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Just have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/blueproximity/ (mac), http://www.daveamenta.com/products/btproximity/ (windows), http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net/ (linux). This will detect you when you walk by with your bluetooth device. You can trigger actions as desired when in range - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20091221173111783 . There is even a commercial alternative - http://themha.com/airlock/ .

Oh wait, that's RIGHT. That ISN'T all I gave you.

I gave you a GPLv3 TOOL worth 1-3 million dollars to try out and even USE for free, provided you can live with the odious demand that you PUBLISH any changes or enhancements.

Man but I'm a GREEDY bastard, aren't I?

http://msscodefactory.sourceforge.net/ is the R&D project; http://singularityone.ca/ is the commercial arm I'm sparking into existence.

Old ZX 80 hardware is expensive and rare from what I have seen. You can use the MESS Sinclair ZX 80 target to relive those 8-bit days of yore without the fear of electrical or mechanical breakdowns associated with running on the actual hardware. A lot of early microcomputer equipment often had power supply or other problems which means that even if you can get your hands on the real hardware now, and it works, it may not run for long before things start breaking. I do not have any old ZX 80's and don't have a ROM so I'm not sure of the exact legality were I to acquire one from say Mega Upload or such, but I almost suspect that they might be drifting close to the abandonware status in some areas at least.

There are quite a lot of neat old systems that MESS can emulate. I've been trying to get NitrOS-9 working with a Motorola 6309 myself.

Tux Racer?

Have you ever heard of Chromium Portable? You know, the thing that isn't a poor attempt and is official? (and isn't Chrome, which SRWare Iron isn't even based on at all)
Here you go Chromium Portable on that lovely ->

There is absolutely no reason to use SRWare Iron. At all. Especially SRWare Iron in fact.
Also, looks like you are still uninformed yourself. All those options you moan about in Chrome that "phones home" can be disabled IN Chrome. All of them.
Funny how that is in this "outdated blog". Those options are still in the very first version I used, 0.3. (which I still have on this computer for some weird reason!)

I suppose you guys are referring to this ?

http://www.launchy.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchy

1. Get the official LOIC http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
2. Unzip it
3. Run it
4. Enter a URL or IP
5. IMMA CHARGIN' MAH LAZER
6. ????
7. Profit!

I never understood why people would upload a copy of a file to the Internet, manually/purposefully delete their only local copy, and proceed to complain that they no longer have a local copy.
Why on earth would you delete it from your computer?!?

There is NO excuse for this problem.

This is FAR from a new issue with "the cloud" either.
People used to do the exact same thing with web-hosting.
They would upload their website to a web server somewhere, delete their only copy, then when the hosting company went under, had the server crash, disk failure, whatever... the user would proceed to blame the ISP for the fact the user themselves deleted their only copy from their own computer. wtf?

The standard rule for backups is, if you can't bother to have two copies (One on your computer, one backed up on another device) then it clearly wasn't important enough to warrant bitching about when you lose it. That rule implied ONE copy was not enough... Why on earth would people think ZERO copies is any better?

Hard drives die. It's a fact of life. The "if" is always a yes, only the "when" is variable.
That fact alone is reason enough to already have more than one copy in your own home on your own equipment.
A provider disappearing like this should be nothing worse than a minor inconvenience in finding somewhere else to host it and upload another copy, then chase down URLs pointing there and update them. Sure, that can be a bit of work and is quite annoying, but it should be nothing on the scale of data loss.

