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Slashdot
Speeding up Evolution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/218229
DaytonCIM writes ""We can rebuild him. Make him stronger... faster..."
Slate.com has a great article on [0]next generation gene research that
promises to build "Supermen" or "Superwomen" out of us all.
Insulin-like Growth Factor genes to make us stronger without ever
visiting a weight room. EPO to generate more red blood cells and enable
us to run "forever." Engineered human "Blood" to speed up evolution, so
that we become less susceptible to disease and injury."
Links
0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2079406/
Interplanetary Superhighway
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/215211
rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and
Science magizine contains the article "[0]Next Exit 0.5 Million
Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary
Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway -
'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the
planets, their moons, and a host of other destinations as well. But
unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things
are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a
very long time to get there."
Links
0. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXV4/exit.html
The US DoD and the GSA Join the Liberty Project
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1610252
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]Liberty Alliance Project announced
today that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD) have joined the Liberty Alliance in its
pursuit to develop open and interoperable standards for electronically
managing identity information."
Links
0. http://www.projectliberty.org/
Dawn of the Airborne Laser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2047241
Yonzie writes "As you may have heard, there are a number of competing
franchises working on a functional laser weapon. [0]Popular Science has
an interesting story about `[1]The Wall of Fire', an airborne laser
designed to fit in the belly of a [2]747. Apparently, this is powerful
and precise enough to destroy enemy intercontinental and
intermediate-range missiles in mid-flight. I can imagine the use of
laser turrets as protection against missiles, but I really can't see
the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared
to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough." This is
the big daddy of the [3]JSF laser that we've mentioned before.
Links
0. http://www.popsci.com/
1. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,424266,00.html
2. http://boeing.com/commercial/747family
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/1455215&tid=126
Lofgren Introduces BALANCE Act to Modify DMCA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2013228
Infonaut writes "Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) introduced H.R. 1066, [0]The
Balance Act. It seeks to clarify 'that America's historic principles of
fair use - protected under Section 107 of the Copyright Act - apply to
analog and digital transmissions.' Apparently Lessig is on board, as
are several associations and other organizations. If you like what you
see, [1]encourage your representative to support the bill."
Links
0. http://www.house.gov/lofgren/congress/digital_rights.htm
1. http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Windows Rootkits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1938225
GuidoJ writes "[0]The Register is running an article by [1]Kevin
Poulsen of [2]SecurityFocus Online about [3]rootkits in Windows NT.
While rootkits are a well-known issue in Unix and Linux systems, they
have rarely been found on compromised Windows machines. According to
the article, Windows NT backdoors have always been 'trivial', and they
have caused enough havoc already. Imagine what a stealthy rootkit could
do!"
Links
0. http://www.theregister.com/
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. http://www.securityfocus.com/
3. http://www.theregister.com/content/55/29638.html
Technologies that Have Exceeded Their Expectations?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2111215
drfunch asks: "With the recent 'passing' of Pioneer 10 after over 30
years of service, I wonder what other technologies have far exceeded
expectations. One example from my own experience is my trusty HP
calculator, which is still going strong after 21 years. What
technologies or devices have gone far beyond your expectations?"
GDC: 10 Reasons NOT to Make MMOGs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/165210
[0]Warrior-GS writes "Gordon Walton, who helped create such games as
Ultima Online and the Sims Online, is at the Game Developers Conference
[1]giving a seminar on "Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively
Multiplayer Online Game". GameSpy has been [2]providing coverage of
GDC, with several game previews and several conference reports. They
also have a [3]hands-on report of the Nokia N-Gage from four of their
editors, and a somewhat unorthodox report of the [4]Game Developer
Choice Awards, where Metroid Prime was named Game of the Year. The
convention continues through Saturday."
Links
0. http://www.gamespy.com
1. http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/top10mmog/
2. http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/
3. http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/ngage/
4. http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/awards/
RPG Sorcery PDA Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2256251
shiroi_kami writes "I finally received my long-awaited (and pre
ordered) CD-ROM and immediately loaded the game up on my IPAQ (I didn't
even look at the PC Extras)." shiroi_kami has written some other PC
game reviews; here's his first of a Pocket PC game. Read on below for
his thoughts on [0]Sorcery PDA.
