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Why do solutions always have to cost money or put control is some company's hands? I call bullshit. So here, people, are your solutions to spam:

User-level: spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin and spambayes are all very effective statistical filters with bayesian components. Train them well and you will see next to 0 spam, with just about no false positives. I dare say these will filter mail better than a human could do visually.

Those statistical filters aren't scalable. Running a large ISP is more your thing? Then install DCC at your site and enable greylisting on top of it. This will catch nearly all your spam, and false positives are rather rare.

All this software is free and actively developed. There, I've just saved you from spam. Where's my 200 USD consulting fee?

Someone needs to look into database connection pooling.

Do you really want to watch a video on a 4" screen, when it's what you do all day?

Of course not, but it beats lugging a 48" screen around on the train! Seriously, I think the point is that PVPs come with output jacks so you are not limited to the on-device 4" LCD. And the on-device recording is a nice touch.

What you're describing in terms of features sounds more like a notebook computer than a PVP, and I think they have already been invented, and cost seriously more than $400.

I do note IBM's nice new double-density-pixel LCDs mean a nice boost for small-screen devices. Finally, for multimedia, streaming, transcoding, codec support and so on, the freeware iTunes really isn't going to cut it. Consider something more along the lines of Media Center. ALthough I am still looking for a good all-round solution that also supports OGM and Matroska.

Why not just use k-meleon and be done with it? Its fast if not the fastest browser on Windows. Based on Gecko, its got all of the stuff that mozilla does, but none of the heavy GUI (K-meleon is pure MFC).

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net

Don't know for sure if this is what you're asking, but the "backend" for Wikipedia is MediaWiki. I doubt that it would be really difficult to use a dynamic page & articleid, but the WikiMedia people might have a reason for not using that method.

MediaWiki is also used by non-Wikimedia projects. Among the more interesting ones is Disinfopedia, an encyclopedia of propaganda, and Wikitravel, a travel guide. Star Trek fans will want to take a look at Memory Alpha.

Because of Wikipedia's constant server problems, MediaWiki has been refined to be very scalable. It caches almost everything and uses Livejournal's memcached to keep important data in memory. It also has support for Squid proxy servers. Aside from that MediaWiki comes with a huge set of features, many of which are found in few other wikis:

• section editing - edit not a whole page, but just a small subsection of it (great for large pages)
• automatic image rescaling
• LaTeX support for mathematic formulas
• message transclusion - create messages that can be used
• namespaces to separate article content, user pages, image descriptions and discussions; message notification for user-to-user messages
• plenty of query functions to examine the relationships between articles (articles which have many links to them but don't exist, articles which have no links to them, very long/short articles etc.)

MediaWiki is also used by non-Wikimedia projects. Among the more interesting ones is Disinfopedia, an encyclopedia of propaganda, and Wikitravel, a travel guide. Star Trek fans will want to take a look at Memory Alpha.

Because of Wikipedia's constant server problems, MediaWiki has been refined to be very scalable. It caches almost everything and uses Livejournal's memcached to keep important data in memory. It also has support for Squid proxy servers. Aside from that MediaWiki comes with a huge set of features, many of which are found in few other wikis:

• section editing - edit not a whole page, but just a small subsection of it (great for large pages)
• automatic image rescaling
• LaTeX support for mathematic formulas
• message transclusion - create messages that can be used
• namespaces to separate article content, user pages, image descriptions and discussions; message notification for user-to-user messages
• plenty of query functions to examine the relationships between articles (articles which have many links to them but don't exist, articles which have no links to them, very long/short articles etc.)

I am writing this as a proposal for the geeks on this board who would like to take action against the **AA's of the world, yet don't want to be just another martyr. What I propose is a new kind of file sharing system that removes the need for the **AA's altogether. Although the system I envision will work nicely with music, it should translate fairly readily with books, movies, and other creative content as well. Done properly, it could be the 'killer app' Napster aspired to be and stand as incontrovertible proof that F/OSS systems pay off in ways other systems cannot. Please bear with me, because this will not be trite post.

1. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

We tried to be nice about it. We really did. We downloaded songs, books, and movies with a 'try before you buy' attitude. Buying what we liked, and declining what we didn't. But they didn't like that idea. Nooooo. God forbid we make an informed purchasing decision. They called us thieves, destroyed our centralized system, fought to strip us of our rights, crap flooded our networks, and took us to court. Well in the words of Bugs Bunny, 'Of course you realize this means war." So we've taken up the fight with new distributed systems, encryption, and plausible deniability. However, in our grand fight of "Us vs. Them" we've casually forgotten one of the 'Us'es. The artists, the creators, the people who produce what we download in the first place. Each and every one of our new distributed systems is just a more elaborate version of the one that came before. What we need is a system that gives the creators an incentive to share their works. We can continue to build better mice while they build better mousetraps, or we can start thinking of a ways to include the artists in our game plan. Kazaa, in a quest for legitimacy, is trying to do this. They are retrofitting a system onto a network that was designed with a single minded devotion to withstanding legal attacks. It wasn't meant to be what they want it to be and, as such, it is failing. As long as we exclude artists, they will continue to view us as the enemy. The entertainment industry is trying to pervert copyright through force of software, rather than law now. With DRM, the tables are turned. They're building mice and we're building mousetraps. Instead of focusing our efforts on breaking those systems, we should instead rectify those perversions by creating a system in the original spirit of copyright. Create a system that provides incentive to artists without stepping on the rights of the public. In doing so, we can create an open system in which the 'Them's can't compete, because the 'Them's aren't competitive anymore. We need the artists. What we don't need is the middleman.

2. Foundation for a new system.

Our new system has to perform three essential functions to supplant our much hated middlemen. Distribution, Marketing, Profit! By replacing the middleman's functionality, we can remove him from the process entirely. We are one third of the way there already. It's pretty obvious that we have distribution down to a science. Step two and three need more work.

3. Marketing

We need a way to 'spread the word' about content creators. I am convinced, as are a handful of others, that collaborative filtering is the way to go. A couple of notable mentions are iRate and AudioScrobbler. If you haven't used one of these systems, allow me to briefly describe iRate. When you launch the program, it downloads 20 'seed' songs. Songs that are popular across various groups of users. You rate these songs on a scale of 1 to 10 and it then tries to guess what songs you are likely to enjoy by comparing your ratings to the ratings of other users. It then sends you a few more songs, rinse, repeat. The longer you use it, the more accurate its guessing becomes. This is far superior

DosBox is, of course, the other option.

Here's the new project page...

(XP on Bochs on linux on xbox)

Why not, they've run Windows 2000 on XBox.

The best way to organize the files on the cart is with PogoShell. PogoShell lets you create a filesystem on the GBA, you can use it to read text files, play GBA roms and play NES roms. It has a built-in PocketNES emulator, so all you have to do is put the NES roms into a folder in the filesystem before you create a ROM image for burning. Works great!

Try SourceForge - UFO2000.

Try SourceForge - UFO2000.

Of course either way it's speculation at this point.

I'm runnig dosbox just fine on my iBook, so evidently it's platform-independent.

Or check out Plex86. It's by the maker of Bochs, but designed to be more like VMWare. Caveat: it only runs Linux at the moment.

for early 90's era games dosbox does excellent job most of the time. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

But if it's retro DOS games you're after check out dosbox which runs pretty fast and runs on many platforms.

Crispin
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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
CTO, Immunix Inc.

Hmm, so that's a different splay from http://splay.sourceforge.net/...

You need to get them to dump this from the codec license:

You may not... (vi) use the Software to develop any application that has the capability of transcoding or converting RealAudio or RealVideo Files into any other file format

Until I can easily turn RealAudio files into something I can listen to on my iPod, I'll view it as a dead-end proprietary format.

Here is what you would think of when you hear "Java Operating System"

JNode

Because i tried out Morphix, the rocking liveCD distro that Sun SEEMS to have ripped off, see "Morphix goes stellar" news item and later follow-ups.

Sorry, but if you do not want the mainstream desktops, you can get as excentric as you like.

