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I have my amplifier connected to my soundcard line-in with the amp set to treat the soundcard as a second tape deck. I use the sox utilities to grab the sound as a standard cdda sample with something like -
rec -c2 -w -r44100 filename.wav stat
rec is sox where the input file is /dev/dsp, -c2 for stereo (default is -c1, mono), -w is word size samples (i.e. 16 bit, the default is 8bit) and -r44100 is the sample rate (again, not the default). The stat parameter shows stats for the sample when you stop. Try the command a few times while the tape is playing to make sure that your not clipping before kicking off the full recording - if the applitude (last stat listed) is 1.0 then it clipped, generally I aim for a value of about 1.4 - this gives a bit of headroom). I then use GWC (http://gwc.sourceforge.net/) to dehiss the sample, mark the track boundaries, and encode the selections. GWC is really intended for vinyl (I transfer records this way too) because it has declick/pop algorithms which are very good. I also use audacity for stuff like speed corrections, fades etc. (sox can do this, but the syntax is rough and audacity has a nice GUI). The results have been really good - I can hardly tell that I am not listening to CDs.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipodlinuxinst

This is the link to the windows installer

You can connect the line out of a tape deck to the line in of your computer and use any tool that allows you to record from line in (for example, sox on Unix or Sound Recorder on Windows). ThinkGeek also has a drive for this.

Once it is in your computer, editing, cleaning, and splitting tracks can be done with Audacity, which is covered under the GPL. I've used this to convert several tapes and LPs to CD and MP3, and it works quite well.

If you're looking to program software for it, the obvious places to start would be the audiofile library, and perhaps libao for playback, but I haven't found this necessary.

If you're doing more or less HTML/JavaScript and some light PHP/JSP/ASP/CF/whatever it depends on how much money you want to spend.

If you don't want to spend any money check these out.

If you want to spend money I recommend Dreamweaver if you don't want to know what's going on or HomeSite if you do want to know what's going on.

I'm currently using Nvu and HTML Tidy to build my sites.

I'm tired of using non-standard tags and I'm also tired of making webpages with VI so I've started using Nvu. It's a true WYSIWYG editor but since it's not production-grade yet I run the pages through HTML Tidy to clean up the excessive tags and markups that might get left behind in Nvu.

It has a few nice tools and since it's Gecko-based it renders in Firefox exactly like it does in the editor.

For my javascript and php work I try really hard to use KWrite, it looks just like Notepad++ and is pretty neat, and vi ('cause I'm an CLI old-fart).

It's not quite the same, but Flexisheet is available for Mac OS X:

http://www.materialarts.com/FlexiSheet/

w/ source even:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexisheet/

William

Are you willing to hand-code your pages? I recommend you do - it's the only way to ensure that your site is absolutely standards-compliant (get the Web Developer extension for Firefox. It's a big help). I use Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus) because I feel it's a nice, simple, effective editor.

As for hosts, I highly, highly recommend Resiware (http://hosting.resiware.com/ Their prices can't be beat and their hosting is rock solid amazing. See the link in my sig for the lil site we have hosted with them now.

A good quantity of music I enjoy are on labels owned by Sony and other members of the RIAA. Am I supposed to change my music tastes because of copy protection?

Soy-tainly, just as people who like cigarettes are expected to change their tastes once they develop a high risk of lung cancer.

Granted, it's bad, but if you're goign that far, *you* have forgotten what music is about.

Some people claim that people who buy major label pap have forgotten what music is about, that the restrictive "all rights reserved" terms imposed by labels hinder collaboration among musicians, changing music from a participatory sport into a spectator sport.

Personally, I don't risk buying anything made by a major record label in the last 3 years

Try 95.

Sure, there are interesting efforts such as JNode, and people working on really cool new concepts like Zero-Install and Hans Reiser's vision of tomorrow's filesystem, but who is working to combine these and other concepts into something truly new and innovative?

Maybe something like http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/
It makes databases look pretty :D

I suggest you contact the neopop and sdcc developers. Although this particular architecture appears completely dead now.

Guess this is a good time to promote my rss-homepage scripts. I actually programmed this before the Google interface, but I have to admit, it's nowhere near as nice to use, but I slightly different concept.

It's a bit tricky to configure, and hasn't been updated in months, but can still be useful.
http://rss2php.sourceforge.net/rss-homepage.php
(don't worry this isn't marketing really - it's opensource :) )

I think web interfaces are the future to reading RSS feeds, and can be much more powerful than simple RSS desktop reader apps.

Just so you know, it works on Konqueror (though you have to use it's on screen keyboard).

Have a look at http://robin.sourceforge.net/

Looks like someone is way ahead of you.

Azureus + the Safepeer/PeerGuardian plugin (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php ?plugin=safepeer) specifically blocks much nasty stuff out.

