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Slashdot
Cognitive Dissident: Interview with John Perry Barlow
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0348221
Bob Hellbringer writes "[0]Mother Jones Magazine has an online
[1]interview with John Perry Barlow of the EFF, on the things that all
slashdotters love: 'the Total Information Awareness project, online
activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture.'"
Links
0. http://www.motherjones.com/
1. http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2003/06/we_268_01.html
Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0033239
[0]Starman9x writes "Over at the [1]The Toronto Star reporter [2]
Rachel Ross got a tour of [3] Microsoft's home of the future. She
writes with an appropriate amount of humor, given all the easy targets
Microsoft has set up. While the writeup is light and witty, there is an
unspoken Orwellian undertone to it -- after all, do we really want
Microsoft to have that much control over things?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.thestar.com/
2.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=968332188492&ce=Columnist&colid=974814650296
3.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777395771&call_pageid=%20968332188492
Appreciation For All Things ASCII
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2354214
[0]AsciiRock writes "Sick of seeing those chunky pixel art logos
everywhere? Check out [1]AsciiBlog, [2]Contemporary ASCII, and [3]Ascii
Disko (no relation to me) for examples of artists inspired by plain
text. ...and also [4]click me! and [5]click me! which made their way
around the net some time back. Wonder how many other examples of BBS
design sensibility there'll be this year. There's already [6]Wired
illustrators. 2002, year of ASCII design?"
Links
0. http://www.asciirock.com
1. http://ascii.blog.pl/
2. http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/
3. http://www.asciidisko.com/
4. http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~helpme/flash/chinko_anesan.swf
5. http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/
6. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/code.html
Linux Conference Australia Write-Up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1220242
I've just recently returned from [0]Linux Conference Australia 2003,
held in Perth, Western Australia. I've had an incredible time, and this
has easily been the best technical/Linux show I've been to since [1]ALS
was still operating. I've got a write-up below, and some notes on what
happened, what's the plan for next year (It'll be in Adelaide, and I'm
greatly looking forward to it!), and a photo round up. A number of
other [2]articles have appeared, and Kate MacKenzie's [3]write up in
The Australian was good as well, in addition to Telsa Gwynne's
[4]excellent write-up and [5]Linux Magazine Au has some articles as
well. Update: 02/04 02:42 GMT by [6]T: ilovestuff points out [7]ZDNet
Australia's coverage as well.
Links
0. http://conf.linux.org.au/
1. http://www.linuxshowcase.org/
2. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/28/1043534039219.html
3. http://australianit.news.com.au/article2/0,7237,5901974%5E15301%5E%5Enbv%5E,
00.html
4. http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/lca2003.html
5. http://www.linmagau.org/index.php
6. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
7. http://www.zdnet.com.au/builder/program/unix/story/0,2000034968,20271425,00.htm
Slashback: Slammer, Frames, Pop-Ups
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/0430208
Slashback tonight with more on SBC's claim to own patents covering
basic Web navigation techniques, an eyebrow-raising look at Slammer's
spread, bad news for Ogg streams from the BBC, and more. Read on for
the details. Update: 02/04 00:13 GMT by [0]T: And late-breaking good
news from SDF regarding its Public Access UNIX System.
Links
0. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/239238
SlashChick writes "From a [0]discussion on the freebsd-chat mailing
list, it appears that one of the FreeBSD core developers, Matt Dillon,
has been barred from committing any changes to the FreeBSD kernel.
Dillon was one of the developers 'responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x
the most rugged and stress-proof free operating system in existence,'
and also contributed to fixing the Linux VM. Unfortunately, there has
been [1]little explanation from the FreeBSD core team about why Dillon
was thrown out, leading to [2]speculation and [3]worries about the
future of the FreeBSD kernel. Does the Slashdot community have any more
insight into this situation? Would someone from the FreeBSD team care
to elaborate and assuage our worries?" CD Update: Greg Lehey from the
core team has infact elaborated in this [4]comment.
Links
0. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=71105+0+current/freebsd-chat
1. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=92148+0+current/freebsd-chat
2. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=87295+0+current/freebsd-chat
3. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=95075+0+current/freebsd-chat
4. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5219480&sid=52722&tid=122
A Sound Server For X
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2137213
An anonymous reader writes "[0]X.org, the organization that governs the
evolution of the X11R6 specifications, has released a sound server for
X, called [1]MAS. According to their site: 'MAS integrates with a
compatible X11 server on your desktop. It processes graphic information
locally, alleviating the need for network transmission of uncompressed
graphical content. Graphic events are easily synchronized with audio
events for professional-quality multimedia and accessibility-enabled
applications.'" The X.org site describes MAS as an "[2]affiliated
technology" rather than "official," but it is released under the same
[3]license. "MAS" stands for "Media Application Server," and it's
developed by [4]Shiman Associates.
