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Slashdot
Europan Life In Doubt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0431230
ceejayoz writes "A newly discovered gas cloud around Jupiter, created
by ion radiation hitting the surface of Europa, has [0]cast doubt on
possible life on the moon. [1]Google News has more ..."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993450
1.
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:www.spaceflightnow.com%2Fnews%2Fn0302%2F27jupiter%2F
Helms Deep Battle Recreated In Doom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0339208
[0]Failure Guy writes "Its been over five years now since [1]id
released the source code to Doom. What have people been doing with the
source in the time since then? Apparently, [2]recreating the battle of
Helms Deep!. Acclaimed mapper [3]Cyb recently released his [4]Helms
Deep reenactment wad. You can find [5]screenshots here." The IRC review
on Cyb's site is ... mixed.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~failure+guy
1. http://www.idsoftware.com/
2. http://www.doomworld.com/php/topstory.php?id=1834
3. http://cyb.vect.org:8080/
4.
http://www.doomworld.com/d_underg/idgames.shtml/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/helmsdeep.zip
5. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdh300/helmsdeep/
Free CD-Quality Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2229234
[0]Scaife writes "I make a video project for school each year, and this
year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it. The only catch is that
we don't have the time or money to get copyright permissions for the
100+ songs we use for it. I'm wondering if there is a large repository
of CD-quality royalty-free music somewhere. Whenever I try and take one
of the royalty-free MP3s available on the web and use it on a DVD, the
quality is awful as it pops and hisses. I suppose this is because of
the lossy compression. Any ideas?"
Links
0. http://nolen -at- scaifeservices.com
OSDL Releases TPC Benchmark Tests For Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0121255
trialsboy writes "A news.com article announces that [0]ODSL has
released [1]a set of workloads and test frameworks which conform to the
[2]TPC benchmark specifications." (Slashdot parent company VA Software
is [3]one of the OSDL sponsors.)
Links
0. http://www.osdl.org/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1010-990673.html?tag=fd_top
2. http://www.tpc.org/
3. http://www.osdl.org/sponsors/
Intel's Open Runtime Platform Specs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2343258
[0]prostoalex writes "The new issue of [1]Intel Technology Journal has
a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. [2]The
Open Runtime Platform: A Flexible High-Performance Managed Runtime
Environment describes the platform that is capable of running both Java
VM and Microsoft's CLI, on both Windows and Linux platforms. [3]Full
PDF version is also available."
Links
0. http://moskalyuk.com/deals/
1. http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/
2.
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/p01_abstract.htm
3.
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/vol7iss1_art01.pdf
Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2349258
ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp
project has [0]renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially
a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for
moving pictures." We've [1]mentioned Film Gimp several times lately;
it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more
polished.
Links
0. http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/press/cinepaint.pr.2003.3.1.html
1. http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=filmgimp
International Connectivity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2228240
[0]Steve Suppe writes "As an American who is going to be living
overseas for a few years (Germany, to be more exact), I'm curious as to
what advice/information Slashdot could provide people like me. How much
can I expect to pay for dial-up/broadband, and from who? I'd be
interested to hear how it differs around the world. Any good reference
sites? Thanks!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Error Grounds Japanese Flights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2123253
[0]zephiros writes "Mainichi Daily News [1]reports that a "computer
glitch" in Tokyo air traffic control systems resulted in the
cancellation of 203 flights this weekend. At 7am Saturday, the error
"caused the names of airlines and flight numbers to disappear from
radar screens." A [2]Japan Times article suggests the problem may be
related to upgrades on a system which exchanges flight plans with the
Defense Agency. Makes one wonder about the integration and maintenance
risks of systems like [3]CAPPS II."
Links
0. mailto:joseph at dreamlands.org
1. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200303/01/20030301p2a00m0dm002000c.html
2. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a1.htm
3. http://www.privacyactivism.org/Item/48
Cyberbees Score MIT Prize
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2033207
[0]DeAshcroft writes "The Boston Globe has a nice story on the
[1]winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. 125
infrared-communicating 4.5-inch swarming bee-like robots.
[2]Businessweek even covered this one here. Next year's prize may go to
the creator of 4.5-inch long swarming cockroaches."
