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CRM114 is a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the incoming files or data streams according to the user's wildest desires. Criteria for categorization of data can be by satisfaction of regexes, by sparse binary polynomial matching with a Bayesian Chain Rule evaluator, a Hidden Markov Model, or by other means. Accuracy of the SBPH/BCR classifier has been seen in excess of 99 per cent, for 1/4 megabyte of learning text. In other words, CRM114 learns, and it learns fast .

PAM, pam_krb5, pam_ldap. Have Fun, I would recommend picking up Kerberos: The Definitive Guide before even considering going this route. Samba uses kerberos/OpenLDAP to talk to the Active Directory, but the details are hidden. Doing it yourself will quickly lead to the realization that Kerberos is no small subject.

you're asking that on slashdot. why would I spend so much time on anything like this if I didn't have the time to waste?

my nick is somewhat of a joke on this

though it does have some seriousness to it as well, on the political compass I am positioned far bottom left, so maybe I really am a commie.

I currently use CRM114 and on the mailing list, some one (Evan Prodromou) has created a program that does just this using the CRM114 language. It is called "Monkeyplexer" based on the idea that you could train a monkey to sort your mail box into folders.

If you pop over to the CRM114 site and search the general list archives for monkeyplexer to find the discussions about it.

Here is the last version announcement that I could find in my mailbox:

monkeyplexer is a tool for automatically sorting incoming email messages into appropriate folders. A new version of monkeyplexer, 0.7, is now available. http://bad.dynu.ca/~evan/monkeyplexer/monkeyplexer -0.7.tar.gz

This version includes the following changes:
You can specify which mailboxes to use, instead of which mailboxes to exclude. This can save some typing and some time at runtime, at the expense of dynamically updating the list. You can tell the monkeytrainer to only train messages that were received in the last few weeks, days, hours, minutes -- whatever. The monkeyplexer remembers which messages have been trained for which folders. If you train a message for a different folder, the monkeyplexer will automatically forget the first folder before training for the new one. Thanks to everyone who has installed monkeyplexer already. I hope this new version helps some people out. I find it easier and more accurate.

~ESP

I currently use CRM114 and on the mailing list, some one (Evan Prodromou) has created a program that does just this using the CRM114 language. It is called "Monkeyplexer" based on the idea that you could train a monkey to sort your mail box into folders.

If you pop over to the CRM114 site and search the general list archives for monkeyplexer to find the discussions about it.

Here is the last version announcement that I could find in my mailbox:

monkeyplexer is a tool for automatically sorting incoming email messages into appropriate folders. A new version of monkeyplexer, 0.7, is now available. http://bad.dynu.ca/~evan/monkeyplexer/monkeyplexer -0.7.tar.gz

This version includes the following changes:
You can specify which mailboxes to use, instead of which mailboxes to exclude. This can save some typing and some time at runtime, at the expense of dynamically updating the list. You can tell the monkeytrainer to only train messages that were received in the last few weeks, days, hours, minutes -- whatever. The monkeyplexer remembers which messages have been trained for which folders. If you train a message for a different folder, the monkeyplexer will automatically forget the first folder before training for the new one. Thanks to everyone who has installed monkeyplexer already. I hope this new version helps some people out. I find it easier and more accurate.

~ESP

I've got one too, and I love it. Mine is running mvpmc (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/) so that it acts as a mythtv front-end.

Maybe you were thinking of WayBack?

Much to my surprise, I find myself seriously considering buying one of these $500 Macs.

I have wanted a Mac since I got to use one of the originals which was on display at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario the summer after their commercial release in 1984.

Price has always been the major sticking point. When I was thinking of upgrading my Commodore 128, I had a few choices. In the Time Before the Internet (for us home computer users), I wrote Apple and got brochures back for their two new models, the Mac SE and the Mac II. According to the price list that came with them, the cheaper Mac SE cost more than three times as much as a similarly equipped Commodore Amiga or Atart ST. Remember, all of these computers were roughly equivalent at the time.

In the 1990s, I started buying the horrid, commodity IBM PC clones, starting with 486s, and I have not changed since then. If Apple were to release a cheap Mac, I would be seriously tempted to buy it.

Why? Because my recent brushes with Apple hardware and software have been positive. I used iTunes on my PC to convert my CD collection to MP3s. Later, I bought a used 10GB second-generation iPod, and have been pleased with it too. After the front-page articles on Slashdot, I even have downloaded and run Mac OSX on my 2.5GHz 32-bit PC using Pear PC. The emulation was slow (the two times I tried it), but it did give me some idea of what a Mac is like.

So, now to my question: I have a favourite keyboard, an IBM Model M. What kind of keyboard port is standard on Macs these days?

From my limited knowledge, I would guess that this new headless Mac would take a USB keyboard, in which case I would need some kind of USB to PS/2 converter.

