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Personally I'd like to see something like XUL where the GUI is specified using a markup language.

Another option for creating XML-based GUIs in java is XSWT. I've found that it makes laying out a GUI no harder than laying out an HTML document (or it would be no harder if they'd improve their docs...grr), yet it still gives you the ability to manage all behvavior in Java.

However, it's not Swing, which may be a problem for some (I personally like SWT better than Swing, but understand that some believe the opposite).

I'm getting an education in this as I read through stuff. I like this place to start with:
http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.ph p?t=2271

In short, SSHv1 is not secure. Continue from there.

Why not to use Mozilla XUL instead? There are many proficient pure-Java implementations of XUL, including tiny Thinlet.

Why not to use Mozilla XUL instead? There are many proficient pure-Java implementations of XUL, including tiny Thinlet.

• JUnit
• NUnit
• PhpUnit (I think there are multiple versions)
• Php SimpleTest

brickOS, a replacement firmware for the Lego Mindstorms RCX, was formerly called "legOS". So no, it doesn't run on standard x86 hardware. *ahem*

(I personally find it very annoying to read "Legos". I think it must be an American thing, I'd never heard of anyone calling Lego bricks "Legos" until reading Slashdot.)

The Java-Gnome Project uses Glade to build a serializable (to XML) GUI.

Exeter University, where we have one ongoing (where I am the sole staff researcher, no-one else is interested), but soon Herriot Watt University, when we get our act together.

Ok, when I finish writing the new code we need. The page for the code is here.

http://nmod.sourceforge.net/

However that is out of date, I haven't been able to finalize the new code that we've been using for the last year, or the funky new visualizer, which needs to be moved the QT from plain opengl. Also the manual will take weeks I don't have to write, and I need to complete the new compressed output format.

Other then that it all works. If you fancy the *proper* code to play with, send me a mail c.pridgeon@ex.ac.uk. I know the open source thing is 'release early, release often', but when you have to re-write a huge manual, that's not so easy to achieve. I am bothered that it's been so long since a public update though.

I'm not even slightly interested in star wars space defense stuff. My primary concern is that we not get fossilized by another asteroid impact, who gives a crap about theoretical space dominance wars when we know that sooner or later we are going to get freight-trained by an asteroid.. Understanding more about previous impacts is useful, but I am nowhere near done writing the code I need to model that.

DBAN is crucial. I carry one everywhere to make sure that retired machines and hard drives don't tell their secrets to the world..

Oh yeah, I almost forgot Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe the hell out of hard drives.

My Sony-Ericsson T610 phone with the lousy R1S001 firmware runs this one ... finally. Opera Mini 2.0 wouldn't function. The integrated "browser" can only handle nearly empty sites a-la 1995 -- I'm looking forward to being able to actually Google for phone numbers et cetera.

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

By using ODF, everyone wins. Word users can use it. OpenOffice users can use it. Abiword users can use it (though, even with the most recent version I've had problems with it's import/export). Other applications should be implementing it. No lock in is there. With a Microsoft format, if you want to view it correctly you have to use a Microsoft program on a Microsoft approved OS.

The new Office OpenXML format should improve things though, but OpenOffice will still be locked out. Novell is supposed to implement support, though.

You sign up (yeah, I know, you have to trust them) and give out email addresses like

What odd timing. I literally swapped out Hula this morning with Really Simple CalDAV Store. The only reason I used Hula was for it's CalDAV support, so that Evolution clients can work on a shared calendar. It worked fine for a while, but it started eating up 99% of the CPU on the server, so I had to dump it for something else. So far RSCDS seems to do the trick, but I haven't tested it extensively yet. You'd think a shared calender server wouldn't be very difficult to implement, but there doesn't seem to be many stable options in the Open Source world. Evolution's CalDAV support does seem to be a bit lacking, however, so that could be the bulk of my problem I imagine.

Thus far I've tried Hula, RSCDS, Cosmo, and Apple's CalendarServer and none of them seem to be the perfect solution. I'd love to see a package that acts as both a CalDAV server, but also gives you the ability to view and edit the calendars via a nice looking web-interface as well. I'm thankful for the projects that are currently being worked on however, and I guess I should stop complaining and start coding...

I stopped buying music years ago when I had a really busy time studying. After that period of withdrawal I heard about some free music labels, got curious and never looked back again.
In the beginning I was impressed by programs that automatically download free music, based on ratings you give.
Today I have a quite large collection of free tracks and albums. From time to time I visit, some, of those. All that is 100% annoyance-, tool-, ad-, DRM- and RIAA-free.

