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Slashdot
Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0223217
For those who say design cannot take place through the process of
selection, behold: [0]Darwinian Poetry. Cull the prosaic or nonsensical
snippets of text, reinforce the rest, and, slowly... genius? Guess
we'll find out. Yes, the poems actually [1]have sex.
Links
0. http://www.codeasart.com/poetry/darwin.html
1. http://www.codeasart.com/poetry/how_it_works.html
Flash Mobs: Peaceable Assembly for Spontaneous Fun
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0146250
Schmendr1ck writes "The [0]Orlando Sentinel is carrying a story on the
growing trend of 'creating a crowd on a moment's notice for no
particular reason' knows as a [1]flash mob. Recent flash mobs
(sometimes hundreds of people) have wandered into into an upscale NYC
shoe store acting like confused tourists from Maryland, gathered at the
Hyatt near Grand Central Station for 15 seconds of spontaneous
applause, and converged on the Macy's carpet department to debate the
quality of the rugs for sale. Check [2] cheesebikini? for pictures and
info on past mobs, as well as links to sites that organize these
events. Sounds like a fun, harmless, and Constitutionally-protected way
of blowing off a little steam."
Links
0. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
1.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-livmobbing072403jul24,0,3404620.story
2. http://www.cheesebikini.com/
Cringely Proposes a Music Sharing Alternative
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0041208
[0]WEFUNK writes "The I, Cringely 'Pulpit' column at [1]PBS presents an
interesting idea for a new business model to take on the RIAA. He
suggests that a publicly traded company could legally and profitably
buy a single copy of each record which could then be freely copied and
listened to by its shareholders under fair use. His [2]'Snapster' (Son
of Napster) proposal is essentially a digital music co-op that would
let shareholders/consumers bring copyrighted material into a
quasi-public domain. While fair use and the public domain continue to
be lost in our courts and congresses, maybe the capital markets will
offer an alternative." While a neat idea, it's doubtful that it'll ever
be implemented. Still, it's a good read.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=471506
1. http://www.pbs.org/
2. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030724.html
Slashback: Railing, Blocking, Scoffing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2059217
Slashback tonight brings you more information on homemade railguns, the
future history of SCO (seen from the past), one website's response to
alleged RIAA mendacity, a legal victory for famous web jerk Tucker Max,
and more -- read on for the details.
Amphibious RVing for the Masses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1237246
[0]Diesel Dave writes "from the this ain't your grandma's amphi-mobile
dept: Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International, LLC, is now
marketing their [1]TerraWind line of combination Motor Coach / Yachts.
Thats right, a 42 foot Luxury RV you can take to, or in, the lake! With
a not exactly cheap pricetag of $850K+, included is the [2]full rigging
of luxury home features: Granite countertops, marble floors, teak
cabinetry, tracking satellite dish, and 42" plasma TV. Oh and don't
forget the swim deck. If I can get one with an ocean rated hull,
machine gun turrets, and [3]SVO conversion, I'll have my own portable
[4]Sealand. : ) A (temporary) mirror of the site is [5]here to lessen
the / . effect."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.terrawind.com/
2. http://www.terrawind.com/Interiorphoto.htm
3. http://www.greasel.com/
4. http://www.sealandgov.com/
5. http://www.linkscape.net/www.terrawind.com/
Disney to Make Movies Available Online
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/2151200
musiholic writes "[0]Disney has [1]cut a deal with [2]Movielink to make
various Disney (and Disney subsidary) films available for 30-day paid
downloads. Users can watch the film an unlimited amount of times before
the movie expires. The movies requre Real Player or WMP."
Links
0. http://www.disney.com/
1.