Tried Blackbox (or Fluxbox)? WindowMaker? Slicker? There are plenty of GUI options for Linux that look nothing like Microsoft's GUI.

You can even easily modify KDE or GNOME so that they look nothing like the default.

Sorry, but if you do not want the mainstream desktops, you can get as excentric as you like.

Tried Blackbox (or Fluxbox)? WindowMaker? Slicker? There are plenty of GUI options for Linux that look nothing like Microsoft's GUI.

You can even easily modify KDE or GNOME so that they look nothing like the default.

Sorry, but if you do not want the mainstream desktops, you can get as excentric as you like.

Tried Blackbox (or Fluxbox)? WindowMaker? Slicker? There are plenty of GUI options for Linux that look nothing like Microsoft's GUI.

You can even easily modify KDE or GNOME so that they look nothing like the default.

Easy, get the MPlayer plugin for Mozilla/Firebird. I use it daily to see Windows Media, Quicktime, Real, etc. streams.

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

The Syllable operating system (forked from the dead AtheOS project) seeks to create a free-software OS without all of these problems Linux faces on the desktop. Boots up fast, isn't bloated, easy to program for, no mishmash of dependencies, etc. It's coming along pretty nicely (the kernel is [quote] "99% complete"), and when the GUI frontend and other parhelia are done, it should become the first GPL operating system normal people can use.

Linux is great for what it does. It's a switz-army knife of an operating system for all sorts of esoteric professional and geek uses. But end-users don't want this, and forging Linux into something it is not is ultimately self-defeating. So be happy with what Linux is and accept for as such, and do not be upset when people say it is not good for grandma. Projects like Syllable are where the future of the free-software desktop lays.

Let Linux do what it is good for, and let the other 99% of the population who isn't technical find their GPl`ed goodness elsewhere.

So you don't know about MPC ?

Try FFmpeg, a project that includes a server that does just that and some more. It can encode to many formats. Last time I used it though not every media player worked with its streams.

Actually I think he's referring to the excellent "Media Player Classic" a GPL "re-write" of mplayer2, it has all of features that the original did (small size, clean interface) and a heap of extra's such as Realmedia/Quicktime and even flash playback support using the IE plugin controls. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

I have done the same thing with Gallery, having people that use the printing services donate to the project. Is it that big of a mystery that when you treat customers right they do pay you back and keep you going? Besides, it helps cut down on your PR costs.

I'd also prefer Shoutcast of even plain mp3 at lower quality. However, bear in mind that you're not locked out if you use Linux. Just download mplayerplug-in and be happy (you need MPlayer, obviously). This also has the added advantage of allowing you to see pretty much anything that requires WMP, such as AtomFilms and others.

It's kind of a pain if the site doesn't actually put the actual mms link somewhere in their page so you can start those players with it. For sites that feed you the link through intermediaries, you can use plugins for mozilla (mplayerplug-in and a xine equivalent). It's even more of a pain if they do browser identification and so on rather than just feeding the mms link to the browser, since you'd have to spoof whatever it is they are expecting.

Using xine or mplayer to handle audio-only streaming content feels like a kluge, though, I guess I also wish they had gone the ShoutCast or IceCast route, instead.

Media Player Classic will play both QuickTime and Real without either installed.

For those who don't know already, both mplayer and xine play streaming windows media just fine on Linux/FreeBSD/etc.

KPoker is a little Video Poker Clone for the K Desktop Environment.

"Spam is no longer a problem" What are you smoking?

Well for my tastes gnome is a little too bloated, sure this is fine if you want all the menus and (ugh) nautilus. But I prefer a desktop based on the nice light gtk based XFCE4 and replace it's desktop module with the sweet gtk based rox desktop/filer. But I guess it's all about personal taste.

Try this

NO. A central authority-based communications system is not going to accomplish much... it will, however, put the power of communications in the hands of few companies (probably monopolies)... it will let them charge fees... and it will ruin the versatility, adaptability, and reliability that we have because there is a great diversity of small hosts handling all their own email.

