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Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 03:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]According to this Technology Review article,
0. mailto:scubacudaNO@SPAMiname.com
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http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_essex112202.asp
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http://www.us-vo.org/
Sega Master System is Reborn
Nick of NSTime writes "Various [0]sources are reporting that a
Brazilian company is releasing a new version of the venerable Sega
Master System, dubbed the Sega Master System III. The case is a radical
departure from the old SMS and SMS II. The thing to get excited about:
it will include [1]74 games built-in. The translated page can be found
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http://www.classicgaming.com/
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http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.tectoy.com.br/consoles/master/jogos.html&prev=/language_tools&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
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Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS
[0]loshwomp writes "We have built an audio player for [1]Palm OS, and a
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http://www.palmsource.com/
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http://www.aerodromesoftware.com/
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http://www.vorbis.com/
DreamHack Winter 2002
[0]JJC writes "[1]DreamHack, a huge LAN party, is taking place this
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http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/index.php4
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http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/
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http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/daily.htm
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http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/
Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL
Jagasian writes "The classic computer space adventure role playing game known as [0]Star Control 2 has been officially ported from its obsolete mono-platform source code to modern multi-platform C++/SDL source code. The game is open source, and compiles and runs on Linux! The alpha release binaries are available for [1]download now!" Links 0. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
5 Predictions for 2012
[0]Structured Audio writes "Mike Langberg of the Merc put up his 5
0. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html
Equilibrium
The_Hiro writes ""Farenheit 451 - meets - Brave New World - meets -
Matrix" (minus the overdone wire work). Created on a limited budget,
Equilibrium combines the best of sci-fi with the action genre.
Unfortunately, the marketing droids at Dimension have neglected to
promote the film (release date: Dec. 6th). [0]Chud.com has a [1]glowing
review of the film and some pretty pictures. Check out the [2]trailer
also."
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http://www.chud.com/
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http://www.chud.com/news/oct02/oct28equilibrium.php3
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http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/popup_Main.asp?media=1701124TMDC5
[0]TMDC Organizing writes "There's less than two weeks left to the
PostgreSQL 7.3 Released
[0]rtaylor writes "Nearly a year's worth of work is out. The new
0. mailto:slashdot@rbt.ca
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http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-11/msg00004.php
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http://advocacy.postgresql.org/download/
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http://www.postgresql.org/
Immobile Robots
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Wade Roush wrote a long and
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2002/11/30.html
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http://techreview.com/articles/roush1202.asp?p=0
Newsforge Reports
By Benjamin D. Thomas Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for pine, samba, python, sendmail, kernel, and mod_php. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Mandrake, Red Hat, ... How low-cost 802.11b and Linux have improved my life http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1413252
MandrakeSoft CEO is glad to learn about Open Source http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/2324228
Newsforge Newsvac
David Sugar writes: (November 30th, Bayonne, NJ) With the latest GNU Bayonne beta release (1.1.2), we have greatly expanded support for and integration of automated text to speech synthesized voice systems. Using "flite" based text to speech synthesis engines, initially developed through Carnegie Mellon University, and commercial derivatives of "flite", such as Cepstral's Theta, it is now possible to have fully automated high quality voice ...
Finally, Linux With a Lot Less Fuss
Over the past few weeks, I've installed Linux on three computers without breaking into fits of cursing. That's a novel development in my experience with this open-source operating system.
Linux future scales out
AS DOMINANT SYSTEMS and software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system.
ApacheWeek Issue #315
In this issue: * ApacheCon 2002 Las Vegas * Under development * Featured articles * Book Reviews * Apache Week giveaway
Three Minutes With Paul Otellini
Intel president looks forward, sees 64 bits on the desktop, Internet-on-a-chip, and Linux (sort of).
