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[osdn business] April 22, 2003
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Slashdot
Life As An African Web Developer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0258237
There's an interesting look at the [0]realities of high-tech in Africa running on NewsForge -- specifically, one writer's account of starting a web development company in Ghana, dealing with obstacles including power problems worse than the norm in deepest California. Links
0. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1518210&mode=nested&tid=3
Howard Schmidt Resigns As Cybersecurity Advisor http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0122228
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]CNN and [2]others report that [3]former
Microsoft chief of security [4]Howard Schmidt has resigned as White
House cybersecurity adviser. 'With the historic creation of the
Department of Homeland Security, the transfer of many of the
responsibilities from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and
the release of the strategy, I have decided to retire after
approximately 31 years of public service and return to the private
sector,' Schmidt said in his April 21 e-mail."
Links
0.
http://scubacuda AT iname DOT com
1.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/cybersecurity.ap/index.html
2.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=schmidt
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/trustedcomputing01/schmidtasp
4.
http://www.infragard-ct.org/bios/howard_schmidt.html
Half Life 2 To Appear At E3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0118228
[0]MonsieurEvil writes "Valve announced today
(http://www.planethalflife.com) that [1]the long-awaited Half-Life 2
will be appearing at E3, and will be released this year. The NDA for
press is supposed to end on April 28th, and quite a few magazines are
already hyping their scoops. Hopefully all the teen-angst types that
show their superiority through decrying this as vaporware can now
listen to their elders..."
Links
0. http://www.natural-selection.org
Windows Server 2003 Is A Small Step Forward http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0018212
[0]b17bmbr writes "[1]According to eWeek, 'The release of Windows
Server 2003 is a small step forward for the platform -- an effort that
really should be considered Windows 2000 Server Second Edition. With
the exception of Internet Information Services 6.0, there aren't any
far-reaching or fundamental changes in the product.' And from CNet
[2]Microsoft prepares Windows Server ads, 'The ads are geared toward IT
managers on tight budgets.' This is probably Microsoft's last chance to
turn the tide and take mindset and market share from FOSS."
Links
0. http://[moc.ibtta] [ta] [rbmb71b]
1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1034665,00.asp
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-997724.htmlCharlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/2315235
FirstEdition writes "Will this never end! [0]Linux Business & Technology writes that Charlie Northrup, the guy in New Jersey whose prior art on what looks to be Web services dates back to 1994 and appears to trump anybody else's IP, has gotten [1]another patent. Of course, he has transferred the IP to a spin off company populated mostly by lawyers. [2]More details here." Links
0.
http://www.sys-con.com/linux/
1.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,546,413.WKU.&OS=PN/6,546,413&RS=PN/6,546,413
2.
http://www.sys-con.com/linux/articlenews.cfm?id=681
Home-Grown TiVo Stories?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/2238215
PolyDwarf writes "I'm in the process of figuring out how I'm going to build a homegrown TiVo machine (i.e. a computer sitting next to or in my home electronics stack). My question for is "What's worked best for you?" Most solutions I've researched are great if you have regular cable. However, satellite systems and digital cable boxes seem to present a special challenge, in that the software on the PC needs to know about an IR connector that is then hooked up to the front of the digital cable/satellite box. Who has done a solution like what I'm researching? What cases/processors/memory/TV Card/IR transceiver/OS/software/etc worked out for you? Did the end result justify the pain and hassle?"
The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/2145234
dotnothing writes "I just caught a column on a security site advocating for a [0]total start from scratch as far as certain internet protocols like SMTP. It's an interesting idea and there are some ideas on how to conduct the transition... if everyone would agree on something like this it would definitely reduce the spam (among other things)." Links
0. http://security.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1036052,00.asp?kc=SCZD103039TX1K0100568
FoxPro On Linux, Drama Ensues
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/2045200
[0]bltfast32 writes "I don't know how many people have been following
this, but this is definitely worth keeping an eye on. Whil Hentzen,
prominent FoxPro and Linux advocate, has received some heat lately for
publishing a HOWTO in the March 2003 [1]FoxTalk issue for running
[2]Visual FoxPro 8.0 on Linux with [3]WINE. Of course, the
aforementioned heat, is coming from Redmond. Here is a link to a nice
[4]summary of the interactions by Whil." That summary mentions the
[5]Register article online here. bltfast32 also points to another
[6]article which requires registration.
