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Yeah! Tell me about it. Nice present from Redmond guys. But let me tell you a happy story! Open Source world gave me the nicest Christmas present I could ever imagine! (well.. I had to download some software and compile a few libraries to make it work, but..)

Linux audio community gave me Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer! This is my dream come true, I can now play some great tunes that made this synthesizer one of the most well known synthesizers. This synthesizer was used on U2's Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree albums. This synthesizer was used by these artists: the Crystal Method, Kraftwerk, Underworld, Orbital, BT, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Tony Banks, Mike Lindup of Level 42, Jan Hammer, Roger Hodgson, Teddy Riley, Brian Eno, T Lavitz of the Dregs, Sir George Martin, Supertramp, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Daryl Hall, Steve Winwood, Scritti Politti, Babyface, Peter-John Vettese, Depeche Mode, D:Ream, Front 242, U2, A-Ha, Enya, The Cure, Astral Projection, Fluke, Kitaro, Vangelis, Elton John, James Horner, Toto, Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Chick Corea, Level 42, Queen, Yes, Michael Boddicker, Julian Lennon, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sneaker Pimps, Greg Phillanganes, Stabbing Westward and Herbie Hancock to name a few.

Can you imagine that? And all this for FREE! Thanks to you guys who made that software synthesizer for Linux!

Wanna have it? Here's where to start.

You see, sometimes the best Christmas presents can be free! Happy Christmas and thank you very much, Open Source world!

Why should forum spellchecking be server-side anyway?

It's slow to do repeated corrections that way, and what if I don't use American spellings?
There is a perfectly good spellchecker for Firefox - it's based on a Firefox port of the spell checker from Mozilla Composer/Thunderbird.
From now on, we know that people asking for a /. spellchecker are using IE!

Project Page

• Boson
• Bsdgames
• Crimson Fields
• Dosbox (Emulator)
• Empire
• Konquest
• Mangoquest
• Pysol
• Tuxcart
• Zsnes (Emulator)
• Ace-of-penguin
• Battle for Wesnoth
• Bzflag, Bzflag-Server
• Clanbomber
• Crossfire (GTK client)
• Enigma
• Foobillard
• Freeciv, Freeciv-server
• Freesci
• Gltron
• Gnuchess
• Jump'n'Bump (joystick support patch, special graphic patches)
• Ksokoban
• Lbreakout2
• Lgeneral
• Miniracer
• Nethack
• Netpanzer
• Neverball
• Tuxracer
• Xgalaga
• XMame, XMess (Emulators)
• Xpilot

Morphix has had a "gamer" version for some time now. Get it from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/Morphix Combined-Gamer-0.4-1.iso?download

• This page lists at least one that should work (Lifeview LifeTV). It's been discontinued but can probably still be found here and there. Note that it's only USB 1.1 and 320x480 (not a typo) max resolution, but does support 30 fps at 320x240 with compression.
• The usbvision driver supports a fairly large list of tuners and capture boxes. All of them are USB 1.1, but the driver does appear to support the proprietary compression.

Someone already figured out how to get linux running on it and made a page about it on sourceforge

I would also like to know what that thing in the top right was aswell though.

That`s torsmo.

The montior happens to be called Torsmo and it paints itself to the root window of X11, which is nice and nifty ( you can get it to ... blend in.)

You can see more screenshots here

~SnoBall

http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/ Join the ivtv-devel mailing list if you want to follow the project and learn about its current status. The project page itself is too far out of date to be very helpful.

http://ivtv.no-ip.com/ The ivtv driver is under heavy development. This site by a developer named Chris Kennedy has newer releases of the driver. 0.2.0-rc works well for me.

Qt is GPL for X11 Unices (incl. Linux) and Mac OS X.
There is an unofficial, but incomplete GPLed Windows port: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/featur es.php

- GTK runs on Linux. There is a porting of the old GTK1.2 for Windows. A Porting for Mac OS X is under development (AFAIK)

There is also a windows port of GTK 2.x. For example developer packages are available here, an installer for Glade is avaiable from here and an installer for the Python bindings for GTK for Windows is available here.

