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Hello,

Below is a list of free application software firewalls I put together a while ago. Not sure if they are all current, and I am probably missing quite a few, but it is a starting point.

Firewalls
Active Network - Active Wall Free Edition
Agnitum - Outpost Firewall Free
AS3 Soft4U - AS3 Personal Firewall
Ashampoo - Ashampoo Firewall Free
Comodo Group - Comodo Firewall (now a part of Comodo Internet Security)
FilSecLab - Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional Edition
Group 4 Business Intelligence - IDNWebShield (main web site down when last checked)
NetVeda - NetVeda SafetyNet
PC Tools - PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition
PrivacyWare - Privatefirewall
SecurePoint - Securepoint Personal Firewall & VPN Client - (discontinued?)
SoftPerfect - SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
Tall Emu - Online Armor Free - (acquired by EmsiSoft?)
WIPFW Project - WIPFW - (port of BSD IPFW)

Firewall Managers
GT Delphi Components - Windows Firewall Ports & Applications Manager (WFWPAM)
Sheesley, Eric - XPFiremon

Hopefully, this is of help.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

Below is a list of free application software firewalls I put together a while ago. Not sure if they are all current, and I am probably missing quite a few, but it is a starting point.

Firewalls
Active Network - Active Wall Free Edition
Agnitum - Outpost Firewall Free
AS3 Soft4U - AS3 Personal Firewall
Ashampoo - Ashampoo Firewall Free
Comodo Group - Comodo Firewall (now a part of Comodo Internet Security)
FilSecLab - Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional Edition
Group 4 Business Intelligence - IDNWebShield (main web site down when last checked)
NetVeda - NetVeda SafetyNet
PC Tools - PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition
PrivacyWare - Privatefirewall
SecurePoint - Securepoint Personal Firewall & VPN Client - (discontinued?)
SoftPerfect - SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
Tall Emu - Online Armor Free - (acquired by EmsiSoft?)
WIPFW Project - WIPFW - (port of BSD IPFW)

Firewall Managers
GT Delphi Components - Windows Firewall Ports & Applications Manager (WFWPAM)
Sheesley, Eric - XPFiremon

Hopefully, this is of help.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

If you want a more faithful Quake experience, but one that loads limit-breaking maps etc, you probably want Quakespasm.

http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/

It's based on FitzQuake and available for Linux, Windows and MacOS.

http://lng.sourceforge.net/ Always provide your sources. :p

on sourceforge (all 250,000 of them), a few are great, many are average and by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage. It doesn't mean that open source means incompetent but it doesn't automatically mean competent either, you have to look at the specific project.

It is very easy to start a project on sourceforge and once it has been started it will stick around no matter what. This means that many projects are started on a whim or from what at first seems like a great idea but eventually are abandoned for a wide array of reasons.

While it is possible that the reason a project is abandoned is due to competence there is no way to verify this unless a project reaches the point where some code is uploaded to the version system or released for download there is no means of measuring competence. When you have the code then you can measure competence.

Probably on the whole commercial products are better if only because people have money invested in them and they are less likely to get bored with them half way through.

On the whole commercial products do not provide source code and when they fail you never even hear about the failure. There is no way to compare abandoned or even garbage open source projects on sourceforge directly with the commercial market where failure and incompetence are hidden in the commercial market.

If you really want to know if open source is competent then you need to compare the software that is used with the industry as a whole. There have been a few of these studies over the years and popular open source applications fair very well.

In this report there is a reference to a 2003 study by a company named Reason that analyses software code.

In Table 2 of the report the Linux kernel version 2.4.19 TCP/IP stack had a defects/KLSC of 0.10 while the industry networking code values for the best third of software houses was less than 0.15, the middle third is 0.15 to 0.35 and the worst third are > 0.35.

They also compared Apache 2.1-dev release with a defects/KLSC of 0.53 compared to similar industry software that ranked less than 0.36 for the top third, 0.36 to 0.71 for the middle third and greater than 0.71 for the worst third.

Open source is not incompetent, it easily falls inline with commercial software.

