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[osdn business] December 27, 2002
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December 27, 2002 BUSINESS SERIES
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[0]Joe Jordan writes "[1]Space.com is advertising the [2]Top 10 Space
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/topmysteries_2003_021226-1.html
SGI launches R16000
nkrgovic writes " SGI has just launched a new CPU - the long expected R16000. The new CPU works on 700MHz, has 4MB secondary cache and more goodies. For now the new CPU is only used in SGI's [0] Fuel workstations, but we should expect to see it pretty soon in SGI's Origin servers as well. With new high density compute nodes this should make the Origin's the fastest supercomputing server per square foot." Links 0. http://www.sgi.com/workstations/fuel/tech_info.html The Age Interviews Linux Advocate Rick Moen http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0214238 An anonymous reader writes "The Age [0]interviews Rick Moen, a software generalist from the Linux community and an advocate for Open Source software." Rick's been a real catalyst for the Linux community over the years, helping organize the LINC Expo, Windows Refund Day, Linux birthday parties, and more. An entertaining read. Links 0. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/26/1040511127721.html Deliberation of "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2319232 An anonymous reader writes "Per the [0]Federal Register the National Infastructure Advisory Council will have a public meeting (telephonically) from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST on 1/8/2003 to deliberate on the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. 'Written comments may be submitted at any time before or after the meeting.' Details can be found in [1]text format or in [2]PDF." Links
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Indian Government Moves to Let Linux In
Webi writes "The government of India has started taking [0]precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India." India sure seems to be a [1]highly contested arena lately. Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through. Links 0. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=32354337
GNU Christmas Gift: Free Eclipse
[0]Mark Wielaard writes "Your friendly neighbourhood [1]GNU did it
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http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
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http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/hello.htmlDigital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1749230
[0]McDrewbie asks: "Has anyone discovered that the new CD's found under
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http://www.columbiarecords.com/Fixing Wireless Security By Pulling The Plug http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2052239
An anonymous reader writes "It seems as though the Japanese government
is paying attention to some security concerns of wireless networks, and
rather than addressing the problem, taking a [0]more aggressive but
perhaps not as thorough approach to the issue at hand. Not very
technical, but at least its good to see governments actually doing
something about it."
0. http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002122600287.html Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1943230
MachineShedFred writes "CNN is reporting that [0]The Kroger Company is
testing the use of [1]fingerprinting as means for payment at grocery
stores. The article says that it has been well received by both college
students and seniors. I, for one would love to see this rolled out to
all of Kroger's stores, which include Fred Meyer, Ralph's, QFC, Fry's
Marketplace (not the electronics stores), and others; however I'm sure
some /.-ers will have privacy concerns as well as law enforcement
cooperation issues..."
Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting
[0]8BitWimp writes "Today's edition of the Christian Science Monitor
0. mailto:dew@ieee.org
Newsforge Reports
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. This week, advisories were released for bind, perl, canna, klisa, cyrus-imapd, wget, kde, and fetchmail. The distributors include Caldera, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE. Asia will be the center of Linux development in 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0259244
Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up
Newsforge Newsvac
Open-source databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, are marching into the enterprise via their inclusion in major Linux distributions, which are quickly growing in usage on middle-tier servers and back-end clusters.
Raising top-quality rabble
Rick calls himself "a software generalist" in the Linux community, who answers technical questions on-line, concerning all aspects of Linux. He does this on the mailing lists of various Linux user groups (without respect to geographical boundaries - he is very active on the Linux Users of Victoria list), on Usenet newsgroups, and as a member of the answer gang of the monthly e-magazine Linux Gazette.
Availinux launches its Online Community
Availinux writes "Availinux has launched its High Availability online web-portal, www.availinux.com geared towards professional users with mission critical needs."
Bluefish-gtk2-0.8 At-A-Glance
LPH writes "Individuals wanting to learn a little more about Bluefish might be interested in this At-A-Glance written by the Tux Reports Team. Two screenshots are included to show the new file selector and the syntax highlighting by PCRE."
IBM Mulls Linux For Its PCs
Kolkata: International Business Machines (IBM) may soon start packing its PCs with the open-source Linux operating system (OS). IBM’s Linux initiative has so far been limited to its servers and workstations. Axis Launches Complete Linux Computer on a Single Chip http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/210257 Chelmsford, Mass. - Axis Communications, a global leader in network technology, announced today the availability of the AXIS ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8, a new generation system-on-a-chip that integrates 2MB Flash, 8MB SDRAM and an Ethernet transceiver into a single chip with a 27mm x 27mm footprint. The chip, which is designed for networked devices such as wireless access points, digital video recorders and access control and security systems, enables ...
Supercharging the Supercomputer Race
Japan has the speed and power lead right now, but IBM promises to put the U.S. back out front -- by far -- in 2005
RunTime: Context switching, Part 2
An anonymous coward writes "This article looks at two behaviors of the scheduler. The first behavior is the reaction to adding more choices to the scheduler's switching decision. The second demonstrates fairness by performing a uniform workload in multiple threads. Source code is provided so you can experiment on your own. Last month's column looked at bare context switch times by using the best primitives on both Windows and Linux. According to ... Stocking Stuffer Mini-Reviews: XSnow, Camorama, XQ http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2053251 GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit contributing editor Dan McCombs takes a look a few fun stocking stuffers for your GNU/Linux desktop. In this article, he takes a quick look at the open source multi-game browser XQF, the useful webcam utility Camorama, a collection of Really Slick Screensavers and for the feeling of the holiday season, Xsnow." Tonight Live: Our 5Th Annual Year in Review Show http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2052221 Thursday, December 26th, 2002 - from Chicago IL, home of the Little Blue Box - We will return with our 5th Annual Year in Review Show.
