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My work PC had PDFCreator installed when I started. Maybe the person before me installed it...

Strangely enough I can't find it on TuCows. Oh well... it's a SourceForge project, which is even better...

The best notetaking software I've ever used is called Freemind. It's a hierarchical mindmapping tool that provides good structuring and quick notetaking since everything is bound to a key without having to navigate menus (of course, you can do that too, if you want)

I'll go so far as to say that Freemind should be standard issue for every student.

You might want to look at what happened to the Java Model Railroad Interface project. They used a permissive licence, only to find that someone else got a patent (of dubious validity, but nonetheless good enough to shake people down for money) which is claimed to cover their code, and then sued the original developers to stop distribution of the free version, while taking the code (as permitted by the licence) to sell a proprietary version themselves. You might want to choose a licence which gives you some defence against patent aggression, and GPLv3 is the latest and greatest in this respect.

But from other people's point of view, BSD licence (without the obnoxious advertising clause) is fine. They can still incorporate the code into GPLed programs if they wish, so there is no real licence fragmentation. Much better than one of the Yet Another Licences which end up fragmenting code into immiscible globs.

1. Use OpenOffice or any of several other competing, automatable, open-source projects to write a file for presentation
2. Use a library like JExcelAPI

See http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/en_technology.html . The 128kB blocks are not "unique". Nor is data fancily compressed. You can use a block for a holiday picture, it could also be used for an mp3. It all depends on the URL. If I store a copyrighted file on OFF (say a legally purchased mp3) and I keep the URL to myself, noone will actually know (nor can they see) that I actually stored that mp3 on OFF. Even though I stored it on a Distributed File System, by keeping the URL to myself, I did not distribute the mp3 (noone can download the mp3 without the URL).

I can find a few projects a little closer to home that can do the exact same thing:

One:
http://www.ipp2p.org/
Two:
http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/

I use full encryption on my bittorrent sessions, and it hasn't stopped my router from correctly categorizing every single connection.

Bit torrent is old tech.

The truth is, they (the telecoms and others) have started an arms race.

P2P will become infinitely more sophisticated.

http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki.offdev.org/Main_Page

I keep this database and its master key close to my heart for emergencies.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

It can autogenerate relatively strong passwords for you, and has an "autotype" feature where you can just press Ctrl+T on any login screen and it'll automatically log you in (assuming it follows the usual format of: username <tab> password <enter>).

dtach is a lightweight alternative to screen.

If all you are doing is establishing a persistent ssh connection, you may want to think about using dtach. It's the equivalent of vi to emacs. Why use an operating system when all you need is a text editor?

If you can't be sure yet what else you might need to export from this machine, in particular for access as a roadwarrior too (just terminals or also file shares to get data into and out of future projects, and possibly even forwarded access to further machines on the LAN?), 3SP's SSL-Explorer might be a good package comprising VNC, RDP etc., console prompts, network paths, web forwards (mostly through a Java helper that runs from many browsers), all encrypted as the name implies, and even more in in its commercial Enterprise Edition, which has a free trial for 2 users as well.

There had been a flurry of versions (all very usable indeed) and lively discussion up until RC19, with the project even proposed for inclusion into Ubuntu, but just before the final release, suddenly not much has been heard from the project since May anymore, and http://www.3sp.com/forums/forums/show/18.page (as well as the fact that http://www.sshtools.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do now redirects to the commercial version) gets me a bit worried - does anyone have more recent news on this promising project?

A free CD-recording tool for windows? Maybe you were looking a little too hard: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Have you even used WiX? It's an absolute turd.

I use it in my day job at Microsoft. I'm not allowed to fix its problems on the clock, so bugger if I'm going to fix it for them off the clock.

The screen squeal can be fixed by a small utility called WarpSpeed from palmpowerups.com

You are 100% correct - and this application DOES fix the screen squeal on mine. However, I truly wonder how many people use these devices (any of the palm lineup) and don't realize this?

And then the person sees that they will have to pay for a solution. That goes over like a turd in a punchbowl. It did with me, and to be honest even though the application was only ten dollars, I thought to myself "self, why would you pay for something that fixes a flaw in this device?" Don't get me wrong, I will pay money for features/functionality in an application (or car or house etc) but I do not pay after the fact to fix manufacturing defects.

So, I have an app that I found (open source, I believe) called WhineHack. Does the trick - just tried it today, but there are too many other flaws with this unit for me to think about carrying it in my day-to-day routine again.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155828

You're confusing Palm with some other PDA. The platform is wide open -- here are the documents. The Internet is lousy with Palm software, some commercial and some free. My Treo has applications from ten different sources, including an excellent free HP-42 emulator.

