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Ye gods, that guy needs help.

I've never been a professional software developer, but considering things "mysteriously fixed" doesn't seem like an appropriate strategy. Shouldn't someone go back to old code versions (via CVS) and try to reproduce some of these things?

Also, from the sound of it, he's not getting much support from people who report bugs.

You're right. It's #2.

here are a couple of useful links to help fill it with legal mp3s:

http://irate.sourceforge.net/
http://www.google.com/search?q=legal+free+mp3

irate's awesome, although i think it would be more convenient with a plugin with your favorite player. it makes it really easy to find new music too.

Given the the availability of so much storage these days, I don't know why people who are concerned about audio quality use lossy compression at all. FLAC compression is lossless. The amount of compression varies with the type of music. The worst performance is with some kinds of modern music where a compression factor of only about 0.7 is obtained. For classical music the compression is better. But with disks and even flash memory the size that they are, if you can really tell the difference (and how many can in a noisy environment or with crummy portable headphones or the noise-induced hearing loss that is so common), I don't see a reason (other than perhaps for streaming applications) to use lossy compression.

I'm looking at the Silverstone LC03, PVR350 x 2, reappropriate an Intel D865Perl, it's 1GB RAM & P4 3.0, Gyration Media Suite and 4 Seagate SATA drives.

Overkill at first, but I'm banking on it being the back-end for any additional front-ends added to other T.V.'s in the future.

What I'm wrestling with right now is RAID. Trying to figure out the best way to do this, either native linux XFS software RAID, LVM, EVMS, or pop for an LSI or Raidcore SATA RAID controller. One of the recurring topics in all of the Mythtv discussion groups/boards/sites is to plan for future expansion...and wanting to be able to rip all the Kid's DVD's to play remotely from work when the wife can't figure out how to queue them up is gonna take up a lotta space.

That A100BB case is slick looking, but I'm more worried about cooling and noise. Seems like there's a lot of talk about modding any case with insulating foam and using shock absorbers on any metal touching metal. Plus the Silverstone has front panel firewire and usb, and a VFD.

All in all, for us wrench and software monkeys this is gonna be a good diversion from quake/UT/BFV/BF1942/T2 :), it'll at least put me out in front of my family instead of holed up in my office.

Ultima 7 is still going strong!

SPF is not an anti-spam system. SPF is an anti-joe-job system. It happens that the most frequent joe jobs tend to come from spammers, however:

1. Not all joe jobs are spam.
2. Most spam (looking at my bulk mail folder on Yahoo) doesn't involve joe jobs.

A number of people are equating this with anti-spam systems, and that's just wrong. I thought one of the most revealing answers in the interview above was:

CircleID: Who is using SPF today and what level of success has it achieved in the fight against spam?

Meng Wong: In the six months since we declared a spec freeze, 20,000 domains have self-reported at the online registry; that's probably a fraction of the true total. Lots of domains have published records, including AOL, Amazon, Google, O'Reilly, SAP, TicketMaster, Mail.com, w3.org, Earthlink and Verizon. And the ones who haven't published are working on it.

We expect adoption to pick up exponentially; according to some estimates, the number of sites checking SPF doubles every three weeks. SPF plugins are available for all the major Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs).

Proper anti-spam systems are based upon dealing with unwanted email, not dealing with non-relevent characteristics. If you create a system that makes it easier to control who gets your email address (such as my solution, Yahoo!'s AddressGuard(tm), and TMDA), then you're implementing a relevent solution, because dealing with spam is about controlling who sends you email. Likewise, if you operate Bayesian, CRM114, Mail.app, etc, AI filters based upon spam, then you're coming up with a relevent (if imperfect) solution, and the solution can work if combined with a whitelist, especially if you can automate the generation of the whitelist through systems like Camram.

SPF isn't such a system, it's designed to deal with a totally different issue. Arguably, given that it breaks mailing lists and forwarding and has many other documentable faults, it really ought to be being used as a measure of last resort, though it's a good idea for mail receipients to implement the logic so that domains that are having these issues can make the choice when they find themselves being targetted.

It'd be nice if every solution to every problem on the net wasn't always promoted as an anti-spam solution...

as someone else said, sounds like waste or something similar is a solution for them...

