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Slashdot
Be Thankful If They Just Snore
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2252243
The NYT is running has a lengthy piece in their weekend supplement
about [0]sleep disorders. Besides a certain amount of humor value, the
article covers sleep terrors and sleepwalking and even weirder
disorders.
Links
0. http://nytimes.com/2003/02/02/magazine/02SLEEP.html
DVD: Degradable Versatile...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2241236
[0]jomaree writes "The [1]SMH online reports that some DVDs are
starting to corrode or "rot". Although somewhere between 1 and 10 per
cent of DVDs are affected, it seems the distributors don't want to
know. One list of affected movie titles reveals what might be a
sinister pattern emerging: "One DVD website lists 18 titles known to
have at least one bad batch, among them Planet of the Apes (1968), Men
in Black: Collectors Edition, Independence Day and the Alien Legacy box
set." Or maybe the person compiling the list only buys sci-fi movies."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804519345.html
Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/220240
Cyclometh writes "Someone has put together a set of [0]screengrabs from
an Asian bootleg of LOTR:TTT, which are totally hysterical. The
subtitles are apparently the genuine article, which definitely should
bring the phrase caveat emptor to mind for anyone who buys bootleg
DVDs. For a definition of Engrish, see [1]here (apparently it's a
no-smorking zone.)"
Links
0. http://home.online.no/~gremmem/engrish_ttt_captions/
1. http://www.engrish.com/
Hardcore Waste Recycling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/167240
erf writes "Ok, recently we've had a story posted on [0]composting,
followed by one on recycling [1]wastewater into snow. Enough with the
amateur hour stuff, how about the real thing? Joseph Jenkins has been
thermophilically composting all of his family's food waste and sewage
into compost for his garden for 24 years. Yes, he eats the food out of
that garden too. All you need is a bucket, some sawdust, and a compost
bin. You can read all about it in the [2]Humanure Handbook. The
squeamish might want to begin with the section on [3]fecophobia."
Links
0. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1241250&tid=134
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2352230&tid=126
2. http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
3. http://www.weblife.org/humanure/chapter6_2.html
More Ways to Blow Things Up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1739207
pitabutter writes "Since the /. crowd seems to appreciate the exciting
combination of amateur chemistry and fearlessness (what is it about
intelligence and the desire to blow things up?), [0]Sam Barros' site
would be worth a look. Rail guns, high voltage, electromagnetic
experiements-all there and with videos to boot. Unable to confirm if
Sam still has appendages intact........"
Links
0. http://www.powerlabs.org/
Dismal Console Failures
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1532246
Anonymous Howard writes "Shacknews' jason bergman has written an
article that looks at some of the [0]biggest failures in console
gaming. It's a great read, and spotlights stuff like the Halcyon, a
$2500 (!) laserdisc system with only two games and Nintendo's Virtual
Boy, a stereoptic system that had red-on-black simulated 3D graphics."
Links
0. http://www.shacknews.com/extras/lncex/lncex7.x
Finland Drops EUCD For Now
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/213251
[0]replicant_deckard writes "[1]Electronic Frontier Finland just got a
huge legal victory. They report the local DMCA-copy (based on EU
copyright directive) was [2]dropped today at the parliament after heavy
criticism. So far [3]just two EU nations have accepted the innovation
threatening law. [4]Campaigns go on in different European states. They
need your support!" cabra771 writes "The European Commission has put up
a [5]new proposal dealing with online music piracy that appears to have
slightly upset a few people."
Links
0. http://www.effi.org/
1. http://www.effi.org/index.en.html
2. http://www.effi.org/julkaisut/tiedotteet/pressrelease-2003-01-31.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1424213&tid=158
4. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
5. http://www.itworld.com/Net/4087/030131euantipiracy/
Battlefield Medkits Improve
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2057244
ApharmdB writes "CNN has an article on the US military's fielding of a
[0]bandage containing clotting agents that can stop blood flow within
two minutes. Obviously, the hope is that they will save a lot of lives.
What's next straight from your favorite FPS? Who has an estimate on how
long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel
rocket launchers?" [1]Those have been around for quite a while.
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/31/combat.medics/index.html
1. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smaw.htm
Giant Sucking Noise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1848201
[0]bsharma writes "The [1]next round of globalization is sending
upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design,
engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and
still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?" News.com has a [2]related story
about outsourcing.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982839.html
A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1832211
TweetZilla writes "Dennis Powell has a good [0]preview of Ximian's
newest desktop. But does anybody care at this point? How many people
still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?"
