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i wrote JS script to solve the problem with CNN media links see instructions here (requiers GreaeMonkey extension and firefox) http://larytet.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml

Well, you can also MSI2XML

http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/

i solved the problem see instructions here (requiers GreaeMonkey extension and firefox) http://larytet.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml

The downside is that my program runs much slower than if it had been written in C++. So if you do a lot of computations in there might want to stick with C, it all depends...

One of the upsides of python is it's ability to work with native code modules (C or C++) wihout the JNI-like crap you have to get through to create native extensions to java code.

modularize and unit-test your code well, then profile it to extract the worst performing routines or modules (using the built in profiler, in the "profiler" module), try to optimize them and if you can't just rewrite them to native if needed. You have your unit tests, so the module'll perform just as well as the cPython ones quality-wise, and will be much faster.

It should also be noted that since you wrote the application a week after learning python, it may be very unpythonic and therefore very inefficient (remember, Python is not Java). Check PythonSpeed andPerformance Tips on the Wiki for more informations about speed-improving Python usages.

Last resource, if you need some more speed but don't want to switch to native modules, you may try Psyco if you don't care that much about RAM consumption

For those who remember the old days.

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/ for you younger people!

irate: http://irate.sourceforge.net/ lets you listen and rate independant music and will actually download free tracks by independent artists based upon your ratings of what you've listened to.

KeePass is what you are looking for I have been using it for years now and it fucking cool.

It stores all you Username/Password DataBase using so called "most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish)" while SHA-256 is used as password hash.

You can Group your list with details on each password: Title,Username,URL,Password (with AutoGen & Quality Rating), Notes, Expire Date and File Attachment.

It fully open-source (OSI certified) runs under Windows and PocketPC with NO INSTALLATION NEEDED so will run off USB key or Network, etc All in all a very cool and sweet program for anybody with alot of Username/Passwords/URL/IPs to remember and a most have for all System/Network Admins.....

Or check out this oldish Ask /. Posting.....

KeePass is what you are looking for I have been using it for years now and it fucking cool.

It stores all you Username/Password DataBase using so called "most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish)" while SHA-256 is used as password hash.

You can Group your list with details on each password: Title,Username,URL,Password (with AutoGen & Quality Rating), Notes, Expire Date and File Attachment.

It fully open-source (OSI certified) runs under Windows and PocketPC with NO INSTALLATION NEEDED so will run off USB key or Network, etc All in all a very cool and sweet program for anybody with alot of Username/Passwords/URL/IPs to remember and a most have for all System/Network Admins.....

Or check out this oldish Ask /. Posting.....

KeePass is what you are looking for I have been using it for years now and it fucking cool.

It stores all you Username/Password DataBase using so called "most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish)" while SHA-256 is used as password hash.

You can Group your list with details on each password: Title,Username,URL,Password (with AutoGen & Quality Rating), Notes, Expire Date and File Attachment.

It fully open-source (OSI certified) runs under Windows and PocketPC with NO INSTALLATION NEEDED so will run off USB key or Network, etc All in all a very cool and sweet program for anybody with alot of Username/Passwords/URL/IPs to remember and a most have for all System/Network Admins.....

Or check out this oldish Ask /. Posting.....

KeePass is what you are looking for I have been using it for years now and it fucking cool.

It stores all you Username/Password DataBase using so called "most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish)" while SHA-256 is used as password hash.

You can Group your list with details on each password: Title,Username,URL,Password (with AutoGen & Quality Rating), Notes, Expire Date and File Attachment.

It fully open-source (OSI certified) runs under Windows and PocketPC with NO INSTALLATION NEEDED so will run off USB key or Network, etc All in all a very cool and sweet program for anybody with alot of Username/Passwords/URL/IPs to remember and a most have for all System/Network Admins.....

Or check out this oldish Ask /. Posting.....

Just want to plug a project that I've become involved in that was started during response to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Asia. In Sri Lanka, they built web server applications to manage victim information and many other aspects of disasters.

