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[osdn business] May 13, 2003
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
The Spirit Of Unix vs. The Unix Trademark
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/0324226
[0]BSD Forums writes "This article conveys the message that [1]Linux,
BSD, and Darwin continue what Unix started. InfoWorld's Tom Yager says
that several readers took him to task for referring to Linux, BSD, and
OS X as Unix. He feels that Unix has a rich legacy that deserves to be
preserved and accurately conveyed to new generations of computer
scientists. It rattles many of us to see that the operating systems
that best exemplify Unix traditions today aren't Unix at all."
Links
0. http://forums.bsdforums.org
RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/031200
theradixhunter writes "News.com is [0]reporting that the RIAA has apologized to the [1]Pennsylvania State University for sending a threatening letter making an incorrect allegations of copyright violations. It appears that the automated system that the RIAA uses picked the term "Usher" and the extenstion ".mp3" on an FTP site hosting the work of Professor Emeritus Peter Usher and falsely assumed that the files were songs by the musician [2]Usher. The university accepted the apology saying "that this was an honest mistake by the recording industry" and Spokesman Tysen Kendig said Penn State "remains committed to working closely with the RIAA"." Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1001095.html
1.
http://www.psu.edu/
2.
http://www.usherworld.com/Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/203225
An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]this article at LinuxDevices.com, [1]Vanu Technology is demonstrating what it claims represents the world's first handheld 'software radio' using an iPAQ PDA running Linux at a [2]conference in Washington DC today. Vanu apparently has implemented the signal processing functions on the iPAQ's XScale processor, and their software uses POSIX APIs to make it platform independent. Software radios implement multiple radio standards and frequency bands in software, rather than hardware. A standard iPAQ expansion pack houses the radio transceiver." Links
0.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7890250038.html
1.
http://www.vanu.com/
2.
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/19677.htm
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro vs. NVidia GeForce 5900 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/012221
[0]HardcoreGamer writes "Today [1]ATI shipped its Radeon 9800 Pro 256
MB DDR-2 card in time for E3 and [2]nVidia announced the NV35-based
GeForce 5900 which will be available in June. Early tests seem to say
that while [3]nVidia edges ahead of ATI in [4]specific areas, overall
[5]ATI still has the better card. The caveat is that the next
generation of DirectX 9-based games (like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2,
[6]demonstrated with ATI at E3) will truly determine which is the
better card. Lots of coverage at [3]PC Magazine, [4]PC World, The
Register ([7]ATI) ([8]nVidia), [5]ExtremeTech, [9]InternetNews, and
[10]Forbes/Reuters. Either way, at $450-$500, serious gamers are about
to get another serious dent in their wallets."
Links
0.
http://127.0.0.1
1.
http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4645.html
2.
http://nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030512_2396
3.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1078540,00.asp
4.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110692,00.asp
5.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1075362,00.asp
6.
http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2003/4644.html
7.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30657.html
8.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/30664.html
9.
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/2204831
10.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/05/12/rtr967649.html
Spamhaus Responds To Spammers' Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/2042227
[0]ShaiHulud-23 writes "A suit was [1]recently filed by
[2]EMarketersAmerica.org, a fledgling secret organization of spammers,
against the [3]Spamhaus Project, (and other anti-spam sites) seeking to
prevent the publication of the anonymous plaintiffs' IP addresses in
the Spamhaus Block List (SBL). The suit requested a response from the
named defendants, and Spamhaus director Steve Linford has [4]provided
one, dismantling the spammers' case point by point."
Links
0.
http://geek.focalcurve.com
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1717224&tid=111
2.
http://www.EMarketersAmerica.org
3.
http://spamhaus.org/
4.
http://spamhaus.org/legal/answer-03-80295.html
Environmental Costs of Computer Use?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/2011257
[0]arhines asks: "I'm working on a little research project to figure
out what the environmental cost of heavy technological reliance is, and
want any suggestions Slashdot has for factors to consider. [1]My school
has started requiring students to own and use laptops in all of their
classes, under the pretext of saving paper. Having read about the
[2]problems with [3]computer recycling on Slashdot, I've become
suspicious of the true effect of having several hundred computers
thrown out each year. What statistics should I focus on, and are there
any definitive studies on the topic you could point me to?"