I take some interest in Mono as I am not proud to admit C# is my strongest language/skill.
For 6 months I've been trawling trying to find something that beats MS Visual Studio and C# in terms of RAD.
Now this is not a flamer but just a cry for help.

Can anyone recommend me a good RAD + IDE Development tool/environment for Linux?
Somehow I had troubles installing Eclipse - JVM in Mandrake 10.0 looks messed up - so it complains.
I mean I still can run apps and stuff but can't run Java apps like say JMSN
Now if Python is that good, then please Python-lovers just tell me a good place to start + where to get a good IDE + FAQs + that.
Funny thing is I've asked IBM and Novell to help me, they called me on the phone, said they were gonna get technicians to indicate stuff and all - but never got back.
I know that when it comes to things like that (assisting,directing,helping out) MS is much better - I just can't stand Windows itself tho, that's all.
When it comes to programming I've been too spoiled with the Visual Studio series .. "spoiled" - in all aspects of the word.

...music like this and specifically these, of which, of course, the format is the SID :D

Although you'd need something like this to play them.

And, just because I thought it interesting, apparently, these are the best ever C64 game tunes:
* Monty on the Run
* R-type
* One Man and His Droid
* Spellbound
* Ocean Loader v3.0
* After the War
* Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
* Kinetix
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty
* Bionic Commando

When I was looking into these DVD players that could handle DivX/etc. earlier this year, I noticed these networked Gateway models and looked into them.

Aparrently, they cannot actually play DivX/XviD/etc. The way they actually work is to require "streaming server software" on a Windows machine. What this "server" actually does is convert any AVI types the computer can play into mediocre-quality MPEG-1/2 streams to send to the DVD player (which is why there is a particular OS and minimum processor speed required). This will often result in lower resolutions than the original video clip, and always lower quality (due to recompression).

If you're looking for a real solution for a DivX / XviD / etc. set-top player, I suggest you look into a modded XBox (with XBMC or similar), a Lite-On LVD-2010, or the inexpensive Philips DVP642 (if you don't need networking).

--The Rizz

"Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!" --W. C. Fields

I was going build my own HTPC, which would've been able to play dvd but also other media files over the network. Instead I bought a Xbox, which acctually made things alot cheaper. The price on a xbox is very low here in sweden and even lower in the US. Modding it isn't that difficult as long as you have some soldering experience(this is also possible without even opening the xbox using some software exploits in a few games). Getting the required software was even easier than modding. I also replaced the 10GB hdd with a 120GB, voila a perfect dvd-player that also can play all the media files mplayer can play. Stream them over the network, download via ftp(additinal software), show me weather forecasts and show my holday pictures on the TV. I suppose I don't even need to add links to these stuff but anyway here they are:
Xbox media center
Modding etc.

I use Slim Devices' free SlimServer as my streaming server, and the freeware java SoftSqueeze as the player(s). Works a treat, I can control the various players around the house from my laptop's browser, and each player can do its own thing or synch with any other player.

Download SlimServer

Get SoftSqueeze

There are wxWidgets bindings for C#/.NET - see wx.NET.

Also, check out the sexy screenshots.

--
Bryan Bulten
wx.NET developer

There are wxWidgets bindings for C#/.NET - see wx.NET.

Also, check out the sexy screenshots.

--
Bryan Bulten
wx.NET developer

Good article on this is SVG and its Path into the Linux Desktop. Some games in GNOME 2.6 already run in SVG; all (supposedly) will by GNOME 2.8.

Check out the Gorilla icons for GNOME as well. There's a video demonstrating the hotness. (The video's not that great-quality, but it's an adequate demonstration.) (More information about SVG themes available at Spheres and Crystals SVG theme.)

Coming as well: themed colors; SVG graphics can refer to a color from a system or user stylesheet instead of having them hardcoded. Lots of possibilities. Vector graphics rock.

--grendel drago

• jmDNS - Java implementation of mDNS - the technology that makes up Rendezvous. It was formerly known as jRendezvous by Strangeberry
• Zeroconf - more about the technology that Rendezvous implements

We've launched this only a few weeks ago: Pocketster. It contains an implementation of Rendezvous for the Pocket PC and it also gives you wireless filesharing capabilities (we have a new version coming out on July 6th). It's free, so give it a try if you want (that is if you have a Pocket PC). Also, you might want to check JmDNS (Java version of Rendezvous) and Howl for a Windows implementation. Razvan

For anyone who is interested, Rendezvous is Apple's implementation of of ZeroConf

While Apple's Rendezvous overview gives some decent information, the ZeroConf site provides a lot of good technical resources.

