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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

Duh.

MPC Black Edition is still active. I don't recall when MPC-BE was originally forked, but had to be at least 5 or 6 years ago.

I totally agree and my wordstar days still influence my hot key selections. After messing around with a few packages, for Windows ,I now use HOT KEY BIND to setup my hot keys. I'm sure there are plenty of better ones out there but this one works well with my corporate laptop. https://sourceforge.net/projec...

There is a lot of music out there, unfortunately, most of it is just plain bad. I honestly don't want to listen to a bunch of crap to maybe hear one decent song. With few exceptions ( a few you tube music videos) I mostly listen to stuff from http://www.opengameart.org/ because not only is it all freely licensed, it sounds better. But even that can't compare to the music I composed for my game, Wograld You can get all the music right with the game client. I actually listen to the Wograld music when I work out. https://sourceforge.net/p/wogr... I wish sorting by genre worked, but it doesn't because bad is bad, and a decent song, regardless of genre is still good.

TiVo: https://sourceforge.net/projec...

You can configure to run on a schedule to downloads recordings off the TiVo, and then cut commercials, re-encode, and move to a Plex library location.

Please recommend a password manager.

I wish open-source programmers would be more careful about choosing names. Keepass sounds like "Keep Ass".

Information about Keepass: KeePass Password Safe

Does Keepass synchronize across devices?

There seems to be open source doing that, and given the average quality of Samsungs attempts at SW don't make me very optimistic that their implementation will be more persistent, stable, secure and (ad-)free.

https://sourceforge.net/projec...
https://kanaka.github.io/noVNC...

"the number of companies selling computer-programmable universal remotes that have real buttons, LCD screens, and have programming software that isn't restricted to ONLY their "value added resellers" (burn in hell, UEI) is... well... zero."

You can still find NOS Nevo/Xsight remotes, programming is supported by RemoteMaster.

play castle instead,
http://trek7.sourceforge.net/f...

It's in serious need of beta testers.
Dos, windows, Mac and linux...

You'd be incorrect as you can run that Lode Runner on a modern Macbook Air.

As for that DonkeyKong.exe, it won't run on your Win10 system either. You'd more than likely need Dosbox or something similar, and even then it'll be questionable because some of those games were tied to specific hardware or quirks of the system at the time of release. You already mentioned it'd likely have a clock issue, my guess is your troubles wouldn't be limited to that.

dacapo is at https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Put a bootable CD with some other OS into the CD drive was the latest thing I did. It was a CD with AROS.

No BIOS on Macintoshes

If you wanna be pedantic, go big or go home :P

There's no BIOS on any recent computer made for quite some time now.

Consumer level PCs replaced BIOS with a full on UEFI system, combined with a BIOS compatible API layer to it, and additional software to emulate the look and feel of the "BIOS Setup" software.

Power PC Macs use Open Firmware, and at least with Apple never had a BIOS, but pretty sure never had BIOS for any implementation.
Open Firmware had an entire built in forth shell to work in which was SO much better than anything Intel based.

Intel Macs use EFI instead of BIOS. Which by the way you can get rEFIt to modify the EFI flash configuration.
Then you can disable HT by changing the values of hw.availcpu and hw.logicalcpu based upon the current value of hw.physicalcpu

ARM based systems also have no BIOS, and are quite driver-capable in their boot firmware, usually providing the most mind mindbogglingly simple methods to configure the CPU, boot functions, driver functions, and peripheral hardware.
It's a joy when the system reads the settings from a plain text file in the root of your boot media.

--Try Deadbeef. Pretty close to the xmms/winamp experience on Linux.

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.ne...

KDEvuan ... in case you like your KDE without systemd.

link (dos/win,Mac, and linux versions):

http://trek7.sourceforge.net/f...

Debugging has been left in, please report all problems.
Email info is in the doc files.

You can play soccer with any vague spheroid, at least when you're a beginner. Even at the highest levels, there are multiple vendors for the necessary equipment. In essence, traditional sports are open source. I will accept e-sports as sports when the games and the requisite operating systems are Free software.

I'm failing to see the problem: https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Open source game, works on open source language Linux and there are multiple brands of computer that run Linux. If the game isn't good enough for you, why don't you just go fix it like you would any other sport...?

You think "security" is something that can be "built in." Security in software development is a mindset.

You mean I can't just order my embedded software from a Chinese menu and check the box for "Yes, security please" ?

My crash course in security paired down to what I could reasonably fit into a post:

The process of threat modeling is a formal analysis of the security of a system. One easy to remember process is to use the mnemonic STRIDE - Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation (sharing of access tokens or accounts between users, man-in-the-middle, social engineering, phishing scams, etc), Information disclosure, Denial of service, Elevation of privilege.

