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GPGMail plugin for Apple Computer's Mail.app works wonderfully. Using GnuPG from DarwinPorts/OpenDarwin or following the binary download from www.gnupg.org, there will be a .dmg for the Mac that has an installable .pkg in the disk image. This is the simplest way to do encryption with the mac. There are some GnuPG front ends available for the Mac from www.gnupg.org which are helpful in generating keys, importing public keys etc etc.

The only hitch with using GPGMail with the DarwinPorts version of GnuPG is, GPGMail expects the gpg binary to be in /usr/loca/bin and it's hard-coded. This is normal and good, but DarwinPorts places it in /opt/local/bin. The work around is creating a symlink: "ln -s /opt/local/bin/gpg /usr/local/bin/gpg" w/o the quotes.

For Windows.

A user already mentioned WinPT before and there are many posts already mentioning Enigmail with Thunderbird. There is also a GnuPG plugin (here too)for OutLook Express.

Those are just two, other options will come up from other people

For the Apple Mac OS X

GPGMail plugin for Apple Computer's Mail.app works wonderfully. Using GnuPG from DarwinPorts/OpenDarwin or following the binary download from www.gnupg.org, there will be a .dmg for the Mac that has an installable .pkg in the disk image. This is the simplest way to do encryption with the mac. There are some GnuPG front ends available for the Mac from www.gnupg.org which are helpful in generating keys, importing public keys etc etc.

The only hitch with using GPGMail with the DarwinPorts version of GnuPG is, GPGMail expects the gpg binary to be in /usr/loca/bin and it's hard-coded. This is normal and good, but DarwinPorts places it in /opt/local/bin. The work around is creating a symlink: "ln -s /opt/local/bin/gpg /usr/local/bin/gpg" w/o the quotes.

For Windows.

A user already mentioned WinPT before and there are many posts already mentioning Enigmail with Thunderbird. There is also a GnuPG plugin (here too)for OutLook Express.

Those are just two, other options will come up from other people

As posted by someone else, I would also suggest Synergy it's basically a software KM that behaves a lot like a virual desktop or multi monitor setup, you just move your mouse across between desktops to change the keyboard and mouse focus.

After all, Unisys is the company that sells the Master Control Program...

Like EVM2K3? :)

This can be done in software using Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. I have used it to share a mouse and keyboard between my Mac and PC for a few months now, and it seems to work rather well.

Sounds like Groove -- which is not free, and it hogs resources. Maybe we should switch to that one at the office.

A better solution IMO is something like WASTE or one of the other darknet apps, where nothing is automatically copied unless you choose to download it, and everything is encrypted. FolderShare appears to use SSL, but I don't think I would trust Microsoft to not monitor all that traffic.

There are a lot more applications that work from a USB key that don't advertise that fact. I will share with you what I currently use on my 1gb USB key and the locations you can download them. Most of these are freeware or relatively cheap shareware. Please help the authors continue their work if you use any of these and make a small donation at their sites if available.

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
This one will run from your key, but it does write to the registry which portable apps should not do. Then again, they don't advertise this as a portable app. Once you use it on a machine and configure it, it will remember your settings on that machine of course. Handy if you are locked down at work from installing software but you need it occasionally.

Bulk Rename Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/Softwar e_Intro.php
a utility which allows the rapid renaming of files and folders, based upon flexible selection criteria. Download the zip version for portability.

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
This project is currently dead, but it works from USB wonderfully.

FoxitReader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/index.php
A PDF reader that works very quickly (kind of like Adobe used to about 6 years ago).

Miranda - http://www.miranda-im.org/
A powerful and flexible multiprotocol IM client with loads of plugins. Download the zip version for portability.

mIRC - http://www.mirc.com/
Everyones favorite IRC app. Has always been portable.

PortableFileZilla - http://portableapps.com/
Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.

PortableFirefox - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

PortableNVU - http://portableapps.com/
Portable NVU is the easy-to-use NVU web editor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your website on the go.

PortableOpenOffice - http://portableapps.com/
Portable OpenOffice.org is the popular OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app

PortableSunbird - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Sunbird is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar and task manager packaged as a portable app, so you can take your calendar and to do list with you.

PortableThunderbird - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
Snippy is a small utility that captures an area of your screen to your clipboard to paste into other applications.

