Slashdot Mirror

P.S. Really, any version control system will do with the added benefit of tracking all versions of all files. I tried this with Subversion as well and it worked ok but I couldn't figure out how to prevent another copy of the files in the local repository. I was overjoyed when I found Bazaar with the lightweight option. I once even set up some hook scripts with WebShare and in about an hour I had a complete replacement for dropbox. I didn't use that part though so I haven't kept it up.

I agree, unison is great. I used unison for several years to sync machines. It worked great for linux-linux, and seemed to mostly work for linux-mac/mac-linux syncs as well. The main problem was with resource forks causing a bunch of ._foo files, but there's not too much you can do about that if you're copying data from HFS+ to something else. It's been a while since I used unison (I gave up my desktop, and now only use a laptop.), but seems like unison has the ability to actually merge files by fire off something like meld to resolve conflicts. That's a big win.

You can make acronyms for anything you want that spell whatever you desire. I should know, I'm the one who created the Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine. Which I did rename once I wanted to put it down on my CV.

People like this, I usually say you're right, it isn't free. It comes bundled if you buy a computer with Linux. But for this software, the authors don't mind if you use it on Windows too.

I'd be interested in what hardware it was bundled with. So interested I found this page actually:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/bundlers

Sound cards, ADC audio capture, USB electric guitars (wtf is that anyway), other misc packages. If the software is good, people will put it wherever is needs to be. I guess GIMP is more useful as a toolkit than an application.

TrueCrypt is open source and is available for download from Source Forge, which hosts open source projects. And here's the downloadable source code.

Falcon

The biggest problem against FLAC is simple: relatively few portable media players support FLAC "out of the box." In fact, you almost would be better off with selling Apple Lossless encoded music, since just about every iPod classic, nano and touch model since 2004 and all iPhone models support Apple Lossless natively.

a lot more portables (by choice, not market share) support flac (dozens) than apple lossless (ipod)[1]. and pretty much everyone selling lossless is selling flac. as far as I know, nobody is selling apple lossless and the one outfit selling wma lossless (musicgiants) went bankrupt.

[1] http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html (stale and missing a lot of new players and stores from this year)

DOSBox has various integer multiple scalers at 2x and 3x...options are listed in dosbox.conf but unfortunately generate a filter error for junk characters if I try to include them here. On the other hand, I don't think DOSBox is quite up to running Windows 3.1 well enough to run Win32 games. Getting close though.

But I think the general idea of running old low-res games in an emulator/virtual machine is probably a good way to control the resolution scaling. Run the game inside a window that is at an integer multiple of the original resolution, and then your full-screen resolution just has to be big enough to fit the window without being so hi-res that the window is too small. So maybe use WINE for those old windows games?

Since no-one seems to have provided a link to DOSBox, here you go:
http://www.dosbox.com/ OR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/

I'm the author of Chocolate Doom, which deliberately maintains the low resolution of the original game, but has to run in modern, high resolution screen modes. One of the problems with Doom is that the graphics are designed for non-square pixel modes (the original game ran in 320x200, stretched to a 4:3 aspect ratio screen), so there's the double problem of having to scale everything up to work in a square pixel screen.

I developed a technique that does a blocky scale-up, interpolating the edges of the blocky "pixels" appropriately, so that you end up with a fairly decent looking result. I don't know if this is useful to the developers of programs like DOSBox, but the code's there if anyone wants it.

http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms

Linux has been ported to various non-x86 architectures. See: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-nonx86.html

And some folks have even ported a Linux subset to 8086. See: http://elks.sourceforge.net/FAQ-English.html

Still, it would be quite a small subset to fit on the 4004. Being so small, you could consider it a subset of virtually any OS.

