[osdn business] May 15, 2003

[0]wessman asks: "I started to read [1]Orin S. Kerr's 80-page paper
looking for how his proposal would pertain to: ripping music/movies, P2P, corporate espionage, and lastly, the use of web scraper robots. Little did I know just how relevant his paper would be in regards to that last item! Kerr makes note of [2]EF Cultural Travel v. Explorica in which Explorica is caught hiring a consultant to program a scraping robot to gather pricing information from a competitor, EF Cultural Travel. Well, I do consulting on the side from home and am currently working a project whereby I gather pricing information from all the major travel conglomerates (Orbitz, Expedia, Lodging.com, WorldRes, Sabre, etc.) so that the travel booking business that hired me can meet or beat all their prices. Granted, the circumstances of the Explorica case are different and the case was an example of an extreme ruling, but my questions to the Slashdot community are: Do I notify the company that hired me of the Explorica case? Why is using a scraper robot so different from, say, walking into Best Buy with a handheld and recording product pricing manually? Should I continue with this project and the similar projects I do in this area of programming?" Now, add in the text in the "deliverables" section of [3]this press release and it seems we may have some contradictory information. Who is right, and under what circumstances is price harvesting off of the internet not allowed?
Links

    0. 
http://www.openupandsay.com/email.cfm
    1. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1647209&tid=123
    2. 
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/library/cases/lib_case312.cfm
    3. 
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=5360

Spam Blackhole Lists Redux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/15/0230224

[0]tsu doh nimh writes "Are spam blackhole lists good, bad or
indifferent? That appears to be the question they're tackling in
[1]this Washington Post story. It has some interesting back and forth
between supporters of the lists and those who claim they condone censorship." [2]J adds: Brad Templeton recently [3]offered some comments on the most extreme pro-blacklist position. Links

    0. 
http://`moc.liamtoh' `ta' `emagyldaedtsael'
    1. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53496-2003May14
    2. 
http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/
    3. 
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04744.html

Falling to Earth's Core in a Big Blob of Iron http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1930258

[0]Colin Douglas Howell writes "Um...wow. I found this idea [1]via the
BBC, (see also the [2]Nature article), but it's really worth reading the [3]annotated paper on the subject. (Gotta love the title.) Basically, you drill a hole in the crust, blast a big crack in it, inject a huge mass of molten iron with a little probe floating inside (made out of material which won't melt or dissolve in the iron), and let the iron mass sink to the core by gravity, carrying the probe with it. (The initial crack grows downward as the iron sinks.) As the probe falls, it sends data back using seismic signals that can be picked up with a gravitational wave observatory like [4]LIGO, but coupled to the ground. Of course, there are enormous problems with the whole thing, but it's still cool to read about. To me, the idea is even neater because it was dreamed up by [5]Dave Stevenson, one of my old professors (and one of the best professors I've ever had). I hope he doesn't mind being Slashdotted. :-)" Links

    0. mailto:chowell2@pacbell.net
    1. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3021255.stm
    2. 
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030512/030512-10.html
    3. 
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/stevenson/coremission/index.html
    4. 
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
    5. 
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/stevenson/

Slashback: Hippocampus, Matter, Blogs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1844210

Slashback tonight brings you updates, clarifications and even a followup question on recent Slashdot stories on the iLoo, Verizon's pay-phone hot spots, the artificial hippocampus, Google and blogs, patenting smart matter and more -- read on below for the details.

The Ultimate Computer Chair?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/2151247

An anonymous reader writes "Check out [0]www.mypce.com. They address the idea of the computer workspaces by treating the it as an overall environment instead of the desk and monitor we're all used to. Hopefully, the industry will start moving in this direction and address more of the physical issues of computing. No idea on pricing, but very cool nonetheless."
Links

0. http://www.mypce.com/

Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/2117231

[0]Kimberley Burchett writes "CS researchers at Stanford University
have developed [1]three [2]new [3]techniques that together could speed up Google's PageRank calculations by a factor of five. An [4]article at ScienceBlog theorizes that "The speed-ups to Google's method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests or customized to a particular topic."" Links

    0. 
http://www.kimbly.com/
    1. 
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2003-26
    2. 
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2003-17
    3. 
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2003-16
    4. 
http://scienceblog.com/community/article1622.html

SCO Drops Linux, Says Current Vendors May Be Liable http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/2053236

