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Tag: open source

  • Finnish Linux User Group: Presidentinvaalikysely 2006

    “Suomen Linux-käyttäjien yhdistys FLUG ry ja Linux-Aktivaattori ry kehottivat presidentinvaaliehdokkaita kertomaan mielipiteensä Linuxista ja vapaista ohjelmista vastaamalla tähän kyselyyn. Kyselyn tulokset löytyvät vastaussivulta.”

    FLUX via Pää auki

    Lahti tuntuu minusta vastauksissaan kiertelevän kysymyksiä. Lax, jonka vaalikonetulosten perusteella pitäisi olla minun ehdokkaani, on vastannut sutaisten ja hutaisten. Niinistö tuntuu paneutuneen vastausten laadintaan eniten ja minulle syntyy vaikutelma, että hän pyrkii vastaamaan kysyjiä mahdollisimman miellyttävällä tavalla. Vanhasen vastaukset vaikuttavat rehellisimmiltä, ja niistä paistaa minusta asenne, jota Lahti tuntui minusta pyrkivän peittelemään, eli, että yritysten kilpailuetu on näille miehille tutumpi ja siksi tärkeämpi asia kuin vapaat ohjelmistot.

    Jaan kaikkiaan viisi pistettä ehdokkaiden kesken näin:

    Lahti: 1
    Lax: 0
    Niinistö: 2
    Vanhanen: 2

  • Rip images from PDFs: Xpdf for Windows

    Just came across Xpdf for Windows when googling. At least pdfimages seems to work fine. Didn’t try the rest, yet.

  • Software for Starving Students

    “The Software for Starving Students CD enhances the Windows and Mac desktop computing experiences by providing an easy way to install free, high-quality software titles via a user-friendly interface. It includes popular open source programs like Firefox and OpenOffice, intended to help students learn about and benefit from open source and free software programs. The SSS team put all the most commonly used free programs onto one CD to make it easier for students to install useful software (including fully-featured office suites, 3D graphic editors and much more) for free.”

    SoftwareFor.org via hittegodsbyrån

  • Koepi's Xvid 1.1 binaries

    “XviD-1.1.0 final build.

    Changelog:

    • {core}: Field interlaced decoding.
    • {dshow}: Additional fourcc support.
    • {vfw}: Small updates. […]

    Finally, the 1.1.0-release is ready for prime-time! Only small fixes and changes were done compared to beta 2, but you might like the (a little bit) overhauled vfw-front-end.”

    koepi.org via Juha

  • Quick tip: GIMP as Irfanview's external editor

    If you’re using GIMP and Irfanview (in Windows), set up GIMP as your external editor in Irfanview’s Options, under ‘Misc 2’ tab by filling the “Set external viewer/editor” field with “C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-win-remote.exe gimp-2.2.exe” (not including the quotation marks, i.e. only fill in what is inside them). Change the version numbers if you’re using something other than GIMP 2.0 and Gimp-Win-Remote 2.2.

    Now you can go directly from viewing an image in Irfanview to editing it in GIMP by selecting ‘Open with external editor’ from the File menu.

  • WordPress 2.0 Release on December 26

    “In response to concerns about availability of support over the Christmas holiday, the release of WordPress 2.0 has been delayed until December 26.”

    geek ramblings via BlogsNow

  • Forgot your Windows password?

    “The Ophcrack LiveCD is a bootable Linux CD-ROM containing Ophcrack 2.0 and a set of tables. It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it. Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a Windows partition, extract its SAM and start cracking.”

    Ophcrack 2.0 via BlogsNow

  • More stolen code in the XCP DRM

    “The previous stories that portions of the LGPL’d LAME code appeared in the XCP software from First4Internet, which Sony BMG has been forced to publicly disown and apologize for, appear to be the tip of the iceberg. There is new evidence […] that the XCP software appears to include portions of LAME, mpglib, and VLC’s drms.c.”

    The Sony Boycott Blog via Linkdump
    some links added

  • Gimp-win-remote won't work

    Just a quick note to myself: when Gimp-win-remote won’t work, adding “gimp-2.2.exe” (with the double quotes, although I suppose it would work without them, too) between the “gimp-win-remote.exe” and “%1” in the gimp-win-remote.exe\shell\open\command registry key does the trick. Picked this up from gimpwin-users.

  • Linux-pelikonsoli rantautuu Suomeen

    “Varkautelainen Xbitti aloittaa Linux-pohjaisen kannettavan pelikonsoli – mediasoittimen maahantuonnin. Xbitti lupaa tuoda eteläkorealaisen Gamepark Holdingsin valmistaman GPX2-konsolin joulumarkkinoille. […] Laite tukee muun muassa mpeg4-, xvid-, mp3- ja ogg-formaatteja.”

    ITviikko via Juha