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Gnomad2. Haven't used it with my Zen Xtra yet - but says will work with your Sleek (without some playforsure upgrade???)

http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/?

Java code runs slow enough to make it impractical for desktop apps.

Utter nonsense. Do you use Azureus? Perhaps you've played WURM Online? Do you need to clean up your hard drive?

The Java is slow myth is a load of hogwash that opponents of the technology use to justify their stance against it. It's simply not true, and hasn't been true for a very long time. And if you don't believe me, talk to NASA.

Java code runs slow enough to make it impractical for desktop apps.

Utter nonsense. Do you use Azureus? Perhaps you've played WURM Online? Do you need to clean up your hard drive?

The Java is slow myth is a load of hogwash that opponents of the technology use to justify their stance against it. It's simply not true, and hasn't been true for a very long time. And if you don't believe me, talk to NASA.

Can't use height:100% in IE 5 and Opera 5. It creates large vertical gaps. In Opera 5 they are the size of the window, in IE 5 they can be enormous.

Also change Read More... from block-level list items to in-line elements like those seen between div class="commentSub" [ Reply to This | Parent ].

Go north of the border. Here in Canada, everyone uses MSN Messenger. I tried switching to AIM, but nobody knew what AIM was. Me, being primarily a Linux user, was forced to download gtmess because I was in need of a command line IM client. The results have been less than savoury, and I wish everyone would stop using MSN.

As I said during the beta, the New SlashCode is illegible on a Treo 650.

PSST! Look here.

I just dodged that bullet myself, when ordering a new mobo with 64 bit Athlon, etc. I just wanted a new mobo and to keep using all the components I'd already spent about $1,000 on and was intent on still using. Cancelled the order quick and got one with the cruddy old AGP. Not ready to need SLI, yet.

SLI has some things to offer, but not to an old code jockey like me who considers Settlers of Catan a worthwhile game.

http://zocalo.sourceforge.net/

Great realtime prediction market, written in python, uses ajax for updates, very slick. (Disclaimer: I was an intern with zLabs over the summer and chatted with the developers often, very smart people)

Having said that, I get a 500 error randomly on any post...

You're getting 50x errors this morning? Details please. On what type of pages, or on all pages? What times were you seeing this approximately? What fraction of pages?

Feel free to submit a bug but for this week's changes, if you prefer, you can email me directly: jamie@slashdot.org.

(You don't need to report 50x errors from last night, that is, Wednesday from 11 PM to midnight U.S. eastern time. To prevent problems, we took the entire site down for a very long time while we applied a huge set of changes.)

Project Idea Futures
A web-based prediction market (Idea Futures) system. In prediction markets, the commodities traded are claims about future events; the market price gives a consensus probability about the event's likelihood of coming true.

http://ideafutures.sourceforge.net/

http://naa.gov.au/
http://xena.sourceforge.net/

Doxygen is a good tool for many languages. It works best for C++, but it also has some limited support for PHP, which is in your list of requirements. There is also a fork of Doxygen called DoxyS. It generates prettier output for C++ but may not support the other languages as well as Doxygen. Another tool inspired by Javadoc is PHPDoc for PHP code. However, it does not seem to be actively developed anymore.

For plain C code, I prefer gtk-doc, which generates better output than Doxygen (IMHO, and for C only). You can see an example of the gtk-doc output by browsing the GTK+ API documentation.

Since you also mention Visual Basic, you could have a look at VBDOX. I haven't tried it myself so I don't know if it works well. There are some screenshots on their site, so maybe you should have a look and decide if you like the results.

Hi, I'm the submitter of this story. If anyone wants to help, I've set up a SourceForge project here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/acaclick

I disagree. The farther away the documentation is from the source code, the less likely it is to get written or updated. The best-maintained documentation is inline, like Javadocs, Python docstrings, pod, or doxygen comments. When you make a change to the source, the documentation you're invalidating is right there. It takes almost deliberate blindness to not keep it in sync.

Second best is a wiki. It's not right next to the code, but it's so easy to change. Also great if you have documentation that you share with other teams. (QA, other development groups, etc.) Wikis let them easily change things without digging through your source code.

