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Re: Abiword
OpenOSX has a mixed reputation. There are a couple of other developers out there who have stories to tell, but the only one I could find quickly was Fink.
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Re:How to play CNN video on Linux
Why not have it just play embedded in firefox just like the windows users get? A much easier way is to install mplayerplug-in and make sure you have avisynth.dll. Then it will play embedded just like it does for windows users.
To install mplayerplug-in, the easiest way is to use `yum install mplayerplug-in` (if you have yum installed). As for avisynth.dll, just go to http://www.avisynth.org/ and downloaded the zip file. Unzip it and put the .dll in /usr/lib/win32/ or /usr/lib/codecs/.
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Re:Valid reason for BitTorrent
There's also another Mac BitTorrent client (Azureus) for power users and another Mac BitTorrent client ("Mainline") for people who want a lightweight one. Not just Tomato Torrent. Plus they're both nice and user-friendly as well.
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Re:WMV only ... no thanks
You're free to have your rant against WMV, but it works perfectly fine with mplayerplug-in.
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No big loss either.
There are plenty alternatives like those listed in the unix-linux antivirus mini-faq http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/openantivir
u s/mini-faq/av-unix_e.txt?rev=1.40&view=markup Kindly compiled by the OpenAntivirus Project http://www.openantivirus.org/ -
Re:Performance margin hardly worth it
Some sort of non-gaming application that uses a graphics card. Having trouble thinking of one now, but I know they exist somewhere
;)
Oh, try things like BRL-CAD, Maya, Custom VR applications (eg, built using things like Maverik). There are a lot of other apps. Go cruise freshmeat for them. Some F/OSS, some not, but the reason nVidia puts a decent amount of effort into their Linux drivers is they want to be the 3D solution for GNU/Linux workstations.
I, personally, am learning BRL-CAD, and I've used Maverik and OpenGL to make physics visualization software (personal use, I never got any of it to release quality).
Many of these don't use the whiz-bang new features on the newer cards, but the cards are clocked faster and are still improvements over the older cards even for simple OpenGL based apps. Some of the stuff can make use of the new features.
I do all my gaming under Linux, and I get my fix just fine (admittedly, I like (and play exclusively) gun-fu FPS games, with Id Software having written all my favorite engines, so I've never had compatibility problems, because I don't care about games written only for Windows).
Speaking of games, the parent missed an important one, Tenebrae, a modification of the original Quake engine which adds pixel shaders to the renderer (among other things). It's gorgeous. Someone also just started a similar project for the Quake2 engine, here.
To boot, X.org 6.8.1+ have support for true transparency, which needs hardware acceleration. Again, newer cards are not strictly necessary for this, but they help. You can get some pretty impressive eye candy on the latest X.org releases (if you're willing to tinker, but you're using GNU/Linux, so I assume you are. If you aren't, you'll have to wait for the Longhorn/DNF super-bundle to come out, or just buy a Mac).
I've been using Slackware GNU/Linux for 3D work for a while now, and I've been very happy with it.
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Re:Performance margin hardly worth it
Some sort of non-gaming application that uses a graphics card. Having trouble thinking of one now, but I know they exist somewhere
;)
Oh, try things like BRL-CAD, Maya, Custom VR applications (eg, built using things like Maverik). There are a lot of other apps. Go cruise freshmeat for them. Some F/OSS, some not, but the reason nVidia puts a decent amount of effort into their Linux drivers is they want to be the 3D solution for GNU/Linux workstations.
I, personally, am learning BRL-CAD, and I've used Maverik and OpenGL to make physics visualization software (personal use, I never got any of it to release quality).
Many of these don't use the whiz-bang new features on the newer cards, but the cards are clocked faster and are still improvements over the older cards even for simple OpenGL based apps. Some of the stuff can make use of the new features.
I do all my gaming under Linux, and I get my fix just fine (admittedly, I like (and play exclusively) gun-fu FPS games, with Id Software having written all my favorite engines, so I've never had compatibility problems, because I don't care about games written only for Windows).