Links
0. mailto:bitblt@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT
2.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/
3.
http://www.winehq.com/
4.
http://www.linuxtransfer.com/h/misc_vfplinuxjackofhearts.htm
5.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30325.html
6.
http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT/FTmag.nsf/PastIssueIndex
Trusted Debian v1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1913251
[0]Peter Busser writes "The Trusted Debian project releases its first
[1]official release, v1.0. Its main focus is solving most (but unlikely
all) buffer overflow problems. It features PaX, a kernel patch which
does several things. It tries to keep code and data apart, it
randomizes stack, code, heap and shared libraries, it does strict
mprotect() checking and it also protects the kernel. Trusted Debian
also uses the stack protector patch for GCC developed by Hiroaki Etoh
at IBM, which adds overflow checks to C/C++ code. It also features
FreeS/WAN and RSBAC, an extensive access control framework. More
information is available from the [0]website. There is also a
[2]demonstration available for the special capabilities of this
release."
Links
0.
http://www.trusteddebian.org/
1.
http://www.trusteddebian.org/press.html
2.
http://www.trusteddebian.org/demo.html"Super-DMCA" Bills In Tennessee and Arkansas http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/188250
[0]David Turner writes "Tomorrow, Tennessee's Senate Judiciary
Committee is holding a hearing on two nearly identical DMCA-like bills.
These bills threaten personal privacy, anonymity, and security
research. [1]SB 213 and [2]HB457 are similar to state laws [3]
introduced all over the country by the MPAA. Despite [4]amendments, the
bills still threaten digital freedom. [5]Last month, twenty people
showed up at the Massachusetts public hearing, and effectively opposed
the one MPAA lobbyist. If you attend, speak from notes rather than
simply reading a statement (but you may be able to submit written
testimony). Please come to Legislative Plaza in Nashville, rooms 12 and
14 at 3:30pm." And [6]Kraken137 writes "The House and Senate of the
[7]Arkansas state legislature have passed the MPAA's [8]"Super-DMCA"
Bill, and it is now sitting on the Governor's desk awaiting his
signature. It's not too late to convince him to veto this bill!
Arkansas residents are urged to contact the Governor's office to
express their opposition to this violation of rights. The ever-vigilant
[9]EFF has a page where residents can [10]send a fax to Governor
Huckabee's office to let their voices be heard. Remember, paper and
phone calls make more of a difference than emails!"
Links
0. mailto:novalis@fsf.org
1.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/Bills/currentga/Bill/sb0213.pdf
2.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/Bills/currentga/Bill/hb0457.pdf
3.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/education/super-dmcas.php
4.
http://www.digitalspeech.org/superdmca/tn/TNAmendExpl1.pdf
5.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2003/04/02#a106
6.
http://kraken at drunkmonkey dot org
7.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
8.
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/
9.
http://www.eff.org/
10.
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2624
Newsforge Reports
Open Source Development Lab names new CEO
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1446245
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - According to a press release issued this morning (complete text below) the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), "a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in enterprise computing," has appointed its first CEO. Lab director Tim "wookie"' Witham will continue to hold his current position and will still be the primary tech contact. Stu Cohen, the new CEO, will ...
So you want to be a Web African programmer? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1518210
- Guido Sohne - Accra, Ghana - Working as a software developer in Web Africa can be a trying experience. I remember the days when, less than two months into starting a new company, we had to endure the infamous "load-shedding" -- a practice of cutting off electricity to whole sections of the city in order to conserve power. Never mind that you need electricity to work and you need to work to eat. Nowadays things are much better -- they just cut ...
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
All power big and small
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1855259
The walls of Apple Computer in Cupertino are covered with international awards for excellence in industrial design - the flat-panel iMac, the iPod and, perhaps most impressive of all, the PowerBooks.
