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[osdn business] December 19, 2002
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 03:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Quicktime 6 Becoming Mobile-Phone Standard?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/230217
[0]k-hell writes "It [1]seems [2]like Apple's QuickTime 6 is becoming
standard on some 44 million Japanese mobile phones. Apple and many
other companies are pressuring hard to make [3]MPEG-4 the industry
standard for video-on-demand services in 3G cellular networks, and to
keep Microsoft and its proprietary Windows Media out of the mobile
phones market."
Links
0.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel/
1.
http://www.onlinereporter.com/charts/tor327/tor327.html#2
2.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1218nttdo.html
3.
http://www.m4if.org/Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2247214
[0]Magamo writes "[1]Console Talk has the story on a [2]settlement
between [3]Sony and [4]Nintendo over the rights to the "[5]PlayStation"
name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and
Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of
Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently
amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to
pay it off in installments over the next 20 years. Nintendo currently
plans on using the money to create a new game studio comprised of
members of some of the biggest in the japanese industry, in order to
create titles exclusively for the [6]GameCube. Hmm, my guess is that
Sony's next console will be shying away from the PlayStation
moniker..."
Links
0. mailto:magamo@ranka.2y.net
1.
http://www.consoletalk.com/
2.
http://www.consoletalk.com/News/FullStory.php?id=146
3.
http://www.sony.com/
4.
http://www.nintendo.com/
5.
http://www.playstation.com/
6.
http://www.gamecube.com/New Software Secures Data when Owners Walk Away http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2241201
[0]Makarand writes "Leave an operating laptop unattended on your desk
and your sensitive data is accessible to anyone who gets hold of it. To
limit this risk many users configure their systems to fall into a
"sleep" mode after a period of inactivity and ask for a password before
the system can be awakened. This constant re-authentication proves to
be a headache for many users. Now a Professor and his graduate student
at at the University of Michigan have come up with a system called [1]
Zero-Interaction Authentication (ZIA), [2]described in this article in
The Age, to protect data on mobile devices. The system works by
starting to encrypt data the moment the owner walks away from the
system. The owners wear a token with a encrypted wireless link with the
laptop. If the token moves out of range the ZIA re-encrypts all data
within 5 seconds. If the cryptographic token moves within range the
system decrypts the information for the owner. The token, which could
take many forms, is currently a wristwatch with a processor running
Linux designed by IBM."
Links
0. mailto:{the-Junta(@)HotMail.}
1.
http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/papers/p002-corner.pdf
2.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/17/1039656378113.html
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2047205
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new Quicktime [0]Trailer avalible for Terminator 3 up and avalible to download. Features include shiny chrome, blue LED's a-plenty and a few seconds of a CGI'ed army of Terminators." Looks like a pretty fun movie. Links
0. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/t3/
Opera Gives That C64 Feel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1328245
[0]howcome writes "[1]Opera yesterday relased beta2 of the forthcoming
7.0 version. Opera now supports mulitple user style sheets and by
selecting "Nostalgia" from the menu all web pages suddenly resemble
Commodore 64 ([2]screendump1 [3]screendump2) from 20 years back. Also,
there is a [4]handheld emulator to see what a page will look like on a
handheld device running Opera. To get you through Christmas, you can
also use the "fast-forward" button. Try it on Google ([5]screendump)!"
Links
0.
http://people.opera.com/howcome
1.
http://www.opera.com/
2.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdsd2.png
3.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdsd.png
4.
http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/smallscreen/
5.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdjj.png
FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2043243
netringer writes "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is proposing some new regulations [0]creating a national 'Do Not Call' list to keep US phones from being rung by telemarketers. Telemarketers who call a number on the list could be fined up $11,000. The new FTC rules also require that telemarketers have Caller ID enabled and limit abandoned 'hang up' calls from predictive dialers. The new rules have some loopholes, allowing calls from charities and businesses that have somehow gotten your permission or have done business with you before. The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S. consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities." Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/849058.asp?0dm=C14LT
Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1335225
[0]Creighti asks: "When I first got my new cellphone I immediately
received several automated Text Message 'Alerts' from Yahoo and MSN
which recurred on a daily basis. My guess was (is) that the previous
owner of my cell phone number signed up for these things. Six months
later I'm still getting unwanted text messages from Yahoo! Alerts. I
managed to get rid of the MSN messages by signing up with MSN (gack),
registering the phone number as mine, and de-selecting all text
messages. I've tried the same trick with Yahoo. I've tried filling out
the Yahoo! Help form that appeared to apply (interestingly enough, the
Yahoo Help entry I've used several times to request they stop sending
the unwanted alert appears to have been removed, but clicking the 'No'
button on [1] this page would work). I've even tried emailing
abuse@yahoo.com. Anyone else getting text-message spammed by Yahoo! (or
any other service)? Any suggestions for what I should do next to try
and get Yahoo! to stop sending these unwanted messages?" Why aren't the
text message preferences deleted when the cancellation notices comes
thru?
