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Sure, it's not a perfect fix, but it's a nice start towards finding what I want to see.

i am *not* a Mac user, but this is mainly because mac are expensive, but i saw this project named fink : http://fink.sourceforge.net/ , maybe printers who work under cups work under mac os ?

Anyway I would check to see if DRI supports your card, I know it supports my Radeon 7500 in my laptop.

The Radeon DRI drivers support up to and including the Radeon 9200/9250. There is experimental 3D acceleration support for the Radeons above this.

.NET introduced a new programming language environment that compiles all source code into an intermediate language. .NET languages are compiled into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is executed by the Common Language Runtime (CLR) software in the Windows computer. The MSIL is similar to Java's bytecode, except that whereas Java is one language, .NET supports multiple programming languages...

But of course, if IBM says it's new, well it must be ;-)

Okay, I checked, and I exagerrated a little bit, the earliest CVS version on mod_fastcgi.c is:

Revision 1.1 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Tue Sep 16 15:38:22 1997 UTC (7 years, 11 months ago) by stanleyg

Have you looked at ndiswrapper and windows drivers on linux?

I bought a really cheap ECS laptop with a realtek wireless card, partly just to see if I could get linux running on it. Once I added the right sources, I just did an apt-get ndiswrapper and then grabbed the right driver. A few very minor tweaks to a config file in vi, and tada I had wireless working.

Check it out at:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

I suggest Ubuntu as the distro to try. It was the only one that worked for all the hardware in my laptop.

Imagine listening to the radio and being able to influence what kind of stuff you hear. Imagine hearing all kinds of things that you've never heard of before. Imagine no "...buffering..."

iRate does this.

Oh, and:
Open source? Check!
Supports Creative Commons? Check!
Legal Downloads? Check!
Runs on Linux? Check!
Free as in Beer? Check!
Did I mention no streaming?

More detail:
Technical explanation with easy to understand diagram here:
http://irate.sourceforge.net/
Site you can send the non-technically inclined to here:
http://www.irateradio.com/

"Just click on the executable. No, really, it's safe this time."

Oh and the guy's name is "ajones". He's a kiwi. Mad props to kiwis.

Imagine listening to the radio and being able to influence what kind of stuff you hear. Imagine hearing all kinds of things that you've never heard of before. Imagine no "...buffering..."

iRate does this.

Oh, and:
Open source? Check!
Supports Creative Commons? Check!
Legal Downloads? Check!
Runs on Linux? Check!
Free as in Beer? Check!
Did I mention no streaming?

More detail:
Technical explanation with easy to understand diagram here:
http://irate.sourceforge.net/
Site you can send the non-technically inclined to here:
http://www.irateradio.com/

"Just click on the executable. No, really, it's safe this time."

Oh and the guy's name is "ajones". He's a kiwi. Mad props to kiwis.

What if someone else runs the data through stego to see if something is hidden. That way anybody can find the hidden data.

Programs like Steghide (the one used in the article) need the correct passphrase to even detect the existence of hidden data. Enter a wrong passphrase, and Steghide will tell you there is no embedded data.

Not really, the best stego packages use error correcting codes to help mitigate this kind of attack. Some stego packages don't work by using the LSB but by swapping adjacent pixels. The cleaning of the LSB would have no real impact on this type of stego.

Sounds right to me. I wrote a stego app that just modifies bitmaps in a very obvious way, and it would certainly be defeated/corrupted by changing some of the bits (in fact, that's why I didn't feel qualms about posting it), but some of the the best open source apps have just what you describe.

Furthermore, a simplistic counter-method of just modifying the LSB could be defeated without error correction: if they knew the LSB wasn't safe, they could simply choose to modify other bits instead. -- Paul

Some OSS developers try to get the newer ATI cards to run anyway. http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php
By now, they claim success for the Radeon 9600, but the 9800 still locks up sometimes.

Unfortunately, this example also shows the timeframes for doing it without manufacturer support:
My two year old Radeon 9600 might now be usable under an open source driver.

If you want Linux compatibility, you want nVidia. Yes, nVidia's drivers are closed-source, but they're at the same level as their Windows drivers, right down to the overclocking controls.

I guess that all depends on how you define compatible, and if it the drivers aren't open source then the drivers are not compatible with my open source system. I do research my hardware before I buy, and I will pay a premium to make sure that what I pay for will work with Linux without having to depend on some companies closed source drivers.

Tyan motherboards, yes. Opteron processors, yes. Audigy sound cards, yes. But NVidia cards, no.

Guess I'll just keep pluggin along with my Radeon 9200 until this project makes more progress.

