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"""and yes, plotting is pretty bad -- py-gnuplot is the best available"""

No at all. matplotlib is the current leader with excellent high-level functions in both an object oriented API and a MATLAB-alike functional API. Figures are rendered on screen with an interactive pan-zoom viewer or to a variety of a variety of file formats (ps, png, ...) by using your choice from a variety of backend renderers.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

If you only need to render to file then the quality of PyX's output is unmatched. It includes very high level functions for common graphics operations and exposes much of LaTeX and PostScipt in case you need to do something detailed or unusual.

http://pyx.sourceforge.net/examples/graphs/index.h tml

"""and yes, plotting is pretty bad -- py-gnuplot is the best available"""

No at all. matplotlib is the current leader with excellent high-level functions in both an object oriented API and a MATLAB-alike functional API. Figures are rendered on screen with an interactive pan-zoom viewer or to a variety of a variety of file formats (ps, png, ...) by using your choice from a variety of backend renderers.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

If you only need to render to file then the quality of PyX's output is unmatched. It includes very high level functions for common graphics operations and exposes much of LaTeX and PostScipt in case you need to do something detailed or unusual.

http://pyx.sourceforge.net/examples/graphs/index.h tml

If you're considering any sort of numerical or scientific work with Python on MS windows, get the "Enhanced Python Distribution" from Enthought.

http://www.enthought.com/downloads/downloads.htm

It's Python 2.3.3 with all the major numerical and scientific libraries included. The only thing "missing", IMHO, is the excellent matplotlib plotting library.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

Well put. It's incredibly disappointing that the industry standard for scientific/engineering algorithm prototyping comes with such a poor programming language. The moment you want to do something that the built-in functions can't handle, Matlab's weaknesses become apparent.

Psilab offers a much better programming environment than Matlab or its clones. The tradeoff, of course, is that Psilab's algorithm library comes nowhere near the scope of Matlab's.

I've read the comments posted to this story, and decided again to look into Octave. A quick google pointed me to the categorized list of Octave & Octave-Forge functions.. This list is fairly complete, and extremely useful because it lists what's missing.

Unfortunately, its missing a lot of features I've grown accostumed to using in Matlab. switch...case and varargin / varargout were two that jumped out at me. It appears the functionality is provided, but not in a compatible way.

Ah well. Half of my work is done in Simulink anyway, and the libre equivalent I've seen most people point to stacks up about as well.

Vanilla Octave is quite limited, but have you tried using it along with Octave-Forge?

In my experience, this tips the balance of available uses in favor of Octave.

I do as much as possible of my work (bioinformatics) in Numerical Python. It's really nice to have the power of a general-purpose programming language as well as a numerical feature set that has equivalents for nearly every special-purpose MATLAB function I've ever needed. YMMV.

Really, the problem is that Broadcom makes the most common 11g chipset, and they don't provide squat.

Ammasso is a startup that makes iWarp-based RDMA hardware that runs over gigabit ethernet. Their technology is like Infiband, but much cheaper and almost as fast. Their drivers and libraries also provide MPI and DAPL support. The only support Linux (all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels) and they're way ahead of their competition in terms of performance, product availability, and support. Once you've decided on the servers, I strongly recommend you use Ammasso's hardware for the interconnects. Your hardware vendor may even bundle it with their systems - be sure to ask about that.

At Apple we sell the Xserve Cluster node which has been used for clusters as large as the 1,566 node COLSA cluster. We also sell it in small turn-key configurations.

Probably the most interesting news lately for OS X for HPC is the inclusion of Xgrid with Tiger. Xgrid is a low-end job manager that comes built-in to Tiger Client. Tiger Server can then control up to 128 nodes in a folding@home job management style. I've seen a lot of interest from customers in using this instead of tools like Sun Grid Engine for small clusters.

You can find some good technical info on running clustered code on OS X here.

The advantage of the Xserve is that it is cooler and uses less power than either Itanium or Xeon, and it's usually better than Opteron depending on the system. In my experience almost all C or Fortran code runs fine on OS X straight over from Linux with minimal tweaking. The disadvantage is that you only have one choice: a dual-CPU 1U box - no blades, no 8-CPU boxes, just the one server model. So if your clustered app needs lots of CPU power it might not be a good fit. For most sci-tech apps, though, it works fine.

