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I actually have played the new 2600 Pac-Man on Stella and am wondering (I admit i haven't really done any research on this) if it could actually fit "hardware-wise" on an actual cartridge and released in 1982. Aren't you less limited programing for an emulator rather than the acutal hardware? I really don't know. But when i'm playing it (the better pac-man rom) I think "Sure, now with unlimited RAM, Storage, and a processor thousands of times as fast, I can play neer arcade perfect pacman, programed for 2600 hardware". But could you actually produce a cartridge and connect it to an old 2600 VCS and play it?

Well, I just had a quick look on Freshmeat and found:

RoseGarden
Sweep
Ardour
Audacity
Protux
DAP
ReZound
GLAME

Well, I just had a quick look on Freshmeat and found:

RoseGarden
Sweep
Ardour
Audacity
Protux
DAP
ReZound
GLAME

Well, I just had a quick look on Freshmeat and found:

RoseGarden
Sweep
Ardour
Audacity
Protux
DAP
ReZound
GLAME

Well, I just had a quick look on Freshmeat and found:

RoseGarden
Sweep
Ardour
Audacity
Protux
DAP
ReZound
GLAME

I pluged it into my router and opened ports 25 & 110 for it.

Then I added Fetchmail .

And then the neatest thing since sliced bread; TMDA.

4 months now - zero spam, zero lost valid emails.

I didn't have to give up any existing (POP3) accounts, and gained as many as I want to create, because I now have my own email server.

This is easy and cures spam, period.

I'm on DSL, with dynamicly assigned IP, so I use a free DNS service no-ip.com.

This really is simple to do, all were RPM's and I mostly just took whatever default was offered.

I really am New To Nix, so if I could do this, then anyone can.

And it was free.

I am so happy - 40 - 50 spam emails a day, went to ZERO spam. And I still have and use my same email address! Plus some special occasion ones I create as needed (timed experation for usenet, etc.).

And the disclaimer - I have nothing to do with any program mentioned in this post, other then being a happy user of same.

NewToNix (668737)

Good thing there are open source versions such as SmartEiffel and Fine!

Effective countermeasures to spam include better spam filters (like Popfile, as you mentioned), and ensuring that all routers drop invalid packets: packets with impossible (from a subnet stance) source or destination addresses. The latter will prevent most forged headers.

Micropayments cannot work unless SMTP is redefined. Switching over the installed base (it has to be all-or-nothing, or it doesn't work because you can't have a micropay server talk to one that is not, or the whole scenario breaks down) will be problematic at best.

There's lots of great filtering technologies available out there, and the best ones are non-commercial in nature. Microsoft or Yahoo have not helped my spam situation; but spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin, and spambayes definitely have helped me, in very real terms: > 99% accuracy, with (generally) zero false positives depending on the quality of configuration.

Now an appeal to you folks out there who use these filters I've mentioned with similar good results (w.r.t. accuracy): we no longer see spam thanks to our filters. How about taking it one step further? Join the WPBL project and help us centrally collect IP addresses of spammers. It's an automated system to determine real-time spam sources using reliable, trusted data contributors. We are currently tracking over 15,000 IPs.

There's lots of great filtering technologies available out there, and the best ones are non-commercial in nature. Microsoft or Yahoo have not helped my spam situation; but spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin, and spambayes definitely have helped me, in very real terms: > 99% accuracy, with (generally) zero false positives depending on the quality of configuration.

Now an appeal to you folks out there who use these filters I've mentioned with similar good results (w.r.t. accuracy): we no longer see spam thanks to our filters. How about taking it one step further? Join the WPBL project and help us centrally collect IP addresses of spammers. It's an automated system to determine real-time spam sources using reliable, trusted data contributors. We are currently tracking over 15,000 IPs.

There's lots of great filtering technologies available out there, and the best ones are non-commercial in nature. Microsoft or Yahoo have not helped my spam situation; but spamprobe, bogofilter, spamassassin, and spambayes definitely have helped me, in very real terms: > 99% accuracy, with (generally) zero false positives depending on the quality of configuration.

Now an appeal to you folks out there who use these filters I've mentioned with similar good results (w.r.t. accuracy): we no longer see spam thanks to our filters. How about taking it one step further? Join the WPBL project and help us centrally collect IP addresses of spammers. It's an automated system to determine real-time spam sources using reliable, trusted data contributors. We are currently tracking over 15,000 IPs.

