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Toxic Lucille Pane Sunflow R.I.S.E. RenderPark Radiance and of course. POV-Ray

Toxic Lucille Pane Sunflow R.I.S.E. RenderPark Radiance and of course. POV-Ray

The best bet is to get a group of people together and create their own open source version of it.

Pixie,
Aqsis,
jrman,
et al.

Also available in Vipul's Razor:

Along with half movies, bogus titles, viruses, poor quality, people that let you download and kill it after a few minutes it's just not worth it.

Ever hear of using bittorrent for P2P? If you're gonna pira^H^H^Hreview before you buy, at least do it right.

But Since when did Sourcforge.net start supporting things like this. I understand that this is a private webpage on their network, but it's still annoying.

I'd like it if there could be a database where if a subject header is reported as spam by one user it effects other users' scoring.

There are a few databases out there that take hashes of spam e-mails (either sent to spam traps or reported) and use them for spam tagging. SpamAssassin can use their client programs to help tag messages also - I don't know if there's an extension or anything for Thunderbird, I don't use it.

The three that come to mind are DCC, Razor and Pyzor.

All have their advantages or disadvantages, but you have to remember that you're relying on somebody else's judgement. I think it's DCC that you can easily configure to say that you need x reports of the message before you class the message as spam, which gives you more control. But you only need one person who doesn't use it correctly to ruin the system and introduce lots of false positives.

You could always set up SpamAssassin on your local machine and proxy messages through that.

I'd like it if there could be a database where if a subject header is reported as spam by one user it effects other users' scoring.

There are a few databases out there that take hashes of spam e-mails (either sent to spam traps or reported) and use them for spam tagging. SpamAssassin can use their client programs to help tag messages also - I don't know if there's an extension or anything for Thunderbird, I don't use it.

The three that come to mind are DCC, Razor and Pyzor.

All have their advantages or disadvantages, but you have to remember that you're relying on somebody else's judgement. I think it's DCC that you can easily configure to say that you need x reports of the message before you class the message as spam, which gives you more control. But you only need one person who doesn't use it correctly to ruin the system and introduce lots of false positives.

You could always set up SpamAssassin on your local machine and proxy messages through that.

No I disagree. Sure your hacker come programmer could put together a gamecube solution but first theres the problem of gamecube SDK (if your not an official developer you break license) Here's the gnu toolkit, but that's it. There are enthusiasts that want to try their hand at consoles closer to the metal than gamecube, ps2 or xbox. I can think of a lot of good AUS, NZ and UK programmers who cut their teeth as ankle biters on (expensive) Acorns, Sinclairs, Apple][ etc, hooked up to tv's. This is simply the latest example.

This is where Lamonthe's idea comes in, sell cheap hardware to code against. It looks like he's giving you known hardware to code with that can spit out to any tv system (seacam, pal) with access to additional hardware like PS2 controllers. The other thing is that the system is embedded. No drives, os .. just you the code. Try that with gamecube.

for example your code might be something like

• ...
• 
  Init Hardware
  Init API
  JMP MAIN
  your_code ...

i must admit I've spent enough on Lamonthe books to keep him in plenty of pizza and look foward to reading more from his programming ideas. You can read a good interview here.

This just in...

Ants p2p does this and more theres even a proxy chained encrypted webserver just added .

Ants p2p Features

* Open Source Java implementation (GNU-GPL license).
* Multiple sources download.
* Automatic resume and sources research over the net.
* Sources finding over the net given the hash of the file.
* Search by hash, string and structured query.
* Embedded support for etherogeneus data types (not only arrays of bytes...).
* Completely Object-Oriented routing protocol.
* Point to Point secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
* EndPoint to EndPoint secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
* Automatic serverless peer dicovery procedure.
* IRC based peer discovery system.
* IRC embeded chat system.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/antsp2p/

Ants p2p only uses your IP to find peers and routing points and it has been tested in courts that routing copyrighted material through a network is not illeagal .It crates a hash based on location and time to act as a ID to transfer data it also encrypts the data point to point and end to end .It uses IRC to find peers so is less suseptable to attack than systems that use webcaches and superpeers by DOS attack and the IRC peer discovory system helps find peers in a more ad hock random way .Curretly there seems to be only one IRC channel serving Ants p2p and you have to look in settings to find the US irc server irc.us.azzurra.org if connecting from the US .This type of net will grow and it will take the RIAA and others alot of resources to find file sharers on this network.A recent feature of this network is the addition of a Webserver so you can view and publish webpages annonymously .

