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I've also repeatedly come across videos that it has no support for. In the end, if MPC-HC + KliteMega can't open it, I just go for MPlayer. (which almost never fails, but has an even worse UI. Or rather, it has no UI; it's just a box with the video playing in it. :x

i would like to point you to a very complete qt/cross-platform MPlayer front-end http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ its MPlayer build is also the most
complete i've ever seen on windows

I'm pretty sure an .exe file is a "usable binary".

32bit link
64bit link

Unzip into its own folder somewhere. Lots of people use C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\

Start it up, open the options and set file associations. If you want to be able to open it without opening a video, create a shortcut too, and drag it to the start menu.

For output options, I find EVR custom works best - but if that isn't available, go for VMR9 renderless.

I'm pretty sure an .exe file is a "usable binary".

32bit link
64bit link

Unzip into its own folder somewhere. Lots of people use C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\

Start it up, open the options and set file associations. If you want to be able to open it without opening a video, create a shortcut too, and drag it to the start menu.

For output options, I find EVR custom works best - but if that isn't available, go for VMR9 renderless.

VLC isn't supported very well and should be your last-resort if all else fails.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a much superior player that also has built-in playback codecs.
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

my windows mobile pda opens the phone app in under two seconds even while the turn to turn navigation software is working. so much for years you stated. even my parents, both having a windows mobile device, have no problems short of an occasional need to reboot every two or three months (the price for custom roms).

Device specifications please?
Mine is a HTC Wizard (TI OMAP850), it has ~200Mhz and 64Mb memory.
Linux on this particular device blows windows mobile away in speed, running from the SD card.

For the others reading the discussion:
There is a team of people (which I belong to) porting Linux to the HTC Wizard. Project website is
http://linwizard.wiki.sourceforge.net/

We are starting to have a fully supported device. Between the working devices is GSM and touchscreen.
Join us at #linwizard if would like to run Linux on your OMAP850 handheld.
Some pictures:
GPE running:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~miknix/gpe.png
And Illume:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~miknix/enlightenment/illume_bar.png

anyway, windows ce is a real multitasking operation system and allows the applications to multitask, too, which makes it pretty powerful.
it can happen, that a background process or a shitty written application eats all the cpu time causing a slight response delay.

yes there is a shitty written application eating all the cpu, it is called activesync

if you are unpatient and click everywhere hunderds of times when an application doesn't response instantly all of your actions would be executed the moment the device starts responding again, thus slowing the system to a crawl.

device starts responding again?
The device shouldn't, in anyway, stop responding; much less the UI. The windows mobile scheduler is utter garbage.

Just look at the iphone and be amazed how responsive the device is.
A preemptive Linux will also behave just fine under high load.

the problem in this case is not the device, it is you, because you use the device wrong and shouldn't have bought it in first place.

True, I shouldn't have bought it. I didn't sell it yet just because I'm actually enjoying porting Linux to it.

a pda phone with windows mobile isn't a phone. it is a wearable handheld personal computer with a phone function - a complete different paradigm.

I certainly wouldn't call it a "personal computer", much less a "different paradigm", LOL.
Windows mobile is a very limited subset of win32 as you know.
IMHO, the closest you can get from a PC (personal computer) is running Linux on it. If you take a chance of learning a little more about it, you will realize that you can run most of GNU applications there without having to rewrite them (if the device has enough CPU and memory of course). For example: GCC (the compiler) runs just fine.

if you need a device for listening to music, watching occasional movies, reading books, surfing the web, making some calculations, doing turn to turn navigation, full PIM and a lot more - all things you can do at home on your pc, but on the go and with a small device, then a windows mobile pda phone is the right thing for you. but only in that case.

Latest Nokias with symbian can do that too, without abusive delays and without crashing.

If you look better, symbian, android, and iphone's OSX they all have a purpose. They do very well what they are intended to do.
Windows mobile pretends to be something it can't be and it does very bad what it was meant to do (if any).

if you are not a power user and if you cannot be bothered to learn how to use the device then keep your hands of windows mobile. it is not for you. it doesn't mean that it is bad, though.

When I grow up I want to be a power user too!

*Whoooosh!*

Is there some way to use Visual Studio without already being subject MS's heavy hand? I own a Windows Mobile device that I'd love to develop for, but as far as I can tell it requires both a Windows OS and MS dev tools, which makes development an expensive and inconvenient proposition.

CeGCC

You can of course still use something like wxWidgets with Express, but arguably it's still worse (too MFC'ish for my taste), and you don't get any integrated designers.

