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[osdn business] May 05, 2003
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2311201
A cheeky writer at Canada's Ottawa Citizen newspaper has written a
[0]story about the [1]U.S. State Department's 2002 Patterns of Global
Terrorism.
Links
0. http://canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=78a2260b-4770-4682-be60-e6fe1d3b8144
Search for the Missing Universe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2245236
[0]Chris Gondek writes "The [1]Sydney Morning Herald has reported that
[2]one of the greatest discoveries of our time could be made under the
Yorkshire moors. Deep in a Yorkshire mine, scientists are toiling to
solve a cosmic puzzle that has baffled astronomers for 70 years: about
90 per cent of the universe is missing. Analyse the movements of stars
and you can work out how much matter is making them swirl round in
galactic islands and how much makes galaxies cluster together as they
do - in other words, you can work out how much mass makes the universe
look the way it does. But measurements suggest that the universe is not
what it appears."
Links
0.
http://www.gondek.net
1.
http://www.smh.com.au/
2.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987611300.html
Video Codec Comparison
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/0149224
FonkiE writes "[0]Doom9 wrote a good article: After more than 3 weeks
of work and no free time during that period it has been done: The
latest [1]codec comparison is online. 7 codecs have been put through
one of the hardest tests in the history of codec testing. The results:
find out on your own ;) I had planned to change the presentation
somewhat but certain events (forum problems and such) prevented me from
completing this for the release. I plan to eventually supply an updated
version of the comparison."
Links
Water-Rocket-Powered Cars
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2119256
[0]Jim Gallant writes "Big cheap thrills for very little money are
yours by making [1]water rocket powered cars. They're fun! They're
hilarious! Amaze your friends."
Links
0. http://www.outsideconnection.com/gallant
Nmap Security Tool Survey
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2034224
[0]spring writes "Every so often, the author of everyone's favorite
network reconnaissance tool, [1]nmap, runs a survey to determine which
security-oriented software products are most popular. This year's
[2]tool survey was just released, and it contains some interesting
results. Old favorites like [3]Nessus, [4]Snort, [5]Netcat, and
[6]Ethereal made the list, of course. [7]SAINT and [8]SARA are still
around. But a number of new tools appeared this year, like Windows-only
[9]GFI LANguard, [10]SuperScan, and [11]Cain & Abel. [12]Nikto and
[13]Kismet demonstrate the growing importance of wireless networks.
[2]The survey contains many good tools. Certainly worth a read."
Links
0. mailto:eric@@@bitpuddle...com
1.
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html
2.
http://www.insecure.org/tools.html
3.
http://www.nessus.org/
4.
http://www.snort.org/
5.
http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/network_utilities/
6.
http://www.ethereal.com/
7.
http://www.saintcorporation.com/saint/
8.
http://www-arc.com/sara/
9.
http://www.gfi.com/lannetscan/
10.
http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/superscan.htm
11.
http://www.oxid.it/cain.html
12.
http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml
13.
http://www.kismetwireless.net/Intel's 'Personal Server': The Handheld Killer? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/2012257
[0]markbaard writes "Intel is developing a wireless, pocket-sized
personal server that may replace laptops and PDAs altogether. The
'personal server,' which is being developed at Intel Research by
ubiquitous computing wizard Roy Want, is the size of a deck of cards,
half the weight of an iPaq, and has no i/o, no screen, and no
peripherals. The device never leaves its user's pocket or handbag.
Pictures of the personal server and the story are at [1]baard.com."
Links
>From Legal Wordings to Economic Reality http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/207240
[0]Holger Blasum writes "The directive on software patents in Europe is
(currently) scheduled in the European Parliament mid June, so the 7-8
May parliament hearing on [1] Software Patents: from legal wordings to
economic reality might be a good opportunity to make your views heard
in Brussels. There is some support for accomodation, and [2]hitchhikers
or [3]taxistop might ease getting there. If you cannot attend, find
(and invite) your EU representative [4]here (hint: this database does
not include so many email addresses, so it would not be wise to go for
this in the very last minute; if the options overwhelm you try the
"Legal affairs committee", and/or the persons you are likely to vote
for in the 2004 elections)."
