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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time a

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job over time a

When u can show you've done more, better, & EARLIER than I have in the realm of the computer sciences, per this only PARTIAL tiny list of my favs. below:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corint

When u can show you've done more, better, & EARLIER than I have in the realm of the computer sciences, per this only PARTIAL tiny list of my favs. below:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corint

This is a good idea. It is entrenched, however, by the idea of a 'unix name' or 'package name'. At sourceforge, you register with a unix name, which is in the URL. So the featured project Scribus is located here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/

I need to install KDevelop, which package do I get? Easy, it should be apt-get kdevelop. What about "KDE Development Studio"? Well, I'd probably need some sort of GUI thing to let me select, and then know what the package name is.

Short, unique names are how we do things, and getting that to change will require more than just the projects changing the official names. It has to satisfy the point-and-click people as well as the command-line people.

Not directly related to your post, but take a look at http://nassp.sourceforge.net/ . It's an add-on to the "Orbiter" spaceflight simulator with models of the Apollo spacecraft, including an emulated guidance computer that runs actual AGC code.

It's been an oft-asked for feature in Vegastrike. And they've already got the flying around in space and trading stuff covered. Maybe he could do the "I'm just a space janitor" portion that no one seems to want to do?

"Most companies are afraid to derive products from projects with GPL license, in fear that they will have to share all their code ", postmortem

About the LGPL

I have used VirtuaWin for some time now. It's relatively easy to set up, and I have seen no performance issues with my Windows 7 partition while it's running. It works for me, maybe it could work just as well for others.

• - virtual desktops, workspaces for Windows Vista/7/XP/2000
• - arrange your running applications on different desktops to improve overview
• - integration into the panel
• - several patterns possible
• - 64 bit support
• - move windows between desktops by drag 'n drop or by using the window menu
• - optional keyboard shortcuts for switching the desktop
• - set a window "sticky": always visible
• - "Mini-Windows" give an overview from each desktop
• - support for "Flashing-Windows" (notify for new messages in Mirc for example)
• - keep a window above all others by selecting "Keep on top" from the window menu
• - drag `n drop between desktops
• - dual/multi monitor support
• - no administrator rights necessary
• - no installation
• - safe: automatic window restore even on crash by use of two separate processes.

Virtual desktops are part of the core functionality of bblean. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions have for a long time worked tremendously well for me on Windows 7 OS. It is #1 on my list of must have software for Windows. My only gripe is that the program I use for updating my WoW addons (curse client) is a whimpy .NET application that won't execute at all under alternative shells (they say they don't support it), so I have to very simply work around their jankyness by switching back to explorer shell.

http://windowspager.sourceforge.net/

Its a lightweight free one that stays on your taskbar, like the linux ones I am used to. You can move windows either by dragging or right-clicking on the title bar. My favourite feature is "keep on top" that I have become dependent on with my linux desktop. :)

PS to run it, just run it. To make it run every time, put a shortcut in the "startup" folder.

I'm pretty certain I was playing H.264 content in VLC under Windows XP SP3 last year before the partition got infected, nuked, and reformatted for Linux space. So obviously there are H.264 codecs that can be installed.

Just stop talking already.

1) VLC doesn't use platform codecs, it has FFMpeg built directly into it along with a bunch of other open source codec libraries.
2) Platform codecs on Windows mean either Media Foundation (Win Vista/7 and newer only) or DirectShow (Win XP/Vista/7 and earlier).

Yes, you can install DirectShow codec libraries like FFDShow (FFMPEG for Windows) which can be used by all DirectShow compatible players (like Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, etc) but that does not work out of the box, you'd have to install in manually [Bundling their installer with yours is just as bad as compiling a H.264 decoder directly into it]. If you're going to say "that's good enough", remember that the entire point of adding H.264 is to satisfy morons who are incapable of understanding that square pegs (H.264) don't fit in round holes (WebM) so support for square pegs has to be added. If it doesn't work out of the box, and it won't, then the average non-geek XP user is still going to be upset that their HTML5 videos don't play even if they can fix it by installing something else as well.

More like a lightweight open source framework.

You must be using windows to try to rip the movie.

I set up a FreeNAS server to share the drive. I then set up a second system to do the conversion.

Both my desktop and the conversion server (Linux) use dvdbackup to backup the dvd to the NAS. I can share it as is, but it takes a lot of space to store the whole backup (4 to 8 gb) So I queue the backup for conversion to xvid/avi on the conversion server. The xvid conversion is done with omgrip http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

It processes about 10 dvd's a day with no cropping and no down scaling of the movie and the file size fixed at 1024m.

