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Slashdot
Congress Again Considering Database Protection Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/034221
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is [0]reporting on a new bill in
Congress: '... a proposed bill that would prevent wholesale copying of
school guides, news archives and other databases which do not enjoy
copyright protection.'" The idea of [1]database protection legislation
has been kicking around for a long time. It's a bad idea, but it would
make a lot of money for a few companies, so they keep pushing it, and
no doubt will eventually get it passed.
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030905/tc_nm/tech_database_dc
1.
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/ALA_Washington/Issues2/Copyright1/Database_Protection_Legislation/Database_Protection_Legislation.htm
Microsoft Settles Be Antitrust Suit for $23.25M
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/0257220
[0]ewhac writes "Without admitting wrongdoing, Microsoft today agreed
to pay $23,250,000 to Be, Inc., to [1]settle anti-trust claims against
the software giant. The payout is anticipated to be used to complete
the orderly dissolution of the company. Shortly after announcing sale
of key assets to Palm, Be, Inc., [2]filed suit against Microsoft in
February 2002, [3]alleging destruction of its business via illegal
exclusionary and anti-competitive business practices."
Links
0. http://ewhac.best.vwh.net/
1. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030905/sff027_1.html
2. http://www.beincorporated.com/press/pressreleases/02-02-19_msft_complaint.html
3. http://www.beincorporated.com/msft_complaint.pdf
Electronic Voting: The Other Side of the Story
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2140216
_randy_64 writes "We've all read about the [0]perils of online voting.
But in [1]an article in MIT's [2]Tech Review, noted technologist
[3]Simson Garfield looks at the other side of the story and comes away
thinking that e-voting might not be so bad, if done properly. He
mentions several ways that traditional ballot voting is just as
'hackable' as the electronic version."
Links
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/199210&tid=172
1. https://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel090303.asp?p=1
2. http://www.techreview.com/
3. http://www.simson.net/
The Innovators' Ball
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2136214
[0]Babylon Rocker writes "Latest Cringely: [1]The Innovators' Ball: Why
Business Isn't as Fun as it Used to be. 'Sharp business is cheating and
not getting caught.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]mex.com ['spa' in gap]
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030904.html
SCO's Next Target: SGI?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2131217
[0]FatRatBastard writes "ZDNet News is [1]speculating that SCO's next
target in its legal actions against Linux may be SGI. According to the
article its legal strategy will be to claim that XFS is a Unix
derivative and therefore under SCO control, much like they claim JFS is
in their suit with IBM. One fact not mentioned in the article that
would support SGI being the next target is the malloc code they claimed
was infringing at this years SCOForum was copyrighted SGI."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5072061.html
Myst Online Trailer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2125204
[0]Allaran writes "The latest installment in the Myst story, an online
experience entitled [1]URU: Ages of Myst, is ramping up to its release.
This has been up and coming for some time, but a [2]trailer
(Warning:20MB) [[3]BitTorrent link via GameTab] has just been released,
made entirely from within the game engine. Apparently, there is a
significant offline game that can be played, with the option to
subscribe as well."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://uru.ubi.com/
2. http://www.uruobsession.com/multimedia/video/trailers/trailer2.mpg
3. http://www.gametab.com/files/torrents.php?fuse=70
Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/196242
[0]dki writes "Another attempt is being made to head off the lawsuits
DirecTV has been filing against purchasers of smart-card programmers.
This time, lawyers have [1]filed suit under the mob-busting Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) federal organized crime
statute, accusing DirecTV of organized extortion, money laundering and
fraud. Background on the ongoing saga can be found [2]here and
[3]here."
Links
0. http://www.dawnandgreg.com
1. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6865
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/0351233&tid=129
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/190232&tid=126
Java vs .NET
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1855250
CHaN_316 writes "Yahoo is running a story called '[0]Is Java Finished?'
It provides a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of [1]J2EE
and contrasts them with [2].NET. Classic arguments are brought up like
Java being great for portability while .NET ties you down to Microsoft
products, etc. It's interesting that they bring up the [3]Java
Community Process, and how it is a rather slow moving procedure that is
causing Java to become stagnant."
