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[osdn business] April 19, 2003
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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April 19, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0344251
An anonymous reader writes "As many readers will know, [0]mozilla.org
was asked to change the name for their standalone browser, [1]Phoenix
as [2]another browser had the same name. After [3]months of discussion,
the new name was [4]announced as [1]Mozilla Firebird. Despite the new
name being approved by [5]AOL Legal, supporters of the [6]FirebirdSQL
database were quick to object (though the name is also used by [7]many
other people). A coincidentally named supporter of FirebirdSQL,
[8]IBPhoenix, put up a slightly immature [9]request for their readers
to participate in mass posting campaign targetting mozilla.org
developers' email accounts, newsgroups and even forums at independent
sites such as [10]MozillaZine and Slashdot. FirebirdSQL's official site
later [6]reiterated this message. However, IBPhoenix have now declared
this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a
success. Their [11]second stage calls for a more focussed email protest
at just two of mozilla.org's members: Mitchell Baker (mozilla.org's
leader) and Asa Dotzler (announcer of the name change). In addition,
they ask their readers to move away from 'derogatory messages' and to
show more 'courtesy'. Unsurprisingly, the beleaguered admins of
affected sites such as MozillaZine have [12]welcomed this change of
direction. This is getting very interesting!"
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
2.
http://www.phoenix.com/en/solutions/connect/
3.
http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=291
4.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075
5.
http://www.aol.com/
6.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/
7.
http://www.google.com/search?q=firebird
8.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/
9.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla0
10.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
11.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla2
12.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3086
Should You Hire a Hacker?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0211238
[0]fabioj writes "[1]Business Week has an article about [2]today's
debate at the RSA Security Conference held at the Moscone Center
attended by Kevin Mitnick and his 1995 trial prosecutor, Christopher
Painter. Interesting to note that Painter doesn't see Kevin Mitnick's
experiences as a deterrent for the 'up-and-coming technology workforce'
to criminally hack."
Links
0.
http://poemata.com
1.
http://www.businessweek.com/
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030416_7638_tc029.htm
Genderplay in Videogames
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0127234
[0]thenovacrisis writes "[1]Game Girl Advance has an interesting
article about the [2]various female characters in videogames. She talks
about the important balance between alienation and identification, the
Aesthetics of Sexy Girls, and various MMORPGs. An interesting read for
all." A lot of games are compared, and issues raised. Good food for
thought for character design.
Links
0. mailto:thenovacrisis@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/
2.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/04/16/genderplay_successes_and_failures_in_character_designs_for_videogames.html
Build Your Own Bar Stool Racer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1128255
[0]angkor sends in this site about the new and fascinating sport of
[1]bar stool racing.
Links
DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2332233
Starrider writes "It seems the [0]DARPA grant for [1]OpenBSD and for
[2] University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and
without warning. See the full story in [3]Theo's email and on
[4]deadly.org." Theo is left to only speculate why funding was suddenly
pulled. One also has to wonder what this means for the University of
Pennsylvania, since they were also in for a piece of the pie.
Links
0.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html
1.
http://www.openbsd.org/
2.
http://www.upenn.edu/
3.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2
4.
http://64.90.164.50/article.php3?sid=20030417181810
Are Rebates Scandalous?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2236211
[0]theodp asks: "Motley Fool offers a dead-on take on the [1]computer
mail-in rebate fulfillment process--Once I receive your 'claim,' I will
begin to 'process' it. Assuming that you filled out all the information
correctly, and assuming nothing is missing, and assuming your claim
doesn't get lost somehow, and if you call or write a few times to check
on your claim's status, then I will mail your check within 10 to 12
weeks. Maybe. Or maybe it'll be four to six months. Or never." What are
your thoughts on rebates, and have any of you noticed who, at least in
the computing industry, is more trustworthy with rebates than others?
Update by [2]J: Here's the [3]short version of the article.
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030410JF.htm
2.
http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/
3.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20030318.html
Phreaking Not Dead Yet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2210227
[0]santos_douglas writes "From [1]Wired comes this article about an
[2]exploit involving weak voicemail passwords and automated voice
recognition systems for accepting collect calls. The providers
involved, SBC and AT&T, don't seem too concerned about their customers
receiving tens of thousands in fraudulant charges from places like
Saudi Arabia and the Phillipines."
