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Heh. When I'm really working on an X11 machine, I use ratpoison. I tell you what, it really helps you to focus entirely on the work and not get distracted ;-).

BTW, in keeping with the subject line of this thread - did anyone else notice that in the article, the writer talks about installing KDE3, but then supplies a screenshot referring to KDE2.2/KOffice1.1? If I didn't already think it a pretty weak article, I'd find that kind of a lazy screenshot substitution mistake to be quite amusing. :-)

As far as I know, ATI does not provide a version of their software suite for linux.

Correct.

However, these folks work on drivers that service the ATI video capture hardware, and links to software.

I have a 4MB All-in-Wonder, the granddaddy of them all[0]. Works fine, though the XFree86 4.3.0 version of their drivers don't seem to support TV antialiasing without an XVideo port available, which in my particular case means making sure the IRQ jumper on my card is set to enable. Previous versions of the drivers didn't rely on /dev/video0 existing, so this means one extra step for me and my ancient (but working!) card. I haven't gone into the case to do this yet, so the frames aren't properly drawn (or, more specifically, each frame seems to be drawn too quickly--not fun with fast horizontal movement), but I intend to this evening. Wish me luck.

I'm one the (wannabe?) developers of the drivers for Hauppage USB TV-Tuner cards and many other cards using the NT1003/NT1004 chipset for linux which is commonly called the usbvision-driver (and here).

The state of the project is that very recently the propereriarty compression-scheme used to get the full-screen framerate through the usb-port, has been reverse-engineered (many creds to Joerg and Dwaine), is in development but is reported to work. I've been using the driver on a small screen in non-compression-mode for some time (with only some minor kernel panics).

When it comes to portability I am AKAI the only one who made this driver work under anything but x86. After a lot of tweaking I have the radio-part of the driver working on my linux powerpc with the same stability as under linux x86. The TV-tuning is more difficult because of the reverse byteorder and that the code is written with only one byteorder in mind. For that reason I've only made the sound for the TV work together with the ascii-graphics with the frontend aatv which I really couldn't confirm was correct. I beleve the best way to get the driver to work properly on ppc I will somehow have to tweak mplayer to do the conversion... Which wount be easy.

So in my experience, I'm sorry to say that the portability for the linux-drivers for usb tv-cards is, despite the great efforts on the driver stability of Dwaine, not quite there yet.

Under linux you really can't beat the hauppauge PVR 250 or 350. Both include hardware mpeg2 encoding, the 350 includes hardware mpeg2 decoding. You can find drivers at ivtv.sf.net. It's nice to record tv shows at 640x480 at 2% cpu load.

The card is also well supported by mythtv.

I think what he's saying is that the syntax isn't the only thing that defines a language. A language's type system probably plays a more important part in defining how the language works.

With .Net, it may seem like you have a lot of interoperating languages, but they're all basically the same language with different superficial characteristics. VB developers complain about how VB.Net is totally different from previous versions of Visual Basic. It's because they gutted its internals and implanted C#. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference because I see similar syntax, but someone who really knows the language will detect a different core.

That's not to say that different type systems cannot be emulated. Nice is a language with Java-like syntax but with a much better type system (among other things) and it still runs on an ordinary JVM. However, any interoperability will have to be at the level of the lowest common denominator. If you want to call Nice code from Java, your interface ends up losing or having to give up some power.

You really can't even share libraries between truely different languages. The STL just doesn't fit into the Java/C#-style type systems (though generics is a step towards accomodating the STL). Perl libraries are also distinct. Imagine dealing with a Haskell-style lazy list in your C# code. It just wont feel right.

Well considering Java's startup time removes it from all manner of applications, it's a bit of a strawman to argue that startup time doesn't matter.

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Please take your bullshit trolling elsewhere. There are those of us with work to do.

Microsoft should implement an smarter method, such as a replica of SpamBayes , which works already well.

If you own a ReplayTV, you know the killer feature for it is DVArchive. (sourceforge site)

However, I'm rather concerned about it. The website, although hosted on sourceforge offers no source code and repeated attempts to contact the author have been ignored. He's allegedly planning a rewrite of some kind, which is fine, I just want the source for the older version.

Is anyone a developer for DVArchive or have access to the source? This is not at all an insult to DVArchive or its developers, it's a great program, but in the spirit of its license, I'd really like to see the source code.

Ogg vorbis, yes, but ogg flac?

The Source Forge of GNU software.
It got hacksored.
Because it ownz j00 fool.
At Savannah.

