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Slashdot
AMD's Fab 30 Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/138257
Harkids writes "AnandTech posted [0]a sweet article about a recent trip
to AMD's newest chip manufacturing plant, Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany.
The article is more than just a walk around the building; it includes
juicy details of AMD's microprocessor manufacturing process,
innovations, and even has some Hammer info in it. A good read if you
are interested in CPUs or simply what AMD has up their sleeve."
Links
0. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1773
Merging WiFi VoIP Into Cellular Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0512243
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The New York Times (registration required)
reports that Motorola, Proxim and Avaya are expected to announce today
that they will jointly develop technology to [1]allow wireless
communications to jump between networks without interruption. This
appears to involve making use of WiFi for phone service where it's
available, thus converting WiFi hotspots into congestion relief for
overloaded cellular networks, and, of course, making cell phones into
WiFi terminals."
Links
0. http://elf.org
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/business/14MOTO.html
Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/054238
[0]scubacuda points to this [1]article at The Register, about "what is
believed to be the industry's first [2]identity server based on
[3]Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network
identity (date sheet [4]here). Other reports of Sun's release:
[5]eWeek, [6]Information Week, [7]Computer World, & [8]Y!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus author
1. http://212.100.234.54/content/53/28822.html
2. http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/home_identity.html
3. http://www.projectliberty.org/
4. http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/ds_identity.html
5. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,825856,00.asp
6. http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20030113S0009
7.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,77522,00.html
8.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=74&ncid=738&e=10&u=/cmp/20030113/tc_cmp/iwk20030113s0009
Microsoft Opens Code Just Slightly More
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/030217
[0]ctar writes "This [1]story on Bloomberg.com details Microsoft's new
program to open the source to parts of Windows in order to compete with
Linux, especially in the government sector. Microsoft's spokesman is
making these announcements directly: They say governments involved will
be invited to Redmond to meet w/ security engineers, and view testing
procedures. Countries will also be able to incorporate their own
encryption schemes 'based on Microsoft's software'."
Links
0. http://ctar&zoo,uvm,edu
1.
http://www.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=quote/marketsquote99_news_list.ht&ptitle=A&wires=PRN,BUS,CRL,PZM,CNS&template=marketsquote99_news.ht&GNOSUBST=1&ticker=MSFT&showzacks=YES&showvoiceir=NO
Embedded Linux In Onkyo's Home Music Server
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0246221
IrateSurf writes "[0]ExtremeTech has a [1]story about a new use of
embedded Linux from Onkyo, which runs a home music server. Their
NAS-2.3 has a CD-player as well as an 80GB hard drive for storing music
and streaming it to other players on the an Ethernet network. Also
check out the web site for the [2]NAS-2.3." If only they would [3]make
it record radio, too ...
Links
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,826536,00.asp
2. http://www.integrahometheater.com/model.cfm?class=nettune&m=NAS-2.3&p=i
3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/1053222&tid=137
Turing Test Competition At CalTech
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/004205
[0]Charles Dodgeson writes "The [1]Turing Tournament at [2]Cal Tech
wants to know if you can program an emulator that will play games like
a human, or if can you write detector that can correctly sort the
wetware from the software. Before you get too excited, the "games" are
very limited things. But there is a $10,000 prize for the winner. You
can read the [3]gory details."
Links
0. http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
1. http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu/
2. http://www.caltech.edu/
3. http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu/index.html
Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/159242
Slashback tonight brings you updates on the current doings (and name)
of J. Jovan Philyaw, the man behind the :CueCat, the alleged worldwide
infestation of file-trading computers with an RIAA-sponsored worm (not
true, they say), the privacy implications of GeoURL markup, and more.
Read on for the details.
RIAA: We Won't Pursue Mandated DRM Technologies
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2248239
tekman writes "A [0]New York Times article details an agreement between
the RIAA and various hardware and software companies in which the RIAA
has agreed to avoid seeking legislation that would mandate technologies
in computers and other home electronics to restrict 'unauthorized'
copying. The most interesting thing about this is the absence of the
MPAA."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html
Honeymoon Over For Google?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2135244
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Business Week has [2]an article on some of the
challenges Google faces as it gains popularity. For a while, things
were looking good: unobtrusive ads, a [3]hardware search appliance, and
the fact that 'google' has become a verb (like xerox, kleenex, hoover,
etc.). Now, [4]Yahoo! has dropped the 'exclusive' part of its contract,
[5]Overture won a series of key contracts, [6]Verity has [7]announced a
deal to purchase [8]Inktomi's assets, and [9]Y! announced it was buying
Inktomi's web-search business. And other engines such as [10]WiseNut,
[11]Teoma, and [12]FAST now mimic Google's 'popularity placement
technology.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus author
1. http://www.businessweek.com/
2. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030114_2858.htm
3. http://www.google.com/appliance/
4. http://www.yahoo.com/
5. http://www.overture.com/d/home/
6. http://www.verity.com/
7. http://www.verity.com/company/press/releases/2002/20021113.html
8. http://www.inktomi.com/
9. http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/03/01-yahoo.html
10. http://www.wisenut.com/
11. http://www.teoma.com/
12. http://www.surffast.com/
The Year in Scripting Languages
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1833224
Mitchell writes "People from several language communities came together
to create a [0]joint year-in-review for Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, and
Tcl."
