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If you've got a Neo Freerunner, no problem.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eviacam/

GNU GPL goodness!

It's fun to try despite lack of disabilities!

3) Substantially better System Requirements compared to Minecraft (Minecraft has to use fog to prevent rendering too many cubes whereas Minetest can render all cubes in line of site above 30fps when taking a birds eye view of the map http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40468. Also it can run on ancient P4 era hardware whereas Minecraft is completely unplayable).

Good point there; I have a Quadro card (FX-2700M) and it struggles to display Minecraft with the Dell-supplied drivers. If I use current or beta NVIDIA-supplied drivers the game displays fine, but then I lose DisplayPort/HDMI audio in the process. So, if I use DisplayPort, I need to juggle drivers. :-(

I have grown accustomed to doing statistical analysis using Python and R using http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2

I second the tablet PC form factor. Others that qualify are the ASUS Eee Slate, Samsung Series 7 Slate, as well as models from HP and Fujitsu.

I use a Thinkpad X61 tablet on linux with the note-taking software Xournal, which also can annotate pdf's.

Unfortunately, Steve Jobs in his infinite wisdom, very publicly denounced the stylus as a failure when the iPad was released, and you know, Steve Jobs is always right. Never mind 10,000 years of history placing sticks to parchment. So the entire iPad clone industry (Android) has completely eschewed the stylus, much to my dismay. Worse, the manufacturers have decided that the only thing people really need to do with a tablet is watch movies, so the screens are low resolution, and 16:9 aspect ratio. This, when placed in portrait mode, is much taller and narrower than a piece of paper. And because the resolution is low, if you put up a full-page PDF on the thing, small letters like subscripts in equations are often readable. And even worse, all the new tablets are 10.1". A 8.5x11 piece of paper has a 14" diagonal, for comparison.

So, if any of you have the ear of any Android/tablet manufacturers, please bring back 4:3 screens at high resolution, with a form factor essentially the same as that of paper. Minimum DPI for this usage is about 150 (or about 1024 vertical resolution).

You must be new to /. As you stay here and become part of the community, you'll find that we're almost universally willing to help out a person in need.
Enjoy your stay.

Been passively looking for something like that for a while.

Here you are. Seriously, if I want to visit Sourceforge, I will go to Sourceforge, not go to /. and then follow a link.

The 15 year age gap is based on guesswork based on things you've said here and there about when you graduated college. But you completely failed to address why it is that you demand that I have more public accomplishments than you, and that they all be at a younger age than the earliest accomplishment on your list. Why is that a prerequisite to talk to you?

I should also note that I've developed applications as well, but they've been internal things for companies I've worked for, not packaged software sold in stores. Most programmers work is never seen by the public at all as most software written is for internal use. Having software you worked on being reviewed by a magazine is hardly the gold standard for what makes a good programmer.

Could you elaborate more on what exactly you did for this Superdisk-NT software? You mention increasing the speed of the software 40%. I assume you mean you increased the speed of the core functionality of the software, rather than just decreasing the programs loading time or something like that. What details can you give on how that 40% speed increase is calculated. Does it mean making the program operate the same, but use 40% less CPU time, or does it mean adding 40% to the average speed boost that the program grants to disk access?

I've sent an e-mail to superspeed's pr dept to try to reach Eric Dickman since you didn't provide any contact info. I imagine it will take time to get a reply. Can you tell me what year he offered you a job. Was it 2003 2003 or 1999. I sometimes get confused about the precise year of things that happened years ago as well.

You wrote:

LEARN TO READ "ne'er-do-well":

"For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

or here

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

That first link, in regards to you, says only:

Special thanks for good suggestions (in alphabetical order):
Alexander Peter Kowalski - Process priority control (not implemented yet).

and the second link is to you contributing an icon, which wasn't accepted for the program as far as I can tell. Since what I wrote (and you clipped off halfway) was actually:

For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon that does not seem to have been accepted (it was a pretty nice icon, but might have been considered too derivative of other Windows icons, or it might just not have scaled down well to their size requirement) and suggested that they use a particular Windows API. In the credits, they thanked you for your suggestions. It was nice of you to contribute, but it's far from a towering achievement.

Unless there's some additional thing you did for that project that's contained in that link, then it looks like I'm not the one who needs to learn how to read.

