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A few on #java from Quakenet by AIM_is_t3h_sux · 2005-06-28 23:46 · Score: 1 · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

A few generous people on Quakenet offered these to the public-

Here is one for win32 users.

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/softeng/eclipse/I20050627-1 435/eclipse-SDK-I20050627-1435-win32.zip

There's also a magnet link (which is supported by most peer to peer programs such as Limewire and Ares) located at

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BW6W3QUP7CD23KZRGZG4BK7M4LX2 WB K3

If those don't work try using Net magnet 4.0.

One of those links takes you directly to a win32 download. However, for the Linux developers as well (there are a few different variations of it in the directory so please select one to your liking)

NOTE: These also have variations of eclipse for the Mac and win32 users as well.

http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/eclipse/eclip se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclip se/R-3.1-200506271435/

Happy coding all!

Re:mirror list by ManxStef · 2005-06-28 13:30 · Score: 3, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

mirror list by thedude13 · 2005-06-28 09:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on Eclipse 3.1 Released

QCL by miyako · 2005-06-21 23:27 · Score: 4, Informative · on A Working Quantum Computer in 3 Years?

This is somewhat offtopic, but I ran across it a few months ago and it's really interesting. QCL allows you to write and run quantum algorithms. Runs on Linux and OS X with some tweaking.
The documentation that comes with it is really interesting, and gives some good insights into how quantum computing works and how to write programs for a quantum computer.

Quantum Effects ? by Dr.+Hugh+Everett+III · 2005-05-12 00:22 · Score: 2, Informative · on Roger Penrose and the Road to Reality

Quantum effects of the sort proposed by Hameroff and Penrose are based the folding configuration of tubulin dimers, protein components within the microtubule. Simulations of microtubule excitations suggest topological error correction of global states which may be resistant to local decoherence, independent of any nuclear spin 'tickling' induced by an externally-applied electromagnetic field.

Note also that MRI induced quantum coherence of a different sort has been experimentally observed in the brain.

Nevertheless, you are correct in positing that the burden of experimental proof remains upon those who would advocate any revision of prevailing theory.

Re:great news by AstroByte · 2005-05-08 00:23 · Score: 3, Interesting · on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java

Most of your points are right, however, I take issue with the statement that the bytecode loop is trivial. This, I'm afraid, is a widely held misconception :)

While a simple switch-based interpreter is trivial to implement, it will perform abysmally on modern processors because of the overhead of the computed jumps. Writing an efficient interpreter has been an active research area in itself (see http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/interpre ters.html for some good papers). In fact, the difference between a poor interpreter and a good interpreter can be greater than that between an intepreter and a JIT.

Several improvements over a switched interpreter are possible. Firstly, indirect-threading can be used to minimise dispatch overhead. This can further be improved by moving to direct-dispatching, but this requires rewriting the original bytecode stream. Splitting instruction fetch and address computation via prefetching can also lead to substantial gains, as can the use of "super-instructions".

Additionally, an interpreter can attempt to do stack-caching (either simple top-of-stack caching or more advanced 2 or more levels). This can be used to overcome the inefficiency of executing stack-based bytecodes on a register-based CPU.

Many of these techniques move into the grey area between interpreters and JIT compilers. But no commercial VM uses a simple bytecode interpreter. Even with a JIT, modern VMs still initially execute code using the interpreter, only compiling the "hot spots" to native code. With full JIT compilation, the start-up time of the VM becomes prohibitive.

Many of these techniques are also used in some of the open-source VMs. For example, the interpreter in JamVM, depending on architecture, makes use of direct-dispatching, super-instructions, prefetching, and true, 2 level stack-operand caching. It is many times faster than a simple bytecode interpreter, and it has not been trivial to implement!

The Videa Story by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-13 20:20 · Score: 0 · on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

These things happen: check out http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa.html

The whole VIDEA story (was:No big surprise) by GoBears · 2005-04-13 11:49 · Score: 1 · on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

The whole VIDEA story (including the organizer's side) is here.

Re:Fire the professor... by muecksteiner · 2005-04-07 21:39 · Score: 1 · on Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier

Ah, but spoofing conferences works for "hard science" too. See the VIDEA story as one nice example; they submitted totally bogus abstracts to a conference about computer graphics and got them all accepted as well.

