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Slashdot
Eclipse 2.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2254257
insomnia writes "[0]Eclipse 2.1 has been unleashed to the world today.
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE environnement and I highly recommend
it; developing under your favorite text editor feels like comparing
Eclipse to the dinosaur age - I can't live without refactoring now. You
can see what's new in this release [1]here."
Links
0. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
1. http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-2.1-200303272130/whats-new.html
XP Service Pack Slows Programs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2220247
[0]AEton writes "[1]Vnunet and others are [2]reporting [3]that Windows
XP's Service Pack 1 has introduced a flaw into the operating system.
Changes to memory handling code result in programs which often allocate
memory (which is many of them) can take up to ten times longer than
normal to start. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem in [4]Q815411,
and while a patch is available by request from [5]Microsoft Product
Services, it will not be widely released until Service Pack 2."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.vnunet.com/
2. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1139809
3. http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20030328004
4. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815411
5. http://support.microsoft.com/
Review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2019240
Gothmolly writes "After reading the [0]story and comments on Slashdot,
I went out and bought one from [1]the Home Shopping Network. It's been
a very fun and interesting jump into both the modern PDA (I owned the
original Palm until this year) embedded Linux worlds. I've written a
[2]review about my experiences over the last few days with it. A lot of
this information I found online, a lot is personal experience. HSN is
now out of them, but they must still be available cheaply somewhere."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1924257&tid=100
1. http://www.hsn.com/
2. http://www.schernau.com/ed/Zaurus5500.html
Software Tariffs and US IT Outsourcing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2136233
[0]HeelToe asks: "A while back I worked with someone who thought the US
should simply impose tariffs on imported products to adjust their price
to equalize foreign labor rates to the US minimum wage. I was laid off
and my position moved to Canada last year. Since then, I've thought a
lot about his ideas, as well as one of our topics of conversation a
while back: Why doesn't the US tax the import of software? It seems to
me like they should. It's not a "tangible" product (same reason used to
deny my co-workers and me NAFTA and Trade Act benefits), but when
someone outsources to another country with cheap labor for any other
industry, there are usually import tariffs. Why is software different,
and how would this change the climate of US IT jobs leaving for other
parts of the world if we did tax software imports? I've done some
looking on the web, but can find nothing in the [1]Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States. I did find this [2]thread from a few
months back on [3]informationweek.com's Career Development Forum, but
not much else. What does Slashdot think?"
Links
0. http://www.goof.com/~mmead/
1. http://dataweb.usitc.gov/SCRIPTS/tariff/toc.html
2. http://www.informationweek.com/forum/career?comment_id=59403&threaded=1#thread
3. http://www.informationweek.com/forum/career
Sun Drops Linux Distro
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2059220
The Wireless Guy writes "eWeek is reporting that Sun has decided to
[0]stop offering a Linux distribution. From the story: "Yes, this is a
change in strategy. Our Sun Linux distribution is essentially Red Hat
Linux with a few minor tweaks," John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's
operating platforms group"... so, is this good news for Red Hat?" They
were [1]rethinking it, and I guess they've had a good long thunk.
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1457240&tid=102
Introduction to PHP5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/208225
Yet Another OO Fanatic writes "PHP core developer [0]Sterling Hughes
has a excellent [1]presentation ([2]mirror) about PHP5 online. So far
it seems to be the best coverage of the new features in PHP5;
highlights include the [3]new object model, [4]namespaces,
[5]interfaces, [6]access control and [7]exceptions. Java by any other
name..."
Links
0. http://www.edwardbear.org/blog/
1. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/
2. http://talks.php.net/show/php5intro
3. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/9
4. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/3
5. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/29
6. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/12
7. http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/5
Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1811250
[0]sreilly self-promotes: "[1]Moneydance 2003 has just been released
for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This program is a completely
cross-platform replacement for Quicken or MS Money. This is the first
time that online banking and online bill payment has been available in
a made-for-Linux application. It also has features that aren't
available in Quicken such as an extension mechanism that lets
developers easily add and distribute new features to the program."
