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I noticed the Peter's Backup project on SourceForge. It looks like it has most of the features requested. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I will.

FDShopsite, as used by Fastdiscs.com?

It's the same with about:config in Firefox: if you need it to set some option, you know it's there, but there are also extensions that will do that for you with a prettier GUI.

For Gnome it's just a matter of installing something like GTweakUI instead of resorting to gconf-editor.

I love my Iomega Rev! [insert clicking sound here :P ] No seriusly I havnt had a single problem with it. and the filesystem is the open starndard and avalible to windows mac and linux alike UDF filesystem.

There are two virtual desktops for Mac OS X:

1. VirtualDesktop

2. Desktop Manager

Also, Panther's worth updating to, not just for Exposé, it has many under the hood enhancements.

None of these options hold a candle to Rat Poison. Nothing is as simple or minimal as it.

Say hello to my leetle friend!

OS X is pretty great. Until early this year, I was a Windows dev.. Since Win 3.11 really, but since I'm doing mostly web work these days, I got a current gen iBook.. It's quite a sweet piece of hardware, and the OS is fantastic for a guy like me. Hell, the thing even comes with XCode, which is this RAD dev environment which easily rivals my Windows dev environments (Borland C++ Builder/Delphi).

As for Portage, check out http://fink.sourceforge.net/Fink

I think this might be a much easier solution.

Works great with my cellphone, I can browse the play list on my cellphone, change tracks, adjust volume, all wirelessly.

Run it now...
Pear PC has been around for a while, and can emulate Power PC platforms on x86.
Sure, its slow, but its better than nothing.
Plus, you can run it on your xbox ;)

But for those that won't wait forever. Try this.

By opening up the source and making it possible for OSS developers to use a high quality installer, Microsoft has shown that it realizes the importance of Open Source software to its user base.

WiX is not the installer. WiX is an XML schema and processor that let's you more easily build MSI installers. There's nothing stopping you from looking up the documentation on the Windows Installer at MSDN and building your own MSI programmatically, or building your own WiX-like processor, or whatever you want. The Windows Installer SDK is part of the Platform SDK, and I'm pretty sure that linking against base platform libraries is allowed even by the GPL (it's one of those things that's frowned upon, but allowed because otherwise you could only write GPL software to run on Linux or HURD).

Also, Nullsoft's NSIS (I still think they should've carried on the PiMP/SuperPiMP naming, rather than getting all "professional") has been open source and available for years. It doesn't compile down to an MSI installer, but Nullsoft's own format, and the language and installer is pretty powerful. MSIs give you some pretty cool and powerful abilities that you can't do from NSIS, but 90% of all installers don't need much more than the ability to decompress some files, copy them around, and write some regkeys.

quoted from the website:
Linkagogo now provides the server side support for the SyncIt client. This means you don't need to install and configure your own web server for the BookmarkSync server component. With linkaGoGo you can immediately start synchronizing all your linkaGoGo favorites with PCs where you have SyncIt installed.

C:\>cl
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8804 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.

usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]

C:\>svn
Type 'svn help' for usage.

C:\>scons

scons: *** No SConstruct file found.
File "c:\python23\scons\SCons\Script\__init__.py", line 794, in _main

Also, what exactly make XL a concept programming language? It looks somewhere between Haskell, Ruby, and a simple procedural language to me.

The old XL (in C++) is about 55000 lines of code. The new XL is about 22000 lines of code. Documentation is a fraction of my time.

Also, what exactly make XL a concept programming language? It looks somewhere between Haskell, Ruby, and a simple procedural language to me.

The old XL (in C++) is about 55000 lines of code. The new XL is about 22000 lines of code. Documentation is a fraction of my time.

Can you summarize in clear terms what the difference between concept programming and object-oriented design is?

There's very little in common, except for the fact that they are both software methodologies :-) From a CP point of view, OO is an approach which models a rather large range of concepts represented as "verb + noun", where verbs are represented as methods, and nouns as objects. For instance, "window.draw()". There are some concepts that OO has trouble with, because they have no easy "verb + noun" representation. For instance, computing a maximum the OO way is tricky. In Java, you'd typically resort to a non-OO static method for that. See http://mozart-dev.sourceforge.net/cp-vs-oo.html for a more detailed discussion.

