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Damn skippy.

You should be using vi (1), with cscope (1).

If you get a laptop then get a docking station too so if she does not like the small screen of the laptop or the keyboard, she can dock the laptop and plug in a big monitor and a regular keyboard. She can always undock the laptop to go anywhere with it. Buy a quality pc. Lots of junk out there. I put together a desktop pc using a Gigabyte X58 motherboard and a Intel I7 quad core cpu with 6gb of ram. It was overkill. Look at an expensive model then take note of the specs then look at a cheap pc and do the same. Compare costs and features. Google the brand or parts and see other comments about them. Windows 7 vs Mac OS? I always thought Mac looked better but since I do not use them I cannot say which is better. The market shows 10% for Apple and nearly 90% for Windows so that says something. Windows 7 is half baked. Boy is it disorganized. It is XP and Vista thrown up in the air then picked up and rebranded. Microsoft needs to hire people who have a design flair plus those that actually read the complaints about previous versions of Windows and will work to fix the problems. Something as simple as changing the highlight color of a menu is not possible in Windows 7 with using a program like Resource Hacker and good luck finding the image. Example: right click on your desktop. Cannot change that nearly invisible highlight to what you want using the aero interface. Here are some programs I have found to make it easier to use Windows 7: Use Xyplorer http://www.xyplorer.com/ This is a file manager. Windows 7 folders are a mess. Xyplorer can be customized. See website. Try for 30 days. Costs $42 afterward. Worth it. You can easily increase the size of the text and the spacing by using your mouse scroll wheel or ctrl + shift. See the screenshots at the site. Makes reading the text so much easier. For search use "Everything" http://voidtools.com/ or "Locate32" http://www.locate32.net/ Instantly find anything you are looking for. Windows 7 search just won't. They are FREE. Change the Start menu use "ClassicShell" - FREE http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/index.html Use "Ultimate Windows Tweaker" to fix some of the problems. FREE. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-v2-a-tweak-ui-for-windows-7-vista Use "Iconoid" - FREE http://www.sillysot.com/ to remember your icon positions. There are 32bit and 64bit versions. In Windows 7 if you hold down the Ctrl button then use your mouse scroll wheel you can increase the size of the icons and text. That is a nice feature but.....When you resize them the icons go all over the place and will not return to their original positions when you revert back to a smaller size. With Iconoid installed you just right click on the desktop and click on Manage Desktop Icons and restore the positions. Windows Vista-7 Taskbar Color Changer - FREE. http://grantman.net/info/win7tbcc 7 Taskbar Tweaker - FREE. http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker AveHTMLPreview - Windows Explorer no longer shows thumbnails of HTML files. This functionality has simply been removed. This addon for Explorer will show thumbnails for HTML, MHTL and URL files. FREE. http://www.aveapps.com/htmlpreviews.html ShellMenuNew: Remove Items From ‘New’ Menu Of Windows Explorer. FREE. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_new.html Use MiniTool Partition Home Edition http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html to partition your large hard drive without losing any files

The end result: I've heard a LOT of mac fans touting the bootcamp feature to potential new converts...

Use Bootcamp? Why? It's not needed to dualboot a Mac. Okay, it does make it easier to dualboot.

After replacing the HDD in my MacBook Pro yesterday with a bigger drive, I replaced the 320GB with a 750GB drive, I installed Snow Leopard. Before I did though I partitioned the drive into three separate partitions. The first one I made 60GB and installed Snow Leopard on. The third one I also made 60GB, for Lucid Linx. The second partition takes up the rest of the drive and is for a shared user home, both SL and LL can use it. That was done using the Disk utility included on the Snow Leopard DVD. To select the OS to be booted I'll use rEFIt.

The dirty secret: none of them would think of using it without parallels or fusion.

I don't have it yet but I will get and use Fusion so I can boot up Ubuntu from inside SN. But I will only do so when I don't mind LL running slowly, such as for testing. When I use LL heavily I will bootup LL on it's own not in a VM. I've actually thought of getting Snow Leopard Server so I could run it in a VM in Ubuntu as well.

Falcon

Yes. It's more like a chimera, with MacOS-like stuff bolted onto NextStep. There are still some things I preferred about the original NextStep, such as the menu arrangement.

