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BackupPC does deduplication. So if You take a backup from all your filesystems with BackupPC, You have identical files stored only once. BackupPC uses hard links to do the deduplication, so another copy of a file only takes a directory entry. You can then discard you current backups, if need be.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

I'm going through this same thing. New master PC, and trying to consolidate 8 zillion files and copies of files from the last decade or so.
If you're like me, you copied foldres or trees, instead of individual files. FreeFileSync will show you which files are different between two folders.

Grab two folders you think are pretty close. Compare. Then Sync. This copies dissimilar files in both directions. Now you have two identical folders/files. Delete one of the folders. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Time consuming, but it works for me.

FreeFileSync at sourceforge.

Aren't the Ur-Quan meant to come from that part of space? We are so screwed. ;)

BTW, Star Control II (or the open source Ur-Quan Masters) is a great game and is part of many Linux repos, and also has Win32 binaries. Download it plus a cheat map (it's too hard otherwise) and lose a weekend... it's a great game, universe and story, and it has a quirky sense of humour. Make sure you download the full music and speech, and persist through the early game - it's a little slow.

If you didn't know, it actually is.

Heh... That's funny, Hollywood actually going out of it's way to put cutting edge computer tech in a movie only to get slammed for being unrealistic.

Here it is in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRHU1XxMJQ

There is even a Linux port:
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

I'm gonna shamelessly plug my own open source project http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbfthunderbolt/?source=directory here. I'm looking to connect with anyone that might be interested in this. It is an FAR103 legal aircraft, for the sole purpose of flying for enjoyment or pleasure, not necessarily intended to be used as a means of transportation. I really hope to put some time and effort back into this project again in the near future. I have flown this aircraft, and it did exactly as I expected; http://www.pbthrust.com/ I've tried to drum interest from kickstarter and various open source hardware oriented cliques like The Open Source Hardware Association and OpenDesignEngine.net, but no interest from them- I'm admittedly not good at marketing...

I use port 22 because some places block that port and don't want have to go to another box, or set up proxies. I do use DenyHosts to block attackers after three failed attempts.

GP said

Every time Firefox upgrades, it wipes out my login cookies. It forces me to re-login to my sites. Is there a way to turn this dictator off?

I would be very surprised if there were not. Chrome lets you turn it off. I'm sure if you use Iceweasel (the Debian Firefox derivative), this wouldn't be a problem (updates are managed by apt). There are third-party efforts like IceWeasel for Windows and Porting Icecat on Mac Using Fink (IceCat is the GNU port of Firefox, sharing quite a bit (even the name, originally) with Iceweasel), but they're horribly out of date.

You said

I just updated Firefox between my "Flash freezing" post above and this post here, and I didn't have to log into Slashdot again.

Slashdot works because its cookies do not expire with the session. Any cookies that expire with the session will be expired by a browser upgrade. This is because "resuming" a crashed or otherwise saved session isn't actually resuming, it is reopening to the browser's best ability. This does not include session cookies for security reasons.

GP said

Every time Firefox upgrades, it wipes out my login cookies. It forces me to re-login to my sites. Is there a way to turn this dictator off?

I would be very surprised if there were not. Chrome lets you turn it off. I'm sure if you use Iceweasel (the Debian Firefox derivative), this wouldn't be a problem (updates are managed by apt). There are third-party efforts like IceWeasel for Windows and Porting Icecat on Mac Using Fink (IceCat is the GNU port of Firefox, sharing quite a bit (even the name, originally) with Iceweasel), but they're horribly out of date.

You said

I just updated Firefox between my "Flash freezing" post above and this post here, and I didn't have to log into Slashdot again.

Slashdot works because its cookies do not expire with the session. Any cookies that expire with the session will be expired by a browser upgrade. This is because "resuming" a crashed or otherwise saved session isn't actually resuming, it is reopening to the browser's best ability. This does not include session cookies for security reasons.

Here are some things that IBMs customers care about, where are the Core i7 Extreme numbers for these?

How many CICS transactions can I process per second? How many IMS updates?

Well, you're unlikely to get numbers for the first of those, given that IBM apparently killed off CICS for Windows and I'm not sure which x86 UN*Xes, if any, got versions of CICS. I'm not sure to what extent TXSeries for Multiplatforms would let you, for example, run CICS on Windows Server or Linux.

As for the second, as far as I know, IBM's never ported IMS to any non-mainframe OS.

