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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.

The item I like about Xfig is I can create template objects quickly and easily and add them to it library of objects. The last time I tried to make an object for Dia I just gave up.

Now if Inkscape could export to the .xfig format and Xfig to the proper .svg format that would be great! Using both tools would save me sometime.

giFT isn't a GUI - it's a p2p network daemon - you run it, it connects to p2p networks, then a seperate client program (I use apollon) presents a GUI, communicating with giftd via unix sockets. Or possibly TCP, not sure. Poisoned is a Mac OS X GUI for giFT.

sample a 1 second clip of nothing and subtract it from your recording and you remove all system noise. It's not exactly just subtracting, but that's besides the point, I'm trying to karmawhore here. In a linux setup, you can use good old flaky Gnome Wave Cleaner for this. Make a backup of your wave first, then clean. Under Windows, cooledit (nowadays adobe audition) is decent for denoising.

haha, you dont like audacity?

is like Prejudice, great on your mouth, but you didn't tried nor analized its (possible) merits, just judged from the language it's written. How do you know it doesn't work?
Barf.

PD: I used Azureus BitTorrent client and is cool for me. Top 1 download in Sourceforge.net right now. It's written in Java also.

HBCI yet. HBCI is an open standard that's widely deployed throughout Europe (at least as far as I can tell). It incorporates encryption through OpenSSL and its source code is readily available on Sourceforge.

I use an ATI Radeon 9000 and I have yet to have problems or difficulties with the card. It was plug and play for Fedora Core 1 and 2 and this card performs well for the 3D games I occasionally play (bzflag, armagetron, neverball, and the miniature golf game based on neverball code the name of which I have forgotten because I don't have it installed yet).

The Radeon 9000 AGP card is fairly inexpensive too ($30-$40).

Doesn't anyone use Gnome Clipboard Manager? I'm sure there's a KDE and generic X equivilent. It gives you a nice little panel applet with easy access to your clipboard history.

I usually just paste text into my gdict applet temporarily though, then reselect and paste.

Abstract

A technique, specifically a method and apparatus that implements the method, which through a probabilistic classifier (370) and, for a given recipient, detects electronic mail (e-mail) messages, in an incoming message stream, which that recipient is likely to consider "junk". Specifically, the invention discriminates message content for that recipient, through a probabilistic classifier (e.g., a support vector machine) trained on prior content classifications. Through a resulting quantitative probability measure, i.e., an output confidence level, produced by the classifier for each message and subsequently compared against a predefined threshold, that message is classified as either, e.g., spam or legitimate mail, and, e.g., then stored in a corresponding folder (223, 227) for subsequent retrieval by and display to the recipient. Based on the probability measure, the message can alternatively be classified into one of a number of different folders, depicted in a pre-defined visually distinctive manner or simply discarded in its entirety.

1. POPFile was not designed for the sorting of spam from legitimate mail it is a general email classification system.

2. I believe the patent to be invalid because of the ifile system being prior art. ifile dates back to at least 1996 while the patent has the date June 23, 1998 on it. The patent does not acknowledge ifile's existence. Evidence of ifile being prior art can be found in the ifile change log http://www.nongnu.org/ifile/ChangeLog and the original README (http://www.nongnu.org/ifile/old/README-0.1A) which shows the date: Released Sat Aug 3 20:49:01 EDT 1996

3. If Microsoft were to sue me and win I would be happy to pay them every penny that I have made from POPFile ($0.00) :-)

I recently, for the first time, went looking for an SVG editor and found both Inkscape and Sodipodi. They seemed so similar and even seemed to share some of the same code (IANA programmer) and I couldn't figure out which project has the most critical mass. 'twould seem, Inkscape.

I recently, for the first time, went looking for an SVG editor and found both Inkscape and Sodipodi. They seemed so similar and even seemed to share some of the same code (IANA programmer) and I couldn't figure out which project has the most critical mass. 'twould seem, Inkscape.

