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Or why not join the autopilot project at SourceForge. ;-)

This is the "Steadicopter".

This is a radio controlled glow-fuel (that's a simple internal combustion engine) helicopter that can be bought for a few hundred dollars and put together in an afternoon. As I said, I have one in my garage - a Century Hawk Sport with plenty of extras.

You can connect these things to PC's, run software simulations, install sophisticated gyro-stablizers and auto-pilots - you name it. FMA's co-pilot is a good start.

Slashdot readers will be pleased to know that there's even an open-source autopilot project.

Now knowing all this, and having put together one myself, it sounds and looks suspiciously like "steadicopter" (who spent NIS 5million on a RC helicopter!!!) decided to cash in their insurance.

If the best you could do was put a "predator-like" white plastic bubble around your RC heli's cockpit then I must say, I can see why they gave up.

Palestinians take note - you can meet Israel's drone tech with a visit to Century.

oh man, this is probably the greatest usenet post I've ever seen.

long live ratpoison!

If translucent windows can "fatten your brain" (er..?) then is ratpoison the Atkins Diet? Someone else help me out with abusing this metaphor some more.

This should do

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Fink is definitely the way to go... And you don't have to go through all this macgimp.org crap.

If you have problems with command line crap, try out Fink Commander (which is a gui for fink). It makes installing stuff through fink even easier (you select what you want from a table and click install).

ps: the link in my sig is a bunch of pictures that I made with Gimp for Fark contests...

You can also write games or other apps for the N-Gage in OPL or a form of VB as you can with any Series 60 Symbian device.

The only reason you might want to be an "authorised N-Gage developer" would be to sell games on memory cards (a very small section of Series 60 apps). Otherwise you can write C++, J2ME, OPL or VB apps for any Symbian phone without having to sign up (and pony up lots of money) to any special schemes.

I've been using Backup4l and am quite happy with it.

It's a multilevel incremental backup tool that every night mounts an extra HD that I use for backups and puts only the changed files to tar.gz files. It also deletes old file on the fly and I currently store about 6 months of history.

Restoring files is very easy ('backup4l --restore */pr0n/*.jpg', optionally with a specific date), no hassles with manual commits, binary files and removed, moved, renamed files. Sure, it's not version control per se, but works fine for me.

Think inside the bochs.

Personally I prefer Aegis. It's a bit more complicated to use than CVS (well, aegis is MUCH easier to install than subversion), but takes care about way more situations for you.

Check out http://vcf.sourceforge.net for a library thats based on similiar concepts to wxWindows but written using modern C++ features. It's not mature yet, but maybe you can give it some help ;)

wxWindows looks like a really nice toolkit, with lots of robust widgets. I just wish that A) wxPerl wasn't so buggy, and B) that the wxPerl/wxWindows documentation was better than "Here's an alphabetical list of method calls - good luck!"

Good docs like the Perl/Tk books keep me with that toolkit. I'm the first to admit I'm not a good coder, but I've been able to do a lot following the documetation in Mastering Perl/Tk.

(Posting anonymously to avoid beeing connected with anti-DMCA activities. Free Jon Johansen!)

Might I suggest OSX VNC? The last release was September 17, 2003, so it would seem that it is currently being actively maintained. Of course, that's only the server. If you need a client, well, there's Chicken of the VNC. Last version was released January 16, 2003.

Looks like you lose here.

I realize there are a few applications that run on x86 Linux and not Linux for PPC for whatever complicated compilations reasons, but can anyone list me some of those applications?

I'd imagine the list would be the same as the list of applications that can't be compiled under Darwin (ppc) for whatever reason. Speaking from my own point of view, I really can't see many good reasons to run Linux under Mac OS X, when you've got a perfectly good Unix installed already.

Have a look at the package list on Fink. It's probably very similar to the list of apps available to Yellow Dog. You can work out what's not available from there. ;)

there'll always be diversity. Linux isn't centrally planned, it's development model is essentially geeks playing with their toys (even when they convince themselves otherwise) and distro makers trying to fight their fractured creations into a usable whole.