Links
0.
http://www.msu.edu/~santosdo
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58517,00.html
Nokia 3650 Released in US Market
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2028238
A Swing Dancing Dork writes "Check out the new [0]Nokia 3650! Video and
still imaging, MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss all
wraped up in a uber-modern package." I was looking phones all morning
so I'm glad this showed up. Anyone have advice on cel phones? I'd like
IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via
bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may
work as well.
Links
0. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,2273,00.html
Spiderman, Sony vs Marvel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1856247
An anonymous reader writes "It now looks like Marvel has a dispute with
Sony over Spiderman. This short [0] report tells how Sony is trying to
take over Spiderman. First we saw the [1] dispute between Marvel and
Stan Lee, and now this."
Links
0. http://www.drudgereport.com/marvel.htm
Real-time PC access on your PDA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189205
[0]Brooks P. writes "As seen in [1]this story on [2]The Register,
[3]Sproqit Technologies creates software that allows you to access your
desktop apps in real time over the Internet. No more synchronization.
This is accomplished with a Desktop Agent that runs on your (Windows
for now) PC, and a 200k Companion running on the PDA. The Desktop Agent
uses plug-ins to connect to the apps running on the PC, and the SDK
used to develop plug-ins is free. Oh, and the whole thing uses 128-bit
SSL for security and works over any connection method: 802.11, modem,
cell phone, etc."
Links
0. mailto:pantsb4shoes@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30322.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
3.
http://www.sproqit.com/
Newsforge Reports
LinuxISO.org: a valuable resource for new users
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1833251
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "Where do I get Linux?" is one of the most frequent questions we get through our editors@linux.com email address. An excellent answer I think we'll be giving in the future is, "From LinuxISO.org." Assuming the site survives, that is.
Linux Advisory Watch - April 18th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1045223
- Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for openssl, mutt, ethereal, xfsdump, kdegraphics, lprng, gs-common, epic, lpr, rinetd, glibc, evolution, gdkhtml, eyeofgnome, samba, and krb5. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
NewsForge proposes fix for MS Office 2K registration bug! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189231
- Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - After looking over proposed fixes and workarounds to the latest Microsoft Office 2000 registration bug detailed in a story at The Register titled Office 2000 SR-1 registration bug strikes corporates, NewsForge has developed a much simpler -- and very permanent -- solution to the problem.
Newsforge Newsvac
Interview with Eagle Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2347245
Anonymous Reader writes "Eagle Linux doesn't reach the news sites very often but your visitors might be interested in a quick email exchange between Tux Reports and Eagle Linux."
DansGuardian 2.7.0 Alpha
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1539255
DansGuardian is a web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.
Linux antivirus software?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1534242
It's an insurance company's dream: Sell policies for something so unlikely to occur that you'll get to scoop up premiums and never have to pay out. That's pretty much what's going on with companies selling antivirus products for Linux. Since there are so few Linux viruses in the wild, who knows if the products actually work?
HP cements the Bastille
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1512227
Hewlett-Packard has released Version 2.0 of the Bastille security tool and a new Install-Time Security product for its HP-UX operating system.
Ultra-integrated system-on-chip challenges XScale, SH, OMAP http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1532251
Centrality Communications (Santa Clara, CA) unveiled a new family of ultra-integrated dual-core system-on-chip processors intended for use in next-generation wireless and GPS-enabled devices such as smartphones, PDAs, and automotive navigation/telematics systems.
Safari, Camino could re-ignite browser war -- on Macs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1518231
Four years after Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer trounced Netscape in the Web browser wars, two new offerings for Macintosh computers offer the best evidence yet that market domination doesn't always make for the most nimble or innovative products.
XMPP rises to face SIMPLE standard
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1515232
With the lure of presence-aware applications and systems dangling before them, competitors are warming up for a heated race to establish an industry standard protocol for presence awareness and instant messaging interoperability.
