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[osdn business] March 05, 2003
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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March 05, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Building a Local Cellular Phone Carrier?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0646224
[0]Netsuj asks: "I'm doing some work for a firm which operates in
[1]B.F.E. Many miles before even arriving, I loose signal on my GSM
phone. What is the feasibility of creating a limited-area wireless
telephone network? As it is outside the area of repeater technology (I
believe), is there such thing as a simple cellular-to-wireline system?
What are the possibilities of this operating on a break-even basis for
employees (i.e. charging minimal roaming fees)? Any ideas? Sadly,
something like this appears to be the only option; contacting any of
the mobile network operators in the larger area resulted in absolutely
no interest in expanding their coverage." Unfortunately, along with the
technical problems, there is also paperwork. What kind of permits and
other red-tape-hurdles would be necessary to satisfy all of the
lawyer-types?
Links
0. mailto:edu@marshall.jrdeal
Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/221221
AndroidCat writes "While the equipment used isn't new, this
[0]operation was different because one of surgeons was 400km away. Dr.
Mehran Anvari in Hamilton Ontario tele-operated instruments in North
Bay General Hospital, supervised by Dr. Craig McKinley on site. The
link was over a high priority routed Bell Canada connection. The
patient, Ms. Fortier is doing quite well. Don't try this from home with
a dialup connection."
Links
0. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030304.gtrobot/GTStory
Survey says: ELC platform spec will expand use of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0122201
An anonymous reader writes "According to a [0]"quick survey" taken
during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website,
developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's
recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable,
and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded
systems and devices."
Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5332464766.html
Europe Heads for the Moon in July
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/189254
Orlando writes "The BBC are [0]reporting that [1]Arianespace are all
set for sending [2]Smart1 to the Moon in July. The mission's primary
objectives are testing planetary exploration technologies. This is
particularly good news after the recent Arianne [3]rocket explosion."
China's [4]also planning a moon mission. The U.S. is planning to sit
around and watch.
Links
0.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2818551.stm
1.
http://www.arianespace.com/site/index2.html
2.
http://sci.esa.int/home/smart-1/index.cfm
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2565387.stm
4.
http://space.com/missionlaunches/china_moon_030304.html
Quake II Mods for Engineering Students
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0015231
[0]gleeklet writes "Has anyone else seen that there is a need for
inexpensive 3D visualization software for presentations and classroom
lectures? There is a [1] Chemical Engineering package available but
compared to video game software, the graphics are a bit lacking. My
[2]goal was to create a chemical plant with the process control
algorithms coded into the Quake II source. As a short demo I spent
several hours creating a unit cell demo [3] Quake II level to
demonstrate the use of open source video game technology, which I found
was well received by undergrads. Has anyone used video game technology
as an education tool for science or engineering?"
Links
0.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu
1.
http://www.vrupl.evl.uic.edu/vrichel/index.html
2.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu/
3.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu/Newmap3.bsp
Another Garbage Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2216205
[0]*no comment* writes "Literally "garbage patent" that is, [1]Apple
was rewarded a patent for the [2]"Garbage" icon in Mac OS X. The patent
documents can be found at the USPTO by clicking [3]here. More on this
and other Apple patents are in [4]this article over at the
[5]macobserver."
Links
0.
http://(moc.ytirgetni) (ta) (daehttub)
1.
http://www.apple.com/
2.
http://www.macobserver.com/images/news/2003/20030304patents/image001jpg
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=D470,860WKU.&OS=PN/D470,860&RS=PN/D470,860
4.
http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml
5.
http://www.macobserver.com/
Convergence of P2P and Grid Predicted
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/237235
[0]tom_conte writes "From the proceedings of the 2nd International
Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems ([1]IPTPS'03), [2]"On Death, Taxes,
and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing" compares the
two current popular incarnations of distributed computing technology,
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid Computing. It also predicts the convergence
of the two technologies: "The complementary nature of the strengths and
weaknesses of the two approaches suggests that the interests of the two
communities are likely to grow closer over time." This paper is worth
reading if you want to clear up the marketing cloud that surrounds
these two technologies and sometimes makes them hard to distinguish."
