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Sorry man, but TTG is half baked at best. The software is poorly designed, and there are Macrovision restrictions (whoops, you can't transfer that!)

I'd put up with two weeks to watch certain programs (and current Tivo service), but I've had more than one movie (on the premium movie channels) that wouldn't transfer all together. 2 weeks, maybe 1.

They have to fix TTG before it would be compelling:
-Less restrictive. No limits (other than a current Tivo subscription) for unflagged content, and a couple of weeks (at least) to watch Macrovision protected content with limited transfer.
-Non broken software. The TivoToGo software added two services (Beacon and another one) that produced endless errors. Reformatting didn't help, and it is kind of invasive.
-An easier way to transfer. Maybe Series 4 Tivos can have onboard front USB?

TivoToGo really, really, sucks. I have an 100MBit network and it takes 12 hours to transfer a one hour show. It needs to be faster.
When Tivo can fix TTG to be more compelling and less DRM encumbered, it will appeal to me.

Sorry man, but TTG is half baked at best. The software is poorly designed, and there are Macrovision restrictions (whoops, you can't transfer that!)

I'd put up with two weeks to watch certain programs (and current Tivo service), but I've had more than one movie (on the premium movie channels) that wouldn't transfer all together. 2 weeks, maybe 1.

They have to fix TTG before it would be compelling:
-Less restrictive. No limits (other than a current Tivo subscription) for unflagged content, and a couple of weeks (at least) to watch Macrovision protected content with limited transfer.
-Non broken software. The TivoToGo software added two services (Beacon and another one) that produced endless errors. Reformatting didn't help, and it is kind of invasive.
-An easier way to transfer. Maybe Series 4 Tivos can have onboard front USB?

TivoToGo really, really, sucks. I have an 100MBit network and it takes 12 hours to transfer a one hour show. It needs to be faster.
When Tivo can fix TTG to be more compelling and less DRM encumbered, it will appeal to me.

How about Win-Bash?

I know you meant it as a joke, but check this out.

Self-hosting online image gallery software written in . . . Ada

http://adaimgsvr.sourceforge.net/imgsvr.html

While I'm glad for FreeBSD they're showing good numbers again, their testing of PostgreSQL in this study is rather odd. The results are using the read-only tests from sysbench. You can see from its sourceforge page that sysbench is a MySQL benchmarking tool that has some rudimentary PostgreSQL support bolted on top. That particular code is so bad that the last time I checked, turning on the write OLTP tests deadlocked the PostgreSQL server, as it wasn't putting statements into transactions correctly (which of course the ancient MySQL versions this code targeted doesn't care about). As the sysbench tool hasn't been actively maintained in ages I doubt that has improved.

The claimed "15% faster than linux" is pretty clear in the MySQL tests; the PostgreSQL ones have a weird dip in them but are in general much closer. I'd be comfortable if the result of this study was "FreeBSD 7 has been optimized to be 15% faster running MySQL than Linux", because that matches what they did (note the specific libpthread patch for example). But the fact that they used such an awful PostgreSQL benchmarking methodology leaves me hesitant to draw a broader conclusion than that based on their tests.

Flash is a huge, huge CPU hog for playing videos. It is also not the only way to play flash videos.
I have done comparative performance tests.
In one corner: Youtube's flash-based player
In the other corner: Windows Media Player + Gabest's FLV Splitter + FFDSHOW.
When playing the same flash video, Flash took 40% CPU usage, and Windows Media Player took 5% CPU usage.
This just shows that Flash Player is extremely inefficient. Its performance gets much worse when showing a video in full screen.

Flash is a huge, huge CPU hog for playing videos. It is also not the only way to play flash videos.
I have done comparative performance tests.
In one corner: Youtube's flash-based player
In the other corner: Windows Media Player + Gabest's FLV Splitter + FFDSHOW.
When playing the same flash video, Flash took 40% CPU usage, and Windows Media Player took 5% CPU usage.
This just shows that Flash Player is extremely inefficient. Its performance gets much worse when showing a video in full screen.

They did.

http://colossus.sourceforge.net/

(Anyone want to put this on Facebook?)

Those of us with limited bandwidth on our Linux servers and developing PHP on Windows workstations use something like PHPEclipse with XAMPP and test locally first, then upload to the remote server and do final testing and tweaking from there.

