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[osdn business] March 29, 2003
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 04:30:28 EST
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Slashdot
Eclipse 2.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2254257
insomnia writes "[0]Eclipse 2.1 has been unleashed to the world today. Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE environnement and I highly recommend it; developing under your favorite text editor feels like comparing Eclipse to the dinosaur age - I can't live without refactoring now. You can see what's new in this release [1]here." Links
0. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
XP Service Pack Slows Programs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2220247
[0]AEton writes "[1]Vnunet and others are [2]reporting [3]that Windows
XP's Service Pack 1 has introduced a flaw into the operating system.
Changes to memory handling code result in programs which often allocate
memory (which is many of them) can take up to ten times longer than
normal to start. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem in [4]Q815411,
and while a patch is available by request from [5]Microsoft Product
Services, it will not be widely released until Service Pack 2."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@mherdeg.endjunk.com
1.
http://www.vnunet.com/
2.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1139809
3.
http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20030328004
4.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815411
5.
http://support.microsoft.com/
Review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2019240
Gothmolly writes "After reading the [0]story and comments on Slashdot,
I went out and bought one from [1]the Home Shopping Network. It's been
a very fun and interesting jump into both the modern PDA (I owned the
original Palm until this year) embedded Linux worlds. I've written a
[2]review about my experiences over the last few days with it. A lot of
this information I found online, a lot is personal experience. HSN is
now out of them, but they must still be available cheaply somewhere."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1924257&tid=100
1.
http://www.hsn.com/
2.
http://www.schernau.com/ed/Zaurus5500.html
Software Tariffs and US IT Outsourcing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2136233
[0]HeelToe asks: "A while back I worked with someone who thought the US
should simply impose tariffs on imported products to adjust their price
to equalize foreign labor rates to the US minimum wage. I was laid off
and my position moved to Canada last year. Since then, I've thought a
lot about his ideas, as well as one of our topics of conversation a
while back: Why doesn't the US tax the import of software? It seems to
me like they should. It's not a "tangible" product (same reason used to
deny my co-workers and me NAFTA and Trade Act benefits), but when
someone outsources to another country with cheap labor for any other
industry, there are usually import tariffs. Why is software different,
and how would this change the climate of US IT jobs leaving for other
parts of the world if we did tax software imports? I've done some
looking on the web, but can find nothing in the [1]Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States. I did find this [2]thread from a few
months back on [3]informationweek.com's Career Development Forum, but
not much else. What does Slashdot think?"
Links
0.
http://www.goof.com/~mmead/
1.
http://dataweb.usitc.gov/SCRIPTS/tariff/toc.html
2.
http://www.informationweek.com/forum/career?comment_id=59403&threaded=1#thread
3.
http://www.informationweek.com/forum/career
Sun Drops Linux Distro
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2059220
The Wireless Guy writes "eWeek is reporting that Sun has decided to
[0]stop offering a Linux distribution. From the story: "Yes, this is a
change in strategy. Our Sun Linux distribution is essentially Red Hat
Linux with a few minor tweaks," John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's
operating platforms group"... so, is this good news for Red Hat?" They
were [1]rethinking it, and I guess they've had a good long thunk.
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp
Introduction to PHP5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/208225
Yet Another OO Fanatic writes "PHP core developer [0]Sterling Hughes
has a excellent [1]presentation ([2]mirror) about PHP5 online. So far
it seems to be the best coverage of the new features in PHP5;
highlights include the [3]new object model, [4]namespaces,
[5]interfaces, [6]access control and [7]exceptions. Java by any other
name..."
Links
0.
http://www.edwardbear.org/blog/
1.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/
2.
http://talks.php.net/show/php5intro
3.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/9
4.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/3
5.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/29
6.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/12
7.
http://ny1.php.net/talks/show.php/php5intro/5Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1811250
[0]sreilly self-promotes: "[1]Moneydance 2003 has just been released
for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This program is a completely
cross-platform replacement for Quicken or MS Money. This is the first
time that online banking and online bill payment has been available in
a made-for-Linux application. It also has features that aren't
available in Quicken such as an extension mechanism that lets
developers easily add and distribute new features to the program."
