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Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

Java is already fragmented. The result of open sourcing Java will actually be consolidation, i.e. killing of competing VMs. And a huge open source test suite will greatly benefit all surviving JVMs, which is a good thing.

How can you not see this?

Javas problem is not that it might get fragmented, the problem is that it IS fragmented. Do something about it! Let Java free!

http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/

Why not teach em FORTRAN too?

Have a . Teach em something that is actually useful.

Those stupid Debian people not supporting a GPL driver. What reason could they have? I bet they're being needlessly stodgy and difficult. They keep this up they'll enter the distro graveyard populated by FreeBSD and Slackware. I mean, Ubuntu is the distro flavor du jour for reasons other than linux users have the attention spans of goldfish and will latch on to Gentoo, Fedora, or whatever's being hyped. Let's see Debian them defend their actions.

> Well, there is already a debian package that includes the rt2500
> sources. This driver works pretty well and is in GPL, but does not
> respect kernel standards (code organisation, private ioctl, access to
> the filesystem from the module, ...), so it will never be merged in the
> kernel.
> However, some cool guys are developping a new driver from scratch with
> some help from ralink. See http://rt2400.sourceforge.net/ . This driver
> is called rt2x00 as it supports rt2400, rt2500, rt2560 and rt2600 chips.
> This driver is coded cleanly, but still does not work very well. However
> the netdev kernel guys already said they will accept this driver
> directly in the kernel when it will be working correctly.
>
> Giving the speed at which the rt2x00 driver is developped, I am pretty
> sure the driver will be merged in the kernel before the etch release.
Awsome, I think the best thing to do with regards to this bug
is find out what needs to be done to make that happen, and if
possible, help out.

Those monsters. How dare they value stuff like "kernel standards" and listen to these "upstream kernel devs." The helping out part is FUD. Debian's not about community or volunteer effort. That's not a way to build a good OS. That OS may be stable but unless you're not afraid of breaking your kernel a little. Who's going to use it? It'll never overtake the desktop at that rate. Wait! This argument reminds of another one having to do with linux. Fancy that.

Sheesh, nothing against or for Ubuntu, it seems with any Debian/Ubuntu article, someone has to comment how awesome Ubuntu is and that Debian is dying and nobody uses it anymore. As a person who put Debian on 4 laptops and a server, I now know how the FreeBSD guys felt.

No it's not. Every PCI device has a unique number assigned to it, made up of a vendor code and a product number. The pciids project maintains a useful list of these IDs.

In addition, each device plugged in to your system gets a PCI address, but that is entirely dependent on your particular system.

Run "lspci -vv" one day and you can have a look at the information supplied.

Anyway, gmencoder, konverter, iriverter, movieconvert, and a load of other stuff.

And since you mentioned SVCD specifically, here is Tovid (screenshot)

a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player.

Don't know if any of that stuff is right though... Good luck!

Anyway, gmencoder, konverter, iriverter, movieconvert, and a load of other stuff.

And since you mentioned SVCD specifically, here is Tovid (screenshot)

a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player.

Don't know if any of that stuff is right though... Good luck!

Anyway, gmencoder, konverter, iriverter, movieconvert, and a load of other stuff.

And since you mentioned SVCD specifically, here is Tovid (screenshot)

a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player.

Don't know if any of that stuff is right though... Good luck!

You can use WinPooch in combination with ClamWin to allow for active scanning type goodness.
Cheers,
E.

I agree with these book selections though I think that it's wrong to say "these are must-haves for the Linux/Unix user" if they cost money. That's because Linux should be free, you shouldn't 'need' to drop $200 to be proficient in it. You need to invest time but not money.

Perhaps there are free resources out there.

People love shinies, Flash gives them those shinies, Linux's Flash plugin is bollocks.

That's funny...Flash is one of the few things on Linux that hasn't given me grief.

That and mplayer and xine both having terrible, eye splitting guis make it a nono.

You might want to take a look at some of the flashier frontends out there, like Kaffeine and amaroK. Both of these were available in my OpenSuSE installation, and they look great and work great.