As for my question about what was in those other magazine articles you quoted, I'm not saying you're lying about it, I'm saying that I don't have any access to those articles, so I don't know what's in them. So, why don't you just tell me? What applications of yours did they talk about in those magazines and what did they say (no need to quote in full, just a general overview).

Regarding your postscript. Are you trying to imply that I create additional accounts to jump into the conversation, pretending to be someone else, and support myself? Where exactly are you getting any indication I do this? Your imagination

The 15 year age gap is based on guesswork based on things you've said here and there about when you graduated college. But you completely failed to address why it is that you demand that I have more public accomplishments than you, and that they all be at a younger age than the earliest accomplishment on your list. Why is that a prerequisite to talk to you?

I should also note that I've developed applications as well, but they've been internal things for companies I've worked for, not packaged software sold in stores. Most programmers work is never seen by the public at all as most software written is for internal use. Having software you worked on being reviewed by a magazine is hardly the gold standard for what makes a good programmer.

Could you elaborate more on what exactly you did for this Superdisk-NT software? You mention increasing the speed of the software 40%. I assume you mean you increased the speed of the core functionality of the software, rather than just decreasing the programs loading time or something like that. What details can you give on how that 40% speed increase is calculated. Does it mean making the program operate the same, but use 40% less CPU time, or does it mean adding 40% to the average speed boost that the program grants to disk access?

I've sent an e-mail to superspeed's pr dept to try to reach Eric Dickman since you didn't provide any contact info. I imagine it will take time to get a reply. Can you tell me what year he offered you a job. Was it 2003 2003 or 1999. I sometimes get confused about the precise year of things that happened years ago as well.

You wrote:

LEARN TO READ "ne'er-do-well":

"For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

or here

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

That first link, in regards to you, says only:

Special thanks for good suggestions (in alphabetical order):
Alexander Peter Kowalski - Process priority control (not implemented yet).

and the second link is to you contributing an icon, which wasn't accepted for the program as far as I can tell. Since what I wrote (and you clipped off halfway) was actually:

For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon that does not seem to have been accepted (it was a pretty nice icon, but might have been considered too derivative of other Windows icons, or it might just not have scaled down well to their size requirement) and suggested that they use a particular Windows API. In the credits, they thanked you for your suggestions. It was nice of you to contribute, but it's far from a towering achievement.

Unless there's some additional thing you did for that project that's contained in that link, then it looks like I'm not the one who needs to learn how to read.

As for my question about what was in those other magazine articles you quoted, I'm not saying you're lying about it, I'm saying that I don't have any access to those articles, so I don't know what's in them. So, why don't you just tell me? What applications of yours did they talk about in those magazines and what did they say (no need to quote in full, just a general overview).

Regarding your postscript. Are you trying to imply that I create additional accounts to jump into the conversation, pretending to be someone else, and support myself? Where exactly are you getting any indication I do this? Your imagination

So, again: What have YOU ever done better, earlier, & more of in computer science than I have? NOTHING, lol (I was right). BELOW IS MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER DO, because you haven't shown us you've EVER DONE SQUAT OF GOOD NOTE IN COMPUTING (and that's only a partial list of mine, I've done LOTS more over time too):

"What do my accomplishments in the world have to do with anything we've been talking about?" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

You don't HAVE ANY, lol, & I was correct (like I usually am about "your kind", the online "ne'er-do-well" troll).

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Aha: THE TRUTH COMES OUT:

"Anyway, I am quite a bit younger than you, so I don't have as much time in the field. I don't have any big public accomplishments to point to." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

You never will - I did that SMALL PARTIAL ONLY LIST OF SOME OF MY "FAVS" my 2nd yr. out of college no less in CSC... lol!

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HOWEVER - Easiest "shooting down of yourself" is right here:

"The windows NT magazine article you mention seems to be available online here. They don't mention you at all, just the software. They say it has serious bugs that locked up a system in one case so it could only be repaired with another copy of NT installed on a different partition. They also do say that, in some circumstances, it increased disk performance by about 10%, although it could also slow down the system in other cases. Also, did you really work for EEC Systems? It's just that Superdisk-NT wasn't written in Delphi, and you seem to be pretty heavily based in Syracuse New York, not Massachusetts where EEC Systems was based." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

LOL, I did the work remotely (for FREE @ first, until they bought out my code) - & I IMPROVED THAT EARLY MODEL BY OVER 40% EFFECTIVENESS FOR SPEED!

