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[osdn business] February 24, 2003
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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February 24, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Blog From Your Cellphone?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2047233
[0]seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about [1]blogging from your
mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is
the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do
it, including: [2]Manywhere Moblogger (Java), [3]WAPBlog (Perl), and
[4]KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and
Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side
tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the
popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions
the proprietary [5]foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but
it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their
users."
Links
0.
http://www.gaygeeks.org
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2783951.stm
2.
http://www.manywhere.com/Moblogger.html
3.
http://www.postneo.com/projects/wapblog/
4.
http://www.rawthought.com/projects/kablog/
5.
http://www.newbay.com/products_general.html
Game Theory at 190mph
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2024231
cameronm writes "A recent article in [0]Slate discusses the value of
NASCAR racing as a tool to study Game Theory. You can view the original
study at [1]FirstMonday."
Links
0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2078672/
Compiling Under Wine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1939225
[0]now3djp writes "Interesting article over on CodingStyle that
demonstrates how I successfully [1]eliminated wasted time maintaining
an MS-Windows computer when I could build natively from my GNU
computer! /. has [2]followed other cross compilers in the past. This
article is different because I used MS's own compiler! This allowed me
to get on with real games porting; with only a proportional increase in
compile time. Wine has really come a long way in supporting simple
apps, let us hope it reaches a 1.0 soon."
Links
0.
http://jguk.org/
1.
http://codingstyle.com/articles/using-ms-vcpp-with-gnu-wine.html
2.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1323238&tid=106
More on Columbia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1837253
RodeoBoy writes "It seems that regardless of what NASA and Boeing
[0]wants the public to believe there are still questions about damage
to the shuttle's left wing. Some Boeing engineers have [1]raised
concerns that [2]proper analysis of the damage was not done at the
time, due to changes and cutbacks in Boeing. It is also coming out that
more than [3]one chunk of foam might have hit and damaged the wing.
With Boeing [4]having some financial troubles and NASA under public
scrutiny again, what is the future of the space shuttle program..."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20030221/ts_usatoday/4888537
1.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5241209.htm
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49819-2003Feb22.html
3.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1775/3668442.html
4.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4501-585574,00.html
Salon Asks for Help
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1830217
[0]Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is [1]appealing to the community for
help. They haven't been able to [2]pay the rent since December. To
date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of [3]rejoicing
for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them
in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think
they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the
web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to
say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that
they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's
chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the
adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about?
Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they
currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old
role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would
happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their
enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their
heads: "delaying drowning".
Links
0. mailto:marstrailNO@SPAMhotmail.com
1.
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/02/22/raise_limbaugh/index.html
2.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/gtnews/TGAM/20030219/MESALO
3.
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030221/72/3827p.htmlUK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1825234
Bob Dobbs writes "Tomorrow the UK government will [0] announce
([1]observer.co.uk) it's going to "get serious" about renewable energy;
in the bleakest look at global warming so far Tony Blair will warn that
extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage across Europe
within a decade and the current situation is "unsustainable". On the
bright side, it's mentioned that sustainable energy sources are less
susceptible to terrorist attack."
Links
0. http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,901189,00.html
A Music Industry Case Study
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1812235
spmkk writes "The [0]NY Daily News has an [1]uplifting look at the fate
of a (hypothetical) 4-piece band "making it big" in today's
[2]RIAA-driven music industry. The condensed version: A band that sells
500,000 records for $8,490,000 gross ends up (after a few iterations of
the new math) with $161,909 in their pocket. Split four ways, that's a
whopping $40,477.25 each for a record that probably took close to a
year to produce. And this is for a record that goes gold (as per the
article, only 128 of some 30,000 records released in 2002 were so
privileged). And I bet you wanted to be a rock star when you were a
kid..."
Links
0.
http://www.nydailynews.com/
1.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/60991p-57008c.html
2.
http://www.riaa.com/
AOL's Merlin Compromised?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1616206
[0]Neophytus writes "[1]The Inquirer reports that AOL's central
customer database, Merlin, may have been been compromised by crackers.
