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I told you I'd post if something met your needs... Birdddman posted a link to Clubdata just a few minutes ago. It's too rough for what I need, but it looks like a good fit for you. I know I'm re-posting it to the same story, but I want to be sure you get an e-mail letting you know it's there. Thanks again for posting.

I think main problem is not making Slashdot itself as correct XHTML. Somebody should also make all posted arcticles and comments valid XHTML. Maybe HTML Tidy could help there?

Have you tried Quanta Plus? It lets you hand type all that stuff, but also keeps track of tags and doctypes for you. Pretty cool, except for the fact that it crashes immediately on startup for me right now. :/

And if you think hand-coded HTML is unpretty, somehow, visit http://www.worship-live.com for what you can do without an editor.

eek. I would have some issues with your style of presentation - there's too much stuff on one page. Nevertheless, you are right, in that your hand coding is clean. Your code is nearly xhtml compliant, however, and you do make use of CSS, so it would not take much to convert to xhtml. I'm not clear if that was you argument anyway.

As I said there's too much stuff on one page - I'd break it up some. I kept looking, however, because I'm actually looking for this type of software for our church. Amazing where you find leads sometimes, isn't it?!

Wok Scoop Wifi antenna

I would hazard a guess that the average personal website in '97/'98 was put up by someone more technically inclined than the average personal website put up today. Even the more technically inclined today are writing their own Python/Perl/PHP scripts to handle much of their HTML coding.

I will still put up a hand-coded page. But I usually run it through HTML TIDY first. Most other people I know who have some sort of web presence wouldn't dream of using a text editor to fiddle with the HTML source. But, maybe I'm just hanging around with people who are below average.

GTK-Gnutella, and of course Azureus for BitTorrent.

GTK-Gnutella, and of course Azureus for BitTorrent.

A clarification - Apollon is just a KDE front-end for giFT daemon, which itself is a multiprotocol P2P core (and implements a network of its own, called OpenFT). There are many giFT frontends available, my own favorites being giFTcurs (ncurses-based frontend), and giFToxic (GTK+ frontend).

Now I just wish giFT's UI protocol would be propely standardized and that other P2P cores would use it - because mldonkey is my P2P core of choice and the mldonkey's "native" GUIs somewhat stink. mldonkey folks are apparently already implementing giFT frontend support, just hoping it'll be some day considered a non-experimental feature...

Try apollon. Uses giFT to connect to multiple p2p networks, easy installer, very nice UI with the more recent versions, and seems to have some way of avoiding the riaa fake versions. Certainly I've never got a fake off it.

Yes, hook yourself up with Azureus, and head on over to suprnova.org. You can download correctly-tagged MP3/Ogg/Flac/Monkey full albums, in bittorrent form. Fastest and highest quality free music available :)

Have you tried dosemu and/or dosbox?

Actually there are quite a lot of them- go to sourceforge and do a search of P2P. It will list quite a few.

Actually there are quite a lot of them- go to sourceforge and do a search of P2P. It will list quite a few.

I run it on Windows XP with the E-mule plus client. Very stable, the box is only rebooted after Windows Updates.

There are java versions available, so you should get it to run on anything. The protocol it uses is very clever. Say there is a file in three parts, A, B & C. If you have 10 sources available with only parts A & B, and connect to a host with all three parts, it will go for part C automatically. Which you then share with the other users looking for part C, giving you "credits" on their host, leading to you having a higher priority in their queue. Those who give something back get more.

Also, when you connect to someone also looking for the same file, you exchange the sources you both have for it.

It's also essentially serverless, though there is a branch with a new version that is literally serverless.

Public Service Announcement: Smart Bootmanager - Now you too can boot from CD on machines as old as God.

I hope others find it as useful as I have.

I would love to have my users collaboratively developing the user manual - what do I need to get this going?

You could set up your own wiki using the same software as the Wikipedia.

As an experiment you might like to start a Lilypond book at Wikibooks (the textbook/manual/howto sister project of the Wikipedia).

If you want to try and make the wiki world a better place you could help develop a Lilypond plugin for the wikipedia software.

here. (-:

Already done - Newbroadcom . TheIndividual's website has the source now as well.

You can get Alchemy pre-1.5 here, which includes the QoS features, albiet without source code. Hope this helps.