For wxWidgets, although not completely integrated but very well done IMO, installing wxPack on a VS install will give you wxFormBuilder (a GUI designer which is also usable/installable standalone). In practice I've found it to be as good as being integrated, and I've done several complex GUIs in a fraction of the time hand coding would have required (and it has a more consistent code style than I do when I manually code the GUI elements).

When it's done, I expect it to run equally well in any environment (that supports Perl & Tk, which is A LOT). Try that with Visual Studio. I bet you can't, because V$ was deliberately engineered to make it as difficult as possible to develop for any non-Imperial target.

Not true. VS is just an IDE, although it is of course strongly geared toward Windows apps, you can do cross platform development in it if you use the right kit. I used to do a lot of Perl/Tk, but now I've completely switched to using the cross platform wxWidgets for all my apps needing a GUI. For using VC with it I highly recommend using wxPack to install (it bundles in the very awesome wxFormBuilder). Now the only time I use Perl/Tk is for those 5-liner type perl programs where I want to throw something into a messagebox.

When a program becomes this big, it becomes harder to keep track of all the names of variables, the argument types of subroutines etc. IDEs like Netbeans or Eclipse have autocompletion functionality that make your life as a developer at lot easier.

And, years before there were any IDEs, I was using ctags with vi and managing large programs with ease. You're looking at a call to function foobar(), you put the cursor anywhere in the name of the function and hit Ctrl+], and bam, you are now looking at the function definition. Ctrl+T pops the tag stack and puts you back to the call.

http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

These days, vim might have autocompletion, and Emacs doubtless has it somewhere in its gigabytes of code. I've never looked for it, because I just flip back and forth between the data structure definition and the code I'm writing; and I copy the member names instead of typing them. (Okay, I just did a Google search; looks like vim does have it.)

My current project is portable between Linux and Windows. I can work on it either on a Windows computer or on a Linux computer. On the Windows computer I use Visual Studio, and on the Linux computer I use vim and ctags. For intense debugging, the Visual Studio debugger is more convenient; someday I ought to get a visual debugger for Linux. But overall, I do most of my work in Linux. It's equally fast and I enjoy it more.

It helps that I have been using vi since before IDEs existed... if I were heavily trained on an IDE, and deeply grokked its inner mysteries, I might give the edge to the IDE.

steveha

A great way to set yourself up with a Python-based analysis environment is a tool amalgamation called Python(x,y). I don't use it myself since my setup predates the project, but it has all the major tools I know and love.

And for those of you who want statistical and graphing capabilities lacking there, know that you can communicate back and forth with an instance of GNU R, using rpy2.

If you're talking about viPlugin, which, last time I checked (about 8 months ago) was commercial and cost $10, it wasn't complete enough to be generally useful to me. There's a vi emulation mode for Netbeans called jvi which is quite good. The other option which I'm currently investigating for Eclipse is eclim, which looks great and is actively developed, but was not very stable when I tried it.

If you're talking about viPlugin, which, last time I checked (about 8 months ago) was commercial and cost $10, it wasn't complete enough to be generally useful to me. There's a vi emulation mode for Netbeans called jvi which is quite good. The other option which I'm currently investigating for Eclipse is eclim, which looks great and is actively developed, but was not very stable when I tried it.

i use source navigator http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/ Not fully functional but very good for large classes Development somewhat stopped though

Yep. joe + GNU make is the way I do it too.

Though using joe is kind of unpleasant on Windows (I have a hunch I am one of a small handful of people who actually do use it on Windows via cygwin). Using Console helps to make it bearable (at least then you can resize it to larger than 80chars).

Of course you could put some Eclipse into your vim and (maybe) get the best of both worlds. http://eclim.sourceforge.net/

... my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005!

Me? I've been using Dev PHP for a long time, so long that I just now noticed it hasn't been updated since 2007!

Likes? Fast, simple, doesn't-get-in-the-way, good syntax highlighting.

Dislikes? Just one: Search is weak. Search is regex by default, which requires an extra step to search for a particular codeblock. Worse, it doesn't wrap by default, so I have to scroll to the top before I search for something near the top.

It's a project that was developed for a while, dropped,picked up again, dropped, etc. so there are multiple "versions" of it floating around as of a year or two ago. I linked to one of them.

I develop plenty of number-crunching code on different *NIX hosts, but I login to the network form a Windows computer. I found that BVRDE offers a rather pleasant developing environment. I also looked at NetBeans, but BVRDE allows to access remote sources through (S)FTP, a feature that is mandatory here.