Apple really needed ZeroConf as they transitioned to all-IP networking. Although OS X supports AppleTalk, the AppleTalk protocol has clearly seen it's day and the world is clearly moving to IP-only. Previously, when Macintosh machines were largely communicating via AppleTalk, all of the things that ZeroConf addresses were handled by the AppleTalk protocol suite (service discovery, address allocation, etc), and this ease of use that is signature to the Macintosh is important for Apple to maintain.

That said, Apple releasing this code is pretty significant, as aside from this project, there hasn't been much use of ZeroConf in the wild.

Microsoft has UPNP, which is supported by pretty much everyone who isn't Apple.

Here's the Linux UPNP stuff.

As far as I can tell, UPNP is the superior technology.

There, there dasmegabyte. Your assertions seem to make the notes/calendar/contacts functions 'bloating' the Apple firmware equally retarded ideas (and playlist manipulation like ratings is obviously "putting data into it"), so none of that is for you I take it ;).

However, the "what-can-be-done?" factor is certainly there for quite a few people. Perhaps not a 'necessity-itch' to scratch for most, but some people want to have general flashcard reader support (photographers), high-quality sound recording (sound engineers), OGG Vorbis/FLAC support (geeks), etc. - ipodlinux might provide solutions where Apple has not.

Having an open, free platform on the toy is intriguing for them/us, not to mention fun to play around with. (A shell on an mp3 player - fun!, an XML parser [e.g. picoXML] - fun!, a webserver [e.g. boa] - fun!, etc.).

If for nothing else, just to see what can be done that Apple didn't think of, didn't want to do, or didn't know how to do (for the current price).

Personally, the existance of the ipodlinux project was the deciding factor for getting an ipod and not some other HD music player (well, that and I got a sweet deal from an Apple employee).

Minus the .NET part, "Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder" (& with some Zope support). Ok, not exactly what you're asking for ...but still :)

Linux support is sketchy for dual-view in my experience

No doubt. I had a Matrox Parhelia triple-head card with 3 LCD monitors. (Screenshot/Photo Screenshot/Photo) [MS Flight Simulator 2004 under WinXP Pro]

Linux support for the Matrox card was deplorable, so I sold it and bought an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. The ATI card's dual monitor capabilities were very quirky. Too much B.S. to explain. Plus the UT2K4-demo ran like crap under Linux (low framre rate) and looked like ass compared to Windows.

I was told NVidia was the best option for Linux. Their drivers were allegedly way better than ATI's. Sounded good to me.

So I got rid of the ATI card. (It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.) Actually I didn't get rid of it, I just put it in my wife's computer. Let me tell you, Frozen Bubble and LBreakout really stress out that card. What a great value. (I'm kidding, in case you couldn't tell.)

So then I bought an NVidia 5700 Ultra GeForceFX for my machine. The dual-head video works (basically), but X has never been slower. I can't believe how DOG slow X is. I dual booted over to WinXP a couple of weeks ago - the first time I had seen Windows in many, many months. I was sickened at how increadibly fast it is. Almost enough to make me give up on my Linux fantasy.

Fortunately for me, I'm so blinded by my hatred for Microsoft that I'll continue to suffer under Linux. Things will get better some day. Right? [sigh...]

Smells like trolls 'round these parts.

Here are sourceforge's statistics on GTK#.

Here are sourceforge's statistics on Java-Gnome.

What criteria are you using to proclaim Java-Gnome dead? From the statistics on sourceforge, it seems that there is interest in the project and far more reports of bugs than for GTK#.

I agree that Sun hasn't been as cooperative as I'd like to see in terms of Java's relationship with the open source community. However, I think you are making some baseless assertions about the current and future relevence of projects supporting Java in the open source arena.

Also, I think it is laughable that the mono team claims "Java applications do not conform to the Linux GUI look and feel." Which look and feel is that, exactly? KDE? Gnome? FVWM? The majority of Linux apps that I use do not conform to any single look and feel. OpenOffice? Looks like Windows 95. Mozilla/Firefox (by default)? Completely different (though skinable). Sure, Mono, with GTK# looks like a Gnome app, but that really isn't going to help a KDE or FVWM user, is it?