Links
0.
http://www.pas.net/
1.
http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/
2.
http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/final-papers/death_taxes.pdf
Joel on Community Forums
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/223220
Evil Grinn writes "In [0]Building Communities with Software, Joel Spolsky starts with a lament about the lack of real-life community among programmers, but rapidly seques into an explanation of why he thinks his own forum system is better than Usenet or Slashdot. I really don't participate in Joel's forums enough to comment, but they are pretty basic. No registration system. No branching (you can only add comments to the end of a conversation, not reply to comments in the middle). No mod points. Quoting in replies is strongly discouraged. All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features." Links
0. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html
Second Episode of The Animatrix Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2214232
murphyslawyer writes "The second episode of Animatrix is now available.
Download it [0]here"
Links
0. http://www.intothematrix.com/rl_cmp/animatrix_site_program.html
CT Lottery to Offer PC Game
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2033215
[0]nstrom writes "The [1]Connecticut State Lottery is giving out a PC
game (for Windows, presumably) with their new scratch-off lottery
tickets which offer a chance of winning $25,000 by playing. This
[2]news article from the [3]Hartford Courant mentions that the game
might be targeted at children, but there's no mention of any problems
involving software cracking, which is what I immediately thought of.
I'm sure there are some bored crackers out there who'd tackle this for
a chance at some cash. What do you think?"
Links
0. mailto:nstrom@ananzi.co.za
1.
http://www.ctlottery.org/
2.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-treasuretower.artmar04,0,129135.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
3.
http://www.ctnow.com/
Newsforge Reports
MS aims at Linux with $399 Server 2003, Web Edition
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1340220
- By John Lettice, The Register - It's essentially a stripped-down version of Standard Edition ($999), which comes with 4gig, 4-way SMP and five CALs, and it also comes with some distribution limitations, the import of which are not yet clear. "Windows Server 2003, Web Edition is not available in all channels," says the footnote. "Contact your local System Builder, OEM, or reseller for more information on how to purchase."
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
SCO-Caldera & the GNU/Linux Community: Part 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0016241
An Anonymous Reader writes "Are Linux or C++ on SCO-Caldera's IP Hit List? SCO-Caldera's Blake Stowell, MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo, plus Open Group's Allen Brown, Kernel.Org's Richard Gooch, and GNU's Richard Stallman discuss SCOsource intellectual property (IP) issues. At issue are (1) SCO-Caldera claims that Linux is a derivative of SCO-Caldera's UNIX source code, (2) SCO's ownership of C++ code, (3) the impact and ...
Maringo Tree Technologies and LinuxCertified Inc, announce partnership http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2320232
Rajesh writes "Singapore, 5 March 2003. Maringo Tree Technologies Pte Ltd, consulting services provider in Open Source technologies, today announced the partnership with LinuxCertified Inc to provide Linux and Open Source Technology Education Services in Singapore and rest of South-East Asia region.
Chimera Renamed to Camino
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0011202
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Chimera has been renamed to Camino. This change was made for legal reasons (namely, an older UNIX browser called Chimera). Camino 0.7 will be released soon."
Digital CD playing in Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2311219
A_Happy_User writes "I always wanted to enable the various special effects of XMMS during audio CD playback, but enabling the options did not seem to have any effect. However, this article showed how to use the "Digital CD playing" feature in XMMS, and now can listen to The 9th Symphony in all its glory."
MMOG FPS Open Source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2310210
Steven Winston writes "Global Gaming Innovations is pleased to announce Urban Dominion http://www.global-gaming.com/Dominion/, a Massively Multiplayer First Person Shooter. The engine is loosely based upon the Quake 2 engine, and is significant because it is a first run release that is Open Source (GPL). This game is made Massively Multiplayer via our PDMS (Parallel Distributed Management System). This system enables any game to be a massively ...