We're now restarting from scratch with proper planning to develop disaster management software for the (L)AMP platform. We're currently going through design and prototyping.

This sort of FOSS is really needed as there is currently nothing like it that we have found. If you are interested in helping develop this software, please visit the Sahana project page and sign up to help!

http://sahana.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sahana/

Just want to plug a project that I've become involved in that was started during response to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Asia. In Sri Lanka, they built web server applications to manage victim information and many other aspects of disasters.

We're now restarting from scratch with proper planning to develop disaster management software for the (L)AMP platform. We're currently going through design and prototyping.

This sort of FOSS is really needed as there is currently nothing like it that we have found. If you are interested in helping develop this software, please visit the Sahana project page and sign up to help!

http://sahana.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sahana/

I found plucker to be nearly useless for geocaching.. at best, it was way too much trouble to be worth it.

I found Geotoad and Cachemate are a much saner way to go.

Cachemate isn't free (or Free), but if you're dropping a couple hundred (at a minimum) for a GPS+PDA, the extra $10 is definitely worth it.

I whole-heartedly suggest the use of Ked Password Manager. It has both a graphical and a command line interface. You can therefore keep the paradigm of using it from the network--just ssh in to your server, and run kedpm (instead of catting the password). The files are encrypted with blowfish to a single password. The database is compatible with Figaro's Password Manager. kedpm is in python and, properly packaged, will run on darn-near anything. Including a USB thumbdrive if you want to take your passwords with you.

There was previously an operating systems project named "Freedows".

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedows/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedows_OS

I use Keyring. It's very convenient to have it on the palm, and there are desktop editors for it as well (there are a couple of windows conduits, and a couple of java apps that work fine on macos or linux).

There is also the matter of physical security here with the usb key. Somebody can nab them off you (Remember how the post-production guys of LOTR transported the movie to the editing studio in digital form on several ipods and almost got mugged on the way there!) Having it attachted to you via a string or something might be useful. Even make it a usb watch and just carry a extension cord around. With usb keys you can frequently forget them, or at least I sometimes do.

Not quite, but there's falcon's eye:
http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/

enjoy.

password management system. Gives you encryption and a master password.
Just put it on a server that you have ssh access to. It's a neat little program.
http://passwordms.sourceforge.net/

I find KeePass quite useful.

Figaro's Password manager(http://fpm.sourceforge.net/) is an encrypted password storage solution that can store many passwords, and you could use one password to store it. It only runs on Linux. However, you could use NX (http://www.nomachine.com/ to give users remote access to it.

http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
The program stores your passwords in a highly encrypted database. This database consists of only one file, so it can be easily transferred from one computer to another.

KeePass supports password groups, you can sort your passwords (for example into Windows, Internet, My Homepage, etc.). You can drag-n-drop passwords into other windows. The powerful auto-type feature will type usernames and passwords for you into other windows. The program can export the database to various formats (like TXT, HTML, XML, CSV, ...). It can also import data from various other formats (Password Safe v2 TXT files, CSV files, ...).

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Password Safe is a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords. Password Safe runs on PCs under Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP). An older (but fully functional) version is available for PocketPC. Linux/Unix clones that use the same database format have also been written (see Related Projects).

http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
The program stores your passwords in a highly encrypted database. This database consists of only one file, so it can be easily transferred from one computer to another.

KeePass supports password groups, you can sort your passwords (for example into Windows, Internet, My Homepage, etc.). You can drag-n-drop passwords into other windows. The powerful auto-type feature will type usernames and passwords for you into other windows. The program can export the database to various formats (like TXT, HTML, XML, CSV, ...). It can also import data from various other formats (Password Safe v2 TXT files, CSV files, ...).

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Password Safe is a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords. Password Safe runs on PCs under Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP). An older (but fully functional) version is available for PocketPC. Linux/Unix clones that use the same database format have also been written (see Related Projects).

