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From experience, the proprietary Linux drivers that ATI provides aren't that great. They're still very buggy. I've had good success with the open source ATI drivers.

If your music is in a good directory/filename structure you can use MP3 Tag Tools to automatically read the filenames/directories and write the tags based on that. It will also take your tagged music and put it into the right folders with consistent filename. I have found it to be extremely useful for organizing my music files.

The software is Windows only, but EasyTag on Linux can do very simaler things. I'm not sure of a Mac equivalent.

You'll want this.

I'm one of the lucky few who managed to get on the trial and, so far, have found it to be a positive step. I've only used it a small amount so far and have only 1 complaint. In order to download the key to watch any media files, it has to be viewed from within the BBC's player. If you try to watch something with straight WMP, it cannot download the key. After you've started watching something with the BBC player, the key has been downloaded and you are then free to watch using vanilla WMP. This makes the integration with my media software of choice (MediaPortal) less than seamless.

The best of all is that its in MP3 format so it works with every mp3 player on the planet. The only glitch I've ever found is that sometimes (but not often) the tags aren't as good as they could be. I usually run my downloads through Easy tag before importing into my IPOD.

An encrypted filesystem will get you most of what you want. It'll require overhead for every file, not just deleted ones, can't push that overhead to the background, and could make recovery of the files you didn't delete more difficult (although this is a feature =)

If you use things like PGP, look into encrypted swap anyway, and set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 5 to make it less painful as linux loves to swap

I run Mythtv AND Freevo on the same box. Mythtv has some great recording options, freevo has a "browse files on drive" philosophy which works well with my movie and music directories. A different X session for each and a little flipping in between and I've got the best of both worlds. I'm also running Jinzora2. It can be persnickety, but it generally does the job as a web based jukebox for playing music at work from home.

You can do the same thing with the recording functions on Audacity. The only difference is that Audacity is available free on all platforms.. and open source which is always a good thing.

The home page for the ext3cow filesystem also does a good job of referencing other versioning filesystems and the like. I think you'll find what you want linked from there. I recommend Wayback, although it doesn't do everything you asked for.

You could possibly implement it with DavFS...

The solution is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos

The project page doesn't give any details of how you access previous versions of files, but:

Wayback is an implementation of a versioning file system for Linux. This means that when you use a Wayback file system, old versions of files are never lost. No matter how much you change a file or directory, everything is always kept in a versioning file so that you never lose important data. Wayback provides the ability to remount any already mounted file system with versioning support under a different directory. Because of this, you can use Wayback on any block device with any base file system (ext3, ReiserFS, FAT, etc).

There are a few. All of them are based on the TIGER US Census data:

GMap is a cross platform one, based on Mono and GTK#, it runs both in linux and windows using OpenGL as the renderer. It can also give you directions.

Roadster is a GTK based one that uses Cairo as its renderer and supports Points of interests.

There are a few. All of them are based on the TIGER US Census data:

GMap is a cross platform one, based on Mono and GTK#, it runs both in linux and windows using OpenGL as the renderer. It can also give you directions.

Roadster is a GTK based one that uses Cairo as its renderer and supports Points of interests.

I think you'll find MythTV is remarkably complete in itself. Another poster mentioned KnoppMyth, which includes MythPhone (A SIP videophone client), MythWeb (essential) MythGame, Samba, NFS, etc...

The only thing I'd add after is ProjectX for fixing buggy IVTV captures and DVDStyler for authoring discs.

I installed MythStreamTV which was cool but I never use it, so I don't know if it was worth the effort.

owners of OmniFi DMP1's can testify to this at length.

Not that I know of, but what I do is keep three copies of important data on CD/DVD media in different geographic locations. Each disk is burned to about 90% capacity, with the remaining 10% of data as PAR2 parity files, which sort of implements what you're getting at.

I've had an idea kicking around for a while now... "HDFS / Home-Dir File System" ... I want a (s)low-performance, bloated, version controlled, roll-back featured, viewcvs.cgi enabled file system for my /home/rames (or at least /home/rames/documents).

With FUSE it might even be possible for mere mortals like me.