There is a project on sourceforge called Freevo that allows you to make your own. Anyone know any other open source projects?

I think it's clear now that Jimmy-the_great_businessman made a big mistake while dreaming about his great and rich future. It's clear now the the 'company' he have found will finish it's life soon. Let's speed up the process a bit with common efforts.

Here are all the new and old projects and places where you can get an alternative code:

New Broadcom
Firmware forked from Sveasoft Alchemy code
http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbroadcom/

Rustam's Download Mirror
Download both binaries and sources of Alchemy
http://freewrt.da.ru/

Annejuul's Download Mirror
Download Alchemy binaries
http://www.30mb.com/x/annejuul/

EWRT
Linux for WRT54G hotspots
http://www.portless.net/ewrt/

OpenWrt
OpenWrt - Wireless Freedom
http://openwrt.ksilebo.net/

Wifi-Box
Wifi-Box Firmware for WRT54G
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/

FreeWRT Mailing List
Stay up to date about Linksys FW projects
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freewrt/

suckers must die

I think it's clear now that Jimmy-the_great_businessman made a big mistake while dreaming about his great and rich future. It's clear now the the 'company' he have found will finish it's life soon. Let's speed up the process a bit with common efforts.

Here are all the new and old projects and places where you can get an alternative code:

New Broadcom
Firmware forked from Sveasoft Alchemy code
http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbroadcom/

Rustam's Download Mirror
Download both binaries and sources of Alchemy
http://freewrt.da.ru/

Annejuul's Download Mirror
Download Alchemy binaries
http://www.30mb.com/x/annejuul/

EWRT
Linux for WRT54G hotspots
http://www.portless.net/ewrt/

OpenWrt
OpenWrt - Wireless Freedom
http://openwrt.ksilebo.net/

Wifi-Box
Wifi-Box Firmware for WRT54G
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/

FreeWRT Mailing List
Stay up to date about Linksys FW projects
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freewrt/

suckers must die

Quick question: is the firmware on http://www.30mb.com/x/annejuul identical to http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbroadcom?

Funny how Ewing spreads FUD about "P2P pirated" copies of his firmware. Little does he know Sourceforge is legitimately hosting it, not on P2P. He's using the gray-market aura surrounding peer-to-peer to incite fear. Sounds familiar. Now all we need is a copy of the source, which Sveasoft is obligated to provide, and an open-development fork hosted on SF.

Or maybe I'll simply switch to OpenWRT and avoid all this nonsense. It has less features but at least its truly in the spirit of free software.

Hi,

I really looked at the Hiptop/Sidekick when it came out, but I heard bad things about durability and reliability, at least of the older units.

I decided to go BlackBerry (the new color 7280), and I haven't looked back since. They are not as beautiful or fancy as Hiptop/Sidekicks, but boy, they are built like tanks! I've dropped my BlackBerry from 3.5 feet to concrete a couple times, with only minor scruffs to its ruggedized plastic case.

BlackBerry is more expensive to buy and run, and you still need to pay an extra monthly fee to get SSH/AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo chat, and the only SSH/telnet apps are still expensive.

The reliability has been stellar, and emails are amazingly fast (faster than SMS even) in that four seconds after clicking SEND on any desktop computer, the email is already on my Blackberry -- no 15 minute email polls, it's a realtime 24/7 email connection to a Blackberry email server (you can still do POP though, but at the cost of a 15 minute poll instead of realtime -- or use both POP accounts and Blackberry email).

File attachments now work (documents, spreadsheets, etc), there is no tangible message size limit for me, and I've got unlimited email.

The color 7280 can be upgraded to have full color HTML browsing (Either by getting Reqwireless, or an extra monthly fee for Hosted BES, or using the 'RBRO' trick).

The chat software is WebMessenger which does AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and the telnet/SSH software is Idokorro MobileSSH. There is also now an open source ICQ program caleld BlackChat ...

I made a FAQ at HowardForums (A big cellphone discussion website) that describes the present cheapest way to get full TCP/IP access on a Blackberry (via Public MDS or via Hosted BES), which is a sticky thread at the top of this HowardForums forum page.