(even when they do, its easy to typo and break the generator).

Then make the doc processing part of the normal build process. Especially if you're an automatic builder like Cruise Control. Just make that one of the steps. If it fails, Cruise Control sends out an email to everyone with the error message and the changes since the last successful build.

Secondly, for good documentation you need more than what an autogenerator can do anyway- good documentatition has examples, use cases, warnings and gotchas, etc.

There's no such thing as a documentation autogenerator. Just tools that reformat, add links and context, etc. You still have to write the words, and you still get to choose what they are. Having examples, use cases, warnings and gotchas is orthogonal to the software you use.

Slashcode (or any web board that I've seen) still isn't as flexible as an slrn scorefile.

DIY links for building your own system

• WinLIRC - open source IR receiver/decoder software.
• Girder - freeware that controls you PC - will work with winLIRC to control any program
• IR2PC - some guy in Germany who sells an IR receiver for RS232 for $20
• IRTrans - another guy in Germany who designed a high performance IR transmitter/receiver.
• www.evation.com - make an IR software system for controlling WinAMP, but looks configurable.
• www.mp3remote.com - the whole package for $14
• software for talking to your serial port
• Epanoramana - excellent collection of links
• Another useful collection of links
• IRAssistant - free software

"How does said "REAL artist" eat? Or buy art supplies?"

Obviously they eat from the royalties on the books they cannot get anyone to publish. Did you not read the choice given?

Burn the book versus let it be read for free.

Your solution only stands a chance of working where other options are before the artist.

Here are some links to some of my work which can be had for free:

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A %22drew%20Roberts%22
http://zbcw.sourceforge.net/

and a link where you can buy some of the same stuff:

http://www.lulu.com/zotz

Knock yourself out.

I am still able to eat. Actually, I should probably eat a little less and I most certainly should excercise a lot more.

Then again, perhaps I am not one of those REAL artists either.

all the best,

drew

So, you're of a mind that we don't need any new elements in our culture - we can do just fine by eternally "remixing" that which has already been produced?

To quote from my own message, from the very next sentence than the one you quoted:

And, before you answer, please remember that the foundations of western culture were laid down in times when copyrights were not even dreamed of, so it obviously isn't neccessary for people to produce things, a fact also evidence by the sheer amount of (legal) content available for free from Internet - these messages, Elfwood [elfwood.com, Sourceforge...

Some of us actually enjoy the experience of reading/viewing/listening-to something new, innovative, and artfully produced. That takes a lot more work than rehashing other people's work,

Really ? So, to continue with Harry Potter, it doesn't rehash other people's work; wizards, witches, dragons, broomsticks, magick wands - and oh yes, the very concept of magick itself - were all invented by J.K. Rowling ? And a teenage angsty hero, a big baddy that killed his parents, a destined final battle - all of these are original concepts by her, no one has ever used them before ?

and can involve years of planning, research, practice, abandoned efforts, and yes, marketing when the time comes (so that all of that work can be meaningfully rewarded).

So ? I'm not forcing anyone to spend this effort, and have absolutely no obligation to reward it. Neither does anyone else, for that matter.

You ask what's more important, and I say that allowing creative artists to not be your pet entertainment slave is at the top of the list.

My slave ? Care to tell me how I'm forcing them to do my bidding ? Or are you saying that refusing to obey someone else's wishes for what I can and cannot say or copy makes them my slave ? That must be it, because that is the only thing I've stated...

If you're right, and real artists are just those people that want to remix, then you should have no problem eloquently persuading artists to waive their copyrights. They have that option right now, and always have.

I haven't claimed that real artists are "just those people that want to remix" - indeed, such a claim would be completely redundant, since it is impossible to express anything without remixing existing concepts, and therefore a work of art that doesn't remix is without any meaning (literally - trying, for example, to write without referring to any existing concepts will produce just an incomprehensible mess of letters, since it cannot by definition have any words that have an established meaning).

Nice attempt to make me appear elitist with your strawman, thought. I especially liked how you put emphasis on the word real.

