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[osdn business] May 04, 2003
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Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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May 04, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
[0]georgelazenby writes "The Frisco Chronicle [1]reports: While the
0. mailto:georgelazenby@livejournal.com
Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea
fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team
0. http://phil.freehackers.org/writings/tea-with-stallman.html
Exec Shield for the Linux Kernel
DarkOx writes "There is a new patch from Ingo Molnar which can prevent overflow attacks. The scoop from [0]KernelTrap is as follows: Ingo Molnar has announced a new kernel-based security feature for Linux/x86 called '[1]Exec Shield'. He describes the patch, which is against the 2.4.20-rc1 kernel, as: 'The exec-shield feature provides protection against stack, buffer or function pointer overflows, and against other types of exploits that rely on overwriting data structures and/or putting code into those structures. The patch also makes it harder to pass in and execute the so-called 'shell-code' of exploits. The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary.'" Links 0. http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=644
SCO DOS'ed
[0]Thomas Cort writes "[1]BusinessWeek has an [2]article about a DDoS
0. mailto:tcort@cs.ubishops.ca
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http://www.businessweek.com/
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999584.htm
Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys
[0]Dekaner writes "The [1]BBC is running a [2]story that BT has
0. mailto:dekaner@outeractive.com
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2985063.stm
RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort
[0]Richie Z writes "This article at the [1]New York Times talks about
0. mailto:punishinglemur@mail2stalin.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html?ex=1052625600&en=dadf74c45d5ecb89&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/138258&tid=158
Cell Phones and Air Safety
Cutie Pi writes "On the heels of this recent Slashdot story discussing
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1258259&tid=193
Spam Meeting Wrap-up
[0]wendigo2002 writes "Get used to that daily flood of e-mail come-ons,
0. mailto:wendigo2002@attbi.com
Harry Potter with Guns
[0]kauff writes "Slate has recently released a [1]somewhat-inspired
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Credit and Free Software
Hans Reiser - you're thinking [0]ReiserFS, and you'd be right - has a proposal to [1]slather Free Software with credits for its authors. Good? Bad? This is something the community has generally [2]moved away from, but maybe Reiser has a good point. Newsforge is part of OSDN. Links
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http://www.reiserfs.org/
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http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244
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ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Newsforge Reports
Slap the credits everywhere!
Linux Advisory Watch - May 2nd, 2003
This week, advisories were released for apcupsd, sendmail, apache, balsa, pptp, kdebase, snort, tcpdump, monkeyd, mgetty, ethereal, squirrelmail, lprng, micq, zlib, man, and xinetd. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, EnGarde, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
Anonymous Reader writes "Linux and Main's The Week That Was: SCO proves conspiracy theorists right; Linus says Linux is DRM agnostic; Spam draws unprecedented attention; Internet privacy? Think again" Time for a new installation paradigm, Part 4 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1629258 If developers and packagers flesh out the details of these suggestions, modify them to iron out wrinkles and then adopt the practices, most if not all Linux software installations will be trouble-free and distribution-agnostic. (3,250 words)
Sun rises on acquisition speculation
SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Sun Microsystems, which have fallen 92 percent in the past three years, rose 12.3 percent on speculation the company might be bought by a larger computer rival, an analyst said.
Penguin cracks Windows servers
The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise.
Marist to test digital media
Marist College will help pioneer a new generation of online digitized media through a research partnership with IBM Corp., both announced Friday at the Town of Poughkeepsie college.
