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I've used PasswordSafe for a years now and haven't had any trouble with it at all. PasswordSafe was originally written by Bruce Schneier, the oft-quoted security expert. It's now open source and has picked up some nice functionality. From Schneier's web site:

"Password Safe protects passwords with the Blowfish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Blowfish algorithm."

Hey -- in the midst of that Apple/Konq flamewar Apple apparently offered to put a portability layer in WebCore. It's since been ported GTK: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/

I would love to see a KHTML/WebCore for Windows. The dhtml kinda sucks, but it's very lightweight and renders nicely. Rather than question your web design skills or business acumenity, I say if you want to port Konqueror or WebCore to Win32, that would be fuckin excellent. Go for it.

I understand that- the key part is:

"Package Management- Custom Program using AppDirs"

Meaning- a nice interface to the AppDir paradigm, which works exactly as I said-
You're installing it, you'll see :)

More info on AppDir is here:
http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/AppDi r

KeePass is my most highly recommended application for keeping track of your passwords securely.
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

I to have been using a couple of different password apps, first on my Handspring, then moving to "Keyring" on my Tungsten last year. Unless you're in an environment where there's a government sanction against recording certain passwords on your PDA, it just can't be beat.

Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel is only feasible because of the work that Transitive Technologies has done in creating a dynamic recompiler. But that technology, too, is actually old news. Check out this PC Nintendo 64 emulator, from 2001, for example.

It's pretty clear that, even if Apple didn't make it easier for h4x0rs by moving to Intel chips, we would all eventually be able to emulate OS X in software no matter what. It would be a bit slower, perhaps, but it would be possible.

So what?

Apple is still a hardware company. If they can produce a great looking low-end box, a great looking mid-range box, and a great looking high-end box, where will the attack on their revenue stream come from? The only market segment they would lose by rampant piracy of their OS is the segment of "switchers", and though I don't have hard data, I suspect that group is tiny compared to the group of people who buy new computers year by year.

We all wail menacingly about a future where John Q. Public buys a Dell machine, downloads a cracked copy of OS X with a bunch of open-source driver patches and a dongle emulator, burns it, and wipes his machine with it, thereby completely divesting himself of all warranty service and tech support from either Dell or Apple. How likely is this, really? (If you DON'T factor yourself, as the helpful nerd-on-hand, into the picture?) Is the couple of hundred dollars saved worth the extra trouble, present and future? Just how many end-users, as a percentage, are willing to deal with that?

Does Apple really produce superior hardware, and do people really care enough about superior hardware? In two years we'll find out once and for all.

I said they were supportive. Discussions on mailing lists, blog entries, that sort of thing. Encouraging.

Please note that Macromedia is being supportive to their own developer community. Also every tool (open source or not) that has a chance to provide added value to their own platform while not being a competitive threat to their own product line is likely to get some (little) support as well. That does not even compare to what other companies do, by really embracing the free software / open source movement. IBM offered a couple of dozzens of programs to the open source community (list) one of them being an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Laszlo. Sun open sourced Star Office, Netbeans and will soon open source Solaris. Laszlo Systems open sourced their RIA Platform (OpenLaszlo). These and others are companies being supportive to the open source community. Macromedia however is not one of these companies. On a greed scale they would be somewhere very close to Microsoft.

Flash (which, btw, costs half of what you said)

I don't know where you live but in Germany the half cripple Macromedia Flash MX 2004 costs 694.84 euro (=855.926701 US$) and the full Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 costs 973.24 euro (=1,198.868952 US$).

If you don't like it -- don't buy it.

You can bet I won't. I already told about OpenLaszlo. That is what I would use, should I ever consider writing Flash applications again. For now I am a lot better off using SVG and JavaScript for the open source projects to which I contribute. SVG and JavaScript are both open standards while Macromedia's technologies are proprietary. Supporting Macromedia's technologies would help Macromedia more than anybody else, and would surely hurt web standards and interoperability.

Psyco does convert Python to machine code. In a related vein, projects like are currenly attempting to make Ruby benchmark much better, in this case by using a JIT compiler. I repeat my main point: there is no reason why Ruby, Perl, Python, et. al MUST be interpreted.

Password Safe is another open source application that works similarly.

I have a Sony Ericsson T630 which works flawlessly with MacOS X. Full iSync compatibility for iCal and Address Book.

It has a nice Apple-style touch which looks pretty good next to my PowerBook G4.

Plus there is Romeo (no I'm not its author just a happy user) which is a nice OpenSource app that lets you do all sort of neat things with BlueTooth (remote control for iTunes, DVD, mouse mode, presentation sliding for both Powerpoint and Keynote, volume control, etc.), proximity reaction, caller ID (with a nice bezel and photo support!) and fully AppleScript'able to add support for whatever app you want.

