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Open source is good for software like this. On the other hand, it's not good for a competitive market like an MMO or RPG game. You could, in theory, argue that open source game engines are viable.

Yep, the game engine, and the physics engine, and the network platform, and the rendering API, and the anti-cheat code, and the installer -- Know what? It takes "a bunch of organizations" to create closed source MMOs and RPGs, or any game that's sufficiently complex anyway. Why re-invent the wheel when I can license Bink Video, Havoc, Unreal or ID-Tech, for much less and have a fully functional game to market in a fraction of the time?

Now, what if all that bad-ass tech was free-libre-open source? The customers win because of all the rampant competition, driving down costs (it's expensive to license commercial game components) -- The game developers win because my ultra-fast instancing algorithm would make all games that wanted to use it better...

Saying that "open source isn't good" for just about any purpose is just plain wrong...It's just software, its good anywhere other software is good.

Case & Point: I purchased and played Blood Rayne on PS2, and World of Goo for Win / Linux & Wii -- Both games used the open source Open Dynamics Engine as their physics engine. To hell with arguing "in theory", open source has been used, and will continue to be used in "competitive markets".

Now, if you're trying to say that open source development isn't a good model for closed source software -- I'd have to agree, "Open Source Closed Source Software" would be an outright contradiction in terms.

Another case & point: The Internet -- open source software runs the majority of this "competitive market".

For you and greand-grand parent's wife, having going through a similar experience myself, allow me to point to a couple of W7 tweaks that are real sanity-savers:

Classic Shell: offers a number of tweaks to Explorer, Start Menu and Internet Explorer (for anyone who cares) that make them work more like XP, list too long to include, check feature list and reflect for a moment on how the supposedly capable UI people at Microsoft could screw up so badly. Opensource, free.

HTGBack: makes backspace move up in explorer rather than "back in history". You know, like if you were browsing an hierarchical structure rather than the web. Opensource, free.

Best thing is that you don't need to fiddle with the registry if you use these.

For you and greand-grand parent's wife, having going through a similar experience myself, allow me to point to a couple of W7 tweaks that are real sanity-savers:

Classic Shell: offers a number of tweaks to Explorer, Start Menu and Internet Explorer (for anyone who cares) that make them work more like XP, list too long to include, check feature list and reflect for a moment on how the supposedly capable UI people at Microsoft could screw up so badly. Opensource, free.

HTGBack: makes backspace move up in explorer rather than "back in history". You know, like if you were browsing an hierarchical structure rather than the web. Opensource, free.

Best thing is that you don't need to fiddle with the registry if you use these.

And once more, they just updated this page after I mentioned the confusion... so it's settled!

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873

"No, the link says thanks for suggestions - not code." - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday April 16, @07:08PM (#35843728) Homepage

Tell you what: See that URL above, & even write the dev team there & ask if I put up Delphi code (really Win32 API work with a delphi surrounding example, easily ported to C/C++/VB for example (done a LOT of that myself here over time in fact, I know all those languages inside-out)) for them to EASILY "port" to C code... because it's VERY simple to do, between all the languages I just noted, & they use C...

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"For those wondering why APK (alexander Peter Kowalski - the "hosts file guy" is so angry, it's because he's not happy that I pointed out that his hosts file does not protect people from viruses and malware." - by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday April 16, @07:08PM (#35843728) Homepage

Well - First of all:

These people would disagree with you (you're outnumbered 20++:1) &, yes, they're from slashdot alone modding up my posts on HOSTS files' & their ubiquitous, flexible, & near universal nature many times, because HOSTS files are useful for "layered security" purposes and more speed + even anonymity & reliability over DNS or AdBlock alone in fact):

* THE HOSTS FILE GROUP 22++ THUSFAR (from +5 -> +1 DESCENDING):

HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461288&cid=30273506
HOSTS FILE MOD UP FOR ANDROID MALWARE -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1930156&cid=34713952
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907266&cid=34529608
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1743902&cid=33147274
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1869638&cid=34237268
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461288&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=30272074
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1255487&cid=28197285
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1206409&cid=27661983
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1592276&cid=31583826
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1913212&cid=34576182
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907528&cid=34532574 (someone copied my older HOSTS posts for it & posted as me, minus bolding & altered title though, giving away they copied me stuff & copy/pasted it, while impersonating me)
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1891254&cid=34403798
HOSTS MOD UP -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comment

The 64 bit Ultra Defrag project makes a liar of you tomhudson on this account as well:

he got himself an account on sourceforge with nothing in it [sourceforge.net] - no projects, no code by tomhudson (43916) on Saturday April 16, @12:59PM (#35840802) Homepage

Because he helped the people who create a 64 bit Defrag program for Windows called 'UltraDefrag' seem to have credited him for showing them how to do Process/CPU priority level control in their program, here:

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

How much more of a liar do you wish to appear to be here, tomhudson?

Anyone looking at the time stamps can see you're the one doing the stalking, you moron.

This is the stupid nutter known as "the hosts file guy", aka Alexander Peter Kowalski. He follows me everywhere ... in the last month, he's called me a b*tch, a c*nt, a russian botmaster ... he's claimed to defy both gravity and biology by growing another 2 inches in his 40's, so he's now "overweight" instead of "obese", and of course, the usual threats to sue for libel, which he does to everyone, then always backs down. He can't help it - he's obsessed.

For those who are curious about just how retarded the "apk troll" is - just follow the magic linkies. The guy is a real nutcase. But you too can help keep him busy - just post something anonymously saying he needs to get a life, or that his hosts file doesn't work, and he'll spend the next few weeks stalking me instead of spamming about his "miracle hosts file". He is *totally* p0wned at this point, and doesn't even realize it.

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128 The "I have a lawyer and I'm going to sue the Internets" thread - very funny. Thee are updates on subsequent pages mixed in with the comments. Warning - it's 22 pages.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=891505&p=16510422#p16510422 - a collection of apk (Alexander Peter Kowalski) spam.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1046804http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1046804
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=453001
http://www.jeremyreimer.com/APKware/index.html screenshots

After getting kicked off a few other places (ntcompatible, etc) needs to find another place to push APK "toolkit" so he got himself an account on sourceforge with nothing in it - no projects, no code, and started
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=13531817 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158310&cid=13263898&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&mode=nestedsecond sighting on slashdot

If you follow the non-slashdot threads, you 'll learn that:

1. APK is 44 years old and really does live still with one or both of his parents (or another relative);
2. APK can't write software for shit;
3. APK stopped hosting it with download.com because he could use the $80 fee for buying better hardware instead (no wonder he posts on a 400hz computer),
4. His "programs" generally consist of nothing more than easy-to-code front-ends to edit ini files (his "graphic accelerators", for example) in Delphi, or "code that will remove duplicate entries from a hosts file" (never heard of cat /etc/hosts | sort | uniq > hosts.uniq)? Oops, my bad - Windows only - so grab a copy of cygwin instead :-)
5. his fav. languages as of 2 weeks ago are Delphi and RealBasic

   I am more of a fan of tools like REAL BASIC and DELPHI because they produ

Anyone looking at the time stamps can see you're the one doing the stalking, you moron.

This is the stupid nutter known as "the hosts file guy", aka Alexander Peter Kowalski. He follows me everywhere ... in the last month, he's called me a b*tch, a c*nt, a russian botmaster ... he's claimed to defy both gravity and biology by growing another 2 inches in his 40's, so he's now "overweight" instead of "obese", and of course, the usual threats to sue for libel, which he does to everyone, then always backs down. He can't help it - he's obsessed.

For those who are curious about just how retarded the "apk troll" is - just follow the magic linkies. The guy is a real nutcase. But you too can help keep him busy - just post something anonymously saying he needs to get a life, or that his hosts file doesn't work, and he'll spend the next few weeks stalking me instead of spamming about his "miracle hosts file". He is *totally* p0wned at this point, and doesn't even realize it.