You want to stop spam? Grab spamprobe or something and watch your spam disappear. You want a more efficient and scalable solution for a big organization? Install DCC and be done with spam for your whole site. Seriously, spam is no longer a problem because both user-side and server-side tools with near perfect accuracy exist. If you're seeing spam, it's because your ISP isn't taking advantage of the filtering solutions that are available.

I'm not talking out of my ass... I've been keeping a close eye on mail and spam issues for the past decade. Spam is dead, so if spam still bothers you force your ISP to employ modern filtering. My university did, and the flood of spam dropped from 100/day to 0 in my account (they're using DCC). At home I employ spamprobe and again I see next to 0 spam.

Check out dosbox.sourceforge.net. It's an emulator that works great for old dos games. It even makes some of the games that were difficult to squeeze into the base 640K seemingly easier to get running with sound blaster, mouse, etc. All the support it automatically built in. Mount directories as a virtual hard drive/cd drive. All open source with windows/linux versions for download. Such nostalgia.

I tend to think CS is better as a hobby... and especially so if you still want to see patients.

There are plenty of opportunities and interesting projects out there if you want to do some technical work... and you don't even have any formal training to get involved and make a contribution:

OSCAR McMaster
GPLed software for the family practice. I went to one of their workshops... led by a engineer/MD from my alma mater. :-) Based on MySQL, Tomcat & Java.

GnuMed
My personal favourite. wxPython & PostgreSQL based. Led by an engineer/MD.

Tk Family Practice
The creator has an amazing collection of free eMedicine links.

The future of eMedicine is going to look like this - picture of Dr Tux. The British Medical Journal thinks so -- Medical software's free future

If you want to do engineering, I'd go the biomedical engineering route--that is where I'm coming from... and will continue to do some work.

Thanks to projects like CameraShy these people can still send censored information around :)

How can you Linux guys live without the Toolbar ? I *need* to know. Are you actually going to google.com every time you want to find a pic?

When I was using Galeon, I would just put a "Search Google" box in my toolbar. (Here's a screenshot with three Google search boxes. Two of them are folded closed to save space). Firebird has similar functionality.

For a variety of reasons I switched back to plain old Mozilla, and certainly don't visit Google.com directly. Personally I use a bookmark keywords . I've got "g" mapped to Google, so I just type something like "g galeon screenshots" in my address bar and I get a search for "galeon screenshots" from Google. It's such a handy feature that I've got similar keywords for Wikipedia, Everything2, dictionary.com, FreshMeat, and a few others.

However, if I was only using one search engine, I might use the default behavior build into the address bar. When you type an address in a drop list of suggests appears below. The bottom one is always, "Search ENGINE for 'YOUR KEYWORDS'", where ENGINE is one of the many options you can configure (including Google), and YOUR KEYWORDS are whatever you typed. You just select it and off you go.

If you're really keen on having a search box dedicated to Google, well, besides trying something like Galeon or Firebird, you can install the Googlebar (screenshots). Personally I'm no longer keen on adding search boxes to toolbars, I want less user interface on screen, not more. Less interface means more space for actual web page.

How are you checking PageRankings?

As a general rule I try to not obsess about what piece of software thinks about my web site or the web sites of others. Knowing PageRanking is certainly amusing, and it may be marginally useful if you're doing professional web work, but is it really that critical?

I'll admit, it's a shame Mozilla doesn't provide it, but it's not really that big of a deal.

As a bonus, it's the best popup blocker ever. I haven't seen one in a year and a half.

Neither have I. It seems a bit odd to co-mingle popup-blocking and searching into a single component, but I guess if it works for you. Mozilla's popup blocking support works great and comes built in to the browser. As a bonus I can also stop sites from doing other irritating things. For example, I've forbidden sites from resizing or moving existing windows or moving windows up and down in the screen ordering. If you're sick of sites doing stupid crawls in your status bar or hiding the real destination for links you can just click "Allow scripts to...Change status bar text."

I do like the tabbed browsing but it's like I have tabbed browsing now; I just have a dozen browsers open. I switch between them along the taskbar. RAM is cheap today gentleman. I don't really care how many of my machine's resources it takes.

