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[osdn business] March 28, 2003
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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March 28, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0354256
[0]Selanit writes "Salon has an [1]interesting article about the battle
against spam from the viewpoint of Suresh Ramasubramanian, a sysadmin
working in Hong Kong. His most interesting complaint concerns the
fragmentation of anti-spam forces: not only does he have to deal with
spammers, but also with anti-spammers who assume because his company is
Chinese that he isn't doing anything about spam. Hmm ... decentralized
opponents striking from the shadows against quarreling allies. Does
this sound familiar to anyone else?"
Links
0. mailto:public@atuan.com
Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0220233
1010011010 writes "According to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft [0]will be demonstrating Palladium (also known as 'Next-Generation Secure Computing Base') at WinHEC in May in New Orleans. The 'trusted root' is now called the 'Nexus' by Microsoft. Developers wishing to write 'Nexus-aware' applications will apparently have to pay a licensing fee to do so. The product manager for Palladium, Mario Juarez, says, 'It's important to note that nexus-aware applications will not hinder any apps or anything else running in the regular Windows environment.' I'm sure you can all hear the word 'yet' at the end of that sentence. There's talk of phasing in Palladium, starting with Longhorn Server in 2005. I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take. I, for one, am already planning to transition my company away from Microsoft software. Hopefully that won't get messed up by and dumb mandatory-palladium legislation from the Fritz types." Links
0. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,976208,00.asp
CDMA vs. GSM in Post-war Iraq
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0033236
An anonymous reader submits: "Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is
pressing congress to favor [0]CDMA over GSM for mobile phone service in
U.S.-funded reconstruction plans. One reason for pushing this is that a
CDMA system would benefit American companies, such as California-based
[1]Qualcomm, while GSM would favor European companies. Currently, GSM
is the most widely used mobile standard in surrounding countries."
Links
0. http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2171271
Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2041207
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Dell released a line of printers today,
manufactured by Lexmark. As covered by [1]by Yahoo they '..contain a
chip that disables the cartridge if it is refilled and replaced in a
Dell printer..' and 'The cartridges are different sizes than cartridges
from other printer vendors, including Lexmark, the spokesperson said.
This will limit the amount of knockoff cartridges available, but only
until someone figures out how to reverse engineer Dell's cartridges.'"
In the interest of full disclosure, note that the poster sells knockoff
carts.
Links
0. http://www.islandinkjet.com
FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2246238
[0]Andy Tai writes "The Free Software Foundation has [1]announced a
'[2]Corporate Patronage Program' to allow companies to support the work
of the FSF. The members already include IBM, HP, Ada Core Technologies
and MySQL. Interested parties should contact [3]Ravi Khanna."
Links
0.
http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png
1.
http://www.fsf.org/press/2003-03-27-patron.html
2.
http://patron.fsf.org/
3. mailto:patron@fsf.org
Slashback: Revolutionism, Media, Oregon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2330204
Updates and clarifications in tonight's Slashback include word on the extra-theatrical availability of Revolution OS, consideration of Free software in Oregon. availability of HP's new streaming-audio toy (which does not play Ogg Vorbis), and more. Read on for the details.
California Anti-Spam Law Approved
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/230208
[0]Metroid72 writes "Zdnet reports that "A California [1]anti-spam bill
passed the Senate on Wednesday, a first step toward the passage of a
law that would give people the right to sue spammers." I guess there's
light at the end of the tunnel"
Links
0. mailto:rp@home
Games on Demand
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2128225
[0]Laurens Simonis writes "Yesterday, the Dutch ISP [1]Planet Internet
introduced a [2]games subscription service. For a small monthly fee,
about $10, you get unlimited access to a growing [3]list of (sort-of)
current games which you can legally download from them. Currently, you
can pick from 20 titles including Tomb Raider Chronicles, Alone in the
Dark: The New Nightmare and Commandos 2. New ones are added monthly. To
my knowledge, this is the first time an ISP offers this kind of
service. Personally, I'm all for the idea. Could this be the future?