Links
0. mailto:blasum@ffii.org
1.
http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl/05/index.en.html
2.
http://www.hitchhikers.org/
3.
http://www.taxistop.be/
4.
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_meps.entry?ilg=EN
Looking at Longhorn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/1954259
[0]ShinyPlasticBag writes "Paul Thurrott has an excellent [1]preview of
Longhorn milestone five over at his [2]Supersite for Windows. It looks
like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X -- the next version of
Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies.
In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us
mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."
Links
0.
http://shinyplasticbag.com
1.
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_4015.asp
2.
http://winsupersite.com/
What Games Have Actually Affected You?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/30/221203
[0]FortKnox asks: "What games have affected you simply by playing them?
What games immersed you so well into its environment that you actually
felt different after playing it? For me, I'd have to go with System
Shock 2. Basically the predecessor to Deus Ex, it was the only game
that made me so afraid that the minute I heard a matron mother, I
turned the other way and ran. What game scared you to death, or made
you think after playing it?"
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~FortKnox/journal
RoboCup 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/0220242
[0]Kylose Boondoggler writes "Sony AIBOs play soccer against each other
in the [1]American Open 2003, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in
preparation for RoboCup '03. Teams from all over North and South
America (including teams from Georgia Tech, Cornell, and UPenn) will
compete in various leagues from soccer-playing AIBO to pure computer
simulations. [2]Local newspaper coverage is provided by [3]The Tartan.
Honda's [4]ASIMO will also make an appearance along with rescue robots
constructed by [5]Carnegie Mellon."
Links
0. mailto:kylose@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.americanopen03.org/main/
2.
http://www.thetartan.org/97/25/scienceandtechnology/3234.asp
3.
http://www.thetartan.org/
4.
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
5.
http://www.cmu.edu/
Newsforge Reports
MySQL and NetWare: An interview with MySQL's David Axmark and Larry Stefonic
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/1417203
- by James E. Gaskin - "We're the Access for Linux," says David Axmark, co-founder and OpenSorcerer (yes, that's the title on his business card) for MySQL AB. Now Axmark wants MySQL to be the database of choice for NetWare customers everywhere. The company announced at Novell's BrainShare conference last month that the full version 4.0 of its flagship database would ship with NetWare 6.5 this summer.
The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/1413238
- by Andrew Waterman - FLOSS-US is an online survey of Open Source/Free Software developers currently being conducted by researchers at Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. This survey has been designed to complement the FLOSS survey for 2002 of Open Source/Free Software developer communities sponsored by the European Commission.
'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/
Newsforge Newsvac
Langa Letter: Getting the Right Linux Footprint
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/1455226
It's never been easy to install Linux, but Fred Langa explores the best available tools and finds reason for hope.
Not so fast with anti-spam laws!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/04/1415235
Anonymous Reader writes "Before we begin to think of passing laws against spam, says Linux and Main in an editorial comment, we need to think long and hard, and ask some questions, such as how do we define spam?"
SCO, DRM, Spam, Privacy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1855240
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 — 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
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."
Freshmeat
4 Friends 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121778/
4 Friends is a theme about yarning around the campfire. The background is by softshape art (Vlad Gerasimov).
Amaranth Icons .4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121832/
Amaranth Icons is a smooth icon theme which was made with Adobe Illustrator 10. It will soon be released as SVG icons.
ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121814/
This project adds plugins for the lexer/parser generator ANTLR to the Eclipse platform. The plugins provide a grammar file editor with syntax highlighting, outline view and a project nature with incremental builder.
ArX 1.0pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121838/
ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch.