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128 The "I have a lawyer and I'm going to sue the Internets" thread - very funny. Thee are updates on subsequent pages mixed in with the comments. Warning - it's 22 pages.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=891505&p=16510422#p16510422 - a collection of apk (Alexander Peter Kowalski) spam.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1046804http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1046804
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=453001
http://www.jeremyreimer.com/APKware/index.html screenshots

After getting kicked off a few other places (ntcompatible, etc) needs to find another place to push APK "toolkit" so he got himself an account on sourceforge with nothing in it - no projects, no code, and started
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=13531817 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158310&cid=13263898&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&mode=nestedsecond sighting on slashdot

If you follow the non-slashdot threads, you 'll learn that:

1. APK is 44 years old and really does live still with one or both of his parents (or another relative);
2. APK can't write software for shit;
3. APK stopped hosting it with download.com because he could use the $80 fee for buying better hardware instead (no wonder he posts on a 400hz computer),
4. His "programs" generally consist of nothing more than easy-to-code front-ends to edit ini files (his "graphic accelerators", for example) in Delphi, or "code that will remove duplicate entries from a hosts file" (never heard of cat /etc/hosts | sort | uniq > hosts.uniq)? Oops, my bad - Windows only - so grab a copy of cygwin instead :-)
5. his fav. languages as of 2 weeks ago are Delphi and RealBasic

   I am more of a fan of tools like REAL BASIC and DELPHI because they produ

Regarding the PDF issue I think it's too hard to hold this against Microsoft as they actually implemented support for PDF writing in Office 2007 but was threatened by Adobe with an antitrust suit if they didn't removed the feature. See this article and this Microsoft press response.

Besides, this shouldn't be a major issue for most users. As there are better ways of implementing PDF-writing support by installing a PDF-printer in the OS, for example using the free software program PDFCreator. This way all applications that can print can save to PDF-files. For efficient then implementing it in every program.

Single Sourcing is a term in the publishing industry that allows you to repurpose content. To do it you hold the content in small parts and then compose it.
This guys system could be based easily on the single sourcing open source code base.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/
It is designed to run in a browser too.

The end result is a open document format
There is also webODF which loads open documents into the browser and render them using plain html5, javascript and heavy use of css.
http://www.webodf.org/

The 3D aspects of navigating from an Open document to see all its links could be done using the CSS transforms perhaps.

I think his idea is create, and you can choose to see the finsihed docuemtn OR the 3D linsk version. SO best of both world.

I searched around with that a little and this says that since 1.1 everything is encrypted: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-200911/

Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/phaosrpg/ and check the images/monster folder. The griffons were made/improved with GIMP some years ago.

Not that this is documentation, but this sounds like someone who knows what's going on:

All communication with Mumble is completely encrypted (s2c). The control channel is encrypted with TLSv1 AES256-SHA while the voice channel is encrypted with OCB-AES128.

XP SP2 is supported, isn't it?

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

GIMP requires Windows XP SP2 or newer to run.

It is trivially easy and fast to make your own open, standard .pdf eBook. It takes only 1 min per 20 pages (or less) to scan a book open face on a scanner. Or use a 8MP+ digital camera on a tripod shooting a well lit open face book, turning the pages as fast as the camera is ready for the next shot. Use gscan2pdf to do minimal post processing (rotate, crop batch operations) then Save As .pdf. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/ For most books, this means only 20-30 minutes total, much less than people believe. For most people earning less than $50/hr, the effort is minimal, assuming your PC is doing other things at the same time.

People have trained email spam filters to play chess. This is well within the realm of possibility.

Python is slower because it's a highly dynamic, interpreted language, and it's interpreter has also gotten a lot less attention than Java's compiler. Java is a compiled, much less dynamic language.

If by "compiled language," you mean that the first step in running a program is transforming source code into some other form, then both Python and Java are compiled languages (as are the vast majority of commonly-used language implementations). Both Java and Python implementations use compilers that transform source code into intermediate forms (byte code). In both cases, very little run-time optimization can be done at that level AFAIK.

