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[osdn business] May 22, 2003
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Is There Room for an IM only Device ?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2126245
tealover writes "[0]MSNBC Has an [1]article about a new device from
[2]Motorola that they're marketing that just does IM. It' called
IMFree. Kind of a combination of a cordless phone and pager; There is a
base station that plugs into a USB port in your computer, so it's only
portable in relation to the base station. Sounds and looks like the
kids would like this."
Links
0.
http://www.msnbc.com/
1.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/915831.asp?0ql=c8p
2.
http://www.motorola.com/
Water Flows Uphill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1538236
An anonymous reader writes "[0]The BBC are reporting James Dyson's new garden feature, a [1]waterfall with water flowing uphill. Apparently, he wanted to recreate an Escher drawing." Links
Survey of Linux-Based Gadgets & Devices
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/0058249
An anonymous reader writes "NewsFactor Network recently asked: [0]Where
Are All the Cool Embedded-Linux Gadgets? Well, LinuxDevices.com has
just updated its answer to that question. The [1]Embedded Linux "Cool
Devices" Quick Reference Guide now encompasses 123 Linux-based gadgets
and devices in 7 categories, including PDAs, mobile-phones, IP-phones,
audio/video entertainment, tablet computers, gateways/routers, servers,
wireless access points, robots, web-enabled cameras, telematics,
industrial controllers, wrist watches, and last but not least, a DIY
category: little Linux systems for projects and products. Lots of great
pictures, too."
Links
0. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/printer/21439/
William Gibson on Movies, Music, Media
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/0022204
automatic_jack writes "[0]William Gibson gave a talk at the
[1]Directors' Guild of America's Digital Day last week. The text of it
is up [2]in his 'blog, and in it he says some intriguing things about
the nature of the entertainment and media industries. There's a bit of
a surprise conclusion at the end!"
Links
0.
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/
1.
http://www.dga.org/
2.
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_05_01_archive.asp#200322370
30 Years of Ethernet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2151204
[0]Babylon Rocker writes "An [1]interview with one of the inventors of
Ethernet." Metcalfe talks about the history of Ethernet as well as what
he's been up to for the last couple years. (Not surprisingly, he's now
a VC ;)
Links
0. mailto:raymisc@@@snet...net
The Internet and The War
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2242212
John Jorsett writes "[0]Wired Magazine has an [1]interesting article on the realities of the use of communication and navigation technology in the Iraq war. Particularly intriguing is the use of chat rooms to engage experts thousands of miles away in helping to solve problems at the troop level in the field. And if you think your admin job is tough, try running your servers in 125 degree heat in a sandstorm." Links
Caldera vs. Microsoft Court Documents To Be Shredded http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2136211
Geste writes "As now being reported in [0] this brief story and on my local (Seattle) NPR affiliate, 3 million court documents from Caldera's unfair competition suit against Microsoft are to be shredded in Utah. The timing relative to Microsoft's recent licensing of SCO Unix IP is undoubtedly a complete coincidence. " Links
0. http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=29450
PPC 970 Confirmed for Apple?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1959241
[0]batboy78 writes "In what perhaps is the first 'official'
confirmation that IBM's PowerPC 970's will be used by Apple,
BusinessWeek claims that [1]IBM has confirmed that it's developing a
new set of chips for the Mac: 'IBM says the new Apple chip will be of
the 64-bit variety, which means it can process twice as much
information per cycle as existing 32-bit chips.'" CT The article has
been updated to make the confirmation seem... well, far less
comfirming.
