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[osdn business] June 03, 2003
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0312249
An anonymous reader writes "Trepia has released an IM client that automatically populates itself with people who happen to be around you. Something that has been done before by Apple with iChat, but Trepia claims to be 'iChat on crack' in this [0]article featuring the software. This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..." Links
0. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/5987828.htm
Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0237230
[0]TonyStanco writes "Big news. DoD issued a policy statement leveling
the playing field for Open Source. We have the memo on the Center of
[1]Open Source & Government site." The requirements listed in this memo
make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring
your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and
stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider." See this PDF for more
information about [2]National Security Telecommunications and
Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP) number 11.
Links
0.
http://www.egovos.org
1.
http://www.egovos.org/
2.
http://niap.nist.gov/niap/library/nstissp_11.pdf
Jonathan Ive Named Designer of the Year
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0041202
no_demons writes "[0]Jonathan Ive, the man behind the [1]iMac and the
[2]iPod, has won the first [3]Designer of the Year award from the
[4]Design Museum in London. The Independent has the [5]scoop, and BBC2
has the documentary on Wednesday, June 11th."
Links
0.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1768724.stm
1.
http://www.apple.com/imac/
2.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/
3.
http://www.designmuseum.org/designeroftheyear/html/detect.html
4.
http://www.designmuseum.org/
5.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=411956
Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0046227
An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes (sign up for free subscription) is reporting about a person who wrote about a prior relationship with a former Miss Vermont. He was [0]ordered to remove any reference to the former Miss Vermont or the relationship by court order. This ruling has obvious implications for the First Amendment if allowed to stand. I wonder if I can get the same court order applied to my ex-girlfriends' websites." Read on to see what this has to do with Barbra Streisand. Links
0. http://nytimes.com/2003/06/02/national/02INTE.html
Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2347224
[0]user555 writes "The RIAA and MPAA have seen Palladium as a way to
prevent piracy. But this article argues that ironically Palladium
[1]may actually make P2P piracy more widespread (PDF). They argue that
the security features of Palladium could be used to create P2P networks
that are more resistant to attacks from content owners."
Links
0. mailto:drl7x@cs.virginia.edu
Archos Releases Portable Video/Image/MP3 Player http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2256202
[0]GregGardner writes "[1]Archos is about to release the [2]AV300
series, the next generation of portable video/image/MP3 player based
off of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia [3]discussed on Slashdot
previously. Features include a 3.8" LCD screen for viewing movies and
photos, FM tuner, MP3 playing and recording, 20GB or 40GB HD models,
USB2.0 (optional Firewire) connection, TV-out, MPEG-4 encoding from a
video/audio-in signal, digital photo (3.3 megapixel) and video camera,
and much more. Looks like some of the features require add-on modules.
I found a [4]brief review on SF Gate which states that the 20GB model
(AV320) will retail for $570."
Links
0.
http://bah.org/
1.
http://www.archos.com/
2.
http://www.archos.com/products/av300_series.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/235249&tid=100
4.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/02/BU204669.DTL&type=tech
North Korea's School For Hackers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/216245
Makoto writes "How do you launch a cyber-war with no IP infrastructure? South Korea [0]claims that North Korea is training about 100 "cybersoldiers" per year in electronic warfighting tools and techniques, including writing viruses and hacking. But according to a story at Wired News, North Korea can [1]barely keep its electrical grid up - not to mention feed its people. Even the Pentagon says North Korea's hacker academy is probably just propaganda by South Korea." Links
0. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5877291.htm
MIT Introductory EE Goes Hands-On
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2034234
[0]pioneer writes "MIT is looking to replace its introductory core EE
(electrical engineering) curriculum with more hands-on classes. MIT
Professors Abelson and Sussman discuss the [1]new class, which replaces
equations with actual circuit building, tours of electrical plants, and
classes taught by famous professors."
