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Slashdot
The Nanotech Nose: Towards A Smaller Future
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1943239
Farrax writes "One of the first steps to nanotechnology, either
[0]strong or weak, is the ability to even talk about materials on this
scale with precision. Thursday, with the [1]successful test of a
nano-tech "nose," that step was achieved: weight fluctuations of 5.5
femtograms were detected on a bar of gold. The [2]dream of
nano-technology moves forward: maybe we'll [3]see it by 2020 after
all."
Links
0. http://www.singularitywatch.com/spiral.html
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-1016653.html
2. http://nanotech-now.com/nano-this-nano-that.htm
3. http://www.zyvex.com/nano/
Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1941206
anzha writes "The constant question for 'when' for IPv6 keeps wandering
across good ole /. It seems that the Pentagon has decided to put a foot
down and [0]put a deadline on their dark and dangerous portion of the
net."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=738&e=6&u=/afp/20030613/tc_afp/us_military_internet
Build Your Own Boeing 737 Simulator
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1457230
[0]crux6rind writes "This guy built his own [1]Boeing 737-700 simulator
in his garage. The simulator uses elements of a retired Continental
B-737-100 along with other genuine Boeing 737 avionics and system
components. The simulator will be of the fixed-base variety (no motion,
just outside visuals), using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000,
interfaced with R&R Electronics' EPIC system. This system allows you to
interface switches, lights, buzzers, gauges, digital readouts with
virtually any PC flight simulator out there."
Links
0. http://virtussavant[at]bonaindah[dot]com
1. http://www.737sim.com/737HomePage.htm
Corn-Based Plastic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1928254
[0]SolemnDragon writes "CNN.com is offering up an article about the new
[1]corn-based plastic-like product being used at [2]Wild Oats Natural
Markets. The product looks like plastic, works like plastic... and then
turns into compost. Dubbed the 'corn-tainer,' it's being used to serve
foods, etc. Available only in the Pacific Northwest stores (of course)
or you can [3] make your own at home. And here's more info on
[4]Bio-plastic from MSU." Our [5]older story.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/13/corn.plastic.reut/index.html
2. http://www.wildoats.com/app/cda/oat_cda.html?pt=Home
3. http://extension.usu.edu/aitc/news/newspdf/fall/fall96_bio.pdf
4. http://www.msutoday.msu.edu/research/index.php3?article=29Aug2001-1
5. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/07/1610205&tid=126
Glory Days at AOL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1818244
[0]Isaac-Lew writes "Found this article at the Washington Post about
the [1]wheeling and dealing at AOL back in the good old days (the
1990s)."
Links
0. http://illewis AT yahoo DOT com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46842-2003Jun11.html
Jackpot - James Gosling's Latest Project
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1815241
[0]Pete Bevin writes "Artima has [1]a fine interview with James
Gosling, creator of Java, about his latest project. It's called
Jackpot, and it treats the parse tree as the program. This makes
refactoring much, much more intuitive. The article has some good
insights into code visualization, technical writing, and making your
programs more understandable."
Links
0. http://www.petebevin.com/
1. http://www.artima.com/intv/jackpot.html
No Business Like SCO Business
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1532217
The SCO must go on. [0]Informationweek has a roundup. News.com has some
[1]analysis of the legal case. SCO [2]reiterates their threat to revoke
IBM's license. Reader hobsonchoice sends a blurb: "Also more from
analysts who saw SCO/Linux code comparisons under NDA. Bill Claybrook,
of Aberdeen Group Inc., says [3]SCO changed their story to him about
whether they had any "direct evidence" that IBM copied any System V
code into Linux. Laura Didio of Yankee Group [4]has answered some
detailed questions about her code review process. Lastly [5]Fujitsu
Siemens have joined in the debate: they don't think SCO's case is going
anywhere." One observer of the SCO case has compiled [6]some notes
about Caldera's active participation in the [7]IA-64 project. And look
on the bright side: if you follow the school of thought that [8]all
publicity is good publicity, at least this suit has gotten Linux
mentioned in many places where it normally wouldn't be.
