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OWL is a nice setup in that it will automatically index all your PDF/RTF/whatever files. Its UI is a bit clunky, and documentation is sparse, but if you have the patience, it might be worth your time.

I use all three of these apps (see parent also) in various capacities. Which, as you have discovered, indicates that there really doesn't seem to be a "killer" F/OSS app out there that handles everything for a full-fledged document management system.

Wikindx3 is a full-fledged bibliographic database that can manage *any* type of document, and permits annotations. As an added bonus, you can export the biblio info in any number of formats (including my favorite, .bib for LaTeX).

I've had good success with OpenDocMan as well, but I'm not sure if that application permits annotation (at least I've never used that feature set).

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

along with a reasonable shell

Have you tried the native Windows port of zsh? It was unmaintained for several years but has recently been picked up again, might be worth checking out.

...and only with programs that they want you to use...

Wait, what?! How do you people not get modded down for this blatant misinformation? There are absolutely no restrictions on what applications you can run on OSX, as evidenced by the vast selection of free and open source software available for it, much of it competing directly with apple products.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe

With Grub4dos you can put a bunch of bootable isos and floppies on a flash drive, or on one dvd http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/

Admittedly there are some subtleties to doing it that way, but I've done it for a long time.

No, not in a tool. I mean - pop-up warning "Hey, your hard drive is failing" without your intervention. Like the battery warning.

After my first HD failure I installed smarmontools ( http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ). The next time I got advance warning about the oncoming failure. I had dropped my laptop from about 1 meter and less than week from that incident, I got the popup. About week from that my system would not boot any longer. There are other smart monitoring software also, but this one is open source, thus you are getting good bang for the buck.

So it turns out that there is a GUI for lsof.

I've never needed a GUI for lsof, but I guess some people would say it is required if there is a similar GUI tool for Windows ...

Are they running this by chance?

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

That's incomplete emulation. By floppy emulation, I mean that when a CD starts booting, the BIOS makes something show up on the A: drive, and makes it look (to the software) very very close to what a real floppy would look like (ie. responds to BIOS calls (INT 13h) in the way that a floppy does).

For starters, you can't make a disk partition look like an unpartitioned drive.

last time they had to shutdown the website and re-licence the tool (http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool) because of GPL violations. I wounder if they use http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ source code this time ;-)

Um, have you tried Virtual Dimension: http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ ? I don't know if it works on > Vista but it has worked great for me on Windows 2000 and XP.

So it's usefulness is kind of limited. If you want to create bootable usb-sticks for other operating systems, check http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

You can use KDE 4.4 with F12 right now using the Redhat KDE testing repos: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

I haven't bothered checking, but I believe that generally Fedora will wait for the next release to upgrade KDE 4.x numbers, so you may have to wait for F13 to actually get it from Fedora.

And in other news they're starting to get their butt kicked out of the entertainment industry too.

you also have to click in each window first to activate it, then you can select your tool...

You need to activate click-through in the X11 server. It is a pain that this isn't the default, but now that you know, you'll find GIMP so much nicer on OS X.

From http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/guides/install_leopard/:

There's one small operation we can now perform to make it easier to use (note that this is not necessary). Doing this will save you many unnecessary double-clicks during editing by not requiring you to activate GIMP windows before you can click on them. While Gimp and X11 are closed, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and paste the following command in it and press enter:
# If you installed the XQuartz packages :

        defaults write org.x.X11 wm_click_through -bool true

# If you installed the Apple X11 packages :

        defaults write com.apple.X11 wm_click_through -bool true

You mean http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenet/. Thank god those projects are already mirrored internationally by a decentralized network, otherwise the net effect of this export control would be to just keep encryption out of the citizens of those same repressive governments, not those governments themselves.

You mean http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenet/. Thank god those projects are already mirrored internationally by a decentralized network, otherwise the net effect of this export control would be to just keep encryption out of the citizens of those same repressive governments, not those governments themselves.

What are people trying to accomplish with attending lectures and taking notes that can not be done in other ways, like watching videos or reading books? Learning by working on problem sets, or better, real world problems, drawing on digital materials you search through and read as you need (on-demand learning) seems more appropriate these days.

An essay by me on this, about the poor use of technology by schools because schools are using an obsolete social paradigm:
"Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools"
http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

Here are lots more of my writings organizing collections of links and ideas about college issues in general:
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October/005379.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005584.html
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/006005.html

But with a real tablet computer and a stylus (e.g. Lenovo x-series tablets), in addition to erasing you also get a pencil that can cut & paste, resize, move, add space in the middle of the page, highlight, color, change the color of already written text, and annotate pdfs (in case the lecturer hands out slides in pdf format), and undo.

