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Slashdot
The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/0514248
[0]Escape Tangent writes "The full theatrical trailer for The Matrix:
Revolutions was posted just moments ago at [1]thematrix.com. Choose
your poison, then oogle at the eyecandy. Here are links to the [2]high,
[3]medium, and [4]low resolutions. Sorry folks, Quicktime 6 only." This
trailer is much longer than the earlier TV spots, but they're still
available.
Links
0. http://`ten.aihpleda' `ta' `retipicca'
1. http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rv_cmp/trailers_rev_frames.html
2. http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med/rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov
3. http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med/rev_theatre_0x3839_480_dl.mov
4. http://progressive.warnerbros.com/thematrix/us/med/rev_theatre_0x3839_320_dl.mov
Nintendo Announces Wireless GBA Adapter
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/063208
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the Yahoo press release
announcing [0]Nintendo is using Motorola technology to produce a
wireless adapter for the GameBoy Advance. According to the release,
"The 2.4GHz radio frequency (RF) chipset enables up to five players to
play each other wirelessly, allowing for flexible, mobile game
playing", and it "...will be launched in Japan first half of 2004."
Motorola is also hosting [1]a picture of the device, showing how it
connects to the GBA.
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030926/nyf027_1.html
1. http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/graphics/detail/0,,869,00.html
XFce Desktop 4 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2331228
[0]BladeMelbourne writes "After thorough RC testing, version 4.0 of my
favourite 'lite' desktop environment has been released. Sporting purty
eye candy, [1]XFce is leaps and bounds ahead of the legacy XFce 3.8.18
release, whilst retaining it's performance. [2]Release notes are
available, as well as [3]binary and source packages. Bring that PII
back to life!" While it may not have all the bells and whistles, it's
pretty clean looking.
Links
0. http://www.mikeskinner.net
1. http://www.xfce.org/
2. http://www.xfce.org/en/final_notes_en.html
3. http://www.xfce.org/en/download.html
Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/029252
[0]chongo writes "Daniel E. Geer Jr., one of the primary authors of a
report [1]Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security, was [2]fired
from @stake Thursday morning. @stake said that 'The values an opinions
of the [3]report are not in line with @stake's views' and that Geer's
participation was 'not sanctioned.' Microsoft, who has worked closely
with @stake in the past, denied that it was involved in @stake's
decision to fire Dan." There might not be anything fishy going on at
all, but that's no reason to stop making perfectly good conspiracy
theories.
Links
0. http://www.isthe.com/chongo/index.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/2111219&tid=172
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5082649.html
3. http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf
2.6 Ton Pinball Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/133207
[0]nmoog writes "Heres something you don't see everyday - [1]The
Southtyrol-game is an 11 metre, 2.6 tonne pinball "style" machine. Its
intention? 'Provide an ironic and entertaining demonstration of how the
advent of tourism shaped the landscape and economic habits in the small
Italian province of Southtyrol.' And powered by Linux to boot. Um, as
well."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.linuxdesktop.it/benno/southtyrolgame/
Slashback: Card, Fortran, Legibility
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2350239
Slashback tonight brings you more on recent RIAA madness, the
readability of scrambled words, word of the return of Nullsoft's WASTE,
another decision against the FTC's do-not-call list, and more -- read
on for the details.
Dell Announces New Music Player, Download Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2247211
gotr00t writes "It appears that Dell Computer Corp. has [0]announced
that by the end of the year, they will have released their digital
audio player, known in short as the 'Dell DJ.' Along with the player,
there will also be a digital music download service. Looks like Dell is
also joining Apple in the consumer products category."
