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[osdn business] June 08, 2003
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Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to GNU/Linux. [0] ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local government technology consultants Nineveh." Links 0. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2135726,00.html Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0257203
[0]chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox
0. mailto:chip@unicom.com
17" Monitor Case Modding -- The "iMike"
greyrax writes "So what does a Canadian cabinet maker who's a closet techie do during those long winter months? You modify a 17" monitor case to house your computer (think iMac). The [0]blow-by-blow descriptions and pictures outline this three-month project. The only question that I'm left with is 'What is that antenna for?'" Links 0. http://members.shaw.ca/northvanmike/page1.html
Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines
[0]ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be
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http://barton_ed at hotmail.com
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http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/
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http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/fruit2.htmOracle's Hostile Takeover Bid For PeopleSoft http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/239221
[0]rkuris writes "[1]Oracle has launched a [2]5.1 billion dollar cash
0. mailto:rk@prefer.net
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http://oracle.com/
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http://www.business-standard.com/updates/news.asp?story=4211
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http://www.peoplesoft.com/
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http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/about/overview/leader_profiles.jsp
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http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1013893.html?tag=lh
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http://jdedwards.com/
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http://news.com.com/2100-1021-1011938.html?tag=nl
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http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/6036048.htmMaine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2255238 Neophytus writes "The [0]University of Maine has now almost completed its [1]solar system model, to be unveiled officially on the June 14th at Westfield. The final planet, Uranus, will be set in place on the 13th. At forty miles from Pluto to The Sun and built to a scale of 1:93,000,000, it will be the largest three-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in North America." Links DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2110231
[0]prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1840257
[0]rkohutek writes "This whitepaper came out of my employer's desire to
Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1720241
jdfox writes "Toshiba Research Europe have just demonstrated [0]quantum
crypto over 100km fibre links. Sounds like there's still a fair bit of
work to be done before it leaves the lab, but it's amazing that they've
got as far as they have. There's another article about it, though still
not much technical detail, [1]here on the BBC and [2]here on The
Register."
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http://optics.org/articles/news/9/6/3/1
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1709322.stm
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31077.html
Greplaw Interviews Phil Zimmermann
[0]LawGeek writes "The venerable [1]GrepLaw crew has struck again, this
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http://www.algonet.se/~mpawlo/
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http://www.philzimmermann.com/
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http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1441247&mode=nested
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - June 6th, 2003
Darl McBride doesn't understand Linux
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
Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux.
SCO slashes Asian operation
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
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
I first met this book at a bioinformatics course I attended at NCSU last year. I've been reading books on bioinformatics since 1997, and I was a little skeptical about this one. I thought it was "just another bioinformatics book". I was wrong. It has some really outstanding features I'd like to highlight.
Alexandria Archives 0.1
Alexandria Archives is designed to catalog your files and directories on CD, floppy disk, hard drive, Zip Disk, USB memory, etc. and search for them later.
Anthill 0.2.3
Anthill is a bug tracking database system written in PHP. It provides the standard bug tracking features such as: user logins, summary reports, submitting bugs, querying bugs, various severity and status levels. It also provides some unique features, such as a template system, and multi-lingual support.
Autopoweroff 1.2.0
Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home router/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet access have been shut down.
bbfinger 0.0.1
bbfinger displays the current users in a tiny X11-decorated window. It supports commandline options to set/unset transparency, foreground color, border size, display, and position. It can also be configured through a configuration file.
Boot Scriptor 2.0.6b (CD Shell)
Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity when booting from a CD or DVD drive. It provides a set of commands that enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as provide interactive menus to choose boot options from. It provides similar functionality to Diskem1x, as well as new original features and interfaces to programs such as Isolinux/Memdisk and Ranish Partition Manager. All features can be commanded through a console interface or by constructing simple script files.
CjOverkill 1.0.2
CjOverkill is a traffic trading script developed to track traffic trades between sites. These kind of scripts are mainly used for adult sites like TGPs, links lists, toplists or similar. It includes productivity, raw and unique hits traffic tracking also as several cheat protections like extreme low or extreme high productivity, minimum hits per day and maximum proxy percent per day. It also includes several integrity and security tests and a traffic filter in order to minimize hacking attempts.
Cornice 0.3
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL.
Dark Commander 0.0.3
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.
dopewars 1.5.9
dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of the MS-DOS program of the same name, which in turn was inspired by John E. Dell's "Drug Wars" game. You have one month to buy and sell drugs on the streets of New York, the aim being first to pay off your debt to the loan shark and then to make a fortune. And if you have to shoot a few cops in the process, well... The game includes TCP networking allowing you to meet (and shoot) other human drug dealers. Computer drug dealers are currently in development.
FLASH Code 2.3 (Stable)
The FLASH code is a modular, adaptive, parallel simulation code capable of handling general compressible flow problems in astrophysical environments. It has been designed to allow users to configure initial and boundary conditions, change algorithms, and add new physical effects with minimal effort. It uses the PARAMESH library to manage a block-structured adaptive grid, placing resolution elements only where they are needed most. It uses the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) library to achieve portability and scalability on a variety of different message-passing parallel computers.
