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  1. "dual" monitor X/Windows by macTijn · · Score: 1 · on A Dual Monitor Experiment

    I think it would be even more productive if you have different OSes on 2 monitors.
    Therefore I have a Linux (FC2) box on the left, and a wintendo (XPsp2) on the right. Since I don't want 2 keyboards/mice, I use Synergy2.
    Works quite nice, and is good for my productivity as a webdesigner (don't hit me!) and fulltime /. reader, and I can still play games on friday afternoon :)

  2. Re:Thanks for the inspiration by cowens · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Dual Monitor Experiment

    If you are running Linux (or any version of UNIX) you should look into DMX (distributed multiheaded X). You can use your old laptop as a screen attached to a newer laptop and/or a desktop (there doesn't seem to be a hard limit to the number of machines that can be linked).

  3. Re:Awesome by the_truk_stop · · Score: 1 · on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google?
    On the client side, I recommend Gaim. On the protocol side, once you're using Gaim, you can get a Jabber account and begin telling your friends about it. I got a Jabber account at the beginning of the year-ish, and so far I've gotten over a dozen people to also get an account.

    True, I can't drop AIM just yet, but the number of important people in my life who are using Jabber continues to increase. If you don't use open protocols, they'll never have a reason to either.

  4. Do we really need another? by LinuxHam · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google?

    Wouldn't it be much easier and more cost effective if they would just announce "hey gmail users, now your id & pwd work on our Jabber IM server!" It would instantly become the most popular Jabber server on the net, and the only effort would be in creating a cluster resilient enough to handle the onslaught, something they seem to be "pretty good" at. Wasn't that one of the original design goals of Jabber? So people could reuse their email addresses as IM uids, and service providers can host their own IM servers?

    Finally, for everyone pushing Gaim, don't forget to mention Gaim-encryption to go along with it. It staples SSL and its own key management over top of any protocol Gaim supports. No SSL proxies or shyte like that. The chats are encrypted the entire path, client-to-client.

  5. CAJUN, my good man by avoision · · Score: 1 · on Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget?

    CAJUN stands for Car-Audio-Jukebox-on-UNix but it works just as well in a home stereo environment. Runs great on a P133. You can control it remotely using a web browser. It uses mysql for the database and apache to serve up the web interface.

    http://cajun.sf.net/

    (I'm a developer on the project, shamelessly plugging it here)

  6. Try PDF by Mastos · · Score: 4, Informative · on Pretty Printing From An XML File?

    I have a similiar problem I solve through the use of XSLT and XSL-FO. Use XSLT to transform the XML into XSL-FO. Then, use Apache FOP to render the XSL-FO into PDF.

    Another variation is to transform your XML into an HTML subset, then use a standard XSLT to transform the HTML into XSL-FO. A similiar technique is used by Aurigadoc to create all sorts of output formats using an XML source.

  7. Re:python performance by fredrikj · · Score: 1 · on Parrot 0.1.1 'Poicephalus' Released

    If Psyco isn't on the list of the initiatives you've checked out, I suggest you have a look at it. It speeds up most Python code by 50%-100%, and can improve performance more than tenfold in some cases (for example, tight loops that only do integer math or involve many function calls). And it's really easy to use, you just start it from inside your code (import psyco; psyco.profile()) and it automagically replaces the Python interpreter core in runtime!

    As for the article topic, I'm really enthusiastic about Parrot and hope it'll provide some competition for Java. Java is OK, but has little to offer compared to Python (except for better run-time speed, though on the other hand it uses something like ten times more memory), and more generally, dynamic typing is far superior to static typing.

  8. PearPC by digitalgimpus · · Score: 1 · on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86

    does anyone else smell some PearPC code behind all this?

    That would be my bet. A nice installer.

  9. roadnav by mrfibbi · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Two Ways To Use GPS With Linux

    I'd reccomend checking out roadnav. Not very mature (still only in 0.2), but it uses vector data, plots directions, and has a beautifully-generated map.

  10. Re:Another project with a lot of Documentation by Wills · · Score: 1 · on Hibernate in Action

    Yes, that's even more than Hibernate's documentation. If you like R, try Albert Gräf's Q, a powerful functional/equational programming language which now has a set of Q multimedia examples including audio and MIDI based on a KDE interface.

