[osdn business] May 21, 2003

0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/20/DD281056.DTL

The SF Chronicle has a piece on [0]power tool drag races. Best quote: "There are very few happy, bouncy, fuzzy robots." Links

Why Do Computers Still Crash?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2159238

geoff lane asks: "I've used computers for about 30 years and over that time their hardware reliability has improved (but not that much), but their software reliability has remained largely unchanged. Sometimes a company gets it right -- my Psion 3a has never crashed despite being switched on and in use for over five years, but my shiny new Zaurus crashed within a month of purchase (a hard reset losing all data was required to get it running again). Of course, there's no need to mention Microsoft's inability to create a stable system. So, why are modern operating systems still unable to deal with and recover from problems? Is the need for speed preventing the use of reliable software design techniques? Or is modern software just so complex that there is always another unexpected interaction that's not understood and not planned for? Are we using the wrong tools (such as C) which do not provide the facilities necessary to write safe software?" If we were to make computer crashes a thing of the past, what would we have to do, both in our software and in our operating systems, to make this come to pass?

Slashback: GSM, Buffy, Wobble
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2318237

Slashback tonight brings you updates on the future of Iraq's cellular infrastructure, the real reason Buffy is departing, Intuit and Macrovision, and more. Read on below for the details.

RIAA vs The Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2135207

[0]thumbtack writes "[1]Boycott-RIAA.com is running an [2]analysis of
the RIAA sales vs a number of other large corporations. It was compiled by [3]Justin Moore at Duke University. It is really quite interesting, showing the the RIAA sales are pretty much consistent with the rest of the economy. From the analysis: I would assert, however that it does make the case in cold, hard numbers that the RIAA's claim of digital piracy ravaging their sales must be taken with a rather large grain of salt. The CEOs of Eastman-Kodak are in a nearly identical economic situation as the RIAA, yet do not have the luxury of blaming digital piracy."
Links

    0. mailto:thumbtackNO@SPAMjuno.com
    1. 
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
    2. 
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/analysis.php
    3. 
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/copyright/riaa/RIAA-vs-Economy.html#aboutme

0. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/rees.html

Martin Rees On The Multiverse, Scientific Research & Reality http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1521207

There's an interesting piece by [0]Martin Rees about the nature of the Uni/Multiverse, as well as some of the underlying mechanics. Also, a good bit on the nature of scientific research. You can get the [1]text or the Real version. Good stuff.
Links

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge116.html

Buffy Series Finale Tonight
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1950234

roothog writes "I just finished watching the [0]series finale of
[1]Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an episode that sparks with the writing of
Joss Whedon. Strangely, there weren't any commercials :). One of the best written shows on television comes to an end tonight in North America. A very accurate [2]script summary is available for any spoiler-seekers. I'd suggest skipping the spoilers: it's worth the wait...for a season 7 episode..."
Links

    0. 
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/19/buffy.finale/index.html
    1. 
http://www.upn.com/shows/buffy/
    2. 
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/summaries.html#Buffy622

Have You Seen This Segway?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1857242

Kringle writes "An April 28th theft of a [0]Segway from a home in Kent, Washington appears to be the first of its kind. [1]The Smoking Gun has a [2]copy of the police report. The good news is that [3]the thief didn't get the keys and is lugging around a big paperweight. No word yet from the [4]Grand Theft Auto team about including a Segway in their next game release."
Links

    0. 
http://www.segway.com/
    1. 
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
    2. 
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/segwayrob1.html
    3. 
http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/129661
    4. 
http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity

Newsforge Reports
VNC: Virtually there and back again
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/15/2054251

by Russell Pavlicek - Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is an unsung treasure of the open source world -- a simple and useful tool for accessing remote computers. Now that I've had the chance to play with VNC I'm hooked on it.

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Open source helps drive dedicated hosting prices down, down, down http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/1536237

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - When ServerBeach advertises dedicated servers for $99 per month (plus setup fee), that price is for servers running Red Hat Linux. A Windows server costs $119 per month. ServerBeach founder Richard Yoo says, "We pay Microsoft for the Windows OS, and, of couse, Linux is free. We are just passing on the cost to the customer."

