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[osdn business] May 09, 2003
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Floppy the Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/0537237
[0]Alien54 writes "Build your own Robot for almost Free..... [1]As seen
here where there are complete plans [and pictures] to build a robot
from a 3 1/2" floppy drive without taking it apart. The floppy drive
has all of the motors and electronics you need to get started and
compete in a robot contest. With some old 5.25 inch drives, you can
really get some power."
Links
0. http://www.radiofreenation.net
White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/0313212
[0]Flackboy Kevin writes "The nation's hackers are about to come out of
their shells on Friday as one of the most notorious 'good guys' in
Manhattan makes a rare-yet-cyber public appearance on [1]USA Today's
online chat. Gary Morse, Manhattan's white hat hacker and good friend
of every Chief Security Officer in the financial world agreed to an
online chat regarding security. Morse's uncanny knowledge of how
Manhattan is wired helps keep him one step ahead of hackers and has
kept him in high disregard in most hacker communities. Morse's company,
Razorpoint Security Technologies does not employ hackers who've decided
to come in from the cold."
Links
0. mailto:kevin@yeahwhatever.com
TiVo Basic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2211247
[0]Keith Russell writes "TiVo has announced a new TiVo Basic service. (
[1]Press release here, [2]CNet story here) The Basic service only
offers a 3-day program grid, and doesn't include title searches, season
passes, or wish lists. There's no subscription fees for Basic, however,
and it can be upgraded to a full-on Series 2 unit by the usual payment
options ($12.95/mo. or $299 lifetime). The first product to include it
is a Toshiba DVD player with an 80 GB hard drive and progressive-scan
output of both DVD and Tivo content."
Links
0. mailto:kwrussell@speakeasyPERIOD.net minus punct
1.
http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=177
2.
http://rss.com.com/2100-1041_3-1000591.html?tag=fd_topXbox Hacking Book Prepares to Fly Off Shelves http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2058224
[0]SecurityFocus posted an article today about a new book that covers
[1]hacking the Xbox. The book's author, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, reports
that it's selling well, even though the release date has not yet
arrived. Presumably, this is because the book covers soldering
techniques and adding features like blue LEDs and modchips to Xboxes,
most of which violate the DMCA. If this stuff is interesting to you,
you can order a copy from [2]Huang's site. It amazes me that a book
such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in
most bookstores.
Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4580
2.
http://hackingthexbox.com/
Windows Security Through Annoyances?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2047227
techmuse writes "According to News.com, Microsoft's next version of
Windows will [0]let you know that you are looking at (supposedly)
secure data by putting personalized text, such as the names of your
dogs (a null list in my case), in window borders, and will also hide
the data unless the window has no others on top of it. That should make
it very usable, and speed adoption of security features -- especially
among people who need to be able to see the data in two partially
overlapping windows at once."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1000584.html?tag=fd_top
Sniffing Out Cancer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1638247
Makarand writes "Researchers at the Univeristy of Rome are developing an [0]electronic nose that can sniff out cancer by sampling people's breath. The instrument uses sensors that respond to the presence of chemical compounds in the patient's breath. For example, lung cancer patients exhale alkanes and benzene derivatives which the electronic nose will try to detect. The sensors are quartz crystal sensors coated with a substance that binds to a range of organic chemicals. If certain molecules in the breath bind to this surface coating they change the natural vibration frequency of the crystal." Links
0. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=524232003
Mass Storage Leaves Microchips in the Dust http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/199218
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "This [1]article from Wired Magazine looks
at storage with a new angle. 'Right now I am sitting in front of a
whirring 60-gigabyte hard disk that cost less than $100. Do the math:
If back then 10 megabytes cost $1,000, then 60 gigabytes would have
cost x, where x = $6,000,000 and "back then" = 18 years ago. I'm
sitting in front of $6,000,000 worth of mass storage, measured at
mid-1980s prices. We have Moore's law for microprocessors. But who's
coined a law for hard disks? In mass storage we have seen a 60,000-fold
fall in price -- more than a dozen times the force of Moore's law.'
