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[osdn business] May 12, 2003
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
3dFestival's International 3D Award Winners
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0241252
[0]GlobE 59 writes "[1]3D Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark announced the
winners of their 1st Annual International 3DAwards this Friday (9/5).
Take a look at the [2]nominees and winners here! 3D Festival, Game
Developers World and Architectural Visualization Conference is a joint
conference/expo combining interests in 3D-graphics and visualization."
Links
0. mailto:globbe@d4rkn3ss.net
1.
http://www.3dfestival.com/
2.
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=61537
The Disappearance of Saturday Morning
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2345242
[0]Ant writes "Saturday morning [1]no longer means kids in front of TV
sets across the country, glued to the latest in hip cartoons. Why?
Gerard Raiti investigates the death of an era." As a former Saturday
morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
Links
Verizon To Offer WiFi At Pay Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0033201
Makarand writes "Verizon has ambitious plans to catapult pay phones
from the pre-cellular era to the WiFi era by [0]creating hotspots
around pay phones using an extension of their DSL service. The current
plan is to upgrade 200,000 pay phones in the New York metro area to
provide a WiFi service. Although major metros are spotted with
hotspots, finding them is usually a big problem. Verizon thinks that
specially marked WiFi enabled pay phones would solve the problem of
locating the hotspots." Sounds similar to [1]Bell Canada's move to do
the same.
Links
0. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/105254859347540xml
- //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1628257&tid=95
Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2340214
[0]gooofy writes "Freshly (im)ported from [1]ffmpeg, [2]xine 1-beta12
finally has native support for Sorenson SVQ3 video. This means that
you're finally able to watch the latest quicktime trailers on any xine
supported hardware platform, not just on x86. Other goodies in this
release include support for ogg/theora, playback of cd/dvd over the
network, improved handling of mpeg-2 files (resyncing) and many detail
improvements."
Links
0.
http://xine.sf.net
1.
http://ffmpeg.sf.net/
2.
http://xine.sf.net/Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2139219
[0]macguys writes "My [1]community consists of about 150 households
spread out over several hundred acres in North Florida. We are far
enough away from the nearest city that broadband cable and DSL services
don't make it here. We're well organized, and used to working together
on projects. We have a lot of home based business offices here and high
speed access something that many of my neighbors are hungry for. We've
looked at projects like [2]http://www.magnoliaroad.net and know that
others have addressed the issue with 802.11b/g/etc. There is no big
problem getting a T-1 to the community. That part is easy. The hard
part is distributing the bandwidth among those here who want to
participate. Wireless works in places but in general this land is
covered in hardwood and pines and the signal drops off quickly. We have
a long history (community is 25 years old) of working together to solve
problems. Running copper or coax is not out of the question if we can
find a reasonable way of distributing the bandwidth. Any suggestions
are welcome."
Links
0.
http://homepage.mac.com/macguys
1.
http://www.ic.org/
2.
http://www.magnoliaroad.net/Install An Xbox/Linux Media System In Your Car http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/213240
[0]AltGrendel writes "Bored during those rush-hour traffic jams? An
enterprising UK geek has installed an [1]Xbox/Linux system in his car.
With a mod chip, [2]Freevo, a LogiTech Wingman, and a 40 gig hard
drive, he has access to music, video, and games during drive time.
[3]Details and pictures are here."
Links
0. mailto:ag-slashdot@exiCOFFEEt0.us minus caffeine
1.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
2.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
3.
http://www.target-earth.net/xbox/
IT Growth: Exponential No More
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1850249
BreadMan writes "The Economist has has an article about growth in the IT industry [0]coming off a period of unsustainable growth. Compares IT to growth industries of the past like railroads and automobiles." Links
0. http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1747329
Mozilla 1.4b Loosed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1731228
An anonymous reader writes "The fine Mozilla folks have decided to bless us with the release of Mozilla 1.4b this weekend. Highlights include support for NTLM authentication, usability improvements, and lots of performance, stability, and site compatibility fixes. As always, the [0]release notes have more detailed info on changes." Links
0. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4b/
Dreamcast Web Server Running Off Memory Card http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1654206
Adrian writes "I have written a [0]new file system for Linux - to read and write files on the [1]Sega Dreamcast's [2]visual memory unit (VMU)- a small slab of flash memory used by the console to save game files. To see it in action - and see a DC serve some html, [3]go to the Landslide test server - though I have no doubt that [4]micro_http, the web server I am using (said to be the world's smallest), will result in the quickest Slashdotting in history :)" Gentlemen, start your mirrors now. Links
0.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxdc/linux-sh-dc/fs/vmufs/?only_with_tag=linux-sh-dc-2_4-branch
1.