Speaking of games, the parent missed an important one, Tenebrae, a modification of the original Quake engine which adds pixel shaders to the renderer (among other things). It's gorgeous. Someone also just started a similar project for the Quake2 engine, here.
To boot, X.org 6.8.1+ have support for true transparency, which needs hardware acceleration. Again, newer cards are not strictly necessary for this, but they help. You can get some pretty impressive eye candy on the latest X.org releases (if you're willing to tinker, but you're using GNU/Linux, so I assume you are. If you aren't, you'll have to wait for the Longhorn/DNF super-bundle to come out, or just buy a Mac).
I've been using Slackware GNU/Linux for 3D work for a while now, and I've been very happy with it.
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More obvious linksFor those wanting to know how the figures are calculated, or wanting to calculate them for their own machine, the following links will be helpful:
- High Performance Linpack (Requires MPI and either BLAS or VSIPL)
- High Performance Computing Challenge - the ultimate in stress-testing software
Dependencies:
- LAMPI - MPI from the Government's laboratories at Los Alamos
- MPICH - another version of MPI
- ATLAS - a portable version of BLAS
- VSIPL - a heavy number-crunching image processing package
I doubt many Slashdotter machines will do well against the top 500, but it might be fun to do our own "top 500" (for sheer geek value and bragging rights). - High Performance Linpack (Requires MPI and either BLAS or VSIPL)
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Re:What if it were written in Java?
You can use java and not produce your gui with it though.
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Re:Vim
I'm quite partial to cream with my vim on windows
:)
http://cream.sourceforge.net/
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Re:The trouble with this analysis...
There's no such thing as an OS clone.
... In the end people just want to run what software they want to and Microsoft is positioned to allow that to happen and I don't see an easy way for someone else to come in and take that away from them.Yeah sure. So you are saying FreeBSD can't run Linux binaries or Linux can't run any MS Windows (or DOS) programs? From a program's point of view, an OS is just a set of API which help it get its job done. It doesn't really care if it is running MS Windows, Linux, or OS/2. The only problem which has slowed other operating systems from supporting MS Window's API would be that it is constantly changing, so it has grown to this huge beast. It also has so many bugs, nearly every program works around them, so the bugs have to be emulated too, not just the APIs.
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would mindmaping work?
freemind is a good peice of mindmapping software I use. It exports HTML, and you can enter your notes in HTML if you start the first line with <html>
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Another angle
I like FreeMind for taking phone notes. It lets me put things down immediately even though I don't yet know the full context, then drag and drop later. It's Java, so it's portable, and the
.jar is pretty small, if that's an issue.
Another good option is EverNote a more linear product. Quite snappy at what it does.
OneNote is worth a try, I have it but never use it, when weighed against the above two.
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hnb
hnb, the heirarchical notebook.
http://hnb.sourceforge.net/
It's by far above and beyond all notebook software I've ever used. It runs in the terminal and is curses based. So you can do cool stuff like run it in screen to share it with others. It stores text information in a simple heirarchy, just like when you take notes. It saves notes in a simple, straightforward XML format and it is extremely easy to export to HTML or anything else. If you want to export to something new, writing an XSLT or such to translate the XML is not difficult at all.
It's really small and will run on just about any *nix even OSX. You can run it in windows with cygwin/mingw.
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Series60/Symbian and 770/maemo
Nokia is currently doing 2 WebKit (based on KHTML/KJS by the KDE project) related webbrowsers:
1) for 770/maemo
this will be shipped with an opera-browser, but WebKit was ported to GTK+ (the toolkit used by maemo) as part of the feasability study. This port can be found under the name gtk-webkit and is used for the atlantis browser.
2) for the Series60 (Symbian based)
For this series Nokia is porting WebKit to the Symbian OS and Symbian toolkit, and will thus create a new browser.
links:
http://khtml.info/
http://kde.org/
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_atlantis.html
http://www.series60.com/
http://www.symbian.com/
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/7 70
http://www.maemo.org/
g'luck...
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Not quite. Apple's not directly involved.
As reported earlier, the new Nokia phones are based on gtk-webcore (see http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ ).
