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Slashdot
AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0359230
__roo writes "The New York Times has an article [free registration
required] about a researcher at [0]AT&T Labs Research who has
discovered a little-known [1]vulnerability in many locks that lets a
person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by
starting with any key from that building, and it requires little more
than a file and a few key blanks."
Links
0. http://www.research.att.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/business/23LOCK.html
Produce Organs...From Printer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/055217
[0]Gavinsblog writes "New Scientist reports that [1]researchers have
modified desktop printers and filled them with suspensions of cells
instead of ink. Apparently the work is a first step towards printing
complex tissues or even entire organs. Amazing technology. " Well, I
guess this could give a whole new meaning to "watermarking".
Links
0. http://www.gavinsblog.com
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993292
4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Found
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0251254
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists in China say they have found
fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings that it
probably used for gliding, a find they say strengthens the theory that
birds evolved from dinosaurs. See the [1]story on CNN [2]or BBC with a
cool rendering of what it possibly looked like [3]or at NYTimes
(yadda)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/22/coolsc.correct.fourwinged/index.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2684927.stm
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/science/23DINO.html
XBox Chip With Legal BIOS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0247248
[0]Lours writes "([1]OzChip, an Australian company, has a new Xbox chip
which comes preinstalled with the new ([2]Cromwell Linux BIOS. Previous
chips came without (or simplistic) BIOS for obvious legal and
hardware-related (HD-key) reasons you had to go through a lot of
manipulations in order to install a patched version of the original
Microsoft BIOS or ask the vendor to do it which obviously he was not
willing to do for free (when he was willing to). Since the new Cromwell
BIOS is fully open source it can be shipped with the chip without any
legal risks, gaining you a lot of time, sweat and money. Plus the chip
has a very useful feature: by using software based on Andy Green's --
one of the maintainers of the [3]XBox Linux project -- Raincoat, it
lets you [4]flash a new BIOS very easily: burn the BIOS file onto a
blank CD, put it in the Xbox, boot and you are done. With such beasts
there is not much left in the way of want-to-be Linux Xbox hackers who
might have been affraid until now to have to deal with delicate
hardware intricacies or reluctant to run the whole town for a vendor
willing to mod their Xbox at the smallest fee. With important linux
distributions also incoming (Debian and Mandrake are underway if not
completed) it won't be long before everyone can write code for (and
on!) the machine only a few minutes after receiving the chip in his
mailbox. Hopefully we are going to see a zillion things running on the
machine that Microsoft would only have dreamt of making (and selling)."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~Lours
1. http://www.ozxchip.com/
2. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54192
3. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
4. http://www.ozxchip.com/ozxflash.htm
Using Redundancies to Find Errors
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0221242
gsbarnes writes "Two Stanford researchers ([0]Dawson Engler and
[1]Yichen Xie) have written [2]a paper (pdf) showing that seemingly
harmless redundant code is frequently a sign of not so harmless errors.
Examples of redundant code: assigning a variable to itself, or dead
code (code that is never reached). Some of their examples are obvious
errors, some of them subtle. All are taken from a version of the Linux
kernel (presumably they have already reported the bugs they found). Two
interesting lessons: Apparently harmless mistakes often indicate
serious troubles, so run lint and pay attention to its output. Also, in
addition to its obvious practical uses, Linux provides a huge open
codebase useful for researchers investigating questions about software
engineering."
Links
0. http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/
1. http://glide.stanford.edu:8080/yichen/research/
2. http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/p401-xie.pdf
Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2324241
Phoenix666 writes "NYT Business reports [0]Hilary Rosen is leaving.
