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FWIW, de-blurring "like it's done in the movies" is quite possible.

http://refocus-it.sourceforge.net/ with samples.

I used to be a diehard Winamp user, back from the pre v1 days to the early days of v5. It just got so slow and bloated that I eventually gave it up. Apparently Winamp users care more about how their player looks than how it sounds and responds.

Songbird sucks boulders through crazy straws. I tried it once before and have absolutely nothing positive to say about it.

foobar2000 is my main player. I've been using it to manage and play my music library/large playlists for the past few years and absolutely love it. It's fast, small memory/CPU footprint, supports almost every known audio format, has just about any audio/DSP feature/filter that can be named, ReplayGain support, nice masstagger/renamer and a highly customizable interface via its own internal scripting language, ColumnsUI or PanelsUI. In my opinion there is no other player that even comes close.

Xion is what I use for quick individual sound files or small playlists. It's quite a nice, fast loading little player.

XMPlay is decent, but is a little too slow loading once you get the file format and DSP plugins installed. It boasts "balls-on" accurate MOD/XM/etc playback, but really many other players can handle these formats just as accurately.

CoolPlayer is a neat little player, but doesn't really offer much, aside from being open source. It has limited format support and not many features.

uAmp has the distinction of being an x64 player, but offers little else. It's slow loading, supports even fewer formats than CoolPlayer and has doesn't even have rudimentary features that many other players have (ie. equalizer, noise shaping, gapless playback, etc).

1by1 is actually a pretty cool little player. It supports few file formats standalone, but does support Winamp input plugins for more. The main feature is its interface which directly uses directories instead of playlists.

coverJuke is basically a coverFlow clone. It has a slick OpenGL interface, supports a moderate number of file formats (can support more by using an external player) and is actively developed. Still considering that foobar2000 has a coverFlow-like plugin for it (if that's your thing), this player doesn't have much more than novelty value.

musikCube is a nice lightweight player with a respectable number of features. I think of it as foobar-lite, except it's really not any faster and has significantly less features and format support.

iTunes is slow, bloated, supports a laughably small number of formats and is lacking in features. I tried it once and it proceeded to start renaming my meticulously named, tagged and ordered music library on its own. Purged it from my system and had to use foobar2000 to repair the damage that it did. In short, it's complete crap.

Aqualung looks promising, but I haven't actually gotten around to trying it out.

I'm not sure about iPod support for any of these since I use a Creative Zen which acts as an external drive when plugged in, making it really easy to copy to/from.

I used to be a diehard Winamp user, back from the pre v1 days to the early days of v5. It just got so slow and bloated that I eventually gave it up. Apparently Winamp users care more about how their player looks than how it sounds and responds.

Songbird sucks boulders through crazy straws. I tried it once before and have absolutely nothing positive to say about it.

foobar2000 is my main player. I've been using it to manage and play my music library/large playlists for the past few years and absolutely love it. It's fast, small memory/CPU footprint, supports almost every known audio format, has just about any audio/DSP feature/filter that can be named, ReplayGain support, nice masstagger/renamer and a highly customizable interface via its own internal scripting language, ColumnsUI or PanelsUI. In my opinion there is no other player that even comes close.

Xion is what I use for quick individual sound files or small playlists. It's quite a nice, fast loading little player.

XMPlay is decent, but is a little too slow loading once you get the file format and DSP plugins installed. It boasts "balls-on" accurate MOD/XM/etc playback, but really many other players can handle these formats just as accurately.

CoolPlayer is a neat little player, but doesn't really offer much, aside from being open source. It has limited format support and not many features.

uAmp has the distinction of being an x64 player, but offers little else. It's slow loading, supports even fewer formats than CoolPlayer and has doesn't even have rudimentary features that many other players have (ie. equalizer, noise shaping, gapless playback, etc).

1by1 is actually a pretty cool little player. It supports few file formats standalone, but does support Winamp input plugins for more. The main feature is its interface which directly uses directories instead of playlists.

coverJuke is basically a coverFlow clone. It has a slick OpenGL interface, supports a moderate number of file formats (can support more by using an external player) and is actively developed. Still considering that foobar2000 has a coverFlow-like plugin for it (if that's your thing), this player doesn't have much more than novelty value.

musikCube is a nice lightweight player with a respectable number of features. I think of it as foobar-lite, except it's really not any faster and has significantly less features and format support.

iTunes is slow, bloated, supports a laughably small number of formats and is lacking in features. I tried it once and it proceeded to start renaming my meticulously named, tagged and ordered music library on its own. Purged it from my system and had to use foobar2000 to repair the damage that it did. In short, it's complete crap.

