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[osdn business] January 12, 2003
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Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 03:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
[0]prostoalex writes "Online Journalism Review posted [1]an interview
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http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/entertainment/1042169162.php
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http://www.thesimpsons.com/index.html
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http://www.fox.com/futurama/
The Lights Keep on Blinken
[0]cavac writes "At the 19th [1]Chaos Communications Congress in
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http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/
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http://www.blinkenlights.de/
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http://blinkenlights.grumpfzotz.org/
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/blinkserv/
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telnet://grumpfzotz.org:10000
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http://www.zilog.com/
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http://www.zilog.com/products/partdetails.asp?id=Z8ENCORE000ZCOS-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/2237249
[0]Halo1 writes "The [1]Guerrilla News Network has made a great 11
0. mailto:jonas.maebe@nosPaM.rug.ac.be
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http://www.gnn.tv/
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http://www.gnn.tv/redux/
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http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.com/
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http://www.guerrillanews.com/redux/qt_lo.html
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http://www.guerrillanews.com/redux/qt_hi.html
The D Language Progresses
[0]xsniper writes "D made its debut [1]here on Slashdot in August 2001.
0. mailto:crxace13@comcast.com
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http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/15/234223&tid=156
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http://www.opend.org
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http://www.digitalmars.com/d
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http://www.digitalmars.com/d/alpha.html
Barcode-Controlled Home?
[0]MC68040 writes "The guy at [1]this site managed to build something
0. http://040.sytes.net/ (hbn0110(at).NOSPAM.mobila.se)
Ancanar Teaser Trailer Available
[0]Still Gainfully Unemployed writes "A teaser trailer for [1]Ancanar,
0. mailto:bwherry@thaumaturgy.com
Open Networks, Closed Regimes
[0]kris writes "[1]First Monday has an interesting article on [2]Open
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_1/kalathil/kalathil_contentshtmlSupreme Court Takes Nike Free Speech Case http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1848248
MacAndrew writes "The Supreme Court [0]has granted review in a case
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Nike-Speech.html
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/04/0050201&tid=123
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/politics/11SCOT.html
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2150243&tid=158
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/216226&tid=158
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/14/2242236&tid=111
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/21/1614201&tid=111
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/09/1745243&tid=111More Info on the October 2002 DNS Attacks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1813206
MondoMor writes "One of the guys who invented DNS, Paul Mockapetris,
has written an article at ZDnet about the [0]October '02 DNS attacks.
Quoting the article: "Unlike most DDoS attacks, which fade away
gradually, the October strike on the root servers stopped abruptly
after about an hour, probably to make it harder for law enforcement to
trace." Interesting stuff."
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-979650.html US Military Uses Spam, Internet Explorer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/188212
[0]chundo writes "[1]CNN reports that the United States government has
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http://`jjongsma79' `at' `hotmail.com'
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http://www.cnn.com/
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/11/sproject.irq.email/index.html
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/25/0324221&tid=111
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc2003017_2464.htm
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - January 10th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0927254
Training available for new commercial Security-Enhanced Linux http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2134248
Newsforge Newsvac
You hum it, I'll hack it.
Evolution of the data center OS
During the next five to 10 years, tight budgets, better utilization, and more effective demand management will slow server growth and drive a dramatic shift in the data center's operating system capacity mix. Windows and Linux will be the big winners.
Existential Programming
truc writes "Can programming be Existential? These and other questions confront the Accidental Programmer on his continued quest for the Lost Art of Computer Programming. Gryphon and Linux does the Australian Open http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1744219 Anonymous Reader writes "It's nice to see IBM walk their Linux talk and offer large scale Linux solutions for their customers. This article is about how IBM used a new real-time scoreboard push technology called Gryphon and Linux to support the Australian Open. Over 1.2 million Real-time Gryphon Scoreboards were downloaded and worked flawlessly during the two weeks of the tournament."
Free Software Licenses Revocable?
A quick scan through the Free Software licenses I have immediately on hand showed one thing in common: none say the rights are waived perpetually or irrevocably. On the face of it, it seems, I could release a program under the GPL, and then announce five years later that it and all derived works are under my private control again.
The Cathedral In The Bazaar?
Slashdot: replicant_deckard writes "This opinion piece I wrote to Open explains how dual licensing (simultaneous use of both GPL and proprietary license) works." Mandrake Releases 9.1b1, New Packaging Model http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1242251 Slashdot: DCowern writes "Mandrake today announced version 9.1 (beta) of their distribution." Surprise: Apple's New Browser Is a Sister to Konqueror http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1241241 Apple raises its open-source stakes by basing its new browser on KHTML and giving its code back to the community. The big question: Now what? Contracting clout and Open source security tools http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1241212 NZheretic writes "InfoWorld's CTO Chad Dickerson has a short but sweet interview with Curt Aubley, CTO of IT Solutions for Lockheed Martin Information Technology, about how he's integrating open source, and looking at security issues for today and the future." Microsoft settles California suits for $1.1 billion http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1240249 A.Guru prasadh writes "Microsoft said on Friday that it would pay up to $1.1 billion to settle class action lawsuits brought by California residents who claimed the company had abused its market position and overcharged for software."
