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Slashdot
X-Prize Overview: To The Edge Of Space, Cheap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/028203
_randy_64 writes "The [0]X-Prize competition has gotten a lot of
coverage on Slashdot - either because it's cool and geeky or because
[1]John Carmack is involved. The Baltimore Sun has a decent
[2]background/overview article on the contest in Sunday's edition."
Links
0. http://www.xprize.org/
1. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
2.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.xprize03aug03,0,6305320.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2259232
[0]MindNumbingOblivion writes "Wireless technology has revolutionized
access to local area networks when one can't always be close to an
ethernet jack. But a recent research paper from the French Centre
Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user
accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group. Apparently the very
nature of CSMA/CD guarantees such anomalies. [1]Here's the story, and
here's the [2]release from CNRS (in French)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1293&e=5&u=/cmp/20030802/tc_cmp/12807964&sid=95573432
2. http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/237.htm?theme=3
How To 'Sell' Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210219
An anonymous reader writes "Have we missed the boat in terms of selling
Linux to the average Joe? The writer of [0]this article at NewsForge
certainly thinks so. He points out that most people don't yet get the
idea of a free operating system, and that the best way to start winning
them over is to provide free software for Windows, such as
OpenOffice.org." This sentiment isn't new, but unlike a lot of
commentators, the writer in this case is in a good place (as a retailer
who's tried selling Linux-equipped systems) to observe the
man-on-the-street reaction to Free operating systems as of 2003.
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/02/2144241.shtml?tid=19
MPAA Opens Anti-filesharing Website
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2044236
[0]PontifexPrimus writes "The MPAA's new advertising campaign against
movie piracy has a [1]home on the internet. Did you know that 'Network
users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby
seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social
security number, etc.'? [2] Learn about the dangers of filesharing!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.respectcopyrights.org/
2. http://www.respectcopyrights.org/popup/why-3.html
Florida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2131256
According to Robin "Roblimo" Miller's article on NewsForge, Florida
residents are receiving word by electronic and postal mail about the
[0]likely outcome of that state's class action suit against Microsoft
(last [1]mentioned on Slashdot last September): the upshot is that
Florida residents who purchased a Microsoft operating system or
Microsoft Office would be eligible for a settlement payment (in
vouchers) of $5-12; the lawyers involved are seeking $48 million in
fees. The settlement terms have several interesting clauses; for
instance, by accepting, you would be agreeing to "settle and release
all claims, demands, actions, suits, and causes of action against
Microsoft and/or its directors, officers, employees, attorneys,
insurers or agents, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted,
that any member of the Florida Settlement Class ever had, could have
had, now has or hereafter can, shall or may have, relating in any way
to ... any conduct, act or omission that was or could have been alleged
in this case as the basis for any antitrust or unfair competition
claims."
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210209&mode=nested&tid=3
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/04/1755231&tid=123
Close Encounters Of The Mars Kind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1942257
[0]Lab_rat0 writes "Never again in our lifetimes will the Red Planet be
so spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars, an
encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two
planets in recorded history. This [1]article at EliteGeek has more
details. According to Agg over at [2]OCAU, this is probably the reason
for all the Mars probes launched over the last few months."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.elitegeek.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258&mode=&order=0&thold=0
2. http://www.overclockers.com.au/
Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1938243
BlackShirt writes "[0]Mediacenter acts as a digital video recorder,
i.e. it enables the viewer to plan his/her future television broadcast
recordings. 'Live' broadcasts can also be recorded. Program recordings
are stored in the video archive, and the user can playback, delete or
unable deleting of recordings[1] (here are some screenshots). I
personally like their advertisements more than their product.
(Shopping-tv style, wife doesn't allow to watch football, so
disapponted husband knocks on his neighbors' door, as they turn their
fabulous Ricor TV box from pause to play.)" It looks like this is being
marketed to Russian cable companies as an all-in-one portal, since they
also include electronic ordering capabilities and "near video on
demand"; I wish American PVRs had all these features by default
(ethernet, USB, microphone, camera inputs ...)
Links
0. http://www.ricoritv.com/icl/eng/rus/indexX.htm
1. http://www.ricoritv.com/icl/eng/rus/pristavA.htm
Sun Microsystems, SuSE Link Up To Sell Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1756249
ChilyWily writes "Reuters is reporting that [0]Sun Microsystems Inc.
has agreed to resell and support closely held German software firm
SuSE's version of the Linux operating system, the leading variant in
Europe, the companies said on Friday. This agreement follows a similar
one in May between Sun and Red Hat Inc. While I'm happy to see Sun's
finally beginning to warm up to Linux (aka if you can't beat 'em, join
'em strategy) I wonder if this is too late for Sun?"
