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It's a recursive descent parser, which is technical jargon for "I know enough about parsing to drop Lex and Yacc".

There is a for XLR, work in progress (both the language and the doc).

Here are a few links:

Tao3D documents on Gitorious

Taodyne tutorials usually have the code corresponding to the videos. But I'm pretty sure our small server won't take a slashdotting. Use it while it lasts.

There are also a few examples in the source tree itself.

Defining if-then-else is literally a couple of lines of code.

I'm curious, when is the definition of a content-free if-then-else statement more than a couple of lines? A random line from a .ddd template (end of file) in their source code seems to indicate they're using an if( <condition> ) then block with no attached end statement, with whitespace presumably being meaningful (though in the sample I linked the indenting doesn't seem to be very consistent at the end). This seems like an odd thing to boast.

XML would not be a standard SQL construct. Neither the PHP-internal mssql driver nor the microsoft PHP driver supports TVP.

The postgresql way to prepare a statement that needs to do something like "... field IN ($1) ..." is to rewrite it as an array operation "... field = ANY ( $1 ) ..." where $1 would be an array, but PHP/PDO can't properly/securely prepare this since it doesn't understand array operations. You would need to manually escape each element and create a literal array string in your code and pass that as the parameter:

pg_prepare($pg, "test", "select * from customer where id = ANY ( $1::int[] )");
pg_execute($pg, "test", array("{52,149,288}"));

Note that a varchar[] in PHP would look something like "{Smith,O'Hare,Wilkerson\\, Esq.}" so none of the normal SQL escaping functions would work properly (note that single quotes are not escaped, but commas and curly braces would be escaped).

I think postgresql arrays are slightly nonstandard (you can declare them using "datatype ARRAY[size]" but postgresql does not enforce array bounds. MySQL does not do array datatypes at all.

I use UnxUtils .... gives me all the GNU userland I want, no alternate shells needed

http://unxutils.sourceforge.ne...

Add the install directory to the Windows path and there you go!

That would be here

Also a Dice holding. Bitbucket or github are in better shape these days.

Wow! You guys are fast!!

I never expected someone to guess the right name of the project with only the two clues I've given.

GNU already has a fork of that project - http://savannah.nongnu.org/

Also a Dice holding. Bitbucket or github are in better shape these days.

Wow! You guys are fast!!

I never expected someone to guess the right name of the project with only the two clues I've given.

So what your saying is you have specialized hardware that you had issues with.

I have had no issues tethering my GS4, my only streaming issues are sites that use silverlight, and plenty of steam games for fun.

Oh and BTW it looks like your complains about the Fuji(tsu)? scanner and Wacom tablet are overblown. It looks like there is some support for both, although it is not handled by the manufacturers. Both manufacturers linked to these sites so I am assuming they should be at least partially functional.

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.... http://www.fujitsu.com/emea/pr...

Note: I cannot even find a Fuji scanner, so I am guessing you dont even know what hardware you are using, which might explain your difficulty in installing the hardware.

Python has obsolesced Matlab. There are even Matlab to Python cross-compilers and packages that allow Matlab to work like a Python library.

Thanks for the explanation.
At least on my systems (LMDE, Ubuntu server and Mac OS X), vim automagically opens archives, lets you browse the structure inside the gz file, lets you read the compressed files and even save the modified files.
If it doesn't, you can add this to your vimrc :
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/...

I'm no expert, but I think this would work better for what the op is trying to accomplish. I've seen it work under linux. It's called PEPsal. This will improve performance. http://sourceforge.net/project...

The only thing that keeps me from using a password manager is that I use lots of
different computers, phones, tablets, etc... and I don't know of any password manager than
can manage multiple devices. Does anyone know of a password manager that works with
apps? Even if I wanted to, I don't think my android banking app would work with any type
of password manager intentionally or unintentionally.

Find a password "safe" format that is well documented and widely supported, memorize a good long passphrase for that safe, and deploy it on some cloud service somewhere like DropBox, then each of your devices can access the safe, and you have a variety of software to manage the data. Schneier's "Password Safe" format seems like a good choice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://passwordsafe.sourceforg...