Links
0. mailto:davidb@ontoncle.net
Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1948257
malx writes "Says the Financial Times: 'Matsushita and Sony have
[0]agreed to jointly develop the Linux operating system for digital
consumer electronic products, in a highly unusual and cooperative deal
between two of the fiercest rivals in the industry.' Interesting
because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even
more scared of Microsoft." Sorry, [1]it's a dupe.
Links
Video Streaming Goes Peer-to-Peer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/189233
[0]CMU ESM Project writes "Our research group at Carnegie Mellon
University has developed a peer to peer streaming video content
distribution system called End System Multicast (ESM). The system
constructs a self-organizing and adaptive overlay network using the
receivers that are tuning into the broadcast events. The system has
been used fairly successfully for [1] quite a few events. Now we want
test the system with a lot of more users and different user join
patterns. We are streaming some very cool video, such as Triumph of the
Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO of
Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark, and
2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship. [2]Here is the detailed
schedule. So please tune in, enjoy, and help test our system!" The
streaming is based on QuickTime; for Linux users, the project page
steps through installation of CodeWeaver's CrossOver plug-in.
Links
0. mailto:esm-help@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
1.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming/broadcast.html#pastbroadcast
2.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming/
LOTR: The Two Towers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1622249
Let's try to mash all the LOTR submissions into one. Reviews:
[0]comingsoon.net, [1]Empire Online (UK), [2]CNN, [3]Slate, [4]Salon.
The LA Times has a story about animating Gollum which we can't link to
because it requires registration. [5]Lord Satri writes "Ents, elves and
mages being on every orc's lips, new versions of [6]Tales Of
Middle-Earth are available. It is an open source, one player and
[7]online multiplayer game. It is [8]ported to many OS's. Yeah, no
terrific graphics, but the game is really worthwhile. It is based on
the famous roguelike [9]Angband (variants [10]here). Faithful to
Tolkien's writings."
Links
0.
http://www.comingsoon.net/reviews/lotrttt.php
1.
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/events/thelordoftherings2/default.asp
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/sproject.ca02.review.two.towers/index.html
3.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075650&device=
4.
http://salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/12/18/two_towers/index.html
5.
http://www.alexandre.leroux.net
6.
http://t-o-m-e.net/
7.
http://t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=1
8.
http://t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0
9.
http://thangorodrim.angband.org/
10.
http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Newsforge Reports
New MandrakeSoft licensing scheme similar to Trolltech's, says v.p.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/010214
- by Tina Gasperson - Rumors of MandrakeSoft "stepping back" from Free Software are not true, says Gael Duval, v.p. of the Paris, France Linux distribution company.
My Network Administrator's Toolbox
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/0232235
- By Rich Corbridge - Recently I built some storage shelves in my basement. One step of the process required a chisel. My accomplice suggested that I just use a screw driver since it was more handy at the time. I responded that I wanted to use a chisel since we had one and because I believe in using the right tool for the job if it is available. I have the same philosophy at work. I like to use the right tool for the job if it is available. In ...
Grid computing from Sun - Open Source and proud of it http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1630252
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Sun's open source Grid Engine software currently runs over 7000 grids with an average of 47 CPUs per grid, and a steadily increasing percentage of the grids it powers run Linux, according to John Tollefsrud, Sun's Grid marketing manager.
Newsforge Newsvac
LinuxCertified Announces "Linux Fundamentals"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/0016243
Rajesh writes "Linux Fundamentals" bootcamp is designed for busy professionals with no prior experience with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX. This two-day introduction to Linux broadens their horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system."