Links
0. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300886
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1016020.html
2. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/12/HNscorevoke_1.html
3. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=627647250&fp=16&fpid=0
4. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220751243.html
5. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1016377.html
6. http://lwn.net/Comments/36053/
7. http://www.linuxia64.org/
8. http://linux.com/pollBooth.pl?section=index&qid=1649&aid=-1
Widespread Use of Hydrogen May Hurt Ozone Layer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/142217
Saeger writes "The AP has a [0]story about a CalTech study which has
found that the [1]Hydrogen Economy may deplete the ozone layer by 'as
much as 8 percent' on the assumption that '10 percent to 20 percent of
the hydrogen would leak from pipelines, storage facilities, processing
plants and fuel cells in cars and at power plants.'" [2]CalTech's press
release has more information.
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=1&u=/ap/hydrogen_environment
1. http://www.howstuffworks.com/hydrogen-economy.htm
2. http://atcaltech.caltech.edu/tech-today/subpage.tcl?story_id=9281
150 Mbit/s DSL.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1510221
surstrmming writes "German company Infineon have released their new QAM
[0] VDSL Plus chips, providing 150 Mbit/s data rates over ordinary
copper wire." Note that that kinda throughput is at the 1000 feet
mark... but the chip can still serve up 4mbps even at 13,000 feet.
Links
0.
http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/jsp/showfrontend.do?lang=EN&news_nav_oid=-9979&content_type=NEWS&content_oid=82108
Ageism in IT?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/0034204
[0]Embedded Geek writes "It's [1]hardly a new topic, but BBC is running
[2]a story about ageism hitting Gen-X, especially in IT. As a 34 year
old coder, I was horrified to hear a quote from a *hiring manager*: 'In
the IT sector (and coding in particular) younger minds generally work
faster -- I would rather employ a keen teenager who code programs
computers quickly than an older person.' It didn't help that the person
is 32 years old. My kneejerk reaction, the same one anyone else over 30
would have, is that the guy is a buffoon (I'll withhold my preferred,
spectacularly vulgar, term). The problem is that I do not believe his
idiocy is unique - I have definitely felt the vibe when interviewing.
It's frustrating, since Gen-X is finally shedding the media hyped
'slacker' stereotype only to run headlong into this garbage. Have any
other Slashdot readers seen this? What is the youngest you can be
before some PHB declares you fit for the scrap-heap? Other than
stocking up on hair dye and botox, what steps can I take to prepare for
the future? Share your war stories here." Ask Slashdot handled this
topic [3]over two years ago. Of course, this behavior could be
explained away as economic concerns, as the decision to hire younger
(and typically cheaper) employees can directly affect the bottom line.
However, one has to wonder if the decision to go with less experienced
programmers also affects software quality, in the long run. What are
your thoughts on this subject?
Links
0. http://www.thehaws.org
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/12/15/1319215&tid=99
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2975754.stm
3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/02/1738210&tid=146
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - June 13th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1114229
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for the
Linux kernel, eterm, xaos, ethereal, atftp, gnocatan, nethack, slashem,
cupsys, mod_php, zlib, kon2, gzip, KDE, hanterm, pptpd, cups, and lv.
The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, OpenPKG,
RedHat, SuSE, Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog.
Real-time alerting with Snort, part 2 of 3
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1738243
- by Jack Koziol - Last time we introduced some issues to consider when
implementing real-time alerting with Snort. Once you've considered the
issues, it's time to put your planning into practice. Today we'll talk
about how to use swatch to handle alerts. Next time we'll cover setting
up distributed three-tier alerting.
Continental Airlines doesn't like Linux users
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/132234
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - In an article published June 3 by TechWeb
under the title Microsoft Launches New Security Certification, a
Continental Airlines employee had some nasty things to say about Linux
users and developers.