Even if it does not work with everything you might want it too, a password manager can make for much better security and convenience for large chunks of one's online life, at the expense of having a single point of failure I guess.

I went looking for some open-source software to facilitate multi-team cyber training. There didn't seem to be much around so I wrote this set of python scripts to provide some basic CTF-like training - http://sourceforge.net/project.... You still have to set up all the servers and networking, but this lets you set up new tokens and keep score.

Still in time : ADW Modula2 ( Stony Brook Modula2 ) is now freeware in Win32 and Win64 versions
http://www.modula2.org/adwm2/

Also freeware are the XDS Modula2/Oberon2 compiler, including their optional C generator backend
http://www.excelsior-usa.com/x...

Finally you can find in sourceforge for OberonF/ComponentPascal and XDS sourcecode
http://oberonrevival.sourcefor...

While that code exists in the wild (with modifications), none of it is remotely modern. They're using JDK6/7 internal test tools and code from a 13 year old version of jEdit as an example as to why "Windows 9" was skipped."

How do you figure the jEdit code is 13 years old? It may have been written 13 years ago, but if it's still doing the same bogus check today, that still counts. As of the time of this post, the current version of that file was last modified September 29, 2013 -- only a year ago -- and it's still doing the if(osName.contains("Windows 9")) check.

Betteridge's law of headlines:

Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by no.

I'll believe it when I see it. It's not just Windows that has this problem, after all. Android and Mac suffer from it, and even Linux isn't immune (or there'd be no Paco).

I can only think of one database that isn't "webscale", and that's TinySQL, which I still use for personal web projects regardless.

I hadn't heard of TinySQL, so I just Googled it. From http://sourceforge.net/project...

> tinySQL is a SQL engine written in Java.

Is the name meant to be ironic or something?

You do realize that bash is (nowadays) installed in damned near every *nix out there (though I think HPUX is still holding out.)

Hell, even Solaris started chucking it in at around 5.10 (Solaris 10) or so (or was it 9?), and I thought that would take an act of Congress or the Divine to happen.

(get this - you can even get bash for Windows, which might improve that OS by at least a factor of 20).

Here's a link to the program's SourceForge page.

It's written in Java.

Also, recently I tested Chakra and was impressed by how agile it was on an old machine. I guess it can be attributed to not loading gtk libs in memory at any time, since it just uses KDE/Qt apps (which, btw, makes it unusable to me as I need Firefox due to smartcard needs -- not even Chromium will do).

It's been many years since I used Chakra, so I can't verify how well they work ATM, but while Chakra does thrive to be Qt/KDE-only you can install bundles, which provide Firefox among other things.

Aw, heck. They're "fixing" it the wrong way. The right way to deal with DOOM running on a printer's LCD is not to remove this feature. They should simply turn DOOM into official menu option.

It's not like it hasn't been proposed before.

If only there were some way to simulate physical systems like that. Where will they find the computing power? Plus the software probably costs a fortune.

You can kludge on encryption in the pipeline:

http://sourceforge.net/project...

Is it ever chosen for new projects though? Would there ever be a reason to?

I can't speak for COBOL, but Fortran (with the 1990/95 language standard, not the ancient 1966/77 versions) is still being used in astronomy for new projects - the MESA stellar evolution project, for example, is completely written in Fortran (it launched in 2007, so isn't exactly a legacy project either). There's also a lot of supercomputer code still written in Fortran for the same reason: the language makes it easier to do the things I need to do.

I wouldn't do a webpage with it, but when you're doing heavy-duty mathematical calculation, Fortran is breeze to work in compared to lower-level languages like C.

I've worked at a three places that did MicroFocus COBOL on Linux, huge in insurance world

if you just want to play, 'sudo apt-get open-cobol' on your debian or ubuntu or mint box http://sourceforge.net/project...