[0]Hank Scorpio writes "Well, SCO is at it again. I just received an
email from their Developer Partner Program stating that not only are they suspending all future sales of their own Linux product (due to the alleged intellectual property violations), but they are also beginning to send out [1]this letter to all existing commercial users of Linux, informing them that they may be liable for using Linux, a supposed infringing product. They mentioned that they will begin using tactics like those of the RIAA in taking action against end-users of Linux. This seems like it will be about as successful as the whole GIF ordeal a few years back. Where is UNISYS today? Is SCO litigating itself into irrelevance?"
Links

0. http://www.globexcorp.com/

http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_linux_customers.html

Newsforge Reports
SCO dumps Linux development, threatens Linux users http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/15/0336254

by Lee Schlesinger - The SCO Group is getting out of the Linux business and into the legal arena. That's the message the company is sending to customers with a letter this week. It said it is suspending its "Linux-related activities" while aggressively protecting its intellectual property rights in Unix. At the same time, SCO is implying it could sue anyone who uses Linux, saying "legal liability that may arise from the Linux development ...

Can software developers form an 'open source' union? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1756240

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - There has never been a successful union-style organizing movement among software developers. Ian Lurie, who runs a Seattle Web design firm, believes this is because traditional "industrial" union structures don't serve programmers' needs very well, but that a new, "open source" union structure based on pre-industrial craft guilds might make lives better for people in the job-nomadic IT industry. Lurie has financial ...

Open source travels bumpy road at NIMA
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1534228

By Anne Zieger - After years of research, managers at the military-backed National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) have concluded that open source development styles may be a bit too, uh, creative for traditional government work.

Newsforge Newsvac
For Microsoft, market dominance doesn't seem enough http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/2332225

NZheretic writes "Read Thomas Fuller's article at International Herald Tribune. "Last summer, Ayala, then the top sales executive at Microsoft Corp., sent an e-mail titled "Microsoft Confidential" to senior managers laying out a strategy to dissuade governments across the globe from choosing cheaper alternatives to the ubiquitous Windows operating system."

SA minister outlines OSS plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/2117208

Kodek writes "IT systems in the South African Northern Cape province health department are stable because they use Linux, minister of public service and administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, told that country's Parliament today. The minister also said the South African government uses OSS extensively and sees it as "deliberate strategy"."

SCO Suspends Distribution of Linux Pending Intellectual Property Clarification http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/216216

SCO Suspends Sales of Linux, Alerts Customers That Linux Is an Unauthorized Derivative of UNIX and That Legal Liability May Extend to Commercial Users.

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SCO: Put Up or Shut Up
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1923203

There are thousands, if not millions, of copies of the Linux kernel code on CD-ROMs and other media. SCO need only submit one CD-ROM from IBM, Red Hat, SuSE or any other Linux vendor that shows that its code is included, and it'll have its evidence.

The 'item' that makes Net chat 'oh-so-easy' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/198224

Yes, chatting with friends has become a real breeze thanks to MSN, e-mail and what not. But guess what? It's just got even easier, with a new free software solution called "ayttm" worked out by a young Indian technologist in collaboration with his partners in France and elsewhere.

Firebird Naming Conflict: mozilla.org's Chris Blizzard http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1718235

Anonymous Reader writes "Many recent news reports have declared the Firebird database project as the victors in their conflict with mozilla.org over the renaming of the lightweight Phoenix browser to Firebird. Mozilla advocacy site MozillaZine claims otherwise, and has an interview with mozilla.org's Chris Blizzard to back it up."

Why Open Source GIS Software?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1849215

The last 20 years have seen dramatic developments in GIS technology and geographical information science. Fierce competition and growing user demand has resulted in a number of high-quality solutions, which are largely responsible for the vast increase in the GIS marketplace. However, the vast majority of the industry solutions is aimed at supporting basic needs of capture, archival and visualization of spatial data.

Create a four-tier Web services application on Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1715221

Anonymous Reader writes "Web services enable you to quickly integrate applications across multiple platforms, systems and even across businesses. This tutorial demonstrates how easily you can make your DB2 data accessible through Web services on Linux. In the tutorial, you'll create a sample four-tier application that retrieves information stored in a DB2 UDB V8 database."

Search for alternatives to Microsoft growing: Gartner http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1657257

Licensing issues, security breaches and the grassroots power of open-source software are factors which have resulted in governments and businesses worldwide thinking seriously of alternatives to Microsoft, the technology research firm Gartner says.