Basically, I very rarely push more around more than 100-200kb at a time of "my stuff" unless it's big OGG's or tgz's, etc. Mostly source files, documents, resume's, etc. In that case, I want to be able to go historical to any saved revision *at the file-system level*, kindof like "always on cvs / svn / (git?)" for certain directories. Then when I accidently nuke files or make mistakes or whatever, I can drag a slider in a GUI and "roll-back" my filesystem to a certain point in time and bring that saved state into the present.

Performance is not an issue (at first), as I'm OK if my files take 3 seconds to save in vim or OpenOffice instead of 0.5 seconds. Space is not an issue because I don't generally revise Large(tm) files (and it would be pretty straightforward to have a MaxLimit size for any particular file). Maintenance would also be pretty straighforward: crontab "@daily dump revisions > 1 month". Include some special logic for "if a file is changing a lot, only snapshot versions every 5-10 minutes" and you could even handle some of the larger stuff like images without too much work.

Having done quite a bit of reading of KernelTraffic (Hi Zack) and recently about GIT, maybe it's time to dust off some python and C and see what happens...

--Robert

Create multiple copies of your base data and include error recovery codes.

RAR has error recovery features built in, there are also add-on tools to create parity/error correction blocks from whatever data you throw at it.

Of course if multiple copies from different sources are all damaged, you probably have bigger problems than getting your "important" data back.

Keepass is an excellent free, opensource, no-install password/data manager featuring strong crypto. here are a few pointers to USB key-based app collections that I've bookmarked over time.

What about loop aes?

As far as I can see in the README file, it uses deterministic IVs. That makes it vulnurable to the same kinds of attacks as most other disk encryptions. The v3 format may be some of the best which could be achieved with a deterministic encryption, but a probabilistic encryption should have been used instead. GBDE is the only disk encryption I know about which uses probabilistic encryption. But I'm not so sure about the cherrypicker.

It is perhaps ironic that the Dylan Language Wiki is written in PHP, but that is being rectified.

Have you tried JACK? AFAIK it's designed for just your problem.

That's why you should use the plausible deniability built into TrueCrypt. Giving the attacker the password to the outer volume (who has been robbed at knifepoint for a USB memory device? that'll be the day..), and they still still have no idea an entire volume of your real data is hiding in the noise that is the freespace of the aforementioned outer volume. the outer volume needs to be FAT and it can have innocuous stuff on there like fake financial documents.. Enjoy!

Yes. As has been said before (Cooper?), people don't like web apps because they're on the web. People like web apps because they don't have to install them. In every other way, web apps provide a worse user experience.

The solution to this problem is not to move everything to the web. The solution is to not require users to "install" programs.

I got a job that required me to use Windows (after a few years of using Macs), and I was somewhat surprised that the way you distribute software is as "SETUP.EXE" files *still*! -- download to desktop, run SETUP.EXE, click NEXT 17 times, start menu, programs, program name, program name again. No wonder PC users like web apps!

(On a Mac, you can just download a program, and run it. Almost no apps require "installation". Of course, Mac users like web apps for a completely different reason: because they'll run on Macs, unlike most programs. But a native Mac program will beat a web app any day.)

If everybody was using a system like Rox, I doubt anybody would seriously be proposing that web apps are the solution to anything, except displaying documents for people to read.

Technological Singularity has really got to mean artificial intelligence.

Vernor Vinge has brought you the Meme of the Singularity.

Mentifex (Latin for Mindmaker) has brought you the Mind of the Singularity.

The Mind of the Singularity is here but in a very primitive state.

When will the Singularity happen? This is a much discussed topic.

The A.I. Zone is where you may discuss and witness the Singularity in situ.

So, to the anonymous poster who obviously is Mentifex, try again. If you believe your work has scientific usefulness, then submit a peer reviewed paper and let it take care of itself, no need for you to continuing trolling the Internet, think of the time you'd save! Almost makes you wonder why you haven't. It's pointless to continue to push your views, and in this case to try to back it up with baseless arguments, too many people know you for what you are!

Propagating the Theory of Mind is the prime objective.

Coding the Artificial Mind serves the prime objective above.

Spreading AI Memes on the Net, useless as it may seem to your eminent self, O Lord of the Flameflies, serves such purposes as attracting other AI coders to the True AI enterprise and shoring up the personal motivation-structure for a lifelong AI project.

