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[osdn business] June 07, 2003
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Group Releases Anti-Disclosure Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/2041229
[0]dki writes "SecurityFocus [1]reports that the Organization for
Internet Safety (OIS), a group of 11 of the largest software and
security companies, has released a [2]public draft of a proposed bug
disclosure standard. The document outlines a process for reporting and
disclosing bugs that aims to eliminate releasing exploits to the
general public. Not surprisingly, the OIS was founded out of a
[3]Microsoft-hosted security conference. Comments on the draft will be
accepted until July 4th; the final copy will be released at the Black
Hat Conference in Las Vegas."
Links
0.
http://www.dawnandgreg.com
1.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/5458
2.
http://www.oisafety.org/process.html
3.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/281
Walmart to Push RFID
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/188239
bravehamster writes "According to this article over at [0]MSNBC,
Walmart is going to [1]push its suppliers to start using RFID to track
inventory by 2005. The article goes on to mention how it was Walmart
who helped jumpstart widespread adoption of barcodes. The report also
points out some of the barriers in the way of RFID acceptance, but
never once mentions consumer privacy concerns. Guess that kind of stuff
just isn't important anymore."
Links
Build Your Own Computer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1719219
[0]fixit! writes "[1]This guy built his own CPU and VGA card. The site
is in German. Here is the [2]Babelfish translation of the site."
Links
0.
http://www.bookfix.com
1.
http://kuschel.citybug.de/mycpu-g.htm
2.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//kuschel.citybug.de/mycpu-g.htm&lp=de_en
Edison to Hillary Rosen - Parts 3, 4 and 5 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/171217
An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net has the follow up to [0]the
first two chapters of its series "Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property
and the Recording Industry". These articles show that the controllers
of the media bullied folk back then as they do now - and it didn't
work. The last installments of the 5 part series include; Chapter 3 --
[1]The Industry Evolves, Chapter 4 -- [2]Copyright and the Grand
Illusion, and closes with Chapter 5 -- [3]Bringing the Past Into the
Present"
Links
0.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1717224&tid=141
1.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly3.html
2.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly4.html
3.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly5.html
Cell Phone Number Portability Ruling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1659207
[0]Ken@WearableTech writes "Checking the Court's Opinion site every day
has paid off. Verizon's action on the FCC's number portability ruling
was [1]dismissed by the D.C. Court of Appeals. The court found that
Verizon had waited far too long to bring the challenge and it also
sided with the FCC's interpretation of the Law rather than Verizon.
Barring any other action we may see number portability this year.
[2]Unfortunately, Verizon is already lobbying to have the law changed.
But it was also nice to see Cingular was on the FCC's side of the
case."
Links
0. http://[ken] [at] [wearabletech.com]
1.
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200306/02-1264a.pdf
2.
http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0306/05/technology-183948.htm
Massive Unreal 2K3 Mod Contest Launched
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/164210
[0]code-e255 writes "[1]Epic Games, the developers of [2]Unreal
Tournament 2003, and nVidia have announced a [3]huge UT2K3 modification
contest called 'Make Something Unreal'. This competition will reward
the truly great modders out there, and will hopefully encourage more
people to mod for UT2K3." Word is that "..entries can be made in 13
categories, including 'Best Mod,' 'Best Character,' 'Best Use of 3D
Sound,' 'Best Real-Time Non-Interactive Movie (also known as
Machinima),' and more", and prizes include over $1,000,000 in total,
with first prize $50,000 and a $350,000-value commercial [4]Unreal
Engine license.
Links
0.
http://www.code-e.net
1.
http://www.epicgames.com/
2.
http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/
3.
http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/
4.
http://www.epicgames.com/UnrealEngineNews.htmlOutstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1628211
[0]Mark Leighton Fisher writes "Some readers might be interested in [1]
Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap); or "Why Don't Developers
Search the Literature?" It seems like I still see a lot of wheel
reinvention going on, even with the wealth of code and information now
available on the Net."
