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My own attempt at such a standard protocol: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/
It is based around transaction of lists of RDF-like triples.

The Pointrel approach towards that by me: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/
But see also NEPOMUK etc. http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_Desktop
Working towards use as FOSS public intelligence tools: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1746980&cid=33177866

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vym/

I think using a flat file and this would be helpful. Maybe. I don't know exactly what the data is, however, so this may not be very helpful.

>Any good car racing sims that work with linux?

Don't know how good they are, but there are TORCS http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ and its fork Speed Dreams http://www.speed-dreams.org/

Honestly, I don't know why they put so much effort into maintaining Konqueror instead of helping to get rekonq up to speed.

http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/

Please make use of a search engine and your pair of brains.

Here's been your deb for a while: http://www.playdeb.net/software/megaglest

The Linux installer installs to your /home. The fact that it won't ask for administrative rights could tell you something.

Here's where non-installer packages have been around for a while:
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5785.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/

I love that game http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/

See my comments in this thread here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1746980&cid=33177866 in the article on the CIA developer going open source. One point I make is that the USA spends literally billions of dollars on developing ways for people in the intelligence community to make sense of a deluge of information; why should such tools not be FOSS and available to every person to help think through complex issues and improve their local community? See also Doug Engelbart's aspirations for Augment. I am working on such FOSS tools here as I have spare time:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

I bet you could learn to get a similar effect without the binge drinking. The Gnaural software (mentioned in this story) might be helpful.

Yeah, modern AAA games require coordinated and intense effort by a lot of highly skilled people with different abilities (designers, writers, coders, artists, sound / media asset producers) and that's something that basically requires the for-profit closed source model. F/OSS arguably has the upper hand on the testing phase but that's not much of a win. People will put themselves through the hell that is a release "crunch" for large sums of money and/or stock, but for free? In their spare time? lolno. The best F/OSS graphics I'm aware of are in Sauerbraten.

Things get worse still when you expect them to develop for a niche, fragmented platform like Linux. Sorry guys, I run Debian testing myself, but face it: it is niche, and it is fragmented. No unified gaming API stack like DirectX, no guarantee your game will work with the broken pulseaudio config in release Hurr of distro Durr. People want to reach a wide audience with their game, and most people run windows. Thus, the free (as in beer) game situation is ironically much better on windows. In particular there are vast numbers of remakes of classics done in RAD languages like BlitzBasic, e.g. Driller.

There's always WINE, at least. Of course there's no guarantee of compatibility but it keeps getting better.

I've been playing around with an F/OSS binaural beat generator called Gnuaural. Interestingly, some of the "schedules" (frequency vs time) for meditative purposes include periodic bursts of higher-frequency beats (about once every 8-10 minutes) to keep from falling into a sound sleep. I noticed in the article that these "spindles" occur on the order of seconds rather than minutes. It would be interesting to modify a Gnuaural schedule to make the high-frequency bursts occur more often in order to achieve a "deeper" sleep for light sleepers.

They also allowed the release of "Vortex", http://sourceforge.net/projects/vortex-ids/, created by Charles Smutz of Lockheed Martin. Its a Near-Real Time IDS system that captures streams and allows multiple threads to evaluate the captured data. Very nice. (Not LM, just a fan).

Now here's what would be awesome: If I could share a window in my text editor / IDE with someone else on the planet, edit a piece of source together in real time, and still be able to save and compile directly from within the software. Oh, wait...

Emacs, of course, has supported this since a long time when running under X Windows. See e.g., "New Frame on Display..." menu item under File...

Now here's what would be awesome: If I could share a window in my text editor / IDE with someone else on the planet, edit a piece of source together in real time, and still be able to save and compile directly from within the software. Oh, wait...

