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of course, if you're using it and you have the source code, then its not dead - except the old project page might no longer point to the currently updated project site (ie your fork).

All the FOSS sites need a 'takeover' policy for dead projects that is more than just fork. That link says to contact the abandoned project admin and ask to be added to the project to continue it, and if they do not respond, create a new project site with the old code. Personally, I think if they do not respond, then the site should try to contact them - if they still do not respond (after a suitably lengthy time) then it should re-assign you as the new owner. They could rate-limit takeover requests to 1 a year per project without incurring much inconvenience to project admins. Alternatively they could mandate a minimum of 2 admins per project and give a list of "non-exec" admins that are simply there for such contingency purposes.

For example, I see Fuppes project on sourceforge, it works well but needs a tweak or two to make it work great - and I'm willing to do the work, but the admin doesn't seem to be around anymore. I could fork it, but I'd much rather keep continuity of the original project. We have way too many forks anyway (usually because Oracle took over the project :) ).

At the very least it's very much open to a Man in the Middle attack. All you have to do is store exactly what the card present and code that into your own chip for use at any place that takes NFC read cards. More likely though it's just obfuscated because the terminal reading it still uses a dialup connection to phone the bank and transmits those details for processing. Which means it will remain "encrypted" for exactly however long it takes to reverse engineer one of those NFC readers.

No need to reverse engineer, man in the middle is here if you have a couple of Gnexes with 3G or WiFi connection between them and one has a modded Cyanogen kernel.

NFC Proxy. You can't read it and store later, but you can have your helper read an NFC card while you use your phone to pay for something. NFC Proxy basically captures the data sends it to the other phone which sends it to the card, then captures the card's response, sends it back, and your phone echoes the response to the terminal.

It's real-time only.

If you just want to capture cards to clone them, the other NFC readers work just fine capturing track 2 data that you can write back. You won't have CVV information though, and a lot of places require CVV as well.

GvR is a great platform to learn programming. It teaches loops and conditionals and problem solving. It is written in Python so will work cross platform. The only negative is that I think it is not localised.

http://gvr.sourceforge.net/index.php

for a couple of dollars

Try free as in beer and freedom. http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/files/

OpenVZ is very much like jails for Linux. I introduced it at my job four years ago and we've been using it ever since. I can attest to the savings in hardware overhead and in sysadmin time, compared to the alternatives of either full-blown VMs or all-services-in-one-Linux-box.

Nowadays there is also LXC, which supposedly is the future for Linux jails, seeing as their patch-set got into the mainline kernel—something OpenVZ failed to achieve. But IMHO LXC is not as stable and reliable as OpenVZ, nor as well-isolated by default, which is an aspect that is too often neglected.

Not sure this is right for you, but it was once upon a time designed to match some of your buzzwords.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/reddwarf/

It would be more useful to fix LibreOffice to produce output that looks as good as TeX.

http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/ is active for OpenOffice
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/writer2latex-1 is the Libre version though no one is pushing across changes.

If your desktop software performance depends on cache optimisation, you are either doing heavy-duty multimedia editing, or doing something spectacularly wrong.

Or perhaps he's doing graph algorithms. You know, most things profit from good memory access patterns these days. Your CPU can execute something like 2000 instructions in the time needed for a single random read from the main memory!

How about SGI's 4DWM or CDE?

The actual advantage of Java lies mainly --there are other advantages of course-- in the JiT compiler. This allows for run-time optimization that isn't possible at compile time. Which makes Java fast(er) in certain situations (and slow(er) in others). Here's an extensive stackoverflow discussion covering the topic.

Another great thing about Java is that you have a type-safe language (although you can break it in some cases -- particularly certain casts). This also makes it much easier to write secure code in Java through the use of software verification. For more on that, refer to this page on JML (Java Modelling Language) or OpenJML. Microsoft (as well as many others) has done a lot on the C/C++ side of verification (see also this discussion).

Sometimes with just LXC (or Docker for a friendlier interface) you have more than enough.

LiVES supports it, so you could always use that instead.

And in other news, LiVES 2.0.2 was released yesterday.

Think it's graphicsx. One of the packages, anyways, lets you include PNGs, JPGs, etc. ... I also don't like the fact that vector images require you to master Asymptote, Metapost and an armful of other systems. ... So, whilst I agree that TeX has crappy image handling, it's not nearly as bad as you depict.

