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Slashdot
Benford on Space Exploration
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2131241
gid-goo writes "Gregory Benford [0] looks at what we should do in the
aftermath of the Columbia accident. Is the shuttle, or the
International Space Station for that matter, useful? Or just payola to
aerospace interests and a means for keeping Russian rocket scientists
employed?" Benford's comments about the necessity of a closed biosphere
and of some way for astronauts to stop muscle and bone loss are far
more insightful than the usual discussions about where our space
exploration priorities should lie.
Links
0. http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html
Priest Brews in Washing Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1726219
An anonymous writer sends in this story about a priest who has made a
[0]brewery out of his washing machine. See [1]his website for recipes
and pictures.
Links
0. http://realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001834.php
1. http://www.m-fey.de/
Do-Not-Email Registries?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2129206
prgrmr writes "Wired has an article about Colorodo and Missouri's
latest [0]legislative proposals to deal with spam and with spammers.
There appears to be actual consumer-protective teeth in these bills
which mirror the telephone 'do not call' lists. A nice example of a
government perpetuating a working concept instead of trying inventing
new ways to break things."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57585,00.html
Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2125218
TheAB writes "Japan is [0]betting 50 million yen ($450k US) that the
next-generation of high-tech products and computer networks will rely
on open-source software. The money is to develop an 'operating system
for consumer electronics goods'."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030205/ap_wo_en_bu/as_tec_japan_linux_1
Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224
[0]Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that [1]Castle Technology
Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it
into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM
form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other
proprietary code.' Full details from [2]Russell King on lkml."
Links
0. http://jriddell.org/
1. http://www.castle.uk.co/castle/front.htm
2. http://lkml.org/archive/2003/2/7/55/index.html
Command-Line Crypto From Phil Zimmermann, Again
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1936221
A few months ago, PGP creator Phil [0]Zimmermann became a reseller for
the [1]current graphical version of the software he originally spawned,
produced by PGP Corporation. Now, Zimmermann has just started selling
through [2]his own website a modern command-line encryption product
called [3]FileCrypt, which has its roots in an older version of PGP.
Confusingly enough, this software is produced by a company called
([4]Veridis), and doesn't say PGP on the box, because legally it can't.
Network Associates, which acquired PGP Inc. in 1997, still holds the
rights to that name; when NAI spun off PGP to PGP Corporation in 2002,
they held onto the command-line version. PGP Corporation, for whom
Zimmermann serves as a technical advisor (as well as a reseller), is
contractually unable to sell a command-line version. (He is on the
board of Veridis as well.) But why introduce a text-only version of
utility software, anyway, when the GUI-fied desktop version has been
maturing for years and costs less? Update: 02/07 23:07 GMT by [5]T:
Here are three instant clarifications: PGP Corporation was misrendered
as "Open PGP" in this paragraph; Veridis' command line product was
inspired by PGP but independently created; its codebase is separate
from NAI's version of PGP; and the rights holder to the PGP name is PGP
Corporation, not NAI.
Links
0. http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/1850209&tid=99
1. http://www.pgp.com/display.php?pageID=2
2. http://www.philzimmermann.com/sales.shtml
3. http://www.veridis.com/openpgp/en/index.asp
4. http://www.veridis.com
5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1849243
[0]wilko11 writes "There have been two cases recently where websites
have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be
used to access the websites ([1]EuroTV and [2]Streetmap) from a PERL
program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads [3]about
EuroTV and [4]about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software
you can use to access web content from their server?'"
Links
0. http://www.wilko.com
1. http://www.eurotv.com/
2. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
3. http://www.mail-archive.com/advocacy%40perl.org/msg01755.html
4.
http://penderel.state51.co.uk/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030203/016588.html
Gamers, Upgrade your Systems
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1736207
jbischof writes "Looking to upgrade your aging PC? [0]Ace's Hardware
has a new [1]upgrade guide tailored specifically to gamers. The data
shows exactly which upgrades - processor, motherboard, gfx card, or
combination of the three - will give the best performance boost on all
the latest and most popular games (according to their recent [2]poll)."
Links
0. http://www.aceshardware.com/
1. http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000356
2. http://www.aceshardware.com/polls/results.jsp?poll=3
Negative Effects of Workplace Net Monitoring
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1719255
Masem writes "Business2.com [0]reports that while many corporations
have monitoring tools and restrictions on Internet usages for non-work
related activities, these can have negative effects on the productivity
of the workplace. The report notes that people have to take days off
from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a
few minutes or hours from a work net connection, and that employee
morale is generally down when net controls are in place." A related
study suggests [1]employees spend more time doing work from home than
playing at work.