Opteron prices reflect AMD confidence
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/156216
The Opteron processors for midrange servers coming next week from Advanced Micro Devices will range in speed from 1.4GHz to 1.8GHz, said sources, and AMD is apparently not thinking small on price.
Porting, debugging, and programming uClinux at ESC http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1452212
Rob Wehrli will be presenting a session on Porting, Debugging and Programming uClinux on the Renesas (formerly Hitachi Semiconductor) H8S-2674R and H8S-2148AF families of 16-bit microcontrollers at Embedded Systems Conference in downtown San Francisco next week. The presentation will be in Moscone Center Room 309 at 3:45pm on Friday, April 25.
Book Review: Managing RAID on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1447237
Almost every Linux system administrator probably is familiar with the concept of RAID (redundant array of independent disks), but most probably aren't too confident about setting one up on their own.
Freshmeat
4tH compiler 3.3d release 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120039/
4tH is a Forth compiler with a little difference. Instead of the standard Forth engine it features a conventional compiler. 4tH is a very small compiler that can create bytecode, C-embeddable bytecode, standalone executables, but also works fine as a scripting language. It supports over 85% of the ANS Forth CORE wordset and features conditional compilation, pipes, files, assertions, forward declarations, recursion, etc. It comes with an RPN calculator, line editor, compiler, decompiler, C-source generators, and a virtual machine.
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120064/
Aasm is an advanced assembler designed to support several target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended, and should be considered as a good alternative to monolithic assembler development for each new target CPU and binary file format. It should make assembly programming easier for the developer by providing a set of advanced features: symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big integer support, numerous and accurate warning messages, filter modules, and more. Its dynamic modular architecture enables aasm to extend its set of features with plug-ins. asm-x86, out-elf, out-binary, and out-intelhex modules are available. An asm-sparc module is under development.
aseqjoy 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120085/
aseqjoy monitors a joystick device of your choice and maps each axis to a MIDI controller. Joystick motion triggers corresponding MIDI controller messages. The MIDI events are sent through an ALSA sequencer output port.
BlogPluck 0.9.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120021/
BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application that converts blogs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
CinePaint 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119998/
CinePaint is image retouching software with features similar to GIMP or Photoshop. However, two significant enhancements set CinePaint apart. It handles 16-bit per channel color (48-bit RGB) and has a sequence manager that facilitates moving through numbered images. That makes it very useful for manipulating scanned 35mm film. It was used in the production of Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, Stuart Little, and other feature films. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry.
comic-icons 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120060/
comic-icons are a set of icons in PNG format with a size of 64x64 pixels.
cutmp3 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120040/
cutmp3 is a small commandline MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 and save them to separate files without quality loss. It uses mpg123 for playback. It mostly works with VBR files, but they are treated as CBR files.
cvsdelta 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120043/
cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.
Damn Small Linux 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120065/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its miniscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
DansGuardian 2.7.0 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120002/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).
door 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120049/
door is a password storage system. It allows you to securely store as many passwords as you need in an encrypted file not easily accessible to the general public.
Dropbear 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120017/
Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
Dump/Restore 0.4b34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120023/
The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups.
DynamicRelay 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120063/
DynamicRelay automatically refreshes sendmail's access.db file as users get authenticated via POP. Users connecting from anywhere may be allowed to send email using your SMTP server. Also, you can set a LIMIT to the number of messages that can be sent from an IP address per day. This is really nice when you have users infected by viruses that send thousands and thousands of spam messages, or send spam deliberately, so your server won't get listed on spamcop or other RBLs so easily. You can also control how long users are allowed to send email after their last POP authentication. Abuses get logged, and you can put your own static entries in the access file.
Epiphany-browser 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120056/
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine.
Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with
GNOME.
Eshida Instant Embedded Linux 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120010/
Eshida Instant Embedded Linux is an embedded Linux distribution for people who want to deploy embedded Linux technology immediately. Because the system runs directly on CD-ROM users spend zero effort to explor embedded systems.
FCKeditor 0.9.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120090/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, 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.