Mind you, that VIDEA conference was apparently not all that good (to put it mildly), but it can even happen at the best venues: Paul Heckbert once had a paper about "Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin" at SIGGRAPH 87...

(to be fair, they knew it was bogus, and published because it sounded cool - but still, a SIGGRAPH paper is a SIGGRAPH paper...) ;-)

Just my 0.2E-32 EUR

A.W.

Re:Performance by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-14 20:25 · Score: 1, Informative · on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT

For a discussion of forwards and backwards ray tracing, see here.

Re:Qemu. by drdink · 2005-02-11 10:08 · Score: 1 · on x86 Assembly on Mac OS X

Though, in some cases, you can dynamically translate the binaries with tools such as this or the Linux ABI support in FreeBSD.

Re:Could it break the "unbreakable" method? by zzlevo · 2005-01-20 09:55 · Score: 1 · on Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

No. True one time pads are informational theoretically secure. If you don't know the key, any given ciphertext can "decrypt" into any plaintext of the same length and it's not possible to determine which is correct. For this to be true the OTP must have been generated from true randomness - not a PRNG or stream cipher which is sometimes advertised as OTP.

Note that there are attacks against OTP such as bit-flipping attacks, traffic analysis, mounting a camera pointing to the screen, rubber hose cryptanalysis etc. An OTP is only provably secure if the adversary only has the ciphertext but nothing else.

Quantum computing can theoretically be used to break stuff like RSA by implementing Shor's algorithm. It would require much more powerful quantum computers than we have today though. I doubt that we'll see powerful enough quantum computers this century if at all.
It is of course theoretically possible to factor large numbers with conventional computers, it'd just take a long, long, long, long time or you'd have to be extremely lucky.

I haven't kept up to date with this field lately, but I believe it's still not known whether it will be possible for a quantum computer to break symmetrical ciphers. It's theoretically possible to break them (with or without quantum computers) as long as the encrypted message is longer than the unicity distance; an often misunderstood concept that's defined in Claude E. Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication from 1948.

Quantum encryption - which is really quantum key exchange - can be used to exchange an OTP. This would create an unbreakable cipher if you define "unbreakable" to mean "cannot be deciphered." It may still be possible to mount bit-flipping attacks etc. Quantum encryption is not very practical today though, and it's only useful in very few situations. It's interesting research which perhaps may someday result in more practical applications.

Re:Sounds reasonable... by PedanticSpellingTrol · 2005-01-15 01:31 · Score: 1 · on iPods get Bluetooth, Remote Control

Reverse Engineers say what?

Re:How about the client? by Ralman · 2005-01-07 08:48 · Score: 1 · on RunUO Ultima Online Emulator Goes Opensource

I believe UORice should fit the bill in this instance.

UORice

Info straight from the site:
What is UO-RICE ?

UO RICE is an encryption remover for UO clients.
You need to remove client encryption if you want to play on Wolfpack or UOX freeshards.
It generates a COPY of your client with encryption removed.
In the end you have two clients after running it.
Use the UO-RICE generated one for playing on freeshards, the original one to play on OSI shards.
You don't have to run it everytime you wan't to play on freeshards.
Just run it once per OSI patch.
Very easy to use, no configuration !

Use UML like this by angel'o'sphere · 2005-01-03 18:39 · Score: 2, Insightful · on How Do You Use UML?

Start with Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams and Component Diagrams.

The order is arbitrary (depending on your knowledge about the future system and your UML skills).

The goal is to have -- before you code:
a) Use Case diagrams which roughly capture what kind of actions the users can do with your software.
b) Components (either planned libraries/dlls or database tables or executeables or configuration files or just imagined "partitions" of one big executeable) where every use case is assigned to a component. That means the business logic for that usecase will later be in that "partition" of code. It makes sense to divide the components up into business components, data access and communication components and gui components (usually a use case is then realized as logic in the business component and also in a gui component for interaction)
c) Activity diagrams for the complex use cases describing their controll flow.

If you do not do a), b) c) above you can not write big systems anyway (except you have 20% factor 10 coders (The Mythical Man Month))

After that is done you pick one use case or two, depending on team size, make the class diagrams for it, generate the code for them and fill out the empty methods with your code.

