sLop

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P2P Audio Streaming

PeerCast P2P Radio
From the site:
PeerCast is a new, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming. This means you get to hear and watch stations not normally found on commercially funded sites.

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Next Generation JavaHMO for TiVo

Galleon - Home Page
Galleon is a free media server for TiVo�� which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.

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February 02, 2005

Open Source MHP

OpenMHP - OpenMHP is a Free implementation of MHP classes.
An open source implementation of The Multimedia Home Platform, a standard in Europe (?) for set top boxes and interactive media is now available..

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February 01, 2005

cat to the network

The GNU Netcat -- Official homepage
From the site:
Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

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January 21, 2005

"Open Source" Technology Books

Free Programming and Computer Science Books

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January 07, 2005

Finally, an Open Source MPEG-4 solution in Java!

MediaFrame (mediaframe.org), open streaming media
From the site:
Open source streaming media in Java
MediaFrame is an Open Source streaming media platform in Java which provides a fast, easy to implement and extremely small applet that enables over 97% (AdShadow 2002-03) of web users to view your audio/video content without having to rely on external player applications or bulky plug-ins. MediaFrame does not require special servers, software or programming knowledge (feature list).

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December 22, 2004

Article from Apple about running MySQL on Mac OS X

MySQL on Mac OS X

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December 19, 2004

Archive.org - Movies

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Everything from the Prelinger Archives to Open Source Movies (created and uploaded by the community).
From the site:
About the Movie Archive
This collection is free and open for everyone to use.
Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.
By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.

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December 17, 2004

Linksys WVC11B Redux

In an earlier post here and on unmediated I talked about how I hoped that Linksys WVC11B and WVC54G wireless cameras that claim MPEG-4 support lived up to their promises.

Well, I was given one as a gift and sadly out of the box they don't support true MPEG-4 streaming. What they have is an Active X control that displays some variant of Microsoft's MPEG-4 codec. After doing some port scans, as suggested in the comments of one of the posts, I can confirm that they do not have any network services running other than httpd (port 80). Also strange is that I am unable to view the streams from Windows Media Player on the Mac or PC but I am able to view the stream via mPlayer on the Mac.. Otherwise, IE on the PC is the only other way to view the streams (no Mac support for the ActiveX control).

Thankfully the firmware is open source! Let the hacking begin!

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December 08, 2004

An Open Source P2P Web Cache for large files

Dijjer
Nice concept in many ways easier and better than BitTorrent but for it to be useful it should be an infrastructure component which would require that it be installed on a web server. Perhaps the best direction for this is to include it as an Apache module.

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December 06, 2004

ITP Winter Show 2004

ITP Winter Show 2004
Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm

A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
New York NY 10003

Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public

No need to RSVP

For questions: 212-998-1880
email: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
http://itp.nyu.edu/show

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Hillary support's The INDUCE Act

I was dismayed to learn that Senator Hillary Clinton has come out and in fact co-sponsored Senator Hatch's Induce Act. What follows is a draft of a letter that I am writing to Sen. Clinton to express my concern. I hope that others will do the same.

Here is some background material:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2560:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html
http://techlawadvisor.com/induce/
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040618-3906.html
http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/INDUCEanalysis.cfm
http://action.eff.org/site/pp.asp?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=164928

Like your iPod, read this:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

Please comment on the letter as you see fit.

Dear Senator Clinton,

I was dismayed to learn that you have come out in support of Senator Hatch's Induce Act. I hope that on further consideration of the issues that this bill covers that you change your stance to better reflect the opinions of your constituents and for the betterment of our society.

The Induce act as it currently is written does much to stifle free-speech, artistic and fair uses of media. Imposing legal responsibility on the makers of devices and software for illegal use such device or software will create a burden so great on manufacturers and creators of such programs that they will not develop or offer products that have potential for misuse.

I fear that by trying to curb the theft of copyrighted material you will instead be curbing the ability for individuals and groups with legitimate uses for the technology that enables such to use it. Being thoroughly immersed in an academic and artistic atmosphere, I am witness every day to fair uses of technology that would not exist today were such a law in existence. In fact I feel that the software that I am using to write this letter would not have been developed simply because it includes the ability to cut and paste text from any source into the document.

I believe that should this Bill become law that it will undo much of the progress of free-speech and alternative media creation that has been enabled by the internet, personal electronic devices, computers, tape recorders and so on. Furthermore it will be a giant step backwards and lead to increased power by the media and further relegate citizens to the role of consumer without a voice.