Sharp announces Linux-based IC card reader/writer http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1648229

Sharp announced that it has developed an intelligent, standalone contactless IC card reader/writer device that uses Linux as the basis of its embedded intelligence. According to Sharp, the RK40PR004 is useful in environments ranging from ordinary homes, to large building control systems, to parking lots and garages, and can be used either standalone or as one of multiple reader/writers under the control of a centralized server.

Freshmeat
AIOCP 1.0.014
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122832/

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.

Confused? Frustrated?

bk_edit 0.6.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122842/

bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and convert the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape.

Botan 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122851/

Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3.

broken.miho 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122854/

broken.miho is a blue-grey theme based on artwork by Megatokyo artist piro. It includes an Xwm menu screen.

cddsolve 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122866/

cddsolve is a double dummy bridge solver. It utilizes alpha-beta pruning and minimax searching to find the number of tricks a given side can take under the assumption of optimal play. While the complexity of the problem may be enormous depending on the given deal and contract, cddsolve is fast enough to be actually helpfull for many double dummy bridge problems.

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Cherokee 0.4.3 pre13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122829/

Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.

CMOTD 2k3-05-11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122805/

CMOTD (Create Message Of The Day) allows you to easily create attractive MOTD messages. It reads two files defined in ~/.cmotd - one for a "package" section and another for "messages", formats them to the terminal width, and adds a colored borded.

CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122855/

CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform.

CRL/OHH Bootloader 2.18.54
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122838/

CRL/OHH is a flash bootloader for Linux, QNX, NetBSD, and WinCE used on the HP iPAQ and Jornada handhelds, Compaq Personal Server, and a variety of other ARM-based platforms. It supports booting Linux from CF flash/IDE cards.

cvsplot 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122811/

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.

Dirlister 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122709/

Dirlister provides an alternative to the standard Apache directory listings. It creates Web pages that are displayed when looking at folders without index files.

DMZS-FIRE 0.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122862/

FIRE, the Forensic and Incident Response Environment, (formerly known as Biatchux) is a portable, bootable CD-ROM-based distribution providing an immediate environment for performing forensics analysis, data recovery, virus scanning, and pen-testing. It also provides the necessary tools for live forensics/analysis/incident response.

DOTCONF++ library 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122812/

dotconf++ is a dotconf like configuration file parser written in C++. It supports macro substitution from the environment or from the file itself, config file inclusion, easy handling of XML like tags, checking for required tags, and more. The whole document (with all inclusions) is parsed into a useful tree structure that is easy to use in your program.

DSPAM 2.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122846/

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.

DTDDoc 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122814/

DTDDoc is designed to help document your DTDs efficiently. It is a straightforward extension of the Javadoc concept, and a not so straightforward implementation of some of the concepts solidified by Donald E. Knuth.

Exim 4.20 (exim4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122818/

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive. Exim is in use at many sites around the world.

FCE Ultra 0.94r3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122834/

FCE Ultra is an NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator for various platforms. It is based upon Bero's original FCE source code. Features include good PPU, CPU, pAPU, expansion chip, and joystick, and authentic Game Genie emulation. Save states and snapshot features also have been implemented, and the VS Unisystem is emulated as well. FCE Ultra supports iNES format ROM images, iNES- and FWNES-style FDS disk images, and NSF files.

FindBugs 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122868/

FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.

Firebird Relational Database 1.5.0 RC2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122837/

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Frameworks 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122790/

Frameworks is a Video4Linux Webcam controlling utility based on gqcam. It is designed for acquiring frames for stop-motion animation and claymation. Files are saved in a scheme suitable for editing with the GIMP Animation Plugin, and frame averaging is supported.

GNU gperf 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122865/

GNU gperf is a program that generates perfect hash functions for sets of keywords. A perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly 1 probe into the data structure. Output from the GPERF program is used to recognize reserved words in the GNU C, GNU C++, and GNU Pascal compilers, as well as with the GNU indent program.

Don't know where to look next?

Gnus 5.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122827/

Gnus is an extremely powerful, configurable news and mail reader written in Emacs LISP for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It provides threading, sorting, and article scoring; can retrieve messages via NNTP, local news or mail spool files, IMAP, POP, and other methods; and has features that make it efficient for reading news over low-speed network connections.

