* Mozilla Firefox
* Firefox extensions: RadialContext, User Agent Switcher, bookmarklets, Magpie
* Filezilla (an ftp client that looks a lot like CuteFTP)
* Klipfolio (a news ticker / rss viewer)
* Trillian (an instant messenger, with the microscopic skin)
* PuTTY (a set of SSH clients)
* Cygwin/X (a port of X11, including an X server)
MEDIA
* BSplayer (a media player that handles DivX files well, even on SMP machines)
* foobar2000 (an audio player, uglier but leaner than Winamp)
* AC3Filter (a DirectShow filter for decoding AC3 audio)
* Subtitle Workshop (for converting between subtitle files of different formats)
* HACP (a lightweight cd player that understands CD text and online CD databases)
* IrfanView (an image viewer similar to ACD See)
* XnView (another image viewer)
* Exact Audio Copy (an excellent CD audio extractor)
* Real Alternative (a replacement for Real Player, without the bloat)
UTILITY
* Ad-Aware (for finding and removing spyware from your computer)
* Spybot - Search & Destroy (another spyware removal program)
* AVG Anti-Virus (not crashy like Norton AV, but updated less frequently)
* IZArc (an archive & file compression utility similar to WinZip)
* pdf995 (for easily converting your documents to Adobe PDF files)
* ListXP (a lightweight raw file viewer modeled after Vernon D. Buerg's list for DOS)
" Well, you've got 2 choices, essentially. Both have their advantages and disadvantages."
Actually, there is a third option: Build a generic interface that will work for all Atari-style digital joysticks, making them work wherever an old-style analog PC joystick will work. There are links to two circuit designs in my other post.
Yes, I remember the Epyx 500XJ. It was absolutely the best joystick I ever used. Its body was molded to fit my hand in a relaxed position, and all contacts (including each joystick direction) were made with microswitches, which were very durable and responsive. The Atari / Commodore model had only one button, but the Sega model had two.
I just got a couple of these joysticks from ebay, and am going to build an adapter so I can use them with MAME. I found two circuits on the net for this purpose:
This link has a wealth of information on older game controller hardware.
This one has another (perhaps simpler) circuit design, with diagrams in postscript format. (Use gsview to view them on Windows.)
You know, that agrument comes up every time a compatibility layer is announced here... and I disagree. A third-party driver wrapper will never offer the same level of convenience or (more importantly) support that a fully supported driver has. Any suggestion by the hardware vendor that their big customers use such a wrapper instead of a properly supported driver will therefore not hold water. The customers can still very reasonably threaten to take their business elsewhere, and the vendor will still have just as much reason to listen.
Sure, the wrapper might make it a harder to convince companies that are waffling on linux drivers, but I don't see any reason that it would make a real difference in most cases.
This reminds me of the cddb being stolen by Gracenote. Last time I checked, they were still claiming to own the database of audio discs (they may have changed their tune by now), despite the fact that it was built mostly from submissions by people like me. Gracenote basically took our diligent work, and started restricting access to it in order to make money. How do we know that they didn't build their own database? Because it contains entries for unpublished CDs that don't exist outside the homes of a few specific people; effectively honeytokens.
Yes, I use Pie Menus on Mozilla & Firebird as well. They're like gestures, but with some visual feedback, so each gesture is easy to learn. Get it here.
But not terribly useful if you want information on the current state of the language. K&R C has been obsolete for years. They published a newer version with ANSI C updates, and C99 is now making that update obsolete.
"Secondly, in the real world IE won the browser wars, live with it. The end users voted with their mice."
Whether the users voted IE into its current stranglehold position is entirely debatable, especially considering recent legal findings. Regardless, even if IE is most popular now, consider that Netscape Navigator was most popular several years ago, and another browser may be most popular in the future.
In any case, this whole argument is irrelevant to the matter at hand, because DNS does not belong exclusively to the web. Several other posters have already given good examples of this.
"His fit of genius led him to try to construct it in C, and he was surprised when it compiled without complaint and ran perfectly."
