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Slashdot
The Computational Requirements for the Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/2224253
goombah99 writes "[0]Nick Bostrom discusses the computational
requirements needed to simulate human existence. He offers a proof
based on the [1]anthropic principle, that [2]you are almost certainly a
computer simulation and not "real". The idea is that given that humans
don't go extinct in geologically short time then eventually computer
capability will allow complete simulation of the human cortex.
Consequently, there must be far more simulations running in future
millennia than seconds since you were born. Thus its astronomically
more likely you are a simulation than real ... if humans don't go
extinct shortly. Recalling [3]the 13th floor, Robin Hanson discusses
[4]how one should try to live in a simulation. David Wolpert also
weighs in on the [5]physical limits of Turing machines for simulation
of the universe. This also may explain why time travel seems
impossible: we dont meet visitors from the future since only the
present is being simulated."
Links
0. http://www.nickbostrom.com/
1. http://www.anthropic-principle.com/
2. http://www.simulation-argument.com/
3.
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD043396028487.html?ID=DVD043396028487
4. http://www.transhumanist.com/volume7/simulation.html
5.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11800757&dopt=Abstract
Searchking Loses Suit Against Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/2215252
An anonymous reader submits this story that [0]Searchking has lost its
suit against Google for lowering search rankings. Silly lawsuit, good
riddance. See our [1]original story.
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011740.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1254221&tid=99
Aimee Deep Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/222245
[0]LawGeek writes "[1]Aimee Deep is probably most famously known as the
highly attractive cover-girl of Madster (formerly known as Aimster).
Since being involved with Madster (her father's business), she has had
the opportunity to become more interested in legal and business issues
surrounding the music distribution business and now blogs on the
subject. [2]Greplaw editor Mikael Pawlo recently [3]interviewed the
18-year old Ms. Deep on various topics."
Links
0. http://grep.law.harvard.edu
1. http://www.musicpundit.com/
2. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
3. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/0228256&mode=thread
Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/2157254
[0]dss902 writes "We (Department of Computer Science, Rice University)
present a new class of [1]low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that
exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data
structures... Using bandwidth less than a typical dialup modem, we can
bring a dedicated Bro server to its knees; after six minutes of
carefully chosen packets, our Bro server was dropping as much as 71% of
its traffic and consuming all of its CPU. We [2]show how modern
universal hashing techniques can yield performance comparable to
commonplace hash functions while being provably secure against these
attacks."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003/index.html
2. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003.pdf
Updating the Pirate Anime FAQ
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/2114210
[0]Joe Curzon writes "Over two years ago, I created what is now
probably the most comprehensive and detailed guide to spotting bootleg
and counterfeit anime/manga related goods - [0]The Pirate Anime FAQ. A
special version of the FAQ has also been published at numerous Anime
Conventions around the USA. However due to commitments in the "real
world" I have not been able to update FAQ almost a year. :( I would
like to iron out any creases and update the whole thing in one go, so I
was wondering what improvements would the Otaku readers of /.
recommend? The DVD section and Fansub section are in need of the most
attention and I plan to deal with that soon, but I was also wondering
if there were any subtle changes I could make to improve the FAQ as
well?"
Links
0. http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html
Stem Cell "Master Gene" Found
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1754246
nexex writes "[0]From the Washington Post, 'Scientists yesterday said
they have discovered a long-sought "master gene" in embryonic stem
cells that is largely responsible for giving those cells their unique
regenerative and therapeutic potential.' The report summarizes [1]an
article in the newest issue of the scientific journal, [2]Cell."
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/919806.asp?0cl=cR
1. http://www.cell.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0092867403003945
2. http://www.cell.com/
Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1740227
Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier
built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in
late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian
Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing
reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was
commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her
service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980
completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th
of October 2001 and is currently for [0]sale."
Links
0. http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12
Twin Prime Proof Erroneous
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1739250
mindriot writes "The fairly recent perceived breakthrough in prime
number theory regarding twin primes, as mentioned [0]on slashdot, is
apparently [1]not quite perfect: 'On April 23rd, Andrew Granville of
the Universite de Montreal and K. Soundararajan of the University of
Michigan found a technical difficulty buried in one of the arguments in
the preprint of Goldston and Yildrim. The main issue is that some
quantities which were believed to be small error terms are actually the
same order of magnitude as the main term. For now this difficulty
remains unresolved.' A more detailed technical description is [2]also
available."