http://news.google.com/url?q=http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/storyasp%3Fguid%3D%257BC6EBCF4D-D7B7-4FAA-8001-B0A0B0B4630C%257D%26siteid%3Dgoogle%26dist%3Dgoogle
2. http://movielink.com/
RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1741238
[0]cecil36 writes "In a follow-up to the [1]subpoena silliness by the
RIAA, the Associated Press is now reporting that the RIAA is [2]now
issuing subpoenas to family members of suspected online music
swappers."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2236234&tid=141
2.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DOWNLOADING_MUSIC?SITE=OHCLE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1734255
[0]Sridhar writes "SCO's legal threats have prompted Gartner Group to
recommend that companies delay deployment of critical Linux
applications, determine "whether Unix or Windows will provide functions
equivalent to those of Linux deployments", and [1]take a "go-slow"
approach to Linux in high-value or mission-critical production
systems."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31938.html
Open Source/Proprietary - An Issue of Two Codebases?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0612200
g00mba_b0y asks: "For the past year I and a small team of developers
have been working on an open source targeted, general business
application framework. I say targeted because we have not yet selected
a licensing model and placed the code in the public domain (we are
working on some specific functional targets). I recently demonstrated
the framework to a potential client who liked what they saw, and wants
to use the software for their flagship product. In addition, they want
to hire me to further the development of the framework as well as
participate in the development. The sticking point is the structure of
the legal agreement. I'm really interested in two things: the
experiences of developers who are doing something like this (how did
you address the IP issues); and links to any information on this
subject."
Perl 6 Essentials
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1645236
[0]JayBonci writes "It may come as a surprise that within the pages of
'Perl 6 Essentials' lies what could be two books, despite its length.
If not for lack of cover space, it could easily bear the names "Perl6
for Perl5 programmers" and "Parrot in a Nutshell". Both topics are
concise and clearly covered, despite their relatively different
audience." Read on for the rest of Jay's review.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freshmeat
7 1.0 (Color)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130218/
7 is a theme built around the number 7 on a telephone keypad.
antinat 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130311/
Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux
supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name
resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and
modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.
AstaStuSito 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130402/
AstaStuSito is a very simple utility, written in the PHP language, that
helps Web site administrators to manage a Web site.
Bid Monkey 1.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130398/
Bid Monkey is a command line tool, written in Perl, created to
automatically place a bid on an eBay auction at the last minute. It
will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic
information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and
the maximum bid to place. Its most unique feature is that it will
automatically determine the auction ending time. All you have to do is
tell it how long before the end of the auction you would like to place
your bid. Bid Monkey will work internationally (eBay.de for example)
due to the fact that any item number can be viewed through any eBay
site.
BitAnarch 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130359/
BitAnarch is a compact BitTorrent client. It is available in three
languages, with full Unicode filename support, newsgroup scanning,
automation, drag-and-drop support, etc.
Buildtool 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130346/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130366/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the
documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser
generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO
EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization
application that dynamically creates visual representation of your
syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your
documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration
with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of
your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.
CaLStats 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130300/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer
availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks
active or inactive computers.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130372/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available
on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac
OS X platform.
Crash Core Analysis Suite 3.6-0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130392/
The Crash Core Analysis Suite utility is a self-contained tool, loosely
based on the SVR4 crash command but completely merged with gdb, thereby
combining the kernel-specific nature of crash with the source level
debugging capabilities of gdb. The utility can be used to investigate
live systems, kernel core dumps created from the Kernel Core Dump patch
offered by Mission Critical Linux, and kernel core dumps created from
the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) patch offered by SGI.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130386/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution.
Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to
use desktop.
DIBS 0.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130360/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it
does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own
computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out
your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers
(and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your
area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed
Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
Dolibarr 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130382/
Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM
capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and
can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for
company management.
doublecpp 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130380/
Doublecpp is a preprocessor for C++ that handles a new linguistic
construct for defining branches of a multi-method. The
"right" branch of such a method will be selected dynamically
at run-time according to the actual type of the object on which the
method is invoked, and to the actual type of the first argument: double
dispatch.
dxr3Player 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130374/
dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the
DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD
features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward
playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very
conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds)
to keep video and audio in sync.
ENet beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130310/
ENet is an easy to use, portable UDP networking library providing
features such as connection management, in- order and optionally
reliable packet delivery on multiple channels, packet fragmentation and
reassembly, and congestion avoidance.
Enigmail 0.81.0 (Thunderbird)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130375/
Enigmail is a "plugin" for the mail client of Mozilla and
Netscape 7.x which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by the popular GnuPG software. Enigmail
can encrypt/sign mail when sending, and can decrypt/authenticate
received mail. It can also import/export public keys. Enigmail supports
both the inline PGP format and the PGP/MIME format, which can be used
to encrypt attachments. Enigmail is cross-platform, although binaries
are supplied only for a limited number of platforms. Enigmail uses
inter-process communication to execute GPG to carry out
encryption/authentication.