Freshmeat
AndromedeIRCd is an ircd based on bahamut with many useful additional commands, including host encryption, the sethost command, etc.
Astaro Security Linux 3.380 (Beta)
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
cdrecord 2.0
Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. Cdrecord supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc and ATAPI/mmc compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel-port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CD-RWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO and human-readable error messages. Cdrecord includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD-writers.
Cherokee 0.3.0 beta 2
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is extremely fast and small.
Co-browse servlet 1.7
The Co-browse servlet lets you open a session and start your Web surfing, and everyone who is running the same servlet and is joined to the same session will see your pages. As a session owner, you will see a list of users joined to your channel, and can chat with them. E-CELL Simulation Environment 3.1.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107609/ The E-CELL Simulation Environment (E-CELL SE) is a software package for cellular and biochemical modeling and simulation. E-CELL attempts to provide a framework not only for analyzing metabolism, but also for higher-order cellular phenomena such as gene regulation networks, DNA replication, and other occurrences in the cell cycle.
FreeMarker 2.1.4 (Lazarus)
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
Genuts Breaker 1.3
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.
GL Interface Library 0.4
libGLI is a multi-platform library for creating 3D user interfaces, based on OpenGL. With the help of this library, programmers can add in their own graphical application elements for the user interface and connect interface objects to their own programs with callbacks. In other words, GLI sits between the user and an OpenGL application.
glark 1.6.0
glark offers grep-like searching of text files, with very powerful, complex regular expressions (e.g., "/foo\w+/ and /bar[^\d]*baz$/ within 4 lines of each other"). It also highlights the matches, displays context (preceding and succeeding lines), does case-insensitive matches, and automatic exclusion of non-text files. It supports most options from the GNU version of grep.
Kugel Lines 2.7
Kugel is a game played by moving objects on a board. When you create rows, columns, or diagonals containing the same objects ("kugels"), the score will increment by the number of objects you manage to line up. At the same time, the lined up "kugels" will disappear, so you can continue the game with more maneuver space on the board. Any time you fail to create a line of "kugels", new ones will appear on the board. Once the board is full, the game is over.
Laarus Newsreel 1.0
Laarus Newsreel is a CGI application for maintaining news articles on your Web site. It supports multiple authors (with attribution) and keeps everything in convenient, easy to back up Berkeley database files.
lamprop 0.9.2
lamprop calculates some properties of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. It calculates engineering properties like Ex, Ey, Gxy, thermal properties CTE_x and CTE_y, physical properties like density and laminate thickness, and stiffness and compliance matrices.
Linux 2.2.24-rc2 (2.2-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.
mvnForum 1.0.0.beta2
mvnForum is a powerful, easy to use bulletin board.
mysql_auth 0.4
mysql_auth is a basic authenticator for Squid Proxy. You can configure all MySQL variables for your existing user/password database (dbhost, dbadmin, dbpasswd, dbname, tablename, columns name), or create a new database. It includes a utility called mypasswd that updates your database.
PhpBaseClasses 0.0.0
PHPBaseClasses is a multi-tier and fully Object Oriented set of base classes written for and in PHP. Currently the storage tier is SQL only, but supports multiple databases, including any ODBC database, MsSQL (SyBase), MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It includes classes for drawing graphs, creating forums (news, bulletin boards), links, users, and authentication. PQMM 0.35
PQMM stands for "pq--". It is a simplified rewrite of the pq++ library. PQMM improves pq++ in many ways, including better Win32 support, fewer dependencies, a smaller size, the addition of public OpenConnection()/CloseConnection() methods, and fewer bugs.
pyDDR 0.5.8
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
PyTraffic 1.1
PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour created by Binary Arts Coporation. The goal is to remove the red car out of the grid through the slot on the right. To do this you have to slide the other cars out of the way. PyTraffic comes with about 15,000 puzzles ranging from intermediate to expert, and has an extremely smart hint facility which is able to find the best move in every position. RPG1 0.0.4
RPG1 is a text-mode console role playing game written in Perl. It features ASCII graphics provided by the ANSI::Color module, an inventory, a magic system, food depletion, killing, getting killed, and a library system. It also features a top-down view orientation. SMELT 0.2.12
SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email.
Sylpheed 0.8.8claws (Claws)
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
The Fish 0.2.3
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
VDRadmin 0.20
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included. Video4Linux Grab 2002-12-26 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107636/ The v4lgrab project is real-time capturing software for a Video4Linux device.
WISP-Dist 2397
WISP-Dist is a modular embedded Linux distribution for wireless routers, but can be used for other purposes as well. The entire system fits in 8 MB flash/16 MB RAM. Highlights include an easy-to-use menu interface, commandline access, an Access Point mode (on selected cards), OSPF/RIPv2, bandwidth shaping, NAT, Layer 3 (proxy arp) bridging, and other goodies. The goal is to create an open, customizable, and easy-to-use solution for wireless routers. WISP-Dist is part of the LEAF project.
XM 0.6
XM (XSLT Make) is a simple and affordable Web- publishing content-management solution that takes advantage of XML and XSL. It is developped as part IBM developerWorks' column "Working XML."
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.0
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
Yet Another Free RAYtracer 0.0.2-9
yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.
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