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[osdn business] February 18, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Uni Students Slammed For Music Swapping
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/036207
[0]jomaree writes "The SMH Online reports that Sony, EMI and Universal
will be in the Federal Court today, in an attempt [1]to stop students
using uni computers to swap music files. Michael Speck, the director of
Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is quoted as follows: 'And we're
not talking about one track here, one track there,' he said. 'We're
talking piracy, significant examples of piracy.' By contrast, Sydney
Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website,
which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track
there."
Links
0. mailto:jomareewade@yahoo.co.uk
Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/0210203
[0]Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker [1]bypassed the
security system of a company that processes credit card transactions
and gained access to approximately 2.2 million Visa and MasterCard
credit cards. Fortunately, none of them seem to have been used
fraudulently."
Links
uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/0130203
An anonymous reader writes "The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of
the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid
individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no
Web presence or email. I saw this on nvnews.net, which originally came
from the register, but since the domain is wiped out, you can no longer
reach the article." Actually, [0]you can read the story fine on
theregister.co.uk. ;)
Links
0. http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29359.html
Kasparov OpEd On His Latest Match
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/008256
molrak writes "[0]Garry Kasparov has [1]written his thoughts and
observations on the difference between [2]his recent battle with Deep
Junior as opposed to his battle against [3]Deep Blue, including some of
the fundamental differences between the two programs. If you missed out
on the event, you can [4]catch up with it at the [5]site of the event's
sponsor, including both 2d and 3d viewing options. (Note, viewing
options require both site registration with x3dworld and proprietary
Microsoft software.)"
Links
0.
http://www.kasparovchess.ru/
1.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003081
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1731219&tid=127
3.
http://www.chess.ibm.com/
4.
http://www.x3dworld.com/Entertainment/CI_X3DEvnt_MvM_Big_Frameset.html
5.
http://www.x3dworld.com/Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/2140247
Masem writes "A rather interesting debate has been happening in Kansas
recently that has been mirrored across the country, in that the baby
Bells have been trying to urge state governments to remove the
restrictions for them to offer their lines to outside parties; in
exchange, the Bells have been promising to develop a strong broadband
network in the state. (See, for example, [0]this and [1]this story on
DSL Reports for efforts in Missouri and South Carolina.) However, the
legislative commission in the Kansas House of Representatives that
oversees the telecomm industry has [2]voted against such deregulation,
citing concerns on monopolies and competition, despite heavy lobbying
by SBC in favor of the bill. SBC has stated that they will now put
their broadband deployment plans in Kansas on hold, but look towards
the outcome of similar discussions on the same bill on the Senate side
of the Kansas Congress."
Links
0.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/25684
1.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/25965
2.
http://cjonline.com/stories/021403/bre_broadband.shtml
The Reality of Online Reputation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/2113217
Nicholas Carroll (of [0] Why Unicode Won't Work On The Internet fame)
has written a piece for [1]Mindjack entitled "[2]Spinning The Web: The
Realities of Online Reputation Management". Trust me - the actual
subject matter is a lot more interesting then the title *grin*. The
essay is aimed toward companies online, but is applicable to
individuals as well.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/20/1431230&tid=95
1.
http://www.mindjack.com
2.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/spin.html
Two New Handhelds From Sony
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/215256
[0]MeatWad writes "Sony has announced the [1]SJ33 Palm OS 4 model with
a high res color screen and mp3 player for $299. At the same time the
FCC has leaked info on the next Palm OS 5 Clie with bluetooth and an
integrated keyboard called the [2]TG50. Sony can sure crank out the
cool gadgets."
Links
0. mailto:meatbeatmanifesto@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5020
2.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5021
Computers Will Be Built By Living Cells
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1937205
[0]axxackall contributes a link to [1]Richard Black's report on BBC
suggesting that "Computers of the future will be built not by factory
machines, but by living cells such as bacteria. Scientists 'have
described how wires can now be made by yeast organisms, and how solar
panels could be built using substances produced by sea sponges.