Links
0. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1714253&tid=134
1. http://aimath.org/primegaps/
2. http://aimath.org/primegaps/residueerror/
IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1650206
mokiejovis writes "Program manager Brian Countryman stated that "as
part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future
standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone
installation." See the [0]Microsoft TechNet article." Several of the
people submitting this story have come up with elaborate theories about
why: killing competition, etc. etc. I think the truth is just that
Microsoft intends to integrate DRM very tightly with their OS and
browser, and they're aren't going to try to backport that to, say,
Win98, so they just aren't going to release new versions of their
browser for old, DRM-less operating systems. In the future server-side
browser detection may be more about detecting whether the browser
supports the DRM your "web service" uses than what version of
Javascript or CSS the browser supports.
Links
0.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/trans/ie/ie0507.asp
Nokia 5100 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1421250
An anonymous reader writes "Just read a [0]review of Nokia's 5100
mobile phone. This phone has an integrated flashlight, FM tuner, a
calorie burn application, sound meter and thermometer. And yet there is
no Bluetooth capabilites. Is the cell phone market getting so desperate
that companies are adding everything including the kitchen sink to sell
these phones? Why would you want a sound meter or a calorie tracking
application in a cell phone?" Looks like a good phone for people who
like phones to look gaudy. Bells and whistles aside, the flashlight
feature sounds pretty practical. A sound meter though?
Links
0. http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review67.html
Newsforge Reports
SCO-IBM Vs Timeline Inc-Microsoft : Better off with Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1244201
NZheretic writes, "If you are concerned over the treat of lawsuits over
intellectual property then you are actually in a better legal position
using GPL'ed Linux than using Microsoft's products.
Linux Advisory Watch - May 30th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1111246
- By Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for squid,
BitchX, netpbm, gPS, heimdal, nessus, lprng, gnupg, up2date, ptrace,
apache, cups, and glibc. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian,
Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and SuSe. Several of the
advisories released are updates to vulnerabilities found last week.
There is nothing particularly serious this week, but it is always a
advisable to have everything patched ...
Wireless access for the masses!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0033238
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Bradenton, FL - So far I've only been
able to find three local wireless "hot spots." Each one is on a
different network, and all of them charge substantial daily fees to
connect. The funny thing is, wireless access is dirt-cheap to provide,
and businesses smart enough to give it to people like me for free would
almost certainly profit from my increased patronage.
Newsforge Newsvac
Make way for the contender to Google's crown
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1315203
You're not going to believe this, but a new search engine has just
appeared and, well, it may be better than Google. Obviously, that
sounds slightly ridiculous but after having spent a day devising weird
and wonderful searches and comparisons, not only has it stood up to the
test but it's so good that you realise how much of an effect Google has
had on your thinking when it comes to searching the Net.
Free software a boon for developing nations
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/137219
From creating new software distributions to giving a nudge to
education, from offering solutions to the industry to helping young
techies pick up skills they never would have access to, free software
is attaining this and much more in Asia.
IDC: Server Sales Down Overall, But Linux Servers Way Up
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/134253
In a report just released by IDC, the total number of servers shipped
with the Linux operating system preinstalled hit almost 171,700 in the
first quarter of 2003, up 29.5 percent from the 132,500 Linux servers
sold in the first quarter of 2002.
SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/130258
NZheretic writes "If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's
ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently
all ears. "If there's a way of resolving this that is positive, then we
can get back out to business and everybody is good to go, then I'm fine
with that," McBride said today in an interview with Computerworld. "If
that's one of the outcomes of this, then so be it.""
Trends In Mobile Product Purchases
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1258245
ESC Technologies shares its mobile product sales percentages from
October 2002 through May 2003. "31% to 47% of the notebooks and
transportables ship with Linux preinstalled or without an operating
system preinstalled.""
Microsoft 2, Consumers 0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1255247
Jim writes "Junetech.com analyzes the antitrust settlement between
Microsoft and AOL, and looks into what it may mean for consumers."
