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http://www.blosxom.com/" Is EXTREMELY light weight, it's 1 CGI script. It's been a while since I used it but it has templates. When you want to create a blog entry, you drop a text file into a folder. That's it. New blog entry, new text file in a folder. Runs on any OS that runs cgi scripts.

There are also spinnoffs like PHPosxom.

it is also impossible (at least last time I checked) to automatically include all databases in a scheduled backup. You can only select the databases that are present at the time you schedule the backup.

I believe you're referring to using GCALDaemon. I followed the article at http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/15222 7 last night and things work pretty well.

You know that Thunderbird has a ways to go when the #1 extension is minimize to tray??

I don't think that the order has any significance.

Anyway, it's way better to use DM2. Then you can minimize *any* application to the tray or a desktop icon.

http://dm2.sourceforge.net/

I didn't expect to see this logo, since it's not too popular. But lame it is.

• As of IIS 6.0 the 'metabase' configuration is all in an XML file - you can edit the xml files directly or programmatically.
• There a few configuration settings you can set via nant tasks - which I think use metabase APIs themselves...

Welcome to psdoom !

That said, there's a system now that could change all of that. It's called MSBuild and it ships with Visual Studio. For anyone who does command line builds and whose codebase is mostly managed code, I highly recommend looking into it.

Eh, you do know that such tools have existed for quite a while now? You might want to first check out Apache Ant, or if you're a .NET developer then take a look at NAnt instead. You'll find a good introduction to NAnt here.

Once you've gotten the hang of (N)Ant you might want to set up a automated build server: CruiseControl or CruiseControl.NET

I'm normally a big fan of MS development tools, but when it comes to automating the build process MS is really playing catch up.

That said, there's a system now that could change all of that. It's called MSBuild and it ships with Visual Studio. For anyone who does command line builds and whose codebase is mostly managed code, I highly recommend looking into it.

Eh, you do know that such tools have existed for quite a while now? You might want to first check out Apache Ant, or if you're a .NET developer then take a look at NAnt instead. You'll find a good introduction to NAnt here.

Once you've gotten the hang of (N)Ant you might want to set up a automated build server: CruiseControl or CruiseControl.NET

I'm normally a big fan of MS development tools, but when it comes to automating the build process MS is really playing catch up.

On an unrelated note, I wasn't aware the .NET SDK was free. Interesting, but I can't see the justification in using F# over Ocaml. Of course, if you're using .NET you might as well get an MSDN kit and visual studio, so I can see where they're going with it.

.NET SDK 2.0. Also, as I mentioned, Visual Studio Express products are available for free for many different uses (app development, web development, database development, game development, etc). If you're developing software professionally, you probably would want to spring for a full Visual Studio product, but for individuals and small projects the Express SKUs work great. XNA's Game Studio Express is built on top of Visual C# Express, for example, and allows you to build games for Windows and/or Xbox 360.

As for why you would use F# instead of OCAML, IronPython instead of Python, Ruby.NET instead of Ruby, etc, is for interoperability. Because the languages are implemented to compile down to IL (.NET's Intermediate Language), they can be used with any other .NET language. For most people it's just a novelty, but it's still cool in a geeky way. BTW, this is no different than building compilers to target languages to the Java VM, like Jython. Why would you use Jython rather than Python? Because it can more easily interact with Java components and other languages compiled to the Java VM. Not a big deal if you're only doing Python work, but invaluable if parts of your product are written in Java and it makes sense to build other portions with Python.

Wait, I mean NetBSD did it, Neural Net based process scheduler: http://nnsched.sourceforge.net/

http://okvm.sourceforge.net/kvmoverip.html is a project with full source and hardware design.

Listen closely here. Even a Open Sores Linsux user ("M$ Windoze, LOL") should be able to grok this. Microsoft wrote the ACPI spec to move the functionality out of hardware because systems were becoming too complicated for APM to work. They invested the money on the spec, and they gave their developers the tools to interop with the Windows ACPI implementation. Microsoft is in no way shape or form obligated to give you or anyone else free beer. But, they opened the spec up, which is why you have ACPI on Linux. Follow me so far?

Now, ACPI is not "buggy", it's flaky because it has to account for a shitload of things that the BIOS was supposed to do. So, it works great on some hardware and not so great with other hardware. That's why you can get a vendor-specific DSDT and load it up so that whatever kernel you're using will function correctly. Hell, you can download your own DSDT here if you can be bothered enough. With Windows, Dell and HP and IBM and Acer provide their own. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't.