Gengen 0.4.4
Gengen (GENerator GENerator) is a tool that, starting from a parameterized text (template), generates a text generator that can substitute parameters with values.
Genmake 2003_06_07
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.).
GPdf 0.102
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
GraphicsMagick 1.0.2
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, VMS, and MacOS 9.
GTetrinet 0.7.2
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
ical for Red Hat 1
ical for Red Hat is an effort to provide the ical program in RPM format for users of current versions of Red Hat Linux.
inlook 0.4.1
inlook is an addressbook for sendmail with many features. You can add users to an addressbook, and then send an email to a user by just typing the name of the user (inlook will look up the email address automatically). inlook is perhaps most useful for mail administrators using sendmail.
JTicTacToe 0.1.0
JTicTacToe is a version of the popular boardgame "Tic Tac Toe", with the difference that you can have a gamefield of arbitrary size and you need 5 X's or O's in a row to win. You need to play against another human being; JTicTacToe is meant to be played via the Internet.
libmplite 0.2
libmplite is a library which provides a minimal C++ interface around the mpfr library for multi-precision floating point arithmetic.
LogiCreate Application Framework 2.9
LogiCreate is a PHP-based application framework that handles database abstraction, user profiles, arbitrary user groups, granular permissions, and more. The system features installable modules, loosely modelled after Java servlets. LogiCreate includes many sample modules aimed at community-oriented sites (news, forums, broadcast emailer, and so on) which can be used 'out of the box' or customized to fit your needs.
Meta-Aqua 1.0
Meta-Aqua is based on the Sawfish theme "Aquaified" by Justin Hahn, using the same artwork.
MysticIRCd 1.1.0
MysticIRCd is a powerful IRCd with several essential features. It is based on UltimateIRCd 2.8.x, and adds several more features, such as an extended help system with the HelpOp Notifications and an IRC based help system. It also features BadWord Censors.
Natural Docs 0.91
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.
OpenGFS 0.2.1 (Beta)
OpenGFS is an enterprise-class clustered filesystem for organizations requiring low-cost shared data storage and management. It is a continuation of the GPLed version of the Global File System as originally started by Sistina, which switched to a non-free license.
pekwm 0.1.3
Pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++, but it no longer resembles it. It is highly configurable, rather fast, and aimed towards being usable while remaining pretty enough to look at. Features include client window grouping into one window frame, automatic window size, location, grouping and title rewriting properties, keychains, Xinerama support, pixmap theming, and dynamic menus.
PHPRecipeBook 2.10
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.
RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1
RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL. There are only currently only language files for English and German.
RSS Mix Tape 1.2.0
RSS Mix Tape reads items from specified RSS feeds and displays them in a list. Selected posts can be categorized and commented on, and an RSS feed is generated for each category. It also supports LiveJournal input whether or not you are a paid user.
rssh 2.0.3
rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp or sftp only.
ScsiaddGui 0.1
Scsiaddgui provides a graphical user interface for the Scsiadd utility, which allows you to add or remove SCSI devices without having to reboot.
shn2make 2.4
shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files. shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common .nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully automates the processing of the set of shn files.
sinus 1.0.0
sinus is a program that generates interesting sine waves, plays them and writes them to MS RIFF (.wav) files. It generates waves based on a series of input frequencies which can be either static or a start and end frequency. It is capable of creating waves of any sampling rate which can be 8/16/32 bits and either Mono or Stereo. Each channel can be controlled separately and the size of the waves is limited only by swap space.
tgzdrop 0.5
tgzdrop is an AppleScript droplet for Mac OS X that accepts files or folders via drag and drop, and produces a .tgz compressed archive in the same directory as the original, just as if you had run "tar -zcf blah.tgz blah" from the command line. Trusted Opensource Records for Care &amp; Health 1.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125262/ Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health (TORCH) is an electronic health record application. It features a Web-based user interface and can scale from a laptop used by a single physician all the way up to geographically separated multi-site clinics.
Veejay 0.3.3rc9
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.
vimdrop 0.7
vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the distribution.
Vrcon 0.9.5
Vrcon is a Curses-based rcon utility that allows admins to quickly administer Half-Life based game servers. It lets them view players, ban players, change maps, flag WONIDs, and more.
WebShop 0.8.1
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop.
xmcd2make 0.6
xmcd2make is a set of Perl scripts which support users of the gramofile recording, track splitting, and signal processing package. It consists of 3 userland tools: findtracks.pl (a command line interface to gramofile track detection), signalproc.pl (a command line interface to gramofile track splitting and signal processing), and xmcd2make.pl (a script that takes an xmcd file of song names and track timing files and creates a makefile). When the makefile is run, it splits the tracks, performs gramofile signal processing, and encodes the resulting tracks to Ogg Vorbis format with the correct song names and good tags.
Thinkgeek
Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10
Computing: ThermalTake Xaser PC Cases
Computing: ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6044/
Gadgets: Squid Light
Interests: I'm blogging this.
Interests: Tempt me.
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
Gadgets: Yes Solstice
Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
Computing: Ideazon Zboard
Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
Tshirts: fork agent smith
Cube Goodies: Midnight blue 'geek.' glass http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/5f01/
Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
Tshirts: M.A.D.
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