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Slashdot
Post-crash Salary Survey
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/018202
[0]MrRules writes "It's that time again; [1]the 2002 salary survey's
are out. This year there's an interesting twist: [2] SAGE, [3] SANS and
Sun's [4]BigAdmin site have combined to run the largest global
participation sysadmin salary survey ever done. What I like is that
this is different to those surveys done by HR departments -- this is
real data on how you spend your time, by sysadmins for sysadmins. It'll
be interesting to see how things have changed over the past 18 months."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.sage.org/salsur
2. http://www.sage.org/
3. http://www.sans.org/
4. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/
Acadia Streaming Patent Contested
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2259251
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Since last year Acadia Research has sent
hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals,
picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies
such as Disney. However, many small fries refused, and now 40 firms
have joined forces and are embroiled in a suit with Acadia. Fish &
Richardson (a prominent intellectual property law firm) have taken
their case. The best part? CEO Paul Ryan's obvious
sour-grapes-syndrome, he goes from describing the web porn industry as
a "billion-dollar industry" where the money is to a "sideshow" that's
"maybe 1% of our potential revenues". [1]Check it out here"
Links
0. http://people.tamu.edu/~jennyr/index1.html
1. http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/04/02/cz_sl_0402porn.html
Microsoft Wants to Take on Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2251204
[0]blenderking writes "We do view Google more and more as a competitor.
We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a
better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at
doing,", says Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN
Internet services division, said. Full article at: [1]Yahoo. This could
have fit in with yesterday's April Fool's stories..."
Links
0. http://www.blenderking.com
1. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030402/tech_microsoft_google_1.html
Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1827245
Slashback with corrections and updates on backyard coasters, the
Associated Press' (not CNN's) interview with Steinhardt, Open Source
and Free software in India, the Kartoo visual search engine, how you
too can assemble some pulsating glassy spheres. Read on for those
details and more.
DNA, Fifty Years To the Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1749211
An anonymous reader writes "Today being the [0]fiftieth anniversary
(April 2, 1953) of the [1]Watson-Crick double-helical, [2]DNA discovery
[to quote, 'We wish to put forward a radically different
structure...'], there is an interesting tally of [3]completed gene
sequences here, and ones still [4]being worked, including the [5]Ames
strain of the anthrax bacteria. It also [6]appears that the only
lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the
common cold."
Links
0.
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YSdmTf6EcwYC:biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Books/Chapters/Ch%25208/DH-Paper.html+watson+crick+nature&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
1. http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/
2. http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
3. http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdbcomplete.html
4. http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdbinprogress.html
5. http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cfm?articleID=419&issueID=39
6. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article416.html
BSA IDC FUD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1940243
[0]truthsearch writes "News.com.com is reporting that a 'study,
commissioned by the [1]BSA and conducted by IDC, found that in general,
[2]nations with the lowest piracy rates had the largest IT sectors. The
study, which examined 57 countries, predicted that a 10-point reduction
in the rate of piracy over four years could generate 1.5 million jobs
and $64 billion taxes worldwide.' The BSA, er... Microsoft, will use
this study to convince governments to crack down on piracy. 'Overall,
the countries that have the poorest record of IP rights have slower
rates of IT growth,' BSA CEO Robert Holleyman said. Oh, and the
countries with the most oppression have had the slowest IT growth, but
that can't be the cause, nah."
Links
0. http://www.mattschwartz.net
1. http://www.bsa.org/
2. http://rss.com.com/2100-1028-995011.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Mozilla's Major New Roadmap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2013222
[0]kerz writes "[1]mozilla.org today released a new version of it's
famed [2]roadmap, this time with some pretty major changes. First and
foremost, they plan on ditching the large Mozilla suite in favor of
[3]Phoenix and [4]Minotaur. Secondly, they have plans to change the
milestone cycle to allow for more time to fix the Gecko layout engine
to be smaller and more efficient. [0]MozillaZine has the scoop..."
