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Slashdot
Windows Media Player 9
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/138200
[0]captainclever writes "[1]The Register has an interesting [2]article
about the posibilities for WMP Clients for Linux. Would anyone want to
use MS WMP in Linux?" See also a [3]news.com story.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
2. http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28755.html
3. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979398.html
Shirky: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0316220
[0]cshirky writes "A persistent criticism of open source is that it is
more about copying features than creating new ones. While this
criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is richer on the
subject of debugging than design. I've written [1]an article about Ben
Hammersley's [2]LazyWeb.org, wondering whether open source methods plus
RSS distribution can do for feature requests what open source already
does for bug fixes, namely parallelize the problem in ways not
available to closed source development methods."
Links
0. http://shirky.com
1. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/01/07/lazyweb.html
2. http://www.lazyweb.org/
GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0227229
[0]hrbrmstr writes "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This
will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location.
Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants
near you. Many potential 'location-based services' can spring from this
if the database gets big enough. The [1]site has an easy [2]process for
maintaining your entries. And can even generate [3]RSS feeds for a
given geographical area."
Links
0. http://www.rudis.net/pMachine/
1. http://www.geourl.org/
2. http://www.geourl.org/add.html
3. http://geourl.org/rss091/?lat=40.7650070&lon=-73.9861298
TurboPower's Delphi Components Going Open
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2328258
[0]Luiz Bucci writes "According to the company web site, [1]TurboPower
Software announces their immediate withdrawal from the retail component
and developer tools market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces
its intention to release their award winning component libraries as
open source to the maximum extent possible. The resulting open source
projects will be hosted on [2]SourceForge." (SourceForge and Slashdot
are both part of VA Software). TurboPower's libraries cover
"compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet communication,
scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML manipulation."
Links
0. http://www.bucci.com.br
1. http://www.turbopower.com/
2. http://sourceforge.net/
2003 Japan Prize Winners Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1730255
[0]dpatil writes "The 2003 [1] Japan Prize winners have been announced.
[2] James Yorke (who named the field of chaos theory) and [3] Benoit
Mandelbrot (father of fractals) will share the prize for "Creation of
Universal Concepts in Complex Systems--Chaos and Fractals". Here is the
[4] citation. The Japan Prize is right up there after the Nobel Prize
and the Fields Medal. A good article on Yorke and his research team at
the [5] University of Maryland appeared in the [6] Washington Post"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.japanprize.jp/English.htm
2. http://www.ipst.umd.edu/~yorke/
3. http://www.math.yale.edu/newsite/people/mandelbrot.htm
4. http://www.japanprize.jp/e_2003_1.htm
5. http://www.chaos.umd.edu/
6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15111-2003Jan5.html
The Speed Of Gravity Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/017222
[0]redwolfoz writes "[1]New Scientist is [2]reporting that the speed of
gravity has been measured for the first time. 'The landmark experiment
shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein's
general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying
colours.' Researchers made the measurement of the fundamental physical
constant with the help of the planet Jupiter. One important consequence
of the result is that it will help constrain the number of possible
dimensions in the Universe."
Links
0. http://www.redwolf.com.au/fiction/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/
2. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993232
160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2150243
MacAndrew writes "The Boston Globe [0]reported that over 160,000 people
signed up since the first of the year for the state's new do-not-call
list, which imposes penalties as high as $5,500 per violation.
Nonprofit and political calls are exempt. This list is being
implemented well in advance of the proposed FTC [1]national do-not-call
list. Residents can sign up by mail, phone, or [2]online. Mass.
officials [3]predict a third of the 3 million residential lines will
enroll. Legal challenge from marketers appears likely, although the
Direct Marketing Association helpfully [4]lists state do-not-call
registries. Click [5]here for the DMA's side of the story."
