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If you look at these download stats, you'll see that the non-Win32 platforms make up more than a third of all downloads.

On the 'fringe' platforms (OS X, Linux), you can achieve a much higher market share.

- Andreas

But, in real world IPv6 land, you can only get to the network (TLA/NLA) and subnetwork (SLA), if the user is assigning his own EUI (host) addresses, and you can't get any further without tracing on the subnet, when the activity is occuring.

That's what I'm arguing. Your ISP (uni., city, network solutions, hurricane electric, sprint) is going to know what they provided you. Unless you provide connectivity to other people, and have a lawyer to prove it, then they will go after you. They'll find your /48 just as quick as your ipv4 /32 because it resolves to someone elses AS (who are the people getting the notices to forward).

The technology of I2 and IPv6 do not add to your anonimity. And no the "privacy enhanced" provides nothing to some one looking for you on an allocated IPv6. You can change your MAC/EUI address all you want, but someone knows how to route to you. Plus you are registering for/working on classes using some sort of authentication.

In your university setting, they probably will provide you a /48 (yeah /64 was wrong in my previous post).
A /48 (or smaller if they only got a /32 from the RIR) to your dorm room. It would really only provide anonymity if they don't keep track of who logs in.

Tunneling just adds a level of indirection. It helps, but is not a solution for anonimity. Encrypted tunnels are much better.

Just because the university is willing to go to bat for you doesn't mean the problem is solved.

What I'm saying is that IPv6+Internet2 is not anonymous, but perhaps as anonymous as the Internet 15 years ago. It is not attempting to be freenet

Being a creative labs nomad zen user, I can say that while they don't have a handy store to use, as far as usability goes with transferring music and such, it does very well.

In fact, there is even an open source client program for linux. Pretty spiff!

I have to give props to HyperContent which I don't see on any list there. It is rather flexible and snazzy.

HyperContent

It is being developed by various higher ed institutions and it has some real-world production use (not just a guy and and his website).

Sounds like he needs to start using tmda or some challenge response system. Seems like that would be cheaper than having a whole team filter your email, unless that team is outsourced.

But there should be easier ways. As far i remember most languages have its own letter distribution (i.e. around 20% 'e', 10% 'a', etc), i.e. counting frequency of letters from texts in different languages should be enough to differentiate and aggrupate them... at least, if there enough text in it.

No, World Wind has tons of black&white 1 meter coverage through USGS, and a few select urban areas at .25 meter, color.

I've used both, and Keyhole has fairly better US coverage and tools, but had very poor coverage on most of the world - usually just the Blue Marble NASA texture (not even landsat).

World Wind's Landsat server is still off after an earlier slashdotting but there is some cache files and proxy servers around (info available on their forum). The program is already open source and available at CVS on https://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/

A copy of the source is also included in the NASA regular download.

RealPlayer doesn't support SHOUTcast AFAIK, which is the reason for which I use WinAMP under Windows. Under Linux I use Zinf.

If you like wmp 6.4, you'll love media player classic.

Granted, you probably won't notice any differences while playing music, but it is great for movies (you can actually watch a movie, not the player's shinny animated buttons while fighting with the interface).

There is nothing inherent in Windows that prevents solving DLL hell. The problem is the same as with Linux: finding compatible capabilities independent of filename or version. DotNET, for example, provides a vastly improved system for dynamically managing versions.

I have spent much time on Windows and DLL hell has become rare because programmers avoid it by linking to DLLs with the version in the filename. Sometimes they even keep all the necessary DLLs in their program's directory, so the application is basically self-contained. This often destroys the principle of reuse, but stability is much more important, and a lot of the libraries that are important to share are standardized by Microsoft and backwards compatible.

The problem is that package management in Linux is so fragmented, as you illustrated. It's not "Linux" (the kernel), it's the distributions -- each creating their own, relatively closed, world of incompatible packages. Of course, if Linus did provide a standard system in the kernel for package management and versioning, it would probably go a long way toward standardizing across all distributions.

Amazingly, in Windows, the world is open: MS doesn't need to maintain a repository of all the properly crafted applications for each version of their distro. Their binary and source APIs are much more stable than Linux, and they tend to maintain backwards compatibility.

