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Mass tagging, mp3/ogg/flac/speex support, regular expression support, freedb support, directory structuring by album/band/many other things, and more.
Free and open source.
http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

chipset as in northbridge/southbridge. I do agree about SSE2 instructions, though. Seems to make quite a big difference on atlas results. Although both Intel and AMD fan boys both get creamed by ppc performance

I personally don't use Firefox. But I do use K-Meleon (uses Mozilla) and, just 15 minutes ago, found all the mozilla preferences in a nice table.

Not sensational, probably offtopic, but nice to be able to tweak some of the settings even Firefox doesn't give you GUI access to. I couldn't resist pointing it out.

...and that is exactly how we do it where I work using this FOSS tool, http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

For Linux, I prefer EasyTag http://easytag.sourceforge.net/

If you want to try building it, I'd suggest you start with a nice high level method of creating linux based filesytems:

http://perlfs.sourceforge.net/

Build it first, optimize later.

FYI.. The multi-threaded filesystem version exists, I just haven't bundled it up pretty for distribution. Now someone needs to create a multi-threaded samba to share it out.

No kidding. I've done extensive OSS work (Exult), and have been a software developer for a looong time - unfortunately, too long, since I'm way over 40. A few years ago when I was unemployed, I only received 2 interviews over a 5-month period when I was applying for about 20 jobs/week. And those interviews were for the company that hired me (and where I'm still working).

Working on open-source is fun, and I still do it; but I'm no longer under any illusions that it will help much with my career. But, your networking suggestion can't be emphasized enough. It is the way to get a job (and the only reason I got the chance for my current position).

Querying for similar images on a collection with 5215 unrelated images.
Search for yellow flowers gets pink flowers. The layout must be being analysed, surely?

The second photo returned from this Imgseek search uses significantly different colours, but similar layout.

Matlab style; works everywhere, outputs any format, uses any graphics backend. Look at the beautiful screenshots and how easy it is to generate them. Free (gratis and libre). Python License.

matplotlib site

An open-source (GPL v 2) Content Based Image Retrieval program already exists: imgSeek .

To search a photo, you don't need a similar photo, simply draw a rough sketch. See this screenshot.

Of course they would, because they "have" to. Let's not get in the mindset that this makes Google evil, just the FBI. ;)

But, let's not forget that they can tap your ISP directly if they want to. Use Google or not, if you live in the US, the FBI owns you... unless you use tools like Tor (http://tor.eff.org/ or Freenet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/). In as far as unencrypted information, Google really gives the FBI no more advantage than if you used nothing.

What does have to be watched is how Google uses that information, and that is where the difference lies. But, just use https or turn if off if you both a) want to use it and b) don't want it to see "everything".

Google Desktop already reads your browser cache anyways... what, like you thought they couldn't already know what you were looking at if they really wanted to. ;)

Yet another reason why spellbound should be in the default build of Firefox.

Check out imgSeek: http://imgseek.sourceforge.net/

If you are only interested in searching for images on your own computer, have a look at imgSeek. http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/

It's been around for some time now. You can not only use an existing image to search, but also do a rough sketch. Check the screenshots:

Nice complement to what has been presented in this article.

To neuter GWA:

Internet Explorer 6:
Tools -> Manage Add-ons
Disable:

Google Web Accelerator - Toolbar
Google Web Accelerator Helper - BHO

Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections
Remove the proxy entry, or use your own, like The Proxomitron or Proximodo.

FireFox 1.0.3:
Mozilla Firefox\chrome\chrome.rdf
Mozilla Firefox\chrome\overlayinfo\browser\content\overlay s.rdf
Mozilla Firefox\chrome\overlayinfo\global\skinstylesheets. rdf

Search for "googlewebacc" and remove any <RDF:*></RDF> sections that contain it.

Tools -> Options -> General -> Connection Settings...
Remove the proxy, or use your own such as the two linked above.

No more toolbars!

Now, if you want to use GWA selectively, you can use the aforementioned Proxomitron or Proximodo and configure them to use an external proxy, with the 127.0.0.1:9001 address as you would for other browsers. Then setup FireFox, IE, or whatever to use 127.0.0.1:8080 as the proxy address.