You should try out gotmail which allows you to download all your messages into a MUA of your choice.

Have you ever seen Synaptic? Windows has nothing on it, an entire library of software to install. (Taken from any apt-get repository.) All dependencies handled automatically.

Granted, Linux is still several years behind Windows in application breadth. (Example: genealogy software -- Linux has one decent one, GRAMPS, Windows has literally dozens.) But this continues to improve with time, from being pathetic back when I started in 1999, to having "most major applications" today.

I'm certainly no software developer, but both my wife and I now use Linux full time. Neither of us have booted to Win95 in over a month. All this on a four year old P3-450.

EvilWM

You can also use Dosbox to run old dos games on Linux. Or dosemu/freedos but this is more diffiult. Linux can be a good base of a gaming console.

Note also that we're talking about a corporate desktop here. If a corparate user needs music playback at all, they should probably be using Rhythmbox. It has a much better interface and is completely HIG-ified.

Three words: Media Player Classic

Also eMule is very good for using idle bandwith. In fact, I'd say it's better than BitTorrent, because you can share more files at once with more easy. I've got 381 files shared (nothing RIAA or MPAA), and 1023 GB uploaded. That's since approximately November 2002 with my consumer ADSL connection.

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You do you realise that emule is in the top 5 of sourceforge projects AND its open source ! its also in the top 3 applications that cause massive amounts of bandwidth for ISP's

someone needs to take all the hash and multipart engines from the mule(they have sussed fast hashing and integrity) and combine them with these kinds of encypted systems (and having a ed2k://hash|filname custom browser clickable protocol is a absolute must, forum communities spring up all over dedicated to certain subsets of files because even clueless people can write <a href="">links</a> themselves (and as they are just links to nowhere no one gets in trouble for hosting things) as the files are md5 hashed and metatdata is tied to the hash you can read comments or check the filename to see that your file is indeed the right one (or has been renamed) and the multipart downloading is solid and proven

seriously, if these projects got together this anti-"the man"-encrypted-anon-thing could be working in an instant

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What about GStreamer? It's GNOME's multimedia framework, and there are plenty of programs that use it like Nautilus (for previews), Rhythmbox , and Totem. There's no sound daemon, but that's a job for ALSA and dmix (or a good sound card).

...although CPD was able to find a few duplicate chunks.

It depends on where you put the apices:

Open "Source Engineering" Software? Here
"Open Source" "Engineering Software"? Here
"Open Source Engineering" Software? Here

Hope I've been of help but I doubt it! :-D

Here's the rule:
Instead of using any of
strcat(), strcpy(), sprintf(), gets()

you use
strncat(), strncpy(), snprintf(), fgets()

All those issues are already solved.

Freenet

NVidia has now for a LONG time supported the AMD64/Opteron platform (as well as IA-64, but who cares - UT2004 sure isn't going to appear on IA-64)

Here is a link if you're too lazy to check it for yourself -

The only thing you could POSSIBLY accuse Nvidia of not having done is providing 64-bit Drivers for FreeBSD (or drivers for any of the other BSDs). But even then

My current set up is an Athlon XP 2400+ pared with a KT266A-chipset motherboard. I had NO problems with the chipset under Linux or FreeBSD - ever, ever, ever. Sure - VIA has issues with new chipsets, but hey, they're human too - who doesn't. If you stick with the A-releases you should be more than fine.

I have, however, encountered it impossible to run Windblows XP without SP1 - without the harddrive being unusably corrupted within the first 30 minutes of uptime. But thankfully - that horror is over. No more Mr. Balmer and Microsoft on MY computer - or any computer within my proximity, ever.

Anyways - I can't wait to start porting my home-brew kernel onto x86-64 whenever I come across a cheap Athlon64.

Not really on topic, but Linux (and other free Unix-like systems) users learning Japanese I recommend
gjiten + kanjipad + im-ja for a good dictionary system (you just have to convert Jim's dictionary files to UTF-8, iconv(1) is your friend).

What other Japanese-related software slashdotters like?

Not really on topic, but Linux (and other free Unix-like systems) users learning Japanese I recommend
gjiten + kanjipad + im-ja for a good dictionary system (you just have to convert Jim's dictionary files to UTF-8, iconv(1) is your friend).

What other Japanese-related software slashdotters like?

A relatively old OpenGL game, fully open sourced (GPL), which works on fairly low-end HW, both under Linux and Windows. You can find it via the hoverball home page Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.

I use brag for usenet leeching and gnaughty for light relief.

