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Mail's junk filter may be okay, but it's not nearly as good as the article makes it out to be. You'll get much better results using a combination of the built-in filter along with external filtering/tagging devices.

For example, I ran across JunkMatcher some time ago and have been enjoying 99-100% accurracy with less than 1% false positives. It's a huge improvement over the 80-90% accurracy I was getting with the built-in filter alone.

Couldn't Apple make i386 hardware, control the devices like they do with normal Macs - specific graphics card, sound chips, etc, etc. Then use some sort of hardware dongle to only enable OSX (or whatever OS they are using), to run if the dongle is present ? Essentially it's an encryption on a chip. Encryption is always being cracked, I know.... maybe they could tie each single OS install to a specific chip ? Just thinking out aloud...

Windows Inventory

How does this technology compare to Bayesian filters such as PopFile ? PopFile was not made by Apple, so clearly it doesn't have the cult appeal, but it has been working flawlessly for me for about a year now. What really irks me about this article is how it implies that Apple invented trainable filters -- where, in reality, this is very far from the truth. Apple does the same thing with pretty much everything it sells... sort of like Soviet Russia, who claimed to have invented flight, radio, transistors, and probably elephants too.

Regarding point 1, read this. Register starvation is not a major problem. The biggest slowdown is that memory addresses have to be translated (this is the case no matter what virtual memory/paging system you use), which adds a large penalty to EVERY memory access.

Hm, for those that would like a FREE program to make their ascii (apart from notepad), you can use PabloDraw (cheap plug, yeah, yeah.. but it's relevant)

Try SourceForge's Compile Farm. They have a couple OS X boxes that are exactly what you are wishing for. All you need is an open-source project hosted on SourceForge, as far as I remember..

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?doci d=762&group_id=1

Yes, SF.net have a Compile Farm, two of which is are Apple computers.

SoftPear is trying to do just that.

• Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC installer: Runs well
• Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC after installation: Hard to boot. Runs very well afterwards.
• Darwin for PPC: Runs well
• Mac OS X 10.3: Runs well with some caveats
• OpenBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting (accesses PCI in an unsupported way)
• NetBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting

...is that the emulated ppc chip is 40 to 500 times SLOWER than the host.

here see for yourself

If you look at subroutine checkForOpenProxy in Slashcode, you'll notice that it contains a hand-written port scanner/proxy checker built in Perl. Slashdot uses this to aggressively port scan and service map any IP address that tries to post anonymously, and saves the result in the DB. While this does have the unfortunate side affect of setting off IDS sensors across the globe and disrupting poorly hardened services on ports in Slash's scan list, it has the benefit of keeping us safe from those who would use a proxy to maintain anonymity, such as Chinese dissidents and corporate whisteblowers.

... for a VoIP project. It's a really stupid way of getting very high availability, but it can be made to work, and it is cheap to implement.

Basics are:

(1) you need a heart beat to confirm the master machine is running.

(2) You write a simple script using dnsupdate(8) that removes your master and inserts the backup.

(3) You look up the special magic to tell DNS caching to flush on other machines.

I just wish something just like apt-get existed for the rpm world that made it just as easy to update.

You mean something like yum, up2date, urpmi, YaST or (gasp!) apt ?

I hear you on that. I wrote a python module for id3v2 tags. It reminded me of nothing so much as ASN.1/BER/DER.

It does, however, support arbitrary character sets and arbitrary binary formats, though. Not sure there's another way to do it. Vorbis-comments are ASCII only, right?

I look forward to your reply.

I'm sorry, but I think you're nuts.

Not to specifically knock the other choices you mention, but I think plenty of people feel that PHP has a far less annoying and convoluted syntax than say Perl or Lisp, which you seem to be advocating instead of PHP.

And you say you have a "superficial familiarity" with PHP, yet knock PHP for a lack of Speed... Try it, you might be surprised (especially if you use a compilation cache like Turck MMCache). Why do you think every other random interpreted language is going to be way faster than PHP?

The only point I won't argue strongly is the security aspect. I don't think PHP is as bad as everyone is claiming if it is set up properly, but it isn't perfect - in particular too many ease-of-use features have been added that can chuck any semblance of security right out the window...

Symbian phones can use Palm keyboards. Note that the Nokia 3650 is a GSM world phone, so you can take notes (and send email) from pretty much anywhere.