DeLong also looks at a non-distant future when a $100 mass storage
device will hold a full terabyte. He also thinks that with disk space
becoming cheaper and cheaper, we'll be tempted to archive everything
about ourselves, including pictures and videos. This is in fact the
goal of the Gordon's Bell project, MyLifeBits. You can learn more about
the MyLifeBits project by reading this [2]NewsFactor Network article.
Check [3]this column for more details."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/view.html?pg=5
2.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20064.html
3.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/05/07.htmlRIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2021247
[0]ratfynk writes "Anybody interested in creating their own MP3 or WAV
recordings should take a look at this device. It is a compact hard
drive recorder that looks like it is the next logical step beyond ADAT.
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and
performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost. This
device seems to fit the bill. [1]Specs are available at micsupply.com.
This device looks so good that the RIAA might try to make it illegal."
For a not-cheap but cheaper alternative, check out the updated-weekly
Core Sound page on their [2]PDA-based recorder [3]mentioned a few
months ago.
Links
0. mailto:jojo2@telus.net
1.
http://www.micsupply.com/722.htm
2.
http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html#NEWS
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1948203&tid=184
Life on Mars? Why Not?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1351200
[0]Guillaume Filion writes "[1]IEEE spectrum has an interesting
[2]article about a new probe sent to Mars searching for life: 'Recent
missions to Mars have focused on the search for water, past or present,
as a surrogate for life itself. But now a British-led team is working
to renew the search for life directly, fueled by doubts about the
equipment that prompted NASA to declare Mars a dead world some 26 years
ago.'"
Links
0.
http://guillaume.filion.org/
1.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/
2.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may03/mars.htmlRevising the Internet Email Infrastructure http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1559216
[0]Lauren Weinstein writes "People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR)
today released a white paper aimed at starting [1]discussion and work
to fundamentally revamp Internet e-mail systems to control spam,
forgeries, and a range of other problems, while empowering e-mail users
rather than ISPs." Excellent start.
Links
0. mailto:lauren@pfir.org
Newsforge Reports
SuSE 8.2 -- better than Mandrake for new users?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1850233
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I have been using SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional for two weeks now, and it is as close to Linux desktop perfection as I have found so far. (I know I'm not the first to say this, but I figure saying it one more time can't hurt.) This doesn't mean it's totally perfect, and my experience is on one particular laptop and may not be duplicated on your hardware, but this is the first SuSE version I have actually liked -- and ...
Open Source Initiative president responds to SCO's DoS claims http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/07/1022221
- by Eric S. Raymond - In a recent press release, SCO suggests that the Linux community may be responsible for the denial-of-service attack on its servers that occurred on Friday, May 2nd. This is a baseless slur, unsupported by facts.
Linux as a competitive 'real-time' OS
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/1934257
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This is the lightly-edited transcript of a NewsForge IM chat with Doug Abbott, a leading real-time Linux expert and proponent.
Newsforge Newsvac
Big companies save big from open source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2047205
Large companies can save a substantial amount of money by using open source software products, according to a study published Wednesday by the Swiss consultancy Soreon Research.
The Four Degrees of Freedom
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/209248
Suresh Das writes "The past two years (2001-2003) have been one of rollercoaster events for the Free Software community in India. Media spotlight was never lacking for community based software development efforts like this, what was lacking however was the critical mass of public opinion. In these 2 years the philosophy of Free and Open Source Software has managed to attain that much needed momentum, and currently can be proud to have initiated ...
"Hacking Exposed Linux, Second Edition" Book Review http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1959229
LogError writes "The Hacking Exposed security titles don't need any introduction. Written by the experts in the security field, they provide loads of information as seen from both perspectives related to a system administrator - securing and hacking. As the security scene is actively progressing, the books from the Hacking Exposed series receive upgrades in the form of new editions. Today, we take a look at second edition of the successful ...