* Tell you what - like I said before & YOU AVOID? Write Mr. Eric Dickman, CEO of SuperSpeed.com (then EEC systems) & ask him about it... My ideas were used for Ramdisks on Databases for SuperDisk, & I improved the tuning engine for SuperCache by 40%!

(He won't deny it, and tell him I said "Hi Eric" (he's pretty cool & was good to do work for & with!)).

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"I also can't find the other Windows magazines you mentionBook, or the Spanish or British ones. I do note that all you say about them is that your work is there. I'm assuming you don't mean that you've published magazine work, so what is it?." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

Software I wrote - things I've done that YOU NEVER HAVE or WILL, lol... & I've got NO REASON TO LIE ABOUT IT (that'd be destroying my own GOOD rep needlessly)... too bad all YOU have is being a trolling off topic "ne'er-do-well" here (that's not adhominem attack on my part directed YOUR WAY either, just fact, based on your lack of performance!).

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"I can't find the 1997 "top freeware and shareware" issue of Windows magazine. Was it a regular issue? If so, do you have an issue number?." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

3 times - June 1997, Sept. 1997, Winter 1998 issues... whereas yourself, by WAY OF COMPARISON? ZERO!

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LEARN TO READ "ne'er-do-well":

"For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

or here

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail

So, again: What have YOU ever done better, earlier, & more of in computer science than I have? NOTHING, lol (I was right). BELOW IS MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER DO, because you haven't shown us you've EVER DONE SQUAT OF GOOD NOTE IN COMPUTING (and that's only a partial list of mine, I've done LOTS more over time too):

"What do my accomplishments in the world have to do with anything we've been talking about?" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

You don't HAVE ANY, lol, & I was correct (like I usually am about "your kind", the online "ne'er-do-well" troll).

---

Aha: THE TRUTH COMES OUT:

"Anyway, I am quite a bit younger than you, so I don't have as much time in the field. I don't have any big public accomplishments to point to." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

You never will - I did that SMALL PARTIAL ONLY LIST OF SOME OF MY "FAVS" my 2nd yr. out of college no less in CSC... lol!

---

HOWEVER - Easiest "shooting down of yourself" is right here:

"The windows NT magazine article you mention seems to be available online here. They don't mention you at all, just the software. They say it has serious bugs that locked up a system in one case so it could only be repaired with another copy of NT installed on a different partition. They also do say that, in some circumstances, it increased disk performance by about 10%, although it could also slow down the system in other cases. Also, did you really work for EEC Systems? It's just that Superdisk-NT wasn't written in Delphi, and you seem to be pretty heavily based in Syracuse New York, not Massachusetts where EEC Systems was based." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

LOL, I did the work remotely (for FREE @ first, until they bought out my code) - & I IMPROVED THAT EARLY MODEL BY OVER 40% EFFECTIVENESS FOR SPEED!

* Tell you what - like I said before & YOU AVOID? Write Mr. Eric Dickman, CEO of SuperSpeed.com (then EEC systems) & ask him about it... My ideas were used for Ramdisks on Databases for SuperDisk, & I improved the tuning engine for SuperCache by 40%!

(He won't deny it, and tell him I said "Hi Eric" (he's pretty cool & was good to do work for & with!)).

---

"I also can't find the other Windows magazines you mentionBook, or the Spanish or British ones. I do note that all you say about them is that your work is there. I'm assuming you don't mean that you've published magazine work, so what is it?." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

Software I wrote - things I've done that YOU NEVER HAVE or WILL, lol... & I've got NO REASON TO LIE ABOUT IT (that'd be destroying my own GOOD rep needlessly)... too bad all YOU have is being a trolling off topic "ne'er-do-well" here (that's not adhominem attack on my part directed YOUR WAY either, just fact, based on your lack of performance!).

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"I can't find the 1997 "top freeware and shareware" issue of Windows magazine. Was it a regular issue? If so, do you have an issue number?." - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

3 times - June 1997, Sept. 1997, Winter 1998 issues... whereas yourself, by WAY OF COMPARISON? ZERO!