Do you actually have any idea of where you are posting. Do you know anything at all about slashdot, obviously not. Down at the bottom of the page you will find a link to http://geek.net/, now at this web site you will find some more links, specifically too http://sourceforge.net/, just one more link to go http://sourceforge.net/about, thats right 230,000 open source software projects. Now I don't know if you have done any coding but I can assure that the simplest project at source forge is far most complex, time consuming and takes far greater effort than the most difficult and complex lesson plan, in fact no comparison at all. See, it can be done, by people who want to do it.

There are open text books currently being produced, I'll let you do some research and find the sites, I think you need the practice, hint, they have been mentioned on slashdot several times so you can start you search right here.

Do you actually have any idea of where you are posting. Do you know anything at all about slashdot, obviously not. Down at the bottom of the page you will find a link to http://geek.net/, now at this web site you will find some more links, specifically too http://sourceforge.net/, just one more link to go http://sourceforge.net/about, thats right 230,000 open source software projects. Now I don't know if you have done any coding but I can assure that the simplest project at source forge is far most complex, time consuming and takes far greater effort than the most difficult and complex lesson plan, in fact no comparison at all. See, it can be done, by people who want to do it.

There are open text books currently being produced, I'll let you do some research and find the sites, I think you need the practice, hint, they have been mentioned on slashdot several times so you can start you search right here.

http://passwordmaker.sourceforge.net/

I would think that anyone running an ssh server should also be running something like the Denyhosts daemon. After a set number of failed logon attempts, it will automatically add the connecting ip address to hosts.deny and their hack attempt is over.

Security essentials is free for business, so replace AVG with that:

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

7Zip is free and OSS. Replace Winzip with that. Heck, XP has its own zip handler installed. A lot of techies assumed that XP needs a zip program because 2000 didnt have one. Get rid of it.

http://www.7-zip.org/

PDFCreator is free and OSS. It can make PDFs. Most people just need to make them, not 'edit' them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Security Essentials for business use is against the EULA. Try Clamwin instead, its open source.

PDFCreator is free and OSS. It can make PDFs. Most people just need to make them, not 'edit' them.

If you do need to annotate them then Xournal works fairly well. I often use it to fill out PDF rebate forms and such before printing them.

True PDF editing software is hard to come by. Inkscape can sometimes make a PDF editable but it's hit-or-miss depending on the content.

Security essentials is free for business, so replace AVG with that:

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

7Zip is free and OSS. Replace Winzip with that. Heck, XP has its own zip handler installed. A lot of techies assumed that XP needs a zip program because 2000 didnt have one. Get rid of it.

http://www.7-zip.org/

PDFCreator is free and OSS. It can make PDFs. Most people just need to make them, not 'edit' them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Try out a LiveCD/DVD iso. You can even put it on a USB stick with unetbootin*.

First format the USB stick in Windows as Fat32. Then run unetbootin with admin privileges. Make sure Windows has already mounted the USB stick before you run the tool and check what the mount point is called (F:\, E:\, etc)

Jesus...

* http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

typedef struct _xmlrpc_mem_block {
size_t _size;
size_t _allocated;
void* _block;
} xmlrpc_mem_block;

I think http://golang.org/doc/go_for_cpp_programmers.html#Slices are picked from http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/

For logistical reasons there aren't a lot of options. Past competitions have used Wargus, since it's open source. Game-industry people tend to roll their eyes at it though, and would prefer a competition using a "real" RTS, i.e. a popular mainstream one. Starcraft is one of the only choices for that, because someone's made an API for it that allows you to write external AI to play the game. Most commercial RTSs don't have any way of doing that, unless you were to screen-scrape the display and then have to implement all sorts of computer vision to even figure out what's going on (in which case it'd be more of a vision than an AI-strategy competition).

Actually, neither of us is right.

It's actually released under LGPL. I just misread it on the web page http://datadraw.sourceforge.net/

DataDraw is released under the GNU Library General Public License, Version 2. It costs you nothing to use, and does not restrict your application in any way. Only the DataDraw program itself is covered by the license.