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030925/255413_1.html
Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/221209
[0]dan2bit writes "[1]Business Week reports that a judge in Wisconsin
handed down a summary judgement today in favor of Microsoft, defending
itself from a patent infringement suit brought by small fish
Hyperphrase over the embedding of 'Smart Tags' in Microsoft Office. The
suit also produced some [2]amusing minutiae."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5082242.htm
2. http://www.corplawblog.com/archives/000142.html
Workweek Causes Climate Changes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1856237
[0]Shipud writes "An [1] article in the [2]Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences reports that daily temperature ranges are smaller
on weekdays than on weekends. This phenomenon is strongest in the US,
but also appears in China and Japan. The researchers attribute this to
human activity, although the exact mechanism is unclear. The prime
suspect is [3] aerosol / cloud interactions. Here is the more legible
version from [4] Scientific American"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/2034034100v1
2. http://pnas.org/
3. http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/aceasia/prospectus/prospectus022601.html
4. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002C7F3-2229-1F66-905980A84189EEDF
Linux Advocacy From the Trenches
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1811225
An anonymous reader writes "Tom Adelstein, longtime Linux advocate and
consultant has spent the last year working closely with state, local,
and federal government open source software initiatives. Tom launched
Government Forge,spearheaded the Open Source bill in Texas and other
programs. Tom shares the grass roots efforts that have offered him an
insider's view of what is propelling Linux toward critical mass and the
desktop. He shares his view of Linux "from the trenches" in this
[0]interview."
Links
0. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9683428306.html
Newsforge Reports
AMD betting big pile of chips on new 64-bit processors
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/0435215
- by Chris Preimesberger - SAN FRANCISCO -- Every time Advanced Micro
Devices of Sunnyvale, Calif. comes out with a newer, faster processor,
some analyst or headline writer claims it will make or break the
company. Well, although AMD has been posting losses for two years, the
company has long since "made it," so that part isn't relevant. It has
taken many broadsides from Intel, Applied Materials, and other chipster
foes over the years and lived ...
Why Microsoft is buying Lindows for California residents
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/229203
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - At the top of the MSfreePC.com home page,
it says, "In connection with a legal settlement, you may be eligible
for a FREE PC and allowed to purchase up to $100 worth of software paid
for by Microsoftî!" The catch is that you must live in California.
And to use MSfreePC.com to collect your share of the Microsoft
antitrust settlement booty, you must accept it in the form of Lindows
products, a major piece of irony ...
And the winning Linux TV program is: tvtime
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/0120255
- by Joe Barr - If you're like me, you have used XAWTV or Xine or
similar applications for Linux over the years to watch TV at your PC.
It may have taken a little bit of tinkering, but at least you could
have live TV on your desktop. Well, I have news good news. There is a
new TV player in town. It's called tvtime, and it's a dandy. It's easy
to install, easy to use, and it works great on my old Hauppauge WinTV
card. As a special bonus, you can ...
Newsforge Newsvac
@tStake CTO loses job after Microsoft report
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/0654225
The chief technology officer of computer security firm @Stake, which
consults for Microsoft Corp., has been fired after taking part in
writing a report criticizing Windows as posing a national cybersecurity
risk, an associate said on Thursday.
But does it cause cancer?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2356236
According to a ZDNet poll, 77 percent of its readers believe that
Windows is a threat to our national security. Amazing that so many
still use it.
XFce Project releases version 4.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2231259
Jasper Huijsmans writes "XFce 4.0 has been released! The XFce Team is
pleased to announce the release of version 4.0 of the XFce Desktop
Environment and Development Platform. See the press release.
LinuxTV 2.0 STBs and SoCs pending
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2039255
German digital TV specialist Galaxis will soon ship the first set-top
box (STB) based on LinuxTV 2.0, a software stack from Convergence that
supports the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) interface. Additionally,
Galaxis revealed plans to build future LinuxTV 2.0 based STBs
incorporating a new system-on-chip (SoC) processor from Toshiba.
Businesses Face Barriers To E-Mail Upgrades
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1937225
As Microsoft and Lotus prepare updates, most big companies are running
messaging software one or two major revisions behind the maker's most
current version.
Linux Clusters Rev Up on PC Blades
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1821225
When it comes to Linux clusters, mainframes have long drawn the
largest acclaim. Now, though, scientific and technical imaging
specialists such as Paradigm and Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS) are
praising the gains they're seeing from Linux clusters on PC servers,
even without blades.
Linux from the trenches: A frank analysis of Linux as it moves toward critical mass
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/185213
Tom Adelstein, longtime Linux advocate and consultant has spent the
last year working closely with state, local, and federal government
open source software initiatives. Tom launched Government Forge, a Web
site devoted to state and local governments interested in Linux and
open source which is newly part of the Open Source Software Institute.
In November 2002, Tom initiated the legislation for Open Source
Software in Texas which resulted in ...
