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Ditto. I also started using gaim instead of AOL instant messanger for the same reason. It's just too tempting for a corporation to use their product as an advertising vector. OSS projects don't seem to succumb to this temptation outside of the Help About dialog.

Why do folks constantly reinvent the same thing? No or little borrowing. All customized.

NIH syndrome knows no language, it's universal. PHP has PEAR and the PHP Foundry on SourceForge, developers who don't check there for code to meet their needs before running off to write stuff deserve the pain.

Plone borrowing from Zope and Zope borrowing from Python

Plone, Zope, and Python are entirely different sorts of beasts. I'm not sure what your point is.

You don't need an extra cost package to produce PDF documents from Word. PDFCreator at SourceForge does the trick and it's free.

Anyhow, I hope they have improved it, as I had it installed just for the *neat* factor, and the damn thing would always start up whenever I booted into XP. I use windows so little, I didnt bother tracking down where the start up processes were, but it wasnt in the norm HKEY/LOCALM...BLAHBLAH. It was very buggy too. Even 3d desktop is cool, but then again, no real use. I cant even manage my own projects, much less 3d windows flying around.

Don't mean to reply to my own, but I thought I might add that the windows version also provides "auto-typing" the "user -tab- pass" keystrokes for you in the last app that had focus. It's not perfect, but designed for coping in a less than ideal situation.

For the Windows folks

For the *nix folks

For the Windows folks

For the *nix folks

This is something I've been wondering about ever since I started using Ubuntu. I dig everything about it, except the fact that the Ubuntu repositories never seem to get updated when new versions of software come out. Is the official Ubuntu position that we should wait for all our software to get updated exactly once every six months? There's some sort of backports project going on now, but even that seems to be a little bit slow on the uptake. This might not be a problem if Ubuntu wasn't so insistent on using cutting-edge packages like Totem, where you really do want to get on board with the latest version as it appears.

Once you start installing updated software packages from their home sites, you kinda destroy the point of going with a particular distro in the first place, don't you? At the very least, you pretty much give up on its package distribution system. And yet, if somebody releases an update of an app that includes a bunch of security fixes, and Ubuntu's position is that "it'll get updated when Hoary comes out" ... well, that strikes me as being Not Good Enough(tm). Can anyone clarify?

Seriously though, stop trolling. Go outside, it's nice out, throw a frisbee or something.

For those of you interested the sourceforge project page is at http://tivohme.sourceforge.net

streamripper

ATI's method of competing has been to lie continually about the future of being able to use this feature. For example, back in 2000, ATI announced the VHA SDK to allow Linux users access to the MPEG2 accelerators on their cards. After 5 years of waiting, ATI still has not released this to the general public. Instead, they claimed in a FAQ that the GATOS project is currently working toward hardware assisted IDCT... But the GATOS project had already publically announced "no planned support."

So, I contacted ATI developer relations via the web in 2003 and waited three months. They never got back to me. So, I contacted them by phone, they confirmed the following:

• ATI has no plans to ever release the announced VHA SDK to the general public
  
• Because of "lack of interest" (I guess on ATI's part, because there is plenty of interest to be found on Linux mailing lists), they feel no obligation to ever honor the press release
  
• ATI has never release specs for doing iDCT to the GATOS project and does not expect the GATOS project to be able to support iDCT
  
• When ATI's Linux FAQ stated that GATOS would be providing support, ATI already knew they had a policy which required withholding the specifications on how to write drivers to use the iDCT acceleration feature.
  

"Yep, JavaHMO [sourceforge.net] can do basically everything that TiVo is adding already. Here's a list of what it can do from it's web site:"

And from the provided screenshots on the SourceForge site, it looks like JavaHMO will be available using the HME features instead of the hacks it has to use now.

http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/?page=screenshots

"Does anyone know if obtaining the SDK requires the agreement to an NDA or similar license agrement as some other SDKs do? It would be nice if the SDK does not preclude the writing of Free Software."
The SDK is release under the Common Plublic License and is a free download from http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/.