Links
0.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/003/business/Over_140_000_join_list_to_block_telemarketers+.shtml
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2043243&tid=158
2. https://www.madonotcall.govconnect.com/Welcome.asp
3.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/001/metro/Signup_begun_to_ward_off_telemarketers+.shtml
4. http://www.the-dma.org/government/donotcalllists.shtml
5. http://capwiz.com/aim/home/
Star Wars Action Figures
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2113245
An anonymous reader writes "Star Wars nostalgia buffs: X-E just added a
fairly long feature detailing some of the many [0]mail-away offers made
by the Kenner company to keep kids interested in SW action figures in
the 80s."
Links
0. http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0719/index.html
100 Best Companies To Work For
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2051200
Misha writes "Fortune.com is publishing a list of [0]100 Best Companies
to Work for. Quite a few tech companies, with a few semi-startups, like
Xilinx, who 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the
industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6
percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'"
Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/bestcompanies
Making the HDTV Vision Quest?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/231217
[0]DumbSwede asks: "I have embarked on a do-it-yourself HDTV project
with a NEC 135LC quad-XGA projector purchased on eBay. But I have only
found 2 HDTV tuner cards, [1]AccessDTV and [2]WinTV-HD, both far short
of quad-XGA resolution (if I am reading the specs right, they max out
at SXGA for VGA output). [3]ATI claims to support all DTV resolutions
and has quad-XGA resolution with its All-In-Wonder 9700, but has only a
standard analog tuner built in. A search of [3]ATI or [4]NVIDA
web-sites, give no recommendations on DTV turners to use in conjunction
with their products (perhaps either accessdtv or wintv-hd will work).
Any details and insights would be appreciated, as two or three days of
web searching seems not to have provided me with total solution
answers."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.accessdtv.com/accessdtv/index.htm
2. http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp#wintv_hd
3. http://www.ati.com/
4. http://www.nvidia.com/
Freshmeat
3Dwm 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108722/
3Dwm is a three-dimensional user environment that can run on immersive
Virtual Reality hardware (such as CAVEs and HMDs) as well as on desktop
computers. It is a platform for the research and development of
three-dimensional user interfaces, providing a means of exploring
possible future user interfaces. 3Dwm is fully distributed using CORBA.
Other planned and implemented features include OpenGL rendering, X11
(and other windowing system) bindings, CAVELib support, 3D TrueType
fonts, general streaming movie support, a 3DUI widget kit, etc.
AJ's Internet Cafe for LTSP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108759/
AJ's Internet cafe is a full featured and complete open-source internet
cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
ASEM-51 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108726/
ASEM-51 is a macro assembler for the Intel MCS-51 family of
microcontrollers. It is based on the standard Intel syntax, and
implements conditional assembly, macros, and include file processing.
The assembler can output object code in Intel-HEX or Intel OMF-51
format as well as a detailed list file. The package includes support
for more than seventy 8051 derivatives, a bootstrap program for MCS-51
target boards, and documentation in ASCII and HTML format. It runs on
MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux.
auto-autofs 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108737/
Auto-autofs is a Perl script which searches block- devices (via /proc)
and disk partitions (via fdisk). It works as an automounter program
(autofs) and generates an HTML file for easy access to the devices.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28-pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108731/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to
create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def)
which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be
also used to track installations and create packages of the installed
files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this
mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable)
list of programs and the installation will be done here.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.2 (Office)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108765/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC
into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your
home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the
software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities,
and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
curator 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108714/
Curator is a powerful script that allows one to generate Web page image
galleries with the intent of displaying photographic images on the Web,
or for a CD-ROM presentation and archiving. It generates static Web
pages only - no special configuration or running scripts are required
on the server. The script supports many file formats, hierarchical
directories, thumbnail generation and update, per-image description
file with many fields, and 'tracks' of images spanning multiple
directories. The templates consist of HTML with embedded Python.
Running this script only requires a recent Python interpreter and the
ImageMagick tools.
Dustismo 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108752/
Dustismo is a standard sans-serif truetype font good for most
applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 250 glyphs so far).
The archive contains two font files, one designed for Windows which
contains embedded bitmaps for point sizes 7-24, and one for Linux which
contains no bitmaps.