Features

* Open Source Java implementation (GNU-GPL license).
* Multiple sources download.
* Automatic resume and sources research over the net.
* Sources finding over the net given the hash of the file.
* Search by hash, string and structured query.
* Embedded support for etherogeneus data types (not only arrays of bytes...).
* Completely Object-Oriented routing protocol.
* Point to Point secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
* EndPoint to EndPoint secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
* Automatic serverless peer dicovery procedure.
* IRC based peer discovery system.
* IRC embeded chat system.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/antsp2p/

It would be nice if instead of artists hosting the actual mp3s on their sites, they had BitTorrent seeds, and the iRate client supported it.

According to the feature requests on SourceForge, it looks like I'm not the only one to think this.

Spam has ceased to be a problem for me.

I use POPFile. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

My current stats:

Messages classified: 9,144
Classification errors: 67
Accuracy: 99.26%

80% of the classification errors were in the first 2 weeks of training - and classification errors are almost always on the "let spam through" rather than "good message marked as spam", so it's not at all dangerous.

It's easy to set up, and includes instructions for popular email clients. Spammers just can't do much to beat something like this.

Exactly. I am vociferously opposed to copyright law, and hold that there should be a "doctrine of first communication" that prevents anyone preventing you passing on information.

But fact of the matter is there are now absurd huge quantities of _really good_ stuff available perfectly legally for free on-line, often from bands in your locality that you can toddle on to live shows for too - there's simply no need to support the old monopolies by continuing to give them mindshare. This is a bit like with software - software piracy _helps_ microsoft and autodesk, because they stay as the "standard". Recirculating the crap that the old monopolies put out preserves their mindshare.

Stop listening to crap, download http://irate.sourceforge.net/ and start rating. Pretty soon, you'll have a better and more novel and varied music collection than the old companies could hope to provide.

There is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kcheckgmail

I've written a is a systray applet

I was thinking along these lines a few years ago, when I did some work with the GLOW toolkit, which offers a portable GUI built on top of OpenGL. Once 3D hardware got reasonably good, that approach worked fine. It was clear that much of the complexity of existing window systems was now unnecessary.

The main job of the window system at the OS and graphics card level is protection - keeping each application locked inside its own windows. Everything else, as Gosling points out, really should be done by the application.

More important, though, is that it is time for window systems to become real time. You should never wait for the window system, and you should never see any artifacts of the window system. Any card that can run even older video games can do this.

I am surprised OurTunes is getting so much attention, as it is simply a quick edit of MyTunes and is VERY limited in functionality compared to the much more mature Get It Together (also written in Java and tested in Windows, Linux and OS X).

iRATE's database is basically a big list of URLs, one for each available MP3 file. I think there are something like a hundred thousand tracks available. The database also has each user's ratings, that it used for its collaborative filtering calculation.

At least when iRATE started out, most of the tracks came from the Internet Underground Music Archive, which hosts thousands of bands. It was a popular site long before iRATE came around. So you can imagine that IUMA is heavily loaded, so whenever iRATE gets a track from a heavily loaded server, the download can be slow.

Fortunately a lot of work has been put into recovering from failed downloads. When I first used iRATE, way back during 0.1, I downloaded over a 56k modem and many of my downloads failed. But the developers made it work much better even for modems.

The download speed becomes less annoying after you've downloaded a couple dozen songs, because you then have a variety of tracks to listen to while new tracks download.

BTW, iRATE's homepage is Google's #1 hit for the query irate.

RAY-TRACERS:
YASRT Yet Another Simple Ray Tracer
Raja Ray-tracer in Java
Radiance raytracer free for non-commecial use

MODELERS:
YAPRM Yet Another Pov-Ray Modeler

OTHERS:
LeoCAD Not a ray-tracer but can plug-in to many ray tracers. It allows you to take virtual LEGO bricks and make things out of them. Neat!
LDraw Another LEGO modeler

RAY-TRACERS:
YASRT Yet Another Simple Ray Tracer
Raja Ray-tracer in Java
Radiance raytracer free for non-commecial use

MODELERS:
YAPRM Yet Another Pov-Ray Modeler

OTHERS:
LeoCAD Not a ray-tracer but can plug-in to many ray tracers. It allows you to take virtual LEGO bricks and make things out of them. Neat!
LDraw Another LEGO modeler

I began writing one. However Raggier is still very much in the early stages.

Native Windows grep

httpmail plugin for Mac OS X's Mail.
Dunno about other platforms, but it's open source, so the chances are good.

Well they could always have used a cross-platform system tray library such as this one. At least that gives them one other supported platform.

Gmail is a *huge* improvement over Hotmail on the user interface level.

