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[osdn business] May 28, 2003
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0426219
[0]Ryan Barrett writes "Sprint announced that it has 'begun
transforming its telephone network so voice calls are transmitted in
packets.' [1]AP article here. Combined with a recent /. story about
[2]Telus doing the same thing, this sets an interesting precedent. Many
telcos already use packet-switching to handle a significant chunk of
their calls. Is this the beginning of the end for circuit-switched
networks?"
Links
0.
http://ryan.barrett.name/
1.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20030527/D7R9PM7G0.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1123232&tid=126Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0132248
[0]JoeRobe writes "Researchers at UCSC have [1]simulated a possible
outcome of an impact by asteroid 1950DA when it passes near us in the
year 2880. Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that
encounter. In the event that it impacts in the Atlantic, they predict
that the '60,000 megaton blast' would create 400 foot waves along the
east coast. In addition to an assessment of the danger, their studies
point out the resulting geologic features that we should be looking for
now, which would indicate where and when such impacts have occured in
the past."
Links
0. mailto:joerobe@hotmail.com
Phoenix Unveils Anti-Theft BIOS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2356204
linuxwrangler writes "According to articles at [0]PC World, [1]c|net,
[2]Internet Week and [3]elsewhere, Phoenix Technology is introducing a
new BIOS-based anti-theft system. Every time a TheftGuard equipped
machine connects to the internet it pings a server at Phoenix which can
instruct the machine to wipe its hard drive, report its location or
disable itself. Given that most people don't want to have their every
movement tracked and don't want someone else to have the power to wipe
their drives, Phoenix figures that corporate clients are the prime
customer. I just wonder who is liable when a company sells a surplus
laptop on eBay but gets their inventory control screwed up and reports
it as stolen..."
Links
0.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110883,00.asp
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-1009807.html
2.
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100307
3.
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=&q=TheftGuard+Phoenix&btnG=Search+News
MS Tweaks Ill-Received Licensing Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2327258
ahooton writes "[0]C|Net is [1] reporting that [2]Microsoft has updated it's [3] Software Assurance licensing program. The company has admitted that it's initial approach angered a large number of customers. No huge difference in pricing or terms -- changes are comprised of bundling some training and support. The one interesting concession is that corporate licensees of Microsoft Office can now use that suite on a home computer as well." What a concession. ([4]Paddo points to this similar [5]article on Australian IT via [6]News.com.au.) Links
0.
http://www.cnet.com/
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1010162.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/Default.asp
4. mailto:slash@1fdr.cjb.net
5.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6502118%255E15306,00html
6.
http://www.news.com.au/The Anti-Spam Research Group's Plan for Spam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2122207
egoff writes "Speaking of [0]standards, the [1]ASRG, a member of the
[2]IETF, has a plan for "consent-based communications." Among the
suggestions, according to [3]Internet Week, are authentication services
for falsified addresses, trusted senders, reputation systems (karma?),
opt-out tools, best practices for challenge/response, and even a
proposal for micropayments on unwanted mail. Instead of defining spam,
the ASRG wants to provide administrators and users the tools necessary
to avoid what they consider to be unwanted. One of the tools,
[4]Reverse MX, is expected to be in place in several months. It would
allow the receiving mail server to query a domain to determine if the
sending server is allowed to send on its behalf."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1422200&tid=126
1.
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/
2.
http://www.irtf.org/
3.
http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100236
4.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-01.txtUnderground DC Developers Strike Back: Feet of Fury http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2236229
[0]frohike writes "After reading the recent [1]article about game
non-originality, I'm pleased to say that there's another entry to the
Dreamcast's innovative game lineup, and this time it isn't coming from
one of the Big Publishers but the underground: [2]Feet of Fury! This
independent music beat game includes player vs player gameplay and a
Typing of Fury mode. It was developed by [0]us on a $0 budget using
Linux, Gimp, and various other free tools over the past few years, and
it uses the BSD-licensed [3]KallistiOS toolkit as its base. (This is
the same toolkit which most homebrew developers have written the
emulators and such with.) We've used a number of neat free software
technologies such as [4]Ogg Vorbis in the game itself, and we
contribute a large chunk of our code back to the community in the hopes
that others can follow in our footsteps. There is even a [5]publisher
ready to help you get your ideas to fruition and sell them for you, so
what are you waiting for? Now's your chance to be a console developer
too. Let's make some great new innovative Dreamcast games!"