Links
The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1738258
NoSun writes "Sun's latest project is to create a font library for XFree86, [0]named Stsf, that would replace [1]Fontconfig and Xft2. But the big question is: Does the world need yet another X font library that would create more incompatibility and fragmentation? Well known Gnome and GTK+ developers are against this (yet another) X font library which [2]just re-invents the wheel one more time with the result of slowing down KDE and Gnome in the desktop race. " Links
0.
http://stsf.sourceforge.net/about.html
1.
http://fontconfig.org/
2.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3139
Meteor Over Midwest
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1713238
[0]bigpat writes "According to this [1]story in the Chicago Tribune or
this [2]article, a meteor estimated to be the size of a 'Volkswagen
bug' exploded over the Midwest around midnight yesterday morning. The
resulting small meteorites hit homes causing some damage. The largest
meteorite collected was 7.5 pounds. So why do astronomers always
compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
Links
0. mailto:pat@NoSpam.varium.com
1.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-030337meteorite,0,610488.story?coll=chi-news-hed
2.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/087/nation/Meteor_lights_up_Midwestern_sk%3A.shtmlBroad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1541230
[0]mttlg writes "According to [1]Freedom to Tinker, MA, TX, SC, FL, GA,
AK, TN, and CO have introduced [2]similar bills that would make it
illegal to possess, use, etc. "any communication device to receive ...
any communication service without the express consent or express
authorization of the communication service provider" or "to conceal ...
from any communication service provider ... the existence or place of
origin or destination of any communication." (Additional legalese
removed for the sake of brevity.) This would seem to outlaw NAT, VPNs,
and many other security measures. In other words, don't secure your
communications, just sue if you don't like who receives them." The
bills define 'communication service' as just about any sort of telecom
service that is provided for a charge or fee. In effect, they would
extend the already-extant laws relating to theft of cable TV services
to any telecom service. For example, if your ISP charges per computer
connected, using a router/NAT device would be illegal if these became
law.
Links
0. mailto:mttlg_slashNO@SPAMmttlg.net
1.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
2.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - March 28th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/111207
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for openssl, apcupsd, bonsai, krb5, lpr, mutt, heimdal, kernel, ecartis, glibc, mysql, bitchx, mod_ssl, netpbm, rxvt, zlib, evolution, samba, kerberos, ethereal, and file. The distributors include, Caldera, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, NetBSD, Red Hat, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbolinux.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Distro Release: First Look At SuSE Linux 8.2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/0145247
Once again I find myself checking out the newest SuSE release, and to tell you the truth, I really enjoy it. My personal computer is running Slackware (yes, I upgraded to 9.0 immediately), and I wouldn't trade it for any other distribution in the world, but I've got to say is that SuSE is still at the top of their game. When you look at all the desktop distros out there such as Mandrake, Lycoris, and Red Hat, they all really have their endearing ...
Enterprise Linux at Tipping Point
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2012240
In 2004, Linux adoption will skyrocket, according to a recent study by Forrester Research titled "The Linux Tipping Point." Based on interviews with a wide array of firms, the study concludes that while "enterprise support remains a concern," most respondents are continuing with plans to adopt Linux.
Witnet Launches Linux Remote PC Mobile Access http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/204206
Eric Stevenson writes "Mun Su Han, President of Witnet International (OTCBB: WTNT), said they've completed development of the Linux version of their mobile remote access software "Mobilick." But can this upstart out of Korea bring the Linux version of its mobile remote access software into play?"
Revolution OS DVD gambles on CSS-Free
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1957226
J.T.S. Moore writes "Today on Wired.com there is an article about the release of the Linux documentary film REVOLUTION OS as a CSS-encryption free DVD: http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58253,00.htm l REVOLUTION OS is being released CSS-Free and Region Free to call attention to the abusive nature of Digital Rights Management. J.T.S. Moore, Bruce Perens, and Eric Raymond are quoted extensively in the article by Michelle Delio. REVOLUTION OS ...
Review of Mandrake 9.1 by a Windows User http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1952257
Anonymous Reader writes "A Windows user after reading online how nice Mandrake 9.1 is, downloads it for 3 days over his ISDN line, installs it with great expectations, only to find out that not all his hardware is supported. The review is at OSNews."
Knoppix to the rescue!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1950223
Anonymous Reader writes "There has been a lot of talk about the nifty Knoppix Linux-on-bootable-CD distribution. In a real-world case study, Matthew Carpenter describes how it can be a real lifesaver."
Is the GPL completely misunderstood?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1938201
Chris Davies writes "The GPL, GNU General Public License, is a license boilerplate that the FSF, Free Software Foundation, has put forward to be adopted by software developers that are creating software. The GPL has some fundamental flaws that may actually make one wonder if people using the GPL license really understand the license."
Sun Scraps Its Own Custom Linux, Embraces Standard Distributions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1935238
Sun Microsystems is abandoning its plans to deliver Project Orion on its own version of Linux and will instead support distributions from other Linux vendors, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president of software, on Friday.
