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The Vim documentation tells us "Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em." So I guess it sounds like Jim. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/intro.html

Absolutely, but I would suggest something a little more sophisticated.

Who controls the data you enter into an OpenID account?

I do. I'm not sure OpenID works they way you think it does.

I'm not even sure how OpenID works. I regularly read the blog entries for MAKE Magazine. One day they switched their commenting system credentials, and it says you can log in with OpenID. Oh, and another page somewhere says that if you've got an account with Google, you've got an OpenID. "Great!", I thought. Except I couldn't figure out how the hell to log in with my google/OpenID to the MAKE blog commenting system.

I'm a software professional. I research and dig through code all the time. I use my Google-fu to find answers. After an hour of surfing, I gave up trying to find the answer to HOW to use my Google acct as an OpenID and log in. I just abandoned the idea of contributing useful comments to the blog. I don't know whether to blame MAKE, OpenID, or myself for not researching for more than an hour.

(In fact, at the moment of this writing, http://www.openid.net/ is answering HTTP requests with some kind of incompete TGZ response content type. wtf?)

Whoops, forgot the link:

http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/

Who controls the data you enter into an OpenID account?

I do. I'm not sure OpenID works they way you think it does.

***When it gets affordable, I'll still be happy with analog***

1. If analog has the programming you want, it is almost certainly a superior way to get it. No synchronization delay. No glitches. I listen to a bunch of NPR programs most Saturday mornings. I can get them either via the Internet or Over The Air. I tried the Internet for a while. I found OTR to be much more reliable.

2. The failure/refusal of internet content providers to settle on a single open format for Internet Radio (or anything else) and to stick with a single http:/// get request format for their "transmission" is not only annoying, it makes acquiring programming a major annoyance. If your analog radio channels moved around and used occasionally varying encryption, you'd probably turn the analog radio off and leave it off.

3. I've played around with a lot of digital audio stuff at various times. The only thing that I occasionally actually use is streaming albums around the house from an Edna server ( http://edna.sourceforge.net/ ). Edna (a python script) runs fine as a background task on a VIA C3 system that doesn't even have enough computing power to run Google Earth. I expect it'd run on any 486 or higher CPU.

4. Podcasts would seem to be an attractive alternative to Internet Radio. Except the #$@(& content providers go out of their way to make acquiring podcasts difficult/impossible except through manual selection. And of course, they have managed to screw up RSS feed format beyond all possibility of reliable decoding.

In short -- Internet Radio and its cousins are so unreliable and unintentionally difficult to use, that it's hard to envision them replacing over the air for most people most of the time.

just snag notepad++. Context highlighting for many languages and a ton of other features.

If you have access to Win2K/Windows XP/Windows 7 you can try it:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/files/

The default uses winkey as the "base key" (since alt is more likely to clash with stuff than winkey). I personally set it up to use alt since it's easier to press for me. Perhaps I should make alt the default...

Being able to quickly link arbitrary tasks/windows with hotkeys would be more useful to me, as such I proposed this:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121349
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignersPlayground/KeyboardShortcuts

Alt-tab allows quick switching between two active tasks, but is not as quick for more than two. In the end I gave up waiting, and actually wrote something to do that in Windows (my current workplace is a mainly Windows environment): http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/

It's handy enough for me whenever I need to work with more than two windows. It doesn't work with all app windows ( e.g. those using the ITaskList_Deleted property ). But I think I'm the only user anyway. I guess everyone else is happy enough with "alt-tab" and clicking.

Lots of people get impressed with stuff like 10/GUI ( http://10gui.com/ ) but it would be slower if you actually need to use it for stuff, after all I don't see how it can even switch tasks faster than "alt tab". It's only good for Hollywood ;).

Thought-based interfaces are already appearing, so what would be a better UI than all that flashy animated 3D crap would be the ability to link "thought macros" to arbitrary actions or objects/items.