Homestead is a 3D real-time network visualizer, displaying hosts & packet traffic. Features: multiple sensor support, gather hostnames & services, configurable subnetwork layout, record/replay packet traffic, filter packets by host, protocol or port.

It's pretty simple to implement if you have access to the DFA for the regular expression by just adding a transition to an empty accepting state when the end-of-string symbol is encountered in any existing state, and returning the position in the string at which the match fails. This would be hard to do in general by re-using an existing regular expression engine, unless it allows manipulation of the DFA state machine and returns the character position that caused a potential string to fail to match, since it would basically involve building the DFA from the regular expression, modifying it, and then translating it back into a regular expression that could be passed to the engine. PCRE supports partial matches and can return the partially matched string in some circumstances, which would allow one to find the problem character by chopping characters off the end of the string until a partial match occurs.

See this post about the problem that at least predates the patent by a few years. Unfortunately, no one mentions how to solve the problem in the regexp library.

The IBM patent includes some other features such as ignoring invalid characters in an input string and continuing to match the remaining characters. This could be accomplished by further modifying the regular expression engine to not return failure when there is no transition from a state for a particular character in the trial string, but to merely flag the character as invalid and remain in the same state and trying the next character in the string. The return value for such a function could just be a array of boolean flags for each character in the trial string identifying it as valid or invalid.

Overall, it looks like a novel use of DFAs for user interface feedback. Still, not something I'd consider worthy of a patent.

The cost for that was just for the hardware. The software is free (beer).
Technical info on how and what the OBD puts out, so you can roll your own.
A Linux variant. Not much recent activity, though. Here is an apparently open source finished product. Again, the hardware is the cost.

a digital camera with the lens cap on. Especially, if you can get the raw pixels, it contains a large component of true quantum randomness. Just run the bits into PRNGD (which runs the bits through a secure hash and adjusts the input/output bit rates according to the estimated randomness of the sources) with a conservative estimate of the percentage of quantum randomness.

I was recently in a similar situation and I was the one who had to figure it all out due to lack of documentation. The main things that I did were to map the network and create updated diagrams. I did this by using a bunch of utilities both commercial and open source.

Create a list of UIDs and PWDs and maintain them in a program like PasswordSafe. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Map all the switches using a program like netdisco. Depending on your equipment, it can find the uplinks and map the network for you. Otherwise, fill in the neighbor information on your own. http://netdisco.org/

Setup monitoring with Nagios and set the parent/child relationships using nagios. Make sure the map is accurate. Monitor all critical network services such as routers, dns, wins, email, proxy, fw, etc. http://www.nagios.org/

If you're not going to graph service data with Nagios, do it with Cacti. That will provide historical/trending data that is important for future network related decisions. http://www.cacti.net/

Create high level network overviews using Visio. Solarwinds LANsurveyor Express is very useful for automating network maps. http://www.solarwinds.com/products/LANsurveyorExpress/

Make sure you have good backup configs of all devices. A tool like Kiwi CatTools will automatically backup the configs for your devices and even alert you to when configs have been changed. It's great for change management purposes. http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-cattools-overview/

If you're talking about password documentation, I *heart* Password Safe. It's worked well for me so far.

I just can't agree with this. There's a difference between writing the passwords down on a sticky note under the keyboard and documenting the current (and previous, possibly) passwords in a well protected place.

I document the system passwords in Password Safe, and have been very happy with it.

zigbee was fine in certain circumstances, but has largely been superceded by IPv6 over Low power WPAN aka 6lowpan Two major advantages of 6lowpan are that it is more or less regular Internet (TCP/IP) the other is that, as a result, more secure and almost infinitely more scalable.

Additionally, zigbee is not a standard, 6lowpan is. That difference has important repercussions for long term planning of projects. The IETF has a good track record for standard maintenance. There are also GPL tools for 6lowpan devices.

6lowpan is more flexible. Unlike zigbee, which is fine in some contexts, 6lowpan works with a variety of wired and wireless, low-power, low-bitrate transmissions.

The Internet is where things happen nowadays. 6lowpan is part of that.

Etherape is gorgeous. I wish I had time to understand what it all means, but still I love firing it up and staring at the network traffic.

