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Yes.

I'm a bit confused. The last book I read didn't require memory cards, but to distinguish between that and the internal flash memory I used seems pedantic to say the best. The battery is proprietary, and can cost up to $100.

Solar rechargers are available, but they really don't seem worth the hassle. (Sure would be cool to see THAT under the tree, though)

I'll tell ya one thing, though. It sure is nice to have it glow in the dark.

Oh, and check out the best ebook reader for the Zaurus

Heh.

Personally, there's one thing that I like MT-32 for: The game support. Every game from early 90s had music "the way it was meant to be played" on MT-32.

And now... Take a look at Exult's OggVorbis version of the soundtrack, which is directly recorded off a real MT-32. It may sound cool at the first try, but try picking the MIDIs for Ultima VII and playing them through any decent modern sound card or synth. I use a SBLive, and even with the crappy default soundfont, it sounds magnificent compared to the MT-32 performance. Some replacement soundfonts, and tadah! great stuff.

Right now Debian has Exult 1.0, which uses a "cheapass TiMidity forking synth", that is, software synth with a bunch of carefully picked GUS patches. And it sounds great. But 1.1, which hopefully comes soon, will also have the option to use the MT-32 version... dunno, I think it's a waste of time to even try that. If someone did a chamber orchestra recordings of all these pieces, maybe then I'd try the vorbis support, but MT-32 versions are just lame =)

Or, perhaps someone will come up with the bright idea to let you shoot packets whilst in the 3d game...

Kind of like psDooM (as seen on Slashdot), but at the network level? I'll betcha it could be done.

Since they couldn't find the copyright of the ROM, it seems it can be freely distributed.

It turns out that you can do rather complicated graphical tricks with LaTeX, as the example slide shows demonstrate. Furthermore, it has some rather nice background color schemes, that unfortunately don't always have good contrast.

So what should we use to make presentations then?

LaTeX?

Yes.

Daniel

Are you on the rebound from diablo recently?
Or were you referring to this?

The reference is to Monty Python and the Holy Grail in case anyone doesn't know already.

Makes me think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail even though that wasn't pigeons it was swallows.

Hollywood lves Gimp...

Actually they don't, but they're pretty comfortable with CinePaint

While its nice that they always _mention_ there's a corporate slant in giving space to Sourceforge stories, it's still a bit disturbing that a whole community is serving the interests of the likes of VA - not to mention IBM, Novell, and whatever big company becomes Linux/GNU/Open Source vendors.

<plug>BTW, check out my project on Sourceforge.</plug>

ultr@vnc is even better..the list of features is very impressive (I like built-in file transfer.. pcanywhere is now officialy obsolete)

"If any of this is true, I would hate to see SourceForge caught in the middle of something that could hurt them or its users."

SourceForge mention that their system is a good way to donate money to organisations such as the EFF.

It's worth noting however, that both the Free Software Foundation, and the Electronic Frontiers Foundation accept credit cards directly, without any sort of intermediary.

As for Debian, there's the Software in the Public Interest site, which is setup to handle donations to Debian, or to other Free Software projects.

If you have more time than money, consider the Help Wanted pages at SourceForge and Savannah (currently unavailable)

And yet you haven't found the correct part. The site documentation about donations explains how much will be deducted from each transaction:

PayPal deducts from each transaction a service fee in accordance with their policies; this fee may vary depending on currency conversion and other factors. SourceForge.net also assesses a separate service fee. As of 2003-12-01, the SourceForge.net fee is 5% of the donation, with a $1 minimum.

So, SF fee is separate from PayPal's fee and is charged on top of that; and has a minimum of $1. With bunch of small donations $5 to $10 from each contributor, the SF fee alone will be in the whopping 10%-20% range.

Upon further investigation, I managed to locate this:

http://sourceforge.net/tos/donations.php

It seems that SourceForge is actually using PayPal to handle the donations. They're just taking 5% of PayPal's fee, at least that's how I read it, so they must have worked a deal with PayPal.

Some better information in the story would have been nice. As it was, I clicked the link to OreillyNet, which had a link to SourceForge's forums, where I had to read an entire post and then locate a link to SourceForge's Terms of Use, which then directed me to yet another page describing the Donations Terms of Use.

A lot of digging to find info about this new feature. You'd think, being a VA entity, that Slashdot would have spiced the story up with a few more relevant links!

hmm... guess i had to make my first OFFTOPIC post some day...
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Have you tried writting it up as a bug? sourceforge.net/tracker
If it is as you state, I wonder what your response would be.
Also, if AC is pointless, then why are you posting AC?
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Yeah, I have to confess to zmodem use too, even over full network connections. It means anywhere you have telnet or ssh access and people have forgotten not to install rz and sz, you can copy files easily and quickly without faffing with ftp or scp. zssh helps a lot.

You're best bet is Multisync. It's a fantastic app that can sync phones with Evolution,LDAP directories, Palm, SyncML, Opie/Zaurus devices, and Windows CE/ME devices. I use it between my Zaurus, my company LDAP server, Evolution, and my T68i. I'm getting a Nokia 3650 soon and even though it's not completely supported yet (it uses binary ML), I'm hoping it will soon. Multisync is scheduled to be included with the main gnome distribution somewhere around the 2.6 or 2.8 timeframe but is very usable now. Give it a try.

