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Unknown-00-0d-94-ed-6b-11:~ apple$ sudo port install deluge
---> Fetching boost-jam
---> Attempting to fetch boost-jam-3.1.15.tgz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost
---> Verifying checksum(s) for boost-jam
---> Extracting boost-jam
---> Configuring boost-jam
---> Building boost-jam
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost-jam/work/boost-jam-3.1.15" && ./build.sh " returned error 1
Command output: ###
### Using 'darwin' toolset.
###
rm -rf bootstrap
mkdir bootstrap
cc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c expand.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c output.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c class.c native.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c execunix.c fileunix.c /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/../../../libSystem.dylib unknown flags (type) of section 9 (__TEXT,__dof_plockstat) in load command 0 /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib unknown flags (type) of section 9 (__TEXT,__dof_plockstat) in load command 0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: boost boost-jam gmake gettext expat libiconv dbus-python25 dbus docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr libxml2 zlib pkgconfig xmlto docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xsl getopt libxslt dbus-glib glib2 py25-gobject python25 py25-numeric py25-gtk gtk2 atk cairo fontconfig freetype libpng render xrender XFree86 gtk-doc perl5.8 scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 p5-xml-parser jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff xorg libglade2 py25-cairo py25-xdg py25-zlib
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

The skinning is not automatic. You have to explicitly use the Tile widgets that you want to have appear in the new themed hotness. Not all Tk widgets have a Tile equivalent, either, so your program will end up being a mix of Tile and Tk. Now...this isn't nearly as confusing as you might think, because there are really only a handful of widgets you end up using over and over again, and you learn which is which pretty quickly.

A good place to start is, of course, the wiki entry on Tile. The Tile documentation is also useful, because Tile widgets do behave differently from their Tk equivalents.

But in general, the transition to Tile is not a difficult one.

Not so.

Tcl's strongest redeeming features are its consistency and its sensibility. Tcl very strongly has a principle of least surprise, thanks to these. That alone makes programming in Tcl a joy compared with many, many other things. You'll spend a lot less time wondering how your code will work on a foreign platform, which flags a given widget expects, and so on.

Tcl of 2007 is also not Ousterhout's Tcl of 1987. A lot has happened in the last 20 years, including totally pervasive unicode support (the [msgcat] library makes internationalization such a breeze, there's absolutely no reason not to make all your programs localizable from the start), some very healthy namespace functionality, an excellent networking library, and of course the relatively recent Tile toolkit.

There are also new projects being developed with Tcl all the time.

Far from being an outdated or dying language, Tcl today is just a well-kept secret, sitting out in plain sight.

Well the stunning new themeable Tk look is going to change all that, buddy.. Just look at this sample screenshot of how great a Tcl/Tk GUI can now look.

Are you talking about this bug 1851526?

Wow. The leagues of uninformed.

You think there are two things here, Matlab and Octave. Matlab is proprietary, and Octave followed it. It's as simple as that to you.

But wait, where does much of the meat in Matlab come from? Netlib. OPEN SOURCE! HAHAHAHA (Some of the Netlib code has license restrictions, some does not.)

http://www.netlib.org/

What does Matlab use for optimized BLAS routines to run super-quick on your Windows/Linux/Mac? ATLAS. Check out the Sourceforge page:

http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/

The really important thing for me is that now that Octave is out there (actually, Octave has been around since about 1994), the explorations that I made in undergrad in Matlab can be done entirely in Octave now and forever. A good tool doesn't get worse as it gets old, it just gets used more.

If there was once a patent on hammers, there is no less usefulness in (but much lower prices on) hammers after the patent expires. Now we get much of Matlab's functionality completely free. Congratulations John Eaton, et al., for giving all who follow another tool to use freely to build bigger and better tools.

And as others have mentioned, if you don't like Matlab/Octave, use another tool that tried to accomplish the task of a high-level numerical tool in a different way. To me, however, I can code up an algorithm, test out concepts, and produce incredibly helpful visualizations in a matter of minutes using Matlab or Octave. Any tool this powerful has a learning curve to get over before it is so efficient, and I climbed that learning curve with Matlab, but I was able to use Octave immediately because I had already gone through that process using Matlab.

If you made a completely innovative new tool, it likely wouldn't be worth it for me to use for a while because I am so fast at coding Matlab/Octave, and the whole point in these tools is to make the programmer's job easy (if I wanted fast code execution, C or Fortran could be used).

