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I already can make work look like a videogame... Just look at my interface to kill processes :-D

PHP 5 does natively via PDO, and PHP 4 (and 5) does via PEAR's MDB2 (older version: DB). There is also ADOdb which has a very similar API to Microsoft's ADO RDBMS API (acronym overload!).

The availability of robust packages like those still doesn't stop newbie (and veteran) PHP programmers alike from just using the raw MySQL API subset known as the mysql_* functions (which were deprecated in favour of the newer MySQLi functions/objects that also support prepared statements) along with occasional use of addslashes().

Imagine the users of MySpace or FaceBook who might want to use this kind of thing to trick out their sites.

Sprog is a graphical tool that anyone can use to build programs by plugging parts together. In Sprog jargon, the parts are known as 'gears' and they are assembled to make a 'machine'. Gears are selected from a palette and dragged onto the Sprog workbench, where they can be connected together. Options can be set using a properties dialog on each gear. When assembly is complete, the machine can be run, reconfigured, or re-run.

The Sphinx project is the current 'gold standard' in open source speech recognition. It can be found at

Sphinx Project at CMU

I have used a variety of open source libraries in addition to 'rolling my own' and for general purposes Sphinx is certainly the most mature option.

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

Sera

For those who want a minimalist browser kind of like Camino for Windows, K-Meleon might be the answer:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
One down side is that the pace of development is a bit slower, as is the case with Camino. But I think it succeeds in its goal of being a lightweight, native-feeling, Gecko-based browser.

well they are working to add ODF to word 2007 see http://sourceforge.net/projects/odftranslator/ so who knows !!!

Well, I have tried anything (from PINs to Password Gorilla).

The winner is KeePass 1.x

- it's secure - AES and Twofish
- fast
- easy to use
- cross platform
- good import/export routines

I use the same database under my windows box (KeePass), under my various Linux boxes (KeePassX) and also my Mac laptop with OS X (actually, under ubuntu/ppc you can also download keepassx from the official repository!)

It's also possible to use the same database on PalmOS anc PocketPC.

http://keepass.info/
http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/
http://keepasssd.sourceforge.net/

Well, I have tried anything (from PINs to Password Gorilla).

The winner is KeePass 1.x

- it's secure - AES and Twofish
- fast
- easy to use
- cross platform
- good import/export routines

I use the same database under my windows box (KeePass), under my various Linux boxes (KeePassX) and also my Mac laptop with OS X (actually, under ubuntu/ppc you can also download keepassx from the official repository!)

It's also possible to use the same database on PalmOS anc PocketPC.

http://keepass.info/
http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/
http://keepasssd.sourceforge.net/

those blocks he puts together look exactly like the blocks used in the graphics perl programming environment called SProg

Actually, I remember running original Marathon in Windows XP with no problems. You can even download all of the Marathon content for free; just have a look here and here. It is not a very difficult process, just takes a little bit of reading and moving things around.

I never actually finished the first game. The story seemed to be primarily dolled out through text communications between the various characters, and you could quite easily ignore it and just shoot things. If you've played Halo first like I have, everything will be eerily familiar, and some things are just plain cool. Dual wielded shotguns anyone?

As a slight step up from that, I played a gamed when I was in high school called "RoboWar" on the 68k Mac that I believe has been carried on by this project, if not in the actual code, at least in spirit.

There is actually a minilanguage that you need to learn. The cool thing for me, at the time, was that I was having trouble learning trigonometry. Since the minilanguage had math library functions, it really brought trig home for me. I remember my father and brother and I feverishly programming our bots to do battle with each other. The funny thing was that my brother, who mastered the minilanguage early, but who didn't have the math training, came up with very simple and clever algorithms that just killed us repeatedly. My father used to liken it to corewars in his day in grad school using the PDP-11, where he sharpened his assembly chops.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/o2em/ Well, there goes the afternoon...

HP actually works more closely with Xen than OpenVZ. For that matter, HP guys have contributed quite a bit of code to Xen (XenoProf, Perfmon come to mind). This study is done by people from U.Michigan and people at HP labs, a research division of HP.

Pradeep

As an Open Source Developer, I know there are elements of patents awarded to large companies which were actually developed first by the Open Source community. Unfortunately, the OSS community rarely pursues patents on their inventions for 2 key reasons:

1) The nature of Open Source is contrary to the protectionism awarded by patents, and so there is a philosophical aversion to pursuit of Patents on OSS inventions.

2) Pursuit of Patents requires a large investment in time and money, and most OSS developers are short of both.

