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Slashdot
The MPAA's Lobbying-Fu is Stronger Than Yours http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1636227

[0]georgelazenby writes "The Frisco Chronicle [1]reports: While the
    music industry has been clumsily bullying its way through the federal     government, the movie industry has taken a more subtle -- and more     effective -- approach. The MPAA has been lobbying individual state     legislatures to pass laws reaching far beyond the original DMCA. The     proposed laws would permit cable TV companies to 'limit subscribers to     using only certain brands of VCRs and could ban TiVo in favor of their     own proprietary PVR technologies.' According to one expert, the bills     are 'tremendously open-ended and create theoretical and potential     criminal liabilities for just about anybody on the planet.'" Links

    0. mailto:georgelazenby@livejournal.com

  1. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/28/BU269543.DTL

Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1851231

    fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team
[0]invited RMS to tea at Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He
    asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and     Open Source or Free Software. I told him some of us are using     KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased him as an answer.' Many pearls in the     article."
Links

    0. http://phil.freehackers.org/writings/tea-with-stallman.html

Exec Shield for the Linux Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1848218

Do you need help?X

    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

  1. http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/

SCO DOS'ed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1729259

[0]Thomas Cort writes "[1]BusinessWeek has an [2]article about a DDoS
    attack against SCO. "At 10:45 a.m., the Unix and Linux seller was hit     by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that hampered its     Internet operations, said SCO spokesman Blake Stowell ... the     Utah-based company has incurred the wrath of many Linux enthusiasts     infuriated with its lawsuit against IBM ... SCO's Internet service     provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1     data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its     total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack."" Links

    0. mailto:tcort@cs.ubishops.ca
    1. 
http://www.businessweek.com/
    2. 
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999584.htm

Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/175248

[0]Dekaner writes "The [1]BBC is running a [2]story that BT has
    demonstrated a scanner that can be used to retrieve digital documents     by associating them with a physical object. When the digital files are     stored on the server, they are associated with a scanned image of the     object, for example a seashell. Later, when the user wants to retrieve     the files, the memento is again placed on the scanner. The resulting     image is used as the retrieval key." Links

    0. mailto:dekaner@outeractive.com
    1. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2985063.stm

RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/204241

[0]Richie Z writes "This article at the [1]New York Times talks about
[2]new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of
    questionable legality. One idea simply redirects users to a website     with legal downloads. But two other programs freeze the user's system     or delete music files determined to be illegal. Another proposed idea     is basically a DoS attack against downloaders. I guess the RIAA     believes the law only applies to their enemies." They had a [3]solution     to illegality planned.
Links

    0. mailto:punishinglemur@mail2stalin.com
    1. 
http://www.nytimes.com/
    2. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html?ex=1052625600&en=dadf74c45d5ecb89&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
    3. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/138258&tid=158
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Cell Phones and Air Safety
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1633239

    Cutie Pi writes "On the heels of this recent Slashdot story discussing
[0]Wi-Fi use on airplanes, the BBC is reporting about new evidence
    indicating that [1]cell phones can interfere with airplanes' navigation     systems. From the article: "In tests, compasses froze or overshot,     navigation bearings were inaccurate and there was interference on radio     channels." Look like like Wi-Fi and airplanes just don't mix." Links

    0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1258259&tid=193

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2992973.stm

Spam Meeting Wrap-up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1529223

[0]wendigo2002 writes "Get used to that daily flood of e-mail come-ons,
    Viagra offers and lucrative enticements to invest in Nigerian pyramid     schemes. Internet gurus, software designers and lawyers today [1]ended     a three-day Federal Trade Commission discussion on combating spam by     concluding neither technology nor laws are yet capable of completely     dealing with the plague."
Links

    0. mailto:wendigo2002@attbi.com

  1. http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3861286.html

Harry Potter with Guns
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1517224

[0]kauff writes "Slate has recently released a [1]somewhat-inspired
    article about what the Matrix was. You have to read it for yourself.     Good way to hype yourself up before Reloaded on May 15th." Links

Can we help you?X

    0. mailto:kauff@kauff.minidns.net

  1. http://slate.msn.com/id/2082400/

Credit and Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1825247

    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

    0. 
http://www.reiserfs.org/
    1.  
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244
    2. 
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Newsforge Reports
'Exec Shield' - new Linux security feature http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1914223

  • by Ingo Molnar - We are pleased to announce the first publically available source code release of a new kernel-based security feature called the "Exec Shield", for Linux/x86. The kernel patch (against 2.4.21-rc1, released under the GPL/OSL) can be downloaded from http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/

Slap the credits everywhere!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244

  • by Hans Reiser - Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few simple practices.

Linux Advisory Watch - May 2nd, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/0920234

    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
SCO, DRM, Spam, Privacy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1855240

Can't find what you're looking for?X

    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
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1627226

    SAN FRANCISCO Ã&#x201a;Â&#x2014; 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
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1624239

    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
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1623213

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    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
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/141259

    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

Confused? Frustrated?X

    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
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/2328217

     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
a place to go 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121722/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121705/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121707/

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    asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.

bind 8.4.0-RC1 (Bind8-Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121717/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121723/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121715/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121688/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121690/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121694/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121706/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121703/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121704/

    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 &quot;build&quot; files and XSL filters and templates.

elf 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121720/

    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)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121695/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121711/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121557/

    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)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121682/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121718/

Can't find what you're looking for?X

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121677/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121708/

    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)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121676/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121719/

Don't know where to look next?X

    KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary     for the K Desktop Environment.

Linux User Management System .92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121726/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121700/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121692/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121679/

Confused? Frustrated?X

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121681/

    myPod is a platform-independent program to manage your MP3 collection,     create playlists, and synchronize them with an iPod.

phpQLAdmin 2.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121701/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121710/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121699/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121716/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121697/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121686/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121684/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121698/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121712/

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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121713/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121674/

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WTP 0.6.0
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    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121702/

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    XMMPlayer is an input plugin for XMMS that uses mplayer to play video     files.

Zero Install 0.1.7 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121696/

    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
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121683/

    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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