I hope that you will reconsider your position on this matter.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Shawn Van Every

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Internet Archive Hosting Creative Commons licensed audio and video

Killer CC App: The Publisher, beta version
Bye bye bandwidth bills for *free* media (maybe because I don't think bandwidth and disk space is really that cheap that it can just be given away in large quantities, yet).

Oh yeah, the link above is for their nice tool in support of this.

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December 02, 2004

Here we go again...

Wi-Fi Acacia's next patent target | CNET News.com
Acacia, a representation of all that is wrong with our patent system, having successfully extorted companies using streaming technologies has turned to companies using WiFi, attempting to enforce another patent that they apparently have purchased.
I heard a while ago that they Acacia was short on money. Hopefully a couple of high-profile legal battles will drain them and we can sing good night Acacia, good night (until they sell their patent portfolio to another company willing to sue sue sue).

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December 01, 2004

Asterisk is available for the Mac

Apple - Downloads - UNIX & Open Source - Asterisk install package for Mac OS X CVS 10-28-03
The Open Source PBX (Voicemail, VoIP, Voice Response and all the rest) comes to the Mac complete with AppleScripts.

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November 18, 2004

Capture those packets

jpcap network packet capture library
jpcap -- a network packet capture library for applications written in Java.

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November 11, 2004

Java Sound API, Examples, FAQ and more

Java Sound Resources
The source for Java Sound. A nice FAQ, a couple of open source applications and tons of example code.

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November 09, 2004

PHP Library for QuickTime embedding

PEAR::QuickTime
From the site:
Apple's QuickTime multimedia architecture has some fantastic features that can be exploited through server-side scripting and HTML embedding, but it's something of a black art. There is confusion and inconsistency in how best to embed QuickTime in web pages, deal with QTVR, let movies talk to each other, pass XML QTLists back and forth between movies and servers, and much more (did you even know that QuickTime could do all this??!). We hope to expose this in a clean and elegant way so that QuickTime can reach the audience it deserves.

This project aims to provide a simple and consistent interface to these features through a set of PEAR-compatible PHP classes and functions. We'd also like to get this project into a state where it can become part of the PEAR respository, to ease installation for everyone, and open up the hidden world of QuickTime to more developers.

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October 26, 2004

Hacks for the Linksys WRT54G wireless router

Portless Networks
The other day I put this hacked firmware on a spare router. It was fun to look at the additional capabilities that are offered (such as SSH) but what I would really like to do is be able to modify one of these and put a very light weight streaming server on it. Unfortunately, you need a solid Linux box setup (I have to get to work on that one) to build a new firmware image.

Oh yeah, what is MORE interesting (to me at least) is that Linksys has made available the firmware for their wireless cameras as well (also Linux based). Looking through the firmware image for the WVC11B I was able to confirm my suspicion that in fact they do not offer a true MPEG-4 solution, rather it appears as though they *may* be using an MPEG-4 codec but wrapping it in an ASF file (hence the reason you need the stoooopid active x control to view the stream).

In any case, it is one of my missions to hack a true MPEG-4 solution onto one of these. How cool would that be!

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October 19, 2004

Mount and work with Linux filesystems on OS X

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem

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October 15, 2004

Java Neural Networks

Using JOONE for Artificial Intelligence Programming

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A nice suite of open source java blogging tools

Pebble - blogging tools written in Java
A server side blogging app, a desktop app (unfortunately without hooks to most server side blogging apps at the moment), a mobile blogging (moblog) app and an Ant blogging tool. Very nice.

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October 14, 2004

Open Source "Legitimate" Peer to Peer Tech

LionShare: Home Page
From the site:
The LionShare P2P project is an innovative effort to facilitate legitimate file-sharing among individuals and educational institutions around the world. By using Peer to Peer (P2P) technology and incorporating features such as authentication, directory servers, and owner controlled sharing of files, LionShare promises secure file-sharing capabilities for the easy exchange of image collections, video archives, large data collections, and other types of academic information. In addition to authenticated file-sharing capabilities, the developing LionShare technology will also provide users with resources for organizing, storing, and retrieving digital files.

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XML Java GUI development

Thinlet - Home
Looks very nice and works with Java 1.1.

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October 13, 2004

Audio programming language with on the fly program changes

ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language
Watching a demo of ChucK, a nice open source programming language and environment developed by a group at Princeton.
From the site:
ChucK is a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on commodity operating systems. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, and the ability to add, remove, and modify code, on-the-fly, while the program is running, without stopping or restarting. It offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful and flexible programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis programs, and real-time interactive control.

