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I had some amusement with this:

Link.

Check out the video - it's kinda cool.

Before a white hat, you have to be a grey hat.

However this is all highly illegal these days.

That used to be the case but nowadays there is many resources for sharpening peoples hacking skills without violating the law. Exploit Exercises has several isos with examples of misconfigurations, buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities for linux. Metasploitable 2 and Metasploitable 3 have multiple web and system vulnerabilities for both linux and windows respectively. And Vulhub has hundreds more vulnerable by design systems for people to practice with.

While not as instructional as a whole system compromise there are many ways for aspiring penetration testers to practice how to get their foot in the door, while remaining on the right side of the law so to speak.

The open source DRAKON Editor allows you to draw classic flow charts and generate template code in various target languages that follow the defined flow.

It comes with the additional advantage of having been engineered around ergonomic practices, which makes it avoid the classic pitfalls of using flow charts. A flow diagram typically becomes a tangled mess, but DRAKON layout guidelines provide a structure to build diagrams in any scale.

The DRAKON language was created by people in the Russian space program as a way to avoid errors in defined procedures, and it was crafted and refined following the Russian school of Human-computer interaction. The flow diagrams built following their easy-to-learn layout guidelines are the most easy to read that I've ever seen.

I know FreeDFD to convert from flow chart to code, but it was just the project of a young student. It isn't maintained. Her a video in Spanish

I know PSeInt to convert from pseudocode to code, but it is also a small project the project of a young student. It is still maintained.

If somebody have to program a utility like that, it would be nice to be based or included in the project Dia2Code that actually generates code from uml DIA diagrams.

Excuse my poor English

I know FreeDFD to convert from flow chart to code, but it was just the project of a young student. It isn't maintained. Her a video in Spanish

I know PSeInt to convert from pseudocode to code, but it is also a small project the project of a young student. It is still maintained.

If somebody have to program a utility like that, it would be nice to be based or included in the project Dia2Code that actually generates code from uml DIA diagrams.

Excuse my poor English

There are a few. https://sourceforge.net/projec... has good results

https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Format drive and install one of the following operating systems:

• BeOS
• Syllable
• AROS
• Plan 9
• Minix
• FreeDOS
• DR-DOS
• OpenVMS x86 port is coming!
• Visopsys
• SqueakNOS
• Haiku
• Kolibri
• ReactOS
• Tizen
• SkyOS
• MorphOS
• MenuetOS
• CP/M 86
• Multics, also see Multicians
• Erlang as an Operating System

There have been a large number of more or less obscure operating systems and not all have been ported to x86. Unfortunately the architecture has become a de facto standard even though it's not the best architecture or the most efficient but instead a patchwork of solutions to retain backwards compatibility. We have lost many interesting architectures over the years that would have deserved a better fate to the Intel bandwagon.

It makes Outlook look like a piece of shit (hint: Outlook really is a piece of shit) and if there were some way to attach an Exchange account to it then Outlook would probably start to slowly die off.

Have you looked into DavMail?

davmail.sourceforge.net

To be taken seriously Thunderbird really needs native support for EWS and increasingly EAS. Nowadays it's getting harder and harder to use TB instead of Outlook because Exchange admins are quite happy to not enable IMAP.

There are workarounds for EWS such as DavMail but it's not brilliant (no fault of DavMail at all) but no solution where EAS only is enforced.

Show you did more, better & earlier than I vs. a small partial only list of mine in Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote part of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> I don't recall "OSNN" - you impersonated me then too? You do enough here, lol... apk

Show you did more, better & earlier than I vs. a small partial only list of mine in Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote part of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> I don't recall "OSNN" - you impersonated me then too? You do enough here, lol... apk

There is now an Open Source BASIC compiler for PIC controllers. That is a simple and very cheap 8-bit computer.

connect it to the Google Assistant. Along with everything the Google Assistant already does, you can add your own question and answer pairs.

I'm investigating for myself this at the moment and I believe that the most agnostic one is currently Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/about-mycro... but this still needs to be 'paired' with: https://home.mycroft.ai/. So it's a question of degree and who do you trust/want to support.

There's a niche for a full-stack open source one, I believe built from Sphinx etc.: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.n... OK, I'm thinking like Stallman, but it's important not to get sucked into Google, Amazon and Facebook with the false lure of 'open source' NOT, as Wayne and Garth would say.

Well... ATLAS or
(A HREF="https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl">Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) can probably help with negligible change to existing source...

