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Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 03:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
[0]deglr6328 writes "Researchers at MIT have [1]developed a [2]new type
0. mailto:deglr6328@hotmail_nospam.com
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/dot.html
2.
http://optics.org/articles/news/9/1/2/1
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http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/display/creating.jhtmlCompetition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/0639234
Internet Ninja writes "While we can all send anti-war emails to
'president' of the USA and even the Australian opposition, nobody can
email the [0]Prime Minister of Australia. So the opposition party
started a [1]competition to track it down as reported in Australias
Sydney Morning Herald."
Dave Hughes' Campaign To Connect 6 Billion Brains http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/0242203
[0]polarfleece writes "The Asociated Press has a [1]fine story about
0. mailto:mark_springer@ddc-alaska.org
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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAN3J1L5BD.html
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http://www.wireless.oldcolo.com
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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAHFD3F5BD.html
Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks
wemmick writes "The Washington Post has an article [0]"Can XM Put Radio
Back Together Again?" which discusses the history of marketing FM
radio, how XM could be different, and about Lee Abrams -- "the man who
shackled FM radio to the tyranny of mass market research" and is now
program director for XM."
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57791-2003Jan15.html BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/0048259
[0]Dan B. writes "The Technology section in The Age today is running a
0. mailto:dbryarNO@SPAMfreeuk.com
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/19/1042911268269.html
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http://www.basf.com/
Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization?
jdclucidly asks: "I am a network administrator for a small non-profit (about 50 employees). I would like to roll Mozilla 1.2.1 out to all of our desktops. We don't have a single ghost image because the computers on site are too varied. Yes, I did my Googling. The source for the installer is just huge and mind boggling. Is there something like a Mozilla Administration Kit that will generate custom Mozilla installers? If not, would people on Slashdot be interested in starting a new project to make such a kit?" If you were going to deploy a "branded" version of Mozilla, company-wide, how would you do it, especially if you had to worry about a mixed OS environment? Nvidia Talks About Next-Gen Geforce, Plus Pics http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/2216224
[0]Per Hansson writes "Techspot was at Comdex in Sweden a few days ago;
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http://www.techspot.com/
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http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3978
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1215204&tid=126
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1824202&tid=137
UFO Evidence From SOHO Satellite
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "EuroSeti is set to reveal during the week
0. mailto:joecamel12324@msn.net Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1729250
w4rl5ck writes "[0]PivX has this [1] security advisory about DDoS
attacks using a single modem line and some game servers (i.e. Counter
Strike, QuakeX, Battlefield 1942 - in short, those supporting GameSpy).
Works via spoofed udp packages querying the server stats, and because
udp is connectionless, the server simply answers - to the spoofed
address, of course. Funny thing, isn't it? (originally found on
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http://www.pivx.com/
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http://www.pivx.com/kristovich/adv/mk001/
2.
http://www.heise.de/
Maine School & Linux
[0]Feztaa writes "[1]This story talks about a private school in Maine
0. mailto:rbpark@ualberta.ca
Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Why I would miss Mandrake
Linux Advisory Watch - January 17th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0933238
Newsforge Newsvac
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.
It's a LinuxWorld, after all
Linux advocates will convene at a trade show in New York this week to promote their wares, tout customers, swap business cards and make their case that the operating system is growing up.
IBM puts DB2 clusters on Linux
IBM Software this week will show off what will be a commercially available version of Linux database clustering.
Linux makes new PC waves, and profits
Mike Kelly, CEO of Emeryville research firm Techtel Corp., got a surprise this month when he re-examined corporate attitudes toward the Linux operating system. As Linux Nips at Microsoft, Its Advocates Talk Numbers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/100258 The Linux World conference that begins in New York tomorrow promises to be a staid, corporate affair. The speakers' list is filled with corporate technology people who will be there to discuss the dollars-and-cents rationale for Linux, an operating system that is distributed free and developed according to open-source principles, in which programmers donate their labor to debug and modify the software cooperatively. IBM Introducing Linux Mainframe In A Box, Other Linux Tools http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/0955215 IBM plans on Monday to introduce new Linux (news - web sites) tools for devices from the handheld to the mainframe, including a pre-configured and tested Linux on mainframe installation, and Lotus Notes client software for Linux.
