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Government agencies actually can't copyright the IP they produce. Check out the license on Foremost, for example:

* This is a work of the US Government. In accordance with 17 USC 105,
* copyright protection is not available for any work of the US Government.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Unfortunately, this lack of copyright doesn't mean that Govt software will ever be released. Moreover, software created with government funding but not directly by the government is exempt from this rule. I'm not sure what special rules exist, but I think that the government contractors / grantees get to license the software they develop with federal money as they see fit.

For example, Traceroute was written at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is operated under contract from the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of California. Thus UC gets copyright. The copyright notice on traceroute is:

* Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*

Unfortunately, I think that the vast majority (excuse the use of a countable noun for an uncountable quantity) of software developed with government money is never released to the public in any way, let alone under any free / open source terms.

"This is a good idea, but XUL is dependant on Mozilla distribution; this will never happen, at least not in the next 1.5 years."

You'll be waiting for 1.5 years. The rest of us will be using LUXOR

I'm using Galeon 1.3.14 -- no problems using that page for me (clicked on one of the elements and it loaded). No popups (javascript enabled, popup blocking disabled).

I did catch a "If you have javascript disabled..." something or other for a flash of a second, but page content replaced it.

I like the scripting in Grace, but it had quite a learning curve. I found that the python bindings were useful. For scripted plots, supermongo (not free) is popular, but I think Grace is prettier.

I use Poisoned for OS X. Connects just like KCeasy through gift.

I tend to filter out all the kazaa results anyways, most all are blocked by firewall, mislabeled or other similar issues.

Someone like Sharman forcing alternative clients out is sort of just funny, but hey, I don't think this will make KCeasy that much less usable.

That is why, they created Open Books

What should I do??? I'm really nervous!

You give them your credit card and on top of that buy 30 copies. That should take care of everything.


Free flow of information: Freenet and/or MUTE.

What should I do??? I'm really nervous!

You give them your credit card and on top of that buy 30 copies. That should take care of everything.


Free flow of information: Freenet and/or MUTE.

"things you can do to fight them"

You mean complaining on Slashdot isn't enough! :)

Great links, spread the word. Also use this as your sig:
Free flow of information: Freenet and/or MUTE.

"things you can do to fight them"

You mean complaining on Slashdot isn't enough! :)

Great links, spread the word. Also use this as your sig:
Free flow of information: Freenet and/or MUTE.

Proxy is an idea, but I think its a stop gap solution.

eMule has put another network into itself, Kad, why don't they add Freenet or MUTE also? They could be some like Shareza (but better) with gnutella and bit torrent in it too.

Proxy is an idea, but I think its a stop gap solution.

eMule has put another network into itself, Kad, why don't they add Freenet or MUTE also? They could be some like Shareza (but better) with gnutella and bit torrent in it too.

Ok people, all together now...

Freenet

and now say...

MUTE

That concludes this class, you can pay me $150,000 now (instead of to the RIAA).

Ok people, all together now...

Freenet

and now say...

MUTE

That concludes this class, you can pay me $150,000 now (instead of to the RIAA).

.. once I discovered echo and echopoint

I haven't looked back since.

To sum echo up:

Write web applications using a swing like API.

transactions - use JDBC.
sessions - use a database or create server that acts as shared memory.
stickyness - don't do it, or have a dedicated server when you need it.

Anyway, the point is, it will make you smarter if you learn how to do this stuff your self. Once you get good at it, it won't seem like magic.

I've written my own jsp-like server , my own database . My own bean-managed persistence framework (before j2ee).

I once shocked my colleges by running our application which usually runs in Weblogic in a simple RMI server which I wrote in a few hours.

It would take a long time to rewrite the entire J2EE spec or to rewrite Struts, but it doesn't take long to write something that does what my own application needs.

And no, I don't write simple apps.

GLIS

But if you're running linux, you cannot use it for it's designated purpose because that's wrong ?

It's got nothing to do with Linux. It's designated purpose is to be played in a licensed player. Want a licensed player for Linux? Go buy PowerDVD for Linux. Go buy a Creative Labs DXR2 card, and get it working under Linux and you're golden.