New York gets a dose of PHP: PHPCon East Opens Wednesday http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/186231
Monica Ortiz writes "San Francisco, CA Last years successful addition to the PHP conference circuit heads to New York City this week with an expanded program that includes a third day of tutorials and several new and returning PHP gurus. PHPCon East 2003, the first of two regional, PHP-centric shows scheduled in 2003, runs April 23 to 25, 2003 at the Park Central Hotel in New York City, NY.
Interview with the PostgreSQL Team
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1758255
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an interview with some members of the PostgreSQL team regarding the much needed replication feature, their competition to MySQL, their future plans and a "native" Windows/.NET port."
GRID WARS Parallel Programming Challenge Featured at ClusterWorld Conference and Expo http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1611257
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced that the next "GRID WARS(TM) parallel programming challenge, where competing programs written in CxC ("C by C") fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors, will be held live at the ClusterWorld Conference and Expo in San Jose, June 23-26.
Novell to offer Linux version
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/160236
NOVELL is to integrate open-source components and industry standards in the next version of its NetWare. Version 7.0 of NetWare is to be built to run on either NetWare or Linux kernels, Novell announced at BrainShare, its annual user conference.
Canon color and wide format printers get Linux support http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1555251
Canon and Codehost today announced the availability of Codehost's BrightQ suite of Linux and Unix-based printing tools for Canon's imageRUNNER line of multi-function devices, CLC Color Laser Copier/Printers, and wide format printers.
Texas Uni adopts big Opteron, Linux combo http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1537228
A report said that Texas A&M University is to build a big 128 dual processing Opteron cluster using SuSE Linux.
Book Review: A History of Modern Computing, Second Edition http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1534253
A History of Modern Computing covers business and scientific computing from about 1945 until the present. Paul Ceruzzi is a historian and curator, and this evident in his writing, which is more like a textbook than a dramatized history, as many books about computing history tend to be.
Open Source Reference Book 2003 requests submissions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1516201
The Center of Open Source & Government announces that it will publish "The Open Source Reference Book 2003 [What Local/National Governments, the Defense Establishment, and The Global 1000 Need To Know About Open Source Software]." According to the organization, this is an Open Source resource book targeting the 20,000 IT power users around the world.
Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.5.68
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1512245
Tons of changes all over the map. The diff is large, partly because the s390x support got merged into the s390 port as a 64-bit subset, and the old s390x architecture files thus became irrelevant. And a merge with Alan gave us a another architecture instead - h8300.
Freshmeat
Compact Disc Input and Control Library 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120250/
This library encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library. Some support for disk image types like BIN/CUE and NRG is available, so applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc images as though they were CDs. A sample utility for displaying CD info is included.
6nome 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120258/
6nome is a theme loosely based on the background of the GNOME logo. The Metacity theme has embossed title text, and features the GNOME footprint as the menu button. The GTK theme has light and few colors, and its widgets have rounded corners.
A Simple TimeSheet 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120297/
A Simple TimeSheet (ASTS) allows a group of people to record the hours spent working on a variety of projects. For each project, the hours can be divided into a number of different tasks. There are global projects and tasks as well as personal projects and tasks for each user.
Amrita VPN 0.90 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120253/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120309/
Anthill Pro is an automated manager for the build and release process of software development. It can provide daily reports of an overnight build, with automated test runs, a revision log which lists newly implemented features. Anthill Pro adds to the already robust feature set of the open source version of Anthill. Anthill Pro is easy to use in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously built version.
Atomic Photo Album 1.1.0pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120330/
APA is a PHP/MySQL photo album with the ability to dynamically add and remove photos. It also features users, comments, themes support, a search engine, an unlimited number of albums, an admin section, and multilanguage support.