One thing I have noticed in the recent year is the upsurge in Ralink (RA) WiFi devices. Taiwanese motherboards manufacturers are bundling 802.11 cards by the thousands with high end motherboards with RA cards. ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte all bundle RA cards with their "deluxe" motherboards.

Since RA is a very Taiwanese component, and motherboards are - of course - *very* Taiwanese components, it would be excellent if FreeBSD took advantage of the opportunity to embrace RA in the same manner that Linux has. For bonus points, PLEASE backport to 5.x and 4.x since many of us (particularly DJB and myself) refuse to move off 4.x unless it is absolutely needed.

HJ

I'm not sure if you're correct on this. I'm pretty sure Atheros provides the HAL to the madwifi project (it seems to be implied by the link following).

The purpose of the HAL is because the chipset can be set to transmit on *any* frequency, and so, in order not to violate FCC requirements, a binary only HAL exists to prevent this.

Also, I'm pretty sure an employee of Atheros provides development assistance to the madwifi project.

But, this article does lots to explain why a BSD branch was done for madwifi and then merged back a couple of weeks ago.

It's consistant with all other source code releases from id - you get the engine, but you don't get the art.

I'm not sure with this particular release, but with quake 1 and 2 you could download the demo version and use the files from that. If you can't, then it's only a matter of time before someone makes it so that you can.

For quake 2, there have been projects to create completely original art for the engine - openquartz is a good example of this. There's a good chance someone will start a project like that for quake 3.

Of course, the point of all this is so that people can make their own GPL games using this engine.

There are three projects related to Ultima Underworld remakes. Most of them seem to have hit the "running out of steam" phase of development but the code is all there waiting for some new blood.

• Underworld Adventures
• Labyrinth Of Worlds
• Underworld 2 Remake

So before embracing the Quake 3 engine to do yet another remake, you might consider helping one of these projects out. Underworld Adventures has the most recent change date in their news page.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

There are three projects related to Ultima Underworld remakes. Most of them seem to have hit the "running out of steam" phase of development but the code is all there waiting for some new blood.

• Underworld Adventures
• Labyrinth Of Worlds
• Underworld 2 Remake

So before embracing the Quake 3 engine to do yet another remake, you might consider helping one of these projects out. Underworld Adventures has the most recent change date in their news page.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

There are three projects related to Ultima Underworld remakes. Most of them seem to have hit the "running out of steam" phase of development but the code is all there waiting for some new blood.

• Underworld Adventures
• Labyrinth Of Worlds
• Underworld 2 Remake

So before embracing the Quake 3 engine to do yet another remake, you might consider helping one of these projects out. Underworld Adventures has the most recent change date in their news page.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

That sucks that you have to run a separate browser for Flash. There is the Open Source player, but I don't know if anyone's compiled it for 64-bit CPUus or not.

At the same time, I'm not sure that Ajax has the lead on Flash for supported platforms. Flash, for example, works just fine in old browsers. If someone has Netscape 4 (some companies still have policies to support Netscape 4) can they view an Ajax site?

Based on jalefkowit's post in this thread, I'm getting a strong sense of deja-vu from this whole Ajax business - it reminds me of the beginnings of the browser incompatibility wars.

SOA are mostly used to communicate between services. No user interface is required here.

I'm developing a SOA named XINS http://xins.sourceforge.net/. I've added an example on how to use AJAX with XINS. It was quite easy as the protocol for XINS is URL as input and simple XML as output. I think it could be useful for small API but when it comes to the user interface I prefer to use XSLT that transforms the XML to XHTML.

In Internet Explorer the XMLHttpRequest object comes from an Active X object, which is what Flash is in IE, an Active X object.

As far as an open source Flash Player the Free Software Foundation is now supporting GPLFlash, an open source Flash Player. ( http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/ ) A version of this project that plays older Flash files has been around since 2000.

Weird name, but very impressive. Though not an "AJAX" framework, with some effort it can be "bound" to an OOB request factory or something similar to have your cake and eat it (rich client-side stuff + backend server). Very cool. And it works with IE and FF, but obviously better with Firefox.

BTW, I love how this "AJAX" thing is just a cute name for a Microsoft technology that was first introduced with IE4. The first "AJAX" app was the Exchange OWA client.

> more people *write* stuff in PHP than
> write stuff in Perl. Well, that's harder
> to measure

How about this?