Links
0. http://seanreilly.com/
1. http://moneydance.com/
The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1738258
NoSun writes "Sun's latest project is to create a font library for
XFree86, [0]named Stsf, that would replace [1]Fontconfig and Xft2. But
the big question is: Does the world need yet another X font library
that would create more incompatibility and fragmentation? Well known
Gnome and GTK+ developers are against this (yet another) X font library
which [2]just re-invents the wheel one more time with the result of
slowing down KDE and Gnome in the desktop race. "
Links
0. http://stsf.sourceforge.net/about.html
1. http://fontconfig.org/
2. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3139
Meteor Over Midwest
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1713238
[0]bigpat writes "According to this [1]story in the Chicago Tribune or
this [2]article, a meteor estimated to be the size of a 'Volkswagen
bug' exploded over the Midwest around midnight yesterday morning. The
resulting small meteorites hit homes causing some damage. The largest
meteorite collected was 7.5 pounds. So why do astronomers always
compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-030337meteorite,0,610488.story?coll=chi-news-hed
2.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/087/nation/Meteor_lights_up_Midwestern_sk%3A.shtml
Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1541230
[0]mttlg writes "According to [1]Freedom to Tinker, MA, TX, SC, FL, GA,
AK, TN, and CO have introduced [2]similar bills that would make it
illegal to possess, use, etc. "any communication device to receive ...
any communication service without the express consent or express
authorization of the communication service provider" or "to conceal ...
from any communication service provider ... the existence or place of
origin or destination of any communication." (Additional legalese
removed for the sake of brevity.) This would seem to outlaw NAT, VPNs,
and many other security measures. In other words, don't secure your
communications, just sue if you don't like who receives them." The
bills define 'communication service' as just about any sort of telecom
service that is provided for a charge or fee. In effect, they would
extend the already-extant laws relating to theft of cable TV services
to any telecom service. For example, if your ISP charges per computer
connected, using a router/NAT device would be illegal if these became
law.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
2. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
Freshmeat
2D/3D Area Graph Software 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117823/
2D/3D Area Graph Software provides both a client and server side
solution for the incorporation of area graphs into Web pages. Versatile
components enable Web authors and Java developers to easily build and
publish dynamic and interactive area graphs.
AccWhizz 0.0.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117851/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business
companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x,
and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with
Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is
managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be
local or remote.
aewm 1.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117779/
aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features,
but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should
eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few
separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching
between windows, etc.
Anjuta IDE 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117806/
Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C
and C++ in GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME, and features a
number of advanced programming facilities. These include project
management, application wizards, an onboard interactive debugger, and a
powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.
AutoUpdate 4.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117834/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's
up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and
upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also
handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server
with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Axion 1.0 Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117820/
Axion is a small, fast, SQL and JDBC compliant relational database
engine written in and for the Java programming language.
BitMagic C++ library 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117777/
BitMagic is C++ library designed and developed to implement efficient,
platform-independent bitsets. It features several types of on-the-fly
adaptive compression, dynamic range of addressable space of 2^32-1
bits, efficient memory management, serialization in a
platform-independent, compact format suitable for storing in files and
databases, performance tuning for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, and
optimization for Intel SSE2 128-bit integer SIMD.
BitTorrent 3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117782/
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP
punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one
place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With
BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making
the publisher's burden almost nothing.
Browseable Online Backup System 0.6.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117815/
Browseable Online Backup System (BOBS) is a complete online backup
system. It uses large disks for storing backups and lets users browse
the files using a Web browser. It handles some special files like
AppleDouble and icon files.
cubistic twilight 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117805/
cubistic twilight is a background made in Blender 3D.
DireqCafe 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117796/
DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe
system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
DNews 5.7b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117762/
The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own
local news server software gives you complete control to create your
own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software
provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and
scalability.
dvd::rip 0.50.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117852/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It
provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely
known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open
Source tools.
Easibox 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117818/
Easibox is a utility for creating tar files, zip files, and other
archive files.
ERW 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117811/
ERW (Entities and Relationships on the Web) is an innovative system for
handling complex databases using a Web browser. It uses the most recent
standards endorsed by the W3C to offer to the user a sophisticated
environment, similar to a dedicated client. Moreover, the user
interface is generated in a completely automatic way starting from a
conceptual description of the database by means of an XML-based
description language for entity-relationship schemata. From the same
description, you can also automatically obtain diagrams and
documentation. ERW can be used for content management, in particular
when the data is structured along complex relations.
