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Still drawing machines on paper, instead of using a CAD? Never used a text editor? Never used a computer algebra system and still computing integrals by hand? Never searched for cheap airplane tickets? Many people use these things, you know. I'm quite happy with the second and the third one, at least.

For some reason, a lot of PC manufacturers don't give the consumer an option for a pre-loaded OS.

This is true. In the past (DOS days) people would ask me regarding computer purchase selections. What I said then is just as true today. Find out what programs you need to run and then find the hardware which is capabile of running it.

Many people wanting to do multimedia, photography, video production, etc are needing something with realtime hardware support. Those people are moving to hardware and OS that support the required applications. Vista is not a real time OS and is unsuitable for many capture devices. Alternatives to fill the gap often include Apple and some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Studio.

Nothing kills a live session more than a request for an Adobe PDF viewer update request in the middle of a session. I got this one during a live presentation while playing a DVD. The DVD on the projector simply stopped. Going to the laptop, we discovered that despite the fact were in the field with no internet connection, Adobe needed our permission to get an update. The fact a PDF viewer has permission to stop the show by having Windows Vista stop it to ask permission for an update without a net connection convinced me that Vista is unsuitable for presentation and digital audio workstation applications.

My Digital Audio Workstation is now Ubuntu Studio based with low latency and no interruptions of a live recording session. Some people prefer an Apple soulution.

Audacity is OSS and cross platform. It works fine on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Many capture devices have serious latency and breakup problems in Vista. Audacity works in Vista, but capturing sound should be done on another platform.

Many popular USB capture devices simply are not supported on Vista because of the non-real time nature of the OS. Here are a few popular interfaces without Vista support;
Roland http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=743&ParentId=114
http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-101/specs.html
Beringer http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pdf/man/m_702540.pdf

I found some of the Yamaha mixers with built-in USB interfaces list Vista, but the manual was quick to point out problems are caused if it has too little memory, has a slower processor, or several other items that can cause problems with multi-track recordings.

For real-time capture, I prefer to use a hardware priority OS. I have used this instead of Vista for Digital Music Studio work.
http://ubuntustudio.org/

Many a true word spoken in jest. My 'word processor' now consists of shell script which uses sed to convert my own very idiosyncratic markup into HTML, pipes that through tidy and then through an XSL transform which adds standard boilerplate headers as required and then through Prince to generate print-ready PDF.

Why?

• First, it means I can use any text editor I like to edit my text (currently I use kate);
• Second, it plays nice with CVS;
• Third, I can define my own markup at any time;
• Fourth, it saves distractions;
• Fifth, it separated content from presentation, so that I can produce an editor's galley proof or a print-ready paperback from the same text.

OK, I accept this wouldn't suit everyone but it works for me.

For people who want something like LaTeX, only less complicated, there's Lout. It's a text markup language, only more "high-level" than LaTeX. I found out about it when I bought the Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt book recently. That book is was typeset with Lout. It looks good.

Amen, brother. And for what Word is not good for, I heartily recommend Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm/

In all honesty, I'd love a program crossing interface with Nano/Pico and Wordperfect.

I feel exactly the same way. I wanted to do some writing and couldn't find a word processor I liked. So, er, in possibly the world's most extreme cat-vacuuming exercise, I wrote one.

WordGrinder is a character cell word processor than runs in a terminal. It's Unicode-aware and uses Unicode extensively in its UI, so you'll need a terminal that supports it. It is specifically designed not to support much markup; it's a word processor, not a DTP package, so all you get is italic and underline and a small set of predefined paragraph styles. It's very small and very lightweight and contains just enough functionality to be useful. It imports and exports HTML and text, but has its own save file format.

In fact, I'm currently using v0.2, which contains some more useful features (word counts...) and a lot of bug fixes, but that's not out yet; I had to reinstall my machine and for some reason gnome-terminal is refusing to display unicode, grr. But v0.1 ought to be quite usable as-is and v0.2 should be out soon. Just remember to save regularly and always back up your work.

If you give it a try, let me know what you think...

http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

I have some open-source software that implements STV, IRV, Condorcet, approval, and other voting systems (but not range voting) called OpenSTV. You can download it from http://stv.sourceforge.net/ and you can also download some ranked ballots from US elections to see how the various voting systems work.

Not necessarily; a lot of ppl use EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/). Together with FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/), this makes for a winning combination in terms of fidelity of your backup.

How hard would it be to fake this security dialogue?

