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[osdn business] March 13, 2003
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Jupiter's Great Dark Spot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2146227
[0]Edball writes "For more than a century astronomers thought that the
Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images
from NASA's [1]Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as
large, [0]The Great Dark Spot."
Links
0. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12mar_darkspot.htm?list635374
Great Surplus Stores?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/226219
An old friend of mine, Todd San Martin, passed on a link to me of a
great surplus place in Orlando that has lots of old nasa gear and more,
and it made me think that it's probably time to talk about great
surplus shops again. Not just the aforementioned [0]skycraft or the
well known [1]Weird Stuff , although feel free to dicuss those too, but
I thought it would make a cool post as a jumping off point for people
to talk about their favorite shops especially those near aerospace
facilities, both online and off.
Links
0. http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/skycraftpictures.htm
Germany Mulls A Copyright Levy + VAT For PCs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2024205
[0]Willard B. Trophy writes "How does a US$13 plus an extra 16% tax on
computers sound? That's what intense lobbying by publishing industry
groups has forced the German government to consider. [1]UPI has the
story."
Links
0. http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/
Major League Baseball Releases Webcasting Plans http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2150242
[0]TopShelf writes "With spring in the air, it's time to discuss the
(US) national pastime. According to [1]this story at CNN, Major League
Baseball is planning to webcast 1,000 games this season. The
interesting part is that in order not to violate TV blackout rules,
they'll try to deny service to viewers who instead have local
broadcasts available, using [2]Quova's user-location service. At last,
an opportunity to see my hometown Detroit Tigers more than once a
year!"
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~TopShelf/journal
1.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/12/baseball.net.ap/index.html
2.
http://www.quova.com/
AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1655237
[0]SuperDuG writes "[1]AMD now offers three categories of processor for
notebooks grouped under the Athlon XP-M brand. It labels them "desktop
replacement," "standard," and the new "low-voltage". [2]AMD plans to
make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market using [3]the
Barton Core, a technology designed to double the CPU Cache. Looks like
yet another case of [4]AMD being one-up on [5]Intel."
Links
0.
http://www.eclec.tk/
1.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109783,00.asp
2.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~68176,00.html
3.
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reports/4634/1/
4.
http://www.amd.com/
5.
http://www.intel.com/
Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2050257
[0]jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an [1]artificial
hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of
scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace
damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder
what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family &
friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as
in this [2]story by Cory Doctorow?"
Links
0.
http://www.homestarrunner.com
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
2.
http://www.craphound.com/down/
A College Without Microsoft?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/0548224
An anonymous reader asks: "My grandfather is the president of a well-known undergraduate-only college of about 7,000 students. He tells me that an alumnus has agreed to donate $2.4 million initially (and up to $800,000 each succeeding year for 10 years) to the school for computer equipment and staff if the school agrees not to renew any contract and to buy no products or services (either directly or through an intermediary like Gateway) from Microsoft. I'm told that this isn't the enormous amount of money that it sounds like and that a change-over to non-Microsoft products would be costly. I think it'd be great for college students to use computers apart from Microsoft, but I'm told that the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students. Does the Slashdot community have any points that I can give my grandfather to present to the Board next month?"
100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/206256
BitHive writes "With all the talk on /. about the last mile, it looks like people in Mason County, WA may get what I've wanted for years--a 100mbps fiber connection straight to their home. The ISP, [0]DONOBi claims the personal account is 'unlimited,' but since they don't allow servers, and have a business account which is capped at 5Gb/month ($3/Gb addtl), I think we can guess at what their idea of 'unlimited' is. Their [1]service offerings can be found here. Is anyone on this service or knows something they can report?" Links
A Hydrogen-Based Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1729248
[0]Glog writes "Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of Wired magazine have
written an amazing article explaining [1]why we need to transition to a
hydrogen economy. Lots of info there, estimated cost and benefit ...
very good solid reasoning for whatever floats your boat - national
security, environment, super-duper-charged automobiles."
Links
0. mailto:nospam@nospam.com
E.U. Commission: More Antitrust Trouble For MS http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/181215
[0]Tidal Flame writes "[1]According to Wired news, Microsoft appears to
be in hot water over antitrust issues again. The European Commission
says it will require Microsoft to 'share more proprietary information
with its rivals' and 'uncouple' it's Media Player audiovisual software
from the Windows operating system." iCoach points to this [2]article at
The Register covering the same.
