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Slashdot
Down and Out in White-Collar America
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2243218
XorNand writes "Fortune has a [0]pretty sobering article on the
employment situation for white-collar workers. By many accounts, we've
never had it harder--the slump in the 80's primarily hit blue-collar
workers. While bleak, things might be inching towards the light; as my
econ professor says, jobs are the last thing to recover after a
recession."
Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/careers/articles/0,15114,457284,00.html
Remember The Wizard?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2235212
trotski writes "I remember when I saw The Wizard as a kid, I thought it
was the perfect movie. X-entertainment has released a [0]review through
the eyes of geek of this classic. Few movies have ever dwelled in pits
of infamy quite so deep as The Wizard, Nintendo's 100-minute video game
commercial that vaguely masqueraded as a real movie. The Wizard
should've been able to keep kids well into their late teens interested,
but the entire thing goes down the tubes once you hear the villainous
cool kid's pickup line: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." The site
includes video clips of this and other great moments in the movie."
There's also a [1]just-the-facts plot review of this timeless classic,
at the Onion.
Links
0. http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/index.html
1. http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3625/fttf3625.html
Cable TV Ruins Bhutan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2226227
Christ-on-a-bike writes "This article in The Guardian discusses the
[0]negative impact of TV on the population of [1]Bhutan. It has only
been legal there for four years. Violence, crime and drug use are on
the up. Was this inevitable, and what does it say about the influence
of TV on Western cultures?" Our [2]previous story about Bhutan talks
about the radical impact of television, but without as much emphasis on
the darker side.
Links
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,975769,00.html
1. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bt.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/0235220&tid=129
Roswell Declassified
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2038251
[0]John3 writes "Scotland may be the [1]most popular UFO destination on
the planet, but Roswell, New Mexico is the old favorite for government
conspiracy buffs who believe the US government has been hiding proof of
an [2]alien spacecraft crash in 1947. [3]Popular Mechanics has recently
gained access to [4]de-classified documents from the Roswell military
base, and they contain no entries of unusual events or activity. I
wonder if the release of these documents will deter the [5]conspiracy
theorists?"
Links
0. mailto:john3@ c o r n e l l s . c om
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/24/157210&tid=133
2. http://www.alienresistance.org/roswell1947ufocrash.htm
3. http://www.popularmechanics.com/
4.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/military/2003/6/roswell_declassified//index.phtml
5. http://www.worldofthestrange.com/topics/roswell_1947_incident.htm
The Buttocks Have It
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2027209
An anonymous reader writes "From this ZDNET article: Future hijackers
may find that their [0]buttocks betray them, if UK defense firm Qinetiq
has its way. The company has developed a smart chair stashed with a
thicket of seat sensors, according to [1]New Scientist magazine this
week. The same seats could also be used to warn cabin staff of illness
among the passengers, potentially alleviating the risk of deep vein
thrombosis or DVT."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1017119.html
1. http://www.newscientist.com/
Maintaining Large Linux Clusters
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2013208
pompousjerk writes "A paper landed on [0]arXiv.org on Friday titled
[1]Installing, Running and Maintaining Large Linux Clusters at CERN
[[2]PDF]. The paper discusses the management of the 1000+ Linux nodes,
upgrading from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.3, securely installing over the
network, and more. They're doing this in preparation for [3]Large
Hadron Collider-class computation."
Links
0. http://arxiv.org/
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0306058
2. http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0306/0306058.pdf
3. http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/general/gen_info.htm
The Bug by Ellen Ullman
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/198241
[0]Never Rock Fila writes "On the front page of tomorrow's [1]New York
Times Book Review, a slightly breathless but overdue enthusiastic
[1]review of Ellen Ullman's new novel, [2]The Bug. The review
acknowledges that 'Ullman has already established herself as an
indispensable voice out of the world of technology' -- if you haven't
read her first book, a memoir, [3]Close to the Machine, read that too
-- and it's nice to see a mainstream publication like the Times, the
gold standard of book reviews as I understand it, giving such prominent
and positive attention to a novel by a former 'software engineer'
that's all about getting inside the mind of a programmer, even
concluding 'If more contemporary novels delivered news this relevant
and wise they'd have to stop declaring the death of the novel.' The
reviewer, one Benjamin Anastas, has the chops to develop a sustained
comparison to Mary Shelley, to legitimately place the 1984 computer
programmers at the center of the novel among 'all the best characters
in fiction,' and to declare the book 'thrilling and intellectually
fearless.'"
Links
0. http://neverrockfila at hotmail.com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15ANASTAT.html
2.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385508603/qid=1055598805/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-4969003-2894300?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
3.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863328/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-4969003-2894300?v=glance&s=books
Mars and the History of Antacids
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/185245
An anonymous reader writes "NASA's [0]retrospective today on the 1976
Mars Viking mission describes the first probe to orbit another planet,
and the first biology experiments based on soil sampling. Program
managers maintained a dynamic 'worry list', which included a 1970's
computer that opened like a wireframe book. The all-important biology
experiments could not be tested prior to launch, then lightning struck
the probe components (at Kennedy's Explosive Safe Area Building)."