DancesWithBlowTorch, keep an eye on Mozilla's Bespin. I've used the very basic skeleton project they had and think they're on track but it's coming along and will hopefully firm up once HTML5 support and standards become common place. I don't know how fluid it will become with real time updates but imagine editing your code anytime from any browser that is HTML 5 compliant and your collaborators seeing that. Not sure how many languages they plan on incorporating but when it's done, your source will exist and be compiled in the cloud. Maybe not ideal for a business but for open source collaboration ... really neat!

after that small amount of time, I grew bored of it and didn't consider it a viable or necessary communication channel. Of course, I'm not trying to write code with someone on the other side of the world either.

Just recently, I was trying to write code (Matlab code, and the resulting academic paper in LaTeX) with someone on the other end of the continent, so we gave Wave a try. Within minutes I realised that it's useless even for this, the task it was seemingly built for.

The reason: It's a sandbox. If you write code, you like to be able to save it, and compile it. To do either of the two you have to, literally, select, copy and paste your code from the wave into your IDE / text editor / local file system. That of course breaks the whole "keep everything in sync in one place in the cloud" idea.

So I guess there is one, and only one use case for wave: If you want to write unformatted text in collaboration with others, for the sole purpose of notetaking and, eventually, printing it on a piece of scrap paper. I guess there are not that many people out there in the world who actually need this sort of functionality. For everyone else, Wave is a hassle.

Now here's what would be awesome: If I could share a window in my text editor / IDE with someone else on the planet, edit a piece of source together in real time, and still be able to save and compile directly from within the software. Oh, wait...

This.
Just hook it up to your sound card and record with Audacity.
(This method is especially useful with logic analysis, as you can just play it back, too!)
PS: Verifying your voltage, amperage, etc. is your responsibility.

Perhaps the xoscope software oscilloscope is accurate enough for your need? It uses the sound card as the input device. See
http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/ for details.

I use VLC or SMPlayer for pretty much everything video-related.

do you really need to boot the machine with a livecd? by intel/realtek wireless, buy HP/Epson printers/scanners, by just about any nvidia/intel/amd videocard you want(GMA500 is to be avoided). Other than that, i'm not aware of a lot of main stream hardware that doesn't work. Have any examples that i didn't already cover?

Printer/scanner compatibility can be found at http://www.linuxprinting.org/
AMD compatability can be found at https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_107_linux.pdf
nvidia compatibility found at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-256.44-driver.html
Intel graphics compatibility found at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
NDISWrapper compatibility found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page

I've been looking for a good home finance program for a while.

I don't need stock tracking, electronic integration, and other frills, but I'd like something which makes it easy to enter the week's transactions (I usually like to track more detail than "groceries", otherwise, what's the point).

Stuff like autofill, drop down selection, fields which are arranged in a logical order, easy keyboard navigation and accelerators (to avoid having to mouse around all the time).

I've tried jgnash as well.

As noted if you can do this on a laptop and then voip a call, couldn't people do this at home as a pseudo-femtocell?

Yes and there's already software to do it:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openbootts/

I would recommend starting with C#, also. One big advantage is the excellent and free IDE available from Microsoft (C# Express). There are also some excellent books available, such as Programming Microsoft Windows with C#, by Petzold. Also, C# is similar in syntax and structure to Java and C++, so you can more easily transition to these languages, if needed.

Haven't tried C# express but I did use SharpDevelop in a previous gig when doing a little windows dev - it struck me as very polished.

I ended up doing what I needed with Win32 API calls and building with wxDev-C++ but I don't like talking about it... (Because of Winsock2 rather than wxDev-C++.

Troll, eh? Is that because winsock2 is actually good or because I didn't close the bracket?

I would recommend starting with C#, also. One big advantage is the excellent and free IDE available from Microsoft (C# Express). There are also some excellent books available, such as Programming Microsoft Windows with C#, by Petzold. Also, C# is similar in syntax and structure to Java and C++, so you can more easily transition to these languages, if needed.

Haven't tried C# express but I did use SharpDevelop in a previous gig when doing a little windows dev - it struck me as very polished.

I ended up doing what I needed with Win32 API calls and building with wxDev-C++ but I don't like talking about it... (Because of Winsock2 rather than wxDev-C++.