Sue Me? Sue You? SCO, Linux & Unix
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/2214204

by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - On May 12, 2003, SCO tried to break all ties with its Linux past and declared war on the entire Linux community. Specifically, underneath the legal language, SCO claims Linux includes Unix code stolen, or directly developed, from their SCO Unix code. "Therefore legal liability that may arise from the Linux development process may also rest with the end user." Therefore, "Similar to analogous ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Aussie car designs driven by HP-Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2216259

An Australian supercomputing consortium is poised to lease a Hewlett-Packard Itanium 2-based computing cluster to service a multi-year contract to assist car maker Holden in new vehicle design and development.

Tonight LIVE: The Smoking Gun? Microsoft's back door funding of SCO! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2025237

Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!! Tuesday, May 20th, 2003 from Chicago IL: Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

MontaVista Software Joins Forces with ATI http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1812247

Annette Oevermann writes "London, United Kingdom May 20, 2003 MontaVista Software, the company powering the embedded revolution, announced today that MontaVistaÃ‚Â® LinuxÃ‚Â® Professional Edition will support ATIs XILLEON integrated SoC. OEMs of set-top boxes, digital TVs (DTVs), and other consumer electronics devices will benefit from this integrated cost-effective solution. The joint solution will be demonstrated at Mediacast 2003 at ExCel, London, ...

Creating a Place for Users in the Open Source Process http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/178252

Anonymous Reader writes "Balancing the work of developers and the rights and needs of users has always been somewhat undefined in the free and open source software worlds. In a Guest Essay William Lamb offers a framework for keeping everyone happy."

Researcher: Linux gaining on Unix
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1655241

Michael S. Mimoso writes "Leading Linux distributions have matured to the point where requirements for new features and functions have been lapped by the need to tune the operating system for scalability and other enterprise necessities."

PHP Programming Competitions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1649251

Stuart writes "PHP-Editors.com are please to announce the latest PHP Programming Contests (2 of). This month beginners will have the job of creating a 'URL Status' program, were many details about the current state of any URL should be found. The professional PHP programmers will be asked to find a list of words from a muddled-up sentence, but its slighly harder that it first looks!!! Check it out today... you have untill mid June to code-up you ...

Sun, HP say SCO's claim is not relevant
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1539213

The SCO Group's attempt to gain royalties from Linux will not affect Sun, according to chief executive Scott McNealey. Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard say SCO Group's attempt to obtain royalties for inappropriate uses of Unix isn't likely to affect them, while Linux specialist Red Hat said it would defend itself vigorously against any challenges.

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Fujitsu doubles up on Linux support
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1458222

Fujitsu is ramping up its efforts with Linux for its servers, which could account for a quarter of the hardware manufacturer's business by 2006.

Developing Countries Gain from Free/Open-Source Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1438231

Free and open-source software are not only "a useful and significant tool for the developing countries", but clearly have the potential to help democratization and help find solutions to the most pressing problems faced by the populations of developing countries, says a report recently released on the subject.

Linux to drive supercomputing cluster http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1427211

An Australian car manufacturer has chosen a Linux-based supercomputing cluster for its design process and dismissed SCO's recent warnings about using Linux.

Freshmeat
@Mail 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123416/

@Mail is a fully-featured WebMail server allowing users to send and receive email via a Web browser or WAP device. There is auto-account creation via Sendmail/Exim/Qmail and support for external POP3/IMAP accounts. Features include a scheduler, SQL mailbox support, spell check, group addressbook, user preferences, multiple accounts, migration scripts from other mail-servers, 100% customisable interface, an attractive DHTML interface, and Web-based administration of accounts. English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian interfaces are available.

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abcm2ps 3.5.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123381/

abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.

ActiveDeveloper 2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123476/

ActiveDeveloper is a runtime Objective-C and C IDE, JIT compiler, and debugger for Cocoa and WebObjects 4.x. It features fast incremental Objective-C and C compilation, full native speed applications in deployment, and no ActiveDeveloper dependency in your products.

AdvanceMAME 0.68.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123456/

AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME, MESS, and PacMAME emulators for arcade monitors and TVs, but also for normal PC monitors.

AdvanceMENU 2.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123457/

AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and other arcade emulators. It supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3 animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the same time, and many other features.