Does anyone have any experience with present-day Macs using IBM PS/2 keyboards?

Maybe OSX would provide that missing "thing".

With Fink of course.

The solution to /etc file formats may be OGDL, an incredibly simple data language that these formats can be converted to.

XML is popular, but it and Unix have little in common.

There is a MS Fonts repository at sourceforge, i.e. they redistribute the files under the old license, like the one you are describing. I believe that one of the usual fonts misses, though (Tahoma, IIRC), because it was released later, and so never with the gentle license.

It's a good transition solution, but I really think that we (slashdotters) should launch a project aiming at redesigning Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Mono, Comic, Courier New, Impact, Arial, Arial Black, Lucida and Trebuchet. It wouldn't be exactly the same fonts, but their properties (size, spacing, kerning) and looks would be equivalents to those they clone, so that interchanging them with MS's ones wouldn't break any documents / web pages.

Of course, those new fonts would be GPL'd.

That's what the Elektra project is trying to accomplish. To quote:
"The Elektra Project provides an alternative back-end for text configuration files.

Instead of each program to have its own text configuration files, with a variety of formats, Elektra tries to provide a universal, hierarchical, fast and consistent namespace and infrastructure to access configuration parameters through a key-value pair mechanism. This way any software can read/save its configuration/state using a consistent API."

.haeger

Raymond notes that a search on Sourceforge for "open source" versus "free software" is 97%+ versus Despite this, the words free software don't appear on my project's Sourceforge page. After reading this, perhaps I'll put those words up there. Looking around at other projects, I see one on page two of a Google search for "free" on Sourceforge that one project aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools. This project seems to be one saying it is in the Stallman "faction" although since they say "free (GPL)...tools" instead of "free software", Eric Raymond doesn't count them.

More importantly, let's look at the license, are people issuing the "open source" BSD ones or the "free" GPL ones? 40434 projects are GPL while only 4194 projects are BSD. In fact, 6479 projects are LGPL, so even the GPL lesser license beats BSD.

Raymond notes that a search on Sourceforge for "open source" versus "free software" is 97%+ versus Despite this, the words free software don't appear on my project's Sourceforge page. After reading this, perhaps I'll put those words up there. Looking around at other projects, I see one on page two of a Google search for "free" on Sourceforge that one project aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools. This project seems to be one saying it is in the Stallman "faction" although since they say "free (GPL)...tools" instead of "free software", Eric Raymond doesn't count them.

More importantly, let's look at the license, are people issuing the "open source" BSD ones or the "free" GPL ones? 40434 projects are GPL while only 4194 projects are BSD. In fact, 6479 projects are LGPL, so even the GPL lesser license beats BSD.

There is an old lesson of history: as a rule of thumb, things bearing "open" in their name aren't open. "The Open Group", anyone? Do we learn anything from history?

Well, I prefer Open Source Software over closed source software anyday. But just keep in mind that you can have Open Source software which is not free as in Free Speech. In fact, most software whose developers and "leaders" prefer Open Source as term are not that free at all. Is Evolution Free Software? Try and submit a patch. If this patch doesn't match the marketing goals of Novell you will get a kick in the ass. Yeah, it's open, but it's not free.

Free means going wild, it means doing things that you *can* do and don't care for your "target group" because the target group is you and you care for yourself. If you have to fork a software to get a useful, well-coded feature in, it may be open, but not free. Is Gnome open? Yes. It is free? No. Is going wild bad? Go figure. It's bad for penetration in the commercial market, but is it bad for you?

The term "Open Source" is and ever was nothing than marketing. Luckily MS hasn't got that yet. If they weren't that dumb they would've announced Longhorn as being Open Source once it's ready. Hey , imagine that! Just that it wouldn't change a bit. They'd get developers working there ass off to fix bugs and add features and would still be what they are. They would not go wild.

Nothing a quick google-search wouldn't pick up. But that hasn't stopped ask /. in the past, I guess.

Funny, the Slashdot blurb accuses him of saying that no other system today does SSI, while according to the article he simply said their (future, potential) SSI plans will beat GNAA/Linux's (present, working) SSI clustering.

Anybody have thoughts comparing the DragonFly SSI [shiningsilence.com](warning, PDF) and the GNAA/Linux [sourceforge.net] one?
(Open)Mosix has had craploads of work done on it, and by the time DragonFly's is done, it will be even further ahead. I somehow doubt DragonFly's will end up being better.

PK mo

Thanks, Streamripper will break the shows into different files, add the IDV3 comments to the files and allow you to specify a specific number of seconds to record.

As I mentioned in the post - mplayer (latest) was core dumping on realplayer files over 10 min. I'm guessing mencoder might do the same. Searching forums, other users experience the same issue.