It's hard to install,
True.
has a very poor user interface
Which user interface? I think Sancho is great.
while it supports more networks than Shareaza, it generally doesn't support them as well.
Not in my experience with mldonkey 2.5.16 ...

magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:2XPWQISMWDXSCOD4SDXZKXELH7 3KPXG6.YYFG355UD6K7SQVHIVWHSKF6BLDD5BH4W6EPA5Y&dn= Shareaza_2.0.0.0.exe

Magnet links are much better in the long run, as a lot of P2P apps are starting to support them, and they are a more open standard. See here: http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/

Don't really have time to research, but last time I checked, The Poisoned Project, an OS X P2P app, supported FastTrack, and it's perfectly free. I doubt they pay for FT licensing.

However if it can keep all of my bit torrent downloads in 1 easy to manage window with universal bandwidth management it may be worth it for just that.

I like Shareaza. It's swarming across multiple networks is a cool feature. But for BT downloads, it's not quite there yet, although it has potential.

For managing multiple BT downloads, the current app I use is Azureus. Written in Java, but nonetheless a good application with a lot of features. And far, far faster at BT than Shareaza.

If we (SourceForge.net) receive a DMCA request, which doesn't happen often, we begin a process outlined in our Terms of Service. We don't remove the project forever, only for a length of 10 days after the project admin has submitted a DMCA counter-claim.

With the project 'PlayFair', the project admin never submitted a counter-claim...and hence the project was never restored.
BTW: We host many p2p projects on SF.NET today.

Pat-
Pat@sf.net
SourceForge.net

If you like inkscape, but you find there is a feature you need is missing, request it here.

The Inkscape developers have implemtneted loads of cool features already, and you can help it make it even beter.

You can even contribute patches if your feeling bold.

Also, here is the Roadmap on their wiki.

I use the webinterface here, but sancho is a very good mldoney GUI.

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the freediag Open Source (GPL) effort to build a program to read the diagnostic information that's available. A special hardware interface is needed to connect your PC to your car, but they're not hard to find and not horribly expensive. (see the freediag supported interfaces list for more info including one RS232 to OBD-II converter you can build yourself.)

The project is still pretty new, so if your car isn't supported and the codes are available from the National Automotive Task Force site, it probably wouldn't be too hard to hack them in.

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the freediag Open Source (GPL) effort to build a program to read the diagnostic information that's available. A special hardware interface is needed to connect your PC to your car, but they're not hard to find and not horribly expensive. (see the freediag supported interfaces list for more info including one RS232 to OBD-II converter you can build yourself.)

The project is still pretty new, so if your car isn't supported and the codes are available from the National Automotive Task Force site, it probably wouldn't be too hard to hack them in.

BTManager.

As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.

As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.

NOT on sourceforge.net. As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.

Yeah, except FreeNet is still alive and kicking on SourceForge, despite all the publicity it's gotten. So is DC++. There are also many other filesharing apps hosted on SF that I won't even take the time to name.
About the only thing Shareaza has to worry about is getting its donation box shutdown by PayPal. -If they plan to have a donation box, that is.

NOT on sourceforge.net. As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.

Yeah, except FreeNet is still alive and kicking on SourceForge, despite all the publicity it's gotten. So is DC++. There are also many other filesharing apps hosted on SF that I won't even take the time to name.
About the only thing Shareaza has to worry about is getting its donation box shutdown by PayPal. -If they plan to have a donation box, that is.

I think not, last time I checked giFT was available...

Now that I mention it, wouldn't it be more easier/feasible/comfortable to just write a plugin for giFT? To avoid and get rid of crappy WIND32 UI mannerisms, avoid GUI porting and just fire Poisoned (or whatever) away?

dani++

It's now a week later, and I've developed a solution to the submitter's request. It's called anyInventory, and it's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/anyinventory/, and there is a test version for trying it out at http://anyinventory.sf.net/aI/.

PythonCard.
Taken from their site: PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, using the Python language.