This infantile conspiracy theory about how "M$" wants to make ACPI fail just for shits and giggles is, like all your other conspiracy theories, more a result of your "evangelize or die" mindset than actual reality. So far you've proved exactly squat, and I don't really expect that to change. The same old sad story, eh?

Now go see if Vista can do the same yet

Oh, thanks. I thought you were going to wanker off with a link to "BadVista.org". Small mercies and all that.

M-16? That's not the standard issue process killer. Go to the armoury and select the BFG 9000 like you trained on, soldier!

The snag, of course, is avoiding the Winprinter minefield to find a quality (but affordable) Postscript printer; which would Slashdotters recommend?

With or without PostScript support, it's pretty hard to go wrong with HP at this point. Most of their current models work with Linux, thanks to the hplip driver. I have two printers that don't speak PostScript (a DeskJet 450wbt and a Photosmart 3210) and one that does (a LaserJet 1320), and they're all fully functional with Linux (even the scanner and flashcard reader on the Photosmart 3210 work across the LAN, so it's shared with several Linux boxen and a Mac mini).

I wouldn't have thought that you'd need to touch a Mac in order to know about it. For awhile, it was one of the newest whiz-bangiest features of OS X. That and Dashboard.

I've had a Mac mini for a while now (long enough that it's a G4 instead of x86), but I don't think I've ever noticed it on there.

While fixing up my Linux boxes for a more OSX-like look and feel, I ran across an Expose workalike for KDE called Kompose. I had it enabled for maybe a minute or two. If Kompose is even a moderately faithful clone of Expose, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Reaching into the F-key row, grabbing the mouse, and clicking a window can't be faster than just Alt-Tabbing to the other window.

Welcome to the OpenEEG project http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/

Many people are interested in what is called neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback training, a generic mental training method which makes the trainee consciously aware of the general activity in the brain. This method shows great potential for improving many mental capabilities and exploring consciousness. Other people want to do experiments with brain-computer interfaces or just want to have a look at their brain at work.

Unfortunately, commercial EEG devices are generally too expensive to become a hobbyist tool or toy.

The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom.

Right now, this site is mostly about the hardware; schematics, part lists, building instructions etc. However, a few members have developed some useful software which is hosted on their own websites. You can find these through the software pages.

One very interesting example of open-source hardware is the Free Telephony Project.
David Rowe, the author has almost single-handedly designed an embedded computer using a blackfin processor combined with FXO/FXS (PSTN lines) chips to produce an extremely low-cost PBX running uclinux and asterisk. Recent posts indicate he's also close to producing a T1 interface as well. The amazing thing about this project is how open it all is. The cirucuit design, and layout for all of the boards are open. Also, he's committed to using only open-source software to do the design (and contributed a number of enhancements back to these projects, such as pcb). Not to mention also developing the uclinux based distribution, astfin, as well as a number of custom modifications to asterisk itself to use some of the Blackfin's special DSP capabilities.

The L-Zip project at http://lzip.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] seems to be down right now but it should be included in any file compression comparison. It could reduce files to 0% of their original size and it was quick too.

I have written one such compression algorithm myself. And it really does work. I'm going to ship it, just as soon as I fix this one lingering bug in the decompression routine . . .

I also have a different but equally revolutionary compression algorithm under development. It can compress a file of any size down to one byte. In my proof-of-concept tests, it successfully compressed and then decompressed 256 different files, some of which were over 100GB in size! I'm working on adding support for more than 256 files, but I've got more research to do first.

Unfortunately, it can't, but the MSX can run UZIX!

As linked by other folks on this thread, maximumcompression.com will show that WinRK (proprietary) and PAQ8 (GPL) take the crown in compression. The free PAQ series (wiki, homepage) kick some serious butt...

(Tested on a Project Gutenberg text "The Man who was Thursday")
79105___thurs.paq8l-7
79112___thurs.paq8l
96495___thurs.bz2-9
96708___thurs.rz
107583__thurs.7z
123847__thurs.gz-9
320553__thurs.txt

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Slashcode bug # 497457 - unfixed since December 2001 - Go look it up!

The L-Zip project at http://lzip.sourceforge.net/ seems to be down right now but it should be included in any file compression comparison. It could reduce files to 0% of their original size and it was quick too.

It was so good at what it did that I bet Microsoft bought them out and are going to incorperate the technology into Windows.

UM, yeah, the dataset includes WAV files. Try flac. Then you will have exhausted a little more of the compression programs available.

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ 7zip does as well

It's a Linux tool, available in the console-tools package from http://lct.sourceforge.net.

Oh yeah.

Bill Gate's memo

That's an interesting email from 1999. Myself, I've been known to send emails to the tone of "how can we prevent the competition from leeching on our multi-million dollar R&D investment with our technology partners", but OK.

