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Good media players: ZoomPlayer (for DVD playback is not free) or MPC (is, but less pretty). use Dscaler5 and ffdshow and you're set. oh, add something like DVD43 for de-CSS and other bullshit removal. I use this on my HTPC and with some careful setup its the bees knees. Certainly nothing complains about piracy here :D. Glad to be of service.

Good media players: ZoomPlayer (for DVD playback is not free) or MPC (is, but less pretty). use Dscaler5 and ffdshow and you're set. oh, add something like DVD43 for de-CSS and other bullshit removal. I use this on my HTPC and with some careful setup its the bees knees. Certainly nothing complains about piracy here :D. Glad to be of service.

IBM offers support for Geronimo. That's competition on the services front. They are even hosting a contest on Sourceforge.

matchit script. So yes it does.

Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages?

I don't use text based email clients any more, but it should. The only thing suggested seems to be is to set textwidth=72 instead of default 80. As vim supports local settings (setting unique to a buffer). You can set the textwidth to 72 for mails only and have it as 80 for all other files.

Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages? Can it be customized so that when editing a certain type of file, inserting certain characters has additional effects?

Yes it does. Filetype plugins plus abbreviation.

So in short yes it does support what you want. May be some one using mutt/pine + vim can elaborate on point 2.

Wouldn't Columbia be better suited as a base for this project?

There are two ports, one from Apple and one based off the work from Apple by Nokia. Here's the link I think you're referring to:
            http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/

From the page: "Gtk+ WebCore is a Linux/Gtk+ port of Apple Computer Inc.'s WebCore KHTML html rendering engine including a web component. A reference browser implementation is included in the project. Gtk+ WebCore is a standards compliant (X)HTML rendering engine, javascript interpreter and an embeddable web component. The purpose of the web component is to be a light-weight, easy-to-compile and embed, open source rendering component.

The project work is done at Nokia Research Center (NRC) as part of ongoing internet browser-related research activities. By releasing the source we hope to support in open source communities interested in using KHTML rendering engine component."

This one bothered me for so long, I saw your comment and decided to look for the solution (one more time). Here it is (CTRL+Q)

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_w32.html #CTRL-V-alternative

I noticed that the article didn't mention LUFS. This alone allows for tremenduous possibilities, not least of which is rapid development of filesystems. Do any other systems (besides GNU HURD) have userspace filesystems?

LUFS hasn't been maintained since 2003, and is therefore almost dead. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is the most promising alternative that is getting merged into the 2.6.14 mainline Linux kernel. It works with several network filesystem protocols like:
SMB for FUSE
SSH Filesystem (SSHFS)
FuseDAV (WebDAV)

Linux-FUSE can also provide all applications on the system (even shell utilities) with access to network locations set up under KDE. There's a tutorial for how to do this, but last time I tried it did not compile :-(

These are much needed improvements to usability of the Linux desktop, because unprivileged (non-root) users shouldn't have to contact their sys. admins everytime they need to mount network locations. The KDE approach to providing network access is not complete without Linux-FUSE, because only KDE apps can open/save to network locations set up under KDE. Hopefully the KDE devs will create a GUI for mounting/unmounting FUSE shares so that all apps (GTK, Motif, even shell utilities) can access network files.

I noticed that the article didn't mention LUFS. This alone allows for tremenduous possibilities, not least of which is rapid development of filesystems. Do any other systems (besides GNU HURD) have userspace filesystems?

LUFS hasn't been maintained since 2003, and is therefore almost dead. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is the most promising alternative that is getting merged into the 2.6.14 mainline Linux kernel. It works with several network filesystem protocols like:
SMB for FUSE
SSH Filesystem (SSHFS)
FuseDAV (WebDAV)

Linux-FUSE can also provide all applications on the system (even shell utilities) with access to network locations set up under KDE. There's a tutorial for how to do this, but last time I tried it did not compile :-(

These are much needed improvements to usability of the Linux desktop, because unprivileged (non-root) users shouldn't have to contact their sys. admins everytime they need to mount network locations. The KDE approach to providing network access is not complete without Linux-FUSE, because only KDE apps can open/save to network locations set up under KDE. Hopefully the KDE devs will create a GUI for mounting/unmounting FUSE shares so that all apps (GTK, Motif, even shell utilities) can access network files.

LUFS is unmaintained, it has been replaced with FUSE. FUSE includes a LUFS-to-FUSE bridge called Lufis

FUSE is now merged into the Linux kernel, and will appear in 2.6.14.

Does anybody know why ReiserFS 3 hasn't been ported to any of the BSDs yet? ReiserFS 4 looks as though it's pretty revolutionary, if distributions settle on that as a default, I can see that giving quite an advantage to Linux compared with the other kernels.