Reception has been great so far -- much better than Hiptop/Sidekick in my experience. But that may be explained by the extra GSM frequencies (850 Mhz) and continuing network improvements. I had nonstop reception between a few major northeast cities (both USA and Canada), the Blackberry sends emails very well even when reception is only 1 bar, and the store-and-forward quickly downloads (doesn't stall excessively) as soon as there's a smidgen of reception.

The Blackberry keyboard actually feels better than the Hiptop/Sidekick keyboard, and I was able to thumb-touchtype at 363 keypresses per minute (I'm pretty fast with thumb keyboards). I'm not as fast as that old Treo 180-series guy that went 84 words per minute in the Dom Perignon III Contest (at Fitaly) - do a google on "Dom Perignon III Contest" for more info. But at 72 words per minute (363 divided by 5), that's damn fast for a thumb keyboard!

And I hope the rumors that I heard are true that they are going to finally include TCP/IP with Blackberry OS 4.0 (at least on some networks) with full gateway access. The upcoming Blackberry model 7290 which is rumored, may also include a way to connect it to a laptop to use it as a modem (finally; they've been lagging so long). They make these devices too secure for some of us prosumers that we can't even use Internet on them until recently; they are more designed for businesses than for people like me.

BlackBerry has gone a long way from the early black-and-white models, and are starting to be more appealing to prosumers like me.

Try exercising your right to redistribute it. No one has an issue with them charging for support--the issue is the subscription cancellation provision. But all this is moot--this guy's going to be out of business soo, and that's good--this reminds me way too much of Richard Morrell and Smoothwall, which resulted in a fork. This has, too.

Fortunately, someone's forked this project--this is the community healing itself from the wounds caused by greed.

Someone seems to have started a fork already at http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbroadcom

I run wifibox instead of Sveasoft. Its GPL compliant and has SNMP. Hmmmm, pretty graphs.

Cognet is precisely what you want. It makes for a great IRC client for my hiptop, and many of my hiptop-using friends use it as well. It requires a backend (written in Python) on a unix machine somewhere on the net to make it useful.

Cognet is *far* more useful than trying to deal with ssh connections from the hiptop. Give it a try.

Sourceforge generally sucks at having a category for UI designers. Well, there is one (finally), but it's apparently for swing programmers. These are not the same thing, any more than an architect is a civil engineer.

There's also RendezvousProxy. Haven't used it myself as yet so I can't vouch, but there it is.

I'm an author of gameswf, a Public Domain SWF player library (for use in 3D accelerated game engines, not browsing the web). In my opinion based on working with it heavily, the SWF format and supporting software is sweet stuff. It's damn tight and focused on things that are useful to visual designers, but still amazingly capable. Nevertheless, calling SWF an "open standard" is disingenuous.

SWF is, in practice, no more open than MS Word DOC. Macromedia publishes a spec, but unfortunately it's not useful for writing software to interpret SWF, due to legal restraints. My own library has had to rely on a lot of sweat and reverse engineering and help from others, and has still only managed to achieve a subset of SWF compatibility.

Read the license on the Macromedia spec, it comes with many strings attached. For example:

...a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products that output SWF.

I.e. they don't allow you to use the spec to implement a player!

Macromedia does some cool stuff and employs some cool people, but the same company engages in heavy-handed corporate scheming. I don't think that's immoral or anything; corporations need to make money somehow. But people need to see the warm-and-fuzzy "open" bullshit for what it is: a convenient marketing story.

BTW the only truly open SWF specs are reverse-engineered ones. The best one is Alexis' SWF Reference

For MacOS, you can use PearPC. I haven't tried it yet, but even if it's slow (which I suppose according to the site), it should be well usable to test web sites.

well... since it doesn't look like their "big plans" have come to any sort of fruition, i'm guessing that it is a non-issue...

There are a lot of companies who will do small runs of PC boards for you, but you have to give them finished layouts (gerber files). This gut provides the tools to do the layout as well as doing the boards, so it saves you a huge investment in software and learning a layout system.

Check Freshmeat for "circuit board", and you will find many CAD programs that don't involve large financial outlays. I use PCB, myself.

There's still a learning curve for the interface, but the time spent learning it is much less than the time spent actually designing boards.

We test using the following on web apps:

• Target browsers for intranet apps (even though we use standards as much as practically possible)
• W3C validators for HTML, CSS, and Links
• Validators within WebSphere Studio (Java, JSP, HTML), HomeSite (HTML) and TopStyle (CSS)
• JavaScript Console and Debugger in Mozilla/Firefox
• JUnit
• Cactus
• People. The users. The project owners. Us. Other web developers on e-mail lists.

