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Slashdot
Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0041245
Frr pointed out this [0]interesting approach to the periodic table:
Haiku. This might even help you remember the elements.
Links
0. http://www.iscifistory.com/scifaku/elements/periodichaiku.asp
Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From SXSW.com
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0414225
[0]chupacabra writes "SXSW.com in Austin, Texas has a group of
computers in various music venues around town. The ices/icecast stream
is sent over 802.11 to a main server at SXSW. There are 6 venues
running as of this moment. Thanks to the folks at Vorbis and their CVS
we are rocking. See [1]sxsw.com/music/livestreams."
Links
0. http://rawdeal.org
1. http://sxsw.com/music/livestreams
Music Companies Bemoan New High-Cap Portables
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0131253
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports: 'The music industry
this week condemned the [0]launch of two recording systems that will
let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc.'"
The Sony system is supposed to use "ultra-efficient data compression
system used in MiniDiscs" to fit "30 hours of MP3 music" on a CD-R. (I
thought MD used ATRAC rather than MP3, and that ATRAC's standard
bitrate was 285.3 Kbps -- can some MD gurus bring us up to speed?)
Philips' system skips CDs, and instead uses a DVD burner, with the
resulting disks playable in a to-be-released portable player. I wonder
what kind of DRM features the companies will use to cripple each
system.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993490
Texas Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0030247
[0]Skapare writes "The Texas Legislature now has before it a [1]bill (
[2]ASCII text here, [3]PDF here), submitted by State Senator [4]John
Carona, to require the state to consider open source and open standards
as part of the acquisition of software. Texas, like many other states,
has a [5]budget crisis going on. If this passes, I believe it could
help the state save a lot of money. Texans need to make sure their
state [6]representatives and [7]senators know they want this to pass."
Links
0. http://linuxlobby.org/
1.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/billhist/billhist.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01579
2.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/viewtext.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01579&VERSION=1&TYPE=B
3. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/78r/billtext/pdf/SB01579I.PDF
4. http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist16/dist16.htm
5. http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/news/newrel.html
6.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/members/house.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&CTYPE=House
7.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/members/senate.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&CTYPE=Senate
New Social-Network Mapping Tools Compared
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2233217
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "There are many new visualization tools
around us which try to map our social networks. In [1]this column, I
examined [2]Inflow, a datamining tool digging through your email
repository to discover and find trends to know more about your
networks. Here is a quote: "Assuming you have a significant amount of
e-mail traffic, the software will create a remarkably sophisticated
assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their
relative size but also the interactions between different groups." I
also peeked at [3]TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, which uses Amazon or Google
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to visually describe how
books and Web sites connect with one another. Finally, I took a look at
a brand new way of visualizing Google search results, from [4]anacubis.
If you know about other similar new tools, please tell me and I'll
gather your comments in a future story."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/stories/2003/03/15/newSocialnetworkMappingToolsAreEmerging.html
2. http://www.orgnet.com/
3. http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
4. http://www.anacubis.com/
Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2122211
[0]Stranger4U writes "Researchers at [1]New Mexico Tech and the [2]NRAO
have used the Aricebo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and some
specilized equipment to more closely examine the pulses from the Crab
Nebula pulsar. Some of the signals lasted less than two nanoseconds,
meaning the originated from a volume no bigger than beach ball. Stories
are [3]here(1) and [4]here(2)."
Links
0. http://www.nmt.edu/~cmiller/
1. http://www.nmt.edu/
2. http://www.nrao.edu/
3. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030312-120549-8282r
4. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pulsar_beachball_030312.html
AMD Opteron Due In April
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2059226
[0]updog writes "Here's an article from Infoworld claiming that the new
64-bit AMD [1]Opteron is ready to launch on April 22. Some of the
notable features of the new chip are an address space capable of
addressing up to 1 Terabyte of memory, the ability to link up to 8
processors without any external chips, and backwards compatibility with
existing 32-bit applications ..." PapaFSmurf, meanwhile, links to a
disclaimer-heavy [2]article posted at amdboard.com which says that
64-bit Athlons may arrive in June rather than [3]September as
previously expected.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11opteron_1.html?s=tc
2. http://www.amdboard.com/hn03130301.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1651207&tid=142
Clear Case Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/1734207
The Cheat writes "Interested in making your computer the envy of all
the other computers on the block? What visitors to oooh and ahhh when
they enter your room? The latest trend in computer case solutions can
do just that. AnandTech took a look at three clear cases in a [0]recent
roundup, each certain to make you more popular, right? Maybe not, but
at least they look cool."
