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[osdn business] June 12, 2003
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 04:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/0143249
[0]pajor writes "BBC News is reporting that that [1]The Matrix Reloaded
has been banned in Egypt. The country's censorship board cited violence
which might 'harm social peace', but also said the 'religious themes'
of the film's storyline, about the search for the creator and control
of the human race, may cause 'crises'. A statement said: 'Despite the
high technology and fabulous effects of the movie, it explicitly
handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the
three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.'"
Links
The Australian Broadband Disaster
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/2050222
[0]David Gerard writes "Monopolies are bad, mmmkay? Robert Clark of
TelecomAsia discusses [1]the disaster that is broadband in Australia -
its 2% takeup putting Australia behind such dynamic economies as
Estonia. 'Telstra controls the local loop, is the largest mobile
carrier with two digital networks, is the largest retail ISP, the
largest wholesale data and Internet provider, and is a 50% shareholder
in the biggest pay TV company.'"
Links
Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/0210223
Zeta writes "The answers are finally in! Stanford's Lawrence Lessig and
the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim have [0]responded to all the tough questions
on copyrighted music, many from Slashdot readers, for the online part
of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Take a look - some of the
responses may surprise you." We ran [1]the original call for questions
a few weeks back.
Links
0. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyright.html
SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/0019209
[0]bcisys writes "Reuters is reporting that SCO is [1]planning to
revoke IBM's license to Unix this Friday unless IBM settles SCO's claim
that parts of its Unix code are being used in Linux. 'If we don't have
a resolution by midnight on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a
different place', SCO President and Chief Executive Darl McBride told
Reuters News. 'We've basically mapped out what we will do. People will
be running AIX without a valid license.'"
Links
0. mailto:bnc@bcisys.com
Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/2231244
Jerrry writes "CNET News reports [0]The Open Group is [1]suing Apple
over unlicensed use of the Unix trademark, after Apple used the term in
conjunction with its Mac OS X marketing. Apple, meanwhile, is
countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the
term has become generic."
Links
FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/222206
PingXao writes "Amidst the various anti-spam efforts underway in
Washington, the FTC surprised lawmakers by saying they [0]need to be
able to secretly investigate the worst-offending spammers, according to
a Washington Post article. I'm generally against government secrecy,
but quietly investigating spammers isn't as bad as secret courts and
arrests. Is this acceptable, or another mis-step down the slippery
slope?"
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44108-2003Jun11.html
One-Thumb Keyboard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/2056221
[0]pagercam2 writes "As Japanese teens are so used to typing one
another messages on their cellphones, they are now more comfortable
with one thumb typing than the old two handed QWERTY. So a Japanese
company has come out with a [1]one-thumb keypad that allows a user to
enter alphanumberic text and control the mouse with only one thumb.
Sort of a cross between a TV remote and a phone keypad, with a USB
connection, although wireless seems to be an obvious next step. Maybe
not a revolution for the desktop, but this could advance data input on
handhelds." Pictures transcend language barriers.
Links
0. mailto:pagercam2@yahoo.com
Wal-Mart Enters NetFlix's Business
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1929237
[0]wcbrown writes "AP [1]reports that [2]Wal-Mart is entering into the
online DVD rental arena, currently dominated by [3]Netflix. Wal-Mart is
starting out with 13,000 titles, six distribution centers, and
competitive pricing. With a seriously [4]tremendous infrastructure and
expansive will, Wal-Mart stands poised to overtake Netflix. To say the
least, that's not going to be good for business."
Links
0.
http://www.bbrown.info/
1.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030610/D7RJ558O0.html
2.
http://www.walmart.com/
3.
http://www.netflix.com/
4.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/mostadmired/articles/0,15114,423053-2,00.html
Confronting Address Space Hijackers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1853254
Tawn writes "There's a great story on [0]SecurityFocus about hijackers
[1]taking over large allocations of IPv4 space with forged documents
and false business fronts. Los Angeles County and some big
multinationals have had /16's pulled out from under them in the last
few months, and used to inject spam. ARIN and network operators are
trying to get a handle on the problem. The owner of a webhosting
company that wound up with L.A. County's /16 called it 'borrowed
space,' and said he paid $500 for it to a guy he met online."