Links
0. http://www.x.org/
1. http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
2. http://www.x.org/X11_technologies.html
3. http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/licensing.html
4. http://www.shiman.com/
Shell Simulation Via CGI
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1531246
[0]mischi writes "[1]CGI-Shell simulates a shell using CGI. So
everybody who has a CGI-directory on a web-server, also has its own
shell on it -- comparable with Telnet or SSH. That's really practical,
because most webhosters don't offer a shell (for free) -- but do offer
CGI. With [1]CGI-Shell you can execute commands, copy files or just
explore your webserver. Even a history and auto-completion with
tabulator are included. "
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://cgi-shell.binaervarianz.de/
Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2019249
[0]seldo writes "According to ITWorld, losses in the last quarter at
Microsoft's Home and Entertainment segment [1]have doubled. From the
article: 'The segment, which also includes Microsoft's TV platform and
PC games, posted a quarterly operating loss of US$348 million, compared
with $180 million in the same period a year ago.'" An anonymous reader
points to [2]similar coverage at news.com, pointing out that the
company also reports "profits for Office, and one small note about an
undisclosed presumably Japanese company that Microsoft if propping up.
So, the big question on my mind is, who is Microsoft secretly holding
above water, and why? The fact that they are presumably Japanese, seems
to point towards an XBox partner. Could this explain the sudden flood
of Sega exclusive games?" Another anonymous reader writes "Microsoft
[3]will be showing a smaller sized Xbox at E3 this May. In addition to
the smaller size of the hardware, the Xbox Lite will also be integrated
with Media2Go allowing Xbox users to download digital content such as
music and movies. Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod
Chips?"
Links
0. http://www.gaygeeks.org
1. http://www.itworld.com/App/4201/030203xboxlosses/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983083.html?tag=fd_top
3. http://www.funxbox.com/news.php?newsid=619
KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1758253
An anonymous reader submits "Competing infrastructures may foster
improvement in each desktop, but the [0]Gnome and [1]KDE hackers still
know how to work together when needed. The [2]Free *nix desktop has
been improving quickly. [3]Red Hat's unified desktop was controversial,
but obviously the right decision for regular users. Now that KDE and
Gnome have decided to [4]combine their Human Interface Guides, it can
be done right--by the developers themselves. Note: they also want to
involve 'people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs.'" Update:
02/03 20:19 GMT by [5]T: Apparently not everyone's browser can read
[6]http://freedesktop.org, so the initial link up there now sports a
"www" as well. And it's .org -- sorry.
Links
0. http://gnome.org/
1. http://kde.org/
2. http://www.freedesktop.org/
3. http://redhat.com/
4. http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=908&mode=thread&order=0
5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6. http://freedesktop.org
Freshmeat
255 Magic Animating Buttons 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111656/
255 Magic Animating Buttons is a Java applet providing navigation
button menus with mouse-sensitive animation and pulsing effects.
Transition effects include classic fades, rainbow fades, folding page
effects, ripples and waves, sweeps, and wipes. It is highly
user-configurable, and includes loads of parameters to design your own
transition effects. For fast download times, attractive and
configurable internal graphics are optionally available. Buttons can
trigger Javascripts, audio, and simultaneous multiple page loads
targeted into different frames. Buttons can be stacked as vertical
sidebars, horizontal topbars, or placed in grids.
Advanced Scrolling Text 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111637/
This Advanced Scrolling Text applet reads a text file and displays the
contents within a Web page in a scrolling format. It supports many
advanced features and is efficiently written.
Advanced Slide Show Software 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111641/
Advanced Slide Show Software is a Java applet which can be used for
product display, as an advertising tool, as a photo album, or for any
other form of presentation. It features a range of changeover effects
and multiple link areas within a slide.
AllTasks.net 1.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111718/
AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea
to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or
gather daily tasks into one common system.
Apollo CMS 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111585/
Apollo CMS is a content management system written in Python, using
PostgreSQL as a backend. It is written in a modular way allowing for
new types of content, and new database backends.
Archangel 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111736/
Archangel is a client for the RGTP bulletin board transfer protocol
which uses Mozilla as a back end. Eventually, it will be possible to
run it both as a standalone application and as an extension to
Mozilla's functionality.
Axualize 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111661/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java
objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to
allow developers 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.
BioCoRE 20020203
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111686/
BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research,
research management, and training. It offers scientists (working
together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and
remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools,
data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use
tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running
applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over
the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes
by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features.
BitTorrent++ 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111712/
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.
bogofilter 0.10.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111683/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation,
it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a
statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad"
words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message
is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including
Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it
can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
Cayenne 1.0a6 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111584/
Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in
Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications
faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming
concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the
persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects
application server.
Centipaid phpnuke module 1.3.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111609/
The Centipaid PHPNuke module allows administrators of PHPNuke sites to
charge their users nominal fees to access certain sections of their
site. It allows for groupings of modules in zones with their own rates
and duration, and supports unlimited zones and modules.