Links
0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20030904/tc_nf/22216&e=5
1. http://java.sun.com/j2ee/
2. http://www.microsoft.com/net/
3. http://www.jcp.org/
Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1738249
[0]Mikkeles writes "From an [1]Associated Press story: 'It sounds like
a chapter out of "Spy vs. Spy": Researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University have launched a [2]project called Camera Watch that lists
Internet cameras that monitor public spaces, letting Web surfers try
the role of bored security guard.' The site permits searching for an
available webcam in the geographical region (US) of your choice. About
600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030904.gtjailcamsept4/BNStory/Technology/
2. http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/camwatch/
Separate Cargo and Personnel Missions for NASA?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1731237
l8f57 writes "Hal Gerham (from the NASA CAIB report) is calling for
[0]cargo and people to be separated into different missions. He also
goes on about how a re-usable spacecraft may not be the most cost
efficient vehicle."
Links
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/04/sprj.colu.house.hearing/
Freshmeat
Ajaqs 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134951/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
related to products and services.
AndroMDA 2.02 Final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134896/
AndroMDA is a code generation framework that follows the model driven
architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and
generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other).
Battlemech 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134926/
Battlemech is a game in which you steer a mech from a top-down view in
various arenas. A lot of weapons and powerups are available. It is
meant to be played on a LAN, but you can play against bots, too (though
the bots don't score). It is based on an advanced version of the Quake
engine and written in QuakeC.
Buildtool 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134965/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134957/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the
Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134933/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides
transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to
any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application
without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been
successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL,
SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.20rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134980/
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating
systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution
for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley
command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol
("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The
Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket
(a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced
functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript
Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support
real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that
supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A
customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP
Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript
files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON,
HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.
CVSGnome 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134989/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a
systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source
Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This
script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources.
When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
CycleAtlas 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134903/
CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a custom road atlas. It can be
used to store or to plan new rides. Functions includes generation of
planimetry, profiles, and route time tables of rides. A map editor is
included, in order to create a custom road map.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134899/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux
distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a
functional and easy to use desktop.
DCGUI-QT 0.2.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134936/
DCGUI-QT a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
Digital Tester 0.5 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134940/
Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test
management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party
tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results,
allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have
bugs.
DotPHP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134931/
DotPHP is framework similar to ASP.NET. It contains FormForge, Web
components, NuSOAP, and PHPBaseClasses.
Dr. Geo 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134945/
Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you
to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within
their geometric constraints.
DSPAM 2.6.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134938/
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.
evelin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134906/
Evelin is a Linux distribution based upon Mandrake. Its main purpose is
to be kept secure and small, while providing the basic functionality
that system administrators might need. It runs within its own chroot
jail.
FLEX-db 3.0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134891/
FLEX-db is an enterprise digital asset manager. It takes and links
metadata with files, creates thumbnails, and processes files using
business rules. It has a JSP client, Java app server for file input and
output, and an EJB metadata layer.
FreeBSD JDK 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134900/
This is the offical FreeBSD port of Sun's Java Development Kit,
including compilers, a run-time environment, appletviewer, and standard
Java executors, the Java debugger, and more.
g3data 1.4.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134966/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned
graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image
formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
Gtk2-Perl 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134897/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The
bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to
the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
Guis widget server 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134983/
Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for
widget requests (in the Python or Ruby scripting languages), and emit
replies or events in textual lines (e.g. Lispy, XML or plain token
syntax). It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and
scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to
delegate the user interface to another process.
H2O Rotisserie 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134977/
H2O is a system that supports gathering people around ideas. In
addition to the traditional features of learning management systems,
H2O includes support for collaboration between projects through the
sharing of syllabus elements and through joint discussions between
projects. It also supports Rotisserie-structured discussions, which
provide an alternative to traditional online discussion boards by
structuring the timing and flow of discussions. It can be used as a
traditional course management platform, but it can also be used for
more informal projects centered around the exploration of a set of
ideas, whether the project be a conference, an ongoing public
discussion, or a traditional academic course.
Haystack Snapshot 0820
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134946/
Haystack is a powerful tool designed to enable each and every
individual manage all of her information in the way that makes the most
sense. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications that
only handle certain information "types", and recording only a
fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, users can define
whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of
information they find most effective. Such personalization of
information management will dramatically improve your ability to find
what you need when you need it.
HTTP-WebTest 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134976/
HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local
Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a
detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its
functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test
types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes
with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with
third-party plugins.
ImTask 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134893/
ImTask is a set of Ant tasks for sending Instant Message notifications.