Also, MacOS isn't really dead, just emulated. There are emulators available for original 68k and PowerPC varieties, and for multiple platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux). The Mac OS zombie marches on, even on OS X.

Wow, aren't you out of the loop, "overlord"? People use Eduke32 now.

"A rival to bitcoin might appear...or has other benefits."

Like...Ripple. Ripple already is a bitcoin rival, although a smaller one but it definitely has other benefits.

Not the most widely used software maybe, but SBCL is taking its time porting to ARM, Clozure CL doesn't have a port I'm aware of, nor does CLISP. The only Common Lisp implemantation I know of that works on ARM is ECL.

If you're using Winamp, I'd recommend obtaining the ml_ipod plugin (http://mlipod.sourceforge.net), which replaces the .dll bundled with Winamp to interface with iPods and other media players with something far superior. Features here: http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/wiki/Ml_iPod_versus_pmp_iPod

No I am not a shill, I just like the plugin. I doubt the ml_ipod developers could pay me to be a shill even if they wanted to. :)

IMO that sort of mix would be pretty healthy. Safer than any one with a big advantage (that one would be able to cause the sort of hassle that IE6 has caused) or there only being two major players (with three, one can go through bad spot, including dying completely, without necessarily creating a situation where one of the others ends up with 60%+ market share).

Regarding your dialup provider: assuming you are dial-up due simply to nothing else being available in your area (rather than for cost reasons) and you have a few $/month spare you could rent a cheap VPS somewhere, install your own proxy software like http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/, and use that instead of the ISP's setup. That should do image recompression in a way that is not browser specific, apply compression to textual content (html, css, scripts) that doesn't have it already, and so on. If your ISP does something to make this impossible (perhaps their proxy is transparent and so difficult to avoid) you might need to setup a VPN between you and your proxy (using OpenVPN, or perhaps just a SSH tunnel) to work around such limitations.

This is why I don't use Firefox. Its a tweaker/developer toy (which is fine), but its not a web browser to browse the web. Its what I call perpetually broken software because every time you start it up, it says "I'm broken. Please download updates".

Thinking back to browser history, I thought of my first tabbed browser. I started using it in 2001 or 2002. It was called galeon, here is an embarrassing screenshot: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/shots/fonts.png That is from 2003, the same year I switched to Macs and Safari web browser. That screenshot looks like MSWord6 from 1994 or so, back when toolbars and buttons took preference over your documents. Also when there was only 600-800 vertical rows of pixels on most displays. FF currently uses 10-15 more vertical pixels for its tabs and whatnot at the top when compared to Safari or Chrome. In the netbook era, this seems a bit wasteful.

The good news is that FF 8 is due out next week!

I contribute to software development only if it is FLOSS [...] I don't miss Flash: all you get through proprietary tech is [...] idiotic games that belong back in early 1990-ies.

What well-known FLOSS games can you think of that aren't stuck in the Super NES era of game design? Can you think of any that were FLOSS from day one, or whose data files are also free, or both?

I love this post. There are very few games stuck in the Super NES era, although it had some incredible 2D games the like of which we will never see again, but trying to paint FLOSS gaming 2D; 512 × 478 resolution with a maximum 32768 colors is a lie. The Irony is Commercial gaming on a PS has become a poor relation to its console counterpart often limited by what a console can so :). Lets be honest FLOSS gaming is 3D 32bit any resolution. The game I play most at the moment is SuperTuxKart http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/ and its my pick simply because its a great genre, and it is a project that is moving and shaking at the moment.

Don't like the UI?
Just install Pentadactyl. Much better...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/patapata/
(My project...)

But, really, why not just use Smalltalk, which helped inspire Ruby and so on? :-) We need a good Smalltalk for the JVM...

Yes, I second Concord.org, especially as the put what they develop under free license (the LGPL):
    http://www.concord.org/

Not free (except to demo):
    http://www.explorelearning.com/

Other random:
    http://www.miniclip.com/games/chasm/en/
    http://www.missiontolearn.com/2008/03/more-than-50-web-widgets-for-your-learning-mix/
    http://simulation.northwestern.edu/

Look for physics simulators; example:
    http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/

There is a lot of exploration people can do with Google Maps and Google Earth.

We've collected lots of links from homeschooling; I should put them up somewhere.