Ummm... KDE is actually available from Fedora Extras repo, isn't it? If you're not satisfied with that, there's Sourceforge project packaging same for FC.

I moved to Linux in 1994 as my primary desktop and server OS. About three years ago I decided that I wanted to produce some video content. Video editing was theoretically possible in Linux - I hooked up my camcorder to my Linux box and did some editing, but the tools were primitive and cofiguration was unusually difficult.

Eventually I looked at OS X and iLife. I decided to jump to a Mac. What a great move!

I found that Linux made it possible to do some things, but OS X made it simple to do them.

Fast forward a few years. I now have a few macs at home - their licensing policy makes it affordable to have several machines and a five user license for the OS and tools. My family loves the power and usability of the Mac.

Recently my linux server at home began acting a bit flaky. I did some analysis and determined that hardware replacement was needed. After checking prices for CPU/motherboard/RAM (and potentially hard disk) I figured out that I'd need a few hundred bucks to replace the CentOS box with a new one. After thinking about whether to drop a few hundred bucks or not on this server, it occurred to me that I might be able to move all of the services hosted on linux to OS X.

I found that samba,
  hotwayd,
  dansguardian,
  uw-imapd,
  fetchmail,
  procmail,
  spamassassin,
    rsync,
  rsnapshot,
  apache2,
  MySQL4,
  PHP,
  perl,
  java, and
  squid were all available for OS X.

Most of these are "in the box" with OS X. The only ones that I need to compile from source are uw-imapd and squid! Of course I need the bundled developer tools to get a compiler, and the Apple/BSD startup mechanism and the netinfo wierdness require some tweaks - but since when did Linux *not* require any tweaking?

What this means to me is that after more than a decade of running Linux at home (and work) I am *this* close to shutting down Linux for good at home.

Hope your experience is similar.

Regards,
Anomaly

PS - I share your recent comments about the loss of a pet. :(

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/i2p/I2P_ howto.htm

Crypto is the key my friends ;-)

Can you expand on this? I've developed a networked toolkit and I'm extremely interested in this type of thing. I'm wondering if your idea is similar to mine:

http://ntw.sourceforge.net/

Under OS X I always used Cog http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ to play music and just switched to Play http://sbooth.org/Play/. Both play Ogg Vorbis just fine. I believe there is a plugin to let iTunes play Ogg Vorbis. VLC can play music but is actually a videoplayer and its UI never ceases to remind you of it.

That and a Syndicate Wars remake would rule the day.

Take a look at this link. You will probably be interested in it. Though it won't be out for awhile...

http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

You know what they say; its not whether you win or loose but how you play the game. I don't buy this story to be very honost.. Sure, you can have issues with your hands, I don't dispute that, but there are just way too many games out there which require quite a different way of controlling them.

I for one play with keyboard and mouse. If you get issues I guess games like UT and such maybe getting harder, but why not simply lower the difficulty level? Or perhaps shift to a different kind of game.. Not too much hard pressing action going on where keyboard and mouse are concerned when looking at, say, Command & Conqueror.

In the end there's always tuxracer to enjoy and when that one is giving you issues I'd suggest moving to the all time classic nethack! In fact, I think I'll have another go at that right now.

Why are you even in the FOREX market? As an individual, the chances that you either a) have enough money to make a difference, or b) have enough MARGIN to make a difference, is pretty low. Which means that your probability of success versus risk/reward is virtually non-existent.

IMHO, the FOSS cat's meow for stock analysis is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/humaitrader/ and you should get familar with this first. Disclaimer: AIOTrader has been known to blow the mind of the amateur. Now, this FOSS is not for doing trades or trading, but for analysis. There is a huge difference. You don't really need any software for doing online trades, just a decent online trading account at a brokerage. If they supply you with software (metastock, whatever), then that's fine but don't think for even a second that the use of that software will CYA!! (*that's "cover your ass", for you newbs). Heh, heh... "cover", get it!?! Ever had a margin call? Nevermind, it's a traders joke.

Just remember this important thing if you're doing online trading:

Total Selling Amount - (Total Buying Amount + Total Commissions Paid - Total Dividends Earned) = Profit OR Loss

** Total Commissions Paid --> for both buying AND selling the stock

You wouldn't believe the number of people who can't figure that out.

