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http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/

The Realeyes IDS reassembles sessions and performs analysis on data streams in both directions. When a session is reported, both halves of the session are displayed in the playback window. It is a complete system that uses the PostgreSQL DB as a backend and has a Java UI. Some people have had problems building the DB, but I am happy to help. http://realeyes.sourceforge.net/ Later . . . Jim

Bundler and CMVS, which are command-line tools that in combination can be used to generate 3D models from a set of ordinary camera photos (i.e. photogrammetry). Several people have taken that code and modified it into collections of tools (e.g., this one) that streamline the process and use GPU code to speed it up. You can then load up the output into Meshlab, a great tool for rendering and editing the resulting point clouds before bringing them into something like Blender 3D (which is well-known).

Even more technical is GPlates, a comprehensive, research-grade tool for doing plate tectonic reconstruction. It's like a combination of conventional GIS system and Google Earth, but you can position anything back in geological time with it. You can load up your own data and published plate motion models from the literature. You really have to understand how plate motion is represented in a technical sense to use it properly (i.e. Euler poles), but even if you don't, you can still use the reconstruction poles, plate outlines, etc. in the supplied data files, plus read the tutorial (a necessity), and then generate a map to your liking. Even better, the program can output a series of image frames that you can then turn into a movie. You can also output a series of projected data files that are easily used in GMT -- Generic Mapping Tools, another wonderful and adaptable open source tool for mapping that has been around for years. Although it is entirely command-line and has a very steep learning curve, if you're used to typical UNIX command-line tools, then GMT is not that bad, it integrates nicely with the UNIX tools you know, and it is very powerful. There are some GUI-based derivatives of it, but I haven't used them.

Those are pretty specialized and would only interest people interested in those subjects, but just today I found PDFtk, a command-line tool to manipulate PDF files (split, merge, rotate pages, etc.). It's exactly what I've been looking for to automate PDF document generation from multiple sources.

The musicians here may want to check out LMMS. I can't believe it took me so long to take heed of it.

One great project that it seems few people know about is Hugin, which is great for photo stitching (panoramas), perspective correction, etc.

-molo

Anyone who finds Digikam useful, should check out Darktable. It is still a fairly young application, but has already come a long way in terms of features and usability.

MAME OS X. Dave Dribin can no longer work on this, now that he works for Apple. The forum for discussing MAME OS X is: http://forums.bannister.org/

SheepShaver. When Apple dropped support for the Classic Environment, this became our only practical link to the fabulous apps of our youth (or our parents' youth, if you're a young pup).

Two awesome photo management apps that fit almost any workflow with a very clean, intuitive interface. Gwenview is a lighter program that's very easy to use and Digikam is a more professional one with some very advanced features.

In SecureCRT (even non-secured one), I use its sz and rz for Zmodem file transfers. I don't need to load up SFTP, SCP, etc. especially when in a hurry.

FYI, it is already in the wishlist, but it is years old and low priority. Le PuTTY exists, but it is an ugly hack and old (last updated in 2006). :(

Oh, I guess I'll have to update the last version of Johann GambolPuTTY then!

And before all the whargarbl about MS dropping support... Windows XP was released in 2001. No consumer OS has been supported that long, and few enterprise OSs are. Since Windows 7 was released (that was 2 years ago) netbooks and low end systems have shipped with Windows 7 Starter. XP has not been sold on systems for years, and a four years of security support is not bad at all.

Windows 7 has only been usable since Classic Shell came out about a year ago. (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/classicshell.aspx and http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/)

It adds back in the missing up arrow (breadcrumbs don't work on desktop folders, or within links) and replaces the grotesque monolith that is the Win7 start menu with a properly customizable one. I took out all the cruft, and made the horrible search only happen if I hit tab first. This lets me tap the windows key and be able to use hotkeys to navigate instantly through the hierarchical menus I have set up to launch moderately-used menus and applications. It also allows you to use a proper hierarchical programs folder, instead of having to scroll through a flat list of "all programs" as if we were living in 1980 again.