Tabbed browsing has never been about resources; that you think it does shows a serious lack of understanding about modern web browsers. Every major browser (including IE and Mozilla) will only run one copy of the program, regardless of how many windows you have open. Tabs are not significantly more efficient than windows.

Tabbed browsing is about organization. The task bar works fine, but it doesn't scale. If you've got 20 windows open you've just got twenty little teeny icons with almost no text. XP's grouping helps, but all of the web browser windows get lumped together. A typical use case would be to have a window open to a web email site, another window reading a list of bugs assigned to me and a bunch of tabs for individual bugs I'm loo

How can you Linux guys live without the Toolbar ? I *need* to know. Are you actually going to google.com every time you want to find a pic?

When I was using Galeon, I would just put a "Search Google" box in my toolbar. (Here's a screenshot with three Google search boxes. Two of them are folded closed to save space). Firebird has similar functionality.

For a variety of reasons I switched back to plain old Mozilla, and certainly don't visit Google.com directly. Personally I use a bookmark keywords . I've got "g" mapped to Google, so I just type something like "g galeon screenshots" in my address bar and I get a search for "galeon screenshots" from Google. It's such a handy feature that I've got similar keywords for Wikipedia, Everything2, dictionary.com, FreshMeat, and a few others.

However, if I was only using one search engine, I might use the default behavior build into the address bar. When you type an address in a drop list of suggests appears below. The bottom one is always, "Search ENGINE for 'YOUR KEYWORDS'", where ENGINE is one of the many options you can configure (including Google), and YOUR KEYWORDS are whatever you typed. You just select it and off you go.

If you're really keen on having a search box dedicated to Google, well, besides trying something like Galeon or Firebird, you can install the Googlebar (screenshots). Personally I'm no longer keen on adding search boxes to toolbars, I want less user interface on screen, not more. Less interface means more space for actual web page.

How are you checking PageRankings?

As a general rule I try to not obsess about what piece of software thinks about my web site or the web sites of others. Knowing PageRanking is certainly amusing, and it may be marginally useful if you're doing professional web work, but is it really that critical?

I'll admit, it's a shame Mozilla doesn't provide it, but it's not really that big of a deal.

As a bonus, it's the best popup blocker ever. I haven't seen one in a year and a half.

Neither have I. It seems a bit odd to co-mingle popup-blocking and searching into a single component, but I guess if it works for you. Mozilla's popup blocking support works great and comes built in to the browser. As a bonus I can also stop sites from doing other irritating things. For example, I've forbidden sites from resizing or moving existing windows or moving windows up and down in the screen ordering. If you're sick of sites doing stupid crawls in your status bar or hiding the real destination for links you can just click "Allow scripts to...Change status bar text."

I do like the tabbed browsing but it's like I have tabbed browsing now; I just have a dozen browsers open. I switch between them along the taskbar. RAM is cheap today gentleman. I don't really care how many of my machine's resources it takes.

Tabbed browsing has never been about resources; that you think it does shows a serious lack of understanding about modern web browsers. Every major browser (including IE and Mozilla) will only run one copy of the program, regardless of how many windows you have open. Tabs are not significantly more efficient than windows.

Tabbed browsing is about organization. The task bar works fine, but it doesn't scale. If you've got 20 windows open you've just got twenty little teeny icons with almost no text. XP's grouping helps, but all of the web browser windows get lumped together. A typical use case would be to have a window open to a web email site, another window reading a list of bugs assigned to me and a bunch of tabs for individual bugs I'm loo

Apple hasn't, but other people are working on it: take a look at PyObjC.

As far as support, MS, IBM, Sun, and most telecoms favour SIP with SIMPLE for IM. I've no idea what the other entrenched IM players, AOL and Yahoo, want.

Sun includes (and advertises) a Jabber client (Gaim) in the Java Desktop System.

This is roughly how the system built by The Open Voting Consortium works. Their project, EVM2003, is available on SourceForge.

I use Sylpheed-Claws as my mail client and it has real time spell check while I'm typing.
I also know theres a win32 port avaliable here sylpheed-claws but I'm not sure if it has real time spell check. I never tried it.

On and if you like HTML e-mail *shudder* then don't bother with this as it doesn't do HTML.