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Unless I am completely missing something, there is also no equivalent to the TAO in Boost.

Thank goodness. I've never really understood what the point was to having an ORB bundled with your C++ middleware library. Compared with TAO, I've found standalone ORBs like omniORB or ORBexpress to be equivalent or better in performance and much smaller in size.

I've not really played PC games since the Doom era so I'm really out of touch here.

Since you last played Doom, ID released the source code.

if you like X-com you may consider UFO:AI Last i played it was unfinished and I wasn't too kean on the direction the game was going, however it is worth checking out.

xmoto is nice, but there's so much more :)
some i have played and did like enough :

http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openttd.org/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://wz2100.net/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
https://sourceforge.net/projects/koules/ (original page seems to be down)
http://neverball.org/

xmoto is nice, but there's so much more :)
some i have played and did like enough :

http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openttd.org/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://wz2100.net/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
https://sourceforge.net/projects/koules/ (original page seems to be down)
http://neverball.org/

xmoto is nice, but there's so much more :)
some i have played and did like enough :

http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openttd.org/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://wz2100.net/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
https://sourceforge.net/projects/koules/ (original page seems to be down)
http://neverball.org/

Frozen Bubble Slogan: "You need this game." Not sure I can endorse the slogan, but it's hours of fun. In fact, too many hours for me... the game sucks me in, and I just keep playing "only one more level" until I beat level 100 and finally stop. I'm careful now when I let myself start playing this.

Solarwolf An updated version of an Atari 2600 game! Easy to learn, addictive, fun.

KGoldrunner A modern remake of the classic LodeRunner from the Apple ][ and other computers of that era. They urge you to use the mouse, but I find I prefer the keyboard.

Stella An Atari 2600 emulator. I have ROM images of many of the games in my collection, and I still enjoy the streamlined play of classic 2600 games. My favorite is Millipede. Stella runs nice and fast even on a very old computer.

It's not free software so you can't use it except for personal or educational use. Open Mosix died
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

• A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects.

I would think it should run thru Wine if it wont run natively. Hexen should be pretty cheap these days, and the expansion.

I've used it under windows, its damn cool.

wxWidgets emLib http://larytet.sourceforge.net/ are two options I used. emLib is available in LGPL - contact the author.

Emlib is a thin wrapper. No sockets though. http://larytet.sourceforge.net/

If you are into monster slugathon fantasy war games, Titan is among the best.
It was reprinted last year, but more importantly for you, it's available online through Sourceforge:
http://colossus.sourceforge.net/

Colossus is a java version.
Titan is a game for 2 - 6 players.
Colossus can be played against crude AI, which is OK for learning the game.

The biggest problem with Titan occurs when a person is eliminated early on and has little to do until someone else is eliminated.
Computer play eliminates this problem because the players need not be in the same room.

Zoolib at Source Force under the MIT open source license. It has a flat file database format, exists for multiple platforms, has platform-independent thread and mutex classes, graphical user interface toolbox, thread-safe reference counted smart pointers, file access, TCP networking. You can ask the main developers Andy Green or Michael Crawford to port it to a new platform that isn't supported yet, but it supports all of the platforms listed on the source forge page.

The Zoolib Cookbook can help you get started.

The flat file database support is designed in Zoolib so that you can email someone the database file and they can click on it and open it up as an email attachment.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki is great for finding out what the drives think about their own health. Things to look out for are spin-retry counts (which lead to that annoying 2-5 seconds freeze), high reallocated sector counts (never never never use chkdsk to attempt to fix a broken hard drive. With the robustness of modern journaling file systems (HFS, extN, NTFS), storage errors are almost always hardware errors. Running chkdsk stresses the drive just as it's failing and usually pushes it over the edge -- and then users complain that you can't recover their data.

That link seems to be for the 1.00 binaries. These seem to be the 1.10 binaries: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/1.1pre1/OpenCV_1.1pre1a.exe/download

Downloaded. NOTE: the as-compiled binaries require the OpenCV libraries of the 110 variety (SourceForge holds the 200 version now). So, get older 110 binaries. From the file list

See the OpenCV Wiki on setting up and checking you OpenCV installation.

I'm still setting up, but I'll post back when I get it working...