In case you didn't know, SC2 has been open sourced as "The Ur-Quan Masters": http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

I still enjoy some Super Melee now and then.

NT>2000>XP>Vista>7>8 = NTFS + Eye Candy and new iterations of poor security. Oh, and that bloat, bloat, bloating winsxs folder that's over 12GB in 4 months. What happened to WinFS?

Windows 98 is looking pretty advantageous these days...kernelex

In case anyone's reading this far down, the modern version is AptOnCD.

As a php code monkey and not a certified DB engineer, I will admit a certain level of ignorance on the issue... however:

I am dumbfounded by the claim that they have an application that is stuck on one db and it is because of the code that runs the site. I have never, ever worked on a credible project that was not data-base agnostic. Many, many excellent tools exist for abstracting the DB out of your code entirely, many of them are part of newer php releases itself or as part of pear.

To be honest, if they are so tied to MySQL, that probably means that their code is a horrid nightmare that needs a complete re-write anyway, and there is no way to blame that kind of crappyness on MySQL. If, in the YEARS that they have been popular and getting more popular, they have not been doing incremental changes to move to one of these systems, that speaks very poorly of their development management. Hell, it probably means that their code is so bad that with a good rewrite they could stick with MySQL for a number of years to come.

1st of all, it "takes one to know one", & you definitely are NOT in "my league" on this account:

"You definitely aren't a professional programmer " - by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, @10:38PM (#36701946)

Sure, ok - tell you what: The day you can show you have done MORE than I have in the art & science of computing, & before I have, to better acclaim (from this only PARTIAL list of what I could actually put out from some of my "favs")? Is the day you can talk:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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Wha

1st of all, it "takes one to know one", & you definitely are NOT in "my league" on this account:

"You definitely aren't a professional programmer " - by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, @10:38PM (#36701946)

Sure, ok - tell you what: The day you can show you have done MORE than I have in the art & science of computing, & before I have, to better acclaim (from this only PARTIAL list of what I could actually put out from some of my "favs")? Is the day you can talk:

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

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Wha

You're thinking of the Psychic Mode plugin that comes with Pidgin of which is also used by the Bot Sentry plugin to filter out spam messages. I remember the first time I got Bot Sentry working and noticed that it pretty much eliminated the spam problem coming from both ICQ and MSN networks, but the first time I saw "You feel a disturbance in the force" a week later kind of freaked me out as I didn't realize that was Psychic Mode's default behavior.

How does Thunderbird 5 handle full Exchange connectivity (including Calendaring, Contacts, Tasks, etc)? That is my main reason for sticking with Evolution.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

Works rather well except for some calendar glitches .

For everybody operating in a corporate environment mail, calendar and address book are delivered by an Exchange server. Thunderbird is good for pop3/imap/ldap which are all open standards but Exchange doesn't talk these protocols.

Enter DavMail -- a proxy that connects to Exchange server on one hand and exports pop3/imap/ldap on the other. I have been successfully using it for the past 3-4 years.

(bashrc.sourceforge.net -- configuration tricks for bashrc)

For everybody operating in a corporate environment mail, calendar and address book are delivered by an Exchange server. Thunderbird is good for pop3/imap/ldap which are all open standards but Exchange doesn't talk these protocols.

Enter DavMail -- a proxy that connects to Exchange server on one hand and exports pop3/imap/ldap on the other. I have been successfully using it for the past 3-4 years.

(bashrc.sourceforge.net -- configuration tricks for bashrc)

As opposed to a LiveCD I would recommend installing it on a flash drive instead. The flash drive can be written to, so it can behave more like a real OS (allow you to persist files and settings after a reboot) and its just quicker than CD/DVD.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

Yup. And this should do the trick: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ runs on windows and Mac.