Question is, what head will spring from the Hydra next? Could this
signal a shift in the RIAA's tactics? The article reports 'Rosen's
departure comes as the organization sought to soften its image among
Internet consumers, many of whom viewed the RIAA -- and Rosen
personally -- with antipathy over incessant pressure for crackdowns on
sharing digital music over the Internet.'" A [1]press release on the
RIAA site says that Rosen will leave at the end of this year.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Rosen-Resignation.html
1. http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=600
Microsoft to Buy Vivendi Games Division?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2233227
Unknown Relic writes "While far from confirmed, [0]it is reported that
Microsoft is seriously looking into buying, or [1]may have already
bought, Vivendi's [2]Games Division. For those who aren't aware,
Vivendi owns several prominent gaming companies, including [3]Valve and
[4]Blizzard! While no official announcements have been made, one is
apparently expected soon. While this would doubtlessly be a great boon
to Xbox's library, it could be a shock to other consoles as titles
which were originally planned for a diverse release become Xbox
exclusives."
Links
0.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?page=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php(que)id=85976
1. http://www.ve3d.com/Comments.aspx?ID=2217&contenttype=1
2. http://www.vugames.com/vug/
3. http://www.valvesoftware.com/
4. http://www.blizzard.com/
Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1413238
[0]Will Foster writes "There is a groundswell of support for
[1]electing Steve Jobs President of the United States." I'll vote for
him if I can write in my vote -- with a Newton stylus!
Links
0. http://www.JobsforPresident.org
1. http://www.jobsforpresident.org/
Building a Multi-Channel PVR System?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2041211
[0]Dr.Ruud asks: "What would be good ways to build a multichannel VCR?
Think of a cluster of 4 PCs, each having 4 TV-cards (with MPEG-hardware
on each) and (if necessary) a separate harddisk per TV-card, and maybe
a 5th PC that controls the others, holds a DVD-writer and any other
necessary hardware. Could it be done in a simpler and cheaper way? See
also [1]linuxtv.org, [2]linuxmedialabs.com and of course
[3]SouceForge-vcr-projects like Freevo." What would be the best way to
go about cutting down the number of machines such a cluster would need?
Could this be done by building an all-in-one-wonderbox without it
getting really expensive?
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://linuxtv.org/
2. http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/
3. http://sourceforge.net/search/
Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1514201
[0]frankie writes "Although George Lucas may have gone over to the
[1]dark [2]side, at least some of his staff prefer Freedom and light.
ILM has released [3] OpenEXR, a graphics file format and related
utilities, under a [4] BSD-style license. Among other things, it
supports the same 16 bit format used by Nvidia CG and the Geforce FX.
OpenEXR runs on Linux, Jaguar, and Irix; other platforms are likely to
work with a little help from the [5] community."
Links
0. http:///~frankie
1. http://www.mpaa.org/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/29/1619219&tid=101
3. http://www.openexr.com
4. http://www.ilm.com/opensource
5. http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=openexr
Freshmeat
asfpga 1.00e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110330/
asfpga is an assembler written for use in FPGA design. It can be easily
modified for a particular instruction set. The ultimate goal of this
software is to allow a FPGA designer to easily write assembly code for
a custom instruction set. The current version allows you to create a
listing file, a memory dump file which can be used in debugging HDL
code using $readmemh() or equivalent routine, and a binary file which
can be used to program an EPROM.
Astaro Security Linux 3.383 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110364/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet
inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus
scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and
much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the
ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage.
It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most
daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel
capabilities.
bean for http 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110290/
bean for http simplifies servlet development, mantains a WWW GUI
control's state, maps HTTP posts to bean props, and maps bean props to
HTML controls.
Bugzero 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110353/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and
incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software,
hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database
system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects,
group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email
notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced
search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control
integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project
configuration and user account management.
