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[osdn business] January 19, 2003
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 03:30:28 EST
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January 19, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Neverwinter Nights Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0456234
nyquil superstar writes "Just thought everyone might like to know, there are a whole bunch of updates at [0] Bioware's NWN Linux Client Page. Includes goodies like the timing of future releases and betas, how to install the Linux client and future(!) expansions, and updates on the movies and sound issues. The quick version: sound is in and they will release a Linux client before they integrate a movie player. Oh, and you'll need to download the game's resource data or use a Windows install, the CD is only good for the reg. key and Windows install. Good news though, because it sounds like it's getting close." Links
0. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0455242
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Newsbooster, the Danish company that [2]got
busted for deep-linking to newspaper stories, [3]has created a new P2P
version of its service to get around European law. Newsbooster's
"[4]Newsbrowser" software works like Kazaa - users download the
software and it networks their computers together, instead of serving
up files from a single server."
Links
0. mailto:scubacuda@inMENCKEName.com minus author
1.
http://www.newsbooster.com/
2.
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/07/05/newsbarred.html
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57230,00.html
4.
http://www.newsbooster.com/?lan=dkBushfires Destroy Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0327242
[0]Anthony writes "The historic [1]Mt Stromlo observatory has been
destroyed by fires. Unfortunately [2]Google cache and similar archives
are the only available detailed information. Looks like the web site
was housed at the observatory. [3]Telescopes housed there were 74" and
50" reflectors along with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra
Astronomical Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses
and workshops. The view from the air is one of molten domes and twisted
metal. with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra Astronomical
Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses and workshops.
These [4]fires have already destroyed 388 houses in the suburbs of
Canberra. Luckily the winds have not picked up today, but the danger is
still high."
Links
0. mailto:adavid@adavid.com.au
1.
http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/50th/history/mssso.html
2.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:u0lXmkqhHKcC:msowww.anu.edu.au/+anu+stromlo&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
3.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011125000347/msowww.anu.edu.au/observing/
4.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/01/item20030119054139_1.htm
MIT Spam Conference Conclusions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0255228
[0]RT Alec writes "The [1]2003 Spam Conference has concluded,
[2]reports [3]InfoWorld. (related read: [4]abstracts of the conference
discussions). I was unable to attend the conference, but it appears all
that was discussed was filters (client and server). I think the key
problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25. If you
need to send mail through a different SMTP server than provided by your
ISP, the admin of that server ought to provide you with a means of
using it with authentication on a port other than 25 (you do have
permission to use that SMTP server, don't you?). It is not too tough to
set up an SMTP server to require authentication, or at a minimum to run
off a different port. I am suprised that this is never mentioned as a
cure for spam. If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by
50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam
I receive). I was pleased to see that Barry Shein, president of [5]The
World (a Boston based ISP) was included in the talks. I am not sure by
the abstract (see link above) posted if he mentioned blocking port 25.
In a recent [6]interview he did not mention it."
Links
0.
http://www.restontech.com/
1.
http://spamconference.org/
2.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/17/030117hnspammit.xml?s=IDGNS
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/
4.
http://spamconference.org/abstracts.txt
5.
http://www.std.com/
6.
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021219S0003Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0246211
[0]scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of
Linux, according to [1]this article by [2]Robert Cringely of PBS." If
Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free
software .. couldn't they?
Links
0.
http://www.scandal.org
1.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030116.html
2.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely
A Community Takeover of Mandrake?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2219215
sombragris writes "[0]Ben Reser wrote an [1]interesting opinion about
MandrakeSoft's [2]current financial woes. Reser maintains that there's
no great value in MandrakeSoft's current business model and that the
best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or
non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution. Sounds definitely
interesting..."
Links
0.
http://ben.reser.org/
1.
http://ben.reser.org/rants/invisible.cgi?month=01&day=15&year=2003&t=00
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1727240&tid=147Electromagnetic Ship Docking System Debuts http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2014230
Makarand writes "A system that uses electromagnets for docking ships is
getting ready to be tested at a port in the Netherlands according to
this [0]article in the New Scientist. Magnetic docking systems were
never used in the past as magnetic fields posed dangers to sensitive
cargo like TVs and monitors. Researchers at the Delft University of
Technology have developed electromagnets whose magnetic fields do not
penetrate far into the ship for this special application. The magnets
can be periodically switched off and on rapidly to allow ships to rise
and fall with the tide."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993270
Lindows' Heavy Hand Leads to Summit Dropouts http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2011207
[0]shawk writes "With Lindows becoming more popular the company's
confidence seems to be growing. According to a [1]news item on
Desktoplinux.com Lindows unilaterally adjusted the agenda of a planned
vendor-neutral summit in a way that is not tolerable for others
supporting the conference. A related [2]article on CNET reports HP
having withdrawn from the summit as well."
