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..Especially when combined with XUL
(apologies to slashdot member CTho9305)

Especially when combined with XUL.

Mercury might almost be considered a dialect of Prolog, and offers a .NET compiler, in case you need it. http://mercury.sf.net/

...and no actual sudstance.

I'm sure you means substance, but I digress.

I must not be getting your point. True, many people don't care what is by default installed on their systems and will happily be using those programs. Most often, when I offer people choices and show them the differences, without a slant, and give them the opportunity (KEY WORD THERE), more often or not, they will go with something that is not made by microsoft - with the exception of the operating system.

Yes.. even if it's' free and included. However some still choose to keep the MS defaults because of either the UI is what they're used to, or simply don't want to relearn something else... even if it is better in their own opinion.

I don't mind MS products to be honest with you. I prefer to use MS Office 2003 supplied by my company than OpenOffice.org. It is faster, and I have plenty of hard drive space (300+gig) to play with. I can't stand the media player or messenger for two reasons:

1) I prefer Winamp over almost anything based on a decision made years ago. It is just something I like MORE than the others in comparison.

2) Gaim will allow me to be signed on to AIM, ICQ, MSN in a single window and allow me to have tabbed conversations. Even allow me to log onto multiple accounts of the same protocol where as you would have to use a third party hack to do that with the default clients. (I like to keep family, work, gaming buddies separated and do so with a reason).

YMMV

Whee. Another locked-down, proprietary codec. Yeah, my pants are frickin' aglow with joy right now.

Me, I'm still hoping that Dirac turns out well. It's on v0.5.2 now; I haven't given it a shot, but I've heard good things. Also, y'know, it's unencumbered. Give me Dirac (or whatever shows up as a promising, free next-generation video codec) and Vorbis in a Matroska package any day.

--grendel drago

I've always found ffdshow to be a much less crapware-like codec for watching DivX video. Not sure how it handles the new v6 stuff though.

Good point, but there are ways around that. I have an Atheros WiFi card and use the MADWIFI driver for it. Most of the driver is open-source, but the core radio part is distributed binary-only. This is not just because they think it's a good idea, but because it would be in violation of FCC regulations to allow this part of the driver to be modified. However, Atheros was nice enough to provide this binary-only part compiled for many different Linux platforms and to give assistance to the people writing the rest.

If you are comparing Rails and Zope, you probably aren't comparing things properly. Doing a CMS? Then Zope has a lot of infrastructure, and Rails has none. Doing a small databased-backed web application? Then Zope will be rather painful.

If you want to compare a Python option to Rails and Ruby, you should look at something like Paste/Webware, CherryPy, Subway, Aquarium, or others. There's a lot of choices, but there's very active work to bring together these web platforms, so won't be trapped by your initial choice.

Just so you know, ipv6.exe was deprecated when they 'finished' the stack. Using the IPv6 contexts in netsh.exe (which also configures v4+v6 TCP port proxies) is much better.

Microsoft's toolset has been improving over time and you can download Windows ports for most common utilities. I'm all for a new and improved shell, but the MSH beta has been available for some time and it's a long way from release.

I've recently heard of a commercial product, VGP, but I don't know how well it works yet.

I've recently heard of a commercial product, VGP, but I don't know how well it works yet.

haven't used it .. however i can recommend http://passwordsafe.sf.net/

Really easy to use encryption for gaim, an opensource IM client which supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo etc

gaim:
http://gaim.sf.net/

encryption plugin:
http://gaim-encryption.sf.net/

Really easy to use encryption for gaim, an opensource IM client which supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo etc

gaim:
http://gaim.sf.net/

encryption plugin:
http://gaim-encryption.sf.net/

Sir Clive Sinclair had confirmed the rumours about Sinclair QL switching to 80386. "With the fuse technology old programs compiled for the Z80 CPU run just as good. In fact, I've been playing Exolon on a fuse machine since morning." Eew.

Well, there are actually open-source projects to remake Stunts.

Ultimate Stunts appears to be actually progressing, as opposed to most of the other projects, where someone hacked together a 3D engine, and then ignored it...

I don't know about Quake, but there's a patch for Crystal Space/Mozilla called Crystalzilla which does this.

http://metaverse.sf.net/ is an opensource SL-like project under development.

It's using ode physics engine, Lua scripting engine, and it will shortly be using Python as a high-level glue language for the application development itself.

If you go to http://sf.net/projects/metaverse, you can click on Monitor to monitor the file releases for new file releases. The current ones are a little old, but there should be a new one out soon.

Hugh Perkins

http://metaverse.sf.net/ is an opensource SL-like project under development.

It's using ode physics engine, Lua scripting engine, and it will shortly be using Python as a high-level glue language for the application development itself.

If you go to http://sf.net/projects/metaverse, you can click on Monitor to monitor the file releases for new file releases. The current ones are a little old, but there should be a new one out soon.

Hugh Perkins

http://aegis.sf.net/aegis.sf.net
and it can do a lot of other things too, like making sure that each change has an accompagning test and that all tests pass before anybody else is bothered with that change.