You can begin to build a picture of your threat models with a tool like SeaMonster. That's only one example there are many other tools available of course, such as Microsoft's SDL Threat Modeling Tool.

A formal process is pretty important, even if it's as basic as a spreadsheet that lists the threats you came up with. Reviewing the list, prioritizing it, and determining a schedule for addressing threats is better than an ad hoc hand waive to developers a week before release. ("Guys, ya, um I'm going to need you to make it secure."). An iterative process for security that begins the same day you start architectural talks is the better way to approach the problem.

The closest C++ has to Julia is Armadillo.

http://arma.sourceforge.net/

Even that is not pitched for research, but to migrate Matlab code, once the algorithm has been developed.
Julia removes the need for this migration.

I've been pretty happy with CardDAV support via the CardBook addon, which lets me connect (read/write) to the same contact list as on my smart phone and web mail. CardDAV is an extension of WebDAV and implemented via HTTP rather than LDAP, but it's far more standardized and specialized to contact management.

Perhaps you can connect via CalDAV to a DavMail intermediary that then translates to LDAP. Perhaps your enterprise can maintain a global DavMail server to ease that. See also Bug 86405 comment 86, which extols the virtues of CardDAV.

What you're looking for is DavMail. I've been using it for years so that I can have all my email accounts in one program.

Look into DAVMail.

I agree with the general sentiment. My own answer to this was something called "concept programming", which focuses on the translation of ideas into code. The following presentation gives an outline of what this means and a few early results: http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Con....

From that I derived a concept programming language called XL, https://github.com/c3d/XL. Which keeps evolving too fast to ever stabilize. Two semi-stable variants emerged, however, one called Tao3D for interactive real-time animations (http://tao3d.sourceforge.net), one for distributed programming and the Internet of Things (https://github.com/c3d/elfe).

Both variants demonstrate, technically, how well the concept programming approach works, and how well it answers the original posters questions. However, nobody cares. None of these languages ever reached a "good enough" status, i.e. a status where you can really make a living out of programming them.

I'm still working on this, though, and I still believe that the original idea is sound. It just needs more focus on execution, ironing out all the details (e.g. having a complete runtime support library), building a community, etc, things I never really had enough resources to do well enough.

FluXuan Is very light on resources. Boot to desktop and its using 68M only.
Based on Devuan Ascii, you'll be at home if you are used to how Debian used to be, without the bloat.

Of course you could also just use Devuan with your favorite wm.

If you don't mind being on the leading edge, there is also Void, which not being based on any other distro, doesn't have to share a sudden termination of 32 bit support.

There are still many alternatives suitable for old hardware, perhaps take a look at Distrowatch.

please not that the ', please' part in the title above is not an instruction ;-)
Firejail, is.
https://sourceforge.net/projec...
It works perfectly here on U16.04, and also with Signal...

This whole argument seems as weird as. I use notepad for temporary one page junk. I use notepad++ for editing larger unformatted text only documents. For more than that I use libreoffice https://www.libreoffice.org/. The only reason I use M$ notepad is because it is there and a decades of habit, otherwise I would use notepad++ (basic install) https://sourceforge.net/projec.... I would not bother with M$ notepad if I had to download it, just wouldn't be worth that effort.

http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/

Wish they just emulated the AmigaOS API so you didn't have to faff with it.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

Personally I think that C++ contains a lot of the bad parts from C and Java while not really offering any major advantage.

In any case - Valgrind and Splint are great for C programs, but for kernel work it's a bit hard to use Valgrind.

When coding Java I have had great experience using Findbugs. For C# I haven't seen any tool as good as that tool.

As a rule - never ignore compiler warnings, they may be the tip of an iceberg problem. I have found a lot of naughty bugs and coding that way.

Also beware of re-using variables, something that I have seen is very easy in VB - a variable is re-used and suddenly contains a new data type. That's really nasty. And some script languages allows that as well.

Thanks 93. I appreciate it. Sometimes I feel like someone saw it fit to burn down a museum and all the contents inside, and I stepped in to put out the fire, yet I still get some really vile hatred. In case anyone is wondering, here's what we've done since we acquired SourceForge in 2016 https://sourceforge.net/blog/i...

GitHub to SourceForge import tool: https://sourceforge.net/p/forg...

SourceForge has an importer that will import your GitHub project https://sourceforge.net/p/forg...

yeah but at least sourceforge is good again https://sourceforge.net/blog/i...