Links
0.
http://www.cagames.com/
1.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1758210&tid=127
2.
http://www.feetoffury.com/
3.
http://gamedev.allusion.net/
4.
http://www.xiph.org/
5.
http://www.goatstore.com/
DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2149249
Rob writes "Ok, so I've finally gotten my TiVo configured to let me extract and archive video, now I'm wondering what is my best solution? I currently have a CDR that I've been able to use to save both VCD and SVCD. Unfortunately I have a very old DVD player that will only play VCD's. So I decided that it's time to look at recording to DVD, but what is the right answer? Has any format won? I just got back from Fry's and I could get either -R/-RW or +R/+RW and there were even drives that did all of the formats. This is all well and good, since I'll have to buy a new DVD player to play any of them, but which format is most widely accepted? Even if I get a drive that will record in any format what do most DVD players accept? Sure I can make sure that my DVD player will play whatever format I produce but what about my parents and friends?"
Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2114240
[0]squiggleslash writes "Apple has issued an update to iTunes 4, iTunes
4.0.1. It can be downloaded via Software Update. The big change seems
to be that iTunes will now only stream music to other Macs on the same
subnet. This is presumably a response to people publishing public lists
of shared iTunes playlists, though it does mean that anyone wanting to
stream music from home to work or vice versa is SOL. Oh well." You
can't share between 4.0 and 4.0.1 iTunes, so be careful in updating.
AppleScript access to shared playlist tracks is fixed, though. Woop
woop.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~squiggleslash/
Buying Computing by the Computon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1952209
[0]theodp writes "Seeking to emulate the pricing models utilities use
to charge customers for kilowatt-hours of electricity based on the ebb
and flow of power demand, HP Researchers have come up with a new
unit-of-computing metric, [1]the Computon, which is not to be confused
with the 'Power Unit' and 'Service Unit' pricing metrics from Sun and
IBM. [2]California, here we come!"
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,81522,00.html?nas=AM-81522
2.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/power.crisis/backgrounder.html
AirTraf 802.11b Security Package
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/188204
An anonymous reader writes "Being ignorant of network vulnerabilities is [0]a happy condition for only so long. Ignorance is bliss, right up until someone with rogue access drives away with your company secrets. This article covers information about AirTraf, an open source package, which performs a number of tasks, such as determining the Service Set Identifier of the access points, and the channel it is operating under. It can tell how many wireless nodes are connected to a given access point, as well as that point's total load. AirTraf is capable, too, of polling a number of sniffers through a central polling server in order to collect the most current information. The least of your fears should be the leeching of your Internet connectivity. Industrial espionage is a growing reality that you must confront." Links
0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-airtraf/?ca=dgr-lnxw01AirTraf
Newsforge Reports
Replacing MS Exchange with Bynari
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/126249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company's Web site says, "Bynari makes a Linux email server and components that connects to Outlook clients using our own unique middleware called the Connector. The current products are the Insight Family of messaging services consisting of Linux based Mail Server, InsightConnector, and the LDAP Client. Bynari utilizes an open standards model for its mail and messaging server and supports, not only the Intel ...
Setting up SuSE for wireless networking
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1520202
- by Lee Schlesinger - I was excited to set up my brand-spanking-new copy of SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 on a machine I'm planning to use for testing and review. Everything went smoothly except for installation of the Orinoco Silver PC Card network adapter. Several hours and unsuccessful tacks later, I can claim victory, and maybe save you time if you tackle the same task.
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!
Newsforge Newsvac
Grid computing Video
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/193202
Anonymous Reader writes "Are you still wondering what Grid computing is all about? I triple assure you that this Grid computing video will help you. Learn more about the Butterfly Gaming Grid and other real-life Grids."
The first OpenJay.org result: Jay'O'Rama http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1754242
Anonymous Reader writes "See the first public release of a new Open DJ oriented application: Jay'O'Rama. At the actual state it is a particular player of ogg and mp3 formats, but the main goal is to become a useful and powerful mixing DJ tool. See more at the homepage: http://www.openjay.org/jayorama/."
Apple's Web Browser Operating System?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1753215
Eric Peterson writes "Is Apple following the same OS in a browser business model that Netscape built but never executed? Apple has the OS (OS X), the Browser (Safari), Power 4/5 970/980 (eventually) and iTunes: (the necessary Windows software to bundle the browser with)."
What if SCO wins?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1433236
The SCO suit isn't the first legal challenge of an open source product by supposed owners of intellectual property used therein, but it is arguably the most important one. Linux is rapidly becoming the center of the Unix programming domain, and the number of companies adopting Linux and/or developing products for the platform grows by the day. Billions of dollars are at stake, as an entire industry has arisen around an operating system that ...
