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hope this helps

Yeah, it's a shame xtunes is gone. JuK doesn't look like much of an iTunes clone- where is the browse feature ala iTunes? I don't mean the iTMS, but the reason I use iTunes on my Mac- being able to use a paned-browser to navigate to the CD I want to listen to, rather than having to maintain play lists- which is why I don't use XMMS or an older Winamp.

Well, if you think all music players are half finished and not as good as Winamp, you probably haven't tried KPlayer. At version 0.3 it already is far better than all Winamps together. Or should I say was? Because 0.4 is about to be released, with an excellent playlist support. And best of all, KPlayer is based on the media player.

You need Mythtv setup with at least Mythmusic (screenshot). It's perfect for this and it was designed to be easily used with a remote and a television monitor.

It will play/rip/visualize/navigate your music collection and if your using Debian or Mandrake is just a quick apt/urpmi away (for Mandrake configure urpmi to use Thacs RPM's first, as described on the site).

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I've always wondered about slicker:

Slicker: A collection of utilities which provide alternative for our beloved kicker. Slicker consists of three primary items Cards, the Slider, and a Task-bar. Which can be used in conjunction with each other, and Kicker, or utilized by themselves.

It always seemed like such an innovative idea, I'm surprised it hasn't ended up in the mainsteam of KDE yet.

Or Gentoo Linux Install Script

Seriously, there's a couple of bugs to this, but overall, it does a pretty good job of hand-holding as you install a Gentoo system.

Mine's pretty lightweight: XRMS

Dolby licensing for MPEG-4 AAC:
- MPEG-4 AAC licensing
Reading the FAQ, you realise that you still have to pay something, due to Dolby's patents.

AAC implementations:
- FAAC
- XMMS AAC plugin

Dolby licensing for MPEG-4 AAC:
- MPEG-4 AAC licensing
Reading the FAQ, you realise that you still have to pay something, due to Dolby's patents.

AAC implementations:
- FAAC
- XMMS AAC plugin

Can anyone tell me if this Jess is related in any way to the JESS language that runs Warcraft 3? ;) They are not exactly the same but I'm trying to figure out if, say, the WC3 version is in any way based off Jess.

This isn't news at all (it's "olds"). They've been taking donations for database independence for over a year now. Did it really take you this long to pick up on it? They'll eventually have all of the business logic rolled into Jboss instead of residing in PL/SQL form in the database.

Head over to their database independence forum for more information.

I have already ported this to postgres on the weekend.

Compiere.pgsql

mike

LINE Is Not an Emulator

LINE executes unmodified Linux applications on Windows by intercepting Linux system calls. The Linux applications themselves are not emulated. They run directly on the CPU just like all other Windows applications.

Sounds like popfile would work for you. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell it must still download the spam messages before discarding them. At least that can occur silently in the background.

... can be found here: Upgrade Instructions for Mac OS X 10.3.

BookmarkSync, which has recently gone open source. This does exactly what they're talking about in the patent, the preferences here being bookmarks, of course, and this was being done well before the 2001 application date of the patent.

I'm guessing you mean Linux, try mplayerplug-in
This will play any embedded media file via mplayer.

I have mixed emotions about this. I dislike the NRA, and I am even creating a DooM 3 mod, lampooning them.

But they have a right to free speech.

While I used Pngcrush to squeek out the last few %, even the moderate compression offered by Photoshop was enough to make her happy for a week.

I'm using it very happily - tbh I can't tell much difference between 2.x and 1.x, except that I can use mod-xslt on 2.x

--sffubs

http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

This an open source library for Reading and writing .doc formats. It is used both by Abiword and Kword. Try it today, and in the unlikely event one of your documents dosen't import, You can report it so the library can improve.

The biggest task in breaking the Office monopoly is the file formats, so help break it.

Webware for Python lets you write servlets in Python. I'm using it for a project at work and I'm very pleased with it. My initial plan was to do the prototype in Python and switch to Java later, but the Python implementation works so well that it is now running in production.

One way to get free music is irate. This only provides music for which the copyright owner allows free download.

And as a frontend, if you're running KDE, there is KSensors.

