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Your Treo does wifi

There is wifi available for it

and has a touch screen?

Are you being obtuse? Palms have had a touch screen since they came out over ten years ago.

And how much does the "sold separately" expansion card for the MP3 player hold?

I don't know what you are talking about, but TCPMP seems to play my OGGs just fine from any of my SD cards, which I've been using since I had a Palm m500. It's also handy to take the SD card from my digital camera and upload the pictures to my webserver via my Treo.

Does it also run OS X?

No; that's one of the reasons I like it :)

That screen sure is big.

Yeah, it's about 75% the size of the iPhone's screen. Not too shabby, especially considering that it came out on the market years ago.

Watch movies on it do you?

I do, with the aforementioned TCPMP, which I have source to. "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is my current favorite. I also play NES and GameBoy games, keep track of my car's mileage, keep track of my finances, keep track of my passwords, administer my servers remotely, read books, get directions, browse the web, etc, etc. Hell, I can even write and run software, right on my Treo! I haven't been paying attention, is Apple allowing people to even *load* third party software on the iPhone yet? How about that battery, can you swap it out with a spare like I can on any of my Palm devices and cell phones? Can you expand the memory? $600 is a lot, but I can buy a Treo 650 and 15 1GB SD cards for that much money. Plus I wouldn't be locked into a single provider. Or I could even wait three months and get a fully open-sourced phone with even more features, and port all the software that I use to it.

You're "does it run OSX" bit gives you away: you're an Apple fanboy, and the only reason you replied was because you didn't have points to mod me down. Face it, the only thing new that the iPhone brings to the cell phone world is Apple's marketing power.

Your Treo does wifi

There is wifi available for it

and has a touch screen?

Are you being obtuse? Palms have had a touch screen since they came out over ten years ago.

And how much does the "sold separately" expansion card for the MP3 player hold?

I don't know what you are talking about, but TCPMP seems to play my OGGs just fine from any of my SD cards, which I've been using since I had a Palm m500. It's also handy to take the SD card from my digital camera and upload the pictures to my webserver via my Treo.

Does it also run OS X?

No; that's one of the reasons I like it :)

That screen sure is big.

Yeah, it's about 75% the size of the iPhone's screen. Not too shabby, especially considering that it came out on the market years ago.

Watch movies on it do you?

I do, with the aforementioned TCPMP, which I have source to. "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is my current favorite. I also play NES and GameBoy games, keep track of my car's mileage, keep track of my finances, keep track of my passwords, administer my servers remotely, read books, get directions, browse the web, etc, etc. Hell, I can even write and run software, right on my Treo! I haven't been paying attention, is Apple allowing people to even *load* third party software on the iPhone yet? How about that battery, can you swap it out with a spare like I can on any of my Palm devices and cell phones? Can you expand the memory? $600 is a lot, but I can buy a Treo 650 and 15 1GB SD cards for that much money. Plus I wouldn't be locked into a single provider. Or I could even wait three months and get a fully open-sourced phone with even more features, and port all the software that I use to it.

You're "does it run OSX" bit gives you away: you're an Apple fanboy, and the only reason you replied was because you didn't have points to mod me down. Face it, the only thing new that the iPhone brings to the cell phone world is Apple's marketing power.

Your Treo does wifi

There is wifi available for it

and has a touch screen?

Are you being obtuse? Palms have had a touch screen since they came out over ten years ago.

And how much does the "sold separately" expansion card for the MP3 player hold?

I don't know what you are talking about, but TCPMP seems to play my OGGs just fine from any of my SD cards, which I've been using since I had a Palm m500. It's also handy to take the SD card from my digital camera and upload the pictures to my webserver via my Treo.

Does it also run OS X?

No; that's one of the reasons I like it :)

That screen sure is big.

Yeah, it's about 75% the size of the iPhone's screen. Not too shabby, especially considering that it came out on the market years ago.

Watch movies on it do you?