Cherokee 0.4.0 Beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111580/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is
implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C
library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is
extremely fast and small.
Consultant Communicator 3 Beta 4 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111706/
Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform
program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or
tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent
on each project.
Crimson Fields 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111618/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
The player decide which units are sent to the front lines, and when to
unleash the reserves. Mission objectives range from defending
strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in
the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The
original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the
game files.
Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111729/
The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed
systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox
database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to
Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP
protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large
advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple
concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted.
The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage
quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve
mail filtering language.
Cyrus SASL 2.1.12 (SASLv2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111715/
The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of
secure network authentication to any client or server application. It
supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as
CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and
GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP,
IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols.
DC-GUI 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111622/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
DiaCanvas2 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111619/
DiaCanvas2 is a flexible diagramming widget. It is based on
GnomeCanvas. It uses its own constraint solver to maintain object
relationships. It is Model/View/Controller-based and makes full use of
GnomeCanvas' features.
DIBS 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111678/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it
does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own
computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out
your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers
(and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your
area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed
Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
dobackup.pl 4.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111594/
dobackup.pl is a flexible Perl script to handle unattended incremental
backups of multiple servers. It handles multiple media sets with
automatic media preparation and rotation, configurable
'what-to-backup', global per-host exclusion patterns, and user settable
'don't-back-this-up' metafiles. Its design goal is zero-maintenance,
nothing to do except change the media when told.
domainrobot 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111635/
domainrobot is a Webmin module that can be used to order, update,
administer, and transfer domains. It can be used with the 1und1,
http.net, and provider4you registrars.
DoXFS 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111669/
DoXFS (pron. docs-eff-ess) is a document management system that uses
the XFS filesystem to store both content (files) and meta-data (file
attributes), bypassing the traditional architecture of filesystem and
database, and leveraging the built-in advantages of XFS. Currently, it
offers a Web frontend based on PHP and standard management
functionality (create, delete, attributes add/delete, etc.) as well as
extras such as versioning and Full Text Indexing (using Namazu).
Dwnl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111668/
Dwnl is a download manager for the console to manage multiple
downloads.
Enterprise Gantt 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111724/
Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic
charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly
conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun.
A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design
perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most
flexible library of its kind.
Examplotron 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111679/
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/>".
EzManage 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111600/
Ezmanage provides a simple WWW interface to managing multiple ezmlm
mailing lists. It is designed to enable ISPs to provide their clients
with easily administrable mailing lists, and to create virtual domains
for mailing lists, etc.
FieryFilter 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111597/
FieryFilter is an interactive desktop firewall for Linux. It will ask
the user every time a new network connection is made if they want to
allow or deny it. In future versions users will be able to generate
rules from connections and thus minimize the amount of questions asked.
Fire.app 0.32.b.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111625/
Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client that can handle
simultaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, IRC, MSN, and Jabber.
ftpcopy 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111664/
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees
with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
FUDforum 2.3.8RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111672/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
Gambas 0.44 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111582/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to
use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
gGo 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111614/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server.
Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
GneleMixer 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111629/
Gnelemixer is yet another OSS mixer. It has a good looking GUI, and
supports loading/saving settings.
gnokii 0.5.0pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111716/
gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It
provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be
made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and
ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the
6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110,
6110 and their derivatives.
Gnome Attacks 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111723/
Gnome Attacks is a GNOME 2 game which involves bombing a city into
oblivion to leave a flat surface for your falling spaceship to land.
GNOME Clipboard Manager 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111703/
GNOME Clipboard Manager (GCM) makes copying and pasting easier and more
productive. It will automatically synchronize the mouse selection (the
primary selection) with the clipboard (the clipboard selection) and
store the contents of the clipboard, making it possible to go back to a
previous clipboard. You can save and load clipboards, edit them, and
convert them to another format.
GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111671/
GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced
clone of the Pico text editor.
GNU xhippo 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111692/
GNU xhippo is a simple GTK-based playlist manager, designed to play
music using mpg123, xmp, or most other commandline-based players while
providing a friendly, clean X interface. It is localised in both
English and German. Its interface is based upon the Amiga program
HippoPlayer. It supports drag-and-drop, has optional GNOME support, and
has a simple text-based playlist format compatible with many other
players.
google search 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111665/
google search gives users the ability to search the Google database
with Webmin.
GStreamer 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111627/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable
applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video
decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video
filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that
streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research
software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
GTagger 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111707/
GTagger is an ID3 tag editor designed for easy and efficient usage.
Features include directory listing, viewing and editing ID3 tags,
converting ID3 tags into several versions, filename suggestions
appropriated from tag information, live filename suggestion alteration
while editing the ID3 tag, the ability to rename and delete files, and
short cuts for every function.