Freedoom 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120054/
Freedoom is a project to create a complete, free Doom IWAD file. Combined with the GPLed Doom source code, it creates a completely free Doom-based game.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120035/
FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above.
gCVS 1.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120012/
gCVS is a GTK port of WinCVS, a Windows-based CVS client.
Gemini Unified Datamining System 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120061/
The Gemini Unified Datamining System is a set of tools for performing automated searches on the Internet or an intranet using a customizable and extensible set of information sources, including private databases, subscription search services, and public search engines. It includes a flexible and open plugin architecture that can be used to analyze content for specialized searching, research, and information retrieval tasks.
gimp-print 4.3.13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120036/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GKrellM Mailwatch 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120016/
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.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120033/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
Gnusto 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120068/
Gnusto is a Mozilla-based application which lets you play adventure games--specifically, the hundreds of games both modern and ancient available in the Z-machine format. It features a just-in-time interpreter which compiles Z-machine code to Javascript on the fly for speed.
gURLChecker 0.3.8 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120059/
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.
Helix Python Player Extension 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120069/
The Helix Python Player Extension (pyplayer) is a Python interface for the Helix DNA Client. The Helix DNA Client is the media playback engine used by the RealOne Player. pyplayer allows for scripted playback and other automation tasks using the Helix media engine.
Herdtools A1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120083/
The Herdtools are a set of Perl scripts which perform various "job parallel" functions so that can control a "herd", or cluster, of machines from one connection. In most cases, the Herdtools use rsh or ssh to actually do the work. In other cases, they may connect to procstatd to collect some information, or they may simply read a file on disk and report information back. A "tag" system is used to allow arbitrary logical tests for machine selection (i.e., all machines that have tag "foo" and "bar" but not "baz").
hidefile 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120081/
Hidefile is an LD_PRELOAD library which hides several directory entries from directory listings. These hidden files are still accessible with regular file operations. It can be useful, for example, to hide your CVS, .cvsignore, and .svn entries.
Human Activity Logger 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120067/
Human Activity Logger allows you to keep track of your time. It lets you add, edit, and delete log entries, which are classified according to categories of your choosing. You can quickly browse around old log entries, and maintain separate logs accessible from the same installation of the program (e.g., for separate projects). There's a rudimentary stats function and various other functions.
iGor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120027/
iGor, the mosquito hater, stars in a Java game that features native accelerated 2D graphics for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Information Sharing System 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120052/
Information Sharing System is a CORBA Component Model-based distributed document sharing network. It supports meta descriptions of documents.
instantRSS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120046/
instantRSS takes an appropriately-"tagged" Web page and spits out an RSS feed. The tags are simple and easy-to-use HTML comments. instantRSS may be used locally or remotely, alleviating the need for users to have PHP on their servers (or even having to know PHP).
IPA 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120075/
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.
ISMail 1.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120037/
ISMail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any imap server. ISMail aims to be quick and easy to use. The layout, complete with address book and folder options, is relatively simple and familiar to most users.
japach 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120041/
Japach is simple Web server, providing simple support for CGI scripts, virtual hosts, and static pages serving. It could be useful for sites for which Apache is an unnecessarily "big hammer", and is really easy to configure.
jpgind 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120089/
Jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web galleries from JPEG/Exif files. Each image's page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML metadata from a separate text file.
JPluck 0.9 RC 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120019/
JPluck lets you convert Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld computer.
KDE Interactive Geometry 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120077/
KDE Interactive Geometry (KIG) is a program for use in math classes in high school, much like KGeo, KSeg, Dr. Geo, and Cabri. It allows students to interactively explore geometric concepts.
KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120045/
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and documentation.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-04-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120015/
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.
Krename 2.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120053/
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.
KrotchyDay 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119979/
KrotchyDay is a theme based on the Krotchy Mascot from the game Postal2.
LinuxTrade 3.38 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120092/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
LTI-Lib 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120011/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition, sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real applications.
man-pages-ja 20030415
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120066/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
myStats 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119760/
myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of information about people who visit your site, about search engines, keywords, etc.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120029/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.1-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120038/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
phpMySQLDiff 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120051/
phpMySQLDiff is a PHP script which generates an SQL-ALTER-Script for the differences between two databases.
pipebench 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120071/
Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.