Linux applications `very difficult to install` - Lindows Founder http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1630229
Michael Robinson, the CEO and founder of Linux distributor Lindows, has admitted that Linux software is `typically very difficult to install` in his latest newsletter.
Five TV makers preparing Internet TV specs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1612202
Five Japanese TV manufacturers will form a working group to hammer out technical specifications by October for digital TVs with Internet access.
Freshmeat
2D/3D Area Graph Software 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117823/
2D/3D Area Graph Software provides both a client and server side solution for the incorporation of area graphs into Web pages. Versatile components enable Web authors and Java developers to easily build and publish dynamic and interactive area graphs.
AccWhizz 0.0.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117851/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x, and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be local or remote.
aewm 1.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117779/
aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between windows, etc.
Anjuta IDE 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117806/
Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ in GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME, and features a number of advanced programming facilities. These include project management, application wizards, an onboard interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.
AutoUpdate 4.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117834/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Axion 1.0 Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117820/
Axion is a small, fast, SQL and JDBC compliant relational database engine written in and for the Java programming language.
BitMagic C++ library 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117777/
BitMagic is C++ library designed and developed to implement efficient, platform-independent bitsets. It features several types of on-the-fly adaptive compression, dynamic range of addressable space of 2^32-1 bits, efficient memory management, serialization in a platform-independent, compact format suitable for storing in files and databases, performance tuning for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, and optimization for Intel SSE2 128-bit integer SIMD.
BitTorrent 3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117782/
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
Browseable Online Backup System 0.6.0pre1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117815/
Browseable Online Backup System (BOBS) is a complete online backup system. It uses large disks for storing backups and lets users browse the files using a Web browser. It handles some special files like AppleDouble and icon files.
cubistic twilight 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117805/
cubistic twilight is a background made in Blender 3D.
DireqCafe 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117796/
DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
DNews 5.7b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117762/
The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own local news server software gives you complete control to create your own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and scalability.
dvd::rip 0.50.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117852/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
Easibox 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117818/
Easibox is a utility for creating tar files, zip files, and other archive files.
ERW 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117811/
ERW (Entities and Relationships on the Web) is an innovative system for handling complex databases using a Web browser. It uses the most recent standards endorsed by the W3C to offer to the user a sophisticated environment, similar to a dedicated client. Moreover, the user interface is generated in a completely automatic way starting from a conceptual description of the database by means of an XML-based description language for entity-relationship schemata. From the same description, you can also automatically obtain diagrams and documentation. ERW can be used for content management, in particular when the data is structured along complex relations.
FCKeditor 0.9.3 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117755/
FCKEditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
FtpCube 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117787/
FtpCube is a graphical ftp client written in Python using the wxPython graphical toolkit, and is based on LeechFTP by Jan Debis. FtpCube aims to provide a high quality GUI, as well as a rich feature set, and surpasses LeechFTP in functionality.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1-pre (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117847/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
grabc 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117842/
grabc determines the color string in hex of a pixel clicked on the screen.
gURLChecker 0.3-5 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117807/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Horatio: Authenticated Network Access 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117840/
The Horatio system is a firewall authentication tool. The premise: legitimate users want to attach laptops and other mobile hosts to the network, but security demands that illegitimate users be prevented from accessing the internal, secure network and from abusing the general Internet. The approach taken by Horatio is to provide a separate, untrusted network that only connects to the internal network (and thus to the Internet) through a firewall that by default does not pass any traffic. When a legitimate user connects his or her host, it is assigned an address by a DHCP server (such as dhcpd), but is unable to contact anything outside the untrusted network. The user must point a Web browser at the Horatio web server, which runs on the firewall machine, and provide a username and password. Once the username and password have been validated, the firewall rules are modified to allow the host access to the rest of the network.
IndeoCRM 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117821/
IndeoCRM is a Web-based customer relationship solution (CRM) for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers flexibility to manage complex customer relationships at any level within a company with a low cost of ownership. The application tracks customer information (companies, divisions, and people), sales processes (opportunities, quotes, orders), tasks, attachments, and products. In addition, it generates reports, and allows synchronization with remote users. It is fully customizable (purchase of the source source code is available), and can be deployed on open-source platforms such as Linux, SAP Database, and Apache Tomcat, or commercial packages such as MS Windows and MS SQL.
IPA 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117795/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6 Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and "reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible configuration file with many sections and options.