What free software needs is a new, standard, OS that is designed for the desktop, won't have its driver APIs change all the time, won't use XWindows, won't have library hell, won't have a heap of different package management systems, won't chuck Unix at the user, won't have multiple desktop environments with different programs dependent on each one of them, and won't year after year run like a dog on anything but new hardware with desktop uses. Maybe put a little effort here.

You're joking, but that's exactly the purpose of Plex86.

Oh and I use VMware and I am not sure what everybody's complaining about -- it's been running beautifully for me, albeit slow on a Duron 700 . . .

Does that change anything?

[Qt is] not free in any sense of the word on Windows.

What about the unofficial Win32 port of the GPL'd X11 version? (link)

Unfinished, yes, but an interesting project nevertheless. I must confess I'd like to know what TrollTech think of it...

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Mod me up for having good info. I need it.

I'd like to see more work done on QEMU and BOCHS two x86 emulators. QEMU needs more porting work (Alas, it does not work on my beloved OS X yet...), and BOCHS is fairly slow.

However, I think QEMU could compete head on with Virtual PC within a year if it gets additional porting effort.

> You can actually download a *powertoy* from Microsoft...

Try Virtual Dimension instead. It's GPL'ed and it's quite spiffy. :)

From the link:
A Notepad popup is a text window which is displayed by a HTML email message or Web page using the Windows Notepad utility. Click here for a sample popup.

It didn't work! Did my browser break deh intarweb?

Good words. While the person you were commenting to was a bit over the top, if you're willing to use your eyes to read, I'll touch just a few scant details about Linux that you might not be aware of.

I'm not promising a comprehensive overview -- you'd get borred looking through Windows at a similar level *if* Windows had this level of detail and it simply doesn't. That might sound arrogant. Maybe it is...see for yourself.

Even if [Windows XP] doesn't have the drivers all I have to do is to pop in the driver disk and all is taken care of.

Linux distributions typically include modules ('drivers') to support all hardware; no need for a driver disk, and no need to compile a kernel like days of old. Like Windows, some advanced features can be added by getting specific upgraded drivers or -- as is common with scanners -- using a non-kernel driver package that is typically installed by default.

Point: Needing to tweak or add modules is the exception not the rule. 5 years ago, yes, it was the rule, and back then I did it...5 years ago.

All those modules plus the kernel weigh in at about ~26MB (pre-made, binary, not customized). The ~26MB breaks down like this: ~22MB for ~750 modules plus a couple more meg for the kernel. Each module that supports hardware tends to support multiple models of similar devices -- for example there are 11 categories of radio hardware supported alone.

A fraction of the modules are for non-hardware specific support. That support covers a wide variety of features from not so booring file systems (including encrypted and network distributed) through to advanced features like the NSA's own security enhacements -- yep *that* National Security Agency.

Each module is tuned to the kernel and the processor it's used on; ia32, ia64, or any of the dozen other non-x86-Intel-style processors.

Hmmm.. you haven't heard of Winamp, (and several other equally good free players) have you?

The point with this is that with Windows, you get so little. A stock Windows setup compared to a stock Linux distribution are amazingly different. XMMS (a fork of Winamp BTW) is included automatically with most distributions, as are CD and DVD burners, integrated into the file browser. Office software, vector graphics editors, TV tuner programs...the list goes on, and nearly all of it is installed by default and ready to use. No searching. No looking. No asking around. There. Installed. Done. The biggest problem is the awesome quantity and quality, though most of that is being handled by careful layout of the 'start' menu just to make it easier to find.

One example of the quality and features common to Linux desktop applications: The CD and DVD burner software included with most current Linux distributions.

Sure, you can close your eyes and believe whatever you want to. You are free to use whatever works for you and so are others.

Agreed. Closing your eyes would be a bad thing.