Links
0. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,46179,00.html
1. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1044486883322049333.djm,00.html
Demand More From Your Copper
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1717239
[0]D3 wrote in with a submission about [1]fiber to the home, or the
lack of it, and the reasons behind this, and ways to work around the
Bells to provide high-speed access despite them. A pretty decent
article, which actually goes beyond the Baby Bell PR-speak that
deregulation is the solution to everything. Maybe at some point state
and Federal regulators will realize that the Bells are the problem, not
the solution.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus herbivore
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38106-2003Feb6.html
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1147223
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive
newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been
announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages
and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were
released for cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui, bladeenc, cim, mysql,
kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf. The distributors
include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, ...
E-Government Conference laden with Open (and Shared) Source goodies
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1512247
- by Tina Gasperson - The Center of Open Source & Government is
sponsoring a conference that is designed to "raise awareness" and
"share experiences among policy makers" from the U.S. and Europe. The
event is jam-packed with speakers that Open Source advocates will find
interesting. And Microsoft will be there too.
SPI working on elections, welcoming Perens back to the fold
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1526200
- by Tina Gasperson - Software in the Public Interest (SPI), the entity
that owns the Debian trademark, is holding elections and working to
generate enough interest in said elections to actually elect some new
board members. Ironically, the last "original" board member just
resigned at the same time a former board member is getting
re-acquainted with the project.
Newsforge Newsvac
Broadband could cost AOL $1bn in revenue by 2005
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2234214
In its report Can AOL Bridge the Broadband Gap?Strategy argues that AOL
will lose out financially as the dial-up market, which it dominates
shrinks (as more and more people sign up to broadband). Even if punters
sign up to AOL's "Bring Your Own Access" scheme, which lets users who
get broadband from cable or telephone companies sign up to AOL's
content service for $14.95 a month, Strategy estimates that it would
cost AOL almost $9 a month per ...
Don't Underestimate Cyberterrorists, Experts Warn
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2233206
Greater network dependence boosts risk of damage by cybervandals who
code with vengeance.
SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232239
Timothy R. Butler writes "SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us
last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will
SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the
Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more at OfB.biz."
Debian powers home entertainment gateway device
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232216
Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles the
PRISMIQ MediaPlayer, a recently introduced device which is said to
represent the first instance of a new consumer device category -- the
"networked entertainment gateway."
US ponders cyber war plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225230
The US may be making plans for attacking enemy computer networks but
experts are divided on how effective a cyber war would be.
Linux-based mobile humanoid robot to debut in Japan
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1838249
The 100 cm tall robot, called Wakamuru, is described as being able to
assist the sick or elderly in their homes. It can conduct simple
conversation using a 10,000 word vocabulary, and uses face recognition
technology to find (and follow) faces and movements. Wakumuru's
locomotion is based on wheels rather than leg-like motion used by
several other experimental robots developed in Japan.
Investors plug Linux for phone work
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1826221
An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to
try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for
telecommunications purposes.
Evolution Updated
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1655200
vmlinuz writes "Ximian updates the Unix leading mail program Evolution
to version 1.2.2. Changes are mostly fixes. For more information go to
Ximian's website."
SCO-Caldera and IP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1653259
Anonymous Reader writes "SCO's Blake Stowell, MozillaQuest Magazine's
(mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo, and others discuss SCOsource
intellectual property (IP) issues. At issue are libs owned by the SCO
Group (formerly Caldera) that allow UNIX applications to run on Linux."
Linux Test Project
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1548258
Robbie Williamson writes "Linux Test Project test suite
LTP-20030206.tgz has been released. Visit our website
(http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the
testsuite that contains 950+ tests for the Linux OS."
Freshmeat
AccWhizz 0.0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112241/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business
companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x,
and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with
Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is
managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be
local or remote.
Apache File Manager 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112234/
The Apache::FileManager module is a simple HTML file manager. It
provides file manipulations such as cut, copy, paste, delete, rename,
extract archive, create directory, create file, edit file, and upload
files. It also has the ability to rsync the server htdocs tree to
another server with the click of a button.
apcupsd 3.10.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112224/
apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for
APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB),
SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.
apcupsd 3.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112220/
apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for
APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB),
SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.
