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[osdn business] March 04, 2003
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Dismal Failure of Internet Filters In Australia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0116227
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), the department responsible for implementing the insane Internet regulatory framework put in place by the current government, is about to drop a number of Internet Filtering packages due to their ineffectiveness. The [1]full article is available here. There is also news that the Minister for Communications, Senator Richard Alston (whom The Register has labeled the Worlds Biggest Luddite :) ) is awaiting a review of the law with possible changes to follow. Be afraid Australia, be very afraid!" Links
What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Pr0n? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/2012241
An anonymous reader asks: "We all joke about how much of the Internet's traffic is porn, but are there are credible studies that give a definitive answer, or at least make a reasonably intelligent guess? Looking at the amount of movie clips and entire flicks posted to the '*.erotica.*' newsgroups on a daily basis, I have to believe that porn is a significant percentage of the traffic, but is it 10%, 20%, 50%? More? I've tried to research this on my own, but Google keeps sending me to sites with porn, not site about porn. (No, really!)"
Apple Patches Sendmail Bug Quickly
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0454210
[0]90XDoubleSide writes "Apple has released [1]Security Update
2002-03-03 (available through Software Update) which addresses the
[2]sendmail vulnerability reported earlier today, and includes a newer
version of OpenSSL. Seems that Apple is getting much faster with their
patches."
Links
0.
http://ninetyxdoubleside AT hailmail DOT net
1.
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15934
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/198255&tid=172
The Business of Instant Messaging
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0222245
willll writes "The Washington Post is running a story about [0]how AOL
plans to make money from Instant Messaging, one of the few successes in
recent times for AOL. This article includes plans for corporate
versions of AIM as well as discussion on some of the state on instant
messaging."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30944-2003Mar2.html
Kodak Releases Digital Camera With OLED Display http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0127213
[0]arth33 writes "Kodak has announced the LS633 Digital camera with
OLED display. The camera and imaging specs are pretty standard (3.1
MegaPixels, 3x Optical Zoom, etc) but the viewfinder screen is a 2.2"
OLED screen with a resolution of 512 x 218 pixels. According to the
press release at [1]DPreview, 'This large, full color, full motion,
flat panel display is sharp, bright and features 165º viewing angles
for on-camera viewing and sharing. Packaged in a stylish, metal body,
the LS633 is perfect for users who want to show off their pictures on a
cutting-edge OLED display.' All this and it's pretty cheap at US$399,
and is expected on shelves in April in Australia, Europe and Asia. More
pics and information is also available at [2]LetsGoDigital."
Links
0. mailto:misc33.hotmail@com
1.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0303/03030216kodakls633.asp
2.
http://www.letsgodigital.nl/webpages/events/PMA-2003/news/kodak/LS633_uk.html
Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/2220227
[0]gatesh8r writes "According to this [1]story at the Register, it
seems that MS has decided to up and quit the OpenGL ARB, in persuit of
"focus our energies on improving and evolving our own Windows graphics
platform" -- which means they only want DirectX. I'm not too suprised
by this move, as OpenGL is the only viable API (along with SDL) for
cross-platform multimedia and gaming software."
Links
0. http://golfnut299 <at> yahoo <dot> com
Slashback: Humility
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1728252
An anonymous reader writes "In a disconcerting [0]e-mail on an interoperability thread Miguel de Icaza affirms that Gnome, is in fact, lagging behind KDE. As stated in the e-mail "At this point we are not fatally loosing a race for adoption, and a race to see our baby and our work be used by millions, but we are lagging behind. In this area, I agree with Jeff, I personally (because of the emotional component described before), would like to see more work be done on the Gnome desktop and less on replicating infrastructure."" Links
0. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00026.html
Minimum Seek Hard Disk Drivers for Unix? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/213254
[0]Jonathan Andrews asks: "I remember back in the old days reading
about a filesystem/device driver that had alomost no seeks of the
physical disk. It worked by scanning the heads of the disk from track 0
to the end then back again in a constant motion. Disk reads and writes
where cached so that they got written to disk only when the heads where
on that part of the platter. My question is simple, now that disks are
IDE, have lots of heads and even worse differing Heads/Cylander/Sector
translation scemes is this type of system even possible? Would you have
to fight the disk cache on the drive? I seem to recall it giving real
throughput advantages, if the cache was large enough to hold 'one sweep
times worth of data' then the cache almost never blocked and disk
writes/reads sustained at the max throughput all the time. Best of all
it gets rid of that blased seeking, chewing, seeking noise!"
