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I've used Spambayes at a few sites and most users love it. It gives the users control to filter what they want.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

I'm impressed that this thread is not full with references to the LOGO programming language. LOGO is still (after decades) one of the best example for teaching programming to kids IMHO. And by "kids" I mean persons bellow the age of 12.

There are some commercial flavors (some are quite impressive), but my teaching of LOGO is based on the FMSLogo released under GPL http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/ (an updated version of MSWLogo) and of course the Berkeley Logo (UCBLogo) is a nice way to go, too http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html.

For starting, you get an interpreter ready to listen to your commands and an editor to "enter many commands" and/or group them in methods and many more nice things (you can of course write quite complex software, but for me this is not the point). You get to know a programming language which is alive for decades suited for children and why not teaching material about fundamental programming concepts which are mature and build over decades.

Understanding concepts like: a computer program (writing, saving, loading your source), program input/output, writing and calling methods (functions, subroutines whatever you want to call them) with or without parameters, syntax errors, loops which is not that trivial for small ages gets easy with LOGO and moving this turtle to draw on screen is a nice way to enter this world at these ages.

Afterwards there comes variables, decisions (if-then-else) and you have an environment to teach all the principles of programming which are used almost in every programming language the kid might be interested in the future. All these while moving a turtle (=having fun).

BTW, before the OOP paradigm became such a standard as is today, LOGO from the early beggining was kind of Object Oriented; the turtle is an object and commands to the turtle like 'forward 30' or 'right 90' are turtle/object-centric (object methods). Nowadays you can have many objects (turtles) moving around (our turtle is a class). Not just for historical reasons, kids at these ages get into thinking giving commands to an object which is a nice thing to have in their minds for their future findings in programming.

static public void main (String args[]) {
    int i = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
    int j = Integer.parseInt(args[2]);
    int k = i + j;
    System.out.println(k);
}

ASSP is an excellent, cross-platform, open source mail filter that is quite popular amongst my long-suffering Windows mail server admins. Perl-based and platform-agnostic it might be what you're looking for.

the filesystems used in linux are free and open.

• explore2fs application that reads files from an ext2/ext3 partition, with LVM2 support
• ext2ifs old project by the maker of explorefs2, native reading support of ext2/ext3 in windows NT and up
• ext2fsd native reading support of ext2/ext3
• ext2ifs NON-opensource (maybe violating GPL ?) native read/write support for ext2 (and ext3, but the driver could fuck-up the journaling if partition wasn't unmounted clean in linux). Has a nice GUI to assign drive letters to partitions.
• rfstools and GUI Yareg application that reads files from an reiserfs partition.
• rfsd - native reading support for reiserfs

• It is possible to add access to linux partition in windows
• Even write access is possible and currently the non-open source ext2ifs provides a solution that can be read/written by both OS and which is a little better than FAT32
• although Windows has no propper device mapper but only Dynamic Drives, LVM2 data can still be accessed (although not with a native driver).
• None of this numerous attempt is done by Microsoft. This show how much they want to play nice with the others

the filesystems used in linux are free and open.

• explore2fs application that reads files from an ext2/ext3 partition, with LVM2 support
• ext2ifs old project by the maker of explorefs2, native reading support of ext2/ext3 in windows NT and up
• ext2fsd native reading support of ext2/ext3
• ext2ifs NON-opensource (maybe violating GPL ?) native read/write support for ext2 (and ext3, but the driver could fuck-up the journaling if partition wasn't unmounted clean in linux). Has a nice GUI to assign drive letters to partitions.
• rfstools and GUI Yareg application that reads files from an reiserfs partition.
• rfsd - native reading support for reiserfs

• It is possible to add access to linux partition in windows
• Even write access is possible and currently the non-open source ext2ifs provides a solution that can be read/written by both OS and which is a little better than FAT32
• although Windows has no propper device mapper but only Dynamic Drives, LVM2 data can still be accessed (although not with a native driver).
• None of this numerous attempt is done by Microsoft. This show how much they want to play nice with the others

Entourage is certainly a nicer program than Outlook. The lack of true Exchange connectivity is its second greatest flaw. The BIG problem is users with a ton of filed mail and databases growing to 3 or 4GB. Amazingly, I see very f corrupt databases these days, even at that size. The size isn't the problem so much as that it's all in one big file for everything. That's a horrific problem for doing backups, the limited caching doesn't help much with catching the database between changes. Mail.app saves mail as text (.mbox files split into individual messages). The Entourage database has a lot of text that looks like what you'll see in a .mbox file, so it's parseable.