So back off and give a sincere independent investigator an even chance. It's easy for you to say, "submit a peer reviewed paper" -- but which comes first, the chicken (lots of peer-reviewed papers on Mentifex AI); or the egg (Mentifex kick-starting the thaw of the AI Winter right here on Slashdot)?

So the troll label sucks.

So, to the anonymous poster who obviously is Mentifex, try again. If you believe your work has scientific usefulness, then submit a peer reviewed paper and let it take care of itself, no need for you to continuing trolling the Internet, think of the time you'd save! Almost makes you wonder why you haven't. It's pointless to continue to push your views, and in this case to try to back it up with baseless arguments, too many people know you for what you are!

Propagating the Theory of Mind is the prime objective.

Coding the Artificial Mind serves the prime objective above.

Spreading AI Memes on the Net, useless as it may seem to your eminent self, O Lord of the Flameflies, serves such purposes as attracting other AI coders to the True AI enterprise and shoring up the personal motivation-structure for a lifelong AI project.

So back off and give a sincere independent investigator an even chance. It's easy for you to say, "submit a peer reviewed paper" -- but which comes first, the chicken (lots of peer-reviewed papers on Mentifex AI); or the egg (Mentifex kick-starting the thaw of the AI Winter right here on Slashdot)?

So the troll label sucks.

Danny Hillis was once a big name in artificial intelligence.

His Connection Machine was an awesome, state-of-the art supercomputer.

Stumbling upon artificial intelligence was supposed to happen Real Soon Now with Danny's thinking machines.

Thinking Machines was the name Danny gave to his ambitious enterprise.

True Artificial Intelligence proved far too hard for Danny Hillis and now he has gone on to less difficult challenges.

Slashdot readers expect more from the Mind of an Inventor.

how bout VegaStrike?

I have been searching for something like this (progress bar, eta, etc. for copy operations) for native Win32 for over 2 years. I've seen the unxutils page, but the cp.exe included in that package doesn't support the -g parameter. I pride myself in being able to accomplish more via the command line in both Windows and *nix environments, but lack of progress information makes me resort to the GUI for large file transfers (> 2 GB). Moving platforms and using Cygwin are not viable alternatives, but if anyone has any other suggestions, I welcome them. (I can't even find someone to take my money; $40 for XXCopy gets you every feature under the sun and only a pop-up GUI progress bar! wtf?!?)

Cyric, if you wanted an Elite rip-off (which is truly high praise, as Elite is great =]) that was actually open source (and good to boot!) try:

Vegastrike

This reminds me of Public Information Research, Inc.'s namebase.org java diagrams.

Linus Torvalds

Click the java diagram link from the top of the static gif diagram.

This has been around since 2000?

Also I think in...2002, Touchgraph came out with this google browser, and they have a wiki browser

sourceforge project page - touchgraph

This reminds me of Public Information Research, Inc.'s namebase.org java diagrams.

Linus Torvalds

Click the java diagram link from the top of the static gif diagram.

This has been around since 2000?

Also I think in...2002, Touchgraph came out with this google browser, and they have a wiki browser

sourceforge project page - touchgraph

fart !

Then again, as one of the decision makers in our company about what we are going to buy/upgrade I can say that both Vista and Office 12 will not be in scope for a looooong time. We'd possibly even consider moving to a linux desktop instead, depending on how draconian Vista is, how well-integrated the linux desktop in question is, and how much retraining is involved.

If that is the case, then so is Printing a relic of the age of Paper.

I think your post misses the point completely.

Although you can read pdf's online, a PDF is made to port your propietary format document to a file that can be printed on all printers driven by device drivers on all OS's that can host applications that know how to read PDF's and talk to the printer driver(s). And there are many.

The PDF specs are open, en well documented, and anyone can implement a PDF reader/writer to be compatible with his technical environment. Thanks to Gimp print and GhostScript
  [ http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Prin ters.php3 ],
  I can hook up age-old printers to an operating system that "does not support" them.
So if you want to select all text, you can. There are free (as in beer and speech ) PDF converters all over the globe. Go and pick one.

And finally, PDF is not bound to pages either. You can have slideshows in PDF, photo's in PDF. There is a PDF for the display device (screen) too. Look at Mac OS X, since the beginning, *six* years ago, everything could be saved or printed to pdf, right under your nose with Cmd-P. PDF is part of the operating system in Mac OS X. Unless you want the advanced features, you have more portability than you need. Adobe has nice extra features for PDF if you need them. Go check it out.