Researchers believe these kind of technologies will be essential if we
are to continue to shrink the size of electronic devices.' But
'Computers made with these natural processes are not just around the
corner -- it will be many years before the technologies can be
developed that far.' While scientists think about small sizes and
environmental benefits, I also think if it would be possible to implant
such bacteria for additional computational power in human brains --
just in case we have to upgrade them." Update: 02/17 20:23 GMT by [2]T:
I chopped out that link accidentally, sorry.
Links
0. mailto:axxackall@yahoo.com
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2765077.stm
2.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
CEE2003: A One-Vendor Trade Show
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1851240
[0]Billy Stephens writes "Few people knew about the CEE2003 event put
on by Chaintech this year. They flew some of the top media analysts and
resellers out to Spain to show off their new K8 motherboards and Nvidia
Geforce FX based video cards. Unfortunately there was a lot of bad news
to be had as well. AMD pushed back their Athlon 64 CPU until September
so there were no motherboards based on it to show off, and Nvidia
announced they would only release around 4,000 of their Geforce FX
GPUs, primarily for preorders only. It looks like ATI has rattled
Nvidia more than what people thought. Monkey Review has a great
[1]summary of this event with plenty of pictures. Overall I am
impressed with the quality Chaintech has put into their products from
an aesthetic point of view, it's a shame that both Nvidia and AMD are
having product issues."
Links
Palladium's Power To Deny
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1740211
[0]BrianWCarver writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has the most
[1]detailed article I've yet seen on Microsoft's Palladium
architecture. The article discusses the potential Palladium has to give
publishers power to eliminate fair use and the potential for software
manufacturers to use Palladium to enforce shrink-wrap licenses.
Comments from several great sources including, Ed Felten ([2]Freedom to
Tinker), Eben Moglen (pro-bono counsel for the [3]Free Software
Foundation and recent [4]Slashdot interviewee), and Seth Schoen
([5]Electronic Frontier Foundation) among many others. Key quotations
from article: Palladium could create 'a closed system, in which each
piece of knowledge in the world is identified with a particular owner,
and that owner has a right to resist its copying, modification, and
redistribution. In such a scenario the very concept of fair use has
been lost.' 'Palladium will "turn the clock back" to the days before
online information was widely available.' and 'Microsoft could decide
to lock everything up.'"
Links
0.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bwcarver/home
1.
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i24/24a02701.htm
2.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
3.
http://www.fsf.org/
4.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/0550205&tid=123
5.
http://www.eff.org/
Newsforge Reports
A Review of SuSE Linux Office Desktop
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1411244
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I was going to write a review of the new (and pricey - at $129.00) SuSE Linux Office Desktop, but Adam Doxtater of MadPenguin sent us his review (with permission to republish) before I had mine finished, and since he said almost exactly what I was going to say, we're running his review (below) instead of the one I was in the process of writing. Thanks, Adam.
Film Gimp Continues Hollywood Takeover
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1355224
- By Robin.Rowe - Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films. Film Gimp, a sophisticated image retouching program designed to manipulate high dynamic range 35mm film images, is a collaborative open source project that branched from GIMP in 1998. After years behind the scenes in Hollywood, Film Gimp had its public launch on SourceForge on July 4, 2002.
Commentary: The Greatest Flaw In Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/1342225
- By Patrick 'LinuxAddict' Pauwels - The largest flaw with Linux is not in its ease of use or installation. There's no crisis with lack of software. The hardware support is solid. Actually, I feel Linux is very much ready for the masses. The greatest flaw with Linux is that nobody knows what it is.
Newsforge Newsvac
ICEM to Offer Linux Version of ICEM Surf
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/218230
ICEM Ltd. announced that its ICEM Surf 3D surface modeling and evaluation software suite is to be made available for the Linux open source operating system. All of the ICEM Surf core software modules and ICEM-developed software options will be offered on Linux.
Northwest Software Expo Highlights Open Source Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1913222
LinuxFest Northwest, a regional exposition for computer users interested in the Linux operating system and other Open Source software, will be held on April 26 at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) in Bellingham, Washington. This event is being organized by Linux User Groups from Bellingham, Kitsap Peninsula, Seattle, and Tacoma, and hosted by BTC.
