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Slashdot
schnell29 writes "I am looking for a small case and such to house my
next computer, and I have seen many mini, micro, flex ATX cases, but
Electronic News Is Shutting Its Doors
[0]ahess247 writes "You probably missed it, but last week, the
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http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/exhibit/hist_micro/hof/4004.htm
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http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.112102/223252037&ticker=RUK&ticker=ENL
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http://www.reedbusiness.com/portal/rp_home.htm
Speaking Out For Free Software In India
[0]inode_buddha writes "We all know how RMS and Bill Gates toured India
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http://www.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi/mass-memo.html
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http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-012-26-OS-SM-LL
CA Supreme Court Saves LiViD, Pavlovich
[0]joebeone writes "The [1]California Supreme Court has suprisingly
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http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/Samuelson_IP_dig_eco_htm.htmMartin Schulze Steps Down As SPI Vice President http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/020250
Tina Gasperson reports on NewsForge that Martin Schulze, Vice President
of Software in the Public Interest, [0]is resigning his position there
to protest the lack of time he says fellow SPI higher-ups are devoting
to the organization. Since SPI serves as a coordinating body for
several large-scale Free software projects (like GNOME and
OpenOffice.org), discord there should concern a lot of people. Update:
11/26 03:14 GMT by [1]T: That should read "OpenSource.org," not
"OpenOffice.org." Sorry.
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/25/1419208.shtml?tid=51 Spielberg to Produce Live-Action Tintin Movie(s) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/25/1321254
[0]jtauber writes "Looks like the Adventures of Tintin may be the next
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Slashback: Salon, Privacy, Pricedrops
Slashback with more on Salon's struggle to balance ads and subscriptions, online retailers versus online bargain hunters, the not-at-all-secret government proposal to obtain "Total Information Awareness" (including information about you), and more.
Massive Two Towers Battle
[0]ShadowLight writes ""In December vast hordes of eager filmgoers will
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BBS Links Database Back Online
[0]leviathan writes "After being down for almost a year, the original
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Virtual Simerica
Disoriented writes "A Time article speculates on [0]where the Sims Online is going. Interesting and scary to see what America would be like without our inhibitions." I've played a lot of the playtest, and can't wait for the final version to come out. Links 0. http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,391544,00.html?cnn=yes
Newsforge Reports
SPI Vice Prez resigns because other officers won't http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/25/1419208
Linux veteran looks for ways to introduce Linux to Congress http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/145234
Newsforge Newsvac
Anonymous Reader writes "
ActiveState Unveils PureMessage
Elaine Chong writes "ActiveState Corp. today released PureMessage 3.0 (formerly PerlMx), further strengthening the power of its trusted anti-spam, anti-virus, and policy compliance solution, greatly reducing IT administration surrounding unsolicited email and providing enhanced protection of end user inboxes."
MSOffice needs to open OpenOffice docs
Darnit writes "Ask Slashdot has a great question on making a MS Office plugin to open OpenOffice.org documents." Qplus, an open source embedded Linux toolkit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/0351206 In this article at LinuxDevices.com, Jerry Epplin takes a detailed look Qplus, an open source embedded Linux toolkit, examining what the project has accomplished -- and what is still to be done.
Review of Xandros Desktop 1.0
OSNews has a review of the Xandros Desktop 1.0, which is aimed as an alternative to Win9x users. The author talks about the installation and feature-set of Xandros, but he also did a mini-usability test, putting some of his Windows-oriented friends to use Xandros and he concludes that "what Xandros has achieved in the Windows usability is impressive."
First LUG in Burkina Faso
While Bill Gates is being presented giant condoms in India, one of the poorest nations in the world is using the advantages of free and open source software and building a generation of computer professionals to rise above poverty without the noblesse oblige of anyone. There is now a Linux user group in Burkina Faso -- and software written there is probably soon to follow.
Case study: Midgard framework in action
Henri Bergius writes: Nov 25th 2002 -- Martin Langhoff from CWA New Media has posted a case study on using the Midgard Content Management Framework in a large-scale project. The case study is available at: http://www.midgard-project.org/news/case-midgard-f ramework.html
Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It?
Slashdot discussion: Eloquence writes "At the 2002 Open Source Conference, law professor and cyberactivist Larry Lessig, last prominently featured here because of the Eldred case, asked some poignant questions: 'How many people have given to [the] EFF more money than they have given to their local telecom to give them shitty DSL service? How many people have given more money to [the] EFF than they give each year to support the monopoly--to ... MandrakeClubbers say they've been clubbed http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/25/2148255 As François Bancilhon moves to the helm of Mandrake, one of his first duties might be oiling the troubled waters in the Mandrake "club," whose members say that the club they've encountered in joining the Mandrake association is a bludgeon over the head. Some members of the club complain that while they were quick to pay for Mandrake 9.0, they're last in line to receive it. SuSE Linux Names Richard Seibt as New CEO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/25/2146217 Oakland, CA - 11/25/2002 - SuSE Linux, the international Open Source technology leader and solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Richard Seibt as the company's new Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, replacing Gerhard Burtscher.