If you have "scenarios" (that are user acceptance test cases) or XP user stories, make sure they conform with the activity diagrams and make a sequence diagrams as needed for them. That helps in finding the needed methods for you classes.

Use a tool that supports round trip engineering so you can import that code back into your model. So the "private" methods you "invented" during coding get pulled into the model.

Write your unit tests (better user acceptance tests based on the activity diagrams) and import those also into the model.

When needed generate the SQL statements to create the DB tables and/or the DB access components.

Is your application a protocoll driven, e.g. communication, robotics or persistance heavy, you probably might need state diagrams. A state diagram usually refers to a single class or a few connected classes.

Here is a easy tool for UML sketching, it is not usefull for codegeneration etc. but toi get the first ideas how to use UML its probably the most simple one: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~auer/umlet/index.html

angel'o'sphere

Clickable Links by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-10 06:48 · Score: 1, Informative · on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/pc/TheOpenCD/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /opencd/
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/tools/t he_open_cd/releases/
ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/opencd/
ftp://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/theopencd.org/TheOp enCD/
ftp://theopencd.hands.com/theopencd/
ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gd.tuwien.ac.at/ pc/OpenCD/
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/windows/opencd
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/opencd/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/TheOpenCD/
ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/windows/opencd/

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Re:Student budget? by The-Bus · 2004-12-02 07:32 · Score: 2, Funny · on Student Satellite Ready for Space

You're not too far off-base. The satellite as it appears on the front page seems to be made up of a sub-woofer and 4 plainted-black trays from the cafeteria. I understand that they are already working on a custom communications protocol as well.

Very exciting.

Re:GCJ slower than a native JVM? by pkhuong · 2004-10-20 14:05 · Score: 1 · on Java VM & .NET Performance Comparisons

Stack behaviour is static (ie, stack effects are constant. m popped, n pushed, all the time - unlike Forth) in the JVM. That means it is possible, but sort of hard, to statically translate the stack code to register code. Push/Pop don't HAVE to be used. IIRC, it could be relatively complex in Forth (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.h tm it might be discussed in this paper http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl93.ps. gz, but i'm far from sure, and don't feel like making sure at the time :p), but that might be related tot he fact that forth words can have arbitrary stack effects (both data and return), complicating even the common case. So, intuitively, while that sort of optimisation can be used in a real compiler, i'm not sure a JIT one can afford it. Maybe that's a place where gcj could make up for their lack of profiling data.

Re:GCJ slower than a native JVM? by pkhuong · 2004-10-20 14:05 · Score: 1 · on Java VM & .NET Performance Comparisons

Stack behaviour is static (ie, stack effects are constant. m popped, n pushed, all the time - unlike Forth) in the JVM. That means it is possible, but sort of hard, to statically translate the stack code to register code. Push/Pop don't HAVE to be used. IIRC, it could be relatively complex in Forth (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.h tm it might be discussed in this paper http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl93.ps. gz, but i'm far from sure, and don't feel like making sure at the time :p), but that might be related tot he fact that forth words can have arbitrary stack effects (both data and return), complicating even the common case. So, intuitively, while that sort of optimisation can be used in a real compiler, i'm not sure a JIT one can afford it. Maybe that's a place where gcj could make up for their lack of profiling data.

Re:Space monopolies are bad by bleckywelcky · 2004-10-20 08:45 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

lmao. There's a difference between some dinky 80 kg 2' x 2' x 2' cube designed to be launched into SSO at 668km and a ~9000 kg beast designed to propel itself out of HEO and into an orbit around the icy moons of Jupiter to study their formation and composition with a vast instrument suite.

I'm not knocking their efforts, and I admire the work they have done; but this team of students has only designed a small, light satellite that performs a couple of on-board experiments and relays the information back to Earth. There is practically 0 innovation in this project because everything they use is COTS technology. The only innovative part will be the data collected from the experiment, but even the experiment uses COTS technology.

I'm as ticked off about the crap that Lockheed (and others) have failed on, but they're nowhere near being replaced in the next decade.