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LEARN TO READ "ne'er-do-well":

"For Ultradefrag64, it looks like you contributed an icon" - by tragedy (27079) on Saturday November 12, @03:14AM (#38033346)

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

or here

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail

I was thinking of something simpler such as "echo MyPassword69! slashdot.org|md5sum" and then "aaa53a64cbb02f01d79e6aa05f0027ba" using that as my password since many sites will take 32-character long passwords or they will truncate for you. More generalized than PasswordMaker and easier to access but no alpha-num+symbol translation and only (32) 0-9af characters but that should be random enough, or you can do sha1sum instead for a little longer hash string.

DO NOT DO THIS. I don't mean this disrespectfully, but you don't know what you're doing. That's OK! People not named "Bruce" generally suck at secure algorithms. Crypto is hard and has unexpected implications until you're much more knowledgeable on the subject than you (or I) currently are. For example, suppose that hypothetical site helpfully truncates your password to 8 chars. By storing only 8 hex digits, you've reduced your password's keyspace to just 32 bits. If you used an algorithm with base64 encoding instead, you'd get the same complexity in only 5.3 chars.

Despite what you claim, you're really much better off using a secure storage app that generates truly random passwords for you and stores them in a securely encrypted file. In another post here I mention that I use 1Password, but really any reputable app will get you the same protections. Your algorithm is a "security by obscurity" system; if someone knows your algorithm, gaining your master password gives them full access to every account you have. Contrast with a password locker where you can change your master password before the attacker gets access to the secret store, and in the worst case scenario provides you with a list of accounts you need to change.

I haven't used PasswordMaker but I'd apply the same criticisms to them. If an attacker knows that you use PasswordMaker, they can narrow down the search space based on the very few things you can vary:

• URL (the attacker will have this)
• character set (dropdown gives you 6 choices)
• which of nine hash algorithms was used (actually 13 - the FAQ is outdated)
• modifier (algorithmically, part of your password)
• username (attacker will have this or can likely guess it easily)
• password length (let's say, likely to be between 8 and 20 chars, so 13 options)
• password prefix (stupid idea that reduces your password's complexity)
• password suffix (stupid idea that reduces your password's complexity)
• which of nine l33t-speak levels was used
• when l33t-speak was applied (total of 28 options: 9 levels each at three different "Use l33t" times, plus "not at all")

My comments about the modifier being part of your password? Basically you're concatenating those strings together to create a longer password in some manner. There's not really a difference, and that's assuming you actually use the modifier.

So, back to our attack scenario where a hacker has your master password, username, and a URL they want to visit: disregarding the prefix and suffix options, they have 6 * 13 * 13 * 28 = 28,392 possible output passwords to test. That should keep them busy for at least a minute or two. Oh, and when you've found out that your password is compromised? Hope you remember every website you've ever used PasswordMaker on!

Seriously, please don't do this stuff. I'd much rather see you using pwgen to create truly random passwords and then using something like GnuPG to store them all in a strongly-encrypted file.

Dual-booting is possible, but is more of a pain in the backside than most people are prepared to countenance.

Unless you're version of "easier than Boot Camp" is computers with the OS pre-installed, Boot Camp is actually easier for the computer n00b than a Windows box, IMO. Boot Camp guides you through everything, including providing ALL of the required hardware drivers via download. Now, don't misunderstand me. I've got a beast of a Windows gaming rig that I built myself, but Boot Camp is easy. The only thing I don't get is why Boot Camp doesn't give the option to automatically present a choice of OS at boot (like rEFIt) instead of having to hold the OPTION key.

If you are referring to computers with Windows pre-installed, well... let's say that I am saddened by the fact that people put up with pre-installed bloat-/demo-ware. I understand that the "average" person is not comfortable re-installing the OS, but it still bothers me slightly.

FIRST - Linux is NEVER WIDELY USED period, especially on desktops by end users -> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0

PERIOD/FACT!

Now, as to your FURTHER attempted adhominem attacks?

You?

LMAO, I strongly you've never done a damned thing worth noting in the computer sciences... have you? I don't know of any decent works by anyone called "tragedy" after all... lol!

