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August 22, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Gillette Pulls RFID Tags In UK Amid Protests
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/0327247
[0]akb writes "[1]Indymedia UK is [2]reporting that after [3]protests
against the trial of RFID tags by Gillette at a [4]Tesco store in
Cambridge, increasing [5]press coverage, a [6]boycott, and the growing
mobilisation of campaigners against the intrusive use of the
technology, Gillette have [7]withdrawn their trial. RFID (Radio
Frequency ID) tags are small tags containing a microchip which can be
'read' by radio sensors over short distances (for background see
[8]SchNEWS Feature / 2 part [9]Guardian Article)."
Links
0. http://demandmedia.net/
1. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
2. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275818.html
3. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2003/08/275596.html
4. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275490.html
5. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275633.html
6. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275606.html
7. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143026
8. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/07/274466.html
9. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,999866,00.html
Gaim Speaks Out on MSN Ban
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/0318223
[0]joejg writes "As [1]FootNotes is reporting, the developers at
[2]Gaim have [3]responded to the [4]ban Microsoft is placing upon users
of third-party clients accessing the MSN protocol. It appears that
starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in
South Korea." Gaim's site is more optimistic, saying they may still be
able to connect, only without a license to do so.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.gnomedesktop.com/article.php?sid=1288&mode=&order=0&thold=0
2. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
3. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/221226&tid=109
Control the Camera on Mars Global Surveyor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/035255
Angry Toad writes "According to [0]Spaceflight Now, NASA is getting
ready to [1]take suggestions for what parts of the surface of Mars the
[2]Mars Global Surveyor should take pictures of next. Currently there
are high-resolution images for around 3% of the surface of Mars, and
they are willing to consider [3]any reasonable suggestions for new
imaging locations. Of course this is a publicity stunt, but all the
same it would be rather cool to have a bit of 'virtual control' of the
MGS camera."
Links
0. http://spaceflightnow.com/
1. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0308/20marssuggest/
2. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
3. http://www.msss.com/plan/intro
Linux Corporate Influence: Boon or Bane?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2352237
[0]Mark Tobenkin writes "Are corporations exploiting the Open Source
community? [1]The Linux Public Broadcasting Network has [2]video
interviews with Ian Murdock (of [3]Progeny and [4]Debian fame), Martin
Roesch (author of [5]Snort), Jeremey White (CEO of [6]CodeWeavers),
Bradley Kuhn ([7]FSF), Mike Balma (Linux Business Strategist for [8]HP)
and others on the evolving OSS business models. The interviews center
around whether integration with proprietary products endangers the Open
Source effort or increases consumers' freedom to choose."
Links
0. http://www.lpbn.org
1. http://www.lpbn.org/
2.
http://www.lpbn.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=416&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
3. http://www.progeny.com/
4. http://www.debian.org/
5. http://www.snort.org/
6. http://www.codeweavers.org/
7. http://www.gnu.org/
8. http://www.hp.com/
ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2340203
[0]SpinnerBait writes "The professional graphics card arena has been
heating up as of late, with new products from ATi and NVIDIA hitting
the streets on the heels of SIGGRAPH unveilings. In a first of two
article series, [1]HotHardware has a [2]showcase with benchmarks on the
ATi FireGL X1 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000. It seems as though NVIDIA
still has a stronghold in this market, as their card seems to dominate
many of the benchmark runs shown here."
Links
0. http://www.hothardware.com
1. http://www,hothardware.com/
2. http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/qfx2k_fireglx1.shtml
Using Spyware to Report Pirates?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2116210
An anonymous reader asks: "I have visibility to AUP complaints we
receive at work, and we receive messages from a software vendor that
make it obvious that their product is phoning home when it discovers it
is running a cracked copy of itself." Apparently the software phones
home, and then the publisher's legal department sends the administrator
a e-mail. "The message goes on to detail the users IP, a timestamp, the
product in question, the users PC name, username, and MAC address. This
falls under -my- definition of 'spyware.' What are your thoughts?"
Software has been making surreptitious checks for "piracy" for over a
decade, yet these checks are usually limited to the software itself,
and not data on the user's machine. Do you feel software publishers
should have the right to peer into users data, if their software
suspects foul play on the machine, or should it do the easy and
intelligent thing and just stop working?
SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2218239
[0]FrankoBoy writes "[1]CRN has an [2]interview with SuSE CEO Richard
Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red
Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of
corporatespeak can be found in [3]another interview he did with ZDNet
last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in [4]its current
weekly newsletter."
Links
0. http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/dk491478
1. http://www.suse.com/
2. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=43781
3. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5063628.html
4. http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818
Skulls Gain Virtual Faces
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1910201
[0]rw2 writes "Totally cool, The guys at Max Planck Institute for
Computer Science have developed a way to [1]reconstruct a persons
appearence when a skull is found. When police find a skull and want to
know what its owner looked like, they generally use artists who
reconstruct the face by building up layers of clay over the skull."
Links
0. http://poliglut.org
1. http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/081303/Skulls_gain_virtual_faces_081303.html
SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1847254
bl8n8r writes "Experts say when vacationers get back to work Monday,
Inboxes will unleash [0]the worms worst attacks. Sunner said that most
of the problems caused by SoBig involve the time and cost of cleaning
the worm from computer systems. "
Links
0. http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/21/technology/sobig/index.htm?cnn=yes
New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1816225
[0]Badgerguy writes "The Supersite for Windows has some [1]shiney-blue
looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the
'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media
integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager'
screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of
LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop
PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_aero.asp
Freshmeat
Abeni 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133428/
Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython.
It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It
incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool
for syntax checking.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.21 PRE 1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133356/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal
sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal
management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web
site publishing, and more.
Autogg 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133421/
Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independently of the
catalog structure. It exclusively uses tags to sort by album and
artist. Music can then be inserted into a playlist from the sorted
treelist.
ayttm 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133351/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols
such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy,
and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when
you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother.
Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for
"advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering
what this or that will produce.
bash programmable completion 20030821 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133359/
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.
BIE 5.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133381/
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system
that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external
trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes
in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it
is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
bnews 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133372/
bnews is a eggdrop-tcl news service made to support customized plugins
and subscriptions. It is capable of fetching news from the current
loaded plugins and is capable of subscribing to news. Every 30 minutes,
on a timed event, the script will fetch all the subscribed services and
send the latest headlines as private messages. It's really easy to
customize your own news service just by following the example of the
current plugins.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133387/
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, ISO EBNF
(ISO/IEC 14977), and ANTLR. 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 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133425/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer
availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks
active or inactive computers.
Caraxy 2.0pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133435/
Caraxy is a proxy that allows the Caramail chat system to be accessible
from IRC clients.
CK-Ledger 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133357/
CK-Ledger is an accounting and back office system for SMEs that
includes ledger, ledger admin, bank reconciliation, inventory, service,
AP, AR, PO, SO, quotation, POS for cashiers, POS for managers, HR,
staff self service, and payroll modules. It runs on top of phpGroupWare
and can use LAMP or LAPP.
cmdftp 0.621 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133363/
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.
Discloser 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133413/
Discloser is (another) PHP/MySQL blog. It has a clean, effective
interface. It differs from other weblog/journal/news/content management
software in that "post types" are defined by plugins,
allowing more intense customization capabilities. It is multi-user by
nature, but only one user is required.
DNS Flood Detector 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133187/
DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high
traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting (among
other things) the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam. DNS Flood
Detector uses libpcap (in non-promiscuous mode) to monitor incoming dns
queries to a nameserver. The tool may be run in one of two modes,
either daemon mode or "bindsnap" mode. In daemon mode, the
tool will alarm via syslog. In bindsnap mode, the user is able to get
near-real-time stats on usage to aid in more detailed troubleshooting.
DSPAM 2.6.5-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133403/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
epsutil 0.2-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133411/
epsutil is a PyQt3-based graphical Epson inkjet printer toolbox
frontend for the command line utility escputil (available from the
gimp-print package). It is able to perform basic maintainance steps:
check ink level, test nozzles, and clean heads.
eZ publish 3.2 beta 1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133353/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development
framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable
feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable
content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for
general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for
cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also
well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and
corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual
licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
file2divx3pass 1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133429/
file2divx3pass is a simple frontend to mencoder for converting any
media-file to Divx, with features such as an automatic video bitrate
calculator, an automatic bits per pixel calculator, and 1-pass, 2-pass,
and 3-pass Divx encoding. It can encode any media file supported by
mencoder, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, WMV--even RM (buggy) and
CUE/BIN.