Matlab from the terminal:

local$ ssh -X solaris_server
solaris$ matlab -nosplash -nojvm
Welcome to Matlab v. ...
>>

The plot windows etc will still be rendered, but you do away with slowly pushing the entire GUI over the network.

If you don't open plot windows and things, you don't even need an X-server.

Connect with Putty or Cygwin from MS Windows, Terminal from OSX.

X11 forwarding on Mac: try 'ssh -Y solaris_server'
(... after installing X11 from the OSX install DVD ...)

Mathematica replacement: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

If you have a problem with The Mathworks or Wolfram's license terms, I suggest you take it up with them BEFORE buying their product and agreeing to their terms. else take it up with the person at your university taking care of the purchasing decisions. It is really not their fault if you buy their product under known terms.

-- Happy user of Octave at home & in the field where the ML license server won't reach. Lots of kids buy the student ML edition, it is fully functional, not tied to a network server, and no longer array size limited these days.

95% of the world's computers (that is to say, the ones running the most popular desktop OS) still do not ship with a Python interpreter

Even if you have years of experience in Matlab, try it, you have nothing to lose. Wherever possible, they made the function calls the same as Matlab's.

has any syntax inspired more flamewars than python's?

You can do anything with it, from HTML parsing to a game physics engine to 3d graphics to Excel spreadsheets to... you name it.

Even if Python isn't quite enough for your needs, you can very easily link it with C language or Fortran modules in a trivial way.

If I have an alternative that is, at the same time, simpler and more powerful, then why should I bother with this whole Octave/Scilab/Matlab mess?

has any syntax inspired more flamewars than python's?

You can do anything with it, from HTML parsing to a game physics engine to 3d graphics to Excel spreadsheets to... you name it.

Even if Python isn't quite enough for your needs, you can very easily link it with C language or Fortran modules in a trivial way.

If I have an alternative that is, at the same time, simpler and more powerful, then why should I bother with this whole Octave/Scilab/Matlab mess?

With a terabyte on a single disk this strategy might be useful again. It would be good if software could automate it though - striping the data for me automagically.

This is what Parchives are designed for. You can specify an amount of redundancy (from 0% up to whatever you please, I personally do 30% on DVDs, but I use good media and haven't had many problems, plus I have disk backups as well) and it will create all the parity files necessary. Then you just go and burn it to the disc. Later if the file proves corrupted, you can use the parity files to repair or reassemble it.

It's all open source, which is good for 'future proofing,' and gives you a lot more control than just recording multiple copies of the same file (which limits you to multiples of 100% redundancy).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

I've combined the two recent patches and made binaries for 1.50 and 3.71

binaries, patch, and source at:
http://www.shot.org/psp/

New Changes:
- Rotating documents (not PDF or DJVU) happens at Menu Speed, so you can
quickly rotate documents when speed is set to 10mhz
- compiled for 3.71, tested on a PSP-1001, should work with PSP-2000

From Paul Murray's patch (copied out of 1768012):
- Swap Circle and Cross use to match western conventions
- Record last file opened and automatically reopen when bookr starts
- Tidy up source references to button images to use constants to make
source reading easier
- Reload document if font face changed, no only if font size changed
- Option to scale line height from 50% to 150% of normal, to either
increase spacing for better readability, or squeeze more text onto the
screen
- Option to ignore CRs if less than a certain number occur together,
useful
if the file has been line broken at a specific width
- Separate last viewed folder memory for books and fonts
- Two separate speed settings, one for menus and file loading, one for
reading books, so you can set it to 10Mhz for good batter life, but still
open files quickly
- Read title for palmdoc files

From Yang Hu's (copied out of 1779303):
1. DJVU format support.
2. Go To page.

I've combined the two recent patches and made binaries for 1.50 and 3.71

binaries, patch, and source at:
http://www.shot.org/psp/

New Changes:
- Rotating documents (not PDF or DJVU) happens at Menu Speed, so you can
quickly rotate documents when speed is set to 10mhz
- compiled for 3.71, tested on a PSP-1001, should work with PSP-2000

From Paul Murray's patch (copied out of 1768012):
- Swap Circle and Cross use to match western conventions
- Record last file opened and automatically reopen when bookr starts
- Tidy up source references to button images to use constants to make
source reading easier
- Reload document if font face changed, no only if font size changed
- Option to scale line height from 50% to 150% of normal, to either
increase spacing for better readability, or squeeze more text onto the
screen
- Option to ignore CRs if less than a certain number occur together,
useful
if the file has been line broken at a specific width
- Separate last viewed folder memory for books and fonts
- Two separate speed settings, one for menus and file loading, one for
reading books, so you can set it to 10Mhz for good batter life, but still
open files quickly
- Read title for palmdoc files

From Yang Hu's (copied out of 1779303):
1. DJVU format support.
2. Go To page.