Links
0.
http://zzz.com.ru
1.
http://www.lakesideschool.org/
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/24/2237230&tid=137
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/30/2112256&tid=137
Intel Reveals Itanium 2 Glitch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/221251
NeoChichiri writes "News.com is running on an article about [0]glitches in Intel's Itanium 2 chips. Even though it doesn't affect all chips, they have still stopped shipments of the new 450 Servers until the problem is resolved. Apparently it has to be 'a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data.' Intel is saying that affects the 900MHz and 1 GHz Itanium 2 chips and that it will not affect the upcoming 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 6M chips." Until the next iteration of chip arrives though, Oliver Wendell Jones writes, "they recommend working around the problem by underclocking the processor to run at 800 MHz instead of its default 900 MHz or 1 GHz." Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-1001010.html?tag=lh
Play PSX Games On Your Xbox
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/2028241
falzbro writes "Now [0]Xbox owners (well, [1]modded Xbox owners) can do
what the Playstation people have been able to do for years; play [2]PSX
games on your console! [3]PCSX has been [4]ported to the Xbox. It's
unfortunate that the homebrew Xbox development scene is stuck in a
world of pseudo-legality, due to the lack of a usable [5]Legal XDK. A
[6]compatibility list is currently being hammered out, and it's limited
to only playing games stored on your Xbox HDD."
Links
0.
http://www.xbox.com/
1.
http://www.xbox-scene.com/modchips.php
2.
http://www.playstation.com/
3.
http://www.pcsx.net/
4.
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act=ST&f=17&t=54141
5.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxdk/
6.
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act=ST&f=17&t=54366
TiVo For Radio?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1930224
An anonymous reader points out this [0]Wired story that says "several electronics makers are releasing new products that promise to do for radio what the TiVo digital video recorder has done for television." (Products that might seem puny to serious time-shifting radio listeners, but cool to see them anyhow.) Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58769,00.html
California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1911245
[0]Grant Erickson points to this [1]internet.com story, which says "On
Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires
businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax
for purchases made over the Internet." The state's huge ($35 billion)
budget deficit is named as a driving force for the measure.
Links
0. mailto:gerickson03m@som.llu.edu
Newsforge Reports
Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1433225
- by Lee Schlesinger - I've tried PalmOS-based PDAs and I've tried Pocket PCs, so I was excited to get my hands on a Linux-based alternative -- the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600. While this revised version of last year's SL-5500 has a lot going for it, it isn't the killer product one might hope for.
Public Wi-Fi has look and feel of a dead duck http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1340253
- by Andrew Orlowski, The Register Who's going to pay for the great Wi-Fi revolution when the roaming public expects Wi-Fi to be free? Where, exactly, is the business model? On Friday, T-Mobile helped provide an answer. In the United States, T-Mobile has been trying to entice the public to its network of over 2000 hotspots without much success. Unlike more canny 802.11 operators who homed in on airports and hotels, T-Mobile has been left with a ...
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 ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Grandma Runs Linux... Has it Been a Year Already?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/223256
Spot writes "A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux. Mom's not at all computer savvy..."
Philosophy and Practice of Technical Leadership http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/0030240
This is an excerpt from "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers," by J. Hank Rainwater, a book its publisher describes as "...a comprehensive guide (”think of it as a field manual”) to the management challenges of supervising and leading programmers."
Open Source Software Institute Becomes LPI Affiliate http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/2120215
jmw writes "OXFORD, MS, May 12, 2003 The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (www.lpi.org), the premier international professional certification program for the Linux community, has affiliated with Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) (www.oss-institute.org) to increase exposure and participation of Linux by corporate, government and academic environments across the United States. "
The Lighter Side: Visit to a Strange Program http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/2113243
Marcel Gagné writes "On the lighter side of open source, LJ has an article by Marcel Gagné (part of the "Cooking with Linux" series) that looks into some slightly less serious programs."
