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July 04, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/0521245
An anonymous reader writes "Free-X have released an [0] exploit for the
Xbox that will let you get Linux on the machine without any hardware
mods at all... Microsoft is already [1]threatening them with legal
action. Here's the [2]Free-X statement. Free-X say they had been trying
to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've
released the exploit. Should be interesting to watch this one."
Links
0. http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html
1. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20275965-1,00.htm
2. http://www.maxconsole.com/?topic=news&sys=all&article=230
dB Drag Racing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/144236
Exedore writes "For a paltry $80,000 outlay, you too can fight back
against the punk kids blasting gangsta rap from their Honda Civics.
Enter the strange (and rather loud) world of [0]dB Drag Racing and join
a small group of dedicated competitors in their quest for the loudest
car sound system possible. The numbers: 130,000 watts output, 177dB,
10,000 lbs. of equipment (including the vehicle and all the sound
insulation needed to protect those nearby). It might not be quite up to
[1]Disaster Area standards, but it's not far off."
Links
0. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,460648,00.html
1. http://www.connix.com/~akricci/hgttg/guide_details_DisasterArea.html
Melamine Ceiling Tiles and the Quiet PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2323210
Delta Screemer writes "What good are ceiling tiles when it comes to
making a computer quieter? Well, Max Page of [0]FrostyTech has [1]found
a use for 'Melamine Foam Sound Absorbing Ceiling Tiles' as a cheap way
of lowering the noise a computer produces. By lining the insides of a
computer with these $3 24"x24" industrial office panels he was able to
quiet a computer by several dBA. That may not sound like much (pun
intended), but when you compare the price of these melamine foam panel
to products like [2]Dynamat the price difference is substantial."
Links
0. http://www.frostytech.com/
1. http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=982
2. http://www.dynamat.com/
World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2216225
[0]BenFranske writes "The World Radiocommunications Conference [1]will
allow a portion of spectrum in the 5GHz band to be used for WLANs, a
decision hailed as a 'defining moment' for the WLAN industry. Although
this doesn't impact the US much as this spectrum is already being used
for wireless networking here, this will help standardize the
frequencies worldwide."
Links
0. http://ben.franske.com
1. http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82727,00.html?nlid=PM
Ink More Expensive Than Champagne
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2037207
laing writes "According to [0]this story, ink for home printers is now
seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.Ink in a typical
replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with
1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre." Explains why I get daily spam
about toner, but none at all for booze!
Links
0. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5590282?source=Evening%20Standard
Laptops Outsell Desktops in Retail Stores
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/186258
TechnoPope writes "According to [0] this article on MSNBC.Com, laptop
computers accounted for 54 percent of of 500 Million in retail computer
sales last year. Also mentioned was that LCD's outsold CRT's in retail
as well. "
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/934120.asp?0dm=C18MT
Microsoft Patenting IM Translation?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1759201
[0]theodp writes "The USPTO just published Microsoft's patent
application for a [1]Method and system for translating instant
messages, in which the software giant demonstrates how an
English-speaking sender can type 'Hi' in an IM and it will be
translated to 'Hola' for a Spanish-speaking recipient."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030125927%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030125927&RS=DN/20030125927
Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0039200
andy brunetto asks: " We are investigating email clients to deploy as
our "standard" at the college where I work. I'm trying to find out who
is using Mozilla for their email. When I say "who" I mean
organizationally, as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it. What
organizations out there are rolling out Mozilla as their standard web
and/or email client, and why? Yes, we are considering using
Thunderbird, once it is final. Thanks!" Hopefully this will make
companies realize that the Internet isn't comprised of just IE users.
Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1441203
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy,
and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest
follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting
immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at [0]ThinkGeek, as well as
3 copies of of their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me.
Links
0. http://www.thinkgeek.com
Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1639249
Kong99 writes "A group at UC-Berkeley has proposed [0]Soft Walls to
stop hijacked planes from entering a protected airspace. Interesting
read especially since they claim it is 'hack' proof."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993893
Newsforge Reports
Dear Microsoft resellers: It's time to look at Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2322205
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - We've been seeing stories lately
indicating that Microsoft is beefing up its direct sales staff and
relying less on independent resellers. If you're one of those
resellers, it looks like it's time for you to start offering Linux and
Free/Open Source solutions in addition to the Windows-based ones on
which you've based your business in the past, if only in self-defense.