Lourens

Wacom's graphics tablets are fully supported by Linux using these drivers. If a tablet PC manufacturer isn't arrogant enough to adopt a Not Invented Here attitude and instead uses the Wacom protocol, their products can work with Linux, today.

All that's needed is some handwriting-input software.

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Apple, of course, is completely the opposite, and one of the reasons people buy things like the ipod is the great design (aesthetic, ergonomic, and otherwise).

While PortalPlayer's Maia is restricted from discussing how Apple managed its iPod design chain, he was able to describe how systems houses in general work with the audio subsection designer. A drawback for Apple, and other systems houses relying on reference designs, is protection of its product and market space. When fundamental parts of the design are done by others, there is an almost certainty that competitors will eventually ship products using the same basic technology. Obviously, a company like PortalPlayer makes the same silicon, firmware, tools and reference designs available to many other companies.

PerlFS has allowed you to do pretty much arbitrary things on a filesystem for years. It'd be an afternoon's hacking to make your favorite "rc" file accessible this way.

I think the reason it hasn't been done yet is that everyone has acknowledged that the registry is a bad idea carried out to perfection.

Here are a few options:

Desktop Manager GPL
CodeTek Shareware, $30.00
Space.app QPL

Have fun-

Here are a few options:

Desktop Manager GPL
CodeTek Shareware, $30.00
Space.app QPL

Have fun-

I'm not very fluent reading and writing music, but sometimes I have to ;). A good alternative (better according to most "real" musicians/composers I know) is Sibelius. They have an OS X version and they even have a special price when you upgrade from Finale.

There's also Lilypond, a very good free (as in speech) software that you can get through Fink and use with Apple's X11 implementation. Personally that's what I use, and it gives me very nice scores.

I hope this helps!

Don't know.
But this is the problem : such a program is not obvious.

Oh. Looks like I had the name wrong. There's some general-media plugin that handles all sorts of media types and hands them off to helper apps. Well, here, this'll do the same thing here.

I never use it, because I *hate* animation on web pages. The first thing I do when using a browser on any OS is disable animated GIFs, Flash, movies, everything possible.

Rosegarden
Just one ?
And how can this reach Reason's level ?

I don't know whether it does -- I'm not a musician. It has some snazzy screenshots with music notes and whatnot, and it seems to be popular with creative types on Linux. If you want more music software packages, try PlanetCCRMA.

No, once again I am afraid the tools you mention are not even close to IB's level.

What are you missing?

Last time I checked, it didn't have a solver ?

Good news -- they've since added one.

I'm not a spreadsheet nut (a lot of spreadsheet stuff is easier to do with a regular programming language if you code a lot, IMHO). However, it does everything I've ever needed to do with Excel (which, to be fair, isn't a lot). There might well be major missing functionality that I wouldn't know about.

This one looks seriously good.

I've only used Illustrator briefly, but I remember it having a lot more palettes than Sodipodi, and fancy (not on the level of 2d CAD, but not bad) alignment functionality, and a lot of basic vector graphics functionality that Sodipodi doesn't have (like text-on-a-path). Ironically enough, the app here that you were most positive about is the one that I feel has the most glaring lacks between its closed source cousin (though it's still quite young compared to cousins like the GIMP...reminds me of the GIMP at around version 1). :-)

Some people try to do thing at the right level, like file things at the filesystem level. And not only that, but they try to fix and benefit from other people errors. For example LUFS, Linux User FS ,capable of mounting things like any other FS, and even using gnome-vfs so all your apps can use it. And maybe one day GNOME's GConf will work from the fs level without intermediaries (gconf-tool), like you do with /proc already.

mplugger
Don't know.
But this is the problem : such a program is not obvious.
Especially one year after.

Rosegarden
Just one ?
And how can this reach Reason's level ?

Dunno what IB is, but sounds like a RAD UI dev tool. Glade, any number of Java tools, whatever the KDE tool is that does this.

No, once again I am afraid the tools you mention are not even close to IB's level.

gnumeric
Last time I checked, it didn't have a solver ?

Sodipodi. Not fully comparable yet.
This one looks seriously good.