Tools to migrate from Exchange
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1713233
Anonymous Reader writes "Businesses can avoid a costly move from
Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 by using two migration tools that enable
them to move existing data to Samsung Contact on Linux, a media release
from Custom Technology says."
Samba steps up Linux/Windows connection
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1546222
The open-source development team Samba on Wednesday released an update
to its namesake software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux
or Unix servers.
Interview with Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1534259
linuxquestions writes "In an interview with LinuxQuestions.org Jeremy
Hogan, Manager of Community Relations at Red Hat, explains what the
Fedora project is (and isn't), the importance of OEM for Linux, how Red
Hat has managed to become profitable, what direction Red Hat is headed
in and what his take is on being called the "MS of Linux"."
Freshmeat
ActiveLink PHP XML Package 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137005/
The ActiveLink PHP XML Package provides the means to parse, read,
modify, and output XML and XML documents easily without using PHP's XML
or domXML libraries. The included classes are XML, XMLDocument
XMLBranch, XMLLeaf, Tag, Tree, Branch, Leaf, and File.
Article Manager 1.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137049/
Article Manager is a Web Content Management System which makes it easy
for non-technical users to easily update and manage articles, news
stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes support for multiple
users with different access levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted
Writers, and Writers), uploads of up to 25 images per article, a
password-protected login screen, advanced customization options,
category-specified publish locations, a powerful search engine, a
customizable database, a WYSIWYG editor, customizable HTML templates,
and much more.
Big Medium 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137001/
Big medium is an affordable, full-featured content management system
that makes it easy to manage dynamic, fast-changing Web sites. The
browser-based interface allows even the most non-technical staff to
add, edit and publish Web content without needing to learn HTML. Big
Medium empowers writers, editors, and business users to update Web
sites directly, freeing Web professionals to be more productive and
creative. It is written in Perl to run on Web servers running a UNIX
operating system.
Confirm 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137060/
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.
cpp2html 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137012/
cpp2html uses C code with preprocessor macros as its input, and creates
a hypertext view of the preprocessing. It can also enable partial macro
expansion or full C preprocessing.
DataWorkshop 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137008/
DataWorkshop is an editor to view and modify binary data. The editor
provides different views which can be used to edit, analyze, and export
the binary data. A simple hex view can be used to simulate a standard
hexeditor, but more complex dynamic views are also possible. The editor
provides powerful search and diff functionality and user-defined
transformations to modify the binary data. Views can be filtered using
the XPath query language. Views can be exported in various formats,
which can be used to convert old binary formats into modern XML tagged
data.
Design Tree 1.0 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137002/
Design Tree is a revolutionary integrated development environment (IDE)
that allows programmers to visualize source code in a new way. It was
designed from the ground up with problem solving for open source
developers in mind. Sharing code and collaborating in a visual
workspace is much more intuitive than with plain text code editors. The
drag and drop interface allows programmers to select algorithms,
concepts, and templates by simply clicking on entries in a menu.
DOLFIN 0.3.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137004/
DOLFIN is used as a platform for research in adaptive finite element
methods for PDEs at Chalmers Finite Element Center and at the
Department of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden.
FetchmailMon 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137046/
FetchmailMon is a set of tools that allows the user to monitor
fetchmail processes.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1b14 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137058/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many
benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable
on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind
firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not
overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem
lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from
your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active
continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
fingerdvd 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136992/
fingerdvd is a Python module and commandline tool which can fingerprint
a DVD and use the fingerprint to submit or retrieve disc information.
fireflier 1.1.2 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137045/
Fireflier is a firewall tool which is built on top of the iptables
framework. It allows you to create rules based on single incoming
network packets or to simply allow/deny single packets to pass. It
features a client-server approach for administering from another PC,
SSL connection between client and server, rules with timeouts (rules
are deleted after some time or when fireflier-server shuts down), and
filtering based on applications.
flp-Thumbnail 1.001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137068/
flp-Thumbnail is a set of classes for generating a thumbnail with a
logo/watermark from a picture and cacheing it to a folder.
FOX 1.1.37 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137025/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set
of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets,
and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop,
X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets,
timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a
registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or
OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix,
Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and
Sequent.
Gaim 0.69 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137072/
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN,
Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features
found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Gaim is not
endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.
GeoIRC 0.3.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137033/
GeoIRC is intended to be a stable, customizable, usable, scriptable,
and good-looking IRC client.
gluX 1.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137051/
GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It
offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions.
