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Slashdot
Jupiter's Great Dark Spot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2146227
[0]Edball writes "For more than a century astronomers thought that the
Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images
from NASA's [1]Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as
large, [0]The Great Dark Spot."
Links
0. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12mar_darkspot.htm?list635374
1. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Great Surplus Stores?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/226219
An old friend of mine, Todd San Martin, passed on a link to me of a
great surplus place in Orlando that has lots of old nasa gear and more,
and it made me think that it's probably time to talk about great
surplus shops again. Not just the aforementioned [0]skycraft or the
well known [1]Weird Stuff , although feel free to dicuss those too, but
I thought it would make a cool post as a jumping off point for people
to talk about their favorite shops especially those near aerospace
facilities, both online and off.
Links
0. http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/skycraftpictures.htm
1. http://weirdstuff.com
Germany Mulls A Copyright Levy + VAT For PCs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2024205
[0]Willard B. Trophy writes "How does a US$13 plus an extra 16% tax on
computers sound? That's what intense lobbying by publishing industry
groups has forced the German government to consider. [1]UPI has the
story."
Links
0. http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/
1. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030312-120912-6894r
Major League Baseball Releases Webcasting Plans
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2150242
[0]TopShelf writes "With spring in the air, it's time to discuss the
(US) national pastime. According to [1]this story at CNN, Major League
Baseball is planning to webcast 1,000 games this season. The
interesting part is that in order not to violate TV blackout rules,
they'll try to deny service to viewers who instead have local
broadcasts available, using [2]Quova's user-location service. At last,
an opportunity to see my hometown Detroit Tigers more than once a
year!"
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~TopShelf/journal
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/12/baseball.net.ap/index.html
2. http://www.quova.com/
AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1655237
[0]SuperDuG writes "[1]AMD now offers three categories of processor for
notebooks grouped under the Athlon XP-M brand. It labels them "desktop
replacement," "standard," and the new "low-voltage". [2]AMD plans to
make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market using [3]the
Barton Core, a technology designed to double the CPU Cache. Looks like
yet another case of [4]AMD being one-up on [5]Intel."
Links
0. http://www.eclec.tk/
1. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109783,00.asp
2. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~68176,00.html
3. http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reports/4634/1/
4. http://www.amd.com/
5. http://www.intel.com/
Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2050257
[0]jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an [1]artificial
hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of
scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace
damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder
what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family &
friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as
in this [2]story by Cory Doctorow?"
Links
0. http://www.homestarrunner.com
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
2. http://www.craphound.com/down/
A College Without Microsoft?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/0548224
An anonymous reader asks: "My grandfather is the president of a
well-known undergraduate-only college of about 7,000 students. He tells
me that an alumnus has agreed to donate $2.4 million initially (and up
to $800,000 each succeeding year for 10 years) to the school for
computer equipment and staff if the school agrees not to renew any
contract and to buy no products or services (either directly or through
an intermediary like Gateway) from Microsoft. I'm told that this isn't
the enormous amount of money that it sounds like and that a change-over
to non-Microsoft products would be costly. I think it'd be great for
college students to use computers apart from Microsoft, but I'm told
that the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for
benefit to the students. Does the Slashdot community have any points
that I can give my grandfather to present to the Board next month?"
100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/206256
BitHive writes "With all the talk on /. about the last mile, it looks
like people in Mason County, WA may get what I've wanted for years--a
100mbps fiber connection straight to their home. The ISP, [0]DONOBi
claims the personal account is 'unlimited,' but since they don't allow
servers, and have a business account which is capped at 5Gb/month
($3/Gb addtl), I think we can guess at what their idea of 'unlimited'
is. Their [1]service offerings can be found here. Is anyone on this
service or knows something they can report?"