Others have suggested solutions to the hardware problems. Sox apparently supports Microsoft's ADPCM implementation in WAV format and it handles conversion of sound files to many other less archaic formats. I've used sox, but not for that particular format, so I don't know for sure if it works, but it is listed on the supported formats page.

Others have suggested solutions to the hardware problems. Sox apparently supports Microsoft's ADPCM implementation in WAV format and it handles conversion of sound files to many other less archaic formats. I've used sox, but not for that particular format, so I don't know for sure if it works, but it is listed on the supported formats page.

Uzebox is cool!

While on the subject, I'd also like to point out some other projects I've found interesting:

OpenPandora, a community-designed, Linux-running handheld. The specs are pretty impressive, by today's standards, but were even more impressive when it was first introduced. Best thing is, they're now manufacturing and shipping!

For those who like to tinker themselves, there is the BeagleBoard, a cheap (as they come) single board computer with impressive specs, designed for open source software. The Wikipedia article lists a number of alternatives, some of which may be more powerful and/or cheaper.

One interesting alternative to the BeagleBoard is the Hawkboard, which is backed by its own community. It's slightly less powerful than the BeagleBoard, but, at 89 USD, also costs quite a bit less.

And then there's the ever-popular Arduino, which comes in several varieties. You can buy them assembled starting at about 20 USD, or build your own for under 10 USD. They can be extended with "shields", e.g. to get extra I/O capabilities. Pretty cool stuff!

Personally, I am still tinkering around with resistors and transistors and the like, designing and simulating circuits with Qucs (which I feel is a lot more production-ready than that website suggests) and my Nokia N900, but any of the above hardware looks like it might be a nice next step up.

For *nix, try: Impress!ve

Works on any deck of pdf / image files in a directory that you throw at it. Uses OpenGL effects... effectively! Not just as useless eye-candy (though the transitions available are posh), but to help visualize, highlight, and zoom into parts of your presentation as you go.

It won't actually help you create content, though. You'll still need some tools for that. Open/LibreOffice is still kinda squishy, but works (though still too PPT-like). Inkscape is worth the time investment for learning to create reasonably involved diagrams... I've more or less switched to it from xfig and Dia.

You should try out Maxima. I think it may be one of the backends for Sage, but if you use it directly you can program the symbolic engine to simplify how ever you want.

"It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873 [sourceforge.net]"
You submitted an icon? Hmmm. I don't see any evidence of them ever actually using that icon, so your contribution was nil.

"AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] "
Uhh, you're not in that thread, APK. What on earth are you talking about?

"...
a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch)"
You defined a procedure, then you passed it into RepeatTimer. All you have done is use RepeatTimer in exactly the way it's supposed to be used. If that's your massive breakthrough, then you really are even more useless than I originally gave you credit for.

Did U correct them?? No, I did. Look on the download page? A lot of folks didn't know how to use it... Now, they can!

* You're also avoiding the question I asked you, show us you've done more than I have, & before it, per the lists below in my 'p.s.', ok?

Also - Funny you AVOID your hilarious BLUNDERS on the data in HOSTS files listed here:

---

AC "Scrypt-Kiddie"'s FAIL list on HOSTS files:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2265388&cid=36604424

---

And I DOUBT your "Scrypt-Kiddie" script won't process 1.5++ - 2 million assorted out-of-order HOSTS file records records in under 22 seconds to sort, deduplicate, & change the blocking IP address, either... tomhudson tried it, didn't make it (can be CPU dependent though,since it's string-processing!))

QUESTION: Did you FINALLY get it right, after all my help?

APK

P.S.=> The day you've done more than this (only a SMALL set of what I've done in this art & science of computing mind you & some done as a student only, no less) - IS THE DAY YOU CAN EVEN BEGIN TO TRY CHALLENGE ME, period (because you tried on HOSTS files & didn't get the data processing RIGHT, w/out my help!):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/so

Did U correct them?? No, I did. Look on the download page? A lot of folks didn't know how to use it... Now, they can!