Did I mention it is now GPL software? Althought it's not directly on the site, its sources can be obtained via CVS from SourceForge and it could surely use some help from experienced and skilled ObjC/Cococa coders.

I'd like to take the chance to ask, if anybody knows if it would be possible to use the computer as a sort of headset for the phone, talking with the built-in mic on the Powerbook and listening through its speakers, it'd be a very nice app for which I've googled around with no positive results.

Finally I'd like to comment that I've been trying to make an iPod-like interface for this software to use with the phone integrated menus, which would let you browse the genres/artists/albums database of iTunes. Anyone interested on it could help me giving it a go.

Regards,

I like KeePass: http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

I find Axcrypt is good for this...
http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Sounds a bit like zero install, actually. It's basically a caching distributed filesystem thingy.

So for example if you wanted to run foo.com's program foo2000, you just start the executable file (dont remember paths exactly, so take this with a grain of salt) /0install/foo.com/foo2000/current/foo2k - and 0install connects to foo.com, and downloads that file. That file loads other data files, and they get downloaded too, and cached locally.

Now, lets say foo2000 depends on bar.org's libbar library to function. It just loads /0install/bar.org/libbar/2.3/libbar.so - and that gets downloaded and cached. (notice the link goes to a specific version of the library, so even if bar.org releases a new, api-breaking version, foo2000 will still use the old, working one..

Next time you start foo2000 it starts up just as fast as a normal program would, since all is on your harddrive, and nothing needs to be downloaded.

Why don't you submit a FEATURE REQUEST for it? That's what they're for, after all :)

Though a centralized password tool like Bruce's Password Safe works great for those already on a trusted system. What about accessing this data when all you have are untrusted systems available (ie: public terminal). It'd be nice to see something which can do OPIE calculations and also store password, yet all fit on a phone, or other handy/small/available/trusted(phone?) device.

http://kiskis.sourceforge.net/

It's java - and it really runs on Win 98, Mandrake, CentOS, WinXP and Mac OS.

It's easy to use, the passwords are encrypted, and because I can run it on all of the OS' that I use, I can carry the app on my USB drive with n encrypted copy of my password DB and I can always use it.

It's open source, and I've found the developer to be receptive to helping.

YMMV, but I'm pleased.

Respectfully,
Anomaly

Has anyone used this product at all? http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] If so would you care to comment on using it?

I for one have been keeping my ass for quite many years now, and it has worked fine for me. YMMV

I like KeePass for password storage. It's secure, well organized, AND I get to say "Keep Ass" a lot. I don't know why that's funny, it just is.

Bruce Schneier also reccommends this - see this and scroll down to the paragraph on passwords. I actually use GPass, which I like a lot. I remember one long random password and make sure to back up my data file to a second hard drive. The ability to copy usernames and passwords to the system clipboard is nifty.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Originally developed by Bruce Schneier so you know the crypto doesn't suck, this software is both free and very easy to use. I don't know what I'd do without it.

KeePass http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

sorry, I messed up the link, here's a correct one:

Password Safe

Password Safe

I write my passwords down, most of them anyway, on my Palm, using Keyring.
Everything's protected by a master password and triple DES, so it's fairly secure.

I found out about KeePass (http://keepass.sourceforge.net/) on that previous story, so I've started using it. It's a very handy utility to have! It can keep track of all my passwords for various email accounts, websites, etc. It's a simple program that (based on my experience so far), just works!

If you wanted portability, you could keep your password database on a USB memory drive and carry that around with you.

I see that they just released 1.0 on June 4th - congrats!! I highly recommend people check it out!

I use Password Safe, but I write down things I need to access from multiple computers (like my router's password). I also try to keep a written copy of everything somewhere safe.

Has anyone used this product at all? http://keepass.sourceforge.net/ If so would you care to comment on using it?

Yeah, greylisting is superb as a first-pass filter. It's cheap, it's fast, it's completely automatic, and above all, it will reject the spam before you've even received it --- which means it's not taking up any bandwidth! If you have a spam problem, getting a greylister is the first thing to try.

As TFA says, check out greylisting.org for more information. This is also a good site. If you want a greylister, I strongly recommend Spey: it's an SMTP proxy that sits between your existing MTA and the outside world, and so will work on anything. I think it's particularly good because, er, I wrote it...

They're not winning. I receive several hundred spams a day, and a couple get through. The pain of training my spam filter is much smaller than the pain of using an unlisted email address.

I use Spamassassin, specially configured to learn properly, but Bogofilter is easier to set up and appears to work just as well. In my experience, these two work far better than any of the other spam filters that have been touted here.