Links
0. http://www.caseyandkelly.com
FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1932253
An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News reports that OpenTV is [0]violating the GNU General Public License. He notes that the [1]Free Software Foundation is threatening to file a lawsuit in the case. If you haven't become an [2]associate member of the FSF yet, now would be a good time!" Note that Gillmor is reporting the FSF's claim of violation, not making it himself. Links
0.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001029.shtml#001029
1.
http://www.fsf.org/
2.
http://member.fsf.org/Explaining WLAN Chips' Poor Linux Support http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1640211
morcheeba writes "Kernel Traffic is [0]reporting ([1]mirror [2]mirror list) that 'Some WLAN Chip Specs Secret To Protect Military Communications.' While this is stretching it a bit -- these radios are generally limited to a narrow frequency range and few modulation types
- software can cause illegal radio operation, especially when the laws vary by country. Is Linux support for 802.11g and Centrino chipsets going to be delayed by manufacturers afraid of FCC harassment? An interesting discussion on the future of Openness in radio chipsets." Interesting comments from Alan Cox in here about just how flexible some of these chips are. Links 0. http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20030520_216.html#2
Newsforge Reports
Bits and pieces: Short Linux and computing notes
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/145214
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Why isn't the most important laptop spec ever mentioned in reviews? Why do we keep making Linux look harder than it really is? Why do we pretend some free/open source programs are better than they really are? Why is there air?
Red Hat, Linux, consumers, money - do they mix? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1458248
- By John Lettice, The Register - Earlier this year Red Hat split its range into two segments - effectively, business and everything else. It did this in the wrong order, as The Register remarked at the time, but subsequently the company has padded out its Enterprise range to consist of Advanced Server, Enterprise Server and Workstation, so here at least it has a complete set.
Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1416209
- By Barbara French, Tekrati - IDC takes issue with Open Source software in Nordic region political agendas. Stateside, SuSE, Red Hat and Debian do very well in D.H. Brown's massive technology assessment. Industry analysts from RFG and Wohl ponder the SCO lawsuit and In-Stat/MDR identifies Linux as a phenomenon enabling the Video On Demand server evolution.
Newsforge Newsvac
GNU GPL to be tested in court?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2012241
paulv writes "Dan Gillmor writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF), which monitors the scene and enforces the GPL, says a Mountain View company has been violating the GPL for more than a year. The foundation calls the violations serious and is threatening a lawsuit.""
Sun certifies Ohioedge CRM and J2eeBuilder product http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/2011231
Anonymous writes "Cleveland, OH -- May 20, 2003 -- Ohioedge, the provider of #1 open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Server software announced today that it's CRM and J2eeBuilder products have undergone and passed all the quality and performance tests monitored by Sun Microsystems and has received J2EE-Verified certification from Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ohioedge is one of the five companies to receive such certification from Sun ...
Sun unveils low-end servers, alliances with Red Hat http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1642226
Michael S. Mimoso writes "SAN FRANCISCO -- While extending its partnerships with Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. staked its claim today as the leader in low-cost computing by unveiling two new x86-based servers. The $2,450 Sun Fire V60x and $2,650 V65x servers are priced lower than comparable servers from IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Computer Corp., according to Sun. Both can run either Sun Solaris x86 Platform ...
Performance Inspector Open Source Project for Lin http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/209248
Anonymous Reader writes "Performance Inspector puts your finger on the pulse of your C/C++ and Java code, helping you nail down performance bottlenecks and problems with Linux kernel interaction. The suite of tools includes sample-based profiling, monitoring at the thread level, and more."
IBM Unmoved by SCO Linux Wrangle
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/207200
IBM Corp appears unconcerned about SCO Group Inc's recent announcement that Linux users could be held liable if it proves that Linux operating system code violates its Unix intellectual property.
German Linux association may drop SCO as member http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/193221
LIVE Linux-Verband e.V., a German association promoting the interests of Linux users and software developers in the country, is mulling whether to drop the German subsidiary of The SCO Group Inc. as a member.
Linux Kernel Route Cache Entry Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1813241
It has been reported that the Linux kernel does not properly handle a low volume flood of some types of traffic. Because of this, an attacker may be able to cause excessive consumption of resources and failure to route traffic.
The Wrong Choice: Locked in by license restrictions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1640251
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Sucked in by advertising, Jameson C. Burt bought a proprietary mathematical software application four years ago. This year, he discovered that he couldn't move that program to new hardware without paying hefty license fees. That's when Burt realized he'd made the wrong choice."
Battle heats up Munich software deal
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1638252
NZheretic writes "From Expatica.com, Germany: In a battle heating up over a software deal for the city administration of Munich, US giant Microsoft has lowered its price offer by another 15 per cent in order to prevent the city switching to Linux. ... If it switched to Linux, Munich would be the first major German city to do so and could pave the way for other cities to make the switch, something which Microsoft aims to prevent, especially after ...