Links
0. http://www.donobi.com/
1. http://www.donobi.com/services/internet_access/fiber.php
A Hydrogen-Based Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1729248
[0]Glog writes "Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of Wired magazine have
written an amazing article explaining [1]why we need to transition to a
hydrogen economy. Lots of info there, estimated cost and benefit ...
very good solid reasoning for whatever floats your boat - national
security, environment, super-duper-charged automobiles."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/hydrogen.html
E.U. Commission: More Antitrust Trouble For MS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/181215
[0]Tidal Flame writes "[1]According to Wired news, Microsoft appears to
be in hot water over antitrust issues again. The European Commission
says it will require Microsoft to 'share more proprietary information
with its rivals' and 'uncouple' it's Media Player audiovisual software
from the Windows operating system." iCoach points to this [2]article at
The Register covering the same.
Links
0. http://www.tidalflame.net
1. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57998,00.html
2. http://theregister.com/content/4/29725.html
Freshmeat
Achievo 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116019/
Achievo is a Web-based project management and tracking tool for small-
to medium-sized companies, aiming to become a fully featured ERP-like
system in the future. Features include a time registration module with
several statistical tools. Achievo is multi-language, fully
customizable, and uses a modular system to allow future extensions.
Bnet 0.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116037/
BNet is a simple API for bayesian networks which implements the
junction tree algorithm. It has been used successfully to deal with
bayesian networks and dynamic bayesian networks.
bosdl 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116048/
bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It features TrueType
fonts, album covers, and a progress meter.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116095/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the
documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser
generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO
EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization
application that dynamically creates visual representation of your
syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your
documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration
with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of
your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116028/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the
STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic
strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types
along with threads, synchronization and IP sockets. It is portable
across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP
daemon showing the full power of the library.
camolive 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115970/
Camolive is an olive colored style.
DaDaBIK 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116021/
DaDaBIK is a PHP application that allows you to easily create a highly
customizable Web interface for a MySQL database in order to search,
insert, update, and delete records; all you need do is specify a few
configuration parameters. It is available in English, Italian, Dutch,
German, Spanish, and French.
DvorakNG 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116050/
DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min,
but adds many improvements like a progress information database.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116016/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
Ensemblist 20030312
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116020/
Ensemblist is a 3D puzzle game in which you have to model a given shape
with geometric primitives that you must assemble with boolean
operations (using constructive solid geometry).
Epiphany 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116091/
Epiphany is a multiplatform clone of the game Boulderdash. It is
written entirely in C++, using Clanlib as its graphic library. The
player must collect all valuable minerals scattered in levels, while
avoiding being hit by a falling boulder or a bomb.
exiscan 4.14-26 (For exim 4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116041/
exiscan is a patch against exim version 4, providing support for
content scanning in email messages received by exim. It works after the
sending client has completed the SMTP data phase and waits for an
answer from the server. Messages containing unwanted content can be
rejected at that stage, so the job of generating a bounce message is
the job of the sending host. Four different scanning facilities are
supported: antivirus, antispam, regular expressions, and file
extensions.
ExpatWrapperClasses 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116109/
The ExpatWrapper Classes are a simple C++ wrapper around the populate
XML parser Expat. They support parsing and writing of XML data, and
work with a treenode structure in the memory. It's possible to parse
files and memory areas.
eXtended Allow - Deny list for PAM 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116070/
XAD is a very easy to configure PAM module. Through a very easy
language you can allow/deny access to users.
EzSDK 4.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116054/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a
library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of
premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and
data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle,
etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
font2svg 0.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116017/
font2svg can convert any font that GhostScript is capable of rendering
into an SVG-font. This includes all PostScript fonts, GhostScript's own
format, and almost all TrueType fonts.
FourCoordinates 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116103/
FourCoordinates is a Mac OS X framework written in Objective C for
listening to GPS devices connected to Macintosh computers. It takes
care of interpreting the output of the GPS device and presents you with
a simple class interface for obtaining the current coordinates, and
(optionally) being notified when they change. Its goals are ease of
integration, zero user configuration (i.e., autodetection of GPS
devices), and support for a broad range of GPS devices.
FreeCraft 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116118/
FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It
is possible to play against human opponents over a LAN or the Internet,
or against the computer. The engine can be used to build RTS games like
C&C, WarCraft, StarCraft, or AOE. Since FreeCraft only provides the
engine, you need either the FcMP (FreeCraft Media Project) or the
original game (normal or expansion CD), so FreeCraft can extract the
files which are necessary for playing a game.
