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[osdn business] December 29, 2002
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Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 03:30:28 EST
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December 29, 2002 BUSINESS SERIES
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U.S. Pushing Conservative Science
mozumder writes "Does abortion lead to breast cancer? Does condom use
lead to increased sexual activity? According to the government, the
answer is now inconclusive. The New York Times has a [0]story on how
the government is altering low-level scientific conclusions to satisfy
conservatives. Will this lead to a mistrust of the government? Or is
the government now correct?"
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/politics/27ABOR.html
New Phrack
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "A new issue of the Phrack Magazine, #60 has
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Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor
An anonymous reader writes "PCstats has a review of what should have been under my Christmas tree - a [0]42" plasma display from Samsung Since Santa couldn't have possibly brought this monster down the chimney, we'll just have to be satisfied with the review. They even hooked it up to a computer and played games on it...." Links 0. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1309
What's Your Earliest Memory?
spazoid12 writes "I've been curious lately about memory. For example, why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back. How far back can a person remember? Is there a theoretical limit? What are the requirements for acquiring memories? I've read that oxygen is one; as in actual breathed-in stuff. This is supposed to explain why you can't remember anything from within the womb. That seems silly to me. My own theory (with nothing to back it up) is that language is required. We spoke mostly Brasilian Portuguese and some Russian in the home up until I was about 5 or 6. We moved to Brasil for a year when I was 8 and I barely remember anything from that trip. I really don't know either language today-- could this explain why I have no memories of those years? What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would memories flood back?"
Techies Working for Peanuts
The San Francisco Chronicle has a story about laid-off techies getting
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/BU63139.DTL&type=tech
The Year in Technology
[0]bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993212
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/
To the Moon and Beyond
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2580817.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558107.stm
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/233233&tid=160
Hardware Bytes
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Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At [0]WinHQ the Xoxide X450
Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights [1]over here, nice MX mouses at
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http://www.winhq.net/showdoc.php?dtype=reviews&id=25&page=1
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http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=11
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http://www.lanparty.com/articles/mx500_mx700/
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http://www.extensiontech.net/reviews/cooling/accessories/shockwave.shtml
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http://www.inside-hardware.com/reviews/irock530/
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http://www.myworld.com.my/v2/reviews/HSF/zalman/cnps3100/
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http://www.ocia.net/reviews/solarism17/solarism17.shtml
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http://www.extrememhz.com/nexusfc-p1.shtml
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http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/msi/geforce4/ti42008x/ti42008x_1.shtml
Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
[0]FridayBob writes "For those of you tired of waiting around for
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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
Anonymous Reader writes "This article looks at Red Hat 8.0 and the direction that is sets for the future of the Linux desktop. It makes the case that Red Hat should produce the single best desktop environment that it can with its limited resources."
Open Source, Closed Documentation?
sunset asks: "Recently I was motivated to look at WebGUI which looks like a pretty cool open source project. However I was having trouble making it work..."
Interview with the Gnomemeeting Team
mangeli writes: We put the Gnomemeeting team in the Interview Chair to find out what, and who is behind the program.
A Peek at History, Piracy-Free
Media company British Pathe, which produced 3,500 newsreels between 1910 and 1970, puts its entire collection online. But rather than adding digital copyright protection, the company simply stamped its logo on each downloadable clip. Ex-Computer Hacker Granted Radio License http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1353213 The man the federal government once labeled ``the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history'' has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet.
Finding an opening
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.
Freshmeat
A number of dedicated presentation programs have been written for Unix systems, but they may not serve your needs if you have special requirements, especially the need to display mathematical formulas. The Prosper package can help you create attractive presentations while letting you use the full power of LaTeX.
avidemux 0.9pre26
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
BoPHP 0.0.1
BoPHP is a quick and dirty Web interface for bossogg. It uses PHP with the built-in XML parser.
Boss Ogg 0.9.0 (Development)
Boss Ogg is a Postgres-based client/server ogg player, targeted at entertainment centers, and people that want to use their spare computer for full-time music. The idea is to have other people develop all sorts of different clients for it, but the author is also developing an SDL client simultaneously, which is perfect for a TV-out card.