Can you find open source applications with bugs, issues, and bad code, absolutely yes.
Can you find closed source applications with bugs, issues, and bad code, absolutely yes on the bugs and issues, you have no idea on the code.

by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage.

I have a project on Sourceforge that I haven't updated since March, and the last update before that was in November. It's not abandoned. To the contrary, I use it in an hourly cron job on a production server. The thing is, it works. Unless a user writes to me with a patch or request, I doubt I'll ever have a reason to update it. It does exactly what it's supposed to do, I haven't experienced a bug in several years, and it compiles without warning on every 32- and 64- bit Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X system I have to test it on.

A lot of projects probably have been abandoned, but it's kind of hard to tell. A lack of updates to a project doesn't have to mean to no one cares. It might also mean that it's, well, finished.

NP :)

I know what it's like to get some attention for your project.

http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/ (hint hint)

Ahem. Rootkit. It's not called that because Windows got 'em first.

Heck, there are even tools that deal with *NIX rootkits and the like. Several of them, in fact.

Super Principia Maxima will soon discover how to write itself. Fortunately it was released under the GPL so as long as it gives itself away, it won't be violating its own copyright.

It's not just a "Can I build it?" problem. In the US, you have to be properly licensed to transmit. The micro/femtocells the carriers are releasing are covered under their FCC license & authorization. If you built an OpenBTS box and wanted to use it at home, you'd have to obtain an FCC license for the transmitter. You'd also have to coordinate frequency plans with the other carriers operating in your area.

Read about the fun the guys at Burning Man went through to set theirs up.

http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/

"The anarchistic model doesn't work. If you give kids freedom to do work, or not... they don't do it. And then they drop out. Simple as that. There's ample evidence supporting this. I'm not saying that kids don't need *more* freedom - just that giving them too much freedom is pretty much proven not to work."

First off, you don't have to be an "anarchist" to say what is happening to children in most mainstream compulsory schools is very wrong, between the extreme authoritarianism, the drugging (even though through prescription), the violation of civil rights, the rampant bullying, the lack of privacy, the prison-like atmosphere, the lack of choices, and so on:
http://www.thewaronkids.com/

It's not anarchism to say that some place smells like fascism and we can do better in a democracy...

Citations as to drop out rates for alternative schools? And also think it through. What is even the problem of "dropping out"? What are kids missing that has any relevance to their lives these days? Having access to more schooling? Having a "good job" when most jobs are becoming obsolete? Something by an anarcho-socialist: :-)
http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/abolition.html

Do kids "drop out" of going to the public library or using the internet?
My comments on that:
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

On your point on 21st century curriculum goals, as Gatto says here:
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
"Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion, class assignment, dulled responses, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance -- all of these things are good training for permanent underclasses, people derived forever of finding the center of their own special genius. ... After an adult lifetime spent teaching school I believe the method of mass-schooling is the only real content it has, don't be fooled into thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are the critical determinants of your son and daughter's schooltime. All the pathologies we've considered come about in large measure because the lessons of school prevent children from keeping important appointments with themselves and with their families, to learn lessons in self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity and love and lessons in service to others, which are among the key lessons of home life. ..."

So, your outlining a good curriculum in terms of aspirations means very little... That's why it is incorrect to say society has discarded the model of schooling designed to make human beings into machine-like reliable workers, soldiers, and consumers. It's still there, in the medium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

Let's go point by point through what you quote:

Creativity and Innovation -- how can you learn that in what is essentially a prison atmosphere with a weird mix of authoritarianism and intense peer pressure you can not avoid (like by staying home or going to the library or picking who you want to hang out with), whatever the course work entails?

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving -- how can you learn that when every question has a "right" answer, and you are not even allowed to get any significant practice about deciding what questions are worth studying because the curriculum has it all laid out for you on a schedule, and you have to pass a standardized test on it?

Communication and Collaboration -- As I linked to for Alfie Kohn, the process of grading damages any attempts at that...

Sod OWA, there's only 1 good use for it: DavMail

this is an app that sits on your PC acting as a gateway between OWA and Thunderbird (and Lightning if you want to use your Outlook calendar too). It can also run on a server and act as that gateway for all users on your network.

