[osdn business] March 06, 2003

0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/05/BU78795.DTL

[0]FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public
consumption over at [1]www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And [2]Scorchen writes "[3]YOPER has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is the their first stable release." Here's [4]the announcment. The website claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages." Links

    0. mailto:frosgate@yahoo.com
    1. 
http://www.slackware.com/
    2. mailto:justin@inforeading.com
    3. 
http://www.yoper.com/
    4. 
http://www.yoper.com/finalannounce.html

AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0125250

linuxwrangler writes "AOL [0]announced today that its spam filters hit the 1 billion reject mark for a 24 hour period. This is an average of 28 rejects per day per member. In addition, AOL spam engineers say they receive 5.5 million spam submissions each day from AOL users. Other reports [1]here(1) and [2]here(2)." Links

    0. 
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/230645356&ticker=aol
    1. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/05/financial1928EST0343.DTL
    2. 
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,79045,00.html

Slashback: Humility, Patents. Vapor.com
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1728252

Slashback brings updates on Salon's quest for money, Miguel de Icaza's thoughts on the most recent KDE vs. GNOME critique, bad news for anyone who wants a cute Windows-free laptop from Lindows.com, and more -- read on for more details.

Working as a Game Tester
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1639224

DaytonCIM writes "SFGate.com has a great story on the real [0]life of game testers. 'Life is not all fun and games, though. It's all games -- with little time left for sleeping or eating, at least during the busy months before Christmas. The longest week he has logged was 106 hours, and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.'" Links

0. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B2B5CBF33-899B-45CC-81DD-C7DFD5959D68%7D&siteid=mktw

Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2152230

Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker [0]Rambus has been found [1]guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the [2]FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.'
Links

    0. 
http://www.rambus.com/
    1. 
http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/05/technology/rambus.reut/index.htm
    2. 
http://www.ftc.gov/

The Future That Hasn't Arrived
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2031241

[0]jonerik writes "[1]MSNBC has [2]this article on an exhibit starting
this week at Philadelphia's [3]Lost Highways Archive and Research Library. Entitled [4]Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised, the exhibit focuses on the artwork of the elusive A.C. Radebaugh, a commercial illustrator whose works promised us a glittering, shiny tomorrow from the '30s to the '50s; a helicopter in every garage, massive streamlined cars, vacations on Mars - in short, pretty much everything we didn't get. The exhibit collects examples from Radebaugh's portfolio, auto designs for Chrysler, DoSoto, and Dodge, ads, and 'Closer Than We Think!,' a syndicated weekly comic strip drawn by Radebaugh. I want my jetpack, dammit!" Links

    0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
    1. 
http://www.msnbc.com/
    2. 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/880581.asp?0dm=C19IT
    3. 
http://www.losthighways.org/
    4. 
http://www.losthighways.org/radebaugh.html

What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2023200

lucabrasi999 writes "Here's an interesting [0] commentary from Mike Tarsala at CBS.Marketwatch.com regarding R&D spending by U.S. companies as it compares to overseas firms. It compares today's US tech firms to the Big Three Automakers of the 70's, while saying the overseas tech firms are similar to the Toyotas and Hondas of the 70's. In other words, US Tech firms are about to be taught a lesson in global capitalism. I think Mike is 100% correct. What do you think?" Links

Toshiba To Show Laptop Fuel Cells at CeBit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/196256

war3rd writes "According to [0]The Register, Toshiba has finally been able to build a fuel cell for laptops that they will unveil at [1]CeBit next week. The fuel cells are expected to last approximately 5 hours and are compatible with existing lithium-ion batteries. Form factor remains the only issue. The trick is that they use the water by-product from the cell to dilute the methanol source as it enters the
[2]reformer, and are therefore able to store higher concentrations of
methanol in the cell. My only concern is how quickly can they get this to market?"
Links

    0. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29590.html
    1. 
http://www.cebit.de/
    2. 
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-processor2.htm

Newsforge Reports
Got checkmate? ChessBrain grid is now online http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/143217

by Tina Gasperson - ChessBrain is a very powerful distributed computing network. It is similar to SETI@home in that volunteers sign up to donate spare computing power from their PCs. The difference is that all that power is used, not in the search for extra-terrestrial life or to fold proteins, but to play the ancient game of chess.

Young project leader hopes to make Linux software installation easier http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2310251

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Autopackage is a concept that is in the process of becoming a reality, a little bit at a time, in the traditional Open Source manner. The idea is to come up with a single software packaging/installation system that will work across all major Linux distributions, and resolve dependencies, too, so that neither developers nor users need to worry about distribution compatibility issues. This is an interview with project ...