Links
0. http://www.sorcerypda.com/
More on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/187239
Colin Stanners writes "SCO has held a TeleConference and put up a
[0]page with information on their lawsuit against IBM. The key phrase
(from their [1]complaint) is: 'It is not possible for Linux to rapidly
reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality
without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to
achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such
as IBM.' Their page also includes a Q&A, presentation, and exhibits,
although these are mostly licensing agreements and not code." Bruce
Perens had an [2]interesting comment on the situation, more than one
group is trying to [3]organize a boycott, and Newsforge has a [4]story
based on SCO's press conference this morning. Newsforge and Slashdot
are both part of OSDN.
Links
0. http://www.sco.com/scosource/
1. http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html
2. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5456337&sid=56225&tid=123
3. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
4. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239
Freshmeat
123mp3 2.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115443/
123mp3 is a frontend to BladeEnc and cdparanoia that produces MP3s from
selected tracks on a CD in one automated process. Support for CDDB is
also available.
Aldo 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115499/
Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a
random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in
Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It
has 6 skills and 4 speeds.
ALT Linux 2.2 (Master)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115446/
ALT Linux is a set of Linux distributions which are based on Sisyphus,
an APT-enabled RPM package repository which aims to achieve feature
completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable
mixture.
apteryx 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115457/
apteryx is a shell script which acts as a simple wrapper for the
commands apt-cache search and apt-get install which are used in the
GNU/Linux distribution Debian to search for and install new packages.
It uses apt-cache to search for the words given at the command line and
then displays the results in a simple menu-based interface in the
terminal. From this list, the user can select a package and install it.
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115464/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan
detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to
prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of
your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS
attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and
highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script
(fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.
asciijump 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115441/
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
BASHISH 1.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115525/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to
customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt,
font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to
add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
BHL 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115474/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain TXT files into
HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common
font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs
and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse
the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections'
numbers with one keystroke.
Bluebeard 1.0b6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115511/
Bluebeard locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments
on the Usenet forum network. It is robust, able to handle between 1-4
simultaneous downloads, and supports however many queued downloads you
want to throw at it. It is able to piece together multi-part
attachments and handle popular encoding formats, including UUE and
yEnc. Decoding is automatic and quick.
Camino 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115454/
Camino (formerly Chimera) is a Web browser that has a Cocoa user
interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a
simple, small, and fast browser for Mac OS X.
Connect 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115467/
Connect is a GNUstep frontend to pppd.
Crystal Space 0.96r003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115447/
Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It
supports a large number of 3D features.
DoctorJ 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115470/
DoctorJ is a set of applications that analyze Java code. Documentation
is verified for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against
the code, beyond what javadoc does. Statistics for a file or project
can be generated, including the number of lines of code per class and
method, and the overall total. A syntax analyzer is in development.
Dragon Lair alpha_build_07_03_2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115514/
Dragon Lair is a knowledge base system based on Topic Maps Technology.
Data Elements are represented as topics and subjects and put into
relationships with each other. Since these relations are data
independent, Dragon Lair can be put on top of an existing database or
be used as a graphical representation of a new data source. Dragon Lair
"sits" directly upon the Dragon Breath framework for reliable
and easy data manipulation, sanity check, and data exchange.
Ganglia 2.5.3 (Monitoring core)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115534/
Ganglia provides a complete real-time monitoring and execution
environment that is in use by hundreds of universities, private and
government laboratories, and commercial cluster implementors around the
world. It can be used to easily monitor hundreds of computers in
real-time across a university campus or across the world.
gperiodic 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115487/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up
data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical
interface.
Graphical certification authority 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115450/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys
and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It
uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate
storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8
certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection
of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
gtk2-ssh-askpass 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115495/
gtk2-ssh-askpass is a small ssh-askpass replacement written in GTK 2.
It features a fullscreen ask dialog and a translucent background.
isp4you 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115488/
isp4you is a Webmin module that creates a virtual Apache Web server and
a user (with a random password). It automatically creates DNS entries,
up to 100 mail accounts, a MySQL database, quotas, etc. You can also
create a new Webmin user that will only have access to its own new
account. The supported languages are English, Dutch, Spanish, German,
Turkish, and French.
