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I use it myself here in fact (works perfectly, for all conditions noted below):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

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It's completely stable too, produces PERFECT hosts file data outputs, & is a multithreaded single self-contained TRUE 'stand-alone' executable!

* Show us you've done a better app that provides ALL of what is noted in that link it gives users to THEIR benefit on a number of levels, for both added SPEED & "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (plus reliability, and privacy online)...

(GO FOR IT! My guess here? You CAN'T... lol!)

See - unlike you AC mere troll "armchair quarterback" talkers, who aren't DOERS?

I can actually SHOW something it's been applied to that helps it run faster or lower priority in certain conditions (see below)! Can you show you've done the SAME?

Answer = NO!

LMAO @ U, troll!

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I gave the guys @ UltraDefrag the option to use it... why?

Vs. this problem they had & others even RECOMMENDED my code vs. a problem they are having -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/

IN FACT? That's one of their coding team saying it... not me (Dmitri - THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE UltraDefrag64 PROJECT, not Stefan Pendl):

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873" - Dmitri FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/

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(Albeit in Delphi Object-Pascal, vs. their usage of C/C++)

It's useful for stopping that, & NOT for raising priority only either, but quite the reverse also!

See - the front end is ONLY A REPORTER: It doesn't NEED to be high, normal, or even below normal priority - there are TIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE LOW even (see next)!

Lowering priority is important in these conditions!

It's more for when they add features the commercial "bigboys" have like Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, O&O Defrag etc./et al:

For LOWERING priority when it's minimized to tray or otherwise (along with stopping display generation of outputs wasting cycles if it is NOT VISIBLE onscreen - that is a waste & drag on the system overall and the app too)

or

FOR running in the background as a scheduled task!

I do it - it works! I have to write them on that much, for when they add those types of features to be more 'competitive' vs. the big boys noted above...

Especially Stefan Pendl, who I don't *think* realizes THAT benefit on lowering CPU & when to do it, & also of course, its ability to help solve their issue noted above by Dmitri, the founder of the project itself...

... apk

That would probably be because the PHP-Java bridge is a kludge and horribly inefficient. Having had occasion to use the bridge for a non-trivial project, I am actually ok with this Java-based server not supporting it.

That said, if you really want the headache, I am sure you can figure out a way to use the PHP-Java bridge to tie to your current PHP apps and use them as Java in the Vert.x server. I do have to say, though, I do pity anyone who has to do this.

I BELIEVE I've IDENTIFIED who this ANONYMOUS COWARD is. He SEEMS to be quite EGO-DRIVEN as he continually MENTIONS his grandiose ACCOMPLISHMENTS to establish his CREDENTIALS. I assume that he's a MAJOR PAIN IN THE ASS to work with. http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/discussion/709672/thread/f8561602

That is not really a Java issue. Flash was horrible, too. But the Browser work-around the issues with flash.
Some Java apps can crash the browser, true.
But some Java apps are very good.
For example:

http://jchart2d.sourceforge.net/applet.shtml
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=s-inn.b.illbk.04&java=yes

Also Java webstart is a very good technology, better then anything Flash based.
The problem with Java in the Browser is that it's a very hard competition against Flash and Sun didn't wanted to take that battle. But Sun made more mistakes with Java. For example not developing Android.

I wish Orcale or the community would take Java and make it first class citizen in the Web. We need rich clients for the Web, but Javascript is still 20 years behind. Flash and Silverlight are proprietary and Java would be a good open source alternative.

All you've got is unjustifiable downmods, nothing more. I've been @ the art & science of computing LONGER THAN MOST OF YOU ROOKIES have been alive, for 1 thing.

I doubt MOST of you have been around in this art & science PROFESSIONALLY to even KNOW what I meant in my post... lol!

For another?

LMAO - & perhaps, ABOVE ALL ELSE:

Face it:

You're just not in my league, & I know it (so do you)... how/why??

When a SINGLE ONE of you can show you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER especially than I have in the art & science of computing, from only a TINY partial list of SOME of my 'favorites' below???

Then, you can speak to me as you have... & perhaps even justify your downmods!

(I'd like to see you say WHY what I wrote it 'off/wrong' too! IF you've been there/done that, as I have for coming up on 2 decades, you'd know what I mean!)