Downloaded. NOTE: the as-compiled binaries require the OpenCV libraries of the 110 variety (SourceForge holds the 200 version now). So, get older 110 binaries. From the file list

See the OpenCV Wiki on setting up and checking you OpenCV installation.

I'm still setting up, but I'll post back when I get it working...

Downloaded. NOTE: the as-compiled binaries require the OpenCV libraries of the 110 variety (SourceForge holds the 200 version now). So, get older 110 binaries. From the file list

See the OpenCV Wiki on setting up and checking you OpenCV installation.

I'm still setting up, but I'll post back when I get it working...

After you've made a z/OS competitor derived from Linux, will you make a sports car from lego and a house from silly putty?

You're right. You should make a z/OS competitor derived from MVS 3.8J You could call it, say, MVS/380.

Password Safe

Linux containers give you jail-type functionality and - unlike VServer and OpenVZ - are in the mainline. http://lxc.sourceforge.net/

The OpenVZ people have, I understand, been a strong force in getting the container stuff into mainline.

There was an LSM implementing BSD-style Jails but I'm not sure what happened to it ... http://kerneltrap.org/node/3823

Speaking of using a webcam for HID (human interface device), Red(neck)mond company is late as usual.
Check out this open source game: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bubblepopper/
Full source code provided.

AFAIK this is part of one of the SSH blocker efforts, DenyHosts. I found you need to change the window failed attacks are detected in as the people trying to break in appear aware of the current default (at least, that's what my logfiles appeared to suggest).

However, there are more things you can do, and I agree that just changing port numbers makes an enormous difference.

Welcome to denyhosts.

Run this, and then the number of combinations becomes less important.

Like all of us, I have the usual port surfers come by. They get five tries, and then their IP gets blacklisted.

Ah, but things like denyhosts [1] with distributed reporting can and does catch these attacks. [1] http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

You can install and use rEFIt on an Intel Mac. Of course it's a good idea to keep a bootable OS X partition if no other reason than to update firmware.

I've been running Ubuntu as my only OS on my MacBook for over 18 months now, without an OS X install and without rEFIt. Neither is essential for using a MacBook, and anybody who says anything to the contrary is clueless.

That said, I did boot my machine from the OS X installer DVD a couple of times to bless the Ubuntu partition into the EFI after reinstalling the system (following a hard disk upgrade and/or as a spring-cleaning measure). This wasn't strictly necessary, it just cut about 20 seconds from the boot time. With Grub2 having finally found its way into Karmic, even that won't be necessary any more.

As for firmware updates, these may require a running OS X install (which can be on an external drive). For my machine, however, there haven't been any updates that would have been relevant for Linux and there probably never will be.

To tell the truth I don't know why anyone would pay for a Mac and not use OS X.

Well, people are different, you know. I like my MacBook's look and feel, the slick and intelligent design, those little things like all the slots and connectors being on one side, the power adapter with its MagSafe mechanism (I tend to stumble over cables and to go berserk with vacuum cleaners), the touchpad with all its great little secrets ... Back when I bought my MacBook it didn't cost much more than a comparable high-end Windows notebook, like a Sony Vaio, with the added benefit that it's not a Sony (bah) and didn't come with a Vista tax (double-bah).

On the other hand, I don't have much love nor any need for OS X. I tried it, I didn't like it, it's somehow not compatible with the brain-half that's in command up in my head. Linux, while certainly not being for everybody, is just the right thing for me, the freedom, the power, even including the seemingly endless fight against numerous shortcomings great and small. I need that, all of it, I couldn't live without it. I don't want a computer that "just works", I want a computer that works exactly the way I want it to work, whatever it takes. And I've never been closer to that ideal than with Ubuntu on my MacBook. Which, by the way, works extremely well by now.

While I have a MBP 13.3 for dev work, it currently lacks:

1. Docking port + station
2. User-swappable battery. However, the 7 hours of battery life it brings is pretty decent, even while working with WiFi. You can, of course, just grab an external battery power pack from a vendor off the web.

I wanted a dock for my MBP too and thought about getting a BookEndz dock. Maybe it meets your requirements. Now I don't like the non user swappable batteries. An external battery pack may mitigate that though.

Still, it's a good buy. I'd forget bootcamp and just virtualize the other OS with vmWare Fusion.

