I'd recommend having a look at filehippo.com. They have a tool in a similar vein, although not restricted to opensource - the File Hippo update checker (http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/) - it works pretty well. My only criticism for them is that they identify new video driver packages which don't necessarily apply to your specific hardware, just the vendor.
On a complete tangent - what software submission sites/distribution channels can people recommend (like fileforum/download.com etc) for getting your own freeware/shareware listed? I've got a guitar tutor thingy at http://www.webprofusion.com/scalex that I want to finally get rolling out, it's been sitting around for ages and I've another update in the works.
I agree that porting stuff Mono doesn't have already would take time and effort, however that would likely take a few months to do (perhaps even several). On the other hand a java port that has to live alongside the C# version will be required to be maintained for the lifetime of WorldWind and will always need to be kept in sync with the C# version. Obviously if they make a wholesale move to Java then they need only work about the java version. I would argue that sounds a much bigger task than just getting the existing Worldwind to work using modifications to current tools.
This is nuts! Trying to make one big complicated from work is hard enough, making two versions of it written in different languages is inexplicable! The only real reason hinted at is that Microsoft wouldn't like NASA using Mono for an official application. Does Microsoft really want NASA to use Java just to spite Mono?
Download the code for WorldWind and have a look, then consider porting it to Java/OpenGL/Java3D. Then consider just using Mono with OpenGL bindings. Or consider funding Wine so it supports.Net based apps (maybe not that far off? Wine DirectX already works for many modern games).
Somebody talk some sense into them. Or tell me why I'm wrong, either way someone has to sort this out otherwise it's going to be a massive waste of time and money.
I'm ranting, I know - can anyone else see how backward this is?
http://www.projectbids.co.uk/ is a site we run which performs this function. You'll find that you get a very mixed bag of responses but some are very good, especially if you give a good definition of your project. We try to aim for varied types of projects rather than just all technical and we could always do with a few more just to keep folk interested!
Rentacoder is also fairly good and we've had a few small projects completed by coders from there too.
I registered for a credit card from Natwest in the UK - weeks went by and I heard nothing, then one day I gets a phone call asking me to confirm the details I'd filled in on the form: name,dob,password (sound fishy yet?) - I got suspicious but the person on the other end confirmed that I'd ordered a card for my wife too so I thought only the bank would know all this and continued, laughing at my own overly-suspicious nature! Oops. a week after that the (real) natwest credit card fraud dept phoned me up to confirm my latest purchases (on a credit card I'd never even see, no matter signed for or sign the back of). Needless to say I was a bit annoyed - the thieves had stolen my credit cards on delivery (i.e. they probably worked FOR the post office) and then used all manner of other method to find out more about me so they could do more with my credit cards and related documentation. so watch out folks, their's bad 'uns about!
I've been to bonnybridge, these aren't aliens- thats just what the locals looks like - do these mysterious aliens wear kappa shell-suits and push prams by any chance? The aliens have landed and they're disguised as irn-bru and vodka swigging 15-yr old's called sonya.
Sorry, it's a lovely place, honest.
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We've been to see the DJ's who put those songs together (Osymyso and Freelance Hellraiser) at the King of the Boots club night at The Asylum in London (near oxford street). Most of the stuff is preformed from a pre-recorded track but some DJ's do perform live (there are some ace Star Wars mixes!), smells like teens spirit Vs saturday night fever is a particular favourite.. Think there going to move it to a bigger venue soon as that club is way too small for the amount of people that turn up (and it's currently free to get in..).
Thought I'd do my bit for British Tourism and point out there is a pretty fantastic replica and some other groovy stuff at the
science museum - all free to get in and they've also got some groovy robot stuff and a real Cray 1 (looks like a sixties sofa, you'll see what I mean if you go there!).
I'd be surprised if the audigy ever worked on linux etc since they haven't even managed to get it working properly under windows XP (playback glitches, soundfont control acting oddly, surround sound apparently not working, all this on a brand new machine).. the europe.creative.com support forum is full of such stories.. come on creative, get the finger out.