Links
0. http://www.vendian.org/language_year/
Freshmeat
av_convert 20030112
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109560/
The main part of av_convert is a C++ API for accessing audio/video
files (AVI, Quicktime, YUV4MPEG stream, WAV, etc.). This functionality
is provided by a library and a set of plugin modules for I/O backends
and audio/video codecs. Using this library, "av_convert" can
convert between these file formats and provide basic editing functions,
such as cutting parts of different video sources to one destination.
The included program "av_rec" can record real-time video from
a v4l-video-source with A/V sync.
BHL 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109544/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain TXT files into
HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common
font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs
and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse
the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections'
numbers with one keystroke.
Busca 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109514/
Busca is based on a popular Italian card game. You may play against
artificial intelligence or against your friends with network play.
Code striker 1.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109505/
Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code
reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in
unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the
nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can
view the proposed diff in plain text mode, coloured-diff mode, and can
also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their
entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS. Comments are made on a
per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be
viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties
when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments
against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of
review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker
also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety
of ways.
CRM commercial tracking tool 1.7a-14012003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109557/
The CRM commercial tracking tool is to be used in a commercial
environment for logging and tracking customer requirements, complaints,
etc. When a so-called 'entity' is logged, every edit to the entity is
logged. Using the management information, you can find statistic
information like average duration, stalling calls, etc. It is fully
configurable and it comes with an easy install script.
curl and libcurl 7.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109520/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It
supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER,
as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers,
passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is
powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are
bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and
environments.
Darius Tools 1.0 (Darius Sound)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109513/
Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful
for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and
easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to
accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass
conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for
converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for
creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another
currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups
recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages
according to different categories.
DIOTA 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109518/
DIOTA is a just-in-time instrumentation tool for Intel binaries. It
allows you to create a dynamic loadable library that can be attached to
a program running under Linux. DIOTA can instrument all memory
operations in the application and the used libraries (e.g., for
checking for faulty memory accesses), calls of dynamically linked
procedures (malloc, printf, etc.), detect the code executed during a
particular run, and more.
flounder 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109545/
Flounder is a program to quickly visualize 4D data (x,y,z,t). It can
produce isosurfaces, solid renderings, as well as 2D slices. Several
data sets can be viewed simultaneously. Temporal data at a spatial
location can be examined with output in several formats including PNG
and GIF animations.
fn 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109531/
fn is a non-interactive command-line tool for downloading and
aggregating xml-based newsfeeds from Web sites. It is suitable for use
in a cron job to gather newsfeeds and generate reports at regular
intervals.
gluX 1-13-2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109534/
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.
Grip 3.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109542/
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It
has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use
external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated
frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc,
xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform
it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported.
Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information
from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a
unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
GSM SMS Download Daemon 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109537/
GSM SMS Download Daemon is a simple utility to query a GSM modem for
received SMS and save them to a database.
Jabberwocky 1.0.beta9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109558/
Jabberwocky is a LISP IDE containing a LISP-aware editor with syntax
highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a
source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer.
It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
JCTerm 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109526/
JCTerm is an SSH2 terminal emulator written in pure Java. It supports
port forwarding, X11 forwarding, etc.
JFtp 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109553/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the
basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive
directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume
downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API
is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party
applications or in a command-line mode.
jMoney@Home 0.52pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109540/
jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage
your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and
has multiuser support.
KDE DivX subtitles editor 0.2rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109524/
ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit
and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to
easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.
Kdenlive 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109538/
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor for KDE. It provides all project
management and editing tools while relying on a separate rendering
program (currently PIAVE) to perform the editing operations. Support is
planned for transitions, effects, multiple file formats, and full
project and asset management support. The current beta release is
capable of editing raw DV files, including razor and resize operations,
and exporting the result to another raw DV file. You may
playback/preview the contents of the timeline at any point during the
edit. Full project save/load is supported.