How about DB2 transactions?

About 13,000 XML transactions per second in at least one benchmark - but those were Xeons, not Cores (server rather than desktop/laptop processors).

(Years ago, I used to use the Codewright IDE. It had a feature where 2 people could "link" their Codewright sessions and be able to collaboratively edit the same file, each one seeing what the other was typing in real time. I don't know of another code editor with this feature (except maybe Google Documents, which is not appropriate for our needs.).)

http://xpairtise.sourceforge.net/ - Eclipse plugin with the scent of abandonware.

If you want to try playing with a simulation of Quantum Computing, you can check out my tutorial that shows you how to do Gover's Algorithm using QCF on Octace.

http://joy2chord.sourceforge.net/ I wrote the software, you modify the hardware. Have a friend of yours with basic electronics skill cut up a $5 usb gamepad for you. configure a mapping you like, and it run it as a userspace program under linux. If you have to work on a windows box use synergy to share the mouse and keyboard between the linux and windows box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7f9Iik3q58 http://sourceforge.net/projects/voicecode/

It's not like you have to wait for Microsoft. The already is an an open source shell the emulates the old Windows behaviour.

Try THIS on for size, since it's ALL about the topic @ hand (I program in LITERALLY around a dozen languages by the by... do you?):

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

* When an ac trolling nobody like YOU (lol) can manage to show me he's put out a GUI program like that, that has no runtime lib dependencies & folks in the security community are hosting it for you? Get back to us then... talker!

(I used Python & learned it, literally, in about 2-3 days time to help my nephew put in errtrapping, multithreaded design, & some niceties in its "commandline interface" - but, do I *think* it's better or more capable than the languages in my subject-line above? Hell no... lol, no way!)

APK

P.S.=> Of course, when YOU can show us you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing than I did in this ONLY PARTIAL list of my favorites:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I

Try THIS on for size, since it's ALL about the topic @ hand (I program in LITERALLY around a dozen languages by the by... do you?):

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

* When an ac trolling nobody like YOU (lol) can manage to show me he's put out a GUI program like that, that has no runtime lib dependencies & folks in the security community are hosting it for you? Get back to us then... talker!

(I used Python & learned it, literally, in about 2-3 days time to help my nephew put in errtrapping, multithreaded design, & some niceties in its "commandline interface" - but, do I *think* it's better or more capable than the languages in my subject-line above? Hell no... lol, no way!)

APK

P.S.=> Of course, when YOU can show us you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing than I did in this ONLY PARTIAL list of my favorites:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I

"Finally, APK admits being inexperienced. Thank you, sir." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, @04:52AM (#41052103)

Ahem, ok - When you've done more, better, & earlier than this in the art & science of computing, from this small PARTIAL only list of some of my favorites I've done over time?

Then, you can say that to me (as a peer most importantly, otherwise, you're less than that..):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)

---

* Like I said - show us you've done more, earlier, & BETTER than I have?

Then, you can talk that way to me... as a peer, no less but talk is cheap - actions/deeds are what counts, & where are yours?

APK

P.S.=> To all 'trolls' since I have such a BIG "FanClub" (lol) of them here? All I can say is "NEXT"M, especially on failing ad hominem attack attempts... lmao!

... apk

"Finally, APK admits being inexperienced. Thank you, sir." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, @04:52AM (#41052103)

Ahem, ok - When you've done more, better, & earlier than this in the art & science of computing, from this small PARTIAL only list of some of my favorites I've done over time?

Then, you can say that to me (as a peer most importantly, otherwise, you're less than that..):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)

---

* Like I said - show us you've done more, earlier, & BETTER than I have?

Then, you can talk that way to me... as a peer, no less but talk is cheap - actions/deeds are what counts, & where are yours?

APK

P.S.=> To all 'trolls' since I have such a BIG "FanClub" (lol) of them here? All I can say is "NEXT"M, especially on failing ad hominem attack attempts... lmao!

... apk

...would have been PERFECT, but strange things seem to have happened to this project. It may still be useful though.

It was purchased and closed sourced, but forked into a project called Adito, which was later renamed to OpenVPN SSH... but looking at this page the project seems to have since languished.