If that is the case, then so is Printing a relic of the age of Paper.

I think your post misses the point completely.

Although you can read pdf's online, a PDF is made to port your propietary format document to a file that can be printed on all printers driven by device drivers on all OS's that can host applications that know how to read PDF's and talk to the printer driver(s). And there are many.

The PDF specs are open, en well documented, and anyone can implement a PDF reader/writer to be compatible with his technical environment. Thanks to Gimp print and GhostScript
  [ http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Prin ters.php3 ],
  I can hook up age-old printers to an operating system that "does not support" them.
So if you want to select all text, you can. There are free (as in beer and speech ) PDF converters all over the globe. Go and pick one.

And finally, PDF is not bound to pages either. You can have slideshows in PDF, photo's in PDF. There is a PDF for the display device (screen) too. Look at Mac OS X, since the beginning, *six* years ago, everything could be saved or printed to pdf, right under your nose with Cmd-P. PDF is part of the operating system in Mac OS X. Unless you want the advanced features, you have more portability than you need. Adobe has nice extra features for PDF if you need them. Go check it out.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ is the site that I know for it but at any rate. One of the undergrads asked for it in the labs so I checked it out. Seems to work very well, it correctly rendered everything thrown at it from sinple Word documents, to complex Excel sheets, to Matlab output to other PDFs. Thus far, I've seen no crashes and no goof ups. It doesn't have all the features that Acrobat does but it doesn't much matter for most things. It installs a printer driver that works well and creates usable PDFs.

Why waste your time fighting with DOS commands?

UNIX Utils, Natively Compiled for Windows

Whoever modded me flamebait has obviously not actually tried to use any Linux sound software. Three fucking years I used Linux as my only OS, and in that time I found THREE sound apps worth using.

Hydrogen
Audacity
Rezound
Those three apps got me through a shitload of home recording. I'm considering doing a small Fedora setup just so I can use Hydrogen again. Nothing else I used was worth the effort it took to get it to the half-assed stage it was at. Rosegarden, Muse, Beast, Ardour... all total shit. If you don't believe me... actually TRY those sometime.

Whoever modded me flamebait has obviously not actually tried to use any Linux sound software. Three fucking years I used Linux as my only OS, and in that time I found THREE sound apps worth using.

Hydrogen
Audacity
Rezound
Those three apps got me through a shitload of home recording. I'm considering doing a small Fedora setup just so I can use Hydrogen again. Nothing else I used was worth the effort it took to get it to the half-assed stage it was at. Rosegarden, Muse, Beast, Ardour... all total shit. If you don't believe me... actually TRY those sometime.

without installing the entire Windows Resource Kit tools

There are a wide variety of these programs. I use NoteEdit. It was very hard for me to install it on my SuSE 9 machine, but it works well. Make sure you have TiMidity server, which is used for playback, installed and running or else NoteEdit will crash as soon as you start it, giving a cryptic error message. Sometimes running TiMidity will interfere with other sounds on my box, which is annoying, so I have to turn it on and off. If you want to print music you've inputed to NoteEdit, you need LaTeX installed. Remember, the commands to convert a LaTeX file to a musical score are:

$ latex filename.tex
$ musixflx filename.tex
$ latex filename.tex

I got this wrong for a while, even with the VERY noticable reminder from NoteEdit.

One of the other programs available is Rose Garden. Rose Garden is more mature but also less intuitive and oriented towards synthesis as opposed to performances.

If you get to be hard-core about editing scores on your Linux box, the best program around for professional score engraving will already be installed on your computer with the LaTeX distribution you aquired for printing the output from NoteEdit. See this Giant Musixtex Manual. I often typeset complex mathematics, but I have not yet been able to master musixtex, so good luck there.

What do you fear? Linux already support Trusted Computing. Anyone can start using it now! Microsoft is still at least a year behind.

"The first thing I do in any new city is take a photo of the metro-system with my phone, I'm not sure how they're going to police against that."

Well, they may try the approach of fining a few "pirates" a hundred thousand dollars and sending them to jail for five years to scare the rest into not violating their precious copyrights. That seems to be one of the favoured tactics.