I agree that Duff's Device is clever, but I'm puzzled as to why he was surprised that it worked. Perhaps I can only say so because I learned C after it had been around a while, but his code looks totally straight forward to me. What's so amazing about it? Is it just that the programming community at that time hadn't fully explored the ways to exploit C syntax?
Slashdot Mirror
They also offer a free download of Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, which looks to be a command line compiler and basic (non-mfc) libraries.
That bug wasn't fixed for firefox 0.9, as far as I know.
Does anyone have a mirror of the censored information? Wayback machine, perhaps?
I use trillian on windows, and ayttm (formerly everybuddy) on linux. Have any of you tried miranda? Opinions, please.
Finally! I've been wanting a clearly illuminated view of all that dust and hair that collects between the keys for ages!
P.S. All those apps I listed above are freeware.
NETWORKING
* Mozilla Firefox
* Firefox extensions: RadialContext, User Agent Switcher, bookmarklets, Magpie
* Filezilla (an ftp client that looks a lot like CuteFTP)
* Klipfolio (a news ticker / rss viewer)
* Trillian (an instant messenger, with the microscopic skin)
* PuTTY (a set of SSH clients)
* Cygwin/X (a port of X11, including an X server)
MEDIA
* BSplayer (a media player that handles DivX files well, even on SMP machines)
* foobar2000 (an audio player, uglier but leaner than Winamp)
* AC3Filter (a DirectShow filter for decoding AC3 audio)
* Subtitle Workshop (for converting between subtitle files of different formats)
* HACP (a lightweight cd player that understands CD text and online CD databases)
* IrfanView (an image viewer similar to ACD See)
* XnView (another image viewer)
* Exact Audio Copy (an excellent CD audio extractor)
* Real Alternative (a replacement for Real Player, without the bloat)
UTILITY
* Ad-Aware (for finding and removing spyware from your computer)
* Spybot - Search & Destroy (another spyware removal program)
* AVG Anti-Virus (not crashy like Norton AV, but updated less frequently)
* IZArc (an archive & file compression utility similar to WinZip)
* pdf995 (for easily converting your documents to Adobe PDF files)
* ListXP (a lightweight raw file viewer modeled after Vernon D. Buerg's list for DOS)
I just got a couple of these joysticks from ebay, and am going to build an adapter so I can use them with MAME. I found two circuits on the net for this purpose:
This link has a wealth of information on older game controller hardware.
This one has another (perhaps simpler) circuit design, with diagrams in postscript format. (Use gsview to view them on Windows.)
Perhaps they do it this way to make drive crash recovery easier.
Sure, the wrapper might make it a harder to convince companies that are waffling on linux drivers, but I don't see any reason that it would make a real difference in most cases.
This reminds me of the cddb being stolen by Gracenote. Last time I checked, they were still claiming to own the database of audio discs (they may have changed their tune by now), despite the fact that it was built mostly from submissions by people like me. Gracenote basically took our diligent work, and started restricting access to it in order to make money. How do we know that they didn't build their own database? Because it contains entries for unpublished CDs that don't exist outside the homes of a few specific people; effectively honeytokens.
(Fortunately, an alternative now exists.)
For those who don't know about it already: The Decompilation Page
A related site
I hope to see more of these popping up on the web soon.
Yes, I use Pie Menus on Mozilla & Firebird as well. They're like gestures, but with some visual feedback, so each gesture is easy to learn. Get it here.
But not terribly useful if you want information on the current state of the language. K&R C has been obsolete for years. They published a newer version with ANSI C updates, and C99 is now making that update obsolete.
"for those who don't want to look at the paper-based article in Discover"
Here is the online version of the article.
(Apologies if someone already posted the link.)
For some reason, I just can't seem to resist nit picking here. BSD has been mature enough for professional use for quite a long time now.
In fact, I seem to remember a time (pre-Solaris) when Sun systems ran a form of BSD.In any case, this whole argument is irrelevant to the matter at hand, because DNS does not belong exclusively to the web. Several other posters have already given good examples of this.
Does apt-get dist-upgrade work properly yet? I tried it on a fresh redhat 7.2 installation, and it hosed the system.
LOL. That's what I was saying to myself (aloud) as I clicked the link to see your reply, and waited for the page to load.