Links
0. mailto:shawk@gmx.net
1.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4417146902.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981257.html?tag=fd_topRosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2116255
iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of [0]fee
to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers
indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing. The
RIAA considers downloading music illegally over the Internet to be the
moral equivalence of stealing. I wonder then what is the moral
equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not
download music?"
Links
Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/169202
[0]kongjie writes "Cleveland's [1] The Plain Dealer has a [2]story in
the business section about a [3]pest-control web site that is suing
someone who obviously has a particular bone to pick with exterminators:
he is accused of being a "troll" who "constantly leaving obnoxious and
offensive messages" on their pest-control bulletin board. The suit is
for $5,000 and is for "violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act.""
Links
0. mailto:kongjie@mac.com
1.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/
2.
http://www.cleveland.com/tech/plaindealer/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fbusiness%2F104288693631280.xml
3.
http://www.pctonline.com/
Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Why I would miss Mandrake
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/238248
- By Dr. Paul Miller Well, I am guilty as charged in the potential demise of Mandrake. You see, I am one of those leeches who likes to get something for nothing. I burned the download version of Mandrake 9.0 and installed it on my old AMD Athlon 800. No money paid to Mandrake. Thanks guys :) I can even get access to their update servers for nowt, zilch, nada. They are most kind and generous. They are nearly bankrupt.
Linux Advisory Watch - January 17th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0933238
- 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 wget, xpdf, openldap, libmcrypt, impsql, bugzilla, mod_php, cups, dhcpd, kde, leafnode, libpng, postgresql, mysql, vim, and ethereal. The distributors include ...
Open Source Security: Better Protection at a Lower Cost http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1659246
Steve Schlesinger, Astaro Corp. At first glance, the idea of using open source software for a firewall or other security application seems counterintuitive, even absurd. Why would a corporation use code that's available to anyone - hackers, cyber-terrorists, disgruntled employees
- to protect their most vital information assets? Yet that's what's happening at places like Stanford University, EDS, and Los Alamos National Labs, to name but a few ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Qlusters Introduces ClusterFrame™ for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1150224
Ofer Shoshan, Qlusters, Inc. writes "Menlo Park,California (January 21, 2003) - Qlusters has today announced the release of ClusterFrame™. Qlusters' ClusterFrame product brings mainframe features and capabilities to business applications and traditional compute-intensive environments."
NGO launches long-term open source research http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1149211
Kodek writes "A new two year study by NGO Bridges.org and SchoolNet Africa hopes to provide an unbiased view of the benefits and pitfalls of using open source software in Africa."
Why the Supreme Court is wrong on Eldred v. Ashcrost http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148253
Anonymous Reader writes "The 'exclusive Right to their respective Writings' that is conferred by Copyright law is not the whole story. The taxpaying public is obligated to police and defend the monopoly of the copyright holder. In return for that favor, the written work goes into the public domain after a limited time. By this decision, the Supreme Court seems to be only enforcing one side of that bargain. Read the whole story at Librenix."
NetBSD now has native pthreads!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148225
Jan Schaumann writes "Jason Thorpe has merged the nathanw_sa branch with -current. NetBSD now has a high performance, modern kernel thread implementation using Scheduler Activations in the main source tree. This work was performed by Nathan Williams with contributions by several other developers."
Interview with Shamyl Zakariya on SlicKer development http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1351242
mangeli writes "As the second victim in the TinyMinds interview series we have picked the SlicKer project as our target. SlicKer aims to someday replace Kicker in KDE with its own more taskoriented approach. Today we talk to one of its developers; keyboard cowboy Shamyl Zakarika.
Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1340236
I was exchanging e-mail recently with my friend Mike Class, SJ, who is associate dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mike, who is a Jesuit priest and therefore naturally drawn to the whole idea of conversion, wants Microsoft to build its next version of Windows on top of Linux. And you know, it actually makes some sense!
