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There are several projects, like spu-medialib and mesa3d, which accelerate PS3 graphics/video on the Cell's SPEs. spu-medialib is actually a general framework for acceleration, while mesa3d offloads OpenGL onto the SPEs as a GPU. Why don't you put some of those people you say you're training to program the Cell onto those projects and give something back to the community that's given you the programmable platform?

There are several projects, like spu-medialib and mesa3d, which accelerate PS3 graphics/video on the Cell's SPEs. spu-medialib is actually a general framework for acceleration, while mesa3d offloads OpenGL onto the SPEs as a GPU. Why don't you put some of those people you say you're training to program the Cell onto those projects and give something back to the community that's given you the programmable platform?

You think that is great? Get a big screen TV and play Super Mario Bros. 3 on big world.

Oh God, the pixels, the pixels are coming to get me!!!!

It depends on which emulator you're using. If you're using the official Virtual Console emulator, it'll look blocky because vcNES uses nearest-neighbor resampling. But if you're using an emulator that supports Scale2x, hq2x, or some other smart resampling method for line art, you can get NES games to look better than TG16 in some cases and Super NES games to look nearly PS1-quality.

What's wrong with synergy? I happen to like it ;)

I'll bite.

Can I have chroot as a non-root user please? I don't care if I cannot exec suid binaries afterwords. In fact, I don't care if I cannot exec anything afterwords.

Anybody remember those archive symlink/.. traversal escape bugs? I do. The easiest way to prevent them is to have the unpacker call chroot(".") before unpacking.

I pached my version of tar to do chroot("."); setuid(getuid()); immediately after opening the archive when in extract mode and do setuid(getuid()); immediately when in any other mode.

try this: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/ An equivalent for the midi piano, I presume. I haven't tried it, but it's free software, so you can make it better if it sucks.

Ur-Quan Masters, the Star Control II remake, uses similar graphics upgrading. It looks incredibly good (though during the ship-to-ship fights, things get a bit strange at odd angles). And it's still one of the best adventure+arcade style exploration games out there!

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

No, that's IF. For that, you're going to need Gargoyle or Frotz.

Perl is for CGI and private scripts separately. I would never give the shell power from the net. But I'm happy to run perl as CGI and bash from 0:1. I never mix the two. But you can pick on PHP if you want to get nasty about it. There is a perl shell available, but you need to know perl to use it properly. That's probably an obstacle to you, so yet another year without the Desktop crown then !

Soon. Wait, can something that occured in past be considered soon?

Quandry....

Hello

The OO system of Seed7 works without NULL pointers. See:

http://seed7.sourceforge.net/manual/objects.htm

Seed7 variables always refer to a legal value. This has advantages in many areas. There are no problems with with uninitialized variables and no NULL pointer errors are possible. But it is als not possible to use NULL to describe a missing value. If this feature is needed it must be reached in a different way. In most cases the default value provided by every type can be used as value with the meaning: Not initialized. The default value is just a normal value. You will not get an exception when it is used. IMHO the advantates of not having NULL outweigh the small drawback to describe missing values in a different way.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.

Hello

The OO system of Seed7 works without NULL pointers. See:

http://seed7.sourceforge.net/manual/objects.htm

Seed7 variables always refer to a legal value. This has advantages in many areas. There are no problems with with uninitialized variables and no NULL pointer errors are possible. But it is als not possible to use NULL to describe a missing value. If this feature is needed it must be reached in a different way. In most cases the default value provided by every type can be used as value with the meaning: Not initialized. The default value is just a normal value. You will not get an exception when it is used. IMHO the advantates of not having NULL outweigh the small drawback to describe missing values in a different way.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.

No, you're wrong, and there's no need to be so aggressive. No law says that algebraic datatypes can only appear in functional languages. They are in fact quite conceivable and useful in normal procedural languages. For example, see Pizza, a variant of Java; it has functional aspects but is very definitely procedural.

I'm with you. I can't hear the difference most of the time between FLAC and MP3, even at moderate bitrates, but space is cheap, and if I hear something that's not supposed to be there, I can be nearly 100% sure that it wasn't the encoder (barring strange flac bugs). That narrows it down to the software, OS, sound card, and headphones/speakers.