Java Aspect Components 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115469/
JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve
Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming
(distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or
authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the
application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that
supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework
that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools
for the applications and for their aspects.
JPluck 0.9 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115484/
JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It
creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read.
jRSVP 1.1.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115518/
jRSVP is a Java 1.4 tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a
technique for extremely fast reading. It uses the Multivalent library
for parsing input documents, and is able to read PDF, PS, HTML, man
pages, and other documents. It displays texts on a word-by-word or
sentence-by-sentence basis and features a file history and bookmarks.
junkie 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115521/
Junkie is a stable GTK2 FTP client for the X Windows system. It has
features such as queueing files, downloading/uploading of whole
directories, caching of directories, drag and drop, a site manager,
preferences (and a configure library), and an event-based FTP library,
which means that the client should be stable and not slow the user
interface down much.
Katie snapshot-18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115479/
Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS
and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most
interesting features are that the repository is mounted as a filesystem
(rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all versions of
all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this filesystem
(so the "katie diff" command is a convenience rather than a
necessity like "cvs diff"), and that directories are
versioned (just like files are). It is functional enough to be
self-hosting, but there is much work still to go before it will be a
generally useful tool. Features that are implemented already include
VOBs, elements, branches, dynamic views, view-extended pathnames,
config specs (including auto-make-branch rules), labels, hard links,
and symbolic links.
KMLDonkey 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115520/
KMLDonkey provides integration for the MLDonkey P2P software and KDE 3,
in the form of a Kicker applet, ed2k protocol handling for Konqueror,
and a control panel applet to bring it all together.
Launch.app 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115453/
Launch.app is a small program for executing applications, based on the
WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). It features a command history,
executing applications as different users (e.g. root), and tab
completion.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115449/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is
capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It
comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site
statistics, an admin interface, multi language support, custom module
support, and more.
Mono Project 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115455/
Mono Project is an Open Source implementation of the various ECMA and
.NET framework technologies for Unix and Windows. The project includes
a compiler, a class library, and a CLI runtime engine.
motion 3.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115509/
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes
snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in
realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an
observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out
email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
MyAddressbook 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115458/
MyAddressbook is an address book in C for the console. It is simple
enough, but has all basic functions of usual addressbook and it is
quite comfortable in use. The output format can be easily changed to
fit a user's needs.
MyDNS 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115497/
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.
Netjuke 1.0b17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115490/
Artekopia Netjuke is a cross-platform Web-based audio streaming jukebox
powered by PHP 4 and an increasing choice of databases. MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, ASF/WMA, and other music file formats are supported. Artekopia
Netjuke aims to enable small organizations or communities run a private
"mp3.com-like" Web site to access the music they legitimately
own, distribute, or are granted access to. It supports most audio
players, language packs, optional file downloads, media protection
schemes, multi-level security, shared and private playlists, random
playlists, images, etc. It also features an unusual, easy-to-use
installer module to get you started in minutes.
OSSP mm 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115481/
OSSP mm is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of
shared memory between related processed under Unix platforms. It both
hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation,
locking, etc.) when dealing with shared memory segments and provides a
high-level malloc-style API for a convenient way to work with
data-structures inside those shared memory segments.
Packet Excalibur 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115475/
Packet Excalibur is a multi-platform graphical and scriptable network
packet engine with extensible text-based protocol descriptions. It is a
network tool designed to build and receive custom packets. Packet
Excalibur allows you to decide packet attributes from the physical
layer to the top, to sniff and spoof packets with a single interface,
to build scripts in the GUI, and to define additional protocols in
simple text files.
Pathalizer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115463/
Pathalizer is a tool for visualizing the paths most users take when
browsing a Web site. This information can be used to decide how to
improve the navigation of the site, and for determining which parts are
most worth improving and keeping up to date. It generates a directed,
weighed graph from an Apache log, but could easily be modified to
analyze any list of events.
Pebrot 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115486/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not
1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
picoSQL 1.3beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115468/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial
project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
picoSQL 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115466/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial
project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Poco 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115478/
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.
