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XEmacs is GNU software because it's a modified version of a GNU program. And it is GNU software because the FSF is the copyright holder for most of it (...) This is why the term "GNU XEmacs" is legitimate. (GNU XEmacs ?! Oh, like, GNU/Linux...)
But in another sense it is not GNU software [my quote], because we can't use XEmacs in the GNU system (etc)

XEmacs is GNU software because it's a modified version of a GNU program. And it is GNU software because the FSF is the copyright holder for most of it (...) This is why the term "GNU XEmacs" is legitimate. (GNU XEmacs ?! Oh, like, GNU/Linux...)
But in another sense it is not GNU software [my quote], because we can't use XEmacs in the GNU system (etc)

Neither the QT components, nor Jordy Mendelson's updated version work properly in QT 6.5, and they crash QT 7 (on MacOS X).

Here's the reason why:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1144430&group_id=41359&atid=430388

Nobody has yet fixed them, so Ogg Vorbis is not an option under iTunes currently.

I can give you one reason it's not as big on the Mac as it is on Linux- support. The Macintosh OS-plugin for Ogg never made it out of Beta, hasn't been updated in 15 months, and doesn't work with Quicktime 7- which includes pretty much everyone who's updated to Tiger or run software update under Panther. I mean no offense, I'm glad that people volunteer their time to make things like Ogg for free, but to be practical- I don't pay anything to rip to MP3, AAC, or Apple Lossless, and right now all my Ogg files won't play for who knows how long. It makes the format a pretty risky choice for Mac users.

Yes, I know that there are other applications that play Ogg files on the Mac, but they're not competitive with iTunes, and I'm not going to change players depending on what music file I want to listen to.

There exists an ogg Player for Symbian (mobile) phones. Armed with a fairly big memory card, That's makes a pretty good portable music player.
http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/

For Ogg/Vorbis support in iTunes, check out the Quicktime Components Project. Whether these plugins work in Windows iTunes I don't know 'cause I haven't tried. But there might be other solutions for that.

//MMN-o

This is why I rip all my CDs to FLAC. I can then later reencode them to whatever format I want for a specific purpose. MP3 for my ancient cheapo portable MP3 player, Ogg Vorbis for most other things, and I can burn my own standard Red Book audio CDs with no loss.

Get yourself a real equalizer for xmms.

I was in the same boat as you (except with FLAC instead of OGG). EQU freakin' OWNS all over the place. You have no idea how good music can sound until you've tried this thing out. 31 bands!?. Of course you can do fewer bands if you want.

Get yourself a real equalizer for xmms.

I was in the same boat as you (except with FLAC instead of OGG). EQU freakin' OWNS all over the place. You have no idea how good music can sound until you've tried this thing out. 31 bands!?. Of course you can do fewer bands if you want.

That is, if I am only going to learn one, which should it be? Python!

Seeding lots of torrents on a server is somewhat annoying to do in that, as far as I can tell, there's no good non-GUI tool for seeding a bunch of torrents and capping their total bandwidth usage. I've been using NX to run Azureus remotely (NX will let you disconnect from a running X client and reconnect to it later from a different X server, pretty nifty) which works but is a real memory hog and even with NX's acceleration is still sometimes kind of painful to administer because you have to navigate the remote GUI.

The Osprey site still seems very light on technical details, but I'm hoping its Permaseed component will let me cut way down on the couple hundred megabytes of memory I'm using for my seeding, not to mention make it easier to offer up my server as a semi-permanent seed for other people's torrents.

I look forward to checking out this new software.

The problem is that in xmms the equalizer is implemented on the decoder level (and that makes sense, I guess). Last time I tried, only the mp3 input plugin used the equalizer settings. Even wavs and audio CDs didn't...

You might want to take a look at this project though...

void String func(int x);
func(x) = "Unknown: " x;
func(1) = "One";
func(2) = "Two";

void String func(int x)
{
if (x == 1) { return "One" }
else if (x == 2) { return "Two" }
else { return "Unknown: " + x
}

There is another type of programming method:

I believe you can do many things in this language
naturally that you cannot in others.

Link orientation programming

http://sourceforge.net/projects/majic/

See also SISCweb, a framework which uses Scheme on the J2EE platform, getting you all the fun of continuation based web-programming, with the library -goodness of Java.

A recent take on this is the Settlers of Catan. Interesting AI work in negotiations. Never saw the end results though (thesis), anybody?

http://www.infolab.northwestern.edu/infolab/

Thankfully all over the web now due to:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsettlers

Java applets are ideal for RIA. Swing and Java2D provide everything a developer needs to make a world-class GUI; and technologies like Thinlet have lots of potential too.