Serious Sendmail flaw ripe for exploit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2246223
Michael S. Mimoso writes "A newly discovered vulnerability in Sendmail could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on affected systems. While an exploit to take advantage of the flaw isn't in the wild, users are urged to patch their systems as soon as possible."
Linux isn't free but it does pay
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2225241
Kodek writes "Linux isn't free, says IBM's arch Linux advocate. Businesses will pay upfront but they will also reap the substantial rewards further down the line, says Richard Voaden."
Software group puts focus on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2049216
NASHUA The Greater Nashua Software Entrepreneurs Group knows that any talk about Linux, the open source operating system, is a perennially popular subject in the area, and so it will be the subject of the meeting tonight at 7 at the Nashua Public Library.
Moving to Linux: A Small Business Introduction to Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/182213
A radical change is resulting in ever strengthening momentum to Opensource software use. Most importantly, this beneficial change is happening in significant numbers not only here in the United States, but through out the world.
Vexira Antivirus, Linux To Protect Over 100,000 E-mail Users From Viruses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1721203
Central Command, a leading provider of antivirus solutions and computer security services announced today that the Internet Service Provider (ISP) ISNET A.S. in Turkey has selected Vexira Antivirus to protect over 100,000 of their email users from virus attacks.
Freshmeat
Apache::Centipaid 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115145/
Apache::Centipaid is an Apache add-on module that allows content providers to collect small transaction fees (as low as $0.001) as payment for accessing parts of their Web site without changing their Web site design. The micro payment solution relies on Internet stamps for payment, providing a secure and anonymous method of payment. The module takes care of authorizing, accepting, and authenticating payments, as well as granting and disallowing access to users based on the payment information. It requires Apache with mod_perl support enabled.
b2 Smarty mod 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114987/
b2 Smarty mod is a version of the b2 Weblog system that adds support for Smarty templates and caching. It also make it much easier to host multiple b2 blogs on one machine. By using Smarty templates, blog editors no longer need to know anything about PHP.
bib2html 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115112/
bib2html is a converter from a BibTeX database to HTML files.
Big Faceless PDF library 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115133/
The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class library for creating PDF documents. The Extended Edition offers the ability to create and edit AcroForms, PDF's answer to the HTML form. Like HTML forms, PDF forms can contain text boxes and radio buttons, and can call JavaScript functions. The Extended Edition also includes a PDF reader for importing and editing, along with FDF support and verification for Digital Signatures. Both variations offer full Unicode support, encryption, embedded TrueType and Type1 fonts, barcodes, hyperlinks, spot and calibrated color. Advanced text layout engine enables complex HTML styles.
bind 9.2.2 (Bind9-Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115087/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
Bloof 0.1 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115114/
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.
Bochs 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115113/
Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run DOS, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, and other OS's, all on your workstation.
Bookmark4U 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115107/
Bookmark4U provides you a comfortable bookmarking environment. With Bookmark4U, users can access to their favorite Web sites everywhere just by one click without remembering URLs of them any more. The bookmark data are stored in a database in the server, and can be searched very easily. Bookmarks can be arranged in folders in any depth. For each bookmark, visit information is managed, such as the visit counter, or the last visit time and date, etc. It is written in PHP script language, and requires a database interface such as MySQL.
CASM 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115147/
CASM is an offline content management tool. It is ideal for creating and maintaining dynamic or static Web, WAP, or XML sites. CASM is implemented as an integrated command-line application which contains the Content Assembling Language compiler, an optimizer for HTML, CSS, and XML, HTML tidy integration, a powerful site file structure builder, and more. Content Assmebling Language (CAL) is a markup language designed to separate site content from display properties. CAL has a comfortable templating mechanism, if-then-else structure, variable substitution, file including, recordset handling, looping functions, and more.
