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Rox Desktop / Filer (GTK) does this for Linux, and the filer app (sort of Nautilus replacement) is blindingly fast too.
Scroll down to "Applications are directories"

The world hasn't been standing still waiting for Sun to make up its mind. The hacker community has been busy as bees cooking up some Open Source Java. Here is complete rundown.

I believe you can also do something similar with Ad Zapper, though I've never tried it myself.

The only thing I have to remember is the password to get into Keypass and decrypt its database.

Give it a week or so, and the 700MB XviD version will start floating around...

(And while I'm here I'm going to bitch about MPEG4, the least standard standard in the world. You know all of those DivX/XviD AVIs kicking around the net? Sure, they say that they're MPEG4, but they're not really, when they insist on being inside an AVI file. Hence, I can't play "MPEG4" content in MPEG4-supporting QuickTime without installing a third-party codec. AVI sucks, AVI sucks, AVI sucks. .MP4 is where it's at.

And now, a plug: OpenShiiva: VOB-to-MP4 converter for Mac OS X. GPLed, higher quality than Apple's MP4, compatable with Apple's MP4 without third-party codecs, and otherwise totally fucking awesome.)

Other DNS software

This is a list of some other DNS software out there:

Freely downloadable DNS servers

Caching DNS servers

• BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS. Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
• Oak DNS is a DNS server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with both BIND zone files and cache files.
• pdnsd is a recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is the current maintainer of this program.
• Posadis is another DNS server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both a resolving and an suthoritative DNS server.

Non-recursive DNS servers

• PowerDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a libre release of this software. Note: Recursive code is in the works; PowerDNS will soon enough be a fully functioning recursive DNS server.
• DnsJAVA is an authoritative-only DNS server written in Java.
• NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
• MyDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end.
• The Pliant language/package comes with a DNS server. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries given a list of root servers.
• Twisted includes a non-recursive DNS server.
• The Eddit project includes a DNS server
• SheerDNS is a simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their own files.

Abandoned DNS server projects

These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for six months or longer, and which never became functioning recursive (caching) DNS servers.

• MooDNS is another DNS server project. A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August 1, 2002. This project is abadoned.

  I have made a tarball available for people who do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.

• Dents is a DNS server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been released since 1999.
• Yaku-NS is a DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog, no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
• CustomDNS has not released any files since the summer of 2000.

Other

• LdapDNS is a small DNS server which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
• DnsPython is a DNS toolkit for Python.

Other DNS software

This is a list of some other DNS software out there:

Freely downloadable DNS servers

Caching DNS servers

• BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS. Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
• Oak DNS is a DNS server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with both BIND zone files and cache files.
• pdnsd is a recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is the current maintainer of this program.
• Posadis is another DNS server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both a resolving and an suthoritative DNS server.

Non-recursive DNS servers

• PowerDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a libre release of this software. Note: Recursive code is in the works; PowerDNS will soon enough be a fully functioning recursive DNS server.
• DnsJAVA is an authoritative-only DNS server written in Java.
• NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
• MyDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end.
• The Pliant language/package comes with a DNS server. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries given a list of root servers.
• Twisted includes a non-recursive DNS server.
• The Eddit project includes a DNS server
• SheerDNS is a simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their own files.

Abandoned DNS server projects

These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for six months or longer, and which never became functioning recursive (caching) DNS servers.

• MooDNS is another DNS server project. A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August 1, 2002. This project is abadoned.

  I have made a tarball available for people who do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.

• Dents is a DNS server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been released since 1999.
• Yaku-NS is a DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog, no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
• CustomDNS has not released any files since the summer of 2000.

Other

• LdapDNS is a small DNS server which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
• DnsPython is a DNS toolkit for Python.

Other DNS software

This is a list of some other DNS software out there:

Freely downloadable DNS servers

Caching DNS servers

• BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS. Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
• Oak DNS is a DNS server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with both BIND zone files and cache files.
• pdnsd is a recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is the current maintainer of this program.
• Posadis is another DNS server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both a resolving and an suthoritative DNS server.

Non-recursive DNS servers

• PowerDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a libre release of this software. Note: Recursive code is in the works; PowerDNS will soon enough be a fully functioning recursive DNS server.
• DnsJAVA is an authoritative-only DNS server written in Java.
• NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
• MyDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end.
• The Pliant language/package comes with a DNS server. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries given a list of root servers.
• Twisted includes a non-recursive DNS server.
• The Eddit project includes a DNS server
• SheerDNS is a simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their own files.

