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[osdn business] June 11, 2003
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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June 11, 2003 BUSINESS SERIES
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Slashdot
Investigating Angular Velocity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1739236
[0]mbreitba writes "Sam Barros is at it again, Some may know him for
his [1]Railgun research, and some may know him for his [2] homemade
cannons. But now he's found a use for [3] all those old CD's you don't
need anymore. Personally, I couldn't think of a better use for them."
Links
0. mailto:mbreitba@shanje.com
1.
http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm
2.
http://www.powerlabs.org/cannons.htm
3.
http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm
A Shocking Controller For The Xbox
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/0338257
An anonymous reader writes "This is freakin' awesome - Kevin Rose from TechTV has built a 20,000-volt [0]shocking Xbox controller. Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain. Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts." Links
0. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3450946,00.html
Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/014219
[0]Skapare writes "[1]Linux Journal is doing a story with a [2]roundup
of who the players are that are opposing open source in governments.
The one I find interesting is the Gates [3]connection to [4]BSA. But I
think we all need to become familiar with this round-up of special
interest groups not operating in our interests (as taxpayers)."
Links
0.
http://linuxhomepage.com/
1.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/
2.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6927
3.
http://www.prestongates.com/
4.
http://www.bsa.org/
A Model End Vendor License Agreement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2244244
Teese writes "[0]Low End Mac is presenting [1]this article as a humor
piece, but its vision of an End Vendor License Agreement seems to be
pretty well thought out, and one that I wouldn't mind seeing in the
real world."
Links
0. http://lowendmac.com/index.shtml
Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2324214
An [0]Anonymous Reader writes "Apparently someone inside SCO has stated that [1]SCO(actually Caldera) copied Linux code into System V. They did it to build what they now market as Linux Kernel Personality - the ability to run Linux software on their Unix. Now, the open source community(of course they don't mention who) is jumping on this, because they didn't return the changes to the OS community or give the community credit. Of course, SCO says it's a misunderstanding and, get this 'SCO also never used any of the Linux kernel code.'" Links
0. mailto:abc@def.jam
Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/217214
[0]Malfaetor asks: "Some friends and I are tentatively planning a
public Network Gaming Marathon (LAN Party, except for an entire
weekend) later this year, starting on a Friday night and ending the
following Sunday afternoon. We've already acquired a file server and
game servers, as well as did some testing on bandwidth usage of various
games. We've also queried local hotels for available conference rooms,
and thought about power consumption requirements, and so forth. I ask
this of my fellow Slashdot readers: If you have ever hosted or attended
a LAN party before, even if it was not of this scale, would you have
any input (or horror stories!) that could help to ensure we have not
overlooked anything? Any information you could provide would be greatly
appreciated!"
Links
0. mailto:jaystienstra@aol[ ]om ['.c' in gap]
Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/196209
Webmoth writes "[0]Microsoft has [1]announced the assimilation of
[2]RAV Antivirus from [3]GeCAD Software of Romania. This is
significant, because RAV Antivirus was one of the few antivirus
products that provided [4]cross-platform email virus scanning and spam
filtering, integrating with sendmail and postfix on Linux (among
others). No word yet on the impact to non-Microsoft users. In the
process, they've left [5]RAE Internet, the (former) exclusive U.S.
distributor of RAV Antivirus, along with a host of authorized
resellers, in the dust."
Links
0.
http://www.microsoft.com/
1.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Jun03/06-10GeCadPR.asp
2.
http://www.ravantivirus.com/
3.
http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/shownews.php?i=153
4.
http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/isp.php
5.
http://www.raeinternet.com/
Quark Xpress 6 For OS X
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1826226
MikeXpop writes "[0]Apple's front page shows that [1]Quark Xpress has been announced for OS X and will be available as of next week. Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?" Links
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1744248
[0]Pii writes "[1]News.com is running a [2] story about [3]Penguin
Computing acquiring [4]Scyld Computing, a company founded by Donald
Becker, of linux ethernet driver and [5]Beowulf cluster fame. Becker
will stay on as Penguin's Chief Technology Officer, and the companies
claim they don't expect any layoffs as a result of the merger."
Links
0.
http://.gro.rebasthgil. .ta. .idej.
1.
http://www.news.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-1014970.html?tag=fd_top
3.
http://www.penguincomputing.com/
4.
http://www.scyld.com/
5.
http://www.beowulf.org/
How to Become a Patent Millionaire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1727213
An anonymous reader writes "SF Gate has an article about people who
[0]patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping
to license technology or block competitors from doing something
similar. As if the patent system weren't screwed up enough already."
Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/09/BU213833.DTL
Newsforge Reports
New WPA wireless security coming soon
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1331225
- by Anne Zieger - Virtually no one has a kind word to say about Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the standard for securing data transmissions on Wi-Fi networks. WEP, which relies on cryptography that can be cracked with a half-hour of laptop time, isn't well-defended, but until recently it's all Wi-Fi fans had.
The demise of copyright
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1913204
- by Lee Schlesinger - Last week Justin Frankel, the founder of Nullsoft, the company that created the popular Windows music player Winamp, quietly posted on Nullsoft's Web site a collaboration program called WASTE licensed under the GPL. Nullsoft is owned by AOL Time Warner. The day after Frankel posted the software AOL ordered it removed from the site, and instead posted a notice asserting the company's rights to the software. (Shortly after ...
Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies sponsors Open Source Conference http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1328209
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "The Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies (CCMS) and the Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group (TTLUG) would like to inform you of the first ever local conference on Free, Libre and Open Source (FLOS) Software. The Conference will be held on the 26th and 27th of June 2003 at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago." NewsForge will be there. Will you?
Newsforge Newsvac
Did SCO Violate the GPL?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/0022204
Some members of the open-source community are claiming that the SCO Group may have violated the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public License) by incorporating source code from the Linux kernel into the Linux Kernel Personality feature found in SCO Unix without giving the changes back to the community or displaying copyright notices attributing the code to Linux.
Introduction and History of Darwin
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2131259
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an article introducing the Darwin, where it came from, the technologies used behind it, the Open Darwin and Gnu Darwin distributions, how the Darwin architecture is evolving and where it is going."
OSA Intros Linux Server Manager Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2130236
OSA Technologies writes "OSA Technologies Showcases New Linux support for IPMI Server Manager Product at the DMTFs Global Management Conference Company Expands Beyond Windows Product Line Supports WBEM and Taps into Growing IPMI Market for Linux Systems.
Torvalds Says SCO Won't Give Him Peek At Code Without NDA http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2125227
The SCO Group has shown off a few hundred lines of Linux code that allegedly violates its rights to Unix but won't allow Linus Torvalds--the father of Linux--to take a peek without signing a non-disclosure agreement.
GNU/FreeBSD progress
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1734233
The Debian GNU/FreeBSD port has recently made significant progress using the GNU C library as a base instead of FreeBSD's libc.
Bell tolling for PNG graphics format?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1733216
A patent underlying one of the Web's most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become obsolete.
SCO Backs Up Claims of Linux IP Theft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1722200
The biggest threat facing open-source sensation Linux today isn't Windows and the voracious company that makes it, but an increasingly dangerous legal battle with the SCO Group, the owner of various copyrights, patents, and intellectual property for UNIX, the OS on which Linux is based. According to SCO, IBM and numerous other Linux makers and users are violating the law by using Linux because the OS includes code stolen from UNIX, and SCO is ...
Turning the SEGA Dreamcast into a Linux firewall/router http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/172227
Anonymous Reader writes "Learn how to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based software router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel, and shows how, starting from scratch, you can build a Linux operating system that runs entirely in memory."
CNET News: Two Linux Server Specialists Combine http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/171200
Penguin Computing, a server maker that specializes in Linux-running machines, has signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, the two companies plan to announce Tuesday.
Microsoft actions give Linux 'credibility' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1617248
The chief executive of Germany's SuSE Linux says Microsoft's aggressive attitude towards Linux proves the operating system is important and gives it credibility
Freshmeat
aedGUI 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125672/
aedGUI is a cross-platform C++ GUI library that works with SDL.
Apolos 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125542/
Apolos is a GTK+2 CD player for Linux. It features support for the CDDB protocol, playlists, and normal CD functions.
APT-RPM 0.5.5cnc6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125617/
APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools for RPM based distributions (Conectiva, Red Hat, SuSE, ALT-Linux, etc). APT is an advanced package management utility front-end which allows you to easily perform package installation, upgrading and removal. Dependencies are automatically handled, so if you try to install a package that needs others to be installed, it will download all needed packages and install them.
