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240 applications is supported by win-apt ... take a look at http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/listapps.php The biggest problem is copyright.

dpkg is ported for windows ... take a look at http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/index.php

You could probably ... put 2d barcodes on the bottom of your miniatures

These are called fiducials, and there are many examples of their use.

The current version of WSUS includes an API that allows, among other things, anyone to publish third party updates through the WSUS system. I've been working on a project for a few months that does just that: https://sourceforge.net/projects/localupdatepubl

I am pleasantly surprised that a programming game made the list. Or that it is on any kind of list - period!

For those so interested, Robowar lives! RoboWar, which per the TFA is the decendant of RobotWar is now open source. See:

http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/index.html

Near as I can tell, the latest incarnation is highly compatible with the older Mac-only shareware version from days gone by.

You can play it now for free.

http://www.forgottenworld.com/

A complete cross-platform redesign is getting started here: http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/

http://www.forgottenworld.com/
http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/
http://uaf.sourceforge.net/

http://www.forgottenworld.com/
http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/
http://uaf.sourceforge.net/

The Ur-Quan Masters is a native linux port of Star Control 2, and I've found it largely indistinguishable from the real thing. It's awesome.

I don't have them handy but google might.. - try +C64 +audio +tape +conversion - eg: This one...(among others)

had the opportunity to experience on a computer. im not even saying 'game', mind that, im saying 'the best shit'.

it was SO good that in a good 1-2 weeks of the 1 month duration i played it for the first time, i really lost the track of space/time continuum. when i got off the game at times to drink, or eat, and saw my family members, it felt like i was not there and i was in a dream instead.

it was SO good.

fortunate for you people who didnt catch up with it in 1992, that they made it open source http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

note - while playing do NOT turn on voice acting at any point. it will kill your experience. the aliens, cultures pack much more punch when you do dialogues in text.

maaaaan. i wish i could really forget the game and play it all over again.

agreed, possibly one of the greatest games i have ever experienced. i spent hours and hours and hours playing SC2, making notes, flying around the universe, exploring new planets and meeting new races.... too cool, and all on 4 floppy disks!

the game does start a little slow (your ship is basic at this point, just a shell of what you can eventually build it into, and thus is still pretty slow), but if you make it through the first 3-4 hours and farm a bit of minerals to get some cash flow, you'll find it becomes a lot more fun once your ship turns into a rocket and you get some weaponry mounted in the proper slots.... after that, the war for control of the known universe truly begins!

i'd recommend anyone who loves RPG's download the open source for this game and give it a whirl. be prepared to take notes though, if you want to finish the whole game, which i found extremely rewarding, you'll have to write SOME things down. there are just too many stars, races and quest lines not to do so. ahhh hell. i'm at work and now i want to go play.... wheeeee!

I'd love to see the next version of windows released on a USB thumb drive. I own one external usb DVD player for OS installs and that's it. It feels very 1995 to still be installing my OS from optical media.

It is.

(FWIW installing Linux from USB is, if anything, even more straightforward.)

Who needs a right-click to activate a CLI? I just Ctrl+Down, and yakuake pops down from the top of the screen.

(PS. There's tilda or guake for Gnome users.

had the opportunity to experience on a computer. im not even saying 'game', mind that, im saying 'the best shit'.

it was SO good that in a good 1-2 weeks of the 1 month duration i played it for the first time, i really lost the track of space/time continuum. when i got off the game at times to drink, or eat, and saw my family members, it felt like i was not there and i was in a dream instead.

it was SO good.

fortunate for you people who didnt catch up with it in 1992, that they made it open source http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

note - while playing do NOT turn on voice acting at any point. it will kill your experience. the aliens, cultures pack much more punch when you do dialogues in text.

maaaaan. i wish i could really forget the game and play it all over again.

+1

Sadly, it looks like my Touch Pro 2 will be the last WinMo phone I own. My wife is getting the HD2, and that should be a fantastic phone, but after that, we will probably be moving on to either Android Phones (HTC with SenseUI of course), or maybe even one of those high-end Nokia phones with Linux.

WinMo, despite it's warts, is one of the most open phone platforms out there, partly due to Microsoft and partly due to sites like xda-developers. It's going to tough to find a phone platform that allows me to cook a program like Remote Tracker pre-configured, into my own custom ROM and track my phone using GPS, even if someone hard resets it and changes the SIM card.

As far as I know, no ready made solution quite like that is available (yet) on any other phone platform. :(

http://glew.sourceforge.net/ GLEW also comes with the NVIDIA SDK: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk_home.html NVIDIA SDK is also a good place to start with OpenGL.