1. There is no way to distinguish similarily named mailing lists. You can only filter based on "To, "From", and "Subject" headers. Let's examine the options:
   • To: Useless, as people will Cc a list, or the email will be sent to a smaller list which is then redistributed to the larger list. Bugtraq is an example of this.
   • From: Some lists set the "From" header to their own address, others leave it unaltered. In the latter case, the "From" header is useless, unless you happen to have a full subscriber list. Even if you do, you're screwed if somebody is subscribed to two different lists that you are on.
   • Subject: This usually works for lists that insert the list name into the subject. However, there are exceptions. I'm subscribed to the DBMail users list which inserts "[dbmail]" into the subject. I also receive bounce notifications from my mailer daemon which includes "DBMail" in the subject. If I set a filter to match "[dbmail]" in the subject, it ignores the square brackets and so tags the bounced messages as well. It also tags emails on the dbmail-dev list.
   By applying multiple labels I have it working after a fashion. It took way too much time however for such a simple task.
2. New filters cannot be applied retroactively. If you receive a few hundred emails that need classifying and come up with a filter for them, you then have to manually apply it to the older messages. I still have about 8,000 unclassified emails because they came in before I created filters for them.
3. Their address book is terrible, and there isn't any way to import an existing one.
4. There's many more problems, including their stupid lack of a plain HTML version. That one I could understand if they were rushing to a launch date and wanted a feature-rich, IE only version out the door. They do not seem hurried at all though, so they really should have started with a simple standards compliant version and then added the per-browser bells and whistles. I have to go do some work however, so I'll end my rant shortly.

I know and understand Gmail is in beta. I have reported all the problems I have had months ago. None have been fixed. However, the very fact that you cannot search by a user-defined header baffles me. I can only assume they index the messages by to, from, and subject, and don't cache the rest of the headers in a usable form.

Shrug. In the end of the day, I don't particularily care, I'll continue using Sylpheed-Claws which copes extremely well. I would have like a web-based backup though for when I'm not near my laptop. I guess I'll have to finish writing my own.

I use WEP on my home WiFi network despite it being a complete pain in the ass. No two vendors want to authenticate the same way so I have to jump through hoops to get a new system on my network. On my Powerbook with its AP Extreme card I have to use xwepgen to generate a hex key to input into the Airport settings. Trying to hook up a Windows system is ten times harder since different cards have different interfaces and not all of them work properly with Windows XP's native configuration.

If it was easier to implement WEP between different vendors' products more people would use it. Unfortunately the product lifetime of WiFi products is a whopping 6 months so drivers and firmwares are rarely updated significantly. If you want to switch from WEP to WPA, which is easier to work with between vendors, you usually have to buy a number of new devices. I'm not apt to plunk down $100+ every year on new WiFi equipment just to get it talking to other equipment. Vendors have no impetus to increase interoperability because they want you buying from a single source.

SuSE released packages for RC2 the day it came out, and did the same here. They've been really great about updating KDE stuff, even more so in the last few months. Granted, it's in their "supplementary" (i.e. not officially supported) section, but it still works beautifully.

The KDE for RedHat project still has 3.3 packages in "unstable," though from the datestamps it looks as if they are of RC2.

No idea about Mandrake packages... too bad Texstar isn't doing the Mandrake thing anymore.

While F117-A doesn't seem available, try:
The Underdogs
They have most of the old games available for download, and have been a great way to replace old damaged disks. Having been a gamer since 5.25" disks were the standard form of removable media, I have lost a few good games over the years, and it's nice to have a way to retrieve them.
BTW, another useful link for those who like old games: DOSBox

All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see).

Yep, this is my favorite one! With KPlayer installed, you can play nearly any online content, be it Windows Media, RealMedia, QuickTime or anything else, whether embedded in the page or given as link, even those stupid JavaScripts can't mess it up.

KPlayer right now I think is the only player that detects playlist files as opposed to direct links, so it starts MPlayer with the correct options, and it all just works!

MPlayer for OSX plays alot of realvideo files, but not all.

I downloaded and used this calendar as a Firefox plugin. It's definitely rough around the edges, but it does provide Linux and Windows users a way to create calendars in the .ics format. And it allows you to easily publish that .ics file to a web server. What's so great about that? Well, you can view multiple calendars via a web browser with this wonderful PHP, RSS Enabled, GPL calendar parser. Plus... you can dump the .ics file into the "calendars" folder on your ipod and carry your calendar with you.

It's already here: Robin

• Have you looked at any of the linux forums lately? The nVidia, ATi, and ndiswrapper (sp?) are some of the most troublesome drivers.

• I think when ATi stopped providing specs to the open source developers for their graphics cards, they saw for the first time just how many sales their opensource support secure for them.