You could have used sed from gnuwin32 for ages. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.ne...

TFA's comments are the reason why having this dicussion is unproductive. Below and above you will find a bunch of butthurt, namecalling, and wrongthink accusations. There may be truely insightful or informative bits amongst the kilobytes of garbage, but you'll have to dig pretty hard to find them. Just digging through it makes me want to find something else to do. The discussion around the issue has become so repungent that you'd be insane to try and deal with the actual issue. All of you are scaring off every last person that may try to help you.

Note: In my opinion, not that it matters, I would say that if net-tools were updated to include support for the new functionality this whole dicussion would be a non-issue. However as others have already stated: It's not a priority for the net-tools maintainers right now, and hasn't been since they were notified about some of the issues in 2013. Unless that changes, people will naturally need to use other tools if net-tools doesn't provide the functionality they need.

Nope. Kernel authors come up with fancy new netlink interface for better interaction with the kernel's network stack. They don't give two squirts of piss whether or not a user-space interface exists for it yet. Some guy decides to write an interface to it. Initially, it only support things like modifying the routing rule database (something that can't be done with route) and he is trying to make an implementation of this protocal, not try to hack it into software that already has its own framework using different APIs.
This source was always freely available for the net-tools guys to take and add to their own software.
Instead, we get this.
Nobody is giving a positive spin. This is simply how it happened. This is what happens when software isn't maintained, and you don't get to tell other people to maintain it. You're free, right now, today, to port the iproute2 functionality into net-tools. They're unwilling to, however. That's their right. It's also the right of other people to either fork it, or move to more functional software. It's your right to help influence that. Or bitch on slashdot. That probably helps, too.

I usually use afew different speedtest sites.
https://sourceforge.net/speedt...
http://speedtest.xfinity.com/
https://fast.com/en/

I also monitor my routers bandwidth and compare to xfinity's graphs. I test speeds inside various VPN's if I'm suspicious about site or type throttling. I have some iperf endpoints I can use for testing more in depth.

Alot of times, it's just noticing whether a problem exists, I keep up a remote connection to my home using x2go most days, so I notice outages. When I notice problems, or my wife does, I can drill down and figure out if it's DNS, wireless, or an actual ISP problem.

1. For writing simple mail : thunderbird
2. For reading recent mail : thunderbird
3. For writing complex mail : compose in emacs org-mode , export to HTML, and use thunderbird's Stationery add-on to send mail.
4. For searching old mail - mbsync, notmuch and its emacs client.

As I recall, SCO did something similar as well (before they turned evil). It was used as evidence in part of the trial.

It was called iBCS. A Linux version came into being later, which begat or was renamed (don't know) the Linux ABI Project.

Ex professional game developer here. (I've shipped games on PS1, PS2, PC, Wii, DS, and helped numerous companies with their PS3 engines and toolchain. Left the professional industry in 2011 for a stable paycheck but I do my own (indie) game programming and design now, am a hardcore gamer, and help fellow game developers with advice.)

Sorry for the LONG read, but think I can lend some information that will be insightful and not inciteful. =P

> why we still haven't seen modders, foss developers and artists get together to build their own games.

We have, but on a limited scale.

TL:DR;

* Tech Hurdle
* Too many cooks in the kitchen
* Co-dependency upon the Game Engine and everything else
* Theory vs Implementation
* The "good" modders get "poached"

The LONG answer:

There are numerous reasons for this:

* Tech Hurdle

The first hurdle was the tech hurdle. Up until recently writing a "general purpose engine" was folly. Was the game 2D or 3D? If 3D, you HAD to optimize for indoor or outdoor environments for the most part with various kludges to support the other. If you notice both Unity and Unreal now offer a "2D" mode -- Unity with 2D Game Kit and Unreal with Paper2D

Examples where tech matters:

Trying to do "dense jungle environments" in a 3D shooter was basically a recipe of framerate FAIL until Crysis came along:

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Don't do that!!

We "solved" this problem by basically throwing more money at hardware (GPU / CPUs)

How does the engine handle the "contradictory" nature of transparency?

* Opaque objects can be rendered front-to-back using the hardware's "Early Z Test".
* Transparent objects need to be rendered back-to-front so you get the correct colors.

How does an engine handle thousands of lights?

* Deferred rending "solves" this problem but doesn't work for transparency. DOH!

People are using hybrid approaches of Forward Render vs Deferred Render. If the "big boys" are STILL figuring this out, Unity 2018.1 with their High Definition Render Pipeline (HD RP) (Preview) -- what chance does amateurs have? Yes, we see engines like Irrlicht but that is a steep learning curve for non-technical people.