Storage is cheap.
Encryption is easy (Thanks to the efforts of projects like PGP, GPG, and TrueCrypt)
BackupPC is free, runs on Linux which is free, and can be as simple as an old Pentium-2 desktop sitting unused in your basement that you toss a couple extra hard drives in.
You set it up once and it does everything for you! It daily grabs copies of other computers, all automated, all by itself. It can backup Linux, Windows, and even OSX via the network. You can feed it DHCP logs to watch for less frequently connected machines like laptops. It de-duplicates to save disk space, and can email you if and when a problem crops up. I only check mine twice or so a year just to make sure things are running (never had a problem yet) and as it deletes older backups only when needed to make room for new ones, with de-duplication I can go grab a file from any date between now and three years ago, at any stage of editing (Well, in 3 day increments for my servers.. but it's all configurable, and should be set based on the importance of the data!)
On ubuntu and debian based systems, it is a single apt-get install away. Likely just as easy on any other distro with package management.
Any true computer geek can slap together such a system with zero cost and spending less than an afternoon. Anyone else can do so for minimal cost and perhaps a day of work.

Apple has ridiculously easy backup software (Time Machine?), and Windows has the advantage of most of the software out there being written for it, so the odds that there are less than five different software packages to do this exact same thing is next to impossible.

Hell, even for non-geeks, most people have that one guy or gal in the family who supports everyones computers. Just ask them! They will likely be ecstatic to help, possibly will donate spare parts from their collection (Or find you the best prices on parts if not) - and be content in the fact they won't have to tell you things like "Sorry, your hard drive has the click-o-death, I can't recover anything from it." which no one likes to need to say.

This is worth repeating: There is NO excuse for this problem.

Personally, if it's important, I have a bare minimum of four copies.
One for actually using, on my system drive.
One that got a

Or, perhaps right now there is a young Finnish college student writing a new OS even as I type...

I had high hopes in some Finnish guys, but then they sold out to MS.

However, there is still hope with Qt, as it runs on both Android and iOS. I don't know how well it runs, or how integrated it looks, but it's possible.
Android: http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/home/necessitas/
iOS: http://qt.gitorious.org/+qt-iphone/qt/qt-iphone-clone

Faster, & better = Waterfox -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

* Enjoy, for those of you using Windows in 64-bit builds that is... & that want a 64-bit version of this program that's highly compiler optimized!

APK

P.S.=> I've been using it since version 7.x, & it's excellent (surprisingly so) & with AdBlock + NoScript as addons loaded (that's it though)...

... apk

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Maybe you will. I sure as hell won't, because I won't buy a game that uses DRM like that on general principle. I don't care how awesome it is - my life will not be duller or less meaningful if I never play it.
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That's quite an extreme position to take - I take the more moderate view that I will buy it only once there is a DRM-free version available to download. In fact, I have a number of PC games where I bought the game but it remains in its cellophane wrapper, because I never actually installed it from the DRM-ridden DVD. I would never buy a Ubisoft game, for example, unless there was a working, DRM-free version available online.

In terms of false activation servers, you don't need to wait 20 years because that already happens, e.g.
http://arcemu.org/ - world of warcraft
http://www.runuo.com/home/ - ultima online
http://segs.sourceforge.net/ - city of heroes (in development)
http://site.swgemu.com/forums/index.php - star wars galaxies
http://www.eqemulator.org/ - everquest
http://sourceforge.net/projects/evemu/ - eve online

http://forum.ragezone.com/f168/ - many more

In fact, I put something like that together myself for a small indie game that required internet access to run. Monitored requests / responses, replicated the functionality of the server locally and just redirected the server address to localhost using the hosts file. Didn't even need to read any assembly language.

Important note: depending on your jurisdiction, contributing to the development of or even using some or all of the above server emulators may be illegal / against the terms of service for the relevant game.

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Maybe you will. I sure as hell won't, because I won't buy a game that uses DRM like that on general principle. I don't care how awesome it is - my life will not be duller or less meaningful if I never play it.
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That's quite an extreme position to take - I take the more moderate view that I will buy it only once there is a DRM-free version available to download. In fact, I have a number of PC games where I bought the game but it remains in its cellophane wrapper, because I never actually installed it from the DRM-ridden DVD. I would never buy a Ubisoft game, for example, unless there was a working, DRM-free version available online.