It's called Xournal. I frakking love it. Completely changed the way I work. Now I don't have to carry a backpack full of printed articles.

I also use Zotero. It's a bibliographic database add-on for firefox, and it will store full-text pdf's. If you set up xournal as your default pdf viewer, you can annotate and store the annotations for papers. So I no longer carry any printed paper or notes anymore.

If you're in science or engineering and deal in diagrams, equations, and journal articles, this beats the crap out of paper & pencil.

I hope to see more real tablet computers this year. Everyone has decided to stop manufacturing tablets with high-resolution screens, and use wide screens too, which means in portrait mode your tablet is blocky (can't read subscripts of equations) and too tall (because it's 16:10 rather than 4:3). So while the iPad sucks on all the above points, I hope it spurs some new & interesting tablets this year. Pen input (wacom) also needs improvement, especially near the edges of the screens where precision is lost.

I use a laptop because I have terrible handwriting, and I like being able to search through what I've written. For formulae and graphs, I use LaTeX and Graphviz notation, or a shorthand thereof. If I can't keep up with that, I use a paper notepad; then I take a picture of the page and file it with my digital notes. If I'm really in a hurry (eg, if I arrived late, or if I stopped paying attention for a bit, etc.), I take a photo of the blackboard directly.
Whenever possible, I download the professor's materials ahead of time, and take digital notes on them directly (using Skim).

But I always use pen and paper for notes, you can write down everything easier and you has less to carry with a computer and power cords and hoping you are near an outlet.

Then I copy my notes (or scan diagrams) onto the computer.. easier to find and read and organize. I find using something like Mind Map or Free mind also help to get all the notes in a better flow.

Neither *nix nor FF are threatened by H.264. All you need is this. Pretty sure there's also a VLC plugin available that would do the trick as well.

DooM Legacy is a build of the Doom engine for Windows which adds updated features like TCP/IP network play.

Try tmux instead of screen. I've found it to be more robust and intuitive, probably by virtue of not being GNU.

dtach is tiny screen-like app, well, it does just the detach portion of it. Handy if you're running it on something pathetic (hacked router, fe.), and don't need all of GNU screen's bells and whistles.

dtach

It's not all that difficult, and it's not fast paced. This game is a slow battle of attrition. Can you collect enough shields/extra lives to make up for the unavoidable damage you'll gradually accumulate? What's more, it runs at 50fps, which guarantees jerky scrolling on any common monitor. This is a very bad game.

For a Free shooting game that's actually fun, try rRootage:
http://rrootage.sourceforge.net/

Don't know about users, how about processes?

but each time I always go back to Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

What about everyone who installs msttcorefonts for compatibility? Not to mention all the other random fonts you have to accumulate to open documents?

Lonx?

No, Lonks.

The is a real issue in the lack of CAD software and accounting software that is capable. Flame me if you will, but it's true. I remember a time when AutoCAD supported or tried to support just about every OS. Then sometime int the 90's or late 80's they decided just to support windows only. Of course their might be some real high end Unix stuff that will work but lacking millions of dollars to know, I just couldn't say.

Look for yourself, most if not all programs are just not there. No parametrics, well not even up to 1990 yet compared with commercial software.
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=CAD&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&words=CAD&Search=Search

http://sourceforge.net/projects/narocad/

I do not completely agree with the above post. While it is true that there are fields where the cost of the sw is not a real issue it is also true that some of these software niches are filled by FOSS tools. For example in 3D printing/rapid prototyping one of the best tools around for cleaning up models is an open source tool, called MeshLab ( http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ ) .

No one's mentioned avocad-cad yet?

Back in the day, a generation of tinkerers cut their teeth on radio and television sets. They would test the functioning of vacuum tubes in the drugstore, and buy souped up parts to improve the picture.

Nowadays, the kiddies can't do anything with these newfangled OLED tv sets! How are you going to learn about repairing broken TVs if the TV never breaks???

Speak for yourself. The Samsung TV's are quite hack-able.

I've replaced plenty of LCD backlights, my old boss (an MBA) also used his spare time to repair old laptops and other devices he had hanging around. Granted this was a new hobby and often would be in my office on Monday morning with questions (only questions, he wanted to do the work himself).

The functionality of Resedit can be found in programs like Iconographer and HexEdit. Macsbug has been supplanted by the numerous debugging utilities included with XCode, included under /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/, as well as command line utilities such as gdb.

FreeCAD https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page has made huge progress recently.

You didn't research very well, it's not windows only . RPM is sort of worthless, and it's a monumental feat to get it to compile and build, but that is not some desktop software, that's the server source. If you read the directions, it specifically says it listens on port 80 by default.

Jmol is pretty good.

