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[osdn business] December 12, 2002
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 03:30:28 EST
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December 12, 2002 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Tim O'Reilly Says Piracy is Progressive Taxation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/0712207
[0]Idmat writes "In Tim's latest [1]opus, he reflects on the lessons of
his experience as a publisher: (1) Obscurity is a far greater threat to
authors and creative artists than piracy, (2) Piracy is progressive
taxation; (3) Customers want to do the right thing, if they can;
(4)Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy; (5) File sharing
networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten
existing publishers; (6)"Free" is eventually replaced by a
higher-quality paid service; and finally, courtesy of Larry Wall,
(7)There's more than one way to do it. "
Links
0. mailto:sara@oreilly.com
50 Year Old Computer Still Going
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/0714248
[0]The Angry Mick writes "[1]Geek.com is running a [2]blurb on a 50
year old CSIRAC computer that is apparently still functional, if
lurking in an Australian museum. Sporting a whopping 2K of RAM and
screaming along at a blistering 300 khz(!) it proves the adage that
they really don't make 'em like they used to . . ." Yes, because if
they did, they'd be really, really slow.
Links
0. mailto:domhnall@bellsouth.net
1.
http://www.geek.com/
2.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Dec/bch20021210017696.htm
What MorphOS Is All About
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/2128203
Gentu writes "Genesi released today an extensive [0]feature list of
[1]MorphOS, the pre-emptively multi-tasking operating system for PPC.
MorphOS/Pegasos is a brand new platform (the last full OS+HW platform
released was 7 years ago with Be's BeBox) so it is very modern and it
has support for 3D cards, USB, SMP while it also features partial Amiga
application binary compatibility! Additionally, OSNews today
[2]features an interview with the Eclipsis Project Manager, Nicholas
Blachford, about MorphOS, and they include three exclusive screenshots
of the OS."
Links
0.
http://www.blachford.info/morphos/
1.
http://www.morphos.net/
2.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2345
Keyboarding Love Or Keyboarding Pain
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/2041248
[0]flyingember writes "Over on Ars, they've done the ultimate [1]review
for anyone who sits at a computer more than someone on AOL does, the
[2]IMAK Smart Gloves. These gloves are supposed to both prevent and
help ease pain associated with conditions such as carpal tunnel
syndrome. Read it to see if our code monkey enjoys the gloves or if
they're just something for him to throw at the gawking crowd."
Links
0. mailto:kevin@flyingember.com
1.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/smartglove/smartglove-1.html
2.
http://www.imakproducts.com/products/smart_glove.htm
Uprated "10-ton" Ariane 5 Fails
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/233233
Soft writes "The latest version of the European [0]Ariane 5 booster
("ESC-A") has [1]failed on its first launch. Liftoff was good up to
booster separation but the core stage shut down one minute afterwards
or so. The rocket was supposed to lift ten metric tons (22,000 lb) to
geostationary transfer orbit, versus 6.7 for the previous Ariane 5G
(and 5 and 5.3 for the latest Atlas 5 and Delta 4). Arianespace planned
to retire its other launchers (Ariane 4, Ariane 5G) in favor of Ariane
5 ESC-A. Next launch, of space probe [2]Rosetta, was due in
mid-January."
Links
0.
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ariane5.htm
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2565387.stm
2.
http://sci.esa.int/app/jps/export/www/index.cfm
Slashback: Grids, Netscape, AMD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/2150223
Slashback tonight (is this number 200 already?) brings a few updates and amplifications on grid computing and AMD's plans vis a vis Intel. Also, it seems that some of the best features of Mozilla have finally infiltrated the world of Netscape. Read on the for the details.
Has the Quality of Consumer Electronics Declined? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/222201
[0]NewtonsLaw asks: "With Christmas coming up I dare say that lots of
people are going to spend big bucks on consumer electronics in the next
few weeks. [1]This column asks an interesting question -- are consumer
electronics manufacturers sacrificing quality and reliability for an
endless list of features? If you're like me, you've probably got a TV,
VCR or other appliance you bought over 5 years ago which is still going
strong -- but much of the stuff you've bought in the past 2-3 years is
already giving trouble. What's more, it seems to be the big-name
manufacturers such as Sony who are most affected by this decline in
standards. I'd love to hear the experiences of other Slashdot readers
in an effort to get as many data-points as possible. Are you better off
buying a $49 DVD player on the expectation that it will only last a
year or so -- or do lay out two or three times that amount something
made by a big-name manufacturer in the (possibly vain) hope it will
provide superior performance and last longer?"