(Poor tactics on YOUR part - simply because I can turn them against you & make YOU look very, Very, VERY POOR indeed, as to what you truly are - in other words, a zero/nothing/"ne'er-do-well" on YOUR part!).

As to SOME of the decent things I have done in this field?

Well - I wager I've done more of them, & before you did (while you were still in diapers most likely also) - SHOW US YOU'VE DONE MORE, EARLIER, & BETTER THAN I HAVE "BIG TALKER" - OK? HERE'S A SAMPLING FOR YOU TO START WITH"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a R

FIRST - Linux is NEVER WIDELY USED period, especially on desktops by end users -> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0

PERIOD/FACT!

Now, as to your FURTHER attempted adhominem attacks?

You?

LMAO, I strongly you've never done a damned thing worth noting in the computer sciences... have you? I don't know of any decent works by anyone called "tragedy" after all... lol!

(Poor tactics on YOUR part - simply because I can turn them against you & make YOU look very, Very, VERY POOR indeed, as to what you truly are - in other words, a zero/nothing/"ne'er-do-well" on YOUR part!).

As to SOME of the decent things I have done in this field?

Well - I wager I've done more of them, & before you did (while you were still in diapers most likely also) - SHOW US YOU'VE DONE MORE, EARLIER, & BETTER THAN I HAVE "BIG TALKER" - OK? HERE'S A SAMPLING FOR YOU TO START WITH"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a R

I guess it depends a bit on what you are trying to do. Linux has analog synths, digital sound editors (with a lot of plugins and tools to play with), sequencers, notation software, and quite a lot of other tools. As a semi-pro (I get paid for a lot of what I do, but can't quit my day job), I've yet to find myself in a situation where I couldn't do what I needed to do running Linux.

Now, my needs are mostly pretty simple, because most of what I do is geared towards live performance rather than recording, but the tools are there and are pretty good quality.

From wikipedia:

"NTRU is an asymmetric (public/private key) cryptosystem. It has two characteristics that make it interesting as an alternative to RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography; speed and quantum computing resistance. There are two NTRU based algorithms: NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign.

Because it is based on different mathematics (lattice-based cryptography) from RSA and ECC, the NTRU algorithm has different cryptographic properties. At comparable cryptographic strength, NTRU performs costly private key operations much much faster than RSA. In addition, NTRU's comparative performance increases with the level of security required. As key sizes increase by n, RSA's operations/second decrease at n3 whereas NTRU's decrease at n2."

open source java implementation of ntru:
http://ntru.sourceforge.net/

Cyassl - an openssl replacement that supports ntru
http://freecode.com/projects/cyassl

I don't know what distro you're on, I personally use arch linux. They have an answer to both those problems(the power management solution is generic but the network management is an arch-only thing, I think):

Power management:
    1) http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpufreqd/ A nifty little tool that allows you to define profiles and switch to them depending on a few variables(with plugins to extend the built in variables). Handles things like AC on/off of course, but also cpu temperatures, battery percentage, etc...
    2) install acpid and modify /etc/handler.sh to react to specific acpi events(like ac on/off)

Network management: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg The nice things about netcfg is that it's easy to use and cli-based. This means you can have wifi up and running from the terminal without fooling around with wpa_supplicant. This is really useful for me because my laptop has switchable graphics and I've been experimenting with automatically detecting which card has been selected from the bios and loading the appropriate drivers(it so happens that the catalyst and intel driver packages are mutually exclusive on arch). This leaves me without any graphics on boot quite a few times and it's nice to still have internet access when that happens.

However, it would let turn a laptop or tablet into a 2nd monitor, which could be rather useful at times if you don't normally have a dual screen setup.

You didn't read anything I wrote, did you? There are better solutions for such kind of stuff, a H.264 stream is too computationally-expensive if done on CPU. See for example http://dmx.sourceforge.net/

Well, there is the autopano-sift-c project... http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/autopano-sift-C/
A deb package should albo be available somewhere.