I don't have to pay a fee-hungry broker. After all, brokers just make you broker. :p

I use the discount direct access Interactive Brokers (developer note: they have a great API for hooking into their flexible trading platform. Even Python bindings.)

And yes, "constantly trading on these things" is a great idea. It's called active trading. Stocks fluctuate, rise and fall through the day. I can take immediate advantage of multiple momentum movements within the day, instead of waiting (and tying up capital) for months or years for a stock to slowly wind its way up on the long term. And that $500 profit is in my pocket at the end of the day, outside the risk of bad after-market news wiping out my profits during the next morning panic. Plus, compounding daily accelerates my wealth.

Talking about news, I take it with a grain of salt. Usually the market has already corrected from rumours and early birds well ahead of the official press being released. Sometimes a stock will drop on the release of "good" news as the early birds dump the stock and run to the bank with their profits.

Anyway, getting to the article. I use the TraderZone trading system. Full disclosure: I work for TraderZone. Instead of a black box computer generating many complicated rules, we developed the system using the opposite approach. The president of TraderZone, a human being, observed, experimented, and used real money to discover very specific repeatable buy and sell signals. For example, moving average crosses and support and resistance zones are strong indicators. These rules were automated into a computer program, since a computer can scan thousands of stocks in real-time. a little faster than a human. Score one for the computer. Coloured indicators and green arrows show the status of the formulas and make "trading at a glance" possible. The more green on a line, the better the pick. When it's red, it's time to sell. It's not automated trading yet, but when you do what the computer tell you, you WILL make money. These formulas have been market tested since 2003.

TraderZone also provide longer term stock picks, called the BuyZone Review, which are generated by a human-tweaked computer formula.

I still have to glance at the intraday charts to confirm the computer's results and time entry and exit points. But our vision is to change the future of trading.

(IANAL, but I love playing with this stuff).

If you do this a lot, may I introduce you to RIG, the random identity generator? It generates valid, yet fake US-address data.

Cool software! It would be even more usefull if it didn't have to be compiled, something like a perl script. Even better a CGI script. If someone has some free time...

Although I still like to use 1060 West Addison, Chicago, IL 60613. It's a valid address likely to make any Blues Brothers fan smile:
Elwood: I'm gonna quit work first thing in the morning.
Jake: And how are you gonna get to work Mr Lead Foot, Mr Hot Rod, Mr Motor Head? Those cops took your license away. They got your name, your address.
Elwood: No they don't got my address. I falsified my renewal. I put 1060 West Addison.
Jake: 1060 West Addison? That's Wrigley Field.

If you do this a lot, may I introduce you to RIG, the random identity generator? It generates valid, yet fake US-address data.

Yeah, not to mention Bluefish or Dreamweaver... It's a pretty common concept in web development applications, and I guess MS just decided to be "original" and throw it into an office suite.

Stealing ideas has gotten them this far... why stop now?

Keepass, unless I'm missing something big about it, just seems like a fairly nice, open source version of the "encrypted text file" solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't sync across multiple computers, which was the thing I really liked about Google Browser Sync and Firefox. I suppose I could create a database, and then mail it back and forth to myself at work, but that just seems like it's asking for version management issues.

Actually, it looks like there's a converter between Keypass and the program that I use on my aging Palm m100 -- GNU Keyring. The Palm-based solution is the best thing I've found, before I started using GBS, but it's still a pain: in order to keep all those stored passwords safe, you have to use a good master password, and that's obnoxious to type in to the Palm every time you want to recall a password.

I wonder if you could set up something like Keepass, but point it to a file on a remote server, via something like WebDAV so it could have read/write access.

> I'm not really sure what I'd do without it

keepass

zm

If you are falling back on a single password, then that password can be ridiculously secure. I use a big diceware password http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html, along with a keepass database http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ Assuming that we arent dealing with keyloggers, that is perfectly secure. ...first post

I for one only use the browsers store password feature for the most trivial of sites. For more important sites, I use Password Safe. The program and the database fit easily on a thumb drive, and requires a master password to access. It has a user configurable time out, and a double click on an account copies the data to the clipboard for later use, allowing you to foil keyboard based sniffers.

I use Mapivi for photo management, IPTC metadata tagging, searches, etc.

It is quite powerful, and the author is very responsive.

http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml

The argument for IPTC is simple: The data is stored in the image.