It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your
video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program.
At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or
not.
gm4lin 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137063/
gm4lin is a Linux driver for the serial port GM-45 and GM-10 radiation
detectors. The driver is able to handle virtually any number of
detectors connected to a single computer and to log data to the screen,
to ASCI files or to a MySQL database (local or remote). Average
activity and pulse mode with a fake RC decay are available in order to
come as close as possible to common analog radiations detectors. This
is console-only software.
Hastymail 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136990/
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).
IOzone 3.200
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137031/
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.
Jaffm 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137023/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for
Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It
is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will
have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a
simple but elegant user interface.
JavaBot TNG 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137006/
JavaBot TNG is an IRC bot. The aim of the project is to develop a bot
that performs basic channel housekeeping functions, but that is
extensible through plugins and a powerful scripting mechanism. It
features robust connection handling, the complete RFC2812 defined in
Java, an object-oriented approach, and efficient thread handling.
JCap 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136995/
JCap is a Java application for adding captions and descriptions to your
digital photograph collection and includes a search dialog for finding
photos later. It is completely self-contained; it doesn't require a
separate database application or Web server to run. Captions,
descriptions, and keywords are stored in plain text files in the same
folder as the images they describe and can be read by any application
that can read text files. The primary goals are: to help you find
photos later, to help share photos with others, and to be able to read
photo captions and descriptions thirty years from now on whatever
computer you happen to have at the time.
JNIWrapper 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137000/
JNIWrapper allows Java applications to invoke any function with any
parameters from a native code library. It support for both stdcall and
cdecl calling conventions, many data types including structures,
unions, and pointers, and callbacks with any types of parameters. It is
specially tuned for operations with large amounts of complex
native-side data, and features an extensible architecture that allows
for new data types to be implemented or existing ones customized.
JXMLPad 1.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136794/
JXMLPad is a Java component for editing XML document. It includes Java
bean usage, syntax coloration (tags, name spaces, strings, entities,
etc.), a syntax helper, a look-and-feel plugIn, a customized action
toolbar, real time tree location, syntax correction, a template for
fast creation, easy integration in your application, several standard
actions for XML usage (parse, search, comment, etc.), a standard Swing
EditorKit, real time tree text synchronization, auto tag closing, many
actions (parsing, searching, adding comments, formatting), and real
time text location. It is customizable with a property file
KDE 3.2 Alpha 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137065/
KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.
It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding
graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix
operating system. KDE is a completely new desktop, incorporating a
large suite of applications for Unix workstations. While KDE includes a
window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other
components that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop
environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in
the interoperability of its components.
Key Netplug 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137054/
Netplug is a Linux daemon that manages network interfaces in response
to network cables being plugged in and out. If you're familiar with
Windows XP, which just does the Right Thing when you plug an ethernet
cable into a laptop, netplug will need no further explanation.
Basically, netplug brings up an interface and runs a DHCP client when a
cable is plugged into that interface, and it brings the interface down
when the cable is unplugged. On a typical Linux system or laptop, you
have to run a command (such as "/sbin/ifup") manually to
handle these events, but netplug automates this for you.
KOffice 1.3 beta 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137028/
KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE libraries.
KOffice currently includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, Kontour,
Karbon14, KFormula, Kugar, and Kivio. There are no special mail and
news clients included in KOffice, because there are KMail and KNode
available for KDE anyway. All KOffice components work together, and you
can embed every KOffice component into any other KOffice component.
This is realized using the KParts object model.
Konstruct 20030925 (Unstable KDE)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137066/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and
applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs,
checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and
installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as
"cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install
additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example,
"cd apps/koffice;make install").
KRconLinux 0.1RC5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137062/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like
Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It
features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an
(incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to
interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the
available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings
via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating
and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and
changing server variables.
kShowmail 3.0.6-beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137035/
kShowmail is a KDE tool for watching for email on POP3 servers. Headers
and complete email messages can be displayed, and email can be deleted
without downloading. Filters can be assigned to detect known spam by
header fields, and marked email messages can be deleted automatically.