It is also not nearly as bad as you depict. Vector drawing is handled nicely by pgf/tik. If you want meta-control of tikz, you can use the wonderful tikz backend for matplotlib. There are also beautiful ways to produce EPS or (better yet imho) PDF for LaTeX, with embedded TeX fonts, including Matplotlib and the amazingly powerful PyX. Btw, the graphics inclusion package is graphicx.

Any open source library management software that does ebooks should help you out. Here's a list:

http://sourceforge.net/directory/home-education/library/opac/os:windows/freshness:recently-updated/

I use gscan2pdf http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ with my multifunction "printer" and then save the bills and documents in properly named and organized directories as pdf files. Simple as pie. (Why is pie simple?)

Yeah, for 3.x, there is cx_Freeze.

Errr... Star Control 2?

I noticed that too. They should have ported PrBoom to the browser.

This is a nifty suite of programs made for a lot of what you want that runs on a Raspberry Pi. If you don;t want to get a Pi you can look at the list of software and download then into your favorite Linux distro. Most (if not all) of these are open source.

http://pwnpi.sourceforge.net/

I'd rather play DOOM like it's 2008. Native, high res, 3D accelerated DOOM will be far nicer than emulated 320x240 at 25fps, which is what you'd expect from a 486. I'd like to see the output from doom -timedemo demo3 on this thing.

> This is why I am writing my own simple reader.

Aah... you too? :-)

And if anyone has their own host and wants something full-featured right now, look no further than Tiny Tiny RSS which, despite the name, is not all that tiny. If you use PHP and want to start rolling your own, I recommend starting with MagpieRSS.

QUESTION - WHERE'S YOUR LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS ON YOUR PART TO YOUR NAME/CREDIT in the art & science of computing??

After all - IF you're going to 'talk-the-talk', show us you can 'walk-the-walk', first... & I did ask that of you, so I could judge you as a possible PEER, not just some "armchair QB" attempting to tell myself "how to do it" (lol, especially when I've done that MANY TIMES, myself, from this only PARTIAL list below of times I have):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ [sourceforge.net] via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

QUESTION - WHERE'S YOUR LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS ON YOUR PART TO YOUR NAME/CREDIT in the art & science of computing??

After all - IF you're going to 'talk-the-talk', show us you can 'walk-the-walk', first... & I did ask that of you, so I could judge you as a possible PEER, not just some "armchair QB" attempting to tell myself "how to do it" (lol, especially when I've done that MANY TIMES, myself, from this only PARTIAL list below of times I have):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ [sourceforge.net] via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

QUESTION - WHERE'S YOUR LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS ON YOUR PART TO YOUR NAME/CREDIT in the art & science of computing??

After all - IF you're going to 'talk-the-talk', show us you can 'walk-the-walk', first... & I did ask that of you, so I could judge you as a possible PEER, not just some "armchair QB" attempting to tell myself "how to do it" (lol, especially when I've done that MANY TIMES, myself, from this only PARTIAL list below of times I have):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ [sourceforge.net] via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

7zip is nice because it quietly adds encryption (unlike xz).

tar cvf - (directory_path) | 7za a -si -mx=9 -pPASSWORD directory.tar.7z

7za x -so -pPASSWORD directory.tar.7z | tar xpf -

You are thinking of doing this on Windows, so beware that tar will not preserve NTFS ACLs. You can use cygwin tar if you want, but I find that the mingw tar works all right too.

If you really want to use flash media, make sure it's SLC, rated for 100,000 write cycles. If you use cheaper MLC media, media failures begin at only 5,000 writes.

Why no fail2ban or DenyHosts? I suppose my sshd doesn't allow root login so stuff like that showing up on my logs is not a big concern anyway.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/krdc/ [kde.org]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-rdp/ [sourceforge.net]

Those are applications for viewing remote desktops, not implementations of toolkits that export UI to remote users. You don't know what this whole discussion is about.

X server is a _display server_, and all applications are its clients. It runs on the user's computer and handles all clients -- local, remote, remote forwarded over ssh, even ones running inside locally running virtual machines or containers if the user wishes to use them that way. For the user, they are all just applications with GUI, they can be integrated into any desktop, and they can use the most efficient mechanism among multiple available. Local application will use shared memory and direct access to 3D and video decoder, while remote application would have to tunnel its access through serialized network protocols, however both will benefit from local compositing when their windows overlap, as compositing is handled by a window manager. This is how things work now.