...'coz the situation won't last since TrollTech improved the rules for the Win32 version of their Qt libraries.

DANSE has a great review of a lot of different options. Most are cross-platform and scriptable and many are open source. They are interested in building python-based tools for neutron scattering experiments, so there is that bias to the wiki. But they have good screenshots & good pros/cons that many other projects can relate to.

As others have suggested, Grace is fantastic for 2D. Hippodraw is the most under-rated/unheard of that is also quite amazing. I use them both. I also use Matplotlib with my python work.

If you do LaTeX & script your plots, Gri is a good bet.

I have sometimes used gnuplot & Scigraphica, but they are less useful to me. A lot of other people still use gnuplot, so it is always good to have in the toolkit. It also has decent 3D that is not present in my preferred 2D programs. But it is uglier and clumsier than alternatives. Scigraphica wants to be Microcal Origin, but it isn't there yet. It also dropped out of development for quite a while.

I like open source. But if you are agnostic (and have deep pockets), I always thought tecplot looked cool.

DANSE has a great review of a lot of different options. Most are cross-platform and scriptable and many are open source. They are interested in building python-based tools for neutron scattering experiments, so there is that bias to the wiki. But they have good screenshots & good pros/cons that many other projects can relate to.

As others have suggested, Grace is fantastic for 2D. Hippodraw is the most under-rated/unheard of that is also quite amazing. I use them both. I also use Matplotlib with my python work.

If you do LaTeX & script your plots, Gri is a good bet.

I have sometimes used gnuplot & Scigraphica, but they are less useful to me. A lot of other people still use gnuplot, so it is always good to have in the toolkit. It also has decent 3D that is not present in my preferred 2D programs. But it is uglier and clumsier than alternatives. Scigraphica wants to be Microcal Origin, but it isn't there yet. It also dropped out of development for quite a while.

I like open source. But if you are agnostic (and have deep pockets), I always thought tecplot looked cool.

Google Web Accelerator is meant to speedup broadband browsing by prefetching.

There is another accelerator that does http gzip compression with jpeg/gif resizing and recompression; perfectly suited for metered gprs/umts or dialup modems.
http://rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net/

Sure! (OK, it's not The Gimp with a different name, but it's a damn nice fork with some high end features.)

You think that's hard...try and get sign off on something called Double Choco Latte!

My manager at the time had this comment; "It's a great program, and exactly what we need, though I can't tell anyone about it here -- they'd laugh in my face! I'm just not going to do it!" In order to 'sell' it to other groups, we renamed it to "DCL" and swapped out the default logo. Nobody laughed, though we weren't complete enough and someone noticed a reference to "Double Choco Latte" and the begining support simply evaporated.

You think that's hard...try and get sign off on something called Double Choco Latte!

My manager at the time had this comment; "It's a great program, and exactly what we need, though I can't tell anyone about it here -- they'd laugh in my face! I'm just not going to do it!" In order to 'sell' it to other groups, we renamed it to "DCL" and swapped out the default logo. Nobody laughed, though we weren't complete enough and someone noticed a reference to "Double Choco Latte" and the begining support simply evaporated.

If you're using python, consider using Biggles. It does create nice 2D charts.

Sourceforge is working on it.

mantis has support for multiple projects, and has an excellent interface. very fast, simple and easy to use. the only thing its missing is cvs/svn integration.

My only problem is with accented chars in id3 tags. It looks like the id3 lib doesn't like the utf8 enconding, and they look corrupted in a lot of places. Does anyone know how to convert a bunch of id3 flags from utf8 to iso-8859-1?

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Might be able to do bar graphs.

So, Declaritive typing for relatively straightforward things is good?

Yes, programming declaratively (when you can) has many benefits over programming operationally. But remember that DTD, while declarative, isn't the most powerful declarative type system. Like you said, it can't handle multiple similar versions efficiently.

And remember, I'm not saying that you must use DTD. If it's not convenient, don't use it. I only brought this up to demonstrate that you can't use DTD to validate your plist XML data (in response to someone saying that using plist XML gives you validation for free).