Fujitsu and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership to Offer Mission-Critical Linux Solutions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1440242
Fujitsu Limited and Red Hat today announced that they have signed a global partnership agreement to technically enhance and market Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions for enterprise customers running mission-critical applications on Fujitsu's Intel-based servers powered by Intel® XeonTM and Itanium® processors. The agreement significantly expands the scope of the companies' cooperative relationship to date.
Iyonix Linux port established
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1830212
The developers of the XScale powered Iyonix, Castle Technology, have this afternoon launched their Linux for Iyonix project in order to provide a port of the Linux kernel to Iyonix users. We've learnt that Castle are "commited to producing a full Debian Linux distribution for the Iyonix".
A Conversation with Jim Ready
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1744201
Linux may well play a significant role in the future of the embedded systems market, where the majority of software is still custom built in-house and no large player has preeminence. The constraints placed on embedded systems are very different from those on the desktop. We caught up with Jim Ready of MontaVista Software to talk about what he sees in the future of Linux as the next embedded operating system (OS).
Novell open-sources UDDIv2 server code ... http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1740204
Vijay KN writes "Novell Nsure UDDI Server is a UDDI 2.0 registry built on Directory Services technology. It offers a secure access to the registry contents (authentication and authorization), unified account management, and distribution of the registry by leveraging Directory Services. It works with any LDAP(V3) based directory backend. When integrated with Novell eDirectory, it gives the best performance and added features for Enterprise ...
Interview with Eric Pouech
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1616237
This week's interview is with Eric Pouech. Eric hails from France and has been involved with Wine for a number of years. His involvement has centered around multimedia work, the wine console, and the debugger. Most of the questions below center on one of those areas.
Big companies save big from open source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1521209
Large companies can save a substantial amount of money by using open source software products, according to a study published Wednesday by the Swiss consultancy Soreon Research.
Catapult Ships Linux Test Systems to Fujitsu Limited http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1437208
Catapult Communications Corporation today announced the first shipments of LANCE, its new Linux-based telecom test system, to Fujitsu Limited in Japan. LANCE is a single-user test system that can be used for design and feature verification, interoperability, and acceptance testing -- functions that almost all telecom companies need.
Freshmeat
A Splash of Gold 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122212/
A Splash of Gold is an abstract theme in gold and earth tones. The background is by Dolcevitas (Panda Gielen).
Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122235/
Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition is a cross-platform client for Jabber compliant servers. It features an XML-based messaging protocol, private chatting, conference mode, broadcast messages to groups of people, message log, a typing indicator, a full-featured rich-text editor, emoticons, and powerful online presence management.
Aloys Core Framework 0.1a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122012/
Aloys Core Framework is a framework for Internet applications written in PHP/SQL (including MySQL). It gives classes for dispatching module calls, managing various environment variables, dealing with multilingual texts, and accessing various datasources. AloysCoreCMS is the second level over AloysCore, to define base functions for modules, and base modules for Aloys core management. The whole application has an object-oriented design, enabling it to be extended at all levels.
Amrita VPN 0.95-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122225/
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.
apt4rpm 0.64.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122279/
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
Bauk PI 1.72 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122220/
Bauk is a high performance HTTP server for UNIX-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, directory browsing, server host name aliases, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility and much more.
Bulb for K-Jofol 0.2-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122283/
Bulb for K-Jofol is a K-Jofol theme.
CDPlayer.app 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122223/
CDPlayer.app is a small CD Audio Player for GNUstep.
CryptNET_Keyserver 0.1.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122252/
CKS is an openPGP (RFC2440) compliant public key server. It is currently under development. It is written in C, and runs on Linux. It uses PostgreSQL for key storage, and supports the hkp protocol (it can interface with GnuPG and NAI PGP). The keyserver is mostly functional, and there is a link to a running copy on the homepage.
cvsdelta 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122237/
cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.
cvsplot 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122219/
Cvsplot is a Perl script which analyses the history of a CVS-managed project. The script executes on a set of files, analyses their history, and automatically generates graphs that plot lines of code and number of files against time.