FCKeditor 0.9.3 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117755/
FCKEditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and JavaScript
that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known
desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require
any kind of installation on the client computer.
FtpCube 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117787/
FtpCube is a graphical ftp client written in Python using the wxPython
graphical toolkit, and is based on LeechFTP by Jan Debis. FtpCube aims
to provide a high quality GUI, as well as a rich feature set, and
surpasses LeechFTP in functionality.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1-pre (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117847/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
grabc 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117842/
grabc determines the color string in hex of a pixel clicked on the
screen.
gURLChecker 0.3-5 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117807/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web
page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each
page.
Horatio: Authenticated Network Access 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117840/
The Horatio system is a firewall authentication tool. The premise:
legitimate users want to attach laptops and other mobile hosts to the
network, but security demands that illegitimate users be prevented from
accessing the internal, secure network and from abusing the general
Internet. The approach taken by Horatio is to provide a separate,
untrusted network that only connects to the internal network (and thus
to the Internet) through a firewall that by default does not pass any
traffic. When a legitimate user connects his or her host, it is
assigned an address by a DHCP server (such as dhcpd), but is unable to
contact anything outside the untrusted network. The user must point a
Web browser at the Horatio web server, which runs on the firewall
machine, and provide a username and password. Once the username and
password have been validated, the firewall rules are modified to allow
the host access to the rest of the network.
IndeoCRM 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117821/
IndeoCRM is a Web-based customer relationship solution (CRM) for small
and medium-sized businesses. It offers flexibility to manage complex
customer relationships at any level within a company with a low cost of
ownership. The application tracks customer information (companies,
divisions, and people), sales processes (opportunities, quotes,
orders), tasks, attachments, and products. In addition, it generates
reports, and allows synchronization with remote users. It is fully
customizable (purchase of the source source code is available), and can
be deployed on open-source platforms such as Linux, SAP Database, and
Apache Tomcat, or commercial packages such as MS Windows and MS SQL.
IPA 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117795/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6
Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter
accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting
rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and
"reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible
configuration file with many sections and options.
Jconsole 1.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117798/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web
client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of
JBoss.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-03-28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117845/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a
Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KRelais 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117819/
KRelais is an electronic design and simulation program. It can create
circuits with various relay types and switches. The complete circuit
can be simulated in realtime. It includes a lot of circuit examples.
Krename 2.5.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117822/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename
a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the
files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename
supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename
to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every
word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing
parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and
modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LILO 22.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117853/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It
is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a
hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond
cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call
extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot
many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions),
OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source,
documentation and support files.
Link Protect 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117829/
Link Protect will prevent direct linking, downloads, and spider
searches of your images and pages that would otherwise enable
unauthorized downloads. If the call is not from within your site or an
authorized site, a customizable default image is displayed. You can
specify domains from which you will accept links such as your other
sites or those of authorized associates. Almost any type of file can be
protected (GIF, JPEG, zip, HTML, exe, etc.).
Linoleum 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117838/
Linoleum is an easy-to-use program which helps you manage, edit, and
distribute your programs and files. It stores all your information in a
simple, compact database in which you can add, remove, or edit files
with a click of a button.
Log to Map 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117780/
LogToMap is a tool which takes an access log and produces a geographic
map, shading each country in relation to the number of visitors who
live there.
MacOS Cursors 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117731/
MacOS Cursors provides a basic set of MacOS cursors for the
cursor-themable XFree86 (4.3.0 and higher) environment.
mailsync 5.1.0 (*)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117850/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The
algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to
a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and
message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync
can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote
mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
MFITSIO 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117785/
MFITSIO is a MATLAB interface to CFITSIO-- a library used to manipulate
images and headers stored in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
file format. It currently supports reading and writing FITS images,
headers, and array subsets.