KFli4L 1.2-1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109561/
KFli4L is a control panel for the Linux floppy ISDN router, fli4l. It
allows for viewing the status and controlling the operation of the
router through a window with several tabs. It also docks into the
system tray, and provides a traffic monitor to visualize the actual net
load.
lmbench 3.0-a3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109516/
lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for
UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and
bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into
the basic costs and capabilities of key aspects of system operation. It
is easily extensible, so users may develop their own benchmarks
utilizing the lmbench timing and result reporting harness. It includes
a very wide variety of benchmarks for measuring the bandwidth and/or
latency of various system operations.
lmbench 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109515/
lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for
UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and
bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into
the basic costs and capabilities of key aspects of system operation. It
is easily extensible, so users may develop their own benchmarks
utilizing the lmbench timing and result reporting harness. It includes
a very wide variety of benchmarks for measuring the bandwidth and/or
latency of various system operations.
MainActor 3.7-5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109507/
MainActor is a multimedia processing package consisting of MainActor
Sequencer, a timeline-based video sequencer, and MainActor Video
Editor, an animation composing and editing program. It is available for
Windows 95/98/NT4 and Linux.
MapEditor 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109508/
MapEditor allows users to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these
tracks to create street maps of an area.
nALFS 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109532/
nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the
ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and doing various things
(like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from
source.
PHP Dump Maker 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109535/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given
source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of
directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged
in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for
backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via
cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
Pixory Beta 2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109511/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store
your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums,
and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web
interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All
user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image
metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most
digital cameras and scanners.
Pluggable Images Generator 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109533/
Pluggable Images Generator (PIG) is mainly designed to create fractal
images and dislay them. But since it's based on plugins, it can be used
to create any type of computer generated image.
Postal 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109521/
This suite currently consists of two programs, Postal and Rabid. Postal
(the mad postman) is a program that will deliver mail as fast as
possible via the SMTP protocol to test mail server performance. Rabid
(the mad Biff) will eat mail via the POP protocol as fast as possible
and measure POP server performance. All messages sent via Postal have
MD5 checksums appended, and Rabid will check the MD5 to ensure that the
messages are not being corrupted.
PycURL 7.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109528/
PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be
used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program.
qmail rblchecker 0.9-beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109529/
qmail rblchecker is a per user/domain configurable RBL checker for
qmail which supports 550 Sod off messages during the SMTP negotiation.
Qt# (C# Qt Bindings) 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109510/
Qt# is a set of cross-platform C# bindings for Trolltech's Qt GUI
toolkit. It aims to support all major CLR implementations, including
Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft.NET.
Senken 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109509/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the
infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The
game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer
support but it is not well tested.
ServoMaster 0.5p0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109555/
ServoMaster is a project dedicated to providing a consistent hardware
independent way of controlling R/C servos with a personal computer.
TKAlbum 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109522/
TKAlbum is a GUI for assisting in the generation and maintenance of
HTML photo albums. It uses the "album" script and Image
Magick to generate hierarchically organized HTML photo albums, and can
download pictures from digital cameras supporting the USB mass storage
protocol.
TkVNC 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109512/
TkVNC is a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk. It is designed to be
embedded inside other applications, but can be used as a standalone VNC
viewer.
Turck MMCache 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109506/
Turck MMCache is a opcode cache for PHP. 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 and 4.2, and Apache 1.3 under Linux and
Windows.
Uncle Unc 0.25.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109519/
Uncle Unc allows network admins and developers to keep track of many
services on a network in a flexible extendable fashion from a single
client program. The underlying protocol aims to be as generic as
possible, and offers a clean usable model for interacting with many
services. In Uncle Unc, client implementation is carefully separated
from the core protocol, allowing clients to be implemented as GUI apps,
Web front-ends, or console programs. Once adapted to Uncle Unc, a
service becomes instantly accessible from any Unc-aware client. As new
service implementations are developed, every client implementation is
able to use them. The ever-expanding list of adapters currently covers
filesystems, Java class libraries, relational databases, log-files and
jini networks, and a feature-rich, fast desktop GUI client.
Visualization of Compiler Graphs 1.30.r3.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109556/
Visualization of Compiler Graphs (VCG) reads a specification of a graph
and visualizes it. It can lay out the graph using several heuristics
such as reducing the number of crossings, minimizing the size of edges,
and centering nodes. It allows folding of dynamically- or
statically-specified regions of the graph.