Years ago, I became obsessive with producing high-quality DVDs from my extensive VHS/LaserDisc collection. Eventually, that led to the creation of y4mdenoise, part of the mjpegtools package. If you're willing to spend the time to let your computer chew on your digitized video, this tool will squeeze virtually all of the noise out of your signal.

Without it, you're wasting most of your bitrate just to encode noise. A video encoder can't tell the difference between noise and high-frequency detail.

If you don't want to spend that much time, then yuvdenoise, also in the mjpegtools package, does pretty well too.

Bought a used panasonic svhs deck with svideo out and a time base corrector. Got a used capture card that has svideo in. I used an xfi card I had laying around to capture the audio at 48khz 16 bit (for dvd/ac3). It is possible to get old pro-grade vhs equipment with component outputs and a requisite component in capture device, but this is more money, and I wasn't convinced it would make much difference over a short-run svideo link for low grade standard vhs.

After installing lagarith lossless video codec, I used virtualdub to capture the video/audio output of the vhs player at 720x480. This results in losslessly compressed avi which could be edited in virtualdub to cut out unwanted parts, or it can be loaded in vegas or premier. After the editing, avisynth scripts could optionally be used to filter the noise out. There are gpu enabled plugins for it that work really well for this. After the editing and tweaking of the optional avisynth filters, the footage is probably as good as it will get. Just load up the scripts in virtualdub and reencode back to lagarith again, or if the filtering was skipped, just save out the edits made back to lagarith.

I also wanted my stuff on dvd to hand to non-technical family, so I used hcenc to push the avisynth script to dvd compliant mpeg2. This encoder does an excellent job and takes avisynth scripts as input. For the ac3 audio, I used aften. I used dvdlab to create menus and master the dvd image. I suppose if menus aren't needed, the dvdlab step could be skipped by using dvdauthor, instead, to create the dvd-video file structure and imgburn to burn it to a disc. I do recommend at least placing indexes at regular intervals so that the video can be skipped through with the chapter skip buttons.

This windows-centric method really wasn't that hard and should be doable with OSS equivalents. In terms of cost, the deck I managed to get my hands on cost me $100, and the dvdlab software is cheap (free as in beer and uncrippled if you use it within the first 30 days of installation). Like everything else, it's a cost/benefit ratio calculation, but I really doubt anyone else could've gotten a better result, even with pro-grade hardware.

lagarith
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec...
hanks's mpeg2 encoder

http://hank315.nl/
virtualdub
http://virtualdub.org/

ac3 audio encoder
http://aften.sourceforge.net/

to master the mpeg2/ac3 elementary streams from hcenc and aften into dvd-video
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.n...

optional, if you want a nice gui for menus and mastering/authoring of a dvd-video compliant image/disc.
http://www.mediachance.com/dvd...

to filter the video. requires learning its scripting syntax, and reasonably powerful gpu if you want to use the gpu accelerated plugins
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/M...

Bought a used panasonic svhs deck with svideo out and a time base corrector. Got a used capture card that has svideo in. I used an xfi card I had laying around to capture the audio at 48khz 16 bit (for dvd/ac3). It is possible to get old pro-grade vhs equipment with component outputs and a requisite component in capture device, but this is more money, and I wasn't convinced it would make much difference over a short-run svideo link for low grade standard vhs.

After installing lagarith lossless video codec, I used virtualdub to capture the video/audio output of the vhs player at 720x480. This results in losslessly compressed avi which could be edited in virtualdub to cut out unwanted parts, or it can be loaded in vegas or premier. After the editing, avisynth scripts could optionally be used to filter the noise out. There are gpu enabled plugins for it that work really well for this. After the editing and tweaking of the optional avisynth filters, the footage is probably as good as it will get. Just load up the scripts in virtualdub and reencode back to lagarith again, or if the filtering was skipped, just save out the edits made back to lagarith.