Links
0. mailto:mark-fisher@mindspring.com
Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/0312229
KoshClassic asks: "Recently, on the [0]NPR show [1]All Things Considered, an interview was broadcast with Thomas Hazlett, formerly the chief economist of the [2]FCC. Although short on details, Mr. Hazlett raises the point that, with the high penetration rate of cable / satellite TV into American homes, broadcasting television over the air has (or soon will) become superfulous and that this portion of the radio spectrum could be better utilized for other purposes. What do Slashdot readers think of this idea and, for those who agree, what alternative uses of the broadcast spectrum would you like to see?" Links
0.
http://www.npr.org/
1.
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/index.html
2.
http://www.fcc.gov/
iTunes Indie Meeting Notes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1548241
[0]BWJones writes "The [1]CD baby! site contains notes taken from the
indie music meeting recently held at Apple. Interesting statistics
revealed were that there are about 500k songs/week being downloaded
from the iTunes Music store and that 45% of songs are being purchased
as albums. Other interesting items of note are that Apple is treating
everyone as equvalents in that all labels receive equal treatment with
the same deal, the same agreements and you work with the same team of
people. What's more is that Apple cuts a check EVERY MONTH which is
huge for the smaller labels." Wired has another story about iTunes
which notes that [2]what Jobs taketh away, the community is bringing
back.
Links
0.
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~marclab/
1.
http://cdbaby.net/itunes
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59127,00.html
Virtual Machines for Security
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/156230
[0]k-hell writes "Researchers from the University of Michigan are
[1]using virtual machines to 'to provide security in an
operating-system-independent manner.' They have designed and
implemented a replay service for virtual machines called [2]ReVirt,
which 'logs enough information to replay a long-term execution of a
virtual machine instruction-by-instruction.' A system called
BackTracker 'automatically identifies potential sequences of steps that
occurred in an intrusion,' and they provide a nice [3]example of
BackTracker's output for an attack against a machine that they set up
as a honeypot, where an attacker gained access through httpd. Here's
the [4]source code."
Links
0.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel
1.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/CoVirt/
2.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/CoVirt/papers/revirt.pdf
3.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/CoVirt/openssl-too.gif
4.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/CoVirt/umlinux.html
Newsforge Reports
"Free Piracy" vs. Free/Open Source Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/2217248
- by Flávio Codeço Coelho Every once in a while, articles get published talking about Microsoft's double standards on software piracy, particularly in developing countries. This is a well known fact, and generally get two types of interpretations: One is that Microsoft is a liar when it says illegal sharing of software "hurts everyone" while it seems to use this very idea as its main strategy for market dominance in poor countries. The ...
Linux Advisory Watch - June 6th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1157205
- by Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for maelstrom, apache, tomcat, kernel, wget, file, lprng, cups, ghostscript, kon2, gnupg, squirrelmail, xinetd,lprng, lv, and httpd. The distributors include Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, OpenPKG, Red Hat, Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog. This week there were several new advisories. Red Hat and others released several patches to their 2.4 kernel. For those of you using PPC architecture and ...
Darl McBride doesn't understand Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2246228
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - That's really the heart of the SCO problem: Neither Darl McBride nor, apparently, a majority of SCO's Board of Directors, understands Linux, the GPL, Open Source or Free Software or anything related to them. Their thinking seems to be strictly old-line industrial, based on a marketing philosophy that assumes a sale gained by a competitor is one you have lost.
Newsforge Newsvac
Sun leads Linux + UNIX server market in revenue and market share http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/160221
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that the company regained its position as the worldwide leader in Linux+UNIX server revenue and unit shipments in the first quarter of CY2003, according to the 1Q03 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest released today.
Red Hat Linux TTY Layer Kernel Panic Denial Of Service Vulnerability http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1622204
A vulnerability has been reported in the TTY layer that may result in a kernel panic. The precise technical details of this vulnerability are currently unknown. This BID will be updated as further information is available.
Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of data center http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1614235
At a gathering here Tuesday of current and potential Oracle Corp. ISV (independent software vendor) partners, Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison extolled the virtues of Linux and predicted that the open-source operating system will soon decimate Microsoft Corp. in the battle for the data center market.
The underground OS is maturing. Does it measure up? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1619206
Businesses are asking tougher questions as they consider deploying Linux to handle more critical tasks. A shortage of enterprise apps still hurts.
Ballmer memo sends Linux stocks soaring http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1552241
Shares of Red Hat Inc., the world's biggest distributor of the free Linux operating system, and VA Software Corp. rose yesterday a day after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Linux is a "significant challenge" to his company.
UK councils dump Windows for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444237
Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux.
SCO slashes Asian operation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1544201
US software firm SCO has slashed its operations in Taiwan due to weak demand for its products, according to reports.
IBM eyes smaller businesses with database http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1532213
IBM Corp. on Thursday announced general availability of DB2 UDB (Universal Database) Express, a database intended for smaller-size businesses and departments.
Intel: Linux 32-chip server rivals Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1521233
Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system.
EU scrutinizes Microsoft's Media Player
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/152210
European Commission investigators are seeking more evidence on whether Microsoft Corp. uses its Windows Media Player software to discriminate against rivals, putting in jeopardy the commission's deadline of next month for ruling on the 4-year-old antitrust case.
Freshmeat
A Joint Monitoring System 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125197/
AJMS (AKA "AMS") displays syslog messages in realtime via a browser or standalone Java client. It also supports searches of any SQL database. It offers straightforward configuration and integrates easily into any existing syslog environment.
A Slacked Subgenius 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125080/
A Slacked Subgenius is a dark and clean theme for slackers.
Agar 06062003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125194/
Agar is a graphical game engine aimed primarily at applications ranging from SDL 2D games to multithreaded 3D simulations. The engine currently implements tile-based levels, a level editor, a GUI, as well as various other thread-safe interfaces for use in game programming.
Apache Toolbox 1.5.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125157/
Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache (IPv4/6) SSL, PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support. It is fully customizable and menu-driven. Everything is compiled from source, and wget is used to download any missing modules. It can also check for RPMs that might cause problems and create an RPM with your selections.
AutoUpdate 5.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125229/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Beaver 0.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125243/
Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR, for Linux and other Unices (and even Windows); in other words, it's a text editor that is intended to be light-weight, but full of useful features for programming, from editing of web sites to C coding. It is based upon the GTK+ toolkit, supports many languages, and offers functions such as automatic indentation and syntax highlighting.
biew 5.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125235/
BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with a built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal, and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight PentiumIII/K7Athlon/Cyrix-M2 disassembler, full preview of MZ, NE, PE, LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch, coff32, PharLap, and rdoff executable formats, a code guider, and lot of other features.
C++ Persistent Objects 20030507-1101
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125201/
C++ Persistent Objects (CP30) is a library that provides of a couple of template classes for making native C++ class objects persistent. It is not very standard compliant and emphasizes access speed, so it might lend itself to a large multiplayer game server. It relies on predictable memory footprint of the class. It has been shown to work with GCC 3.2.2 on an i386 system.
CanIt 1.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125204/
CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention required.
Cmask 2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125166/
CMask is an application that produces score files for CSound, i.e. lists of notes, or rather, events. Its main application is the generation of events to create a texture or granular sounds. It takes a parameter file as input and makes a score file that can be used immediately with CSound.
CMT 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125178/
The CMU Midi Toolkit (CMT) is a collection of software for writing interactive MIDI software in C. It includes a number of handy utilities along with an application "shell" that provides timing, scheduling, and MIDI interfaces that are portable across DOS, Mac, SGI, and Amiga platforms.
Delator 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125230/
Delator is a telephone/PBX call accounting system. It works with a PBX Lucent Definity G2 and a serial connection to store information in a PostgreSQL database. It has a Web interface which can give monthly reports of the use and cost of each call, from what extension each call was made, what number was called, etc.
dnspython 1.0.0a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125179/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports all of the common record types, and will support all types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
DSPAM 2.6.0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125219/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives.