APSR 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112202/
APSR is a network testing tool designed to send and receive arbitrary
network packets. Its main purposes are firewall, security, routing, and
a lot of other tests. It can also be used to analyze your network. The
project is split into three main programs: apsend to create and send
packets, aprecv to dump the network traffic, and the apsrlib which
provides the appropriate low-level functions. A very wide range of
protocols are supported by the aprecv program. The application layer is
implemented through modules using a simple API. Modules can be written
in Perl, Ruby, C, or PCL (a special-purpose packet construction
language).
Ariadne 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112188/
Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content
Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which
includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is
stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via
filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL,
and MSSQL.
avidemux 0.9pre32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112230/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex
and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import
BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video
with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
blib 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112192/
blib is a library full of useful things to hack the Blinkenlights. If
you need to read the various formats for Blinkenlights movies, want to
implement the network protocol, or aim to develop a viewer/editor or
simulator for the Blinkenlights, this is what you need.
Chipcard::CTAPI 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112172/
Chipcard::CTAPI is a Perl module for accessing chipcard terminals based
on the standardized CTAPI library. It provides not only the CTAPI
functions but also a complete set of convenience methods for easy
reading and writing of memory cards. Chipcard::CTAPI comes with a
couple of demo applications, including a tool to create encrypted file
systems with randomly-created passwords which are then stored on a
memory card.
DB Web Admin Build 04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112209/
DB Web Admin provides simple access to an Oracle database and
(optionally) Oracle applications through the Web using PL/SQL. It shows
existing users, processes, and system locks, and also allows users to
kill sessions and execute SQL queries.
db-backed 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112195/
db-backed is a Ruby library providing a convenient mechanism for
describing objects bound to a backing database. This relieves the
programmer from much of the tedium associated with writing programs
with DB access. Instead of spending a lot of time working on code that
reads data from the database, code that stuffs it into useable objects,
remembering whether a particular piece of data lives in the database or
not, etc., db-backed allows the programmer to simply design their
database schema (with a few constraints), and write a very simple class
definition which describes the mapping between database fields, class
methods, and foreign key mappings.
Debt Minder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112187/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user
friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account
subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split
interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization
capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs,
debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated
amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included,
and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited
files
DjVuLibre 3.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112225/
DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing
documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than
competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned.
DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers,
browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
Dustismo 1.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112248/
Dustismo contains a standard sans-serif TrueType and a serifed Roman
TrueType font good for most applications. It contains most common
glyphs (about 360 for the sans-serif and 470 for the Roman). The
sans-serif font has associated italics, bold, and bold italics.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112201/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
evolvotron 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112157/
Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" application to
evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random
mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps,
and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software
for you. It's implemented using Qt, and is multithreaded.
EzSDK 4.0 (EzPageBuilder)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112175/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a
library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of
premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and
data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle,
etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
EzSDK 4.0 (EzCalendar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112148/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a
library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of
premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and
data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle,
etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
File access statistics 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112186/
File access statistics is a Perl script that can check the last access
time of your files. The script sorts the files in packages (packages by
file type). In a Debian Linux system it can sort the packages using the
Debian PacKaGe (DPKG) groups. The main usage of this script is to
detect which Debian packages are not used for a long time, so they can
be removed from the system.
Firewall Builder 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112149/
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for
various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of
objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop
operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent,
and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without
any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This
provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different
firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and
OpenBSD pf.
Football Manager 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112223/
Football Manager is a rewrite from scratch of Kevin Toms' famous
Sinclair Spectrum Football Management game. It uses the SDL library for
graphics and sound. Graphics are quite simple, being based on the
original. Football Manager is not the most complicated or prettiest
game in the world, but it is one of the most fun.
Forest Web Application Builder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112226/
Forest is a Web-based IDE for Web applications. It's in the alpha
stage, but you can use it to create your XML files already. For now, it
has four frames: the "Add Component" frame which allows you
to add a new component to your page, the "Object Inspector"
which allows you to add/edit properties and delete components, the
"Preview" which will show how your XML is looking, and the
"Component Tree" frame that show the hierarchy of components
in your page.
fpted 4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112178/
fpted is a very small and fast text editor. It has many features and a
rich keyboard command-set including automatic word completion,
auto-indent, search and replace, regular expressions, parenthesis
matching, macros and interactive key definitions, mouse support, the
ability to pipe to external commands, horizontal scroll, online help,
multiple files, etc.
