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[osdn business] December 30, 2002
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Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 03:30:28 EST
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December 30, 2002 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Okko writes "The Finnish Road Administration announced it is going to
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http://www.tiehallinto.fi/tied/2002/matkapuhelimet.htm
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http://www.tiehallinto.fi/alk/frames/liikenne-frame.html
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http://www.mtv3.fi/
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http://www.tiehallinto.fi/eindex.htmNew Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/045233
radicalsubversiv writes "A new study from the [0]Pew Internet &
American Life Project reports on Americans' expectations about finding
information on the Internet. The (unsurprising) results reveal that
large portions of the public go to the net first for many kinds of
information. '16 percent of the nonusers say they would turn to the
Internet first the next time they need health care and government
information.' [1]AP story summarizing the results; and the [2]actual
report in PDF format."
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http://www.pewinternet.org/
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20021229/ap_on_hi_te/internet_expectations&e=1
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http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=80
H2O/IP
AltImage writes "This interesting project uses [0]water as an organic network between two computers. It analyzes the color of each pixel and 'prints' out pulses to the electronically controlled water valve - a different pulse pattern depending on the color of the pixel on screen." Links 0. http://www.coin-operated.com/projects
Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster
[0]GoneGaryT writes "Say chaps, this might be old hat, but there's a
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Tolkien and the Beowulf Saga
[0]jackalski sent in this story about a [1]translation of the Beowulf
0. mailto:jackal@irc.NOSPAM.pl
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5764569%255E13780,00html
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http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/13/166207&tid=99
Top Ten Shameful Games
[0]Ant writes "Not necessarily the worst, but the most wrong -- here
Automakers and Crash Data Recorders
The New York Times has a decent story about [0]automakers not wanting to standardize car data recorders. There are a couple of nuances which the reporter mostly misses. The automakers want to avoid standardization because they can then sell access to the proprietary data format (NYT does cover this, but ignores the profit motive). The story mentions privacy issues but dismisses them as solved, yet notes that there are no privacy protections whatsoever for this data, and you can expect it to be used against you in any incident (and perhaps other times: wait until service under your warranty is refused because your car reported your bad driving habits to the dealer). That's not "solved" in my book (and I think the automakers realize that selling cars which report on their owners might backfire). Speculation about ambulance crews using crash data is just hype - no ambulance is equipped to do that, nor would I want an EMT to spend time decoding the crash data instead of, say, saving my life. The article repeatedly suggests that crash data would be used to enhance safety, without ever specifying how that is supposed to occur. Links 0. http://nytimes.com/2002/12/29/national/29CRAS.html
Putting A Lid On Chernobyl
slicer622 writes "Chernobyl is finally getting a [0]containment structure (Washington Post). Billed as the largest moveable structure ever built, its designed to help take apart the wreckage and keep most of the radioactive material from spreading. It will be 800 feet across, and 300 feet high and will cost $800 mil." Links 0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48331-2002Dec28.html
CDMA 2000 1x Comes to India
[0]nilesh writes "Yesterday, [1]Reliance Infocomm [2]launched one of
0. mailto:mail@NOsPAm.nilesh.org
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http://www.relianceinfo.com/
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/stories/2002122801491600.htm
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http://news.google.com/news?q=reliance%20infocomm%20cdma
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http://www.relianceinfo.com/webapp/Infocomm/html/individual/consumer_indiamobile_sleekhandsets.html
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http://www.relianceinfo.com/webapp/Infocomm/html/individual/consumer_indiamobile_applications.html
Biggest IP cases of 2002
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Law.com's article, [2]The Biggest IP Cases of
that have caught our attention this last year. Of particular interest
to slashdotters: [3]Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. (regarding Arriba's
visual search engine), [4]Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc.
(regarding a gene patent being invalid because it did not meet the
written description requirement), an Illinois federal court injunction
against Aimster, [5]United States v. Elcom Ltd a/k/a Elcomsoft Co. Ltd.
, and [6]Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Welles (regarding Playmate of the
Year, [7]Terri Welles, using [8]Playboy's marks and metatags on her
website)."
Links
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http://.scubacuda. .at. .iname.com.
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http://www.law.com/
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http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1039054489470&t=LawArticleIP
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http://netcopyrightlaw.com/kellyvarribasoft.asp
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http://www.patentcribsheet.com/Cases/enzo.html
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http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Elcomsoft
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http://www.merchant-gould.com/news/articles/gaarticle/gapart3.html
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http://www.terriwelles.com/
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http://www.playboy.com/
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - December 27th 2002 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/123255 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
Newsforge Newsvac
An upstart company, Lindows.com, is trying to persuade the Federal District Court in Seattle to invalidate Microsoft's trademark on Windows. (free registration required) Book Review: Linux Apache Web Server Administration http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/1027217 We review three out of the eight books in the Craig Hunt Linux Library series published by Sybex Inc.
Mandrake 9.0 Review
Today we are looking at Linux Mandrake, a relative newcomer but which has picked up a large user base through the years which keep its development alive and well. The first version of Mandrake was based on Red Hat which is a fine distro in itself. The makers wanted too keep all that was good with Red Hat and get rid of all the bad, such as using KDE instead of GNOME as default desktop. Over the years, though, it has changed from simply being Red ...
