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[osdn business] November 29, 2002
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Slashdot
[0]Dan writes "[1]Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64,
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http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4793
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/30/1219208&tid=125ZDNet Australia Interviews Richard Alston http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2253215
[0]ynotds writes "ZDNet Australia has an [1]interview with notorious
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20270255,00.htm
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http://www.efa.org.au/
Linux Kernel 2.4.20 Released
[0]punkmac writes "It's that time again to do the thing we all love to
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http://www.punkmac.com/
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http://www.kernel.org/
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.20
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http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
Hark! I Hear a Dropped Packet!
aarondsouza writes "The [0]New Scientist has an article about [1]Chris Chafe, a cellist and director of the [2]Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in California, who has the idea that one can use sound as an audible measure of the health of an internet connection. By sending a bunch of sound pulses across the line and measuring echo time, an average ping time of 10ms would be heard as a 100Hz tone. The idea is that the human ear is much more sensitive to variations in pitch, and thus "listening" to the connection would be a better indicator of its health. The article is short on technical specs but the project page ([3]SoundWIRE) has more." Links
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http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~cc/
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http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/
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http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/Problems With OEM ATI Cards And ATI's Linux Driver http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2237218
[0]Doug Bostrom writes "Over at [1]FlightGear.org, Andy Ross
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http://www.flightgear.org/
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http://seneca.me.umn.edu/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-November/013461.html
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http://www.xcl-clan.com/
24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony
[0]Ermintrude the Flying Cow writes "Ever wonder what "Ode to Joy"
0. mailto:virus687@netscape.net
Interview With Martin Fowler
[0]Arjen writes "[1]Artima has had a conversation with [2]Martin
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http://poutsma AT yahoo DOT com
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http://www.artima.com/
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http://www.martinfowler.com/
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http://www.artima.com/intv/refactor.html
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http://www.artima.com/intv/principles.html
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http://www.artima.com/intv/evolution.html
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http://www.artima.com/intv/flexplex.html
British To Release UFO Files
[0]Sean Stidman writes "Looks like the Brits are [1]planning to release
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021128/sc_nm/space_ufos_dc
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http://www.unexplained.info/directory/aliens_and_ufos/rendlesham_forest/
When Personalization Runs Amuck
pamar writes "According to this [0]article from the Wall Street Journal, your TiVo could definitely get the wrong impression about your interests, or even your sexual preferences. And what you need to do to get "a clean slate"? Most of the users who have been "targeted" by TiVo usually try to "correct" the profiling by showing an abnormal interest in something wildly different." Yep, it's a dupe. Links 0. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html Software Choice Group Tells DOD Not to Use Open Source http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/1358233
[0]ducomputergeek writes "A group calling themselves the Initiative for
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Newsforge Reports
MandrakeSoft CEO is glad to learn about Open Source http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/2324228
Gentoo 1.4 Vs Mandrake 9.0
Newsforge Newsvac
Slashdot discussion - Prabhu Ramachandran asks: "I am a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and as part of a course project I am trying to gather comments... Case study: Guitar maker plays a Linux tune http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/1529239 Ernie Ball, the global manufacturer of guitar strings, electric guitars and basses, is now making a name for itself as a software industry pioneer. Book Review - Enterprise Security: The Manager's Defense Guide http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/1523226 LogError writes "The book is rather brief, written in plain English. It deals with too many general issues but still provides good guidelines for those managers who are not too familiar with IT area, or e-security. It can serve as a good reminder but it needs to be expanded with a lot more information. mozilla.org's Phoenix Project To Be Renamed http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/127203 Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that the lightweight Phoenix browser will be renamed. The new name is in response to a request from BIOS manufacturer Phoenix Technologies who make a Web browser. Version 0.5 of the renamed browser is due next week."
Group urges limits on open source
The U.S. Defense Department should think twice before embracing open-source software, a trade association is advising.
Survey: IT Job Market May Perk Up
The bleak IT job market may finally be showing signs of improving, according to a survey of human resources executives at technology-oriented businesses recently conducted by TMP Worldwide Executive Search, a unit of TMP Worldwide, Inc., in N.Y.
Are we making it too easy?
Anonymous Reader writes "As we advance technologically, are we robbing ourselves and future generations of something fundamentally human? In his The view from the desktop, Dennis E. Powell wonders: if a man's reach should exceed his grasp, then what's a remote control for?"