I noticed that the article didn't mention LUFS. This alone allows for tremenduous possibilities, not least of which is rapid development of filesystems. Do any other systems (besides GNU HURD) have userspace filesystems?

All the other distractions are bad enough without a bunch of little windows popping up all the time. I don't know how people who use it stand it.

Just use Gaim http://gaim.sourceforge.net/. All of the "windows popping up" all go into one window. Also, it lets you conect to many diffrent servers (like AIM, Yahoo, MSN) at the same time in one client.
It saves a lot of time.

What a coincidence... I just finished a game of sudoku and decided to come read Slashdot!

Anyways, Sudoku is an awesome game. For those of you running windows, a free/OSS windows sudoku game can be found at sourceforge.

Have fun ;)

Since this software is available on Unix (which Mac OS X is built on)

MACOSX is built on a shitty mach kernel, like it always has been, it just has some random BSD utilities tossed in. This is not so different from installing Unix Utils on Windows. Is XP built on unix because I installed these? Hardly.

Apple is still Apple, all that Unix jazz is just lip service, like the "posix" put into NT.

> What's it resizing it with?
You have now reached my level of ignorance. I just know I have succesfully upgraded a Windows install in this fashion. Here's an alternative plan of attack.

Given the cost of disk drives today (newegg has 250GB Connect the original disk as the IDE secondary Master (so you do not have to fiddle with jumpers). It is also great insurance that you can get back to where you were by connecting the original drive as the IDE primasry master.
Then connect the new drive as the IDE primary master.
Now use the "Ultimate Boot CD" http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/ "Partition Saving" http://www.partition-saving.com/ to copy the original Windows partition to the new drive. Since you seem to be having issues with the partition you can use the sector copy to get an exact image. If you are really paranoid, you can back it up to CD's and restore from them onto the new drive. Then just run the normal Suse (or whatever distro you choose) install. It should see the existing partition and will add it to the boot menu. Make sure the install is configured to install a new MBR (master booot record), since it will be missing on the new disk, and that it sets the new linux partition "active" as neither of these actions are performed by default on Suse.

If you get confused and muck it up, just start again, by copying the original partition.

HTH

For those of you looking for a RISC-like experience under linux, be sure to look at the ROX Desktop. I've personally never used RISC, but I have fallen in love with ROX, using it, along with Xfce, on all of my machines. Together, the make a fast, modern desktop that knocks the socks off the other, traditional desktops

I was waiting for someone to mention this. Kudos.

And I'm not sure what it means exactly, but Trillian lists "AIM\ICQ" as one plugin, one entity. I know AOL bought ICQ but I don't know what that means for the networks - I assume they use the same back end but are kept physically or logically separate. I'm not saying multimillion dollar buyouts are the same as open infrastructure, but it disproves this topic to a point. Maybe a mass merger like Microsoft\Yahoo is the best we can hope for in terms of interoperability.

Either way, don't expect open infrastructure any time soon. Closed standards with proprietary front ends means companies can jam banner ads on people's desktops. If you hate ads as much as I do, use an alternative.

GAIM
Trillian

Geez, all this whining about proprietary half-assed IM networks. Show people how to use irc! They can use it with GAIM or any other various GUI client. (Or text if they prefer.) It's been around for decades, anyone can run a server, there are a multitude of clients on every platform, and it's entirely open. You can transfer files, and even have stupid graphical smileys and sounds if you want (or filter them if you don't).

Seriously, if people want an "open IM network", fire up an irc server, give everyone GAIM or Google Messanger, and be done with the AOL angst.

...is the day when ISO 8879 can be downloaded for free. Granted, OpenSP kicks ass at much of it, but I'd still like to read the standard without paying ~$224, and if Goldfarb is the one in the way of that, he's gonna get smacked soon.

(Or did I miss a PDF somewhere this side of eMule? I've seen none there of 8879 yet...)

I really want to put the biggest IDE hard drive than I can find into my TIVO

While I do know someone who just finished putting 2 400GB Seagates into their Replay box, I take a looser approach. DVArchive is a Java client that uses uPNP to impersonate a Replay over the network. So any attached disk storage with a CPU that can run Java appears as a virtual ReplayTV and can be used to store and stream shows. I have a 1TB media server that does double duty for audio and ReplayTV, and a HTPC with 500GB that serves up basically nothing but RTV content and its own video captures. Because RTVs are so network friendly, and can be controlled easily from any web browser, I find I tend to treat them more as loosely coupled capture cards that happen to be in a fancy box more than anything else. The drives within the ReplayTVs themselves? Kind of like a local temporary storage cache. MediaMVPs or modded XBoxes make good front-ends if you want to avoid the HTPC route. With VideoLAN you can stream right from the Replays, through DVArchive, and over the net. Of course, you're going to need a really fat pipe, so I usually convert into XVid and serve up using Media Center - it can do some intelligent bandwidth throttling based on the client's pipe.