PHP used to also ship as an ISAPI module, but it did pretty much the same thing that the CGI did- reload the interpreter for every single request. I'm not sure why they bothered with FastCGI when it would've required about the same amount of effort to write an ISAPI extension. It might have to do with the fact that PHP's source code was more spaghetti-like than any PHP code one could dream up, and not trivial to follow or modify.

It would be interesting to compare the performance to that of Python [insert framework name here] on Windows, both the ISAPI version and the FastCGI version.

Well, you can decode the flac (using any old flac decoder, but the official one works fine) to a .wav file, which you can then convert to whatever you want.

See here: http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Also, if you are OK with putting third-party firmware on your I-Pod, check out http://www.rockbox.org/ - support for over 20 codecs, and is quite nice. I have it on my sansa E200. Flac is supported VERY well.

(rockbox is not for the feint of heart, but it is POWERFUL. You can play doom on your ipod. You can configure crossfeeding, preamp, etc. see http://tinyurl.com/lfsqx

Well, Adblock for Safari obviously exists: http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/ , so I guess it's just a matter of Apple allowing 3rd party software installs. I don't own an iPhone, so I'm not really sure what the situation is there.

Thanx AC! My apologies, I posted the incorrect URL. .com instead of .net :)

http://xstress.sourceforge.net/

No, you can't change people with software.

Do you know why Lotus 1-2-3 lost out to Excel? Because while Lotus was busy adding in all kinds of advanced mathematical and financial functions, alternate layouts, and basically tons of things for the super-advanced Lotus user, Microsoft decided to go a different route and actually ask people what they used Excel for.

The answer? People used Excel for making lists. So instead of adding all the difficult, prone to bugginess, and hard-to-user features that Lotus was working on, Excel added features to make creating lists easier. Autofill, for instance, and Auto-Format.

Because Microsoft learned this lesson, people use Excel every day (both for lists, and the advanced stuff 1-2-3 was doing), and Lotus 1-2-3 is in the history books.

The instant the open source community figures out that THE USER IS KING, the sooner open source will become popular with the general public.

1) A usability problem is a bug. Period.
2) It doesn't matter whether a user is using your program for the "right" purpose (doing large complex spreadsheet), or for the "wrong" purpose (creating lists, as a mini-database), it should work for them. I can't tell you how many times I've asked "what's why can't open source product A do X?" only to get the reply "you shouldn't be doing X." (Most recently, when I asked about a open source alternative to Microsoft Project.)

Since I'm on the topic, here are some recent usability bugs I've entered for a couple open source projects, all of which have been completely ignored:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865630&group_id=95717&atid=612382
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865624&group_id=95717&atid=612382
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391461

There's a long way to go. That Inkscape bug (the SourceForge "artifact" has been made private, whatever the fuck an "artifact" is) is a good example of a huge "wow this computer's stupid" bug that has been around for ages.

http://schend.net/images/screenshots/alphabetical_disorder.png

Cheers.

No, you can't change people with software.

Do you know why Lotus 1-2-3 lost out to Excel? Because while Lotus was busy adding in all kinds of advanced mathematical and financial functions, alternate layouts, and basically tons of things for the super-advanced Lotus user, Microsoft decided to go a different route and actually ask people what they used Excel for.

The answer? People used Excel for making lists. So instead of adding all the difficult, prone to bugginess, and hard-to-user features that Lotus was working on, Excel added features to make creating lists easier. Autofill, for instance, and Auto-Format.

Because Microsoft learned this lesson, people use Excel every day (both for lists, and the advanced stuff 1-2-3 was doing), and Lotus 1-2-3 is in the history books.

The instant the open source community figures out that THE USER IS KING, the sooner open source will become popular with the general public.

1) A usability problem is a bug. Period.
2) It doesn't matter whether a user is using your program for the "right" purpose (doing large complex spreadsheet), or for the "wrong" purpose (creating lists, as a mini-database), it should work for them. I can't tell you how many times I've asked "what's why can't open source product A do X?" only to get the reply "you shouldn't be doing X." (Most recently, when I asked about a open source alternative to Microsoft Project.)

Since I'm on the topic, here are some recent usability bugs I've entered for a couple open source projects, all of which have been completely ignored:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865630&group_id=95717&atid=612382
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865624&group_id=95717&atid=612382
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391461

There's a long way to go. That Inkscape bug (the SourceForge "artifact" has been made private, whatever the fuck an "artifact" is) is a good example of a huge "wow this computer's stupid" bug that has been around for ages.

http://schend.net/images/screenshots/alphabetical_disorder.png

Cheers.