10 dvd's a day? lol...

You must be using a smartphone to rip those movies.

Try a desktop with an i5 or an i7. It takes me exactly 30min to rip a standard length ~90min DVD.
On Windows. Processed to be able to stream to my smartphone or just carry on the 32G chip.

That's a 2 step process... it actually only takes 10m to rip the actual DVD to vobs, where I leave most of my collection.

DVDFab to rip to HD. http://www.dvdfab.com/ ~7-11m
At that point I decide if the movie is worth keeping at that format (action movies, or movies with elaborate sets/locations).

And if not, I queue up the ones that get turned into avi with Auto Gordian Knot. http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Auto-Gordian-Knot ~15-22m

Go thru 3-4 an hour... should be able to do a small DVD collection in a week, a large collection in a couple or so. But with the price of HD's
now, (flood notwithstanding), no sense really going beyond ripping. Even a pretty extreme DVD collection should be under 5 TB. That's $300.

And if you do that you should be able to do even a pretty massive collection in a week.

Most people could easily memorize a few strong passwords. But password reuse should be discouraged. See XKCD #792. That sort of thing actually happens; it's one of the points of phishing.

If you make use of good password safes -- I recommend KeePass -- then you can keep track of lots of strong passwords and passphrases, while only needing to memorize a few of them.

You are correct, my bad. Two other SSH servers for windows (that appear to be free) :

http://mobassh.mobatek.net/ - never heard of it

http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ - Based on Cygwin but doesn't require a full blown cygwin install.

You must be using windows to try to rip the movie.

I set up a FreeNAS server to share the drive. I then set up a second system to do the conversion.

Both my desktop and the conversion server (Linux) use dvdbackup to backup the dvd to the NAS. I can share it as is, but it takes a lot of space to store the whole backup (4 to 8 gb) So I queue the backup for conversion to xvid/avi on the conversion server. The xvid conversion is done with omgrip http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

It processes about 10 dvd's a day with no cropping and no down scaling of the movie and the file size fixed at 1024m. I can fill the drive holding the dvd backups in an afternoon and have it rip the whole week with out adding to it. I have no sound sync issues and only a small number of really new DVD's will not read and backup. I have reported the errors to dvdbackup so I assume they will get it fixed.

I have 169 of my dvd's ripped and still have 580 to go.

All in all, I spend my spare time on Saturday doing dvdbackups (About 7 hours total for the day) and then spend about an hour a day moving the completed movies to the Movie directory and removing the dvd backup once it is done.

With those two pieces of software I have almost no messing around to do, simple set up a profile to set the xvid size, audio settings (Dolby 5.1), and turn off cropping.

All of my streaming is done to a Boxee Box.

Simple, easy, works almost every time (Total failure is about 10 dvd's so far.), no 2$ and no need for the internet connection to watch a movie.

...with this

http://aide.sourceforge.net/

It's not a bad little alternative to "Tripwire" or some of those other things, either.

We haven't had to rely on static build-test-debug-fix-repeat cycles for day-to-day programming in at least 5-6 years!

Welcome to the 1980s.

Theoretically the Lytro could do that as well, automatically focusing wherever you look, though of course, it would need to know where you're looking, which isn't something normal computers know. Clicking a mouse on the image to focus there isn't as automatic, of course, but it's similar to what we do naturally with our eyes.

Projects like OpenGazer

have yet to take off because of the lack of a real "killer app". But tie OpenGazer (or other webcam eyetracker) to this, and you'd have a rather cool tech demo.

Actually, I think they've really missed a trick. Isn't "3D" the big trend this year? Why not launch with a zoomless stereoscopic camera that you point about like a pair of binoculars (hence small LCD requirement), then power the PC end (yes, I know, this device is Mac only for no sensible reason) with eyetracking and 3D TV support.

A gimmick, yes, but one that ticks all the zeitgeist boxes and presses all the hot buttons. Think of all the column inches talking about "taking 2.5D to real 3D" or "unlocking the third dimension" or "tackling the hidden dimension". It would advertise itself....

" Maybe they're not artists, and maybe the UIs they built weren't "pretty" (a.k.a full of curved corners and gradients)," - by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09, @06:45PM (#39307359)

For instance/example: I am a huge fan of Borland Delphi. It's got toolkits (like Orpheus) that add the "off-the-wall" non-std. 'pretty' type interface widget tools.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tporpheus/

I am VERY glad I took a look in fact, because THIS one? It rocks... & it used to be "pay for ware" but now?? Well, it appears to be OPEN SOURCE apparently (way cool!).