The only thing you miss is the 'push' email as its sent, but I find my corporate Outlook/Exchange environment takes a good while to transmit emails across the firewalls anyway so its no loss that you have to (automatically, in the background) poll for new mail regularly.

Without copyright, old son, you'd likely not have a textbook. People still generally have this whole "pay me for my knowledge" defect, you see. I know you think information "wants to be free", but it's actually "freeloaders want information to be free", and the producers of information have a lot more value to society than the freeloaders do.

The Internet, by which we participate in this conversation, was created by people willing to think and plan and code not for personal monetary gain but for the betterment of society. Fame and glory. There is no reason this will not work for textbooks. The Open Slate Project advocates fully integrating tablet computers into secondary education, and open source content ranging from Ebooks to apps. The content piece is called Chalk Dust.

If this sort of thing appeals to you, consider joining our SourceForge mailing list.

MIT has been doing great work with Open Courseware.

The hell with Ventrillo, we switched to Mumble 6 months ago and would never go back

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

Jonah HEX

By the way, if you like Ventrilo, try Mumble, which, apart from being free and open source, which can't hurt according to the /. crowd, has really awesome sound quality, and you can setup your own private instance in minutes. Plus, for the MMO crowds, it has extremely low latency, awesome echo echo echo echo cancellation and built-in auto volume normalization (helpful when That Loud Guy Without Headphones keeps pressing his PTT and everyone's in pain)

I absolutely LOVE Mumble, but two points...

1) Vent has normalization also, you just have to Google how to do it.

2) None of your pugs will use Mumble. Period.

It genuinely is a superior product, but would be greatly improved if the server would be so kind as to interface with a Ventrilo client. Ease of transition, and all that.

I was pondering this exact stuff just today at work, since a phone call sounded kinda crappy, barely acceptable until I needed to involve 2 more people and put it on speakerphone, it became so bad we had to give up. I dropped the phone call, switched to skype, and damn what a big difference. The crappiness of POTS is ridiculous indeed, and although I see the need for compatibility, it can't die soon enough.

By the way, if you like Ventrilo, try Mumble, which, apart from being free and open source, which can't hurt according to the /. crowd, has really awesome sound quality, and you can setup your own private instance in minutes. Plus, for the MMO crowds, it has extremely low latency, awesome echo echo echo echo cancellation and built-in auto volume normalization (helpful when That Loud Guy Without Headphones keeps pressing his PTT and everyone's in pain)

the only voip solution that withstood long (more than 8 h) sessions and has a very good audio quality over that time in my experience is the mumble project

Back in the day, ZOE was exactly what you're looking for. It's an open source, cross platform turn-key, solution (Simple Server is built-in) that is designed to archive, index and search your email (using the Apache Lucene search engine). Jon Udel has a good article on O'Reilly that includes some screen shots.

ZOE meets all of your requirements, though data import is a bit of a problem. There are several different strategies for data import, so one of them may meet your requirements.

Unfortunately, ZOE is abandonware so it's not for the faint of heart. The original author was on the bleeding edge and tended to make 'interesting' technology choices like Tapestry for the framework, and using his own, home-grown build system and a Creative Commons license that isn't usually used for software. He eventually abandoned Java development for Lua and let the registration for the home page lapse. As a result, it's difficult to recommend this for all but the most determined, high functioning users.

Back in the day, ZOE was exactly what you're looking for. It's an open source, cross platform turn-key, solution (Simple Server is built-in) that is designed to archive, index and search your email (using the Apache Lucene search engine). Jon Udel has a good article on O'Reilly that includes some screen shots.

ZOE meets all of your requirements, though data import is a bit of a problem. There are several different strategies for data import, so one of them may meet your requirements.