I also wanted my stuff on dvd to hand to non-technical family, so I used hcenc to push the avisynth script to dvd compliant mpeg2. This encoder does an excellent job and takes avisynth scripts as input. For the ac3 audio, I used aften. I used dvdlab to create menus and master the dvd image. I suppose if menus aren't needed, the dvdlab step could be skipped by using dvdauthor, instead, to create the dvd-video file structure and imgburn to burn it to a disc. I do recommend at least placing indexes at regular intervals so that the video can be skipped through with the chapter skip buttons.

This windows-centric method really wasn't that hard and should be doable with OSS equivalents. In terms of cost, the deck I managed to get my hands on cost me $100, and the dvdlab software is cheap (free as in beer and uncrippled if you use it within the first 30 days of installation). Like everything else, it's a cost/benefit ratio calculation, but I really doubt anyone else could've gotten a better result, even with pro-grade hardware.

lagarith
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec...
hanks's mpeg2 encoder

http://hank315.nl/
virtualdub
http://virtualdub.org/

ac3 audio encoder
http://aften.sourceforge.net/

to master the mpeg2/ac3 elementary streams from hcenc and aften into dvd-video
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.n...

optional, if you want a nice gui for menus and mastering/authoring of a dvd-video compliant image/disc.
http://www.mediachance.com/dvd...

to filter the video. requires learning its scripting syntax, and reasonably powerful gpu if you want to use the gpu accelerated plugins
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/M...

If you're using linux or BSD, another option to reverse ssh tunnels or openvpn would be EPS Conduits: http://eps-conduits.sourceforg...

It was written with the goal of having a large number of remote devices form a virtual network for ease of management/maintenance.

Managing the OpenVPN connections is not that bad. You give each client its own key and certificate and you use OpenVPN's ccd/ directory to assign VPN IP addresses.

We use the following tools to monitor our servers, but we're only monitoring about 30, not 500:

• OpenVPN for accessing the remote servers. SSH if we need to log on to the server to do something. Some of our more important servers include built-in KVM-over-IP ability which can be very handy if the OS locks up.
• Xymon (formerly known as Hobbit) for monitoring the health of remote servers. We include some custom Xymon plugins to monitor SNMP variables. I find Xymon much easier to configure than Nagios, though it's not quite as flexible.
• Munin for tracking performance and ensuring we have baseline data.

I'm not sure how well this would scale to 500 boxes, though Xymon claims to be able to monitor "lots of systems".

Check out GAMBAS: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/... http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/com...

It's a VB6 programmer's wet dream, done the right way. The ease with which you could make a GTK or QT app with database I/O would shock you. I'd install from the daily or stable PPA if you use an Ubuntu-based distro. The repo builds are outdated.

http://retroshare.sourceforge....

It's an IM program. Fully decentralised. All communications encrypted, authenticated by swapping public keys to make a contact. Supports realtime chat, mail, even distributed forums. Also excellent file sharing capability. The protocol is written to support voice or video, but the client doesn't include that. It can't be shut down, it's near-impossible to monitor without compromising an end-point, and it's very difficult to block at a network level without blocking all SSL traffic. Use it and annoy the NSA.

Not my project, I've no involvement at all. I just think it's really good. I've quite a few friends on it now. It's like the old WASTE, except less buggy and still under active development.

Oh, good example. Y'all probably know that already, but Star Control 2 is now available freely under an open source license, just under the different name of Ur-Quan Masters due to trademark issues.

When you've done MORE, & BETTER, + earlier than I have (from this small partial only sample of some of my favs over time)? Then you can talk that way to me as a peer (but not until then):

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultra... via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.p...

APK

P.S.=> Sorry you can't read - try "hooked on phonics"... apk

When you've done MORE, & BETTER, + earlier than I have (from this small partial only sample of some of my favs over time)? Then you can talk that way to me as a peer (but not until then):

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultra... via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.p...

APK

P.S.=> Sorry you can't read - try "hooked on phonics"... apk

When you've done MORE, & BETTER, + earlier than I have (from this small partial only sample of some of my favs over time)? Then you can talk that way to me as a peer (but not until then):

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultra... via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.p...