Even when space isn't cheap (my Rockbox'd 2GB Sansa), I encode to Ogg Vorbis at "-q 6", which is about equivalent to "-V2" for Lame; VBR which usually gets around 192kbps. (shameless plug--) This is why I wrote FlacSquisher. However, if I had an 80GB or larger portable player, I wouldn't bother transcoding my music; I'd just throw it on there as FLACs.

I don't see why anybody with a network connection isn't running some sort of intrusion detection/prevention system whether it be hosted based or network based....this should especially include the government's systems as well. Snort is now included in quite a few of the specialized security distros. In fact I know of at least two distros that are specifically designed for IDS/IPS only and can be up and monitoring traffic in less than 30 minutes.

EasyIDS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyids/
Strataguard from Stillsecure: http://www.stillsecure.com/strataguard/

*Disclaimer: Yes I am a developer for EasyIDS but it doesn't change the fact that people should still have an IDS/IPS in place.

• HAproxy
• Distributor
• Crossroads
• Pen
• Balance/BalanceNG
• Pound

HAproxy (which is the one I use) has the ability to define "backup" servers which can be used in the event of a complete failure of all servers in the pool, even if there is only one server in the main pool. If you're trying to do this on the cheap, that may help. It also has embedded builds for things like the NSLU2, so it may be easy to run on an embedded device you already have.

Okay, so these voxels - with current generation technology - are represented as cubes which of course are 12 tri-polies, so it's not entirely -without- polygons.. but at least it's not based on polygons and it lets you do some pretty cool stuff - such as truly fully destructible environments. No, none of that "we ran a script on all objects (except for those we don't want you to be able to destroy) that pre-fragments them and call the havok engine on the object if the damage model reaches a certain level" crap. I mean *fully* destructible.

Sadly, this is the only 'worthy' example I've seen and it's still kinda 'meh'...
http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/ ...but it's got me excited for what could be done with voxel-friendly accelerators.

The biggest hurdle, however, is not the accelerators... it's the artists. Suddenly you can no longer get away with 'modeling' a house by simply putting up a façade like they do in movies.. now that house has got to have an interior because some wise-ass IS gonna be spending all of the ammo on the map to chip away at that 10" thick brick wall so they can venture inside the house WITHOUT collecting the key from the bossfight.

So... shot my own excitement down there, again... but at least there's the potential :)

I haven't used it myself, but Java Curses is probably worth a try.

I would argue against that. At least for my part, when I publish programs that I have written as open source, it is for perfectly selfish reasons.

Same. When I started FlacSquisher (shameless plug, I know), it was because I wanted a mass-transcoding tool that was aware of what work had already been done. I had installed Rockbox on my Sansa a couple months earlier, and wanted to transcode my FLACs to Oggs easily so I could play them on the Sansa. If I had bought an 80GB player instead of a 2GB player, I would've just used the FLACs, cause I could've fit my entire music collection. Then I never would've written the program. As it was, I only just implemented MP3 tagging a couple weeks ago because I never encoded to MP3, so in my own usage model it just wasn't necessary.

I suspect that most FOSS projects are the same -- driven by a personal need or desire by the original dev for some functionality not already provided by an existing piece of software, and just coding what they'd want to get out of it.

The problem here is that what you need is a dispatcher support system, not a helpdesk support system.

A dispatcher support system has things like maps to objects and a website for checking inventory levels. Your dispatchers are experts who field questions about that sort of thing, and are keyed into the systems where the questions are answered. The previous poster is correct that chat rooms work well for this. If your reps are local, radio works well too.

A helpdesk system creates trouble tickets that are tracked, assigned to service reps and accounted for. They're for blocking issues where nontechnical workers need technical help. If you had 5,000 customers and you're seeing two calls a minute, there's a major network outage and your call center stops entering tickets in minute two - if they can enter tickets at all with the network down. For a normal tech shop one or two tickets a year for the average customer is a pretty reasonable expectation.