How does Linux stack up against Windows XP? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1336208
Shortly after I lost the ALT-F-S feature in Microsoft Word last fall, I made a New Year's resolution to try out the Linux operating system.
Will Silicon Valley get its mojo back?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1327200
Will Silicon Valley--mired in a post-boom crisis of confidence--ever regain its status as an economic powerhouse and its place at the center of the high-tech universe?
Intellectual property issues everywhere
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1323227
While I suspect that everyone's heard of this week's Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision , there are also some interesting developments on the patent front, including trouble in Web Services and a pointed comment from Microsoft on the W3C's latest Patent Policy draft .
EFF Pioneer Awards Call for Nominations
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1318240
It's time to recognize the people who have done the most for freedom in the past year.
Freshmeat
Lightweight Web Browsers
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/695
The computers you meet on today's desktops are equipped with very fast processors (usually over 1GHz) and a few hundreds megs of RAM. Even very complicated and resource-consuming applications don't cause any problems for them. However, there are still old machines around which can't easily run such programs. They either don't launch them at all or run so slowly that sensible work can't be performed.
adcfw-log 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109946/
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports, such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol, service, and so on.
ALE 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109934/
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").
AllTasks.net 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109947/
AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or gather daily tasks into one common system.
Aware 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109955/
Aware is a high performance distributed event processing framework built for systems management. It comes with probes for common network services and system resources. Additionally, Aware allows the cross-correllation of many different streams of information, and includes a Web-based reporting interface.
b0xNet 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109924/
b0xNet is an advanced modular Eggdrop distribution with multi-lingual support. It will run on Unix and Linux operating systems but may be limited to x86 compatible architectures. It includes an automatic upgrade feature to keep your bot up to date.
bash programmable completion 20030118 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109921/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
Caramel Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109943/
Caramel is a collection of open-source Java utility classes and includes class utility methods, color utility methods and constants that let you use more than a hundred predefined colors by name (such as azure, chocolate, deepskyblue, indigo, etc.), data utility methods to get a timestamp in a RFC-1123 format, file utility methods to get file extensions or to save a stream to a file, MIME utility methods, net utility methods, string utility methods to fill in templates, and much more.
CvsKnit 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109958/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe useful.
Danpei 2.9.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109916/
Danpei is a GTK+ based image viewer. It allows you to browse through your image files in thumbnail form, and it can rename, cut, and paste them easily with an interface similar to that of Windows Explorer.
Defcon4 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109903/
defcon4 is a good starting-point firewall script to use with ipchains. It is well documented and tweakable to the user's needs.
Drivel 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109908/
Drivel is a LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop. It's designed to
utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0, including GConf, GnomeVFS, and
GTK 2.0.
Dropline GNOME 2.1.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109909/
Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard .tgz package format, in addition to the usual source code. The current release is based off of the latest GNOME 2 distribution from the GNOME Project.
FLAT Assembler 1.44 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109904/
The flat assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for DOS, Windows and Linux. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE or COFF format. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size.
FLP 1.031b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109936/
FLP (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.
fsdb 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109938/
fsdb speeds the creation of slocate's database files by keeping its own database and updating only those parts that need to be updated. It connects to a daemon to receive the updated inodes. In turn, the daemon interfaces with a kernel module which hooks into Linux's dnotify mechanism.
Genmenu 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109933/
Genmenu can generate menus for Blackbox, Fluxbox, Openbox, Window Maker, and Enlightenment based on the program binaries found installed on a system. The list of programs to search for are contained within the script. Users can, to a limited degree, customize their menus via a set of interactive questions.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109961/
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.
Graver's Football Squares 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109911/
Graver's Football Squares was created so multiple people could enjoy Football Squares during the Superbowl or any other major game that may be going on.
gtkVUMeter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109913/
gtkVUMeter is a VU Meter for gtk+. It provides a simple one-channel audio meter. The minimum and maximum levels are configurable and default to 32767 (which is correct for 16 bit signed wave files). An xmms plugin is available.
Horde Application Framework 2.2 (Stable 2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109949/
The Horde Application framework is a set of PHP classes providing common ways to handle preferences, browser detection, authentication, help systems, MIME, connection tracking, cross-application communication, and more.