I love the idea and heart of Linux, but it seems that a BDFL is required at the distribution level to declare some standards. Installation should be as easy as copying a directory (back to the DOS days). This is the way MS is headed with dotNET. This is why I'm also interested in somewhat similar projects for Linux, such as zero-install. There are some flaws, but even if it were perfect, if it is not widely accepted, it becomes largely meaningless.

Allright, I can throw ANY format at mplayer, including Real media, and from a cold launch on a slow laptop, it hardly ever takes more than five seconds from when I enter the command to when whatever-it-is is playing. Notable exceptions are when the media itself is slower than mplayer, such as URLs and Samba filesystems (wonder why).

In fact, there's this cd called movix which can boot quickly (some better solution, especially with all those "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"

for me. Once I tried foobar2000 there was no going back.

Features
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
* Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

If you've ever tried writing a plugin for Winamp you'll fall in love with the fb2k SDK, its like heaven compared to the other player. ;-)

for me. Once I tried foobar2000 there was no going back.

Features
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
* Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

If you've ever tried writing a plugin for Winamp you'll fall in love with the fb2k SDK, its like heaven compared to the other player. ;-)

There were ongoing efforts to create OSS support for NetMD players; of course, the protocol is ugly and convoluted, and Sony won't open it. Right now they support operations with tracks already available on the Minidisc, but no uploading, which kinda defeats the point.

Anyway, i also wish Sony would get off their asses and give the MD a fair chance. The hardware is great, cheap, and the media is readily available.

JD4X does what they are asking for.

The commercial spin-off is called Zesktop at zerahstar.com. It's basically Knoppix plus auto-update stuff.

From the site:

Zesktop is our research and development project. Its goal is to achieve a totally automated computing system that is capable of maintaining and fixing itself without any need for human intervention. Other possible features we are working on would include a highly portable and virus free environment. Zesktop is still a project and concept under development and would require your continued support.

I don't remember that particular scene; I only watched the movie once. However, there's no reason you couldn't recognize a POSIX-based filesystem from any visual representation of a filesystem.

There's a couple of ways to get a 3D representation of the Linux filesystem. XCruise is one. Another is TDFSB.

Granted, I haven't found any that were better as tools than as games, though XCruise could conceivably be used to learn some low-level things about how your filesystem is organized.

Blast, it works better when you get the link right...!

There's a wonderful, current, open-source product called gnuTaxes that should completely replace TurboTax. Look at their lofty goal for release!

* 1.0.0 - release gnuTax application with complete tax system definitions by end of 2000.

Maybe he should get this.

Just go to sourceforge and do a search for "accounting".

The trick is finding people who know enough to decide which is a good candidate for a bundle.

Speaking of "free" tivo (free as in commercial free) check out http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

But if you use another system like IIPimage http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/ you can see we have a 3.6 Gigabyte image without errors or superposition.

• Alpha's cost/performance at the system level was awful, and so were those of most other non-x86 chips. It wasn't a question of design, it was a question of volume.

• As I keep saying: I can write excellent C++ code that doesn't suffer from buffer overflows. So can lots of other people. The problem is that there are even more people who write lousy code no matter what you tell them. Better programming languages are there to protect us all from their lousy code.

• Your argument is self-defeating. If your "better string library" really gives people such amazing performance by calling it from C, then you can achieve the same performance by calling it from other languages.

• Well, I'm so sorry that half a century of programming language evolution have passed you by, but that is really not something I can address.

Use of this driver requires that you download Intel firmware which is covered by a very non-free and restrictive license.

I urge you to write to Intel and let them know that you are dissatisfied with their license and that you want the ability to freely distribute their firmware.

Please note that nobody is asking them to open the source of their firmware--they just need to make it so that free operating systems can distribute their firmware without having to force their users to agree to this licensing.

Use of this driver requires that you download Intel firmware which is covered by a very non-free and restrictive license.

I urge you to write to Intel and let them know that you are dissatisfied with their license and that you want the ability to freely distribute their firmware.

Please note that nobody is asking them to open the source of their firmware--they just need to make it so that free operating systems can distribute their firmware without having to force their users to agree to this licensing.

Agreed. I almost didn't buy my iRiver 790T because the excellent free driver said it was "for Linux." Instead, I investigated a little more, compiled it for my OpenBSD system, and went out and grabbed a great flash player (plays Oggs--woot!).

