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Slashdot
Locutus Preview Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/0117225
An anonymous reader writes "FreeNet's Ian Clarke has released the
preview version of his latest P2P endeavor [0]Locutus. Aimed at the
corporate world, Locutus adds encryption to the mix - new for a P2P
client - to secure files traded across the network as well as the
ability to scan within text files to improve search results. Locutus
Lite is the free version for those who are more concerned with trading
movies and tunes. Locutus Enterprise is the pay version that Clarke
hopes to lure corporations to shell out money for (for secure trading
of research and other documents). Those interested in trying the
preview can [1]download it here."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/locutus.html
1. http://locut.us/index.php/preview
IPv6 Application Competition - win $10,000
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2038223
[0]sneekz writes "The [1]IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan has
[2]announced a competition for developers of IPv6-enabled applications.
Various prizes up to $10,000 for ideas and actual implementations, and
you keep the rights to your work. From their site: 'The contest will
award developers of applications and software which helps to create new
possibilities in the Internet world.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.v6pc.jp/en/index.html
2. http://www.v6pc.jp/apc/en/index.html
Build Your Own LCD Bus Schedule
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2242223
[0]MikeLRoy writes "An engineering student in [1]Winnipeg, tired of
missing his [2]bus to [3]school (and waiting in the cold) created an
[4]LCD bus stop. It displays the next bus times for several stops and
routes, all from the heated comfort of his kitchen. And yes, there are
pics and code on the site."
Links
0. mailto:umroyma0@cc.[ ]nitoba.ca ['uma' in gap]
1. http://www.city.winnipeg.mb.ca/
2. http://www.winnipegtransit.com/
3. http://www.umanitoba.ca/
4. http://members.shaw.ca/rosensto/bus/
UK ISP Imposes Download Limits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2210214
[0]Richard_at_work writes "The BBC news site is [1]reporting that NTL
have announced it will be imposing 1GB download limits per day for its
users. As you can guess, [2]reactions have not been mild :) One thing
to note, NTL has said that they will only be persuing persistent
offenders, so i guess they understand you cant track your usage to the
byte! Also with NTL, they appear to [3]ban the usage of VPNs, citing
that their service is for resedential use only. Does this mean I can't
email work now?"
Links
0. http://www.mysterae.com/
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2740621.stm
2. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7676
3. http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=993
NYTimes: Tangled Up in Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1942207
ezekieldas writes "Congratulations to the SpamAssassin developers and
community! There's a mention of SA in the NYTMag as "one of the best
tools for network administrators..." in an extensive article entitled
[0]Tangled Up in Spam. The article is quite substantial and the author,
James Gleick, is more technically educated than what we've come to
expect from the big press. Central to the story is the complexity in
dealing with spam effectively in both technical and legal terms and the
confusion it brings upon the neophyte. The conclusion drawn may be
oversimplified but nonetheless pragmatic: 1) forged headers should be
illegal 2) a specific header entry should identify the email as
unsolicited."
Links
0. http://nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09SPAM.html
The Future of Money
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1855223
[0]Snuggums writes "Apparently some major forces at play in the tech
money world. People like [1]Vint Cerf, Tim O'Reilly, Andre Durand, and
Cory Doctorow are teaming up with [2]Tom Frey and the futurist think
tank, [3]DaVinci Institute, to dive into the forces at play with a
[4]Future of Money Summit later this year. They've even tapped a Nobel
Prize winner and Visa founder, [5]Dee Hock. They're hoping to answer
questions like; what kind of money you'll be putting into vending
machines 25 years from now; when will cash disappear; when will our
current banking system become obsolete; and who gets to own money in
the future?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.futureofmoneysummit.com/advisoryboard.php
2. http://www.futureofmoneysummit.com/about.php
3. http://www.davinciinstitute.com/
4. http://www.futureofmoneysummit.com/
5. http://www.futureofmoneysummit.com/speakers.php
Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1719245
chris_oat writes "It seems that nVidia's GeForceFX 5800 Ultra may never
see the light of day after months of super-hype and annoying delays.