Links
0. mailto:cheerjunk@blueyonder.co.uk
China Wants To Establish Moon Mining
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/2330241
China has released more information about that country's plans for moon
exploration: Mortimer.CA writes "There's [0]an article over at New
Scientist (and [1]elsewhere, [2]Google.News it) about one of the
objectives being to mine it: 'The prospect for the development and
utilisation of the lunar potential mineral and energy resources...'.
China being having a space program is only one (profound) question.
Another one is whether we should be mining the moon: I'm sure the more
'vocal' conservationalists have one opinion. What about mining
asteroids?"
Links
0.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993452
1.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=118&art_id=qw1046678401289S522&set_id=1
2.
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:abcnews.go.com%2Fwire%2FSciTech%2Freuters20030302_7.htmlWhat High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1818252
An anonymous reader asks: "Sun and other UNIX vendors are always claiming that Linux lacks features that their UNIX provides. I've seen many Slashdot readers claim the same thing. Can someone provide a list of these features and on what timeline they might be implemented in Linux?"
Newsforge Reports
When will my computer "just work?"
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/27/2053207
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Many of my neighbors are retirees who have computers their children or grandchildren gave them primarily for email. We're talking Windows 98 or Windows 95 more often than not, and there always seem to be problems since these tend to be castoff machines to begin with. I try to help when I can. But you know what? I'd like my computer to "just work" too.
Getting Red Hat Network support for free just got harder http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/138248
- By John Lettice, The Register - With the impending rollout of Red Hat Advanced Workstation the company has made another move to 'encourage' users to pay for Red Hat Network support. As you'd expect it's a mixture of carrots and sticks, but some of the sticks look quite painful for people who're trying to run businesses off of the free RHN service - presumably this is deliberate.
Beginner Linux Book Review: "Linux for the Rest of Us" by Mark Rais http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1548212
- By Konstantin Klein Dear PC owner: You have the right to choose an Operating System to your liking. You are allowed to pay for a single license (no copies, please!) of the OS as well as of any application program you might need. After you paid for all these licenses, you are entitled to an easy installation, a colorful user interface and - probably most important for you - easy file exchange with others in your business or personal ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Windows or Linux: hazards of a choice
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1636242
Converting records and databases from Windows to Linux will not only be a complicated task but also time consuming. Linux may seem as a cost saving venture but there may be hidden costs such as the skill levels of IT staff currently employed
Linux Storage Infrastructure, 2003 Edition http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1634256
How far things have come. Since I reviewed the Linux storage infrastructure two years ago, its rarely necessary anymore to mention that Linux supports IDE, SCSI and fibre channel from nearly every major vendor worldwide.
Apple/Microsoft case may provide ammo for Linux maker http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1632241
Lindows.com Inc. has raised the ire and the litigation of Microsoft Corp. with its Windows-like name. While the companies continue to wrangle over trade dress issues, Lindows.com has secured a court order to force Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of evidence, including evidence produced during the 1992 case between Apple and Microsoft that tread over similar ground.
Linux Gains New Server Benchmarks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1629233
The new software is intended to provide overall upper-level performance measures for a system. The intent is to go beyond some of the tests previously used by Linux developers, which measure only a single, discrete facet of speed or throughput.
Leadership Debate for Debian Project Leader Election http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1625240
David B. Harris, coordinator for the Debian Project Leader election debate, writes: "Hello everybody, This Friday, at 22:00 UTC, the Debian Project Leader election debate (real-time/IRC portion) will take place. The formal portion of the debate is expected to last for an hour.