You mean like zsh, compiled natively for Win32? Along with a whole bunch of other GNU tools for that matter. I've seen native versions of csh and ksh too, but the bash port seems to rely on CygWin, which makes it a little more bulky, but still very useable.

I've been using Desktop Manager for the past week or so and am pretty happy with it.

I tend to feel sympathy for Apple just because it's not "the enemy" and in fact is competition for this "enemy" we know and can recognize very well. In fact I feel very tempted right now to go and buy one of the cheapest iBooks.


However Apple isn't playing fair enough with the Open Source community. It's based on BSD. That's ok - they every right to do so and in fact BSD gets some "brand recognition" out of it.

They release a Quicktime player for Windows and not for Linux/FreeBSD/etc . Not even a closed source one. My guess is it shouldn't be complicated to port it anyway. But they don't even try - they do release Darwin Darwin for x86. And as you said, you can use mplayer for Mac as well. That's the way this "yours is mine, mine is mine" strategy.

The same extends to iChat and iPhoto too. Don't release them even closed source for other systems unless they benefit out of it (usually windows software) - this is a purely practical and completely uncollaborative standpoint. And they can get Open Source alternatives as well (Gimp for instance, but just check how many O.S. packages have been ported) and they benefit of that greatly. Apple doesn't have competitive alternatives for several of those packages and the budget Mac user can afford now to own a Mac without breaking the bank to pay it's rather expensive software (warez is the shamelessly accepted option for windows).


The moral of the story is: Apple practices are the closest in the market. Cut the "Apple openness" bull. If Apple was in M$'s position it would probably be even worse, with their closed hardware policy. Apple has taken much, much more from the O.S. community than it has given. Your post shows that good old parasitism still works.

I think I'll still have the iBook, but cut the crap.

Love, muyuu

Right, because everyone wants to spend days installing and weeks debugging an OS on their brand new Apple computer. Many of the THOUSANDS of apps for linux can be compiled on OS X either with fink, ports, or even a ./configure; make; make install.

If it weren't for Ben where would you be?

...can be found on the AsiaOSC Vietnam page.

There's a interesting presentation linked to from there also.

to hear someone use a sentence that compares frontpage and dreamweaver as though the two products were even close to the same level. If you are rivaling frontpage, than you are not rivaling dreamweaver. If you are rivaling dreamweaver, then don't compare your product to frontpage.

It's like the gimp crew putting out that the gimp is like microsoft paint.

Besides, these things are already out there. I think that the best one that I found was Bluefish. It doesn't rival dremveaver, but it blows frontpage out of the water.

[from sourceforge] Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Since no one else has said it... You could export virtual iSCSI disks from all of your hosts using software like Intel iSCSI refrence and then remount the disks and RAID the result. Depending on your machine config you could just leave it at that. If your running a bunch of diffrent platforms your best bet might to be to then reexport the RAID as a CIFS or NFS file system from one of the machines.

Accidental change/deletion of content - that is where version control may be put to a good use. Create CVS repository on your Linux server (preferably, one that has RAID). Install TortoiseCVS on your Win32 workstation. That's all. Adding docs to repository, updating, retreiving previous versions is as simple as right-clicking the mouse. It was unthinkable to recommend CVS use to a non-programmer, but TortoiseCVS have changed it.

I am using versionoing at home for all sorts of files. What really helps is to have one copy of each document. No need for draft versions etc. I am also using this free diff program to view changes in MS Word documents.

"Syntax highlighting with support for ColdFusion, XML, PHP, SQL, Python, Perl, DTML - Zope, C++ and HTML, with more to come"

Renders perfectly in Sodipodi.

Good things with DV tapes are that they come with ~10GB of storage space and 3.5MB/s speed. Works very nicely with dvbackup

Of course DV tapes are a non-standard solution, longer tapes do not exist yet and the solution does not scale - but hey, this is advice you find on slashdot.

-pfl

Vigor!

THIS looks exactly what you're looking for. Hope it helps.

Bluefish

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Quanta

If you really want a good HTML editor and you're using KDE on any *nix variant, you might want to try Quanta. Plus, they're working on the next version that will make it a full WYSIWYG HTML editor. Some say it can compete Dreamweaver.