Links
0. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1803
Forbes on Lessig and Eldred
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/1711213
[0]scubacuda writes "In the [1]Forbes editorial, [2] Fact and Comment ,
[3]Steve Forbes voices his support for [4]Lessig and the [5]Eldred
case: 'Maybe Congress should just be done with it and declare that a
copyright is forever....Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig
has proposed a sensible compromise..."[I]f Congress is listening to the
frustration that the court's decision has created, [paying to maintain
copyright extensions] would be a simple and effective way for the First
Branch to respond." He's absolutely right.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n a m e.com
1. http://www.forbes.com/
2. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0331/027.html
3.
http://www.forbes.com/columnists/col_archive.jhtml?aname=Steve+Forbes&author=steve+and+forbes
4. http://www.lessig.org/
5. http://eldred.cc/
Modular Home Network PVR at CeBIT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/162202
Mackus Daddius writes "This ought to give the MPAA a conniption:
'[0]The Lancaster system is modular, consisting of a TV tuner (analogue
or digital), a hard disk module and an interface module that ties the
system together and connects to your TV. The modules are connected
using standard Ethernet connections, giving you flexibility over where
the modules are placed and used. Multiple storage and interface modules
can be used, increasing the capacity of the system and allowing
multiple TVs to be used for watching programmes.' From the [1]ZDNet UK
article and here's an [2]article with pics."
Links
0. http://www.terratec.net/products/lancaster.htm
1. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131891,00.html?tag=nl
2. http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=169
Freshmeat
AsyncResolv 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116378/
AsyncResolv is an asynchronous DNS query library written in C++. It is
easy to use and is quite fast. It is designed for incorporating in
high-concurrency network servers.
AutoGen 5.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116401/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain
repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the
maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text.
This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text
that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a
Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template,
may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 19.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116403/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple
option description file, it will process configuration files,
environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by
client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the
client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc
invoking section automatically.
Bakery 1.3.10 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116384/
Bakery is a C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications using gnomemm
and gtkmm. It provides a Document/View architecture, but it doesn't
force you to use the whole architecture. It makes it easy to start
developing GNOME applications by inheriting and overriding.
BSDftpd-ssl 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116376/
BSDftpd-ssl is a TLS/SSL-enhanced FTP server. It is based on FreeBSD's
ftpd, and the TLS/SSL enhancement allows RFC 2228 "FTP Security
Extensions"-compliant TLS/SSL support for both control and data
connections. This feature requires special clients; with standard
clients, this software operates as a standard FTP server.
CK-Ledger 0.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116356/
CK-Ledger is a double-entry ledger accounting system which runs on top
of PHPGroupWare. It provides accounting and backoffice functionality to
SMEs, and utilizes PHPGroupWare to administer user accounts and groups.
It comprises 15 modules: Ledger Admin, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation,
Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for
Manager, Human Resources, Staff Self Service, and Payroll.
disktype 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116375/
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or
disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and
boot codes.
DOTCONF++ library 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116379/
dotconf++ is a dotconf like configuration file parser written in C++.
It supports macro substitution from the environment or from the file
itself, config file inclusion, easy handling of XML like tags, checking
for required tags, and more. The whole document (with all inclusions)
is parsed into a useful tree structure that is easy to use in your
program.
DrawSWF 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116374/
DrawSWF is a simple drawing application written in Java. The drawing
can be exported as an animated SWF (Macromedia Flash) file. It has been
tested to run with Java2 1.4 under Linux.
Eric3 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116373/
Eric3 is a Python IDE written using PyQt and QScintilla. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing
functions, gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax
highlighting and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an
integrated Python debugger, a file system browser with class browsing
capabilities for Python files, and more.