Ekit 0.9f
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108708/
Ekit is a simple Java-based HTML editor with copy and paste, table,
form, image, CSS, and spell checking support. Used as application it
also allows for HTML to be loaded and saved, as well as serialized and
saved as an RTF.
eL DAPo 1.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108711/
eL DAPo is a PHP-based application for managing and querying LDAP
servers. It can rename, modify, and delete LDAP entries, as well as
modify, add, and delete attributes associated with an entry. Search
filters can be changed while a session is open, so users only have to
bind with the LDAP server once. eL DAPo also includes a configuration
file to make it fit well to your current schema.
ENodes 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108751/
ENodes is a reliable Web development and publishing framework written
in Perl and geared on mod_perl. Working as a full layer on Apache, it
allows you to manage multiple domains dispatched between multiple Web
masters. It includes versioning, access locking, parallel version
testing, fine granularity of permissions and version management, user
workflow, import/export mechanisms, and a fully-integrated plugin
interface.
Faq Administrator 1.5-Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108756/
The Faq Administrator is a PHP/MySQL message board.
flowprobe 1.0.pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108747/
flowprobe is a libpcap-based tool that collect network traffic data and
emit it as NetFlow flows towards the specified collector.
FSViewer 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108710/
FSViewer is a FileViewer lookalike for Window Maker. It is written in C
using the WINGs library.
FUDforum 2.3.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108732/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
Gringotts 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108739/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative
to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
Gromit 0.20030106 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108682/
Gromit is a system configuration tool that is designed to run in the
most automated fashion possible. It allows you to place the correct
config file in the right place on the right machine. Package and
version dependencies allow you to sanely control machines that are not
100% identical.
GtkAtlantic 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108720/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd
servers.
imgv 2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108741/
imgv is a platform independent, open source image viewer. It includes
standard features (file/directory browser, slideshows, zoom in/out,
flip/rotate, etc.) and unique features (multi-view, adjustable
thumbnail sizes, image playlists, remote image loading, and more).
ircu 2.10.11.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108735/
ircu is Undernet's own version of the standard ircd, offering many
enhancements including the P10 protocol, flood protection and code
optimizations.
JavaReadline 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108721/
JavaReadline adds readline support to java console applications. Not
every feature of the readline library has been implemented, but all
basic features are available. It has only been tested under Linux, but
should work everywhere readline is available.
KSocrat 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108715/
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary
for the K Desktop Environment.
Linux 2.4.21-pre3 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108713/
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.
Mr Commander 0.1a-preview1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108734/
Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the
Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features
SMB and FTP support.
MyODBC 3.51.05 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108743/
MyODBC provides an ODBC driver for the MySQL database server.
mysql_auth 0.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108634/
mysql_auth is a basic authenticator for Squid Proxy. You can configure
all MySQL variables for your existing user/password database (dbhost,
dbadmin, dbpasswd, dbname, tablename, columns name), or create a new
database. It includes a utility called mypasswd that updates your
database.
nmaFPS 0.78 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108744/
nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter. The aim is to
shoot down as many drones as you can. You lose if the number of drones
flying around goes above 10.
OBM 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108755/
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.
openbechede 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108746/
openbechede is a fast and simple way to install OpenBSD packages and
their dependencies. With openbechede you can keep your obsd packages
updated. Also, you can install packages (and automatically, their
dependencies), remove them, fetch new lists of packages. openbechede
logs its activity to a file you can specify.
ora2html 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108727/
Ora2html generates HTML or plain ASCII reports of installed Oracle
databases running on a server. It includes information about
config-files, layout, objects, schemas, etc., and supports Oracle
versions 8-9i, running on Linux, Solaris, and Tru64.
Phayoune Firewall 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108723/
Phayoune Firewall is a Thai Linux distribution that is intended to be
used as a stateful inspection firewall. It runs directly from CD- ROM
and does not require a hard drive. It supports port forwarding, an
online monitor, Squid blocking for worms, virii, and adult content, and
a menu-based setup that stores configuration details on a floppy.