Green Hills MULTI Development Environment Available For Linux Apps, Kernels, Embedded Devices http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1615249
Green Hills Software announced the availability of its industry leading MULTI Integrated Development Environment for embedded Linux systems. MULTI provides one of the world's most advanced environments for debugging Linux applications, the Linux kernel and Linux device drivers. MULTI works out of the box with existing GNU development tool chains, including those used for native Intel/Pentium, embedded MIPS, and embedded PowerPC environments.
Ximian, SuSE link Linux products
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/169210
Ximian Inc. and SuSE Linux AG have partnered to link SuSE's e-mail and groupware server with a desktop front-end from Ximian, which will give users of the SuSE product another choice for client software, the Linux vendors announced Monday.
Gaim 0.60 Screenshots
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1751205
Sean Egan writes "I've posted some new screenshots of Gaim's CVS tree. This will become Gaim 0.60 real soon---our first GTK+ 2 release. You can try CVS yourself, if you want to help us test it. Instructions are here"
Melbourne, Orlando users organize Extreme Linux presentation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/166216
The executive director of Linux International, a large nonprofit trade group advocating the use of the open source operating system, will speak in Orlando Friday.
Linux is here to stay
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/162246
In its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft warns for the second straight quarter that growing adoption of open-source software could cut into its sales, force it to lower prices and erode its legendary profit margins.
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.4.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115008/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Access Modifier Eclipse Plug-in 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115007/
The AccessModifier Plug-in for Eclipse allows the user to change the visibility (public, protected, default, and private) of Java classes, interfaces, methods, and fields in the workbench's Outline, Members, and Package Explorer views.
Apache Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115037/
The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up.
ARSC Really Simple Chat 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114998/
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.
Axualize 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115001/
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.
Babeldoc 1.0RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115055/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
bk_edit 0.6-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115043/
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.
CanIt 1.10 (Pro)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115012/
CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention required.
CanIt 1.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115011/
CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention required.
cdrtools 2.01a04 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114979/
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.
CLEX 3.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114986/
CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in C with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file status details) and provides features like command history, filename insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands). CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the on-line help.
colorize.pl 0.3.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114970/
colorize.pl is a Perl script to colorize your system, Squid, Apache, oops, xfer, and many other logs with file, version, address, URL, email, user, service, etc. catch routines. HTML output support with "valid" HTML and CSS code is available.
Custom 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114980/
Custom is an E-Commerce system providing Ordering and Invoicing, Stock, Supplier, and Catalogue Management. Easily customisable, it is written in Python for use as CGI scripts (under Apache or any other Web server) with a simple example site and example database. Custom is intended as a modern replacement for Sage.
DigitizeIt 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114992/
DigitizeIt digitizes scanned graphs and charts. Graphs can be loaded in nearly all common image formats (including gif, tiff, jpeg, bmp, png, psd, pcx, xbm, xpm, tga, pct), pasted from the clipboard, or imported via a screenshot. Digitizing of line and scatter plots occurs automatically, and manual digitizing via mouse clicks is also possible. Data values are transformed to a specified axes system and can be saved in ASCII format, ready to use in many other applications such as Microcal Origin or Excel. Axes can be linear, logarithmic, or reciprocal scale. Multiple data sets can be defined and edited. Tilted and distorted graphs can be handled. Comprehensive online help is included. Java 1.4 is required.
DoubleSpeak CMS 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115036/
DoubleSpeak (formerly known as Igloo Weblog) is a CMS/Blog written to be robust yet user-friendly. The aim is to create clean and efficient code while providing many features and an easy way to add new ones. DoubleSpeak is written entirely in Object-Oriented PHP.
dvd::rip 0.50.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114996/
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.
E-Xoops Theme for Window Maker 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114965/
E-Xoops is a theme dedicated to the E-Xoops CMS that features a simple background with E-Xoops logo, and some grey/blue icons.
echolot-pinger 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115014/
Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by regularly sending messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use. Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.