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php? form_cat=160

            Perl (6020 projects)
            PHP (11536 projects)

IMO, this sample is actually skewed toward Perl, because Perl is very popular in the open source community. In the larger community of all software developers, including commercial proprietary packages and internal development projects, I believe you'll find that Perl is significantly less common than these figures represent. Not many people are writing Perl commercially, but a lot of people (like me) are writing PHP commercially. There are also a lot fewer schoolchildren learning Perl than there are learning PHP.

Same for Java. On Sourceforge, Java and C++ run just about neck and neck:

            C++ (16060 projects)
            Java (15800 projects)

However, when I say C++, I'm really talking about C/C++ because all C is valid C++. So let's include C as well:

            C (15360 projects)

Looks like about the same ratio. C and C++ represent about twice as many projects as Java. And again, Java is more popular in open source circles than it is in commercial and internal development, so the sample is probably skewed toward Java.

Of course, there may also be legions of Perl and Java programmers that have blacklisted SourceForge from the community because they disagreed with it.

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

You also might want to check out Gantt Project which is a java Gannt drawing tool. It does tend to be, in the way of java GUIs, slow. But if you have a well specced machine or do not need huge charts it should do you just fine.

I use OSS Zentrack . It may be a bit of overkill for you but it allows you to organize your projects, TODOs and support calls. You can even specify how much time you spent on each. It provides a nice set of default categories that you can categorize your tasks with. You can customize the categories if you don't like the defaults. A set of customizable reports are also available. In addition, multiple users are supported. It is PHP based and can use quite a few different DBs.

http://notecase.sourceforge.net/ is really nice.
especially the tree view on the left.
Also if you dual boot, then you can use the same dat file.

http://gvr.sourceforge.net/ is an interesting concept to build upon.

SVG has to compete with semantically void images.

No. SVG has to compete with Flash. And the widespread adoption of Flash by both the commercial and open source (e.g., OSFlash, OpenLaszlo etc.) communities was caused by the fact that Flash is a good platform to develop for, and has a consistent and ubiqutous Flash Player. It has nothing to do with semantics (and it never will) or scaling or anything else. No sane company would target a platform that doesn't even have good viewer. Very few developers will go through the pains of building a serious SVG application if nobody can use it.

Well ... we went through those pains, and probably will do so even more in the future. But we are doing this only with the hope that, one day, people will also be able to easily use our applications.

The final version is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/antab/ in case anyone wants to look at it.

No one does, apparently.

- Dynamic HTML is fatter still, including the page you're reading
Slashdot? Dynamic HTML? Umm.... You really have no clue what dynamic HTML is, do you? Here's a tip: Dynamic HTML is not forms, or server-side-generated pages. It usually involves a little JavaScript and something called the Document Object Model.

- CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/data
So instead of loading style.css once per site, and keeping it in cache, and defining per-tag styles and, when that's not enough, using neat short little class="" attributes... we should instead use big ugly tags on everything? And tables and images for layout, I suppose?

- XML is another bucket of overkill; every page sends a new schema, and a bunch of unneeded, duplicate info
Umm, I'm not about to call XML a 'compact' file format (until you pipe it through gzip or something) but do you really have any idea how XML is typically used in Internet applications? I'm interested to know how you think the XML page sends a schema in a neat little HTTP attachment or something.

The idea of using more compression in more places isn't a terribly bad idea, you just don't seem to have a particularly good grasp on the reality. It's in decently widespread use already.

Here is my open source solution of next generation GUI: http://opentheme.sourceforge.net/OpenThemeTutorial .html

What open source programs implement OTP encryption as an option for encypting files?

I see some stuff on sourceforge without any releases files, and this: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/HardEncrypt/Hard Encrypt.html but do any of the major crypto packages (gpg) let you use a OTP?

That's what I did.

One of my team wrote a little interface wrapper between Ant (build system) and AlienBrain (source code management software), because he couldn't find one anywhere else.

I argued that, without the FOSS nature of Ant, we had saved money and it was therefore our duty to contribute.

The main stumbling block was that I had to show that this wouldn't materially advantage our competitors.

The final version is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/antab/ in case anyone wants to look at it.

That's a very, very, very, very bad idea. Let me explain why.

First.
Let me get some definitions straight:
mp3: Lossy format. Converting to mp3 means encoding your music. The best encoder is LAME (As proof, I suggest you check out hydrogenaudio)

ogg Vorbis: Lossy format. Converting to ogg means encoding your music. The best encoder is (offcourse) the original ogg Vorbis encoder.

mpc/Musepack: Yet an other lossy format. Converting to mpc means encoding your music. The best encoder is (offcourse) the original Musepack encoder.

flac: Lossless format. Converting to flac means compressing your music, as in: "I just compressed a text file, and did not lose any bytes in the file during compression". The best compressor for FLAC is offcourse the original FLAC Compressor.