Babbling:

Remember that the original post above was looking for an open source replacement for commercial GPS systems due to complaints about inaccuracies in said systems.

The OpenStreetMap project is pretty amazing, even though it did start out with existing (TIGER) data for its USA maps, but there are no quality controls on it, either for completeness or accuracy. As the OpenStreetMap wiki itself freely admits, "By the very nature of the wiki-style process there is no guarantee of accuracy of any kind....[w]hich means the database will always be subject to the whims, experimentation, and mistakes of the community." In short, there are no quality controls and no overriding financial and/or legal motivation to strive for the last few sigmas of accuracy that a commercial GPS firm achieves.

One of the fundamental challenges in all software development is the "90-90" problem: it takes 90% of the estimated time to complete the first 90% of the project, and another 90% of the time to complete the remaining 10% of the project. It's while completing that final 10% -- which typically involves a lot of negotiation between features, performance, and reliability -- that all the really hard choices are made, and where most 'death march' development efforts begin. It's also where a lot of software projects fail, because completing that final 10% turns out to be more difficult, expensive, and/or time consuming than originally envisioned. This is particularly true in open source projects, which is why sourceforge.net is crammed full of thousands of incomplete or abandoned software projects (including one of my own!) and why thousands more linger on, never quite getting to a 1.0 release.

As for the scaling issue: it is another truism of IT project failure that what works in the lab does not necessary work in production. Remember that GPS navigation systems have to work in real-time; any delays or lags would be inconvenient at best (e.g., a missed turn-off) and could actually be dangerous. A navigation system that works in real-time with a small (1 sq. mile) database may not be able to function in real-time with a 3.5 million sq. mile database. Note that when I punch in an address that's a few thousand miles away, it only takes my GPS system a matter of seconds to calculate a route for me, and it can maintain, track, modify, and update that route in real-time.

In short, I remain highly skeptical that an open source project could produce a GPS navigation system that would be (and would continue to be) superior to what you can buy for a few hundred bucks at Costco -- which is what the original poster was asking for. ..bruce..

There are a lot of great programming/hacker(The good old kind) forums where programmers chat and share ideas. Browse around forums for some of the most active posters because they tend to be very knowledgeable and experienced.

For example try Sorceforge, I've been around the forums and there seems to be a few programmers hanging around helping people.
http://sourceforge.net/community/forum/

It's great to see people interested in Thousand Parsec. There are quite a few ways to get involved in the project.

As part of the process of applying for the Summer of Code, we have started putting together an ideas list. We also have a TODO tracker on SourceForge which listed various tasks. There is also Getting Started page and development environment setup HOWTO's.

I would recommend joining the mailing lists and joining us on IRC [irc://irc.freenode.net/#tp]. We are happy to help you interactively find interesting things to work on. We have also started a "Who's Who" page to help you track down the right person.

Most importantly, find something you are interested in! If you are interested in AI, then working on an AI client is a good idea. Like most FOSS, none of us are getting paid (unless you are lucky enough to be part of SoC :), hence doing something you like is important!

If you want to pursue the possibility of getting course credit for your work, I recommend finding a course councillor or senior lecturer who can help you to try and figure it out. We are happy answer their questions, fill out various paperwork and do other support tasks.

As you have skills in C++ maybe looking at the C++ components like the C++ server, KDE C++ client and the C++ protocol library could also be a good start.

Look forward to seeing you around!

Here is the proof: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=tetris I guess before Foss, there are a multi-million dollar tetris market! Foss destroyed game market? no. Foss destroyed ERP market? no. Foss destroyed dbms market? no (well, almost). I believe Foss just occupies a niche market, like prototype planes and custom cars.

Not quite what the author was thinking but interesting none the less. Leonardo is an open source project (in the form of a PHPNuke module) for paraglider pilots to upload GPS data for all to see/share:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leonardoserver/

Roadnav?

Roadnav is a fairly good open source turn-by-turn nav solution that uses TIGER data. Check it out: http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/

ShareazaV4, is totally fake. It violates the open-source license, GPL (Version 2) in many ways. Also, it isn't free nor open source. It requires a subscription and installs a suspicious toolbar. You can read what happened from this reference list: http://tinyurl.com/2cx7ff

Please, update your Shareaza version to Shareaza 2.3.1.0, and change the site from Shareaza.com to the new official site at Sourceforge: http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ .

The short version of why this is happening from the article:

A company trying to pass itself off as vendors of the open-source file-sharing software Shareaza, has set the legal dogs on the real Shareaza forum. Discordia Ltd, who earlier turned Bearshare and iMesh into pay services, demanded action after a member of the real Shareaza forum suggested a DOS attack on the site.

This is due to this suggestion by real shareaza forum user :

Make it so the real shareaza program queries their site [shareaza.com] every couple of seconds. As an individual user this won't take much personal bandwidth. But all shareaza users worldwide put together should be enough to kill their server and they won't really be able to do much since it will be coming from so many different IPs.

The letter by the shyster hired by the thief/impersonator of the shareaza domain and project:

This law firm represents Discordia, Ltd., the operator of the website Shareaza.com and owner of the rights in the Shareaza branded software distributed from that domain. Please be advised, that your forum contains a string of posts under the title: "suggestion to kill Shareaza.com." Under the string, the poster, RedSquirrel offers directions for users of Shareaza software to implement a DoS that would have the effect of destroying or seriously impairing our client's application and network. The poster OldDeath also offers a manner to illegally attack our client's business.

Despite whatever complaints your forum's users may have with our client's proper and legal business activities, the type of activity promoted on your forum is illegal. Therefore, we request that you immediately remove this string of posts and any future strings of this nature. My client respects your users' rights to express their points of view. However, the line is crossed when users begin to promote the destruction of a legitimate business (evidently based on out some misguided belief that artists and others who create music should not be fairly compensated for their efforts) via illegal or other predatory means.

If the above cited illegal activity on your site does not immediately cease and desist, our client will take all necessary action to vigorously and relentlessly protect its rights. To be clear, if this action is not immediately taken and, as result, our client's business is harmed, we will not only pursue, locate and hold fully responsible each and every one of those who have implemented this, or any similar DoS, but also those responsible for maintaining your site and the forums.

Please confirm that the requested action is being taken immediately.

Jeffrey A. Kimmel

Meister Seelig & Fein, LLP
140 E. 45th St., 19th Fl.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 655-3578

I suppose the law is in their hands in terms of a DDoS attack, so it would be more correct to sue the impersonator/thief for t

Maybe it's because it was on a new machine? I know that DBAN has (had) some issues with speed on Intel Core 2 Duo machines. Maybe Puppy suffers from the same problem?

I never had any luck with preload the times I tried it (a year or two ago?). Nowadays I use alltray for preloading often used apps that are a bit chunky such as Firefox or Openoffice. Openoffice also has a built in preload feature...but you can use alltray anyway for the same effect.

The development team is meeting for the first time in March. It is a rather ambitious project, but the code itself seems like it would be simple.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/metascore/

Good point, but obviously you need to put some checks in there! Also file permissions need to restrict the php user accordingly.
I was just showing the basic principle.

Try this one, a very very simple site I made (and before anyone bitches I didn't feel like doing the extra work to support IE properly)
http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=/home/ianare/.mozilla/bookmarks

(I'm kinda curious ...)

>>> "much more "out of the box" than any open product"

You know "any" is a pretty all-encompassing aspersion against the whole open source POS industry.

Check out the ones I know of (from a short review about 4 years ago):

Lane POS - http://l-ane.net/
Banana POS - http://www.bananahead.com/pos/home.html
easypos http://easypos.sourceforge.net/

Can't remember any others. The point is these are all tried and tested with details of hardware on which they're implemented. I think Lane is in Canada(?) and sells the whole systems not just the FOSS but they standardise on Epson which you can get nearly anywhere.

This is off the shelf for a small business. Tying it into an OSS accounting package shouldn't be hard either.

You're totally right however that you need to look at hidden costs as well as ticket costs too.

Librepos may be of interest. At my company we just started to implement this, so I can't tell alot about it, but from what I've seen and from my coworkers' responses, it does seem up for the job (replace old cash registers, inventory for merchandise). The software was incorporated in OpenBravo not too long ago, it's probably quite decent. They call it OpenBravo POS now.

The pieces to implement any sort of reasonable retail POS setup using FOSS are all available.

