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Finding RIAA-free music that I like is easy and free. I even *gasp* buy RIAA-free music too! 8-0

Now, go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

I almost thought you were joking about the templates, because what you described is pretty exactly what some people have done. It's called OOextras.

I don't think they match up to the beauty of (some) MS or Corel templates , but StarOffice has some templates you could steal from I bet. Would those be freely distributable under their license?

Anyway, http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/

that's the

Asterisk is too complicated for you to configure? Unable to add the FreePBX web interface? Can't manage to get the Flash Operator Panel working?

Let me introduce you to Asterisk@Home which is uber-easy to configure (get your PBX up and running in an hour or two!), or if the "@Home" name is too objectionable for your PHB, the shiny Asterisk@Work logo so you can convince him that an open source project is suited for business use.

Well, you could use lame, but why do that when it has OGG support? Counting lame against it is unfair!

I wrote the original version of the National Archives software that does the conversion. The current version of the software is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xena

If anybody wants to ask any questions here I'll try and answer.

Yeah, and if you didn't partition correctly.... Donwload GParted and be done with it.

Since I've been dabbling in some home automation stuff a bit recently, I was hoping for a good article on some wireless home security to secure my house - open source stuff. The title was not what I had hoped...anyone know of some good "Open Source Perimeter" hardware and software that works with misterhouse http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/, or other open source projects.

> Finally, support options are limited for most open source software.

But if the author has written a book about the product - or even anything vaguely related - then buy it! For example, DenyHosts is an excellent tool, and the online documentation is good enough that I can use it without any more docs. But if the author were to put together a book, I would certainly pick it up in appreciation for his time spent in developing and supporting that fine utility. In the meantime, I PayPal'd him a few bucks.

Of course, I'm biased...

AI Minds For Robots are being developed as Open Source Artificial Intelligence for installation in PC-based robots in Korea, America, India, Europe and nearby parsecs of planetary space-time.

Mind is an artificial intelligence coded initially in JavaScript for Web migration and in Forth for robots, evolving towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and towards superintelligence beyond any human IQ.

Mind.html in JavaScript has an installed user base of dozens of intelligent entities cached away on hard disks all over the world, with Update and News links for rapid prototyping of state-of-the-art robot AI.

Technological Singularity is now in a countdown to machine take-over not just in Korea but world-wide, unless we humans co-operate with our superintelligent planet-mates in a Joint Stewardship of Earth.

• Ele-Neutrino mass: 0.381 × 10^-8 MeV/c^2
• Mu-Neutrino mass: 0.00537 MeV/c^2
• Tau-Neutrino mass: 0.010752 MeV/c^2

I use gtkpod

I tend to care about screenshots mainly with graphical programs. Therefore, I look at the rendering capabilities (is it nicely shaded, or banded?), the layout (clean and unobtrusive, or a thousand cryptograms spread over the screen), and the quality of the icons (minimal care in drawing, or third-grade art project). I have to really need the functionality the app is offering if the interface looks like the controls of a 747 as reinterpreted by Sumerians.

This won't tell you how well the app really works, but it gives you some idea of the nature of the effort. It can indicate whether the team implementing the program has a coherent vision, or whether the project has attracted enough talent so that someone who can draw icons has come on board. It can also give a hint at a glance of whether the app can be convinced to perform the visualization I need.

Having said this, I tend to end up using programs such as GNUPlot, Octave, or Molden, which fail at least one of the tests above, but are highly functional. They, of course, also have a decade or more of development behind them, which is also critical information, but which doesn't show up in the screenshots.

Finally, may I recommend one of the best indictments of everyone having to have a screenshot of their project. The screenshots for GNU Fortran 95 at http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?gro up_id=5179/. For examples of good screenshots, then http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/ghemical/, which shows not only the basic modeling and interface, but also shows the ability to have custom spotlights and renderings.

Your wish is my command.

http://jpexeso.sourceforge.net/

BTW, NSFW.

It is surprising to note digital music is only six percent of total music sales in 2005. So digital music is just starting and its a good time to come out of the hype see what professionals use.

Everybody now days use mp3. Is that the only music format available? No. There are other music formats available which are far more superior to mp3 but not widely known yet.