Spellchecker for Mozilla/Firefox.
Supports every human language I've seen on /. (assuming 1337 speakers not to be human). No excuse.

The SDK is out: http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/

Screenshots:
http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/?page=screenshots

TiVo is sponsoring a developer contest:
http://www.tivo.com/4.3.hme.asp

The press release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050131/sfm023a_1.html

The SDK is out: http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/

Screenshots:
http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/?page=screenshots

TiVo is sponsoring a developer contest:
http://www.tivo.com/4.3.hme.asp

The press release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050131/sfm023a_1.html

Have at it: http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/

You can get the TiVo Home Media Engine SDK from Sourceforge: http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/.

There is also a TiVo Developer Challenge: http://www.tivo.com/4.3.hme.asp
There are prizes for best overall, best music app, best photos app, best information app, best game app, and most creative. You can download and run a demo now! The demo has "SameGame", "Skull and Bones" (connect 4), and "Weather" in it. Checking it out now...

You can get the SDK here no NDA required:

http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/

It is Open Source, includes full source for the samples and the SDK itself.

You can download a copy of the SDK from Sourceforge. From the page: The SDK is released under the Common Public License (CPL).

View images in the following formats: BMP, GIF, FlashPix, JPEG, PNG, PNM, TIFF, and WBMP.

Rotate images.

Play MP3 files.

Random/shuffle play.

View MP3 file tag information.

Play MP3 streaming stations on the internet.

Sort items by different criteria.

Organize MP3 files based on their ID3 tags.

Automatically download Shoutcast playlists of your favorite streaming stations.

Use the streaming proxy server to significantly improve on the inadequate support TiVo provides for online streaming stations.

Play your MP3 files and streaming stations using both .m3u and .pls playlist formats.

View live local weather conditions including current conditions, 5-day forecasts and radar images.

View local cinema listings.

Automatically download and view any image on the internet.

View a real-time image of your PC desktop.

Play interactive games such as TicTacToe.

Manual connections from TiVo.

Platform independent.

Supports TiVo Beacon API.

Provides a plugin architecture.

Organize images files based on their date information.

View fullscreen images of web pages.

Audio Jukebox.

View stock quotes.

iTunes playlists integration.

Read email.

View NNTP images from newsgroups.

View RSS feeds.

View NOAA weather alerts.

ToGo.

All that and it's open source.

http://nxzilla.sourceforge.net/

Done.

Robin: There's a few bugs filed on this, my own is 1103753, which includes an attached screenshot. The actual bug can show up in a number of different ways, though this is common. Sometimes (usually in the relationships / user settings pages) all the content is pushed a screenwidth to the right, rendered as black text on black background. Annoying to say the least.

Response is that the bug is a browser fault. but I'd return that until Slashdot presents something remotely approching standards-compliant HTML, you've got a problem here.

The upside is that I'm using the "light" user prefs setting and a custom stylesheet to give the page the "Slashdot" look. Or any other page. Some fun....:

Slashdot:

• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/standa rd.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/lite-n o-css.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/lite-w ith-css.png

The stylesheet itself is available as:

http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/slashd ot-lite.css

Misc sites:

• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/craigdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/googledot.pn g
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/karstendot.p ng
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/useitdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/dandot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/microsoftdot .png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/registerdot. png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/w3cdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/ibmdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/nytimesdot.p ng
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/scodot.png

Robin: There's a few bugs filed on this, my own is 1103753, which includes an attached screenshot. The actual bug can show up in a number of different ways, though this is common. Sometimes (usually in the relationships / user settings pages) all the content is pushed a screenwidth to the right, rendered as black text on black background. Annoying to say the least.

Response is that the bug is a browser fault. but I'd return that until Slashdot presents something remotely approching standards-compliant HTML, you've got a problem here.