My guess, is this (about you downmodding trollers):

You're all a pack of "I know it all since I just got outta academia" types, & BOY, you are JUST only starting, fools!

APK

P.S.=> To wit (& this is only a partial small list of my favs., & ONLY from the freeware/shareware & ALSO COMMERCIAL CODE WORLD too):

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

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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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other progr

All you've got is unjustifiable downmods, nothing more. I've been @ the art & science of computing LONGER THAN MOST OF YOU ROOKIES have been alive, for 1 thing.

I doubt MOST of you have been around in this art & science PROFESSIONALLY to even KNOW what I meant in my post... lol!

For another?

LMAO - & perhaps, ABOVE ALL ELSE:

Face it:

You're just not in my league, & I know it (so do you)... how/why??

When a SINGLE ONE of you can show you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER especially than I have in the art & science of computing, from only a TINY partial list of SOME of my 'favorites' below???

Then, you can speak to me as you have... & perhaps even justify your downmods!

(I'd like to see you say WHY what I wrote it 'off/wrong' too! IF you've been there/done that, as I have for coming up on 2 decades, you'd know what I mean!)

My guess, is this (about you downmodding trollers):

You're all a pack of "I know it all since I just got outta academia" types, & BOY, you are JUST only starting, fools!

APK

P.S.=> To wit (& this is only a partial small list of my favs., & ONLY from the freeware/shareware & ALSO COMMERCIAL CODE WORLD too):

"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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other progr

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eviacam/

Give it a spin, it's pretty funny!

you are thinking of a processor simulator. here is a GPL'd one for the 8085 processor http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnusim8085/. THere are also others for other chips, including the Z80, just search for 'assembler simulator'. I remember using one at Uni about 12 years ago and it was a very useful tool.

Great for situations like this: http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/live

If there had been some EASY and OBVIOUS way to get rid of the METRO interface and go back to a Classic Shell she might have been happy with it, but after an hour of trying to do anything useful she wanted it boxed up and she has already returned it for a refund.

The Classic Shell I use is a third party addon:

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

It's a useful project that has been adding back features removed by MS from Vista onwards. Their start menu actually pre-dates Win 8 - it's more configurable than the standard Win 7 menu.

Of course, it's crazy that downloading something like this is even necessary!

Try http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ Makes a Windows 7 like start menu as the default start, rather than the hideous mess that is the Windows 8 start screen. Still easy to make it to metro start screen via charms. Can even configure it to be Win XP style instead, to be available in desktop mode but still start in metro view, and a number of other handy customizations.

Now answer me the unexplainable riddle of why you didn't immediately install Linux on it?

It's not like you could play 3D games or use things like Maya/Photoshop/Cubase on it anyway.

Various Linux distros did, of course, find their way onto my netbook (thanks UNetbootin!), but I wasn't impressed with the performance of the leading "turn key" distros such as Ubuntu.

There were also various driver related issues...

PSTricks is more for diagrams. GnuPlot runs circles around Excel for high-powered graphing. It has lots of neat tricks including advanced graphs with complex error bars, colour coding, shading, etc. I know Excel pretty well, and I don't think it is possible to do a number of the examples at the gnuplot demo page in Excel.

The challenges facing my thesis were more basic. Excel has a few key issues with log graphing and numbers in scientific notation. Excel (and PowerPoint) have issues with Greek numbers. Also, in GnuPlot it is possible to place two graphs on the same page, one above the other, such that the X-Axis line up accurately. With Excel and PowerPoint, the results are "less than professional quality" at best. It's definitely not replicatable if a large volume of graphs is being done.

I also found a bug in Excel where it would render the bar graphs with the texture pattern inside the bar also appearing outside the border line for the bar. That truly sucked.

Another, "Not in my big moment!" bug is that PowerPoint will not consistently render the same fonts in the same presentation if you move between computers and/or PowerPoint versions. It's a really nasty bug, and creeps up in the wierdest places.

You can argue technical facts until you are blue in the face.

It's much easier to argue with facts, and technical facts are relevant when you're working on technical things. It explains why things aren't working between browsers due to lack of standards support by the developers.

If it is a cost it wont get adopted PERIOD!