Ethereal 0.9.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130303/
Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer",
that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network
frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality
packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any
platform.
Firepal 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130345/
Firepal is a simple alumnus management system using PHP and Firebird.
It can be used to manage all alumnus or people in an organization.
Flames 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130328/
Flames are algorithmically-generated images and animations.
MetaCreations incorporated the flame code into Kai's Power Tools (KPT)
version 5 and dubbed it FraxFlame. It was updated in KPT6 and
eventually sold to Corel. It's now available from most retailers under
their procreate brand as KPT Effects.
Fremtris 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130361/
Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It
works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA.
GaimSMS 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130349/
GaimSMS is a gaim plugin which forwards incoming IMs to a SprintPCS
mobile telephone number when the user is idle. There is a possibility
that the plugin will forward SMS messages to users on other networks,
although this hasn't been tested yet. Future releases will hopefully
allow for sending SMS messages to all phones.
Gauche 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130294/
Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy tool
for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native
multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar
to STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte
encodings natively.
gbiff 0.3.0 (GNOME/GTK 2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130337/
gbiff checks for mail periodically, and can display headers when new
mail has arrived. Its supported protocols are Unix mailfile, mh, qmail,
IMAP4, POP3, and APOP. gbiff also supports any ISO-8859 encoding, and
can be compiled and used with or without GNOME.
gdpc 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130336/
gdpc is a tool for visualising the output files of a molecular dynamic
simulation. It can be customized to read almost any input file format
and animate it. It can also be configured to output images of each
frame.
Gherkin 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130315/
Gherkin is a Web-enabled, multi-threaded, centralized security scan
manager that incorporates Nessus vulnerability scanning, DNS and
nmblookup name resolution, and nmap fingerprinting and scanning.
GreenThumb pre 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130391/
GreenThumb is a Java Jabber client applet. It supports SSL, group
chatting, and much more.
High Level Assembly Language 1.54
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130390/
The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced
assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful
assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by
leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and
Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled
by MASM, TASM, or Gas.
Host Grapher 1.0c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130378/
Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide
graphical information for CPU, memory, and processes. There are clients
for Windows, Linux, and Tru64. No socket will be opened on the client,
nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the data.
iptacct 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130355/
iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It
uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely
user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use
in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to
save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD
database.
Jameleon 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130367/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into
features and allows those features to be tied together independently,
creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and
executed against different environments. The goal is to create an
automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that
ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test
script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
jsSnow 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130333/
jsSnow is a port of XSnow to JavaScript. The framerate is
auto-adjusted, and it works for Mozilla, Netscape (>=4), and IE
(>=4).
K8000 Event Language 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130385/
K8000 Event Language (KEL) is a programming environment for Velleman's
K8000 board. It is a compiled language, designed to be fast and
responsive, for controlling and automating processes. It is powered by
the Linux operating system as a multi-threaded application. One
available application is a complete house alarm that can send alerts
through email, SMS, or voice messages. It can also drive devices like
an outside alert lamp or a siren.
Karchiver 3.0.4 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130358/
kArchiver is a KDE utility made to ease working with compressed files.
With kArchiver, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, and other files,
and you can add, remove, or view one or more files with a
multiselection window. Its interface merges with konqueror, allowing
you to view and extract all of your archives within the file manager.
Right-clicking on an archive allows you to extract archives in
background. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It
also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set
of floppies, and wizards that will help you step by step to compile and
install software through kArchiver's interface.
kbarcode 0.1 (KFile Plugin)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130334/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can
be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex
labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode
comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch
import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of
predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many
languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no
problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement
for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN,
UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
KisMAC 0.05d1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130335/
KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into
monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely
invisible and sends no probe requests.
Kroupware 1.0.0 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130325/
Kroupware is a Microsoft Exchange replacement that was commissioned by
the German government. It features email capability, task planning,
calendar scheduling, contacts management, notes keeping and sharing
resources with your co-workers in the group. On the client side, you
can use the following software packages: KMail, KOrganizer,
KAddressbook, or Kitchensync (for Palm sync).
LANforge FIRE & ICE 3.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130387/
The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and
WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to
simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the
injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped,
duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable
command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user
interface.
LibTomMath 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130389/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
LinkChecker 1.8.20 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130340/
With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents for broken links. It
features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy
support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering
rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages.
Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap
graph in GML or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0,
HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.
liteBLOG 1.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130364/
liteBLOG is a blogging system based on PHP and SQLite, a small and fast
database system. Versions prior to 1.1b can only use SQLite, and
versions 1.1b and later utilize the phpBB 2.1 DBAL, allowing use of
MySQL, MySQL4, Postgres, and SQLite.
m23 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130347/
m23 allows systems administrators to install and manage hundreds of
clients. It can partition and format the clients and install and
uninstall thousands of software packages over an existing network. All
management is done with the administration Web interface.
macam 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130338/
Macam is a user space USB Webcam driver, supporting Aiptek, 3com,
Phillips, Creative, Dexxa, DigitalDream, Dolphin Peripherals, IDT,
Intel, Kensington, Lifeview, Logitech, and many other Webcams.
Matrix GL Screensaver 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130383/
Matrix GL Screensaver is a 3D screensaver for Linux (partially for KDE)
based on "The Matrix Reloaded".
mpc 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130351/
mpc (Music Player Command) is a command-line tool for interfacing Music
Player Daemon (MPD). Its features include bash tab completion and the
ability to use the output of other programs as input via piping.
MT News Alpha 6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130327/
MT News is a news script which features posting, deleting, editing,
file uploads, user levels, profiles, and more.
Music Player Daemon 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130354/
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for
playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Flac) and managing playlists. The
design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that
provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it
includes a Web interface, phpMp; a command line tool, mpc; and a dock
app, WMmp. The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal
resource requirements, and to be stable and flexible.
MyClassifieds 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130304/
MyClassifieds is a Perl CGI implementation of online classifieds,
similar to other classifieds or auction sites. It displays all aspects
of the classifieds and creates all of the files for you. Only one file
needs to be edited to specify the categories, colors, template, and a
few other site-specific variables and preferences. The script supports
email and deletion/modification of ads by users, as well as searching
ads, and auto-delete after an admin-specified number of days.
Netjuke 1.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130363/
Artekopia Netjuke is a cross-platform Web-based audio streaming jukebox
powered by PHP 4 and an increasing choice of databases. MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, ASF/WMA, and other music file formats are supported. Artekopia
Netjuke aims to enable small organizations or communities run a private
"mp3.com-like" Web site to access the music they legitimately
own, distribute, or are granted access to. It supports most audio
players, language packs, optional file downloads, media protection
schemes, multi-level security, shared and private playlists, random
playlists, images, etc. It also features an unusual, easy-to-use
installer module to get you started in minutes.
NetOffice 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130371/
NetOffice is an online project management application with team/client
collaboration, user management, multiple access levels, tasks,
projects, and time tracking, task change history, file approval
tracking, notes, client project sites, CRM, and Gantt charts.
O-Zone's EDITor 0.1.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130342/
O-Zone's EDITor is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used
for coding. Its design is based on SSEX, and it aims to be an
integrated IDE.
Papaan 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130395/
Papaan is an XML publishing framework based on Apache Cocoon
specifications. It offers a flexible environment based on the
separation of concerns between content, logic, and style. A centralized
configuration system (sitemap) helps users to create, deploy, and
maintain XML-based applications. It interacts with databases available
to Pear::DB.
par2ls 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130301/
par2ls lists the packets in par2 files, with varying amounts of detail
depending how verbose it is told to be. It also checks the packet MD5
checksum and warns of errors.
phpMp 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130353/
phpMp (PHP Music Player) is a Web interface for Music Player Daemon
(MPD) written in PHP. It's an uncluttered, easy-to-use method of
playing music on a remote computer. It is great for offices and home
entertainment centers.
PVRec 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130381/
PVRec is a simple applet written in Gambas that takes an MPEG-2 stream
from the pvrusb driver for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB and allows you
to simultaneously view (using Mplayer) and record it. You can start and
stop recording independently of viewing and vice versa.
pwdutils 2.3.93 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130379/
pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow
user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these
utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.
PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It
contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, chpasswd, and a daemon for changing
the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The
daemon also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of
where they are stored.