Is SCO Trying to Dictate GNU/Linux Development?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1253245
In an in-depth analysis MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com)
reports: SCO raises two issues: (1) whose responsibility is it to
police the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux operating system, and Linux
distribution code to insure that unlicensed SCO-owned Unix code does
not get into Linux and (2) what steps do the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux
OS, and Linux distribution developers take to insure their code is
clean? MozillaQuest Magazine's Mike Angelo ...
Who stole SCO's lollipop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1247252
Dave B writes "Matt Loney thinks that bruised egos are behind the
SCO/IBM lawsuit. He could be right."
SCO to Novell: See you in court
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/0245231
SCO Group executives said Friday that the company's copyright dispute
with Novell doesn't affect its legal campaign against Linux, but the
issue may result in a lawsuit, anyway.
SCO Stands Defiant, German Court Grants Preliminary Injunction
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/2257245
SCO is in the right is the message that Darl McBride, SCO CEO, and
Chris Sontag, senior VP of SCOsource, tried to deliver in their press
conference earlier today. But, at the same time, a German court in
Bremen granted an injunction to Univison GmbH, a German Linux
integrator, against SCO Group GmbH, SCO's German division. The
injunction prevents SCO from saying that Linux contains illegally
obtained SCO intellectual property, aka Unix source ...
Freshmeat
Configuring an Open Source Mail Gateway
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/857
No matter whether you work for a large business or use email simply for
family communication, you've probably received junk mail. If you have
used email for any length of time, you probably know what it's like to
deal with a virus. Unfortunately, fending off unwanted or dangerous
electronic communication has become a daily struggle for many system
administrators.
AccuRev 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124574/
AccuRev/CM is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use "Timesafe"
SCM tool which is based on the idea that the past can't change.
AccuRev/CM records all merges and patches, so you never have to
re-merge the same code. It includes a truly integrated bug-tracking
system, supports file and directory renaming, follows a client/server
model, and is transaction-based. Servers and clients run on Unix,
Linux, and Windows. There are both command line and GUI interfaces for
all platforms. It includes an integrated graphical 3-way diff and merge
tool. AccuRev/CM also integrates with the MS SCC API, Forte for Java,
and any diff/merge tool with a command line interface.
ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124555/
This project adds plugins for the lexer/parser generator ANTLR to the
Eclipse platform. The plugins provide a grammar file editor with syntax
highlighting, outline view and a project nature with incremental
builder.
AstroCam System 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124537/
AstroCam is an C-based Stepmotor Controlsystem including a CGI Web
interface. You can use it for controlling webcams over the
Internet/intranet or everything else you want to do with a stepmotor.
Beck's Beer Theme 0.80.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124548/
Beck's Beer Theme is based on wallpaper from becks-beer.com.
Blue Rose 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124553/
Blue Rose is a blue theme with a glass rose. The background is by
ANDiDAS.
braa 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124544/
Braa is a tool for making SNMP queries. It is able to query hundreds or
thousands of hosts simultaneously, while being completely
single-threaded. It does not need any SNMP libraries, as it is equipped
with its own SNMP engine. However, it's good to have a complete SNMP
package including "snmptranslate" installed somewhere,
because for speed reasons, there is no ASN.1 parser in Braa, and all
the SNMP OIDs need to be specified numerically.
CatWeasel MK3 Linux Driver 2003-05-31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124541/
The CatWeasel MK3 Linux Driver accesses the SID and joystick features
of the CatWeasel MK3 PCI by Individual Computers. You can use joysticks
or paddles connected to the CatWeasel card just like any other joystick
within Linux and you can use an Amiga keyboard as a second keyboard for
input. If you have attached a SID chip, you can use it with various
software like VICE and SIDplayer. If you want to use the floppy
features please use Michael Krause's Floppy CatWeasel Driver.
Columba 0.10.1 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124551/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports
multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic
features you would expect, and an address book.
CoverViewer 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124581/
CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files
being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the
album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a
personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can
control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that
can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet,
using file tag information to get the artist and album name.
Cream 21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124570/
Cream is a simple but solid cross-language, cross-platform,
client/server-based synchronous remote procedure call (RPC) toolkit,
similar to (but incompatible with) XML/RPC, SOAP, and Web Services.
DC-GUI 0.2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124583/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
Disc-Cover 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124540/
Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It
scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB or CDINDEX database
to build a back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi,
PDF, Postscript, HTML, plain ASCII, or any other format suited for
cdlabelgen.