Another tool that I've enjoyed much more personal success with is cheops-ng. For documenting a networking, cheops-ng and a decent icon collection provides a pretty snazzy view of what NMAP can see. (NMAP being another tool I haven't had time to fully grok, yet)

http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

Hardware: http://www.rotomotion.com/
Software: http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/

I've invested in relays and dimmers from National Control Devices and have run Cat 5e all over my apartment, even into my light switches and where I expect to put sensors in the future. It's hard-wired, hence secure and safe from interference, and speaks via simple ASCII to a serial port which available on nearly any embedded controller. The great thing about serial is that you can add a dirt cheap serial-usb or serial-ethernet interface.

I'm not really interested in a proprietary interface like Zigbee. What is needed is a HA API. That way you can write a driver for all the proprietary protocols such as this, as well as things like ProXR, Dallas 1-wire, DMX, and many more.

Some ideas for a back-end to the API can be taken from the aging Perl app Mister House. What would then be a REALLY nice addition is a MythTV module front-end so you can control the whole house via your television.

Phillip.

Would you like some Cheese with your Wine? ;)

Anyways we can crack the passwords in a couple hours or less from the password hash on a workstation.

If it's taking you "a couple hours" to crack a Windows password that meets the criteria you specified, you're using the wrong tool. Have a look at Ophcrack, then see if you ever want to use a less-than-15-character password on a Windows system again.

http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/

We need people to nominate it on sourceforge

heres a handy dandy link(everyone who reads this should vote for it):
http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=rtmpdump&project_url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtmpdump/"

Try again. Two of my favorites are LogicMail (POP/IMAP from anywhere) and MidpSSH (in a pinch, server management) but you can also find more at places like Sourceforge.

If there's a forked version of Lynx that includes this http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/ you could still view pictures. I can't tell if anyone's done it yet though (my quick search didn't find any.)

P910nd is what DD-WRT uses for printer support. It's supported by Windows, CUPS, LPRng, and OSX. Basically it emulates an HP JetDirect.

Set up an old Linux system (RH 6.2, to throw something out there), run Nethack on it, and then try to run the same binary on a new system. It won't work.

You can do that just fine, you have to install module software first though, e.g. this, and the package you need to run it. It allows you to change to whatever runtime environment you want. Want to run an the old libc6 from redhat 6.2? Go right ahead. Want to use a different gcc library? No problem. This type of software is used on large supercomputer clusters to ensure that everyone can run all the software they want, e.g. there was a big break between mpich and mpich2, but thanks to modules, you can have both installed and run binary code requiring one or the other without having to uninstall anything.

your should also realize that sourceforge is the owner of slashdot. This potential CoI should have been stated in the lead. Sourceforge does not want to give up its immunity, however it should at least make note that the takedown was due to the DMCA, rather than just saying "Invalid project"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtmpdump/

The project is down here google cache still up.

Does sourceforge (slashdot's partner site) publish DMCA requests to chilling effects. Allow, I am highly disappointed that it just says "Invalid project" instead of saying that it was removed per the DMCA. Learn something from google sourceforge!

Privoxy is GPL and opensource.

If you're feeling paranoid, and can read C, please feel free to peer-review the code.

Here, I'll make it easy for you. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa

If I am not mistaken, you already can buy and run something like that.

Interoperability in this case means, hell, what the dictionary says interoperability means: a way for different implementations of an office document so that they can be opened in others.

Microsoft is not required to and did not claim to be interoperable with non-standard implementations of ODF in Office 2007 SP2. They are claiming to be compliant with and interoperate with standard implementations of ODF 1.1.

Microsoft ALREADY HAD a viable, compliant AND interoperable implementation. In THIS ONE, they CHOSE to NOT interoperate.

The ODF converter developers chose to do what OpenOffice.org does.

They already know how to convert back and forth compatibly. odf-converter is supported by Microsoft "(Funding, Architectural & Technical Guidance and Project co-coordination)" and is under a BSD-style license. It works like a charm.

They deliberately went out of their way to make their new Excel SP2 format incompatible.

Plus, having the ability to monetize services individually will - Lord forgive me for seeing a bright side here - will encourage Microsoft to ship with a minimal default install, which one would hope would lead to improved overall security.*

Here's why Microsoft won't do it:

Of course you're right it would be GREAT for users if they did, for precisely the reason you described. You bought a new PC for the secretary at your small business, but it came with Home Premium installed, and now your IT guy wants everybody to be able to join a domain? No problem, just buy that feature.

But making components optional means that third parties could offer competing solutions. Perhaps not for joining a domain, but certainly for touchscreen support, Media Center, etc. Those third parties will offer their solutions cheaper than whatever Microsoft is charging to enable them. Microsoft doesn't want that.