FreeMarker 2.2rc2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116046/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from
application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates
generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The
template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and
the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
Freevix 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116069/
Freevix is a tiny GNU/Linux distribution designed to provide a complete
but small footprint environment for people wanting to build a Linux
media player system with Freevo. Currently optimized for the VIA EPIA
mainboards, it provides 45 second boot times, operation entirely from
RAM, and supports loading from a 32MB CF card or PXE network booting.
GEQUEL 0.9 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116081/
GEQUEL is a GTK/C based frontend for the popular MySQL database engine.
It was loosely derived from an old program by the same author
(xsqlmenu). It can retrieve data from MySQL databases, present them in
nice browser, and allows for update, delete, insert, and copy
operations.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116058/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
gqueue 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116100/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It has
Gnome system tray support and can show all jobs in printing queues as
well remove jobs.
Gtk-IPTables 0.3.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116045/
Gtk-IPTables is a GTK-based frontend for iptables written in C. You can
create rules for all chains for Filter, NAT, and Mangle tables.
Gujin 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116114/
Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your filesystems. It finds
the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions
(for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), and displays a graphical menu for
selecting which system to boot. Because it understands the structure of
Linux kernel images, Gujin does not need LILO and can even load very
big kernels. There is no need to execute anything after making a new
kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the "/boot"
directory. Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully
executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible.
Gyach 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116120/
Gyach is a GTK+-based Yahoo! Chat client which can use your existing
Yahoo! logins for chatting in Yahoo! Chat. It supports colors,
emotes/aliases, PMs, set status, remote user status display, ignore
lists (local, non-Yahoo! based), a regex list of triggers to cause
users to be automatically ignored, command-line recall via arrow keys,
and tab completion of usernames.
imgSeek 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116039/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an
image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough
sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply
draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for
you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also find duplicate
images automatically, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata
including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and
more.
iNet Factory 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116055/
iNet Factory is a robust suite of TCP/IP networking components for the
Java platform. They provide all the tools necessary to quickly develop
network-capable Java applications with minimum coding effort. Included
are components for finger, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MIME, NNTP, nslookup,
rexec, rlogin, rsh, telnet, whois, and other frequently-used protocols.
Issue Manager 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116090/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring,
editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to
manage information.
JFtp 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116079/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the
basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive
directory up/download, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically
resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names.
The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party
applications or in a command-line mode. The clients lets you browse the
server while transferring files in both directions.
jpegtoavi 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116036/
jpegtoavi creates an AVI MJPEG file from a list of JPEG/JFIF files. It
is designed according to the Unix toolbox philosophy, and thus does its
one simple task and no others.
kio_z3950r 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116013/
kio_z3950r is a KIOSlave for the z39.50 protocol. It implements RFC
2056 for allowing information retrieval queries to be passed to z39.50
servers.
KisMAC 0.04a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116053/
KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into
monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely
invisible and sends no probe requests.
MailDooHicky 1.9.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116102/
mdh (MailDooHicky) is a GTK2-based toolbar that can display the time,
email message count, and various system (CPU, network, etc.)
utilization. It also features five user definable buttons, a run
window, and scratch pad.
Mailgust 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116047/
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.
Makepasswd 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116115/
Makepasswd generates pseudo-random passwords of a desired length. It is
able to generate its crypted equivalent.
mdadm 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116122/
mdadm is a tools for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux
"md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID.
MobileRPC 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116098/
MobileRPC is a tool that generates all of the files required to enable
remote procedure calls (RPC) between J2ME client applications and Java
servlet servers.
myDVDs 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116092/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory
database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master
Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat:
barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy
and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
MZiq 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116084/
MZiq is a Perl frontend for mpg123. Its main feature is the deployment
of Perl's regular expressions for ease of playlist creation. It also
supports other miscellaneous helping options like nice, caching, and
the ability to read its options and patterns from a file.
nethack-el 20030310
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116014/
nethack-el is an Emacs major mode for playing nethack. Separate buffers
are used for the map, status, messages, and menus. It features
customization of keys and colors and user programmable hooks on game
events. It supports GNU Emacs 20/21 and XEmacs 21, with graphical tiles
on *Emacs 21.
