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fma uses time-dependent translucent windows. Enough?

At least for Windows, there's prior art. The project dates at least one year ago, I'm not sure it supported translucency from the beginning, but it's there at least since 0.92 (for Win2k/XP, all the windows can be forced to have a configurable level of transparency). Disclaimer: not affiliated with the project, just a happy user... :)

It won't just "find" your printer. You need to install the printer. I have an HP PSC 2110 Printer/scanner/copier. After installing Fedora Core 1, it was not auto installed (XP didn't notice it either and required me to install a driver CD before I even plugged the thing in). However, when I went to the printer option under the menu, and clicked new printer, wham, there it was. I have printing and scanning working great with no extra drivers required. So use Yast to try to add a printer and it should notice the HP printer and use hpijs to print and hpoj to scan.

It won't just "find" your printer. You need to install the printer. I have an HP PSC 2110 Printer/scanner/copier. After installing Fedora Core 1, it was not auto installed (XP didn't notice it either and required me to install a driver CD before I even plugged the thing in). However, when I went to the printer option under the menu, and clicked new printer, wham, there it was. I have printing and scanning working great with no extra drivers required. So use Yast to try to add a printer and it should notice the HP printer and use hpijs to print and hpoj to scan.

I find this to be a well written article, especially for non-Indians who want to understand India's country-wide voting stations. The other likes India's EVMs, with some justification, I think, despite the absence of paper ballot.

However, India's EVMs are not really applicable to a US context. While the idea promoted of "make it as simple as possible" is a good one (violated by Diebold in many ways), the author seems to forget the "but no simpler" corollary. The design of the Open Voting Consortium's system (see http://openvoting.org and http://evm2003.sourceforge.net) strikes the correct compromise.

In fairness, in an Indian context, the idea of having elections with dozens of different races, each with a dozen candidates, plus a bunch of initiatives, might seem strange. But that's what we have in some US jurisdictions. Some US cities have even begun to use ranked preference voting (so far, usually scored as IRV, but maybe Condercet, Burda, Weighted, etc. someday).

The requirements for casting one vote for one MP are rather simple, and India's EVMs add no extra complexity to that.

Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.

(...Warning! Shameless plug...)

There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.

Simple PHP Blog

And here are some other great choices:

bBlog
Serendipity
Simplog

Check them out. Maybe you'll find one that fits your needs. And, you can help develop them and give back to the world...

Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.

(...Warning! Shameless plug...)

There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.

Simple PHP Blog

And here are some other great choices:

bBlog
Serendipity
Simplog

Check them out. Maybe you'll find one that fits your needs. And, you can help develop them and give back to the world...

Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.

(...Warning! Shameless plug...)

There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.

Simple PHP Blog

And here are some other great choices:

bBlog
Serendipity
Simplog

Check them out. Maybe you'll find one that fits your needs. And, you can help develop them and give back to the world...

Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.

(...Warning! Shameless plug...)

There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.

Simple PHP Blog

And here are some other great choices:

bBlog
Serendipity
Simplog

Check them out. Maybe you'll find one that fits your needs. And, you can help develop them and give back to the world...

b2evo This is what I would recommend people check out first.
BBlog (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater & MySQL version 3.23 or greater)
Bit 5 Blog
blosxom (only need ability to run CGI scripts)
drupal.org (mySQL or similar required)
LiveJournal.org
MyPHPblog/Simplog (seems to require MySQL would have to download to be sure.)
Nucleus (requires PHP version 4.0.6 or higher and access to a MySQL database version 3.23.38 or higher)
Pivot (only php required)
pLog (requires PHP 4.1.x or higher and MySQL 3.1.x or higher)
Scoop (requires Apache with mod_perl and mySQL)
TikiWiki (requires PHP 4.1+ and MySQL. Very powerful software.)
WordPress (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater and MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater.)

So you see folks, there ARE other alternatives to Moveable Type.

The development of a meta tag that stopped Google from indexing a blog (or any site, really) would keep them from interfering with people who don't care about it, but could be removed for applications like political blogs or news sites. (Most of the people who blog couldn't tell the difference between a meta tag and a meat tag, so including it by default wouldn't be a bad idea.)

Blogging has genuinely useful features, the least of which is the recording of the human experience in a way unprecedented in the history of the world.

The PC version is C#, according to SourceForge, and requires XP with WMP 9. If it were available for Linux, you wouldn't need to pay $200 for XP...

This project might be of interest to the community OpenVIDIA
(some computer vision running on GPUs) with a pic of a machine using 6 GeForce GFX cards.