Links
0. http://web.mit.edu/droy/www
Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/203205
[0]Meshach writes "An article in the Globe and Mail is discussing a
[1]possible change to the way postal codes are assigned over the world.
NAC Geographic Products will be using Microsoft's [2]MapPoint to power
their Mobile Location-Based Services Network, which could change all
postal codes in the world to a simpler, more universal format."
Links
0. mailto:{ten.emohtfos} {ta} {rehtaewc}
1.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030602.gtmapjune2/BNStory/Technology/
2.
http://mappoint.msn.com/Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1841239
[0]mesozoic writes "News.com is reporting that Kazaa and Altnet are
unrolling a setup where [1]users are paid to distribute 'authorized
content.' The article also mentions something about getting rid of
unauthorized files, but is unclear on when and how. I'll be paying
close attention to whether this P2P business model pans out; Sharman
_has_ shown some shrewd business sense in the past."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~mesozoic
Newsforge Reports
Looking back at the E3 games expo
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/118256
- by James Hills - Each year I travel to E3 as a sort of pilgrimage, family reunion and business trip. For as long as I can remember, each year has brought bigger and better games and faster hardware to play them on. This year though, the environment was different. Video, sound and CPU hardware has reached a point where there is no clear direction to innovate, and existing technology is so advanced that programmers, designers and artists have ...
Answering newbies' "Which distro should I pick?" question http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1748204
- by Lee Schlesinger - Recently I asked for your help in putting together the ultimate guide for potential Linux users to advise them what distribution to use. Oh, what a fool I was. While you came through with plenty of advice, much of it quite passionately expressed, the task itself is a bit beyond the scope of a single article.
SCO-IBM Vs Timeline Inc-Microsoft : Better off with Linux http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1244201
NZheretic writes, "If you are concerned over the treat of lawsuits over intellectual property then you are actually in a better legal position using GPL'ed Linux than using Microsoft's products.
Newsforge Newsvac
IBM Shares Halted
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2220245
Shares of International Business Machines Corp. were halted on Monday in over-the-counter trading, pending news.
Prepare for the DB2(v8) DBA certification exam http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1939213
Anonymous Reader writes "This series of six free tutorials is designed to help you prepare for the DB2 Version 8 DBA (Exam 701) certification exam to attain the certification IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux and UNIX. These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam."
Sony Gets Good Feedback on Linux from Engineers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1637220
"Software assets can be shared more easily than was expected, and the kernel can be adapted and improved speedily. The response to our embedded Linux from engineers working on the ground has been mostly very encouraging," said Mario Tokoro, corporate executive vice president and Electronics co-CTO.
Analysts balk at SCO offer to review disputed Unix/Linux code http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/165240
Analysts are balking at The SCO Group's offer to view its proof that there is illegal Unix code in Linux, with one calling the move a publicity stunt. Meanwhile, Linux creator Linus Torvalds today said that he has no plans to look at the code and that the battle between SCO, IBM and Novell is on par with a rancorous episode of the Jerry Springer Show.
TCS to set up Linux lab in Delhi, ropes in IBM, CA http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1559252
Software major Tata Consultancy Services is planning to set up a centre of excellence Linux laboratory in its Delhi facility where it will showcase Linux-installed machines to demonstrate the capability of open source software.
Will Apple's Gore Goar Microsoft in 2004? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1450244
Eric Peterson writes "Microsoft made large campaign contributions to George W Bush and now the DOJ and MS are like old pals. Recent polls show the liberal public wants Gore, (now on Apple's Board of Directors) to be the Democratic nominee. Could Apple's political liaison be the key to finally getting justice served?"
First Look at YellowTAB's Zeta
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1452245
Anonymous Reader writes "Great news for the BeOS fans. After Be sold its IP to Palm, many said that the BeOS was no more, but a new startup company from Germany, YellowTAB, was able to get hold of Be's source code and form the future of the never-released BeOS 6 ('Dano'), under the name 'Zeta'. YellowTAB added a lot of new goodies to the OS and brought it up to speed. OSNews features the first ever preview of Zeta with a lot of good information, ...