Freshmeat
Libecc is a C++ elliptic curve cryptography library that supports fixed-size keys for maximum speed. The goal of this project is to become the first free Open Source library providing the means to generate safe elliptic curves, and to provide an important source of information for anyone with general interest in ECC.
Crypt Class 1.1
Crypt Class is a wrapper around the libmcrypt functions that offers a simplified interface and new features such as embedded IV. It provides an easy way to encrypt and decrypt data, and automatically creates and extracts IVs, storing them along with the encrypted string. It supports all of the ciphers in libmcrypt, including Twofish, Blowfish, and AES, and makes it easy to switch between them.
Directory administrator 1.2 (Stable)
Directory administrator is a UNIX users and groups manager for LDAP directory servers. It also allows you to manage your users' associated address book information, per-server access controls, and Sendmail mail routing. Its virtues are simplicity and user friendliness.
Dummynet 3.4-STABLE
Dummynet is a flexible tool originally designed for testing networking protocols, and since then (mis) used for bandwidth management. It simulates/enforces queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath effects. It also implements a variant of Weighted Fair Queueing called WF2Q+. It can be used on user's workstations, or on FreeBSD machines acting as routers or bridges.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.0
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
FX-Zacman 0.7
FX-Zacman is a maze game similar to Pacman. It uses the portable FOX Toolkit library.
geskoctrl 0.2.3.1
geskoctrl is an application to download/upload firmware for GESKO PBXes. geskoctrl is also useful for controlling these PBXes.
GIMP Text Colorer 1.0.3
GIMP Text Colorer is a GIMP plug-in that converts an image and the desired source text into colored HTML/XHTML text.
googleware 1.5
Googleware is a little Web application that let you request for several queries to be regulary asked to Google. You will be notified by mail each time a new entry is found, and you may browse query results with any regular Web browser. HTML Forms generation and validation 2002.11.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104036/ HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field.
iptacct 0.04
iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD database.
irssi 0.8.6
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer being maintained.
Jaffm 0.4.8
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 instant command execution, an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Jconsole 1.31
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of JBoss.
JGraph 1.0.6 (For Java 1.4)
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
kavi2svcd 0.5.1
kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them.
kmuser 1.2 (Stable)
kmuser is a User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop. It is designed for administrating a school network. Therefore it has built in a lot of useful features to manage many users and groups of users. If the quota filesystem is installed on your system managing of user quotas is supported as well.
libbadpenguin 1.0.6
libbadpenguin is a small static library used in many utilities that are part of the "Bad Penguin" GNU/Linux distribution. It provides functions to manage the filesystem, doubly-linked lists (chains), the terminal (cursor and color), and to handle TAR archives. The goal of libbadpenguin is to speed up the development of console tools and utilities without requiring big static libraries such as 'ncurses' or 'GNU glib'. It is intended to be as small as possibile in order to be linked statically to avoid dependency problems.
libCapsiNetwork 0.2.3 (Development)
libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library for fast development of server daemons. Creating a server daemon is as easy as adding a few lines of code and writing a handler function for input events.
libgringo and gringosh 3.1.0
libgringo and gringosh is a library to writes applications that run both in console (using ncurses) and under X-Window (using gtk). libgringo detects if you are running from the console or under X-Window, and selects the right library to use without recompiling your code. gringosh is a parser that uses libgringo to replace cdialog. It was written to make some configuration scripts work both in console and under X-Window without any modification. gringosh also provides features more powerfull than cdialog - for example, the ability to have more than two buttons per form.
libhardware and scanmodule 0.7.1
libhardware is a very small static library used in many utilities that are part of Antonio Gallo's (AGX) GNU/Linux distribution, "Bad Penguin". It provides functions to access information about your system hardware, to detect the hardware, and to handle kernel modules automatically. It is able to enumerate all PCI devices, enumerate all EIDE disks and CDROMs, enumerate all SCSI disks and CDROMs, enumerate all EIDE/SCSI disk partitions, and check if a detected device is supported in the Linux kernel using a custom PCI database. The included shell scripts 'probedisk' and 'probepart' detect disks, CDROMs, and partitions. The included 'scanmodule' utility allows you to detect and load kernel module automatically.