Averist 1.8.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120366/
Averist is a module that adds an authentication layer to any CGI application written in Perl. It supports initial authentication through CGI (form), and it can use CGI (hidden form fields) or cookies for reauthentication after a configurable timeout. It can also use a DBM file, a flat file database, or an SQL database for storing session tickets for increased security. The username and password check at the initial authentication can be done via a DBM file, an LDAP directory, a NIS database, the passwd database, a passwd-style file, or an SQL database. Averist is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
avidemux Preview 7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120293/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
avidemux 0.9 final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120268/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
BlogPluck 0.9.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120294/
BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application that converts blogs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
Boten GNU/Linux 9.5 h1/i1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120341/
Boten GNU/Linux is intended for home users and provides a fully-localized GNU/Linux environment in Hebrew. It's especially made for those new to Linux, though aimed to please all users, experts and newbies alike.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120285/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux, Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.
CDfs 2.4.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120321/
CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio tracks), etc. The primary goal for developing this file system was to `unlock' information in old ISO sessions. The file system also allows you to access data on faulty multi session disks, e.g. disks with multiple single sessions instead of a multi session.
Content management module for PHProjekt 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120284/
This module let users manage content pages for PHProjekt. It uses a directory-based model and role-based security. Features include file upload capabilities, a comment system, a search facility, and simple statistics generation.
CourseForum 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120350/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
Crypt Blowfish 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120271/
Crypt Blowfish is an implementation of a modern password hashing algorithm, based on the Blowfish block cipher, provided via the crypt(3) and a reentrant interface. It is compatible with bcrypt.
CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120315/
CUTE is a text editor, based on Qt and Scintilla, which can be easily extended using Python. Its main purpose is to be a user-friendly source code editor with a common graphical user interface.
cvsd 0.9.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120345/
cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories.
CVSToys 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120359/
CVSToys is a collection of companion tools for the Concurrent Versions System, better known as CVS. It currently contains FreshCVS, which performs actions in response to a commit. Actions include notification by various methods, updating a working copy, and rsync'ing to backup. Another key feature of FreshCVS notifications is that you receive one per commit, not one for each directory of the commit as loginfo-triggered scripts are prone to do. FreshCVS is extensible with Python, and notifications may be published by a Perspective Broker network service, allowing 3rd party clients to listen in.
devlabel 0.35.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120346/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to the correct data.
DIBS 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120335/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers (and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
DPROG 0.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120281/
DPROG is a domain-specific language for specifying dynamic programming algorithms. Given a recursive definition of the problem, the compiler generates code for solving the problem using dynamic programming.
DRT 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120371/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application.
DSPAM 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120324/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives.
DVB Driver Project 2003-04-21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120329/
The DVB Driver Project has very good drivers for DVB cards by many manufacturers (e.g., Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s and WinTV Nova, Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis, and Technisat). It supports DVB-s, DVB-t, and DVB-c.
elmer 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120322/
Elmer allows Python code to run from C or Tcl as if it was written in C or Tcl. Elmer generates "glue" code that embeds an interpreter for one type of language into an extension for another. Elmer allows function calls and various data types, both native and custom, to pass transparently between the two languages.
EMS PostgreSQL Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120277/
EMS PostgreSQL Manager is a powerful graphical tool for PostgreSQL administration and development. It makes creating and editing PostgreSQL database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts and queries, manage users and their privileges, extract, print and search metadata, export data to 12 available formats, and import them from most popular formats.
FMPP 0.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120316/
FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application.
fwsnort 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120296/
fwsnort translates snort rules into an equivalent iptables ruleset. By making use of the iptables string match module, fwsnort can detect application layer signatures which exist in many snort rules. fwsnort adds a --hex-string option to iptables, which allows snort rules that contain hex characters to be input directly into iptables rulesets without modification. In addition, fwsnort makes use of the IPTables::Parse Perl module in order to (optionally) restrict the snort rule translation to only those rules that specify traffic that could potentially be allowed through an existing iptables policy.
GAI Blobs 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120302/
GAI Blobs is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that shows a bunch of moving blobs.
GAI Leds 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120304/
GAI Leds is a GNOME panel applet and a dockapp that shows the status of the keyboard LEDs.
GAI Pager 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120306/
GAI Pager is a pager applet for Enlightenment and Waimea. It supports both the GNOME 2 panel and the dock.