The question is: Who stole what from whom? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1448248
Anonymous Reader writes "So what if the Linux kernel and what SCO claims is its property have code in common, asks Dennis E. Powell in The view from the desktop. It is possible, and in some ways more likely, that the code flowed from Linux to SCO as it is the other way around. And the only way of finding out is an examination to which SCO won't submit."
A first look at Ximian Desktop 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1420245
Joe Barr writes "My overall impression, beta or no, is Ximian has done an outstanding job on Ximian Desktop 2. Not just in bringing its desktop up to the latest version of GNOME and the latest releases of major distributions, but in the additions, tweaks, and tuning as well. I'm very happy to have a Ximian desktop again, and I hope I don't have to go a long time without it in the future. I don't want to start a flame war, but I pity the phools ...
Opinions about FLOSS from the Philippines http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1446251
oldjedi writes "At http://www.asiaosc.org, Sujita writes: We were honoured to be able to conduct a question and answer session with the Managing Director of K2 Interactive Inc., Philippines, Mr. Reuben J. Ravago, in which he gave his honest opinions on open source and it's future. Mr. Reuben represented The Philippines in the Asia Open Source Software Symposium 2003, held earlier this year. The full text is available at: ...
Freshmeat
AcidRip 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124680/
AcidRip is an automated frontend for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk::Perl for a graphical interface. It makes encoding a DVD just a one-button click!
ADP 0.4.0 PR1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124806/
ADP is a set of PHP classes that facilitates the generation of a
front-end to a database, based on HTML templates. Using a modular
system, ADP provides support for most HTML constructs. This way, the
need for custom programming is reduced to almost nothing. The user only
needs basic understanding of SQL and XML and to be able to work with
HTML. You can use a WYSIWYG editor to create the HTML templates.
Developers can write their own modules to extend the functionality of
ADP.
akpop3d 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124809/
akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its small size, it offers a lot of features. It is completely RFC 1939 compliant.
arch revision control system 1.0pre25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124726/
arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.
AutoGen 5.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124707/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 19.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124708/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple option description file, it will process configuration files, environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically.
Batik 1.5 Beta 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124704/
Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation, or manipulation. It gives developers a set of core modules (parsers, generators, DOM implementation) which can be used together or individually, and be highly extensible. It comes with a full-fledged SVG viewer.
Big Medium 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124747/
Big medium is an affordable, full-featured content management system that makes it easy to manage dynamic, fast-changing Web sites. The browser-based interface allows even the most non-technical staff to add, edit and publish Web content without needing to learn HTML. Big Medium empowers writers, editors, and business users to update Web sites directly, freeing Web professionals to be more productive and creative. It is written in Perl to run on Web servers running a UNIX operating system.
bind 8.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124760/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
Byline 0.4beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124786/
Byline is a command-line multi-protocol Weblog client. It manipulates the content of weblogs using XML-RPC interfaces, and can be used with your favorite text editor. It supports Blogger, Movable Type, and Nucleus, and should work with any other CMS that uses the Blogger or MetaWeblog API. It also features category and template editing (when supported by the CMS), drafts, support for multiple accounts, and can be used as a Python library.
CCured 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124717/
CCured is a source-to-source translator for C. It analyzes the C program to determine the smallest number of run-time checks that must be inserted in the program to prevent all memory safety violations. The resulting program is memory safe, meaning that it will stop rather than overrun a buffer or scribble over memory that it shouldn't touch. Many programs can be made memory-safe this way while losing only 10-60% run-time performance. CCured can find more bugs that Purify misses but with much less run-time cost.
cdrtools 2.01a15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124724/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Cookmenus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124689/
Cookmenus is a tool for generating menus from definition files. It curently supports Debian and freedesktop.org input formats, and GNOME and freedesktop.org output formats. It is fully Unicode-aware and supports menu entry translations encoded in UTF-8.