GTK+ Dictionary 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111628/
GTK+ dictionary is a frontend to dictionaries stored in a MySQL server.
GTKsubtitler 0.2.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111657/
GTKsubtitler is a tool for editing and converting subtitles for DivX
films. It allows you to move subtitles, change their format, convert
them to ISO-8859-1/2, and merge two sets of subtitles.
Gubby 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111697/
Gubby is a small program that continually shows where Procmail has
placed new email. It runs both in commandline and in an ncurses
environment with colors, and will update the overview in real time,
while using very low resources. Users can launch a specified mailreader
by selecting a folder and pressing enter.
Hawaii Aglet Server 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111640/
Hawaii Aglet Server is an aglet server and viewer with an attractive
and intuitive user interface built with Swing. Hawaii features easy
installation, a logging facility, a browser for aglet classes, and
sound support for events. Hawaii is intended to be a complete platform
for deploying and managing aglets, designed for normal users,
administrators, and developers. It includes support for managing and
viewing the runtime, contexts, and aglets in a very easy-to-use
graphical interface.
HelpViewer.app 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111654/
HelpViewer is an online help viewer for GNUstep applications. It uses
XML files, and its goal is to be fast and easy to use.
Hspell 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111581/
Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew
spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed
as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the
future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis.
IDX-DocBook2LaTeX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111638/
IDX-DocBook2LaTeX is a stylesheet which translates DocBook documents
into LaTeX. It is written in Perl, using the XML::XPathScript package
from AxKit. It features the ability to handle tables, indices, figures,
footnotes, and more. The XSLT-like templating philosophy built into
XPathScript makes it easy to extend.
IDX-PKI 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111681/
IDX-PKI is an Open Source implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure
which aims to be IETF-compliant for PKIX recommandations.
iGal 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111726/
iGal is a Perl program for making online image galleries (static HTML
slides, index page, and thumbnails) quickly and easily, "out of
the box". The output is highly customizable, but it generates a
pretty good-looking set of slides even with its default settings. It
supports JPG, PNG, and GIF, image captions, JavaScript image
preloading, and doesn't rely on non-standard packages for image
processing.
Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111631/
Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager (ICAM) provides a Web interface
to the NoCatAuth Internet access system. It supports account
activation, timeouts, and password management, and is perfect for use
in both wired and wireless access scenarios.
Jaffer 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111693/
Jaffer is a Java implementation of an Appletalk File Server over TCP.
Jaffer is only concerned with the latest AFP specifications and
supporting OS X and OS 9 clients. It is mainly focused on a tight,
clean, fast codebase that is very portable and embeddable.
jBASE multi dimensional database system 3.4.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111639/
jBASE is an Application Development and Database Independent Management
System that enhances and extends the UNIX, Windows NT and Windows '95
Operating Systems. jBASE also facilitates easy migration, and therefore
to those Operating Systems, from other DBMS's, including Pick and
Reality. jBASE consists of run-time, development and administrative
components and is designed with Open Systems and Open Software in mind.
jBASE allows the most flexible overall computing environment possible
by allowing multiple Operating Systems and multiple Databases to
interact together in one overall heterogeneous solution.
JSX2 0.1.4 (Object Export)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111630/
In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be
distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that
created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into
objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex
object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables
classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format
for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX.
Kalyp 0.3-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111620/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is
based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack.
It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses
mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player
characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the
core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic
actions, and try to hold it all together.
kbarcode 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111673/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can
be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex
labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode
comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch
import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of
predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many
languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no
problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement
for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN,
UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20030203a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111599/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites
with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode
keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles
in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance
and to be easy to set up.
Leafnode 1.9.33.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111598/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites
with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode
keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles
in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance
and to be easy to set up.
libdvdcss 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111658/
libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device access
with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98, Win2k/WinXP, MacOS
X, HP-UX, QNX, and OS/2. It is used by libdvdread and most DVD players
such as VLC because of its portability and because, unlike similar
libraries, it does not require your DVD drive to be region locked.
libdvdplay 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111660/
libdvdplay is a cross-platform layer over libdvdread that provides
low-level functions for DVD reading and seeking, as well as access to
the DVD data (subtitles, languages, chapters). It also provides the
virtual machine required for DVD navigation to the client application.
libGenome 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111626/
libGenome is a development library designed to make common operations
on DNA and protein sequences easy. libGenome provides functionality to
read and write sequence and annotation data in several file formats. It
provides a common manipulation interface for sequence and annotation
data in any supported file format. Some of the basic manipulation
functionality offered by libGenome is concatenation, truncation,
reverse complementation, and translation of sequences. It was intended
to be used on genome size sequences and is optimized accordingly. This
is a cross platform library written in ANSI C++ and is currently
supported on any platform with gcc. Metrowerks CodeWarrior on Windows
and Mac OS are also supported.
libsmtp++ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111621/
libsmtp++ is a library that implements the client part of the SMTP
protocol. It has an object-oriented design using the C++ language to
make it easy to integrate. It supports important SMTP features,
including SSL, CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1, LOGIN, and PLAIN authentication.
