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http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ As I recall HTML-Tidy allows you to remove all of Words "enhancments".

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Check out the -bare and -clean options to remove microsoft cruft.

Netflix Addict is free and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and any other OS that supports Java.

We recommend getting a BitTorrent client like Azureus that will allow you to only download the files you want.

cheers.

I think gambas is as close to the classic C-64 experience as you can get today. Ok they are not even similar, but both feature some kind of basic with graphics. So it should be good enough for learning to put together simple games (and that is what I did with my C-64 as soon as I knew some basic), as well as some more usefull stuff later.

If you want her to be a pro oo-programmer at the age of 6, maybe squeak would be an option.

That Tommy H. went to mickeysoft for a web server, citing security as a feature of mickeysoft is a dumbfsck decision. If he were my CXO, I would fire him (kick his butt out the door, and sue him for damages to the company). With Linux, I can get millitary grade security and stability (quite literally). I can get security enhanced Linux (courtesy of the National Security Agency: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux), and on top of the most-popular-on-the-internet Apache web server, lay down network level security via Fort-Knox-For-Linux, courtesy of the Space and Surface Warfare Command Center, San Diego (U.S. Navy: http://fortknox.sourceforge.net/). I know that Linux can perform extremely well on multi-million dollar computer hardware in the most demanding environments (http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03 /15/cz_dl_0315linux.html), so with all of the compelling data, I would fire his sorry self, sue him for damages, and beg the Linux distributor to come back. He is either an idiot, or a paid marketing dummy, or both, and shouldn't be in charge of anything more demanding than official pen click-tester.

Mac OSX also comes with Python, PERL and Tcl (though not Tcl/Tk, for some reason - but there's a very easy install of that as well - I particularly recommend the "Batteries Included" release, it comes with almost every extension you could ever want already loaded and ready to go), not to mention the usual suite of Unix tools (awk, sed, shells, grep, locate, find, xargs, etc.).

An Example of MS's more open, shared source.
I believe that ms's shared source program has a variety of different liscences. Check it out for yourself

If you're handy with Linux, try GetItTogether. Or just google up daap client. You'll want the mDNS suite. It is an open source implementation of Bonjour.

"Hey Joe, give me a 1.2192 by 2.4384 meter sheet of plywood, will you? And a 91.44 centimeter door, too. Thanks."

You can't just go changing all this stuff willy-nilly. Any change has to have the benefits provided measured against the downside. The downside of changing to metric in the USA is significant. That is why the change hasn't been made. Not because metric is inferior; but because we're not willing to knock back progress and annoy everyone for decades to come.

Personally, I keep this magic thing called a "calculator" around, and convert as required. Mine does unit conversion easily and reliably (HP-48), among many other useful things. Get one for your Mac desktop here or one for your windows desktop here.

I realized that my resume would be pretty empty after University, so I did Co-op. But then I realized I could do more. So I started my own OSS project.

I'm nearing my first release for BasicJ and I have HardCAD on the backburner.

I realized that my resume would be pretty empty after University, so I did Co-op. But then I realized I could do more. So I started my own OSS project.

I'm nearing my first release for BasicJ and I have HardCAD on the backburner.

You can get an Intellisense plugin for vim too, check it out at http://insenvim.sourceforge.net/

I thought VirtualDub was windows-only...

• Kino - a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux?
• Cinelerra - (Perhaps overkill...)
• mjpeg tools

http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

Dorgem has motion capture, but it will probably fall short on many of your other requirements.

install real alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati ve.htm it's basically a codec that allows you to play realfiles in whatever (may i suggest media player classic, found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ , it's basically a souped up version of the ancient mplayer32. who needs all the shits'n'giggles of that mediaplayer10)

You might want to take a look at JP Software's 4NT and Take Command products here, and then combine it with the Windows ports of many GNU tools that can be found here. Between the two, you can do pretty much everything that you can do in BASH and then some, the only drawbacks being that it's not portable and pipes on Windows *still can't be parallelised. There is a port of csh for Windows knocking about too, but aside from a general lack of stability in the version I tried some time ago, csh seems to have far more portability issues than the other *NIX shells.

I agree. I'd use Galeon in the meantime (Epiphany forked from it). It has more configurability and comes with really nice tab features. You can edit the toolbars (Edit->Toolbar) much the same as Firefox. It's basically Firefox with much better GNOME integration.

Honestly who cares about another crappy iTunes store ?

To me the idea of paying ANY money over a token amount (say 5 UK pence) for a piece of music encoded in a cruddy lossy format such as mp3 is absurd - Especially when you do the maths.

