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Slashdot
Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/0151212
D'Sphitz writes "Cindy Smart, the first doll in the world to be able to
[0]read, tell the time and do sums. Cindy Smart 'sees' via a camera
located under a bee on her overalls and has a computer 'brain' that can
recognise more than 600 words and objects, although she refuses to
recite certain 4-letter words. 'We don't say those kind of words,' she
shrills, refusing to even spell obscenities. 'That's a bad word.'"
Sounds like a [1]good candidate for a personality transplant.
Links
0. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7010272%255E13762,00html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/0253219&tid=159
America's Hams Embrace Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/0136237
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The current [1]survey question over on the
eham site shows that around 40% of Amateur Radio operators that
responded to the survey are using Linux/Unix as an operating system in
some form or other. Part of the ham radio charter is to 'experiment and
innovate'...seems the tradition is alive and well in ham radio. Some of
the comments are interesting as well ...What's Amateur/Ham Radio? See
[2]www.eham.net/newham/"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.eham.net/survey/
2. http://www.eham.net/newham/
FCC's Triennial Review Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2359232
rednaxela writes "The FCC, after six months of deliberation, released
the Triennial Review order on the evening of August 21. The Order makes
substantial changes to the rules governing the obligations of the
regional bell operating companies (i.e., SBC, BellSouth, Verizon and
Qwest) to lease their networks to the competitive local exchange
carriers (e.g., MCI, AT&T) for the provision of local phone service
and, perhaps more interestingly to this audience, broadband. [0]Brief
summary here, link to the order and the FCC Commissioners' statements
at [1]www.fcc.gov."
Links
0. http://www.telecomweb.com/release0821.htm
1. http://www.fcc.gov
Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2138251
unmadindu writes "The latest beta release of [0]Gnumeric has been
[1]released. According the the developers, it is now ready and stable
enough for general use and deployment, and the final 1.2.0 release will
be made on September 8th. This release also marks the realization of a
major milestone -- all of the worksheet functions in the U.S. version
of MS Excel are now supported. I have been using 1.1.19 for quite some
time now, and it is incredibly fast, and hugely improved compared to
Gnumeric 1.0."
Links
0. http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
1. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1290&mode=thread&order=0
The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2045231
[0]MrZeebo writes "According to this [1] story at Canada.com, the FBI,
along with other authorities, have traced the origin of the Sobig worm.
The quick timeline: Apparently, an earlier version of the worm
installed a backdoor on a home computer in British Columbia. The
creator of the worm used this compromised computer to create a Usenet
account with Easynews.com in Phoenix, using a stolen credit card. The
worm spread from Usenet, and contained the IP addresses of 20 computers
to contact on Friday, and to download an unknown program from those
computers. Officials were able to take 19 of these computers offline
before the mass-download. However, the 20th computer stayed online, and
many copies of the worm were able to get the rogue program. Those that
did were merely redirected to a porn site, no damage done. However, now
infected computers will continue to try and connect to the other 19
every Friday and Sunday until the worm expires on Sept. 10th." Reader
[2]muldoonaz points out this brief [3]Reuters story about the
investigation, too.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]rg.com ['dbe' in gap]
1. http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=F5CD01CE-D66F-4DDD-AA65-DEB7F30F45C3
2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=2UHXT1QPPYNIGCRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=3324330
Vonage Fights Minnesota's Attempts To Regulate VoIP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1859211
rmccoy writes "Vonage said Thursday it [0]intends to fight the
first-ever decision by a U.S. state to regulate companies that provide
Internet-based phone services. Minnesota's Public Utilities Commission
unanimously decided two weeks ago that the New Jersey-based voice over
IP (VoIP) provider is subject to the rules and regulations that cover
traditional phone companies."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5066652.html
Seven Spam Filters Compared
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1840206
[0]Goo.cc writes "Those wondering how their spam filtering software
performs in comparison to other's may want to read this article on
Freshmeat, where Sam Holden performs [1]comparative testing of various
popular e-mail filters. The filters tested includes Bayesian Mail
Filter, Bogofilter, dbacl, Quick Spam Filter, SpamAssassin, SpamProbe,