Be smart when you engage in dangerous activity. No glove, no love.

"Many top Bit Torrent sites such as SuprNova, Lokitorren and Bit Tower support millions of downloads daily"

And it only affects the btdownloadgui client, not the torrents themselves. Seems like non-news for people who use Azureus (or any of a number of quality clients, really).

Artificial intelligence has also been achieved -- in client-side JavaScript for MSIE 5.

The site is already dead, so here's something else - not a complete OS, but still has a (working) browser, games etc.

strange, the developer of neopop claims the documentation was easily available.

i would assume he was able to get the ISA documentation -- after all, neopop emulates the cpu.

the tlcs900h is also one of the target architectures of sdcc so i assume they were able to get documentation also.

Bleh. It also looks and operates horribly, on my winbox at least. Media Player Classic is a much smoother ride.

What are you taling about? Use one of the snapshots. If you have an SSE-capable processor use these. Otherwise, use these.

I've been using it for all supported codecs with no problems at all on various machines.

FFShow does a great job of DivX (And others) playback without having to install a multitude of codecs + crapware.

If you have a Fast computer, you can run the Dosbox emulator to play old dos games. Very high system requirements.

Granted, it's intended for games, but DOSBox is a very good way to accomplish running DOS based applications.
Also, look at VMWare

'Ere's one, then:

I'm shopping 'round for a high-quality audio interface, for recording into Ardour.

The RME-Audio Fireface looked ( understatement-warning ) Ideal.

No Linux support.

I e-mailed 'em, asking about this, and was told that. . .

The chip in the thing isn't the standard chip, and making an OSS driver would compromise their IP, so it Would Not Happen, Period.

I pointed-out that they could make binary-drivers, then. . .

No response. . .

So, I'm instead committing-on Edirol's FA-101,
and hoping that FreeBob ( early-alpha ) is going to sufficiently-work on it ( or I'm going to be stuck dual-booting ), but am reasonably certain OSS, aka open evolution wins when competing against closed-evolution, when seen long-term. . .

I don't know if RME-Audio's made a "win-driver", like the software-modems, or if they've used a fpga, or what, or if the Reason is really a "reason" hiding political-commitment, but I cannot commit that much resources to something that is guaranteed to force me to live-in an OS I find obnoxious, so I finance their competitors, it seems. . . ( who don't support linux, but who don't stomp compatibility, at-least. . .

I simply don't know if it isn't possible for RME-Audio to open the spec without running into IP liability/damage, but have no-doubt that permitting the market to shift ( as Ardour is doing ) so-that it isn't controlled by the upstream companies is felt to be a threat by many companies' establishment, and I know that committing the work necessary for making binary-only-drivers costs: so I neither blame nor bless 'em for their predicament. . .

Particularly since anyone wanting to do pro-recording without paying the SW-tax ( to the tune of $1000 for OS + Ardour-equiv + AV/Firewall/Etc ) is going to have a significant advantage, and anyone who read the Tipping Point ( customer-tracking stripped URI ) is going to understand the implications of that pressure on the market. . .

Not a problem at all. Use http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ to boot from the CD-rom using a floppydisk

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Dia is also available for OS X although an easier to use alternative would be http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ 4/.

Linux lacks a proper low latency audio framework like Core Audio http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/coreaudio/.

Tiger introduces Core Image http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/coreimage/ which makes image editors a breeze to create.

I like Linux as a server and I admit that it performs better than OS X as a server when running multi-threaded POSIX apps like MySQL but it is no competition for OS X on the desktop.

PS. iMovie HD is about the cheapest entry into HD video you will find in the market right now http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/.

Maybe that depends on what features I need to be productive/satisfied. Personally, I don't need anything iTunes offers that I can't get from XMMS or Helix. Although I don't do music mixing, I would try Audacity as an alternative to GarageBand.

A better example for my situation is Visio; the only alternative I know of is Dia. It has a long way to go, but I am looking into helping out by designing icon sets. For me, I'm frustrated enough by the current state of Dia (added to my desire to be GNU/Linux only) that I'm willing to help to scratch my own itch. That's just how free software should be made, I suppose.

The firmware source which you can download, unfortunately, either comes without the wireless drivers or with binary wireless drives compiled only for the embedded processor which sits in the boards. Which leads us back to square one.

Thus, since Broadcom obviously already have working Linux drivers, it would be a simple matter for them to release them. However, being a company with a bad (but recently improved) history of cooperating with the OSS community, our only option is to support and buy products from those who do it well.

Gambas is an easy and free software IDE with BASIC:
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/

Mod me down for going counter to public opinion but you can still freely use your computer without sourcecode.

You are entirely correct. But the open source zealots who help give open source a bad name and strengthen Microsoft's cause would like you to believe otherwise.

This is some good trolling here - not sure why I've decided to bite anyway...