CCZE 0.1.212
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115156/
CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog, and more.
Childsplay 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115131/
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like then gcompris.
Cloxten 0.1.6-1 Pre-Alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115148/
Cloxten is a digital alarm clock and counter. It is able to execute a variety of events and actions at set times, such as send messages, play sounds or music, show a reminder window, open a file, or execute a program.
CrisoftRicette 1.0pre15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115108/
CrisoftRicette is a simple PHP application to build your personal archive of cooking recipes in a MySQL database. The interface has international support.
CUT 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115047/
CUT is a unit-testing framework for C, C++, and Objective-C. Unlike other unit testing tools, CUT doesn't strive to be an SUnit clone. It automates a lot of the drudge work often encountered when using other unit testing packages for the C family of programming languages. CUT may also be used to unit-test assembly language software in some circumstances.
Damascus 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115153/
Damascus is a GTK+ 2.x client for the Gale communication protocol. It is somewhat modelled after IM/ICQ-style interfaces. If you don't know what Gale is, this client probably won't be very useful; you need a valid Gale key to send anything, and Damascus can't generate them (yet). Gale is also scary and confusing.
Daybodep 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115118/
Daybodep generates dependencies for C programs.
dvd::rip 0.50.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115139/
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.
elmo 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115159/
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, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can choose the appropriate words to use in the quote's attribution.
EzHelpdesk Manager 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115119/
The EzHelpdesk Manager Module is a plug-in for EzEnterprise which provides a rules-based automated helpdesk management processing system. All users are able to submit requests which are then processed against established rules and automatically assigned to the appropriate staff and/or support group to resolve the request. The system includes an integrated dashboard for technicians and users so they can monitor their request activity in real time. This module allows an organization to internally manage all aspects of request processing.
EzSDK 4.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115115/
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.
findmac 1.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115102/
findmac is a utility written in Perl that helps administrators find out exactly which switch and which port a host is patched into. Only CISCO equipment with CDP enabled is currently supported. It is a very useful tool for administrators of large scale CISCO networks.
Gherkin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115038/
Gherkin is a Web-enabled multi-threaded, centralized security scan manager that incorporates Nessus vulnerability scanning, DNS and nmblookup name resolution, nmap fingerprinting and scanning, and customized traceroute-based network node detection.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115106/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.8.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115128/
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.
Hell World 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115155/
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 of the Windows-only version of Hell World.
Hu-Go! 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115170/
Hu-Go! is a PC Engine Emulator for Linux/i386 under console and X11. It plays Hu cards and CDs (and various forms of dumps from them).
IceWM Control center 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115052/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
INTERact INTERNET PROVIDER 1-0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114999/
INTERact INTERNET PROVIDER is an RPM package for configuring and running a Linux server as an ISP or intranet server. It configures DNS, a Web server, mail, and a MySQL database for multiple accounts on a single or multiple servers. It handles invoicing, provides static binaries, and includes the INTERact BBS system.
Issue Tracker 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115088/
Issue Tracker is a portal application that provides help desk ticketing and bug tracking functionality. It has the ability to move issues between reps and groups, escalate issues to another group, have public and private issues and events, send e-mail and SMS alerts, and interact with systems like Bugzilla, Clarify, and Remedy (and any other system that allows e-mail interaction).
Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115100/
Java Parser is a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility. The generator builds parsers from straight EBNF notation files.
Java Regular Expression Package 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115101/
Java Regular Expression Package is a Java package that includes classes for handling regular expressions and non-deterministic finite state automata (NFAs). It contains much of the functionality of Perl-type regular expression handlers.
JOELib 2003-03-04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115157/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
jRSVP 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115017/
jRSVP is a Java 1.4 tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a technique for extremely fast reading. It uses the Multivalent library for parsing input documents, and is able to read PDF, PS, HTML, man pages, and other documents. It displays texts on a word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence basis and features a file history and bookmarks.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-rc1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115061/
Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling, auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows.