Aqualung looks promising, but I haven't actually gotten around to trying it out.

I'm not sure about iPod support for any of these since I use a Creative Zen which acts as an external drive when plugged in, making it really easy to copy to/from.

Well if you are on Windows you might want to try Kmeleon which is just Firefox without any bloat. Very fast and now that they have easy to install versions of flashblock and noscript I've been using it more and more and it is quite nice and a lot faster than FF3 on Windows.

Umm. Or you could just use your mouse in links. I do.

http://links.sourceforge.net/docs/manual-0.82-en/links-usage-mouse.html

Damn, I thought Slashcode Bug 2135487 was too good to be true.

You'll be wanting:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configcgi.html

Initially. There's a lot of stuff that isn't linked directly off the TOC, which is a pain, but it can be found with a bit of digging (or download the PDF and search it).

The FAQs (http://www.nagios.org/faqs/) also have a fair amount of useful info (Such as why the bloody thing won't use GD2 without a lot of arsing around).

I'd also recommend the forums here: http://nagios.meulie.net/ (Though they seem to be down at the moment).

You'll be wanting:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configcgi.html

Initially. There's a lot of stuff that isn't linked directly off the TOC, which is a pain, but it can be found with a bit of digging (or download the PDF and search it).

The FAQs (http://www.nagios.org/faqs/) also have a fair amount of useful info (Such as why the bloody thing won't use GD2 without a lot of arsing around).

I'd also recommend the forums here: http://nagios.meulie.net/ (Though they seem to be down at the moment).

You'll be wanting:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configcgi.html

Initially. There's a lot of stuff that isn't linked directly off the TOC, which is a pain, but it can be found with a bit of digging (or download the PDF and search it).

The FAQs (http://www.nagios.org/faqs/) also have a fair amount of useful info (Such as why the bloody thing won't use GD2 without a lot of arsing around).

I'd also recommend the forums here: http://nagios.meulie.net/ (Though they seem to be down at the moment).

Right now I wanted to check Nagios documentation for simple thing - configuration file syntax. This is the basic stuff. It is the first thing that should be defined in reference manual. I like to know how the files are processed. How do I do comments. How do I define multiple line commands and so on.

Please point me out that I am blind or stupid since I really cannot find it in manuals here:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html

Also I find the online manual quite retarded/clunky. It doesn't even has a search! I wonder why they havent use somekind of wiki (any serious wiki system has search) or similar.

Its a known bug.

At least Jamie is looking at it, but who knows when it'll be fixed.

Try ClearSite... it's what Cacti is to MRTG. http://clearsite.sourceforge.net/coming-soon.html Linux only for now, but the developers are very nice and will share a newer version if you contact them. -theWiseWan

the DOCK, as in look at Ksmoothdock, and kxdock:

http://ksmoothdock.sourceforge.net/ksmoothdock-manual.html

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=6585

http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/screenshot/KDE-OpenSUSE-10.3-com-kxdock-geekzen

http://www.xiaprojects.com/index.php?find=kxdocker

http://xqde.xiaprojects.com/

But, even in 1992, there was "Killer Windows Utilities", and in it was a floating, apps-customizable dock:

I still have my old book, but i cannot find it on the internets.

As MUCH as i applaud Apple for its design successes, i cannot back Jobs on this. At least not 100%. It's too obvious, hasn't been enforced, nor discouraged, and way too many Open Source implementations exist. Even IF the software DEVELOPERS cannot further deploy "finished" dockers, too much software capability exists such that nowadays, with a little finessing, end users can just "roll their own".

Use of IDE's and other exploiting well-available know-how will eventually tear down the onerous burden of software patents. The USPTO needs to STOP sucking up and the US needs to stop subsidizing its income stream from patents processing. After all, it's becoming all-too-easy to just do an end-run on the patents -- with a little creativity -- as go design patents, and maybe even *some* process patents that are dubious or outright *unworthy* of patent (artificial) protection.

I developed python GUI apps for windows workstations during my last job, using wxPython. While many were trivial, basically simple scripts with a GUI, some were rather complicated and took months to develop and debug.

Concerning portability, python is just as good (if not better) than java. All my python apps, save for those that did win32 specific stuff, run equally well on Linux, Mac, and BSD.
Where java is superior to python is in execution speed.

*shameless plug follows*
You can download a non-trivial python GUI app that I've been working on here. Version 2 (in beta) has more features.

But what do those people keen on TDD and design do on .NET now? Particularly when it comes to Web development,

Generally, they use layered architectures. They to test cases for their back ends (the more innovative ones have mock data layers for testing the bits between) and for the asp.net pages Ui layer ... well, they struggle. Selenium or Watin or the like haven't really solved the testing problem. At least, that's what I see.