FireMake 1.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133396/
FireMake is a shell script designed to be packaged with a piece of
software and run on each computer building that software. It creates a
Makefile based on the architecture, the build environment, and the
files in the directory from which it is run.
FireRPC 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133404/
FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to
make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports
SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and
pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and
response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress.
FontPack 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133420/
FontPack is a utility for packing and rendering TTF fonts into texture
maps for use in OpenGL. It also includes a library to load and use the
fonts in your game/app.
gFTP 2.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133424/
gFTP is a multithreaded FTP client. It features simultaneous downloads,
resuming of interrupted file transfers, support for the FTP, HTTP, and
SSH protocols, file transfer queues, downloading of entire directories,
FTP and HTTP proxy support, remote directory caching, passive and
non-passive file transfers, drag-n-drop support, a very nice connection
manager, and more.
GKrellM 2.1.16 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133382/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs,
disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are
also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with
mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP,
clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and
fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off
button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for
configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are
available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
GKrellM giFT 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133383/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers
by showing their progress.
gtkmm 2.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133371/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular
GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++
programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework.
Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by
inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly
create complex user interfaces.
IceWM 1.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133410/
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.
Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator .9u
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133433/
Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator is a gradually-developing
cross-platform character generator for the Rolemaster FRP roleplaying
game from Iron Crown Enterprises. It can create and develop Rolemaster
characters quickly. It contains information from the Rolemaster FRP
book and the current Character Law.
Jinzora 0.3pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133419/
Jinzora is a Web-based MP3 library and media streamer. It was
originally a fork of the Zina project, adding many more end-user
features to extend its functionality, but has been rewritten from the
ground up. The main goal is to build a very easy-to-use/highly
functional Web interface to an MP3 collection.
JNumeric 0.1a3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133414/
JNumeric is a port of Numerical Python to Jython (Java Python) to
support all mathematical operations (linear algebra, matrices, DSP,
wavelets, FFT, arrays), and thus compete with commercial packages such
as Matlab. It can be easily embedded in Java programs.
JPluck 2.0 pre16 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133417/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on
your handheld.
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133405/
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser is a feature-poor but very fast mbox parser.
It uses the best of three strategies for parsing a mailbox: either
using cached folder information, GNU grep, or highly-optimized Perl.
Monster Masher 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133427/
Monster Masher is a mash'em-up action game for GNOME. Each level
contains a number of blocks and monsters. You're a little gnome running
around. By pushing the blocks you can mash the monsters one at a time.
There are various power-ups and different kinds of monsters.
mrtg-rrd 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133376/
mrtg-rrd is a CGI/FastCGI script for displaying MRTG graphs from data
in the RRDtool format. It can make your monitoring system faster,
because MRTG does not have to generate all the PNG files with graphs
every 5 minutes or so. Instead, the graphs are generated on demand when
a user wants to see them. The main goal of this project is to generate
output similar to the MRTG native graphs as much as possible, providing
a drop-in replacement. It reads the same configuration file that MRTG
does, and it can understand most of the directive types in this file.
It can display single graph pages as well as directory indexes
referring to more graphs or subdirectories.
Newts 0.12.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133423/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message
board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the
Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at
Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and
feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles
data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to
manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and
additional clients.
oMail-Webmail 0.98.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133354/
oMail-webmail is a Webmail solution for mail servers based on qmail and
optionally vmailmgr or vpopmail. The mail is read directly from
maildirs on the hard disk, which is much quicker than using protocols
like POP3 or IMAP. Other features includes multiple language support
(English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and many more), HTML and
pictures inline display, folders, and address book support.
OracleEditor.php 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133348/
OracleEditor.php is a standalone PHP script which allows you to browse
your Oracle database tables and insert, update, and delete rows in any
table. It requires no installation and no configuration.
PCRE 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133365/
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular
expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl
5, with just a few differences. The current implementation corresponds
to Perl 5.005. PCRE is used by many programs, including Exim, Postfix,
and PHP.