> we noticed the following entry in the changelog for GeSHi 1.0.7.18 and
> are about to issue an advisory based on this information.
>
> "Committed security fix for htmlspecialchars vulnerability. Also makes
> supporting multiple languages a lot easier"
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=489035
>
> To serve our mutual customers best we would appreciate to receive your
> comments on this issue before we publish our advisory.

I'm suprised no one's mentioned this yet (Well, so a quick CTRL+F says, anyway) but I use my PSP all the time as a eBook reader. With a copy of bookr ( http://bookr.sourceforge.net/ ), it's a nice elegent setup. True, the screen dimensions only allow a third of a page to be displayed at a time, but the little analog stick works nicely as a scroll wheel. For less than two bills, I'm guessing there are probably not a lot of cheaper solutions out there. The one downside, IMHO, is that (Ok, besides being a Sony product) the bookr software only reads PDFs and plain text files, IIRC.

No, the poster is absolutely right! You can download an ISO image of the latest build of Duke Nukem Forever (beta) here. Burn this to a CD-R, then boot from it. At the prompt which will appear, type "autonuke" to automatically start the game of Duke Nukem Forever.

Things must have changed quite a bit in the last couple of years since I played around with software that generated code for you. All of my hand-written code starts with the right document type declaration and easily passes validation. However, I do get handed code that is automatically generated from time to time. I keep a program called Tidy around to strip all of the garbage out of it.

Props to Microsoft for offering some compatibility with standards. It might make my job a little easier.

My own trival "hack". I'm using Darwiinremote to read xyz accelerometer data and Octave to make/graph ffts of Parkinson's tremors. It's remarkably sensitive!

Pot. Kettle. Black.

If it's so trivial, please provide a link to a file that has the MD5 hash 51ddd67a7ff9272f5a6e1da0b9dfbf18, but is not the same file as http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-1.4.13.tar.gz

...make some noise; here's one place to start: http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html

almost everyone else distributing lossless (except musicgiants) is using FLAC and/or WAV. it's supported by almost all s/w except itunes, hell you can even get wmp to play FLAC with some work.

re:TFA, lossless is not directly about quality, mp3 and aac both can be perceptually transparent for the most part, it's about (depending on your personality) perceived quality or format independence -- i.e. being able to transcode to the format you need without quality loss.

...make some noise; here's one place to start: http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html

almost everyone else distributing lossless (except musicgiants) is using FLAC and/or WAV. it's supported by almost all s/w except itunes, hell you can even get wmp to play FLAC with some work.

re:TFA, lossless is not directly about quality, mp3 and aac both can be perceptually transparent for the most part, it's about (depending on your personality) perceived quality or format independence -- i.e. being able to transcode to the format you need without quality loss.

I've been thinking about giving one of those Guitar Hero games a spin but I don't want to drop a crapload of money on a new console (or video card for the windows port) plus the cost of the game and controller. It turns out that there is a pygame project called Frets on Fire that uses your computer keyboard as your axe. It's GNU gpl and cross-platform though I can only vouch for Windows myself.

The only downside is the lack of licensed songs. There looks to be a pretty good community with lots of user-created songs for it, and there is some sort of way to import GH songs if you own the games.

(d) automatic updates for all software on the system, not just the OS.

Yeah. If Microsoft tried to do something like this (offer lots of really useful, free software, and update them all from a central location), they'd probably get charged with being a monopoly. That's what happened with Internet Explorer in the United States, and with Windows Media Player in the EU.

I know that browsers will encounter tag soup in reality, but I don't believe the standards should encourage it.

An alternative implementation would be to rely on a combination of server and client filtering, making use of a well-formed document. Imagine you start with a page template which is entirely well-formed (go with me here). Wherever we are going to insert content into this template, we can wrap the new content with:

<restricton lock="Random_hard_to_guess_string" except="java,safe-html">
    Content goes here.
</restricton>

Now for the server-side filtering. Do what you like to filter the content, but make sure that it ends up as well-formed markup. This may involve using Tidy for instance. When you have done filtering, insert the content into the template as a child of the restriction element. As long as the content was well-formed when it was inserted, even if no other filtering had taken place, it will be safely wrapped in the restriction blanket.