This, even though it required 'a user ID, two passwords, and a
specialized ID code' to gain access to. That's 35 million user's names,
addresses, emails and credit card details - a goldmine for spammers and
fraudsters alike. As they they put it, 'AOL can now add another
accomplishment to its list: Biggest security disaster in ISP history.'
[2]The Register is also running a story explaining why this is not
particularly likly, though." Here's the [3]original Wired story.
Links
0.
http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/
1.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7928
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29433.html
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57753,00.html
Unreal History of the Atari 2600
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1621212
Such_a_geek writes "[0]Atari fans, do you remember playing [1]Gunther
Gebel Williams' Cage Cleaner, [2]Typing Tutor, and [3]Peabo Bryson's
Cow Tipper on your 2600? How about playing the [4]interactive Foghat
8-track while playing with your [5]Pong action figures? Yeah, me
neither. But thanks to this totally fake but quite convincing
screenshots in this [6]alternate history of 2600 games, I almost find
myself remembering these things."
Links
0.
http://www.atari.com/
1.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best08_cagecleaner.html
2.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best04_typing.html
3.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best03_peabo.html
4.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/inter8tracks.html
5.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/pong.html
6.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1610250
[0]tdiman writes "The world's first [1]digital guitar, using Gibson's
MaGIC digital transport standard, was introduced February 20th at the
Intel Developers Forum." We've been following this one for awhile, I'm
really curious to see what something like this can do.
Links
0. mailto:pink@gehennom.net
Newsforge Reports
How to bring more commercial applications to Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1830208
- By Matija Suklje - What most of you have probably already noticed is that Linux lacks commercial "professional" applications (e.g. Photoshop, flash MX) and commercial games. And that is the main reason why most "dual-booters" and potential Linux users don't (fully) migrate to this astounding OS. And why doesn't the Linux community get any greater confirmation from the commercial industry? Because they think that we, the Linux users, wouldn't ...
Education 'portal' for Linux launched
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1534259
- by Tina Gasperson -With the slogan, "Who you are...What you need" Linux advocate Jonathan Hughes launched the Linux in Education portal on February 20th. The site is designed specifically to provide teachers and other people involved in education with tools, resources, and information about implementing Linux.
Linux Advisory Watch - February 21st, 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1111251
- By Benjamin D. Thomas Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for mod_dav, w3m, cups, php, mysql, openssl, mailman, syslinux, nethack, bitchx, util-linux, apcupdb, pam, shadow-utils, and imp. The distributors include ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Happy Fifth Birthday to mozilla.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1930258
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that mozilla.org is five-years-old today."
India Gets Its First Linux Publication
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1424202
India's first Linux magazine recently hit the stands, and free software enthusiasts are looking to the Delhi-published magazine to help build interest in non-proprietary software in a country that likes to call itself a (potential) software superpower.
The Danger of Software Patents
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1224243
A.Guru prasadh writes "Speech by Richard M. Stallman at Government Model Engineering College,Kochi, India on 18th Feb 2003"
HDTV via GNU Radio
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1222220
Discussion: NortonDC writes "High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio...
NewToLinux looking for translators
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1220252
Tom Chance writes "NewToLinux are looking for people to translate out tutorials and articles into languages other than English, to increase accessibility for those whose first language isn't English. Anyone who would feel confident translating into other languages is welcome and encouraged to help out."
New ``topdown'' uvm in NetBSD-current
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1219231
Jan Schaumann writes "Andrew Brown has committed changes to -current implementing a new ``topdown'' uvm. With these changes, the areas for heap growth and mmap(2)'ed be separate, are now one and the same, allowing either one to grow much larger than before.
Africa prepares for open source launch in Geneva http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1215221
Anonymous Reader writes "Africa took centre stage in Geneva on Friday with the launch of the Open Source foundation for Africa at the World Summit on the Information Society."
QUIK Computing announces release of Ace Operator v 1.0b http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/148248
QUIK Computing is pleased to announce the release of Ace Operator version 1.1.0b. Ace Operator is an instant messaging call center solution that can be accessed from web pages.
