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Now I just have to worry about unpatched holes in Windows Media Player!

There's also DejaVu Sans Mono, forked from Bitstream Vera Mono 1.10 and still seeing development. Once they get the CJK glyphs in, the DejaVu family will probably be my primary choice.

Looks like msttcorefonts are going to release new version of their fonts extraction tool.

Let me also suggest viking, an open-source GPS data manager. In addition to caching map tiles, it is also a GPS route editor useful for planning trips, doing trip analysis, etc.

I don't know if the iPhone acts as a Wi-Fi modem,

It doesn't have any provision, in the built-in software, for acting as a router for either of its network interfaces (Wi-Fi or EDGE). There is an iPhone port of srelay, a SOCKS relay, although I don't know whether any OSes offer completely transparent SOCKS access (e.g., some way of intercepting all IP-layer network accesses and SOCKSifying them).

but it would not be bad if a laptop could be linked up to it.

Do you mean "EDGE modem"? Or are you talking about laptops without built-in Wi-Fi interfaces?

Don't forget Anjuta for the Gnome desktop.

I believe Anjuta http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/ is a good one for GTK+.

Some of them actually use 3D graphics for all of the visuals, but keep the gameplay in a 2D perspective.

There's an OpenGL based library and a collection of tools for GPU-based image and data processing on http://cvtool.sourceforge.net/.

1 print "hi"
2 goto 3
3 end

10 print "hi"
20 goto 30
30 end

Most of us would at least check SourceForge before making silly accusations.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=200665

There are two properties of the HFS+ filesystem which rsync had problems with (that I am aware). metadata and ACL's. Neither of them are essential for data recovery itself and rsync had issues with them on any platform, not just osx.

It bears noting that the reason no one in the linux world cared about metadata until rsync began developing patches for it was due to the fact that linux didn't have them until 2.6 (or 2.5 for the brave). In fact, the idea of metadata (file attributes in linux parlance) was taken from osx's success and proven utility in using them. Reference: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-June/009937.html

Further as soon as metadata and acl support was available to the linux world, it was to the osx world as well.

The last niggling problem with osx is resource forks. There have been patches for resource fork support in rsync since at least 2002 (when rsyncX was copyrighted).

If I am mistaken about the features that are apparently lacking via HFS+ and rsync (and the fact that they existed for all users of rsync regardless of platform), please correct me.

Finally, we've just been talking about some unix utils that needed a bit of time to catch up with the current trends in filesystem design. There have been command line utilities for creating bootable restores and preserving metadat for a while in osx besides the ones listed above such as ASR and PAX.

I believe the mistake your making is to assume that an osx admin is limited by the pre-compiled software offered on osx by default, but this is simply not the case. No more then it is the case for any *nix install that leverages open source. I also find it peculiar (unless you bring to light issues which I have not covered here) that your major complaint about said backup solutions is that they could not back up extra information with HFS+ that was not even existent in prevailing *nix file systems (e.g. metadata). This is more of a reflection on the lack of features in said *nix solutions then in OSX.

I will now use the opportunity to promote my favorite hard link / cp based backup solution which I use for both Tiger and Panther backups without issue: BacupPC

I seem to remember in 2004 copying 1600+ trip pictures that were 2MB each from an XP laptop to my XP desktop and it failing to complete and displaying no errors. That's the only time I've ever seen Windows do that though. It used to happen a lot with Mac OS 7.x and 8.x. To the point I would copy one folder at a time and check the contents as I went. OS X fails to recalculate folder sizes in the List view.

Oh, speaking of calculating folder sizes in list view, does Vista do this? There is a handy add-on for XP called Folder Size but it doesn't work with Vista. The author claims he went through some hassle trying to get it to work with Vista but he doesn't say WHEN he went through the hassle, so I figured maybe Microsoft would have added that feature.

Everyone should use Folder Size if they're using XP. It's really nice. Especially if you use Macs on a regular basis as well.

Why use PuTTY when you don't have to? I mean, until Linux is fully working on my HTC Universal I have to use it on there, and when I'm dual booting WinXP I can either use that or fanny around with Cygwin, so I DO use PuTTY, I'm not maligning it in any way. But Linux has all the tools (except PuTTYgen) that you ever need already there.

802.11n is still a very new technology. So new that the format war is still going on... different vendors have different definitions of what goes into it, and we're at a point that there's no guarantee that a D-Link 802.11n card will work with a Cisco/Linksys 802.11n router. To say nothing of other vendors with other definitions.