XML Tree 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109525/
XML Tree is a library written in order to manage XML files as trees of
objects. It is written in C++ and uses Expat as the XML parser. It is
useful for short XML files such as configuration files.
Xnee's not an event emulator 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109536/
Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X protocol data. This is useful
for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications.
Think of it as a robot.
Newsforge Reports
OpenEMed helps detect epidemics -- and bioterrorism
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1550249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "OpenEmed is a distributed healthcare
information system built around the OMG distributed object
specifications and the HL7 (and other) data standards and is written in
Java for platform portability," says the first sentence on the
project's home page. Its objective is to aggregate data from clinics,
emergency rooms, pharmacies, and individual physicians so that
epidemics or bioterrorism attacks can be rapidly ...
Mandrake: Rumors of our imminent demise are just that
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/2131224
- by Tina Gasperson - Apparently there are tales going around that
there will be no Mandrake 9.1 - that one of the most user-friendly
distros around is not going to be around much longer. Not surprising,
what with all the recent pleas for cash coming from the direction of
Paris.
SCO says it has made no decision on Unix "IP"
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1738217
- by Tina Gasperson - A story at Linux Business Week, originally
published by Client Server News, raised a ruckus in the Linux
community. SCO, it said, had drafted a press release that detailed
plans to cash in on its Unix patents, either by charging an extra
license fee to users of its Linux distribution, or by "pressing
infringement claims" against other Linux distributions, possibly even
fellow members of the UnitedLinux tribe.
Newsforge Newsvac
Nokia woos Linux programmers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1018203
Nokia has released software to let Linux programmers develop Java
software for its cell phones. Nokia is a strong backer of the use of
Sun Microsystems' Java software on its handsets, touting Java's ability
to let the same program run on a variety of different phone models.
Linux System & Network Admin bootcamp
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1016218
Rajesh writes "LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux
training, will offer its System and Network administration bootcamp on
February 1 - 2, 2003 in Boston (MA). This workshop is designed for busy
information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most
important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a free Linux
laptop."
Granny prefers Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1015224
Anonymous Reader writes "Terry Hatfield introduced Linux to a Senior
Citizen in response to her ongoing Windows system woes. Hatfield proves
that Linux can be used successfully by anyone wanting to perform simple
tasks -- in this case browsing the Internet, using email, and playing
solitaire."
UnitedLinux signs up IBM, AMD as partners
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/006232
Fresh off their agreement to collaborate on advanced chip-making
techniques, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and IBM are teaming up with
UnitedLinux to help determine what features wind up in forthcoming
versions of the Linux operating system from the group, the companies
said in a release.
Fry's Electronics Now Bringing Choice to Customers With LindowsOS
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/004234
Lindows.com, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of their
full retail LindowsOS Membership Edition ( http://www.lindows.com/30 )
at all Fry's Electronics Retail stores nationwide.
SCO fees may hit some Linux users
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/001226
SCO Group, the struggling company that holds the copyright to the Unix
operating system, plans to boost its revenue by charging fees to some
customers who have moved from its products to Linux.
MandrakeSoft mulls Chapter 11 style escape, says email
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2358217
MandrakeSoft is looking at a Chapter 11-style bankruptcy, to solve its
financial difficulties, according to a leaked email from one of its
executives. The executive has declined to be interviewed by The
Register.
Tonight Live: Perens Opens the Book and MS in denial
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2356205
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com, its open source mayhem. At 6pm
pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill (fermi labs), Jeff
Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek
(infoworld); are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up
tonight on The Linux Show!
Sun, Beonix open Linux facility
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/148231
Touted as one of the first such facilities in Canada, Sun Microsystems
of Canada, the city of Belleville and Ontario's Beonix Technology
announced Friday the opening of the Sun Linux Competency Center.
SoL - Server optimized Linux Beta Test Program
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/147256
Martin Willner writes "Antitachyon is now accepting applications of
those who want to beta test the next release of SoL - Server optimized
Linux."
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Sourceforge
iScan release 2.0.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243493
A new release 2.0.8 has been made available, its a general bug fix to
2.0.5, see release notes for details. iScan is a mail manipulation
system for exim, used for content filtering, virus scanning and spam
blocking.
