[osdn business] April 01, 2003

0. http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/000203.html

LCD Price Fixing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/2341256

bilsaysthis asks: "Bill Kearney [0]poses a really interesting question, one which I've been puzzled by for a while too: 'What's with prices on LCD displays? On one hand a laptop can be had with UXGA resolution display for $1000. Try buying that display alone and you'll find it's also around $1000. Then there's how much they're gouging for the same resolution in an LCD television.'" Sadly enough, as much as I want one of these for my wall, the market is willing to bear these prices. How long will it be before this hardware becomes affordable? Links

Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1658205

[0]G3ckoG33k writes "[1]The Open Source Development's Lab has begun
operational testing of the 2.5.x Kernel: "The staff at OSDL has been involved with development and testing of 2.5 since the beginning and we've noticed that it seems to be very stable for a development tree. So good, in fact, that we think it is ready to be tested in a production environment. We have planned and begun execution of a project to test the 2.5 kernel in our data center using our production environment. The project includes lots of testing and lots of escape hatches so we don't run recklessly off the edge. We began with some of the simpler, less critical servers and, as we build confidence, are moving to the more complex servers. Today we have several servers running 2.5 and within a month we'll have most of the data center migrated to 2.5." Can anyone say Dare Devils?" Links

0. mailto:G3ck0G33@yahoo.com

http://www.osdlab.org/newsletters/newsletter_2003_mar.html

Mozilla Project Turns 5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/2239240

GreyWolf3000 writes "As this notice in tinderbox shows, Mozilla
[0]turns five years old today. A great testament to the ability of open
software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use. The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4. Can't wait to see what's in store next!" Read on for another odometer reading -- Mozilla's 200,000th bug report, perhaps just as auspicious a landmark. Links

0. http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey

Susan Kare: Mother of Icons You Love (or Hate) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1940248

[0]bughunter writes "One of today's Yahoo Daily Picks is the
[1]personal exhibit of Susan Kare: the mimimalist creator of most of
the [2]original Macintosh icons then, later, the [3]iconic elements for Windows 3.0, and she didn't stop there. More than just icons, her GUI elements have become part of the modern collective subconscious - trashcans, bombs, and Happy Macs are universally recognized by computer literate persons the world over. (I can personally attest that the Mac System 6 beachball is burned into my soul...) She deserves some recognition of her own."
Links

    0. 
http://(bughunter) (at) (earthlink.net)
    1. 
http://www.kare.com/index.html
    2. 
http://www.kare.com/MakePortfolioPage.cgi?page=2
    3. 
http://www.kare.com/MakePortfolioPage.cgi?page=6

Paypal Charged Under PATRIOT Act
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1610218

A reader writes: "[0]Yahoo has the story: [1]Paypal has been [2]charged under the PATRIOT act for accepting and profiting from transactions with illegal gambling sites. According to their [3]new rules they will no longer allow gambling payments due to the higher chargeback risk. It's good to see them charged for something, even if they have never had to atone for the thousands of customer dollars they have
[4]stolen." I know of a number people who've had problems, but I will
say that I've had no problems with PayPal - on both my personal account and on the [5]Subscription side of things. Links

    0. 
http://www.yahoo.com/
    1. 
http://www.paypal.com/
    2. 
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030331/0912000807_1.html
    3. 
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,58208,00.html
    4. 
http://www.paypalwarning.com/
    5. 
http://slashdot.org/subscribe.pl

Lindows Media Computer: Power to Strike Microsoft? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1740213

[0]Augustus writes "[1]LinuxHardware.org has just published the first
review of the [2]Lindows Media Computer from iDOTpc.com. The review covers the hardware behind the machine but also goes through all of the machine's claimed functionality: "After looking over all the media hype, I went searching for one of these little machines. Could the Lindows Media Computer really pull off meeting the new Windows machine in a pitched battle? It did boast Ã‚Â“Instant onÃ‚Â” DVD, CD, MP3, and VCD playback as one of the prime features. And, it was only a fraction of the price for a Windows Media Center system. At the time, only one vendor had them available, [3]iDOTpc.com. After some communication, the folks at iDOTpc.com were kind enough to loan me one of the units to take for a spin." You can find the [4]full review over at
[1]LinuxHardware.org."

Links

    0. 
http://www.linuxhardware.org
    1. 
http://www.linuxhardware.org/
    2. 
http://www.lindows.com/
    3. 
http://www.idotpc.com/
    4. 
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1654255&mode=thread

Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1256236

Can't find what you're looking for?