Cornice 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124743/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL.
CRM114 Discriminator 2003-06-01-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124763/
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.
Dark Commander 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124690/
Dark Commander is a Norton Commander clone that supports browse, copy, delete, rename, chmod, and viewing operations. It features a built-in image viewer that is capable of showing many popular image formats, and a small file editor. The view can be customized and files sorted in various ways.
Database Schema Designer 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124736/
Database Schema Designer creates/maintains schemas for databases stored in SQL servers. The schemas are stored in XML format. It supports the following database objects: tables, domains, views, triggers, procedures, and relations (links).
dcplusplusstats 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124815/
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.
DirectFB 0.9.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124794/
DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
DocPile 3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124692/
Docpile is a PHP-based document management system that allows multiple people to share documents and keep track of revisions. Users can upload and download documents, grant per-file, -user, or -folder access privileges, and send notification emails when documents are being updated. Administrators can create access groups, each responsible for a different set of folders and users.
Download Manager 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124685/
Download Manager (also known as downman) is a suite of programs that assist with downloading files. It features a GNOME 2 GUI.
Dupseek 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124748/
Dupseek finds and interactively removes duplicate files. It aims at maximum efficiency by keeping file reads to a minimum and is much better than other similar programs when dealing with groups of large files of the same size.
EasyTAG 0.28 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124780/
EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, and Monkey's Audio files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.
EmPy 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124697/
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. It takes an EmPy source file, processes it, and produces output. This is accomplished via expansions, which are special signals to the EmPy system and are set off by a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements in this way, as well as a variety of special forms. Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used in effect as a markup language. Also supported are callbacks via hooks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
Erlang R9B-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124757/
Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson. It is being used by Ericsson as a systems programming language for large concurrent fault-tolerant distributed systems.
exilist 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124725/
Exilist is a mailing list manager for Exim. It supports a sophisticated, modern, and good-looking Web interface, browser-based administration (including list creation), and multiple domains. It uses VERP-style bounce detection and MySQL.
flowprobe 1.0.pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124816/
flowprobe is a libpcap-based tool that collect network traffic data and emit it as NetFlow flows towards the specified collector.
FreeMarker 2.3pre2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124766/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
Generic Security Service 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124710/
Generic Security Service (GSS) is an implementation of the Generic Security Service API (GSS-API), which is used by network servers to provide security services, such as authenticating SMTP/IMAP clients against SMTP/IMAP servers. It consists of a library and a manual, and has a Kerberos 5 mechanism that supports mutual authentication and the DES and 3DES ciphers.
genlop 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124739/
genlop is a small Perl script which shows you, in a nice colored output, useful information about your previously-emerged packages by looking at /var/log/emerge.log. genlop is for Gentoo/portage users only.
Genmake 2003_06_02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124777/
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.).
GNU Simple Authentication and Security Layer 0.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124711/
GNU SASL is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6.1Build2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124737/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.
GPdf 0.101
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124712/
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
GRAMPS 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124798/
Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.
GSM SMS Download Daemon 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124734/
GSM SMS Download Daemon is a simple utility to query a GSM modem for received SMS and save them to a database.
Hardware Debugger 6.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124754/
Hardware Debugger is a graphical tool for detecting, diagnosing, and testing custom hardware. It is designed to meet the needs of the hardware developer by enabling quick and easy testing of hardware without writing any code. Hardware Debugger runs under Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
HTML Forms generation and validation 2003.05.31 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124676/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field. A plug-in filter is provided for composing forms with the Smarty template engine.
htmlrecode 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124787/
htmlrecode applies modifications to a HTML file. An example of these modifications is changing the character set. It does it without making any characters unreadable.