Linux from Kindergarten to High School
As the bell rings to begin class at Greater Houlton Christian Academy, enthusiastic students sit down at their shiny, new computer workstations. In one corner, the red cabinet housing the server hums quietly as two stuffed penguins look on fondly from their perch. Other penguins keep watch from different locations as the students enter their user names and passwords to access their accounts.
GNU-Darwin becomes 1.0!
Our core asset, the packages and software distribution system is now usable by anyone who is willing to learn the Unix command line, and we encourage everyone to do so. This system together with GNU-Darwin OS itself is an impactful force in the industry, and our project is popular, influential, and widely watched. Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1647217 Slashdot discussion - iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of fee to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing."
Fixing HTML with the WDG HTML Validator
All hail KHTML. Now validate your site. - Apple's decision to promote KDE's KHTML rendering engine and, by extension, the KHTML-based Konqueror to Major Browser status makes web standards important again. Webmasters who test in only Microsoft Internet Explorer are going to have Linux and Macintosh users, not only the former, complaining about broken HTML.
Freshmeat
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... CCZE 0.1.134
CCZE is a fast log colorizer in C, intended to be a drop-in replacement for RASZi's colorize.pl.
Childsplay 0.62
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like then gcompris.
cvsd 0.9.16
cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories.
cwdaemon 0.2.1 (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.
fancybash 1.1
fancybash adds the following features to a bash prompt: login name, hostname, PTS/TTY, count and size of files in the current directory, directory name, jobs running in the background, current time, and fancy colors. While its colors are cyan/grey when working as an unprivileged user, they change to yellow/red when becoming root (or another user with uid=0).
flexbackup 1.0pre2
flexbackup is a very configurable Perl-based backup tool that can backup local machines as well as remote machines (using ssh). It allows the backup itself to be made with afio, cpio, tar, or dump.
galculator 0.9
galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, and grad).
Gestalter 0.6.1
Gestalter is a free vector drawing program. The user interface is loosely modeled after Adobe Illustrator. The central element is the Bezier curve used as a base part for almost every other object. Complex paths are possible, compound paths can be constructed, grouping of elements is enabled, and everything can be screened by a mask. Adding and deleting of nodes is implemented as well as transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and skewing).
GtkAtlantic 0.2.1
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers.
guiftp 0.1
Guiftp is a simple FTP client using the GTK+ toolkit. It can actually connect to a remote host, and download and upload files and directories. It supports interrupted transfer and bookmarks, and you can do the usual operations like erase files and directories, create directories, and erase directories recursively on both the local and the remote computer.
IceWM Control center 0.95
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
isp4you 0.8.0
isp4you is a Webmin module that creates a virtual Apache Web server and a user (with a random password). It automatically creates DNS entries, up to 100 mail accounts, a MySQL database, quotas, etc. You can also create a new Webmin user that will only have access to its own new account. The supported languages are English, Dutch, Spanish, German, Turkish, and French.
Jacksum 1.1.2 (Stable)
Jacksum is a free checksum utility written entirely in Java. It supports most common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32, MD2, MD5, SHA, and Unix System V sum). Recursive file processing is supported.
Japana 2.0.3 (Current)
Japana is a small HTTP proxy written in Perl. It converts Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) into ASCII (Romaji) on the fly. The translation is done with the kakasi library (an older version without the need for kakasi still exists).
Katoob 20030119 (Development)
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.
Knoppix 3.1-2003-01-20
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KSambaPlugin 0.4.1
KSambaKonqiPlugin is a complete SAMBA configuration plugin for KDE 3. It consists of a KControl Center Module for configuring nearly every option on a SAMBA server and a Konqueror properties dialog plugin for quick sharing of single directories.
lamprop 0.9.4
lamprop calculates some properties of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. It calculates engineering properties like Ex, Ey, Gxy, thermal properties CTE_x and CTE_y, physical properties like density and laminate thickness, and stiffness and compliance matrices.
makeself 2.0.1
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world. Matrox Millennium II Xv extension 1.0-RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110008/ This is an XFree86 driver to add Xv (Xvideo) support for the Matrox Millennium II. It includes hardware YUV->RGB conversion and up/down scaling. Performance is not stellar compared to modern cards but it's enough to allow smooth fullscreen DVD playback on a moderately fast computer (P3-933).