Password Safe is an open source application that encrypts all your passwords with a master password, so you only have to remember the master password.

It is only available for Windows.

If I were to do it again now, I would avoid Quickbooks too :) It has some stupid problems.. like requiring accessing with single-user mode to do certain regular tasks (something to do with liabilities).. This of course means that the ESC server (QB connector) has to be stopped so QB can go into single-user mode, and then started again afterwards. It's a real pain in the ass. I've talked to QB support about it, they just say 'thats the way it is, theres no plans to change it'.

Unfortunately, there's very little in the mid-sector accounting world.. you basically get the $100-300 range programs, and then the $10k+ programs. There are a couple O/S applications starting to look promising though. Compiere, WebERP, OSSuite , and SugarCRM.

I'm actually looking at deploying SugarCRM along with our current software. It has SOAP connectors, so I should be able to link the customer database with the ESC customer database. That's a couple months off though, there are other priorities first.

Anyway, good luck!

Mind.Forth artificial intelligence has no intention of croaking within the next 35 years or even the next 35 millennia.

The Rejuvenate Mind-Module keeps Mind.Forth going potentially forever.

The heat death of the universe (Waermetod) or the crash of Microsoft Windows (BSOD) -- whichever comes sooner -- is the only risk of Mind.Forth dying by misadventure.

A Technological Singularity is coming within the next thirty-five years anyway, which Lawrence Lessig does not seem to have factored into his calculations.

When will the Singularity happen? -- you may ask. As Mind.Forth spreads first into classes for gifted students, then into high schools in general and university AI labs in particular -- The Singularity R Us.

Freecraft is now Wargus.

You should've given PAQ a try too. From what I understand PAQ compression uses adaptive switching between multiple compression algorithms on the fly based on which produces the best result for a current block. Be warned that it is pretty slow and memory intensive.

Another one to try is UCL . This is a compression engine behind UPX, executable file compressor. It has a remarkable property of having super-fast decompression.

A more robust PC has a bigger library than an older PC, so to lump them together under "PC" is misleading.

But a recent PC running Windows XP SP2 and DOSBox still has a significantly bigger library than the PS3 will have, even though the PS3 (the closest console equivalent to a "more robust PC") can play PS2 and PS1 games.

But I want adult themes in my games.

What specific kinds of "adult" themes do you want in your games? Discussions about broad generalities don't result in title recommendations.

Nintendo has to keep up on the "Kiddie Fad" pulse in order to stay viable.

The majority of Nintendo's first party games are not "kiddie" games but games for EVERYONE. "Kiddie" games nowadays are typically based around some animated TV series rated TVY or TVY7 and shown on FOX's 4Kids, ABC Family, Kids WB, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, or Toon Disney. You may respond that the Pokémon characters have been licensed to appear in an animated series, but the Pokémon RPGs follow a different continuity from the TV series.

You do not need to use wine, there is also a native linux port for 7zip.

On my mac, I am totally dependent on pdfs to help me deal with the research literature wot I have got. I use Adobe Acrobat to do detailed annotations of documents, take notes and link to my bibliographic database. Sometimes this gets slow as molasses due to poor software engineering by either parties hand.

On the other hand, when I want to have a quick squizz at a pdf to see if there's anything relevant there, I use the super fast and efficient Preview application. If Preview had better annotatin facilities [hint hint], I wou'dn't use Acrobat at all.

Earlier today, I needed a powerpoint thingamy transferred from a windows machine to machine to a mac (without office). It would have been a lot less painful if W$$do$s had native PDF support.

Microsoft made their monopoly and their money by taking the personal computer, removing value from it, and then selling that removed value back to the consumer at high cost. I wish more people understood this.

It has a simple gui interface and explorer integration. It supports many archive file formats including 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. There is also a UNIX commandline interface port available.

wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/) does the job. I know, it's not a complete abstraction layer, but it's good enough for applications such as Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). You can see a list of some applications that use wxWidgets at http://www.wxwidgets.org/apps2.htm).