Abandoned DNS server projects

These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for six months or longer, and which never became functioning recursive (caching) DNS servers.

• MooDNS is another DNS server project. A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August 1, 2002. This project is abadoned.

  I have made a tarball available for people who do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.

• Dents is a DNS server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been released since 1999.
• Yaku-NS is a DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog, no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
• CustomDNS has not released any files since the summer of 2000.

Other

• LdapDNS is a small DNS server which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
• DnsPython is a DNS toolkit for Python.

Other DNS software

This is a list of some other DNS software out there:

Freely downloadable DNS servers

Caching DNS servers

• BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS. Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
• Oak DNS is a DNS server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with both BIND zone files and cache files.
• pdnsd is a recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is the current maintainer of this program.
• Posadis is another DNS server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both a resolving and an suthoritative DNS server.

Non-recursive DNS servers

• PowerDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a libre release of this software. Note: Recursive code is in the works; PowerDNS will soon enough be a fully functioning recursive DNS server.
• DnsJAVA is an authoritative-only DNS server written in Java.
• NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
• MyDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end.
• The Pliant language/package comes with a DNS server. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries given a list of root servers.
• Twisted includes a non-recursive DNS server.
• The Eddit project includes a DNS server
• SheerDNS is a simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their own files.

Abandoned DNS server projects

These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for six months or longer, and which never became functioning recursive (caching) DNS servers.

• MooDNS is another DNS server project. A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August 1, 2002. This project is abadoned.

  I have made a tarball available for people who do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.

• Dents is a DNS server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been released since 1999.
• Yaku-NS is a DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog, no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
• CustomDNS has not released any files since the summer of 2000.

Other

• LdapDNS is a small DNS server which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
• DnsPython is a DNS toolkit for Python.

Other DNS software

This is a list of some other DNS software out there:

Freely downloadable DNS servers

Caching DNS servers

• BIND 9 is a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS. Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
• Oak DNS is a DNS server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with both BIND zone files and cache files.
• pdnsd is a recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is the current maintainer of this program.
• Posadis is another DNS server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both a resolving and an suthoritative DNS server.

Non-recursive DNS servers

• PowerDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a libre release of this software. Note: Recursive code is in the works; PowerDNS will soon enough be a fully functioning recursive DNS server.
• DnsJAVA is an authoritative-only DNS server written in Java.
• NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
• MyDNS is an authoritative-only DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end.
• The Pliant language/package comes with a DNS server. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries given a list of root servers.
• Twisted includes a non-recursive DNS server.
• The Eddit project includes a DNS server
• SheerDNS is a simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their own files.

Abandoned DNS server projects

These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for six months or longer, and which never became functioning recursive (caching) DNS servers.

• MooDNS is another DNS server project. A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August 1, 2002. This project is abadoned.

  I have made a tarball available for people who do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.

• Dents is a DNS server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been released since 1999.
• Yaku-NS is a DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog, no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
• CustomDNS has not released any files since the summer of 2000.

Other

• LdapDNS is a small DNS server which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
• DnsPython is a DNS toolkit for Python.

Other DNS software

Management tools

twa lets authorized browsers edit the tinydns data file.

ldap2dns converts an LDAP DNS database to a tinydns data file. tinyadmin is a graphical interface to the LDAP DNS database used by ldap2dns.

mkdns converts a MySQL DNS database to a tinydns data file. It lets authorized browsers edit the MySQL DNS database.

sql2tinydns is similar to mkdns.

dhcp_dns watches dhcpd for new DHCP address assignments, and publishes those addresses through tinydns.

tinydyndns publishes dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections.

Servers

ldapdns publishes DNS information from an LDAP database.

MyDNS publishes DNS information from a MySQL database.

Posadis publishes DNS information from BIND-style zone files. Security history: Buffer overflow, allowing attackers around the Internet to take control of the server; fixed in m5pre2 (2002.03.30). Someone announced an exploitable buffer overflow in m5pre2 a few weeks later; the history here isn't clear from the Posadis web pages.

NSD publishes DNS information from BIND-style zone files. Security history: Unclear. The NSD documentation includes bugs like ``Very strange coredump in hash_destroy() that happens sometimes'' without any analysis of their security impact. Is that an exploitable buffer overflow?