The other thing is that an 1980s era program probably had to partition out matrix multiply and FFT operations across multiple compute nodes and recombine them because of memory limits. Take another look at the matrix routines and do a port of any FFT routines to use the FFTW library. With modern multi-core processors, we may be able to reduce the partitioning across nodes (e.g. use the local cores) while using SSSE3 enabled processors to vastly improve operation speed.

These suggestions do not necessarily even need GPU to achieve a vast improvement in performance.

The KeePass database format is documented and a de-facto standard. There are independent implementations for non-Windows platforms such as KeePassX. The KeePass download page links to a whole bunch of them.

UDF is the RW format for dvd-rw and can be used on HDs in all modern OS (it requires format version 2.01)

The format is resilient, as DVD-R(W) may have scratches and have CRC in metadata... sadly it do not have CRC in data, as the DVD reader/physical format also have some recovery info, so UDF didn't add it directly.

It is still a good format, being a ISO, it should have a long life and be read for a long time. Of course, for HDs, i would bet that mechanical problems will probably be a problem sooner.

other than UDF, ZFS and BTRFS both have CRC and should be resilient and the format is set and should not change. but there are other formats with CRC, check the wikipedia for more options

Finally, probably the format that you store the files is also important, a solid RAR or TAR may cause problems in the future than compressing each file with gzip. Probably the best option is store the files using par, as it was created to permit access to the files even if several blocks can't be read. some backup tools support this, directly , as DAR or but, or indirectly, as backuppc (search ArchivePar) on the archive step

Whatever you do, a followup of this in one year (or more) is a good idea, as the theory and real life may be different things :)

Here's what I've made:

1. A system to monitor local aircraft noise (Decibel meter + receiver for aircraft transponders + some integration software)
2. My community currency software https://sourceforge.net/projec... + mobile phone dongle to make a mini bank-in-a-box with SMS payments
3. OpenCV + the little camera module to make a (flakey) computer vision experiment
4. Used a Pi3 as a slow desktop when my main desktop was hosed (by me, unhappily)

OK, I accept that I am old & sad & totally friendless, but these little things are great fun. Some kind of energy analysis for the house is probably the 'next thing'. Hope that helps with some ideas.

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> Topoed off w/ 40 enterprise class systems 1994-2008 that run entire companies... apk

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> Topoed off w/ 40 enterprise class systems 1994-2008 that run entire companies... apk

Or even javascript and C: http://jsish.sourceforge.net/

Duktape is along a similar line: http://duktape.org/

Or even javascript and C: http://jsish.sourceforge.net/

He used that:

http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cg...

Small partial only sample of personal favorites (vs. your alleged 1986 hotair, fairly):

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download/

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winners.asp/

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html/ or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873/

APK

P.S.=> You say you did MORE & BETTER blowhard? Prove it!

Small partial only sample of personal favorites (vs. your alleged 1986 hotair, fairly):

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download/

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winners.asp/

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html/ or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873/

APK

P.S.=> You say you did MORE & BETTER blowhard? Prove it!

Small partial only sample of personal favorites (vs. you're hotair, fairly):

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> You've done MORE & BETTER blowhard? Prove it...

Small partial only sample of personal favorites (vs. you're hotair, fairly):

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit is hosted & RECOMMENDED by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain) 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

APK

P.S.=> You've done MORE & BETTER blowhard? Prove it...

Keep your eye on the open efforts for TTS and STT.

Speaking of which: I happen to have done a bit of online search about this subject (non-cloud STT).

Two things :

- Old style statistical based approach (N-grams and Hidden Markov Models) :
CMU Sphinx is an open-source implementation.
These older approaches are rather lighter on the processing power.
If you limit requirement (e.g.: only recognize a 1000-word vocabulary) it is possible to run it on embed CPUs.
There are people getting CMU Sphinx on Raspberry Pi3.
There is Open Ears which is a STT framework using Sphinx that is 100% running on iPhone and iPad.

- 2010s style AI (using Deep Neural Net, Recurrent Neural Nets like Long Short-Term Nets) - similar to what Google and co use on their networks :
Kaldi and EESEN based on it.
Of course these kind of approaches require way much more processing power than what available on most embed platforms.
But as they are opensource, you could install it on your server rack in your basement, and have the Raspberry Pis stream OPUS-compressed audio over Wifi of what they need processed.

Will it beat Google ?
Nope, due to less processing power and specially much smaller amount of training material.