As long as you're using (3) external drives, rotated periodically (child-parent-grandparent scheme), with at least one of the three stored off-site... you're reasonably secure.

You should still be burning snapshots / archival material off to DVD-R periodically with the idea that if you lose a single disc you don't lose everything. The contents of the DVD-R should be protected by recovery data so that even if the media gets badly scratched, you'll have decent odds of being able to repair the damage. (And if you store all of the files in a single folder with tar/zip, with a single parity set protecting them, you can even recover the data if the table-of-contents gets damaged.)

TY's (as the other posted commented) are reported to be the best CD-R / DVD-R that you can get. You should probably ditch the CD-R format and switch to using DVD-R instead. Mostly due to storage space and having to deal with only 1/7th the number of discs. Best place to get TY media is online (search the alt.video.dvdr newsgroup at google).

In addition you should be looking to add parity/recovery data to your CD-R/DVD-R backup files, which serves two purposes: (a) allows you to verify that the files are still readable and intact (b) allows you to recover damaged files if you have enough recovery data. It allows you to recover from scratches that the underlying ECC was unable to correct for.

The easiest product to use right now is called PAR or PAR2 (I prefer QuickPar). Basically, put all of your files in a single folder (or zip things up into seperate archive files and put those in a single folder) and then use QuickPar to create recovery data. For a CD-R, I usually collect around 650Mb of data together, and then create another 45Mb of recovery data. For DVD-R, I do 4Gb of data and 0.35Gb of recovery data.

imho, the web interface to mythtv makes it more useful than any other PVR solution...

There is a web interface for ReplayTV too.

Thanks -- interesting post. What did the system cost you?

FYI, Xbox replacement isn't on my radar (PC online FPS only here).

And, could you be more specific on what more functionality I could get from that setup compared to a Replay 5040 (upgraded to 250Gb) and DVArchive?

I built my own PVR last year, but even with MyHTPC it failed the spouse test badly. So when I saw those $150 ReplayTVs for sale in Radio Shack I pounced on them. I bought two. At $150 they deliver amazingly good MPEG-2 capture so for the same price as a PVR-250 I get free guide and streaming.

Contrary to the experiences described in this article, my ReplayTVs work flawlessly. Plugged in to the home network, DHCP served them up IPs, they downloaded their info and updated their software. They use uPnP to auto-discover other ReplayTVs on the network and integrate them very well in their on-screen UI.

In fact the UI is a big win - it passes the spouse test easily. Browsing material on the base machine, from another ReplayTV, or from the PC file server is takes a single button push. The ReplayTVs handle program contention intelligently, offering to offload a conflicted recording slot to a "spare" ReplayTV on the network.

The clever Java program DVArchive uses uPnP to imitate a ReplayTV and enables you to upload, stream, or move recorded content from the auto-discovered ReplayTVs. In effect, each ReplayTV acts like a big, external MPEG-2 capture card with lots of ports and functionality.

All ReplayTVs on the network can, of course, stream from any DVArchive-equipped file server to any ReplayTV.

You can even schedule DVArchive to automatically grab recorded material from the ReplayTVs on a batch basis, providing an easy way to create large archives. I have set up some watched folders where new material gets automatically batch encoded to MPEG-4 (xvid) for archiving.

There's a big user community associated with DVArchive.

All in all I am very satisfied with my ReplayTV setup. It is totally integrated into my home media setup (1 TB RAID-5 file server) and works effortlessly. The ReplayTVs automatically skip adverts (works pretty well) and there's an active between ReplayTV units. Useful if you want to pick up a season half-way through.

I avoided Tivo, partly because of cost, but mainly because of its incipient DRM. I was afraid I would have to expend significant effort to create a spouse-friendly PVR system but thankfully my networked ReplayTVs have obviated this requirement for a while.

Give Sphinx a try. It's pretty accurate; especially Sphinx-3. I've used v2 before for a live test, and it works great -- even with different voices.

Well it sounds to me like your just trying to transmit voices not anything that demands real high quality audio. Of course, you don't wanna mis-interpret someone. And you state that "they're susceptible to dead batteries" but obviously any wireless solution is going to be susceptable to running out of juice.

It would certainly be POSSIBLE to hook up some old cheap computers, stick them in the stage area, the lighting area, etc, and hook up some wireless headsets to them. Then just run some voice software like speak-freely (available for windows or unix) or something...

