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I use Synergy ( http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ) to share one keyboard and mouse among several computers' displays. This should allow you to share one keyboard and mouse among multiple X servers running on your machine (and provide the opportunity for future expansion). It can even be used to do nonintuitive things like placing the "screen" of a VM (visible in a window on one of your screens) on an edge of one of your physical screens. (I'm still not sure that was a good idea.)

I had enquired about this during early KDE4 development - more specifically being able to share individual virtual desktops with one user per virtual desktop. This was for a school setting so that a teacher could help students directly from the desktop. This would have drastically reduced system requirements for a classroom setting, but basically the response was NO! what a waste of effort - that is useless. Fortunately iTALC provides most of this functionality but has a larger footprint than I was looking for, however it is probably suitable to your purposes.
(student=1 workspace)(teacher=all/any workspaces) ... Linux kernel 2.6.33 will bring kernel shared memory & I too can use iTALC

http://italc.sourceforge.net//

The powertoy one is pretty terrible, falls over, loses windows, etc.
I thoroughly recommend using VirtuaWin instead.

(I'm currently stuck with Windows at work, and it does most things GNOME virtual desktops can do.)

It's designed to share mice/keyboards/buffers across computers, but perhaps you could use it to share across X sessions on the same machine.

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Plus, the submitter actually forgot to post anonymously here and there:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/enano/

Enano CMS

Commenting to remove my "informative" moderation. It looks like the correct project is Enano CMS.

spot on. no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.

Sometimes people do use one-man projects, but then your application needs to be spot on. Example: Smultron and Lingon - http://smultron.sourceforge.net/. The first is a text editor for Mac which is comparable to Notepad++ on Windows and Lingon which is a utility for making launchd files. Developed by one guy, used by thousands. And although he didn't get hit by a bus, it is canned. Same story with lots of utilities, made by clever guys who got a lot of press time and who are now too busy speaking at seminars and conferences to develop the apps.

OK. So this is the/a website:
http://enanocms.org/

Yet another Content Management System in a sea of Content Management Systems. Not easy to get attention. Plus it's still in Beta. That alone will cross it off of the list of many people looking for something.

Of note, there are no reviews on Sourceforge yet. That is a missed opportunity right there.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/enano/

Do a quick google on "compare cms" and see what you come up with. Are you one the comparison site lists? Then you aren't even in the running. There are simply too many CMS packages out there. People need a quick summaries on comparison websites to assess functionality & requirements.

That's what we learned when we asked a similar question with another FOSS project called KATO. Those who responded said that they couldn't figure out what KATO could do for them. You need to be very specific and concrete. Say it in five words or less and surface it very prominently.

By googling his name, the project appears to be. Enano CMS

Your software is likely not terribly useful, difficult to set up, and/or not as useful as something which is easier to set up. It might also be ugly compared to the competition.

You might also have an unreasonable requirement; eg. Postgresql (not MySQL, etc.) for a backend database on, say, a note/reminder application. That's a bit of a headache to setup. Poor documentation? There ya go - most people aren't intimately familiar w/ every piece of software out there and wouldn't be able to follow the sparse breadcrumbs of documentation. (Just guessing here, I don't know your project.)

Let me take gxemul, an architecture emulator (ARM, MIPS, Motorola 88K, PowerPC, and SuperH). It's got very limited utility - IE, mainly for nostalgic users, hobbyists, or possibly as a way to make cross-compilation easier (by doing it 'native'). I've used it for the latter two purposes, and it does a good enough job that I got what I needed to get done (mostly).

As far as I know, it's got a single active developer. The IRC channel has under a dozen users, with maybe 2-3 active at a time max (last I checked). Yet, as a project, it seems to do pretty well.

Something you might try: packaging your project for a couple distributions and trying to get it added, with yourself as the package maintainer. I know that awesome (the window manager) is packaged in most distros at a reasonably current version, despite its fast paced development (it's under 2 years old, as a project). Having those packages available has certainly helped spread its adoption.

