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XUL ides. Ok not much, but it's a start. Personally I feel Mozilla should also start some development projects. Mozilla is no longer working on the composer, that is now being sponsored by Linspire. I think a push from Mozilla to build a XUL ide is a very good idea.

For you, probably nothing. For a larger business it would be worth it, as it comes with "Apple style" GUI tools to configure everything, and a lot of stuff built-in.

Assuming you have a familiarity with Linux, or any command line really, you can get yourself up and running with a standard OS X 'client' based machine. I'd suggest installing Webmin on your box to help configure things. I've got Webmin running on two of my OS X machines and it makes configuration really simple by adding web-based remote administration to many many tasks (Apache, BIND, Squid, Webalizer, remote access to the file system, etc) while still giving you the ability to edit the raw config files if you want.

You may also want to install Fink to help you get some of the services that are not installed by default in there. (For example Apache is in the OS X client, it just happens to call it "Personal Web Sharing" in the GUI, but their is no POP3 server built in)

Please, please, people, make an effort and reread your post before submitting it.

My very first thought was: Gaim has an EULA? Oh my god, how long did i sleep last night?

You can use Sarissa to abstract a lot of the ie/moz differences in XMLHttpRequest and DOM.

Uh... the need of TFA to draw a big box around a component and label it "Ajax Engine", combined with having personally seen some damn large javascripts in the past. Why, is this "Ajax Engine" script a tiny little thing?

Feel free to single Google out for screwing up compatibility, but it's a shortcoming of Google, not something intrinsic to Javascript. Javascript can easily be used to enhance the UI for a web application, while gracefully degrading for clients that can't handle it.

Hey, sorry... clearly Javascript is a favorite technology of yours or something, that's OK... back away from the flame thrower. Actually, since Google Maps supports Firefox and company, I'm _guessing_ that we're really looking at a bug in the WebKit/KHTML code somehow... although looking at where XMLHttpRequest comes in sheds some light on it's _clear_ browser-dependence, which is _exactly_ what I have a problem with.

But like I said, if you _want_ to tie your web page to a particular class of browser, go ahead. That's fine, as long as you and the folks you're designing websites for realize that's what you're doing.

And no, for limited uses, I don't mind Javascript _too_ much, it can be a useful tool. I only dislike it's use when it locks alternative browsers out of content without good reason- which is, in my experience, all too often the case. It's one of those tools that people all too often use because they think it's cool, or they like it, or they're used to it -not because they _need_ the functionality- and that occasionally gets in the way of creating a useful product.

Javascript can be a fine way to detect browser capabilities and customize the experience- but if you're not displaying *anything* to users of Lynx, OmniWeb, KHTML-based browsers, or ( worst of all ) non-Windows browsers... then there's a problem. With the possible exception of showing images in Lynx, you should always be able to provide some reasonable level of functionality in your website to less-capable browsers. I *definitely* fault the Google enginers for not providing a script-free version of their tool ( with many, many fewer features - but still, what's wrong with a plain ol' HTML form that generates an image when you click "go"?!? ). I can only hope they'll have a simple, stripped-down version of the site when Maps is no longer beta.

a webmail application can periodically poll the server for new events such as new mail without interrupting what the user is doing with a page reload.

Yes, and, for browsers that don't support XMLHttpRequest, you can put a "get new messages" button on the page. Is that too much to ask ?

You're correct about AC3 - but note that I didn't say I was disagreeing with you about that. The other languages can be kept, too. There's room for them on a server with hundreds of gigabytes. Maybe someday (soon) down the road video and audio tracks can be maintained separately, and would be muxed on the client end in software during playback.

I emphasize "most DVDs" in my previous post with regards to quality vs. xvids, because the quality of a good encode is dependent on so many factors in the source. But there is no doubt in my mind that MPEG-4 (especially in its H.264 iteration) is capable of meeting and surpassing the subjective quality of DVD (MPEG-2 at a max res of 720x480) at lower bitrates and file sizes. My 2-pass VBR xvid encodes hover anywhere between 1 and 2 GB (I don't burn mine to disc, I keep them on a 160GB NAS), which is typically more generous than most things floating around p2p's (though I use stereo VBR MP3 for audio), and are only minimally distinguishable from the source DVDs on my WEGA CRT TV. Please note that I'm not arguing the quality potential of MPEG-4 vs. MPEG-2, because in both cases they can be as good, and as resolute as file size and end-user processing power will allow (sure, you could encode a 3,000x1687 pixel, 30fps video in either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4, but it might chug on a lot of machines).