I wonder if you could run a stable kernel and debug a new kernel at the same time. THAT would be great.

You mean User Mode Linux? We've just started using it at my company, and it allows people to have a complete Linux environment, from the kernel up, running within a process on a host system. There's no reason that you couldn't use this for testing experimental kernel builds if you wanted, or for running $distro_that_you_thought_might_be_interesting over $stable_but_boring_debian_that_you_dont_want_to_le ave, or whatever.

"The future is now." :-)

And this is an appropriate post here, why? Get a life you twit. If you want to rag on /., then do it where it's appropriate. Send them a Bugs report. Don't gum up the posts with this crap. ASSHOLE!

Who needs play when you have PONG!
and technically, it doesn't play ogg. It will play mp3's though. and play a number of games... but ogg support? no... it will make mp3s too, but play oggs? no. Guess they need more people working on it or something.

WHOOPS. Wrong link! I spent half an hour searching for these just for this thread and got em mixed up. ;) Here is GTK+ ported to Aqua along with assorted apps and screenshots! Thanks.

Microsoft Windows Services for Unix. It should be named Unix Services for Windows, but whatever. Provides a development environment superior in many ways to Cygwin's.

MetaPad. Great Notepad replacement; no bells and whistles, but a few useful additions.

Ethereal. An Ethernet sniffer, useful for debugging problems and snooping on your neighbors.

WinCVS. GUI front end for CVS client.

• CKRename - Tool to mass rename files in a folder. Works very well for renaming MP3s.
• WinMerge (Use latest RC under beta builds) - Compare document, script, HTML, etc content versions (compares what has changed from revision to revision).
• XXCopy - Extended version of XCopy. This is a great utility for scripting file backups from one drive to another.
• ISOBuster - Open CD/DVD ISOs, BINs, IMGs, etc without having to burn them. Can extract files without burning as well.
• Vim - Improved version of the vi editor.
• IrfanView - Batch Image Processing and viewer (much like ACDSee, but FREE!).
• Diskeeper Lite - An updated version of the disk defragmenter that comes with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This version does a better job of defragging the drive and shows you more information. The site isn't the manufacturer's, but the download does come directly from them. ExecSoft doesn't have this listed on their site anywhere anymore.
• Locate - Windows version of a linux utility. Creates a database of every file on your drives. You can then search and get instant results.
• xvi32 Hex Editor - Very nice hex editor.
• 7-Zip - A freeware file archiver. It supports all of the popular formats (ZIP, CAP, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB) as well as its own format, 7z.
• Max Lister - Create text lists of files in folders. For example, it's useful for an mp3 list.

Installation / Automation

• InnoSetup - Create your own EXE installers.
• ISTool - A GUI front-end for creating InnoSetup installer scripts.
• WinINSTALL LE 2003 - Create your own MSI installers. Also edit existing MSI installers (change options, add/remove components, etc).
• KiXtart - Advanced batch processing language. Commonly used for logon scripts but can be used to accomplish many tasks (comparable to using VBScript and WELL documented).
• AutoIt - Create scripts to send keys to applictions. Commonly used to "silently" install applictions that don't natively support silent install switches.

Multimedia Tools

Isn't there a non-asm version? I don't remember hacving nasm required to compile it.

So go get NASM from http://nasm.sourceforge.net/ - go on, it's free :).

Of course, if you have Linux and gcc, it is likely to be installed already...

At least there used to be pre-compiled versions without it when I used the MS-DOS version back in my Pentium 133 days (DOS versions of emulators were always faster for some reason).

Under DOS, the emulator can draw to screen just by writing to a specific memory area. Under Linux (or Windows), the emulator has to ask the operating system to draw to the screen, which causes overhead. And, of course, under DOS there's no other programs competing for the CPU.

If the programmer is good and knows the hardware well, a DOS version will always beat Windows and Linux versions in performance. The only exception is disk I/O with 32-bit programs, since a 32-bit program running under DOS needs to switch to real mode to call DOS disk handling functions, and back to 32-bit mode afterwards. 32-bit operating systems don't require this. However, an emulator is usually CPU, not IO, bound.

Anyway, this new version seems to finally perform well under Linux. There goes my productivity ;)...

Okay, we've got a little over 24 years warning on this, a bit over 8,850 days by my count. Perhaps we should start assuming this thing is going to hit, and come up with something to do about it. Maybe if we don't turn it away given this much warning, we deserve to get nailed with it.

(Is this rock in Celestia's data files yet? Maybe we should enter it in and run the clock forward...)

For those Mac users who don't want to use GIMP in X11, there is this! Aqua-native GIMP for MacOS.

That when they shut suprnova.org down, the Azureus bittorrent client on Sourceforge got 3 million downloads in 2 days? Someone needs to go to Washington and beat everyone in sight with the Cluebat: Trying to resist the Internet is futile. Stop trying.