Would you like to point me to the follow up email from Eric Rudder that says "Hi Bill - As you requested, we've made the ACPI extensions specific to Windows so no one else can implement them. Cheers!" I can't seem to find it.

Oh, wait - here's ACPIfor Linux and ACPI for FreeBSD. Indeed, here's a quote from the WP entry:

The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open industry standard first released in December 1996 developed by HP, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix and Toshiba that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard and device configuration and power management.

Now, ACPI has its shortcomings. It's complicated. It might not be your ideal of a standard. But it is an open standard, which Linux indeed implements. It might be broken in some ways in Linux as it is in Windows, but implemented it is. It's an important standard because it takes hardware out of the equation, which is important for a general OS that's supposed to support a wide range of it.

I still use APM for the most part

Really? That's also a Microsoft-defined standard (along with Intel):

Advanced Power Management (APM) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft

Is that standard "shit" as well? And if you all these standards from Microsoft are "shit", then why do you use them at all? You use Linux, right? Why don't you come up with your own standard and give it to the free software world so they can stop using all these "shit" open standards that Microsoft has bothered to make open for anyone to use? Which reminds me, I'd love to see that other email about ACPI I mentioned. Thanks.

1. Work will begin after Pidgin 2.0.0 is released
2. It will probably use gstreamer or farsight
3. Pidgin will eventually have both video and voice support but it will take a lot of time

1. Work will begin after Pidgin 2.0.0 is released
2. It will probably use gstreamer or farsight
3. Pidgin will eventually have both video and voice support but it will take a lot of time

1. Work will begin after Pidgin 2.0.0 is released
2. It will probably use gstreamer or farsight
3. Pidgin will eventually have both video and voice support but it will take a lot of time

Yes, that's called psDoom
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

Break the data into manageable chunks and use SmartPar (or equivalent) to make recovery files that can repair any one of the chunks. The up-side is you don't need many redundant full backups of the entire data set.

The wide-spread adoptage of SmartPar has been significant in enabling the error-free transmission of huge files via USENET News.

http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

"Because this new approach doesn't benefit from like sized files, it drastically extends the potential applications of PAR. Files such as video, music, and other data can remain in a usable format and still have recovery data associated with them.

The technology is based on a 'Reed-Solomon Code' implementation that allows for recovery of any 'X' real data-blocks for 'X' parity data-blocks present. (Data-blocks referring to files OR much smaller virtual slices of files)."

AC

You are asking the wrong question. What you should be asking is for tools that will tell you the disc is suffering from bitrot before it becomes unreadable.

These tools exist. I have run across them. Unfortunately, they only work on certain model drives that have the ability to report internal measurements.
Qpxtool supports about 45 drives from 8 manufacturers. Qpxtool measures recoverable and unrecoverable errors (PI/PIF), Jitter/Beta, FE/TE (Focus Error/Tracking Error).
http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net/

pxlinux was similar, however they got threatening letters and/or lawsuits from the company that makes plextools (parent company of plextor).
PXscan/PXview runs under windows (pxlinux is a port of PXscan/PDview), had the same problem.
Qpxtool doesn't seem to have the same problem.

Nero appears to have some sort of disk quality test.
Windows software for testing before your record (FE/TE): http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=192488

Here is another program that might work on any drive but may not report there is a problem as early. It times how long the drive takes to read each sector.
If the drive has to reread a sector, that takes longer. Some drives reportedly either read full speed or fail (probably means they don't have any retries).
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdck/

dvdisaster records additional recovery information. The author was apparently able to recover data from a disk after carrying it around in a backpack
with no sleave. It records one ECC block per 223 sectors and can tolerate up to 32 read errors per block. The error correction files can be stored
on separate media (it looks like one disk could store ECC information for a couple hundred disks).
http://dvdisaster.sourceforge.net/en/

I have also noticed (on some damaged discs from a friend) that the dd program stops when there is a read error but the sdd program has the option to retry.

Record your data to multiple disks (preferably different brands) using the exact same ISO image (burn the same image multiple times or copy your disk) and store them in different locations. This gives you a form of software raid. If someone hasn't already written it, it would not be hard at all to write a program that will
read a disk to an ISO image on the hard drive, retrying bad sectors and recording a list of sectors it was unable to read. Then try to read those missing sectors from a different disc. A more sophisticated version might ask the drive to return the data even in the event of a CRC error and do majority rules for each byte
of the sector across three or more source disks. For added protection, use different brand drives to record the disks.

Deterioration reportedly tends to start on the outside of the disk, so if you only record half a disks worth of data it may last longer. Or use dvdisaster.