PyHtmlTable 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130365/
PyHtmlTable is a class for Python CGIs to generate HTML tables on the
fly. It allows you to set individual row and cell attributes via
arbitrary dictionaries, and span rows and columns. It autogrows the
table if cells are set outside its initial range. It allows dynamic
insertion of new rows and columns anywhere in the table, and allows
bulk population of table data via arrays to arbitrary locations in the
table. It also provides default cell attributes for tablewide
uniformity and the ability to override these on a cell-by-cell basis.
PyHtmlTable is intended to be a functional equivalent to Table.pm or
Table.php.
qmail-monitor 0.99 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130373/
qmail-monitor is a patch to qmail that offers mail monitoring
(duplication) functionality on both incoming and outgoing SMTP traffic.
the monitor ruleset is intuitive and allows the administrator to make
changes without restarting the server processes.
RedLeaf 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130320/
RedLeaf is simple mailing list management software. If you interested
in sending periodic email messages to a group of opt-in subscribers
(people who are interested enough to subscribe to your newsletter),
then it will help you maintain that list.
ROX-Filer 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130344/
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full
drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly
configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin
frequently used files to the desktop background.
RUBiS 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130397/
RUBiS is an auction site modeled after eBay.com used to benchmark
e-commerce Web site technologies. It is currently used to evaluate
design patterns, application servers, and communication layers
scalability. Several implementations using PHP, Servlets, Enterprise
JavaBeans (EB BMP, EB CMP, MDB, SB, EJB 2.0 CMP, Session Façade,
etc.) are already available and new versions for JDO and .Net are
currently developed.
Sesame 0.92 (Sesame Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130329/
Sesame is an Open Source RDF Schema-based repository and querying
facility. It is a scalable, modular architecture for persistent storage
and querying of RDF and RDF Schema. It supports two query languages
(RQL and RDQL), and can use main memory or PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle
9i databases for storage.
SmartIRC 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130308/
SmartIRC is a PHP class for communication with IRC networks that
conforms to the RFC 2812 (IRC Protocol). It's an API that handles all
IRC protocol messages. It is designed for creating IRC bots, chatrooms,
and showing IRC related info on Web pages.
snortalog 2.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130357/
Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making
it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate
charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort,
and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort
alerts.
sysstat 4.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130400/
The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for
Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity
information. This information can also be saved in a system activity
file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics
and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported
by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related
activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space
utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics,
among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
System-Down::Rescue 1.0pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130341/
System-Down::Rescue is a free downloadable live distribution. It is
designed to recover damaged file-systems, copying the data around other
physical discs or networks, or burning them on a CD-ROM, using
cdrecord. It features a working hardware detection system.
Tasklist 2003-07-24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130388/
Tasklist is a free multi-user Web-based task management tool. It has a
clean and simple interface and uses XML configuration files. It does
not require an SQL database and is quite self contained. It is
currently considered usable, but is still very far from feature
complete. This is a very early development release to allow people who
really want something to play with to get their hands on it right away.
TAU 2.12.9-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130317/
TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the
performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more
information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix
utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information,
inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you
to organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some
systems, per-class and per-instance information, the ability to
separate data for each template instantiation, start/stop timers for
profiling arbitrary sections of code, and support for collection of
statistics on user-defined events.
TCL File Server 4.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130377/
TCL File Server is an IRC File Server made in TCL, that supports common
features and some others.
The Program Database Toolkit 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130321/
The Program Database Toolkit (PDT) is a powerful tool infrastructure
that provides access to the high-level interface of source code for
analysis tools and applications.
The SpamBouncer 1.5-Jul22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130307/
The SpamBouncer is a set of procmail instructions that search the
headers and text of your incoming email to see if it meets one or more
of a list of conditions for probable spam. It will then either tag the
suspected spam and return it to your main incoming mailbox, tag the
suspected spam, delete spam from known spam sources, and file suspected
spam in a separate folder, send a simulated MAILER-DAEMON daemon
"bounce", complain to the "upstream providers" of
known spammers or spam sites/domains, etc.
txt2tags 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130306/
txt2tags is a format conversion tool written in Python that generates
HTML, SGML, LaTeX, man page, MoinMoin, Magic Point, and PageMaker
documents from a plain text file with little marks. Different from
other conversion tools, it is generic, and not target-specific (as a
txt2html tool). This way, you can keep just one source text file and
one tool for all your formatting needs.
upIRC 3.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130302/
upIRC (formerly apIRC) is a fully RFC-compliant client for Internet
Relay Chat (IRC) servers. It includes a full range of features,
including DCC chat support, command shortcuts with variables,
auto-completion of commands, and a one-tap shortcut for entering
nicknames in channels.