Newsforge Newsvac
South Africa Approves OSS Strategy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/2319224
ladislav writes "South Africa is proud to be amongst the countries that
have adopted Open Source Software (OSS) policies. The improved returns
on investment associated with the elimination of licensing are exciting
and we look forward to ending maintenance agreements that lock
government into expensive long-term contracts."
I have a Linux Desktop dream
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/2218258
Anonymous Reader writes "Lasse Christiansen has a Linux desktop dream.
This lengthy opinion column at DesktopLinux.com provides Christensen's
perspective on Linux usability, application support, and more. He
surveys the current state of the Linux desktop, reviews strengths and
weaknesses, and suggests some improvements that would propel Linux onto
more systems."
Nothing can stop Linux now, says IDC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1835212
Unit sales of Linux-based servers in western Europe this year will
reach 182,000, according to analyst IDC, and the figure is set to
triple, with revenues doubling to $1.9bn by 2007.
Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1751201
After 6 months of waiting, 2.4.21 is here. Lots of cleanups, and a
patch which gives a MAJOR boost to the 'feel' of the system under heavy
disk IO, especially on IDE systems. As usual, available from your local
kernel.org mirror or ftp.COUNTRYCODE.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/!
Tidbit: 'Current bandwidth utilization 131.72 Mbit/s '.
The Brazilian Public Sector to Choose Free Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1746253
Rio de Janeiro, 2 June (EFE) The Brazilian government plans to migrate
from Windows to Linux 80% of all computers in state institutions and
state-owned businesses, informed the daily newspaper "Valor". This will
be a gradual migration, that will begin with a pilot project in one
ministry and which will be completed over a period of three years,
according to official sources cited by the financial daily.
Open Source Opportunities
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1748231
Anonymous Reader writes "Linux professionals might describe themselves
as "certified geeks." But this term is becoming more serious as IT
professionals look to organized certification and educational programs
to boost their Linux knowledge and marketability."
HP users welcome expanded OpenView line
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1720207
Hewlett-Packard Co. will take some of the vapor out of its "adaptive
enterprise management" strategy with the introduction on Monday of more
than 30 new and enhanced OpenView management products and services.
The Trillian Project : Proof of SCO's actions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1714220
So, how did Linux become so capable of scaling beyond the heights of
the old UNIXs. More importantly, who helped put what where?
Analyst who saw SCO 'evidence' says origin of code a matter of debate
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1656258
Yankee Group analyst Laura Didio is one of those who has had a look at
what the SCO Group calls evidence of its claim that code from its Unix
properties have been copied into the Linux kernel and believes that
this bolsters the company's claims.
A Few Software Names Seen Heating Up
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1612212
The software market is headed for a "modest but slow cyclical
recovery," according to Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Brian Skiba,
who slapped buy ratings on four infrastructure software names Friday.
Freshmeat
Animail 2.0-pre17 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126002/
Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail
retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on
blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to
send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves
to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular
expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is
filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.)
Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter)
as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus
extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available
delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a
command.
ArrowHead ASP Server 0.2.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125921/
ArrowHead ASP Server is a Java Servlet which supports the ASP syntax
and the VBScript programming language. It aims to support VBScript
version 3.1 and the standard set of COM objects, but has a little ways
to go yet. It is extendable using Java objects and the
Server.CreateObject syntax. It has been developed and tested under
Apache 1.3.x and Tomcat 4.x, but should run under any Java servlet
server.
avelsieve 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125972/
avelsieve is a Squirrelmail plugin for creating SIEVE scripts on a
Cyrus IMAP server that runs timsieved (Tim's SIEVE daemon). SIEVE is a
mail filtering language, intended for server-side filtering of emails.
avelsieve provides a user-friendly interface for adding and
manipulating mail filtering rules on a Cyrus IMAP mail server.
BASH Debugger 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126027/
BASH Debugger provides a patched BASH that enables better debugging
support as well as improved error reporting. It also contains the most
comprehensive source code debugger for BASH that has been written. It
can be used as a springboard for other experimental features (such as
adding hashtables), since development is maintained openly and
developers are encouraged to participate.
