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[osdn business] May 26, 2003
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Slashdot
Delays and Problems for India's New CDMA Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/005203
[0]securitas writes "The [1]NY Times and [2]Bloomberg are reporting
that Qualcomm is touting an expected [1]6 million Indian subscribers
using CDMA by year end. But the [2]facts seem to fly in the face of
that with [3]Reliance experiencing technical problems and delays with
the [4]launch of India's first CDMA network, covered on Slashdot late
last year. Part of the problem is that the GSM operators won't allow
Reliance's traffic on their networks, not to mention a court challenge
and no approval by regulators. Is this just a hopeful diversion from
the [5]loss of the Iraq contract, where MCI chose GSM? How does a
country where the per capita annual income is $390-$420 (depending on
whose number you use) expect people other than the elite to afford
mobile phone service, even if the handsets and service charges are
heavily subsidized? Forbes discussed the [6]problem of affordable
mobile phone service in Africa where incomes are similar. Is this
another wireless/fibre optic bubble akin to the one we saw a few years
ago?"
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/business/worldbusiness/24QUAL.html
2.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=an5CNJmNrUu8
3.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/05/07/rtr963205.html
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/1710246&tid=100
5.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2318237&tid=167
6.
http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0429/048_print.htmlNon-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/007253
[0]Skapare writes "WashTech is running a story about how having a
non-compete agreement could cause [1]loss of unemployment benefits.
While non-compete agreements are addressed in unemployment benefits
policies, it seems you still get shafted because it forces you to
accept any employment outside your field, making it much harder to find
work in your field. Personally, I think the employers with whom you
have a non-compete agreement should be the ones paying you unemployment
benefits."
Links
Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2327219
Makarand writes "Thanks to the availability of low cost high quality
inkjet printers, crooks are now able to [0]produce currency
indistinguishable from the real banknotes, at least under dim lighting
conditions like that in a bar or a nightclub. The term "digifeiters" is
being coined for counterfeiters that use cheap high-resolution printers
to produce fake currency. Unlike costly color xerographic copiers that
come inbuilt with features to detect security details on banknotes and
stop currency copying, no cheap printers come with such feature. An
anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer
driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating
currencies of several countries." I wonder what GimpPrint would think
of being forced to print or not print certain documents based on their
contents.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993753
Microsoft Talks Handhelds, Xbox Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1811241
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Canada.com [0]interview
with Xbox head honcho Robbie Bach, which shoots him some wide-ranging
and perceptive questions about Microsoft's console strategy.
Interesting answers include whether Microsoft wants to get into the
handheld console market ("It’s like starting a new business..we will
focus on making the current Xbox successful."), and their views of
Linux for Xbox ("..the numbers are not really that big. It’s not a
commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we
always pursue those.")
Links
0. http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=E64352A8-112C-4F35-824B-041C7936C375
Getting Started in Network Security?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2212241
[0]pixelgeek asks: "Security has not only become an important topic but
also a critical issue for admins and even the average user in their
home. To someone new to the topic the wealth of material can be a bit
daunting and, you can imagine, a little confusing. Does anyone have any
suggestions on where to start getting a handle on the concept of
network/computer security and what are the most important and useful
applications (CLI primarily) that a person should examine and learn?"
We've touched on [1]these issues before, but it was a while ago. Taking
a [2]network security class, could help, but which classes are really
worth the money and might there be enough information on the web to
make such a choice, unnecessary?
Links
0. mailto:pixelgeek@mac.com
1.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/27/0240238&tid=95
2.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/05/2357235&tid=146U.S. Government To Get Cybersecurity Chief http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/219226
cmason32 writes "The Bush administration is going to create a new
[0]Cybersecurity Chief position in the Homeland Security Department.
The move is supposed to demonstrate the government's dedication to
cracking down on hackers and 'cyberterror.' One of the responsibities
of the position is to 'secure cyberspace.' However, critics are already
noting the position is not likely to be effective."
Links
0. http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/05/25/cybersecurity/index.html
When Bad Software Can Kill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1957205
bhoman writes "A wrist computer that tracks and calculates safe diving times and limits for SCUBA divers had a dangerous software bug that may have been covered up by company executives. This [0]SF Chronicle Article details the problem, product, company, and some of the lawsuits. According to the Chron article, company execs tried to cover up and deny the problem for years, but their [1] official website makes it look like they did a voluntary recall." Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/25/MN309974.DTL
Do You Know UNIX Secrets?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1919228
[0]ESR writes "You can help stop the SCO attack on IBM and the Linux
community. I'm looking for ways to prove that Unix trade secrets have
been legally nullified. I want to know if you have ever had read access
to proprietary Unix source code (not just binaries and documentation)
under circumstances where either no non-disclosure agreement was
required or whatever non-disclosure agreement you had was not enforced.