Links
0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3206067
Jonathan Zittrain On The Spiderweb of Copyright Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1725203
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society, takes an unusual approach to critiquing copyright
in this [0]Legal Affairs article. He explains with an analogy to the
bizarre patchwork of United States tax codes a reason that (in the
words of one of Zittrain's colleagues) "all the cyberprofs hate
copyright." It goes beyond simple indignation that current copyright
laws often grant seemingly unfair monopoly powers, and into the tangled
minutia of the laws themselves.
Links
0.
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2003/feature_zittrain_julaug03.html
Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1555206
[0]Mark Wielaard writes "The [1]gcj team created a natively compiled
build of the [2]Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then
with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to
initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler
involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last
[3]Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. [4]Red Hat
provides [5]RPMs for easy installation. [6]Footnotes has [7]screenshots
by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets."
Links
0. http://www.klomp.org/mark/
1. http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
2. http://www.eclipse.org/
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2239203&tid=117
4. http://www.redhat.com/
5. http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/
6. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
7. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=724
Freshmeat
A Debian Space 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131455/
A Debian Space is a theme made with Xaos and The GIMP, featuring the
Debian logo in deep space.
a place to go 0.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131407/
aptg(2) (a place to go) is a Web-based email client written in PHP,
using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed
to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as
used by pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual
email addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password.
A powerful addressbook is also included. It uses its own session
handling system with one-time session ids. The development version has
experimental GnuPG support.
Aurora Sky 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131445/
A CG image depicting the "Northern Lights".
Automated Password Generator 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131439/
Automated Password Generator is a set of tools for random password
generation including a standalone password generator, an RFC972
password generation server, and a Perl client for the password
generation server. These feature a built-in X9.17 random number
generator, and 35 modes of password generation, including pronounceable
password generation.
avidemux 2.0.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131451/
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.
bash programmable completion 20030803 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131423/
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.
BBStatus 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131488/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool
for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its
database. It can be used for IP accounting (allows you to design
various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data
making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (stores and summarizes values
like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic
filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based
access so that every user can log in and visualize various data
(depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with
mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
bitchxmms 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131427/
bitchxmms is a script for BitchX users that like to let everybody know
what MP3 they are playing.
bMotion 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131457/
bMotion is an AI script for eggdrop bots that gives them a bit of life
and makes them better channel members on IRC. It exposes a plugin
interface, allowing its functionality and behavior to be easily
adjusted and extended with simple (yet powerful) TCL scripts.
BookmarkManager 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131414/
BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a
replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet
container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for
storing its data.
CG_spam_filter.pl 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131462/
CG_spam_filter.pl provides a content filter program for the Stalker
CommuniGate Pro mail server that seeks to limit the number of outgoing
spam your local users can send and incoming spam your system can
receive. In essence, it is a throttling script that starts rejecting
mail once a certain threshold is reached, such as X messages or
recipients per minute. It is difficult to catch spammers until after
the fact (when they have already done lots of damage and spammed many
users); this is simply an effort to stop them in their tracks in
real-time so you can deal with them later.
checkpassword-pam 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131483/
checkpassword-pam is an implementation of a PAM- based
checkpassword-compatible authentication program, but is more modern and
administrator- friendly.
cmdftp 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131438/
cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions
which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode
transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports
multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet
powerful.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131447/
Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using
SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam.
In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from
the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried
out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as
greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The system is
only for gateways, and will only relay for hosts on an internal IP
(e.g. 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, etc.) and only accept for users
specifically listed in the configuration files. The target market is
small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system
but its value will be limited. Dial-up is not yet supported.
DaveDAP 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131418/
DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool which allows you to browse
your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform
searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers and
recursively delete/copy entire containers.
Debt Minder 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131413/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user
friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account
subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split
interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization
capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs,
debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated
amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included,
and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited
files
EOS Image Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131424/
EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to
quickly view, thumbnail, rename (add and remove chars, change case),
and manage (move, copy, and rename) all of their images from a single,
uncluttered interface. With this application users can organize
thousands of downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.
