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http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/truetype.html

http://www.niii.ru.nl/~pauldv/fonts.php

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread .php?s=&threadid=257705

Does this help? Basically the 2 issues are hints embedded within a font for optimal viewing, and the second have to do with freetype fonts which modern oses use over ttfonts. The Linux version is not feature complete due to the legal mess. I am sure you can download the patented versions and install it yourself but its a pain.

There is comparable software that might be of interest along these lines ... check out:
http://www.pixtra.com/
http://www.ptgui.com/
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.360dof.com/
http://www.arcsoft.com/products/panoramastitching/

Automated tests can be an excellent tool for software issues, but aren't as valuable when dealing with some of the hardware interaction problems that kernel bugs get reported for. A Perl module can spit out the result of a test immediately, whereas a kernel bug might only show up after a few days of heavy load, or be amazingly specific about the combination of hardware in use, perhaps enough so that only a few people in the Linux community would have the same kit.

Still, it's something to have a go at. There are quite a few automated tests done on the linux kernel already, such as the Linux Test Project - http://ltp.sourceforge.net/.

the identified trackers ... all originate from the same IP address.

The solution suggests itself. Is PeerGuardian onto that IP address yet?

Been done. At least for Azureus. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php? plugin=safepeer

Gtk-Gnutella

Poisoned is a good program to use. I've been using it for awhile and it works great and has a nice UI.

Well, what other P2P programs are there? This one is dead.

Take a look at Shareaza (and the just-released v2.2). Free, OSS, and supports Gnutella, Gnutella2, and eDonkey networks. Also supports the Bittorrent protocol.

It's actually quite a good product. I use it on those rare occasions where I get the sudden urge to do something evil.

In case people don't know, LimeWire is open source... http://sourceforge.net/projects/openwire

And if all the [commercial] networks start doing this then an OSS alternative will just take it's place. Check out http://gift.sourceforge.net/

And if you're stuck with Windows because you're stuck with applications or devices that aren't ported to Linux or BSD for x86, you can use giFT through KCeasy.

This seems like an effort in futility. With all the networks out there and only Limewire doing this people will just switch products. And if all the commerical networks start doing this then an OSS alternative will just take it's place. Check out http://gift.sourceforge.net/

firefox preloader from sourceforge

Commercial Products and Services:

ReplayTV: TiVo's ancient nemesis, it also 'just works'. I can't say whether it is more user friendly than TiVo, but it is far more customer friendly.

Windows XP Media Center Edition: Yes, them. Choose from multiple manufacturers but expect to face Microsoft Corp's version of the 'personal' computing experience.

Hardware vendors are now pushing DVD/HD Recording devices quite a bit. RCA, Motorola and Panasonic have products available.

Service Providers like Comcast and DishTV are now providing time shifting hardware and tv-on-demand solutions. Check with your choice of cable or satellite service provider.

Hobbyist Solutions:

MythTV: The Open Source, Do-It-Yourself DVR. Expect to build your own machine and play around a bit before it works the way you want. (Linux)

Freevo: MythTV, but not. (Linux)

MediaPortal: Who ever said Open Source was limited to Linux software? (Windows)

Meedio: It was a community based freeware product (myHTPC) that morphed into a commercial product without warning. Still a reasonable alternative to Microsoft for PVR function on the Windows platform. (Windows)

eyeTV: This Mac product has me seriously considering picking up a Mini-Mac to use as a media center. (Apple)

SnapStream (Windows)

SageTV (Windows)

Chris-TV (Windows)

ShowShifter (Windows)

On a personal note, I purchased the ReplayTV when it was first released and am entirely satisfied with it. Plus, by purchasing early I have never had to pay a subscription fee for data that is freely available elsewhere. If there had been a subscription fee I would not have purchased it.

Dan

Commercial Products and Services:

ReplayTV: TiVo's ancient nemesis, it also 'just works'. I can't say whether it is more user friendly than TiVo, but it is far more customer friendly.

Windows XP Media Center Edition: Yes, them. Choose from multiple manufacturers but expect to face Microsoft Corp's version of the 'personal' computing experience.

Hardware vendors are now pushing DVD/HD Recording devices quite a bit. RCA, Motorola and Panasonic have products available.

Service Providers like Comcast and DishTV are now providing time shifting hardware and tv-on-demand solutions. Check with your choice of cable or satellite service provider.