Probably easy, with a float. But you can tell half the time because the guys who write these things can't seem to get through a sentence like "Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device" without misspelling at least three words. And they would make it look like an IE dialog. (I'm either using FF or Safari and I get fake IE dialogs all the time.)

Firefox Password Manager fell victim to an attack in late 2006. Its mistake was based on the assumption that all pages on a given site can be credentialed using an all-or-nothing policy for the domain, which doesn't work within a heterogeneous ghetto like myspace. It sometimes has the reverse problem with certain sites that use load balancers- it's has issues figuring out which passwords are the correct ones to prepopulate based on the URL. It also has issues with figuring out who you are, if you're sharing the computer with other people and you're not setting up individual profiles in Firefox.

I never use a browser to store passwords; I prefer Password Safe instead. It also uses a master password to encrypt stored passwords in a password file on disk. It's a tiny little program; the (old) version I have doesn't even have an installer although it does need a JVM. (I back up the file and the program itself on a USB key that I keep stuffed in my mattress.) You can export Firefox Password Manager passwords to a file, but with Password Safe you're directly keeping everything in sync by opening the encrypted file for all views or edits. Automatic URL recognition isn't a problem because it doesn't even make an attempt- it figures you can do that yourself. Everything is done manually. You reach a site, forget your password, open the file and enter the unlock master password, click on the entry for the site as you named it, click show password, close the program, and type it into the browser. If you share a Firefox user profile with other people, just make a separate password file. It's not as convenient as the browser-integrated mechanism, but security is clunky in general. I'd rather keep that stuff outside the browser, in case my laptop is stolen, or beer is spilled on it, or I switch to another browser, or I'm not using a browser. I have to remember a ton of ssh passwords too.

http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=41019

For Windows users, I think K-Lite (which bundles Media Player Classic and ffmpeg) is a better solution than MPlayer or VLC (which both include ffmpeg). Since Media Player Classic uses the DirectShow architecture and native Windows UI elements, it seems to offer a smoother experience (e.g. scrub bar) than multi-platform players like VLC and MPlayer.

The heart of K-Lite is the DirectShow implementation of ffmpeg, with other filters/tools for common video features that ffmpeg doesn't cover well (e.g. subtitles). So I think ScrewMaster is basically agreeing with you (recommending ffmpeg), but recommending (for Windows users) a better video player (Media Player Classic) and a few additional Windows tools (in K-Lite).

Lifelines

BitTorrent-curses

:)

Why has this package (which was last updated over 4 years ago) according to the sf project page become a staple of perimiter defense in many reference books, but hasn't been updated in almost 5 years?

I've used it where I thought it a good idea in the past, but if knowledge of it's existence is apparent to attackers, it becomes a tool for DoS (through spoofing.) Wouldn't a snort+netfilter IPS solution make more sense?

I do professional presentation work - nothing is even close to PowerPoint in terms of robustness and look and feel.

Have you tried LaTeX Beamer?

yum install nut-nutrition

NUT records what you eat and analyzes your meals for nutrient levels in terms of the "Daily Value" (DV). The
program uses the free food composition database from the USDA. By experimenting, you can find the optimal level
of the various nutrients and how to implement this with foods available to you.

well, regarding 3d games, a pretty nice one is UFO: Alien Invasion http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/.
based on quake 2 engine, but created for old xcom fans :)

non-3d, there are some other nice games - liquidwar and koules are two simplistic, but quite innovative and addictive games. too bad koules has not been updated in a while and its network support is very, very limited.
openttd is very great and replayable, though i never managed to fully understand semaphores ;)

there are also some commercial games, notably dominions (at 3rd version now). some other are tribal trouble and gish.

i probably forgot a bunch of other cool games, but hey, that's what other readers are for :)

There is a tool called DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) that will scan a bunch of files and identify the file formats (including the version, not just the mime type).

It is developed by the Digital Preservation department at the UK National Archives, licensed under a BSD license, and is available from source forge:

http://droid.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Introduction

http://www.tug.org/

Use a front end of choice if you want. E.G.:-

http://www.latex-project.org/
http://www.lyx.org/
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex

A Google search on "tex frontend" will yield many more.

Honest, before all the Deities, it's that simple.