It's fast, well designed (although not *that* good, in my opinion), and mature.

Of course if you don't want to port, you can always run the old version.

I prefer FreeWorld Dialup as a great way to go for voip:
 
- standards based
- Free
- Windows , Linux and pocketpc clients available
- Call 800 numbers and more
- Call to/from vonage customers
- get free phone number and have people call you
- Get a wisip phone (WiFi SIP) and you have the closest thing to a IP mobile phone you can get.
 
  FreeWorld Dialup

Actually, Ian Clarke is - but unfortunately, he rarely gets much support... any mention of Freenet here, for example, turns into "You don't care about Chinese dissidents, you're just enabling child pornographers". Well, forget Chinese dissidents; I'm more concerned about "corporate dissidents". How long before people who post book reviews on Amazon.com get sued for slander when they say that a book's no good? Freenet has the capability to turn the internet back into what it ought to have been from the start.

Except for the fact that it's already an OS!

I agree with you. But there are places available online that maintain lists of addservers. For example, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt is one such place. There is also software available to do this automatically, ZoneAlarm6 Pro can block certain adds. I've seen another, but can't remember the name of it, because I'm hungover.
If the hosts file allowed regular expressions, it would be wonderfull, but it doesn't. I had a quick google for other methods of filtering adds, checking sourceforge there is, http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ , http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net/ and maybe some others. I don't think those two mentioned run under windows though.
Anyways, good luck and thanks for the reply.

I agree with you. But there are places available online that maintain lists of addservers. For example, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt is one such place. There is also software available to do this automatically, ZoneAlarm6 Pro can block certain adds. I've seen another, but can't remember the name of it, because I'm hungover.
If the hosts file allowed regular expressions, it would be wonderfull, but it doesn't. I had a quick google for other methods of filtering adds, checking sourceforge there is, http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ , http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net/ and maybe some others. I don't think those two mentioned run under windows though.
Anyways, good luck and thanks for the reply.

For starters, why isn't there a shell that emulates the windows CMD? As useful greps / finds / pipe chains are, they can't match the simplicity of a DIR /S. I've been using MS-DOS for more than 15 years, moving to Linux is restarting everything from scratch. Is that really NECESSARY?

The problem with taking this seriously is that you rant about "RTFM", yet couldn't find out that ls -R does the same as your precious DIR /S (minus a keystroke, too!). apropos/man -k provides an easy-enough way to search the manpages if you don't know quite what you're looking for.

As far as a DOS-style command aliasing... what exactly are you looking for? Rewriting the shell interface to provide DOS-style command syntax to *NIX shell commands is a moot point. Also, one has to ask: how did you learn that syntax in the first place? You perhaps learned it through your many years, but it was trial and error (DOS help flags are even less informative than GNU manpages, and that's saying something).

I'll concede that iptables syntax is a bit obtuse (which is why there are a plethora of tools designed to keep you away from that nastiness). As far as editors go, vi really isn't that bad (and if you have GPM support built in [should by default], your mouse will even work for highlighting the copy buffer!). Copying can be as simple as learning how to yank (with Y/y for full-line or partial-line text, respectively) and paste (with P/p for above or below current cursor position). Not hard to find, if you take 5 minutes to man vi.

Is it really necessary to start from scratch? Well, given that most UNIX tradition went one way when CP/M & DOS went the other, yes. I'd rather see developers working to make things work, instead of providing syntactic suger to an environment where most Windows converts are going to be learning the shell syntax anyways (that is, if the crux of the argument is that Windows users hate command-line syntax, then it stands to reason that they'd know little,if any,DOS as a group).

XDCC-Fetch is a very convenient tool to download from IRC. It works in both Linux and Windows.

I use Bittorrent, specifically Azureus, for like tv shows/movies, eMule for applications, and Jubster for finding mp3s. They all seem to do the best in what they aim for.