GTK IDE. If I read it right, there is you kdevelop 'alternative' for GTK projects. Though I believe you could do the same thing with kdevelop, so I don't know why you'd need something else, unless you wern't running KDE.

A few years ago, before i started using Linux seriously, I started building an almost free/open Windows XP system. Here's the basic breakdown of the so-called free system:
Shell: http://www.bb4win.org/
Burning prog: http://www.burnatonce.com/
DC client: http://gempond.com/odc/
Graphics: http://gempond.com/odc/
IM: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Browser:
Mail: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Office suite: http://www.openoffice.org/
et cetera...
But then it dawned on me: All these programs are avaliable under GNU/Linux.

That day was the day that i switched to Debian. I haven't looked back.

There actually is such a port in the making. Take a look at: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/index. php

C# may offer some powerful functionality, but from my understanding, there is no cross-platform GUI toolkit.

Actually there is a version of the GPL QT ported to Win32. In fact its been out for quite a while.

The Windows version of the ultra excellent lyx editor used it for their windows port in fact. See: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/

Here is the home for the Win32 port of the GPL QT:
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/compil e-mingw.php

Its part of the cygwin project, BUT they have instructions for doing a native compile with other native Windows compilers such as Borland, Microsoft C++ etc..

http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/

It's probably not too difficult to figure out what they are doing. Although it might be.. I mean really, DLL's in a CVS repository. Whats up with that.

It's probably not too difficult to figure out what they are doing. Although it might be.. I mean really, DLL's in a CVS repository. Whats up with that.

• Home of all xbox knowledge: XBox Scene
  
• Being a cheapass, I use cheap modchips. You can get an Aladdin XT for $11 from RobotPig. They're in the UK but they ship quickly worldwide. Good shop and cheap! The $60 modchips come with loads of neat but ultimately entirely useless features.
  
• If you're scared of a soldering iron, here's a solderless solution for all versions of the xbox: The Spiderchip. I've never used one of these things and I've never purchased anything from this shop so take this as a suggestion and not a recommendation.
  
• Here's a great introduction to softmods. Again, despite what all the softmoddie guys say a chip will always be a better solution.
  
• If you buy a new XBox, you'll be getting a 1.6 version and your modding options are somewhat limited. You're voiding the warranty anyway so you might as well pick up a used box. Here's how to tell which version XBox you're getting. Print it out and take it to the shop with you.
  
• All versions of the XBox except the 1.6 can be TSOP flashed, which is just write enabling the onboard BIOS flashrom and flashing a mod bios to it. Cheap, relatively easy, and every bit as good as a chip. The only drawback to a TSOP flash is that you can't easily disable it unless you have a 1.0 or 1.1 XBox. Here is a pretty complete guide to TSOP flashing.
  
• Here is the homepage for XBMC. They're hosted on sourceforge, so you can checkout the CVS and compile your own copy if you have VS.NET 2003 and a copy of the latest XDK.

Or is that MoviX^2?

Perhaps also run it on this ASUS motherboard and casing combo.

Should be a snap.

Um, does it work on my Aluminium 17" yet? Last time I tried linux, the video support was horrible.

There is probably going to be a comment out there that will tell you exactly what you need to do to get linux running perfectly on your powerbook.

This is not that post.

This is the post that asks "why?" Googling, I see more than a few sites that suggests linux runs fine on Aluminum powerbooks. Yet your question suggests it doesn't. (Your question is a pretty poor question, btw -- next time tell us more information about the laptop, when you last tried it, and what distro + version you tried.)

Linux, for all the spiffy easier-to-use distros (Mandrake, Redhat, etc) tends to benefit from a little tweaking and the user experience benefits a lot from more than a little reading. You don't sound like the person who wants to do either. So why not stick with MacOS X? Its a decent system for a lot of tasks, and you can get many open source applications by using fink.