I don't agree with the 'one big file' approach (vehement hatred is more like it), but I will admit that they have finally gotten their code right (Entourage 2001 was a nightmare, so this is the third version). Rebuilds are rare these days, mail doesn't get eaten and they did a neat trick with Spotlight. When 10.4 came out, the MBU said "we don't think so" to Spotlight support but pulled it off in the new update.

Oh, and do check out both OmniGraffle (best Cocoa code factory around), it's a terrific little diagrammer - beautiful output. And also look at FreeMind. "A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding." Java app, interface needs work, would be very interesting to use for a live presentation.

If you know of a Windows ext3 or Raiser driver, then please tell me. Basically, nothing has changed.

Well, instead of moaning about the non-existence of something that you've clearly not checked for, you could always try this site, followed by this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one, plus many others.

Want a renderer?

A free renderer?

Try Art of Illusion. (I think it's http://aoi.sourceforge.net/ but I may be wrong, and too lazy to google).

You can export out of Sketchup in .obj format and import into AOI. AOI has a very generous and quality renderer, with some interesting features.

Also, there is a very complete Sketchup to POVRAY exporter. It isn't my cup of tea, so I don't use it, but it's huge and rather comprehensive. It is, however, something of a hack. I believe you can find a link to it through the Sketchup Ruby Library: http://amazone.crai.archi.fr//Ruby/RUBY_Library_De pot.htm

Sketchup also has import-export ties to a lot of drafting programs and other 3d programs. It is becoming something of a standard for architectural mock-ups.

Even though I use Sketchup a lot, and I think it's a great program, it does have its issues:

A) The automatic welding can be a pain
B) The layering system leaves some to be desired -- I have written scripts to remedy this (SKP has a Ruby interface that is well done). Specifically, you can have lines and faces in a "group" that are on one layer, but the group object itself is on another -- this can be very confusing, and become very difficult to organize your layers properly. I have a script that will "layer segregate" a group to the group's containing layer.
C) Can't extrude curved faces, even if it's only in 2-d (a cuve on a plane). Though you can get around this by selecting the curved edge, offseting, and then extruding upwards.
C2) No true curves -- it's all line segments, hence polygonal, hence you can't retain detail
C3) There is, however, a way to make parametric objects -- I've toyed with the idea of creating a parametric library, maybe even attempting to implement a deformation stack, but it would be quite a colossal kludge, even if cool.
D) Lighting sucks -- give us a "camera spotlight" or at least one positionable light.
E) Shadows occasionally have inversion issues (lighting gets "inverted".. very odd)

All things told, though, Sketchup is well worth these rather minor limits, and with scripting, is quite extensible. AND cross platform! Great stuff.

The problem is that you are then limiting yourself to a handful of hobbyist created plugins rather than thousands of professionally made plugins. And incidently as well as the high quality (and often high priced) commercial plugins you also have thousands of free hobbyist VST plugins, certainly a lot more than exists for Jack.

In a modern studio the sequencer application is really just a shell for modular studio components implemeted as VST plugins. Its the plugins themselves that operate on the sound for the most part.

Compare for instance the list of applications at Jack's homepage with the plugins at kvraudio. Further I dont see any way of just dropping a specific jack app into a host sequencer they all seem to be satndalone software. Further browsing a random sample reveals software which to my eyes looks ugly, hard to use, overly complicated and I suspect sounds awful.

The Firepod's chipset (BeBoB) has a driver in the works for Linux, called FreeBoB. FreeBoB is still in early beta stages. While it does work and looks promising, there's still a lot of work to be done with it.

Firepod + Jack + Ardour is the shit!

The Firepod's chipset (BeBoB) has a driver in the works for Linux, called FreeBoB. FreeBoB is still in early beta stages. While it does work and looks promising, there's still a lot of work to be done with it.

