[The First Part of this series was <<A: Open Source. The second installment of the Stop Usage Based Billing alphabet series was <<B: Packets and the Internet. The third installment was <a href="<<C: Deep Packet Inspection, and the final installment will be E: Open Source Deep Packet Inspection]

What is BitTorrent Anyway??

“BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounts for approximately 27-55% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009.”

– Wikipedia on BitTorrent

BitTorrent is an extremely fast and efficient means of uploading and downloading. BitTorrent is an excellent way to distribute large materials to many people via the internet.

Radical Ideas

Like so many of the radical new ways to do things that technology and the internet have made possible, BitTorrent can only work through co-operation. BitTorrent requires a network of “peers”, or other people’s computers who are willing to share the file. This is referred to as “peer to peer” or “p2p.

If I have a large file I want to transfer, the first step is to “seed” the file, transferring portions of the file to multiple members of the p2p network.

Diagram 1: Seeding

It only takes a small fraction of the file to be passed along before the process speeds up enormously.

Diagram 2: Seeding and Sharing

Once I have a small portion, i pass it along at the same time as I’m receiving new bits of the same file, either from the original seed source of another peer.

Diagram 3: Upload + Download = Speed

With many participants (peers) uploading and downloading at the same time, large files can be distributed very quickly indeed.

Diagram 4: Finish Fast

Bell Canada “Throttles” BitTorrent

Bell Canada

When Bell Canada was first caught “throttling” internet traffic to the Independent ISP customers, Bell Canada’s justification to the CRTC was that the internet was too crowded, and that it was necessary to “manage” the traffic. Bell claimed that they needed to employ Deep Packet Inspection to identify BitTorrent Traffic so that they can “throttle” it.

Mandate:
“The CRTC’s mandate is to ensure that both the broadcasting and telecommunications systems serve the Canadian public. ”

—CRTC Role, CRTC Website

Amazingly, the CRTC had nothing to say about Bell Canada’s plans to discriminate against particular Canadian internet users.

The CRTC has accepted Bell’s unsubstantiated contention that this discrimination was necessary, and in approving it they have allowed Bell Canada to think that this discrimination is acceptable. In no way does this serve the Canadian public.

You might almost think that the CRTC mandate was to suppress Canadian creativity and the creation of Canadian movies and music. The availability of the technologies that exist to make it easy to create our own movies and music should be welcomed as an opportunity to add to and help grow our Canadian Culture.

Why single out BitTorrent traffic for throttling if it is an efficient use of the available bandwidth?

One of Bell Canada’s arguments for implementation of Usage Based Billing is that Canadian internet bandwidth is in short supply, making it necessary for them to “manage” bandwidth by penalizing heavy users.

So how could anything as efficient as BitTorrent possibly be seen as a bad thing if the Internet is so crowded?

It doesn’t make sense to discriminate against BitTorrent use. There is nothing inherently bad about BitTorrent use or BitTorrent internet traffic. But Bell Canada’s contention is that BitTorrent is bad because people use it to download movies and music.

Which begs the question: how does that make BitTorrent bad?

The Copyright Red Herring

The “Copyright Lobby”, which consists of large media producers and distributors (like Disney), and corporations and organizations (like MPAA), who distribute commercial movies and music, want us to believe that this is a bad thing.

This corporate special interest group has spent a great deal of time, energy and cash trying to promote the “pravda” that any digital copying of copyright works is bad. Making no distinction between commercial bootleggers who distribute illegal copies for profit and legal purchasers who seek to make a back-up copy or digital format shift for personal use, the Copyright Lobby has been pressuring governments the world over to criminalize personal use copying.

The problem for ordinary citizens is that these corporate interests have vast quantities of money to spend and a great deal of media power. This makes it incredibly difficult for governments to stand up to their onslaught. In some parts of the world this persistent advocacy has paid off for the Copyright Lobby, as lawmakers knuckle under and legislate to the detriment of their own citizens by making it illegal even to copy or download movies or music for personal use.

Here in Canada the Copyright Lobby is seeking to influence our lawmakers to criminalize personal use copying. They are trying to make Canadians think that people who make copies for personal use are performing criminal acts, and should be penalized the same as a a bootlegger who films the latest theatrical release off a theatre screen and proceeds to sell hundreds of thousands of bootleg DVDs.