Turning a Lindows/Microtel box into a Debian Delight http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/190256

By Paul M. Foster - A Lindows machine is a very inexpensive machine put out by Microtel whose operating system is Xandros Linux, with some Lindows visual tweaks. You can get them at Wal-Mart (online only), and all the components (video, audio, network card) are soldered onto the motherboard. The only thing not soldered onto the motherboard is a winmodem that occupies the single PCI slot. The machine has an 800MHz Via C3 processor, 256M of ...

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Moto and Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2255259

Motorola's adoption of Linux and Java for future mobile phones may be a sign of a major shift in software strategy for the entire cell phone industry.

Sony PlayStation 2 gets Debian-based Linux distro http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2251259

Don't know where to look next?

xRhino has released BlackRhino, a Debian-based Linux operating system for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console.

Shorthand Scripting Language 1.2.0 released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2226221

Anonymous Reader writes "The latest Release of the Shorthand Scripting Language 1.2.0 is now available for download.

Xbox Linux Project complains to EU about Microsoft dumping http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/187223

Representatives of the Xbox Linux Project have asked the European Union to widen its investigation of alleged anticompetitive behaviour in the community to include Microsoft's Xbox.

Alan Cox: Linux 2.2.24
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1747251

No changes from 2.2.24-rc5 except to remove the -rc5 identifier.

Linux set for Asian growth
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1745209

A survey of IT managers in the Asia-Pacific region has found that the use of Linux on servers is set to grow at double the rate of its closest rival

Approaches to a Linux PVR
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1743259

I have been looking into how to set up a Linux personal video recorder, or PVR. I don't have one working yet, but I have learned a few things. Here are notes on the two approaches that look best for a Linux PVR.

Open Source puts down roots in Finland
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1742257

Some 400 IT managers and other decision-makers from throughout Northern Europe explored the business climate, for GNU/Linux specifically and Open Source generally, in Helsinki last week.

Grant program provides financial assistance to PHP http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1731252

Marco Tabini writes "php|architect, the monthly magazine for PHP professionals, is proud to announce the creation of the php|architect Grant Program, whose goal is to provide financial support to best-of-breed PHP-related projects.

Public exploit available for Sendmail flaw http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1648223

Confused? Frustrated?

Michael S. Mimoso writes "By Edward Hurley, News Writer. Hours after a serious flaw in Sendmail was announced, a Polish security group has released an exploit that could take advantage of the flaw on systems running certain Linux distributions."

Freshmeat
Absolute Patience 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115200/

Absolute Patience is a collection of 400 solitaire card games, including 332 famous classics like Klondike, Freecell, Spider, Yukon, and Gaps, and 68 original games. Most games come with optional rules for a grand total of 600 variants. It features photo- realistic custom card graphics in 3 sizes, fully customizable cards, piles, and playing area, high quality sounds, unlimited undos, saving, a performance analyzer that determines if a game can be completed, and an entertaining scoring system. Detailed statistics are kept for each game played.

AC3D 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115233/

AC3D is a 3D object/scene modeler available for Windows and Linux. It allows the viewing, editing, or construction of 3D graphics with a simple intuitive interface. It is used for creating 3D models for games and virtual reality environments as well as for general data visualisation purposes. It features vertex level multi-point line and polygon editing, surface extrusion/revolution, and a graphical texture coordinate editor. File formats supported include 3DS (3D Studio), Lightwave, OBJ, VRML, and POVray.

ADODB 3.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115262/

ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and blob/clob support.

Apache Ant 1.5.2 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115221/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.

Article Manager 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115250/

Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the following features: supports multiple users with different access levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads up to 10 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful search engine, a customizable database, the ability to customize the HTML templates, and much more.

asciijump 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115217/

asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.

asterisk-oh323 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115225/

asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to the ASTERISK soft PBX. It does this by interfacing the OpenH323 library to ASTERISK through a loadable module. The package provides the channel driver as well as a wrapper in a shared library form. It is able to initiate and receive calls to and from H.323 endpoints, and has been successfully tested with the H.323 terminals on the OpenH323 site (ohphone, openphone) and Microsoft NetMeeting.

CAMFR 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115231/

CAMFR (CAvity Modelling FRamework) is a fast, flexible, and friendly full-vectorial Maxwell solver. Although it can tackle general electromagnetic problems, its main focus is on applications in the field of photonics, like lasers or photonic nanostructures.

CentralNic Toolkit 0.05 (Perl)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115236/

The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.

ClassBrowser 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115252/

ClassBrowser is a GNUstep browser for developper documentation. It will use gsdoc, xlp, or rtf as main documentation, and it has other features like history and headers view.

comic-icons 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115270/

comic-icons are a set of icons in PNG format with a size of 64x64 pixels.

dark fagga 1.1 (IceWM)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115241/

dark fagga is a theme which tries to be not too dark but also not too bright.