Review: TextMaker, powerful standalone Linux word processor http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/163203
Anonymous Reader writes "In a follow-up to a first look two weeks ago, Dennis E. Powell says that the new offering from a German company might just be the best word processor he's ever used on any platform. Which for him is saying a lot."
Freshmeat
4est's Weblog 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123524/
4est's Weblog is a Web log system that features pseudo code, emoticons, a censored word list, time zone offset support, and an option for a multi-user interface. Security is provided with separate password protected post and boss_post screens, and commenting is optional.
a place to go 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123579/
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.
acpi4asus 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123615/
acpi4asus is a Linux kernel module and user-space daemon that handles special keys, LEDs, and extra ACPI features found on Asus laptops. It has been reported to work on Asus L2X/L3X/M2X, but other models should also be supported.
Active Spam Killer 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123576/
Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically.
Aqua Linux Theme 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123543/
Aqua Linux Theme is another Aqua-inspired theme.
Archetypes 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123583/
Archetypes is a framework for developing new content types in Plone. The power of Archetypes is first in automatically generating forms, second in providing a library of stock field types, form widgets, and field validators, third in easily integrating custom fields, widgets, and validators, and fourth in automating transformations of rich content.
C++ Debugging Support library 0.99.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123561/
Libcwd is a full-featured, professional, well-documented library to support C++ developers with debugging their applications. It includes support for ostream-based debug output, custom debug channels and devices, powerful memory allocation debugging, run-time sourcefile:linenumber information, and demangled type names of variables. Libcwd is thread-safe.
Calendrian 0.20.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123597/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
CMSimple 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123544/
CMSimple is a simple content management system for simple maintainance of small commercial or private sites. It has a simple installation, is easy to modify, and offers an unique combination of features. It uses an HTML-file for storing the entire site, which can be edited in your favorite editor. It has a dynamic TOC and document locator, a WYSIWYG editor (no plugin--functions in IE and Mozilla), a search function, link validation, image handling, and automatic backup. It is easy to set up your own layout; just edit the template and stylesheet.
CodeViz 0.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123562/
CodeViz is a call graph visualisation tool which uses a variety of different data collection methods to generate its call graphs. Using a modified version of the GNU Compiler, very accurate call graphs that precisely reflect the compiled code may be created. If using a compiler is undesirable, CodeViz is able to directly parse C/C++ code itself, and even analyse binaries with objdump, so it will work if the source isn't available.
Confix 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123530/
Confix is a build tool for open source packages. It does what is otherwise the job of the package maintainer. It writes input files for Automake and Autoconf with information it gathers from the source code.
darcs 0.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123545/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
dcplusplusstats 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123495/
dcplusplusstats is a Java 1.2 command line tool that parses log files written by the DC++ file sharing application and creates HTML statistics pages. The information that is assembled includes the amount of data transferred, most active users, most popular files, communities, file types and formats, times of day, and days of the week.
Easyval 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123550/
Easyval is a very basic implementation of interval arithmetic, using hardware doubles as interval bounds. The first target of this library is that the interval arithmetic containment criterium is respected.
Encrypted Virtual File System 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123603/
EVFS is a Linux virtual filesystem which sits on top of VFS to access the underlying filesystem. This means users can mount any directory containing encrypted data to any other directory (=clone), but the second will be encrypted/decrypted transparently until it is unmounted. It has multi-user support so that regular users can mount their own evfs filesystems from and to directories they own. Therefore it's possible to have a totally encrypted filesystem, each user with their own key.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123566/
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
exifprobe 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123606/
Exifprobe examines and reports the contents and structure of JPEG and TIFF image files. It will recognize all standard JPEG markers (including APPn markers) and will report the contents of any properly structured TIFF IFD encountered, even when entry tags are not recognized. Recognized TIFF and TIFF/EP tags are expanded, including EXIF2.2 sections and camera MakerNotes which are found to be in TIFF IFD format. GPS and GeoTIFF tags are recognized and entries printed in "raw" form, but are not expanded. Location, size, and format of image data is reported.