[4]Half-Life developer [5]Valve Software seems to [6]think so." This
looks really cool, but I'm curious as to how well it will catch on. It
feels about 5 years too early to me, but here's hoping it performs
well.
Links
0. mailto:lmsimonis (at) wxs (dot) nl
1.
http://www.planet.nl/
2.
http://pgc.planet.nl/index.html
3.
http://pgc.planet.nl/pgc/show/id=40788
4.
http://www.half-life.com/
5.
http://www.valvesoftware.com/
6.
http://www.steampowered.com/
Soldering with a Toaster Oven
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/208227
[0]nullset sent in a link to the [1]Seattle Robotics Society about
soldering in an unconventional way. Instead of the traditional
soldering iron, Kenneth Maxon has [2]successfully used a toaster oven
to solder surface mount parts. The "magic ingredient" that facilitates
this is a water-soluble solder paste. I wish I'd thought of this back
when I had to solder one of those *ahem* aftermarket accessories to my
playstation, since the whole process looks easier than trying to hold a
soldering iron steady.
Links
0. mailto:buddy.smith@ieee.org
1.
http://www.seattlerobotics.org/
2.
http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200006/oven_art.htm
Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1930256
[0]shmigget writes "[1]The Register is [2]reporting that [3]Microsoft
is throwing in the towel as far as NT 4 is concerned on [4]the latest
security flaw to affect Windows 2000, XP, and NT 4. They quote
Microsoft as saying 'The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do
not support the changes that would be required to remove this
vulnerability.'" There still is a workaround for NT 4.0. Instead of
patching the problem, it's advised to firewall off port 135 on an
affected machine.
Links
0. mailto:dellario@attbi.com
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29985.html
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/
4.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-010.asp
Newsforge Reports
Gordano - an "Exchange Replacement" that predates Exchange
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1320221
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company Web site says, "Gordano has provided robust and secure messaging for over eight years and continues to innovate and lead the market. Since 1994, the Gordano Messaging Suite has been deployed in over 20,000 organizations in 120+ countries and supports over 54 million Email accounts. These companies and users have enjoyed the benefits of low cost of ownership of our solution allowing them to reduce their ...
Make big money! Deliver 'The Linux experience!' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/0145211
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Okay, maybe not big money, but Massachusetts-based Open-Pc founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he's turning a steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.
Red Hat Linux 9 - Why drop the dot?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2125220
- By Jeremy Hogan, Red Hat - Yesterday we issued an announcement that we'd be making our next release, Red Hat Linux 9, available early for RHN subscribers. It was lacking some supporting info, and as you'd expect, we got a lot of questions. Most notably, "Why 9?" and "Why drop the dot?"
Newsforge Newsvac
ALT Linux Junior 2.2 availabe for download
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0323248
David @ Virtual Sky Media Group writes "ALT Linux Junior 2.2, a new distribution in the company's GNU/*/Linux Junior line, is now available for sale. The distribution is easy to install and use. It is designed for office and home workstations. Junior 2.2 implements support for a wide spectrum of hardware, manufactured by many well-known producers, including soft modems (winmodems), 3D graphics accelerators, printers, and many other devices. ALT ...
Affero Helps Open Source Developers Take Online Reputations With Them http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2259235
Anonymous Reader writes "In the interview "Trust Unlimited", Robert McMillan at LinuxPlanet asks Poole about the roots, current developments, and future of Affero's trust and commerce system. Poole talks about his work at the Well, Mandrakesoft's e-services initiative, and current work with LinuxQuestions, and covers topics of transportable reputations, gaming, profits, blogs, forums, independent media and the importance of independent ...
Don't dismiss possibility of malicious code in Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2225250
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Many in the Linux community scoff at the possibility of a major virus or worm slithering about their platform. With source code open to inspection, surely someone in the community will find and remediate dangerous vulnerabilities that could be exploited by pieces of malicious code similar to those that plague Windows."