Also, what exactly make XL a concept programming language? It looks somewhere between Haskell, Ruby, and a simple procedural language to me.

As to what makes XL a concept programming language, it's extensibility combined with readability. That it looks like a simple procedural language is by design. It would not be CP if it could not represent old concepts the usual way. It's under the hood that it's really different. And you see when you start manipulating non-standard concepts, for instance a simple plug-in allows you to manipulate symbolic differential forms in your source code. You can't do that as easily, if at all, with any of the languages you listed.

I am just curios. What is your "huge disadvantage in software"? Because I am a switcher, and so far I have found 2 things that OSX is lacking in, and only 2.

1. Children's games. We all know that OSX has fewer games than Windows, but Childrens games are much fewer - and most of them that are out barely work at all.

GPS and Mapping. OSX only really has one street mapping software - Route66. Which is merely OK. It is not the most stable, and it doesn't do a whole lot. It won't track GPS histories and such.... There is MacGPSPro, which works good. I have used it for Marine charts, I have yet to import regular maps in, but you can... And there are a few others now as well, and I think Topo! is now out... But Definately OSX, even though it might have GPS/Mapping software - they are less mature than Windows counterparts.

Now having said that, the article missed a couple. Fire is a great IM client, I like it better than Adium. And OSX has CuteFTP and Adobe Acrobat as well...

I have been working full time in OSX for about 2 months now, on a PowerBook 15.GhzG4 with 1GB memory. I am a Java developer, and I use eclipse and other tools. So far I am much happier working in OSX than in Windows. I have been using OSX at home since OSX 10.0.4, and I like it much more than Windows....

I am just curios. What is your "huge disadvantage in software"? Because I am a switcher, and so far I have found 2 things that OSX is lacking in, and only 2.

1. Children's games. We all know that OSX has fewer games than Windows, but Childrens games are much fewer - and most of them that are out barely work at all.

GPS and Mapping. OSX only really has one street mapping software - Route66. Which is merely OK. It is not the most stable, and it doesn't do a whole lot. It won't track GPS histories and such.... There is MacGPSPro, which works good. I have used it for Marine charts, I have yet to import regular maps in, but you can... And there are a few others now as well, and I think Topo! is now out... But Definately OSX, even though it might have GPS/Mapping software - they are less mature than Windows counterparts.

Now having said that, the article missed a couple. Fire is a great IM client, I like it better than Adium. And OSX has CuteFTP and Adobe Acrobat as well...

I have been working full time in OSX for about 2 months now, on a PowerBook 15.GhzG4 with 1GB memory. I am a Java developer, and I use eclipse and other tools. So far I am much happier working in OSX than in Windows. I have been using OSX at home since OSX 10.0.4, and I like it much more than Windows....

TaskSwitch XP might be of interest to you. It's a Windows alt-tab replacement that lets you click on object windows as opposed to bashing tab repeatedly (you can still bash tab if you like) and it shows screenshots of the windows you hover over. Open source project.

Running the risk of suggesting a Lexus when you have a Rolls-Royce (I don't know that much about Gentoo), I have had fantastic luck running X applications using FinkCommander via Fink. It requires that Apple's X11 (or OSS equivalent) be installed but I have been running Gimp, OpenOffice, and GNUCash with no troubles.

Running the risk of suggesting a Lexus when you have a Rolls-Royce (I don't know that much about Gentoo), I have had fantastic luck running X applications using FinkCommander via Fink. It requires that Apple's X11 (or OSS equivalent) be installed but I have been running Gimp, OpenOffice, and GNUCash with no troubles.

In the mean time, try DOSBox, a DOS emulator.

You cannot watch mpeg2 video in Quicktime without buying an addon.

This is true, but then again you don't have to limit yourself to what's bundled with the system. Two capable open source players available for the Mac are VLC and MPlayerOSX. As for editiing I can't help, since I have not needed to investigate this.