I do, with the aforementioned TCPMP, which I have source to. "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is my current favorite. I also play NES and GameBoy games, keep track of my car's mileage, keep track of my finances, keep track of my passwords, administer my servers remotely, read books, get directions, browse the web, etc, etc. Hell, I can even write and run software, right on my Treo! I haven't been paying attention, is Apple allowing people to even *load* third party software on the iPhone yet? How about that battery, can you swap it out with a spare like I can on any of my Palm devices and cell phones? Can you expand the memory? $600 is a lot, but I can buy a Treo 650 and 15 1GB SD cards for that much money. Plus I wouldn't be locked into a single provider. Or I could even wait three months and get a fully open-sourced phone with even more features, and port all the software that I use to it.

You're "does it run OSX" bit gives you away: you're an Apple fanboy, and the only reason you replied was because you didn't have points to mod me down. Face it, the only thing new that the iPhone brings to the cell phone world is Apple's marketing power.

You could try http://dump3.sourceforge.net/. It needs some work but the basics are there!

Disclaimer: Haven't read the book, but I did put together a MAME cabinet now living in someone else's basement bar ... *cough*

I do hope there are useful pointers to graphical front-ends. No offense to the creators of various emulators out there, but the usability mileage of my MAME cab suffered greatly until I found a sexy, useful and simple front-end Game Launcher. You could also try Lemon Launcher, although I had only partial success.

While a little time consuming to setup all the ROMs, the PC now auto-runs Game Launcher, plays various "attract" mp3s and successfully launches MAME32 upon a button press. Now friends, family and even the smallset can easily choose and play games just by walking through the menu using those fun arcade sticks.

http://www.nullwhore.com/sux0r/index.php?c=/0/logi n/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
What I find interesting is, it is one of the verrry rare examples of 'internet 2' service that you can own yourself (instead of registering here or there for more ads or worse).
A downside of Sux0r is it seems not having evolved for a couple of years (but still works, possibly that's why :-)
I for one am desperately waiting for a *local* RSS agregator which would allow *me* (and not some site's AI) to Bayes-filter my selected feeds. I'm almost sure this will happenn sooner or later.

Terminal Velocity or Duke Nukem II or all the other classic games I have will be useful for much longer as newer OS's keep coming out. I've already had a few casualties with WinXP.

LiVES ?

A Standard Template Library (or Terminal IO library like http://sourceforge.net/projects/utio/) that doesn't keep up with C++ (a la the stable trunk of GCC), that has but one developer, that has not seen a release since Q3-2006, well...

Pardon my bluntness but that's not really such a loss.

I'm sure you have your reasons. I haven't seen them enumerated here; just the constant barrage that you don't like GPLv3. Not even a word about key points. While there may be many reasons posited in the conversations here, surely not ALL of them pertain to your decision.

Correct me but how are your libraries affected by the license of GCC again? Not at all.

amazing...

Well, I'm not going to tell you how like that it is, but all of my passwords are semi-random. I hash on the keyboard a bit (taking care to not favor home keys, which I don't normally rest my fingers on anyway) and then if it's clearly not random then I fiddle around with it.

Humans are not good at creating random patterns. We like to think we are, but we're not.

For passwords that I don't need to type in or rarely access, I use EPG (Extended Password Generator). The plaintext password gets tossed in a text file with the contents encrypted using my PGP/GPG key. Those text files are easy to back up, can be copied around freely or e-mailed to a backup e-mail box and are as secure as the security of my PGP/GPG private keys.

Random passwords via EPG (or other tools) are also good for websites. Create an unique password for each website without much effort, then just have the browser keep track of it. (Well, maybe not for the bank website...) Even if someone manages to use a browser vulnerability to get your password to site X, they won't have the password to site Y. I still store website passwords in GPG/PGP encrypted text files, just like the rest of my passwords.

Now, coming up with a master password to protect the others? That's trickier.

The two greatest resources I've found for finding Linux wireless card drivers are:

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.ph p?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list /

Between those two, I've never had a problem finding drivers. Maybe you could point your friend in that direction.

I never knew that pidgin was a fork. I thought it was officially gaim, only with a name change. At least according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software) and the sourceforge page http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim.

I maintain a more or less portable OSS project (uSTL - an STL implementation) and I have had to make at least a few changes for each compiler release. Sometimes it happens due to new warnings that catch potential bugs I didn't know about. Sometimes it is due to policy changes (like the stricter aliasing rules in gcc 4), and sometimes there are new features I want to take advantage of.