Interesting for sure. A better idea than Boost if you ask me. I hate Boost because it's too big. It has some good stuff, some crappy stuff, some low level stuff, some high level stuff, a horrible build system, and as a whole it's huge. Just annoying and poorly planned. They might as well just have set up a CPAN type system. Forget trying to make "standard" stuff.

Plus a lot of stuff in Boost doesn't make programming easier. They take such a convoluted or over-engineered approach to certain things that you don't gain anything.

TR1 looks better because it just has the "most needed" type stuff in it. Simple and generic. Loki has some nice stuff in it too.

I don't think you will have to wait 2 years. It's probably doable right now. Compilers are much better than they were a few years ago.

--
OK, this is my last post on Slashdot... WTF is wrong with this thing? "You need to wait 2 minutes... It has been 48 minutes"... What moron wrote this code?!

With LG products I believe you can use BitPim to synchronize with iSync. At the very least it is a nice cross-platform app for managing the data on your LG phone.

I certainly hope not!

Rox and the Zero Install System provide that. I was quite stunned the first time when I drag&dropped a Rox Applet on my panel and saw a XTerm poping up that automagically run the compile for the Applet.

Rox and the Zero Install System provide that. I was quite stunned the first time when I drag&dropped a Rox Applet on my panel and saw a XTerm poping up that automagically run the compile for the Applet.

Shameless plug :-)

http://http-console.sourceforge.net/

Vigor is your master!

Try Virtuawin instead. You'll come to hate MSVDM unless you like waiting for the cheap directx effects to buffer off screen for a moment while you try to switch desktops.

MSVDM is such a dog. Not only are you stuck with only 4 desktops, it's super super slow (whole one-second latencies between switches). It's laughable crap.

There are some good pagers, some commercial (hummingbird? I think? Came with an xserver for windows), some shareware, and some open source. My favorite is virtuawin.

MSVDM is crap. Give it a try, compare it to virtuawin, you'll see what I mean. I like my desktop to be RESPONSIVE and not some OSX-wannabe lagfest.

OSX's Expose is the BEST EVER. I don't even need virtual desktops with that thing. It's quick AND whizbangy!

LOL @ the screenshot, look at the status bar and then see how they spell "viruses"

its pretty pathetic that such clever coders have such poor spelling abilities especially when they cant even spell the problem they are trying to solve, embarrasing

then again people wonder why there are bugs in software.

not just 6 viruses, but 6 viruses that all are patched in the latest kernel. Though i guess it doesnt hurt to be prepared. So check out clamav and Klamav

(P.S. Anyone else getting stuff like "Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 26 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment"? Any idea what might be up?)

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1216659&group_id=4421&atid=104421

Yes us alpha-geeks here on Slashdot may get our music from allofmp3.com or SoulSeek or whatever, but

Allofmp3? SOULSEEK!? You are behind the times, man. Anyone who wants music need but four simple links.

Azureus
Torrent Spy
http://www.bittorrent.com/ - Bittorrent Search

Ahhh.. The trackerless network...

I'm a Linux user. I only use Microsoft systems for games. I buy games for Microsoft systems only because that's what's available. I would certainly buy games for Linux if they were in the same quality/playability level as the games I buy for MS-windows. However, I do bitch about games not being free. Not free as in beer, but they aren't free as in speech.

Case in point: I like racing games. But, unfortunately, most racing games are made for kids, they are arcade-like and have very little physical realism. There are only two really good racing games that I know, "Grand Prix Legends" and "Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed". (I've seen also good reviews of "Richard Burns Rally", but haven't got it yet). If GPL and NFS-PU were free-as-in-speech, we would be able to buy/design new car models and new tracks for them. I know, there *are* some utilities for that, but they are all rather limited.

What I would pay for is an open-specification car racing game. One where all the aspects of the physical simulation of the car and track files were openly published. And if the specifications on the force feedback steering wheels were also open, we could create new response modes for each car.

But no, commercial game publishers don't want that. They do not want to other companies to develop add-ons for their games. They do not want people to buy add-ons. They do not want me to buy new tracks for NFS-PU, they want me to buy "Need for Speed - Underground", instead.

The consequence: I bought "Need for Speed - Underground", found it to be a piece of shit, "Need for Speed - Underground 2" came out, I didn't buy it. Not interested. Now I'm following with interest the development of TORCS. I hope this will be a very good speech/beer-free car racing game someday.

No, that's hyper-vigor.

As pointed out yesterday on engadget, these cameras have been out a few months -- it's just that the press release came out recently. Yep, it's from the same company that made the hacked still camera.

The community working on hacking this new camcorder is located at:http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewforum.php ?f=13

These cameras seem to have an external program memory, so it might not be too hard to hack. The forum above also has dissection pictures.