China, so far, has not blocked any addresses starting with https

https://sourceforge.net

Game programming I'd think would be doable, if they have good DirectX libraries and an SDK that works well.

Java has some pretty good libraries for game development.

• A fully featured OpenGL API: JOGL
• OpenAL for audio: JOAL
• JInput for game controllers and other input: JInput
• Java version of SDL for a complete game dev tool: SDLJava

Also, check out the pure Java implementation of the Quake 2 engine. Runs on every major platform with near native speed. Jake2

I doubt that Java will ever be used for mainstream games, but for small projects it is a great tool that will allow a game to run on any platform with AAA title graphics and sound.

Reinventing bochs (or an equivalent) by including it in Wine would be an engineering mistake. For many, Wine runs faster than Windows itself... that's a big selling point.

See here

I think it's idiotic for these project leaders are attaching their pet causes to software with bunch of contributors. It should be a rule to keep one's politics separate from such projects.

See here

I think it's idiotic for these project leaders are attaching their pet causes to software with bunch of contributors. It should be a rule to keep one's politics separate from such projects.

Their homepage has some information on there asking people to protest the olympics.

Of course a piece of editing software can't itself consciously object to a global event. No software AI is that advanced, not even in a text editor.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is azureus (now zune), which is not exactly known for it's small resource footprint. In the closed source freeware realm, jalbum is available and quite nice to use.

I have to point you to the argus codewatch eclipse plugin: http://arguscodewatch.sourceforge.net/

(which is the one I know, there may be more)

The reason while these flaws are there is that Java supports neither mix-in classes nor static polymorphism nor operator overloading.

I have to point you to the argus codewatch eclipse plugin: http://arguscodewatch.sourceforge.net/

(which is the one I know, there may be more)

How is this better than any of the other similar fonts out there such as Linux Libertine or Bitstream Vera?

Both of thses font groups are similar, serve the same purpose and have been around much longer.

I've used all three and see very little difference.

What Linux really needs are some good fonts that don't mimic the standard Windows fonts. There are lots of very nice fonts that come with Microsoft Office, few of which have decent equivalents in Linux (excluding proprietary fonts you can buy from a number of foundries).

BTW, in another few years when most Windows users are running Vista (or later) Linux will need to catch up again. For example, Calibri is a great font and is the default in Word 2007.

In my opinion the Bitstream Vera/DejaVu fonts look better than anything else and they have a free license. I use them for everything.

Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.

Note in particular the "Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product." part.

DOWNLOAD VOXELSTEIN 3D!!!! YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT. http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/

If my bank asked me to go to "other bank" in order to pay money into my account at my bank and said "You'll be able to confirm that it really is other bank because they'll have paperwork signed by us to prove it" then yes, I would trust my bank.

I recently got redirect to this site when buying rail ticket from http://www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/

https://www.securesuite.co.uk/rbs/tdsecure/opt_in.jsp?

I was using a natwest debit card (who happen to be owned by RBS).

The site didn't work properly (I just got a blank page) but it was supposed to be asking me for various letters from a password for my card for the "verified by visa" scheme.

Was it a scam site that didn't work or was it the real site that didn't work? Can you tell from the certificate?

Or should it have directed me to
https://secure1.securesite.co.uk/
instead?

(I've removed all the get parameters that were on the original URL)

What about if I'd ended up at:
https://sourceforge.net/

or
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/?

How can I tell which one of those I should be trusting with my credit card details and which I should be afraid of?

Tim.

Done already, and it proved useful. Have a look at crashme. That program is also part of the Linux Test Project.

There's an open source Finite Element Analysis program. It has a client-server clustering capability. http://impact.sourceforge.net/ You can make it rain expensive sports-cars upon the pavement, if you want.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ssl+protocol+analyzer
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=ssl+protocol&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&words=ssl+protocol+analyzer
http://www.wireshark.org/

Must have been hard to copy/paste, huh?

The most effective compressors are commercial, but DjVu is a very effective image archival format; see DjVuLibre for the non-commercial tree.

Moving back towards the question in the article, I don't think there's much worry about either TIFF or PDF in terms of future proofing; they're both very widely used, have multiple implementations and third parties with substantial interest in keeping those implementations maintained, etc. The quality of TIFF implementations varies wildly, but the good ones are only going to get better, and I'd be shocked if libtiff ended up terminally bitrotted without a successor implementing a superset of its functionality inside my lifetime.