But please don't forget that we're talking about the application of these codecs to the relatively limited bandwidth of the internet. So even though MPEG-4 is certainly capable of surpassing the quality of DVD video (MPEG-2 at 720x480), doing so is not practical for internet distribution...

...YET, but I reiterate that broadband speed is increasing, while at the same time the quality of low-bitrate MPEG-4 video is improving AND is assisted by post-processing filters. So I think it's safe to say that we both support MPEG-4 (which is already posed to take over digital video compression, if it weren't for how entrenched MPEG-2 is in the mainstream) over current DVD video.

This looks like an awesome tool, check out the examples here: http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=exa mples

It looks like anyone with some PHP and basic Javascript can build nice, functional applications that use xml http requests.

-matthew

Yes, you need to use the Java Embedding Plugin to use 1.4.x under any Mozilla based browser on OSX. Including Camino.

1.4.x is so much better than 1.3.x it is(was) worth the minimal risk.

I'm not sure what your question really is (or even if you're just trolling), but if you don't like iTunes, there are alternatives:

- for Linux, there is gtkpod
- for Mac OS X, there is Audion
- for Windows, there is ephpod

If you just don't like the iPod, well there's too much choice to even start discuss it. Google will be your friend for that.

Geoip?
The sourceforge project, so anyone can use it

Yeah, but at the moment this is a BIG help for people, plus I'm sure that as new rootkits become availible they'll update this puppy. But it's not like linux doesn't have it's own rootkit detector http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkps/. Any server operating system is eventully going to have exploits if it's got any use, it's a fact of life, this tool helps find out if you got rooted, no more no less.

Try asterisk@home for a good distro that should do most of the easy stuff "out of the box".

First of all: this game needs a broadband connection even though some play it over dial-up.

I recommend ArmagetronAdvanced -- "Another version of the simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron"
But note it has a lot more depth to it than appears on first sight, you do not only fight the other players but lag itself (how fitting isn't that for a game based on Tron?). It's not to everyones taste but if you get hooked... well I could only say welcome :)

This is a multiplayer somewhat tactical action/racing game (actually it's not only multiplayer, one can play singleplayer as well and modifying the AI of the bots is easy). It is open source (GPL), mature but in active developement/embellishment (recently the creator: Manuel Moos aka Z-man, joined the ArmagetronAD team after a break), and has a good (and more varied than average I would guess) community. The game is available for both windows, anything linux, freebsd, and osx. The different themes/models&skins are also useable on all the different operating systems afaik.

A while ago we had a great player in our community called Majination who was paralysed from the neck down like you. He played with a mouthstick and was damned impressive (it can be a hard game). He hasn't been around lately but many people drop off for some time to rescue their education/job/relationship, then again some don't *big grin*

I don't know the exact setups he used to play. The play itself consists mostly of turning left or right (timing & grinding is crucial), there are other controls in addition (especially glancing can be useful but sound gives some of the same info) but they aren't neccessarily needed (Majination also used the chat available within the game).

Links:
Original Armagetron (defunct but with historical info & links):
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge ArmagetronAD project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/
Main page and forum (both social and development):
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1360

There are plenty of good quality servers in both europe and america (lag can be an issue in the game but over time you learn to "know" the lag, compensate for it and use it to your advantage).

Also note that the gameplay is very varied depending on a lot of different server settings, most noteably speed, grid size, rubber, trail behaviour, and trail lenght. So if you don't like one style of play try another server with another style. Some servers also force mode of viewpoint or other camera settings.

Btw I recommend this game to absolutely everybody: it's a hidden gem of an open source game imho and it will just continue to get better and better in true OS style.

First of all: this game needs a broadband connection even though some play it over dial-up.

I recommend ArmagetronAdvanced -- "Another version of the simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron"
But note it has a lot more depth to it than appears on first sight, you do not only fight the other players but lag itself (how fitting isn't that for a game based on Tron?). It's not to everyones taste but if you get hooked... well I could only say welcome :)

This is a multiplayer somewhat tactical action/racing game (actually it's not only multiplayer, one can play singleplayer as well and modifying the AI of the bots is easy). It is open source (GPL), mature but in active developement/embellishment (recently the creator: Manuel Moos aka Z-man, joined the ArmagetronAD team after a break), and has a good (and more varied than average I would guess) community. The game is available for both windows, anything linux, freebsd, and osx. The different themes/models&skins are also useable on all the different operating systems afaik.