But a JMS server on the back end and you have an ASYNCHRONOUS rich-internet application -- which is unheard of in other technologies like Flash and even Flex.

People say "Java Applets are slow" and that may have been true 5 years ago, but machines are much faster now, and everyone I know have at least Java 1.4 installed on their PC.

The ideal technology for RIA is Java.

Sam

Like atomic-ptr-plus? The fastsmr package, hazard pointers without the expensive memory barriers, is about as fast as you can get. I'm waiting for one of those massively affordable massively parallel systems to do more development and testing on when they come out. Anyone want to lend me a 32-way Niagara processor based system?

I don't think so; "Eric Giguere" isn't on the list of developers.

There's a somewhat active fork called Kompiere Libero that apparently has compiere working on postgres and they've added a manufacturing module
Haven't tried it yet, but take a look

Things like Open Office, TurboCash (Windows only) which includes POS for retail folks. I'm not too sure about tax software. Even closed source tax applications for business are pretty difficult to maintain.

It would be interesting if somebody were to write an article that included absolutely everything a business could need, from the desktop applications, through database, financial, reporting, tax, web, OS, etc..., maybe categorized by small business, meduim-sized, and enterprise.

The company I work for always provides me with Non-OSS supplies like Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, MS Office, and Windows XP. But my work at home involves various types of media projects including audio, video, and web. Right now I use Nvu for development, Audacity for my audio editing, and I'm trying out Jahshaka for video editing. And of course Open Office for everything else.

Mind.Forth is the world's first open-source, public-domain, no-charge-to-use True AI that you may adapt and modify to use as an electronic brain to know facts about your business and to not only answer questions but also to advertise your business when you modify the AI source code and pass it on further with your advertising messages embedded in the free, educational artificial intelligence.

914 PC BOTS is a discussion forum where you may share information about installing the free Mind.Forth software in your own PC BOT robot employees and customer service representatives.

It's all described in the free-to-read-online AI4U alternative textbook of open-source artificial intelligence.

wv Utilities

Provided with the wv distribution is an application called wvWare. wvWare is a "power-user" application with lots of command-line options, doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient, are the helper scripts that use wvWare. These are:

        * wvHtml: convert your Word document into HTML4.0

(there are more utilities for LaTeX, etc..

My RSS reader (feedreader) Is currently configured for 3-4 dozen different RSS feeds, some news sites, some home pages ("blogs"). Some of them are updated multiple times a day, some updated daily, some updated infrequently.

Really I don't have time to check all of them even once a day but with an RSS reader I just have to start and tell it to check all the feeds and I know where there is new stuff.

Then I can look at the subject lines and see what looks interesting, then I look at the summaries and then only actually read ~5% of all the new stuff that pops up. I can effectively check several dozen sites and get the information I want out of them in only a few minutes. Without RSS checking that many sites would take at least an hour and would be difficult to manage.

It would also help if we worked harder on well-defined and standardized APIs, so that it would be easier to get things working with each other. For example, a standardized hardware configuration API would help make "control center" type apps a lot easier to make, etc.

This is where HAL comes in. (Cue the 2001 jokes.) It's pretty new, so it's mostly being used for things like auto-mounting devices in KDE and GNOME currently; but tools like GNOME Power Manager are starting to be built on top of it.

Right now it's Linux-only, but AFAIK there's nothing that inherently prevents it from being ported to one of the BSDs.

I don't know if anybody posted this, but depending on how much you want to formalize the content-push process, then perhaps Tidy is what you are looking for.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

If you are considering any kind of scripting solution, I would look into it. I would also include the DreamWeaver option as well in your thinking, if you are not considering a scripted solution.

Best of luck! ~tim

if you like sensisoccer, try yodasoccer at http://yodasoccer.sourceforge.net/

Perhaps they use Tidy. I know I won't get as many mod points, but hey karma isn't everything. Tidy should do a nice job of cleaning up Word HTML/X(H)ML http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ (also has a simple win32 editor and links to win32 help files, good documentation for all operating systems. I generally use it as integrated with a good editor. www.chami.com (Windows and WINE [seriously])

Or as it is now known, wvWare. Includes wvHtml, which, "converts word documents into W3C certified HTML4.0 format." FOSS (GPL) command line.

For the Caravel Project (an OSS enterprise CMS) we chose RTF 2 HTML and HTMLTidy to automatically convert RTF files to HTML during the upload process. Despite the limitations, we found that exporting to RTF and doing our own conversion produced far cleaner code than anything MS did. If your Word documents are text-only, you can get away without additional editing unless the document uses lots of over-ridden stylesheets--the converter respects the stylesheets, while Word respects the overrides, which can yield some unpredictable results.