Free documentation database
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/0015252
Gaetano Paolone writes "Dear friends, I am pleased to inform you that GFDD (GNUtemberg! Free Documentation Database) has reached a rather stable version."
The Microsoft/Linux Connection, Explained http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/153247
Last week, when research firm Meta Group of Stamford, Conn., predicted that Microsoft (MSFT) would begin to support Linux by late 2004 with some of its key server products -- Exchange, IIS, SQL server, and the like -- reactions ranged from outrage to befuddlement.
Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1456256
kNIGits writes "News.com.au is reporting that the University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot installations in favour of booting Linux ."
Vanishing Features Of The 2.6 Kernel
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1447202
chromatic writes "Jerry Cooperstein has written an excellent article summarizing the features removed from the upcoming 2.6 kernel."
LindowsOS due to hit retail shelves
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1446231
Software buyers may be doing a double take in retail stores over the coming months as they see Microsoft's familiar Windows operating system (OS) sitting next to the new OS from Lindows.com Inc.
Norway Prosecutors Seek Teen's Computers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1446210
A Norwegian teenager who wrote software for breaking the copy protection on DVDs harmed movie studios by circulating it over the Internet and should have his computers taken away, prosecutors said Monday.
Santa Tux's Corner: The Gift of Linux, Part 2 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1445229
Linux: the gift that keeps on giving!
Spaces still available for iCanProgram course http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1445213
Bob Findlay writes "It's been quite a year at iCanProgram. (http://www.icanprogram.com) Almost exactly a year ago we opened our online programmer training courses with a "no fee in return for a Cancer Research donation" format. Over the course of 2002 more than 1500 students have participated."
Jon Johansen - v - Hollywood
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1444225
Anonymous Reader writes "Many (most?) prosecutions started by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) on behalf of what's euphemistically called 'Hollywood' are farces, murky and badly scripted. And none is more so than the trial featuring Jon Johansen, the 19-year-old programmer from Norway who came up with DeCSS, an app Hollywood contends lets people pirate DVD content."
Freshmeat
Arch Linux 0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106974/
Arch Linux is an i686-optimized Linux distribution. It is lightweight and contains the latest stable versions of software. Packages are in .tar.gz format and are tracked by a package manager that is designed to allow easy package upgrades. Arch is quite streamlined compared to some other distributions. Things that are relatively unused are not kept (info pages, for example). A default Arch install leaves you with a solid base; from there, you can add packages to create the custom installation you're looking for. Arch has a package build system that allows you to easily create your own packages, which makes it very easy to rebuild a package with your own custom configuration. Arch also aims to use the newer features available to Linux users, such as reiserfs/ext3 and devfs.
Ariadne 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106967/
Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL.
Audioq queue system 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106991/
Audioq is a queue system that allows several users from different computers to play songs sharing the audio resources in a fair way.
CDox 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106960/
CDox generates, edits, and prints CD documents like CD covers, back sides and booklets. It features many image processing options like sharpen, contrast, etc. One can use images and text as elements, and those elements can be flipped/rotated/resized in any way. The program has easy-to-use features for previously made images that are meant to be CD covers.
DaveDAP 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106976/
DaveDAP is a PHP-based engine to browse, search, and edit an LDAP server over the Web. You can browse your LDAP server in tree mode, or you can search for users based on any number of easily configurable criteria. DaveDAP aims to be a Web-based replacement for GQ.
DCP-Portal 5.0.1 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106944/
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.
DOM Menu 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106925/
DOM Menu allows developers to add dynamic, hierarchical popup menus to Web pages. Menus can be horizontal or vertical and can open or pop out in either direction. It features screen edge and element detection for browsers that cannot hide form elements. Styles are controlled almost entirely using CSS, and the menus are created and hidden using the Document Object Model. Configuration is performed using a custom Hash() class. The menus emulate the look and feel of well known GUI toolkits. Mozilla, IE 5+ and Opera 7 are supported.
E-Xoops Beta 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106935/
E-Xoops is a content management system written mainly in object oriented PHP. It includes everything you'd expect from a portal system, including downloads, links, sections, polls, forum, news, a FAQ, RSS feeds, members lists, and customizable blocks and themes. It also integrates XMLRPC and the ability to manage users as groups with module- or block-specific access permissions.