The information can be refreshed via timers, and a sound can be played
when new email arrives. External programs like fetchmail/sendmail can
be called via configurable menu entries or if new mail arrives. Spam
complaints can also be sent via configurable menus.
libchron 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137017/
libchron is a compact, simple C library for manipulating date and time
values. Many date formats are supported. Non-English month names and
weekday names may be used. It can be used to convert date formats and
to perform date and time arithmetic.
libtc 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137027/
Libtc is a collection of useful functions for C programming. It
includes implementations of linked list, hash table, red-black tree,
and priority queue. There is also a flexible configuration file parser
and some other odds and ends. All functions are totally reentrant and
thread safe.
LinSMS 04.08.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137052/
LinSMS allows you to send SMS to Spanish mobile phones from Linux.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 3.0 (Guide)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137067/
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 can be configured to target specific
applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. It also comes with denial of
service protection and a special reservation system for voice and video
traffic QOS.
Log to Map 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137043/
LogToMap is a tool which takes an access log and produces a geographic
map, shading each country in relation to the number of visitors who
live there.
Logrep 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137056/
Logrep is a secure multi-platform framework for the collection,
extraction, and presentation of information from various log files. It
features HTML reports, multi-dimensional analysis, overview pages, SSH
communication, and graphs, and supports 18 popular systems including
Snort, Squid, Postfix, Apache, Sendmail, syslog, iptables/ipchains,
xferlog, NT event logs, Firewall-1, wtmp, Oracle listener, and Pix.
Lucane 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137034/
Lucane is a free groupware platform written in Java, designed with
extensibilty in mind. Some applications are bundled with the platform,
like a peer to peer quick message service, client/server and peer to
peer file sharing, multi-user chat, and forums. The platform as a whole
provides easy development for your networked applications with an
object based network protocol, client/server and peer to peer
integration, user and groups management, internationalization, and
more.
macstl 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137044/
MacSTL is a C++ source library which offers an implementation of
std::valarray which is optimized for the Altivec instructions found on
newer Macintosh computers. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is
almost 2x faster than gcc's STL, due to the ruthless weeding out of
redundant loads and stores. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial
specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses
the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues
when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result,
std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without
the same overheads.
MacXM 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136991/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM
radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
MasarLabs NoArp 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136999/
MasarLabs NoArp is a Linux kernel module that filters and drops
unwanted ARP requests. It is useful when you need to add an alias to
the loopback interface to use a load balancer.
moftpd 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137030/
moftpd is a powerful FTP server supporting IPv6, virtual hosts, fine
grained permissions, TLS, and much more.
Native SVG from Mozilla Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136890/
SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology:
among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and
gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary
paths, text, and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash is that
it is a W3 recommendation (i.e., a standard for all intents and
purposes) and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary
format. It is explicitly designed to work with other W3C standards such
as CSS, DOM, and SMIL. The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG
implementation; it can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML,
XHTML, XUL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.
Natural Docs 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137048/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
neon 0.24.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137042/
neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library for Unix systems, with a C
language API. It provides high-level interfaces to HTTP/1.1 and WebDAV
methods, and a low-level interface to HTTP request/response handling,
allowing new methods to be easily implemented.
Octopus Java/XML ETL tool 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136993/
Octopus is a simple Java-based Extraction, Transformation, and Loading
(ETL) tool. It can connect to any JDBC data source and perform
transformations defined in an XML file. Many different types of
databases can be mixed (MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, QED, JDBC-ODBC with Excel
and Access, MySQL, CSV, and XML). It supports Ant and JUnit for
creating databases and tables and extracting and loading data during a
build or test process.
onis not irc stats 0.4.0 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137029/
Onis is a script that converts IRC logfiles into an HTML statistics
page. It provides information about daily channel usage and user
activity. It provides a configurable customization and supports
perlbot, eggdrop, and mIRC.
OS-SIM 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137011/
OSSIM pretends to unify network monitoring, security, correlation, and
qualification in one single tool. It combines Snort, Acid, HotSaNIC,
NTOP, OpenNMS, nmap, nessus, and rrdtool to provide the user with full
control over every aspect of networking or security.
runsol 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137019/
runsol is the XML bootloader of Server optimized Linux, and is executed
by init as given in inittab. It launches all programs in the given
level.
