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Slashdot
Pancake Physics to Cut Batter Splatter
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0125245
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The headline just about says it all on this
one. A physics grad student in the UK has come up with the mathematical
formula for how to flip a pancake and have it land correctly back in
the pan. The [1]BBC has the details."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2817093.stm
Australian Federal Police Raid Major ISPs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0018248
pflodo writes "The Australian (newspaper) has an article about Telstra
the major Australian ISP and other 'declined to name' ISPs that have
been [0]raided by Australian Federal Police to 'seek the identity of
particular subscribers' in relation to their activity and files stored
on the ISP's servers. I imagine they will eventually raid some domestic
homes and make a scapegoat of some unfortunate teenagers."
Links
0.
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,6081015%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0349241
[0]FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public
consumption over at [1]www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the
main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME
2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development
libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And [2]Scorchen writes "[3]YOPER
has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is
the their first stable release." Here's [4]the announcment. The website
claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other
major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.slackware.com/
2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. http://www.yoper.com/
4. http://www.yoper.com/finalannounce.html
AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0125250
linuxwrangler writes "AOL [0]announced today that its spam filters hit
the 1 billion reject mark for a 24 hour period. This is an average of
28 rejects per day per member. In addition, AOL spam engineers say they
receive 5.5 million spam submissions each day from AOL users. Other
reports [1]here(1) and [2]here(2)."
Links
0. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/230645356&ticker=aol
1.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/05/financial1928EST0343.DTL
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,79045,00.html
Slashback: Humility, Patents. Vapor.com
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1728252
Slashback brings updates on Salon's quest for money, Miguel de Icaza's
thoughts on the most recent KDE vs. GNOME critique, bad news for anyone
who wants a cute Windows-free laptop from Lindows.com, and more -- read
on for more details.
Working as a Game Tester
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1639224
DaytonCIM writes "SFGate.com has a great story on the real [0]life of
game testers. 'Life is not all fun and games, though. It's all games --
with little time left for sleeping or eating, at least during the busy
months before Christmas. The longest week he has logged was 106 hours,
and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.'"
Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/05/BU78795.DTL
Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2152230
Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker [0]Rambus has
been found [1]guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the
anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the
Judge has denied the [2]FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase
of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally
yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of
proving its innocence" instead.'
Links
0. http://www.rambus.com/
1. http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/05/technology/rambus.reut/index.htm
2. http://www.ftc.gov/
The Future That Hasn't Arrived
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2031241
[0]jonerik writes "[1]MSNBC has [2]this article on an exhibit starting
this week at Philadelphia's [3]Lost Highways Archive and Research
Library. Entitled [4]Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised, the
exhibit focuses on the artwork of the elusive A.C. Radebaugh, a
commercial illustrator whose works promised us a glittering, shiny
tomorrow from the '30s to the '50s; a helicopter in every garage,
massive streamlined cars, vacations on Mars - in short, pretty much
everything we didn't get. The exhibit collects examples from
Radebaugh's portfolio, auto designs for Chrysler, DoSoto, and Dodge,
ads, and 'Closer Than We Think!,' a syndicated weekly comic strip drawn
by Radebaugh. I want my jetpack, dammit!"
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1. http://www.msnbc.com/
2. http://www.msnbc.com/news/880581.asp?0dm=C19IT
3. http://www.losthighways.org/
4. http://www.losthighways.org/radebaugh.html
What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2023200
lucabrasi999 writes "Here's an interesting [0] commentary from Mike
Tarsala at CBS.Marketwatch.com regarding R&D spending by U.S. companies
as it compares to overseas firms. It compares today's US tech firms to
the Big Three Automakers of the 70's, while saying the overseas tech
firms are similar to the Toyotas and Hondas of the 70's. In other
words, US Tech firms are about to be taught a lesson in global
capitalism. I think Mike is 100% correct. What do you think?"
