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http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/graduate_brochure/people/epstein.html
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http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/~ppl/
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http://www.chem.utah.edu/chemistry/faculty/miller/millergroup/main.html
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http://www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin/2000/nov/Intro.pdf
Radiation Detection Wrist Watch
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William Gibson's Latest Novel
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Linux to Become #2 on the Desktop?
[0]DiZASTiX writes "An article from Zdnet says Linux on the desktop has
0. mailto:dizastix@hotpop.com
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-979064.html
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http://www.lindows.com/
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http://www.mandrake.com/
Discovering New Music?
[0]captainclever asks: "As an avid music fan, I'm keen on discovering
0. http://www.audioscrobbler.com
The NetBSD Organization
A reader writes: "Stumbled across a nice [0]article about how the NetBSD Project is organized and some interesting ways users can help out." Good stuff, for those who want to get involved. Links 0. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200301/netbsdhelp.html
Apple To Charge for Some iApps
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Droning On
MagnetarJones writes "Another washingtonpost.com article reports that
Federal regulators have begun considering rules that would allow
drones, the pilotless planes being used in the war in Afghanistan, to
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60876-2002Dec31.html
Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption
[0]inode_buddha writes "Eric S. Raymond has the eighth "Halloween" memo
0. mailto:pvant67@wnyip.net
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - January 3rd, 2002 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/0956214 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.
Trustworthy Computing in 2002
Newsforge Newsvac
Slashdot: inode_buddha writes "Eric S. Raymond has the eighth "Halloween" memo available here."
Linux TCO edge: Lower labor costs
The question of whether Linux's total cost of ownership (TCO) is lower than that of Windows or other operating systems has inspired many fierce debates among enterprise IT professionals. Lindows CEO Funds Xbox Hacking Challenge http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1214252 Contest invites coders to devise ways to run Linux on gaming console--both with and without hardware hacks. Aberdeen Group Targets IT Trends For 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1213257 IT spending will show meager growth, outsourcing will be a bright spot but potentially troublesome, and Linux won't move out of the back of the shop. That's the take on 2003 from the Aberdeen Group, which this week identified its top tech trends for the coming year. And if the market-research firm is on target, outsourcers will have the most to look forward to.
Linux conferences for 2003
Can't go to many conferences this year? Just go to a couple good ones.
Desktop Options
Anonymous Reader writes "Michael C. Barnes takes an in-depth look at desktop operating system options available on the market today in this exclusive article at DesktopLinux.com."
Ohioedge CRM breaks into the Top
Sandeep Dixit writes "On December 25th, Ohioedge, a Cleveland, Ohio based open source Enterprise Java (J2EE) software vendor, released its flagship product Ohioedge CRM to SourceForge.net under Mozilla Public License 1.1."
Linux-Based ASP Celebrates Launch
Linux-Ferret writes "Business IT Solutions World Wide (BITSWW) is proud to announce the successful launch of its PersonalWebtop service."
Tech Spending Ready to Climb
This year, Linux and wireless technologies will lead a rebound in the tech sector, study finds.
Linux security strong as ever
Perhaps in response to the excessive publicity given to the strong security associated with Linux and open source software, it's no surprise that a number of commentators are making a high-profile argument that Linux, just like every other platform, does indeed have security issues. Members of the open source community have always known that Linux is not immune from security threats, so there is no argument there. What is in question is the ...
Freshmeat
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing").
Ant8 1.5.40
Anthill is a build management server that ensures a controlled build process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization. It performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build, and tags the repository with a unique build number after every build. It also automatically updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill is an extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible with version 1.3 and 1.4 of Ant.
apt4rpm 0.63.2 (Development)
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
asmail 1.3
Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep look & feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf, execute program on incoming mail, execute program on mouseclick, show animations and more...
bMotion 0.0.4
bMotion is an AI script for eggdrop bots that gives them a bit of life and makes them better channel members on IRC. It exposes a plugin interface, allowing its functionality and behavior to be easily adjusted and extended with simple (yet powerful) TCL scripts.
BSM Pseudonymizer 0.1.5
BSM Pseudonymizer pseudonymizes records from Solaris BSM audit trail files. Personal data such as user IDs, pathnames, timestamps, etc. is replaced with pseudonyms so that the generated output doesn't reveal private information about the system's users, but still preserves a maximum of integrity and consistency.