So, you want what they spend their lives producing, but want other people to pay them to produce it for you?

No, their lives are theirs, and I couldn't care less about how they spend them.

You're a parasite, and a hypocrite as well. If you don't like how an author decides to create, sell, and promote her work, just don't buy it, support, or read it. You can reclaim some of your intellectual honesty by simply disregarding the work by people that you say you don't respect.

Really ? So, by refusing to acknowledge that the concept of "intellectual property" has any validity, but then respecting it anyway, I can regain intellectual honesty I've apparently lost by being consistent in words and deeds ? Your logic is rather... original.

You might also consider that citing a non-disclosure agreement between advance r

I don't have the model with the fingerprint scanner, but that's used at a BIOS (or lower) level I beleive and I think it doesn't care what OS it is running.

I've also not tried the hard-drive parking yet, but there is preliminary support for it being developed which looks like it might even been in the -mm kernels soon. (HDAPS Project)

To be honest, I don't even know what "Rapid Restore" is, so I don't know if I'm benefiting from it. I've only had the laptop a week, and unfortunately work and home commitments have prevented me from playing with it as much as I would like.

The 9 cell battery seems to run a really long time, but I haven't pushed it hard.

Otherwise, there was a Linux emulator-like program called LINE -- it didn't get very far.

They don't buy them from Mark Twain.

You might want to think up more convincing evidence for the neccessity of copyrights than the fact that people don't buy from a dead guy.

My question wasn't how *anyone* could make money, it is how can the *content creater* make money, versus, say...someone else.

The real question is, what is more important: the content makers being able to make money or the free exchange and remix of culture that abolishing copyrights would allow (in even larger way than it's happening today) ? And, before you answer, please remember that the foundations of western culture were laid down in times when copyrights were not even dreamed of, so it obviously isn't neccessary for people to produce things, a fact also evidence by the sheer amount of (legal) content available for free from Internet - these messages, Elfwood, Sourceforge...

Personally, I lost any remaining respect for copyright holders or copyright law when I heard that a number of people had been forbidden to talk about a book they'd read (that book being "Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince") just because it might hurt the books sales. Enough is enough, I now copy everything I want for free and the copyright holders can starve to death for all I care. After all, why should I care, when they have proven themselves to be enemies of freedom (of expression) and therefore enemies of me ?

Thats why you use shims, they are standard 2 track so you can make a shim to read the 1 track. You can also dremmel it to read track 3.

BTW 95% of cards dont use track 3 so chances are this will work perfect for you

read/watch up about shims

xmlstarlet

They need to start supporting ogg at the very least.

Using iTunes software (with the QuickTime Vorbis component) to transcode to .m4a won't add too much noise. Generation loss from lossy audio codecs becomes noticeable only after multiple generations, especially in a noisy environment such as outdoors or in a motor vehicle.

Anyone know of anything like that?

Darn it, I just posted a reply along these lines to another post, but in case you don't see it, have a look at Synergy

It's not quite what you're asking for, but I thought you might be interested, as it's close in some ways.

But then you have two keyboards, and hence need twice as much desk space.

That's when you need to leverage your synergy :)

(Disclaimer: never used it, but it sounds cool!)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the *IAAs are fighting a lost cause. And I think they know it.

First off all, I have difficulties with their acclaimed 'stealing' of music, as they always proclaim it is. As far as I know, stealing implies that the one that has been stolen has been derived of something. When you take a copy, you do not take the original away, thus they have not 'lost' anything. They might claim that they loose money when ppl d/l music, but even that is far from certain. Not only is it not shown statistically to have had that effect (they didn't even show a correlation thusfar - see aussie music-news - let alone a causality). Furthermore, in an individual case, they would have to show they actually lost revenue. Which is far from said, because I sure know some guys who d/l music, but would NEVER have bought that music if they were unable to d/l it. So, how did the RIAA/IFPI loose revenue, exactly? And if they didn't lose anything, how can the term 'stealing' apply?

