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You can get Gnome 2.8 packages for Mandrake here.

I'm running them on Mandrake Cooker (development), and it's pretty nice. I'm reasonably sure Cooker is still identical to Official at the moment until all releases are finalized, so it should install fine. You can even set it up with the software sources manager.

GNOME2.8 came too late for Mandrakelinux 10.1 (just as KDE 3.3), that's why I've created my own packages. You can get them from a urpmi repository. Remember to add the Mandrake Cooker (soon to become 10.1) and Contrib repositories as well for some of the dependancies.

Versions for 10.1 and source packages are in the Cooker Contribs.

There are a few issues with this package, e.g. you have to run it once as root after the installation.

Warning: these packages aren't updated anymore, they've been merged into Cooker, which will become 10.1.

The university's admins must hate me for linking my page on /. :-)

9.2 packages.

The service already exists (Pressplay) and no one has done it yet. An old version of MS DRM was cracked, but the current version has been around for a couple of years and has not been compromised yet.

Is this MS DRM information about the old version or the new? Maybe other people would find this interesting?

http://wwwiuk.informatik.uni-rostock.de/forschun g/ ms-digital-rights/Technical.html

DjVu is for scanned documents. There is no major accepted file format in use for this kind of data. This will be a huge market once bureaucracies around the world start digitizing their tons of documents. OTOH, DjVu is there for quite a while already and I don't see it having succeeded. Plus, when I installed the plugin under IE 5 a year ago, it was in some dubious beta state. Not nice to work with.

Lossy / lossless image compression types. You cannot compare PNG tolossy schemes. PNG cannot beat a lossy method because the goals are different. Lossless: Compress as small as possible (but the exact original must be restoreable). Typically, the algorithms that throw more resources (CPU and memory) at it are better. Lossy: For a given file size, reach the best quality. You can easily beat PNG with a lossy scheme by simply choosing very bad quality.

Open source. There are a few programs out there. Try TIC. It's GPL'd and beats JBIG-1 by about 40 percent on scanned images, according to the website.

Resources: Image Compression Resources, The Data Compression Library.

I have never actually owned an Abit motherboard but you have to appreciate what they do with their spare time (read: dual celeron BP6, etc).
The cool thing about some of their motherboards is the Winbond Hardware monitoring chip that they use in some. The lm_sensors package allows linux users full use of the hardware monitoring features. Use it in conjunction with frontends like KLM or GnoLM.
Also, the "one MHz step" thing that they have can be used from inside linux. I mean, you can change the FSB from inside linux (in one MHz steps) because of the clock generator that they use.
Im not knocking other manufacturers, but I have found Abit to be a linux overclocker's best friend.

Useful Links:
FSB Utility for Linux
The lm_sensors Homepage

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Lincoln: Elected in 1860
Garfield: Elected in 1880
McKinley: Elected in 1900
Kennedy: Elected in 1960
Reagan: Elected in 1980

Looks like we're about due... *grin*

(Note for the humor-impaired: Yes, I left out Jackson, both Roosevelts, and Truman. More info can be found here.)

--Fesh

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- SEAL

If anyone is interested in working on a free 3d modeling / rendering project, I would reccomend working on one of the many existing projects. Each project seems to have a slightly different slant on what it intends to be good at so I don't think diversity is a problem.

I have been writing a modeller named Extreme Wave which is based on some of my grad school work, but there are a number of other fine projects that have made some significant progress including MOPS, Moonlight Creator, 3DOM, and MindsEye. No Maya killers in the bunch yet.