Fast RC 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131189/
frc is a replacement for the script (/etc/init.d/rc) which starts and
stops services in different runlevels. frc can run several services in
parallel, provides different modes of verbosity and interactive
control. Individual service scripts run by frc do not need to perform
layout or colorisation.
fix-mime-charset 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131415/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message
and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as
mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their
messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately,
ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None
but the Content- Type header is changed.
ggcov 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131442/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C
programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's
basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
gmorgan 0.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131433/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It
features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
Irrlicht Engine 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131430/
The Irrlicht Engine is a high performance cross platform 3D engine for
creating realtime 3D applications. Its main aims are to be easy to use,
extremely fast, extensible, and crash safe.
JavaLayer 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131478/
JavaLayer is a 100% Java library that decodes, converts, and plays MP3
files in real time. It does not require JMF. It supports MPEG 1/2 layer
1/2/3 formats.
jBNC 1.1 (WEKA)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131402/
jBNC is a Java toolkit for training, testing, and applying Bayesian
Network Classifiers. Implemented classifiers have been shown to perform
well in a variety of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and
data mining applications.
jBNC 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131404/
jBNC is a Java toolkit for training, testing, and applying Bayesian
Network Classifiers. Implemented classifiers have been shown to perform
well in a variety of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and
data mining applications.
JGAP 1.0-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131479/
JGAP (pronounced "jay-gap") is a genetic algorithms package
written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use
"out of the box", but is highly modular and allows custom
components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous.
Kidwai Clinical Laboratory Management System 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131456/
Kidwai is a system to automate a critical component of a cancer
hospital's existing (non-computerized) management system. It automates
the entire process of managing Individual Patients Laboratory
Requisition details, from the registration of a patient for a specific
test (on site), to a doctor viewing the patient's tests results from a
terminal.
KnokiiSync 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131472/
KnokiiSync is a KDE 3.1.x program that transfers entries from a
Gnokii-compatible phone to KDE's Address Book and vice-versa. It can
transfer all the entries as well as the entry types (home, work,
mobile, URL, email, etc).
LibTomMath 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131461/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
Liferea 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131469/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to
be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a
list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their
contents using GtkHTML.
Light Speed! 1.2-222
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131482/
Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects
of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an
object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects
begin to grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the
speed of light is approached. These relativistic effects are
viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length, object hue,
brightness and shape.
LightWeightPoll 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131420/
LightWeightPoll is an easy to configure and use voting system. It
provides a customizable frontend with graphical and text-based
statistics.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131474/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network
administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely
turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your
network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing
"bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are
easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such
as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and
content blocking.
LiquidIRCd 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131443/
LiquidIRCd is the irc daemon used on LiquidIRC. It is based on Bahamut
with many powerful features including CRC or MD5 hostmasking, SSL,
channel owners, protect, halfop, etc.
LiVES 0.7.1-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131437/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet
powerful video effects, editing, and playback system. It uses commonly
available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on
most Linux systems.
Luola 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131470/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a
small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game
is simply to destroy all other players.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131452/
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, MySQL, and SQLite.
Mod_Survey 3.2.0-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131459/
Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create
their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout.
Musicextras 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131448/
Musicextras is a program for automatically retrieving extra information
for songs. Currently it only retrieves lyrics and album covers, but it
was designed to make it easy to add other functionality. Information is
obtained using plugins that parse Web page data. An example for having
XMMS automatically load lyrics for the current MP3 is included.
Orbital (pekwm port) 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131428/
Orbital (pekwm port) is a port of hermik's excellent
"orbital" shellwm theme to pekwm for Linux. The original
theme and matching skins for other applications are available at
sticboy.com.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131425/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It
also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a
news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML
support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation
script.
Pipe Viewer 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131487/
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress
of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline
between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data
is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it
is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
PTlink Services 2.23.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131436/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC
networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes
features like channel logging, oper management, helper management,
AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify
on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for
real time news delivering.
pY! Voice Chat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131432/
pY! Voice Chat is a voice chat program for Yahoo. It supports both
sending sound to and receiving sound from Yahoo's voice chat servers.
The program can be run in either English or Spanish.
PyPE 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131484/
PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a
lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too
much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the
box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python
and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform
available.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131429/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL
screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
RoadMap 1.0rc8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131417/
RoadMap is a GIS program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps
are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US.
Specific areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street
number, street name, city, and state). It interfaces with gpsd to track
a GPS position, and has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or
laptop computer, or on a PDA.
RPMAutoUpdate 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131435/
RPMAutoUpdate is an RPM update management and reporting tool that can
tell you exactly which RPMs provide updates relevant to your system. It
is intended for systems administrators and power-users.