GAI Pal 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120307/
GAI Pal is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that gives you a friend that always has something wise or funny to say.
GAI Visual Audio 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120308/
GAI Visual Audio displays the spectrum or scope of the audio that is played by XMMS. It works with the GNOME panel and most window mangers that support a dock.
Gambas 0.54 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120355/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
General Applet Interface Library 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120300/
The goal of the General Applet Interface Library is to give programmers a simple yet powerful applet interface. This library supports both dockapps and GNOME 2 panel applets. The applet programmer doesn't have to care about if the applet will be used on the Gnome panel or in the dock. The library handles that. Over 50% of the code in a dockapp and a GNOME 2 Panel applet does only one thing, setting up the applet window. With GAI, this can be reduced to just a few lines of code.
Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120290/
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.
Genmake 2003_04_21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120320/
Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description.
Gherkin 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120358/
Gherkin is a Web-enabled, multi-threaded, centralized security scan manager that incorporates Nessus vulnerability scanning, DNS and nmblookup name resolution, and nmap fingerprinting and scanning.
GNet 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120373/
GNet is a network library. It is object-oriented, written in C, and built upon GLib. It is intended to be easy to use and port. It supports abstract Internet addresses, TCP, UDP, IP Multicast, IPv6, asynchronous DNS lookups, SHA, MD5, Base64, URIs, and SOCKS. It comes with documentation and examples.
GNUitar 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120266/
GNUitar is guitar effects software that allows you to use your PC as guitar processor. It includes the following effects: wah-wah, sustain, distortion, reverberator, echo, delay, tremolo, vibrato, and chorus/flanger.
GNUMail.app 1.1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120340/
GNUMail.app is a clone of NeXT's excellent Mail.app application. It uses the GNUstep development framework, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT.
GRAMPS 0.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120246/
Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.
gURLChecker 0.3.9 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120247/
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.
Gwenview 0.17.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120354/
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. Image loading is done by the Qt library (so it supports all image formats your Qt installation supports). It features a folder tree window and a file list and thumbnail window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy and uses docked windows, allowing you to alter the layout in any way you want.
Helis 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120323/
Helis includes the main features of most bug tracking systems. It is helpful for managing required evolutions, lacks, proposals, and bugs. Authenticated users can reach the database through a Web browser (Mozilla, Netscape, or IE). Distinct features include the ability to manage releases (e.g. return resolved bugs between release 1.04 and 1.00), precise access rights, and importing validation/QA bug reports.
ifstat 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120368/
ifstat is a tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. It can monitor local interfaces by polling the kernel counters, or remote hosts interfaces using SNMP.
IPplan 3.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120295/
IPplan is a Web-based, multilingual IP address management and tracking tool based on PHP which simplifies the administration of your IP address space. It can handle a single network or multiple networks with overlapping address spaces. It features internationalization, importing of network definitions from routing tables, importing of definitions from TAB-delimited files and NMAP's XML format, support for multiple administrators with different access profiles (per group, per customer, per network etc.), definitions of address space authority boundaries per group, finding free address space across a range, display of overlapping address spaces between networks, search capabilities, an audit log, statistics, and tracking and sending SWIP/registrar information.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120319/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
Java SOS 3.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120275/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JaxMe 1.57
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120370/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).
JAZZ++ 4.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120264/
JAZZ++ is a full featured, audio-capable MIDI sequencer for Linux and Windows.
JDebugTool 2.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120288/
JDebugTool is a standalone Java debugger built on top of the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). It features a graphical and intuitive Java Swing GUI, and integrated Java Help.
JSyntaxColor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120270/
JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples for interesting API parts.
Klokka 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120303/
Klokka is a simple graphical clock. It should work on both Linux and Windows.
latd 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120283/
The latd daemon allows users to connect to a Linux system from a LAT-enabled terminal server (e.g. a DECserver). It also provides a "reverse-LAT" so that printers and modems on LAT terminal servers can be accessed from Linux.