He actually gave a talk about this on Hak5. It seemed it could be accomplished using an USRP and OpenBootTS

The summary doesn't make clear that this is a way to correct for motion blur, when the camera moved during the exposure. It won't deal with poorly focused images. For that something like the GIMP's Refocus plugin can help. It's a pity that the motion of the camera needs to be recorded - it can't be inferred from the blur of the photograph. So this software would only help once manufacturers include motion sensors in their camera and a way to record the information in the image file. (Though, as noted, many mobile phones do include such sensors.)

Odds are you'll never have enough time to learn programming at the depth that someone who is very good at it knows it.

Start small. Learn how to write a static web page using nothing but Notepad in Windows. Then, when you've mastered that, try using CSS to change the way it looks.

At this point, you can get into Javascript, which is a fantastic language for learning. Try to make something on the web page change when you mouse over it. Experiment with changing text fields in Javascript.

Then, write a simple "desktop" calculator as a web page.

This will likely take you a few months or weeks if you spend a lot of time at it. Remember, use Notepad only. Don't worry about making it work in anything but Internet Explorer (or your browser of choice) because that will make you insane.

When you can write Tetris, then you're ready to work with databases and servers.

Don't use MySQL, it's an abomination. If you have Microsoft Access, start with that. Make a project in that that real people will use. If maintaining it becomes difficult, it's because you don't know enough database theory. Figure out on your own why you want data to be fully normalized and only flattened with many saved SELECT queries. Try to figure out how to write the queries in SQL using the (excellent) query editor. Write UNION queries.

Now you're ready for a server and web site.

Very impressive.. Thanks for the link... And with open sources controllers also... What the hell... free plug...

(Seriously, Microsoft, wtf. You removed the 'go up one directory' button in the Windows Explorer, and why? I *use* that button! A lot.)

They expect you to use the 'breadcrumbs' where the address bar used to be (and is if you click on it). Just click the button of the directory one above where you're at. Some arguments could be made about this being more efficient once you've adjusted too it, since you can jump multiple directories 'up' in one go.

The main advantage of the previous system as far as I can see it is that once you're accustomed to thinking in terms of how many directories you need to go up, it requires more mental gymnastics to figure out which 'breadcrumb' to click on rather than use your muscle-memory to subconsciously move to the 'go up one directory' button and click it the appropriate number of times. This is especially true when the number of times is one.

There is a F/OSS program called "Classic Shell" which has the ability to add(/restore) the 'go up one directory button'. I haven't personally tried it but it may be worth looking into.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Sonic? The Open Sonic project is looking very good these days, I'd just add the PlayDeb repos as well as their sister repo GetDeb as well as add the official WINE repo just to make sure I have the latest version for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

As for Starcraft,there are a few RTS projects in the same vein, but Blizzard titles work pretty damn well in WINE.

Linux gaming is still in it's infancy, things may change in the future with the advent of the AMD backed open source driver projects, but they are at minimum 2 years behind implementation of OpenGL due to the fact that everything had to be redone to be able to use the never versions of OGL/GLSL/ES.

The zealotous coding gods of GPL will likely be bored if they where to catch up with spec and declare a year of game development.

I'm no expert on this, but http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ has a very extensive database on mobile device capabilities, so you might find what you need there.

Ogg Frog is designed to rip CDs into OGG format and then support MP3 and other formats. It will be based on Zoolib which Mike Crawford is working on porting to different platforms with Andy Green.

Eventually Mike will take Ogg Frog out of alpha testing and move it to beta and then a golden 1.0 release in 2020, 2023 tops. By then standards will have changed to something else but the OGG audio and video formats will be used as they are open sourced and almost everything else is someone else's or company's IP and will start suing people who use them in their applications and sell music and videos in that format. Compuserve for example came up with GIF standards as I recall and started suing so people moved to TIF, JPG, PNG, etc. PNG I believe is safe from lawsuits but it is only an image format and not an audio or video format.

