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Slashdot
Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison Redux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0355243
Macmurph writes "[0]Bibble Labs has [1]released a lightning fast
version of the RAW image convertor, MacBibble. According to MacBibble
creator, Eric Hyman, "MacBibble 3.x is almost 10 times faster than the
manufacturers software when converting RAW files under OSX.".
Prelimenary tests indicate the Mac may be faster than PCs in RAW image
conversion afterall. This calls into question the relevance of the the
hotly debated article [2]Rob Galbraith posted just 3 weeks ago and
[3]discussed here on Slashdot. Two thumbs up for the PowerPC G4's
AltiVec vector processing engine, now being put to work in MacBibble."
Links
0. http://www.bibblelabs.com/
1. http://www.bibblelabs.com/bibble/macnews.thtml
2. http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2003-01/2003_01_07_macpc.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2320219&tid=152
Don't Eat The White Snow Either
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2352230
loteck writes "An interesting article about an Australian ski resort
that is [0] converting human waste into freshly driven snow. The waste
is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light
filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even
cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more
about the creek than it does the waste."
Links
0. http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Apr_02/story_1349.html
Biotech Genome Patents Invalidated?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0019214
[0]bruthasj writes "The [1]Boston Globe has a piece about all the
Biotechs grabbing patents that dealt with segments of the Human Genome.
It appears there are work arounds and that the USPTO basically
disregards further patents on the genome. As one quoted: ''The land
grab is over''. Read about it [2]here."
Links
0. http://{bruthasj} {at} {yahoo.com}
1. http://www.boston.com/
2.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/029/business/Putting_patents_in_their_place+.shtml
Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2357231
Bob Vila's Hammer writes "An Australian engineer, Alan Burns invented a
very efficient [0]underwater steam powered jet engine. "Steam that is
produced from a petrol or gasoline fueled boiler emerges at high speed
from a rearward-facing ring-shaped nozzle into a cone-shaped chamber.
Shock waves created as the steam condenses are focused by the chamber
to blast water out of the back. Besides powering watercraft pretty
efficiently, it can also be used as an extremely robust pump. Pretty
Cool."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993321
Sen. Feingold Reintroduces Radio Competition Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/004221
[0]jonerik writes "[1]Billboard [2]is reporting that [3]Sen. Russ
Feingold (D-Wisc.) has reintroduced his [4]Competition in Radio and
Concert Industries Act, which is aimed at limiting the concentration of
radio stations and concert promoters in the hands of a few large
companies, such as [5]Clear Channel. In addition, the bill would close
loopholes in payola laws which currently permit 'pay-for-play' deals
between record companies and radio stations 'unless an appropriate
sponsorship identification announcement is made.' The bill's
introduction comes as [6]the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation prepares to hold [7]a hearing Thursday on the problems
of radio consolidation, and the committee's chairman, [8]Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), is expected to sign on soon as the bill's
co-sponsor."
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1. http://www.billboard.com/
2.
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1805823
3. http://feingold.senate.gov/
4. http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/03/01/2003128910.html
5. http://www.clearchannel.com/
6. http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/
7. http://commerce.senate.gov/~commerce/press/03/2003124A29.html
8. http://mccain.senate.gov/
George Lucas Consolidates his Empire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0024255
[0]Shadowcat writes "George Lucas is consolidating his galaxy, merging
LucasArts, Lucas Digital (ILM & Skywalker Sound), Lucas Licensing, and
Lucasfilm into one mega-corporation to provide a single place to create
all sorts of media. You can find the [1]article on [2]SF Chronicle
Site."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/29/BU13556.DTL
2. http://sfgate.com
Rambus Wins Case Against Infineon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2217254
[0]rednoise writes "[1]Yahoo is running a story about how a Federal
Circuit Court in California (I think) has (unbelievably) ruled that
RAMBUS did NOT intentionally mislead members of JEDEC when the
committee was developing the SDRAM specification. RAMBUS' stock
skyrocketed something like 57% on the news. This is very bad news for
owners of computers."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20030129/tc_nm/tech_rambus_dc
Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2143217
Roblimo has a story over at NewsForge about [0]DevIS, a software
company that [1]relies on Free and open source software to not just
weather but actually do well in the current software economy. Part of
the reason may be that the company doesn't preach software philosophy;
they just find that combining well-tested (and mostly GPL'd) software
tools is the path of least resistance when it comes to building
Internet applications. Most of their work is for the Federal
government; always nice to see public dollars supporting public
software. Can anyone point out other good examples of similar
businesses?