In terms of false activation servers, you don't need to wait 20 years because that already happens, e.g.
http://arcemu.org/ - world of warcraft
http://www.runuo.com/home/ - ultima online
http://segs.sourceforge.net/ - city of heroes (in development)
http://site.swgemu.com/forums/index.php - star wars galaxies
http://www.eqemulator.org/ - everquest
http://sourceforge.net/projects/evemu/ - eve online

http://forum.ragezone.com/f168/ - many more

In fact, I put something like that together myself for a small indie game that required internet access to run. Monitored requests / responses, replicated the functionality of the server locally and just redirected the server address to localhost using the hosts file. Didn't even need to read any assembly language.

Important note: depending on your jurisdiction, contributing to the development of or even using some or all of the above server emulators may be illegal / against the terms of service for the relevant game.

Or the offline-wikipedia project ? ? ?

The only people bashing CISC are sheltered academics who have never been out in the real world or have heard of benchmarks. On my Core i7, for example, the benchmarks show that string instructions usually are the fastest way to do things.

A basic rep stos yields 25 GBps. So does the fastest recommended SSE method using movntps and prefetch. A RISC-style fill loop only manages 12 GBps. You can improve its performance by unrolling the loop four times, getting the same 25 GBps as a string instruction with a lot more code.

With a copy, rep movsl and movsq gives 3.2 GBps. movsb gives 2.5. A RISC-style copy loop gives 3.2 GBps. The fastest SSE copy loop with movntps and prefetch gives 6.4 GBps, at the expense of code size.

As you can see, for most applications it is a very good idea to use the string instructions. An SSE optimized copy may be useful if you're copying large blocks somewhere; otherwise don't bother. Outside tight loops, reducing code size will improve performance much more than directly trying to make it fast.

FreeBSD does have a port with a dhcp6 client, but it's not built into the OS (base system) as far as I know. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/ is in ports/net/dhcp6 i believe.

This actually brings up a good point and I should add a dhcp6 client to MidnightBSD. Not sure which one to use though.

Since this is about BIND, let me start the inevitable thread about the BIND alternatives.

BIND is the swiss army knife of DNS servers. It has a lot of features and can do pretty much everything. It's also a big binary and sometimes difficult to configure. CVE

Unbound and NSD are a suite of DNS servers from the same people. One (NSD) puts your web page on the Internet; the other (Unbound) looks for web pages on the Internet. NSD CVE Unbound CVE

PowerDNS (which like Unbound/NSD, is two separate programs) has a lot of flexibility with connecting to databases or what not to resolve a DNS name. Used by Wikimedia, among others. CVE

MaraDNS. I think it's the best one, but my opinion is a little biased. It was once a single program, now two separate programs (like Unbound/BSD and PowerDNS) Easy-to-configure; tiny binary suitable for embedded systems. CVE

DjbDNS. Great tiny two-program DNS suite. Hasn't been updated since 2001 and yes, it has security problems (I'm already taking bets that a follow-up to this post will pretend DjbDNS is magically perfectly secure). Zinq is a currently maintained unofficial fork.

There are many many other DNS servers, both open source and non-open source. Rick Moen has a great list of the open-source ones

Passwordsafe can be your friend.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

There's an open source port called File System Visualizer.
Here are some (possibly outdated) compilation instructions.

That's why I use a text browser for google searches (via surfraw). The damn google javascript nonsense always fucks up trying to search for jjjjjjj and kkkkkkkkkk as soon as I start scrolling...

There were a few links, the one I read explained the legal case very clearly but did not explain what OpenDDR was at all. Grandparent mentioned Konami possibly suing, so I assumed openDDR was an open DDR game project that used the WURFL for peripheral support. I guess he was just concerned about the "DDR" initialism being used in any context, but yeah, as people pointed out, if its not in the same field, it doesn't count. Calm down, I did read TFA and TFS.

"ScientiaMobile, the company formed behind the open source library WURFL, an API used to do mobile device detection for web applications, has issued a DMCA takedown notice against the OpenDDR project on Github. ScientiaMobile claims that OpenDDR is 'ripping them off' by forking their database, which used to be licensed under a liberal license. Newer versions of the device database are licensed under restrictive licenses which do not allow any modification or redistribution."