SCO vs. IBM lawsuit: SCO has a problem
Anonymous Reader writes "This article makes the point that, even if the trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against IBM has merit, SCO themselves have knowingly redistributed that same code under the GPL. And, of course, they can't relicense the code without forfeiting their own rights to Linux under the GPL. It would appear that Red Hat and SuSE are in the clear after all and the Linux kernel remains clean." It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0339241 Timothy R. Butler writes "Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride ... Book Review - Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0326213 LogError writes "Brian Behlendorf, one of the co-founders of Apache said about the author of this book - "Ryan Bloom (the book's author) knows the internals of the 2.0 HTTP server at least as well as Linus Torvalds knows his way around the Linux kernel". Is the book really that good? Read on to find out." Aussie leads development of open source O-S for lawyers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/2331213 Perth lawyer and IT consultant, Jeremy Malcolm, is leading the development of an open source operating system specifically designed for use in legal practice. The system, Debian-Lex, is based on Debian/GNU Linux, a free Linux distribution.
Net attack crushes SCO Web site
At 10:45 a.m. PDT, the company was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack that hampered its Internet operations, said spokesman Blake Stowell. In a DDoS attack, numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a network that the targeted system slows to a crawl trying to keep up with the traffic it's receiving.
Freshmeat
aptg (a place to go) is a Web-based mail client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix.
Amrita VPN 0.95
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.
asciijump 1.0.0beta
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
bind 8.4.0-RC1 (Bind8-Beta)
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
Bookcase 0.6
Bookcase is a personal book collection manager for KDE. It uses an XML file storage format, and tracks 26 book properties by default. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Author names are automatically formatted, and the collection may be sorted by any property. Filters are available to limit the visible books by definable criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT file. Automatic ISBN validation is included. Exporting to Bibtex and Bibtexml is possible.
bTemplate 0.3
bTemplate is a PHP class that facilitates the separation of PHP code and various markup languages (HTML, XML, etc.). It provides simple variable interpolation, loops, complex (nested) loops, simple conditionals, and case loops. By default, it uses XML compatible syntax, but the opening and closing tags can be customized.
C++ Debugging Support library 0.99.29
Libcwd is a full-featured, professional, well-documented library to support C++ developers with debugging their applications. It includes support for ostream-based debug output, custom debug channels and devices, powerful memory allocation debugging, run-time sourcefile:linenumber information, and demangled type names of variables. Libcwd is thread-safe.
CvsKnit 0.9.8
CvsKnit is a CVS automation suite to knit up various CVS repositories from existing source packages. This may be useful for starting revision management with CVS, figuring out when a file had been added, modified, or removed, or for browsing source diffs or annotating between packages via a Web interface.
dillo Web browser 0.7.2
Dillo Web browser is a very fast, extremely small Web browser that's completely written in C. The source and binary are less than 300 kilobytes each. It is a graphical browser built upon GTK+, and it renders a good subset of HTML, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.
disktype 5
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
distcc 2.1
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to 10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.
Ejen 1.1-pre3
The Ejen program is a code and text generation system. It makes use of Java/XML/XSLT technologies and is implemented as an Ant task. It provides a complete generation, compilation, and deployment sequence, using XML "build" files and XSL filters and templates.
elf 0.5.3
elf is a comfortable command-line ELF object file header analyzer. Unlike many other similar projects, this project is aimed at the analysis of the ELF header, so as a large feature-set as possible is planned. Framework for Object Oriented Web Development 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/121709/ Framework for Object Oriented Web Development is a collection of base classes (ripe for extending) which handle object persistence, user authorization, security, data administration, input handling, and all the things required to build OO Web applications.
FreeMarker 2.2.2 (Lazarus)
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
ganttproject 1.9.5
Ganttproject lets you plan projects using Gantt charts. It can export HTML Web pages and calendars as PNG images. Projects can be subdivided into tasks with dependencies, and notes can be assigned to tasks. Users can interact with the calendar directly by clicking on it. The file format is a XML-based. It supports several languages, including English, French, and Spanish.
Garden Points Oberon Compiler 1
The Garden Points Oberon Compiler complies with the Oberon-2 specifications of Oberon Microsystems of Switzerland. It provides comprehensive compile-time diagnostics with explicit error messages and optional warnings for obsolete syntax or dubious program constructs.
gkrellmGIMPS 2.2 (Main)
gkrellmGIMPS is a plugin for the GKrellM monitoring tool. It measures the progress of a client participating in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).
