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Hydrogen is a public dillusion which stems from the fear of us running out of hydrocarbon energy, which we will be soon. Hydrogen is a net energy loser, which means it takes more energy to make the hydrogen than the energy you get from burning it. Right now the only practical way to make hydrogen on any kind of scale is with natural gas, something that we are running disasterously low on. The United States imports 15% of it's natural gas from Canada, and that 15% is over half of their production. The United States had it's production peak of natural gas in the 70's.

Oil is used as a feedstock for all commercial pesticides and natural gas is used as a feedstock for all commercial fertilizers. We have turned our farmland into nothing more than a nutrient defficient sponge so without these petrochemicals farming output would drop from about 140 bushels/acre down to roughly 30. Oil is used in plastics for the medical inductry and almost every other kind of plastic you can think of. There are 7 gallons of oil per every single tire we put on our cars. 40 barrels of oil are used in the energy to produce one car. 24 solar panels operating in the Austrailian desert for 24 hours produces only the energy equivalent of 1 liter of gasoline. If we were to remove hydrocarbons from the picture and replace that energy with energy from nuclear powerplants, it would take 10,000 of the largest plants and at that burn rate the uranium supply would last roughly 20 years. The bottom line is that there is nothing that can replace the energy efficiency of cheap oil.

Now for the bad news, we are peaking or about to, very soon, in both oil and gas, and that means the production slope of both begins on a slide down an irreversable decline. Demand will soar while production will slowly sink lower and lower with every subsequent barrel extracted. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination as to what effects this will have on the economy.

http://ospmm.sourceforge.net/ is a project I am creating to wake people up. Check the research section and read the reviews of the books if you don't believe me. Also I suggest viewing the award winning documentary http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ for a primer on what is about to come down the pipe. The movie is laiden with credentialed industry experts, geologists, and urban planners. This shit is for real people, we are living our lives way beyond what is even remotely sustainable, wake the hell up!

You could use x2x or x2vnc or Win2vnc or Synergy or similar -- basically just vnc without the display (you already have a display on the laptop, right? why not just use that display and the other display and use the seperate key/mouse.

Synergy
'My Win2VNC' -- a customized version of Win2VNC

Client and server software is available across a few platforms as well. (unix, mac, windows) A fellow I work with uses this to tie his sun keyboard and mouse to his sun box and windows pc. It generally works pretty well.

Of course this won't work terribly well if your box is not responding to network traffic, which I suppose would defeat the purpose, so take it or leave it. There might be hope for using this over a null modem connection as well, so as always ymmv.

I found this via 7-zip's forums on SourceForge. And Jeff's Archive Comparison Test site has been my main source of compression application information since I bought a RAR licence way back in '98 or something. It's quite well known if you're a compression junky.

No offence taken. That's a healthy skepticism you've got going there.

These guys are working on an open source hardware and GPL'd software solution comprising a PCI KVM card, console manager and KVM over IP manager. Won't be so useful for your laptop though.

If you have any idea that you could get sued for relasing this type of information, then release it to the Internet anonymously.

Posting to the Usenet via Mixmaster or Mixminion chained remailers (across multiple countries) ending at a mail2news gateway is one such way to preserve your God given right to free speech which many corporations try to stiffle through the use of illegal civil litigation.

I was recently reading a book which talked about the possibility of projects such as this. It is well worth a read if you can get your hands on it.

Also, the article says how a lot of the simulation was done on Open Source software, namely this. Give it a download.

One of the most irritating problems with using PHP for this is that the process management functions (pcntl) are usually not compiled into the distribution packages. PPTP Client includes a GUI app built on php-gtk, but have to install an alternative copy of php with the pcntl extension built on to use it.

Me? I use shell scripts and perl. You might be interested in m0n0wall, which has all the boot scripts and the web interface implemented in PHP.

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.

c:\bin\firefox> set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
c:\bin\firefox>firefox
c:\bin\firefox>firefox

When the second instance starts it will tell you that the profile is in use. Choose another one or create a new one.