Links
0.
http://www.tidalflame.net
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57998,00.html
2.
http://theregister.com/content/4/29725.html
Newsforge Reports
Michael Robertson: the Steve Case of Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1819238
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - AOL sucks. There are many better, lower-cost ISPs. And Lindows sucks. There are many better, lower-cost Linux distributions available. These are articles of faith among sophisticated Internet and Linux users. But the Internet as a whole owes a lot to AOL and Steve Case, and Lindows is doing as much for Linux as AOL has done for the Internet, whether you like it or not.
BOFH is now passé, according to one consultant http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1621236
- by Tina Gasperson - Rick Freedman, IT consultant and author, says he sees changes coming in the typical IT admin job description. No longer will sysadmins or network administrators be able to get by on technical talent alone. In the near future, they're going to need - gasp - people skills.
Project JXTA passes "million downloads" milestone http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1542252
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - JXTA is a Sun-sponsored Open Source project that is the very embodiment of the company's oft-repeated "the network is the computer" mantrum. The idea of the project is to allow different many computers and computer-like devices to share information directly instead of using a central server. And JXTA is starting to get used in practical ways, so this is not just hot air or a "someday" dream.
Newsforge Newsvac
A tale of two licenses: Part 2 (GNU GPL)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2245216
rjmatm writes "The GPL is not without faults, as most software developers will tell you, there is no one perfect software license. However, the majority of complaints about the GPL do not come from individual developers or those who use software developed under the GPL. It comes from companies who want to restrict software use and distribution."
Debian Weekly News - March 11, 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/176212
Welcome to this year's 10th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. It seems to have been a big week in Linux kernel development. Recent work promises to make exciting improvements for desktop users. Meanwhile, Openstuff.net has recently released a new range of low cost Debian fun stuff, including t-shirts, polo shirts, sweat shirts and suitcases.
MidCOM - Midgard Components Framework 1.0 released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1831200
Henri Bergius writes "MUENCHEN, Mar 11th 2003 -- Linksystem Muenchen has released version 1.0 of the Midgard Components Framework (MidCOM). MidCOM provides a framework for creating reusable and configurable components for web applications using the Midgard Content Management Framework.
The Case of SCO v. IBM
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1828239
Anonymous Reader writes "Just about everyone who has been to the Linux and Technology news wires lately has heard of the case of SCO versus IBM. SCO has sued IBM for at least $1 Billion over UNIX and Linux as detailed in this article. The goal of this article is to not tell another tale of SCO suing IBM, but to inform the Linux community of the case, disect the case filed, and bring light to facts and statistics that help the case against IBM."
Snort survives first vulnerability
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1816204
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Snort, the immensely popular open-source intrusion-detection system, is no longer confined to cult status. Since going commercial in 2001 with the formation of Columbia, Md.-based Sourcefire, Snort's reach has extended into enterprises and deep into the federal government. Lauded for its stability, Sourcefire had its first million-dollar quarter in Q4 '02, has grown revenues 1,000% since '01 and has more than doubled ...
Reinventing Computing Blah!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1814245
ksergio writes "We have been told again and again that sofware sucks, because development methodologies are not mature enough. Well, it is time to recognize software is hard to write, and that no single methodology can lead to bugless, easy to use, fast software."
New Linux editions signal start of a war on Unix http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1714231
The stage is set for a battle royal over which server operating system will dominate IT departments in coming years. On the one hand are the upstart Linux distributors armed with last year's new releases, on the other established purveyors of proprietary Unix, many of whom are backing Linux as well. The decision is an important one for the large companies that need server operating systems because of its implications for the cost of IT.
Searching for the perfect Linux office
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/178225
After using and testing Linux over the last 14 months or so, I am more than ever convinced that it is a truly great operating system. It's stable, user friendly, powerful, and it doesn't crash every five minutes.
OSI: Brief of Amicus Curiae in SCO vs. IBM (draft) http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2030207
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational association with offices in Palo Alto, California. OSI is one of the principal advocacy organizations of the open-source community, which is alleged in SCO's complaint to have been beneficiary of tortious and illegal behavior by IBM.
Supercomputer has local roots
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1656229
Melbourne developers played an integral role in a new range of SGI supercomputers making their debut in the Extreme Linux roadshow touring Australian cities now.