Re:Space monopolies are bad by bleckywelcky · 2004-10-20 08:45 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

lmao. There's a difference between some dinky 80 kg 2' x 2' x 2' cube designed to be launched into SSO at 668km and a ~9000 kg beast designed to propel itself out of HEO and into an orbit around the icy moons of Jupiter to study their formation and composition with a vast instrument suite.

I'm not knocking their efforts, and I admire the work they have done; but this team of students has only designed a small, light satellite that performs a couple of on-board experiments and relays the information back to Earth. There is practically 0 innovation in this project because everything they use is COTS technology. The only innovative part will be the data collected from the experiment, but even the experiment uses COTS technology.

I'm as ticked off about the crap that Lockheed (and others) have failed on, but they're nowhere near being replaced in the next decade.

Re:AJPEG ... does it exist? Could it? by BigSven · 2004-08-29 00:32 · Score: 1 · on Presenting APNG: Like MNG, Only Better

Adding JNG support to the GIMP plug-in would be trivial. As soon as MNG is finally put back into the Mozilla trunk, I promise to add JNG support for the GIMP MNG plug-in.

"Mozilla won't show you the thing." is just plain wrong though. I've created animations using JNG chunks and the Mozilla firefox extension shows them just fine.

Re:MNG is being checked out of Firefox by BigSven · 2004-08-28 21:40 · Score: 1 · on Presenting APNG: Like MNG, Only Better

Adding MNG support to your version of Firefox is actually pretty simple. Just go to http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/ and download the extension for your platform.

I suggest that you also take a look at the filesize of this extension. It's really not as much bloat as people try to make you believe. We are talking about a 270KB library here (for the Linux version).

That's NOT a photo mosaic! by schani · 2004-08-24 02:35 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac

The image is not a photo mosaic, just a random collage of pictures. These are photo mosaics. (I'm the author of that program.)

bye
Mark

Re:Monster Blue Screen of Death by InfiniteWisdom · 2004-08-02 12:47 · Score: 1 · on 140" Monitor Demonstration At Purdue

Whats so scary about that? Just move the mouse and it goes away?

Re:Intro to Quantum Computing by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-23 00:33 · Score: 1, Informative · on Quantum Computing Using Traditional Transistors

I highly recommend this "Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists (36 pages). You should have some knowledge of linear algebra, though.

Actually, by grepistan · 2004-07-06 14:22 · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No Hard Drive?

I've got an even older thinkpad (486, no cdrom) and it gets at least 90 minutes from a charge. Possibly because it is so ancient it draws next to no power, I'm not quite sure.

Because I'm lazy and can't be bothered doing an NFS or HTTP install of some proper linux distro on it, I use basic linux , which is somewhat limited but can do a few basic things. There's a collection of these types of things available here if anyone is interested...

Of course they'll only let you play... by spoco2 · 2004-06-30 14:53 · Score: 2, Informative · on Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last?

...music like this and specifically these, of which, of course, the format is the SID :D

Although you'd need something like this to play them.

And, just because I thought it interesting, apparently, these are the best ever C64 game tunes:
* Monty on the Run
* R-type
* One Man and His Droid
* Spellbound
* Ocean Loader v3.0
* After the War
* Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
* Kinetix
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty
* Bionic Commando

Re:MNG and JNG support by denis-The-menace · 2004-05-26 01:51 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released

These should be done as plug-ins/add-ons like this:
MNG XPI for Mozilla

How did I find this?
Google with: MNG mozilla

Re:Mirror For TheOpenCD ISO by BiggyP · 2004-05-04 10:41 · Score: 1 · on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released

Here's a quick list ofmirrors that appear to have the new ISO.

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/projects/TheOpenCD/pub/releas es/1.4/iso/
http://www.tw-fileserver.de/mirror/TheOpenCD/

this isn't the first time by dncsky1530 · 2004-05-02 23:54 · Score: 1, Funny · on MSNBC Looks At Patent Abusers' Victims

many things get pattented before even invented or widely used, look at:

communications satelites in 1945
MS patents zeros and ones
and many more...

Re:It always... by Rothron+the+Wise · 2004-04-25 19:53 · Score: 1 · on Beyond Megapixels

A smaller sensor is more noisy and more prone to chromatic abberation.

Short explanation: Chromatic abberation is a result of the fact that different wavelengths are refracted differently. They come out of the lens at slightly different angles.