Impact 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109935/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Interface WM 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109861/
The Interface Window Manager uses Objective C and the GNUstep libraries to provide strictly minimal functionality, with all additional features in bundles called IWMComponents. It uses the GNUstep defaults database for user settings such as mouse button configuration, key bindings, and initial color settings, and is optimized for use in a strictly GNUstep environment.
Java-Chess 2002-01-17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109926/
Java-Chess is a fully-featured chess program that uses using Java 1.2 (including Swing) and 64-bit computing where possible.
Katoob 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109937/
Katoob is a light-weight, multi lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support was for the Arabic language but other languages are also supported.
kbox 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109915/
kbox allows users of KDE/kwin to use styles that are compatible with the popular Blackbox window manager. It is implemented as a kwin client/plugin and renders most Blackbox styles correctly. It also supports Fluxbox and Openbox styles.
KZoomer 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109941/
The KZoomer class can automatically resize components which are absolutely placed in a container when the size of a container has been changed.
Last One 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109966/
Last One is a multi-player version of the Crazy Eights card game (similar to Uno) for Palm OS. Dozens of game variations (including the one that this game is named after) are possible through a unique game options system.
libchipcard 0.7.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109906/
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 NTFS 1.7.0beta (NTFS Tools and Library) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109948/
Linux NTFS provides Linux drivers for the proprietary filesystem used by Windows NT, 2000, and XP. It also provides support for the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that controls Windows' Dynamic Disks and is used to create software Mirrors, Stripes, RAID, etc.
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109914/
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor is a terminal-based typing tutor game written in C++ (with STL) and Curses. It contains both structured and fortune-based lessons. Learn to type to a professional standard while you're saving Pig's bacon! Warning: Includes material that may offend.
Mnemo 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109951/
Mnemo is the Horde notes/memos application. It provides Web-based notes and freeform text, similar to the PalmOS Note application. It requires the Horde Application Framework and an SQL database for backend storage.
mtftpd 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109963/
mtftpd is an FTP server, based in a multiple process/thread model.
Naamah 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109952/
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.
Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109887/
The Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME is an application development environment that can be used as a stand alone tool or with Borland or Sun IDE products to build J2ME applications. It features integrated deployment to FTP servers and an audio converter for MIDI and XML tones. It contains the Nokia Series 40 MIDP Concept SDK with the according MIDP APIs, classes, documentation, and sample applications to build, debug, and run J2ME applications in a simulated environment. It is designed for Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Open Volume Library 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109964/
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.
PHP ImageMagick Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109929/
PHP ImageMagick Class makes it possible to process images in a very easy way. It allows you to retrieve image data, flip, dither, monochrome, negate, rotate, blur, draw frames, resize, square, crop, convert, and save.
PHP SQLDiff 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109883/
PHP SQLDiff is a Web application that shows the difference between two SQL database tables.
PhpDocumentor 1.2.0beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109960/
PHPDocumentor is a PHP script for creating javaDoc-style documentation from PHP code. It can document object-oriented and procedural code. It supports all javaDoc tags, including inline links, and also supports PHPdoc documentation in PEAR style.
phpMyAdmin 2.3.3pl1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109922/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Piccolo toolkit 1.0 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109910/
The Piccolo toolkit is a revolutionary way to create robust, full-featured graphical applications in Java, with features such as zooming and multiple representation. It is based on the Java2D API.
Pro-Active Webfilter 0.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109939/
PAW (pro-active Web filter) is a filtering HTTP proxy based on the Brazil Framework. Because the Brazil Framework and PAW are written in Java, the software is highly portable. PAW allows for easy plugin of Handlers (to filter outgoing requests) and Filters (to filter incoming data), and a GUI for end users. All the configuration files are in XML, and thus easy to modify (even without the GUI). It's aim is to provide an easy to use interface for end users and to be easily extendable by developers.
randcd 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109954/
RandCD is used to make a CD-ROM filled randomly from a much larger MP3 collection. The intent is to reduce the effort of making CDs for MP3 CD players.
reaim-voice 0.6cvs
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109869/
ReAIM-Voice proxies the MSN voice chat sessions supported by the MSN messenger client. ReAIM is a compact transparent proxy designed to be run on or behind a Linux IPTables-based firewall. When run behind a simple address-translating firewall, the current AIM client software does not allow direct connections between users to work. AIM requires direct connections for file and image transfers.
Renaissance 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109923/
GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.