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October 11, 2004

Video grabbing with Java on Linx

Java Video4Linux 0.7
Alpha right now, hope it keeps going and makes some headway.

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October 10, 2004

Cringely writes about the Ultimate wireless neighborhood (which exists up in Ontario)

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
Andrew Greig has setup something amazing, DIY all the way. A big satellite fed Myth TV setup, WiFi, VOIP and Sharp Zaurus thin clients serving his entire neighborhood. Wow...!

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October 07, 2004

iPodder 1.0 released

iPodder, the cross-platform Podcast receiver.
So the question is, what is a Podcast?. The answer: An audio bloggers wet dream.

Someone needs to make something like this for the video blogging community. I know, i know, people are working on it but we don't have a dominant video device with the market share of the iPod yet (and that is a requirement).

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September 29, 2004

Making the Every-person's Bit Torrent

Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Blog Torrent

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September 20, 2004

Check your users bandwidth

Bandwidthmeter - a speed test script

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September 13, 2004

IBM Open Sources Voice Code

IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache
Very nice.. Looks as though you use it via standard JSP tags.

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September 04, 2004

Open Media: The Open Source Media Project

Open Media
An interesting new project from JD Lasica and Marc Canter.
From the site:
Coming soon: A site, affiliated with the Internet Archive, devoted to advancing the cause of personal media.

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August 12, 2004

Real's Helix Server Comparison Chart

Helix: Welcome
I see why people are going with Darwin on the open source server front. The Helix version is crippled.

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Helix DRM implements "Broadcast Flag"

Real's Helix Move
Ok, so, Helix DRM is open source... Broadcast Flag is the broadcast industry's attempt at making it impossible to make perfect copies of digitally delivered media (DTV).
So my question is, since Helix implements it, meaning that it pays attention and can include the flag in subsequent uses of the media and Helix is open source, why can't some enterprising coders just modify the Helix DRM to act like it cares but strip the flag out in the final product? I don't get it... I just don't get it.

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Open Source Video Interoperability

BEK : piksel : piksel04
An interesting set of pages describing a conference, some open source software and documentation regarding efforts to provide interoperability between open source video based applications. Of note is Livido a plugin framework, VideoPiping (sending raw video via named pipes from one app to another), Vloopback and so on.
Here is what they say on the site:
Piksel is a framework of tools and libraries which aims to provide interoperability between various free software applications dealing with video manipulation techniques.
The current focuses of the project are: implement a library for plugin dinamicly loaded video processors and colorspace transformations; develop of a standard set of control commands for interoperability between media applications, providing a library implementation which makes it easy to be embedded into softwares.
This project has its origins at the Piksel meeting held at the Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, in which authors from various free software applications met to settle common specifications: EffecTV, FreeJ, LiVES, MoB, PD/PDP, VeeJay.

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June 14, 2004

Linux set top box

My Settop Box
Very interesting is the Knoppmyth section.. Looks like a Knoppix/MythTV distro.
From the site:
The purpose of mysettopbox.tv is to provide you the end user with the knowledge needed to assemble your very own settop box using Linux. Utilizing open source software and off the shelf hardware you'll be able to assemble a box that has the following functions:
PVR
Jukebox
Image viewer
Game station

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June 09, 2004

Apache, meet BitTorrent, BitTorrent, meet Apache

mod_torrent
From the site:
Mod_torrent is a drop in solution for Apache servers when deploying the BitTorrent file swarming technology. With mod_torrent your visitors share the bandwidth burden when distributing large files on your web site. The module transparently makes all, or optionally only certain types of files, retrievable by any client implementing the BitTorrent protocol.

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June 02, 2004

Open source media handling on Linux

GStreamer
From the site:
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

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Open source QuickTime initiative

OpenQuicktime - a new Quicktime Library
Very interesting project, includes a beta version of a broadcasting app as well.
From the site:
OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apple���s QuickTime�Ѣ popular media files on Unix-like environments. It is aim is to provide encoding, authoring and editing support as well as video playback.

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May 31, 2004

PPC emulation - MacOS X on a PC

PearPC - PowerPC Architecture Emulator

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May 30, 2004

Documentating a defense of open source

Welcome to the Grokline Project: Grokline's UNIX Ownership History Project
From the site:
This is an open, community-based, collaborative research project, a living history, designed to carefully trace the ownership history of UNIX and UNIX-like code with the goal of reducing, or eliminating, the amount of software subject to superficially plausible but ultimately invalid copyright, patent and trade secret claims against Linux or other free and open source software. If there is any code out there that represents a conceivable risk of that kind, we'd like to identify it and mitigate the litigation risk now. If there isn't any valid claim that can be made, we'd like to be able to prove it.