• Cinelerra
• LiVES
• FFmpeg (conversions)

• Cinelerra
• LiVES
• FFmpeg (conversions)

You mean a PC that includes:

An office suite.

A standards compliant browswer

Maybe a simple image editor

And maybe a couple of small utility programs.

Yeah, I guess that would be worth paying for....
I mean, it's not like people are giving it away for free.

You mean a PC that includes:

An office suite.

A standards compliant browswer

Maybe a simple image editor

And maybe a couple of small utility programs.

Yeah, I guess that would be worth paying for....
I mean, it's not like people are giving it away for free.

You mean a PC that includes:

An office suite.

A standards compliant browswer

Maybe a simple image editor

And maybe a couple of small utility programs.

Yeah, I guess that would be worth paying for....
I mean, it's not like people are giving it away for free.

Off the top of my head, two GPL programs that do code folding are: Code::Blocks (cross-platform, wxWidgets based) and Notepad++ (sadly, Windows-only).

Better yet...download Audacity link and record a WAV file to your own computer...leave your fiend's computer out of it and skip that Radio Shack trip. (Most of their stuff is overpriced anyway).

The best thing you can do is NOT install Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, or MSN. All four of those programs are spyware ridden bloatware.

The best thing to do it install a third party messenger. I myself perfer GAIM http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ and there is also Trillian.

Save your Windows box the trouble, and install 3rd party. You don't get the fancy backgrounds, webcams, buzzes, or whatever crap, but you do get a basic texting program, that does what it is supposed to, be a text messaging program. GAIM is lightweight, and very simple to use. It can connect to all 4 protocols listed above plus some.

AJB: The main thing to watch out for with BlueJ is becoming too dependant on it. A number of students have had difficulty programming without BlueJ once they have learnt to use it.

NDE: Absolutely. Last year, a worryingly large number of our students thought that the programming language that they had learned was called BlueJ!

Well, The problem is that real programmers like to code and not fix bugs. I my self am more happy with having featuritis than wanting to solve the bugs (not exciting). --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/

I guess if you're making stuff that you believe is -likely- to be used to break the law, you have a certain level of responsibility to try and make sure it doesn't. For example, I've refused on an occasion to write software for someone because of how it was going to be used (in this case, it was for managing unsolicited mailouts aka spam).

Let's take another case. This one is also real. Back in the 90s, I was involved with a project called NASM, a free assembler for Intel processors. Back in the early days, we had a rather nasty bug in the preprocessor that caused it to segfault if you tried to use a certain feature in a certain way (I forget the details, but it was hard to work around if you wanted that feature). The bug was reported, and we fixed it. However, it was clear from the way that it was reported that the reporter wanted it fixed because he needed that particular feature for a toolkit for virus writers.

So: do we fix the bug, and release software that is "adapt[ed] ... to assist in the commission of ... an offence under section 1 or 3" and "believing that it is likely to be so used" (in fact, we damn well knew for certain that it would be used that way), or do we sit on it?

Well, we sat on it for a while. But in the end, there were other users who needed that bug fixed. So the virus writers got their toolkit.

But if this law had been in place then, we'd have had to seriously consider whether we were committing a criminal offence that could earn us 2 years inside. And by my interpretation, we would have been.

Meanwhile, we're going to be going through the *second* Summer of Code without a stable release including some of the major accomplishments, like file transfers actually working.

In fact, awesome, the FFMpeg people come right out and say that if you're not using CVS to basically screw off and leave them alone.

They're not alone in this.

Now, yes, they do have regular CVS snapshots I could try (which they actually warn against using!), but the most frustrating thing is that the last stable release - containing this crashing bug they've known about (and already fixed!) for potentially years - was in September 2003, which is *far* too long to go without rolling in CVS fixes and producing a new stable release.

If developers don't regularly release new stable versions (at least every 6-12 months), then it's discouraging to end-users to even bother reporting fixes - it gives the impression that the project is dead and you won't see a new version for years, if ever.

Here is the link to KDE on Cygwin project. It is still not native but almost there.