India urged to take 'Open source' road http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1733244
In an ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software, experts of open source software today said India must move towards adopting open source as it is affordable.
HP's Linux Laptops Prove Popular
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1631204
NZheretic writes "Demand for the low-cost PCs, available in Thailand, is overwhelming."
Servers to show modest growth
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1651255
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.
Remote tool runs Mac and Linux clients http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1618212
Management tool vendor Vector Networks last week announced a new version of its remote-control module to support Linux and Macintosh clients as well as Windows. The move means that administrators can now manage a wider range of desktop clients from a single console.
Is Global Linux IBM's Holy Grail?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1558236
IBM is not the only company investing heavily in Linux' future, but Bill Claybrook, research director at Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times that it may be the one to beat before too long.
ESR seeks information on nullifying of Unix trade secrets http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1530222
Well-known open source advocate Eric S. Raymond has set up a web page to seek information about how Unix trade secrets have been legally nullified.
Freshmeat
AdvanceMAME 0.69.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124161/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.
alogg 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124117/
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.
AmigaSHELL 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124200/
AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray-on-black colored bash shell look like the Amiga(tm) command-line interface. It features blue, white, orange, and black colors and a nice informational bar at the top.
Angelistic 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124136/
Angelistic is a light theme that uses the Mist engine.
Ansel 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124105/
Ansel is a picture gallery for web sites. It is a high quality, information-rich photo gallery, designed to handle large numbers of images and albums. It stores all its images in a database, making it both fast and flexible. Ansel is similar in spirit to Shutterfly and Yahoo pictures, but does not place restrictions on image size.
avidemux 2.0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124175/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Axios 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124141/
Axios is a port of the theme of the same name to Enlightenment. It was originally created by Gear and Allout.
bash programmable completion 20030527 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124106/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
bidwatcher 1.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124095/
Bidwatcher is for eBay users. It tracks your current bids and listings, and has an integrated snipe tool. You can run bidwatcher in the background and it periodically checks your auctions status, and executes any bids that are scheduled.
BoPHP 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124157/
BoPHP is a Web interface for bossogg that uses PHP and its built-in XML parser.
Calendrian 0.23.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124163/
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.
Code striker 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124129/
Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can view the proposed diff in colored-diff mode, and can also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS or Subversion. Comments are made on a per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety of ways.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124167/
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON, HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.
Compiere 2.4.4c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124102/
Compiere is the Open Source ERP & CRM solution with first tier functionality for the small-medium enterprise. Designed for the global marketplace, Compiere is easy to install and implement. In contrast to other solutions, you will be able to enter invoices after about 4 hours, without functionality compromises or irreversible implementation time decisions.
conspy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124104/
Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and to send keystrokes to it. It only known to work with Linux. It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI, conspy takes control of a text-mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, conspy does not require a server to be installed prior to being used.
CRM114 Discriminator 2003-05-27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124178/
CRM114 is a Controllable Regex Mutilator and Smart Filter, designed for easy creation of filters for things like incoming email redirection, spam filtering, system logs, or monitoring processes. Filtering rules can be either hard-coded (such as regexes), soft-coded (calculated at runtime or read from an external file or process), or learned dynamically by phrase matching (by SBPH hashing). This makes it possible to create very accurate filters with very little actual work. Accuracies over 99.9% are achievable.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124185/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of encryption.
Crystal Mud Client 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124131/
Crystal is an adequate MUD client. At first glance it looks like telnet, but has full line editing and scrollback, character set conversion support, Unicode support, prompt grabbing, xterm titlebar setting, and windowsize negotiation. It even supports MCCP (compression) and telnet-over-SSL. It's got support for a decent subset of ANSI, and properly ignores things it doesn't recognize.
cvsplot 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124123/
Cvsplot is a Perl script which analyzes the history of a CVS-managed project. The script executes on a set of files, analyzes their history, and automatically generates graphs that plot lines of code, number of files, and user contributions against time. It supports both UNIX and Windows environments.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124205/
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.
DBMonster 0.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124191/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and testing the application performance under heavy database load. DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to use.
denature 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124166/
denature uses several Perl modules and the fop utility to convert an HTML file to PDF. It has the beginnings of CSS support, and handles several HTML tags.
distcc 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124116/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
feh 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124145/
feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using truetype fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mousewheel/keyboard control.