[0]This article on [1]megarad.com suggests that poor manufacturing
yields are causing nVidia to rethink plans for its (new?) flagship
part. Lack of an "Ultra" type solution from nVidia would leave ATI's
Radeon9700 uncontested as the defacto performance part."
Links
0.
http://www.megarad.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1271&mode=flat&order=0&thold=-1
1. http://megarad.com/
Pixar Eclipses Sun with Linux/Intel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1637254
lieutenant writes "Pixar Animation Studios is [0]replacing servers from
Sun in its render farm with eight new blade servers from Rackspace. In
all, the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and
it runs the open-source Linux operating system. Pixar has ported its
Renderman software to run on Linux." I'd love to see their electric
bill ;)
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983898.html
Open Source Book a Collective Effort
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1535228
[0]Hairy1 writes "The New Zealand Open Source Society has begun a
project to [1]write a book to put the case for open source use in
business and government. There is a need for a book which clearly puts
the case for using open source, and provides a clear migration plan.
Already five authors and several reviewers have stepped forward to
commit time to writing the book. However, other authors and reviewers
would be welcome to join the project."
Links
0. http://www.nzoss.org.nz
1. http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=45
Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1532201
[0]akb writes "[1]Manhattan Neighborhood Network has embarked on a
[2]project to combine two community networking communities in NYC, the
[3]nascent community wifi network on that isle with public access cable
TV. The project has successfully conducted a test which involved
cablecasting an mpeg4 video stream being transported by the
nycwireless.net wireless node in Bryant Park."
Links
0. http://demandmedia.net/
1. http://www.mnn.org/
2. http://www.mnn.org/tech/projects/laika/
3. http://www.nycwireless.net/
Freshmeat
2D/3D Line Graph 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112078/
2D/3D Line Graph provides both a client and server side solution for
the incorporation of line graphs into Web pages. Versatile components
enable Web authors and Java developers to easily build and publish
dynamic and interactive line graphs.
AndromedeIRCd 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112363/
AndromedeIRCd is an ircd based on bahamut with many useful additional
commands, including host encryption, the sethost command, etc.
Article System 0.2beta0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112378/
Article System is a support tool for creation and management of an
Internet-based journal (periodical). It's written in HTML/PHP and uses
MySQL or PostgreSQL.
bash programmable completion 20030209 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112362/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
CaMail 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112368/
CaMail is a free modular Webmail system that uses mod_perl and Template
Toolkit. It supports multiple IMAP/SMTP servers across multiple
domains, and addressbooks via LDAP. In addition, LDAP is used to store
sessions, contacts, groups, mail filters, and user preferences.
CCZE 0.1.171
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112388/
CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim,
fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd,
xferlog, and more.
cgixx 1.05 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112404/
The cgixx C++ CGI class library is intended as a modern Common Gateway
Interface library for ISO standard C++ compilers. The focus of the
cgixx library is to ensure fast and reliable conversations between the
Web server's CGI and your C++ code.
DadaDodo 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112371/
DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and
then generates random cut-up sentences based on that. It is a travesty
generator similar to Dissociated Press, but based on a Markov Chain of
length 1.
DarkIce 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112390/
DarkIce is an Icecast, Icecast2, and Shoutcast live audio streamer. It
takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it into MP3/Ogg Vorbis,
and sends the stream to one or more servers (Icecast/Shoutcast if it's
MP3, and Icecast2 if it's Ogg Vorbis).
Dive tools for Linux 0.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112372/
Divetools is a set of tools to read out a dive computer. In addition it
includes a conversion program that makes UDCF files out of thet dump
and a Plotting tool that produces nice PostScript pages for your
loogbook. It supports the Suunto EON and Uwatec Aladin Series dive
computers.
DOM Tooltip 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112364/
DOM Tooltip allows developers to add customized tooltips to Web pages.