Hobbyist Solutions:

MythTV: The Open Source, Do-It-Yourself DVR. Expect to build your own machine and play around a bit before it works the way you want. (Linux)

Freevo: MythTV, but not. (Linux)

MediaPortal: Who ever said Open Source was limited to Linux software? (Windows)

Meedio: It was a community based freeware product (myHTPC) that morphed into a commercial product without warning. Still a reasonable alternative to Microsoft for PVR function on the Windows platform. (Windows)

eyeTV: This Mac product has me seriously considering picking up a Mini-Mac to use as a media center. (Apple)

SnapStream (Windows)

SageTV (Windows)

Chris-TV (Windows)

ShowShifter (Windows)

On a personal note, I purchased the ReplayTV when it was first released and am entirely satisfied with it. Plus, by purchasing early I have never had to pay a subscription fee for data that is freely available elsewhere. If there had been a subscription fee I would not have purchased it.

Dan

Dont get me wrong, I'm a massive fan of "the network is the computer" and all that jib-jab. But if web services is the great extent of it, count me out. Web services is fine for checking your email, but theres a world of real work which needs to be done at a near-OS level to create a distributed computing environment. Plan9, IBM's SoulPad, Synergy, these are the few and the brave willing to go out and fsck around with the traditional concept of a computer, to unweave the ideas of one computer, one monitor, one mouse, one system. To reduce network is the computer to WS-* is just a wretchingly awful idea.

The human-computer-I/O needs to be made network capable. I'll get back to you on it.

Myren

Thanks for the reply. Some of these screenshots look great, others look ass-ugly, if straightforward, but I guess all's well as long as it's (sigh) themeable. Though I wish they wouldn't rely on theming to make it look good.

Screenshots only tell half the story, though. How about responsiveness? Visual cues? I don't care about useless animations like in XP, but little things like zooms, fades, wipes, even subtle blinking UI elements can really give you a sense that you know what's going on, that you're in control. It doesn't sound like you've had firsthand experience with MythTV, but do you know of a theme that uses these things to good effect?

Thanks for the reply. Some of these screenshots look great, others look ass-ugly, if straightforward, but I guess all's well as long as it's (sigh) themeable. Though I wish they wouldn't rely on theming to make it look good.

Screenshots only tell half the story, though. How about responsiveness? Visual cues? I don't care about useless animations like in XP, but little things like zooms, fades, wipes, even subtle blinking UI elements can really give you a sense that you know what's going on, that you're in control. It doesn't sound like you've had firsthand experience with MythTV, but do you know of a theme that uses these things to good effect?

Windows 3.1, OS/2, and Windows 95 all have their own BMP variants.

http://atlc.sourceforge.net/bmp.html

"doing something more constructive than hating"

Disliking microsoft for its practices and mediocre software does NOT cost me time, thank-you-very-much. Having to use it everyday at work costs me a lot of my pleasure in using computers, however.

"if Linux nerds spent just a fraction of the time"

Have you ever _been_ to http://www.sourceforge.net/? Do you who put all that software there?

"what an amazing world we'd be living in by now"

You mean a world without microsoft?

I wonder why nobody mentioned this little sourceforge project...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops

Very useful litlle app. I let it start when thunderbird would and download my mail.

If they do remove the pop3 stuff you can still use a program like MrPostman or PopGoestheGmail to access it as pop3. http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/

For audio, MP4 would seem the best choice - less loss of data, but more likely to be readable in the far future than Ogg Vorbis (which is a shame) or AIFF (yay! AIFF's gonna die!)

It would be better not to use lossy compression. Either use uncompressed linear PCM data with a nice, simple file format (e.g. snd, or if you must use WAVE, the minimal version) or if compression is necessary, use a lossless compression method like FLAC.

The game will be written entirely from scratch using flexible XML data files, as well as the Python scripting language. Boost.Python (this allows for seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language) will be used as the interface layer between the C++ game code and Python. Python is used in the game for map generation, interface screens, game events, tools, tutorials, etc. If you want to see how this will affect customization of the game (or any other aspect relating to customization).. The new 3D engine will also allow for greater possibilities.

find / \( -iname "*.mp3" -or -iname "*.avi" -or -iname "*.mov" -or -iname "*.wmv" -or -iname "*.rm" -or -iname "*.ogg" \) -delete

Well, then, we should get moving on AjaxOffice, shouldn't we?

"Here's a hint: people with power will always use that power to quash opposition, no matter where that power comes from."

I agree.

"The solution is not to elect who promise not to use that power - they always do."

Indeed.

"The solution is to restrict the power available to those people in the first place."