Then I would only have to think "command" (this would be a unique thought macro - not thinking of the word command), "recall", [thought macro of object follows] (object retrieved), "send to" [thought macro of Bob here], "confirm", "uncommand" (to get out of command mode).

I had the pleasure of using the original FSN (That is the name) on Irix 6.5 on a beautiful SGI O2 R10k. A friend did 3D and video edition on two O2s for years, and he still has them (and they work beautifully).

If you want http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ is a clone that works just fine in Ubuntu.

Regarding 3D desktops, it's not the same concept, but Compiz is amazing (Yes, it's more than just nice effects :D )

I'm not sure what the problem is with VNC that you are having. If you need something pretty simple on the client end (i.e. at home, logging into the work computer), you can try Guacamole which uses HTML5 canvas to view it in a browser.

Actually I'm working on a similar vein. Goldchest will eventually be a MMO based on the the old gold box games and will have an interactive infocom styled parser for puzzles....

clone53421 stalking others to other forums shown here first of all, and he was who you defended? Please! To all reading, see here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1640368&cid=32085128 in case you hadn't noticed, first of all.

Secondly, clone53421 has been libeling others here when he lost a debate on firefox where firefox was shown as having 3 security vulnerabilities in the timeframe of the article, 12 days only oddly, when the usual is 15 days or more typically, "Germany warns users against Firefox" here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1640368&cid=32111672 where Firefox had 3 issues in that article's timeframe, and that thread was "oddly" (not) closed earlier than usual by FAR too

(Gee, I wonder why: Perhaps because a libeler named clone53421 here is shown libeling others and calling names galore because he lost a tech debate (and he's one of the moderators "registered cronies"? I think so)).

Your mod's tactics and abilities are poor, and you obviously defend your "registered cronies" like clone53421 is the point (easily tracked sheep is more like it in registered users) despite clone53421 libeling others, especially others like the ac poster apk, that do a good job helping security online in general as shown here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1638236&cid=32111856 with that ac apk also being shown to help the open source movement devs too, in UltraDefrag 64 for Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/forums/forum/709672/topic/3690136, with code the devs of UltraDefrag actually liked (to help better their ware).

Some "spyware maker" as clone53421 called him, yes libeling him too!

I state this because the links above are where clone53421 was shown a month or more ago that apk's app is like those from Dr. Mark Russinovich of Microsoft and those of Nir Sofer too of nirsoft, being falsely called malwares over time.

(Thus any "good faith" is out the windows on clone53421's libelous allegations, just as yours are in calling others insane but you have no license to do so, nor a degree in psychiatry, nor a professionally done psychiatric evaluation on your part (which is libel because you lack those to your name)).

These antivirus and antispyware companies make mistakes, or are false positives something that never happens? It does.

Now, since clone53421's libelously called apk a spyware maker many times here even though he has been informed otherwise? That IS libelous (nullifying good faith on clone's part and also establishing aggravated libel plus the fact that clone53421 did so, out of clearly malicious intent)?

The ac apk's app also passed all 21 questions of Computer Associates malware test, and it is not a malware. It is a greyware at most, because like ping.exe, it can be misused. It also is listed at CA with zero threat levels now as well because of this all occurring. You can call Greg Jensen of CA on this in fact to verify.

And, quite clearly, the poster further put you in your place, and with tangible easily verified evidences. He made his point, with facts you can easily verify, which show you are clearly in the wrong sticking your nose into this at all whatsoever.

Oh, lastly, in case you haven't noticed? IP bans do NOT WORK ON ME!

(So you can quit trying that or to ban out my posts that way so no one can see the truth of all this. It's become painfully obvious you have not done your homework and checked all of this, or that you are defending your "registered crony" here in clone53421. Take your pick. I chose the latter as a reader of all of this. You people may suppress the truth with others, but, you're NOT going to do so to me. Yo

You are toying with us. Find better fake names!
http://towel.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ketchup-lksm

If I want to get around firewalls and having to install VPN clients, I use Adito / OpenVPN ALS.