  11. Ludicrous. by jensend · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support
    One thing I did miss in KDE was Mozilla.
    Why? You aren't forced to use Konq when you use KDE any more than you're forced to use Galeon when you use Gnome. Mozilla doesn't depend on any Gnome libraries, and even if it did, you could still run it under KDE, just as many run Evolution under KDE. If a programmer's choice of API determines users' choice of application, something's wrong.
    I still think KDE needs some work, especially in the ease-of-use department (too many settings presented to the user
    So in other words, you want KDE to travel down the same "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave" user-hostility path which has been ruinous for Gnome?
    I have to admit that C++ as a basis is a much superior choice to C, especially considering the kludge that seems to underly GNOME, separate libraries for GTK and GNOME applications with surprisingly few applications taking advantage of the GNOME-only libraries.
    There are also loads of apps which use QT but no KDE libs. This is not a kludge, it's the only smart decision. If your project has little or no use for the vast DE-specific libraries- you just need a toolkit and a few associated niceties- why depend on the DE libs? For political reasons (like those of a gnocatan developer who fanatically and laughably claimed "even if we find we have no need for the Gnome-specific libs, we should depend on them anyway to try to keep anybody who uses a non-Free Software platform like Win32 from being able to use the program")? This has, of course, nothing at all to do with the choice of language for core components, and I have no idea what makes you think it does.
    If you look at the distributions on the shelves, SuSE is KDE, Mandrake is KDE, Linsipre is KDE (with modifications). You can't buy Fedora at PC World. Any new user getting interested in Linux would probably go here first, and by consequence they're going to get KDE.
    It's fairly rare to see any linux distributions on the shelves, and when you do, you usually see RedHat EL more than anybody else. Furthermore, while Linspire and Xandros could be said to be KDE distros, it makes little sense to apply that moniker to Mandrake or SuSE (especially since Novell bought Ximian and SuSE), which are fairly DE-agnostic. But that's irrelevant anyway- shelf sales of Linux are just about never to new desktop users, regardless of distro, and that doesn't look likely to change any time soon. People first try out Linux in other ways.
    If KDE goes on to become the defacto Linux desktop, then I won't shed that many tears.
    I will- and not because I dislike KDE (though I do). Why should every app be chosen for you when you choose a task bar/pager/launch menu or a way of displaying desktop icons? Fundamentally, that's all a desktop environment ought to be, and with standards like some of those developed at freedesktop.org determining how applications can expect to interact and depend on or provide specific resources, rather than which DE the user has installed determining that, hopefully things will move in that direction. People need to get past the megalomanical viewpoint where the desktop environment subsumes everything else under the sun. It leads to overengineered frameworks of frameworks, an unmaintainable monolithic environment, and uninformed end-users making decisions about and squabbling over things they don't understand at all (such as your bias for C++ over C based on something which was not only utterly irrelevant but entirely wrong).
  12. What?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MySQL Uses Microsoft's Open Source Software

    Suppose I wanted to port WiX to run and install linux applications on linux

    Microsoft packaging system on Linux? It would be like apt-get on Windows! Oh, wait...

  13. Re:slightly OT... by TheRealStaunch · · Score: 0 · on GMail Drive Shell Extension

    Sorry, I donated the last of mine to the spreadfirefox.com gmail givaway. You can probably get one at http://moznews.sf.net/gmail.

  14. simple, non-incremental stuff by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1 · on Backups to CD-R?

    The simplest, non-incremental solution, is to boot some form of Linux. I chose RIP last time I had to do this. I don't remember if it had cdrecord, but it had reiser4, captive-ntfs, and loaded everything into RAM on boot (fairly quickly) so that you could eject the disk. The script, though ugly, can be understood well enough to set up your own backup script which runs each boot.

    As for the backup itself, I just used tar, piped the compressed version straight into cdrecord, using stdin and a huge buffer. When I needed to back up something bigger than one cd, it was a disk image, so it was easy enough to just pipe 'dd' from certain offsets into cdrecord, and write the offset on the physical disk label (with a Sharpie).

    There's a program called "split" which might help if you need to split one tar across multiple cds. Again, to avoid having to deal with Captive slowness, I can do this all in RAM. The trick is to set up some fifos, run "tar ... | split ...", have the fifo's catch the files, and "cat" them into cdrecord. To join them back together, you recreate the same fifos, do "cat fifo1 fifo2 fifo3... | tar -xjp...", pop the CDs in one at a time, and dd (or cat) the CD device, piped into the fifos.