The tooltips are controlled through style class definitions and respond
to events on the page, such as "mouseover" events. When
creating dynamic layers, it detects possible collisions with form
elements (such as select boxes, which float above the HTML surface) and
screen edge bleeding. While it was originally designed to simply create
context tooltips, it has grown into a significantly more versatile
script. It is now possible to create a wide variety of dynamic layers,
such as embedded windows, context menus, and hidden blocks. Additional
features include sticky tips, tooltip fading, lifetime, relative
positioning, class assignments, width adjustments, mouse dragging,
captions, directionality, offset adjustments, adjustable
activate/deactivate delay times, snapping to grid, fate adjustment
(hide or destroy), and references to created tips. It supports
Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5.5+, Konqueror, and Opera (only Opera7, which
includes full DOM and CSS2 support).
Dumpgdbm 0.2.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112398/
Dumpgdbm in a batch or interactive tool which can dump keys and data
from a GNU DBM file. It can display data in ASCII, decimal, hex, and
octal formats. Posix regexp search functions are also provided.
GtkAtlantic 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112405/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd
servers.
JFreeChart 0.9.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112397/
JFreeChart is a Java class library for producing charts. Horizontal and
vertical bar charts (regular or stacked with optional 3D-effects), line
charts, pie charts, xy plots, scatter plots, time series charts,
high/low/open/close charts, candlestick plots, and combination charts
are supported.
Kisdndial 0.1.5 (KDE3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112393/
Kisdndial is a applet for the KDE 2.x Kicker. It can establish ISDN
dial-up connections as well as show the status of existing connections.
lbdb 0.26.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112406/
The Little Brother's Database (lbdb) consists of a set of small tools
which collect mail addresses from several sources and offer these
addresses to the external query feature of the Mutt mail reader.
mirmon 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112369/
mirmon quietly probes a subset of the sites in a given list, writes the
results in the 'state' file and generates a Web page with the results.
The subset contains the sites that are new, bad, and/or not probed for
a specified time.
Mutt 1.5.3i (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112394/
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. It is
highly configurable, and is well-suited to the mail power user with
advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading,
regular expression searches, and a powerful pattern matching language
for selecting groups of messages.
ol'bookmarks manager 0.7.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112386/
On-line bookmarks manager is a Web interface which allows you to
browse, add, and modify private and personal bookmarks. It includes
authentication/cookies, categories, advanced search, themes, and more.
Palantir 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112373/
Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live
video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a
Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream
as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A
native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with
the server.
PHP Layers Menu 2.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112389/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose
among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a
compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very
large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE
and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the
menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x,
Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It
also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.
PHP-TreeHierarchy 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112367/
PHP-TreeHierarchy is a flexible PHP class for managing tree-structured
hierarchies on a database. It's implemented using the nested model. The
class requires the PEAR (DB) library. It features multiple threads,
management of nodes, and XML output.
PHP::Session 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112383/
PHP::Session is a Perl module which provides a way to read and write
PHP4 session files. This allows you to make your Perl Web applications
share session data with your PHP4 Web applications.
PhpDig 1.4.4c (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112411/
PhpDig is a search engine written in PHP that uses a MySQL database
backend. It features indexing of both static and dynamic pages,
spidering of almost all links in HTML content, in hrefs, areamaps, and
frames, and full text indexing. The search results appearence is
skin-able, using a very simple templates system.
Planetary Hoppers 0.24.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112391/
Planetary Hoppers is a Java-based, multiplayer, classic-style strategy
game for up to 70 players.
Project @ssistant 0.2b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112417/
Project @ssistant is a modular business system combining CRM, email
ticketing, call management, and project management tools into a central
system.
Project Manager X 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112414/
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to
track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It
displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
python-borZoi 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112392/
python-borZoi is a collection of Python bindings for the borZoi
elliptic curve cryptography package, implemented with Boost.Python.
Qtella 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112377/
Qtella is a client for the Gnet with many useful features. It is
written in C++, uses the Qt libraries, and is available for Linux.
Qtella's advantages over other clients include the fact that it is very
fast (since it uses C++ instead of Java), it available for multiple
platforms (since it uses Qt), and it is not spyware.