New day for Linux on the desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1846208
It started off as a conference about the Linux desktop. In the end, it may be considered the event that accomplished its goal in spite of itself.
Linux Advisory Watch - February 14th 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1836247
This week, advisories were released for w3m, wml-net, hypermail, postgresql, lynx, python, pam_xauth, fileutils, and mozilla. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat.
What the Linux World Needs Now
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1829214
When I first got in touch with the Linux world - it was back in 1998 -, I started with an old Slackware distribution. Of course I cannot say it was a wise choice for a beginner, and I soon moved to Red Hat, and then tried various SuSE, Mandrake and Debian flavours; now I am using this good Slackware 8.1. Everyone can see the Linux world has been making giant steps towards usability during the last five years. Applications have dramatically ...
Australia at Linux leading edge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1824232
THE Australian Government is a "leader" in guiding public sector Linux implementations, the head of IBM's global public sector Linux program says. Mary Ann Fisher is speaking at an open source seminar for government CIOs in Canberra tomorrow, which is being organised by the National Office for the Information Economy and will also feature speakers from Microsoft, Gartner and the Australian Unix Users Group.
Oracle and Red Hat work on securing Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1821201
Oracle is working with Red Hat to gain an internationally recognised Linux security certification, hoping to woo security conscious public sector customers.
Software Learns Language Using Visual Perception http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1811200
Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.
Open Source & Taxes in Geneva
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/184202
miladus writes "The Tax Office of the canton de Genève is apparently distributing Mozilla and OpenOffice (in French & Linux, for Linux & Windows) along with its GEtax 2002."
Opera unleashes Linux preview of version 7 browser http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1645237
On Friday Opera announced the first Linux preview edition of Opera 7, the company's next-generation browser, which recently shipped for Windows. The company stresses that the Linux version's a preview, so there are rough edges, but it means that we're moving, and Linux users can more or less keep pace with what Opera's up to on the Windows platform.
Freshmeat
ADODB 3.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113344/
ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and blob/clob support.
AlberT-EasySite 1.0.0-a5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113374/
AlberT-EasySite is a PHP-based site generation system that pays particular attention to graphics and to the complete separation of PHP and HTML code. It is a plugin based system. Template "objects" are handled by a plugin, making it very easy to add your own custom objects. Multiple themes and users support are included, as are the predefined HTML objects include, repeat, title, table, subDomain, counter, etc. It embeds AlberT-cache to speed up performance.
Aorta 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113359/
Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc.
ARSC Really Simple Chat 2.1p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113308/
ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL. It works with every browser in existence, even text-based ones, and it uses the server push technique or, if possible, its own socket server. It is very simple to install and use ARSC. It includes some important features, such as operators, kick-ing, whispering, and more. Multiple rooms and different languages are available. To run ARSC on your site, you need a Web server that understands PHP, and can connect to a MySQL database.
asp2php 0.76.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113329/
asp2php converts WWW Active Server Pages (ASP) files that run on the Microsoft IIS Web Server into PHP pages to run on Apache.
Astaro Security Linux 4.000 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113334/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
at76c503 linux driver 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113373/
at76c503 is a Linux driver for the wlan USB adapter based on the Atmel at76c503 chip. It currently supports ad-hoc mode only. It supports adapters from Atmel, the Belkin F5D6050, Netgear MA101B, and others.
Axualize 1.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113337/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please.
babysee 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113290/
babysee is a powerful image utility. It's not only an image viewer, but also an image convertor and image editor. Its plugin mechnism ensures the program's extensibility. It also has internationalization support, and can be easily translated into other languages.
BASHISH 1.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113307/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector 6.2alpha3 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113317/
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It is also used by a number of programming language implementations that use C as intermediate code. Alternatively, it may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs. A slightly older version of the garbage collector is also included as part of the GNU compiler (gcc) distribution.
BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113382/
BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book.