In the UK it apprently costs 79p a track from iTunes (As I don't use it myself this is second hand knowledge) whereas a CD can be bought online for between £ 5 to £ 10. So if a CD contains an average 10 tracks that makes it between 50p to 100 p per track with each track being available in full 16bit 44.1 Khz WAV quality.

The crucial point being that you can then use something like the excellent cdex and you can rip your own MP3s with much better quality and with NO DRM.

Sorry but I simply don't understand why anyone would use something crappy like iTunes or an online subscription service. They're a total waste of money.

MP3 is a great "poor quality casette tape" or "am radio quality" replacement but it's the equivalent of buying a scaled down black & white photocopy of a painting for about the price of the real thing. Just because it can be done "over das interweb" doesn't make it a good idea.

And if you're using iTunes etc. simply to "try before you buy" then why not use BitTorrent/UseNet/Your p2p app of choice. instead ?

Pah kids today, stick a "made for l33t internet" tag on it and they'll buy any old crap.

Acorn (now defunct but progenitor of ARM) had a wimp GUI years before Microsoft Windows and one which all who have tried both acclaim as far easier to use. See http://productsdb.riscos.com/admin/ros_test.htm for the reasons why. It is still extant. The ROX desktop, http://rox.sourceforge.net/ is based on it.

I am a little late to this party, but as one of the co-leaders on GHH I figured I could add a bit.

Anyone who is looking to get GHH up and running we have a handy flowchart showing the in's and out's of the process:

http://ghh.sourceforge.net/GHH%20-%20Installation. gif

The chart shows both logging branches (CSV/MySQL). If you have any issues with getting GHH up and running use the Source Forge system.

- Greg (aka gsmith3231)

Is "intellisense" the thing that gives you a dropdown of method names and similar? If so, there are multiple existing ways to do similar things in both (x)emacs and vim (although I'm not familiar with the procedure for doing it in the latter, so a vim master will have to chime in). There's dynamic abbrevs which work with almost everything and, while not context sensitive, are generally good enough unless you don't know and haven't typed the method. But it works in any mode, so if you're typing a letter to Grandma you can autocomplete from any other buffer.

Additionally there are things like lisp-symbol-complete, and cedet which is basically written to be "intellisense for emacs" among other things.

This is the power of a programmable editor. If there's a feature you want, you can add it. If there's a feature you want to change, you can modify it. If there's a misfeature, you can get rid of it.

Sourceforge, Freshmeat, CPAN, GNU.org...

That's precisely the point of a Honeypot. It's something that looks like it might be a vulnerability, but isn't. SquirrelMail had a bunch of vulnerabilities, including an SQL injection vulnerability. These sites get themselves added to Google, and thus get pulled up when someone searches for a site to exploit, but they can't actually be exploited. However, the Honeypot site now has the remote IP address, browser being used, and whatever info it feels like collecting on the bad guys.

Read the FAQ, it explains a lot.

http://ghh.sourceforge.net/userfaq.php

A honeypot is, to quote Lance Spitzner founder of the Honeynet Project:

"An information system resource whose value lies in unauthorized or illicit use of that resource."

Simply put a honeypot is something that appears to be vulnerable, but in reality is recording illicit use by malicious attackers.

GHH allows administrators to track malicious hosts: observe who is perpetrating the attack and how it is being executed via the log. The data generated by this, or any other honeypot can be used to deny future access to attackers, notify service providers of attacks originating from their networks or act as an input for statistical analysis.

GHDB Signature #1013 ("SquirrelMail version 1.4.4" inurl:src ext:php)

How is that a problem? Look at their demo page. Whoopdeedoo. Now I can stare at a SquirrelMail login screen. Still haven't gotten access to much of anything that I'm not supposed to. Heck, there are plenty of websites offering e-mail through SquirrelMail. Whatever...

Checkout SDLRoads. It's a relatively true recreation. Otherwise we've had pretty good success playing the game through dosbox (even on our modded xbox, we played most of thet game via dosxbox.. it played sweet.)

Use PasswordSafe to keep track of all your passwords, and also to generate secure passwords. The program was first created by Bruce Schneier, cryptography expert.

BadBlocks - This utility can be used to find bad blocks on a disk partition. I've used it before to check disks.

The Ultimate Boot CD: It's basically a compilation of different boot disks, all put in a nice menu system on a freely-downloadable ISO image. While it's not really Linux (though it contains a number of Linux-based boot disks), it is one of the best utility CD's that I've ever encountered for testing hardware.