I've purchased that turntable, tried it and given it away to an enemy.

I'm not a crazy stereophile by any means, but the quality of this turntable was so poor that you would not use this for any collectible vinyl, or anything worth keeping. The quality of construction is poor, the cartridge is utter crap, it was difficulty to set up the anti-skate, it tracked marginal vinyl not at all. In short, don't get this.

Instead, just buy a used turntable in good condition (so many are available), or I realized my 40 year old Dual turntable ( http://www.dual-reference.com/ ) was still head and shoulders above this unit. Couple it with a reasonable phono preamp ( http://www.zzounds.com/item--ARTDJPREII ) and send it through your line in. Combine it with very nice free software ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download ) and you have a solution, possibly for as little as $50 and you'll have a turntable that won't ruin your good vinyl, and get excellent sound as well.

Not my post buddy. I was finding fault with the guy recommending m-audio, which I laugh at anytime someone calls pro anyway...

Regardless, I wouldn't be using an 8 bit card for digitizing vinyl, I'm even suspicious using 16-bit. Furthermore, the idea of just RCA to 1/8" minijacks is missing a couple of things, particularly an RIAA (as much as I hated the organization) EQ (included in Audacity, however a real preamp and eq would make a difference). If there wasn't one in your Technics receiver, or one setup for it, it's probably going to be a big difference.

Try installing these and add the directory to your path.

Interesting, I was unaware that anyone was working on a Facebook filesystem. Now the only question is if the investigator was using the original FSN or the open source alternative.

(I'm rather curious as to whether that was an intentional reference to real-life technology that people think only existed in movies, or if it was just an amazing guess.)

http://kickstart-tools.sourceforge.net/howkickstartworks.html
Amiga kickstart is a bootstrap firmware, and not a installer.
<meta type='comment'>*WHOOSH*</meta>

FreeFileSync has a decent enough GUI, for the timid:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

(a nice feature is that 'compare' and 'synchronize' are separate steps, with a visual display of the comparison)

Clamwin http://www.clamwin.org/ virusscanner with ClamSentinel http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net/ that provides on-access scanning. It works wonders for me!

Clam sentinel is a program that detects file system changes and automatically scans the files added or modified using ClamWin. Require the installation of ClamWin. For Microsoft Windows 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/

Ehm, what non-cheap licences?

Version 4 allows custom sound

Vapor until released. The CTP version is for Windows Phone 7 only, not Xbox 360. But consider this: Shawn Hargreaves maintained the Allegro library, which contained an audio stream API. He now works on XNA, and it took until 4.0 for XNA to have a counterpart to this API.

According to this, only "made up languages that are documented (e.g. Klingon/elvish)" are failed.

That's exactly what I was talking about, and it would appear to rule out a lot of RPGs.

For Debian/Ubuntu: http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ There, now stop whining about what is probably one of the best features of modern distributions. And the brand Linux doesn't have anything to do with this.

Non-statisticians are always going to be doing statistics. Perhaps from a purist point of view they shouldn't, but they will. They might be health researchers, business analysts etc, and their job requires the use of statistics. Unfortunately, many statistical packages assume people can be trusted to choose the right test and interpret it correctly. But that isn't enough, and even some of the more helpful wizards and documentation are inadequate. The open source SOFA (Statistics Open For All - https://sourceforge.net/projects/sofastatistics/) project is an attempt to provide the required guidance and tools and is looking for people to join the community.

OpenCV has C interfaces and there are more that have some C code libraries. Really the coding challenge would be building the wrappers to utilize those libraries with your camera's hardware (I assume provided through CHDK APIs). My vote is for a nifty KLT implementation that allows me to take a video and extract a huge wide pan image in post processing on the camera.

Peazip is another good one. One of it's neat features is it can use ZPAQ compression, which is handy when smallness is of great importance.

Yes. Depending on what you are attempting to accomplish it may not be for you. I use an m-audio delta 44 and have been using it to make music for a couple years now. Have some links, if you are interested:

Jack - Low latency audio server. Allows you to connect together sound applications. Arguably the coolest thing about audio in linux.

Ardour - Multi-track sequencer

Hydrogen - Drum machine

Jamin - Mastering software

LAPSDA - Plugin API

DSSI-VST - Way to run windows compiled VSTs on linux (of course its not always going to work)

Linux has plenty of other software out there. These are just some links to get you started.