Project-based Calendaring System 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115526/
PbCS is a calendaring system which is very useful for project managers
or managers that plan time for other people. Plain overviews of
scheduled appointments make it easy to schedule new appointments.
PXL 2000 fonts 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115491/
pxl2000 is a dot matrix font for the X Window System (X11). It is
designed to make text readable and eye-pleasing in (reverse color)
xterm/rxvt terminal windows. By providing visually distinct glyphs for
L, l, 1, 7, |, I, i and 0, O, Ø, o, ø, it is particularly
well-suited for displaying program code. It is also suitable for ASCII
art and code poetry and text-based net.art. pxl2000 is ISO 8859-15 (ISO
8859-1 with the Euro symbol) encoded and available in four different
sizes: 9x18, 10x20, 11x22, and 12x24 pixel sizes, thus providing 113,
102, 91, or 85 characters per line on a 1024x768 display.
PyKota Print Quota System 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115528/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and
group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator,
commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
Python Desktop Server 0.4.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115460/
The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool,
XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news
feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python
Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and
homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web
server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or
macros, and a plugin architecture.
Rolo 003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115440/
Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It
strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based
email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing
its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses
front-end.
rubrica 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115473/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you
to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email
addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact
works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used
to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export
to HTML.
Ruby FormValidator 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115508/
FormValidator is a Ruby port of Perl's Data::FormValidator library. It
makes it easy to validate data coming in from HTML forms by providing a
robust set of methods to handle required fields, dependent fields,
filtering, constraints, tainting, and defaults. Its modular design
allows you to easily add your own filters and constraints and also lets
you to keep validation data outside of your CGI scripts.
Ryth(M)Aid + GUI 0.0.1a10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115502/
Ryth(M)Aid + GUI generates a drum, bass, and piano track according to a
given set of chords. It is useful for instrument players who want to
practice playing to certain harmonies. It uses tse3 for MIDI sequencing
and GTK+ for a GUI.
salias 0.3.0 (C)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115529/
salias is a wrapper for programs that allows arguments to those
programs to be aliased. For example, salias could expand "gpg -r
friends --encrypt" to "gpg -r bob -r frank --encrypt".
This is more useful than using simple environment variables, as other
programs calling the wrapped-program don't have to worry about
searching environment variables. Also, salias deals well with things
needing repeating prefix options, such as with GnuPG's "-r"
option (as shown in the example stated).
ShowImg 0.8-Beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115461/
ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous
formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated) and MNG. It consists of a
tree view frame, a directory/preview frame, and a view frame. The
(larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller)
directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from
multiple directories and search for identical images. ShowImg also
features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, drag'n'drop with
Konqueror, and support for images in compressed archives (.zip).
Simple File Manager .022
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115434/
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.
SISC 1.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115482/
SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic
language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily
outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order
of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the
language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a
full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary
precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion,
hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not
just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).
SlackCheck 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115477/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with
the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine
though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of
non-standard packages for every machine.
SoQt 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115480/
SoQt is a GUI toolkit for using Coin/Open Inventor with Qt. The design
focus is on RAD (Rapid Application Development) for 3D graphics
applications.
Spotter 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115504/
Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic and
numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer
regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful
hints as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers
can be input in a notation closely resembling normal human math
notation (e.g., xy rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)).
Spotter runs as a Perl CGI application on a Web server; the student
doesn't need to install any software.
TBFirewall 3.1 (Iptables)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115503/
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.
trickle 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115445/
trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper.
It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing.
trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It
has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD,
and Solaris.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-rc2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115444/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and
development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These
kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and
end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but
want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
Xplanet 0.95a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115496/
Xplanet is a C++ program which is similar to xearth, but draws the
earth or another planet with user-supplied maps. It renders the image
in the root window or an X window. Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide,
orthographic, and rectangular projections can be drawn, and clouds can
be optionally overlaid.
Xrefactory 1.6.0.pre0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115459/
Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs and XEmacs providing
multiple projects support, source browser, intellisense code
completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter
manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, moving
of fields/methods, etc. It is based on full pre-processing, parsing,
and static analyzing of sources. It works for C and Java languages, and
contains stand-alone cross referencer, and a generator for HTML
documentation.
yaws 1.01 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115506/
Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server
targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in
Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code
embedded in the HTML code.