Red Hat is dead on the money with this. Unless Sun goes OSS for Java 100%, then it is still attached to the closed-source world and that causes certain problems.

More to the point, why do so many people have their hats on so tight that they can't think straight when it comes to Sun? Like Netscape and Oracle, people are willing to overlook a huge number of idiocies in certain companies in the name of united hate towards Microsoft as if Microsoft was the only closed source software publisher. In the end, THAT is what this about because even if every byte of Java's code was naked to the world, it isn't going to be any less slow or bloated. Fixing Java and spreading it is NOT what this is about.

Sun has plenty of baggage but positioned Java as if they could have their cake and eat it too: uber-cross-platform but closed source. Everyone should buy into it as if it came from the masses organically instead of top-down from Sun, as if it was open when it wasn't, and adopt it while shouting crap at Microsoft about Visual Basic, and so forth.

So now the OSS community which has so many coders so deeply psychologically invested in Java and the potential future, despite that future to date falling abysmally short of any of the initial propaganda, finds that they can't ignore the chickens who came home to roost and are laying eggs all over the sofa and desk.

Time to get with it and either pressure Sun or let the issue drop and come up with a totally OSS cross-platform language. Oh, I forgot. We have them but we still hold this childish fascination with the legend of Sun as competition for Microsoft when they are demonstrably not and their flagship OS Solaris is being kicked aside for SuSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core here, there, and everywhere. If the OSS community wants to continue this idiot face-off with Microsoft, the it needs to stop clinging to the apron-strings of companies that are in the end not one bit different.

Whichever way Sun goes on this, the OSS community can't let that be an influence or controlling factor in anything. Life must go on, Java or not. Not as though I use it for more than KoLMafia anyhow. Give me something that is fast, open, and cross platform that lives and dies by its own credentials and value. NOT something crappy being clung to for psycho-political reasons.

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a WDDM Driver. Wonder how much the SDK for that will cost.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304, 000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performan ce. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is th ere, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis g ives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of comput er. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, htt p, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice ins tead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is s o fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to th e late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enli ghtenment's is better still, and I still routi

I just installed Fedora Core 4 and 5 (see below) on my daughter's Winbook W235 http://www.winbook.com/notebooks/w/w_overview.html . This is a very nice machine for $900 with a wide screen, DVD writer, 512M, and an 80G drive. It uses an Intel motherboard with the 855GM graphics adapter and 2200 wifi. As you note you'll need to install the Intel firmware, either from Livna http://rpm.livna.org/ or directly from Intel's site on Sourceforge http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php. Once I had the firmware installed, I could configure the wireless card with the included utilities in GNOME or KDE, and I didn't have to play with ndiswrapper or any other kludge.

The screen is more problematic. The 855 (and later 900+) adapters support a number of resolutions, but they weren't recognized by the normal drivers. The screen on this machine is 1280x768, but an out-of-the-box install forced it to 1024x768 which resulted in very ugly fonts. Luckily there's a little utility out there called 855resolution http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ that you can load in rc.local and kick the adapter into other modes. Once I installed that, the KDE "Display" control saw the new resolution, and the Fedora desktop looked as nice as the Windows one.

We don't play games on this machine (we're both console types), so I can't speak for its graphics performance. It works great with Xine, though; movies and anime in the widescreen aspect ratio look terrific. Since I run KDE, I use the arts drivers to handle sound; they work fine.

OK, now for the big problem. FC4 installed just fine off the DVD, but FC5 would not install at all. (I've filed a bug report with the Fedora folks.) I finally installed FC5 by installing FC4 first, then running a system upgrade from the FC5 repositories http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq. This worked fine; it just added a few hours to the installation since yum had to update a couple thousand RPMs.

