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So preload it. I use AllTray on Linux to accomplish that. Got both Thunderbird and Firefox loading inside AllTray from .xinitrc. When I actually need them they pop up instantly.

Honestly, I think it's the closest you'll ever get to your wish. Having a XUL application loaded with plugins and extensions start up instantly is just not doable, unless you pack a multi GHz CPU, ultra fast HDD and a load of RAM. I eagerly await Firefox devs to prove me wrong.

lynx sucks. I use links.

nget for the command-line crowd. Nothing fancy but good if you know what you are looking for, and great for fetching daily postings along with cron.

nzbget

In http://pmt.sourceforge.net/gamma_test/
on a normal PC, the GIF, JPEG, sRGB patches and the unlabeled patches
should match gamma=1/2.2 but they match gamma=1/1.96 instead.
This foils attempts to match images with backgrounds and images in other formats.

The workaround is to remove the gAMA chunk from PNG files while preserving
the sRGB chunk.

I'm not sure if Posadis will meet your requirements or not. See here: http://posadis.sourceforge.net/

Something else to look into is this code written in Visual Basic* - please don't laugh - I've been using a hacked version for some time now to cache results and to pass certain lookups through tor_resolve. Url: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/caching_dns/.

(If the author is reading this I've been meaning to say "thanks"!)

I worked for Pacific Press Service in Tokyo developing photo copyright and library tech until 94. I first saw a photograph search engine developed by Fujitsu around 92-93 I believe. It required the user to draw the type of image composition very roughly with a mouse and paintbox. So you would draw a horizon line, fill the bottom with blue and draw a yellow circle above if you wanted photos of the sea and sun. No wavelets at that time.

I then corresponded briefly with Ingrid Daubechies of AT&T who brought wavelets to the U.S., and was kind enough to send some of her papers. Wavelets are neat because it is like getting a paintbox full of different waveforms, localized as another poster mentions not just a fourier of the entire image. Anyway they are much better known now, so you can find it on the net.

This is not really the same as Barnsley's fractal compression one startup worked on around that time IIRC. They basically had a library of fractals which would be matched to image features, and once you had covered the entire image with them you would be able to zoom into it infinitely, since fractals are self-similar. You wouldn't necessarily get new detail but it would fool you into thinking you were. (I wonder if they liscensed it to anyone). They claimed 400:1 compression, etc. I don't know if they were the basis of LivePicture or if that was wavelet based.

These technologies all have two things in common, which is selecting an algorithmic strategy for talking about images, and storing it so efficiently that the data can be found quickly. The old Fujitsu system ran on a NEWS workstation IIRC, and it was blisteringly fast compared to any system I have ever seen. Only problem is doodles all look pretty much the same unless you are talented and patient.

It seems PNI (Picture Network Interactive)'s natural language recognition text searching for photos was the best, it was just text but used software supposedly developed for the White House. Only thing was they wanted to take over the entire industry with online contracts (this was around 1993) so everyone hated them. Nice tech though.

Anyway, wavelets may not be the entire solution but certainly they are a very useful way to describe data (not just a photo) and undoubtedly have lots of potential applications that just haven't materialized yet. Here's some tidbits Lancaster's links ImgSeek
  Perl Haar decomposition and seeking
  Blitzwave lib
  wvlt
  wvlt #2
  Wavelet.org
  WSQ used for FBI fingerprinting

As I mentioned back when this came up in April ...

Oracle already owns their own distro... home wiki google

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

What dcraw issues do you have mind? UFRaw might help. 16 bit support depends on GEGL.

Dia?

You see Gimp's problems aren't technological, they are ideological.

You see Gimp's problems aren't technological, they are ideological.

Well, you could try this ugly hack: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/screen shots.php?img=kmail.png. Still beta though.

an image editor...easy to point/click your way through creating three dimentional wire frames, applying textures, opacity and colors to those frames then rendering those from whatever angle you liked in conjunction with various light sources into static or animated objects.

Wait, what? Would you like your image editor to compose music and poetry too? Maybe run your home theater system and control your christmas lights from a slashdot-proof webapp? Let me know when v3.0 comes out, I hear they're promising world peace and an end to hunger.

As far as 3D rendering and modelling programs go, Blender isn't for the faint of heart. If you want to just point and click your way through something, a quick tour through Multimedia::Graphics::Modelling on Freshmeat lists a few that might be up your alley, depending on what exactly you want. I suggest checking out SharpConstruct, which looks to use a nifty sculptor interface for making 3D things and has pretty active development.

For those who haven't already, check out Beautiful Soup, which is a great python module for web-scraping - particularly when used together with ClientCookie... the results are shockingly elegant in many cases.

I've personally written functionally equivalent scripts of 100-200 lines to search MySpace for underag... oops, I've said too much.