and SPASTIC."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/964/
Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1731245
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with
Ken Thompson wrote the code cited as 'proof' by SCO. This seems to fit
perfectly with Bruce Perens' [1]Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show,
and undermine Blake Stowell's claim 'At this point it's going to be
[2]his word against ours." [3]Andreas Spengler writes "In the ongoing
battle between SCO and the Linux community, German publisher Heise has
shown that not only was the Linux implementation of the Berkeley Packet
filter [4]written outside of Caldera (now SCO), but that it was common
practice there and at other companies to remove the BSD copyright
notices from the internally used source code. In effect, SCO has proven
publicly that they violated the BSD license." (Warning, article is in
German.) Finally, a [5]semi-anonymous reader writes "Learn all about
how IBM's stomach will be roasted on a pyre of CDs at
[6]WeLovetheSCOInformationMinister."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/23.html
1. http://www.perens.org/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html
2. http://www.itworld.com/Man/2685/030819scocode/
3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-23.08.03-001/
5. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
6. http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org/
Japanese Robot on Diplomatic Tour
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/150235
[0]baquiano writes "Inaugurating 21st century diplomacy, Japan's Pime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi is visiting Prague this week, accompanied by
Honda's experimental humanoid robot, [1]Asimo. According to this story,
[2]Asimo even attended the official dinner. Apparently, the Czech Prime
Minister Spidla has often been criticized because he's too 'stiff' and
'robot-like.'" Uncomfortable moments aside, it's a fitting tribute, for
as stated in the story, the Czech writer Karel Capek was the first to
use the term robot.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://asimo.honda.com/
2. http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/08/22082003162032.asp
Electronic Voting Machine Cracker Challenge
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1423243
An anonymous reader writes "In the ongoing debate on the security of
electronic voting, an Atlanta area programmer has confronted Georgia
election officials on the potential for fraud in its statewide
electronic voting system. She [0]claims that she can be prepared to
crack the system within a week, and officials have accepted the
challenge." What makes this even more interesting is that the election
officials are encouraging the woman, so that any possible exploit can
be found and remedied.
Links
0. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/23voting.html
Freshmeat
Spam Filters
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/964
Spam is a growing problem for email users, and many solutions have been
proposed, from a postage fee for email to Turing tests to simply not
accepting email from people you don't know. Spam filtering is one way
to reduce the impact of the problem on the individual user (though it
does nothing to reduce the effect of the network traffic generated by
spam). In its simplest form, a spam filter is a mechanism for
classifying a message as either spam or not spam.
akpop3d 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133552/
akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its
small size, it offers a lot of features. It is completely RFC 1939
compliant.
brinance 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133565/
Brinance is a commandline financial planning and tracking program,
hoping to be a functional replacement for something overly complicated
like GnuCash for those who prefer the commandline. It is written in
simple Perl and has a few advanced features, such as scheduling
transactions in the future and having as many accounts as one might
care to have.
CGIComment 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133580/
CGIComment lets readers post comments to arbitrary HTML files. It can
be integrated seamlessly with CGINews, but does not fail to fullfil
your needs for a simple stand-alone application (like a guestbook). The
layout of comments is template-based and very flexible. Name
registration and encryption of passwords is supported. The included
administration script lets you change, delete, and restore comments at
any time.
Chronicle Lite 1.2.004
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133557/
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly blogging client application to
servers like Blogger.com, blojsom, and Nucleus CMS. It also aims to
satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a local copy of
their journal, as well as the copy that is published on an external Web
site.
conv_ara_html 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133535/
conv_ara_html is a tool for converting numeric chacter references that
represent Arabic characters into arabic characters, minizing the size
of Arabic HTML documents.