    Unfortunately, it might take some use of Perl and Captive-NTFS for me to make it incremental (only backup changes). But I've never actually wanted to do that -- this is usually for when I'm stranded without networking or Internet.

    When I do have Internet, I have a dedicated backup server, which I backup to with either some simple rsync scripts or BackupPC. BackupPC is very, very close to being able to do fully incremental backups forever, and purging the oldest ones when it runs out of space. Furthermore, it can use many, many ways of backing up. My favorites are rsync over ssh for unix boxes and samba for Windows boxes.

  15. Re:I'd rather they not use it by rainwater · · Score: 3, Informative · on MySQL Uses Microsoft's Open Source Software

    Why would you rather they don't use it?

    Because there are much better alternatives like NSIS or the many others. Plus, who wants to require freaking runtime to install software.

  16. Code validation tools... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Alan Cox on Writing Better Software

    ...are nifty. They can catch all sorts of stuff and produce lovely reports - or, well, at least functional reports. And running them nightly - or hourly - helps to ensure the code won't get out of sorts.

    PLUG: Need to check Java code? Try PMD!

  17. Re:Exchange ? by jdray · · Score: 1 · on SUSE 9.2 Released
    Interesting. Have you tried it? I'm hesitant to believe a lot of the marketing materials put out by companies or projects, particularly in the form of a flashy web page. The proof is in the pudding, as it's said.

    For instance, I've been searching for a document management system lately to use as a repository for our company's standards development project. One basic feature we require is that the search engine it provides searches within Word documents. Two OSS projects I looked at, Owl and KnowledgeTree, advertise on their features list that they do this. But if you go try out their online demos, neither product is able to find words embedded in Word documents that exist on their system. In one case, someone had put up a Word document with a single Spanish word in it. I viewed the document, noticed that it was a good candidate for a search (one word, not one likely to be found in another document), then backed out and tried to find the document using that word in the search bar. Nothing.

    So, while I'm always interested in OSS projects that can act as replacements for commercial ones, particularly on the server side, I'm reticent to believe their hype before I see their products in action.

  18. Re:No Linux on the AV320 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Detailed Review of the Archos AV420 PVR

    just to make things clear, archos original firmware is really different from linux. But there is a project of running linux on this device see
    http://linav.sf.net for more details or http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4929282643.html

    And for the name avos, I think they stole it from another project that was working on the av3xx device.

  19. Re:but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Detailed Review of the Archos AV420 PVR

    This model does not run Linux yet. (The 500 one apparently will, out of the box.)

    However, do not forget that the model before the 400, the 300, has similar specs (although not as slim), and there is a Linux version running on it:

    http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4929282643.html

    linav home page:

    http://linav.sf.net/

  20. Shameless self-promotion by descubes · · Score: 1 · on XAML Development Today, But Not From Microsoft

    Slashdot is a good way to attract readers... Why would it be OK to promote open-source software releases and not interesting non-open-source ones?

    Well, now that I think about it, let me take the opportunity to talk about XL, the future of programming. XAML is so passe, you know. This Xamlon act is the proof that it's no longer interesting: there is an implementation that works.

    No such problem with XL. It's a real, true to geek do-it-yourself futureware. Complete with almost-but-not-quite-working source code. So if you are unhappy about these folks talking about real stuff available today, why don't you stop ranting and contribute so that we can get back to talking about stuff that doesn't exist yet :-)

  21. We have this big fancy Flash system, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Laszlo Systems Open Sources Rich Client Platform

    but we can't find anyone to help develop a simple Flash Development Envrinment for Linux

    irc.freenode.net #f4l

  22. Re:NewtonOS Clone? by RevAaron · · Score: 1 · on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware

    That is what I am doing with Dynapad, though it isn't a straight clone, but rather embodies the spirit of the Newton OS.

  23. geeky /. response by tod_miller · · Score: 0 · on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

    I think you will find that grandparent post uses a more adaptive algorithm *pushes glasses up nose* and can lookup word aliases and also provide character reordering and event prediction (locked caps).

    Whilst parent post is a mere random 1:1 letter symbol lookup that uses a bollean flag to determine how large the lookup data is.

    *silence* oh I see you were joking... I have gone and published this in the ACM website too... feel so silly...

    to make up for it, I wrote a perl script that uses SOAP to connect to google and groups.google and does realtime lookups on current jibe talk or selected dialects and does a quantization approach and entropy coding to provide accurate and hilarious results.