PLies 1.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120026/
PLies is a Perl script used to split an input HTML file into multiple slides which are then presented using CSS. Slides can be navigated using the keyboard, the presentation can be packed as zip file for distribution, and arbitrary Perl code (like the included example to create HTML bar graphs) can be executed while creating the presentation.
PolarViewer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120050/
PolarViewer is a viewer application for exercise files recorded with Polar heartrate monitors (S710 and S610). It displays all of the recorded exercise data (except power) and creates diagrams. It is written in C# using the Gtk# toolkit.
pretendroot 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120086/
Pretendroot is an LD_PRELOAD library which overrides some glibc calls, pretending you are root while doing file system operations. The main difference from Debian's fakeroot is that no daemons or other processes are involved, fake ownership and group are stored on the file system, and not in memory, hence it can survive even reboots. This library has been successfully used when building packages for the UHU-Linux distribution. All of its applications are compiled and installed as an unprivileged user. However, there's no need to patch Makefiles; commands such as "install -o root -g mail thisfile ${DESTDIR}/here" work perfectly, and the final packages will have the desired ownership and group.
QuickRip DVD 0.6-rc1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120034/
QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks.
RPGD 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120072/
Role-Playing Game Daemon is a multi-user dungeon game that allows local and remote telnet connections to play. It can use standard VT or color ANSI emulation. An extended ANSI emulation client is available for background music and sound effects. It features arena fights and jousts, a 100-level dungeon with 10 planes, gang parties, naval battles, thieving, etc.
Simple File Manager .024
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120018/
Simple File Manager is a PHP-based file manager that allows files to be uploaded, renamed, edited, and deleted. It can also create sub-directories, require authentication, restrict the files and directories that can be edited, specify disk space quotas and maximum file sizes, and more.
SlackCheck 2.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120028/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
sortdir 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120084/
Sortdir is an LD_PRELOAD library which sorts directory entries before supplying them to your applications. Sorting order is controlled by the current locale settings, however, other directory sorting locales can also be specified. (glibc >= 2.3 is required.) Sortdir can be especially useful as a wrapper for "tar" or "find". It's been used for creating packages for the UHU-Linux distribution; all of its deb packages contain their entries in alphabetical order so that better user feedback is provided when hitting F3 in mc on a package or querying its contents with "dpkg -L".
Structured Document Validator 0.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120048/
Structured Document Validator implements a generalized method for validating both the structure and content of structured documents. Any data format that can be deterministically divided into tags and data is classed as a structured document. This definition applies to a wide array of data formats, including XML, Java properties files, and delimited value files. The application performs validations based on user-defined Structured Document Definitions (SDDs). It provides an environment for validation, SDD development, and document editing.
terminatorX 3.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120078/
TerminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer, and an easy-to-use GTK+ GUI.
TransluXent 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120014/
TransluXent is an implementation of an X server which uses OpenGL to offer translucent windows.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.12 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120042/
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.
web2ldap 0.11.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120055/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
WebGUI 5.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120091/
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
XOSD 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120074/
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.
yawk 1.0.0-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120080/
yawk is a wiki clone written in gawk. It supports the usual text styles, lists, and tables. Working on plain text files, it does not require an installed database. The user interface offers optional frame support.
ZINC interpreter 0.51 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120058/
Zinc (the Z-machine Including Network Capabilities) allows you to play text adventure games (also known as interactive fiction) either on your own, or cooperatively over a network. It comes with interpreters for two of the most popular interactive fiction file formats--Z-machine games and TADS games. A common problem when playing adventure games is drawing a map of the game world. Seasoned players will be glad to hear that Zinc has a powerful map facility to make this process as painless as possible. Zinc's networking capabilities are possibly unique. They enable several players to work together to try to solve a game.
Thinkgeek
Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5eda/
Computing: Bay-Mounted 6-in-1 Card Reader http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ee4/
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5e77/
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e15/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5e80/
Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/
Tshirts: Mostly IP Creeper & Toddler Tee http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/kids/5e09/
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/