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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.)

GanttProject seems nice. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it seems promising. It was mentioned on a NewsForge article.

To make a shameless plug - anyone wanting to play or help develop a great open source (GPL licensed) roguelike should check out my little game:

Tyrant

I't a graphical roguelike with a rapidly growing world and a dedicated development team. Some notable features are:

Highly extensible and flexible game engine

Comprehensive skill-based character advancement system

Randomly generated world with outdoor regions

Over 1200 items and 150 monsters to discover

God mode for playtesting and fun!

In my shop I have an old K6-500 system with 128MB RAM, 4.3GB hard drive, and an old left-over 24x CD-ROM in a standard AT mini-tower case. It has a cheapie keyboard, cheap mechanical mouse, and an old 17" monitor that developed an aversion to any resolution above 1024x768 and was therefore relegated to toolshed duty. The system runs Slackware Linux. When I do anything that will throw dust, I just cover it all with plastic sheeting. Granted, I do very little woodworking - my main interest is electronics.

Cat5e UTP buried in plastic conduit from house to workshop provides the network connection. I added limited, low-frequency oscilloscope functionality to the system with a sound card, xoscope, and a buffer circuit I built using a schematic thoughtfully provided by xoscope's author. This doesn't replace the 10mhz oscilloscope I got for $34 including shipping on ebay, but it does occasionally come in handy. Mostly, the machine is used for looking up part specifications and circuit schematics, and for chatting with fellow electronics hobbyists.

IMHO, it's not worth it to spend much cash on the fancy stuff proposed by folks here, for a machine that'll see maybe 8 hours of use per week at most. I just dug through the old parts bins (lovingly referred to by my better half as "that pile of junk") and found enough stuff to build a system, then spent about $10 extra on the xoscope buffer circuit parts I didn't already have in my electronic parts collection (lovingly referred to by my better half as "that crap scattered all over your workbench").

In my shop I have an old K6-500 system with 128MB RAM, 4.3GB hard drive, and an old left-over 24x CD-ROM in a standard AT mini-tower case. It has a cheapie keyboard, cheap mechanical mouse, and an old 17" monitor that developed an aversion to any resolution above 1024x768 and was therefore relegated to toolshed duty. The system runs Slackware Linux. When I do anything that will throw dust, I just cover it all with plastic sheeting. Granted, I do very little woodworking - my main interest is electronics.

Cat5e UTP buried in plastic conduit from house to workshop provides the network connection. I added limited, low-frequency oscilloscope functionality to the system with a sound card, xoscope, and a buffer circuit I built using a schematic thoughtfully provided by xoscope's author. This doesn't replace the 10mhz oscilloscope I got for $34 including shipping on ebay, but it does occasionally come in handy. Mostly, the machine is used for looking up part specifications and circuit schematics, and for chatting with fellow electronics hobbyists.

IMHO, it's not worth it to spend much cash on the fancy stuff proposed by folks here, for a machine that'll see maybe 8 hours of use per week at most. I just dug through the old parts bins (lovingly referred to by my better half as "that pile of junk") and found enough stuff to build a system, then spent about $10 extra on the xoscope buffer circuit parts I didn't already have in my electronic parts collection (lovingly referred to by my better half as "that crap scattered all over your workbench").

I dispute the notion that somehow visual and music artists are a different breed to the "artistic" programmer.

To demonstrate this fallacy: I am all three. Here are my free pictures. Here is some free music. And here is some free software.

There is a bunch more personal expression out there than you know. What do you make of this story, for instance? Or this site?.

I'm certain there are more and better examples out there.

me neither, i thought that they were talking about this wish

It might be in your bochs. If it works on OS/2, it's got to work for you!

Don't forget to save an image before you blow it up.

There is also a Windows wrapper for ClamAV called ClamWin over at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/

Unless you're referring to Proxomitron, rather than IE, which I use cos it's a damn good piece of software even if it isn't open source. If you know of an OSS alternative, I'll be happy to try it out. However Proxo still isn't stolen, so I really can't work out where you got that part from.

Had trouble finding them before, but here are some screenshots showing the progress...

Tuxkart (before, after)

Pingus (screenshots, improvement not as drastic as supertuxcart, but still)

Supertux (screenshots, you can see the progress just by scrolling down).

Alright, so these are all variations on a theme (linux motifs combined with older popular titles: Mariokart, Lemmings, Super Mario Bros) but if the artwork is any indication, it's pretty impressive what they've come up with so far.

Had trouble finding them before, but here are some screenshots showing the progress...

Tuxkart (before, after)

Pingus (screenshots, improvement not as drastic as supertuxcart, but still)

Supertux (screenshots, you can see the progress just by scrolling down).