A trouble ticket system would work well for those questions that need escalation and all of the available trouble ticket systems can support thousands of trouble tickets per minute because they're automated technology solutions. Your problem will be not letting the tickets get out of control. You'll need to teach your dispatchers not to create tickets if they can find an answer in less than a few minutes.

That said, have you tried sourceforge? They have about 500 CRM systems with trouble ticket tracking. Search for "CRM".

Try mailmanager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailmanager/ It will scale well (up to 100k tickets per day if you push it), and it lacks some of the major restrictions of RT in terms of workflow.

We started using DCL http://dcl.sourceforge.net/ for tracking issues with moderate success.

It seems to have been designed with help-desk tracking in mind ...

...we've been using this for about three years; suits our needs.

Tickets can be submitted via web interface, or email.

Decent support in the forums, too.

http://entertrack.sourceforge.net/

We deployed OTRS locally when we had to deploy something open-source off-the-shelf quickly, and it's proved painful. It might be possible to make it do what you want with more time and customization.

Since then, I've seen RoundUp appear, and it looks most promising, though I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

Oh, another thought: once the download link works, you might want to actually put up some screenshots that are:
1) Of the most current version, instead of the Alpha version
2) Are bigger than postage-stamp size.

This: http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=181100 simply ain't gonna pull in the players.

https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=198419 There you go, a download without javascript. And I'm sorry about your paranoia with javascript, that will probably become a lot more difficult as more and more websites move to "web 2.0" and fill themselves with javascript/ajax...

you made it so your OS *only* supports file systems that you hold patents for.

If Microsoft only supporting patented filesystems is a real issue, camera makers can include Windows drivers for unpatented file systems.

- Sam

Bob unfortunately does not rule the Universe; the Ur-Quan rule the universe, and even Bob is to fully able to stop them, but he still makes good choices.
http://www.angryflower.com/urquan.gif
http://www.angryflower.com/loving.gif
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Only if you don't already have an ext2/3 driver installed.
You know, something like:
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm#ext2fsd

Hmmm... it seems part of my problem was not having the correct tools for UDF ( I think I was trying to use mkisofs with the udf option ). The proper tools for Linux appear to be on Sourceforge.

Thank you Sourceforge, Inc. for both slashdot and your open source site. :-) I should really be thinking about renewing my subscription to slashdot. I'm sure it helps pay for both sites...

1. Be a woman. 2. ?????? 3. Profit!

Look here to see how step (1) is done in the Linux kernel. Sourceforge has more details

>Maybe coupled with some outboard piece of USB gear

AVR-USB: a firmware-only USB interface for atmel microcontrollers. Two resistors and two diodes, one ATTiny microcontroller, two power-ground caps, and you have your hardware interface on a board the size of a postage stamp. This reference board has 8 channels of power switching, that could drive reasonably large relays like, say, 8 Jameco 134949's (at $5 each), that'll each switch 20 amps at 220volts.

It could drive a three-axis CNC mill. Plug in a webcam and you have a security system. Add a relay board and you have a portable autonomous sentry setup. A usb-to-serial converter combined with fuse and owfs and a half-dozen Dallas Semiconductor one-wire devices and you can put dirt cheap thermometers all over your house. Add some Dallas I/O chips and some motors and you have zone heating for your house.

I can think of *lots* of interesting things to do with this.

I've been using Debian Lenny on eee 1000 for about 6 months now. Works good for me. After installing from the OS from the DebianEeePC link above, then install wicd from here. The wicd made my debian eee pc much more enjoyable. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php ##### Too bad Tim didn't buy the linux version of the eee PC, even though you pay the same price for the windows version, you pay the microsoft tax in the form of a smaller harddrive. Still, better late than never.

Have you ever tried googling before opening your mouth?

iBench is an open source benchmark tool for OS X.

It's hosted on SourceForge.

http://ibench.sourceforge.net/

Let me guess that iBench is an apple app designed to highlight every slow part of JS in every browser. Oh and to be quick and use anything that Safari actually does right. Seems like a fair test to me. I bet even MS could make IE7 30 times quicker in some tests than Safari if they wanted too.