You show me where in that it is

From the 1st link, first two paragraphs (emphasis added):

So... What is WURFL? WURFL is a Device Description Repository (DDR), i.e. a software component which contains the descriptions of thousands of mobile devices. In its simplest incarnation, WURFL is an XML configuration file plus a set of programming APIs to access the data in real-time environments.

The main scope of the WURFL Project is to be an independent central repository of device information , which Open-Source developers from around the globe can utilize to build their mobile web applications.

From the 2nd link fourth paragraph (emphasis added):

elow some background to explain the origins of the story. OpenDDR project has been made by a group of web & mobile developers aware of the importance for their work of an always up-to-date Device Description Repository (DDR), and of good APIs to access it.

From the 3rd link, first two paragraphs (emphasis added):

Everyone knows it. There is nothing worse than a not tailored content. Just think how frustrating is surfing a very complex website on the small screen of your cellular phone. You probably waste your time zooming and scrolling the pages, but, anyway, it’s clear: if you want a comfortable user experience you need dinamically adaptable contents according to hardware and browser specifications of your device .

That’s the reason why Device Description Repositories (DDR) exist. These are databases that store a huge amount of information concerning mobile phones, tablets, Interactive TVs, set top boxes and any device having a Web browser , in order to allow developers to realize applications extremely enjoyable on each client.

From the fourth link, first and third paragraphs (emphasis added):

When a phone’s web browser visits your site, how can you tell what capabilities that phone has? How can you work out its screensize, whether it can play mp3s, or know if it supports a particular bit of JavaScript?

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Out of this frustration, a number of databases have been developed to track the capabilities of as many devices as possible. For the longest time, the most popular and accurate was WURFL – the Wireless Universal Resource FiLe.

it's pretty obvious even from TFS that they are not

It specifies that it is used for web applications, but games can be web applications. It does say mobile device detection, and I might have skimmed that as just "device detection", but still, not exactly spelling it out.

And from TFS (

And before someone with poor reading comprehension crucifies me on nitpicks, the latest original liberally licensed data was used as a base, not the current explicitly restrictive data.

That means the whole case depends on how effective the included disclaimer works The data is meant for use with the WURFL API available on the official WURFL website at http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ . If it serves to tie the data to a specific implementation, OpenDDR is hosed. If not, no worries.

I'm just answering the question, not claiming which way the situation will go. I happen to agree that WURFL compiled contributions from a number of parties without ownership being assigned, and so if anyone owns the data it is the contributor, not WURFL. And further, if we poll each contributor, they would likely disagree with this restriction and choose a more permissive license. "Contributing means you agree" type of claims are probably not enforceable, since inclusion in WURFL is the only way to get your additions in widespread use.

Great points. See also my: http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change. ... So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process."

See also these collections of links i put together:
http://p2pfoundation.net/backups/p2p_research-archives/2009-October/005379.html
http://p2pfoundation.net/backups/p2p_research-archives/2009-November/005584.html
http://p2pfoundation.net/backups/p2p_research-archives/2009-November/006005.html

One way to have fun and learn Java is to introduce them to Robocode. Robocode is a competitive tank battle game where the students have to learn programming in order to make a more intelligent tank. Lots of competition and it is fun. The goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks in Java or .NET. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen against each other.

many of them had as little as 2 MB of RAM.

I'm not aware of any version of Linux that would allow us to operate in that small a memory footprint.

Here you go:

http://elks.sourceforge.net/

It hasn't seen any development in the past ~5 years, but it always worked, and it'll run on an 8086 just fine.

http://www.cc65.org/ Free compiler for 65xx CPU targets
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/ Multi-platform emulation of all Commodore 8bit computers

Libraries and repositories
  http://www.gb64.com/index.php
  http://www.lemon64.com/

I noticed that the FAQ about Evergreen states the following:

"Evergreen was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of a very large (more than 270-member) library lending consortium whose members collaborate but are not in lockstep on policies. Evergreen needed to be able to handle large indexing and transaction loads while supporting highly-configurable policies for each member library. "

Also the above mentioned KOHA seems to flaunt very complex features (not that these two would then necessarily be complicated or overkill).