We've seen SOME limited success. Back when Quake 2 was popular we Cube 2: Sauerbraten as a good example of the community coming together to produce something "good."

Open Source engines have typically performed like crap. I've posted in the past

how Mike Acton reviewed Ogre 1.9's OrgreNode.cpp pointing out its horrible design and performance.

As a result Orge 2.x game up with a gameplan -- they put together a PDF of how OOP screwed their performance over.

Turns out, Mike Acton was right. They ended up with a 5x performance increase by ditching OOP and using DOD.

How many people own Jason's quintessential engine development book Game Engine Architecture? How many understand it?

* Too many cooks in the kitchen.

C++ is "good" example of "Design by committee." Everybody has their favorite pet peeve bloating the core user experience until it is an over-engineered clusterfuck.

You'll notice that almost all of the

Context matters. And you should stop worrying about obsolete software unless you're a computer historian.

https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Norton Commander, the original "commander" file manager, was originally a MS-DOS program. So mc is so "1980's". ;-)

(I'm not knocking mc, the dual pane file manager is my preferred setup.)

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 10++ 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARE

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & answer w/ proof (that's only a PARTIAL list of what I can put out)... apk

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 10++ 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARE

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & answer w/ proof (that's only a PARTIAL list of what I can put out)... apk

Like Aide and Tiger ?

We need to know so we can all switch to it.

Lynx's security is second to none.

Don't forget w3m and links.

It's a great start... but why so many ads? Take a look at any project page, for example: https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel-sql/. come on, does it really need ads on the top, side, middle, AND bottom? That just makes the site look spammy.

Giving projects a workaround to install Malware means Sourceforge continues to be blocked on the networks I control. If you haven't seen it, the workaround is in allowing a project to use an installer that downloads additional code during the installation process. Sourceforge has opted to put tiny yellow text next to the download button with innocuous sounding language. I can only assume that Sourceforge has decided to continue hosting these projects despite knowing that they are dangerous due to either financial concerns or a lack of care.

For example: https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Who's copying who? Ion has been around for ages, now there is Notion.

I am glad to see comments about the Milky Way's beauty, which I only experienced once on an country road trip in college.

For slashdotters who haven't had the chance of running into it, here are a few minutes of timelapse clips of the Milky Way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Astrophotography posts on reddit may have more info if you're curious about implementation, and in my limited knowledge you'd need good DSLR lenses, software post-processing and rotation mounts to follow stars and planets well enough, capturing several seconds per "frame."

Anyway, parts of the video prior to that 3 minute timestamp aren't immune from a bit of obvious light pollution. Even that kind of star visibility would be desirable and impossible anywhere I have lived.

My neighborhood is in a major city and seems better than most nearby ones. That still amounts to very bright *gray* night sky backgrounds that obscure almost all the stars. There's virtually no visibility except for some tree-dominated spots like the front of my own block, and sometimes I need to look out of my peripheral vision to see any stars. It's worse after snow accumulates and the bright gray sky becomes an odd shade of pink for some reason.

Living here for 10 years, I had noticed for the latter half that I can barely follow the stars that used to be somewhat more visible, like the constellation of Orion. Now in my mid-thirties I have wondered whether the problem is my night vision degrading "naturally" (as happens with hearing) or of the pollution problem was supposed to be noticeable over one's lifetime (2% a year doesn't seem to matter).

One of my dreams is being in an area that is dark enough to watch the Milky Way with friends again. I don't own a car nor have any business near towns 2 hours away that would offer that chance. Here is a dynamic light pollution map that I found with a quick search - https://www.lightpollutionmap....

I somewhat satiate the physical problems for filling that thirst for astro-philia by using software. Before I knew of open source, I started with a demo of Starry Night (just found the current pro version is $150).

Now I use free multi-OS options like Stellarium for Windows and Linux. It is a looking glass to the sky, sensitive to your local latitude where you can remove the atmosphere or accelerate time or zoom into stars and planets).

Celestia allows traveling in space and time with nice planet models of the solar system and beyond. It was handy for roughly tracking the eclipse "shadow" above North America in real time at work. It can also show let you track the ISS. I have a blast when fixing perspectives to watch Earth from the ISS (I recall an earlier version back when MIR had stopped floating around), or using it to better understand retrograde loops in planet motions (http://www.nakedeyeplanets.com)/movements.htm) and syncing up with the pole and letting earth spin a time lapse to watch the polar shadow to grok the seasons without thinking of flashlights shining on basketballs.

Have fun!