Book Review - Cisco Secure Virtual Private Network http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/144200
Mirko Zorz writes "This publication is designed to give the readers basic knowledge of planning, administering and maintaining Virtual Private Networks. It does provide some general VPN related information, but as it is a written reference for the Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks courses, book will be of a great use to the readers wanting to enable VPN with their Cisco products. Read more at Help Net Security."
MontaVista Software Enables New Intel® Network Processors http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/142233
SAN JOSE, Calif., Intel Developer Forum, Feb. 20, 2003 — MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, announced that MontaVista™ Linux® Professional Edition will support the new Intel® IXP420, IXP421 and IXP422 network processors unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum that opened earlier this week in San Jose, Calif.
Freshmeat
BASHISH 1.9.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114052/
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.
BBStatus 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114048/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data via SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL and RRDTool.
BELTS 1.0-RC6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114085/
The Basic E-Learning Tool Set (BELTS) provides a basic set of tools for using and managing learning objects. Users can search and download content stored in The Learning Federations Learning Exchange. Set up classes (groups of users) and lessons (sequences of learning objects) for others to interact with. The server allows for multiple schools to be hosted on the same system.
bk_edit 0.6-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114062/
bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and organize the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape.
Bloof 0.1 beta 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114045/
Bloof calculates software evolution metrics against a version control like CVS in order to retrieve information about the evolution of the source code and the development process. Bloof is implemented in Java and comes with integrated database and Swing GUI.
BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114044/
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.
ctrlproxy 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114060/
ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else. It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client), password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected).
dailystrips 1.0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114084/
dailystrips is a utility to download your favorite online comic strips each day. What sets it apart from the rest is its "local" mode of operation, which automatically downloads strips for you. Avantgo is also supported, for downloading comics to PDAs.
Debt Minder 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114050/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
dvd::rip 0.50.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114091/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
EarlyBlue 1.3 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113947/
EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current builds without cutting any functionality.
Efax-gtk 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114063/
Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax program. It interfaces with efax directly, replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have been received and sent. It requires the GTK+ and Gtkmm libraries. Ghostscript (gs) must also be installed.
elmo 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114026/
elmo is an efficient console mail user agent. It supports POP3 and SMTP, uses the Maildir storage format, and sends 8-bit MIME messages regardless of the server's ehlo response (although it is able to decode qp and base64 encodings). Additionally, when replying to email in Polish, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can appropriately choose to use the Polish equivalent of "she wrote" instead of the Polish equivalent of "he wrote" in the quote's attribution.
ElyCA 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113984/
ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority written in Python using MySQL as a database.
EzSDK 4.58
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114042/
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.
feh 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114057/
feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using truetype fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mousewheel/keyboard control.
Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114080/
Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for embedded systems.
formula and libepe 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113863/
formula is mathematical expression and function parsing and evaluation software. The core of the software is the libepe library that provides an API for expression parsing and evaluation.
Gambas 0.45 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114097/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Gammu 0.70 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114086/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 71xx, 7210, 82xx,
83xx, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom,
WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many
functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm,
calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on
various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
GNOME Remote Connection Manager 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114040/
grcm (GNOME Remote Connection Manager) is a highly configurable remote connection manager that allows you to store remote connections like telnet, ssh, and rdesktop in a simple-to-use GUI application.
GNU gengetopt 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114031/
GNU gengetopt takes a simple description of arguments and generates a C function that uses the GNU getopt_long(3) function to parse and validate the options. It is perfect if you are too lazy to write all that is required to call getopt_long(3), or need to use many options. The generated code also works with autoconf or automake.
Graphical Voter Interface 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114019/
GVI is a voting GUI. It can potentially be used for any private or public election, and it comes with a demonstration package based on an actual general election. It can handle write-ins and multi-language elections, and it can automate voting along party lines. It can be used for advanced election methods, such as Condorcet voting and Instant Runoff Voting, which allow each voter to rank the candidates (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). It can also be used for Approval Voting, which allows each voter to select more than one candidate (without ranking them). It can also be "downgraded" for conventional plurality elections. It provides scripts for counting the votes and determining the winner based on plurality, Approval, or Condorcet rules.