A while ago we had a great player in our community called Majination who was paralysed from the neck down like you. He played with a mouthstick and was damned impressive (it can be a hard game). He hasn't been around lately but many people drop off for some time to rescue their education/job/relationship, then again some don't *big grin*

I don't know the exact setups he used to play. The play itself consists mostly of turning left or right (timing & grinding is crucial), there are other controls in addition (especially glancing can be useful but sound gives some of the same info) but they aren't neccessarily needed (Majination also used the chat available within the game).

Links:
Original Armagetron (defunct but with historical info & links):
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge ArmagetronAD project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/
Main page and forum (both social and development):
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1360

There are plenty of good quality servers in both europe and america (lag can be an issue in the game but over time you learn to "know" the lag, compensate for it and use it to your advantage).

Also note that the gameplay is very varied depending on a lot of different server settings, most noteably speed, grid size, rubber, trail behaviour, and trail lenght. So if you don't like one style of play try another server with another style. Some servers also force mode of viewpoint or other camera settings.

Btw I recommend this game to absolutely everybody: it's a hidden gem of an open source game imho and it will just continue to get better and better in true OS style.

Cross-Platform, Multi-Runtime

Without any extra work on your part, your application will run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows using any of the following .NET runtimes: MS.NET, Mono [emphasis mine], or DotGNU Portable.NET.

Native UI, No Emulation

Unlike other toolkit approaches, wx.NET uses the native UI framework on each platform. Under Windows the WIN32 API is used to create buttons, checkboxes, etc. On Linux, GTK+ 2.0 is used (not really "native", but a look/feel users are familiar with). On the Mac, the full aqua look and feel is provided by using Quartz window compositing and HIView implementations for controls.

Other toolkits take the emulation route. This can cause look/feel inconsistencies to end users and slower executing interfaces.

1. Tivo licenses content.
2. Tivo provides nice search interface for Tivo BitTorrent client.
3. Tivo provides centralized Torrent servers and includes content in $12.95.
4. Goodbye cable!

Has anybody tried the new SDK? It's pretty cool...they should have done it from the beginning.

Huh?
There are thousands of open source java projects.
Here's a few.

In addition I found a couple that I am going to start using such as portage-sharp.

From the portage-sharp project page on sourceforge:

Activity Percentile (last week): 0%

This Project Has Not Released Any Files

CVS Repository ( 0 commits, 0 adds )

Gotta love all those good intention projects on SourceForge.net

seriously, everytime a db discussion comes up here ppl are referring to mysql and postgres. how come firebird almost never gets any credits?

acid is the first feature that gets mentioned on their factsheet http://firebird.sourceforge.net/guide/FBFactsheet. html

and please, if a browser joke just came up to your mind, just drop it ;)

You are the exact type of user that would do well in web-based games. They are slower (non-twitch), fairly accessible, and strategy based.

I author The Kabal Invasion, and contribute to Blacknova Traders, Wordog, and even an upcoming fork of Legend of the Green Dragon.

TKI especially has worked hard to make the game accessible to all, and the version coming out in a few days is deeply focused on accessibility issues.

Its not WoW, mind you, but its a nice way to burn time, interact, practice strategy, and keep mentally stimulated.

Hope that helps!

You are the exact type of user that would do well in web-based games. They are slower (non-twitch), fairly accessible, and strategy based.

I author The Kabal Invasion, and contribute to Blacknova Traders, Wordog, and even an upcoming fork of Legend of the Green Dragon.

TKI especially has worked hard to make the game accessible to all, and the version coming out in a few days is deeply focused on accessibility issues.

Its not WoW, mind you, but its a nice way to burn time, interact, practice strategy, and keep mentally stimulated.

Hope that helps!

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html

Synergy is a kind of software KVM that lets you link your mouse, keyboard, and even the clipboard across multiple machines and OSes over any network including the internet.

MediaWiki 1.4 has experimental support for PostgreSQL; I wouldn't be too surprised if Wikipedia switched over to it in the future. Ssuch a transition would probably be fairly painful, though.

Or StarControl II, if you can find it.

I can find it, and it's GPL'd.

As far as the architecture goes, I believe it's only possible to implement this functionality within the driver, as the pads need to be initialized into synaptics/ALPS mode, otherwise they default to emulating a PS/2 mouse and the extra functionality isn't available at all.