Stuff by me with links about education in general:
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/browse_thread/thread/e59c368c3734a926
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/006005.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October/005379.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005584.html

And it's not just in composition software or performances like in the article.

There's some nice synth/digital audio workstation software too. These come fairly well packaged with their own sample kits, integrated synthesizers, LADSPA effects, and plugin support for other things like soundfonts and VST effects and instruments. I believe all of them also save music in XML as well. (Perhaps not the same exact format, but I'm sure they'd be easy enough to convert since labels appear to make sense.) XML is kind of cool, because it should be possible to integrate music into other things with scripting that can readily parse it for things like light-shows or 3D animation. (Easy to trigger events in different ways. So now its just a matter of imagination limiting how one would geek-out with music.) In a way the current FOSS music software scene it reminds me of where FOSS 3D software was about 10 years ago. Tons of potential, just needs people to get on the bandwagon so that it can further develop and match or exceed its commercial peers.

Ardour for Linux and OSX. This one is supposed to be nice. (I haven't tried it yet. I'm waiting for somebody to roll out the Win32 binary.) From what I've seen, it's geared towards the professional. (Looks similar to Cubase?)

LMMS for Linux and Windows. From my experience this one is very easy to use (similar to FL Studio, from what many have said), but has many rough edges. So as quick as it is to get going and doing some very complex things, doing some things with fine control or nuance is harder than it should be. But don't knock it, it's very powerful for what it is.

Unison Music Production Studio for ???... They still haven't started much yet. I've heard comments that LMMS is supposed to merge with this. I'm taking the wait and see approach here.

Some examples? Sure. I think the music in these videos represents the software fairly well.
NIN remix in Ardour
An original score made using LMMS.

I'll also mention Audacity even though it's not a DAW, it is a rather nice recording software and it works well for using alongside the other software here. But I'm sure everyone here already knows about this one.

So if you're a musician or perhaps just wanting to play around with music as a hobby, there's plenty of software to look into. No more excuses about not being able to afford it.

And it's not just in composition software or performances like in the article.

There's some nice synth/digital audio workstation software too. These come fairly well packaged with their own sample kits, integrated synthesizers, LADSPA effects, and plugin support for other things like soundfonts and VST effects and instruments. I believe all of them also save music in XML as well. (Perhaps not the same exact format, but I'm sure they'd be easy enough to convert since labels appear to make sense.) XML is kind of cool, because it should be possible to integrate music into other things with scripting that can readily parse it for things like light-shows or 3D animation. (Easy to trigger events in different ways. So now its just a matter of imagination limiting how one would geek-out with music.) In a way the current FOSS music software scene it reminds me of where FOSS 3D software was about 10 years ago. Tons of potential, just needs people to get on the bandwagon so that it can further develop and match or exceed its commercial peers.

Ardour for Linux and OSX. This one is supposed to be nice. (I haven't tried it yet. I'm waiting for somebody to roll out the Win32 binary.) From what I've seen, it's geared towards the professional. (Looks similar to Cubase?)

LMMS for Linux and Windows. From my experience this one is very easy to use (similar to FL Studio, from what many have said), but has many rough edges. So as quick as it is to get going and doing some very complex things, doing some things with fine control or nuance is harder than it should be. But don't knock it, it's very powerful for what it is.

Unison Music Production Studio for ???... They still haven't started much yet. I've heard comments that LMMS is supposed to merge with this. I'm taking the wait and see approach here.

Some examples? Sure. I think the music in these videos represents the software fairly well.
NIN remix in Ardour
An original score made using LMMS.

I'll also mention Audacity even though it's not a DAW, it is a rather nice recording software and it works well for using alongside the other software here. But I'm sure everyone here already knows about this one.

So if you're a musician or perhaps just wanting to play around with music as a hobby, there's plenty of software to look into. No more excuses about not being able to afford it.

And it's not just in composition software or performances like in the article.

There's some nice synth/digital audio workstation software too. These come fairly well packaged with their own sample kits, integrated synthesizers, LADSPA effects, and plugin support for other things like soundfonts and VST effects and instruments. I believe all of them also save music in XML as well. (Perhaps not the same exact format, but I'm sure they'd be easy enough to convert since labels appear to make sense.) XML is kind of cool, because it should be possible to integrate music into other things with scripting that can readily parse it for things like light-shows or 3D animation. (Easy to trigger events in different ways. So now its just a matter of imagination limiting how one would geek-out with music.) In a way the current FOSS music software scene it reminds me of where FOSS 3D software was about 10 years ago. Tons of potential, just needs people to get on the bandwagon so that it can further develop and match or exceed its commercial peers.