It is a web based VPN with a noob friendly "desktop" on which you can include multiple links to eg. intranet web apps and/or Java apps such as a preconfigured VNC client - it would seem easy enough to fashion a point-and-click solution for what you want to do, even if both "customer" and "support" are remote to the VPN+etc server. NOTHING needs to be installed on client machines (unless you're just using it as a vanilla VPN). It's really a shame that this project seems to have stalled... it had a "wow factor" and it was in the back of my head just waiting for a deployment opportunity.

...would have been PERFECT, but strange things seem to have happened to this project. It may still be useful though.

It was purchased and closed sourced, but forked into a project called Adito, which was later renamed to OpenVPN SSH... but looking at this page the project seems to have since languished.

It is a web based VPN with a noob friendly "desktop" on which you can include multiple links to eg. intranet web apps and/or Java apps such as a preconfigured VNC client - it would seem easy enough to fashion a point-and-click solution for what you want to do, even if both "customer" and "support" are remote to the VPN+etc server. NOTHING needs to be installed on client machines (unless you're just using it as a vanilla VPN). It's really a shame that this project seems to have stalled... it had a "wow factor" and it was in the back of my head just waiting for a deployment opportunity.

pf syntax is nice - I used to use agt to simulate it, but since trying ferm I've never looked back.

"APK's sole existence seems to be reliant on advocating the hosts file as a means of host filtering, despite more modern, flexible, easier, convenient and powerful alternatives existing." -

As promised in my last post, & since you said that? Well...

I suppose it's time to "dispel your notions"!

(OR rather, your attempts @ mocking me, since I can do that to YOU, easily metrix007 & you KNOW it, I know it, and everyone else can too now... I suppose I can let others know a few samples of it too now, fair enough?)

Here's only 1!

I.E.-> Where you RAN from disproving my points in favor of hosts files for end users gain in security, speed/bandwidth, efficiency, reliability, & even anonymity to some extent (vs. DNSBL's) & more:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34459018

(Should I post the rest? Just ask, I can & will upon request... I have, oh, another 8 or so on the EXACT same lines, you running from disproving my points on hosts files!)

Anyhow/anyways:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing

"APK's sole existence seems to be reliant on advocating the hosts file as a means of host filtering, despite more modern, flexible, easier, convenient and powerful alternatives existing." -

As promised in my last post, & since you said that? Well...

I suppose it's time to "dispel your notions"!

(OR rather, your attempts @ mocking me, since I can do that to YOU, easily metrix007 & you KNOW it, I know it, and everyone else can too now... I suppose I can let others know a few samples of it too now, fair enough?)

Here's only 1!

I.E.-> Where you RAN from disproving my points in favor of hosts files for end users gain in security, speed/bandwidth, efficiency, reliability, & even anonymity to some extent (vs. DNSBL's) & more:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34459018

(Should I post the rest? Just ask, I can & will upon request... I have, oh, another 8 or so on the EXACT same lines, you running from disproving my points on hosts files!)

Anyhow/anyways:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing

Ever since I started reading on my N-Gage (which I got because it was the cheapest smart phone back in those days) I have not looked back. The phone is nearly always with me, it fits in my hand, it can be used both day and night without the need for external lighting, it can contain half a library and has access to the other half over the 'net. I can read whenever I want, wherever I want - even if I only have a few minutes to spare as often happens, that is enough to read a page or 2.

Yes, the screen on the phone is small. It helps to have good eyes. Don't try to compare reading on these devices to reading a traditional paper book - the reading experience is completely different. You don't read so much 'by the page' since - especially on more limited phones like the aforementioned N-Gage - a screen does not fit that much text. On my current phone (a Motorola Defy+) I can actually fit more than one traditional paperback page on one screen but that is because I like small print. Using a program like coolreader I can minimize the amount of interface clutter and more or less ignore the original book style. Holding the phone in one hand, I can walk through the book by just touching the left or right (or top or bottom, or wherever - configure it to your liking) of the screen - easy.

My parents both have a dedicated Sony reader. My brother has all the iGadgets St. Steve ordained. Me? I read more than all of them combined.

So if you already have a phone, and that phone happens to have a nice screen, just give it a try. You might like it.

And you forgot to provide a link to The Corporate Bullshit Generator. For shame!

Your entire post seems predicated on the fact that Microsoft removed the familiar UI from Windows, when in reality it's right there waiting for you. You can spend your whole day on the desktop and forget the Metro UI ever existed. If the fact that it's there bothers you in the back of your mind, you're free to install any launchers or shells that remind you of the good ol' days.