Jconsole 1.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117798/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of JBoss.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-03-28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117845/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KRelais 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117819/
KRelais is an electronic design and simulation program. It can create circuits with various relay types and switches. The complete circuit can be simulated in realtime. It includes a lot of circuit examples.
Krename 2.5.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117822/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LILO 22.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117853/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
Link Protect 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117829/
Link Protect will prevent direct linking, downloads, and spider searches of your images and pages that would otherwise enable unauthorized downloads. If the call is not from within your site or an authorized site, a customizable default image is displayed. You can specify domains from which you will accept links such as your other sites or those of authorized associates. Almost any type of file can be protected (GIF, JPEG, zip, HTML, exe, etc.).
Linoleum 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117838/
Linoleum is an easy-to-use program which helps you manage, edit, and distribute your programs and files. It stores all your information in a simple, compact database in which you can add, remove, or edit files with a click of a button.
Log to Map 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117780/
LogToMap is a tool which takes an access log and produces a geographic map, shading each country in relation to the number of visitors who live there.
MacOS Cursors 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117731/
MacOS Cursors provides a basic set of MacOS cursors for the cursor-themable XFree86 (4.3.0 and higher) environment.
mailsync 5.1.0 (*)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117850/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
MFITSIO 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117785/
MFITSIO is a MATLAB interface to CFITSIO-- a library used to manipulate images and headers stored in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format. It currently supports reading and writing FITS images, headers, and array subsets.
Moneydance build 301
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117790/
Moneydance is an easy-to-use financial organizer built for the Internet. You can use it to organize your finances so that you can get on with the important things in life. The familiar interface makes managing your money easy, while the advanced features give you the ability to visually track your spending. Graphs and reports provide financial feedback, while features such as budgeting, online banking, and transaction reminders help you keep an eye on your money.
MP3 STATION alpha1_rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117812/
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.
open1x 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117635/
Open1x is an open source implementation of the IEEE 802.1x protocol. The project has two components: xsupplicant and authenticator. Xsupplicant is an implementation of the supplicant (i.e., client) side of the protocol and works under Linux and Mac OS X. Authenticator is an implementation of the authenticator and works only under Linux.
osx2x 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117800/
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.
PaulOS 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117801/
PaulOS is a reference implementation of an embedded operating system which supports a subset of POSIX geared for embedded realtime single process applications. It is written to allow applications to be developed under GNU/Linux or FreeBSD and then recompiled without changes for the target architecture. It features POSIX file descriptors, a TCP stack (LwIP) with a BSD socket API, an ANSI C library, a DNS resolver library, and a minimal pthread library. A number of GNU/Linux network applications have been ported to it.
Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117799/
Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.
phpGIS 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117824/
phpGIS is a Geographic Information System application meant to be used as a way of viewing ESRI shape files and aerial photos in the TIFF format.
PHPki 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117772/
PHPki is an Open Source Web application for managing a Public Key Infrastructure within a small organization. It provides a mechanism for the centralized creation and management of digital certificates for use with S/MIME-enabled email cilents. It will not create server, browser, or code signing certificates. PHPki was specifically designed to set up a multi-agency PKI for HIPAA compliance.
phpMySQLDiff 1.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117769/
phpMySQLDiff is a PHP script which generates an SQL-ALTER-Script for the differences between two databases.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117849/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers, or a local X session with simple desktop and window manager. A graphical configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS. It can be used over low bandwidth WAN and VPN connections, and can also be booted from local media like hard disk and CD-ROMs where network boot cannot be used.
pyDDR 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117804/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117843/
Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland, a C library for the RDF/XML and N-Triples RDF formats. It can use expat or libxml2 as available, and supports the latest RDF updates, such as datatyping and collections.
RendView 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117837/
RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay (and maybe other raytracers) and post-processed in a local distributed environment. Features include rendering/filtering a sequence of frames (f000.pov,f001.pov...) or a list of scene files and POVRay clock values, tuning on per-frame basis, and resuming partly-rendered images, all either completely locally or distributed in a local IP network.
Rolo 005
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117828/
Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.
SCons 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117825/
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects.
Scroll Image 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117830/
Scroll Image displays a much larger image in a smaller window. With the use of the arrow keys or the mouse, the image can be scrolled vertically and horizontally enabling selective viewing or a sense of mystery. Ideal for walkthrough type displays and catalogue viewing.