Links
0.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B2B5CBF33-899B-45CC-81DD-C7DFD5959D68%7D&siteid=mktw
Toshiba To Show Laptop Fuel Cells at CeBit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/196256
war3rd writes "According to [0]The Register, Toshiba has finally been
able to build a fuel cell for laptops that they will unveil at [1]CeBit
next week. The fuel cells are expected to last approximately 5 hours
and are compatible with existing lithium-ion batteries. Form factor
remains the only issue. The trick is that they use the water by-product
from the cell to dilute the methanol source as it enters the
[2]reformer, and are therefore able to store higher concentrations of
methanol in the cell. My only concern is how quickly can they get this
to market?"
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29590.html
1. http://www.cebit.de/
2. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-processor2.htm
Freshmeat
Absolute Patience 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115200/
Absolute Patience is a collection of 400 solitaire card games,
including 332 famous classics like Klondike, Freecell, Spider, Yukon,
and Gaps, and 68 original games. Most games come with optional rules
for a grand total of 600 variants. It features photo- realistic custom
card graphics in 3 sizes, fully customizable cards, piles, and playing
area, high quality sounds, unlimited undos, saving, a performance
analyzer that determines if a game can be completed, and an
entertaining scoring system. Detailed statistics are kept for each game
played.
AC3D 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115233/
AC3D is a 3D object/scene modeler available for Windows and Linux. It
allows the viewing, editing, or construction of 3D graphics with a
simple intuitive interface. It is used for creating 3D models for games
and virtual reality environments as well as for general data
visualisation purposes. It features vertex level multi-point line and
polygon editing, surface extrusion/revolution, and a graphical texture
coordinate editor. File formats supported include 3DS (3D Studio),
Lightwave, OBJ, VRML, and POVray.
ADODB 3.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115262/
ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere,
Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and
generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to
figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in
different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL
to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and
blob/clob support.
Apache Ant 1.5.2 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115221/
Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better
support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java
applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at
Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.
Article Manager 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115250/
Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that
makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage
articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the
following features: supports multiple users with different access
levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads
up to 10 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced
setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful
search engine, a customizable database, the ability to customize the
HTML templates, and much more.
asciijump 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115217/
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
asterisk-oh323 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115225/
asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to the ASTERISK soft PBX. It does
this by interfacing the OpenH323 library to ASTERISK through a loadable
module. The package provides the channel driver as well as a wrapper in
a shared library form. It is able to initiate and receive calls to and
from H.323 endpoints, and has been successfully tested with the H.323
terminals on the OpenH323 site (ohphone, openphone) and Microsoft
NetMeeting.
CAMFR 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115231/
CAMFR (CAvity Modelling FRamework) is a fast, flexible, and friendly
full-vectorial Maxwell solver. Although it can tackle general
electromagnetic problems, its main focus is on applications in the
field of photonics, like lasers or photonic nanostructures.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.05 (Perl)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115236/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous
Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to
register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no
delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also
provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying
domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
ClassBrowser 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115252/
ClassBrowser is a GNUstep browser for developper documentation. It will
use gsdoc, xlp, or rtf as main documentation, and it has other features
like history and headers view.
comic-icons 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115270/
comic-icons are a set of icons in PNG format with a size of 64x64
pixels.
dark fagga 1.1 (IceWM)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115241/
dark fagga is a theme which tries to be not too dark but also not too
bright.
DrWright 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115219/
DrWright is a program that forces you to take regular breaks from your
computer. If you like whistles, bells, and a thousand options, this is
not for you. Feel free to check out xwrits instead. DrWright monitors
keyboard and mouse activity and displays a small meter in the
notification area on your panel. When it starts blinking, you know it's
time to take a break. If you don't, it will lock your screen to force a
break.
Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator 2.5.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115255/
Flex is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns
in text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing
compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation
of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode,
and also provides several new features such as exclusive start
conditions.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115228/
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your
ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. There are two versions of
fBuilder: fBuilder Lite, a free version that includes a standard set of
features, and fBuilder Plus, which includes edit, insert, and delete
capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP
clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities,
support for IP aliases, automatic log rule creation, state checking,
log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.