A situation which causes similar pain is when people write non-free software for Linux/x86. I've mostly lived in the "totally free" world (by necessity) because I use Linux on PPC and OpenBSD. And believe me, you start to bemoan the ignorance of folks who are pleased when software is available "for Linux" but don't understand what freedom is supposed to be about.

[A note: writing portable free software isn't that hard. I've written software at work that I know is intended for a single machine running Linux, but I usually keep it running on a BSD and Solaris too, just to keep it portable. It's a habit I'd like to see more widely adopted.]

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/install.html

Remember, with Firefox, you need to install the proper extension if you want to get more functionality.
So, if you want a spell checker, go here

SpellBound seems to work pretty well.

eh, close enough to natural lanugage http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shak espeare/

Seems like everyday there is more and more reasons to start using I2P and or Freenet. Frankly I'm not worried, in part because I don't live in the USA :), because of these anonymous P2P applications. If these weren't around, I'd be freaking out more ;).

Those of you with massive digital images might be interested in the IIPImage system for viewing large images over the web: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/

There's an impressive demo with an image of (only) 3.6GB: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/IIPDemo.html

Those of you with massive digital images might be interested in the IIPImage system for viewing large images over the web: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/

There's an impressive demo with an image of (only) 3.6GB: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/IIPDemo.html

Note: WinXP sp2 adds the option "Disable automatic restart on system failure" on the F8 menu. So press F8 as the computer is booting, and you should see it listed on the menu along with Safe Mode.

On Windows 2000 and XP SP1 the following works:

0) Boot with a BartPE CD
1) Run RegeditPE from a floppy disk or CD....
2) If prompted to load remote user profiles for editing, you can choose "No."
3) Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\CrashControl]
4) Change the value of the DWORD AutoReboot from 1 to 0.
5) Close RegeditPE, and restart the computer.

Well, the Web page was intended to be an introduction, not a technical description. If you want to know more about how the "key" file is used to select primes pseudorandomly (8300 bytes --> approximately 1000 primes minimum -- AFTER which they are used to generate pseudorandom numbers), read the HalfBakery page, or download the .zip and study the "cryption.c" source code file.

Regarding your points 1. and 2., you can pick any key file you want off the Web, and just tell the recipient the filename -- maybe an .MP3 -- in a casual conversation (FIRST time and other random occasions; after that you mostly just encrypt the name of the next key file in your current secret transmission), and if the recipient has the downloaded the same "Primary Cryption" program suite/version as yourself, then he/she will indeed be able to locally generate the exact same library of prime numbers as yourself. The library is simply ALL primes that fit in 32 bits, after all (203,280,221 of them); it only exists so that the encryption process can obtain a thousand (or thousands) Nth primes more quickly than generating them on the fly.

I made a program that can actually use RSA for encrypting a whole file/message (based on base 256, base 64 and base 10 conversions of RSA transformations on huge numbers). Is is kinda slow with larger key sizes, but not intolerable. And it allows quite large keys (larger than 1024 bit).

Over at SourceForge is a relatively new Project called Primary Cryption. Working code (for Win32/WINE) has already been released. The source code includes hundreds of lines of commentary about encryption, C programming tricks, and other stuff that you might find interesting. The logo may be of interest, too. Some discussions about it have been started at the HalfBakery and at sci.crypt.research Oh, and if you want to put some effort into figuring out how easy (or tough) it is to break the proposed encryption scheme, feel free! I'd like to know. Thanks!

Over at SourceForge is a relatively new Project called Primary Cryption. Working code (for Win32/WINE) has already been released. The source code includes hundreds of lines of commentary about encryption, C programming tricks, and other stuff that you might find interesting. The logo may be of interest, too. Some discussions about it have been started at the HalfBakery and at sci.crypt.research Oh, and if you want to put some effort into figuring out how easy (or tough) it is to break the proposed encryption scheme, feel free! I'd like to know. Thanks!

GNAP [Gay Nigger Associated Press], ASSEVILLERS, FRANCE - In a move that is sure to redefine the open source community of the future, Gay Nigger Association of America (News | Websites) introduced the first open source corpse after the untimely death of Hans Bakker.

Bakker, a developer for the OpenBSD project, which preceded him in death, was travelling back to Paris after the SANE conference. Unfortunately, known hippie and NAMBLA member Richard Stallman had been dropped off at his hotel and was not in the car when a truck made the first contribution to Bakker's corpse's CVS by merging into it at high speed. Bakker's death was confirmed immediately via IRC by his virtual girlfriend.