AOL 'Communicator' Threatens Netscape
AOL this month debuted in beta form a stand-alone e-mail client bundled with a new version of AOL Instant Messenger and an address book, a package collectively dubbed AOL Communicator. IBM Overtakes Hewlett-Packard in Server Market Sha http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/2021222 International Business Machines Corp. overtook Hewlett-Packard Co. as the top seller of server computers in the third quarter and Sun Microsystems Inc. lost its lead in Unix-based servers, a researcher said.
Andreessen on what's next
(FORTUNE.COM) -- The other day Marc Andreessen gave me an impressively cogent analysis of what's happening in business IT. True, his ideas added up to an argument why his company, Opsware (formerly known as Loudcloud), would thrive over time. Call me gullible--after last week's column on Microsoft, plenty of you already have--but I think Andreessen's probably right on both counts.
Freshmeat
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.
Aphex-][ 2.0
Aphex-][ is a clean and elegant theme for Enlightenment DR16. It is an update to the author's previous aphex theme, with new fonts and window borders, and improved readability and usability. Bubbling Load Monitor Applet 2.0.1 (Gnome 2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104912/ The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a system load monitor for the GNOME panel. It looks like a vial containing water. The water level indicates how much (electronic) memory is in use. The color of the liquid indicates how much swap space is used. The amount of bubbles reflects the system CPU load. A message in a bottle indicates there is unread mail. A reed-like graph shows network load. BW-IPFM 1.1
BW-IPFM uses ipfm log files to generate easy-to-read reports. It can provide daily and monthly reports and reports for a specific period.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.3.0
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc. department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was written originally as a trouble ticket system.
DocTaur 0.86 (Beta)
DocTaur is a developer's directory useful for searching in and classifying documentation, reference manuals, etc. It can search in one or all directories. It is easy to add (remove) documentation to (from) a directory. It is powered by ht://Dig.
EtherMux Server 0.9.5
Ethermux is a DMX512 lighting remote control application which is based on a client-server model. The client is run on a PocketPC based device (such as an iPaq), while the server is run on a Linux based PC running DMX4Linux and a DMX interface card.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.4.2
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.23
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GPG-Ezmlm encrypted mailing list 0.3
GPG-Ezmlm contains a set of scripts which adds the ability to handle OpenPGP-encrypted email to Ezmlm. Email encrypted to the list key is re-encrypted to the keys of the subscribers. Key exchange during list subscription is supported.
grafist 1.2.6
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist currently supports the English, Turkish, Russian, German, Azeri, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Arabic, and Greek languages.
Gringotts 1.3.0pre2 (Development)
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
gsieve 0.1
gsieve is a Sieve script editor with a GNOME/GTK frontend. It is written in Python and has multi-language support.
JRoar 0.0.8
JRoar is a streaming sever for Ogg in pure Java. It casts live Ogg streams to Ogg Vorbis players as IceCast2 does and shouts live Ogg streams to IceCast2 and JRoar. JRoar also accepts live Ogg streams from Ices. The uniqueness of JRoar is that JRoar works as a proxy for live Ogg streams and enables you to share single stream with others. KEGS 0.63 (KEGS-SDL)
KEGS is an actively-developed Apple II emulator, originally written for HP workstations, improved and customized for Linux. It runs under X at any display depth, and supports changable memory sizes, joysticks, and sound. KEGS boots all Apple II OS variants, and supports all of the Apple II's graphics modes. It requires a copy of the Apple II system ROMs. KEGS 0.71
KEGS is an actively-developed Apple II emulator, originally written for HP workstations, improved and customized for Linux. It runs under X at any display depth, and supports changable memory sizes, joysticks, and sound. KEGS boots all Apple II OS variants, and supports all of the Apple II's graphics modes. It requires a copy of the Apple II system ROMs.
KnowIt 0.4
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported, as well as any character set.
libwebserver 0.3.3
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
LightGrey 0.1 (Development)
LightGrey is a very clean theme that's easy on the eyes.
MacOS9 for Metacity 0.1
MacOS9 for Metacity is a set of MacOS 9 themes, icons, and backgrounds.
MasarLabs NoArp 1.0.0
MasarLabs NoArp is a Linux kernel module that filters and drops unwanted ARP requests. It is useful when you need to add an alias to the loopback interface to use a load balancer.
MasqMail 0.2.17 (Development)
MasqMail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for hosts that are not permanently connected to the Internet. It handles outgoing messages specially and delivers them only when explicitely told to do so in the ip-up script. It can also retrieve mail via pop3. It has support for multiple providers. When offline, it behaves like any MTA (like, for example, sendmail, though it's not as powerful as sendmail).