    Sourceforge project

    I also wrote an AI interface which makes its own blog, twice daily:

    here

  24. ATI 9200 / 8500 by anti-NAT · · Score: 1 · on Linux GPU Performance

    DRI Project

  25. Re:Ballmer and FUD? Who would have thought?! by blixel · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ballmer Says iPod Users are Thieves

    50%? Are you kidding? It's rare to see a Windows computer with less than 100% pure, unadulterated, stolen shit in it

    That certainly rings true among the people I know - at least with regards to their home computers. 100% of them run pirated copies of WinXP, pirated photoshop, pirated Office, etc...

    Personally I think the likes of Abiword make a perfectly acceptable replacement for Word, at least for home users - and often times businesses would do just fine with it. I think Abiword is an upgrade from MS Word - others my not agree. But it's definitely faster to load, looks just as good (better in my opinion), uses less memory, and has more than enough features to keep home users, college students, and business people happy.

    I'm not a huge fan of Open Office - not because there's anything wrong with it. It's just that I don't really need an Office Suite. (I imagine most home users don't.) But for those who do "need" it, I think it's a great substitute for the $300+ MS Office Suite.

    For my own spreadsheet needs, I prefer Gnumeric because it feels very light weight while still having all the features I need. Plus I think it looks great and it's a heck of a lot faster to load up than OOo. The only problem with Gnumeric is that there isn't a Windows port (that I know of).

    I also have several friends who pirate the "Pro" version of Trillian. I finally convinced my friend to give the Windows Port of gaim a try and he has been using it ever since. Bonus - download the encryption plugin for gaim and have secure messaging.

    I don't know enough about Photoshop and image editing to know if The Gimp is an acceptable replacement. I've read several posts where people say it is *not* (an acceptable replacement.) I'll have to take their word for it. My image editing needs are very basic so gThumb is about all I really need.

    I have another friend who pirates FTP software. With the existence of FileZilla, I fail to see the point. What can't FileZilla do?

    A lot of people pirate WinZip. I have to admit that WinZip does have a pretty interface (if you use Windows), but if you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want to take the risk of infecting your Windows computer with a virus when you download a WinZip crack of Kazaa, then I recommend 7-zip as a free alternative. Also, the last time I saw WinZip (which admittedly was years ago) there were a few archive types it didn't handle.

    There are so many great Free and Open Source alternatives available, even if you use Windows.

    Get FireFox now

  26. Re:Ballmer and FUD? Who would have thought?! by blixel · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ballmer Says iPod Users are Thieves

    50%? Are you kidding? It's rare to see a Windows computer with less than 100% pure, unadulterated, stolen shit in it

    That certainly rings true among the people I know - at least with regards to their home computers. 100% of them run pirated copies of WinXP, pirated photoshop, pirated Office, etc...

    Personally I think the likes of Abiword make a perfectly acceptable replacement for Word, at least for home users - and often times businesses would do just fine with it. I think Abiword is an upgrade from MS Word - others my not agree. But it's definitely faster to load, looks just as good (better in my opinion), uses less memory, and has more than enough features to keep home users, college students, and business people happy.

    I'm not a huge fan of Open Office - not because there's anything wrong with it. It's just that I don't really need an Office Suite. (I imagine most home users don't.) But for those who do "need" it, I think it's a great substitute for the $300+ MS Office Suite.

    For my own spreadsheet needs, I prefer Gnumeric because it feels very light weight while still having all the features I need. Plus I think it looks great and it's a heck of a lot faster to load up than OOo. The only problem with Gnumeric is that there isn't a Windows port (that I know of).

    I also have several friends who pirate the "Pro" version of Trillian. I finally convinced my friend to give the Windows Port of gaim a try and he has been using it ever since. Bonus - download the encryption plugin for gaim and have secure messaging.

    I don't know enough about Photoshop and image editing to know if The Gimp is an acceptable replacement. I've read several posts where people say it is *not* (an acceptable replacement.) I'll have to take their word for it. My image editing needs are very basic so gThumb is about all I really need.

    I have another friend who pirates FTP software. With the existence of FileZilla, I fail to see the point. What can't FileZilla do?

    A lot of people pirate WinZip. I have to admit that WinZip does have a pretty interface (if you use Windows), but if you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want to take the risk of infecting your Windows computer with a virus when you download a WinZip crack of Kazaa, then I recommend 7-zip as a free alternative. Also, the last time I saw WinZip (which admittedly was years ago) there were a few archive types it didn't handle.