Using a decryption key stolen from Xing, however, is illegal. And wrong.

"I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself"

Couldn't someone, who is willing to fight Sharman Networks, fork KCeasy and then await another letter? Also if you want, you can still access the fasttrack network with a previous version here (0.11) I think it was 0.12 that was nerfed.

"I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself"

Couldn't someone, who is willing to fight Sharman Networks, fork KCeasy and then await another letter? Also if you want, you can still access the fasttrack network with a previous version here (0.11) I think it was 0.12 that was nerfed.

"I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself"

Couldn't someone, who is willing to fight Sharman Networks, fork KCeasy and then await another letter? Also if you want, you can still access the fasttrack network with a previous version here (0.11) I think it was 0.12 that was nerfed.

Anyway, think that is a mistake doing that, even leaving the "free speech" argumentation on a side. More clients means more ways to access means more people that is at the very least aware of them, and a far richer network. Of course, they could had seen that a dangerous percent of the clients of that networks weren't their own client, but still that was not the right reaction.

The KCEasy site still links to the old version, 0.11, which includes the Fastrack plugin. It runs fine on Windows XP and works with Fastrack (Kazaa), Gnutella, and OpenFT.

KCEasy v0.11 with Fastrack Goodness

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

Or Go to the KCeasy sourceforge page and download 0.11 which has the fasttrack stuff still in there.

Switch to OpenFT. It's where all my files are shared, although I still freeload off of FastTrack (mirroring whatever I downloaded to OpenFT).

BTW, I use Poisoned, a good giFT front-end for OS X.

Here is a list of the most popular giFT front-ends.

Switch to OpenFT. It's where all my files are shared, although I still freeload off of FastTrack (mirroring whatever I downloaded to OpenFT).

BTW, I use Poisoned, a good giFT front-end for OS X.

Here is a list of the most popular giFT front-ends.

Ever heard of the SX-64? I have one. It wasn't portable in the take-it-with-you-everywhere sense but it was mobile. I mostly took mine to friend's homes and to the occasional user group meeting. I do have a more portable Commodore 64, in a sense, in that I run Frodo for Palm on my handheld. As for why? Nostalgic gaming mostly.

Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the maker of KCEasy because it interoperates with their FastTrack network.

I'm a bit suprised that the KCEasy authors have complied with the cease-and-desist this easily, since the above statement is not really true.

KCEasy is simply a front-end. KCEasy makes use of giFT, which is an interface program, connecting one or more front-ends to one or more protocol plug-ins. giFT then in turn makes use of the giFT-FastTrack plugin which actually communicates on the FastTrack network.

Anway, those of you using KCEasy might want to look into some of the other giFT front-ends, I don't know of any others for windows offhand but I'm guessing they are out there.

Googling for giFTcurs, appolon, giftui will bring up some for *NIX.

The FLAC sourceforge page has a comparison of various lossless codecs with various encoding options. As you can see, it is possible to get slightly better compression, but it quickly becomes an issue of diminishing returns.

You mean like this? Ipod on linux is software for running linux on your ipod. There is plenty of software to use an ipod with linux.

[Winstein shows Valenti his six-line "qrpff" DVD descrambler.]

The Tech: If you type that in, it'll let you watch movies.

Jack Valenti: You designed this?

The Tech: Yes.

Jack Valenti: Un-fucking-believable.

The Tech: And look at this thing called Freenet, it allows you to publish movies without fear of being caught.

Jack Valenti: Oh my fucking heart, stop! <dies>

space.app is pretty cool as far as virtual desktops go but i've always been a bigger fan of desktop manager. desktop manager offers some neat eyecandy under panther [which you can turn off] and will allow you to change desktops by dragging your mouse to the extreme edge of the screen. it's a little less obtrusive than a little window that sits in the corner of your desktop since you can reduce it to menubar lint. i couldn't live without it on my ibook.

cost-benefit analysis??? Let's see, I run a Windows network with Exchange. I went to source forge, got E-MailRelay and SpamAssassin. Total cost was my time and it catches 99.994% of spam. Based on that, the cost/benefit ratio is exceptional.