Could it be used to add speach capabilities without needing to stream every single noise to Google and Bigbrother ?
Certainly.

Right, that is an understatement. The Multics CPUs were multimillion dollar systems with dedicated support staff that took up large rooms. Compared to which most DEC machines of the time were less than toys. That's why UNIX was considered an "emasculated" Multics. It's really sad that BTL bailed, but such is life. The Multics memory protection mechanisms are so much different than what was available then, or now, that porting directly to x86/x84 is not feasible. We got it working under emulation only with much effort. That said, the folks doing the VMS port to x86/64 had similar problems with the x86 architecture. They decided to implement various missing bits in software. A x64 port of Multics would be quite doable using the same techniques. The realization of which is left as a exercise for the reader. For more information see http://multicians.org/ https://sourceforge.net/projec... andhttp://ringzero.wikidot.com/ Multics Lives! "Multics rulez, UNIX droolz"

To run Multics on x86, you need a hardware emulator - https://sourceforge.net/projects/dps8m/

"You failed at playing software developer" - by unidentifiable projecting troll failure

You did more earlier & better than I?

Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

(SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote parts of SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit hosted & RECOMMENDED by Steven Burn of Malwarebytes http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARES

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 2001

Paid for article @ PCPitstop 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge...

APK

nvi is as close as you're going to get these days.

No, it is not.

And, of course, it is lean, so suitable for embedded:

My god, that's more than four times bigger than ex-vi.

If you need that program and it's so special or difficult that nobody has tried to write it yet, you'll have to pay for people's time. There are a number of code bounty sites. From a quick web search: coderbounty, sourceforge:helpwanted, bountysource, freedomsponsors and other alternatives. I haven't used any of them, so no idea how much publicity they get you.

Maybe you get more exposure if you offer a bounty on Stackexchange. Even if nobody accepts the coding challenge, you may get valuable advice in the answers.

Of course monetary incentives for creative work will fail if there's no intrinsic motivation (see Dan Pink, "Drive"). But funding can give a coder the time needed to attack a problem they find interesting.

Time between reboots has so much to do with what is installed and running - my clean Win10 machines only reboot when updates make them do it

This is one of the many reasons why I don't run Windows 10 because when I get updates on my Linux machine I get to choose when I install them and if required when I reboot. Even if I choose to install updates they don't interfere with what I am currently doing. I also have had this freedom for years.

BTW. I do have Windows 10 installed in a virtual machine (legitimate license). I actually used the Windows 10 ISO which is a free download from Microsoft and is 4.2GB so I would recommend getting it for recovery purposes if you really want to run Windows 10. The installation is quite simple and quick although I would strongly recommend using the advanced setup rather than the quick install.

When I say use the advanced setup when installing from the Win 10 ISO you will see many settings that are by default turned on which would be the case with the quick install. Whether you choose to turn off those settings is up to you although I personally find they tick all the boxes for the definition of malware . Even if you do lock the machine down you still have to go into the registry (oh! yes everyone knows how to edit this) and even then you may not get everything. Third party software (if you trust them) can help but they still may not get everything.

Even after you think you have locked down Windows 10 if you use tools like Wireshark and/or Etherape and you will see that Windows 10 loves to chat with outside machines (Owned by? You guessed it Microsoft) which may not even be in the same country you live in.

What is interesting is the install of Windows 10 is over 5GB which is really bare bones (ie. no applications like Office .. etc) compared to my Fedora 25 desktop with over 2,200 packages (includes Multiple browsers, Office suites, Multimedia, CAD, Statistical and Scientific packages) and is only 7.2GB and all my packages get updates when available without me having to manually search for them. Even when I get updates most of the time a reboot is not needed although if I get a new kernel a reboot (when I decide) takes about 60 seconds and that includes logging in and starting my preferred applications (SSD's are great).

I find it incredibly difficult to believe that we don't have the hardware resources necessary to perform local speech-to-text and text processing inside your house without ever touching the internet.

We do, feel free to use Pocket Sphinx or Julius.

Jasper will let you use multiple backends including the 2 above plus Google and AT&T.

Some remote server listening in on everything I say, filtering every word, analyzing each sentence, etc.

Why not just assume the NSA is always listening unless you take steps to avoid it? NSA is more than welcome to listen to my son's requests for Kids Bop and how many timers I set in the Kitchen. It's also not that difficult to get out of range of Alexa or go offline.