    There are so many great Free and Open Source alternatives available, even if you use Windows.

    Get FireFox now

  27. Re:Ballmer and FUD? Who would have thought?! by blixel · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ballmer Says iPod Users are Thieves

    50%? Are you kidding? It's rare to see a Windows computer with less than 100% pure, unadulterated, stolen shit in it

    That certainly rings true among the people I know - at least with regards to their home computers. 100% of them run pirated copies of WinXP, pirated photoshop, pirated Office, etc...

    Personally I think the likes of Abiword make a perfectly acceptable replacement for Word, at least for home users - and often times businesses would do just fine with it. I think Abiword is an upgrade from MS Word - others my not agree. But it's definitely faster to load, looks just as good (better in my opinion), uses less memory, and has more than enough features to keep home users, college students, and business people happy.

    I'm not a huge fan of Open Office - not because there's anything wrong with it. It's just that I don't really need an Office Suite. (I imagine most home users don't.) But for those who do "need" it, I think it's a great substitute for the $300+ MS Office Suite.

    For my own spreadsheet needs, I prefer Gnumeric because it feels very light weight while still having all the features I need. Plus I think it looks great and it's a heck of a lot faster to load up than OOo. The only problem with Gnumeric is that there isn't a Windows port (that I know of).

    I also have several friends who pirate the "Pro" version of Trillian. I finally convinced my friend to give the Windows Port of gaim a try and he has been using it ever since. Bonus - download the encryption plugin for gaim and have secure messaging.

    I don't know enough about Photoshop and image editing to know if The Gimp is an acceptable replacement. I've read several posts where people say it is *not* (an acceptable replacement.) I'll have to take their word for it. My image editing needs are very basic so gThumb is about all I really need.

    I have another friend who pirates FTP software. With the existence of FileZilla, I fail to see the point. What can't FileZilla do?

    A lot of people pirate WinZip. I have to admit that WinZip does have a pretty interface (if you use Windows), but if you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want to take the risk of infecting your Windows computer with a virus when you download a WinZip crack of Kazaa, then I recommend 7-zip as a free alternative. Also, the last time I saw WinZip (which admittedly was years ago) there were a few archive types it didn't handle.

    There are so many great Free and Open Source alternatives available, even if you use Windows.

    Get FireFox now

  28. Re:Linux on PPC? I'll take OS X by deathontwolegs · · Score: 1 · on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released

    There are on problems with software, because Debian and Gentoo both have very good ppc support (and think that no other distro has so much avaiable packages as these two), and yes xine, mplayer, firefox , and so on, all works..
    About drivers you've got the same problem as in linux x86 there's no support for the latest hardware (wireless, and so on), nvidia doesn't make linux drivers (i think it's apple fault because nvidia says that the ppc platform is apple responsability, maybe they have some kind of agreement), ati also don't make drivers, but the dri project has 3d drivers for every chip until 9200 (this means the lastest ibooks still have 3d)..
    About libraries, i never had any kind of trouble (maybe you have special needs, but i don't think there will be any kind of problem).

  29. Meta-data is only the beginning of the story by descubes · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Prime Mover of Java's Port to Linux Interviewed

    Meta-programming is much more powerful, with the ability to actually change the program, not just attach data to it. The XL programming language is designed around that idea. And open-source too. Hint: I'm always looking for contributors to help.

  30. Re:This may sound stupid... by lachlan76 · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole

    This is what I started my project for. And FS development.

    If you trust your pr0n to code written by a 15-year-old that is. No? Well, I wouldn't either ;) It really just makes a file of x size, and mounts it with a shell script. (You need to do mkfs on it first). This wouldn't stop the xploit, but would make recovery easier (as is my understanding).

    If you made a disk image, mounted it, and then put your downloads there, if there was a problem, you've still got a chance to recover it. But that's assuming you used an image, it would be harder to recover a folder full of files than a file in a disk image.

  31. Re:Bytecode Compatibility by rreyelts · · Score: 1 · on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5
    The bytecode format is still identical.
    It's most definitely not identical. There are several changes that went into the classfile/bytecode format for 1.5. Just a few examples off the top of my head:
    • new Signature attributes (for generics)
    • new Varargs access specifier
    • the JVM LDC instruction now supports class literals
    • new Annotation attributes
    • New Synthetic access specifiers replace old Synthetic attributes
    Above and beyond the bytecode/classfile format changes, using -target 1.5 will cause the compiler to automatically take advantage of new code that is only available in the 1.5 runtime. For example, enums depend upon java.lang.Enum, the new for loop depends upon java.lang.Iterable, the compiler supports string concatenation using the new StringBuilder class instead of StringBuffer, etc...