Fuse CMS 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115002/
Fuse is a Content Management System, born as a PHP-Nuke clone, designed to take advantage of mod_perl and HTML::Mason's features, including template and theme creation, compilation and caching of code, and extendability.
gnocl 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115028/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115029/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.
gURLChecker 0.2-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115042/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Gwine 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115022/
Gwine is a GNOME wine cellar manager written in Perl.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.4-dev http://freshmeat.net/releases/115030/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) comprises an XML schema for historical events, and xslt/Java, which transforms conforming documents into useful and possibly new views, including charts, time-lines, and maps generated in SVG. It is not meant to be the one and only language for marking up historical events, however it does aim to be a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add an historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
IlohaMail 0.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115015/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity logging.
JFreeReport 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114975/
JFreeReport is a Java report generator. Using data from a Swing TableModel, JFreeReport can send output to the screen (print preview), the printer, and to Acrobat PDF files.
JPluck 0.9 beta 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115053/
JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read.
JSX2 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114972/
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.
KAVClient 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114981/
KAVClient is a C language interface to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus daemon. It allows users to check files and memory for viruses.
KDE Kontact 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114977/
KDE Kontact is a personal information management application for KDE. It integrates KMail, KAddressBook, and KOrganizer into a unified application.
kowey-generic 9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115005/
kowey-generic is a set of Java templates for small programming projects in single languages. The goal is to provide a simple way to make highly portable and nicely distributable software that "just works". These templates allow you produce packages that the user simply downloads and runs. No mess, no fuss, no nonsense with the CLASSPATH. These templates also help developers to adopt better coding habits, as the default buildfile auto-generates unit test skeletons via JUnitDoclet.
lftp 2.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114978/
lftp is a sophisticated command line based FTP client. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneosly or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. HTTP protocol and FTP over HTTP proxy are supported. Version 2.3.0 includes HTTPS and FTP over SSL support.
makeself 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114969/
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world.
mtools 3.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114997/
Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks, and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2" disk).
MUSCLE 2.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114971/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
myPod 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115027/
myPod is a platform-independent program to manage your MP3 collection, create playlists, and synchronize them with an iPod.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.11 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115034/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
Nebulus 0.4.0 (For XMMS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115048/
Nebulus is an OpenGL/SDL visual plugin for XMMS or AlsaPlayer. It features a lot of options, including fullscreen mode, effects priorities, and more.
NNTPSwitch 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114983/
NNTPSwitch is a Linux NNTP content router. It's aimed at high-performance news servers for ISPs and Usenet resellers. NNTPSwitch forwards client connections to multiple backend servers to get its actual articles. Depending on the backend server type, all NNTP commands and extensions are supported, including (remote) authorization. Accounting is supported in a user-friendly matter for data limited NNTP connections.
PassGuard Framework 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114990/
PassGuard Framework is a library for the PassGuard suite of programs that is used to manage numerous passwords in an encrypted file. Encryption is managed with a plugin system, which allows easy support for any kind of encrypted file.
PassGuard gpasman plugin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114991/
The PassGuard suite is a set of software that manages your passwords encrypted in a file. You just have to remember one, and different encrypted file formats are supported via plugins. The PassGuard gpasman plugin is the plugin that manages gpasman files encrypted with the RC2 algorithm.
pekwm 0.1.3pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114933/
pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++ but it no longer resembles it. It is highly configurable and rather fast. You can group windows in a sense much like pwm. Keybindings, Rootmenu, mouse button actions, and automatic properties are configurable.
phpSecurityAdmin 3.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115033/
phpSecurityAdmin is a PHP application that was designed to be implemented in custom Content Management Systems (CMS). It is designed to be easy to use, so that CMS programmers do not have to spend a lot of time managing user access. It can be used for controlling access to Web pages based on user names and passwords. The system allows the client to manage user accounts and access rights, and to add, edit, or delete users. It also features "user profiles" which provide an efficient method for creating multiple users with similar access rights. It includes localization support and a few language translations.
phpWebSite 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115019/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, and much more.