Where are the commercial game ports for Linux? No one wants to make them, obviously, save for the FPS crowd (and there's only an Unreal Tournament for Linux because Epic passes the buck to Icculus to get the job done, not because they have the in-house talent to do it themselves). There are a few commercial games for Linux, yes, but only a few, and there's very little variety between them. In the open source world we have a few good games (the majority of them being FPS's, what a surprise), Battle for Wesnoth if you like strategy games (turn based ones, that is). Then we have the unfortunate, ugly ripoffs like "Secret Maryo Chronicles," and other games that look like they were developed for a C64. Plenty of selection, not a lot of quality.

The following publishers develop comemrcial linux games:

http://www.pompomgames.com/
http://www.garagegames.com/
http://www.introversion.co.uk/
http://frictionalgames.com/
http://sillysoft.net/
http://www.basiliskgames.com/
http://www.guildsoftware.com/
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/
http://www.rune-soft.com/
http://grubbygames.com/
http://www.caravelgames.com/
http://www.planewalkergames.com/
http://www.graalonline.com/

There are also the high profile ones such as neverwinter nights, the doom and quake series, unreal, etc.

There are many high quality independant titles such as neverball, you mentioned wesnoth, crimson fields, flight gear, torcs, the spring project, total annihilation 3d, tecnoballZ, powermanga, tile racer, pingus, clonk, freeciv, ultimate stunts, planeshift, scorched3d, VDrift, silvertree (not complete, but being created by the wesnoth guys so likely will not be vapor), ufo: alien invasion, scourge, etc.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.flightgear.org/
https://icculus.org/neverball/
http://ta3d.darkstars.co.uk/
http://linux.tlk.fr/games/
http://tileracer.model-view.com/
http://pingus.seul.org/
http://www.clonk.de/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
http://www.planeshift.it/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://vdrift.net/
http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://scourge.sourceforge.net/

Many of these are very impressive independently made free games. Perhaps they lack the multi million dollar marketing budget and won't make your geofrce 8800 gtxz 45 x super elite ultra melt, but theya re *fun* games, and they are numerous. Also keep in mind this publisher and free game list is only what I could find in 1 hour of searching.

Then there are freed older commercial games such as warzone 2100, homeworld, descent 1 and 2, doom, quake, etc.

Lets not stop t

Where are the commercial game ports for Linux? No one wants to make them, obviously, save for the FPS crowd (and there's only an Unreal Tournament for Linux because Epic passes the buck to Icculus to get the job done, not because they have the in-house talent to do it themselves). There are a few commercial games for Linux, yes, but only a few, and there's very little variety between them. In the open source world we have a few good games (the majority of them being FPS's, what a surprise), Battle for Wesnoth if you like strategy games (turn based ones, that is). Then we have the unfortunate, ugly ripoffs like "Secret Maryo Chronicles," and other games that look like they were developed for a C64. Plenty of selection, not a lot of quality.

The following publishers develop comemrcial linux games:

http://www.pompomgames.com/
http://www.garagegames.com/
http://www.introversion.co.uk/
http://frictionalgames.com/
http://sillysoft.net/
http://www.basiliskgames.com/
http://www.guildsoftware.com/
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/
http://www.rune-soft.com/
http://grubbygames.com/
http://www.caravelgames.com/
http://www.planewalkergames.com/
http://www.graalonline.com/

There are also the high profile ones such as neverwinter nights, the doom and quake series, unreal, etc.

There are many high quality independant titles such as neverball, you mentioned wesnoth, crimson fields, flight gear, torcs, the spring project, total annihilation 3d, tecnoballZ, powermanga, tile racer, pingus, clonk, freeciv, ultimate stunts, planeshift, scorched3d, VDrift, silvertree (not complete, but being created by the wesnoth guys so likely will not be vapor), ufo: alien invasion, scourge, etc.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.flightgear.org/
https://icculus.org/neverball/
http://ta3d.darkstars.co.uk/
http://linux.tlk.fr/games/
http://tileracer.model-view.com/
http://pingus.seul.org/
http://www.clonk.de/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
http://www.planeshift.it/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://vdrift.net/
http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://scourge.sourceforge.net/

Many of these are very impressive independently made free games. Perhaps they lack the multi million dollar marketing budget and won't make your geofrce 8800 gtxz 45 x super elite ultra melt, but theya re *fun* games, and they are numerous. Also keep in mind this publisher and free game list is only what I could find in 1 hour of searching.

Then there are freed older commercial games such as warzone 2100, homeworld, descent 1 and 2, doom, quake, etc.