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AdvanceSCAN 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123458/

AdvanceSCAN is a command line ROM manager for MAME, MESS, AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, and Raine for Unix, DOS, and Windows. It also contains a recompression utility for your .ZIP ROMs, .PNG snapshots, and .MNG clips.

alogg 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123409/

alogg is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro's datafile and sample loading routines. alogg comes with a sample player, streamer, and encoder based on Allegro's sound routines.

Alvaro's Messenger 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123374/

Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl client for MSN Messenger. It has many features, including multi-language support, smileys, email notification, an alarm, sound, support for 'ñ', tildes, accents, dieresis, and other special characters, address book, group managing, and file transfers.

AthFS 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123432/

AthFS is a Linux kernel module for supporting AFS, the filesystem used by AtheOS and the Syllable operating system.

avsomat prebeta-16052003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123412/

AVSOMAT is a project to automate the identification and photometry of variable stars on CCD images. It consists of a Linux command which takes as arguments the name of a fits image, and the name of an electronic chart (another file) for the star supposedly on the image. It produces the aavso observation report as a single line of text. Optionally, it can produce a picture with the reference and the variable stars, as it thinks it detected them, just for checking. The electronic chart is a file with descriptions of the variable star, the reference stars, and guide stars which are used to identify the field.

b1gMail 5.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123477/

b1gMail is a PHP and MySQL Web-based email system.

Botan 1.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123461/

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.

Cantus 1.07-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123463/

Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.

Caudium 1.2.26 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123336/

Caudium is a single process multi-threaded Web server. It has a built-in pre-processing language and an early stage of XSLT-support. The server also comes with a fast log parser. Configuration is easily done using a WWW-GUI.

CG_spam_filter.pl 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123484/

CG_spam_filter.pl provides a content filter program for the Stalker CommuniGate Pro mail server that seeks to limit the number of outgoing spam your local users can send and incoming spam your system can receive. In essence, it is a throttling script that starts rejecting mail once a certain threshold is reached, such as X messages or recipients per minute. It is difficult to catch spammers until after the fact (when they have already done lots of damage and spammed many users); this is simply an effort to stop them in their tracks in real-time so you can deal with them later.

Clustered JDBC 1.0alpha1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123402/

Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any datase engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, and more.

CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123446/

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.

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Courier 0.42.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123433/

The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, and mailing list services within a single consistent framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the Webmail module.

Damn Small Linux 0.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123393/

Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its miniscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.

Darik's Boot and Nuke 2003052000 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123494/

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

DaveDAP 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123435/

DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool. DaveDAP allows you to browse your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers.

DeadCode for WindowMaker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123380/

Deadcode for Windowmaker is a port of redcoder's famous blackbox theme DeadCode.

Disk ARchive 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123482/

dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of the "slices" of an existing archive. It can now run commands between slices, scramble archives, and retrieve individual files from differential and full backups.

distcc 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123395/

distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to 10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.

DKMS 0.29.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123489/

DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code.

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DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.61.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123413/

DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats, including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX man pages, and TeXinfo.

eme 0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123441/

eme is a framework for building a map editor. It uses the Allegro game library. You can specify the way the maps are loaded and saved, and can also define some commands. There are two applications created with eme: seme (Simple eme) and ieme (Image eme). seme allows you to create maps without coding anything yourself, and exports map loading code to include in your game. ieme is a simple bitmap editor with many features (some seme-specific).

fBuilder Plus 2.4.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123420/

fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. It performs all actions in real-time and includes a Firewall Creation Wizard, edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities, support for IP aliases, custom protocols, user defined chains, limit matches, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.

File::Scan 0.54 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123497/

File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.

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Fink 0.5.2 CVS_SNAP-20032005 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123410/

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

Fische 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123479/

Fische provides standalone sound visualisation under Linux.

Fung-Calc 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123448/

Fung-Calc is an advanced yet easy to use graphing calculator written using the Qt libraries. It supports various graphing modes in both 2D and 3D. It combines all the features of a full-blown mathematical analysis package with ease of use.

FXRuby 1.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123471/

FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.

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GenChemLab 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123427/

GenChemLab is an OpenGL-based application intended to simulate several common general chemistry laboratory exercises. It is meant to be used to help students prepare for actual lab experience. Supported experiments include titration, calorimetry, and freezing point depression.

GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123417/

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.