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117841/
The Secure FTP Bean allows FTP connections to be made over SSL, including both implicit and explicit SSL connections, and passive and active data transfers with or without encryption.
sgml2x converter 0.99.8 (sgml2x-1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117836/
sgml2x is a script designed to help applying a DSSSL stylesheet to an SGML or XML document. It already has a couple of interesting features, such as multiple possible stylesheets per document class, easy integration of new stylesheets by adding a simple new definition file in a configuration directory (system-wide, per-user, or per-project), and automatic selection of a default stylesheet to be used. It is already set up for DocBook SGML/XML.
ShoStats 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117773/
ShoStats is a reimplementation of phpSysInfo in Perl, useful for running from crontab and outputting the stats to a PHP include file, which can then be displayed on a hosting account. It is modular and configurable, including modules to support both Linux and OpenBSD, an output module for PHP include files, and transfer modules for output to stdout (which can be redirected or piped) and uploading to an FTP server.
Siege 2.57b10 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117839/
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.
SimpleSearch 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117803/
SimpleSearch 1.0 is a robust and fast search engine for small to medium size Web sites. It never writes to your disk, is very secure, and does not use any indexes, archives, or databases. It returns very sharply formatted results, including page title, sentence snippet with highlighted keyword(s), and a hyperlinked full URL to each page that contained a match. It is simple to install and even easier to configure! SimpleSearch can search across multiple directories, and will exclude any subdirectories you don’t want searched. It is a great solution for your Web site if you want to add search capabilities without going through the hassle of setting up an SQL database or installing a complicated search engine.
SKYRiX ZideStore Server 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117832/
The SKYRiX ZideStore server is a native client integration server for the SKYRiX groupware. Users can access the contact, appointment, and task database using Outlook, Evolution and almost any iCalendar compatible client (for example Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar).
smtp-after-popd 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117740/
smtp-after-popd briefly authorizes outgoing SMTP message sending via Postfix for addresses that have recently been authorized to receive mail by either ipop3d or vm-pop3d. The timeout and all other parameters are easily adjusted. It is written in Perl and works by parsing syslogd-produced mail log files efficiently in real time, so that no modifications to ipop3d or vm-pop3d are required. It is CPU friendly and easy to modify.
snapshot 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117794/
snapshot is a set of Perl scripts for creating, accessing, and managing a repository of directory snapshots. Multiple snapshots of a directory can exist in a repository representing the state of that directory at different times. A snapshot repository can be local or remote, with remote servers accessed by ssh.
SysV pg 030328
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117788/
The pg command originates from System V and is a text file browser, like more. It lets the user scroll forward and backward even if input comes from a pipe. This free clone is intended to comply to the SVID 4 and SUSv2 specifications of this utility; it is aimed to recent Linux environments and can handle large files as well as files that contain multibyte characters.
Taruli 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117802/
Taruli is a small concentration game.
TestDisk 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117835/
TestDisk is a tool to check and undelete partitions. It works with the following partitions: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, Linux, Linux swap (version 1 and 2), NTFS (Windows NT), BeFS (BeOS), UFS (BSD), and Netware.
TextMaker beta rev 379
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117797/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
vcp 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117781/
vcp copies files and directories using a curses or text-only interface. Its options and output are similar to cp. It provides visual information about the files copied and left to copy, the amount of data written and to be written, the amount of data being written every second, and two status bars representing the number of files copied and to copy.
VM 7.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117791/
VM is a mail reader written in Emacs LISP for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It can retrieve mail from local spool files or remotely via POP and IMAP, display and send MIME messages, thread messages, auto-sort messages into folders, and manipulate "virtual folders" of messages matching certain criteria. In Emacs versions with X support it provides an interface with toolbars, menus, and mouse-based message selection.
WowBB 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117759/
WowBB is an innovative bulletin board with features including an auto install/upgrade, a WYSIWYG editor with integrated spell-checker, automatic time zone detection, topic-level new post tracking, smart caching, a visual style editor with real-time preview, and native file format support for major bulletin boards.
Xrsf 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117814/
Xrsf is a "really simple fractal-generator" with zoom function and fullscreen mode. Currently it displays the Mandelbrot set.
xSiteable 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117810/
xSiteable is a complete all-you-need package for creating sites that are fully relational, open source, fully templating-enabled, using only XML-based technologies to help you create complex sites on the fly. It packs such features as topic maps, notation for content, and the fast Sablotron xslt parser.
Zoom Image 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117833/
Zoom Image is a magnification viewer for JPG and GIF images which zooms in and out with a 20:1 zoom factor. The left mouse button zooms in, and the right mouse button zooms out. Mouse pointing controls the direction of exploration within the image. It can be used to display quality high-resolution JPG and GIF images.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
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/