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[osdn business] December 15, 2002
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[0]ttol writes "In the [1]Star Tribune, they write that "PC games fell
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Speakeasy Welcomes WiFi network sharing
sedawkgrep writes "[0]Speakeasy.net has recently published a policy concerning their subscribers. [1]They're openly welcoming the sharing of subscribers bandwidth via WiFi as long as you don't violate the existing [2] terms of service. Speakeasy has always had a very liberal and open policy with their users. Even though I wouldn't open my network via WiFi, it's refreshing to see a company who is taking a more open approach rather than restrictive when dealing with its customers." I've been a Speakeasy customer for a while now ('tho my move from Boston to Ann Arbor meant going from 768 to 144 *sigh*) and have always been impressed with them. Great step supporting WiFi as well. Links
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Lord of the Rings News from New Zealand
wonton_mein writes "The New Zealand Herald is doing some [0]daily coverage of the LOTR - TTT. Can't wait for Dec. 18." Links 0. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyarchive.cfm?reportID=56531
100th Anniversary of Quantum Physics
[0]EricR writes "On December 14, 1900, [1]Max Planck presented
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DARPA Has $3.2M to Sniff You Out
[0]quackking writes "The Army wants to sniff you out. This
Taken?
jeepliberty writes "Was I the only one to feel like I was "taken" by
the latest Spielberg mini-series? It concluded last night on the
Bioinformatics in The Economist
[0]Erich Schwarz writes "Bioinformatics has gone from being an esoteric
0. mailto:emsch@its.caltech.edu Yet Another Call for Linux Standardization http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/1734225 An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article [0]Commentary: United We Stand...the Division in the Linux World, in which David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide standardization for the Linux community that will allow it to win the desktop market from Windows. The article has a number of supporting comments, but then this one particular negative comment that disagrees with David. This particular comment offers an alternative view on the need for standardization. This aternative view that is put forward simply argues that 'Over what is almost twelve years we have pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps. We have done this using a development model that allows us to produce software that proprietary vendors cannot compete with', and then summarizing that 'the Linux community does not need to set up businesses with the specific intention of trying to "win" users from Microsoft; all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'." Links 0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/11/0137256.shtml?tid=23
Old Age Simulator
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Developing for the Motorola T720
r0.ini writes "Nice [0]step-by-step introduction guide on how to make that cool app for your T720." Worth a read even if you never intend to write a program for your cell phone, for the comparison between BREW and J2ME (and implicitly between Verizon and AT&T). Links 0. http://www.colinfahey.com/2002dec14_j2me_cell_phone/j2me_phone_apps.htm
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - December 13th 2002 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/1144253 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. Making a home terminal/server network with LTSP http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1644243
Newsforge Newsvac
Gael Duval writes "MandrakeSoft today announced the availability of "Multi Network Firewall" (MNF) -- a multi-VPN (virtual private network), multi-DMZ (demilitarized zone) firewall and networking solution that provides smart Internet Traffic Management combined with an industrial-strength hardening system for the highest level of network security."
ElcomSoft Case in Jurors' Hands
Russian software company ElcomSoft, standing trial in U.S. District Court for selling software that cracked copy protection in Adobe e-books, rests its legal fate with the jury. CodeWeavers targets Citrix with CrossOver Server Edition http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/152249 CodeWeavers Inc, the major commercial backer of the Wine project to enable Microsoft applications to run on Linux and Unix operating systems, is taking aim at Citrix Systems Inc with the release of CrossOver Office Server Edition.
Samba Vulnerabilities
Noel Davis looks at problems in Samba, Pine, FreeS/WAN, Solaris priocntl(), Traceroute NANOG, kon2, libcgi-tucbr, Python, pServ, and Alcatel OmniSwitch switches. HP, Linux NetworX team for Linux server clusters http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/151221 The two companies are working together to expand their presence in the cluster marketplace.
Libranet 2.7 - Debian Made Easy
ladislav writes "Libranet GNU/Linux, a commercial Linux distribution based on Debian, has been given increasingly positive coverage in Linux media." Torvalds, in Korea, spreads Linux gospel http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/1154222 Linus Torvalds, 33, creator of the Linux operating system and self-proclaimed "poster boy" of the open source movement, received a warm welcome from a Korean audience yesterday during his first visit here. About 500 people filled the grand ballroom of Shilla Hotel, Seoul, some of them programmers and obvious Torvalds fans, to see their hero in person.
MS to share Windows code with India
ajay@unisoftindia.net writes "Microsoft is virtually doing the unthinkable in India — it is planning to share the Windows source code. Not with one and all, as Linux does, but with a specific government body which, in turn, will share it with others for the purposes of e-governance and education." Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Linux released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/1028258 Warren writes "Thursday (12/12/2002) Macromedia released Flash Player 6 for x86 Linux. I have obtained permission to package and redistribute their plugin in Linux friendly ways. At this site you can download RPM packages for Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, and Conectiva as well as set your apt-get or urpmi for automatic installation/updating in the future."
The Linux Desktop Needs To Be Easier
Installing a new program, or the OS itself, proves cumbersome for some users. Creating a home network or developing individualized settings can be confusing or frustrating.
Freshmeat
AGT is a powerful console frontend to iptables, supporting nearly all of the iptables extensions (such as quota, random, MIRROR, multiport, owner, string, MAC address, and more). All options can be specified in a configuration file with similar syntax to 'ipf' and 'ipfw'.
audio recording server 2.2.0
erec is a tool program for recording raw audio stream from the soundcard. Multiple instances of erec can be running at the same time sharing the same audio device. It works as a frontend to the audio device for programs wishing to listen at the same time.
bb-FreeBSD 0.60.0
bb-FreeBSD is a theme featuring the FreeBSD logo and colors. There are two background options available in the menu file.
bb-Slackware 0.60.0
bb-Slackware is a theme featuring the Slackware logo and colors. There are two background options available in the menu file.
bftpd 1.0.23
bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot without special configuration or directory preparation. It works on all Unix variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported.