Links
0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=316
Freshmeat
Alist 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111340/
Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information
about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and
search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a
client portion that collects the information, a daemon that receives
data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for
information. Clients for Solaris, Linux, FreeBsd, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Irix,
Windows, and Mac OS X are currently available.
Ampoliros 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111321/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
ArX 1.0pre0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111342/
ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed
repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive
operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a
collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell
utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch.
Axualize 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111326/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java
objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to
allow develpers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To
understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with
multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using
Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your
application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI
applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever
application framework you please.
CdGet 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111346/
CdGet is a smart downloading system used to retrieve the MP3 files of a
CD. It uses freedb and Direct Connect, but is not a traditional Direct
Connect client. Instead, it tries to do the work for you, searching for
sources, matching the wanted album, automatically finding the best
sources, and probing for new ones if the transfer is too slow or is
interrupted. Finally, it saves the file to the right place, which is
configurable, based on the artist, album, title of the song, and track
number.
CGI-Shell 0.17a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111316/
CGI-Shell simulates a shell using CGI, so everyone who has a CGI
directory on a Web server can also have a shell on it. It's comparable
to telnet or SSH.
CoC Character Generator 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111323/
CoC is a character generator for Call of Cthulhu. It currently uses the
5th Edition of the rules.
Colorer Library take5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111261/
Colorer Library provides source text syntax highlighting and text
parsing services for host applications. It colorizes source code on
host editor systems in more than 100 formats. It uses the powerful HRC
format (XML, regexp, context-free grammars), allowing it to support any
language. The parser can search and build lists of special text tokens
(function lists, syntax errors) and search and indent programming
language constructions (brackets, paired tags).
Crystal Space 0.96r001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111325/
Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It
supports a large number of 3D features.
evilbar 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111315/
evilbar is small ncurses-based bar which is designed to match the style
of evilwm. evilbar sports a right-aligned clock and XMMS control.
Evolvotron 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111339/
Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" software to
evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random
mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps,
and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software
for you.
Filesystem Charset Converter 1.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111309/
Filesystem Charset Convertor (fcc) converts file and directory names
from one character set to another.
Forrest 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111299/
Forrest is an XML project documentation framework built on Apache
Cocoon. It provides XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images, and other
resources and uses them to render XML source content into a Web site
through the commandline, a robot, or a dynamic Web application. It is
ideal for rapidly-developing sites like intranets.
Ghronos 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111307/
Ghronos is a gaming clock mostly intended for chess and go. Features
include hard button control for that "real chess clock" feel,
selectable timing styles including Fischer and delay timing for chess,
Canadian and Japanese byo-yomi timing for go, a standard countdown
style, "black moves first" and "white moves first"
options, sequential and per-player move counting, optional sound, the
ability to pause, an easy-to-read display (with big numbers), simple
configuration, and protection against accidental misconfiguration
during game play.
Guikachu 1.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111324/
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource files
for PalmOS-based pocket computers.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111351/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which
tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It
also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible,
integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
JOELib 2003-01-31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111337/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS
substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering
pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written
in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
jTDS 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111310/
jTDS is a JDBC 2.0 type 4 driver for MS SQL Server.
libspopc pop3 client library 0.5beta (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111335/
libspopc is a simple-to-use POP3 client library. It's primary goal is
to provide an easy and quick way to host a POP3 client within a program
to C developers without exposing them to socket programming. However,
the socket layer is also accessible. libspopc allows mail programs to
connect to many POP accounts and manage email. It implements the client
side of RFC 1939. The email client can download email headers before
downloading the entire message.
mailpopup 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111345/
mailpopup checks one or more email accounts and notifies the owner by
SMB (Winpopup/LinPopup) if new mail has arrived.
MEDICI 0.0.97 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111328/
MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. ISO 9735
(EDIFACT) and TRADACOMS syntaxes are supported. MEDICI is a parser for
EDI streams and provides functions to query system and message
directories.
Modular Controller Architecture 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111322/
Modular Controller Architecture us a modular, network-transparent,
realtime capable C/C++ framework for controlling robots and other kind
of hardware. The main plattform is Linux/RTLinux, but support for Win32
and Solaris also exists.
monfarm 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111318/
Monfarm is an alarm-enabled monitoring system for server farms. It
produces dynamically updated HTML status pages showing the availability
of servers. Alarms are generated if servers become unavailable.
Orc 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111156/
Orc is a theme which celebrates Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the
Orc race.