Links
0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article495.html
CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1724243
[0]Jay Langhurst writes "As the [1]AP reported Friday, if you filed a
claim before March 3, 2003 [2]online or otherwise you'll be getting a
gift in the mail from those monopolistic music companies in the form of
a check for about $13!"
Links
0. http://www.creighton.edu/~jaypl
1. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=6&u=/ap/cd_settlement
2. http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
Brazil Mandates Shift to Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1422212
[0]truthsearch writes "[1]LinuxToday is [2]reporting news and a
response about Brazil making Open Source mandatory for 80% of all
computers in state institutions and businesses, setting up a 'Chamber
for the Implementation of Software Libre.'" This is a big win for
Linux, but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to
support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not
always be an open source product.
Links
0. http://msversus.webhop.net
1. http://linuxtoday.com/
2. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-13-009-26-OS-LL-PB
Freshmeat
absence 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126082/
absence is a calendar tool for keeping track of people (but could be
adapted for any other object) on a daily basis. It is meant to replace
that ubiquitous whiteboard in the office of the boss. You know the one,
where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and
vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as
blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is
not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity
that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month
to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to
produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG).
Ajaqs 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126071/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
related to products and services.
Amrita VPN 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126063/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the
GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and
requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong
encryption and authentication.
Artima SuiteRunner 1.0 Beta 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126042/
Artima SuiteRunner is a testing toolkit for Java that can be used with
JUnit to run existing JUnit test suites, or standalone to create unit
and conformance tests for Java APIs. The advantages it offers to JUnit
users include reporters, run paths, and recipe files.
Bauk 1.77 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126092/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems.
It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and
ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts,
URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic
method, directory browsing, server hostname aliases, network traffic
per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas,
access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and
location, a multiprocess architecture, flexibility, and much more.
bes-cms 0.3-cvs
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125725/
bes-cms is a multiuser Content Management System. It is also an
application server; you can embed bes-cms in bes-cms just by creating a
user. It comes with four default themes.
Bontmia 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125995/
Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers
of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a
complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed
files take up space when generating snapshots because of the use of
hard links. Remote access is secure by using SSH. Only changes are
transferred, which makes for a fast backup.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126090/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to
create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def)
which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be
also used to track installations and create packages of the installed
files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this
mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable)
list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux,
Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.
Date::Manip 5.40.epa1 (Unofficial)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126080/
Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations
such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time
from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The
library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think
of rather than those operations used routinely by computers.
deadline A
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126060/
deadline shows you the time remaining until the deadline of your most
important project.
Enca 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126069/
Enca detects the encoding of text files, on the basis of knowledge of
their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, allowing
you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports
most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode
variants, independently on language.
Gambas 0.58 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126089/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to
use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
GBuffy 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126053/
GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the
number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also
highlight the mailboxes that have new mail, and you can display the
message headers by pressing mouse button one on a mailbox. GBuffy is
currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This
version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes, as well
as displaying X-Face headers.
Gnu Aqua Special Edition 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126048/
Gnu Aqua Special Edition is a theme based on gnububble and bluebubble,
with ideas from AquaGraphite and AquaLightBlue. It is meant to replace
all of them by concentrating on the strength of some and eliminating
the weakness of others.
IceWM 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126084/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and
consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and
Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
JXPath 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126077/
JXPath is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like
event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document
evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser
lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function
libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with
DOM.
Kanatest 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126093/
Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three
drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows
random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent
in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.
Libvc 003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126044/
Libvc is a vCard library which was written using 'flex' and 'bison'. It
handles scanning a vCard file, parsing the vCard file into a data
storage structure, manipulating the data storage structure, and writing
the structure back to a file. It was originally written for 'rolo', but
has been split off for general use.
mailgraph 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126068/
Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix
that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of
received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.
MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.10.0 for Linux 2.4.21 (Linux 2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126087/
MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux
cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a
single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains
adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven
resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration.
In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive
parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so
that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their
portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal
performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.
NetBeans IDE 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126046/
NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in Java. It supports
development in Java, and support for other languages can be added. The
whole IDE is built around a core framework with APIs, and features are
implemented in the form of plugin modules. This clean, modular
architecture makes NetBeans a good platform for building development
tools and custom IDEs.
OBit 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126062/
OBit is an orbit-like theme.
Partition Image 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126043/
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility similar to Symantec's Ghost.
