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Microsoft Reader Format Cracked
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "[1]Pocket PC Addict has a cool [2]story
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India's Bargain Supercomputer
MaximusTheGreat writes "India beat U.S. supercomputer sanctions by
building a teraflop $5 million [0]PARAM Padma supercomputer, which is
half the price of similar computers being sold in the international
market. It can be scaled upto 16 teraflops, on a [1]build-to-order
basis For comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. is [2]about
10 Teraflops. Some [3]techical details and more info on [4] CDAC , [1]
ITworld, [5] Economic times and [6] Asia Times. Also, India has been
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DL18Df03.htmlSupremes Grant Stay in Pavlovich DVD CCA Case http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/0522213
endall writes "Sandra Day O'Connor [0]granted a stay last week for DVD
Copy Control Association so that the court could gather more
information. She requested filings by later this week. I'm guessing
that this delays implimentation of the [1]California Supreme court
decision on the matter."
0. http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/12/30/scotus_dvd/index.html
Serial ATA, Here and Now
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Requiem for the Disappearing Pay Phone
[0]StarEmperor writes "[1]This Washington Post article describes the
Video Storage And Hard Drive Manufacturers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/2222231
IrateSurf writes "A [0]new column posted over at the [1]Storage
Supersite questions whether or not PVRs (Personal Video Recorders) are
good for the hard drive industry. It's interesting, considering topics
like whether the noise of a hard drive is worse than a VCR. The
discussion is a response to an [2]earlier column talking about the bad
market for hard drive makers."
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http://storage.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,797704,00.aspWindows Security Holes Go Mostly Unexploited http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/1955256
[0]murky.waters writes "Wired News has an [1]article with a decidedly
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http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+exploitsAct Now To Sidestep A W3C Patent Pitfall http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/2147230 Jay Sulzberger, Corresponding Secretary of LXNY (New York's Free Computing Organization) writes with a report on the ongoing fight over patents in Web standards. "In the past two years the Free Software Movement has moved W3C, the Official Standards Body of the World Wide Web, from a proposed patent policy, which would have, in future, denied us our present right to full and free use of free software to build the Web, to a policy intended to guarantee that free software may be used without fear of patent encumbrances. This move is an important victory for us. But the present proposed policy on patents has a bug that is worth fixing. The mechanism of the bug is non-obvious, except to people who have studied the GPL and certain other free software licenses. It is a bug that, if the proposal is made an official standard, would allow for patent encumbrances to be laid on certain free software in circumstances where today no encumbrance is allowed." Read the rest of Jay's commentary (below) on this devil in the details.
The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil
Waab writes "David Yoo, of the [0]Parsons School of Design has taken some time out of his busy [1]schedule to put together one of the funniest sites I've seen all year, [2]Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence. With articles like "EverQuest: A Threat to Society?" and "America's Army: A New Low" (articles currently offline "due to editing"), MAVAV gives worried parents one more senseless cause to rally round. Even [3]Tycho and Gabe love it." Links
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Newsforge Reports
NewsForge/Linux.com staff is taking a short break Dec 31 and Jan 1. We'll do a few NewsVac updates these two days, but our next original article will appear on Jan 2, 2003. See you then!
The most popular Linux article ever?
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Anonymous Reader writes "In the final month of the Desktop Linux distribution 'quick poll', Debian is leading the pack with 24% and Mandrake is in second place with 20.8% of the votes. Total number of votes cast is 9725."
Desktop Linux Application Tips
Anonymous Reader writes "Walt Pennington authors this practical guide for using Desktop Linux applications. Pennington covers some essential areas for users getting started downloading Linux, creating .pdf files, disabling pop-up ads, and tips for secure online transactions in this article . . ." McNealy: Sun won't go down on his company http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/168220 SAN FRANCISCO — While critics and rivals snipe that his company, Sun Microsystems, is sinking, Scott McNealy maintains his Captain Courageous demeanor.
Annual scorecard
The year is drawing to a close, so now is a good time to evaluate my predictions for 2002. Case Study: Open source packs free IP telephony http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/160212 Open source IP telephony software packages are helping users move away from the traditional world of proprietary office phone systems, PBXs with closed operating systems and expensive specialty components.
So Many Holes, So Few Hacks
Hole after hole, breach after breach, flaw after flaw is found -- and most of the time, it's in a Windows system. Yet hackers generally don't exploit them. Why is that? Glass Panes and Software: Windows Name Is Challenged (by Lindows) http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/1031255 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.
Freshmeat
23 Ounces Of Glass is an aqua glass styled blue and gray theme.
Balsa 2.0.4 (GNOME 2 Development)
Balsa is a Gnome e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail delivery. It can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail.
Balsa 1.4.2
Balsa is a Gnome e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail delivery. It can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail. BHL 0.99
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, URLs and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke. BlackHole Spam/Virus Filter 1.0.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107903/ Blackhole Spam/Virus Filter provides spam and virus filtering using dot files in all the major MTA/SMTP servers for UNIX and similar systems. It also can be used as a qmail-queue replacement or a Postfix Content Filter to cover the entire SMTP servers userbase. It is different from other, similar programs, in that it scales for thousands of users from being in C and not executing external programs for most of its work. It is uses flat config files or MySQL to store the configs of each user. Almost every type of check in existence for spam is implimented. It can be setup like an access list with each check type (over 15 checks currently) having its own separate rules for action and scores to choose action precedence. Subject tagging, custom headers, and detailed report logging can be fully configured from the config file, there is a global config file for default users setup, and it works with clamscan, which gives a fully Free spam/virus solution which matches any commercial offering. Bonobo: Object Activation Framework 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/107916/ OAF is the Object Activation Framework for GNOME. It has a similar purpose to gnorba, the GNOME 1.x CORBA activation library, and will replace it for GNOME 2.0. It allows you to do much more powerful activation queries than gnorba. Each server is described by an XML file that defines its attributes. When querying or activating, one may specify complex requirements using the OAF query language.