To help out, see my [1]No Secrets page."
Links
0. mailto:esr@thyrsus.com
Spring Cleaning For Your Hard Drive
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1611208
[0]Shutup Now writes "Spring cleaning for your hardrive. This article
talks about some[1] extremes for keeping your computer running well.
You decide whether this stuff is necessary." More than once a year is a
good idea, too.
Links
0. mailto:Mekerryh6@hotmail.com
Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1446214
[0]securitas writes "The NYT discusses [1]The Matrix as a reflection of
American society, the 'war on terror', political allegory and the
impact of The Matrix on contemporary philosophy. [2]NPR provides
streaming audio conversations with Matrix thinkers, including Jake
Horsley, author of 'Matrix Warrior: Being the One'; Prof. Frances
Flannery Dailey on violence in the Matrix; and Prof. Greg Garrett,
co-author of 'The Gospels Reloaded' and why he doesn't like the kind of
hero that Neo has become. Finally, the CSM follows up its [3]The Gospel
According to Neo with an [4]online chat transcript with Josh Burek, the
author of the essay." As if that's not enough Matrix Philosophy,
[5]Here's more and [6]Still more. And just a warning, clicking on any
of those links might spoil the movie for you.
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/arts/24MATR.html
2.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1264976
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/1634257&tid=200
4.
http://www.csmonitor.com/monitortalk/events/transcripts/051303chat_burek.html
5.
http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/051803matrix.htm
6.
http://www.jayroe.com/index.php?section=happenings&view=article&id=66
Newsforge Reports
Happy Memorial Day
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/0247252
May 26 is the U.S, Memorial Day holiday. All we're doing today is posting a few NewsVac items. We'll be back tomorrow, May 27, with our usual fare. See you then!
You can help stop the SCO-vs.-IBM lawsuit http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1240238
- by Eric S. Raymond - You can help stop the SCO attack on IBM and the Linux community. I'm looking for ways that Unix trade secrets may have been legally nullified.
The worst-case scenario
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/1529217
- by Mark McGrew - Three years ago, I warned of an attempt by Big Software Companies to insinuate their control into your life, using your computer as their "foot in the door." Well, a lot has changed. Of the three players I named (IBM, AT&T, and Microsoft) only one remains a credible threat to Linux users: Microsoft, with SCO as its lackey.
Newsforge Newsvac
Oregon is still a soft touch for Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/0054246
I don't blame Microsoft for trying to maintain its stranglehold. And I can understand why the bureaucrats have been slow to consider the alternatives in the face of Microsoft's mammoth marketing department.
Pricing of personal computers: [Linux] lessons for India http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/128218
NZheretic writes "From Anand Parthasarathy,Bangalore May 24. "Everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it" — American humorist Mark Twain's wry comment about the weather might well apply to decade-long efforts in this country and elsewhere to deliver a truly `People's PC'. Finally, Thailand has done it — and as surging crowds in Bangkok queuing to book the government-sponsored personal computers proved — a key inflection point in ...
Current State of Linux and Java
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/128233
Anonymous Coward writes "Slashdot's Krow has written up his recent experiences with the main Linux JVM's in his blog. He talks about his experience with trying to find a Java JVM to embed in an application. If his conclusions are accurate then the state of Java for Linux is quite poor at this time."
The action-class lawsuit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/2355253
Anonymous Reader writes "The legal profession is adept at suing in behalf of huge numbers of people, all at once. The question facing the SCO Group, writes Dennis E. Powell in The view from the desktop, is: How does one plaintiff sue millions of defendants all at once?"
IDC: Servers to make mild recovery
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/1628251
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Server sales are expected to return to modest growth by 2004 because of wider use of Linux and Windows, but the increase won't be enough to carry the bruised market to the level of its glory years of early 2000, IDC research shows.
Why don't you and he fight?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/1624207
Dave B writes "What are SCO trying to accomplish with their very public attacks on IBM, Linux and corporate america? Bob Cringely doesn't know, it makes no kind of sense, but he thinks it's a question someone should be asking Microsoft."