Openbiblio, claims to be targeted at smaller libraries.
http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/

I don't know anything about any of these, but maybe worth a look.

From the main site, it doesn't look like much is happening, but a post in the dev part of the forums indicates a new version is being worked on.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

try that.

good thing with windows is that customizing it with free stuff is quite usual.

fwiw the explorer in 7 isn't nearly as crappy as any iteration of finder..

Or the same thing compiled and threaded (MD4 - it's old).

backuppc is backup software that does file-level deduplication via hard links on its backup store. Despite the name's suggestion that it is for backing up (presumably windows) PCs, it's great with *nix.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Its primary disadvantage is the logical consequence of all those hard links. Duplicating the backup store, so you can send it offsite, is basically impossible with filesystem-level tools. You have to copy the entire filesystem to the offsite media, typically with dd.

It also can make your life difficult if you're trying to restore a lot of data all at once, like after a disaster. You take your offsite disks that you've dd' copied, hook them up, and start to run restores.

The hard links mean lots and lots of disk head seeks, so you are doing random i/o on your restore. This is really slow. If I ever have to do this, my plan is to buy a bunch of SSD's to copy my backup onto. Since there are no seeks on SSDs it will be much faster.

There WERE bugs found in the ANDROID kernel I posted about -> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/02/2238205/Serious-Security-Bugs-Found-In-Android-Kernel [slashdot.org] as well as remote shell exploits STILL POSSIBLE -> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/0058235/gaining-a-remote-shell-on-android [slashdot.org]

But we've been through these two already.
The first is the results of a security audit (rather than 0day vulns) to secure the operating system, the second is not an "exploit" any more than:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tigervnc/index.php?title=Welcome_to_TigerVNC

will be targets of malware

But for some reason you are ignoring the fact it is making as vulnerable a target as a tank is to a young boys rocks.

Yawn.

You mean, sort of like the way FreeDOS includes large file support, memory management, a CD-ROM driver, etc. -- none of which were present in the original DOS? Just like a street-legal Model T would look somewhat different, I would presume FreeDOS does not, for example, fit on five 3.5" floppies? ;-) Yes, the modern user has additional requirements, both for FreeDOS or a Model T.

Centos 6.2 outperforms xp and http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html works like visual basic on Linux.. Its better than visual basic and with very little modification existing vb type programs run on it. Centos works with server version and desktop on large and small systems. and it is free for the downloading.. why prey tell would you pay for something that does not out perform free? The nice part of open source is it upgrades automatically..

I hated 7 too until I found http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Now, I'm more or less happy as a clam. There are still some annoyances that I needed to work around through heavy modifications, but at least now it looks 90%+ like XP was.

I think you have spent more time bashing php than looking at it. Google turned this up: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmq/
Looks like JMS for php.

Also, php isn't required to run through a web server. You can make cli and gui apps just as easily. Try to have a more open mind about the language.

Windows PE can do what you state... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment

For what you ask & is in my subject-line... however?

Why??

Like I said, I carry it round with me on a usb stick in my wallet, then if I need a "secure environment" on a machine I cannot vouch for just boot from that, truecrypt makes sure any persistent data is secure if I lose the stick. Linux live is not a "lightweight installation", its a full featured desktop environment (My fedora live stick has office 2007, eclipse and chrome with several client side certs installed on it, for example), only "disadvantage" over a normal full install is it takes a little longer to boot into (and is more "static", so not suitable for installing new stuff, but since "installing new stuff" is the only way to breach a nix machine that can't be avoided).

Most recently - I used KUbuntu 10.10 all thru 2010 & especially in Europe while I travelled there. Is it ok? Sure. Does it work? Yes, for MOST of what I do or want to!