The use of compilation is not truly a property of a language, but of an implementation of a language. For example, in addition to the official implementations, there are implementations of both Java and Python that transform source code into native machine code ahead of time, bypassing any byte code.

When talking about compilers, you also have to be careful about which compilers you're talking about. Most implementations of Java use a JIT compiler which transforms Java byte code into native machine language at run time. The official implementation of Python (CPython) does not have a JIT compiler, but there are several projects which add a JIT to CPython, including Unladen Swallow and Psyco.

I want to be extremely clear that I was not comparing the maximum execution speed of equivalent Python and Java programs, since Python will probably never rival Java in that way. I was talking about the suitability of the JVM for executing programs written in languages that are very different from Java, such as Python. Jython is an implementation of Python that does just that, but has only recently caught up to regular CPython's performance, even though it benefits from the JVM's JIT compiler.

As much work is being put into increasing performance of CPython, I think PyPy is much more interesting. Though PyPy is written in Python and a subset of Python called RPython, it can execute Python around three times faster than regular CPython or Jython.

You're right, a regular JVM might not do such a hot job of working through all the code generated by something like Python, but it could be used effectively with a language that is less annoying than Java while still being fairly static.

I doubt Ceylon is going to be a language I'd be much interested in. Python + Cython + C is a pretty potent combination for pretty much everything. It might be good for some things though.

I haven't tried Cython yet, but it sounds very interesting and I'll definitely try it when it seems appropriate. However, if just increasing performance is a goal, simply using PyPy might be just as good as Cython if examples like this are to be believed.

"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

Lastly, lately (this year)?

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

AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class 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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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 over time as well)

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Yes, for decades now? I out there helping others, EVEN OTHER PROGRAMMERS, fix their messes... amongst other things (like doing well in freeware/shareware + commercial code to my credit/name also, & far more in resp

COBOL will never die.

FaceTrackNoIR have been doing this on the PC with just a webcam for a while. It's especially good in simulation games. http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/

https://www.ohloh.net/p/axStream

http://nanocr.eu/software/justeport/

http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/

First two should do the trick for Mac and Windows. The third is DVD Jon's reference implementation. The last one looks like it can pretend to be a second sound card on Linux.

no wonder, it's written in .net

they should have hosted it on a symbian phone, http://sourceforge.net/projects/raccoon/ (the project seems sort of dead now, but it was a pretty far taken proof of concept that you could run apache on symbian and even have python scripts serving up the content. mobile use too. also a proxy system because most of these mobile connections are behind a firewall.

Check this out:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stlth/

It's like Truecrypt but based on dm-crypt, GPL and supports unlimited numbers of hidden volumes.
That's real plausable deniability, unlike Truecrypt.

PS is a shell, like bash. It doesn't have an "answer to GNU Screen" just as bash doesn't.

For that matter, you don't need Screen if you're using a decent terminal emulator in the first place. On Windows, that would be Console2.

Anyway, I hope you're enjoying your year of Linux on the desktop. Peace.

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Goal: an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.

With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

apt-get install hugin

The day you can show us all that you've done more than I have per the list below, and before I have, + that did BETTER than this only partial list of my favorites, is the day the "likes of you", a lowly cowardly little WORM can even BEGIN to speak to myself, or anyone else for that matter, that way:

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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

Lastly, lately (this year)?

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

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You TOP that (& it's only a list of partial favorites of mine only, limited no less vs. the entirety of what I could put up)? Then, you can talk, worm.

APK

P.S.=> Bottom-line: You're a COWARDLY LITTLE WORM, worse than a gossiping talk behind someone's back WOMAN... apk

Show us what you've done better!

"But, check him out. He's got mad skilz y'all!" - by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 08, @03:47PM (#35762014)

Show us what you've ever done? Nothing?? Of course.

"(I had to use archives because APK's actually been banned from the internet. The only known case!)" - by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 08, @03:47PM (#35762014)

Funny, I'm still here aren't I?