In a similar fashion either a dozen different DTDs for different flavors of bundles (apps, frameworks, plugins, widgets, etc...) Or one master DTD that needs to flex with a root element based upon bundle type..

Well, you can either write a declarative specification for every single type, or you can write code to manually validate every single type. Take your pick. Though DTD has its problems, this isn't one of them.

And their plist API now gets a boost from XML as it can programatically work with the structure while relying on deeper, public and more tested XML libs to deal with common parsing.

Their plist API gets no benefit, but I think you meant plist implementation. Old-style plists already have a well-tested parser (which, I'm guessing, they still have to support).

Besides, writing a parser is the uncommon case. You essentially only have to do it once. Writing and reading plists is an overwhelmingly more common case. I think the imbalance is high enough to warrant an specialized syntax for plists that is more readable (old-style plists) and efficient (binary plists). XML is neither (and, in fact, worse than old-style plists on both counts).

Also, parsing old-style plists is very easy. Sure, an XML library will let you avoid dealing with the low-level tokenizing details, but it's nothing that a 100-line Lex file couldn't handle for you. Now that I think about it, it might even be less work to parse old-style plists directly than to interface with an XML library and parse plist XML.

And from the App's perspective, they just ask for a key value and get their contructed object data.

Even with the old format, the App's perspective is the exact same. Why do you keep talking about how plists are so great? The question here is whether plist XML is better than the old plist syntax (and answer no :).

It seems to me like Apple got what they needed out of the format. And most of the inefficiencies in the format fall into statistical gaps in the modern computer. Bigger file size? It's still under the minimum 4k allocation per file. Longer processing time? my computer still boots into MacOS X faster and does more than my older computers.

The only thing they got was Unicode, which could have been trivially added to the old plist format. I agree that the performance degredation is tiny, but relative to the benefit (zero), it is infinite.

Format was arcane before, and while wordier now, there's more tools in the forms of syntax hilighting and checking text editors that can help cut down mistakes.

Not only wordier, but less readable. Because of the way Apple designed the format the only thing XML tools can do is try to offset the overhead created by XML in the first place. It's a net loss.

Think about what would happen if C++ was written in XML form. It might look something like this pile of crap. Would you rather edit that stuff in an XML editor or edit C++ in a text editor? It doesn't matter how good your

So why use Windows tools any more?

This is not a troll, I use Linux and Free software to make music myself, for example Audacity, Ecasound and Soundtracker . These are definitely not the most advanced examples, but they suffice for me for now.

Depending on your needs you may use different programs for different tasks.

* Ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/) was alredy mentioned, but I could not overemphasize its conceptual beauty and rich functionality. You may use it from a command line, which IMO is a great advantage.
* GNU plot. Old but viable solution
* If you need to do some things that are unavailable in other charting programs you may take a look at low-level libraries, such as GD (http://www.boutell.com/)

http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/
From the website:"SciGraphica is a scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. It pretends to be a clone of the popular commercial (and expensive) application "Microcal Origin". It fully supplies plotting features for 2D, 3D and polar charts. The aim is to obtain a fully-featured, cross-plattform, user-friendly, self-growing scientific application. It is free and open-source, released under the GPL license."

It is also free (gpl), and comes with example files for creating a variety of different graphs.

from here: http://directxwine.sourceforge.net/

Curious what dx9 games people have thrown at it to see what works. Also wondering when these would make it in mainline.

GNU plot, as several people have suggested.

If your doing stats stuff, seriously look into R.

ePix looks good, although I haven't tried it.

asymptote is very powerful, although you probably want to do some tool hacking or scripting to make use of it.

Probably the ultimate tool for such things is Mathematica. Costs money, but the student version is feasible and it's a lovely for all this sort of thing.

And, of course, you could try searching freshmeat --- there are many many other tools there.

I had the same problem as you last year. I tried gnuplot, which is good if you need to do some quick plots but are generally looked on as excel quality. I recommend XMGrace for 2-dimentional stuff. (I've published papers using this). And Mayavi for 3-D. Makes some nice purdy pictures.