I run it on my Ultra 5 - KDE was as slow as EU reform but Blackbox is nice and responsive.

I ask because I have an XP 1700 that I might use for something like this. However, I have an older Haupauge card and the card is darn unstable. Crashes regularly, even in Windows, and has done with two different motherboard chipsets (both VIA, however).

It doesn't help that Hauppage only provides VfW drivers, not WDM drivers like everybody else is using now. I've used a bunch of less-expensive capture cards for which WDM drivers were provided and have never run into trouble with them. (Capture software that uses VfW (like VirtualDub) can access WDM capture devices through a translation layer. Capture software that uses DirectShow would work better, though...an example here is Virtual VCR.)

There's an open-source WDM driver for Bt8x8 capture devices that you might want to look at if you haven't already...as long as the hardware Hauppage provides is halfway decent, this driver might let you make better use of it.

I have been using the base Morphix system for a Bengali l10n Live CD project (which was mentioned at slashdot a few days back). I am really amazed by its capabilities - if you want to have a LiveCD of your own - this is probably the best starting point.
For documentation, you may want to have a look at the Morphix Wiki.

Originally, when they mentioned pretty, I thought this was what they were talking about.

However, just to be sure, I also asked Google about "women" and "pretty". The second resulting link was about urination, while the fifth link was about flatulence.

I have since come to the conclusion that the concept of being pretty is horrendously overrated, bordering on disgusting, and will eventually perish - pretty soon, hopefully.

Also, anjuta
Actually, I'd rather program with "here documents" from a bash shell than go back to microsoft api's. Is there really anyone with extensive programming experience on both windows and linux who would prefer windows?

I used to be an Avid editor but didn't have the budget or clients to afford one of those on my own. Based on some feedback from friends I decided to go with a a Matrox RT2500 and later upgraded to a Matrox RT.X100. The RTX100 is fantastic. It's basically a PCI card with a breakout box that has stereo audio in/out, and component and Y/C in/out. There's also two firewire ports on the back. It uses Adobe Premiere for its editor and installs a plugin which lets Premiere use the RTX100 for realtime effects. Basically anything you find in an online suite you'll find here as a realtime effect. Titling, wipes, ADOs, keying, colour correction, etc.

The RTX100 also comes with DVD burning software called ReelDVD. I've only used it twice so all I can tell you is that it works and has lots of features, none of which I've yet to really take advantage of.

I pretty much use that on a dedicated machine with Premiere 6.0, Photoshop, After Effects, and Sound Forge. I also use some open-source tools such as VirtualDub and DubMan. I haven't upgraded to Premiere Pro yet as the Matrox drivers are still in beta.

My only suggestion is that if you do get a RTX100, then buy one of the recommended systems to use it in. The Matrox forums are full of people who complain that the RXT100 doesn't work right or at all yet admit they don't have a compatible system. Especially watch out for via chipsets as the RTX100 won't work on those at all.

Try TyStudio...

No, it's stupid advice because you don't need to install Mplayer to watch XviD encoded video in Windows.

XviD's just an MPEG4 Advanced Simple Profile codec. You only need to install something like FFDShow, and you'll be able to play XviD, DivX, and much much more, through the media player of your choice.

Just buy Mechassault, download mechinstaller and buy a xbox-saves memory device and buy a 180 GB HDD!! Total price, umm just under $325 dollars and it looks cool too! Details on how to mod your xbox are detailed here.

Just buy Mechassault, download mechinstaller and buy a xbox-saves memory device and buy a 180 GB HDD!! Total price, umm just under $325 dollars and it looks cool too! Details on how to mod your xbox are detailed here.

Also I just found something called Cinepaint, in my Debian sources list, no clue what its like but the description file is impressive :)

Apparently It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry

It most certainly doesn't. The best you can do is watch live tv. Timeshifting is not yet possible.

look here

The Polidori is developping a front-end for dvdauthor.
Looks like it will take some time until it becomes usable, though.

The Polidori is developping a front-end for dvdauthor.
Looks like it will take some time until it becomes usable, though.

In Windows Media Player 9, go to:

"Tools" menu -> select "Options.." -> choose the "Copy Music" tab.

Uncheck the "Copy protect music" option (which is enabled by default). This is all about the jukebox feature that's designed to rip your CDs to the hard drive. Being Microsoft it defaults to making copy-protected files.

MP3 encoding is not included by default because of the same patent problems that have been plaguing Linux distributions, but there are plug-ins that you can buy.

Of course OGG Vorbis is the best option, but Apple's free iTunes for Windows will make MP3 files as will CDEx.

If you like axis and allies, check out triplea.

I believe Grail goes part of the way.. but I'm not sure how much of a stand-alone "application" the prior art would need to be..

Version 0.3 was released in 1995 and version 0.6 (the most recent version) was released in April 1999 according to the Grail web site.