Ok, lets try to summarize why we like SNMP:
-Implementations can fit in a few kb memory footprint. I don't see web services beating that any time soon. (Oh, and not all the devices on the planet are 4Ghz P4's with a gigabyte of ram so it is still important not to be a memory hog on many areas).
-For relatively simple purposes, S(imple)NMP is almost as simple as it gets. Like say, for the monitoring of the temperature of a router, using something like web services would surely be overkill.
-There are many implementations for your favorite unix flavor. Probably best is the excelent net-snmp package. The 5.x version has many new methods of extending the main agent instrumentation through compiled in modules, dynamicaly loadable modules, external (pass) scripts, even embedded perl. Solaris 10 will be using the net-snmp package as part of the standard installation.
-The protocol is extremely efficient so there is little presure on the underlying medium. The PDU's are encoded in BER, so the implementations are abundant and quite standard. And yes, this is very very important because practicaly all versions of agents and toolkits are 100% compatible between them.
-Because the SMI is defined in ASN.1, there is no ambiguity in the structure of the management information. See previous bullet why this is important.
-There are excellent tools like HP OpenView NNM which can really simplify monitoring of even extremely large networks.

Now let's see some of its disadvantages:
-Poor security, corrected in version 3 (somewhat complex) but still most people use version 1 or 2c.
-Setable objects are IMHO a nightmare to use. For those of you who are reloading their router by setting sysUpTime to 0, I may seem dead wrong, but it appears that most people's safe bet would be just to log in to the machine and do the job they want. To generalize that idea, SNMP is unbeatable when it comes to monitoring things, but when it comes to actualy controlling things from away, it loses. Perhaps that is exactly the niche that those web services will complement (not replace!) SNMP.
-Extremely difficult to describe complex data structures using SMI. But then again I may be too impatient.

Lastly, though it will sound bitter, there is no clear evidence that web services or WBEM or whatever will be able to actualy help network administrators do their job better than they do it today.

And remember everyone, there is no big company that can necessarily know your job and your needs better than you, as much as they profess to. So on this matter we must not take the word of those who are trying to sell us the New Management Ubertool but on the contrary try to evaluate it in the real world and figure out if it actualy is usefull or not.

And that's my five cents for tonight.

(I keep on bringing this up in the hopes that the squeeky wheel will get some oil, but so far, nothing.)

Oh, and on another note, I guess it's on the front page because if you go to the Politics section, you'll get a random jumble of stuff, so I suppose they want to do that to everyone or something.

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but the current stories for me on the politics section are:

• The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency
• Politics: Did Kerry Use a Cheat Sheet?
• Games: Sony CTO Reassures PSP Fans
• Your Rights Online: RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated
• Games: Molyneux Apology Explained

Try K-meleon Based on mozilla but a more light weight interface.

Concept programming is an approach to programming that I hope will yield improvements in quality. If your code is structured like what it represents, then it's easier to understand and maintain. This simple idea yields interesting metrics, and highlights issues that are a bit hard to spot otherwise.

Over time, I became convinced that a new language was actually necessary to implement concept programming correctly. It turns out that some of the tools developed for XL help many other things (like documentation, good interfaces, automated tools, etc).

Concept programming is an approach to programming that I hope will yield improvements in quality. If your code is structured like what it represents, then it's easier to understand and maintain. This simple idea yields interesting metrics, and highlights issues that are a bit hard to spot otherwise.

Over time, I became convinced that a new language was actually necessary to implement concept programming correctly. It turns out that some of the tools developed for XL help many other things (like documentation, good interfaces, automated tools, etc).

Concept programming is an approach to programming that I hope will yield improvements in quality. If your code is structured like what it represents, then it's easier to understand and maintain. This simple idea yields interesting metrics, and highlights issues that are a bit hard to spot otherwise.

Over time, I became convinced that a new language was actually necessary to implement concept programming correctly. It turns out that some of the tools developed for XL help many other things (like documentation, good interfaces, automated tools, etc).