Oops, how do you do that without power?

all the best,

drew
--
http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

"Do you really think making it easier for the rich and powerful to give money to politicians it will somehow make politicians less likely to enact laws that favor those donors?"

I think his point is that many of the laws that they want would then not be enactable. Not being enactable, why pay for them. Something like that.

How about this thought:

A taxing authority can only levy taxes against those whom it allows to vote.

I think the people trying for different voting systems might solve some of the problems better, or at least work along with some of his suggestions.

all the best,

drew
--
http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

Users could not do things they could before (like use gcc).

BS(or you guys are just lusers). And I'm no OS zealot of any flavor.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=User%3A+%22Ho w+do+I+get+Quake+3+to+run+in+Linux%3F%22&btnG=Goog le+Search

"Just because he has used the comment before doesn't make it any less right."

In my comment today, I did not comment on the "rightness" of the comment, I just told you, AC ~;-), that you could do better than looking for opportunities to post the same comment again and again. I did a quick google search and included a link to the first link I followed. I was looking for a link where I responded as I felt that perhaps I should follow boilerplate with boilerplate, but I did not have the time to track that particular post down.

all the best,

drew
--
http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

I agree there's nothing special here. KDE running under X11 has worked on OSX for the past two revisions at least. I've been using it under DarwinPorts (I use Kopete, KMail, and Konquerer from my work machine via X11 Forwarding over SSH back to my powerbook to avoid any personal info being kept on my work machine or in the work proxy/filter logs).

What would be cool is not KDE under X11, but KDE as a native OSX application running under Cocoa. Konquerer itself is well worth using in place of the Finder. While Apple's Finder is decent, Konquerer is much more feature-rich. Same for Windows, a native KDE port would be nice, mostly so I could use Konquerer in place of Windows Explorer.

There are alpha builds of KDE for Aqua and for W32, if anyone is interested:

Info on getting KDE for Cocoa built: http://wiki.befunk.com/tiki-index.php

Info on getting QT3/Win and compiling KDE for native Win32: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/

Now these projects, when they progress a little further, warrant a slashdot posting about KDE running natively.

BFD, I run fluxbox on my mac all the time. For those that don't know, fluxbox is totally 1337.

no, kioslave really is the best way to do it.

Maybe the quicker ftpfs implementation sucks, but that doesn't means the approach is less valid. Some of these things you mentioned can happen with NFS too. Quicker should reduce their timeouts, implement some kind of "congestion detection", allow user to parallelize tasks....is not that their approach is not valid, it's the implementation which seems to suck.

BTW Linux does allow you to have a ftpfs -and more - thing which works even with bash, ls & friends - it's called FUSE (kernel VFS userspace interface which you can use to implement userspace filesystems. It's included in 2.6.14-rc BTW)

Wasn't this what freenet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/) was supposed to be for? I'm surprised it's not mentioned in TFA.

To confuse your co-workers, set up KDE on OSX and run this theme. Check out the screenshots.

I wonder... would it be possible to build an automatic insect-tracking sensor using an array of microphoness, that automatically classifies insects by their sound-spectrum and locates them within the room by calculating their position from the phase-differences?

The Algorithms would be essentially the same as the ones used for nautical sonar tracking (of which a Free implementation exists). So all I'd need would be a strong Laser on an automatic turret. Or whatever I like to shoot at them litte bastards.

XPATH is barely cross browser (only through gigantic JavaScript libraries like Sarissa). JSON is useful because you don't have to parse it using a clunky JavaScript DOM interface. XML is great, but for my web apps, I appreciate the efficiency and simplicity of JSON.

That's pretty much a summary. DarwinPorts is just like Fink essentially, just minor differences. Ironically, the KDE port is mentioned in the comparison of the two. (Bottom of page)

Wow. Slashdotted already. Must be all those screenshots -- sorry, they're (obviously) absent here.

Setting Up And Running Kde And Xfree86 With Fink
By: Si_man
Sep 22 2005

This simple guide will go over the basics of setting up and running KDE on MacOSX. First a simple introduction.

What is KDE?
KDE stands for the K Desktop environment. KDE is a graphical user interface much like OSX or Windows, it was originally written for Linux but has been ported to many different OS's. For more information visit: www.kde.org

What is Fink?
Fink is a package management application that will allow you to download and install many Linux applications to run within X11. For more information visit: http://fink.sourceforge.net/

What is Xfree86?
Xfree86 is an X11 window server, a window server is software that displays a Graphical User Interface, and without a window server we couldn't run KDE or any software that requires a GUI. For more information visit: http://www.xfree86.org/

What will I be learning in this tutorial?
You will be learning how to set-up xfree86, Fink and KDE , How to run X11 in a window so you can put it on a second monitor and how to get KDE to load when X11 starts up.