Ardour for Linux and OSX. This one is supposed to be nice. (I haven't tried it yet. I'm waiting for somebody to roll out the Win32 binary.) From what I've seen, it's geared towards the professional. (Looks similar to Cubase?)

LMMS for Linux and Windows. From my experience this one is very easy to use (similar to FL Studio, from what many have said), but has many rough edges. So as quick as it is to get going and doing some very complex things, doing some things with fine control or nuance is harder than it should be. But don't knock it, it's very powerful for what it is.

Unison Music Production Studio for ???... They still haven't started much yet. I've heard comments that LMMS is supposed to merge with this. I'm taking the wait and see approach here.

Some examples? Sure. I think the music in these videos represents the software fairly well.
NIN remix in Ardour
An original score made using LMMS.

I'll also mention Audacity even though it's not a DAW, it is a rather nice recording software and it works well for using alongside the other software here. But I'm sure everyone here already knows about this one.

So if you're a musician or perhaps just wanting to play around with music as a hobby, there's plenty of software to look into. No more excuses about not being able to afford it.

Well, according to the FSF, if you dynamically link to a GPL'd library (and that is strictly "using other interface"), the result is derived work. I don't see how kernel is any different.

The original argument for C/C++ was due to you including the header. When people pointed out that a determined developer could just hand-write all function prototypes and type declarations to match, and that in Java and the likes there are no mechanically included headers, Stallman basically said that, so long as the API is only implemented by a GPL'd library, someone using that API is creating a derived work. This was the gist of the argument where Stallman wanted CLISP to be GPL'd because it was linking (dynamically) to libreadline, which is GPL. Quote:

The FSF position would be that this is still one program, which has only been disguised as two. The reason it is still one program is that the one part clearly shows the intention for incorporation of the other part.

RMS then goes on to say that this is backed by their lawyer. Personally, I have always had my doubts about the validity of that argument - it seems to go against common sense. But then common sense and law don't seem to mix well, especially when it comes to copyright (and intellectual property in general).

(Note though that this all is not applicable to user-mode code calling into kernel using its public API, because there is a separate copyright notice which specifically states that kernel developers will not consider such code a derived work, regardless of anything else.)

This is essentially the same thing as wiretapping, which has been a legally regulated capability for telco's for decades. Keep in mind, that wiretapping also 'transmitted' location information, but since the location information was known a priori by the sender and receiver (of the tap), then it could be omitted from the communication channel (zero information gain).

When internet usage boomed, governments also regulated that ISPs must have the capability to 'tap' your internet connection (also from home), which is why ISPs are now regulated to log everything that users do for several months.

Cellular wiretapping is essentially a combination of voice, location, and data monitoring. The location information is encoded by which cell towers acknowledge your IMEI (and GPS receiver coordinates). Nothing has changed in the least about who has control over the infrastructure (except here). Users of Free Software on communication devices can at least have SOME control over the backdoors - i.e. who can turn on your GPS receiver remotely or force a firmware upgrade over the air. Unfortunately, most of the important software that has anything to do with communication is still proprietary, and locked (encrypted?) in the baseband processor stack on most mobile phones and wireless communication devices. For older GSM mobile phones, some users have the option to swap out the baseband processor stack and run OsmoconBB.

Until cellular voice / data / location information can be sufficiently anonymised there is really little difference about which technology Big Brother uses to monitor you. Keep in mind that you (the sender / receiver) can often be tied back to a specific IMEI number or MAC address (and even communication pattern).

ifconfig hwaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55 <=> iwconfig hwaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55 <=> imconfig imei AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D ?

I'm of course thinking about myman, moon-buggy, bastet, nethack, overkill, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norris
"William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911 near Red Cloud, Nebraska -- August 21, 2006) was the pioneering CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner-cities and disadvantaged communities. ...
    Another CDC project that Norris championed was the PLATO system, an online teaching and instruction system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The university developed most of the system on a CDC-1604 machine driving graphics terminals of their own design. In 1974 they reached an agreement with CDC to allow CDC to sell PLATO in exchange for free machines on which to run it. PLATO was released in 1975, but saw almost no use due to its high costs and complex maintenance. In the end PLATO did see some use as an employee training tool in large companies, but was never a success in the original education market."

