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That's what I did ;) Just that instead of loadlin, it's grub4dos (loadlin doesn't support win >2k). And instead of a silent script, it's a GUI script.

That's what I did ;) Just that instead of loadlin, it's grub4dos (loadlin doesn't support win >2k). And instead of a silent script, it's a GUI script.

Ettercap will let you launch an MitM attack against HTTPS. Yes, the user's browser will throw warnings about invalid signatures, but in practice, 99% of people click "yes, go ahead anyway!" Even the ones that bother to check the certificate will see it's full of perfectly legitimate-looking information and assume "it's just a glitch." It's really scary, but that's what almost all non-IT people will do.

BTW I found the file manager, it's BytesFall Explorer (aka bfExplorer). It allows you to create and download archives and has the slickest interface for a php file manager I've seen yet. Even has a tree view, and a psuedo-shell interface that's the best I've yet seen. It's been known to have some security issues in the past, so it might be a good idea to secure it not only with its own security (which has been known to suffer from injection vulnerabilities) but also with some type of http auth.

Hey, look : Stardict

An opensource equivalent has been available for years ! And it works very well under Linux too.

• Octave for the Zaurus
• Octave for Windows

Have you tried the free games, Gemini Gold and Privateer Remake (an expanded version)?

Those games will soon have multiplayer releases (probably later this year).

Calculators like the HP-48 & the TI-89 are essentially tiny laptops running math software. My TI-89 software reminds me a lot of MATLAB. You'll have more time to "explore math" if you push aside the toys, and load up the ThinkPad w/ cygwin, octave, & gnuplot.

http://www.cygwin.com/ (if you're not running Linux)
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/

It's not like someone's going to ask you to turn in your calculator mesh graph of some x,y,z fn.

I haven't yet found any symbolic (free) calculator. The kind that do integrals and derivatives. Any suggestions?

Why not OSS for PalmOS: http://easycalc.sourceforge.net/
It has very advanced stuff, like erfc ( see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Erfc.html )

One can come up with all kinds of trick to filter spam, however, the problem still remains. Spam will continue as long as it is profitable. There are too many "Puppies in a barrel" for a spammer to choose. After many, many years of prodding, many people have finally gotten antivirus program, yet they neglect to download or purchase virus database updates. Many people spend time and effort to ensure that their computers are malware
free, yet their router retains the default username and admin password. Spammers have programs that allow people to try to log in to these routers and use their embedded telnet commands to send spam without the knowledge of the computer owner or any program residing on their computer. The point is that the Internet can be compared more to "swiss cheese" rather than the "series of tubes" that the politicians use. There are many, many points of attack for spammers to use.

Filtering spam is much akin to a person who holds hands in front of his or her face while a bully is pummeling him or her. The person is likely to fend off blows from the bully, but some of the blows will get through. Once a spam is sent, even if properly filtered, the damage has already been done. Until very recently, all I had in my area was dialup. My program successfully filtered about 99% of the spam received, however I still had to wait about 30 minutes before I was able to view my legitimate mail. I lost 30 minutes of time that I could have been working on a client's problem, while the spammer lost nothing. I also lost a client because a program that I previous used labeled his email he sent me as spam. Again the spammer who spammed me lost nothing. Spammers are like bullies, they will not stop until people HIT BACK!

It is only when spammers have to deal with the large amount of bandwith used, the processing power to handle complaints, and the loss of sales that result from efforts to filter complaints will spam be much less profitable. The idea is to punch back and deter the bully. Sending complaints to the spammers' websites get them at their weak point - the place where they make contact with potential buyers. Several program have attempted to hit back, and 2 of them were very successful in doing so. However, like spammers, these programs had a weak point, and that point was the fact that they needed a central server in order to instruct each individual program. Now things are different. There are several projects currently underway to trade complaint instruction files via peer to peer networks. What this means is that there is no central server which spammers can attack in order to silence complaints to their websites. One such project is called SpammerSkewer, and it is an open source GPL program that is in alpha. The program can be found at http://spammerskewer.sourceforge.net/ .