Click 1.3pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125888/
The "Click" modular router project is a fast, easily extended
software router. It's designed to handle all stages of IP transactions,
and includes support for packet mangling, packet scheduling, queueing,
etc.
Clustered JDBC 1.0alpha4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126006/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides
transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to
any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application
without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been
successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL,
SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
Coriander 0.99 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125985/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera
interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving,
and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV
cameras.
Covert Channel Tunneling Tool 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125974/
Covert Channel Tunneling Tool (CCTT) is a tool presenting several
exploitation techniques allowing the creation of arbitrary data
transfer channels in the data streams authorized by a network access
control system.
devlabel 0.40.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126014/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to
disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique
identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if
the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether
/dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points
the symlink to the correct data.
Directory administrator 1.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125939/
Directory administrator is a smart LDAP directory management tool. It
can be used to manage UNIX and Samba user accounts and groups in a
single sign-on setup, corporate address book information, host-based
access control and advanced email routing. It's extremely easy to
install and use, yet powerful at the same time.
elmo 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125989/
Elmo is a feature-rich console mail client for power users. It
integrates functionality commonly realised by separate pieces of
software in other mailers and competes with Mutt.
EQEmu 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126013/
The EQEMU project is an attempt to recreate the Everquest server
software, runnable from a Windows or Linux machine. Content is stored
in a MySQL database, and allows you to create custom creatures, items,
and quest content in game. Many in-game functions are supported, and
functionality is expanded week by week by a very active development
group and by the support of the user community.
Firewall Builder for PIX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125953/
Firewall Builder for PIX hides the complexity of PIX command line
interface and automatically configures options and parameters that
usually make manual configuration a real chore. With this module, the
same workstation running Firewall Builder can create and manage
security policy on Cisco PIX firewalls, as well as on firewalls built
with iptables, OpenBSD pf, or ipfilter.
Fle3 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125973/
Fle3 is a Web-based learning environment. More specifically, it is a
server program for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
The Fle3 Knowledge Building tool allows groups to carry out dialogues,
theory building, and debates by storing their thoughts into a shared
database. While knowledge building, groups may use knowledge types
(also called thinking types) to scaffold and structure their dialogues.
Fle3 WebTops can be used to store items such as files and notes,
organize them in folders, and share them with others. The Fle3 Jamming
tool is a shared space for collaborative construction of multimedia
data.
FLP-i18n 1.060
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126028/
FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for
internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces
keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary
System, and more.
g3data 1.3.0rc2 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125991/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned
graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image
formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
ggcov 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125986/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C
programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's
basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
gmencoder 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125964/
Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports three output
codecs for video (lavcodec, rawrgb, and copy) and three for audio
(lame, PCM, and copy). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale,
subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes.
gnokii 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125971/
gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It
provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be
made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and
ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the
6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110,
6110 and their derivatives.
grsecurity 2.0-pre5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126000/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements
a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of
address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via
its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, provides full-featured
auditing, and implements many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It
was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system
has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a
feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
grsecurity 1.9.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125999/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements
a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of
address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via
its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, provides full-featured
auditing, and implements many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It
was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system
has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a
feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
gtranslator 0.99 (HEAD)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126024/
gtranslator offers a comfortable, colored, and easy way to edit gettext
po files and all other flavours of po files (po.gz, mo/gmo) with many
comfortable function like find, replace, autoaccomplishment, query
capability and personal learn buffer (TM). The GUI also offers you a
very nice messages tree to see the translations grouped by status
(untranslated, fuzzy) and with customizable colors for the rows.
Guard 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125781/
Guard is a theme based on a fantasy picture found in the Net.
gURLChecker 0.5.1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125922/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web
page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each
page.
GXMame 0.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125982/
GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide
the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options.
Horgand 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125967/
Horgand is a graphical FM real time organ. It is jack capable, with DSP
effects to emulate and store organ sounds.