CxxTest 3.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133570/
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't
require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any
external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or
graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header
files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
Cyberduck 2.1beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133551/
Cyberduck is an SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser. It
lets you open connections to multiple servers using a document-based
interface. A simple "favorites" manager allows you to store
frequently-used servers. Drag-and-drop is supported for both
downloading and uploading files; just drag the file(s) or folder from
the Finder to the browser window (or vice versa) to start the transfer.
File deletion and renaming and checking and changing of permissions is
possible with a Finder-like information panel.
DP500Serv 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133465/
DP500-Serv is a simple program that shares media files present on your
HDD for use with your KISS DP-500 DVD player. It replaces the bundled
PC-Link software.
G Pascal 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133518/
G Pascal is a scripting version of Pascal. It is an interpreter, not a
compiler; it is based primarily on UCSD Pascal and tries to adhere to
strict guideline standards. Some alternative exceptions are made for
convenience, but the standard way of coding is always maintained.
GNOME Structured File Library 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133538/
The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading and
writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is
complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata
and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for
future conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and
is used in gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also
part of the AAF format.
Gnumeric 1.1.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133539/
Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its
goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration
path for people and organizations currently using proprietary
applications. It provides more sheet functions and greatly improved
accuracy when compared to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you
extend Gnumeric, adding functions, I/O formats, and real time data
capabilities. The existing Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you
define complex functions. Gnumeric is capable of reading and writing MS
Excel, and reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc, XBase, DIF,
SYLK, HTML, Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native
XML. It can also generate Latex, HTML, and others.
Goanseech 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133546/
Goanseech is a spinoff of the leverlada IRC leech script. One of its
core parts was extracted and refunded into a standalone server. This
server holds information about the basic pattern specifying the base
name of a TV series, which epsiodes were already fetched, and what is
the maximum number of episodes. Connecting through SSL to this server,
there is a curses client and a GTK shell, a script that parses Web
pages for Bittorrent links, matches them against the information on the
series server, and issues a batch file with ready Bittorrent retrieval
command lines to retrieve files that are wanted by the user (it also
controls the Bittorrent client), and a directory watcher which scans a
given set of directories and updates the series server with newly found
files.
hostable32v 08232003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133556/
hostable32v is an attempt to turn Unix 32v into a guest service that
will run under any POSIX-like OS. A possible long-term goal is to run
it under oslib or oskit. Unix 32v is an ancient version of Unix which
was originally a port of Seventh Edition UNIX to the VAX platform.
Hovergen 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133563/
Hovergen is a utility for automated generation of CD covers from a disc
database. It produces HTML output that can be printed to create the CD
covers.
ifmetric 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133554/
ifmetric is a Linux tool for setting the metrics of all IPv4 routes
attached to a given network interface at once.
JCards 4.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133326/
JCards is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in
any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple
applications/spreadsheets to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists,
etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the
fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface
that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon.
JCards was initially developed for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but
will run on any desktop or PDA that has a 1.1 or above version of the
Java Virtual Machine on it. The advantage of this is that the user can
use the same application on the PDA and desktop to manage their data.
KMuddy 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133547/
KMuddy is a MUD client for KDE, it runs under Unix/Linux. It includes
many features that you'd expect in a MUD client, including connection
profiles, multiple connections, support for MCCP and MSP, aliases,
triggers (with regexp support), scripting, macro keys, timers, and
more.
KPreg 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133529/
KPreg is a helper application for completing Web forms and other
programs. It provides an interface for entering commonly required data,
such as name, email, address, etc. With a simple click of the mouse,
any item in the text list is copied to the clipboard, and can then be
easily pasted in any form or application. KPreg can dock in the panel
for easy access (in KDE).