Not If you use 0.9.3 it supports xvid as well. At any rate Gordian Knot is a bit better than handbrake though slightly more complicated to use. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot/

Given the persistent failure of Official Management of the remains of the Amiga, Its OS, there are those who decided they can do without such management...
The Status page and News page of the open source project AROS

Given the persistent failure of Official Management of the remains of the Amiga, Its OS, there are those who decided they can do without such management...
The Status page and News page of the open source project AROS

Given the persistent failure of Official Management of the remains of the Amiga, Its OS, there are those who decided they can do without such management...
The Status page and News page of the open source project AROS

We are stuck on PowerPC because of an old PowerPC only application, that all of our data is in

You should take a look at PPC emulators for x86. I've actually been playing with SheepShaver on my Windows box and it emulates a PPC well enough on my core 2 duo that I was able to pack up my old PPC Mac systems and run the software I need in there. I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2 though...I have no clue how well it would run OS X. IIRC PearPC was supposed to be better at running OS X when I was reading up on it.

It was a bit of a pain to get it setup initially. The Windows version of the emulator is available here. You also need a working Mac OS ROM image, which you have to find online or dump from one of your PPC Mac systems. There's an excellent torrent available called "Mac Emulation Kit" which contains a lot of good files you might want to get started.

Of course, this is why serious attackers on a switch don't try cloning MACs. They send gratuitous ARPs to the systems they want to sniff traffic from and pretend to be the default router. Or they take over the root of the spanning tree on the switch. Or they send an email to their target that says "Click this link to download nekkid pictures of " but actually installs a keystroke logger.

None of that is as hard as the 133t hax0rs want you to believe. Not trivial, and not undetectable, but not particularly difficult these days, thanks to Ettercap.

Of course, it's often cheaper and easier to just slip the janitor a $50 to have them photocopy all the CEO's garbage, but that doesn't sound nearly geeky enough :-)

Rob Pike criticism of Java and C++ is really advocacy for the new Google language, Go. Unfortunately, Go isn't a very good language, in my opinion. It makes things simpler by being less powerful. What we really need to replace C++ or Java is a language that can grow on demand. Otherwise, we'll keep hitting the limits of the language. And I can hit the limits of Go pretty quickly.

Also, it's time to go beyond imperative, text-oriented languages. Graphics, anyone? It's possible: Hello World in XL simply looks better!

Mine too: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

You could simply use it as a desktop. Linux has grown leaps and leaps and leaps forward and in many ways ahead of the Mac as a desktop, so read on.

KDE SC 4.5 (about to be released in a few days/weeks) is leaps ahead of the Mac OS X 10.5 GUI. The only catch is that it is not minimalistic. If you want minimalism you have to pick Gnome with Gnome DO and set it to act like a docky. Put a Mac OS X wallpaper in place and install a Mac OS X theme. However KDE has focussed on more minimalism since KDE4 without sacrificing features.

There is a KDE application for video editing that is unparalleled: Kdenlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/
It slaughters Sony Vegas in functionality and is free of charge too. It may not be stable enough yet (version 0.7) so it might be a little bit of a bumpy ride at first.

There is also a kick-ass music management application: AmaroK: http://amarok.kde.org/
It is compatible with iPods that are not of the latest generation (USB encryption crap)

KDE SC's default webbrowser is Konqueror, which, since KDE SC 4.5 also has WebKit support.
Google's Chrome is now also runnable on Linux.
If you don't like the Google privacy stuff than search for the Iron browser (they took the Chrome's source code and stripped it from any call home functionality)

For managing photo's, use DigiKam: http://www.digikam.org/

Personal information management: KDE PIM

For personal finance: http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html

Office work isn't Linux' best aspect, so you could install OpenOffice.org. It is however the best Office Suit available for the PPC. It doesn't look all that good if your distro of choice hasn't supplied their own KDE4 integration into it.