Freshmeat
Achievo 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116019/
Achievo is a Web-based project management and tracking tool for smallto medium-sized companies, aiming to become a fully featured ERP-like system in the future. Features include a time registration module with several statistical tools. Achievo is multi-language, fully customizable, and uses a modular system to allow future extensions.
Bnet 0.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116037/
BNet is a simple API for bayesian networks which implements the junction tree algorithm. It has been used successfully to deal with bayesian networks and dynamic bayesian networks.
bosdl 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116048/
bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It features TrueType fonts, album covers, and a progress meter.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116095/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization application that dynamically creates visual representation of your syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.7.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116028/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types along with threads, synchronization and IP sockets. It is portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
camolive 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115970/
Camolive is an olive colored style.
DaDaBIK 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116021/
DaDaBIK is a PHP application that allows you to easily create a highly customizable Web interface for a MySQL database in order to search, insert, update, and delete records; all you need do is specify a few configuration parameters. It is available in English, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French.
DvorakNG 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116050/
DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements like a progress information database.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116016/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
Ensemblist 20030312
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116020/
Ensemblist is a 3D puzzle game in which you have to model a given shape with geometric primitives that you must assemble with boolean operations (using constructive solid geometry).
Epiphany 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116091/
Epiphany is a multiplatform clone of the game Boulderdash. It is written entirely in C++, using Clanlib as its graphic library. The player must collect all valuable minerals scattered in levels, while avoiding being hit by a falling boulder or a bomb.
exiscan 4.14-26 (For exim 4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116041/
exiscan is a patch against exim version 4, providing support for content scanning in email messages received by exim. It works after the sending client has completed the SMTP data phase and waits for an answer from the server. Messages containing unwanted content can be rejected at that stage, so the job of generating a bounce message is the job of the sending host. Four different scanning facilities are supported: antivirus, antispam, regular expressions, and file extensions.
ExpatWrapperClasses 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116109/
The ExpatWrapper Classes are a simple C++ wrapper around the populate XML parser Expat. They support parsing and writing of XML data, and work with a treenode structure in the memory. It's possible to parse files and memory areas.
eXtended Allow - Deny list for PAM 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116070/
XAD is a very easy to configure PAM module. Through a very easy language you can allow/deny access to users.
EzSDK 4.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116054/
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.
font2svg 0.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116017/
font2svg can convert any font that GhostScript is capable of rendering into an SVG-font. This includes all PostScript fonts, GhostScript's own format, and almost all TrueType fonts.
FourCoordinates 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116103/
FourCoordinates is a Mac OS X framework written in Objective C for listening to GPS devices connected to Macintosh computers. It takes care of interpreting the output of the GPS device and presents you with a simple class interface for obtaining the current coordinates, and (optionally) being notified when they change. Its goals are ease of integration, zero user configuration (i.e., autodetection of GPS devices), and support for a broad range of GPS devices.
FreeCraft 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116118/
FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It is possible to play against human opponents over a LAN or the Internet, or against the computer. The engine can be used to build RTS games like C&C, WarCraft, StarCraft, or AOE. Since FreeCraft only provides the engine, you need either the FcMP (FreeCraft Media Project) or the original game (normal or expansion CD), so FreeCraft can extract the files which are necessary for playing a game.
FreeMarker 2.2rc2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116046/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
Freevix 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116069/
Freevix is a tiny GNU/Linux distribution designed to provide a complete but small footprint environment for people wanting to build a Linux media player system with Freevo. Currently optimized for the VIA EPIA mainboards, it provides 45 second boot times, operation entirely from RAM, and supports loading from a 32MB CF card or PXE network booting.
GEQUEL 0.9 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116081/
GEQUEL is a GTK/C based frontend for the popular MySQL database engine. It was loosely derived from an old program by the same author (xsqlmenu). It can retrieve data from MySQL databases, present them in nice browser, and allows for update, delete, insert, and copy operations.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116058/
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.
gqueue 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116100/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It has Gnome system tray support and can show all jobs in printing queues as well remove jobs.
Gtk-IPTables 0.3.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116045/
Gtk-IPTables is a GTK-based frontend for iptables written in C. You can create rules for all chains for Filter, NAT, and Mangle tables.