Petition for Aegir CMS license change
Nov 29th 2002 -- We're now gathering signatures to a letter to Hong Kong Linux Center to ask them if we can change Aegir CMS license to the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Real Battle at Comdex: Intellectual Property v http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1331242 In his third report on Comdex Fall 2002, Doc covers the second Great Debate and the conflict between technologists and the entertainment industry--which now may include Intel and Microsoft. LinuxQuestions.org announces weekly contest http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1328234 jeremy writes "Starting immediately LinuxQuestions.org will have a weekly contest with two winners every week. Prizes include boxed Red Hat 8.0, boxed Mandrake 9.0/8.2, autographed copies of "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" and more. Visit for more information including how to win and contest rules."
mozilla.org Issues Product Recall
Anonymous Reader writes "The recently released Mozilla 1.2 has a nasty bug in it that can cause DHTML on some sites to fail. The problem was caused when some code was incorrectly backed-out from the 1.2 branch. A revised Mozilla 1.2.1 will be issued shortly. theKompany.com takes Zaurus to new places http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/2139237 When theKompany.com was founded, the idea was to produce a selection of productivity applications for KDE. Since that time, the California-based software house has moved much of its development to Qt, which means applications that merge nicely with the KDE desktop but that run on platforms that don't have KDE installed, and, more and more, has concentrated on embedded Qt, particularly for the Linuxbased Sharp Zaurus PDA....
Freshmeat
The freedom of choice offered by GNU and Linux, combined with the technological design of the X Window System, gives desktop users a windowing environment with a flexibility and capability that is unrivaled. In recent times, the desktop Linux world has been enriched beyond recognition by the KDE and GNOME projects, but window managers are still at the heart of these environments, as well being used widely on their own. In this review, I'll delve into this exciting world and look at the development and the state of the art of some of the most significant and most popular window managers.
adcfw-log 0.6.1
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports, such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol, service, and so on.
aviManager 0.8beta
aviManager helps you manage your (large) movie (DVD, DivX) collection. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users, and attempts to find the best movie to watch. There is also a nice IMdb grabber for fast movie adding.
Buildtool 0.7
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
CDRX 0.3.1p1
CDRX is a menu-based Perl script designed to help you use your CDRW with mkisofs and cdrecord to handle ISO creation, CDROM/CDRW device scans and setup, CDRW blanking, and CDRW burns. It is designed to supplant the need for an X-based CD burning utility, to provide features not found in other Unix CD burning programs, and to be easy for beginners to use.
chrpath 0.10
chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath and runpath) of compiled programs and libraries. CLIP 0.99.7
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing), SQL, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), multitasking, mouse events, and more.
DNews 5.6e2
The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own local news server software gives you complete control to create your own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and scalability.
DOM Tooltip 0.3.0
DOM Tooltip allows developers to have dynamic and configurable tooltips on HTML pages. This library supports Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5+, Konqueror, and Opera 7. The tooltips are configured through three class definitions in a stylesheet, and consist of two parts, the caption and the content, where the caption is optional. Tooltips can be either greasy or sticky, where sticky tips stick around after mouseout and require a click to close. Sticky tips are also draggable. The key to this project is that it is powerful, yet simple. "Tooltips" can also mean dynamic embedded windows (using iframes, hidden HTML, or even hidden forms) or custom context menus for mouse click events. The infamous select box z-index bug in IE/Mozilla is also handled by this library automatically.
Enterprise Gantt 0.4.1
Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun. A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most flexible library of its kind.
fixbb 1.0
fixbb repairs the incorrect bounding box for PostScript files created by many Windows applications. It uses bbfig to compute the bounding box, and then fixes any existing bounding box that is in the file. (It currently doesn't add a bounding box to PostScript files that do not have it.)
GMasqdialer 0.99.13
GMasqdialer provides a GNOME/GTK client for the Masqdialer system. The
masqdialer system provides a user-friendly cross-platform method of
controlling a masquerade box's modem connection from any computer on a
LAN.
googleware 1.7
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.
icoutils 0.17.0
The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files). Icoutils can also create icon and cursor files.
ifGraph 0.4.7rc1 (Release Candidate)
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes (in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
Jumpgate 0.7
Jumpgate is a TCP connection forwarder that provides many enhancements and improvements over the existing programs that do the same thing.
kbarcode 1.1.0 (Development)
kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers, etc.
Linux 2.4.20 (2.4)
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
lookat 1.3.1
"lookat" (or "bekijk" in Dutch) is a program to view text files and manual pages. It is designed to be more user-friendly than more conventional text viewers such as less.