It is also important to note that these new programs are not distributed denial of service programs. As for SpammerSkewer, it only receives instructions on how to complain. It does not initiate complaints. Only a user can initiate a complaint by either bringing up the complaint interface or by dragging an email into SpammerSkewer's spam directory. It is the Spammer who determines how many complaints are submitted to their websites. SpammerSkewer's author even provides a way for spammers to "opt out" from receiving complaints if they insert a header clearly labeling their email as spam. Another way they can opt out is by not sending spam in the first place. In a distributed denial of service attack, a person other than the one who controls a victim's website is the one that controls how many visits a site receives. With SpammerSkewer, it is the Spammer who sends out the spam that determines how many visits a site advertised via spam gets. The only sites that are put in SPammerSkewer's instruction files are those well known to be advertised via spam. Instruction files are also cryptographically signed in order to prevent tampering. I

There are other companies trying to reclaim X-Com.

Aside from the two you mentioned, take a look at -

http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/

As well as -

http://ufo.myexp.de/
http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

Very very good point, wish I had mod points. That's the way society naturaly evolved: few intelligent people at the top and the "unwashed masses" doind the menial works. Always the evolution of the more complex structure (society) takes precedence over the evolution of the individual.

As for the second part, the problem is pretty much solved, isn't it? Most of the developed world already runs in a rat-wheel, working to satisfy created needs (like a new car every five years). So no, they won't die of boredom, unless they already are.
As for the few who gave up the idiot box and try to find interesing things to do - well there is still huge work to be done for at least a couple of hundred years. Just in programming - if I had a spare year or so I'd work on this and for 5-10 years or more there is still a good open source Common Lisp distribution missing. And then the whole meeting girls in bars thing to work out... Come to think of it, life is actualy short, isn't it?

The essential element that was missing until the last minute was tuning: The approach to game design that Maxis brought to the table is called "Tuned Emergence" and "Design by Accretion". Before it was tuned, The Sims wasn't missing any structure or content, but it just wasn't balanced yet. But it's OK, because that's how it's supposed to work!

The SWT binding directly accesses gtk through JNI. This may have suited IBMs purposes of accessing gtk through the SWT API but might not be the most optimal binding of gtk to Java.

The java-gnome project produces java bindings for gtk. They are in the process of being re-written from scratch using 2007 best practice JNI binding techniques. I suspect that an SWT implementation using this approach would far outperform the current offering. Maintenance would be far simpler too: no native code in the SWT layer!

The slow performance of Eclipse is not due to the JVM, it's about the SWT library and it's bindings with the native libraries. There was an SWT port called SWT Fox that quickened things up a bit. It doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, but the performance speedup was very noticable. Changing the VM probably won't make the slightest of difference.

That cost me two moderations. Why aren't moderations in a discussion depended on the *branch* of the discussion? Oh well...

Is there ANY non-experimental filesystem that runs on a standard desktop OS that has this feature?

Waybackfs on
Linux.

"YttriumOxide said: I've said it before (and will therefore probably get my first ever "redundant" mod) but if he's wanting OS4, then AROS is *NOT* the answer. Unless you consider Win95 the answer to someone looking for Windows Vista!" sure , you have said it but it seems your under the impression that AROS being at its original base a 1.3 clone is in some way restricting it to that old version as its limit. take a look at some of the current AROS screenshots http://aros.sourceforge.net/pictures/screenshots/ and tell me thats your idea of a restricted 1.3 AOS clone.... the fact is AROS can become anything you want it to become (within the Amiga realm/idea's etc) all it takes is your time to code it up and submit it. btw Dammy, you should also tell them your the AROS bounty treasery guy, and that CURRENTLY the PPC port hasnt started yet, as it appears the current devs are all x86 based and favour that atm. unless its changed in the last few days perhaps?, is there any new or old amiga devs now hacking on PPC AROS perhaps ready to load/run a usable AROS PPC compile on the coming UK/EU PS3 soon!. perhaps someones now cross-compiling to the http://www.powerdeveloper.org/8641d.php but you have not seen fit to make it known yet ?, or perhaps non of the above as i note you said elsewere your finding it hard to get new PPC based OSS devs involved?. so are there any OSS PPC devs here or infact x86 devs that are thinking of getting and playing with PPC linux/AROS/whatever on the PS3 once it arrives ?, will you consider taking one or more of the bountys or would you work on somthing else that interests you and ask that a bounty be put up for it as your reqard for your efforts in PPC AROS perhaps...?

I love hearing about this research. I'll be one of the first in line to get a brain-computer interface installed/implanted. It's been a long time dream of mine to be able to lay back and do some programming without having to lift a finger. I've already started working on my own EEG, but I'm a bit too lazy to finish it. I have more to say, but I'm too lazy to continue typing.