    Retroweaver takes care of all of that, and was even given a thumbs up by the 1.5 compiler writer, Neal Gafter.

  32. Re:Bytecode Compatibility by rreyelts · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5

    It has been known for a long time (over a year), that Java programs compiled for 1.5 will not run on a 1.4 VM. However, you can use tools like Retroweaver to get 1.4 compatibility. It rewrites the bytecode of your version 1.5 class files into the 1.4 VM format.

  33. Performance improved? Not in my experience... by znerd · · Score: 3, Informative · on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5
    I did some tests to compare Java 1.4.2_05 with JDK 1.5.0 and I found that 1.4.2_05 is considerably faster when building a project. This mainly involved XSLT processing and Java compilation.

    Test I did: Run 'ant -lib lib checkstyle java' on XINS 0.207)

    Preparation command:
    rm -rf build
    Timed command:
    time ant -lib lib checkstyle java
    I did 3 tests in a row for each Java version. I added the 'user' and 'sys' times and the averaged then. Results on my Gentoo Linux system with 2.6 kernel:
    Java 1.4.2_05 34.5s Java 1.5.0-rc: 42.9s Java 1.5.0: 41.6s
  34. Re:Can't get to site by Fancia · · Score: 1 · on Dear Microsoft Windows ...

    DOSBox runs many DOS games very well, in my experience, and it's both free and has a nice Mac port. You can give the Windows port a try, first, if you want to see if the games you want to play run properly, or look it up in their reasonably exhaustive compatility list.

  35. Re:Down with this bill by jrockway · · Score: 5, Informative · on File Trading Law Would Include 'Willing' Traders

    Screw what the lawyers thing, we have technology to fight them. Try Freenet. It's mathematically impossible to determine what you're sharing! Try going to jail for sharing random bytes :-)

  36. Maybe they just dislike software like Hotwayd ? by wackysalut · · Score: 1 · on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam

    Yeah.. maybe they don't want to serve as POP3 accounts, especially if they add more space. See http://hotwayd.sf.net/

  37. Re:We don't care about Outlook... by dakainivanua · · Score: 1 · on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam
    Does gotmail still work on free accounts?
    (The correct link is here.)

    Now, Gotmail doesn't rely on WebDAV (as does Hotway) so this change alone won't stop it from working. I haven't seen any complaints from the gotmail cron job I run, so it's still probably working fine.

  38. Re:Hotmail Popper (Freeware Version) by BobPaul · · Score: 4, Informative · on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam

    It used to be up till 2.1.0. Download v2.1.0 or you'll have to pay after 100 e-mails xfered.

    I've used Yahoo!Pops for years to check my yahoo account (ever since they cut off free access to pop3). Too bad the parent's solution is shareware and not freeware.

    Both work great, though. They use the standard HTTP interface like a webbrowser (http-get?) instead of that stupid WebDAV protocol. A little slower than WebDAV, probably, but better than using a browser.

  39. Re:ID 10 T Problem by johnnyb · · Score: 1 · on EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration

    http://rute.sf.net/

  40. Then just try grip by vlad_petric · · Score: 1 · on New Version Of Ogg Audio Encoder
    Get it here.

    Need I say more?

  41. Open Source means No Control by Jay+Carlson · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Open Source And Closed Standards?

    Open Source means No Control.

    That's the core of the various free software guidelines.

    You never need to ask permission before taking some 3D library and stuffing it into an SNMP monitoring tool, and then posting it on freshmeat---where some person on the other side of the world finds it and hacks up a web interface.

    You never have to be captive to a copyright owner. If you think RMS is making poor technical decisions in FSFmacs, or XFree86 does silly things with licenses, or some guy neglects his hobby projects (ahem), you can go off on your own without begging anybody. All you have to lose is the previous name and its reputation.

    On the other hand, there are about a zillion Linux distros out there that nobody's heard of. The ultimate penalty for doing a bad fork is being ignored.

  42. Open Source means No Control by Jay+Carlson · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Open Source And Closed Standards?

    Open Source means No Control.

    That's the core of the various free software guidelines.