Movix [movix.sourceforge.net] is exactly what you seek!
It runs from a live CD and I can get it running DivX's smoothly out of my nvidia tv card on a pII 266! The picture quality is ok and the system reports few dropped frames. Still it dont have the convenience of my X-Box mind you!

Tvtime does what you want. It can use the dscaler dll's to deinterlace the signal so you get the same image quality as when using dscaler.

You want DScaler. Absolutely amazing program -- produces incredibly high quality output, and the interface is easy enough to use.

The XBMC dev's only create the source, they don't release binaries to the public, which would be illegal. Until the OpenXDK project comes of age and allows the release of binaries not compiled with the MS XDK, it will have to be released by the "usual people" in the "usual places". The OpenXDK project has a long way to go before this can happen. It can compile some less complex things as of now (some modchip dev's have released very simple legal xbe's), but XBMC is far too complex for it.

Also, just a little tidbit of info for those who care: as of April 7, 2004, CXBX can play Turok Evolution on the PC in full speed and quality. Check out the screenshots if you don't believe me. Definitely a notable feat...

Actually, as shown in this screenshot of Media Portal, the user interface is a direct copy of images found in the Dell Media Experience user interface, which itself was modeled (different artwork, same color schemes and theme) in the likeness of Media Center.

Good point, I mean this ISN'T EVEN IN ENGLISH !

What are we to do?

Media Portal looks nice and all, but did they have to absolutely rip off Windows Media Center's look?
Can't we come up with something better or is the open source movement just going to settle on becoming a Microsoft ripoff scene?

You seem to have left out that Python has JIT these days...

You can do this today with Chromium.

Chromium replaces your OpenGL library with one that farms the OpenGL drawing out to multiple machines. It's how display walls are built.

You can use the same technique for multiple card in the same box.

Try iRate it's a Java app that downloads free MP3s off the net and lets you rate them so that it knows what kind of music you like. Great way to find new music you like. Most are indie bands.

Although the website mentions "open source" a lot it only suppplies a link to a sourceforge page which does not seem to supply anything downloadable.

ALthough Mozdex appears to be of good will, notice that the GPL does not force them to distribute changes to GPLed code as long as they're the only ones using the code. THe GPL would only be effective if they would try to distribute changed binaries, but they do not distribute anything other than HTML web content. This could become a major headache with the GPL.

Of course it is, but I have yet to meet anyone in person who uses Limewire and is not a Mac user.
Have you met anyone using a giFT client?
Too bad the promenent Windows client dropped support for FastTrack/KaZaA (they got hit by a C&D by Sharman), but it still searches Gnutella (not as well as LimeWire, I have to admit) and OpenFT (my all time favorite network, although it's very unstable--if you can connect, it's great, giFT devs are reworking parts of the network code to fix some huge bugs, so good things might happen there).
Mac users get Poisoned (currently under a rewrite, but it's opensorce, supports FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT and has a nice fourm :) ). There are other clients, see the outdated list here. giFT is very nice, opensource (note: Xfactor, the other Mac OS X client, is NOT opensource, that's one of the reasons I stick with Poisoned), free, and supports major networks--it's pretty nice!

Of course it is, but I have yet to meet anyone in person who uses Limewire and is not a Mac user.
Have you met anyone using a giFT client?
Too bad the promenent Windows client dropped support for FastTrack/KaZaA (they got hit by a C&D by Sharman), but it still searches Gnutella (not as well as LimeWire, I have to admit) and OpenFT (my all time favorite network, although it's very unstable--if you can connect, it's great, giFT devs are reworking parts of the network code to fix some huge bugs, so good things might happen there).
Mac users get Poisoned (currently under a rewrite, but it's opensorce, supports FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT and has a nice fourm :) ). There are other clients, see the outdated list here. giFT is very nice, opensource (note: Xfactor, the other Mac OS X client, is NOT opensource, that's one of the reasons I stick with Poisoned), free, and supports major networks--it's pretty nice!

Gnome Wave Cleaner. I haven't done much with it yet but it looks pretty versatile.

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...if the .Net Development Toolset is also a Microsoft project. If so - let's all donate loads of money to make the Microsoft see that OSDN pays off.

...if the .Net Development Toolset is also a Microsoft project. If so - let's all donate loads of money to make the Microsoft see that OSDN pays off.

Microsoft + Sourceforge = The End Of The World

Then we're much past the end of the world already. WTL is not the first project Microsoft has put on Sourceforge. To my knowledge, that happened at the end of March, when WiX, or Windows Installer XML toolset, was uploaded to Sourceforge. WiX is a great way to build MSI installers without having to shell out bucks for gui installer tools like Installshield (yes, Visual Studio.NET and .NET 2003 have an installer project that will build an MSI, but they're very limited in scope). For now, it works best with installs that don't need any user input, since there's no forms designer, but if you're savvy enough you can even build UI forms into the XML file.