Ogg is similar to mp3, but its a completely open and free format. That is, if you want to create audio (eg. Music, podcasts, etc) create in Ogg. You are not breaking the law. The mp3 is a patented technology.

If you are an audiophile, its shame to play mp3 in your HiFi. Consider FLAC. The FLAC is the ultimate audio format, its loose less, high definition and again completely open and free format. There are FLAC players in the market like iAUDIO X5.

I have evaluated the Tomahawk Desktop, its Linux based multimedia OS, you can use it to convert your CDs to either Ogg or FLAC. Its amazing, its just drag and drop! To transfer to your Ogg or FLAC player, its again just drag and drop!

Another advantage of Linux is you can play without getting hit by viruses and worms.

This is late but:

Play Star Control 2. It's on a timer, and after a while the galaxy is overrun by the bad guys.

I always found it annoying, because I love to dilly-dally. But if that's what you're looking for, you may like it.

It's now open source: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Java for Artificial Intelligence is a resource page for university courses in Java coding and artificial intelligence.

Java.Faqts tells you all about Java -- for when you have problems and need to ask questions.

For years I refused to switch from ICQ to IM just because of this abhorrent behavior (that, and how it inserted shortcuts in 10 or 15 different places). Eventually, all my friends migrated to IM and I didn't have much of a choice. To this day, the forced popup windows bug the hell out of me, but I can get around it with 3rd party clients.

A few thousand dollars? For PVR running MythTV? WTF?

Building your own DVR using free scftware should not cost you more than a couple hundred dollars. Be creative and it will cost even less.

Here is the recipe (assumes you have analog cable or OTA antenna and a internet provider)

1. Pentium 400 MHz or faster w/128MB RAM or more, a HD 8GB or larger, a decent video card (nvidia or one that supports Xv), and an ethernet NIC.

Cost: probably free if you reuse an old PC but no more than $100 if you shop on eBay.

2. A cheap frame grabber tuner supported by linux

Cost: $30-$70 ($30 or less for a generic BT878 frame grabber or $70 for a nicer Hauppauge PVR-150)

3. AMICUS CD http://amicus.sourceforge.net/ (meant specifically for older PCs but you can use Knoppmyth or MythDora or do it from scratch, whatever you like)

Cost: $1 for a CD-R plus a few minutes for a download of the ISO

Instructions: assemble PC, install and configure MythTV with AMICUS, hook up to cable TV or antenna, start recording shows. You are done.

Why would you need a networked DRM infested commercial pseudo-DVR?

You don't need thousands of dollars. Put that old clunker PC back to work rather than collecting dust in the basement!

BTW, this is not some abstract theory. People are doing this everyday.

But, the vast majority of people don't have distribution rights for any of the music on their iPods.

You know - you don't have to be an audio engineer to get more then enough freely redistributable music to fill your iPod many times over.

If Apple were more interested in helping their customers, and less interested in helping RIAA / etc out, archive.org (at least) would be prominently featured in itunes.

As things stand they're not interested in promoting any msuic they can't make a few dollars on (even where it would not cost them anything and benefit their customers).

But can it be even possible with all those games and applications from the old days?

Yes, it's called emulation software. If I want to play an old dos game I just use a program called DosBox which is a dos emulator.

I'm sure in the future someone will come out with a Win95 emulator for all your old Windowz games too.

I meant something like scale2x, but I suppose I have never checked to see what it looks like on a TV.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotwayd is a pop deamon that retrieves Hotmail. It sends the same requests that OE does, rather than screen scrape, and it allows you to send mail. You may want to give it a try, if only to have all you mail readable under one client.

Why link to Wikipedia, why not to the project's Sourceforge page. I'm sure SF can handle it.

But this tools are no pro if you compare them to the windows tools. So linux has neither support for pro-audio tools.
 
Oh really? That's pretty weird. Please tell me what we are lacking? In what sense Ardour is not capable for pro-audio? Please tell me, I'm truly interested to hear that.
 
Maybe you didn't know that, but Linux ALSA supports high end audio cards like RME Hammerfall 100%. It is also possible to use VST plugins with JACK audio connection kit. Also, JACK is the most advanced way to share audio between different audio apps on _ANY_ platform.
 