Intel May Have 64-bit Desktop Chip After All http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1640200
Eric Peterson writes "As 64-bit desktop processor technology is soon upon us, many consumers wait in high anticipation for solutions from IBM and AMD to power their next-generation 64-bit computers. Why isn't Intel among these players offering 64-bit solutions? Intel said that the reason is because consumers aren't yet ready for 64 bit technology as of yet.
Debian Weekly News - March 25th, 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1852211
Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. This year's leader election will end in less than a week and some interesting numbers have been released already. Hugh Saunders wondered if people could imagine anything more frustrating than trying to read a Debian list from a Hotmail account. Quickly, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta answered with a set of programs to manage exactly this under GNU/Linux.
Domain names set to go multilingual
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1931212
Internet domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months, the chairman of the Internets key oversight body said Wednesday. Vincent G. Cerf said the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would likely approve technical standards Thursday. The standards allow the worlds computers built around English to recognize Chinese, Arabic and other languages.
FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1748216
Following the highly successful launch of its Associate Membership program, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today its new Corporate Patronage Program. According to FSF's Executive Director Bradley M. Kuhn, "since its launch in late November, more than 950 people have signed up as Associate Members of FSF. We are now offering a similar opportunity to the community of businesses that use Free Software."
HP's Linux Legions give tip of the hat to Red Hat Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1719248
HP's Linux contingent doesn't spend its time painting blue footprints on the streets of San Francisco -- the Linux legions at the Palo Alto firm are too busy engaging in Open Source Alchemy in an effort to make money and margin off Mr. Torvald's operating system.
Axceleon Wins Drug Discovery Deal
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1717212
Jacob Webb writes "Axceleons EnFuzion provides complete grid computing solution for medical research. Axceleon, leaders in computational grid software, announced today that the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI) is using EnFuzion to conduct medical research for new drug discovery.
SoL-desktop 0.2 - the desktop extension to SoL 16. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1659205
antitachyon writes "SoL-desktop 0.2 - the desktop extension to SoL 16.00 has been released!
Freshmeat
Ampoliros 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117699/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117732/
The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to help stop unsolicited commercial email (UCE). Anti-spam tools should be adaptive to new spam and customized for each site’s email patterns. This easy to use tool works with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator intervention after the initial setup phase.
bash programmable completion 20030327 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117674/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
bengsaver 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117700/
bengsaver is a screensaver for KDE. It shows bouncing balls or bee swarms, with collision detection.
Bifrost Firewall iptables GUI 0.9.3-cb2 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117679/
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.
BKchem 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117672/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
Bosco 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117741/
Bosco is a rewrite of the popular Bugzilla defect tracking software in PHP. It is database-independent, and aims to be easy to maintain and modify. It also has an API to allow external applications to work with its data.
cdrtools 2.01a07 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117696/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117711/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform.
cpp2latex 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117691/
cpp2latex converts C++ into LaTeX either for including into existing LaTeX documents or as standalone documents. It contains syntax highlighting and line numbering.
DC-GUI 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117695/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
dllm.sh 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117686/
dllm.sh is a bash script that allows subscribed readers of the online edition of the French "Le Monde" newspaper to automatically download articles without having to log in to the main Web site.
DOSemu 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117661/
DOSEmu (DOS Emulator) is a Linux application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs including some DPMI apps.
Fade to Blue 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117649/
Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds, from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity. There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor.
focuseek searchbox 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117707/
focuseek searchbox is an easily installable full-text search engine that can spider Web or intranet sites, or index data you feed to it, and make it available for searching through a Web form. It supports a variety of input formats, and is easily scriptable via a SOAP API or a REST interface, and can scale to millions of documents.
FreeMarker 2.2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117670/
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.
FTimes 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117721/
FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool. Its primary purpose is to gather and/or develop information about specified directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion analysis. It was designed to support the following initiatives: content integrity monitoring, incident response, intrusion analysis, and computer forensics.
GKrellM Mailwatch 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117743/
GKrellM Mailwatch is a GKrellM plugin which monitors mailboxes. It can monitor multiple mailboxes with extra counters and supports the mbox, maildir, and MH formats.