GNUsound 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123399/

GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV. GNUsound supports a large number of high-quality audio effects through the LADSPA plugin architecture (see http://www.ladspa.org).

GOB 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123459/

GTK Object Builder (GOB) is a simple preprocessor for easily creating GTK objects. It reads a class description file with inline C code and produces .c and .h object files for you. It allows you to easily use all of the features of the GTK object system and avoids typos by reducing the amount of code needed. In general, the amount of code is about the same as for OO languages such as Java or C++, but you still have to only use C and you get all the power of the GTK object system.

Gordano Messaging Suite 3136
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123406/

The Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS) is a highly flexible and reliable suite of messaging products. Customers can choose which components meet their needs from email, Webmail, instant messaging, calendaring, SMS, and list server software all of which can be complimented by high level anti-spam, anti-virus, and archiving options.

HTTP Proxy Client 0.8.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123401/

HTTP Proxy Client is a set of libraries and scripts that provide transparent access to Internet via HTTP proxy tunnel for programs which use TCP/IP for communication. The tunnel is provided by the CONNECT method of HTTP proxy, and supports external DNS resolution.

Indexed PDF Creator 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123447/

Indexed PDF Creator creates indexed PDF documents from text files. It was designed to aid in creating an electronic distribution method for legacy system reports, since many mainframe type print spools are plain text. It allows indexing, customizing page settings, font size, font face, and superimposing text over an image in the case of using pre-printed forms. It supports unlimited levels of indexing bookmarks in documents and system/user configuration files.

jpegrdf 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123414/

Jpegrdf reads and manipulates RDF metadata stored in the comment section of JPEG images. It can extract, query, and augment the data. Manipulating JPEG images with jpegrdf does not modify the actual image data or any other sections of the file.

jpgind 0.67
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123397/

Jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web galleries from JPEG/Exif files. Each image's page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML metadata from a separate text file.

JRat 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123493/

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.

KBVT 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123485/

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.

LDAPDNS 3.00-cvs-beta0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123490/

ldapdns is a robust DNS server that forwards DNS requests to your LDAP directory. This means that changes to your LDAP directory will take affect immediately (no intermediate commands to run, and no cron jobs to wait for).

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libdiscmage 0.0.3alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123400/

libdiscimage is a library to rip/convert single tracks from proprietary image formats (like DiscJuggler or Nero) for burning with cdrecord. Example apps are included.

libTextCat 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123421/

Libtextcat is a library with functions that implement the classification technique described in Cavnar & Trenkle, "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization". It was primarily developed for language guessing, a task on which it is known to perform with near- perfect accuracy. Considerable effort went into making this implementation fast and efficient. The language guesser processes over 100 documents/second on a simple PC, which makes it practical for many uses.

libxml++ 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123429/

libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml (gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple but complete API.

libyahoo2 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123451/

libyahoo2 is a single-threaded, asynchronous Yahoo! Messenger library currently used in Everybuddy. It is written in C. Communication is by means of requests and callbacks.

LinTalk 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123442/

LinTalk is a simple serverless instant messaging tool for GTK. The contact lists synchronize automatically between all known hosts. It also features a message history.

LiquidClassifiedsXML 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123379/

LiquidClassifiedsXML is a PHP-Nuke and PostNuke compatible client for a classified ad Web service. All ads are pooled in a centralized database so that many small Web sites can combine their marketing power to have, in effect, the classified ad system of a large Web site.

Log Tool 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123464/

Logtool is a syslog file parser, report generator, and monitoring utility. It takes logfiles from syslog, multilog, or other ASCII log generating sources as input from stdin, and depending on command line switches and/or config file settings, will parse and filter out unwanted messages from the logfile accordingly, and generate output in ANSI color, formatted ASCII, CSV (for spreadsheets), or HTML format. It is very handy for use in automated nightly reports, and online monitoring of logfile activity. It comes with some simple example scripts and documentation.

Looking Glass 1.7p6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123383/

LG is a Looking Glass written in Perl as a CGI script. It can execute almost all BGP-related commands and do ping and traceroute in routers or relay these queries to other looking glasses. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 commands, and is tested with Cisco, Zebra, and Juniper. It can connect to a router using SSH, telnet or rsh.

