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• Series 60 OS (and the associated higher resolution screen)
• 1.3 Megapixel or higher camera
• Expandable memory
• Better quality screen
• Faster UI

• Very average screen
• Poor quality camera
• UI could be faster
• Joystick could be better
• No MP3 ringtone support
• Not much memory (3.5MB)

With various schemes for tagged/one time/disposable/encoded to/from email addresses this type of system is less useful than it was back before spam.

It might be cool for sharing info about overlaping URL bookmarks or something where the names are more stable.

Slightly OT: I love that there are still cool, new data strucutures that are coming into more common useage - Bloom filters, Judy arrays, etc.

I wonder how they estimate the cost of development when you find this in the code?

00231 // This code "stolen" from Sven Reifegerste (zorci@gmx.de).
00232 // Found at http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~sr21/crctester.c
00233 // from link at http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~sr21/crc.html

Isn't Sven more expensive than a student? And how can they release it under the LGPL with "stolen" code? :P

Not sure how this toolkit will help you with that. But if you want to get your Garmin tracks to/from Microsoft Streets&Trips or Autoroute, that is something st2gpx does well.

Check out item 4 (emphasis added):

You should know your way around a command line or terminal. For UNIX users, this is a given. For Windows users, using the command line (referred to as "DOS prompt" sometimes) may be a challenge.

Ouch!

Oh, I forgot to mention, look at gpstrans for transferring data between your Vista and Linux. Works fine, and you don't have to use gpsbabel to get the data in a usable format.

Not that this has anything to do with GPSTk, which is designed to solve an entirely different class of problems.

I'm still using Firebird, because I've been too preoccupied to keep up. Wasn't there some issue with one of the names conflicting with the database system? Is it Phoenix, or has that been confused a BIOS of the same name and they're moving on to another?

Here's a thought! They just found a a previously undiscovered bird species in the Philippines, they could name it after that and beat every other software product!

Like this one?

Because MM ignored Linux, I ignored Flash for two years after having finished some large projects with it (and thus noticed it's shortcomings), but earlier this year a client aproached me with a large Flash / ActionScript job and after looking into it I took the challange.
The MM Flash IDE is as crappy as ever, but ActionScript 2 is a full range PL, very similar to Java. With proper exception handling, OOP and all that stuff.
as. files can be imported and compiled in meaning you don't have to use MMs shoddy AS editor anymore. Despite the utter crap that's said about AS and Flash on /., it is a powerfull technology with some very cool and unique features. And it's powerfull VM is *very* small by modern standards. Due to the fact that Flashers usually can't programm very well it isn't catching on that good, but I expect Flash/AS 2 to gain serious foothold in other territories than 'flashy websites' very soon. Ming and Xical, for instance, are good examples for serious OSS projects using Flash/ActionScript.

For all the attacks that happen or that we hear about after being broken up, there's got to be dozens of plots that are being aborted or lose key personel to arrest before they had time to mature into being specific enough to pick an exact target.

These measures will stop all the terrorist equivalent of script-kiddies, the copy cats that try to repeat 9/11 (or similar). But what really made 9/11 9/11 was that these guys thought outside of the box. Noone expected hijackers to use planes as missiles. Now everyone does, so 9/11 type of attacks are more likely to fail since hijacked planes risk being shot down by the air force.

There is always the risk that someone will come up with a novel idea that circumvents all the security measures put up to prevent the repeat of 9/11. This is a thought provoking article by Jef Raskin: http://humane.sourceforge.net/unpublished/next_tim e_can_be_worse.html

Awesome toolkit.

http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/

I haven't used it on Windows, but on Unix it's been great to me. A very easy way to splice up MP3s, via the command line. Then all you need to do is write a short Perl (or similar) script to splice up the files.

The Snack library (homepage here) provides high-level manipulation of a wide variety of audio formats (including MP3) to Python, Tcl and Ruby. It's already been used to write several applications including a sound editor and an MP3 player .

All of the scripting languages I listed also support the Tk widget set so you can get a GUI up and running quickly. Plus, since it's all cross-platform, you'll easily be able to port your work to *nix or MacOS.

Problem solved. Next!