PowerDNS publishes DNS information from MySQL databases, PostgreSQL databases, Oracle databases, IBM databases, LDAP databases, or BIND-style zone files. Security history: Unclear, like the NSD security history.

MaraDNS is a general-purpose DNS server.

lbnamed is a load-balancing DNS server.

lbdns is another load-balancing DNS server.

Oak DNS Server is a good example of why novices shouldn't try to write DNS software. The digitallumber.net domain, served by Oak DNS Server 1.0, is inaccessible to a huge number of clients that try AAAA lookups before A lookups: the server incorrectly returns NXDOMAIN for AAAA, effectively wiping out its own A record.

Caches

pdnsd is a DNS cache. Security history: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow; fixed in 1.1.7a (2002.01.18).

MaraDNS can act as a cache.

I don't know why anyone would want to use these caches in place of dnscache .

DNS clients

adns is a DNS client library.

ares is a DNS client library.

perldns is a DNS client library for Perl.

The Buggy Internet Name Daemon [how very professional... *sigh*]

BIND is a monolithic server/cache; it also includes a client library, libresolv. Security history: IQUERY buffer overflow in BIND before 8.1.2-T3B (1998); NXT buffer overflow in BIND before 8.2.2-P4 (1999); nslookupcompla

Other DNS software

Management tools

twa lets authorized browsers edit the tinydns data file.

ldap2dns converts an LDAP DNS database to a tinydns data file. tinyadmin is a graphical interface to the LDAP DNS database used by ldap2dns.

mkdns converts a MySQL DNS database to a tinydns data file. It lets authorized browsers edit the MySQL DNS database.

sql2tinydns is similar to mkdns.

dhcp_dns watches dhcpd for new DHCP address assignments, and publishes those addresses through tinydns.

tinydyndns publishes dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections.

Servers

ldapdns publishes DNS information from an LDAP database.

MyDNS publishes DNS information from a MySQL database.

Posadis publishes DNS information from BIND-style zone files. Security history: Buffer overflow, allowing attackers around the Internet to take control of the server; fixed in m5pre2 (2002.03.30). Someone announced an exploitable buffer overflow in m5pre2 a few weeks later; the history here isn't clear from the Posadis web pages.

NSD publishes DNS information from BIND-style zone files. Security history: Unclear. The NSD documentation includes bugs like ``Very strange coredump in hash_destroy() that happens sometimes'' without any analysis of their security impact. Is that an exploitable buffer overflow?

PowerDNS publishes DNS information from MySQL databases, PostgreSQL databases, Oracle databases, IBM databases, LDAP databases, or BIND-style zone files. Security history: Unclear, like the NSD security history.

MaraDNS is a general-purpose DNS server.

lbnamed is a load-balancing DNS server.

lbdns is another load-balancing DNS server.

Oak DNS Server is a good example of why novices shouldn't try to write DNS software. The digitallumber.net domain, served by Oak DNS Server 1.0, is inaccessible to a huge number of clients that try AAAA lookups before A lookups: the server incorrectly returns NXDOMAIN for AAAA, effectively wiping out its own A record.

Caches

pdnsd is a DNS cache. Security history: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow; fixed in 1.1.7a (2002.01.18).

MaraDNS can act as a cache.

I don't know why anyone would want to use these caches in place of dnscache .

DNS clients

adns is a DNS client library.

ares is a DNS client library.

perldns is a DNS client library for Perl.

The Buggy Internet Name Daemon [how very professional... *sigh*]

BIND is a monolithic server/cache; it also includes a client library, libresolv. Security history: IQUERY buffer overflow in BIND before 8.1.2-T3B (1998); NXT buffer overflow in BIND before 8.2.2-P4 (1999); nslookupcompla

IMHO, for basic useability, I recommend XP to folks getting into computers, or just wanting a machine for e-mail and web surfing. Plug-ins are made for IE first, and pretty much every hardware configuration is recognized or supported.

This makes no sense to me whatsoever. IE comes with OS X, and most of the common plug-ins also work with Safari and FireFox (FireFox is my favorite Mac browser now). If you want to play Windows Media files you can download the respective media players or just use MPlayer for OS X. Etcetera for every other thing you might have wanted to do with Windows. Watch DVDs? No problem. Get pics off your digital camera? No problem. Install a new printer? No problem. So on and so forth.