Moneydance build 301
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117790/
Moneydance is an easy-to-use financial organizer built for the
Internet. You can use it to organize your finances so that you can get
on with the important things in life. The familiar interface makes
managing your money easy, while the advanced features give you the
ability to visually track your spending. Graphs and reports provide
financial feedback, while features such as budgeting, online banking,
and transaction reminders help you keep an eye on your money.
MP3 STATION alpha1_rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117812/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3
playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can
restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load
directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository
of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for
comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user
account.
open1x 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117635/
Open1x is an open source implementation of the IEEE 802.1x protocol.
The project has two components: xsupplicant and authenticator.
Xsupplicant is an implementation of the supplicant (i.e., client) side
of the protocol and works under Linux and Mac OS X. Authenticator is an
implementation of the authenticator and works only under Linux.
osx2x 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117800/
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.
PaulOS 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117801/
PaulOS is a reference implementation of an embedded operating system
which supports a subset of POSIX geared for embedded realtime single
process applications. It is written to allow applications to be
developed under GNU/Linux or FreeBSD and then recompiled without
changes for the target architecture. It features POSIX file
descriptors, a TCP stack (LwIP) with a BSD socket API, an ANSI C
library, a DNS resolver library, and a minimal pthread library. A
number of GNU/Linux network applications have been ported to it.
Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117799/
Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for
developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.
phpGIS 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117824/
phpGIS is a Geographic Information System application meant to be used
as a way of viewing ESRI shape files and aerial photos in the TIFF
format.
PHPki 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117772/
PHPki is an Open Source Web application for managing a Public Key
Infrastructure within a small organization. It provides a mechanism for
the centralized creation and management of digital certificates for use
with S/MIME-enabled email cilents. It will not create server, browser,
or code signing certificates. PHPki was specifically designed to set up
a multi-agency PKI for HIPAA compliance.
phpMySQLDiff 1.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117769/
phpMySQLDiff is a PHP script which generates an SQL-ALTER-Script for
the differences between two databases.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117849/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any
suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can
access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft
Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers, or a local X session
with simple desktop and window manager. A graphical configuration tool
allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be
accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety
of hardware, and does not require NFS. It can be used over low
bandwidth WAN and VPN connections, and can also be booted from local
media like hard disk and CD-ROMs where network boot cannot be used.
pyDDR 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117804/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in
Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional
arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while
playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner
and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and
given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on
how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the
song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117843/
Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland, a C library for the
RDF/XML and N-Triples RDF formats. It can use expat or libxml2 as
available, and supports the latest RDF updates, such as datatyping and
collections.
RendView 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117837/
RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay (and maybe
other raytracers) and post-processed in a local distributed
environment. Features include rendering/filtering a sequence of frames
(f000.pov,f001.pov...) or a list of scene files and POVRay clock
values, tuning on per-frame basis, and resuming partly-rendered images,
all either completely locally or distributed in a local IP network.
Rolo 005
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117828/
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.
SCons 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117825/
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make)
implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be
embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python
scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect
dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all
dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed
file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons
also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through
user-defined builder and scanner objects.
Scroll Image 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117830/
Scroll Image displays a much larger image in a smaller window. With the
use of the arrow keys or the mouse, the image can be scrolled
vertically and horizontally enabling selective viewing or a sense of
mystery. Ideal for walkthrough type displays and catalogue viewing.
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117841/
The Secure FTP Bean allows FTP connections to be made over SSL,
including both implicit and explicit SSL connections, and passive and
active data transfers with or without encryption.
sgml2x converter 0.99.8 (sgml2x-1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117836/
sgml2x is a script designed to help applying a DSSSL stylesheet to an
SGML or XML document. It already has a couple of interesting features,
such as multiple possible stylesheets per document class, easy
integration of new stylesheets by adding a simple new definition file
in a configuration directory (system-wide, per-user, or per-project),
and automatic selection of a default stylesheet to be used. It is
already set up for DocBook SGML/XML.
ShoStats 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117773/
ShoStats is a reimplementation of phpSysInfo in Perl, useful for
running from crontab and outputting the stats to a PHP include file,
which can then be displayed on a hosting account. It is modular and
configurable, including modules to support both Linux and OpenBSD, an
output module for PHP include files, and transfer modules for output to
stdout (which can be redirected or piped) and uploading to an FTP
server.