If you're against OSX but still like the Xserve, Yellow Dog makes an HPC-specific Linux distro for the Xserve.

There are quite a lot of differences in the three major P2P technologies. Here I try to cover the most important of each:

ed2k (eMule)

• + Easy linking. Links can be shared anywhere: in web pages, IRC, email. The single 100-200 character link contains everything that is needed to download the file.
• + Supports usage with and without a server (in eMule, ed2k server and serverless Kademlia)
• - If you run a server, you can't make it private
• - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
• - Inefficient, seems to waste bandwidth

Direct Connect (DC++, Reverse Connect)

• + You can run servers (hubs) private
• + You can see what everyone is sharing in your hub
• + Using eMule-like links has recently become available, though clicking a link doesn't add the file in your queue, it only allows you to search for it
• + Efficient, you can download directly from someone very fast, even through intranet
• - No serverless mode
• - You don't have total control on what is shared in your server
• - Only in Reverse Connect you can download from multiple sources simultaneously

BitTorrent (Azureus, BitComet)

• + The most efficient p2p yet
• + Server (tracker) admin can have total control of what is shared choosing a directory where he uploads allowed torrents
• + A single .torrent file can contain instructions on how to download multiple files
• - No serverless mode
• - No searching
• - To share download instructions for a file(set), you have to be able to transfer a .torrent file, a plaintext link isn't enough

This has been the situation for a while. In ed2k nothing big has changed for a year. DC++ (incl. Reverse Connect) is evolving, but magnet (TTH) linking has been the only major change in years. When DC++ gets its support for ADC complete, the evolution of Direct Connect is predicted to get a major boost.

What trackerless BitTorrent does is to make every client a small tracker. So it doesn't just enable searching and serverless usage, it also makes sharing illegal files easier (more than it does for legal). Previously, to share content, you had to find a tracker that allows posting .torrents. To share copyrighted content, you also had to find a tracker that didn't care about legal aspects. So sharing legal and illegal content is now equally easy, while it previously was (at least in theory) a little bit easier to share legal content.

Overall, the changes of trackerless BitTorrent would still make it the best available p2p techonology. For certain special cases, Direct Connect could be better, and both DC and ed2k support easier linking than BT, but even that can change in the future: BT could implement a meta-p2p engine, so that you could share plaintext links that make your client download the right .torrent file and add it to your queue. This would make BT superior to eMule in every aspect.

There are quite a lot of differences in the three major P2P technologies. Here I try to cover the most important of each:

ed2k (eMule)

• + Easy linking. Links can be shared anywhere: in web pages, IRC, email. The single 100-200 character link contains everything that is needed to download the file.
• + Supports usage with and without a server (in eMule, ed2k server and serverless Kademlia)
• - If you run a server, you can't make it private
• - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
• - Inefficient, seems to waste bandwidth

Direct Connect (DC++, Reverse Connect)

• + You can run servers (hubs) private
• + You can see what everyone is sharing in your hub
• + Using eMule-like links has recently become available, though clicking a link doesn't add the file in your queue, it only allows you to search for it
• + Efficient, you can download directly from someone very fast, even through intranet
• - No serverless mode
• - You don't have total control on what is shared in your server
• - Only in Reverse Connect you can download from multiple sources simultaneously

BitTorrent (Azureus, BitComet)

• + The most efficient p2p yet
• + Server (tracker) admin can have total control of what is shared choosing a directory where he uploads allowed torrents
• + A single .torrent file can contain instructions on how to download multiple files
• - No serverless mode
• - No searching
• - To share download instructions for a file(set), you have to be able to transfer a .torrent file, a plaintext link isn't enough

This has been the situation for a while. In ed2k nothing big has changed for a year. DC++ (incl. Reverse Connect) is evolving, but magnet (TTH) linking has been the only major change in years. When DC++ gets its support for ADC complete, the evolution of Direct Connect is predicted to get a major boost.

What trackerless BitTorrent does is to make every client a small tracker. So it doesn't just enable searching and serverless usage, it also makes sharing illegal files easier (more than it does for legal). Previously, to share content, you had to find a tracker that allows posting .torrents. To share copyrighted content, you also had to find a tracker that didn't care about legal aspects. So sharing legal and illegal content is now equally easy, while it previously was (at least in theory) a little bit easier to share legal content.