Remote desktop servers are GUI image streaming and input servers, their clients are applications that show remote desktop in a window. At best, they can be hacked to make the desktop background transparent, so remote applications will seem to be integrated into the local desktop. It's a worthless toy compared to a modern networked display architecture.

You are reading my comment backwards. In those situations where applications need to control buffering they can't under X11. Obviously applications that don't care about buffering won't have to worry about it under Wayland or X11.

Again, you have no idea what are you talking about. Applications use interfaces that hide or expose details of display mechanism as the application programmer requires. Most GUI applications' programmers need little more than a widget set and maybe a layout engine. Some have bitmaps and drawing primitives. Some need direct access to 3D primitives, video decoding, etc. Over their history, X11 and libraries that use it, solved all this by creating a stack of libraries, protocols, protocol extensions and data formats. It's not easy to implement and maintain, but it exists to allow developers to work on whatever layers and levels their application is supposed to be. People who do not understand it, get an impression that it all can be reduced to re-implementation of a small subset that they believe to be the only one needed, but this is not true for the whole range of applications and use scenarios that they don't know about.

I don't think so. I think RDP works fine as long as the client (usual meaning, server for X11) has a toolkit capable of responding to high level instructions. So a Qt clients needs to have Qt but not .NET, a Gnome client needs to have GTK...

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about.

RDP is a secure protocol. Encryption is handled like any other network protocol. Authentication is handled using the security system on the server. Session management is handled by the server.

And it's a shit mechanism compared to X11 over SSH, where X11 has local cookies (application access to display server), SSH handles encryption and session authentication (user's access to applications). User is in control of how independent SSH sessions let remote applications on multiple hosts display their interface on his display, while his desktop session can be anything on its own.

I am working/in school, as/for mechanical Engineering. I have used Pro/Engineer and IronCad extensively they are polar opposites in the way that they operate. They also both have there advantages and disadvantages.

When I had to chose a 3d Cad Program for myself I chose IronCad mostly on price but after using it for two years I genuinely feel that It is the fastest to model and easiest to use (but coming from Pro/E offers at times hair pulling levels of frustration mostly due to differences in methodology) It has a 30 day free trial that you can use to see if you like it. http://www.ironcad.com/ That is what I would point someone on a budget towards (if money were no objective I would still go for Pro/E but would miss a lot of the features of IronCad)

As a lover of open source I often look towards FreeCad http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page longingly and have great hope for it. it may be worth a look

Second, no GUI toolkit supports such a thing, or ever announced any intention to do so, so you are talking out of your ass.

http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/krdc/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-rdp/

Surely you meant RFB, as RDP is a proprietary Microsoft protocol, and "most distributions" only include a client for it. As I have mentioned before, RFB is inadequate.

Microsoft publishes the spec:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383515(v=vs.85).aspx

That's bullshit [in reference to buffering] Application programmer does not have to know details of X protocol,

You are reading my comment backwards. In those situations where applications need to control buffering they can't under X11. Obviously applications that don't care about buffering won't have to worry about it under Wayland or X11.

RDP is designed for Windows, and would be suboptimal for any modern GUI toolkit other than Windows.

I don't think so. I think RDP works fine as long as the client (usual meaning, server for X11) has a toolkit capable of responding to high level instructions. So a Qt clients needs to have Qt but not .NET, a Gnome client needs to have GTK...

Authentication, encryption, session management, support for absolutely everything that can be displayed, has to be done once, on one level.

RDP is a secure protocol. Encryption is handled like any other network protocol. Authentication is handled using the security system on the server. Session management is handled by the server.

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Anyway I think I've shown pretty conclusively that far from vaporware this is going on, this is the direction. It is being implemented, the support exist...

Sux0r (sorry not having seen you earlier, I just announced it 1 km below)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
plenty of interesting features including bayesian filtering of lots of posts...
If you try it do tell me!
H.

If you own or share your webhosting, what about setting the agregator just there, so you can access it from just any platform you want?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
You can even train it, bayesian like, to sort your very own interesting posts...