There are two things that it sounds like you're going to have problems with though:

1. Budget - Doing this sort of project poorly is worse than not doing it at all - you're going to want to cough up the money for a real barcode scanner and a real POS cash drawer to replace your current register.
2. Realistic features - This problem has already been solved, and well, but if you make up a bunch of random features beforehand (like OO.o spreadsheet output) you can be sure that none of the existing solutions will have the exact feature set that you're imagining. Unless you're prepared to write an entire system from scratch, see what exists and adapt to it.

The last time I looked into this specific problem the nicest looking piece of software for my requirements was L'âne, but you'll want to actually do the research yourself (try searching on Freshmeat and Sourceforge at minimum).

I think Lemon POS fits the bill quite nicely:
http://lemonpos.sourceforge.net/
It runs on KDE 4 though, so it might not be completely production ready yet.

actually, I would choose the Nokia N95 8Gb (v2.0). The version 2 of the nokia n95 solves the slowness and hangs of the previous version and has all the features the pp mentions including GPS, good camera etc. It has 8Gb of internal storage and a slightly updated symbian OS. battery life is excellent - especially if you switch off WiFi, 3G and the GPS if you are not using them - they are on by default when you get the device.

Personally, I travel with an N95 and a lenovo thinkpad X41 (fedora 8) with a wee bluetooth usb key that helps to synchronise calendar on the N95 8GB with kontact using Multisync

I'm getting an eeepc for travelling where I can't take much (hand luggage only trips).

Dammit! And I just completed the mods to my EMACs vs. vi video game which puts RMS's face in ascii art on the side of lisp-code-leaking blimp representing overinflated emacs processes. I am totally not kidding: http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/ Get the CVS version, for the RMS ascii art stuff: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wordwarvi login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wordwarvi co -P wordwarvi The cvs commit that I'm not kidding about: http://wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net/wordwarvi/wordwarvi/wordwarvi.c?r1=1.78&r2=1.79

Dammit! And I just completed the mods to my EMACs vs. vi video game which puts RMS's face in ascii art on the side of lisp-code-leaking blimp representing overinflated emacs processes. I am totally not kidding: http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/ Get the CVS version, for the RMS ascii art stuff: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wordwarvi login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wordwarvi co -P wordwarvi The cvs commit that I'm not kidding about: http://wordwarvi.cvs.sourceforge.net/wordwarvi/wordwarvi/wordwarvi.c?r1=1.78&r2=1.79

Newton kept absolute time separate from absolute space. Einstein allowed time to mix with space for inertial observers with special relativity. In 1915, he opened the door for time to mix with space in any situation using general relativity. Unfortunately, the math is too hard to apply.

I do all my physics with quaternions, a kind of 4D math designed to let time play with space. The smallest act of physics involves time and space playing together. To have time play with space quickly becomes confusing, but that is part of the fun. I have developed software to do this sort of thing using the command line at http://quaternions.sourceforge.net/

In a unified field theory, mass breaks the gauge symmetry EM, so no Higgs mechanism is needed.
Doug

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=112520

Back in the day, when CueCats were popular, I created a pluggable authentication module (PAM) that permits users to log in using scanned barcodes in the login process. I used this on my computer for a while, logging in using a grocery store loyalty card on my keychain. After a while, I found that it was faster to simply type my password, but this barcode solution might be worth considering for children.

http://pam-cuecat.sourceforge.net/

Note that I haven't maintained the code, so it might need a little bit of TLC to compile and run with the latest versions of PAM. It relied on a really old CueCat patch for the kernel, though it should be straightforward to integrate the CueCat decoder into this PAM module and use a PAM text entry box for the input, I think..

Ya know, it *is* strange. Take, for example, Pidgin (formerly GAIM). There's about two dozen plugins for it. One of the plugins is Pidgin-Encrypt which does everything that you would expect (except possibly for some sort of certificate system) and is about as secure as ssh. Does it come with Pidgin by default? No. Is it enabled by default? No. Why not? Why is encryption still considered some opt-in alternative? Considering that it takes both parties to consciously choose to install this plug-in, the grand total of people who use it is about 10.

Real men use .dvi anyway. And vim-latexsuite. (inverse-searching seems to do what pdfsync does)

Sadly, no. One of the best features of TeXShop is pdfsync (which is also supported in other PDF viewers on OS X like Skim and PDFView), but pdfsync is not yet supported by any Linux (or Windows) LaTeX environments.