But i've just gotta say... I think this sounds a little too complicated if all you need to do is talk in the same building. Why not invest in some GOOD but inexpensive radios. There are tons of options out there.

As the FAQ says (the Why does one track bleed into another), streamripper uses a combination of metadata and silence detection (upon metadata track change, it searches for the most recent silent point and splits there). So even if the metadata is a few seconds late, there shouldnt be a problem. The problem is with stations that use crossfading, or some other technique that means there is no silence between tracks.

Also, I really don't see the problem with allowing people to rip streams however, except for the same arguments against recording radio or brodcast tv.

Emule Plus for big files, and SoulSeek for music.

QuickTime actually works pretty fine in a Linux browser, given the right tool. In this case, Kaffeine. Small Xine-based video player, fast and lightweight, simple interface but LOADS of features (DVD playback, with menus of course, post-processing video filters, stream saving...). It managed to impress me, and that's no small feat. It integrates completely seamlessly in Konqueror, so you can watch those embedded QuickTimes without a problem. It also ships with a plug-in for Netscape-related browsers, although I've not tested it personally -- please feel free to provide feedback if you do.

If you were to use SSE2 you would see an incredible performance boost.

I doubt it, I really do. Present-day x86 chips aren't limited by their FP processing speed, the real problem is memory latency and bandwidth. For instance, my 1.8 GHz P4 regularly performs in excess of 1 Gflops when running benchmark tests for the ATLAS BLAS. However, these benchmarks are specifically designed to fit in cache, to have predictable branching, etc etc.

Unfortunately, in real-world situations cache thrashing is difficult to avoid, and accurate branch prediction is a highly non-trivial affair. When a prediction turns out to be wrong, the cost of refilling a stalled pipeline increases in proportion to the pipeline length. The ever-lengthening pipelines of P4 chips means that, although its FP performance may r0x0r, the overhead of stalls makes production code run like treacle.

There is a cool open source app called GiFT. It has clients for Linux, Mac and MS Windows. It can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack. It can be a replacement for Kazza.

I cannot understand why ANYONE would use Kazaa or some other closed source app to do their p2p activities. Not only is the spyware/adware crap, but you can NEVER trust the code or WHO puts out the code.

Anyone that does p2p should go to PeerGuardian. They put out a list of RIAA/MPAA and other IP addresses and IP ranges to block them from getting to your PC/Mac. The site can spit out the list for many software products like iptables, Shorewall, ZoneAlarm, Kerio Personal firewall, and other. USE THIS LIST.

One other point. If you DO uses any p2p app, make sure that you can disable browsing. That will stop the RIAA/MPAA and thier goons from checking out all your shares and making a nice list to sue you with. The average user that was or is being sued by the RIAA shared about 800 titles. The RIAA got that list by doing a search and browsing your shares. They then save that list of shares with your IP and wham, next thing you know you are bing sued. SO TURN OFF SHARE BROWSING.

Disclaimer:
I do not condone trading copyrighted material for which you do not have the permissions to do so. I personally listen to the same old CD's I have had for years since I cannot stand the crap comming out today. Bittorrent is great to grab missed episodes of the Simpsons and XFiles. Oh, and purchase music from MagnaTune.

There is a cool open source app called GiFT. It has clients for Linux, Mac and MS Windows. It can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack. It can be a replacement for Kazza.

I cannot understand why ANYONE would use Kazaa or some other closed source app to do their p2p activities. Not only is the spyware/adware crap, but you can NEVER trust the code or WHO puts out the code.

Anyone that does p2p should go to PeerGuardian. They put out a list of RIAA/MPAA and other IP addresses and IP ranges to block them from getting to your PC/Mac. The site can spit out the list for many software products like iptables, Shorewall, ZoneAlarm, Kerio Personal firewall, and other. USE THIS LIST.

One other point. If you DO uses any p2p app, make sure that you can disable browsing. That will stop the RIAA/MPAA and thier goons from checking out all your shares and making a nice list to sue you with. The average user that was or is being sued by the RIAA shared about 800 titles. The RIAA got that list by doing a search and browsing your shares. They then save that list of shares with your IP and wham, next thing you know you are bing sued. SO TURN OFF SHARE BROWSING.

