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I use Notepad++. Much "cheaper" than UltraEdit and suits my needs....

I don't believe I've actually seen anything for arms before... Then again, I've never explicitly gone looking. But I have a feeling there's probably not much since, as you said, it's more geared toward mobile robots. Here's a list of supported devices: clicky.

http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/

What do you have against Freevo?

http://atscap.sourceforge.net/
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalT elevisionAtscap

EIT's update every 3 hours and they carry at a minimum 12 hours of event programming information within 4 EITs.

It takes about 1 minute to fetch how ever many hours of programming the station is sending in their ATSC PSIP. For the 7 English speaking stations in my area, all of the program guides are updated in about 5 minutes.

atscap automatically updates the EPGs once every 3 hours. If a capture is in progress and it's unable to run the EPG update for all the stations, it's automatically postponed until it can run. The EPG for the station that is currently being captured is already updated, so that's one less EPG that has to be updated when the postponed EPG updates do eventually run. You're not very likely to watch a 12-hour event, so it's not very likely you will miss an event.

As for recording a specific event an unknown time in the future, a simple search event entry will add the event to the timer list when the EIT updates, if it finds a match in the updated EITs.

I don't understand what you mean when you say "So at least in the U.S., the EIT would be of limited utility to MythTV users, since it is unlikely that one would be able to use this data to schedule multiple days in advance."

Perhaps you aren't being as imaginative as you could be. "24" sat on my atscap search event list for 7 months before it finally found the events in the EIT in January and onward. I didn't miss a single episode of "24". The channel filter in the search event prevented capturing all of the NBC re-runs of 2 year old "24" episodes.

Granted, atscap is for over-the-air broadcasts only, and it's only for digital television, not analog. Some of us are looking forward to the day when all of the NTSC transmitters go dark, because some of us can't receive over-the-air NTSC if our very lives depended on it, yet ATSC comes in fine with less than 1/5th the power output of the NTSC transmitters.

Unlike MythTV, atscap doesn't heat up your CPU compressing the video into some lower-quality format. If it's HD, most people will want the original picture quality, not some weirdware NippleVideo compressed low-quality version.

The flip-side of that coin means because it stays in the standard ATSC format, it's quite possible to play back the event with [blech!] Windows. I know someone who is right at this moment sitting on their couch with their Centrino Windows Vista laptop, watching captures made by atscap via their WRT54G wireless router, happier than the proverbial bug-in-the-rug. I suppose they could sit on the toilet and do the same, but I don't recommend that. You might get hemorrhoids!

atscap is painless to install, compared to MythTV, and also requires much less resources than MythTV. atscap doesn't need an SQL server for the EPG. atscap will do captures fine on a 300MHz CPU, and will probably work even on a 100MHz CPU.

atscap doesn't care what you use to play back the events. You could use it as a replacement for the MythTV backend, and still use MythTV for all the bells and whistles that you feel you need. Some people are using the Roku HD1000, some are using VLC, some are using Xine and some are using mplayer. The player decision your decision. You can choose what works best for you.

The drawbacks to atscap? You're *almost* at the mercy of the broadcasters to send proper PSIP information, much like MythTV is at the mercy of Zap2It XML. Also, some stations have buggy ATSC PSIP generators that send garbage, or something worthless, like "Normal Programming - 180 minutes". The Late Show with David Letterman is listed on the local CBS station EIT as 60 minutes. If I were to depend on the EIT event length, it's likely the musical guests would be truncated.

Weekday event timers to the rescue. I use a 65 minute weekday timer

But there does exist another large robotics library that is completely free called Player. The project even has two complete simulators, Stage (for 2D simulation of many robots) and Gazebo (for 3D simulation of a smaller number of robots). Great project for any aspiring roboticists out there.

I wonder why you're telling the "KDE dudes" that a Gecko-based Windows-only browser doesn't cut it.

Anybody worked with XMLTV and care to share their experience?

To the posters wondering how they can do it, look at l7-filter for iptables. Now, this is what you can do - fairly effectively people are reporting - to filter p2p with a Linux router. (There's also ipp2p for Linux, but that's judged only partially effective.) You can bet that what open source can do, AT&T's Ciscos can do too. Doing that level of inspection is going to add quite a computational load, on the one hand. On the other hand, blocking the p2p stuff will take a huge load off of the pipes.

Is the l7-filter's approach something that p2p software's next generation can get around? Maybe, but it won't be as simple as port hopping. There will always be ways to get a few files though, but the question is whether large-scale p2p operations will remain viable in a context of widespread packet filtering.