Once again, Channel Four’s hilarious I.T. Crowd puts this question in perspective with this send-up of a video piracy commercial I found on YouTube.

Strong and free?

Canadian Law says

RIGHT NOW, in Canada, personal use copying is simply not illegal.

RIGHT NOW, in Canada, use of the BitTorrent file transfer protocol is also perfectly legal.

RIGHT NOW, in Canada, peer to peer (p2p) file sharing is legal; Canadians break no laws simply by joining in a p2p network.

The Copyright Lobby’s smear tactics have gone a long way toward making the world believe that BitTorrent is inherently bad.

Bell Canada has convinced the CRTC that it is acceptable to “throttle” BitTorrent, because of BitTorrent’s reputed connection with possible copyright infringement. So although BitTorrent is perfectly legal, Canadian internet users are paying the price for the success of this Copyright Lobby propaganda.

Myth: All BitTorrent/p2p internet traffic consists of copyright movies and music

The Corporate world doesn’t understand radical ideas like Open Source software and p2p file sharing because these concepts are so different from anything appearing in the old business models. Even more incomprehensible to the outdated business models is the fact that it may or may not generate a direct monetary profit.

The classic example of corporate myopia is:

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. ”

—attributed to Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines, circa 1943

For many years IBM has taken the rap for this quote whether or not Mr. Watson really did say it. (Most likely not.) Maybe proving it wrong is part of why IBM is such a going concern in the 21st Century. Having weathered the storms of fortune today’s IBM is a world leader by continuing to innovate and adapt alongside evolving attitudes and technologies. IBM has been steadily increasing their participation and involvement with Open Source software in this new century.

The reality is that IBM not only understands the importance of open source, the corporation has actively supported and promoted adoption of Linux and Open Office in the corporate world. And naturally BitTorrent is a part of the equation because it is such an efficient means to distribute large files (like for instance, Canonical’s Ubuntu.)

“Think.”

—Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines

Seems IBM actually does heed their most enduring slogan (which definitely was coined by Mr. Watson). Sadly, this type of foresight is uncommon. Because BitTorrent is such a radical idea, most entrenched corporations simply aren’t capable of understanding it.

There are other uses for BitTorrent that are not only legal, but even perfectly acceptable in polite society.

Probably my favorite use of BitTorrent is the amazing Project Gutenberg. This organization has been digitizing books in the public domain and distributing them freely… via BitTorrent, since this is such an efficient method of digital distribution. After all, BitTorrent is used for transferring very large files like music and movies because it is very efficient.

BitTorrent file sharing is not all movies and music. Like IBM, many people actually use p2p to help distribute open source software like OpenOffice via p2p. There is a growing body of open source software available, for instance my favorite web browser is Mozilla’s Firefox.

In fact, there the awesome SourceForge website which provides a place to find all manner of open source software, or where you can release your own.

When a new distribution of Ubuntu is released, people around the world gather together and have Ubuntu Release Parties making more good use of BitTorrent

And of course the Pirate Party of Canada has established Captain: the Canadian Pirate Tracker, their own BitTorrent site where Recording Artists and Filmmakers (and I imagine novelists, and software creators as well would be welcome to utilize this) to freely distribute their work.

Every bit of music and every movie transferred is not a copyright infringement. If I get to the point where my home made movies may prove marketable, I would certainly be looking at BitTorrent Distribution. In fact it would probably be easier to distribute home movies to family via BitTorrent than it would be to try to burn DVDs. (DRM makes the two commercial movie making software packages I’ve purchased almost unusable. Of course it doesn’t slow down the bootleggers.) If YouTube is an indicator, I’m not the only person who wants to transfer music and movies freely … not as copyright infringements. I have paid levies to the music industry for home movies I have made and burrned to CD for distribution to friends and family. If I choose to transfer them via BitTorrent now I can avoid the levy but instead suffer the added expense of Bell Canada’s deliberate throttling inflation?

Another really good legal use of BitTorrents are the actual commercial websites where people can go to to purchase downloads of music. So far no one seems to have found anything wrong with this practice.

