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Slashdot
Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0426219
[0]Ryan Barrett writes "Sprint announced that it has 'begun
transforming its telephone network so voice calls are transmitted in
packets.' [1]AP article here. Combined with a recent /. story about
[2]Telus doing the same thing, this sets an interesting precedent. Many
telcos already use packet-switching to handle a significant chunk of
their calls. Is this the beginning of the end for circuit-switched
networks?"
Links
0. http://ryan.barrett.name/
1. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20030527/D7R9PM7G0.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1123232&tid=126
Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0132248
[0]JoeRobe writes "Researchers at UCSC have [1]simulated a possible
outcome of an impact by asteroid 1950DA when it passes near us in the
year 2880. Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that
encounter. In the event that it impacts in the Atlantic, they predict
that the '60,000 megaton blast' would create 400 foot waves along the
east coast. In addition to an assessment of the danger, their studies
point out the resulting geologic features that we should be looking for
now, which would indicate where and when such impacts have occured in
the past."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=355
Phoenix Unveils Anti-Theft BIOS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2356204
linuxwrangler writes "According to articles at [0]PC World, [1]c|net,
[2]Internet Week and [3]elsewhere, Phoenix Technology is introducing a
new BIOS-based anti-theft system. Every time a TheftGuard equipped
machine connects to the internet it pings a server at Phoenix which can
instruct the machine to wipe its hard drive, report its location or
disable itself. Given that most people don't want to have their every
movement tracked and don't want someone else to have the power to wipe
their drives, Phoenix figures that corporate clients are the prime
customer. I just wonder who is liable when a company sells a surplus
laptop on eBay but gets their inventory control screwed up and reports
it as stolen..."
Links
0. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110883,00.asp
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-1009807.html
2. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100307
3.
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=&q=TheftGuard+Phoenix&btnG=Search+News
MS Tweaks Ill-Received Licensing Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2327258
ahooton writes "[0]C|Net is [1] reporting that [2]Microsoft has updated
it's [3] Software Assurance licensing program. The company has admitted
that it's initial approach angered a large number of customers. No huge
difference in pricing or terms -- changes are comprised of bundling
some training and support. The one interesting concession is that
corporate licensees of Microsoft Office can now use that suite on a
home computer as well." What a concession. ([4]Paddo points to this
similar [5]article on Australian IT via [6]News.com.au.)
Links
0. http://www.cnet.com/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1010162.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop
2. http://www.microsoft.com/
3. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/Default.asp
4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
5. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6502118%255E15306,00html
6. http://www.news.com.au/
The Anti-Spam Research Group's Plan for Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2122207
egoff writes "Speaking of [0]standards, the [1]ASRG, a member of the
[2]IETF, has a plan for "consent-based communications." Among the
suggestions, according to [3]Internet Week, are authentication services
for falsified addresses, trusted senders, reputation systems (karma?),
opt-out tools, best practices for challenge/response, and even a
proposal for micropayments on unwanted mail. Instead of defining spam,
the ASRG wants to provide administrators and users the tools necessary
to avoid what they consider to be unwanted. One of the tools,
[4]Reverse MX, is expected to be in place in several months. It would
allow the receiving mail server to query a domain to determine if the
sending server is allowed to send on its behalf."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1422200&tid=126
1. http://www.irtf.org/asrg/
2. http://www.irtf.org/
3. http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100236
4. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-01.txt
Underground DC Developers Strike Back: Feet of Fury
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2236229
[0]frohike writes "After reading the recent [1]article about game
non-originality, I'm pleased to say that there's another entry to the
Dreamcast's innovative game lineup, and this time it isn't coming from
one of the Big Publishers but the underground: [2]Feet of Fury! This
independent music beat game includes player vs player gameplay and a
Typing of Fury mode. It was developed by [0]us on a $0 budget using
Linux, Gimp, and various other free tools over the past few years, and
it uses the BSD-licensed [3]KallistiOS toolkit as its base. (This is
the same toolkit which most homebrew developers have written the
emulators and such with.) We've used a number of neat free software
technologies such as [4]Ogg Vorbis in the game itself, and we
contribute a large chunk of our code back to the community in the hopes
that others can follow in our footsteps. There is even a [5]publisher
ready to help you get your ideas to fruition and sell them for you, so
what are you waiting for? Now's your chance to be a console developer
too. Let's make some great new innovative Dreamcast games!"
Links
0. http://www.cagames.com/
1. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1758210&tid=127
2. http://www.feetoffury.com/
3. http://gamedev.allusion.net/
4. http://www.xiph.org/
5. http://www.goatstore.com/
DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2149249
Rob writes "Ok, so I've finally gotten my TiVo configured to let me
extract and archive video, now I'm wondering what is my best solution?
I currently have a CDR that I've been able to use to save both VCD and
SVCD. Unfortunately I have a very old DVD player that will only play
VCD's. So I decided that it's time to look at recording to DVD, but
what is the right answer? Has any format won? I just got back from
Fry's and I could get either -R/-RW or +R/+RW and there were even
drives that did all of the formats. This is all well and good, since
I'll have to buy a new DVD player to play any of them, but which format
is most widely accepted? Even if I get a drive that will record in any
format what do most DVD players accept? Sure I can make sure that my
DVD player will play whatever format I produce but what about my
parents and friends?"
Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2114240
[0]squiggleslash writes "Apple has issued an update to iTunes 4, iTunes
4.0.1. It can be downloaded via Software Update. The big change seems
to be that iTunes will now only stream music to other Macs on the same
subnet. This is presumably a response to people publishing public lists
of shared iTunes playlists, though it does mean that anyone wanting to
stream music from home to work or vice versa is SOL. Oh well." You
can't share between 4.0 and 4.0.1 iTunes, so be careful in updating.
AppleScript access to shared playlist tracks is fixed, though. Woop
woop.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~squiggleslash/
Buying Computing by the Computon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1952209
[0]theodp writes "Seeking to emulate the pricing models utilities use
to charge customers for kilowatt-hours of electricity based on the ebb
and flow of power demand, HP Researchers have come up with a new
unit-of-computing metric, [1]the Computon, which is not to be confused
with the 'Power Unit' and 'Service Unit' pricing metrics from Sun and
IBM. [2]California, here we come!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,81522,00.html?nas=AM-81522
2. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/power.crisis/backgrounder.html
AirTraf 802.11b Security Package
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/188204
An anonymous reader writes "Being ignorant of network vulnerabilities
is [0]a happy condition for only so long. Ignorance is bliss, right up
until someone with rogue access drives away with your company secrets.
This article covers information about AirTraf, an open source package,
which performs a number of tasks, such as determining the Service Set
Identifier of the access points, and the channel it is operating under.
It can tell how many wireless nodes are connected to a given access
point, as well as that point's total load. AirTraf is capable, too, of
polling a number of sniffers through a central polling server in order
to collect the most current information. The least of your fears should
be the leeching of your Internet connectivity. Industrial espionage is
a growing reality that you must confront."
Links
0.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-airtraf/?ca=dgr-lnxw01AirTraf
Freshmeat
AdvanceMAME 0.69.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124161/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade
monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.
alogg 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124117/
alogg is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with
Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis
streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro's datafile and
sample loading routines. alogg comes with a sample player, streamer,
and encoder based on Allegro's sound routines.
AmigaSHELL 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124200/
AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray-on-black colored bash shell look like
the Amiga(tm) command-line interface. It features blue, white, orange,
and black colors and a nice informational bar at the top.
Angelistic 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124136/
Angelistic is a light theme that uses the Mist engine.
Ansel 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124105/
Ansel is a picture gallery for web sites. It is a high quality,
information-rich photo gallery, designed to handle large numbers of
images and albums. It stores all its images in a database, making it
both fast and flexible. Ansel is similar in spirit to Shutterfly and
Yahoo pictures, but does not place restrictions on image size.
avidemux 2.0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124175/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG,
Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG,
DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be
edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded
to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Axios 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124141/
Axios is a port of the theme of the same name to Enlightenment. It was
originally created by Gear and Allout.
bash programmable completion 20030527 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124106/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
bidwatcher 1.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124095/
Bidwatcher is for eBay users. It tracks your current bids and listings,
and has an integrated snipe tool. You can run bidwatcher in the
background and it periodically checks your auctions status, and
executes any bids that are scheduled.
BoPHP 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124157/
BoPHP is a Web interface for bossogg that uses PHP and its built-in XML
parser.
Calendrian 0.23.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124163/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux
PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it
has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
Code striker 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124129/
Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code
reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in
unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the
nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can
view the proposed diff in colored-diff mode, and can also view the
original and new files that comprise the review in their entirety when
Codestriker is linked with CVS or Subversion. Comments are made on a
per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be
viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties
when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments
against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of
review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker
also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety
of ways.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124167/
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating
systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution
for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley
command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol
("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The
Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket
(a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced
functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript
Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support
real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that
supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A
customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP
Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript
files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON,
HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.
Compiere 2.4.4c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124102/
Compiere is the Open Source ERP & CRM solution with first tier
functionality for the small-medium enterprise. Designed for the global
marketplace, Compiere is easy to install and implement. In contrast to
other solutions, you will be able to enter invoices after about 4
hours, without functionality compromises or irreversible implementation
time decisions.
conspy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124104/
Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a
Linux virtual console, and to send keystrokes to it. It only known to
work with Linux. It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of
a GUI, conspy takes control of a text-mode virtual console. Unlike VNC,
conspy does not require a server to be installed prior to being used.
CRM114 Discriminator 2003-05-27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124178/
CRM114 is a Controllable Regex Mutilator and Smart Filter, designed for
easy creation of filters for things like incoming email redirection,
spam filtering, system logs, or monitoring processes. Filtering rules
can be either hard-coded (such as regexes), soft-coded (calculated at
runtime or read from an external file or process), or learned
dynamically by phrase matching (by SBPH hashing). This makes it
possible to create very accurate filters with very little actual work.
Accuracies over 99.9% are achievable.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124185/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its
main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group
collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant
messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant
messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It
provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a
multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of
CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented
computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of
encryption.