Wicd is a great little wifi manager with no X library dependencies.

i installed KDE 4 for a friend's friend. it took me 3 days to set up, because their ISP is very unreliable, at the extreme end of a broadband connection and they get 15k/sec (not kidding).

it all installed: i ran it, logged them in... and could i understand what the fuck was going on? not a chance. it was incredibly embarrassing. i spent 15 minutes _failing_ to do something as simple as set their background image. first we couldn't find it - i had to log in at the console and use "find . | xargs grep {filename}". then we couldn't find how to even _change_ the background image. on standard desktops, it's right-mouse, click "set background". done.

they now are so angry with me over how i told them that linux is great, and windows will result in their bank account details being stolen (a virus destroyed the bootloader, which is why i was called in), that they are no longer speaking to me.

now - you tell me that it's a great idea that KDE spent an entire multi-million Euros EU grant merely copying the UI of the most vilified and failed version of windows, ever, known as "Vista", and then make yourself known to me some day face-to-face i'll punch your fucking lights out.

gnome - i've never installed gnome, so i don't know about it. but, personally i'm sticking to fvwm, and i'm going to install LXDE for people, from now on. it's basic, it works, it's a known paradigm, and it's quick.

eventually i'll get round to finishing pyjdwm https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjdwm/ though, and the first version _will_ copy the "standard" paradigm. window. bar. cross. menu at bottom. maybe :)

This is pretty much my opinion, too.

During a Debian dist-upgrade Gnome3 got installed on my system, even though I hadn't Gnome2 installed (I think). Anyways, decided to try it for a week or so, and, honestly, didn't see why it is so abhorred. It isn't quite there, as the parent says, but at least they are trying.
Still went back to using the tabbed/tiled/keyboard-focused window manager I was used to (tritium), but I can imagine some people would find the new GUI ideas useful.

Cygwin and Msys are basically pointless. Windows already has a native UNIX subsystem with a strong user community and a couple flavors of Linux. There's even a reverse WINE for binaries that can't be compiled for Interix.

That's weird; with Windows, I have to waste all kinds of time hunting down drivers for devices, and the UI is so deficient I can't get much work done because there's no virtual desktops to separate my activities into, and the one workspace gets so cluttered with dozens of open windows.

As someone who has gone from Windows to Linux and now uses both equally for various purposes, I understand the addiction of virtual desktops. In fact, when KDE went from 3.5 to 4.0 and took away the ability to have a different background image for each desktop (yes, I know, petty; but that is a quirk of mine), I ended up shopping around for a new desktop environment, eventually discovering Enlightenment.

Anyway, for Windows, if you are using ATI or nVidia video cards, the driver and utility packages for them should have a virtual desktop feature (I'm sure at least the ATI Catalyst package does. Can't remember if the nVidia package does as well.) However, even though I have both ATI and nVidia on various systems, I have become rather fond of Virtual Dimension. If you must have virtual desktops on Windows, this is definitely a good one worth looking at.

alpine is also truly free software now.

FYI, alpine was pine. UW forked it, added a better build system, put it under a new license, released it as alpine, then discontinued development. The community has taken that and created the re-alpine project on sourceforge, where you can find the latest version. re-alpine

Development continues, but isn't exactly what I'd call "active". But it's an ancient email client, and there's really not all that much that could be added. I still find it indispensable and use it constantly and I'm quite happy with it.

You never said you needed a windows-like UI, so this qualifies for the request, but YMMV.

wxglade works well with me, and being XML based can work with any language you want (and uses native widgets on all the OS'es, so it always looks well integrated). I use it with Python primarily, but it should work for anything (look on their site for officially supported languages).

Have a look here if you're interested: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

wxWidgets c++ api is one of the most braindead API's ever invented for c++ gui's. I can't imagine the python API being that much better.

Linux has a development tool that is explicitly designed in the same vein as Visual Basic, and which even uses BASIC as a language Gambas. It's been there for a long time, too.

For C++, as others have noted, there's Qt Creator. For visual design of C++ components, it does much better than VS/C++/MFC.

For Java, NetBeans offers a very nice visual designer for Swing, and otherwise is pretty close to VS feature-wise, at least for things that you need to write a desktop apps. Then, of course, there's Mono & MonoDevelop.

I don't think that lack of good tools is the problem. Reluctance to use tools that are there may be, though.

wxglade works well with me, and being XML based can work with any language you want (and uses native widgets on all the OS'es, so it always looks well integrated). I use it with Python primarily, but it should work for anything (look on their site for officially supported languages).

Have a look here if you're interested: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

You should try Terminus and Gohufont.