As I understood it, AOL used to have about 40% of the consumer market, and as a result a large number of the browsers otu their were I.E, albeit wrapped inside AOL. with mozilla embedded within AOL, the number of eventual mozilla users goes up by several million. Ace! I've been following mozilla since they released the source code all those years ago, this is one of the few rays of light with regards to any kind of widespread adoption of mozilla.
anyone know of an open source VB-Script engine? part o the problem with using mozill ain corporate intranet stuff is that lots of developers tend to end up using VB-Script because it's easy - with an opensource VB-Script we could implement XPCom bindings as well as page level DOM stuff in VB-Script.
ps.slashdot: what the hell is this invalid formkeys error? I get it when it try to post in mozilla - a slashdot/M$ conspiracy if ever I saw one..
I've got a similar problem - I need a piece of kit that can take a soundblaster live pci card (or similar with soundfont support), has a hard disk, keyboard,mouse and a display (probably lcd) - this is so that I don't have to carry a desktop pc to practise just so I can record and playback stuff with decent sound quality. any ideas?
The first few comments in this story sound like their written by individuals who have absolutely no clue as to how good java really is - where else can you find a consistent stable class library built from the group up to be internet aware (and don't point me towards any glorified/retro-fitted text processing scripting languages) - its easily the best server side development language in existance. Any one that wants to disagree can bring it on!!
I;m choosing not to post this anonymously because I feel I can out debate any one that wants to have a go - at the end of the day people who rubbish java are people who just haven't used it enough.
I think a release of netscape 6 is a good thing , even with bugs (lets face it we'll all upgrade with every new release anyway or use mozilla 1.0), it means the developers can go back to getting lot of stuff checked in to the development tree again (things have been slow due to the strict nature of checkins just before Release to Manufacturing). Hopefully we'll see some preformance improvements! -not that it's so bad just now, but we do need to give people goals in their lives, especially downtrodden mozilla developers...
Well, we used JSP & our own class library to build a generic file-sharing extranet system (called Cointelligence - http://www.webprofusion.com/cointelligence), I have to say that I find the best thing (apart from being able to seperate your db/logic code from the presentation) is that you have a wealth of app servers to choose from (resin from www.caucho.com being a good example) and the portability is excellent ('port' from NT to Unix in the time it takes to tranfer the files across).
At the end of the day your only going to use the 'Enterprise' stuff if your running multiple application servers, which some people do and the choice of application server is important there. ASP is still the easiest way to write a dynamic solution (java is a little wordy..) but then basic is the easiest way to write a program etc..
PS. did you know that smashin pumpkins have released their final album free on the internet? You can get it at : http://www.billy-corgan.net/downloads/mp3/machina2 /index.html
I think this is marvellous and I would hope it would apply globally. The problem is how do they determine ownership? I'd like get the mp3 versions of all those tapes I bought which have now started to warp/degrade. anyone got the mp3's for Carcass's Necroticism-Descanting The Insalubrious or Death's Individual Though Patterns? Nope, didn't think so..
Hi,
We've recently ported a 10,000 user intranet system from ASP to Servlets. At the same time we've also been doing some JSP stuff and at the end of the day the simplest and most direct conversion would be to JSP for your page templates & Java classes for your application logic. There are many other alternatives including using a Java port of ASP in the form of the Chillisoft asp or similar. Ideally if you go for JSP/Servlets/Java in general (check out the Resin JSP/servlet engine at www.caucho.com) then you have platform independence - you can host on anything from there on.
I'd recommend the JSP route for it's similarities to ASP and the fact your not relying on any one vendor (even Sun) for any of your components. You might also find that MySQL can do a lot of the MS SQL server stuff as long as your not using Triggers/Views/Stored Procedures etc..