Now there are a lot of distributions, so what should you pick?
The best and most stable KDE4 distro I have ever tried is Fedora. The default download option is with Gnone so search for a PPC KDE version. Because Fedora core is not using anything that is even remotely patented, you have to go to the RPMFusion website to add Adobe's Flash, MP3 and QuickTime codecs and whatnot: http://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion

You can see pick your download here: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/
The Problem I am seeing here is that the current version of Fedora is 13 and the latest PPC64 builds are for Fedora 12. This leads to a little outdated software (1 year).

No need for flashbacks...

What FUD? GPL is pretty clear.

How (and even if) GPL applies to dynamic linking - which, in this case, what it really boils down to - is very far from clear. This is especially true for languages where the actual "linking" happens on user side, not on developer side - i.e. anything using a bytecode VM (JIT or no JIT) or a plain interpreter. Such as, well, PHP.

Yes, the FSF has a well-defined and widely publicized position on this issue, but that is separate from the text of the license as such, and it is not certain if the text really means what they want it to mean.

The correspondence of Stallman with the author of CLisp - where the former argues that mere use of GNU Readline APIs (i.e. invoking a function named "readline" with arguments of specific types) in your code makes it a derived work under the GPL - is a very interesting read in this context.

Stallman's argument hinges on the claim that the mere existence of Readline means that any program using its APIs is derived work. If you buy into that line of reasoning, then just imagine what the implications would be for any FOSS having to do with clean-slate implementation of proprietary APIs (consider the SCO-IBM case and Wine for a few specific examples; there are many more). I also very much doubt that the court would buy that; indeed, by the end of the email exchange, Stallman also seems to be implicitly acknowledging that, changing his argument to "if you manage to circumvent GPL this way the Evil Proprietarians out there will know they can use it too, and it's BAD BAD BAD, so please do as I say".

This case seems to be similar. The claim is that the template is GPL'd because it contains calls to functions with names and arguments such that they match the WordPress internal APIs. However, one could do a clean-slate implementation of all those APIs (it wouldn't even have to do anything useful; think mocks), and the template script will happily run on top of that as well. And it doesn't contain any actual WordPress code. So, if it doesn't actually require WordPress to run, why should it be considered a "derived work"?

With networks like Freenet or Tor, these types of laws will be impossible to enforce without an outright ban on strong-crypto. Even if there were such a ban, brightnets like OFFSystem (or even Freenet, if configured in Darknet mode) would be unaffected.

You mean besides Paintbrush?

Paintbrush is a simple [and free] paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

And there are other equally FREE alternatives Seashore (GIMP-based) or Pixen 3.

You mean besides Paintbrush?

Paintbrush is a simple [and free] paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

And there are other equally FREE alternatives Seashore (GIMP-based) or Pixen 3.

At least link to the project page rather than a rehashed "news" story: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark

Suggest you look at pocketsphinx, it is a front end on Sphinx, and includes Sphinx. http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/2010/03/pocketsphinx-0-6-release/

Transcriber is the tool that you are looking for. It plays the file and you type and annotate. It's in the Ubuntu repositories so I assume it's in Debian's as well.

What you want is dictation software. I just (last week) spent significant time looking in to this.

For open source you have two main options: CMU Sphinx and Julius/Julian. Both options are just back-ends, you'll have to write a front-end. However, it shouldn't be too hard to do that (the source for the CMU Sphinx demos show how to get input from a mic/wav file (if you've got something other than PCM you'll just need to convert it) and set up various engines.

CMU Sphinx appears to be mainly for research purposes. You can run it in a few different modes: one with a fixed grammar (for command systems, Gnome's voice control uses sphinx in this mode), one (what you'd be looking for) uses a weighted dictionary. I didn't train it to my voice (and you wont be able to train it for transcriptions) and I was getting fairly lousy recognition rates with my $20 Logitech USB Microphone. It might work better with a high quality headset, but I imagine you wont both be wearing one.

Julius/Julian lacks a good acoustic model for English. VoxForge is working on one, but it isn't anywhere near complete.

Here is a good article that sums up the current projects

You don't know how right you might be: http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/ - maybe Romeo and Julie is really a solution to the halting problem!