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I hate agreeing with a guy who can't understand the simple fact that oil production will peak someday (was I missing obvious sarcasm? If so... sorry), but...

The doom and gloom Internet bandwidth projections I've read assume that many of us start sharing videos and watch on-demand HD, not cached locally with our service providers, but downloaded at random. That's a bunch of crock. Our ISPs will be quite happy to cache this data locally, easing the burden on the backbone. All we need is a few simple strategies to help enable it. I'm doing my part. We geeks will overcome.

MUTE is a privacy-protecting p2p application: MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behavior.

Let me recommmend you Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
It's a GPL Computer Algebra System and it's in active development. I use it all the time.

using the g00g (see first hit):

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=PSP+JPEG+PDF+RSS&btnG=Search

working w/a linux-based system and the PSP:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PSP

however, if you install an 'open' firmware on your PSP and use Bookr:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookr/

you'll find that you can fit many more books on your memory stick (and the Bookr app is superb)... the method of installing an open firmware on the PSP depends on what PSP and Sony firmware you have... the process basically involves:

1. collecting the firmware files
2. copying files to your PSP's memory stick
3. running an executable to 'downgrade' your PSP's firmware
4. then reflashing your PSP w/a 'hacked' PSP firmware that allows third-party executables, such as Bookr

You can do this using cpufreqd and its tools. Obviously it's dependent on the hardware facility being there, and on driver support, but it works for my Athlon64 on nforce2 motherboard.

cpufreqd can trigger events based on temp sensors, system load, process list (including nice levels: overclock when you're running a render job, but don't overclock for seti or folding, say), time of day, etc. It's SMP aware. On my system it can change FSB and multiplier, as well as vcore (can't do vdimm yet I think). You can do this kind of thing: "if load is high, overclock as much as you can, unless temp becomes high, in which case progressively clock and volt down until it stabilises. When idle, clock and volt as low as possible.", which sounds like what you're looking for. I think it might even be able to spin down your discs.

Setting up the rules and getting them reliable I have found to be... awkward. But the capability is there.

DUDE! Star Control II is damn easy! Try "The Ur-Quan Masters". It's everything from Star Control II (minus the main title, and the cut scenes from one version) turned open source and it's wonderful. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

It is. I've played (and beaten it) which I never did do with the original, partly because i upgraded hardware before beating it, and found it a nightmare to get it working on newer computers.

UrQuan Masters is awesome. But the ship battles, while close, are not quite authentic to the original in how the ships feel and move. Its a very good remake, and in some ways its actually better. But its not quite the same. Turning speed and responsiveness is a little different, the timing just isn't quite right. And the re-sampled graphics has issues too during the battles.

By the way, the remake of Privateer is rapidly approaching full usability too, I just need a new joystick...

DUDE! Star Control II is damn easy! Try "The Ur-Quan Masters". It's everything from Star Control II (minus the main title, and the cut scenes from one version) turned open source and it's wonderful. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

I play http://wargus.sourceforge.net/ under linux for my multiplayer WC2 needs. Higher resolution support too :)

Vuze would be the Azureus guys.

Now remove the tag that prominently displays your inability to use Google, you apes.

Since I process lots of data, screen space is needed. Since that data is also collected onto a laptop first, even more so.
So I have a KDE Desktop, running synergy 19" LCD (biggest that fits under the hutch) Next to this I have a separate file cabinet that has 21" CRT monitor, and a laptop stand (similar to http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=265)
this pushes the laptop screen up to the same height as the top of the other monitors, and more importantly gets it closer to me, since the keyboard is vertical now.

with synergy (IE my desktop keyboard and mouse) now running the laptop, the Laptop keyboard/pad isn't needed. With synergy going over the network connection, their is nothing to plug-in, wifi picks up the keyboard/mouse for me (I usually plugin a network cable, and power because I get ~500MB files to transfer) I plug in the monitor to the laptop, and do the extended desktop when producing reports.

now I built my own laptop cradle. Because I test vehicles with metal dashes, I have a magnet that snaps to the dash of our vehicles, it also attaches it's self to my desk. I made swing down legs with the magnet attached, so it is a additional protective cage when in my bag, etc. and adds only 1/4" to the Laptop size.

They are similar rules to boids. The aim is a little different though.