Grass After the Rain 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113959/
Grass After the Rain is a theme showing raindrops on blades of grass. The background is by Vlad Gerasimov.
Hash Database Manager 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114096/
Hash Database Manager provides a commandline interface and an interactive terminal interface to GDBM (and other) hash DBs.
Hell World 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114061/
Hell World is a thrilling FPS adventure game which features excellent graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario. It is designed to be a port to the Windows-only version of Hell World.
html2hdml 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114032/
Html2hdml is a HTML to HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) converter. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and portable, and works on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Cygwin.
IceCurve 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113860/
This theme is a modification of the IceCrack2 theme with additions from the the BlueCurve theme. It is made to be simple and clean cut.
id3v2 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114070/
id3v2 is a command line ID3v2 tag editor. You can add/modifiy/delete ID3v2 tags and convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags.
imageBoot 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114092/
imageBoot is a boot floppy that autoconfigures networking (PCI & PCMCIA), gets a root image (tar.gz) via HTTP/FTP, and executes it. This can be useful for booting distcc to create a temporary cluster.
Information Resource Manager 1.4.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114098/
IRM is a Web-based asset tracking and work request system built for IT departments and helpdesks. It keeps detailed information about each computer, as well as a complete history of work requests. It keeps track of detailed computer information such as CPU type/speed, amount of RAM, Hard Drive Size, serial numbers, etc. The system includes the ability to track networking hardware and any type of software. Also included is support for email notification of both users and technicians, and some support for monitoring computer systems via SNMP.
Io programming language 2003-02-22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114023/
Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embedability.
Ion 20030223 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114051/
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
JFtp 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114037/
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.
JGloss 2.0 alpha 1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114064/
JGloss is an application for adding reading and translation annotations to words in a Japanese text document. This can be done automatically and manually. When a text document is first opened, kanji words will be looked up in a dictionary and the first reading and translation (if any) used to annotate the word. The user can then edit the annotations: choose among the readings and translations found in the dictionaries, enter your own readings and translations, remove annotations, and add new annotations. The document can be exported as plain text with annotations, HTML, or LaTeX.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-pre3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114101/
Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journal, autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux and Windows.
kcd 6.7.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114049/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
LCARStrek 1.3 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113948/
LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century.
libmelf 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114025/
libmelf is a library interface for manipulating ELF object files. It is designed to be simplistic, powerful, portable, and require very few dependencies.
libutempter 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114069/
libutempter provides a library interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.
LILO 22.5-beta2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114083/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating sysetms, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
LinuxRogue 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114043/
LinuxRogue is a cleaned up version of the original port of Rogue for Linux. Rogue is the classic RPG adventure for Unix systems with a character-cell based interface.
linuxsms 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114047/
Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions.
ms-sys 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114073/
ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it does not copy any system files (only the boot record is written).
naim 0.11.5.5 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114076/
naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.
Nmap 3.15BETA1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114088/
Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, sunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and commandline modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ.
Not A Commander 1.0-SNAP-030223
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114087/
Not A Commander is yet another file manager modeled after the Norton Commander. Good integration with the command line is the primary goal.
Note Editor 2.0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114094/
Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3.
Open Mortal 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114024/
Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat, for Windows and Linux. It is currently playable, has 8 playable characters, 6 more in the making. New characters can be added, so players can be their own Open Mortal actor.
Package DataBase View 1.2.7 (1.x.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114065/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats and other output formats (like XML).
Parctrl 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114072/
Parctrl is a CGI interface for a parport interface used to control any kind of device. If you have such kind of home-made device (or even if you don't, it's easy to build), you may use Parctrl to remotely access your parport through a CGI script and browser. You may use it to turn remote machines on or off in your local network, turn lights on or off, security systems, alarms or any kind of electrical device. If you are connected to the Internet, you may access it from anywhere in the world. It has two parts: a driver, that does the low level access, and the CGI script, which acts as a interface for the driver. Parctrl uses secure SHA password authentication, and also allows you to restrict users access to some parport outputs.