Burn.app 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113347/
Burn.app (formerly GSBurn.app) is a GNUstep-based CD burning program. It serves as a frontend for cdrtools, cdrdao, and cdparanoia.
calltree 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113313/
calltree is a static call tree generator for C programs. It parses a collection of input files and builds a graph that represents the static call structure of the files.
cdargs 1.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113386/
cdargs adds a bookmark feature and a simple filebrowser to the builtin shell command `cd'. This lets you jump to various places throughout the filesystem with just a few keystrokes. It is intended for heavy shell users.
cdrtools 2.01a03 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113332/
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.
Chemical Development Kit 20030217 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113368/
The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures.
dbstep 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113311/
DBStep is a library targeted at C++ developers who need to access databases. It consists of a common set of interface classes and some drivers for common data sources. Currently available drivers are for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases. Database access is provided in at two levels: unified API for database connection, SQL execution, query result retrival, and methods for mapping class objects to database tables and query results.
dillo Web browser 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113323/
Dillo Web browser is a very fast, extremely small Web browser that's completely written in C. The source and binary are less than 300 kilobytes each. It is a graphical browser built upon GTK+, and it renders a good subset of HTML, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.
Easysoft JDBC-ODBC Bridge 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113345/
Easysoft JDBC-ODBC Bridge enables Java applications and applets on any JVM to access any remote ODBC data source, such as MS Access or SQL Server. It is a Type 3 driver certified by Sun Microsystems for use with J2EE™ branded products. The client driver is 100% Java, eliminating the hassle of client side ODBC drivers. It is compatible with any third party ODBC driver and gives multiple concurrent access to multiple data sources from multiple client devices. It is built for commercial use with high transaction rates and dependable performance. It is compatible with all leading Web application servers and Java™ IDEs.
Enterprise Object Broker 0.9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113300/
Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application server that transparently distributes Java objects via their interfaces. It makes no distinction between Local and Remote objects. Because of these features, it is not J2EE compliant. The developer builds beans that implement normal Java interfaces and the deployer decides where the beans are in a cluster of servers. Apache's AltRMI is used in place of RMI. It publishes plain interfaces locally and remotely. The interfaces do not have to extend the java.rmi.Remote interface. Methods do not have to throw RemoteException. AltRMI delivers remoting for Java. EOB sits on top of Apache's Avalon-Phoenix server platform.
Enterprise Volume Management System 1.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113349/
The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) Project has the goal of providing unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. It represents a new approach to logical volume management, as the architecture introduces a plug-in model that allows for easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume management.
EzSDK 4.54
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113343/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
fbpanel 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113295/
fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It requires only GTK-1.2 and X11 to compile, and works with any ICCCM or NETWM compliant window manager (ie. sawfish, Openbox, Enlightment, kvm). It features a tasklist, launchbar, clock, and desktop switcher.
gAnim8 0.3beta-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113303/
gAnim8 is a suite of tools for building and manipulating animated GIFs and small videos in a GTK/GNOME environment. It allows animated GIFs and videos (MPG, AVI/ASF, WMV, SWF, RM, MOV, or M4V) to be easily created, edited, previewed, recorded, or saved into screenshots.
GNU Pth 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113319/
GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions.
gTaxEstimator 0.54 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113293/
gTaxEstimator is a US taxes preparation helper for GNU/Linux and other *nix systems. It is written with GTK+. It handles Form 1040 and schedules A, B, C and E.
hlstat.php 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113376/
hlstat.php is a Half-life server status script written in PHP. It is designed to be a utility script to allow admins to easily add server status pages to their sites. Even though the primary objective of this script is to provide admins with utility functions, sample pages are included which allow any admin to add a Half-life status page to their site quickly, provided they have a Web server with PHP 4.X support.
HTML Forms generation and validation 2003.02.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113324/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field. A plug-in filter is provided for composing forms with the Smarty template engine.
IceWM Control center 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113366/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
IDX-PKI 1.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113328/
IDX-PKI is an Open Source implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure which aims to be IETF-compliant for PKIX recommandations.
install_latest_kernel 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113294/
install_latest_kernel automates the process of fetching, patching, configuring, building, and installing Linux kernels and updating bootloaders. It is designed for people that often install the latest kernel and get a little bit bored by the standard routine. It is not suitable for newbies and requires a working setup, a kernel configuration file, and the ability to read scripts and apply patches.
ioperm for Cygwin 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113389/
ioperm for Cygwin adds support for the ioperm()/iopl() functions to Cygwin. This support includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not included in Cygwin by default) with development and runtime libraries.
isp4you 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113330/
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.
