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[osdn business] January 30, 2003
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 03:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison Redux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0355243
Macmurph writes "[0]Bibble Labs has [1]released a lightning fast version of the RAW image convertor, MacBibble. According to MacBibble creator, Eric Hyman, "MacBibble 3.x is almost 10 times faster than the manufacturers software when converting RAW files under OSX.". Prelimenary tests indicate the Mac may be faster than PCs in RAW image conversion afterall. This calls into question the relevance of the the hotly debated article [2]Rob Galbraith posted just 3 weeks ago and [3]discussed here on Slashdot. Two thumbs up for the PowerPC G4's AltiVec vector processing engine, now being put to work in MacBibble." Links
0.
http://www.bibblelabs.com/
1.
http://www.bibblelabs.com/bibble/macnews.thtml
2.
http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2003-01/2003_01_07_macpc.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2320219&tid=152
Don't Eat The White Snow Either
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2352230
loteck writes "An interesting article about an Australian ski resort that is [0] converting human waste into freshly driven snow. The waste is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste." Links
0. http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Apr_02/story_1349.html
Biotech Genome Patents Invalidated?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0019214
[0]bruthasj writes "The [1]Boston Globe has a piece about all the Biotechs grabbing patents that dealt with segments of the Human Genome. It appears there are work arounds and that the USPTO basically disregards further patents on the genome. As one quoted: ''The land grab is over''. Read about it [2]here." Links
0.
http://{bruthasj} {at} {yahoo.com}
1.
http://www.boston.com/
2.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/029/business/Putting_patents_in_their_place+.shtml
Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2357231
Bob Vila's Hammer writes "An Australian engineer, Alan Burns invented a
very efficient [0]underwater steam powered jet engine. "Steam that is
produced from a petrol or gasoline fueled boiler emerges at high speed
from a rearward-facing ring-shaped nozzle into a cone-shaped chamber.
Shock waves created as the steam condenses are focused by the chamber
to blast water out of the back. Besides powering watercraft pretty
efficiently, it can also be used as an extremely robust pump. Pretty
Cool."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993321
Sen. Feingold Reintroduces Radio Competition Bill http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/004221
[0]jonerik writes "[1]Billboard [2]is reporting that [3]Sen. Russ
Feingold (D-Wisc.) has reintroduced his [4]Competition in Radio and
Concert Industries Act, which is aimed at limiting the concentration of
radio stations and concert promoters in the hands of a few large
companies, such as [5]Clear Channel. In addition, the bill would close
loopholes in payola laws which currently permit 'pay-for-play' deals
between record companies and radio stations 'unless an appropriate
sponsorship identification announcement is made.' The bill's
introduction comes as [6]the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation prepares to hold [7]a hearing Thursday on the problems
of radio consolidation, and the committee's chairman, [8]Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), is expected to sign on soon as the bill's
co-sponsor."
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.billboard.com/
2.
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1805823
3.
http://feingold.senate.gov/
4.
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/03/01/2003128910.html
5.
http://www.clearchannel.com/
6.
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/
7.
http://commerce.senate.gov/~commerce/press/03/2003124A29.html
8.
http://mccain.senate.gov/
George Lucas Consolidates his Empire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0024255
[0]Shadowcat writes "George Lucas is consolidating his galaxy, merging
LucasArts, Lucas Digital (ILM & Skywalker Sound), Lucas Licensing, and
Lucasfilm into one mega-corporation to provide a single place to create
all sorts of media. You can find the [1]article on [2]SF Chronicle
Site."
Links
0. mailto:kageneko@earthlink.net
1.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/29/BU13556.DTL
2.
http://sfgate.com
Rambus Wins Case Against Infineon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2217254
[0]rednoise writes "[1]Yahoo is running a story about how a Federal
Circuit Court in California (I think) has (unbelievably) ruled that
RAMBUS did NOT intentionally mislead members of JEDEC when the
committee was developing the SDRAM specification. RAMBUS' stock
skyrocketed something like 57% on the news. This is very bad news for
owners of computers."
Links
0. mailto:iam@chrisgaray.com
- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20030129/tc_nm/tech_rambus_dc
Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2143217
Roblimo has a story over at NewsForge about [0]DevIS, a software
company that [1]relies on Free and open source software to not just
weather but actually do well in the current software economy. Part of
the reason may be that the company doesn't preach software philosophy;
they just find that combining well-tested (and mostly GPL'd) software
tools is the path of least resistance when it comes to building
Internet applications. Most of their work is for the Federal
government; always nice to see public dollars supporting public
software. Can anyone point out other good examples of similar
businesses?