APK

P.S.=> Bottom-line: The day you can show us all that you've done more than I have per the list below, and before I have, + that did BETTER than this only partial list of my favorites, is the day the "likes of you", a lowly cowardly little WORM can even BEGIN to speak to myself, or anyone else for that matter, that way:

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

Lastly, lately (this year)?

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

apk

I can't say what the XO-1.75 is like, but I do have an XO-1 that I use regularly.

The XO-1's UI is heavily written in Python and has a simplified IDE for Python installed by default. It also comes with the awesome Scratch and Etoys images for its customised Squeak Smalltalk VM. There's also a LOGO program by default, and a POSIX terminal (which itself is written in Python from what I can tell). Holding down the game keys while booting can also bring up the OpenFirmware console and a Game of Life simulator. I'd say there's a lot to be learned from those systems that is applicable to others, especially Scratch.

A nifty feature of the hardware is that the microphone socket can be used as a general purpose analogue input, which I'm sure would be useful for robotics applications (eg. sensor input).

Also, as far as landfill goes, the XO-1 was the "greenest" laptop ever made when it came out, and there is talk of a free recycling scheme (although I don't know if it ever materialised) http://sourceforge.net/search/?fq%5B%5D=trove%3A251 . The laptops are, obviously, extremely rugged, but even when they do break they are designed to be easy to strip down for parts (for example, the screen was engineered specifically to require no mercury). As far as being obsoleted goes, I think having a rental model would increase the sense of obsolescence, whilst having your own laptop that still runs after 10 years just as well as when it was first made, would give a sense of pride and familiarity to counteract the aggressive upgrade cycle that plagues the home computer world. As an example, my computing needs were served perfectly well by an Amiga 1200 for 10 years, and these XOs have resources an order of magnitude or two more than that.

It's a pretty amazing project, and I wish them the best of luck going forwards!

Symbian Dump, Symbian Incubation Projects, Wild Ducks.

Symbian Dump, Symbian Incubation Projects, Wild Ducks.

I still use Zmodem with sz and rz commands in Linux and SecureCRT and PuTTY's Zmodem (rz.exe and sz.exe; http://leputty.sourceforge.net/ ). Much faster and easier than scp and sftp IMO.

I sent a bug report to them the on the slashcode site although I don't know if it took.

It seems the problem (which I think started a month ago) happens when your comment is replying to a comment that is 'minimized'. To click on links (or highlight text) within these buggy comments you have to keep clicking repeatedly on the persons comment, which maximizes each of its parent comments. Only when all parent comments are maximized does the Score show, and you can click/highlight the comment text with ease.

If your know of a place to submit a bug report that the slashdot people will listen, please tell cause I have been fed up with that bug for too long.

Hotwire, an innovative shell
http://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/
Click here to install on Debian/friends

PowerShell clone on Linux (warning: uses Mono)
http://pash.sourceforge.net/

Ruby-based shell:
http://rush.heroku.com/

You really should just use something like PasswordSafe

OH, so THAT's what an off-topic stalking anonymous coward posting troll says:

"Thank you so much!" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06, @04:48AM (#35730584)

Why, you're welcome... I never suspected ac stalker trolls like yourself had such manners!

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"I was already missing my daily fix of incoherent gibberish and mentally disturbed practices." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06, @04:48AM (#35730584)

Now, how can YOU say THAT, when reading your own off-topic, & obviously mentally depressed, trolling words could do THAT for you?

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"Again, thank you so much." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06, @04:48AM (#35730584)

Why, where are my manners? Again/Once more: Thank-You!

(As APK "takes a bow"... lol!)

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"You don't know how much fun you bring into people's lives." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06, @04:48AM (#35730584)

Oh, on the contrary, I do (in fact, here's a SMALL SAMPLING from respected written publications in the art & science of computing that I've actually got to MY credit/name, whereas yourself by way of comparison, you off-topic troll?? You never have, & you NEVER will (and certainly NOT before I did, or as far back up to the present day)):

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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

Lastly, lately (this year)?