Since I am strongly opposed to GPLv3 and anything that uses it, I am not going to upgrade my gcc any further than 4.2.1, which I'll probably do today. This means that uSTL, and my other five projects on SourceForge, may have problems compiling on later gcc releases, even though I will not intentionally put any incompatibilities in my code. Not being able to predict the future, I don't know whether these problems would be minor ones or major ones, but I do know that unless they expose some fundamental problem with my code, I will reject any bugs related to them and state explicitly that any gcc > 4.2.1 is not supported and never will be.

Now, you probably wouldn't care about this. After all, I only had a few thousand downloads - a minute fraction of the developers in the world. And you might say "oh, who needs this guy's code anyway?" But I have a feeling I'm not the only one, and I do occasionally contribute to projects other than my own. Perhaps you don't care if you lose my skills and the skills of all those other developers, but I suspect that they do all add up to quite a bit, and while you might not notice it at first, the GPLv3 camp might get lonelier and emptier as time passes.

Probably, but since this desktop runs on xulrunner/firefox it will likely eat up 1GB+ ram by itself, ignore the system themes, render ugly fonts, render ugly buttons (there is a workaround), freeze often when trying to open new windows/apps/etc, and make Win95 seem like a rock solid desktop.

This does sound like an interesting idea, though. Hopefully someone will implement an alternative with Webkit (there is a GTK+ port in progress).

This is already the third project called pyro.
"Python Remote Objects" http://pyro.sourceforge.net/
and "Python Robotics" http://pyrorobotics.org/
and possibly there are even more.

This idea has been around for a little while. See the ByzantineOS has had releases on Distrowatch since 2003.

It was a pretty cool idea. Basically the whole desktop is a web browser and you write apps as XUL extensions. There is possibly a future in this as corporate and institutional thin client platforms to run custom apps.

K-Meleon anybody? Geko engine in a nice lightweight UI. Got preloading too...

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download

Lite version of Firefox is not going to be ever possible unless they drop XUL completely and leave Gecko + 100% binary UI.

You mean something like K-Meleon? Please try it and see if you find it any faster -- I didn't.

I'm sorry but this has already been done, it includes tabs (as "pages") and bookmarks, but it's much lighter then Mozilla Firefox: K-Meleon

But I wouldn't recommend running Windows on old PC's, especially when they're connected to the Internet. Build Epiphany with XULRunner, it's a pretty good browser IMHO.

That still doesn't preclude universal drivers. In fact, Linux can already use some Windows drivers via ndiswrapper.

I agree with the GP poster, it would be a wonderful thing for computer users, but suspect Microsoft would put VERY heavy pressure on any hardware maker who looked like participating in that sort of development.

Let the user become the crawler- and do not eliminate the search giants (just don't rely on them completely). Already I sort of operate like a (slow) crawler with my queues of links to read, bookmarks (be weary- big load) and indexing those very interesting or important pages, sharing related tidbits, etc. Just feels like the natural extension, though I am sure that many people will want to stick with traditional GUIs and "back/forward" habits. There is also some interesting discussion in ATLAS-L re: future search infrastructures. So, in the spirit of promoting development in this area, linkage:

* Grub article (now defunct)- was distributed peer-to-peer crawler. (see also)
* Boitho, another distributed crawler
* YaCy- another peer-to-peer crawler
* How to build a web spider
* C++ web crawler lib
* LibWWW (perl)
* W3C's WebBot
* The Internet Archive's Heritrix crawler
* WebSPHINX- customizable crawler

Somehow, this is like an extension of surfraw. I imagine that soon enough we will start up an open source crawler-browsing hybrid software package, though have been surprised that nothing like it has popped up yet- it's (usually) the way of the programmer to make sure that he has the ability to do what the giants are doing. Maybe we have all been collectively blinded by graphical web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and "click-click-click" thinkware?

If you like Privateer or Elite, there is an open source space shooter called Vega Strike. There's even a mod for Star Trek:Next Generation vessels.

I wish that the Thief series would get picked up and modernized, as well, but that seems to be quite a pipe dream too.