That's what I use too. It does the job well enough. If only I could figure out how to get access to the numbers on the stack higher than 2 (swap). But so far I've found it more useful than any other RPN calculator in the ubuntu repos.

These days whenever I want to calculate anything remotely non-trivial I go to a spreadsheet or database, depending on the data. I might want to do a similar calculation again, and I might want to have the calculation properly debugged rather than double check my figures with a calculator. (Yeah I know, someday I will learn R. I promise.) But for fast, once only, back of the envelope type calculations (or exams), RPN calculators still can't be beat. Bound to your calculator button, and accessible from your cell phone.

And for the latter, you want Calc (Roar Lauritzsen's).

http://midp-calc.sourceforge.net/Calc.html

I'd trust these guys to get it right.

So, yes they were technically separate, but since the OS update, the firmware update and Boot Camp Beta were released more or less simultaneously its a bit moot.

The point is, before then installing Windows on a Mac at all was a hacker job whereas since then you can just stick in a Windows DVD, the only hacky bit (where BootCamp comes in) being the hybrid partitioning. If you've got a Mac Pro where you can stick Windows on a separate MBR-format HD to OS X you really don't need Boot Camp Assisistant at all.

I could want an Octave development environment, especially if it offered some of MATLAB's friendly features. I'd want something like OctaveDE, in other words.

The Linux calculator we use at work is gtapecalc: http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/

It is oldler, but a great business calculator. The best feature it has is the ability to emulate a calculator WITH A PRINTOUT TAPE! So you can see everything you did, edit those numbers, add comments, even print the "tape".

I prefer the Python interactive shell and GNU Octave (or any other Matlab-compatible environment, including Matlab itself) for numerical calculations, Asymptote for plots and other methods of data visualisation, Maxima when a CAS is in order and LaTeX to turn all the stuff generated by those packages into something readable and publishable.

Throw in some scripted links between all those tools, a few functions from Peter Acklam's Matlab Utilities, your favourite function for converting a matrix to a LaTeX table and saving it into a file in a single call, a few exec()-equivalents here and there, and you'll get a rig that auto-regenerates your report/publication/thesis/shopping list/whatever else you might have been doing, in a single run of a single program, should you spot a mistake somewhere deep in the calculations, or a typo in the input.

For one, I don't think I'll ever understand people who use spreadsheets. And copy their results to the word processor. And then spot a mistake in a formula, fix it and proceed to copy the new, correct results from scratch. And then spot a typo in the data.

Why biased? Well, I'm studying control systems and robotics. It's all about task automation. Besides, everything in this field involves using Matlab for something, and just about everyone in the academia (the technical side of it, at least) is using LaTeX, so you just kind of get used to using those two for just about anything after a while, and automating everything with scripts.

Of course, the above assumes somtheing more complicated than a few basic operations in a single line. We're talking about sophisticated calculators here. For simple tasks I'm just using Google...

I prefer the Python interactive shell and GNU Octave (or any other Matlab-compatible environment, including Matlab itself) for numerical calculations, Asymptote for plots and other methods of data visualisation, Maxima when a CAS is in order and LaTeX to turn all the stuff generated by those packages into something readable and publishable.

Throw in some scripted links between all those tools, a few functions from Peter Acklam's Matlab Utilities, your favourite function for converting a matrix to a LaTeX table and saving it into a file in a single call, a few exec()-equivalents here and there, and you'll get a rig that auto-regenerates your report/publication/thesis/shopping list/whatever else you might have been doing, in a single run of a single program, should you spot a mistake somewhere deep in the calculations, or a typo in the input.

For one, I don't think I'll ever understand people who use spreadsheets. And copy their results to the word processor. And then spot a mistake in a formula, fix it and proceed to copy the new, correct results from scratch. And then spot a typo in the data.

Why biased? Well, I'm studying control systems and robotics. It's all about task automation. Besides, everything in this field involves using Matlab for something, and just about everyone in the academia (the technical side of it, at least) is using LaTeX, so you just kind of get used to using those two for just about anything after a while, and automating everything with scripts.

Of course, the above assumes somtheing more complicated than a few basic operations in a single line. We're talking about sophisticated calculators here. For simple tasks I'm just using Google...

Why can't they just use source forge like everybody else?

You mean http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils.

By a few of the entries, looks like they do. Though more accurately, people are creating OS projects based on LoC standards.

Sourceforge.net

Powertoy from Microsoft?? bah

Nothing like VirtuaWin, an open source virtual desktop manager for Windows.

I have used it since maybe about 2 years and it has never crashed. It has plugin feature so you can extend its feature set. I like the plugin that lets you monitor the time spent among desktops; it is good for doing consulting work.