Free Realty 2.7-pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115242/
Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's
original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package,
"... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the
ultimate goal of this project.
FreeTar 0.9 (GNUstep)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115269/
FreeTar packages the tar command line functionality into a familiar
MacOS X and GNUstep application. FreeTar has many useful features,
including access to tar without typing any commands, support for any
version of tar that supports the basic tar command line switches (-c,
-v, -f, -z, -Z), optional built-in compression support (gzip or
compress), and full user preferences.
fwtrends 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115216/
fwtrends is a project to ease firewall log monitoring via a Web GUI. It
imports log files from various firewall software and can easily
generate graph statistics from alert events. It allows you to
investigate single remote source addresses and what alerts they
generated.
Genius 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115279/
Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision
floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language
similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational
numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the
gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It
has a command line and a GNOME interface.
Genuts Snake 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115220/
Genuts Snake is a remake of the popular classic snake game. Eat as many
mice as possible, Don't hit the walls, and don't bite your tail. Genuts
Snake uses the Genuts Framework.
GraphThing 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115213/
GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate, and study
graphs. These "graphs" are mathematical objects, that
describe the relationships between sets; they are not 2D plots, charts,
or any other sort of visual object.
Highlight 2.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115263/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports ADA 95, Assembler, Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, Java,
Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, (Object) Pascal, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and
Visual Basic files. It's possible to easily enhance Highlight's parsing
database.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.64_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115224/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
KnutWall 1.1-rc1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115247/
KnutWall is an advanced iptables firewall. You don't need any prior
iptables experience to set up KnutWall. All the configuration is done
from a separate configuration file where you select what network
interfaces to use, what ports to open, etc. You will also find features
like banning, portforwarding, and NAT, to name a few. KnutWall works
well with either one or two network interfaces.
Linux 2.5.64 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115209/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
mailfront 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115282/
mailfront is a set of customizeable network protocol frontends for mail
servers, replacing or supplementing the features available with the MTA
software.
Mailgust 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115218/
Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and
message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board
for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read
and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no
timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and
much more.
MenuGen 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115273/
MenuGen generates hierarchical Web site menus of arbitrary size. These
menus consist of static HTML pages which neither use server side
scripting nor client side scripting (like JavaScript). These menus are
intended to be displayed in a seperate vertical frame.
Moosic 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115274/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It
consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to
play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The
server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top
of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a
simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful
operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole
directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to
regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg,
MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
Morphon XML-Editor 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115226/
The Morphon XML-Editor is a validating WSYSIWYG XML editor that lets
you create and modify XML documents in an intuitive manner. Using DTDs
(Document Type Definitions) and CSS (Cascading StyleSheets), the editor
guarantees the integrity of your XML documents and presents them in a
consistent and user-friendly way. The XML editor is bundled with the
Morphon CSS Editor that can be used to customize your CSS, allowing you
to change every aspect of the way the XML editor presents your document
while editing. The CSS editor can also be used stand-alone to directly
create CSS for the Web.
mousikos 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115195/
mousikos is a portable music player manager for GNOME. It supports
on-the-fly bit-rate peeling (Ogg to Ogg), re-encoding of MP3s and Oggs,
and is based on playlists. It is designed to be able to support various
types of portable music players.
MTL irc2msn 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115227/
MTL irc2msn is a Java-based gateway. It allows a user to connect to the
MSN Messenger network using their existing IRC client. MTL irc2msn uses
the jmml libraries to connect to MSN.
MyDNS 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115229/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch
and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL
database.
netWindows 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115214/
netWindows is a DOM-based DHTML toolkit that provides a framework and
useful widgets for developers to build Web apps that act less like Web
pages and more like true applications.
NVRAM WakeUp 0.90 (New)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115142/
NVRAM WakeUp can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via
/dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer
will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.
OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite 0.50 (ODBC Bench)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115260/
The OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite is a suite of
high-performance drivers for ODBC and JDBC that enable development of
database-independent applications under Linux. It supports OpenLink
Virtuoso, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft ACCESS, IBM DB2,
Informix, Sybase, Ingres II, Progress, PostgresSQL, DBASE, Paradox, and
other ODBC-compliant databases. It runs on x86, Itanium, Alpha, PPC,
Mips, and StrongArm platforms.
OSX Control 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115254/
OSXControl allows you to shut down, reset or put to sleep an Apple
computer running OS X after a set time lapse. A plugin architecture is
supported for user extensions. It also has automation features and G4
optimization.
pam_require 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115253/
pam_require is a simple Plugable Authentication Module (PAM) for Linux
(and maybe other systems which use PAM). It is an account module that
allows you to require a special group or user to access a service.
Pascal To Doxygen Convertor 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115215/
Pas2Dox (Pascal To Doxygen) is a pre-processing filter for Doxygen. It
allows Kylix/Delphi programmers to comment their code using JavaDoc
style tags and then have Doxygen build the application documentation.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115264/
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It
helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source
files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the
objects attached to the comments.
PHP FormMail 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115207/
PHP FormMail is a PHP script conversion of the original FormMail.pl,
but with many security and spam related fixes and improvements. Some
customization options are removed for simplicity while keeping
functionality and improving it where neccessary. An ASP version of this
script is also included.
PHP Weather 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115265/
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page.
PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts
this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a
MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it
easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several
languages by using the included translations. You can also access the
information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.
phpwsListings 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115004/
phpwsListings is a PHPWebSite module for running a listings site for
virtually any type of item from houses to cars to books. Admins can set
fields and field types, all of which are searchable.
pmacct 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115232/
pmacct is a network tool to gather IP traffic information (source
address, bytes counter, and number of packets). Data is stored in an
in-memory table whose content could be retrieved by a client program
via a local stream-oriented connection. Gathering packets off the wire
is done using the pcap library and one or more network interfaces in
promiscuous mode.
Poco 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115249/
Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale
websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the
following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access
to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small
chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.
ppplog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115235/
ppplog keeps track of your PPP online sessions. Once started it detects
when you are online and automatically calculates costs according to
your local phone company. It doesn't matter whether your company still
calculates by units (fix price for a unit, units differ in length) or
by seconds (unitlength = n sec, price differs). Everything can be
easily configured. The setup for your phone company is stored in a
config file.
PrivateRadio 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114746/
PrivateRadio is a network jukebox player, collection organizer, and
streaming system for MP3 or Ogg music files. It can be used out of the
box as just a jukebox, is robust enough for organizing large
collections, and is flexible enough to act as a multiple site streaming
system with some easy scripting and configuration. It features a radio
station metaphor that allows different types of music to be categorized
and switched between.
ROBODoc 4.0.0beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115230/
ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts specially-formated comment
headers from a source file and puts them in a separate file. ROBODoc
thus allows you to include the program documentation in the source code
and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can format
the documentation in HTML, ASCII, AmigaGuide, LaTeX, or RTF format. It
is even possible to include parts of the source code. It works with
Assembler, C, C++, Java, Perl, LISP, Occam, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Fortran,
shell scripts, HTML, and COBOL; basically any language that supports
comments.
Ruby/CorporateTime 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115268/
CorporateTime is a proprietary calendar server system produced by
Steltor. Ruby/CorporateTime is a Ruby language extension that serves as
an interface to the CorporateTime Calendar API (CAPI). Its purpose is
to allow interaction with CorporateTime servers via the Ruby
programming language.
Sauron 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115245/
Sauron is a free DNS/DHCP management system with Web and command line
interfaces. It is able to manage multiple DNS/DHCP servers. Complete
dhcpd and named configurations are generated from a central SQL
database.
Simple File Manager .21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115223/
Simple File Manager is a PHP-based file manager that allows files to be
uploaded, renamed, edited, and deleted. It can also create
sub-directories, require authentication, restrict the files and
directories that can be edited, specify disk space quotas and maximum
file sizes, and more.