Lets not stop t

Where are the commercial game ports for Linux? No one wants to make them, obviously, save for the FPS crowd (and there's only an Unreal Tournament for Linux because Epic passes the buck to Icculus to get the job done, not because they have the in-house talent to do it themselves). There are a few commercial games for Linux, yes, but only a few, and there's very little variety between them. In the open source world we have a few good games (the majority of them being FPS's, what a surprise), Battle for Wesnoth if you like strategy games (turn based ones, that is). Then we have the unfortunate, ugly ripoffs like "Secret Maryo Chronicles," and other games that look like they were developed for a C64. Plenty of selection, not a lot of quality.

The following publishers develop comemrcial linux games:

http://www.pompomgames.com/
http://www.garagegames.com/
http://www.introversion.co.uk/
http://frictionalgames.com/
http://sillysoft.net/
http://www.basiliskgames.com/
http://www.guildsoftware.com/
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/
http://www.rune-soft.com/
http://grubbygames.com/
http://www.caravelgames.com/
http://www.planewalkergames.com/
http://www.graalonline.com/

There are also the high profile ones such as neverwinter nights, the doom and quake series, unreal, etc.

There are many high quality independant titles such as neverball, you mentioned wesnoth, crimson fields, flight gear, torcs, the spring project, total annihilation 3d, tecnoballZ, powermanga, tile racer, pingus, clonk, freeciv, ultimate stunts, planeshift, scorched3d, VDrift, silvertree (not complete, but being created by the wesnoth guys so likely will not be vapor), ufo: alien invasion, scourge, etc.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.flightgear.org/
https://icculus.org/neverball/
http://ta3d.darkstars.co.uk/
http://linux.tlk.fr/games/
http://tileracer.model-view.com/
http://pingus.seul.org/
http://www.clonk.de/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
http://www.planeshift.it/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://vdrift.net/
http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://scourge.sourceforge.net/

Many of these are very impressive independently made free games. Perhaps they lack the multi million dollar marketing budget and won't make your geofrce 8800 gtxz 45 x super elite ultra melt, but theya re *fun* games, and they are numerous. Also keep in mind this publisher and free game list is only what I could find in 1 hour of searching.

Then there are freed older commercial games such as warzone 2100, homeworld, descent 1 and 2, doom, quake, etc.

Lets not stop t

I contribute to the Irrlicht open source 3d engine, and the "Project Announcements" forum (along with Sourceforge in general) is littered with the corpses of abandoned projects. All of them start with a burst of enthusiasm and high aspirations, then within 6 months they're either dead or fragmented into 4 new projects, all equally doomed.

To cut a long rant short, completing a commercial-quality game today (i.e. one that people might actually play) takes 100 man years of work, and a minimum of 2.5 elapsed years. Of course, nobody actually believes that, or else community projects would never get started.

To identify the doomed projects (which is all of them), simply ask to see the design documentation. If the answer is "We'll do that later" (which it always is) then don't even waste your time getting involved. If they don't know what they're developing, then how will they know when they're done?

Oh Screenshot Analyzing Oracle, what think thee of these?

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_96727.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_1931460.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newer/screenshot_732727.jpg

Oh Screenshot Analyzing Oracle, what think thee of these?

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_96727.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_1931460.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newer/screenshot_732727.jpg

Oh Screenshot Analyzing Oracle, what think thee of these?

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_96727.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_1931460.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newer/screenshot_732727.jpg

First would have to be TA Spring, a fully 3d reimplementation of Total Annihilation and many mods and maps for it.

Then Warzone 2100 (Resurrection), a revival of a great commercial RTS game that was Freed a few years ago.

Bos Wars is by far the best and most polished of all the games based on the Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft) engine, but

Also, Globulation 2 is pretty fun, if a bit less deep than the others in terms of strategic options.

Finally, Glest is a fun from-scratch fantasy RTS game, not as polished as the others though.

Those are the ones I have installed. Of them, I play TA Spring the most, and Glest the least.

Is your working set honestly over 8GB? Your dataset might be extremely large... but I would think that for the most part you'd get along just fine with swapping out to a decently fast device and your working set would be considerably below 8GB.

Personal computers do not have support for more than 8 GB for a good reason, there isn't I/O capacity to use that much memory. There's no use having memory if you cannot transfer data to and from it.

However, the problem is that he uses Matlab. Perhaps he could get better performance using Octave with Atlas optimization, but in the end, only compiling in C with assembly language optimization will guarantee the best results. I have heard from several people that Matlab has problems when the data sets become large.