Alright, so these are all variations on a theme (linux motifs combined with older popular titles: Mariokart, Lemmings, Super Mario Bros) but if the artwork is any indication, it's pretty impressive what they've come up with so far.

Well, when you upgrade to 64-bit, it sounds like Bochs might be something you'll be interested in.

2) AMD deserves the credit for killing 16bit, not MS.

Maybe some of the credit, but Microsoft still could have supported the code, as you pointed out, through full emulation. They are clearly willing to do this to support 32-bit software because they have implemented full emulation for 32-bit code in 64-bit Intel processors that don't include a 32-bit compatibility mode.

Historically, M$ has bent over backwards to provide legacy support. This is a definite change for them. No matter, as I pointed out in another post, a full Pentium emulator is available to anyone who needs to run 16-bit code (or any 32-bit code that doesn't seem to work on AMD64).

If there is truly a need to run software that old on AMD64, it can be done.

here's few links:
for MSN Messenger
for ICQ
for IRC

using GPRS isn't free either, but it's still cheaper compared to sending same amount of text over SMS

i mean, everyone who is interested in this kind of mildly geeky stories should have realized now where he can find them daily. get yourself jpluck and you can read them each morning in bed - as i do (more because of the other nytimes sections to be honest..)

PAT

If you are producing a largely static site, but adding content daily, with a large number of users, producing static HTML is better than dragging it out of a database, because it produces a smaller cpu hit on the server.

Which is true until you have to do a total site redesign. It *WILL* happen. Then, you have the choice of running an error-prone, REGEX based perl script to reprocess all those HTML files, or re-generating all X,000 pages manually. Either way, it's going to suck, and then you find out what the $300 in savings by going with a slower CPU really cost you.

However, a decent template engine, written in C, as an extension for a language such as PHP or perl will provide excellent performance while still allowing you a total site redesign by editing a single file. I use php-templates as an extension to PHP. It actually performs 5-10% faster than native PHP echo statements!

I serve millions of hits per month with this tool, and I love it. Yes, you *CAN* have your cake and eat it, too!

If you are producing a largely static site, but adding content daily, with a large number of users, producing static HTML is better than dragging it out of a database, because it produces a smaller cpu hit on the server.

Which is true until you have to do a total site redesign. It *WILL* happen. Then, you have the choice of running an error-prone, REGEX based perl script to reprocess all those HTML files, or re-generating all X,000 pages manually. Either way, it's going to suck, and then you find out what the $300 in savings by going with a slower CPU really cost you.

However, a decent template engine, written in C, as an extension for a language such as PHP or perl will provide excellent performance while still allowing you a total site redesign by editing a single file. I use php-templates as an extension to PHP. It actually performs 5-10% faster than native PHP echo statements!

I serve millions of hits per month with this tool, and I love it. Yes, you *CAN* have your cake and eat it, too!

The protagonist is a drug dealer and a narcotics agent. The IMDB summary implies this is only because he uses drugs that split his personality. The much more interesting truth, which shone through Dick's novel, is that people do switch sides all the time! Captured drug dealers really are offered immunity from punishment if they'll be DEA double-agents. And agents who realize the money to be made, and their privileged position, really do succumb to temptation and start dealing drugs. More generally, both cartels and the DEA work to preserve the current Drug War, rather than managed and taxed legalization as with alcohol since Prohibition. Hopefully the movie pushes this home, despite IMDB's summary.

Plus, he's played by Keanu Reeves. I mean, really.

On the plus side, if they left the EEG machine in the movie, this should spike interest in OpenEEG.

If you understand the tax code thoroughly, you're going to easily know exactly which forms to fill out in a specific year. And you would be an accountant, not a programmer.

I know the tax codes thoroughly, and I'm a professional tax preparer and programmer.

Coincidentally, I don't mean this post to be deragotary towards Open Source people, but am I wrong that no one is going to start a project for code that he himself isn't going to use?

I started one a few years ago, when I had a lot more time on my hands (of course my intention was to be able to use it, but as it turns out I just buy my e-file software for now, it's cheaper than writing the software myself). I abandoned it, largely because I suck at writing GUIs (it was basically my first attempt at using GTK). If a few people want to help me try again, I'm sure we could get something done in time for 2005s taxes (even if it's just the 1040-EZ, it'll generate enough interest to move forward). The specs are out there, but the work is tedious. If you're in, contact me at taxman@inbox.org.

The IRS has a target of 80% of all taxpayers using e-file in the near future. Does anyone know where the 'free and open' solution is?

Right here. It's not done and probably never will be.

If you can't acquire, legally or otherwise, Adobe Acrobat, you can use PDF Writer on your windows box.

It installs itself as a printer, much like Adobe Acrobat, and you can print your completed forms to a PDF file for posterity.