Levels of deterioration:
- Detectable only by reading internal parameters from the drive
- Drive can read the sector after multiple tries (detectable from timing)
- Drive gives up but you may be able to issue multiple read commands and get the data
- Permanent failure. May still be able to get data if you have recorded redundant info using a tool like dvdisaster
- so many read errors, or damaged lead in, such that full recovery is impossible

As far as the original problem of protecting films, I would consider the following:
- Use archival quality single layer DVD+/-R media.
One example: http://www.verbatim.com/optical/archival/ (about $1.50 each)
- Use a drive

You are asking the wrong question. What you should be asking is for tools that will tell you the disc is suffering from bitrot before it becomes unreadable.

These tools exist. I have run across them. Unfortunately, they only work on certain model drives that have the ability to report internal measurements.
Qpxtool supports about 45 drives from 8 manufacturers. Qpxtool measures recoverable and unrecoverable errors (PI/PIF), Jitter/Beta, FE/TE (Focus Error/Tracking Error).
http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net/

pxlinux was similar, however they got threatening letters and/or lawsuits from the company that makes plextools (parent company of plextor).
PXscan/PXview runs under windows (pxlinux is a port of PXscan/PDview), had the same problem.
Qpxtool doesn't seem to have the same problem.

Nero appears to have some sort of disk quality test.
Windows software for testing before your record (FE/TE): http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=192488

Here is another program that might work on any drive but may not report there is a problem as early. It times how long the drive takes to read each sector.
If the drive has to reread a sector, that takes longer. Some drives reportedly either read full speed or fail (probably means they don't have any retries).
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdck/

dvdisaster records additional recovery information. The author was apparently able to recover data from a disk after carrying it around in a backpack
with no sleave. It records one ECC block per 223 sectors and can tolerate up to 32 read errors per block. The error correction files can be stored
on separate media (it looks like one disk could store ECC information for a couple hundred disks).
http://dvdisaster.sourceforge.net/en/

I have also noticed (on some damaged discs from a friend) that the dd program stops when there is a read error but the sdd program has the option to retry.

Record your data to multiple disks (preferably different brands) using the exact same ISO image (burn the same image multiple times or copy your disk) and store them in different locations. This gives you a form of software raid. If someone hasn't already written it, it would not be hard at all to write a program that will
read a disk to an ISO image on the hard drive, retrying bad sectors and recording a list of sectors it was unable to read. Then try to read those missing sectors from a different disc. A more sophisticated version might ask the drive to return the data even in the event of a CRC error and do majority rules for each byte
of the sector across three or more source disks. For added protection, use different brand drives to record the disks.

Deterioration reportedly tends to start on the outside of the disk, so if you only record half a disks worth of data it may last longer. Or use dvdisaster.

Levels of deterioration:
- Detectable only by reading internal parameters from the drive
- Drive can read the sector after multiple tries (detectable from timing)
- Drive gives up but you may be able to issue multiple read commands and get the data
- Permanent failure. May still be able to get data if you have recorded redundant info using a tool like dvdisaster
- so many read errors, or damaged lead in, such that full recovery is impossible

As far as the original problem of protecting films, I would consider the following:
- Use archival quality single layer DVD+/-R media.
One example: http://www.verbatim.com/optical/archival/ (about $1.50 each)
- Use a drive

It's incredible to see a browser struggle with these things.

What if I don't even type my password? I keep some of my more difficult to remember passwords stored in Password Safe. This allows me to simply copy and paste those annoying passwords that are impossible to remember.

So...uh...how is this not exactly like X?

More specifically, if I installed a chrooted nxserver, and then made a series of launch profiles that I handed out that launched openoffice rather than running anything specific, wouldn't that be the same?

Or is this like that, but also tacking on something like UNO/CORBA/SOAP/DCOM?

This topic seems to be one such that it may be worth mentioning jooreports.

If your goal is to do version control on your content while keeping your layout separate this is probably ideal.

Well, the LaTeX3 folks did take time out to finish documenting LaTeX2e (the 2nd edition of _The LaTeX Companion_ is _excellent_).

There aren't that many tools competing w/ TeX in the layout field:

ANT - ant is not text --- http://ant.berlios.de/ --- or at least that's where it was. Site's not responding now, hopefully temporary. Needs the ability to place a .pdf as a graphic, then I could start trying it out in some real-world cases

LOUT - http://lout.sourceforge.net/ --- I can never get past the really rough-looking example files

InDesign --- while it's getting better, it's still got a long way to go.

Quark --- the less said the better.

SoftMagic's MLayout --- www.softmagic.com - needs better H&J, but one of the more interesting efforts.