It's got several Java based remote access clients including SSH & VNC.

Consider yourself woken up: http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotevnc/

Ack! TFA (yeah, I went for it) splashes some ad that didn't make it past my hosts file. You might want this link instead, which goes to the sourceforge page and not the techworld blog:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/

I'm guessing this still means no adblock plus and no noscript for Chrome? Without those I have no interest.

There are various filtering web proxies that work with Chrome, and are a good replacement for Adblock Plus. I've been using BFilter, which was the simplest and most effective one I tried, although it's no longer being developed, so I expect that it will become less and less effective. It's much, much better than the (rather poor) ad blockers available as extensions to Chrome, although perhaps not quite up to the level of Adblock Plus, and of course there's no real browser integration.

man cpulimit. man numactl.

I occasionally play Battletech with friends via MegaMek, using Solaris Skunk Werks to build custom mechs. (Note: Being Java-based, both of these work beautifully on Linux and OS X and MegaMek even provides an app bundle.)
I know about the power of tons of smallish lasers (although I usually prefer normal Medium Lasers over ER ones for better heat/damage ratio). Both headshots and through-armor crits on ammo stockpiles can be lethal and both occur with frightening frequency.

Of course if you absolutely want to maximize the number of possible headshots, get yourself an LB-X boat. You can fit four LB 10-X ACs and twelve tons of ammunition (translating to 30.5 turns of sustained fire) into a fully armored assault mech with an XL engine. Granted, you can only run five hexes but with cluster ammunition you can inflict up to 40 separate hits per turn on an enemy up to eighteen hexes away.

I just pitted two of those beasts against each other. Both exploded in the third turn because they through-armor-critted each others ammo dumps and one of the pilots already had been hit three times. Nasty. And if you cut down on the ammo a bit you can even put in happy little surprises as an ECM unit or a coupls lasers; with double heat sinks those hulks generate a mere 10 heat a round and sink 20.

The price you pay is a BV of about 1800 but hey, you have an assault crit monster - what do you expect?

That's funny. I am researcher and work with math and plotting software on a professional basis, and even when I need Matlab to do the work (e.g. if I have to use nlinfit), I always prefer to export the data to .mat and plot in Octave. Gnuplot's output generally looks better when exported to EPS/PDF.

Gnuplot does not allow to do GUI editing: that's a big plus, because I am forced, every time, to write a script: I know that if I don't write it, I will miss it later when I want to change something (it always happens). Also, it is much easier in Octave to specify a font (-F:Palatino, for example) than in Matlab: possibly not on top of your list of priorities, but when I wrote my PhD thesis I wanted to write everything with the same font: Matlab plots require you to edit the EPS source.

3D plots are slow, difficult and complicated things to create.

Curious. I just published an article with several 3D plots (which I usually eschew), and it was not really more difficult to get things done in Octave than in Matlab.

3D data is all but ungraphable on Linux systems anyway

I call bullshit, you never really tried. Have a look at matplotlib. And, that aside, Matlab is available on Linux too.

Just another reason to switch to numeric python. The more I use Matlab the less I find that I like it.

I don't have mod point, so allow me to second that.

The advantage of MATLab for me was ease of development that it allows me to quickly get some simple proof-of-concept code up. If I want run time speed, I'd use CLAPACK and GNU SL. I can't imagine doing any very serious numeric code in anything else (not that my work was very numeric heavy). With NumPy and SciPy, it is just as easy to do what MATLab does in a language that's actually fun to work with.

Just another reason to switch to numeric python. The more I use Matlab the less I find that I like it.

What walled garden am I in exactly? Citation please? Oh right no citation, because there isn't any. MP3 plays just fine on Linux as well as Windows. How's that iTunes Linux client working for ya? Oh right, there isn't one. BSD? Nope. Windows? BWA HA HA HA HA...Biggest pile of shit since the old Real Jukebox is iTunes for Windows, and a GREAT example of the hypocrisy of Jobs since it uses NONE of the underlying OS tech, which is of course one of the things he screams at Adobe about with regards to Mac.