If you're talking about someone who just wants a machine for email and web surfing, you're also talking about a person who is not technically inclined and would have a hard time keeping XP safe. XP is a gaping security hole and virus/trojan trap even after three years of constant updates, and we all know it. Constant vigilance is required to keep any XP computer from becoming infected or becoming unstable from adding the wrong applications or drivers. A good antivirus program and internal/external firewalls are just a step in the right direction. Plus, the XP interface is thoroughly confusing to everyone I've ever met who uses XP.

This and many other reasons are why, IMHO, for basic usability, I recommend a new Mac to folks getting into computers or just wanting a machine for email and web surfing. For that class of people there's nothing they would do on Windows that they can't do on a Mac, and on a Mac they can do it a lot safer. I feel the hardware cost has now been outweighed by the aggravation cost of trying to use XP and keep your computer safe while doing the simplest tasks, like web surfing and email.

Disclaimer: I'm in that large group of people who always hated Macs before experiencing OS X and run Linux at home because I didn't like Windows. Now the only reason I don't own a Mac running OS X is because I can't personally afford one (yet).

Pyrex is a Python compiler

not according to the language overview i found on its website it isn't. it's a compiler for something quite a bit like Python, but - again, according to the website - it's meant for doing something different from what Python is meant to do.

don't get me wrong; Pyrex looks like a very interesting project, and i'm glad you pointed me to it (i really hadn't known it existed), but a Python compiler it ain't. Psyco comes much closer to being a Python compiler, but still falls short.

if this is really "very well studied", as you claim, how about just dropping me a few references to the studies? that'd be more convincing, and might actually teach me something.

are not proven in the field

directNIC is running MyDNS and is currently serving 3.2 million queries per hour.

The DRI page seems to say that Intel is publishing the specs on these chipsets, and they are supported.

Unfortunately, this is still a low-end part and significantly slower than an ATI 9100 or 9200. On the other hand, Intel is shipping a jillion of these, so I'd figure they'll be reasonably well-supported and many games will run tolerably well on them for a few years.

If you want new open-source 3D, this may be the way to go. Worst case, if it's too slow, you can probably add a video card later...

I think you stumbled onto something very important here, though you're missing the big picture.

Python should not be used for core libraries or core apps like Nautilus. As completely excellent as Python is, it's just a fact that it just doesn't run as fast as C (or even Java or Mono) for nearly any operation. Also, using Nautilus as an example again, while Nautilus is finally fast enough as of 2.6, it still needs work in terms of memory footprint. Going to Java or Mono wouldn't help this, but going with Python for something like Nautilus would probably make it Much Much Worse(TM). Finally, while PyChecker is a beautiful complement to Python, it's simply not a complete replacement for static type checking.

What you did hit on, though, was that Python (IMHO) ought to be pushed as the Linux equivlant role as VB does for MS - with hooks for it into everything, wherever possible. I don't see any reason why Python shouldn't be A) used like VB is for making quick custom desktop apps, but B) (and I know I'll get flamed for this), like VB, Python makes for a great system *and* web scripting language (ie: why push PHP when Python could do a much better job and offer familiarity between web scripting and system scripting)

If Python could get the approximately the same speed, memory footprint, and built-in sanity checking as Java or Mono, then it could be a contender for core app/library programming. Sadly, this isn't likely, and even if a concerted effort were launched to this effect immediately, it still wouldn't materialize for a couple years. Java and Mono, however, are here now.

bind was the first unix dns implementation and its user base has a lot of inertia. ISC supports it, both for free and for fee. it follows RFC's. there's DLZ for folks who need sql-driven zone or config data (and we're working with DLZ's author to integrate it into an upcoming BIND9 release). BIND4 and BIND8 were subject to exploit-of-the-year syndrome but BIND9 (released in Y2K) has been exploit free.

but the number one reason folks do use, or should use, BIND is that ISC wants to help you use it, including answering questions, accepting contributed code, adding requested features whenever possible, using a BSD-style license, and otherwise working to ensure BIND's relevance.

if you prefer something else, that's cool. but according to ISC's own survey, most servers on the internet today run BIND, and we at ISC could not possibly be any more pleased about that than we are. making DNS work, and keeping the specifications in the hands of what you now call "the open source community" has been our goal from day 1.

paul vixie

I think both java and C# have a huge place in Gnome app development. As an example of an impressive app (that's pretty speedy) written for gtk in java, see Azureus. Eclipse is another app written in java that really rocks. Both are speedy, probably as fast as they would be if written in C or C++.