Links
0. http://aardvark.co.nz/contact/
Apple Hawks Madonna iPods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/197256
[0]danamania writes "Apple's latest promotion is a gimmick with
[1]Madonna, [2]Tony Hawk or [3]Beck's signature, or a [4]No Doubt logo,
on an iPod. It seems Apple's really pushing the iPod as a too-cool
fashion accessory as much as a too-cooler MP3 player... is Maddie's
signature worth an extra USD49 over the standard iPod?" Instead of $50
for the engraved signature, you can spend $20 to print "Madonna's
Signature" in beautiful Helvetica.
Links
0.
http://www.danamania.com/
1.
http://www.apple.com/promo/ipod/madonna.html
2.
http://www.apple.com/promo/ipod/tonyhawk.html
3.
http://www.apple.com/promo/ipod/beck.html
4.
http://www.apple.com/promo/ipod/nodoubt.html
Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1754253
[0]Uhh_Duh writes "cnn.com is reporting that the Russian space program
has [1]fallen on hard times and is no longer capable of launching
independent missions due to budget problems. The article touches on the
fact that their annual funding is about 309 million versus the U.S.
budget of 15 billion. They've also announced that they will not be
meeting most of their future deliverables for the international space
station." (corrected, the title originally said "IIS" instead of "ISS)
Links
RPG Codex - Articles On Video Game Design http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1751252
chadeo writes "Ok all you arm chair game developers, listen up. Over at
[0]RPG Codex there are currently 4 articles, written by professionals
in the industry, on RPG design. There is [1]A Christmas lesson in CRPG
design by [2]Timothy Cain, [3]Thoughts on RPG development by [2]Leon
Boyarsky, [4]Hand of Gosh Darn Good Design by [5]Chris Taylor, and
[6]Treatise on Combat to Pink Floyd by [7]Gareth Davies. All of them
are a great read, and you can join in the discussion with the authors
and see how your ideas stack up. What do you think is the key to a
great RPG?"
Links
0.
http://www.rpgcodex.com/
1.
http://www.rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=16
2.
http://www.troikagames.com/
3.
http://www.rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=19
4.
http://www.rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=20
5.
http://www.universalinteractive.com/
6.
http://www.rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=21
7.
http://www.microforte.com/
Newsforge Reports
Making a home terminal/server network with LTSP
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1644243
- By William G. Canaday - When my wife asked me to remove Windows and install Linux on her computer, I was happy to oblige. She is familiar with Linux from watching me use it and was quite upset that Windows had lost her desktop photograph -- again. This gave me an excuse to try setting up a terminal / server network. Since we each had beefy desktop machines, this also gave me an opportunity to turn her machine to another use. After resurrecting ...
Lindows CEO to deliver keynote at Libertarian seminar http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1552216
- by Tina Gasperson - Michael Robertson is speaking at a CATO Institute City Seminar in San Diego on Wednesday, December 11th. Interesting that CATO, a libertarian think tank, has been known to defend Microsoft's right to stifle competitors like Lindows.
NVIDIA releasing new graphics driver for Linux AMD64 desktop processor http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0117233
Everyone's favorite Linux-supporting graphics processor company, NVIDIA is expected to announce Wednesday the release of new drivers for Intel 32 and 64-bit architectures, and for the new AMD Athlon 64 processors.
Newsforge Newsvac
LynxOS Plan Reveals Source Code, MSRP Pricing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/121254
LynuxWorks are the maintainers of the embedded BlueCat Linux distribution, a well-respected distro on its own right. For jobs that require more power, such as real-time processing, LynuxWorks has its own proprietary system--LynxOS-- which is fully compatible with BlueCat Linux APIs.