IaraJS 1.0preB
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124713/
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components.
iiitAccessServer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124805/
The iiitAccessServer is a rule-based enterprise authorization system written in Java. It works as a server and is usable with any programming language able to open a socket. The server fetches its data from LDAP and stores it in optimized form in one or more MySQL databases, used as a persistent 2nd-level cache to achieve high performance. The entire system is designed to be scalable and fault-tolerant.
Impact 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124769/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Interceptor 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124812/
Interceptor is a KDE 3.1 kicker applet for syslog monitoring and alerts management.
Intergif 6.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124700/
InterGif is a versatile utility that can be used for creating and manipulating GIF files. It can join GIFs together as animations, split animations apart, and optimize animations created by other programs.
Ismo 0.0.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124751/
Ismo is a Web application framework and application suite written in PHP. It's easy to use but still powerful and flexible.
Java iCal Group Scheduler 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124699/
Java iCal Group Scheduler enables several users to get together for a meeting, by using JICAL to translate their iCalendar files into their available free/busy time and post it automatically to your Web server. This project enables Ximian Evolution desktop users to book meetings with each other (and Outlook users) via a Web server storing their 'Free/Busy' information as specified in RFC2445. It works with Evolution, Korganiser, Apple iCal, and MS Outlook (for meetings), and enhances your workgroup and personal calendar views. Shell scripts for converting to various image formats are also included.
JFtp 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124719/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
jpegpixi 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124733/
"Jpegpixi" is short for "JPEG pixel interpolator". It is a command-line utility which interpolates pixels in JFIF images (commonly refered to as "JPEG images"). This is useful to correct images from a digital camera with CCD defects. Jpegpixi is unique in that it tries to preserve the quality of the JFIF image as much as possible. Most graphics programs decode JFIF images when they are loaded, and re-encode them when they are saved, which results in an overall loss of quality. Jpegpixi, on the other hand, does not decode and re-encode the image, but manipulates the encoded image data, protecting the quality of the image as much as possible.
JWall 0.70 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124705/
JWall is a Java-based application for graphically building and installing rules for one or more firewalls, local or remote.
KCDLabel 2.12-KDE3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124797/
KCDLabel is a program to create labels, covers, and booklets for CD cases. It can include text, bitmapped images, and directory content recursively read from a directory. KCDlabel can print and output postscript files. It can also create round labels to stick on CDs. KCDLabel can access CDDB to retrieve information about a CD.
Krusader 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124720/
Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS. Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability, transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.
Lancer 20030601
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124668/
Lancer is a Web server for POSIX-based systems. Some of the main features include a threaded design and a powerful Lua-based configuration scripting language.
LintPlus 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124718/
LintPlus is a static source code analysis tool for ANSI C that automatically identifies problems in source code prior to compiling or executing programs. It can save time with code debugging, greatly reducing the resources required for C testing efforts.
Linux Intrusion Detection System 1.1.2 for kernel 2.4.20 (2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124783/
The Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) is a patch which enhances the kernel's security by implementing a reference monitor and Mandatory Access Control (MAC). When it is in effect, chosen file access, all system/network administration operations, any capability use, raw device, memory, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root. You can define which programs can access specific files. It uses and extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the kernel to enhance the security. You can finely tune the security protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts through the network, and more.
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.6.7 (Linux-2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124791/
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).
Logrep 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124741/
Logrep is a secure multi-platform framework for the collection, extraction, and presentation of information from various log files. It features HTML reports, multi-dimensional analysis, overview pages, SSH communication, and graphs, and supports more than 10 popular systems including Snort, Squid, Postfix, Apache, syslog, iptables/ipchains, NT event logs, Firewall-1, and Pix.
MIB Smithy 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124782/
MIB Smithy is an application for SNMP developers, MIB designers, and Internet-draft authors. It provides a GUI-based environment for designing, editing, and compiling MIB modules according to the SMIv1 and SMIv2 standards. It accelerates the development process by providing an easy-to-use GUI environment for designing, editing, and compiling SNMP MIB specifications without the syntax and formatting concerns of designing MIBs by hand. It includes a number of built-in basic SNMP management tools, XML support, and (with MIB Smithy Professional) support for custom compiler output formats.