Good guess. Unfortunately, you're wrong. It's an open source benchmarking app for Mac OS X.

sslsniff v0.5 : http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/
dsniff (sshmitm) : http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/
ettercap : http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/

Nothing's secure.

perhaps this one is better:
  http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm#ext2fsd

just use freenet together with frost

this is an index of all (?) "freesites" - you can visit as soon as you have freenet running

for linux users:
wget "http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/new_installer.jar"
java -jar new_installer.jar
cd "/path/to/freenet/"
./run.sh restart
mkdir frost
cd frost
wget "http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jtcfrost/frost-04-Mar-2008.zip"
unzip "frost-04-Mar-2008.zip"
chmod +x frost.sh
./frost.sh

you need to have java and I don't remember whether you need to run this as root. iirc you don't. The filename from the sourceforge link will vary - just check http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25070

Try the following:

I2P net
MUTE/ Kommute/ Ants/ Dargens
Alliancep2p.com
Filetopia.org
GNUNet
Rodi
Emscher ...and probably more.

Some of these like I2P use bittorrent over their anonymized network (a BT client is built into I2P but you can use some others... Note that Azureus aka Vuze has I2P support built-in!)

*imagined response from a new programming language writer*

Sure, they've already used A, B, C, D, E, F, and assorted appendages (A+, B++, C#, C--, C++). However, mark my words, G will leave a different legacy. G (for generic) will be the be all and end all language.

G will be able to compile for binary, trinary, and anything ending in -nary with the change of a single number.

It will have solved the problems of security in that no buffer overflows will be possible, no memory management will be done by hand, and the computer even correct code for transactions. Any program which is insecure will be fixed automatically based on the logical structure and purpose of the program.

Mathematical equations merely will need to be entered in and automatically solved.

G will be faster on parallel architectures and will even do your dirty laundry!

Now you see why G needs to be made. A, B, C, D, E, F, and assorted appendages just can't do it exactly right.

*A few years later a new guy steps onto the scene*

G is so outdated and full of holes. It doesn't do X, Y, and Z. It doesn't deal well with the new data storage equipment. It's security started off good, but after they found those few gaping flaws became a joke.

What we really need is a new language. Let's call it the H programming language.

I used to run Netatalk on a Debian machine to serve files to pre-OS X Macs, along with Samba for the Windows boxes. http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

Please send that tasty fish my way.

I had to do some research recently which backup software to use for my Debian server. And the most flexible and at the same time easy to use solution seemed to be Backup-Manager. One other program I also took a close look at was Backup2l. There were other progams, but those either seemed VERY big and complex (like Bacula) or did not even some of the features I needed and those features were very important ones.

http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/
http://www2.backup-manager.org/

a little script called killie6

You rock! I can imagine so many terrible scenarios happening to nice people from that but you still rock.

Try FreeMind. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Mind map providing very similar to what you described. You can show general outline at a high level and drill down to the details below it. FreeMind can be "published" in a number of formats. Easiest is to a web page using its Flash plugin - no exporting or converting required. Can also be exported to click-able map / text if your descriptions are longer than comfortable in the map.

You know, like the feds used to take down the Mafia on tax violations.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/b-improved/

Skim is a reader that uses Apple's PDFKit and is so much better than Preview and Acrobat Reader that it is amazing. Faster, sensible, actively developed.

In fact a while ago I've created a little script called killie6...

I'm dense today. I read this and wondered what a 'killie' was.

I guess if you do not give them Microsoft's option, the other side gets pissed off.

In fact a while ago I've created a little script called killie6, when I posted on linkedin group to ask professional opinion about it, many declared it desceptive, violating user's choice, etc, etc.

Here's a plug (from a satisfied user) for the open source but Mac-only Skim.

Skim is lightweight, fast, and scriptable. It allows for easy markup of PDFs either to the original file or separately. With Skim, one can convert annotations between its open format (written into the extended attributes) and Adobe's PDF standard. Combined with Apple's Preview.app, Skim can provides much of the functionality Adobe Acrobat.

I've recently discovered automysqlbackup.sh. It took 4 minutes to set up and now it happily backs up all my databases to the local disk and emails them to me. It's brilliant!