Globus Toolkit 3.0 alpha 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117742/
Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that it is tuned to the needs of high-end machines.
glrParser 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117724/
The glrParser template library is a programmer's tool for creation of syntactical analysers which works with the GLR(0) algorithm. The library can handle wide ambiguous grammars containing the epsilon-rules. GLR is generalization of the LR algorithm (published by Marasu Tomita) which can handle ambiguous grammars. The library implements the GLR(0) algorithm but defines neither the method of reading input nor the actions to make when making reductions. The format of the grammar files is defined but it is easy to make the parser to handle different ones without modifiyng the library itself.
Glub Tech Secure FTP 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117726/
Glub Tech Secure FTP is a command-line utility that allows FTP connections to be made using SSL.
Gnetload 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117737/
Gnetload is a GNOME applet showing the network load of a specified network interface in a histogram. It is highly configurable; configuration options include different colors for incoming and outgoing traffic, fixed or dynamic histogram scaling, and textual representation of the current network load.
Group-Office 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117683/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
guanxiCRM 0.9.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117645/
guanxiCRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management package specifically designed for enterprises doing business in the Greater China environment. The Chinese notions of "Guanxi" (relation) and "Mianzi" (the face) are carefully integrated.
Hat 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117729/
Hat (Haskell Tracer) is a tracing and debugging system for Haskell that can be used for comprehending working programs, and debugging an incorrect one. It consists of hat-trans, which transforms a program into one that traces itself using your normal compiler and a runtime library, and a set of browsing tools that explore the trace after execution of the program has completed.
hdup 1.6.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117745/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
hexedit 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117692/
hexedit displays, edits, and searches files and devices in both ASCII and hexadecimal. It features copy and paste functions and the ability to save sections to a file. It can truncate and append to files, and shows modifications in bold.
Holtz 1.1.10 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117725/
Holtz is an implementation of Zèrtz, an abstract strategy game for two players played with marbles on a shrinking board. It allows playing locally, over a TCP/IP Network, or against a rudimentary AI. It also offers some user hints.
InstantJ 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117744/
InstantJ is a library you can use to compile and execute Java code or evaluate expressions written in Java. This is done on the fly; there is no pre- compiling step necessary. This is ideal in cases where expressions are either assembled programmatically at runtime, read from descriptors, or received from user-input.
ispbs 2.3.b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117706/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
JBoss 3.2.0 RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117704/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world.
linphone 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117669/
Linphone is a Web phone with a GNOME interface. It let you make two-party calls over IP networks such as the Internet. It uses the IETF protocols SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and RTP (Realtime Transport Protocol) to make calls, so it should be able to communicate with other SIP-based Web phones. With several codecs available, it can be used with high speed connections as well as 28k modems.
Liquid for Maya 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117675/
LiquidMaya is a Maya to Renderman plug-in that handles full Renderman output support with a focus on speed, efficiency, and extensibility. Its features include procedural rib generation, full network rendering support, segmented rib files, a shader assignment interface, and much more. Along with the ability to write full C++ plug-ins, it is incredibly easy to script Liquid with Mel. Liquid was used for the visual effects of the "Lord of the Rings" movie.
MagicHat 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117709/
MagicHat is a programmer's research and reference tool. With MagicHat, you can navigate through a Cocoa's application programming interface (API), review the declarations of language elements such as methods, functions, and constants, and retrieve relevant passages from the Cocoa developer documentation. MagicHat helps you unravel unfamiliar code, whether building blocks from the Cocoa software kits, programming examples, or programs written by your own development team.
MP3 STATION alpha-pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117682/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3 playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user account.
OpenBottle-webmail 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117690/
OpenBottle-webmail is a Web mail and end- user interface component for OpenBottle. The interface is written in PHP, utilising Horde, IMP, and Turba.
Q 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117685/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
Q-Midi 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117687/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available, including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires Tcl/Tk).