Crystal Mud Client 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124131/
Crystal is an adequate MUD client. At first glance it looks like
telnet, but has full line editing and scrollback, character set
conversion support, Unicode support, prompt grabbing, xterm titlebar
setting, and windowsize negotiation. It even supports MCCP
(compression) and telnet-over-SSL. It's got support for a decent subset
of ANSI, and properly ignores things it doesn't recognize.
cvsplot 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124123/
Cvsplot is a Perl script which analyzes the history of a CVS-managed
project. The script executes on a set of files, analyzes their history,
and automatically generates graphs that plot lines of code, number of
files, and user contributions against time. It supports both UNIX and
Windows environments.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124205/
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will
automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that
it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction.
DBMonster 0.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124191/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with
tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and
testing the application performance under heavy database load.
DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an
SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to
use.
denature 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124166/
denature uses several Perl modules and the fop utility to convert an
HTML file to PDF. It has the beginnings of CSS support, and handles
several HTML tags.
distcc 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124116/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of
C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just
a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not
require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or
header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
feh 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124145/
feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is
commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows,
thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints
(using truetype fonts to display file info). Advanced features include
fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with
reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow
of a directory hierarchy), and mousewheel/keyboard control.
Firewall Builder 1.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124159/
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for
various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of
objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop
operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent,
and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without
any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This
provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different
firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and
OpenBSD pf.
FUDforum 2.5.0RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124134/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
gEDA 20030525
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124094/
gEDA is a GPLed toolset to aid electronic design. Currently it consists
of a schematic capture program, a netlist generator, a symbol checker,
and a bunch of utilities. The initial goals are to satisfy the
electronic hobbyist needs, but the usefulness of gEDA does not have
stop there. gEDA has the future potential to be used for serious EDA
work.
GenChemLab 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124135/
GenChemLab is an OpenGL-based application intended to simulate several
common general chemistry laboratory exercises. It is meant to be used
to help students prepare for actual lab experience. Supported
experiments include titration, calorimetry, freezing point depression,
and spectrophotometry.
Geo::Weather 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124160/
Geo::Weather is a Perl module used to retrieve weather.com information
based on city/state or US zip code.
Ghronos 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124103/
Ghronos is a gaming clock mostly intended for chess and go. Features
include hard button control for that "real chess clock" feel,
selectable timing styles including Fischer and delay timing for chess,
Canadian and Japanese byo-yomi timing for go, a standard countdown
style, "black moves first" and "white moves first"
options, sequential and per-player move counting, optional sound, the
ability to pause, an easy-to-read display (with big numbers), simple
configuration, protection against accidental misconfiguration during
game play, and persistent settings.
GNUstep 1.7.0 (LaunchPad)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124206/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the
OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries
consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and
arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons,
etc.
Hell World 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124130/
Hell World is a thrilling FPS adventure game which features excellent
graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario. It is designed
to be a port of the Windows-only version of Hell World.
host 20030527
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124181/
Host is a complete and powerful command-line based DNS query and
testing tool. It has many of the same basic features as other similar
tools such as nslookup and dig, but it has more extensive testing and
test automation features. Host also has a much more standard (i.e.
Unix-based) command-line user interface.
HTTPCapture 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124097/
HttpCapture is a core wrapper around the packet-capture library pcap
and a framework for building plugins to filter, analyse, or display
interesting network packets. The details of the packets and their
contents are left to a collection of plugins to process, making it a
simple matter to add a new decoding and display target.
iBackup 2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124197/
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system
configurations. It is easy to extend it for your systems and adapt to
your needs. It supports exclude lists, upload, and encryption of your
backups. It also comes with a sysconf script to make a report about a
system.
IBGS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124147/
IBGS is a game server for board games such as chess, go, checkers, and
nine nens morris. Data about players and games are stored in an SQL
database. Goals are extensible and maintainable, and the FICS protocol
is supported for compatibility with frontends such as xboard.
iChatExporter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124190/
iChatExporter extends functionality in iChat so you can export any
real-time or saved chat conversation into a text file. This is a
feature of most modern AIM clients that is sorely missing in iChat.
Install-Sendmail 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124120/
Install-Sendmail will configure Sendmail and Fetchmail on your machine.
This Perl script can be used to setup a mail server for a simple
network or it can configure email on a dial up machine. All you need to
know is your email address, login name and password and optionally, the
IP addresses of your network.
IP Masquerade HOWTO 2.00.052603
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124107/
The IP Masquerade HOWTO is the document that contains instructions on
understanding, configuring, and troubleshooting NAT or Network Address
Translation for Linux. It covers topics such as IPTABLES, PORTFW,
IPCHAINS, IPFWADM, stronger packet firewalls, multiple network
segments, and configuring many client operating systems. It also has an
extensive FAQ and troubleshooting section.
IP Sentinel 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124139/
IP Sentinel is a tool that tries to prevent unauthorized usage of IP
addresses within an ethernet broadcast domain by answering ARP
requests. After receiving faked replies, requesting parties store the
MAC in their ARP tables and will send future packets to this invalid
MAC, rendering the IP unreachable.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124126/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support
(which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in
Poland).
JTetrisPlugin 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124148/
JTetrisPlugin is a Tetris plugin for the Eclipse IDE, similar to the
Tetris Plugin for XEmacs.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124207/
Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network
management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP
configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling,
auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses
MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.70_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124151/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
kggs 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124158/
kggs is a KDE interface for playing reversi. It is designed to play
online, on the GGS (Generic Game Server), the server for Othello,
Amazons, Checkers, Go, Hex, Chess, Dots+Boxes, Domineering, and Ataxx.