Though I won't use Bootcamp I will dualboot Snow Leopard and Ubuntu. I'm still using Leopard now but when I install Snow Leopard I'll also install rEFIt to use as the boot selector. I'll also install and use VirtualBox. That way I can boot into Ubuntu and use it at full speed as well as run Ubuntu in a VM in Ubuntu.

Falcon

anyone have experience with how well the EFI-enabled grub (or any other bootloader that can run on a modern Mac) works?

I've read rEFIt is good, so an EFI enabled bootloader isn't needed for a Mac. I'm getting ready to install Ubuntu on my Mac. Right now I'm using Leopard but after I do a fresh install of Snow Leopard I'll install rEFIt then Ubuntu.

Falcon

Weeelll... you can't just nuke it and install anything yet. I tried to install only Linux on the Macbook I have only to find it uses EFI only, so until grub2 makes it into distros and it fully supports the Macbook EFI, you're stuck with having OS X around just to setup bootcamp (and emulate the regular BIOS, I guess)

You can install and use rEFIt on an Intel Mac. Of course it's a good idea to keep a bootable OS X partition if no other reason than to update firmware.

To tell the truth I don't know why anyone would pay for a Mac and not use OS X. I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro running Leopard now. I have the Snow Leopard DVD but haven't installed it yet. When I do though I will also install Ubuntu. I already have my hard disk drive partitioned with 2 partitions for OS X and Ubuntu and another one for the user home. Doing this I can use any and all user files in both OSes.

Falcon

It always amuses me to no end how people scream about increased memory usage on x64. Most don't have any numbers to back up their claims, of course, but those that do point to 10-20% increase in RAM usage. So "OMG OMG OMG x64 is bloated! We can't possibly use a platform requiring 10% more RAM!" That, in spite of DDR3 RAM (the expensive kind) now costing ~$100 for 6G triple channel, where 10% more RAM would cost $10. But, naturally, we're in a recession, and you might need those $10 to make rent.

What makes it even funnier is that those same people adopt an entirely opposite attitude when I point out that their code is bloated. "Guys, look here, I wrote a library that reduces your app's memory footprint by a factor of 6! Check it out!" And they look at me contemptuously and reply: "what, are you some kind of an embedded freak? Grow up man, RAM is cheap! We'll stick with the standard, 'cause that's more portable and, you know, more standard." To each his own contradictions...

VirtualBox from Sun is NOT free, it requires a license for commercial use. You want http://vboxwin32.sourceforge.net/

VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) is not Open Source. It requires a license for commercial use. You want http://vboxwin32.sourceforge.net/

http://www.semanticdesktop.org/
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

The last is my own start towards one, building on years of other work in an RDF-like direction, but maybe there is no point in competing with Google?

So do what most people do and dedicate a portion of the disk(s) to some form of error correction data.

This is also an interesting development because Costis achieved the same goal as the decapping of the original GameBoy CPU, but with vastly cheaper equipment (< $100) and probably in less time (< 1 week).

Glitching is a neat technology; it's most famously used by "card unloopers" for smartcard hacking, and is also used by modern Wii modchips. Travis Goodspeed gave a neat presentation at DefCon 2009 about glitching, and has released some open-source hardware which will eventually support glitching target microcontrollers. Given the right software, that board alone would probably have been enough to perform this hack.

The Super Game Boy isn't the only way to colorize monochrome games. For Mednafen, it seems you'd use the -gba.colormap command-line switch. Other Game Boy emulators are sure to have a way to do the same. At the very least, you can modify their source code (the original point was that these games coulds still be colorized by emulators before this recent GBC boot ROM dump was made, even if some emulators didn't provide a UI to do so).

Quicktime Alternative, FTW.. No iTunes, no iPhone, no iToilet...

Even better, VLC media player. Hardly a need to install anything! http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Install both, FTW (including Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is bundled with Quicktime Alternative). MPC-HC and VLC use different decoding frameworks, so they don't interfere with each other. Some stuff works better on MPC-HC (hardware accelerated decoding) and some stuff works better on VLC (broken/incomplete files). However, Apple's Quicktime is definitely NOT needed to play back non-DRM's video on Windows.

