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At the time I bought it here in the UK it was one of the cheapest smartphones available at only 100 pounds (about 170 dollars I guess). I liked that it was flexible as you could add a wide range of software to it. Also since it does so much it makes a wonderful tool/entertainment system that I always carry with me, something thats' very useful for passing the time as I commute on the train. With a 256mb MMC there's a lot you can do with it.

I Currently use my NGage for the following.

Watch Movies - SmartMovie
- Great piece of software. I can also convert my home movies for showing friends/family wherever I am.

Games
MicroPool
- Great 1/2 player pool game. Good GFX/sound

Sky Force
- Scrolling shooter (like Raptor) with GREAT gfx/sound - especialy for a handheld

IM - AgileMessenger
- IM (MSN/Yahoo/AIM/ICQ/Jabber/QQ) on your phone. Works great and good for keeping in touch wherever you are.

Email (built in)
- A great addition/compliment to using IM as well. I mostly use it for posting to my blog @ blogger.com automaticaly from my phone. Good for instant updates for my family.

Sound/Call recorder - eRocorder
- Allows me to record phone calls and use my phone as a dictaphone. I use it for recarding my son's new words so my extended family can hear them.

FTP - YFTP
- Good for posting recorded soundclips or pictures to my website.

EBooks - Mobipocket
- Useful if your're bored. Also uses less battery than playing games. I also have a version of the KJV bible with Greek/Hebrew dictionary and concordance. You can also export word/excel files to be read with this app.

C64 Emulation - Frodo
- Play some old classics. Good sound emulation as well.

MP3 playback (built in)
- Good playback. Stereo (so better than other phones) but limited storage compared with (more expensive) dedicated players)

Radio (built in)
- Also in Stereo.

PIM (built in)
- I have over 200 contacts and I can store most of their contact information, including notes/photo's if I want.

My ONLY gripe is that the NGage does not have a built in camera. As to sidetalking I find it more comfortable than most normal phones and I could'nt care less what people think it looks like. At least not when I have a phone/mp3 player/radio/PDA/games console built into one device.

I'm glad that Nokia are addressing some of the critisms of the current device, but they've removed some of the features I bought it for (radio / stereo MP3 playback / USB). I would'nt buy the QD version for that reason. If they're procucing a cut down version I'd also like to see one with the USB/radio/stereo output back in. Add a camera and an IR port as well and I'll buy one tomorrow.

Use Azureus and download the torrent. I am downloading this torrent at around 2Mbs right now on my cable modem. FTP servers and mirrors just cannot compete with a torrent.

When you are done venting, find some music without the restrictions. I would advise checking RIAA Radar before any purchase. We wouldn't want to help the bastards, now would we? Try my two favorite sources of DRM-free music: CDBaby and iRate.

And here and here and here. :)

Sourceforge has a nice categorization scheme, I wish they'd copied that instead of inventing their own. I suggested this to Eugenia but I guess its too late to do anything after the site is already active.

On another note, notice that helix player is the most popular app in the list. Also note that it has a high rating. For those who haven't checked it out, this is a "reformed" app from Real and not the spyware/bloatware shit that they have for windows. They also have a no fuss download page where you get straight links to the rpm/tarball etc.

What does FreeSWAN do that OpenVPN does not ?
I have never tried SWAN because OpenVPN is so easy.
Are there any compelling reasons to try it ??

Shit drivers for TV tuner card getting you down? Just use a better driver, dumbass.

On sourceforge of course OpenBeOS / Haiku's sourceforge project. There's plenty of it.

There's no install disk yet though.

My SAA-based card from Medion works a treat. grab the drivers from bytesex and take your pick from the viewers. Recommended, tvtime.

Hotmail offers rather interesting protocol used by Outlook/Outlook Express that lets programmers do just about anything with a hotmail account using WebDAV.

jhttpmail has more information.

Now we just need native support added to Mozilla and I'll be happy.

Oh wait, I should have looked around more before asking.

From the YahooPOPS FAQ, How do I send emails?