http://www.linuxdc.net/
2.
http://mc.pp.se/dc/vms/flashmem.html
3.
http://www.landslide.ath.cx/
4.
http://www.acme.com/software/micro_httpd/
How to Become A Spammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1648253
[0]permeablepdx points to this story in The Oregonian about [1] how to
become a spammer. Summary: "Local Oregon boy makes big bucks after
learning from the Spam masters."
Links
0. mailto:permeablepdx@yahoo.com
Newsforge Reports
DRAM Pricing: The Fix Is In
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0125221
- by Melanie Hollands -Price manipulation by manufacturers of PC memory components such as double data rate (DDR) DRAM is deliberate, periodic, predictable, and has been happening for decades. Conveniently, DRAM price increases tend to be observed during critical periods, such as just before earnings reports or after periods of substantially subdued demand. It has also been suggested that some memory suppliers periodically withhold supply of ...
Notes from the Texas 'open source bill' hearing http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/138240
- by Ken Barber - The Great State of Texas held hearings this week on their open source bill, SB 1579. Texas legislators have a little more backbone than the ones in the committee that heard the Oregon bill. Here's an exchange between Sen. John Carona (R-Dallas), the bill's sponsor, and Mario Correa (who also traveled to Oregon to testify against our bill) of the Business Software Alliance.
Microsoft's double standard on third-world piracy http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/108224
- by Codes_Every_Day* - SouthEast Asia - I would like to talk about Microsoft's double standard regarding software piracy. I work for a software development company. We are currently working on different projects for a big telecommunications company under Microsoft's Consulting Services division. But let me tell you... at this very moment, if the BSA comes crashing into our development location, all our equipment will be confiscated, and we ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Guarding Your Systems With Guardian Digital
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1511203
An anonymous coward writes "EnGarde Secure Linux, designed to be a massively secure Linux platform, definitely falls towards the more specialized end of the distribution spectrum. Its Guardian Digital makers have consistently maintained their focus on this purpose for the product, and so far the results are coming along nicely."
Console menu apps
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/157246
Anonymous Reader writes "In its effort to see if a user-friendly, pure-console system can be built, Linux and Main this week looks at two programs that launch applications without the user having to face a command prompt."
Now Simputer goes retail
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1347228
BANGALORE: The palmtop for poor people has finally made it to retail sales in India with public sector giant Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and the start-up of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professors Picopeta Simputers on Friday announcing market entry of the product.
Major release of the Jargon File -- 4.4.0, now with cartoons http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/025237
The Jargon File is a central part of the heritage of the Linux and open-source movements. As we approach the File's 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to bring the hacker community a major new release, 4.4.0.
Company or community?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1319253
Anonymous Reader writes "The traditional Linux application development method has taken everything into account -- except, writes Dennis E. Powell in his weekly column, the user. Commercial software houses must cater to the user. Which is why we should be glad they're taking more interest in Linux."
Where's the free (Linux) beer?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316257
Anonymous Reader writes "Never one to have his thirst for "free beer" quenched, LinuxDevices.com contributing editor Kevin Dankwardt sets off on a quest to determine just how much freely downloadable embedded Linux software flows from the taps of commercial embedded Linux vendors' websites -- and discovers that there's a lot more available than you might realize."
Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will, too http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316203
(KilltRoyWasHere) says... On May 6, 2003 Mr. Jakob Nielsen in (a Register) article called Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will blow it, and the Next Big Thing, was quoted as saying...