APK

P.S.=> And, there you are - PROOF, that "pretty" isn't the province of 'designer' goofs, because yes, imo? If that's ALL YOU DO in programmatic development?? That's all you are, point-blank (and a CHILD can do that much!)... apk

I do it to practice guitar. I'd like to take the opportunity to give a shoutout to GuitarPractice. I have nothing to do with them, but it's a great little program I use somewhat often.

can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way.

And there lays your problem. And the problem with Windows UIs since XP. W2K's menu was the pinnacle for keyboard-navigation orientated people like me: Ctrl+ESC (Open Start menu) -> (P)rograms -> (T)ools -> (<First character of program in "Tools" I wish to launch>). That sounds more complicate and time consuming than it is in practice. It's done in less than 2-3 seconds. And tose are only the programs I use from time to time. The "needed on a daily basis" ones have a shortcut on the desktop with assigned keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+ALT+P for Command Prompt, i.e.), which is even faster.

A launcher that forces me to use a mouse (Win7, I'm looking at you and yeah - Classic Shell to the rescue!), is forcing me to waste my time with it. Nothing to be proud of, if you ask me.

Check out Classic Shell - its Classic Start Menu allows you to completely customize the Win 7 start menu.

I've killed the Programs / Favorites / etc in favour of categorized menus directly off the root of the menu. Sooo much nicer!

Windows 7, I didn't really appreciate how bad it was until I started using it. Solution 'Welcome to Classic Shell' http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/. All that fucking hassle just to browse the net and play a bunch of games, I'll bet you see a windows 8 version before long. M$ seems to go out of it way to be annoying.

All of it aimed at forcing xbox style licensing on windows.

As for having 'USED' anything, has any told you to politely fuck off lately. Never forget the underlying reality, 'My computer and I will use and interact with it they way I prefer too', I will not be a company bug tester, I will not change use to suit their ulterior motives, no choice then the company can fuck off, not the user has to suck it up.

AROS is AmigaOS 3.1+, with extra bits, re-implemented as a portable OS (not just x86, but ARM, 68k, PPC). AROS is/was for users, by users, without (scant!) profits getting in the way of rational decision-making.

The reason the various zombie shells of Amiga, Inc. and its contractors/IP licensees never did an x86 port is because by the time the AROS guys were actually doing it, the Amiga market was so small that monetizing such an effort would have been impossible without proprietary hardware in the first place.

I'm glossing over the fact that PPC was technically also a much easier challenge than going x86, but I think that's the reality: there always seemed to be more money in what was left of the retail/reseller network for hardware, than software.

I'd also like to point out that AmigaOS had virtual memory, even in the classic 3.x OS with add-ons, and many popular software packages were written to be "VM friendly". Also, AmigaOS 4.x has protected memory, but the implementation has some interesting twist which I forget the details of (but seemed a good compromise to transition AmigaOS 3.x apps into the new protected-memory world).

Even with protected memory enabled, it sure as hell boots faster and starts apps quicker than the shiny new Asus laptop I bought last year...

With digital EQing and convolution $24 headphones or canalbuds can sound just fine. Frequency response is the most important factor affecting quality of sound for both headphones and speakers, and this is exactly what you can fix with a good equalizer. I love the PortaPros I have that cost 20€ on sale after just a very crude measurement of impulse response with the free and excellent DRC and a convolver audio effect. On my Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox I use the 5 band parametric EQ to fix the sound of my Sony EX50LPs, which are my most used headphones despite me owning full size headphones and canalbuds 5 times the price (which are great, too, and will no doubt last me longer, but are not as tiny, convenient and care free).

Of course there are many factors you cannot fix with EQ - distortion being a big problem with many types of headphones, quickness (as measured by waterfall plots), sensitivity and impedance (you want these to be a good match with your source), noise isolation, repeatability of seal, not to forget the inaudible but important factors such as comfort, build quality and style.

The ideal frequency response of headphones is still open for debate - most headphones shoot for a diffuse field response. Regardless of ideal most headphones have obvious flaws in their frequency response that can be fixed with the tools available for free.

A true darknet would not depend on traditiona DNS (root servers). I can't immediately tell from their FAQ if their methods are entirely independent of DNS.

Why does it matter? The point of private encryption is that you can hide what you transmit between A and B through a untrusted network, and be assured of the integrity of the transmission.
FWIW, the FAQ entry does say they use a DHT, namely bittorrents, although they can also somehow take advantage of dynamic DNS.

