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[osdn business] April 20, 2003
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Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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April 20, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
SlideGuitar writes "The following is a fascinating article about how
the Navy in the 1950s, wanting to assure that it had a carrier based
nuclear force, used A1 Skyraider (single engine propellor driven
aircraft) to [0]lob nuclear bombs using a manuever called the "goofy
loop" (read the article.) The goofy loop put about seven miles between
them and a Mark 7 nuclear device at detonation. The pilots knew that
(1) they couldn't get far enough away to survive, and (2) if they did
survive there probably wouldn't be a carrier to go back to anyway.
There are lots of emails from pilots who did the manuever and what they
thought about the whole business."
0. http://www.danford.net/spadguy.htm
T-Shirt Cannon
[0]SnakeStu writes "If you thought the T-shirts at ThinkGeek were cool,
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http://www.openmusicregistry.org/
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http://www.citcfx.com/prod_teelauncher.htm
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http://www.citcfx.com/
Building a Bigger Search Engine
[0]skreuzer writes "Wired is running a [1]story about a distributed web
0. mailto:skreuzer@f2o.org
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http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58497,00.html
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http://www.grub.org/Open Source Experiment Management Software? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2352232 Alea asks: "I do a lot of empirical computer science, running new algorithms on hundreds of datasets, trying many combinations of parameters, and with several versions of many pieces of software. Keeping track of these experiments is turning into a nightmare and I spend an unreasonable amount of time writing code to smooth the way. Rather than investing this effort over and over again, I have been toying with writing a framework to manage everything, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. I can find commercial solutions (often specific to a particular domain) but does anyone know of an open source effort? Failing that, does anyone have any thoughts on such a beast?"
AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview
[0]k-hell writes "It seems like [1]X-bit Labs have [2]gotten their
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http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel/
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html
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http://tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5026
The Science of the Matrix
KamehamehaWarrior writes "Peter B. Lloyd, author of [0]Taking The Red Pill: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in The Matrix, believes that many of the plot developments in "The Matrix" that seem to contradict the laws of physics, biology, etc. can actually [1]be explained with a closer look at the science. He addresses issues such as "Can humans really be an energy source? How does the Matrix know what fried chicken taste like? Why do the rebels have to enter and exit the Matrix via a telephone system (that doesn't actually exist)?"" Links
Time to Face the Music
Mortimer.CA writes "[0]The Toronto Star has an article up about the
Belgium Rolls Out Java ID Cards
An anonymous submitter points us to this page describing [0]Belgium's rollout of Java-based smart cards as a national ID card. Links 0. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-04/sunflash.20030410.2.html UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1658211
[0]Lyle E. Dodge writes "According to this article at Yahoo.com Symbol
0. mailto:slashdot.org@lyledodge.com U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1647222
[0]Injektilo* writes "The [1]Washington Port is [2]reporting that the
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http://www.injektilo-ftp.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53387-2003Apr18.html
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/2031250&tid=158
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - April 18th, 2003
NewsForge proposes fix for MS Office 2K registration bug! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189231
Newsforge Newsvac
IndLinux.org - a non-profit network meant to promote Indian language solutions for free software - has announced the launch of IndLinux Milan v0.37, a Hindi interface to Gnome, the graphical user interface (GUI) of the GNU/Linux operating system. Time for a new installation paradigm, Part 2 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1838237 This is Part 2 in a series calling for a radically new approach to Linux software-installation. Part 1 examined many (though not all) of the problems with the current approaches to software-installation. This time, we'll take a closer look at the technological considerations behind one of the biggest issues for software installation: shared libraries. Novell's CEO issues an apology for 'immature' Linux comment http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1832207 Novell Inc. Chairman and CEO Jack Messman has issued a written apology and clarification after angering some members of the Linux community when he called Linux "an immature operating system" in an interview with Computerworld earlier this week. Texterity promotes SVG format via free file conversion http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1754204 Anonymous Reader writes "Texterity has introduced a free web-based service to provide file conversion from PDF into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format in an effort to promote an alternative to Adobe's PDF format. SVG is a standard overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)." New Microsoft Spokesman Emphasizes Trustworthy Computing http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1747246 Anonymous Reader writes "Speaking at the Windows 2003 launch. The new Microsoft Information Spokesman has emphasised the stability of their latest OS."