Azureus is easy to use, nice features, works pretty well. Always does the job well for me from day 1. I really like watching for swarming and visual transfer flow on that one screen, just a neat feature.

eMule has a nice-looking interface, but sometimes the eDonkey network is just pokey to get results(from an impatient point of view). But, you can't beat the results for not being as fake(FastTrack was notorious for this do to the way the hashing only looked at the first 300k of a file).

I came across Jubster a couple of months ago at the recommendation of a friend, and it's very handy at times since it's a p2p/web search hybrid, so sometimes you get lucky and find what you want on a website and pull it down in 20 seconds. Aside from the web, it does the usual p2p transferring stuff on a few p2p nets, don't recall which one offhand beyond the donkey and gnutella nets.

I think most people do it like me, using a few different packages, depending on what you are looking to get. I have yet to find just one program that could do it all the way I want to.

I use Bittorrent, specifically Azureus, for like tv shows/movies, eMule for applications, and Jubster for finding mp3s. They all seem to do the best in what they aim for.

Azureus is easy to use, nice features, works pretty well. Always does the job well for me from day 1. I really like watching for swarming and visual transfer flow on that one screen, just a neat feature.

eMule has a nice-looking interface, but sometimes the eDonkey network is just pokey to get results(from an impatient point of view). But, you can't beat the results for not being as fake(FastTrack was notorious for this do to the way the hashing only looked at the first 300k of a file).

I came across Jubster a couple of months ago at the recommendation of a friend, and it's very handy at times since it's a p2p/web search hybrid, so sometimes you get lucky and find what you want on a website and pull it down in 20 seconds. Aside from the web, it does the usual p2p transferring stuff on a few p2p nets, don't recall which one offhand beyond the donkey and gnutella nets.

I think most people do it like me, using a few different packages, depending on what you are looking to get. I have yet to find just one program that could do it all the way I want to.

Related links:
Digital Forensic Tool Testing Images
Brian's Tools - Includes links to SleuthKit and Autopsy
Forensic Tool Kit free trial

FTK is a nice tool to play around with for Windows users, especially with the testing images. The free trial does have a limit of 5,000 files per image so if you create or work on testing images you may have to get rid of extraneous junk and leave the good stuff. SleuthKit and Autopsy are great for the *nix environment. After you get those tools working you might give Scan of the Month challenges 24 and 26 from The Honeynet Projecta shot. They're both pretty fun and challenging. Don't worry if you don't know what you're doing. Both of the challenges have writeups done on how to accomplish the tasks and what tools were used if you need guidance.

Of course, WinAmp can be used to convert pretty much all audio into MP3 format, so, bye-bye DRM.

All you have to do is install Winamp, LAME and MP3 Output Plugin.
Then just play the audio file in WinAmp, with the plugin selected as the output thingy.

I hope the developers of that project have read this part of the Macromedia Flash EULA and have correspondingly not done any side-by-side testing or comparisons.

You shall not use the Software to develop any software or other technology having the same primary function as the Software, including but not limited to using the Software in any development or test procedure that seeks to develop like software or other technology, or to determine if such software or other technology performs in a similar manner as the Software.

http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/

Try setting the max. upload speed to 75-80% of your connection's ability, and reduce the target ping to 20-80 ms (works for me, allowing browsing activities, etc to continue at the same time).

The later version allows control over download speed, too, but I have yet to try this version...

Hope it helps.

wow, these guys are feeling REALLY comfortable with their install base to pull this kind of thing. Or, maybe they're getting coaching from MSFT lawyers on how to be a good MSFT partner in-training for purchase... ;-)

Go http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/ and SVG!

LoB

Non-free software carries all sorts of anti-user limitations which are often quite clear if one takes the time to read the license for the program. To me, this underscores the need for a Free Flash player and Free Flash development kit so that we can play the Flash files out there without giving up our freedom to share and modify the software. It looks like the hackers at GPLFlash could use some assistance.