Grid computing: Conceptual flyover for developers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/181232
Anonymous Reader writes "Is Grid computing the next big thing? Who knows for sure. This article's goal is to provide a "10,000-foot view" of key concepts and relates many Grid computing concepts to known quantities for developers, such as object-oriented programming, XML, and Web services. The author offers a reading list of white papers, articles, and books where you can find out more about Grid computing. It has just what a developer needs to ...
Linux Midrange Storage In A Snap
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1754258
Customers aren't locked into a Windows-based system for midrange network-attached storage systems--at least not yet.
Embedded Linux powers "first hand-held software radio" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1752229
Vanu, Inc. is demonstrating what it claims represents "the first hand-held software radio" at the technology showcase of the "Wireless Innovations: New Technologies and Evolving Policies" conference in Washington, DC today. The demonstration basically consists of a standard XScale-based Hewlett-Packard iPAQ PDA running an embedded Linux operating system; a prototype 100-475 MHz radio transceiver is housed in a standard iPAQ expansion pack, and ...
Linux system rises to the challenge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1753252
A "six-figure" IT upgrade at Farmlands shows the Linux operating system is as much of a threat to Unix as it is to Microsoft Windows.
Sun Micro Fights Back After Caustic Report http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1640256
Sun Microsystems is spitting nails over a biting report from Meta Group, a market research and consulting firm, that suggested, among other things, that Sun's customers should rethink doing business with the company in the long term, and that Chief Executive Scott McNealy should be replaced.
'Banned' Xbox Hacking Book Selling Fast
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1552247
Too hot for tech publishers, Andrew Huang self-published his comprehensive guide to hacking Microsoft's game console. Weeks before publication, he's already pre-sold half of his initial print run.
Freshmeat
a place to go 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122619/
aptg (a place to go) is a Web-based mail client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix.
Abandoned Fort 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122548/
Abandoned Fort is an architectural fantasy in ochre and stone colors against a black night sky. The background is by Fernando Hocevar.
acctail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122522/
AccTail shows extended resource usage information for all processes that have exited, unlike top or ps which only detail currently executing processes. It can be useful in combination with wtmptail or MultiTail.
Advogato poster 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122608/
The Advogato poster is an application that can post multiple diary entries to Advogato using its XML-RPC interface. It will look for files in the current directory with a filename having the following format yyyymmdd.html or yyyymmdd.advogato. If it finds such files, it will load the contents of the file to advogato as diary entries. The application assumes that the yyyymmdd part of the filename represents the date of the diary entry and posts the entries to advogato accordingly. The poster will check with advogato the last entry that was posted and only post files that have a date stamp that is later than the last posted entry.
apetag 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122539/
Apetag is command line tagging tool for multimedia files such as monkey's audio and mpc that use the APE 2.0 standard.
Astaro Security Linux 4.006 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122593/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
asterisk-oh323 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122627/
asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to the ASTERISK soft PBX. It does this by interfacing the OpenH323 library to ASTERISK through a loadable module. The package provides the channel driver as well as a wrapper in a shared library form. It is able to initiate and receive calls to and from H.323 endpoints, and has been successfully tested with the H.323 terminals on the OpenH323 site (ohphone, openphone) and Microsoft NetMeeting.
AutoUpdate 4.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122656/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
axelq 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122658/
axelq stores URLs that you want to be downloaded in a cache. When you start axelq, it will run axel for every URL in the cache, in order. It is a queue manager for axel.
bdmn 1.y
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122577/
bdmn is client/server-oriented backup system. The daemon runs on the machine being backed up, and the client runs on the machine that stores the backup. It is very simple, but very fast. It only uses tar, gzip, and Perl, so it is portable to many operating systems. It includes a very simple access control system for itself.
Below The Waterline 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122551/
Below The Waterline is a theme with a humpback whale and her calf. The background is by Hermik (Florian Freundt).
