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Slashdot
[0]igotmybfg writes "[1]The Register has a [2]story which includes many
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http://dannyt52 AT earthlink DOT net
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/28724.html
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1423247&tid=109
New Estimates for Universe's Age
[0]Makarand writes "In a study published recently in the journal
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/age_universe_030103.html
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http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gabor,+Zsa+Zsa
IOGEAR Homeplug Networking Reviewed
[0]Chris Allen writes "Wired or wireless? This is always just about the
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http://www.monkeyreview.com/reviews/review.php?num=211
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http://www.homeplug.org/index_basic.html
2003 Edge.org World Question
[0]murky.waters writes "The [1]responses to this year's Edge.org
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/question03_index.html
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_schank.html
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_minsky.html
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_kandel.html
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_alda.html
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Philosophy/Current_Movements/Transhumanism/Singularity/
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http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_kurzweil.html
Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage
[0]NPV writes "January ACM Communications has an article on the use of
0. mailto:hovaness@pipeline.com Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/0134224
[0]lma writes "Bruce Perens has convinced Prentice Hall to publish a
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Collecting Classic Computers
chriton writes "There's an interesting [0]article at [1]Reuters about collecting classic computers. There's mention in the story of an even more interesting website [2]www.classiccmp.org Unfortunately, most of the website is still under construction. The mailing list has been around since Jan 1997, and they clearly have plans for more accessible resources, but that just hasn't happened yet. If you are like me and have a an old Osbourne 1 in the closet and Commodore 128D stored at your mother's house she's telling you to take home lest she chuck it, you might find the list archives none the less." Links
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=1991627
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http://www.classiccmp.org/
25 Years of O'Reilly Books
wka writes "The year 2003 marks the 25th anniversary of publisher
O'Reilly and Associates. O'Reilly has a [0]site to mark the event.
Readers can learn about the [1]origin of the first animal covers in the
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http://www.oreilly.com/25anniversary/
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http://www.oreilly.com/25anniversary/animals.html
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http://www.oreilly.com/25anniversary/timeline.html
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http://www.oreilly.com/25anniversary/letter.html
Laser-Scanning U.S. Landmarks
[0]MeanMF writes "The New York Daily News reports in this article that
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/48858p-45900c.html
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=355&e=1&cid=355&u=/kr/20030105/lo_krnewyork/u_s__disaster_plans_include_cloned_icons
Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes
safrit writes "Finally the scoop on how IE "cheats" a little to up its performance! Do RFCs mean nothing anymore? What's next, Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! From the [0]blog story: 'Internet Explorer on Windows always seems either to run impossibly fast (page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its original unclicked position), or ridiculously slow...' Now read to see why..." Links 0. http://grotto11.com/blog/?+1039831658
Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Linux myths that never die
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
leonbrooks writes "Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the web. The presentation made some startling (for Microsoft) concessions to Open Source, then set about FUDding the GPL into the ground. I whacked together a point-by-point answer to the anti-GPL FUD and here it is." Software Contracts: Antitrust tying and computer hardware http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/0112222 Anonymous Reader writes "Have you bought a PC to run Linux and received a copy of a proprietary desktop operating system you do not intend on using? Did the manufacturer collect a fee for the operating system you don't use? Walt Pennington, member of the San Diego Linux Users Group, concerned citizen, and esteemed tort attorney outlines the legal challenge of OEM agreements. Seeking a refund of his own unwanted copy of Microsoft Windows, ...
Scripting Language City
Ursus Maximus writes "Scripting Language City is for folks who want to learn more about the future of this increasingly important subset of the programming universe. Scripting languages are not just for odd jobs anymore ;-))). Special attention is paid to four languages in Python City, Ruby City, Perl City, and JavaScript Expert Systems which includes a Scripting Language Chooser Program as well as a Basketball Expert Ssystem and a Football ...
Linux Continues Desktop March
Ban_Country_Music writes "The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become No. 2 after Windows in the next year or so. The bad news is that its growth does not look to be as explosive as some advocates might have hoped."
Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption
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."
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.
Bacula 1.28
Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.