Hey, it's funny! You know what I heard? Highend mixing console designer Harrison (one of the leading manufacturers in business) supports Ardour and actually promotes it to it's customers! What the hell? How can this be? Oh no, they favor Ardour over Pro-Tools! No! This must not be true! It's Linux software, it's not Windows software so it can not be pro-audio tool! Yeah right. Are you familiar with Ardour? Did you know that it outperforms ProTools on similar hardware? Perhaps you should actually learn about Linux audio before you open your mouth.

The suit is against Microsoft's infringement of Eolas patent on the embedding objects inside of HTML pages... It affects Macromedia Flash, QuickTime, RealOne Player, Acrobat Reader, Sun's Java Virtual Machine, and Windows Media Player among other applications that embed into Web pages.

It only affects IE as Eolas has only filed their suit against Microsoft. Mozilla, Linux, OS-X, and any other OS or browser capable of rendering pages with this content are also going to be in violation of this patent. If Eolas is successful and defeats Microsoft's appeal against the suit, there will be nothing to stop them going after others in violation of this suit....

No doubt your tune will suddenly turn around then....

This suit is really only going to serve Microsoft's interests as it will further complicate and hamper those who would push a world connected by HTML. Something Microsoft is not really that interested in, with the rise of Google they'd really like to see HTML suffer and die and be replaced by their own XAML markup language. Google is heading down the same path looking to create their own browser, based on an extended version of HTML.

The suit is against Microsoft's infringement of Eolas patent on the embedding objects inside of HTML pages... It affects Macromedia Flash, QuickTime, RealOne Player, Acrobat Reader, Sun's Java Virtual Machine, and Windows Media Player among other applications that embed into Web pages.

It only affects IE as Eolas has only filed their suit against Microsoft. Mozilla, Linux, OS-X, and any other OS or browser capable of rendering pages with this content are also going to be in violation of this patent. If Eolas is successful and defeats Microsoft's appeal against the suit, there will be nothing to stop them going after others in violation of this suit....

No doubt your tune will suddenly turn around then....

This suit is really only going to serve Microsoft's interests as it will further complicate and hamper those who would push a world connected by HTML. Something Microsoft is not really that interested in, with the rise of Google they'd really like to see HTML suffer and die and be replaced by their own XAML markup language. Google is heading down the same path looking to create their own browser, based on an extended version of HTML.

Although efforts are underway to port Evolution to Windows, it doesn't run yet. IIRC, it can be compiled, but it's far from usable...

Stay tuned though; Tor Lillqvist's pretty unstoppable.

For Arena and DaggerFall, try DosBox. I'm pretty sure DosBox is Bethesda's preferred method of running Arena, and since DaggerFall is also a DOS game I'd start there rather than trying to get it to run under WINE (does WINE emulate Windows' DOS emulation?).

Patch up Morrowind and you shouldn't run into too many crashes (I've run into a few after multi-hour-long play sessions), but make sure you save often. No idea how it runs on Linux, so I'll take your word for it. Good luck getting Oblivion to run under WINE.

I work for a financial services company who has a clients who are supposed to receive emails from us related to trades. Since I manage our web presence, email deliverability is also my problem.

Here are the places to start:

Free Certification
AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/whitelist/
Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmai l
Verizon: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_fo rm.asp?id=isp

Reporting
Spamcop: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=ispsignupform
Hotmail: http://postmaster.msn.com/snds/
Senderbase: http://www.senderbase.org/

Email Signing
SPF: http://www.openspf.org/
DomainKeys: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/

Paid Certification
Bonded Sender: http://www.bondedsender.com/
Habeas: http://www.habeas.com/
Goodmail: http://www.goodmailsystems.com/

A lot of providers outside the US have many of their own rules and regulations to follow, which makes it quite difficult to achieve deliverability. At the end of the day, we try to follow all the rules that have been laid out from existing companies and then deal with individual providers on a needs basis. The more users that use that ISP, the more we are willing to obey their individual rules.

Unfortunately, I see paid certification becoming the way of the future. If I can pay to guarantee to have my clients email delivered rather then negotiate with ISPs every other week based on their varying criteria, I'm pretty sure my company will pay for it. I don't like it, but results are the bottom line.