Also, Knoppix is another one that I would suggest, though I use it more for data recovery these days. ;)

Your URL needs work, did find it though.
Politico!

After growing up losing countless hours of sleep playing SkyRoads, last fall a friend and myself decided to extract the level data from the game and port it to SDLRoads, a rather faithful recreation of the game.

We ended up running the game via dosxbox in gdb, dumping the entire memory region, and searching the heap for the levels. It didn't take all too long before we had the raw data converted to the SDLRoads native format.

We passed the levels off to the SDLRoads guys, and they got permission to use the original levels in their port. Thanks BlueMoon!

Problem is the parties consolidated early on into only two relevant ones. If the Democratic party implodes or disbands deliberately, I'm almost certain the subgroups in the Republican party would diverge into their own parties. It's common-enemy crap.

That and a torrent of irrelevant crap making a bunch of noise while the important issues slip by.

I'm thinking a non-web-based application (e.g., Java Application) getting information from thomas.loc.gov & the legislative branches' XML initiatives.

Eventually we could summarize voters opinions and send an inconspicuous email with the statistics to the appropriate representative.

I could use some help on this idea. Been pondering it for a while with no momentum:

http://polico.sourceforge.net/

So far I have a command line scraper so far which takes Johnny's zip code and tells him who his reps are. Need to pick it up again...

FYI. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1251140&group_id=4421&atid=104421 just in case.

My wife just tried Thunderbird. It imported email from 3 accounts in the Mozilla suite. It mixed up all the mail between accounts. I switched to Fedora this spring, which uses Evolution for email and I like it just fine. There is a Windows port of Evolution in the works, but there is no firm timeframe for release yet. I see that it sent it's first message recently.

I'd use GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) plus the following plugin... Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private (not just encrypted) conversations over instant messaging by providing: Encryption, Authentication, Deniability, and Perfect forward secrecy. Found at.. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ Willy

I think you are referring to corporate policy here - i.e. what MS and/or it's partners choose to use. There are plenty of corporations out there, based on MS and also on other technology, that choose not to use OSS for a variety of reasons.

My point was more about this individual (the one being interviewed here) and his personal ability to be involved in OSS. This particular comment, and the title itself ("stranger in a strange land") seems to imply that working for MS and being personally involved in OSS are two mutually exclusive things. In reality, there are many people who do both concurrently.

In fact, you may be interested in doing a quick search around the web for a number of OSS projects that are led by MS employees. At least one of these is in fact even officially supported by MS.

The safest and most anonymous protocol I've seen is Freenet. If anyone was lucky enough to see the Freenet presentation at DEFCON, they illustrated how a message could theoretically be sent over a trusted social network, location-independent and subsequently anonymous. The theory proposed that instead of a massive random anonymous freenet node network, Freenet would begin to integrate normal human-like social networks, allowing users to "validate" the identity of other users without compromising anonymity (Somewhat like a PGP-key signing party). Each user would pick a random number, and based on their social network of trusted friends, their number would be switched with other users, giving the illusion of proximity. Not only was the proposed theory location-independent, they also illustrated how a man-in-the-middle attack couldn't happen without being completely obvious (In the presentation, it was illustrated that a message to a false "John Kerry" would take a large and noticable amount of hops (if the message got there at all) because "John Kerry" doesn't have a normal social network that would be apparent with a prominent political figure). Of course, I do see how this method could possibly be vulnerable (As we all know how easy social engineering can be): A) A "trusted" person who is being used as a hop point could intercept the message and compromise security. (A risk you take when trusting friends, and friends-of-friends) B) The message sender or receiver could be compromised, and a person could theoretically follow the chain of hops to the other party involved.

[1] But I'm starting to suffer from 'outrage fatigue'.

[2] I agree -- but it isn't leading me to stop. Rather I'm getting to the point where I'm going to go and kick some ass.

If you really want to help, devote yourself to helping these guys or these guys, or you can start your own project. No offense to anyone here, but if I was a betting man I'd put my money on the average Slashdotter's Technical skills, not his/her ability to win hearts and minds...or affect social opinion.

The demographic that voted us into this mess are beer drinking, flag waving yehaw walping wash my soul on sunday types. Until Bubba and Jinny have suffered enough from $3 gas prices, unemployment, and no health care...we're pleading into deaf ears.

[1] But I'm starting to suffer from 'outrage fatigue'.

[2] I agree -- but it isn't leading me to stop. Rather I'm getting to the point where I'm going to go and kick some ass.

If you really want to help, devote yourself to helping these guys or these guys, or you can start your own project. No offense to anyone here, but if I was a betting man I'd put my money on the average Slashdotter's Technical skills, not his/her ability to win hearts and minds...or affect social opinion.