  Then you'll be happy to hear that some people are working on it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opde -- OpenDarkEngine. The ultimate goal is a drop-in replacement for the Dark Engine, able to run Thief 1, Thief 2, and System Shock 2 levels and fan missions, while removing limits on polys and texture sizes, and adding graphical flair like real-time lighting, bloom, and various shader tricks.
  It's early days yet (and help is appreciated, since one dev wandered off, and it's more-or-less a one-man project ATM) but just a few days ago OPDE got System Shock 2's "earth.mis" to load successfully.
  Right now it's able to load the levels, and that's about it. It still needs object loading, physics, etc. ODE will probably be used for physics, since that would be both easier to write and an improvement to the game. Implementing all the various properties and scripting functions will probably be the biggest chore, I would guess.

Using a different password for each site is the ultimate in security; however, without a password manager of some sort, it becomes too difficult to manage such a large list of passwords. Thankfully, OSS password managers such as Revelation and Figaro Password Manager exist! Personally, I use revelation; however, both are excellent pieces of software!

Also for Windows, more up-to-date DS filters that include Vorbis support along with other formats are available --

"ffdshow tryouts" project: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=173941. (Don't fear the name and beta status, this is the de facto official release of ffdshow.)

Haali Media Splitter: http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

Which outlines the whole strength of having a password manager. You can have a different password for each website. Without a password manager, it's hard to do this because there are so many sites that require passwords. For my password management, I use passwordsafe, because it lets me manage all my passwords, not just ones for websites, and I can put it on a usb memory stick, and carry all my passwords with me.

This brings up another thought. If the websites in question allow users to post javascript, and there happens to be a login section on that page, then couldn't the user posting the script add an onchange or onkeypress event to the username and password fields to capture the username and password, and then forward the information to their server by creating an img element, and having the username and password passed as GET variables appended to the URL of the img src, which is in fact just a php page that stores the username and password in a database. Seems to me that any site that allows people to post executable javascript is just asking for trouble.

Password Safe is good for me.

I don't know how easily crackable it is, but at least it's not linked directly to the Internet like a browser.

I have a chess war program which adds randomness to chess.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zbcw

I would be interested in any comments.

all the best,

drew

To any Slashdot users (like myself) who were part of the "University of Michigan" testing group, be aware that Discussion2 was recently silently added as an option in the user preferences. Just go "Preferences" > "Comments" > "Slashdot's New Discussion System Testing".

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: A random group of Slashdot users were asked to participate in a study conducted by the University of Michigan on a new comment/discussion interface. This study presumably ended at some point (and possibly the data from it helped create Discussion2). However those users who were subjects in this study had a modified preferences panel, which prevented the Slashdot "Discussion2" mode from being available to us (bug report here). Now they have apparently fixed the issue, though no official message was sent to anyone. So, if anyone else was affected by that bug, you can now test the Discussion2 system along with everyone else.

Thanks to whoever coded the workaround.

I show FF users at ~63% for a website I maintain for a OSS/Windows power user app.

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/website_stats.php

EP

Try smplayer. All the power of mplayer with a simple UI.

Sure, there are a lot of APIs used that are unknown to the public, there are lots of things reverse engineered, but even the most reverse engineered features have stuff in them that are unknown.

For instance, the NTLMv2 response in NT authentication.

NTLMv2 Specs

Scroll down and you'll see:

0x00000000 (unknown, but zero will work)

This is simply the best place to put a password bypass, a flag in the authentication packet itself. If it's the right value, then just don't check the password and let the person in.

Nobody has ever figured out what this does. All features are implemented in the NT authentication, but there are gaps that don't negatively impact anything.

Suprisingly enough, there is no discussion about such an announcement on the project mailing list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum _name=openmosix-devel

Sounds like not every one on this project agree with this decision...

Microsoft has been funding a SourceForge project developing an ODF plugin and converter for Office. You can read a bit more about it from Ars Technica (notice the date - this thing has been out for over half a year). It's stable and quite functional, produces small files, and includes a batch converter. Downloads here.

I've lost count of the number of times I've posted this...

Microsoft has been funding a SourceForge project developing an ODF plugin and converter for Office. You can read a bit more about it from Ars Technica (notice the date - this thing has been out for over half a year). It's stable and quite functional, produces small files, and includes a batch converter. Downloads here.

I've lost count of the number of times I've posted this...