The cURL license seems okay now: cURL license. I suppose it wouldn't be on Sourceforge if it weren't okay.

Don't confuse cURL with Curl, from the Curl Corporation.

A combination of blog (time based), wiki (document based) covers most ground for team communication. We use Serendipity and Mediawiki at this site.

I'm currently dual-booting Windows 98 (for DOS games)

What about DOSBox?

This just in. routercli-0.1.pre-alpha From the project page:

"RouterCLI is a cisco-like shell for small or diskless linux distributions. Pre-alpha includes interface configuration, routing manipulation, ping,telnet and trace utilities, I still think about libtecla, access-lists and config."

I'm sure it's coincidence, but the timing is kinda funny. Actually looks like it might become a useful little tool. And we can tell it's not really based on the leaked Cisco source by the use of fork() :-)

Palm Plog, pLog

If some users on the system are in the habit of running several heavyweight processes, and others only tend to run lightweight ones, then the processing in that manner cn be distributed around the network.

Mmm...yes, theoretically, but a desktop system is pretty powerful these days -- the draw isn't what it once was. You have to have a process that is so heavy that the user wants to put it on another system, not heavy enough that it has its own custom distributed system (like a raytracer or custom scientific computation system), and you have to work to avoid processes that depend on each other winding up on different nodes.

You can also transparently implement a system whereby you have mostly dumb terminals, and a few high-powered servers located in a sound-proofed, air conditioned room. You should also be able to add servers easily to this system.

Yeah, but there are an awful lot of ways to pull this off without using a full-blown distributed system. A nameserver with lightestloaded.foobar.edu, for instance.

Spelling creat with a "e" :-)

Hey, some of us get RSI! Seriously, I guess if I had a single irritation on this level, I'd like to see "less" renamed to something a bit more newbie-friendly.

Linux is really just a kernel. You can stick whatever init system you want on top of it. Redhat seem to use a bastard hybrid of sysV and BSD. I can't comment on any other distros.

Sure, but other than Slack, I don't think any mainstream distros use non-SysV.

Not quite sure what you mean here. If you create an encrypted loopback, then all file encryption becomes completely transparent on that filingsystem.

Windows encryption -- check "encrypted" box on directory/file property tab.

Linux encryption -- not supported with end-user-friendly interface on most boxes, where "pretty end user interface is present, support for mounting my home directory unencrypted at login time is present, no standard way for user to specify what things he'd like encrypted/unencrypted -- you'd need to hack some sort of suid filesystem creation utility up". Since support is at the block device level rather than the filesystem level, mixing encrypted and unencrypted files is a PITA. Not a standard *IX-wide way to do this.

There's a few features I'd like to see. One is a KDE-style IO slaves. This could be done at the libc level. In essence, it would recognise URLs, and use a program to open the URL and shove it's output in to a file descriptor for the program.

Mmm. One problem is that this breaks long-standing guarantees about the format of UNIX paths, which means that a number of programs would break.

FUSE (kinda like LUFS, if you're more familiar with that project) provides KDE IOSlave support at mount time, just not open time.

If some users on the system are in the habit of running several heavyweight processes, and others only tend to run lightweight ones, then the processing in that manner cn be distributed around the network.

Mmm...yes, theoretically, but a desktop system is pretty powerful these days -- the draw isn't what it once was. You have to have a process that is so heavy that the user wants to put it on another system, not heavy enough that it has its own custom distributed system (like a raytracer or custom scientific computation system), and you have to work to avoid processes that depend on each other winding up on different nodes.

You can also transparently implement a system whereby you have mostly dumb terminals, and a few high-powered servers located in a sound-proofed, air conditioned room. You should also be able to add servers easily to this system.

Yeah, but there are an awful lot of ways to pull this off without using a full-blown distributed system. A nameserver with lightestloaded.foobar.edu, for instance.

Spelling creat with a "e" :-)

Hey, some of us get RSI! Seriously, I guess if I had a single irritation on this level, I'd like to see "less" renamed to something a bit more newbie-friendly.

Linux is really just a kernel. You can stick whatever init system you want on top of it. Redhat seem to use a bastard hybrid of sysV and BSD. I can't comment on any other distros.

Sure, but other than Slack, I don't think any mainstream distros use non-SysV.

Not quite sure what you mean here. If you create an encrypted loopback, then all file encryption becomes completely transparent on that filingsystem.