Cfour 1.0 (CgiParser class)
Cfour provides C++ Common Console Classes that are reusable, for console I/O, _easy_ file I/O, and a class for managing configuration files using an XML style format. Cfour currently remains OS independent. The Cfour classes were used in parts of webcpp and mkscs. CVS 1.11.4
CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. Unlike the simpler systems, CVS does not just operate on one file at a time or one directory at a time, but operates on hierarchical collections of directories consisting of version controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control various operations and works well over a wide area network.
Eric3 3.0.1
Eric3 is a Python IDE written using PyQt and QScintilla. It has integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions, gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for Python files, and more. ERW 0.9.6
ERW (Entities and Relationships on the Web) is an innovative system for handling complex databases using a Web browser. It uses the most recent standards endorsed by the W3C to offer to the user a sophisticated environment, similar to a dedicated client. Moreover, the user interface is generated in a completely automatic way starting from a conceptual description of the database by means of an XML-based description language for entity-relationship schemata. From the same description, you can also automatically obtain diagrams and documentation. ERW can be used for content management, in particular when the data is structured along complex relations.
FileFinder 0.9 (Development)
FileFinder is a Java program that helps you locate your files quickly and easily. You can catalog all sorts of media (CD-ROMs, Zip disks, directories on harddisks, harddisks, floppies, etc.). It contains a search feature to locate your file(s), and you can create groups in a tree structure, to help catalog your media. You can also add/search the contents of archived (zip, jar, etc.) files within media.
Games for Gnome2 2.0.6
This package contains games for the GNOME2 desktop. Games included in this package are FreeCell (a popular solitare game), Glines (a color lines game), Gataxx (another disc-flipping game), Gnect (four in a row game), Gnibbles (a snake game for up to four players), Gnobots II (improved version of an old BSD robots game), GNOME-Stones (a game based on a very old arcade game where you have to collect gems), Gnometris (GNOME version of the popular Russian game Tetris), GNOME Mine (the popular logic puzzle minesweeper), GNOME Klotski (a game based on the not so popular Klotski), GNOME Tali (a sort of poker with dice and less money), Iagno (GNOME version of the popular Othello), Mahjongg (GNOME version of the classic Eastern tile game), Same GNOME (game where the goal is to remove as many balls in as few moves as possible), and GNOME xbill (a port of the classic anti-Windows game).
Gedcom Parser Library 0.20.0
The Gedcom parser library provides an API to applications to parse, process, and write arbitrary genealogy files in the standard GEDCOM format. It provides a callback interface (like the SAX interface in XML) and an object model interface (like the DOM interface in XML).
Grip 3.0.4
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
hdup 1.5.2.8 (Stable)
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
Hibernate 1.2.1
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including composition, association, inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL, Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.
IaraJS 0.9.7
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components.
Ivy software bus 1.2.2 (Java)
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of libraries that allows applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a subscription mechanism based on regular expressions.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.2.3
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
JSwat Java Debugger 2.12
JSwat is a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger, using the JPDA library. It offers breakpoints with monitors and conditions, colorized source code display, single-stepping, displaying variables, viewing stack frames, and expression evaluation.
LibCGI 0.8.1 (Stable)
LibCGI is a simple to use and powerful library written from scratch to assist in the making of CGI appliactions in C. It has support for string manipulation, linked lists, cookies, sessions, GET and POST methods, and more.
LinuxTrade 3.26 (Stable)
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
ncc 1.0 (Stable)
ncc is a C source code analyzer which generates program flow and variable usage information. Using it should be as easy as changing CC=gcc to CC=ncc in makefiles, and effort has been made to support most common gcc extensions. ncc has been tested with the sources of the Linux kernel, gtk, gcc, gdb, bind, mpg123, ncftp, and many other famous projects.
obliquid 0.4.4 (Development)
obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web portals. Any data which is handled by any module is highly configurable. It has a core allowing to build pages using templates blocks, multilingual support and themes. It also has a users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting availabilities, calls, and meetings.
Perl HTTPd 1.0.2
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.
Samsung Contact 8.0.1pre1 (Server)
Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication, business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders, and delegation.
SDLInvaders 0.7.4
SDLInvaders is a simple clone of the famous game Space Invaders using
SDL.
Select 0.2
Select is a text classification program. It uses supervised learning methods with incremental learning. Several different classification algorithms are included. It can be used, for example, for email classification.
SigmaPi Neurosimulator 1.2.1
SigmaPi is a simulator for recurrent neural networks of arbitrary topology. It uses the LSTM neuron model, and implements a training algorithm based on RTRL with some extensions taken from RProp.
SpackleStats 0.3
Spackle is designed to be a flexible client/server architecture for the gathering and displaying of statistics, primarily suited to monitoring servers. It's written in PHP and bash shell script, uses RRDtool for stats logging and graphing, and PostgreSQL or MySQL for the server-side database. Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-pre4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107909/ The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
Yaab 0.6.1
Yaab is a simple address book written in PHP. It supports MySQL and PostgreSQL. It supports basic commands, like adding new contacts, modifying already existing ones, deleting, viewing, and searching.
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