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May 19, 2004

Linux 2.6 comes to RedHat's Fedora project

A Tip of The Brim With New Fedora Core

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Frontier "kernel" open sourced

Scripting News: 5/17/2004
Very nice.. Frontier is the kernel for other UserLand products such as Radio and Manilla. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

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May 18, 2004

Turn that Game Boy into an embedded development environment

Charmed Labs
Check out the Xport 2.0!

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May 15, 2004

Open hosting

Metawire Network open hosting
Sort of an open source model for server hosting.
From the site:
Metawire.org is a collaboritive effort between Daniel Selans and Eric Harrison to provide free shell, email, and webhosting at a quality of service unheard of on the Internet today. Metawire.org offers the most storage space, a diverse selection of domains to choose from, and a great underlying OS (OpenBSD) to power a new generation of free hosting services. Metawire offers unrivaled levels of service, poising itself high above any and all existing competitors.

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May 06, 2004

Linux Unwired, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPRS on Linux

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Linux Unwired
Anyone want to buy this book for me?
From the description:
Linux Unwired is a one-stop wireless information source for on-the-go Linux users. Whether you're considering Wi-Fi as a supplement or alternative to cable and DSL, using Bluetooth to network devices in your home or office,or want to use cellular data plans for access to data nearly everywhere, this book will show you the full-spectrum view of wireless capabilities of Linux, and how to take advantage of them.

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April 26, 2004

mini GNU/Linux distro for the Via EPIA boards

freepia
Yea! Now I will have something to do with my M-10000 once my thesis is done ;-)
From the site:
Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too. (if someone has get it running on other Epia�s let me know). The main motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. For this it uses freevo but in the future there maybe support for others like mythtv or vdr.

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Cloning NT

ReactOS - Home
From the site:
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.

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April 14, 2004

RsyncX - rsync for MacOS X

macosxlabs.org - Documentation
Not that the original doesn't work, this just adds a GUI and better support for the filesystem. Oh, yeah, rsync is a nice backup and synchronization utility.

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April 13, 2004

Java based open source streaming server for Ogg

JRoar -- Pure Java Streaming Server for Ogg
From the site:
JRoar is a streaming server for Ogg in pure Java
JRoar casts live Ogg streams to Ogg Vorbis players as IceCast2 does and shouts live Ogg streams to IceCast2 and JRoar(, but JRoar does not support encoding/re-encoding). JRoar also accepts live Ogg streams from IceS. The uniqueness of JRoar is that JRoar works as a proxy for live Ogg streams and enables you to share single stream with others. Of course, its characteristic property is that it is in pure Java. JRoar can be easily deployed and in fact, it can run on the built-in JVM of IE

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April 09, 2004

Open Source USB IO Box

mamalala.de - USB multI/O
Check it out..
Thanks to Hans for the link.

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April 07, 2004

Java gets blue in the tooth

www.JavaBluetooth.org
Thanks to Mike for the pointer.
From the site:
The JavaBluetooth Stack is a 100% (no native) Java implementation of the Bluetooth Specifications Version 1.1. It currently supports HCI, L2CAP and SDP. Support for RFCOMM, TCS, and SCO, as well as implementations of specific Bluetooth Profiles such as the Handsfree-Profile and the Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profiles are planned.

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Package all those nice *nix utilities for MacOS X

freshmeat.net: Project details for Fink
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution.

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The other one...

Intro to the NetBeans IDE
The foundation for Sun's development environment (Sun ONE Studio or something to that effect) is NetBeans (formerly known as Forte for Java) an Open Source development environment focused on Java.
Here is what they say:
The NetBeans IDE is a development environment - a tool for programmers to write, compile, debug and deploy programs. It is written in Java - but can support any programming language. It is a free product with no restrictions on how it can be used.

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April 06, 2004

In case you didn't know..

eclipse project FAQ
Eclipse is the open source IDE that has been taking the world by storm well not really but it is highly thought of and becoming very well rounded (I am told).
Here is what they say in the FAQ:
The Eclipse Platform is an open extensible IDE for anything and yet nothing in particular. The Eclipse Platform provides building blocks and a foundation for constructing and running integrated software-development tools. The Eclipse Platform allows tool builders to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you can't tell where one tool ends and another starts.

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Open Source QuickTime for Objective C effort

SourceForge.net: Project Info - QTKit
From the site:
Tired of waiting for Apple to really support QuickTime in Cocoa? QTKit is a project by and for Cocoa developers to provide full access to QuickTime from ObjC.