Retro Native Forth 2.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112415/
RetroForth is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system for
computers using 80386 and higher CPUs. It attempts to be a simpler and
easier to use alternative to more complex operating systems.
SANE 1.0.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112412/
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an
application programming interface (API) that provides standardized
access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld
scanner, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, etc.). The SANE
standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open
to everybody. The source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and
is available under the GPL, but commercial applications and backends
are welcome. The package contains the libraries, net support, and
scanimage. The X frontends xscanimage and xcam can be found in
sane-frontends.
SaveMyModem 0.16 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112407/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail
tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are
tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus
attachments.
Smart Cache 0.82 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112400/
Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache
any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features
include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents,
Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode,
background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very
configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies
server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers
inside).
SOWAS 0.1.0-pre6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112419/
SOWAS is a general-purpose multi-user financial bookkeeping system
implemented in Python using MySQL and wxPython.
SPiD 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112376/
SPiD is gallery management software with a backend written in PHP. It
uses MySQL, gd, and zziplib. It supports directory scanning, ZIP file
uploading, user comments, ratings, on-the-fly localization and
skinning, popups, easy navigation, and more. It's fully skinable, and
the output is validated XHTML 1.0. An install script makes it easy to
setup. A full tutorial (in English and French) is included.
Squirrel Jukebox 0.3.2rc3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112399/
Squirrel Jukebox plays all your local MP3 files via its own
libmad-based decoder. It allows the tracks to be ranked and grouped in
the user-preferred way. It also supports text searches by any ID3 tags
or filenames. It is a commandline application. Currently only Linux is
supported (OSS).
swaret 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112380/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Umix 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112365/
Umix is a program for adjusting sound card volumes and other features
in sound card mixers. You can control your volumes, balances, and
recording sources flexibly from the command line or with a ncurses user
interface with familiar vi/emacs keybindings. Umix supports multiple
mixer devices. All settings can be saved and loaded from a file.
v2strip 0.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112361/
v2strip is a little utility that removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files to
provide backward compatibility for applications not yet supporting
these tags.
wdm 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112416/
Wdm is a modification of the X11 xdm package for graphically handling
authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved with
the login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom
Rothamel's "external greet" interface.
weblog 0.5b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112374/
Weblog is a parsing system for the log data which is generated by the
Apache module mod_log_mysql. It generates detailed statistical data
from the raw log, including resolving of hostnames. The statistical
data is written to a relational database, making almost realtime
custom-formatted dynamic statistics possible, using something like PHP
or Zope.
ximp3 0.1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112359/
ximp3 is a simple console MP3 player. It is based on the Xing decoder
(also used in FreeAmp).
Newsforge Reports
Anger spews over Microsoft appearance at yet another Open Source event
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2138247
- by Tina Gasperson - Now that some people in the Free Software
community have discovered Microsoft's Shared Source guru Jason Matusow
is slated to speak at the Open Source for National and Local
eGovernment Programs in the U.S.and EU conference, they are gunning for
the show's organizer.
>From selling Linux laptops to selling automated server security patches
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1629213
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - When we first met Graham Hine, he had
just started Tuxtops, a company that sold rebranded laptops with Linux
preloaded. Now he's running a new venture, Gibraltar Software, that
provides automated security patch service for corporate servers. This
is a growing market, and Graham seems to have found a happy niche in
it. We interviewed Graham via IRC. This is not a "deep" story, just a
little piece that shows you how ...
Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1147223
- 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 cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui, bladeenc, cim, mysql,
kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf. The distributors
include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, ...
Newsforge Newsvac
openMosix Project celebrates its first anniversary
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2139248
Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "openMosix Project today
celebrates its first anniversary. This OpenSource project has quickly
attracted thousands of users, building thousands of clusters.
OpenSource is more than just free access to software source code."
Anger over broadband limits
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1244230
Users vent their fury as it emerges cable company NTL is imposing a one
gigabyte per day download limit on its broadband service.
Linux Beyond the Desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1243232
Anonymous Reader writes "Gregory S. Hopper takes Linux beyond the
desktop, declaring the 'PC is the Model T' of today. Hopper makes a
convincing argument that disruptive technologies and changing business
models will dictate the PC market of tomorrow."