FireMake 1.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123594/
FireMake is a shell script designed to be packaged with a piece of software and run on each computer building that software. It creates a Makefile based on the architecture, the build environment, and the files in the directory from which it is run.
Ft 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123532/
Ft is a PHP class for working with template files. It supports multiple (possibly nested) files and dynamic blocks, and is similar to FastTemplate.
FUDforum 2.5.0RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123552/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
Glade 0.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123612/
Glade is a GUI builder for GTK+ and GNOME. It stores projects in an XML format and can generate C code from this meta-format. Additionally, the meta-format can be converted to other languages via modules. For example, glade-- can generate C++ code.
GMime 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123608/
GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
GtkLP for CUPS 0.9n
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123551/
GTK LP for CUPS is a frontend for the lpr that comes with CUPS. It is written to make it easy to use nearly all the options from CUPS without knowing them by name. For print-admins, there is also an pretty simple queue tool implemented.
gtkmm 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123522/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.
hdup 1.6.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123590/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
iftop 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123578/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.
incident.pl 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123616/
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by snort or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that appear to be attempted security attacks, gather information on the remote host, and report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Inside Systems Mail 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123602/
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.
Internet Task Management System 1.1 (Build 110) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123582/
ITMS uses PHP to formalize the task delegation process in a business environment. Functionality includes the ability to create individual tasks and then combine them into a process of work items which can be easily delegated to any user of the system. Assignment and reminder emails are recieved based upon user preferences. Administrators of the system have the ability to manage all users and their task properties. It supports MySQL, Oracle, LDAP, and SSL.
IPplan 3.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123570/
IPplan is a Web-based, multilingual IP address management and tracking tool based on PHP which simplifies the administration of your IP address space. It can handle a single network or multiple networks with overlapping address spaces. It features internationalization, importing of network definitions from routing tables, importing of definitions from TAB-delimited files and NMAP's XML format, support for multiple administrators with different access profiles (per group, per customer, per network etc.), definitions of address space authority boundaries per group, finding free address space across a range, display of overlapping address spaces between networks, search capabilities, an audit log, statistics, and tracking and sending SWIP/registrar information.
IPTables-tutorial 1.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123598/
IPTables-tutorial is a tutorial which explains how to install and set up iptables and netfilters on Linux. It takes you through a usable example file step by step, and helps you understand its basic functionality. The tutorial currently contains 6 different example scripts that may be used freely under GPL licensing terms.
ITracker 1.7.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123560/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, configurable field values, and multiple email notifications.
Leafnode 1.9.41.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123619/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
Linux Caixa Mágica 8.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123533/
Linux Caixa Mágica is a Linux distribution that is aimed at inexperienced users, but can also be used on servers. In English, the name means "Magic Box", which implies that the box it is installed on needs little maintenance and supports easy configuration.
Linux DiskTool 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123527/
DiskTool is a small, full-featured file manager for the Linux console or an xterm-style terminal. It features file copying, moving, and renaming, file marking for performing the same action on all marked files (such as copy or delete), full directory support such as moving, renaming, and deleting directories, permission and owner support (like chmod and chown), file editing and creation, an RPM manager for installing and inspecting .rpm files, an archive center supporting .tar, .gz, .tar.gz, and .zip files, and fully configurable colors and editor choices. All features are available with single keystroke commands and require very little understanding of Linux. DiskTool is written in Pascal and not in C. The source code is available upon email request, but you will need to install the FPC compiler to compile the modules.
Logcheck 1.2.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123470/
Logcheck parses system logs and generates email reports based on anomalies. Anomolies can be defined by users with 'violations' files. It differentiates between 'Active System Attacks', 'Security Violations', and 'Unusual Activity', and is smart enough to remember where in the log it stopped processing to improve efficiency. It can also warn when log files shrink, and does not report errors when they are rotated.