AleJenJes Countdown Timer - http://www.gonebowlin.com/freeware.html
It is a simple countdown timer where you enter the starting time in hours, minutes & seconds and it counts down to zero. Not needed often, but handy as can be for those few instances you do need one.

Unit Conversion Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/UCU_Int ro.html
Unit Conversion U

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portableoo/port able_openoffice_2.0.1_en-us.zip?download

Have fun.

Links help... it's here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableoo

One 4K version of tetris on that page uses almost 40 MB of RAM after a few minutes

Did you consider that the memory you're seeing may be JVM overhead combined with pre-allocation? In smaller devices (like Cell Phones), the JVM is built into the device. So there's no real overhead for Java. The pre-allocation is also smaller to compensate for the smaller device. Considering that many of these devices have barely 64K available (never mind 120K), I'd say that Java fits just fine.

and after playing for a while there's occasional, noticeable pauses for garbage collection (yes, I verified it was from garbage collection)

I find it interesting that you singled out such an example without looking at many of the more interesting examples like T4XI, Robotron 4096, and Hunters 4K. Also, you may find Tetris 4K to be a much better version than the first item on the list.

Java's great for some tasks, it's almost like a cross-platform VB. But the language, or more likely the way the language is most commonly used, isn't optimal for some things. Games happen to be one of those things.

You don't know what you're talking about.

At one point I could have pointed to the poor performance and massive memory usage of VegaStrike. Does that mean that C/C++ is a "bad" langauge? NO! It means that it was poorly coded and still needed lots of work done. The developers worked on improving their codebase, and low-and-behold, the game got better. Perhaps it wasn't the language after all?

Hi. I'm the author of Leo. I've been working for the last 6 months on improving Leo's text editing. The latest public version:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=3458&package_id=29106

features flexible key bindings, an Emacs-style minibuffer, and many more editing commands.

This is a great time to suggest further improvments.

Edward

I haven't yet downloaded POO.o yet, and I haven't used any of these "portable apps" either, but are they just regular Windows binaries? Can they be UPXed if not already?

Firefox, for instance, shrinks down from 7MB to a nice 1.5MB on my horribly space-limited computer here at work.

Check out KXMLEditor. I use it to tweak and repair XML files, and it works just fine.
];)

http://kxmleditor.sourceforge.net/

As the links seems dead now:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableoo/

And if you don't own Microsoft Office, and don't want the bloat of OpenOffice.org just to see the xls data, use xlhtml to the rescue!

You would not need just the images, but also very accurate positioning data on where the photos were taken. In theory, perhaps you could extrapolate the positioning information by looking at static objects in the frame, shadows, etc., but I don't think that's anywhere near practical.

It's actually quite practical, I use this program all the time:

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

You identify the static reference points, and the program is actually quite clever in finding the other corresponding points after you have picked one or two. You do this for all of them, choose your point of reference, done. It even reads the field of view information from the EXIF header of your digital camera.

A nice review can be found here http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08 /22/148209&tid=75

Mentifex Mind.Forth AI is about as dangerous as it can get, doncha think?

Mentifex Mind.Forth AI is about as dangerous as it can get, doncha think?

"Hey guys, I'm deaf. Been wondering about this for a long time, is there any kind of open source voice recognition package I could pipe audio through and get some kind of recognizable text?

Still no .wmf support ? When is Linux going to be ready for the desktop ?

Already got it. I don't think it's bug-compatible, though.

Speculation surrounds Apple's rumoured x86 release (some rumours claim this month) whether they will adopt Intel's EFI, an OpenFirmware substitute.

Intel has been working on EFI for 7 years. Traditional PCs typically ship with BIOSes because of legacy operating system and hardware support. Apple would have no such problems due to building a new platform. Plus, particularly in the notebook space, designs will be heavily influenced by Intel.

My point in mentioning Apple? That other manufacturers may follow suit once any quirks are worked out and Vista ships.

There's already a linux bootloader, elilo for EFI, developed originally for Itanium.

Hollywood and the music industry announced they will, be halting all production and put their money into stocks and bonds. Software companies are expected to follow their example.


Good riddance! I"m so sick and tired of their constant whining and privacy intrusions that I will be glad to see them gone.