The few C# gtk/gnome apps I've seen look great too. Just like the transition to enterprise frameworks like j2ee is the only sustainable way to do large-scale web development, using C# or java or some other tool is the only way to sustain large-scale client application development in the long run. Sure you can do it in C or C++, but sooner or layer the maintenance issues will get really expensive.

It seems like the ROX and Zero Install folks had the same idea...

It seems like the ROX and Zero Install folks had the same idea...

Cool, that could mean:
1. RSS feed client integrated into Gnome (maybe even displaying RSS feeds on the background?)
2. Blog API client integrated in Gnome. BloGTK seems to be a good candidate.

I *wish* someone would implement a comparable database-based filesystem. I would *kill* to do complex queries on my filesystem and get the results back instantly.

The OpenBeOS project status page indicates the filesystem is in the late beta stages. I don't know how much work it would be to port it to *nix, but I expect it's possible.

Ooh, I just followed the BeFS link on that page, and it references an experimental Linux BeFS driver. Happy birthday.

P.S. You said you would kill....how about Darl? (I keeed, I keeed.)

I *wish* someone would implement a comparable database-based filesystem. I would *kill* to do complex queries on my filesystem and get the results back instantly.

The OpenBeOS project status page indicates the filesystem is in the late beta stages. I don't know how much work it would be to port it to *nix, but I expect it's possible.

Ooh, I just followed the BeFS link on that page, and it references an experimental Linux BeFS driver. Happy birthday.

P.S. You said you would kill....how about Darl? (I keeed, I keeed.)

I've been using the Treo 600 for a few months now (I used the 180 before that). It *has* replaced a number of the functions that were previously provided by my desktop. I use it for email and a lot of web browsing (mostly news sites). I've started reading "e-books" on it (never did that on the desktop, actually), and it provides about 100% of my contact tracking and calendar functionality.

Just having a simple text editor with me at all times is huge. I've also got an ssh client running, so there's basically nothing I can't do in the area of remote admin.

It runs moria!

I've found that I'm in front of the computer significantly less now. I still use it for development (eclipse won't run on the treo :)), but that's about the only thing I *have* to go back ot the pc for.

actually, you can.

Gotmail?

I went to check it out and saw that it isn't free anymore (you can try it for 100 messages). Then i found MrPostman and that works great !!

Anyone running a Linux box can use hotwayd to access their Hotmail account through a POP client like Mozilla Mail. Since Mozilla has such fantastic junk mail filters, it easily gets the two or so messages that Hotmail's filter misses. I have mailing lists that I subscribed to through Hotmail, so keeping mail on their servers is not a viable option.

However, anyone running a business on one of these services is counting on the reliability of delivery, which you might not get if you ran your own domain off a DSL line. Reliability of storage is a totally different matter. Anyone running a medium business off Hotmail accounts deserves what they get. At that point they should get serious and look into at least a server closet with UPS, partial T1, etc.

You can do a feature request. The coders won't respond to any comments you make on /.

For those with Linux searching for the most perfect RPN calculator, I have found it! Galculator, a free open-source GTK2 driven application fills the gap that is created by the absense of a HP calculator. I do hate that I own a TI-89 and not a nice new HP 49G+ due to extensive use of galculator I have come to love RPN during the conclusion of my high school junior year. So I say unto thee:
May your entity of lack thereof save RPN. (use galculator or if you use Debian, apt-get install galculator)

Actually, there are better cards. The 9200 is just a 9000 with AGP 8x support but with a card of this level, there's no advantage to having 8x AGP. There was a 9000 Pro which would be faster and is still available. Even better would be a 9100 (which is a rebadged 8500LE) or an 8500 (which was their flagship card and is generally comparable to a GeForce4 Ti).

These Agobot variations wouldn't be a problem if half of the virus scanners in the world didn't only scan into UPX compressed files.

The problem is, if you search google for Executale Compressors you get a hundred more that McAfee and Norton can't see until it's too late.

Run PEID and find a couple hundred things on your OWN executables that McAfee can't look inside.

With windows XP, gtk-wimp can use the system's theming system for native look.

-Mark

Try this project: Unix Utils
All the little unix commands and tools you love for that windows machine you despise.

There is a Qt# project, which can be used with either DotGNU or Mono.

Independent of that, in the DotGNU project, there is work underway to create a "KDE theme" for DotGNU's System.Windows.Forms.

I'm not aware of any work in Mono that is specifically designed to support KDE integration, and I'd be surprised if there was, since one of the original stated goals of the Mono project was to "help GNOME".