I honestly believe that a large number of software patents awarded to companies like Microsoft, may actually have an OSS implementation which pre-dates their "invention", but was not pursued.

So, let's put our collective wisdom together to provide evidence to void as many of these patents as possible..

Let's start with patent application # 20030125927, (Method and system for translating instant messages )

The application "Fire" released this functionality to the public prior to the filing date for the Microsoft Application.

(See our mailing list discussion on this patent at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?threa d_name=DE8717C8-ADB3-11D7-9461-003065B1243E%40mac. com&forum_name=fire-core)

That makes what, 234 more to go?

They could always use psDoom as an interface.

As someone else noted, you are looking for PSA systems. AllocPSA is a nice GPL PSA project.

allocPSA: http://www.allocpsa.org/
screenshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?gro up_id=165183&ssid=57157

GNU Enterprise is another: http://www.gnuenterprise.org/
http://www.gnuenterprise.org/packages/

LinPHA does a fair bit of what you are looking for, and is fairly easy to set up. It doesn't have tagging, but it's categories are a functional equivalent. I use it for my photos on my own server.

photolibrary is an interesting alternative...

...and while you're at it check out Adempiere http://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere/ . It's a recent fork of Compiere that aims to be completely open source rather than relying on Oracle. Their first stable release is out (v3.20 nicknamed "May Day").

--Pav

Cheat mode: Use the name 'GOO' and the password '11111111' to start with plenty of cash if you're impatient.

The opening of the game had digitized speech (!) and bouncing ball lyrics of the whole movie theme ... Really a great job.

While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows.

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/wi ne_0.9.5-winehq-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wine*.deb
sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2
wget http://ds80-237-203-29.dedicated.hosteurope.de/wt/ winetools-0.9jo-III.tar.gz
tar -xf winetools*
cd winetools*
sudo ./install

I also use KeePass and it works like a charm. Fits all my needs whether on Windows or Linux. Oh, and it's open source. :)

I didn't know about KeePass before now, and it's getting interesting. However, the Linux port is v0.2, which sounds very, very beta (pre-beta maybe?) to me... Is it really safe to trust all your passwords to a beta software?

I used Strip for a while, and it's good, but I switched to Keyring because it has a built-in conduit for Jpilot.

I think really the databases are better if you carry a pda or flashstick that you can store them on, so it doesn't matter which computer you're accessing.

I had a look at PasswordSafe for a while, which sounds like its similar to KeePass you mentioned.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

One benefit of it is that its open source, and was originally designed by counterpane (Bruce Schneier)

I've recently discovered password safe. You just have to remember 1 password, you have access to all your passwords. You can run it off a USB drive, so you can take your passwords with you anywhere. I used to use the same password for many sites, but now I have Password Safe generate a new password for each site.

Have a working release. Package it for one or more distros. Don't count on people to join or help you. It's great if they do, but my experience has been that if any, my feedback consists of the odd bug report (which I may or may not be aware of) and few people who actually want to try experimental code that I've hacked up for them.

I don't think you should assume any bigger than what feedback suggests. And remember that few feedback may also mean that it works fine for most people who try it.

I know that my project is quite widely used but I couldn't gather it from download stats or anything like that. Let alone from feedback.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbtv

I accept your point about your hardware being expensive ... but what I'm countering is the idea that there's no choice. You had a choice: buy older hardware with FOSS reverse-engineered drivers, or buy closed faster new hardware. And for someone considering buying new hardware there's a third option: Intel . Basically you're stuck without an option right now unless you can convince your hardware manufacturers to release FOSS drivers. Maybe it'll happen, but given the history of both ATI and Nvidia that looks like it'll be a while. have not OSS their wifi drivers I don't think that's true

I've released/maintain three different open source applications/frameworks; Tcl PIC, UPS Print Plugin, and WyattERP. All three of these were written to be used by the company I work for. Tcl PIC and WyattERP have been used for several years, and all of them are currently being used.

I don't expect anyone to contribute to any of the projects, but people have. As long as you're giving to the community, the community will likely give back.

You must be wary of the term "Open Source Community" because no such community exists. Instead there are thousands of individual communities. Yes, many people participate in several communities, but no one participates in all, and most don't participate so much as watch. Like any good spectator sport though, it's always more fun to play than to watch :)

I've released/maintain three different open source applications/frameworks; Tcl PIC, UPS Print Plugin, and WyattERP. All three of these were written to be used by the company I work for. Tcl PIC and WyattERP have been used for several years, and all of them are currently being used.

I don't expect anyone to contribute to any of the projects, but people have. As long as you're giving to the community, the community will likely give back.