Another thing people usually forget about when clearing cookies is that Flash has cookies too and they don't clear along. When have you last time cleared them? Probably never. You can use BleachBit" to clear those along with other software, history and temp data.

Flash cookies are indeed something nasty, I was quite stumped when I found out about this.
My solution was to delete related directories on every login now:
rm -rf ~/.macromedia
rm -rf ~/.adobe/Flash_Player
I fear with client side SQL dbs in HTML5 this will need a DROP TABLE ....; statement as well. Or I'll do it the other way around by deleting my "polluted" browser config and copying a clean one over every time.

I compared between IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Both IE and Firefox were completely unique even with the user agent because of the .NET versions there. Opera and Chrome were quite genetic.

Plugins were also completely unique and really easy to detect in any other browser than IE8. Interestingly IE's plugin list was really small and not at all so unique. IE's top "warning" bar asked me if I want to run specific plugins (probably to detect them). System fonts were completely unique and looks like easy to detect.

Remember that this is info that for example Google gets all over the internet via Analytics - they don't even need those tracking cookies because your browser leaves so much unique data behind it that it doesn't matter. And so does every website owner.

Another thing people usually forget about when clearing cookies is that Flash has cookies too and they don't clear along. When have you last time cleared them? Probably never. You can use BleachBit" to clear those along with other software, history and temp data.

Though I'd question if the submitter is doing things correctly. Why not run BackupPC and automatically backup every device when it's connected to the network? Depending on storage requirements, you might be able to get away with a 2GB free DropBox account which makes it braindead easy and fully automatic. Or look into Microsoft Groove if you have it through MSDN or such.

Additionally, give everyone a company-wide portal where you can show the computer name and assigned user with the number of days since last backup. Remember: this is a helpful tool for people to lookup their own computer and ensure that it's backed up. Very easy to do with BackupPC... the user can even instantly run their own full or incremental backup right from the web interface. The intended side-effect is to let everyone see who the worst offenders are who never backup their systems.

Further, BackupPC will automatically email the user saying "It's been n days since your last backup..." and bug them for you. Of course, you can't turn that off without disabling it for the many people who have requested that feature. :)

Sometimes I think the entire "Buy this ringtone and customize your phone to represent YOU" scam is one of the telecom industry's biggest worthless marketing success.

It is. But then again, you don't have to support it to still "personalize" your phone. Most phones have bluetooth. Bluetooth adapters are cheap for computers that don't already have it. Combine with a copy of Adobe Audition or (for the FOSS crowd) Audacity and a bit of time learning, it's ridiculously easy to make your own ringtones. Why pay USD $2 or more for a 30 second clip from a song when you can make the same clip from your personal collection for free? 40+ ringtones on my phone (although I rarely change it) and I've cut and transferred them all myself. And a lot of them are things you simply won't find on your provider's website. Alice Nine, Indica, Oomph, and my personal favorite, The Protomen.

Oh, and since I agree with you about people's ringtones blaring, I keep my volume set to a reasonable level. Loud enough that I can hear it, but not so loud you can hear it across the lobby in a movie theater.

http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/

It is! the OSS version is available in the http://lame.sourceforge.net/ project on sourceforge.

Honestly, a properly set up lame encoder can generate a MP3 that even a audiophile listening on his $89,000 speakers going through the virgin gold plated no oxygen directional speaker wires can hear the difference.

I have some 320kbps VBR files made from a SACD rip of Supertramp Crime of the century that are absolutely incredible, they sound better than a standard CD of the same album.

outlined the reasons behind the ban, now with 100% less obfuscation, link tracking, and annoying toolbar!

Are you stating I can't install my own memory, my own hard drive, my own optical disk, MP3's, MP4's, Blu-Ray rips (yes you can also rip those on a Mac), DVD's, Operating Systems, etc, etc. ad-nauseum? Need hardware? It's just a click away on Amazon, just as it is for every laptop and PC out there.