Overall, the changes of trackerless BitTorrent would still make it the best available p2p techonology. For certain special cases, Direct Connect could be better, and both DC and ed2k support easier linking than BT, but even that can change in the future: BT could implement a meta-p2p engine, so that you could share plaintext links that make your client download the right .torrent file and add it to your queue. This would make BT superior to eMule in every aspect.

There are quite a lot of differences in the three major P2P technologies. Here I try to cover the most important of each:

ed2k (eMule)

• + Easy linking. Links can be shared anywhere: in web pages, IRC, email. The single 100-200 character link contains everything that is needed to download the file.
• + Supports usage with and without a server (in eMule, ed2k server and serverless Kademlia)
• - If you run a server, you can't make it private
• - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
• - Inefficient, seems to waste bandwidth

Direct Connect (DC++, Reverse Connect)

• + You can run servers (hubs) private
• + You can see what everyone is sharing in your hub
• + Using eMule-like links has recently become available, though clicking a link doesn't add the file in your queue, it only allows you to search for it
• + Efficient, you can download directly from someone very fast, even through intranet
• - No serverless mode
• - You don't have total control on what is shared in your server
• - Only in Reverse Connect you can download from multiple sources simultaneously

BitTorrent (Azureus, BitComet)

• + The most efficient p2p yet
• + Server (tracker) admin can have total control of what is shared choosing a directory where he uploads allowed torrents
• + A single .torrent file can contain instructions on how to download multiple files
• - No serverless mode
• - No searching
• - To share download instructions for a file(set), you have to be able to transfer a .torrent file, a plaintext link isn't enough

This has been the situation for a while. In ed2k nothing big has changed for a year. DC++ (incl. Reverse Connect) is evolving, but magnet (TTH) linking has been the only major change in years. When DC++ gets its support for ADC complete, the evolution of Direct Connect is predicted to get a major boost.

What trackerless BitTorrent does is to make every client a small tracker. So it doesn't just enable searching and serverless usage, it also makes sharing illegal files easier (more than it does for legal). Previously, to share content, you had to find a tracker that allows posting .torrents. To share copyrighted content, you also had to find a tracker that didn't care about legal aspects. So sharing legal and illegal content is now equally easy, while it previously was (at least in theory) a little bit easier to share legal content.

Overall, the changes of trackerless BitTorrent would still make it the best available p2p techonology. For certain special cases, Direct Connect could be better, and both DC and ed2k support easier linking than BT, but even that can change in the future: BT could implement a meta-p2p engine, so that you could share plaintext links that make your client download the right .torrent file and add it to your queue. This would make BT superior to eMule in every aspect.

There are quite a lot of differences in the three major P2P technologies. Here I try to cover the most important of each:

ed2k (eMule)

• + Easy linking. Links can be shared anywhere: in web pages, IRC, email. The single 100-200 character link contains everything that is needed to download the file.
• + Supports usage with and without a server (in eMule, ed2k server and serverless Kademlia)
• - If you run a server, you can't make it private
• - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
• - Inefficient, seems to waste bandwidth

Direct Connect (DC++, Reverse Connect)

• + You can run servers (hubs) private
• + You can see what everyone is sharing in your hub
• + Using eMule-like links has recently become available, though clicking a link doesn't add the file in your queue, it only allows you to search for it
• + Efficient, you can download directly from someone very fast, even through intranet
• - No serverless mode
• - You don't have total control on what is shared in your server
• - Only in Reverse Connect you can download from multiple sources simultaneously

BitTorrent (Azureus, BitComet)

• + The most efficient p2p yet
• + Server (tracker) admin can have total control of what is shared choosing a directory where he uploads allowed torrents
• + A single .torrent file can contain instructions on how to download multiple files
• - No serverless mode
• - No searching
• - To share download instructions for a file(set), you have to be able to transfer a .torrent file, a plaintext link isn't enough

This has been the situation for a while. In ed2k nothing big has changed for a year. DC++ (incl. Reverse Connect) is evolving, but magnet (TTH) linking has been the only major change in years. When DC++ gets its support for ADC complete, the evolution of Direct Connect is predicted to get a major boost.