As far as the architecture goes, I believe it's only possible to implement this functionality within the driver, as the pads need to be initialized into synaptics/ALPS mode, otherwise they default to emulating a PS/2 mouse and the extra functionality isn't available at all.

For internet scaled distributed computing, there is an online "Hello World" code demonstrating the Grid Computing concept. http://grinix.sourceforge.net/ Grinix is based on the Globus Toolkit, Linux and Java.

For parallel computing in the scale of a local network, there is an open source Live CD project called "Thinux (Cluster Live)" http://thinux.sourceforge.net/thingindex.html. Cluster Live allows a cluster of networked diskless thin clients to boot up and start an application, such as the web browser, as well as allowing computing resources to be shared with each other.

For internet scaled distributed computing, there is an online "Hello World" code demonstrating the Grid Computing concept. http://grinix.sourceforge.net/ Grinix is based on the Globus Toolkit, Linux and Java.

For parallel computing in the scale of a local network, there is an open source Live CD project called "Thinux (Cluster Live)" http://thinux.sourceforge.net/thingindex.html. Cluster Live allows a cluster of networked diskless thin clients to boot up and start an application, such as the web browser, as well as allowing computing resources to be shared with each other.

Also, rar files don't necessarily mean Warez is involved. It's actually mostly used because on USENET, a lot of times parts of files don't make it through. It used to really be frustrating when after 15Megs of [WHATEVER] being downloaded, some pieces would be missing or already expunged by the local USENET server.

The solution? .rar files plus Spartpar Even if parts of a download are missing. there's a good chance the parity check files will fix the problem. This saves time AND having to re-download the files in question.

Any archive, whether, it's a .tar, .gz, .zip, .rar, often contains executable files that could be infected. This is just another hype scare tactic about something that's not new at all.

See WASTE

Well, I know of a few that do now... Seriously, is this that much of a threat? Winzip (AFAIK) doesn't handle Rar archives, and most users wouldn't know how to open one if they did find one in their inbox...

.rar archives being infected is very old news as well as every other archive format.

.rar files have been infected since they have existed and posted to USENET. Rar files are much better than zip files in that people can download (let's say) a .rar that's been split into 15 parts. By using smartpar, even if a part of that .rar is corrupted, Smartpar does parity and other checks to reconstruct the missing part(s)

As you note, most people don't know about rar files. And even if they do, the anti-virus program will block the virus as soon as the rar set is put back together.

This is a complete non-issue. Not to mention, Winrar, which creates and reassembles .rar files prompts users to scan files for infections before extracting them.

1) If you think 7z is a trivial algorithm to implement, you REALLY haven't looked at it. Also there isn't (last time I checked) any mac implementation

OK, the pzip people (p7zip project) have ported it to the posix command line. But you'll have to compile it yourself and write your own GUI. But you can at least work with 7zip archives now.

In the beginning, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking. But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the Internet Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official release available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU GPL, which allowed further development by others. So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000. Then, some developers picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many new features along the way. The result of this is Privoxy, whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.

Well, Seth, let me explain it to you in 3 words: Red Hat Network. Or 3 other words: End Of Life.

Many of us used RHL for years and when Redhat offered the $60/year subscription, many of us who'd followed the security advisories or regularly checked the errata web page for new RPMs decided to sign up. Yeah, it seemed kinda weird paying $60 for something that has previously been available for free download or cheap on Infomagic cdroms. But Redhat had displaced Slackware and became a pillar of the community and had seemed worthy... paying the $60/machine seemed like a nice way to give back to Redhat.

All that changed. Redhat abruptly announced end of life on all 7.x and 8.x, which were at the time the bulk of all installed linux machines. 9.x end of life was also announced... not even 12 months out (long enough for all paid subscribers to complete their service). These are simple facts. You can endlessly argue subjective opinions about the public statements Redhat made. Maybe I took it all the wrong way and heard "We don't give a shit about you hobbist and small business types, so use this unsupported, short-life, beta-quality fedora and stop freeloading". But the undeniable FACT is that only about 1-2 years prior, Redhat got most of its most loyal supporters to sign up for RHN for $60/machine, with vauge promises of long-term paid "support" (basically, automatic notifications and updates). We all paid our $60/machine, trusting Redhat that we could depend on them. That trust was betrayed.