Somewhat similar to a project that I am involved in, OpenQTJ. In response to Apple's lame current QuickTime for Java build. Oh yeah, visit https://openqtj.dev.java.net/ for more.

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April 03, 2004

Streaming MPEG-4 w/Linux

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux
Nice article full of tips for FFMPEG and MPEG4IP on Linux.

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April 01, 2004

Sharp to release a new Linux PDA

Sharp launches "Enterprise" Zaurus to boldly go... anywhere
From the article:
Sharp plans to ship its Linux-based Zaurus SL-6000 PDA early in 2004, supported by IBM middleware and Sprint wireless services for connecting with enterprise apps from most anywhere. Sharp's new 640x480 high-brightness VGA display tops the list of hardware enhancements, along with "laptop-like" performance and a ruggedized case.

Includes 64mb flash memory, 400mhz xscale, 802.11 wireless networking, linux, java and more..

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DIY Steadycam

$14 Steadycam
From the site:
Why build a cheap steadycam?
Steadycams (or camera stabilizers) are attachtments used to capture smooth looking video even when the camera and camera operator are in motion. The camera operator may walk (or even jog), move through tight hallways and doorways, and even climb up and down stairs without shaking the camera. Unfortunately, professional steadycams cost around $1500. Even the cheap 3rd party ones cost $600 . Not exactly a bargain considering many of us use cameras in that price range. So, I decided to make my own version. It turns out, it only costs $14. Not too bad. And I'll show you how to build your own right here (or you may simply buy one from me). Whether you are an aspiring filmmaker, a videographer, the family documentarian, or just want more utility out of your video camera, you'll appreciate a steadycam.

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Downtown network for the Arts

downtown network for the arts | about
From the site:
Location One has developed a package of hardware, software and support services that enables artists and cultural organizations to take full advantage of Internet-based technologies for creative interchange, program creation, delivery and promotion, both individually and as an arts-based community.

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March 31, 2004

a GNU GNOME...

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
From the page:
In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world's Free Software desktop.

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Posix for Java

Free Software by Gregory Guerin
From the description:
Imagine that you could catch signals, raise resource-limits, get mounted file-system info, manipulate file modes, or change effective user ID from Java. Imagine that many of the other interesting and useful POSIX system-calls were also accessible from Java. Imagine that they were organized in an easily understood and usable class library, which could be implemented for different platforms yet still be used transparently by any API-conforming user program.
Stop imagining and start downloading, because that's what this class library does. It includes a working implementation for Mac OS X, but anyone with moderate JNI and Unix experience can create an implementation for other Unix platforms. It's even possible to create implementations for non-Unix platforms, such as that operating system whose name starts with 'Wind'.

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March 29, 2004

Wrapping it all up...

ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX
Wraps all those nice Open Source audio and video encoders and players for MacOS X.
From the site:
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder" (http://ffmpeg.sf.net/), mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer (http://mjpeg.sf.net/MacOS/) and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support (http://sf.net/projects/mplayerosx).

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March 22, 2004

Dyne:bolic gets an update

d y n e . o r g :: dynebolic mailinglist
The description:
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.

This version supports hard drive booting and much much more..

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March 21, 2004

The Center for Democracy and Technology

CDT Mission
From the site:
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.

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March 20, 2004

The bazaar of open source development

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
One of the great lines: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

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March 17, 2004

RedHat's next generation Linux Kernel project

Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.

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IIDC (IEEE 1394 or FireWire based Digital Cameras) for Linux

Coriander Home Page
From the site:
Coriander is a Linux graphical user interface (GUI) that let you control a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (aka FireWire, or iLink). By Digital Camera, I mean here a camera that complies with the IIDC v1.04 (or later) Digital Camera Specifications, published by the 1394 Trade Association.
A related project is: http://www.linux1394.org/

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March 15, 2004

Subscribe to my home videos

Wired News: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool
From the site:
A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls "big media objects." The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher's need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer's need to wait through a grueling download.

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March 13, 2004

P2P video archive and sharing system

NGV
From the site:
New Global Vision is a digital video archive project. The goal is to build up a network of dedicated ftp servers and a peer-to-peer file sharing system able to overcome the bandwidth problems related to the size of video files.

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March 11, 2004

Friendster, Open Source Style

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Slashster
From the sf description:
Slashster: An Open Source PHP / Mysql Friend of a Friend implementation (e.g: Orkut, Friendster)

This should be interesting, one to keep an eye on.