There is a plethora of Mac and Unix FOSS available, just as there is for Linux.

http://www.macupdate.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://mac.softpedia.com/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

Your argument is patently ridiculous and reeks of trolling.

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

I think it is an example of how our desktop environments are failing us though. My eeepc and my hp laptop both run ubuntu 8.10 with gnome. When both are connected to my wifi I should be able to slide my mouse off the left side of the HP screen onto the eeepc, and drag files as I go.

Try Synergy to share keyboard and mouse via software and network between computers that have their own display. You might be able to copy and paste files with the unified clipboard.

I don't want to sound like a repeating record but the Dirac codec produced by BBC R&D is royalty free and extremely good.

I am sure if you look you will find more but start with these links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)

http://diracvideo.org/

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

and if you can watch the promo too.

http://dirac.kw.bbc.co.uk/download/video/maybefinal/

why are we still debating this?

Possibly you are not aware of psdoom.

It's part of Semantic. http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml

Repeat after me: H.264 is NOT FREE, not by a long way.

So, they could implement the format and disable it by default. If users want to use it, or if they are allowed in their country, they have to enable it. Just show some
popup when some site wants to use HTML5, and users will click "OK", you can bet on that.

Something similar is done by the freetype project: http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html, although in that case the patent can be circumvented by setting a compile-time switch.

http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/

Actually, it looks like Streamtorrent doesn't have alot of traction atm. Consider Goalbit instead. - Goalbit: http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/index.html -kf

Eggplant says hi.

As a professional test automator, I'd like to point out that automation by image recognition is the method of last resort. The #1 concern in GUI automation is maintainability, and image recognition is the least maintainable method of automation there is short of recording mouse coordinates and keypresses. If you change your theme, if the developer rearranges the controls, if any text is changed, the script is broken. The idea of using image recognition for web page automation is right out. Web sites change way too often for something like this.

The key to writing maintainable scripts is finding and hooking into the property that is least likely to change. If you're automating Windows Forms .NET apps, you might be able to get the actual variable name. If you're automating web pages you could look at the id or name of the control. You can look at the text of a button or the label of a textbox. You find whatever you can that won't change.

On Windows, use AutoIT if you want something free. There's better commercial tools but they start in the hundreds of dollars and only go up from there.

For web automation, look at watir, WebDriver/Selenium, or WatiN.

On Macs you get these nice tools called AppleScript and Automator. These are made for end users. They don't use the UI, but instead use an interface made just for automation.

If you can at all avoid it, I recommend not using image recognition tools. They're extremely fragile. That said, sometimes it can't be avoided. I'll probably take a look at the source to see if there's anything I can use in those few cases where image recognition is unavoidable.

I just installed fsv, which was inspired by SGI's 3D file viewer. It's almost a joke. Perhaps I have things misconfigured, but I can't even get my scroll wheel to work with it. Visualization is essentially limited to "this is a big file," so it gets a big Gouraud shaded rectangle. On a modern file browser, at least the image files get thumbnail icons. Even MP3s can be associated with album artwork.

But there's very little beyond "Wow, you've got a lot of big files in your "downloads" directory.

To be fair, the original was developed for SGI workstations. Some of those had specialized hardware for interacting with 3D objects, and even stereo imaging. Such a machine would (typically) be operated by users with intuitive understanding of 3D space. Perhaps some small advantage beyond eye candy could be realized.

I still am suffering under the illusion that the effects that Exposé and Spaces enhance the usability of those programs. Perhaps, with the addition of head tracking, stereo displays and 3d gestures, a meaningful 3d interface might be possible.

It's not like there are any other OSs that they could have used.

They used Linux because it was easy. Changing the GPL is just going to make companies like Tivo stop using FOSS, they'll just move to a project that has licensing that fits their needs better.

Have you tried Cppcheck: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Main_Page

Try Cppcheck: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Main_Page

SLIME is for developing in Common Lisp. Emacs is written in its own Lisp dialect (called Emacs Lisp).