Nice game. Check out glSwarm. I always thought it would be fun to make a game based on these ideas.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/11506/Windows-Ext23-Filesystem-Driver/
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/filterdrv/default.mspx
http://www.fs-driver.org/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffsdrv/

Well, GCC has a PL/1 frontend available. Maybe, the operating system could be compiled with that, and then one could just load it into an emulator.

and on 360 class big iron.

AND there is even one dialect ( http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/ ) for the GCC.

Porting Multics may not be that big a job IF you have the source code.

The power of Multics lies in the ideas it implemented, not it whatever hardware it ran on.

(Even though the hardware was rather special it is well enough documented to be reducible to an implementation on a Turing machine.)

There's even someone working on a GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) frontend for PL/1. http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/

DASM and batariBasic are freely available for coding Atari 2600/VCS games.

The freely available emulator Stella has a really nice integrated debugger that really helps figuring out issues.

And you can even get your 2600/VCS game published! AtariAge has a 58 homebrew games, including my homebrew Medieval Mayhem, an updated version of Warlords.

Coding for the Atari is a challenge - 4K of ROM(though bank switching can be used to exceed that), 128 bytes of RAM(not K, not M, just bytes), no video memory - your program has to generate the screen on the fly, even controlling the TV sync signals. Andrew Davie has a nice series of articles, 2600 Programming For Newbies that can get you started.

There are modern mail management systems that remove the user from archive functions. One such piece of software is offered by Symantec as part of a package which filters spam/virus/phishing while at the same time auto-archiving all in and out bound messages. There are other free options that the WH could take advantage of. Qmail has now a wonderful plugin ability that would make auto-archive a snap.

We are talking about GW's staff. These folks, dastardly as they are, are not tech-stupid. They have resources at their fingertips that would make any geek green with envy. They knowingly deleted messages and failed to preserve archives. The Presidential Records Act isn't a new piece of legislation, it's been around since 1978.

The technology exists, and the White House can afford it. The question remains, will the White House obey the courts when told "don't break federal laws" or will they continue to break the law as usual.

Check out HeidiSQL). I like it much better than the native MySQL tools. Unfortunately it's a Windoze frontend.

For those of you who want to protect their privacy, I've made a light Firefox add-on which generates randomly some queries on Google to make your search profile noisier and less exploitable. The queries keywords are extracted from RSS flows so you can personalize them. Moreover, the program simulates some clicks on Google search results (and ads).
For further information go on: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuzzy-search/
It's a beta version and any comments are appreciated.

Panda3D
Irrlicht
Ogre3D

Also, CitySimulation makes a free web-only version of their 3D engine.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1804996&group_id=4421&atid=104421

Been there, done that, didn't help.

Why don't you use http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ to enable inotify support?

Actually with BackupPC you can look at a specific directory, and see all files that have existed in the dir. Even better you can see what all points in history the file has changed.

See if these screenshots help:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html#screenShots

I also love BackupPC because I have several different OSes on my network and BackupPC can handle them all.

Just set it, and forget it... well... then check it later and see if it still works... Oh, and maybe setup some kind of off site system. That isn't quite the same slogan.

but how is this different Dirvish...?

http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/installs60v3.html

I will never buy a phone which cannot run http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ or Putty.

...enter BackupPC. Doesn't work at the FS level, so it's not Time Machine, but you can set it to do daily backups to cut down on the number of traversals needed. Has the added benefit of working over smb, rsync, and/or ssh. Also scales to large collections of PCs, and works better in a multi-PC office. PLUS, it can back up any device that can use smb, rsync, or ssh.

It uses hard-links, including hard-links to directories, so in each and every time-stamped folder on the backup drive, you have a *FULL* copy of your HDD at that time (minus anything you excluded from the backups

Actually, I have mixed feelings about having a daemon following inotify (fsevents equivalent for linux) in order to backup. My setup uses backuppc, which daily rsyncs my disk and backs it up using much the same archival solution that Time Machine uses. The rsync is non-noticeable (and, in my case occurs during working hours). An inotify daemon, on the other hand, could be responding to lots of small requests that produce null results (temp files, disk writes over the same sectors, etc).