There are many reasons one might not want to choose linux for audio tasks. With a windows and mac setup you have many more choices in regards to soundcards, software, plugins, and virtual instruments. It also may take a little effort to setup properly. To get proper latency you may need to use a real-time kernel. You may need to spend a little time configuring jack to get the best results out of your card. A finely tuned linux system can be excellent for creating music. It may not be the best choice, but it works for me and I can avoid dual booting.

For Python, can they use: Psyco as a library? That would help being practically a Just In Time compiler.

Or they could use the recent release of Pypy. I haven't used it myself, but the benchmarks look appealing.

I use w3m myself.

Yes agree, but happily I have a (mainly) web based project: http://www.hughbarnard.org/content/alternative-currency-software and use Selenium: http://seleniumhq.org/. I also export the tests to Perl to give me a large, very ugly (I don't publish it currently) monolithic regression test. When someone finds something broken, I fix it and add another test for that...

I bit the bullet about two years ago and sat down and wrote a user manual, it needs restructuring now though. I use Perltidy: http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ to automate some degree of developer documentation.

I think my point is that, even for small projects, it helps to set up a little bit of organisation and use of tools, takes some of the pain away.

For Python, can they use: Psyco as a library? That would help being practically a Just In Time compiler. It's x86 architectures only but that should be what they're running. As a side point I find it irritating that a language that is designed to be friendly and powerful is disadvantaged by counting CPU cycles: especially since in the real world those are plentiful compared to the scarce resources available for the hard work of debugging. And in Python if the CPU is your constraint - which it isn't in most programs - then you write that little bit of CPU code in C or C++ and call that one part from Python. This keeps the rest of the program easy to debug and portable.

There are actually several environments like that. You might want to check out HTMLUnit if you're a programmer. Alternatively the spammer community has done a great job of producing fully visual web-app automation environments, for instance, check out UBot Studio. If you can live with the presence of "solve captcha" and "generate random username" type commands and the community that comes with them, it might do what you want. Just be aware that a lot of websites treat screen scraping as abuse. Typically if they want to make data accessible there'll be an API, for instance Google offers REST APIs for many of its services.

On the internet, you can actually turn words into links. I believe this technology is referred to as "Hypertext."

I can second talking to other projects that have done similar things, such as the team behind UQM* or OpenTTD**.

* http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
** http://www.openttd.org/en/

And for all those languages, nobody wants to implement a DirectX wrapper library. Since you can’t use it on any platform other than Windows anyway. And so it’s an annoying waste of time.

Oh really?

DirectPython
Java3d
DirectX SDK For Delphi
DirectX Bindings for Haskell
OCaml library that uses DirectX

In the long run, DirectX will go the way of Internet Explorer 6.

Such has been claimed since the mid 90s and all who have claimed such have been wrong over and over.

Yes, you have a great point about Self (which would have been licensing cost free in theory...)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)
"The first public release was in 1990, and the next year the team moved to Sun Microsystems where they continued work on the language. Several new releases followed until falling largely dormant in 1995 with the 4.0 version. The latest 4.3 version was released in 2006 and runs on Mac OS X and Solaris."

I don't know why Sun did not choose that. I'd be curious what David Ungar would say about that?

I met David Ungar once, at OOPSLA-97, but he had a bad cold and so was not that chatty then... I hope he is getting enough vitamin D, as vitamin D deficiency is an occupational hazard of the indoor worker, though I did not know that then either, and it is connected with colds and influenza, as well as many other health issues:
        http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_and_influenza
"A study published in the February 2009 Archives of Internal Medicine involving 1900 adults and children done by the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston, found that people with the lowest blood vitamin D levels reported having significantly more recent colds or cases of the flu. The risks were even higher for those with chronic respiratory disorders, such as asthma and emphysema. They reported that asthma patients with the lowest vitamin D levels were five times more likely to have had a recent respiratory infection; while among COPD patients, respiratory infections were twice as common among those with vitamin D deficiency. However, the authors stress that the study's results need to be confirmed in clinical trials before vitamin D can be recommended to prevent colds and flu..[4][5]"

Could vitamin D deficiency syndrome explain why we got Java instead of Self? :-(

Beyond the opposite of Not-Invented-Here (A prophet is without honor in his or her own country), perhaps Sun's choice is because Self used an enormous amount of memory for the time, whereas Smalltalk could run on smaller systems (part of that is about the implementation efficiencies of using classes)? VisualWorks was already used in embedded stuff (running Fabs as "ControlWorks") so it would have been a much safer bet in that sense.