We also recently switched editors to TinyMCE which has very reasonable 'paste from Word' and 'paste as plain text' features.

I'm also interested in checking out the DocFrac project (http://docfrac.sourceforge.net/status.html) which looks like it might be a step up from RTF 2 HTML. While I think we're offering reasonable solutions, I would still consider Word conversion to be one of the weaker features.

Michael Sherer
http://caravelcms.org/

Don't forget HTML Tidy. It has an option to clean Word HTML output.

I may be crazy, but this pipeline works great if you (1) know how to program a DFA and (2) can rely on some semblance of consistence across various documents from a single source. Majix will also automate Word to convert it to RTF before you start processing it, at least the last time I used it.

HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) and its Java derivative JTidy (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/) both have options to de-gunk HTML produced from MS Word. Does the job.

HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) and its Java derivative JTidy (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/) both have options to de-gunk HTML produced from MS Word. Does the job.

kses - http://sourceforge.net/projects/kses - can be useful for cleaning up the 'filtered HTML' from word, which is still rubbish.

That boatload of search/replace stuff might be able to be replaced with a perl/sed/awk script. If you're in an all-Windows shop, you can always load up knoppix to do that part -- or set aside 10 MB to do a desktop install of your favorite distro (knoppix is, once again an option) and dual boot. Better yet, just find an old machine in some storage room, somewhere that you can assign to the task.

Yeah - that's much easier than just grabbing the Windows ports. Or Cygwin.

That boatload of search/replace stuff might be able to be replaced with a perl/sed/awk script. If you're in an all-Windows shop, you can always load up knoppix to do that part -- or set aside 10 MB to do a desktop install of your favorite distro (knoppix is, once again an option) and dual boot. Better yet, just find an old machine in some storage room, somewhere that you can assign to the task.

Yeah - that's much easier than just grabbing the Windows ports. Or Cygwin.

I've been using IPCop w/ Cop+ for content filtering. I don't suppose m0n0wall would have an add-on to do the same?

Of course, that means your users would have to have an Acrobat plugin for their browser.

Clean up HTML with HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)

This can be easily scripted; no gui needed. Of course, you seem to want even /cleaner/ code ... this is only a starting point, but it seems like it will do most of the work for you.

Clean up HTML with HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)

This can be easily scripted; no gui needed. Of course, you seem to want even /cleaner/ code ... this is only a starting point, but it seems like it will do most of the work for you.

javester said that it's not being maintained anymore, but I do see some recent updates at the Sourceforge page. If it's not being actively developed anymore, it would seem to be because it works pretty well now.

In any event, I've found it to work very well for my use.

javester said that it's not being maintained anymore, but I do see some recent updates at the Sourceforge page. If it's not being actively developed anymore, it would seem to be because it works pretty well now.

In any event, I've found it to work very well for my use.

javester said that it's not being maintained anymore, but I do see some recent updates at the Sourceforge page. If it's not being actively developed anymore, it would seem to be because it works pretty well now.

In any event, I've found it to work very well for my use.

Try wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/). It works amazingly well for Word Excel and Powerpoint. I have used in Zope applications and have had very good results.

From the site:

This is the home of the wv library. The original name of the project, mswordview, was uncomfortably close to Microsoft's own product named wordview, so the library was renamed.

wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.

wv compiles and works under most operating systems. Although most development is carried out with Linux, wv should work on BSD, Solaris, OS/2, AIX, OSF1, and even (with varying levels of success) AmigaOS VMS. The GnuWin32 project maintains a port for Windows, and it is required to compile and work on all of AbiWord's supported platforms, of which there are a lot.

wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of converting them to other formats. It is currently being used by AbiWord as its Word importer, and concepts and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at KWord in their word importer.

Almost forgot. The Tidy Docs will tell you to select "--bare" and "--word-2000" and I also recommend "--output-xhtml" and "--indent".

I once had to convert a large number of pages generated by Word into something that was at least close to validating and I used Tidy HTML. It took a little bit of poking around with all the arguments to get it to do what I wanted, but once I had I just ran it on all the Word exports and it popped out clean code. It even had a special flag (though I don't remember it off the top of my head) to specifically deal with Word exports.

HTML Tidy has a special mode for cleaning up Word's crappy HTML export. HTML Tidy is a free command-line tool that is also embedded in a lot of popular HTML editors.

HTML Tidy:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
HTML Kit (great integration with HTML Tidy; it includes HTML Tidy so you can just grab HTML Kit without grabbing HTML Tidy)
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

Countless other editors integrate with HTML Tidy as well. Have fun and good luck!

Save the Word document as filtered HTML and pipe the HTML through HTML Tidy. Nice clean HTML.