It currently supports AIM (TOC protocol), XMPP/XMPP Secure (Jabber),
and MSN.
iTab Pro QuickNavBar 2.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134905/
iTab Pro QuickNavBar is a high-speed, multi-level, scalable topbar
navigation tool. As well as tabs and switchbars, it includes deep
multi-level frame-crossing drop-down menus and an optional search
interface.
ITracker 2.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134928/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support
multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features
such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components,
detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports
with charts, configurable field values, customizable project level
fields, pluggable authentication, a built-in scheduler, and email
notifications.
Jaffm 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134917/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for
Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It
is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will
have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a
simple but elegant user interface.
Java XTools 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134955/
The Java XTools are an extensive collection of enhanced functions and
features for Java and Java 3D. It includes an enhanced BranchGroup
Node, object loaders for Renderware .rwx files and Caligari TrueSpace
.cob and .scn files, RotationInterpolators for combinations of the X-,
Y-, and Z-axes, enhanced keyboard navigation, and a text to texture
converter. It also includes functions and classes for images and PNG
files, a ByteArrayReader, data download including a disk caching
mechanism, and enhancements for Swing components.
Jaxor 3.3 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134961/
Jaxor is a simple but powerful tool for creating an object to
relational mapping layer. It allows developers to painlessly insert,
update, and delete rows from tables, but can be expanded on to create
an extensible mapping layer that creates a full domain model,
transparently mapping to database tables.
KAON 0826
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134956/
KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business
applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy
ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are
based on relational databases.
Lame Node System 0.6-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134948/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files,
pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-09-05 (Pattern Definitions)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134970/
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.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.2.0 (Linux 2.5/2.6 patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134968/
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.
lin-seti 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134987/
lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache
of work units for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It should run without any
problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be
fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so
you can share the same cache on dual boot systems.
Linux FreeS/WAN 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134978/
Linux FreeS/WAN provides IPSEC (IP Security, which is both encryption
and authentication) kernel extensions and an IKE (Internet Key
Exchange, keying and encrypted routing daemon) as well as various rc
scripts and documentation. It is known to interoperate with other IPSEC
and IKE system already deployed by other vendors such as OpenBSD,
Cisco, or CheckPoint. It also features Opportunistic Encryption, subnet
extrusion, and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with
Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates.
Linux Test Project ltp-20030905
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134943/
The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull,
and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open
source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and
stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual
testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
Mod Four 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134888/
Mod Four is a modified version of the default theme in the Kahakai 0.4
release.
Open Office Software Development Kit 1.1 Release Candidate Three
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134950/
The Open Office Software Development Kit is an add-on for
OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for
programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions
(UNO components) for OpenOffice.org.
openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.22-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134985/
openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel
allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware.
openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to
modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI,
Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between
nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.
OpenVPN 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134972/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private
Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private
networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. OpenVPN's
principal strengths include wide cross-platform portability, excellent
stability, support for dynamic IP addresses and NAT, adaptive link
compression, single TCP/UDP port usage, a modular design that offloads
most crypto tasks to the OpenSSL library, and relatively easy
installation that in most cases doesn't require a special kernel
module.
P2P-Radio 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134925/
P2P-Radio is a peer-to-peer audio (MP3) and video (NSV) broadcasting
system that features freeloader detection, stream signing, SHOUTcast
support, an easy-to-use GUI, and a separate monitor application which
displays the current structure of the P2P network.
Pen 0.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134901/
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.
PHPGenerator 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134927/
PHPGenerator is a homepage generator which supports creation and
editing of homepages without any knowledge about HTML. Nevertheless,
different HTML tags can be added manually or by using the functionality
of the generator.
PircBot 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134915/
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily.
Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC
events, flood protection, DCC chat, file resuming, ident support,
multiple servers, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is
suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full
documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute
step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
Prima 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134914/
Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.
Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11
workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit
contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image
processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves
identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.
Process Change Detection System 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134973/
Process Change Detection System is a script to monitor changes in
processes--not to monitor if your Web server is still running, but to
see if there are new programs running. When debugging a honeypot
logging, you often see that there's an extra inetd running, to open up
a backdoor port. Or, less dramatically, people login to a system and
"forget" to logout.
PyGantt 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134935/
PyGantt reads a project description from a xml formatted file and
outputs a html Gantt diagram.
Qastrocam 3.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134984/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux
device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a
telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device.