Any movement is defined, at least partially, by its fringe. This is true whether you're talking politics, (go Rush!) Religion, (go Misionaries!) or software. (go Debian!)

You can be very selective, and choose political conservatives who believe in aliens, and that the government is infecting the population with AIDS through airplane exhaust. (Google for comtrails produces this)

It would be very hard to say that conservatives are all about comtrails, aliens, and government conspiracy. Yet, some of the more vocal ones are.

Are you going to see me making a video card from sand? Come on, pal. You're being more fringe in your comments about the fringe than they were in the beginning!

OSS DOES benefit you, even if not immediately. Parent post mention that having the source for Apache doesn't help in any way. Except that it does:

1) Having the source freely available puts lots of plusses on the "supply" side of the economic scale, meaning the costs for obtaining the software will always be low.

2) Having the source freely available creates a culture of mods and patches, which make it much more likely that you'll be able to get much-needed features without having to commission your own software company.

3) Open source software can persist long after the original group or sponsor quits. Thus, we have evolution and ximian, and to a lesser extent, Mozilla. Oh, and don't forget the Firebird DBMS. How many sponsors has PostgreSQL had over the years?

Another example: Microsoft discontinuing VB 6. A stable, workhorse of a programming environment, the "upgrade" was in fact a wholy different language. Without the marketroids running the show, the OSS solution would have been a fork of the codebase, leaving enterprise users free to continue to develop and improve the VB6 codebase.

None of this is new - it's been said many times before. Oh well. You trolled, I bit. I guess you got what you wanted...

This is a subject that has interested me for quite a while now. The biggest limitation at the moment seems to be the software that is needed in order to make complex objects.

I've designed and built a computer controled (CNC) 6-axis router using easily available parts. I estimate that the whole thing could be built for $500-$1500, depending upon how good you are at scrounging parts.

I have a gallery of photos at CNCZone, as well as a site for the control software at SourceForge.

Here is an email from Roland Geisler at Nokia that was posted on the Safari Web Kit mailing list (more info at http://webkit.opendarwin.org/contact.html)

From: roland geisler
Subject: [webkit-dev] Greetings from the Series 60 mobile browser team at Nokia
Date: June 13, 2005 2:52:33 PM PDT

RE: Recent press release: http://press.nokia.com/PR/200506/998214_5.html

Hi,

I'm heading marketing and strategy at Nokia for Series 60's new mobile browser that will be built upon WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS. I am writing you this email to thank you for having built the Konqueror and Safari browser with the two components WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS. I would like to introduce myself and some members from our core development team, and explain why we at Nokia have selected your code base for our future Series 60 mobile browser. I also hope that this will start a mutual dialogue among us that will support all of our projects in the future.

Not all of you might be familiar with Series 60. Series 60 is a smart phone software platform developed by Nokia, which enables feature rich applications on mobile devices. Series 60 is based on the Symbian OS and is written in C++. More information can be found from http://www.forum.nokia.com/
and http://www.series60.com/.

I copied some of our core development team members on this email so you have their names and contact information. Antti Koivisto, whom you might know already, is one of the co-authors of KHTML and has been working for Nokia Research Center for the past few years and recently joined our mobile browser development team in Boston. David Carson and Deepika Chauhan are two of the original developers of the Nokia mobile browser. Zalan Bujtas, Prabhakar Marnadi, Yongjun Zhang and Sachin Padma have been working with mobile browsers for some years at Nokia in Helsinki and Boston. Keith Hollis has several years experience working with mobile browsers and has recently joined our team in Boston, earlier he was the principal person leading the port of the Opera web browser to the Symbian OS at Opera Software. Guido Grassel, Kimmo Kinnunen and Andrei Popescu are working at our Nokia Research Center in Helsinki (http://www.nokia.com/research/) where we have built the GTK port of Apple's WebCore that we released last year - http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/.

The high performance, low memory consumption and small code footprint of KHTML and KJS make these components ideal for resource-constrained mobile devices. Clean architecture and good design create a good base for future development of mobile features. In addition, Web compliance was another important criteria for us. Congratulations to the KDE Konqueror developer team for building such a great browser.

Big thanks at this point also go to the Apple Safari team that has tremendously improved KHTML and KJS in many areas, in particular in Web compliance and performance. WebCore and JavaScriptCore also offer a cleaner separation to the underlying operating system. For these reasons we at Nokia chose WebCore and JavaScriptCore as the code base for our Series 60 mobile browser.

Our plan is that the new Series 60 mobile browser will be available as a standard Series 60 application during the first half of 2006.

We at Nokia are excited to use WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS for our future Series 60 mobile browser. I hope that we can start a dialogue with your community and the Apple Safari team on how to "mobilize" WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS to create the best Web browser based on open-source components for mobile devices.