Balsa 2.0.5 (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. Calculating Pi Second Visual Release (Simple Harmonic Motion) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108475/ ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi through various methods.
ciclogin 0.3
ciclogin logs into and keeps the connection to the Telia Comhem Internet Cable service alive. CL-SDL 0.2.1
CL-SDL is a library of foreign function interfaces to SDL and OpenGL for Common Lisp programs. It aims to be extremely portable, fast, and flexible.
cqure ap 2.1.0
cqure ap is a "one floppy" wireless access point. It supports Prism 2-based wireless adapters and most of the 10/100 ethernet PCMCIA and PCI adapters supported by Linux.
dbMan 0.30
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.
e4Graph 1.0a7
e4Graph is a C++ library that allows programs to store graph-like data persistently and to access and manipulate that data efficiently. With e4Graph, you can arrange your data in the most natural form that reflects the relationships between its parts, rather than having to force it into a table-like format. The e4Graph library also allows you to concentrate on the relationships you want to represent, and not on how to store them in a database. You can modify data items, and add and remove connections and relationships between pieces of data on the fly. e4Graph allows you to represent an unlimited number of different connections between pieces of data, and your program can selectively manipulate the data according to the relationships it cares about, not having to know about other connections represented in the data set.
Efax-gtk 2.0.3 (Stable)
Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax program. It interfaces with efax directly, replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have been received and sent. It requires the GTK+ and Gtkmm libraries. Ghostscript (gs) must also be installed.
File::Scan 0.40 (Development)
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
Gallery.py 2.0beta11 (Development)
Gallery.py makes picture galleries consisting of an index page with thumbnails linking to pages with resized pictures. The picture pages include a navigation bar and a simple GUI and picture comments saved in an XML file. Date information is extracted from the pictures if available. Possible comments include 'date', 'where', 'who', and 'what'. The script is very well suited for cron operation on a hierarchy of directories using the --recursive option.
Gammu 0.66 (Development)
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 3510, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 7110, 82xx, 8310, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
GKrellM Distributed.net Plugin 0.12
GKrellDnet is Distributed.net client monitor plugin for GKrellM. It includes a Distributed.net client wrapper, so you can write monitoring apps for WindowMaker, GNOME, Enlightenment, etc.
Gringotts 1.3.0pre3 (Development)
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices. GSTP 0.1
GSTP is a binary file transfer protocol that focuses on security and anonymity. It tries to do right, where FTP does wrong, especially when it comes to firewall and user/password security. GSTP is based on TLS/SSL and the GSTP package includes a reference client (cli) and server for Unix platforms.
hg12605tv 0.01
hg12605tv is a simple program which grabs an image from a V4L device and displays it on a Hundai HG12605 LCD display connected to the LPT port. You can use this program to learn how to grab from a V4L device and how to drive HG12605 LCD displays.
ipv6calc 0.45
ipv6calc can be used by scripts to convert IPv6 addresses from one format to another.
KDE Kontact 0.1
KDE Kontact is a personal information management application for KDE. It integrates KMail, KAddressBook, and KOrganizer into a unified application.
KleenCurve 1.0
KleenCurve is a theme based on BlueCurve. It doesn't have rounded corners, as basic icewm doesn't support this feature. It should work and look clean on all icewm versions.
lftp 2.6.4
lftp is a sophisticated command line based FTP client. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneosly or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. HTTP protocol and FTP over HTTP proxy are supported. Version 2.3.0 includes HTTPS and FTP over SSL support.
libchipcard 0.7beta5 (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.
Linux OpenMediaBox 0.8.1
The aim of the LinuxOpenMediaBox project is to create a free multimedia console which can be plugged into a TV set. LinuxOpenMediaBox gives you the ability to play most multimedia streams, including DVD, DivX, MP3, Ogg, and more. LOMB can also be used as a game console and a set-top-box. It can execute most Linux applications, including games, Web browsers, and office suites, as long as they are burned on a CD.
logrelay-pop3 1.0.0
logrelay-pop3 is a POP-before-SMTP program on FIFOs and with real time updating (Perl). It is for solid-pop3d (syslogd) and Sendmail, but you can easy change this if you want in config section. It reads authenticated IP and modifies access file (makemap hash, makedb, or how you want). After a definite time (in conf section) IP expires and the access base is reloaded. Everything goes in real time.