But that’s not all. Canada’s own CBC Television Network tried their own experiment by releasing an episode of their program Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister via BitTorrent. Unfortunately the BitTorrent didn’t work so well because of Bell Canada’s CRTC approved BitTorrent “throttling”.

Geist tweets about the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

Which is not to say it wasn’t a good idea. Not too long ago Michael Geist tweeted about the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s foray into BitTorrent use. All accounts indicate that their experiment was very successful indeed, which is having a big impact in the way they do business.

Ink Poster

The sad tale of a pirated Independent film can be found in this TorrentFreak article Indie Movie Explodes on BitTorrent, Makers Bless Piracy.

I guess it isn’t such a sad story after all.  

Thanks to piracy this Indie film called INK was has been achieving a distribution level that the filmmakers had never dreamed of.  They are of course extraordinarily pleased.

I think what is being called piracy here is BitTorrent p2p personal use sharing. Friends sharing with friends is one of the most effective ways to achieve recognition. They used to call it a “grass roots” movement. This is one of the major issues for the large movie studios. This is the place where they complain of being ripped off. What they don’t seem to realize is that this is a good thing. Exposure garners fans, makes a “name”. Fans buy stuff.

BitTorrent Traffic is not the only thing Bell Canada is Throttling

Rumour has it that there are people who actually work from home.

Time was the government encouraged the idea of people working from home. There are all sorts of advantages to society, like reduced congestion on actual highways, less wear and tear on our roads, a decrease in commuting based pollutants in our environment, a reduction of human depletion of fossil fuels.

But if you work from home, you are probably going to have to transfer files back and forth between your home and workplace. Chances are good that you are going to encrypt this type of traffic for security reasons. Although Bell Canada says they are only “throttling” BitTorrent traffic, in fact there have been instances of Bell throttling encrypted internet traffic on the assumption that if it’s encrypted, it must be BitTorrent traffic.

Bell places the onus on the customer to prove their “innocence” before they will consider stopping throttling.

Since the CRTC gave Bell Canada permission to use Deep Packet Inspection to inspect our packets, the only way to ensure that our private information remains private is through encryption. And in Canada any encrypted internet traffic will most likely to be throttled.

Canadian Copyright Consultation

The Canadian Government is looking at updating Canadian copyright law. They held a copyright consultation process this year, traveling around Canada soliciting opinions of stakeholders. Even better, they set up a website where they accepted submissions from any Canadian who wished to contribute. This website was flooded with thousands of submissions. Some are simply a few lines, some are extensive essays covering all sorts of topics, but all I’ve read are heartfelt. Because of the overwhelming response it took a long time to get all the submissions posted. (My own submission finally made online.)

This process led a lot of Canadians, including me, to believe that the copycon process might actually mean that our elected representatives were listening to us.

Unfortunately there is currently a lot of pressure on our government to make copying movies, software and music for personal use illegal. The secret ACTA meetings have caused a feeling of dread to settle over most Canadians. There has been deprecating talk about weak Canadian copyright law.

Except it isn’t true.

If anything, Canadian copyright law is probably more robust than is good for us.

The essential problem that the copyright lobby is attempting to overcome the problem of suing their own customers for what they imagine are infringements. They have noticed that fighting personal use copying garners bad publicity. This problem can be neatly solved by passing the responsibility for finding and prosecuting copyright infringement to governments. And of course the only was to get government to take ob the responsibility is to convince them that the copyright infringement is a criminal offense.

Regardless, currently copyright law is imprecise as regards personal use copying. So we’ll just have to wait for an actual law to be passed before it becomes illegal. (This pressure is actually largely from foreign owned interests– like Disney. It will be interesting to see if our government caves to this outside pressure.)

mixed messages

The government mandated levy we pay every time we purchase a blank CD is a tacit governmental admission that it is legal to burn CDs of our own music.

In the pre-Tivo era, Canadian cable networks actively encouraged Canadians to videotape the movies that they showed so we could watch them when it was convenient. They called it “time shifting” in their massive advertising campaigns. But no media giants took our cable companies to court back then. For the same reason artists will lend or give away their work for free when they’re starting out (because they need to build and audience– exactly like the INK producers mentioned above), back then even Disney didn’t have a channel in Canada. So Disney didn’t kick up a fuss even though they had to have known this was happening. They let it go because it was in their best interests to allow time shifting (i.e personal use copying). Disney knew this was in their best interests because it would help the Canadian cable companies build their market.