Bugzilla 2.17.3 (Development)
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
Bugzilla 2.16.2
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
Calculating Pi 2003-01-03 (Ramanujan)
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi through various methods.
CheckRDF 34.3333
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
Class::Date 1.1.3
Class::Date provides a date datatype for Perl. You can create new Class::Date objects with a constructor from different scalar formats, array refs, and hash refs, and then you can easily manipulate it by the builtin "+" and "-" operators (e.g., $date=date([2001,03,15])+'3Y 1s'). Relative date types also available
CSBuddy 1.2.3
CSBuddy is a tool designed to help Counter-Strike server owners, particularly those running AdminMod. It maintains a queryable database of all players that have been seen on the server, and it filters the raw logs of a Counter-Strike server and distills them into a single CSBuddy log which shows only high-level activity such as excessive friendly fire incidents, admin activity, and players complaining about misbehavior or saying suspicious things. This tool is built upon an included Counter-Strike log file parser which is provided in a simple derivable class.
dbMan 0.29
dbMan is a complex SQL monitor for common database systems (PgSQL,
Oracle, MySQL etc.). It's based on Perl and DBI interfaces. Features
include a command history buffer, tab completion, editing Oracle
objects, simultaneous connections, SQL help, importing and exporting of
tables, Oracle explain plan, and more. dbMan is made as a simple kernel
and many extension modules, and you can make your modules with a simple
HOWTO.
debian-updates 1.2
debian-updates is a simple script that sends an email or displays console messages if any relevant Debian security updates become available. It is ideal for running from cron.
devaki-nextobjects 0.1-dev
Nextobjects is an integrated development tool for Entreprise Applications. It use Turbine Torque for code generation, and is based on the Merise method.
DOM Menu 0.3.0
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.
Efisto 0.1.0 (Client)
Efisto (Easy File Send To) enables users to send files to anyone who has email and Web access. When the sender uploads files with the efisto client, the recipient gets an email with an URL that can be used to download the files. It features automatic creation of compressed archives, download notification, expiration of files, and expiration notification.
Flakarchiver 0.1alpha
Flakarchiver is a application for extracting and creating archives. It uses the wxWindows GUI library. Win32 and Linux are supported, but can be easily ported to other platforms. Currently there is read-only functionability for .rar, .ace, .gz, .bz2, and .zip files.
Folding@home 3.24 (Stable)
Folding@home simulates protein folding. We do not entirely understand how proteins actually operate, but one important step is to study how proteins self-assemble or "fold." This is an extremely computationally intensive task since proteins take in the order of microseconds to milliseconds to fold, yet we can only routinely simulate over nanosecond to microsecond time scales. This system provides a new way to simulate protein folding that can break the millisecond barrier by dividing the work between multiple processors. Thus, with 1000 processors, we can break the millisecond barrier and help unlock the mystery of how proteins fold.
Gcount 0.6
GCount is an attempt to make a solid Web-based counter completely in PHP. It uses MySQL as its backend to store counter information, and the GD library to slice up the images on thy fly and display them.
GINI audio streamer 0.2
GINI is a lightweight icecast/shoutcast compatible streaming server for broadcasting Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.5.3b4
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.
GTK+ Dictionary 0.5.3
GTK+ dictionary is a frontend to dictionaries stored in a MySQL server.
Hackbot 2.16 (Stable)
Hackbot is a host exploration tool and bannergrabber. It scans numerous services and vulnerabilities.
jCIFS 0.7.0b12
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.
jGnash 1.2.1
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4 or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to the program.
Linux isletme 1.4
Linux isletme keeps current accounts and stock data for companies. It is completly console based and uses PostgreSQL development libraries and Ncurses.
LiveCut 0.2
LiveCut is a graphical helper for people who have to synchronize different media sources like audio or video sources, slides, text transcriptions, while making movies or SMIL presentations. It allows you to easily mark the time at which events happen, and generates a simple text file which can be reused either manually or automatically later (e.g., in an SMIL generator).
obliquid 0.4.3_to_0.4.4 (Upgrades)
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.
Open Volume Library 0.1.1
The OpenVL library is a framework for working with 3D volumetric datasets. It provides a standard and uniform API to volumetric data access, storage, and processing. It is designed and built to be fast, extensible, flexible, and easy to use. The library is completely open-sourced and encourages contribution. This library is an ideal choice if you want to write applications that deal with 3D volumes.