The webcore API may have been developed by Apple, but Nokia ported it to Gtk+ to avoid licensing issues with Qt.
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Download nokia's "safari" for linux here
you can download Nokia's "safari" for linux here. It is the GTK port of webcore. Of course a browser is more than a rendering engine, but that is a really big part of it. The reference broser is very simple. Too bad more work is not put into it (probably could build it for windows too)
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Re:Microsoft can MAKE Avalanch happenOS/Apache + Firefox should do this already. Beat Microsoft to the punch. Heck you could even include a spot for plugging and playing DRM (or not).
The process would be to automatically replace all links to files which are larger than say 256K with a Torrent-ish link. This could be done on pagebuild as it the file is served up.
You would want to build the Torrent capabilities into the browser as well, so then you would goto Firefox and build them in there as well.
Here's the Apache half of it: mod-torrent
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Re:Nethack
Mmmm. Such a brilliant idea.
If there's one game that needs a DS port, Nethack would be it. Along with Ur-Quan Masters (though that might work better on the GameCube) and other cool OSS games =)
Still, once the homebrew stuff gets easier to run on DS without all this weird hardware, it'll probably be easier to make it a normal game rather than run it from Linux. In either case, it needs a new front-end code; judging from the number of really weird and cool front-ends there are for Nethack right now, and the fact that Nethack is very very portable, and that DS has more than the capability to run the game, I don't think it's a problem as such to port it to the thing.
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Re:What good is such a fast Ethernet card...
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Re:Next Up-
Well there is Lunix. Also far away from Linux
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Re:Something I'd like to see...
Meet LNG - formerly known as Lunix.
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Re:Linux usability definitely needs a lot of work
I don't see why no one else is adopting the new Apple-style verb-based dialog buttons.
They are. Take a look at http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Style Guide/Dialogs for instance. (That's from the ROX Desktop style guide, because I use a ROX Desktop, but it shows that at least two non-Apple desktop environments recommend the use of verb-based dialog buttons.) -
gnome-pilot & Evolution
Others have mentioned pilot-link, jpilot, and kpilot. There's also gnome-pilot, which is basically like hotsync for Windows. It's based on pilot-link, but is a good front-end. You can also sync with Evolution, an Outlook clone. The conduits for Evolution need a little help (a few people, including me, are working on that), but the mostly work. Evolution also doesn't have a memos component to it (though check out the evolution-memos project for a working Memos component that I've been working on - even has a working gnome-pilot conduit)
I'd say support for the Palm is good, but not mature yet. gnome-pilot makes it easy to sync with AvantGo and the other major conduits. JPilot is good at that, too, and is basically a clone of Palm Desktop. pilot-link is the basis for most Palm support, and is usually kept up-to-date with the latest releases from PalmSource and Palm vendors. -
Re:why blame git?
"sqlfs"
(that's developer-speech for a boring but feasible project that would make you shove your buzzword db-admin-speech up your arse)
Point #1:
A quick google search yielded a few links for "sqlfs".
Now, are you really talking about a filesystem implemented in a relational database? You're pretty confused if you think you contradicted what I wrote. That's exactly what I'm advocating, except that I'm advocating that this database-backed filesystem also be CM-aware.
For this particular file-centric application, I *love* filesystems implemented as front-ends to databases.
Point #2:
You're really confused if you think I'm a db-admin or that I'm in favor of a CM tool that requires a DB-admin to install or use. I'm in favor of an ACID database as a core part of an effective CM system. Whether end users know it's on their machine is completely irrelevant (in fact, I think the user shouldn't have to know it's there).
Point #3:
Why would that project be boring? Sounds like it would be pretty neat if you ask me. I'm actually a little disappointed that none of the links yielded a project with recent activity.
Regards,
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Re:Seems kinda fadish, but I'll bite
It exists for linux: Tilda http://tilda.sourceforge.net/ And also you could setup eterm in almost anyway you want... Don't know about Windows...