GrubConf 0.5
GrubConf is a graphical GRUB configuration editor. It provides an easy to use interface allowing effortless modification of OSes and the flexibility to configure the most obscure options. It is designed to require minimal user interaction while providing tools for the most adventurous user.
HelpmeICT 0.5
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and as a pupil behaviour tracker.
JavaDICT 1.3
JavaDICT is a server for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229), a TCP transaction-based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
JoCaml Beta April 2003 (beta)
JoCaml is an extension of Objective Caml with primitives for network-transparent distributed and mobile programming, while preserving most of the great features of OCaml.
KSocrat 3.2
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary for the K Desktop Environment.
Linux User Management System .92
The Linux User Management System allows an organization to centrally manage their Linux users. It works with all distributions of Linux and in conjunction with GeKL's KDE User Desktop Management System (UDMS). Admins can use it to create groups, import large numbers of users and establish system profiles, and easily maintain profiles.
Megamek.NET 0.310
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
Mobicq 0.1b1
Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as mobile phones. It is written in Java 2 Micro Edition (CLDC/MIDP 1.0.3).
Moscow ML 2.00
Moscow ML is a light-weight implementation of Standard ML (SML), a strict functional language widely used in teaching and research.
myPod 0.2.2
myPod is a platform-independent program to manage your MP3 collection, create playlists, and synchronize them with an iPod.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.12
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users, change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas, mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part) and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
Project Manager X 1.61
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed. It requires Mac OS X 10.2.3 or greater.
Q 4.2.2
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
runit 0.9.2
runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.
SecPanel 0.41
SecPanel serves as a GUI for managing and running SSH (Secure Shell) and SCP (Secure Copy) connections. Nearly all connection-parameters are adjusted by one mouseclick (compression, port-forwarding, etc.). It also manages the SSH-agent. SecPanel works with ssh 1.2.x and OpenSSH.
Snowball 1
Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. It comes with several useful stemmers implemented using it.
StarDict 2.0.0
StarDict is a international dictionary with many dict data files. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern matching, fuzzy queries, and more. When the user selects a word in other software, it can pop up a floating window showing the selected word's meaning. TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.3.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121680/ TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do). The Chalmers Haskell-B Compiler 0.9999.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/121570/ The Chalmers Haskell-B compiler implements full Haskell 1.3, as well as some optional extensions. It is written by Lennart Augustsson and based on the classic LML compiler by Augustsson and Johnsson.
tvtime 0.9.8.1
tvtime is a high quality TV viewing application that takes input from a capture card, processes it, and displays it on the screen. It supports multiple deinterlacing algorithms and video filters.
VideoDB 2003-05-03
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
WebMySQL 2.0
WebMySQL is a Web interface to a MySQL database server. It supports the following SQL queries: SELECT, DESCRIBE, JOIN, and SHOW, and advanced query options such as LIMIT, DISTINCT, and GROUP. It has a fully customisable look and feel, and outputs either HTML results or a downloadable CSV file.
wmweather 2.4.0
wmweather displays your current local weather conditions. After supplying a 4-character METAR station identifier code (most major airports have one), it shows station ID, time of the last update, temperature, dew point, pressure, humidity, and wind speed. The various entries can be forced to display in a variety of different units. WTP 0.6.0
WTP is a Web-based FTP client that features bookmarks, uploading, downloading, deleting, moving, and renaming of files and directories. It allows administrators to limit the hostnames to which users can connect. Currently only Unix FTP servers are supported.
XMMPlayer 0.0.4
XMMPlayer is an input plugin for XMMS that uses mplayer to play video files.
Zero Install 0.1.7 Alpha
The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use. It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows users to run software without needing a root password.
ZINC interpreter 1.0
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.
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