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Re:The best thing about Perl by cygnus · 2004-03-05 04:31 · Score: 1 · on Exegesis 7 Released (Perl 6 Text Formatting)

Documentation is far and away the thing that sets Perl apart from other languages. There are some bad things you can say about Perl's documentation, but most of them are criticisms that you can't even begin to make of other programming languages because they simply aren't in the same ballpark.
I blame POD for this

are you kidding? have you not seen Javadoc? it does precisely what you describe... and with XDoclet, you can do full-blown code generation right from your documentation, which is conveniently embedded right in your source.

My solution: 1 Hauppauge 350 + 1 pcHDTV card by FreeUser · 2004-03-05 02:51 · Score: 1 · on Losing Control of Your TV

I use an HDTV tuner card for off-the-air HDTV, and a Hauppauge 350 card (in the same computer) for cable/analog TV.

It is a little tricky getting the drivers to live together, but I found a handy howto on getting it done (sorry, I don't have the link handy, but check out the mythtv forums, pcHDTV forums, and ivtv driver lists for details.

Far easier, if you have more than one computer, is to have your HDTV tuner card in one and your hauppauge card in a second. Mythtv allows you to use one seamless interface for multiple backend recorders, giving you the best of all possible worlds with a lot less manual hacking than is required if you try to combine all of the hardware into one box (this was ultimately my preferred solution, though you CAN make the hardware all work together with a little blood and sweat).

It is a bit of work getting all of this working seamlessly, but having control of your own hardware (rather than giving such control to the MPAA or another third party) makes it well worth the time.

Don't forget PHP Ming by senilefish · 2004-03-05 02:43 · Score: 1 · on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

Ming is an open source extension to PHP which can do most that Flash can and works on Linux already. see http://ming.sourceforge.net/

Neverwinter Nights by DaRat · 2004-03-05 01:06 · Score: 3, Informative · on Aspyr On Porting Games to the Mac

I agree that the Mac version of Neverwinter Nights came out late, the expansion packs aren't officially for the Mac yet, and I'm sorry that you're having trouble getting a copy locally.

In the US, the Mac version is $45 vs. $30 for the PC version. Copies are fairly easy to get from most outlets that carry Mac stuff (CompUSA, Apple Stores, online at MacMall, MacZone, Amazon, etc).

The OpenKnights project has an auto-updater for the Mac version which also will auto-magically install the PC versions of the expansion packs for you.

Re:Linux voids finally being filled... by cozziewozzie · 2004-03-04 21:40 · Score: 5, Informative · on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

You might want to try out Quanta. It's been making great strides recently, and its visual (WYSIWYG-ish) layer looks like it will be the best thing since sliced bread. In any case, it is one of the programs with the most devoted following in linux-land.

Re:M-Systems Disk On Chip in there? by Innominate+Milquetoa · 2004-03-04 17:45 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Xbox 2 Storage Supplier Says No Hard Drive

Microsoft would likely be doing this because of the inability of hackers to easily replace the contents of a DOC with their own personal OS image, be it Linux or NetBSD.

Actually, I'd say it's to prevent people from putting their own 160G hard drives in and downloading game images to it. The XBox (not surprisingly) proved to be one of the easiest consoles to mod. There's even a purely software-based way to do it. Those who know this have approximately 2 legitimate copies of games (Halo and MechAssault), and about 30 illegitimate images sitting on their hard drives. A non-standard storage medium would make this kind of thing all that much harder.

Spalah: Flash animator for Linux by Newtonian_p · 2004-03-04 15:31 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

There is already a GPLed GTK2/GNOME2 based flash application applications for Linux: Spalah.

It can also generate SVG animation.

Flash For Linux alread OSS by nicklaszlo · 2004-03-04 15:24 · Score: 5, Informative · on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

The F4L project (at sourceforge) is already working on an open source alternative to Macromedia's monopoly. The GUI is already in place in version .01, and there are already libraries in the wild for editing .SWF files (based on information released by Macromedia), so it is only a matter of developer time before it is finished. I run the F4L Documentation Project. You can chat about F4L at irc.freenode.net and #F4L

Re:Read/Write Support for NTFS? by mtsv01 · 2004-03-04 09:36 · Score: 3, Informative · on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community is Available

The Captive is working very nice for me, thoug a bit cpu intensive and slow but otherwise working perfect for my Mandrake 9.2 and the install was easy. here is the discription from the website:

"Project implements the first full read/write free access to NTFS disk drives. You can mount your Microsoft Windows NT, 200x or XP partition as a transparently accessible volume for your GNU/Linux.

This compatibility was achieved in the Wine way by using the original Microsoft Windows ntfs.sys driver. It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original ntoskrnl.exe, ReactOS parts, or this project's own reimplementations, on a case by case basis. Project includes the first open source MS-Windows kernel API for Free operating systems. Involvement of the original driver files was chosen to achieve the best and unprecedented filesystem compatibility and safety."

The NTFS driver that comes with any Linux 2.6 gives very good reading performance, but the write support is not usefull.

This boils down to two options for the user:

1. Slow but perfect R/W acces with Captive.
2. Fast read(almost)only acces with the buildin NTFS-driver in the 2.6.x kernel.