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LRRD 0.9.5-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123444/

LRRD is a system to gather and graph all sorts of information. It consists of two components: a client you can install on the various nodes in your network, and a server. The client will know how to extract various information such as load average and bandwith usage, and will wait for the server to request these values. The server can optionally notify Nagios if any of the values move outside of a specified range.

memwatch 2.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123404/

memwatch is an ANSI C fault tolerant memory leak and corruption detection tool. Basically, you add a header file to your souce code files, and compile with MEMWATCH defined or not. Check the README and USING files for more instructions.

Moosic 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123426/

Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.

nefu 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123439/

nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services over the network. It uses a "no false alarms" fault verification algorithm, and understands network dependancies. Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), DNS, HTTP, POP, NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web.

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NetBoz Firewall 1.4 beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123431/

NetBoz is a CD-ROM based firewall with a Web administration interface. It works over standard FreeBSD services, giving maximum flexibility, ease of use, and performance to corporate networks.

O-Zone's EDITor 0.0.3pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123396/

O-Zone's EDITor Is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used for coding. It is based on SSEX and ZvtTerm, and aims to be an integrated IDE.

OpenOffice2Text 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123384/

OpenOffice2Text is a converter that translates OpenOffice.org documents to ASCII text or HTML.

Pam_mount 0.5.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123407/

The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB (Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login, using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically unmounted on logout.

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PartGUI 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123389/

PartGUI is a Qt graphical user interface for partition tools such as Parted. It aims to provide a Linux clone for PartitionMagic.

PKI Tools 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123377/

PKIT is a Java toolkit for performing common PKI related tasks. It currently can be used to sign a cert in a well formed manner for various usages: non repudiation, key encipherment, data encipherment, cert signing, etc.

Process Change Detection System 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123423/

Process Change Detection System is a script to monitor changes in processes--not to monitor if your Web server is still running, but to see if there are new programs running. When debugging a honeypot logging, you often see that there's an extra inetd running, to open up a backdoor port. Or, less dramatically, people login to a system and "forget" to logout.

py_ecc 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123462/

py_ecc is an implementation of Reed-Solomon codes, which are used for erasure correction, and a collection of routines for finite field arithmetic and generic matrix operations. Erasure correcting codes let you divide information, such as a file or a packet, into n pieces, of which k are required for reconstruction. It provides a clear, easy to understand reference for other implementations of linear error correcting codes, and contains extensive documentation and a number of detailed examples and tests.

qmail Lazydog 1.4 2003/05/20 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123390/

qmail Lazydog (previously known as Big Q) is an installation script for Linux that installs qmail 1.03 with some patches like the qmail-queue patch (for virus scanners), TLS patch (to enable secure SMTP), SMTP auth, oversized DNS patch, glibc patch, tarpit support, regex support, big concurrency, maildir++ , vpopmail for virtual domain management, autorespond, courier-IMAP, the ezmlm/idx mailing list manager, qmailadmin and vqadmin Web administration tools, and more.

Radar For Radiator 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123386/

Radar is a real-time, interactive graphical tool for monitoring Radiator Radius servers. It features monitoring of multiple remote Radiators, graphing, statistics, error and event logging, log viewing, radiator configuration viewing and modification, and alerts for significant events. Radar runs under Unix and Windows platforms.

Ruby/Google 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123388/

Ruby/Google offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's SOAP-driven Web API. It allows the user to programatically query the Google search engine from Ruby. The aim of the library is to shield the programmer from the details of the raw data structures returned by the Web API, and in the process make the API more accessible for everyday use.

snortalog 2.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123391/

Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts.

Solarpack 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123405/

The Solarpack project is a repository of 1400+ pre-compiled packages of free software for Solaris systems and a distribution of the NetBSD package collection tools (NPCT) for Solaris. The goal is to make Free & Open Source Software on Solaris just as easily available as it could be on BSD or Linux distributions.

SpamAssassin 2.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123382/

SpamAssassin is a mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering. It provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a client-server system to filter large volumes of mail, and Mail::SpamAssassin, a set of Perl modules that implement a Mail::Audit plugin -- allowing SpamAssassin to be used in a Mail::Audit filter, a spam-protection proxy POP/IMAP server, or almost anywhere.

Support Information Tracker 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123469/

Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more.

sysstat 4.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123480/

The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.