MusicBrainz::TRM does that. Also, there was the project Songprint (now defunct). The perl bindings for TRM (the part that listens to the song and makes a fingerprint) are currently broken. I can't manage to get them to work :/

The developers of musicbrains hang out on irc.freenode.net/#musicbrainz. They'll tell you to use libtunepimp, which can be found in their CVS repository on musicbrainz.org

There's an extremely cool website that is being developed by the audioscrobbler folks, Last.fm. It's a personalized radio station. You pick what songs you like, and it learns what you like. Very, very cool.

If you have any Battle Tech fans, you can always check out MegaMek. It's a Java application which implements a ton of the level 1 and 2 rules. I believe they have started on some of the level 3 rules. Nonetheless, if you enjoy good strategy games, MegaMek is something you really, really need to check into. Flashy graphics it is not. Awesome strategy and tactics it is! For units, they have mechs, tanks, infantry. Mechs and tanks, properly equiped, can carry infantry. Even if you don't know about BattleTech, and you enjoy strategy/tactics games, I think you'll enjoy MegaMek!

I don't play xpilot anymore, but there is an xpilot sourceforge project working on fancy xpilot graphics:
http://xpilot.sf.net

If you like Risk, there's always TEG. No 3D graphics or even sound, but somehow I got addicted to it.

Just get version 0.10.x (for Gnome 1) because 0.11 (for Gnome 2.x) crashes under Gnome 2.2 and 2.4 (only works in 2.0).

Give Freedoom a go - the PrBoom port runs on Linux and supports multiplayer. Not all the freedoom levels support deathmatch yet but theres a huge archive of deathmatch wads you can play under it instead.

Give Freedoom a go - the PrBoom port runs on Linux and supports multiplayer. Not all the freedoom levels support deathmatch yet but theres a huge archive of deathmatch wads you can play under it instead.

Here is a GPL PalmPilot port I wrote of Mars24 (using the actual time code, just a different UI):

MarsClock.

Not yet, but we're modifying a Slackware distro to run on the 64-bit WMD's, and we have a complete browser that runs on an ancient C-4 canister.

The real prgress has been getting Debian to recognize the ports on Osama Bin Laden's Dialysis machine.

Not yet, but we're modifying a Slackware distro to run on the 64-bit WMD's, and we have a complete browser that runs on an ancient C-4 canister.

The real prgress has been getting Debian to recognize the ports on Osama Bin Laden's Dialysis machine.

Of course, people also already have photon mapping working on the most recent generations of NVIDIA and ATI hardware offerings, and I think I recall someone from NVIDIA saying at some point that they expected this to be able to work at interactive framerates sometime during the NV4x cycle of GPUs.

Just a crazy hopeful idea.

Why crazy? Get a Gamecube with BBA and Warppipe from here or a PC in the first place.

Check out Gnocatan sometime if you're bored.

It implements many of the expansion series and can be played against reasonably competent AI players.

I recommend the computer version if you want to experiment more - I found that I got much better after a few rounds against the AI's

Gnocatan is the name and it rocks!

(It has modes for the normal games, the seafairers and other expansion packs).

It is not available for Linux. :(

But it certainly is pretty cool, nonetheless. For me, TVTime for watching live TV (kicks xawtv's butt to the curb!), and mencoder + atd/crond for recording. I can't automatically skip commercials, but at least I can cram 2.5 hours of TV into less than 800MB with reasonably good quality to boot!

Did I mention how much TVTime rocks?

The features of a home-brewed PVR far exceeds those of a Tivo unit. For example, Freevo in addition to watching TV, allows users to view digital photos, play music (MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc), play emulated games, and watch mpeg and non-mpeg movies like (Quicktime, Divx, Window Media, etc.) While Freevo doesn't do all of this itself, it combines all of these features in one package and serves as a seamless frontend.

There's the PS1 version of Doom, and if you got Linux to run on your PS2 you could play the original game with PrBoom.

Yep, that's what FFmpeg and FFserver is for. It's not even close to finished, but I've tested it and it streamed live TV as ASF and RM over a 512Kb DSL just fine.

Undeleting on ext2 is possible with for instance recover while it is afaik impossible on ext3. recover on ext2 does have its limits but it has saved my skin a
couple of times. ;)

here

Try MPlayer for OS X! I haven't tried it myself since I don't have a Mac, but I've heard that it's great and can play just about everything!

I know it was a joke, but they're going to downgrade to a Commodore 64? I mean, not even a GUI, and it's not really POSIX compliant!