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[osdn business] March 18, 2003
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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March 18, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/035223
[0]krezel asks: "So I've been drooling over the [1]Ambient Orb, a cool
little gadget 'glowing ball' that you changes colors based the 'health'
of things you specify. It can do stuff like fade from red to yellow to
green as your stock portfolio improves. However, being a poor college
student I can't afford its $200 price tag. I've found lots of
[2]sources for super bright multi-color LED's. Cast a couple of them in
some translucent resin, hook them up to a power source, and you've got
yourself a cheap glowing ball. But I've yet to find any good
information on how to build hardware that will let me control relays
for devices like this through my serial or parallel port. Basically I'm
looking for a cheap way to build a board that will let me control 4-8
relays (for each color) over my serial port, and some info on how to
write the software for it. This could be a very cool project, and I
plan on making the plans available, and the code Open Source, when I'm
done with it. Any ideas?"
Links
0.
http://www.chrismetcalf.net
1.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/detail/
2.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/Study Finds Tivo Less of a Threat to Advertisers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0115236
[0]talboito writes "AdAge.com [1] reports that an internal study by
Proctor and Gamble concludes that Tivo viewers who fast forward through
ads recall their content at similar rates as those watching at normal
speeds. The article concludes with a choice quote by Proctor and
Gamble's former head of research on the significance of the results;
"[Proctor and Gamble] may still go out and try to browbeat the networks
into giving them a lower CPM [cost per thousand viewers] on the basis
of it, but they'd want to know either way.""
Links
0. http://[moc.loa] [ta] [otioblat]
The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0040211
Gentu writes "OSNews posted a [0]very long and interesting comparison
between the most popular desktop environments today: Windows XP Luna,
Mac OS X Aqua, BeOS/Zeta and Unix's KDE and Gnome. Some of the points
in the article can be thought to be 'subjective', but overall many good
points are made and it seems that there is room for improvement for all
DEs."
Links
0. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3064
Vapor-phase Processor Cooling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0016251
[0]Econolinecrush writes "If even exotic water-cooling isn't enough for
your processor cooling needs, there's always vapor-phase cooling. The
[1]Tech Report has an [2]interesting review of Asetek's latest
Vapochill system, an admittedly pricey cooling option, but one that
manages to fight off condensation while keeping even high-end
processors running at sub-zero temperatures. A little extreme? Sure,
but it's undeniably cool nonetheless." I haven't seen a cooling system
this intense since my organic chemistry labs.
Links
0. mailto:econolinecrush@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.tech-report.com/
2.
http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2003q1/asetek-vapochill/index.x?pg=1A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1215215
ziggy_zero writes "[0]SoulPix has revealed their project named "SoulFire", a photorealistic computer-generated TV series created entirely with 3ds max. Here's a [1]trailer (it's in German). Looks pretty cool, better than those CGI cartoons I've seen - although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality. Note - apparently the DivX version was encoded using a weird codec that doesn't work on all players, so you might be better off getting the Quicktime version." Links
The Era Of Satellite News Gathering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2128211
[0]swimgeek writes "The TV Technology for covering news as it happens
is changing. This article specifically talks about the [1]transition
from ENG (Electronic News Gathering) to SNG (Satellite News Gathering).
The American TV networks are close to spending $100 million for this
transition, anticipating a possible war in Iraq."
Links
0. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ashutosh/
WebDAV Buffer Overflow Attack Compromises IIS 5.0 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2139258
[0]rf0 writes "Well [1]CERT is [2]reporting a new overflow attack for
IIS 5.0. [3]Microsoft has [4]released a bulletin. Better download those
[5]patches and fix another security hole." [6]According to this CNET
story, Microsoft says that this is already being exploited, at the very
least since last Wednesday.
Links
0.
http://www.65535.net
1.
http://www.cert.org/
2.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-09.html
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/
4.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-007.asp
5.
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C9A38D45-5145-4844-B62E-C69D32AC929B&displaylang=en
6.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-992920.html
Dissecting Localized Google Censorship
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2046246
[0]carpe_noctem writes "[1]Linuxsecurity.com has a link to a rather
interesting story regarding [2]Google's use of localized censorship.
While not much information is given from the political side of why
Google might be censoring information likely to annoy certain
governments, it certainly isn't the first time [3]Google has come under
fire for censoring results on account of external pressures. Makes one
wonder how many pages get filtered out around the world."
Links
0.
http://www.aboleo.net
1.
http://linuxsecurity.com/
2.
