one of the problems of open source/freeware that these projects can not be made popular using google ads. The only possible advertising is via message boards. When you release an open source there is a fair chance that you are going to be the only person who uses it.
When somebody looks for "internet browser" in Yahoo the first result is link to IE. If you use google first result is FF, but I think you got the idea. Try to look for "remote desktop" and what you will likely find are commercial or shareware products. And there are at least two top quality projects on SF.net which do the same - open source VNC.
The smaller the niche the harder to "sell". "Free" does not mean "sell easy". Generally people just love to pay money.
check gomyplace.com install an open source client and allow remote restricted/unrestricted access to file(s) on your PC/Linux/Mac. Just you and open reverse proxy.
we should consider "open source" search engine like one suggested in the Rodi P2P project. Based on anonymous or semi anonymous P2P network with multiple independent search engines
and developing for WinCE is a nightmare. i struggle for 2nd month in raw to port WinCE 5.0 for existing PXA255 board. It is close to impossible to remove Ethernet support (KITL ? insists on using Ethernet), no binary code download over serial port in case there is only one serial port available, etc. etc.
Number of problems is infinite. Build system (MS PlatformBuilder) looks outstanding, but unfortunately has plenty of bugs and build process can take 20 minutes (am not kidding) on the top of the line PC assuming 3M binary resulting image. This is not your regular makefile. MS decided to start from clean table and created a new build system. Not working one. Platform Builder is one of the worst IDEs i experienced. IDE requires Win2000 Pro (be ready for problems) or XP pro (recommended). And you need really fast hard drive. They say that MS switched back to regular makefile in WinCE6.0 - but this one is not available yet for regular guys like me. I bet Win CE 6.0 is bad too.
One funny part (fixed in Win CE 5.0) power control was deeply integrated with LCD support. Smart guys in MS decided that you need power saving only in systems with LCD. Talking about design, product managing, system requirements.
If any problem there is no support, but only if you pay money starting at $100/hour for just a guy who knows not much more about WinCE than yourself. There are no people who develop for WinCE. Compare number of results of google search for Linux and WinCE google trends.
In case of Linux if a kernel/user space developer has a problem there is a fair chance to find solution on the net + number of IRC channels. In case of WinCE you have Win CE tutorial.
Tutorial is better than VisualC one, but is not great either.
MS sales insist that WionCE competes with vxWorks and other embedded real-time OS. In reality they are quickly loosing ground to Linux. In case of one of chip makers (small start up) among 25 board designs 22 are Linux based.
Bottom line: if you choose WinCE and you are not a big company prepare for pain.
google PXA255 PXA270 development boards. some of them come in nice packaging with built-in or plug in LCD screens and peripherals like USB, WiFi, etc. you can order Linux or WinCE preinstalled
and Israel army is "an independent organisation that does not take orders from anybody" too. Israel people is not responsible for the actions of the Israel army. Now what ?
...Let's put it other way. Lebanon gov needs help, because apparently it is not capable to keep their guys on the Lebanon territory. Even worse. Lebanon gov allowed the terrorist group to import weaponry and build independent highly efficient army. No matter what Lebanon gov thinks about Israel they should control their people. If Lebanon gov fails to use the army against private militia somebody else will do the dirty work.
But do not expect this somebody else to be a nice guy. Israel does everything possible to avoid death among citizens. You can not imagine what modern air forse could do in Lebanon.
I bet every Israeli sorry about what happens. We do not celebrate after every air strike and no one hands out candies on the streets of Tel Aviv after people got killed.
SF has problems. i had to stay with Tigris or start project on the Berlios instead of SF. But overall SF is not bad. In many respects it is quite good.
CVS story is ugly. I discovered that the links from the WEB site larytet.sf.net do not work 2 or 3 weeks after it happened. They could keep the links working. It is not a technical nightmare to keep old links from breaking or at least redirect them
I miss good built in forum support. Their PHP could run on better servers.
Indeed servers are down too often for any popular project, but my project is not that important and popular. I do not need 100% up time.
Their support was so far good and quick, typically in less than 24 hours i get helpful response
he probably ment that in just 3 hours of driving from there you will get "beautiful area". San Jose is reasonably ugly. Sunnyvale is just slightly better - it is cleaner.
That talented people will cost 150K/year each + options/bonuses
And it is not easier to find people in Bay Area than in any other place - check craigslist. This is one of the reasons why the cos there need so many H1 visas. There are simply no people willing to work - not enough people. After a couple of exists "just coding" is not something people want to do. Guys from India and China is the Bay Area future.
popular content providers can not cover production costs by that $50/month and stream ads on top of the shows. Content providers insist that "ad free" show should be priced in the area $5-8 for a round.