Links
0. http://www.devis.com
1. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/28/1829254.shtml?tid=3
MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1934211
protonman writes "A hefty flame war has broken loose on the
[0]debian-devel mailinglist about (amongst other things) the legality
of mplayer. The interesting part in this conflict is that unlike in
previous alledged GPL violations, the culprit is not the unwillingness
to provide the source, but the prohibition of the distribution of
binaries, thereby violating section 6 of the GPL: 'You may not impose
any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
granted herein.' Read also the blurb on [1]the MPlayer homepage."
Links
0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
1. http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/
P2P Content Delivery for Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1823218
Orasis writes "The [0]Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to
help deliver open source, public domain, and [1]Creative
Commons-licensed content using [2]peer-to-peer technology. The network
is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together
thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out
over-burdened/[3]slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site
can easily [4]join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site."
Links
0. http://open-content.net/
1. http://creativecommons.org/
2. http://open-content.net/specs/
3. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214064,00.html
4. http://open-content.net/publish.html
Freshmeat
Allegro 4.1.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111064/
Allegro is a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that
provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard,
mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating
point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions,
compressed datafile, and a GUI.
ASCII animation interpreter 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111096/
ASCII animation interpreter is a small scripting language for animating
ASCII-art.
BitTorrent++ 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111015/
BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing
solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written
in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32
as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many
parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at
once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other
behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.
Blassic 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111145/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
language.
Botan 1.1.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111140/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It
includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key
algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an
easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry
standards, including X.509v3.
Calculating Pi 2003-01-29 (Ramanujan)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111116/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi
through various methods.
cdrtools 2.01a02 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111117/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW
recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It
supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and
ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include
IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and
mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO,
RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI
support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Chaperon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111013/
Chaperon is a LALR parser, which parses structured text documents and
generates XML documents as output. It includes a parser generator like
yacc and a regex scanner like lex. As input, it uses Chaperon, a
grammar written in XML. The project includes a Ant task and transformer
components for the Apache Cocoon project.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111079/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its
main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group
collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant
messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant
messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It
provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a
multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of
CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented
computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of
encryption.
DAME 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111101/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) lets you create C++ classes from SQL
statements. Database access libraries are available for Oracle and
PostgreSQL.
darklight fluxbox 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111069/
darklight is a good, dark theme.
Dnsmasq 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111122/
Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to
provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND
would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically
configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines
which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP
daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using
DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected
via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections.
dvb-mpegtools 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111109/
dvb-mpegtools provides various small programs helpful for converting,
demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams
coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but
tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. The
package used to be included with the DVB driver.
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111148/
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper
classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge
the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and
with all common Eiffel compilers.
eL DAPo 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111105/
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.
Examplotron 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111104/
Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of
using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element
"foo" here, you just write the element:
"<foo/>".
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111111/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable
script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done
through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall
is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic
shaping, and more.
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111137/
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 is a greeter theme for Gentoo with an
"industrial" touch.
GKrellM 2.1.7 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111114/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs,
disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are
also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with
mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP,
clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and
fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off
button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for
configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are
available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
GKsu 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111150/
GKsu is a GTK+ frontend to the su and sudo programs. It supports login
shells and preserving environment variables, and is useful for
launching graphical programs that need to run as another user. When
operating as a sudo replacement, it respects /etc/sudoers definitions.