OSSP sa 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111350/
OSSP sa is an abstraction library for the Unix socket application
programming interface (API). It features stream and datagram oriented
communication over Unix Domain and Internet Domain (TCP and UDP)
sockets. It provides the following key features: address abstraction
(local, IPv4, and IPv6), type abstraction, I/O timeouts, I/O stream
buffering, and convenience I/O functions.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111308/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an
easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the
Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users,
change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas,
mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The
application's language is configurable (except for the control part)
and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
Pure FTP Server 1.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111314/
Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP
server based on Troll-FTPd. It has no known buffer overflows, is
trivial to set up, and is especially designed for modern kernels.
Features include PAM support, IPv6, chroot()ed home directories,
virtual domains, built-in 'ls', FXP protocol, anti-warez system,
bandwidth throttling, bounded ports for passive downloads, an LDAP
backend, XML output, and more.
Pysite 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111288/
Pysite is a tool written in Python to generate Web sites based on the
contents of files in a given directory tree. It crawls through a
specified directory tree looking for files matching certain
configurable patterns (like intro, title-fr, and
this-is-another-page-body), building up an output Web page for each set
of files found. It features valid XHTML output, support for multiple
language output, simple hierarchical templates (just put a template in
a directory and it will be used for all subdirectories), and basic
plaintext to XHTML conversion.
QSpamDog 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111317/
QSpamDog is a PHP-based email filter which is intended to be used
primarily in filtering spam email. It was designed for usage with
QMail-based mail servers which use the Maildir format for storing
users' emails.
RSSLibJ 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111319/
RSSLibJ is a Java class library designed primarily to generate RSS data
in various formats, based on a simple object model. Either RSS or RDF
can be generated, and custom generators can be supplied as well.
SAP DB 7.4.03.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111332/
SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system
that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to
very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL,
JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is
platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of
projects.
SAPRFC 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111311/
SAPRFC is the extension module for PHP4 that allows call ABAP functions
in an SAP R/3 system from PHP scripts. It is also possible to write an
RFC server program in PHP, and call PHP functions from ABAP. Other
features include using the RFC (Remote Function Call) API to make a
call, discovering the interface of a function module, and mapping all
RFC types to PHP strings (delivered with a test script that has a
similar function to the "Single Test" option in the SE37
transaction).
SendSNPP 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111344/
SendSNPP is a program for sending messages through an RFC1861-compliant
SNPP server. SNPP stands for Simple Network Paging Protocol, and is
used by a wide range of paging and cellphone providers for sending
pages and text messages. SendSNPP requires no special modules, and has
been tested on Linux and Windows systems. It has a straight-forward
interface, making it very easy to use.
Spinner 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111338/
Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to
inactivity. Many firewalls and some ISPs drop connections when they are
perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly
sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection.
Spinner acts as a keep-alive. It displays a little "spinning"
ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. It supports
any terminal capable of handling VT100-style escape codes. It also has
a mode called "Ghost in the Machine" mode. In this mode you
can use Spinner to write the spinner character to ANY tty, not just
your own.
split2cds 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111347/
split2cds splits the subdirectories and files from one large directory
to several small directories with a predefined size for each. This is
especially useful for burning large amounts of data on CDs so that the
CDs are filled with little space wasted.
Sympa 3.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111313/
Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can
cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete
Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is
internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, hu, cz, et,
ro, and Chinese locales. A scripting language allows you to extend the
behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an
RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa provides S/MIME and
HTTPS-based authentication and encryption.
TestMaker 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111334/
TestMaker tests Web services (HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, SMTP, POP3,
IMAP) for functionality, scalability, and performance. It is used to
develop intelligent agents which drive a Web service just like a real
user to check system configuration and to simulate real-world
environments where heavy load from users or virus attacks can
potentially bring down a system. It pioneered the use of the Python
(Jython) scripting language and library of protocol handlers (TOOL) in
a friendly graphical environment (NetBeans) to build and automate
intelligent test agents that act like real users on an Internet-enabled
system. TestMaker comes with comprehensive documentation and a library
of sample test agents.
TinyDYN 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111312/
TinyDYN is a package of client and server software for operating
dynamic DNS services. It enables anyone to run dynamic DNS services
using strong authentication or to be a client of someone using TinyDYN
as a dynamic IP management system. The clients can communicate directly
by UDP with the server, by email, or by any other transport the admin
can imagine, as the mechanism is quite straightforward.
Trackballs 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111341/
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness.
By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools
of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball
reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more
difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first.