APK

P.S.=> Sorry you can't read - try "hooked on phonics"... apk

Wrong.

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/d...

And I've been using DOS since MULTI-TASKING MS-DOS 4.0, thank you. I can assure you, DRIVERS ARE REQUIRED. Even for CD-ROM drives running through the IDE channel on-board the sound card (SBIDE.SYS is the driver file, BTW.)

You've got that UID and you don't even know the basics of DOS?

You can do that already (just add some linux nerdery): grab a cheap room correction mic and a bit of Free Software. I don't think it can help with speaker placement, unfortunately. There are spatial microphones intended to be used with an ambisonic mixing system, but they are pretty pricey. I kind of wonder how hard it would be to adapt room correction to deal with speaker placement too (I hear "very difficult" and "hope you paid attention in diff eq").

Great dynamic analysis of engineering social systems! For ways around this via skunkworks development, see William L. Livingston's writings, like "Have Fun At Work":
http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun...

From a review:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipm...
"It is dangerous, and often fruitless, to try and solve problems without considering the underlying social system.
This is the message of William L. Livingston, a mechanical engineer with over 100 patents and decades of industrial experience. Several books and a newsletter detail his disturbing but important worldview. ...
``Have Fun at Work'' (1988, ISBN 0-937063-05-3, $24.95) is the basic work. ...
The book sketches a different social structure that is better equipped to cope with complexity: the Skunkworks. The term comes from a legendary aircraft development shop that produced the U-2 and Blackbird aircraft. In general, a Skunkworks is a small (3--5) team of battle-hardened, generalist engineers equipped with the latest in software tools for simulating the behavior of all the involved systems (mechanical, electrical, software, and social).
On a purely practical level, this book is an excellent survival manual for results-oriented engineers who have developed attitude problems about the structural barriers to success in their work environments. Livingston discusses how to evaluate your social structure's potential for success, ways to get working projects out the door in spite of these barriers, and how to tell when you're wasting your time even working there.
Livingston's more recent work, ``Friends in High Places'' (1990, ISBN 0-937063-06-1, $28.50), spends less time discussing organizational pathologies and more time discussing the Skunkworks procedure. It is a somewhat more positive, less bitter work than ``Have Fun at Work.''"

I also think free and open source collaborations via "stigmergy" are another way around this, where people collaborate by adding to a shared digital artifact.
http://p2pfoundation.net/Stigm...
"3. Collaboration in small groups (roughly 2-25) relies upon social negotiation to evolve and guide its process and creative output.
4. Collaboration in large groups (roughly 25-n) is dependent upon stigmergy. "

Even at IBM Research, technologies like the Jikes Java compiler only got picked up by other groups because they were made open source. Otherwise the organizational barriers within a big organization like IBM would be too strong to use the tools. That was something mentioned somewhere by one of the authors as the biggest surprise of open sourcing Jikes, that other IBMers suddenly were using it.
http://jikes.sourceforge.net/

By contrast, back aound the same time Jikes went open source, I desperately wanted to try IBM's embedded Smalltalk (acquired from OTI) in a research project at IBM instead of using VxWorks for the portable IBM Personal Speech Assistant (a handheld speech recognizer and TTS system as a coprocesser to a Palm Pilot, a forerunner in a way to Siri and Google Voice). That other group said I would need to come up with about US$200,000+ worth of funding to their team before they would make their code available for use even just inside IBM, claiming they would have to dedicate a support person to it. Sadly, that was not feasible; I was only a contractor, and this was my own idea because I loved Smalltalk. So that technology did not get used at all in that project. Too bad for that group, because the then IBM chairman Lou Gerstner asked for one of the devices for his office to show people -- and wouldn't it have been nice for that IBM group if their technology had been used instead of or in addition to VxWorks?

If IBM/OTI Embedded Small

Port Sentry is your friend :)

A. The Sentry tools provide host-level security services for the UNIX platform. PortSentry, Logcheck/LogSentry, and HostSentry protect against portscans, automate log file auditing, and detect suspicious login activity on a continuous basis.