Logcheck 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123467/
Logcheck parses system logs and generates email reports based on anomalies. Anomolies can be defined by users with 'violations' files. It differentiates between 'Active System Attacks', 'Security Violations', and 'Unusual Activity', and is smart enough to remember where in the log it stopped processing to improve efficiency. It can also warn when log files shrink, and does not report errors when they are rotated.
MailStripper Pro 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123587/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent.
Mapagi 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123581/
Mapagi is a pagination utility that prints your images/comics in 'in folio' format. To produce a book printed in folio format, the sheet of paper is folded once, producing 2 leaves. Each leaf has 2 sides, the recto (front) and the verso (back). Page size format is "Tankobon", probably well known to anime/manga fans.
Mindi Linux 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123541/
Mindi-Linux uses a skeleton ramdisk and your kernel, modules, and tools to build a boot/root disk set. The first floppy boots your kernel, then loads your modules and installs your tools from additional floppies. Mindi works for almost any Linux kernel or distribution.
mkvtoolnix 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123609/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
Mondo Rescue 1.65 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123542/
Mondo Rescue archives Linux and Lin/Win sytems to tapes or CDs, which may be used to restore some or all of your OS and data in the event of catastrophic data loss. The emphasis is on stability and ease of use. Currently, ext2, ext3, (v)fat, minix, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported, as are RAID and LVM.
mtr 0.54
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123556/
mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. It features a console as well as a GTK based interface.
MyClassifieds 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123554/
MyClassifieds is a Perl CGI implementation of online classifieds, similar to other classifieds or auction sites. It displays all aspects of the classifieds and creates all of the files for you. Only one file needs to be edited to specify the categories, colors, template, and a few other site-specific variables and preferences. The script supports email and deletion/modification of ads by users, as well as searching ads, and auto-delete after an admin-specified number of days.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.13 (Production (4.0.x)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123529/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
nss-sqlrelay 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123585/
nss-sqlrelay is a Name Service Switch module that uses SQL Relay to access database tables containing passwords, groups, hosts, or other information.
O-Zone's EDITor 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123549/
O-Zone's EDITor is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used for coding. Its design is based on SSEX, and it aims to be an integrated IDE.
Ogg::Vorbis::Header 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123540/
Ogg::Vorbis::Header is a Perl module for viewing and modifying info and comment fields of files encoded in the Ogg Vorbis compressed audio format. It uses Inline::C to access the underlying Vorbis libraries and provides an object oriented interface, an incremental loading scheme, and maintains no open filehandles between operations, which allows data structures containing many Ogg::Vorbis::Header objects to be created.
OggCarton 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123548/
OggCarton is a free, open source home jukebox system that creates and indexes Ogg Vorbis and MP3 music files. It includes an integrated Web server.
ogmencoder 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123580/
ogmencoder is a Perl script that uses MPlayer/Mencoder and Transcode to create an OGM (audio Vorbis) backup of your DVD, ready to be burned to a CD-R. OGG (but the usual extension for the video files is OGM) is the file format for multimedia developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. It is very similar to the common Microsoft AVI. The main difference between OGM and AVI is that the new format can store audio with the Ogg Vorbis codec. With this codec, you can decrease the bitrate of your movies (I use 64 kbps), saving space to increase the video bitrate. Ogmencoder is completely automatic. Basically, the only thing you have to do is to insert the DVD in the reader and launch the program.
OpenLDAP::Webmail 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123572/
OpenLDAP::Webmail is a collection of Perl modules that can be used by the Perl backend of OpenLDAP to access the address book of your Webmail account from an LDAP client (e.g. Mozilla). GMX and web.de work out of the box, and others can be added.
OS X mod MPlayer Skin 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123571/
OS X mod MPlayer Skin is a modification of phantomas's OS X Brushed MPlayer skin. It includes the play and pause buttons as one in the same, uses window manager window decorations, includes a playbar for fullscreen mode (go to preferences/misc and select enable playbar), and includes load, playlist, and fullscreen buttons from Everaldo's Crystal icon theme. It also includes an about button based on an adaptation of the MPlayer logo.
OZradio 0.9.5.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123535/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
Package DataBase View 2.0.4 (2.x.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123546/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats and other output formats (like XML).