Easy Integrity Check System 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106939/
Easy Integrity Check System is a tool for system administrators that performs filesystem integrity checks. It is easy to set up and use, and makes use of the mcrypt and mhash libraries for encrypting its database.
echolot-pinger 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106995/
Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by regularly sending messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use. Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.
Exim 4.12 (exim4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106952/
Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive. Exim is in use at many sites around the world.
Filesystem Charset Converter 1.0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106946/
Filesystem Charset Convertor (fcc) converts file and directory names from one character set to another.
GeekLog 1.3.7-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106973/
GeekLog is the weblog software that concentrates on performance, privacy, and security. It features Web-based administration, surveys (polls), user-customizable boxes, a friendly administration GUI with a topic manager, an option to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), calendaring, and much more.
Genuts Breaker 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106949/
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.
gtkglextmm 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106956/
gtkglextmm is C++ wrapper for GtkGLExt, an OpenGL extension to GTK.
HTML::TextToHTML 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106948/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making it versatile and easy to use.
I fixed this (with Linux) 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106932/
A smooth, creamy-pistachio-green theme with a penguin and the statement "I fixed this with linux".
JFtp 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106954/
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.
JSch 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106959/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
KricketScoreboard 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106940/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.
LDasm 0.04.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106981/
LDasm (Linux Disassembler) is a Perl/Tk-based GUI for objdump/binutils that tries to imitate the look and feel of W32Dasm. It searchs for cross-references (e.g. strings), converts the code from GAS to a MASM-like style, and much more.
Lepton's Crack 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106957/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force (incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, and Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4) formats.
libmcrypt 2.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106938/
Libmcrypt is a library which provides a uniform interface to several symmetric encryption algorithms. It is intended to have a simple interface to access encryption algorithms in ofb, cbc, cfb, and ecb modes. The algorithms it supports are DES, 3DES, RIJNDAEL, Twofish, IDEA, GOST, CAST-256, ARCFOUR, SERPENT, SAFER+, and more. The algorithms and modes are also modular so you can add and remove them on the fly without recompiling the library.
MasarLabs NoArp 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106980/
MasarLabs NoArp is a Linux kernel module that filters and drops unwanted ARP requests. It is useful when you need to add an alias to the loopback interface to use a load balancer.
MiddleMan 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106971/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies to and from certain sites, redirect requests, forward requests through another proxy using NTLM or Basic authentication, block inappropiate content using a keyword scoring system, and manipulate the contents of files using either its builtin rewrite feature or an external program or script. It fully implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol, including persistent connections and gzip encoding.
monfarm 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106963/
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.
mysqlSendmail 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106993/
mysqlSendmail is software for sendmail access, sendmail.cw, and aliases file management. It features virtusertable management for multiple domains, a built-in scoreboard signature-based anti-spam system, and support for managing POP3 users and their quotas. It has tie-ins for both SMTP-after-POP and SMTP-after-auth (see mysqlRadius) via modified a Cistron 1.6.6 radiusd and qpopper 4.0.4. It is part of the mysqlISP suite of GPL ISP management tools.
mysqltcl 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106990/
mysqltcl is the Tcl interface to mysql realtional database. It is the next version of mysqltcl1.53 (new contributor) with many new futures: Tcl8.0-Object support, Unicode support, configure support, no connection limitation, nested queries, handling of binary files (containing null values), and many extra commands: seek on result block, escaping of string, last inserted id, introspection of connection and query state, and query metadata (schema).
N-View 2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106968/
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.
Nessus 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106943/
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 900 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems.
oxygen XML editor 1.2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106961/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
Package Structure Analysis Tool 1.0 Beta 5 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106994/
The Package Structure Analysis Tool is a tool for analyzing and refactoring the structure of Java programs. It takes Java sources as input and visualizes the dependencies between packages and classes with UML class diagrams, detects cycles in the dependency graph, recovers an intended architectural layering from a polluted implementation, suggests which dependencies should be removed to improve the structure, allows refactoring of the source model, immediately shows the effect of the refactoring on the dependency structure, allows the refactoring to be applied to the source code, and allows source code to be verified against a design model.