The big issue w/ the graphical tools is that they're limited by available labour, which can be an issue for jobs which can't be divided up for parallel work at multiple stations and their featuresets --- multiple-line run-in heads are _not_ easily automated in InDesign so have to be handled on an individual basis, parts of index entries or portions of section marks in a running head can't be tagged w/ character styles &c.

And of course there are TeX successors, and a continuing improvement in related tools --- LyX, http://www.lyx.org/ is one of the most innovative of these.

William

You can play Settlers online against other humans or bots, the bots are at an OK level. check out jsettlers for more information. Or jsettlers.com.

Besides, you don't know anyone who knows how to play anymore, and you are only interested in teaching your wife? How about some non-wife people you know as well?

I'm not sure why you'd choose HP.

Maybe because their inkjet printers don't clog up like Epsons. My DeskJet 450 is still running on its original color cartridge after nearly two years. My Stylus Photo R200, OTOH, needed its head replaced after less than a year because it had clogged so badly that the cleaning cycle was ineffective. Both are used on an infrequent basis; the Epson gets used to print on DVDs, while the HP is used maybe twice a year at homebrew competitions.

Maybe because their Linux support is more complete than nearly anyone else's. Try this for some recent experience.

Those are just a couple of reasons I can think of offhand. If you don't want to be modded down as flamebait, you might try presenting evidence to support your claim, as I have done above.

Thanks to the excellent Linux support by the HPLIP Project I am faithful to HP, at least for the time being. I am quite impressed that pretty much all features of my all-in-one printer have been working for years, without any major glitches.

I have seen the Windows HP drivers (quite a while ago) and have to say that at the time they were far too intrusive for my liking and I would not have used the HP software under Windows. So I'd buy an HP printer for Linux, but if I were using Windows I'd probably compare lots of makes first and my choice might be different.

Since not all recipients check SPF, you may also wish to sign your mail from. This adds a timed hash token to the local part, and bounces must have the proper token in the RCPT TO or they are rejected. I use sendmail and the pysrs package from the pymilter project for this purpose.

There is very little chance that you will win against spammers in the court system unless you are a big company like American Online or Earthlink. As far a the government or courts are concerned, you are nothing but annoying little fly. Fortunately, there IS A WAY to deal with spammers that will hit them in their pocketbook. This way is called SpammerSkewer. You can visit SpammerSkewer's website by going to http://spammerskewer.sourceforge.net./

SpammerSkewer IS NOT A DENIAl OF SERVICE PROGRAM rather, it is a COMPLAINT program. It submits complaints to spamvertised websites much Like Ble Security's Blue Frog did. What sets this program apart from the Blue Frog program is the fact that its instruction files are distributed by peer to peer networking. Further, the instructions are cryptographically signed in order to prevent malicious tampering.
I am trying to get as many people as possible to use this program so that there will be high costs to spammers. Pleas take a look at this open source program.

Linux users do not have to pay for software

There, I fixed your purposeful omission it for you.

take responsibility for your own needs and write the software you want.

Isn't free software up to the challenge?

Where have you been for the past twenty years?

Hmm.. no alternatives? I guess you are correct, nothing compares to say Photoshop, or even InDesign ... I mean, not even anyone to compete with Premiere. (sigh) If only there were somewhere to find some options to compete with all these Adobe monopoly products...

The downloadable ISO is built on CentOS and is also a really great way to take it for a spin. Plus, it's a bootable CD.

You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.ph p?group_id=160654&sel_platform=1491

There are also some great WMI plugins for monitoring windows events:

http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.ph p?group_id=160654&sel_platform=1493

The downloadable ISO is built on CentOS and is also a really great way to take it for a spin. Plus, it's a bootable CD.

You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.ph p?group_id=160654&sel_platform=1491

There are also some great WMI plugins for monitoring windows events:

http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.ph p?group_id=160654&sel_platform=1493

The Adobe viewer is the only way to show SVG content in Internet Explorer (that I'm aware of).

A quick google for "SVG plugin internet explorer -adobe" turned up MozzIE (hackish) and Renesis Player which is cross-platform for "Windows, Windows CE, Linux, Mac and more".

You haven't tried very hard to find an alternative, have you?

What are you going to use? I used to like Sme Server.

Backuppc on CentOS. I think he will find the web interface easier to handle. SME Server is based on CentOS anyway, but I only looked at it after reading your post.

Ok, absolutely shameless of me to post this here, but this site I maintain has Firefox at 64% (and IE at 31%). Nothing to do with Europe whatsoever. Sorry.
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/website_stats.php

Note: it's a total Windows power user app too. That partially explains it.

Eric