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My Personal Opinions (Apps I can think of):

Mozilla Thunderbird: Email client that's still in Alpha but has never given me one problem.

Mozilla Firebird: Greatest web browser around today. Here are some reasons why.

Krusader/Windows Commander: Great file managers. Windows Commander is (obviously) the windows original and Krusader is the KDE based *nix one.

Open Office: You already mentioned this one

GAIM: Best IM client avaliable (I know this isn't exactly productivity software).

AVG Anti-Virus : Free non-commerical use anti-virus.

PuTTY: Telnet/SSH/Rlogin, everything you need for remote access.

XMMS/Winamp: Media Players

I am still looking for good financial software. Microsoft Money is the best I've found so far.
cuban

My Personal Opinions (Apps I can think of):

Mozilla Thunderbird: Email client that's still in Alpha but has never given me one problem.

Mozilla Firebird: Greatest web browser around today. Here are some reasons why.

Krusader/Windows Commander: Great file managers. Windows Commander is (obviously) the windows original and Krusader is the KDE based *nix one.

Open Office: You already mentioned this one

GAIM: Best IM client avaliable (I know this isn't exactly productivity software).

AVG Anti-Virus : Free non-commerical use anti-virus.

PuTTY: Telnet/SSH/Rlogin, everything you need for remote access.

XMMS/Winamp: Media Players

I am still looking for good financial software. Microsoft Money is the best I've found so far.
cuban

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

And it's Open Source!

People already are. GTK# has come a long way since the project was started. I've never used QT#, though.

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People already are. GTK# has come a long way since the project was started. I've never used QT#, though.

GTK#
QT#

That being said; the Roundup I tested and tried was (and still appears to be) very rough. Is yours a continuation of that effort? Or a fork? Or a similar project with the same name? There isn't mention of the relationship on Ka-Ping's page.

Regarding the Python statement, it's simple; Python is a userspace binary which is called at each load of each page (evidenced by watching the processes in real-time on the server as hits are being made), whereas PHP lives inside the namespace of the webserver process itself. I'm also good friends with the author of PHP, so I can get direct help at a moment's notice when I run into snags.

I realize that I can probably load mod_python into the server as well (DSO), but at the time I was testing, mod_python wasn't mature or functional enough to be usable in a production environment. It really boiled down to that.

And at this point, we have so much metadata and bugs in the system across several dozen projects, I'm not sure switching would be easy, unless Roundup (your version) can cleanly import all of the metadata that Mantis manages, from users to passwords to bug history and file attachments. A long shot, to be sure, but I'll reconsider Roundup again in the next round of evaluations for new projects. It might make a good option for users to pick in the ala-carte menu at project signup time.

Thanks again for the comments and feedback; always welcome.

That being said; the Roundup I tested and tried was (and still appears to be) very rough. Is yours a continuation of that effort? Or a fork? Or a similar project with the same name? There isn't mention of the relationship on Ka-Ping's page.

Regarding the Python statement, it's simple; Python is a userspace binary which is called at each load of each page (evidenced by watching the processes in real-time on the server as hits are being made), whereas PHP lives inside the namespace of the webserver process itself. I'm also good friends with the author of PHP, so I can get direct help at a moment's notice when I run into snags.

I realize that I can probably load mod_python into the server as well (DSO), but at the time I was testing, mod_python wasn't mature or functional enough to be usable in a production environment. It really boiled down to that.

And at this point, we have so much metadata and bugs in the system across several dozen projects, I'm not sure switching would be easy, unless Roundup (your version) can cleanly import all of the metadata that Mantis manages, from users to passwords to bug history and file attachments. A long shot, to be sure, but I'll reconsider Roundup again in the next round of evaluations for new projects. It might make a good option for users to pick in the ala-carte menu at project signup time.

Thanks again for the comments and feedback; always welcome.

BTW, it's just "Roundup", and I'm glad it came at least in second place :)

I realise there's a slim-to-none chance you'll read this, but I always appreciate feedback on Roundup (feature requests or email to the roundup-users mailing list via website below) - if you could indicate what you felt was immature about the interface then I'd appreciate it. The interface itself has undergone extensive work over the last year, so your views probably depend a *lot* on the version you were using :)

Also it'd be appreciated if you could back up a statement like "Python is more resource-hungry than PHP itself" with some specifics. Otherwise I consider it unsubstantiated flamebait :)

Richard Jones - author of Roundup

Mantis is actually getting me some contract work on the side, from Free Software developers on our projects who brought the notion of Mantis to their employers, who are talking to us about doing deployments of Mantis in their enterprise for customers and internal use.

The second-runner up out of the 15 we tried was a product called "Round-Up", written in Python. The reason it didn't win out over the top was the fact that it was written in Python (no flames, just that Python is more resource-hungry than PHP itself), and that the web-based interface wasn't anywhere near as mature as the Mantis interface.

Give it a try, you will most-certainly be impressed. I was, and still continue to be, to this day.