It implements chat and Othello. It will be a alternative for lion (the
Windows client) and GGSA (the Java interface). The program has been
designed to be easy and intuitive to use, and other games should also
be easy to implement.
KmusicdB 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124143/
KmusicdB is a music information manager for KDE, using PostgreSQL as a
backend. You can add your music collection to the database, and view it
in a convenient browser. It currently supports the ability to add and
edit artists, add and edit titles (with album pictures), and a track
editor. The ability to generate reports and statistics, and also to
search the database is implemented, as well as creating and opening,
backing up and restoring databases. It is highly customizable, and
fast. CDDB functionality has also been implemented.
Kraken 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124092/
Kraken is a small Python application for managing documents, Web pages,
and directories. It also allows users to annotate these files with
metadat, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to
present the result of these queries in the form of HTML pages. The
format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily
parsed by third party applications.
KRconLinux 0.1RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124090/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like
Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It
features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an
(incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to
interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the
available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings
via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating
and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and
changing server variables.
lamprop 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124195/
lamprop calculates some properties of fiber-reinforced composite
laminates. It calculates engineering properties like Ex, Ey, Gxy,
thermal properties CTE_x and CTE_y, physical properties like density
and laminate thickness, and stiffness and compliance matrices.
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.6.4 (Linux-2.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124101/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux
kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and
syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts,
C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a
more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated
home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell
scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the
project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial,
PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
M.E.S.H. 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124111/
MESH (Measuring Error between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance) is
a tool that measures distortion between two discrete surfaces
(triangular meshes). It uses the Hausdorff distance to compute a
maximum, mean, and root-mean-square errors between two given surfaces.
Besides providing figures, MESH can also display the error values on
the surface itself through a GUI (Qt-based).
man-pages-ja 20030525
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124132/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for
Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU
tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
maxcpu 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124060/
maxcpu is a Perl script that executes a queue of command lines read
from STDIN on as many available CPUs as possible.
Media Mate 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124210/
Media Mate is a modular, personal media library for the Web. It
supports user logins with different permissions, CSS themes, and
translations. The included Movies Module allows you to store
information on your movies and track who's borrowed them. It has
automatic entry using the Internet Movie Database, movie reservations,
and overdue notifications.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124189/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL.
motion 3.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124194/
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes
snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in
realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an
observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out
email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
msulogin 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124100/
msulogin is the single-user mode login program used to force the
console user to login under a root account before a shell is started.
Unlike other implementations of sulogin, this one supports having
multiple root accounts on a system. msulogin has been developed as a
part of Openwall GNU/*/Linux and is being made available separately
primarily for use by other distributions. Currently, msulogin supports
only systems with getspnam(3).
Muttprint 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124179/
Muttprint formats the printing of Mutt and other mail clients like
XFMail or PINE to be like the printing of Netscape Messenger. It can
print a little penguin on the first page and a headline on every page.
mysqlSendmail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124152/
mysqlSendmail is software for automated Sendmail management. It
features virtusertable management for multiple domains, a built-in
scoreboard signature-based anti-spam system, and full support for
managing POP3 users and their quotas. It has tie-ins for both
SMTP-after-POP and SMTP-after-AUTH (see mysqlRadius) via a modified
Cistron 1.6.6 radiusd and qpopper 4.0.4. It is part of the mysqlISP
suite of GPL ISP management tools. It can manage 1 or hundreds of
sendmail servers, for up to thousands of domains. Third party template
driven wrappers are also available for a complete ISP
customer/product/service/billing solution.
netclasses 0.999
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124188/
Netclasses is an easy to use interface to socket programming in
Objective-C with GNUstep. The core netclasses supports virtually any
protocol, but the distribution comes with everything needed for TCP/IP
(opening ports, background connections, etc.). Netclasses seamlessly
integrates into NSRunLoop, which means there should be no need for
redesigning applications to use it.
nwload 0.2d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124122/
nwload is a graphical traffic monitor that is similar to gkrellm and
xisdnload, but offers additional operational parameters and display
formatting options. It works with any networking device and supports a
broad range of speed and sample rates.
OProfile 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124209/
OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is
capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared
libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance
counters.
Petal 0.61.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124204/
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by
recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this
allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g.
pulling system configurations from a change management system) from
their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If
recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your
needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
phpFriendlyAdmin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124153/
phpFriendlyAdmin is a remote database management package made
specifically for Web developers who want to ease an audience into the
world of content management. It features support for 10 major databases
(including MySQL), user management, and plugins for additional backend
tasks.
phpMyCatalog 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124162/
phpMyCatalog is a program to catalog the contents of CDs, DVDs, or just
directories on a hard drive automatically. It stores the data in a
MySQL database, from which users can search for specific files or other
contents to locate documents, music, programs, etc.
PHPRecipeBook 2.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124140/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create
shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later
reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar
items so that duplication does not occur.
Picalo 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124203/
Picalo Fraud and Auditing Analysis Software is an open source
application that helps fraud investigators and auditors search through
data sets for anomalies, trends, and other information. It has much of
the functionality of Audit Command Language (ACL) and IDEA. In many
ways, Picalo goes one step beyond these packages because it includes
trending and analysis routines and not just data manipulation routines.