The instant the opened skull was declared in the public domain, GNAA member Gary Niger annointed it with Holy Gay Nigger Seed to ensure a smooth passage into the afterlife and robust continued development. Thrusting rhythmically into the still-warm and pulsing brain of the dying man, Gary shouted "FUCK BSD; BSD IS DYING; BSD SUCKS; BSD IS DEAD TO ME; BSD DID WTC LOL" before exploding in orgasmic waves of pleasure as the sensitive nerves at the tip of his penis made contact with Bakker's last semi-conscious thoughts.

Associated bacteria immediately lined up to make their contributions, as did several nearby flies hoping to raise families of open source maggots. However, CmdrTaco of Slashdot, a known scene gadfly and AZT addict, flopped heavily into the area while loudly proclaiming first dibs on the rectum. In response, #GNAA attendee GasJews challenged him. "Tell that fag CmdrTaco that I've got first dibs on this dead anus," he said, "and that I'm going to beat him down, then fuck him tenderly all night long," said GasJews, liberally spraying Holy Gay Nigger Seed over the EMS personnel and local French police, who were delighted.

Since the 1990s, open source has been a popular way of developing free software for the general public, maintained by teams of pimply nerds with angst at their utter uselessness outside of the imaginary world of computers and networks. Much like a religion, it requires absolute obedience to its concept and encourages contributors to vehemently rail against any software which actually functions, including Microsoft's popular Windows operating system.

The future of Open Source Hans Baker Corpse (OSHBC) remains to be determined as the development team is still being assembled. Using the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), developers will be able to modify the corpse to refine its function as a BSD-analogue, something made easier by the fact that both are dead. All interested developers are encouraged to contact the OSHBC project at http://sourceforge.net/.

About Hans Bakker

Hans Bakker was a lowly BSD developer who like many sought to replace a real world life with online presence as a feeble justification that he was "doing something" about the world's dire situation. Most of his days were spent on IRC, flirting with fat girls who had once gone through a gothic phase before deciding on Lesbianism, at which point the resounding lack of attention nearly starved them. Read more at his unfinished closed-source site, http://www.hans.cx.

About Assevillers

Assevillers, France, is a small town of population 228 in the gorgeous pastel-colored French countryside. During WWII, it was home to several prostitutes who slept with occupying Germans, recognizing the dominant cocks of these very hetero warriors as the future of France, which has been a bottom since roughly AD 1250. The French people have fought many wars during that time and have won none of them, distingu

Wow. The site is down. How convenient for you.

Here's the link that describes the compatibility matrix, though it's down at the moment.

Since you don't seem to think there is any truth to this, though, go to hotscripts.com. Look in the javascript section. You'll have no trouble finding scripts that won't work under Opera.

It's a question of where you can go.

If the CSS on the page is slightly off, you can still read the page. There are plenty of places you can't go if the javascript doesn't work right. CSS is supported under Mozilla, by the way. There are a few bugs, but it's not close to not having any DOM2 compliance.

Go ahead and pigeonhole me, if it's true. I said that you don't mind using Opera because you don't mind giving up compliance for the sake of speed. You didn't even notice the lack of standards compliance. Are you telling me that the speed isn't important to you? Maybe I missed a category or two of people using Opera, but I wouldn't say that these are purposely distorted reasons. It's not like I'm building some kind of straw man argument based upon them. I actually tried to think of all the reasons I would switch to Opera if I were to use it continuously.

If you include among your reasons "don't mind giving up speed in order to get compliance," you'd get the biggest reason I'm not using Opera.

I think this is the mentality the RIAA suspects all people of. Shoplifting is a crime. And, they equate file sharing to shoplifting.

The question I was asked before I gave it up was "Would you walk into a store and put a CD in your bag and walk out?"

My answer was: NO!

And that was a little over five years ago, and I haven't P2P'd since, not in the traditional P2P sense, anway. I use my favourite Torrent program for Gentoo and such, but that is a legitimate useage. In fact, I got a Cox warning about using Bittorrent last month, for downloading using the Torrent protocol.

It wasn't until I explained to them that there are legitimate uses for such a program that they backed off and restarted my damned pipe.

I don't blame them... no Sir. I blame people like you.