It can also automatically respond to scans by blocking the originating hosts.

I have been using it continuously since the 1990's

http://sentrytools.sourceforge...

I think it's on SourceForge.

I like to use PDFCreator for this purpose. It is on sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/project...

You can emulate any USB device with something like Facedancer
http://goodfet.sourceforge.net...

USB DVB tuners just output MPEG2 transport stream when they are properly tuned to mux frequency.

You can use OpenCaster
http://www.avalpa.com/the-key-...
to build your own stream.

This means if will be relatively easy to build small usb dongle device capable of injecting h.264 video into Xbox 180.
Of course I have no clue about xbone 180, maybe* its already capable of playing h.264 natively, and there is no need for hacks if you want to use one as a media center.

* just checked, yep, xbone can stream h.264 natively

To blow my own tiny trumpet for a moment, I've written and updated a manual to go with: http://sourceforge.net/project... for each release.

However, it isn't terrific AND I worked as a technical author for a number of years, doing mainframe software manuals. This is my main point, good manuals [mine is not] are hard and probably require equivalent effort to the software itself. The other big obstacle is that in, for example, mainframe world there is formal review process, formalised customer feedback, errata etc. etc. Also, manuals are planned as a 'set' installation, operation, troubleshooting, API etc.

I don't know a lot of my customers and can only correct things that appear in the Google group. In my case, since it's a niche. there's not very much.

Actually there's an opportunity here as well, in that non-code people could also participate in their favourite projects by writing guides. Indeed sometimes they do, but not often enough and they're fragmentary.

"Sure, I'll trust a monkey like APK with root..." - by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, 2014 @01:34AM (#47579473)

Since you avoid answering why MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts my program + recommend it as "best of breed" -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

See subject-line above + show you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I did in the art & science than I have from this only partial list of my favorites:

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40%) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT which took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100

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

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001

(Above were for software I wrote)

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> So, how about YOU?

... apk

"Sure, I'll trust a monkey like APK with root..." - by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, 2014 @01:34AM (#47579473)

Since you avoid answering why MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts my program + recommend it as "best of breed" -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

See subject-line above + show you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I did in the art & science than I have from this only partial list of my favorites:

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40%) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT which took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100

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

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001

(Above were for software I wrote)

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> So, how about YOU?

... apk

Well, while he's busy sitting on his "proprietary" meta compiler, here's a tool that uses XML to define a business application model and which can be used to produce any text-based language code you might desire. I'm focusing on building Java applications with it.

Unlike some people, I have no where near enough ego to "sit on it" until I "retire." I'd rather people gain whatever use they can as early as they can. Sure it's not perfect and it's not what *everyone* needs, but it works for what it does so far: six database products, a Java ORM, XML parsers, XML messaging for RPC-type behaviour, and I'm working on a prototype/demo Swing GUI right now.

So download http://msscodefactory.sourceforge.net, play, have fun, try it out. No charge, no strings, no bullshit.

But most of all, no ego. I know I'm not "brilliant" or "innovative", just stubborn and persistent.

Honestly, the winning photo is bad too. It doesn't follow the horizon, thus is very distorted. And, there's a huge gap in the left. This only shows lack of patience in getting a good image. Thing is, I can get better photos with Hugin ( http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ ) holding a camera by hand than this one on a rig. If on a rig, it's alignment should be bullet-proof.

It is true that the default Windows/Linux hosts file cannot do wildcard matching. However there are some apps like Acrylic or angryhosts which may allow such wildcard functionality. These seem to be Windows only however. For Linux there may be other options like DNS Chef. I am not completely clear however whether DNS Chef would work for this.

Of course hosts file blocking lists like mvps and yoyo would have to be updated to support wildcards. I guess someone could write a simple program to wildcard every domain in those lists and then maybe the list maintainers could be convinced to maintain wildcard versions. I think this is the only way that this DNS based ad blocking can move forward.