Portable Coroutine Library 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124177/
This is a Portable Coroutine Library implementation written in ANSI C.
Coroutines can be used to implement cooperative threading among many
tasks without overloading the OS with threads/processes. Since context
switch between coroutines is very fast, certain applications might have
performance gain in using this type of threading.
Prince 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124127/
Prince is a batch formatter for converting XML into PDF and PostScript
by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It prints any XML document,
with special support for XHTML, DocBook, and SVG, which can be used in
combination with other XML languages.
Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124149/
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory
servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that
purpose.
qmail Lazydog 1.4 2003/05/27 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124171/
qmail Lazydog (previously known as Big Q) is an installation script for
Linux that installs qmail 1.03 with some patches like the qmail-queue
patch (for virus scanners), TLS patch (to enable secure SMTP), SMTP
auth, oversized DNS patch, glibc patch, tarpit support, regex support,
big concurrency, maildir++ , vpopmail for virtual domain management,
autorespond, courier-IMAP, the ezmlm/idx mailing list manager,
qmailadmin and vqadmin Web administration tools, and more.
Read it to Me 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124109/
Read it to Me creates a playlist of MP3 files in iTunes from unread
items in NetNewsWire using Apple's Text- to-Speech that can then be
synced to an iPod.
Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 7) (RETRO6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124192/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to
be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating
systems.
rfbplaymacro 0.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124128/
rfbplaymacro lets you send keyboard/mouse events to a VNC server, using
a script file. The companion program rfbproxy can record scripts for
rfbplaymacro to use.
ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124099/
ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit for creating Linux
distributions. You can easily design and build your own distribution by
choosing packages, compilers, and optimization options, and optionally
enable the GCC Stack-Smashing Protector for enhanced security. It is
also possible to choose custom configure options, cross-compile, and
much more. Many specialized targets (customized distributions) have
already been created, such as a Desktop, Router, or Minimal
distribution. A variety of architectures are supported.
SeekLeech 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124138/
SeekLeech is a Java console application which searches for files in
Apache directory indexes through Google.
Simkin 1.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124170/
Simkin is a scripting language for Java/XML. Simkin is designed to let
your users control all or part of your Java application. They write
scripts in a very simple scripting language which can be embedded in
XML. The scripts can call down into the API you've exposed from your
Java classes. You write the mechanism, your users write the policy.
Simkin for C++ 2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124169/
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++
applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such
as XML or in databases.
Space Hulk 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124114/
Space Hulk is a board game which takes place in the world of Warhammer
40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player plays the
'Marine', and the other player plays the alien called 'Genestealer'.
This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd
edition rules. It features playing over the network, either in real
time or asynchronously via email.
swaret 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124121/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
swpkg 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124098/
swpkg is a collection of small tools which allow a system administrator
to build, install, and maintain software packages on a system. It is
based on a fairly simple philosophy intended to simplify the management
of third party software and their inter-dependencies.
Sylpheed 0.9.1 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124124/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost
all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display,
and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully
internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll
be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
TalkSoup 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124187/
TalkSoup is a GNUstep IRC client built on the extensibility of the
Objective-C language. The entire IRC client is implemented by plugins,
so one can pick and choose what they want to use.
tclwebtest 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124065/
tclwebtest is a tool to write automated tests for Web applications. It
provides a simple API for issuing HTTP requests, dealing with the
result, and assuming specific response values, while taking care of the
details such as redirects and cookies. It has some basic HTML parsing
functionality, to provide access to elements of the result HTML page
that are needed for testing (mainly links and forms).
The Circle 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124142/
The Circle is a peer-to-peer application that provides file sharing,
instant messaging, and news services. Its novel feature is that while
it is fully decentralized, the method it uses to search for files and
people theoretically scales to millions or billions of users. Advanced
features include the ability to download a file from multiple sources
simulataneously, the ability to send messages to people who are not
currently online, and the ability to generate a customized news service
by specifying trusted sources of news.
The Traverser 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124119/
The Traverser is a free software package that can cut database
application development time in half. By using a naming convention on
foreign keys, users can link together all the tables in a database
without programming, allowing developers to concentrate on business
rules and other custom modifications.
tileFoundry 0.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124201/
tileFoundry is an isometric map editor that is being developed for a
game. It reads and writes XML files, uses PNGs for tiles, and has been
developed with a focus on ease of use. It features a GTK 2 GUI and uses
SDL for the map engine.
transcode 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124164/
transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports
elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules
are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other
formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with
DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD
transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract
and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to
enable post-processing of AVI files.
Unix Distributed Database 1.8.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124176/
The udb project provides replication of database transactions,
operating system files, and operating system commands to servers
distributed in a wide-area-network. A database abstraction layer
provides a common application interface and uniform access to data in a
variety of file formats and databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, Berkely db, xBase, fixed length, and UNIX character delimited
files. APIs are provided for C, PHP, and the UNIX shell.
Uptime Client 5.0b8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124112/
Uptime Client is a little program that keeps track of your uptime and
sends it to a server where you can compare it to many other hosts and
browse through various statistical information.