Stanchion 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115280/
Stanchion is a relatively easy to use Model-View-Controller framework
for J2EE Web Applications. It has similar features to Jakarta Struts,
but is a bit more lightweight.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115238/
Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and
Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native
file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP
networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional
programming constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces,
error handling, script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk
provides portable GUIs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful
widget set and the concise scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze
to develop sophisticated user interfaces.
TinyButStrong 1.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115244/
TinyButStrong is a template class for PHP that allows you to generate
HTML pages using MySQL, ODBC, SQL Server, or ADODB databases. It
features simple block management, useful display formats, conditional
displaying for blocks and locators, a cache system, and the ability to
include other HTML pages and execute associated scripts.
uClinux 20030305
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115276/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
VPNS 0.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115277/
VPNs is a set of scripts to easily set up multiple VPNs using the vpnd.
It uses per-host configuration and keys.
Vstr string library 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115246/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for
network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so
adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This
model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of
memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string,
and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of
the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like
function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that
are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but
laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing
functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions
(among others).
Waif 0.59.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115258/
Waif is a console audio unfrontend. That means that between the
business of choosing the files to listen to and listening to them,
there is no interface to hijack a controlling terminal, hog up screen
space, or waste a perfectly good xterm. It also ends the hassle of
restarting a player moving from one display to another. Waif works all
its magic in the background leaving you free to do more important work.
Waif is flexible and robust, supporting a wide number of file formats
(MP3, Ogg, WAV, RealPlayer, MIDI, audio CD, and more) and a wide number
of helper applications including mpg123, mpg321, ogg123, freeamp, and
xmms.
XMMS status plugin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115267/
The XMMS status plugin provides a monitor for the state of XMMS which
docks into the GNOME/KDE panel.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115251/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other
similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal
entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact
cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script
that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming
mail appropriately.
ZDM Utils 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115256/
ZDM Utils is a set of utilities for rendering shaded relief maps from
USGS 250k Digital Elevation Models. It allows users to parse USGS DEM
files and generate a custom shaded 3D relief using their own color
blends (created with any image program, like the Gimp).
Newsforge Reports
Got checkmate? ChessBrain grid is now online
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/143217
- by Tina Gasperson - ChessBrain is a very powerful distributed
computing network. It is similar to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in that volunteers sign
up to donate spare computing power from their PCs. The difference is
that all that power is used, not in the search for extra-terrestrial
life or to fold proteins, but to play the ancient game of chess.
Young project leader hopes to make Linux software installation easier
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2310251
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Autopackage is a concept that is in the
process of becoming a reality, a little bit at a time, in the
traditional Open Source manner. The idea is to come up with a single
software packaging/installation system that will work across all major
Linux distributions, and resolve dependencies, too, so that neither
developers nor users need to worry about distribution compatibility
issues. This is an interview with project ...
Turning a Lindows/Microtel box into a Debian Delight
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/190256
- By Paul M. Foster - A Lindows machine is a very inexpensive machine
put out by Microtel whose operating system is Xandros Linux, with some
Lindows visual tweaks. You can get them at Wal-Mart (online only), and
all the components (video, audio, network card) are soldered onto the
motherboard. The only thing not soldered onto the motherboard is a
winmodem that occupies the single PCI slot. The machine has an 800MHz
Via C3 processor, 256M of ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Moto and Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2255259
Motorola's adoption of Linux and Java for future mobile phones may be
a sign of a major shift in software strategy for the entire cell phone
industry.
Sony PlayStation 2 gets Debian-based Linux distro
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2251259
xRhino has released BlackRhino, a Debian-based Linux operating system
for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console.
Shorthand Scripting Language 1.2.0 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2226221
Anonymous Reader writes "The latest Release of the Shorthand Scripting
Language 1.2.0 is now available for download.
Xbox Linux Project complains to EU about Microsoft dumping
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/187223
Representatives of the Xbox Linux Project have asked the European Union
to widen its investigation of alleged anticompetitive behaviour in the
community to include Microsoft's Xbox.
Alan Cox: Linux 2.2.24
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1747251
No changes from 2.2.24-rc5 except to remove the -rc5 identifier.