My Java implementation.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jarbm

Don't sweat it - just get a Samsung laser printer. I've recently got myself a ML-2010 b/n (arround $100-$120 in the US) which, besides being dirt cheap, is well built, very fast, provides a one-touch toner save mode, and has native Linux open source drivers; install the driver, add your printer in the CUPS web configuration page, and you're good to go.

It's been six months now of continuous use without a hiccup - in fact, it's still using the bundled (half-load) toner cartridge.

We recently open-sourced our browser and server software specifically with the hope that mobile devices would be able to run directly from it.

SupraBrowser

The goal is for people to be able to create their own personal cloud/personal server where their mobile device does not sync with it, so much as it runs directly off of it. So, taking a picture would automatically be saved into the user's own private server. Contacts would be saved and viewed directly from the server.

I am actually working on an neural processor. It is primarily, a platform for developing neural applications as appose to an application itself. Similar to how a database provides middle ware functionality. And temporarily coined Neurox.

Neurox is subdivided into two parts:
Firstly a database where neurons have position and are allowed to move or create new connections (plasticity) in a more permanent manner. This can be a slower process. And secondly a processing node, or cluster of nodes, Where a slice of the stored network is processed. Certain optimizations can be made because of the importance of distance or time of travel, rather than cartesian location. Just the lengths between connection, and there fore travel time is needed for processing, 3d coordinates are not required. A fully parallel environment must also be provided where all interactions occur at once. Otherwise certain critical behaviors will not occur, such as: cyclic interactions, which will spiral to there death. A simple method is used to provide the parallelism, similar to cellular automata processors. A derivative of time is taken: all objects have a before-state and after-state, evaluations are made based on before-state, and results are stored in after-state, when a series of evaluations have completed then after-state becomes before-state and the cycle is repeated. Derived time has advanced.

• Systems Required:
• Parallel processing
• Plasticity in neuron locations, connection and strengths
• Point to Point, as well as spacial communications. Synapse(point-to-point) and aquas(spatial)communications irrespectively.
• Source of neural stimulations
• Externally defined neuron behavior. with system provided storage and thread space.

-- Not dedicated to it. last posting is sorta old, also developed a extremely small footprint xml like processor called XOL(extensible out-of-band language) for the processing side (uses out of band data instead on in-band like xml): http://sourceforge.net/projects/neurox/

http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ai_npc.cpp

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebla
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W03/W03-0607.pdf

There are also label templates for OpenOffice but I think the glabel program will do what you want to do.

So what were they actually hosting there?

I can see why they would think this was easy to get away with.

Even sourceforge have allowed projects to use their services which state they are open source, under the GPL, and yet do not make source code available.

Here's one example.
http://audiobookcutter.sourceforge.net/
The company concerned used sourceforge until their product was ready, then moved it onto their own site, changing the product to a free, but feature reduced version, and a paid for full feature version. The source code has never been made available.

In their forum I found this little nugget
In my understanding there's no difference whether you call it GPL or Free Version. Most people don't care about the license as long as they don't have to pay for it.

Or is there something important missing on TortoiseHg?

I use /. home page for my RSS feeds, but I wished /. would fix the problems:
MacCentral's outdated stories and LinuxGames' empty box.

I use /. home page for my RSS feeds, but I wished /. would fix the problems:
MacCentral's outdated stories and LinuxGames' empty box.

While you could use dd, there are other tools designed for this sort of thing.

Try out gddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

"GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.

Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the probability of having damaged areas at the same places on different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies."

For new archives, you may want to look at something like http://dvdisaster.sourceforge.net/

(Tangent: I use Yarssr [for *nix/GNOME] to organize my feeds. Lives in the GNOME panel notification area as a pop-up menu.)

Slashdot
Various Associated Press news wires
BBC News
CNN
Daily Kos
Several local news feeds from my local newspaper
Multiple single-topic feeds from ESPN
The International Herald Tribune
A custom feed from Careerbuilder
The Top Stories and In Depth feeds from Reuters
My regional surf reports from Surfline
Politics coverage from The Hill

I have taken the liberty of aggregating the syndication feeds of myself and my friends here. Check it out.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ploneglenn/friends

This is using http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ which is an interesting syndicated content aggregater.

That reminds me. I would be interested in /.'s opinions on the http://www.opensearch.org/ project. Do you think that it will catch on? I ask because I am considering adding a support for this to the search engine part of my content publishing project.