Red Hat Linux 9 is out, and as of today the ISOs are [0]officially available to Red Hat Network subscribers ($60/yr). Or, as of right now, you can [1]grab the same ISOs using BitTorrent. For those unfamiliar with this free/Free P2P download protocol, an introduction follows, written by ololiuhqui. Update: 03/31 23:45 GMT by [2]J: After roughly four hours, BitTorrent has transferred over 500 full copies of all 3 ISOs, and a total of over 1.5 TB, at 170 Mbytes/sec. Thanks to the more than 3000 people who helped each other download the data, and especially to the more than 200 who got full copies and still have their clients open, to keep serving data to everyone else :) Links

    0. 
http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/
    1. 
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html
    2. 
http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/

Newsforge Reports
Dalai Lama announces Yellow Hat Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/213251

Dharamsala, India, 1 April 2003 - The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat GNU/Linux. Produced by the Gelugpa or "Yellow Hat" sect of Tibetan Buddhism, this GNU/Linux distribution is designed to encourage benevolence and cooperation. The Dalai Lama said, "The experience of sharing free software will teach all human beings the principle of benevolence toward other beings. Software is formalized knowledge, and sharing ...

New managing editor joins NewsForge.com
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1645253

By Lee Schlesinger - You're going to be seeing my name around here, so I thought I'd use my first byline to introduce myself. I'm Lee Schlesinger, and I've joined OSDN as managing editor. I'll be keeping tabs on the editorial side of NewsForge.com and DevChannel.org.

Open Source needs centralized PR, not development http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/1322252

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - It happened again: A complaint was brought up on a free software email list I'm on about the lack of a certain type of open source program, but there are several healthy projects in that area I knew about, and other list members pointed out yet others. Why didn't we all know about all of them? And if we don't know, how can we expect potential corporate open source adopters, who aren't on "inner circle" Linux and ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Random Hacks of Kindness Volume #3 published http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/022209

An Anonymous Reader writes "Affero announced today the March 2003 publication of their community newsletter, Random Hacks of Kindness. Good work and support provided by members of Freenode, LinuxQuestions.org and Scoop Media communities are recognized. Care2002 is the featured open source project that is doing great things in the health care community."

Scyld Computing and OSDgroup offer Beowulf Training http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1915209

John Weathersby writes "Oxford, MS/Annapolis, MD March 31, 2003 The Open Source Development Group, Inc, (www.osdgroup.com) and Scyld Computing Corporation (www.scyld.com) have formed a strategic alliance to provide training programs for Beowulf clustering technology.

SuSE Linux Firewall on CD 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/176209

In line with industry trends towards software appliances for security applications, SuSE has released a bundled OS plus firewall software installation. It comes with a minimal SuSE Linux preconfigured boot-up system, which hardens the OS in turning off non-essential services. As with other software appliances, a key benefit is being able to install the firewall together with the OS, easily turning a PC into a relatively robust appliance.

OpenZaurus 3.2 is released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1658217

I hereby announce the release of OpenZaurus 3.2. OZ (OpenZaurus) is an alternative Linux distribution for Handheld devices, primarily the Sharp SL-5000D and SL-5500 PDAs. Said distribution includes the Opie graphical environment, and numerous enhancements to both kernel and userspace when compared to the stock Embedix distribution on the Zaurus.

IBM Moves Lawsuit from State to Federal Court http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1631239

Anonymous Reader writes "IP attorney John S. Ferrell and MozillaQuest.com's Mike Angelo discuss IBM's removal of SCO's Caldera v IBM lawsuit to federal court. Why did IBM move the lawsuit to the United States District Court for Utah? What effect will moving Caldera v IBM to the District Court for Utah have on the outcome of the lawsuit? What is IBM's defense likely to be? Will it work? All these questions and more discussed in this in-depth, ...

Tarantella Enterprise 3 Validated on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1628221

Don't know where to look next?

Tarantella, Inc., a leading supplier of secure, application access software, today announced that Tarantella Enterprise 3, Version 3.3 has been successfully validated on the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8) platform.

SuSE Linux 8.2: Evolutionary, but not Revolutionary http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1535251

Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews posted an informative review of the upcoming SuSE Linux 8.2. While the article concludes that this is mostly an incremental point release with no major new features, we learn about some minor installation problems, some usability issues, tools that are there and tools that are missing (e.g. samba) and more."