The further away the sensor is from the lens, the more distance the light will have separated. The amount of separation is also a function of the curvature of the lens, i.e. how much it refracts.

The size of the CCD matters only indirectly, and the relation is not as you've stated. Besides, chromatic abberation can be pretty effectively counteracted through software software.

Re:Subliminal Messaging by aled · 2004-04-01 10:19 · Score: 2, Informative · on Homemade Subliminal CDs

Or follow the link (white rabbit)

This isn't new, just new for you Americans... by Hanno · 2004-03-28 14:45 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing

It's funny that the US is getting upset about data processing "beyond the reach of U.S. authorities", because already some years back, it used to be the other way round.

For several years now, some larger German companies used to offshore their customer data processing to the USA. Some claim this is also done because of the USA's less strict privacy laws that allow for far more data profiling than allowed in Germany. There is also growing concern in German media that it will be impossible to control such outsourced data and that there is no way to ensure that customer data will not be used by the American procesing company for other purposes or sold to third parties.

One such example was the Bahncard, a price rebate system for the national railway. For a few years, it came combined with a creditcard option and its data would be shared with an external partner of CitiBank US for customer profiling, including a photograph, a full credit history and all payment data of the user.

You mean like this? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-19 04:25 · Score: 2, Informative · on Massachusetts Builds Open-Source Public Repository

gd.tuwien.ac.at

Great discovery by ahh · 2004-02-22 06:31 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Largest Lens Ever Discovered

... wonder how long it takes to figure how to combine array of these to create virtual super-scope ( like DARWIN) and start watchin' exoplanets.

Re:Copy Protection by Jan-Pascal · 2004-02-18 02:30 · Score: 1 · on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years

Yes, I had to upload an assembly program to the 1541 RAM and execute it there. It looked a lot like the code that GEOS used to check for the special track, but with writes instead of reads.

OPEN 15,8,15,"" was used to issue commands to the 1541. "N0:name" for formatting a disk, etc. A URL for 1541 commands is http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power20/Docu mentation/Power20-ReadMe/AB-Floppy_Commands.html

direct download links by roskakori · 2004-01-23 22:35 · Score: 5, Informative · on EiffelStudio O-O Programming Suite for Mac OS X

this form stuff sucks. some of the download links they send you:

Okay, sure. by Ayanami+Rei · 2004-01-14 08:06 · Score: 1 · on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives?

Yeah, there is the whole "check WindowsVersion" thing, which can be easily circumvented for stuff like Partition magic.

NTSwitch... it can turn Pro into Server without issue.
Also of note, it apparently turns XP into an incomplete beta of .NET server (no seriously, try it, you can always switch back)
And as for the install CDs, well maybe you're right about the packages' presence on the disk. But it really is the only difference. All you have to do is run the change tool, pop in the 2k server CD, and install Message Queueing, or the full version of IIS, and you're a happy camper.

server slow, mirror list: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-08 02:25 · Score: -1 · on First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing

Sorry, couldn't format it because of Slashdot's fucking filters.
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/ http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/ http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/ ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/ http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/ ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp / ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/ http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/ ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/ ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror / http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/ ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ ftp://ftp.hun.edu.tr/pub/linux/gimp/ ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gi mp/ ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/X/gimp/gimp/

The List of mirrors is slashdoted. by chrestomanci · 2004-01-08 02:22 · Score: 4, Informative · on First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing

Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / Netherlands http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/

Article mirrors by ladislavb · 2004-01-04 14:43 · Score: 2, Informative · on Knoppix Tips and Tricks

If you find it hard to access the main site, please use one of these mirrors:

Re:seconded! by mikecron · 2003-11-21 23:34 · Score: 0 · on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

I wouldn't rush into using MNG. According to this site:

MNG Support was removed as part of Mozilla at 2003-06-03 16:20 PST, which means that nightly builds from June 4 and later no longer contained it, neither will Mozilla 1.5alpha and later.

Mirrors by DeadSea · 2003-11-20 11:14 · Score: 1, Redundant · on A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD

From World Wide Web://theopencd.sunsite.dk/mirrors.php

Please use one of the mirror sites below to download your copy of TheOpenCD (note: not all have v1.2 updates). The ISO and source tar are also available on BitTorrent. For more info on Bittorrent, click here, or click here for a BitTorrent client.