TOEJAM release 2.9.7
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243512
TOEJAM is a Java Answering Machine that uses a Voice Modem as the base
of the IVR system. It has been running 24x7 at my home handling my
phone calls and emailing me the messages. Currently supports US
Robotics 56K Pro Msg, other modems very easily programmed for. TOEJAM
is an acronym for Thoroughly Open Ended Java Answering Machine.
mod_psldap 0.62 - initial release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243497
mod_psldap has been offficially released as of 11 Jan 03. mod_psldap is
an Apache C module for performing interactions with an ldap server and
currently implements authentication and authorization through an ldap
server using HTTP Basic authentication. This implementation has been
tuned for performance and security, and is one of the few (if not the
only) implementation of LDAP authentication within Apache that does not
require transmission of the password from the LDAP server to the web
server. Future development will enhance group management and allow for
users to interactively reset their passwords and personal information
through a web based interface. Registration of new users will also be
implemented. Refer to the project pages for further details.
JTAG Tools 0.2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243474
JTAG Tools is a software package released under GNU GPL which enables
working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices (parts) and
boards through JTAG adapter. This package has open and modular
architecture with ability to writing miscellanous extensions (like
board testers, flash memory programmers, and so on). New in this
release: * Fixed compile error (bug 665923, thanks to Chris Ellec). *
Added support for Macraigor Wiggler JTAG Cable (Stas Khirman). * Added
support for Altera ByteBlaster/ByteBlaster II/ByteBlasterMV Parallel
Port Download Cable. * Fixed some other bugs. Homepage:
http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/ For complete list of supported
operating systems, hardware configurations and so on see the homepage.
-- Marcel Telka
net-snmp 5.0.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243510
net-snmp 5.0.7, containing bug fixes, has now been released. net-snmp
provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management
Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library, tools to
request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and
handle SNMP traps, etc. net-snmp-5.0.7 is now available from
http://www.net-snmp.org/download/ . It contains a number of bug fixes
over the 5.0.6 release. The release notes from the NEWS file are: New:
- VACM (access control) optimizations which will greatly benefit people
who wish to exclude large portions of the MIB tree from some people.
Previously this was a large resource drain. - Add command line option
to snmpd to set syslog facility - Reverse DISPLAY-HINT processing, i.e.
it allows you to input data formatted like a DISPLAY-HINT prescribes -
Support setting of sysDescr and sysObjectID via snmpd.conf
configuration directives - New output option to force display of
strings as hex - Persistent directory can be specified at runtime - Add
support for Linux virtual interfaces in the ipAddressTable. -
implemented the mteEventTable and the mteEventNotificationTable form
the DISMAN-EVENT-MIB. Fixes: - AgentX no longer flagged as experimental
- A few memory leak fixes for the table_iterator agent API. - Processed
flag cleared before each pass of a set request - Remove snmpd pid file
on exit - Restore default behaviour of building shared libraries - misc
other fixes
JGimp - Initial Film GIMP support available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242974
The latest release of JGimp, 0.7.1 adds support for Film GIMP on Linux.
Download this if you are interested in trying out this Java-language
binding to Film GIMP. Note that the Windows build on this version is
broken; Windows users should use version 0.6 for now. JGimp is an
architecture that allows developers to create plug-ins and extensions
for the GIMP in the Java programming language.
xvl 1.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242938
xvl is an XML-based scripting engine suitable for generating dynamic
HTML content. The xvl 1.9 release includes an Apache 2.0 mod_xvl that
assists in getting xvl dynamic content to your user's browsers.
scsh (a Scheme shell) 0.6.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242989
Scsh is a Unix shell embedded in Scheme. It provides full access to
POSIX as well as extensions common to most Unix implementations. Scsh
also features many abstractions to ease system programming: process
abstraction, event-based interrupt handling, sophisticated I/O support
and enables concurrent system programming. On top of the usual tons of
bug fixes, scsh 0.6.3 has a number of additional features over 0.6.2,
specifically in the area of non-blocking I/O. Scsh 0.6.3 implements the
complete API of the scsh 0.5 series; with 0.6.3, the 0.6 series is now
considered feature-complete. Visit http://www.scsh.net/ for more
information about scsh.
FreeDOS 32 CVS repository online
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242848
Kernel, drivers and test programs are finally all stored in our CVS
repository, where you can find the latest development source code. The
file system is fully integrated in the FD32 scenario and seems to work
properly. FreeDOS 32 aims to be a 32-bit operating system that extends
the DOS concepts to work in a 32-bit environment natively.
DrJava stable release (20030113)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242965
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. A minor update to DrJava has
been released, including new application icons and a splash screen. We
have also added documentation for developers to help set up a build
environment, which is available on the drjava project web site. The
drjava project web site is located at http://drjava.sf.net/devdocs/
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