Re:Read/Write Support for NTFS? by mtsv01 · 2004-03-04 09:36 · Score: 3, Informative · on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community is Available

The Captive is working very nice for me, thoug a bit cpu intensive and slow but otherwise working perfect for my Mandrake 9.2 and the install was easy. here is the discription from the website:

"Project implements the first full read/write free access to NTFS disk drives. You can mount your Microsoft Windows NT, 200x or XP partition as a transparently accessible volume for your GNU/Linux.

This compatibility was achieved in the Wine way by using the original Microsoft Windows ntfs.sys driver. It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original ntoskrnl.exe, ReactOS parts, or this project's own reimplementations, on a case by case basis. Project includes the first open source MS-Windows kernel API for Free operating systems. Involvement of the original driver files was chosen to achieve the best and unprecedented filesystem compatibility and safety."

The NTFS driver that comes with any Linux 2.6 gives very good reading performance, but the write support is not usefull.

This boils down to two options for the user:

1. Slow but perfect R/W acces with Captive.
2. Fast read(almost)only acces with the buildin NTFS-driver in the 2.6.x kernel.

Re:My SourceForge bookmarks by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 09:23 · Score: 0 · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

FileZilla The BEST ftp client for Windows that I've ever used!

Re:What about Sylpheed? by whitespacedout · 2004-03-04 05:32 · Score: 1 · on Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed

Another kewl thing about sylpheed is that you can use it easy-peasily with authentication, tls etc.

And you can use it easy-peasily with hotway and hotsmtp (these make it possible to talk POP and SMTP with your hotmail account - ie make your hotmail account act like a normal mail account).

ratpoison by sleepingsquirrel · 2004-03-04 04:22 · Score: 1 · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

And for those looking for the true minimalist window manager (and not some fancy graphical pretender), they should look at ratpoison.

Response time for AV vendors by bigmoosie · 2004-03-04 04:09 · Score: 1 · on Best Antivirus Options for a Mailserver?

After viewing this thread I noticed that Clam AV came up quite a bit. So I went to their website and went to the news section. From there I saw a link for PC worlds response times articles. Here is the original article in german. Clam AV is #5, but the AV program I use frequently is BitDefender, which is ranked #2. I use BitDefender because they have a LiveCD that is a remastered version of Knoppix which is a Live CD based off of Debian Linux. BitDefenders scan engine can also scan Microsoft Windows partitions (to include FULL RW support for NTFS). The only thing missing from my recovery pack is a spyware scanner that runs under linux and will remove windows based spyware. ~ryan

Re:Here's Mine by The+Angry+Mick · 2004-03-04 03:54 · Score: 2, Informative · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

There's a typo in the link, here's the right one.

Here's Mine by shyster · 2004-03-04 02:01 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

Since this thread is so quiet, I'll go ahead and add one.

Unattended is a system for installing Windows and apps hands-off. Great use of Perl and BATch files to do something useful. Kind of a PITA to set up, but once going, it's well worth the time investment.

Re:XFree69 by Emrikol · 2004-03-04 01:43 · Score: 1 · on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86?

It's always nice seeing people wanting to run Lunix on their C64's

a few more by smartalecvt · 2004-03-04 01:11 · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.

Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.

CDex: CD Ripper and converter.

Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.

Mambo: Content management

Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding

Helix: Media player

7 Zip: Zip

a few more by smartalecvt · 2004-03-04 01:11 · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.

Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.

CDex: CD Ripper and converter.

Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.

Mambo: Content management

Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding

Helix: Media player

7 Zip: Zip

a few more by smartalecvt · 2004-03-04 01:11 · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.

Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.

CDex: CD Ripper and converter.

Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.

Mambo: Content management

Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding

Helix: Media player

7 Zip: Zip

a few more by smartalecvt · 2004-03-04 01:11 · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.

Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.

CDex: CD Ripper and converter.

Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.

Mambo: Content management

Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding

Helix: Media player

7 Zip: Zip

Re:Multi-Platform Solution Required by Doyle · 2004-03-03 23:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released

It uses H323 so it's compatible with a lot of stuff. I use GnomeMeeting to chat to Windows users and OS X users. OpenPhone and NetMeeting for Windows, OhPhoneX for OS X.

Also I believe GnomeMeeting is now (just about) usable on OS X with Fink.

Re:Multi-Platform Solution Required by Doyle · 2004-03-03 23:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released

It uses H323 so it's compatible with a lot of stuff. I use GnomeMeeting to chat to Windows users and OS X users. OpenPhone and NetMeeting for Windows, OhPhoneX for OS X.

Also I believe GnomeMeeting is now (just about) usable on OS X with Fink.

Re:Secure sockets aren't exactly transparent by rhetoric · 2004-03-03 19:43 · Score: 1 · on Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor

The future of P2P clearly involves strong encryption, and is also likely to employ some "invite-only" attributes. That future software is here today; all that is lacking is the user base.

Yup. Like Waste. Although it is lacking in many ways and needs more development, it's open source so many things are possible.

Re:nightsurf! by JoeBaldwin · 2004-03-03 19:42 · Score: 1 · on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86?

I think they're confusing it with GNaughty.

Re:Works in the lab, never in reality. by Bobdoer · 2004-03-03 19:05 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor

And what about those open source and non-American filesharing programs? Are these folks going to be ecstatic to add this wonderful DRM type technology to their programs? I really doubt it...

Re:You got to be kidding me by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-03 16:34 · Score: 0 · on Sam & Max Sequel Canceled

DOSBox probably runs them, too.