BomberClone 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122541/
BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs.
Boss Ogg 0.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122624/
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).
cdrtools 2.01a14 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122560/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
centericq 4.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122634/
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features.
Cinelerra 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122629/
Cinelerra is a complete audio and video production environment for Linux. It replaces Broadcast 2000.
COMMpositeur 03051
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122649/
COMMpositeur is a simple document management system implemented as a collection of modules for the phpGroupWare application framework. It helps electronic journals to manage metadata about articles and to automate the generation of published formats (HTML and PDF) from articles in a raw format (RTF) using external tools.
CoverViewer 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122590/
CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name.
CVSGnome 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122569/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
Document Manager 2.0-pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122630/
Document Manager is a document management system with the ability to check-in/check-out documents, track changes, and support multiple users. It supports all usual operations (rename, delete, view, edit) and comes with optional support for a secure HTTP server.
Efes 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122602/
The Efes hardware recognition and certification system is a graphical user interface able to run under (almost) every Linux distribution, so that the system administrator is assured that the underlying hardware is compatible with Linux.
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122643/
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and with all common Eiffel compilers. It is ideal for creating cross-platform, cross-Eiffel-compiler, and cross-C-compiler C library wrappers. It can handle pretty much all ANSI C, but understands Visual C and GCC extensions as well.
EJBCA 2.0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122575/
EJBCA is a fully functional Certificate Authority in Java using J2EE technology. It builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high performance, platform independent, flexible, and component-based CA to be used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app. EJBCA comes with a flexible and powerful Web-based admin GUI.
ElyCA 0.23 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122662/
ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.
Epiphany-browser 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122585/
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine.
Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with
GNOME.
ffproxy 1.3p2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122637/
ffproxy is a filtering HTTP proxy server. It is able to filter by host, URL, and header. Custom header entries can be filtered and added. It can even drop its privileges and optionally chroot() to some directory. Logging to syslog() is supported, as is using another auxiliary proxy server.
filewatcher 2.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122640/
filewatcher is a Perl program that uses RCS to maintain a local file archive repository. A configuration file details which files and directories to monitor and to whom reports should be delivered.
Gammu 0.74 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122554/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 71xx, 7210, 82xx,
83xx, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom,
WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many
functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm,
calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on
various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
Gherkin 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122652/
Gherkin is a Web-enabled, multi-threaded, centralized security scan manager that incorporates Nessus vulnerability scanning, DNS and nmblookup name resolution, and nmap fingerprinting and scanning.
Giraffe 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122547/
Giraffe is a theme with a giraffe and a palm tree. The background is by Vlad Gerasimov.
GLT OpenGL C++ Toolkit 0.8 rc1 (Release Candidates) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122600/
Glt is a library of C++ classes and routines for programming
interactive 3D graphics with OpenGL. The aim of Glt is to augment the
OpenGL API with convenient mechanisms for manipulating the OpenGL state
machine. Glt is a work in progress, and by no means covers the entire
OpenGL specification. However, it already includes several useful
classes and is designed so that additional classes can be added easily.
In addition to Glt, the GlutMaster classes provide C++ wrappers for the
GLUT API.
gnokii 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122581/
gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives.
GNUnilink 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122508/
GNUnilink is a PIC adaptor that emulates a Sony Auto CD Multichanger, enabling the AUX input on the rear of suitable Sony car radios. This in turns allows the owner of such a radio to use these inputs for a portable CD or MP3 player. GNUnilink contains an optional serial link between PIC and PC. Button presses can be sent to the PC. The PC can set disk/track numbers/names and provide a real-time counter.
gogoXML 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122614/
gogoXML is a class library for PHP which makes it easier to read XML files into an "object tree" for traversal and use in PHP projects. It is also able to perform limited writing of XML.
GPC-Slots 2 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122645/
GPC-Slots 2 is a more advanced GPC-Slots. It sports multiple slot machines, a progressive jackpot which is added to by all the slot machines, Russian Roulette, and Monte Carlo Roulette.