DrWright 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115219/

DrWright is a program that forces you to take regular breaks from your computer. If you like whistles, bells, and a thousand options, this is not for you. Feel free to check out xwrits instead. DrWright monitors keyboard and mouse activity and displays a small meter in the notification area on your panel. When it starts blinking, you know it's time to take a break. If you don't, it will lock your screen to force a break.

Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator 2.5.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115255/

Flex is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns in text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive start conditions.

fBuilder Plus 2.4.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115228/

fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. There are two versions of fBuilder: fBuilder Lite, a free version that includes a standard set of features, and fBuilder Plus, which includes edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities, support for IP aliases, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.

Free Realty 2.7-pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115242/

Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package, "... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the ultimate goal of this project.

FreeTar 0.9 (GNUstep)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115269/

FreeTar packages the tar command line functionality into a familiar MacOS X and GNUstep application. FreeTar has many useful features, including access to tar without typing any commands, support for any version of tar that supports the basic tar command line switches (-c, -v, -f, -z, -Z), optional built-in compression support (gzip or compress), and full user preferences.

fwtrends 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115216/

fwtrends is a project to ease firewall log monitoring via a Web GUI. It imports log files from various firewall software and can easily generate graph statistics from alert events. It allows you to investigate single remote source addresses and what alerts they generated.

Genius 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115279/

Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface.

Genuts Snake 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115220/

Don't know where to look next?

Genuts Snake is a remake of the popular classic snake game. Eat as many mice as possible, Don't hit the walls, and don't bite your tail. Genuts Snake uses the Genuts Framework.

GraphThing 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115213/

GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate, and study graphs. These "graphs" are mathematical objects, that describe the relationships between sets; they are not 2D plots, charts, or any other sort of visual object.

Highlight 2.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115263/

Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports ADA 95, Assembler, Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, Java, Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, (Object) Pascal, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and Visual Basic files. It's possible to easily enhance Highlight's parsing database.

Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.64_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115224/

Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.

KnutWall 1.1-rc1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115247/

KnutWall is an advanced iptables firewall. You don't need any prior iptables experience to set up KnutWall. All the configuration is done from a separate configuration file where you select what network interfaces to use, what ports to open, etc. You will also find features like banning, portforwarding, and NAT, to name a few. KnutWall works well with either one or two network interfaces.

Linux 2.5.64 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115209/

Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

mailfront 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115282/

mailfront is a set of customizeable network protocol frontends for mail servers, replacing or supplementing the features available with the MTA software.

Mailgust 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115218/

Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and much more.

MenuGen 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115273/

Confused? Frustrated?

MenuGen generates hierarchical Web site menus of arbitrary size. These menus consist of static HTML pages which neither use server side scripting nor client side scripting (like JavaScript). These menus are intended to be displayed in a seperate vertical frame.

Moosic 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115274/

Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.

Morphon XML-Editor 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115226/

The Morphon XML-Editor is a validating WSYSIWYG XML editor that lets you create and modify XML documents in an intuitive manner. Using DTDs (Document Type Definitions) and CSS (Cascading StyleSheets), the editor guarantees the integrity of your XML documents and presents them in a consistent and user-friendly way. The XML editor is bundled with the Morphon CSS Editor that can be used to customize your CSS, allowing you to change every aspect of the way the XML editor presents your document while editing. The CSS editor can also be used stand-alone to directly create CSS for the Web.

mousikos 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115195/

mousikos is a portable music player manager for GNOME. It supports on-the-fly bit-rate peeling (Ogg to Ogg), re-encoding of MP3s and Oggs, and is based on playlists. It is designed to be able to support various types of portable music players.

MTL irc2msn 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115227/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

MTL irc2msn is a Java-based gateway. It allows a user to connect to the MSN Messenger network using their existing IRC client. MTL irc2msn uses the jmml libraries to connect to MSN.

MyDNS 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115229/

MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

netWindows 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115214/

netWindows is a DOM-based DHTML toolkit that provides a framework and useful widgets for developers to build Web apps that act less like Web pages and more like true applications.

NVRAM WakeUp 0.90 (New)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115142/

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.

OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite 0.50 (ODBC Bench) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115260/

The OpenLink Universal Data Access Driver Suite is a suite of high-performance drivers for ODBC and JDBC that enable development of database-independent applications under Linux. It supports OpenLink Virtuoso, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft ACCESS, IBM DB2, Informix, Sybase, Ingres II, Progress, PostgresSQL, DBASE, Paradox, and other ODBC-compliant databases. It runs on x86, Itanium, Alpha, PPC, Mips, and StrongArm platforms.

OSX Control 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115254/

OSXControl allows you to shut down, reset or put to sleep an Apple computer running OS X after a set time lapse. A plugin architecture is supported for user extensions. It also has automation features and G4 optimization.

pam_require 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115253/

pam_require is a simple Plugable Authentication Module (PAM) for Linux (and maybe other systems which use PAM). It is an account module that allows you to require a special group or user to access a service.