BTW, last summer PureDigital came out with a still camera called the PV2. Unlike the one that was previously mentioned on slashdot, this new one has an LCD post-view screen and it's based on a completely different chipset. It has also been hacked. I figured out the authentication mechanism on this and most of the communications. Others got the camera to work with standard drivers and are figuring out the proprietary raw format. I wrote a disassembler and have published commentary on the built-in firmware, but you'll need a camera & firmware file to make sense of it. The firmware is protected by a checksum, but that was easy to find and correct.

main pv2 forums
PV2 FAQ from the forum - a great starting place
my FAQ's
unofficial devkit for writing your own programs.

Dvorak's on to something when he said people who prefer aesthetics could now buy a Mac to run Windows on it (though the reverse will most likely not be true, i.e. you can't run OS X on non-Mac hardware) - left unsaid is, of course, that some people will buyh these machines to run Linux instead.

Targeting a Mac will be easier, sure - some developers will probably buy a Mac and dual-boot (or virtualize) Windows or Linux on it, so there will be more Mac developers.

Thing is, most free software types won't consider OS X free enough - I'm switching back to Linux, personally; and a lot of OSS running on OS X share code with their Linux/Unix/X11 counterparts. Adium uses Gaim as its engine. Dashboard is based on WebCore, which is forked from KHTML - porting it back to KDE would not be too hard, and guess what, there is a GTK port. If efforts like gDesklets flounder, we can possibly port Dashboard wholesale to Linux.

Firefox and Thunderbird runs better on Linux (seriously. Try them on both platforms), and if Dvorak thinks OpenOffice is not user-friendly, he has not tried running it on a Mac yet. Oh, John, OO.o looks much better on Linux than on Windows too - if you're running the 1.1.x series, the Windows version does not have all the UI improvements that GNOME and KDE developers from Novell, Red Hat and others throw into it.

Lots of fun things are happening in the OSS world, especially on the desktop front - Sun and Novell are doing usability testing, Gtk# is making waves, in fact, F-Spot is the best photo-library tool I've seen, certainly looks faster than iPhoto and has cool things like Flickr integration built-in. Don't count us out yet.

Dvorak's on to something when he said people who prefer aesthetics could now buy a Mac to run Windows on it (though the reverse will most likely not be true, i.e. you can't run OS X on non-Mac hardware) - left unsaid is, of course, that some people will buyh these machines to run Linux instead.

Targeting a Mac will be easier, sure - some developers will probably buy a Mac and dual-boot (or virtualize) Windows or Linux on it, so there will be more Mac developers.

Thing is, most free software types won't consider OS X free enough - I'm switching back to Linux, personally; and a lot of OSS running on OS X share code with their Linux/Unix/X11 counterparts. Adium uses Gaim as its engine. Dashboard is based on WebCore, which is forked from KHTML - porting it back to KDE would not be too hard, and guess what, there is a GTK port. If efforts like gDesklets flounder, we can possibly port Dashboard wholesale to Linux.

Firefox and Thunderbird runs better on Linux (seriously. Try them on both platforms), and if Dvorak thinks OpenOffice is not user-friendly, he has not tried running it on a Mac yet. Oh, John, OO.o looks much better on Linux than on Windows too - if you're running the 1.1.x series, the Windows version does not have all the UI improvements that GNOME and KDE developers from Novell, Red Hat and others throw into it.

Lots of fun things are happening in the OSS world, especially on the desktop front - Sun and Novell are doing usability testing, Gtk# is making waves, in fact, F-Spot is the best photo-library tool I've seen, certainly looks faster than iPhoto and has cool things like Flickr integration built-in. Don't count us out yet.

Too late... http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

He's a trademark.

Each work that features MM is copyrighted. So, (under the grandparent's scheme) if "Steamboat Willie" wasn't bringing in the $$$, Disney could let it go to Public Domain, but still retain the copyright to Fantasia.

They would have to continuously review all the things in their vault and pay to keep them under copyright. Periodically, they would have to then "clean house" and enrich the public domain.

I would extend the scheme by allowing the copyright holder 14 years of payment-free use (besides the original filing fee), and then they have to start paying in year 15. The downside to all of this is the massive bureaucracy that would be required to keep track of the peak annual revenue for each copyrighted work. Granted, it will be somewhat offset by the revenue gained from the additional fees.

Contrast that with Lessig's idea that all copyright holders have to pay a $1 maintenance fee after 50 years.

Here is a ext2fs driver for windows. Not currently the most top of the line file system for Linux, but still a pretty nice addition (you know if you like dual boot and don't want your partition to have any security respected on it :-P).