This one can: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/

As you say the problem is math and graph intense lectures. You have to beable to draw and highlight things on the notes.

Meeting notes are good to take on a computer, but as soon as you need to go back and change stuff, mark something or draw something you will go down from 100wpm to 10wpm. This is easy to work around in meeting notes, take a photo, include the ppt slides etc... But impossible to solve for brainstorming sessions.

Mindmaps are nice to a certain extent, especially freemind is nice.

Or, if you want something that'll play in a standard DVD player, k9copy. I have young kids, and for some weird reasons I haven't bought them and video iPods. Backing up their DVDs is kind of a must.

Eclipse (Emonic) is my preference, but Emacs (csharp-mode) also works surprisingly well.

If you don't use tapes, BackupPC is a good alternative. I like it because it pulls the files to the backup-server and it compresses the backups very well (never stores anything twice).

Are they paying enough to own you?

Apparently they want to own his work on _that specific project_.

On those terms, they could buy any of my projects (I have this and this for example) for a reasonable price.

It's not that I don't value my own work or become attached to my programs, but rather that I always have some ideas for stuff I'd like to do, so I can just move on.

In the end, most of us eventually move to other projects for a number of reasons (boredom, happiness with the current status, other things to do, etc) and I don't think money would be a bad reason.

Are they paying enough to own you?

Apparently they want to own his work on _that specific project_.

On those terms, they could buy any of my projects (I have this and this for example) for a reasonable price.

It's not that I don't value my own work or become attached to my programs, but rather that I always have some ideas for stuff I'd like to do, so I can just move on.

In the end, most of us eventually move to other projects for a number of reasons (boredom, happiness with the current status, other things to do, etc) and I don't think money would be a bad reason.

Because of the lack of CD/DVD-ROM? Sure, though now with Unetbootin you can easily install to, well, anywhere, easily.

I plan on using USB sticks for all my Linux installation needs from now on, no more CD burning for me. Of course another cool way is to do it via your network through PXE and whatnot, but that's a little harder to set up than just a few clicks unfortunately.

with games, it's not quite so extreme, but there's still a socialized reluctance to purchase used games. i mean, everyone wants the latest and greatest gaming title. no one even wants to buy a 2-year-old unused game from the bargain bin. except for legacy systems and hardcore gamers, there's very little demand for refurbished games. it's just not even a notion gamers are accustomed to. most people aren't in the habit of shopping for used games the way that people shop for used cars. so in the end, the negative impact this one-time bonus policy might have on resale value won't really make much of an impact on market demand.

I'd add that those of us who are happy to play old games have plenty of free open source options.

I, for one, have been playing entirely too much UFO: Alien Invasin over the weekend

Someone could resurrect the Anonym.os project, an OpenBSD live CD with anonymity tools.

There's also Bookr, which hasn't been updated in a few years but can do some basic PDF reading as well as straight ASCII text. I imagine that if you wanted to add support for formats like the non-protected form of .LIT, you probably could since Bookr is open source.

It supports rsync, ssh, tar, and SMB. Performs pooling which reduces the number of stored files. Only issue is it uses the local account password file, so you'd have to set up an account for each user you wanted to give direct access too. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Katzer really has used many different legal and illegal tactics to try to kill JMRI. There's a list on the JMRI web page, along with documentation. The purpose of the suit is to make him stop.

If he hadn't done all those things in the first place, none of this would have been necessary.

Traditionally, copyright owners sold their copyrighted material in exchange for money. The lack of money changing hands in open source licensing should not be presumed to mean that there is no economic consideration, however. There are substantial benefits, including economic benefits, to the creation and distribution of copyrighted works under public licenses that range far beyond traditional license royalties. For example, program creators may generate market share for their programs by providing certain components free of charge. Similarly, a programmer or company may increase its national or international reputation by incubating open source projects.

So the courts appear to disagree with your assertion that he didn't "lose" anything.

I second that. My machine also has 4 Gigs of RAM, and since it's XP x64, all 4 are fully recognized. With no memory hogs running and but a couple of dozen windows open, after creating 2 desktops it claimed that "not enough storage" was available (sic, whatever that means). So I logged out and back in, and behold, I was able to create 3 desktops now before the resources ran out. Sorry, I prefer VirtuaWin anytime. One has to wonder, though, why the API functions used in Desktops (CreateDesktop(), SwitchDesktop(), ect) haven't been used by any Windows Multiple Desktops Tool so far.