Of course now Disney doesn’t want us to record their movies for personal use. Disney would be happy if our government decided personal use copying was illegal. They would be happier still if our government spent time and energy searching out and charging people who download Disney movies.

Disney would be happy they no longer had to expend time and energy chasing down copyright infringements. They would be ecstatic if our Mounties were to do it for them. Gratis.

But this precedent indicates copying movies for personal use is also legal in Canada

So even though p2p networks or copying movies and music are not actually illegal in Canada, our friends the CRTC gave Bell Canada permission to “throttle” anyone using BitTorrent transfers. Because the assumption is that even if you’re not technically performing criminal acts, per se, anyone who uses BitTorrent can’t be very nice.

The CRTC, the government body that is supposed to safeguard Canadian telecommunication consumers, gave Bell Canada legal permission to mess with BitTorrent traffic. Its discriminatory for one thing. If there are copyright infringements happening, there are laws to handle them. It isn’t any of Bell Canada’s business. Or the CRTC’s.

[More on copyright in my other blog-- in the wind: Personal Use Copying vs. Bootlegging]

Dudley Do-Right?

Eirik Solheim's metaphorical image of the internet is the best I've seen: The internet is a series of tubes

Even if it were true that Canadian consumers were downloading music or movies, and even if it had been made illegal under Canadian Law, it should not make a whit of difference.

Because Internet Service Providers or Internet Carriers are NOT branches of Canadian law enforcement. They have not been deputized to enforce the law by the RCMP. If Bell Canada was in fact a Law Enforcement entity they would not be allowed to peek in any citizen’s packets without first acquiring a search warrant. Corporations don’t exist to uphold laws, they exist to make money.

The internet has been called dumb pipes, or a series of tubes, or a highway. It doesn’t really matter what you call it, what is most important is access for all.  
The people who control the pipes should not be allowed to discriminate against particular users for ANY reason. Net Neutrality is so important: the internet should be accessible to all.

revolutionary ideas

In the United Kingdom The Times Online Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? article looked at the benefits of personal use copying applied as peer to peer file sharing with some dramatic results.

Canada’s own ThisMagazine presented this thought provoking article Pay indie artists and break the music monopoly — Legalize Music Piracy which advocates making the law serve the artists and consumers rather than just the corporations.

Further rumblings about changing the way we look at this issue were reported recently by the The Globe and Mail blogs article NDP, Billy Bragg make case for free music

STOP Usage Based Billing

After a month of stagnation on my Tower Defense game, I implemented some cool stuff yesterday and today. Mainly a makeshift main menu and flashy animated text messages popping up.

Just a moment ago I started a Sourceforge.net project for it. Pretty neat! I appreciate that Sourceforge supports bazaar version control, and I do not yet know if I will discontinue the launchpad branch or keep it updated. Keeping it updated would be no big deal if I only bothered to write a proper ‘bzr push’ alias for both Sourceforge and Launchpad.

There is a source release of version 0.4 available. Binary releases for Windows will pop up soon (I am pretty sure I know how to do it properly!)[Update: Windows version available]. Please note that the game is not balanced at all and not near complete. Consider it alpha-stage.  However, it allows for an initial impression and I would be grateful for any feedback! A more rounded-up release is planned for next week

- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpydoc/0.3.1 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)

- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/flexirest/ (‘ The medium-featured, flexible reStructuredText utility. Flexirest is a project that was born out of the authors long-running interest for reStructuredText, and the idea of writing everyday documents like letters, invoices and other simple documents in this way. Flexirest tries to strike a middle ground between docutils own command line tool chain (rst2html et al), that I find a little to minimalistic and Sphinx, that I find very nice but a little heavy to use for a quickie document like a random letter or some such. In short, the goal of flexirest is to enable you to use the reST format for everyday documents instead of a word processor or similar with minimal fuzz. Hence you get to stay in the comfy environment of your text editor and tool chain. And you can check in your docs in text format into your version control system of choice. And, if used correctly, you get to reuse a couple of stylings that you only need to create once. There are some modestly advanced tricks you can do too, primarily writing your own docutils roles, but I wouldn’t consider those the major points of flexirest. For more information on how to operate flexirest, see the quick manual.’)