BurgerSpace 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110342/
BurgerSpace is a game in which you are a chef, and must walk over
hamburger ingredients (buns, meat, and lettuce) to make them fall from
floor to floor, until they end up on the plates at the bottom of the
screen. It requires the SDL multimedia library. It is a clone of the
1982 BurgerTime video game by Bally Midway.
Calcium 3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110406/
Calcium provides interactive calendars you can use through your
browser. Features include: dynamic calendar merging (events from one
calendar can be included in another), multiple views and formats,
repeating events, email support, extensive color and font
customization, support for full HTML in the event text and calendar
headers and footers, popup text associated with any event, searching
and filtering, multi-language support, a flexible security model, and
more. Calcium is very easy to use, and fully supported by an
established company. It runs anywhere that supports Perl CGIs; no
non-standard Perl modules are necessary. Full 2-way synchronization
with Palm Pilots is supported.
DBConnect API 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110338/
DBConnect API is an easy to use C++ object API to allow applications to
connect to DBMSs. The API currently implements msql, MySQL, Oracle8,
ODBC, and PostgreSQL drivers in the Unix environments and MySQL,
Oracle8, and ODBC in the Windows environment.
DC-GUI 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110384/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
DiaSCE 1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110307/
DiaSCE is a C/C++ code editor for GNOME. It pretends to be a complement
to Glade, so it doesn't include an environment for GUI's development.
It has neither a debugger or other kind of tool to help debugging. Its
goal is to provide a light code editor that doesn't need too many
resources and makes use of external tools (gcc, glade, ddd, etc.) for
some tasks.
DOLFIN 0.2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110358/
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.
eXchaNGeR XML Schema Viewer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110372/
The eXchaNGeR XML browser is a browser and editor framework, written in
Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse
through and manage the visible elements in the document with external
services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document
with the built-in XML editor.
FMSync 2.1d4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110336/
FMSync synchronizes the contents of a FileMaker database directly to
JFile on a connected Palm organizer with the press of a single button.
Genuts Snake 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110355/
Genuts Snake is a remake of the popular classic snake game. Eat as many
mice as possible, Don't hit the walls, and don't bite your tail. Genuts
Snake uses the Genuts Framework.
gqlplus 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110350/
gqlplus is a frontend to the Oracle commandline utility sqlplus for
Unix. It is functionally nearly identical to sqlplus, with the addition
of commandline editing and history similar to tcsh and bash, as well as
table name and column name completion.
Graver's Football Squares 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110389/
Graver's Football Squares was created so multiple people could enjoy
Football Squares during the Superbowl or any other major game that may
be going on.
GStreamer 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110402/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable
applications to share a common set of plugins for things like MP3
decoding, audio I/O, and anything else that streams in real-time or
otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the
Oregon Graduate Institute.
guinstaller 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110359/
guinstaller simplifies the process of installing Linux source code. All
you need to do is to download the gzipped program that you wish to
install and then run guinstaller and open the file. After some
configuration (where to put the files, etc.) the program is compiled
and installed.
HermesFax 2.7b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110376/
HermesFax is a Web interface for Hylafax. It requires a
Javascript-enabled Web browser. It contains translations for Italian
and English. The browser language configuration is automagically used.
IMAP Proxy 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110386/
The IMAP Proxy server is a caching IMAP proxy server. It was written to
reduce the load that Webmail clients put on an IMAP server by keeping
server connections alive for reuse, thus avoiding a new server
connection for each Webmail transaction.
Internet Relay Jabber 0.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110380/
IRJ (Internet Relay Jabber) acts as a gateway between IRC and Jabber
(and using Jabber, AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and ICQ). This allows you to, for
example, link an ICQ conversation to IRC.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110356/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support
(which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in
Poland).
Java SQL Admin Tool 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110367/
Admin is entirely written in Java. It uses Swing GUI Components and
JDBC to connect to databases. It has been succesfully tested with
MySQL, InstantDB, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. You can have a tree view of
the RDBMS or pick a single instance to have a look at its metadata. It
allows you to create, modify, and drop tables and to create indices on
a table. The dynamic form makes it easy to enter data into a certain
table, and the guided query makes it easy to retrieve data from a table
and to export it. Java developers will probably enjoy the code
generator doing an OO relational wrapper and a swing GUI for them. You
can also export and import data and transport it from one DBMS to
another.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9a20030122 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110365/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables
rules.