Chances are, you and your clients will like ...
Fight spam with the DNS, not the CIA
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0347225
- by John Fitzgibbon - It seems like spam is in the news every day
lately, and frankly, some of the proposed solutions seem either
completely hare-brained or worse than the problem itself. I'd like to
reiterate a relatively modest proposal I first made over a year ago:
Require legitimate DNS MX records for all outbound email servers.
Hosed by application software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/27/1939214
- by Lee Schlesinger - When I pulled out my garden hose at the end of
the winter, I found it was kinky and cracked, and let little sprays of
water shoot out in odd places. ("Like its owner," my wife says.) It
still did its job, mostly, but I can't say I'm really happy with it.
Which brings us to application software. I've been trying a number of
programs lately that allow clients to communicate with each other, and
I've been tearing my hair out ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Would Microsoft Open Sourcing NT be Linux's Nemesi
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2113210
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it
should now release its source code to the open-source community in
order to fight off the challenge from Linux, Munir Kotadia claims.
OSNews debunks the suggestion and explains that it wouldn't make
business sense for Microsoft."
Back to BASIC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2021257
Few languages have been as popular over the years as BASIC. Until
about a decade ago, almost every programmer cut his teeth learning
BASIC. Indeed, the name itself came from Beginner's All Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code. If you've had BASIC training, can you find a
familiar flavor that runs under Linux? Because it is not enough to find
a good BASIC language implementation for Linux; one must find a BASIC
language variant that approximates ...
Linux v Microsoft: the battle for hearts and servers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2019255
Storage on demand is a new concept that will help organisations
maximise the value of their information assets. Find out how IBM on
demand technologies like storage virtualisation and autonomic computing
could help your company reduce costs and exploit enterprise data to the
full.
Athene 3.1 Puts a New Face on Desktop Computing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1959240
Rocklyte Systems writes "Rocklyte Systems is pleased to announce the
latest version of its free multi-platform operating system environment,
Athene 3.1. Available for Linux and Windows, Athene supports the rare
ability of being able to function on competing operating systems, while
also maintaining its own independent OS infrastructure (the Athenyx
2003 CDROM series). The 3.1 release of Athene continues to make
significant gains in the ...
ING Canada to Embrace Linux in Network Upgrade
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1918204
Financial services firm ING Canada is now among the latest enterprise
networks to embrace open-source operating system Linux as part of a
wide-ranging plan to upgrade its Internet-based operations.
Playing with disaster could save lives for real
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1833230
In a major disaster, it's one thing being able to put out fires
efficiently and deal with medical emergencies on the spot, but you have
to get your emergency vehicles there first.
EC funds project to promote Open Source in embedded systems
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1728236
The European Commission (EC) has funded a project to promote the
adoption of Open Source software, including Linux, in embedded systems.
The project, known as Industrial Embedded Systems (INES), was funded by
the European Community's Fifth Framework Programme for research,
technological development, and demonstration activities. The initiative
is investing in twenty-three "key actions," and the INES project is
part of key action 4.2.4, ...
The Age: Samsung releases Contact client for Mac
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1639200
Anonymous Reader writes "Samsung has released a version of its desktop
mail user client for the Mac OS X,... Samsung Contact is a HP
OpenMail-based alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. It is used on
Linux and Unix platforms."
Software that makes you say Ahhhh!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1629252
Anonymous Reader writes "Lets face it, I love using Linux. I'm not a
new comer to the world of Open source nor to Linux itself. As a fairly
seasoned user, I enjoy the Linux shell terminal and the wonders of
bash, awk, grep, egrep. I feel a greater sense of efficiency when in
the terminal and dealing with administration tasks. However I too enjoy
my Linux desktop. And when running on the desktop I too (like many
people) enjoy a solid, complete ...
Ah, the 4th of July. Hotdogs, apple pie, fireworks ... and hacking?!?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/163257
While most Americans will spend the holiday weekend relaxing, a band
of hackers may or may not be trying to prove who's the best cyber
villain, according to warnings from private and government security
officials.
Freshmeat
aiSee 2.1.88 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128157/
aiSee reads a textual, easy-to-read, and easy-to-learn graph
specification and automatically calculates a customizable graph layout.