I think you are just trolling.

To being with Slashcode ( what drives this ) will *only* work with MySQL ( http://www.slashcode.com/docs/INSTALL ) and has never supported db2.

Secondly, i have a sourceforge project and i can connect to a MySQL database from my project's sf-hosted server-side page.

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?doci d=4297&group_id=1#mysql

If you want to try Rails out for yourself on Mac, you could be doing it in less than 5 minutes (assuming you're sitting on a fast connection....)

Cheers,

Uhm, now that I'm here anyway: does anyone knows how to configure firefox in such a way that it opens ftp:// with FileZilla? I'm sure it must be possible, but I have no clue about such things.

Here is an open source two-factor authentication system capable of handling multiple logins - because it uses public key crypto instead of shared secrets like these tokens:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/

Thus, you have only one token.

You seem to not even know about UnxUtils, which happens to contain a native win32 port of wget and many other utils. I remember Evolution in 1998 too, what a piece of crap that was. It sure was pretty, but it really liked to hose the system.

And not to nitpick, but GTA on the PS2 is really bad. People just ignore all the slowdown and terrible aiming or something. On top of that, there's Multi-theft auto, something not possible on the PS2.

So install Gaim Extended Prefs (you old fogey :-) )and turn that behavior off. One shouldn't have to endure an antagonistic relationship with one's IM client. Mine is just a happy little icon on the task bar that blinks when I have a message and has been for a while.

I filed a bug bug about this with the gaim maintainers 369 days ago. Little has been done about it, despite numerous releases since then. The default behavior is idiotic and can't be overridden.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid= 100235&func=detail&aid=1164192 was closed incorrectly.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1 044313&group_id=235&atid=100235 says to me that they don't care about the problem.

I continue hating gaim.

I filed a bug bug about this with the gaim maintainers 369 days ago. Little has been done about it, despite numerous releases since then. The default behavior is idiotic and can't be overridden.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid= 100235&func=detail&aid=1164192 was closed incorrectly.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1 044313&group_id=235&atid=100235 says to me that they don't care about the problem.

I continue hating gaim.

http://desquirr.sourceforge.net/desquirr/

I've not tried it, so I don't know how sophisticated it is.

I use SpellBound for Firefox. As for space tourists/flight participants, if they can positively contribute to experiments in a safe fashion they should be encouraged to help further defray the costs of their trip by working.

http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
http://freesourcecodes.tripod.com/ext2.htm
http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html
http://www.wolfsheep.com/map/#RFSGUI
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ ltools.html

The above links were all gathered from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm I've not tried any of them, but this one looks the most polished. YMMV, knock yourself out, etc.

You can use ext2fsd to read from and write to ext2 partitions. It can handle ext3 in read-only mode.

Very few (recent) comparisons around. From my experience, however, if you're running a simple web site with many SELECTs over a single table then MySQL may well suffice. If you're doing serious stuff with multiple table/view joins then you should move up a gear and use PostgreSQL.

I've moved completely to PostgreSQL (works beautifully on core Drupal too) and have found complex queries complete in a fraction of the time. I had a complicated application which had multiple threads inserting, updating and reading all at the same time- complete run-time was reduced to a tenth by using PostgreSQL.

It works for me- just make sure you use ADODB in PHP or Perl/DBI to make switching easy when you hit the MySQL limits.

One more thing: I work with serious mainframe DB2 during the day. MySQL just doesn't compare. Postgres feels closer.

Why not just use gmail. There is enough storage, and they have the money and people to take care of security, cross-platform issues, and bandwidth. Unless you have money like Micro$oft, you won't beat gmail.

Fuck that.. Why would I want to use GMail, with its false positives on non-spam, when I can have an IMAP solution which allows me to use any front end to access all my e-mail from anywhere? I can use Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution, Outlook, Squirrelmail, or this not-ready-for-real-use RoundCube an day of the week and switch at any moment, why would I give that up for GMail which doesn't even have IMAP. Sorry, POP3 simply doesn't cut it. Nice try, though.

Then there's the spam filtering. Using SpamBayes, I haven't had a single false positive in the years that I've used it. Compare that to GMail, which not only doesn't have an option to turn off spam filtering, will file away perfectly legit messages to your spam folder.

No thanks.

I (Sean) have been hired by Google, moved to Seattle, and have been working on the Google Talk team for about a month and a half. The goal of Google Talk is to make real-time communication as open as possible, and in that regard, I've been working to offer all of Google Talk's features into other clients. Currently, I'm working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features. You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.