PHPwebmail 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108709/
PHPwebmail is a Web-based IMAP and SMTP mail client. Often it is not
possible to make outside mail connections from networks behind strict
firewalls, or to configure a regular mail client (for example in an
Internet cafe). With PHPwebmail a mail client only needs a WWW
connection to the mailserver. Specifically it only needs a connection
to the webserver hosting PHPwebmail. Most of the times the Web and mail
server will be the same machine but PHPwebmail can connect to other
mailservers as well as long as an IMAP connection between these two
machines is allowed.
poweroff 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108728/
poweroff is a tool that allows you to power up or power down a PC
system over serial line using a few pieces of additional hardware.
Red Hat Update 1.9 Beta (build 1.97) (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108766/
Red Hat Update lists and downloads (but does not install or upgrade)
RedHat RPMs that are available as updates to your installed system.
RPGBoard 2.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108774/
RPGBoard is a WWWBoard-style message board script. It includes multiple
forum support, thread modes, a message previewer/editor, message tags,
selectable backgrounds, default options for the regulars, name
detection via cookies, recent message date/time color coding, the
ability for users/admins to (un)delete messages, top poster statistics,
a hidden spoiler message box, the ability to ban IP addresses, a word
filter to block cuss words, and much more.
Ruby/CorporateTime 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108716/
CorporateTime is a proprietary calendar server system produced by
Steltor. Ruby/CorporateTime is a Ruby language extension that serves as
an interface to the CorporateTime Calendar API (CAPI). Its purpose is
to allow interaction with CorporateTime servers via the Ruby
programming language.
ShowImg 0.8-Beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108712/
ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous
formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated) and MNG. It consists of a
tree view frame, a directory/preview frame, and a view frame. The
(larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller)
directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from
multiple directories and search for identical images. ShowImg also
features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, drag'n'drop with
Konqueror, and support for images in compressed archives (.zip).
Siege 2.57b4 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108749/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a
single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user
basis.
stress 0.17pre14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108767/
stress is a tool to impose certain types of stress on a POSIX system,
including CPU load, I/O subsystem load, RAM load, and HDD load.
SuperMarKeT 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108718/
SuperMarKeT is a very easy-to-use supermarket with VAT accounting. It
uses frames to show the items in the supermarket department and the
created customer bill.
Syscriptor 1.5.14 (C)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108736/
Syscriptor is a little program that displays information about your
hardware.
SystemImager 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108771/
SystemImager automates the installation of Linux to masses of similar
machines. Software distribution, configuration, and operating system
updates are made easy, including updates from one Linux release to
another. It can also be used for content distribution on Web servers.
It is most useful in environments with large numbers of identical
machines. Some typical environments include Internet server farms, high
performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments
where all workstations have the same basic hardware configuration.
Take a Joint 20030107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108763/
Take a Joint has the goal to simplify the integration of Linux clients
into Windows networks. Sharing a directory should be as easy as under
Windows. Users should be able to share their directories even without
being root or knowing the Samba configuration file smb.conf. To fulfill
the high security demands, users who would like to share their
directories have to be activated by root first. The same applies to
directories or devices the user isn't allowed to access with his
regular rights. Currently both console programs taja (admin program)
and taju (user program) are usable.
Tiki 1.5 RC1 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108760/
Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites,
and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners,
file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments,
and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows
any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your
needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple
languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and
developers.
Tintware 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108707/
Tint is a string substitution language; it is intended to be used as an
extension language. Tint Emacs is an emacs clone for Win32, Mac OS X,
and Darwin. It uses Tint as its extension language.
TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108729/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map
processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of
information structures which can be used to represent ontologies,
business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and
more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open
Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic
maps.
txt2pdf 6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108740/
txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful Perl program that converts
files from text to PDF format.
uCON64 1.9.8beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108733/
uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video game media (Cartridges
and CDs). It supports most available backup units for cartridge-based
consoles and uses cdrdao as a burn engine for CD-based consoles like
the Dreamcast or Playstation (but has a lot more options, like diverse
ROM modification). It can operate as an intelligent frontend for every
emulator available.
white_dune 0.20beta160 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108724/
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).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (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.