Siege 2.57b10 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117839/
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.
SimpleSearch 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117803/
SimpleSearch 1.0 is a robust and fast search engine for small to medium
size Web sites. It never writes to your disk, is very secure, and does
not use any indexes, archives, or databases. It returns very sharply
formatted results, including page title, sentence snippet with
highlighted keyword(s), and a hyperlinked full URL to each page that
contained a match. It is simple to install and even easier to
configure! SimpleSearch can search across multiple directories, and
will exclude any subdirectories you donÂt want searched. It is a great
solution for your Web site if you want to add search capabilities
without going through the hassle of setting up an SQL database or
installing a complicated search engine.
SKYRiX ZideStore Server 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117832/
The SKYRiX ZideStore server is a native client integration server for
the SKYRiX groupware. Users can access the contact, appointment, and
task database using Outlook, Evolution and almost any iCalendar
compatible client (for example Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar).
smtp-after-popd 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117740/
smtp-after-popd briefly authorizes outgoing SMTP message sending via
Postfix for addresses that have recently been authorized to receive
mail by either ipop3d or vm-pop3d. The timeout and all other parameters
are easily adjusted. It is written in Perl and works by parsing
syslogd-produced mail log files efficiently in real time, so that no
modifications to ipop3d or vm-pop3d are required. It is CPU friendly
and easy to modify.
snapshot 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117794/
snapshot is a set of Perl scripts for creating, accessing, and managing
a repository of directory snapshots. Multiple snapshots of a directory
can exist in a repository representing the state of that directory at
different times. A snapshot repository can be local or remote, with
remote servers accessed by ssh.
SysV pg 030328
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117788/
The pg command originates from System V and is a text file browser,
like more. It lets the user scroll forward and backward even if input
comes from a pipe. This free clone is intended to comply to the SVID 4
and SUSv2 specifications of this utility; it is aimed to recent Linux
environments and can handle large files as well as files that contain
multibyte characters.
Taruli 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117802/
Taruli is a small concentration game.
TestDisk 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117835/
TestDisk is a tool to check and undelete partitions. It works with the
following partitions: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, Linux, Linux swap (version 1
and 2), NTFS (Windows NT), BeFS (BeOS), UFS (BSD), and Netware.
TextMaker beta rev 379
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117797/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little
memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature
set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft
Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
vcp 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117781/
vcp copies files and directories using a curses or text-only interface.
Its options and output are similar to cp. It provides visual
information about the files copied and left to copy, the amount of data
written and to be written, the amount of data being written every
second, and two status bars representing the number of files copied and
to copy.
VM 7.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117791/
VM is a mail reader written in Emacs LISP for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It
can retrieve mail from local spool files or remotely via POP and IMAP,
display and send MIME messages, thread messages, auto-sort messages
into folders, and manipulate "virtual folders" of messages
matching certain criteria. In Emacs versions with X support it provides
an interface with toolbars, menus, and mouse-based message selection.
WowBB 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117759/
WowBB is an innovative bulletin board with features including an auto
install/upgrade, a WYSIWYG editor with integrated spell-checker,
automatic time zone detection, topic-level new post tracking, smart
caching, a visual style editor with real-time preview, and native file
format support for major bulletin boards.
Xrsf 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117814/
Xrsf is a "really simple fractal-generator" with zoom
function and fullscreen mode. Currently it displays the Mandelbrot set.
xSiteable 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117810/
xSiteable is a complete all-you-need package for creating sites that
are fully relational, open source, fully templating-enabled, using only
XML-based technologies to help you create complex sites on the fly. It
packs such features as topic maps, notation for content, and the fast
Sablotron xslt parser.
Zoom Image 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117833/
Zoom Image is a magnification viewer for JPG and GIF images which zooms
in and out with a 20:1 zoom factor. The left mouse button zooms in, and
the right mouse button zooms out. Mouse pointing controls the direction
of exploration within the image. It can be used to display quality
high-resolution JPG and GIF images.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - March 28th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/111207
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for
openssl, apcupsd, bonsai, krb5, lpr, mutt, heimdal, kernel, ecartis,
glibc, mysql, bitchx, mod_ssl, netpbm, rxvt, zlib, evolution, samba,
kerberos, ethereal, and file. The distributors include, Caldera,
Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake,
NetBSD, Red Hat, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbolinux.