JFreeChart 0.9.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113314/
JFreeChart is a Java class library for producing charts. Horizontal and vertical bar charts (regular or stacked with optional 3D-effects), line charts, pie charts, xy plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts, candlestick plots, and combination charts are supported.
JFtp 1.00pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113346/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode.
JSX2 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113336/
In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.61_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113365/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
lfs-install 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113301/
lfs-install is a free script for compiling a GNU/Linux system automated from source code. It does compilation based on Linux From Scratch. lfs-install supports compiler optimization flags for various Intel IA-32 or compatible processors and allows you to create a bootable build CD-ROM.
Loggerithim 6.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113341/
Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routine administration tasks.
Lutel Firewall 0.68 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113375/
Lutel Firewall Script is a Linux iptables shell script written in bash for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade router for home networks or multiple subnet applications. It shares access to an Internet connection from multiple workstations. Its main features are support for interface aliases, per subnet traffic definitions, UID and GID of packet owner restrictions, length of packet restrictions, SYN / flood protection, disabling routing between subnets, masquerading setups per subnet, transparent proxy support, port redirection, anti-spoof protection, TOS optimization, predefinied netfilter marking for 3rd party traffic shapers (such as tc), DHCP support, FTP active and passive mode support, and ZorbipTraffic.
MrProject 0.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113369/
MrProject is a project management program that can help with building project plans and tracking the progress of a project.
Multivalent DR6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113292/
Multivalent can be run as a browser that natively views scanned paper, PDF, HTML, UNIX manual pages, and TeX DVI. This browser supports annotations such as hyperlinks, highlights, notes, and executable copy editor markup on any of these formats, and boasts advanced features such as lenses and Robust Locations. Multivalent also has embedded tools for extracting text, performing full-text searches of supported documents, repairing PDF files, and converting PDF files from LZW to Flate compression. Multivalent has an API that developers can use to extend it. Developers can also cannibalize some of the generally useful Java classes which are included, such as BufferedRandomAccessFile.
Nast 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113354/
Nast is a packet sniffer and a LAN analyzer based on Libnet and Libpcap. It can sniff the packets on a network interface in normal mode or in promiscuous mode. It dumps the headers of packets and the payload in ASCII or ASCII-hex format. Various packet filters can be applied. The data sniffed can be saved in a separate file. As an analysis tool, it can check for other NICs on the network which are set in promiscuous mode, build a list of all hosts on a LAN, find a gate­way, perform port scanning on a multiple hosts, catch daemon banners, follow the TCP data stream, reset a connection, and determine whether a link type is a hub or switch.
NewVideoRecorder 20030217 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113353/
NewVideoRecorder is a high quality video capture toolkit for Linux. It includes deep buffering of audio and video to reduce frame dropping, a smooth dropping algorithm to keep the video smooth if dropping is required, and dynamic stretching of the audio stream to exactly match the video stream. It can use v4l1 and v4l2 devices as video sources, and OSS devices as an audio source. It can produce QuickTime, AVI, NuppelVideo 0.52 files, MPEG-1 files, and all files supported by ffmpeg (through the ffmpeg library). It also includes tools and utilities for high quality video streaming (multicast and unicast).
nfstimesync 1.1.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113321/
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.
nTAIM 1045466052
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113381/
nTAIM is a feature-rich, curses-based TOC AOL IM client for Unix systems. It includes a basic HTML parser, buddy pounce, buddy aliases, command aliases, tard tips, logging, tab completion, custom color configuration, and random Buddy blurbs.
OpenGUI 3.6.1.a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113383/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP image file format. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86-DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32- bpp color modes.
OSSP str 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113367/
OSSP str is a generic string handling library written in ISO-C which provides functions for handling, matching, parsing, searching, and formatting of ISO-C strings. It can be considered as a superset of POSIX string(3), but its main intention is to provide a more convinient and compact API and a more generalized functionality.