Like WTL, WiX is another Microsoft project that's pretty much been a one-man show for years, and it's great to see it openly acknowledged and put out there for the entire world to use. We use it every single day at work, and have gone through all of the growing pains over the last few years so you don't have to.

Actually, there are a lot of open source porn-search projects. For instance, gnaughty, and the Porn Toolkit.

Actually, there are a lot of open source porn-search projects. For instance, gnaughty, and the Porn Toolkit.

...including porting it to windows. Troll Tech hasn't done that for you, of course, and why should they?

Um, they already did. They simply refuse to release it under an OSI-compliant license.

And that's their choice. It doesn't stop you from doing another port.

That leaves anyone ambitious enough to try a port of the X11 code with the responsibility of ensuring that the port is feature complete and compatible with Trolltech's official, non-Free version.

So? If it's a port of the Unix code, as opposed to a rewrite, it ought to have the same API or you're doing something wrong.

The way I look at it is, Windows is a non-free platform anyway, so people who complain that Qt is non-free on that platform are whining pointlessly. (By the way, a free Windows port does exist, under cygwin. This should be enough for those who just want to run their unixland free software under windows.)

Allow me to second the suggestion for Motion.

I've quietly run a security camera with Motion in my cubicle at work for a couple of years now. It's picked up lots of interesting things, and cost a bad security guard his job.

Hardware? I've experimented. My current setup is a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 on USB. I tried a cheapie BT878 card but wasn't happy with the results. The hardware is a 733 MHz Pentium 3 running a heavily patched and upgraded system that started life as RedHat 7.3.

If things look interesting during the day I use CamStream and mjpegtools to make timelapse videos of the view out my window.

...laura

I've use Gnome, then became comfortable with KDE, and now use xfce4. No matter which, I've always used ROX for my Filer. It's the best out there and works perfectly under all the window managers. I agree with some other posters, he should have reviewed Gnome and then said he was disatisfied with Nautilus and recommended another Filer (one of his preference).

Phillip.

...including porting it to windows. Troll Tech hasn't done that for you, of course, and why should they?

Um, they already did. They simply refuse to release it under an OSI-compliant license. That leaves anyone ambitious enough to try a port of the X11 code with the responsibility of ensuring that the port is feature complete and compatible with Trolltech's official, non-Free version. <sarcasm>Easy, right?</sarcasm>

Funny how so many Slashbots bemoan how Mono is a waste of time, because Ximian will be forever playing catch-up to the current version of the .Net Framework. But when the subject of a Free Qt for Windows comes up, the immediate, flippant response is "port it yourself!", which is exactly what Ximian is doing.

There are presently no usable and free solutions that allow average end-users to easily run modern KDE and KDE applications on Windows. As I contribute to the development of the desktop environment I choose to run, if I were running and contributing to KDE, I would be restricting the scope of end-users that can take take advantage of these contributions until someone decides to initiate and maintain a Qt/X11 port to Win32, and then makes sure KDE can build against it. That's the taint. I know you know this, I'm just clarifying what I mean. ;-)

Yes, I would feel much better if Qt/X11 were ported to Win32, followed by KDE. I would probably go back to KDE, at least until GNOME matures. I would still hold Qt and KDE in lesser (idealistic, not technical) regard than Gtk and GNOME for reasons previously stated, reasons which, again, I invite those more in the know to clarify. I've only recently developed political interest in all of this, and I readily concede that my perception of the state of affairs could be (and are probably) misinformed, but I consider GNOME to be fairly ideal for reasons other than portability based on what I've read and what others have told me.

Its a tough problem, at least for me. GNOME is close to idealistic perfection, while KDE is close to perfect usability; but problems of choice are good problems to have. :-)

Interestingly, no one has pointed out that GNOME proper won't run on Win32 without Cygwin, just like KDE, though this seems to be a goal of the CyGNOME project.

-Nick

How can such a goal be attained? There are many ways available now. The most obvious one is a VM system with security policies, such as the JVM. That's not the only one, though. Another method is a capabilities-based system, so when a process starts, it has only a defined set of capabilities to work with. OpenBSD has a similar, but more limited system called systrace. The TrustedBSD project and SELinux have similar aims, and SELinux is being integrated into mainstream Linux distros. Another way to run untrusted things is with user-mode Linux, which I believe is integrated with Linux 2.6

The editor is right, though, that on currently-used systems like OSX and MS Windows, you have to be careful what you click on. But the problem is that we have come to accept that as "the way things are", when there is no reason for that to be the case. You should be able to run hostile code, see what it does, laugh at it, and delete it without any harm. The technology to do that exists, and has existed for years, but we have come to accept broken products and systems that don't allow that.