Try AJAX with markup only, no hand-written JavaScript, by using the W3C's XForms standard. There are a number of implementations such as the Servlet-based Chiba (which fronts for Dojo and other packages), FormFaces written entirely in JavaScript (no server-side component), entire server-side pipeline systems such as Orbeon, and full client implementations such as the Mozilla/Firefox XForms Extension (just type "xforms" into your Firefox extensions finder), FormsPlayer IE Plugin, or cell-phone capable implementations such as PicoForms and SolidForms.

I wrote an entire webmail reader using PHP for the back end and XForms for the client. It runs in the Mozilla XForms implementation but could easily be made to work in any of the above, which differ mostly in how the CSS works. xmlmail

And for completness, I was an editor of an earlier version of the W3C XForms recommendation.

Try AJAX with markup only, no hand-written JavaScript, by using the W3C's XForms standard. There are a number of implementations such as the Servlet-based Chiba (which fronts for Dojo and other packages), FormFaces written entirely in JavaScript (no server-side component), entire server-side pipeline systems such as Orbeon, and full client implementations such as the Mozilla/Firefox XForms Extension (just type "xforms" into your Firefox extensions finder), FormsPlayer IE Plugin, or cell-phone capable implementations such as PicoForms and SolidForms.

I wrote an entire webmail reader using PHP for the back end and XForms for the client. It runs in the Mozilla XForms implementation but could easily be made to work in any of the above, which differ mostly in how the CSS works. xmlmail

And for completness, I was an editor of an earlier version of the W3C XForms recommendation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

http://web.archive.org/web/19980626131204/http://w ww.scea.sony.com/ <-- Snapshot of the US Net Yaroze page from 1998

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

I own the zaurus S-3200 running application Zbedic. Files are compressed to no more than 400mb total and fits in my 6gb internal hardisk of my pda just fine. the project location for the zaurus http://sourceforge.net/projects/bedic Look under english wikipedia and you can use it on a zaurus. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=51673

I own the zaurus S-3200 running application Zbedic. Files are compressed to no more than 400mb total and fits in my 6gb internal hardisk of my pda just fine. the project location for the zaurus http://sourceforge.net/projects/bedic Look under english wikipedia and you can use it on a zaurus. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=51673

Sony never released an Ebook reader for the PSP. However for those capable of running homebrew on their PSPs, bookr is an excellent program for reading ebooks.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookr/

What you are looking for is probably the mount command. Seriously just look at the list of FUSE filesystems to get an idea of what can be done. We don't need one filesystem that is the best at everything, in fact that's impossible.

Even Berkely DB, which I also hate, would not be so bad if you could "mount -t berkdb -rw ./database.db /mnt/database".

portables that support FLAC

although I doubt you can hear the difference between lossless and any LAME preset on any portable, it is convenient to sync FLAC over without having to transcode.

Use KeePass. Pretty good UI, Open Source, Free, Linux Windows and Mac, I haven't found a downside yet.

You might want to take a look at http://ihu.sourceforge.net/ It has been getting pretty decent reviews...

I suggest this neat little open source tool. It's a web-based frontend for managing podcasts -- just upload the files through a web interface and you're done (you may have to adjust the PHP max. filesize settings). What would be really lovely is a non-profit providing such a service on a reliable basis.

It's absurd that I have to code up basically an extension to add a new search engine to the search box. Galeon has had the ability to add a new "smart bookmark" by just copying and pasting the appropriate URL for years. AcidSearch for Safari, will automatically find and add the appropriate search URL for you if you want. Firefox on the other hand is makes it incredibly difficult, or causes you to resort to those ugly Rollyo pages.

Completely unacceptable, and worst of all, I don't even understand how they even thought that their approach was even remotely necessary.

I found that you should have a section called 'technical skills' to list all your skills. You can call it skill proficiency, but only if you are proficient in ALL the skills. I switched the name when I got burned in an interview at yahoo, because I put mysql and was expected to be a f'n DBA in mysql, and expected to know all date time datatypes. I'm a developer who has worked with mysql, but have always had dba's that dealt with that crap!

I have also found that using 1 sentance bullet points, which in the xmlresume format they call 'achievements' I think, at least that is what I am using. each line says clearly how you used technology X. Also I think you should use 'active voice' I think it is called ( or is it passiv, I forget ), like 'I created blah blah using C/Java, blah, which resulted in more sales of the product.

Unfortunately, lm_sensors supports only a limited number of hardware monitor chips. For example, on my Toshiba A75 notebook, I can control the fan and get temperatures using the omnibook Linux kernel module (which somehow accesses the BIOS directly), but the Winbond hardware monitor chip on this notebook isn't supported yet, so lm_sensors can't read it through the standard I2C interface. Also, the Linux kernel can't read the temperature and fan settings through ACPI.

I like games where you actually develop a motor skill by virtue of playing it.

Then you'd like X-Moto (site is down at the moment, but it's worth waiting for). In fact, I almost hesitate to recommend it because it can be so addicting.