Easyval 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125251/
Easyval is a very basic implementation of interval arithmetic, using hardware doubles as interval bounds. The first target of this library is that the interval arithmetic containment criterium is respected.
EHS 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125168/
Embedded HTTP Server (EHS) is a C++ class which can be inherited from to give HTTP server functionality to any class or application. It supports form data via POST or GET, and uploads via multi-part form attachments. It is useful for adding Web-based administration or statistics to any C++ program.
ePiX 0.8.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125255/
ePiX is a powerful, flexible, lightweight, text-based utility for creating mathematically accurate, publication-quality line figures in LaTeX. Output may include mathematical typography, and can be resized easily and robustly. Programming constructs may be used to create complex, logically-structured figures with just a few commands. The output is plain text, and is included directly into a LaTeX document. A script to convert the output to EPS is included.
Epylog 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125213/
Epylog is a log notifier and parser that periodically tails system logs on Unix systems, parses the output in order to present it in an easily readable format (parsing modules currently exist only for Linux), and mails the final report to the administrator. It can run daily or hourly. Epylog is written specifically for large clusters where many systems log to a single loghost using syslog or syslog-ng. Although Epylog can be used on standalone systems, other packages (like logwatch) are probably better suited for such purposes.
FindBugs 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125242/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
FOX 1.1.28 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125214/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
freshmeat-to-database Converter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125175/
freshmeat-to-database Converter downloads the XML version of freshmeat's project listings and imports them into a MySQL database. This makes it possible to run complex queries such as "Which Open Source programs written in PHP or Java are at least at beta stage and contain the word 'management'?".
gGo 0.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125198/
gGo is a Go board, SGF editor, client for the Internet Go Server, and an interface for playing with GNU Go. gGo is written in Java and available for Linux, OS X, OS/2 and Windows. gGo is distributed free of charge. Go is an ancient boardgame, very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
GKrellM 2.1.12 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125217/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs, disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
Grey Trans 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125240/
Grey Trans is a simple grey transparent theme. The girl pictured is Samia Ghadie.
iChatExporter 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125259/
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.
ifsplot 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125233/
ifsplot is an IFS attractor (fractal) plotter. Given an IFS (a set of affine transformations), it generates associated fractal. The libplot library is employed, so any libplot driver is supported (X, eps, png, fig, etc.).
IRC Services 5.0.19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125206/
Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network.
iSQL-Viewer 2.1.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125146/
iSQL(IndependentSQL)-Viewer is a JDBC 2.0-compliant application that can take advantage of platform features such as transactions, running batch modes, and database abstraction. Even in heterogeneous database environments, it supports all database platforms with a JDBC 2.0-compliant driver, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle. It provides a variety of tools to carry out both simple and complex database activities.
JaxMeJS 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125247/
The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is included.
jSimpleX 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125245/
jSimpleX is a visual XSL transformation tool. It uses an XML (source) file and an XSL/XSLT (stylesheet) file to produce a new (output) document. The output can be in a variety of formats, such as XML or HTML. It provides a mechanism for loading, editing, and saving each of the three documents. It also provides a preview tab for XML and HTML (version 3.2) documents. It also supports a commandline mode and an Ant task for automated builds.
KisMAC 0.05a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125193/
KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely invisible and sends no probe requests.
Koalog Constraint Solver 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125218/
Koalog Constraint Solver is a constraint solver written in Java. It provides cutting-edge technology for solving satisfaction and optimization problems, including scheduling, time-tabling, resource-allocation, and configuration (Koalog Configurator is powered by Koalog Constraint Solver).
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125241/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
libspopc 0.5.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125215/
libspopc is a simple-to-use POP3 client library. It's primary goal is to provide an easy and quick way to host a POP3 client within a program to C developers without exposing them to socket programming. However, the socket layer is also accessible. libspopc allows mail programs to connect to many POP accounts and manage email. It implements the client side of RFC 1939. The email client can download email headers before downloading the entire message.
Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125227/
Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It checks many system configurations and local network settings on the system for common security/config errors and for packages that are not needed. It has been tested on Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) and Solaris (SunOS 2.x).
Linux Test Project 20030606
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125231/
The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
LinuXchangE 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125260/
LinuXchangE is a powerful integration system that offers corporate network services like email, DNS, WINS, PDC, and mass storage. It pretends to be a complete replacement for Windows servers by storing all its information using LDAP (like Active Directory does).
Logdog 2.0-RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125188/
LogDog monitors messages passing through syslogd and takes actions based on key words and phrases (which can be regular expressions). It has a configuration file which allows you to specify a list of key words or phrases to alert on and a list of commands that can be run when those words are encountered.
mhttpd 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125248/
mhttpd is a lightweight multi-threaded Web server.
MIB Smithy SDK 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125184/
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.
MiddleMan 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125232/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
myMind 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125162/
myMind is a lightweight Weblog written in PHP 4, designed for MySQL databases. Its features are custom templates and stylesheets, multilingual support, emoticons, spam protection, and a bad word filter.
NanoBlogger 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125160/
NanoBlogger is a simple blogger written in Bash script that's completely commandline driven. It features easy editing and managing of posts. It automatically organizes and archives your posts, and includes a template for easy customization. This is not a stand-alone Weblog engine, but a tool that can aid in Web site publishing.
Nyquist 2.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125172/
Nyquist is an elegant and powerful language for sound synthesis and music composition. Unlike score languages that tend to deal only with events, or signal processing languages that tend to deal only with signals and synthesis, it handles both in a single integrated system. It is also flexible and easy to use because it is based on an interactive Lisp interpreter. You can design instruments by combining functions (much as you would using the orchestra languages of Music V, cmusic, or Csound). You can call upon these instruments and generate a sound just by typing a simple expression. You can combine simple expressions into complex ones to create a whole composition. It runs under any Unix environment, MacOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT, and it produces sound files as output (or direct audio output under Windows).
OZradio 0.9.5.2e beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125189/
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.
p(y)layer 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125220/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125187/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.
PerlPad 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125177/
PerlPad is a Cocoa application that lets users run Perl from other apps using System Services. Perl code can be evaluated from any TextInput, current selection can be processed with some Perl code (nice to test some regex), or users can process the system pasteboard in the same way. Buttons can even be defined for favorite Perl snippets along with add-on services for the service menu. The Perl environment provided is persistent (as long as the app stays alive), allowing data to be shared between invocations and custom Perl modules to be loaded.
PhonoRipper 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125200/
PhonoRipper aims to be an easy-to-handle all-in-one GUI tool for creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records. The main parts are just graphical frontends to well-known commandline programs, so some dependencies must be fulfilled to run PhonoRipper. English and German versions are available.
PHP WebSite User Management System Beta 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125210/
The PHP WebSite User Management System enables users to quickly deploy a fully-functional, user registration, email verification, and user account management system to their Web site.
phpExifRW 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125183/
phpExifRW is a pure PHP class to read, write, and transfer EXIF information that most digital cameras produce. This class overcomes the problem of most distributions that do not add Exif extensions in their default installation of PHP.
PHPTestManager 0.1.1alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125249/
PHPTestManager allows you to create and maintain school tests through a Web interface.
Pizza Business 1.0-beta9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125224/
Pizza Business is a platform-independent restaurant simulation game written in object-oriented C++. It utilizes the WxWindows library.
PowerAdmin 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125216/
PowerAdmin is a Web-based frontend for the PowerDNS DNS server. It interfaces with PowerDNS's generic database backends, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, to add/modify/delete both forward and reverse zones, with full IPv6 support.
Pure Thang 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125085/
Pure Thang is a really small theme. It was inspired by a screenshot of seq24, but it's made from scratch.