How was the project approved in the first place? The logic is baffling if they think the longer they wait to upgrade that it will become cheaper.

It works fine, it is what the PHB bet his reputation on that he feels you are ruining on these apps

If it works fine they wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Are you telling the CFO at these big wig companies that there $5,000,0000 upgrade they just blew from IE 6 to IE 8 that they need to do it again?! Didn't we upgrade last year??

I'm not telling them that, their own bone headed decisions to target IE8 (IE8 came out 3 years ago, 3 years is a long time for websites to go without a change). The fact remains if they made an actual backend separated from the front end they wouldn't be experiencing nearly as many issues and separation isn't a new concept. Done in by their own greed.

Not business and these intranet developers only target IE 8 because it is the universal browser that works with XP and WIndows 7.

IE8 support is the current least common denominator but its an ever shrinking target. At least it supports media queries, you need a god awful shim to get something like that frankensteined into IE7 and its ilk.

Therefore, Office 365 is here to stay because Google things HTML 5 is cool.

More people than Google think HTML5 is cool with good reason (working locally, SVG support, canvas etc.) Like it or hate it the web is cross platform and in the real world not everything revolves around Google and Microsoft. We've seen what Microsoft is capable of with browser tech and their vision, and that's responsible for much of the pain.

FYI firefox does not have adm nor admx files so it is out of the question.

Is that so, how can this be? It still can be controlled via AD, unlike Chrome, and displays stuff better than IE (save for maybe the most recent incarnation which isn't released yet and doesn't count).

You can argue technical facts until you are blue in the face.

It's much easier to argue with facts, and technical facts are relevant when you're working on technical things. It explains why things aren't working between browsers due to lack of standards support by the developers.

If it is a cost it wont get adopted PERIOD!

How was the project approved in the first place? The logic is baffling if they think the longer they wait to upgrade that it will become cheaper.

It works fine, it is what the PHB bet his reputation on that he feels you are ruining on these apps

If it works fine they wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Are you telling the CFO at these big wig companies that there $5,000,0000 upgrade they just blew from IE 6 to IE 8 that they need to do it again?! Didn't we upgrade last year??

I'm not telling them that, their own bone headed decisions to target IE8 (IE8 came out 3 years ago, 3 years is a long time for websites to go without a change). The fact remains if they made an actual backend separated from the front end they wouldn't be experiencing nearly as many issues and separation isn't a new concept. Done in by their own greed.

Not business and these intranet developers only target IE 8 because it is the universal browser that works with XP and WIndows 7.

IE8 support is the current least common denominator but its an ever shrinking target. At least it supports media queries, you need a god awful shim to get something like that frankensteined into IE7 and its ilk.

Therefore, Office 365 is here to stay because Google things HTML 5 is cool.

More people than Google think HTML5 is cool with good reason (working locally, SVG support, canvas etc.) Like it or hate it the web is cross platform and in the real world not everything revolves around Google and Microsoft. We've seen what Microsoft is capable of with browser tech and their vision, and that's responsible for much of the pain.

FYI firefox does not have adm nor admx files so it is out of the question.

Is that so, how can this be? It still can be controlled via AD, unlike Chrome, and displays stuff better than IE (save for maybe the most recent incarnation which isn't released yet and doesn't count).

http://midp-calc.sourceforge.net/

While Dvorak is better than Qwerty, it is not the optimal keyboard layout (e.g. R is a common letter but is not on home row) and Colemak is easier to learn for those that already use Qwerty. I tried learning Dvorak and it was fairly frustrating (it didn't help that punctuation and common keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+X/C/V had moved); you'll learn Colemak faster because it has some similarity to Qwerty. Asset is even more similar to Qwerty, but it isn't designed to be quite as fast so you probably shouldn't choose it for a world record attempt.

Of course, switching to any other layout will "reset" your speed to almost zero at first, and it could take quite a long time to reach the same speed you had with Qwerty.

dd does a block copy from input to output, /dev/zero is a device in linux that will always read zeros. smartctl is a cmdline utility (part of smartmontools package) that can be used to read error logs and counters from hard drives. So he uses dd to write a bunch of zeros to a new drive in blocks of 8MB and then checks to see if the smart firmware reported any errors.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html

The zpool/scrub bits are specific to running a zfs pool but could be useful to check a batch of drives at once.