There was, ten years ago, a shareware game called Action SuperCross. Terrible graphics, amazingly deep skill-based gameplay. The same author eventually released an updated version called ElastoMania. I'd beaten all the built-in levels, many of the add-on levels and had times close enough to the world records in some places that I was satisfied.

Anyway, I showed a friend a little ElastoMania gameplay for some nostalgia and he came back the next day with a copy of X-Moto, an open-source clone of ElastoMania with slightly different physics, a much better engine, and a whole lot more free levels. After playing it all week, I'm currently on level 17.... :)

Eliza needs an AI-optimized Firefox to run the JavaScript program for artificial intelligence.

AI Mind is a more advanced artificial intelligence at the Saint Stephen AI Project.

Mind.html is a Tutorial Artificial Intelligence that will work properly only if JavaScript works as well in Firefox as in Internet Explorer.

Paul.
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Paul Hurley, Completely Pointless

In Linux, email attachments aren't nearly as much of a problem. My understanding is that, with most Linux email programs, clicking an email attachment does not result in something running without asking the user first. Furthermore, the .exe attachments and active-X stuff won't run even if the user does give permission. I recently received a message with a .exe attachment and had no idea how make Windows-only stuff like that run or open. If something did somehow run the program most likely would not be running with full root (administrative) privileges.

Ordinary free downloaded software usually comes from projects at reputable well known organizations such as Source Forge or the Free Software Foundation. The programs can be downloaded in source code form and compiled and the source code is available for public inspection. I am no expert on any of this, but the source code later gets compiled and packages for particular versions of Linux such as Ubuntu (or whatever) are created and placed on repositories waiting to by downloaded by ordinary users. A Ubuntu user would then run Symantic and select which of the thousands of free programs he wants to have installed. Most Linux users do not just download and install software from just anywhere. The Ubuntu user can choose which types of repositories use. I am not sure about signature signatures and other details. I have occasionally wondered if perhaps a trojan from somewhere like that might still be possible but I haven't heard of it happening.

Even if email attachments in Linux aren't much of a problem, targeted trojans with kestroke-loggers or screen-scraping software and such might still be something to think about. Obviously, no operating system has perfect security.

By far the best one I've used is calll Virtual Dimension. I can set it up to behave just like GNOME, with CTRL + ALT + RIGHT to move to the desk at the right, and CTRL + ALT + LEFT to move left. One can also drag and drop icons from desk to desk, or make a window appear on all desks. It's also integrated into Window's shell.
Check it out:
http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

Or http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ ultravnc, which is windows only but includes both encryption and integrated windows authentication (local or domain).

Try http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ it's very good

I currently use bbLean. It has not been updated in awhile but it is reliable.

Schwab

Back in the days when I was still using windows, I used Virtuawin. It works very nicely, has a rich feature set, but ... 9 virtual desktops, each one filled with application, sometimes brought Windows to its knees ;-)

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net

See also my previous post about Virtuawin an other posts in reply to an article about "Improving the Windows XP User Interface" containing other useful applications in the same line: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/14/19 18218&tid=201

http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

the power toys - or whatever the junk is from M$ - sucks!

Never really used it, but it might do what you want... http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/

Sounds a lot like http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

The S is for simple-- but it is also thorough, graphic, does remote, logarithm purging/retention..but most of all: IT WORKS!!

-- SORRY!! But I am *still* a proud member of /. =:]

The best way to read web site stats is to use something like AWStats which gets its information directly from your server logs. All the problems that relate to third-party services don't apply.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/instlux

Why not find blogging software that can handle user-entered HTML snippets and use something like colorer (one of a few out there) to generate HTML from code. If the blogging package also gave you the ability to add an iframe in your story, you could also point that at a web CVS/SVN repository viewer that has syntax coloring (most do) for the cases where you're posting the code of a source file rather than a snippet.

This kind of solution is likely to be much cleaner and give you better results than looking for a blogging package that can handle code natively. Even if you were able to find such a package, it's unlikely it would be able to handle as many languanges as the packages that are dedicated to displaying code in an HTML format.

Well, in my cube I have two screens on my workstation, and my laptop sharing the workstation keyboard and mouse using synergy, so I use the laptop for slashdot!

I've never actually used it because I'm too cheap to buy another 802.11 adapter, but from what I've read airpwn can do this, although I'm not sure how scriptable it is.

I know it did some fun things with goatse injection at defcon

I have one monitor attached to my RHEL4 box, where I use KDevelop, etc for writing php code.

The other monitor is attached to a low-powered windows box useful for thunderbird/firefox/internet explorer (have to check my webpages).

One mouse and keyboard: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Sure, you can't drag windows from one platform to the other, but copy/paste works and you can share mouse/keyboard.

That's the most productive I've ever been, two 19" crts at 1600x1200. Now I just have to wait for 19" LCDs to get that kind of dot pitch.