If Media Center were a stand-alone product you had to pay for, people would do comparison shopping. They might even decide MPC-HC is good enough.

You can use kile.

Which wrapper are you using? psVoodoo, or some other one?

I searched out a few dozen, but most of them haven't been updated in ages, or only work with specific programs.

(1)yeah, even review. VLC has some HD problems, which are ffmpeg related as I understand [google.com], and may show up on other Linux/OSS players. My i7/GTX280/6GB RAM was choking on a Hitachi made 1080p H.264 demo yesterday using VLC (on Windows). OTOH, AVCHD 21MB seems to be fine straight out of the camera, FWIW.

Did you try a DirectShow player that uses ffmpeg, such as Media Player Classic Homecinema?

At one point I got better results with 1080p H.264 using MPC-HC in Windows in VMware Fusion than I did using VLC (OS X). With MPC-HC in VMware, the video played continously at 20-24 fps with tearing, whereas VLC simply stopped rendering video when the decoder couldn't keep up.

There are actually multiple IDEs out there for LaTeX that solve this problem, though I have found that once I learned the basics, they were unnecessary for me. I used Kile while learning LaTeX so I could look through the menus if I needed to.

There is also the part where if you guess the command you're likely right even. The commands aren't obscure.

There is a plugin for OO that will take tex and convert it to images for insertion.

http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/

i'm confused here the hard drive is broken, yet the data gets mirrored?

Also why pay for Av and an office suite? ClamAv or open office are available, even AVG has a free edition which doesnt bring windows down to a crawl and no way should he be paying for another copy of windows, the license is usually on the PC.

Actually i'll make this post a little useful with links to a couple of very good utilities.
I had managed to fill my virtualbox partition leaving it unusable and found this blog post

http://marcosaruj.com/archives/116

essentially all i needed was to create a bigger hard drive clone the original and then resize the file system
then put the cloned drive back as ide master on the primary controller.

cloning uses clonezilla's live cd Link given below for an iso image

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115473&package_id=221066&release_id=609030

And after cloning resize with gparted live cd link to the live iso is given below

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso?modtime=1215010676&big_mirror=0

It's nice to be able to find two very useful free tools that avoid the need to use commercial alternatives such as partition magic and norton ghost. As both disk images are bootable they are equally useful for both Windows and Linux users.

There really is less and less of a reason to bother with commercial applications and utilities these days either using a pirate copy or buying a single user license. The above two iso's should be useful to have in any computer geeks toolbox.

I Don't know for sure if Mac users can use it but
http://free2.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/experimental/ubuntu-based/ lists an ubuntu 9.04 based version so x86 mac users should be ok as its the same disk to install ubuntu on an x86 mac as a standard PC, pretty good chance users of older ppc macs can find a version too.

I guess it's still too early to say, but it is getting so that if your prepared to give open source a try the OS your using matters about as much as choosing FireFox or IE or Safari or Opera or ...
 

i'm confused here the hard drive is broken, yet the data gets mirrored?

Also why pay for Av and an office suite? ClamAv or open office are available, even AVG has a free edition which doesnt bring windows down to a crawl and no way should he be paying for another copy of windows, the license is usually on the PC.

Actually i'll make this post a little useful with links to a couple of very good utilities.
I had managed to fill my virtualbox partition leaving it unusable and found this blog post

http://marcosaruj.com/archives/116

essentially all i needed was to create a bigger hard drive clone the original and then resize the file system
then put the cloned drive back as ide master on the primary controller.

cloning uses clonezilla's live cd Link given below for an iso image

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115473&package_id=221066&release_id=609030

And after cloning resize with gparted live cd link to the live iso is given below

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso?modtime=1215010676&big_mirror=0

It's nice to be able to find two very useful free tools that avoid the need to use commercial alternatives such as partition magic and norton ghost. As both disk images are bootable they are equally useful for both Windows and Linux users.

There really is less and less of a reason to bother with commercial applications and utilities these days either using a pirate copy or buying a single user license. The above two iso's should be useful to have in any computer geeks toolbox.

I Don't know for sure if Mac users can use it but
http://free2.nchc.org.tw/clonezilla-live/experimental/ubuntu-based/ lists an ubuntu 9.04 based version so x86 mac users should be ok as its the same disk to install ubuntu on an x86 mac as a standard PC, pretty good chance users of older ppc macs can find a version too.

I guess it's still too early to say, but it is getting so that if your prepared to give open source a try the OS your using matters about as much as choosing FireFox or IE or Safari or Opera or ...