Links
0. http://www.securityfocus.com/
Is 3G Irrelevant?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1751220
An anonymous reader writes "Network Magazine asks '[0]Are We Better Off
Without 3G?' in which the author notes that many networkers are giving
up on 3G as a data services alternative due to high deployment costs
and slower speeds vs. Wi-Fi. Given these issues, are we likely to see
carriers like Nextel bypassing 3G for 4G technologies such as OFDM
(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) by [1]Flarion
Technologies?"
Links
0. http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=10300091&classroom=
Newsforge Reports
One-day Linux project brings Internet to disadvantaged Miami kids
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/2022224
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Miami's Liberty City is one of the worst neighborhoods in a city famous for bad neighborhoods. The Liberty City Learning Center is a privately-run effort to help neighborhood children break the cycle of ignorance that keeps them there. And now, thanks to volunteers from two Florida Linux user groups and hardware donations from local businesses, Liberty City Learning Center can add computer and Internet training to ...
Real-time alerting with Snort, part 1 of 3 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1939256
- by Jack Koziol - Snort is built to perform one task and perform it very well. It does a magnificent job of detecting intrusions. Anything beyond intrusion detection is left up to you to handle. One capability you should add is real-time alerting.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Reality Check: How Safe Is Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/2035246
Many of the programs included in Linux distros have programming errors that lead to things like privilege escalation, whereby a common user tricks a program into thinking it has more privileges than it does, says Guardian Digital CEO Dave Wreski.
Matsushita and Sony to Develop Linux Platform http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1941246
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) and Sony Corporation today announced their agreement to work in partnership on the development of an enhanced Linux platform for digital home electronic devices. The companies will aim to apply the fruits of their collaboration to their AV (audio visual) products and to make the source code available to the public for free in order to encourage its broader use throughout the industry.
Orbz 2.0: Linux Game Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/191226
Augustus writes "Linux Hardware has published a review of Garage Games Orbz 2.0: "Coming out swinging from Garage Games is Orbz 2.0, the cross platform game that aims to cross the First Person Shooter with Nintendo's Mario. They have gone 3D, slapped down some landscape, given up some targets, and tagged the final product with the low, low price of less than $20. But is this more bargain bin fodder, or a steal? That's what I intended to find ...
Genestia Group, Inc released Neoxen Qwinux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1839218
Genestia Group, Inc - Neoxen Systems writes "As the first product of its kind, Neoxen Qwinux is a unique professional distribution designed to meet the needs of all developers as the most comprehensive Open Source programming resource available for Microsoft Windows. It is formatted in easy to read HTML and provides the most comprehensive selection of 'best-in-class' tools and documentation composed into a single unified distribution. Neoxen ...
Microsoft Launches New Security Certification http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1733229
ljb writes "Apparently, it didn't occur to Continental Airlines exec Nathan Hanks that Linux professionals might also be frequest flyers. He seems a bit overly defensive about the affect of SQL Slammer on Continental, but rather than accepting any blame, he resorts to ad hominen attacks on Linux "guys".
HP, Dell Agree To Ship Java On Windows, Linux PCs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1731224
Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer will be shipping the latest version of Java with their PCs and laptops running Windows and Linux, said Rich Green, vice president of developer platforms at Sun Microsystems.
SuSE to sign Sun, HP to desktop deals
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1652243
SuSE is close to wrapping up OEM deals with Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard that will call for the Linux distributor to bundle its version of the open source operating system on select client and server systems from Sun and on HP's lower-end servers.
James the Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1629249
Anonymous Reader writes "These articles form a two-part series on the Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server, also known as James. The first article provides a high-level overview, briefly touching on the Apache group's design objectives, and describes how to install and configure a workable development environment. In the second article, you will be taken beyond the basic James infrastructure and implement a practical application for flagging users ...