What's that got to do with Linux? Well... Dell may be working on drivers, but Dell doesn't manufacture wireless cards. Dell chooses a wireless chipset and rebrands it. Because it's a new technology, there's a chance that the open source drivers haven't been written yet, and that you're going to have to wait.

It's worth pointing out that the default wireless card that's available with that notebook is an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945, which has very well developped and supported Linux drivers, released to the open source world and linux kernel by Intel itself. ( http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ ) When I ordered my own laptop, I stuck with the Intel card for exactly that reason.

You can have the same functionality as winscp with konqueror or krusader in combination with fish:// or scp://. You can also use different protocols such as webdav:// or ftp:// to manage remote files.

I'm currently using VirtuaWin. It works ok, but again not as good as in Linux. I think I remember using virtual dimension when I first started looking for multiple desktops on Windows. Have you tried VirtuaWin? Is there anything that is provided by virtual dimension that would make the experience better?

The best one I found was virtual dimension: http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

Not quite as good as *nix but the closest I managed to get - combined with X mouse from Power Toys on XP it was the most usable I managed to get Windows before I got a job that allows me to use Linux on my workstation.

There are several programs that will do code->dia:
autodia http://directory.fsf.org/project/autodia/ is perl based and does a variety of languages.
SharpDia2Code http://sharpdia2code.sourceforge.net/ is written in C# and will do code->diagram as well as diagram->code. Seems to have been abandoned, but works OK (needs to be recompiled to work with .NET 2.0).
There are others.

The uncompressed dia format is easy enough to work with that several years ago I even wrote my own app to generate class diagrams from VB6 source code.

> Don't bother uploading it.

I consider this bad advice and I don't know why it's modded as insightful. At work, I needed a Java survey/questionnaire engine that satisfied these requirements: 1) embeddable, 2) configurable, 3) Swing (desktop app as opposed to web-based).

I did a little search on sourceforge and found one called JSurveyLib that satisfied all those requirements. The original 2 creators hadn't made a commit to the SVN repository in 2 years but they still read their emails and eventually made me an admin of the project. Since then, I've made 2 new releases, added a powerful scripting language to it, refactored a ton of code, added 3 new question types, wrote comprehensive documentation, and probably doubled the code base. Now I'm even working on it in my free time because I enjoy it so much. If this project hadn't been uploaded, I would have started from scratch and probably couldn't convince my boss to open source it.

So my advice is that even if you're completely done with the project, upload it anyway and pay attention to your emails. Someone like me may come along and offer to improve on it for you.

BTW, shameful self promotion: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsurveylib/

As far as Project replacement, the only open source competitor that even comes close to MS Project (that also reads MS Project files) is OpenProj:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/

There are only two problems with it:
1) It uses an attribution license (hope they eventually wise up and switch to a better FOSS license)
2) It's a bit slow -- they *really* need to switch from Java runtime to GCJ compiled Java.

On the plus side, since it's Java, it's available on all platforms that OpenOffice is available.

(I know about GanttProject and have used it, but it still has a way to go.)

dia2code does diagrams to code but I don't think it does the other way round. A good project for someone with an itch to scratch!

Cheers!

I would have to agree with this stance whole heartedly. I wrote a little bastard love child utility for Windows C++ coders, and the code itself is written in .NET because I was feeling especially lazy that day. I've since had a few people download it, most say they liked it, and only one person mentioned that I could probably make it run faster if I used a DLL from the Wine project instead of invoking the Visual Studio tools and parsing their results.

The main point being, this was a "throw away" application that I wrote one day in about an hour. I made a few bug fixes here and there, and then I've since left it to rot up on SF.net. I still occasionally use it, and apparently some other people do too. I only uploaded it because I felt that if I had a need for this, someone else out there might need it as well. Apparently I was right.

TS-3300 pc/104 hardware 750ma.

http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/

Grab yourself FireGPG - http://firegpg.sourceforge.net/ - and encrypt the problem away.

You are correct, I was't aware that MS had removed the download package.

The fonts themselves, however, can still be downloaded from SourceForge and other locations, which (I assume) is where the installer gets them.

They released the fonts under a license which allowed redistribution. Which people are continuing to do, per the terms of the license. See here to download, if you're not using debian: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Or, review the license here: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm

As others pointed out, it's the issue of not having enough 2D/3D artists and music/sound folk. OSS developers certainly have a whole bunch of good coders - and writers, in a pinch.

For example, take a look at the Irrlicht or OGRE screenie galleries - you see the technology is definitely getting there. You can get ye trimesh to ye rendering device, and by golly does it ever look shiny and, with a bit of work, not that bad. (More bloom! More! More!) But we'd definitely need folks creating those models for the display first! The tech is there, but the art lags a bit.