MiddleMan 1.2.2
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy or SOCKS4 firewall.
N-View 2.3a (Stable)
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more. NAI VirusScan DAT/Engine file updater 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104934/ This script will check the local and remote VirusScan DAT/Engine file versions. If there is a newer version available from NAI, it will retrieve it and install it. A lot of checks are done to make very sure you will always have a working DAT/Engine file.
neo-Portal 2 fx a
neo-Portal is a data presentation and delivery system. When data is output in DHTML, it behaves like a portal. It features full i18n localization support, OS, Web server, and database independence, support for WSDL Web services, and output in XHTML, PDF, RSS, TXT, RTF, WML, and more.
NGSecureWeb 2.10 (NGSNES)
NGSecureWeb is a security module for Web Servers. It acts as an HTTP IDS/firewall, preventing security bugs from being exploited. It has the ability to check for shellcodes (even polymorphic ones), buffer overflows, forbidden words, long URLs, long GET arguments, long POST arguments, long HEADERS, etc., in the HTTP request. If the IDS engine detects a possible attack, the firewall engine stops the request. The Apache, Netscape Enterprise/IPlanet, and IIS Web servers are supported.
Note Editor 2.0.17
Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3.
Pipe Viewer 0.4.0
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9 (Development)
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
SMaNT 0.1 (Libraries)
SMaNT is a Systems Management and Network Toolkit. It makes it easy to develop dynamic plugins to allow for interactive or scripted remote access and configuration of a server or groups of servers via almost any GUI, or from the command-line, in real time.
SMaNT 0.1
SMaNT is a Systems Management and Network Toolkit. It makes it easy to develop dynamic plugins to allow for interactive or scripted remote access and configuration of a server or groups of servers via almost any GUI, or from the command-line, in real time.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.7.10
Steel Bank Common Lisp is a development environment for Common Lisp, with support for almost all of the ANSI standard: garbage collection, lexical closures, powerful macros, strong dynamic typing, incremental compilation, and the Common Lisp object system (multimethods and all). It also includes some extensions, such as an interface to call out to C. These are all available through an integrated native compiler, plus the usual Lispy integrated interpreter and high level debugging support.
SuccubAmp 1.0
SuccubAmp is a "nothing special" skin that works for both XMMS and WinAmp.
SuperWaba 3.3
SuperWaba is a JavaVM for handhelds. It can run in PalmOS and Windows CE devices, and is fully emulated under JDK and browser. It has support for exceptions, threads, lots of user interface controls, and double and long 64-bit types. It has grayscale and color support, a beautiful set of 3D controls in PalmOS, and support for JNI and Java libraries. It is also is fast and small, lets you use all device's memory if needed, and supports Symbol scanners, sockets, and serial/IR.
Sweep 0.5.11
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
The Tamber Project 1.1.27 (Pogo)
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, and advanced session management.
Trackballs 0.2.1
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness. By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first. translucency loadable kernel module 0.5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104932/ translucency is a loadable kernel module for Linux that virtually merges two directories, making it possible to overwrite files on read-only media and compile projects (such as the Linux kernel) with different options without copying sources each time. No user-space tools have to be changed. The process is also known as inheriting (ifs), stacking, translucency (tfs), loopback (lofs), and overlay (ovlfs).
Twisted 1.0.1
Twisted is an event-based framework for Internet applications. It includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a telnet server, an SSH server, an IRC server, a DNS server, a multiplayer RPG engine, a generic client/server pair for remote object access, and APIs for creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+, Qt, Tkinter, wxPython, and Win32 event loops.
webFonts4Linux 1.04
webFonts4Linux is a shell scripts that automates the process of downloading and installing Microsoft's Web Core Fonts, a collection of high-quality True Type fonts designed for use with low resolutions. webFonts2Linux exists because although these Microsoft distributes these fonts for free, strong redistribution restrictions makes it impossible to distribute a tarball or package containing them.
Webminstats 0.9.0
Sysstats module for Webmin adds a graphical log of historic information. It's modular in design, as to be able to log everything from CPU usage to email box size.
xmlenc 0.18
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML output library, like JDOM.
Zaval File Search 1.3.0 (Stable)
The Zaval File Search solution is a local area network tool designed for fast file search on SMB shares and FTP servers. It supports lots of features like regular expression usage and search based on custom/predefinded extensions.
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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