However, here? Is it favored to me over Windows?? No way.

There are three main apps that hold linux back in the consumer market.
Office (wine does work great, I use winetricked office 2007 on this fedora machine and my usb stick, but no VBA and its something of a bitch to install)
Autocad (never managed to get it working)
Adobe CS (have earlier versions working, but not really useable in a production environment, Mrs Sparks is an Architect)

What actually "switched" me to linux was kile:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/

By far the best document editor I've ever used, ran it in a vm for a while, then as more and more software got better linux alternatives (e.g. chromium, eclipse) I found I was using the vm more than the windows install, now have an old legacy windowsXP install (which is "hardened" as you put it) running in a vm on one of the 6x Dell R710s in my home office (which I can vnc into from anywhere using vpn), rarely gets used for anything other than plugging in hardware that doesn't have good nix drivers - almost nothing, the last main app was replaced yesterday, the climate control and monitoring system for the house).

Best decision I ever made, but now I'm so used to a full desktop that doesn't spend up to 90% of its time running everything through AV software I can't bring myself to install AV on the laptop, just not worth it, chrome is "bullet proof" enough (IE is hidden away, comes full of HP installed shite) to browse even the darkest areas of the net without incident (most of the time), I use the usb stick for anything banking/work related (most of the time just do it from the office), and it has a read only factory install of windows I revert back to whenever something suspicious happens (takes about three hours from pressing F2 at boot to getting everything "new" back on it - office - eclipse - dropbox - truecrypt - chrome and tigerVNC).

Totally agree "each to his own", I'm not the "linux nut" you make out, it's not so much that I "dislike" windows - if it wasn't for internet explorer there would be very little difference in terms of security between a win7 machine and a nix machine. (although I do miss the Altgr keyboard shortcuts and multiple desktops)

BUT, and this is a big BUT.
When you move into the embedded space its a whole different story.
If I write some nix code on my dev linux machine, I can for example, shift it straight over to any of the linux embedded devices (some good ones include the NSLU2, the WRT brand routers, and possibly (not tried it yet) the Archos tablets with Angstrom installed) with almost zero hassle.

Android is good because of Java, and if anything I am a bit of a Java nut (write once, run anywhere is f'ing sexy).

I don't think you rate the iPhone over Android? which leaves Windo

The glitter.py script is your friend; it just outputs the audio bitstream. You can pipe that into sox but I wouldnt know how to capture the output of this in Windows *SCNR*.

Working example that outputs 16 seconds of the track "sidekick" (128000 = 8000 * 16): ./glitter.py `cat tracks/sidekick.glitch` | head -c128000 | sox -c 1 -r 8000 -t u8 - sidekick.wav

And if you are at all shy about using the same p/w manager as everyone else, I recommend PasswordSafe by Bruce Schneier of TwoFish encryption fame. Get it at SourceForge.

But we do have python for symbian phones aka PY60. The project could be replicated in gardens such as IOS, blackberry, android,windows and even dumb phones! It works well in my nokia s60 v3 and use it with ped ide.

"You didn't prove any of this, you just CLAIM you did. AFAWK, you could be a 12-year old kid trolling on slashdot." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26, @06:32AM (#38493146)

Here's a PARTIAL small list of things I've done in the computer sciences that you obviously never have or will, that you're free to verify!

(See - I have no reason to lie about them (would be the WORST thing I could do in fact, other than be an obsessed psycho-stalker of others like yourself)):

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

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Can YOU show us that you've done MORE, & BETTER in the eyes of those in respected publications, trade shows like MS Tech-Ed, commercial code oems that are MS certified partners, books, magazines, newspapers, etc. as I have (while you were still in DIAPERS I'd imagine)?

(That's only a SMALL PARTIAL LIST too of some of my "favs" only too - the list goes on FAR beyond that!)

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"Look who's talking: an unproven degree-owner-wanabee," - by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26, @06:32AM (#38493146)

You're free to call LeMoyne (#18 rated top school in the northeast where the BEST SCHOOLS ARE in the USA no less -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2590324&cid=38490738 ), & ask them...