Gauche 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112173/
Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy tool
for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native
multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar
to STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte
encodings natively.
GImageView 0.2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112251/
GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing,
thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the
thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user
interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.
GKrellM Timers 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112184/
GKrellM Timers is a plugin for GKrellM that lets you define timers and
stopwatches. It supports visual alarms, popups, and alarm commands for
multiple timers and stopwatches.
glitch killer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112162/
glitch killer solves the problem of protected CD rips sometimes having
scratchy noises by analysing the recorded .wav file and removing all
"clicks".
Glubs 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112194/
Glubs is a clubbing system similar to Yahoo! or MSN Groups. Users
browse through a category-hierarchy and create clubs to share news,
files, pics, links and a calendar with friends. Some of the core
features are multi-language and -timezone support, and custom HTML
templates/skins.
Gnofract 4D 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112203/
Gnofract 4D is a Gnome-based program to draw fractals. What sets it
apart from other fractal programs (and makes it "4D") is the
way that it treats the Mandelbrot and Julia sets as different views of
the same four-dimensional fractal object. It can draw a variety of
fractal types, including Barnsley, Newton, Mandelbar, Nova and Burning
Ship fractals, using numerous coloring and bailout function options.
GNU texinfo 4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112232/
"Texinfo" is a documentation system that uses a single source
to produce both on-line information (info, HTML, XML, Docbook) and
printed output (DVI, PDF).
GTetrinet 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112257/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is
written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the
original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
GTKWave 2.0.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112213/
GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ v1.2 based wave viewer for Unix and
Win32 which can view industry standard VCD/EVCD files as well as
Synopsys (EPIC) TimeMill and LXT format files.
gzip Recovery Toolkit 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112206/
The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data
from corrupted gzip files through a program called gzrecover and from
corrupted tar files through a new --recover option to GNU tar. This
package is very experimental at this point.
Hird Of PHP Parts 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112032/
HOPP is a function-oriented, programmer-friendly PHP library. It
provides libraries for a custom static cache, WYSIWYG editable
templates, database abstraction, authentication, calendar-based
directory navigation, common MIME types, custom debug and error
logging, and featureful and abuse-resistant poll generation.
HPC Cluster autosetup scripts 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112179/
These are multiple scripts to setup HPC cluster server and client
nodes. They are used in the CLIC distribution.
Ice Sound Manager 0.2beta-2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112160/
Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events,
sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It
is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive
icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for
sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy
management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI
interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more
conservative approach to disk space usage.
IcePref2 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112165/
IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of
the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This
new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a
sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for
IceWM 1.2.2 and better.
IceWM Control Panel 0.1beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112168/
IceWM Control Panel is the first full-featured, GTK-based control panel
for IceWM. It features such tools as Ice Sound Manager (for managing
IceWM sound events), IcePref2, a wallpaper manager, and many other
tools bundled into a familiar Windows-like Control Panel interface.
IDMS Database Mail Agent 0.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112150/
IDMS Database Mail Agent is an effort to develop a highly-scalable,
plugin-based, database-driven mail agent, hopefully replacing the
commercial ones used by large ISPs today. It is cluster-friendly and
easily configurable. Web-based frontend support is available.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112247/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
IP, log options and more. It is able start and shut down the firewall
without deleting your other iptables rules (optional). The
configuration of the firewall is assisted by a optional, interactive,
curses-based Perl script.
JDiskReport 1.1 Pre (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112191/
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and
directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete
files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects
several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details
tables.
JDiskReport 1.0.7 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112189/
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and
directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete
files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects
several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details
tables.
KickPIM 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112256/
KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your
KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address
data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about
birthdays.
Lesstif 0.93.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112166/
LessTif is an LGPL'd implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit
for X11. LessTif aims to be source compatible with the OSF/Motif
versions 1.2 and 2.1. Currently 1.2 support is almost complete and most
Motif 1.2 apps should compile and run out of the box, whilst 2.1 still
has very little functionality.
LJChk 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112153/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC
over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends'
updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own
journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the
options available through the livejournal Web interface, and
auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
LyX 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112154/
LyX is an advanced document processor for Unix. It encourages an
approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual
layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets,
yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.