Best regards,

Roland Geisler
Head of Marketing & Strategy, Series 60 Browser
Nok

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If the public internet cafe you are using allows external computers to connect to their lan, such as bringing in your laptop, then try ssh tunneling to protect your content. Google defines ssh tunneling as "The process of taking any networkable connection between two hosts and channeling the information through the SSH session by encapsulating the private data inside of ordinary (usually encrypted) TCP/IP SSH packets. These connections may be arbitrary TCP/IP ports, X11 connections, or even email, allowing for features like encryption and compression for normally unsecure communication." To setup your own ssh server, install OpenBSD(http://www.openbsd.org/ or get OpenSSH for Windows(http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/). A good ssh client is PuTTY(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ putty/). Another, easier alternative is to use an encrypted vnc connection, such as RealVNC(http://www.realvnc.com/ and just use your home computer from on the go. This would allow you to use your home computer from another computer to get past a packet logger on the internet cafe's lan. If the internet cafe doesn't allow external computers on their lan, the only way to keep your data secure for sure is to not access any sensitive material when using their computers, such as everyone else has already said.

nah that was a load of BS, you can run webkit on gnome (thanks to nokia). gtk-webcore
that is much more of a story than this is. Heck i'm sure someone could just compile gtk-webcore for windows too if they tried.

I know he's the guy behind ffmpeg (used by most *nix media players) and the excellent qemu emulator that I use every day.

The kde-redhat project usually has non crippled rpms available pretty quickly: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

The Gnome WebKit browser has already existed for some time.
One is called Atlantis http://www.akcaagac.com/index_atlantis.html/
Or you may build Galeon with WebCore http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?threa d_id=5818624&forum_id=42686/.
In addition it seems that WebCore has been imported into the Gnome CVS for some reason (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-webcore/)

Sure they are. Just don't use Boehm style GC which usually requires a "stop the world" to perform GC. See my project atomic-ptr-plus for various forms of SMP/CMT friendly GC. I'm currently sporadically working on a RCU-SMR hybrid that obsoletes everything there. It would be less sporadic but I don't have as good funding as Sun, Intel, IBM et all have.

Of course Nokia has apparently taken webkit and built the GUI for it using GTK+. The result is GTK-WebKit, which has indeed been open sourced - you can find it here. I have no idea how much of their browser that contains, but at the least it is an HTML renderer and basic GUI, which should get you the better part of the browser whole.

Does a GTK+/KHTML browser count as cross desktop cooperation, or a mutant bastard offspring created by third party mad scientists?

Jedidiah.

PuTTY+Lynx is my web browser.

Pictures only take more time to view, and most of our WAP/GPRS providers charge per kB.

This has been out for a while, i've been using gtk-webcore for the last two months on my Slackware box.
you can get it from here and there's lots of other interesting tidbits of information on that site.

Gtk+ WebCore seems to be made at Nokia.

Brutal!? You don't know the MEANING of brutal until you've heard the story of Culture Three! How brutal WAS Culture Three you ask? Culture Three was SO brutal that they maimed, tortured, enslaved, and in general brutalized THEMSELVES!

You see, Culture Two had made a virtue of stoic resistance to pain, stubborn fortitude, that sort of thing. So when Culture Three came around, they had a problem. How were they going to impress everyone as being EVEN TOUGHER? Their answer? They would arrive at a battle, stand on a tall hill where everyone could see them and chop off one of their own limbs! Then they'd wave it around, screaming and shaking it at their enemies. It worked! It scared the hell out of their opponents! They ran like crazy! You could tell who was a real war hero back then by how few arms or legs he had left. War parades were quite different too. Instead of sturdy old warriors walking slowly past the reviewing stands they tended to roll, and at a good clip, too.

Starcon2:Thraddash

The one game that desperately needs a modern day update

Best game on the C64 bar none, in my opinion.

Keep an eye on the RPMs that are part of the Linux NTFS Sourceforge project - they're usually fairly fast at putting up RPMs for new kernel releases.

for an 'intelligent' FAQ.

It uses more of a human based system, it 'learns' as folks type in different questions (and versions of the same question)and tell it whether the answers it gives are helpful. As uses 'teach' it, it gets better at providing relevent results to natural language queries.

Worth a look:
http://mindmeld.sourceforge.net/mmsf/index.php

What's this?
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php? form_cat=309

or this? http://freshmeat.net/browse/839/ What about http://fink.sourceforge.net/ or http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ or http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/?

Finally this http://www.apple.com/opensource/.

RMS is interested in his personal crusade, not freedom. Freedom must not have artificial limits.

What's this?
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php? form_cat=309

or this? http://freshmeat.net/browse/839/ What about http://fink.sourceforge.net/ or http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ or http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/?

Finally this http://www.apple.com/opensource/.

RMS is interested in his personal crusade, not freedom. Freedom must not have artificial limits.