Firepod + Jack + Ardour is the shit!

Anonymous writer writes:
Recovery volumes for various archival utilities have been around a long time. This is just the first time that I know of where they use the RSA algorithm instead of an older algorithm.

To be clear:

Dispersal is not encryption. (Cleversafe uses both.)

While we (Cleversafe) do use public-private key methods to encrypt the data/content, this is still a separate operation from the data *dispersal*.

Moreover, if the content encryption is somehow cracked/broken (and public-private key encryption can be broken), the cracker acquires at most 1/11th (in our current IDA scheme) of "scrambled"/non-contiguous data.

This is the major reason why we feel that our system provides unique, security-and-privacy-based value over encryption-only based systems. If the encryption breaks, you still can't get the data. (And of course, we use the encryption mechanism, too.)

Note that a different RSA key can be used to encrypt each file Slice (ie, for each Cleversafe "Pillar," as per our terminology for our grid design) such that if a cracker breaks one slice/Pillar's key, they still have to break the key for other Pillars (and there are 11 total Pillars in the current IDA scheme)...*in addition* to the "toplevel" key we use to encrypt the file before it's sliced/dispersed. Note: we don't have this post-dispersed-encryption feature in our current alpha4.1.3 code (we only encrypt the toplevel file before it's compressed and dispersed), but we believe it will not be difficult to add.

Also: we will be signing each slice as well, for data-integrity purposes to prevent both malicious and non-malicious data change/vandalism. This also will be a feature added in the near term.

One can read more about the open-source flavor of the Cleversafe grid design.

-Matt

ps: I encourage interested parties to continue discussions at http://forums.cleversafe.org/ (as well as to soon-to-be-available email lists that will synchronized with these forums).

Probably not. The Godson is a MIPS clone, and NT 4.0 worked on MIPS, but you need ARC firmware. My guess would be that this just runs Linux from flash, with not much in the way of firmware. Also, I'm not sure if Godson is a 100% MIPS clone, or if they left out the patented bits. It was described as "95% MIPS compatible", which makes me think that you probably need to tweak the compilers a bit to make it work.

More importantly, what's the point of running NT 4.0 these days?

* ducks *

Hey! If you do cheesy, might as well do it the cheesy way!

* ducks *

* ducks *

Hey! If you do cheesy, might as well do it the cheesy way!

* ducks *

Wish I could figure out why I can't get it to use my custom MP3's as "ringtones" but that's not exactly an important feature for me.

Check out Moto4Lin. I've got a V-188 too, and I've uploaded custom ringtones and backgrounds onto my phone using it.

Small world,

I also did my master's thesis on a concept like this. I was doing this splitting and syncing using virtual disks. They communicated on AES encrypted TCP packets. I idea was it would be a system simple enough for any to set up as a bunch of friends or families.

I've been too busy to work too much on it since graduating, but I opened all of the code and it's on sourceforge.
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/netraid/

In any case, I think distributed backup is a great idea whose time is finally starting to arrive. When new projects are started in this area I think we should all be happy since this gives us more choices.

RME refuse to release specs for the fireface. Shame as it'd be the perfect compliment to ardour/linux and it'd fit in an SKB rack as part of a mobile rig. Apogee have a firewire option for the 800 and apparently freebob will support it. Unfortunately Apogee's convertors are hideously overpriced.

Speaking of retro games ...
Does anybody remember Apple Panic? In ~1982 it impressed me.
More then 20 years later I programmed an open source version
(see http://seed7.sourceforge.net/scrshots/panic.htm).

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed7
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/seed7

Speaking of retro games ...
Does anybody remember Apple Panic? In ~1982 it impressed me.
More then 20 years later I programmed an open source version
(see http://seed7.sourceforge.net/scrshots/panic.htm).

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed7
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/seed7

Speaking of retro games ...
Does anybody remember Apple Panic? In ~1982 it impressed me.
More then 20 years later I programmed an open source version
(see http://seed7.sourceforge.net/scrshots/panic.htm).