Delivery costs lot too. Cable cos deliver 100+ channles 24/7 to your set-top box. You do not watch them simultaneously, but the channels are there. Assuming 10MBits/s per channel we have 8000GBytes/day broadcasting to your connection (RF is shared media). At $0.10/GByte we have $800/day or $24000/month of traffic only. You do not pay $24000/month for simple reason that cable cos can not do lot with this traffic, besides broadcast and ther delivered bytes are shared between all customer sharing the same hub (typically 3-5K subscribers). IPTV will hopefully solve this problem and will allow to buy only channels you want. Meanwhile i disconnected the cable. as simple as that. saves me lot of time.
what about replacing OS driver and hooking the DMA transactions ? DVD controller should decrypt the disk at some point ? or this is done in software ?
if DVD controller decrypts the picture (most likely option) we have decrypted content in the RAM. Hook in the OS driver solves the problem of exact "copy"
if the decryption is implemented in software of the player - reverse engineering of the player will do the trick.
Interested parties will probably attempt to forbid selling Blu-ray/HD-DVD with decrypting chip for the desktops.
This is a weak part of Tor/Ant/Mute/etc - all of them attempt to provide 100% (or close to it) anonymity, while in real life what we need is a simple XOR encryption. All the onions Tor builds is waste of bandwidth in absolute majority of use cases.
IP2P is better - at least user can choose level of protection and number of hops.
But what we really need is simple anonymizing proxys all over the world and firefox plugin which finds proxy with better round trip delay and response time and configures the browser on the fly. That 300(?) Tor servers could do it. i wonder why people running Tor servers wont just run public Proxy with SSL on the client side ?
Satellite Internet at reasonable prices would be nice too. + WiFi amplifiers + focused antennas and here you are with your own underground "dark net"
BTW fact that they do not drop the packet means that the system does no attempt to do filtering on the fly in real-time. They use an existing support of packet sniffing in the routers and do the work in some external box. Typically you can configure a router to "mirror" a stream/flow(s) to this or that physical port. They connected output of the port to high performance Linux box and the rest can be done in any script. They do not need to check all packets. Random pick does the trick as well.
Easy, simple, low cost solution. (Un)fortunately it is very unreliable.
it's enough to install a proxy which ignores RST packet
you need one proxy running on your PC to filter out incoming RSTs (or in Linux probably IP tables can do the trick). You will have to connect to the HTTP server via second proxy which drops forged RSTs before forwarding the packet to the HTTP server.
Not kind of trick possible in Java application, but my server runs on Linux, so i guess i could do it - drop the RST packets.
Reliable way though is an encryption. HTTP payload can be XORed with IP address of the Proxy server, for example. or SSL is another way (costly for the servers).
I understand that commercial anonymizers are not accessible from China ?
I think I could do the trick in my goMyPlace reverse proxy and ignore RST. Connection can be dropped by timeout. Still i understand that firewall drops the packet itself and the data does not reach the destination.
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When somebody looks for "internet browser" in Yahoo the first result is link to IE. If you use google first result is FF, but I think you got the idea. Try to look for "remote desktop" and what you will likely find are commercial or shareware products. And there are at least two top quality projects on SF.net which do the same - open source VNC.
The smaller the niche the harder to "sell". "Free" does not mean "sell easy". Generally people just love to pay money.
check gomyplace.com
install an open source client and allow remote restricted/unrestricted access to file(s) on your PC/Linux/Mac. Just you and open reverse proxy.
did you try gomyplace.com ?
this one free. install an open source client and allow remote restricted/unrestricted access to file(s) on your PC/Linux/Mac
we should consider "open source" search engine like one suggested in the Rodi P2P project. Based on anonymous or semi anonymous P2P network with multiple independent search engines
check my comment here
Number of problems is infinite. Build system (MS PlatformBuilder) looks outstanding, but unfortunately has plenty of bugs and build process can take 20 minutes (am not kidding) on the top of the line PC assuming 3M binary resulting image. This is not your regular makefile. MS decided to start from clean table and created a new build system. Not working one. Platform Builder is one of the worst IDEs i experienced. IDE requires Win2000 Pro (be ready for problems) or XP pro (recommended). And you need really fast hard drive. They say that MS switched back to regular makefile in WinCE6.0 - but this one is not available yet for regular guys like me. I bet Win CE 6.0 is bad too.
One funny part (fixed in Win CE 5.0) power control was deeply integrated with LCD support. Smart guys in MS decided that you need power saving only in systems with LCD. Talking about design, product managing, system requirements.
If any problem there is no support, but only if you pay money starting at $100/hour for just a guy who knows not much more about WinCE than yourself. There are no people who develop for WinCE. Compare number of results of google search for Linux and WinCE google trends. In case of Linux if a kernel/user space developer has a problem there is a fair chance to find solution on the net + number of IRC channels. In case of WinCE you have Win CE tutorial.
Tutorial is better than VisualC one, but is not great either.
MS sales insist that WionCE competes with vxWorks and other embedded real-time OS. In reality they are quickly loosing ground to Linux. In case of one of chip makers (small start up) among 25 board designs 22 are Linux based.
Bottom line: if you choose WinCE and you are not a big company prepare for pain.
google PXA255 PXA270 development boards. some of them come in nice packaging with built-in or plug in LCD screens and peripherals like USB, WiFi, etc. you can order Linux or WinCE preinstalled
you can buy one for as low as $100. Look in google for ARM boards with PXA255 and PXA270.