ESSE 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116414/
ESSE (Efficient Site Search Engine) is a search engine for Web sites
which is based on the PostgreSQL database engine. You can choose
extensions for searchable documents, and you can fully customize the
output of queries. It is configurable, and allows you to speed up the
search by using statistic keywords instead of searching through the
full document.
Falsoyd 0.8-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116415/
Falsoyd is a little shoot-em-up for your desktop. It is an entirely
plotless game intended for hours of frivolous and violent entertainment
while you should be working.
Giram 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116388/
Giram Is Really A Modeller. It is a multi-purpose 3D modeller written
with GTK+ 2.0. It supports many 3D formats.
GNU C library 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116360/
GNU C library (glibc) is one of the most important components of GNU
Hurd and most modern Linux distributions. It is used by almost all C
programs and provides the most essential program interface. Version 2.1
is a companion to Kernel 2.2.x.
GNU Smalltalk 2.0l (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116369/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116410/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a
secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It
implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for
beta testing.
Gtk-IPTables 0.3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116389/
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.
gtkmm 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116382/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular
GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++
programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework.
Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by
inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly
create complex user interfaces.
Hash Database Manager 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116417/
Hash Database Manager provides a commandline interface and an
interactive terminal interface to GDBM (and other) hash DBs.
HTML::Merge 3.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116390/
HTML::Merge is an embedded HTML/Perl/SQL tool used to create dynamic
Web content. It uses TAG-based embedded Perl and SQL integration in
templates that are used to automatically generate Perl code, which is
run in the deployment mode.
imgv 2.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116358/
imgv is free image viewer that runs on everything from MS-Windows to
Linux to BSD and more. It includes standard features (file/directory
browser, slideshows, zoom in/out, flip/rotate, etc.) and special
features (multi-view, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists,
remote image loading, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and
much more).
JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116387/
JXTA Instant Messenger (JIM) aims to establish a server-free instant
messaging system with various options. It features encrypted messaging,
presence awareness, and sophisticated search for users.
KBudget 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116411/
KBudget is a budgeting and money management program for KDE. It allows
you to manage accounts and transactions.
libxml++ 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116383/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml
(gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple
but complete API.
licq-osd 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116381/
The licq-osd plugin that enables licq to display new messages as an On
Screen Display message.
Mah-Jong 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116372/
Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong
game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The
game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer
players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that
generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the
solitaire games such as xmahjongg.
MiddleMan 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116393/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to
remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing
the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include
banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic
authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular
expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular
expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to
temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a
requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent
connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for
configuring the proxy.
mpg2ppm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116366/
mpg2ppm is a MPEG-VStream decoder based on mpeg2decode. The difference
with the original is that it has the ability to extract the desired
frames, or GOPs, only.
NBASE 4.0 4.0 Prerelease 0.35 (Snapshot 20030315)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116418/
NBASE is a set of standard libraries for rapid development in C++. The
libraries include string manipulation and parsing, file I/O,
networking, threading, a wide array of data structures, and an object
management system.
NetMap network scanner 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116412/
NetMap is a network scanner written in Perl/GTK. It is not just another
nmap frontend. It is a modularized network prober/scanner that just
happens to have an nmap module. Incidentally, NetMap has nothing to do
with the network weather mapper.
omniORB 4.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116405/
omniORB is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements version 2.6
of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). It supports
the C++ and Python language bindings, is fully multithreaded, uses IIOP
as the native transport, and comes complete with a COS Naming Service.
omniORB is possibly the fastest available C++ ORB.
omniORBpy 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116406/
omniORBpy is a high-performance CORBA 2.6 ORB for Python. It consists
of an interface between Python and the omniORB C++ library. IDL is
compiled into pure Python code, so new IDL interfaces can be used
without involving the C++ compiler.
orbitcpp 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116385/
orbitcpp is a C++ mapping for ORBit2.
PhpDig 1.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116365/
PhpDig is a search engine written in PHP that uses a MySQL database
backend. It features indexing of both static and dynamic pages,
spidering of almost all links in HTML content, in hrefs, areamaps, and
frames, and full text indexing. The search results appearence is
skin-able, using a very simple templates system. It can index PDF and
Office files using external tools.