Non-Networked File System 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116038/
NNFS (Non-Networked File System) provides a consistent file system over
several non-networked Unix computers (or slow networked).
OpenDocMan 1.1rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116075/
OpenDocMan is a full featured Web-based document management system
designed to conform to ISO 17025/IEC. It features an automated
installation script, check-in/out, departmental access control, file
moderation, fine grained user access control, and a great search
function. Written in PHP, and utilizing MySQL for the backend, this
project is useful for any company looking to keep their documentation
in a centralized repository.
OptiPNG 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116101/
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses the image files to a
smaller size without losing any data. It works in a manner similar to
pngcrush, but it has a wider automatic search space (leading to
possibly a better compression), and it runs faster.
osx2x 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116096/
osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X
machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard
events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.
oxine 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116116/
oxine is a lightweight, purely OSD-based xine frontend for set-top
boxes and home entertainment systems. It uses the on screen display
functionality of xine to display its user interface elements like
buttons, lists, sliders, and so on. Due to this, oxine can easily use
any video output device the xine library provides.
Packit 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116052/
Packit is a network auditing tool that allows you to monitor,
manipulate, and inject customized IP traffic into your network. It
supports the ability to define (and spoof) all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP,
RARP, and Ethernet header options. Packit can be valuable for testing
firewalls, intrusion detection systems, port scanning, simulating
network traffic, and general TCP/IP auditing.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116078/
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 Dump Maker 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116027/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given
source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of
directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged
in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for
backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via
cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116108/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site
traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that,
either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two
lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web
site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of
Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and
perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your
visitors' click paths).
pmacct 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116076/
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.
Polipo 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116067/
Polipo is a lightweight caching Web proxy that was designed as a
personal cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will
complete them using range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if
supported by the remote server.
PostgreSQL Hierarchical Queries 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116029/
This is a patch to PostgreSQL which allows it to perform hierarchical
queries in Oracle's style.
Proteus EAI Toolkit 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116060/
Proteus is a toolkit for message-based Enterprise Application
Integration. It includes adapters that allow databases, message queues,
FTP servers, email, and other message sources and sinks to be addressed
in a simple, uniform fashion. It also includes a simple but very
capable message broker. The broker allows routing and transformation of
messages from and to all the sources and sinks for which adapters
exist. Transformations may be custom-written in Java or XSLT (the
broker uses Xalan as its XSLT transformation engine).
psmon 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116064/
psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or a
fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with
customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of
rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules
describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any
limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage
of processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of
rules defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead
processes, and slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal
processes.
PyHtmlTable 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116121/
PyHtmlTable is a class for Python CGIs to generate HTML tables on the
fly. It allows you to set individual row and cell attributes via
arbitrary dictionaries, and span rows and columns. It autogrows the
table if cells are set outside its initial range. It allows dynamic
insertion of new rows and columns anywhere in the table, and allows
bulk population of table data via arrays to arbitrary locations in the
table. It also provides default cell attributes for tablewide
uniformity and the ability to override these on a cell-by-cell basis.
S-terminal 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116080/
S-terminal lets you create a secure X terminal. Regular X terminals
pass unencrypted data between you the remote machine. S-terminal
creates an encrypted tunnel through which all X traffic passes. It
replaces the remote xdm login screen with a local application that
collects username and password, then sets up an ssh tunnel to the
remote host and starts a session. It is highly configurable both in
appearance and behavior, and deployed S-terminals can be remotely
administered. Best of all, it can be added to a KNOPPIX CD to create an
instant, bootable, secure X terminal CD.