Disclaimer:
I do not condone trading copyrighted material for which you do not have the permissions to do so. I personally listen to the same old CD's I have had for years since I cannot stand the crap comming out today. Bittorrent is great to grab missed episodes of the Simpsons and XFiles. Oh, and purchase music from MagnaTune.

Check out Gimp-Print, an open source project that provides PPD files for hundreds of printers and allows you to use them with networked printers. With it installed you select the appropriate Gimp-Print PPD when you set up the samba printer.

Google turns up one result for an effort in Australia, but I can't find any cost for the system, or a download link. There's also this post about a Python project, which appears to be talking about The Open Voting Consortium, which has a SourceForge project page.

So it seems that there are movements happening, but these don't seem to be getting anywhere quickly. Does anyone know of any other projects?

You can download waste
or
modwaste

Legalities? hmm, not my department. I only know about source code.

You can download waste
or
modwaste

Legalities? hmm, not my department. I only know about source code.

In all this talk about a "open" protocol and client that doesn't have spyware, Im suprised that I never hear /.'ers talk about OpenFT/giFT client. I had been using it regularly but constant changes to the protocol and server updates made me look else where. Even though this was a problem I'm supprised there isn't a bigger community pushing giFT and there efforts to help make it a solid product. I noticed they have more clients and one that works with windows now (cross plat is good). Like I said its been awhile since I used it but at the time I loved it. After reading this post I revisted their site and it looks like they are making progress so Im assuming that they have a some what more stable protocol that doesn't get changed all the time. I think ./'ers should either take a look at it or give it another try like I AM!

Indeed. Do we all know about giFT, a p2p thingy which can do gnutella, Fastrack and OpenFT (whatever that is...) on your Linux system, and Apollon, a nice KDE front end for it? There's a gtk+2 frontend too, somewhere.

Indeed. Do we all know about giFT, a p2p thingy which can do gnutella, Fastrack and OpenFT (whatever that is...) on your Linux system, and Apollon, a nice KDE front end for it? There's a gtk+2 frontend too, somewhere.

<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/" >Various players</a>
<a href="http://emoney.al.ru/capture-streaming-video- and-audio/record-streaming-video-real-video.htm">H ow to Capture Streaming Real Video and Streaming Real Audio</a>
<a href="http://all-streaming-media.com/record-video- stream/all-streaming-video-recording-software.htm" >Streaming video recording software</a>

Mutella is another option.

Please go visit the Open Voting Consortium. They are working on an open souce voting platform. Their system is nearly ready for a public demonstration, and will need all sorts of volunteers in order to ramp up for the "production" version for certification. The people involved are pretty amazing.

The giFT Project has a FastTrack plugin, and it works really well. Plus it runs as a daemon, so you don't even have to be logged in. get giFTcurs or one of the other console-based clients, and you're ready to rock.

no one here really. ;)

January 21 MUTE 0.2.1 was released.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

Jan 7 slashdot posting about MUTE 0.2

Changes includes mention of a time out problem in win32 version fixed. I hope that also reduces the tendency for MUTE to abort downloads.

It may be a bit wobbley in these early stages, but it's anonymous and doesn't install spyware and crap. Worth supporting if only by running it so there are more active nodes.

I'm thinking along the lines of Guarddog and Guidedog for KDE/Linux or KMyFirewall

After all, when you run a network tool to setup your firewall, and you accidentally block yourself from the net, how do you generate another set of rules to get back online? (I know, /etc/init.d/iptables stop)

If you have a x100 lying around, or a 7200, your options consist of MKLinux or MacOS. Unless developers have made serious progress on that front, and personally, I can't imagine there being much motivation to do so. :)

Hard enough to be interesting, easy enough that you don't have to teach them about collision detection. There is also an engine called COG which was specifically designed to for non-programmers to make games, although I don't know how far it's come since I last checked it.

Question: Is the Firewall Design Program for sale, or is the source code available?

No to both questions.

This is simply not going to work. Many open-source projects are funded by US government. Need I point out Precedents for Government Funding of Open Source Projects? They clearly believe in open source, or they would not allow for the code to be revealed.

Being nine years old with an aptitude for math and computers should allow your son to grok much of Python and especially the Pygame modules for easy game writing in Python. Pygame runs well in both Linux and Win32 (based on the SDL libraries, also free). There are plenty of short, easy examples of graphics and sound and animation using Pygame.

LiveWires has some Python courses specifically for non-programmers and young people, some with a slant toward games.