While on the topic, though, it would be nice if Linux did something similar to IRIX, where a crash would save the kernel coredump to the swap partition. Yes, I know the Linux Kernel Crash Dump project does this, but they're not exactly stable yet (hell, their website won't even load right now).

I would also go for using mp3split (don't know how it handles very long files - should be okay, because of no re-encoding however).

Wrap it with a simple perl or python script to introduce the randomness.

If that is not sufficient, probably audacity with a custom plugin would be usable.

I would not start with writing a complete new problem, without having evaluated all scriptable options.

I would also go for using mp3split (don't know how it handles very long files - should be okay, because of no re-encoding however).

Wrap it with a simple perl or python script to introduce the randomness.

If that is not sufficient, probably audacity with a custom plugin would be usable.

I would not start with writing a complete new problem, without having evaluated all scriptable options.

Perhaps something based off of PyMP3Cut ? I haven't used it, but the description seems pretty relevant ("PyMP3Cut was designed to slice high quality MP3 recordings of day-long congresses into smaller per-speaker MP3 files. It only needs the exact same amount of disk space as the original file to slice, even less if you plan to skip some parts, which PyMP3Cut can do automatically if you use a specially formatted *SKIP* entry in your timeline. It was successfully used many times against several hundredths megabytes MP3 files.").

Sounds like a job for a really simple shell script driving mp3split. Sounds a lot easier than a custom chip!

Audacity and a relatively simple plugin. Open source software is good like that.

I don't know if this is really what you are looking for, but Audacity is what I would look at. Perhaps a custom module could be written to handle random samples.

M

There'd be no internet

If there were no Internet, there would be no free software community as we know it and thus no GIMP, and if there were no GIMP, there would be no film customized GIMP. Heck, if there were no free software community as we know it, then there would be no GNU/Linux OS on which to run render farms.

I keep daily backups with Backuppc and archive stuff to dvd+rw... also I have some dvd+rw so I can do occassional complete backups with mondorescue.

Of course this is all on linux, so if you're on windows, I'm sure there are some backup solutions you get to pay for.

I recently ran across an encrypted p2p network called MUTE. So if someone can mask out those bits around the serial number...

Hey, I'm not recommending piracy or anything here. Just pointing out the possibilities. :)

If you're 10.2(.x) or earlier, you run into a bit of a roadblock at the X11 stage: Apple's X11 only works w/Panther. Anything earlier and you want to look for Fink and/or XDarwin. And have some alcohol handy.. it took me a little while to get X in place before the oO install.

caveat - i'm playing with an iBook as a possible work-PC replacement, so though unix is my day job darwin/osX is new to me.. damn if it isn't cool as shizznitz though.

-'fester

I was trying about 6 months ago to get OpenOffice working properly on my wife's iBook, so she could have something better than AppleWorks (without me paying MS anything)... it was *not* easy. She ended up sticking with AppleWorks despite its flaws and limitations. X-11 apps are really tough to integrate properly into OSX (Jaguar, at least - haven't tried Panther), even using nice windows managers like OroborosX.

I think I'm going to give it another shot -- this guy really walks through all of the nitty gritty details clearly, and comes up with something that looks pretty usable. He might be using Panther, though... I remember reading somewhere that Apple's X-11 wasn't going to be available for earlier versions of OSX; I installed XonX (XFree86 for Darwin), not Apple's version.

Anyway, he's going specifically for the goal of creating PDFs with bookmarks (which we don't really need), but you get all the details of setting up a workable install of OOo along the way.

Besides, geeks like us code our presentations in LaTeX with Beamer.

Try out phpPgAdmin which does exactly what you were probably trying to set out to do in PHP.

How I wished there were more Java apps they are truly cross-OS
I didn't have a file-share program so I've installed a pretty good one in Java - pretty simple.
I needed an MSN Clone so a pretty cute one in Java.
I needed a SQL Server GUI found one in Java.
Mind you - am resorting now to web-based SQL Server apps - much better less hassle.
There are a number of software that runs in Java, ok not all are good - that is up to the programmers.
Datadino is full of bug and $99 when they use open-source code.
But many others are pretty slick and hassle free.
Java apps are truly cross-platform, wished there were more.
Last app I was impressed with but haven't played with it enough is Eclipse - brilliant

People diss Java (maybe because its trendy to do so?),
when so far I don't know of anything as cross-OS compatible and easy to install (as long as you have JDK of course).