Pascal To Doxygen Convertor 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115215/

Pas2Dox (Pascal To Doxygen) is a pre-processing filter for Doxygen. It allows Kylix/Delphi programmers to comment their code using JavaDoc style tags and then have Doxygen build the application documentation.

PHP Documentation Generator 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115264/

PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.

PHP FormMail 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115207/

PHP FormMail is a PHP script conversion of the original FormMail.pl, but with many security and spam related fixes and improvements. Some customization options are removed for simplicity while keeping functionality and improving it where neccessary. An ASP version of this script is also included.

PHP Weather 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115265/

PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page. PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several languages by using the included translations. You can also access the information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.

phpwsListings 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115004/

phpwsListings is a PHPWebSite module for running a listings site for virtually any type of item from houses to cars to books. Admins can set fields and field types, all of which are searchable.

pmacct 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115232/

pmacct is a network tool to gather IP traffic information (source address, bytes counter, and number of packets). Data is stored in an in-memory table whose content could be retrieved by a client program via a local stream-oriented connection. Gathering packets off the wire is done using the pcap library and one or more network interfaces in promiscuous mode.

Poco 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115249/

Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.

ppplog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115235/

ppplog keeps track of your PPP online sessions. Once started it detects when you are online and automatically calculates costs according to your local phone company. It doesn't matter whether your company still calculates by units (fix price for a unit, units differ in length) or by seconds (unitlength = n sec, price differs). Everything can be easily configured. The setup for your phone company is stored in a config file.

PrivateRadio 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114746/

PrivateRadio is a network jukebox player, collection organizer, and streaming system for MP3 or Ogg music files. It can be used out of the box as just a jukebox, is robust enough for organizing large collections, and is flexible enough to act as a multiple site streaming system with some easy scripting and configuration. It features a radio station metaphor that allows different types of music to be categorized and switched between.

ROBODoc 4.0.0beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115230/

Don't know where to look next?

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts specially-formated comment headers from a source file and puts them in a separate file. ROBODoc thus allows you to include the program documentation in the source code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can format the documentation in HTML, ASCII, AmigaGuide, LaTeX, or RTF format. It is even possible to include parts of the source code. It works with Assembler, C, C++, Java, Perl, LISP, Occam, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Fortran, shell scripts, HTML, and COBOL; basically any language that supports comments.

Ruby/CorporateTime 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115268/

CorporateTime is a proprietary calendar server system produced by Steltor. Ruby/CorporateTime is a Ruby language extension that serves as an interface to the CorporateTime Calendar API (CAPI). Its purpose is to allow interaction with CorporateTime servers via the Ruby programming language.

Sauron 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115245/

Sauron is a free DNS/DHCP management system with Web and command line interfaces. It is able to manage multiple DNS/DHCP servers. Complete dhcpd and named configurations are generated from a central SQL database.

Simple File Manager .21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115223/

Simple File Manager is a PHP-based file manager that allows files to be uploaded, renamed, edited, and deleted. It can also create sub-directories, require authentication, restrict the files and directories that can be edited, specify disk space quotas and maximum file sizes, and more.

Stanchion 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115280/

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.

Tcl/Tk 8.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115238/

Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional programming constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces, error handling, script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk provides portable GUIs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful widget set and the concise scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze to develop sophisticated user interfaces.

TinyButStrong 1.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115244/

TinyButStrong is a template class for PHP that allows you to generate HTML pages using MySQL, ODBC, SQL Server, or ADODB databases. It features simple block management, useful display formats, conditional displaying for blocks and locators, a cache system, and the ability to include other HTML pages and execute associated scripts.

uClinux 20030305
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115276/

uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.

VPNS 0.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115277/

Confused? Frustrated?

VPNs is a set of scripts to easily set up multiple VPNs using the vpnd. It uses per-host configuration and keys.

Vstr string library 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115246/

Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string, and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions (among others).

Waif 0.59.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115258/

Waif is a console audio unfrontend. That means that between the business of choosing the files to listen to and listening to them, there is no interface to hijack a controlling terminal, hog up screen space, or waste a perfectly good xterm. It also ends the hassle of restarting a player moving from one display to another. Waif works all its magic in the background leaving you free to do more important work. Waif is flexible and robust, supporting a wide number of file formats (MP3, Ogg, WAV, RealPlayer, MIDI, audio CD, and more) and a wide number of helper applications including mpg123, mpg321, ogg123, freeamp, and xmms.

XMMS status plugin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115267/

The XMMS status plugin provides a monitor for the state of XMMS which docks into the GNOME/KDE panel.

Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115251/

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ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.

ZDM Utils 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115256/

ZDM Utils is a set of utilities for rendering shaded relief maps from USGS 250k Digital Elevation Models. It allows users to parse USGS DEM files and generate a custom shaded 3D relief using their own color blends (created with any image program, like the Gimp).

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