Links
0. http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/
1.
http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/058/metro/MIT_student_honored_for_robot_design+.shtml
2. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/986190.htm
What is Wrong With Game Development? (duplicate)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1811239
[0]Warrior-GS writes "Seamus Blackley, who has done everything from
work at Looking Glass Studios to evangelize for the Microsoft Xbox,
sounds off on [1]what's wrong with the relationship between developers,
publishers and their audience. Also, as part of coverage of the
[2]D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, GameSpy has chats with [3]Miyamoto
about The Wind Waker and [4]Yu Suzuki about his gaming influences. Some
interesting reading." As an aside, I was recently rereading crawfords
1982 opus, [5]Art of Computer Game Design and found it scarily
prescient.
Links
0. http://www.gamespy.com
1. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/seamus/
2. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/
3. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/roundtable/
4. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/audience/
5. http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
Freshmeat
backup by loop 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114921/
loop backup is a bash script for automatic and complete system backups
with a large but simple configuration. Destination can be CDR(W), hard
disk, tape, Samba, FTP or SCP (SSH). The backups include the
configuration and data of the most-used applications/utilities/services
on any GNU/Linux workstation or server. It has support for English and
Spanish at the moment, with easy translation to other languages.
blinkperl 2003-03-02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114905/
blinkperl is a telnet server (written in Perl) which plays a random
(ASCII-Art) Blinkenlights-Movie if a telnet client connects. In a
properly configured system, you do not need a 'usual' telnet server
(because of the plaintext password transmission, ssh is better and uses
another port), so why not play ASCII-Art Movies on the telnet port?
chk4mail 2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114902/
chk4mail lists the number of read and unread messages in all the
folders in your mail directory and inbox. This is especially useful to
people who automatically filter their mail to several folders. It
supports standard mbox format, MMDF, MH, Maildir, and remote mail
folders using IMAP.
Coccinella 0.94.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114882/
Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is a
shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in
a number of formats, such as MP3 and video. It runs in two main modes,
a peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber
Instant Messaging system. A flexible plugin architecture may be used to
support additional formats. It should run on any machine that runs
Tcl/Tk.
Dropline GNOME 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114871/
Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked
for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard
.tgz package format, in addition to the usual source code. The current
release is based on the latest GNOME 2 distribution from the GNOME
Project. It is also compatible with Slackware-derived distributions,
including Vector Linux, CollegeLinux, and Yoper.
e3 2.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114879/
e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an interface
similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, Pico, Nedit, or vi. It's
heavily optimized for size and independent of libc or any other
libraries, making it useful for mini-Linux distributions and rescue
disks. The assembler version supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
Win9x, QNX, Atheos, BeOS, ELKS, and DOS. There is also a separately
distributed version written in C which supports some other Unix
versions and CygWin. It is also possible to use regular expressions by
using child processes like sed. e3 has a built in arithmetic
calculator.
ECLiPt Roaster 2.2.0-0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114908/
ECLiPt Roaster is a GNOME interface to mkisofs and cdrecord which can
be used for writing data and audio CDs and ISO images on the fly.
EOS Image Manager 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114856/
EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to
quickly view, rename (add and remove chars, change case), and manage
(move, copy, and rename) all of their images from a single, uncluttered
interface. With this application users can organize thousands of
downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.
EtherApe 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114894/
EtherApe is a GNOME/pcap-based etherman, interman, and
"tcpman" clone. It displays network activity graphically.
Active hosts are shown as circles of varying size, and traffic among
them is shown as lines of varying width. It supports Ethernet, FDDI,
Token Ring, ISDN, PPP, and SLIP. Additional statistics windows will let
you concentrate on protocols or nodes.
eXtended Allow - Deny list for PAM 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114883/
XAD is a very easy to configure PAM module. Through a very easy
language you can allow/deny access to users.
Falsoyd 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114906/
Falsoyd is a little shoot-em-up for your desktop. It is an entirely
plotless game intended for hours of frivolous and violent entertainment
while you should be working.
Fandango 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114869/
Fandango is a GL-rendered, Python-scripted CAD program. The low-level
functionality is programmed in C++, and then the relevant functions are
exposed to Python and used as building blocks for more functions.