Links
0. http://www.mozillazine.org/
1. http://mozilla.org/
2. http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
4. http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/
Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1650258
[0]bewert writes "A sign of things to come? Is this kind of thing
happening without anyone catching it? This short article notes that war
photog Brian Walski was [1]fired for combining elements from two photos
to make one with 'better composition'. Here is the '[2]Editor's Note'
detailing the transgression. It's not really highlighted on their front
page ;) I wonder how often this type of Photoshopping is done without
anyone noticing it? To paraphrase Pink Floyd, "Mother, should I trust
the government?"..." Another submitter points out an article
[3]examining digitally altered magazine covers. Slashdot has done
several stories on unnoticeable digital alterations; here's [4]1, [5]2,
[6]3 old stories to peruse.
Links
0. http://exerscape.com
1.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/02/national0956EST0597.DTL
2. http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-ednote_blurb.blurb
3. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=15422
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/21/0117252&tid=149
5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/11/0756243&tid=126
6. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/1515202&tid=129
Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1826258
[0]TheAncientHacker writes "While Java coders wait for SUN to be
willing to accept any public standards for the Java language and
runtime, Microsoft's C# and its underlying CLI, already standardized by
ECMA, are [1]about to get a second certification. This time by by the
granddaddy of certification groups, the ISO."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]il.com ['tma' in gap]
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1007-995108.html?tag=fd_top
New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1750247
apsmith writes "[0]XCOR Aerospace just successfully [1]test-fired their
new liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engine. This is significantly more
powerful than the engines used in the XCOR [2]EZ-Rocket vehicle, and
will be further developed for use in the [3]Xerus suborbital vehicle.
XCOR is one of the serious [4]X-Prize contenders, and partly funded by
John Carmack of [5]Id and [6]Armadillo Aerospace (Carmack's
in-his-free-time X-prize contender)."
Links
0. http://www.xcor.com/
1. http://www.xcor.com/XR4K5-firstfire.html
2. http://www.xcor.com/ez.html
3. http://www.xcor.com/suborbital.html
4. http://www.xprize.com/
5. http://www.idsoftware.com/
6. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118341/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an
application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine
its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports
recording user actions into a script, exploring the component
hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a
script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118350/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly
free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source
documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for
structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than
embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML,
XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to
edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for
specialized output.
Aorta 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118364/
Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes
Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks
that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN
with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any
type ranging from encoding MP3s to rendering Web pages for high
speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++,
applications like Matlab, etc.
AstaStuSito 0.3 beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118372/
AstaStuSito is a very simple utility, written in the PHP language, that
helps Web site administrators to manage a Web site.
Async Blockreport 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118328/
Async Blockreport processes sendmail logs and produces reports of the
messages blocked using DNSBLs for each system user. Blockreport can be
set up as a cron job to mail these reports to your users periodically,
providing them with an idea of how much spam they would be getting if
the spam filters didn't work, and also telling them if any false
positives occurred.
Binc IMAP 1.1.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118326/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support
for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
Bonita 2.0_beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118321/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow
model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of
activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This
flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and
development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is
built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application
server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical
tools for performing the process conception and definition, the
instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the
users and other applications.
curl and libcurl 7.10.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118298/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It
supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER,
as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers,
passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is
powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are
bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and
environments.
Customer-Touch CRM 1.5.1pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118315/
An easy to use and install CRM for small to medium farms.
CVSPermissions 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118302/
CVSPermissions is a toolkit that will allow CVS administrators to set
up directory level access control in CVS for multiple CVS users. This
toolkit is a collection of shell scripts and CVS configuration to
achieve the access control functionality.
DB Web Admin Build 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118376/
DB Web Admin provides simple access to Oracle databases and
applications through the Web. It shows existing users, processes, and
system locks, and also allows users to kill sessions and execute SQL
queries. PL/SQL and JSP versions are included.
devlabel 0.29.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118312/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to
disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique
identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if
the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether
/dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points
the symlink to the correct data.