Windows encryption -- check "encrypted" box on directory/file property tab.

Linux encryption -- not supported with end-user-friendly interface on most boxes, where "pretty end user interface is present, support for mounting my home directory unencrypted at login time is present, no standard way for user to specify what things he'd like encrypted/unencrypted -- you'd need to hack some sort of suid filesystem creation utility up". Since support is at the block device level rather than the filesystem level, mixing encrypted and unencrypted files is a PITA. Not a standard *IX-wide way to do this.

There's a few features I'd like to see. One is a KDE-style IO slaves. This could be done at the libc level. In essence, it would recognise URLs, and use a program to open the URL and shove it's output in to a file descriptor for the program.

Mmm. One problem is that this breaks long-standing guarantees about the format of UNIX paths, which means that a number of programs would break.

FUSE (kinda like LUFS, if you're more familiar with that project) provides KDE IOSlave support at mount time, just not open time.

I have always wondered WHY there is no "open taxes" projects going. we could simply create a framework that run's say a python script thtat describs the rules and calculations of the tax form and simply print out the postscript from there...

probably too late for anyone to see this, but look what I found: an open implementation hosted on sourceforge

There is a prediction program on source-forge : http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/

You can even subscribe to e-mail transit alerts.

There is a prediction program on source-forge : http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/

You can even subscribe to e-mail transit alerts.

I'm using POPfile which tries to extract words from attachments and apples other de-obfuscation techniques, as well. It's maintained by John Graham Cummings who tries to keep up with spammer's tricks. I've been using it for about a year now, and so far it's caught practically all of my spams. (Success rate > 98%)

(Man, that sounded like one of those late-night infomercials, but I swear I'm simply a happy user.)

Granted, I only get 4 or 5 spams a day, so maybe you're simply ahead of me in the spam curve and I'll be getting there soon, too... :-/

(IANA Xvid developer. But I have worked with ffmpeg)
It's not just red. Codecs tend to also have problems with bright blue.
The reason: To improve compression, instead of storing color as RGB, they all use some form of YUV (i.e. "brightness", "redness", and "blueness".) Then, because the human eye is much more sensitive to brightness (Y) than color, they spend more bits on Y and leave the U and V channels at lower quality.
Usually, this is good. But if the picture has some areas that are very red or very blue, and don't have much brightness variation, you can see the imprecision in coding U and V.

It amazes me how bad open source people are at marketing. Why make your project, which requires a huge amount of excellent thinking, the butt of jokes?

Why give a name to your open source project that will cause those who have less than complete technical knowledge to feel uncomfortable about adopting what you have done?

One question is, how bad can it get? Will there one day be a "Worthless" project? There is already a "Waste".

The funniest bad name for an open source project was "Killustrator". It's easy to see how the name was chosen. Everything in KDE began with a K, as much as possible, and Killustrator is an open source illustration program. It didn't seem to bother anyone that the first syllable of the name was "Kill". I can imagine the Killustrator author thinking how convenient it is that the word illustrator begins with a vowel; that makes it easy, just put a K at the beginning, and you have a name!

The name Killustrator gave everyone a million dollars worth of laughs, and did perhaps $10 million damage to Adobe's reputation when the CEO of Adobe overreacted, saying people would confuse Killustrator with Adobe Illustrator.

Do open source authors believe that there are only a few concepts available, not enough for everyone? Why copy the FreeBSD devil idea?

And Why did the FreeBSD project adopt that idea? I know FreeBSD is an excellent OS, and the favorite BSD for ISPs, but there are some who will be discouraged by the amateurish baby red devil marketing scheme.

for playback, i use ffdshow . It has post processing filters built into the codec. The Deblock filter is priceless for low bitrate movies.

WinXP... AFAIK not possible to do it (Translated: Either no one has done it yet, or some company has but charges outragiously large prices for it).

If you can, I'd recommend getting a Linux box as a firewall.

If you can't, you might be able to hack together a VMWare (if you can "get" a copy) or Bochs install of Linux. You'd have to do a decent amount of configuring (making your internet connection in Linux, IP forwading/masquerarding, then the tc qdisc implementation to do the actual limiting), but it'd work well. If you configured it right I'm willing to bet it'd beat McAfee's protection and you wouldnt even need it anymore then.