Much of the anti-Java sentiment around slashdot seems to originate from rabid pro-open source ideology. I wish people would evaluate these technologies on their capabilities and applicability rather than whether the companies supporting them conform to their particular ideology.

Taft

Smells like trolls 'round these parts.

Here are sourceforge's statistics on GTK#.

Here are sourceforge's statistics on Java-Gnome.

What criteria are you using to proclaim Java-Gnome dead? From the statistics on sourceforge, it seems that there is interest in the project and far more reports of bugs than for GTK#.

I agree that Sun hasn't been as cooperative as I'd like to see in terms of Java's relationship with the open source community. However, I think you are making some baseless assertions about the current and future relevence of projects supporting Java in the open source arena.

Also, I think it is laughable that the mono team claims "Java applications do not conform to the Linux GUI look and feel." Which look and feel is that, exactly? KDE? Gnome? FVWM? The majority of Linux apps that I use do not conform to any single look and feel. OpenOffice? Looks like Windows 95. Mozilla/Firefox (by default)? Completely different (though skinable). Sure, Mono, with GTK# looks like a Gnome app, but that really isn't going to help a KDE or FVWM user, is it?

Much of the anti-Java sentiment around slashdot seems to originate from rabid pro-open source ideology. I wish people would evaluate these technologies on their capabilities and applicability rather than whether the companies supporting them conform to their particular ideology.

Taft

You know Miguel, you've honestly ticked me off in the past with your anti java sentiment.
That said, this is the first time I've seen a post of yours that has some merit.

I've been coding in Java for more than 6 years now, and I guess I've just gotten really comfortable with the language. I've also been using linux for several years now. The last few years has seen good JVMs & IDEs available for linux, so I've kept developing with it.

Recently I've become involved in setting up K12LTSP networks. I started a project that's windows companion CD of software the students will be using at school on linux.
I wrote the graphical installer in Java and it took me no time at all. Its XML based and exactly what I wanted.
One problem, I have to bundle a vm to make it autorun.

Your mono stuff looks like it can do this and totally open source. I'll have to get use to some new libraries and what not, but if this works out, I'd be really psyched about your project.

Anyway, keep up the good work, and congrats on 1.0 !

No shit. First I thought I was being helpful by providing a link to FuelLog in a post higher up.

But then I read your post and realized I had just outgeeked someone.

Now I've outgeeked you by providing a link to these weird "programs" you speak of (well, one anyway).

Now try to outgeek me, just try it baby.

Or, if you have a PalmOS PDA (like me) you can use FuelLog to record your gas purchases and see what your mileage is every time you fill up, look at pretty graphs, and so forth.

I used it religiously until my wife stopped telling me the numbers to put in. :( It's worth buying a palm just to use this program. ;) (I'm *not* a developer for this program, just a fanatic user)

Quit using your ISP's antispam features, if you cannot turn them off yourself, demand that your ISP turn them off for you.
Then install POPFile and take ownership of your own email.

Have your customers/others do the same.
It's the job of ICANN & IANA to get a grip on the SPAM issue,
they are issuing numbers and access to authorities that do not deserve it,
and have not fulfilled thier roles as governing bodies.

There are other browser for Windows other than Opera, Mozilla(netscape), Firefox, while exluding MSIE?

You don't mean LYNX do you?

Konqueror?

For folks running Linux, check out Fetchgals. It does something kinda like this, but on a much grander scale. Basically, you feed it a list of URLs (it comes with a ton already) and it *spiders* through all of them returning all of the pictures. Let's put it this way: in it's config file, you have to tell it what percentage of your hard disk you want left free before it stops!

If you did, then to complete the experience you'd really need FSV. 5 year old code, but even an apt-get junky like me managed to compile it with no problems ;)

Gee, they used a GPL product in their spyware and didn't release source code? Time to get midevil on their hineys!

Seriously, though, UPX has it's own license. One choice of it is a completely GPL (you can use GPL UPX code with GPL software) and another option is to use a fixed, non-modifiable component with closed-source stuff.

Guess which licence choice the malware authors made?

Yes, but have you seen the *gasp* 3d command line?