New Services Takes the Pain Out of Small Business http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1627237
BITSWW writes "ROUND ROCK, TX – 6/10/03 – Business IT Solutions World Wide, LLC announced today the commercial launch of its WebtopPro (www.WebtopPro.com) service. WebtopPro provides secure file storage, a desktop interface, and an array of standard applications for a monthly fee as low as one hundred dollars (five concurrent users, without the extended service plan). Employees can log in from any computer with a recent web browser ...
TimeSys Linux-Powered Mars Exploration Rover Demonstrated at JavaOne http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/1557253
JavaOne Conference, San Francisco, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA - June 11th, 2003 -TimeSys, a leader in embedded Linux® and embedded development tools, announced that its TimeSys Linux RTOS (real-time operating system) and JTime real-time Java^TM virtual machine are driving the Mars Exploration Rover concept vehicle being demonstrated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Sun Microsystems' James Gosling at the JavaOne Conference this week in ...
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.6.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125707/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
acpi4asus 0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125782/
acpi4asus is a Linux kernel module and user-space daemon that handles special keys, LEDs, and extra ACPI features found on Asus laptops. It has been reported to work on Asus A1X/D1/L1X/L2X/L3X/M2X/S1X, but other models should also be supported.
aesutil 1.0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125756/
aesutil is a small library and command line program to encrypt or decrypt data using the Rijndael algorithm in CBC mode.
Album Shaper 1.0a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125689/
Album Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML and JPG. Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows quick and easy arrangement and categorization of photos. A few simple image manipulations such as rotation and flipping are provided to help get photos presentable as quickly as possible. Photos, subalbums, and albums themselves can be labeled as needed and modified at a later time by saving and loading from a simple XML format.
Amaranth Icons .5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125677/
Amaranth Icons is a smooth icon theme which was made with Adobe Illustrator 10. It will soon be released as SVG icons.
Aranha 0.0.426
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125777/
Aranha is a piece of software written to allow Web applications to be written more cleanly and more easily. It is a Local FastCGI Responder, although work is in progress to allow it to work as a FastCGI Authoriser and a FastCGI Filter. It is based on the programming language Lua, and contains many extensions to enable easy Web site development and maintenance.
Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125704/
acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.
Aurox Linux 9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125715/
Aurox Linux is a Linux distribution that emphasizes support for European localizations.
Avoid The Roid 3D 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125687/
Avoid The Roid 3D is a 3D asteroids-like multiplayer game. The player flies around in a three dimensional space, shooting asteroids and other ships while trying to avoid running into any of them or being shot.
AWStats 5.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125455/
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more. It works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek.
BitlBee 0.74a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125734/
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.
Blue Day 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125691/
Blue Day is a theme with water and mountains. The background is by fusionx.
Clover 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125712/
Clover makes the gathering and analysis of code coverage metrics as painless as possible. The main features include tight integration with the popular Jakarta Ant build tool, accurate, configurable coverage recording. It gathers Method, Statement and Branch coverage data. Compile-time properties and source level directives allow for precise control over the coverage gathering process. It also allows the user to view coverage data in XML, HTML, or via a Swing GUI. Report-time options allow for the exclusion of particular statement types from coverage analysis.
Columba 0.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125761/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.
contacts 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125791/
contacts gives you access to view and search all your records in Mac OS X's AddressBook database from the commandline.
cwISPy 1.2.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125719/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
cyrus2courier 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125658/
cyrus2courier is a little hack to convert a single mailbox from the format used by Cyrus-Imap into the Maildir++ format used by the Courier-Imap IMAP server.
DCGUI-QT 0.2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125711/
DCGUI-QT a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125720/
Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.
Directory administrator 1.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125675/
Directory administrator is a smart LDAP directory management tool. It can be used to manage UNIX and Samba user accounts and groups in a single sign-on setup, corporate address book information, host-based access control and advanced email routing. It's extremely easy to install and use, yet powerful at the same time.
Emdros 1.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125736/
Emdros is a text database engine for annotated or analyzed text. It is applicable in linguistics, publishing, text processing, and other fields dealing with annotated text. Emdros has a powerful query language for asking relevant questions of the data. It is middleware, acting as a layer between a client (written by the user), and an underlying database. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
eZ publish 3.1 beta 2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125739/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
focuseek searchbox 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125753/
focuseek searchbox is an easily installable full-text search engine that can spider Web or intranet sites, or index data you feed to it, and make it available for searching through a Web form. It supports a variety of input formats, and is easily scriptable via a SOAP API or a REST interface, and can scale to millions of documents.