If you are creating fat clients, .NET is the way to go, most likely. If you want web based, J2EE has a lot of open-source compenents you can use to get your application networked via HL7
HAPI is a java-based open source HL7 library:
http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/
JEngine can quickly route HL7 messages to & from your application:
http://jengine.org/
If your software is open source, or you can use open source components, OpenEMR can give you a leg up for clinical demographic and medical data management. It's neither .NET nor J2EE, rather it is PHP/MySQL
http://www.openemr.net/index.php

If you will be interfacing to large hospitals or medical centers, you will most likely bump into Cerner http://www.cerner.com/ or McKesson HBOC http://www.mckesson.com/homeflash.html. While these companies are a bit out of scope for your question, you might want to reserach them as they are the biggest players in the field. Good luck, it is an interesting time in the health care IT field.

Comment from the fork maintainer is here.

1. Console access. These include Speakup ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/speakup/, Screader http://www.euronet.nl/~acj/eng-screader.html, YASR http://yasr.sourceforge.net/, and many folks' favorite BrlTTY http://dave.mielke.cc/brltty/

2. Specialized environment. The most obvious option here is emacspeak http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ but there are others.

3. GUI Access. The only real option today is the Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html that is part of the GNOME desktop http://www.gnome.org/start via the GNOME Accessibility Project http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ (though other options are being explored). Note: my day job is as Sun's Accessibility Architect, working on the GNOME Accessibility Project and helping with the development of things like Gnopernicus, and another amazing product for people with physical impairments - GOK http://www.gok.ca/.

A pretty complete list of F/OSS accessibility projects can be found at the Linux Accessibility Resource Site (LARS) http://lars.atrc.utoronto.ca/current.html. I maintain a blog on this stuff as well, which has lots more information: http://blogs.sun.com/korn.

1. Console access. These include Speakup ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/speakup/, Screader http://www.euronet.nl/~acj/eng-screader.html, YASR http://yasr.sourceforge.net/, and many folks' favorite BrlTTY http://dave.mielke.cc/brltty/

2. Specialized environment. The most obvious option here is emacspeak http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ but there are others.

3. GUI Access. The only real option today is the Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html that is part of the GNOME desktop http://www.gnome.org/start via the GNOME Accessibility Project http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ (though other options are being explored). Note: my day job is as Sun's Accessibility Architect, working on the GNOME Accessibility Project and helping with the development of things like Gnopernicus, and another amazing product for people with physical impairments - GOK http://www.gok.ca/.

A pretty complete list of F/OSS accessibility projects can be found at the Linux Accessibility Resource Site (LARS) http://lars.atrc.utoronto.ca/current.html. I maintain a blog on this stuff as well, which has lots more information: http://blogs.sun.com/korn.

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 gwl

• NoteEdit [tu-chemnitz.de]
• Gscore [gscore.org]
• Roudoudou [sourceforge.net]
• Denemo [sourceforge.net]

• NoteEdit [tu-chemnitz.de]
• Gscore [gscore.org]
• Roudoudou [sourceforge.net]
• Denemo [sourceforge.net]

Instead of re-inventing the wheel, get involved in open-sourced solutions. You can find a good list here.

From this list, I have personally only seen VistA which has been used by the Veteran's Affairs Department for a very long time. Certainly long enough to mature. It's scalable and will work with groups of hospitals. It's designed by Doctor's to fit the way they work and it's easy to use (so Doctor's have told me). It's open source, and there's a community web site.

There are cons though: It uses a little-known programming language called M, and although otherwise complete, does not have a module for paediatrics (it's very hard to find child veterans!). The people I have met have been extremely helpful, however, and will help you with any customization or new capabilities.

• NoteEdit [tu-chemnitz.de]
• Gscore [gscore.org]
• Roudoudou [sourceforge.net]
• Denemo [sourceforge.net]

• NoteEdit [tu-chemnitz.de]
• Gscore [gscore.org]
• Roudoudou [sourceforge.net]
• Denemo [sourceforge.net]

Take a look at the Technology Assisted Practice Application Suite, which is based on Zope/Plone (written in Python), the jSyncManager (a pure Java (J2SE) synchronization protocol stack and toolkit for PalmOS-based handhelds), and some custom applications.