I have been maintaining a website on sourceforge for years now. I had to create the pages, then tar them up and use scp to transfer the tarball to SF's server, then log in and untar it, change authorites on the files so they could be served, do minor corrections with vi, etc. Nothing challenging but tedious as hell. I would have probably released more files if I didn't have to update the website each time.

I decided that I wanted to simplify the website, put everything on one page, pretty it up with a stylesheet, etc. I had no time to do this. Then Google Pages came along and I was able to create my new website by doing copy and paste from the old website. I was able to try many different stylesheets before deciding on the one I wanted, and I published the website by pressing one button. This combined with what sourceforge gives me is exactly what I wanted.

You can check out the website at http://nicestep.sourceforge.net/ . (You'll be redirected to the google pages version from my original site.)

This is a really good comment. I agree with the idea that the core /. experience -- browsing through comments -- is disgracefully clunky, especially WRT to your third point.

My solution to this was a little different -- implement a vertical "tree" pane, like Google Groups. To my mind this is clearly the best forum user interface in existance -- it's so simple and intuitive that frankly, I'm baffled why I don't see it anywhere else.

I explain in a little better in my SourceForge bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=det ail&aid=1395676&group_id=4421&atid=354421

"Add Google Groups-style navigation pane"

    - Alaska Jack

It appears that XnView http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/uk_pocket_ features.html or Gnome Photo Collector (http://gpc.sourceforge.net/guide.php3) might have keyword indexing.

This is written in Java and is faster. What's your point?

OSX already has Locomotive for that.

still lacks kernel audio mixing So does Windows, though. Neither Windows nor Linux uses kernel audio mixing -- they rely on hardware mixing instead. All somewhat modern sound cards have several PCM subchannels that operating systems use in order to play several sounds simultaneously, and, yes, it is perfectly supported by Linux. Last I tried (admittedly, that was some time ago, but I can't remember just how long), using Windows with a single-channel sound card meant that I could only play one sound at a time.

This could result in a big semantic argument over the meaning of "emulated" much like similar discussions about WINE. (I even found a FAQ that says WINE stands for "WINdows Emulator" when it stands for the exact opposite: "Wine is Not an Emulator")

DOS is not emulated in modern Windows. There are DOS emulators such as DOSBox which is much better at running pre-Pentium DOS apps than Windows is. Really, today, the Windows "command prompt" is really just a modern command-shell. It runs DOS apps by swapping to virtual 86 "real mode" and providing a DOS-compatible API that maps to modern functions as much as is possible. But there are limitations to what it can safely and securely permit.

Hauppauge's MediaMVP.

I use three of them as my Mythtv frontends using http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/. Low energy consumption, boots Linux over the LAN from my Mythtv server and supports slimserver's protocol for listening to music.

> As for the Atari 2600, I've still got most of my cartridges; and if I had a
> functional console I'd still be playing them!

Why not just play them on your PC?

http://stella.sourceforge.net/

Though I have not used it and do not know for sure, it seems that Lphoto http://lphoto.com/ might do what you want, or maybe GImageView http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/ might work. I have gotten by with a program called PornView, an Image/Mpeg viewer, although my needs are not as complex as yours. Mostly, I just use it for its intended application. :)

My Engineering professors all beat this guy by years in proving that Fourier Analyisis works. And they used to routinely prove it and use it on the blackboard during my Electrical Engineering course. In fact, superposition of functions is the basis for many mathematical frameworks, including quantum mechanics.

The basis for my project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like is Fourier Analysis.

FreePop is on the way there. Go and help out if you want it that badly.

So - you install a version of the gimp - you get a copy of gtk, install eog - you get a copy of gtk, install.... well I think you get my point.

Or you could use a package manager like Fink or DarwinPorts.

On the Mac you have scour the web deciding Free or Paid, can I trust this site? Am I downloading a trojan. Oh, this is windows only....

VersionTracker and MacUpdate keep track of "official" software sources. Apple has a directory as well.

apt-get update if you have installed the Fink package management system.

For normal Mac apps, either an installer will do the upgrade, or simpler, a drag and drop of a new version to the location of the old version to replace the old one.

Right. If you want to install the exact same apps on Mac OS X as you want to do on your Linux boxen, you can choose between the Debian apt-get package management system Fink or the FreeBSD Port package management system. They even have GUI frontends if you choose in .app directories that you can move wherever you want on the filesystem. Pretty simple, eh? ;-)

I'm quite pleased with it as having hourly backups has been a real life saver. The thing I always noted is that the stuff that's the most important is the most recent.... Frequent backups are good!