python-evas 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114973/
python-evas is a set of object-oriented Python bindings for the Evas canvas. Complete wrappers for Evas objects are provided, with an easy to use API resembling Evas' native C interfaces.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115041/
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.
qmail-ldap 20030301
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115023/
qmail-ldap is an extension to stock qmail-1.03 to get all user account information from an LDAP database. Its primary target is POP toasters with thousands to millions of users, such as in ISP, FreeMail, and Corporate environments. It features full SMTP/POP3/IMAP server clustering for scaling and high availablity. Additionally there are state-of-the art spam filters, TLS SMTP encrytion, and mailbox quotas. A migration path for Netscape Messenger and Software.com's Post.Office installations is provided.
RefDB 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115050/
RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents. This is an attempt to provide most of the functionality of commercial packages like Reference Manager or EndNote in a platform-independent tool, targeting markup languages rather than word processors.
Seahorse 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115016/
Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.
Sendmail 8.12.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115032/
Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration.
shell watchdog 1.1-2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115009/
The shell watchdog is a simple shell script daemon to monitor system resources and report failures via local syslog, wall, mail, console sound, or user-definable actions. It is intended to be used as a simple failure recognition system. Tests are defined in a macro-like style in user-definable files, allowing you to create monitored resource groups. It currently includes tests to check the availability of an IP address, the availability of a service on a local or remote IP address, whether a process is running or not, and the usage of filesystems.
Smart Cache 0.84 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115046/
Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents, Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode, background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers inside).
SMTP Relay Checker 0.9.5b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115000/
SmtpRC is a fully configurable, multithreaded open mail relay scanner. It supports scanning of IP blocks, and can print the results to a Web page. It is intended for Systems Administrators to check IP blocks under their control.
snortalog 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114985/
Snortalog (formerly known as Snort-ng) is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts. It does not include a database for maximum performance.
Speex 1.0rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114974/
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail).
streamtuner 0.9.1 (World Cup)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115020/
streamtuner is a stream directory browser. It offers an intuitive and unified interface to various streaming directories through the use of a plugin system. streamtuner implements a GTK+ 2.0 graphical user interface, and the official distribution ships with the SHOUTcast plugin.
tvmet 0.9.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114982/
This Tiny Vector and Matrix template library uses Meta Templates and Expression Templates (ET) to evaluate results at compile time, thus making it fast for low-end systems. Temporaries are avoided because of this. The produced code is similar to hand-coded code, but the quality of the code still depends on the compiler and its version. The dimensions for vectors and matrices are static and bounded at compile time using template arguments.
Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114976/
Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse provides an editor for the scripting language of Jakarta's template engine Velocity. The editor is implemented as an plugin for the Eclipse platform.
Voodoo chat 0.14.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114994/
Voodoo chat is a fast, convenient, easily customized Web chat system with the ability to continuously update the user messages (push). It has 4 different ways of displaying messages: a Perl-daemon for continuous update, PHP-stream, Java-script emulation of stream, and classic refresh style. It features theme support, configurable rooms, private messages, ignoring, user-status, a mini-mail system, inline images, graphical statistics, user-info, language packs, and more. Several data storage engines are available, including ones based on files, SysV shared memory, and MySQL. It has been tested on a real server with up to 360 simultaneous users.
Webtop 1.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115006/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes SSL encryption, many email filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, fast searching, undeliverable email bounce, intelligent read receipts, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, online file storage, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
X-ChaMan 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115026/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display a simple GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer.
Xnee's not an event emulator 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114968/
Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X (X11) protocol data. This is useful for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications. Think of it as a robot.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114988/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
Zoinks 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115045/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
Thinkgeek
Electronics: i2eye Broadband Videophone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5d7f/
Electronics: Si-5 Portable Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5bb3/
Computing: Latte Mini PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5d5b/
Electronics: SoundPaX Portable Stereo Speakers http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5d02/
Computing: Ratpadz GS Mousing Surface
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/3745/
Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/
Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/
Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/
Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/
Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/
Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/
Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/
Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/
Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/
Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/
Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System