It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do
long exposure (several seconds) captures.
qjackctl 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134981/
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server
daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is
written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using
Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK
daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way
to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
Rabid Rabbit 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134979/
Rabid Rabbit is a 2D arcade style shoot 'em up. On each of its sixteen
levels, you are required to get sheep to safety while avoiding and
killing everything that is out to get you. It is controlled using a
mouse.
Recovery Is Possible! 6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134932/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy
boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of
filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS,
HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of
utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and
Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE network support.
S tar 1.5a23 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134910/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
schedtool 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134918/
schedtool can be used to alter or query a process' scheduling policy
under Linux. The O(1)-sched-patch is required to take full advantage of
it. All scheduling modes of Linux are supported.
Scrubber 0.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134988/
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.
Sentinel IRC Services 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134939/
Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet,
and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud
1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features
a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a
Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully
supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions.
SiouX 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134913/
SiouX is an HTTP server developed mainly for use in Linux. It supports
CGI/1.1, and forks off children to serve connections. It is designed to
be fast and easy to use.
SlackCheck 2.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134941/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with
the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine
though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of
non-standard packages for every machine.
slashem 0.0.7E3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134967/
Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a variant
of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters,
more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races,
shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible
objects and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK
windowing interface and higher resolution tile sets as options.
Snownews 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134912/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that
comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and
2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
Sound Juicer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134954/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and
automatic tagging of files.
STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.3.16 (Earlgrey Linux)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134909/
Franki and Earlgrey Linux are proof-of-concept Linux distributions for
small and embedded-class systems whose configuration is controlled by a
loosely-knit suite of scripts designed to produce utility toolchains,
known as STUBS. STUBS (the Toolchain and Utility Build Suite) is driven
by an easily-tailored set of configuration files and acquires the
requisite sources by download. Subject to runtime dependencies, it is
capable of working within the Franki Linux environment.
SuaveDNS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134907/
SuaveDNS is a set of Perl and PHP programs which allow DNS
administrators to easily add, remove, or update zones with an easy to
use Web-based control panel. The DNS server is DJBDNS, and the data is
stored in a MySQL database.
Support Information Tracker 2.0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134929/
Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations.
Features include multiple document versions, group permissions,
document submission reviews, and many more.
Sussen 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134942/
Sussen is a security scanner which remotely tests computers or other
devices and provides a report on their vulnerabilities. It features
Python-based security tests, a GNOME interface, a GNOME-DB backend, and
customizable reports.
The Distribulator 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134944/
The Distribulator is an SSH-based command execution and file transfer
utility. It includes support for both batch and console mode, XML
configuration, multiple server enviornments, and auditing via syslog.
The Distribulator is meant to be distributed computing for the rest of
us.
The Distributed Library Project 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134958/
The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's
books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing
information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest
enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users
are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by
proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is
available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an
eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books
on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return
them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall
"score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of
a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and
collaboritve filtering.
The Singularity System 2003.09.05-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134895/
The Singularity System allows developers to easily create applications
and web services based on service definitions expressed in XML schema
language. It allows any program developed with it to become
"pluggable", meaning that parts can be swapped out at
runtime. "Method calls" in the form of messages can be sent
either to local code or code mounted on remote machines.
Virtual Object System 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134908/
The Virtual Object System (VOS) is an infrastructure and collection of
applications for building a multiuser object-oriented virtual reality
for the Internet. An abstract messaging layer (the VOS core) provides a
powerful abstraction, presenting a peer-to-peer distributed system as a
single unified whole. The 3D client (Ter'Angreal) enables any number of
users to interact in a virtual environment by communicating with one
another and by modifying and building onto the virtual environment
itself. This projects aims to realize the vision of a free 3D immersive
Internet.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134975/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
the Internet.
WaveSurfer 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134953/
WaveSurfer is a sound visualization/manipulation tool for novice and
advanced users, with a simple and intuitive user interface. It can be
adapted to different tasks, such as speech research and education,
speech/sound analysis, and sound annotation/transcription. You can also
make more advanced/specialized applications by extending it with custom
plugins or embed WaveSurfer components in other applications. Its
flexible interface handles many different file formats, and it runs on
many flavors of Windows and Unix. It also supports encoding and Unicode
with unlimited file size, and more.
Wipe Release Candidate 0901
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134947/
Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the file or files to be
destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk
access, in order to lessen the chance of data recovery using techniques
such as magnetic force microscopy.
WTP 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134904/
WTP is a Web-based FTP client that features bookmarks, uploading,
downloading, deleting, moving, and renaming of files and directories.