BoolStuff 0.1.6
BoolStuff is a small C++ library that computes the Disjunctive Normal Form of a boolean expression binary tree. The library also has a C programming interface.
Bytes Counter 0.9
Bytes Counter displays detailed information about the number of bytes that have been transferred over a network interface.
Catweasel Linux Device Driver 0.3.2
cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller manufactured by Individual Computers. The Catweasel is a versatile Shugart bus controller (i.e., it can control floppy drives). It is extremely flexible and can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy disk in the world. This driver supports reading and writing of Amiga and MS-DOS DD/HD 3.5" disks.
chpox 0.3-a
chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with MOSIX and openMosix , is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.
DConnect Daemon 0.1.6 (Development)
DConnect Daemon is a daemon which acts as a Direct Connect hub. It is written in pure C and utilizes threads. It aims to be very fast, with a very good protocol implementation.
DCP-Portal 5.0 (Final)
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
Developer Todo 0.1.15-1 (Stable)
Developer Todo is a program to assist developers in maintaining a list of outstanding tasks in a heirarchical, colourised, and prioritised list. Additionally, it can automatically list outstanding items when you change into a directory.
Foxtrot 2.0 beta 1
Foxtrot is a small and powerful API for using threads with the Java(TM) Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing). It is based on a new concept, the Synchronous Model, which greatly increases ease of use.
FXvt 0.1.0
FXvt is a virtual terminal FOX widget. As such, it can be embedded in any application developed with the FOX GUI toolkit. It is a derivative work from the well-known rxvt virtual terminal.
gnomeradio 1.4 (Develoment)
Gnomeradio is another FM radio tuner writen in GTK+. It should work with every FM tuner card that is supported by video4linux. Remote controls are supported via (optional) lirc-support. Gnomeradio can also record radio as a Wave or MP3 file.
GNU Solfege 1.9.4 (Development)
Solfege is an ear training program for GNOME, but can also run with only the Gtk+ libs. It even runs on MS Windows.
JFtp 0.96
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode.
libmpeg2 0.3.1
libmpeg2 is a library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. Its main goals are standards conformance, speed, portability, and reuseability. The package also includes mpeg2dec, a small test program for libmpeg2.
Managing Gigabytes for Java 0.3
MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative ongoing effort aimed at providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques. MG4J tries to make the techniques accessible without having to deal with bit-level operations in a clean, object-oriented environment.
Millstone 3.0.1
Millstone is a user interface library for development of Internet applications with Java. It provides a terminal independent component model that can be adapted to different terminal types and user interface themes. The development model of Millstone is closely related to traditional client side UI development: it has a continuous application lifecycle and an extensive event model. The Millstone library also provides an interface for directly connecting UI components to business logic and data storage.
motion 3.1.4 (Development)
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
motion 3.0.5
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
pam_smbmount 0.3
pam_smbmount is a Pluggable Authentication Module for FreeBSD that authenticates users against an SMB server (like Samba) and automatically mounts their home shares.
perltrash 0.3
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. Single files can be permanently removed from the trash can. perltrash can automatically remove files from the trash can that are over a certain time limit or trash can size. It supports all kinds of files, including complete directories.
Phylographer October-11-2002
PhyloGrapher is a program designed to visualize and study evolutionary relationships within families of homologous genes or proteins (elements). It is a drawing tool that generates custom graphs for the given set of elements. In general, it is possible to use PhyloGrapher to visualize any type of interactions between elements you want.
Pine 4.51
Pine® is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.
PowerAdmin 1.1
PowerAdmin is a Web-based frontend for the PowerDNS DNS server. It interfaces with PowerDNS's generic database backends, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, to add/modify/delete both forward and reverse zones, with full IPv6 support.
ROX-Session 0.1.18
ROX-Session is a simple and easy-to-configure session manager. It allows you to change window managers without logging out (and copes with window managers crashing) and provides a graphical configuration box for your X settings (default font, cursor blinking, mouse behavior, etc.). The default session starts ROX-Filer managing the background and one panel, but it can be easily reconfigured for other purposes. SAS's Accounting Statistics 1.0.1 (development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106527/ Sasacct fetches traffic stats via ipchains, ipfstat, iptables, pf, Cisco IP accounting, and SNMP. It makes mrtg-like graphics using rrdtool. A CGI interface is included for checking date-to-date traffic statistics and to generate on-the-fly graphics. It also includes support for fetching the necessary information remotely via a super-server (such as inetd or xinetd).
sed 4.0.5-pre (Development)
Sed, the GNU Stream Editor, copies the named files (standard input default) to the standard output, edited according to a script of commands.
streamixer 1.18.3
streamixer contains an audio stream mixer server, tools for monitoring and feeding the server, and a stream resampling tool with various different interpolation models.
Tcpreplay 1.3.0
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured network traffic (pcap or snoop format). It can be used to test a variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
Trommler 3.4
Trommler is an X-based drum machine with the following features: use of 16 bit 44100kHz mono drum samples, realtime audio output using the /dev/dsp device on Linux machines (or audio output to file), a variable number of beats per pattern, volume adjustment of drum samples, stereo panning of (mono) drum samples, and more.
WebShop 0.5.0
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop. WISE CAM 1.0
WISECAM (WIreless SEnsor CAM) provides solutions to security and surveillance problems using wireless video sensors. It features motion detection, multiple client data collection over a network, a Service Discovery-enabled Wireless Video Sensor Network, and a browser-based GUI which offers access from almost anywhere.
Your Operating System 3.2.1-14122002
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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