Distant Ecosystems 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124521/
Distant Ecosystems is a silver-grey theme with trees and circles. The
background is by netghost (Adam Sanderson).
Dodge This 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124488/
Dodge This is a theme based on a screen capture from the first Matrix
movie combined with the classic "matrix waterfall" and a
little work with the Gimp.
Fast IRC Stats Generator 0.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124580/
Fast IRC Stats Generator (FISG) creates HTML pages with statistics
about IRC logs. It has less features than some alternatives, but is
much faster and can be run on low-end systems. It supports Irssi and
Eggdrop log files.
Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124568/
Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows
programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software
without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for
embedded systems.
Firepass 1.0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124535/
Firepass is a tunneling tool allowing users bypass firewall
restrictions and encapsulate data flows inside legal ones that use HTTP
POST requests. TCP or UDP based protocols may be tunneled with
Firepass.
GLT OpenGL C++ Toolkit 0.8 rc2 (Release Candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124558/
Glt is a library of C++ classes and routines for programming
interactive 3D graphics with OpenGL. The aim of Glt is to augment the
OpenGL API with convenient mechanisms for manipulating the OpenGL state
machine. Glt is a work in progress, and by no means covers the entire
OpenGL specification. However, it already includes several useful
classes and is designed so that additional classes can be added easily.
In addition to Glt, the GlutMaster classes provide C++ wrappers for the
GLUT API.
Goggles 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124573/
Goggles is a frontend for the Ogle DVD player. It supports all the
features that Ogle provides, including bookmarks, and adds automatic
starting, automatic bookmarks, a convenient preferences panel for
setting keyboard shortcuts, DXR3 settings, and language and country
preferences. It is written in C++ using the FOX Toolkit.
gpppwrap 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124585/
gpppwrap is a graphical user interface to conveniently select a phone
number and dial into your ISP. It's very convenient if you use
different ISPs, and is based on the GTK GUI libraries. It is only a
wrapper around the ppp-on/ppp-off scripts and gives you therefore still
the power and flexibility of these scripts. It is written for people
who like the power and flexibility of shell and Perl scripts, and also
want an idiot-proof way to connect to the Internet.
Header Browser 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124539/
Header Browser helps you to create documentation from your C/C++ header
files. It is similar to JavaDoc, Doc++, or KDoc, but it doesn't just
create documentation pages; it allows you to really browse your APIs
using a five columns view like NeXT's HeaderViewer.
IMMS 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124575/
IMMS is an intelligent playlist plug-in for XMMS that tracks your
listening patterns and adapts itself to your taste. It is incredibly
unobtrusive and easy to use as it requires no direct user interaction.
Ion 20030531 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124560/
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has
PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows.
These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching
between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and
unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
IOzone 3.181
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124576/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and
measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many
machines and runs under many operating systems.
Java FTP client library 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124554/
Java FTP client library allows any Java application to have full
embedded FTP functionality. It includes a straightforward but
comprehensive API with functions such as put (), get(), chdir(), dir()
and pwd(). Active and passive modes are supported.
KAVmailcheck 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124545/
KAVmailcheck is a sendmail filter that uses the milter API to check
incoming mail for viruses using the Kaspersky Lab AVP kavdaemon.
KisMAC 0.04e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124566/
KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into
monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely
invisible and sends no probe requests.
Linux Napster Client 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124562/
Linux Napster Client is one of the oldest Napster clients available. It
is a fully-featured Napster client with a text-based interface. Linux
Napster Client runs under Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Cygwin32.
MaraDNS 1.0.18 (Recursive/Caching)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124569/
MaraDNS is a DNS server that strives to be secure and fully
open-sourced.
Mojo Mail 2.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124592/
Mojo Mail is a light-weight Web-based email mailing list manager. It
supports announce-only lists and group discussion lists, as well as
archiving, double opt-in subscriptions, and double opt-out
unsubscriptions. List mailings can be sent using sendmail, qmail, or
even with a straight SMTP connection (either all at once, or in timed
batches). All list administration can be done through your browser via
Mojo Mail's administrative control panel. Creating new lists and
administrating them is easy. Mojo Mail is a great alternative to
programs such as Majordomo if you want to give more control to the
actual list owners, who may not have much experience with such
applications. Mojo Mail can be run simply as a CGI script and needs no
special modules installed. The entire look of html pages created by
Mojo Mail can be customized with any template you can provide, on a
list by list basis.