Pen 0.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133384/
Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such
as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the
outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes
clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and
scalable performance.
phpWebSite 0.9.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133408/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution.
All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web
Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page
creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and
much more.
PMK 0.5.5 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133402/
PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It
attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans,
to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users
and developers.
PureFTPd Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133377/
PureFTPd Manager is a small Cocoa frontend to PureFTPd for Mac OS X. It
includes a wizard to easily set up your server, Rendezvous support to
publish your server efficiently, and groovy interfaces for virtual
users and hosts management.
pxlib 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133368/
pxlib is a simple and small C library to read Paradox DB files. It
supports all versions starting from 3.0. It currently has a very
limited set of functions, like opening a DB file, reading its header,
and reading every single record. It can also extract blob data and
write it to a file.
PXSL 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133412/
PXSL ("pixel") is a convenient shorthand for writing
markup-heavy XML documents. It provides XML authors and programmers
with a simple, concise syntax that they can use to create XML
documents. For more advanced users, it offers customizable shortcuts
and sophisticated refactoring tools like functional macros that can
markedly reduce the size and complexity of markup-dense XML documents.
Quick Spam Filter 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133352/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning
to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than
non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email
as being possible spam.
RPL/2 4.00pre7d (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133416/
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by
Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor,
compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw
graphics.
SCons 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133398/
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make)
implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be
embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python
scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect
dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all
dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed
file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons
also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through
user-defined builder and scanner objects.
Sgraph 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133431/
Sgraph is a utility to create graphs from data supplied by the user. It
creates standard stock charts, using open/min/max/close and volume
data. Another goal is to create a set of functions that can serve as a
static library, to interface with your stock data manipulation
routines.
SiEd 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133364/
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 existing editors do not take
full advantage of the keyboard.
SlackPkg 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133418/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux.
It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or
upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide),
and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a
replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
Socks Server 5 2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133267/
Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux and Solaris platforms.
It supports the SOCKS protocol versions 4 and 5.
stresslinux 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133426/
stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable
CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress,
cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to
test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of
these systems.
Syntext Dtd2Xs 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133362/
Dtd2Xs allows you to convert complex, modularized XML DTDs and DTDs
with namespaces to XML Schemas. As an example of Dtd2Xs conversion
check out DocBook XML Schema generated from XML DocBook DTD 4.2, and
XSL-FO Schema generated from XSL-FO DTD.
TCP Re-engineering Tool Stable 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133370/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between
a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data
stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol
(as packet sniffers do).
Ultra-Performance UDPForwarder 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133392/
UDPForwarder forwards incoming UDP datagrams from a client to a
specified server and forwards the server's response back to the client.
This works 100% transparently, so clients think they are talking to the
forwarder and the server does not notice the clients' real IP. It was
initially designed to work as a transparent relay for online game
traffic (static routing). It might be useful for hiding IPs or tricking
firewalls. Its motivation and advantage over existing tools is its
uncompromising focus on performance, which is crucial when dealing with
hundreds and thousands of datagrams per second without allowing any
rise in response time.
Ups shutdown script 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133337/
Ups shutdown script is a set of bash scripts that can be used to
monitor a SNMP UPS and shut down servers if the power goes out. One of
the scripts can run on a monitoring server and will report back when a
UPS has gone offline.
Wcalc 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133432/
Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin,
asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c,
etc.), support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary
input and output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments,
and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions
using the standard order of operations.
wmdf 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133395/
wmdf is a dockable app to monitor disk usage and IO. It is compatible
with Windowmaker, Afterstep, and other window managers that accept
dockable apps.
X-Itools 0.6.05 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133391/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to
products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of
several modules, and this project has been under development for
several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a
flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges
manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt
things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public
vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country
profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and
outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
xfpd 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133342/
xfpd is an OpenGL-based molecule viewer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] data. It is
based upon fpd but was rewritten to use GLUT. It supports stereoscopic
displays, hardware acceleration, and better interactive rotation.
xik 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133349/
xik is a KDE front-end for Xmame. It scans the ROM path or another
directory and creates a folder on the KDE desktop that allows you to
edit properties. It is easy to install and use.
Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133350/
Yap2lc (Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter) is an LDAP migration tool
which extracts information from passwd, shadow/passwd, and
master.passwd formatted files, combines them with a user specifiable
template, and writes an LDIF file you can import into your LDAP server.
It supports BSD-like and non-BSD-like systems, and performs sanity
checks on user entries to detect invalid fields.
YourAmigo Spider Linker 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133375/
Spider Linker provides the ability to efficiently make all content on a
Web site, particularly dynamic content, available to Internet search
engines. It discovers content on one or more Web sites, and creates a
table of contents (TOC) of all the content in a format that is friendly
to search engine spiders. HTML, XML, sitelist.txt, and Harvest Control
List formats are supported, and custom formats can be constructed.
Since it provides FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, upload, and email publishing
mechanisms, it can also support XML feeds and other URL submission
strategies.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - August 22nd 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/0443248
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for
openslp, zip, netris, autorespond, unzip, eroaster, and GDM. The
distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat.
Dear Outlook users: Please remove me from your address books
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/143258
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I'm tired of your email viruses. While
they don't directly affect my Linux system, the file sizes are huge and
slow down my email. And those of you with "a virus has been detected in
your email" autoresponder programs are the worst of all. No, I didn't
send you a virus. One of your Windows buddies did. You are tying up my
bandwidth for no good reason. Stop it!
The SCO Group responds to Torvalds
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/132219
- by Joe Barr - Yesterday morning, Linus Torvalds told NewsForge "He's
lying" when we asked him for a comment on remarks by Darl McBride, CEO
of The SCO Group, claiming there are a million lines of SCO code in
Linux. This morning, we have a response to Torvalds' comment by Blake
Stowell, the Director of Public Relations for The SCO Group. Updated
Newsforge Newsvac
Tractor Supply gets out of WinTel's no-scale rut
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2030243
MIchael S. Mimoso writes "The Tennessee-based chain of stores details
its move from a Windows-on-Intel environment to a PolyServer cluster
running on Red Hat Linux."
Findings from EDC's Embedded Developer Survey -- August, 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2028243
Evans Data Corp. (EDC) has released data on several findings from its
recently completed survey of nearly 400 embedded developers. The data
sheds light on: the value embedded developers place on real-time
debuggers; how much time developers spend on hardware vs. software
related issues; and, the role developers play in evaluating
intellectual property (IP) issues such as SCO's recent claim that Linux
violates its IP.
The Quiet War Over Open-Source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1838244
Every day now, it seems, we do battle with technology. If it isn't
spam, it's worms. If it isn't the worms, it's viruses, or hacking, or
identity theft. Sometimes, it's the gadgets and software we buy that
are still too hard to use.
And Now, Mad Hatter Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1835245
"Sun needs to be very targeted at who they're trying to sell [Mad
Hatter] to," says Gartner analyst Michael Silver, "because we don't see
Linux as a benefit for everybody at this point."
Corel seeks court approval for takeover by Vector Capital
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1719217
Corel Corp. will go to court Thursday seeking final approval of its
takeover by a California investment firm, a day after shareholders
approved the deal.
Canadian coalition fights Linux licence plan
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1642237
A coalition of Canadian computer professionals dedicated to
open-source software is planning to oppose legal efforts to extract
licence fees from Linux users.
Bonuses for tech skills show sudden fall
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1611207
Pay bonuses linked to IT certifications have dropped this year and
offshoring may be to blame.
OSDL Seeks To Be Linux Center of Gravity
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/169210
It's hard to follow Linux news lately and not hear about the Open
Source Development Lab (OSDL).
LinuxQuestions.org adds a Mandrake Linux Forum
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1559255
jeremy writes "A Mandrake Linux forum has been added to
LinuxQuestions.org. The Mandrake forum joins forums for Slackware,
Debian, Conectiva, Arch and LFS. All distribution forums have a level
of participation by the respective distro. The announcement is
available here."
Rockin' with Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1518201
gulker writes "Since jettisoning all of Microsoft products three years
ago, Ernie Ball Guitar Strings has gained notoriety as a company that
dumped most of its proprietary software--and still lived to tell the
tale."