Some googling found me a program called Open Tax Solver. I haven't yet tried it, so I can't really say how good it is.

A version for this years US Form 1040 has apparently just been uploaded.

Tax 0.1 for Octave

Open Tax Solver

There's two. Would you like more.

QCad

QCad is probably the closest thing to AutoCAD LT that you will find for Linux. It has a nice easy-to-use interface, seems mathematically correct, and is still under active development. Most Linux distros offer it as a binary package; i.e. apt-get install qcad or emerge qcad.

Other currently usable engineering type tools which you may or may not be aware of are:

• Blender3D - You probably heard of this
• FElt - Open Source Finite Elements Program

What needs to happen is these tools should all be made to interact now. Draft your model in BRL-CAD (or Blender), run FEA on it using FElt, and then import views into QCad to dimension and plot out hardcopies. Some nice tight integration between these packages would be great.

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen handle table and table formatting at all.

To pick two prominent wikis at random, MediaWiki and Twiki both do tables.

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen handle styles. You do know what css is, right?

To pick two prominent wikis at random, MediaWiki and Twiki both do css.

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen let experts enter any and all html code, php, javascript, perl, etc., that the user might need to when designing the web page.

To pick...oh, never mind.

Do you understand what templates are in real web page design or are you just stupid?

Yes, someone in this thread sure comes across as stupid and ill-informed...

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen handle table and table formatting at all.

To pick two prominent wikis at random, MediaWiki and Twiki both do tables.

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen handle styles. You do know what css is, right?

To pick two prominent wikis at random, MediaWiki and Twiki both do css.

None of the wicki interfaces I've seen let experts enter any and all html code, php, javascript, perl, etc., that the user might need to when designing the web page.

To pick...oh, never mind.

Do you understand what templates are in real web page design or are you just stupid?

Yes, someone in this thread sure comes across as stupid and ill-informed...

• It is possible they have been using CVS all these years; CVS was publically released in 1896, though I believe they may have alternatively used RCS and migrated to CVS somewhere down the line.
  

Also, I neglected to mention in my previous post...

One factor behind MS AntiSpyware's successful may be the use of quadratic probing in a secondary clustering to traverse file patterns, which are stored in an acylic graph.

Fleischer and Trippen elaborate further on this technique in a Java implementation, which of course Microsoft did not employ. The rationale, however, is the same.

Check out the repository for this project hosted on SF. Here's a link to the readme file history (dates back to 17 years, 11 months ago!!!).

It is possible they have been using CVS all these years; CVS was publically released in 1896, though I believe they may have alternatively used RCS and migrated to CVS somewhere down the line.

Check out the repository for this project hosted on SF. Here's a link to the readme file history (dates back to 17 years, 11 months ago!!!).

It is possible they have been using CVS all these years; CVS was publically released in 1896, though I believe they may have alternatively used RCS and migrated to CVS somewhere down the line.

Four different ways:
First of all, friendly people outside of that country download this free perl proxy and put it in /cgi-executeables, and mods it to be free of the word "Proxy" (My copy here is free of the "P" word- my school blocks anything with the word "Proxy" in the address bar)

Secondly, some nice person compiles a list of working HTTP / Socks / etc proxies

Thirdly, they put this on a big P2P client

Finally, some other nice person works out the Iranian government's IPs, and adds those to a peer guardian like blocklist that's distributed with the p2p client.
If they block most non-80 ports, then just use desproxy to get around it.


Finally: PROFIT! (Well, liberty, which is just as good)

• Concurrency
• Distribution
• Robustness
• Soft real-time
• Hot code upgrade
• Incremental code loading
• External interfaces

Bit off topic. But couldn't resist.. There's a game just for you. I have no tomatoes http://tomatoes.sourceforge.net/

Check out Slimdevices for what they have to offer. The server software is free and comes in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavours. The Squeezebox's are a little over $100 but you can you a browser, media player of a java Squeezebox emulator called Softsqueeze to play the music. It will also stream WAV, MP3, Ogg, Flac, Apple Lossless, AAC, WMA, and Windows Lossless files with the proper config. It won't play DRM versions of AAC or WMA files though. It supports synchronizing Squeezeboxes as well as does the Softqueeze software emulation. I am currently using the Slimserver software with the java Softsqueeze until I can get the case for a Squeezebox or two.

I find it interesting that an IM client is the top-billed supporter of U3.

TerraIM has been able to run without install since it was created (and fits on a 3.5" disk) plus has offline messaging through DoorManBot, etc.
Why is it that AOL is just now allowing this with ICQ, and only through a new standard?

There's not much need for the Trusted Computing features on these chips since they are mostly used in relatively closed platforms like cell phones and PDAs. It's mostly a matter of getting the chip count down. Eventually however the same integration will show up in desktop computers.