* You're also avoiding the question I asked you, show us you've done more than I have, & before it, per the lists below in my 'p.s.', ok?

Also - Funny you AVOID your hilarious BLUNDERS on the data in HOSTS files listed here:

---

AC "Scrypt-Kiddie"'s FAIL list on HOSTS files:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2265388&cid=36604424

---

And I DOUBT your "Scrypt-Kiddie" script won't process 1.5++ - 2 million assorted out-of-order HOSTS file records records in under 22 seconds to sort, deduplicate, & change the blocking IP address, either... tomhudson tried it, didn't make it (can be CPU dependent though,since it's string-processing!))

QUESTION: Did you FINALLY get it right, after all my help?

APK

P.S.=> The day you've done more than this (only a SMALL set of what I've done in this art & science of computing mind you & some done as a student only, no less) - IS THE DAY YOU CAN EVEN BEGIN TO TRY CHALLENGE ME, period (because you tried on HOSTS files & didn't get the data processing RIGHT, w/out my help!):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/so

Here it is (only a small PARTIAL LIST of my "favs" I have done over time since 1996 thru 2004 in respected publications, trade shows, books, & more in the computer sciences - much of it done while I was still only a STUDENT!):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abund

Here it is (only a small PARTIAL LIST of my "favs" I have done over time since 1996 thru 2004 in respected publications, trade shows, books, & more in the computer sciences - much of it done while I was still only a STUDENT!):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abund

If you liked pool of radiance you might like my project:

http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

"It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873"
You submitted an icon? Hmmm. I don't see any evidence of them ever actually using that icon, so your contribution was nil.

"AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class "
Uhh, you're not in that thread, APK. What on earth are you talking about?

"...
a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch)"
You defined a procedure, then you passed it into RepeatTimer. All you have done is use RepeatTimer in exactly the way it's supposed to be used. If that's your massive breakthrough, then you really are even more useless than I originally gave you credit for.

You are actually, literally, and completely delusional. This is hilarious.

Why give money to Microsoft for that? Ever heard of BackupPC. I don't know if it can wake up PCs, but the backup runs while the machines are on your network.

Try tmux instead. It has more features than screen, is less memory-intensive and it uses ctrl-b instead of ctrl-a. If you're used to screen, there is also a nice comparison of the basic commands here

Can someone who has worked with both comment on how SDL compares to Allegro? I used Allegro a lot back in the day to develop games that would run on DOS and Linux, and I've always been happy with it. SDL, I only have cursory experience with, and I've always found it harder to get up to speed. However, this is a long time ago, and seeing all the attention SDL has been getting, I imagine it would have improved a lot. How do they compare nowadays, in terms of developer effort, run-time efficiency, amount of code you need to install, and platform support?

Heaven forbid Microsoft ever figures out how to create a real shell, I'll never even have to think about it again. I mean seriously, fixed width, STILL have to hit that shitty little menu to copy and paste?

Why wait?

If you are using Firefox, try the Pentadactyl nightly or Vimperator.

It's unfortunate that a library as bloated and weakly optimized as SDL is becoming a "standard". I started using it a few years back and then, after I was not happy with the performance, I looked at the source and noticed gems such as, under Windows the fact that SDL_SemWait() was always calling WaitForSingleObject() (which is every time a kernel call with huge switching overhead) and had no atomic read-write-modify fast-path. I'm reminded of a comment on gamedev.net by someone that "SDL killed my parents" and it struck a note of harmony with me despite the overdramatization. Look, if one is writing for games, one should be striving for efficiency. SDL is too big and tries to do everything; jack of all trades and master of none. For example, instead of using an SDL event queue, you should be using a lock-free, cache-optimized queue such as https://sourceforge.net/projects/mc-fastflow/ Similar points go for other areas of the framework. The best policy is to find the best libraries to use for each domain within your project. Here's a fantastic highly optimized math library for games, for example: http://www.cmldev.net/ For some areas, it may even make sense to roll your own, such as writing custom synchronization primitives which can beat what's provided by the OS/threading libraries: see http://locklessinc.com/articles/

Funny you mention it - A program of mine for processing HOSTS file data beat tomhudson's imitation attempt @ doing the same job:

(Mine processed more data than his, & faster too, lol... funny you mention tomhudson, hosts, and my program in the SAME passage too!)