Bogofilter Web Frontend 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121788/
Bogofilter is a statistical email classifier using the Bayesian method. Bogo-fe adds an easy to use, easy to install frontend for training Bogofilter by reclassifying incoming email.
BoPHP 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121793/
BoPHP is a Web interface for bossogg that uses PHP and its built-in XML parser.
bosdl 0.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121792/
bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It features TrueType fonts, album covers, and a progress meter.
Boss Ogg 0.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121791/
Boss Ogg is a server-based Ogg and MP3 player designed for entertainment centers and people that want to use their spare computer for full-time music. It supports a range of clients and includes PHP and SDL interfaces (perfect for TV-out cards).
CDDB / CDDB_get 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121848/
The CDDB/CDDB_get Perl module gets the CDDB info for an audio CD. The included script was intended as a demo for CDDB_get, but over time it has gained powerful features like the ability to write to a database, offline mode, HTTP mode (including proxy), saving in standard XMCD format, and writing 'lame' commands.
DCTC 0.85.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121762/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
Devil's Pie 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121767/
Devil's Pie is a Metacity window-matching utility, inspired by Sawfish's "Matched Windows" option. It can be configured to detect windows as they are created, and match the window to a set of rules. If the window matches the rules, it can perform a series of actions on that window.
Digital Flight 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121779/
Digital Flight is a theme based on a vector architectural-style background by deadspirit6 (Dineshsingh Chandrasingh Thakur).
Efax-gtk 2.0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121772/
Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax program. It interfaces with efax directly, replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have been received and sent. It requires the GTK+ and Gtkmm libraries. Ghostscript (gs) must also be installed.
eggdrop 1.6.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121839/
Eggdrop is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot that can be extended using either C modules or Tool Command Language (TCL) scripts. Eggdrop is one of the oldest IRC bots still in active development, and it can be programmed to perform an endless amount of tasks.
ElyCA 0.23rc3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121808/
ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.
Escale 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121790/
Escale is a Newton Connection Utility for Mac OS X. It features
AddressBook synchronization, package installation, and the use of the
Mac Keyboard to echo letters on the Newton. It can connect to a Newton
via the serial line, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP with Rendezvous. Escale
comes with the full source code of the Desktop Connection Library
(DCL).
General Applet Interface Library 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121783/
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.
getID3() 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121795/
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AVI, MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV), RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC & OggFLAC, VQF, Speex, MPEGplus / Musepack / SV7, AAC, AU, VOC, AIFF, OptimFROG, WavPack, LPAC, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, ISO9660, BMP, PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA, CART, BWF), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE2, and Ogg Vorbis tags.
gGo 0.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121809/
gGo is a Go board, SGF editor, client for the Internet Go Server, and an interface for playing with GNU Go. gGo is written in Java and available for Linux, OS X, OS/2 and Windows. gGo is distributed free of charge. Go is an ancient boardgame, very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
GnoTime 2.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121834/
GnoTime is a to-do list tracker and project timer with a built-in invoice generator. It allows users to keep track of how much time they have spent working on particular tasks, maintain a diary of that work, and create invoices with task-specific billing fees and rates.
Gwenview 0.17.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121807/
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.
Highlight 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121812/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
honeyd 0.5a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121844/
Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their TCP personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain versions of operating systems. Honeyd enables a single host to claim multiple addresses on a LAN for network simulation. It is possible to ping the virtual machines, or to traceroute them. Any type of service on the virtual machine can be simulated according to a simple configuration file. Instead of simulating a service, it is also possible to proxy it to another machine.
Iguana 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121840/
Iguana is an interpreted, interactive, high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It can be extended with your own modules written in C or C++, and is adaptable as an extension language for existing applications.
Inventory 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121811/
Inventory is a inventory program written in GTK2. It uses MySQL and is simple, fast, and easy to use.