The way things are now, though, the only way Amiga will have a future is if ... or B) they Open Source the entire OS and support utilities.

You mean like this? http://aros.sourceforge.net/

This is mostly a reengineering of AmigaOS 3.0. They didn't use the original code.

Although I think AROS is the best way to try to save the OS part of the Amiga. The hardware part with custom chips and cool demos that use them works pretty fine on Emulation but I don't expect that this will give any new impulses.

It is amazing how fast even AROS hosted on Linux is. Especially when you compare Amiga programs side by side to KDE programs. Makes you wonder what those programs do.

The Amiga had a localization similar to gettext. Programs had ARexx ports that are something like DCOP for KDE. It had a clean and fast GUI (okay KDE doesn't have that :). The later GUIs could even be themed.

The way things are now, though, the only way Amiga will have a future is if ... or B) they Open Source the entire OS and support utilities.

You mean like this? http://aros.sourceforge.net/

... can use DSSI or LV2 (although LV2 isn't quite mainstream yet). There are a lot of very good DSSI plugins out there, which might not look as polished as VSTis but far surpass them in quality and usability. Hexter, for instance, is a much better DX7 emulation than FM7 - cleaner and a lot closer to the original hardware. And of course modesty forbids that I mention nekobee, a TB-303-style bass synth plugin.

These are just two. There's ZynAddSubFX (which isn't DSSI, but is good), qsynth/fluidsynth, which plays back soundfonts for a cheap-and-cheesy sampler, Xsynth-DSSI which is a nice basic 2-osc polysynth, WhySynth which is too complicated for its own good, sineshaper which is just *bonkers* and many more.

Is $29 more or less than every other manufacturer charges for Windows drivers?

It's less than the typical $infinity that other manufacturers charge for OS X and Linux drivers.

Is $29 more or less than every other bootloader?

Boot Camp isn't a bootloader.

Is $29 a reasonable price for the ability to install another OS on the hardware you already paid a premium for?

No, but you don't need Boot Camp to install other OSes. See above link.

Attention big, mean, hostile slashdotters hovering overhead in an obvious attack posture: My favorite "non-linear" plot-based game had to be Star Control II. Since there was a pre-designed plot, it couldn't be truly nonlinear, but they left you with the illusion of non-linearity, with many dialog options, a huge world, many different ways you can advance the plot, and a flexible definition of "victory". That was a great game.

But yes... FF* games generally are quite linear, except for the "optional" minigames, items, and characters, which are typically "unlocked" at certain points in the linear plot.

Don't be a software pirate, stay legal and properly licensed by using the various free open source GPL licensed programs instead that are also available in Windows versions. Many of the best free GPL licensed open source programs which have been developed for Linux users have also been released in Windows versions. Not everyone is ready yet to move from Windows to a free GPL licensed alternative such as Ubuntu Linux. For them, a first step to freedom would be to keep on using a properly licensed copy of Windows, but to start using the various free GPL licensed alternatives to their various favorite programs. Someday, if they decide to move to a totally free operating system such as Linux they will then be able to use the Linux versions of those same programs. There is now an amazingly large complete alternative free software ecosystem of free GPL licenced software legally available for free to everyone.

Here are just a few examples of free (mostly GPL licensed) programs which are also available in Windows versions:

• OpenOffice the free office suite
• Mozilla Firefox web browser
• Thunderbird email program
• Clamwin free antivirus
• Gimp image mainpulation program for photo retouching and image composition
• ImageMagick software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images
• Inkscape open source scalable vector graphics editor
• PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client
• FTP client and server
• 7-Zip file archiver which can handle compression formats such as 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
• Scribus open source page layout application
• AbiWord the free word processing program
• Gnumeric the free spreadsheet program
• Stellarium free open source planetarium
• Celestia free space simulation and space exploration program

"and in the space of resource light desktops it looks like a clear winner"

I do apologize, but that statement just forced me to mention ROX Desktop, my DE of choice for some time now. It has some very nice features, like drag-and-drop saving (applications have to explicitly support this, though) and support for application directories, which are like bundles on OSX. Also, the file manager (ROX) is snappier than snappy. On my system it goes from login (XDM) to desktop in less than five seconds.

Does anybody know of other light-weight, full-featured desktop environments? Because XFCE and ROX Desktop are the only ones I can think of.