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed7
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/seed7

I would probably start looking at this as a paper project and see if you can't rationalise your network address schemes somewhat, I've used and would recommend IPPlan generally, http://iptrack.sourceforge.net/ but I don't tend to manage networks in any meaningful way, I prefer the networks to manage themselves, getting initial configurations of DHCP and DNS schemas right and then scaling it all up, maintaining documentation of the general topology generally helps too, although actually tracking what IP address is assigned to what isn't generally all that important or at least not for more than about 10% of the addressed nodes (I reserve ranges for static addressing on servers and network devices that require them and issue them sequentially per device, everything else is dynamic).

.However you seem to be talking about more than a few thousand hosts so it will presumably be a bit different, I've never though about scaling a LAN that I have managed beyond 3000 devices, and when looking at WAN its never been a problem to have multiple networks with the same address schemes interconnect, it just involved NAT at each gateway

Just a quick one, if you are using all of the address allocation according to RFC1981 that would mean you have well in excess of 16 Million nodes, or you really need to look at how you have allocated subnets...

Well, it's backup software, not webserving software, firstly. Also, the software is still in alpha, though with a development team of 10 or so ( as per their sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleversafe ), that's soon to change.

so it's sort of like parchive http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ which is software splits every file you backup into small slices, any majority of which can be used to perfectly recreate all the original data

The most valuable IP -- is prior art that can not be patented.

Question Technology -- where are we ultimately heading?

The end is nigh. -- Technological Singularity Timeline

After Vigor, I don't think there's any kind of Clippy that can surprise me.

*Please* don't select a winner that breaks the slashdotter extension.

I haven't had a look at the code for the slashdotter, but I hope it's robust enough to deal with CSS changes like this contest suggests without breaking.

Unfortunately, robustness doesn't seem to be the general rule with Mozilla extensions, which seem to break with every upgrade or site change. Sometimes it seems as if half of the Greasemonkey scripts don't work any more because the pages they were designed to work with have changed.

The one the surprizes me the most is the Venkman JavaScript debugger. Usually developer tools are the first things that get ported to a new version of any platform because the developers are using it themselves, but for some reason, the Venkman debugger is frequently non functional on the latest version of Firefox.

Oh well. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope this contest doesn't break slashdotter or that the extension gets updated quickly afterwards.

P.S. I hope you can't tell that SpellBound is broken on my installation of FireFox.

The better way would be to run XBMC (XBox Media Center), and xbmcmythtv. It's not perfect yet, but it's definately getting there. It requires a modded xbox (which you have), and doesn't require installing/booting linux, so it's quicker. It's a bit tricky to get ahold of the programs, since the source is distributable, but the binaries are not (MS won't sign them [hence mod required], and the xbox SDK forbids the distribution of non-signed binaries). They can be found with some digging.

Here's some links that might help you out:

http://waltercedric.com/Mambo/index.php?option=com _content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=40
http://forums.designtechnica.com/archive/index.php /t-4278.html
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonb oard.pl?act=ST;f=8;t=5934
http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07 /01/0353218&from=rss
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/archive/index.ph p/t-40168.html
http://www.xbins.org/

If you actually use windows and want ls(among other things), check out:

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Maybe this guy can get rich: http://powershell.sourceforge.net/

I have a very small business with three locations (one is my home). The ISP connection varies some are Comcast some are Verizon residential DSL.

As I see it I have three problems. 1. The IP address will be dynamic from the ISP's and 2. Most of the PC's are running Win XP home 3. Would prefer a no cost solution

I would like to be able to remote desktop (ie contral/access) any pc from any location.

I have successfully installed http://hamachi.cc/ Hamachi to address the dynamic IP issue but am working on the XP Home issue (ie. RD server only in XP Pro). I recently downloaded http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC but I'm lost after the installation. What do you application do you use to start the desktop sharing.

Most of the PC's are behind a Linksys router some are behind a Linksys router then linksys wireless router.

I've played with dyndns.org and no

I'm not a CCNE but I'm no schlub any help would be appreciated.