...such as LEAF. I've been running it for quite a while on my old P166. I've set mine up to boot from a hard drive, then use a hdparm -y to shut the hard drive down once it's up and running. Works like a charm!

Simone Bordet, David Blevins, David Jencks, Dain Sundstrom, Greg Wilkins, Bruce Snyder, Jan Bartel, Jeremy Boynes , James Strachan, Jules Golsnell, Richard Monson-Haefel and Jason Dillon.

Almost ALL of the Geronimo developers with commit rights have also worked on the same JBoss code base. Thats too many developers in common to provide a fresh perspective nessary to create a non-derivative clone.

Yeah but its windows only. Check out Privoxy. Its open source and runs on all these OSs

I like it better than Proxomitron.

Hello uradu,

Since you didn't get an answer about that, I think I'll point out that there's no 'real' compiler for Python -- they just package the interpreter and the bytecode together, as you supposed. Which is a good thing for deploying stuff on Windows, mind.

However, there -is- a JIT compiler for Python, which is called psycho, and it works really well (basically, just "import psycho" and then "psycho.full()" at the beginning of your program, and poof, it works). Some operations get speeded up drastically.

Also, if you're not targetting Windows primarily, you may want to try Qt 3 with PyQt. I found that you'll often need from 20% to 50% less code with Qt (thanks to its great API), and Qt Designer is a darn great GUI editor, too. You'll probably want to use the Eric IDE, which comes with the best Python debugger you'll find. (If you're targetting Windows as well, only Qt 2 is available there for free, and in some case it requires a tiny bit more code -- so if you've already invested some time learning wxPython it might not be worth switching.)

I've ended up dropping wxPython, personally, so I can't help you much with it, but if you need hints, help, etc, with Qt and PyQt, please feel free to drop me a line at balinares -at- ierne -dot- eu -dot- org.

Did anyone not see this coming? And if you didn't here's why you should have:

Mark Fleury's original response to Apache Geronimo
As our customers know, we are a business, a serious one and we seriously believe in and defend "professional open source". That includes legal protection of IP. Make no mistakes, JBoss will AGGRESIVELY defend its copyright and LGPL license.

And from the Elba website
Think of Elba as a latticework for Geronimo--and as a shield to buffer the Geronimo codebase and CVS repository from any LGPL code. As Geronimo is built, its code will replace the code from Elba, bit by bit until there's nothing left in Elba at all. At that time, Elba will cease to exist and only Geronimo will remain; we'll have a big party and you're all invited.

So if Geronimo is being developed as outlined at the Elba website then they'd have to have the exact same method signatures....

Yeah, I was one. Not anymore, since I've learned the existence of giFT I'm not using it anymore.

giFT works with a small server, which clients can connect. So I can control it graphically on my home (using giFToxic) or remotely (using ssh and giFTcurs).

Also, giFT turns all that reseach into garbage, since it can connect on several servers of several different types. Tt currently comes with OpenFT (giFT original protocol) and Gnutella by default but you can also find FastTrack network plugin for it. There is also a OpenNap network plugin in the works (and I just can't wait to put my hands on it).

First off the availability is slowly but steadily increasing. With projects like Ardour nearing major releases even professional recording studios are starting to take note. Even the home user is finding more useful tools available. And with preemptive kernels there's lots of possibilities.

The future for Linux holds many things. Hackers composing music? You bet.

First off the availability is slowly but steadily increasing. With projects like Ardour nearing major releases even professional recording studios are starting to take note. Even the home user is finding more useful tools available. And with preemptive kernels there's lots of possibilities.

The future for Linux holds many things. Hackers composing music? You bet.

you clearly haven't bothered to bother looking things up, but rather jump to inaccurate conclusions..

xbox-linux faq about methods of installation

Sorry man, you are amazingly disconnected with the computer music scene. Although many of are enjoying macosx now, most of us know and like unix.

Perhaps its while we are using pure-data, or STK or maybe CLAM or by chance audacity

Linking is getting old, but being surronded by computer music, I promise you WE USE LINUX.