Simple Browser Proxy 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131307/
Simple Browser Proxy is a Web client proxy that is written entirely in
PHP and runs on a stock build of PHP on any OS. SBP provides users with
added privacy without requiring any additional installation or
configuration.
storebackup 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131468/
storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It
includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and
improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and
incremental backups. Depending on its contents, every file is stored
only once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and
restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems
(locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
SuperVESA FrameBuffer Driver 0.9 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131450/
SuperVESAfb is a framebuffer driver for VESA 2.0-compliant graphic
cards. It allows you to change the resolution and color depth
on-the-fly.
System Garden Habitat 0.17.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131465/
Habitat is a performance management system which captures, stores, and
visualises table-based time series data. Monitor probes exist for Linux
and Solaris with Windows coming soon. It has a command line interface,
a fast GUI client for graphical visualisation, and a simple format for
extending data capture in the agent. It is written in C with Gtk and
can access data from its peers directly, by file sharing, or with the
use of a separate central archiving repository (harvest) to scale to
installations of significant size.
testmail 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131486/
testmail is a Perl script that checks email availability at the POP3
server, filters it according to defined rules, and--depending on the
selected method--gets the messages to the local mailbox and/or removes
it from the server. It uses Perl libnet module and helps you escape
from spam.
Texmaker 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131454/
Texmaker integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX
in just one application.
Towel 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131446/
Towel is a fairly basic program to play audio files. It works as a
front-end to GStreamer to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files. It runs
on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, using gtkmm 2.2.x, the C++ bindings for GTK+
2.2.x. It features a heirarchical tree-like playlist system.
Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131485/
Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables
developers to automate design and development of infrastructure
components through Java code generation for Relational/XML-to-Object
mapping. The RDBMS supported are Sybase, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.
JMS-compliant messaging products like IBM MQ are supported. VIBE ships
with a dynamic Business Rule Engine (VIBE BRE) which enables
applications to decouple Business Logic.
WebUserPrefs 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131453/
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.
XEphem 3.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131481/
XEphem is a complete astronomy program.
XPortScan 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131422/
XPortScan is a multi-threaded, cross-platform, GUI port scanner. It is
modular so that new features are easy to integrate, and even completely
changing the GUI is easy.
YASP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131476/
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
Florida residents may get vouchers from Microsoft, lawyers may get millions
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210209
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Many Florida residents have received
emails or postal mail explaining a potential settlement in a
class-action suit against Microsoft on behalf of "Florida Purchasers of
Microsoft MS-DOS, Windows, Office, Word or Excel Software, or a
Personal Computer that Came with this Software." The upshot: Most of us
will probably get vouchers worth $12 toward our next (retail) Linux
distribution purchase, but the lawyers hope ...
The state of Linux at the retail store
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2144241
- by James Hutton - I work in a small retail electronics store that has
been selling cheap Linux PCs for the last 8 months or so. It was an
experiment that returned mediocre results. The hardware wasn't a
problem -- it was cheap but solid hardware, and exactly what a lot of
people wanted for basic word processing, email, etc. Even the fact that
it wasn't running Windows wasn't a problem, people are prepared to
overlook that if it's going to do ...
Is my new portable music player safe to use?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2118255
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Portable MP3/Ogg players get better every
year. The latest model managing editor Lee Schlesinger and I have
received for review is a lovely little piece of engineering and we are
happy to share our impressions of it with you. But is this device
legal? Will those of us who use it bring the wrath of the RIAA
(Recording Industry Association of America) down on our heads like a
corporate version of Maxwell's Silver ...
Newsforge Newsvac
OpenSource expands in Germany
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/205252
Marcin Pietralski writes: More7 is the first Polish company to
implement Linux and Open Source based solutions in the European Union.
At the beginning of 2003 More7 started implementing a series of content
management systems (CMS) in German cities. In July the first of these
projects was finished, a Linux-based CMS used to manage the Internet
sites of the German city Obertshausen (near Frankfurt am Main). Several
system components have been made ...
Interview with Judd Vinet of Arch Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1240248
ladislav writes "Arch Linux is one of those quiet and little-known
distributions, rarely figuring in the headlines of major Linux news
publications. Fortunately, the recent release of Arch Linux 0.5 and a
continuously evolving changelog present enough proof that its
developers and package maintainers are hard at work. We have spoken to
Judd Vinet, the creator and lead developer of Arch Linux and its
"pacman" software management utility about the ...
Linux spat clouds annual conference
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1250211
As the Linux community gathers this week for its annual conference in
San Francisco, it should be celebrating the growing popularity of
open-source software. But in the back of everyone's mind instead will
be an ugly legal spat that has unsettled the Linux faithful.