Project Manager X 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116391/
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to
track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It
displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116357/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed
referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher
processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
rdiff-backup 0.11.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116407/
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory
ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are
stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some
time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an
incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidth-
efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup
and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the
differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device
files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire
file system.
robotTracker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116420/
robotTracker is a PHP tool that allow you to record robot accesses in
real time to your pages and display the results by months, days, URLs,
and graphically.
Romeo xmame frontend 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116368/
Romeo is a Java frontend for xmame with a lot of features. It uses a
library by l2fprod to be skinnable and the Java Mail API for an
enclosed mail module. Romeo can automatically download ROMs,
screenshots, flyers etc. and can use a different config file for each
game.
RubyPod 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116395/
rubyPod is a graphical frontend for managing an iPod on Linux,
programmed in Ruby, and relying on the gnuPod project as its backend.
It supports adding and deleting of songs, creation and modification of
playlists, convenient id3v2 MP3 tag editing, and exporting to hard
drive.
SaveMyModem 0.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116398/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail
tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are
tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus
attachments.
Siproxd 0.2.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116402/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP
masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for
incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP
masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be
simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple
ASCII text file.
SmallBoardPHP 0.43 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116380/
SmallBoardPHP is a small & quick messageboard. It uses a MySQL
backend for speed.
Styx 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116396/
Styx is a scanner/parser generator designed to address some
shortcomings of the traditional lex/yacc combination. It has unique
features like automatic derivation of depth grammar, production of the
derivation tree, including it's C interface, preservation of full
source information, pretty printing to faciliate source-source
translation, and persistence to aid rapid interpreter writing. It also
supports reentrancy. Styx works well under several different OSes,
including serveral Unixes, DOS, and Windows.
swaret 1.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116371/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
TemplatePower 3.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116363/
TemplatePower is a fast, easy to use, and powerful PHP4 template class.
It is about 6 times faster than FastTemplate. Its main features are
nested dynamic block support, block/file include support, show/hide
unassigned variables, save/use parsed template on/from disk, PHP-file
include, and global variable assign.
TeXwrapper 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116386/
TeXwrapper has been implemented to facilitate the interfacing of
(La)TeX with the quickfix mode of the VIM text editor. It allows you to
run TeX and some tools like BibTeX or MakeIndex at once. If an error
occurs, it scans the transcript files and sends a "compiler
style" error message to stderr. This program may also be useful
with other text editors (like SciTE) which are able to deal with
compiler's error output.
Thy 0.4.141 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116377/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful
enough to serve many hits a day.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.80-pre4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116404/
UADE (Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator) plays old Amiga music formats by
UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats.
VideoDB 2003-03-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116397/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
Vobcopy 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116408/
Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting them on the way
(thanks to libdvdread) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with
the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the
destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in
case something went wrong during the copying).
Vstr string library 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116409/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for
network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so
adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This
model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of
memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string,
and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of
the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like
function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that
are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but
laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing
functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions
(among others).
windowmaker Binary Clock 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116425/
The windowmaker Binary Clock applet shows the actual system time as a
binary clock. You have to add up the bits to get the time. The clock
has a 24-hour format.
X10-wish GUI 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116392/
This Java Client demonstrates the simplicity of creating a remote
control client/server capability for an X10 automated home controlled
by a Linux server with the X10-wish drivers installed. The socket
server runs on the same machine as the X10-wish drivers and the Java
client can be run on any machine with the Java runtime envrionment 1.3
(or higher) installed.
Newsforge Reports
PCQLinux 8.0 (Aquamarine): A "super" distribution
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/1252203
- By Clinton Goveas - A respected Indian monthly magazine, PCQuest, has
come out with its own Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux 8.0,
which it claims addresses everything from a home desktop to a
supercomputer.
Linux Advisory Watch - March 14th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1025253
by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week advisories were released for zlib,
sendmail, qpopper, file, snort, mysqlcc, netscape-flash, ethereal,
usermode, tcpdump, and lprold. The distributors include Caldera,
Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake,
NetBSD, Red Hat, and SuSE.