Of course (as other people have said) this is only effective if the user-agent honours the restriction element. Until that can be relied upon (bacon wing, anyone?) then server-side filtering would still be required. As a just-in-case-safety-net however, I think there is potential in your idea but it may be difficult to agree on an implementation which would please everyone.

In any case, my comment was a concern with the proposed implementation and not a criticism of the overall idea. Good luck with your campaign.

There are a couple of roll-ups that include Asterisk, a GUI, and other apps along with a Linux distro on a single CD. I personally have used trixbox for a home server with a telasip VOIP line. If you just want to do an easy home install on an old machine or VM you could start with one of these.

Trixbox is one of the most popular, I found it very easy to install and use. However they were featured in yesterdays article about a phone-home "feature" that allowed Fonality to run code on an installed machine.
AsteriskNOW is made by Digium, the maintainers of Asterisk. Its still in beta, but there are prebuilt VMware and Xen virtual machines ready for download if you just want to give it a try.
Elastix seems to be getting some good reviews, but the main site has been down for the past few days. The link to the left is the sourceforge pages.

Not sure about the C++ problems you mention, but in Python there is Kamaelia and a dozen of other libraries targeted for creating scalable parallel systems.

Btw. an earlier post mentions the upcoming QT concurrency framework - if Trolltech is able to pull this out on all C++ platforms they support, then it kind of justifies Stroustrup's position, isn't it?

American forces bases all across Europe ban firefox too in their base libraries and schools. Mainly because it won't listen to the locked-down windows settings for proxies and stuff. Additionally, firefox, with a plugin, ties directly into the Tor network, so it's deemed a security risk.

So for situations where stupid policies reign, maybe this interesting little project would be of help: the mozzie plugin for IE. This plugin embeds the gecko rendering engine into IE. http://mozzie.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . In theory this should give one standards-compliant rendering, and the security of the gecko engine, within the framework of IE. Of course, depending on how it plugs into IE it won't protect you from IE url exploits.

You dont understand the problem. HTML injections are from users like me posting busted HTML as a comment to slashdot.

You're right. I don't understand why this should be a problem. Tidy the tainted HTML, so you end up with clean, reliable XHTML.

The comment injects evil bits of javascript into the output when the page gets displayed.

So remove the bits of javascript. Script tags and event handlers are easy to find, and links can be cleaned up.

Using XHTML and having the browser choke and die on the output is just another security loophole as far as i'm concerned. Being able to get the end browser to choke on XHTML errors is a DOS. Imagine how much trolls would like it if they could get firefox to not even display this page because their evil XHTML caused this page to no longer validate?

Exactly. So clean it up! Do not trust user input. Use Tidy or JTidy. It's really not hard to find. Hell, there's even a web-based version! This is all extremely standard stuff. Use it!

You dont understand the problem. HTML injections are from users like me posting busted HTML as a comment to slashdot.

You're right. I don't understand why this should be a problem. Tidy the tainted HTML, so you end up with clean, reliable XHTML.

The comment injects evil bits of javascript into the output when the page gets displayed.

So remove the bits of javascript. Script tags and event handlers are easy to find, and links can be cleaned up.

Using XHTML and having the browser choke and die on the output is just another security loophole as far as i'm concerned. Being able to get the end browser to choke on XHTML errors is a DOS. Imagine how much trolls would like it if they could get firefox to not even display this page because their evil XHTML caused this page to no longer validate?

Exactly. So clean it up! Do not trust user input. Use Tidy or JTidy. It's really not hard to find. Hell, there's even a web-based version! This is all extremely standard stuff. Use it!

can you suggest an open source solution that the BBC can use instead of iPlayer that is not proprietary and works on Windows/Mac and Linux???

Please enlighten me if I'm wrong but I thought the case with flash was the same as with PDF. Adobe's viewer is closed source but the file format specification is open and can thus be implemented by open source projects, such as this: http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

So what exactly prevents those who insist on an open source app from writing one? I can understand it when people complain about specs being closed and thus making it hard to write a compatible implementation but if the specs are open, it is reasonable to say that if you want it, you write it.

Well, actually there is some tools that can help:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
and
http://unattended.technikz.de/index.php/Main_Page

I have used the first one for several years now.

Yes you can.
MPLS ain't magic.

I wish unix had the command parameter prompting system that the shell in IOS has.

So... what program do you use to rip DVD's to AVI? I haven't found a single one that operates satisfactorily.