DansGuardian Anti-Virus Scanner 3.1 (2.6.x Patches) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122270/
The DansGuardian Anti-Virus Scanner gives you the ability to virus-scan all content that passes through DansGuardian. It uses the scanning code from the MailScanner project to do the actual virus scanning, so it supports all the virus engines that the MailScanner project supports. The scanning is done as the file is being downloaded, so your current network apps don't have to be modified, etc. They just have to support using a proxy.
darcs 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122251/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
DataVision 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122293/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
DaveDAP 0.8.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122242/
DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool. DaveDAP allows you to browse your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers.
dbackup 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122207/
dbackup is a client-server backup system which writes backups to disk. This method provides fast backups and even faster restores. It includes a module to archive old backups to tape.
DBMonster 0.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122226/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and testing the application performance under heavy database load. DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to use.
DB_DataContainer 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122236/
DB_DataContainer is a PEAR-compliant database persistence layer and data encapsulation class. It encapsulates the behavior required to make objects persistent, including loading, saving, and deleting objects in a persistent store. It currently supports relational databases and uses PEAR DB for database abstraction.
DC Maintenance Management System 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122268/
DC Maintenence Management System is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints and repairs in water supply networks. It uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS.
Decoy 20030508
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122277/
Decoy is program that acts as no-ad Squid redirector. It reloads a configuration runtime if changed, and can produce profile logs for later statistics of pattern usage. An optional access log is available as well.
DSPAM 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122209/
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.
Effusion 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122295/
Effusion is a program that integrates torrent sharing via IRC with an embedded bittorrent client. This program allows the user to handle all BitTorrent downloads from within one application, as well as receive and share the torrent files with others.
elmo 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122216/
Elmo is a feature-rich console mail client for power users. It integrates functionality commonly realised by separate pieces of software in other mailers and competes with Mutt.
Freeside 1.4.1rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122233/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
GePhex 0.0.4beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122263/
GePhex is a modular video effect framework. A new video effect is created by editing a dataflow graph, and the graph building is GUI-based. It supports a wide range of input devices like joysticks, webcams, and midi-devices. A client/server architecture separates the GUI from the engine. All effects and streamtypes are plugins realized as shared libraries.
glark 1.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122238/
glark offers grep-like searching of text files, with very powerful, complex regular expressions (e.g., "/foo\w+/ and /bar[^\d]*baz$/ within 4 lines of each other"). It also highlights the matches, displays context (preceding and succeeding lines), does case-insensitive matches, and automatic exclusion of non-text files. It supports most options from the GNU version of grep.
Goggles 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122296/
Goggles is a frontend for the Ogle DVD player. It supports all the features that Ogle provides, including bookmarks, and adds automatic starting, automatic bookmarks, a convenient preferences panel for setting keyboard shortcuts, DXR3 settings, and language and country preferences. It is written in C++ using the FOX Toolkit.
gURLChecker 0.3.13 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122275/
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.
HBCI4Java 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122245/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
IOzone 3.172
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122267/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
ispbs 2.3.6b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122259/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
KBVT 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122266/
KBVT is a tool for small libraries. It consists of a couple of Java programs and uses a MySQL database. It allows you to manage books, users, events, etc. The GUI and documentation are written in German.
Leafnode 1.9.40.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122228/
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.
libchipcard 0.9beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122287/
Libchipcard is a C/C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
LinkBrowser 1.222
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122269/
LinkBrowser is a program for browsing the links in HTML documents and downloading the files that they reference. Basically, this program is like a normal Web browser, but instead of rendering the HTML it just shows a table of all the files that the html references. The files can be downloaded in batches.