Concept programming is an approach to programming that I hope will yield improvements in quality. If your code is structured like what it represents, then it's easier to understand and maintain. This simple idea yields interesting metrics, and highlights issues that are a bit hard to spot otherwise.

Over time, I became convinced that a new language was actually necessary to implement concept programming correctly. It turns out that some of the tools developed for XL help many other things (like documentation, good interfaces, automated tools, etc).

Concept programming is an approach to programming that I hope will yield improvements in quality. If your code is structured like what it represents, then it's easier to understand and maintain. This simple idea yields interesting metrics, and highlights issues that are a bit hard to spot otherwise.

Over time, I became convinced that a new language was actually necessary to implement concept programming correctly. It turns out that some of the tools developed for XL help many other things (like documentation, good interfaces, automated tools, etc).

I would love to see another game from that era and the 80's is Sid Meier's Pirates!, in full 3D glory, with the same kind of gameplay. I have been able to get System Shock and Pirates Gold! to run with moderate success, assuming you save often, in DOSBox.

http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yes, being the somewhat paranoid anti-establishment types they are, I was wondering if some or all of Indymedia's content exists on Freenet, MUTE or similar. Or for god's sake at least Gnutella. I mean, if they're willing to put it up on a server they probably don't care so much about the anonymity angle anyway, but that would make it much harder to take down or silence.

Does anyone know if some of the collectives have done, do, or plan to do this?

It is a sad reality that government organisations use bully tactics for political purposes. If I were running, say, an independent media company, I wouldn't be running my website, the main distribution method off a rack server with 19 other countries' IMCs.

In fact, this is what Freenet is designed for.

Decentralise and conquer!

IMCs are like the guerillas of news media. They should start (contuinue) using this to their advantage.

You might want a text to speech system like maybe freetts. Or it could just page or text message you.

For instance, I've been searching for a document management system lately to use as a repository for our company's standards development project. One basic feature we require is that the search engine it provides searches within Word documents. Two OSS projects I looked at, Owl and KnowledgeTree, advertise on their features list that they do this. But if you go try out their online demos, neither product is able to find words embedded in Word documents that exist on their system. In one case, someone had put up a Word document with a single Spanish word in it. I viewed the document, noticed that it was a good candidate for a search (one word, not one likely to be found in another document), then backed out and tried to find the document using that word in the search bar. Nothing.

So, while I'm always interested in OSS projects that can act as replacements for commercial ones, particularly on the server side, I'm reticent to believe their hype before I see their products in action.

Look at Dirac's Sourceforge project pagefor more information the project, including license info, mailing lists, public forums, news and current source.

I don't normally feed trolls... but what the hell.

a) the BBC isn't just a "company" - it's the highest quality broadcaster in the world. They always have done research and been at the forefront of new technology throughout their history. This is a project that anybody can help contribute to - as it'll benefit the community as a whole when it's complete.
b) they have put effort into it already - they've put out quite a few releases already (SF page) and have been working on it for a couple of years
c) although they want it to improve their online streaming services (currently done using Real technology), an open standard, no encumbrance from patents, with technology that other codecs at present don't use, is a very important project for not only the BBC, but for all of the computing community

1) what license will the Dirac codec be released under? (GPL, GPL w/ linking exception, LGPL, MPL, BSD, MIT X11 license, non-open source license?)

Triple license: MPL 1.1 / GPL / LGPL.

2) where is the code repository?

Sourceforge.

Release the codec under an Open Source license but one that will disallow forking or total appropriation (re: Not BSD or GPL).

They're triple-licensing MPL 1.1 / GPL / LGPL.

Start a web community/forum and accompanying mailing list for it.

Dirac project on Sourceforge.

Sourceforge project
BBC's Dirac homepage

Check the sourceforge project

see here: MUTE filesharing project

its working like this: you as a node only know your neighbours, and what they want, but you can't see wheather they or somebody else wants this package and they simly work as a hop.

Third Generation (I think that's what they're calling it) P2P programs like ANtz and Mute rely on a sort of plausible deniability and waste a lot of bandwidth. They're strictly peer-to-peer and distributed. When you get a request for a file, you don't know whether the originator is the person connecting to you, or someone behind them. There is no request to make a direct connection. So while you could point the finger at them, you may be wrong.