It would still be copyright-infringement, ofcourse, but that's another matter. I think maybe it's time we went beyond our current system of copyrights and walk into the era of cyberspace. With the industrial revolution, patents and copyrights knew a high flight, maybe it's time to let it leave and try something new? Maybe something in the lines of this: fairshare.

And don't worry, contrary to what the RIAA claims, musicians will not starve to death, and music-making will not stop. We had music long before we had copyrights, and we will have music long after copyrights have vanished from the scene.

And lastly, it's something that *can not* be stopped. P2P progs and their development act as organisms that follow the darwinian rules of survival. When Napster was 'killed' by the RIAA, immediately others (like kazaa) took over, being more resistent to attacks from the RIAA&co. Whenever kazaa will be shut down, others again will take over. When endusers are targeted, systems that protect the user will become dominant (like FreeNet).

It really is a lost cause. But then again, they are not truelly battling for the survival of musicians (as I said; they will survive, just as they used to do), it's for their OWN survival they are fighting. There is no way in hell they are going to keep the giant profits that they have been gathering for the last decades.

But ultimately, they will have to do what P2P systems are already doing: adapt to the new circumstances (and forget about the former levels of profit), or whither and die.

you can get one from all electronics corp for 1.50 yes one dollar and FIF-tee cents all electronics reader then use stripesnoop (.sf.net) and you can figureout how to hook them up to a gameport/whatever on their forum check their forum

But it's easy to delete your "unique" Google cookie before they can build up enough information against it to be dangerous. {I do the same thing with Sainsbury's Nectar cards: get a card, build up a few pounds of savings, then claim the vouchers and start again with a brand new card. And, just for the sheer hell of it, I try to skew the stats they are building up ..... but living equidistant from Sainsbury's and Morrison's, I can afford to do that}.

As for Yahoo! messenger, I looked for the source tarball, and couldn't find it; so I went here instead, and never looked back. I stand by my assertion that on at least 95% of occasions, if someone won't show me the code, it's because they are hiding something they don't want me to see.

When I tried to switch over to Linux as my primary desktop, I found that there are options out there, but they're just not as polished *looking* as Quicken is for the average finance/budget tracking user like myself. So, let me offer up what I've tried, and you can figure something out for yourself:

• jGnash - A weird name for a finance program, but I used it for a short time and it did an alright job... and that was approximately a year ago. The project looks to be in active development still, so you may want to at least give it a try. It did QIF imports alright as well, and although it's written in Java it seemed to be coded pretty well.
• GnuCash - Well known in the Linux world with a long history. I tried it out but never really got the hang of it due to the somewhat clunky and difficult to understand UI. The engine behind this program seems to work great, but much like Gnome, it takes some getting used to the UI.
• Moneydance - Also has a long history, is coded in Java, and tries to compete with Quicken, but I didn't like the reports in this program. Also seemed a bit sluggish on Windows because it was coded in Java, but that was a pre-2005 release version, so the new one might be better. Unfortunately, from the look of their webpage the reports haven't changed at all, which was my biggest beef with this program.
• Or try Wine because it appears that Quicken and QuickBooks run under it OK. Haven't tried this out personally, and this would mean keeping around your dual-boot setup most likely, but it might solve your dilemma.

P.S. Using Linux as my primary workstation taught me that Linux based desktop software is HIGHLY "tweakable", and as such is also highly prone to disaster. (I'm the type that never reads the manual: disaster then ensues.) If you're going to do your finances on a Linux desktop setup, buy a DVD burner and MAKE SYSTEM BACKUPS nightly!!

I've always loved vi for the smaller quick stuff or even for the times when I wanted a text editor that interacts wonderfully with the Unix text programs through pipes. Upon being stuck with vim on the RedHat distributions, I quickly downloaded the real vi from http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ because I wanted a small editor that does exactly what I expect it to do. Vim makes no sense to me.

Likewise.

The RIAA affiliated labels did their best to drive me away, and I am what you would qualify as an "avid music fan". I buy 3-5 times more CDs than the "average" person, and there is hardly a minute out of any day that I do not have some sort of music playing in my presence.