This project is geared towards two areas: online access for medical offices, hospitals, retirements homes, etc., and handheld access using Palm Tungsten C handhelds. It uses open tools and open standards, and is released completely as Open Source. Phase One, currently under development, is implementing handheld management systems, security (both validation and encryption) calendaring, and messaging. Phase Two, starting Spring 2005, will be implementing patient data.

Being open and using languages like Python and Java, the suite runs virtually anywhere. The prototype systems are running Debian, however I often do development and testing against a similar setup on Mac OS X (as I develop all of the handheld synchronization and management routines).

Before you go out there and start writing soething similar from scratch, you might want to see if there are Open Source tools you can build upon and extend for your purposes first.

TAPAS is, BTW, being developed in conjunction with a major university, a major hospital, a group of doctors, and a provincial Ministry of Health here in Canada. You might want to take a look at what we're doing before jumping in and starting from scratch yourselves.

If you'd like more information, please feel free to drop me a line. In particular, if your company hasn't even considered the handheld side of your system, let me know as I have a lot of expertise in this area.

Brad BARCLAY
Lead Developer & Project Administrator,
The jSyncManager Project.

...it's called Gaim Encryption. Add that to Jabber over SSL (overkill, probably) and I've got secure conversations with my friends and family.

Maybe an OS like jNode?

Speeding up the multitasking of apps under that one OS would be a nice artifact, though!

Yeah. Or even alternative options.

I think Linux is great and all, but I don't think its portability matches that of NetBSD.

It's called http://webmail.netscape.com/

Ok, so it's under the Netscape name, but you use your AOL screen name to log into it. I have a relative that uses AOL for IM, so I have to have an AOL screen name to use with Gaim

I used it for my junk email account (address for ordering products, New York Times subscription, etc) until it got unrealiable at forwarding email with embedded graphics. I have recently abanonded the address now in favor of a Yahoo account that I can forward any message to my family account, plus I get free SPAMGuard at Yahoo. A feature Netscape does not have.

That reminds me, Netscape used to be my personal account for years until they "updated" (read: broke) their front end and removed message filtering (primitive SPAM removal) decent folder traversal and address aliases. That's when it became a junk email account.

I hope the developers for Netscape webmail had nothing to do with the AOL webmail because the number 1 pastime for most people (forwarding messages) won't work if they have embedded graphics.

I should really check for typo's before I post

Discussion on SourceForge.net forums about fork

Might be a chance to get the other side of the story?

and tell him that he can release without a changelog, as you've got a copy of Winmerge

"the fall of the eastern empire"

Lookslike we need to move to our new home FreeNet

http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

You are wrong for many reasons:
1: AAC is an open standard and there are open-source encoders/decoders. (http://faac.sourceforge.net/)
2: The m4a format Apple stores its AAC stream in is an extension of their QuickTime container which is an open standard (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTim e/) I've found that the m4a container is also compatible with the MPEG-4 file format, which is also an open standard and is derived from Apple's QuickTime format.
3: Apple has granted Fairplay licences to Motorola and Macrovision (or so I've heard).
4: Apple probably couldn't sue or demand money if a competitor implemented AAC, or as you're probably referring to, Fairplay. To date they have neither sued nor demanded money from anyone who has implemented Fairplay, AAC, or any of the other audio formats or encryption schemes that the iPod supports (though they have demanded that several sites hosting PlayFair/Hymn cease and desist).

McWizard in the red corner with Megameknet/Megamek:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megameknet/
and in the blue corner urgru with mekwars:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mekwars/

Is this what its all about?

McWizard in the red corner with Megameknet/Megamek:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megameknet/
and in the blue corner urgru with mekwars:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mekwars/

Is this what its all about?

I wonder if this might be the project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megameknet/

For the curious, Google turns up that mcwizard is on the MegaMekNet and MegaMek projects. Both are games: Java clones of BattleTech.

For the curious, Google turns up that mcwizard is on the MegaMekNet and MegaMek projects. Both are games: Java clones of BattleTech.