InfoCentral 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125988/
InfoCentral is a PHP/MySQL application to track a church congreation
(people, families, and groups) and allow Web-based administration of
the database. Users can run reports, print labels, and query the
database for specific information from any Web browser.
Integrated GUI for UPX 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125926/
Integrated GUI for UPX is a cross-platform integrated GUI for UPX that
includes minimal and advanced options.
Kavlon 10-key keyboarding wordlist database bundle 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126022/
Kavlon 10-key keyboarding wordlist database is a utility to re-map a
small set of keys to a larger set of keys and to use that mapping to
allowing fast entry of words. One of its uses is in cellphones,
allowing users to send text messages with fewer keypresses. Kavlon
10-key keyboarding wordlist database is part of the Nomad Phones
project.
Kleanux 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126004/
Kleanux is a clean theme that inherits all its colors from the active
GTK theme. It works with dark and light GTK themes.
LibTomCrypt 0.77
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125951/
LibTomCrypt is a comprehensive, modular, and portable cryptographic
toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known
published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes,
pseudo- random number generators, public key cryptography, and a
plethora of other routines. It has been designed from the ground up to
be very simple to use. It has a modular and standard API that allows
new ciphers, hashes, and PRNGs to be added or removed without change to
the overall end application. It features easy to use functions and a
complete user manual which has many source snippet examples.
LibTomMath 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125957/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
Linux 2.4.21 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126001/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux 2.5.70 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125962/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125944/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network
administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely
turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your
network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing
"bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are
easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such
as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and
time of day controls can be set.
LM-Solve 0.7.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125983/
LM-Solve is a solver for several types of the puzzles present on the
Logic Mazes site. It currently supports Alice Mazes, Number Mazes,
Plank Puzzles, Theseus and the Minotaur Mazes, and Tilt Mazes.
Lurker 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125935/
Lurker is a mailing list archiver designed for capacity, speed,
simplicity, and configurability, in that order. Noteworthy features
include: Google-style searching on all fields, chronology preserving
threads, multilingual support, and attachment support.
MagpieRSS 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125942/
MagpieRSS provides an XML-based RSS parser in PHP. Fetching the remote
RSS newfeed, parsing it, and caching the results are all transparently
supported behind a simple functional interface. It makes use of its
integrated cache, and HTTP conditional gets to stay responsive and
light-weight. RSS versions 0.9-1.0 and 2.0 are supported, including
support for namespaces and RSS 1.0 modules.
mmxmpcr 2003-06-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125998/
MMXMPCR is a kernel module and commandline program for playing the XM
Radio PCR satellite radio receiver.
Moneydance 2003 r2 (314)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125990/
Moneydance is an easy-to-use financial organizer built for the
Internet. You can use it to organize your finances so that you can get
on with the important things in life. The familiar interface makes
managing your money easy, while the advanced features give you the
ability to visually track your spending. Graphs and reports provide
financial feedback, while features such as budgeting, online banking,
and transaction reminders help you keep an eye on your money.
Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server 2.2rc1-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125965/
Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for
Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in
Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow.
Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup
Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are
available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office
document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format;
versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g.
mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies.
OBM 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125968/
OBM is an Intranet application written to help manage a company. It can
also be used as a contact and customer database or as a shared
calendar. It is written with PHP and requires MySQL to work (although
support for other databases is possible). It supports
internationalization and themes, and it includes: sales force, help
desk, time tracking, user, and administration modules.
PheTail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125642/
PheTail automatically tails an amavisd-new logfile for activity.
Whenever relevant activity is found, it is written to a SQL database.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125920/
phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP user
database, but also has EZMLM and QmailLDAP/Controls management ability.
PortaBase 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125948/
PortaBase is a database program for creating, browsing, and editing
single-table data files. Originally developed for the Sharp Zaurus
PDAs, it can also be run as a Linux, Unix, and Windows application.