Sendmailizer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116077/
Sendmailizer performs MTA log file analysis and generates email usage
reports, with general stats and statistics per user.
shsql 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116051/
shsql is a a reasonably full-featured, efficient SQL database for
Unix/Linux that can be downloaded and installed by a non-privileged
user in 5 minutes. It can be embedded directly into applications
requiring no persistent server process, has a small code size and
memory footprint, uses plain ASCII whitespace-delimited data files
which can be modified in a text editor, and is easy to administer. It
can be used for rapid prototyping situations, demos, exploratory work,
one-developer projects, etc. where full-blown packages like MySQL or
Oracle aren't already available or are unacceptable.
Siege 2.57b9 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116072/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a
single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user
basis.
SlackPkg 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116066/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux.
It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or
upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide),
and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a
replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
Solaris packaging tools 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116056/
PkgTools are a set of utilities which are used to aid in the building
of native Solaris packages. There are five separate utilities which are
used to build packages, prepare a chroot() environment to install
software into prior to building a package, copy package control scripts
into place, a tool to aid in the starting of new projects, and a tool
to check that packages are installed correctly.
SoulSeek for Linux 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116104/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing
system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files,
search for files, chat with other users in public and in private,
browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for
Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It
includes all the major functionality: chat, searches and downloads.
Space Hulk 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116025/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of
Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player
plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called
'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board
game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network,
either in real time or asynchronously via email.
Sylpheed 0.8.11claws (Claws)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116094/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost
all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display,
and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully
internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll
be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
Symbio 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116085/
Symbio is a commenting system for Web sites and blogs. Its features
include theme and multi-language support, smileys, text styling, and
statistics.
TAMS 1.20a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116088/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic
coding and data extraction-analysis system.
The Coolest DHTML Calendar 0.9.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116022/
A DHTML calendar widget that works with IE >= 5.0, Mozilla, Netscape
>= 6 as well as with all other Gecko-based browsers. It comes with
eight color themes, and doesn't use frames or external windows, but
uses Web standards and is lightning fast.
TkUsr 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116062/
TkUsr is a small program that allows you to manage the Self-mode of
USR/3Com Message/Professional modems. You can use it to retrieve voice
messages and faxes. It features smart retrieving with a cache system,
so you do not have to download the whole memory when you only want a
single fax.
TOAD 2003-03-12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116106/
The TOAD C++ GUI Library is a set of classes to create graphical user
interfaces with the X Window System. While still under development, it
aims to be an alternative to other popular GUI libraries in the future
by providing innovative features that ease the development process.
trx 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116113/
TrX is a project that aims to produce a Debian GNU/Linux-based desktop
router and firewall package. This package will be bootable directly
from CD-ROM, so hard disk installation will not be necessary. TrX is
designed to work completely off the CD-ROM, with configuration data
stored on a floppy disk, harddisk partition or, in future versions, on
a USB storage device. This is quite different from the common approach,
where everything (program and configuration files) is stored on a hard
disk.
ulim 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116030/
Ulim is a Linux kernel module which enforces resource limits on every
process in the system. There are already solutions like pam_limit, but
there are some places where the user can execute his programs, but PAM
is not used (for example .forward or .procmailrc files, or CGI
scripts). Ulim works in the kernel and sets the limits whenever a
process changes its real UID, so every process run by a user will have
the correct limits.
VirtuaDesk 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116065/
VirtuaDesk is a 3d file manager written in Java with the Java3d APIs.
It's necessary to have installed the Java3d JRE or JDK onto the system
in order to run it.
VUXcast 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116018/
VUXcast is a Web-based multi-user learning jukebox stream controller
for ices2. It uses a bell curve to select a song based on past
popularity, and tracks user preferences, attempting to learn from them.
web2ldap 0.11.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116057/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed
to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web
server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
WMTimer 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116089/
WMTimer is a dockable alarm clock for Windowmaker or Blackbox which can
be run in alarm, countdown timer, or chronograph mode. In alarm or
timer mode, you can either execute a command or sound the system bell
when the time is reached. WMTimer is configurable through the command
line or the GTK GUI.