Dexters Versatile Server 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118283/
Dexters Versatile Server is a simple server with optional support for
HTTP fetching, ECHO, UDP, TIME, real time chat, and more.
Eclipse Project 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118327/
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE
for anything and nothing in particular. The real value of Eclipse comes
from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse how to work with
things - java files, web content, graphics, video, etc. Eclipse allows
you to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's
tools seamlessly.
FastParser 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118238/
Fast Parser is a high performance Java XML parser. Benchmarks measure
it to be up to +400% faster than Xerces and the JDK1.4 integrated
parser. It is ideal for Web services (SOAP) and XSL. The core parsing
package (without DOM) is very compact. It features SAX Level 1 and 2
compliance, JAXP compatibility, namespace support, integration with
JXMLPad for real time parsing, modular libraries, an embedded device
mode (including minimal memory usage), optional XML Comment support,
CDATA support, the ability to include any node type with a custom
NodeFactory, and a walker for easily navigating through XML trees. Many
API samples and benchmark tests are included. JDK1.1 or later is
required.
Fiasco microkernel 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118357/
Fiasco is a microkernel with real-time capabilities running on x86 PCs.
It is compatible with the L4 microkernel, which has set standards in
microkernel performance and functionality. Fiasco is a fully-featured
and secure L4 implementation with excellent real-time properties. It
can run L4Linux, a port of the Linux kernel to the L4 interface which
executes completely in user mode.
GNOME Assistive Tech Service Provider Interface 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118159/
at-spi is a part of the Gnome Accessibility Project. It provides a
Service Provider Interface for the Assistive Technologies available on
the GNOME platform, and a library against which applications can be
linked.
gspeakfreely 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118356/
Gspeakfreely is a VoIP system with a flexible component system. It
implements a set of audio processing components which can be connected
to each other or mixed together. The most important components are net
in/output, which implement VoIP functionality and the OSS-DSP in/output
component. Additionally there is a ISDN in/output component that allows
making actual phone connections, and a file input component that can
also play Internet radio streams. Also included is a fading plugin,
that can for example fade incoming calls into your music. New
components can be developed for specific purposes, and combined with
existing ones.
Gubby 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118349/
Gubby keeps track of changes in your procmail log file, and will in
real time display in which folders new email has been placed. Mailboxes
are read using a specified external mail user agent. Output is normally
displayed in a nice and colorful curses environment, but can also be
printed to the standard output from the command prompt.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.5-dev-20030402
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118338/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML
schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms
conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It
aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for
historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing
movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
Impact 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118355/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
Inti 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118306/
Inti is a set of integrated C++ foundation classes for developing GTK+
applications on Linux. It comes with more than 330 classes that wrap
most of the objects found in the GTK+ libraries. It has its own system
of signals and slots, and has a standard string compatible UTF-8 string
class, a full set of example programs, a C++ version of the GTK+
demonstration program, and an extensive tutorial. It unleashes the
power of GTK+ with a state-of-the-art C++ GUI toolkit. It makes
developing applications easy, intuitive, and efficient, and is designed
to work nicely with the GNU toolchain, and take advantage of the
standard C++ features provided by the GNU compiler.
Inti-GConf 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118303/
Inti-GConf is the second module in the Integrated Foundation Classes
library, an Inti binding for GConf (the GNOME Configuration System). It
makes accessing the GConf database from your Inti applications easy and
intuitive. Its API and documentation are complete and it comes with
several examples.
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118301/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into
streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing
"ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to
convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream"
with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX
subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their
place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct
your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it
with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object
graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even
handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable"
interface.
Jaxe 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118305/
Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface.
It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It
supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java
modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples
include XHTML strict and a Docbook article.
JFtp 1.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118330/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP
with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file
IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as
recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while
transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares,
and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in
third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be
launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4
plugin) but can also be started locally.