I've been reading off a Tungsten E2 palmos device using Palmfiction ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmfiction ) (handles txt and rtf better than the built in e-reader) for a while now and I'm pretty happy with it. These e-ink screens are fine but they need a light source so it's not an automatically better choice. The only freaky thing is reading off a PDA with autoscroll on for an hour and then when you stop the text still seems to keep moving.

Intel Macs use EFI instead of the legacy BIOS, so the versions of GRUB and/or LILO shipping with any current Linux distros do not work

Not entirely true; Ubuntu Edgy works with GRUB if you follow these directions, specifically steps 6 and 7 where you sync the partition tables while the installation is in progress, which allows GRUB to install successfully. Edgy works great on my MBP, except no wireless support. (And Beryl is *slick*).

What Boot Camp does is it provides BIOS emulation

BIOS emulation is provided by the firmware, not Boot Camp itself; see here. Also, Boot Camp's partitioning tool is just a GUI wrapper for "diskutil resizeVolume"

While Apple does put out great products.. please dont think you are giving your money to the good guys. They are every bit as altruistic as Microsoft.

Their OS's are designed with one purpose in mind: To install a direct sucking machine that goes straight from your wallet, directly to their bank account.

In fact, their OS releases *ARE* incremental upgrades, at best. And no I'm not confused because of the version numbers. The differences between OSX 10.3 and 10.4 in no way, whatsoever, compare to the sweeping changes between XP and Vista. Not in any universe could you consider the differences between the two comparable.

The past few releases of OSX, their "new", supposedly revolutionary changes have been little more than usurping some small ISV's shareware app, stealing its functionality while pretending it was Apple's idea all along (Dashboard anyone?). Leapard is no exception. At least when Microsoft does this, they usually do the courtesy of actually buying out the ISV first, before they steal their software. Then they usually tinker enough with the underlying API's so that 3rd party software designed for "insert latest release" here, wont work on the previous versions of OSX, forcing you to upgrade.

I've been buying Apple computers for at least 3 or 4 years now, and am pretty tired of it. I would have switched back to PC's (linux primary os, windows for games) but I was sucked back in to the mac platform after they switched to intel chips, but I probably wont be buying anymore in the future, because of the reasons I mentioned above. Just feel like to much of a sucker.

Anyways, back on topic: Bootcamp is not needed, when you have programs like this: http://refit.sourceforge.net/. Bootcamp is ONLY necassary for the drivers disk (if you run windows, I'm currently dual booting with Linux, without the use of bootcamp at all).

Apparently, while I was typing my piece, aldheorte gave a pointer to http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/s yntax-across-languages/.
That pretty much does what I want, but in a non-dynamic way.
And there are 'subtle' differences between procedural languages like C, and object-oriented languages like Smalltalk...

Once you get beyond syntax you start delving deep into the particular style of a language, which frustrates attempts to compare. A very good 'Rosetta stone' for programming languages already exists:

http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/s yntax-across-languages/

Sourceforge has hosted to Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook project for a while now. It does something similar, filling out "Perl Cookbook" recipes for a fairly wide range of languages...

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

Following the great Perl Cookbook (...) which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.

Check out LMMS ( http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ ), it's quite similar to FL. Very immature, but has (wine-based, but overall good) support for VST instrument plugins, and it is damn easy to get to work. Still, I wouldn't call it professional.

I take your point but the original poster never said anything at all about going professional. All he wants is a decent sequencer to use with his 'decent-ish' synths. There is probably more than enough software available in Linux to start making music, a lot of which has already been mentioned. For a lot of users the mastering tools available in Jamin http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html will be more than enough for their needs.

A more detailed approach (for the truly paranoid/something to hide). This one is for the Windows folk...

-Starting with a new laptop, wipe your computer's HD with DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke - http://dban.sourceforge.net/)
-Install your OS and default applications, but NO DATA
-Use something like "Acronis True Image" ( http://www.acronis.com/ ) and take a snapshot of your HD. Save it to a bootable DVD

-Before travelling to other country with invasive customs laws, save your data to your own server at home that has an encrypted method of remote access (SSL, Hamachi, etc), then DBAN your computer and re-load your clean install image.

-Go through customs, allow them to investigate your squeeky clean laptop if they so desire.

-When at your destination, connect to your home server and load your data. Throw it on a Truecrypt partition while you're there, just to be safe.