I'll skip the obvious question about why you don't like new Firefox or other browsers and try another tact.

Since this is all open source software, why don't you find like minded people and make a new fork based on Firefox 3.6? If you want to go older than Firefox 3.6, you can always use K-Meleon.

New Wolf (Original Wolf3D albeit redone into OpenGL):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/newwolf/files/

APK

It depends what your goals are as well. In academic releases, I see two main drivers of the choice:

1. BSD/MIT-style if your #1 goal is to get your code used as widely as possible. Maybe you have a strong personal belief that some method should be widely adopted; maybe you hope to benefit from the publicity of saying "as seen in Excel 2015!" about one of your methods; maybe you just consider it not worth putting any restrictions on; or various other reasons. Lots of examples of these.

2. GPL-style if you don't want Excel or Matlab to be able to incorporate your code without negotiating a separate license. This is often chosen when the goal is to do a split commercial/open-source release, with the hopes that Microsoft et al will pay for commercial licenses, while free-software projects are allowed to use the code freely. This is sometimes promoted as an alternative to another license commonly used in academia for that purpose, "free for non-commercial use" (and variants like "free for research/educational use"), which is not a free-software license. An example is the Stanford Parser and related NLP tools.

3. LGPL-style if you have a large enough piece of software to constitute a nontrivial library, and are okay with it being incorporated into major commercial software without a separately negotiated license, but are worried about proprietary extensions not being shared back with the original project. An example is the Waffles machine-learning library.

Even better - Elks
It's had recent development activity.

640k should be enough for anybody.

There used to be DVD-Audio which was way, way better than CD quality but ever since iTunes all music quality has gone to shit.

DVD Audio is still around.

DVD-Audio authoring software is available for various OS platforms:

For Linux (and BSD and Solaris),
http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

For Mac OS
Burn - open source, free
still running on PPC Macs from OS X 10.3.9, also on Intel Macs, a 64bit-version available, too:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Minnetonka Disc Welder - commercial
http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=93&lang=en

For Windows
Minnetonka Disc Welder - commercial
http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=93&lang=en
DVD-Audio Solo - commercial
http://www.cirlinca.com/

You'll also need a DVD recorder capable of DVD-Audio and a respective player.
For PCs, LG Electronics and Pioneer used to have such hardware.

There used to be DVD-Audio which was way, way better than CD quality but ever since iTunes all music quality has gone to shit.

DVD Audio is still around.

DVD-Audio authoring software is available for various OS platforms:

For Linux (and BSD and Solaris),
http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

For Mac OS
Burn - open source, free
still running on PPC Macs from OS X 10.3.9, also on Intel Macs, a 64bit-version available, too:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Minnetonka Disc Welder - commercial
http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=93&lang=en

For Windows
Minnetonka Disc Welder - commercial
http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=93&lang=en
DVD-Audio Solo - commercial
http://www.cirlinca.com/

You'll also need a DVD recorder capable of DVD-Audio and a respective player.
For PCs, LG Electronics and Pioneer used to have such hardware.

FYI: The -X switch to GNU ls(1) already does this.

FYI: No, it doesn't. You didn't even look at the lf(1) project page so you don't understand what it does. The key word you missed was "tersely".

Given the limited number of characters in a Slashdot sig, I was sort of relying on people to click the link; there isn't space to really describe it.

But here's the screenshot:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lf1/screenshots/132735

By looking down the left side of the screen you can see which extensions are in use. By not printing the extensions more than once, lf(1) saves screen real estate and can show more files at once.

Nobody really cares about it except me, but it does not do the same thing as GNU ls(1) -X.

steveha

If it is a prototype and you don't want to be a developer then I would recommend Qt in Gambas. You cast all caution to the wind, even program willie nillie, if so inclined. Declare variables? Not use globals? Require modues? Pffft! Wimps. Those guys are all probably still sitting in car seats! http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

the LOIC those "geniuses" came up with is a crappy tool.

dude, if you think you can do better you can do better. Unless your kvetching about underlying design or strategy flaws.

Also you can use HTTPTunnel on any PHP enabled server (with almost no other requirements) and connect to it with the multiplatform Perl client to open a local SOCKS server (there are other projects named like this one, but this is the only one that really works). The client supports HTTP proxies and the request are normal HTTP GETs/PUTs (not CONNECTs). The project is not being updated since 2010, but it just works (even tho the SSL part has problems, but you can just configure the PHP folder on an HTTPS web server and use stunnel in front of the client).