It allows administrators to limit the hostnames to which users can
connect. Currently only Unix FTP servers are supported.
X-ChaMan 0.7.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134923/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an
easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and
chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
Xaraya 0.9.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134502/
Xaraya is extensible, Open Source software written in PHP. It utilizes
robust permissions, data management, and multilingual systems to
dynamically integrate and manage content. Its modular,
database-independent architecture introduces tools which separate form,
function, content, and design.
XEmacs 21.5.15 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134916/
XEmacs (formerly known as Lucid Emacs) is a powerful, extensible text
editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of
GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to ate
with recent versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a collaboration
of Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of
Illinois with additional support having been provided by Amdahl
Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of
volunteer effort.
YASM 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134902/
YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from
the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g.,
NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats.
Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module.
Yorick Maintenon Branch 1.5.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134952/
Yorick is a language for scientific computing à la
Matlab/Octave. The Maintenon Branch is an enhanced version of Yorick,
supporting true color image display and printing, extended C type
support, support for compiled extensions in dynamic libraries, and
readline binding.
Newsforge Reports
Politics in Free Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234
- by Tom Chance - When he added a line crediting the United States Army
to four of his applications, Neil Stevens created a small storm in the
KDE community; politics, people said, was not to interfere with KDE,
and his credit was removed. However, when the KDE Web site took part in
the online protest against software patents in Europe, people said
politics was important to KDE. So what role does politics play in KDE,
and in Free Software in ...
OpenOffice trails MS Office in vulnerabilities
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1414247
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This week Microsoft Office once again
affirmed its leadership in the office software world by releasing news
of not one, two, or three, but five security holes. Meanwhile,
OpenOffice.org, the primary open source competitor to MS Office, has no
vulnerabilities to report. And OpenOffice developers say they have no
plans to introduce Microsoft-competitive vulnerabilities, even though
most PC users obviously consider ...
Linux Advisory Watch - September 5th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1143203
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for
sendmail, gdm, node, pam_smb, vmware, horde, phpwebsite, eroaster,
mindi, gallery, atari800, sendmail, and up2date. The distributors
include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft steps up Linux assault with benchmark claim
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1531208
OwlWhacker writes "Microsoft has released file and web server benchmark
results which claim to show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind
Windows 2003 on Intel systems in a price-performance comparison."
SCO in fight with self
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1534234
Anonymous Reader writes "Since at least August, SCO have been floating
the idea of sending invoices to Linux users. It's even been reported,
seemingly incorrectly, back in August, that SCO was beginning to send
invoices. The invoice story has been taken up with a vengence in the
last few days, for example, here, here and here. Now SCO in Australia
says the invoicing plan doesn't "ring true" and contradicts recent very
strategy discussions. ...
Germans Have It Right, Standing Up to SCO!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1837213
Jim Musser writes "SCO fined for Linux claims." The SCO Group Inc. has
been fined $10,800 for violating a German court's ruling that SCO must
cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual
property, the Lindon, Utah, company confirmed on Monday.
The Linux Test Project ltp-20030905 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1835214
Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite has been
released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2000+ tests for
the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as:
test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with
fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5/2.6 kernel releases,
technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage
analysis tool.
UNDP releases OS primer for public review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1811221
An anonymous coward writes "The UNDP is putting out a open source
primer draft for public review for three weeks before the document is
sent for publication and distribution through UNDP communication
channels. After initial publication, the primer will be maintained as a
live document, updated to reflect recent changes. Feedback on this
primer is being solicited. Further details can be found here. A
previous paper on FOSS and governments, based ...
School switches to linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/175250
Anonymous Reader writes "An article in T.H.E. Journal by a school tech
administrator talks about his experiences making the switch from
Windows and Microsoft apps to Linux and Open Source. He talks about
what motivated him to do it and the advantages the school gained from
the initiative, as well as the problems encountered."
Microsoft Palladium Threat Just Around The Corner
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1529235
OwlWhacker writes "The spectrum of Palladium/TCPA and of all its
negative consequences is finally appearing on the horizon with all of
its ugliness."
Rilke CMS 0.95 beta released!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/158226
Jay Sheth writes "I am happy to announce the release of Rilke CMS 0.95
beta, after several months of hard work!
SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux Final Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/147258
Anonymous Reader writes "After a few months in beta, SciTech Software
has just released the final version of their main product, SciTech SNAP
Graphics, for Linux. The 2D drivers are reportedly much faster than the
equivelants found on the default XFree86 release. There is also a
review by the LinuxFormat magazine about the project. Overall, it is
something that is worth checking out if you are into additional speed
and feature-set, too bad ...
SCO evidence falls flat in Sydney
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/143234
Anonymous Reader writes "Businesses should move forward with their
adoption of open source, despite fears that they may be targeted by SCO
for breach of copyright, industry representatives said at a recent Unix
conference. Greg Lehey, president of the Australian Unix and Open
Systems User Group (AUUG), speaking in the "Who Owns Unix?" panel
discussion at the AUUG conference in Sydney yesterday, said that he
hadn't seen "even the slightest ...
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Watch with Built-in Grounding Strap
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Gadgets: Mobile Power Inverter
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Gadgets: Presentation Remote
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Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
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Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
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Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
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Gadgets: Laser Widow
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Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display
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PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case
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Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
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Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
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Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
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Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
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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/
Sourceforge
WAP11GUI version 0.12 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307273
WAP11GUI is an SNMP management application for the Linksys WAP11
wireless access point. It provides a Unix/Linux user with a graphical,
QT based interface with which to configure and manage a WAP11 AP over a
LAN. The biggest news (if you could call it that) in this release is
that a memory leak that went unnoticed for 2 years has been fixed. Many
thanks to the user who took the time to report this issue. The leak was
really only noticable when using the ethernet/wireless statistics
windows. Randomly selected binary packages will be posted in the
following days. I don't have access to every single falvor and version
of Linux, let alone other operating systems - I release binaries for
systems that I happen to have installed and working at the moment, and
that's it. If you'd like to see your OS/distribution supported, you
might want to consider creating and uploading your own packages. Have
fun pushing that "Help" button, Ori Pessach
Babeldoc 1.1.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307275
After a month of work, Babeldoc 1.1.9 has been released. Babeldoc is
integration tool that can plumb together data flows. It is completely
configurable and scriptable. It is heavily XML biased but not
exclusively so. This is going to be the last development release - the
next set of releases are going to be Release candidates to version 1.2.
This now has the J2EE module added. Please test. I would be interested
in how to more diverse container support in the build. Additionally
lots of changes to the documentation. The Configuration Information
Objects are now widespread. Lots of small fixes throughout.
e1000-5.2.16 stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307264
e1000-5.2.16 stable release is available in .tar.gz format to compile
against any 2.4 kernel. This project contains the Linux kernel driver
for the Intel(R) PRO/100 Ethernet devices, Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit
Ethernet devices, and Intel(R) PRO/10GbE devices. This project serves
as a focal point for further driver development and discussion.
Health Monitor 1.1 Beta Updated
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307293
Health Monitor is a System Monitoring Application developed with Visual
Basic .NET, it use WMI to collect system performance (CPU, Memory ...),
check disk space, services, events from Event Viewer and notify by
e-mail the administrator. Fixed a small bug on start-stop service from
GUI (it didn't refresh the status).
Archetypes 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306981
Archetypes is a framework for the development of new Content Types in
Zope/CMF/Plone. Schema driven automatic form generation, simple
integration with rich content types, and a lower entry bar to the
complex requirements Zope places on new content objects. Archetypes
1.0.1 was just released. This a bugfix release, which solves many
issues related to the use of ExternalEditor with TextFields, as well as
the PrimaryFieldMarshaller. There are going to be probably one or two
more releases before ceasing development on the 1.0 branch, but they
will be primarily bugfixes. From now on, development focuses Archetypes
1.1, which will contain many improvements on the i18n field. The HEAD
will be undergoing deep changes in the next days, were we will be
working at the "Castle
Sprint":http://plone.org/events/sprints/castlesprint/wiki/FrontPage on
a tentative to make "Archetypes":http://sf.net/projects/archetypes use
"Ape":http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/Ape as a storage layer. See
"here":http://plone.org/events/sprints/castlesprint/wiki/ArchetypesTeam
for more info. We are probably going to be breaking python 2.1
compatibility on the 1.1 release as well. The latest version of the
docs is available at the "usual place":http://plone.sf.net/archetypes,
as well as included on the
"tarball":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.0.
1.tgz?download. -- Sidnei da Silva dreamcatching :: making your dreams
come true
"http://dreamcatcher.homeunix.org":http://dreamcatcher.homeunix.org
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