Samba 3.0.0 (3.0.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137050/
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and
printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is
sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
sc68 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137064/
sc68 is a full Atari ST(E) and Amiga music emulator with a large
collection of music files. It is available for Windows as a Winamp
plugin and for GNU/Linux (and others) as an XMMS plugin and as a
commandline player.
Simulacra Image Gallery 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136770/
Simulacra is a PHP-based image gallery that provides simple, yet
elegant looking HTML 4.01 documents. In addition to images, it displays
MP3, MPG, and AVI files, and media formats can be customized to your
liking. It features basic and advanced style sheet editing capabilities
within a built-in administration system. Captions are stored in files.
A database server is not required.
SlackPkg 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137040/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux.
It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or
upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide),
and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a
replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
SmoothWall 2.0 beta 6 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136989/
SmoothWall is a popular Internet Security software package (based on
Linux) offering automated modem/advanced ISDN autoprobing, ethernet
ADSL/cable, USB ADSL (Alcatel Speed Touch Home only in 1.x; additional
support for USR, Fuji, ECI, etc in 2.x), and multiple ethernet card
support within 5 minutes of install. Web managed and with full
facilities normally only seen in expensive commercial offerings, it
also offers SSH, DHCP, and full firewall logging and auditing
functionality.
snortalog 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137007/
Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making
it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate
charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort,
and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort
alerts.
Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.7-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137026/
Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery
metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs,
which are referred to as "spells".
SpamFilters 2003092401
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137074/
SpamFilters is a collection of rulesets that expand on sendmail's
anti-spam facilities. These rulesets inspect the "To",
"From", "Reply-To", "Received",
"Subject", and SpamAssassin's "X-Spam-Status" email
headers, and reject email based on their contents.
Speakhtml 1.0c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137018/
Speakhtml is an HTML generator written in Scheme. It provides easy to
use hooks to make use of Scheme in preparing any type of static content
with abitrary complexity. Although using the Scheme programming
language gives developers great power in designing HTML, it is
perfectly possible generating Websites with Speakhtml without using or
even knowing Scheme.
squeezer 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136779/
squeezer is a Web content engine with a very flexible core. It features
commands that work in a manner comparable to plug-ins and output
filters that are like interceptors in Java. It is possible to feed
squeezer-content with content from other applications.
Stani's Python Editor 0.1.7.g
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137059/
Spe is a Python IDE with auto-indentation, auto-completion, call tips,
syntax coloring, syntax highlighting, a class explorer, a source index,
an auto todo list, sticky notes, an integrated pycrust shell, a Python
file browser, a recent file browser, drag & drop, context help, and
more. It has special blender support, with a blender 3D object browser
and its ability to run interactively inside blender. Spe is extensible
with boa.
sud 1.2c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137010/
sud (superuser daemon) permits a user to switch to root privileges and
to use a suid program in a nosuid environment. It is based on a
client/server model and on the ability to pass file descriptors between
processes. sud permits you to choose your authentication method, and
your effective credentials will be checked by using a Unix domain
socket.
SwenDeleter 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136994/
SwenDeleter tries to identify email messages infected with the Swen
worm in POP3 mailboxes and delete them on the server. It applies some
heuristics to the headers and size of the messages, in order to avoid
downloading the actual email, thus making retrievals less taxing. It
has both interactive and nonstop modes.
Tablix 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137041/
Tablix is a high school timetable generator. It uses a coarse-grained
parallel genetic algorithm to construct sensible timetables from
XML-formated school information files. It can run on a single host as
well as on a heterogenous parallel virtual machine using PVM. Its
features include a number of possible restrictions for teachers or
classes, HTML-formatted output, and configurable genetic parameters.
TCVP 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137038/
TCVP is a modular and configurable audio and video player, transcoder,
and streamer. Most popular file formats and codecs are supported. It
can be used from the commandline or with a GUI. A flexible skin-based
GUI is supplied, as well as a converter for xmms/winamp skins.
The Distributed Library Project 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136954/
The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's
books and videos. It is an experiment in creating community and sharing
information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest
enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users
are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by
proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is
available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an
eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books
on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return
them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall
"score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of
a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and
collaboritve filtering.