Ha! FF overtook IE 6 a long time ago according to this site. http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/website_stats.php

Oh, I should mention this site is for aa Windows power user app. But, hey, you gotta admit seeing FF at ~60% does give a nice warm 'n fuzzy, no?

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Star Control 4 should really get a prize for being the most disappointing sequel/continuation ever made. Additionally, because it did so poorly, the real developers never got a chance to make a worthy successor to the incredible game that Star Control 2 was. If you haven played it yet, and dont mind the only slightly outdated graphics, SC2 was released under the name The Ur-Quan Masters under the GPL.

Here's a decent GPL tool that produces a .srt for almost any closed captioned MPEG you throw at it: From there it's trivial to produce what you need.

... your aunt is your uncle! K-Meleon makes your whole family tree turn into a circle.

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

In 10 years, internet television is the major content source in the world. While projects like FreeVo and MythTV provide open DVR functionality, I think the future of television lies more in projects like Democracy (although it's a desktop app) and ToxTox, which aims to be an open internet television "browser". Just like Firefox did, I hope projects like these will open up the walled gardens of settop boxes.

My project, Appleseed, does just that. All the distributed functionality is in place, and it's at the point of rounding out the functionality, optimization, and then bug testing and cleanup.

It's open source, and uses a custom protocol, which is also open, although I would be open to modifying up the protocol at this point to make it easier for other applications to use

I've already been working on this, and it's nearing completion. Appleseed is the name of the project, and I'm using a custom protocol, but I'd be interested in talking with people who have experience with forming proper RFC's.

Actually, it's trivially easy to stop bunny hopping.

QuakeC code:
local float speed;
speed = vlen(self.velocity);
if (speed > maxspeed) self.velocity = self.velocity * (maxspeed / speed);

Put that into playerprethink() in CLIENT.QC or any of the other functions which get called every frame, and a person will never be able to travel faster than their maximum speed. Add a if (self.flags & #FL_ONGROUND) around it if you want them to be able to fly through the air faster than their maxspeed.

No, Bunnyhopping was intentionally left in, because it is seen as a sign of skilled players. You disagree, and I do too somewhat, but I've left it in my mod, CustomTF (http://www.customtf.com) (forums at http://customtf.sourceforge.net/forum/), because the playerbase overwhelming wants it. However, I did ensure that some of my new content, like the ability to leap forward quickly through the air, isn't bunnyhoppable (it breaks your speed down to your maxspeed after 2 seconds).

The weirdest thing is that Quake1 is still pretty active after all these years. TF1 was much better than TFC, for a number of reasons.

Yes, for LedgerSMB... from how you describe it, it sounds kinda like the Ofbiz POS UI. What I'm really looking for is something like TinaPOS that integrates into something besides Openbravo (which is horrifically undocumented). If TinaPOS integrated into LedgerSMB or Ofbiz, that too would be fantastic as well.

The barcode scanners aren't really necessary in every environment, but many of the (uglier) POS systems assume their usage.

Hey, you are missing the point. Lunix doesn't need to do detect and configure an awful lot of hardware, given the platform it runs on: http://lng.sourceforge.net/

Actually by Links, I do mean Links. It's a text based web browser with support for frames that's been around for quite a time now... but you're probably too busy using IE to care.

Try here.

Try here.

Okay funny guy. :P

That actually brought to mind something really interesting...

We have all of these really cool features in open source software. I do mean REALLY cool too. I run my entire business on FreeBSD servers (no flame wars, just a personal preference!), and amonst all of the really cool things that Linux and FreeBSD can do, I've often wondered something. Why do we have to pull a full reboot for a new kernel?

Don't answer me directly. I know the answer. I know what a kernel is and what it does. Mostly. :) The reason I bring it up is the hack required for the tivo required a port of monte. Is there any reason that this couldn't become a standard feature? ie, compile the latest kernel fixes, monte in the new kernel, do a service by service restart? I know it's pedantic, but it's then possible to have perpetual uptime, is it not? I"m presuming that the old kernel gets flushed from memory, and since you do a rolling service restart, no one service goes completely down.