Ion 20030503 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121818/
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
iRATE client 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121764/
iRATE client is a client for the iRATE radio system. It uses a collaborative filtering system to allow clients to download music based on ratings. Tracks are rated and it uses these ratings and other peoples' to guess what music to play. The tracks are downloaded from Websites which allow free music downloads.
Ismo 0.0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121813/
Ismo is a Web application framework and application suite written in PHP. It's easy to use but still powerful and flexible.
ISOS Internet Services OverSeer 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121815/
ISOS is a suite of programs which provides email and Web services software (SMTP, POP3, and HTTP servers) and a management console for controlling them. You can easily create users and email groups. If you don't have much experience with such servers, can't afford commercial software for email and Web services, and do not need high performance, ISOS can be a quick solution to your needs. It works on Windows and Linux platforms.
Jabberwocky 2.0.02 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121817/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
JFtp 1.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121800/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
Kfract 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121768/
Kfract is a fractal generator that is much easier to use than Xfractint.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-05-03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121827/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KnowIt 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121849/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported, as well as any character set.
LDIF to VCard Conversion 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121780/
This is a simple command line Perl script written in order to migrate a Netscape address book to GnomeCard. It takes an LDIF file, as exported from Netscape, and writes out a VCard file. Currently the first name, last name, work, home, cell phone numbers, and email address are written. The input file may be either DOS or Unix text format.
Leafnode 1.9.39.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121835/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
libevent 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121796/
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event-driven network servers.
linux-identd 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121846/
linux-identd is a user identification daemon for Linux, which implements the Identification Protocol (RFC1413). This protocol is used to identify active TCP connections. The daemon listens to TCP port 113 (auth), and can be run either as a stand-alone daemon, or through inetd.
Luola 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121806/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
mkvtoolnix 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121769/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
mod_auth_aix 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121775/
mod_auth_aix is an Apache module which allows the Apache Web server to use AIX Loadable Authentication Modules as its source of basic authentication. Due to its generic approach, mod_auth_aix should work with any AIX Loadable Authentication Module, including DCE. "Loadable Authentication Modules" are AIX's way to extend the identification and authentication functions of the operating system. They are, to a certain degree, the AIX equivalent of the PAM and NSS mechanisms known to many other systems.
Mod_Survey 3.0.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121836/
Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and stylesheet customizations of layout.
PASP RC-3a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121816/
PASP is a Bayesian-like spam filter that can be used as a POP3 proxy.
Perl Database Admin 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121785/
pDBAdmin is a Web-based administration tool for MySQL databases. It is particularly suitable for fast and uncomplicated changes to table contents.
PgMarket 2.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121805/
PgMarket is an e-commerce solution built with PHP4 and PostgreSQL/MySQL. It features internationalization support, image and thumbnail handling, per-user and product discounts, delivery price calculation, order status management, elementary and advanced search, sorting of products and categories, comfortable category browsers, easy online and offline population of the catalog, importing of data from text files, and other useful features. Many features can be disabled through configuration parameters. A demo site is included.
PHP Layers Menu 3.0beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121830/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among items on a Web page. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for pages with a very large number of entries. Its behavior is analogous to the GNOME, KDE, and MS Windows main menus. It also provides JavaScript-based Tree Menus whose look and behavior is analogous to the most commonly used file managers and to the Mozilla bookmarks management tool. Menus are dynamically generated using data retrieved from files, strings, and databases. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4, 6, and 7, Konqueror, Opera 5, 6, and 7, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides accessibility solutions for browsers that don't support JavaScript.
PHP TroubleTicket 0.2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121804/
PHP Trouble Ticket attempts to adress the need for a centralized means of problem reporting and tracking in multi-user environments (medium to large companies, development groups, etc.). It helps to direct problem reports to the responsible administrator(s), keep track of the status of a problem being worked on, and offers an up-to-date list of recent changes applied. PHP Trouble Ticket aims to be widely configurable, easy to use even for the not technically inclined and multi-language capable.