The demographic that voted us into this mess are beer drinking, flag waving yehaw walping wash my soul on sunday types. Until Bubba and Jinny have suffered enough from $3 gas prices, unemployment, and no health care...we're pleading into deaf ears.

http://stegfs.sourceforge.net/

Haven't tried either of these but:

Appears to be a driver:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd

Standalone file explorer:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs. htm

Email - You could then grab a gmail or yahoo account (giving a ficticious name.)

Instant Messaging and File Sharing - You can use WASTE (RSA secured). More info can be found at: http://waste.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helps.

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

At the very least, the editors and article-submitters alike could install SpellBound or IE Spell and check their text fields before approving/submitting.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

A rather telling indicator of what many employers think about ms office is:

"Please do NOT send your resume as an attachment; rather, please send as text, in the body of the message."

Some don't even want .pdf files. Why? In almost every instance (ok, in a number of them) where I've seen this request, they specifically say this measure is to avoid a virus attack. Some places even ask for fax or paper resumes. So much for anti-virus tools and ms office, particularly with ms word having vb and other useless junk turned on by default. It will be QUITE a while before all those previously endangered installs are cleaned up by IT departments, either due to serendipity or some major patch that ONLY turns off the dangerous features and which doesn't require a 550 MB download to do shit ms should have fixed before letting the malignant horse out the gate.

As for Open Source apps, yeh, I think we need something that showcases the BEST, not the half-baked stuff. One section for purely command line stuff, and one for GUI/Eye-Candy stuff. I think a blending of Linux.org and Sourceforge:

http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/index.php

but with thumbnails of the stuff showing something other than a desktop and kicker. The activity stats need to be there, and it would be nice if many of these corporations that secretly crave cheaper software costs would actually openly and/or silently donate via PayPal or some mechanism they consider to be low-risk to them.

Actually, these corporations and donors should take the politics out of the process, remove the chance of ms infiltrating them, and make the donations easier and pain-free (relatively) by setting up a line item in their budget, sort of to help foster or steer the development of a given or favored project.

Many sites do ask for donations, but it's saddening that so many promising projects wither or languish and then die due to lack of interest or worse, a lack of resources. I don't propose that every bottom-feeding/leech-like weed of a project get funded. There needs to be merit, uniqueness, and viability and future sustainability in a supported project for it to receive funding.

Many Open Source and mixed/dual license apps, however, could signal the death knell for many proprietary, stodgy, intransigent companies which make nice, but astronomically (elitism?, cache? status?, exclusivity?, branding?) priced apps and suites that could be broken down into low-, medium- and upper-end pricing to gain a bigger footprint in the market. Maybe they could even do what some of the food and tire makers do: spin off or distribute excess lots or lesser-capable versions of a product through another entity or subdivision. Not every company can afford to divide this way, but the current and foreseeable economy will continue forcing companies and inventors to reinvent themselves or die at the hands of steadily improving free (cost or licensing) and proprietary (low-cost and costly) software.

Another way software can be exposed is simply if IBM and others finally pull the ms probiscus out of their rears. We need, DESPERATELY, some major companies with backbone who'll create or support an infrastructure through which low-cost laptops can be deployed for rent, lease, sale, or barter (social work, tutoring, community cleanup, use your imagination) and which have Open Source-friendly tools loaded on them. I'm not talking about 2 GHz, nor 400 MHz laptops. They could be highly-optimized 800 MHz-1 GHz laptops (how many hundreds of thousands of these things must be still in boxes, in inventory, or going to secondary markets, or returned and destroyed rather than kept floating on the market?) meant for kids to use at school, on the bus, and in other places. They're lugging some 15-25 pounds of books now, and the paper industry needs to be forced down or compelled to take their monkeys off the spines of grow

Autotrace - a vital tool if you are wanting to vectorize raster images. There are a lot of tracing programs out there, but this one seems fairly popular. Not sure if it strictly fits the definition of a "drawing program", though.

Don't forget about potrace.

The SVG output is absolutely amasing, much better than anything i've seen before. It's great for tracing company logos or for creating fonts out of scanned texts.

There's a similar list of editors at the Vector Graphics Foundry at SourceForge. My favorite for advanced diagramming is TGIF. For more simple stuff I usually use OpenOffice Draw (or a white board and a digital camera ;-)

There's a similar list of editors at the Vector Graphics Foundry at SourceForge. My favorite for advanced diagramming is TGIF. For more simple stuff I usually use OpenOffice Draw (or a white board and a digital camera ;-)