They're NAT devices, and the "firewall" is just a side effect. If you want a real firewall, buy a real hardware firewall device, or run something like IPCop on an old computer.

I just finished playing Supertux. It brings back all those feelings of the old NES days. Highly recommended!

If you are looking for a C++ only parser consider Spirit. It is a C++ lex/yacc equivalent where you do not need a preprocessor program of any kind - you write in 100% C++ only. But be warned - you need a gigabyte of memory and a lot of time to compile when you are dealing with large grammars as Spirit does all its magic with C++ templates and extensive operator overloading.

If you are looking for a C++ only parser consider Spirit. It is a C++ lex/yacc equivalent where you do not need a preprocessor program of any kind - you write in 100% C++ only. But be warned - you need a gigabyte of memory and a lot of time to compile when you are dealing with large grammars as Spirit does all its magic with C++ templates and extensive operator overloading.

I ran a tarpit under OpenBSD at a large university to protect our subnet. Hardly any department's subnet was protected--fair game to any outside crackers/scanners (or inside zombies). We put LaBrea tarpit on the first (x.x.x.1) address so all scanners got tripped up at our very first address, for hours or sometimes days at a time!

Want to automatically report the offending IP addresses to their ISPs? Check out DShield and and their free FightBack program where they notify the ISPs--not you. See some FightBack results.

There are scripts and clients to report the intrusion logs collected from dozens of IDSs, firewalls, routers and log utilities (e.g. Snort, Linksys routers, IPCHAINS, LaBrea). DShield has Linux and UNIX Client Scripts, as well as Windows Clients.

If the script kiddie/scanners are automatically trying to break in, why not automate the abuse reporting, too? Even if the scanner is a cracked zombie, at least they could be notified--could lead to them securing their machine(s).

I ran a tarpit under OpenBSD at a large university to protect our subnet. Hardly any department's subnet was protected--fair game to any outside crackers/scanners (or inside zombies). We put LaBrea tarpit on the first (x.x.x.1) address so all scanners got tripped up at our very first address, for hours or sometimes days at a time!

Want to automatically report the offending IP addresses to their ISPs? Check out DShield and and their free FightBack program where they notify the ISPs--not you. See some FightBack results.

There are scripts and clients to report the intrusion logs collected from dozens of IDSs, firewalls, routers and log utilities (e.g. Snort, Linksys routers, IPCHAINS, LaBrea). DShield has Linux and UNIX Client Scripts, as well as Windows Clients.

If the script kiddie/scanners are automatically trying to break in, why not automate the abuse reporting, too? Even if the scanner is a cracked zombie, at least they could be notified--could lead to them securing their machine(s).

Actually, I'd prefer to do what I've always done. I bought a 1/8"-minijack-to-1/8"-minijack cable and plugged one end into the line-in port on my Mac (and later, my PC, the Mac's a server now) and the other end into the headphone out (yeah, I know, it's amplified, bad idea... but aux-out was already in use) of my stereo system. Then I downloaded and installed Audacity. The rest is fairly simple. Get the levels nice with some test runs (like setting that pesky headphone out... :X ), then record everything else as usual. (Just hit "record" in Audacity. It adds the tracks for you and everything.) Once it's done, save it as WAV/MP3/OGG/whatever.

So, to recap:
1. Get a cable to connect your stereo to the computer.
2. Get Audacity.
3. Set levels and record.
4. Enjoy.

You shouldn't use this to "5. ??? 6. Profit!!!" though.

If you want edits, well, go for it. Just remember to work on a copy. Welcome to the wonderful world of amateur audio engineering. :)

Actually, I'd prefer to do what I've always done. I bought a 1/8"-minijack-to-1/8"-minijack cable and plugged one end into the line-in port on my Mac (and later, my PC, the Mac's a server now) and the other end into the headphone out (yeah, I know, it's amplified, bad idea... but aux-out was already in use) of my stereo system. Then I downloaded and installed Audacity. The rest is fairly simple. Get the levels nice with some test runs (like setting that pesky headphone out... :X ), then record everything else as usual. (Just hit "record" in Audacity. It adds the tracks for you and everything.) Once it's done, save it as WAV/MP3/OGG/whatever.