IDT Offers Free Linux-Based Software Package for Interprise Family of Integrated Communications Proc http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1613240

IDT(TM) (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; Nasdaq: IDTI), a leading communications IC company, today announced it will provide royalty-free Linux(R)-based software packages optimized for all members of its Interprise(TM) family of integrated communications processors. Providing the fundamental building blocks for a wide range of Linux-based embedded designs, the IDT Linux solutions enable system designers to add value through application code ...

Debian's Own SourceForge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/168237

Raphael Hertzog recently announced Alioth, a SourceForge installation dedicated for Debian use. All developers automatically have accounts, though anyone may get an account. Quoting the front page, the purpose of Alioth is multiple: to provide facilities to free software projects supported by Debian developers, to make it easier for non-Debian developers to contribute to projects initiated by Debian, and to support projects whose goal is to ...

Growing trust in Linux not reflected in sales http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/165212

Confused? Frustrated?

Confidence in open source software is growing, but there has been no growth in overall usage, according to new research.

Freshmeat
Allegro 4.0.3 RC 3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118108/

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.

AllTasks.net 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118113/

AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or gather daily tasks into one common system.

Argus Monitoring System 3.2_RC-20030331 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/118112/

Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.

Bayesian Pattern Filtering Library 0.2.0beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/118121/

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Bayesian Pattern Filtering Library is a general purpose library designed for building Bayesian Filters. Its primary purpose is to provide an easy-to-use interface to allow the building of Bayesian filters regardless of the data being analyzed. A user will only need to provide a tokenizer, hash function, and comparison function in order to build a Filter.

Bioperl 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118093/

Bioperl is set of Perl Modules for bioinformatics. It contains objects for Sequences, features on Sequences, and other important bioinformatics attributes.

BKchem 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118066/

BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.

Bugzero 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118067/

Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.

cgipaf 1.3.0pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118082/

cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed to use cgipaf.

changedfiles 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118120/

changedfiles is a framework for filesystem replication, security monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations--essentially any application where you'd poll files or directories and either do something to them or send them somewhere else (or both). The difference is, the kernel tells you when they change, instead of you having to poll. Besides which, it's an easy real time FTP push mirror to one or multiple sites. The changedfiles system consists of two parts: a kernel module (works with Linux kernel version 2.4) which reports to a device whenever a file on the filesystem changes, and a daemon which runs in user space and can be configured to do almost any action when a change to a file matching the one of the patterns it looks for is reported. The kernel module is SMP safe and has been tested on Intel, PowerPC, and Alpha.

CHRendezvous 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118078/

This program lets users search for local Rendezvous services such as Web servers and iChat users. It also facilitates publishing a Rendezvous service on the network.

Component Conversion Utility 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118069/

The Component Conversion Utility is designed to minimize the time needed to create skeleton code in a variety of languages. Given a database connection, for example, the CCU can use existing tables to create Java files replete with accessors, mutators, and common methods. In addition to translating programming languages, it allows a user to define entities/attributes in a friendly GUI. Supported languages include Java, HTML/JavaScript, XML, SQL, VB/ASP .Net, and C.

dvb-mpegtools 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118081/

dvb-mpegtools provides various small programs helpful for converting, demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. The package used to be included with the DVB driver.

Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118133/

Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.

Fink 0.5.1 CVS_SNAP-20033103 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118057/

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

Gauche 0.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118075/

Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy tool for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar to STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte encodings natively.

harvest 1.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118123/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Harvest is a system to collect information and make it searchable using a Web interface. It can collect information using HTTP, FTP, NNTP, and local files. Supported formats include HTML, DVI, PS, fulltext, mail, man pages, news, troff, WordPerfect, C sources, and many more. Adding support for new formats is easy due to Harvest's modular design.

hdup 1.6.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118085/

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).

ImageAlbum 2.0.0 Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118034/

ImageAlbum is an easy-to-use Web application for picture collections written in PHP (safe-mode savvy). It features user accounts with access privileges for entire collections or individual images, picture comments, automatic thumbnail generation, and a nice interface (which is completely template-based). Pictures can be uploaded using an upload form or via FTP (which is nice when you have a lot of images to upload). Images can be stored outside of the regular HTML directory used by the Web server to increase security.

Infrared-HOWTO 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118109/

The Infrared-HOWTO (formerly known as the IR-HOWTO) is an introduction to Linux and infrared devices and how to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA project. This package uses IrDA(TM) compliant standards. Remote Control (RC) via infrared is not the aim of the project, though this topic is partly treated in the HOWTO.

ITracker 1.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118092/

ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, and multiple email notifications.

j 0.18.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118129/

J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions, multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may be used to customize the editor's appearance.