Currently the memory core allows lines, triangles, line strips, and
triangle strips. Texture, blending, and lighting can be switched on and
off from a command line.
FCKeditor 0.9 beta (ASP.NET Custom Control)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114898/
FCKEditor is an HTML editor that brings to the web many of the powerful
functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really
lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client
computer.
Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114910/
Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows
programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software
without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for
embedded systems.
GMime 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114934/
GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
HTTP-WebTest 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114889/
HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local
Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a
detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its
functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test
types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes
with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with
third-party plugins.
im-ja 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114891/
im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently
supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna (using the
Canna conversion engine), and Kanji character recognition (based on
Kanjipad).
IMAPFilter 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114890/
IMAPFilter connects to remote IMAP mail servers and processes messages
according to defined filters (rules). It is intended to be executed
before a user accesses his/her mailboxes.
Impact 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114881/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
iptables-control 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114886/
Iptables-Control is a fast and easy iptables filter configurator It
features a step-by-step interactive configurator script, a TCP/UDP
ports configurator, LAN settings for routing and masquerading, and ICMP
filtering.
Jabberwocky 1.0.RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114903/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax
highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a
source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer.
It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
JamochaMUD beta10-03-03-02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114900/
JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8
different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding
experience. It features command history, synchronized window controls,
experimental SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support.
It plays nice on Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also
includes emulation of some TinyFugue editor controls. It uses Java 1.1,
and includes classes to be easily reused in other Java applications.
jpop 0.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114911/
Jpop is a Java replacement for Winpopup. It allows popup messages to be
sent to any machine which is capable of running Java.
KFli4L 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114932/
KFli4L is a control panel for the Linux floppy ISDN router, fli4l. It
allows for viewing the status and controlling the operation of the
router through a window with several tabs. It also docks into the
system tray, and provides a traffic monitor to visualize the actual net
load.
libmng 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114917/
libmng is the reference library for MNG, the animation extension to the
popular PNG format. It provides powerful animation features combined
with PNG's robustness and patent freedom.
LinCVS 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114852/
LinCVS is an easy-to-use, graphical frontend for the CVS-client
supporting both CVS-versions 1.9 and 1.10. It can check out a module
from and import of a module to a repository, update or retrieve the
status of a working directory or single files, and common operations
like add, remove and commit, diff against the repository or view of the
log messages in list form.
linuxTheTools 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114919/
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for
administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day
management and system navigation. It is a companion package to
slakbootIBS.
MacMP3Gain 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114873/
MacMP3Gain is an AppleScript Studio application which brings an Aqua
GUI to the command line version of mp3gain, a utility that performs
statistical analysis to determine how loud the MP3 file actually sounds
to the human ear and performs lossless volume adjustments.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114925/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL.
newfile 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114924/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
nut 7.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114872/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals
for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220
foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the
essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels
are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard
of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully
customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven
and there are no commands to learn.
P2Z 0.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114878/
P2Z converts Palm Memo, ToDo, Addressbook, and Datebook data to the
Zaurus builtin applications.
POWA 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114907/
POWA intends to be an all-in-one program to operate a Webcam either on
a Website or for personal uses. It is in development but supports live
video, snapshot taking (with a timer or with a button), and more.
R3R 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114877/
R3R is an RSS reader that can retrieve and display RSS 3.0 feeds.
rdiff-backup 0.11.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114876/
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory
ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are
stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some
time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an
incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidth-
efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup
and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the
differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device
files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire
file system.
RSSLibJ 1.0-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114929/
RSSLibJ is a Java class library designed primarily to generate RSS data
in various formats, based on a simple object model. Either RSS or RDF
can be generated, and custom generators can be supplied as well.
SlakbootIBS 8.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114860/
SlakbootIBS is a replacement set of boot scripts and utilities for
starting and dynamically configuring Slackware Linux. IBS makes it
easier for administrators to configure new installations and facilities
operations where multiple servers are deployed.
swaret 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114935/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
TBFirewall 3.0 (Iptables)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114885/
TBFirewall is a front-end created to control firewall rules. Its config
files are constructed in the form of tables. TBFirewall is designed to
connect one or more local networks to another, forming an internetwork,
but it can also run without problem in other network models.
TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114901/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between
a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data
stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol
(as packet sniffers do).
TinyMARE 1.0.9355
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114870/
TinyMARE (Multi-user Adventure Roleplaying Epic) is a text-based MUD
server completely rewritten for efficiency using TinyMUSH and TinyMUSE
as a basis for its game engine. The server is designed for creating an
extensive, novelistic role-playing atmosphere supporting real-time
combat, day & night, seasons, and global weather. Using a telnet
client, players can log on to explore a virtual world, find magical
items, learn skills and techniques, and group together to surpass
obstacles you create in your own epic adventure.
tk2 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114904/
tk2 is a configuration tool for the ICOM IC-R2 portable radio receiver.
It lets you read a memory image from the radio, manipulate the settings
using a graphical user interface, and save the result to a file or back
to the radio. Memory channel information can be imported from CSV file
or ICF files downloaded from the Percon Web database, and exported to
CSV files.
toolame 02l
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114884/
Toolame is an optimized MPEG-1/2 Layer II audio encoder based upon the
ISO demonstration source code that borrows heavily from the LAME
project, as well as introducing new optimizations and additional
features such as VBR.
vdr2dvd.pl 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114931/
vdr2dvd is a simple script, handling all needed steps to create a DVD
out of a VDR recording, including the burn process itself. The script
merges multiple .vdr files to a big one per DVD title, converts it into
a PS stream using ds.jar, multiplexes to the correct DVD-stream,
creates the DVD structure, uses mkisofs to create the ISO image and
uses dvdrecord to burn the image to the disc.
VideoDB 2003-03-02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114895/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
WTP 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114880/
WTP is a Web-based FTP client that features bookmarks, uploading,
downloading, deleting, moving, and renaming of files and directories.
It allows administrators to limit the hostnames to which users can
connect. Currently only Unix FTP servers are supported.
XawTV 3.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114899/
XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or
video4linux. It also contains various command-line utilities for
grabbing images and AVI movies, tuning in TV stations, etc.
Newsforge Reports
Choosing Strong Passwords
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/26/1639212
- By Raj Shekhar - Passwords are the most common approach for
identifying a user's identity. We use passwords to secure our
computers, to send or receive emails or to access special resources.
Password guessing has always been the favourite method of cracking into
computers or circumventing security measures.
Linux Advisory Watch - February 28th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/01/0229236
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for
slocate, nanog, tcpdump, kde, openssl, WebTool, syncookie, webmin,
acupsd, tightvnc, vnc, vte, hypermail, libmcrypt, openldap, mysql,
postgresql, initscripts, krb5, lynx, and shadow-utils. The
distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde
Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix.
There's GOLD in them thar (Linux) Hills!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/26/2251215
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company name is Linux Gold. The URL
is linuxgoldcorp.com. This name is brand-new. It used to be
LinuxWizardry (Google Cache), and before that it was called Flame
Petro-Minerals. What does the company do? It owns gold mining claims in
Alaska. But, says CEO/President John Robertson, "We still use the name
'Linux' because we have Linux antispam and antivirus solutions in the
company, and we don't really want to ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Film Gimp Changes Project Name
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0116253
As unanimously decided during the recent Film Gimp panel discussion in
Los Angeles during the Linux Movies conference track, the name of Film
Gimp is being changed. This change will present a more professional
name as well as eliminate confusion with the separate GIMP project.
What wasn't decided at the panel meeting is what the our name should
be. A call for suggestions was put forth on the mailing list to the
Film Gimp community. The new name ...
CollegeLinux Released to the Public
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1250212
"It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named
website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based on ..."
Mandrake 9.1 RC1 - Desktop, Laptop, Small Server
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1249225
ladislav writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC1 was released without fanfare on
Tuesday 18 February afternoon in Paris, and as the ISO images
percolated through the various mirrors worldwide, I prepared my
hardware for another review of the latest pre-release of MandrakeSoft's
"swiss-knife" Linux distribution. My previous articles have dealt
exclusively with Mandrake's use on the desktop. This time around, I
tested Mandrake 9.1 RC1 on three different ...