That was what I was going to suggest. Passwordmaker has a Firefox Plugin, an Online Version (although you still need to remember your Master password and settings - Mine aren't the defaults obviously) and of course a downloadable Javascript implementation.

As long as your master password and settings are secure (I'm a bad person, I have my master password saved. It's in a truecrypt volume (with my entire FF profile), but still), you should be secure against any reasonable attack. My biggest problem is websites that either don't accept a genuinely secure password, or one that have password complexity requirements that the particular hash of master password and domain name doesn't quite match, but those are rare.

Pug

Anyone run into these or have any recommendations of good detection software?

Rootkit Hunter

As for the cache hit thing, it sounds quite suspicious to me, more details please.

BTW, I agree that > 90% of code doesn't need to run fast or memory efficiently. I am a fan of Python, but when I'm slinging around gigabytes of data, I use C. Very few programmers ever need this kind of efficiency. Anyway, check out this table half-way down. The "DataDraw" benchmark is still in C, but it uses carefully designed memory layout. The speed improvements are 100% due to cache hit rate improvements - 15X better than when using malloc for each object. Most slow memory-intensive programs waste most of their CPU time in L2 cache misses.

You want all the fields that are accessed in inner loops to be together in memory in dense arrays, and the other stuff should be somewhere else. So, for binary tree traversal, you want left and right and maybe some key value in a small structure, and all the other bloat needs to be elsewhere. Ideally, you allocate these structures which are nearby in the tree also nearby in memory. That way, when you get an L2 cache miss, the extra data you load into the cache likely contains data that will soon be accessed in the inner loop.

Garbage collectors typically don't bother allocating objects of the same type together. Careful management of memory can be a PITA, which is one reason I use the DataDraw tool for memory-intensive applications. It allows me to "cache together" fields, and puts wrappers around data access to hide the ugliness.

pwsafe

Or, you know, remember them :)

Link included http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpwsafe/

There is password manager daemon (pwmd). But there is no GUI. Applications that want to use it need to be patched to use libpwmd which also includes a command line client that can send passwords to stdout and then piped to xclip or whatever.

Try password safe. Choose one strong password to encrypt (via twofish) the entire data base, then choose strong random passwords for everything within. Only one password to store in memory that way.

It can run on a USB key (no registry entries), making it very portable. You can right-click entries to (1) surf to the selected logon page, (2) auto-fill username and password, and (3) hit submit, making surfing nearly as easy as the built-in firefox password manager, but much more secure. Of course, it has all the standard features, like auto-generating random passwords, database search, categories/subcategories/etc. My wife and I both use it and are pretty satisfied.

In the related links, you can find non-windows implementations, making it very portable.

I hope this helps; good luck! -- Paul

Try password safe. Choose one strong password to encrypt (via twofish) the entire data base, then choose strong random passwords for everything within. Only one password to store in memory that way.

It can run on a USB key (no registry entries), making it very portable. You can right-click entries to (1) surf to the selected logon page, (2) auto-fill username and password, and (3) hit submit, making surfing nearly as easy as the built-in firefox password manager, but much more secure. Of course, it has all the standard features, like auto-generating random passwords, database search, categories/subcategories/etc. My wife and I both use it and are pretty satisfied.

In the related links, you can find non-windows implementations, making it very portable.

I hope this helps; good luck! -- Paul

I use password safe, where I keep the encrypted password data file on a thumb drive, and backed up on my home computer. The program helps you organize passwords with categories, one click copy-paste to the clipboard (and clears the clipboard when the program is minimized or closed), and auto-generation based on a specified password policy.

Created by Bruce Schneier and perhaps the best app available.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

ccrypt: http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

ccrypt: http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

I have to track a lot of personal passwords and also 200+ passwords for client websites, emails, etc. I use Password Safe and recommend it:

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Hides when minimised and has a useful function that enables it to copy a password and minimise again when you double click a client name (i.e., if you need their main/default password). Quick and easy.