Java Financial Library 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118058/

The Java Financial Library is a library for Java applications that converts between currencies and retrieves stock information. It uses external data sources (Yahoo and Oanda) for the quote and currency data.

Jeff's Digital Notary 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118104/

Jeff's Digital Notary is a Web-based digital notary service. It's written in Python and allows you to setup your own digital notary really quickly. It uses GPG for all signing.

Levenshtein 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118114/

Don't know where to look next?

Levenschtein is a Python C extension and C libray to compute Levenshtein string distance, string similarity, normal and generalized string set medians, and other related quantities.

libike 0.9.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118119/

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.

LibTPT 1.20 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118063/

TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast, focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include on-the-fly HTML and source code generation.

LSID Resolution Stacks 0.2 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118095/

A Life Science Identifier (LSID) Resolver is a software system that implements an agreed LSID resolution protocol to allow higher-level software to be able to locate and access the data uniquely named by any LSID URN. This project is the first implementation of a Web service-based LSID URN resolution protocol, and includes Java J2EE, Perl, and Win32 COM/C++ client & server stacks, example programs, and tutorials on how to establish a LSID resolver for any organization.

LSID Resolution Stacks 0.03 (Perl)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118094/

Confused? Frustrated?

LULI Tournament Manager 0.9 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118134/

LULI Tournament Manger is a Web-based tool to help people running/organising tournaments. It's mainly written for Intranet LAN party usage, but it will work as well for any other type of tournament. It is not restricted to a certain style of tournament. Instead, administrators may freely combine Registration, KO Rounds, and Leagues/Heats.

mboxgrep 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118124/

mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox and displays messages matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression. It supports mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml, and maildir folders.

Memo 1.9.2 (GTK2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118102/

Memo displays the time as text (e.g. "It's just gone five to ten"), and your next appointments, memos, and alarms in a small window.

mod_epp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118086/

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mod_epp is an Apache 2.0 module that implements the EPP over TCP protocol as defined in draft-ietf-provreg-epp-tcp-06.txt and the session management parts of draft-ietf-provreg-epp-0(6|7|8).txt. This is not a full implementation of EPP; this module just makes it possible to write an EPP server as a set of CGI scripts.

MuSE Streamer 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118072/

MuSE is a user-friendly tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for independent free speech radio stations. It can mix, encode, and stream sound over the Internet that can be tuned in to by the majority of audio players. It can simultaneously mix up to 6 encoded audio channels plus a sound card input signal, sending the result to an Icecast server. It offers an intuitive GTK+ interface for real-time operation and can also be used from command line.

MW Speaker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118131/

MW Speaker is the worst speech synthesis software ever. You provide a phrase, and MWSpeaker looks up each word in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, downloads the corresponding pronounciations, and plays them in sequence.

ngetcgi 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118070/

ngetcgi is an CGI front end for nget that makes it easier to select and download files.

NMM 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118103/

NMM is a multimedia middleware package that allows you to develop all kinds of multimedia processing applications. A number of plug-ins supporting various media-types, operations, and I/O devices are included. The Multimedia-Box application built on top of NMM provides an extensible home entertainment system for DVD and CD playback, TV with time-shifting, and MP3 playback and encoding.

NSCL Data Acquisition System 7.1-005 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/118100/

The NSCL Data Acquisition system is a general purpose nuclear physics data acquisition system for small to medium scale nuclear physics experiments. It can be combined with NSCL SpecTcl to form a powerful online/offline data handling system. It is in use at several university labs and, of course, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.

Null Webmail 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118110/

Null Webmail is a simple yet powerful POP3/SMTP Webmail CGI written in C. It's small, fast, complete, and a breeze to install and use.

Opale 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118122/

Opale is a very simple personal financial account manager for KDE and KOffice.

Open Sound World 1.1beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118097/

Open Sound World (OSW) is a scalable, extensible programming environment that allows musicians, sound designers, and researchers to process sound in response to expressive real-time control. It combines a familiar visual patching paradigm with solid programming language features such as a strong type system and hierarchical name spaces. OSW also includes an intuitive model for specifying new components using a graphical interface and high-level C++ expressions, making it easy to develop and share new music and signal processing algorithms.

Papercut NNTP Server 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118101/

Papercut is a multi-threaded NNTP server written in Python. Its main objective is to integrate existing Web-based message board software (Phorum is one of the supported ones) with a Usenet front-end. However, its extensibility enables developers to write their own containers for the storage of the Usenet articles (messages). That means that the code is extensible enough that you could write new containers to integrate the news server with other Web message board projects or even other ways to store the messages.