LinuxSSN Pre Alpha 2.9 (Pre-Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111602/
LinuxSSN is a naval combat simulation game. It is based on the
operations of a nuclear submarine.
MagCon 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111674/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS and exports them to memopad. It
was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all
Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices.
MailStripper Pro 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111615/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses
from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl
and was designed to be MTA-independent.
Martin's Picture Viewer 0.1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111647/
Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl
and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including
EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves
as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and
filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails.
mboxstats 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111709/
mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top
writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.).
melancolic 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111732/
melancolic aims to be a simplistic yet efficient and robust Ogg Vorbis
audio streamer. It reads raw audio data on stdin and encodes it to one
or more Ogg Vorbis streams at different bitrates which it offers to
clients through HSLP on a chosen TCP-port. HSLP, or HTTP and
Shoutcast-Like Protocol, is an (at least for the time being) completely
informal, unspecified protocol (defined as "the protocol which
melancolic does") which tries to be as compatible as possible with
existing HTTP/Shoutcast/Icecast-enabled audio players as well as
HTTP/WWW-clients.
mod_mono 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111659/
mod_mono is a module that interfaces Apache with Mono and allows
running ASP.NET pages on Unix and Unix-like systems.
mother 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111725/
The mother modular generic compiler is designed to compile arbitrary
computer languages to arbitrary assembler code. the desired language
and assembler is specified as tables, so there is no need to generate
something like a "cross compiler". Further, mother is
modular, as it is made up of a set of separate tools which are used in
the very Unix fashion of calling them in a pipe.
NBook 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111721/
NBook is a simple to use, simple to install guestbook. It includes a
Web-based configuration, Name, Email, Homepage, Location, and Comments
fields, and a commented out IP.
Nvclock 0.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111720/
Nvclock allows you to overclock your Nvidia card under Linux.
OpenLDAP-PostgreSQL Linux HOWTO 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111689/
OpenLDAP-PostgreSQL Linux HOWTO describes how to have a PostgreSQL
database working as an SQL backend for OpenLDAP.
OProfile 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111714/
OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is
capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared
libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance
counters.
Oxymoron 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111636/
Oxymoron is a tool that automates the process of creating GNU standard
source packages with autoconf/automake.
Pachi el marciano Demo 020203
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111624/
Pachi el marciano is a platforms game inspired by games like Manic
Miner and Jet Set Willy. The goal is to collect all the objects on each
level; when this is done, the exit gate to the next stage will appear.
PatentMailer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111696/
patentmailer is an easy-to-use CGI and command-line script that fetches
the image files for a patent so that you can easily receive a PDF file
of the patent by email. This is useful for investigating the patents
that a company holds or is trying to claim.
PDF::API2 0.3b41 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111675/
PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl
module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF
files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType
fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap
images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
PerlDesk 1.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111590/
PerlDesk is a fully featured help desk, ideal for companies with
several technicians who are required to support many users. It
incorporates many features to streamline support and improve customer
relations, such as: Email and web based ticket submission, staff
logging, a knowledge base, and user registration.
phPay 2.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111632/
phPay is a shopping cart system using a combination of PHP and SQL. It
works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Informix, and MS-SQL. It does not
use cookies. It features user accounts, flexible design, easy
administration, and support for multiple languages, and can be used
without price values as a simple catalog. It cross-references in
every-detail view, and features a translation tool. Complete
adminstration can be done via a browser. Different languages and
currencies are supported. Shipment and payment methods can be chosen by
the user, and it also supports stock tracking.
phpInv 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111677/
phpInv is a small yet highly configurable inventory script written in
PHP with a MySQL backend. It features unlimited categories, unlimited
depth of sub-categories, customizable columns per category, an
administration control panel, access permissions (user and group), easy
configuration, a template system, and searching.
phppdflib 2.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111676/
phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF files.
It focuses on being easy to use, without requiring special Web server
configuration. It currently supports automatic JPEG image embedding, as
well as manual embedding of bitmapped image formats. Several methods of
text placement (specifically designed for easy layout) are supported.
Pixory Beta 2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111682/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store
your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums,
and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web
interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All
user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image
metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most
digital cameras and scanners.
Polipo 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111687/
Polipo is a lightweight caching Web proxy that was designed as a
personal cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will
complete them using range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if
supported by the remote server.
pork 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111702/
pork is a UNIX console-based AIM client mostly fashioned after the
look-and-feel of ircII.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111649/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a
host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl
backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
pseudo-cron 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111684/
pseudo-cron allows users to use cron jobs on a Website without shell
access. Whenever any user requests a page which uses pseudo-cron, it
checks if any cron jobs should have been run since the previous
request. If there are, they are run and logged. It uses a syntax very
much like Unix cron's and can run any include()able PHP file.