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Ah ha, that is what this site is, a reBlog!!!

reBlog.org
From reBlog.org:
What is a reBlog?
A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published to a Moveable Type weblog.

Only I am not using RSS.. I will have to check into this.. (when I have time that is)

Here is Eyebeam's reBlog, they are the group that developed the software in the first place.

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March 10, 2004

Java wrapper for ffmpeg

SourceForge.net: Project Info - JMF wrapper for ffmpeg
Very nice, JMF needs a refresher (an understatement) and it is nice to open source implementations picking up on it (especially since Apple has no idea what they are doing to QuickTime for Java).
From the site:
This is a Java wrapper for ffmpeg compression library. It exports ffmpeg codecs functions as a JMF (Java Media Framework) codec. You can use this codec from JMStudio and then you'll have a video player able to play mpeg1, h263, mpeg4 (divX), etc. streams.

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A set of multimedia and 3d classes for Java

Jun for Java
Looks to be some open source and easy to use QuickTime and OpenGL wrappers for Java.. Interesting...

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March 09, 2004

Running QTSS/DSS from behind a NAT router

Running QTSS/DSS from behind a NAT router
I am told this article is a life-saver.. I will give it a read shortly and let y'all know.

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March 04, 2004

Java Search Engine

Jakarta Lucene - Overview - Jakarta Lucene
From the site:
Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

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Linux users, record that output...

Download Vsound
From the site:
This program allows you to record the output of any standard OSS program (one that uses /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or recompile the program. It uses the same idea as the esddsp wrapper from the Enlightened Sound Daemon (in fact, vsound is based on esddsp). That is, it preloads a library that intercepts calls to open /dev/dsp, and instead returns a handle to a normal file. It also intercepts ioctl's on that file handle and logs them, to help convert the audio data from its raw form. Vsound then uses sox to convert the raw data to the desired file format.

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March 03, 2004

Creativity always builds on the past

Moving Image Contest Winners | Creative Commons

Nice promotional video for Creative Commons.

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February 29, 2004

Open Source Small Device C Compiler

SDCC - Small Device C Compiler
From the site:
SDCC is a Freeware, retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC14 and PIC16 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.

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NSA contributing to Linux

Security-Enhanced Linux

From the site:
As part of its Information Assurance mission, the National Security Agency has long been involved with the computer security research community in investigating a wide range of computer security topics including operating system security. Recognizing the critical role of operating system security mechanisms in supporting security at higher levels, researchers from NSA's Information Assurance Research Group have been investigating an architecture that can provide the necessary security functionality in a manner that can meet the security needs of a wide range of computing environments.

Thanks Hans

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February 28, 2004

Pirate radio information

yourpiratestation.com

Great information on creating a pirate radio station.. Why, how and what..

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February 27, 2004

Linux distro for routers and more

NYCwireless
From the description:
Pebble Linux is a smallish (smaller than 64megs, larger than 8 megs) distro image designed for embedded style devices such as the Soekris boards, or a Stylstic 1000. It is based off of Debian GNU/Linux. It runs on many different types of systems, such as old 486 machines, mini-itx boards, or the $199 machine down at Frys.

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February 25, 2004

TiVo to your friends favs

RSSTV: Syndication for your PVR
From the site:
We propose to share program information by building on existing syndication infrastructure. Specifically, we'll add a number of namespaced elements as an extension to RSS. The value formats for these elements will be taken directly from XMLTV, a source of publically available program information.

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February 24, 2004

Rendezvous for Linux and Windows

Porchdog Software
From the site:
Howl is a cross-platform implementation of the Zeroconf networking standard. Zeroconf brings a new ease of use to IP networking.

Thanks to Hans for the pointer...

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February 21, 2004

Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network

v2v | peer-to-peer video syndication release group | ${config.now.dc}

A Call to Join and Contribute to the Establishment of a Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network

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building a new era of Open multimedia

Xiph.Org: home
From the site:
Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.

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Free Books, Free Books, Free Books

The Online Books Page

Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web

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February 12, 2004

WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X

Darwine: News

Use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows applications on Darwin and Mac OS X.

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February 11, 2004

Launching the ITJ Site

Interactive Tele-Journalism

Interactive Tele-Journalism is a platform (under development) for supporting the creation of low cost, live interactive television news progams.

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February 09, 2004

IRC on the Mac

X-Chat Aqua is a MacOS X IRC client. If you are familiar with XChat for UNIX/GTK /X��Windows, then you will be at home with X-Chat Aqua. X-Chat Aqua uses the IRC engine from XChat and has been designed to look and feel like XChat.