I'd rather not get into a K-Lite vs CCCP war, but I prefer CCCP plus QT Lite.

So i can remember to logout or lock the screen as muck as the other, but I keep my phone in my pocket at work so using bluetooth is quite handy for me. I lowered the sensitivity so a few steps from my desk and instant screen lock. Keeps other employees from abusing my irc client when im close but not paying attention. http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net/ Have not seen this for windows but who cares us linux at work.

Yeah, I don't know why people keep suggesting such expensive and complex stuff for his "project". It isn't a project- he is just photographing a few pages.

You could just fix them in Gimp.

Anyway, as others have suggested, there is Scan Tailor, which is FOSS and multiplatform (and GUI)

http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=227253&ssid=90796

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml Here's a tutorial to stitch scans together the slight curve of the page is minimized where the scan joins. Might be what you are looking for.

SMPlayer makes sure that you never ever need to see command line.

On Linux and Mac OS X (where MPC + CoreAVC isn't available), Mplayer front-ends are your surest bet for HD video playback with soft subtitles.

As much as I wish for VLC to work, it is probably worst of all HD capable players, having all possible problems: subs sync, a/v sync, video jitter.

I cant load subtitles in [VLC] unless I decompress and they have the same filename.

Just wanted to let you know that SMplayer lets you load any file as the subtitle file. Of course, Mplayer itself does, too, but some people get intimidated by the command-line. With SMplayer, you go to the Subtitles menu, click on Load, and then pick whichever file you want.

In case anyone doesn't know yet, SMplayer is a user-friendly front-end for the powerful Mplayer program. Mplayer is probably the next best thing to an omnipotent video (and audio) player, but it's a command-line program with a bewildering array of options guaranteed to intimidate the weak of heart. SMplayer is a very well done user interface, just as easy to use as VLC but allows use of most of the features of Mplayer. SMplayer is to Mplayer what Ubuntu is to Debian.

Now, it still doesn't work on zip files. I wish someone had written SMplayer with the KDE toolkit instead of GTK+; then you could use the zip Kpart and just dive right into the Zip file (or even specify the subtitle filename as "fish://mylogin@myhomemachine/mypath/mysubtitlefile" and just pull it off another machine on the SOHO net).

We use Frontmotion Firefox on our network. From the website:

• Active Directory deployable and upgradeable.
• Active Directory management through Administrative Templates (*.adm).
• Desktop Icon similar to IE.
• Shell integration similar to IE.
• Set Default browser
• Macromedia Flash plug-in preinstalled
• Detect and upgrades non-MSI installs.
• Can upgrade 3rd party MSI's from patpaul/MIT, Webheat.co.uk, and ZettaServe.
• Able to properly perform uninstalls and restores system associations
• Enhanced functionality like disabled profile migration.

Obligatory reference to MUTE, an anonymous p2p system for file sharing which is apparently based on the process by which ants find food: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml

but does anyone knows of a product that actually use such a principle for real?

Yes. Ants

It's a p2p program that uses a similar principle to vastly increase user anonymity. Currently, the only downside of the program (that I've noticed) is that it is in such minimal usage. The ant-like functionality of it, however, is really quite intelligent.

I didn't say "all", I said "vast majority."

Take a look at this site, see how many projects are on it: http://sourceforge.net/ Are you seriously claiming that *all*, or even a majority, of those projects have had usability testing done? I hate to break this to you, but most of them don't even fucking run right!!

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

While not the same as TFA, I take the opportunity to publicize it here. I really liked OpenMOSIX, when I was at high-school I transformed a entire computer classroom into a big fscking cluster using live-CDs. It was really cool, processes were distributed automatically between networks nodes without any changes in the code. Nodes could also be removed and added while the cluster was running.

Too bad because OpenMOSIX project is closed for some time, multi-core processors killed it.

There already exists one: http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator

No vigor extension ??

I'll pass then.

Nokia merged a Qt 4 branch into mainline but I haven't heard anything on it in over a year, nor seen any builds of it.

Are there any builders who build Firefox on Linux? Aside from using emerge in Gentoo, I have never tried setting up a build environment for Firefox personally, but I'd really like to see Qt build of Firefox personally. However, I have greater hope for Rekonq at the moment.

http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/