For those who love RPN, check out this RPN calculator for GTK (now GTKmm2.2 compliant):
ghsiloP
I discovered last night that the stack doesn't scroll when you add lots of values, but I'll fix that soon.

It's hard to guess what your issues might be - Java can supply either emulated cross-platform controls (via Swing) or native controls (via SWT). wxWidgets is a C++ library that supplies wrappers for native controls, although many other language bindings (Python, Java, JavaScript, Basic, etc.) are available.

I've used them both on open source projects, and while each has their own challanges, I've been quite happy with the results.

It sounds like you are dead-set on using the .NET framework with Mono - for reasons you haven't supplied - but simply want to avoid the Windows.Forms class. If that's the case, you might consider wx.NET. It provides just what the name implies - .NET assemblies to wxWidget controls.

Yeah, that's what I did for my project. From what I can tell, it's working, too - the libraries worked first time under Mono, and yet I still get to use the Windows I love. :-)

Although the official reason that GnomeBasic was dropped was because of "stagnation", the real reason that it died was because Mono was supposed to take it's place.

If that happened, I've seen no evidence of it.

While you can write Mono code in Java, PHP, Logo, Oberon, Pascal, Forth and Lisp, VB is still unavailable.

It's a pity such a popular language appears to be entirely ignored.

Muine, a media player

Woodpusher, an ICS chess client (seems to have stagnated recently though).

Dashboard, an exciting new user interfact paradigm.

I'm sure there are others, these are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

I was under impression that mono has switched to a modern generational garbage collector, the Intel ORP GC. But the current beta uses the conservative boehm garbage collector.

A conservative GC is nice for a quick hack, but it really does not cut it for a modern VM.

So which one will it use in mono 1.0? Boehm or ORP? And if it is the boehm collector, what plans are there to switch to a modern GC?

By the way: the conservative garbage collector is the only real technical flaw of mono. Other than that it is quite a modern VM. Quite amazing for this short development time...

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Second suggestion, Software Suspend. When the machine is shut down gracefully, this patch writes memeory to swap, on reboot, memory is reloaded from swap instead of going through all the initialization. You can use this in addition to prelinking.

Your best bet is a fantastic little program called Media Player Classic v6.4.8.2 by Gabest, which I first discovered as part of the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.

All the cleanliness of WMP6, and even more functionality than WMP9! And yes, it's GPLed.

Does anyone know if the Wifi-box firmware is also at risk? I just flashed my WRT54G with it last night to get SNMPd to make pretty pictures. While this is a really terrible flaw, the source code is GPL. I am sure someone will come up with a fix even if Linksys doesn't in a reasonable period of time.

It's $19.99 per year. They send you at least one notice: [This is a notice to remind you that your Yahoo! POP Access and Forwarding service will automatically renew on 22-APR-03, and your Yahoo! Wallet will be charged the annual service fee of $19.99 on that date. This is 20% off the current regular price.] before doing so.

That said, I'm getting impatient with it, the spam filtering is not very good, misses a lot and has false positives. For the same price I could get my own domain and look after my pown email; just inertis stops me so far.

but there was no option to exclude the Junk folder from POP3.

Yes there is.
Mail Options ->POP Access & Forwarding -> uncheck "Include Bulk Mail folder when downloading new messages"

Maybe you should look at YPOPs, "This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo!" When I get somethng better I'll use something like this to keep an eye on my Yahoo account.

Anybody else still use that program?
What about Media Player Classic?

No offense to the beta junkies, but the bloat starting in mplayer7 really turned me away from the new versions. I'm sure there are some neat features tucked away, but 10 beta just looks like more of the same. I'll just quitely wait for the codec release & then be on my way.

Yup, WMP9 has been out for Macs for ages.

There is a non-redundant part of this post, though. For those who don't want WMP anywhere near their mac, MPlayer is an excellent open source alternative that handles all kinds of video formats, and is overall a great player. Its WMV support is kind of shaky, but most files still play.

And because I'm on the subject, I might as well point out VLC, which in my opinion is the best all-around player for the Mac. It doesn't handle WMV files, though =-\.

- Andreas

Yes. See the Slash project page.

Very unlikely. Two of the most popular downloads on sourceforge.net are P2P applications that run on Windows - eMule and DC++. P2P programs are not ilegal, altough they can be used on unlawfull maners. Like guns.