Patent Holders Extort from Internet Companies
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0020257
Linux-Ferret writes "This is the current in a series of LA Times
articles about the abuse of intellectual property and patents."
Larry Lessig receives FSF Award
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0020223
Bradley M. Kuhn writes "Lawrence Lessig was awarded the annual Free
Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software today
(Saturday 2003-02-08) at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium.
The award was given to him for "promoting understanding of the
political dimension of free software". The other finalists were Bruno
Haible (known for GNU CLISP) and Theo de Raadt (known for OpenBSD)."
Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1416206
Slashdot: Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that Castle
Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and
incorporated it into their own ... "
RIAA Site Under Attack--Again
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1414253
If the RIAA's security experts can't keep its site up and running, who
can?
Linux-based "wireless zone" puts websites
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1414232
Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles a
Linux-based portable wireless server that was unveiled at the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month. Dubbed the Wireless
Zone, IR Data's new gadget takes advantage of Linux, Apache, and other
open source technologies to creates its own 802.11b wireless (WiFi) hot
zone, within which it can deliver web pages, demonstrations,
presentations, and other data to other ...
Broadband could cost AOL $1bn in revenue by 2005
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2234214
In its report Can AOL Bridge the Broadband Gap?Strategy argues that AOL
will lose out financially as the dial-up market, which it dominates
shrinks (as more and more people sign up to broadband). Even if punters
sign up to AOL's "Bring Your Own Access" scheme, which lets users who
get broadband from cable or telephone companies sign up to AOL's
content service for $14.95 a month, Strategy estimates that it would
cost AOL almost $9 a month per ...
Don't Underestimate Cyberterrorists, Experts Warn
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2233206
Greater network dependence boosts risk of damage by cybervandals who
code with vengeance.
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System
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JFreeChart 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250290
JFreeChart version 0.9.5 has been posted. This release contains the
much-requested dual axis charts, plus a host of other changes.
JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts.
Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie
charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots.
POPFile v0.18.0 Windows and Cross Platform Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250488
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy
have I and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from
v0.17.9 and you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL
READING before you install it. POPFile is an email classification tool
with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It
runs on most platforms and with most email clients. This version is
backwards compatible with previous versions (even autofixing some
errors that the old versions created) but there are some differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional developers
(additional to me that is) really contributed a lot of code to POPFile.
They are Stanley Krute and Sam Schinke. Stan and Sam worked on many of
the changes to POPFile (which you can read all about in the CVS logs)
including massive changes to the mail parser, whole new skinning
system, HTML 4.01 compliance, tons of testing, lots of user interface
changes. Guys, *you* made a big difference to POPFile, and I want to
say a big "Thank you" in public. This version of POPFile supports
unlimited numbers of connections, multiple natural languages, has a
much improved UI, has many improvements to help catch spam, has a new
Quarantine feature that lets POPFile automatically hide all the mail in
a specific bucket (each mail is replaced with a new mail stating that
POPFile quarantined a message with an option to see the original), and
incorporates features and bug fixes submitted by users. ESSENTIAL
READING 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really
easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory somewhere. You can then
safely install POPFile v0.18.0 on top of your current installation; I
just think a back up is a sensible precaution. 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL
CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files used in this
version which means that the old History files will not be read by
POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. If you need to
do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.0 do them! POPFile
does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of this
version, just the History files. To refresh the History view click the
History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. 3.
IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken
magnets. If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly
changed to \[foo\] it should get magically fixed and start working. 4.
ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in
the mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop
initially and you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that
used to work. This is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even
more accurate than before and v0.18.0 incorporates changes that make
POPFile's classification accuracy better; however old corpuses might
need a little retraining. DOWNLOADING You can obtain the latest release
of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137 UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. But did
you read the ESSENTIAL READING above first? FAQ zonk3r has spent a
great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out as it covers
many questions that you might have:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=6313
7 THE GORY DETAILS 1. Total rearchitecture of the POPFile code into a
collection of loadable modules to allow for future expansion of POPFile
with different proxy services and different UIs. The major modules are
now: - popfile.pl: controlling process that loads the modules that
implement POPFile's main functionality; - Proxy::POP3 the original POP3
proxying code from POPFile separated into its own module. In future we
should expect to be able to have other Proxy:: modules such as
Proxy::IMAP. - UI::HTML contains the current HTML user interface. I
hope that we'll add other UI modules such as UI::XMLRPC or UI::SOAP in
future. - Classifier::Bayes is the module that does the Naive Bayes
classification. (Note this module also includes a method called
classify_and_modify that performs the classification and modification
of email messages that may be of use to other module writers) POPFile
now supports two process types: the top level process round robins
between the main modules listed above providing concurrent access to
the UI and POP3 proxy. The POP3 proxy itself (see below) forks to
provide multiple simultaneous connections. (That last part was
originally requested by sschinke) 2. Introduction of a scheme for
localization of the user interface using message catalogs stored in the
languages/ subfolder. Currently shipping with languages: English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Brazilian, and (for fun and for testing)
H4X0R. Translators can take the English.msg file and translate the
strings within to create their own language for the user interface.
POPFile detects available languages on start up and they are available
from the Configuration page. (Originally requested by pfaelzerchen) 3.
Rework of much of the user interface to make pages shorter and clearer.
This is mostly limited to look and feel and no items have changed tab
in the UI. 4. Total rewrite of the history caching code for clarity
with a change from multiple arrays to a single hash containing all the
cached information. 5. Automatic update checking now defaults to off
and there's a large explanation of what it does in the user interface
to allay the fears of many people concerning the possibility that
programs like POPFile are spying on them. (Requested by quite a few
people) 6. When creating the user interface password the password is
now hidden when typing it. (Requested by kraelen, pfaelzerchen) 7. The
Proxy::POP3 now forks after a new connection is accepted from a valid
client and calls a special child() method that handles the connection
between a client and mail server via POPFile for the life of the client
connection. This is the beginning of a version of POPFile that supports
a very large number of clients. (Requested by many people) 8. A new
command line parameter -test_language can be set to 1 for UI
translators. The UI will show the language identifiers used for each
element rather than the strings associated with the identifier. 9.
Rework of the History page to take into account ideas and suggestions
from many people: Search now operates on From and Subject, From and
Subject have popup windows to show the full text of each, you can sort
by ID, From, Subject or Classification, you can filter by magnet
classified mail, navigation is at the top and the bottom, state is
remembered so that you can sort/filter and remove pages and reclassify
and stay in the same place, many small improvements. 10. Major work on
the MailParse.pm for dealing with improved mail parsing and the
handling of spammers tricks (like S P A C E D out words etc.). Switch
to using the Base64 and QuotedPrint modules from CPAN for improved mail
cracking. (Work done mainly by sschinke) 11. Automated test suite now
part of POPFile. (Suggested by aziegler) 12. Rework of all the HTML and
CSS so that everything can be skinned and so that the complete UI is
HTML 4.01 compliant. (Work done mainly by stanley_krute; there was a
request from nobody for this) 13. You can now filter the History page
by magnet filtered mails to look at them or delete them. (Requested by
jarmstro, tcdk, msc_buff, fitzsimons, dyoungmcwicom) 14. The UI
password no longer appears in URLs in plain text (requested by gribnif)
15. You can do multiple classifications at a time by selecting multiple
messages and changing the drop down and hitting any Reclassify button.
(Requested by dave823; implemented by sschinke) 16. You can now sort
the History page by message ID, From, Subject and Classification
(bucket). (Requested by jerometremblay, tomvoss, biobear) 17. When you
remove a page the History no longer goes back to the start but stays at
the same place in the History if it can. (Requested by ajweiner) 18.
After you reclassify a message the History page stays at the same
position (at the reclassified message). (Requested by harleythebrave,
transit) 19. The installer now picks up old settings from a current
POPFile install to fill in the options on the final dialog. (Requested
by harleythebrave) 20. Added two new options -logdir and -msgdir to
specify the location of the log directory (default to ./) and the
messages (where the history is stored; defaults to messages/).
