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Slashdot
MImeKillEr writes "According to an [0]article on BBC News, two researchers from Oxford took highspeed photographs of an Admiral butterfly in a specially-designed windtunnel to study how butterflies fly. The resulting research brings insight into small-scale flight dynamics. Although the article doesn't give an ETA on this, they expect to be able to build an aircraft with a 10cm wingspan that will be either autonomous or radio controlled. This will allow them to be used in rescue missions, cave exploration and possibly even on Mars." Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2566091.stm
Google's new toys
Google labs just released for your pleasure, some new toys to play
with. The first is [0]Google's Viewer, just type few words and see a
fully working preview of the web site. Another new idea: [1]Google's
Webquotes, View search results with quotes about them from other sites,
and the last one is [2]Google's Froogle, which aims to be the world's
largest catalog.
0.
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
1.
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
2.
http://froogle.google.comeBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/0338219
hether writes "Customers of the auction site [0]eBay have been targeted
by a site called [1]ebayupdates.com. The site attempts to steal credit
card details from eBay's 55 million customers. The [2]SANS Institute
Internet Storm Center issued the warning on this one. Info about the
scam can be found on the [3]BBC site, [4]CNN, [5]CNet, [6]vnunet, and
0.
http://www.ebay.com/
1.
http://www.ebayupdates.com/
2.
http://www.sans.org/newlook/home.php
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2564725.stm
4.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/12/11/ebay.email.reut/
5.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-976862.html
6.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137513
7.
http://news.google.com/news?q=cluster:www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/12/11/ebay.email.reut/Sun Security Patch Introduces Security Hole http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/0335254
Rich0 writes "Sun is [0]announcing that their 'Security Hardening
Package' for their Cobalt RaQ 4 Linux servers allows remote users to
execute arbitrary code. Ironically, the solution is to remove the
package, potentially removing protection from other compromises.
There's a [1]CERT advisory, as well as [2]an article posted on
0.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/49377
1.
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810921
2.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,763032,00.asp
3.
http://www.extremetech.com/
Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon
[0]Lemuel writes "Tivo has finally [1]pre-announced its music and photo
0. mailto:beirne@neo.rr.com
LucasArts Embraces Game Mod Community
An anonymous reader writes "LucasArts has taken a great step in
promoting the modification of their titles and supporting the
communities that love them! According to [0]this press release,
LucasArts has teamed up with [1]LFNetwork to open [2]LucasFiles.com.
The site is dedicated to all files that fall in the LucasArts realm."
Given competing games like [3]Neverwinter Nights, which have a
phenomenal amount of user-created add-ons, this is a very smart move
for LucasArts.
0.
http://www.lucasarts.com/press/releases/62.html
1.
http://www.lfnetwork.com/
2.
http://www.lucasfiles.com/
3.
http://nwn.bioware.com/
Lessig Spins Copyright Law
ceebABC writes "In the always riveting [0]CIO Insight magazine,
tech-pundit (and professor) Lawrence Lessig [1]examines the copyright
laws and how they can be applied to e-books and other electronic forms
of rights management... i.e., in today's world, the author doesn't
receive a royalty everytime someone reads a book from the library. Will
they in the future?"
MS Proposes Disclosing Windows Source To India http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2046255
[0]raghuram writes "Interesting news from [1]Economic Times of India, I
0. mailto:rvijapurapu@gmx.net
1.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
2.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=31102968
Update On The Jon Johansen Trial
[0]nordicfrost writes "The trial against Jon Johansen goes on. Today,
0.
http://www.vg.no
1.
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=4410823
2.
http://www.vg.no/spesial/bakgrunn/?id=698
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist
[0]OS24Ever writes "A future high school history teacher, Jason Eric
Newsforge Reports
Lindows CEO to deliver keynote at Libertarian seminar http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1552216
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
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
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
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
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
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
Aegir CMS is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) built on the reliable Midgard framework. Key features include an MS Word-compatible content editor, staging/live setup, multi-company hosting (ASP) support, and a flexible templating and layout system. Aegir CMS is derived from the Nadmin Studio M5 code base.
BeOS Developer Edition 1.1
BeOS Developer Edition is an updated CD image of BeOS Personal Edition R5. It has updated drivers with better hardware support, with Patches and Apps from the original BeOS Personal Edition 5.0.3 release by Be. Inc. Unlike the original, it can be installed on its own partition.
Botan 1.1.6 (Development)
Botan (formerly OpenCL) is a library of cryptographic algorithms, written in C++. It currently includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes, plus a high level filter-based interface.
centericq 4.9.0
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features.
Chat Everywhere 0.0.14a (Server)
Chat Everywhere is a set of programs to build a powerful but easy-to-use chat area on a Web site. A server, written in C, communicates with clients (only a Java applet as of now, but some C clients are in development). Its main goals are to be easy to use but powerful, to have an out-of-the-box working installation, a small footprint, no requirement for the client to install software, and IRC-like commands.
COnfigurator for Gnome 0.5.0
COnfigurator for Gnome is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings in an easy way. Content management module for PHProjekt 0.4.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106313/ This module let users manage content pages for PHProjekt. It uses a directory-based model and role-based security. Features include file upload capabilities, a comment system, a search facility, and simple statistics generation.
Cream for Vim 0.18
Cream is a configuration of the famous Vim text editor that makes it easier to use, like an Apple- or Windows-style text editor. It uses Vim's own extensibility to improve menus, keyboard shortcuts, and editing behavior. Cream seamlessly maintains Vim's insertmode to access all the power of the original Vim plus many custom Cream extensions.