Lazy 0.24a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120233/
Lazy is a console-based CD player with freedb support. It provides artist, album, and song name display, looking at the main freedb-server for unrecognized songs. It can also extract audio digitally if the CD-ROM drive does not have an analog audio cable.
libcddb 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120262/
Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.
libubiqx 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120325/
libubiqx is an in-memory database suitable for use in embedded systems. This release include database managers and support libraries for binary, splay tree, and sparse populated databases, such as those used in SNMP implementations. This is primarily a packaging release of the original ubiqx list management library. For more information about ubiqx, visit www.ubiqx.org.
Log Tool 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120342/
Logtool is a syslog file parser, report generator, and monitoring utility. It takes logfiles from syslog, multilog, or other ASCII log generating sources as input from stdin, and depending on command line switches and/or config file settings, will parse and filter out unwanted messages from the logfile accordingly, and generate output in ANSI color, formatted ASCII, CSV (for spreadsheets), or HTML format. It is very handy for use in automated nightly reports, and online monitoring of logfile activity. It comes with some simple example scripts and documentation.
Lurker 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120347/
Lurker is a mailing list archiver designed for capacity, speed, simplicity, and configurability, in that order. Noteworthy features include: Google-style searching on all fields, chronology preserving threads, multilingual support, and attachment support.
Multi Gnome Terminal 1.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120287/
Multi Gnome Terminal is an enhanced version of gnome-terminal, with many powerful new features and extensions. The most notable enhancement is the ability to run multiple terminals within the same window. Each terminal may be accessed by its "tab", through keyboard shortcuts, or menu selections. Inactive terminals provide an alert when the buffer changes by changing the color of the tab labels. Other enhancements include a toolbar, a buttonbar, flexible command options to launch new terminals, tabs, and shells from either the GUI or command line, customizable key bindings for MGT functions and other uses, font shadowing, the ability to "split" terminals so that each window can simultaneously multiple terminals, the ability to "view" or "bond" terminals with other terminals, and various other improvements.
NAT Monitor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120313/
NAT Monitor is a graphical monitor to keep tracks of hosts' bandwidth usage in a Linux-NAT local network. NAT Monitor draws a stacked graph with a different color for every LAN host. It autodetects hosts and has a nice summary statistic.
NIS-Pg-Sync 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120282/
NIS-Pg-Sync is a simple script to synchronise PostgreSQL authentication tables with NIS for those using system authentication in PgSQL. It will keep your PostgreSQL user/password database up to date, adding and removing users as they are added and removed/suspended in the NIS.
Nmap 3.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120344/
Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, sunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and commandline modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ.
Octopus-ASM 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120234/
Octopus is a project intended to create an assembler of the 80251 embedded microcontroller, including 8XC251SA, 8XC251SB, 9XC251SP, and 8XC251SQ.
Open DP-500 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120363/
Open DP-500 is a replacement for the PC-Link software that comes bundled with the KiSS Technology DP-500 DiVX/DVD player, which streams movies, music, and pictures from an ethernet-connected computer. It is written in Java.
Open Gaming System 0.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120240/
The Open Gaming System (OGS) is a platform for developing open gaming software. It defines an API and provides a free software implementation of this interface. It is designed to be portable, reusable, and flexible enough for use in any game world or campaign setting including medieval, modern, futuristic, gothic, eastern, and western, as well as the traditional fantasy setting. This distribution contains a software development kit (SDK) for development with C, C++, and Java
Orbital Eunuchs Sniper 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120311/
Orbital Eunuchs Sniper is a simple game in which the player must control an orbital laser to prevent harm from coming to the VIPs (in blue squares) in the form of human threats (in red squares). Avoid killing the neutral humans, however, or else you may be 'retired'.
p(y)layer 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120279/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.
Pantomime 1.1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120339/
Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system. It is fully written in Objective-C (some very small parts in C where performance is critical), and is part of GNUMail.app.
photon project 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120235/
Photon is a tool to manage images with a HTML slides viewer. This tool creates HTML indexes that contain one or several thumbnails and links for browsing images. It can also create thumbnail images and Web images. You can also add one comment for each image in your picture-book.
PJIRC 1.82
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120317/