JSVN 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110332/
JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control
system.
Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110297/
Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing
tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It
checks inetd entries and scans for unneeded RPM packages. It is being
expanded to work with Linux distributions other than Red Hat, and
checks for kernel versions.
MagpieRSS 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110340/
MagpieRSS provides an XML-based RSS parser in PHP. Fetching the remote
RSS newfeed, parsing it, and cacheing the results are all transparently
supported behind a simple functional interface. It makes use of its
integrated cache, and HTTP conditional gets to stay responsive and
light-weight. RSS versions 0.9-1.0 are supported, including namespaces
and RSS 1.0 modules. There is limited RSS 2.0 support.
MIMEDefang 2.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110377/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows
clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail
processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding
boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various
parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration
file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments.
MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API,
which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based
approaches.
mod_spam_die 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110354/
mod_spam_die confuses spam crawlers by giving them infinite fake email
addresses. It is inspired by DIE.net and spam-conference.
MozPos 0.0.2a.Ref
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110339/
MozPos is a modern, full-fledged Point-of-Sale system created and
extensible under the Mozilla framework. Targeting small to large
businesses and enterprises, it aims to use open Internet standards in
creating a truly modern point of sale system.
MySQL Control Center 0.8.9 (0.8.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110371/
MySQL Control Center is MySQL's official platform-independent GUI
client, based on the Qt toolkit.
Net-Policy 0.9.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110348/
The Net-Policy project allows system administrators to configure and
manage their entire network at once. It is initially designed to
configure firewall and IPsec connections across an entire network, but
will eventually include the ability to control and configure just about
anything. It uses a role and policy based data-model concept so
reconfiguring a device usually just means assigning or removing a role
to/from it. Initially the software comes with a completely configurable
IPsec and IKE software suite for Linux. Stop configuring your network
one device at a time!
newfile 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110349/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
NeXTensio 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110360/
NeXTensio is a collection of server behaviors and commands designed to
boost programmer productivity for task automation and form generation.
It based on UniFORM, the Unified FORM Architecture, and UniVAL, the
automated validation algorithm. NeXTensio allows developers to
concentrate the application logic in one location, while allowing
Insert/Edit/Delete operations. This provides great flexibility and a
centralized way of dealing with form logic. It includes KTML, the
online WYWIWYG HTML editor, and the Improved Repeat Region, which
features list filtering and sorting.
Nvclock 0.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110391/
Nvclock allows you to overclock your Nvidia card under Linux.
OpenMCL 0.13.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110351/
OpenMCL is an Open Source version of Digitool's excellent Macintosh
Common Lisp (MCL) implementation, which runs on LinuxPPC and MacOS X.
It features a native code compiler, multithreading support, and good
ANSI CL compliance.
OpenPKG 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110370/
OpenPKG is a flexible and powerful software packaging facility that
eases installation and administration of Unix software across several
platforms. Consolidating different vendor approaches into a unified
architecture, it assists in administration of large networks previously
complicated by nonconformant systems. It uses RPM to provide an
additional system layer on top of the operating system. It is fully
self-contained (no RPM pre-installation is required), installs itself
by means of a tricky bootstrapping procedure with minimal operating
system intrusion, and supports multiple installation instances.
Packit 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110387/
Packit is a network auditing tool that allows you to monitor,
manipulate, and inject customized IPv4 traffic into your network. This
can be extremely valuable for testing firewalls, intrusion detection
systems, port scanning, and general TCP/IP auditing. It currently
supports the ability to define nearly all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, and
Ethernet header options. It requires libnet 1.1 or greater as well as
libpcap, and has been tested to run on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and
Linux.
pork 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110395/
pork is a UNIX console-based AIM client mostly fashioned after the
look-and-feel of ircII.