Linux set for Asian growth
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1745209
A survey of IT managers in the Asia-Pacific region has found that the
use of Linux on servers is set to grow at double the rate of its
closest rival
Approaches to a Linux PVR
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1743259
I have been looking into how to set up a Linux personal video
recorder, or PVR. I don't have one working yet, but I have learned a
few things. Here are notes on the two approaches that look best for a
Linux PVR.
Open Source puts down roots in Finland
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1742257
Some 400 IT managers and other decision-makers from throughout
Northern Europe explored the business climate, for GNU/Linux
specifically and Open Source generally, in Helsinki last week.
Grant program provides financial assistance to PHP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1731252
Marco Tabini writes "php|architect, the monthly magazine for PHP
professionals, is proud to announce the creation of the php|architect
Grant Program, whose goal is to provide financial support to
best-of-breed PHP-related projects.
Public exploit available for Sendmail flaw
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1648223
Michael S. Mimoso writes "By Edward Hurley, News Writer. Hours after a
serious flaw in Sendmail was announced, a Polish security group has
released an exploit that could take advantage of the flaw on systems
running certain Linux distributions."
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Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
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Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794
The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the
lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is
written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and
bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.
drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of
DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for
an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved
Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and
various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following
the "more download options" link on our home page.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.
Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007
After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. Axualize
is a language for building application from objects using an XML
dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable. Axualize
is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does not
dictate a specific platform. The 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby,
JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements.
1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby
- Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built
in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively
supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in
creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot
actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener
and is simply registered as such for each component which will be
recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize
both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been
refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.
IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047
IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security
fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard
Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822
attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This
is the most recent update to the stable branch. IlohaMail is a PHP
based lightweight full featured multilingual webmail program with IMAP
and POP3 support.
gchch-1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257203
This is a full port of the game to Gnome 2.0, along with numerous bug
fixes and enhancements. It's a prelease before the actualy 2.0.0
release. Gnome Chinese Checkers is an networked implementation of the
Chinese Checkers board game, supporting upto 6 players. The game
includes added goodies like an integrated chat window, player rotation,
etc. This has been updated for Gnome 2.0.
libmng 1.0.5 (final) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256928
This is the long-awaited major update of the MNG library. The MNG
specification is now covered to near 100% and as an added bonus this
release includes the new 'dynamic MNG' feature, that allows for easy
roll-over (hover/click; w or w/o mask) effects with a minimum of fuss.
libmng is the reference library for reading, displaying, writing and
examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation
extension to the popular PNG image-format.
pureIRCd release 2.7.1304
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257000
pureIRCd is a Win32 IRCd written in Visual Basic, that operates Fast
and efficiently in networks as well as standalone. This release
features better Server to Server linking, some statistics additions and
Server - Server autoconnecting. Autoconnecting is new to pureIRCd and
may have some glitches, so dont trust on it, it's alpha, really. You
dont have to upgrade to this version of pureIRCd if you mostly use it
standalone as most changes only affect server links. To download the
new version, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71720&release_id=
143841
Qixite 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256961
Qixite allows easy template based generation of web sites. It organizes
the web site into a tree of nodes representing Pages, Text Sections,
Images, and Links. It provides quick and easy way to publish your
thoughts and information on Internet. The program generates links,
style sheets and other things, the only thing user has to warry about
is information. Changes in 0.0.8: - Possibility to use external editor
(eg. Mozilla) for editing articles in WYSIWYG mode was added - French,
Spanish and Lithuanian translations were updated - Several non-critical
bugs were fixed To download, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40222&release_id=
83910
Burn To The Brim v2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256875
Burn To The Brim is a utility for grouping files and folders together
in the most efficient way to fill up an entire CD, DVD or other medium.
Burn to the Brim version 2.5 now allows the user to directly create ISO
9660 files of the filled CD's, using mkisofs by Joerg Schilling. These
files can then be burned by an arbritary burn-program that supports the
ISO 9660 format. You can find the new version at
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49999
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