Inside Opteron
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1227238
Opteron is already available in two- and four-processor servers now shipping. And users will have their pick of 64-bit operating systems. Microsoft committed to a 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003, Red Hat voiced its support, SuSE and Mandrake are already shipping commercial Linux for Opteron, and Sun Microsystems has announced plans to build an Opteron version of Solaris.
HP offers Linux notebook in Thailand
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1225228
THAILAND--Hewlett-Packard is selling a low-cost "people's" notebook running Linux, believed to be the first time that the U.S. IT giant has sold a consumer computer with the open-source operating system installed.
Is Windows 2003 Server really faster than Linux/Samba? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1220243
Microsoft claims Windows 2003 Server is twice as fast as Linux, at least when it's used for file serving. I spoke to Jeremy Allison, head of the Samba team, who provided a few insights into the test configurations that don't leap out at the reader because they are hidden away in appendixes to the benchmark document. Allison feels this, in itself, is substantially responsible for the outcome.
Freshmeat
AIOCP 1.0.011
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122481/
AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a professional platform-independent all-in-one solution to completely manage a Website through a user-friendly Web interface. It includes by default all needed modules for Website management and a long list of extra modules, including a CMS, WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, languages, forums, news, newsletter, links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners, search engine, e-commerce, e-business, statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding, custom modules, code libraries, images, and sounds. Each module is perfectly integrated into the system and has adequate management and control tools.
avidemux 2.0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122520/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Bontmia 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122473/
Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed files are stored when generating snapshots. Remote access is implemented using ssh.
Bookcase 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122501/
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.
Bugzero 2.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122504/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
cdinsert and cdlabelgen 2.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122492/
cdlabelgen is a Perl script that generates printouts suitable for use as CD jewel case inserts or CD envelopes. Both normal sized cases and slim cases are handled. cdlabelgen can be used to create table of contents for music CDs, archival CDs, etc., with customizable logos or background images, and it generates PostScript files as output. The package also includes a Perl CGI Web script which accepts JPEG images as logos or backgrounds, and can also create PDF output files.
cdwrite 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122529/
cdwrite is the shell for creation of data and audio disks, especially compilations. It uses mkisofs and cdrecord for data and cdparanoia and cdrdao for audio.
cfgstoragemaker 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122478/
cfgstoragemaker remotely generates an MRTG config file in order to graph all storage devices (disk, memory, and swap) of one or more specific host(s) via SNMP.
Chaos2 XMMS 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122476/
Chaos2 is a skin based on Omar Hussain's Chaos skin. The colors have been changed to match the WMaker-simple themes. A Window Maker logo has been pasted into "main.bmp".
DansGuardian 2.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122533/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).
Dialog CD Writer 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122537/
Dialog CD Writer is a dialog front end to burn CDs under GNU/Linux and Unix. It can write data and audio CDs, make MP3 files, and ISO images, and burn on-the-fly copies. X is not need to run the script.
DisSpam 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122498/
DisSpam is a personal solution to combat spam (i.e. not for mail servers/ISPs). It is a Perl script that detects spam in POP3 mailboxes based on internal RBL checks or SpamAssassin. It runs through cron and uses a very simple yet versatile configuration file.
DSPAM 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122517/
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.
Dynebolic GNU/Linux 1.0 alpha 5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122335/
Dynebolic is a live bootable CD-ROM, a complete operating system that doesn't needs an hard-disk to run and with few requirements. It recognizes most hardware and gives a complete desktop offering a good selection of multimedia production tools. It includes tools like MuSE streamer, FreeJ, Blender, PD & GEM, TerminatorX, GDAM, Soundtracker, and a lot more, so it is an ideal platform for DeeJaying and VeeJaying.
Eagle Linux 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122510/
Eagle Linux is a Linux distribution that boots and runs directly from floppy or CD without requiring installation or repartitioning. It does not use a compressed file system, making file access faster. It detects and mounts IDE and SCSI hard drives in write mode, and offers an easier way for less experienced Linux users to create their own bootable floppy or CD from scratch. Based on Debian, it includes a DHCP client and drivers for networking.