Gartner's Advice on SCO, vs. the Real Story, per Netcraft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1246227
I had an interesting email the other day from Mike Prettejohn of
Netcraft, in which he contrasts the "go slow with Linux" advice of the
Gartner Group in the wake of the SCO lawsuit with the tale of the tape
as Netcraft sees it...
Experimental Mozilla Firebird Builds Available
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1244254
Two experimental builds of Mozilla Firebird have been made available to
help test some new enhancements. The first build, available for Windows
and Linux, introduces some improvements to the Password Manager
backend, such as always encrypting saved passwords. Backing up your
existing passwords file is strongly recommended before trying this
build.
WinHelp for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/227210
Viktor Zadorev writes "The first beta version of the rich-feature
viewer of documents in WinHelp file format for Linux - HelpExplorer has
been released. HelpExplorer - is a full-feature system of help for OS
Linux. It gives a wide range of capacities to customize the user's
interface and it can be easily integrated into your applications. One
of the main advantages of this system is 100% support of WinHelp help
file format widely used in OS ...
Interview with Andy Robinson
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/224247
jleveille writes "Andy Robinson relates to high school kids that are
bright, but don't get good grades. He understands the feeling of not
fitting in, not getting along in the system, and not knowing where
you're going to end up. His parents signed him up for some college
computer classes and his life changed. âÂÂNot all at once,â he
said in a phone interview with Linuxbeginner.org. âÂÂUntil then I
never really had much of an interest in ...
Attorneys critical of SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/222211
Anonymous Reader writes: "An interesting legal commentary on SCO can be
found at web page for the Law Office of Lewis A. Mettler which includes
some highly critical comments about SCO, their actions, and their legal
approach, including:
TuxMobil News Digest 07/2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2155253
Werner Heuser writes: This month's TuxMobil News digest has many good
news for Linux PDA and laptop users. Here is an extract of the monthly
digest, but note there are much more noteworthy issues, so do not miss
to check the whole.
UCITA... no more?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2150242
aicra writes "NCCUSL pulled support of UCITA. UCITA, The Uniform
Computer Information Transaction Act, caused a stir of debate and
contention over the past years. UCITA was only passed in Virginia and
Maryland. Four states adoped anti-UCITA legislation.
Thinkgeek
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/
Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/
Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/623c/
Electronics: Mustek [EMAIL PROTECTED] D30 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/61a5/
PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/
PC Mods: Bubble Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/620c/
PC Mods: Meteor Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/6208/
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/
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/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
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/
Sourceforge
POPSurgeon v1.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298173
POPSurgeon goal is to use an ISP server as backup for emails (or to
remove sensitive email from said server). It achieves this goal by
allowing one to remove unwanted email from the server. The third
release of POPSurgeon is now available. This release allows the
inspection of message by looking at the header, the body or both.
POPSurgeon is a program to perform discrete deletion on a POP3 server.
Posadis 0.60.0 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298148
Finally, after nine months of hard work, Posadis 0.60.0 is ready!
Posadis 0.60.0, which is a complete re-write of Posadis, now supports
caching and resolving, it has a plug-in system, and it can monitor your
files for activity. Also, I hope the 100% CPU usage problems of Posadis
0.50.x now finally belong to the past. Also, the website has been
completely revamped, so go to http://www.posadis.org/ quickly and get
your Posadis 0.60.x build while it's hot!
Open POSIX Test Suite version 1.2.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298163
POSIX Test Suite 1.2.0 is a significant release because of its complete
threads core conformance tests, timers core conformance tests, complete
signals, message queues, and semaphores conformance tests! Also there
are added important POSIX functions such as the ones associated with
sys/mman.h (thanks to Jerome M.). Bug fixes from previous release as
well.
OSDL Database Test 2 Support for PostgreSQL
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298151
Database Test 2 (DBT-2) v0.8 now includes C stored functions for
PostgresSQL. The OSDL Database Test Suite aims to create database
workload test kits used to simulate heavy user loads for OLTP, Decision
Support, and e-commerce database transactions. These test kits can also
be used to gather performance results for Linux.
jfox release 1.0 DR version
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298168
jfox 1.0 Development Release with a fast scaleable ejb container and a
lot of excited features, but DR version is not the final version, only
a preview for java developers interested in jfox, the final version is
in developing... please download the package and look the docs for more
infomation. The JFox is an Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based
application server implemented in 100% Pure Java, It comes from China.
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