The biggest downside for aegis (as I see it) is that it needs to run on a central development server, it is not server based like CVS or the others(it has a cvs-like interface for reading). But OTOH, would it be so hare to have the kernel developers log into a central compile farm where the linux kernel is developed.

It benefits you because:

• Google will hopefully crawl your frequently-changing pages more often
• Conversly, Google won't crawl other pages as often, saving your bandwith
• Google will find pages that it wouldn't normally find just by following links

Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to maintain more than one sitemap. You could use XSLT to create the sitemap.html file for your site from the XML file you create for Google. In fact, wouldn't it be nice for Web authoring tools to do this automatically for you?

Nope. Java...nuff said.

Oh yes. Java is great for P2P programs, going all the way back to the original Furi program for Gnutella. (It's too bad that Limewire came along and killed such a great little proggie. Grrr...)

They won't, because Theora is too patented. They're developing their own open format called Dirac, it's up on sourceforge if you want to help out

• Simple
• Flexible
• Effective

The Neuros Firmware has had its source released and contains a copy of Tremor ported to run on the c54x, if the the Nokia 770 uses the ARM9/c54x combined core I'm sure it could be ported to the 770. The hard part (getting it to run at an acceptable speed on the c54x) has already been done at least.

Sean Starkey is also in the middle of getting libflac to compile with the TI Compiler right now. In theory it should be able to decode without needing any serious optimisations.

Put another password in.

I use a rather nice piece of kit which goes by the name of KeePass ( http://keepass.sf.net/ ), and a 78-bit master password for that. Works wonders, and can use external drives as keys or parts of keys (So you have the traditional something you know, something you have).

http://www.omnytex.com/articles/ is a nice little introduction to Ajax. It includes a Struts-based example app.

http://struts.sf.net/ ... the AjaxTags project... if you are developing with Struts, this could be a nice thing to use.

http://napshare.sf.net/

The question is which is safer and which is faster?

• ipw2100
• ipw2200

The only catch is that firmware is still closed-source. It can be downloaded, but I am not certain about redistribution conditions.

• ipw2100
• ipw2200

The only catch is that firmware is still closed-source. It can be downloaded, but I am not certain about redistribution conditions.

Awesome PHP plugin for Eclipse. Includes Smarty support also http://phpeclipse.sf.net/

Perl plugin also exists for Eclipse. http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/

...(mostly) shameless plug...

http://emule.sf.net/

A little pussy never hurt anyone. It is wrong to compare two different, completely unrelated projects. Internet Explorer was derived from a once limited webbrowser (MOSAIC), and is now suited as an interface between host operating systems over a network; I believe its fault is trying to accomplish this similarly as a VNC and a webbrowser. Opera is an interpreter with added secure and authentication protocols for remote access.

It is best to enumerate and project the needful requirements for "web browsing", then let the developers meet those requirements. I've counted no less than thirty web applications actively used and half of those are merely HTML interpreters; each one is concentrating its adherance to a specific standard or purpose while others are building from an originally limited design. My favorite implementation is the Dillo webbrowser, but I've modified it with my own interface to span multiple dillo tabs in a window and implemented downloading interface directly to GNU wget. The original author of Dillo hasn't implemented other protocols yet, and I think its useful as it is now; small, quick, easy; for PDA or desktop use.

A little diversity never hurt anyone; everyone is a winner, because we simply choose not to lose. I, for one, welcome these pussified overlords!

Re: Ultima V: The DOS version works wonderfully in DOSBox. You just need to set "cycles" to low enough number since U5 doesn't have a frame limiter so you may want an artificially slow emulation speed - but the fact that you're in a slow emulator environment already might help.

And the project to watch for in the future is Neat Ultima V, which is what xu4 is for Ultima IV and exult is for Ultima VII - though unlike those projects nu5 doesn't even have any kind of release.

your best bet to get that going again should you ever feel the need is dosbox take you about 30 seconds

Note that there are a number of free multi-service IM clients (that include AIM support) available such as Gaim.

Although I can't exactly say who I work for, the IT department that I am in rolled out Firefox with our Windows XP upgrades, and we're a relatively large non-profit AIDS service organization in a big US city (relatively meaning about 60-70 full-time employees, 10 part-time, and, during any business day, about 10-30 volunteers. We have about 110 computers). I effectively disabled IE in the process via a proxy.pac file, though I'm about to replace that approach with my yet-to-be-released IEURLLock software (when available, it will exist at http://ieurllock.sf.net/ which is already a registered Sourceforge.net project).

As an aside, I have a small Cygwin-bash script that pushes Firefox updates to all computers simultaneously from a large and well-connected Windows 2003 server on our core switch. It was cool to update about 108 computers simultaneously on Thursday night to Firefox 1.0.4 :-) (it used almost 70% of the 200Mb/s teamed connection in some bursts!).