This is not the M17 release, they've just started to use 'M17' in the name for the nightly builds. That doesn't make it the M17 release. Come on slashdot, this happened before with M16 as well, it was released way after slashdot said it was out. didn't you see it coming this time?
less irresponsible 'Mnn is out!' posts please. how would you like it if someone said 'hey look you've finished!' even though you'd just started. wouldn't be a true indication of the finished product would it. I'll stop ranting now..
Good Answer. but when you take out the distributor,thee record store and the cd pressing that probably works out at about $6.15 which at the current exchange rate means I should be able download the album for £4.04 in the UK. not bad eh? I'd certainly go for that.
evil pete: See my reply to the comment about me 'failing to understand'. Basically I think prices are over-inflated by record companies and they must facilitate the cheap distribution of mp3 or they're income will suffer. if they provide cheap (download only) versions of albums via a fast,reliable server then what need is there for napster? This solution does not affect the artist as they can still make the same amount of money. it may however affect the record company - who would in turn cut the artists share of the profits. The moral of the story is that record companies will have to start taking a smaller cut or lose out completely.
I don't fail to understand anything, I just choose to ignore it.. I'm not saying metallica shouldn't get paid. but they only get $1 for a $15 CD. I've bought all of the metallica albums with hard cash (about £150 ($150) worth - funny how the exchange rate doesn't apply when it comes to CD's.. ). If I could buy and download a metallica album in mp3 format for less than $5 (which is surely enough - no distribution,no packaging,no local advertising) then I would. so how about it record companies? Thought not.
I'm sure when metallica were just doing demos they probably swapped tapes of their favorite bands. Lars had a much publicised love of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal Bands (NWOBHM) and no doubt listened to and exchanged lots of bootleg tapes. How is this different from what napster and other programs are used for now? I don't see much of a difference (except maybe sound quality).
Yes RPM for idiots, RPM for people who have better things to do than fix broken dependencies, RPM for people who don't really care about RPM. Sounds great.
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On a complete tangent - what software submission sites/distribution channels can people recommend (like fileforum/download.com etc) for getting your own freeware/shareware listed? I've got a guitar tutor thingy at http://www.webprofusion.com/scalex that I want to finally get rolling out, it's been sitting around for ages and I've another update in the works.
I agree that porting stuff Mono doesn't have already would take time and effort, however that would likely take a few months to do (perhaps even several). On the other hand a java port that has to live alongside the C# version will be required to be maintained for the lifetime of WorldWind and will always need to be kept in sync with the C# version. Obviously if they make a wholesale move to Java then they need only work about the java version. I would argue that sounds a much bigger task than just getting the existing Worldwind to work using modifications to current tools.
According to the developer they are planning to create a Java version for linux as well as the C#/DirectX version they have now:i nd-dev/2005-September/000736.html
.Net based apps (maybe not that far off? Wine DirectX already works for many modern games).
http://mail.worldwindcentral.com/pipermail/worldw
This is nuts! Trying to make one big complicated from work is hard enough, making two versions of it written in different languages is inexplicable! The only real reason hinted at is that Microsoft wouldn't like NASA using Mono for an official application. Does Microsoft really want NASA to use Java just to spite Mono?
Download the code for WorldWind and have a look, then consider porting it to Java/OpenGL/Java3D. Then consider just using Mono with OpenGL bindings. Or consider funding Wine so it supports
Somebody talk some sense into them. Or tell me why I'm wrong, either way someone has to sort this out otherwise it's going to be a massive waste of time and money.
I'm ranting, I know - can anyone else see how backward this is?
http://www.projectbids.co.uk/ is a site we run which performs this function. You'll find that you get a very mixed bag of responses but some are very good, especially if you give a good definition of your project. We try to aim for varied types of projects rather than just all technical and we could always do with a few more just to keep folk interested!
Rentacoder is also fairly good and we've had a few small projects completed by coders from there too.