I'm making an awful lot of presumptions, and I guess the thought is that if you're going to go to the trouble of doing a rolling service restart, you might as well just cut the power and be done with it...but still. It'd be nice if there's a security fix in the kernel that wouldn't break compatibility with existing running applications to just let you compile, monte to the new kernel, flush the old kernel, and life goes on. Is there a technical limitation that I'm not seeing? Understand I have some FreeBSD-isms going on here with the monolithic kernel vs. kernel+modules. I've run into a nightmare a few times before on a debian box where I've compile a new kernel but forgot to recompile all of the modules, and stuff dies.

Evolution has been available for Windows for quite some time by now. Get it here: http://shellter.sourceforge.net/
The question I have is this: how does Lotus Notes compare to Exchange+Outlook?
Check out Zimbra also http://www.zimbra.com/ (exchange replacement appliance).

Heh, no. I'm talking about the Links Browser which is (as GP noted) a terminal based www browser.

Try PyPE or jEdit.

I think Linus is right and you are wrong on Java:

1. Sun still retains "control" over Java-the-platform through the JSR/committee process. GPL'ing the reference implementation doesn't affect their control of the trademark.

2. The Microsoft lawsuit was settled for a LONG time before Sun started talking seriously about GPL. In the meantime MS was committed to .Net and won't touch Java with a ten-foot pole.

3. The 'it factor' was in danger of permanently moving away from Java. F/OSS was picking up Mono, Ruby, and Python instead.

4. Once Kaffe/Sabre/Classpath/etc. were about to run Eclipse, Sun got very serious about GPL'ing the JDK.

Java's reputation as "the new COBOL" was turning it into a platform that pays the bills but is otherwise very uninteresting.

The way this is written, it almost sounds like you think its impossible to release source code in the Java community. As others have pointed out, its possible to release object code in other languages. As for Java, consider viewing the Apache website and look at their open source Java tools and libraries. I've even got a project on SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/justjournal

Java can be open just as much as any other language. The difference is that the Java compiler and vm have been closed licensed for a long time. (not closed source since I could download the code years ago)

My software: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/
A similarly featured bit of OSS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bingo-cards/

Capsule summary: Like the name suggests, it creates bingo cards, and that is all. At least, that is how most computer programmers perceive the problem, and that is why Bingo Card Creator is in use in a couple hundred classrooms and bingo-cards sees about as many downloads in a year as my free trial sees in a mediocre week.

Programmers hate writing boring code, which is one of the reasons why Ruby on Rails is so phenomenally popular. Printing logic is a good example. There are few things in life which are more boring than getting text to be properly sized in a grid on an arbitrary printer, without crowding the grid lines. Roughly 1/3 of the LOC and 90% of the complexity of my program is making printing pretty and easy enough for your grandmother to do it. The writer of bingo-cards, on the other hand, decided to punt on this: seeing as how many browsers have perfectly good printing routines already, he just exports to HTML and then you can print the resulting files yourself. Simple, right? Well, not to put a fine a point on it, while that is a great choice for the programmer it is a terrible, terrible choice for the user... and there are users out there who *don't know how* to print an arbitrary file in the file system. Trust me, I answer emails from them on a weekly basis.

Another example: aesthetics. My downloads doubled the day I replaced some old freeware new/open/save/print icons (which looked, eh, lets call them "utilitarian") with the big, attractive stock icons you now see on my screenshots. Look at Apple: design is a feature! bingo-cards' design is overly complicated and aesthetically unpleasant. If you can get it to run on a Windows box* take a looksie -- the main interface has several dozen controls on it and will overwhelm many users.

* The install blows up on some systems. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Support: If you mail support@iprintedmydomainabove.com, you'll always get someone happy to help you. If there were hypothetically a mailing list for bingo-cards, most of the technically non-adept teachers asking it for help would be told to RTFM and go away. (Typical support request: "help i cant print. Thanks, Suzy") Folks have been terribly treated by the software industry, and many of them actively fear software. They have been made to think that its both natural when something goes wrong and that, by the way, when something goes wrong it is their fault. I treat every emailer with respect and when Suzy can't print thats because I clearly haven't made it easy enough yet.

Marketing: I know there is a bit of scorn among some in the OSS community for this, but hey, technically superior programs do not always win... and thats a good thing. bingo-cards, for example, has much worse performance in search engines than I do despite the fact that SourceForge has PageRank out the yin-yang and I do not. The main reason is that I actually took the time to write in comprehensible English about how you can use my program to (fill in the blank), and that nobody ever did this for bingo-cards. Documentation adds value to the user! (So do screenshots! And websites which don't make you search for the "What the heck do I need to download to get this running on a Dell?" button.)