Planning a terrorist attack? Go to a college bar. Good luck getting any SST to work in there. Or outside, or a car or any number of a million places where you can avoid being listened to. Do you think the founding fathers cut themselves off from everyone to make their plans? They smiled went along their normal daily routine unless they knew they could talk freely. This is no different.

Between free image hosting, VPNs, steganography and multiple of end to end encryption services it shouldn't be difficult to plan any thing you want without authorities being notified.

And if you really want to hide in the noise, hire your own 'Navajo' talkers in the form of 15 year old gamers. You should be able to pass anything you want through comments about someones mother.

How (and why) would you convert your Lisp code into C

Well that's pretty easy. There are tons of simple Lisp compilers. Heck building a LISP used to be an exercise for many years included (full source) with Microsoft's C compiler.

A few examples:
http://www.buildyourownlisp.co...
http://howtowriteaprogram.blog...
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/
http://clisp.sourceforge.net/

  A little off topic but a Lisp in Java by a master of the programming craft which is worth looking at: http://norvig.com/jscheme.html
And finally also off topic but the original LISP in assembly: http://www.softwarepreservatio...

In short the way you convert LISP to C is writing a LISP interpreter or compiler.

How (and why) would you convert your Lisp code into C

Well that's pretty easy. There are tons of simple Lisp compilers. Heck building a LISP used to be an exercise for many years included (full source) with Microsoft's C compiler.

A few examples:
http://www.buildyourownlisp.co...
http://howtowriteaprogram.blog...
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/
http://clisp.sourceforge.net/

  A little off topic but a Lisp in Java by a master of the programming craft which is worth looking at: http://norvig.com/jscheme.html
And finally also off topic but the original LISP in assembly: http://www.softwarepreservatio...

In short the way you convert LISP to C is writing a LISP interpreter or compiler.

Speaking from the position of an IT admin - I cannot unblock Sourceforge yet. It will remain locked off to my users as long as this is the status quo - https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Yes, their installer is scanned for Malware. But then the installer downloads malware during the installation process. My users are not observant enough to be trusted to read a notice "This project uses a 3rd party installer", and certainly not seasoned enough to infer that the message means "download malware here". I've reported this project as distributing malware a few times now since Slashdot/Sourceforge's change of hands, so its continued virus-laden distribution tells me everything I need to know about how much trust I should put in the new regime.

28th May 2014 Truecrypt says 'switch to Bitlocker'

Well, it's lucky we didn't!

I suggest you to read something more about Bochs!
Bochs is a software emulator running under a wide variety of OSes emulating a wide variety of CPUs. And it's opensource.
The point is that you don't need Microsoft's solution in order to run ARM apps in Windows and to run Windows applications within your favorite.

For entertainment value, here's the Nvidia driver download page from 2001, with the driver weighing in at 6Mb.

Compare with 15 years later, driver is now 300Mb....

Software bloat at it's finest.

Even more entertainment value: https://sourceforge.net/projec.... The libraries that get linked in/to are much larger now as well.

Postgresql-XC http://postgres-xc.sourceforge...

You're welcome.

And are apparently surprisingly popular! https://sourceforge.net/projec...

Its also hosted at SourceForge if you don't like downloading from Microsoft.

also try http://www.zimbra.com/ , it have several good features

you can always use Thunderbird+Lightning addon for the client and calendarserver for the server: https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/...

you can replace exchange with http://www.zentyal.org/ or replace outlook and keep exchange with http://davmail.sourceforge.net... as a proxy for other clients

on windows you can also replace outlook with http://www.emclient.com/ and on mac, use their own clients, most mac users prefer then

you can try other apps/servers in this list:
https://alternativeto.net/soft...
https://alternativeto.net/soft...

I've been using the UnxUtils since the Windows 2000 days, with utilities like grep, cut, sort, sed, etc running right inside the command prompt and useful on the entire system. Can't believe it's taken Microsoft this long to jump on board.

Perhaps it is time to give it another shot now?

Yes, CDE is now free software and has been ported to Linux and BSD

And sometimes when talking directly to hardware, array[-1] is exactly what is needed. Of course for the majority of software that will never be the use case so it would be nice to have warnings for such things and thankfully there are static source code checkers that does exactly this. http://cppcheck.sourceforge.ne... for example would warn about "out of bounds" for this very code.

Who needs an analog hole?

There are a lot of devices that do not like 24 hour long mp3 files.

I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."

You realize that fsn was a real file system viewer from SGI - right?
Clone available.