Phayoune Firewall 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123565/
Phayoune Firewall is a Thai Linux distribution that is intended to be used as a stateful inspection firewall. It runs directly from CD- ROM and does not require a hard drive. It supports port forwarding, an online monitor, Squid blocking for worms, virii, and adult content, and a menu-based setup that stores configuration details on a floppy.
PHP SQLView 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123584/
SQLView provides a user friendly interface for browsing a SQL database and modifying SQL tables using a Web browser. This is strictly an application to give users access to view and modify their SQL tables. It is not a tool to help database administrators (other than perhaps getting users to manage their own data).
Piccolo toolkit 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123531/
Piccolo is a truly revolutionary way to create robust, full-featured graphical applications in Java, with striking features such as zooming and multiple representation. Piccolo is a well-tested and extensive toolkit based on the Java2D API.
QTads 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123599/
QTads is a graphical, non-HTML interpreter for Tads games. Both Tads 2 as well as Tads 3 games are supported. It uses Trolltech's Qt library, which means it's highly portable. It has some nice features, like fullscreen mode and text-justification. It uses Unicode for Tads 3 and supports HTML character entities in both Tads 2 and 3.
QtRadio 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123526/
QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.
rawdog 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123555/
rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. It uses Mark Pilgrim's RSS parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of RSS feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth usage.
Safari Bookmarks Extractor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123567/
Safari Bookmarks Extractor is a simple application (Cocoa + AppleScript) to convert all your Safari bookmarks (XML-PList) into a HTML links file.
Screen Sniper 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123553/
Screen Sniper is a graphical frontend to the import program, which takes screenshots under X. It's designed to provide an easy-to-use interface with features similar to the ScreenShooter GNOME panel applet, but without requiring a GNOME panel to run. This makes it ideal for users of Blackbox and other window managers.
SimpleData 3.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123564/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory, invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
SlackUpdate 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123595/
SlackUpdate is a bash script that can be used to check for, download, and install Slackware updates. It currently supports Slackware 8.1-9.0.
Songer 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123559/
Songer is an ID3 tagger designed for the ROX desktop that supports the drag-and-drop nature of ROX. It is designed to be a simple tagging utility. Songer currently only supports MP3s and ID3 version 1 tags. Future support of ID3v2 and OGG files is planned.
Swinging MLDonkey Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123299/
Swinging MLDonkey is a Java GUI for MLDonkey based on java.swing.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123568/
Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional programming constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces, error handling, script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk provides portable GUIs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful widget set and the concise scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze to develop sophisticated user interfaces.
TclCurl 0.10.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123604/
TclCurl provides a binding for libcurl. It makes it possible to download and upload files using protocols like FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP, telnet, dict, gopher, and file.
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123453/
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health (TORCH) is an electronic health record application. It features a Web-based user interface and can scale from a laptop used by a single physician all the way up to geographically separated multi-site clinics.
Tuxman 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123534/
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.
UNH-iSCSI 1.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123437/
The UNH-iSCSI project consists of vendor-independent reference implementations of both a software initiator and a software target emulator for the latest draft (20) of the new IETF protocol for Storage Area Networks (SANs) called iSCSI. The initiator and target are implemented as independently loadable modules for the Linux kernel, versions 2.4.18 or later. The software performs extensive checking for conformance to the standard during operation. It supports almost all components of the iSCSI standard, and development is underway to provide support for the remaining components. Although these modules have been developed and tested together, they operate independently of one another, and do not have to be used together. That is, the unh-iscsi initiator is capable of connecting with a target from any vendor, and the unh-iscsi target is capable of accepting connections from any vendor's initiator.
uSTL 0.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123592/
uSTL is a partial implementation of the Standard Template Library which reduces code size by factoring memory management code into a non-template base class and deriving containers from it.
Voruta Beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123569/
Voruta reduces JDBC code in application, and makes code more readable and safe. SQL procedures and queries are mapped to Java methods using custom JavaDoc tags and dynamic code generation at runtime. It needs no custom build tools or external files to store metadata.
X-ChaMan 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123577/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
Yellow dog Updater, Modified 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123500/
Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for RPM systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of mac