Thinkgeek
Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/60e9/
Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/61f2/
Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/6270/
Gadgets: Laser Widow
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/604c/
Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/624e/
PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6297/
Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/
Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/
Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/
Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/
Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/
Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/
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/
Sourceforge
BIE 5.5.0 (beta) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303642
New features in BIE 5.5 include a new plug-in architecture allowing the
addition and removal of features without restarting; support for
EDIFACT and HL7 document formats; HTTP Post and Run Command actions;
enhancements to the transaction log viewer and message schema
generator; and a number of new macros for unit conversions were also
added to the Map Builder tool. The Business Integration Engine (BIE) is
a full Java-based application to application integration server.
Changes: SERVER: * Plugin Manager Chain action types may now be loaded
and unloaded into BIE without needing to restart the system. This
system will provide, over the next few releases, the ability to plug in
most other units of the BIE server. * Code Reorganization (Developers
Only) A reorganization of the codebase for BIE has begun, in
anticipation of broad architectural changes and refactoring planned to
begin in BIE 6.0. Source code, which previously lived exclucively under
the src/ directory, may now also be found under the commons-bie/,
commons-tools/, installer/, plugins/, and src/ directories. * Added
Feature - Added HTTP Post action (contributed by Hugh Brien). * Added
HL7 support. * Added EDIFACT support. * RFE 734256 - Allow transaction
log to be cleaned. * RFE 765461 - save option for XSD Added Save option
for the generated schema. * RFE 734242 - paste boxes. Added Paste box
for allowing the user to paste content to a textarea for the schema
generating. * Added Run Command action * Enhanced HTTP Basic
authentication support for web services. MAP BUILDER: * Fixed a bug
that allowed macro parameters to be displayed after macro was deleted.
* Added new macros: Convert Inches To Centimeters, Convert Centimeters
to Inches, Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, Convert Celsius to
Fahrenheit. BUG FIXES: * Fixed bug 774447 - Mail Configuration: smtp
authentication. * Fixed bug 784960 - Schema Generator fully expands all
elements. * Fixed bug 764738 Delimited data source does not understand
empty fields * Fixed bug 790579 - On upgrade if database connection not
available it will fail.
Chiba 0.9.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303472
This is mainly a maintainance release which fixes some issues with the
installation. Namely the xerces + xml-apis have been added again to the
war-files. Other modifications are limited to smaller corrections to
Schema2XForms builder, import statements and javadoc. Chiba provides an
implementation of the W3C XForms standard, thereby delivering generic,
xml-based form-processing for the web.
phpWebSite 0.9.3-1 Stable Released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303663
The phpWebSite development team has released version 0.9.3-1 of its
popular content management system. The main purpose of this release is
to address the recently discovered security vulnerability issues that
were posted across many security forums. Fixes for the XSS, DOS, and
SQL injection problems are all included. Many other updates have been
made to the core, providing the ability to run phpWebSite in SSL mode.
Over 40 bugs have been closed and 4 user submitted patches applied to
phpWebSite since the release of 0.9.3. All in all we feel this is one
of our most stable releases to date.
TclXML v3.0rc1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302894
Release candidate 1 of version 3.0 of the TclXML package is now
available. This release candidate introduces a binding for libxml2 to
the TclXML package. This allows an application to use the libxml2
parser class to parse an XML document, setting callbacks in the usual
fashion. No significant changes have been made to the pure-Tcl or expat
parser classes. It is planned to perform some bug fixes to the pure-Tcl
parser class for release candidate 2.
Turck MMCache for PHP version 2.3.23 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303184
This is should be the last version prior to the stable 2.4.0 release.
Please test this release as much as possible. Turck MMCache is a PHP
Accelerator, Optimizer, Encoder and Dynamic Content Cache. It increases
performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that
the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. Also it uses
some optimizations for speed up of PHP scripts execution. Turck MMCache
typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code
by 1-10 times. It has been tested with PHP 4.1.0 - 4.3.2 under Linux
and Windows with Apache 1.3 and 2.0. HTTP caching of mmcache.php was
disabled. Usage of POSIX semaphors on Mac OS X was disabled. Handling
of scripts with PHP syntax errors was fixed. ZE2 support was improved
(tested with php5-200308140730).
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