Later on you can start Firefox/Mozilla with a certain profile like this:

c:\bin\firefox>firefox -p profile_name

The two instances will have separate cookies so you can have two different logins into a site.
I needed this to test the chat module in Organizator

Douglas Englebart first demoed a mouse in 1968. The original had a horizontal wheel and a vertical wheel, and you had to tip it so as to only move one wheel at a time.

For those too wrapped up in the Xerox-Parc-invented-everything fantasy, (because it makes them feel better when it's obvious Microsoft invented very little,) Jef Raskin has an excellent and short essay about the early days with the Macintosh.

You have yet not seen Penzilla (and its fork Pendesktop), the integrated desktop suite based on Mozilla?

You can download an HTML validator for Firefox that builds it right into View Source. It will validate it within the browser and also provide accessibility warnings. It's based on Tidy.

Yes, I should use the spellbound plugin.

I like and use Media Player Classic (MPC), but it's not a complete "replacement" for recent versions of Windows Media Player (WMP). Some features of WMP that MPC lacks:

• Rip/Encode CDs
• Shop for Music and Video (Windows Media Format) on the Internet
• Organize Your Digital Media Collection
• Take Your Music and Video with You (portable music/video players)
• Burn Your Own CDs

I think a better supplement for WMP is VLC media player. VLC plays (without installing additional codecs) DVDs, MPEG-2, MP4, DivX, XviD, Ogg, AC3, FLAC, H263, AAC, and others (VLC does not use DirectShow to play files). Before downloading a DirectShow codec, I always try playing a file in VLC media player first.

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression

Some sourceforge projects

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpdslow/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractcompr/

for audio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fraucomp/

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression

Some sourceforge projects

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpdslow/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractcompr/

for audio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fraucomp/

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression

Some sourceforge projects

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpdslow/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractcompr/

for audio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fraucomp/

For the drivers I use MADWIFI, which is a wrapper around a proprietary kernel module. It works as good as any Linux wifi driver I've seen. It only works on the mentioned Atheros chipset cards. link

This is what I do, and it works pretty good. Some people have more trouble than others getting it going, but the good news is, there is now plenty of tutorials on how to do it. The only issues I've had are that the transfer rate is not as good in Linux as in Windows, and the driver's default settings are more susceptible to interference. I spend a lot of time in a coffee shop with a shitty AP (though running b, not a), and I have a shell script that bumps up the retry and s/n ratio tolerances, everything now works fine. You get a moderate amount of attention running Linux in public places if you are running a crazy desktop manager.

I've had a Windows-based PVR for a couple of years now, and while I'd love to check out MythTV, I'm unable due to them not supporting any of the ATI All-In-Wonder cards. I run an ATI 8500DV for my PVR currently.

I'm a big Linux supporter, but it is frustrating that there's still problems with drivers for popular hardware, as the lack of AIW support illustrates. Blame's really pointless at this point also. The hardware companies are losing potential sales by not (fully) supporting Linux yet, much less porting drivers, and/or releasing specs for older product, and Linux is losing potential users due to pre-existing hardware setups.

I'm surprised hardware support hasn't kicked in more than it has yet, really... The AIW's have been around, in version or another, for quite some time now, and evidently the entire line's not supported yet. Things are starting to get better, but the 8500's been out a long time now. At the rate driver progress is advancing, I have a better chance of running a BeOS clone before using my 8500DV with MythTV. 8(

I actually considered purchasing a Hauppage 350 when my PVR box went down last month (lost a drive), but it's easier to justify spending much less on the ultra-cool MediaMVP and sticking with Windows than buying a rather expensing dedicated mpeg encoder just to try out some of the Linux solutions. With the MediaMVP, I can relocate my PVR box entirly out of the living room, and dedicate a headless box to recording, and playback somewhere. The biggest (and only) drawback I can come up with doing this is not being able to have Mame and other games on my PVR box. Perhaps with bluetooth control's though, one could even achieve that with the MVP.

For that matter, I'm seriously considering spending a little more down the road, and getting a completely silent, PPC-based box, with HD capabilities. My only concern is how the DRM will impact this when the FCC's broadcast biut kicks in this summer.

I'm a wardriver and I use 802.11a. About 2% of the networks I find are 802.11a as opposed to b/g.

For Linux support, take a look at madwifi. I use it with kismet all the time.