Ultra-Performance UDPForwarder 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137016/
UDPForwarder listens on multiple ports to forward incoming UDP
datagrams from clients to the corresponding server and forwards the
server's response back to the client. This works 100% transparently, so
clients think they are talking to the forwarder and the server does not
notice the clients' real IP. It was initially designed to work as a
transparent relay for online game traffic (static routing). It might be
useful for hiding IPs or tricking firewalls. Its motivation and
advantage over existing tools is its uncompromising focus on
performance, which is crucial when dealing with hundreds and thousands
of datagrams per second without allowing any rise in response time.
UnNaTuRaL 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137032/
UnNaTuRaL is a platform-independent role-playing engine. It was named
for the "UnNaTuRaL laws" of infinite individual user-created
worlds. These detailed worlds are built entirely from resource files
(simple, easy-to-read text-files) which control the language of the
user interface, the terrain of the world, and its creatures, conflicts,
and encounters.
Verbiste 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137014/
Verbiste is a French conjugation system implemented as a C++ library, a
GNOME applet, and two command-line tools. It can conjugate verbs and
analyze conjugated verbs to determine their mode, tense, and person.
The knowledge base contains over 6800 verbs.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137070/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
the Internet.
Vrcon 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136998/
Vrcon is a Curses-based rcon utility that allows admins to quickly
administer game servers. It lets them view players, ban/kick players,
change maps, view logs in real time, and more.
Warsaw Pakt 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137015/
Warsaw Pakt is a software system for network-controlled media
processing applications. It consists of a library for serialization of
GObjects to XML, network components for publishing and accessing object
spaces via multiple access methods, a gstreamer daemon (pgstd) and an
access shell program (pash). Its main purpose is to allow you to set up
arbitrary gstreamer graphs on a local or a remote system, and modify
the graph's parameters while running.
white_dune 0.25beta94 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137013/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality
Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the
Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime
interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read
VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields,
and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if
configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has
support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo
visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball,
or magnetic tracker.
xfce 4.0.0 (xfce4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137069/
Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11 based
on GTK2. A priority is adherence to standards, specifically those
defined at freedesktop.org.
xlcleaner & xlcells 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137020/
xlcleaner & xlcells are utilities for working with
Excel/spreadsheet tab-delimited export files. xlcleaner cleans up
anomalies often present in Excel/spreadsheet tab-delimited export
files. It rounds numerics to reasonable precision, removes trailing
empty fields, and inserts a missing data code for blank cells. xlcells
extracts values from a Excel/spreadsheet tab-delimited export file
using spreadsheet address notation, such as C12.
XML Indent 0.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137071/
XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is
analogous to GNU indent.
xml2var 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137024/
xml2var is an XML file parser which converts XML tags to shell
variables. It is a part of the Serer optimized Linux System Tools.
Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.7.1 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137057/
"yaala" parses logfiles and generates very detailed
statistics in HTML format. The information one will get can be selected
by using SQL-like expressions, which provide filtering with relational
operators (like equal, greater than, less than) as well as regular
expressions. It includes input parsers for the Common Log Format (e.g.
Apache's access logs), NCSA logs (e.g. Apache's combined logs), Squid
access logs, the xferlog format (used by FTP daemons), bind9's query
logs, and postfix entries in the maillog.
Zebedee 2.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137003/
Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed
tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. This allows
traffic such as telnet, FTP, and X to be protected from snooping as
well as potentially gaining performance over low-bandwidth networks
from compression.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: R/C Shooting Battle Tanks
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Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek White or Black Hacker Hats
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Cube Goodies: SuperMag - Magnetic Genius
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6266/
Cube Goodies: The Great Circle Challenge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6397/
Books: Masters Of Doom
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/63ab/
Computing: Auravision Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/62e3/
PC Mods: CoolerMaster Aerogate II
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/6411/
PC Mods: CoolerMaster Musketeer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/640c/
PC Mods: MSI Mega PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6306/
Gadgets: Ultimate Toolkit
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Gadgets: Sidewinder Cell Phone Charger
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6383/
Gadgets: Computer Microscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/633f/
Interests: Soothing Green Light
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Interests: News w/ Nerd Slant
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Interests: Mainline Geek Culture
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Interests: Volatile Hyperlinkage
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Electronics: Nikon Coolpix SQ
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/63af/
Computing: 2-Port Integrated KVM Switch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62f2/
Gadgets: X-Linx 2-Way Personal Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/6316/
Computing: Logitech Internet Chat Headset
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/6326/
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