X-Itools pre3-0.5.97 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116074/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to
products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of
several modules, and this project has been under development for
several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a
flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges
manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt
things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public
vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country
profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and
outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
X-Itools 0.5.96 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116073/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to
products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of
several modules, and this project has been under development for
several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a
flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges
manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt
things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public
vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country
profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and
outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
Xcerpt 0.8r80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116068/
Xcerpt is a declarative, rule-based query and transformation language
for XML, inspired by logic programming. Instead of the path-based
navigational approach taken by languages like XSLT and XQuery, Xcerpt
uses pattern-based, positional queries, where a pattern is an
"example" of the database containing variables for binding
content. As in logic programming, rules may be chained to form more
complex queries.
xmms-crossfade 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116033/
xmms-crossfade is an output plugin for XMMS. Its main feature is
automatic crossfading. It also removes the gaps between tracks, to play
whole MP3 albums without any audible interruption. xmms-crossfade
supports OSS via a builtin driver, and any other platform by using
existing output plugins.
xrdesktop 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116110/
xrdesktop is a GTK-Perl frontend for the command-line terminal services
client rdesktop. It saves and manages connection information for
different Windows machines running terminal services.
Newsforge Reports
Michael Robertson: the Steve Case of Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1819238
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - AOL sucks. There are many better,
lower-cost ISPs. And Lindows sucks. There are many better, lower-cost
Linux distributions available. These are articles of faith among
sophisticated Internet and Linux users. But the Internet as a whole
owes a lot to AOL and Steve Case, and Lindows is doing as much for
Linux as AOL has done for the Internet, whether you like it or not.
BOFH is now passé, according to one consultant
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1621236
- by Tina Gasperson - Rick Freedman, IT consultant and author, says he
sees changes coming in the typical IT admin job description. No longer
will sysadmins or network administrators be able to get by on technical
talent alone. In the near future, they're going to need - gasp - people
skills.
Project JXTA passes "million downloads" milestone
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1542252
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - JXTA is a Sun-sponsored Open Source
project that is the very embodiment of the company's oft-repeated "the
network is the computer" mantrum. The idea of the project is to allow
different many computers and computer-like devices to share information
directly instead of using a central server. And JXTA is starting to get
used in practical ways, so this is not just hot air or a "someday"
dream.
Newsforge Newsvac
A tale of two licenses: Part 2 (GNU GPL)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2245216
rjmatm writes "The GPL is not without faults, as most software
developers will tell you, there is no one perfect software license.
However, the majority of complaints about the GPL do not come from
individual developers or those who use software developed under the
GPL. It comes from companies who want to restrict software use and
distribution."
Debian Weekly News - March 11, 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/176212
Welcome to this year's 10th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
the Debian community. It seems to have been a big week in Linux kernel
development. Recent work promises to make exciting improvements for
desktop users. Meanwhile, Openstuff.net has recently released a new
range of low cost Debian fun stuff, including t-shirts, polo shirts,
sweat shirts and suitcases.
MidCOM - Midgard Components Framework 1.0 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1831200
Henri Bergius writes "MUENCHEN, Mar 11th 2003 -- Linksystem Muenchen
has released version 1.0 of the Midgard Components Framework (MidCOM).
MidCOM provides a framework for creating reusable and configurable
components for web applications using the Midgard Content Management
Framework.
The Case of SCO v. IBM
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1828239
Anonymous Reader writes "Just about everyone who has been to the Linux
and Technology news wires lately has heard of the case of SCO versus
IBM. SCO has sued IBM for at least $1 Billion over UNIX and Linux as
detailed in this article. The goal of this article is to not tell
another tale of SCO suing IBM, but to inform the Linux community of the
case, disect the case filed, and bring light to facts and statistics
that help the case against IBM."
Snort survives first vulnerability
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1816204
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Snort, the immensely popular open-source
intrusion-detection system, is no longer confined to cult status. Since
going commercial in 2001 with the formation of Columbia, Md.-based
Sourcefire, Snort's reach has extended into enterprises and deep into
the federal government. Lauded for its stability, Sourcefire had its
first million-dollar quarter in Q4 '02, has grown revenues 1,000% since
'01 and has more than doubled ...