Since they clearly demonstrated, however, that they no longer desire my discretionary funds, that money now goes elsewhere.

Here is my process now.

1) Search Amazon.com for music I want

2) Look under "used only"

3) Purchase used CDs from 3rd party vendors that sell via Amazon.com (usually for $4-$7 a CD... quite a bargain for full, DRM free albums in "like new" condition, complete with liner notes)

4) Rip 192kbps MP3s on my Slackware machine using Grip

5) Listen to 100% legitimate music on my portable player

6) Repeat

At the bottom of the downloads page, there's a "binaries" section, with a link to RPMs, Debian packages, Irix binaries, and a site with Windows Binaries. That's why I said that it runs on all platforms that matter. Never mind that it's entirely within the realm of the possible to get a rootless X server running on Win32 through Cygwin, or that I've run Photoshop under Wine for several years while many others use it on a Mac (I've also run Dia on OS X, yay Fink).

But hey, this is slashdot. Reading the post or looking at the links == bad, not realizing that lots of GTK programs work just fine on Windows (including Dia, Abiword, the Gimp, and Glade), many with nice little clicky installers == good.

And yes, Linux is good and Microsoft is evil. In general. :)

At the bottom of the downloads page, there's a "binaries" section, with a link to RPMs, Debian packages, Irix binaries, and a site with Windows Binaries. That's why I said that it runs on all platforms that matter. Never mind that it's entirely within the realm of the possible to get a rootless X server running on Win32 through Cygwin, or that I've run Photoshop under Wine for several years while many others use it on a Mac (I've also run Dia on OS X, yay Fink).

But hey, this is slashdot. Reading the post or looking at the links == bad, not realizing that lots of GTK programs work just fine on Windows (including Dia, Abiword, the Gimp, and Glade), many with nice little clicky installers == good.

And yes, Linux is good and Microsoft is evil. In general. :)

At the bottom of the downloads page, there's a "binaries" section, with a link to RPMs, Debian packages, Irix binaries, and a site with Windows Binaries. That's why I said that it runs on all platforms that matter. Never mind that it's entirely within the realm of the possible to get a rootless X server running on Win32 through Cygwin, or that I've run Photoshop under Wine for several years while many others use it on a Mac (I've also run Dia on OS X, yay Fink).

But hey, this is slashdot. Reading the post or looking at the links == bad, not realizing that lots of GTK programs work just fine on Windows (including Dia, Abiword, the Gimp, and Glade), many with nice little clicky installers == good.

And yes, Linux is good and Microsoft is evil. In general. :)

I like Emacs and its brethren, however, I don't do software development in Emacs anymore. Full blown IDEs like Eclipse are really worth the power, especially since they are able to semantically understand source code.

I used to be a huge Emacs user and had all manner of interesting custom macros and functions written specialised for some of the things I did. In practice though the full scale IDEs have plowed ahead while Emacs is still wed to its way of doing things. Eclipse simply offers more features and a much more pleasant interface for editing code. Kile is so much better for editing LaTeX documents than the Emacs modes that it isn't funny. If I just want to edit config files then vi or nano are so much faster to load that it isn't worth breaking out Emacs.

Emacs works great though when I have to interact in a complex way with the shell. For instance, I find it very useful when used in conjunction with command line SQL clients for Postgres, Mysql, or Oracle.

This is the one area Emacs still stands out as being a better option than most. It works nicely for R and a number of other similar applications as well. I think, however, that such a lead is going to diminish. Already things like JEdit offer similar sorts of tet editor extensibility features that make customised functions and macros easily available in a more modern editing environment.

Jedidiah.

The linux game project gtkboard claimed to be working on a clone of zillions of games. But it looks like they got bored before reaching the goal. http://gtkboard.sourceforge.net/doc/devel/index.ht ml#features

Should King's Quest I be tied up until 2078?

This is actually a great example for me. Neither I, nor a lot of the people who use P2P I'm guessing, have many cases to download very old music. On the other hand, for games and software, to be old takes a much shorted time period than music.