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

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So, that "all said & aside": Come back when you can achieve even a TINY FRACTION of that list (which I have, years before you were even BORN I'd suspect)...

APK

P.S.=> I asked that last portion of you, simply because then @ least, you'd have accomplished something LIKE the small only partial list of my "favs" only, & could act as my "peer" then, maybe (unlike now)... apk

"And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?"

For images, that's what Imagemagick or netpbm are for, and I use them all the time. I've also used ffmpeg for video, although not as frequently. If I had to use a GUI for the same tasks (hundreds of images), I'd probably give up in frustration. For batch operations there's nothing better than a CLI.

As others have noted there is a place for both CLI and GUI operations. It is disappointing to see how many people think a GUI is the be-all and end-all of computing. I wouldn't want to use a system if a CLI wasn't available in some form as an option because for some tasks it is the best choice. Hmmm.... although if I was forced to use MS-DOS as the only CLI option ("C:\ prompt") I could see people's point. It's truly awful, and I don't touch it on Windows. I install Cygwin. Anyone who has only experienced MS-DOS as their CLI experience doesn't really know what's possible.

What is up with that? Some new Slashdot bug?

Yes. I noticed it over the weekend, and it was fixed this morning -- at any rate, tabs I opened this morning did not have the behavior -- and, the background of the preview is now yellow, showing that something else changed overnight as well.

The behavior in my case was that I would attempt to copy-and-paste from the body of a post, and it would scroll up as soon as I released the mouse. I think that there may have been an overlap with the key handler and mouse click handler? It seemed like it was going to the parent, but I didn't test the behavior, and can't now. At any rate, it was rather frustrating trying to respond to posts this weekend.

Another behavior that I saw: when I would middle-click a link in a comment, it would perform the same action as attempting to copy, and no tab would open. Fortunately I tried and succeeded at a workaround: right-click, and "Open Link in New Tab".

I did some research to see if it was public what the code change was that might have caused this, and who the author is in order to provide feedback and direction towards code reviews, staging servers, and test harnesses. I did not find much; here is Slashcode on Slashdot; click through to the site for it, and the first news item is (calling) from 2009 and says they hope to update the public repo weekly. Looking in the repo, it was also calling from 2009. So there don't seem to be any public recent commits.

Just now I tried a second search, and ended up on the "Tech" FAQ page, which had a link under Can I have your poll scripts? to Slashdot source code; when I middle-clicked on it, I got a tab with a 503 error. I closed all the tabs and was going to submit this, then thought I should report that 503 as well. I re-opened the tabs and now the behavior is different; now it appear to loop back to the page. Aha, it's to an anchor to an element (te500) that is two items below it, and the page is so short it doesn't scroll much. This is not a standard, but: if the page had a bunch of "blank lines" at the bottom then the anchor's behavior would make more sense, so that it would scroll so that section was at the top of the page. The size of the extra area could be defined via a JavaScript call to determine the height of the browser window, and add exactly one height to the end; that way, if there was an anchor on the last line of the page, it would still be shown at the top. The downside of course is the user might keep scrolling. (In fact, some pages that I opened in Slashdot over the weekend did have a bunch of extra blank space at the bottom, so perhaps someone was already thinking in that direction?)

Something else I noticed, as I was determining that the anchor above (te500) was in fact two sections away: the section between them is not in bold, and looks like a link but cannot be clicked on. Looking in the code, I see that the </a> tag, the CR, and the <h2> tag appear to be missing, after the <a name="te350" id="te350"> and before the "Can I import Slashdot headlines?"

Back to the original issue: now I see from your post that the erroneous code not only affected the entire comment body (I was finally able to copy, but what a struggle!), it also affected the header items as well (which I did not click this weekend). I hope that this provides a valuable bug(s) report.

http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html

http://windows.kde.org/

http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/

I've used Emgu CV (a .NET wrapper for OpenCV) to do similar stuff in the past. Might take more work to get what OpenGazer gives you but it is still an active project.