This layout is then displayed, and can be printed or interactively
explored. aiSee features 15 basic graph layout algorithms (including
force-directed layout), recursive subgraph nesting, fish-eye views, and
an animation interface. It has been optimized to handle huge graphs
automatically generated by applications (e.g. compilers).
Amrita VPN 0.97-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128150/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the
GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and
requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong
encryption and authentication.
audio recording server 2.2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128200/
erec is a tool program for recording raw audio stream from the
soundcard. Multiple instances of erec can be running at the same time
sharing the same audio device. It works as a frontend to the audio
device for programs wishing to listen at the same time.
brinance 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128186/
Brinance is a commandline financial planning and tracking program,
hoping to be a functional replacement for something overly complicated
like GnuCash for those who prefer the commandline. It is written in
simple Perl and has a few advanced features, such as scheduling
transactions in the future and having as many accounts as one might
care to have.
Build it Fast 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128167/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes
that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of
time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It
features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128133/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the
STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic
strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types
along with threads, synchronization primitives, and IP sockets. It is
portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample
HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
Calendario Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128162/
Calendario Class is a PHP class that helps you to create calendar and
organizers. It's highly configurable, letting you choose how many days
are in a week, when a week starts, the details of the HTML output, and
so on. It also knows about holidays.
Confirm 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128185/
Confirm is an email challenge-response system which virtually
eliminates all unsolicited email. It is written in C and procmail, and
is easily customized. Unsolicited email is checked against valid
sender/recipient headers; unauthorized email is held pending a one-time
confirmation reply from the sender.
Crimson Fields 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128054/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations
to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available
to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can
be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
CWirc 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128136/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code
over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted
Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients
with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio
rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can
listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code
is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial
port, and the sound is played through the soundcard.
Date::Manip 5.42a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128202/
Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations
such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time
from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The
library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think
of rather than those operations used routinely by computers.
DSPAM 2.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128156/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
dutchtpl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128139/
dutchtpl is a PHP-based template parser which supports multiple
templates and subtemplates at the same time. It also has a lot of other
handy functions like caching and a parse all function.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128143/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web
applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think
in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to
develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and
event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of
HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers,
and full API documentation are available.
Effort: Zero Franchise Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128198/
The Effort: Zero Franchise Manager (EZFM) is a set of PHP files
designed to minimize the effort needed to create a website for a Madden
2003 PC Franchise. One of the modes offered by Madden 2003 PC is the
"Franchise" mode which allows you to play and manage a team
over multiple seasons. This program aim to reduce some of the busywork
by automatically generating Web pages to display the information
contained in the Stat Files, and in a consistent and appealing manner.
ego file manager 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128171/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for
its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
eXtented SErver Grapher 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128144/
xseg (eXtented SErver Grapher) is a server monitoring tool. It can
check whether your server's services are alive. Its output is written
to an HTML file. xseg can check the services on both local and remote
machines. xseg can also run user-defined shell commands and write the
stdout of these commands to an output file. This makes xseg very
flexible, since you can write your own shell scripts and xseg will run
them and capture their output.
Fink 0.5.3 CVS_SNAP-20030307 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128161/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source
software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it
compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a
coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to
provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you
want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from
source.
GCalc 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128128/
GCalc is a well-rounded mature implementation of a graphing calculator,
featuring a complete set of often- used functions. It has many
convenient features such as predefined zooms and tracing. But it's
small, making it reasonable to host on a Web site for download.
GNU Development Environment 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128174/
The GNU Development Environment (GNUDE) is a complete suite of GNU
C/C++, Fortran, Java cross compilers, and the GDB simulator/debugger
for embedded microprocessor application development.
Grassy Plain 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128164/
Grassy Plain is a landscape theme. The original background is by
americanpsycho (Pat Bateman) and was modified by Xeon Inc.
Gridlock 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128155/
Gridlock is a collection of grid-based board games for GNUstep,
including Ataxx, Reversi, Gomoku, Connect Four, Breakthrough, and Glass
Bead. You can play against another person or computer opponents of
varying difficulty.
GtkAda 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128129/
GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows you to
develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and Gnome.
GWorkspace 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128145/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of
NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
Hastymail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128122/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP
client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and
reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a
useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away
from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is
required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text
based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
Impact 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128175/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
JACK Rack 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128190/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports
MIDI control, arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the
LADCCA session management system.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128152/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into
features and allows those features to be tied together independently,
creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and
executed against different environments. The goal is to create an
automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that
ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test
script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
JBoss 4.0 DR 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128138/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans
application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides
JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ
for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS
transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA
connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with
Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container,
and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by
replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation
for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the
Free/Open Source software world.