QuaD-Pres 0.7.17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111612/
QuaD-Pres is a Perl tool for creating HTML presentations that can
optionally work in conjunction with WebMetaLanguage. It organizes a
lecture into a tree with meaningful URLs, generates a table of contents
and navigation links, and links to a common CSS stylesheet.
Rave IRC Services 1.0.0 (beta5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111691/
The Rave IRC Services are IRCu services based on E-Services featuring a
GlobalServ to send Globals across the network.
rdesktop-open 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111607/
rdesktop-open is a graphical frontend to the rdesktop RDP client. It is
written in Python and uses the Tkinter library.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111604/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL
screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
reflect 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111717/
reflect is a symlink-style package management tool similar to depot,
stow, graft, epkg, etc. Unlike these, it has much less prerequisites,
in that it only requires bash and coreutils. Configuration is
per-package, and multiple target directories are permitted.
ReplayTV 5000 Series Client 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111592/
This program allows users to download MPEG files from a ReplayTV. The
program sends a request to the multicast address, and listens for
answers. When it gets a reply from a Replay unit, it lists it in the
"ReplayTVs" column. Users can then see basic info about the
unit (such as serial number), fetch the guide, show information on a
show, and download the show MPEG file.
rubrica 0.9.9.90 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111645/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you
to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email
addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact
works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used
to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export
to HTML.
SDBA Revolution 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111653/
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.
Senken 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111633/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the
infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The
game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer
support but it is not well tested.
SffTools 2.2.
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111730/
SffTools consists of SffToBmp, a little utility that converts
Structured Fax Files to BMP, PBM, JPEG, or single- and multipage TIFF
format, and SffView, a GUI viewer for those files. The tools should be
especially useful to people who are faxing with ISDN cards because the
CAPI interface of these cards generates such files. CAPI support for
Linux is available for the active card AVM B1 and the passive card AVM
Fritz!.
Skaringa r1p7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111623/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting
a wide range of types, and speed.
SkunkWeb 3.4b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111605/
SkunkWeb is a scalable, extensible, and easy-to-use Web application
server written in Python. It is designed for handling both high-traffic
sites and smaller sites. Its features include a powerful component
model and an elegant templating language that encourages
component-based design, highly configurable caching (on disk and/or in
memory) of compiled templates and component output, message catalog
support for i18n, and remote component calls. It can be used with
Apache via an Apache module, or it can serve HTTP requests directly.
Snap .08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111591/
Snap is a Perl-based Napster client.
socklog 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111642/
socklog cooperates with the daemontools package to create a small and
secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through
Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the
help of daemontools svscan, supervise, and multilog. socklog provides a
different network logging concept, and also does log event
notification. multilog has built in log file rotation based on file
size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog
is small, secure, and reliable.
StepTalk 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111708/
StepTalk is scripting framework which can be used to create scriptable
servers or applications. It is written using Objective C and is
language independent; you can use it with any available scripting
language that is provided as a separate bundle.
swiggle 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111662/
swiggle is le's simple web image gallery generator. It is a small
commandline tool that generates HTML pages, including thumbnail
indexes, for given images. It's intended to be easy to use, and since
it is written in C, it's quite speedy. It uses libjpeg for
decompression and compression of images, libexif for getting EXIF
information contained in the images, and it caches scaled images so
that subsequent runs don't need to scale images again and are faster.
Of course, the original images aren't changed. Currently, it processes
only JPEG images, and it's thought to be used primarily with images
taken with digital cameras.
Tabulizer 0.2d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111613/
Tabulizer provides an easy-to-use interface for editing and displaying
small tables of text. Its data is stored in XML format and can be
exchanged with other programs in tab separated value format via copy
and paste.
Tammi 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111670/
Tammi is a Java component based development framework and run-time
container for applications supporting Web browsers, mobile terminals
and/or Swing-based user interfaces. Tammi application components can
implement independent business logic themselves or act as proxies to
native libraries, remote programs, and other kinds of manageable
systems.
Terminal Server Client 0.104
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111606/
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 Magic Notebook 1.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111666/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and
organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact
information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information
for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such
happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for
the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is
intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
The Plastic File System 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111610/
The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what
the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file
systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules.
Tiger Map Server 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111608/
The Tiger Map Server dynamically renders road maps of the United
States. The server contains a multi-threaded Web server and a custom
drawing library. All un-projected shape files are supported, including
ESRI's version of the US Census' Tiger/Line Database.