Another possibilty: Virtual Dimension. (works fine on my XP 32bit and Vista 64bit)

I haven't run it on XP 64bit, but Virtual Dimension, despite the last version coming from 2005, runs well on my Vista 64bit version. (even I didn't expect that)

Back in the day, I used H.323. Nowadays, I use mostly SIP. Both are open standards that can be used with a variety of clients, such as Ekiga, XMeeting, and Gizmo.

By default, these protocols are unencrypted. I would run them over a VPN (I use OpenVPN) so that all communication is encrypted. This also solves some of the connectivity problems that Network Address Translation creates.

... but all good things (that can be attacked by the RIAA/MPAA will) come to an end.

As much as I love Pirate Bay, the central website model can't last.

Systems like Cubit seem promising. Hopefully in a years time we'll have moved to a more distributed model for torrent file search and delivery.

>if my laptop were stolen the thief wouldn't be able to login without my credentials

Yeah buddy, keep telling yourself that...

Windows
1. Use ophcrack
2. There is no 2

Linux
if Ubuntu, see OS X below; otherwise,
1. Insert live CD
2. chroot
3. passwd

OS X
1. Boot in single-user mode, it drops you at a root prompt
2. passwd

Local access + unencrypted disk = you're fucked.

No, the most effective spam filter is CRM114, at http://crm114.sourceforge.net/. By training it to individual tastes, it's better than an average user detecting spam. It's just computationally a bit expensive, and awkward to set up.

The results are quite impressive, though.

*Link to GIMP for Windows on http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

A day or two? It's already on SF: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075&package_id=250052

the build is already up, just not on their website yet:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075&package_id=250052

There is also RPy for those who (like me) program in Python.

Yes, another person mentioned the perl module.
There's also RPy, a python interface. Works pretty well.

you're not looking deep enough. see here. not quite 2.6.0, but close enough.

Feeling lazy? Try k9copy. I used to use DVD Shrink via wine before (works relatively fine), but native programs are always better.

tvrss + pytvshows + rtorrent = Tivo for me.

I work second so it's not like I notice anyway, everything is done by time I get home. All over the waves stuff anyway. I just count it as someone else does the recording and encoding for me.

Yes, and they often sound like deep-fried ass, and are partly responsible for the continuing reputation of MIDI as "cheezy sounding", despite it being the same technology used for most of the soundtrack work we hear every day.

That's just because they use crappy MIDI synths with crappy samples. (MOst just used the Microsoft provided MIDI synth, which comes with a tiny sample library).

One of the better MIDI soft-synths around is Timidity (GPL!). Couple that with some of the more humongous patches/soundfonts, and they can sound quite spectacular. (There are a few other GPL'd synths around, as well - Timidity works great with GUS ones)

Heck, properly rendering a MIDI file is actually quite CPU intensive, especially if you have a huge sample library since that has to be held in RAM (unless you want to prerender to another format). I'm fairly certain it can bring a good PC to its knees if you have multiple channels with different effects plus mixing. Probably even more than decoding say, MP3s or OGGs.

They're just MIDI guitar tracks, widely used with FretsOnFirehttp://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/.

There will almost certainly be a way to work around this on the PC, mainly because NOBODY is going to use the PITA creation tools on the 360 and PS3. It's almost infinitely easier to do it with a MIDI sequencer.

Annoyingly, it looks like the MIDI songs will only be usable on the PS3, not the 360. It is probably due to their tools being MIDI-to-USB. The PS3 is pure USB so that's why it works on that platform.

This is highly annoying for me, because I was going to get the 360 version and I wanted to import my own MIDI tracks. Looks like I'm going to HAVE to go with the PC version now. Does anybody know if the 360 instruments are the same as the PC instruments?

it uses (surprise) H.323 protocol, and not all firewalls like it

http://openh323.sourceforge.net/

You could also use ssh to create a tunnel for the H.323 data. The firewall wouldn't mind that too much ;-)

Though it is hard to test spaghetti code, it is hard no matter if the code is procedural or object-oriented. If you have reasonably well written procedural code it is easy to unit test. For C, there is http://cutest.sourceforge.net/ a very simple framework. Lets say you just wrote super_sort. You can write tests to test it with random input, sorted input, reverse sorted input, big input, small input, and the like. If you ever break super_sort, you will find out as soon as you run your unit tests. IMHO, linear algebra may be complex, but there is generally no state. Purely procedural code is fine for it (though C may not be). There are many simple as well as complex things that have no internal state, and will not benefit from object orientation.

This is only for whiteboarding (not document sharing), but Inkscape can share a workspace over XMPP (Jabber) protocol. The feature is sometimes called Inkboard.

More info here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WhiteBoard and here: http://inkboard.sourceforge.net/

-molo