Megamek.NET 0.2953
Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the 5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but will soon feature another campaign set in 3060.
Network system locator 2.3.0
Netinfo uses SNMPv2 to collect information from CISCO switches and routers. It combines the data, providing IP-to-MAC mappings and the physical network location of each IP/MAC address. It monitors changes of IP addresses, MAC addresses, or network location. It also reports duplicate IPs or MACs that are using more than one IP address. It is meant as a NOC tool.
NoX-Wizard 0.82rc2 (Development)
NoX-Wizard is a cross platform Ultima Online server emulator written in C++. It provides a powerful scripting engine and many other features. Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.4.20-ow0 (Linux 2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105083/ The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security "hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the new features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing. Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.2.22-ow2 (Linux 2.2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105075/ The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security "hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the new features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing.
Otak 1.2.19
Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a list of hosts for SSH or FTP.
perltrash 0.1
perltrash is a Perl script that emulates a "trash can". Instead of permanently deleting files, they are moved into the trash can. Files can be restored in the future if they are needed again.
phpDnsZoneAdmin 0.4
DnsAdmin is a PHP-based application designed to take some of the headaches out of running a BIND nameserver. It features a simple to use interface for adding, deleting, and modifying zones, user management, and server management functions. The main goal of DnsAdmin was to allow remote admins to manage zones on the server without needing access to the commandline.
Python Cyrus Utils 1.0
Python Cyrus Utils is a collection of utilites that are useful for administering the Cyrus IMAP server and its sasldb database.
PyTone 1.9.7
PyTone is an MP3 jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal jukebox system for use at parties.
Rational PIC Assembler 1.0
Rational PIC Assembler is an assembler for the mid-range microcontrollers from Microchip. It features Intel-style mnemonics and target- first operand ordering, and was designed to feel comfortable for PC assembly programmers.
SMS Server Tools 1.7.8
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
StarEnli-DR16 1.0
StarEnli-DR16 (based on a previous Star Trek-inspired theme by Canin) is a fully Enlightenment 0.16.x compliant theme with support for epplets, an Eterm theme, and a variety of border types. Many of its features are shown in the screenshot. The background in the screenshot comes from digitalblasphemy.com, and is not included in the theme. GTK and Xdefaults themes are also available.
Stern Shortnews Viewer 1.0
Stern Shortnews Viewer is a viewer for the German language Stern Shortnews that produces text or HTML output and can view specified categories and subcategories.
Stringprep 0.0.3
Libstringprep implements the IETF stringprep specification, and is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world.
SynCE 0.5
The purpose of the SynCE project is to provide a means of communication with a Windows CE or Pocket PC device from a computer running Linux, *BSD, or another Unix system.
tlogsim 0.3.0
tlogsim is an extensible graphical logic circuit simulator for GTK 2.
ulim 1.0
Ulim is a Linux kernel module which enforces resource limits on every process in the system. There are already solutions like pam_limit, but there are some places where the user can execute his programs, but PAM is not used (for example .forward or .procmailrc files, or CGI scripts). Ulim works in the kernel and sets the limits whenever a process changes its real UID, so every process run by a user will have the correct limits.
wmDrawer 0.9.12
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which applications can be launched.
XPLC 0.1.6 (Development)
XPLC is a component framework similar to Microsoft COM or Mozilla's XPCOM, but with a number of differing goals. For example, transparent remote execution and exceptions are not supported, but in exchange it features ease of use, high performance (low overhead), and high flexibility. It is currently under development.
xsel 0.04.1
Xsel is a quick hack to give access to the X selection from the command-line. You can then copy stuff between stdin/stdout and the X selection buffer. For example, 'echo puppa | xsel -c' makes "puppa" the current X selection. 'xsel -p | less' pastes the current X selection to less. YAZ 1.9.2
YAZ (yet another Z39.50 toolkit) is a portable C/C++ programmer's toolkit which supports the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. Sample clients and a server are included with the distribution.
yaz++ 0.5
YAZ++ is a C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. It includes an implementation of the ZOOM C++ binding, a generic YAZ++ client/server API, and a powerful Z39.50 proxy.
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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