foundations that write the amici curiae in support of Linux, the GPL, or Open Source in general, when the time is necessary.

When was the last time you said thanks?

Now that three Asian countries have decided to join forces to develop Linux to power eletronic gadgets ranging from TVs to Toasters to Set-top-boxes to Fridges to Mobile Phones, of course MS is angry, because nobody wants that "Win CE" no more.

To make it even easier for MS to throw even more of its temper tantrums around, let me introduce you to yet another OpenSourced and Embeddedable Operating System that can mince MS's Win CE into even tinier bits.

The Operating System is called B-Free, and it's the OpenSourced version of the TRON operating sytem that has powered many Japanese electronic gadgets for decades.

I know it's in the pre-alpha stage right now, but heck, it's there for the taking and the TRON OS has proven itself to be a very robust and stable OS.

Go on, download it, try it, hack it, tweak it, and then share your result to the world.

I see the review and read some of the links, other links are just to slow ATM....

But doing my own general automation tool set

to be updated this weekend

I used Mavis, and I have to say that it's an okay way to learn. There are, however, many non-Wintel alternatives

To the original poster -- I also code, and I have to say that it took a good long stint with Mavis and then forcing myself to touch type while programming through a coding class or two (it takes a while to learn to type "again", since the keys you hit when coding in most languages are rarely pressed when typing ordinary English). If you can simply force yourself to touch type, and damn the short term cost in time and how frusterating it seems at first, you will get phenomenal payoffs. There isn't really a shortcut there. You have to make yourself do things the hard way for a bit -- it's the same thing as dieting, but once you can touch type, you're done forever.

• TBarcode
• PDF417 barcode
• GNU Barcode

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=barcode&section=pro jects&x=10&y=12

There are some programs here for generating the barcodes. You'll probably need to add some stuff to make it do what you want, but it looks like there's quite a bit of stuff out there.

lets see 1 2 and not to mention sf. Also try replacing barcode with upc.

Teaching people to use google since 1998

I spent about 2-3 hours making a skin for mplayer that I find to be perfect for my needs. I wish I could use it for windows media player (when I'm on windows) but I can't. Thank god for mplayer skins! It lets me customise mplayer to be how /I/ want it. Isn't that the point?
I don't know anyone else who uses or likes it,and frankly I'm not much bothered, but I did make it available here as I thought sharing it was the least I could do.

Not unless there is one written in Java.

There is at least on pure Javaimplementation of SSH, MindTerm. Its pretty reasonable. How it is portable to MIDP, which is presuambly the flavour of Java we're talking about here is questionable...

Take a look at MySQLauction.
Freshmeat is also a good startting point.

We have made a few ARM Boards to teach undergraduate students. They work with ARM Angel or with our own debugger KMD. You can write code in asm or C or any even gcc front end (inc java).
The best feature for me is the huge FPGA's to play around with. Its quite easy to pick up any electronic equipment and plug it into it. Lots of fun and great experience gaining stuff.
The board total was around 100 GBP (inc board manufacture and mounting) and I think if you ask nicely the designs will be available.

Alternatively you could use something like a 6809 or an 8051 but then writing code for them is a pain. The best idea if you use someting old is to emulate a better processor. You can then run your favorite ARM/MIPS/x86 code on an emulation and forget the real system.

Personally, I currently use TMDA to protect some of my accounts. It's a challenge/response system that uses whitelist/blacklist technology and sends a challenge to the unknown senders. This is quite effective at combatting spam since the challenge to a spam message usually ends up bouncing anyways.

The only problem with TMDA is that some people consider the challenge/response method to be quite rude (click here and do a search for "gunfighter" to read the responses to my comment(s) about TMDA). TMDA, and similar technologies, definitely place the responsibility for ensuring message delivery in the hands of the sender and receiver. In addition, there are other considerations such as the additional overhead of the extra messages. There are even cases where people who haven't properly configured such technologies end up getting into confirmation loops and screw up by sending a challenge to a legitimate mailing list.

To overcome these problems I've actually concocted, in cooperation with a fellow developer, an automated means of verifying the authenticity of an email message. While this may not stop spam cold in its tracks from the get-go, it will definitely be a step in the right direction. Instead of blocking entire IP blocks (or even individual IP addresses), companies, ISPs, and individuals will soon be able to compare against blacklists of individual users.

By using this technology in cooperation with a challenge/response-type filter, only individual senders flagged as potential spammers will be a) blocked or b) flagged as possible spam or c) receive a challenge/response. This will completely obsolete any and all current methods of dns or IP based blacklist(s).

Time-to-market is up in the air right now, but hopefully we'll have a prototype ready here in the next month or two. Hope to see you then.

I believe that KDE has a windows 98 theme, although I don't know how closely it resembles Win98. There are some nice screenshots, though.

I believe that KDE has a windows 98 theme, although I don't know how closely it resembles Win98. There are some nice screenshots, though.

It took me a 2 seconds to inquire with freshmeat and get a couple of promising hits. I won't bill you for my time, though.

Fact is, tcsh is a better interactive shell than bash for newbies, thanks to intelligent command completion. (No, I don't mean the "complete the program name" stuff bash has, I mean the way tcsh knows about common arguments and options of the most-used programs, and can fill those in for you as well.)

...as you can see here. I wonder why it took that long. Well, it's good to see another site getting the word out about this online protest.

Although there a other opinions, I still manage to compile most programs with the simple

./configure
make
checkinstall make install

But, hey, this tutorial is free and certainly useful for new users (who don't know how to handle tar- or gzip/bzip2-files). I think the chapter on what problems may occur and how to solve them could be a bit longer than just one page...

BTW, I don't know why they skipped the part on how to edit the Makefile by hand. It's much more fun :) And while they are at it, they can add a section on how to analyse core dumps, too! (SCNR)

silly editors. Yay for SpamAssassin..

here is the link!

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/964/

people/editors need to learn the a tag