Gujin 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116114/
Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your filesystems. It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot. Because it understands the structure of Linux kernel images, Gujin does not need LILO and can even load very big kernels. There is no need to execute anything after making a new kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the "/boot" directory. Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible.
Gyach 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116120/
Gyach is a GTK+-based Yahoo! Chat client which can use your existing Yahoo! logins for chatting in Yahoo! Chat. It supports colors, emotes/aliases, PMs, set status, remote user status display, ignore lists (local, non-Yahoo! based), a regex list of triggers to cause users to be automatically ignored, command-line recall via arrow keys, and tab completion of usernames.
imgSeek 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116039/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also find duplicate images automatically, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
iNet Factory 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116055/
iNet Factory is a robust suite of TCP/IP networking components for the Java platform. They provide all the tools necessary to quickly develop network-capable Java applications with minimum coding effort. Included are components for finger, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MIME, NNTP, nslookup, rexec, rlogin, rsh, telnet, whois, and other frequently-used protocols.
Issue Manager 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116090/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
JFtp 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116079/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory up/download, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode. The clients lets you browse the server while transferring files in both directions.
jpegtoavi 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116036/
jpegtoavi creates an AVI MJPEG file from a list of JPEG/JFIF files. It is designed according to the Unix toolbox philosophy, and thus does its one simple task and no others.
kio_z3950r 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116013/
kio_z3950r is a KIOSlave for the z39.50 protocol. It implements RFC 2056 for allowing information retrieval queries to be passed to z39.50 servers.
KisMAC 0.04a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116053/
KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely invisible and sends no probe requests.
MailDooHicky 1.9.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116102/
mdh (MailDooHicky) is a GTK2-based toolbar that can display the time, email message count, and various system (CPU, network, etc.) utilization. It also features five user definable buttons, a run window, and scratch pad.
Mailgust 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116047/
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.
Makepasswd 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116115/
Makepasswd generates pseudo-random passwords of a desired length. It is able to generate its crypted equivalent.
mdadm 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116122/
mdadm is a tools for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux "md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID.
MobileRPC 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116098/
MobileRPC is a tool that generates all of the files required to enable remote procedure calls (RPC) between J2ME client applications and Java servlet servers.
myDVDs 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116092/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
MZiq 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116084/
MZiq is a Perl frontend for mpg123. Its main feature is the deployment of Perl's regular expressions for ease of playlist creation. It also supports other miscellaneous helping options like nice, caching, and the ability to read its options and patterns from a file.
nethack-el 20030310
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116014/
nethack-el is an Emacs major mode for playing nethack. Separate buffers are used for the map, status, messages, and menus. It features customization of keys and colors and user programmable hooks on game events. It supports GNU Emacs 20/21 and XEmacs 21, with graphical tiles on *Emacs 21.
Non-Networked File System 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116038/
NNFS (Non-Networked File System) provides a consistent file system over several non-networked Unix computers (or slow networked).
OpenDocMan 1.1rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116075/
OpenDocMan is a full featured Web-based document management system designed to conform to ISO 17025/IEC. It features an automated installation script, check-in/out, departmental access control, file moderation, fine grained user access control, and a great search function. Written in PHP, and utilizing MySQL for the backend, this project is useful for any company looking to keep their documentation in a centralized repository.
OptiPNG 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116101/
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses the image files to a smaller size without losing any data. It works in a manner similar to pngcrush, but it has a wider automatic search space (leading to possibly a better compression), and it runs faster.
osx2x 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116096/
osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.
oxine 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116116/
oxine is a lightweight, purely OSD-based xine frontend for set-top boxes and home entertainment systems. It uses the on screen display functionality of xine to display its user interface elements like buttons, lists, sliders, and so on. Due to this, oxine can easily use any video output device the xine library provides.
Packit 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116052/
Packit is a network auditing tool that allows you to monitor, manipulate, and inject customized IP traffic into your network. It supports the ability to define (and spoof) all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP, RARP, and Ethernet header options. Packit can be valuable for testing firewalls, intrusion detection systems, port scanning, simulating network traffic, and general TCP/IP auditing.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116078/
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 Dump Maker 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116027/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116108/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
pmacct 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116076/
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.
Polipo 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116067/
Polipo is a lightweight caching Web proxy that was designed as a personal cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will complete them using range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if supported by the remote server.