Grail lets you download fragments of Python code that execute inside
the browser on your local machine. These little Python applications
("applets") can do things like display animations, interact with the
user in new ways, even create additional menus that pop up dialogs if
you like. Applets run in a restricted execution environment, so that
broken or malicious applets ("Trojan Horses") can't erase your files
or crash your computer.

I believe Grail goes part of the way.. but I'm not sure how much of a stand-alone "application" the prior art would need to be..

Version 0.3 was released in 1995 and version 0.6 (the most recent version) was released in April 1999 according to the Grail web site.

Grail lets you download fragments of Python code that execute inside
the browser on your local machine. These little Python applications
("applets") can do things like display animations, interact with the
user in new ways, even create additional menus that pop up dialogs if
you like. Applets run in a restricted execution environment, so that
broken or malicious applets ("Trojan Horses") can't erase your files
or crash your computer.

dreamix - dreamix is a good choice (when its released), as it makes use of the cheap and efficient xbox platform. According the the website, they have it pretty functional already - i am patiently awaiting release. however, if you can make mythtv among others work on an xbox.. i'm all ears.

Yeah, you should upgrade To Media Player Classic
kicks the shit out of MS's offerings, can even play real and quicktime

TyStudio is a decent package for extracting video off your TiVo. Comes with a neat little GUI and everything.

Neuros DataBase Manager is a cross-platform Open Source Java GUI for the Neuros.

It's very good. I use it exclusively.

I was aware of the Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) project, but again, I don't think their goal was exactly what I had in mind. They specify a "UDI environment", which is an API to be provided by any OS that wants to support UDI drivers. What I'm talking about is making the proprietary driver code present an API much more like a device BIOS interface.

The "UDI environment" is just their way of saying that the OS has to implement UDI's API to run UDI drivers. (Well, duh!) UDI drivers can be proprietary code -- the UDI specification is not under the GPL, and is free for anyone to implement. There is also a reference implementation of a UDI environment (for Linux) which is open source.

I'm not a lawyer, but I can't fathom any argument for claiming an independently-developed UDI driver to be a derivative work of Linux, even if you choose to load it dynamically into a Linux kernel. (Obviously, static linking creates a binary which is a derived work of both, and therefore couldn't be distributed.) UDI effectively neutralizes the GPL at the device-driver boundary...

• MSI MATX I865PEM2-ILS
• Samsung black combo 52X24X52+16X CD-RW/DVD
• WAG311GE Netgear Wireless .11ABG+ PCI
• Intel P4 2,6GHz 800/512K
• Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350
• MSI GeForce FX5200 TD128 with DVI and TV-OUT
• 512MB PC400 DDRAM
• Maxtor Dmax Plus9 200Gb 7200RPM 8Mb SATA
• Coolermaster ATC 620C-BX1

The reasoning for the different items are as follows:

A similar model of the motherboard got good reviews by Toms Hardware Guide (yes, I know some people in /. hate Tom). The integrated sound on this board was recommended to me by an ALSA developer. It's also got SATA, LAN, USB and Firewire and, as a nice bonus, both coax and optical digital sound outputs.

Samsung...didn't matter much as long as it had DVD and CD-RW capabilities, black front was a nice touch though.

WAG311GE, one of few cards that support A, B and G wireless networking. Supported in Linux by the MadWifi drivers, unfortunately not truly open source, but neither are any other ABG card drivers.

Intel processor, I usually like Athlons but temperature (and thereby cooling requirements) is much more important in this box than speed.

Hauppage, well supported by MythTV and able to do MPEG2 recording and playback in hardware.

MSI GeForce, has VGA, DVI and TV-Out, also fanless and really cheap. Closed drivers but that's kinda hard to avoid.

Maxtor drive, I really wanted a more quiet Seagate but the SATA models were kind of impossible to find in any nearby store for decent prices. Also most stores seemed to have the ones with the least storage capacity.

Coolermaster, the case isn't "designed" to be a HTPC case (such as this one) which means it doesn't have the same silly price tag. It was also the exact same width as my stereo components (well, 3mm wider) and similar color.

Now all I have to do is wait...

webvcrplus for scheduling/recording, mplayer for playback, avidemux for commercial removal, mencoder for postprocessing (deinterlacing, audio syncing, etc.), and transcode with DVD::Rip for backing up DVDs.

My primary goal for this is to make backup copies of media for when I travel. When I watch live TV on my computer, I use TVTime. I am looking more into something like MythTV, because of the possibility of streaming content, and the fact that it is getting toward the point of being able to remove commercials on the fly.

That said, I have been very happy with my current configuration. Webvcrplus works like a charm, downloading listings through xmltv and scheduling them for recording.

webvcrplus for scheduling/recording, mplayer for playback, avidemux for commercial removal, mencoder for postprocessing (deinterlacing, audio syncing, etc.), and transcode with DVD::Rip for backing up DVDs.

My primary goal for this is to make backup copies of media for when I travel. When I watch live TV on my computer, I use TVTime. I am looking more into something like MythTV, because of the possibility of streaming content, and the fact that it is getting toward the point of being able to remove commercials on the fly.

That said, I have been very happy with my current configuration. Webvcrplus works like a charm, downloading listings through xmltv and scheduling them for recording.