KAlarm 0.9.3 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115165/
KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to display an advance reminder, whether to play a sound when the message is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
Kalyp 0.3.2-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115110/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together.
LILO 22.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115169/
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 systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
LilyPond 1.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115140/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
Linux Wireless LAN Project 0.2.0 (wlan-ng (11Mbps)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115135/
The goal of the Linux WLAN project is to develop a complete, standards based, wireless LAN system using the GNU/Linux operating system. What differentiates this project from the Linux wireless extensions and other Linux wireless projects is that it is basing everything on the IEEE 802.11 standard.
Looking Glass 1.7p5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115123/
LG is a Looking Glass written in Perl as a CGI script. It can execute almost all BGP-related commands and do ping and traceroute in routers or relay these queries to other looking glasses. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 commands, and is tested with Cisco, Zebra, and Juniper. It can connect to a router using SSH, telnet or rsh.
Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115171/
mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. mkCdrec is also able to restore disks in Software RAID and LVM mode.
MumabAs 0.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115121/
MumabAs is a GUI for configuring which mailboxes mutt should watch for new mail.
netrik 1.4.0 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115134/
Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking any comfort.
NetStats Baseball 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115040/
NSB is a simulation of major league baseball which will play single games and entire seasons. It will keep statistics for the individual players and the teams. It will keep track of the season schedule as well as seasonal and lifetime records.
ngetcgi 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114989/
ngetcgi is an CGI front end for nget that makes it easier to select and download files.
NVRAM WakeUp 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115138/
NVRAM WakeUp can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.
oCAN 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115104/
oCAN is a device driver for the Intel 82527 CAN controller. CAN (Controller Area Network) is an ISO protocol widely used in embedded systems for reliable, real-time transmission of data between different "CAN Stations". The driver allows user application to access registers and message objects in the 82527 controller, as well as control individual configuration items with a higher level abstraction. It works on both 2.2 and 2.4 Linux kernels.
Open Learning Management System 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115103/
OpenLMS is a Learning Management System (LMS) made at the Department of Geography, NTNU. The system is a fully functional LMS with support for group collaboration, file sharing, distribution of lectures, and other supporting features. It is a good tool for distributing lecture notes to groups of students, and for faciliating collaboration for groups of students and teachers.
OpenGFS 0.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115126/
OpenGFS is an enterprise-class clustered filesystem for organizations requiring low-cost shared data storage and management. It is a continuation of the GPLed version of the Global File System as originally started by Sistina, which switched to a non-free license.
phpBlogger 1.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115136/
This program is a Web log utility for a single developer. Its main purpose is to allow an employer to keep track of the work that's been done on a daily basis. It provides a detailed search engine, reviewer, and mailer plugin for mailing logs by hand. It can be setup to automatically update with cron.
phpreports 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115025/
phpreports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report.
PolarViewer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115051/
PolarViewer is a viewer application for exercise files recorded with Polar heartrate monitors (S710 and S610). It displays all of the recorded exercise data (except power) and creates diagrams. It is written in C# using the Gtk# toolkit.
popa3d 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115172/
popa3d is a POP3 daemon which attempts to be extremely secure, reliable, RFC compliant, and fast (in that order).
POPFile 0.18.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115174/
POPFile is an automatic email classification tool using a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy, and a Web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.
PPTP Client 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115090/
PPTP Client allows you to connect to a PPTP server from a Linux box. It sets up a PPTP call, after which the PPP daemon establishes a PPP link over that PPTP call. The client can access PPTP-based VPNs. Besides remote access to internal corporate networks, some CATV and ADSL ISPs are using PPTP to provide Internet access to their customers.
PPTP_GUI 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115130/
PPTP_GUI is a graphical interface to the existing PPTP Client for Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
Proteus EAI Toolkit 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115122/
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 Desktop Server 0.4.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115144/
The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.