Kind Regards,
Rob

MPlayerOSX kicks ass. MPlayer rules on every platform I use it on and plays nearly every format possible, especially with the add-on codecs (soon to be Slashdotted). I don't even need Quicktime anymore except for sentimental reasons.

1. I'm trying to figure out if that is an observation or a conclusion.

   Especially considering that on any given week we have a report on slashdot about some large project forking. Hell we have more schisms than the Christianity.

Freshmeat shows ~30,000 projects, while SourceForge shows over 70,000. Obviously some overlap, and many aren't for Linux, though I'll guess that most can be run under Linux.

As for Windows, it comes with very little, and most of it is not very handy. To make it useful, you have to drag along extra tools typically including expensive basics like office software unless you know where to find the no $ cost ones. Linux distributions don't have the same attitude as Microsoft so you tend to get a lot of everything and most of it is good (some dreck -- hell I have 926 packages (not 1:1 for apps!) installed here).

If you take just the Windows text editors available at places like Tucows you're still talking about 50+ for that task alone. Now, look at the desktop modifiers and extentions. A lot of them, eh? There are even complete replacements (Litestep, Blackbox, Bluebox, Cloud9ine, Geoshell) and commercial products like Stardock's Object Desktop.

If there were one best way to do it, these tools wouldn't be available for Windows either.

This is both an observation and a conclusion. It's hard to disprove what exists, so I'll even dare to call it a fact.

1. The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

(Which is also quite an old joke. You can even Google for it. :)

And I bet I'll last more than 6 months. I raise the stakes: one free copy of Linux for every user of Slashdot if I've given up in 6 months.

I work for an ISP [hence AC] and we have a zero-tolerance policy on spam. Any address that sends spam gets the /24 blacklisted. Two in the same /24 get the /16 blacklisted. We even have entire /8 blocks blacklisted. Our attitude is simply that it is better to block several "legitimate" messages than let one piece of spam through.

We have found spam originating in ADSL ISPs' netblocks, and believe that somebody is somehow implementing an SMTP engine on Windows boxes for the purpose of spamming. Of course, this would be easy to find out, using something like tcpflow - but not if the user just has their windows box plugged straight into a USB-ADSL modem :-( It's even possible that the SMTP thingy is a trojan horse that gets downloaded when a user clicks the "unsubscribe" link in another piece of spam. Think about it, nobody with any savoir-faire uses those links {at the very least it could be alerting them to valid addresses} ..... but you don't want to recruit clueful people as spam-zombies, do you?

If people complain that their e-mail is not getting through, we give it to them straight. We tell them that spam has been seen originating from the sender's ISP's netblock, and that they should contact the sender by another channel and request that they get their ISP to kick out the spammers. If their ISP can't or won't comply, then we tell them to get a more sorted ISP.

If more ISPs would implement such a policy {along with sensible stuff like SMTP authentication and reverse DNS lookup}, the spam menace would cease to be: anyone sending spam could be caught. Until then, you have to think of every SMTP server as a potential spam source. If you aren't part of the solution, then you're part of the problem.

They'd be smart to use a lossless compression format to save on their bandwidth costs though...

They do use a lossless codec, Flac.

Selection: iTunes: Lots Magnatune: Not a lot

You can't even compare several hundreds of thousands of songs to hundreds of songs... But the philosophy behind Magnatune sure is cool!

Read privacy policies. Keep a spam magnet e-mail address for those web sites that have poor or nonexistent policies.

I read the privacy policy of any website before providing them with my e-mail address. If it looks at all like they might give it to third parties for advertising purposes, or post it on a website in the clear, or put me on lists where it's not clear I can opt out at any time, then I don't give it. If I must, then I give them my old Yahoo e-mail address, which already gets 20-1 spam, because I wasn't careful with it.

I began this policy 5 months ago, when I finished my degree, and since then I have only received the occasional (1/week or so) "Herbal Viagra" ad. The moment I stopped using my university account (not careful with it, same as the Yahoo account), my "spam count" dropped through the floor.