Unfortunately, ZOE is abandonware so it's not for the faint of heart. The original author was on the bleeding edge and tended to make 'interesting' technology choices like Tapestry for the framework, and using his own, home-grown build system and a Creative Commons license that isn't usually used for software. He eventually abandoned Java development for Lua and let the registration for the home page lapse. As a result, it's difficult to recommend this for all but the most determined, high functioning users.

http://xena.sourceforge.net/
A great Java free software for mail (and other documents) automatic normalization and archivation, developed by Australian Government

I like Alpha Baby for the same purpose. For older kids, I have a list

If you're looking for open source alternatives to iTunes: CDex, VLC and handbrake .

You forgot a big one Songbird

Have you actually tried using that? I have and its more sluggish then iTunes could ever be.

Uhhh..dude? That is why we have this thing called "transcoding" that any PC made in the last 5 years can do trivially. Just pick up the free AllToAvi transcoder, which handles pretty much any funky and regular format, convert it into a standard H.264 AVI, and voila! There you go. If you have a slower single core you can simply set it before you go to bed and let it do its thing while you sleep, or with a dual core or better rig just run that puppy. Easy Peasy!

If you're looking for open source alternatives to iTunes: CDex, VLC and handbrake .

You forgot a big one Songbird

But there’s one piece of the Appleverse that I’ve always detested, and that’s the desktop version of iTunes. The ugly duckling of the iFamily, this program is hard to understand, hard to use, inelegant, and ill-behaved—in short, the very opposite of most other Apple products. I dread booting it up every day ...

Yeah, yesterday I bitched about this and have actively refused any upgrades to iTunes since 9 because I'm not sure if 10 is going to get better or worse.

Now I have to have Quicktime on my machine ... which I am not a fan of. And what's worse is that reviews are telling me that it's faster but with a crappier UI while at the same time Ping concerns me if it has my credit card information and is just a spam portal.

So while I want iTunes to run faster, I definitely don't want anything to do with this "Ping" service and if it's reminiscent of how they made me dependent on Quicktime (despite the fact that I have never used iTunes for anything video -- VLC kicks ass) I don't want auto-opted into something that I cannot get out of!

If you're looking for open source alternatives to iTunes: CDex, VLC and handbrake

My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives ... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.

Option 6: ushare + XBox360 (or any player that supports UPnP)
   

NTFS-3G has had read/write support since at least 2006, and if ext2fsx is bad, try the Fuse version. It shouldn't be harder than to double click a couple of .pkgs! :-)

The question I have is why cant my stupid MacBook read NTFS? Or at least ext3? What kind of a jackass sells an OS designed to be unable to share data with other OS's?

ext2/ext3 support here, and NTFS support here!

Ummm, I'm confused. The frequencies that GSM uses are licensed by the FCC to specific operators. The phones are used under the control of the operator, who has a license for each and every cell site.

This group, (The OpenBTS project) has permission from the carrier with the license for the area (who doesn't happen to have a cell covering the site) to use the band there.

Additionally (as others have pointed out), they have a specific short-term ("experimental") license to perform this test during the period including the festival and the runup to it. This license includes the right to stimulate the cellphones into operation.

The group also provides emergency service to disasters that have taken out the cellular infrastructure, until the carriers can get it back up, and makes low-cost base station equipment designs (using off-the-shelf hardware) available to third-world countries. ($10k and dropping.) The burning-man event gives them an annual opportunity to do an acid test on their latest software and hardware.

... what happens when half a dozen people in an area with existing service start setting these up and interfering with the big companies who are selling service?

Just what you'd expect: The FCC hunts 'em down and shuts 'em down if they're strong enough to be noticed and especially if they interfere with the license holding service provider for that area and band.

Unlike WiFi, but like broadcast radio, the DSM protocols don't support sharing a given band in a given area. The license holders carefully design their cell site arrangements so their own cells don't step on each other (and nearby neighbors near the edge of their area). If you set up an unlicensed homebrew minicell on band that's in use and don't do it inside a shielded box, you'll trash the licensed service and be in deep kimchi, just as if you wiped out a broadcast station with your pirate radio.

Which is why the OpenBTS project was careful to get permission from the licensed carrier and a license from the FCC to run the Burning Man cell site.

I thought the same thing, but they apparently have an Special Temporary Authority (STA) granted: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest3/STAGrant.pdf

Regardless of a developers motivation, the only practical effect is accurately characterized.