Freshmeat
Safari is Apple's Web browser based on the Konqueror rendering engine. It offers outstanding performance, rendering even the most complex of pages at high speed. It uses advanced Mac OS X interface technologies to offer an all-new, much easier view of the Web, and features an advanced bookmark manager, built-in Google search, seamless downloads, and a pop-up blocking mechanism.
Audio Transcriber 0.8
Audio Transcriber records large audio samples, like a tape or radio broadcast, to your hard drive and splits it into tracks to be burned onto CD-R media. The goal is to make it easy to transfer audio tapes, LPs, or radio broadcasts to tracks on CD-R/CD-RW.
aviManager 0.8
aviManager helps you manage your (large) movie (DVD, DivX) collection. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users, and attempts to find the best movie to watch. There is also a nice IMdb grabber for fast movie adding.
Bauk PI 1.53 (Stable)
Bauk is a high performance HTTP server. Its features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication, network traffic quotas, client connection number quotas, directory browsing, server host name aliases, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format, and much more. It is very efficient, high performance, has low resource utilization, and uses a multiprocess architecture with simple configuration, easy administration, reliability, and flexibility. BHL 1.1
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, tables, 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.
Boss Ogg 0.9.2 (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.
BottomFeeder 2.6
BottomFeeder is an application that reads and displays RSS formatted feeds. RSS is a syndication format, used by a growing proportion of sites (including Slashdot).
Cisco::Reconfig 0.1
Cisco::Reconfig is a Perl module that parses Cisco router configuration files. It doesn't have any real understanding of Cisco configurations so it might be useful for other similar configuration languages. Cisco::Reconfig makes it easy to write short Perl programs that manipulate Cisco router configurations. It does not talk directly to Cisco routers--it requires the current router configuration to be in a text file.
cnik MP3 .03
cnik MP3 is a Java-based MP3 player.
ConfigEdit 0.4
ConfigEdit is a powerful, text-based configuration management system which can be used to manage configuration files of all machines on a network. All configurations are stored within a repository and whenever a file is updated, it controls version information and can trigger user-defined commands (e.g., scp). Rolling back to an older version is very easy. Triggering commands (like "scp file account@myserver1") on each new version can be used to automatically distribute the new version to all machines that use that file.
cwdaemon 0.2 (Stable)
cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel port and a simple transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via the UDP protocol.
dchub 0.2.5
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing. DotGNU Execution Environment 0.1.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109130/ The DotGNU Execution Environment is the core architectural component of DotGNU that provides the functionality of accepting, validating and satisfying Web service requests. The DGEE integrates the components on the Web service execution path, including network servers, protocols, virtual machines, and security mechanisms into a unified application. In its basic form the DGEE allows the installation and removal of Web services within the repository, accepts XML-RPC requests for these Web services, and generates browsable documentation for these Web services in HTML and XML form.
DrawSWF 1.2.6
DrawSWF is a simple drawing application written in Java. The drawing can be exported as an animated SWF (Macromedia Flash) file. It has been tested to run with Java2 1.4 under Linux.
Dustismo 1.8
Dustismo is a standard sans-serif truetype font good for most applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 250 glyphs so far). The archive contains two font files, one designed for Windows which contains embedded bitmaps for point sizes 7-24, and one for Linux which contains no bitmaps.
echolot 0.1.0
echolot sniffs ARP packets on ethernet network devices and stores them in an iptraf-compatible database. These unique addresses could be used to find known hosts on any LAN (a popular FTP server at a LAN party), or to find unknown hosts on a company LAN (such as intruders).
GDraw.app 090200
GDraw.app is a vector drawing program for GNUstep.
Generic Project Page 0.3
Generic Project Page is a generic, configurable Web site to store project information. It works with a base-modules model, so the modules can be contributed and developed seperate from the base.
gGo 0.3.2
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
GoFish Gopher/Web Server 0.27
GoFish is a simple gopher/Web server. It is designed with security and low resource usage in mind. It uses a single process that handles all the connections. This provides low-resource usage, good latency, and good scalability. It also runs in a chroot environment. GoFish runs at root privilege only to accept incoming connections, and drops to a normal user at all other times.
GSPdf 0.1
GSPdf is a PostScript and PDF Viewer for GNUstep that is based on GhostScript.
GTetrinet 0.5.2
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
IceWM Control center 0.8
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
ifplugd 0.12
ifplugd is a lightweight Linux daemon which configures the network automatically when a cable is plugged in and deconfigures it when the cable is pulled. It is primarily intended for usage with laptops. It relies on the distribution's native network configuration subsystem, and is thus not very intrusive.
logmover 0.04
logmover archives logfiles generated by the logrotate program. It renames the files using unique timestamps, moves them to an archive directory, and compresses them by using external compress programs like gzip and bzip2. The program is written in C, and is designed to be run by cron.
