software

Let's say you have a GPS and you want to use it with multiple applications. On Linux, this is easy, because basically every program today utilizes GPSd for GPS communications. GPSd connects one or more clients to one or more GPS devices, and also has support for NTP (for providing time information.) However, it does not support Windows (and in fact they are fairly nasty about it) even though it's a fairly simple trick when using Cygwin.

After spending several hours looking, however, I did finally find a free (as in beer) solution that works for Windows XP. It involves the extremely hard-to-locate (but not any more!) gpsd from gps3d...

You might actually be looking for this other page from which I get occasional page referrals. It has ready-made binaries.

Crystal reports processes different parts of the report in a fixed order that one must understand [to some degree] to understand what you can't do in Crystal.

Crystal Reports is a database reporting tool that has over time become the standard for reporting. It is by far the most used tool to perform this task, in spite of the fact that it sucks eggs. Crystal has so many failings it's hard to know where to start talking about them; but I think I'll manage somehow.

Synergy is an application for OSX, Unix, and Windows that allows you to share a mouse and keyboard across any number of these systems. The Unix version uses the XTEST extension, and as such should work on any Unix system whose X server features this extension. It is licensed under the GPLv2.

Herein lies a plain text version of the GNU GPL, version 2. I wanted a copy of the GPLv2 to link to, so that when v3 comes out, I won't be linking to it. Note that this site is NOT licensed under the GPL, LGPL, or any similar license, although the engine used to implement this site, Drupal is Free Open Source Software. This license should not be construed as applying to any content to which I hold copyright.