There ain't no free ride. If no one wants to pay for it the product goes away, it's called capitalism.


If you're looking for free entertainment start here, if it's software you need go here. You will find the true capitalists barter their wares at places such as those.

Where's that slashdot guy making mom++ when you need him.

Unfortunately, his project seems to be moving at a glacial pace, but here's a link:

http://mompp.sourceforge.net/

I think C++ wants to be a low level language that can also do high level constructs.

And I do think this is a great goal, a goal that not many languages are able to do well.
Actually I don't know of any other language that allows you to type raw assembler and at the same time use higher order functions like boost::bind (http://www.boost.org/libs/bind/bind.html).
(Please not that C# and D delegates don't have all the features of bind, that is binding any argument to a precomputed value, not just the first argument).

But while the low level programming in C++ is good, writing high level functionnality is still very complicated. Just have a look at the code at the previously mentionned boos::bind and you'll probably run away (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost /boost/bind/mem_fn_template.hpp?rev=1.7&view=auto) .

After reading the article, I understand that they are willing to fix this issue, at least partially.

But there are many other issues that preclude it to be really "comfortable" to use as a high level language :

Some of them are old issues, already solved many years ago by a lot of languages like parent post said (introspection (compile-time and run-time), modules, lambdas...).

Some other issues are old but require some carefull thinking to integrate well with C++: multi-methods, garbage collection, mixing functional and imperative programming...

An finaly there are new needs arising like compile-time code generation, aspect-oriented programming, multi-process programming, interfaces (as in the Heron language or the boost interface library, not Java interfaces)...

Of all these features, very few will be added in C++0x.

Other C++-like languages do offer these features or a subset of them.
Here is a short list for reference :
D : http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
Heron : http://www.heron-language.com/
Boo : http://boo.codehaus.org/Language+Features
Nice : http://nice.sourceforge.net/
etc.

But to my knowledge none of them has fully succedeed in offering both a good low and a good high level programming, while keeping the zero-overhead principle of C++ (that is: if you don't use a feature of the language, you don't pay for it).

Seeing this situation, I'm afraid we have only 2 options :
1- split programs into 2 parts: high level and low level, and use 2 different languages for these parts.
2- create a new language

Actually, this is already happening:
I see more and more programmers using high level languages like Python and doing some system or high performance routines in C (with Pyrex for example) and then glue them together.

The languages I mentionned before (D, Heron, etc) are an attempt at creating a successor of C++ but IMHO they are not mature enough and/or feature complete.

So... I forsee option 1 will become more and more comomon for years to come, until we hit option 2, because I think C++ will not be fixed.

I think C++ wants to be a low level language that can also do high level constructs.

And I do think this is a great goal, a goal that not many languages are able to do well.
Actually I don't know of any other language that allows you to type raw assembler and at the same time use higher order functions like boost::bind (http://www.boost.org/libs/bind/bind.html).
(Please not that C# and D delegates don't have all the features of bind, that is binding any argument to a precomputed value, not just the first argument).

But while the low level programming in C++ is good, writing high level functionnality is still very complicated. Just have a look at the code at the previously mentionned boos::bind and you'll probably run away (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost /boost/bind/mem_fn_template.hpp?rev=1.7&view=auto) .

After reading the article, I understand that they are willing to fix this issue, at least partially.

But there are many other issues that preclude it to be really "comfortable" to use as a high level language :

Some of them are old issues, already solved many years ago by a lot of languages like parent post said (introspection (compile-time and run-time), modules, lambdas...).

Some other issues are old but require some carefull thinking to integrate well with C++: multi-methods, garbage collection, mixing functional and imperative programming...

An finaly there are new needs arising like compile-time code generation, aspect-oriented programming, multi-process programming, interfaces (as in the Heron language or the boost interface library, not Java interfaces)...

Of all these features, very few will be added in C++0x.

Other C++-like languages do offer these features or a subset of them.
Here is a short list for reference :
D : http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
Heron : http://www.heron-language.com/
Boo : http://boo.codehaus.org/Language+Features
Nice : http://nice.sourceforge.net/
etc.

But to my knowledge none of them has fully succedeed in offering both a good low and a good high level programming, while keeping the zero-overhead principle of C++ (that is: if you don't use a feature of the language, you don't pay for it).