MDB Tools 0.5
MDB Tools is a library and set of utilities for reading Microsoft Access Database (MDB) files. The authors are currently seeking developers to help on the project. The package also includes a GTK-based file browser, a small SQL engine, and an ODBC driver.
nail 10.4
Nail is a mail user agent derived from Berkeley Mail 8.1. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX.2 mailx command with built-in support for MIME messages, POP3, and SMTP. It also contains some minor enhancements like the ability to set a From: Address. Nail offers its full command set both for interactive and batch use, and is especially useful for sending attachments from scripts or for reading mail via slow connections and on bad terminals. In recent system environments, nail is Unicode/UTF-8 capable.
netatalk 1.6.0
netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for Unix systems. It contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, AppleShare over IP, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. It provides Appletalk file, printing, and routing services on Solaris 2.5, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS 4.1, Mac OS X, and Ultrix 4.
Plone CMS 1.0 RC2
Plone CMS is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain and modify. It is designed to be a proper content management system that can replace Interwoven Teamsite or Opentext's Livelink.
Polar Jukebox System 0.6.0.57-pre1
The Polar Jukebox System (PJS) is a set of curses and console applications that allow you to manage huge amounts of MP3 files. It stores all information in a PostgreSQL database for fast and reliable operating. The tools include jplay (a Pine-like player with playlists and many sophisticated features), jrec (an audio CD to PJS converter), jfunc (commandline options for the PJS), jget (ssh-based tools for transfering CDs between PJSes), jdel, jimport, jexport, and more.
Project Manager X 0.9
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
Quick Spam Filter 0.2.2
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam.
rdiff-backup 0.10.2
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidthefficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire file system.
SpamTUNNEL 0.1
With SpamTunnel is a tool for filtering spam. It features a filtering rate of over 80% without using any blacklists or whitelists and without any false positives. It uses a self-teaching algorithm. Its proxy-like design obviates the need to change your mail client or mailing habits or download your mail twice. SpamTUNNEL also strives to remain completely unobtrusive.
squidefender 1.0
Squidefender is a Perl script which analyzes a squid log file in native format to detect attacks. If it finds an attack, it sends a complaint email to the ISP of the attacker. It also has the option to execute an external command to take other actions. This can be used to automatically adapt your firewall when an attack has occured. The power of squidefender lies in its configuration options, which let you easily add new attacks to scan for. Another interesting option of squidefender is its ability to use different message templates based on the attack found.
The Kiwi Toolkit 1.4
The Kiwi Toolkit is a foundation class library containing many useful classes that complement the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). It includes many classes and components that were not provided with the JFC, such as a TreeTable component, a DateChooser, an MVC charting package (bar charts, line charts, pie charts), a plugin framework for Java, an application resource manager (for loading images, icons, HTML pages, audio clips, and other resources from JAR files), a better internationalization API, and much more.
throttle 1.0
throttle copies the standard input to the standard output while limiting bandwidth to the specified maximum.
Thy 0.4.40 (Development)
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.
TiLP 6.00-stable
TiLP is a linking program for Texas Instruments' graphing calculators. It can handle any TI calculator from TI73 to V200 with any link cable (parallel, serial, TI's Black/Gray/Silver Link, AVRlink, and virtual). It features backup and restore, sending and receiving variables, ROM dumping, screen captures, grouping and ungrouping of TI files, and runs on UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS.
Tritium 1.0
Tritium is a skin designed for Noatun, but it works well on XMMS's K-Jofol plugin, or K-Jofol 2000b2 (at least under WINE). There is a a little bug where when you mess with the volume control, the clock is momentarily screwed up.
VDRadmin 0.22
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
VideoDB 2003-01-19
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
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