I use Acidrip with Mencoder. Unfortunately, it doesn't run on Vista.

http://untrepid.com/acidrip/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip/
You will require the DVD non-free libdecss library for commercial DVDs.

You can driectly set the output size, so ripping to a video Zen or iPod is a breeze.

What if someone actually did forged their long, complicated pass phrase? In that case, prosecutors would be trying to force someone to divulge a passphase that they don't even know.

On several occasions, I have briefly played around with encryption programs and made an extra copy of unimportant stuff and then encrypted it. Since it was usually just for practice, I did not always bother writing the passphrase down on the sheet of paper which lists all my passwords and passphrases. I may have not always got around to deleting those encrypted practice files and they may still exist somewhere on one of my old hard disks or on a USB key or somewhere or in the box of CDs that I have burned. I would have no idea what the password or passphrase was for those old practice encryption files.

I could easily imagine some prosecutor putting me in jail for not being able to come up with a passphrase to some old encrypted practice file. Then eventually, after getting out of jail, perhaps I would eventually find the passphrase on some old scrap of paper and they would discover that it was just an encrypted folder full of dozens of free 80 year old Gutenberg.net ebooks.

A person, such as myself, who has have never actually bothered to use encryption on a routine daily basis, would someone who is most likely to forget their passphrase. Perhaps I should dispose of all my old hard disks or wipe all the data with Darik's Boot and Nuke Of course, if there were indications that someone has recently used their encrypted partition, folders or files recently, that would be different. A recent time stamp on the file or folder would be one such clue.

You explain /exactly/ why my first stop for Windows "freeware" solutions is SourceForge, my second stop is Freshmeat, and my third is Google to look for an original author's site. Heck, I haven't even looked at Tucows in a couple of years. Problem solved. :)

The video thingie was mentioned for Uitzending Gemist I really hope BBC's Dirac gets momentum ASAP to replace WMV entirely. The current Dirac performance has been increased by the Schrodinger project. Now is it an open standard... nope, but it could be soon.

I never claimed it was anything other than my opinion. And yes, a lot of Halo fans are of the opinion that the single player aspect of the game is good. Frequently, these people have not played many other FPSes. If it was a PC title, it would rate as maybe Average. Well, actually, Halo and Halo 2 for the PC rated as abysmal, but that's more due to lazy ports than anything else.

Also, you should play star control 2. It's free now. The plot/story elements are very similar to mass effect, gameplay is different though(Star Control isn't an RPG). Don't get me wrong I like Mass effect, I just don't find it's storyline particularly original or it's botox-injected face graphics particularly appealing, and if we're going to rank things, that counts. It's an excellent RPG and has provided me with many hours of entertainment, but it has many flaws.

GH3/Rock Band. Well, to each their own. A lot of people already owned the guitar controller for the PS2, so the PS2 versions will be much, much cheaper. Especially factoring in that PS2/Wii/PC games are $10 less a copy than 360/PS3 games. That sort of counts for something.

You mean, closed source in the same way the ipw2200 drivers are closed source? Oh wait, they're not.

Now, the firmware is a different matter (if I remember correctly). So bitch about it all you want.

OpenVista is the open source version of the VA's VistA program, deployed at over 1500 sites worldwide. You can also grab it for free from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista.

Yes, you can get professional training, installation and ongoing support for it:

http://medsphere.org/

Someone is way ahead of you on that one, pal.

There is no download and pass along a copy.. well not without some google searching on how to D/L a copy in violation of the DMCA. The songs are protected by streaming flash and maybe an identifying watermark.

How much personal information do you have to give to get an account? If it requires a CC number, you are pretty much a sitting duck if you D/L and post on Kazaa.

AJAX apps are still not allowed to save data locally

Javascript is not fast/powerful/scalable enough to implement significant local logic (for example to encrypt most of the data that it stores on the server)

Even if users are comfortable with hosted data, they can not be thrilled over the fact that buying a top-of-the-line quad core computer does nothing to speed up their applications.

Hi, it was an overall interesting reading with some entertaining bits. I realized that you settled for a closed source sollution for this one. I am sure there must be some Open Source software which you could use to solve your problem (one of the many along Open Bibliographic and cataloging list.

In your article you state that you thought about developing your own application. I think that a better approach would be to look for the Open Source applications that satisfy you AND after choosing one, add the tools that you need.

Of course, if you do have the money and the product satisfies your needs, go ahead!

libmtp, it's not perfect but it's already used with Amarok :)