XNap 2.4-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108742/
XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. It currently includes an
OpenNap plugin with multiple server support, automatic downloading,
resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist, and an advanced media
library. It features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode.
XZX-Pro 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108768/
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, Kempston mouse, Kempston joystick, and built-in Z80 machine
code monitor.
ZynAddSubFX 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108719/
ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software
synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the
instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It
includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.
Newsforge Reports
The business of making Linux easier to use
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1952245
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The comparative complexity of
administering Linux servers is a huge adoption barrier for small
companies that can't afford to hire their own sysadmins and don't want
to rely on outside consultants for all configuration changes or routine
server maintenance. NetMAX is building a business by -- as they put it
-- "Simplifying Linux Servers." Their "underlying technologies" are
Open Source, they say, but their GUI admin ...
Can Linux help save SGI?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1712243
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - One of Linux's supposed barriers in high
performance computing is the "eight processor limit." SGI says their
new Altix 3000 line, running a patched 2.4.19 kernel, handily breaks
this barrier -- it can run up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessers --
and that "superclusters" built with SGI's Linux-based products can
outperform generic Linux clusters in some applications by a large
enough margin to justify their ...
Mandrake 9.0: It takes two, baby
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1357253
- by Tina Gasperson - The first thing I noticed about Mandrake 9.0
Linux is that the goofy cross-eyed penguin is gone. Mandrake is
pointing itself in a more sophisticated direction - it's not drab like
Red Hat, but elegant and inviting. It looks expensive.
Newsforge Newsvac
Micosoft Challenges Linux On Price
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2143219
You'd think you couldn't get cheaper than free, yet Microsoft is
working hard to compare the business value and total cost of ownership
of Windows and Linux. And the new strategy may be working.
LinuxCertified announces "Linux Fundamentals"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2142246
Rajesh writes "LinuxCertified, Inc. announces "Linux Fundamentals"
course in Boston - January 30 - 31st, 2003. All attendees get a free
Linux laptop."
SDG Systems Announces Products for the Sharp Zaurus
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2141237
Todd Blumer writes "SDG Systems, LLC today announced bar code scanning
and cellular phone connectivity products for the Sharp Zaurus. Both
products are available for order now with delivery expected in about
two weeks. The introduction of these products continues to validate the
Linux handheld market and expand the usability of the Zaurus. Complete
information is available at SDG Systems' website:
http://sdgsystems.com.";
Linux Orbit Launches the Linux Orbit Professional
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2141220
GonzoJohn writes "After much anticipation, Linux Orbit is proud to
announce the launching of the Linux Orbit Professional web site and
monthly journal publication. Be sure to check out our FREE 30-Day Trial
Offer and what you'll receive when you subscribe!"
10 Linux predictions for 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2140250
Joe Barr writes "It's that time of year again. Luckily, playing the
fool is not a new game for me so making predictions about the future
isn't that bad. As has now become traditional, let's start with a look
back at 2002 to see how I did. Or should I say, how I can best distance
myself from some of those picks."
Tonight Live: Hack Our Guest
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2140230
Jeff writes "from Chicago IL, home of The Billy Goat Tavern, curse of
the Chicago Cubs. Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com, we begin our
6th year of broadcasting."
KDE-Look in Trouble
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2139252
Ban_Country_Music writes "KDE-Look is in trouble, and in danger of
being shut down. This is from their site: "KDE-Look.org has serious
problems."
Norway Teenager Found Not Guilty of DVD Piracy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1448200
A Norwegian teenager was cleared of DVD piracy charges on Tuesday in a
landmark trial brought on behalf of major Hollywood studios.
GTK+OSX available for Mac OS X
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1447212
GTK+OSX is a native Mac OS X port of the Linux-based GTK+ open source
graphical user interface library. GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is a widget
library supporting graphical applications for Linux.
Questionable Linux business practice?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1435241
Anonymous Reader writes "In a Guest Essay, David A. Bandel describes a
highly recommended, Linux-based product that, maddeningly, requires
Windows to get much use from."