Perhaps they should tell him that:

Working at Google

I (Sean) have been hired by Google, moved to Seattle, and have been working on the Google Talk team for about a month and a half. The goal of Google Talk is to make real-time communication as open as possible, and in that regard, I've been working to offer all of Google Talk's features into other clients. Currently, I'm working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features. You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.

Working at Google

I (Sean) have been hired by Google, moved to Seattle, and have been working on the Google Talk team for about a month and a half. The goal of Google Talk is to make real-time communication as open as possible, and in that regard, I've been working to offer all of Google Talk's features into other clients. Currently, I'm working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features. You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.

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Is it just me or does the 2.355 line rcube_webmail() function bother anyone else?

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/roundcubemai l/roundcubemail/program/js/app.js?rev=1.4&view=aut o

The only issue left is that it did not recognise the wireless card I have installed.. so I can't put it on the network yet.

I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop a few months ago, and also ran into trouble with the wireless card. Mine was a linksys, and they didn't have a driver for Linux. I was able to use the Windows driver on Ubuntu using NdisWrapper. Assuming you are having similar driver trouble, this may work for you too.

IIRC, NdisWrapper was on the install cd (you might have to apt-get or synaptic it to get it on your HD), so you shouldn't have to download it (which is good, since your card doesn't work yet ;^).

Here's a link to the project...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Here's the install instructions on the wiki...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index .php/Installation

You'll also need the Windows driver for you card. You can get it off of the CD that came with it, or they are usually available from the manufacturer's website.

Good luck,
-m

The only issue left is that it did not recognise the wireless card I have installed.. so I can't put it on the network yet.

I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop a few months ago, and also ran into trouble with the wireless card. Mine was a linksys, and they didn't have a driver for Linux. I was able to use the Windows driver on Ubuntu using NdisWrapper. Assuming you are having similar driver trouble, this may work for you too.

IIRC, NdisWrapper was on the install cd (you might have to apt-get or synaptic it to get it on your HD), so you shouldn't have to download it (which is good, since your card doesn't work yet ;^).

Here's a link to the project...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Here's the install instructions on the wiki...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index .php/Installation

You'll also need the Windows driver for you card. You can get it off of the CD that came with it, or they are usually available from the manufacturer's website.

Good luck,
-m

I have a Commodore 64 emulator running on my phone (Nokia 6630). Pretty cool to show people Jumpman! Get a bluetooth keyboard for it, and the old games are quite playable. I keep a keyboard in the car in case I need to do remote support (using s2putty), so whilst waiting at the airport to pick someone up, I fire up the Commodore 64, and play LodeRunner :)

Frodo is the emulator for Symbian phones.

http://e32frodo.sourceforge.net/

And here is pretty much any C64 game you can think of.

http://www.c64.com/

Lots of new features in the new upcoming version of gaim. Read the list yourself. It's mouth watering.

I use bitlbee, an IRCd that talks to the major IM networks in text format. Access this in irssi (any tty irc client will do). Leave it running 24/7 on a server in a dtach (or screen) instance. Attach to it from anywhere on earth. See in the logs the time your buddies came and went, and any messages you missed. Chat from one machine, move to another and continue the conversation. At home on my LAN, I run the trigger script, and have it play sounds on all my PCs in the house when I get a message.

Another one:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mms-mle/

Although in it's current state, MMS is a little too tied into the University of St. Andrews' systems and methods. Does make good example code though, and we'd love to hear from anyone interested in working to adapt it for use in their university. Key features:

Ties directly into central data storage, to make importing students and assigning them to the correct modules essentially a single click operation.
Provides coursework upload, grading, per student file space, enrollment, tutorial and lecture attendance monitoring.
Works well with both MySQL and Oracle.

Install TurckMMCache, if you haven't already. It makes a world of difference when running a large PHP application like Moodle.

I actually use centericq within a profiled gnome-terminal and ratpoison as "Window"-Manager. It is doing a fine job here. :)

http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/

And file transfers with non-gaim clients ?

Works for me with MSN & ICQ, haven't tried any other protocols though. MSN file transfer is painfully slow though.

YMMV.

Not just theoretically, but in practice.

I realize the iPod has a user friendly interface for handheld operation, but a component-sized music player would likely be operated by remote. I don't see too many remotes with click wheels, nor do I see too many component systems that are not housed within an entertainment center several feet from the entertainee. Unless you're absolutely in love with Apple's audio codecs, the FLAC website has several links to other commercially available players which support many formats. You may have made an excellent prediction in the next direction of iPod development. A home iPod device would be simpler and look better than plugging an iPod into line level jacks on a receiver.