2003 GCC Developer's Summit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1247224
After months of planning the first (hopefully) annual GCC Developer's
Summit will be happening in Ottawa, Canada from May 25th-27th, 2003.
The event is for both those interested in and working on compiler
internals (GCC, G++, GJC, etc), associated tools such as Binutils, and
for those developers who use these tools in their daily work.
Federal Government: Still Crazy About Data-Mining
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1246225
Jason writes "Data-mining is all the rage in D.C. these days. Not
satisfied with Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) and
then Transportation Security Agency's Computer Assisted Passenger
Prescreening System II (CAPPS II), two more data-mining programs have
recently attracted attention from critics: the Foreign Terrorist
Tracking Task Force (FTTTF) and the Terrorism Threat Integration Center
(TTIC). What is FTTTF?"
SCO Group On the Licensing Warpath?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1245227
Anonymous Reader writes "CEO Darl McBride now acknowledges that SCO has
hired attorney David Boies to investigate a complex set of legal
issues, in particular whether the company has legal claims against
other operating system vendors (including Linux and Microsoft) based on
its Unix intellectual property. McBride says the collection of
royalties from unlicensed SCO shared libraries is "the tip of the
iceberg as there are so much IP we're ...
U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1241236
"In 2001 Boeing was chosen to be the lead system integrator for the
Army's Future Combat System ... a little known fact is that the OS for
FCS will be Linux"
Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1239252
"INEVITABLE MIGRATION." In a sense, the systems integrators that often
implement big software installations have already set the table for
low-cost, open-source applications: Increasingly, these service
companies "give away" software -- or at least include its cost in
long-term maintenance and outsourcing contracts.
Red Hat to offer Linux training and professional certification programs in Saudi Arabia
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/017257
Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and
managing Open Source solutions, announced today that Remal IT Â Linux
Busness Unit will be offering its Linux training and acclaimed RHCE
(Red Hat Certified Engineer) programs throughout the Saudi Arabia.
History takes a Big Mac-sized byte out of Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/01/198238
An unwritten historical law says that an empire is at its most
vulnerable at the apex of its greatest power and influence. People
don't live long enough to see the parabola of political empires but the
life cycle of businesses is comparable. Take les Big Macs for instance
 McDonald's and Microsoft.
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Sourceforge
AMaViS-ng 0.1.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256297
AMaViS-ng is a modular rewrite of amavisd and amavis-perl. It scans
email for malicious code inside attachments and archive files, stopping
delivery if malicious code is found. It supports integration of several
third-party virus scanners and integrates nicely into several MTA
setups. Unlike amavis-perl and amavisd, there is no need for build-time
configuration. Changes: Support for Courier-MTA, CLAM Antivirus daemon,
F-Prot daemon ("enterprise") version, INOC, NOD32 daemon, RAV, Trophie
daemon, and drWeb has been added. The main documentation is now
provided in Texinfo format.
Crystal Space 0.96r003 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256365
Crystal Space 0.96r003 has been released. This release fixes a number
of the problems and issues discovered in the 0.96r002 release. 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. Here is a brief overview of some of the problems
addressed by this release: * On some drivers OpenGL incorrectly reports
the maximum texture size. CS now detects this case and uses a
reasonable default. * Several bugs were fixed in the ensocket
networking plugin. * PNG image loader now works on platforms with
different structure sizes. * Map2CS outputs directly usable XML now.
levtool is still needed to improve performance. * Bug fixed in OpenGL
which could causes objects to disappear. * Fullscreen in Windows/OpenGL
works better now. * Fixed memory leak in OpenGL. * Fixed memory
overwrite bug in Dynavis. This could cause crashes at exit. * Fixed
several culling errors in Dynavis. * Fixed dynamic ambient for objects
using DrawPolygonMesh. * Fixed ref counting problems in the DirectSound
renderer. * Fixed a bug in the AWS notebook. * Fixed bugs in the
sequence manager to ensure that operations are fired in the right
order. * Added new csArray class. * The localshadows flag for genmesh
now works. * 'ball' mesh object now implements iPolygonMesh (can be
used for collision detection). * Static and pseudo-dynamic lighting
recalculation is now a LOT faster (several factors). * Updating the
color of a pseudo-dynamic light is also faster. * Fixed several bugs in
the console. * Several smaller performance improvements. * Several
smaller bug fixes. * Several configure/autoconf changes. Check out
http://crystal.sf.net for more information.
tcpdump 3.7.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256312
tcpdump 3.7.2 has been released. As described in the ChangeLog, a
handful of security problems have been addressed. In particular,
iDEFENSE Security Advisory 02.27.03 (a vulnerability in the isakmp
parser) has been addressed, and we recommend upgrading to this release.