Seeing this situation, I'm afraid we have only 2 options :
1- split programs into 2 parts: high level and low level, and use 2 different languages for these parts.
2- create a new language

Actually, this is already happening:
I see more and more programmers using high level languages like Python and doing some system or high performance routines in C (with Pyrex for example) and then glue them together.

The languages I mentionned before (D, Heron, etc) are an attempt at creating a successor of C++ but IMHO they are not mature enough and/or feature complete.

So... I forsee option 1 will become more and more comomon for years to come, until we hit option 2, because I think C++ will not be fixed.

But I've been wondering what, given the right tools, I might be missing.

I personally like these (well established and well supported)
http://www.codeblocks.org/ // dev kit
http://www.wxwindows.org/ // 2d lib
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ // 3d lib

GAG (graphical)

Gujin

Syslinux

GAG (graphical)

Gujin

Syslinux

http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
Java version.

http://kommute.sourceforge.net/
KDE version.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=133178
Windows "nice" version.

http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
Java version.

http://kommute.sourceforge.net/
KDE version.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=133178
Windows "nice" version.

http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
Java version.

http://kommute.sourceforge.net/
KDE version.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=133178
Windows "nice" version.

http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
Java version.

http://kommute.sourceforge.net/
KDE version.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=133178
Windows "nice" version.

If i could take the eye candy of a mac and put it on my debian kde box it would be excellent.

Have you tried out Baghira? It's not perfect, but I think it's a pretty darn good imitation of Apple's eye candy.

• hugin
• panotools

Well it seems that the XBox does not ship with a EULA, but Microsoft is acting like it does: http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/remotedelet e.html

Could be a difference between U.S. and Canadian laws. Microsoft seems do be depending on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which is not applicable in Canada.

Besides, you are NOT legally allowed to build a copy of your car, that's a violation of at least the copyright on the car design, if not countless patents (which you'd get past if you bought those parts from the manufacturer but we're talking about building it yourself).

Just to set the record straight, there already exists something like this for Linux (and, more specifically, KDE). In fact, there are two major branches in development for such widgets:

1. The fancy branch (since sometime in 2003):
SuperKaramba, which spawned from the plain Karamba.

2. The non-fancy minimalistic branch (since god knows when - probably early 2004):
Conky, which spawned from the even less fancy Torsmo.

- shazow

Just to set the record straight, there already exists something like this for Linux (and, more specifically, KDE). In fact, there are two major branches in development for such widgets:

1. The fancy branch (since sometime in 2003):
SuperKaramba, which spawned from the plain Karamba.

2. The non-fancy minimalistic branch (since god knows when - probably early 2004):
Conky, which spawned from the even less fancy Torsmo.

- shazow

Just to set the record straight, there already exists something like this for Linux (and, more specifically, KDE). In fact, there are two major branches in development for such widgets:

1. The fancy branch (since sometime in 2003):
SuperKaramba, which spawned from the plain Karamba.

2. The non-fancy minimalistic branch (since god knows when - probably early 2004):
Conky, which spawned from the even less fancy Torsmo.

- shazow

Don't forget to mention that there's also DROD: Architect Edition, the precursor to JtRH - it's both open source, free and a full game (with editor) in it's own right... :)

Oh, and it's what made me buy JtRH and a CaravelNet subscription... ^_^

np: Flanger - Hope To Hear Back Soon, Honey (Spirituals)

I love it when some jacka^h^h^hmysql fanboy comes along and busts out with the whole "why don't you submit a patch?" routine. Gues what einstien, someone already did it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wordpress-pg/. If you dig a little deeper you'll find that the core wordpress developers pretty much ignored the port and the offers to help bring postgresql support into the main line wordpress code. Still feeling so smug?