Armagetron 0.2.pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125575/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
Bicycle Repair Man! 0.8 BETA 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125557/
The Python Refactoring Browser helps Pythonistas everywhere glide over the gory details of refactoring their code. Watch him extract jumbled code into well ordered classes. Gasp, as he renames all occurrences of a method. Thank you Bicycle Repair Man!
BitlBee 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125650/
BitlBee emulates an IRC server. Everything that is said on this server is forwarded to users on the MSN/ICQ/Jabber/Yahoo! networks, and responses are also returned.
Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector 6.2alpha6 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125563/
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It is also used by a number of programming language implementations that use C as intermediate code. Alternatively, it may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs. A slightly older version of the garbage collector is also included as part of the GNU compiler (gcc) distribution.
Booby 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125552/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todo's, and notes. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty).
Bugzero 2.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125590/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
C->Haskell 0.11.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125549/
C->Haskell is an interface generator that simplifies the development of Haskell bindings to C libraries. The tool processes existing C header files that determine data layout and function signatures on the C side in conjunction with Haskell modules that specify Haskell-side type signatures and marshaling details. Hooks embedded in the Haskell code signal access to C structures and functions; they are expanded by the interfacing tool in dependence on information from the corresponding C header file.
CDlinux 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125411/
CDlinux is a Linux mini-distribution which runs from a CD-ROM. It aims to be an administration/rescue tool for Eastern Asian (CJK) users. It is also highly user configureable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA/SCSI/USB).
CDox 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125665/
CDox is an editor for CD documents like CD covers, back sides, and booklets. It features many image processing options like sharpen, contrast, etc. One can use images and text as elements, and those elements can be flipped/rotated/resized in any way. It has easy-to-use features for previously-made images that are meant to be CD covers. It has also some features for automatic cover creation from MP3 CDs, CDs with filesystems, and CDs with video files.
Charlemagne 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125660/
Charlemagne is a versatile genetic programming application. It includes a commandline client and an interactive console mode. It is written in Python and Lisp, and is user extensible to some degree in both languages. It features built-in input-output mapping support and provides the ability to define complex fitness calculations in Lisp or Python.
Cheap Threads 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125673/
Cheap Threads is a collection of portable C routines for implementing sychronous threads. It includes a scheduler and a facility for passing messages among threads. Threads may run in a round robin or according to a priority scheme. Each thread must voluntarily relinquish control from time, via an ordinary function return, so that other threads can run. Since the threads are synchronous, i.e. they don't interrupt each other, they don't need to use semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, or other facilities to keep from interfering with each other. One version of Cheap Threads is designed for embedded systems.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125618/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform.
Condenser 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125567/
Condenser is a tool for finding and removing duplicated Java code. Unlike tools that only locate duplicated code, Condenser is also able to automatically remove duplicated code where it is safe to do so.
CxxTest 2.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125572/
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
DbVisualizer 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125656/
DbVisualizer is a cross-platform database visualization and management tool which entirely relies on the JDBC, Java Database Connectivity APIs. DbVisualizer enables simultaneous connections to many different databases through JDBC drivers. Just point and click to browse the structure of the database, characteristics of tables, etc. Arbitrary SQL statements can be executed and saved between sessions. DbVisualizer supports a variety of databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Informix, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloudscape, McKoi, SAP DB, and InstantDB.
dmidecode 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125631/
Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. It was first written by Alan Cox and is now being maintained by Jean Delvare. Part of its code can be found in the Linux kernel, because DMI data may be used to enable or disable specific portions of code depending on the hardware vendor. Thus, dmidecode is mainly used to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source code when needed.
Dnsmasq 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125641/
Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections.
DocLite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125608/
DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system. It produces multi-page HTML output in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook-created documents. DocLite processes a single XML file into a number of separate HTML pages, and it creates a contents page that contains links to the various topics within each page. The idea is to produce usable documentation with a minimum of hassle.
DOLFIN 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125606/
DOLFIN is used as a platform for research in adaptive finite element methods for PDEs at Chalmers Finite Element Center and at the Department of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Dr.Cat 0.4.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125639/
Dr.Cat (Dave's Remote Cat) concatenates a file on a remote Linux host that is running the Dr.Cat daemon (drcatd) to stdout in the clients terminal. It authenticates users versus the standard shadow password authentication facility and spawns a process with that users permissions to attempt to access the requested file. If the file exists and the user has the necessary permissions the file is sent to stdout on the clients terminal; otherwise it returns "file not found".
EmPy 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125540/
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.