How about this? Or this? That took only about a minute of googling to find.

I gather mobilemesh is not an ideal solution, but it is good enough for neighbourhood sized networks, until the state of the art advances, producing a better successor.

If you're tired of searching for new music on the Intarweb, why not just run iRATE radio and let it download MP3s for you. iRATE will even learn to download the kind of music you like!

iRATE's server has a large database of MP3s that are kept on the musicians' own websites (or MP3 hosting services, like IUMA). There are over 50,000 tracks in its database, with 3,000 Creative Commons-licensed MP3s recently added from Magnatune.

iRATE downloads a few tracks, and then you rate the tracks according to your preferences. iRATE's server then compares your ratings to those of other users, and selects new tracks based on your rating patterns. That is, if you and I like the same kind of music, iRATE will download for you the same music that I like. If we disagree, your iRATE will avoid my favorites.

This process is known as "collaborative filtering".

iRATE's client and server are both licensed under the GNU GPL, and are written in Java. For Linux, there is a native binary compiled with GCJ, so there are no non-free dependencies.

There's going to be a native Windows client, but GCJ is not presently able to build a stable Windows binary - so you could help by helping the GCJ team fix that.

There is a Mac OS X ".dmg" disk image, that runs using the Java runtime that comes with OS X. It looks like any other OS X application. For those who install the Java Runtime Environment, you can use the Java webstart version. You just click a link on iRATE's download page and it installs and runs.

iRATE's team always welcomes people who want to help with development and testing.

[What]is wrong with making a zipfile and then encrypting it with PGP? The only reasons to put encryption in Winzip itself are fairly bogus arguments about convenience, and the chance to charge more money for a product that does more (even if it does it badly).

Well, let's see - after you've encrypted that Zip file with PGP, you'll be able to exchange it with all of the 0.0001% of the people in the wolrd who have heard of PGP and are willing to put up with the it. (That figure's probably not far off: As evidenced by their actual usage, the vast majority of IT professionals refuse to put up with the pains of PGP/GPG, and they're only a tiny fraction of the world's PC users.

There are decent solutions out there - But even the best tools available, things like AxCrypt, which can be used to encrypt/decrypt any file on the fly are still considerably more of a pain than not using encryption. Encryption is not a panacea, and won't be widely used until it's totally transparently hidden by the OS.

Arguments about convenience are not bogus: they are in fact probably the most valid arguments involved in any sort of security system discussion, since history has proven time and again that users *will* turn off or otherwise render useless any security they find to be obnoxious...

What else does it need to do? This version has been working pretty darn good for me for a long time, on multiple versions of PHP even.

I've been fond of ctorrent lately as a BT client. It's command line only which is useful when you just want to kick off an AT job from the office.

If you have Java installed you can use Azureus . If you are behind a broadband router, allow port forwarding for anything hitting your outside interface on ports 6881-6899 to be passed to the inside client address.

my website has a waste network for those who want to give it a try.

my website has a waste network for those who want to give it a try.

If I'm not très wrong, SIM, the Simple Instant Messenger, does this.

You mean like UDPP2P?

I think the application you are looking for is called Mute. It is anonymous and allows searching. However, it is very slow.

I looked at both their websites, and I have to say the screenshots look suspiciously alike. Are the just versions of eachother marketed seperately? Do they operate on the same network?

Can anybody explain briefly how they work, on the protocol level? They all claim "absolute anonymity" which we all know does not exist, so it's just a marketing term. How do these commercial offerings compare to free projects such as Mute and I2P? (Freenet is not comparable since it's not really a filesharing application)

Something like Mute using only your trusted friends as seed nodes?

Everyone has heard of Freenet, and it's definately not something anybody wants to use to share their MP3 collections...

MUTE OTOH is newer, and seems to be much better suited for the job.

...anyone heard of FreeNet?

FMA has time dependant translucency. When you link it up to your mobile, each time you recieve a message a window pops up with inital translucency showing the message, if you ignore it, it becomes gradually more transparent until it dissapears.

I've been using one release or another for over a year now.

Software patents only help to destroy innovation.

The 0.8 release includes many improvements including keyboard navigation, cleaner drawing, a re-designed default theme, text wrapping, GUI callback events and the re-introduction of transparency . The stability and maturity of PyUI have advanced greatly since the 0.7x releases thanks mainly to the code contributions from Peter Freese.

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