If you want a more IDE-like environment in Emacs, have a look at CEDET and ECB.

SLIME is for developing in Common Lisp. Emacs is written in its own Lisp dialect (called Emacs Lisp).

If you want a more IDE-like environment in Emacs, have a look at CEDET and ECB.

Find an existing project that interests you and work on it.
Developers need projects to collaborate on. Fortunately, many projects already exist.

To find a project just browse open source projects on sites like SourceForge, Google Code, CodePlex, etc. Don't waste your time (and life) working on projects that don't get you excited. If you're not interested in a project it will feel more like work than it has to.

Twenty heads are better than two.

Or run Linux natively. I have a slightly dated 24" iMac with an ATI Radeon GPU. I ran OS X for a few days and then got frustrated with the limited and over-intrusive UI, and with the tediousness of dealing with the various software ports projects. (The latter aren't awful, and I don't mean to disparage the people working on this, but it's nothing like just having yum or apt-get already there and just waiting to install thousands of excellent free packages.)

So I installed rEFIt, and shrunk OS X down to a tiny partition I never boot into. Instead, I run Fedora 12 with all open source / free software drivers, including sound and 3D-accelerated video. (I think maybe the webcam doesn't work, but I don't really care.) Definitely the nicest Linux workstation I've ever had.

ufraw allows you to speicify color profiles.
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Colors.html

What about rawstudio and ufraw? I have used all three and I can say that while I like the features that rawtherapee has I like it the least overall. Everything is so slow that working on a RAW image takes forever. Rawstudio has the least amount of features but is very fast and the SVN version has added a few very important features. It is currently my favorite. UFRaw is nice but the interface isn't as clean as rawstudio and there is no batch processing. Every image has to be opened separately.

FTP would be dead if Microsoft would adopt the SSH suite, since SSH has the exact same capabilities as FTP. SSH is the swiss army knife of encrypted networking. Port tunneling is very useful. Less known, but also very nice is the ability to use pipes like this:

echo "hello" | ssh remote_host "cat > hello.txt"

You could use it to make a large backup without consuming disk space on the local machine.

tar -zc directory_to_backup | ssh remote_host "cat > backup.tar.gz"

It also works very well with rsync. Combine with hard links for a great backup strategy.

I like to see the surprise from Microsoft centric developers when they discover what SSH can do. They seem to all have this false assumption that it's just for getting a shell on a remote UNIX system.

Though I haven't kept up with SSH development on Windows, two applications I've used on Windows are: WinSCP and PUTTY sshwindows also looks interesting as I use cygwin + SSH

Windows users should install VLC.

VLC is a poor choice. Media Player Classic Home Cinema supports Windows's DirectShow media playback system, and supports hardware accelerated decoding, hardware accelerated rendering, codecs other than those included with MPC-HC, etc.

Most importantly, I think it's the only video player out there that supports vsync to avoid horrible 'tearing' while playing video.

I just can't imagine why anyone would think it's a good idea to play a video with vsync off, but every other player seems to do it.

On your legacy Xbox you should be able to stream .mp4, so just remux. You could do that with Avidemux or just use something simple like XenonMKV. Remuxing will give you the container format you need without requiring a (lossy) re-encode although depending on the audio format you might sometimes need to recode AC3->AAC.

Here's a cool list of container formats in case anyone's not see it.

Personally I prefer the aptly named All To Avi. It is free, supports most of the popular formats, and most importantly for me outputs .Avi files that even my cheapskate family members with the el cheapo DVDs can play just beautifully. Also supports keeping the subtitles if you so desire.

As for handbrake? well considering the one format that just about every DVD players seems to support nowadays is DivX, that just gives me a really good reason to avoid and not recommend their software. Maybe in a couple of years when every player supports .Mkv, but that day isn't upon us yet.

Windows users should install VLC.