The upside is that I'm using the "light" user prefs setting and a custom stylesheet to give the page the "Slashdot" look. Or any other page. Some fun....:

Slashdot:

• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/standa rd.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/lite-n o-css.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/lite-w ith-css.png

The stylesheet itself is available as:

http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/SlashdotLite/slashd ot-lite.css

Misc sites:

• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/craigdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/googledot.pn g
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/karstendot.p ng
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/useitdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/dandot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/microsoftdot .png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/registerdot. png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/w3cdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/ibmdot.png
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/nytimesdot.p ng
• http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/scodot.png

Why should i pay for this shareware when i can use this plugin for good & famous Azureus Bittorrent Client without paying a cent ?!?

Why should i pay for this shareware when i can use this plugin for good & famous Azureus Bittorrent Client without paying a cent ?!?

QSpaceHulk is probably the best. It's 2nd edition, unfortunately, but it does have multiplayer. It's GPL'd

Sulk has a lot of potential. It's 1st edition and has a good AI, but currently no network play (only hotseat). It's written in Python with PyGame and is GPL'd.

Finally there's Spacehulk-SP. I don't know much about this one since it's written in VB and I haven't tried it under WINE. Surprisingly, it's GPL'd as well though.

The software that astronomers use for visualisation tend to be either home-grown or else part of very complicated data reduction and analysis packages (eg IRAF, MIRIAD, AIPS++) that nobody in their right mind would want to use if they didn't have to!

Please visit Slashcode bug #981137, which concerns automatically hyperlinking URLs in "Plain Old Text" mode, and add a comment to show your support for a speedy resolution. No progress has been made on this trivial feature request for longer than six months.

Redistribute this comment at will.

Look at Photoshop for a really good example of this as the right-button still doesn't do anything particularly useful in the Windows version, which is a side effect of the Mac heritage.

And yet, somehow, Photoshop still manages to be an extremely powerful application. In fact, it dominates its market segment, on both the Mac and on Windows, despite costing hundreds of dollars, and despite the existence of a major, Free alternative.

Apparently, the lack of right-click functionality doesn't seem to hurt this application much. Maybe there's a UI lesson there.

/graf0z.

Has anyone tried Media Portal? It's an open source Windows MCE look-alike/replacement. Written completely in C#, no less (I believe). I'm thinking about replacing my TiVo with an open-source PVR, and I'm not sure which one to go with, MythTV or MediaPortal. Has anyone tried both? If so, any recommendations? (And please, no "Linux vs Microsoft" as for the operating system -- it's just the user-land software that I care about.)

And there is also tmk at http://tmk.sourceforge.net/

Why not use GnuCAsh?

It's so difficult to integrate with online banking?

1. It costs nothing (though you can usually get Money/Quicken Free After Rebate)[
2. It is cross-platform
3. It will import QIFs
4. It uses double-entry accounting (though this might take some time getting used to)
5. No features expire
6. All upgrades will also be free & occur more frequently than once a year if needed.
7. Upgrades haven't broken import/export from old files from older versions

1. Somewhat new (1.0 release was in 2002)
2. Missing some features which can be found in commercial software (some of which can be added, some of which won't be)

Microsoft and the hackers are just playing CoreWars, for real, on our systems. Isn't that great?

In fact, Windows XP's heap boundary checking sounds like little more than the old RADAR-X REDCODE program...

Well, as for C#, would take a look at mono or Portable.Net for some enlightenment... pnet is a bit further for desktop/gui stuff, and mono is further with asp.net for web-application hosting... ymmv.

Also, on the editor, I can't say enough good things about crimson .. I use it for about everything.. I've also been using SharpDevelop which is a FOSS ide, not quite as responsive as MS's 2003 VS, but pretty nice..