It doesn't sound odd at all. We Mac users understand. I gave Emacs more than two months of my time, switched back to J, and detailed my irritations with Emacs on LiveJournal.

I used to use TextWrangler (bought it more than a year ago), but it just doesn't have the Lisp-related features I need.

If your router supports it, grab an open source firmware, and step outside the normal 1-11 channels. Channels 12 - 14 are almost guaranteed to be empty.

Not a big surprise, really. With the exception of HTML editing, the crop of newer editors for OS X (TextMate, SEE, Smultron, etc.) were making BBEdit look like that smelly old t-shirt stuck at the bottom of the drawer. You used to love that shirt, but now there are a whole lot of new shirts for you to wear, only without all of the rips and stains.

Since BBEdit is underfeatured and way overpriced for general text editing, Bore Bones had to do something to keep their name recognition alive...

Mute is cool (totally forgot the name of the project, but that's the one I was thinking of when writing the reply... thanks!).

But, I'd check out WASTE instead... seems to have some promise, but only for "private networks."

You might be interested in Mute.
It also encrypts the communication between the Nodes.

"This doesn't anonymize the users, does it? Your IP address is still readily available, no?"

So use Konspire, which is an anonymized version of BitTorrent. Or specifically, "deniable steganographic distributed transmission optimised for large data"

That's what MUTE tries to do.

Azureus is an open-source Java-based BitTorrent client with a built-in tracker.

(I am one of the authors of Kenosis.)

We are planning improvements to Kenosis in a number of areas such as better integration with BitTorrent, a more distributed BT tracker, simulation of larger Kenosis networks and making Kenosis work over NAT.

We'd love help with any of these or other areas.

Please join the mailing list to get involved.

The size of the application comes from one thing, wxWidgets which, you guessed it, is written in C++ and not python. The MacOS version runs directly on ObjectC and is much smaller. There might be a direct windows port, python can interface with the win32 api, check out venster. So now you have two options for reducing the size of bittorrent, get coding!

Obligatory rant: If you are tired of the BitTorrent community using python, then write it in another language and stop complaining, nothing in life is really for free.

The size of the application comes from one thing, wxWidgets which, you guessed it, is written in C++ and not python. The MacOS version runs directly on ObjectC and is much smaller. There might be a direct windows port, python can interface with the win32 api, check out venster. So now you have two options for reducing the size of bittorrent, get coding!

Obligatory rant: If you are tired of the BitTorrent community using python, then write it in another language and stop complaining, nothing in life is really for free.

Some people like Media Player Classic instead. I think both are fine.

I'm sure this has been visited before, but why not use Freenet to distribute torrents? Freenet is already anonymous and secure, not to mention reasonably well established.

I just read about Kenosis from its homepage. And, I'm forced to ask:

Do we really need yet another bloated python p2p app? I can feel the flamebait and troll mods comming.. but seriously: Python sucks at gui work. It has to use generic wrappeers, like wxPython, that are extremely inefficient. Sure, like Pearl or Java, you can write gui apps using Python... but they always come out slow and over-weight.

Consider the BitTorrent client. Just running the application, without an actual torrent being transfered, consumes 23 MB of memory (on Windows) -- for that cheesy, very simplistic little GUI. When you actually start running a torrent through it, it'll easily chew 40 MB's and gobble considerably more CPU time than a comparable program written in C/C++.

I'm not saying Python isn't a useful language... But it was not designed to run P2P apps.

Just because a programming language can be extended to creating GUI applications does not mean it's a good idea. Python's strengths are elsewhere, and I for one am tired of the BitTorrent community using it to write p2p clients in.

Now go ahead and mod me down for having a modicum of common sense.

Details

Kenosis-BitTorrent uses torrent files which specify a tracker of the
form http://hash.bt.kenosisp2p.org, where "hash" is the hash of the
original file.

Kenosis-BitTorrent downloaders will notice that this is a kenosis url
and use kenosis to find the tracker that is handling this torrent
file. Standard BitTorrent downloaders try to resolve
hash.bt.kenosisp2p.org as normal. Our dns server will look up the hash
in kenosis and return to the client the ip address of the kenosis
node that is tracking that file. If that tracker becomes unreachable,
subsequent lookups for that hash will switch automatically to the next
available Kenosis-enabled tracker.