Paper Archiving Software Sysytem 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106920/
The Paper Archiving Software Sysytem turns streams of data into a series of image files that can be interpreted by humans to recover the original data. It is intended to be used for long- term archival use and was created in response to the doomsday book currently being recovered in Europe.
Pauker 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106958/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
pdfcrypt 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106988/
pdfcrypt allows you to set permissions on a PDF file. For example, you can publish a document without permitting users to print it. The button to print the file will be disabled in the Acrobat Reader application. It can be used as a batch application to set permissions on a large group of PDF files, or as a filter in a Unix pipeline, or within a CGI application. Only binary executables are distributed, but the original Perl source code may be requested.
pipebench 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106649/
Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.
Ring Dependencies Tool beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106964/
Ring Dependencies Tool provides an interface for finding and analyzing circular dependencies within Unix libraries. The tool finds rings and generates a dependency table overview, within which you can find each symbol table ordered according to "supplies", "needs", and "needs from".
Rosegarden 0.8.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106966/
Rosegarden is an integrated MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor. The stable version (2.1) is a simple application for any Unix/X system. The development branch (Rosegarden-4) is an entirely new KDE application.
screen-scraper 0.8.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106934/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database.
Siteseed 1.4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106975/
Siteseed is a full Web Development and Content Management System. It provides bases for site building and uses PHP for extensions and site programming. Advanced features include intercomunications with other Siteseed sites, XML export/import, multiple backoffice staff with detailed permissions, visual WYSIWYG editing and previews, three internal cache layers for maximum flexibility and top performance, internal message system for project management, easy setup, on-line editing, on-line image manipulation, and Word documents import. Staff members can access their backoffice in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Snail 1.0 (Light)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106969/
Snail is a blue theme.
SnipSnap 0.3.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106942/
SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as both are built-in.
Software 4 Open Communities 0.4.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106950/
Software 4 Open Communities (oc4ware) provides Web community portal software in the scope of the Semantic Web initiative, making possible distributed context-sensitive online publishing and retrieval in self-organised groups of interest. It is currently useful for distributed content management and online publishing systems (Web services, online journals, etc.).
TaskJuggler 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106965/
TaskJuggler is a project management tool for Linux and UNIX system-based operating systems. Projects can be defined in a simple text format, listing tasks and their dependencies. Reports are returned in HTML or XML format. TaskJuggler does not only honor the task interdependencies but also takes resource constrains into account. Using its powerful filtering and reporting algorithms, the user can create task lists, resource usage tables, status reports, project calendars, and project accounting statements.
URLFetch Java 0.9.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106933/
URLFetch Java is a small library that handles HTTP and HTTPS transactions, including support for GET and POST requests, basic authentication, setting and retrieving HTTP headers, tracking cookies, proxy servers, and automatically following redirects.
User Dialog Perl Module 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106941/
User Dialog Perl Module is an OOPerl interface for dialog-based applications such as dialog, cdialog, whiptail, gdialog, and kdialog. It features extensive documentation with detailed compatability charts, enhanced usage of cdialog font attributes, and text element alignment for curses based dialogs. It is useful for writing Unix system scripts in Perl, or for when quick, portable, and robust interfaces are required.
Verlof 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106951/
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.
Very Simple Network Monitor 2.0.0 beta (Monitoring) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106986/
Very Simple Network Monitor is a bash shell script CGI that monitors a number of services on a network. It currently checks for node-up, TCP service up, and UDP service up. A service or system can be put in maintenance status to avoid repetitive alarms. It is easy to customize, trigger alarms by email, or whatever you like (depends on nmap for TCP/UDP service checks). Installation is also simple. It generates HTML with all statuses, and for all services just in one view.
Watchfolder 0.3.1-p2 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106945/
Watchfolder watches specifed folders for incoming files and processes them with programs assigned to those folders. Afterwards, the files are removed from the inbound directory.
Web Services Toolkit 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106915/
IBM Web Services Toolkit is a runtime environment as well as demo/examples to design and execute Web-service applications to find one another and collaborate in business transactions without programming requirements or human intervention.
xmlenc 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106936/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML output library, like JDOM.
Your Operating System 3.2.1-17122002-RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106930/
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.
zengpan's mail system 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106962/
zengpan's mail system is a very tiny and simple mail system.
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