Gnarwl 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111138/
Gnarwl is an email autoreply tool like vacation(1). However, instead of
requiring system accounts for every email address, it looks up its user
information in an LDAP database. With gnarwl, users are no longer
required to mess around with .forward files in order to use an email
autoresponder.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111106/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GWorkspace 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111134/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of
NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
hdup 1.5.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111110/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync),
and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
Highlight 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111146/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports ADA 95, Assembler, Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, Java,
Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, (Object) Pascal, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and
Visual Basic files. It's possible to easily enhance Highlight's parsing
database.
imgSeek 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111089/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an
image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough
sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply
draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for
you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also create
slideshows, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including
EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Javasynth 0.5-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111099/
Javasynth is a Java-based system for creating (rather experimental)
modular audio systems called sound modules. This allows synthesizers of
some kind to be assembled in a modular fashion using oscillators,
amplifiers, envelopes, filters, and other components familiar to those
that have worked with hardware synthesizers. It includes a separated
synth engine and a Swing user interface for building sound modules.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.1a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111142/
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.
jMoney@Home 0.52pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111107/
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.
KmusicdB 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111149/
KmusicdB is a music information manager for KDE, using PostgreSQL as a
backend. You can add your music collection to the database, and view it
in a convenient browser. It currently supports the ability to add and
edit artists, add and edit titles (with album pictures), and a track
editor. The ability to generate reports and statistics, and also to
search the database is implemented, as well as creating and opening,
backing up and restoring databases. It is highly customizable, and
fast. CDDB functionality has also been implemented.
KricketScoreboard 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111128/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches.
It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing,
batting and bowling statistics, etc.
libnova 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111131/
Libnova is the astronomical calculation engine used in the Nova
project. It can currently calculate:- Aberration, Nutation, Apparent
Position, Dynamical Time, Julian Day, Precession, Proper Motion,
Sidereal Time, Solar Coordinates, Coordinate Transformations, and
Planetary Positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87).
LinCompta Pro 0.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111048/
LinCompta Pro is a French professional analytical accounting program.
It was developed with GTK 1.2, GNOME, and MySQL.
Linux Progress Patch 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111115/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen
logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It
hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant
for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing
boot messages.
Linux Progress Patch 2.4.20-LPP (Untested)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111108/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen
logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It
hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant
for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing
boot messages.
mailsync 4.5 (*)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111100/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The
algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to
a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and
message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync
can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote
mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
mod_spam_die 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111102/
mod_spam_die confuses spam crawlers by giving them infinite fake email
addresses. It is inspired by DIE.net and spam-conference.
Mrwtoppm 0.0.a8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111132/
Mrwtoppm provides a command line utility and a Gimp plugin for
processing RAW image files from Minolta's DiMAGE 5 and 7 series digital
cameras. The programs decode Minolta's RAW format, perform Bayer
pattern interpolation, and color space conversion. The programs also
perform tone control and sharpening in CIELab color space. Utilities
for displaying much of the additional data stored in the RAW file are
also included.
netspeed_applet for gnome 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111112/
netspeed_applet is a little GNOME applet that shows the traffic on a
specified network device (for example eth0) in kbytes/s.
nfstimesync 1.0.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111119/
nfstimesync is a tool for synchronizing the time of an NFS server and
client without root rights. It was developed to allow the
"make" program work correctly with NFS. It was tested on
Linux, but should be easily portable to any Unix with LD_PRELOAD
enabled.
openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.20-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111129/
openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel
allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware.
openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to
modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI,
Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between
nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.
OpenSched 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111103/
OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project.
For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development
project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information
about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc.
palito 2003-01-29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111125/
palito is a real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation.
PHPwebmail 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111133/
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.
PixiePlus 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111055/
PixiePlus is a free, fast, and feature packed image browser, viewer,
and manager for Unix/Linux systems. It features fast and flexible
thumbnail preview generation, embedded JPEG and TIFF thumbnail support,
support for over 80 image formats, highly configurable HTML export,
batch conversion and effects, animated slideshows, similiar image
finding, and file management.
PJIRC 1.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111147/
PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel,
privates, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's
still quite light.
S tar 1.5a11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111118/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Scoutplans 4.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111080/
Scoutplans was originally developed as a method for Scout units to
share calendars with each other. It has evolved into a general-purpose
calendar (called "Plans") with many useful features. These
include recurring events, support for multiple organizations, merged
calendars, event icons, "skinnable" stylesheet-based look
& feel, MS outlook export, online help, and more.