Since we're on the topic, does anyone know a good RSS reader that I can install on my own web server?

I currently use Gregarius but the project is no longer under development.

I don't want a desktop based one as I need to ensure it checks the feeds whether my computer is on or not. Also, there's nothing more convenient than simply clicking links within a browser.

Unfortunately for them, they run Windows as their primary desktop and thus, in order to run their remote app, they have 2 choices

What about just using X11 native on Windows?

I even have users asking for VNC on the server... LOL Hey, man you're not alone on this host!

Well, you could set up multiple instances vnc terminal server or get users to launch their own independent sessions. Perhaps you are thinking of X11VNC which does let you take control of the console session.

I think that Wayland developers are that kind of users with that kind of needs.

I wish it was so. Most likely is they want to leave their mark no matter what anybody needs or wants. Others need to justify a paycheck. Some believe in their personal brilliance but they all end up like Ozymandias.

Lol,saying peer block is like iptables is such an unhelpful answer. That's like saying peer block is the same thing as "windows defender."

The entire point of PeerBlock is the list management and updating. They could have at least pointed you to PeerGuardian or something... sheesh.

And the Linux equivalent would be using Linux Containers (LXC) over Btrfs.

(The parent poster mentionned OpenVZ, although that one is living out of tree and thus still stuck at the 2.6 generation of kernels, whereas LXC is in mainline kernel).

Personally, I just run a Mumble server. KISS.

How about these to name just a few?

• ASP.NET MVC
• Castle Project
• NHibernate
• NAnt
• NUnit
• CruiseControl
• TortoiseSVN
• DotNetNuke

Plus tons more available on:

• CodePlex
• CodeProject
• Sourceforge

How about these to name just a few?

• ASP.NET MVC
• Castle Project
• NHibernate
• NAnt
• NUnit
• CruiseControl
• TortoiseSVN
• DotNetNuke

Plus tons more available on:

• CodePlex
• CodeProject
• Sourceforge

SuRun is a program that brings UAC to Windows XP, but with a lot more granular control. I still run XP at home, and SuRun allows me to run as a limited user. It works quite well, and you can customize rules to always run specified programs with admin privs. It can also automatically prompt for credentials when required. The only main problems I've encountered as a regular user account is with Adobe's Flash Updater failing and when installing certain software--I had to log in as a true admin to install Acronis True Image. If I re-run the Flash updater with SuRun, it works fine. Windows Update works fine if set to automatically install critical/security updates; but if I manually want to install optional updates, then I have to log in with an admin account. SuRun site translated into English

You can go back farther than that - http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/download.html

I had hoped to work on them while getting a PhD in the 1980s: http://www.pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html

Still trying to make them on-and-off:
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/SSI_Fernhout2001_web.html
http://oscomak.net/
http://openvirgle.net/

The human imagination is the ultimate resource (as economist Julian Simon said). What really killed the 1970s vision was Senator Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award. It's taken a long time to recover from that nastiness politically, coupled with other mistakes like the Shuttle (compared to cheap rockets with a return capsule). Plus computers have absorbed most of the creative energy that was going into the space program in the Apollo era.

The world itself has plenty of material resources and energy. We'll even probably have both hot and cold fusion soon which will make it easy to recycle everything. The real reason to go into space is about diversity, challenge, curiosity, exploration, community, and just room for more creativity -- to use space resources in space.

I took an undergrad course with Gerry O'Neill. He called me a "dreamer" for wanting to make self-replicating space habitats. :-) I was inspired by James P. Hogans's sci-fi novel "The Two Faces Of Tomorrow" which has a space habitats with an automated factory.
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0671878484/0671878484.htm

I I later found out J.D. Bernal proposed them in the 1920s:
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Bernal/world/

Gerry O'Neill anticipated there would be a slow capitalistic expansion into space, and built his plans around that. Sadly, US capitalism was not kind to any of his business plans (Geostar, LAWN) which he had hoped would fund more space ventures.

Meanwhile, the non-profit world of cooperation in cyberspace seems to be what is taking off, and what ultimately may get us space habitats (self-replicating or not). I tried a couple times over the past two decades to try to get his legacy non-profit SSI interested in supporting a free and open source effort towards developing space habitats. But I found the core there was still enamored of Gerry's old business plan of creating solar space satellites and using that to fund a slow expansion into space. That plan may have made sense in the 1970s, but it ignore today's reality that such satellites could be used as weapons, and the cost of solar power on Earth is falling exponentially, and local power storage is rapidly improving via batteries and fuel cells, etc.. Once we are in space for other reasons, maybe beamed power might make sense for either facories or to aircraft or laser launch systems.