I don't feel liek I am preaching to the choir in anyway, most of the Slashdot folks are, in fact, infringing on copyrights! And, they are doing it for one purpose: to get free shit! I don't know if it is the Free Software Foundation, RMS, Linus, or God damned Timothy Leary who put the idea into your heads that everything should be free. Whoever the hell it was, well, you were wrong! You want free shit? You want to freeload off the backs of others? Pitch in a little, release your own damned music/movies/etc. Write a book of poetry, spend a few years coming up with a good movie, or design a DOOM killer, so to speak, for the video game industry! And, then, give it away.

Most people here are advocates of Open Source, but I seriously doubt they pitch in. If the GPL weren't there, they'd use Photoshop or whatever, and never pay a red cent for it. If even HALF of these people on this board pitched in to an OSS project like The GIMP, it would kill Photoshop. But, of course, you'd have to know how to code first. Doubt very many here know how. And, HelloWorld.cpp doesn't cut it!

The RIAA is basically right -- even though I hate their business model (artists, and I use the term lightly, don't benefit nearly as much as the label) -- most people who do this sort of shit are scum. Plain and simple! And, before you sacks off shit attack me, saying where are my contributions... here is a link to shut you up. So, you see, I love music just as much as the next person. And, I am not afraid of technology, either. The two can co-exist with one another. Just nowhere around here.

Anyway,
Anonymous Coward

What ? No FreeDOS ? Nor links ?

Google are a bunch of insensitive clods !!!

The questions you raise are already answers in the gaim encryption plugin. It's slightly different, but it's doing nearly the same thing. Notifies and remembers that users use the plugin with a system of saying to either send it out, establish regardless, or various other settings for what to do.

It's not the most elegant solution, but when you are piggybacking a large proprietary network for something like this, I think it's more than enough.

Use Bayesian filters. Take a look on SourceForge for ones such as POPfile(http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/) for platform independance and SpamBayes for Outlook/Outlook Express. These are end-user and as such can be tailored to the spam the user receives.

On the server side I know there are bayesian plugins for things such as SpamAssassin, although the names escape me now since I don't have to deal with them regularly.

For those who don't know, bayesian filtering is adaptive based on how often words and phrases appear in spam and non-spam.

Here are a couple of relevant mailing list threads: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (main thread) and Re: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (a followup thread).

For reference, Mark Dolinger, Ethan Blanton, and Luke Schierer are gaim developers ( developer list) and Ka-Hing Cheung is someone that has done a lot of work for gaim and is a recognized "Crazy Patch Writer" for his efforts. (and is mentioned in the AUTHORS file)

Hope that helps :-)

Here are a couple of relevant mailing list threads: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (main thread) and Re: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (a followup thread).

For reference, Mark Dolinger, Ethan Blanton, and Luke Schierer are gaim developers ( developer list) and Ka-Hing Cheung is someone that has done a lot of work for gaim and is a recognized "Crazy Patch Writer" for his efforts. (and is mentioned in the AUTHORS file)

Hope that helps :-)

Here are a couple of relevant mailing list threads: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (main thread) and Re: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (a followup thread).

For reference, Mark Dolinger, Ethan Blanton, and Luke Schierer are gaim developers ( developer list) and Ka-Hing Cheung is someone that has done a lot of work for gaim and is a recognized "Crazy Patch Writer" for his efforts. (and is mentioned in the AUTHORS file)

Hope that helps :-)

Here are a couple of relevant mailing list threads: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (main thread) and Re: GAIM-Integrated Filesharing (a followup thread).

For reference, Mark Dolinger, Ethan Blanton, and Luke Schierer are gaim developers ( developer list) and Ka-Hing Cheung is someone that has done a lot of work for gaim and is a recognized "Crazy Patch Writer" for his efforts. (and is mentioned in the AUTHORS file)

Hope that helps :-)

When you download a track, you rate it according to your tastes. iRATE's server then compares your ratings to those of other people, and sends you music you're likely to enjoy, while avoiding music you will dislike. This process is known as "collaborative filtering".

iRATE is nearing its 0.4 release, which will be much improved over its current 0.3 release. If you'd like to contribute to its development, visit iRATE's sourceforge page.

It almost feels like a subtle shift toward autonomous zones along the lines of Gibson's walled city - exclusive, encrypted, invite-only networks... Hey, look!