Microsoft kills open-source bill
The software industry is slamming the door on a push for Oregon government agencies to use open-source software -- computer programs that don't carry recurring fees or usage restriction
LFY visits the office
Clinton Goveas writes: Linux For You, India's first, and currently the only, magazine devoted to GNU/Linux and open source has just announced the contents planned for their May 2003 issue. Indian businesses may have never had something this good! IncaGold and Hyperion port to Linux, Amiga, Mac http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1742251 Mike Bouma writes "IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms."
Interview with Eagle Linux
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
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.
Freshmeat
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
CacheMate 1.1
CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.
chgrep 1.1.0
chgrep searches the input files (or standard input if no files are named) for oldpattern and changes them to newpattern (grep doesn't support this). You can use .lock files (or another extend). It is useful in (but not limited to) mail servers.
chpox 0.4a (Single)
chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with MOSIX and openMosix , is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.
Coriander 0.31 (Stable)
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras. CYCAS 2.40
CYCAS is a 2D+3D CAD package for drafting and design in high quality and for creating 3D presentations and technical illustrations easily. Some of its features include an easy-to-handle user interface, special architectural elements and functions, a WYSIWYG display, printing, plotting, import and export filters, photorealistic rendering with POV-Ray, documentation and tutorials, example drawings, and an extendable 2D/3D symbols library.
dchub 0.4.2
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DocBook Doclet 0.41
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF.
dominigue 0.0.0
dominigue is a DOM engine which implements W3C DOM Level 2 in GObject and other facilities of GLib.
GatorMail 1.0.1
GatorMail is a Java Servlet-based Webmail application built on the Jakarta Struts framework. It was originally developed to meet the needs of the University of Florida. Efficient interaction with the mail store along with a low support overhead and simple, user-friendly interface are the primary goals of the project. GGTL -- Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120113/ GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Two example games, Othello and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
GStreamer 0.6.1
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
HASAS 1.5.1 (development)
HASAS (HydroAcoustic Signal Analysis System) is a modular system for passive sonar signal analysis. It can be used for biological research or surveillance, for example. The soundcard is used as input device, and it currently includes all the very basic functionality; beamformed audio, direction finding, level histogram, LOFAR/DEMON (narrowband spectrogram), wideband spectrogram, and raw audio.
MetalServe 0.3
MetalServe is a standalone DCC file server that can be used to share files on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks such as EFNet and Undernet. Unlike the only available similar Unix program, iroffer, which offers "packs" of files, MetalServe offers single files similar to the way the SDFind, SPRJukebox, and OmenServe scripts for mIRC, a Windows IRC client, work.
Perl webmail 3.0.5
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.5
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre09
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.
QTParted 0.2.0
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
QtRadio 0.4.1
QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.
R5 1
r5 is a bot that runs as a client on IRC networks, and allows you to make it listen to commands. An easy way to add your own commands is available.
Rack 0.5
Rack is a theme which makes windows look like audio racks. Just for fun, for the audio addicted people. Not very useful, not finished yet, but the idea is there.
ReMedial 0.2.11
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
Remote Internet Connect 2.0.93
Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is online.
Rolo 008
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.
Run Time Access 0.5.1
RTA (Run Time Access) gives you runtime access to the data in your program. It is a specialized, memory-resident database interface. It is not a stand-alone server but a library which attaches to your program and offers up your program's internal structures and arrays as database tables. It uses a subset of the Postgres protocol and is compatible with the Postgres bindings for C, PHP, and the Postgres commandline tool, psql.
Simkin for C++ 2.19
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++ applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such as XML or in databases.
Simple Python Blogger 0.6.3
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.
Soapbox 0.2.0
Soapbox is a (sandbox) library that allows to restrict processes to write only to those places you want. By preloading the Soapbox library (or using the provided soapbox-script), you can run programs and monitor which writes/changes are made, without them really happening. Typically do a safe succesful 'make install' that doesn't break halfway and doesn't pollute your system.
Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.1
Socrates is a Java based questionnaire and survey engine and wizard that enables fast delivery of questionnaires to the Web. It runs under Jakarta's Tomcat. The backend for defining questionnaires is XML (a database is in progress).
TrackStudio Enterprise 2.5 SP2
TrackStudio Enterprise is a powerful and scalable multi-platform defect tracking system based on Java. It includes a Web-based workflow manager and bug filter (AND, OR, and NOT). It supports custom fields, multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database into projects and subprojects, and works with any database.
WindowLab 1.09
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
X-ChaMan 0.7.0
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/ Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/ 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/ Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
Books: Pattern Recognition
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
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