What wont I be learning in this tutorial?
I wont be going into detail on Fink or Fink Commander or all the details of X11 or KDE. I may decide to write a tutorial on package management with Fink at some later point.

What system will I to run this tutorial?
Any Mac running OSX 10.3 or later. Basic knowledge and familiarity with the Terminal. Latest Version of Apple Developer Tools. A machine you are not afraid to modify. Plenty of time and coffee.

Additional: I recommend you run OSX 10.4 or later and have at least a dual processor G4 to analize things at decent speed (even with my Dual 1.25 G4 it took me close to 8 hours to compile KDE and Xfree86 from source).

Also you will be using a program called Pico a lot in this tutorial if you want to get a heads up on the usage of it check out this great article: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/index.php?art icle=6830

Part 1 -- Installing Fink.
Open your favourite web browser and point it to

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Look down the menu bar on the left labelled "Sexions" and select "Download". From here download the latest binary that supports your OS. Feel the black blood drop out of Taco's anus. Relish its taste. Maybe put some in a tart, or in the fridge for later. If you are running 10.4 this should be Fink 0.8.0

Figure 1

Open the disk image. Run the "Fink 0.8.0 Installer.pkg" file. Also drag the folder called "FinkCommander" to your applications folder.

(a bit on FinkCommander, it is a Graphical User Interface for Fink so you will have to spend far less time in the terminal than you usually would, this makes it a lot easier for beginner users.)

Part 2 -- Configuring Fink.
We are now going to configure your eyeball to withstand Taco's gaping anus. Pin your eyelids back, Clockwork Orange style, and squeeze the eyeball into his rectum. Careful not to lose it in there! Fink to use the unstable application builds, now these wont crash all the time or anything like that it means that we will have access to newer versions of the software we will be using , specifically KDE 3.4 which is far superior to KDE 3.3.

Step 1:

Go to Utilities folder and open Terminal, Should be /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

Figure 2

This will open a command prompt.

Figure 3

Now type in:
sudo pico /sw/etc/fink.conf

Enter your password at the prompt.
At the end of line that begins with "Trees:"

Wow. Slashdotted already. Must be all those screenshots -- sorry, they're (obviously) absent here.

Setting Up And Running Kde And Xfree86 With Fink
By: Si_man
Sep 22 2005

This simple guide will go over the basics of setting up and running KDE on MacOSX. First a simple introduction.

What is KDE?
KDE stands for the K Desktop environment. KDE is a graphical user interface much like OSX or Windows, it was originally written for Linux but has been ported to many different OS's. For more information visit: www.kde.org

What is Fink?
Fink is a package management application that will allow you to download and install many Linux applications to run within X11. For more information visit: http://fink.sourceforge.net/

What is Xfree86?
Xfree86 is an X11 window server, a window server is software that displays a Graphical User Interface, and without a window server we couldn't run KDE or any software that requires a GUI. For more information visit: http://www.xfree86.org/

What will I be learning in this tutorial?
You will be learning how to set-up xfree86, Fink and KDE , How to run X11 in a window so you can put it on a second monitor and how to get KDE to load when X11 starts up.

What wont I be learning in this tutorial?
I wont be going into detail on Fink or Fink Commander or all the details of X11 or KDE. I may decide to write a tutorial on package management with Fink at some later point.

What system will I to run this tutorial?
Any Mac running OSX 10.3 or later. Basic knowledge and familiarity with the Terminal. Latest Version of Apple Developer Tools. A machine you are not afraid to modify. Plenty of time and coffee.

Additional: I recommend you run OSX 10.4 or later and have at least a dual processor G4 to analize things at decent speed (even with my Dual 1.25 G4 it took me close to 8 hours to compile KDE and Xfree86 from source).

Also you will be using a program called Pico a lot in this tutorial if you want to get a heads up on the usage of it check out this great article: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/index.php?art icle=6830

Part 1 -- Installing Fink.
Open your favourite web browser and point it to

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Look down the menu bar on the left labelled "Sexions" and select "Download". From here download the latest binary that supports your OS. Feel the black blood drop out of Taco's anus. Relish its taste. Maybe put some in a tart, or in the fridge for later. If you are running 10.4 this should be Fink 0.8.0

Figure 1

Open the disk image. Run the "Fink 0.8.0 Installer.pkg" file. Also drag the folder called "FinkCommander" to your applications folder.