Hackbot 2.21 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122635/
Hackbot is a host exploration tool and bannergrabber. It scans numerous services and vulnerabilities.
HelpmeICT 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122653/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
ifGraph 0.4.9rc2 (Release Candidate)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122599/
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes (in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
Inside Systems Mail 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122605/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
IPoCAN 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122572/
IPoCAN adds the ability to the Linux kernel to send/receive IP packets over a CAN bus network.
ITracker 1.7.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122636/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, and multiple email notifications.
Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122571/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
JGraph 2.1.1 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122562/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
JPluck 0.9 RC5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122579/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
JSVN 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122580/
JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control system.
KAlcatel 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122626/
KAlcatel allows you to manage messages, calls, contacs, todos and the calendar in Alcatel One Touch 50x and 70x mobile phones. The protocol used by this phone is binary and not documented, so this program can't guarantee any functionality in all cases.
Keepalived for Linux 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122588/
Keepalived for LVS aims to add a strong and robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. It implements a framework based on three family checks: Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5. This framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.When one of the servers in the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the Linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entry from the LVS topology. In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover.
KHdRecord 7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122553/
KHdRecord is an audio recorder which writes directly to the harddisk. This enables recording of LPs.
Krysalis Barcode 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122576/
Krysalis Barcode is a barcode generation package written in Java. Krysalis Barcode currently supports the following barcode symbologies: Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Codabar, Code 128, EAN-8 and EAN-13 (with supplementals), UPC-E and UPC-A (with supplementals). Krysalis Barcode currently only generates SVG barcodes, but the package is designed to be easily extended to provide additional output formats, such as EPS, bitmaps, or AWT. The package also contains a barcode generator servlet (and a demo web application) as well as an extension for Apache Xalan to generate SVG barcodes for use in XSL-FO documents (tested with Apache FOP).
KSqlAnalyzer 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122606/
KSqlAnalyzer is a tool for easily accessing the data of a MS SQL database. It is made for developing and testing new SQL queries direclty on the server. The functionality and look/feel are similar to SQL Query Analyzer by Microsoft. KSqlAnalyzer uses parts of the TDS library, and the editor uses parts of the KWrite source code becaus of its brilliant sytnax highlighting.
latex4jed 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122573/
latex4jed is an S-Lang file for the Jed editor which provides a greatly enhanced LaTeX mode, similar to AUC TeX. It features menus, shortcuts, templates, syntax highlighting, document outlines, integrated debugging, symbol completion, full integration with external programs, and more. It was designed with both the beginner and the advanced LaTeX user in mind.
libcddb 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122628/
Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.
LibMPEG3 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122632/
Libmpeg3 decodes MP2, MP3, AC3, MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2 video, and DVD footage in a single library. It supports many esoteric features like parallel video decoding, frame-accurate editing, YUV 4:2:2, and ATSC transport stream decoding.
Libvc 001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122584/
Libvc is a vCard library which was written using 'flex' and 'bison'. It handles scanning a vCard file, parsing the vCard file into a data storage structure, manipulating the data storage structure, and writing the structure back to a file. It was originally written for 'rolo', but has been split off for general use.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.5 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122611/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
LinuxMagic magic-smtpd 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122521/
MAGIC-SMTPD is a drop-in replacement for Dan Bernstein's qmail-smtpd, and was originally designed to be part of the LinuxMagic Magic Mail Server. This opensource version has been released to allow others to benefit from its anti-spam components, and valid user checking to reduce server loads and spam volumes. It is designed to support stock qmail installations, qmail/vpopmail installations, and database connectivity. Designed for ISP service, this will work for all mail servers large and small.
LNX-BBC Bootable Business Card 2.1 (development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122660/
The Bootable Business Card is a complete miniature Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM disc in the size and shape of a business card.