Check your Hotmail with any POP3 mail client by installing Hotwayd.

It works a treat, allowing me to access my hotmail account via Evolution.

Veering off topic, but you should FLAC instead of MP3. It's 100% lossless and usually compresses at least 3:1.

We hooked up Mantis to e-mail, and it's worked pretty well for us. Yes, it's a bug-tracking system (we also use it as such, and are integrating it with CVS, too), but it as features like issue assignment which make it fairly appropriate for request tracking. It also has some great reporting tools.

E-mail me if you're interested in any details of our e-mail bridge and such.

If anyone does it, the guys at LUFS will write a driver for exactly that. "Remember, everything is a file, and if it isn't, it should be!"

I can see a driver that posts to encrypted anonymous groups optionally via anonymous remailers and then checks google for updates. Post 2 messages per chunk: a pointer to each chunk's subject line, and each chunk. The data in the pointer-posts should be enough to formulate a directory structure. (Hey, I might be onto something here...) Now, for the UI. Something that can generate posts and reconstruct files. Perhaps an ftp-like interface? Or just a CLI that can be backgrounded for the reconstruction phase.

It seems like that would give you much better access to vast data storage without having to staple together slow, medium, and fast-access data. If they do write drivers for all those methods, I vote for this to be the first one they tackle :)

You have to check out this awesome app...technically it's not P2P, but what it does is find free MP3's online for you, and then reccomends new ones based on how you rate them.

It's also open-source, multi-platform:

http://irate.sf.net/

from http://gift.sf.net:

"OpenFT is a peer-to-peer network designed and implemented by/for the giFT project. Originally, giFT began as a client purely for the FastTrack network but the original development was halted after numerous "security updates" made by FastTrack which changed compatibility in such a way that made it difficult to regain access. As a result, OpenFT was designed to provide an open network loosely based on the concepts understood from the reverse engineering of the FastTrack network.

The beauty of OpenFT comes in the modern approach to peer-to-peer distributed querying while maintaining an open and collaborate atmosphere. Currently OpenFT supports a wide range of features (and is very open to future extension) including: ZLib compression, well distributed ultrapeer/supernode-like search capabilities, optimized share index querying, and multi-source downloading (thanks in large part to giFT, of course). See the TODO (and eventually ROADMAP) files in the source distribution for more information on where we plan to go from here."

Perhaps they want to stop things like this program that installs a VxD audio recorder. It installs itself as a sound card makes all the DRM you have useless.

Load encrypted file, Verify Rights, Decrypt Audio Stream, send result to sound card which saves it straight to Wav, MP3 or Ogg. Thank you very much.

Actually this is why I bought it. I consider it a very nice audio conversion program that works with all formats. Better then SoX!

• Takes photos with inbuilt camera, which I can then transfer to my laptop.
  
• Syncronizes its contacts, Todo list and Calendar with Evolution.
  
• Allows me to read Slashdot via WAP on the tram into work.
  
• Add and edit entries in my Movabletype blog.
  
• Gets net access for my laptop wherever I am via GPRS (only about modem speed, and kinda expensive, but good enough for email on the road).
  
• Recieves wallpaper, ringtones, themes and java apps from my computer. Uses JPG, GIF, MIDI and Tar (yes, that tar).
  
• Looks very shiny.
  

• Takes photos with inbuilt camera, which I can then transfer to my laptop.
  
• Syncronizes its contacts, Todo list and Calendar with Evolution.
  
• Allows me to read Slashdot via WAP on the tram into work.
  
• Add and edit entries in my Movabletype blog.
  
• Gets net access for my laptop wherever I am via GPRS (only about modem speed, and kinda expensive, but good enough for email on the road).
  
• Recieves wallpaper, ringtones, themes and java apps from my computer. Uses JPG, GIF, MIDI and Tar (yes, that tar).
  
• Looks very shiny.
  

• Takes photos with inbuilt camera, which I can then transfer to my laptop.
  
• Syncronizes its contacts, Todo list and Calendar with Evolution.
  
• Allows me to read Slashdot via WAP on the tram into work.
  
• Add and edit entries in my Movabletype blog.
  
• Gets net access for my laptop wherever I am via GPRS (only about modem speed, and kinda expensive, but good enough for email on the road).
  
• Recieves wallpaper, ringtones, themes and java apps from my computer. Uses JPG, GIF, MIDI and Tar (yes, that tar).
  
• Looks very shiny.
  

Same thing here in Brazil, we pay about U$2.50.- U$3.00 Only problem is our salaries are 1/6 from the same job in U.S.

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One user wanted me to modify the DataVision (written in Java) so it would run as an applet. He also suggested a few related smaller features. That work took two or three weeks real-time, working in my spare time. This was a feature I had not planned to add to DataVision. Another user is paying me to add sub-reports, something that has been on the "major missing feature" list for quite a while. In this case, the money incouraged me to implement something that had been in the queue for along time. I expect it to take me four or five weeks of real-time, but that's because I'm working full time on a contract right now.