OR

You can check where I lettered as a freshman here as an NCAA starter in the sport of Lacrosse for them as well ->

"You didn't prove any of this, you just CLAIM you did. AFAWK, you could be a 12-year old kid trolling on slashdot." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26, @06:32AM (#38493146)

Here's a PARTIAL small list of things I've done in the computer sciences that you obviously never have or will, that you're free to verify!

(See - I have no reason to lie about them (would be the WORST thing I could do in fact, other than be an obsessed psycho-stalker of others like yourself)):

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

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Can YOU show us that you've done MORE, & BETTER in the eyes of those in respected publications, trade shows like MS Tech-Ed, commercial code oems that are MS certified partners, books, magazines, newspapers, etc. as I have (while you were still in DIAPERS I'd imagine)?

(That's only a SMALL PARTIAL LIST too of some of my "favs" only too - the list goes on FAR beyond that!)

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"Look who's talking: an unproven degree-owner-wanabee," - by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26, @06:32AM (#38493146)

You're free to call LeMoyne (#18 rated top school in the northeast where the BEST SCHOOLS ARE in the USA no less -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2590324&cid=38490738 ), & ask them...

OR

You can check where I lettered as a freshman here as an NCAA starter in the sport of Lacrosse for them as well ->

Which is why the GPL is bad for businesses: Why would you want to spend resources catering to non-customers?

Asking your question here is no more than a rhetorical ploy, and a rather poor choice of one at that.

Ask instead one of the businesses which uses or relies on Linux in its products, such as many NAS vendors. Here's one example.

Per my subject-line above: http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/ & enjoy!

APK

Yeah. Just FYI note that Shareaza's official site is now http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ , the former site with the dot com tld got borged by record labels' proxies (iMesh).

while the *BSD projects languish in obscurity?

Hello, you are full of shit

Oh man, do I love foobar2000! I use DeaDBeeF now. It's supposed to be a Linux clone of foobar2000. It's missing some functionality, but if you don't rely on a lot of foobar2000's extra features, then this would be a good lightweight music player for you.

1.) A BETTER VERSION OF IT (faster) -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

a quick question: how do we know that the compiled version is really what it claims to be ? I mean: how do we know the person (MrAlex) distributing the pre-compiled version didn't change something in the code so that it becomes a malware/backdoor/trojan.

I understand that I could download the source from mozilla and compile it myself with the same flag as the guy does on sourceforge to get an actual clean version, but still this recommendation of yours is worrisome from the security point of view.

1.) A BETTER VERSION OF IT (faster) -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

From the FAQ page (BTW, this actually belongs on the home page):
Waterfox is basically a 64-Bit version of Firefox. The Firefox source code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers.
So it's Windows only. I don't need to read further.

1.) A BETTER VERSION OF IT (faster) -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

2.) Don't load too many addons into it (yes, you probably KNOW this, but it can't hurt to mention).

3.) Run it from a SSD/RamDisk/RamDrive (& set its history, cache, & other data to point there also! I.E.-> Use faster hardware, & ramdisks/ramdrives have FAR faster seek/access than std. mechanical HDD's do).

* Just some ideas that MAY help you in this complaint of yours:

"Firefox feels so much slower than Chrome, Opera, and even IE these days." - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17, @07:52PM (#38412612)

APK

P.S.=> Good luck - & I truly DO *think* you'll like "WaterFox" (1st link above) - it IS noticeably faster than std. builds of FireFox, AND, it works with plugins (@ least the ones I use, NoScript + AdBlock) + it has 64-bit versions too... apk

PROTIP: net-dns/ddclient
http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/

Problem? Solved!

Shameless plug: I wrote dudders, a DNS UPDATE client a few years ago for basically this purpose. It only supports SIG(0) rather than TSIG (but public key authentication is cool, right?), but I had it running on my OpenWRT-based router happily (unfortunately nsupdate wouldn't fit).