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Mephie writes "MSNBC is running a story on an attorney who is [0]suing
ebay over negative feedback a seller left about him. It sounds like a
classic case of buyer leaves negative feedback for seller; seller
responds accordingly. The plaintiff claims he'd not be filing the suit
if he didn't feel ebay's policy needs revision, stating 'They can
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DDoS for Fun and Profit
First there's the Microsoft worm, [0]reported earlier, which in
addition to all the other [1]damage has apparently knocked Microsoft's
Windows XP activation servers (and [2]Bank of America ATMs) off the
net. Then we've got a report about the [3]ongoing demise of DALnet,
perhaps not the way [4]we expected it to go. And Canada discovers a
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Newsforge Reports
Linux is a natural for India
Linux Advisory Watch - January 24th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1030256
Newsforge Newsvac
Christopher Lozinski writes "The Linux Job Market is an easy-to-use online database of Linux resumes, jobs and interviews. It is free to post your resume. It is free to look at resumes."
Knee-Jerk Reactions in A Penguin World
Timothy R. Butler writes "In our on-going GNU/Linux review series, we have received much criticism from loyal users of the various distributions we have covered." DoD offering admin privileges on .mil Web sites http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1727242 Care to register a .mil Web site of your own for free? The DoD has gone out of its way to make it a snap. An unbelievably badly-protected admin interface welcomes you to register whatever domain you please (http://Rotten.mil anyone?), or edit anything they've already got....
JWZ Reviews Video on Linux
Slashdot discussion: An anonymous reader writes "The inimitable JWZ goes once again forth and reviews the state of video on Linux. Expect no mercy."
Fujitsu, Intel to Work on Linux Servers
TOKYO (AP)--Fujitsu Ltd. and Intel Corp. have agreed to jointly develop high-end computer servers using the open-source Linux operating system. The net's under attack (through MS SQL servers) http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1616238 Peter Kis writes "As LinuxGear.info (and others: 1, 2, 3 etc.) write, there's a worm obviously affecting MS SQL Servers and using them for random DoS attacks (via UDP flooding though port 1434, ms-sql-m) waging war on the net. The forum entry on forums.military.com mentioned above says 5 root servers are down, other users report that in the Los Angeles Area 95% of the web are gone. This seems to be one of the biggest attack on the web ever."
Bill Gates Promises Better Security
(AP) Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is pledging to continue improvements to security in his company's products, part of a high-stakes campaign to convince large customers that Windows software is safe. Hacker Steals Personal Data on Foreign Students http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1612223 BrianWCarver writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article describing an incident in which "a hacker broke into the computers in the international-students office of the University of Kansas last week and stole personal information on more than 1,400 foreign students. The university had collected the data for the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or Sevis, a database that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ... Free Seminar 1/28: The Role of Product Marketing in Open Source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1611205 OSEP writes "This free seminar will take a look at how product marketing can help open source software overcome barriers to entry into the corporate environment. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion among product marketing and open source professionals."
Debian Project Leader shares views
Anonymous Reader writes "DesktopLinux.com caught up with Debian Project Leader Bdale Garbee to get his views on what makes Debian a leader."
Freshmeat
AutoPKG lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Binc IMAP 1.0.17-1
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
Bytes Counter 1.0pre9
Bytes Counter displays detailed information about the number of bytes that have been transferred over a network interface.
CBoard 0.1.4
CBoard is a console frontend to GNU Chess, using the ncurses library for the interface. It can edit PGN tags, annotate moves with NAG, and more.
Childsplay 0.65 (Game modules)
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like then gcompris.
Cow Outputs Waves 0.1.1
Cow is something like a waveform editor in that it generates a wave file from one or more graphs for amplitude and frequency. A graphical user interface simplifies this process.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 2003012500 (Beta)
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
dbacl 1.3.1
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
DCP-Portal 5.0.2 (Final)
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
dmx4linux 2.4
Dmx4linux is a driver package for accessing DMX interfaces with Linux. DMX is a protocol for controlling devices supporting DMX512 like dimmers, moving lights, or scanners. Many commercial and free interfaces are supported. The package includes some simple console and X applications to test the drivers and your hardware immediately.
DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.60.1
DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats, including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX man pages, and TeXinfo.
Dr. Genius 0.8.2
Dr. Genius is the GNOME Geometry Exploration and Numeric Intuitive User System, an Euclidian geometry application where geometry figures are interactively manipulated. It is Guile aware to allow user scriptability of the geometric figures.
Examplotron 0.5
Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element "foo" here, you just write the element: "&lt;foo/&gt;".
gimp-print 4.2.5 (Stable)
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
Hardware lister T.00.01
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
ImageBackup 1.5
ImageBackup is a fully automatic incremental backup system for digital pictures. It will create backup CDs, one at a time, until all images have been backed up. You than then run the program regularly and it will keep gathering images until another disc is full. Once a disc is full, it can use AutoScrapbook to create Web-based index files, automatically generate an ISO image, and reset the staging area. Once an image has been stored in a backup ISO image, it will not be backed up again. Any new images, regardless of where they are mixed into your directory structure, will be added to backups when necessary.