I corresponded with him for a time around 1991. He sent me a copy of his biography (by James C. Worthy):
http://www.amazon.com/William-C-Norris-Portrait-Maverick/dp/0887300871

He also sent me copies of his essays for CDC publications. I wanted to make them available in OC'd digital form but never quite got approval for that. Here are several of them put up by others though:
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/NorrisOnTechnology/index.html

A relevant one from there (on education):
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/NorrisOnTechnology/Norris_2-Education.pdf
"Another problem is pricing. The present method of financing most formal education with tax dollars, contributions, and tuition at lower than cost inhibits improvements in quality, productivity, and availability. It also restricts options that could otherwise be available and maintains the inequality in educational opportunity that results from uneven district-to-district financial resources."

Although I go beyond that here: :-)
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towards-a-post-scarcity-new-york-state-of-mind.html
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

I met my wife around then so things dropped off, but I had hoped maybe I could have been an intern for free with his foundation to help with advanced manufacturing (or something) or somehow worked with him and learned from him.

William C. Norris was an amazing person. He really is a great role model in many ways, and I'm glad I had the chance to read his biography and correspond with him. I sent him a small donation back then (just a struggling grad student at the time) and he said he used it to take a disadvantaged person to lunch. What a guy! :-)
    http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Ace_Rimmer

"Luckily for Billy, foresight and technical expertise account for very little, while marketing and image mean everything, and THAT, at least, he is very good at."

Being born a multi-millionaire and dumpster diving for OS listings may have helped too...
    http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1316287&cid=28837221
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1316287&cid=28837517

That said, Bill Gates still has been something special beyond that. I don't think those were enough. I just hope someday Bill Gates takes some time off the time pressure of financially obesity and studies stuff like Howard Zinn's writings, John Taylor Gatto's, or John Holt's or thinks hard about the future implications of technological abunance on the economy and education.
    http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:Economic_Transformation
    http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/16a.htm
    http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

That is why I wrote: http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change. ... So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process."

142 downloads of FSV on the day you posted this. This is why slashdot is so great. Hopefully someone updates it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fsv/files/fsv/0.9/fsv-0.9.tar.gz/stats/timeline

Do you think the repressive Chinese government would let the media know that their country's national processor has a flaw?

The Loongson 2E & 2F processors have flaws, but it's not like the Chinese is hiding anything.

One of the flaws is this one, and there is a software workaround for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338405

As I have seen thus far, China is working openly with the open source projects to get their changes upstream into the Linux Kernel, glibc & tools, and other applications.

I even have a port of Open Grid Scheduler (Grid Engine fork, a batch scheduler for HPC clusters) for Loongson:

http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/

you can get a clone of it for linux called FSV at http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Why? Why would anyone want to hassle with that system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

FSN (File System Navigator), was a real application made by SGI for 3D viewing of file systems. That really is a real gui layer, and you can get a clone of it for linux called FSV at http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Here are a couple more promising-looking 3D CAD programs:

Heekscad: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/
Freecad: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page

I think they're both still quite far from being usable though.

A weekly-updated Git repository of Slashdot's backend is available under the monicker Slashcode.

Check out Pentadactyl a fork of vimperator by several of the developers. I currently am using it on 4.0RC1. Additionally, the nightly builds of vimperator have been working reasonably well on the 4.0 betas; I assume they would work well on the RC, too, but I haven't tried yet.

If everyone threw their weight behind something like FreeNet then it will be very difficult to control what it is we want to share or view. Critical mass is the key, so if you have not heard of FreeNet investigate and tell at least 2 other people and say the same to them.

"For goodness sake dont bother replying to APK troll. He is a malware author, and a complete loser asshole." - by Falconhell (1289630) on Wednesday March 02, @05:40PM (#35362794)

The day you've done ALL of this, & before I ever did also, in the art and sciences of computing (which for a "malware author" as you are libelling myself as mind you, I'd have to be pretty dumb for creating a security guide for Windows that's the MOST VIEWED on the planet & highly rated):

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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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Is the day the "likes of you", a forums troll, can even BEGIN to talk about myself, much less libel me here publicly, you troll!