LibTPT 1.10.3 (Release)
TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast, focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include on-the-fly HTML and source code generation. Linux Intrusion Detection System 2.0.1 for 2.5.47 (LSM) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104016/ The Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) is a patch which enhances the kernel's security by implementing a reference monitor and Mandatory Access Control (MAC). When it is in effect, chosen file access, all system/network administration operations, any capability use, raw device, memory, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root. You can define which programs can access specific files. It uses and extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the kernel to enhance the security. You can finely tune the security protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts through the network, and more.
mod_authenticache 2.0.6
mod_authenticache provides a simple and generic method for caching authentication information on the client side in order to enhance performance. It has been tested with several Basic HTTP authentication modules, and has an Apache 2.0.x optional function exporter for caching credentials from any custom authentication module.
NeoStats 2.5.0 RC2
NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or "StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It also includes a number of "Fun" services, like "LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers. Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7, and NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support being developed.
Open Proxy Scanning Bot 1.0RC3 (Stable)
open proxy scanning bot (formerly NeoBOPM) is a loadable module for the NeoStats IRC Services. It scans clients connecting to the IRC network for insecure proxies, and also looks up a DNS blacklist for previously registered insecure proxies. It caches the results of scans to increase perfomance, and with multiple bots, can be configured to load balancing. It currently supports Hybrid7, Unrealircd, and Ultimate, with support for other ircds planned.
OpenSSL 0.9.7 Beta 4 (Beta)
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
Paketto Keiretsu 1.0
The Paketto Keiretsu is a collection of tools that use new and unusual strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. They tap functionality within existing infrastructure and stretch protocols beyond what they were originally intended for. It includes Scanrand, an unusually fast network service and topology discovery system, Minewt, a user space NAT/MAT router, linkcat, which presents a Ethernet link to stdio, Paratrace, which traces network paths without spawning new connections, and Phentropy, which uses OpenQVIS to render arbitrary amounts of entropy from data sources in three dimensional phase space.
Pixory Beta-1.15 (Stable)
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-9
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers. A graphical configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS.
Q 4.1.1
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
RAdmin 1.7
RAdmin is a Web-based Radius user administration package that works with Radiator and any SQL database on any platform. It provides pages that allow you to add/change/remove users, and to view usage summaries, online modems, service profiles, per-user and per-service Radius check and reply items, and more. The pages available to end users provide usage summaries and facilitate password changing.
Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.4.0
Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for any language that is regular.
rpm-update 2002-10-19 (Stable)
rpm-update is a Python script that automates the downloading, reporting, and installation of errata RPMs on a RedHat Linux distribution. The goal of the utility is to be simple and transparent (making it clear what it is doing) while still being easy to use. It can be automated (via cron) or run interactively via the command line. A configuration file is used to store commonly used options.
ServletSurvey 3.0
Survey is a Web-based survey program that uses XML files to describe surveys. It provides a friendly and powerful user interface without requiring cookies or JavaScript, and a powerful rule system for controlling user movement through the survey and conditional question requirements. Answers are recorded in a database and can be exported to CSV and HTML.
Share360 by Cybozu 2.0
Share360 by Cybozu is an instant, cost-effective Web-based groupware suite integrating a customizable intranet portal page with key collaborative applications including document management, project management, contact databases, a group scheduler, a bulletin board, a to-do list, and Web-based email. A 60-day free trial download is available.
shorten 3.5.0
shorten is a lossy/lossless audio compressor.
sqlopus 3.1.1
sqlopus is a Web interface for controlling up to 20 database servers. It features total user and group management, server monitoring, and scheduled generation of HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV, and XML reports. Reports can be shared to other users within the same group or made publicly visible, and can contain exceptionally advanced database diagrams. It also supports "locked down" servers, large binary objects, image thumbnails, remote backups, and overridable styles.
STPHPLibrary 0.8.0 (Development)
STPHPLib is a suite of software components for developing object oriented Web-based applications. It uses PHP objects to encapsulate common GUI controls such as the check box, radio button, and tool bars, which are not necessarily present in HTML language, and allows them to be used to create sophisticated Web applications.
Tnefclean 1.2
tnefclean is a Perl script that allows users of any mail client to receive email and attachments from MS Outlook and Exchange users without having to decode winmail.dat files. Email is disassembled and reassembled on the fly to make them conform more closely to accepted standards.
XChat-XMMS 0.7
XChat-XMMS allows XMMS to be controlled from within XChat. It can send out messages to channels or other IRC users, and supports searching playlists with Perl regular expresions, DCC transfers, understands MP3 and Ogg-Vorbis tags, caches playlists for quick searches, and allows remote playlist browsing via /msg. It also supports auto- messages and auto-topics.
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
Gadgets: Key Katcher
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
Caffeine: Energy Gum
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers) http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
Watches: onHand PC Watch
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
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