Linux DiskTool 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122227/
DiskTool is a small, full-featured file manager for the Linux console or an xterm-style terminal. It features file copying, moving, and renaming, file marking for performing the same action on all marked files (such as copy or delete), full directory support such as moving, renaming, and deleting directories, permission and owner support (like chmod and chown), file editing and creation, an RPM manager for installing and inspecting .rpm files, an archive center supporting .tar, .gz, .tar.gz, and .zip files, and fully configurable colors and editor choices. All features are available with single keystroke commands and require very little understanding of Linux. DiskTool is written in Pascal and not in C. The source code is available upon email request, but you will need to install the FPC compiler to compile the modules.
Linux Test Project 20030508
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122285/
The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
log4net 1.2.0-beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122253/
log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets. log4net is a port of the excellent log4j framework to the .NET runtime. log4net runs on the following frameworks: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.0, Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1, Microsoft .Net Compact Framework 1.0, Mono 0.23, Microsoft Shared Source CLI 1.0.
Mailgust 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122240/
Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and much more.
MIDAS NMS 2.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122294/
MIDAS NMS is a highly configurable network monitoring and network intrusion detection server. It uses a distributed client/server model that allows it to scale to very large networks, and features highly optimized Snort support that dramatically reduces the overhead of both the Snort Sensor and the alert data repository. It also supports Netsaint/Nagios plugins and Big Brother clients, allowing for easy migration.
MiddleMan 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122257/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
mod_auth_any 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122274/
mod_auth_any is an Apache DSO module that allows arbitrary authentication mechanisms. It allows users to specify a command line program to use for Apache's basic server security authentication.
O-Zone's EDITor 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122222/
O-Zone's EDITor Is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used for coding. It is based on SSEX and ZvtTerm, and aims to be an integrated IDE.
Open Source Message Queue 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122208/
Open Source Message Queue (OSMQ) is an advanced pure Java asynchronous message middleware framework. It was designed for high performance, high reliability, and ease of use, with an interface that is less complex than JMS.
Open-DVB 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122215/
Open-DVB is an open implementation of digital video broadcasting (DVB) distributed under the BSD license. The purpose of this application is to serve as a benchmark for the MOUSE compiler system.
OpenDocMan 1.1-Final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122256/
OpenDocMan is a full featured Web-based document management system designed to conform to ISO 17025/IEC. It features an automated installation script, check-in/out, departmental access control, file moderation, fine grained user access control, and a great search function. Written in PHP, and utilizing MySQL for the backend, this project is useful for any company looking to keep their documentation in a centralized repository.
OpenVPN 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122210/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. You can tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP port, use all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to protect your private network traffic, use any cipher, key size, or HMAC digest (for packet authentication) supported by the OpenSSL library, choose between static-key based conventional encryption or certificate-based public key encryption, use static or TLS-based dynamic key exchange, and tunnel networks whose public endpoints are dynamic such as DHCP clients or dial-in users.
OZradio 0.9.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122230/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
Pebrot 0.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122244/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
Pexpect 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122195/
Pexpect is a Python Expect-like module. It spawns child applications, controls them, and responds to expected patterns in their output. It can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It can be used for automated software testing. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. Its interface was designed to be easy-to-use, so performing simple tasks is easy. It includes an ANSI/VT100 terminal screen scraping module.
PHP-Xerces 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122246/
PHP-Xerces is an XML Parser for PHP. It supports DTD and XML-Schema
validation. It has been designed to provide easy migration from
PHP-XML.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.2-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122281/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
phpSecureSite 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122231/
phpSecureSite is a modular authentication, session handling and security system for Web applications that was built using PHP. It features a stripped-down core that takes care of basic session handling, and modules for other functionality like brute force protection, session variables, and access control lists.
poEdit 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122288/
poEdit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with the wxWindows toolkit. It aims to provide a convenient way of editing gettext catalogs with features such as fuzzy and untranslated records highlighting, whitespaces highlighting, references browser, and header editing, and can also be used to create new catalogs or update existing catalogs from source code by a single click.
ppplag 20030508
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122278/
ppplag reads system logs and shows a table of all found PPP sessions with stats for start times, durations, bytes in/out, and speed in/out.
Project @ssistant 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122214/
Project @ssistant is a modular business system combining CRM, email ticketing, call management, and project management tools into a central system.