SmartCertify now offering new Linux Professional Institute courseware
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1837248
- by Tina Gasperson - SmartCertify, a very aggressive online marketer
of its tech training and testing services, is now offering Linux
Professional Institute (LPI) certification courseware. How do we know?
We got a spam - uh, we mean, a monthly newsletter! That's the thing
about having really smart preschoolers. Every time we get up to check
the roast, they're right there in our recently vacated computer chair,
signing us up for more email lists.
Newsforge Newsvac
Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0524246
There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how quickly
Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share. Windows starts out with
a false boost and maintains its illusory market share even as it gets
replaced by Linux. In 2004, don't be surprised when Linux overtakes
Windows to become the main focus for developers.
LindowsOS 3.0 Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/2129214
Anonymous Reader writes "A review of LindowsOS 3.0 that doesn't take on
the hype surrounding this distribution. Read it at OSNews.com."
GNOME 2.2 Gains Muscle and Polish
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1915254
One of the cardinal virtues of open-source software is its penchant
for preserving choice. It's no surprise, then, that there's more than
one good option available when it comes to the desktop environments
through which users interact with Linux and similar operating systems.
The Wrong Choice: Company rejects Linux, learns a lesson
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/191230
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Charged with implementing an application
server that ran on both Linux and Windows 2000, webmaster Joe Sechman
immediately chose Linux. Unfortunately, Sechman, who works for a large
organization he preferred not to name, couldn't persuade his company's
executives to back his choice."
Sistina execs: Linux-based SANs spell success
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/173259
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Scalability used to be the straw that broke
Linux's back. That's not the case anymore, according to Matt O'Keefe,
CTO of Sistina Software Inc., in Minneapolis, Minn. "With a Linux
cluster, an IT shop can design the system from the get-go so that it
can handle very large amounts of data," he said."
CA releases more Linux products
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/171204
Computer Associates (M) Sdn Bhd has released more solutions for
integrating Linux-based resources into a cross-platform environment.
Moving to Peanut Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1612205
Walter Kruse offers up his experiences with Peanut Linux. Not talked
about as often as more high profile commercial distros, this flavor of
Linux is fast, lightweight, and suited to both new and advanced users.
Book Review: Linux Apache Web Server Administration, 2nd Ed.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/169255
I needed to learn how to use Apache, because I needed to maintain a
web site at work. I've been using Apache for years, but I never spent
the time to read a good description of it.
UnitedLinux Operating System
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1542202
UnitedLinux was designed by a group of Linux vendors to streamline
their development and certification around a single Linux version.
Interview with Bero of ArkLinux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1522250
Anonymous Reader writes "Many will remember Bero from his work at Red
Hat among other things. He quit the job on disagreements for the
desktop directions the company was following. Bero has now created his
own distribution, ArkLinux, and version 1.0Alpha7 is just released to
the public. OSNews features a interview with him and they also posted
two screenshots of the default Ark desktop."
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Sourceforge
FreeCraft stable 1.18 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259595
The FreeCraft team is proud to announce the release of FreeCraft 1.18.
Thanks to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, and suggested
ideas. FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game
engine. Here are the main new features: o Save and Load (Single Player)
o Shared Vision and Diplomacy o Replays o Auto Spell Cast o Much
Improved Multiplayer Support o FcMP and WC2 can be played against each
other o Many bug fixes For a complete list of changes, please see the
ChangeLog:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/freecraft/fre
ecraft/doc/ChangeLog.html?rev=1.449 You can find a game on
irc.freenode.net, channel #freecraft. Enjoy!
phpESP 1.6 Final
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259801
phpESP provides scripts to let non-technical users create surveys,
administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online
after database initialization. MySQL database backend. Version 1.6
incorporates several large changes since version 1.5. New features
include: save/resume feature on surveys, self-sign-up for respondents,
viewing of individual responses, a graphical interface for cross
analysis, and a system test script. Additionally, the install procedure
has been streamlined, and the documentation has been updated.