EXACT 1.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125583/
EXACT is a program that implements POP-before-SMTP relay authentication. It supports UW-imap, Qpopper, Cyrus, Perdition, EXIM, and Sendmail out of the box. POP-before-SMTP relay authentication is commonly used on systems that provide IMAP and/or POP services as well as SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server.
Firebird Relational Database 1.5 RC3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125523/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
FreeBSD-boot-rescue 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125666/
FreeBSD-boot-rescue is a small FreeBSD system for the purpose of system booting or repairing a boot/rescue system. You can put it on a CD or floppy and boot it. It has support for many filesystems (ext2, ufs1/2, ntfs, nfs, msdos, and iso9660).
FreeIPdb 0.2-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125592/
FreeIPdb is a Web-based tool designed to manage, assign, track, and audit IP address assignments and allocations. It uses a best fit/binary tree method to make the most of limited IP address space. It is designed for use by ISPs and end users. Features include SQL data storage, a self-collapsing tree, and reporting.
Freevix 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125547/
Freevix is a tiny GNU/Linux distribution designed to provide a complete but small footprint environment for people wanting to build a Linux media player system with Freevo. Currently optimized for the VIA EPIA mainboards, it provides sub 45 second boot times, operation entirely from RAM, and supports loading from a 32MB CF card, HD, USB Flash Drive, CD, or PXE network booting.
FUDforum 2.5.0RC5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125588/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
genlop 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125646/
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_10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125561/
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.).
gluX 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125625/
GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions. It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program. At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or not.
GNOME-Mud 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125550/
GNOME-Mud (formerly AMCL) is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client that aims to make mudding a bit easier. It can define aliases, triggers, variables, keyboard shortcuts, and has a connection wizard for easy management of different player characters and MUDs.
GNU Gadu 2.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125584/
GNU Gadu 2 is a modular instant messaging client with a GUI written in GTK2. It currently supports Gadu-Gadu, Tlen.pl, and Jabber. It is able to load Perl scripts, dock in several window managers, play sounds, talk to other programs via a UNIX socket, send SMS messages to Polish GSM operators, automatically check for updates, and use XOSD for displaying notices.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.8.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125568/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.
Grammatica 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125624/
Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It can create readable and commented source code from an LL(k) grammar. It also supports creating a parser in runtime without generating source code. The grammar productions are described in EBNF and tokens in regular expressions.
GreenIcos Icons .1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125530/
GreenIcos is a green-colored icon set for KDE 3.x.
green_lotr_I 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125462/
green_lotr_I is a green theme based on Rivendell from The Lord of the Rings.
Grip 3.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125612/
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
Guru for SELF 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125559/
Given a collection of Self objects, Guru produces an equivalent set of objects in which there is no duplication of methods or certain types of expressions. To achieve this, it creates a replacement inheritance hierarchy and methods for factoring out expressions. The central motivation is that as systems evolve the design can deteriorate. Automatically refactoring a system can help a programmer restructure the system to reverse any deterioration. Guru has been developed in and for the object-centric language Self.
HelpmeICT 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125616/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
HFFzip 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125619/
HFFzip is a file compressor for Linux and FreeBSD based on Huffman coding. Although this file compressor is not so good as other compression programs (like gzip), it is right for embedded systems, because of its little size and the simple algorithm used.
HTML::Embperl 2.0b9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125544/
Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML or XML/XSLT documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an OO-style. It can also build taglibs and use caching. You can also take advantage of hundreds of Perl modules which have already been written for such tasks as database access to a growing number of database systems. Embperl has several features especially useful for creating HTML, including dynamic tables, formfield-processing, escaping/unescaping, session handling, and more. Embperl is a server-side tool, which means that it's browser-independent. It can run in various ways: under mod_perl, as a CGI script, or offline.
HTML::PopupTreeSelect 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125627/
HTML::PopupTreeSelect is a Perl module which creates an HTML popup tree selector using HTML::Template. The HTML and Javascript produced will work in Mozilla 1+ (Netscape 6+) on all operating systems and Microsoft IE 5+ on Windows and Mac. The design for this widget is based on the xTree widget from WebFX and resembles a Windows Explorer directory tree.
IceWM Icons 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125636/
IceWM Icons is a set of XPM 16x16 and 32x32 icons for IceWM. It also includes an improved winoptions file to add icons of some applications to frames and the taskbar.
iChatExporter 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125634/
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.