Links
MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1934211
protonman writes "A hefty flame war has broken loose on the [0]debian-devel mailinglist about (amongst other things) the legality of mplayer. The interesting part in this conflict is that unlike in previous alledged GPL violations, the culprit is not the unwillingness to provide the source, but the prohibition of the distribution of binaries, thereby violating section 6 of the GPL: 'You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.' Read also the blurb on [1]the MPlayer homepage." Links
0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
P2P Content Delivery for Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1823218
Orasis writes "The [0]Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver open source, public domain, and [1]Creative Commons-licensed content using [2]peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened/[3]slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site can easily [4]join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site." Links
0.
http://open-content.net/
1.
http://creativecommons.org/
2.
http://open-content.net/specs/
3.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214064,00.html
4.
http://open-content.net/publish.html
Newsforge Reports
I'll tell you where you can put those patents (to good use)
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1956211
- by Tina Gasperson - In these tough economic times, it pays to keep a finger in the air in case wind of a great new money-making idea comes along. Thanks, SBC! No more missed mortgage payments for me!
Making a Living Saving the Government Money http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1829254
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Peter Gallagher is president of devIS (AKA Development Infostructure), a Virginia-based company that designs, develops, hosts, and operates large-scale custom Internet applications for government agencies and private consultants. He says devIS saves its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using Open Source Software. Gallagher also claims none of the Web sites or Web applications devIS has produced have ...
Red Hat 'End of Life' Decision Explained by Red Hat http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2149203
- By Jeremy Hogan, Red Hat About a month ago Red Hat announced in our "Under the Brim" newsletter that we were changing the lifecycle of our Red Hat Linux product line. This product was originally designed to meet the needs of many types of users, including large enterprises, corporations, and individuals. As open source has advanced, it's become clear that this one size fits all productization of open source technologes no longer addresses ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Norwich Union plans IT savings
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1213208
Dave B writes "When rationalising IT systems after a merger deal the staff at Norwich Union increased their use of thin clients to reduce their exposure to MS's new licensing charges. Readers anticipating a sudden shift to Linux from MS Windows should appreciate that it isn't always possible however desireable to the accounts dept it may seem at first glance."
IBM: Linux will replace AIX
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1041235
The day is approaching when Linux is likely to replace IBM's version of Unix, the company's top software executive said, an indication that the upstart operating system's stature is rising within Big Blue.
Linux gets high-end server boost
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1039246
Linux took a step forward in high-end servers with the recent adoption of software that should help IBM, NEC, SGI and others use the open-source operating system better in multiprocessor servers.
Ximian Desktop 2.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/1035244
Anonymous Reader writes "A preview of Ximian Desktop 2.0 reveals a friendly, sophisticated place to work, and it also shows how companies can help bridge the gap between developers and the wish lists of non-developer users."
Free DemoForge licenses to open source developers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0317226
Eugene Sukhodolin writes "DemoForge offers free licenses to its DemoForge Studio, an ultimate tool for creating software demos, to open source developers. DemoForge clips are realistic software demos that simulate your software products and show the users your software application without the need of downloading, full mouse and screen activity duplicated. Pop-up text messages can be inserted to any place in the demo clip, telling the users ...
Buy a piece of net nostalgia for $5,000
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2215229
If you've got $5,000 to spare, you could buy a piece of Net nostalgia in the form of the OpenProjects .net, .com and .org domains. Owner, founder of the OpenProjects Network (OPN) and professional online beggar Rob Levin, has decided to put them up for sale on eBay (all the sites in question point to the auction entry).
Peeking under the hood of SnapGear's uClinux-power http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051253
Anonymous Reader writes "LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin takes a look at SnapGear's award-winning uClinux-based VPN appliances from the perspective of a developer's ability to customize them -- and in the process, becomes a uClinux convert . . ."
Vector Linux 2.5 SOHO Edition Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051238
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org has published a review of Vector Linux 2.5: It has been some time since I updated my Vector Linux distribution, but due to a recent move, it seemed that the time was ripe. Previously having used/reviewed VL products, as well as working together with the VL team on a specialized version of the distribution, I was certainly eager to try out the latest fruits of their efforts."
Enabling the Whuffie Economy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2051222
Anonymous Reader writes "In Enabling the Whuffie Economy, Howard Rhiengold writes about Affero's reputation software, "Affero is a new wrinkle, one that holds some promise...If Affero or something like it can spread beyond the open source technical support community, that elusive but all important quality Cory Doctorow calls 'whuffie', could expand and circulate through social cyberspaces." See Rhiengold's blog for the full text."
25 Best Linux Games
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2050245
The Linux Game Tome has announced the winners of the Happypenguin Awards. Games, toys and libraries in 25 different categories were nominated and voted upon by the Linux gaming community. Take a look at the best Linux gaming has to offer.
Freshmeat
Allegro 4.1.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111064/
Allegro is a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions, compressed datafile, and a GUI.