I usually input all of my data into PostgeSQL, use R to do an analysis and insert the new data into the DB, then use ploticus to pull directly from the DB and create PNG format plots. Couldn't be easier once setup, makes writing conference papers and whitepapers (relatively) easy. If you are regenerating the same style of plot lots of times, ploticus is well worth the effort of setting up the first time.

http://www.r-project.org/
http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/

Nothing works quite as well as a good, old-fashioned bundle of wires.

P.S. no connection to the AirPwn folks myself; I just think their particular demonstration project was eff-ing hilarious.

-paul

Yeah, I'm not a big CVS fan and I'm eager to start using subversion. Unfortunately, SourceForge still doesn't support it so I (and thousands of others) are stuck with CVS for a while. However, they're looking into it. Here's an excert from their site status updates:

Subversion Service: The research, analysis, and support gear-up needed to implement a Subversion service at SourceForge.net is now in progress. As with all SourceForge.net services, extensive analysis and testing must be performed to verify suitable levels of stability and scalability before a service can be rolled-out. We are expecting the initial phases of this effort to last several weeks, to be followed by the implementation of a testing environment which will be used for a live beta test by specific selected projects. Pending successful scalability testing, service details will be finalized and service will be offered to all projects. (Refreshed 2005-04-21, to show continued in-progress status.) (Last updated: 2005-04-21 Pacific)

I use MP3 Tag Tools. It hasn't been updated for a while, and I'm sure there's newer stuff out, but this does everything I need. You can manipulate both tags and filenames automatically. I don't think it supports OGG though.

you could try Brook

There's a copy/paste detector that works with Java, C, PHP, and Ruby here.

But, like some other folks have said, the hard part is keeping all the open source code handy for comparison purposes...

Here, I would take one if HP releases an updated version of the 200 LX. I still own a HP 200 LX and a Omnigo 700 LX which is the ancestor of the Nokia Communicator (http://www.compuseum.de/e/g/computer/hp700lx.html ). I used it years ago on a daily basis to keep record of my addresses. I even used it as a mobile internet terminal (http://www.nettamer.net/tamer.html) or to send text messages. The 200 LX was used as a kind of 'eBook'. I wrote a shellscript that downloads all new threads from my subscribed newsgroups, splitted them into 250 KB sized files and transferred them via serial link to my 200 LX. I commute to work and while on the train I just had to convert the files into the format of the Newsreader I used (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou p_id=3765&package_id=13072) and then I was able to read them offline. I even wrote emails and newsgroup articles on the 200 LX... *sigh* Those were the days ...

Sounds like Distributed Multihead to me. DMX I think it's called, http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ here. I also seem to recall it being built into recentish Xorg builds, though I've never messed with it myself since I'm happy with my local multihead.

As to the no-reboot/no-restart-X issue, with the current state of the NVIDIA and ATI drivers I'd have loved to have been able to fiddle with them without having to restart X every time. I had a heck of a time getting everything compiled Just So to give me acceleration and proper graphics mode support. Every test I had to start and then kill X.

Check out Xena at http://xena.sourceforge.net/ as well.

Disclaimer: I work for them, but not in the section working on this

OGRE and already mentioned Crystal Space are two most popular open sourced 3d engines, but OGRE community seems more active lately. Here is a summary of OGRE vs Crystal Space

Could you get K-Meleon to work on it?

K-Meleon

Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-sync. :)

The world now has a fully capable ssh machine that fits in a shirt pocket

PuTTY has been available on Symbian 60 phones for a little while now.

http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/

Works really well for emergency usages but typing stuff on the normal phone keypad can be a bit of a pain.

I can use a bluetooth keyboard with the phone too but that doesn't really fit in my pocket.

The original party line was that Debian's X team was waiting on a modularized X.Org source tree.

Debian's X team now is in a holding pattern until Sarge gets out, though I don't remember ever seeing this stated directly. For instance, in this message to dri-devel, Branden Robinson clarifies that Debian will package Xorg in the same fashion as XFree86 if the modular version isn't ready yet.

The Debian X Faq states, more or less, the same thing.

You don't see "No Xorg till Sarge releases" anywhere because none of the X team members are fortune tellers. I would imagine that NOW, with the freeze underway, they'd be happy to say it.