Varuna2Palm 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124071/
Varuna2Palm is a project that automatically converts a Varuna schedule
into Palm datebook and vcal formats.
viPlugin 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124146/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors
that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, ...).
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124183/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
the Internet.
WebMySQL 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124165/
WebMySQL is a Web interface to a MySQL database server. It supports the
following SQL queries: SELECT, DESCRIBE, JOIN, SHOW, DROP TABLE /
DATABASE, CREATE, and USE, and advanced query options such as LIMIT,
DISTINCT, and GROUP. It has a fully customisable look and feel, and
outputs either HTML results or a downloadable CSV file.
WebTime 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124115/
WebTime is a project analysis and control system. It allows one to
manage users with profiles, projects, tasks, and clients.
Xrefactory 1.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124113/
Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs, XEmacs, and jEdit which
provides multiple project support, a source browser, intellisense code
completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter
manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, and the
ability to move fields, methods, classes, etc. It is based on full
pre-processing, parsing, and static analysis of sources. It works for
the C and Java languages, and contains a stand-alone cross referencer,
and a generator for HTML documentation.
Yample 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124186/
Yample is a processing language for email. It sorts for email based on
criteria you define. It can deliver email to Unix mailboxes (MBOX),
Maildirs (used by Courier IMAP and others), or pipes. It is
spamassassin-compatible.
Zabbix 1.0beta9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124199/
Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling
and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very
flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick
and easy administration. It can be used for logging, monitoring,
capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and
providing the latest information to a helpdesk.
Zero Install 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124144/
The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or
libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The
filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive
caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional
systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use.
It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows
users to run software without needing a root password.
Newsforge Reports
Replacing MS Exchange with Bynari
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/126249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company's Web site says, "Bynari
makes a Linux email server and components that connects to Outlook
clients using our own unique middleware called the Connector. The
current products are the Insight Family of messaging services
consisting of Linux based Mail Server, InsightConnector, and the LDAP
Client. Bynari utilizes an open standards model for its mail and
messaging server and supports, not only the Intel ...
Setting up SuSE for wireless networking
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1520202
- by Lee Schlesinger - I was excited to set up my brand-spanking-new
copy of SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 on a machine I'm planning to use
for testing and review. Everything went smoothly except for
installation of the Orinoco Silver PC Card network adapter. Several
hours and unsuccessful tacks later, I can claim victory, and maybe save
you time if you tackle the same task.
Happy Memorial Day
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/0247252
May 26 is the U.S, Memorial Day holiday. All we're doing today is
posting a few NewsVac items. We'll be back tomorrow, May 27, with our
usual fare. See you then!
Newsforge Newsvac
Grid computing Video
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/193202
Anonymous Reader writes "Are you still wondering what Grid computing is
all about? I triple assure you that this Grid computing video will help
you. Learn more about the Butterfly Gaming Grid and other real-life
Grids."
The first OpenJay.org result: Jay'O'Rama
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1754242
Anonymous Reader writes "See the first public release of a new Open DJ
oriented application: Jay'O'Rama. At the actual state it is a
particular player of ogg and mp3 formats, but the main goal is to
become a useful and powerful mixing DJ tool. See more at the homepage:
http://www.openjay.org/jayorama/.";
Apple's Web Browser Operating System?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1753215
Eric Peterson writes "Is Apple following the same OS in a browser
business model that Netscape built but never executed? Apple has the OS
(OS X), the Browser (Safari), Power 4/5 970/980 (eventually) and
iTunes: (the necessary Windows software to bundle the browser with)."
What if SCO wins?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1433236
The SCO suit isn't the first legal challenge of an open source product
by supposed owners of intellectual property used therein, but it is
arguably the most important one. Linux is rapidly becoming the center
of the Unix programming domain, and the number of companies adopting
Linux and/or developing products for the platform grows by the day.
Billions of dollars are at stake, as an entire industry has arisen
around an operating system that ...
India urged to take 'Open source' road
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1733244
In an ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software,
experts of open source software today said India must move towards
adopting open source as it is affordable.
HP's Linux Laptops Prove Popular
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1631204
NZheretic writes "Demand for the low-cost PCs, available in Thailand,
is overwhelming."
Servers to show modest growth
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1651255
Server sales are expected to return to modest growth by 2004 because
of wider use of Linux and Windows, but the increase won't be enough to
carry the bruised market to the level of its glory years of early 2000,
IDC research shows.
Remote tool runs Mac and Linux clients
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1618212
Management tool vendor Vector Networks last week announced a new
version of its remote-control module to support Linux and Macintosh
clients as well as Windows. The move means that administrators can now
manage a wider range of desktop clients from a single console.
Is Global Linux IBM's Holy Grail?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1558236
IBM is not the only company investing heavily in Linux' future, but
Bill Claybrook, research director at Aberdeen Group, told the
E-Commerce Times that it may be the one to beat before too long.
ESR seeks information on nullifying of Unix trade secrets
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1530222
Well-known open source advocate Eric S. Raymond has set up a web page
to seek information about how Unix trade secrets have been legally
nullified.