OSSP val 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113342/
OSSP val is a flexible name-to-value mapping library for ISO-C variables. It allows one to access ISO-C variables through name strings, although the ISO-C language provides neither such a dedicated facility nor an evaluation construct (which could be used to implement such a facility easily). In general, this is used for accessing ISO-C variables without having to know the actual symbol/address. The typical use cases are in combination with flexible configuration parsing and supporting loosely-coupled DSO-based module architectures.
PerlQt 3.006
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113315/
PerlQt-3 is a full-fledged object oriented interface to Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit version 3.x, for Perl >= 5.6.0 on POSIX systems. It features a powerful and clean syntax, unlimited signals and slots, seamless virtual methods reimplementation, and much more. Together with Puic (the PerlQt User Interface Compiler) and the Qt Designer, it provides a full RAD environment allowing one to graphically build fully operational GUI programs in a few minutes.
procps 3.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113297/
procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.
Regular Statement String 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113331/
Regular Statement String (RSS) provides several libraries in C, Java, and COM to implement and demonstrate the key-value development method using well-designed "strings" (RSS) as the media.
REXML 2.5.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113299/
REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML parser. It has an API that is designed to be intuitive, straightforward. and terse. REXML includes a tree model parser, a SAX2 streaming parser, and a pull parser. It also includes a full XPath implementation. All of REXML's parsers pass 100% of the Oasis XML non-validating tests.
S tar 1.4.3 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113316/
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.
SAP DB 7.3.00.32 (Maintenance)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113356/
SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL, JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects.
Senken 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113312/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.
shntool 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113298/
shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility that supports various lossless file formats with helper programs. These include SHN (via shorten), FLAC (via flac), AIFF (via sox), APE (via mac), OFR (via OptimFROG), LPAC (via lpac), and WV (via WavPack). It features len, fix, md5, join, split, cat, cmp, conv, info, and strip modes.
StatFreak 0.5.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113360/
StatFreak is a generator of skinnable, customizable IRC statistics. It is a Perl script which reads IRC logs and outputs an XHTML file containing statistical information.
swaret 1.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113320/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
TicaTK 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113348/
TicaTK is a GUI toolkit for Web applications based on Javascript (on the client side) and PHP (on the server side). It provides an OO PHP API which allows complex Web interface creation and management (multiwindowing, drag-and-drop, contextual menus, etc.).
Tiki 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113339/
Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites, and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners, file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments, and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and developers.
Tintware 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113371/
Tint is a string substitution language; it is intended to be used as an extension language. Tint Emacs is an emacs clone for Win32, Mac OS X, and Darwin. It uses Tint as its extension language.
Tnefclean 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113385/
tnefclean is a Perl script that allows users of any mail client to receive email and attachments from MS Outlook and Exchange users without having to decode winmail.dat files. Email is disassembled and reassembled on the fly to make them conform more closely to accepted standards.
Ultimate Othello 1789
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113325/
Ultimate Othello is an Othello/Reversi game featuring Aqua-friendly graphics and animations.
UploadBean 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113322/
UploadBean is a JavaBean that allows you to upload files. This bean can be integrated into any JSP/Servlets application. You can store uploaded files in a folder, a ZIP archive, a database, or in memory. Restrictions such as file-size limit, blacklist/whitelist, and max. uploaded files are available. An add-ons section provides tools such as email notification on each uploads, real time progress bar on upload, custom database store sample, and a Chinese upload JSP sample.
Vapour Liquid Equilibrium 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113306/
Vapour Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) is a Java application that simulates various VLE calculations including bubble point, dew point, flash point, and Pxy and Txy diagrams. It supports user defined methods for activity and fugacity calculations.
WebConference LiveHelp! 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113388/
WebConference LiveHelp! is a Web-enabled suite of customer care tools designed for use with Web sites and private intranets. The LiveHelp suite of tools includes a feature-rich one-on-one customer service chat environment, searchable chat transcript knowledge base, real-time Web site visitor tracking and pro-active invitation tool, a Web-enabled shared email system fo