(Requested by nobody) 21. Search in History now works on From as well
as Subject. (Requested by transit) 22. The navigation from page to page
in the History is now at the top and at the bottom of the page.
(Requested by transit, nobody, nobody, nobody) 23. There are new
[Remove] buttons on each message in the History to let you remove
messages one by one. (Requested by nobody) 24. The X-POPFile-Link:
repositions the History page at the message selected when you click the
link. (Requested by zonk3r) 25. There is a new filter for unclassified
messages. (Requested by nobody) 26. New -toptoo command line option
enables classification on the POP3 TOP command and is only recommended
for people on fast connections. (Requested by jberkes) 27. When viewing
a colorized message there is a blank line between the header and the
body of the message. (Requested by whiteg) 28. Message IDs (and History
filenames) are now globally unique per POPFile install. (Requested by
helphand) 29. You can now control the inclusion of the
X-Text-Classification and X- POPFile-Link headers. (Requested by
nobody) 30. Refreshing a page does not repeat the action any more.
(Reported by nobody) 31. Fixed a bug where magnets with certain
characters in them (e.g. [ or <) did not work and could not be deleted.
(Reported by nobody, nobody, nobody, alanmuk, boneill, bana-sea-) 32.
Fixed a bug where you could make POPFile exit with a divide by zero
error if you started it with no corpus and then tried to Lookup a
word's probability. (Reported by sunshine, gribnif) 33. Fixed a bug
where the Shutdown link on the POPFile Control Center did not work if
the UI password had been set. (Reported by actoews, nobody) 34. Fixed
an embarassing bug where any POP server that contained the word 'stat'
would not work with POPFile. (Reported by nobody, markabcxyz) 35. Fixed
a bug where To magnets did not work correctly in the presence of other
To style email headers. (Reported by dyoungmcwicom) 36. Fixed a bug
where a specific email was causing the History page to lock up when you
tried to view the colorized version. (Reported by ajweiner) 37. Fixed a
bug where having pages in POPFile automatically refresh every ten
minutes could cause POPFile to repeat an action (such as
Reclassification) every 10 minutes. (Reported by mayfoev) 38. Fixed a
bug where parts of a > attribute could appear in the From or Subject
lines on the History (Reported and fixed by sschinke) 39. Fixed a bug
where some CLS and MSG files were not getting deleted from the History
when they were no longer needed. (Reported by helphand) TRANSLATIONS
Thanks to the following for helping to make POPFile a global piece of
software: Brazilian Adriano RG Danish Nicki Brøchner Nielsen Dutch
Jilles Oldenbeuving French Antony Boucher German Matthias Deege
Norweigian Jo Inge Fjellstad Russian Alexander Saltanov Please
translate the UI and the manual into your language. DONATIONS Thank you
to everyone who as clicked the Feed Me! button and donated their hard
earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people
who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports. Keep
the ideas and bug reports coming. John.
samba-vscan 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250483
The new release offers some performance improvements, a basic ICAP
client to re-enable Symantec support, some fixes for F-Prot daemon and
updates for mks. samba-vscan is a proof-of-concept module for Samba,
which uses the VFS (virtual file system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0
alphaX to provide on-access virus scanning. Samba is an Open
Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print
services to SMB/CIFS clients
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250494
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the
GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett
Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This HP Inkjet Linux
Driver (HPIJS) release includes support for custom paper sizes, and a
number of bug fixes. The complete list of changes in this release
include: 1. Added data compression to DJ3320. 2. Changed the default
black pen vertical alignment value for the DJ3320. 3. Added support for
custom paper size. 4. Removed 3425-COVER paper size, this is now a
custom paper size. 5. Added Printable Area documentation. 6. Fixed a
Officejet hang problem (ie: Officejet 500/600/700 and PSC 300). The
Officejet would hang after printing a job. See hpinkjet.sourceforge.net
and the hpijs_readme.html file for more information.