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Squid Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5ffb/
Interests: Tempt me.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5c37/
Interests: I'm blogging this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ef3/
Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5f0b/
Gadgets: Yes Solstice
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6004/
Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5f21/
Computing: Ideazon Zboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/
Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
Tshirts: fork agent smith
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f84/
Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f3c/
Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f79/
Cube Goodies: Midnight blue 'geek.' glass
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/5f01/
Tshirts: M.A.D.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5e8f/
Gadgets: USB Digital Voice Recorder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ec3/
Caffeine: ThinkGeek 'Best Of' Caffeine Sampler v2.5
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/5f35/
Caffeine: Case O' Cricket Cola
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/5f6b/
Sourceforge
OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278737
OggCarton is a cross-platform CD ripper, database, and web server for
Ogg and MP3 files. OggCarton needs no external database or web server.
With this release, the OggCarton Home Jukebox software moves from the
alpha to the beta stage. Accordingly, binaries and installers for
Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are now available for those who prefer to
not roll their own. Full source is still available for those who do.
Enjoy!
Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278739
Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very
portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and
extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John
Ousterhout. The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases
of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third
patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 Release Announcement May 20,
2003 The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the
Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch
release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. More details can be found below. We would like
to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and
patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and
eliminate problems in the core. Where to get the new releases:
------------------------------ Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 sources are freely
available as open source from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html This web page also contains
additional information about the releases, including new features and
notes about installing and compiling the releases. Sources are always
available from the Tcl SourceForge project's file distribution area:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 Windows,
Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from:
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl For additional information:
--------------------------- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web
site: http://www.tcl.tk/ This site contains a variety of information
about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl
development tools, and much more. Thank you for your contributions:
--------------------------------- As usual, this release includes
contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these
contributors at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.2:
-------------------------------------- The following were the main
changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. A complete list can be found in the changes
file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is
also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it
primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below
are only the most notable changes. * Correct case-insensitive unicode
string comparison in Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp * Corrected loading of
tclpip8x.dll on Win9x * Correct Tcl_SubstObj handling of \x00 bytes *
Correct wide int issues in 'format' * Remove assumption that file times
and longs are the same size * Allow Tcl to differentiate between
reparse points which are symlinks and mounted drives on Windows * Bad
command count on TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE * Store pointers to notifier
funcs in a struct to work around some platform linker issues * Load
correct (non-)debug dll for dde or registry * Fixing ObjMakeUpvar's
lookup algorithm for the created local variable * Make sure that
tclWideIntType is defined and somewhat sensible everywhere * Corrected
inconsistent results of [string is integer] observed on systems where
sizeof(long) != sizeof(int) * Substantial changes to the Windows clock
synch phase-locked loop in a quest for improved loop stability * Made
changes so that the "wideInt" Tcl_ObjType is defined on all platforms,
even those where TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG is defined. Also made the
Tcl_Value struct have a wideValue field on all platforms. Potential
incompatibility for TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG platforms because that struct
changes size *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** * Catch any errors
returned by the Windows functions handling TLS ASAP instead of waiting
to get some mysterious crash later on due to bogus pointers * Correct
'glob -path {[tcl]} *', where leading special character instead lists
files in '/'. Bug only occurs on Windows where '\' is also a directory
separator. * Fixed memory leak in threaded allocator on Windows caused
by treating cachePtr as a TLS index * Ensure cd is thread-safe *
Correct mem leak on closing a Windows serial port * Prevent string
repeat crash when overflow sizes were given * Worked around the issue
of realpath() not being thread-safe on Mac OS X by defining NO_REALPATH
for threaded builds on Mac OS X * Correct handling of the gb2312
encoding by making it an alias of the euc-cn encoding and creating a
gb2312-raw encoding for the original. Most uses of gb2312 really mean
euc-cn. * Corrected another putenv() copy behavior problem when
compiling on Windows and using Microsoft's runtime * Stop buttons from
being very wide when a tk_messageBox has a lot of content on Unix *
Fixed crash in [winfo server] on Mac OS X * Correct compound button
display in the disabled state * Correct crash when generating
postscript for a single-line polygon (point) with no color * Updated
French message catalog * Use gb2312-raw as the alias for gb2312*
charset fonts on unix -- Tcl Core Team and Maintainers Jeff Hobbs, Tcl
Core Release Manager
SCons 0.14 adds Java support, Autoconf-like functionality
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279029
SCons alpha release 0.14 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). This release most notably adds support for Java builds (javac,
javah, rmic and jar), and adds integrated Autoconf-like functionality
for finding #include files and libraries. This release also contains
significant performance improvements from previous releases. IMPORTANT:
Release 0.14 contains the following interface changes: - Tool
specifications no longer take a "platform" argument. - Emitter
functions in Builders are now passed Node objects, not strings, for all
targets and sources. - New TargetSignatures() and SourceSignatures()
functions have been added to replace SetBuildSignatureType() and
SetContentSignatureType(). - The Export() function and the exported
variables argument of SConscript() now search for variables using the
same rules as Python: local first, then global. - The SetJobs() and
GetJobs() functions have been deprecated in favor of using
SetOption('num_jobs', num) and GetOption('num_jobs'). - Callable
expansions of construction variables in a command line now take a
fourth "for_signature" argument that is set when the expansion is being
called to generate a build signature. - Construction variables for
building a target are now frozen when the Builder is called; later
changes to the Environment do not necessarily affect how the target is
build. See the release notes for more information about these changes.