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February 04, 2004

Open Source Streaming Distribution Network

STREAMING ALLIANCE.org

What is the Open Source Streaming Alliance?
Open Source servers, exchanging streaming content and replicating content.

The driving idea is global networking of servers and high-bandwidth centers in ways that avoid unnecessary multiplication of Net traffic while delivering content as locally as possible.

The Open Source Streaming Alliance is extension of the networking paradigm with one crucial addition: it transcends the current only-for-profit context, allowing experimental, independent media and arts centers to catch up with the need to stream content creation and distribution. It thereby gives voice to diversity and facilitates global accessibility for all.

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February 01, 2004

Directory of Open Source Applications

Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com :: Open Source Software, Reviews & News

From O'Reilly...

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January 31, 2004

Open Source WiFi Stumbler for the Mac

binaervarianz.de - KisMAC

KisMAC is a free stumbler application for MacOS X, that puts your card into the monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X we are completely invisible and send no probe requests.

Another Open Mac Stumbler is: Mac Stumbler

I have also been told about: iStumbler

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January 25, 2004

Open Source Idea's, Defeat the patent system.

OpenBrick Community: Ideas

Not much here yet but a damn good idea.

Thanks again to Hans for the link.

From the site:
This section contains ideas published by OpenBrick users. Publishing and idea with some example of implementation allows to destroy the possibility of having that idea patented by others. Since we all have 10 ideas per week and since writing a patent takes 2 days, we will never have enough time to patent all our ideas. It would be very sad if someone else did and remove our possibility to use our own ideas. So, please publish your ideas here: this will make patents from Hitachi, IBM, etc. invalid.

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The Danger of Software Patents

Thanks to Hans for the link:

Speech by Richard Stallman at Cambridge University,
25 March 2002

You might have been familiar with my work on free software. This
speech is not about that. This speech is about a way of misusing laws
to make software development a dangerous activity. This is about what
happens when patent law gets applied to the field of software.

It is not about patenting software. That is a very bad way, a
misleading way, to describe it, because it is not a matter of patenting
individual programs. If it were, it would make no difference, it would
be basically harmless. Instead, it is about patenting ideas. Every
patent covers some idea. Software patents are patents which cover
software ideas, ideas which you would use in developing software. That
is what makes them a dangerous obstacle to all software development.

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January 22, 2004

Cross Platform Open Source Streaming Solution

VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!

Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...

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January 21, 2004

DataData, Turn your bits into sweet music

August Black

From the site:
DataDada, version , is an application that will turn the stored data on your hard drive into a movie complete with sound, image, and subtitles. Essentially, it reads all the data on the disk (or, optionally, only specific directories), and writes the data to your computer's sound card and video display. Additionally, it will display the name of the file being read as a human-understandable subtitle.

Looks like fun.. I will have to give a run.

Thanks to Scott for the link...

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January 18, 2004

Open source audio editing for all

What is Audacity?

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

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January 17, 2004

Try before you (don't) buy CMS

opensourceCMS

This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

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January 13, 2004

Open Source Project Management on the Palm

[a l a w a.c h] - Progect

Apparently there is a desktop version to synch to as well (Windows for now, others on the way).

Thanks Hans..

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January 10, 2004

ibiblio

ibiblio - Science, Science, Science!

The public's library and digital archive

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January 07, 2004

Open Source Java Class File Obfuscator

SourceForge.net: Project Info - ProGuard Java Shrinker and Obfuscator
From SourceForge:
ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names.

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November 28, 2003

OETrends.com

OpenEnterpriseTrends.com: Welcome

The Open Source Portal for Enterprise Developers

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October 25, 2003

Embedded Linux Portal

Welcome to LinuxDevices.com -- the embedded Linux portal

Posted by vanevery at 02:02 PM

October 21, 2003

Open source 3D Software

blender3d.org :: Home

From the site:
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.

Thanks to Hans for the link..

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October 16, 2003

BBC to give the public full access to all it's program archives.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dyke to open up BBC archive

I have more respect for the BBC every day. The US media is just lame in comparison (yes, NPR and PBS too).

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October 15, 2003

Great Wired article on Open Source and it's roots

Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere

From the article:
Software is just the beginning �Ķ open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation.

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Wired News

Wired News

News and articles concerning just about everything I care about.. Hard to imagine the world without Wired.

Posted by vanevery at 12:40 PM

Linux Distro for live streaming, editing and performance

d y n e : b o l i c -- a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD

From the site:
dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!