-Before flying home, connect up again and sync your changed data back to the server, DBAN your laptop, reload the clean install image.

-Fly home

Ok call me a troll if you want, but DON*T TELL ME for fuck sakes that this is for the pro.

You are trolling.

Your complaint seems to be specifically about the GIMP/Photoshop. Fine, many photo professionals use photoshop & won't accept anything else *shrugs*.

However, to conflate all multimedia users with PS users is....stupid.

For instance, users of cinepaint for instance will dismiss photoshop as a "useless toy". They're not correct (its just not the tool for their job) - but neither are you.

A nice distro is http://64studio.com/ for 64 bit cpus but also available for 32 bit. I get at least as low as 2ms latency which I never got either on Windows nor OS 9/ OSX, maybe less is possible but I didnt dare so far.
Further sequencing: Muse
http://www.muse-sequencer.org/

wired looks promising but seems a bit hard to get it running
http://wired.epitech.net/

Linux can do professional grade audio and is often used by academic musicians. The Jack audiosystem adds an flexibility which is missing on other platforms (except its now available for OSX and soon Windows).

For mastering Jamin do incredible things:
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html

Cheers, Malte

Can't imagine why. Hey, when you're done with that, how about we do "A Mighty Fortress" in this one: http://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/

Well, it's not a sequencing only software, but a synthesizer with sequencing capabilities (for its own internal instruments) to keep track of the storyboard.

You can check it out by yourself here: http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ , and it is distribuited under GPL V2 license.

LMMS. Aims to be an alternative to FL. Documentation is in the form of skimp wiki. But if you know how to use FL I heard it's not too hard to get a hang of lMMS.

Also, don't forget to install the JACK Audio Connection Kit first, optionally with a GUI front end.

JACK will generally give you much lower latency, and it will handle synching between multiple audio apps.

I was skeptical at first, "Powerpoint-like presentations in LaTeX, you've got to be kidding".

It's fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. A stroke of genius.

Being able to introduce terms of an equation syncronised with bullet points explaining their roles is invaluable.

No, no, no - you need Vigor http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

Pros:

• Tabbed browsing. Some versions can make the Tab titles match your current prompt. (Latest CVS seems to break this?)
• Looks gorgeous. Transparency, nice design, yadda yadda.
• Fastest OSX terminal I've seen.
• Nice activity monitoring: activity in a tab turns title purple, then red when it stops.
• Can integrate with Growl for notifications.

• Interface is a bit obtuse. There are about three different places to set options (including Info?!?); you have to remember what goes where.
• Uh... some versions crash on OSX/Intel when resizing windows, which is why I'm using latest CVS build :/
• Terminal emulation seems slightly wonky. I might not have found the right settings.

  Overall, though, it's very close to being as good as Konsole or whatever they call the Gnome equivalent now. And it's way-the-hell better than Terminal.app.

Give this a try.....

Evolution for win32

we use it at work (I know using a early beta in an office YIKES! all our vertical apps we paid huge $$$ for are early alpha quality) and are quite happy with it.

Reasonable is the size that I want it to be. The app has zero context for what I am doing, am about to do, or even just prefer. Having a "make bigger" button that makes it just big enough for the current content is annoying (I recently bought a MacMini so I'm not talking entirely out of my ass).

The zoom button has two settings in most apps: snap-to and user-specified, and if you haven't specified it maximizes. It degrades to user-specified and maximize whent snap-to doesn't work. Got it? This isn't always obvious until you rely on it. It isn't always consistent either, that's up to the developer of what you're using. It sounds like you won't try adapting to the metaphor of interleaved windows, which is the basis of the UI; those windows are supposed to have stuff showing around the edges.

Additionally it's bloody annoying that I can't grab the side of a window and drag it wider. Or the bottom of the window and drag it taller. Instead I have to grab the lower corner of the window and drag it wider and taller or make a best guess estimate to do one or the other.

I can understand how that annoys, if you don't use the zoom function.

It's also quite amazing in this day that you have to buy mpeg decoder components.

I agree, but it isn't much of a gripe; you've started whining. Just use MPlayer if it's MPEG2 you want, otherwise most mpeg files play fine in Quicktime, and plenty of free codecs are available to add in.

I have some more to that list:
Puzzle Pirates
Bang! Howdy
Soda Play
JSettlers