Believe it or not, some of us are still using and extending OS9. It's a fun hobby. There's even a web server for OS9 on TRS-80 now.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/

https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2062904&cid=35684474

"APK, who are you?" - by tophermeyer (1573841) on Thursday March 31, @05:24PM (#35682916)

There you are... only SOME of it though, here's more (that covers articles I did for Windows security since 1997-to present that are highly rated, highly viewed, & referred to by others online for decades & that ACTUALLY work (& yes, HOSTS are a part, a free part, you already have)):

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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

Lastly, lately (this year)?

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

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And, there you are (IF you're not just another one of "Pwuffesuh HaiwyPheet's many "alternate registered accounts" he uses here to libel others with!)

APK

P.S.=> Enjoy, & apologies if you're NOT 1 of his many bogus accounts, but that DOES go on here - in fact, see this much:

"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30 2010, @04:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

AND, hairyfeet uses them like mad... & you see HOW they're used - bogusly, & from a very, Very, VERY respected man in the art & sciences of computing... apk

I'm a satisfied Crashplan user. I subscribe to the Crashplan Central service (They're calling it Crashplan+ Family Unlimited now), which means I get unlimited (Which appears to be *actually* unlimited, not Comcast-unlimited) backups to their disk farm in a bank vault in Minnesota. I get to back up all my computers - laptops, desktops, and even my personal VPS - all automatically, with staged version retention, and no hassles of running out of disk or other typical backups shenanigans. Totally does what it says.

I picked it because it: has unlimited seats so I can back up all my computers; it works on Linux, OSX, and Windows; and it has several security models, including "manually generate and install encryption keys on a per-machine basis, and make damn sure you back them up somewhere safe because we only have your encrypted data", which I use because it's compatible with my tinfoil hat.

One complaint: On my VPS, it creates some sort of cache that gradually grows to gigs in size. I suspect it's due to indexing the very large number of files that maildirs create. If it runs out of disk, the process starts consuming 100% CPU. Lame. So I have a cron job that shuts it down, blows away the cache, and restarts it periodically.

On the whole: Completely worth 600 pennies a month.

Review 2: My previous solution was BackupPC. I arrived at it after using similar but less refined backups like rsnapshot and dirvish. BackupPC was the best - you just have to throw lots of disk at it, and it does what it promises. If you can do cross-site backups, it's pretty damn good. The downsides were that you have to plan ahead to have enough disk, and the disk IO during backups was unexpectedly high.

I still occasionally make a manual copy of everything and leave it in a safe deposit box. Defense in Depth is a good thing.

Pico's no longer installed in OSX. Has been replaced by Nano.

Just went and installed Joe's Own Editor (JOE). Works pretty well. Is rather Wordstar-ish in flavor.

Yep agree with what you wrote. The guy is clueless. As an aside, I should mention you can actually use those unixy tools on windows:

http://www.cygwin.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/

Heh...

SysProf
OProfile

Shark's nice...but so's those two... So, I'd say not so much of a net gain there. Each to their own, I say... If you're happy with it, great- just don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the only answers in hand.

You are aware that nedit has a precompiled OS X binary up on their sourceforge web-site? Yeah sure, it runs in emulation but it's a text editor, it's not exactly resource heavy (and the fact is, a guy like you who is an OS X neophyte probably won't even be able to tell that it's running in emulation. When you start wondering what those dashes and at symbols are in top, maybe you'll learn how you can tell).

Maybe you should spend some more time with your computer before you start bashing it for not having available things it actually does.

On a side note, as someone who has used OS X since beta, I find all these clueless windows users who just recently bought a mac sort of annoying. Of course it doesn't work the way windows does, that's the point!

then your wait is over

You are welcome. Have a nice day.

Ask, and ye shall receive. Very rudimentary testing (compile and read a file) suggests it works unmodified on OSX, too.

(If you have some way to fix the order and labeling, I'd love to know it.)

Use rEFIt.

The other way to get it to boot to the "other" partition first is to go into your system preferences, click on startup disk, and select the partition you want. Really not that hard.