What trackerless BitTorrent does is to make every client a small tracker. So it doesn't just enable searching and serverless usage, it also makes sharing illegal files easier (more than it does for legal). Previously, to share content, you had to find a tracker that allows posting .torrents. To share copyrighted content, you also had to find a tracker that didn't care about legal aspects. So sharing legal and illegal content is now equally easy, while it previously was (at least in theory) a little bit easier to share legal content.

Overall, the changes of trackerless BitTorrent would still make it the best available p2p techonology. For certain special cases, Direct Connect could be better, and both DC and ed2k support easier linking than BT, but even that can change in the future: BT could implement a meta-p2p engine, so that you could share plaintext links that make your client download the right .torrent file and add it to your queue. This would make BT superior to eMule in every aspect.

And I could overwrite OSX and throw Linux with ratpoison on it as my WM.

I know it may disagree with the Gospel according to Jobs, but some people don't *like* OSX. The form factor of the mini is pretty nifty though.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacdasher

Awesome PHP plugin for Eclipse. Includes Smarty support also http://phpeclipse.sf.net/

Perl plugin also exists for Eclipse. http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/

There's a few options.

You could try VLC, it's a brilliant movie player for mac and seems to support flac, haven't tried flac files myself though (I know it plays ogg).

Alternatively, you could install fink and then xmms, a popular media player on Linux that I know plays flac (with the right plugin). Of course, for this you'll need to startx each time to get a working X11 server and then launch xmms from there... you won't get drag 'n drop with the finder etc. but it might work... I'm not a mac guru, I'm a Linux user who recently bought an iBook...

Spellbound

It's frowned upon to use bittorrent over tor.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/

Please *DO NOT* use Tor for routing peer-to-peer data traffic, it can not handle the bandwidth. They have indicated that they will make efforts to ban such usage if it continues, which will likely affect both legitimate and unwanted use!

I would give most anything for a working media player for OS X that plays oggs, flacs, and maybe shns.

Just install the QuckTime OGG and FLAC components and iTunes will be able to play them fine.

http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/
http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/

Good Luck!

But SUSE really sucks in that regard. Last I checked (which was v9.2) things were really outdated.

In one SUSE version, they don't do version upgrades, with good reasons. I prefer it that way, it's the way it should be for production systems. The more important thing is that they do backport security fixes, and you can even apply them automatically.

You are confusing 2 entirely different things here. One is patching an existing operating system environment and applications, the other one is upgrading software.

Yast Online Update is not for upgrading software, but for installing fixes for the installed version. They have good reasons for that. Security fixes will be backported by SUSE, that's one of the most important job of their security team. That's what I do on production systems.

Upgrading software is a whole different story. SUSE provides a lot of unsupported ugrades, and Mozilla Firefox is one of them. It's very easy to find them on their ftp mirrors. You can also use third party software packagers like packman. If you use apt4rpm, it's very easy to integrate the different repositories, both from SUSE and third parties. That's what I'm suing on my desktop, laptop etc.

Patching all of my systems is mostly done without notice, just the occasional reboot when the kernel was changed, or restarting servers.

For me, SUSE has the most convenient patching capabilities, Apple comes a close second (and only comes second because with SUSE there are more ways to do it). Windows is much more work for me.

One of the most flexible packages I ever saw is Interact. I have tried some, but all of them seem too restricted to the model designed by the developer. So, for example, WebCT (whish I used some years ago) you have a place to put material, a place to do quizzes, but no way to make more "complex" arrangements of the capabilities. Interact, for example, operates using a "component" model. You have a number of components to choose from and you can group them in any way you like inside "Folders". Currently available components are: forum, group, dropbox, sharing, chat, journal, gradebook, quiz, folder, file, weblink, note, page, calendar, KnowledgeBase and NoticeBoard. Interact is aimed at being a complete school support system, as such, it has a unique student and teacher login for all the content, and each subject has its own "site". So teachers of a subject have administration priviledges on this subject's site, and students have access to all sites of the subjects they are currently taking. A neat feature is that each component has a unique ID, and it can be "shared" among different sites. So I can have two disciplines to share the same messages of a forum, for example. Components can be copied, as to use older subject's sites on a new subject too. Interact's site is http://cce-interact.sourceforge.net/ where you can also find a demo to play with.