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.1.4 (Linux 2.5/2.6 patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133533/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application
(or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as
HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run
on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port
numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
LDAPd 0.71a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133524/
LDAPd is a pure Java LDAP protocol daemon that aims to be fully version
3 compliant. It has a Staged Event Driven Architecture (SEDA) with
several hot-pluggable components. LDAPd is currently built as an Apache
Avalon Phoenix application. The use of Avalon Framework has allowed the
development to maintain a pluggable architecture. Each module has been
developed as a Phoenix block.
lifstat 2003-08-05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133527/
lifstat is a small Linux utility that reads /proc/net/dev and reports
input and output statistics for available network interfaces over a
repeating time interval, similar to the BSD 'netstat -i' command.
Linux 2.6.0-test4 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133536/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
mdate 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133537/
Mdate is a freely-available mayan date utility. It calculates Mayan
Long Counts, Julian Day Numbers, and dates of the Mayan Tzolkin and
Haab calendars.
MEPIS Linux 2003.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133555/
MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as
a dedicated server. It is designed for both personal and business
purposes. It includes cutting-edge features such as a
live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS
partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased
TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE 3.1.2, and much more.
NetClassifieds 1.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133530/
Netclassifieds is a feature-packed online classified ads package
written in PHP. It has been specifically designed not to look like a
ordinary plain classifieds script, and is designed to give your users
more options. It uses an auction style because it is more friendly and
enjoyable than traditional formats, and takes advantage of category
featured, home page featured, gallery listing, bold listing, and
highlighted listing options.
neXtaW 0.14.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133521/
neXtaw is a modified version of the Athena Widgets with a N*XTSTEP
appearance. It is based on the Xaw3d 1.5 library.
Nicotine 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133576/
Nicotine is a feature-complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing
network. You can use it to upload, download, search, and chat. You can
keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek
client is supposed to do. If you are familiar with PySoulSeek, you'll
probably notice a striking resemblance in appearance.
phpSQLiteAdmin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133577/
phpSQLiteAdmin is a Web interface for the administration of SQLite
databases.
Platero 1.0 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133566/
Platero is a KDE GUI for the meta peer2peer server mldonkey. It
features ed2k links (from Konqueror), a DCOP interface, and nice KDE
integration.
ratpoison 1.3.0-beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133541/
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library
dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent
dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen, which has done
wonders in the virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window
manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to
minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality
pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to
avoid wasting precious screen space.
Scrubber 0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133526/
Scrubber is a server-side, high performance, extendable,
SMTP-independent mail content filtering system. It supports global,
per- domain, and per-user configurations with caching support. Any
number of configuration storage mechanisms are supported through the
plugin interface. It supports anti-virus scanning, whitelist/blacklist
matching, Bayesian probability scoring, and attachment blocking.
Clients exist for SMTP-level integration in the common client-server
architecture. Additional clients can be created for any mailer on any
platform.
Site Master 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133520/
Site Master is platform independent file manager that provides control
over directories and files on your Web host using just a browser via an
intuitive and user friendly interface. It can help you to organize and
control your Web site directories with no need to use FTP or Telnet
clients. It is very easy to install and use, and works in multi-user
environment, giving each user limited access to their own directory
tree, while privileged users can access any directory.
Slacker ToDo Lists 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133540/
Slacker ToDo Lists is a Mac OS X productivity app that allows you to
get organized, make outlines, write notes, keep appointments,
categorize, keep URL and file links, and get reminders.
Spacewar 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133561/
Spacewar is an arcade game in which two players have to destroy each
other's space ship by hitting them with their lasers. It uses SDL and
runs on both Linux and Windows.
Syslinux 2.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133525/
SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system
which operates off MS-DOS floppies, network servers using PXE firmware,
or from CD-ROMs. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of
Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX
floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that
can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created; and
requires only a very small DOS or Linux program to create in the first
place. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating
systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
The GNU Privacy Guard 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133542/
GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard) is GNU's tool for secure communication
and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital
signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is
compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in
RFC2440. As such, it is meant to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc.
Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without
any restrictions.
The Pycadia Project 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133558/
The Pycadia Project is home to vector gaming, python style. Current
project members are SpaceWarpy (a clone of the classic
"SpaceWar") and Vektoroids (an Asteroids clone). The games
are fronted by a configurable, easy to use GUI.