Don't joke. Something similar has been done before.

There is no reason that AI shouldn't be integrated into the OS, but "invisibly". Here's an example:

Joe User gets a lot of email. He tends to be organized, so he likes to sort his mail into different folders. He could use procmail or his client's filtering capabilities, but why should he have to? OSS has good solutions to the text classifying problem

If only the email client (or imap server) paid attention, he's already supplying all the input necessary for a text classifier to sort all his mail for him without any additional action on his part.

When Joe (manually) moves an email from his inbox to a new folder, this is a training event.
If Joe notices that an email is in an incorrect folder and moves it (manually) to the right one, this is a retraining event.

This concept could be expanded to other applications: how about a window manager that remembers where you tend to arrange your applications and starts putting them in the right place to begin with? The ability do manually set placement rules like with KDE doesn't count. That's just a workaround for not using the information the user is already providing.

//shameless plug:

I guess it isn't *this* childsplay:

http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/

Because I would be really envious - I am currently a main dev for TuxMath and TuxTyping:

http://www.tux4kids.com/

and I can assure you know one has given me a million! //end shameless plug

(however, a lot of folks who have heard of tuxmath and tuxtype may not know that they are being actively developed again).

David Bruce

Sorry to disappoint you, but "application" cannot be real-time. By definition: applications are subject to scheduling and would be preempted by interrupt handlers => not real-time. (And BTW "real-time" is not "predictable latency", but rather "worst case latency".)
People don't generally care if the latency is better than worst case. You just don't want it to *EVER* be bad enough that you lose data, and so predictable effectively means worst case here. You're just being demeaning with this comment. This is obvious. And obviously with a non-realtime OS we're talking about pseudo-realtime - not absolutely guaranteed. No need to treat me like I don't know what I'm talking about because I don't think its important to state the obvious.

Your entire comment is semantics.
By definition: applications are subject to scheduling and would be preempted by interrupt handlers => not real-time.
There's this. I think it's reasonable to call an application real-time if it's scheduled using a real-time scheduler - if the application is getting some control over the time-slices it gets.

I'm not sure about which proprietary solution you are speaking of, but mainline kernel implementation is much simple - and obviously has no advanced features as "realtime driver scheduling". You schedule not "drivers" - but "access to hardware resources". Drivers kick in on interrupts
Semantics. Is ALSA+JACK a driver system or a library? Obviously it doesn't just kick on interrupts. There's scheduling in there for the use of that. There's a thread that runs with the realtime scheduler and shares data with applications that might not. If you define a driver as only something that triggers based on interrupts, then you're right. I define it as any software designed with the specific purpose of providing other applications with an interface to a piece of hardware - even if that "driver" has to go through another layer of application to get to that hardware. Otherwise, the only "drivers" are in the microcontrollers in the motherboard.

In context of audio, it doesn't need to be real-time - because all involved parties are aware of length of track - and can buffer content beforehand.
Unless you're recording, and want to do processing and playback at the same time. I don't believe I said "audio playback" in my post. It was much more than that.

I could've sworn there was a recent Slashdot post regarding the successful deployment of OpenVista, and Open Source EHR system, as well as EHR Adoption in the US.

Yes they should. And then I'd be rich because I registered a similar project on sourceforge three years ago: https://sourceforge.net/projects/impressionante/


Not that I ever wrote a line of code, obviously ;)

That would be an awesome idea, anyway, especially using the data collected for the 3D cities.

already posted bug report, its in hand.

me: D2 Reply to hidden parent appears joined to previous thread

pudge: Yes, this is known, and we know it's a problem. We have plans to deal with it.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1849018&group_id=4421&atid=104421

The oldest medical database systems are based on MUMPS, now called M by some, which is still used by the VA. They have
updated it to "VistA", which predated Microsoft Vista (wonder if Microsoft chose that name for a medical reason?).

VistA® / CPRS Demo Site:
http://www1.va.gov/CPRSdemo/
The code:
http://www1.va.gov/CPRSdemo/page.cfm?pg=1

http://www.innovations.va.gov/innovations/docs/InnovationsVistAFAQPublic.pdf
http://www.va.gov/VISTA_MONOGRAPH/index.asp
http://www.va.gov/vdl/ is the library.
http://www.va.gov/vdl/section.asp?secid=3 covers your Financial question.
http://www.va.gov/vdl/application.asp?appid=144
VistA Data Extraction Framework (VDEF).

http://openvista.sourceforge.net/
"OpenVista is the open-source version of VistA, which is an enterprise grade health care information system developed by the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and deployed at nearly 1,500 facilities worldwide."