Frankly, the only place I can find these games are... P2P and websites. I actually spent a few days trying to track down a legal copy of Monolith Software's "Blood." After jumping around websites and even emailing Monolith (which is now owned by Atari I believe, and nobody seems to know much about the old game), I had to give up on getting a legal copy. The best I could come up with was to get transfusion from sourceforge for deathmatch...

Don't think that just because the RIAA is the primary source of these form of lawsuits that they couldn't branch into other industries. Greed is contagious, after all.

Oh, yes, Oracle's and IBM's mail servers are much better, because they have all sorts of groupware features. By the same logic, an airplane is the best car.

What is the best mail server? Not the best groupware server that can do mail, document management, workflow stuff, voice, content retention policies, etc. If I was asking you that, I would have said 'groupware server'.

Alternately, you can demonstrate that their mail handling is better than any FOSS, sans consideration of extra features that 99% of mail servers do not need.

Linux was a hobby OS and used only in small-time hosting operations before the big companies got involved.

And the reason it was used was...why? Why, because it was the best solution, duh. Saying it was a 'hobby OS' is just meaningless gibberish. It was perfectly functional well before any company started contributing code, and most code contributions by companies have been completely self-contained, things like filesystems and drivers designed to improve compability with the stuff.

The core systems are worked on by individuals exactly how they always have. The improvements from 2.0 to 2.6 have been made by the same people as always. Stuff like XFS and JFS is nice, but it's not what made Linux into what it is.

Apache only took off early because it was the upgrade path from NCSA httpd, which was the original standard. From there, many companies have been providing support through the ASF.

Oh no, you're not pull that crap on me. Anyone else could fall for it, but I used early competitors to Apache. Like Quarterdeck's web server and various MS offerings. Complete junk. And MS is the only company that has any plausible alternative to Apache at this point, and they have only 20% of the market.

And trying to attribute the selection of a web server to momentum is idiotic. People do not exchange documents that other web servers have to read. People write stuff themselves for their own web server. Yes, once they've got a lot of code, it's hard to change, but the original selection of a platform was made without any consideration of what people they talk with are using, unlike the selection of, oh, Microsoft Office.

Of course, some of IIS's 20% is momentum because they are a MS shop. But not in the other direction.

These days, ASP.NET and JSF look to be taking over, but Apple Webobjects has been around for some time. These are giant fully-tested and documented frameworks.

Yeah, let's all use ASP.NET, so Microsoft can fuck us over when they decide to move to ASP.SUPERDUPER. I'm sorry, but any company that would just write off the installed base of ASP code doesn't deserve mention in this discussion. No one can trust them as a development platform.

And Apple Webobjects is the greatest invention since bread, but it's not doing the same thing as PHP. (Which, incidentally, is also completely documented, despite what you appear to think.) PHP is a programming language. Webobjects is, as you say, a framework. Comparing PHP and Webobjects like trying to compare Perl and .NET, or C++ and POSIX.

However, you can compare the languages that Webobjects uses with PHP, and Webobjects fails simply because embedding its code in web pages is so cumbersome. Using WOD for, oh, a simple login is incredibly annoying.

Yes, if you're building applications, you might want Webobjects, and you'd certainly want it if you were ever stepping outside the HTML into Java. But very few people build 'applications' in PHP anyway.

As for JSP, you're insane if you think that's better than PHP in any way. Yes, it can hook into Java servlets. And now PHP can also, although admittedly that's still not as smooth as it should be. That pretty much negates the sole reason to use JSP over PHP.

Which is why the LaTeX beamer class is so successful. For those who don't know, LaTeX is a set of structural macros built atop Donald Knuth's superlative TeX typesetting engine; beamer is a set of slide presentation macros built atop LaTeX. It includes some really quite attractive themes, and of course one can create one's own if one so wishes.

XMLterm was originally part of the Netscape suite. It was a CLI that displayed icons, a CLI/GUI hybrid that looked really promising for a "distributed desktop". Some few hackers are continuing to pound away at the app, but it appears SeaMonkey has cast XMLterm adrift. Maybe if it gets more developers it will benefit from freedom from their long release cycles.