Notable features include an ability to change the columns at any time,
views of column subsets, multi-column sorting, multi-condition
filtering, CSV import and export, XML import and export, and column
summary statistics. Typical uses are media inventories, reference
charts, shopping lists, TODO lists, etc.
Portal Foundation Classes 2003-06-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125950/
The Portal Foundation Classes is a J2EE 1.3 library for developing
highly interactive portal applications. It builds on the same concepts
as Swing but takes the unique nature of request/response into account,
in contrast to similar libraries. Using this library, the developer can
focus on creating valuable interfaces without spending too much time on
fundamental functionalities like rendering, layout, or validation.
PostgreSQL Table Log 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125975/
PostgreSQL Table Log contains functions that allow you to log
PostgreSQL table inserts, updates, and deletes into another table. This
can be used to recover the state of the logged table or to recover
specific rows from a given time period.
Preprocess 2003-06-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125992/
Preprocess allows you to write unit-style single-source-file C or C++
modules, from which it generates header and implementation files. It
automates tasks such as declaring new functions or methods in the
header file, putting modifiers like "inline",
"virtual", "static", "explicit" in the
right place (header or implementation file), and putting inline files
into the header file in the correct order. Also, for debugging or
profiling builds, Preprocess can optionally generate all inline
functions out-of-line.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126008/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer
user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota
administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities,
and much more.
QMBTagger 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125945/
QMBTagger is designed as a Qt frontend to the MusicBrainz client
library, allowing lookup of MP3 and Ogg files by TRM IDs (TRM libraries
from Relatable). It also allows lookup of CDs based on their TOC.
QuickRip DVD 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126016/
QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and
PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but
it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't
bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It
uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks.
Reason 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125960/
Reason is an orange theme that uses the motif engine.
RPM Finder 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125970/
RPM Finder is a utility that works much like the rpmfind.net Web site.
At the moment, Red Hat and Mandrake are supported.
Rsync Incremental Backup Script 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126011/
Rsync Incremental Backup Script (RIBS) is an incremental backup system
written using PHP, rsync, ssh, and cp. It can backup local machines and
other networked devices, and is designed to be highly configurable and
informative for system administrators. It performs a large amount of
error checking, and includes logging and email capabilities.
Run 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125918/
Run is a commandline tool and library service for controlling CPU
biasing of processes along with other per-process scheduler environment
parameters (policy, priority, time quantum, etc).
schedutils 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125941/
The Linux scheduler utilities take advantage of the scheduler family of
syscalls that Linux implements across various kernels. These system
calls implement interfaces for scheduler-related parameters such as CPU
affinity and real-time attributes. The standard UNIX utilities do not
provide support for these interfaces, thus this package. The programs
that are included in this package are chrt and taskset. Together with
nice and renice (not included), they allow full control of process
scheduling parameters. The taskset program allows manipulation of task
CPU affinity and the chrt program allows manipulation of scheduling
priority and policy.
Scraper 1.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125956/
Scraper is designed to scrape the Web for information. It is very easy
to use.
screen-scraper 0.9.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125997/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It
consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS
requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract
information from Web sites using special patterns and regular
expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and
contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be
manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can
be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual
Basic or Active Server Pages.
ScsiaddGui 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126007/
Scsiaddgui provides a graphical user interface for the Scsiadd utility,
which allows you to add or remove SCSI devices without having to
reboot.
Slideshow for Mac OS X 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125946/
Slideshow is a small, simple program for OS X to display fullscreen
slideshows without importing pictures into iPhoto. It supports manual
and automatic slideshow viewing, and will proportionally scale images
to fit the screen.
slrnconf 0.8.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126015/
With nearly all aspects covered, slrnconf eases the sometimes
complicated configuration of the newsreader SLRN by providing the
possible settings in a well-organized and user-friendly way.
Spacestation III 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125747/
Spacestation III is a theme with a matching XMMS skin and Gkrellm
theme, and three backgrounds.
Steel Icons 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125680/
Steel Icons is an icon set for KDE comprised of Steel/Silver icons with
shadows.