As a result, I've lost hundreds of hours in code reviews because some pedant was more interested in picking nits over whitespace than actually reviewing my algorithms.

The places where I worked used a simple guide line: the author has to clean up trivial issues before submitting an item for review. In case of code, this means ensuring style conventions.

Which in practice is trivial for reasonably popular programming languages:

First, you rarely have to invent your own style conventions. Instead, use existing standards. For instance, there are standard coding conventions for Java and Python.

If some guide lines do not make sense for your shop, simply change them to fit your needs. For example, PEP8 recommends a maximum line width of 79 characters. However, all our developers work a horizontal resolution of 1920, so we allow 132 characters. We also changed naming conventions from the loud and baroque SOME_CONSTANT to the calm SomeConstant.

Next, there are tools to check these conventions such as CheckStyle and flake8. Often you can even find tools to reformat source code consistently or automatically fix trivial issues like missing blanks, for example autopep8.

Some shops inject these tools in the commit hook of their version management and make it reject any code that does not conform. Baring that, the review moderator is required to run the style checks on the review item. If it turns out that the author still left style issues in the code, the moderator returns the item to the author and requests to clean it up.

That way, the reviewers always get tidy code and can focus on comprehensibility, maintainability and algorithms.

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How does it compare to Classic Shell?
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Yes, a few:

Start8: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
ViStart: http://www.lee-soft.com/vistart/
Classic Shell (has the benefit of being FOSS): http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Pokki: https://www.pokki.com/windows-8-start-menu

The standard xinput mechanisms have full tablet support now. You can even use use cheap knockoff tablets now thanks to digimend (I got one from monoprice and it's pretty great for messing around with handwriting recognition and I've discovered that image editing with a trackball + tablet is great). Unfortunately all tablets are kind of broken except in the latest release of X.org because of a bug with coordinate transformations (basically, the pointer jumps if you make pressure changes without moving because the code transforms the already transformed coordinates... it also left touchscreens pretty broken; the guy that fixed it caused something like a dozen ubuntu on nexus 7 bugs to be closed!).

Look at that, you found a chart. Good for you.

Statistically, what you say is just nonsense.

You don't seem to understand that chart, the methodology, or statistics in general.

Fun fact: Our little discussion here actually improves Ruby's TIOBE rank. Interesting, isn't it?

Other similar sites show similar results.

No, they don't.

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&percent=true&l0=java&l1=javascript&l2=-1&l3=python&l4=ruby&l5=-1&commit=Update

https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ruby%20on%20rails

http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/javascript-tops-latest-programming-language-popularity-ranking-from-redmonk/
( http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/09/12/language-rankings-9-12/ )

No one cared about Ruby before RoR -- and now that RoR has fallen out of favor (the fad is over) so will Ruby. Trends appear to show Ruby as flat or in decline.

I know that you really like Ruby. That's fine. But let's not pretend that it's growing in popularity. It doesn't matter if the rumors about Ruby and RoR are true or not -- or that such-and-such criticism is just a myth or whatever else you want to bring up in defense of the language. The fact is that it's in decline and unlikely to ever again enjoy the hype it did years ago. Sometimes, being just the best thing ever in the whole of all history just isn't enough to make something popular.

You seem to have a lot emotionally invested in the language (or other people's perception of the language). Just let it go, kid. In the grand scheme of things, it's not at all important.

Not true, otherwise why would http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ exist. Even windows 7 is pretty crappy, so classic shell turning Windows desperate phone user interface schemes into a usable desktop and notebook computer interface. Classic shell fixing Uncle Festers GUI delusions for nearly a decade.

I wanted to try it out, so I put it on my (non-touch) laptop. The Metro UI is an abomination. I wouldn't even want it on a touch tablet ("live tiles" compare very badly to Android's widget, notifications are a joke...), on a PC, it should be taken out and shot.

Which, luckily, you can do easily with http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/, and get back the Desktop shell that the IT gods intended.

Apart form that, the new features are:
1- Remote Desktop server...
2- and that's it. Not even ReadyBoost for SSD, nor some tiered storage like Apple has started doing.
3- and after Jan 31st, you won't even get Media Server.