Mesh Viewer 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112170/
The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application to display
triangular meshes from a variety of file formats. It uses the OpenGL
API to render the models. Triangular meshes can be displayed texture
mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid, or as a skeleton
(full or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles
can optionally be displayed. Loaded models can be rotated, translated,
and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple
light sources. Viewpoints can be saved. Screenshots of the model can be
taken (as BMP, JPEG, PNG, etc.).
MRX PPP 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112180/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is part of the
Murix distribution.
MURIX Linux 2003-01-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112185/
MURIX Linux is a distribution based on LFS for building bootable
CDROMs.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112252/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs/libraries.
naim 0.11.5.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112249/
naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports
IRC and Lily CMC. For AIM, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many
commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving
naim's classic look and feel.
NetStats Baseball 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112145/
NSB is a simulation of major league baseball which will play single
games and entire seasons. It will keep statistics for the individual
players and the teams. It will keep track of the season schedule as
well as seasonal and lifetime records.
newfile 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112221/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
nflash 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112200/
nflash is a Perl/CGI script providing an easy to use and maintain way
of posting news to a Web site. It is possible to create users able to
edit their own preferences and postings. There is a Web interface, a
simple user system, optional commenting, multiple language support, and
templating.
nMicrocoder 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112198/
nMicrocoder is an ncurses EDA tool to write microcode. Basically it is
a stripped-down spreadsheet program which lets you fill a tabular
layout with "0", "1", and "-", and gives
you compile-ready verilog-code in return.
OpenAntiVirus samba-vscan 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112155/
samba-vscan provides on-access scanning of Samba shares with FRISK
F-Prot Daemon, Kaspersky AntiVirus, OpenAntiVirus.org ScannerDaemon,
mks AntiVirus, Sophos Sweep (via Sophie), Symantec AntiVirus Engine
(via ICAP), and Trend Micro (via Trophie). It supports Samba 2.2.x/3.x
alphaX with working virtual file system (VFS) support.
openMosixview 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112169/
openMosixview is a cluster-management GUI for openMosix-cluster which
contains useful applications for monitoring and administration. It is a
complete rewrite of Mosixview.
Pebrot 0.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112210/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not
1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112147/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able
to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a
real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular
based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for
modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access
to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems
where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to
integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different
email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services.
It can also be used as part of a firewall.
Perl Oak Component Tree 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112227/
The Perl Oak Component Tree is a set of objects designed to provide the
maximum reusability to software development. Oak can be used in any
development platform, but just the Web platform is implemented. In Oak,
you define an XML file to each page and you will implement just the
events.
Perl Object Environment 0.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112255/
POE (Perl Object Environment) is a framework for creating multitasking,
state-driven programs. It is very good for networking applications, but
it is not limited to that.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112163/
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It
helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source
files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the
objects attached to the comments.
PHPReports 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112167/
PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files
to generate PHP code and show a report.
phpWatermark 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112236/
phpWatermark aims to provide a simple way of marking an image with a
digital "watermark".
Pizza Business 1.0-beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112181/
Pizza Business is a platform-independent restaurant simulation game
written in object-oriented C++. It utilizes the WxWindows library.
Prima 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112171/
Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.
Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11
workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit
contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image
processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves
identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.
RUNT 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112207/
RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off
of a 128 MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip
file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux
installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86
computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive.
Security Filter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112174/
SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers.
It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for
Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of
container-managed security, but has several important advantages that
make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when
it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration
hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed
security.
Senken 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112158/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the
infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The
game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer
support but it is not well tested.
SFTP Team provider for Eclipse 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112164/
SFTP Team provider for Eclipse provides file and directory
synchronization between the Eclipse workspace and a remote location
using the SSH Sftp protocol. The interface of the OpenSSH sftp client
program is similar to the FTP client program, but the communication
with the server is done using a modern protocol which is more like NFS
than FTP.
Sketch 0.7.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112242/
Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe
Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some
modules written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python
with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip
masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and
more.
slurm 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112245/
slurm started as a port of pppstatus to FreeBSD and now is a generic
network load monitor. It features three different modes with real-time
ASCII graphs and interface statistics for all kinds of network
interfaces on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux.
Sodipodi 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112246/
Sodipodi is a general purpose vector drawing application which uses a
subset of W3C SVG as its file format. It uses an advanced imaging
engine, with antialised display, apha transparency, and vector fonts.