Many people went to Fedora. Many of us did not. I kept using RH9 for some time, and eventually switched to Debian. I'm really happy with Debian and apt-get. Why Debian?

I'm a small-time open-source developer. Aside from stuff on my own website, the one "real" open-source project I'm involved in is SDCC. Most of the developers on the project, long ago, used either Redhat or Debian. I was one of the Redhat guys. Most of the end users run it on Windows. Back then, SDCC went though bug after bug after bug, all revolving around not deleting temp files, finding library paths, and sometimes excessive memory allocation. Of course, most of the problems were on the windows port. At the time, some builds were cross compiled, others were native using borland or msvc. Endless back-and-forth consisted of "Well, I'm using Redhat, and it does ABC", "On Debian, it does XYZ", can anyone on windows even tell what it really does? Eventually, those cross platform issues got worked out, and I was left with a lasting impression that most end users run on windows, and developers write on Debian and Redhat.

When the RHN end of life and bad PR... which sounded a lot like "we only care about enterprise customers... the rest of you are only good for beta testing"... came out, I decided it was time to make a switch. I resisted for some time, letting my RH9 system and an old RH7.2 system get out of date. FC2 came out, and people seemed to like it. That would have been the path of least resistance. But I remembered well that many of the other developers, at least in the one many-developer project I'm on, were using Debian. If I had to switch to something new and reinstall, why not go with Debian.

I've been using Debian ever since. I switched to "unstable", and despite the scary name, it's really great. I love apt-get.

And I'm still a little bitter about Redhat.

And the same with Privoxy which is cross-platform and uses Perl compatible regexp rather than a custom language.
I do think that Proxomitron has a larger following though and might be a bit more flexible.
Also note that Proxomitron is no longer being actively developed since it was not open source and the developer tragically passed away. There is however a new open source project Proximodo which is trying to re-implement the functionality and claims to be cross-platform.

I use Privoxy along with a "hosts" file and I hardly see any ads (popup or embedded).

Bacula on Sourceforge and their own site. works very well as a networked backup system.

For XForms you already have a Flash viewer and a server-side XForms to HTML + JavaScript implementation. There are lots more, but those are the only two I've tested which implement a good deal of the standard and are good-looking..

I've been using Mozilla and Privoxy http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/ for over six months now and haven't had a single problem with popups. Granted, sites that are heavily dependent on javasctipt and flash are not always functional.

No popups in Galeon 1.3.19.
On Drudgereport I get a notification icon about a popup having been blocked (though I still get an awful Flash ad - when will Firefox's/Mozilla's flashblock extension work with Galeon?). Nothing at all on scienceblog.com.

How the hell can popup ads somehow evade a browser's absolute refusal to open up unrequested popup windows?
I just don't get it. Is this some new kind of highly persuasive Javascripting?
Website: "Come on, pleeease open this window!"
Browser: "Naaah... Oh, OK then."

How about digital video? I'm converting my vast videotape/LaserDisc collection to VideoCD and DVD. I could tie up a 2048-processor Linux-based supercomputer with my video processing.

Note that fabrice don't seem familiar whith license issue : see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg _id=6932290 where is tried to relicense lgpl work in under bsd license...

PearPC is what you want.

Development was going really awesome on that thing then all of a sudden it stopped. Possibly due to the death of Stefan Weyergraf.

CherryOS was a rip off of PearPC.

I sometimes want to play old DOS games on my P3 machine. A lot of these games work in Real Mode, period. And they often can't do sound except on specific sound cards. I can:

• Get a second machine for game playing. I don't spend that much time playing games. At least I hope not...
• Reboot to DOS every time I want to run a game. Inconvenient, and the sound doesn't always work.
• Fire up VMWare. Except I can't afford a copy right now...
• Run DOSBox, which emulates not only a 286-class processor, but other legacy hardware such as sound cards and Hercules Graphics.

Last I heard it was suspected of actually being PearPC under a different name (compiled executables compared and found that many variable names matched), but the author(s) of Cherryos denied it - no idea if it was proven one way or another for certain though.

Yup. Just a frontend for PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ .

First off, QEMU is x86.

Second, CherryOS is a ripoff of PearPC. The reason for the CherryOS delay is most likely that it's violating the licensing of PearPC and the developer is worried about litigation.

CherryOS has been released. It's called PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

Yes, it's called mod_auth_kerb. It supports passing GSSAPI creds via the Negotiate protocol.