How do I send emails?

Ensure that you have YahooPOPs!/Windows running. Check the IP address and POP3 port that has been configured in YahooPOPs!

Enter the same details as the outgoing/POP3 mail server in your email client. If your mail client does not give you the option of specifying the POP3 port, make sure you use the default POP3 port in YahooPOPs!, i.e., 110.

If your PC is not on a network or you do not want other on the network to use YahooPOPs! on your PC to download emails, set localhost (also known as 127.0.0.1) as the IP address in YahooPOPs!

Enter your Yahoo Mail user id as the username and your Yahoo Mail password as the password in your email client.

Once this configuration is done, simply check your emails using your mail client.

This is really, really awesome!

there is yahoopops for yahoo

and pop goes the gmail for gmail (which seems to have dead links on the site)

the XiStrat did the same and more couple of years ago. However it seems the project died qietly because of lack of attention.

Also, many projects rely on the cypress EZ-USB too, some of which even ended-up on sourceforge.

Easy: hnb.

I've also done this recently. I did consider paying for a .Mac account, but the only value I'd get out of it (being a technical person who runs his own SMTP/IMAP/HTTP etc. services elsewhere), would be the calendar publishing and backup services. I didn't think these were worth the money, especially given the space restrictions in iBackup on .Mac. Saying this, iBackup is a very nice tool and can do backups to local network shares, CD/DVD etc. so it's not just for use with .Mac.

So I looked at putting together my own alternatives for the .Mac services I thought I would use. First on the list was the calendar sharing. It was easier than I thought to set up mod_dav for Apache. iCal then just published seamlessly to my WebDav service. I also get the added benefit of being able to use the WebDav service to do online backups, which OSX uses without blinking.

I did try to use my WebDav service with Windows XP, but there is a known problem with XP regarding its use of "online folders", i.e. WebDav services. The problem seen with Apache is that XP sends Domain/Username & Password authentication, whereas Apache's mod_dav only wants Username & Password. There is a patch to "fix" this, but personally I drew the line at patching my service to make it work with a broken implementation.

In terms of an iBackup replacement, I've been looking at a few packages. RSyncX seems quite good and popular, as does Impression. However, seeing as though OSX is so nicely Unix-based, I may well use something like Flexbackup or my own scripts based on backup/restore (the BSD tools) or rsync.

Although I personally use VIM with a handful of macros to drive my own todo list, I found the following tools to be really great todo managers (cross platform, console based):

Developer ToDo - http://swapoff.org/DevTodo

ToDo List Manager - http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/tdl/

HNB (which is also great for many other purposes) - http://hnb.sourceforge.net/

WebTodo is tricky to set up, but does the job. Also, it keeps all its task data in flat files, for those wanting to avoid all that database foo.

Nobody ever reported open source code stolen.

Actually, it does happen, and those that it don't become victim of that tend to frequently joke about it.

Nobody ever reported open source code stolen.

Actually, it does happen, and those that it don't become victim of that tend to frequently joke about it.

Nobody ever reported open source code stolen.

Actually, it does happen, and those that it don't become victim of that tend to frequently joke about it.

• Hugin is getting really good as a frontend for panotools. It'll be really great when alpha layers become available too!
• Getting the camera to take remote piccies is possible as well (although getting access to all the manual parameters maybe a problem -- no luck there with my canon a40)
• A stepper motor and its RS-232 interface is not that expensive or hard to find anymore (50 quid at Milford instruments).
• Or... you can build your own out of a floppy drive connected to the parallel port. Maybe a better solution, the milford stuff is getting pretty hot after a while and requires 9-15V

Has anybody built a tripod like this? What did you guys use?

I've found that people say they like using Roundup for their TODO lists. It's a doddle to get going (unpack, and "python demo.py").

I've found that people say they like using Roundup for their TODO lists. It's a doddle to get going (unpack, and "python demo.py").

I love OmniOutliner for OS X. I also used hnb (Hierarchical Notebook) which is a commandline outliner, for awhile. Otherwise vi/emacs/notepad.exe/whatever is great.