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XMLTerm
The best version of this concept that I saw was XMLTerm. It's a graphical CLI, in a web page. It's ideally suited to be a CLI for websites, as well as a website implementing a CLI. It was ahead of its time, and went down the drain when the bubble popped. On purely "zeitgeist" problems - it appears to be technically sound. If there's interest, and effort, in this kind of app now, it will be much better to pick up this orphaned OSS project, than to reinvent it.
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more links please
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Myopia
MyOPIA is a web based (LAMP) system written by a guy from the University College London. Haven't managed to get it working here yet however...
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Want a command language for Windows?
Want a command language for Windows? Try the free, open source AutoIt, which is amazingly complete and well-developed. AutoIt comes with an autocompletion IDE that automatically displays function usage information. The version that includes the IDE installs easily. AutoIt also has a compiler, which is also free. See AutoIt on Sourceforge.
Want Hotkey macros? Try the related free program, AutoHotKey.
Both are excellent.
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Re:Miranda is really really good
This is the first time I've heard of it, but I've installed it already.
Heh. I first heard of Miranda when they got ripped off last time. (I haven't installed it yet, as I don't really run IM stuff in Windows and when I do, I tend to use pure Jabber clients.)
But I did hear of VirtualDub and Keyring this way - both were discussed during GPL violation incidents, I checked them out, and thought "where the hell these have been all my life?" It's a shame I hear of cool programs when their coolness is shamelessly exploited by nasty people =/
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Re:Miranda is really really good
This is the first time I've heard of it, but I've installed it already.
Heh. I first heard of Miranda when they got ripped off last time. (I haven't installed it yet, as I don't really run IM stuff in Windows and when I do, I tend to use pure Jabber clients.)
But I did hear of VirtualDub and Keyring this way - both were discussed during GPL violation incidents, I checked them out, and thought "where the hell these have been all my life?" It's a shame I hear of cool programs when their coolness is shamelessly exploited by nasty people =/
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Re:But OTOH
"As for the GIMP, http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ is your friend along with Apple's X11, which is as easy to install as anything else from Apple."
Download and run GIMP installer: "Failed to start: GIMP.app requires X11"
Download and run X11 installer: "You cannot install X11 on this volume: newer software already exists on your computer"
So, Mr. "GIMP on apple is simple enough for idiots", how come it doesn't fucking work?!?
It's preinstalled on all my linux computers, how hard can it be? This is just the same as "RPM hell", except on a brand-new Mac, trying to install basic image-editing software.
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Re:But OTOH
Free software (GIMP, OpenOffice) is possible with lots of effort if you're an expert.
Heard of NeoOffice/J? If you can't install/run that, then I don't know what you're doing on an OS X box...
As for the GIMP, http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ is your friend along with Apple's X11, which is as easy to install as anything else from Apple.
I don't really see the problem here...
And "no configuration options"? C'mon...
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Again?
Miranda was dealing with a gpl violation 2 years ago. The infringing app was ZeeZ IM.
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Re: No Thanks
I'll stick with bash or ksh, thanks very much. But thanks for trying.
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Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down
They chop up (almost) everything that's longer than a certain length so us poor 80-columners can read the site without having to scroll sideways.
Yeah: they insert a space in any word that is longer than 50 chars. But this is annoying for BT magnet URIs that have a fixed length of 52 chars.
A quick fix of course can be to raise the limit from 50 to 52.If anyone is interested in understanding what are these URIs: they are a, more or less, standard compliant way to encode the info hash of a torrent. You can distinguish the bittorrent URIs because they contain the string "urn:btih:".
It's possible to convert a magnet URI to the classical hex info hash and viceversa with this small Python script: simply pass the URI or the hash to the command line.
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Re:this is all well
I decided to do a little researching on my own and found that there is a project to make referencing etc. easier in OOo which can be found here:
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/
Looking thru that it seems the best bet is bibus which can be found here:
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Re:bibtex mode + reftex mode
OK, I love AUCtex. I wrote my thesis in emacs using AUCtex. But it's not WYSIWYG. It's not even close.