Twisted 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111143/
Twisted is an event-based framework for Internet applications. It
includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a telnet server, an SSH
server, an IRC server, a DNS server, a multiplayer RPG engine, a
generic client/server pair for remote object access, and APIs for
creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+, Qt, Tkinter,
wxPython, and Win32 event loops.
untarka 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111343/
Untarka extracts TAR (Unix Tape ARchive) files without calling any
external programs. It supports and autodetects multiple compression
methods (.tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .Z, .gz, and .bz2). Unix
devices, sockets, hard links, symlinks, owners, and permissions are
ignored during extraction.
WikiMl 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111320/
WikiMl is an attempt to support Wiki text as a markup language through
parsers and writers. This approach is different from Wiki Web servers,
which tend to be packaged and standalone applications. The aim of
WikiMl is to use Wiki text in a chain of transformations.
Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Hard for Open Source software to be mainstream in developing countries
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2152219
- by Sebastian Bassi - There is a lot of fuss about government adoption
of Open Source Software (OSS) around the world. One well-known case is
the initiative in Peru, but there are several more in other third world
countries like Argentina [1], Brazil, Paraguay and Chile.
Linux Advisory Watch - January 31st 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0927219
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive
newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been
announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages
and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were
released for kdeutils, noffle, dhcp3, tomcat3, courier, mysql,
fetchmail, vim, webalizer, postgresql, and cvs. The distributors
include Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde ...
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!
Newsforge Newsvac
GarageGames Launches Marble Blast for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/139229
Anonymous Reader writes "GarageGames announced today the release of the
Linux version of their highly acclaimed 3D game, Marble Blast."
Why recordable DVDs wont last
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/137227
The conventional wisdom has been that recordable DVDs would replace the
VHS cassette as the media of choice for archiving TV shows and movies.
But that vision seems pretty shortsighted.
Crossing the Desktop Linux Chasm in San Diego
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/133218
How can Lindows and the Desktop Linux Summit get past their bad PR?
SVLUG hosts "openMosix: Kernel-Level Linux Clu
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/132229
Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "Moshe Bar, project manager of the
openMosix Project, will speak on openMosix at the Silicon Valley Linux
Users Group meeting Wednesday, February 5th, 2003."
National Weather Service forecast: Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2113216
Linux has moved into the everyday operations of the National Weather
Service (NWS) and is now helping produce local forecasts across the
nation and run the agency's Web sites. (Yes, NewsForge broke the story
so you already knew this. - ED)
Missing in Action at LinuxWorld
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/216253
We promised in our coverage of LinuxWorld to follow up on the companies
that were missing in action. Among the missing were Mandrake, Lindows
and KDE. There was also one big company that everybody knows that
wasn't there but should have been  but we'll leave that for last.
Komodo 2.0 takes a bite out of development
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/213208
Recently, ActiveState released the latest version of its excellent
Komodo integrated development environment (IDE). This new version, 2.0,
which is available for both Linux and Windows, is a great advancement
over the previous 1.2 series. A lot of hard work and care obviously
went into this release, warranting the major upgrade in version and, of
course, the upgrade fees that go with it.
Could IBM Be the Next Computer Chip King?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2055240
For a long time, IBM has been content to be a bridesmaid, never a
bride, in the PC chip market. Although Big Blue produces integrated
circuits and chips for mainframes, and has put its tremendous wealth
and foundry expertise at the service of numerous CPU developers,
including AMD and Cyrix, it has never entered the PC processor fray
itself.
NASA takes Internet into space
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2051258
The Columbia space shuttle has become an Internet node, with a little
help from Linux
PersonalWebtop Introduces New Account, Higher Speeds
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2043210
Linux-Ferret writes: A month after the launch of their PersonalWebtop
service, Business IT Solutions World Wide (BITSWW) is proud to announce
two innovations: a faster connection to the internet backbone and a
less expensive account for beginning users or those with more modest
storage needs.
Thinkgeek
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
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Sourceforge
Native win32 port of the qt library started
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248232
In December 2002 a native win32 port of the qt library has been
started. The port is completly based on the gpl'ed qt/x11 sources in
the kde-cygwin cvs. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt2-win32 for
further details, screenshots and other project relating things. Ralf
Habacker Project Leader KDE-CYGWIN
bogofilter-0.10.1.4 - a bugfix/beta release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248266
The 0.10.1.4 release includes bugfixes for MIME and HTML processing,
code clean-ups, and additional spam scoring algorithms. The bogofilter
package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines
suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". bogofilter
is written in C and is supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS
X.
spamprobe-0.8b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248262
This release fixes a problem with crashes in the regex routines on
RedHat 8 systems. SpamProbe is a fast, intelligent, automatic spam
detector using Paul Graham-style Bayesian analysis of word counts in
spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes
automatically. No manual rule creation required.
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.
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