So accusing somebody of being in a walled garden because they use MP3s (Which BTW FYI, thanks to Lame sounds great, uses less resources and gets better pretty much all the time. Can you say the same?) is like standing 5 feet deep in shit and laughing at someone outside the pit "Oh look, you got a little poo on your shoe!" so give me a break. With MP3 I'm not locked in to any platform, no walled gardens here, can go anywhere, use anything, not a bit of problem here.

How's that Fairplay DRM working out on that non iCrap? Oh right, it don't. Ooops, sorry, having a bit of a sarcasm moment. I find it funny as hell though that only Apple buyers would brag about buying a device with nearly 100% markup. I just think that is hilarious! Oh and feel free to waste modpoint on me, fanboy rage just makes me laugh harder! meanwhile I am relaxing with my sandisk that is built like a tank, sounds great, and when the battery gets low while I'm out and about can be picked up at any shop and changed easily, all for less than $5 for a pack of AAAs. How's changing the battery on that new (and soon to be obsolete) iCrap working for ya? Oh right, can't do that either. BWA HA HA HA HA HA! You Apple guys, you so silly!

I am not trying to wind you up, but your opinions don't seem logically consistent, and you never really address some of my most critical arguments:

There are other options besides banning, such as warnings before you install, or segregating the 'toolkit' apps somehow in the AppStore so savvy users must enable it. The fact that Steve Jobs demoed a toolkit (Unity3D) based game at the iPad launch belies the argument that 'all toolkit developed apps and apps not written in C/Objective C are bad'.

Your anecdotal evidence that 'existing Flash apps were developed without touchscreens in mind' isn't very persuasive. That's like asking why Linux, OSX, RIM, etc apps, don't support touch screen when they weren't designed to before touch came to those devices and designers started coding to those standards.

And again, I would rather be the one to decide that some site isn't usable for me rather than Apple.

Sites aren't moving to HTML5, wholesale IMO. THey may be moving a portion of their content to be viewable only on iP** to HTML5, which just goes to show that Apple can force companies to spend money in ways that they otherwise wouldn't (ie. most sites would prefer to invest in HTML5 when it is actually usable on a larger portion of the web browsing devices, but instead are being forced to move to a 'standard' that isn't widely implemented yet and has few mature development tools).

I mean I get it: YOU don't like Flash for whatever reasons, or because someone can abuse the tool. I don't like RTS games...I don't say game makers shouldn't make RTS games though. I don't like telemarketers...I don't think we should ban phones because telemarketers use them.

I will say, I have developed an application using Adobe AIR, so maybe I am biased:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zeeb/files/

It is precisely the kind of small audience by high use tool that I mean. I use win32 primarily...it was nice to be able write an app that worked on OSX & Linux for free. It isn't pretty, but it doesn't have to be. Things can be useful while still using a toolkit or not being precisely designed. The long tail of small, free, useful apps is what is being chopped off by Apple's move. I think it will hurt them in the long run, but I would rather they not hurt everyone else with them.

I'm a big Linux geek, but I'd have to agree with you when it comes to features like "Track Changes". On the other hand, none of the engineering companies I've worked for really had any clue how to effectively use those features.

In my experience, OpenOffice has been great for classwork and day-to-day stuff. I wouldn't get all fancy with graphing, however, since the formatting and scaling still kind of stinks and is crash prone (though it's improved greatly on recent releases, like 3.2+).

For anything more than casual use, I'd go straight to a combination of Lyx + gnuplot / octave .

Most of my casual spreadsheet use is actually done in gnumeric, which is very light, fast, and stable. Unfortunately I can't say the same about Abiword, so I tend to stick to OpenOffice for documents.