{\em This} is not {\large WYSIWYG}. Neither is this equation: $y=\int_0^T x(t) dt$. Sorry.
OK, fair enough. And AUCtex with the preview-latex package isn't really WYSIWYG either, but I'll claim it gets you pretty close. It calls out to latex to typeset important stuff (equations, tables, figures, images) and inserts the results into the buffer. I claim those are the most important elements to see. All three of the elements you typed above are displayed in the xemacs buffer more or less as they'd appear.
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Re:Hard U? Soft E?Hard means you pronounce it, soft means you don't. Sorta. They're trying to convey it's one syllable (suse) and not two (su-se).
Which is interesting, given that the SuSE FAQ says otherwise:
SuSE, pronounced soo'-suh, comes from the German acronym, "Software und Systementwicklung (Software and System Development).
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Try these two.
Personally, I like using pybliographer (as was already mentioned) for my thesis. But also check out JabRef which is written entirely in Java. So if you ever needed to go back to windows and still want to manage your BibTeX entries, JabRef may be a good option. Be careful moving back and forth between different bib managers because each one has its own convention in created keys (by default)--thus, the key for one entry in pybliographer will be different than the key referring to the same entry in JabRef. IIRC, both programs allow you to redefine how you want your keys to be configured, so if you define your own key structure, this problem is minimal.
If you're on a Mac, try out BibDesk. This user has a screencast (flash video demonstration) showing you how to export "BibTeX data and adding it to a BibDesk library, autofiling and associating a PDF file, adding the citation to a TeX file, then formatting a bibliography." -
Crossplatform JabRef
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Crossplatform JabRef
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Re:Mac OS
I'm not sure what you mean by "BibDesk is GNU", but in any case it isn't. It is BSD licensed (according to its SF.net page, and is not a GNU project.
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Re:Mac OS
I second that. I use Bibdesk and it is quite good -- very Mac like and much better than managing
.bib files by hand. Furthermore it handles the .RIS (Endnote) and .BIB files that most electronic journal sites generate. I don't even type citations by hand these days - I just search for them on EngineeringVillage2 or Elsevier and drag the .RIS file into Bibdesk. Then I just drag the item into TeXshop and the citation is there.
As for porting it.... well, could be tough considering it uses the Cocoa framework.
However, since the poster is asking for a Linux solution, I can only think of web-based bib managers:
Cite-U-Like - a del.icio.us for journals, can export to Bibdesk.
Refworks - if your campus has a subscription to Refworks, it's one of the best web-based bibliography managers around. It like the Bloglines of academic journals... well kind of...
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Mac OS
For those that use MacOS, or those looking for a great model to copy for Linux, try BibDesk
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More about 2.6.12's TPM support
There was no mention of TPM in the summary. Only a line about an i945G driver.
However, sourceforge lists a new TPM device driver at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpmdd. It is a set of patches which add TPM support to pre-2.6.12 kernels.
Also, a TPM-tools package using the trousers library is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/trousers .
An article in heise (translated link) titled "Linux kernel 2,6,12 with TPM support."
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More about 2.6.12's TPM support
There was no mention of TPM in the summary. Only a line about an i945G driver.
However, sourceforge lists a new TPM device driver at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpmdd. It is a set of patches which add TPM support to pre-2.6.12 kernels.
Also, a TPM-tools package using the trousers library is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/trousers .
An article in heise (translated link) titled "Linux kernel 2,6,12 with TPM support."
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Re:MOD PARENT UP
No good! Joe is already taken! It's a UNIX text editor...
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wysiwyg's and text editors
Well, I'm not as seasoned as many who post here, and I have to admit that I used to be a dreamweaver evangelist. Although I never really enjoyed having closing tags written out for me when I type, nor do I appreciate waiting MINUTES for the application to start up, and, to be completely honest, I've never used the built in ftp software, ever. After years of Dreamweaver web development, I've switched to the much simpler Notepad++( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm ). It seems that as my confidence grows as a developer, the less I really need an IDE - and the more I appreciate the simple text editor with syntax highlighting. Notepad++ has every language I develop in, I highly recommend it.