I registered for a credit card from Natwest in the UK - weeks went by and I heard nothing, then one day I gets a phone call asking me to confirm the details I'd filled in on the form: name,dob,password (sound fishy yet?) - I got suspicious but the person on the other end confirmed that I'd ordered a card for my wife too so I thought only the bank would know all this and continued, laughing at my own overly-suspicious nature! Oops. a week after that the (real) natwest credit card fraud dept phoned me up to confirm my latest purchases (on a credit card I'd never even see, no matter signed for or sign the back of). Needless to say I was a bit annoyed - the thieves had stolen my credit cards on delivery (i.e. they probably worked FOR the post office) and then used all manner of other method to find out more about me so they could do more with my credit cards and related documentation. so watch out folks, their's bad 'uns about!
0.10 Microns is nice but it's not 0.01 (which everyone reading this seems to think they mean).
;)
Wake up people!
I've been to bonnybridge, these aren't aliens- thats just what the locals looks like - do these mysterious aliens wear kappa shell-suits and push prams by any chance? The aliens have landed and they're disguised as irn-bru and vodka swigging 15-yr old's called sonya.
Sorry, it's a lovely place, honest.
We've been to see the DJ's who put those songs together (Osymyso and Freelance Hellraiser) at the King of the Boots club night at The Asylum in London (near oxford street). Most of the stuff is preformed from a pre-recorded track but some DJ's do perform live (there are some ace Star Wars mixes!), smells like teens spirit Vs saturday night fever is a particular favourite.. Think there going to move it to a bigger venue soon as that club is way too small for the amount of people that turn up (and it's currently free to get in..).
Thought I'd do my bit for British Tourism and point out there is a pretty fantastic replica and some other groovy stuff at the science museum - all free to get in and they've also got some groovy robot stuff and a real Cray 1 (looks like a sixties sofa, you'll see what I mean if you go there!).
I'd be surprised if the audigy ever worked on linux etc since they haven't even managed to get it working properly under windows XP (playback glitches, soundfont control acting oddly, surround sound apparently not working, all this on a brand new machine).. the europe.creative.com support forum is full of such stories.. come on creative, get the finger out.
As I understood it, AOL used to have about 40% of the consumer market, and as a result a large number of the browsers otu their were I.E, albeit wrapped inside AOL. with mozilla embedded within AOL, the number of eventual mozilla users goes up by several million. Ace! I've been following mozilla since they released the source code all those years ago, this is one of the few rays of light with regards to any kind of widespread adoption of mozilla.
anyone know of an open source VB-Script engine? part o the problem with using mozill ain corporate intranet stuff is that lots of developers tend to end up using VB-Script because it's easy - with an opensource VB-Script we could implement XPCom bindings as well as page level DOM stuff in VB-Script.
ps.slashdot: what the hell is this invalid formkeys error? I get it when it try to post in mozilla - a slashdot/M$ conspiracy if ever I saw one..
I've got a similar problem - I need a piece of kit that can take a soundblaster live pci card (or similar with soundfont support), has a hard disk, keyboard,mouse and a display (probably lcd) - this is so that I don't have to carry a desktop pc to practise just so I can record and playback stuff with decent sound quality. any ideas?
The first few comments in this story sound like their written by individuals who have absolutely no clue as to how good java really is - where else can you find a consistent stable class library built from the group up to be internet aware (and don't point me towards any glorified/retro-fitted text processing scripting languages) - its easily the best server side development language in existance. Any one that wants to disagree can bring it on!!
I;m choosing not to post this anonymously because I feel I can out debate any one that wants to have a go - at the end of the day people who rubbish java are people who just haven't used it enough.
I think a release of netscape 6 is a good thing , even with bugs (lets face it we'll all upgrade with every new release anyway or use mozilla 1.0), it means the developers can go back to getting lot of stuff checked in to the development tree again (things have been slow due to the strict nature of checkins just before Release to Manufacturing). Hopefully we'll see some preformance improvements! -not that it's so bad just now, but we do need to give people goals in their lives, especially downtrodden mozilla developers...