"OSS is a great idea because you can have students and teachers reprogram it." Yeaaaaah, you get right to that. My guess is that most elementary English teachers think that programming is similar to papermaking: fascinating that people can do it, truly a worthwhile skill, but just give me something to let me get back on track for the lesson plan because I have 10 kids here who aren't reading at grade level yet. They don't want to spend hours of their acutely limited time hacking any more than they want to physically transform pulp to paper so that they ca

they still sell DVDs at a profit
There is a separate entity, "BBC Worldwide", which - as you say - sells DVDs at a profit. That is one part of the BBC income stream, as is the TV license fee, You may have noticed that you can buy BBC CDs at the motorway service station, too. Do you watch TopGear repeats on UKTVGold? It's all income for the BBC, as is selling shows abroad. Don't flatter yourself that your £100 is funding everything from Have I Got News For You to Walking With Dinosaurs.

"why should they not try to milk the market any way they see fit?"
Because we've already paid for it. Okay, only us Brits have paid for it, and you might ask why we should pay for the world to benefit. The BBC World Service provides a wonderful service - on Google, you get about 50m results; Wikipedia reports that "The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world."
It's something that Britain believes in - not in a "British Empire" way, but let's just acknowledge that the BBC creates some fscking good stuff, and - since it's already paid for (much like the Open Source philosophy), there's no additional cost in giving it away... Bonus!

I pay my license fee, and someone on the other side of the world gets free content... That would not appear to be an optimal setup. Yet, I'm happy with it. I get a better deal from my £100/year BBC license fee than the extra I pay Sky for a few more sh1tty channels (unfortunately, my children have outgrown CBeebies, and are not quite old enough to enjoy CBBC, so they watch NickJr, and all the irritating adverts which go with it). That's another great thing about the BBC; Some videos I see on YouTube include adverts, FFS.

So - I'm happy to pay my license fee, because I get good value from it.

In return, I expect to be able to access whatever content the BBC produces, without the need to pay some third party (and not even British) company for a sh*tty OS I do not have, and do not want. The BBC have worked on open media formats; just as BBC Radio is great quality, and free-to-air, so should the BBC's digital output be.

QuickTime player is simply a front-end application that makes use of the framework. Its Windows counterpart is a mere shadow of its former self.

I wouldn't completely knock Safari without giving it a chance. Safari itself was based off of KHTML (and the Apple devs still contribute back regularly to the KDE/Konqueror folks). If they ported it once, porting it twice shouldn't be a terribly huge issue once the initial kinks are worked out.

1. Missing application menu in the upper-left corner. This menu contains menu items for Minimize, Maximize, Restore, Move, and Size. This menu is still accessible via its keyboard shortcut (Alt-Space). Present since: At least Windows 3.0, 1991
   
2. Missing minimize animation. Present since: At least Windows XP, 2001
   
3. Maximize/Restore animation is odd, it resizes one dimension at a time. Windows itself resizes both dimensions at a time. Present since: At least Windows XP, 2001
   
4. Resizing can only be done from the lower-right corner. Windows allows resizing from all four sides and corners. Also, the cursor does not change when moved over the resize area. Present since: At least Windows 3.0, 1991
   
5. Clicking on the Safari icon in the taskbar when it is minimized performs the restore operation, even if the Window was maximized before... in other words, it shows the window maximized for a split second, then resizes it.
   
6. You can resize a maximized window. Windows programs normally don't let you do this.
   
7. Clicking on a taskbar icon for a window that is currently in front should minimize that window. Present since: Most likely Windows 95, 1995.
   
8. Some dialogs are missing close buttons. History, Show All History and Help, About Safari off the top of my head. In fact, the only way I found to close the History window was counterintuitively through Bookmarks, Hide All Bookmarks.

You could check out Smultron. It's a nice tabbed based GUI editor with syntax highlighting. It's GPL.

hmm user banned from posting.. apparently i am a troll...

the only closed source part is the UI which is hardly anything significant. the engine is entirely open source like gecko. you can even port it to
GTK UIs, non apple iphone competetior devices,
rival browsers . The safari UI is hardly critical as the links i just posted show. If you dont like the safari UI you can just make you own pretty easily with webcore. It is even easier (about 5 lines in cocoa) if you use Webkit

Now would be truly awefull.