I'm one of the developers of Kenosis a p2p RPC system, and this is a problem we've pondered from time to time. If anyone has ideas for practical steps that we could implement to make the software generally useful to actual dissidents, please feel free to join our mailing list and let us know. http://kenosis.sf.net/

Just go the whole java way - use something like tapestry:httpjakartaapacheorgtapestry Throw away the the parameter parsing and the buggy nightmare that is scripting languages imbedded in html.

That's way too many frameworks. I just use one of them, it's called Freemarker, check it out. Lots of features, decent speed, very easy to use and great documentation. Sure puts JSP to shame. I used it on my forum software with ldap authentication (shameless plug) and it made my life easier.

What's wrong? You or your ISP don't know how to use adzapper on a transparent proxy?

I'm so glad this happened.

See, I've been without cable for probably going on 3-4 years now. And we get crappy reception, so broadcast TV doesn't work well either.

I was pretty happy with my lack of TV until someone told me where I could get full episodes of The Daily Show via bittorrent. So I downloaded Azureus since it has a couple of nifty RSS plugins and started gathering them.

Then I noticed other shows on the list. Wait a minute, is that really the new Battlestar Galactica? I watched the mini-series at a friend's house, this is great! I downloaded them all, and I told my friends who watched it when it finally aired on Sci-Fi in the U.S. I also started to get Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, since those were a couple of weeks ahead of the U.S. (and I was basically getting mega-doses at a TiVo-owning friend's house).

I was renting Smallville through Netflix, but when I hit the end of season 3, I started getting those through bittorrent as well. Then the new Doctor Who showed up, and I was thrilled; the show is good, and I was telling my friends in the hopes that it would eventually hit the U.S. in DVD form.

I was basically starting to reconsider getting cable again -- the downloads are nice, but I have a small hard drive, and I work a swing shift, so they're not always done when I get home -- and perhaps even springing for a TiVo since I can't be home to watch stuff when it normally airs. Then I got home to read this article.

So I have to say, thanks MPAA! With this incredibly fucktarded move on your part, you have lost a potential paying customer, probably for good.

You almost made me forget what short-sighted, greedy fools you were. I'll not make that mistake again.

Jay (=

Programming for the NES actually seems quite fun compared to traditional programming. I've been toying with the idea of actually sitting down and learning it.

I've got a pretty intricate knowledge of the NES cartridge format, since I wrote a tool (based on openly available information) for modifying the graphics. (http://nesromtool.sf.net/)

Also of interest is http://grandtheftendo.com/ since the guy wrote tons of custom software to program that and has some pretty interesting things to say.

...start here.

If time weighs heavily on your hands, adding a second, massively simplified, child-oriented interface to The GIMP would be nice.

take a look at the source code of Gallery 2 http://gallery.sf.net/ read the coding guidelines, patterns etc. and then come back and report if you'd still say that it's php and not the coder that is the origin of all these php prejudices.

there are other reasons why most php scripts end up being spaghetti code.

Well I've done part of one:

http://bstring.sf.net/

Its not exactly the C library per se, but instead a complete substitute for one part of the C library that is the source for a lot of headaches and security issues; namely strings.

Reading you link...

Unfortunately the ASF rejected the work presented here and SGI terminated the project. It has a new home now on SourceForge, courtesy of SGI, and it seeks a new owner and a fresh start. Want Apache to run faster? Want to take a different approach to appealing to the ASF? Perhaps simply presenting the ASF with a different spokesperson would improve the odds of adoption. Apply to the current owner for project ownership or to sponsor me to revive the project.

Nonetheless, this project's aggressive optimizations make Apache/1.3 up to ten times faster and Apache/2.0 up to four times faster on the SPECweb96 benchmark.

And in the FAQ:

12. Will the ASF adopt the patches?
We contributed the patches to the Apache Software Foundation but the ASF has refused to include the patches in future releases of Apache/1.3 or 2.0, citing "unnecessary" typecasts and complication associated with the warning-free 64-bit port, and incompatible license terms with the state-threaded MPM.

Seriously, I've been laid off since Nov. 29th. (I start a new job on Monday...YAY!). But, I've been putting in 40-60 hour days everyday (with the exception of a few days when it was REALLY nice out).

Not only have a really made progress on GnosisLIMS (which I've been working on for years), but I was also able to create a useful tool for managing my email when I'm way from my desk (Flex-mn).

Who cares about SVN when SourceForge's statistics engine has been down for 4 months. Really difficult to know what is being downloaded.

I'd just like to throw in a "Me too!". I love SourceForge and have several big projects there, but this is getting to be ridiculous. Luckily our main project finished its last day in the 90-something percent activity range, so I'm guessing that people are still finding it, but the lack of stats is making it much harder to find new projects that are developing rapidly.

Who cares about SVN when SourceForge's statistics engine has been down for 4 months. Really difficult to know what is being downloaded.

I'd just like to throw in a "Me too!". I love SourceForge and have several big projects there, but this is getting to be ridiculous. Luckily our main project finished its last day in the 90-something percent activity range, so I'm guessing that people are still finding it, but the lack of stats is making it much harder to find new projects that are developing rapidly.