    You never need to ask permission before taking some 3D library and stuffing it into an SNMP monitoring tool, and then posting it on freshmeat---where some person on the other side of the world finds it and hacks up a web interface.

    You never have to be captive to a copyright owner. If you think RMS is making poor technical decisions in FSFmacs, or XFree86 does silly things with licenses, or some guy neglects his hobby projects (ahem), you can go off on your own without begging anybody. All you have to lose is the previous name and its reputation.

    On the other hand, there are about a zillion Linux distros out there that nobody's heard of. The ultimate penalty for doing a bad fork is being ignored.

  43. Re:New features? by Technonotice_Dom · · Score: 1 · on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed

    If the guy doesn't mind (although if it's MSN, then you could do it without adding him to the list) then file a bug report against Gaim (http://gaim.sf.net/) and give the developers an example they can test against. They should be able to track down a problem quite easily if they have an example of what is crashing it.

  44. Re:All that and he doesn't explain... by bogolisk · · Score: 1 · on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System
    I think he explained it before on the list, for him a CMS is:
    • a system to manage and manipulate changesets. i.e. from the (atomic) unit of change is the changeset and not the file version.
    • history-sensitive merge and multi-strategy merge.

    I've never used arch but the two CMS that I used, prcs and UCM/ClearCase, both exhibit the above properties. I really like prcs especially for small local (over nfs) projects.

  45. Re:Most polar? by ZorroXXX · · Score: 1 · on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System
    We use clearcase at work and I love it. Especially the wonderful VFS integration. Every version of a file is available through adding "@@" and branch and version. Want to compare version 3 and 5 of the some_branch of an element? Just run "diff -u myfile.c@@/main/some_branch/3 myfile.c@@/main/some_branch/5".

    To sum up, clearcase is very good but very expensive. I have been searching for a version control system for my private use, and I have not found anything where branching, merging and labeling is as easy as in clearcase (if possible at all!).

    Granted I have used clearcase for years now and know it quite well. But many of the other version control system at best provides shadows of what I want and expect a version control system to do. The last system i looked into was monotone and as far as I can see it only supports merging from the head (LATEST in clearcase). When it cannot merge from an non-head element it is useless for me.

    What I really, really, really want to do is the following:

    Put the Linux kernel source into version control. The main, "official" version from Linus I would put on a branch named "linus". Then I would subbranch this with other branches, for instance "fedora" for the kernel provided from Fedora, "planetccrma" for the kernel provided by Planet CCRMA, and probably some other branches for things like swsusp.

    When checking in a new official kernel I want to attach a label, say "LINUX_2_6_9". I then want to be able to use this label as a reference when merging. The swsusp project is fully up to date with regards to kernel versions, but say that the last patch from then only was for kernel version 2.6.5. I then want to be able to subbranch the swsusp branch with "myswsusp" and try to merge from LINUX_2_6_9. Of course the version control system should find out which version is the common parent, remember if any merges has been done previously and assist as much as possible in a 3-way merge.

    If any of you readers have a suggestion for a free system capable of such a scenario, please make yourself heard. I know I have looked into Arch a very long time ago, I guess I will look into it again now.

  46. Re:I don't like CVS, Subversion, or Arch by Helmholtz+Coil · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System

    Here's a couple to have a look at:

    PRCS
    Superversion

    Of the two I use PRCS all the time for production code. Superversion's still a very new project but I think it shows a lot of promise, and well worth a periodic look.

  47. Re:I don't like CVS, Subversion, or Arch by Helmholtz+Coil · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System

    Here's a couple to have a look at:

    PRCS
    Superversion

    Of the two I use PRCS all the time for production code. Superversion's still a very new project but I think it shows a lot of promise, and well worth a periodic look.

  48. Open source rules again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey


    see what happens when you let anyone grab the code
    you get a true distributed P2P system that is free and highly expandable

    grab the source and make a great app even better and more secure

  49. Re:Why Never An AM Tuner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market

    Nobody wants to listen to regular old AM when Digital Radio is just around the corner. Software receiver at sourceforge

  50. Re:What distros need to do... by kundor · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Interview With Lead Yoper Linux Developer
    1. Easy installation of any Linux software. Don't give me RPM-hell, dependency hell, command-line compiling, proprietary click-n-run depositories, or any other excuses. Only the Mac does it right: you drag the icon to your Applications folder. Voilà. The first distro to accomplish this will be king.

    Zero-install does exactly that. http://zero-install.sf.net/