Kpl 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118342/
kpl is a KDE program for two- and three-dimensional graphical
presentation of data sets and functions (plotter). Multidimensional
nonlinear parameter fits of functions to data sets can be performed
using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. General linear least square
parameter fits are also possible. A DCOP interface can be used to
control Kpl by other applications and scripts.
Linux-BG Spell Checker Package 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118322/
Linux-BG Spell Checker is a Web front-end to the aspell program used in
the Linux-BG project. It consists of a server, a client, and an
example. It can be used in a CMS, a news service, or other types of Web
systems in which it is important to have correct spelling.
LogStream 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118276/
This project intends to provide C++ programmers with an easy interface
to logging facilities such as stderr, log files, syslog, and others
that might come in handy later on. The interface is provided by global
std::ostream objects similar to cout and cerr, allowing programmers to
easily port programs to this library. One of it's main features is the
ability to define debug levels, for which only inferior levels would be
output. This project came from the need to have a really simple
interface for debugging that required very few changes to existing code
that uses cout and cerr.
Logtalk 2.15.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118335/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog
programming language. Integrating logic programming with
object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible with
most Prolog compilers. It supports both prototypes and classes. In
addition, it supports component-based programming through
category-based composition.
log_analysis 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118314/
log_analysis is a log file analysis engine that extracts relevant data
for any of the recognised log messages and produces a summary that is
much easier to read. It can be configured to recognize entirely new log
types. log_analysis natively understands about 100 different kinds of
syslog messages, as well as sulog and wtmp messages for Linux, Solaris,
and OpenBSD. It also has optional continuous monitoring capabilities,
with both text and GUI modes.
Mah-Jong 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118381/
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.
morsetrainer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118333/
Morsetrainer is a program for learning Morse code. It shows you a Morse
coded letter and requires you to type the corresponding decoded letter.
The codes of incorrect answers will be asked more frequently and vice
versa. Display frequencies are saved so that you will keep learning the
codes you need when you start your next session.
netcount 0.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118347/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display
tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is
called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from
cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in
Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly
basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display
connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.
Otak 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118344/
Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't
have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For
example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the
default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a
list of hosts for SSH or FTP.
passlogd 0.1e (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118370/
passlogd is a purpose-built sniffer for capturing syslog messages in
transit. This allows for backup logging to be performed on a machine
with no open ports.
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118334/
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex is a thumbnail-index generation script designed
to be a companion to mod_autoindex for Apache. It generates a thumbnail
"gallery" of images contained in a directory, which is much
like what mod_autoindex generated indexes.
PHP-Nuke 6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118324/
PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system which includes
Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable
boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration
GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories,
an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking,
integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines
generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager,
and support for 20+ languages.
phpCDLabelPS 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118336/
phpCDLabelPS creates labels for your CDs. It is currently only useful
for data CDs (MP3 CDs included). After you provide some basic
information, it reads the directory structure and creates a Postscript
file out of it. The "look and feel" is controllable via a
template and a frontend.
prtunnel 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118296/
prtunnel tunnels a TCP connection through to a remote server using an
HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy. It is useful if you are behind a proxy and want
to use a program that doesn't have native proxy support.
psycopg 1.1.3 (StablePlus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118339/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python
DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily
multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and
make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg
distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
PycURL 7.10.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118309/
PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be
used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program.
SCPA 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118313/
SCPA (Squirrelmail Courier PHP Administrator) is a collection of PHP
scripts which provide improved functionality for Squirrelmail, a
popular WebMail interface. Using SCPA, you can change your password,
add new users to a domain, and remove users from a domain, features
which weren't present in SquirrelMail running with Courier-IMAP. It
supports multiple domains, as used by Postfix.
SISC 1.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118352/
SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic
language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily
outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order
of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the
language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a
full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary
precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion,
hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not
just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).
SKYRiX Core Libraries 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118323/
The SKYRiX Core library package is a set of Objective-C libraries which
contain various extensions to Foundation, a streaming library
comparable to java.io, MIME parsers and generators, an IMAP4
implementation, LDAP classes, and classes for handling iCalendar
entities. These libraries form the basic Web infrastructure for the
SKYRiX groupware server.