In fact doing a presentation on NON-Microsoft.Net for my .Net usergroup in a couple weeks... There have been several books published on mono, pnet, #develop and more.. with a few on the way. For desktop applications, it can be pretty nice (check out wx.Net a .net wrapper for the cross platform wxWidgets toolkit... works on win/lin/osx.

I have to say that the MS tools are about the best of their breed, eclips is pretty nice, and I like more of a plain text editor (with syntax highlighting, and programming options) like crimson. Textpad is nice, imho, crimson is better.

This kind of politics-oriented software devel
here

(With apologies for the blatant plug.)

And finally, don't forget the OS X factor. You absolutely can't run that on the x86.

Aha! PearPC is a PowerPC emulator for the x86 which emulates a G3. Absolutely runs Mac OS X 10.3, Mandrake and Darwin, more or less. BSDs crash while booting due to a PCI hack (says the linked page).

1. boost-build v2 is the absolute BEST if you want to build C/C++ projects with multiple compilers & versions & targets--or even on simple projects that require a one-liner to feed into boost-build2 (normally taking 5-20 lines in GNU make).

Upside for boost-build2? Wraps compiler/linker flags in a generic language for many compilers and versions(gcc, msvc, bcc, etc). Also very easy for simple projects but truly shines on huge and complex projects. Jamfiles can inherit properties , requirements, targets, etc. from parent directories. Very very cool.

Downside to boost-build? Documentation truly sucks compared to other tools. Docs getting better but new users should prepare to unexpectedly find features they could've used to avoid hours of effort.

Boost-build v2 uses bjam but there seems to be a plan to add support for Python.

2. Scons is the next best thing to boost-build v2. The underlying language is Python but you don't have to be a Python expert to use it. And the documentation is much better than boost-build v2. However, it takes many more lines to get things done than boost-build v2 (which isn't all that bad considering boost-build v2 can do things in only 5 lines to replace a 40-line gnu makefile).

3. rake is a make-alternative written in Ruby. For all you recent Ruby converts, be sure to check it out. I love Ruby but I gotta admit, I don't see anything out there being better than boost-build v2 today.

GNU make served us well but it is time to move on to better choices that make us more productive. Just like cvs having served us well but svn and others being a better choice today.

• MusicBrainz
• MoodLogic
• QuickNamer
• MusicMagic Mixer
• UltraTagger
• FixTunes
• Tag&Rename

Links without the annoying Slashcode spaces:
1. http://nedron.net:6969/torrents/steve_jobs_NS30_de mo_30mins.mp4.torrent
2. http://haikunews.org:6969/torrents/steve_jobs_NS30 _demo_30mins.avi.torrent

Please visit Slashcode bug #981137, which concerns automatically hyperlinking URLs in "Plain Old Text" mode, and add a comment to show your support for a speedy resolution. No progress has been made on this trivial feature request for longer than six months.

Redistribute this comment at will.

Get your iPOd Boot Loader here!

And secondly the majority of Sourceforge users are Linux users

And finally those Linux projects, being popular have an easy time finding someone to port to Windows, but a low key windows project has a hard time finding someone to port it to Linux since no one knows about it.

And secondly the majority of Sourceforge users are Linux users

And finally those Linux projects, being popular have an easy time finding someone to port to Windows, but a low key windows project has a hard time finding someone to port it to Linux since no one knows about it.

They are developing an open source tool http://complearn.sourceforge.net/ that will hopefully integrate the algorithm they describe. Right now it's only supporting one of their previous algorithms. More about this in the above link and section 5 of the paper.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of open source developers who have never touched GNU Make.
Open source on windows, OMG it does exist!!!!
Step out of your Linux bubble.

What's Linux-centric about GNU make?

I'm primarily a Windows user, and I used to use GNU make all the time. Until I realised I preferred omake.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of open source developers who have never touched GNU Make.

you might try these guys.

www.virtualdub.org
www.dscaler.org

And many more.

Open source on windows, OMG it does exist!!!!

Step out of your Linux bubble.