Used to have Filezilla set to remember client passwords until a PDF hole led to a bot stealing Filezilla's password store and auto-hacking a lot of sites that were a serious pain to clean up.

I first saw the link to PasswordSafe from Bruce Schneier's site. If I have to take advice from someone on keeping something secure, it's Bruce.

Well, I teach an undergraduate course and avoid using presentation software -which, anyway, would have been Lyx plus Beamer for me-, for largely the kind of reasons advanced in TFA. Most of my colleagues use PowerPoint or something similar this days.

And I'm starting to notice that many students actually prefer the PP-teachers. They want to have the information delivered in formulaic pills, "Concept A stands for blah; Concept B stands for bleh", and this is more easily achieved if the formulae in question are neatly projected on the screen. I could achieve the same effect by dictating, of course, but that's even more boring and less empowering for students that PowerPoint.

If you still want small and fast (and are on Windows) then you should be looking at Kmeleon or Kmeleon CCF ME instead. Both are made using the gecko engine, but are then stripped down to make them both lightning fast.

I would recommend standard Kemelon if you are running an older machine with 128Mb or less of RAM, as its footprint is tiny and it'll run on anything Win95 on up, and CCF ME if you have over 128Mb or need a portable browser as it comes with a nicer UI and built in ABP, as well as playing quite nicely with flash drives. Just unzip and go.

That is one of the nice things about FOSS to me, in that if you don't like a piece of software for one reason or another odds are somebody has made a nice fork to fix the very thing you hate. Just look at how many things are built on top of gecko-Firefox,SeaMonkey,Flock,Songbird,Kmeleon/CCF ME, I think there are a few others but I can't remember them off the top of me head. So happy BDay FF, and as someone who remembers when it was Netscape(suck) VS IE(crap) it sure is nice to have lots of choices. Thanks.

Is that you can think of a non-deterministic machine as the inverse of a deterministic machine. For my own education into the problem, I wrote a program that simulated an instruction set running backwards, but in the complete set sense.

So, if I put in a program to multiply, I could feed it two inputs A and B and get the multiplied value C. If I supplied C, the machine would be crunched "backwards" to get the various possibilities of A and B. Of course, in order for this to work without an explosion of possibilities, you would need a "magic" engine that knows the exact choice needed to arrive at a correct answer A and B at each step of the machine.

The next plan would have been to see if it were possible, given the bits of the solution set of C, and the engine, and the known symbols, to construct an uber table that can look up each of the steps of the engine... Now, how does one build that magic engine? That was what seemed to me the crux of the whole problem and unfortunately I got frustrated with it and walked away about a year. The whole mess is in source forge...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bicomp/

I feel a round 2, coming on.

Bah, updating the PROM doesn't allow you to view the encrypted programs. What it allows you to do is run other code on the box.

However, you can connect to the web interface on an unmodified Tivo, download the encrypted program, and use tivodecode http://tivodecode.sourceforge.net/, to access the video.

It gave me an excuse to bring up my first computer and some memories. If you feel the need to neo-retro-geek you could take an Arduino and write a program for it and for Processing that would talk to a 1541 through this interface. ;)

http://lng.sourceforge.net/lunix/cp/c64trans_eng.html

Finding a working 1541 is up to the reader. :/

It's a shame that building GtkRadiant on linux is virtually impossible these days. Code rot - the project is like, dead. I've once managed to get it running on some another machine, but it broke since then.

Tried DarkRadiant? Granted, it's only for Doom 3 engine and I haven't tried to build it from source, but at least it's actively developed.

and later they named the linux version chromium

True, but the ability to handle such things can come in handy. As an example, suppose you've got a setup where you're running apps off a server. You've got several different hardware platforms going, but you want your users to be able to double click the server hosted apps without worrying about picking the right one for the computer they happen to be sitting at. A fat binary is pretty much the only way to solve that problem.