Portable Windows Library 1.4.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110388/
PWLib is a moderately large class library that was originally designed
as a method to produce applications that run on both Microsoft Windows
and Unix/X11 systems. It includes classes for I/O portability,
multi-threading portability, aid in producing Unix daemons and NT
services portably, and all sorts of Internet protocols. It also offers
basic "container" classes such as arrays, linear lists,
sorted lists (RB Tree), and dictionaries (hash tables) which were all
created before the STL. This library is used by the OpenH323 library.
python3ds 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110362/
python3ds is a small set of Python routines for reading 3ds archives.
It features support for animations, textures, and collision detection,
and it is compatible with pyopengl and pygame.
Ruby-C++ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110294/
The Ruby-C++ class embeds the Ruby interpreter in a C++ application.
SDBA Revolution 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110217/
SDBA Revolution is an open-source server written in Perl which provides
an architecture to simplify and streamline the process of writing
applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy
scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent
across messages, session time limits, support for multiple
"apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use
multiple access lists of password files. It makes writing IM apps very
much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. The homepage has full
tutorials and documentation.
servu2unix 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110357/
servu2unix converts users from the the Windows Serv-U FTP server to
Unix system accounts.
Simkin 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110399/
Simkin is a scripting language for Java/XML. Simkin is designed to let
your users control all or part of your Java application. They write
scripts in a very simple scripting language which can be embedded in
XML. The scripts can call down into the API you've exposed from your
Java classes. You write the mechanism, your users write the policy.
SMS Server Tools 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110383/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many
GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts
to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The
daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them.
It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call
any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
stoned 1.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110366/
Stoned is a simple but fully functional curling simulation. It features
3D graphics, network play, and funky sound.
Terminal Server Client 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110347/
Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is a frontend for rdesktop. It
supports most of the rdesktop 1.1/1.2 arguments, can read .rdp files in
the Microsoft Unicode format, writes new .rdp files in ASCII (which can
also be read by the Microsoft RDP Client), and looks and functions very
much like the Microsoft RDP Client. It features a Gnome panel applet to
quickly launch saved rdp files.
The Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver 0.0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110345/
PURRS (the Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver) is a C++
library for the (possibly approximate) solution of recurrence
relations. To be more precise, the PURRS will solve: (a) linear
constant coefficient recurrence relations of finite order (when the
order is 1, parametric coefficients will be allowed); (b) linear
recurrence relations of the first order with variable coefficients; (c)
systems of linear recurrence relations with constant coefficients; (d)
some non-linear recurrence relations of finite order; (e) some linear
recurrence relations of infinite order and other generalized
recurrences, like those arising from the complexity analysis of
algorithms.
Tux Math Scrab*le 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110343/
Tux Math Scrab*le is a math version of the popular board game for
children 4-10. The game features drag-and-drop tiles for the user,
while Tux moves his own. The game challenges young people to construct
compound equations and consider multiple abstract possibilities.
wmDrawer 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110363/
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which
applications can be launched.
XCOM 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110369/
XCOM project is a free component system similar to Microsoft COM
(Component Object Model) or XPCOM. The primary focus will be on the
client side component development (in-process components).
Newsforge Reports
Voila! Workspot Linux is instant and portable "magic"
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1733244
- by Tina Gasperson - Workspot is an online Linux desktop. You go there
in any browser (java-enabled is better), login, and start up Red Hat
Linux within that browser. It is so cool, I really want it to be
something that people go for. I want it to succeed.
LinuxWorld diary: Day one - updated with Golden Penguins and a talk with Dell execs
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2023249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I'm posting this LinuxWorld missive a
little after 2 p.m., and I'll add to the post later today and tonight.
Since most specific product announcements are being covered by others
or have companion press releases we're running verbatim, please check
our NewsVac section for that kind of thing. In my show diary, I will
give you personal impressions of what's going on here, and if you have
any specific areas you'd like ...