If you want to see a project where the art and tech goes well hand in hand, try Battle for Wesnoth - top notch graphics (albeit in 2D pixel-art), sound effects and music. We can do this.

There's are simulators as well, besides the well known flight gear, there's now an world war 2 uboat simulation as well http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/

On first impression this might be just what I've been looking for to sell as remote sensors to go with EasyIDS. I've been trying to find something with a small physical footprint for less than $350 for quite a while. Granted it doesn't have any Gb nics but chances are someone that is sniffing that much traffic is going to be using a commercial product anyways.

Might also be able to use it for Endian Firewall or Proxmox ....maybe even for a proxy server?

On first impression this might be just what I've been looking for to sell as remote sensors to go with EasyIDS. I've been trying to find something with a small physical footprint for less than $350 for quite a while. Granted it doesn't have any Gb nics but chances are someone that is sniffing that much traffic is going to be using a commercial product anyways.

Might also be able to use it for Endian Firewall or Proxmox ....maybe even for a proxy server?

I still have the disc and I'd play it again in a heartbeat if it would just run on a modern system - I've tried everything. With patience, my media will hopefully be useful again someday once the Open Dark Engine reaches maturity.

No, the GP meant links. The name as spelled was correct. It is also a text-based web browser. Though it can also do graphics on the console as well.

Nope. He means Links.

What if you don't want to invest anything? Even the cheapest of PCIe video cards have 256MB or more and will do 400MB/S plus. 90% of the time that memory isn't being used.

If you are interested in testing your cards memory bandwidth check out gpubench at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpubench

Ballmer is currently trying to survive as M$'s CEO, the failure of Vista, the failure of Office 2007, the financial failure of xbox, and the financial failure of MSN, are destroying his career and personal ego trip of being better and greater than Bill Gates in whose shadow Ballmer has been forced to spend the last 20 years.

So expect lots of rants, screams and flying furniture on the way out.

As for Linspire, they seem to be going out of their way to make a version of Linux that is just as unstable, unreliable and insecure as windows.

Windows media player on Linux, how obscene, I don't even use it on windows, VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and Media player classic http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli are both superior, what are they thinking at the Linspire team or have they stopped thinking all together. Next they will be adding, M$ windows DRM free, M$ windows WGA free and even that piece of junk M$ Works ;).

The other thing is of course M$ is trying to create the marketing illusion that it is a player of influence in the Linux world, that when M$ babbles, the computer and technology world listens and changes, that Ballmer's asinine opinions actually mean something to the technological future of the planet rather than just adding more content to the geek laugh library.

I already commented in another thread but thought I should respond directly to you incase you missed it. If you are interested in an open source POS system I really think that joining POSper would be one of the better options available. If you're interested feel free to post something to the forum or to send me an email through sourceforge or by using my address which is plastered all over the codebase.

Actually, you're somewhat in luck in that vein. If you don't already know about it, there's a project called Privateer Remake, it might satisfy your WC cravings. It's actually a pretty good remake in my opinion, and it's in the Wing Commander universe. I didn't play the real Privateer, and only played the original WC a few times because it sucked ass on the computer I had at the time; so YMMV, but it's basically like I remembered, sans a few things.

You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats.

You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats.

You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats.

You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats.

You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats.

http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

httpd.conf can be quite difficult the first time you see it. Somes distributions have even splitted it into different configuration files (OpenSuse). You can understand it if you run dozens of virtual hosts but splitting the default httpd.conf is absurd IMHO.

Anyway there are editing tools:
http://kochizz.sourceforge.net/
Looks promising.

But I have never used it (the only one I've tried: YaST HTTP server module was incomplete for taste, I couldn't configure properly webdav through it).

The only problem I see in the use of a text file configuration is the lack of documentation. For example, to run a standalone fastcgi based application (IIPImage) I had to spend few weeks reading blogs and participating in forums, just to realise, at the end, that I have to use fake empty files to set the fcgi handler correctly... If somebody is interested here is the howto. In terms of performances... IIS + fastCGI is very quick!

> thinkpad-acpi: enable more hotkeys, add input device support to hotkey subdriver

Although it's not merged yet, Thinkpad owners should also check out this project:

http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/

Using the tp_smapi driver I can, among other things, clamp my battery charger to
stop at 70%, which makes the battery last a _lot_ longer. =)

If you like the way this game looks, try the games made by Kenta Cho, for example rrootage : http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/rr_e.html

There are linux ports of them here : http://rrootage.sourceforge.net/

They are pretty addictive, have joystick/gamepad support and pretty good music.

Enjoy.