It's not about supporting Postgressql. They should have used an existing DB (access) abstraction. ADOdb is very nice and still fast. Starting with such an abstraction helps supporting a different database. Instead they've written something with all the bells and whistle - there are even benchmark methods in their DB class.

b4n

I did up a project on sourceforge.net a few years back to sync my computers with a GPS http://atomicgpsclock.sourceforge.net/. Below is a log of the activity, normally there is a +/- 0.016 or so second instability, but 18:59:59 EST (or 23:59:59 UTC) the Navy made a 1 second adjustment to the GPS system, and it's vibible in the log at the next scheduled sync (in bold)

2005.12.31 18:33:49 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 18:43:27 00020 Offset: 000.016 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 18:43:27 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 18:43:49 00020 Offset: -000.031 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 18:43:49 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 18:45:15 00033 GPS Status - Tracking: No
2005.12.31 18:45:34 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 1D
2005.12.31 18:46:48 00033 GPS Status - Tracking: No
2005.12.31 18:46:52 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 19:01:43 00033 GPS Status - Tracking: No
2005.12.31 19:01:55 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 1D
2005.12.31 19:03:45 00020 Offset: 001.016 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 19:03:45 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 2D
2005.12.31 19:13:45 00020 Offset: -000.016 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 19:13:45 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 19:23:43 00020 Offset: 000.000 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 19:23:43 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 19:33:43 00020 Offset: 000.000 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 19:33:43 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 19:43:30 00033 GPS Status - Tracking: No
2005.12.31 19:43:40 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 1D
2005.12.31 19:53:41 00020 Offset: -000.031 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 19:53:41 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D
2005.12.31 20:03:39 00020 Offset: 000.000 Buffer: 13
2005.12.31 20:03:39 00032 GPS Status - Tracking: 3D

So how exactly are you getting 3D information from a single camera? Are you assuming a known size of the marker or are you comparing successive frames? what is the accuracy of your depth resolution?

>> Maybe i just haven't found a good RSS reader yet. They all seem to me to be lacking something.

Thats right, the built in crap or even standalone readers just show you whats recent. Get a reader like aKregator

1) Integrates with Kontact and Konqueror showing articles next to your todo list and emails
2) Manages articles as read/unread as apposed to just whats "current"
3) Allows advanced searching through indexed articles (hate searching slashdot for that article?)
4) Allows a convenient way to archive articles for later read on many websites without having to visit the websites

I do agree the RSS built into firefox and ie7 and even many standalone readers are just useless, they just show you whats currently on the site. aKregator allows you to catch up on news any time.

Well, a little change in the software for swords instead of guns and it would be easy to find out.

Why, using Bicycle Repairman, of course !

Yeah, it's too bad PHP doesn't support some sort of database abstraction layer. ;-)

Realistically, if you design an application from the start with even just a little bit of, well. . . design, and consideration for portability and future growth, database independance is not very difficult.

Unfortunately, it's been my experience that most people don't really think beyond the next few hours when they're coding, which means that making things better later on is a huge chore.

Here: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ is Blackbox, an X window manager for Linux. And here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ is Fluxbox, the X window manager which was forked off from Blackbox: basically, they changed the name, patched in a couple more features that they fealt were missing from Blackbox, and released it. There is nothing wrong with that. Why, could you please explain to me, in the name of all the rationality that God gave a flea, would you claim that it's "wrong" to change an open source app? What, then would be the WHOLE MOTHERFUCKING ENTIRE POOOIIIINNNT of open source fucking software, you blathering idiot? Huh? Why make a big deal over source you can read, but not modify? Is it supposed to be printed out and nailed to the wall for decoration? Like your brain?

Never mind. Go to those links. Shut the fuck up in here and go to Blackbox and Fluxbox and explain to them that they're all wrong because you say so. Then be sure to dial up Richard M. Stallman and tell him his GNU license is full of shit. You just said as much in here!

Here: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ is Blackbox, an X window manager for Linux. And here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ is Fluxbox, the X window manager which was forked off from Blackbox: basically, they changed the name, patched in a couple more features that they fealt were missing from Blackbox, and released it. There is nothing wrong with that. Why, could you please explain to me, in the name of all the rationality that God gave a flea, would you claim that it's "wrong" to change an open source app? What, then would be the WHOLE MOTHERFUCKING ENTIRE POOOIIIINNNT of open source fucking software, you blathering idiot? Huh? Why make a big deal over source you can read, but not modify? Is it supposed to be printed out and nailed to the wall for decoration? Like your brain?

Never mind. Go to those links. Shut the fuck up in here and go to Blackbox and Fluxbox and explain to them that they're all wrong because you say so. Then be sure to dial up Richard M. Stallman and tell him his GNU license is full of shit. You just said as much in here!