Irmo 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125669/
Irmo is a generalized client-server multiplayer engine provided in the form of a library. It can be used as a base for development of multiplayer games.
Issue Manager 0.8.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125602/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
JaxMeXS 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125536/
JaxMeXS is a parser for XML Schema, written in Java. Unlike Xerces or similar parsers, this one isn't written for validation of conforming instances, but for schema authors who like to use the schema information or extend the XML Schema language with private data. An excellent example is JAXB, the Java/XML binding specification.
kavi2svcd 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125587/
kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them.
KdeAm 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125644/
KdeAm is an answering machine frontend for Linux, written using KDE. It needs to have the vboxgetty daemons running to handle the answering of calls. The vboxgetty stores the messages in the vbox spool directory, from which KdeAm then picks them up.
Keylime for Zope 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125521/
Keylime for Zope is a set of generic objects to facilitate fast SQL application development. It offers the following objects, which can be used or overridden: htmlView, htmlInsert, formInsert, htmlUpdate, formUpdate, and htmlDelete. It uses Folder properties to define sqlTable, sqlKey, and sqlUniq so that the application will function using generic or overridden forms. Infinitely hierarchical application can be written very quickly. Sample apps and a Zope installation guide are included.
Khttrack 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125620/
Khttrack is a easy-to-use offline browser utility with a KDE Wizard Interface. It is a frontend to Httrack, used as a library, for KDE. It allows you to download a WWW site from the Internet to a local directory, recursively building all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. It arranges the original site's relative link-structure. It can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. It is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
KRconLinux 0.1RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125594/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and changing server variables.
LibTomMath 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125548/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
LILO 22.5.5-beta2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125657/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
Linbox Backup Server 20030604
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125599/
The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. Bootable installation CD-ROMs can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports ext2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems.
LinPacker 0.4.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125541/
Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem). It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
Lupy 0.1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125632/
Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware.
MailStripper Pro 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125533/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent.
Mamory 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125640/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
Managing Gigabytes for Java 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125610/
MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative effort aimed at providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques; as a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised classes, including fast and compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, fast unsychronised buffered streams, (possibly signed) minimal perfect hashing, etc.
MerlinWork 0.9.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125570/
MerlinWork (the Merlin Web Application Framework) is a framework for Web-based, event driven stateful applications written in PHP. It allows easy integration with databases, or other data sources such as text files. It is fully object-oriented so the code is very re-usable and extendable.
mhWaveEdit 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125652/
mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is good at editing both large and small files, and has support for 8/16/24/32-bit signed and unsigned sample formats.
minido 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125626/
minido is a simple, generic, multi-user, database-free todo list manager and tracking system written in GTK2. Its interface is generated from a simple data description file in XML.
Mp3cdBrowser 1.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125647/
Mp3cdBrowser is a Java program which stores MP3 information in a database. You can add an MP3 manually or by scanning a hard drive/CD for files. Information about the MP3s is obtained using their ID3 (v1 and 2) tags. You can search the database for MP3s by CD ID, artist, album, title, etc.
Mysql Data Manager 1.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125662/
Mysql Data Manager is a Web-based MySQL client that provides local or remote database access. It allows direct data access and database management via an easy and intuitive interface.
mysqlwdb 1.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125651/
mysqlwdb is a CGI script written in Perl. It is easy to configure and install, and is intended to be used to manage MySQL database tables via a Web interface. You only need to edit and configure one file.
MythTV 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125539/
MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote.
NDir 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125579/
NDir is a terminal tool to display the contents of directories. It can both provide a brief overview on the present files and display all interesting information associated with the files. NDir is designed to display its output in a more legible and informative way than ls. This includes various degrees of verbosity, a statistics line for each directory, coloured output and intelligent handling of long file names.
Neomik 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125528/
Neomik is a simple theme inspired by the KDE 3.x theme "keramik" along with a number of other influences.
Netdisco 0.91 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125628/
Netdisco is a Web-based network management tool. Users can locate the switch port of an end-user system by IP or MAC address. Data is stored using a SQL database. Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) optionally provides automatic discovery of the network topology. The network is inventoried by both device model and operating system (like IOS). It uses router ARP tables and L2 switch MAC forwarding tables to locate nodes on physical ports and track them by their IP addresses. For each node, a time stamped history of the ports it has visited and the IP addresses it has used is maintained. It gets all its data, including &n