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/google-censorship.php
3.
http://www.xenu.net/news/Sharp Ships Zaurus SL-5600; 5500 Available Cheap http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1924257
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]LinuxDevices is reporting the good news:
Sharp is now shipping the Zaurus SL-5600 Linux-based PDA. Compared to
the SL-5500 that's been out for the past year, this new model sports a
400MHz X-Scale CPU, twice the Flash (32MB), twice the RAM (64MB) a much
better battery (1700 mAh), and a real speaker and mic. Learn more at
[2]Sharp's website." And [3]IceFox writes "Well I wasn't expecting this
to happen till next week, but I guess it was put up early. For a
limited time on [4]hsn.com you can get a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA for
$198.92, combined with a hsn.com [5]coupon you can bring the price down
to $169.08. For anyone who has wanted to play with this Linux PDA here
is your chance to get it for very cheap." Update: 03/18 02:03 GMT by
[6]T: Reader Brendan Hoar corrects the listed specs: "The specs for the
SL-5600 are incorrect. It should be 64MB of flash, 32MB of SDRAM. It's
technically *half* the RAM of the SL-5500, not twice the RAM." Thanks.
Links
0.
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
1.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5108020734.html
2.
http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1027,00.html
3.
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin
4.
http://www.hsn.com/cnt/sf/default.aspx?sf=EC&sz=6
5.
http://dealcoupon.com/merchants/hsn.com.html
6.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1837202
[0]Julio writes "For some, the [1]Audigy 2 is what the original Audigy
should have been, however without trying to underestimate Creative
efforts, they are bringing us today a revamped soundcard that is set to
raise the bar like the original Live! did, many years ago. You will be
happy to know that Creative has taken care of the board quality from
the ground up, newer and better DACs are used to ensure
24-Bit/96-kHz/192kHz playback and among the rest of niceties the card
offers you have DVD-Audio playback, full 6.1 surround sound, THX
certification and the mandatory (for a Creative soundcard) EAX Advanced
HD."
Links
0. mailto:julio@techspot.com
Newsforge Reports
Why Shared Source is not Open Source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1330253
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This topic has been written about at least 1000 times. But hardly anyone seems to have highlighted the biggest practical difference between Open Source and Shared Source: That you can modify Open Source software to fit your device (and other software), while Shared Source only lets you modify your device (and other software) to fit the Shared Source software.
What eGovOS must do
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1259203
- By Richard Stallman - Two weeks ago, the main organizer of the eGovOS (open source in e-government) conference begged me to speak at the conference. It was not the first time. I refused, and I would like to explain why. [Note: The eGovOS conference opens today. NewsForge editor Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will be there starting this afternoon.]
The state of SuSE
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1421252
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I spent a little time on AIM with SuSE U.S. rep (and all-around nice guy) Holger Dyroff, discussing SuSE's new products, trends in Linux desktop/consumer use, and the state of Linux market penetration in general. This transcript has been edited (very lightly) only for grammar and spelling, not content. Make sure you read all the way to the end, where Holger mentions SuSE's take on SCO's decision to commit corporate ...
Newsforge Newsvac
IBM: Linux keeps on Trucking
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0531247
NZheretic writes "IBM / Rocksteady Networks Linux Infrastructure to Provide America's Three Million Truckers Nationwide Truck Stop Wireless Internet Access. 1,000 Truck Stops to Be Transformed to Offer Transportation Industry e-Business on Demand."
The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0528249
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews posted a very long and very interesting comparison between the most popular desktop environments today: Windows XP Luna, MacOSX Aqua, BeOS/Zeta and Unix's KDE and Gnome. Some of the points in the article can be thought to be 'subjective', but overall many good points are made and it seems that there is room for improvement for all DEs."
Study Says Linux Getting Most Converts From Windows, not Unix http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/0527242
NZheretic writes "On Information Week: Contrary to popular opinion, Linux is getting most of its developer converts from Windows rather than Unix, research firm Evans Data said Monday. More than half of Linux developers, 52%, formerly wrote primarily for Windows, while only 30% came from Unix, Evans Data said."
MontaVista Software Joins Open Mobile Alliance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/225228
Annette Oevermann writes "CTIA Wireless, New Orleans, March 17, 2003 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced it has joined the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a global organization formed to foster worldwide growth in the mobile services market.
Texas Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2156224
The Texas Legislature now has before it a bill, submitted by State Senator John Carona, to require the state to consider open source and open standards as part of the acquisition of software.
Gentoo vs. the n00b: Round 2?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2151246
Anonymous Reader writes "Here is a new article at OSNews, a walkththrough of the Gentoo installation for newbies."
Installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Rebel NetWinder http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2150240
GonzoJohn writes "For the serious techno-geek, Linux Orbit takes a look at installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Netwinder 3100 mini server. Though currently the Netwinder is not in production, the installation process and the discoveries made make for an interesting Linux sleuthing article. Lots of screen shots and configuration files included."
eCos announces eCos 2.0 Beta
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2148209
eCosCentric Limited writes "eCosCentric Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, working in conjunction with the eCos maintainers, today announced the release of eCos 2.0 Beta, the latest version of the eCos real-time operating system. This is a substantial release which reinforces eCos as the premier royalty-free open source RTOS."
Lowdown on Linux Skills
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2051205
What does it mean for IT professionals now that Linux is finding its way into a growing number of corporate settings?
Getting Started With Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/2034213
To hear some people tell it, Linux is taking the world by storm. Unilever, a $52 billion consumer products giant, is switching to Linux to run its businesses around the world.
Freshmeat
abcde 2.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116558/
abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.
ADODB 3.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116626/
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.
AdvanceMAME 0.66.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116637/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME, MESS, and PacMAME emulators for arcade monitors and TVs, but also for normal PC monitors.
Allegro 4.0.3 RC 2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116666/
Allegro is a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions, compressed datafile, and a GUI.
aMember 1.9.2 (Pro)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116606/
aMember is a flexible user management script. It has support for PayPal, Clickbank, Multicards, 2Checkout, Revecom, PayPal multi-currency processing, Authorize.net, Q-Chex, E-Gold and offline payments (offline cheques/Western Union/Money Order), and allows you to setup paid membership areas on your site. It also can be used without any payment system (you can manage users manually). Unique features are support for multiple payment systems at the same time and support for multiple products (subscriptions) with different levels of access, pricing, and time periods.
Aranha 0.0.325
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116567/
Aranha is a piece of software written to allow Web applications to be written more cleanly and more easily. It is a Local FastCGI Responder, although work is in progress to allow it to work as a FastCGI Authoriser and a FastCGI Filter. It is based on the programming language Lua, and contains many extensions to enable easy Web site development and maintenance.
asciijump 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116560/
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
Axualize 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116585/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please.
Babeldoc 1.0RC3 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116610/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
BASHISH 1.9.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116620/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
Bifrost Firewall iptables GUI 0.9.3-cb1 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116575/
Bifrost is a firewall management interface to iptables (iptables GUI). The system is inspired by Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, and Watchguard firewall management. With Bifrost you are able to work with incoming and outgoing traffic flows rather than focusing on interfaces. The system supports both IPSEC and High Availability. It is even possible to manage HA from the GUI. Bifrost has an advanced anti-spoofing function. There is also a very easy-to-use log watch function where you can apply filtering. Logging is controlled per rule. You can turn on/off logging for a rule on the fly, and there is built-in protection against log flooding. All firewall changes are made without interrupt already established connections. There is also support for traffic marking (mangle), very useful when you are working with QOS (bandwidth management) and advance routing such as policy-based routing. If you for some reason need something extra, it is possible to add your own commands.
CheckBook Tracker 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116662/
In order to leave Windows behind most people need a fully-functional money management program. CheckBook Tracker seeks to solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Import / Export QIF files straight from Money or Quicken, autocomplete, check printing, split transactions, balance forecasts and more.
Class::Date 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116647/
Class::Date provides a date datatype for Perl. You can create new Class::Date objects with a constructor from different scalar formats, array refs, and hash refs, and then you can easily manipulate it by the builtin "+" and "-" operators (e.g., $date=date([2001,03,15])+'3Y 1s'). Relative date types also available
CodeGuide 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116598/
CodeGuide is a lean and fast IDE for Java and JavaServerPages. It features on-the-fly error checking, incremental background ("instant") compilation, powerful refactoring capabilities, and support for generic types. A visual debugger with on-the-fly class replacement (HotSwap) is also included.
CvsGraph 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116617/
CvsGraph is a utility for generation of graphical representation of revisions and branches from a CVS/RCS repository.
CVSps 2.0b2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116603/
CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range, files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given patchset.
D Parser 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116655/
The D Parser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.
dailystrips 1.0.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116586/
dailystrips is a utility to download your favorite online comic strips each day. What sets it apart from the rest is its "local" mode of operation, which automatically downloads strips for you. Avantgo is also supported, for downloading comics to PDAs.
Damascus 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116640/
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.
Dasher 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116600/
Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. It is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used--on a palmtop or wearable computer, when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse, or when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker).