Goose Search 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122788/

Goose allows you to search Google from the command line. Results are displayed in a Curses-based text display, and individual results can be opened in a Web browser.

Grammatica 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122856/

Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It can create readable and commented source code from an LL(k) grammar. It also supports creating a parser in runtime without generating source code. The grammar productions are described in EBNF and tokens in regular expressions.

gThumb 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122792/

gThumb is an image viewer written for the GNOME environment. It lets you browse your hard disk, showing you thumbnails of image files. It also lets you view single files (including GIF animations), organize images in catalogs, print images, view slideshows, set your desktop background, and more. gThumb also supports Nautilus thumbnails.

gTick 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122803/

gTick is a small metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per minute to 250 BPM and 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters. It uses GTK+ and OSS.

Hugues Image Viewer 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122794/

Hugues Image Viewer is an image viewing and image analysis application. It supports any pixel type (from binary to 64 bit, integer or floating point), 3D, multi-spectral, and multi-component documents and images. It includes image viewing functions such as zooming, cropping, and rotating.

ipsvd 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122797/

ipsvd is a set of "Internet protocol service daemons". It includes daemons for TCP/IP and UDP/IP. An Internet protocol service (ipsv) daemon waits for incoming connections on a socket, and for new connections, it conditionally runs an arbitrary program to handle the connection. ipsv daemons can be told to read and follow pre-defined instructions on how to handle incoming connections. Based on the client's IP address or hostname, it's possible to run different programs, set a different environment, deny a connection, or set a per host concurrency limit. ipsvd can be used to run services usually run by inetd, xinetd, or tcpserver. Normally the ipsv daemons are run by a supervisor process, such as runsv from the runit package, or supervise from the daemontools package.

JaneBUILDER 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122852/

JaneBUILDER is a visual editor for PHP. It allows you to build complex PHP pages with mouse clicks and menu items. The files created are native PHP (text) files, which can be opened by any HTML tool or text editor and uploaded to your Web server for deployment.

Confused? Frustrated?

Japple 2.3.1rc1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122839/

Japple is a rapid application development environment for building Web applications and services. Built on the Java2 Platform and open standards, Japple allows you to develop and deploy Web applications faster, easier, and more efficiently than traditional methods.

JDBC SQL Profiler 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122848/

This small tool connects to the P6Spy JDBC logger and displays in real time the queries going to the database. It uses an integrated SQL parser to build statistics on the most accessed tables and columns to enable database index creation. Other information is also gathered and displayed, such as the request time for a single request, for a class of request, and for all the requests. Sorting may be done on these views to detect database problems efficiently.

jget 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122638/

jget is a command-line tool for downloading files. It supports downloading and resuming of any Web resource.

JGraphpad 2.1.1rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122795/

JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.

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JLicense 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122836/

JLicense is a Java license toolkit for creating and validating license keys. It includes a simple GUI tool for creating the license file and a LicenseManager (which should be embeded inside your Java software) for validating the license.

Jools 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122793/

Jools is a clone of Bejeweled, a popular graphical puzzle game that follows in the footsteps of Tetris. It offers both Time Trial and Untimed modes of play, is written using Pygame, and features attractive 3D rendered graphics.

JRat 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122776/

JRat is a Java runtime analysis toolkit that enables developers to better understand the runtime behavior of their Java programs. This includes but is not limited to performance profiling.

JSGraphics 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122815/

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.

Kolmogorov 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122867/

The Kolmogorov project provides tools for machine perception and tutorials for machine learning, machine perception, and statistics. It supports fast face detection in images and information on Hidden Markov models, Gabor filters, Multivariate Logistic Regression, and Stochastic Differential Equations. It includes MPISearch, a library for detecting objects in images very quickly (real-time in some cases).

Mailgust 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122809/

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.

Market Intelligence Master 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122744/

Market Intelligence Master is an e-commerce utility that allows you to create a professional looking Web sites that include comprehensive shopping cart tools. It also tracks customer purchases, provides you with online marketing tools that include mass HTML e-mails, and generates detailed reports on customers, sales, and products.

MIDAS NMS 2.0f
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122824/

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.

MMS Diary 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122849/

MMS Diary is a mobile phone weblog/diary for use when you are on holiday. It uses MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) as transport to upload texts and photos to your homepage. This is done with a PHP script that pretends to be an MMS proxy relay (the server that receives MMS:es).

mutt_vc_query 001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122806/

mutt_vc_query is a utility that enables mutt users to query email addresses and vCard information that has been stored by rolo.