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>Personally, I'd like to see at least one fast, tight file browser that mindlessly clones Windows Explorer.

ahem
XFE (formerly X Win Commander) is small, light, and fast. It's fairly no-frills, but then again, you also aren't forced to install cd-burning software to use it.

I guess I'm confused as to why you this there's a moral taint to KDE. KDE is GPL'd. QT X11 (including for Linux) is GPL'd. QT for Mac OS X is GPL'd. QT Embedded is GPL'd. QT/KDE on Cygwin is GPL'd, and lets you run KDE apps on Windows.

The only non-free aspect to QT is the commercial licensed version of QT Windows. GTK was ported from X11 to Windows. There is nothing to keep you, me, or anyone else from porting one of the GPL'd QT toolkits to Windows (as the KDE on Cygwin people have done). The existance of a non-free licenced version of QT does not make the free-licenced versions any less free.

I use KDE because I think it does a better job than Gnome and because I think it's easier to use. If you prefer KDE, I encourage you to use it, too.

Does this mean that XMMS ripped off Winamp?

As intuitive as iTunes' interface may or may not be, that helps little for the many people who've found the application to be too slow or CPU intensive on their PCs. I'm sure there are some who can provide their own anectodal evidence pointing to the contrary, but iTunes is still a memory hog for many others.

Similar programs like Foobar or Winamp 5 barely slow down people's systems, and can even be configured to run MUCH faster. Their file sizes are also noticeably smaller. You could argue that iTunes does much more with it's iPod support, but Winamp's connectivity with the iPod is just as seamless and even has features iTunes lacks. Foobar also sports a formidable iPod plug-in.

This so-called 'paradigm shift' of spatial browsing should not be enforced on users. We like Linux. We like choice. Stop being fascists and give us a 'turn off spatial browsing' button.

You have choice. Use KDE. Use Rox Filer. Use Evidence.

You like GNOME but don't like the new nautilus? You can use Konqueror from inside GNOME no problems. You can use Evidence from inside GNOME.

Dearly love Nautilus but don't like spatial? GConf is far from cryptic. The choice is right there.

Don't want to have spatial existant in any way shape or form? Grab the Nautilus source, make a few edits so that only the navigation behaviour is enabled in the build, and build your own version.

Explain to me ... where exactly was your choice taken away?

Jedidiah.

This so-called 'paradigm shift' of spatial browsing should not be enforced on users. We like Linux. We like choice. Stop being fascists and give us a 'turn off spatial browsing' button.

You have choice. Use KDE. Use Rox Filer. Use Evidence.

You like GNOME but don't like the new nautilus? You can use Konqueror from inside GNOME no problems. You can use Evidence from inside GNOME.

Dearly love Nautilus but don't like spatial? GConf is far from cryptic. The choice is right there.

Don't want to have spatial existant in any way shape or form? Grab the Nautilus source, make a few edits so that only the navigation behaviour is enabled in the build, and build your own version.

Explain to me ... where exactly was your choice taken away?

Jedidiah.

BTW I thought I read that the new spatial mode could be turned off, and the filemanager could return to normal operation... Ah yes, according to a post on Linux Today:

I actually have tried spatial mode in Garnome. i don't like the clutter either. But it definitely does make browsing the filesystem easier. All they need to do is add a button to 'close all windows' and I'm happy. You should really give spatial an chance before you turn it off. BTW you can turn it off with the --browser option.

I'm also going to wait for Fedora 2 to be released so I can upgrade. Gnome is really starting to rock!!!

I haven't tried gnome 2.6 yet, as it hasn't been packaged for Mandrake 10, and I don't want to mess with source, so I haven't tried this recommendation.

If you're stuck on nautilus, perhaps this will help. I've never been a big fan of nautilus (hence my ROX-Filer usage =).

I also strongly reccomend this in addition to your list.

it makes the creation of firewalls, really good fast firewalls with most of the features that Cisco claims in their "protected" networks possible within a few days.

I have a old P-II 450 here running one and we have NEVER came close to overloading it (100Bt in and out) it is hackerproof, espically if you write protect the config diskette and has the great ability to email me the logs every morning.

...it is quite time someone questions the exact origin of SSL, SSH, NTP and a few other items in IOS which are known to be bug for bug compatible with OSS code and do not have stated copyrights in the IOS release notes.