• We aren't currently using an automated tool to test the front-end flow, because we haven't found any good, easy-to-use, and cheap tools that support a modern version of DOM/JavaScript usage. If you know of something that you like and works, I'd love to know about it. I've tried httpUnit, but had trouble setting it up and it didn't support all the DOM methods we were using at the time.

Any SmallTalk developers?

Any Messaging fans?

Take a look at Shorewall. Much easier to setup (IMHO) than using the raw iptables commands, and works quite well in my experience.

Look here and here.

This is slashdot...if you're here, you're probably a geek, and cheap to boot...build your own.

First link is for control freaks, second link is for putterers.

PE is incompatible with COFF, whatever MS claims, because they changed the meaning of one of the fields in the relocation headers, meaning that PE files have slightly different displacement values than equivalent COFF files.

See the comment near the top of outcoff.c in NASM for more details.

To emulate the Mac OS feel, you'd have to create a filebrowser that could execute GUI apps easily (e.g. opening firefox in konqueror).

ROX-Filer managed to copy Mac OS X's app bundles.

Why isn't there an open source attempt to model what the folks in Cuppertino are doing?

ROX may be what you're looking for. While they say it's inspired by RISC OS (which I never used), it reminds me of Mac OS X (which I use) in a number of ways: extensive use of drag and drop, windows don't fill the entire screen, application directories, to name a few.

FlopEJoe wrote: I'd like to play around with something like this but $2K is pretty high! And the SDK is tree-fiddy! Are there any other rigs with sainer prices?

I think a real EEG machine is going to run you at least $1500 unless you build it yourself.

As others have noted, the Journey to Wild Divine game is somewhat similar to Mindball, and much cheaper. (About $160.) However, it doesn't read brain waves, it detects relaxation levels with skin conductance and heart rate variablity-- it works very much like a "lie dectector." I don't think it is sensitive enough for multi-axis control, it only does "more relaxed" and "less relaxed."

There is a guy, Bryan Ingram, who has been working on a program that reads the signal from the Wild Divine monitor so you can do other things with it.

Dr. Sp0ng wrote:
Haven't found a non-sucky one for *nix, although I haven't looked all that hard.

Yes, I know that UPX packages the current executable formats, but we could spec a new format that includes the compression options and changes the resulting binary enough to be less like ELF/COFF than PE is. That way they would have to sue the hand that feeds them first.

I am sure there is some new thinking about how the loader could be more efficient if the file format could be changed to support it.

It could be added as a new option for code generation and the loader could contain a case stmt to choose the ELF loader or the new one.

two tools every SVGer should have.

two tools every SVGer should have.

This may just be a situation where Konspire actually makes sense.

When this surfaced on Slashdot about a year ago, a lot of noise was made about it, but the fact is that it is tied to distribution cycles. Meaning a file/stream/whatever isn't passed on until some on has a complete copy.

This obviously doesn't work well if you want to distribute a DVD to a network, but would probably be reasonable for smaller files. Tiny files like RSS feeds could reach a very wide audience VERY quickly.

Neither Windows nor Unix, but I've set up Feed on Feeds on my webserver and I like it!

It's a "PHP/MySQL server side RSS/Atom aggregator", so you can read your feeds wherever you are, you only need a web browser on the client side.

Pros:
1) you don't need to synchronize the state between the multiple workstations you might use.
2) no platform/os problem on the client side.

Cons:
1) you need some web hosting with PHP and MySQL available (I pay 45 a year for my domain name + 30MB Webspace + 30MB FTP + 30MB MySQL base + 100*25MB pop/imap accounts + SSL everywhere).
2) no installer so you'll need many computing skills to set it up (no that hard).
3) no automated update, you have to click "Update" so you may miss some news when you offline (see away from any internet access) for a long period...

Changed my online life as I no longer have to install anything on the client side (usefull when away from your home/office) or have to synchronize my feeds either with some removable storage (my USB key failed after 250+ daily syncs) or through the net (BottomFeeder, a smalltalk implementation which works on every platform I ever came accross, allows to sync with an FTP location).

Regards,
Poulpy.