In that case, it's the same effect of the GPL as well.

companies, given the choice, will always retain their IP

Many companies contribute code to BSD-licensed projects, and even more fund them to continue their work. In short, you're utterly wrong about the practical effect.

IBM widely publicised their billion dollar investment in Linux in 2001 alone ( http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-249750.html ) Oracle has their own distro, and is funding btrfs. HP has made installating their printers under linux easier than on windows. The biggest contributors to linux kernel in order are: individuals 18%, Red Hat 12%, Intel with 8%, IBM and Novell with 6% each, and Oracle 3%. The scale of corporate contribution to Linux is many orders of magnitude than anything in the BSD world. (http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm)

BSD's aren't unified because the license sets up incentives for forking and keeping changes proprietary.

The various BSDs are all BSD licensed, yet they remain non-unified. Repeating your blanket assertion won't make it any more true the second time around.

If you're not going to attempt to reconcile reality with your assertions, everyone should ignore all assertions you make.

see above for evidence of the greater size of corporate contributions to GPL kernel vs. BSD system. Now you argue that any disparity of any kind results from network effect. I will point out that Linux has no shortage of court cases in it's history. have a look at sf.net where the overwhelming majority of projects use GPL or LGPL. The top ten downloads from sf.net? 8 GPL, 1 LGPL, 1 a mix (portable apps.)

http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week

As for the effect of LSB, for example it specified the standard packaging format to be .rpm... ever used debian, ubuntu, arch, or gentoo?

Yes, though it's no their preferred format, they ALL include utilities for handling RPMs.

It's the native format and normal idioms that we are talking about here. By your logic, BSD is linux because you can install RPM's on it: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/01/12/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1

He gives you exactly the same freedoms he has.

Nonsense. He can go back and re-license all of his stuff at any time. The GPL is not binding to him. He binds everyone else with it. Sure, with the GPL, you're giving up your freedom in exchange for someone else's code. It may be a reasonable trade, but it's NOT freedom.

The problem with your analysis, is that it assumes a single copyright holder. The proper way to use GPL, as is done in the linux kernel, is for all contributors to retain copyright on their contributions. In that scenario, as soon as the original author changes the license, he has to revert his code to the state it was before he accepted any contributions... So he is in the same position as anyone else. Anyone can take their marbles (and no one else's) and go home.

The security comes from the fact that in any GPL project that becomes sufficiently important, there will be distributed copyright holders, and it becomes impossible to make it non-free. That is why everyone, including the original author, has the same freedom. They can only withdraw with what they themselves have contributed.

Your assertion that Linux is more popular BECAUSE IT IS GPL'ed is utterly laughable. Any number of very liberally-licensed s

Their FAQ, http://pagalegba2010.wikispaces.com/FAQ, has a link to the experimental FCC license: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest3/STAGrant.pdf

The TrueType patent(s) you're referring to expired earlier this year (as Slashdot reported). ClearType is actually still patented, but freetype uses a prior art modification to avoid any patent issues. See the freetype patent page

These hints are stored as a bytecode program in the font that modifies the outline; the patent covers this use of bytecode. (FreeType can be configured to use these hints or, especially in jurisdictions with software patents, to create its own hints purely from the outline shapes._

As of last month FreeType turns the bytecode hinting on by default, as the last patents expired in May.

We had FVWM95

And since you raised the issue of fvwm, this idea of making things look like windows was interesting in 1995 but now it just seems redundant.

After watching the video I see that this system is a total joke compared to what I had set up. I could do anything that could be done with a 5-button mouse. This is a pointless system that only allows kinetic scrolling by the looks of it.

If anyone else has a P5 and wants to try this on Linux, MyGestures is the closest thing to StrokeIt on Linux - it's a total bitch to install though.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mygestures/

Here's what I could dig up on using a P5 in Linux:

http://noisybox.net/computers/p5glove/

Remove the LNA bits, put your head in the same spot and then swivel the reflector towards a neighbor's house. Instant super ears. Now put a microphone in the same place, use the old coax line to bring the output into the home, connect to the audio input on your PC. Use Audacity to record the audio. Enjoy.