Finally, here's a hint if you buy a laptop like this one with Windows pre-installed. First, download and boot a copy of the Knoppix live CD or DVD http://www.knopper.net/. Once it's up and running, run "qtparted" from the command prompt. This is a nice graphical frontend to parted that will allow you to resize your partitions without having to buy something like Partition Magic. If you've used the Windows partition at all, I'd recommend running its disk optimizer to push all the Windows files to the front of the partition. Then you can lop off a chunk at the back for Linux.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bluefrog/

FileZilla

winpooch? http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpooch/

Why bother with PartitionMagic? Just use GParted. There's even a LiveCD out for it. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Recently, I had to develop a web interface to a firewall (based off smoothwall). I decided to split the interface and implementation so I implemented the interface in C and used libtemplate for the html/js stuff.

An example of this implementation is the web interface for my (crappy, mostly not working, hard to compile) cctv program at http://devsec.sourceforge.net/

In the source tarball the web interface is in the "devsec/web_interface" directory.

The reason I did this was to allow the web developers to create different interfaces without being able to screw with the backend.

"Premium Ready" is this and this:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero, that is:.
  • Has a fucking WDDM Driver.
  • Supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware.
  • Supports 32 bits per pixel.
  • 64 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels (1280 x 1024)
  • 128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels
  • 256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304,000 pixels
  • Vista Upgrade Advisor running on Windows XP will tell you.
• 128 MB of graphics memory. WTF? it't 64M but it's really 128M
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive3.
• Audio output capability. What, no mention of drivers?
• Internet access capability.

Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performance. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is there, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis gives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of computer. I've run with a lot less.

Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :

• a program menu with a search feature, old hat for KDE.
• a more integrated browser, KDE's Konqueror does much more We're talking seamless network integration, like ftp, sftp, http, smb, whatever to local files on top of the rest, not to mention complete user choice instead of the "helpful" world of extension stealing and Google blocking "integration" M$ is so fond of.
• Transparency, finally. This has already been compared above. Welcome to the late 90s, Mr. Gates.
• Window Preview Thumbnails and a useless 3d toy, because they have yet to develop a decent multi desktop and virtual screen window manager. Once again, this seriously lags free software like the 1999 kpager. Kpager looks nicer now but Enlightenment's is better still, and I still routinely run it with 24 or so virtual

Utlimately, your take on mapping's place in middleware comes down to whether you accept the assertion - as I do - that enterprise computing systems tend toward diversity and heterogeneity. Those who understand and accept this assertion readily accept the need for mappings and the limitations they present. Those who continually strive to homogenize their computing systems, on the other hand, are essentially fighting a losing battle because they're swimming upstream against ever-advancing technology and ever changing business requirements. Change is, of course inevitable. Part of planning for change means making your middleware applications as loosely coupled and flexible as possible, and good mappings play an important part in achieving those goals.

Now, it might be fine for quickly whacking out a way to connect your favorite scripting language to C++, but for a commercial, production application I would go with a more proven, standardized solution such as CORBA. There are many excellent open source implementations (another good reason for using a standardized spec), such as omniorb.

http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php /Main_Page

I admit it's not quite as fully featured as EndNote / Reference Manager, but its actually got a few "features" that I like as well (not least of which is it will let you put the reference section somewhere OTHER than the end of the document. I'm looking at you, Reference Manager 10...)

Ok, I'll bite, because I figure that you're young enough to not know how google works. ndiswrapper should take care of your network cards. as for the printer, look here. Oh, and do make sure you never buy any new piece of hardware until the company which makes it at *least* releases working binary drivers. That should help move things along rather nicely. Also, before mods mod me down as offtopic... This here's a real-world luser with a real-world problem. He's stuck between a GoodThing(tm) (the linux driver dev process) and a BadThing(tm) (crappy hardware companies who think they've something to hide), with nowhere to go.

So, with google, how do I search for the difference between the following LaTeX commands

Exactly. If you want a stable kernel API, you could help with The Extensible Driver Interface project, particularly by helping to stabilize EDI itself and write a Linux layer.

this is nothing compared to this, google is just playing catching up
http://zk1.sourceforge.net/

> If Java could release supported GTK bindings instead of having to rely on Swing It would be a dream come true.

You want Java-GNOME http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/

For the DC++, I direct you towards Shakespeer - http://shakespeer.sourceforge.net/.

Can't help you with the Calendar deal... I don't use iCal myself, so I'm not experienced with it.