Projet free-EOS 1.0-04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122248/
free-EOS (Espace Ouvert de Services) is a project which aims to distribute and document a free and open technical solution for Multi-media Space. It is implemented with a Linux-based server and workstations that run either Windows, Linux, or MacOS. It is meant to be like the French software, Espaces Publics Numériques. It targets environments that are managed by organizers that do not have significant technical competency. It acts like an adaptation of the SME Server solution that is specifically dedicated to French-speaking environments.
PyObjC 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122211/
PyObjC is a bridge between Python and Objective-C that allows full featured Cocoa applications to be written in pure Python. It can also be used with other Objective-C class libraries, as well as C and C++ source. The installer package includes a number of Project Builder templates and Python syntax coloring files. It supports full introspection of Objective-C classes and direct invocation of Objective-C APIs from the interactive interpreter.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122239/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
RasterImageManipulator 1.027
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122264/
RasterImageManipulator is a free program for image processing and fractal exploration. It has many features for customizing the appearance of fractal images. These include special filters, a palette editor, gradient palette creator, and animated palette cycling.
Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 5) (RETRO6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122289/
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.
Ringlink 2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122229/
Ringlink is a CGI Perl program that provides the tools you need to run one or more rings of Web sites (i.e., systems of links between Web sites of similar contents).
sort_images 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122167/
sort_images is a script that sorts images from digital still cameras by extracting the EXIF header and writing it into a MySQL database. It allows you to check if images have already been sorted by using MD5 sums. Images are sorted into a central directory by year, month, and day.
sql2excel 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122291/
sql2excel can save the output of (My)SQL databases as an Excel binary file. It is entirely written in Perl.
StormSiren 0.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122213/
StormSiren is a personal severe weather monitoring tool that communicates information from National Weather Service issued bulletins on potential and imminent hazardous weather. When such bulletins are detected, the program sends a concise summary of the alert to one or more devices, including pagers, SMS-capable wireless phones, or e-mail accounts. The summaries are designed to fit within a 160 character display and contain the type of hazard, the affected counties and cities defined by the user, and the issue and expiration times of the bulletin.
sw-ports 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122280/
sw-ports is a ports collection for the CRUX GNU/Linux distribution. It has a non-standard init system (based on runit), and consists mostly of djb-style software. For example, there is no standard syslogd, but socklog, which works fine with a daemontools-style service managment, and uses multilog to save its logfiles. As another advancement, much of the software is linked against the dietlibc, which enhances performance by reducing the libc overhead. sw-ports may be appealing to people that like software written by Dan Bernstein, and are open to different concepts. There are many changes to a traditional *nix-ish system. The runit init system allows you to boot your system much quicker than a a bsd or sysv init would do for you. All services are started in parallel (as long as it is possible, dependencies are honored), which allows a boot as quick as 20 seconds on a machine with decent performance.
thokbook 0.03 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122265/
Thokbook is a personal library system. It is intended for medium-to-large individual collections (several thousand books). Using thokbook, you can add books via ISBN or EAN (usually via a barcode scanner of some kind), get information from Amazon.com (so you don't have to type in the information for the vast majority of your books), and create Web pages so you can list all your books or search them. You can also check books in and out and record who checked them out.
Turck MMCache for PHP 2.3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122247/
Turck MMCache is a PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1.0-4.3.1, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux and Windows.
UMLd 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122163/
UMLd is a daemon to control and manage UML instances running on a host system. It provides an interface on a TCP socket, allowing simple clients to be written which allow individual UMLs to be managed by users or by an administrator. Key features of UMLd include the ability to reboot, shutdown, and start up UMLs, automatic start-up and network configuration, a MySQL-based system and network configuration storage, automated 'on-the-fly' UML building, and the ability to control UMLs on other network hosts.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122261/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of the Internet.
VISCA Camera Control Library 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122258/
libvisca is a control library for VISCA-compliant video cameras.
webcalng 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122292/