If it works on a Tungsten E, I would use it for this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmvnc2/

Wireless handheld VNC? Sounds perfect to me!

Why don't you just use Gator's eWallet? It's a lot cheaper.

Maybe if it ran on a PDA without a network connection, I'd replace Keyring for PalmOS.

Not.

There's a cool multi-player open source scrabble clone that runs on Linux and various PDA OSes, for free download here: http://xwords.sourceforge.net. -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds

That's why there's always Vigor.

TiVo has a published API for the existing Home Media Option, which JavaHMO takes advantage of. It wouldn't be surpising if they do the same for their next generation Home Media offering.

The other featuer I've always wanted is to do profile slices of my rides to see climbing and descending rates, especially during races.

The code to do this should be available from CVS shortly, if it isn't already. Look in the 'reference' subdirectory for a style specification that will output files suitable for use in Gnuplot. Look at the end of the 'testo' script for a sample command line.

Isn't that what the UDI project was for? http://projectudi.sourceforge.net/.
Thing is, it was never really accepted by the kernel community, for a few of reasons: 1) it adds another layer between the driver and the kernel, which causes a theoretical performance penalty (which doesn't seem to exist in the sample drivers). 2) it could encourage more binary-only drivers, whereas by keeping the api a moving target, it would encourage the manufactures to either release source, or not provide drivers at all. And, 3) (the best reason yet) -- it would open up the possibility for Windows to "steal" the higher-quality Linux drivers.
Personally, I would think that the benifits of wider adoption of the UDI model (or similar) would far outweigh the problems.

GRASS GIS version 5.3-cvs + gpstrans:

The s.in.garmin and v.in.garmin modules make importing and reprojecting really easy.

The USGS supplies all the free maps you need for underlay.

anyone that has worked with GPS and GIS data know the real hard part is fixing and processing all the data. Getting the data into a database in a normalized format is perhaps one of the most challenging parts of building a gps/gis application.

two:

quixotic

In fact, quixotic implements a more complex datastructure than a DAWG, called a GADDAG which allows exceedingly fast word building, starting in the middle of the word. This means that if you also have a list of all the anchor squares -- those squares where playing a tile automatically makes a syntactically valid play -- you can generate all possible plays given a rack without ever generating an illegal play.

My 800MHz powerbook finds moves fast enough that it's feasible to do a couple of plys of a form of speculative minmax in order to evaluate the worth of particular board positions.

I whole heartedly agree with your all of your observations. To date most GPS processing software is either closed source or comes with an NDA--even software from universities.

I believe that there are a number of projects that would complement the GPSTk. GnuRadio is the first. Sharc, which performs receiver communication and control, is another. Finally, OpenSourceGPS might also benefit from the GPSTk.

My Anonymous Friend... The salutations are appreciated. It has been a challenge for our team to develop and to share the GPSTk. I hope you discover its benefits, and I hope they outweigh the distastefulness of Perforce and Jam.

Please allow me to briefly explain why Jam was deliberately chosen over the GNU autoconf toolchain as the build process for GPSTk.

Jam addresses a larger set of users than GNU autoconf. Does configure work using the Borland free compiler? With MS .NET or MSVCC? No. We did not want to ignore that important community, not did we desire to support multiple build processes. Can make resolve library dependencies dynamically (upon invocation)? No. These are practical examples of why Jam was chosen over the autoconf/configure/make toolchain for the GPSTk.

Jam is not just a "hack" as one reply claims but a serious contender for the replacement for the make/configure/autoconf toolchain. If autoconf/make is such the obvious choice for all projects--then why are there so many alternatives? Other make variations or replacements include ant, cmake, qmake, and confix.

However I will be the first to admit Jam has flaws. Poor documentation is perhaps the greatest. Lack of familiarity is a runner up IMHO. Despite its flaws, Jam was chosen for its simplicity.

Perhaps the above sounds too defensive. I don't want to make the impression that the GPS Toolkit team would not consider switching to, say, CMake or autoconf. We have chosen the Open Source route for this project. The "many eyes" principle is founded upon challenge--we should accept this challenge to our build process. And we know we are asking for challenge by not following the autoconf convention. But the effort to switch build processes would only be considered if (1) the new build process broadened the user base or (2) it addressed technical inability in the current build process. Otherwise, the choice of build tool is arbitrary and if so, our choice is Jam.

If you go to almost any MOO you can find a game of Scrabble along with many people who are up for a game. Plus LambdaMOO has Boggle which is a fine game in its own right. Just @go #6299 for Boggle or create a kid of #42261 for Scrabble.