University of Philippines President Boosts Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/2043259
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - In a letter to University of the
Philippines (UP) faculty and students posted on the UP Forum Online Web
site last December, the university's president, Dr. Francisco Nemenzo,
called for an institution-wide move from Windows to Linux. The final
paragraph of his letter said, "Let us all join the Linux revolutionary
movement. Good-bye, Bill Gates."
Newsforge Newsvac
US startup plans new console launch
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1019248
A Florida-based startup, Infinium Labs, has announced its intention to
launch a new broadband-enabled console in the US games market by the
end of the year which will compete directly with the offerings from
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.
'Open source key to Africa's development'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1019200
Kodek writes "As the world prepares for the World Summit on the
Information Society in Geneva next month, Tectonic caught up with
Bildad Kagai to discuss preparations for the launch of the Open Source
Foundation for Africa."
BeyondGeek.com replaces LinuxFreak.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1018240
Anonymous Reader writes "As many of you may be aware, LinuxFreak.org
was closed down over a month ago due to problems maintaining the site.
The old staff is back with a new modern site called 'BeyondGeek.com'.
If anyone remembers the old slogan for LinuxFreak was 'News Beyond
Geek'. Check'em out."
Server Blade Market Ripe With Linux Innovation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1018213
Brigid Fuller writes "Innovation based on the Linux operating system is
rampant in the rapidly emerging server blade computing market according
to the Server Blade Trade Association (SBTA).
Red Hat Slips Off a Curve
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/029222
Timothy R. Butler writes "In the third part of our Penguin Shootout
series, Timothy R. Butler considers the latest distribution from the
best-known name in the sector - Red Hat. With its much hyped and
attacked BlueCurve interface and various other improvements, will 8 be
the Shadowman's ticket to victory in our challenge? To find out, read
more here."
Real Shares Helix Server Code
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2138218
Company says developers will now be able to build open-source media
players for devices including cell phones and PDAs.
Torvalds a coup for Linux locals
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2137248
A PENGUIN-suited Linus Torvalds has shirked the huge commercial
machinations of New York's LinuxWorld to attend the smaller and
altogether friendlier linux.conf.au in Perth.
SuSE launches Office for SMEs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2137213
Cheaper, more secure.
AMD adds Linux clustering support for Opteron
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2136253
Scyld Computing's Beowulf cluster operating system will be upgraded to
a 64-bit version optimized for Advanced Micro Devices's forthcoming
Opteron server processor by the middle of this year, AMD said Tuesday.
LINUXWORLD - Ximian prepares link to Sun ONE platform
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/2136235
Evolution, a Ximian open-source groupware product for PCs running the
Linux and Unix operating systems, is being more tightly integrated with
Sun Microsystems's Sun ONE messaging and collaboration servers.
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Sourceforge
pmd-1.02 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246108
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
includes a number of new rules and bugfixes. ...with a slew of new
rules (ImportFromSamePackageRule, SwitchDensityRule,
NullAssignmentRule, UnusedModifierRule, ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule)
and plenty o' bug fixes and new features. See the changelog -
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=135420 - for
all the details. Thanks to the many folks who contributed, most of whom
are listed here: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/credits.html Thanks, Tom
RCSoccerSim 9.2.2 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245751
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for
multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two
teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer
(football). RoboCup Soccer Simulator is licensed under a combination of
the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL. The latest stable release adds goal posts
with "real" collision detection and modelling as well the remaining
official changes requested for the new RoboCup World Cup. But that's
not all, to make your life easier (and mine more difficult), the
various rcsoccersim modules are now available as RPMs for i386. If
anyone else is willing to provide RPMs for other architectures, let us
(sserver-admin at users.sf.net) know and we'll tell you how.
tinyproxy 1.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246109
After a month of being in the "Release Candidate" state, tinyproxy
1.5.2 has been released. There have been a bunch of usability
improvements since 1.5.1. Anyone using 1.5.1 or previous is recommended
to upgrade. tinyproxy is a GPLed, lightweight HTTP proxy. Designed from
the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for
sites where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system
resources for a larger proxy are unavailable.