Microsoft does not build PC hardware

Oh yes it does. The difference between a Microsoft XBOX(tm) PC and, say, a Dell PC lies mainly in Microsoft's legacy-free BIOS.

bogofilter was released as follows: from their web page

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Bayesian spam filtering was invented and implemented long before Paul Graham's "A plan for spam". A project I wrote for a course in July 2001 that does Bayesian filtering was based on papers suggesting to do the same for spam, the predated that time. I used the same technique in 2001 to write an internal ad filter (something to filter ads inside mailing list postings) using bayesian methods, so this is clearly prior art.

• For a better antivirus, use NOD32 instead (they never missed a single virus in 6 consecutive years).
  
• For better anti-spam software, use POPfile instead (and it's free)
  
• For anti-spyware, use Spybot instead (and it's free)
  
• For firewall, use ZoneAlarm instead (and it can be free)
  

Glad to see GIMP getting an award. The new version is excellent on Windows XP, too. Amazing! If you need a program to edit photos, GIMP is all you need.

While it's nice to see GIMP getting an award, GIMP is NOT all you need.

It lacks 16-bit-per-color (48-bpp) editing support.

"Why is this stupid feature necessary?", you ask?

It's needed because of cameras like the Canon EOS-300D/10D (see the other slashdot article). Canon's RAW format is wonderful for people who need to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of their camera, at the expense of possibly tedious, extra post-processing. RAW gives you more headroom to avoid blown highlights (along with a possibly higher S/N ratio), and more shadow detail, among other things. Canon's in-camera JPEG processing also seems to throw away nearly half (yes, supposedly "one-half") of the sensor's dynamic range, whereas you get access to the full range with RAW. Unfortunately, GIMP can only handle 8-bits per color (24-bpp), and RAW requires 16-bit (well, 12-bits, actually, as Canon's RAW only has 12-bits per color). What's worse is that, if you read the GIMP lists, 16-bit support is probably years away (I think someone mentioned "2006, maybe").

Cinepaint, a fork of GIMP, can supposedly handle Canon RAW files, but I haven't tried it (I haven't gotten around to building it under Linux, and win32 support is minimal).

See MeatBall:ElectronicDemocracy for relevant links.

I particularly draw your attention to NetConference Plus, and to Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy wiki section.

Also, there is a wiki effort to become a virtual nation state, called AnewGo, although it's quiescent right now.

Finally, I've just begun work on a software inference engine, Parliament, that would assist in the application of parlimentary procedure to an online legislative body. The core engine could also be used as an assistant to humans during a live meeting (which is in fact the way that I'm developing it first).

an old DDR cabinet, KnoppixMAME, StepMania, and a few days of free time. Then I will never have to leave the house again!

1. Download a ButTorrent client. I'd recommend Azureus
2. Open this URL (as listed on the download link in the post)

I had a go some time back. The camera rays were pre-calculated. A bounding box was calculated for each triangle in image space. These were ordered by starting row and column. Lists of the possibly visible triangles were maintained as the image space was scanned. Groups of geometry had bounding spheres. I was getting around 15 seconds/frame.

However, there seem to be many open source real-time ray-tracing projects going on:

OpenRT, with it's own FAQ. This project seems to have several games written for it.

Rearview is another game-engine based on ray-tracing

There's also the Avalon Project. There was also an article discussing the use of SSE Instructions. The Source code to a demo is available at RAVI-Demo. Other projects include RealStorm.

It certainly seems to be an active area.

There is a more up-to-date python plugin called PyDev.

The codes are available on the net if you know where to look. Often they are found on auto enthusiast websites. Websites like Focaljet.com

Not only that there is a great project for retrieving codes under linux. The project is called FreeDiag. It can be found at Sourceforge.net

Not only that, there are some great "open" cables you can build yourself. the BR interface is my fav. It happens to work very nicely with freediag.

Hope this helps people that are interested.

About 18 months ago, Slashdot posted an article The Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 Release with a nice collection of unconventional networking tools.