You must be wary of the term "Open Source Community" because no such community exists. Instead there are thousands of individual communities. Yes, many people participate in several communities, but no one participates in all, and most don't participate so much as watch. Like any good spectator sport though, it's always more fun to play than to watch :)

I've released/maintain three different open source applications/frameworks; Tcl PIC, UPS Print Plugin, and WyattERP. All three of these were written to be used by the company I work for. Tcl PIC and WyattERP have been used for several years, and all of them are currently being used.

I don't expect anyone to contribute to any of the projects, but people have. As long as you're giving to the community, the community will likely give back.

You must be wary of the term "Open Source Community" because no such community exists. Instead there are thousands of individual communities. Yes, many people participate in several communities, but no one participates in all, and most don't participate so much as watch. Like any good spectator sport though, it's always more fun to play than to watch :)

I'm not going to directly disagree with you because I'm unsure how you'd define the above. What 3D tasks do you want the card to do? Because if all you want is basic 3D acceleration good enough for e.g. TuxRacer or Open Arenaand the fun desktop effects with Compiz/Beryl then Intel has very nicely provided complete Free/OpenSource drivers for most of their integrated components (*) including the GMA X3000 integrated graphics chips. The latter chips apparently do T&L shaders and other good stuff which is actually better supported under GNU/Linux than Windows Vista.

Of course, if what you're talking about is CAD or something really GPU intensive then you may be more out of luck, but I'm interested to know exactly what that is?

I am just waiting for someone to convert them into Frets on Fire format and post somewhere. If you know any links (torrent or not) please share!!

There's a Bugs link on every page Slashdot serves. We'd need detailed information about the issue before we can solve it.

popfile has been doing this for me for a while. It has infered email classes 95,640 times with a 99.71% accuracy.

I wonder if the robots are using Bayes algorithms too?

Look into http://modules.sourceforge.net/.

In my project called DATMO (Detection And Tracking of Moving Objects) i've made a tracker that followed people that could "guess" where the people would appear next, using an industrial laser scanner, check the video at http://miarn.sourceforge.net/videos/pv3d_peopletra cking_and_scene.avi

What a coincidence, this exact thing (if I have understood you correctly) did happen! The result? The program had to be released under GPL. Read all about it here. (this seems like a rapidly changing URL - it's basically a file in the clisp project).

Check out hotwayd. It acts as a POP Hotmail adapter.

Of course, there's Freevo or MythTV.

You can't be serious.

This program is a great way to accomplish this. It can read names from a list, generate random numbers in whatever format you wish, and submit them to a form of your choosing. Only problem, I suppose, would be that the phishers could just filter out all submissions from your IP.... although maybe the formflood project now does IP spoofing. That would be capital.

Do you really need anything else?

umm, yes:

audacity for linux, mac or win32.

be sure to check out the plug-ins.

Not really. I'm currently in the pre-alpha stage of a project to create a racing car simulation. There are two great projects in this area right now, torcs and rars. I've used both and I like them both, I have nothing against them. But I just thought that, first, I would like more emphasis on the physics simulation part that neither of those projects emphasize much, and, second, by starting my own project I would have a much better control on several other parts that I'd like to give more priority, such as network play, for instance.

Maybe nothing will come out of my project, after all I'm doing it in my spare time, but if I do eventually publish it, there will exist a third FOSS car racing simulation out there. OK, it will be more like a sixtieth or so, but most of the other projects are stopped at a rather preliminary stage. Take a quick browse through sourceforge and you'll see that there is no lack of competing pieces of software in the FOSS arena.

Not really. I'm currently in the pre-alpha stage of a project to create a racing car simulation. There are two great projects in this area right now, torcs and rars. I've used both and I like them both, I have nothing against them. But I just thought that, first, I would like more emphasis on the physics simulation part that neither of those projects emphasize much, and, second, by starting my own project I would have a much better control on several other parts that I'd like to give more priority, such as network play, for instance.

Maybe nothing will come out of my project, after all I'm doing it in my spare time, but if I do eventually publish it, there will exist a third FOSS car racing simulation out there. OK, it will be more like a sixtieth or so, but most of the other projects are stopped at a rather preliminary stage. Take a quick browse through sourceforge and you'll see that there is no lack of competing pieces of software in the FOSS arena.

That's cool, but I suspect it only worked so well for you because you're blind. I took one look at Jamin and puked all over my keyboard.

I know accessibility sometimes takes a backseat with free software, but when are we going to get a version of JAMIN for sighted musicians!?