VK Tafe 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130313/
A program that parses and analyzes MPEG-2 transport streams (e.g., DVB,
ATSC, etc.)
VK Tools 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130312/
The VK Toolset is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in
understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams. The current version
focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program
Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams).
vlorb 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130370/
vlorb is a high quality Audio CD-to-Ogg Vorbis audio file ripper and
encoder. It features CDDB support, VorbisGain support, easy
configuration, and flexibility.
Wallpaper Tray 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130396/
Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME Panel
Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from your chosen
directory at logon, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random
from its menu.
whoischk 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130401/
whoischeck will monitor a list of domains and report when there has
been any change to the data reported in the whois database. This change
could be that the domain has become available to register, has been
suspended or otherwise disabled or even that the listed nameservers
have changed.
whoischk 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130309/
whoischeck will monitor a list of domains and report when there has
been any change to the data reported in the whois database. This change
could be that the domain has become available to register, has been
suspended or otherwise disabled or even that the listed nameservers
have changed.
WMmp 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130352/
WMmp (Window Maker Music Player) is a dock app for interfacing Music
Player Daemon (MPD). It is a slight modification of WMxmms.
XFce4 Crystal 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130250/
XFce4 Crystal is a clean, low contrast theme ported from the Crystal
KDE theme.
XPlanner 0.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130322/
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme
Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and
Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Zero Install 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130369/
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
Linux Advisory Watch - July 25th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0344235
- by Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for apache,
kernel, nfs-utils, cups, phpgroupware, fdclone, several, gnupg,
phpgroupware, mpg123, mozilla, semi, ethereal, and xpdf. The
distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde
Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Trustix, TurboLinux, and YellowDog
Linux.
Gambling on Linux pays off in Nevada
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1646215
- by Karen D. Schwartz - When Churchill County School District in
Fallon, Nev., asked Dan O'Barr to find a replacement for an aging and
expensive PIX firewall in 2000, the technology manager for the school
district learned it would cost $20,000 to upgrade the hardware and
acquire additional licenses through Cisco Systems. O'Barr decided he
had nothing to lose by trying to create a firewall with Linux. Even
though he didn't have much experience ...
Making Mac and Linux play nicely together
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1836248
- by Joe Barr - I recently decided to start making more use of a
neglected computer of mine. It's an eMac that has been sitting quietly
on my kitchen table the past two years. I decided to explore how best
to share files, printers, and applications between a Macintosh and my
desktop Linux box.
Newsforge Newsvac
Multiple Linux 2.4 Kernel Vulnerabilities
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1758226
Red Hat has released an advisory reporting the existence of multiple
vulnerabilities in the Linux 2.4 kernel. Exploitation of these issues
could expose sensitive information to local attackers, permit denial of
service attacks or allow malicious local users to gain elevated
privileges.
Asian Linux: Some keen, others cool
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1736255
Asia can leapfrog Western countries in the development of Linux-based
applications but some governments are not latching on to this
opportunity, says a senior IBM executive.
Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1735200
Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of
an entertaining summer bug squashing. Ranking of this next Mandrake, as
for level of refinement, is partly in your hands. Join forces with the
Mandrake Development team! Install the Beta and send your reports.
Remember however that this is an experimental distribution not suitable
to everyday-tasks machines. Take care.
Government optimistic about ability to meet challenges of knowledge economy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1730245
The Federal Government has implicit confidence in its ability to meet
the challenges of the knowledge economy. Towards this end, the
government says efforts are being made to give Nigeria a respectable
place in the global Information Technology community by harnessing the
large potentials that exist in the country.
Open Survey Pilot Version 1.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1649218
Opensurveypilot is a strong opensource webbased system for generating
complete online surveys, polls and many more. You can generate a survey
and get the whole statistics in the backend with a powerful API to
generate Charts in any way or export the data to EXCEL. Download: The
download will be available in the next days.
Jahshaka at Siggraph 2003!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/174247
Jah Shaka writes "Jahshaka will be on display in the Khronos booth,
#3535 at Siggraph running on the industries first OpenML card! OpenML
is going to drastically change the way computers handle video by truely
bringing the worlds of video and 3d together. Feel free to stop by and
find out how this amazing technology will be changing the way you work!