Included was a very cool tool, Phentropy, for visualizing arbitrary data using Strange Attractors. You may recall a paper on TCP/IP Sequence number analysis that highlighted the usefulness of Strange Attractors for data visualization.

Phentropy plots an arbitrarily large data source (of arbitrary data) onto a three dimensional volumetric matrix, which may then be parsed by OpenQVIS. Data mapping is accomplished by interpreting the file as a one dimensional stream of integers and progressively mapping quads in phase space.

OpenQVIS is a neat package and could fill a lot of arbitrary data viz needs.. But damned if I have been able to get the thing to build under Linux. The project could really use some help, and I think a lot of good could come of it. The Phd types who wrote it seem to have mostly moved on..

For the GUI I use xrced. When making a GUI it's better to use sizers to layout the GUI and avoid absolute positions. This ensures that the app will look good and widgets won't overlap on any platform. For coding I currently use vim. I've used boa before and found it fine for writing python code. It didn't support sizers at the time though.

Now, you mention you had trouble with boa. You're going to want to get it working unless you want to spend some money, because for $0.00 that's as good as it's going to get. Otherwise the two above are good investments. IIRC Komodo has a free version, but I'm not sure. PythonWorks had great potential but it's not being developed any more. It only supported Tkinter anyway.

That's as far as GUI designer support. If you're not having any luck you might want to try wxWorkshop. I've heard some people have luck embedding their dialogs in C++ libraries and binding them to Python programs. YMMV.

If all you want is a good Python editor with debugger support there are a bunch of them out there:

http://drpython.sourceforge.net
http://pype.sourceforge.net/ (more mature)

Personally the best Python-specialized editor I've used is IDLE, though it has no GUI capabilities. IDLE ships with the full Python distribution for Linux and Windows, and it behaves essentially the same in both platforms.

You might also want to check this article out. And of course, the clearing house.

I have to admit here that I'm not really an IDE person - I usually prefer vi and the command-line.

I've also had some experience at debugging python/c++ hybrids, but mostly on linux. On linux if you have a problem in the c++ bit you can use gdb/ddd (remember the executable is /usr/bin/python, and when you're in the python interpreter code, nothing will work unless you've compiled python with -g, but I've never found this necessary).

There is also a Python plugin for Eclipse, a popular Java IDE.

Ahh... the wonders of OSS and GPL. :-)

I've done it. Its not pretty, but certainly doable with the help of openmosix, and ccache. Bootstrapping Gentoo with a fairly fast machine onto DVD-RAM media however, was much much slower. Yes I'm a masochist.

The WOLKs are stable and development kernels, containing many useful patches from many projects. Goal: Stability, Scalability, Performance and most important: Security. If you can, use 2.2-WOLK/2.6-WOLK. Kernel 2.4.* is braindamaged and can't be fix.

To be honest, the closed-source drivers are *better* than what FOSS alternatives offer at this time for Nvidia and ATI. ("But they close their specs!" -- yes they do, but you're geeks right?) If you use a particular card because there are just FOSS drivers avaialable, that's one thing -- if you're deciding to cut out functionality for open drivers, that's totally philisophical and not a technical decision. For those who actually play games on Linux (or FreeBSD in compatibility mode), those evil closed source drivers sure kick the stuffing out of anything in the FOSS community.

If you want to see a shift towards FOSS drivers, the DRI project would appreciate your help. If you want Free to dominate, you need to give people a better decision. Mod me down if you will as anti-FOSS, but I'm not going to sugar coat it.

I use cygwin on a daily basis, was nice to see that on an upgrade it removed all of Xfree and upgraded to X.org X11 server.

Seems everyone is ditching Xfree. (About damn time too!)

BTW, those use mentioned screen because they don't want to use a mouse. There are X window managers like EvilWM or Ratpoison that are mouseless. Though, my favorite WM is IceWM with the PicoGUI theme. Though I like to modify it with additional buttons. Freshmeat has a ton of themes for it.