PVote 2.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125257/
PVote is a PHP voting system. It uses MySQL to hold all information about the system.
pysco 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125164/
Pysco is a neat utility for CSound. It generates CSound note events and saves to a score file, with unlimited separate output time-streams ("tracks"), unlimited simultaneous different tempos (each track can have its own tempo, including independent accelerandos and ritards), unlimited named "chunks" of events, and many more functions to provid automatic time updating so that the user doesn't have to count beats all the time. It also selects ranges of musical chunks by beat value.
ratpoison 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125254/
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen, which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to avoid wasting precious screen space.
ROCK-plug 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125190/
ROCK-Plug aims to replace the original hotplug package and the current hardware detection technology of ROCK Linux, called hwscan. It is designed with the KISS priciple in mind, fitting in the existing ROCK Linux framework. It features both scanning cold-plugged devices (present during bootup) and real hotplug events generated for devices plugged into a running system.
SBIG STV control 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125163/
The SBIG STV control software is designed to control the SBIG STV CCD camera and autoguider in Linux. The software supports hardware keypress emulation.
SCIM Chinese input method module 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125174/
This package provides the Chinese input method module for the Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM). Only a pinyin input method module is currently available.
Shell Intrusion Detection 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125246/
SID is a Shell Intrusion Detection system. The kernel part plugs into a terminal-processing subsystem and logs hashed terminal lines. The user part reads log entries (hashes), consults a list of allowed entries, and takes appropriate action upon unexpected log entries.
Snack sound toolkit 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125169/
The Snack sound extension adds commands for sound play/record and sound
visualization, e.g. waveforms and spectrograms. It supports in- memory
sound objects, file based audio, streaming audio, WAV, AU, AIFF, and
MP3 file formats, synchronous and asynchronous playback. The
visualization canvas item types update in real-time and can output
postscript. New commands and file formats can be added using the Snack
C-API.
SNNTP 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125170/
SNNTP is a library of functions implementing the NNTP protocol. It has high-level functions which the programmer can call from an application program. It hides the low-level networking details from the programmer.
SpamCruncher 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124968/
SpamCruncher uses the SpamAssassin engine to identify spam on remote POP3 or IMAP servers.
Star Trek Lcars GDM Theme 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125221/
Star Trek Lcars GDM Theme is a login splash screen with the UFP Logo.
stat 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125234/
Stat is a Perl script designed to gather stats for a grapher such as mrtg or rrd.
Structured Document Validator 0.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125203/
Structured Document Validator implements a generalized method for validating both the structure and content of structured documents. Any data format that can be deterministically divided into tags and data is classed as a structured document. This definition applies to a wide array of data formats, including XML, Java properties files, and delimited value files. The application performs validations based on user-defined Structured Document Definitions (SDDs). It provides an environment for validation, SDD development, and document editing.
Sussen 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125207/
Sussen is a client for the Nessus Security Scanner. It is easy to use; you can perform a vulnerability assessment with just a few mouse clicks. It has a Glade-based user interface, Druids for common tasks, GConf support, and Anjuta project support.
Sylpheed 0.9.2 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125167/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
tc_config 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125208/
tc_config is set of scripts for Linux 2.4+ traffic control configuration on Red Hat systems and (hopefully) derivatives. It uses cbq qdisc as root one, and sfq qdisc at the leaves. It includes the snmp_pass utility for getting stats on traffic control via SNMP.
termpkg 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125153/
termpkg is a terminal server daemon that allows access to a machines tty devices through the network using the telnet protocol. Also provided is a small daemon allowing the remote access of a machines serial devices by already existsing applications.
Testitool 1.0 Beta 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125211/
Testitool is a Web-based application for QA test planning. It creates a test plan and populates it with test cases, maps test cases to
functional requirements, instantiates a test plan, begins executing
test cases and marks them as successful or failed, generates reports on
your test plans, copies test plans and test cases, and tailors test
plan instances by adding and removing test cases from them.