Newsforge Reports
The U.S. as a second-class Linux citizen
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1343204
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Here's a quote from an article at The
Economic Times of India: "Some PC manufactures such as HP sell PCs
without software giving the option to chose an operating system to
customers from the home segment. Others like Compaq are choosing to
load Linux, the free operating system on to their computers." Why
aren't U.S. citizens given this same choice?
SCO follows David Hannums 'sucker' theory in lawsuit against IBM
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239
- by Tina Gasperson - Apparently taking to heart the adage, "ThereÂs a
sucker born every minute", SCO yesterday filed a lawsuit against
customer IBM, stating that big blue violated Unix licensing agreements
by allegedly using and encouraging other companies to use the source
code for AIX in Open Source projects. My god, McBride. Are you really
that desperate for funds? It sure sounds like it, according to what you
said in your teleconference ...
Linux Advisory Watch - March 7th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1124250
- by: Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released
for sendmail, php, slocate, mhc, eterm, tcpdump, snort, OpenSSL, tg3,
squirrelmail, and im. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian,
FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, NetBSD, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Yellow
Dog.
Newsforge Newsvac
SCO: IBM Suit Not About Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/207259
The legal action the SCO Group brought against IBM on Thursday has
nothing to do with Linux or the open-source community, Darl McBride,
CEO and president of the SCO Group, stressed in a media conference on
Friday morning.
Red Hat: An Appraisal and Outlook
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1717229
Ever since the market bubble burst, Red Hat has been struggling to
regain its initial glow of excitement. Although it claims prestigious
accounts (Amazon, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Cisco and others),
enterprise IT loyalty to a specific Linux distribution and distributor
is less locked in than with proprietary systems.
A tale of two licenses: Part 1 (MS EULA)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1714246
rjmatm writes "What restrictions are you accepting when you click
through that license agreement?"
Microsoft issues first-ever dividend
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/178249
A.Guru prasadh writes "SEATTLE: Microsoft is issuing its first dividend
on Friday, shelling out more than $850 million to shareholders, from
the smallest investor right up to co-founder Bill Gates."
Mitchell Baker of mozilla.org on Browser Innovation, Gecko, and the Mozilla project
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/171251
Anonymous Reader writes "Mitchell Baker, mozilla.org's Chief Lizard
Wrangler, has written an article about browser innovation and the
future of the World Wide Web. Lots of stuff about cross-platform
technologies and open Web standards, with some interesting comments
about Apple's new Safari browser."
Camino 0.7 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1651203
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Camino 0.7 has been
released. Camino is the new name for Chimera, the open-source
Mozilla-based browser for Mac OS X."
PCLinuxOnline initiates community boycott of SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1641215
Yama writes "PCLinuxOnline has responded to the SCO lawsuit against IBM
by initiating a community boycott of the company and its products. They
have set up fora to collect evidence to use in the courtroom, and also
to discuss possible community responses. See their front page for
details.
IPCop 1.2.0 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1638203
IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution geared towards home
and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) users. The IPCop interface is very
user-friendly and task-based. IPCop offers the critical functionality
of an expensive network appliance using stock, or even obsolete,
hardware and OpenSource Software.
Windows servers seek to unseat Unix, Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1636223
One of the first battlegrounds facing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003
after its April 24 launch is the hotly contested world of mid-range
servers.
Stay tuned: China's first homegrown CPU is about to go 64-bit.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1634253
One of the country's most promising start-ups, BLX IC Design Corp.,
Ltd., told EE Times Wednesday (March 5) that it is closing in on a
500-MHz microprocessor that it will market toward China's leading
server vendors, including Legend Group and Dawning Technology.
Thinkgeek
Books: BOFH Series - 3 Pack/Bundle!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5daf/
Cube Goodies: GeoMAG from Italy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5c82/
Electronics: i2eye Broadband Videophone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5d7f/
Electronics: Si-5 Portable Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5bb3/
Computing: Latte Mini PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5d5b/
Electronics: SoundPaX Portable Stereo Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5d02/
Computing: Ratpadz GS Mousing Surface
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/3745/
Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/
Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/
Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/
Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/
Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/
Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/
Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/
Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/
Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/
Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/
Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/
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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