SDBA Revolution 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111126/
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.
SDL.NET 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111092/
SDL.NET is a set of language bindings for SDL and SDL_mixer written in
C#, which allows easy development of games using Microsoft's .NET
framework. It should work on any .NET-capable machine.
SimpleData 3.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111141/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory,
invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the
ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and
allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms
are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It
features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
Smilehouse Workspace 0.9.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111135/
Smilehouse Workspace is a Java servlet based application meant to ease
product, order, and customer management. It currently runs and is
tested and developed on Tomcat. It has two Web-based interfaces. The
first is a themed interface visible to the public, and the second is a
separate administration interface that allows the management of users,
content, and the visual appearance for the public service. This makes
completely browser-based creation and management of a service such as
an e-business site and related CRM possible.
Steel Icons 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111091/
Steel Icons is an icon set for KDE comprised of Steel/Silver icons with
shadows. It is based on the "Digital Reality" icons (mostly
the same, but with shadows and not green).
sysstat 4.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111040/
The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for
Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity
information. This information can also be saved in a system activity
file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics
and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported
by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related
activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space
utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics,
among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
vncrypt 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111113/
This is cryptographic disk driver for FreeBSD. It provides transparent
encryption and decryption of selected devices. It is based on vn(4).
white_dune 0.20beta183 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111130/
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.
WidgetWeb 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111124/
WidgetWeb is a framework for creating community-shared Web sites
similar to wikis. These are Web sites where content and page
composition can be edited via a Web browser. A powerful permission
model is provided to restrict which community members are allowed to
edit. WidgetWeb is built on a simple premise: components comprise a web
page and components can be nested to create more complicated effects.
This provides for easy browser-based editing.
WireFusion 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110986/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java
presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web.
Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by
coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D
engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D
presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3
player.
xmmsC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111136/
xmmsC is a small program suite for irssi which reads what XMMS is
currently is playing and prints out this information to an IRC channel.
The song's title is read from its ID3 tag. If there is no ID3 tag, the
XMMS playlist entry is used instead.
XPix 0.1pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111058/
XPix is a command-line images viewer that is designed for situations
where images must be viewed quickly and the functionality of a full-
blown image viewer and manager is not required. It uses ImageMagick and
Xlib to display images, experimentally displays animated GIFs, and does
not use a "panner" widget. It also supports MIT-SHM and the
NET- WM desktop spec for properly calculating the desktop size,
avoiding the excessive resizing and scaling problems in other Xlib
image viewers.
Newsforge Reports
I'll tell you where you can put those patents (to good use)
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1956211
- by Tina Gasperson - In these tough economic times, it pays to keep a
finger in the air in case wind of a great new money-making idea comes
along. Thanks, SBC! No more missed mortgage payments for me!
Making a Living Saving the Government Money
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1829254
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Peter Gallagher is president of devIS
(AKA Development Infostructure), a Virginia-based company that designs,
develops, hosts, and operates large-scale custom Internet applications
for government agencies and private consultants. He says devIS saves
its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using Open Source
Software. Gallagher also claims none of the Web sites or Web
applications devIS has produced have ...
Red Hat 'End of Life' Decision Explained by Red Hat
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2149203
- By Jeremy Hogan, Red Hat About a month ago Red Hat announced in our
"Under the Brim" newsletter that we were changing the lifecycle of our
Red Hat Linux product line. This product was originally designed to
meet the needs of many types of users, including large enterprises,
corporations, and individuals. As open source has advanced, it's become
clear that this one size fits all productization of open source
technologes no longer addresses ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Norwich Union plans IT savings
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1213208
Dave B writes "When rationalising IT systems after a merger deal the
staff at Norwich Union increased their use of thin clients to reduce
their exposure to MS's new licensing charges. Readers anticipating a
sudden shift to Linux from MS Windows should appreciate that it isn't
always possible however desireable to the accounts dept it may seem at
first glance."