Anyway, I'm still trying to keep some of the dream alive. Mostly, in my spare time, for decades I've been focused (too much) on making a triple-based social semantic desktop to organize all the needed information (while the world passed me by on that too, like with RDF and URLs and so on):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

It's been interesting, even if not too much obvious direct results to show for it.

It's there - heard of osFree? Essentially, it consists of the L4 microkernel, which has multiple personalities riding over it - a Presentation Manager personality, a win16 personality, a win32 personality and a neutral personality. The last one is the native personality that provides the microkernel services to all the overriding subsystems. This is somewhat similar to IBM's Workplace OS that they were trying to do in the 90s to give PPC a native OS of its own, except that instead of the slow Mach 3 microkernel, they are using a real, modern microkernel this time. The project also has in its agenda support for OS/2 features such as REXX, DSOM, et al. The best part of this project is that since L4 has been ported to multiple CPUs, this osFree can ride on several different CPUs, not just x86. Last but not least, it's dual licensed under both GPL/LGPL and BSDL.

Unlike Windows/ReactOS, since OS/2 never had a whole lot of native software, this platform could have its own collection of FOSS software for it. Now, if only the OS/2 community threw its lot behind it...

FSV is a 3d filesystem viewer like the one in Jurassic Park

Jesus tittyfucking Christ, that website would have been considered antiquated and ugly in 1996.

How about VR goggles so that the screen is as big as you want? And a brain-computer-interface ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain%E2%80%93computer_interfaces ) so that you can teleport to different work locations in that VR space just by thinking? ;)

Seriously though, I can't help you with the "within document" stuff but for switching from document to document I wrote a utility for Windows ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/ ) that allows me to press alt+1 to raise window #1, alt+3 = window #3 and so on. Numbers are assigned when you press alt+0, then #1 is the current foreground window at that point in time, #2 = the previous foreground window, #3 the one before that.

It's useful if you only have one laptop screen. While it's not as intuitive as just turning your head to look at something, it has the advantage of putting the relevant window in focus so that if you need you can copy stuff from it without too much mouse or keyboard work.

Windows 7 does have something similar with winkey+[number] but that's by application so it doesn't help if you have multiple docs opened for a particular app. I did try to get Microsoft to have Windows do it the way linkkey does it, but they said their way is better, and before that I suggested it to GNOME and KDE (in 2006).

I personally believe it's not impressive to have an OS that only runs a few processes at the same time, but it is impressive if it can run thousands of processes. So similarly it should not be impressive to have a GUI that only allows people to easily manage a few tasks at the same time. What would be impressive is a GUI that allows people (expert level) to handle dozens or even hundreds of tasks. while still being good at allowing non-expert people to easily handle a few tasks.

Its a Unix system.

So, where's my 3D file manager?

LMGIFY

LOL

Here, FSV .

FSV is a 3d filesystem viewer like the one in Jurassic Park

And that is why schools-as-we-know-them are rapidly becoming obsolete, if they every made any sense at all. See my essay:
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

And for general background:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/fdtd-g.htm
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue.htm
http://www.thewaronkids.com/
http://www.holtgws.com/growingwithoutsc.html
http://www.ecovaproject.org/education.htm
http://archives.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?newsletterid=21&articleid=195
http://www.patfarenga.com/

I could go on for dozens or even hundreds more links...

As Gatto wrote about the big problem with this "system" we call "public schooling" (contrast with "public libraries") is that:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/16a.htm
"Before you can reach a point of effectiveness in defending your own children or your principles against the assault of blind social machinery, you have to stop conspiring against yourself by attempting to negotiate with a set of abstract principles and rules which, by its nature, cannot respond. Under all its disguises, that is what institutional schooling is, an abstraction which has escaped its handlers. Nobody can reform it. First you have to realize that human values are the stuff of madness to a system; in systems-logic the schools we have are already the schools the system needs; the only way they could be much improved is to have kids eat, sleep, live, and die there."