The Tab Completion Grade Book 1.0-beta4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133531/
The Tab Completion Grade Book is a free software Java Grade Book
program. It features multiple courses, multiple students,
arbitrarily-nested assignments, weighted assignments and categories,
XML data storage, and a configurable grading scale for each course. It
can also print a per-student summary.
ThingamaBlog 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133578/
ThingamaBlog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application
written in Java. Basic features include the ability to maintain
multiple blogs, the ability to easily manage lots of entries,
customizable templates, find, edit, and delete entries functions,
'Quick Tags' for on the fly HTML editing, customizable archiving
options, the ability to organize entries by category, previewing of
entries in HTML or in plain text, and one-click publishing.
transcode 0.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133581/
transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports
elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules
are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other
formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with
DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD
transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract
and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to
enable post-processing of AVI files.
UnicodeConverter 1.0.8a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133569/
UnicodeConverter is a Java/Windows/.NET program that converts text,
RTF, HTML, and Word documents in Vietnamese legacy formats (VNI,
VISCII, VPS, TCVN, or VIQR/Vietnet) to Unicode formats.
VCool 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133545/
VCool changes the PCI configuration data of a motherboard's chipset to
allow Athlon/Duron CPUs to go into power-save mode, to reduce heat.
VietIME 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133567/
VietIME is a Java-based Vietnamese input method editor (IME). It
enables the input of Vietnamese Unicode text into Java's AWT and Swing
text components.
VietPad 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133568/
VietPad is a Java/.NET cross-platform Vietnamese Unicode text editor
which allows you to open, edit, convert, print, and save Vietnamese
text files in Unicode formats.
Vstr string library 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133564/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for
network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so
adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This
model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of
memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string,
and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of
the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like
function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that
are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but
laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing
functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions
(among others).
Webesquema 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133574/
Webesquema is a PHP script that helps students/teachers design schemas
and diagrams. The diagrams can be saved or printed, and support
different styles (horizontal/vertical, colors, HTML, custom designs,
etc.).
WebVal 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133572/
WebVal is a system that will scan documents for fully-qualified HTTP
URLs, keeping its database fresh with newly-seen URLs. It can then be
requested to validate the URLs, whereby it will attempt to access each
URL via an HTTP request and record the response code; it maintains a
list of the most recent codes that have been retrieved. Response codes
are classified as "good" (URL is correct and a valid page is
there) and "bad" (URL is invalid or outdated). By default any
code other than a 2xx code is considered bad, but this can be changed
(e.g. to ignore 3xx redirection codes). WebVal can then be used in
report mode where it will scan documents for URLs as before, but will
report invalid URLs (that is, URLs in the database which have a number
of "bad" codes exceeding a certain threshold). These are then
printed to stderr in a format that shows the file and line number the
URLs were seen in so that they can be corrected.
Wegwerfen XDM 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133522/
Wegwerfen XDM is a theme designed after the German version of the
more-or-less famous halt screen of a more-or-less famous operating
system.
WMS-Proxy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133550/
WMS-Proxy is a Proxy Server which provides an OGC-compliant WMS
interface for proprietary Web Mapping Services like Mapblast.
xmbmon 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133548/
xmbmon is a monitoring program for motherboards which can monitor the
CPU temperatures and the frequency of CPU cooling fans, etc. The
package includes "mbmon", which can be used at the
commandline to report the temperatures, voltages, and RPM (rounds per
minute) of the fans, and "xmbmon", which displays the three
temperatures and a core voltage as simple curves.