Except my girlfriend. I have enormous claws now :D

but seriously, could someone link me to some project that require such high bandwidth over long distances

If you're interested in this subject, why not contribute to an opensource project to be able to build and operate a similar device? "The OpenEEG project is about creating a low cost EEG device. Working hardware has been built and is in a late beta stage. Software is still only alpha." from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openeeg "The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom. Right now, this site is mostly about the hardware; schematics, part lists, building instructions etc. However, a few members have developed some useful software which is hosted on their own websites. You can find these through the software pages." from http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/

If you're interested in this subject, why not contribute to an opensource project to be able to build and operate a similar device? "The OpenEEG project is about creating a low cost EEG device. Working hardware has been built and is in a late beta stage. Software is still only alpha." from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openeeg "The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom. Right now, this site is mostly about the hardware; schematics, part lists, building instructions etc. However, a few members have developed some useful software which is hosted on their own websites. You can find these through the software pages." from http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/

As I am now on Fedora core 5 I can't figure out how to get wireless on my centrino chipset...
In case it's Intel 2915ABG or 2200BG
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

Compiling the driver from source was least hassle for me.

Now if only the window could be made transparent, I'd have everything I want. Or close enough.

sorry. (wait, it's microsoft, why am i apologizing?)

first it's slow. slower than it takes cygwin to load. second, it's too much typing. all the short form aliases are nice, but seriously, remove-item for rm? maybe it's just me, maybe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it. plus, they really should do a google search before coming up with names, the first result for powershell is http://powershell.sourceforge.net/ (the thought did cross my mind)

Couldn't they have picked a different name? I've been using PowerShell on Linux for years now. It's a terminal emulator for X11 (like xterm) and is the first result on Google for the word PowerShell. Now a terminal emulator isn't exactly the same as a shell, but I could see some confusion occurring as a result.

I would expect that if passwords are required to be changed on a regular basis, then that would be more reason to write them down (if they're secure they're probably harder to remember)

I used frotz then frobnitz for a while. I would say that frobnitz has more features than frotz but I would recommend clifrotz.

It is built on the ruins of frotz but has cool stuff like support for external cards (also means no need for messing about with pdb converters), quetzal file support (you can share the save files with other z-machines) and support for larger screens (used with graffiti anywhere means you can play the games in widescreen - very nice!) It also has v6 graphics support if you have any of those.

There is a useful page here which lists the different interpreters for palm.

The only real issue I have with Clifrotz, is that the up and down arrows give you a command history, which is cool and very useful, but this means that you have to drag the screen to get the game history which only gives you about 2 screen's worth of history to backtrack with. The code is being worked on tho so I'm sure we could ask the author to give it a better history viewer.

Personally, I prefer the nice pwgen program. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/
It can make all sorts of passwords, with letters and numbers and such... things like "Meh4Rohfah". Passwords like this would be a pain in the butt to crack, but are much easier to remember than "lewcyHirUx6"

Use a computer program to store them - e.g. PasswordSafe - the logic of storing all your passwords in a program may seem strange, but if you can keep the database in a safe place - on your USB key, for example - it should be a lot more secure than writing them down. A "cracker" would still need a password to open the database. At least you only have to remember one password.

That Mind Map appears to have been made with FreeMind. An excellent, open source, mind mapping solution. I advise folks to try it out.

FreeMind

Jeremy

http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/

With WebCalendar, you can schedule events with multiple participants and it will do conflict checking to make sure everyone is available. PDA Sync is still lacking, but it is under development.

Seems to me that you haven't looked very hard...

please ignore.

[ 1470529 ] Improper Parsing of Archive.org URL's.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1470529&group_id=4421&atid=104421

posted as AC using "Plain old text"

Attempting to use an Archive.org URL in slashdot.

testing begins:

Pasted as actual raw text: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9

Direct url syntax: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206055207/http://w ww.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9>

'A' link: http://www.replaytv.com/faq.html#q9'>replaytv test

See pudge, it messes up....

pwgen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/) provides equally 'memorable' passwords:

Yeip3cee
phoo4ieW
ooW1aeng
deeH4Ahd
thoi9Hei
Aechoi9p
au3maiXe
IeJee2uy

Each run usually turns up a few that are fairly easy to remember.

It's free, secure, easy to use and runs off a thumb drive.

Changing passwords isn't really a big deal when using KeePass.