SMATCH 0.45
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118307/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two
main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print
out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl
scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
SMS Server Tools 1.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118348/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many
GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts
to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The
daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them.
It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call
any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
snapshot 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118299/
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 using SSH.
Socks Server 5 1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118351/
Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux platform which supports
the Socks protocol versions 4 and 5.
tcshrc 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118367/
The tcshrc package provides a well-organised set of configuration files
that make full use of the advanced and often unknown features of the
tcsh shell. Features used are a comprehensive prompt setting, advanced
"set"s and "alias"es, bindkey support for the
function keys, and intelligent completion. A Makefile is included for a
safe installation procedure.
The Magic Notebook 1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118345/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and
organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact
information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information
for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such
happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for
the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is
intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
TkMan 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118379/
TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for
UNIX. TkMan boasts hypertext links, (optional) outline view of man
pages, high quality display and superior navigational interface to
Texinfo documents, a novel information visualization mechanism called
Notemarks, full text search among man pages and Texinfo, incremental
and regular expression search within pages, robust yellow highlight
annotations, and more.
TopologiLinux 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118373/
TopologiLinux is an easy to install Linux distribution that is designed
to be run from any Windows computer without requiring repartitioning.
It mounts itself using a loop-back device and can be run from a DOS,
Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP system with an NTFS or FAT partition. It
is based on Slackware 9 and contains some extra packages like the new
Alsa sound drivers, Licq, and Wine.
Trusted Debian 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118300/
The Trusted Debian project aims to create a highly secure but usable
Linux platform. It brings together security solutions including kernel
patches, compiler patches, security related programs, and techniques.
WDialog 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118319/
WDialog is a system to make dialog-centric Web applications. It
imitates the behavior of widgets found in GUIs, but acts in an
HTML/HTTP environment. It uses its own XML-based UI language, but
callbacks are coded in a normal programming language: either O'Caml or
Perl. WDialog is written in Objective Caml, an ML variant.
Whale 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118371/
Whale is a GNOME 2 application which provides a simple interface for
creating playlists and storing songs on your Apple iPod. For example,
you can add a song by simply dragging the file from Nautilus to the
Whale window.
XDrawChem 1.6.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118360/
XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features
include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to
automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in
reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures
in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H
NMR, 13C NMR, and simple IR spectra. XDrawChem can work with its native
file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported by OpenBabel (MDL
Molfile, CML, etc.).
YASM 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118304/
YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from
the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g.,
NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats.
Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118358/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other
similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal
entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact
cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script
that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming
mail appropriately.
zpop3d 0.8.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118308/
zpop3d is an RFC 1939-compliant POP3 server. It features virtual
domains support, POP before SMTP, and secure mailbox updates. It runs
through tcpserver, xinetd, or the like.
Newsforge Reports
Who's your favorite Linux hardware vendor?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1323227
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The traditional answer to this question
is, "I assemble my own workstations and servers," because early Linux
adoptors tended to be tinkerers and do-it-yourselfers. But times are
changing, and an increasing number of both large and small computer
vendors have learned that Linux is no longer an "upstart" operating
system, but a serious market force. Do you have a favorite Linux
hardware vendor? If so, we'd like to ...
How open source developers can get more U.S. government contracts
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1539222
- By Alexander Perry - Why is government procurement a challenge for
Open Source? Ironically, it is because the US government's acquisition
policy has been shaped over many decades to try to get the best value
for money. For-profit corporations with proprietary solutions are
expected to try to make as much money as they can from a limited amount
of development. Thoughtful tinkering and optimization, over many
decades, has built stacks of ...
Free Software Foundation debuts Shared Source program
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1219237
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Cambridge, MA, April 1 - "We've learned
that only a few nut-case programmers ever alter source code, so we have
developed a new license, the GSSPL [GNU Shared Source Public License]
to meet the needs of the vast majority of computer users," said Free
Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman at a press conference
earlier today. He also said, "The fact that Microsoft is now the FSF's
prime sponsor has nothing ...