Firewall Builder 1.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124159/
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and OpenBSD pf.
FUDforum 2.5.0RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124134/
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.
gEDA 20030525
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124094/
gEDA is a GPLed toolset to aid electronic design. Currently it consists of a schematic capture program, a netlist generator, a symbol checker, and a bunch of utilities. The initial goals are to satisfy the electronic hobbyist needs, but the usefulness of gEDA does not have stop there. gEDA has the future potential to be used for serious EDA work.
GenChemLab 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124135/
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, freezing point depression, and spectrophotometry.
Geo::Weather 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124160/
Geo::Weather is a Perl module used to retrieve weather.com information based on city/state or US zip code.
Ghronos 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124103/
Ghronos is a gaming clock mostly intended for chess and go. Features include hard button control for that "real chess clock" feel, selectable timing styles including Fischer and delay timing for chess, Canadian and Japanese byo-yomi timing for go, a standard countdown style, "black moves first" and "white moves first" options, sequential and per-player move counting, optional sound, the ability to pause, an easy-to-read display (with big numbers), simple configuration, protection against accidental misconfiguration during game play, and persistent settings.
GNUstep 1.7.0 (LaunchPad)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124206/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc.
Hell World 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124130/
Hell World is a thrilling FPS adventure game which features excellent graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario. It is designed to be a port of the Windows-only version of Hell World.
host 20030527
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124181/
Host is a complete and powerful command-line based DNS query and testing tool. It has many of the same basic features as other similar tools such as nslookup and dig, but it has more extensive testing and test automation features. Host also has a much more standard (i.e. Unix-based) command-line user interface.
HTTPCapture 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124097/
HttpCapture is a core wrapper around the packet-capture library pcap and a framework for building plugins to filter, analyse, or display interesting network packets. The details of the packets and their contents are left to a collection of plugins to process, making it a simple matter to add a new decoding and display target.
iBackup 2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124197/
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system configurations. It is easy to extend it for your systems and adapt to your needs. It supports exclude lists, upload, and encryption of your backups. It also comes with a sysconf script to make a report about a system.
IBGS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124147/
IBGS is a game server for board games such as chess, go, checkers, and nine nens morris. Data about players and games are stored in an SQL database. Goals are extensible and maintainable, and the FICS protocol is supported for compatibility with frontends such as xboard.
iChatExporter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124190/
iChatExporter extends functionality in iChat so you can export any real-time or saved chat conversation into a text file. This is a feature of most modern AIM clients that is sorely missing in iChat.
Install-Sendmail 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124120/
Install-Sendmail will configure Sendmail and Fetchmail on your machine. This Perl script can be used to setup a mail server for a simple network or it can configure email on a dial up machine. All you need to know is your email address, login name and password and optionally, the IP addresses of your network.
IP Masquerade HOWTO 2.00.052603
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124107/
The IP Masquerade HOWTO is the document that contains instructions on understanding, configuring, and troubleshooting NAT or Network Address Translation for Linux. It covers topics such as IPTABLES, PORTFW, IPCHAINS, IPFWADM, stronger packet firewalls, multiple network segments, and configuring many client operating systems. It also has an extensive FAQ and troubleshooting section.
IP Sentinel 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124139/
IP Sentinel is a tool that tries to prevent unauthorized usage of IP addresses within an ethernet broadcast domain by answering ARP requests. After receiving faked replies, requesting parties store the MAC in their ARP tables and will send future packets to this invalid MAC, rendering the IP unreachable.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124126/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
JTetrisPlugin 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124148/
JTetrisPlugin is a Tetris plugin for the Eclipse IDE, similar to the Tetris Plugin for XEmacs.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124207/
Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling, auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.70_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124151/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
kggs 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124158/
kggs is a KDE interface for playing reversi. It is designed to play online, on the GGS (Generic Game Server), the server for Othello, Amazons, Checkers, Go, Hex, Chess, Dots+Boxes, Domineering, and Ataxx. It implements chat and Othello. It will be a alternative for lion (the Windows client) and GGSA (the Java interface). The program has been designed to be easy and intuitive to use, and other games should also be easy to implement.
KmusicdB 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124143/
KmusicdB is a music information manager for KDE, using PostgreSQL as a backend. You can add your music collection to the database, and view it in a convenient browser. It currently supports the ability to add and edit artists, add and edit titles (with album pictures), and a track editor. The ability to generate reports and statistics, and also to search the database is implemented, as well as creating and opening, backing up and restoring databases. It is highly customizable, and fast. CDDB functionality has also been implemented.