LOL, I'd love to see your answer, because it will show us reading that YOU are "the complete loser and asshole", because I am PRETTY FAIRLY CERTAIN you cannot produce such a list as mine above, for all your "big talk"

APK

P.S.=> Lastly - For a "malware author" as you are libelling myself as, I'd have to be the dumbest one there is, because I am the author of the most viewed security guide there is for Windows online, bar-none, refer to the list above... apk

i'm a gnome user (in that i use the gnome panel[1] and most of the GUI apps i use are gnome) but i switched to the openbox window manager several years ago because the "standard" gnome window managers metacity and mutter absolutely suck. even worse than the software is the attitude ("design philosophy" if you want to be fancy) behind them - that taking away features is a Good Thing because users are too stupid to understand them and easily confused by choices.

this latest idiocy is just an extension of the initial practical reason i started using openbox - middle-click and right-click on the maximise button for vertical-only and horizontal-only maximise of a window. IIRC, after some argument a few years ago, the metacity devs agreed to add (or keep, i can't remember) the vert-max and horiz-max features, but refused to enable them via middle- or right- click on the max button....the ONLY way to access them is to manually configure the keyboard bindings to assign a key to them.

the gnome terminal, actually vte, also has an annoying broken-by-design bug of sending eight up/down arrow keys to the application running in the terminal when the scroll wheel is moved. the devs flat out refuse to acknowledge that this causes problems for programs like mutt and vi, and refuse to fix, and messes up middle-button pasting (because the scroll wheel is usually also the middle button, and it's almost impossible to click it without scrolling it a little at first) - even though several patches have been submitted over the years that the bug has been in the gnome bugzilla. because of this, i use mrxvt rather than gnome terminal - which, of course, has its own bugs but at least the dev doesn't suffer from the Gnome Developer Attitude Problem.

gnome has a lot of good software, but it also has a lot of rage-inducing idiocy like the above.

[1] the gnome panel annoys me too - buggy bloated crap. i've looked around for something to replace it with but haven't found one yet.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/
I have no idea who did the recommendation (wasn't me!). I think only a few people in the world will find it useful, but I figured I might as well put it on sourceforge.

That is great, thanks! I filed this feature request on KDE:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267781

It might seem a bit strange to make a big change based on only reasonable certainty, but more than that is hard to get. User studies can be informative, but in this area, we're really interested how experienced users work with a lot of windows, so the most basic approach of paying people off the street to sit in front of of a computer for an hour to do predesigned tasks wasn't going tell us much.

Yeah hilarious. Are they really interested in how experienced users work? Or have they been paid by someone to sabotage GNOME (just looking at the stupid ideas they've been coming up with).

Not sure if I count as an experienced user but the way I work with lots of windows (e.g. 30+) is, I use Windows (2K/XP/7) and have all the task buttons ungrouped and in two rows, so that I can click directly on them to raise the window I want. I also have a utility I wrote called LinkKey[1] so that I can quickly bind alt-1 to alt-9 to various windows - so for example if I have to work amongst 4 windows, I can just press alt-1,2,3,4 to switch amongst them.

GNOME or KDE don't suit me for handling lots of windows - they order task buttons vertically first then horizontally so if I close a window, ALL task buttons on its right change relative vertical positions making me lose track of where stuff is. Windows orders the task buttons horizontally first then vertically, so only a few edge buttons are affected.

I find it funny that friends I know who use unix/linux as their primary desktop tend to use "screen" to manage their tasks/"windows" quickly. To me that shows how crappy the GNOME and KDE GUIs are. They can't even beat "screen" after so many years.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/
I have no idea who did the recommendation (wasn't me!). I think only a few people in the world will find it useful, but I figured I might as well put it on sourceforge.

That's because Star Control II is available for free now: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

That sounds like alot of work when it's so easy to set up a PXE install, http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

[rolls eyes]

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flickrdown/

I used this a few years ago. worked great. for those who are on flickr, this would be one way to get your photos 'back'.