I use gvim all day every day with the added convenience of bcvi for editing files on remote servers. Thanks Bram!

Vrapper

I use EDLIN, released in 1981 (but leaked to OEMs in 1980). Shift-E saves, Shift-Q quits (discards changes).

Edlin is still actively developed as part of FreeDOS. Wikipedia isn't making friends in the EDLIN world by referring to it as primitive.

Precisely! Just as he has to chase various activities that his father did, he may not want to burden his next of kin w/ the same headaches. It's not merely about his feelings once he's gone.

For the passwords, why not use Passkeeper to store all the myriad passwords, and after that, give the master password of that to an attorney to whom you entrust the will, so that the next person can use that to access whatever s/he needs?

My wife and I each have Password Safe (or Password Gorilla on my Linux boxes) installed. You can download it at http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/. We store our logins and sensitive digital information inside the encrypted password safe. The password safe files are stored on our hard disk drives and a cloud service (Dropbox). Inside the password safe is instructions on how to access each others password safe. These instructions are also stored in a physical safe along with other important documents and a list of where we keep our wills, birth certificates, etc. The combination to the physical safe is stored in each of our password safes. The combination to the physical safe is also shared with relatives we trust to take care of our affairs should both of us die unexpectedly or be otherwise incapacitated.

VHDL Cookbook is a good, though dated, intro.

Use ghdl to learn vhdl, without the need to have hardware, as it compiles VHDL to an executable. Icarus is similar, but for Verilog. gEDA has good tools, including the gtkwave waveform viewer. Combined, ghdl, Icarus and gtkwave are a pretty useful simulation suite. You can go a long way with simulation, since the normal design flow is to get the system 100% using simulation, then as a last step program the FPGA with maximal probability of it just working. As Bruce said, the actual partition, place and route tools are proprietary and specific to each FPGA vendor, and a google search will come up with a number of cheap FPGA boards.

Keep an eye on left field though. There is a convergence in progress between desktop CPU's, GPU's, parallel systems and FPGAs (which can be seen as an array of massively parallel simple processors). One day all I wrote may be obsolete and you will be able to program your FPGA in CUDA, or whatever results when mainstream programming figures out how to handle parallel systems properly.

VHDL Cookbook is a good, though dated, intro.

Use ghdl to learn vhdl, without the need to have hardware, as it compiles VHDL to an executable. Icarus is similar, but for Verilog. gEDA has good tools, including the gtkwave waveform viewer. Combined, ghdl, Icarus and gtkwave are a pretty useful simulation suite. You can go a long way with simulation, since the normal design flow is to get the system 100% using simulation, then as a last step program the FPGA with maximal probability of it just working. As Bruce said, the actual partition, place and route tools are proprietary and specific to each FPGA vendor, and a google search will come up with a number of cheap FPGA boards.

Keep an eye on left field though. There is a convergence in progress between desktop CPU's, GPU's, parallel systems and FPGAs (which can be seen as an array of massively parallel simple processors). One day all I wrote may be obsolete and you will be able to program your FPGA in CUDA, or whatever results when mainstream programming figures out how to handle parallel systems properly.

Security vulnerabilities then, hmmm? LMAO - you're full of it, & "argue with the numbers", here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2498664&cid=37870070 because they show that the LINUX KERNEL ALONE HAS 4x++ MORE UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES THAN DOES NEARLY ALL OF WHAT MICROSOFT GIVES FOLKS TO DO BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT WITH (and yes, Linux has unpatched REMOTELY vulnerable ones there, 3 of them)... period!

As to "learn how programming works"? LMAO, listen boy: The day you can show me that you've done MORE THAN I HAVE, EARLIER & BETTER TOO, in the art & science of programming, ala:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes..

Security vulnerabilities then, hmmm? LMAO - you're full of it, & "argue with the numbers", here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2498664&cid=37870070 because they show that the LINUX KERNEL ALONE HAS 4x++ MORE UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES THAN DOES NEARLY ALL OF WHAT MICROSOFT GIVES FOLKS TO DO BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT WITH (and yes, Linux has unpatched REMOTELY vulnerable ones there, 3 of them)... period!