Newsforge Newsvac
The IBM / MS PC Pissing Contest
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/0510215
Eric Peterson writes "The computing industry is fueled by egotism,
revenge, and by avarice. After a decade of monopolistic shenanigans,
heroic recovery, obscure legal proceedings, political pandering, and
courtroom antics, the PC industry still boils down to one thing: a
pissing contest between Microsoft and IBM."
MontaVista Linux Powers Zultys
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/059202
Patricia Colby writes "MontaVista Linux Powers New IP Phone and
Enterprise Media Exchange, Provides Robust Platform for Zultys ZIP 4x4
and MX1200. SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 31, 2003 MontaVista Software,
Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, and Zultys
Technologies, which designs and manufactures products that integrate
telecommunications and data communications for enterprise networks,
today announced that MontaVista Linux® ...
ROCK Linux to become TCPA-approved
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/056259
An anonymous coward writes "Today, esden announced that ROCK Linux will
be TCPA-approved. IBM volunteered to carry the costs."
Hitachi Plunks Money into MVD's PowerCockpit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/0419229
Press Flack writes "Hitachi has invested in Mountain View Data (MVD) in
a move expected to speed the adoption of MVDs PowerCockpit server
management technology and network storage software on Hitachi hardware.
Red Hat Linux 9 Technical Changes
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2346213
Over the past eight years or so, I've been excited each time a new
version of Red Hat Linux gets released. During the past few years,
people have even been writing reviews of each release. As a general
rule, I've been dissatisfied by the superficialities, inaccuracies, and
irrelevancies in the reviews often times performed by someone who does
not have intimate knowledge of Red Hat Linux. A systems administrator
needs an in-depth review that ...
Biotech group's $1m Linux cluster
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2342227
IBM Australia has won a $1 million deal to supply a Linux
supercomputer cluster platform and bioinformatics tools for
biotechnology research in Victoria.
NVIDIA's Latest Drivers and the Quadro FX
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/201255
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org just published a review looking at
NVIDIA's latest driver. "Monday, NVIDIA took the next step in their
strive to own the Linux video market with the release of their 1.0-4349
drivers. These drivers represent a first in the Linux driver market, a
utility that not only installs the drivers on any distribution, but
also keeps the driver up-to-date. We now take a look at this new
utility and the drivers themselves. ...
MontaVista Linux Consumer Electronics Edition 3.0 Now Shipping
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2124212
Patricia Colby writes "Industrys First Embedded Linux Platform For
Consumer Electronics Boasts Dynamic Power Management, Rich Networking
Support and Consumer-Grade Reliability. SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 31,
2003 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded
revolution, today announced the immediate availability of MontaVista
Linux® Consumer Electronics Edition (CEE) 3.0. CEE is the first
quality Linux operating system and ...
Exec says Sun is a Linux believer
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1958257
Michael S. Mimoso writes "The perception that Sun Microsystems Inc. is
a reluctant supporter of Linux is just plain wrong, according to Jack
O'Brien, Sun's group manager for Linux strategy and marketing. Sun's
Linux operating system for Intel x86 servers is an integral part of
Sun's mix-and-match platform strategy, he said. With Linux and the
different versions of Solaris, Sun offers users many choices of
architectures."
Red Hat Linux 9 Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1936245
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my
experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat
Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on
my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but
this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome
installation.