Psycho anyone?

You should consider laptop too. U know. It's nice surf and listen music with it. And you can carry it with you. It can be your "secondary machine" and if your main system explodes, you can use laptop for a while. And remember importance of backups! I have laptop and a desktop and I have them "connected" with Synergy. It's really nice software to use two machines with one keyboard and mice. :) But laptop is really handy. Also in developping. I think :) synergy: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

I can't believe this... my post gets "Flamebait" and this gets +5?

>Globally, across an entire torrent, the amount of data uploaded can't be greater than the amount downloaded.

Guess you've never heard of lost packets.

>And hash fails are counted as downloads by the client, so thats not a factor.

"Download totals don't include hash fails and discards and aren't included in share-ratio calculation"

From:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/a zureus/azureus2/ChangeLog.txt?rev=HEAD

>If the torrent admin looks through a torrent and sees Joe Cheater claiming to have uploaded 3.6GB, and it just so happens that the amount uploaded is 3.6GB more than that downloaded...its not hard to work out who's spoofing their stats.

This assumes ALL of the following:

1) Nobody has cancelled a download.
2) Nobody has falsified their amount downloaded.
3) No data is ever discarded and there are never any hash fails.
4) No one controls more than one client.

>The short answer is -- you can fudge your stats all you want. But unless you can find a way to fudge someone elses stats to minus the discrepancy, you'll get caught. And rightly so.

Because it's SOOO hard to get another IP address.

Goddamn idiots! Learn something about computer networking before you post here, PLEASE!

I can't believe this... my post gets "Flamebait" and this gets +5? >Globally, across an entire torrent, the amount of data uploaded can't be greater than the amount downloaded. Guess you've never heard of lost packets. >And hash fails are counted as downloads by the client, so thats not a factor. "CHANGE: Core | Download totals don't include hash fails and discards and aren't included in share-ratio calculation [Parg]" From: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/a zureus/azureus2/ChangeLog.txt?rev=HEAD >If the torrent admin looks through a torrent and sees Joe Cheater claiming to have uploaded 3.6GB, and it just so happens that the amount uploaded is 3.6GB more than that downloaded...its not hard to work out who's spoofing their stats. This assumes ALL of the following: 1) Nobody has canceled a download. 2) Nobody has falsified their amount downloaded. 3) No data is ever discarded and there are never any hash fails. 4) No one controls more than one client. >The short answer is -- you can fudge your stats all you want. But unless you can find a way to fudge someone elses stats to minus the discrepancy, you'll get caught. And rightly so. Because it's SOOO hard to get another IP address. Goddamn idiots! Learn something about computer networking before you post here, PLEASE!

Autostitch/autopano/autopano-sift, along with Panorama Tools, PTAssembler, PTGui or Hugin (open source!) makes it possible to take a bunch of images, and automatically detect which sets of images can be merged into panoramas/photo-mosaics.

Using any of them on a set of partial scans can be used to regenerate the original page.

Terje

Microsoft calls OSS viral

You have it wrong. Microsoft has said that they consider the GPL viral, not OSS in general and have used BSD-licensed code plenty of times in the past as well as releasing a few things from their software repository under open source licenses.

Then Mr. Gates, how do you explain even a field as subdued and quant-- Amaeture Radio, is able to create tons of software

http://www.qsl.net/kf8gr/linsoft.html

for their community and the public.

And they do this by incorporating it into a mainstream Linux product, Knoppix

http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/

which is a Live CD.

You can also see here, William, http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/doc/exploring -gnuradio.html

how an amazzzing project is allowing people to program their computers to tune into any frequencies on the radio spectrum WITHOUT the use of a radio, but by using OSS type software only!!

These are just some of the examples of what the OSS community can and HAS done, with only one of the smaller more obscure industries on the earth..

Which begs the question, just how much MORE is going on, BillyBouy, than your MicroFud article is attemping to preach. :)

If you want a mp3 player that supports OGG you should check out the iAUDIO M3 and X5. They support FLAC too!

They also have a quite a few flash players that support OGG.