PostgreSQL Hierarchical Queries 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116029/
This is a patch to PostgreSQL which allows it to perform hierarchical queries in Oracle's style.
Proteus EAI Toolkit 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116060/
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).
psmon 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116064/
psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or a fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage of processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of rules defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead processes, and slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal processes.
PyHtmlTable 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116121/
PyHtmlTable is a class for Python CGIs to generate HTML tables on the fly. It allows you to set individual row and cell attributes via arbitrary dictionaries, and span rows and columns. It autogrows the table if cells are set outside its initial range. It allows dynamic insertion of new rows and columns anywhere in the table, and allows bulk population of table data via arrays to arbitrary locations in the table. It also provides default cell attributes for tablewide uniformity and the ability to override these on a cell-by-cell basis.
S-terminal 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116080/
S-terminal lets you create a secure X terminal. Regular X terminals pass unencrypted data between you the remote machine. S-terminal creates an encrypted tunnel through which all X traffic passes. It replaces the remote xdm login screen with a local application that collects username and password, then sets up an ssh tunnel to the remote host and starts a session. It is highly configurable both in appearance and behavior, and deployed S-terminals can be remotely administered. Best of all, it can be added to a KNOPPIX CD to create an instant, bootable, secure X terminal CD.
Sendmailizer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116077/
Sendmailizer performs MTA log file analysis and generates email usage reports, with general stats and statistics per user.
shsql 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116051/
shsql is a a reasonably full-featured, efficient SQL database for Unix/Linux that can be downloaded and installed by a non-privileged user in 5 minutes. It can be embedded directly into applications requiring no persistent server process, has a small code size and memory footprint, uses plain ASCII whitespace-delimited data files which can be modified in a text editor, and is easy to administer. It can be used for rapid prototyping situations, demos, exploratory work, one-developer projects, etc. where full-blown packages like MySQL or Oracle aren't already available or are unacceptable.
Siege 2.57b9 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116072/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
SlackPkg 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116066/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux. It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide), and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
Solaris packaging tools 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116056/
PkgTools are a set of utilities which are used to aid in the building of native Solaris packages. There are five separate utilities which are used to build packages, prepare a chroot() environment to install software into prior to building a package, copy package control scripts into place, a tool to aid in the starting of new projects, and a tool to check that packages are installed correctly.
SoulSeek for Linux 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116104/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches and downloads.
Space Hulk 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116025/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called 'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network, either in real time or asynchronously via email.
Sylpheed 0.8.11claws (Claws)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116094/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
Symbio 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116085/
Symbio is a commenting system for Web sites and blogs. Its features include theme and multi-language support, smileys, text styling, and statistics.
TAMS 1.20a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116088/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.
The Coolest DHTML Calendar 0.9.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116022/
A DHTML calendar widget that works with IE >= 5.0, Mozilla, Netscape >= 6 as well as with all other Gecko-based browsers. It comes with eight color themes, and doesn't use frames or external windows, but uses Web standards and is lightning fast.
TkUsr 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116062/
TkUsr is a small program that allows you to manage the Self-mode of USR/3Com Message/Professional modems. You can use it to retrieve voice messages and faxes. It features smart retrieving with a cache system, so you do not have to download the whole memory when you only want a single fax.
TOAD 2003-03-12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116106/
The TOAD C++ GUI Library is a set of classes to create graphical user interfaces with the X Window System. While still under development, it aims to be an alternative to other popular GUI libraries in the future by providing innovative features that ease the development process.
trx 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116113/
TrX is a project that aims to produce a Debian GNU/Linux-based desktop router and firewall package. This package will be bootable directly from CD-ROM, so hard disk installation will not be necessary. TrX is designed to work completely off the CD-ROM, with configuration data stored on a floppy disk, harddisk partition or, in future versions, on a USB storage device. This is quite different from the common approach, where everything (program and configuration files) is stored on a hard disk.
ulim 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116030/
Ulim is a Linux kernel module which enforces resource limits on every process in the system. There are already solutions like pam_limit, but there are some places where the user can execute his programs, but PAM is not used (for example .forward or .procmailrc files, or CGI scripts). Ulim works in the kernel and sets the limits whenever a process changes its real UID, so every process run by a user will have the correct limits.
VirtuaDesk 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116065/
VirtuaDesk is a 3d