The MD5 of this release is: MD5 (tcpdump-3.7.2.tar.gz) =
1e44b59abba39a48e3680bc2cffb8a6a In addition, a PGP signature is
available for download.
POPFile v0.18.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256338
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. Release 0.18.1 fixes bugs found in the major 0.18
major release and has significant accessibility enhancements (Bobby AA
rating). INTRODUCTION v0.18.0 was a major update and inevitably some
bugs crept in that we didn't detect prior to shipping. Happily they
have been fixed, and even more happily the regression test suite now
has tests for many of them so that they will never reoccur. v0.18.1
fixes these bugs (see THE GORY DETAILS below for the gory details) and
also has two significant changes: the caching code associated with the
History page has been totally rewritten by me so that the History
barely slows down as the number of messages in the History increases;
the Windows installer can now configure Outlook and Outlook Express
Internet email accounts for you (and undo the changes if you uninstall
POPFile). POPFile v0.18.1 is also the first version where the UI meets
the Bobby AA rating for accessibility. This means that not only does
POPFile not discriminate against particular operating system, or
natural languages, or ways you want to sort your mail, but it is also
accessible by everyone regardless of the specific challenges they face.
(FOr more details on this drop by
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/about.jsp) Aside: If you are
young, fit, and computer literate you might wonder why I bothered to
make Bobby-level accessibility a requirement. Early on in POPFile's
development a user told me that POPFile was a life changer. For him,
sorting mail had been an arduous, frustrating task. ESSENTIAL READING
IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM v0.17.x 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION:
POPFile makes this really easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory
somewhere. You can then safely install POPFile v0.18.1 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 v0.18.1 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 v0.18.1 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 if you are upgrading from a
pre v0.18.0 version? 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. Fixed a serious bug that could cause POPFile to
stop responding to POP3 and HTTP requests in the middle of downloading
mail when the mail message containing a MIME encoding that used certain
characters that were special in a Perl regular expression. (Reported by
ecarlseen, gilesjuk, panther757, szkaroly and fixed by sschinke) 2. The
skinning system continues to evole with kraelen, stanley_krute and
kinematics working madly to make everything skinnable, make everything
comply with HTML 4.01, CSS1 and Bobby AA guidelines. 3. The code that
handled the History cache that was meant to speed the loading of the
History pages and that I originally wrote was pretty lame and some
people (including me!) were ending up with 1000 message in the history
and the load time sucked. So I fixed it. The new cache will load ONCE
and ONLY ONCE per file and caches everything in memory. When new
messages are received they get loaded once per new message as well.
When a History page needs to be generated everything can be loaded from
the cache without doing any disk access which means that you should see
little difference between 10 messages and 1000. 4. To magnets would not
work correctly if the To line in the email header contained multiple
lines. (Reported by drunin and fixed by kinematics) 5. There was a
nasty problem where sometimes the statistics would not update correctly
which typically happened when you downloaded a large number of emails
in one batch. This was caused by the fact that we weren't flushing the
pipe between the child POP3 process and the parent regularly, this has
been modified so that this can never happen and statistics update in
real time even as mail is downloading. (Reported by burale, ct85711) 6.
The Windows installer has been much improved with the assistance of
xuesheng to make it reconfigure Outlook and Outlook Express for you and
include a number of new screens. 7. Quarantine had a couple of bugs
where it would show the incorrect date (reported by thejcab) and the
wrong to address (reported by dyoungmciwcom) under some circumtances.