My stuff, on the other hand, comes with

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=(creator%3 A%22drew%20Roberts%22)%20OR%20(collection%3A(ourme dia)%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fauthor%3A(drew%20Robert s))

a Creative Commons BY-SA licnese or

http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

a GPL (I would put license, but that would be redundant now wouldn't it.)

I hope to keep all of my work going forward under some sort of copyleft type license. (Or at least move them through a system where they end up copylefted.)

all the best,

drew

My complaint was that if I managed to make the laptop go to sleep on network A, and it woke up on network B, I would have to manually do the ifdown/ifup dance.

Yeah, I think ifplugd handles this... noticing when your association has changed and re-requesting DHCP. As I said, I like my scripts better, so I haven't really looked into it.

Regarding the CDRs: the unfixated disks require something called DirectCD (part of the Roxio suite of products) in order to read; nothing else has been able to read them on any platform I've tried. I was stunned too.

I thought it might be something like that... and I *still* think Linux can handle it :-). What DirectCD uses is the "UDF" format, which allows incremental "packet" writing. There is now UDF support for Linux.

I could do much (perhaps all) of my list on Linux; however, I'm not an 18-year-old living in my mom's basement anymore. I have a life, a wife, and a child; I no longer have hours and hours on end to fiddle with this and tweak that or whatever.

Heh heh. Not that you need to impress me, but this argument doesn't do it. I have a wife, four kids and a job that is much more than full-time.

That said, I have had several years to gradually get my Linux systems the way I like them. Whenever I get a new laptop, I just 'dd' the old drive onto the new one and then take a day or two to fix up whatever doesn't work. Compared to the pain my Windows-using colleagues go through every time they get a new machine, that's a cakewalk. Most of them end up hauling around two machines for a month or so until their transition is complete. One guy finally convinced the company he *couldn't* move his stuff off the old laptop, so he had to keep both... hmmm, maybe *he's* the smart one. At this point, I think Linux takes far less time and effort for me to maintain and use than Windows, but there was a significant cost, spread over several years, to get here.

But keep hacking on this stuff. Once it all "just works", I'm sure I'll come back to it because I really hate Windows. I just need it right now.

Use what works for you, of course.

My complaint was that if I managed to make the laptop go to sleep on network A, and it woke up on network B, I would have to manually do the ifdown/ifup dance.

Yeah, I think ifplugd handles this... noticing when your association has changed and re-requesting DHCP. As I said, I like my scripts better, so I haven't really looked into it.

Regarding the CDRs: the unfixated disks require something called DirectCD (part of the Roxio suite of products) in order to read; nothing else has been able to read them on any platform I've tried. I was stunned too.

I thought it might be something like that... and I *still* think Linux can handle it :-). What DirectCD uses is the "UDF" format, which allows incremental "packet" writing. There is now UDF support for Linux.

I could do much (perhaps all) of my list on Linux; however, I'm not an 18-year-old living in my mom's basement anymore. I have a life, a wife, and a child; I no longer have hours and hours on end to fiddle with this and tweak that or whatever.

Heh heh. Not that you need to impress me, but this argument doesn't do it. I have a wife, four kids and a job that is much more than full-time.

That said, I have had several years to gradually get my Linux systems the way I like them. Whenever I get a new laptop, I just 'dd' the old drive onto the new one and then take a day or two to fix up whatever doesn't work. Compared to the pain my Windows-using colleagues go through every time they get a new machine, that's a cakewalk. Most of them end up hauling around two machines for a month or so until their transition is complete. One guy finally convinced the company he *couldn't* move his stuff off the old laptop, so he had to keep both... hmmm, maybe *he's* the smart one. At this point, I think Linux takes far less time and effort for me to maintain and use than Windows, but there was a significant cost, spread over several years, to get here.

But keep hacking on this stuff. Once it all "just works", I'm sure I'll come back to it because I really hate Windows. I just need it right now.

Use what works for you, of course.

I distribute my software for free, in the hope that it may be useful - to you, among other people. Consider it a gift. If it breaks it will even send me a bug report, and I'll look at it for you for free. Oh, you want to be able to sue me if it breaks? Then I shan't give it to you.

I distribute my software for free, in the hope that it may be useful - to you, among other people. Consider it a gift. If it breaks it will even send me a bug report, and I'll look at it for you for free. Oh, you want to be able to sue me if it breaks? Then I shan't give it to you.