ASCII animation interpreter 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111096/
ASCII animation interpreter is a small scripting language for animating ASCII-art.
BitTorrent++ 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111015/
BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32 as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.
Blassic 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111145/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.
Botan 1.1.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111140/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3.
Calculating Pi 2003-01-29 (Ramanujan)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111116/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi through various methods.
cdrtools 2.01a02 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111117/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Chaperon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111013/
Chaperon is a LALR parser, which parses structured text documents and generates XML documents as output. It includes a parser generator like yacc and a regex scanner like lex. As input, it uses Chaperon, a grammar written in XML. The project includes a Ant task and transformer components for the Apache Cocoon project.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111079/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of encryption.
DAME 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111101/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) lets you create C++ classes from SQL statements. Database access libraries are available for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
darklight fluxbox 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111069/
darklight is a good, dark theme.
Dnsmasq 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111122/
Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections.
dvb-mpegtools 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111109/
dvb-mpegtools provides various small programs helpful for converting, demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. The package used to be included with the DVB driver.
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111148/
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and with all common Eiffel compilers.
eL DAPo 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111105/
eL DAPo is a PHP-based application for managing and querying LDAP servers. It can rename, modify, and delete LDAP entries, as well as modify, add, and delete attributes associated with an entry. Search filters can be changed while a session is open, so users only have to bind with the LDAP server once. eL DAPo also includes a configuration file to make it fit well to your current schema.
Examplotron 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111104/
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:
"<foo/>".
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111111/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111137/
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 is a greeter theme for Gentoo with an
"industrial" touch.
GKrellM 2.1.7 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111114/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs, disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
GKsu 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111150/
GKsu is a GTK+ frontend to the su and sudo programs. It supports login shells and preserving environment variables, and is useful for launching graphical programs that need to run as another user. When operating as a sudo replacement, it respects /etc/sudoers definitions.
Gnarwl 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111138/
Gnarwl is an email autoreply tool like vacation(1). However, instead of requiring system accounts for every email address, it looks up its user information in an LDAP database. With gnarwl, users are no longer required to mess around with .forward files in order to use an email autoresponder.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111106/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GWorkspace 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111134/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
hdup 1.5.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111110/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
Highlight 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111146/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports ADA 95, Assembler, Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, Java, Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, (Object) Pascal, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and Visual Basic files. It's possible to easily enhance Highlight's parsing database.
imgSeek 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111089/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also create slideshows, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Javasynth 0.5-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111099/
Javasynth is a Java-based system for creating (rather experimental) modular audio systems called sound modules. This allows synthesizers of some kind to be assembled in a modular fashion using oscillators, amplifiers, envelopes, filters, and other components familiar to those that have worked with hardware synthesizers. It includes a separated synth engine and a Swing user interface for building sound modules.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.1a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111142/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits (experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables rules.
jMoney@Home 0.52pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111107/
jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and has multiuser support.
KmusicdB 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111149/
KmusicdB is a music information manager for KDE, using PostgreSQL as a backend. You can add your music collection to the database, and view it in a convenient browser. It currently supports the ability to add and edit artists, add and edit titles (with album pictures), and a track editor. The ability to generate reports and statistics, and also to search the database is implemented, as well as creating and opening, backing up and restoring databases. It is highly customizable, and fast. CDDB functionality has also been implemented.
KricketScoreboard 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111128/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.
libnova 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111131/
Libnova is the astronomical calculation engine used in the Nova project. It can currently calculate:- Aberration, Nutation, Apparent Position, Dynamical Time, Julian Day, Precession, Proper Motion, Sidereal Time, Solar Coordinates, Coordinate Transformations, and Planetary Positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87).
LinCompta Pro 0.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111048/
LinCompta Pro is a French professional analytical accounting program. It was developed with GTK 1.2, GNOME, and MySQL.
Linux Progress Patch 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111115/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing boot messages.
Linux Progress Patch 2.4.20-LPP (Untested) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111108/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing boot messages.
mailsync 4.5 (*)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111100/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
mod_spam_die 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111102/
mod_spam_die confuses spam crawlers by giving them infinite fake email addresses. It is inspired by DIE.net and spam-conference.
Mrwtoppm 0.0.a8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111132/
Mrwtoppm provides a command line utility and a Gimp plugin for processing RAW image files from Minolta's DiMAGE 5 and 7 series digital cameras. The programs decode Minolta's RAW format, perform Bayer pattern interpolation, and color space conversion. The programs also perform tone control and sharpening in CIELab color space. Utilities for displaying much of the additional data stored in the RAW file are also included.
netspeed_applet for gnome 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111112/
netspeed_applet is a little GNOME applet that shows the traffic on a specified network device (for example eth0) in kbytes/s.
nfstimesync 1.0.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111119/
nfstimesync is a tool for synchronizing the time of an NFS server and
client without root rights. It was developed to allow the
"make" program work correctly with NFS. It was tested on
Linux, but should be easily portable to any Unix with LD_PRELOAD
enabled.
openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.20-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111129/
openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware. openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI, Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.