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Sourceforge
Gnome-python (PyGTK and PyGNOME) available now
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241512
The Cygwin GNOME project has started to port the GNOME desktop to
Windows OS, using Cygwin as a porting tool and user environment.
Currently GNOME 1.4 almost done. The gnome-python package contains the
source packages for the Python bindings for GTK+ and GNOME (PyGTK and
PyGNOME, respectively). PyGTK is an extension module for Python that
provides access to the GTK+ widget set. Just about anything (within
reason) you can write in C with GTK+, you can write in Python with
PyGTK, but with all of Python's benefits. PyGNOME is an extension
module for Python that provides access to the base GNOME libraries, so
you have access to more widgets, a simple configuration interface, and
metadata support. Go start your "Rapid application development using
PyGTK " now. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/krishnakumar.html
ChangeLog --------- 1.4.1-3 First Cygwin port. 1.4.1-4 Add GtkGlArea
and GtkHTML module. You need cyggtkhtml.dll from gtkhtml package.
Change libdir to /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-python rathan than
/opt/gnome/lib/python2.2/site-packages.
Etherboot 5.1.4 (development) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241674
Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network
booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information
about free software related to network booting. Files rearranged due to
Itanium support. .lz* targets are now .z* targets.
Tiki 1.5 -Regulus- RC1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241687
Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular
Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via
Smarty. A beta version of the 1.5 release, many new features added
including webmail, trackers, surveys and newsletters. Slideshows for
the wiki quick image uploading and more. Please help us by testing this
beta version before the official 1.5 release.
GStreamer 0.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241685
GStreamer team is proud to announce our 0.5.1 release. This release
features nice additions like a new ffmpeg based avi plugin and a much
improved threadless scheduler. GStreamer is a streaming-media
framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound
processing to playing videos, and just about anything else
media-related. You find details <A
HREF="http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.5.1/";>here</A>.
JML 3.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241688
The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface
specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java
modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some
elements of the refinement calculus. This is a bug fix release. The
main fix is to the jmlrac.bat script, but it also improves several
other small things.
Bossogg 0.9.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240774
A client/server for creating an ogg vorbis player in your entertainment
center. First client is done in SDL with Truetype fonts so it's easy to
read. Uses PostgreSQL for lookups. Release 0.9.1 added XML
configuration files and reduced memory usage 60+%. Autoconf issues in
Debian and several bugs in the import scripts have also been fixed.
doxymacs 1.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240732
Version 1.4.0 of doxymacs, the lisp package for {X}Emacs that makes
creating/using Doxygen documentation easy, has been released. This is a
major feature enhancement release. New features include: - Now uses
autoconf for building. - Multiple tag files may be used. - User defined
"void" types. - Better function argument parsing for inserting function
comments. As well several bugs have been fixed.
Usermanager 0.60 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240715
Usermanager is a LDAP User Management System that uses PHP to create an
easy to use interface. Release 0.60 includes configuration system
improvements.
Hibernate 1.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240745
Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational
persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop
persistent objects following common Java idiom, including association,
inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections
framework. To support a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the
use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead runtime
reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time.
Hibernate supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, SAP DB,
HypersonicSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Progress, Mckoi SQL, Pointbase and
Interbase. Hibernate supports an ODMG 3 interface alongside a more
expressive custom API. Of course, Hibernate integrates elegantly with
J2EE application servers and with other popular open source solutions
like XDoclet. Version 1.2.2 fixes a minor bug introduced in 1.2.1.
JGraph Valencia (v1.0.7) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240676
JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly
documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is
accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that
offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more. This release has a complete
new website and contains bug fixes. Bug fixes include:
DefaultGraphSelectionModel.CellPlaceHolder is now a protected inner
class with public accessors, DefaultGraphCell's getChildren method
never returns null, SizeHandle/RootHandle double buffer members are now
protected, Dependency between isMoveable, isAutosize and isSizeable was
removed, Focus argument and childrenSelected are handled separately by
renderer, Focused cell's highlight color is different from other
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