DazLi's Gnometris Themes 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116540/
DazLi's Gnometris Themes is a collection of backgrounds and blocks for Gnometris.
Dia 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116601/
Dia is a program for creating diagrams of all kinds. The current version can do UML class diagrams, Entity-Relationship modeling, network diagrams, and much more. The engine is very flexible and dynamically loads diagram-types from disk. It can currently export to PostScript and load/save in an XML format.
Disc-Cover 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116646/
Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB or CDINDEX database to build a back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi, PDF, Postscript, HTML, plain ASCII, or any other format suited for cdlabelgen.
docbook-utils 0.6.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116631/
docbook-utils contains scripts for easy conversion from DocBook SGML files to other formats (for example, HTML, RTF, and PostScript), and for comparing SGML files.
DOTCONF++ library 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116602/
dotconf++ is a dotconf like configuration file parser written in C++. It supports macro substitution from the environment or from the file itself, config file inclusion, easy handling of XML like tags, checking for required tags, and more. The whole document (with all inclusions) is parsed into a useful tree structure that is easy to use in your program.
dvipng 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116554/
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.
EasyMirror 1.18.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116671/
EasyMirror is an FTP mirror program written in C. It is powerful and easy to use, handles regular expressions, and will process remote ls-lR.gz-type index files to improve performance of scans.
Emdros 1.1.10.fix1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116576/
Emdros is a text database engine for annotated or analyzed text. It is applicable in linguistics, publishing, text processing, and other fields dealing with annotated text. Emdros has a powerful query language for asking relevant questions of the data. It is middleware, acting as a layer between a client (written by the user), and an underlying database. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
EMS MySQL Manager 1.1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116605/
EMS MySQL Manager provides powerful tools for MySQL Server administration and object management. Its Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to create/edit all MySQL database objects in a simple and direct way, run SQL scripts, manage users and administer user privileges, execute SQL queries, extract, print, and search metadata, and export/import data. It also supplies many more services that will make your work with the MySQL server as easy as it can be.
eTktab 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116594/
eTktab edits ASCII tablature for 4, 5, and 6 stringed instruments. Its features include 30 fretboard positions available via a single keypress, lyrics editing, expression marks (hammer-on, etc.), chord and solo note insertion modes, and custom guitar tunings and keybindings.
eXtended Allow - Deny list for PAM 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116592/
XAD is a very easy to configure PAM module. Through a very easy language you can allow/deny access to users.
fetchmail 6.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116651/
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
FFTW 3.0-beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116639/
FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).
FFTW 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116638/
FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).
fwanalog 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116552/
fwanalog is a shell script that parses and summarizes firewall logfiles. It understands logs from ipf (xBSD, Solaris), OpenBSD 3.x pf, Linux 2.2 ipchains, Linux 2.4 iptables, and some routers and firewalls (Linksys, Cisco). The excellent log analysis program, Analog (which is also free software), is used to create the reports.
Galeon 1.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116672/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
Gequel 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116561/
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.
Gestalter 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116568/
Gestalter is a free vector drawing program. The user interface is loosely modeled after Adobe Illustrator. The central element is the Bezier curve used as a base part for almost every other object. Complex paths are possible, compound paths can be constructed, grouping of elements is enabled, and everything can be screened by a mask. Adding and deleting of nodes is implemented as well as transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and skewing).
Getleft 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116664/
Given a URL, Getleft will try to download all links. As it goes, it modifies the original HTML pages so that the absolute links get changed to relative links, and links to active pages get changed to the resulting pages. It supports thirteen different languages.
ggcov 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116589/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
gnetload network load meter 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116652/
The gnetload network load meter is a network and ISDN load meter that is similar to xisdnload, but works in a distributed environment. It includes an agent (devstata) that runs on machines with interfaces to be monitored and periodically sends status information over the network. A display program (gnetload) collects and displays the data. Both can be run on the same machine, or be used to report on the state of a dedicated router on another machine. Using multicast or broadcast addresses, data can be fed to more than one instance of gnetload. A menu for taking network interfaces up and down is also provided.
gnom 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116628/
gnom is a solid, light, and clear style.
GNUitar 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116574/
GNUitar is guitar effects software that allows you to use your PC as guitar processor. It includes the following effects: wah-wah, sustain, distortion, reverberator, echo, delay, tremolo, vibrato, and chorus/flanger.
GNUstep 1.6.0 (LaunchPad)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116668/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc.