VLC is a poor choice. Media Player Classic Home Cinema supports Windows's DirectShow media playback system, and supports hardware accelerated decoding, hardware accelerated rendering, codecs other than those included with MPC-HC, etc.

Well, Bucket's based on the (rather widespread) 'infobot' Perl program. The original infobot is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/infobot/, but the XKCD variant of Bucket has a very detailed page showing the various interactions one can have with it, as well as a link to the Github page. See http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Bucket.

Firefox/Mozilla guys live in some imaginary World where you maintain/install/update thousands of desktops/laptops just like a home user, clicking "firefox.exe" installer.

IE on the other hand, has amazing administrator capabilities and when coupled with that enterprise "ms update services", it is unbeatable.

Firefox resists to ship a Microsoft Installer (MSI) and Apple Installer (PKG) for some mysterious reason let alone doing the stuff above. Near all those ".exe" shareware etc. stuff you see are in fact MSI packages packed into .exe file for convenience and prevent web server issues.

It got more unexplaniable since there is a complete open source MSI packager which is hosted at sourceforge ( http://wix.sourceforge.net/ ) and interesting thing is, InstallShield corp like guys would even donate their solutions to them with free automated setups. It is not some no name software, it is Firefox.

OpenBSD is the best way I know of to do this, hands down. It'll save you more money and headaches than you can imagine. The only thing FreeBSD has on it for this application (i.e. domUs, virtualbox, zfs not applicable) is easier Sguil http://sguil.sourceforge.net/ installation, but OpenBSD has a tighter security profile, easier maintenance, and narrower attack profile than any other OS or distro.

Download him lightscreen, which is actually designed for specialised screen capture (e.g you can grab individual windows or screen areas as opposed to the whole screen). I haven't used it for a while, but IIRC you can also tell it to take a screen-cap every x seconds.

NOTES: Fair's fair: the netbook's WiFi Linux driver (both O/S's) will not connect to WEP WiFi APs (WPA works fine).

That's a known bug with NetworkManager. Replace it with wicd and you should connect on the first try.

From what I've seen, and I did look into the matter a great deal, mp3 decoding (playing) hasn't really been an issue, either because Franhougher (I don't remember how to spell it) doesn't bother to sue anyone who makes software mp3 players or their claimed patent on it doesn't exist / isn't valid.

The problem is with mp3 encoders. Sometime around the late 1990s the company started suing open source developers until they stopped making any encoders. The only project which survived was GNU Lame, but apparently only because they had the legal backing and they declared their program for "educational and research" purposes.

This is why Ogg Vorbis gained traction. Open source developers didn't have to worry about being sued when using this format. Also note mpeg 4 video may have similar problems. The group which handles licensing (I believe called MPEG-LA) has repeatedly said they want to charge per file created, not just per encoder.

It could get really expensive if they decide to do this. This is also why Ogg Theora is important. Not necessarily to get everyone to use it, but for an alternative in case you can't afford or don't want to pay license fees. Some video game companies use ogg vorbis because there is some high flat fee for the license of games. I think it was $30,000(US)/game when I checked. Not a small amount at any rate.

If you need to encode for your mp3 devices, from what I understand (IANAL) the patent for mpeg layer 2 has run out, so you don't have to worry about royalties. The project toolame encodes layer 2. I know it is on debian and the source should be easy to find. It is older codec, so doesn't compress as well.

But then from my observations in sound and compression, mp3s are inferior to ogg vorbis. mp3 is just used because every device supports it and everyone is used to it. Some company (same one?) came out with a "mp3 pro" format, but no one used it and no one cared. Probably for the same reason as vorbis, but also because it required licensing fees as well.

So I am not really sure anyone will notice or care about any issues with layer 2 anyway. I notice a little, but only because I try to get my files really small (below 64kbps if possible)

Actually, this would be a great application for that Van Eck idea.

Yeah, but who's got $2000 to fund that website. I mean, err, um... hey, whatever happened to eckbox?