This release adds the following features: - Support for the Java tools
javac, javah, rmic and jar has been added. - A Configure() function has
been added that supports a lot of functionality similar to Autoconf. -
A new PLATFORM construction variable stores a string representing the
platform on which SCons is being run. - Dependencies may now be
specified on in-core Python values. - Help text can now be sorted
arbitrarily. - New $TARGET and $SOURCE attributes: ".posix" expands to
a path name with forward slashes as separators, even on Win32 systems;
".srcpath" expands to a path to the source of a file in a BuildDir;
".srcdir" expands to a path to the BuildDir itself. - A new clear()
method resets a Node's state for re-use by continuous integration build
interfaces. - Support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to
PDF files has been added. - A stand-alone "Alias" function has been
added. - Import('*') will now import everything that's been Export()ed.
- New SetOption() and GetOption() functions support setting and
fetching various command-line options within an SConscript file. - The
Tool() function now adds tool names to a $TOOLS variable, which may be
used to examine what tools are available. - The C preprocessor
"#import" statement is now supported. - Newly-built .dll files can now
be registered with the Windows registry using regsvr32. - An IDL
scanner has been added. - A builder for Windows type library (.tlb)
files from IDL files. The following fixes have been added: - Cygwin
fixes: Use the .dll extension for shared libraries; don't use -fPIC
when compiling shared libraries; use 'rm' to remove files; use MSVC '@'
syntax for linking long command-lines. - The SYSTEMROOT environment
variable on Win32 systems is now automatically propagated to the
execution ENV environment. - Remote CVS file names are now checked out
using Posix-style path names. - Trying to expand an out-of-range
subscript for a construction variable like $TARGETS or $SOURCES now
interpolates the null string. - SCons now correctly links or duplicates
files in subsidiary BuildDir() directories. - SCons now reports
"Cleaning targets ..." when the -c option is used. - The "Entering
directory" message now quotes the directory name exactly like Make
does. - Export() now works correctly for local Python variables, and
can accept a dictionary as an argument. - PDB files now get put in a
BuildDir() correctly. Performance has been improved as follows: -
Unnecessary redundant signature calculations for command lines and
Nodes have been eliminated. Development tests suggest this may speed up
builds up to 30% or more.
Python 2.2.3 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279300
The first and hopefully only release candidate for Python 2.2.3 is now
out. See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details. We expect Python
2.2.3 final to be released within a week of this announcement.
DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279457
Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from
previous releases.
TuxTyping 1.5.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=277737
After over a year of development with no releases, we are pleased to
present Tux Typing 2 "Preview" release. Most of the internals have been
rewritten with a focus on extensibility and internationalization.
Creating a language pack is now as simple as creating a file for
translations (lang.po file), maybe finding a font [1], setting up how
the keyboard maps to the characters [2], and finally creating some word
lists. TuxTyping is an educational typing tutorial game for children
starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. It is graphical and requires SDL. It
is free software copyrighted under the Gnu GPL. There is a new style of
game "Comet Zap" and the start of tutor components with the new
"Practice" mode. We really look forward to getting feedback about what
parents/teachers/students/kids think about the new work. This release
has a few rough edges, but we feel that it is time to let the world see
what has been happening with Tux Typing. We have forums, mailing lists,
and most importantly windows and linux builds are available at
http://tuxtype.sf.net We are already hard at work at 1.5.1 and hope to
have it released soon making it even easier for translators and users!
Thanks, Jesse Andrews - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Calvin Arndt -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Notes: [1] We are using a font that has support
for many languages (Dansk, English, French, Spanish, ...) So if the
included font works with your language, you don't need to find a new
font. [2] for instance in the default (English) language pack, we set
up the game so if the student presses 'A' or 'a' it both works for "A".
JGraph Geneva (v2.1.1) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275839
JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly
documented open-source graph component available for Java. This release
(Geneva) includes minor changes: bean property methods and empty
constructor added to ConnectionSet for XMLEncoding, added Null-Check to
isCellEditable, fixed shared points bug in DefaultEdge, disable
autosize during in-place edit.
JGraphpad Salamance (v2.1.1 RC3) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276899
JGraphpad is the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML,
Drag and Drop and much more. This release (Salamance) offers full
TikiWiki integration, remote diagrams and libraries, custom cell
properties, overview with panner, right-button panning, accepts files,
urls, images and text via clipboard/drag and drop, exports GXL to
clipboard, new graph explorer tool with automatic layout, enhanced GXL
import, image export, and major and minor bug fixes, such as incorrect
cell order after grouping, slow painting and Mac OS X, and status bar
not working.
AOLserver 4.0 beta 6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276881
Sixth beta release for AOLserver 4.0. Detailed information about the
bugs fixed in this release can be found in the release notes on the
files download page. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled,
massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale,
dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database
integration and a dynamic page scripting language.
ScummVM 0.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276225
Five months after our last release, 0.3.0b, and over 2500 CVS
commits/adds later, the ScummVM team proudly presents ScummVM 0.4.0.
The source code, as well as binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
PocketPC, Solaris and PalmOS are already available at our download page
. Other binaries for MorphOS, Dreamcast and others, will follow
shortly. ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games,
used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of
The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter
for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. To get an overview of what is new in 0.4.0,
please consult our release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=158604 We hope
you will enjoy the best ScummVM ever! The ScummVM Team
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