Thinkgeek
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e51/
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e2b/
Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
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/
Sourceforge
BSpam-0.5 released (A probabilistic spam filter in perl)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265450
BSpam is a perl implementation of Paul Graham's Bayesian spam filtering
system. Major features include mime decoding, html parsing and
whitespace compression to foil spammers who try to hide thier content
from filters. Version 0.5 includes improvements in tokenizing prices,
and special marking of tokens in Content-Type headers to better handle
chinese language spams. Also fixed is an oversight that required users
to have the MIME:Base64.pm and MIME:QuotedPrint.pm installed in thier
site_perl directory. See the BSpam project home page for more
information: http://bspam.sourceforge.net
TreeGrOSS version 1.5 and documentation
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265471
The current release of TreeGrOSS (Tree Growth Open Source Software) is
a package which includes the major routines of the growth model, like
competition, mortality, crown base, crown width, potential height
growth, diameter and height growth. All these classes are packed in the
file treegross.jar. This package can be used for specific applications,
like forest stand simulation or forest inventory prognosis. There is an
example application for stand simulation which shows how to use the
treegross package. In addition there are classes for reading in ASCII
data, drawing a stand map, a parallel stand projection and to report
single tree values. Version 1.5 and documentation have now been
released. The program seems fairly stable. There is a new component to
estimate ingrowth. Also a rule based thinning component which performs
thinnings according to the LOEWE program was added to the example.
Since there has been a lot of interest in the growth simulator by
forester's and researchers from other countries the Java code is
documented in English.
lin-seti 0.7.2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265469
This release fixes a bug introduced in version 0.7.1 that prevented it
from funning on Sparc (and maybe other) machines. lin-seti is a
command-line program allowing to mantain a cache of work units for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] client. Written in C, it should run on most unix-like
systems, including linux. It is designed to be cache-compatible with
'Seti Driver' for Windows.
fgsd 0.2.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265465
FGSD is a tool to hand edit and design custom sceneries for the
FlightGear Flight Simulator (http://www.flightgear.org/). There is a
big overhaul in this release. GTS is now mandatory and is used for its
computational geometry algorithms. Get it at
http://gts.sourceforge.net. With this overhaul, we are getting a much
smother shadow calculation, a new Slope Gradient view, a new and
extensible toolbar system and the ability to modifiy terrain with
height ( hypsographic ) curves. Export to FGFS scenery format is also
functional.
Thorn v0.5.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265452
The releases are fast and furious now. Version 0.5.0 adds collaboration
diagrams to Thorn's growing list of supported diagrams. Thorn is a UML
diagramming tool, specifically designed for Open Source projects. The
UML models are saved in XML format for easy internet transfers and
publishing. Thorn supports scripting in JPython and uses the Xerces XML
parser.
DOSBox 0.58 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264825
Dosbox is a full x86 emulator written in C/C++ with sound and dos. It's
main use is to run old dosgames on platforms which don't have dos
(win2k/XP/FreeBSD/linux). The most important new features:
namemangling, cdrom support, scale2x, midi, improved timing, lots of
bugfixes. Get it at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox Also
take a look at our new homepage: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net which
includes a list of working games Peter Veenstra
BitTorrent++ alpha 0.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265101
BitTorrent++ alpha 0.5.2 is out... it contains fixes and some more
fixes. BitTorrent++ provides improved (download multiple files at once,
config, GUI) client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing solution.
This project is also the home of WebTorrent++ a BitTorrent client with
a webbased user interface.
e1000-5.0.43 stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265155
Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 ethernet devices and
Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet devices. This project serves as a
focal point for further driver development and discussion. e1000-5.0.43
stable release is available in .tar.gz format to compile against any
2.4 kernel.
libbpfl v0.2.0beta release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=265159
libbpfl is a general purpose C++ library for Bayesian Filtering.
Essentially Bayesian Filtering is a way of having a program learn to
categorize information from a specific user through pattern
recognition. This release has some fairly big changes, mainly to the
interface, some classes were renamed to be a little more decriptive.
Internally the calculations are done with arbitrary precision ratios,
for more exact score calculation.
OZradio BETA 0.6 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264688
OZradio BETA 0.6 for bttv compatible Radio cards. Listen to FM Radio,
Save up to 10 stations to programable buttons, On demand recording of
radio, Programable recording of radio, Playback recorded radio, Auto
Scan radio Frequencys, Volume control. OZRADIO BETA 0.6 is available
for download in binary RPM and source gz format.
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