The problem with this - and I've pointed it out to the developer of Mute - is that someone with enough resources (like the RIAA, or that British Porn group) could log on thousands of times, and make enough reasonable guesses about who's sharing what with who to pinpoint some of the major sharers, who would be smart to figure out how to change their IP address and what parts of their collection they make available on any given day frequently to avoid detection.

Also, as I said, this wastes a lot of bandwidth, because you're not making a direct connection to the person you're sharing with, you could be acting as a conduit as well, so people who pay for bandwidth will raise the familiar bittorrent protests - I'm paying too much for what I'm downloading. Of course, P2P not being bittorrent and being used for trading 99.99% illegal stuff (bittorrent at least is used to distribute things like linux flavors), all those people should shut up and be grateful they're not paying $20 (or their local currency equivelant) for the CD/DVD etc. they're downloading.

Also, once this third generation stuff catches on, it's just a matter of time before they start sueing the guys who make the software for aiding and abetting file sharing, or whatever that thing congress wants to pass into law says is illegal. You know, the thing that overturns the Betamax/Mr. Roges law. Then again, the guy who makes Mute told me that he's in it for the fame, so being sued could just make his day. Though sueing the developer seems like a free speach issue to me.

The ultimate irony is that most of these client are based on Waste, which was made by Justin Frankel (homepage, Rolling Stone article, Wikipedia entry), who was an employee of AOL Time Warner at the time he released it.

Third Generation (I think that's what they're calling it) P2P programs like ANtz and Mute rely on a sort of plausible deniability and waste a lot of bandwidth. They're strictly peer-to-peer and distributed. When you get a request for a file, you don't know whether the originator is the person connecting to you, or someone behind them. There is no request to make a direct connection. So while you could point the finger at them, you may be wrong.

The problem with this - and I've pointed it out to the developer of Mute - is that someone with enough resources (like the RIAA, or that British Porn group) could log on thousands of times, and make enough reasonable guesses about who's sharing what with who to pinpoint some of the major sharers, who would be smart to figure out how to change their IP address and what parts of their collection they make available on any given day frequently to avoid detection.

Also, as I said, this wastes a lot of bandwidth, because you're not making a direct connection to the person you're sharing with, you could be acting as a conduit as well, so people who pay for bandwidth will raise the familiar bittorrent protests - I'm paying too much for what I'm downloading. Of course, P2P not being bittorrent and being used for trading 99.99% illegal stuff (bittorrent at least is used to distribute things like linux flavors), all those people should shut up and be grateful they're not paying $20 (or their local currency equivelant) for the CD/DVD etc. they're downloading.

Also, once this third generation stuff catches on, it's just a matter of time before they start sueing the guys who make the software for aiding and abetting file sharing, or whatever that thing congress wants to pass into law says is illegal. You know, the thing that overturns the Betamax/Mr. Roges law. Then again, the guy who makes Mute told me that he's in it for the fame, so being sued could just make his day. Though sueing the developer seems like a free speach issue to me.

The ultimate irony is that most of these client are based on Waste, which was made by Justin Frankel (homepage, Rolling Stone article, Wikipedia entry), who was an employee of AOL Time Warner at the time he released it.

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Huhhhh, I said marriage. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=marriage%2 0AND%20mediatype%3Amovies

FreePOPs is a great utility which allows you to check webmail (including Gmail / Hotmail / any Squirellmail based site) as if it were a standard POP3 account.

It runs on Linux, OS X and Windows. If anyone is interested, I've written a guide for installing and using FreePOPs with OS X and Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage.

I'm now the maintainer of this project, I picked it up from Bekman Stas, the original author. It is distributed under the Perl Artistic License, I know of one other company that makes use of it. It is very simple, and makes effective use of javascript to help in managing entries. I have extended it to support emailing admins on new contributions. I've made only modest changes since hosting it on Source Forge, but would certainly welcome any contributions or anyone wanting to continue and extend the project.

I don't see this project in the review, but it is very easy to set up and has met our needs very well.