This uility saves partitions in the EXT2, Reiserfs, NTFS, HPFS, FAT16,
and FAT32 file system formats to an image file. The image file can be
compressed with gzip or bzip2 in order to save disk space, and it can
be split in order to fit onto a series of floppy disks. This program
can be useful for backup purposes. A boot/root disk is also provided,
allowing you to run Partition Image without Linux installed on the hard
disk.
peksystray 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126029/
peksystray is a notification area (system tray) dockapp. It uses the
freedesktop.org protocol, is similar to GNOME's Notification Area
applet, and works with the pekwm harbour, the Window Maker dock, and
the AfterStep wharf.
PhonoRipper 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126061/
PhonoRipper aims to be an easy-to-handle all-in-one GUI tool for
creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records. The main
parts are just graphical frontends to well-known commandline programs,
so some dependencies must be fulfilled to run PhonoRipper. English and
German versions are available.
Projet free-EOS 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125812/
free-EOS (Espace Ouvert de Services) is a project which aims to
distribute and document a free and open technical solution for
Multi-media Space. It is implemented with a Linux-based server and
workstations that run either Windows, Linux, or MacOS. It is meant to
be like the French software, Espaces Publics Numériques. It
targets environments that are managed by organizers that do not have
significant technical competency. It acts like an adaptation of the SME
Server solution that is specifically dedicated to French-speaking
environments.
Proxy-applet 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126040/
Proxy-applet is a GNOME tray applet for changing your network proxy
configuration with a single click, in a manner similar to Galeon 1.x.
pygame 1.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126081/
Pygame is a set of Python extension modules designed for writing games.
The core of pygame is wrapped on top of the SDL library.
Python SAP RFC module 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126054/
The Python SAP RFC module enables programming remote function calls
from SAP ERP systems. It enables SAP-compatible data definitions in
Python (both simple and complex datatypes like structures and internal
tables can be defined from within Python and manipulated like normal
Python datatypes) and features transparent value conversion from SAP to
Python and vice versa. It needs the SAP librfc shared library.
Quark 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126056/
Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Gstreamer to play music. It
features a front-end that sits in your system tray.
sa-exim-stats 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126073/
sa-exim-stats generates spam/mail statistics from an sa-exim logfile.
sa-exim is a patch for Exim which integrates SpamAssassin into Exim.
The script's output includes: total spam messages, total clean
messages, spam percentage, top n spam/clean/overal recipients. The
script is designed so that it doesn't have to scan the entire logfile
everytime it is run (status can be saved to a file or in a MySQL
database). It can create and update a RRD database, and some basic PHP
pages to display the graphs are included.
SiEd 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126078/
SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow
editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users
with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as what existing editors there
are do not take full advantage of the keyboard.
Skaringa r2p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126058/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting
a wide range of types, and speed.
The Gimp 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126091/
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a
simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an
online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a
image format converter, etc.
The HTML Inclusion Tool 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125984/
The HTML Inclusion Tool is a simple but powerful preprocessor for HTML
pages that can run as a CGI application or a standalone tool. It is
intended to be used with HTML, but can be used to process any kind of
textual data. It features access to environment variables, file
inclusion, string mainpulation functions, and a Berkley DB interface.
TopLight 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126051/
TopLight is designed to aid lighting designers and electricians in the
theatre. It facilitates the quick setup of pipes and whole theatres,
auto-numbering of circuits, auto-patching, and other things you don't
want do but have to.
Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126057/
Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols (TECP) is a tutorial
and visualization environment for public key cryptography. It is
intended for students of cryptography courses and can be used to
improve understanding of modular arithmetic-based public key
algorithms, and for lecturers who want to add some life to boring
blackboard-and-chalk presentations about the topic.
viPlugin 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126076/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors
that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
Walker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126075/
Walker is a Python script that updates entire Web sites. It matches the
remote site to your local copy using FTP. Once you set it up, it will
upload any files that have changed in size, delete any remote files you
have deleted locally, and create any remote dirs you have added
locally. It will never delete a remote directory. Walker allows you to
update your entire site by going online and then running one command in
a terminal. It can be run silently, or with minimal messages to
indicate progress, or in a verbose mode that reports all actions taken.
WebUserPrefs 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126065/
WebUserPrefs is a Web-based editor for SpamAssassin user preferences.
It is written in PHP and supports whitelist and blacklist directives,
as well as others through a simple plugin architecture.
WordNet-Similarity 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126047/
WordNet-Similarity is a collection of Perl modules for the WordNet
system. They are designed as object classes with methods that take two
word senses as input and return the semantic relatedness of these word
senses.
wxBase 2.4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126096/
wxBase contains most of the non-GUI classes from the wxWindows
cross-platform C++ framework. There are 2 categories: generally useful
portable code (date/time handling, command line parsing, regular
expression support) and wrappers for the OS objects (files,
directories, sockets, threads, etc.) allowing you to write portable
programs easily.