Magick IRC Services 2.0rc2
Magick IRC Services is a set of programs made for the IRC protocol (RFC 1459). They are designed to allow users to register and keep their nicknames and channels, send messages to other users, and allow IRC Operators and Admins more control and flexability over the entire network.
Magma 1.2.2.2 (Stable)
Magma is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
mailgraph 1.1
Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.
Ogg::Vorbis::Header 0.02
Ogg::Vorbis::Header is a Perl module for viewing and modifying info and comment fields of files encoded in the Ogg Vorbis compressed audio format. It uses Inline::C to access the underlying Vorbis libraries and provides an object oriented interface, an incremental loading scheme, and maintains no open filehandles between operations, which allows data structures containing many Ogg::Vorbis::Header objects to be created.
openHBCI 0.9.5 (Unstable)
openHBCI is a C++ library for the German HomeBanking Computer Interface. It includes some tutorials for testing the library. Its current capabilities include complete key management on disc (RDH) and/or chip-card (DDV), the ability to perform single customer credit transfers, and the ability to get balance reports.
Placebo 0.9
Placebo is a framework for developing Web-based applications in the PHP scripting language. The framework allows applications to be designed and structured with proper software design methodologies. Placebo encourages object-oriented design and the use of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.
RSA implementation in Octave 0.01
RSA implementation in Octave is a short, dirty, and very slow implementation of the cryptographic primitives of the RSA public key algorithm, using GNU Octave. It includes functions to work on big numbers, modular exponentiation, modular inversion, probabilistic prime numbers generators, key pair generators, and functions to encrypt and decrypt files using a rather insecure scheme.
SaveMyModem 0.14 (Development)
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.
Server Logging Operations Platform 1.2
SLOP is an engine for the collection of and reporting on logs from various network based devices such as firewalls, switches, and Web servers. It includes support for Checkpoint Firewall-1 firewalls and Cisco 2900 and 3500 series switches. It features storage of logs in an SQL database, dynamically generated Web-based graphic reports of statistics from devices, Web-based viewing of raw logs, with sorting and color highlighting, and an object-oriented framework for adding "modules" to support other devices.
skadns 0.20
skadns is an asynchronous DNS client library. It was designed for simplicity of use and light resource usage, and can even be used on an embedded system. Unlike other DNS client libraries, skadns leaves the asynchronous work to a daemon, making the client API easy to understand and use.
Sporum 3.0.9 (Classic)
Sporum is a Web-based discussion forum. It features several expected elements of forums including user registration, moderating abilities, threaded discussions, a search engine, Web-based administration, and more, as well as some new features including a new interface, four different threaded views (Combined, Flat, Nested, Threaded), multiple forums/categories/boards, e-mail subscription, and a ratings and point system.
Tensile 0.9 (Current)
Tensile (formerly NSL) is essentally a text-processing language based on a push-down transducers paradigm. It has an inherent HTML/XML-parser, CGI-programming capabilities, SQL access, and more. Additional modules can also be attached for expanding functionality.
TuxGlo 0.1
A green/grey theme for Hackedbox which features a "glowing" tux background.
Video4Linux Grab pre4-0.2.2
The v4lgrab project is real-time capturing software for a Video4Linux device.
VK Tafe 0.6a
A program that parses and analyzes MPEG-2 transport streams.
VK Tools 0.6a
The VK Toolset is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams. The current version focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams).
Webcpp 0.7.11 (Stable)
Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS, DOS Batch, EMF, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, and VHDL highlighting.
Webtop web-based email system 1.30
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
WMApp DockApp Library 0.0.4
WMApp is a C++ based library for writing WindowMaker-style dockapps. It provides numerous widgets, all with the traditional dockapp appearance.
wtail 0.1.4
wtail does the equivalent of tail -f on several files at once. The screen is split into as many parts as there are files to watch.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.03
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.
ZZIPlib 0.10.77 (Preview)
ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the patent-free compression-algorithms supported by zlib. Functions are provided that transparently access files being either real files or zipped files, both with the same filepath. The zip-archive can be used in the place of a normal subdirectory. It is written in portable C.
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