Non-English translations should be available out of the box for many
more platforms that have GNU Gettext support. Several new translations
are available in 1.6 including: Japanese, Swedish, and Greek. There
have been some minor database changes since 1.5, so please read the
INSTALL guide.
PCGen 4.3.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259786
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. We'll soon
be releasing another production release of PCGen - version 5.0.0. We'd
appreciate feedback on the editors, the Companions section of the
Resources tab (especially for Paladins and Blackguards) and the
Equipping tab. We're also considering using that release to migrate
PCGen to using java 1.4.1 now that Apple has released it. This decision
is not final yet, pending our testing efforts. For users who have
trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have some
OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of install
related errors. Links to these installs can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen435_part1of3.zip, pcgen435_part2of3.zip and pcgen435_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 588777 LEVEL:X:SA:Something tag misbehaving 700446 4.3.4 - Cannot
reopen some character files 699891 Container behavior 584972 New party
file format breaks mutiuser 698832 Equipping Tab - Keyboard Issue #2
698828 Equipping Tab - Keybard Issue #1 698826 Equipping Tab - Location
Popup autosized wrong 698702 Duplicate loading of familiar 698670 4.3.4
won't load phb.pcc Features 698824 Equipping Tab - Add All Equipment
698840 Equipping Tab - Put plus/minus on Item column 606205 Add Buy%
and Sell% on Right Click menu for items PCGen:DM Bugs 682005
melee+thrown weapons need .Thrown 699141 "thundering" magical attribute
PCGen:DM List File Fixes 686265 added type:humanoid to
slayershobgobraces.lst 686263 added type:humanoid to
slayersgnollraces.lst PCGen:DM Tag Modification Requests 677326
TARGETAREA - sovereignspells.lst 677325 TARGETAREA -
deadlandswebspells.lst 677323 TARGETAREA - wayhucksterspells.lst 677316
TARGETAREA - slayersamazonsspells.lst 677315 TARGETAREA -
necromancyspells.lst 677314 TARGETAREA - montecookwebspells.lst 677313
TARGETAREA - thouhtskillpowers.lst 677312 TARGETAREA -
eldritch2spells.lst 677311 TARGETAREA - eldritchspells.lst 677310
TARGETAREA - kalamarspells.lst 677309 TARGETAREA - arcanaspells.lst
677320 TARGETAREA - deadlandsspells.lst 677319 TARGETAREA -
seabloodspells.lst 677318 TARGETAREA - slayerstroglodytesspells.lst
677317 TARGETAREA - slayershobgobspells.lst 677307 TARGETAREA -
traptreachspells.lst 677306 TARGETAREA - spellsspellcraftspe
spellsspellcraftspells.lst 677304 TARGETAREA - mythicracesspells.lst
677303 TARGETAREA - starfarershbspells.lst 677302 TARGETAREA -
melnibonespells.lst 677301 TARGETAREA - guardianspells.lst 677300
TARGETAREA - touchedgodsspells.lst 677298 TARGETAREA -
beyondtheveilspells.lst 677297 TARGETAREA - warspells.lst 677294
TARGETAREA - dragonsspells.lst 657059 Verify pipe is the only
delimiter:VISION 677295 TARGETAREA - dungeonsspells.lst PCGenDocs:
Output Sheet Bugs 702203 Greatsword outputs with N/A for To Hit & Dmg
699956 SAs missing from _combined 686797 Two-handed weapons: 1-H lines?
697216 TO-HIT under PB Range incorrect PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Feature
Requests 634092 TAG for ONLY Domain Spells 700057 Remove the race name
from the innate spell header The PCGen Development Team
AviSynth 2.0.8 and 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259821
Two new versions of AviSynth has been released today. The 2.0.8 version
contains critical bugfixes, and is supplied for those who enjoy the
stability of the non-beta versions. Avisynth is a scripting language
and a collection of filters for simple (and not so simple!) non-linear
video editing tasks. It frameserves video to (most) applications.
AviSynth 2.5.1 beta is an update to the first 2.5.0 beta and contains
many fixes and additions, as well as some considerable speedups. Mainly
interlaced processing has been improved vastly, but also general
stability should be better.
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.
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