VeriSign announces Open Source WS-Security Implementation and Integration Toolkit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1155254
The open source Java libraries will be available later this month at www.sourceforge.net. They also announce details of 'Consumer Authentication Service' (CAS), which they describe as 'the industry's first standard Web service for online identity verification and management'.
UWC to push open source approach
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1154243
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has received a grant of $50 000 (R450 000) from USAID to help it establish an open source component in its African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) project.
MS un-denial leaves Linux option open
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1152239
Meta Group has made a bold prediction that Microsoft will deliver some server-side software to run on Linux beginning next year, but Redmond's official "denial" leaves the option wide open. It revives a rumor that's been doing the rounds for two years.
Will Linux Superdesktops Storm the Mainstream? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1150232
Just because Linux applications are ready does not mean that executives, particularly CIOs and CTOs, are aware of their existence -- and The Kompany president Shawn Gordon said analysts are partly to blame.
HP teams up for Linux supercomputers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1148247
In a boost for Intel, HP is partnering with Linux NetworX to produce supercomputers based on Itanium 2 servers.
Latest MandrakeSoft Financials: Revenue: +31% http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1146232
Gael Duval writes "MandrakeSoft has released a financial summary for fiscal year 2001/2002."
Linux redefines mainframe's image, boosts sales http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/2239254
BOSTON -- These days, 15% of all IBM mainframes are shipped to customers who plan to run Linux on them -- a trend that is helping reinvent the image of the mainframe as "cool," a company executive said.
Sharing Broadband Internet Access with SmoothWall http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/225258
So, you want to share your Internet connection with more than one computer in your house, and you want it to be secure. You're in the right place. SmoothWall 0.9.9 (the latest free release) is a small Linux operating system that allows you to do that, and much more.
New Business Battles
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/224252
It's a new era for business, and that means new rivalries. Columnist Michael Malone looks at the new corporate battles, who will come out on top — and who will fail. Editor's Note: Read all the way to the end to see why this is on NewsForge...
Freshmeat
BioCoRE 20021209
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106247/
BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features.
Borges Documents Management System 0.7.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106213/
Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD.
Caiviar 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106250/
Caiviar is a programming interface for creating interactive voice response (IVR) applications using CAPI. It has support for Barge In, Text2Speech, 3 Party Conference, G3 Fax, etc. It supports multithreading.
Cell Phone SMS AIM 1.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106217/
Cell Phone SMS AIM uses the Net::AIM Perl module, signs on a screen name, and routes messages to your cell phone via SMS. It requires lynx. It also supports pagers.
CheckBook Tracker 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106187/
In order to leave Windows behind most people need a fully-functional money management program. CheckBook Tracker seeks to solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Import / Export QIF files straight from Money or Quicken, autocomplete, check printing, split transactions, balance forecasts and more.
curlpp 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106251/
curlpp is a C++ wrapper for libcurl. Its use is to simplify the use of libcurl, and allow it to be used with less effort.
CVS Statistics Generator 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106205/
Cvstat is a Perl script which reads information from the 'cvs log' command's output and generates some statistics and prints them in HTML, for display on the Web.
DataVision 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106192/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
dlman 0.4b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106113/
dlman is a download manager with a command-line interface, written in Python. It allows you to add to, remove from, and view the list URLs to download. It also sports a logging function.
FreeVMS 0.0.35 (Unstable kernel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106215/
FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386.
Genuts Breaker 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106236/
Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.
getwmail 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106244/
getwmail retrieves email from Webmail services such as Hotmail and mail.com. You can use it just to check if the account has mail, or to retrieve it and send it to another email account. It handles HTTP and plain text emails, and also forwards attachments.
grafist 1.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106238/
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 provides internationalization support for 15 languages.
gspy 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106198/
Gspy retrieves images from a video4linux device and processes these into a daily MPEG movie on the disk drive. Each image is recorded with a time stamp to ensure accurate real-world correlation. Special motion detection algorithms are used to reduce the size of the daily movies by eliminating pictures with similar content as well as the normal compression obtained by the mpeg process. The result is a time lapse video per day with nonlinear time compression using only the images of interest.