1,500 is not all that many considering the market.

Intersystem's Cache' http://www.intersystems.com/cache/ is the contemporary equivlent to MUMPS, a database that claims it can
run rings around things like MySQL in the number of transactions per second.

There are a number of Open Source Medical Databases,they are summarized here:

http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Medicine-HOWTO/record.html

My very first job was writing medical software, this is when few people even knew what computers were in 1977. Still have my DEC
MUMPS badge that I got at the very first MUMPS conference in DC. Have always felt I should get back into that field. To bad
Dr. Armor and I didn't patent what we were doing then. The pharmacists called up the office in disbelieve asking if these
computer printed prescriptions were real, because *THEY COULD READ THEM*.

The other side:

"VA DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
1. FY07 Year-End Med SAS and DSS CNDE Files Available
The fiscal year 2007 (FY07) year-end Medical SAS (Med SAS)
Inpatient and Outpatient files are now available."
http://www.virec.research.va.gov/References/DataIssuesBrief/2007/DIB-0712er.pdf

Requesting Access to VA Data:
http://www.virec.research.va.gov/Support/Training-NewUsersToolkit/ACRSrequest.htm

"Click this button for information, guidance, and FAQs relating to the VA Research Data Security and Privacy initiative."
http://www.research.va.gov/resources/data-security

Aleph One is a GPL'd descendent of Halo's precursor, Marathon. Close enough?

In spite of all patent trolls from google and apple we are going to launch soon and we are going for the fight because clearly this is another monopolization effort and a shame for the world. We might be contacting the FSF soon for help in case the try to use what is clearly no innovation at all against us.

http://aircash.sourceforge.net/

Now is not enough that the neutrality on the devices is near zero banning third parties from publishing putting on top the companies that manufacture devices clearly in violation of the sherman act raping both the righs of software developers and device owners. Companies own the device they sold to you. How much mankind is going to fall permiting such violations of the rights of consumers? On top of that now we got software patents we certainly can't cover if they even let us use it. Fortunately we registered the project earlier than any of those patents granted by likely corrupt judges and has been public ever since therefore we can proove anything on any court. And also there are a lot of links on the internet that can proove previous art from other companies. Shame on you Steve Jobs. Be a honorable man and not the Rat you are becoming side by side with Larry. You learn fast to be a rat. You definitely do. But again... There is going to be war. We are going to launch IN SPITE OF THIS PROVOCATIONS.

Run Visual Studio in a VM on your Linux desktop and call it even. :)

In all seriousness, do whatever will result in producing the best code. If that means using Visual Studio, for whatever reason, stick with it. IMO, the amount of time you save in a familiar environment makes up for the extra work ensuring your code builds elsewhere. However, you may have a few more hoops to jump through to make sure that code actually runs elsewhere.

Would be nice if it automatically generated make files too

If you use VS 2005 or later, you can easily transform the project file (which is just a MSBuild file) into anything you want. For example, you might output a simple NAnt script, which could be a quick and dirty way to target multiple platforms (NAnt will run on Mono).

If you use VS 2003 or earlier, upgrade.

but I write Solaris code in windows !

So how's life at Intuit? Tell Kai I say hello!

or you can use a great software alternative to KVM switches such as synergy if you prefer. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ at home, i have 2 computers plugged into one monitor (it has 2 inputs) plus a laptop that i control all with one set of mouse/keyboard via synergy.

No... Wait...

Popfile
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Tools like this will help get rid of corporate spam[1] as well as the normal stuff. They'll eventually evolve into general purpose artificially intelligent personal assistants which will act as a filter on almost all communication.

[1] Crap from various management who spam the world with trivia about how they are feeling.

Slashdot just needs to follow redirects on links. Unfortunately, this has been a problem for a number of years and so far Taco & Co. have refused to fixed it.

The .Net Robot Studio stuff is a clone of Player Project.

Andm Player has robot drivers for this platform already. Check here for more information.

It's tacky of me to reply to this again but there is also Seashore. It is more basic than GIMP but it can open GIMP's XCF format as well as the usual suspects like PNG and JPEG. It is a Cocoa app and doesn't require X11.

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/download.php