I'll probably update it in the near future to rewrite with Python. I think my desire to keep it as a shell script was misguided, really the server only works properly on Linux, though it will backup other clients just fine.

Ideally I'd like to couple it with inotify. That way backups can be done exceedingly quickly with inotify keeping track of what needs shifting. Also on the agenda is tolerance of server failure, when the server dies that means there is no backup protection! At the moment server replication is crude and wasteful.

If any one fancies joining in on this by all means let me know!

IIRC Intel's ACPI code was included in Kernel long time ago. It's just ACPI has nothing to do with sensors. (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/)

Sensors it's LM78 project. But. Not on single Linux instalation I've had luck with sensor installation. )-: Most of the time lm78 reported me nothing - given it found any sensors at all...

P.S. Overall, due to separate development of kernel and libc, Linux development rarely results in any kind of API or framework. (Well, except the even rarer case when both developers - libc & kernel ones - happen to be employed by Red Hat.)

Great post about http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/ Appleseed
The difficulties in web2.0 are apparent for slashcode's experience. Although I have a slash site at http://mashdot.com/Mashdot. It was a bitch to install, and I'm still unsuccessful after a 2-3 attempts at restarting the site with cvs. Luckily the release version is doing the job for now. I also have an interest in bringing AI applications using web2.0, right now at its infancy at http://ai.residentmanual.com/Radiology Decision Support. There are also the partially free open cyc projects and its like... An MIT grad student, http://web.media.mit.edu/~push//Singh, has a couple of interesting projects: Conceptnet and openmind

We need to decide on the release version? 2.6? 2.5.1?

Following is the list of features that have been requested:

- Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
- Amanda user ids consistency (sourceforge bug 1416737) - Requested by
Paul Bijnens, Mitch Collinsworth
- Backing up filesystem ACLs (schily tar support)
- Design and implementation of application API (new Dumper API)
    (Proposal in http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API )
- Cleaning up the device interface to support WORM devices
    (Suggested by mhelmling http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=28 )

Of course, all open bugs in sourceforge.net bug tracker have to be addressed.

If you have feature requests or if you find bugs, please post them in
sourceforge.net bug tracker
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=120&atid =100120)

Thanks,
Paddy

A related idea I had recently which I wanted to toss into the open...

Lately on slashdot we've been having a few stories about the (Snow Crash-like) Second Life virtual world, and its active virtual economy. Take this article from Wired:

Wired: Making a Living in Second Life

I think it would be quite interesting to try using Second Life's economy and scriptable world to create an in-game prediction market, similar to that described in the NYT article. Instead of using a purely reputation-based currency such a market could use the game's Linden Dollars, which can be exchanged with US dollars. The use of Linden Dollars would also help get around some of the anti-gambling laws one runs into when US dollars are involved. It seems that in-game scripts can communicate with external servers via email or XML-RPC, so one could probably have such an in-game script placing orders with a server running the open-source prediction market software like Foresight Exchange or Zocalo.

One might even imagine creating a Futarchy-like system, with bids made on decisions about how to make the market (or organization running the market) prosper in the Second Life world. That could be interesting. I've lately been musing a bit on how such a system might be a cute way to create a seed superintelligence, or more precisely, a self-improving collective intelligence.

They had some kind of weird video RPG story game (it kind of looked like the 80s dragonslayer)

Adventure game. Adventure game. You know, like Final Fantasy but with all of the statistics and weapons and random encounters and combat and shit replaced with impossible logical-after-the-fact puzzles and pixel-hunting problems. Just as many cutscenes (no FMVs, though ones that included that tended to suck even more) and as much aimless wandering. If you want a good example of the genre, check out ScummVM - there's at least two freely downloadable games of this genre out there. Beneath the Steel Sky and something else.

They just figured it wouldn't sell on this day and age - and I kind of figure out why, people just don't have the patience to do some of the stuff. The genre is pretty much dying with RPGs stomping them out. Some say it's a bad thing; personally, I say good frigging riddance, though I think of this mostly as a gentle send-off, not a vehement condemnation. =)