Then under Windows many programs do not support the SOCKS protocol to connect to the client (I'm looking at you, Remote Desktop), but you can just run ProxyCap to transparently redirect single programs (or all of them) through any proxy. There are free (as in beer, mostly) alternatives to ProxyCap, but they are either not updated (i.e., they don't work on 64-bit systems) or they are likely to deeply mess up the windows network driver configuration when you remove them (or both).

I would expect that SSH is forbidden and that everything has to go through the university's web proxy.
That is the situation I was facing a few years ago when I lived on a college campus. The solution I found was called desproxy and apparently it still exists. Worked wonders with me.

Sounds like the perfect job for ClusterSSH!

What's unfriendly about the following command?

\cite{some_book}

The fact that if I typo it to \cite{some_booky} it doesn't compile. And unless I rigorously recompile after every edit, I might not even catch that. Worse if the brace is missing.

What's unfriendly about the following entry?

It's in a separate file, for starters.

Also, you need to run Latex *twice* to get it working properly (the first time generates the .aux and then you can do it again). Oh right, creating a makefile is apparently easy for everyone.

And like I said, if you forget a comma at the end of the line, it doesn't work.

Oh, I guess I could just use readily-made citations that I can copypaste in from ieeexplore and the like? Well, guess what, the readily available bibtex exports are crap. For example, the bibtex containing all RFC:s (http://tm.uka.de/~bless/bibrfcindex.html) have all sorts of stuff in them that shouldn't be included (including standardization status and what RFC's it obsoletes). When I wrote my latest paper to Elsevier that included lots of RFC references, I basically had to run that .bib through a bunch of perl scripts with lots of regexps to get rid of all the cruft. Same has happened with most other readily made citations. At least the Word's XML has enough of the damn fields that you can pick'n'choose what to include in the reference. With bibtex, I have basically resorted to turning everything into @MISC.

So easy....not.

Only problem I have with Word's citation mechanism is that there isn't an easy way to get citations directly that format, but I have been using Bibutils (from http://sourceforge.net/p/bibutils/home/Bibutils/ ) to get back'n'forth between various formats.

I'll give Latex that it produces the most neatest documents there are, but to get that far you end up fighting all sorts of indicate details far too much. Don't even get started on how to create a new document class - if your text doesn't quite work with any of the provided classes and you'd like to create your own styles, good luck.

No, I'm absolutely right.

Ok, these "problems" of which you speaketh:

1) No, only some map the model direct to disk. Oh, and except on one or two very primitive databases, views aren't mapped into a physical form on disk. MySQL only does so when you tell it to use a storage engine that allows you to map the model that way AND you configure it to. In the example you gave, you could use 1 table and 1 view (or, indeed, 1 table and 1 table-returning function) for almost every relational database out there. More sophisticated databases will let you generate an index from a function and order the table through an index. You still have the view/function, but you don't have to access anything through it for your example.

NoSQL databases can use any underlying structure (relational, hierarchical, flat file, object-oriented, etc), although they are more often coded as flat file. From Wikipedia:

Carlo Strozzi used the term NoSQL in 1998 to name his lightweight, open-source relational database that did not expose the standard SQL interface.

No, you don't lay them out. You have absolutely bugger all idea where Memcached or MungoDB has put your data - it could be in any file on any disk in any computer in the database structure.

2) SQL is nothing more than a wrapper. Not all existing relational databases use SQL. And those that do - well, which SQL are you referring to? ANSI? T-SQL? Some other kind?

SQL isn't, however, restricted to relational databases. Ingres is not a relational database, it is a star database. Ingres uses SQL. Well, at least as one option.

3) I've never had any problems refactoring a database live. But, then, I use design tools. Which prevent me from needing to refactor in the first place by making it easy to design things correctly to begin with. That's the great thing about being a software engineer/computer scientist/database admin/system admin -- I know all about the RASDIT methodology and know how to apply it in everyday activities. I pity the poor sods who try to code blind and have to do any refactoring at all. A good design is so easy to create, so easy to implement and a wondrous thing to maintain.

No, I'm absolutely right.

Ok, these "problems" of which you speaketh:

1) No, only some map the model direct to disk. Oh, and except on one or two very primitive databases, views aren't mapped into a physical form on disk. MySQL only does so when you tell it to use a storage engine that allows you to map the model that way AND you configure it to. In the example you gave, you could use 1 table and 1 view (or, indeed, 1 table and 1 table-returning function) for almost every relational database out there. More sophisticated databases will let you generate an index from a function and order the table through an index. You still have the view/function, but you don't have to access anything through it for your example.