No, they can't.

It's interesting how Apple has chosen to enable two lossless codecs into 4.5. On the one hand, you can use iTunes to import your CD's into it's own Apple (potentially proprietary) lossless format, or you can now import losslessly encoded (or not) WMA files which iTunes converts to AAC.

(Thinking aloud) Prior to reading about 4.5 this morning, I was encoding my CD collection into a FLAC archive. Using foobar2000 I could then encode my FLAC collection to just about any other format, including AAC. Up until iTunes 4.5 however, there was no direct method of importing losslessly encoded formats (other than wav files). Importing WMA vs FLAC now makes this process at least one step easier - Windows Media Player's WMA tagging is also extremely easy. Using foobar2000, one can also transcode WMA files into virtually any other format as well. WMA arguably has more overall support than FLAC - at least as far as portables are concerned. I'm not saying I'll switch away from FLAC, but it may be worth investigating.

I find it very odd how a new version of iTunes has me reconsidering WMA as an option for archiving my CD collection, especially as their own lossless codec was released on the same day.

Make sure to read the FLAC goals first; there are some thing the we don't want added to FLAC, like copy protection and lossy compression.

Another great app is the creatively named Desktop Manager. You can set up as many desktops as you need (I think) and you can do the eye-delicious rotating cube effect to switch between desktops.

If you want to contribute to the firmware project their OSDN page is here. Not to say that I'm not going to pick up an iPod when they drop to 100 bucks on eBay though.

If you want to contribute to the firmware project their OSDN page is here. Not to say that I'm not going to pick up an iPod when they drop to 100 bucks on eBay though.

Using java without swing is like using C without malloc. This is ridiculous. Java is mostly used for server side/distributed applications where you don't need GUI libraries.
If you happen to need a GUI library you can use SWT. An example client java application that uses this toolkit is the azureus bittorrent client.
BTW, many people think SWT provides much better performance than Swing since it uses native widgets (there are GTK and Motif SWT implementations).

The folks at FLAC have a handy comparison page. ALE obviously hasn't been tested yet.

I when I saw "Apple Lossless encoding" a part of me got really excited thinking that they had finally decided to start supporting FLAC files, but just given it their own name.

That doesn't seem to be the case. These files are given the file extension '.m4a'. Attempting to decode them with the CLI flac program only produces errors.

It's a shame too, because FLAC is really starting to pick up as the lossless format of choice for internet distribution. In certain cirlces at least. If Apple had decided to throw their weight behind, it could have really taken off.

Get a wacom graphics tablet with a stylus (works with linux also). Then download dasher for doing long sessions of text entry. You spell out words by "driving" the cursor in the direction that the characters come flying toward you (see the animation). Also get xstroke to do graffiti like handwriting recognition. My next goal it to start looking into voice recognition.

Get a wacom graphics tablet with a stylus (works with linux also). Then download dasher for doing long sessions of text entry. You spell out words by "driving" the cursor in the direction that the characters come flying toward you (see the animation). Also get xstroke to do graffiti like handwriting recognition. My next goal it to start looking into voice recognition.

Why not support open standards and open source and use FLAC? Looks like another apple "innovation" that is just a copy of another product, in this case FLAC, SHN.

There are plenty of projects out there like that, you just have to search for them. I just posted a comment on the granparent about distributed.net, and I personally am working on a distributed computing project to debut in the summer looking for concatanated primes, The Catcon Project

iTunes balloons to a size that is far, far to large for any jukebox. It's almost to large to gracefully use on a PB12's display (thank god for exposé).

And thank Zeus for Desktop Manager.

> Finalizers in Java are equvilent,
> in C++ terms, to not doing any cleanup
> and relying on the OS to do it.

Yup. We've got an entire ruleset in PMD dedicated to tracking down devious finalizer bugs.

where are they now??? try here!!! but their homepage is borked...

where are they now??? try here!!! but their homepage is borked...