SCO Strategy now clear
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/1621257
Agent Orange writes "Thanks to the good folks at Linux Voodoo, I now have a much clearer perspective of the arguments that SCO intends to use in its legal manuevering. The arguments are clear - but they are flawed. What SCO intends to claim is copyright and ownership of some sort of "code slippage" wherein a possible SCO (or Caldera?) employee may have distributed code under the GPL that they did not have the right to distribute."
Meet Kast
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/1620237
Anonymous Reader writes "With the arrival of Kast, described by its creator, Jason Rohrer, as the first konspire2b-based app, "powerful organizations lost the advantage that they had been holding onto for hundreds of years" and for the first time, people can distribute, "high-quality content to a massive audience without expending large amounts of time, money, or other resources"."
Michael Tiemann on the new W3C patent policy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/1618229
Jeremy Hogan writes: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published its long-awaited Patent Policy. This ground-breaking policy delivers two immediate benefits:
Microsoft vs. Linux Takes a Weird Turn http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/23/1431240
Gates & Co. are paying a licensing fee for SCO's Unix technology -- and some techies see a plot to derail the rival operating system.
Freshmeat
ayttm 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123977/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
BBclone 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123925/
BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids which displays individual logs as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats, except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date, referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist.
BSDmsn 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123958/
BSDmsn is a BSD-themed skin for the MSN client amsn.
Columba 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123924/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.
di 3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123943/
di is a disk information utility, displaying everything that df does and more. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be highly portable across many platforms.
DivX Calc 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123929/
DivX Calc is a simple DivX calculator for Linux. It uses a simple Qt interface which calculates which bitrate to use while encoding a movie using DivX ;-).
dov4l 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123922/
dov4l allows you to query the capabilities of a video4linux device. You can also set several parameters, like tuning frequency and such. It is a command-line program that is especially meant for setting up a video4linux-device before it is used with a webcam or a teletext-grabber.
e-dervish 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123858/
e-dervish is an Enlightenment port of fvwm-dervish by Bas Leerintveld.
EXACT 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123954/
EXACT is a program that implements POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication. EXACT supports the University of Washington IMAP server, the Courier POP and IMAP servers, the Cyrus IMAP server, the Perdition IMAP proxy, EXIM, and Sendmail. POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication is commonly used on systems that provide both IMAP or POP services and SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server.
Fast IRC Stats Generator 0.3.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123906/
Fast IRC Stats Generator (FISG) creates HTML pages with statistics about IRC logs. It has less features than some alternatives, but is much faster and can be run on low-end systems. It supports Irssi and Eggdrop log files.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.15.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123915/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
Gambas 0.57 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123936/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Gammu 0.76 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123960/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 6800, 71xx, 7210, 82xx, 83xx, 8910, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
Genmake 2003_05_25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123907/
Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.).
GNOME Crontab Editor 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123935/
The GNOME Crontab Editor is a graphical interface to the crontab program. You can use it to create, delete, and edit scheduled tasks using a simple point-and-click interface.
guinstaller 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123978/
guinstaller simplifies the process of installing Linux source code. All you need to do is to download the gzipped program that you wish to install and then run guinstaller and open the file. After some configuration (where to put the files, etc.) the program is compiled and installed.
HelpmeICT 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123930/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
iLeech 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123962/
iLeech is a Mac OS X application that will connect to an iTunes 4.0 Share, list its database, and allow you to download copies of any desired music (as opposed to iTunes 4.0 builtin support, which only allows streaming of the music).
IMAPFilter 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123920/
IMAPFilter connects to remote IMAP mail servers and processes messages according to defined filters (rules). It is intended to be executed before a user accesses his/her mailboxes.
ishzilla 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123948/
ishzilla is a Web browser written in C using GTK+-2.0 (no GNOME) and Gecko, the rendering engine from Mozilla. It is designed to fill the niche that Skipstone once filled. It tries, as Skipstone did, "to be light and fast with few dependencies."
Issue Manager 0.8.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123926/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
Jabberwocky 2.0.04 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123940/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
JaxMe 1.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123934/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).
Linux-One-Stanza-Tips 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123911/
LOST is a project born to enable passive dissemination of Linux-related information through email signatures and other media. It is comprised of a set of hints and tips snippets collated from personal contributions, and a set of bash scripts to interface these snippets into email as signatures, and to manipulate the signature databases. Signature rotation scripts (rotator and gen-sig) presently support LOST sigs, sigs from an alternate signature set, PGP/GNUPG ASCII-armor sigs, a reserved sig, or nil sig placement.
linuxTheTools 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123949/
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day management and system navigation. It is a companion package to slakbootIBS.