YASP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126095/
YASP is a simple and open protocol for building networks with small
microcontrollers. It is designed to have a small footprint for easy
implementation with minimal hardware resources, but without sacrifice
advanced features and future growth. The protocol scalability is
implemented using variable length fields. The physical layer use the
NRZ encoding as in RS-232, but using dominant and recessive bus states
to provide a reliable way to detect collisions.
Newsforge Reports
Meet free software developers at LinuxTag
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/130256
- by Martin Schulze - More than thirty Free Software-oriented projects
will demonstrate their work at the upcoming LinuxTag in Karlsruhe,
Germany, taking place from July 10th to 13th. With the presence of so
many projects and developers this will essentially be a large Free
Software developers meeting, but other visitors will benefit from it as
well.
Linux Advisory Watch - June 13th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1114229
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for the
Linux kernel, eterm, xaos, ethereal, atftp, gnocatan, nethack, slashem,
cupsys, mod_php, zlib, kon2, gzip, KDE, hanterm, pptpd, cups, and lv.
The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, OpenPKG,
RedHat, SuSE, Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog.
Real-time alerting with Snort, part 2 of 3
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1738243
- by Jack Koziol - Last time we introduced some issues to consider when
implementing real-time alerting with Snort. Once you've considered the
issues, it's time to put your planning into practice. Today we'll talk
about how to use swatch to handle alerts. Next time we'll cover setting
up distributed three-tier alerting.
Newsforge Newsvac
Mozilla on speed: Firebird 0.6
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2142256
Adam Doxtater writes "We normally don't review web browsers, but what
better topic for discussion is there? Most of us use browsers every day
of our lives and, if you're like me, rely on them to do your job...
Personally, I use Mozilla for 98% of my work and play. It blows all
other browsers away in stability and features if you ask me. Opera is
the only one that comes close to Mozilla in speed and features, but it
seems too bulky to me for some ...
SCO could act Monday in IBM Unix case
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1358240
SCO Group's next move in its legal wrestling match with IBM likely will
come Monday, possibly in the form of a request that a judge halt Big
Blue's Unix product sales.
Are Open Source Databases Following in Linux' Footsteps?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1351225
At a partnership announcement with Dell Computer in New York City back
in April, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stood alongside his fellow CEO
Michael Dell and discussed how the Linux open source operating system
was stealing market share from Microsoft's Windows products.
PeopleSoft sues Oracle after all
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1346230
The lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court calls for an
injunction against Oracle in pursuing its $5.1 billion offer for
PeopleSoft. This move contradicts earlier reports from Oracle that
PeopleSoft would not pursue a court battle. Such a change of heart is
to be expected in what is a very fluid situation between the two
companies and PeopleSoft's own acquisition target J.D. Edwards.
McNealy takes free shots at Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1344247
SCOTT MCNEALY didn't hesitate to slam Microsoft during his keynote
address yesterday morning. His humorous and cutting remarks about the
Vole were well received by thousands of conference-goers who attended
JavaOne.
SCO Stock Jumps 24% as Showdown With Big Blue Looms
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1341218
Shares in Utah's SCO Group soared 24 percent Friday as investors
anticipated passage of a deadline for resolution of the company's $1
billion lawsuit against IBM. With both parties declaring they will
stand firm in the dispute over use of the Linux operating system, the
Lindon-based SCO's shares peaked at $11.95 before closing at $11.21
Friday -- up $2.16 from Thursday's trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Oracle beats estimates, looks for good year ahead
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1321229
Oracle today released fourth quarter and full year results that put the
software giant well ahead of its own projections, as well as those of
analysts. (And Oracle attributes some of this gorwth ot its adoption of
Linux.)
No Concession From I.B.M. in Linux Fight
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1317215
I.B.M. said yesterday that it had no intention of reaching a quick
settlement with the SCO Group, a small company based in Lindon, Utah,
in a legal fight that is causing concern among the many corporations
that use the increasingly popular Linux operating system to handle some
computing chores. (free registration required)
Microsoft Ceases Development On Internet Explorer For Mac
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1312212
The news has swept the tech world: Microsoft will no longer develop
Internet Explorer for the Mac. According to MacUser UK, the company
says it will continue to support the existing release, and MacCentral
is reporting that one final release will be available soon, and that
version 5 will be supported with maintenance releases.
SCO may expand Linux case soon
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/137236
The SCO Group soon may open another front in its legal battle against
Linux by filing suit against a major hardware manufacturer in North
America, a company executive said.
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Sourceforge
OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700
LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++
for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to
solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some
classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors
and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download --------
You can get this and previous releases from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
-------- For more information please visit our homepage:
http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details
about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728
Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair
of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel
Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger
Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel,
Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger,
Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis,
Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel
Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger
Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg
Zieren
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
"custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Download it:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75
phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990
phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content
management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version
0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing
and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking
for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the
latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net.
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content
on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS
X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved
Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network
audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic
filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
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