Photopub 0.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114034/
Photopub is image publication software designed primarily for easily maintaining a Web site of pictures taken with digital cameras (although it can be used for arbitrary images, it has some features which make it most suitable for them). It runs as a CGI script or under mod_perl, and is fully themable and highly customizable.
phpCourseBookingSystem 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114099/
phpCBS is a Course Booking System written in PHP4. It uses PHP4's session capabilities to authenticate users, the MySQL database system to store all its data in, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to configure the "Look and Feel". The administrator can set up new Courses and control the registered users. The users on the other side are able to register for a specific classplace.
phpMyAdmin 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114090/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
pixiliate 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114067/
Pixilate is a commandline packet generation utility that reads Cisco PIX 6.2x or Cisco IOS ACLs as input and generates the appropriate packets. Use it in conjunction with your favorite sniffer listening off of a span port for ACL validation. You can optionally send per-ACL payloads.
Proteus EAI Toolkit 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114095/
Proteus is a toolkit for message-based Enterprise Application Integration. It includes adapters that allow databases, message queues, FTP servers, email, and other message sources and sinks to be addressed in a simple, uniform fashion. It also includes a simple but very capable message broker. The broker allows routing and transformation of messages from and to all the sources and sinks for which adapters exist. Transformations may be custom-written in Java or XSLT (the broker uses Xalan as its XSLT transformation engine).
Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.17.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114071/
The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114055/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Qish 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114046/
Qish contains a runtime library with a reusable generational copying garbage collector for C or C++.
QTParted 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114066/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
RC4Crypt 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114022/
RC4Crypt is a small yet extensive library that allows developers to use RC4 encryption/decryption easily in PHP. It is OO and handles everything internally, and includes some documentation within the class.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114033/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
Retro Native Forth 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114079/
RetroForth is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system for computers using 80386 and higher CPUs. It attempts to be a simpler and easier to use alternative to more complex operating systems.
Spkgtool 0.2.0pre0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114077/
Spkgtool is a software management system that uses symbolic links for maintaining packages and a "ports" style backend for building package from source tarballs. It has its own built linking application, but it also can act as a GUI frontend to your favorite symbolic link package system (supporting graft, epkg, and stow). It is written with bash scripts and Makefiles. The GUI is dialog and Xdialog (depending on your environment). Aside from building ports, it will also build and install "GNU-friendly" source tarballs.
Spyrius 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114029/
Spyrius is a multithreaded superdaemon that provides TCP connectivity to services that are implemented as loadable modules ("plug-ins"). The daemon was designed with extensibility, ease-of-use, and performance in mind. It was implemented on Solaris 2.x but should be generally portable to other POSIX systems. Spyrius is a prototype and is not a fully-implemented, release-quality package; it is made available in the hopes that it may prove to be useful in other open source projects.
sr-convert 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114018/
sr-convert is a sample-rate conversion utility for WAV files. It supports a wide variety of sampling rates and can convert from any of the supported rates to any other. It runs under either x86 Linux or Windows and uses SSE instructions if they are available. Great pains have been taken to make sure that the sound quality of the conversion is excellent.
Sybase module for Python 0.36pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114020/
The Sybase module for Python provides an interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API.
TR-IRCD 5.0.7-r
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114035/
TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, local channels, and autokill exclusions, modules for commands, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and many different architectures.
Trackballs 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114039/
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness. By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first.
TRE 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114041/
TRE is a lightweight, robust, efficient, portable, and POSIX compliant regexp matching library. Key features include the agrep command line tool for approximate regexp matching in the style of grep, an approximate matching library API, portability, wide character and multibyte character support, binary pattern and data support, complete thread safety, consistently efficient matching, low memory consumption and small footprint, and strict standards conformance.
tsemgr 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114056/
tsemgr is a GTK application to manage the T68 mobile phone.
vdr2dvd.pl 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114054/
vdr2dvd is a simple script, handling all needed steps to create a DVD out of a VDR recording, including the burn process itself. The script merges multiple .vdr files to a big one per DVD title, converts it into a PS stream using ds.jar, multiplexes to the correct DVD-stream, creates the DVD structure, uses mkisofs to create the ISO image and uses dvdrecord to burn the image to the disc.
VSTRING 20030220
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114059/