I believe you'll be wanting something like ROX or FVWM to break yourself in (these have GUI support and configuration, and tend to be much lighter than the big guns), and then switch to one of the nice lightweights (some examples: Blackbox, Fluxbox, or--my personal favorite--pekwm) once you're more comfortable with the OS.

Good luck!

I believe you'll be wanting something like ROX or FVWM to break yourself in (these have GUI support and configuration, and tend to be much lighter than the big guns), and then switch to one of the nice lightweights (some examples: Blackbox, Fluxbox, or--my personal favorite--pekwm) once you're more comfortable with the OS.

Good luck!

I believe you'll be wanting something like ROX or FVWM to break yourself in (these have GUI support and configuration, and tend to be much lighter than the big guns), and then switch to one of the nice lightweights (some examples: Blackbox, Fluxbox, or--my personal favorite--pekwm) once you're more comfortable with the OS.

Good luck!

So, MSFT will always be a step behind in a game Google engineered to reward only those who can think new things first. Even if Microsoft manages to invent or buy a new idea, Google will come up with a way of making it faster, cheaper, safer and more powerful. It's what they did to Microsoft's Hotmail.

I was a user of a wonderful webmail service called HoTMaiL for several years before Microsoft bought it. And wrecked it.

Not only was Hotmail NOT a Microsoft innovation, it was a surprisingly useful tool which was purchased, squashed, and wrecked by the shortsighted fools.

(Oh, and by the way, have you got a Hotmail account and an SMTP server? Retrieve your mail with gotmail!)

Unfortunately, at this time, Joe Average Mainstream is not likely to have a Linux box on which to install the OSS applications. If Joe Average User was using Linux, (s)he'd already be using FOSS anyway. Therefore, the steps to acquire and install a FOSS app would be:

1. Go to Sourceforge or Google and search for app
2. Download ZIP, RAR, or other compressed version of app
3. Expand archive of app that you downloaded
4. Double-click "setup.exe," "install.exe," or "[whatever].msi"
5. Run app and be on your way...

The point I am trying to make is that, IMHO, the slow adoption of FOSS is not at all related to ease of installation.

Also, downloads from a Sourceforge mirror are usually much faster than through p2p anyway. Perhaps this, coupled with the "fear of IP lawsuits," could be used to turn more and more people towards using FOSS.

Then check don't out http://elektra.sourceforge.net/
it's basicly the monstrosities you are talking about. (as-in-changing every file in /etc to an XML database format)

You still need a torrent file, you just don't have to set up a tracker now, just open your client, like you'd normally do for Kazaa or other file sharing programs.

No you dont, a magnet link like the ones for gnutella clients will do fine. You still can`t search like on e-donkey/gnutella and other napster alikes. Ofcourse some prefere files where others vouched for their quality. Anyway, its just waiting until hash values become a standard part of a release groups NFO files.

Bittorrent isn't designed for distribution of subversive or otherwise contraband content; it's designed to take the load off the backs of legitimate distributors of large files. There's nothing stopping the *AA from shutting servers down, and to the best of my knowledge this feature was not created with the intent of making it difficult for anybody to do so. Bittorrent might be optimal for quickly getting large files, but it isn't intended to protect anybody from anything; for that, you'll want to look into things like MUTE or Tor. The download speeds are not as high, but you aren't going to get caught.

Bittorrent, basically, is a content distribution system, not a copyright-circumvention system. The latter exists, but those need quite a bit more work before they get to the level Bittorrent has attained in terms of popularity and usability (and considering the purpose, this might be a good thing.)

Update: it seems bt mainline uses khashmir instead of the azureus protocol. This is a bad thing. If this reaches a release, we'll have a case where two bittorrent clients are truly incompatible, and the result may cause difficulties for the technology itself.

I am sure there are other projects, can remember one right now YahooPOPs.
I could be facetious and refer to several obscure desi projects. Going by developer names, latest seems to be Marigold.
But you know that I'm referring to the miniscule numbers particularly taking into account how many desis are in the field.

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Apparently the XUL user interface in both Mozilla and Firefox is the main resource hog, and K-Meleon substitutes it with a native Windows UI. (Linux has a similar Gecko-based browser called "Galeon", and MacOS has "Camino")

With the "Flashblock" extension enabled, K-Meleon surfs quite pleasantly on an old 133MHz Dell laptop with 72MB of RAM. I dare say it's similar in speed to Opera, but works on a lot more sites.