Lumiere 0.2
Lumiere is a GNOME 2 frontend to mplayer. mplayer is embedded into a bonobo control that acts as a CORBA server for handling video files. Nautilus View integrates mplayer inside Nautilus.
Luxor Beta 8
Luxor is an open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit in Java that supports handpicked Mozilla XUL goodies and also includes a ultra light-weight, multi-threaded Web server, a portal engine, and a template engine. Luxor is also Web Start-ready as everything fits in a jar and Luxor requires no loose files.
Megamek.NET 0.29581
Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the 5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but will soon feature another campaign set in 3060.
MultiSync 0.70
MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, address books, and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. Currently MultiSync has plugins for Ximian Evolution and IrMC Mobile Client calendars (supported by the SonyEricsson T68i, Siemens S45i/S55) via Bluetooth, IR, or a cable connection.
Orange Gnome 1.0
Orange Gnome is a theme built around a bold eye candy background.
Photopub 0.1.4
Photopub is image publication software designed primarily for easily maintaining a Web site of pictures taken with digital cameras (although it can be used for arbitrary images, it has some features which make it most suitable for them). It runs as a CGI script or under mod_perl, and is fully themable and highly customizable.
PHP TroubleTicket 0.1.5 (Development)
PHP Trouble Ticket attempts to adress the need for a centralized means of problem reporting and tracking in multi-user environments (medium to large companies, development groups, etc.). It helps to direct problem reports to the responsible administrator(s), keep track of the status of a problem being worked on, and offers an up-to-date list of recent changes applied. PHP Trouble Ticket aims to be widely configurable, easy to use even for the not technically inclined and multi-language capable.
PHP-TreeHierarchy 0.5.3
PHP-TreeHierarchy is a flexible PHP class for managing tree-structured hierarchies on a database. It's implemented using the nested model. The class requires the PEAR (DB) library. It features multiple threads, management of nodes, and XML output.
phpmp3search Alpha 0.1
phpmp3search is a collection of easy-to-install PHP files for creating your own MP3 search engine.
PircBot 1.0.2
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC support, ident support, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
ProGuard 1.5
ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short, meaningless names. The resulting jars are more compact and more difficult to reverse-engineer. Advantages of ProGuard compared to other Java shrinkers and obfuscators are compact template-based configuration, memory efficiency, and speed.
Project @ssistant 0.1b1
Project @ssistant is a modular business system combining CRM, email ticketing, call management, and project management tools into a central system.
pyrad 0.4
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.
PySMBSearch 0.2
PySMBSearch is a crawler and search engine for SMB shares. It consists of a crawler script which creates an index and stores it in an SQL database, and a CGI script that can be used to extract queries from the database.
QuickDC 0.0.5
QuickDC is a client for Neo-Modus's Direct Connect filesharing network. It resembles the DC++ client for Windows and supports some of the same extended features.
References for TeX and Friends 0.2.0
References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML, the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.
RoboRally Board Editor 0.3
RoboRally Board editor is a Java utility for creating boards for the board game, RoboRally. It has a simple graphical interface where you choose an element of a game and place it on the board where you like it, much like an ordinary drawing program. When elements are in place you can remove, rotate, and edit them as you see fit. When you feel done you can export your board as a JPEG and print it with your favorite printing tool. The current version supports all the features of the standard RoboRally game.
SaveMyModem 0.14a (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.
Scribe Email Client 1.85 (Development)
Scribe is a cross platform email client, address book, and calendar. It is small, fast, and easy to install. It has multi-language support, and currently includes English, French, Chinese, Italian, Czech, Spanish, German, and Dutch. It is very expandable via a plugin interface, and uses its own HTML engine (and not IE when run on Windows). It supports POP3, [E]SMTP, MIME, IMAP4, and MAPI. An integrated contact database and calendar are included.
SNR Monitor 0.98
SNR monitor allows network administrators to collect, store in an RRDatabase, and view link quality gauges (packet-loss, signal and noice levels) from all wireless (802.11) links of their wireless access point devices.
VNC Reflector 1.2.3
VNC Reflector is a specialized VNC server which acts as a proxy between a real VNC server (a host) and a number of VNC clients. It was designed to work efficiently with large number of clients. It can switch between different hosts on the fly, preserving client connections. It supports reverse host-to-reflector connections, it can save host sessions on disk, and it also has other unique features.
XawTV 3.82
XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux. It also contains various command-line utilities for grabbing images and AVI movies, tuning in TV stations, etc.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
Interests: Linux French
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
Interests: Perl Gerl
Interests: I dig Mac OS X
Interests: Ninj4 Hooded Sweatshirt
Interests: Megatokyo Blanket
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5784/ Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Electronics: Universal System Selector
Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/ Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek Monkey Hoodie http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/5b88/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
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