Australia World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Jason Andrade and PlanetMirror.

Austria World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Antonin Sprinzl and the Vienna University of Technology.

Belgium World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Cedric Gavage and Skynet Belgacom.

Brazil World Wide Web | Mirror courtesy of Aleck Zander and Universidade Estadual Paulista.

Canada FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas Cort and Bishop's University.

Finland FTP | Mirror courtesy of Harri Salminen and Funet.

Germany 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Daniel Lang and Informatik der Technischen Universitt Mnchen.

Germany 2 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Tom Rueger and the Universitt Bayreuth.

Germany 3 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas List and SunSite Aachen.

Germany 4 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Holger Weiss and Freie Universitt Berlin.

UK World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Yang He and UK Mirror Service.

USA 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of A. J. Wright and the The University of Tennessee.

USA 2 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Sam Chessman and Tux.org

USA 3 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Jason Holmes and the Pennsylvania State University.

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Re:hmm... hardware outpaces software again? by pablob · 2003-10-30 17:34 · Score: 1 · on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan

Not really... The "quantum software" for a quantum computer is years ahead of any quantum hardware... There's even a "Programming Language for Quantum Computers"! There are some useful algorithms (for factorizing numbers, to search in unsorted databases) that work faster than their classical counterparts, but no hardware to run them but on almost trivial cases! (15=5x3 anyone?). Good Luck!

Re:What is going to run on these computers? by Capybara · 2003-10-30 16:47 · Score: 0 · on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan

Yeah, in fact, I get the feeling that this research is purely destructive. As far as I can tell, the only function of a quantum computer is to crack public-key encryption. As soon as the machines come on line, we'll have to say goodbye to https, ssh, pgp, etc. Why, then, are people so excited about advances in the field? Researchers who love quantum mechanics would do better to work on quantum encryption or on inventing more useful algorithms for quantum computers.

Re:MNG plugins are available by Raphael · 2003-10-15 02:59 · Score: 1 · on Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla

you may restore MNG support with these: [...]

No, these plug-ins will not restore support for MNG in Mozilla. They will only add a different way to include MNG using the EMBED tag. This is different from native support using the standard IMG tag.

Have a look at these two pages, providing support for Mozilla and Firebird:

The second page contains a test image using IMG, EMBED and OBJECT. With version 1.4 of Mozilla, I can see all three versions of the animation. With the plug-ins that you are linking to, you will probably not be able see the first one (which is the one that most web designers should be using). I haven't tried Mozilla 1.5 yet and I doubt that I will upgrade because of these MNG problems, but expect that none of the animations will be displayed with 1.5.

With version 1.4 of Mozilla, I can also see all the images on the Opossum demo page, showing how JNG compresses better than GIF and provides a much better quality (full color and true transparency instead of 1-bit "all or nothing" transparency). I can also see various other test cases for MNG without any problems. I suppose that Mozilla 1.5 will fail these tests.

For those who run into trouble looking for mirrors by ErrorBase · 2003-10-01 07:42 · Score: 5, Informative · on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1

For those who run into trouble looking for mirrors by ErrorBase · 2003-10-01 07:42 · Score: 5, Informative · on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1

3dfm download and corrections for the source code by erlkonig · 2003-09-13 11:12 · Score: 2, Informative · on 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize

You can download the source code from http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/sf/subcat/in/in nolab/3dfm-1.0.tar.gz

Be aware that there are some library checks left out of the configure.ac that will prevent ./configure from finding all the library dependencies. To fix this, add the following lines in configure.ac in the library check section, to wit:

# Checks for libraries. AC_CHECK_LIB([Xi], [XOpenDevice]) AC_CHECK_LIB([Xmu], [XmuLookupStandardColormap]) AC_CHECK_LIB([GL], [glVertex3f]) AC_CHECK_LIB([GLU], [gluOrtho2D]) AC_CHECK_LIB([glut], [glutBitmapCharacter]) AC_CHECK_LIB([m], [cos])

Then run "autoconf" to update the ./configure, and proceed as usual.

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