Gordano - an "Exchange Replacement" that predates Exchange
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1320221
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company Web site says, "Gordano has
provided robust and secure messaging for over eight years and continues
to innovate and lead the market. Since 1994, the Gordano Messaging
Suite has been deployed in over 20,000 organizations in 120+ countries
and supports over 54 million Email accounts. These companies and users
have enjoyed the benefits of low cost of ownership of our solution
allowing them to reduce their ...
Make big money! Deliver 'The Linux experience!'
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/0145211
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Okay, maybe not big money, but
Massachusetts-based Open-Pc founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he's turning a
steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a
prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
Distro Release: First Look At SuSE Linux 8.2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/0145247
Once again I find myself checking out the newest SuSE release, and to
tell you the truth, I really enjoy it. My personal computer is running
Slackware (yes, I upgraded to 9.0 immediately), and I wouldn't trade it
for any other distribution in the world, but I've got to say is that
SuSE is still at the top of their game. When you look at all the
desktop distros out there such as Mandrake, Lycoris, and Red Hat, they
all really have their endearing ...
Enterprise Linux at Tipping Point
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2012240
In 2004, Linux adoption will skyrocket, according to a recent study by
Forrester Research titled "The Linux Tipping Point." Based on
interviews with a wide array of firms, the study concludes that while
"enterprise support remains a concern," most respondents are continuing
with plans to adopt Linux.
Witnet Launches Linux Remote PC Mobile Access
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/204206
Eric Stevenson writes "Mun Su Han, President of Witnet International
(OTCBB: WTNT), said they've completed development of the Linux version
of their mobile remote access software "Mobilick." But can this upstart
out of Korea bring the Linux version of its mobile remote access
software into play?"
Revolution OS DVD gambles on CSS-Free
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1957226
J.T.S. Moore writes "Today on Wired.com there is an article about the
release of the Linux documentary film REVOLUTION OS as a CSS-encryption
free DVD: http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58253,00.htm l
REVOLUTION OS is being released CSS-Free and Region Free to call
attention to the abusive nature of Digital Rights Management. J.T.S.
Moore, Bruce Perens, and Eric Raymond are quoted extensively in the
article by Michelle Delio. REVOLUTION OS ...
Review of Mandrake 9.1 by a Windows User
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1952257
Anonymous Reader writes "A Windows user after reading online how nice
Mandrake 9.1 is, downloads it for 3 days over his ISDN line, installs
it with great expectations, only to find out that not all his hardware
is supported. The review is at OSNews."
Knoppix to the rescue!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1950223
Anonymous Reader writes "There has been a lot of talk about the nifty
Knoppix Linux-on-bootable-CD distribution. In a real-world case study,
Matthew Carpenter describes how it can be a real lifesaver."
Is the GPL completely misunderstood?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1938201
Chris Davies writes "The GPL, GNU General Public License, is a license
boilerplate that the FSF, Free Software Foundation, has put forward to
be adopted by software developers that are creating software. The GPL
has some fundamental flaws that may actually make one wonder if people
using the GPL license really understand the license."
Sun Scraps Its Own Custom Linux, Embraces Standard Distributions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1935238
Sun Microsystems is abandoning its plans to deliver Project Orion on
its own version of Linux and will instead support distributions from
other Linux vendors, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice
president of software, on Friday.
Linux applications `very difficult to install` - Lindows Founder
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1630229
Michael Robinson, the CEO and founder of Linux distributor Lindows,
has admitted that Linux software is `typically very difficult to
install` in his latest newsletter.