Kemistry 0.7
Kemistry is a collection of chemistry applications written for the K Desktop Environment. Most of the applications are simply ports to KDE of existing X11 applications.
KZap 0.2
KZap is an addictive puzzle game based on Zoop. The object is to clear the blocks that quickly advance towards the center grid. LABE 3.2-3
LABE, the LDAP Address Book Editor, is a Web application created to administrate a centralized LDAP directory. It's compatible with Mozilla, Evolution, and Outlook.
Leafwa 0.7.0a1-ap
Leafwa is a simple Web-based administration package for the Leafnode NNTP server, written in PHP. It is a revival of the original Leafwa scripts by Phil Hunt, and aims to add features and improve security.
libchipcard 0.7.3 (Stable)
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.
linuxTheTools 0.2.1
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day management and system navigation. It is a companion package to slakbootIBS.
LiVES 0.4.0
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is currently usable for small video files.
Makecheque 0.1 (Stable)
Makecheque is a tool (written in Ruby) to print bank cheques, either using bank-supplied stationey, or blank check paper (in conjuntion with a MICR font and perhaps special laser toner). It is intended to be used as part of an interactive bookkeeping system. Makecheque quickly and easily prints large batches of checks based on textual format specifications given as standard input and emits ready-for-printer Postscript on standard output.
mICQ 0.4.10.1
mICQ (Matt's ICQ Clone) is a portable, small, yet powerful console-based ICQ client. It supports password changing, auto-away, creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a very complete yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages from the ICQ network, list users that are offline and online (including their online status), search for users by email address, and look up basic (name, UIN, email) information.
mod_msff 0.99 (Apache 2.0)
mod_msff returns an informative message and a 403 status to Microsoft IE on Fridays. It is an easy way to participate in the prank invented by Dave Winer.
Net::Server::Mail 0.04
Net::Server::Mail is a versatile and extensible implementation of the SMTP protocol and its different evolutions like ESMTP and LMTP. The event-driven, object-oriented API makes it easy to incorporate the SMTP protocol to your programs.
Netcat 6 0.4
Netcat 6 is a netcat clone with IPv6 support. It is designed to be tiny, extensible, and elegant, and it makes use of the new extended BSD socket APIs.
PasTmon 0.2-3 (Beta)
PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times, throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the plots.
PennMUSH 1.7.7p6 (Development)
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
Perl webmail 3.0.2
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
pimentech-dbutils 1.0.23 (Stable)
pimentech-dbutils provides a set of tools for designing a database in XML, computing the SQL database generation code and the diagram (in dot), and doing other useful tasks.
poBot 1.1
poBot is an IRC Bot. It is written in object oriented design and is modular. All of the real features of poBot are provided by the modules.
prometeo 1.0
Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It supports HTTP, FTP (with SSL support), and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface. RAT 0.5.0
Refractor2 Archive Tool is a multi-platform tool for extracting Refractor2 archives (rfa). Razor! Gaming Engine 0.8.8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110639/ Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites, three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly code. Retro Native Forth 5, Development Release 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110670/ RetroForth is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system for computers using 80386 and higher CPUs. It provides a small, functional core and several tools to aid in programming.
SlakbootIBS 8.1.3
SlakbootIBS is a replacement set of run command scripts and utilities for starting and dynamically configuring Slackware Linux installations. It facilitates server configuration at facilities with multiple Linux servers deployed, and suits many different uses.
SQLite 2.7.6
SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable SQL database engine that supports most of SQL92, including transactions with atomic commit and rollback, subqueries, compound queries, triggers, and views. A complete database is stored in a single cross-platform disk file. The native C/C++ API is simple and easy to use. Bindings for other languages are also available.
StepTalk 0.7.0pre1
StepTalk is scripting framework which can be used to create scriptable servers or applications. It is written using Objective C and is language independent; you can use it with any available scripting language that is provided as a separate bundle.
Tapestry 2.4-alpha-2
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application.
The Fish 0.2.5
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
uClibc 0.9.17
uClibc (µClibc) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller then the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and MMU-less Linux (also known as µClinux) systems with support for ARM, i386, h8300, m68k, MIPS, mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
UltimateIRCd 2.8.4 (Stable)
UltimateIRCd is an advanced IRCd hybrid aiming to improve the IRC experience for both users and admins alike. It has extended channel access levels (channel administrators and half operators), and user hiddenhosts. UltimateIRCd 3.0.0.alpha28 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110653/ UltimateIRCd is an advanced IRCd hybrid aiming to improve the IRC experience for both users and admins alike. It has extended channel access levels (channel administrators and half operators), and user hiddenhosts.
uMail 0.0.1
uMail is a very simple message box for local systems.
VideoDB 2003-01-25
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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Interests: Megatokyo Graphic Novel
Gadgets: SureFire Z2 Combat Light
Computing: DVD X Copy
Gadgets: Snap Digital Mini Camera
Gadgets: LED Mini Headlamp
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
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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
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