Take a look at http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/

A few years ago I bought up some of those Virgin WebPlayers and I-Openers from eBay and other places, and proceeded to hack into them with the instructions provided.

The WebPlayer I'm using in the living room has Windows 95 on it reduced down using LitePC, and has Opera running as a web client. Also installed is Identafone, a piece of software that will display caller-id information on the screen. Add a cheap USB network adapter, plug in the phone line to the modem, and fire up the web browser to bring up a variant of the Block-random script provided by the Gallery distro, and you have a Photo Frame/Caller-ID box that has a small footprint and has no moving parts (no fan or hard drive).

I've also done the same thing with the I-Openers, installing a small 10-Gig laptop drive or so using a custom IMOD2 Kit. They both run very well and you end up with a much more configurable picture frame than a store-bought one for around a third of the cost. Now, I wish I could do something with some type of Linux distro on these guys, and I'm sure that it's possible, but I just haven't had the time after doing these. Ideas anyone? Would a Linux distro run on these boxes and still have enough memory to run a GUI to display photos?

statistics:
R http://www.r-project.org/
WinBugs http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/winbugs/contents .shtml

symbolic mathematics:
Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

numerics:
Octave http://www.octave.org/
Scilab http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/
g95 (Fortran 95 compiler)http://www.g95.org/

I used IrfanView on Windows, and gThumb is what I use on Linux.

That's all I can think of for now...how about listing some free (good) games too? :)

Agent Ransack. An amazing search util, and Ditto CP a good clipboard manager.

A good app to add under Internet would be Filezilla. It's free, and it works - no spyware!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

Which CD Burner would you recommend?

Category CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ [burn4free.com]
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ [burnatonce.com]
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/ [bredband.net]
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ [demosten.com]
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ [deepburner.com]
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ [dvddecrypter.com]
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr [paehl.de]

On the other hand, the question is about windows. Here's the best freeware list I've found, taken off of the neowin.net forums. These are not guaranteed Clean, but most of them are. Also, you might want to check tinyapps.org, which specializes in SMALL apps (usually not enough space for ad/spyware).
Category 3D Graphics: ----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/CharacterCountF ilterForAValidList----
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services...ple/i ndex.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.h tm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/
Category Anti-Virus:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Char acterCountFilterForAValidList----
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Category Anti Spyware:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm l
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
Category IRC Clients:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
Category Audio Players:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2

Here is a site that I use for free windows software.
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

XNView - An exellent graphics viewer with a massive collection of compatible file types, and a sweet thumbnailing browser.

SnideSoft IcoEdit - A thorough icon editing application, with support for multiple icon sizes and bit-depths.

WinWGet - A lightweight and simple file downloading tool.

FileZilla - A good FTP client, with a simple and familiar interface.

KillaFing 3 - A cookie/pop-up blocker for Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher.

Desktop Sidebar - A "Longhorn"-style desktop sidebar program, supporting email checking, a slideshow, clocks, quicklaunchers, and Outlook integration.

Codename Dsahboard - An alternative "Longhorn"-stlye desktop sidebar to the above.

Unix utilities. Very useful collection of Unix utilities for Windows. Includes stuff like tar, unzip, grep, and wget.

Why does anyone use WinMX, Kazaa or any other spy and mal-ware software when both eMule and Shareaza are available? with source?

I guess I spend so much money on my hobby, CGI and the software for that, I just can't handle the thought of buying something when a free application does as good or better.

Some free software that is better than alternative commercial software (or has no alternative):

FREENET

Steel Panthers: World at War

Irfanview

PAF 5 (genealogy software, go to download products, ignore Marie Osmond's attempts to seduce you to the dark side)

GMAX 3D Modelling software

You can also get tons of free software with the purchase of magazines (I know, not really free); you can get the previous version or a free version of just about any graphical app when you buy digit magazine, including software that cost kilobucks as recently as a year ago.

Robin Rowe dunnit.

At the risk of quoting Manfred from Ice Age... oh, and look, they're demoing it with a GIMP fork with up to 32-bits-per-channel and colour management.

At the risk of quoting Manfred from Ice Age... oh, and look, they're demoing it with a GIMP fork with up to 32-bits-per-channel and colour management.

kceasy

real alternative player

lots of tools at http://www.oddsock.org/

Media Player Classic http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli

We must not forget the excellent SCP application WinSCP which is based on Putty.

It really enables anyone to start using SCP instead of FTP or similar insecure stuff...

If anyone can direct me as to the correct way to make a link with the name Gaim, like the parent has (and as I obviously failed to do here), I would be most apreciative.

Seconding FileZilla! It's been a godsend.

I'd love to see Xnews and QCD player up there as well. Just wish Xnews wasn't in such a stagnant state. :-/