Hodohi BBS 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106259/
Hodohi BBS is a free, open source bulletin board system written in Java. It features the ability to post without registration, nickname registration, the ability to edit and remove your own messages (if there are no replies) and email notification on replies. The administrator can easily edit or remove any message, deny to reply on the message, an use any HTML code in messages. It uses the MySQL database (other databases could be used instead).
HURL 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106083/
HURL is a Python script for updating a Red Hat Linux system. It attempts to download appropriate system updates from a specified FTP server. It features dependency checking, package exclusion with regular expressions, email notification when updates are ready to install, and Powertools updates. It has been tested on RedHat 5.1 through 8.0, and does not require the Python RPM bindings.
iptacct 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106208/
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.
JuliCalc 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106204/
JuliCalc is a prefix-notation calculator with rudimentary functional programming idioms.
kbarcode 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106261/
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.
Knoppix 3.1-10-12-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106226/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
LibXMLight 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106242/
LibXMLight is a non-validating, lightweight C++ XML parser library that has an API similar to SAX.
MagicDraw UML 6.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106229/
MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. it was designed for business analysts, software analysts, programmers, QA engineers, and documentation writers. It facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases, and it provides the industry's best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for Java, C++, and CORBA IDL programming languages), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation, and reverse engineering facilities.
Metagroup 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106231/
Metagroup is a small Perl utility which adds hierarchical structure to Linux groups. It aims to ease group administration by providing better group handling. One can use metagroup to define "groups of groups". Metagroup translates a file in hierarchical format to the customary flat file format understood by Linux.
Microsoft Fonts Under Linux 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106183/
Microsoft Fonts Under Linux is a very easy to use, plug-and-play set of RPM packages with standard Microsoft fonts like Verdana, Tahoma, and others. These packages are free only for users that have a Microsoft Windows license.
mldonkey 2.01 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106207/
MLDonkey is a clone for the eDonkey 2000 network, a network with more than 100000 users, specialized for transferring big files like videos. Current version of MLdonkey is a daemon that can be accessed through telnet (for commands), HTTP (for Web pages), and a nice GTK GUI. It is written in Objective-Caml and released in binaries for many Unix platforms (Linux/i386, Linux/alpha, Linux/ppc, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, Mac OS X). Support for accessing several networks, such as Direct Connect, Open Napster, Gnutella, and Soulseek is under development.
monfarm 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106230/
Monfarm is an alarm-enabled monitoring system for server farms. It produces dynamically updated HTML status pages showing the availability of servers. Alarms are generated if servers become unavailable.
Moosic 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106257/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
Netscape Communicator 7.0.1 (Mozilla-based) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106262/
Netscape Communicator is the all-in-one web browser and communications suite that makes it easy to send Internet email, read newsgroups, create web pages, and browse the World Wide Web.
Object Relational Membrane 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106245/
The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other persistence storage systems. It is a thin compatibility layer between SQL table layouts and Object Oriented Python. While providing a good deal of functionality, it tries to be as small and simple as possible. It works with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
OmegaCMS Toolkit 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106235/
OmegaCMS Toolkit generates Java business objects and browser-based administration tools for content management, customized to the needs, and workflow of your site.
Open RObot COntrol Software 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106214/
The Open RObot COntrol Software (Orocos) framework applies software patterns in C++ to achieve real-time execution of software components and provides an infrastructure to quickly integrate them in a real-time operating system such as RTAI or RTLinux, although it can be tested on normal Linux systems. It is designed to appeal to roboticists.
PhpCommander 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106203/
PhpCommander is a Web-based file manager that manages Web accounts without FTP access. It can create directories, create files, copy, move, delete, and rename files and folders, upload files, download files, view and edit the contents of the files, and communicate in English and other languages.
phpOpenTracker 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106232/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
pimentech-dbutils 1.0.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106243/
pimentech-dbutils provides a set of tools for designing a database in XML, computing the SQL database generation code and the diagram (in dot), and doing other useful tasks.
Pliant 79
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106221/
Pliant is a new generation language, which is modular, reflexive, and dynamically-compiled. It looks like a merging of typed Lisp and C. The programming environment includes HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS servers and clients, a database engine, a multi-forum administration tool, etc. It runs on Linux, POSIX, and Windows platforms or as a standalone OS on top of the Linux kernel.