"why is your host grinder app so slow? Is that a product of your mental state?" - by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27, @06:17PM (#36590118)

LOL - it's faster than tomhudson's PALE "imitation" was in shell scripts, by FAR!

So much for that... Yes, I busted on tomhudson there for it too, he tried the same crap you are now! AC you've been "shot down in FLAMES" yet again... too easy!

(So, TRUE "anonymous COWARD", lol - tell us, what have YOU ever written that did well in softwares online?

See below for a partial list of only SOME of my "Favs" I have done over a 17 yr. long timeframe that did well in:

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1.) Respected publications

2.) Books in computing

3.) Respected magazines in computers

4.) Esteemed technical trade shows

5.) Even ending up with my code in HIGHLY esteemed wares to this very day (still sold commercially by a Microsoft certified partner no less!)

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Ok?

APK

P.S.=> In fact? Well... Here's a tiny & only small PARTIAL list of those favorites of mine

(& what I did while you were probably still in diapers (show us you've done more, & earlier too than I did (some of which was done as a student still on my part no less back then too)))

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here

that would be the 666th wonder of the world! and they'd need to build a backup internet for just that one reason. why not just bug every room on earth? anyhow, if you want, you could run vpn and http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ to do your crazy chatting. practically if you use any other voip solution than skype they will not have a turn-key solution to listening in. the legal intercept is kind of must have if you want to act as if you're a traditional telco.

Don't believe the BS about corporations not liking change as the reason for the failure of Firefox in the corporate world. Corporations have to deploy new updates and versions of every damned thing on a regular basis, what's one more application, really? A lot of corporations don't care about "enterprise support", especially for applications that are offered on an "as-is" basis. Think: IE for your intranet apps, Firefox for browsing. They don't necessarily need to certify, or test, but no matter what, they'll have to deploy.

Deployment can be trivial, or it can be quite a lot of work, depending on how the application is packaged. Firefox is one of those wonderful applications that despite having a user base of mostly Windows users, doesn't follow most of the Windows application deployment methods. It doesn't use MSI installers or MSP patches, and doesn't come with ADM or ADMX policy files.

In other words, deploying it is a bitch because it's non-standard, and hence it requires administrators to spend precious time fixing issues that shouldn't occur in the first place.

I'd deploy Firefox in a heartbeat, but until I can drop an MSI from an official build into SCCM, and then lock it down with an ADMX template that configures policies instead of settings, I don't have the time. I don't have the time to waste chasing down some virus-infested hand-made MSI on Bob's Blog, and combine it with some half-baked group policy template from somewhere else. I don't have the time to roll my own system either, especially considering the regular update cycle.

This wouldn't be hard for Mozilla to fix. They'd literally have to write just a couple of simple config files, and add some WiX steps to the build scripts.

This has been a top request on Bugzilla for almost a decade, and has been consistently ignored by the Mozilla team. I cannot begin to imagine why.

If your interested I just release 0.5. It's very alpha still but progress is being made.

http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

Try GAMBAS on Linux. If you like BASIC, you'll never look back.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/

mount-gtk is pretty effective. Hasn't let me down yet.

http://mount-gtk.sourceforge.net/

Yes I agree 100%. I've been working on goldchest with the same idea. Take an old game goldbox but re-imagine it.

http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

----

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class [g-off.net] where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:

def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())

a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk

Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)

----

What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professors, & colleagues on the job

Are you talking about Robocode, perhaps?

I played with it back in the early days of Java when I was trying to learn to code, but Java was very bad and frustrating to work with then. Nowadays it might be an effective teaching tool for some.