I have a similar project (DataVision, many hundreds of users, 7 languages, over 30 countries). Two different people have paid me $1K each to implement major features.

Maybe someday we'll be able to do this with Linux... Too bad all we have currently is vaporware.

Well, for this pro-audio work, you have to test Ardour and a Hammerfall card (pro audio stuff with drivers available under linux).

And when your hit is hitting charts, don't forget to give some paypal money to the guys of this awesome project ! (which I am not part of)

Sound quality isn't the best, but it's not bad either considering the cost. They're also stereo.

I use my typical guitar setup, and use the line-out from my amp to go to my laptop.

I use Audacity (free, open, here) to record.. multi-track, fx, etc.

I need to reduce the noise of the entire system though.. Audacity's built-in noise reduction plugin doesn't work so well (harsh clipping and a digital buzz are left over). I think it's a grounding issue, but I probably need those iron cuffs for my cords as well.

Other than that, I think the whole setup is just rad.

Here's a mutli-track voice test song I did recently.

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Robin Rowe, project leader of cinepaint will be speaking at SCALE this year about CinePaint and Linux in Hollywood.

Really gets on my nerves when such gadgets don't simply act as a standard USB storage device... I mean, all you want to do is upload your music...

There's a few. Karbon and Sodipodi seem to be the most popular, but are not the only by far.

I personally prefer Lyntin, a Python based mudclient. It has a tintin like scripting
language but can be easily enhanced with
python modules. It has several UIs: text,
curses, tk, and wxwindows right now. I
like it because I can add pretty much
whatever I need to it from Python.

The url is http://lyntin.sf.net.

Bhast

Check out gnome_mud for Linux/Unix. It's very similar to gMud.

I quickly checked over the comments so far, and I am utterly amazed that no one mentioned Pueblo. I have played the MUD Abandoned Codex for years, and I have had great success using Pueblo. It supports TinTin, and has many cool features. I suggest you all check it out, and keep up the MUD'ing!

My poor little 350MHz Sawtooth G4 plays it just fine using MPlayer OSX -- either the DiVX Windoze player sucks or peecees really are that slow.

The latest version of Xine supports the codec used in the Revolutions trailer. D/L it, install it and watch the Revolutions trailer in all its full screen glory! :)

mplayer plays this just fine! make sure you have faad faac.sf.netand the cvs of libavcodec (ffmpeg.org seems to be down) and it plays! no need for binary codecs either!

I am exactly doing that .... P2PBridge

And don't forget you can pair Pygame with PyOpenGL. By moving all the pure drawing to hardware, I'm pretty sure you could free enough CPU cycles to get a game like Doom or Quake running on a decent computer.

Yep, even in Python. It's commonly heard that Python can perform 100x worse than compiled C. But hey, computers are 100x faster today than they were when Doom came out.

And there's the JIT-like Psyco which generally boosts Python code performance by 4x or so.

Python users may be interested in PyPerSyst, a project that began as a Prevayler port to Python, but is quickly turning into a very "Pythonic" OODBMS with a full-featured object management system on top of the core transaction manager, which is also improving rapidly. The PyPerSyst Sourceforge page and the PyPerSyst Wiki are where to go to get the skinny. As far as having the whole database in memory, there seem to be plenty of situations and application domains where it is very feasible to do so and is thus not a concern.

I am leveraging XML all around in gcompris
We have inline documentation in xml and is is being translated to HTML or OO with xslt.

Look at:
html version
oo version

Yes it is great, yes it works.

I find the easiest way of getting usable XML out of Word is you use Word's save as HTML function and then running W3C TidyLib to get rid of all (most) of the M$ crap.

This leaves you with a HTML-esq document that you can feed to an XSL:T and get whatever XML you need.

I did consider using OO to open the Word document and to save them as XML however I had trouble with its API (I also had trouble with automating Word but here I had plenty of biter experience to draw on.).

I don't know about the main Knoppix distro, but a derivative Morphix has good nVidia support and it runs great on my AthlonXP (I'm running a HD install of it now). You can actually enable the nvidia accelerated driver by typing "morphix xmodule=nvidia" at the boot prompt. Morphix also offers modularization of the system so it's easier to make your own custom ISOs. They provide ISOs for Gnome, KDE, or XFCE plus a game ISO which comes with a bunch of cool Linux games including Enemy Territory.

The program also indexes Word and Excel files using Apache's POI library. I haven't looked at the size of that, but something makes me think it is a bit bigger than out little hack.

I know there is much hype around XML and in the end it is only half a syntax. But there are good applications of XML around and I think OOo is one of them.

Peter

Not to malign a good effort, but I think Dropbear's concentration on size (for leaf) could mean it is more vulnerable. I looked at the source, and it is clean but perhaps too spare.

Consider the snprintf() calls. On the plus side, it is using snprintf(), with presumably the right value for n. But on the minus side, it doesn't seem to raise errors when n is reached.