Kraken 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124092/
Kraken is a small Python application for managing documents, Web pages, and directories. It also allows users to annotate these files with metadat, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to present the result of these queries in the form of HTML pages. The format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily parsed by third party applications.
KRconLinux 0.1RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124090/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and changing server variables.
lamprop 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124195/
lamprop calculates some properties of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. It calculates engineering properties like Ex, Ey, Gxy, thermal properties CTE_x and CTE_y, physical properties like density and laminate thickness, and stiffness and compliance matrices.
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.6.4 (Linux-2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124101/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts, C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
M.E.S.H. 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124111/
MESH (Measuring Error between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance) is a tool that measures distortion between two discrete surfaces (triangular meshes). It uses the Hausdorff distance to compute a maximum, mean, and root-mean-square errors between two given surfaces. Besides providing figures, MESH can also display the error values on the surface itself through a GUI (Qt-based).
man-pages-ja 20030525
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124132/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
maxcpu 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124060/
maxcpu is a Perl script that executes a queue of command lines read from STDIN on as many available CPUs as possible.
Media Mate 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124210/
Media Mate is a modular, personal media library for the Web. It supports user logins with different permissions, CSS themes, and translations. The included Movies Module allows you to store information on your movies and track who's borrowed them. It has automatic entry using the Internet Movie Database, movie reservations, and overdue notifications.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124189/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL.
motion 3.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124194/
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
msulogin 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124100/
msulogin is the single-user mode login program used to force the console user to login under a root account before a shell is started. Unlike other implementations of sulogin, this one supports having multiple root accounts on a system. msulogin has been developed as a part of Openwall GNU/*/Linux and is being made available separately primarily for use by other distributions. Currently, msulogin supports only systems with getspnam(3).
Muttprint 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124179/
Muttprint formats the printing of Mutt and other mail clients like XFMail or PINE to be like the printing of Netscape Messenger. It can print a little penguin on the first page and a headline on every page.
mysqlSendmail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124152/
mysqlSendmail is software for automated Sendmail management. It features virtusertable management for multiple domains, a built-in scoreboard signature-based anti-spam system, and full support for managing POP3 users and their quotas. It has tie-ins for both SMTP-after-POP and SMTP-after-AUTH (see mysqlRadius) via a modified Cistron 1.6.6 radiusd and qpopper 4.0.4. It is part of the mysqlISP suite of GPL ISP management tools. It can manage 1 or hundreds of sendmail servers, for up to thousands of domains. Third party template driven wrappers are also available for a complete ISP customer/product/service/billing solution.
netclasses 0.999
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124188/
Netclasses is an easy to use interface to socket programming in Objective-C with GNUstep. The core netclasses supports virtually any protocol, but the distribution comes with everything needed for TCP/IP (opening ports, background connections, etc.). Netclasses seamlessly integrates into NSRunLoop, which means there should be no need for redesigning applications to use it.
nwload 0.2d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124122/
nwload is a graphical traffic monitor that is similar to gkrellm and xisdnload, but offers additional operational parameters and display formatting options. It works with any networking device and supports a broad range of speed and sample rates.
OProfile 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124209/
OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance counters.
Petal 0.61.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124204/
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g. pulling system configurations from a change management system) from their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
phpFriendlyAdmin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124153/
phpFriendlyAdmin is a remote database management package made specifically for Web developers who want to ease an audience into the world of content management. It features support for 10 major databases (including MySQL), user management, and plugins for additional backend tasks.
phpMyCatalog 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124162/
phpMyCatalog is a program to catalog the contents of CDs, DVDs, or just directories on a hard drive automatically. It stores the data in a MySQL database, from which users can search for specific files or other contents to locate documents, music, programs, etc.
PHPRecipeBook 2.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124140/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar items so that duplication does not occur.
Picalo 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124203/
Picalo Fraud and Auditing Analysis Software is an open source application that helps fraud investigators and auditors search through data sets for anomalies, trends, and other information. It has much of the functionality of Audit Command Language (ACL) and IDEA. In many ways, Picalo goes one step beyond these packages because it includes trending and analysis routines and not just data manipulation routines.
Portable Coroutine Library 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124177/
This is a Portable Coroutine Library implementation written in ANSI C. Coroutines can be used to implement cooperative threading among many tasks without overloading the OS with threads/processes. Since context switch between coroutines is very fast, certain applications might have performance gain in using this type of threading.