They have no real tablet share, so they aren't risking losing that.
They have no real smartphone share, so they aren't risking losing that.
They own desktop users body and soul, and there are scant real alternatives where users can go even if they hate it. So I don't see much risk here either.

Worse case, it's another Vista, which they tweak, and continue business as usual.

Already there is Classic Shell to restore the start menu and solve the main Win8 complaint:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Obvious if Win8 was received even worse than Vista, MS could simply issue a patch that does the same and have a soft fallback.

Bottom line, the fixes are easy, and the desktop users are going anywhere else anyway, so minimal risk.

http://www.lee-soft.com/vistart/

or

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

There are numerous community events and products around ODF like ODF Plugfest and odf converter that add this functionality, there's also Sun's ODF Plugin for Office so ODF functionality is there, unlike in applications like Apple's Pages (or any of the iWork suite).

There is an UNofficial Windows port, it's primarily the QT interface but his working a daemon version as well. http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/

What alternatives do you suggest?

I'm interested in this, too. Sure, I could just continue using uTorrent without updating it, nor would the ads really bother me anyways since I don't keep the window open, but if there's anything leaner than uTorrent then I see no reason to keep using it. My needs are as follow: must run on Windows, must support IP-blocklists, must allow me to force encryption on and reject all unencrypted connections, and must allow me to quickly adjust speed limits.

qBittorrent. I switched to that when uTorrent started getting funky. It's the closest one I could find to what uTorrent used to be. It's cross-platform (Win/Linux/OSX/OS2/BSD), OSS, and meets all your criteria. (Until I started looking, I hadn't realized that it had native support for blocklists, I've been using PeerBlock for that.)

How should a Java application read the joystick, camera, and microphone attached to a computer? For example, this joystick driver is described as "Works on Windows and Linux" and presumably not Mac OS X.

It is a cynical exercise in monopolistic marketing. M$ has lost the phone marketplace, in order to try to recover it, in typical Uncle Fester fashion, they are using their near monopoly in the desktop.

The reasoning being, they will force users to become accustomed to the windows phone interface on the desktop and as a result those people forced to become accustomed to the windows phone interface on the desktop will auto-magically pay for a windows phone.

Reality means you piss people off on one device and they will grow to hate that interface on every device. Annoying customers is not a very good idea, this application http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ should be a good enough idea of how much power users, the choosers and deciders for everyone else like Uncle Festers ideas.

Java does indeed provide some benefits, such as memory safety. Unfortunately this comes at the cost of

-Garbage Collection, which kills User Experience due to unpredictable freezing of the whole program
-no way to allocate more than just primitive variables on the stack. That eliminates the fastest allocation method of all.
-being forced to use Arrays Of Pointers, when an array of objects would be perfectly sufficient
-being forced to use a pointer when object agggregation would be perfectly sufficient
-being forced to use the GC even if an object tree is in no way cyclic
-not having Destructors

I've create a programming language called Sappeur which has the same memory safety assurances as Java, but does not have all the downsides as listed above. It is still a bit rough around the edges, but it clearly works and demonstrates that the Java inefficiency is not a god-given thing. Sappeur programs start up as fast as any C or C++ program and terminate equally fast. They are nearly as efficient as C++ programs, which means they are much superior to anything you can do in Java or C#

Here it is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sappeurcompiler/

Its called classic shell and you're welcome. When the PC gets ya down just make sure old Hairy is around.

on KDE there is this pretty good open source alternative to gnu-cash
I find it more intuitive
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
also make sure your bank's ledgers export is supported by some of the plugins in AQbanking

Well, almost. I've got Classic Shell installed on the leaked version of Win8 Enterprise N. What happens is that it'll load Metro for a fraction of a second and then CS takes me back to the old "desktop" environment complete with start menu.

So it's not a complete bypass but it's close enough for my purposes.

If, like me, you prefer the Win7 start menu's look to the default Win98/2000 look Classic Shell provides, there's a skin to make that possible.

"Then, Windows 9 will come out in a year or two and suddenly have the option of booting to the old Start menu, thus perpetuating the "every other version of Windows is good" trend."

Nope. Someone already beat them to it, thankfully.