OpenSched 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111103/
OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project. For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc.
palito 2003-01-29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111125/
palito is a real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation.
PHPwebmail 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111133/
PHPwebmail is a Web-based IMAP and SMTP mail client. Often it is not possible to make outside mail connections from networks behind strict firewalls, or to configure a regular mail client (for example in an Internet cafe). With PHPwebmail a mail client only needs a WWW connection to the mailserver. Specifically it only needs a connection to the webserver hosting PHPwebmail. Most of the times the Web and mail server will be the same machine but PHPwebmail can connect to other mailservers as well as long as an IMAP connection between these two machines is allowed.
PixiePlus 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111055/
PixiePlus is a free, fast, and feature packed image browser, viewer, and manager for Unix/Linux systems. It features fast and flexible thumbnail preview generation, embedded JPEG and TIFF thumbnail support, support for over 80 image formats, highly configurable HTML export, batch conversion and effects, animated slideshows, similiar image finding, and file management.
PJIRC 1.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111147/
PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel, privates, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's still quite light.
S tar 1.5a11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111118/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Scoutplans 4.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111080/
Scoutplans was originally developed as a method for Scout units to
share calendars with each other. It has evolved into a general-purpose
calendar (called "Plans") with many useful features. These
include recurring events, support for multiple organizations, merged
calendars, event icons, "skinnable" stylesheet-based look
& feel, MS outlook export, online help, and more.
SDBA Revolution 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111126/
SDBA Revolution is an open-source server written in Perl which provides
an architecture to simplify and streamline the process of writing
applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy
scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent
across messages, session time limits, support for multiple
"apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use
multiple access lists of password files. It makes writing IM apps very
much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. The homepage has full
tutorials and documentation.
SDL.NET 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111092/
SDL.NET is a set of language bindings for SDL and SDL_mixer written in C#, which allows easy development of games using Microsoft's .NET framework. It should work on any .NET-capable machine.
SimpleData 3.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111141/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory, invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
Smilehouse Workspace 0.9.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111135/
Smilehouse Workspace is a Java servlet based application meant to ease product, order, and customer management. It currently runs and is tested and developed on Tomcat. It has two Web-based interfaces. The first is a themed interface visible to the public, and the second is a separate administration interface that allows the management of users, content, and the visual appearance for the public service. This makes completely browser-based creation and management of a service such as an e-business site and related CRM possible.
Steel Icons 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111091/
Steel Icons is an icon set for KDE comprised of Steel/Silver icons with shadows. It is based on the "Digital Reality" icons (mostly the same, but with shadows and not green).
sysstat 4.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111040/
The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
vncrypt 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111113/
This is cryptographic disk driver for FreeBSD. It provides transparent encryption and decryption of selected devices. It is based on vn(4).
white_dune 0.20beta183 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111130/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
WidgetWeb 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111124/
WidgetWeb is a framework for creating community-shared Web sites similar to wikis. These are Web sites where content and page composition can be edited via a Web browser. A powerful permission model is provided to restrict which community members are allowed to edit. WidgetWeb is built on a simple premise: components comprise a web page and components can be nested to create more complicated effects. This provides for easy browser-based editing.
WireFusion 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110986/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web. Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3 player.
xmmsC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111136/
xmmsC is a small program suite for irssi which reads what XMMS is currently is playing and prints out this information to an IRC channel. The song's title is read from its ID3 tag. If there is no ID3 tag, the XMMS playlist entry is used instead.
XPix 0.1pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111058/
XPix is a command-line images viewer that is designed for situations where images must be viewed quickly and the functionality of a fullblown image viewer and manager is not required. It uses ImageMagick and Xlib to display images, experimentally displays animated GIFs, and does not use a "panner" widget. It also supports MIT-SHM and the NET- WM desktop spec for properly calculating the desktop size, avoiding the excessive resizing and scaling problems in other Xlib image viewers.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/
Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/
Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/
Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/
Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/
Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/
Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ce5/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/
Interests: QuickKill
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/5c45/
Caffeine: XTZ Energy Truffles
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5c54/
Interests: Megatokyo Graphic Novel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5c2a/
Gadgets: SureFire Z2 Combat Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5c40/
Computing: DVD X Copy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c7f/
Gadgets: Snap Digital Mini Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5c79/
Gadgets: LED Mini Headlamp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5c7d/
Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/2982/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
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