XMLNuke 0.2.6 (PHP)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133579/
XMLNuke is a site content management. No database is needed and it has
a minimum setup. It only uses XML and XSLT files. The main engine is
working and supports internationalization, multiple sites, page caching
for improved performance, classes for custom modules, and much more.
xtermcontrol 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133544/
xtermcontrol enables dynamic control of XFree86 xterm properties. It
makes it easy to change colors, titles, fonts, and the geometry of a
running xterm, as well as to report the current settings of the
properties. Window manipulations such as (de)iconify, raise and lower,
maximize and restore, and reset are also supported. It also lets
advanced users issue any xterm control sequence.
yappa-ng 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133562/
yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a
comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web
interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with
resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user
selectable language support, and supports password protected albums,
hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery
overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for
each photo album.
Zero Install 0.1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133553/
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
Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnish immigration
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1726241
- by David "cdlu" Graham - In his latest attempt to quell the Linux
uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over
$2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a
law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States,
and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively
punished for the un-American ways of one ...
Taking steps toward open idea development
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/140213
- by Henrik Nilsen Omma - In an article here on NewsForge, Jordi
Carrasco-Munoz presented a scheme for pooling ideas. Following an open
development model, several of us have now started adding to and
improving it. I really like the idea of an information bank, and plan
to support it. I have a few concrete suggestions, and I've registered a
domain name to get us started.
An Open Letter to Darl McBride
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1746248
- by Eric S. Raymond - Mr. McBride: Late yesterday I learned that you
have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy
masterminded by IBM. You have urged the press and public to believe
that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and
Red Hat and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not
because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little gray
men from Armonk have put them up ...
Newsforge Newsvac
U.S. Army Brings Internet to Saddam's Hometown
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2242231
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army opened the first unrestricted
Internet access in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit Saturday in a
bid to convince skeptical Iraqis their occupation will bring tangible
benefits.
Dissection of the SCO Vegas presentation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1428254
Anonymous Reader writes "I would like to take a moment to bring to your
attention some of the glaring problems with SCO's recent presentation
in Las Vegas. Their case has always been thin and their story up until
this point has been anything but straight and to the point. This is an
attempt to point out some of the more obvious flaws."
Dennis Ritchie: I wrote the SCO code
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1426242
Anonymous Reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken
Thompson wrote the code cited as "proof" by SCO. This seems to fit
perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show,
and undermine Blake Stowell's claim "At this point it's going to be his
word against ours"."
WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1448237
Sure, everyone and their brother by now has noticed the striking
similarity of SCOfflaw CEO Darl McBride to a certain other individual
in the public relations field, generally more well-known but no less
reality-challenged. But like his counterpart, "Baghdad McBride" proves
himself beyond parody every time he opens his mouth, cramming both feet
farther and further in, and until he eventually implodes will no doubt
continue to offer up new pearls ...
Linux shows security superiority to Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1436244
Nine years ago this month, a student from the University of Helsinki in
Finland released upon the world a piece of software code that would go
on to revolutionize the way people think of computer software. When
Linus Torvalds began working on his now famous Linux kernel in 1991,
the idea of "free software" was unheard of. Today, Linux is installed
on millions of PCs and is being embraced by hobbyists and professionals
alike. Thanks to companies ...
IBM adds multithreading to Power 5
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1433233
Building on the technology it introduced with its Power 4 processor,
IBM last week announced it will incorporate simultaneous multithreading
into its upcoming 64-bit Power 5 processor. With its Power 4 chip, IBM
was able to significantly improve performance by incorporating two
microprocessor cores on the same dye. The Power 5 also packs two cores
on a dye, but each chip will be able to handle two threads
simultaneously, increasing performance ...
No purchase order required
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1225238
One of the best features of Free Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is
that no purchase orders are required to test or deploy the software.
You may, however, need a big fat pipe to the Internet to download some
of the stuff. A quick list of some software that companies may find
useful:
Editor's Note: What Is SuSE Waiting For?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/0426232
Since everyone has a theory on why SCO is doing what they are doing, I
will instead talk about something else that has been weighing on my
mind for the past few weeks. - SuSE.
IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2231259
IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source
software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount of lip
service to one of free software's most needed products.
Brussels to promote open source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/193209
Europe's public sector is to get a new official information service
encouraging the use of open source technology.
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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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