GTetrinet 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116578/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
H-Sphere 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116581/
H-Sphere is a multiserver control panel for automating web hosting tasks. It has many advanced features, a sophisticated billing system, private label/resellers support, and an integrated trouble ticket system to automate and improve your web hosting service. It is designed to work on many servers and can be scaled by adding more web servers, mail servers, database servers, and DNS servers without any downtime. It provides a simple, easy to use web interface that can be maintained from any computer with an internet connection. H-Sphere is written in Java and works with any SQL-compliant database.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.5-dev http://freshmeat.net/releases/116597/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
IcePref2 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116548/
IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for IceWM 1.2.2 and better.
IlohaMail 0.8.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116608/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity logging.
INTERact INTERNET PROVIDER 1.0-7d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116665/
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.
IPStat 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116551/
IPStat is an IP accounting package for Linux with a Java Servlet/JSP Web interface. It collects, summarizes, and displays IP accounting data. It supports ipchains/iptables and daily/monthly per-user limits, and all its data is stored in a MySQL database.
Ivy software bus 0.2.2 (Python)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116570/
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of libraries that allows applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a subscription mechanism based on regular expressions.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.91 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116588/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP header control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, (experimental) upload limits, VPNs (like vtun), ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script.
JGraph 2.1 (For Java 1.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116562/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
K Executable Viewer 0.1-03172003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116577/
This program allows users to view (and eventually modify) details of ELF (and other) executables with a nice KDE interface.
KPasswords 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116621/
KPasswords provides a convenient interface for managing usernames with passwords and other sensitive information. The information is stored in a hierarchical XML file, and passwords can be shown or hidden.
Languenet 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116629/
Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.
latd 1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116580/
The latd daemon allows users to connect to a Linux system from a LAT-enabled terminal server (e.g. a DECserver). It also provides a "reverse-LAT" so that printers and modems on LAT terminal servers can be accessed from Linux.
LFT 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116611/
LFT (formerly FFT) is an alternative traceroute program for displaying the route packets take to an IP network host/socket. Unlike Van Jacobson's traceroute, which is available on almost every platform today, LFT uses TCP in order to elicit ICMP TIME_EXCEEDEDs or other IP route data. As a result, LFT often executes much faster and sees behind some configurations of firewalls. Its stateful engine lets the user know when it encounters a stateful firewall or other interesting conditions. It also does AS number and netblock name lookups en route. Most importantly, LFT can trace specific TCP-based protocol routes (not just IP) to assist network engineers with manual fault isolation of network application problems.
libike 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116661/
libike is a cross-platform C library for managing IKE negotiations. The library implements RFC-standard ISAKMP/IKE exchanges and utilizes a callback mechanism to delegate tasks of the actual packet transmission and security policies management to the external code.
Linux 2.2.25 (2.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116641/
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.
Lorentz 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116599/
Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes, backgrounds, etc.
Mailgust 1.0 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116593/
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.
MaraDNS 1.0.16 (Recursive/Caching)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116632/
MaraDNS is a DNS server that strives to be secure and fully open-sourced.
MIMEDefang 2.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116612/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.
Mindless 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116636/
Mindless is an SDL-based puzzle game similar to the classic boardgame Mastermind. The goal of the game is to crack a secret code selected by your opponent before he has cracked yours. You can play human vs. human, human vs. computer, or computer vs. computer.
MiscTools 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116658/
MiscTools is a collection of small UNIX utilities that are fairly trivial but nevertheless useful. These include a binary dump program, a directory browser/selector, a file truncator, an ASCII-code lookup utility, a program for printing fortunes, a curses-based terminal lock program, and a few others.
my-swatch 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116607/
my-swatch pretends to be an implementation of msyslog and swatch together. What it pretends to accomplish is put all together, to log events to a remote database (like msyslog), and to awake triggers (like swatch). When a certain condition occurs you can be notified by email and awake certain events, like play a sound. You can also log the event to a remote database and use a Web browser to surf through the logs.
MyProxy 20030317
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116649/
MyProxy is a privacy-enhancing personal HTTP 1.1 proxy. Arbitrary URLs can be blocked by regular expression patterns and optionally replaced by transparent GIFs. Cookies can be controlled based on server/domain name. The "Referer", "User-Agent", and "From" HTTP headers can be dealt with in various ways. All user settings are configured through an HTML user interface.
Net::Server::Mail 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116635/
Net::Server::Mail is a versatile and extensible implementation of the SMTP protocol and its different evolutions like ESMTP and LMTP. The event-driven, object-oriented API makes it easy to incorporate the SMTP protocol to your programs.
NetMap network scanner 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116615/
NetMap is a network scanner written in Perl/GTK. It is not just anot