Fine-grained backups may be interesting, but I wouldn't be interested in any kind of performance drag because of it. Daily backups have served me just fine, thanks.

nquake is great! Original quakeworld

http://nquake.sourceforge.net/

You could always get UNX Utils.

I've been playing a fair bit of OpenArena:

http://openarena.ws/?about

Open sourced Quake III code with new models and textures and whatnot.

Battle for Wesnoth is a good networked turn-based strategy game, my girlfriend likes it too.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Zombies is a fun single player game that's open source (Windows and Mac only):

http://www.codenautics.com/zombies/

For anyone who liked Tron, there's a maddeningly difficult game called Armagetron Advanced that lets you race the bikes:

http://www.armagetronad.net/

There's a good list of open source games for windows here:

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/games.html

And a big list of general open source games over on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

They're not Flash games, but they're Free.

~ 1 million mailboxes, on qmail-ldap , plus a few patches (big-todo, qscanq and others). But, this will hopefully be migrated (to a postfix-based solution, but keeping the LDAP part) within a year.

I note that postfix with VDA supports almost all the qmail-ldap features (except "vacation" message that would normally be in the mailReplyText attribute), and most Linux distros ship with this patch.

Not even close to true. Postfix Admin does everything vpopmail does and more. I used to run qmail+qmail for years several years before I switched over and I can tell you Postfix Admin does a better job.

Does anybody run an ISP mail system with Qmail featuring predominately as MTA of choice?

At my previous job we used to run qmail for our mailhosting boxes. I can tell you that we were really happy with qmail back then, with the right patches it can be a really flexible mailserver, and once you're used to how it works you'll be in SMTP bliss. However, when you need functionality that isn't provided by qmail, you're doing one (or some) of the following:

• patching qmail, recompiling, testing, deploying
• writing a perl/bash/whatever script that goes somewhere in the Big Qmail Picture
• muttering curses and djb's name for the licensing

I can't really bring myself to bashing qmail over these things because it's served me well and I've hardly had any "unexpected" things happen to me, which is something I can't really say of other MTAs I've tried and I've never had any security problems (altough you might want to read this page). There's a lot of information available on qmail, and you can check out this guide (although this may now be quite dated). An indispensible tool is qmHandle for inspecting and manipulating the qmail queue in case something did go wrong.

Finally, I have to admit that when I left that company my own mailhosting services are currently being run by postfix, simply because I don't have the time to build my own qmail packages whenever I need some feature. If you look at the postfix design, any qmail user will see similarities and the fact that you're not patching and rebuilding it whenever you need feature X sort of grows on you.

I know that if I were to start hosting a large mailserver, I'd have a hard time deciding between the two and I'd do a lot of testing before I made a choice.

OpenCV
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencv/
is an opensource library that has been contributed to by competitors

Not that I want to run them out of a patent (if they TRULY deserve it), but I think most decent programmers might be able to effect the same results with existing code and some head-banging on the wall.

Yes, I think so too. Get started :)

CC.

Another 5cent;
not only the story is a bit old, but there exist free/open source tools that provide the same services, i.e. reconstruction of 3D models from your uncalibrated photos. Look at http://www.arc3d.be/ and to http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/;

The first one (arc3d) is a free-to-use service that allow people to upload photos and get back a set of 3D depth maps well as the relative vantage points from where the uploaded images were taken and the settings of the cameras.

The second one (MeshLab) is an open source tool that allow to load, inspect, process and integrate the data produced with the arc3D service, so that you can obtain a 'clean' 3D model and export it in a variety of common 3D formats.

So if someone wish to try by himself this kind of technologies, the tools are there.

It was this team that has opensourced the software: http://www.ubcthunderbird.com/ code found here (sf.net). Unfortunately they didn't make it through to the finals...

Stupid. Those fonts are primarily meant for TeX-based applications, for example LaTeX. rarely used characters are written with commands that start with backslash, for example: \ldots .

This beta test is limited to the OpenType version of the STIX Fonts. Now that the font designs are complete, we are working to prepare a LaTeX support package for the Type1 version of the STIX Fonts. This package should be ready for beta test before the end of 2007.

Well good, they needed a font set that had all the symbols you'd ever want to type in science. Only one little problem though...how do you type it?