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October 13, 2003

Video for Linux Resources

Video4Linux

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October 12, 2003

TV and Linux

linuxtv.org � � TV is dead - this is LinuxTV

TV is dead - this is LinuxTV

Only the access to the source code of our future television sets will guarantee the independence of content and technology. This website is a platform for the development of open source software for digital television (DVB, DTV) receivers, Linux DVD players and tools to stream audio and video to the net.

Posted by vanevery at 08:28 PM

October 11, 2003

A perfect box for the TV hacker

Device Profile: Dreambox DM7000 -- an open TV hacker's paradise

From the site: Device Profile: Dreambox DM7000 -- an open TV hacker's paradise

Curtesy of LinuxDevices.com, a great site for Linux in everything (except the PC).

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Fantastic digital artists platform

Processing 1.0 _ALPHA_

From the site:
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.

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Great Art/Technology/Media Space/Gallery

Location One | Manifesto

From the site:
MANIFESTO :: Our Artistic Mission

Location One: Catalyst for Content and Convergence
This is our credo:

1. First, the Internet will be about content,
not just serve as a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content%u2014not just access and distribution%u2014with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter.

2. Second, Location One is about convergence.
We are bringing together creativity along the two standards that have governed the history of human expression: the axis of expressive discipline and the axis of available technology.

3. Third, Location One is a catalyst.
We select talent, stimulate interaction, supply resources, and provide real and virtual forums. We enable things both cool and consequential to happen. New media transform artistic expression. Conventional barriers of time and distance are erased. With them depart a myriad of social, political and cultural distinctions. Access, distribution, participation become universal (and affordable).

4. Creative alternatives proliferate.

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Drazen's Streaming and Multimedia Platform Writings

Field-Notes from the Globalization Forefront

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NYLXS

New York GNU Linux Scene - Home to everything Free Software GNU and Linux in NYC and the NY Metro Area

From the site:
NYLXS - Informally known as the New York GNU Linux Scene is an organization dedicated to providing resources to the New York Linux Community. It's about developing Free Software leadership. Bound to no specific local NYC or NY Metro Area organization, it's members support the NY Linux and Free Software Scene with manpower, technology, money and time. It's goal is to enable NYC Area Linux users, Free Software users, and the NY population in general through their lugs, schools, businesses, and government agencies.

NYLXS helps with installfeasts, lectures, tutorials, mailing lists, scheduling of events, political lobbying, educational support to public schools and libraries, training, publicity, and more.

Our membership is doers, not watchers. If you are a doer, then join us, and make a difference for the future.

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Linux for Businesses in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Linux Solution

From the site:
Brooklyn Linux Solutions offers the Tri-State area inexpensive but powerful office solutions with the Linux Operating System

Posted by vanevery at 10:42 AM

October 09, 2003

Turn your Java Jar Files into Win32 Executables

JStart32 works as a Win32-EXE wrapper to start JAVA Applications running on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The exe creation tool allows developers to define icon, minimal java version and the start command of their java application. Both tools, the wrapper and the configuration utility are written in Delphi 7.

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October 08, 2003

Open streaming toolkit

Open Mash | Welcome

Mash streaming media toolkit

Not all that sure what this is all about but the applications look very interesting. Native capture and encoding of H.263 on MacOS X

Posted by vanevery at 01:24 AM

October 07, 2003

Interesting Blog regarding Microradio and Journalism

DIYmedia.net - Microradio, Media Collage and more.

Posted by vanevery at 03:28 PM

Underground P2P

CNN.com - Song swappers flock to invitation-only Internet - Oct. 6, 2003

These high-tech Cotton Clubs usually require users to be trusted or at least know someone inside. The files being traded, instead of out in the open, are encrypted -- the 21st century equivalent of hiding bathtub gin under a fake floorboard.

Posted by vanevery at 02:38 PM

DMOZ: Open Directory Project

ODP - Open Directory Project

Posted by vanevery at 02:57 AM

October 06, 2003

Windows Browser Plugins in Linux Browsers..!

CodeWeavers - Products - CrossOver

"CrossOver Plugin lets you use many Windows plugins directly from your Linux browser. In particular CrossOver fully supports:

QuickTime
Shockwave Director
Windows Media Player 6.4
Word Viewer
Excel Viewer
PowerPoint Viewer
and more... "

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October 05, 2003

Pure Data - Open Source version of Max/MSP

Pure Data Portal - About Pure Data

Posted by vanevery at 03:36 PM

MacOS X Package Deletion

How to Delete OS X Installer Packages

Posted by vanevery at 03:33 PM