...Let's put it other way. Lebanon gov needs help, because apparently it is not capable to keep their guys on the Lebanon territory. Even worse. Lebanon gov allowed the terrorist group to import weaponry and build independent highly efficient army. No matter what Lebanon gov thinks about Israel they should control their people. If Lebanon gov fails to use the army against private militia somebody else will do the dirty work.
But do not expect this somebody else to be a nice guy. Israel does everything possible to avoid death among citizens. You can not imagine what modern air forse could do in Lebanon.
I bet every Israeli sorry about what happens. We do not celebrate after every air strike and no one hands out candies on the streets of Tel Aviv after people got killed.
CVS story is ugly. I discovered that the links from the WEB site larytet.sf.net do not work 2 or 3 weeks after it happened. They could keep the links working. It is not a technical nightmare to keep old links from breaking or at least redirect them
I miss good built in forum support. Their PHP could run on better servers.
Indeed servers are down too often for any popular project, but my project is not that important and popular. I do not need 100% up time.
Their support was so far good and quick, typically in less than 24 hours i get helpful response
Overall i would give to SF 7 from 10
That talented people will cost 150K/year each + options/bonuses
And it is not easier to find people in Bay Area than in any other place - check craigslist. This is one of the reasons why the cos there need so many H1 visas. There are simply no people willing to work - not enough people. After a couple of exists "just coding" is not something people want to do. Guys from India and China is the Bay Area future.
i live in Israel, my pojects are kept on SourceForge servers (supposedly S.V.). should i label my projects "made in the US" ?
they keep calling me btw. their sales guys&girls can not understand how it is possible "without TV"
may be i will write a book "Life after TV" or "Zero TV - survival guide"
popular content providers can not cover production costs by that $50/month and stream ads on top of the shows. Content providers insist that "ad free" show should be priced in the area $5-8 for a round.
Delivery costs lot too. Cable cos deliver 100+ channles 24/7 to your set-top box. You do not watch them simultaneously, but the channels are there. Assuming 10MBits/s per channel we have 8000GBytes/day broadcasting to your connection (RF is shared media). At $0.10/GByte we have $800/day or $24000/month of traffic only. You do not pay $24000/month for simple reason that cable cos can not do lot with this traffic, besides broadcast and ther delivered bytes are shared between all customer sharing the same hub (typically 3-5K subscribers). IPTV will hopefully solve this problem and will allow to buy only channels you want. Meanwhile i disconnected the cable. as simple as that. saves me lot of time.
if DVD controller decrypts the picture (most likely option) we have decrypted content in the RAM. Hook in the OS driver solves the problem of exact "copy"
if the decryption is implemented in software of the player - reverse engineering of the player will do the trick.
Interested parties will probably attempt to forbid selling Blu-ray/HD-DVD with decrypting chip for the desktops.
btw MP3 player - check out my project no need for SD card, just pull the files from your home PC
check gomyplace - has a couple of nice features and does not require SSH
IP2P is better - at least user can choose level of protection and number of hops.
But what we really need is simple anonymizing proxys all over the world and firefox plugin which finds proxy with better round trip delay and response time and configures the browser on the fly. That 300(?) Tor servers could do it. i wonder why people running Tor servers wont just run public Proxy with SSL on the client side ?
Satellite Internet at reasonable prices would be nice too. + WiFi amplifiers + focused antennas and here you are with your own underground "dark net"
BTW fact that they do not drop the packet means that the system does no attempt to do filtering on the fly in real-time. They use an existing support of packet sniffing in the routers and do the work in some external box. Typically you can configure a router to "mirror" a stream/flow(s) to this or that physical port. They connected output of the port to high performance Linux box and the rest can be done in any script. They do not need to check all packets. Random pick does the trick as well.
Easy, simple, low cost solution. (Un)fortunately it is very unreliable.
it's enough to install a proxy which ignores RST packet
you need one proxy running on your PC to filter out incoming RSTs (or in Linux probably IP tables can do the trick). You will have to connect to the HTTP server via second proxy which drops forged RSTs before forwarding the packet to the HTTP server.
Not kind of trick possible in Java application, but my server runs on Linux, so i guess i could do it - drop the RST packets.
Reliable way though is an encryption. HTTP payload can be XORed with IP address of the Proxy server, for example. or SSL is another way (costly for the servers).
I understand that commercial anonymizers are not accessible from China ?
I think I could do the trick in my goMyPlace reverse proxy and ignore RST. Connection can be dropped by timeout. Still i understand that firewall drops the packet itself and the data does not reach the destination.
read about breaking of stateful packet filters
go to http://larytet.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml Scroll approx two pages down to the words "To Shaw Fiberlink users:"
about breaking of stateful packet filters
i tried to find a guy to do the board design part. i would write the software part (open source of course)
log of IPs on the slashdot server ? or you use chain of Proxys ?
put it on goMyPlace reverse proxy and who knows may be the links you post will work with just a regular browser