Finally, most of my presentations are exported to pdf and displayed using keyjnote / Impress!ve for its dead-simple but awesome usable GLX eye-candy.

If I really need MS Office compatibility to fill out someone's stupid form (which happens often for heavily formatted documents -- different versions of MS Office still can't even share these with each other even with all the compatibility packs), I boot up Windows in a VM (either the free VMware server 2.0 or VirtualBox, which actually tends to be easier to install and works better).

Oddly, many machines that _should_ boot off CD when selected in BIOS don't want to cooperate with (properly burned at slowest speed/good media, yadda yadda) CD/DVD booting.

I keep a Smart Boot Manager

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

floppy for those, and they'll often boot from CD/DVD when selected in the Smart Boot Manager (which can also be loaded to hard disk) menu.

Why? Beats the shit out of me, but it has worked on many machines over the years.

I wrote something you might find handy. It's what we're using to transition away from FoxPro to PostgreSQL.

Almost all of the degrees of freedom come from head motion and muscle artifact. EEG is very sensitive to facial muscle artifacts, and when you actually record EEG the patients have to keep very still.

The larger problem with the Emotiv EPOC headset is that the EEG sensor locations it provides do not match up to where "real" Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research is focused. So even if you wanted to do control by "pure thought" alone the best-known areas of the brain where these signals are located are not measurable by the Emotiv EPOC.

Electrode placement is based on an international standard called the "10-20" system:

http://www.bci2000.org/wiki/index.php/User_Tutorial:EEG_Measurement_Setup#The_10-20_International_System

Most BCI applications focus on "imagined" movements around the right arm or hand, left arm or hand, and feet. The parts of the brain which produces electrical signals when neurons related to these extremities fire are located in the C3 and C4 sections of the top of the scalp in the diagram at that URL. Another important location is the "Cz" sensor at the exact top of the crown.

Unfortunately however, the key Cz, C3, and C4 electrode locations (going by the 10-20 scale) right/left/feet motor control are not available on the Emotiv hardware. Instead their hardware provides electrodes in the following 10-20 locations:

AF3, F7, F3, FC5, T7, P7, O1, O2, P8, T8, FC6, F4, F8, AF4

My understanding, based on discussions with Emotiv, is that they designed their headset with as many unique channels of information as possible, at the best price/feature ratio, which would fit the most number of potential users in a one-size-fits-all form factor. This last restraint prevented them from Cz, C3, and C4 because the exact locations from user to user were not consistent enough to be relied upon in a consumer setting (their target market). Locations for an adult would not be the same as an adolescent user, and getting the locations lined up precisely is "too hard" for the casual or non-technical public.

So in other words, if you want as fine-grained control by thought alone as the current state of technology allows, you'll have to wait for a updated EEG headset model from Emotiv or another manufacturer - or of course learn how to build your own from the .

Reminds me of one serverless IM (finds IP of friends via DHT; apparently also has "push message to all friends" functionality, close enough to some social services) I have to check some time. And two apparently related projects:
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ http://tstone.sourceforge.net/ - and this one apparently strives to be serverless VoIP cooperating with one of the above

They seem to be largely usable. Are they actually in much use? Have you even heard about them? Yeah, exactly...

Reminds me of one serverless IM (finds IP of friends via DHT; apparently also has "push message to all friends" functionality, close enough to some social services) I have to check some time. And two apparently related projects:
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ http://tstone.sourceforge.net/ - and this one apparently strives to be serverless VoIP cooperating with one of the above

They seem to be largely usable. Are they actually in much use? Have you even heard about them? Yeah, exactly...

I see that you've also played UFO: AI (and maybe X-COM UFO as well...)

I only need to keep track of a few passwords. The rest of them are stored in Firefox or PasswordSafe. I put everything in PasswordSafe, and I also let Firefox remember the less important ones. All I have to remember is my logon password, my Firefox master password, and my PasswordSafe password.