MIB Smithy SDK 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124768/
MIB Smithy SDK is a dynamic extension to Tcl/Tk (8.1+) that allows development of custom scripts for controlling SNMP agents, manipulating SMI definitions, doing conversions, and more. It is based on the core of Muonics' MIB Smithy, and the SDK supports SMIv1 and SMIv2, as well as SNMPv1/v2c/v3 with HMAC-SHA-96 and HMAC-MD5-96 authentication and CBC-DES privacy. It also provides complete read-write access to all elements of SMI/MIB Module definitions, unlike similar extensions that provide only read access to a limited subset. The SDK allows multiple discrete SMI databases and SNMP sessions, and provides all of the built-in validation and error recovery capabilites of the full product, without the visual MIB development environment.
Music Library 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124694/
Music Library is a music-on-demand system for phpGroupware. It searches recursively through a directory full of files for audio formats you specify and dumps their artist, album, and track names into a database. You can then browse, search, or listen over HTTP. It features custom playlists, and comes with an MP3 renaming script to ease the task of administration as well as an Applescript for using XMMS via X11 on OS X.
MyClassifieds 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124770/
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.
MyClassifiedsSQL 2.01 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124771/
MyClassifiedsSQL is a Perl/CGI/MySQL 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.
MyHeadlines 4.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124745/
MyHeadlines is module that adds syndicated headline functionality to any PHP and MySQL-based website. Your users may subscribe to multiple RSS feeds from a fully categorized database of over 1,000 sources. It was previously a PHPNuke/PostNuke Addon, but can now be integrated with any Web site.
mysqlRadacct 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124800/
mysqlRadacct includes the mysqlRadacct.cgi control panel and a specially patched MySQL radiusd (based on the Cistron 1.6.6 RADIUS server). RADIUS accounting packets are logged directly into MySQL tables. It provides several report formats and control of RADIUS usage via an auto-hold account system. Using mySQL compressed read-only tables, it also warehouses monthly RADIUS accounting data. It allows SMTP-AFTER-AUTH in conjunction with mysqlSendmail. This software is compatible with the mysqlISP suite of ISP management tools.
Natural Docs 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124772/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
Netics 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124738/
Netics is an extensible network statistics collector. It puts the network interface in promiscuous mode and reads the data stream (after it strips off the appropriate protocol headers), then displays the results at specified intervals, either in a "progress bar" mode or as raw statistics. Currently, it supports 2 statistics, both involving entropy: LZW compressability and Ueli Maurer's universal statistical test. Maurer's test is a very good and comprehensive measure of entropy, but requires a large amount of data. The LZW statistic requires much less data.
Nibbles 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124775/
Nibbles is a simple ncurses-based console game in which you control a snake. Your objective is to eat as many dots as possible before you crash into yourself or the wall.
Noble Ape Simulation 0.661
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124750/
The Noble Ape Simulation creates a random island environment and simulates the ape inhabitants of the island's cognitive processes. It features the Ocelot landscape rendering engine.
nowplaying 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124683/
nowplaying is a plugin for XMMS that records information about the song currently being played in a text file.
OpenBSD 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124773/
The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts place emphasis on portability, standardization, correctness, security, and cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HPUX.
OTRS 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124682/
OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) is an open source Ticket Request System and email management system with many features to manage customer telephone calls and email. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. It is useful for people who receive many emails and want to answer them with a team of agents. It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS 10.x, and Windows.
Packit 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124756/
Packit is a network auditing tool. Its value is derived from its ability to customize, inject, monitor, and manipulate IP traffic. By allowing you to define (spoof) nearly all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP, RARP, and Ethernet header options, Packit can be useful in testing firewalls, intrusion detection systems, port scanning, simulating network traffic, and general TCP/IP auditing. Packit is also an excellent tool for learning TCP/IP.