• http://bitbucket.org/esmljaos/flexirest/overview/ (The medium-featured, flexible reStructuredText utility)

- http://groups.google.fr/group/sphinx-dev/browse_thread/thread/8e97570a6321dd8d?hl=fr (‘sphinx theme that could be useful to authors of sourceforge hosted projects. The look is more or less the same of the default theme but there are some facilities that could be useful.
A more detailed description of the theme can be found at:

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gsdview/browser/trunk/doc/themes/sourceforge
  
• http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gsdview/browser/trunk/doc/themes/sourceforge/README.txt‘)

And, finally, two projects of using it:

• http://gsdview.sourceforge.net/ (‘GSDView (Geo-Spatial Data Viewer) is a lightweight viewer for geo-spatial data and products. It is written in python and Qt4 and it is mainly intended to be a graphical front-end for the GDAL library and tools. GSDView is modular and has a simple plug-in architecture.’)
• http://bestgui.sourceforge.net/ (‘BESTGUI is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for BEST written in Python and GTK+. The Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox (BEST) is a collection of executable software tools that has been designed to facilitate the use of ESA (the European Space Agency) SAR data. It operates according to user-generated parameters files. For more detail you should refer to the BEST Home Page.’)

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Si llevas un tiempo usando un ordenador con acceso a internet, seguramente hayas pasado por SourceForge más de una vez para bajarte algún programa, y es que SourceForge dispone de una servidores con la mayor cantidad de software libre del mundo, aplicaciones como eMule, Ares, Filezilla, Bittorrent, 7-zip, Audacity, GIMP, VirtualDUB, CDex, XAMPP, PDFcreator, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, MediaCoder o DEV-C++ tienen su sitio en SourceForge.

SourceForge es un software de colaboración para la gestión de desarrollos, sin embargo está disponible gratuitamente para desarrollos de software libre, de forma que si vas a crear software libre, SourceForge te ofrece hosting gratuito así como varias herramientas como pueden ser una wiki, un foro, un blog, un microblog, libro de visitas, un gestor de tareas, o incluso una forma cómoda para pedir donaciones para tu proyecto.

Aún si no quisieras utilizar las herramientas de SourceForge para gestionar tu proyecto, puedes usar SourceForge para FeedBack o resolución de problemas con algún software que tengas que usar y esté alojado en SourceForge. Yo por ejemplo haré uso de OpenCV, el cual está alojado en SourceForge, de forma que si tengo alguna duda o encuentro algún error (bug), puedo comunicarme con los administradores de OpenCV a través de SourceForge, o puedo recibir notificaciones cada vez que OpenCV publique una nueva versión.

SourceForge soporta OpenID (al igual que Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Google, Yahoo, AOL, o flikr entre otros), de forma que si te has registrado anteriormente en uno de los sitios con OpenID no necesitas registro.

Una vez registrados, hacemos click en Account para acceder a todos los servicios de SouceForge.

¿A qué esperas para crearte una cuenta? Aunque yo soy nuevo en SourceForge, si tienes alguna duda puedes comentarla y estaré encantado de intentar ayudarte.

For my project I decided to make a facebook group to promote the use of sourceforge. First I emailed sourceforge to ask there permission to create the group, I got a response forom the guy who manages all their media platforms. He said it would be ok, with the rule that the group was unofficial and it was clearly stated on the site. Witht their permission I then create the group making it available to all of facebook and stating that it was created to promote the use of open source software on sourceforge, i provided a link to there page also. I also sent a link nto the group to sourceforge who said some of their members may be interested in joining, so with this I also put in the group that it could be a great way for development teams to form and for people who need programmers to track them down. So with this welcome to Sourceforge – The Unofficial Facebook Group.

SourceForge Inc. has changed its name to Geeknet Inc. The company changed its name to better “articulate” its business: serving the wants and needs of the expanding world-wide geekdom.

The following quote is from Scott Kauffman, CEO of Geeknet.