Well, we used JSP & our own class library to build a generic file-sharing extranet system (called Cointelligence - http://www.webprofusion.com/cointelligence), I have to say that I find the best thing (apart from being able to seperate your db/logic code from the presentation) is that you have a wealth of app servers to choose from (resin from www.caucho.com being a good example) and the portability is excellent ('port' from NT to Unix in the time it takes to tranfer the files across).
At the end of the day your only going to use the 'Enterprise' stuff if your running multiple application servers, which some people do and the choice of application server is important there. ASP is still the easiest way to write a dynamic solution (java is a little wordy..) but then basic is the easiest way to write a program etc..
I'll assume your talking to me. Who'd buy a ripper program when you can get free ones? duh, next you'll be getting me to buy all my own CD's...
PS. did you know that smashin pumpkins have released their final album free on the internet? You can get it at : http://www.billy-corgan.net/downloads/mp3/machina2 /index.html
Cool eh?
I think this is marvellous and I would hope it would apply globally. The problem is how do they determine ownership? I'd like get the mp3 versions of all those tapes I bought which have now started to warp/degrade. anyone got the mp3's for Carcass's Necroticism-Descanting The Insalubrious or Death's Individual Though Patterns? Nope, didn't think so..
Hi,
We've recently ported a 10,000 user intranet system from ASP to Servlets. At the same time we've also been doing some JSP stuff and at the end of the day the simplest and most direct conversion would be to JSP for your page templates & Java classes for your application logic. There are many other alternatives including using a Java port of ASP in the form of the Chillisoft asp or similar. Ideally if you go for JSP/Servlets/Java in general (check out the Resin JSP/servlet engine at www.caucho.com) then you have platform independence - you can host on anything from there on.
I'd recommend the JSP route for it's similarities to ASP and the fact your not relying on any one vendor (even Sun) for any of your components. You might also find that MySQL can do a lot of the MS SQL server stuff as long as your not using Triggers/Views/Stored Procedures etc..
This is not the M17 release, they've just started to use 'M17' in the name for the nightly builds. That doesn't make it the M17 release.
Come on slashdot, this happened before with M16 as well, it was released way after slashdot said it was out. didn't you see it coming this time?
less irresponsible 'Mnn is out!' posts please. how would you like it if someone said 'hey look you've finished!' even though you'd just started. wouldn't be a true indication of the finished product would it.
I'll stop ranting now..
Good Answer. but when you take out the distributor,thee record store and the cd pressing
that probably works out at about $6.15 which at the current exchange rate means I should be able download the album for £4.04 in the UK. not bad eh? I'd certainly go for that.
evil pete: See my reply to the comment about me 'failing to understand'. Basically I think prices are over-inflated by record companies and they must facilitate the cheap distribution of mp3 or they're income will suffer. if they provide cheap (download only) versions of albums via a fast,reliable server then what need is there for napster? This solution does not affect the artist as they can still make the same amount of money. it may however affect the record company - who would in turn cut the artists share of the profits.
The moral of the story is that record companies will have to start taking a smaller cut or lose out completely.
I don't fail to understand anything, I just choose to ignore it..
I'm not saying metallica shouldn't get paid. but they only get $1 for a $15 CD. I've bought all of the metallica albums with hard cash (about £150 ($150) worth - funny how the exchange rate doesn't apply when it comes to CD's.. ). If I could buy and download a metallica album in mp3 format for less than $5 (which is surely enough - no distribution,no packaging,no local advertising) then I would. so how about it record companies?
Thought not.
I'm sure when metallica were just doing demos they probably swapped tapes of their favorite bands. Lars had a much publicised love of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal Bands (NWOBHM) and no doubt listened to and exchanged lots of bootleg tapes. How is this different from what napster and other programs are used for now? I don't see much of a difference (except maybe sound quality).
Yes RPM for idiots, RPM for people who have better things to do than fix broken dependencies, RPM for people who don't really care about RPM.
Sounds great.