A month before, I had started using Popfile to filter spam. I still use it, but mostly just to pre-sort my e-mail into different priority folders.

Hi

It's not Linux, but thats why it can do that sort of thing.

(1) PasswordSafe is not what is described in the patent application, but rather a password storage application that allows you to conveniently copy a selected password to the paste buffer.

(2) PasswordSafe is now and Open Source project, and available on Windows and PocketPC: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

It looks more like an object oriented Pascal variant to me than the mentioned cross of C++, Lisp and XML. Have a look at the parser source.

But it certainly looks like a nice, clean language, with lots of syntatic sugar removed: they seem to use parens only where absolutely necessary, no semicolons in sight and no curly braces anywhere... well, if you like sugar-free languages this one's for you :-)

Luckily they seem to not follow the current trend of languages without header files, since I personally think header files help writing more elegant APIs (but maybe that's just me).

I don't have a TV tuner card so I dunno about the last point. I have gotten TV working on a friends machine, but none of the TV programs seemed very good, and interlacing was very noticeable and annoying compared to windows based TV programs.


I had the same problem until I found tvtime. Great program for using a tv tuner in Linux. It has some built-in filters to fix interlacing and also supports 16:9 format and has progressive scan filters.
It's better than any windows-based TV program I've used. The only complaint is that it's relatively new and doesn't support recording.

There's also freevo and MythTV if you want PVR. However, I couldn't tell you anything about them... I haven't gotten around to trying them because I've already got PVR on my receiver. But they both look pretty nice.

I don't have a TV tuner card so I dunno about the last point. I have gotten TV working on a friends machine, but none of the TV programs seemed very good, and interlacing was very noticeable and annoying compared to windows based TV programs.


I had the same problem until I found tvtime. Great program for using a tv tuner in Linux. It has some built-in filters to fix interlacing and also supports 16:9 format and has progressive scan filters.
It's better than any windows-based TV program I've used. The only complaint is that it's relatively new and doesn't support recording.

There's also freevo and MythTV if you want PVR. However, I couldn't tell you anything about them... I haven't gotten around to trying them because I've already got PVR on my receiver. But they both look pretty nice.

Doesn't implement everything. Judging from the state of a university, much of the cobol stuff needs to be replaced, because to get useful things out of it requires all sorts of research, because very very few people know how to write it without breaking systems in use for 20 years or so, that do work.

Of course, what they are replacing it with often has a worse reputation (in one instance a university is going with peoplesoft, a program dumped by another university in the state because for the same thing, it wouldn't work well at all)

Has anyone used Tiny Cobol or Open Cobol

I have not personally tried the Gatos project's drivers, but I find the XFree86 "radeon" driver to be rock-solid.

Decent Radeons are getting cheap too. Just a couple weeks ago I purchased a 64MB DDR AGP4x/2x Radeon 7000 with TV out and both VGA and DVI outputs for $60, before the $30 mail-in rebate from TigerDirect.

I should note I don't care about 3D performance as I'm not a gamer, so YMMV if you're going for 3D. Also, people bitch and moan about how horrid ATI's Windows drivers are, but in five years of owning nothing but ATI video cards I haven't had a minute's trouble with any of them. Nvidia, on the other hand...their drivers are so bad even in the Windows area that half the Windows games I used to play don't even display properly (parts of characters or objects missing, less than 30 fps, etc).

I'm not so sure, but then I haven't read the claims (and won't bother either). Password Safe though, is available here.

I just wish someone would implement a treeview instead of a list.

I work for a small utility company, in the IT department, and I started talking to management recently about the possibility of open sourcing some of our apps. I think they're a little scared of being the first ones in our industry to do it (we haven't heard of any others, and I've done some searching). I tried to get a project going, but it faltered due to lack of resources. I sure would like to see a good project get off the ground for e-Tagging, energy scheduling, OASIS (the subject of my project), outage management, or any of the other non-competitive things we have to do.