Compressing: Making filesize smaller, without loss of data.

Encoding with lossy format: Making filesize smaller, at the cost of audio information.

Second.
To transcode your .mp3 files into .ogg, you'd need to first convert all of your .mp3 files into ogg. This would require the use of the LAME encoder (To convert the mp3's to wav), and then the ogg Vorbis encoder would have to convert all those wavs into .ogg format. You will lose all your id3 tag information.
Anyone who comes up with a simpler/faster solution (ie. "You dont need to convert to wav first!"), has very little to no insight into how digital audio encoding works, and what happens in the process of a transcoding/encoding/decoding.

Third.
If you convert from a lossy format to a lossy format, you will lose significant amounts of quality. DO NOT CONVERT FROM LOSSY TO LOSSY!
It does not matter if you convert a 320kbps mp3 into super-high-quality ogg - You still get huge amounts of loss due to the fact that the original material is lossy.

Fourth.
If you want to test out ogg Vorbis, then encode any of your legally bought hi-quality cd's to ogg, and listen to wether you like the result.

Fifth.
This should be obvious, but I'll tell you anyway: If you convert from lossy to lossless (ie wav or flac), quality will NOT increase.

Hope I could be of some informative value to you.

Not me. I said to myself "Turbo Vision programmer".

• Why Plan 9 is not dead yet And What we can learn from it by Ron Minnich from the Advanced Computing Lab, Los Alamos National Lab.
  
• The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9 by Dr. C. H. Forsyth of Vitanuova
  

oh and this and this might also be of interest

Yep,

You can by the CD from a comercial source. I think it is called Win Terminals. No not related to the actuall win terms. It is not linux. It acutally loads and looks and feels like a M$ OS.

The other is call UBCD Which is here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubcd

It is a life saver sometimes..

Is OSER still active? The last release was 18 months ago, and the SF forums haven't had any signifigant activity since 2003.

It seems like the developers might be focusing on OpenChange for the time-being?

Haven't tried it myself, but has anyone tried Vtiger?

Open source Outlook synchronizer plugin:
http://www.vtiger.com/products/crm/microsoft-outlo ok-integration.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtigercrm
http://www.vtiger.com/

Isn't this the kind of thing Free Software was supposed to be against?

No. You have confused trademark with copyright - and possibly with patent.

Anyone can distribute their own flavor of Linux and call it Linux without being threatened by lawsuits over trademarks?

No. You have confused trademark with copyright again.

According to your posting, Microsoft should be able to release an operating system and call it Linux. I am glad they are not allowed to do so under TRADEMARK law.

+5, Insightful? Moderators must be on crack again.

Free (as in speech) software is about being able to reuse others code through PRIOR licensing of copyrighted material. However, I can not make my own DISTRIBUTION based on the Linux kernel and call it RedHat, as that NAME is already trademarked. Nothing in the free software philosophy contradicts that, or says that I should be able to use the RedHat name.

Linux is a word that is used in a fairly generic way by many, but the laws require the trademark holder to defend the mark in business - or lose it to 'public domain' as a generic term. Once lost, people are free to use the word in any way they want - we could have linux soap, Windows applications, Linux air conditioners, soda pop, ANYTHING.

(that's a joke, I say, that's a joke son!)

Wish I had moderator points; you would get a -1, Overrated just for being so wrong.

or checkout OSER - Open Source Exchange Replacement

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oser/

http://www.thewybles.com/oser/help/roadmap/systems .html

What about MythTV?

of course if the MPAA sued them for MythTV's commercial gains, the MPAA would have to pay THEM money...

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Luckily, AI-ready robots and a Robot AI Mind are now available to the world.

Click here for further details.

Robots with a tactile sense of touch may benefit greatly from the new laminate of pressure and temperature sensors.

As the robot sensorium and motorium add such dazzling new features, artificial intelligence for robots is needed more than ever.

Luckily, AI-ready robots and a Robot AI Mind are now available to the world.

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Robots with a tactile sense of touch may benefit greatly from the new laminate of pressure and temperature sensors.

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Luckily, AI-ready robots and a Robot AI Mind are now available to the world.

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SQLRelay http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/ might be a good option here. If you do end up switching the backend from MySQL to PostGres or whatever, it's supported there too.

Mac users (OS X) have the best thing out there that I've seen thus far short of the ISPs own filtering.

It is free: http://junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Home/index.html .

Even if you aren't intersted or already have filtering this guy's page is very interesting - he even updates definitions often.