Attack the problem with vim and vigor , but note that KOrganiser has a pretty good to do section.

yank:
* note organization in a tree structure
* 3 different types of notes
* sortable todolist
* drag & drop support
* regular expression& substring searching
* saves xml (with optional compression)
* basic plugin system

I've been playing with knowit and it's pretty simple.

By the way only make ToDos for something important and fairly complex where the email description of what is required is a real help

Things like Mow the Lawn is a waste of bandwidth and computer cycles. ToDos and planning is not the same thing.

Lastly keep as much as you can in your head, it a good mental training and your subconscious sometimes gives you a helping hand. .

If you don't have a Palm then you could always run it under the Simulator

On OSX, I use iCal. Don't think anything else comes close. With the built-in WebDav functionality, it can be combined with .Mac, or OSS PHPiCalendar which makes a great to-do/calendar package for those who like to access their information from elsewhere. Works with Mozilla Calendar and KOrganizer too.

On Windows, there is a shareware app called Biromsoft To-Do List. Pretty simple and straightforward.
I recommend it for those who are looking for a listmaker without all the bells and whistles that might otherwise come with aformentioned calendar apps.

Within the past few months I decided to sit down and write my own web based todo application. All that's required is a mySQL server and a webserver with php. ackerTodo (http://ackertodo.sourceforge.net) is good for me because I can access it from anywhere (home, work, school, on my pda, etc). Check it out, maybe it's what you're looking for.

I'm currently using HNB as my calendar and TODO-List. HNB is a text-mode app:

HNB Screenshots

i happen to be a big fan of freemind.

a little more complex than a traditional to-do list, but you can interconnect tasks and lay out projects in a freewheeling yet ridiculously detailed manner.

I guess this is one of the reasons I can not find anything which will record streaming media on the internet, and I have looked and looked and looked.

Try Streamripper

I know, it seems so obvious, doesn't it?

According to this forum message that was just a temporary problem while they were upgrading, and it should now work again with YahooPOPs.

Streamripper has worked for me, for years now. You might want to give it a try.

Now if only YahooPOPs could update their project to be compatible with Yahoo Mail I would be using Thunderbird again.

I just recently rebuilt my g/f's computer, removing IE, MSN, etc, and installing OO.o, Firefox, and the like. (Thank you the open cd ) She liked how fast her computer was now that the spyware was gone, but she could NOT stand how Firefox rendered the fonts on the Yahoo Mail page "incorrectly" (dear God! What will I do now!). Thankfully I ran across this nifty little project on source forge called Yahoo Pops which acts as a SMTP/POP3 server on localhost and bridges the gap between your favoriate email client and the Yahoo Webmail service. That evening I VNC'd into her computer, installed YahooPOPs and Thunderbird 0.6 and hooked her up with a cute theme with a rotating penguin in the top right (She's all about some Tux racer). I showed her how to use it and she loved it. No more ads, no more waiting for the web pages to load, spell checking, the whole 9!

But just when I thought I had sold her on the wonderfullness that is Open Source (I'm on my way to getting her to suse) Yahoo decided they are going to try to compete with G-Mail and offer 100MB to their free customers, as well as a few other minor "improvements". To make a long story short the upgrade broke YahooPOPs and thus Thunderbird. We were both very disapointed.

Now she found a way to open IE by typing "iexplore" on the run line and is using Yahoo Mail again. Its going to be hard to get her to try open source again, but for some reason she cant keep off Tux Racer. (PS: Go neverball!).

Any advice on ways to keep her using Thunderbird? Its really a great product and if my company wasnt tied religiously to MS Outbreak I would be putting it on every desktop in the place.

I know Lisp is not the ideal language - its ugly, illegible, and slower than compiled languages

The vast majority of Common Lisp implementations have either a native code or through-C compiler, and at least two (Corman Lisp and SBCL) of them only come with a native code compiler.