Cherokee 0.3.0 beta7
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.
dlman 0.7 (Development)
dlman is a download manager with a command-line interface, written in Python. It allows you to add to, remove from, and view the list URLs to download. It also sports a logging function.
eDonkey Monitor 1.3
eDonkey-monitor collects data of some central aspects of an eDonkey server or client and presents this data in form of detailed time-graphs over a lean but visual appealing Web interface. It features detailed stats for donkey workload (upload /download) and active peer connections, totals for workload traffic, high resolution, multi-dimensional graphs, and the ability to show stats for the last 12 hours, two days, week, or month (other time windows are possible).
empxform 0.2
empxform is a flexible EMP and RMP file processor that allows users of the emusic service to download entire albums, generate playlists in M3U and XML formats, play albums directly from the Web, download albums to an MP3 player, and easily add new actions.
Evolution 1.2.1
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager, and communications tool. Evolution represents the next step forward in GNOME applications. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.
flphoto 1.0
flphoto is a basic image management and display program based on the FLTK toolkit. It can read, display, print, and export many image file formats, and supports EXIF information provided by digital cameras.
Freecell Solver 2.8.3
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications.
gjots 0.8
gjots marshals and organizes text notes in a convenient, hierarchical way. It can be used for notes, jottings, bits and pieces, recipes, and even PINs and passwords (encrypted with ccrypt(1)). It can also be used to "mind-map" larger compositions like manuals, Web pages, articles, etc. It is a bit like the KDE program "kjots", but uses the GTK library and supports a hierarchy of folders. Files can be output to HTML with an automatic table of contents. Encryption is supported with ccrypt(1), so that musings can be kept private. It can also be used to write and organize DocBooks.
Gnusto 0.0.3
Gnusto is a JavaScript-based interpreter for Z-machine adventure games, as produced in the 1980s by Infocom and in recent times by the Inform compiler.
grafist 1.3.3
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 24 languages.
kbarcode 1.1.2 (Development)
kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers, etc.
KSocrat 3.0.2
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary for the K Desktop Environment.
libchipcard 0.7beta3 (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.
libXMLConfig 1.0.1
The library libXMLConfig provides a simple interface to process XML configuration files and some additional helper functions.
Linux-kernel security patch 0.1
The Linux-kernel security patch includes security improvements that implement random PIDs, random port numbers for IPv4, NAT, and IPv6, and enhanced random numbers for networking.
Nag 1.1
Nag is a Web-based application built upon the Horde application framework. It provides a simple, clean interface for managing an online task list (i.e. a TODO list). It also includes strong integration with the other Horde applications.
over5 20021117
Over5 is a program for transferring between c64/vic20 machines and Amiga/PC/UNIX boxes. It supports serial transfer at 38400 bps using only a RS-232 level converter and a 3-line standard nullmodem cable. No special serialport chips are needed. Source code is included. It features read/write/execute memory, filecopy with wildcards, read/write raw disk, read/write ZIPCODE archive, the ability to use the Amiga/PC/UNIX box as a harddisk server ($0801-$f600), builtin diskturbo, and a fast basic bootstrap for most cbm 8-bitters.
Perl HTTPd 1.0
Perl HTTPd is a very small and simple HTTPd written in Perl. It is by no means a replacement for Apache. It features request logging and multiple connections.
Perl webmail 3.0.0
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
Phavon 0.0.25
Phavon is a 2D vertical scrolling progressive-weapon shoot 'em up, similar in style to the classic Amiga game, Xenon II. It will include map and level editors. PHP LDBI 0.2.1
PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables, sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements.
PHP Weather 2.1.0
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page. PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several languages by using the included translations. You can also access the information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.
Request Tracker 2.1.55 (Development)
RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world.
ShadowJAAS 1.2.0
ShadowJAAS is a JAAS-compliant authentication provider that uses shadow passwords. It allows Java applications to authenticate using Linux usernames and passwords.
SpamProbe 0.8
SpamProbe is a spam detection program that uses a Bayesian analysis of the frequencies of terms used in the email. Because it filters email based on content rather than on general rules, it easily adapts itself to the types of email that each individual user normally receives.
The Gallery 1.3.3 (1.0)
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 2 (Development)
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of information structures which can be used to represent ontologies, business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic maps.
XiangQi Engine 0.1.1
XiangQi Engine is a software Chinese chess opponent. It provides interfaces for connecting to chess servers, GUI clients, and a simple command line tool with or without board printing.
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