Off Topic: Quite off topic, but if you use a tool like http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ , you can get Exchange email in any client. I recently switched from Evolution (because I don't like it) to Thunderbird 3, which runs pretty sweet on Ubuntu 9.10.

On Topic: I really only play one top end to-pay game any more. Everything else I get usually runs for free on Linux. If a native version of Civilization were released on Linux, I'd buy it. Hell, it would save be the $150 I need to spend to get windows just to play one game). And if a portal existed that provided other games with simple installation and payment, I'd buy those too. I've bought several games from http://www.gog.com/ that I run in Linux via WINE or dosbox. But if Steam was available with native builds, I'd probably buy those too.

See here where Foredecker the Senior VP of Windows Client Performance Division has to admit apk was right on HOSTS files:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1755714&cid=33349528

And iirc, Dr. Mark Russinovich has even had his work corrected by APK also in his pagedefrag program (for how to do the job right and also to remove hardcodes from that program http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1235936964, and more on memory mgt in memory compaction which even Linux latest kernel 2.6.35 has added features for because it works for programs like Microsoft Exchange which has issues with memory fragmentation as does firefox even).

It also appears that and apk's even active lately helping the freeware movement in the 64-bit area in more difficult type applications in defraggers it seems this year in UltraDefrag 64 http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html as well.

APK, unlike yourself, also has this set of published programs or articles in respected written publications in print and online that he's done since 1995 inclusive of both shareware, freeware, and commercial software to his name that even did well 2 yrs. in a row at Microsoft Tech Ed speak well for he which I just clipped from a post of his that Silanea put up here in this thread discussion:

"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...

Lastly, 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

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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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Have you done the same or be

Surely if you're already porting your game to OSX then it wouldn't take too much more to port to Linux? Maybe one or two extra guys.

I definitely fall into the category that you talk about. And most people don't even realise how much of a geek I am unless I actually point it out to them.

Is there any decent equivalent of WINE for OSX on Linux? I've found http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/ but it looks pretty inactive. I have read here that many Source based games work fine on WINE anyway these days, but it seems like OSX would be easier to stay compatible with than Windows. I don't really know the actual differences between BSD and Linux though. But even the fact that games should have a decent OpenGL mode to work seems like a good start (I have had the impression over the years that keeping up with new DirectX releases causes the majority of problems when running games on WINE).

Open source number plate recognition software appears to exist. Now all you need is a couple of cameras and a server. In fact, you don't even need a real-time link to the server. You could store the photos on the camera and then process them off-line.

[...]go at the speed of machine code. Or maybe to LLVM!

You mean like lightspark?

Just wait until you need to generate HTML help, Text file documentation, a web page manual, and a printed PDF of the same core documentation.

There are alternatives. tbook is another xml application that succeeds very well at this. Its author explains in detail why he didn't just use docbook: the main reason is that it forces you to write deeply nested tags to express simple things.

How does reStructuredText stack up against DocBook? It's on my "look into later" list for technical documentation. My first impression of it was pretty good, especially combined with the Sphinx document generator.

You can use SQLite Database Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/files/sqlitebrowser/1.3/sqlitebrowser-1.3-win.zip/download to compact sqlite databases.

Of course, you could just get Fabled Lands, which is as sandbox'y as those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books can get. No idea if java runs on the iStuff though.

If you buy a samsung TV you can simply reflash the firmware, get root and forget about having an extra box attached to it.

Since when have the publishers of shows available on cable TV been using BitTorrent? And since when does BitTorrent work for live sports or live news?

Let me introduce you to GoalBit. Not only a bit Torrent based streaming application however they also have a service available for TV networks to publish their content to customers while minimizing distribution costs.

I am a behavioral neuroscientist and MySQL has been invaluable for my data storage and analysis.

MATLAB is my main analytical tool, so i generally keep my matlab code in a subversion repository and use MyM to communicate back and forth between MATLAB and MySQL.

I've been using MySQL since 1999. If I was getting into the game now, i might choose another relational DB.