PHPBalanceSheet POC-20030331
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118088/

PHPBalanceSheet is an effort to implement a Web-based accounting package using PHP.

Pine 4.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118099/

Pine® is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.

POP-Before-SMTP Relay Authorization Daemon 0.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118130/

Can't find what you're looking for?

popbsmtpd watches syslog for successful POP and IMAP logins, and writes IP address entries to a database to permit SMTP mail relaying for a configurable duration. No changes to any other software are required, and it can process logins where the IP address and the authentication success are recorded on separate log entries (i.e., when using stunnel). It has a user-configurable scheme for recognizing and extracting values from log entries, making it possible to use with many POP and IMAP daemons without requiring any programming changes. These configurations can be tested using sample log data.

Portable Coroutine Library 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118014/

This is a Portable Coroutine Library implementation written in ANSI C. Coroutines can be used to implement cooperative threading among many tasks without overloading the OS with threads/processes. Since context switch between coroutines is very fast, certain applications might have performance gain in using this type of threading.

portatux 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118127/

portatux is an interactive ncurses interface as well as a command line program for easily controlling the 8 data pins in the parallel port.

Psycho Path 1.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118089/

Psycho Path is a small, addictive arcade game for Palm OS made in the spirit of Carmageddon and GTA. Your aim is to crush pedestrians by moving your car in twists and zigzags.

Python Desktop Server 0.4.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118087/

The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.

PyX 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118091/

PyX is a Python package for the creation of encapsulated PostScript figures. It provides both an abstraction of PostScript and a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2D and 3D plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

RPL/2 4.00pre6e (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118079/

RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics.

Sagasu 1.99.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118125/

Sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can optionally ignore CVS directories. Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search."

Samsung Contact 8.0.2 (beta) (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118061/

Don't know where to look next?

Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication, business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders, and delegation.

shmux 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118090/

shmux is a program for executing the same command on many hosts in parallel. For each target, a child process is spawned by shmux, and a shell on the target obtained one of the supported methods: rsh, ssh, or sh. The output produced by the children is received by shmux and either output in turn to the user in an easy to read format, or written to files for later processing, making it well suited for use in scripts.

snortalog 1.9.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118074/

Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts.

swsusp 2.4 Beta19-19 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118065/

swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. 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.

Tabula-Musica 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118111/

Confused? Frustrated?

Tabula-Musica is a "swiss knife" jukebox, which tries to cover everything. It's written in full modular Python and is easy to extend and adjust. You can controll the server over Web, telnet, and a shell client. It currently supports xmms, lirc, and lcdproc.

The Tamber Project 1.2.4 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118096/

The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums.

Thy 0.4.242 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118098/

Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.

web-cyradm 0.5.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118076/

web-cyradm is a Web-based tool to admin the Cyrus IMAP Server and partially the Postfix MTA with a nice and fast frontend written in PHP. It supports multiple virtual domains, setting quotas, and mapping email adresses to mail accounts.

Webplan 0.03 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118073/

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Webplan is a small Web tool for resource or shift planning. Several teams can mange their shifts, and administrators can easily identify open gaps for important shifts. Vacation planning is also supported, and the program is administrable via a Web interface.

WIMS 3.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118064/

WIMS (WWW Interactive Mathematics Server) is a CGI Web application designed to host interactive mathematical educational activities such as exercises, computational math, and graphing tools. It features automatic score processing with strong anti-cheating mechanisms, virtual classes allowing teachers to guide/control student works, online exercise creation, animated graphics, a message board allowing inline mathematical formulas, and more. It can also be easily used for education within other disciplines.

X Resource Graph 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118107/

X Resource Graph (XRG) is a system monitor that shows graphs for CPU usage, memory usage, network usage, disk usage, current weather, and stock market data. It is designed to use as little overhead possible while showing a lot of information about the resource usage in a nice interface.

Xerces2 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118118/

Xerces2 is the next generation Apache Xerces-J XML parser. This version of Xerces-J defines the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), and provides a complete, standards compliant reference implementation using XNI. The parser was completely re-designed and re-implemented to be simpler and more modular. To help contribute to this project, visit the Apache XML Project web page and join the xerces-j-dev mailing list.

xrmap 2.26 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118060/

Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively display portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA world vector map. It is based on an earlier console utility 'rmap'. It features political boundaries, major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, canals, etc. The map remains accurate under a very large zoom factor, which can possibly exceed 100. Spherical, rectangular, Mercator and Miller projections are implemented, and all features can be interactively set from the GUI.

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