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Slashdot
[0]fonixmunkee writes "as a sometimes-traveler for work, and a huge
0. mailto:fonixmunkee@yahoo.com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20021215/ap_on_hi_te/in_flight_internet
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http://www.nwa.com
3.
http://conf.linux.org.au/
Kiwi Flight Before the Wright Brothers?
[0]houseofmore writes "The [1]Toronto Star is is reporting that New
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http://www.thestar.ca/
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http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775620594&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Googling For Dates?
[0]JAK writes "The New York Times' down-to-earth ethicist Randy Cohen
0. mailto:jakv5@east91.com
Decentralization
jamesgregory writes "'Geeks make new stuff primarily because it's fun,
because it's useful, and [0]because they can. Suits make new stuff
primarily because they hope to earn a profit. Yes, that is an
oversimplification, and there's overlap between the two types -- there
are plenty of profit-seeking geeks and geeky business folks. Still, the
distinction is real.'"
0. http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/12/13/supernova/index.html
Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
An anonymous reader writes "Ever feel like not being a marketing statistic? Well just by playing certain store-bought compact discs in your home or office computer, your new music disc may be transmitting your listening habits in real time to the respective record company...." Charming. Read on for more...
Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses?
A wisely anonymous reader writes "Following my company's Christmas party on Friday, I found myself the proud recipient of... a bobble head doll of the company CEO! Needless to say I was PISSED. They didn't even comp. parking at the site of the party, let alone a bonus. yeah, yeah, times are tough. I should be happy just to have a job. but getting a damn doll of the guy who made 65 million last year just makes me angry. So... What did you get from your Company for Christmas?"
Web Zeitgeist
An anonymous reader writes "[0]CNN has a [1]story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex", "Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears", and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7, and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at #22. It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports, and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top
Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1759227
[0]Bowie J. Poag notes this Register story about an [1]RIAA copyright
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http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html
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http://riaa.org/PR_Story.cfm?id=592
NYTimes Year in Ideas
jonbrewer writes "The New York Times is back again with their "[0]Year
in Ideas" and one that Slashdot missed this year was the [1]RatBot. As
featured in the [2]BBC and [3]Business 2.0 earlier this year, these
critters are trained to navigate mazes based on [4]remote stimuli.
Ethical? Doubtful. Cool? Yes."
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http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15REMO.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1961798.stm
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http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,42699,FF.html
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020501_roboratshtml
Google vs. Evil
wideangle writes "'The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that [0]moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business. Take Brin's decision to refuse all alcohol and tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality: Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public.'" Links 0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html
Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Over Half a Year with Linux: A Success http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1329208 by Ban_Country_Music - I have been using Linux for over half a year now. I got SuSE 8 Pro for around $80, around the time it came out. I wiped my hard drive and installed it. When it started up, I was greeted with KDM. I had feared that perhaps KDE would feel now as professional or polished as Windows XP, but to my surprise it was very polished and looked nice. Commentary: United We Stand...the Division in the Linux World http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0137256
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
Accounting is software that was developed to keep track of money lent and owed. I use it from my RIM wireless pager. It is easy to install and use, and uses basic double-entry accounting.
bin86 0.16.10
as86 and ld86 provide a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can generate 32-bit code for the 386+ processors. These tools are used to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries for linux. The syntax is not compatible with the GNU assembler.
Blassic 0.4.5
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.
BrainSplatPHP 0.7.1
BrainSplatPHP (BSPHP) is a simple single-user journaling program that supports commenting.
Buildtool 0.8
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
cmv 1.20
cmv is a Perl script that lets you easily rename multiple files in complex ways on Unix systems. The main advantage of cmv over other methods is that it finds the right order to rename files so that no files get clobbered. For instance, something like "cmv 'tr/abcd/bcda/' a b c d" will rename all the files without any of them disappearing. CORBA::MICO 0.6.5
CORBA::MICO is a Perl interface to the MICO ORB. Its most distinctive feature is that it is completely dynamic. It is not necessary to pregenerate "stubs" or "skeletons"; all necessary information is retrieved at runtime. CRUX 1.0
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries.