And then, if you are going to do a home-brew system, the C syntax is commonplace...

I also have some comments about my own attempts at prototype-based systems, and why classes have some big advantages practically:
    "PataPata critique: the good, the bad, the ugly"
    http://patapata.sourceforge.net/critique.html

Again though, you still have a great point. And NewtonScript, say, was a prototype-based system designed for low memory environments like the Newton, so it was not impossible...

I think most people just don't understand how problematical the C-style syntax is for creating self-documenting easy-to-read code compared to Smalltalk's.

If you build your skills around Python, you'll hit serious trouble if you ever end up needing decent performance or unwrappered OS functionality. If you build your skills around C, whole new possibilities open up to you.

That's the dumbest thing I will have read today. I built my skills around 6502 assembler, written inside a monitor because I didn't know that real assemblers existed. I did my senior thesis on interfacing hardware to an embedded controller. I'm content writing memory-managing, bit-twiddling software in C. At the end of the day, though, I'd much rather write complicated stuff in Python than in anything else. Furthermore, I don't have any problem getting great performance out of it. The fact that you do says a lot more about the way you tried to write software in Python than it does about the language itself.

• data
• meta-data e.g. how to avoid obvious misinterpretations, errors etc
• free tools for storing data (and running basic analyses) e.g. SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc
• free tools for analysing data e.g. R, SOFA (Statistics Open For All - https://sourceforge.net/projects/sofastatistics/) etc
• free resources for learning about analysis e.g. CAST (http://cast.massey.ac.nz/collection_public.html), wikipedia etc
• free tools for presenting and disseminating results e.g. OpenOffice Impress, WordPress etc

Sorry to say, using HTML for something other than displaying information still feels like... you're trying to make an application out of a word document. Think about it, we're desperately trying to move away from the desktop but the framework we're using is primarily a framework for designing text and then clobber on tons of scripting to get it to do something else. Sure, we can do fancy stuff with it, but there's no consistency and everyone reinvents the wheel every time there's a need for something you'd take for granted in a desktop app that simply doesn't exist in pure HTML. Some might say that's the beauty of it, I call it a god damn mess that I've been fighting with for the past 10 years. If something like unprivileged XUL would have caught on, we could have had some interesting apps (links work in Firefox only) today. Sadly, we're still trying to make desktop applications out of documents, and I don't see HTML5 changing that. Granted, that we can run our applications distributed, centralized with a backend database and zero install, still make it an ideal platform to work with - but it doesn't change the fact that the markup language we're using is a hack of a tool. And don't get me started on "AJAX"...

1. you write your own module. Command-based modules are just 6 command definitions, see eg http://sshguard.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sshguard/trunk/src/fwalls/command_pf.h?revision=181&view=markup
2. you submit an extension request. If the team considers the firewall is relevant enough (Cisco ASA surely is), they're happy to add it. See the Request New link in the home page.

Back in the 1990's, all the rage was about "software components", what was back then a dream. Those who came up with COM and Corba and OpenDoc envisioned a world where software components would be as easy to put together as electronic components.

Well, that's the world we live in now. Just type "./configure; make" and use it. Why complain? It's a good thing. It makes us more productive. It allows our poor brains to keep up with Moore's law. See http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Concept%20Programming%20Presentation.pdf for more...

And use DenyHosts

I use one or more of these on my public facing servers.
1. Move the default ssh port to a higher order port (5000+)
2. Use Denyhosts http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ to block repeated attempts
3. use key exchange instead of username/password
4. use network based IPS.
Just moving the ssh port reduced the ssh brute force attack for me. Either stop being a noob or hire a sys admin.

Seriously. I'm in the same shoes and it's easy. I came across it pretty quick and all these SSH log in problems went away.

Check out...waaaaait...

What's most troubling is this:

I own a small Web development studio that specializes in open source software, primarily Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla for small businesses

You operate a business and you haven't figure out this chief problem yet...but you want us to help you out?

Well...Here's the solution: denyhosts

Someone else'll chime in with it....Just hope you read up and configure it properly....or you'll find yourself locked out of your own servers.

Great tool that pools the resources of multiple servers to proactively block IPs that are trying to brute-force the SSH port on any server in the pool:

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

I use it, and it has Just Worked for years.

Fail2ban or denyhosts activly target ssh. fail2ban includes rules for other services, but denyhosts includes a mechanism for sharing lists of your denied hosts w/ other admins, as well as using their ban lists to protect your ssh logins.