The Magic Notebook 1.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112243/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and
organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact
information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information
for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such
happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for
the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is
intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
The Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver 0.0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112250/
PURRS (the Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver) is a C++
library for the (possibly approximate) solution of recurrence
relations. To be more precise, the PURRS will solve: (a) linear
constant coefficient recurrence relations of finite order (when the
order is 1, parametric coefficients will be allowed); (b) linear
recurrence relations of the first order with variable coefficients; (c)
systems of linear recurrence relations with constant coefficients; (d)
some non-linear recurrence relations of finite order; (e) some linear
recurrence relations of infinite order and other generalized
recurrences, like those arising from the complexity analysis of
algorithms.
TjMSN 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112177/
TjMSN is a MSN client written in Java designed to be platform depended.
It supports file transfers, smilies, and multiple user chat sessions.
It also has extra features such as IRC-style actions and a novel error
correction message for those oh-so-regular typos.
TopologiLinux 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112208/
TopologiLinux is an easy to install Linux distribution that is designed
to be run from any Windows computer without requiring repartitioning.
It mounts itself using a loop-back device and can be run from a DOS,
Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP system with an NTFS or FAT partition. It
is based on the upcoming Slackware 9 and contains some extra and some
improved packages.
TownPortal 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112193/
TownPortal is a community portal system for villages and local
communities including home pages of local clubs, families, and
businesses. It runs on the Midgard and Midgard Lite platforms.
TUTOS 1.1 beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112146/
TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware or
ERP/CRM suite that helps small to medium teams manage various things in
one place. Its features include personal and group calendars, an
address book, product and project management, bug tracking,
installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and
useful links between all of the above.
VOCP 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112161/
VOCP is a complete messaging solution for voice modems, with voicemail,
fax, email pager, DTMF command shell and Text-to-Speech support, 4
graphical interfaces, and a Web interface. Callers navigate the system
using a touch-tone phone and may send and receive faxes, voice mail,
and pager messages, listen to text/HTML email messages, or execute
configured programs on the host and hear the resulting output.
WebPublisher for PHProjekt 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112197/
WebPublisher is a PHProjekt module which allows users to manage a
public Web site from within PHProjekt. It doesn't need to create extra
tables or modify the PHProjekt source. All that is needed is to create
some folders with the file manager, give them some special categories,
and upload the files to these folders.
wget_img.pl 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112214/
wget_img.pl is a Perl script that examines HTML files on the local
filesystem, finds all the image tags, and outputs wget commands that
would download those images. wget_img.pl is more reliable than wget in
finding all the images, and it can force wget to disguise itself to
prevent Web servers from denying the automatic download.
WmlPOP 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112222/
WmlPOP is a Java servlet to read your POP mailbox through WAP/WML
devices.
Wolverine Firewall and VPN Server 1.1.340 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112176/
Wolverine is a firewall and VPN server that is based on the Embedded
Coyote Linux distribution of Linux. This product is intended as an
alternative to commercial devices such as the Cisco PIX, the FireBox,
etc. Wolverine features a hardened Linux 2.4-based stateful firewall
along with IPSEC and PPTP VPN services. As it is intended to be an
embedded solution, the overall installation size is roughly 8Mb.
XML PCB Render Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112217/
The XML PCB Renderer takes an XML definition of a printed circuit board
(consisting of pads, tracks and components) and renders it to a PNG
file suitable for printing onto paper or transparency ready for UV
exposure.
XTux 20030207
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112196/
In XTux, you can play as Tux the Linux penguin, the BSD daemon, or some
other open source characters (GNU, Vi, KDE dragon, etc.) and either
fight each other over the network or join forces to take on Microsoft,
killing MS Henchmen, Bill the Borg, Clippy the Office assistant
paperclip, and others. It features 3D-rendered graphics, a wide variety
of maps (including a Linux desktop, SLASHDOT!, the street, an office)
and a cheesy plot.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112216/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to
change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the
Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the
Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of
course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your
OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for
antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without
difficult commandline operations.
Zeemo 1.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112215/
Zeemo is an application which combines free advertising, instant
messaging, filesharing, chatting, dating, buying and selling, and a lot
more. With Zeemo you no longer need to search through a lot of Web
pages, you don't have to create different accounts, and no longer have
to submit personal data.
Thinkgeek
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/
Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/
Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/
Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/
Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/
Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/
Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ce5/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/
Interests: QuickKill
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/5c45/
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