Qmail Auditor 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117705/
QMail Auditor provides simple a method for auditing emails. It is easy to configure and uses regular expressions as rules.
qmail-masq 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117712/
qmail-masq is a Perl program that works with qmail. It masquerades the internal mail user's address as an external one when sending email from local users to the outside world.
ResourcePool 1.0102 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117749/
The Perl ResourcePool provides a generic way to use connection caching for any kind of resources like Net::LDAP or DBI. It includes a LoadBalancer to spread load across different servers and increase overall performance and availibility of service. The ResourcePool and LoadBalancer are easily extendable to cover your needs.
Sacred 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117739/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races. Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system, new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
screen-scraper 0.8.6b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117715/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.
SDSC/GT Secure FTP 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117727/
Secure FTP is a client package that allows for a secure connection to be made to an FTP daemon via SSL.
Senken 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117678/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.
Server optimized Linux 0.2 (SoL-desktop) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117708/
SoL (Server optimized Linux) is a Linux distribution completely independent from other Linux distributions. It was built from the original source packages and is optimized for heavy-duty server work. It contains all common server applications, and features XML boot and script technology that makes it easy to configure and make the server work.
Spamcup 1.04 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117723/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline.
StatCvs 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117688/
StatCvs retrieves information from a CVS repository and generates various tables and charts describing the history of a software project development, such as a timeline for the lines of code, contribution of each developer, etc.
swsusp 2.5.66-01 (2.5 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117748/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
swsusp 2.4 Beta19-17 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117677/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
Tux Commander 0.4.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117701/
Tux Commander is a file manager with two side-by-side panels. Some of its functions are inspired by Total Commander.
twin 0.4.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117676/
Twin is a text-mode window environment. It turns a text terminal into a X11-style display with window manager, terminal windows, and can also serve as display for remote applications. Each terminal window provides the functions of a text-mode Linux console. Twin runs on X11, libggi, itself, the Linux console, and any termcap/ncurses-compatible tty. It supports multiple simultaneous displays, and can attach/detach each display on the fly.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.11 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117738/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Viper IDS 0.9.21 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117656/
The Viper IDS is an IDS sensor that can be used stand-alone or as an add-on to the Wolverine Firewall and VPN server. It can log all alert information to a remote MySQL database that can be analyzed by applications such as ACID, or can be used with Wolverine to provide real-time responses to potential threats by dynamically adjusting perimeter firewall rule sets. It uses Snort for attack signature detection.
Virtual Network Computing 3.3.7 (WinVNC) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117658/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Virtual Network Computing 3.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117657/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Web of Trust Statistics and Pathfinder 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117717/
Web of Trust Statistics and Pathfinder (Wotsap) is a program for graphing all the shortest paths between two keys in the OpenPGP Web of Trust. These paths can be presented as text or as PNG images. Additionally, it can generate statistics about keys and the whole strongly-connected set.
white_dune 0.22beta48 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117703/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
wmDrawer 0.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117728/
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which applications can be launched.
WMNUT 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117689/
WMNUT is a dockapp program to monitor UPS statistics through the NUT (Network UPS Tools) framework on Linux and other systems.
XDB-Money 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117746/
XDB Money is a simple Web-based personal finance tracker that can keep track of multiple accounts and multiple transactions, grouping these transactions into categories for reporting facilities.
XPA Messaging 2.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117719/
XPA Messaging provides seamless communication between Unix programs, including X, Tcl/Tk, and generic select() loops. It provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands from a shell. Because XPA works both at the programming level and the shell level, it is a powerful tool for unifying any environment, offering flexibility in choosing the best level at which to access XPA services. A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). Using standard TCP sockets, XPA supports both single-point and broadcast messaging to and from these servers.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 27a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117736/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117722/
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.
Zoinks 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117698/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
zphoto 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117680/
zphoto is a Web/Flash-based zooming photo album generator.
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cf3/
Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Computing: LED Light Sticks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/
Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/
Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/
Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/
Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/
Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/
Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/
Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
Gadgets: Wireless PenCam
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/
Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/
Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/
Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/
Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/
Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/
Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/
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