MozPlugger 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124582/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin
for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses
external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification
fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to
stream a media file directly from the URL.
NanoBlogger 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124440/
NanoBlogger is a small and minimalist blogger written in Bash script.
It's designed to be a simple and fast solution for creating and
managing blog entries that can be uploaded to a Web site as a simple
text file. It is not a complete Weblog engine, but rather an aid in the
creation and maintenance of a blog site's entries.
nefu 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124556/
nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services
over the network. It uses a "no false alarms" fault
verification algorithm, and understands network dependancies.
Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), DNS, HTTP, POP,
NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute
external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web.
Nessus 2.0.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124587/
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other
Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over
1200 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in
HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security
problems.
netcount 0.7e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124563/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display
tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is
called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from
cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in
Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly
basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display
connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.
Open Guestbook 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124571/
Open Guestbook is a fully featured PHP Guestbook script powered by
MySQL on backend. It has an enourmous amount of features, including
Avatars, Smilies, Guestbook Code, Quote Reply, an Administrative Area
to manage Guestbook and delete/edit entries, and more. It is also fully
customizable via the Admin area and stylesheets.
OpenLoad Tester 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124531/
OpenLoad is an easy-to-use browser-based, rapid performance
optimization solution for load and stress testing of dynamic Web sites.
It uses IBM WebSphere and the DB2 Universal Database, and is fully
integrated with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer. It
substantially minimizes the time and skill set required to optimize the
performance of Web-based applications by simplifying the process of
building real-world user scenarios, verifying expected functional
behavior, and pinpointing performance bottlenecks within Web
applications and IT infrastructure.
Picture Gallery 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124525/
Picture Gallery is both a standalone and easily-integrated Web
application. It features unlimited categories, subcategories, and
pictures; hit tracking on categories and pictures; automatic resizing
of pictures larger than the maximum width and height (preserves aspect
ratio); and automatic thumbnail generation. It has a powerful search
engine that uses CSS for easy customization. It has support for hidden
categories, and can rotate images 90/180/270 degrees or re-order
categories. It plugs into an existing Web site account system.
procps 3.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124579/
procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w,
skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These
utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system
has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill
processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.
RLPlot 0.97b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124564/
RLPlot is a scientific plotting, charting, and drawing program. Data is
entered into a spreadsheet manually or by copy from a spreadsheet
program (Excel, KSpread, etc.) and pasted to RLPlot. Plots are created
and modified by a fully-interactive graphical user interface. RLPlot is
fully vector-oriented, ensuring high-quality outputs.
Scraper 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124538/
Scraper is designed to scrape the Web for information. It is very easy
to use.
singapore 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124557/
singapore is a flexible PHP image gallery that stores information in a
CSV-file database. It has a Web-based admin and cached autogenerated
thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). Its output is XHTML- and
CSS-compatible.
SiteBar 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124552/
SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and
maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape
sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar
provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to
anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's
cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common
to file explorers, and supports FavIcons.
Vstr string library 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124567/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for
network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so
adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This
model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of
memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string,
and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of
the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like
function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that
are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but
laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing
functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions
(among others).
Web Secretary 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124543/
Web Secretary is a web page monitoring software. However, it goes
beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only
does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time
stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to
you with the new contents highlighted.
WITS 0.1.26 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124572/
WITS is an inventory tracking and point of sale implementation done in
PHP using a MySQL server as a backend. It is designed with the small to
medium sized consignment retailer in mind, and supports tracking of
clients, consignees, inventory, tickets, payments, salespeople,
tickets, gift certificates, and layaways. It automatically handles
percentage commission calculations for consignees and salespersons, and
supports split salesperson commission (for multiple salespersons
working on a single ticket). WITS also supports modules for expandable
functionality, and includes a dynamic report generator capable of
advanced queries.
X-ChaMan 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124593/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an
easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and
chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
XDrawChem 1.7.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124561/
XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features
include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to
automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in
reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures
in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H
NMR, 13C NMR, simple IR spectra, and estimated pKa. XDrawChem can work
with its native file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported
by OpenBabel (MDL Molfile, CML, etc.).
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