MS is trying to force-feed Metro UI to their Desktop users, hoping to use that familiarity to get some traction on phones and tablets. The problem are that Metro UI 1) makes no sense on non-touch machines, and 2) lacks severely even on tablets and phones.

I loved my TI 89 before I left outside one rainy night.
qalculate-gtk is my go to calculator on my linux boxes :
http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
Don't let the website design scare you, it's a pretty decent calculator, and handles units very well (e.g. "10kWh to MJ")

EasyCalc for Palm is quite nice. The most recent version runs on PocketPC, too, but I didn't use that one. Doesn't do CAS, but it is opensource, and you can compile it on your own and tweak it to your heart's content. It also runs on a reasonably modern platform, so you don't have to worry about the CPU being a dinosaur. I think it'll work on pretty much any Palm II and newer device IIRC. I've used it on a monochrome Handspring Visor. Came very handy for advanced strength of materials. I think at that time I knew all the tricks needed to quickly calculate eigenvectors and eigenvalues, for example, never mind graph things.

Legacy Palm devices are the proverbial dime a dozen on eBay.

Side note: Not having degree-scaled arguments to trig functions is somewhat of a childish thing to complain about. Gimme a break, seriously (this is in maxima):

(%i13) dsin(x):=sin(x*%pi/180);
                      x %pi
(%o13) dsin(x) := sin(-----)
                        180
(%i14) dsin(5),numer;
(%o14) .08715574274765817

I also give my backing to R. There are other packages which look more like integrated though like Octave or Euler. You can even get Mathematica for Linux but it is somewhat expensive.

AROS comes in various flavors of hardware and includes being hosted on Linux and on windows via virtual box type of emulation. There is even a version that runs on the Amigas. see http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly.php & http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php

AROS comes in various flavors of hardware and includes being hosted on Linux and on windows via virtual box type of emulation. There is even a version that runs on the Amigas. see http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly.php & http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfienfcollector/

Source: http://cryptome.org/2012/08/huge-sec-v6000.txt

Click here if you want your mind blown.

Try another open source project: http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/

Not April 1st! Pretty decent support for XP apps on 98SE. Nearly all apps still support XP and probably will till EOL in 2014. And 98... say what you will (we all did) it's an excellent 32bit GUI OS that /really/ runs on old hardware back to the 486. Not just 'in theory', which Linux does, but seriously good luck making it happen.

Youngster warning: 98 is a hideous piece of crap in some ways, totally earning the scorn of a lot of people. BUT you could figure out how to make it stable and secure. The lore is still online if you want an obscure hobby.

8086, 400kb RAM - use ELKS.

Unfortunately secure booting is linked so tightly with vendor lockdown, tracking, and DRM concerns that I never expect it to be embraced by any open-source community. Hysteria over treacherous computing so far has been overblown. For example, the potential abuse of the unique ID features of the TPM chips were not sufficient reason for the boycott against using them when available they generated--especially if you're booting into an open-source OS.

It's pretty ridiculous that software like trusted grub isn't in mainstream Linux distributions, while Windows booting is easy to protect using the TPM with BitLocker. I boot my Linux/Windows Thinkpad using the Windows boot loader specifically because it resists evil maid attacks better when I'm traveling. The hysteria isn't limited to Linux; the same indefensible arguments are made by TrueCrypt. That acts as if TPM provides no protection against physical attacks, which is ridiculous if you look at how much work it takes to hack one.

What about Media Player Classic Home Cinema? I use both. I use MPC-HC more than VLC. Both are great.

I've just been waiting for when they would do this (plus the intensified BitTorrent lawsuits reported on a while ago).

I'm actually just glad they did, because it will finally start pushing people over to the "final" and unbeatable file sharing technology of social graph-based anonymized darknets.

The most prominent network/client in this category so far is Retroshare, and I can really recommend that you try it out, especially if you want to be the cool guy (ok, nerd) that was among the first to use this technology which will last for a loooong time to come...

It's because you aren't using tetradraw.

First of all, "enormous bandwidth hog" is completely different from "doesn't exist". Second of all, I dispute the claim WRT to VNC. And third of all, it doesn't matter since there is an RDP server for Linux! Took me all of about 20 seconds to find.