As to "learn how programming works"? LMAO, listen boy: The day you can show me that you've done MORE THAN I HAVE, EARLIER & BETTER TOO, in the art & science of programming, ala:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes..

A couple are in the links above in fact, & they're still out there (even though I haven't been active in 7++ yrs. in the freeware/shareware world since then, circa 1995-2003), as to this from you:

"And which programs are those that you have made?" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Sunday October 30, @05:46PM (#37888284)

NOW, as to THIS from you:

"Has anyone actually heard about your programs?" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Sunday October 30, @05:46PM (#37888284)

Many people have & did, especially since they did well in respected enough written publications in the arena of computer sciences liking them enough to review them well, ala:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthread

A couple are in the links above in fact, & they're still out there (even though I haven't been active in 7++ yrs. in the freeware/shareware world since then, circa 1995-2003), as to this from you:

"And which programs are those that you have made?" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Sunday October 30, @05:46PM (#37888284)

NOW, as to THIS from you:

"Has anyone actually heard about your programs?" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Sunday October 30, @05:46PM (#37888284)

Many people have & did, especially since they did well in respected enough written publications in the arena of computer sciences liking them enough to review them well, ala:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthread

You're going to need a program anyway to do something useful. If you want to use this for home automation, flipping a light switch manually sure beats typing echo -ne "\x01" > /dev/gpio/something

program a script that i can edit on a device while i debug it, without compilation on host computer and flashing EVERY SINGLE time i try something

And as soon as you start programming something more complex, it's a lot easier on the Arduino.

no its not, unless you are special

What if you want to hook up a HD44780 compatible LCD screen to 14 GPIO pins. Are you going to write the entire LCD driver in shell script.

http://lcd-linux.sourceforge.net/

yep, you are special (man, i love ad hominem)

Or maybe the GPIO is connected to a speaker, and you'd like to get exactly 440 Hertz out of it.

its called hardware timers, confirmed by the devs as present on Rasp PI. Not to mention there is already sound output on the device so you have normal audio output instead of PC speaker equivalent.

In order to address the kind of ROM programmer you need, it's helpful to know what you're looking for. Are you looking for a universal programmer, or are you willing to buy a ROM programmer that might only cover a certain class of PROMs? If you can peg down your requirements, that could potentially open a lot of opportunities up to you that you might not normally consider. It might even be possible to leverage the work of other hobbyists and roll your own, perhaps something like this. You might also be able to get a good deal on such a device through surplus.

I have a Xeltek Superpro universal programmer that I bought a few years ago for about $500. (I know, not quite within your $300 upper bound) It was an alright investment, I guess, but I haven't really used it much. At the time I bought it, it appeared that there were only Windows drivers for it, and I didn't really have the time to write my own drivers for it at that point. The few times I did use it, however, it was a decent device. If you could find something like that within your price range, it might be worth your consideration.

Especially over time, than you do (& I can prove much of it easily... from the commercial software world, shareware, & freeware alone (I have dozens more from custom information systems work too)).

Here's a TINY sampling thereof, from a partial list only (of some of my "favs" over time):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which wa

Especially over time, than you do (& I can prove much of it easily... from the commercial software world, shareware, & freeware alone (I have dozens more from custom information systems work too)).

Here's a TINY sampling thereof, from a partial list only (of some of my "favs" over time):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which wa

Yes it is common, there are plenty of brands of players that support the format, the number brands that support alac is a lot smaller.
some that support flac are on this list there are plenty of others, plus all OSes - including OSX.
Apple even support it for their iPhone and iPad with an app, why not support it on their MUSIC PLAYER? Please don't say they didn't write it, they approve everything that goes through their store, if it's good enough for the iPhone and iPad.....

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* FLAC is less compute-intensive for decode

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Means longer battery life and/or lower power processors.

Also,

* FLAC is less compute-intensive for decode

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Means longer battery life and/or lower power processors.

Welcome to reality, dude, it's the internet, for everything there is a list, often many lists. Here you go audio hardware that supports flac http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html and http://reviews.cnet.com/flac-mp3-players/ and even other forums http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/804579 chat about it.

So let's introduce manufacturers to reality and ignore their B$ and don't buy their stuff if they wont provide the features you're after.

Lisp is also used in Maxima, an open-source mathematics program that is similar to Mathematica and Maple.