Objectively, CMUCL can produce flotaing point code at least 5% faster than GCC on a non-trivial (the "Coyote Gulch" ephemeris calculator) benchmark. Of course, bechmarks are objective and misleading, and your assertion was subjective and misleading, and there's plenty of testimony (from real users writing non-trivial applications, not just some random bums paid off by the Scheme Underground) that Lisp is faster than C++.

Scheme seems like it has lost the intelligent simplicity of Python in favour of clumsy "special character" based syntax,

while Common Lisp has many detractors that don't complain much of details. Is your complaint about Common Lisp based on all Lisp variants? Or is CL especially bad?

Of course, your own assertion that Lisp is ugly and slow is stated authoritatively, even while you admit that you've "not coded a line yet," certainly could give someone the wrong impression.

After reading this, I just had a horrible vision of ASCII Clippy integrated into vi.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

Mwhahahahaha, mwhahahah, HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

(Okay, so he isn't ASCII. Deal with it.)

and menus responded with vigor

Vigor? Word 5.1 had Clippy already? That's impressive! (Screenshot / Home page)

I was looking around to see if they used open source software to do the simulations mentioned in the article, this sourceforge page seems to be a likely candidate for the control software. I haven't fully explored the site yet, but it looks like they are still in the alpha stage and only have a cvs repository running. I'd like to know if there is any simulation software out there so I could explore it. (or for other people to explore it) Anyone have an idea where I could find some?

Windows has virtual desktops. The support has been provided at OS level since Windows NT ; you just need to get a utility to use them. Try Virtuawin, its even OSS.

_Kock Safely With portknocking_v1.0_

Posted by timothy on Fri Jun 18, '04 01:57 AM
from the who-is-it-this-time dept.

mrdeathgod writes "The Port Knocking project at SourceForge has just released portknocking_v1.0. Based on my undergrad thesis, this client/server package does not use pre-defined knock sequences, but rather utilizes Blowfish in order to encrypt the client data into a sequence of port numbers. This enables a client with the proper password to remotely manipulate firewall rules without fear of replay attacks. While currently designed for FreeBSD+ipfilter, expanded portability is in the works."

_Kock Safely With portknocking_v1.0_

Posted by timothy on Fri Jun 18, '04 01:57 AM
from the who-is-it-this-time dept.

mrdeathgod writes "The Port Knocking project at SourceForge has just released portknocking_v1.0. Based on my undergrad thesis, this client/server package does not use pre-defined knock sequences, but rather utilizes Blowfish in order to encrypt the client data into a sequence of port numbers. This enables a client with the proper password to remotely manipulate firewall rules without fear of replay attacks. While currently designed for FreeBSD+ipfilter, expanded portability is in the works."

Multi Gnome Terminal http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/ best Terminal emulator I've ever seen.

The point of my post was not to say that there will never be a measure of openness, but to say that the measure of openness that Negroponte envisions is unlikely. Some may complain about the closed-ness of American society, with regards to information cover-ups, closed source, draconian EULAs, what have you, and I'll agree that you have a gripe. But no matter how much informational freedom you obtain, there will always be some level of control. Otherwise, you run the risk of an utter meltdown in society.

Unfortunately, I've noticed that I've begun to ramble. Therefore, I will quickly wrap-up. As to the relationship of encryption with such an information model, look at FreeNet. The project is an attempt to set up a network where there is total freedom of information, complete anonymity, and no censorship, base on the philosophy that you cannot have 'good' censorship.

Just as technology is ahead of human morality,
it appears technology is ahead of human politics.

What do you mean non-centrino? They have had working drivers for months now

Sure, they project is still in beta but they do work very well with the Intel Pro/Wireless 2100
The ipw2200 (wireless g) project is showing great progress after only a month

For those who REALLY like the command line, here's another terminal emulator that works straight off the raw Linux console: Qodem. Check the README and screenshots page to understand a little why I felt compelled to clone a DOS-based BBS-era program. :)

Currently on the blurry alpha/pre-alpha stage, but another six months and it'll be pretty cool.