Sudoscript 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126005/
Sudoscript is a pair of Perl scripts (sudoscriptd/sudoshell) that
provide an audited shell using sudo.
tacshell 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125994/
tacshell is a drop-in replacement for sdshell (used with RSA's
ACE/Server) that uses the TACACS+ protocol for authentication.
The Grapevine Project 1.0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126031/
The Grapevine Project is an anonymizing peer-to-peer storage network.
It resembles the World Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to
publish and retrieve information without fear of censorship or
surveillance. It is designed to be efficient, reliable, and globally
scalable.
The Life of a Geek 0.3 (Preview)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126017/
The Life of a Geek is very silly console game in which you (a geek)
must keep a computer running until you graduate college. Surf around on
the Internet, battling hackers to gain money and better security for
your box. Drink lots of caffeine to keep yourself awake, since if you
go to sleep, you risk an attack on your computer. Save up money to take
a month-long college course and improve your education, but remember
that paying attention to schoolwork also leaves your computer open to
attack. Find a quick job for a month at places like fast-food
restaurants and grocery stores, but remember again that time away from
your computer leaves it open to attack. Virii may also appear on your
computer, weakening your computer's health points regularly until
cleaned.
Treebeard/Fangorn 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125947/
Treebeard is an XSLT IDE that allows you to load an XML file and an
XSLT file (from the Web or from the local file system), edit either
file, and then perform transformations. Some features include syntax
highlighting, a pluggable XSLT transformer, a template browser, SAX
transformations (so you can transform large files - 4MB tested),
regular expression find, and displaying transformation results in HTML
or plain text.
udpcast 20030611
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126023/
UDPCast allows to send data simultaneously to many destinations on a
local net. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms
of PCs at once. The advantage over using other methods (nfs, ftp,
whatever) is that udpcast uses Ethernet's multicast abilities: it won't
take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install 2. The tool
comes with a modified linuxrc bootdisk for easy loading of the tool.
However, udpcast can also be started from the command line of an
already installed system, and can be used for other purposes than just
system installation.
vhost 3.05r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126009/
vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables
a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle
unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and
Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a
domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most
routine administration tasks. It also has built-in
"clustering" capability.
Viking 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125943/
Viking is a GTK2-based GPS data editor and viewer. It can download and
show Terraserver maps, import and draw tracks and waypoints over them,
add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different
things, and more. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize
GPS data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data (such as
coordinate lines).
xLib 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125915/
xLib is an advanced DOM Javascript library that supports dynamic
layers, flexible menus, advanced auto-columns, simple debugging
methods, alpha state signals-and-slots, and much more.
XQF 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125979/
XQF is Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 server browser and launcher for
Linux/X11. It's a frontend to QStat, a program by Steve Jankowski. XQF
uses the GTK+. For more information, screenshots, source code,
precompiled binaries, see the XQF Homepage.
XZX-Pro 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126020/
XZX-Pro is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home
computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair), and Spectrum clones for machines
running UNIX and the X Window system. It is completely written in C,
and emulates Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion,
Didaktik, Interface I with up to 8 microdrives, Multiface 128 and
Multiface 3, Beta 128 by Technology Research Ltd. with 4 disk drives,
+D by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives, and D80 with 2 disk
drives, ZX Printer, Kempston mouse, Sinclair/Cursor/AGF/Protek/Kempston
joystick, Fuller Audio Box, and built-in Z80 machine code monitor.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Radio YourWay
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5f8f/
Computing: ThermalTake Active Memory Cooling Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6048/
Cube Goodies: Luminglass
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/362c/
Computing: ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6044/
Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6055/
Computing: ThermalTake Xaser PC Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6036/
Gadgets: Squid Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5ffb/
Interests: I'm blogging this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/
Interests: Tempt me.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5c37/
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ef3/
Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5f0b/
Gadgets: Yes Solstice
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6004/
Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5f21/
Computing: Ideazon Zboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/
Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/
Tshirts: fork agent smith
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f84/
Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f3c/
Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f79/
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