Free Software at Rosenzweig and Maffia
A committee has been formed in NYLXS to try to take on first hand the task to driving sales for Free Software. We've dubbed this effort, 'The Free Software Chamber of Commerce'. The result of our efforts is bearing fruit, and we hope to be an anchor and a safe haven for both well trained consultants and businesses looking for innovative solutions to their business problems.
Life in the trenches: a sysadmin speaks
As recently a decade ago, a systems administrator wasn't really needed in every medium- or large-sized corporation. There were motley assemblages of computers which were used for this task and that and if one or two broke down, then the supplier came in and fixed them. Red Hat 8: A glimpse of the desktop future http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/0128220 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.
Freshmeat
31337 recoder is versatile recoding program. Its purpose is encoding text and data to non-human-readable forms and decoding from these forms. It supports Base64, ROT, escaped hex, and octal. It can also recode single bytes to any numeric system from binary to 36-ary.
Alfandega Firewall 2.0 (Stable)
Alfandega Firewall is a collection of Perl modules that helps users to implement iptables-based firewalls for two interfaces. It provides local and remote blacklists, spoofing checks, packet forwarding, ICMP control, service configuration, and more.
Checkbot 1.71
Checkbot is a tool to verify links on a set of HTML pages. Checkbot can check a single document, or a set of documents on one or more servers. Checkbot creates a report which summarizes all links which caused some kind of warning or error. CRM commercial tracking tool 1.7 stable 29122002 http://freshmeat.net/releases/107844/ The CRM commercial tracking tool is to be used in a commercial environment for logging and tracking customer requirements, complaints, etc. When a so-called 'entity' is logged, every edit to the entity is logged. Using the management information, you can find statistic information like average duration, stalling calls, etc. It is fully configurable and it comes with an easy install script.
Custom 0.3
Custom is an E-Commerce system providing Ordering and Invoicing, Stock, Supplier, and Catalogue Management. Easily customisable, it is written in Python for use as CGI scripts (under Apache or any other Web server) with a simple example site and example database. Custom is intended as a modern replacement for Sage.
dbacl 1.3
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.
diary2002 1.0
diary2002 is an online journal or diary script. You may also call it a blogger or Weblog. You can write, read, search, and delete your own articles or stories from your browser. diary2002.cgi is designed for easy setup, use, and maintenance. Your articles will be stored in text file format, so no database is needed.
DisSpam 0.11b
DisSpam is a personal solution to combat spam (i.e. not for mail servers/ISPs). It is a Perl script that detects spam in POP3 mailboxes based on internal RBL checks or SpamAssassin. It runs through cron and uses a very simple yet versatile configuration file.
DnetStats 0.1
DnetStats is a Perl script that works from the command line or as a CGI to get some stats from stats.distributed.net.
dvd::rip 0.49.2 (Unstable)
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
Gaim 0.59.7 (Stable)
Gaim is a GTK-based messenger application. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL. It is actively being developed and supports many common features of other clients, including many unique features. It also supports multiple protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Napster, and Zephyr.
GENDIST 1.4.7 (Stable)
GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to easily create your own special distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging everything on media.
Gestalter 0.6.0
Gestalter is a free vector drawing program. The user interface is loosely modeled after Adobe Illustrator. The central element is the Bezier curve used as a base part for almost every other object. Complex paths are possible, compound paths can be constructed, grouping of elements is enabled, and everything can be screened by a mask. Adding and deleting of nodes is implemented as well as transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and skewing).
HenPlus 0.9
HenPlus is a SQL shell written in Java that works for any database that has JDBC support. It provides commandline history, commandline completion, and can handle multiple connects to different databases at once. Database-independant table dumps, aliases, and variables are also supported.
Kismet 2.8.0a
Kismet is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files. Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20021229a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107828/ Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
libwebserver 0.3.4
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
open-realty 1.0.3
Open-Realty is a real estate listing manager intended to be both easy to install and easy to administer. It uses PHP to drive a MySQL backend. It has a flexible search, automatic thumbnail generation, automatic interfacing with Yahoo! maps, and many other features.
PowerMail 1.6
PowerMail is a redundant and distributed system for receiving mail via SMTP and storing it for users to access with POP. The way PowerMail works is quite unorthodox, and its design emphasizes speed and efficiency. Modified Maildir mailboxes allow PowerMail to employ hardlinks to save diskspace and deliver messages with thousands of recipients instantly. PowerMail can operate self-sufficiently or cooperate with a regular MTA to support mail forwarding.
PTHPasteboard 2.5.0
PTHPasteboard is a pasteboard buffer application. It keeps track of the last 20 (changeable in preferences) items that you copied/cut and allows you to paste them at any time. You should move this application to one of your Applications directories and set it to auto-launch on login.
RLPlot 0.96b
RLPlot is a scientific plotting, charting, and drawing program. Data is entered into a spreadsheet manually or by copy from a spreadsheet program (Excel, KSpread, etc.) and pasted to RLPlot. Plots are created and modified by a fully-interactive graphical user interface. RLPlot is fully vector-oriented, ensuring high-quality outputs.
RxLinux 1.2.4-w
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time. Simple TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.1.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107823/ Simple TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do).
The HT Editor 0.7.1
HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.4 (Stable)
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
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