JGraphpad 1.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246127
This release offers many new switches in the properties file, minor bug
fixes and the following new features: pluggable layout algorithms with
Sugiyama and Spring-embedder default implementations, scaled image
cells, edge routing menu, plugin-architecture for adding new commands,
and file extensions for open/save dialogs. JGraphpad is the first free
diagram editor for Java that offers XML and drag-and-drop capabilities.
Seahorse 0.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246142
Seahorse branches have been consolodated (this is the end of having a
separate seahorse2 branch). Many code cleanups and packages updates
have occured since seahorse2-0.4.4. This also marks the beginning of
stable and development releases based on minor versions. 0.7.0 should
be released in a week or 2.
SCons 0.10 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244414
SCons alpha release 0.10 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.10 contains the following interface
changes: - The meaning of the third argument passed to user-defined
Scanner functions has changed. It was formerly the target node being
built, and is now a list of directories (a path) which may be searched
for files found during the scan. - The .sconsign files are no longer
ASCII text, they are now a pickled (binary) Python data structure. This
release adds the following features: - SCons now prints a description
of Python functions being executed as actions to update a target. -
Scanners now support a "recursive" attribute that specifies the Scanner
will be re-applied to files found during the scan. - A new Clean()
method supports removing user-specified files when using the -c option.
- New SetJobs() and GetJobs() method support setting or fetching the
default number of jobs. - The MinGW tool chain is now supported. - A
new --debug=includes option has been added. The following fixes have
been added: - SCons now symlinks or copies files from Repositories on
different file systems, when hard links won't work. - The Install()
method prints something when the -n option is used. - When the -n
option is used, SCons no longer creates duplicate source files in a
BuildDir(). - The Program() Builder (and other multiple-step Builders)
now work properly when only the source file is specified. - A bug when
building a file whose basename matched the directory in which it lived
has been fixed. - The -c options will now properly remove symlinks. -
The Environment.get() now returns None by default. - Error messages now
all start with "scons: ***". - Warning messages now all start with
"scons: warning:". Performance has been improved as follows: - Scanners
are now called once and only once per file. - Internal checks for
whether a file has a Builder have been significantly sped up. -
Unnecessary internal imports have been removed. The following changes
have been made to the SCons packaging: - The scons-local packages no
longer contain Python bytecode (*.pyc) files. The documentation has
been improved: - The initial explanation of SConscript files has been
improved. - A misformatted table in the StaticObject description has
been fixed. - New features have been documented.
lifelines internationalized
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244180
LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history
research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language
and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM
format. Recent copies of lifelines now include Danish, French, German,
and Swedish message catalogs.
Millstone 3.0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244080
Millstone is a library for creating server side user interfaces for
networked Java applications. It provides easiness and modularity of
component based user interface development to Internet application
development as well as terminal independency. This version is service
release for the Millstone Base 3.0 and the Millstone WebAdapter 3.0
modules. This version includes fixes to both base and web-adapter
modules, and it also adds some previously unimplemented features to the
default theme.
JGAP 0.32 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244075
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to
require minimum effort to use "out of the box," but is also designed to
be highly modular to allow for custom components to be easily plugged
in by the more adventurous. JGAP 0.32 is a maintenance release that
primarily includes optimizations to increase performance and reduce
memory consumption. Minor enhancements and fixes, as well as additions
to the documentation, are also included. Please see the Changelog for
details. JGAP 0.32 is considered an alpha release and is therefore not
feature-complete and may contain bugs.
EasySok 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244037
EasySok is a sokoban game for KDE. It is themeable, has a level editor
and a solver, various import/export functions, a retro mode and other
nice features. This is just a bugfix release for users of gcc 3.2. If
you could compile EasySok 0.3.1, there is no need to switch to this new
version.
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