So, to recap:
1. Get a cable to connect your stereo to the computer.
2. Get Audacity.
3. Set levels and record.
4. Enjoy.

You shouldn't use this to "5. ??? 6. Profit!!!" though.

If you want edits, well, go for it. Just remember to work on a copy. Welcome to the wonderful world of amateur audio engineering. :)

Maybe they'll be making psDooM 3: the perfect excuse for getting an nVidia 6800 in your work computer. Remember the good old days when you didn't have to turn off the lights to run ps?

Ran out of mod points right before modding this down so I'll just respond instead...

read the feature list listed in the article. It mentions that it only connects in 802.11b mode, 802.11g support is still in the todo section...

The firmware that runs on the card itself is still a closed source binary. Think of it as the same as a system board BIOS upgrade, though like the microcode updates for your processor it is loaded each time into the chipset before using it. Unlike the processor updates, the chipset firmware is required to use the card -- at all.

Here's something to fight over, though;

1. This Software is licensed for use only in conjunction with Intel component products. Use of the Software in conjunction with non-Intel component products is not licensed hereunder.
2. You may not copy, modify, rent, sell, distribute or transfer any part of the Software except as provided in this Agreement, and you agree to prevent unauthorized copying of the Software.
3. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software.
4. You may not sublicense the Software.
5. The Software may contain the software or other property of third party suppliers.

That's not all. Other J2SE apps that I personally use are...

• IsaViz is great for visualizing and validating RDF
• ArgoUML is a pretty decent UML editor
• FreeMind is a great Mind Mapping tool.
• Gantt Project beats MS-Project if all you need is Gantt charts.
• Protege is very impressive for editing OWL files.

That's not all. Other J2SE apps that I personally use are...

• IsaViz is great for visualizing and validating RDF
• ArgoUML is a pretty decent UML editor
• FreeMind is a great Mind Mapping tool.
• Gantt Project beats MS-Project if all you need is Gantt charts.
• Protege is very impressive for editing OWL files.

You mean Streamripper?

You can also do so in XMMS, just use the disk writer output plugin.

Sentry Tools is what you need, specifically PortSentry.

Craig Rowland wrote these tools before Cisco bought him out. He still makes 2 of the 3 available on Sourceforge. PortSentry is pretty damned slick. I only had one unfulfilled feature request.

I thought the spam problem has been resolved

Funny. My finger's not tired, I use SpamBayes. Sure, I miss out on great messages touting... "A great opportunity... New and spreading via the Internet in a very big way-It's FREE to join, and it promises a lot. Too good to be true?" ...but it makes it easier.

Theora (vp3) competes with current generation codecs, Dirac is a next gen technology. Dirac is also just a codec, so one should be able to use the Ogg container format or any other one for that matter. Since the BBC's stated goal is a royalty free system and they seem to be FOSS friendly I would assume they would be considering Ogg strongly.

By the way, I haven't seen a link to it so far, here is a link the a BBC info page on Dirac and here is the Source Forge page for those wanting the code.

Dirac homepage and the Sourceforge pages

I prefer Advance MAME for Linux because it has hella more features. It's what I use in my Linux based arcade machine.

I have paid for ten TV licenses in my life, and I have to admit that I am glad the the organisation that gets some of this money is developing something like this...

...although I have to admit, the BBC would have probably have been better off using my money to become the "offical" sponsors for an existing open source project such as Theora, rather than starting from scratch.

The link is the story is dead, I found the home page here, and the SourceForge site here.

Thanks,

Andrew McCall

just out of curiousity, what are your main complaints about gtk2 on windows? i have used the gimp and i now use ethereal almost every day with 250 meg capture files and it never once crashed on me. the interface is not ultra-responsive but it does not lag behind much more than win2k's. and with glade's installer its now really easy to get a development environment on win32. can you elaborate on your problems with gtk on windows?