“The geek demographic is bigger than most people realize,
and it is growing every day in both scope and influence.
Its product appeal extends beyond servers and slide rules
to include video games, soft drinks, automobiles, fast food,
fashion, entertainment, consumer electronics and other goods.
We call this phenomenon the ‘geekification‘ of the world, and we believe that our network provides the best platform
for advertisers to reach this highly coveted audience.“

Geeknet “communities” consist of Slashdot, SourceForge.net,
ThinkGeek, Freshmeat, and Ohloh. In addition, they handle advertising for the Linux Foundation’s Linux.com. According to Geeknet, the company serves more than 40 million tech-savvy geeks each month,

Given I’m a shareholder in Geeknet Inc. (nasdaq: LNUX), I hope the company plays a key role in the geekification of the world.

Projektet kan nu anses som påbörjat!

Peter har modifierat vpIntranet och lagt upp det på Sourceforge’s SVN, så det som är kvar innan bokföringsmodulen kan påbörjas är att anpassa det lite mer efter hur Werm ERP ska se ut. Han har visat hur det fungerar, och det känns väldigt lätt att börja nu.

ScreenSaver

Nie jestem wielkim zwolennikiem przerabiania systemu Windows. Właściwie nie dbam o to. OS ma mieć najświeższe pliki i działać. W końcu za coś zapłaciłem, tak? Nawet nigdy nie zwracałem większej uwagi na screensavers/wygaszacze. Całkiem przypadkowo natknąłem się na jeden o tematyce Matrix. Spodobał mi się. Szybka instalacja. Niby nic specjalnego… Ot taka mała zmiana mojego Windows environment.

Hieroglify płynnie ściekają po monitorze. Małe, a cieszy. Matrix. Prawda?

źródło: http://sourceforge.net/projects/matrix32/

Szkic

Mario. Tak. Naprawdę lubię rysunek. Lubię rysować Mariana. Widać że moja choroba związana z Nintendo przesiąkła mnie doszczętnie.
Szkic. Niestety nie mam na to wiele czasu. Wydaje mi się, że jest to jedna z zagubionych (czyt.: zaniedbanych) moich zdolności. Dzisiaj przyszła mnie taka malutka wena na projekt szkicu Mario. Szukałem motywu stalinowskiego wyrazu twarzy. Mam zamiar podretuszować rysunek. Możliwe że przerzucę na Illustratora. Kręci mnie jednak myśl chwycenia się za nasze stare pospolite kredki. Jestem pewien, że wrócę do tego rysunku już niedługo. Tak wygląda pierwszy próbny szkic:

Popracuję nad groźniejszym wyrazem twarzy. Chcę aby jechało od niego komunizmem, reżimem i śmiercią. Coś w stylu AntyMario.

You must have experienced the Windows Vista and Windows 7 themes for Windows XP. Time to change to something that is more appealing. Mac4Lin ver1.o gives a linux system the look and feel of MAC. There are a tons of enhancements that have been added to ver 1.0.

This is how your linux will look like after you apply Mac4Lin:

Here are some of the enhancements that you will see in the ver1.0: (source: Phoenix)

* Fully supports GNOME 2.26 and backwards compatible
* Improved support for GlobalMenu, support integrated in the default GTK theme
* Better native Xfce support
* Icon additions
* Statusbar is now fixed
* New progress bars
* New tabs
* Improved installation and uninstallation scripts
* Integrates well with Gloobus
* Finer UI refinements
* Metacity theme now supports different button sizes
* Firefox 3 themes are now updated
* Songbird plugins included
* Pidgin AWN 64bit plugin now included
* Fonts are now consolidated
* Transparent top panel
* GDM theme is now in-line with Mac OS X login window
* Cairo dock is the default recommended dock

It goes without saying that the creator has done an excellent job. When you visit the Webpage (hyperlink above) you will also notice that the author has mentioned a few few bugs but these should not stop you from trying out Mac4Lin ver1.0.

Download: Sourceforge

La comunidad de SourceForge ha designado al sistema Medical como Proyecto del Mes (Septiembre de 2009) y publica una entrevista al director del proyecto Luis Falcon.