The last time I downloaded quicktime (many moons ago, right around the time itunes was first released for windows), there was no such option. Since then I have discovered these two gems: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/ (outdated since winamp supports ipods directly now)

try this

Heck, get the Vegastrike folk to switch to Crystal Space instead of Ogre, and you'd have scads of blender models and a 70% made game. That, and Vegastrike might get a few more developers. And, they'd finally finish porting to _something_ . ;)

Here is a great tool to visualize your kernel and then print a poster of it http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/

I'm one of the maintainers of this thing -- and I have to say that it's effectively not maintained these days. So don't be too surprised if it doesn't completely work ;)

you do need a big printer for it if you want a readable poster though ;-).( and yes you also can stick 16 A4's to a wooden plate but that's just plain silly)

Well, 16xA4 will be a bit small (~0.8x1.1m). I have a printout of a 2.4 kernel at a bit more than 1x1m, and it's hard to read.

http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch//

http://www.aspseek.org/about.html//

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebiness//

http://www.grub.org/html/documents.php//

http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/bot.html//

I really want to see one of these projects take off, I'd tap a vein at the local plasma center to donate funds :>

Deleting accounts created on systems has always been a default consideration.

As proper deletion should have been

Not if the filesystem support and account management code had been properly written.

You obviously have no clue how a filesystem stack works. Data is rarely deleted per se on *any* filesystem, simply unlinked and possibly flagged for later overwriting. Why do you think projets like this exist?

Even if a file (if an email or google doc is even stored in what one would *call* a file) did get deleted, the indexing that is done would make at least pieces parts recoverable until their staleness is discovered, which could be a while.

Even then, a good forensic analyist could probably recover something that had been allegedly deleted.

Overwriting data to securely erase it is expensive on a desktop and approaching impossible on a busy server. This is why people who don't wear tinfoil hats will use Boot'n'Nuke or somesuch before selling a hard drive on eBay. You can't just delete something (even on your own computer, mind you) and expect it to be gone. That's not the way filesystems work.

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Check your facts at the door; be sure to pay a quarter!

Yes, you could. Quite easily. Heck, I don't even have an application installed for editing the metadata, so I just opened one of my iTunes Plus files in a hex editor, searched for my real and account names, and overwrote them with useless data (Anonymous User and someoneelse - same lengths). Done. That was hard.

Ok, granted, most people aren't going to open a hex editor to do something so simple. Which one wouldn't have to, since editing audio tags is a perfectly valid thing to do, so there are multitudes of programs to do just that. I'm pretty sure you could do it using Atomic Parsley.

I'm really tired of people trying to make an issue out of this. As has been pointed out many times, your account data has been in files from the iTunes store from the very beginning. Your name not DRM. Does having your name in the file prevent you from doing anything? No! And as the tags are not encrypted, they are obviously not intended for tracking files on peer to peer filesharing as I could change them to reference anyone. I find having the data there helpful, as I can tell whether a specific file was purchased by me or my dad. If you don't like it, just get rid of it!

Besides, didn't everyone cheer when some stores introduced audio watermarking which would actually prevent you from putting the original file on peer to peer networks, unlike this?

An alternative approach to garbage collection in C++ (precise as opposed to conservative): Smieciuch.

Add Replay Gain metadata to your mp3s with http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/.

but what about (http://tmsnc.sourceforge.net/) and finch(http://pidgin.im/pidgin/home/) for those who despise the bloated whale that is the X windowing system.

Here is a great tool to visualize your kernel and then print a poster of it
http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/
you do need a big printer for it if you want a readable poster though ;-).( and yes you also can stick 16 A4's to a wooden plate but that's just plain silly)
I does however show you in perfect details all the arch's and sub systems of the kernel.

I've used MP3Gain to rescue as much as can be rescued. It's close to but not really normalizing. From the FAQ: "Yes, but MP3Gain does not use "peak amplitude" normalization as many "normalizers" do. Audio files with very different peak amplitudes can still sound to the human ear as though they're the same volume. Instead, MP3Gain uses David Robinson's Replay Gain algorithm to calculate how loud the file actually sounds to a human's ears."

And it's free. http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

It's an add-on, but you might be interested to know that there's a free/open source (BSD license) plug-in and converter for Office 2007 to support ODF. Reads, writes, and converts existing files. To the extent that I've tested it, it seems to work. A file that was 22.5KB in MS OOXML .docx is only 10.5KB in .odt, and it wasn't difficult to convert at all. It uses C# and XSLT to convert between the XML formats.

If you want a very lightweight text-based IM client for *nix, try bsflite. I've been very happy with it.

Use dillo if you got linux. only 400k.

http://www.dillo.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dillo/