Dav 0.7.5 (Development)
Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is efficient in both memory and processor usage. Its user interface is designed to be intuitive and to increase productivity.
dbacl 1.2.1
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
Dialog CD Writer 2.1
Dialog CD Writer is a dialog front end to burn CDs under GNU/Linux and Unix. It can write data and audio CDs, make MP3 files, and ISO images, and burn on-the-fly copies. X is not need to run the script.
E-AcpiPower 0.8
The E-AcpiPower epplet is based on E-Power. It is modified to read battery status information using the new acpi kernel module, making it much more accurate and reliable than the old apm method.
Elm ME+ Elm 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
Fast File Search 0.9.15
Fast File Search crawls FTP servers and SMB shares (Windows shares and UNIX systems running Samba) and stores the information about files to a database. A Web interface is then used for searching files.
GNOME Installation Guide 12/2002
The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are not.
GNU Anubis 3.6.2 (Stable)
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy server.
Java Aspect Components 0.9.1
JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming (distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools for the applications and for their aspects.
Java XiangQi .5
Java XianQi lets you play Chinese chess with yourself (not the computer) or an online opponent.
KDE DivX subtitles editor 0.13
ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.
KHeiseReg 0.7 (KDE 3.x)
KHeiseReg is a utility to search offline within the article data base ("Heise Register") of the magazines "c't" and "iX" from the German publisher Heinz Heise.
Knoppix 3.1-12-12-2002
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.
KPortage 0.6
KPortage a graphical frontend for the Gentoo Linux portage system.
libchipcard 0.7beta1 (Beta)
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
Linux 2.4.21-pre1 (2.4-testing)
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.
LiVES 0.3.0
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is currently usable for small video files.
mailtrace 0.1.1
mailtrace reads a mail header on stdin and dumps a trace of SMTP hosts in a human readable manner on stdout. This is quite useful to check which host is responsible if a particular message is not delivered in a few minutes.
Mozilla 1.3alpha (Development)
Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems. Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon).
Naamah 1.04
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.
OpenGLavity 0.9.9
OpenGLavity simulates gravity between several bodies using a full N-bodies algorithm. It has an OpenGL interface.
OpenSSL 0.9.6h
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
Pam_mount 0.5.9
The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB (Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login, using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically unmounted on logout.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.44
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC logfiles.
Personal File Manager 1.65 (Stable)
pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands are one- or two-key commands (case-insensitive). It features colored filenames according to extension or type, a single-file and multiple-file mode, support for executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine library for friendly commandline editing.
printquota 0.5
Printquota is a printing service quota tracking tool. It allows an administrator to group the printer queues and users and to set permissions to control which user can use which printer. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
procps 3.1.4
procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.
ReMedial 0.2.4
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
Scribus 0.9.4 (Development)
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.
SmartPost 0.1
SmartPost is a complete email platform based on Davide Libenzi's xmail. It has Web interfaces for adding and managing email domains, for postmasters to manage their email users, and for users to send and receive email.
updatedd 1.5
Updatedd is a client to update a dynamic DNS. At the moment, it supports dyndns.org, ovh.net, no-ip.org, ods.org, and hn.org.
VetTux 2.0-2
VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic. Video Disk Recorder 1.1.20 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106637/ Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more. VISUAL 0.0.17
VISUAL is a collection of programs to allow a computer running Linux to interface with programmable controllers, exchange data with them, log data, run HMI (human machine interface) screens, and control a machine from a local computer or over an intranet. The live state of the machinery can be viewed in any browser using Java applets.
Web Package Surfer 0.2.6
Web Package Surfer is a PHP-based package management system that lets you browse, search, and administrate a set of files contained in packages that are classified by (possibly nested) categories. It is particularly useful for maintaining a repository of downloaded files.
WebGUI 4.9.3
WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
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