Medical es un proyecto de Software Libre parte de GNU Solidario cuyo objetivo es proporcionar un sistema universal de Información de Salud,de Gestión Hospitalaria (HIS) y Expediente Médico Elecónico. Profesionales e insituciones de cualquier pais, independientemente de su nivel económico se podrán beneficiar de un sistema salud centralizado,seguro y altamente escalable.
Medical maximiza la colaboración entre profesionales de la salud, haciendo énfasis en conceptos de Atención Primaria de la Salud (APS) y Medicina Familiar. Utiliza estándares de la industria (ICD-10, ICD-10-PCS) que proporcionan las bases para estudios epidemiológicos, así como para el manejo del historial del paciente.
Medical permite tratar con bases de datos de millones de habitantes, donde cualquier país puede evaluar las condiciones de sus poblaciones, tanto del punto de vista sanitario como socio-económico. Este concepto ayudaría a poder detectar puntos calientes, vectores de enfermedades y epidemia, especialmente en países en vías de desarrollo.
Doctores e informáticos de paises tan distantes como Argentina, Alemania, Uruguay, Marruecos, España o Bélgica colaboran activamente en este proyecto que marcará un punto de referencia en la informática médica.
Página del proyecto Medical : http://medical.sourceforge.net

I was looking for a way to visualize a tree (of probabilities) in java. I came across JUNG (on sourceforge). There is a nice example (java applet) which displays a tree and lets the user collapse the subtrees on any node, exactly what I was looking for ! (I found out later that one can even drag the nodes of the tree around with the mouse)

I downloaded the binary release (jung2-2_0.zip), this seems to contain a bunch of jar files however it looks there is no source code of the above mentioned example. From the source of the example page, I could figure out the class name. After having found out which module I had to checkout from CVS (jung2), I could find the source code for the tree collapsing example, see this link (at least that’s what I think it is) in the CVS browser. I added the necessary (binary) jar files and I got the tree collapsing demo to run.

There is also a nice step-by-step tutorial (with code snippets) by Greg Bernstein (linked from JUNG’s documentation page) which shows how to create graphs in section 2 and has a visualization demo in section 4. Thanks to the bookmarks in the PDF (which are not opened by default), navigation in the whole tutorial is very easy. Within minutes, one can put together a simple example of a graph with three vertices and two edges and display it on the screen.

It’s looking a lot more likely that I will actually be building my multi touch table! Bidding is almost over on the PlayStation Eye that I wanted, so it’s looking like I’ve got that in the bag.

I’ve downloaded the reacTIVision and TUIO software and have been playing around with it, and let me tell you, it is very cool. Even without the hardware set up, I can use the webcam on my MacBook and have it recognize fiducials printed on a sheet of paper. Very cool.

Currently working on linking the fiducial-recognizing code to an open-source chess program I found called Frittle (http://frittle.sourceforge.net/). I’ll be able to test it with the simulator as soon as I finish.

I’ve made the CA Togetherness code available on SourceForge in a new CATogetherness project.  Honestly I don’t expect very many update to that software, though it doesn’t hurt to make it available.

Hey people back again doing a monolog here on the blog this time its about ADCH++ 2.3

We all know that the last release wasn’t a big success but i wanna show of the new features in ADCH++ , it was more then a year ago since we had a release on ADCH++ and much new stuff has been added into it.

So what are the new features:

User Commands, ADCS (preliminary implementation), more scripts for the soft.

There is also a doxygen included in the BZR repo at launchpad for anyone that wants to make a plugin in C++ or make lua scripts or python script all you have to do is download Doxygen to make the documentation we will host the documentation at ADCH++ webspace on Sourceforge also.

I really wanna commend poy for his efforts put into this version of ADCH++ and listening to input and feedback with this version things can only get better in the future of ADCH++

We are still looking for a GUI maker so if your out there and think you got what it takes drop into DCDev Public and talk to us or drop the source of at launchpad.

and we hope that suggestions for ADCH++ will come up at our tracker on Launchpad so we can get your input for what your missing in ADCH++ or possible bugs thats giving your problems.

So people out there give it a go and say what you think about it

ADCH++ 2.3 Windows Installer

ADCH++ 2.3 Windows Zip File

ADCH++ 2.3 Source Code (both Windows and Linux)

Nick Hodges just posted he has become the tpfsadmin on sourceforge: the administrative account for the Turbo Power tools and libraries.

It is not an officially sponsored Embarcadero thing, but at best semi official.

However, it is an admirable step into getting the Turbo Power tools and libraries updated in one central place again.