I'm working on some perl scripts to search IPTC data in images, and create directories of symlinks to the results. That way I could use a tag like Xmas, and then run a query based on the year in the datestamp and the tag Xmas, and end up with subdirs for each year and all the photos symlinked from their original location.

Then I can group upload to Gallery, or just run album on the symlinks.

Demo

F-Spot is pretty nice, but I dislike the way it stores the comments in its own .comments directories. I'd rather it edited the EXIF data in the image itself, so when I email a pic to a friend, they get the comments. Hopefully F-Spot will do this eventually, but until then I'm sticking with gThumb (http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/).

I ran into this problem a few years ago, and so started work on my own project which I now use to keep my collection of 8500+ photos organised. Categories (tags/labels/...) are arranged in a tree, and are assigned to photos.
So have a look at http://photolibrary.sourceforge.net/ (or http://sourceforge.net/projects/photolibrary)

I ran into this problem a few years ago, and so started work on my own project which I now use to keep my collection of 8500+ photos organised. Categories (tags/labels/...) are arranged in a tree, and are assigned to photos.
So have a look at http://photolibrary.sourceforge.net/ (or http://sourceforge.net/projects/photolibrary)

I just use folders for events or periods of time, and the folder contains the date in a standard form; e.g. 2006-summer, 200607-china, 20060504-phoenix-zoo, etc. Usually I can remember approximately when a picture was taken.

But yeah EXIF tags have a comment field so why don't you just put a sequence of keywords in there (or whole sentences if you like) and then use a full-text search engine? I've had good luck with Swish++ to search other kinds of documents (MP3 metadata, Word docs, PDFs, plain text, HTML, C source files, etc.) It can be extended with filters based on MIME type to extract keywords from each kind of document that it finds.

Also see this regarding how to extract dates/times from EXIF files and incorporate them into the filename.

Come back when Microsoft opens up NTFS or Active Directory, okay? Or even when Microsoft has 100% support for ODF, as a default option, out of the box.

http://ntw.sourceforge.net/

If you'll allow me to plug a pet project of mine, I think an asynchronous networked GUI widget toolkit is the wave of the future. The client (browser) is responsible for drawing widgets and sending events to the server, which handles callbacks. It's AJAX done right.

The biggest problem I have is explaining to people why this is so different from X, or display postscript, etc.

Imagine writing a GUI app that runs over the network without you having to do any network coding. Sort of like X, but without the tremendous speed penalty of having to maintain graphics on the server side.

Or imagine writing an app interactively over a network by typing a few simple Lisp commands. (not that this protocol is limited to Lisp only)

Imagine serving ten thousand GUI clients from a cheap machine, or saving the entire state of each client's session so they can log off and on again without losing any work. NTW does all of this.

Unfortunately, I got everything almost done, and have not had much time to see the project to fruition. It's frustrating too when most people don't quite "get" it.

Oh, and tell me, where are the wxWidgets killer apps?

Yep. Which is what permits it to use a signal-slot mechanism which spanks wxWidgets and any other C++ system out there. No more crashes due to dangling pointers, yay!

Your wait is over.

"Hmm. Of course...who's working on that free music again?

www.anvilstudio.com"

I am, for one:

http://musicians.opensrc.org/DrewRoberts

May I suggest considering a copyleft type license for your Free music?

Oh and as to programs, people might check:

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
http://ardour.org/
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
http://www.ferventsoftware.com/

the filing date was "February 25, 2000". How many of those were around circa 2000? Skype only began around 2002-2003

Mutt installation is still a pain for Windows users. A nice cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and supposedly Mac) IMAP client with excellent support for an external editor is Mahogany. (Also supports Python scripting.) I love Pine, but Mahogany even beats Pine on single-stroke keyboard access to most used commands.

Does your client have any 'bespoke' software; i.e. which they wrote themselves, or which they employed the writers of ?

Does your client consider this software to either be sellable, or to give them a competitive advantage by keeping it hidden ?

If there is software which is owned but not an 'asset' in either sense, they may as well 'open' it; donate to the community for others to build on, reuse, and improve.

That's how STAF got there.

I wonder how long it will take before the AROS developers gets a lawsuit for trademark infringement. The GUI toolkit they are using is also called zune.
Allthough the zune in AROS has been in existance for quite a few years now, maybe AROS should sue MS instead?

Actually, I'd say it's pretty easy.

Wrong, wrong (1|2), and wrong.