For information on the show you can go to the Khronos website We will
also be discussing OpenML ...
EC funds project to promote Open Source in embedded systems
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/172223
The European Commission (EC) has funded a project to promote the
adoption of Open Source software, including Linux, in embedded systems.
The project, known as Industrial Embedded Systems (INES), was funded by
the European Community's Fifth Framework Programme for research,
technological development, and demonstration activities. The initiative
is investing in twenty-three "key actions," and the INES project is
part of key action 4.2.4, ...
Red Hat turning retail-boxed Linux 9 into a development-only version
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1652225
By keeping its desktop Red Hat Linux product on a controlled release
cycle, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux vendor makes it easier for
consumers and small business users to have a reliable version to
install and use on their machines.
SuSE Linux SAP Support Deal Gives 'One Throat to Choke'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1651213
Because SuSE Linux has a single code base, when the company develops
bug fixes or adds a service pack it can "churn that back into the code
in less than half a day."
eCosCentric partners with SuperH
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/1611249
Alex Schuilenburg writes "CAMBRIDGE, UK -- July 24, 2003 -- eCosCentric
Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, today announced their
partnership with SuperH Inc to deliver the eCos real-time operating
system and RedBoot firmware on SuperH RISC CPU cores. The partnership
will extend the existing eCos coverage of SuperH embedded development
boards to include the SH-4 MicroDev Platform, enabling a wide range of
developers to evaluate eCos and the ...
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Levitating Desktop Globes
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61da/
Tshirts: No, I will not fix your computer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/
Interests: ph34r t3h Cute Ones T-Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/6155/
Tshirts: anti-RIAA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/61e7/
Tshirts: Safe Hex
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/61be/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/
Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Sourceforge
Barbecue 1.0.6b3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295844
Fixes bugs with Code 39 implementation and barcode heights. All b1 and
b2 users should update to this release. Production users should remain
at 1.0.5 or earlier. Barbecue is a Java barcode solution that provides
Java GUI components for creating barcodes that can be printed and
displayed on screen, and used in servlets.
Intel PXA2x0 drivers 0.2.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295479
This is a driver collection for Intel PXA2x0 processor family (it
includes PXA210, PXA250, PXA255, PXA260, PXA261, PXA262, and PXA263)
for Windows CE. This package is intended primarily for BSP programmers
and it is designed with care of strict separation board specific code
(they are not a part of this package) from common PXA2x0 related stuff
which forms this package content. The openwince project collects free
(open source) software tools, modules, applications, drivers, and so on
for Windows CE platform developers. Some of the modules are usable
outside Windows CE development environment and are platform
independent. Changes since 0.2.2 release: * Rewrote setup USB
connection in usb/serial driver. (Daniel Samek) * Added switching power
off for PCMCIA when card removed. (Juraj Fabo) Homepage:
http://openwince.sourceforge.net/pxa2x0/ -- Marcel Telka
Tiki 1.7 -Eta Carinae- RC3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295145
The rc3 replaces the rc2 and fixes the registration verification bug
that is blocking in rc2. Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features:
article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing,
tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail,
calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.
(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) Bugfixes * Fixed tiki-read_article.php permission
bug * Fixed registration and login bugs * fixed the search engine so it
responds in seconds not ten * google plugin fixed by removing the
javascript redirection. Enhancements * TikiWiki now remembers where
user logged in * Wiki print mode is cleaner * Added link to Google
cache in Tiki's cache view New stuff * Category Plugin * Catpath plugin
* Akwa theme For the complete list:
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=ReleaseProcess1.7
phpMyAdmin 2.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295450
The phpMyAdmin development team welcomes you to update to the latest
version. We think that all issues of the June security alert have been
addressed (see FAQ 8.1). phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended
to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can
create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add
fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. Marc Delisle,
for the team.
NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Refresh
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295491
The NUnit 2.1 beta release has been updated to version 2.1.1. This will
continue to be part of Beta 1. A zipped source package has been added
for those who need it. Note that you still get the source with the
install package, so the zip is only needed by those who intend to build
from source. NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages,
ported from junit. The following specific changes have been made: 1.
Admin authority is no longer needed to run nunit-gui. 2. The package is
renamed to avoid download issues. 3. NUnit 2.0 is no longer uninstalled
automatically.
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