Perl Shell 1.0
The Perl Shell (psh) combines aspects of bash and other shells with the power of Perl scripting. It aspires to be your primary login shell.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.1
phpQLAdmin was designed to administer a qmail-ldap server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the qmail-ldap/control patch, to add/remove domains, to add/remove/edit users, to change the attributes for all domain members, and to set the password, quota, mailhost, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part), and it currently contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, and Japanese.
pyrad 0.3
pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client as described in RFC2865. It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending them and decoding responses.
Retail Auto Auction 1.3.2
Retail Auto Auction provides a complete network-based Point-of-Sale software solution for an auto auction company. The program currently interfaces with a MySQL database and it can be installed on any number of machines that act as clients and connect to the database. In addition to tracking buyers/consignors, vehicles, and sales, the program includes powerful and extensible reporting capabilities. For instance, reports on buyer participation, vehicle history, car lists, etc. are available and can be exported use with a spreadsheet. Contract printouts are generated for a dot matrix printer suitable for triplicate form printing. Retail Auto Auction is written in Python and Qt. RPC::XML 0.46
RPC::XML is a set of classes in Perl for implementing XML-RPC services both from the client side and the server side. Included are classes for writing clients, writing stand-alone servers (using the HTTP::Daemon class of LWP or the Net::Server class for transport implementation), or implementing a server as an Apache/mod_perl location handler.
Seed Spambots 1.0
Seed Spambots generates HTML pages and email addresses for spambots, sending them to a honeypot SMTP server which reports checksum data to various clearinghouses and gathers other spam statistics.
SH-News 3.0
SH-News is a very powerful PHP/MySQL news script. It has more options than any other news script. Users have 17 user rights, and comments are optional (and can be shut down or closed). It is easy to handle and individual layouts can be added easily.
Shed 1.09
Shed (simple hex editor) is a hex editor written for Unix/Linux using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface. It shows data in ASCII, hex, dec, oct, and binary, and allows editing in all of these bases. Features also include searching and dumping.
Siege 2.57b3 (Beta)
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Skaringa r1p6
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed.
Sophie 1.41
Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti virus vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie initializes SAPI (Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus patterns into memory, opens local UNIX domain socket, and waits for someone to connect and instructs it which path to scan. Since the database is loaded in RAM, scanning is very fast. (Note: speed of scanning also depends on SAVI settings and size of the file.) It works on Linux, Solaris (Sparc/x86), HP-UX, and FreeBSD. It was made as a part of 'Virge' project, which is a mail/attachment/virus scanning tool, written in C.
ThemeChanger 0.5
ThemeChanger switches your theme in Mac OS X. It currently supports .theme and .dlta (AKA tpkg2).
TinyLogin 1.4
TinyLogin is a suite of tiny UNIX utilities for handling logins, user authentication, changing passwords, and otherwise maintaining users and groups on an embedded system. It also provides shadow password support to enhance system security. TinyLogin is, as the name implies, very small, and makes an excellent addition to an embedded system.
UgLy Game Search Engine rc 8
The UgLy Game Search Engine quickly searches the network for game servers, and then lists them in a qstat-formatted file and html for use by other programs, such as Server Query and Gametrakker. The script itself uses very little memory and bandwidth and will happily run in the background. It supports games such as Quake 1/2/3, Unreal, Jedi Knight 2, Half Life, and many more. UGS3D 0.1.3
UGS3D is a base framework to build 3D applications. Based on open API's such as OpenGL and SDL, it provides a high abstraction layer for 3D developers. It features animated models, volumetric shadows, procedural trees, camera effects, reflective water, particle systems, and more.
webadmin.php 0.4
webadmin.php is a simple Web-based file manager that is useful for applying changes to a Web account quickly and without FTP access. It can show, create, delete, and move files and directories, copy, edit and upload files, help to manage htaccess and htpasswd, and change permissions of files and folders. webadmin.php only consists of one file, and has multi-language support.
weDBmail 0.0pl9
weDBmail is a Web-based frontend to the dbmail project. It is designed to directly interface with the backend and implement a full-featured mail client.
X Messenger 1.0a
X Messenger is a messenger client for Linux built in Tcl/Tk. It is a clone of amsn.
xmlenc 0.20
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.
Zmanim 1.0.0
Zmanim is a software package that computes zmanim, the times (according to Jewish law) by which an observant Jew must complete specific prayers.
Zorbstats 0.16
ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats, and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.
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