8. When the From or Subject was encoded using base64 or quoted
printable weird things would show up in the History. (Reported by
goulduck and fixed by williamxp) 9. spf and I went back and forth
discussing line endings in the files saved to disk so that all the MSG
and CLS files could be loaded into an editor on any platform without
extraneous characters. 10. People who live on the Bleeding Edge were
getting update warnings from POPFile even though they were on the
latest version. This has been fixed on the update server. 11. Magnets
containing the & character could not be deleted. (Reported by the
infamous stanley_krute and fixed by helphand) 12. There was a bug
associateds with invisible ink detection that could cause POPFile's
HTML engine to think invisible ink was in use when a font tag spanned a
table. (Reported by mfichtner) 13. If POPFile didn't exit gracefully
then statistics were not being saved to disk and would not be up to
date. (Reported by daemon72) 14. The Shutdown page had no CSS because
POPFile was shutdown, we now have a simple SSI solution just for the
shutdown page. (Fix and report by helphand) 15. There was a problem
with Subject Line Modification where if it was turned off every subject
line got an extra space in it. (Reported by and fixed by helphand) 16.
There was a bug where you couldn't look up words that had # in them.
(Reported by adammc and fixed by helphand) 17. Viewing base64 encoded
messages in the History resulted in little useful output. (Reported by
biljir and fixed by pkarlin) 18. sschinke whipped up a new -archive
option that causes message removed from the History to get saved away
on disk. 19. sschinke made POPFile behave better when a POP3 server
suddenly stops responding in the middle of a conversation. DONATIONS
Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! 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 and big thanks to the two POPFile team members Stan and Sam for
their continued efforts. Keep the ideas and bug reports coming. John.
xf4vnc 4.3.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256285
xf4vnc 4.3.0 is released alongside the XFree86 4.3.0 release. xf4vnc
provides source and binaries of VNC for the XFree86 v4.x (modular)
architecture.
jrexx version 1.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256264
jrexx provides an automaton based regular expression api for Java
including a very fast matching alogrithm, an extended pattern syntax
(with set operations for complement, union, intersection, difference)
and introspection of the automaton's structure. Release 1.1.1 added
Serialization support for Automatons and a lightweight Pattern Matching
Class DFASet that works with a serialized automaton.
KShowmail 3.0.4-beta2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256240
KShowmail is a POP3 mail checker for the KDE with these features: show
number, size and other useful information about mails on pop3 servers
in a list view, on request show the raw mail headers or complete mails,
delete unwanted mail from server. The 3.0.4-beta2 release includes
bugfixes. Specific bugs fixed: corrected segfault when password, server
url and account name are too long; Finally set up the cvs account. (Hi,
Allistar !); Added the option for users to hide account or message
columns in the main window; Added french translation finally; Added
option to allow rich text formatting (simple html); set tab focus to
editdialog to allow keyboard navigation; header information filtered in
view complete mail; fix of the locking problem when running commands
JavaScore version 3.9.1 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256227
JavaScore is a scoring program for sailboat regattas. Written in Java
(currently 1.3), it supports standard low-point scoring for both
one-design and some handicap classes. This is a minor release in
preparation for 4.0. AVG points calculation updated to A10(a) RRS 2002
and bug fix in Dragon Tiebreaker are most significant updates
First release of FreeDOS 32
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256255
The first release of FreeDOS 32 is finally available through the
SourceForge.net download area. FreeDOS 32 is an operating system under
development which aims to extend the DOS concepts to work in a 32 bit
environment natively. The release is named 0.0.1 (unstable), and
includes a floppy image for testing (with GNU GRUB, FD32 kernel and
drivers, and a COMMAND.COM replacement) and a package for sources,
based on the latest CVS.
netrik release: 1.3.0 (alpha)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=255645
Netrik is a fairly complete text-based web browser; it is useful both
for browsing local documentation and web sites. After another longer
pause, a new version of netrik is now out. There is a fairly simple,
but very convenient new feature: If you go back to a page from history
(or reload the current one), the link which was active when leaving the
page is not only reactivated when it's still in the same place, but
also if the page is somewhat different than it was. This is especially
useful when reading newstickers or other dynamic pages. But even
changing ads can cause layout changes, so this can also help with
otherwise static pages.
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