Tux Paint Default Stamps 2003.01.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111734/
Tux Paint Default Stamps is a collection of "rubber stamp"
images (and associated descriptions and sound effects) for the
childrens' drawing program, "Tux Paint." Categories include
math and music symbols, space and planets, fruits and vegetables,
flowers, and some cartoon Tux penguin shapes.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.10 (Plugin development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111698/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk
Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card
to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
VLC 0.5.0 (Natalya)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111705/
VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multimedia player for Unix, Windows, MacOS
X, BeOS, and QNX. It can play most audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4,
DivX, WMV, DV, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD and DVD
(with menus), and can read streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP,
DVB, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the
network, with optional support for transcoding.
vvftp 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111735/
vvFTP is a simple, console-based FTP client written in C++. The design
is modular and extensible.
Web components 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111685/
Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can
be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to
ASP.NET.
white_dune 0.20beta186 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111713/
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.
wordtrans 1.1pre13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111694/
Wordtrans is a frontend for several dictionaries. It supports some
plain text dictionaries such as i2e (English-Spanish) and de-en
(German-English), Babylon Translator dictionaries, and dict servers
dictionaries. Some features include console and X (Qt) versions, good
speed, and the ability to watch the clipboard and automatically
translate the word there.
XElf 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111583/
XElf is a set of modules dedicated to XML processing for Python. It
currently features a Python XOM implementation.
XML Indent 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111710/
XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is
analogous to GNU indent.
XScreenSaver 4.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111646/
XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window
System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program
that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 140
display modes are included in this package.
Yaxi 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111589/
yaxi is a functional API for OCaml XML data manipulation. It provides
implementations of XML 1.0, XPath, and XSLT.
Yet Another Font Installer 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111652/
Yet Another Font Installer (YAFI) is a set of programs that allow you
to install TrueType and Type1 fonts for various applications like
XFree, LaTeX, etc.
Zence 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111644/
Zence is a small Postscript program that generates random text. Word
morphology and the occurrence of certain letters or letter combinations
are configurable. It may be used for generating words to be used in
artificial languages, but with the correct set of parameters can also
generate text that resembles existing languages.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111643/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server
and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is
written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant
searching and threading of your email messages.
zphoto 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111616/
zphoto is a Web/Flash-based zooming photo album generator.
Newsforge Reports
Tux4Kids + Knoppix = Kids enjoying Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1918221
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The Open Source Education Foundation and
Tux4Kids have made a prototype kid-oriented version of the
well-regarded "runs from a CD without installing" Knoppix distribution.
It still has some rough edges, but my associate reviewers -- Shantia
Younger (age 9) and Earl Holly (age 8) -- both found a lot to like. So
did their mom, Alicia Younger (age 27), although she had one major
complaint that further development will ...
Why US gov reps mugged pro open source declaration
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2159250
- by John Lettice, The Register - In the middle of last month a US
delegation to an international conference clearly signalled US policy
as regards open source by de-fanging a pro open source declaration. The
conference, the Asian regional meeting of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) had been poised to "support" open source
software in a closing declaration, but the US government delegation dug
its heels in and had it watered ...
The rise of the $99 'consumer' Linux distribution
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1420212
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - $99, give or take $20, seems to be the
new price point for full-featured, consumer-level Linux distributions.
This is a great deal for non-technical users, since most of the
new-wave consumer Linux products give users a much prettier and easier
experience than traditional, all-GPL distributions tailored for a geeky
user base. Whether or not the current explosion of Linux use by
ordinary people is "good" is still ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/025241
Microsoft Corp. may in the future be forced to lower its software
prices as a result of the growth of open source, the company cautioned
in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Slammer Was Fastest Spreading Worm Yet
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/220236
Majority of machines were infected within ten minutes of the worm's
launch, study finds.
Lotus Founder Designs Low-Cost PIM
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2146226
.The well-known founder of Lotus Development and designer of the Lotus
1-2-3 spreadsheet has turned his sights to creating an open-source
personal information manager that could help cut down administrative
costs for small and medium-sized companies as well as academia. Because
Kapor plans to offer the software, called Chandler, with a lenient
license, he expects to tap into the developer world as well as the
business world. Kapor suspects that ...
VMware Upgrade Turns One Server Into Many
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2144227
VMware Inc. is looking to capitalize on the maturing x86-based
servers, which are more powerful and scalable than ever with the latest
version of its virtual-machine software for Intel and AMD servers. GSX
Server 2.5, which launched Monday, is designed to give companies the
confidence to partition not only x86-based development and testing
servers but those running in production environments as well.
Corel Posts Wider Loss, Promises Profit in 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2142226
Best known for its WordPerfect and CorelDraw products, the company has
cut 22 percent of its staff as it struggles with weak customer spending
and an aging product line.
Linuxlookup.com reviews Xandros Desktop Deluxe 1.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1722217
Lisa Randle writes ""Xandros Desktop is a beautifully crafted operating
system by a staff of meticulous and talented human beings. Had I not
experienced one major roadblock during my initial installation, I would
doubt that this creation had sprung from human hands. With that said, I
will take you further into the highest highs and the melancholy lows of
my awkward waltz with Xandros." Read the full review."