Five TV makers preparing Internet TV specs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1612202
Five Japanese TV manufacturers will form a working group to hammer out
technical specifications by October for digital TVs with Internet
access.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cf3/
Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Computing: LED Light Sticks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/
Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/
Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/
Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/
Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/
Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/
Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/
Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
Gadgets: Wireless PenCam
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/
Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/
Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/
Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/
Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/
Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/
Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/
Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5df4/
Sourceforge
ECB 1.93 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264120
ECB is a file/code browser for Emacs. It can be used to browse any type
of file and supports parsing of Java, C, C++, Elisp and other types of
source code. This release (1.93) includes bug fixes, layout
enhancements and enhancements to tree-buffers.
Colander Internet Agent 0.2.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264197
Colander is a Java application which acts as a scripted personal
Internet agent (performance of arbitrary scripted tasks through the
provided framework.) Access is possible through a standard web browser.
Announcing release 0.2.2: This is a bugfix release that contains
numerous backported fixes and updates. Please see the release notes on
the file release page for details. Note that this version does not
include the proper handling of binary data that the unstable branch
does. Colander is in a useable state. It is listed as alpha software
due to changes that may yet occur in the interface and API.
BitMagic library version 3.1.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264239
BitMagic is a C++ library implementing dynamic bitvectors with several
types of on-the-fly, adaptive compression. Designed for use in
databases, search systems, scientific projects. Version 3.1.2 primarily
focuses on memory consumption issues. Additional parameters added to
save memory in situations when thousands of bitsets are used. (see
http://bmagic.sourceforge.net/memsave.html); several build environment
problems were fixed; added support file for AIX; improved performance
of logical operations.
hl7d added to HL7 Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264258
This project aims at providing a Perl Toolkit for using the HL7
protocol (a data interchange protocol used in healthcare). The toolkit
will consist of a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing
HL7 capable applications in Perl. An early version of the hl7 server
has been added to the project. This is a forking server that uses the
Net::HL7 module, and dispatches incoming HL7 messages to user defined
plugins.
Anjuta 1.0.2 (Tagore) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264261
The Anjuta team is pleased to announce the release of Anjuta 1.0.2.
Anjuta is an IDE (Integrated Developmetn Environment) for C and C++
targetting the GNOME platform. The main highlight of this release is
the advanced search/replace functionality. There have also been
numerous smaller feature additions, updates and bug fixes. The Anjuta
1.0.x series should now be considered dormant. New development will be
taking place on HEAD which targets the GNOME2 platform. The current
stable branch will only get critical bugfixes. Learn more about anjuta
at http://www.anjuta.org/
SnipSnap 0.4.1a and Radeox 0.6.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263487
Released a bugfix release for SnipSnap and Radeox. The major change is
the improved performance of the Macro rendering mechanism that is now a
100 times faster. SnipSnap is a personal content management system
based on weblog and wiki technologies. It's intended for desktop use,
but can be deployed on servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and
wiki tools as it's focused on easy installation.
POP/SMTP e-mail jConduit now available via CVS.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263690
Users who build the project from sourcecode will be interested to note
that the latest sources now include the new Email jConduit, that allows
you to synchronize the Palm Mail database with the POP and SMTP servers
of your choice. Work on this jConduit is continuing (adding features
and such), but it is a good example of how to code a network-enabled
jConduit. Interested developers are encouraged to update their source
trees. This jConduit will be a part of our first beta binary release,
planned for sometime within the next few weeks.
FreeMarker 2.2 final available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263999
The first release of FreeMarker 2.2 labelled production/stable is
available. FreeMarker 2.2 incorporates some revolutionary new features:
names-spaces, support for 3rd party JSP taglibs, fine control over
whitespace, macros with default arguments. FreeMarker is a template
engine. It provides an easy way to generate textual (HTML, RTF,
PostScript, TeX, source code, etc) output from your data and helps you
separate design issues from application logic. Integrates with
servlets, XML, Python and more.
bogofilter-0.11.1.4 - new current release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263675
bogofilter 0.11.1.4 fixes several minor defects in 0.11.1.3 and updates
the help messages and FAQ. 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.
Privoxy 3.0.2 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263687
This is the first maintenance release of Privoxy. There are no
significant new features in this release. Many bugs are fixed, and some
existing features have been enhanced. See ChangeLog for details.
Upgrading from 3.0.0 is recommended. Privoxy is a web proxy with
advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web
page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads,
banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet
Junkbuster.
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