I see that flickr has banned this software now, though ;( what a shame.

when I had a 'pro' flickr account, I could see all my photos. when I let that expire and go to a free account again, I'm limited to seeing only the last 200 photos even though they were all still there if you knew the url.

so, as my account was about to expire, I ran flickrdown and grabbed the thousands of photos I had uploaded since I started. I did have backups of the originals but they are scattered all over my drives, sadly. getting them all in once place at one time was a nice luxury.

pity flickr banned this. yet another reason I refuse to buy a pro subscr. from flickr ever again. I'll use their free service but they are not worth supporting and if/when they go away, I'll simply go to the next photo host that is in vogue.

Answer it. We KNOW you can't, because you're just yet another /. "ne'er-do-well" troll is all!

When you can show us that you've done more & better than I have in respected written publications in the arena of the computer sciences, + earlier, & that you have commercially sold software code to YOUR credit (and that your work has gone to the likes of MS-TechEd 2 yrs. in a ROW as a finalist in its HARDEST category (SQLServer Performance Enhancement))? Then you can talk.

APK

P.S.=> Here is that list, for your reference, troll:

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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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Again/once more:

When you can show us you've done more than that to GOOD acclaim in respected written publications in the Art & Science of Computing? THEN, & only then, can you even BEGIN to *THINK* you're in the same league as myself, or attempt to discredit me... troll! apk

There is a port of gcc available at http://mspgcc4.sourceforge.net/

I recently used this to build a small led cube, worked like a charm.

According to this lecture the log is written first and the main data is written after the log. There is no problem there(But i would not bet my data on this).

FOr the second case: OS'ses are lazy in setting the bitmap for available data. If the OS chrashed you do not want used space marked as free, thsi would result in using the same disk space twice (vary bad) as opposed to having some free space marked as used (not very bad and fixable by a disk scan)

There is full x86 emulatior written in Java. Don't belive? Run a linux distro in your browser. click here

mbsync is a great linux utility to sync a mailbox via IMAP, and can perform either full or incremental synchronizations. I sync my gmail account to a local directory that gets backed up with the rest of my local files daily, so in effect I have daily versions of my gmail mailbox. http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html

"Now Pete, go ahead and paste your pre-copied accolades from 1997" - by Stenchwarrior (1335051) on Monday February 28, @04:32PM (#35341578)

First of all: They range from 1996-2010 actually!

(Which is MORE THAN A NOBODY LOSER LIKE YOU CAN EVEN BEGIN TO TOUCH OR SAY YOU'VE EVER DONE IN THE ART & SCIENCE OF COMPUTING - period!)

Secondly: They're only a PARTIAL list mind you, & obviously one that "Bugs You to NO END", & that makes sense - You're a "ne'er-do-well", obviously, lol!

However... well, ok then, since you asked:

"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

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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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"then blather on about how no has ever been able to "defeat" you in a battle" - by Stenchwarrior (1335051) on Monday February 28, @04:32PM (#35341578)

Well, then show myself, & show us all, where ANYONE has done so without my tearing them apart & coming out on top like I always do!

GO FOR IT!

Put up an evidence of where someone's gotten the better/best of me, totally &

I just did a google for "open source itanium emulator" and found this thing called ski which is allegedly an IA64 instruction set simulator, originally developed by HP and released under the GPL.

I wonder would it be possible to hack together an itanium emulator from this code that would achieve or surpass native itanium performance on cheap x86-64 hardware? Multi-core/multi-CPU x86-64 boxes are so cheap these days that price/performance wise, we can't be far off.

http://couchdb.apache.org/

You can host stuff in the cloud like with one fo these providers:
http://www.couchone.com/
https://cloudant.com/
and then easily backup to a desktop or even another cloud service you run yourself:
http://osdir.com/ml/db.couchdb.devel/2008-01/msg00222.html

CouchDB is a document-oriented database that supports easy replication between databases (with some indirect ideas from Lotus Notes). But I don't know of its use as an email client? Maybe a new niche there to write one...

CouchDB does not send or recieve email directly though -- one missing feature IMHO, although you could build some sort of relay to it using web standard (and maybe someone has). Basiclaly, you'd need a gateway to and from CouchDB as a server somewhere to translate between mail protocols and the http protocols CouchDB likes.

In the long term, we need a semantic desktop though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_desktop

My own fumbling attempts in that direction:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

http://golchest.sourceforge.net/

Still in alpha but making progress.

Also I like Tunnels of Doom Reboot http://www.dreamcodex.com/todr.php

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

I use K-Meleon for this on Win98.
The Gecko engine in a light, modular "IE-like" skin.