But I agree with other posters that a remote desktop, no matter which variation you choose to use, is a poor way to administer a Linux server. If bandwidth is a concern, straight SSH uses far less than RDP. And anyway, most of the most common server software is designed to be administered via a web interface. So, what are you going to do? Use RPD to run a local web browser? Truly silly. Just make sure your admin web interfaces aren't public.

When I'm using Linux, I'm using Thunderbird, but I can't access my school's email server because Thunderbird can't do Exchange.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

grnbrg.

That's interesting. on my iPhone, I set up my GMail account as Exchange so my contacts and calendars would sync. I'll have to give this a try on my desktop.

. When I'm using Linux, I'm using Thunderbird, but I can't access my school's email server because Thunderbird can't do Exchange.

I've been using Davmail to solve this issue -- basically a background process that connects to exchange, and translates to common protocols such as calDav, Imap, ldap, etc (so that you can then use Thunderbird/etc). It's not perfect, but it's pretty close.

When I'm using Linux, I'm using Thunderbird, but I can't access my school's email server because Thunderbird can't do Exchange.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

grnbrg.

For another starting point look on http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ or http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/index.html

Your next challenge: do it on an 8088.

I used the same trick when trying to write an Atari 2600 game, with the Starpath Supercharger. That lets you load a new cartridge via the cassette interface. But rather than plug a real player in, you can compile your code into a WAV file that uses the same format as those cassettes. Play that sound on the laptop, audio output plugged into the Supercharger, and you can test the game on real hardware.

This is extremely useful, as emulators only go so far. I had my demo display loop working fine on the 2600 emulator. Didn't work right on the real hardware though, the vertical sync time was off and it rolled instead of being stable.

If you install Win8, and then install Classic Shell, you'll be able to get the Windows desktop experience you're familiar with, and bypass MS' clunky attempt to force you to use the Metro interface.

you have to leave options for people who are comfortable with your old UI paradigm or no one will bother to make the transition

You're acting as if there isn't an entire legacy desktop a single click away in Windows 8. As far as a "classic shell" there is in fact such a thing that exists today. No need to wait on Microsoft. Either way, this complaint has exactly zero relevance to the Surface, where the new UI is actually much more usable than the old one.

Careful with the CamelCase, but http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ is a fun real-time connection visualizer. We used that for a lot of network demonstrations.

The command-line based "iftop" is also really nice to get a quick realtime overview of what's using bandwidth.

I think she'll have lots of fun with any of the Wardriving software, which would also give you maps.

For Android, there are a few pretty interesting real-time displays. "Wifi Analyzer" will have her running all over the place exploring wifi signal attenuation. "OpenSignal" is also a cool app I just started playing with that will let you do the same with cell towers, which also shows their location on a map. Also look at "GPS Status" to visualize where all of the GPS satellites are, and what kind of attenuation you'd get from each one's signal with trees / buildings / mountains in the way.

Have fun!

I think that the child can learn from http://class.stanford.edu/networking/Fall2012
There are some very basic informations. Pictorial representations, and concepts of flow, etc. I as a 13 year old became fixated on electronics, and this child may be fixated the same way on the TCP/IP.

Footnote: I pluraled information

pfff... i designed a much better autothreading language, much better, much simpler, much more intuitive, and allows for data-parrallel threading. a long time ago, too. https://sourceforge.net/projects/tsunamiprogramm/

It was an experimental file manager for IRIX named fsn. It was never fully completed, though it did well enough to be featured in Jurassic Park.

You can download a Linux-compatible clone of fsn named fsv here.

Careful with the CamelCase, but http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ is a fun real-time connection visualizer. We used that for a lot of network demonstrations.

The command-line based "iftop" is also really nice to get a quick realtime overview of what's using bandwidth.

I think she'll have lots of fun with any of the Wardriving software, which would also give you maps.

For Android, there are a few pretty interesting real-time displays. "Wifi Analyzer" will have her running all over the place exploring wifi signal attenuation. "OpenSignal" is also a cool app I just started playing with that will let you do the same with cell towers, which also shows their location on a map. Also look at "GPS Status" to visualize where all of the GPS satellites are, and what kind of attenuation you'd get from each one's signal with trees / buildings / mountains in the way.

Have fun!