Microsoft has been funding a SourceForge project developing an ODF plugin and converter for Office. You can read a bit more about it from Ars Technica (notice the date - this thing has been out for over half a year). It's stable and quite functional, produces small files, and includes a batch converter. Downloads here.

I've lost count of the number of times I've posted this...

There's a similar project named 'Open Single System Image'

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssic-linux

I used to keep streamripper http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ going on tags trance and pick out the songs I liked.

There's nothing better that thinking "wow! this song is awesome, I wish I had it" and then be able to play it back on my laptop/mp3 player.

I remember a conversation concerning streamripper stating that the song info (id3 tags etc) were actually mandated by the DCMA, and that stations that mangled that information in order to make it impossible to separate songs were in violation of it.

Which is why they've already made a converter that is licensed with a BSD-like license instead of a GPL'd one, right? They definitely don't like free software due to the GPL, but they've been known to release some things under an open source license (and I'm not talking about their bullshit attempt at open source software with the shared source license or whatever it's called).

The good thing that could bring a MS-made ODT plugin would be 100% compatibility between ODT and OOXML.

I guess you're not familiar with the shit pile that is the Microsoft sponsored ODF plugin then? Perfect ODF conversion, yeah, like Microsoft really want to see that happen..

I call BS - PDF does not require a Postscript engine - one can extract the content using zlib and a couple of buffers, and Google regularly indexes PDFs.

PDF doe require a postscript engine if you want to truly understand the entire semantic markup of a document. Let's say you want to return all documents that use an underlined strikethrough text. How are you going to do that without a deep understanding of the PDF language? What's more, XML is more or less human readable, PDF isn't. Why do you think Sun chose XML for it's file format?

Yes, Google indexes PDF's, but I wasn't talking about just indexing the text. Document management systems have to understand the document as a whole (well, they don't HAVE to, but they really really want to, and it makes them much more useful). Look at projects like DataStore for a good example:

Go home, Microtroll!

You make stupid arguments without understand the full context, and you accuse me of trolling? I work on document managements systems. I know WTF i'm talking about. The document marketplace is a lot more involved than you think it is.

Actually, writing a simple compiler is very easy. Writing a good, well optimized, complete compiler is very hard. That's why Lapack (not a Gnu software), when compiled with the Gnu g77 compiler needs an extra step of post-optimization using Atlas (also not a Gnu software) to run properly. That's why my old Visual C version 4.1 using pre-compiled headers still compiles faster than the latest version of Gcc. That's why no Gnu compiler is compatible with VAX Fortran, even though that's one of the most common Fortran dialects.

Perhaps that's the main reason why I object to attaching the GNU prefix to Linux. Linux is a superb operating system, or kernel, or whatever you want to call it. Gnu is a so-so set of software tools.

I might consider calling Linux a GNU/Linux system the day when the Atlas project ceases to exist because the Gnu compilers do a decent enough optimization job and when I can take my two million lines of legacy VAX code and compile them with the command "g77 -fvxt" without errors.

Thanks for linking to the project webpage which redirects to a wiki. Next time link to the sf.net project page and let us choose to go to the homepage ourselves rather than fight with sf.net.

I'm paricularly against the "Tivoization" clause and cannot for the life of me see what benefits it gives to the copyright holder or user of the code.

In the case of your software (i.e. a Sudoku for mobile phones), the GPLv3 guarantees the user the four freedoms (use, modify, distribute, improve), making it impossible to circumvent the GPLv2 with hardware devices. What could happen in your specific case is that a telco takes your code and starts offering it as for-pay download to their user's mobile phones—only that users cannot share it because there is some sort of hardware lock in place.

If you do not like the GPLv3, chances are you never liked the GPLv2 either. The GPLv3 is not a revolution of the GPL concept, it is just exactly the same ideas adapted to a world where it has become possible to circumvent version 2 by methods unforeseen when it was written. If you are alright with people taking your code and not contributing back, by all means use BSD instead.

Unfortunately I haven't run across any good C++ formatters.

What's wrong with Artistic Style?

My first large project I ever attempted (HERMES, now abandoned, http://hermesweb.sourceforge.net/)

If it's abandoned, do the world a favor and put up a conspicuous note to that effect on the homepage. Nothing is more irritating than wasting time with a program that you only later discover has been dead for years.

If I do say so myself, SWISH++ has pretty code.