PKS 0.9.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250516
PKS is an OpenPGP Public Key Server. It allows users to store and
lookup public keys from the server's database. It can also synchronize
with other servers. This release is intended to be a solid, stable
bugfix and feature upgrade to 0.9.5. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce that PKS 0.9.6 has been released! The
file can be downloaded from the SourceForge Download Area for the "pks"
project. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61738)
19427b543972c23fbc1c167d5408d3a9 *pks-0.9.6.tar.gz I just uploaded the
tarball to SourceForge, so don't be surprised if it isn't available on
SF mirrors yet. See the release notes (NEWS file) and ChangeLog for
more information on the changes since 0.9.5. BE SURE TO READ THE
UPGRADING FILE! IMPORTANT NOTES FOR INSTALLATION: * READ THE UPGRADING
FILE! The database format has changed slightly, and backwards
compatibility is NOT the default. * If you want to be able to add keys
via HTTP, make sure to uncomment this line in your pksd.conf:
www_readonly 0 * If you want to be able to download keys, make sure to
uncomment max_reply_keys. Also, you'll probably want to change this
from -1 (unlimited) to a more sane value. * BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD): PKS should work on these platforms. However, no current ports
of PKS exist. (FreeBSD's and NetBSD's ports of pks-0.9.4 should NOT be
used for security reasons.) * Debian Linux users: The Debian package
should catch up to pks-0.9.6 very shortly. * RedHat Linux users:
Running "rpm -ta pks-0.9.6.tar.gz" should build you the required RPMs.
This release is intended to be a solid, stable bugfix and feature
upgrade to 0.9.5. Bug reports and patches are always welcome. Richard
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libxml2-pas-2.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249975
libxml2-pas is pascal bindings for the libxml2 library from GNOME
project, a high-performance XML parser supporting also several related
technologies, like XML-Include, X-Path, XML Schema etc. libxslt-pas is
pascal binding for the libxslt library from GNOME project. It
implements a standard XSLT processor compliant to the W3C XSLT
standards. Also, the implementation supports standard XSLT extensions -
exslt. This part is now also translated and included in the
distribution. New versions of header translations is out. This package
contains translations of: libxml2-2.5.2 libxslt-1.0.24 libexslt-0.7.15
For more info, look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas
http://xmlsoft.org Besides that, do not hesitate to post your feedback
or questions to our mailing list:
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QuantLib 0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249594
Version 0.3.1 of QuantLib and QuantLib-docs have been released.
QuantLib is a quantitative finance C++ library for modeling, pricing,
trading, and risk management in real-life. A tool for derivatives and
financial engineering. SWIG generated wrappers are also released in
their 0.3.1 versions: QuantLib-Guile and QuantLib-MzScheme are included
for the first time, joining the existing wrappers QuantLib-Python and
QuantLib-Ruby. Another new package is the first official QuantLib.NET
release. This is a port of the original QuantLib (C++) to the .NET
Framework. The port has been done in C#, providing full compatibilty
with the CLI. QuantLib.NET can also use existing native libraries (eg.
BLAS, MKL, ATLAS) to speed up computation and random number generation.
Debian packages of QuantLib, QuantLib-docs and some wrappers will be
available shortly. Feedback welcome ciao -- Nando
DrJava stable release (20030203)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249913
A new stable release of DrJava is now available, providing key bug
fixes for the Interactions Pane. DrJava is an integrated Java
development environment that supports interactive evaluation of
expressions. It is primarily intended for students, but it has features
useful even for advanced users. This release includes several bug fixes
to the RMI code that allows the main portion of DrJava to communicate
with the Interactions Pane. These fixes should resolve the recent
problems users have experienced with resetting the Interactions Pane.
For more detailed information, please see the Release Notes.
Crystal Space 0.96r002 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249604
A new release of Crystal Space is now available. The 0.96r002 release
fixes a few bugs and also adds a major optimization in the OpenGL
renderer (some levels go more than twice as fast now). Crystal Space is
an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with
OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog,
dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures,
portals, etc.
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.
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