Linux Plays in the Storage Arena
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1555243
Linux initially gained attention as an OS server for noncrucial
applications (primarily Web serving); however, its suitability as an OS
for all computing applicationsÂfrom handheld devices to data center
platformsÂis widely debated. Several large-scale projects are
exploring Linux's suitability as an enterprise-class platform. A case
in point is the Beowulf Project, which is geared toward generating
supercomputer performance from commodity ...
Fire in the belly
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1348229
When you think of open source databases, MySQL or PostgreSQL may first
spring to mind. However, hot on their heels is Firebird, a relational
database which has been a hotbed of development activity for the past
two and a half years.
Banks Want to Swim With Penguin
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1347227
Financial institutions are turning to Linux to run their back-end
operations. On Monday, Reuters announces that it's porting its popular
market-data service for banks to an open-source system.
Gates addresses Italian Senate amid protest
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1346254
Bill Gates outlined his optimistic vision of the coming digital decade
in a speech to the Italian Senate Friday as open source advocates in
penguin suits protested his visit and called on the Italian government
to legislate in favor of the use of open-source software by the state
administration as an alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous operating
systems.
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Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
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Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller
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Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
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Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox
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Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries
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Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
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Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
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Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive
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Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
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Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
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Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
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Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
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Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter
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Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick
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Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter
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Interests: QuickKill
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/5c45/
Sourceforge
GPGrelay 0.91has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249447
GPGrelay is a small email-relaying server that uses GnuPG (the GNU
Privacy Guard) to sign/encrypt (SMTP-Relay) or verifies/decrypts
(POP3-Relay) emails. This enables many email-clients to send and
receive emails that are PGP-MIME conforming. This release includes
bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.
MPlayer OS X v1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249048
MPlayer OSX is multimedia player with playlist, supporting playback of
all widely used media types (MPEG 1-4, DivX, AVI, ASF, Ogg Vorbis,
RealMedia, QuickTime Movie, MPEG layer 1-3, AC3, WindowsMediaAudio and
more) and movie subtitles of various formats (MicroDVD Player, Subrip
and more). It is based on Mac OS X port of MPlayer - Movie Player for
Linux. This new version includes latest build of MPlayer binary and few
features distributed as standalone application without need of
additional installation of binaries, libraries and other stuff.
leafnode 1.9.33 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249049
This release comes with roughly a dozen fixes and one feature,
"noread", to complement the "nopost" feature. Leafnode is a caching
Usenet news proxy that enables online newsreaders to read news
off-line. It is designed for zero (full-automatic) maintenance. Please
see https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137713 for
details.
Fire 0.32.b.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248956
Fire 0.32.b is now available with three new localizations (Spanish,
Russian, and Danish) and many bug fixes. We have an all new smiley
parser built for speed and better consistency with official clients,
and improved MSN reliability. Fire is a multi-protocol instant
messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for
each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messengerâ¢, ICQ®,
MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo!® Pager
communications. Thanks to Graham, Alan, Paul, Lasse, Matt, Alessandro,
Stephane, and Martin for their help on this release. Fire 0.32.b.2
corrects a nib corruption problem that prevented Fire from launching in
French. Download is here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.b.2.dmg?download
ReactOS 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249012
ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released. Among the new features and fixes,
especially worth mentioning are booting from CD and self-hosting
(ReactOS compiles ReactOS). ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop
a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT
applications and drivers.
xawdecode version 1.6.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249027
xawdecode 1.6.7, containing bug fixes, has been released. X11 TV
application based on xawtv 2.x series which adds many enhancements like
Xvideo rendering support, deinterlacing, real time divx recording,
integrated alevt teletext browser and provides a plugin API to add any
functionnality one might think of. here are the modifications:
xawdecode-1.6.7 (02/02/03) - AC_PREREQ(2.5) added in configure.in to
nsure autoconf greater than 2.5 is used and therefore prevents earlier
autoconf version to generate buggy shell code - removal of acconfig.h
et DEFINE templates added in configure.in - killing of "header not
found" errors while compiling alevt with particular configurations -
various warning killing in alevt with gcc-3.2 - detection of systems
using the devfs file system and therefore /dev/v4l/video0 as video
device - patch #644358: add of ffmpeg mpeg1 video codec - patch
#651746: new debian packaging (fonts are now in an independant package)
- better handling of NET_WM compliant window managers (fullscreen and
stay on top features) - aligned to new ffmpeg libavcodec API
(LIBAVCODEC_BUILD >= 4641). Previous version of libavcodec are not any
more supported. Builds fine with official ffmpeg 0.4.6 - now really
find and use first available YUY2 Xvideo port in case one is already
used by another application you can "apt-get" deb packages with:
http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/debian/ bye Pingus ;-)
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
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