Well, here are some starting points in that direction:

3D alphabet
XMLTerm is both a command line "terminal", like an Xterm, and also a web page. XMLterm adds powerful hypertext and graphical capabilities to the Xterm-like terminal interface through its use of XML.
Textmode Quake (ttyquake) uses plain text characters for its 3D rendering.

But, without an input method, not really that useful.

Whatever do you mean?! ipodlinux comes with both the 'minix' shell and 'sash'! Fine shells both, and with some hacks to provide a usable (if not comparatively very efficient) interface :)

Maybe with this?

You mean how to use your iPod on Linux. For Linux on the iPod check out http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/.

Actually, some folks in the iPodLinux project have done some work to get flite (a run-time speech syntheziser engine for ARM) working: See this forum thread. It should therefore be possible to have your iPod read you any text file you wish in a cool, monotone computer voice :)

As you can read in the forum, text-2-speech (ebooks, notes, etc.) as well as a usability for blind people (menus as speech, etc.) are the main motivations (and that it's a cool hack, of course).

Unsure whether anyone's got it working adequately yet. Check with the devs/users in the iPodLinux forums.

Actually, some folks in the iPodLinux project have done some work to get flite (a run-time speech syntheziser engine for ARM) working: See this forum thread. It should therefore be possible to have your iPod read you any text file you wish in a cool, monotone computer voice :)

As you can read in the forum, text-2-speech (ebooks, notes, etc.) as well as a usability for blind people (menus as speech, etc.) are the main motivations (and that it's a cool hack, of course).

Unsure whether anyone's got it working adequately yet. Check with the devs/users in the iPodLinux forums.

This is how you get linux on there...

Ok, time for some shameless self promotion.

If you have iTunes check out Musicmobs. You can upload your XML file or sync your iTunes stats via an open source Cocoa application called Mobster.

It will give you a profile of what you listen to, suggest new music, show you people that have similar tastes as you, and show you related artists for all of your bands.

It's growing fast so get in now to get a low userid :)

There have been a lot of viruses and worms over the years that haved used UPX.

How about Cheops-ng? Or even the original Cheops?

I love DOS and all, but there's no reason to bash other OSes. Movix does what you describe (plus video), and does it with a much better looking interface.

This wasn't a very unexpected development(no pun intended)

MS are worried that the windows platform is hemorrhaging developers to linux/OS X platforms. And as MS know; more developers, means more software, means more users, means more money, means more developers, etc , etc...

These downloads are aimed at drawing younger, paticularly student developers, to coding in a windows enviornment. Previously, every programming course I ever heard of started with C and Java, because of the low cost of development tools. If MS release free Dev tools, I can see schools and Universities switching to teach VB and C#, so their students are ready for the "real world".A lot of people in my course complain about this, paticularly after internships. When people don't have to pay $600 for Visual Basic, I think its uptake might increase, just a little.

Looks like a long term strategy I think. The question is will it work?
I figure it will draw more programmers back to windows, paticularly those frustrated by the C++/EMACS/Shell method of programming, which is admittedly a tough nut to swallow for the budding hacker. Most these days are likely long term GUI users, much more at home in Visual Studio type enviornments. I know I was! That why I got anjuta Anjuta be praised!! :E

Webstretch is a free open-source tool that has just been created, which lets you alter information passed to a web server on the fly.
It should work on any OS, and forms a proxy between the browser and any destination (whether its another proxy or web server).
New facilities being added all the time e.g. statistical anaylsis, finding hidden areas (sometimes people put details in the robots.txt file), etc.
Still in beta, but shaping up well.

According to the GNU website if Debian wanted looking glass they could have it.

Remember the whole KDE debacle about Qt not being free enough? Multiply that by a few million times and you'll see why Looking Glass won't make it past "gee, that's cool" in the Linux world.

The fact that YOU mentioned this, not knowing ANYTHING about Java on Linux and it got moderated +4 by uninformed ZEALOTS that were too lazy to search google for "java gnu" and "qt gpl" is WHY its an issue, not because it really IS an issue.

Qt is GPL'd btw, has been for years, so there is NO issue. Just keep spreading the FUD buddy....

According to RMS,

THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH JAVA ON GNU/LINUX.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH JAVA ON GNU/LINUX.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH JAVA ON GNU/LINUX.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH JAVA ON GNU/LINUX.

Get it? Can we not spread FUD now? Thanks.

You might want to look at The Ur-quan Masters