Reinventing Computing Blah!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1814245
ksergio writes "We have been told again and again that sofware sucks,
because development methodologies are not mature enough. Well, it is
time to recognize software is hard to write, and that no single
methodology can lead to bugless, easy to use, fast software."
New Linux editions signal start of a war on Unix
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1714231
The stage is set for a battle royal over which server operating system
will dominate IT departments in coming years. On the one hand are the
upstart Linux distributors armed with last year's new releases, on the
other established purveyors of proprietary Unix, many of whom are
backing Linux as well. The decision is an important one for the large
companies that need server operating systems because of its
implications for the cost of IT.
Searching for the perfect Linux office
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/178225
After using and testing Linux over the last 14 months or so, I am more
than ever convinced that it is a truly great operating system. It's
stable, user friendly, powerful, and it doesn't crash every five
minutes.
OSI: Brief of Amicus Curiae in SCO vs. IBM (draft)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2030207
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational
association with offices in Palo Alto, California. OSI is one of the
principal advocacy organizations of the open-source community, which is
alleged in SCO's complaint to have been beneficiary of tortious and
illegal behavior by IBM.
Supercomputer has local roots
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1656229
Melbourne developers played an integral role in a new range of SGI
supercomputers making their debut in the Extreme Linux roadshow touring
Australian cities now.
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
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Electronics: SoundPaX Portable Stereo Speakers
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Computing: Ratpadz GS Mousing Surface
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Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
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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/
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/
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
Quartz 1.0.6 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258718
This release of Quartz, contains several small corrections and bug
fixes, as well as a few new features (see change log). Quartz is an
enterprise-class Job Scheduler for use in stand-alone and full-blown
J2EE Applications. Quartz is very light-weight, highy scalable, and
extremely easy to use within your own applications. Changes: Changes in
version 1.0.6 ========================== 1- Added DB2v6Delegate for
usage with JDBC-JobStore and older versions of DB2. 2- Added
HSQLDBDelegate for usage with HSQLDB 1.7.X - previously, MSSQLDelegate
was used by HSQLDB users, but that was confusing. 3- Updated JavaDOC
and table-creation docs for all db types / delegates. 4- Implemented
JobStoreTX.getTriggersForJob(name, group) - it used to throw an
UnsupportedOperationException. 5- Misc small JavaDOC corrections. 6-
Additions to the Quartz tutorial. 7- Introduced
"org.quartz.spi.SchedulerPlugin" interface. 8- Introduced
"org.quartz.plugins.history" package - with plugins for recording
historical data. 9- Fixed bug in CronTrigger related to expressions
using "#" in the day-of-week field. 10- Fixed bug using non-global
JobListeners with the JDBC-Jobstore using OracleDelegate.
LameFE 2.2 Final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258899
The LameFE project proudly announces the release of LameFE 2.2 Final.
After nearly one year of beta testing we have reached the goal: LameFE
2.2 LameFE is more than a powerfull frontend for LAME. It reads CDDA,
Wave, APE, supports Winamp plugins. Besides MP3 it encodes to
Ogg/Vorbis, Monkeys Audio and Wave. Other Features: Cue-Sheets, FreeDB,
CD-Text, Batchprocessing mode for CD-Ripping, and many more. Download
English or German Version at:
http://lamefe.sf.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler. ---
Project Admin
Bossogg 0.9.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259518
Bossogg is a server based music (ogg/mp3) player. Completed clients
include: PHP and SDL (developed for TV out). Uses SQLite/PostgreSQL for
data storage and SDL_sound for playback. Bossogg 0.9.3.1 is a bugfix
release. The configuration file was unusable without modification, and
definatly not ready for end users. This fixes that, plus the link in
README to the home page location.
wv2-0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258862
wv2 is a portable C++ implemenation of a MS Word import library. Right
now it supports importing of Word 97, 2000, and XP documents; support
for Word 6 and Word 95 is planned. The 0.0.8 release contains bugfixes.
TclXML version 2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258863
Version 2.6 of the TclXML, TclDOM and TclXSLT packages are now
available. The TclXML family of packages provide XML support for the
Tcl scripting language.
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.
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