Yes, we all look forward to the next great UI design from the labs at Microsoft. Like the ribbon before it, I'm sure some people will like the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (IFKAM). It's inevitable no matter how bad it might be. Some people probably liked Microsoft Bob too. But would it really hurt their product so much if they provided an easy way to disable these things and use the traditional UI? Thank the gods for Classic Shell.

If you don't want to invest in new hardware, you could use DAR or KDAR (KDE front-end for DAR).

With KDAR, what you want is the slicing settings.

There's an option to pause between slices, which gives you time to mount a new disk.

If you don't want to invest in new hardware, you could use DAR or KDAR (KDE front-end for DAR).

With KDAR, what you want is the slicing settings.

There's an option to pause between slices, which gives you time to mount a new disk.

See subject-line, The emulation layer IS AN OVERHEAD, no questions asked, & it is NOT native - so, thus, Windows being able to run more than 1 display method natively, merely shows it is, without question, SUPERIOR in abilities on that front, no doubt about it:

(As far as knowing what an API is? Get ready to "eat your words" troll...)

When you can show you've done MORE, better, & earlier than I have around the art & science of computing than this small only PARTIAL list of some of my favorites? Then, you can talk to me like that! Here goes:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)

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Show us you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER than I have from that small partial list only of SOME of my favorites... ok?

You do that?? I will respect you as a PEER, otherwise, you're just a bigmouth "ne'er-do-well" troll - a lot of TALK, but NO action!

APK

P.S.=> Now, I am fairly

See subject-line, The emulation layer IS AN OVERHEAD, no questions asked, & it is NOT native - so, thus, Windows being able to run more than 1 display method natively, merely shows it is, without question, SUPERIOR in abilities on that front, no doubt about it:

(As far as knowing what an API is? Get ready to "eat your words" troll...)

When you can show you've done MORE, better, & earlier than I have around the art & science of computing than this small only PARTIAL list of some of my favorites? Then, you can talk to me like that! Here goes:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)

---

Show us you've done MORE, better, & EARLIER than I have from that small partial list only of SOME of my favorites... ok?

You do that?? I will respect you as a PEER, otherwise, you're just a bigmouth "ne'er-do-well" troll - a lot of TALK, but NO action!

APK

P.S.=> Now, I am fairly

They offer nothing except a GUI !
You could achieve the all the "special" jEdit functionality, ex: search and replace with the result of a script, in Vim with VimScript but I prefer BeanShell to VimScript so I use jEdit...

I used to think that way too. But there are a number of lesser known open-source tools to convert AA size PDFs to fit 6" screens without resorting to vanilla reflow.

http://code.google.com/p/sopdf/ (had to compile)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
http://code.google.com/p/papercrop/

There are also plain image based converters like this one.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135

Together, they could handle (crop and clip) all the PDFs I tried them with so far. The trouble with them is that they have individual strengths and one needs to pick and choose by PDF type. By the time we get polished do-it-all tools, we will likely have cheap AA sized eReaders.

Not exactly. At the risk of oversimplification, a virtual machine like Virtualbox or VMWare just isolates the guest OS in memory. Most execution can be passed to the native underlying hardware so its really quick. x86 isn't the easiest architecture to virtualize as all instructions can't just be passed through but Intel and AMD have made some big strides so virtualization is pretty good but still not as good as something like IBM's System/370 that was built from the ground up to be virtualizable.

An emulator like qemu on the other hand can be used to run a guest OS that expects a different architecture, i.e., emulating ARM on x86 for something like the Android emulator (have you seen how slow that thing is?). Since most consoles other than the original xbox don't run on x86 hardware or anything close to it, they have to be emulated which forces a translation layer slowing things down considerably. There are tricks to speed emulation up and modern 3D accelerated programs usually target a software api like opengl or directx so there is much less translation involved assuming the underlying OS has support for those APIs. Also, hardware emulation can be sped up by various tricks and lots of emulators like zsnes employ some really clever stuff including being partially written in assembly but you still need at least a 233 MHz Pentium II which is massively more powerful than what is being emulated.

The vodka project doesn't look like it should require a lot of financial resources though.

Um, all you need to do to get your email from one email system to another is forward your messages as attachments form one to the other.

In fact, the defunct ZOË email archive server uses this technique to import email... of course, it automatically files all of the attachments as separate emails, so it makes it easy. Other clients may require more work.

Almost 600 downloads for an "ancient" piece of software... not so bad for nostalgia http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/files/stats/timeline

There is experimental support for more modern font rendering here: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/