Decoy 20021212
Decoy is program that acts as no-ad Squid redirector. It reloads a configuration runtime if changed, and can produce profile logs for later statistics of pattern usage. An optional access log is available as well.
distcc 0.15
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to 10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.8
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. There are two versions of fBuilder: fBuilder Lite, a free version that includes a standard set of features, and fBuilder Plus, which includes edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities, support for IP aliases, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.
genJBean 0.1
genJBean is a simple JavaBean generator made in C++.
GNUsound 0.4
GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.
Helma Object Publisher 1.2
Helma (also called Hop, for Helma object publisher) is a scriptable web application server written in Java. It lets you define object prototypes and map them to relational database tables. These so-called HopObjects can be created, modified, and deleted using a comfortable object/container model. Hence, no manual fiddling around with database code is necessary. HopObjects are extended JavaScript objects which can be scripted using server-side JavaScript. Beyond the common JavaScript features, Helma provides comfortable skinning and templating functionalities which facilitate the rendering of objects via a web interface. It's also possible to use the skin-and-macro layer separately from the persistence layer, providing a nice scriptable presentation layer to arbitrary Java object models. IFG 0.4
IFG is a tool to generate iptables rules. This program can work with the INPUT and OUTPUT chains of the filter table. It can create rules for diferents protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP), IP addresses, and ports. You can choose different interfaces (lo, eth0, ppp0), choose the state of a connection, and LOG all the rules. It also has an option to save all the rules that you made into a file. The program was written in GTK+ 2, and the interface was made with glade-2. JRTPLIB 2.7
JRTPLIB is an object-oriented library written in C++ which offers support for the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), defined in RFC
KBillar 1.0.1
KBillar is a billiard game in which everything is user-definable: the table, borders, ball properties, gravity, etc. The user can choose to play billiards on surfaces such as a sphere, a cylinder, or a torus, or in any map which can be expressed as z(x,y). To parse complex mathematical maps, KBillar uses methods from Kalamaris.
Libxml 2.4.30
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress.
lvs-kiss 1.1 (Stable)
lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should be possible without too much hassle.
Mamory 0.1.1
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
motor 3.2.4
Motor is a text-mode integrated programming environment for Linux. It consists of an editor with syntax highlighting, a project manager, a makefile generator, gcc, ctags, gdb, autoconf/automake and grep front-ends. CVS integration is also provided. It allows one to edit, compile, and debug programs without a need to leave the IDE, automatically check in/out files from a CVS repository and import projects into CVS, and generate distribution packages (tar.gz and RPM). The color schemes are customisable.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.54 (Stable)
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
OpenTop 1.0
OpenTop is a cross-platform, high-performance C++ class library that extends the standard C++ library to provide features similar to (and modelled on) core Java facilities such as resource management, networking, I/O, multi-threading and support for the full Unicode character range. OpenTop also contains a supplementary C++ XML Toolkit which features a SAX-based validating XML parser.
PHP 4.3.0RC3 (Development)
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
PHP Backup Maker 1.5
PHP Backup maker is a small PHP script which reads a given source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
PHP Live! Support 1.9.9
PHP Live! Support is an alternative to the popular Human Click (a.k.a. Live Person) Live Customer Support Chat system. It uses simple database tables, PHP, and Javascript. It also features multiple departments, load balancing, new request sound alarm, and much more.
The Tamber Project 1.1.30 (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.
ThinkPad Buttons 0.4.2
ThinkPad Buttons enables the special keys that are found on the keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad. It is possible to bind a program to each of the buttons. It has an on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, LCD brightness, and some other things.
UPPAAL 3.2.13 (Stable)
UPPAAL is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation, and verification of real time systems, modeled as networks of timed automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.). Typical application areas include real time controllers and communication protocols, in particular those where timing aspects are critical.
Verlof 0.2.3
Verlof is a Web application for registering and viewing leave information. It records hours of leave rights and hours of leave within categories like normal leave, special leave, reduced working-hours (ADV), and the begin and end dates for the leave's period. The few rules imposed on the entries are mainly sanity checks like "begin date is in the weekend". The act of entering a new leave entry sends an email to the group manager and a copy to the employee. The advantages of this electronic version over the paper version are: there is a single information location (no employee-card and mother-card discrepancies), questionable entries immediately draw the manager's attention (with email), and various up-to-date views of the leave history are available (total, year, and list). Verlof is a Dutch-only application and a little specific to Leiden University.
VisualRoute 7.0
VisualRoute is a graphical Traceroute program that automatically analyzes Internet connectivity, and identifies the geographical location of IP addresses/routers, showing them on a global map. It includes an email tracking tool for troubleshooting email problems, and pop-up Whois information. The VisualRoute Server package allows access via a Web browser, so users may access Traceroute information from behind a firewall and from remote locations.
VServer 0.22
VServer virtual servers operate like a normal Linux server, but allow many independent servers to be run simultaneously in one box. These can involve normal services such as telnet, mail, Web, and SQL servers - in most cases using a standard configuration. The services are unaware of the virtual server concept. Each virtual server has its own user account database and root password. Each vserver uses standard packages and runs at the same speed as a non-VServer installation.
Webtop 1.25
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive, automated email reminders, contacts, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
wmnetload 1.2 (Stable)
wmnetload is a network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker. It is designed to fit well with dockapps like wmcpuload and wmmemmon. It tracks whether the interface is functioning and displays current network interface throughput, along with an auto-scaling graph of recent network activity (the graph separates upstream and downstream traffic load cleanly without resorting to colors).
xmlto 0.0.12 (Stable)
xmlto converts an XML file (DocBook or XSL-FO) into a specified format (PS, PDF, HTML, man, ASCII, XSL-FO, etc.) by applying an appropriate XSL-T stylesheet and then performing whatever post-processing is necessary.
Your Operating System 3.2.1-12122002
YOS is a compact, personalised, and optimised OS with support for RPM, deb, and tgz packages, with 200 packages carefully selected and compiled for speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.
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