John the Ripper 1.6.34 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128163/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for
many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting
different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary
purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3)
password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix
flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes.
Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Kadu 0.3.4rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128097/
Kadu is a KDE client for Gadu-Gadu, a Polish messenger application
similar to AIM or ICQ. It's based on libgadu, a reverse-engineered Unix
API for Gadu-Gadu, and implements most features of the original.
Kodo JDO 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128197/
Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements
instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard
for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of
the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools
for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from
an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and
statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It
supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and
reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%.
KXParse 2.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128153/
KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does
not require installation because it's just an include file that's
loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of
reading files.
Leverlåda 2.6.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128148/
Leverlåda is an X-Chat script to retrieve files from FSERVE bots
running on IRC. This script is useful when lots of fserves are offering
something and you get bored of waiting and hitting a zillion triggers.
In addition, fserves tend to come and go capriciously, and their queues
are usually full. Leverlåda tries to automate the processes of
locating and receiving files, enabling you to spend your time on
something more useful.
lfwmail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128160/
lfwmail is a lightweight webmail program. It will run with acceptable
speed even on a Pentium 100Mhz Linux mailserver. It has just basic
features and no calendar or folders, but it is fully MIME capable and
can handle attachments. It is also very secure when you use https
encryption. It converts HTML messages to ASCII for security reasons,
but you can still see the HTML versions if you want. The code is clean
and structured. The installation is straightforward and doesn't require
a lot of non-standard modules.
libferris 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128168/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libparportled 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128131/
libparportled is intended to control a LED device plugged into a
parallel port.
LinPopup 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128121/
LinPopUp is a GTK port of Winpopup, running over Samba. It permits
communication with a Windows-running computer that runs Winpopup,
sending or receiving messages. Please note that LinPopUp is not only a
port, as it includes several enhanced features like it doesn't need to
run permanently, full message base management, can be run minimized,
full message editor capabilities, clipboard cut&paste,
documentation, etc.
Linux 2.5.74 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128141/
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.
Lurker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128182/
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.
Megamek.NET 0.323
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128189/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become
commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a
minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight
against other players online. The game's community is already quite
large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025
timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
miASMa 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128178/
miASMa is a powerful 2 pass macro assembler for x86 machines that
generates relocatable object Files that conform to the ELF format. It
uses LEX/YACC for scanning and parsing of the source file, unlike most
other assemblers which use customized routines. It is supported with
extensive documentation that can serve as an introduction to
understanding assemblers in general as well as understanding the ELF
Format. It is bundled with example assembly language programs which can
help one better understand the syntax used by it (which closely
resembles MASM).
migrate-me 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128011/
migrate-me migrates users' mail boxes from an Exchange server to a
Linux mail server using the Maildir format. With the help of imapsync.
It has only been tested by migrating accounts from Exchange 5.5 using
the IMAP protocol to a courier-imap server, but it should work with any
IMAP to IMAP migration. It features a single mode and a batch mode and
a simple menu interface.
Minibar Drink Guide 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128191/
Minibar is a bartending application for PalmOS. It includes a database
of over 100 mixed drink recipes and filters for searching by drink and
ingredient type.
MP3Gain 1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128127/
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same
volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do.
Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the
file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes
are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because
the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and
re-encoding.
nb++ 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128154/
nb++ is a nuts-and-bolts C++ toolkit. It includes classes for basic
operating system features such as sockets, threads and regular
expressions, along with threading strategies, a framework for writing
daemons and tools for reference counting and event dispatching. Special
attention has been given to thread safety. There is an emphasis on
supporting Unix idioms.
OpenInteract 1.99_01 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128159/
OpenInteract is an extensible Web application server written in pure
Perl. It includes a robust system of components, object-oriented data
access, a consistent security scheme for both tasks and data objects, a
simple user and group management system, and a convenient packaging
system that makes it easy to distribute custom applications, amongst
other things. It is stable, and runs out of the box on five different
databases.
Oralux 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128176/
Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired
people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio
desktop replaces the graphical user interface.