Pipe Viewer 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121822/
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
pixelzilla 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121714/
Pixelzilla is a theme which is based on pixel art. Only the navigator is supported by the theme at the moment.
Poco 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121810/
Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.
PSP Timelog 8.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121831/
Timelog is an application to record and analyze time logged to a project. It is designed to support the Personal Software Process (PSP). The Personal Software Process was developed at the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University by Watts S. Humphrey to support the individual programmer to reach a structured and scientific work process. The goal of the PSP is to enhance the quality and predictability of the developers work and work products.
QT AGI Studio 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121786/
QT AGI Studio, formerly known as Linux AGI Studio, is a program that allows you to view, create, and edit AGI games. AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) is the adventure game engine used by Sierra On-Line(tm) to create some of their early games.
Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 4) (RETRO6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121820/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating systems.
Rolo 010
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121794/
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.
Ruby IMAP Tool 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121763/
rit can be used to manipulate mailboxes over IMAP, allowing users to copy and delete mailboxes and their contents. When copying a mailbox, its subscription status and all of the IMAP flags of the messages it contains are preserved on the destination server. Dynamic mailbox name translation can be performed if the mailboxes need to be renamed as they are copied.
SANE 1.0.12-pre1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121801/
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and is available under the GPL, but commercial applications and backends are welcome. The package contains the libraries, net support, and scanimage. The X frontends xscanimage and xcam can be found in sane-frontends.
SaveMyModem 0.99 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121777/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.
Simple Python Blogger 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121841/
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.
SiteBar 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121781/
SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark database that lets users view, add, and maintain links from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window.
SkullyDoo 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121845/
SkullyDoo is portable object-oriented software for 3D image segmentation and visualization.
slurm 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121802/
slurm started as a port of pppstatus to FreeBSD and now is a generic network load monitor. It features three different modes with real-time ASCII graphs and interface statistics for all kinds of network interfaces on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux.
Sound Juicer, a GTK+/GStreamer CD ripping tool 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/121765/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files.
SyncPOD 0.68
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121847/
SyncPOD syncs a local directory with your iPod. If the directory is larger than the space on your iPod, you can sync this larger directory with a master playlist.
Thorn 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121842/
Thorn is a UML modeling tool written in Java. It uses XML to save the models you create. Its purpose is to give the open source world a good modeling tool to help develop and manage the increasingly sophisticated development efforts of the open source community.
Tiki 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121826/
Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites, and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners, file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments, and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and developers.
Todolist.php 0.9.15.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121773/
Todolist.php is a set of PHP scripts that creates a Web-based list of things todo. Items can be added and removed, and are sorted by an assigned priority. It is also possible to assign special tasks to another person and to specify a due date. Tasks are organized in projects. Todolist.php supports several languages.
TV in a box 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121784/
This applet adds a small TV to a dock. It has most features that normal TV viewing applications have.
UltraMake 2.3 build 0.542
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121787/
UltraMake is a powerful tool for the management of build process from source code to binary software releases and for setting up automated test suites for the produced software. Its most important features are access to a standard scripting language (Tcl or Perl), extensive consistency checking of builds, and support for division of larger projects into smaller parts while retaining full consistency checking between the parts. It integrates with version control systems.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.30 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121803/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
web2ldap 0.11.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121798/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
WebCollab 1.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121770/
WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or graphically intensive.
Wordlog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121843/
Wordlog is a Weblog written in PHP and backed by MySQL. Its interface is entirely ASCII-based and standards compliant. Features include on-the-fly page editing, multiple users, administration access, comment threading, URL parsing, and an easily customizable interface.
X-Itools pre1-0.6.00 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121766/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
XMMPlayer 0.0.5pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121799/
XMMPlayer is an input plugin for XMMS that uses mplayer to play video files.
Thinkgeek
Computing: Archos MP3 Player Car Kit
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Computing: Creative I-Trigue Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/speakers/5f55/
Computing: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5f48/
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5a84/