IBM: Linux will replace AIX
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1041235
The day is approaching when Linux is likely to replace IBM's version of
Unix, the company's top software executive said, an indication that the
upstart operating system's stature is rising within Big Blue.
Linux gets high-end server boost
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1039246
Linux took a step forward in high-end servers with the recent adoption
of software that should help IBM, NEC, SGI and others use the
open-source operating system better in multiprocessor servers.
Ximian Desktop 2.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1035244
Anonymous Reader writes "A preview of Ximian Desktop 2.0 reveals a
friendly, sophisticated place to work, and it also shows how companies
can help bridge the gap between developers and the wish lists of
non-developer users."
Free DemoForge licenses to open source developers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0317226
Eugene Sukhodolin writes "DemoForge offers free licenses to its
DemoForge Studio, an ultimate tool for creating software demos, to open
source developers. DemoForge clips are realistic software demos that
simulate your software products and show the users your software
application without the need of downloading, full mouse and screen
activity duplicated. Pop-up text messages can be inserted to any place
in the demo clip, telling the users ...
Buy a piece of net nostalgia for $5,000
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2215229
If you've got $5,000 to spare, you could buy a piece of Net nostalgia
in the form of the OpenProjects .net, .com and .org domains. Owner,
founder of the OpenProjects Network (OPN) and professional online
beggar Rob Levin, has decided to put them up for sale on eBay (all the
sites in question point to the auction entry).
Peeking under the hood of SnapGear's uClinux-power
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051253
Anonymous Reader writes "LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin
takes a look at SnapGear's award-winning uClinux-based VPN appliances
from the perspective of a developer's ability to customize them -- and
in the process, becomes a uClinux convert . . ."
Vector Linux 2.5 SOHO Edition Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051238
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org has published a review of Vector
Linux 2.5: It has been some time since I updated my Vector Linux
distribution, but due to a recent move, it seemed that the time was
ripe. Previously having used/reviewed VL products, as well as working
together with the VL team on a specialized version of the distribution,
I was certainly eager to try out the latest fruits of their efforts."
Enabling the Whuffie Economy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051222
Anonymous Reader writes "In Enabling the Whuffie Economy, Howard
Rhiengold writes about Affero's reputation software, "Affero is a new
wrinkle, one that holds some promise...If Affero or something like it
can spread beyond the open source technical support community, that
elusive but all important quality Cory Doctorow calls 'whuffie', could
expand and circulate through social cyberspaces." See Rhiengold's blog
for the full text."
25 Best Linux Games
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2050245
The Linux Game Tome has announced the winners of the Happypenguin
Awards. Games, toys and libraries in 25 different categories were
nominated and voted upon by the Linux gaming community. Take a look at
the best Linux gaming has to offer.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/
Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/
Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/
Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/
Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/
Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/
Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ce5/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/
Interests: QuickKill
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/5c45/
Caffeine: XTZ Energy Truffles
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5c54/
Interests: Megatokyo Graphic Novel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5c2a/
Gadgets: SureFire Z2 Combat Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5c40/
Computing: DVD X Copy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c7f/
Gadgets: Snap Digital Mini Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5c79/
Gadgets: LED Mini Headlamp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5c7d/
Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/2982/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
Sourceforge
openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image
clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications
the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly
scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected
SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems
at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This
release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the
kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src.
Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while.
(You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from
http://www.openMosix.org
Sodipodi 0.29 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247687
Sodipodi 0.29 is the first version based on Gtk+ 2.0 widget set and
including limited support for Windows32 environment. The list of
required libraries is much shorter than it was before, most notably
both libgnome and libgnomeprint are not needed (although the latter can
be used if present). It also support Xft font database in addition to
gnome-print and privately specified fonts. Being platform port, it
(almost) does not add new user-visible functionality.
AviSynth 2.5.0 Beta Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247836
After a long testing and debugging period, we are now ready to present
the AviSynth 2.5.0 beta. A big thanks to everyone here - the testers -
the patient developers - and those spreading the word of AviSynth! We
have some great features under the hood of the new AviSynth that
hopefully will be able to bring non-linear video editing to a new
level! (ok - enough with the rants). The summed up changes: * Native
planar YV12 support. * Multiple audiochannels. Unlimited number of
channels is now supported. * Float samples support. AviSynth is now
capable of processing samples as floats. * Automatic sample conversion.