Now only if there was a website to base this new website off of..... cough cough sourceforge

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Actually... http://wubi.sourceforge.net/ It downloads the ISO and what not, the installer is only about 8mb.

@PDFPen and Preview re-opening, perhaps you should check out Skim.app:

http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

It does auto re-reading for use in a LaTeX workflow, but it has a pile of other features, most obviously hugely improved PDF annotations and a great full-screen reading/note-taking mode. Persistent pop-ups for checking diagrams or screen-shots while reading text and roll-over pop-ups of link destinations (great for skiming and checking references in Scientific papers).

We've worked with several universities over the years on the BZFlag project, an on-line multiplayer networked tank combat game, where the game is often used to teach artificial intelligence computer science course concepts. We've also had several graduate students use BZFlag in their research as the primary subject material, leading to actual peer-reviewed scientific journal publications (ACM and others) as well as masters and PhD thesis papers. The game of course already provides the simulation framework itself, 2D and 3D environments, a graphical client that allows for interactive or unattended control, logging facilities, an established communications protocol, an extensive active user community (i.e. guinea pig "testers"), and various means of observing and interacting with others.

We were rather suspicious when a bunch of students all started showing up in our IRC channel a few years ago asking (in Spanish) for help compiling the game all of the sudden. We get players from all over the world asking for help in all sorts of languages and are pretty accustomed to it, but there was clearly something going on at the rate kids were showing up. Fortunately, several of our core members are fluent in Spanish and we quickly found out that they came from a particular university down in South America where the instructor had given them an assignment that used BZFlag as their simulation framework. Over the years, we had others from other universities approach our devs with similar intentions -- sometimes initiated by the professors, sometimes successfully initiated or sales-pitched by their teaching assistants.

One of the most successful academic uses, which has been running and improving for several years now, has been the BZRC - BZFlag Remote Control project at Brigham Young University where the TAs set up an entire framework that simplified the means by which the students controlled their tanks. Their framework was instantly more flexible and better than what we already had in BZFlag to the extent that their project was eventually rolled back into the game. For the students, it's a win because they're given a solid framework that they could immediately set up to work on their specific academic tasks; for us, it's been a win because of the code that has been rolled back into the game and the sheer pride of having our work used in an acadmic context.

The academic angle has been so compelling that it was actually a major factor in BZFlag being accepted into the 2007 Google Summer of Code. We were able to demonstrate BZFlag's impact potential and usefulness as a programmable simulation framework for teaching various CS concepts (AI, networking, user interface design, etc), which in-turn gave us the opportunity to have a rather gifted student work on improving our programmable bot interface throughout the summer. The student successfully converted the 2D Java-based Robocode API to our 3D C++-based simulation environment adding in hooks for other programming languages in the process. We're next looking to host a series of open AI programming tank competitions where people create BZFlag bots that will compete against others , with GSoC-funded cash prizes. Exciting stuff!

On a Mac, i believe you can get the Quicktime engine to have all the codecs you'll ever need by installing the free open source package Perian and the free (closed source) Flip4Mac WMV, which covers the last few.

Arguably, Apple should pre-install both of these packages - or variants thereof.

Now to get back onto the main topic..

One could also argue that the Apple-provided Quicktime player sucks ass big-time - and of course that is very true - but that's easily fixed by installing NicePlayer (also FOSS) - the other route is to ignore all the Quicktime-based solutions, and use something like VLC.

None of the above will stop an uneducated and/or unsuspecting user from clicking their way through an installer (and giving up an administrator password) believing it to install something great/fun/useful. If you try too hard to protect the naive and/or foolish from their own actions when administering the system then you end up taking the route Microsoft have with Vista (and their earlier Windows, each to a lesser extent) -- Are you sure? Are you really sure? Are you really really certain? Can i get a password with that? -- Ah.. Mac users are getting used to giving passwords during installs - bummer. (Mind you, they don't do it as quickly as the average Windows user/administrator can click Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok)

Being honest though, i don't think naivety or foolishness really enter into the equation - after all, it's a social engineering trick driven by the simple male quest for boobies - a somewhat unstoppable force!

It works perfectly using Mplayer Plug-in. I don't know about this gOS, but ubuntu has it in their package repositories, so it's only a one-click install. If the gOS people are smart, they'll offer it through their package manager.