Retro Native Forth Release 5 (Draft #1) (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109942/
RetroForth is a 32-bit Forth-based operating system for the IA-32 (x86) architecture. It is written in assembly language and high-level Forth.
ripperX 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109945/
RipperX is a pretty GTK program to rip CD audio and encode MP3s. It can rip and encode in parallel and has plugins for cdparanoia, BladeEnc, Lame, GoGo, FHG (l3enc and mp3enc), XingMp3enc, 8hz-mp3, and the ISO encoder. It also has support for CDDB (including HTTP proxy servers) and ID3 tags. Preliminary support for Ogg Vorbis is available, but tagging doesn't work. The goal of ripperX is to be the easiest and best-looking frontend for creating MP3s on Linux.
RoboRally Board Editor 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109920/
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.
Ruby/Google 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109919/
Ruby/Google offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's SOAP-driven Web API. It allows the user to programatically query the Google search engine from Ruby. The aim of the library is to shield the programmer from the details of the raw data structures returned by the Web API, and in the process make the API more accessible for everyday use.
Sandwish for Metacity 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109927/
Sandwish for Metacity is a port of the Sawfish theme.
SANE 1.0.10-pre2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109968/
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and is available under the GPL, but commercial applications and backends are welcome. The package contains the libraries, net support, and scanimage. The X frontends xscanimage and xcam can be found in sane-frontends.
SANE Frontends 1.0.10-pre2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109969/
This package contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf. Xscanimage is a GTK-based application for scanning images that can also be used as a GIMP-plugin. Xcam is used to get images from cameras supported by SANE. Scanadf is a command line frontend especially suited for scanners equipped with automatic document feeders (ADF).
SMATCH 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109953/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
SMS Server Tools 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109930/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
Snak 4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109918/
Snak is a full-featured IRC client for Mac. It features a configurable window view, an inbuilt address book, logging functions, multiple connections and multiple channels per connection, a find function for text within channel listings and channel text, as well as scripting capability, amongst others.
SNARLsnmp 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109965/
SNARLsnmp is a monitoring tool for dynamic Web applications. It dynamically creates and assembles URLs and scans them at arbitrary intervals, performs predefined checks on URL content, size, and timing, notifies a monitoring application via informative SNMP traps if a predefined error condition (event) has been met, and delivers a snapshot of its current tests and results at any given time. It is built as a truly multi-threaded MIB module for net-snmp 5.0.3 and higher. Its current monitoring status can be retrieved via the net-snmp daemon's SNMP request interface. configuration of the URL tests is done via a configuration file in a human readable format. All configurations can be hot updated. No data will be lost when reconfiguring a running SNARLsnmp.
Sweep 0.8.0, Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109932/
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
Terminal.app 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109925/
Terminal.app is a terminal emulator for GNUstep.
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2003-01-08 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109931/
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.
Timer_q 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109891/
Timer_q is a shared C library which implements multiple queues of timed events. This is commonly needed, but often implemented badly (via. alarm()). The library also aims to be fast, small, and easy to use.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.80-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109905/
UADE (Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator) plays old Amiga music formats by UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats.
vtwatch 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109917/
vtwatch automatically switches the active virtual console on your Linux system in a loop, acting as a virtual terminal surveillance monitor. The speed at which they switch is configurable, and it is possible to input a search string, which you are notified about if it is found on a console.
Web Performance Trainer 2.5 Build 414
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109959/
Web Performance Trainer is a load, stress, and performance testing tool for Web servers. It simulates thousands of individual users hitting a server at connection speeds between 14.4Kb/s and LAN speeds. It supports URL rewriting, dynamic form data, multiple servers, and unusual port numbers. Statistics are collected at multiple levels, from the transaction down to the individual HTTP request. Users can view, edit, or dynamically replace hidden data such as the HTTP request and reply headers. It runs on Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
WePaSe 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109944/
WePaSe is a full-text Web indexing and search engine, designed to be used to index/search small and medium sites. Its features include word, phrase, and meta-data searching (including combinations of these), support for many character encodings (data is stored in Unicode internally), parsers for plain text, HTML, and PDF, a multi-threaded crawler, and Web administration. It was designed to be easy to use with data sources other than HTTP (such as news archives) or other file formats.
Worm Warner 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109928/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm. Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected host and sending an email to the postmaster.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109940/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without difficult commandline operations.
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