You might also look at Guido van Robot, a Python-based robot programming environment for children. Maybe it won't allow for 'real' game writing, but the concepts seem sound and it might be a more gentle intro.

Sure, but most people don't use Konqueror remember, and dragging in the whole of kdelibs just to embed MPlayer is too heavyweight for most desktop users. I also can't really fathom how that works, unless you're using a much newer version of mplayer than me - I gave it the URL and it simply couldn't grok the reference media.

Works-for-me with Galeon 1.3.11a (should work in any Gecko-based browser), mplayerplug-in 1.0.0, MPlayer 1.0-pre3, Debian GNU/Linux.

What's your deal, man? "flac is whack"? Could you be, perhaps, a little more specific than that?

FLAC is an open, free standard. Shorten is owned by the guys who wrote it. Does "anybody" support Shorten? Talk to the Shorten guys.

But it's probably already too late. Several portable players already support FLAC. Magnatune.com offers music in FLAC format. The train already has left the station, and Shorten was not on board. Why would a company pay to license Shorten when they can use FLAC for free, and FLAC is better?

steveha

What the hell? I couldn't bear using iTunes. It's bloated and featureless. Its sole purpose is to help me steal music over the school network with the assistance of MyTunes.

I use EphPod to put music on my iPod. When I'm using GNU/Linux, XMMS is my musical staple. If I'm booted into Windows, I'll use WinAMP 2.x to play my music over iTunes every time. iTunes has shitty encoding options - it doesn't even come close to EAC with LAME or whatever your encoder of choice is. However, my biggest complaint about iTunes is its insatiable hunger for resources and slow response. Plus, it takes up half my screen, has zero customisability and I can't find a half-decent visualisation for it anyway.

Good software, my eye.

What the hell? I couldn't bear using iTunes. It's bloated and featureless. Its sole purpose is to help me steal music over the school network with the assistance of MyTunes.

I use EphPod to put music on my iPod. When I'm using GNU/Linux, XMMS is my musical staple. If I'm booted into Windows, I'll use WinAMP 2.x to play my music over iTunes every time. iTunes has shitty encoding options - it doesn't even come close to EAC with LAME or whatever your encoder of choice is. However, my biggest complaint about iTunes is its insatiable hunger for resources and slow response. Plus, it takes up half my screen, has zero customisability and I can't find a half-decent visualisation for it anyway.

Good software, my eye.

ripit.pl combined with fink should give you everything you need to rip to MP3 or OGG using your preferred libraries, and you can run multiple copies with the simple command line of --device to do multiple rips. If the rip is CPU bound (not likely), it just keeps chugging along and catches up eventually, all the while allowing you to keep ripping. Disclaimer: I've only done this on linux, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work with OS X.

Webmail isn't perfect, no, but it's a pretty reasonable solution for most "ordinary" end-users. By the way, you can get around the Yahoo-dropping-free-POP3 problem by using YahooPOPs, a handy little app that acts as an SMTP/POP3 gateway on your desktop machine - so you can effectively use free YahooMail with free POP3 again. If you want to. ;-)

And there are other webmail places that offer free POP3/IMAP access without the Yahoo bullshit, specifically FastMail.

Your other responses... well, no offense meant (seriously :), but they really do sound whiny. Come on, how hard is it to live without a broadband link? It's really difficult for me to muster up much sympathy for the "broadband or death" line when I've been on a 33.6k modem line for the last two years (yes, that's right - not 56k, 33.6k).

In any case, smarthosting really isn't much of a problem. You could swing a dead cat at your local Linux User's Group meeting and just about every person you hit would probably be happy to smarthost your mail for nothing. Though the usual technique is to find a clean ISP, pay them to handle it, then deduct that amount from your payment to your SPEWS-listed provider (as they're the ones that caused the problem and they aren't solving it for you).

I feel some sympathy for people in places like Brazil, where there is only one government-sponsored ISP (as far as I understand) which is a filthy sewer-pit of spam and thus blacklisted to the proverbial hell and back. They really don't have anywhere else to go. You do, though you're reluctant to admit it.

abcde as offered by Fink has a cddafs frontend which will copy the AIFF tracks from the mounted audio CD and use that as input to the ripper process. The version of oggenc offered by Fink can use AIFF/AIFC tracks as input and produce Ogg Vorbis files. try fink.