QBrew 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115092/
QBrew is a homebrewer's recipe calculator. You can create and modify ale and lager recipes as well as calculate gravity, color, and bitterness. QBrew includes a database of styles, grains, hops, and miscellaneous ingredients, plus a brewing tutorial.
Remote Arpwatch 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115105/
Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from remote devices usin g SNMP and checks them for changes. It is very useful for det ecting problems and malicious users in networks with routers th at don't support static ARP tables.
RScheme 0.7.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115124/
RScheme is an object-oriented, extended Scheme implementation with a compiler that targets C or (RScheme's own) bytecodes. It has features expected from a modern language: an object system, reflection, modules, namespaces, safe macros, threads, a system call interface (including sockets), separate compilation, and persistence, as well as the formal basis and power of the Scheme programming language. RScheme also features a powerful, elegant foreign code interface.
Sendmailizer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115154/
Sendmailizer performs MTA log file analysis and generates email usage reports, with general stats and statistics per user.
ShipTrack PHP Class 0.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115076/
The ShipTrack class gives users a direct link to shipment tracking Web sites when given a carrier code and tracking number. It currently supports UPS, FedEx, Roadway, BAX Global, New Penn, ABF, Redstar, Yellow, DHL, FedEx Freight East, Emery Global. G.O.D., Old Dominion, US Post Office, and Cargo Connect (CCX).
Simple API 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115168/
Simple is a comprehensive Java framework for the development of HTTP services. The framework consists of an API for the development of Java HTTP services and a service engine to process them. The API provided enables service components similar to Java Servlets to be developed. Simple HTTP services provide functionality comparable to Servlets with much better support for concurrency and component chaining, and a much cleaner interface.
SimPlEdi 2003-03-04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115149/
SimPlEdi is a Web-based editor for MP3 playlists (M3U) which are used in popular music players like Winamp or XMMS. The file locations are stored relative to the playlist location, which makes it possible to use the generated lists on changing environments such as mounted network drives or CDROMs.
Slackware 9.0-rc1 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115117/
Slackware is the longest-running distribution of the Linux operating system. Slackware offers a stable and secure version of Linux that is perfect for home, office, or educational use. Slackware is easy for beginners to install, but contains all the advanced features required by the experienced UNIX power-user.
Snort 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115109/
Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.
SoL-diag 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115018/
SoL-diag is a diskless Linux distribution that was designed for the rescue and analysis of i686 computers. The 36MB image contains over 300 programs, including DVD and MP3 players and CD-RW buring tools. It is also useful for improving your Linux skills and benchmarking computers without having to install programs to the hard drive.
Sophie 1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115141/
Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti virus vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie initializes SAPI (Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus patterns into memory, opens local UNIX domain socket, and waits for someone to connect and instructs it which path to scan. Since the database is loaded in RAM, scanning is very fast. (Note: speed of scanning also depends on SAVI settings and size of the file.) It works on Linux, Solaris (Sparc/x86), HP-UX, and FreeBSD. It was made as a part of 'Virge' project, which is a mail/attachment/virus scanning tool, written in C.
SQL ToolBox 0.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115021/
SQL ToolBox is a database administration and code generation tool that features a graphical user interface, compatibility with JDBC databases, a code generator for EJBs, and CSV and XML data support. Its JBuilder and NetBeans integration supports a database browser and a SQL editor with syntax highlighting and syntax checking.
Stanchion 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115096/
Stanchion is a relatively easy to use Model-View-Controller framework for J2EE Web Applications. It has similar features to Jakarta Struts, but is a bit more lightweight.
Tow Bowl Tactics 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115064/
Tow Bowl Tactics is a game based on Games Workshop's Blood Bowl. It is an epic conflict between two teams of heavily-armed and quite insane warriors. Players pass, throw, or run with the ball, attempting to get it to the End Zone at the end of the field to score a touchdown. Games are full of violence and carnage and could be