MailCorral 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122550/
MailCorral is a robust, high-performance virus/spam filter program that runs as part of sendmail using the milter interface. It handles all currently known malicious attachment types including HTML. It can be left running unattended, removing harmful attachments and notifying recipients by inserting text into processed messages. A backup copy of the original message is also kept for a fixed length of time. Spam identification is accomplished through connections to popular spam recognition packages.
MIB Smithy SDK 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122587/
MIB Smithy SDK is a dynamic extension to Tcl/Tk (8.1+) that allows development of custom scripts for controlling SNMP agents, manipulating SMI definitions, doing conversions, and more. It is based on the core of Muonics' MIB Smithy, and the SDK supports SMIv1 and SMIv2, as well as SNMPv1/v2c/v3 with HMAC-SHA-96 and HMAC-MD5-96 authentication and CBC-DES privacy. It also provides complete read-write access to all elements of SMI/MIB Module definitions, unlike similar extensions that provide only read access to a limited subset. The SDK allows multiple discrete SMI databases and SNMP sessions, and provides all of the built-in validation and error recovery capabilites of the full product, without the visual MIB development environment.
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.7.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122597/
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, and more.
Netcat 6 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122564/
Netcat 6 is a netcat clone with IPv6 support. It is designed to be tiny, extensible, and elegant, and it makes use of the new extended BSD socket APIs.
nut 8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122648/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods
and 117 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins,
minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and
includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6.
Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the
familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can
be fully customized. Recipes can be added, and graphs drawn. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
OpenGUI 4.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122642/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP image file format. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86-DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32- bpp color modes.
OSX-Brushed 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122557/
The OSX-Brushed skin provides MPlayer with a style based on Apple's Quicktime player.
oxygen XML editor 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122563/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
Package Structure Analysis Tool 2.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122620/
The Package Structure Analysis Tool is a tool for analyzing and refactoring the structure of Java programs. It takes Java sources as input and visualizes the dependencies between packages and classes with UML class diagrams, detects cycles in the dependency graph, recovers an intended architectural layering from a polluted implementation, suggests which dependencies should be removed to improve the structure, allows refactoring of the source model, immediately shows the effect of the refactoring on the dependency structure, allows the refactoring to be applied to the source code, and allows source code to be verified against a design model.
PHP Live! Support 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122591/
PHP Live! Support is an alternative to the popular Human Click (a.k.a. Live Person) Live Customer Support Chat system. It uses simple database tables, PHP, and Javascript. It also features multiple departments, load balancing, new request sound alarm, and much more.
PHProjekt 4.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122604/
PHProjekt is a groupware suite which supports communication and management of teams and companies via an Intranet and the Internet. It consists of multiple components, including a group calendar with resource booking, a time card system, project management, a request tracker, a mutual filesystem, a contact manager, a mail client, a forum, chat, notes, shared bookmarks, todo lists, a voting system, and reminders. An API allows the integration of several available addons (e.g. Web shop, WAP suite, sync tools) or own applications. It is available for MySQL, Postgres, Interbase, Oracle, Informix, MS-SQL, and 28 languages.
Postgresql AutoDoc 1.10 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122646/
Postgresql AutoDoc has the ability to output XML, which can be loaded into Dia to create a UML diagram of the database (complete with table relations and descriptive information), an HTML form for further detailed information, GraphViz .dot output, and Docbook 4.1 style SGML for inclusion with project documentation as an appendix. It works on any 7.x PostgreSQL-based database.
PPants Angular Font Collection 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122500/
PPants Angular Font Collection is a small collection of Angular-styled fonts with a general width of six pixels. TerminalPants is a fixed width font for terminals aiming for ANSI compliance. Moose is a proportional font for use everywhere else. Both fonts are BDFs.
progressbar 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122583/
progressbar will open a window containing a text label and a progress bar. The progress bar is updated by reading newline-delimited integers from STDIO. In addition, the text label can be updated by writing a string to input. The purpose of the script is to get an easy way of monitoring progress of computations without having a dedicated terminal window showing printed progress information. Instead a small window with a graphical display of progress is used with the op