Ironically most work integrating TC into the OS is being done on Linux. Microsoft seems to have given up on NGSCB (aka Palladium); its web site hasn't been updated for a year. Linux projects include tcgLinux, as well as the Applied Data Security Group at the University of Bochum in Germany. There's also the Enforcer project which uses the TC chip to provide TripWire-like modification detection functionality.

*shrug* Tabbed browsing is sort of irritating. Gaim does it, too, by default. I disabled it in that and in Moz.

The win32 stuff you see in the list might get dropped even though it's already written since it's not clear I will have long term resources to support it. Something about the 100's of dollars required to replace all your win32 software when moving to the current win32 or win64 platform.

This leaves an audiodump.wav file that can be converted via lame.

Ideally you'd just save the stream that's downloaded. Sounds like that should be almost trivial to write up in perl, or you could use something like StreamRipper rather than mplayer.

Zero Install does what I think you're looking for: http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/

The Zero Install system makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages. Caching makes this as fast as running a normal application after the first time, and allows off-line use.

Very clever, very underutilized.

Just like the subject says. I installed it on a WinXP Pro SP2 machine. I started it, ran a scan. Interesting that it thinks RealVNC is spyware... I can understand why, but it felt like overkill. The real issue: while the MS anti-spyware was running (realtime "protection"), PopFile, my favorite spam catcher was all whacked out. It would grab e-mail from the server, but pass blanks to MS Outlook. Take the MS beta out of the equation, and everything worked. Put it back in, and presto! Popfile is FUBAR level 3. Back to Ad-aware.

Just thought you'd want to know.

[Bittorrent is a] protocol that makes the internet slightly more efficient, and not much more.

More efficient? He's obviously never been on the same network as someone using it... "Hey, are you downloading something through BitTorrent again? My ping times just jumped from 100ms to five seconds." "Yeah, sorry."

(And yes, I know you can have it rate limit. The option to do so is really well hidden in the "official" version (namely, edit the registry under Windows to add parameters to the default ".torrent" file action) - this is part of the reason I use Azureus for my BitTorrent needs, because it's much easier to rate limit to make sure other people can use the network. And, no, rate limiting through the actual network isn't a solution I can actually use.)

Why? Because I don't want my freedom to use my electronic music files abridged. Apple's format won't let me transfer the files to a new computer more than a few times, without going through a lot of contortions... I can't play music purchased from the iTunes Music Store on my Linux boxen, or on set top boxes. There is no freedom in AAC, only lock-in to Apple's players.

So I choose to buy my music the old fashioned way: on CDs. Then I rip them to MP3 (with CDex) and I can use the music on any player I like, including iTunes and my iPod. The CDs conveniently play in consumer electronic devices, and in my car.

This is what Mr. Slattery should do. Nobody has tied him up and kept him from ordering CDs from CDNow or goint to Walmart or whatever. The music is available elsewhere. He needs to get a grip.

If you have not tried Azureus, you have not felt the full power of bittorrent.

Charm is a command-line based livejournal client capable of archiving and backing up all of your previous entries. Livejournal's export page allows just one month at a time.

The command line was rediscovered. I find learning all the commands cumbersome but I like the command line due to the fact I can script jobs and tasks.

Are you sure you checked out what NT/2000 can do? You can do tasks, too, (AT command) and have the usual Unix tools compiled for Windows. I use all that a lot, and while I still want to switch some day because of MS's tactics, the virii problem and OS costs, I'm not in a hurry.

I use OpenVPN because it works on damn near anything. It allows for network tunneling which covers any port or protocol you could need. From Linux to Windows or Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux. Windows File Sharing works without a hitch. As does games and VNC. Only had to open one port on the firewall to allow the VPN software to talk to each other. The only thing I'm limited by is my internet bandwidth.

None of the PHP developers I know will even give this a second look thanks to it using Java (and sounding like a complete hack). It's not even worth looking at with requirements like that, unless you're seriously desperate for AOP.

"Isn't the PHP community mostly just people who want to bash out webpages, with the rest made up of people who think it's a good platform for large-scale frameworks?"

Not quite; you missed out the people who don't think PHP's a good platform for anything significant, but who use it anyway because, well, what else is there that they know and other people will use/support?

"I think in Python so the whole idea of calling it a "paradigm" is a bit foreign to me anyhow"

What's AOP like in Python? It's pretty easy in Ruby; there's no direct language support, but it's easily added with reflection and code generation.

ZeroInstall is happy to work without root priveleges, and GoboLinux has a "rootless" installation mode that allows you to install its packages in your home directory.

Unfortunately, both of these are relatively non-conventional package systems, and use an application-directory approach.