Luola 1.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123910/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
Mamory 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123918/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
modplug-xmms 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123971/
Modplug-XMMS is a fully featured, complete input plugin for XMMS which plays MOD-like music formats. It is based on the mod rendering code from ModPlug, a popular Windows MOD player.
Molecule Man 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123913/
Molecule Man is a port of a 3D isometric maze game for the ZX Spectrum that was released in 1986.
New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123905/
The New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper is a GUI tool used to create Java source code files which map to a JDBC reachable database table. The tool not only produces Java bean pattern representations of database tables, it also inserts Javadoc comments automatically.
OZradio 0.9.5.2a beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123914/
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.
PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123921/
PHProjekt Backup Addon is an addon for PHProjekt to backup the MySQL database of PHProjekt, including the upload directory. It also contains a backup management feature to restore, view, download, and do other things with backups. It's available in different languages.
Poco 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123937/
Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.
Project: Anvil 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123972/
Project: Anvil is a C++ Library to provide access to Quicken QIF4 format text files. These files can be exported from Quicken and also downloaded from many banks online services. An Slang interface provides for scripting control.
PyTraffic 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123944/
PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour created by Binary Arts Coporation. The goal is to remove the red car out of the grid through the slot on the right. To do this you have to slide the other cars out of the way. PyTraffic comes with about 19,000 puzzles ranging from intermediate to expert, and has an extremely smart hint facility which is able to find the best move in every position.
SlackCheck 2.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123942/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
Sound Juicer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123908/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files.
stress 0.17 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123973/
stress is a tool to impose certain types of stress on a POSIX system, including CPU load, I/O subsystem load, RAM load, and HDD load. It runs on x86, PPC64, PPC32 GNU/Linux; Tru64; SPARC Solaris, and more.
Tclog 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123909/
Tclog is a desktop Weblog application written in Tcl/Tk. Unlike most Weblog tools, it does not require server-side scripts. Instead, it uploads entries via FTP. It features RSS 1.0, HTML templates, TrackBack, Wiki-like formatting rules, indexes for the Namazu search engine, and more.
ThizOffice 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123904/
The ThizOffice Suite is a full featured, all-in-one office suite that is based on the OpenOffice Suite. It is specially designed for users in the Greater China Region, supporting Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters.
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123928/
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.
Vamos Automotive Simulator 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123961/
Vamos is an automotive simulation framework with an emphasis on thorough physical modeling and good C++ design. A real-time, first-person, 3D driving application is included.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.15 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123939/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Veejay 0.3.3rc7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123969/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.33 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123959/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
Video server 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123953/
Video server is a streaming video server which feeds a Java applet/application for display. The updates are rather slow, somewhere in the 2 frames/second range on a PIII. The server is written in C and bigloo. The client is written in Java.
Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123927/
Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables application developers to automate the design and development of infrastructure components for complex distributed cross-platform, cross-language systems applications. You can define messages and generate infrastructure support code for the IBM MQ information bus, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other JDBC compliant databases, XML with transformations that use tools like XSL, and J2EE. It also includes a fully functional Business Rules engine, along with a graphical programming environment.
Whamb 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123916/
Whamb is a light-weight digital audio player that uses native features of Mac OS X. It is designed to ensure quality and exceptional fidelity with minimal consumption of processor resources by using CoreAudio. It features skins and supports audio CDs, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 and Ogg streams.
WindowLab 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123966/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
Wordlog 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123946/
Wordlog is a Weblog written in PHP and backed by MySQL. Its interface is entirely ASCII-based and standards compliant. Features include on-the-fly page editing, multiple users, administration access, comment threading, URL parsing, and an easily customizable interface.
XLinden 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123938/
XLinden is an LSystem parser for Linux. It is able to work interactively with stochastic, parametric, parameter-sensitive 3D LSystems. It produces nice OpenGL and Povray images.
Xmud 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123923/
Xmud is a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) client written. Xmud is one of the most advanced MUD clients for Mac OS X today. Xmud provides many useful features which are not yet supported by other MUD clients.
Zoinks 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123932/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
ZorbIPtraffic 0.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123919/
ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time. It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network, and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month, and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day. ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables.
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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
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Electronics: FujiFilm FinePix A303 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5f63/
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