From the feature list...

Kenosis works in almost any networking environnment, including restrictive corporate firewalls, because it uses XMLRPC for its network communications. It can also work with an HTTP proxy.

This alone makes a worthwhile project, for those stuck behind firewalls/proxies.

And with ffdshow newbs will never be bothered with codecs again.

I use MPlayer-cygwin myself, but the lack of GUI would put them off.

Seriously I haven't felt the need to install any AV player after MP Classic and mega codec pack from kazza-lite. Also use real player alternative and quicktime alternative much less resouce use and no phoning back to home.

Windows media player like it should be. Low resource usage, plays dvds and any file you have the codecs for installed, without any network access at all. (Unless you're playing a stream or course)

I knew I was playing too much Armagetron when I kept scraping along the walls of my house to gain speed.

If clients bias towards good propagators themselves, then they will be themselves rewarded by those who do likewise. Leechers that do not upload anywhere near proportionally are, by definition bad propogators.

Several organizations of the Sri Lankan IT industry, along with the Lanka Software Foundation and Lanka Linux User Group have worked around the clock for the last couple of weeks to create a set of applications to manage the Tsunami recovery program (URL not given to avoid being slashdotted). We made them Free and Open Source from the beginning, and most of the code are already in SourceForge.

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.

You can Broadcast Creative Commons licensed music :) http://www.dance-industries.com/ http://http//ccmixter.org/ Or you could do a talk radio show with http://darkice.sourceforge.net/ Theres tons of stuff you can freely broadcast and stay legal I have a Peercast Station set up brodacasting CC music http://lightfoot.org/

Forgot to mention: BECAUSE of Knoppix, and its ilk, the servers we build and sell support loop-AES, exclusively!

(i.e. When you go to mount the HDD from Knoppix, it looks like a bunch of garbage and Knoppix refuses to mount it).

For Windows system it's best to use a good cleaner ;-)

OK, so the only MMPOG I have not seen mentioned is World War II On-Line. I know it has 'ghetto' graphics, and the initial learning curve makes climbing the north face of K2 look easy by comparrison, but it's got legs.

Consider: It has been around since mid-2001; there is an active and vibrant community; it is not condusive to the "quaker" or bunny-hopping crew, so older gamers without super-reflexes can wrap thier heads around it too; you can play alongside people from anywhere (there are people from all over Eroupe, India, South Africa, various South American countries, Japan and throughout Asia, Australia, etc.); it has people that have been in the game (regular subscribers) for the entire run; most of these people at one time or another (some cases multiple times) have either left for another MMOPG and/or dual subscribed and found the other games to be wanting (and subsiquently came back); the compatriotism and friendliness of players to one another is so phenominal that the publisher, Cornered Rat Software, hired the most popular person from each of the two sides to be community reps/liasons; the dev team not only listens and *resonds to* to suggestions, complaints, and compliments, they sometimes do so *in game*; the new soundset makes it seem as if you are "in the trenches" in a WWII battle; and the game is constantly updated, to the point that they are going to release a new theater (North Africa) using new dev tools, then go back and *re-do* the original current theater with the new dev tools.

Oh, yeah, one last thing: The developer releases *concurent*, interoperable versions for Win** and MacOSX. They don't run a seperate server for Mac users, they don't leave out functions/graphics on the Mac platform. That in itself is almost unique in the MMOPG world. As for Linux, yes the Win** version will run under WineX/Cedega (at least I can get it to), and there is a Sourceforge page for an easy (Perl-based?) launcher.

Well, am I an anachronism?

I found PMK to be MUCH easier to work with than the autoconf nightmare. Also, if you are doing C++, check out the Boost libraries, which hide most of the cross-platform complexities for you.

A hasty Google search revealed the submitter has launched a project consisting of a game called Rush 2005 , which is described as is quoted beneath.

Rush 2005 is a BSD-licensed project to create an American football game for Windows and Linux in the tradition of Tecmo Bowl and NFL Blitz, built using the cross-platform SDL game programming library.

(I am not affiliated to the submitter, by the way.)