OpenBiblio 0.4.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122847/

OpenBiblio is an easy to use automated library system containing OPAC, circulation, cataloging, and library administration functionality.

openWEBchat 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122864/

openWEBchat is a communication tool that allows you to chat with people on IRC. It is easy to use and understand, and is useful for providing people with the abilty to chat on project or home pages.

OSCAR Cluster 2.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122825/

OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy- to-install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing.

OSX-Brushed 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122813/

The OSX-Brushed skin provides MPlayer with a style based on Apple's Quicktime player.

osx2x 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122808/

osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.

phpBandwidth Monitor 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122798/

phpBandwidth monitors a particular network interface (eth0, eth1, ppp0, etc.) and provides a realtime graph showing bandwidth consumption on a server.

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PHPObject 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122676/

PHPObject is an open source alternative to Flash Remoting for PHP developers. With PHPObject, you can call a method of a PHP class/library on your Web server as if the class/library was defined in Flash itself. It takes care of your client-server connections, providing a convenient way to connect rich media clients with data and business logic residing on your server.

Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 6) (RETRO6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122822/

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.

sexypsf 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122833/

sexypsf is a plugin for XMMS that plays PSF files. PSF music is usually ripped off PlayStation games.

Simple Python Blogger 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122860/

Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.

Squeak 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122796/

Squeak is an OpenSource and super-portable implementation of a multi-media capable Smalltalk-80 based object-oriented programming environment. It is written entirely in Smalltalk and has a high-performance VM, created by compiling the Smalltalk VM code into efficient and portable C code. It now uses the Self language's Morphic User Interface but still provides the original MVC GUI as well.

SUBTRAN 2k3-05-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122801/

SUBTRAN is a simple bash and awk script which can perform afine transformations on uDVD-like subtitles (modifying offset and framerate). It can also convert subtitles from the srt format to the sub format.

tag2html 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122853/

tag2html is a tool that converts most important ID3 tags from MP3 files into an HTML or XML file. It can be used to get an overview of all the MP3 files in one or more directories.

Thy 0.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122859/

Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.

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TRE 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122857/

TRE is a lightweight, robust, efficient, portable, and POSIX compliant regexp matching library. Key features include the agrep command line tool for approximate regexp matching in the style of grep, an approximate matching library API, portability, wide character and multibyte character support, binary pattern and data support, complete thread safety, consistently efficient matching, low memory consumption and small footprint, and strict standards conformance.

Tuxman 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122820/

Tuxman is a Pac-man clone which lets you edit your own maps in ASCII files. Tux is hungry and bad Bill Gates is coming. Try to get a bonus score and bonus lives.

UnicodeConverter 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122766/

UnicodeConverter is a Java/Windows/.NET program that converts text, RTF, HTML, and Word documents in Vietnamese legacy formats (VNI, VISCII, VPS, TCVN, or VIQR/Vietnet) to Unicode formats.

VISOCO dbExpress Driver for Sybase 1.2.105 http://freshmeat.net/releases/122843/

VISOCO dbExpress Driver for Sybase is a lightweight database driver that provides fast access between Borland applications and Sybase database using new dbExpress technologies. It features high-speed operation, a simple and quick install driver, and minimal driver size and system resource usage.

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Web Secretary 2003-05-14 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122799/

Web Secretary is a web page monitoring software. However, it goes beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to you with the new contents highlighted.

Xfprot 0.18beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122845/

XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It is based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library.

yottor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122800/

yottor is an online note pad. Its purpose is to give quick access to an online area where you can jot down quick notes that you can access later at any time when you have access to a Web browser.

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Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
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Tshirts: M.A.D.
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Gadgets: USB Digital Voice Recorder
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Caffeine: ThinkGeek 'Best Of' Caffeine Sampler v2.5 http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/5f35/

Caffeine: Case O' Cricket Cola
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/5f6b/

Electronics: Kodak CX4200 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5f5f/

Electronics: FujiFilm FinePix A303 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5f63/

Electronics: EZ BinoCam II
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5f16/

Computing: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5f48/

Computing: USB FlexLight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5a84/

Computing: SuperPen Graphics Tablet
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Computing: Logitech Z-680 THX Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/speakers/5f4c/

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