NoSQL databases can use any underlying structure (relational, hierarchical, flat file, object-oriented, etc), although they are more often coded as flat file. From Wikipedia:

Carlo Strozzi used the term NoSQL in 1998 to name his lightweight, open-source relational database that did not expose the standard SQL interface.

No, you don't lay them out. You have absolutely bugger all idea where Memcached or MungoDB has put your data - it could be in any file on any disk in any computer in the database structure.

2) SQL is nothing more than a wrapper. Not all existing relational databases use SQL. And those that do - well, which SQL are you referring to? ANSI? T-SQL? Some other kind?

SQL isn't, however, restricted to relational databases. Ingres is not a relational database, it is a star database. Ingres uses SQL. Well, at least as one option.

3) I've never had any problems refactoring a database live. But, then, I use design tools. Which prevent me from needing to refactor in the first place by making it easy to design things correctly to begin with. That's the great thing about being a software engineer/computer scientist/database admin/system admin -- I know all about the RASDIT methodology and know how to apply it in everyday activities. I pity the poor sods who try to code blind and have to do any refactoring at all. A good design is so easy to create, so easy to implement and a wondrous thing to maintain.

GreatBunzinni has been anonymously accusing almost 20 accounts of being employed by a PR firm to astroturf Slashdot, without any evidence. Using multiple puppet accounts, he mods up his anonymous posts while modding down the target accounts in order to censor their viewpoints off of Slashdot.

GreatBunzinni is actually a 32-year-old C++/Java programmer from Almada, Portugal named Rui Maciel, with a civil engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico and a hobby working with electronics. He runs Kubuntu and is active the KDE mailing list. He has accounts at OSNews, the Ubuntu forums, and of course Slashdot. While trolling Slashdot, he enjoys music by bands like Motorhead, Fu Manchu, Iron Maiden, but lately he's been on a big Jimi Hendrix kick, with some Bootsy Collins on the side. He's also a fan of strategy games like Vega Strike and Transport Tycoon.

Rui Maciel accidentally outed himself as the anonymous troll who has been posting his baseless accusations to every Slashdot story. He wrote the same post almost verbatim, first using his logged-in account and then in an anonymous post submitted days later. Note the use of the exact same terminology and phrasing in both posts.

Feel free to email Rui Maciel at greatbunzinni@gmail.com or rui.maciel@gmail.com, or IM him at greatbunzinni@jabber.org. You can also visit his developer blog at http://rui_maciel.users.sourceforge.net/. Check out his poorly written parsers or his crappy cube apps.

Here is a reply from one of the persons he constantly harrasses and accuses of being a shill:

Well, he's listed me as one of those "shill accounts", so he clearly has absolutely zero proof (although I can't prove that to you, obviously).

I've been posting on slashdot since my first time around at university, so that would be 1999-2000 or something? Maybe 2001 - it might have been in my second year when I got a computer of my own rather than the ones in the lab. My UID is whatever was assigned to me when I made the account, and this is the only account I have.

In other words, I've been around here for a very long time (obviously not as long as some of the 4 digit UIDs), so either Apple/MS/Sony/Facebook whoever has been paying for my to post for over ten years, or they approached me recently and started offering cash (yeah, how very likely, that they'd trust some random guy living in the UK to shill for them. No risk at all that I'd tell anyone about it! no sir!).

In other words, the guy is full of shit, and if he'd been around on slashdot long enough he'd recognise that I've been posting here for a decade.

Still, let the kids have their grand conspiracy ranting and raving. I just wish it didn't reflect so poorly on a site I that I've been a member of for so long. How far it has fallen. Hard to have a proper discussion these days without being modded down or accused of shilling if you dare to say anything that isn't in lockstep with the groupthink.

you do not need a flash player to watch youtube videos.

smplayer v0.7.0 can play youtube videos just fine.

Does seeking work?

So you never use youtube then?

you do not need a flash player to watch youtube videos.

smplayer v0.7.0 can play youtube videos just fine.

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5255

Support for youtube. Now you can open urls like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..... using the Open -> URL dialog or dragging a link from a browser to the smplayer window.

So you never use youtube then?

you do not need a flash player to watch youtube videos.

smplayer v0.7.0 can play youtube videos just fine.

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5255

Support for youtube. Now you can open urls like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..... using the Open -> URL dialog or dragging a link from a browser to the smplayer window.

There are plenty of 3D engines with Lua scripting