Poseidon for UML 1.5 (Community Edition) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106264/
Poseidon for UML is a fully featured UML CASE Tool which directly extends the open source project ArgoUML, and lifts it to a professionally usable level. It is fully implemented in Java, and it features platform independence, support for all 9 diagrams of the UML, compliance to the UML 1.3 standard, support for XMI as the standard file format, the ability to export diagrams as GIF, PS, EPS, and SVG, undo/redo, copy/cut/paste, drag and drop, internationalization and localization for English, German, French, and Spanish, code generation for Java, reverse engineering from Java sources, auto-layout of reverse engineered diagrams, cognitive support, and a discrete critique mechanism. Poseidon for UML seamlessly integrates into Netbeans (3.3 and 3.4), Forte for Java (4.0), and SunOne Studio, and it is easy to install and update with InstallAnywhere or JavaWebStart.
PyQt 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106256/
PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.
Python-SIP 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106254/
SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
QScintilla 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106255/
QScintilla is a port of the Scintilla C++ editor class to the Qt GUI toolkit.
Really Slick XScreenSavers 0.7-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106218/
Really Slick XScreenSavers is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh. The screensavers can be installed as standalone programs or as XScreenSaver hacks.
rubrica 0.9.9.81 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106266/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.
RxLinux 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106234/
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time.
SendIP 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106239/
SendIP is a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a large number of options to specify the content of every header of a RIP, RIPng, BGP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IPv4/IPv6 packet. It also allows any data to be added to the packet. Checksums can be calculated automatically, but if you wish to send out wrong checksums, that is supported too.
Senken 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106206/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.
Siege 2.56 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106233/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
SILC 0.9.10.1 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106224/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Simple Expenses Manager 0.9.0 (Developement) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106241/
Simple Expenses Manager is a Perl CGI for entering simple day-to-day expenses. It is not a full-featured accounting package, but it is useful for no-brainer expense tracking. It supports user-defined categories, sorting, and calculating totals and averages according to a time period and/or category. It also features multi-user login, with CGI-based administration.
SMELT 0.2.11c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106212/
SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email.
SpamX 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106220/
SpamX is a small application which cleans unwanted email from your POP3 mail account. It does so by logging in directly to your server and deleting messages on the spot, without having to download them locally. It also includes bouncing back to spammers.
SQL Load Balancer 2.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106252/
The SQLB (SQL Load Balancer) project is used to improve SQL requests to a database. It provides programs that have permanent connections to a DB, a program that checks the integrity of transactions, and a library to link with programs that need to make SQL queries. SQLB supports Oracle8i, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
SwitchTLD 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106222/
SwitchTLD is a Perl CGI script that allows you to easily route incoming traffic based on the visitor's country of origin. This makes it possible to set up pages in different languages and display the appropriate one transparently. It does not rely on hostnames and works with IP addresses without reverse DNS records, which means that it is suitable for handling large amounts of traffic without getting bogged down by DNS queries.
Terminal.app 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106225/
Terminal.app is a terminal emulator for GNUstep.
the chat 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106150/
The chat is a chat Web application written in PHP using MySQL and JavaScript. It features images in the background and an auto-reply system.
vhost 3.00r5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106249/
vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most routine administration tasks. The latest version also offers a "clustering" capability.
vlogger 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106267/
vlogger is a logger daemon for Apache. It will accept piped logfile input, split it according to its corresponding virtual host (using a file cache to avoid resource limitations), and write it to disk. It automatically rotates all files and tracks them using timestamps. It is intended as a replacement for cronolog.
Whitebeam 0.9.22 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106209/
Whitebeam is a frontend XML-centered rapid design environment which makes use of HTML/XML and JavaScript. It integrates two popular and robust Open Source platforms (Apache and Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine), with its own powerful XML environment and security architecture. Providing an extensible XML-based interface to backend objects on any platform, the client model securely segregates thousands of customer applications within a single server.
xine 1-beta0 (xine-lib)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106253/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
yudit 2.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106240/
Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input, and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on on external engines. Its conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. The menus are available in many languages.
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