(On the same machine, Firefox is slower than a snail.)

Indian programmers who work on open-source projects are capitalistic bastards. Ever seen a desi begin (leave alone release) an open-source product without getting paid for it?

I am sure there are other projects, can remember one right now YahooPOPs.

As to adblocking, I have no idea, I have been using eDexter for a long time and I have such a tweaked hosts file, I do not even use adblock when I run firefox.

There is one more thing I would like to know whether I can do through FF extensions. One thing that annoys me a lot whenever I run FF is that, unless I spend time creating a whitelist, I can either have all pop-ups open (even those that would display adds if I weren't blocking their images) or none of them, not even those I want to open. Opera has an option for this that is "Block unwanted pop-ups," that opens pop-ups when requested, but ignores pop-ups on page loads and the like. Can I do that in FF?

Thank you very much for your extension list, I'll give it a spin! I hope I get to love it, because I am feeling morally obliged to pay for Opera now, with all the use I'm giving to it.

Other open source browsers:

• Amaya - from W3
• Links - my current text browser of choice
• W3M - another text browser

Only $550,000 was actually awarded out of a total pool of $1mn (mn? wtf?):
The winning projects were: Shift2Ingres, submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay of New Delhi, India, won the largest prize of $400,000; EzyMigrate, submitted by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala, India, was awarded a prize of $100,000; and DbConverter, submitted by Bipin Prasad of New York, was awarded a prize of $50,000.

Here's links to the winning projects:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/shift2ingres
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ezymigrate
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dbcvt

Only $550,000 was actually awarded out of a total pool of $1mn (mn? wtf?):
The winning projects were: Shift2Ingres, submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay of New Delhi, India, won the largest prize of $400,000; EzyMigrate, submitted by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala, India, was awarded a prize of $100,000; and DbConverter, submitted by Bipin Prasad of New York, was awarded a prize of $50,000.

Here's links to the winning projects:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/shift2ingres
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ezymigrate
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dbcvt

Only $550,000 was actually awarded out of a total pool of $1mn (mn? wtf?):
The winning projects were: Shift2Ingres, submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay of New Delhi, India, won the largest prize of $400,000; EzyMigrate, submitted by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala, India, was awarded a prize of $100,000; and DbConverter, submitted by Bipin Prasad of New York, was awarded a prize of $50,000.

Here's links to the winning projects:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/shift2ingres
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ezymigrate
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dbcvt

Re: Ultima V: The DOS version works wonderfully in DOSBox. You just need to set "cycles" to low enough number since U5 doesn't have a frame limiter so you may want an artificially slow emulation speed - but the fact that you're in a slow emulator environment already might help.

And the project to watch for in the future is Neat Ultima V, which is what xu4 is for Ultima IV and exult is for Ultima VII - though unlike those projects nu5 doesn't even have any kind of release.

Puppy uses multisession on cdr. An alternative way would be to create a loopback device on the unused portion of a cdrw or dvdrw and format it with a udf filesystem. I've done this and it works. The kernel needs UDF write support and packet writing support.

Puppy uses multisession on cdr. An alternative way would be to create a loopback device on the unused portion of a cdrw or dvdrw and format it with a udf filesystem. I've done this and it works. The kernel needs UDF write support and packet writing support.

Come on now, can't/would rather not mess with ? Just take a few moments to go here and your mac will work just fine thankyouverymuch.

The community is in great need of such fonts. This open source online equation editor is just an example. We had to recommend the use of a shareware pan-unicode font (Code2000) because the only alternative is the proprietary Arial Unicode MS.

Nevertheless, the time it took them to make STIX almost ready looks hilarious to me. Does anybody know how long does it usually take to design such a font?

i'm pretty sure EMACS and the Big Brother DataBase constitute prior art.

http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
http://www.jwz.org/bbdb/

freenet "paper": http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=149 637&cid=12543926 As for Mute, i think this same Ant algorithm can be used to optimize the search queries: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml I'll just rephrase "upon receiving this message, node X learns something about Alice: it learns that messages from Alice come through a particular neighbour node" in "upon receiving this search query, node X learns something about this query: it learns that someone is interested in this topic, and that messages from this person come through a particular neighbour node"

Have you ever tried installing AIM from AOL?

No.