Enemies of Carlotta 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122490/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
EtherBeamer 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122507/
EtherBeamer is a generic remote bridging solution running on Linux. It is capable of connecting different Ethernets on different locations on the Internet through AES-encrypted UDP tunnels. IP addresses on the tunnel endpoints may change, making EtherBeamer an ideal solution for connecting NATed SOHO networks on DSL lines to a corporate network.
Gambas 0.56 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122483/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
GNOME War Pad 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122470/
GNOME War Pad is 'VGA Planets' client for GNOME 2 desktop platform. It aims to develop a full featured client, including scripting Python support.
gwyple 2.2.0 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122525/
gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/Tk, for handling bug reports. These reports usually arrive by email, are stored by helper scripts called from procmail, and can then be organized by gwyple independently from the used BTS.
Io programming language 2003-05-10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122465/
Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embeddability.
Iter Vehemens Ad Necem 0.420
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122516/
Iter Vehemens ad Necem (IVAN) is a graphical roguelike game which currently runs in Windows, DOS, and Linux. It features advanced bodypart and material handling, multi-colored lighting and, above all, deep gameplay.
Jabberwocky 2.0.03 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122512/
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.
JASA 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122477/
JASA (Java Auction Simulator API) allows researchers in computational economics to write high-performance trading simulations using a number of different auction protocols. The software is designed to be highly extensible, so that new auction rules can easily be implemented. The software also provides base classes for implementing simple adaptive trading agents. It was developed for research carried out at the Agent Applications, Research and Technology group of Liverpool University.
JProftpd 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122531/
JProftpd is a simple graphic frontend written in Java for the proftpd FTP server.
JSGraphics 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122482/
JSGraphics is a library for producing 2D graphics using JavaScript by manipulating HTML tables. It uses 'run length encoding' by taking advantage of colspan attributes in order to reduce the complexity of the output. Images created in this manner can be posted on the pages such as forums or LiveJournal where images are not allowed, and can be animated using JavaScript. Simple 2D graphics functions for drawing lines, points, and circles are included.
KBVT 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122480/
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.
killdock 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122502/
killdock is designed to disable the Mac OS X Dock. The program consists of two functions, enable and disable, which can be run at any time.
Krusader 1.12 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122456/
Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS. Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability, transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.
LEAF Bering 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122524/
LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) is an easy-to-use embedded Linux system that is meant for creating network appliances for use in small office, home office, and home automation environments. Although it can be used in other ways, it is primarily used as a gateway/router/firewall for Internet leaf sites.
Leif 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122515/
Leif is a KDE tool for the SonyEricsson T68/T68i mobile phone. It supports phonebook editing, SMS management, and file uploading.
libtour 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122535/
libtour is a generic tournament processing library. The rules, participants, schedule, and results of a sporting tournament can be defined in the Scheme programming language and given to the library as input. A CLI application is provided as a reference client implementation.
LILO 22.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122462/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 3.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122534/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediatly starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". This allows for email, Web browsing, chat, etc. to get better response times. It also comes with many advanced shaping features for experienced network adminstrators.
Martin's Picture Viewer 0.1.54
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122454/
Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails.
Mass 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122494/
This is a work in progress game where you control a shapeable mass, dig through walls, and find some food to get bigger. There is no clear goal yet, though.
Matrix Reloaded GDM Theme 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122420/
Matrix Reloaded GDM Theme is a theme based on the movie The Matrix: Reloaded.
mkvtoolnix 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122514/
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.
MLdonkey 2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122526/
MLDonkey is a multi-network file-sharing client. It was the first open-source client to access eDonkey. It runs as a daemon, that can be controlled through telnet (command-line), HTTP (Web pages), and many different GUIs. It is written in Objective-Caml. It can currently access eDonkey, Overnet, Gnutella, BitTorrent, and Soulseek. Support for other networks (Direct Connect, Open Napster) is only partial.
mod_rsvg 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122467/
mod_rsvg is an Apache module for converting SVG documents into images of various formats. It uses librsvg for the conversion.
MoviX2 0.3.0pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122475/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to use MoviX2.