The correct solution to this problem is environment modules. One of their many applications is setting up the scheme you describe -- totally transparently to the user, and in a easily maintainable way for the administrator, and I've seen them used successfully company-wide at a large semiconductor engineering corporation I worked for in the past.

Maybe they could make some use of the GPL code from the SUMO project? http://sumo.sourceforge.net/

Although on OS X it's miles ahead of X11, which isn't even capable of separating menus from windows - so yes, in a way X11 doesn't even get menus right. Speaking of which, what exactly is your issue with Notepad++'s menus? I haven't found anything unusual but then again I run Windows XP without visual styles so it might be a styling issue I can't see.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865630&group_id=95717&atid=612382

Dear Lord, it's actually marked as fixed!

Although, since his comment is, "making the language menu more compact," I'm thinking he still doesn't understand how the menu code is fundamentally wrong, regardless of the height of that particular menu. It's true that a more compact Language menu won't exhibit the bug, but that's not the same thing as fixing the bug.

The more fundamental question to me is, "where do you even GET a menu library in the year 2008 that flawed?" Also: "how much do you hate your users that you don't even bother to test your widgets before putting them in the program?"

I also reported a UAC issue, I haven't bothered checking back to see if that was fixed, but it was the kind of UAC bug that means Notepad++ *never* worked on a limited-user account in the past. Some software developers really just don't give a shit about the quality of their programs, do they?

BTW: there are styling issues, too. While searching for that bug, I found another that says the menu items have ugly white rectangles around the text.

Or he plays stuff like System Shock 2 (extremely difficult to properly play under XP; virtually impossible to play under Vista/7) and X-Com: Apocalypse and refuses to put a DOSBox around the latter. In fact, thinking back to SS2, just about every Dark Engine game should be problematic; that engine really didn't age well.

Well, ok, I never claimed compatibility was perfect. Wizardry 8 has issues, too, just none of them game-breaking. But if he's seriously saying 50%, then he must only own like 6 games and be the least lucky person ever. (Or more likely, he's exaggerating to make Windows look worse than it is.)

NetworkManager is a piece of shit w.r.t wireless. I've read every fucking thread out on various mailing lists and the author simply says "It's the driver's fault" despite the same problem happening across the board to multiple users of different cards.

The biggest problem is the stupid fucking background scanning it does. What happens is that when NetworkManager gets a wild hair up its ass and decides it time to scan for more networks, your wireless NIC will disassociate from the current AP until the scanning is over. God forbid there happens to be one shitty AP somewhere at the edge of your range and it takes too long to respond. Your connection is toast and you have to re-associate but meanwhile you've just lost connectivity for 2 minutes. Hope you didn't need that download anytime soon or that you remembered to screen that SSH session to a production server. Any machine I use that has wireless, is running WICD now instead of NetworkManager ( http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ )

I love Ubuntu. Honestly the only problems I've ever had were with the switch to PulseAudio. I grew out of tinkering with my distros a LONG time ago. I need my machine to work so I can work. I did a fresh install of Karmic and moved my home partition stuff around this time. The ONLY problem I had was with PulseAudio and my Audigy card ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/467732 ).

Yes. You can do this with wicd

Especially on Windows and with English language, it is not an excuse. Every scanner comes with OCR programs, at least in English. I did a 70 page manual translation back when Windows 3.1 was new so I know.

Of course, here are the true free software: http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ and recent Google (taken back to life) http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Even if you are home user, thanks to Spotlight and various Windows/Linux local engines, it is really good idea to keep text in pdf files.

I don't agree with the guy who said its only for enterprises, but I think you would have been better off just not using foxpro.

The codebase started back in the DOS days.

Its not that difficult to transition from. just do it. You'll be happier.

I wouldn't say that! We've moved a lot of data into PostgreSQL with the help of a tool I wrote that my boss let me release under the GPL. There's still a lot of code in FP, though, and we're in the planning stages of a multi-year conversion process.

Trust me: we've seen the light! Now it's just a matter of moving on with zero allowed downtime.