If you're not already enforcing this through dev tools, some code metrics can be gleaned from http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/

Things like cyclometric complexity, Fan out, etc

If someone tends to write things with a very high cyclometric complexity I'd tend to say they can improve the legibility of the code they write. If they tend to have a high fan out, I'd say they could generally spend a bit more time modeling and designing.

This of course makes the assumption that you're aiming for OO software

This is yet another attack that the developer of loop-AES thought about while typically every other disk encryption tool out there is vulnerable. Loop-AES is the 3rd most popular disk encryption tool in Linux. See the KEYSCRUB=y option in its README file:

If you want to enable AES encryption key scrubbing, specify KEYSCRUB=y on make command line. Loop encryption key scrubbing moves and inverts key bits in kernel RAM so that the thin oxide which forms the storage capacitor dielectric of DRAM cells is not permitted to develop detectable property. For more info, see Peter Gutmann's paper.

I have used loop-AES as a full disk encryption tool on my laptop for 2+ years. I am glad I took the time to carefully research which tool would the most secure before deploying it ! For example even TrueCrypt and dm-crypt are vulnerable to other (arguably minor) security issues that loop-AES is impervious to: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.cryptography/2321

Surprisingly, the research paper TFA talks about doesn't even directly mention loop-AES (its name only happens to be in the title of a webpage in the reference section describing a safe suspend/resume setup when using disk encryption).

This is yet another attack that the developer of loop-AES thought about while typically every other disk encryption tool out there is vulnerable. Loop-AES is the 3rd most popular disk encryption tool in Linux. See the KEYSCRUB=y option in its README file:

If you want to enable AES encryption key scrubbing, specify KEYSCRUB=y on make command line. Loop encryption key scrubbing moves and inverts key bits in kernel RAM so that the thin oxide which forms the storage capacitor dielectric of DRAM cells is not permitted to develop detectable property. For more info, see Peter Gutmann's paper.

I have used loop-AES as a full disk encryption tool on my laptop for 2+ years. I am glad I took the time to carefully research which tool would the most secure before deploying it ! For example even TrueCrypt and dm-crypt are vulnerable to other (arguably minor) security issues that loop-AES is impervious to: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.cryptography/2321

Surprisingly, the research paper TFA talks about doesn't even directly mention loop-AES (its name only happens to be in the title of a webpage in the reference section describing a safe suspend/resume setup when using disk encryption).

> The judge is neither "stupid" nor "a monkey" -- he acted as should be expected.

Maybe yes, maybe no. This is the same Judge who threw reporters in jail for not revealing a source http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/13/MNVTRH8G7.DTL, and who decided that the open source Artistic license can't be enforced http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/updates.html#2007-08-17, http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/09/software-freedom-law-center-files-first.html.

Maybe this is just an example of "bad things come in threes"?

In the Sage (AJAX...) notebook we https://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1693/render
a 3d cube using the
awesome Jmol library.

Photoshop 5 through CS2 install and works pretty well on wine! Here are some tips you'll need to run it successfully:

        * You shouldn't have to copy Photoshop from Windows; just install it under Wine by running its Setup.exe. (To run a .exe under wine, you have to doubleclick it, right click and choose "Run with Wine", or run it from the commandline using the 'wine' command, depending on how your Linux distribution integrates Wine.)
        * Never use a cracked version of Photoshop.
        * Never run Wine as root.
        * Use a recent version of Wine (0.9.54 or later).
        *

            Before installing Photoshop, install the Times32 font by downloading and running http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/times32.exe
        * The Clone tool uses the ALT key in a way that conflicts with many window managers. Here's how to fix that:
                    o Ubuntu: System / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt".
                    o Kubuntu: K / System Settings / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
                    o Suse with Gnome: Computer / Control Center / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
                    o

                        Suse with KDE: Gecko / Favorites / Configure Desktop / Desktop / Window behavior / Window Actions / "Inner Window, Titlebar & Frame" , and pick "Meta" instead of "Alt"
                    o Fedora 8 with Gnome: System / Preferences / Look and Feel / Windows
        * Some UI elements might use a too-small font. In CS2, you can fix this with Edit / Preferences / General, and change UI Font Size from Small to Medium.

I don't think it's coincidence that it sounds a lot like SourceForge.

I don't know why, but if I wanted to muddle a name, that's something I'd do: Create something that sounds much like it, is a bit childish and ridiculous, and try to make it popular.

Still missing the binary format for access, still never mind it's not that hard to work out