MyProxy 20030511
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122509/
MyProxy is a privacy-enhancing personal HTTP 1.1 proxy. Arbitrary URLs can be blocked by regular expression patterns and optionally replaced by transparent GIFs. Cookies can be controlled based on server/domain name. The "Referer", "User-Agent", and "From" HTTP headers can be dealt with in various ways. All user settings are configured through an HTML user interface.
OZradio 0.9.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122493/
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.
Perl BookShelf 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122499/
Bookshelf is an HTML page generator that helps users build "What I'm Reading" pages. Its features include support for Amazon Web pages, the ability to add a book by merely entering its ISBN number. It generates static pages, so it does not require CGI or a database.
PHP Paper and Proceedings Database 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122519/
PHP Paper and Proceedings Database implements a conference proceedings and papers database and the tools to view and update it. The database is designed so papers can be linked to more than one proceeding.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122484/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
PHPRecipeBook 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122532/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar items so that duplication does not occur.
ppplag 20030511
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122489/
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.
Premium thttpd 5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122479/
Premium thttpd is an advanced version of thttpd, and is about 3-5 times faster under most circumstances. Premium thttpd is especially well-suited for high-load environments with considerable performance needs. It provides a clear migration path for companies deploying the original thttpd or HTTP accelerators like TUX. Premium thttpd supports referrer checking, fast mass virtual hosting, IPv4/IPv6, chroot, P3P, max-age, connection throttling, and a lot more. Supported operating systems include Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
SuperKaramba 0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122474/
SuperKaramba is a tool that allows anyone to easily create and run little interactive widgets on a KDE desktop. Widgets are defined in a simple text file and can be augmented with Python code to make them interactive. Current widgets include everything from simple news headline displays to complete custom replacements for kicker, the KDE toolbar.
synergy2 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122463/
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Just move the mouse off the edge of a screen to move to another screen; keyboard and mouse input is then redirected to the other screen. Synergy also lets you cut and paste between systems and it makes screen savers activate/deactivate in concert.
t2t 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122497/
t2t can convert any delimited text file to an HTML table. It supports all attributes for the various table-related tags. It can read its input either from stdin, a file, or a whole directory. when t2t is passed in a directory, it will process all the files (except those with either .html or .htm extension), and all the files in all the sub-directories. It works on any system with Perl, including MacOS.
Twisted 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122461/
Twisted is an event-based framework for Internet applications. It includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a telnet server, an SSH server, an IRC server, a DNS server, a generic client/server pair for remote object access, and APIs for creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+, GTK+ 2, Qt, Tkinter, wxPython, and Win32 event loops. It also supports TCP, SSL, UDP, Unix sockets, multicast, and serial ports.
txt2docbook 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122496/
txt2docbook allows you to convert an ASCII file to a valid docbook XML document. It simplifies the publishing of rather small papers significantly.
Typing Trainer 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122488/
Typing Trainer is designed for exercising typing speed and typing accuracy, by providing an environment to type in a copy of an original text within a specific time period. It also has the ability to store the results of such an exercise for exam purposes.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.31 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122506/
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.
Web Package Surfer 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122536/
Web Package Surfer is a PHP-based package management system that lets you browse, search, and administrate a set of files contained in packages that are classified by (possibly nested) categories. It is particularly useful for maintaining a repository of downloaded files.
WebCleaner 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122486/
WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It can disable animated GIFs, compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip), add/remove HTTP headers, and remove unwanted HTML (adverts, Javascript, etc.). It can be customized to your needs.
Webcpp 0.8.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122469/
Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS, DOS Batch, EMF, Euphoria, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, UnrealScript, and VHDL highlighting.
XEmacs 21.5.13 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122464/
XEmacs (formerly known as Lucid Emacs) is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to ate with recent versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of Illinois with additional support having been provided by Amdahl Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of volunteer effort.
xine xine-lib 1-beta12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122527/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
XmlStarlet 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122528/
XMLStarlet pursues a goal to create a commandline XML toolkit to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands similar to the way it is done for plain text files using grep/sed/awk/tr/diff/patch.
XMMS Remote 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122530/
XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix.
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