Panoptis 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128169/
Panoptis is a tool to detect and stop DoS/DDoS attacks. It relies on
data provided by NetFlow-enabled routers, and includes functionality to
cooperate with other "Panoptis" detectors in order to trace
the attack back to its source.
pkdump 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128140/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from
foreign hosts over the Internet.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128137/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a
host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl
backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
reciteword 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128126/
reciteword is education software developed using GTK 2 to help people
study English and recite English words. It has a very beautiful
interface to make reciting words an interesing thing. It can change
skins, and comes with many sound events, including over 400 books for
you to choose. It also includes a dictionary, which can also run
separately.
RFC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128170/
RFC (Remote Filesystem Checker) is a set of scripts that aims to help
system administrators run a filesystem checker (like tripwire, aide,
etc.) from a "master-node" to several "slave-nodes"
using ssh, scp, sudo, and few other common shell commands.
RSSCreator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128158/
RSSCreator is a PHP class that provides an easy way to create RSS feeds
from within PHP. RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0 are supported.
Samba Make Logon Script 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128125/
Samba Make Logon Script is a shell script to produce Windows logon
scripts with Samba.
ServoMaster 0.6p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128192/
ServoMaster is a project dedicated to providing a consistent hardware
independent way of controlling R/C servos with a personal computer.
SKYRiX Web Groupware 4.1pl11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128187/
SKYRiX Web Groupware is a set of Web-based applications for contact,
appointment, project, and content management. It is comparable to
Exchange and SharePoint portal servers. SKYRiX servers run on almost
any Linux system, can synchronize with Palm PDAs and are completly
scriptable using XML-RPC.
Struts 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128184/
Struts is a Jakarta project that provides a J2EE framework for building
Web applications. It is based on a Model 2 approach, a variant of MVC.
Struts provides its own Controller component and integrates with other
technologies to provide the Model and the View. For the Model, Struts
can interact with any standard data access technology, including
Enterprise Java Beans, JDBC, and Object Relational Bridge. For the
View, Struts works well with JavaServer Pages, Velocity Templates,
XSLT, and other presentation systems.
TN3270 Resource Gateway 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128165/
TN3270RG is a TCP/IP TN3270 gateway that dynamically assigns resources
to a connection from a pool of available addresses. Features include an
easy to use Web interface for management and a PostgreSQL database
backend.
Turck MMCache for PHP 2.3.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128142/
Turck MMCache is a PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases
performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that
the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses
some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically
reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times.
It is tested with PHP 4.1.0-4.3.2, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux
and Windows.
tvlisting 2.0.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128130/
tvlisting is a Perl script that retrieves and displays the TV listing
from the Internet. It currently uses tvguide.com as the source of the
listings. This script can output the listing as text, HTML, LaTeX, and
Xawtv. It can also be used as a CGI script with HTML output.
Veejay 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128199/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in
concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video
samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback
speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing
back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes
direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video
samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease
playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain
of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what
you are doing.
vshnu 1.0115
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128193/
Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as
an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is
handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command
assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling. Written
in Perl for portability and high configurability, it also provides the
advantages of a Perl interpreter as part of your Unix shell
environment.
WebShop 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128181/
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It
includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as
well as a sample servlet/JSP implementation of a shop.
WebUtils 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128179/
WebUtils is a Java library and toolkit for making the development of
Web portals much more rapid and routine. It provides generic styles of
reporting and look-and-feel, database connectivity, and much more.
Youhp3 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128151/
Youhp3 (Youpee's One Unlimited HTML PreProcessor) is an HTML
preprocessor that allows you to embed code of any script language, as
well as calling any external program to generate text files. It is
specifically designed to work with HTML/XML documents, and provide
traditional features, such as define, include, macro, conditional
tests, and loop.
Thinkgeek
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/
Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/
Cube Goodies: I Brake For LAN Parties Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fbe/
Cube Goodies: geek. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f96/
Interests: Megatokyo Bumper Sticker 3-pack
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5fc2/
Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fa6/
Cube Goodies: hacker. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f9e/
Cube Goodies: Killer coding ninja monkeys Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5faa/
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
Caffeine: Jolt Gum - Spearmint Office Fishbowl
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/612a/
Gadgets: Biometric Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5f11/
Gadgets: Boostaroo Portable Amplifier
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/3399/
Gadgets: Mathmos Space Projector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/600c/
Tshirts: geek.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/6111/
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