If some filters doesn't support a specific sample type, they are
converted to the format preserving most quality. * Optimizations. Many
basic features has been optimized, and now performs much better than
previous versions. * Temporalsoften has a significant speed
improvement, scenechange detection and a new improved blend mode. *
Limiter can limit the YUV ranges, to avoid invalid color values and
improve compression. * ColorYUV makes it possible to do very exact
color corrections. ColorYUV has built-in auto-whitebalance and
auto-gain features. * Select separate planes using UToY, VToY and merge
them together again, using YToUV. * Fliphorizontal. implemented. *
SelectRangeEvery is now part of the core functions. * Blur, Sharpen,
Resize optimized. * Fast XviD colorspace conversions. * Updated
installer. * AviSynth icons. * See clip info using the info() command.
See more info in the release notes!
PalmVNC 2.0 final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247845
PalmVNC 2.0 is considered stable enough to deserve a "final" label.
Development of version 2.1 is already on track. PalmVNC 2 is the latest
evolution of PalmVNC, the VNC client for the Palm OS platform that
allows remote control of a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, ...)
over any TCP/IP connection. It supports high resolution on Cli and OS 5
devices.
Double Choco Latte 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247867
Double Choco Latte is a project to create a solution for managing some
IT departments including software development and call center activity.
It has a web interface and will also have a stand-alone Java client.
Added ability to reassign in time cards, track reassignments when done
via time cards, and fixed PHP notices when uploading files.
PyXML 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247639
Version 0.8.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It
should be considered a beta release. The Python/XML distribution
contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the
Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install
package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such
as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. PyXML can be
downloaded from the following URLs:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.win32-py2.2.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2-2.2.Suse81.i386.rp
m Changes in this version, compared to 0.8.1: * Updated to Expat 1.95.6
(almost; one last minute bugfix snuck into the Expat release after
PyXML 0.8.2 was released). * Support more DOM L3 features in minidom:
isWhitespaceInElementContent, schemaType, isId, DOMImplementationSource
* Various bug fixes, including - 609641: minidom nodes not pickleable -
618156: Use character references in XMLGenerator if necessary - 622286:
marshal.wddx: 'recordset' element typo - 624420: Can't create 2nd
Sax2.Reader - 665486: Implement SAX skippedEntity for Expat The
Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for
processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled
into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and
standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other
useful modules. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat
(Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). *
SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul
Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike
Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * Various utility
modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example
programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by
contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send
comments and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug reports may be filed
on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=6473&atid=106473 For
more information about Python and XML, see:
http://www.python.org/topics/xml/
New Mailing List for Tcl Threads Discussion
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247015
There's now a new mailing list available for people wanting to talk
about threading issues in Tcl and its extensions (especially the Thread
extension, of course.) It's called Tcl-Threads, and to subscribe you
should visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tcl-threads
and follow the instructions there.
Super Sunday Licq 1.2.4
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247122
At the Super Bowl Halftime show, Licq 1.2.4 was released. The ChangeLog
has been updated, so check it out. Licq is an ICQ clone written fully
in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different
functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set.
Unfortunately, the Licq Project was $1,999,994.31 short of purchasing a
commercial to announce the release during the Super Bowl. Perhaps next
year..
syscalltrack 0.81 "Cruel Ducky" released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247577
Well, at long last, here's 0.81, "Cruel Ducky". It has several kernel
bug fixes, and support for matching void pointers and support for
strace's follow forks mode. syscalltrack is a linux kernel module and
supporting user space environment which allow interception and
modifying system calls that match user defined criteria. Think of it as
strace on steroids.
Video4Linux Grab 0.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246947
The v4lgrab project is a realtime capturing software for a Video4Linux
device into an AVI file. This release fixes the errors and problems
reported (audio/video sync problems) from the old version 0.2.1. This
release also includes feature enhancements.
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