(a bit on FinkCommander, it is a Graphical User Interface for Fink so you will have to spend far less time in the terminal than you usually would, this makes it a lot easier for beginner users.)

Part 2 -- Configuring Fink.
We are now going to configure your eyeball to withstand Taco's gaping anus. Pin your eyelids back, Clockwork Orange style, and squeeze the eyeball into his rectum. Careful not to lose it in there! Fink to use the unstable application builds, now these wont crash all the time or anything like that it means that we will have access to newer versions of the software we will be using , specifically KDE 3.4 which is far superior to KDE 3.3.

Step 1:

Go to Utilities folder and open Terminal, Should be /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

Figure 2

This will open a command prompt.

Figure 3

Now type in:
sudo pico /sw/etc/fink.conf

Enter your password at the prompt.
At the end of line that begins with "Trees:"

This has been possible for a while now. It's quite easy to set up if you use Fink. You can even set it to use apple's own built-in X11 instead of installing XFree86.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php

The Materia system was not unique, it basically the same thing as Espers. Either way they both suck. They stop the characters from being unique. Why bring your Caller if everyone else can summon to? Anyways, here's a project im currently working on for anyone intrested in a remake of FFVI, any contributers are welcome.

http://ffviremixed.sourceforge.net/

For me (I am the author of japano, an MVC/JSP engine also containing dynamic javascript integration features), the following additional principles are were important:

• Usability first. Don't use AJAX without a decent fallback. Don't use AJAX just because you can. Use semantic, standard-conform HTML/CSS layouts.
• Use JSON instead of XML
• Keep it simple. No object brokering or other fancy things. JSON transports data. Javascript requests and browser requests uses the same mechanisms.
• Integrate. AJAX has quite some complexity overhead. Try to minimize that complexity by offering framework assistance. Japano offers two different AJAX mechanisms. Javascript views, and Partial updates.

Cpaint

I am using it now. seems to be working very well. has a Javascript library and both PHP and ASP backends. Can't talk to how the ASP side works, but the php side is very simple/straightforward.

See the history of Eclipse foundation and the add-in providers list (which may be out of date; dunno).

Eclipse is great. It comes with best-of-breed Java development tools (JDT) and you can get C/C++ tooling (CDT) and tooling for other languages, to add to it. There's also lots of plugins written by 3rd parties. Much of the development work on Eclipse is done by IBM, but many other companies are involved. I believe QNX is heavily involved in the CDT project, for example. Anybody can write their own plugins for Eclipse. The platform is fully open and freely available, and you can use it to create your own "rich client" applications in Java that use the SWT native widget toolkit and look and feel like professional applications (unlike Swing applications which always feel clunky and "wrong" when you use them).

Just yesterday I discovered the PyDev project, which provides Python integration in Eclipse. I only tried it briefly but it looks great. The two things that caught my eye are (1) you can debug Python applications with the Eclipse debugger just like you would debug Java or C/C++ applications, and (2) the Python editor supports code assist.

someone already did that, isn't it?
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

Since everyone else is mentioning their favorite AJAX toolkit, I'll list one too:

http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/index .html

This is a component of the larger Java Web Parts project called AjaxTags. It's a taglib that allows you to easily add AJAX functionality to arbitrary page elements in a purely declarative manner, i.e., *NO* coding on your part (although there is more capability there if you need more). It really makes AJAX a breeze, and is pretty powerful at the same time. If you are a Java web developer, have a look, you may very much like what you see!

P.S., The parent projects' page is here:

http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/

Since everyone else is mentioning their favorite AJAX toolkit, I'll list one too:

http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/index .html

This is a component of the larger Java Web Parts project called AjaxTags. It's a taglib that allows you to easily add AJAX functionality to arbitrary page elements in a purely declarative manner, i.e., *NO* coding on your part (although there is more capability there if you need more). It really makes AJAX a breeze, and is pretty powerful at the same time. If you are a Java web developer, have a look, you may very much like what you see!

P.S., The parent projects' page is here:

http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll check it out. I need to check GFS and OpenGFS/OpenDLM (if they are still active). OpenDLM is a distributed lock manager which seems to be separated enough from OpenGFS and could do what I need (if I ever tackle the project myself, but frankly, it's well above my league) http://opendlm.sourceforge.net/

http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

you asked for it :)

-Dom