Those tools include OnGuard, Orpheus, SysTools, FlashFiler, B-TreeFiler, Async Professional and many others.

So if you have your own fork of any of the Turbo Power code from sourceforge, then please drop Nick a note.

Many thanks to Nick!

–jeroen

Sourceforge net is now linking directly to The Python Game book.

Old sourceforge project website was pygamebook.sf.net and linked to spielend-programmieren wiki instead of directly to pythongamebook.com

I had some troubles to recall the correct way for accessing sourceforge websites.

I decided to share my prototypes at GoogleCode. The page is located at http://code.google.com/p/boyanov/.

I was looking for a place to store some of the code that I write from time to time. I needed something reliable that is free and that will last for longer. There are may hosting services offering storage for open source projects, like SourceForge, and they all have their pro’s and cons’. The features I was looking for were: source code repository; download facility; content management. I found GoogleCode quite convenient and convincing, so I decided to create a page there.

Another reason to make that choice was that there is offered Mercurial version control, I thought that it is time to start using on of the distributed version control system.

1. Download source program Notepad++ di sini
2. Install Notepad++
3. Jalankan Notepad++
4. Tekan F6, maka akan muncul window ‘Execute’
5. Di dalam input teks ‘Command(s):’, masukkan skrip di bawah ini
cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
javac $(FILE_NAME)
java $(NAME_PART)
6. Kemudian tekan tombol ‘Save…’

Pada artikel ini, saya ingin memberikan contoh membuat program ( program sederhana ) dengan menggunakan Java. Fungsi program ini tidak terlalu penting, karena di sini saya hanya ingin memperkenalkan saja contoh sintaks pemrograman Java.

class TampilkanTeks  {
  public static void main(String[] args)  {
    System.out.println("Hello world...");
  }
}

Setelah selesai mengetik source di atas, simpan filenya dengan nama TampilkanTeks.java. Kemudian compile dan running file tersebut.
Source di atas saya ketik dengan menggunakan Notepad++. Anda dapat mendownload aplikasi Notepad++ di Sourceforge.net.

Untuk meng-compile dan me-runnning source berekstensi java dengan menggunakan Notepad++, Anda dapat melihat di artikel Compile & Run Java dengan Notepad++

Quite some time ago, I moved the main Portato hosting from Sourceforge to Origo. The reason was mainly, that I wanted some nice wiki-stuff w/o having to deal myself with hosting and configuring it. Also SF.net is … well … not really fast .

But Origo has many other disadvantages, which I ignored so far:

• Does not support bzr — and does not allow to make the “Development” link point to somewhere useful.
• Uploading system sucks hard. Adds a random integer to each download URL, which makes it necessary to change the ebuild for each release.
• Flat namespace for attachments… Yes! … No comment -.-
• Bug tracker is ok for — but has real issues with attachments -.- … And it being built as somehow part of the wiki is not a good idea either.
• No possibility to put extra files somewhere (docs, …).

Additionally I noted, that sf.net now has some real nice features with its “Hosted Apps” — so it is possible for example to add a trac-instance — just with one click . So I’m now considering to move back to sf.net. I just do not know yet, whether I try to use trac and it’s bug tracker — or if I’m going to use the one in Launchpad. And where to host the bzr-branches? Also on sf.net — or leaving them on LP?

Comments are welcome

Each month we get more and more visitors to our website at sitracker.org, it’s really pleasing to see the growth we’ve been having since we launched our new website with new fancy-dancy clustered grid hosting (Provided to us by Tshost.co.uk).

Unfortunately it seem that the chart with the number of people downloading SiT! isn’t showing quite the same trend:

I’m not sure why this is, it can’t possibly be because people don’t like the look of it. I think it can be partially explained by problems with sourceforge.net. I know that some people have had problems downloading from sourceforge and I also know that SF have had problems with their stats service so the figures in the chart above might not be very accurate. The download figures also don’t account from people grabbing SiT! from places other than sourceforge.

So far this year we’ve had over 25,000 visitors to our website and over 4000 downloads so I don’t think we have anything to complain about, but I definitely think we can improve on it.

If you want to help, you can do so by spreading the word about SiT! Tell your friends, mention us on your blog, on facebook, on twitter or in forums you visit etc. We need to get the word out that we exist!