Actually... what this means is that you shouldn't use the same password for more than one site. You should use an app that is encrypted and password protected to store all of your login info.

Suggestions?

Password Safe.

Really? I thought of UFO:AI http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/

Yeah. I'm working on such an animal now.

http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

RPGs don't need the latest and greatest graphics. Story is the most important aspect IMO.

Gold Box re-imagined:
http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

Five years ago I started developing OpenCabling ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencabling/ ) with your needs in mind. It helps me document my network, take care of every fibre, cable and port. It still needs some development, but it can solve your problems. Leandro http://visittuscany.dardini.it/

There is the projects page which has a link to the study on the main page(I haven't read it). It is a quite boring thing to do, I never really got into it.

For now, there's Megamek.

ClamWin *itself* doesn't have an on-access scanner but...

• External apps :
  • External packages clamsentinel can automatically scan files upon modifications
  • And software packages like WinPooch can, among other stuff, hook the "execute" and "open" OS' functions to scan files before accessing them.
• Plug-ins :
  On the other hand, there are numerous plugins to hook clamwin to, so you can check for virus at their point of arrival.
  (On the client's side there are Firefox and Outlook plugins, on the server's side there are Samba plugins)

but personally I supplement always ClamWin with a 2nd antivirus featuring a on-demand scanner.

ClamWin&Plugins +Avira or +AVG.

ClamWin *itself* doesn't have an on-access scanner but...

• External apps :
  • External packages clamsentinel can automatically scan files upon modifications
  • And software packages like WinPooch can, among other stuff, hook the "execute" and "open" OS' functions to scan files before accessing them.
• Plug-ins :
  On the other hand, there are numerous plugins to hook clamwin to, so you can check for virus at their point of arrival.
  (On the client's side there are Firefox and Outlook plugins, on the server's side there are Samba plugins)

but personally I supplement always ClamWin with a 2nd antivirus featuring a on-demand scanner.

ClamWin&Plugins +Avira or +AVG.

Plus some kinds of activity seem to indeed increase performance of your brain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

Brain Workshop is a Dual N-Back game which may actually improve your brain.

You can fully "undress" it, down to the bare basics, and it is incredibly stable. You'll definitely run it from a 4 Gb USB stick - and your students, most importantly, will LEARN from it.

I learned a hell of a lot from using Slackware and still use it as my day to day distro... but from a server management perspective:

Debian shell server with user-mode linux instances for each user - you can keep an OS image centrally with any changes made going into a copy-on-write file in the home directory. I find this a lot simpler than maintaining separate VM and OS - If the student messes up, nuke their COW file and it's back to stock.

You should use an emulator like Qemu, or maybe Bochs. Then you're completely isolated from any hardware compatibility problems (virtualizers run directly on the physical cpu and thus can introduce incompatibilities when an image installed using one cpu is booted on another). Or if you only have short term projects (they don't need to save their data), then use the ttylinux or dsl linux demos in JPC at: http://javapc.sourceforge.net/demos_linuxdemos.html

I should have also mentioned CocoaDialog, http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/. My apologies. I haven't used it myself but I think that it could be combined to good effect with Pashua. My recollection is that there is some overlap but some differences. And the main approaches are probably different as well.

I've used all those or similar. Bash's getopt however needs some real improving last time I looked. It's possible to workaround some of its shortcomings but it's somewhat trial and error and I'm not sure how portable workarounds would be. The bored may see my attempts to get getopt to be more useful in [shameless plug] http://tripl.sourceforge.net/ [/end plug]

I have also talked with people at Johnson Space Center about this and they use programs like Matlab to determine the orbit maneuvers and another program I can't recall offhand for visualizing it.

ORSA is popular with the ESA; perhaps folks at JSC use it. Its also used by the NASA and JPL crowd. Most likely, the name you cannot recall is ORSA.

http://orsa.sourceforge.net/atwork.html

Linux too!

I'll port that to Qt someday.