FreeMarker 2.3pre3 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125798/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
freepia 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125773/
Freepia is small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on VIA EPIA-M mainboards. It currently only runs on the M-9000. The main goal of this project is to build a full-featured, low-noise media box to play movies, MP3s, images, etc. It currently uses freevo as its media viewer, but in the future there may be support for others, like mythtv or vdr.
FW1-Loggrabber 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125790/
FW1-Loggrabber is a simple LEA (Log Export API) client for Checkpoint Firewall-1. It was developed to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from commandline from any host in the network. Without an LEA client you can only access logs with graphical Checkpoint Tools or via commandline directly on the Firewall-1 machine. The primary goal was to automate reports of FW-1 logs with LIRE.
FXRuby 1.0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125794/
FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.
GImageView 0.2.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125752/
GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing, thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.
GPdf 0.103
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125697/
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
gtkcdlabel 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125721/
gtkcdlabel is a GTK 2 frontend to cdlabelgen, a Perl script that allows you to create nice CD covers. gtkcdlabel is based on code from gcombust and gcdlabelgen.
gucharmap 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125770/
gucharmap is a Unicode/ISO 10646 character map and font viewer. It supports anti-aliased, scalable truetype fonts in X, using Xft, and works on Unix and Windows platforms.
h2incn 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125733/
h2incn tries to directly convert C/C++ headers to Nasm-style include files, and can be used in a makefile. It is useful if you want to use the same structures or external variable declarations in C and assembler code, and you don't want to use two separate files and update both each time you change something. It is written in a mix of C and C++ code. It currently works for simple files.
HardCore Web Content Management 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125694/
HardCore Web Content Management is an easy-to-use and inexpensive Web content management system. It runs on most major Web platform operating systems, databases, Web servers, and scripting languages. It is available in three editions: Personal (for individuals), Professional (for organizations), and Hosting (for Web hosting service providers).
HaXml 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125760/
HaXml is a suite of libraries and tools for manipulating XML documents in Haskell. It includes a parser, a pretty-printer, a validator, a combinator library for transforming documents, and converters for changing a Haskell datatype into an XML DTD, and for changing an XML DTD into a set of Haskell datatypes. There are also tools for a query language based on XQL.
Helix Python Player Extension 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125671/
The Helix Python Player Extension (pyplayer) is a Python interface for the Helix DNA Client. The Helix DNA Client is the media playback engine used by the RealOne Player. pyplayer allows for scripted playback and other automation tasks using the Helix media engine.
iftop 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125765/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.
Ikaros Simulation Framework 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125746/
Ikaros is a framework for writing and running component-based simulators. It is presently used for simulations of brain areas and learning models, but is general enough to be easily used for any discrete-time simulations. A simulation consists of modules written in C or C++ that are connected in the simulator, with connections specified in an XML file. At this time it is a console-based application, but there are socket-based hooks for adding a GUI. The package contains a number of modules and complete documentation for working with the framework.
im-ja 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125735/
im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad).
inline_smtp 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125762/
The inline_smtp Perl script was created to allow filtering of incoming mail on a separate server that houses the mailspools without running a full-blown MTA. While it's possible to configure another MTA, e.g. postfix, to relay all mail to a smart host and do filtering through postfix, the queue can get behind easily, and on a busy host thousands of messages can get queued in a few hours causing delays in delivery from a few minutes to several hours. By filtering while redirecting, mail arrives without any delays, and can be filtered by a seperate host adding headers or content reducing the load on the final mail host.
Inside Systems Mail 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125757/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
Interact 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125678/
Interact is an online learning and collaboration platform that was developed by the Christchurch College of Education. It was designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online, and is based around constructivist and Vygotskian views of teaching and learning.
Jaba Server 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125767/
Jaba Server is an open source Java implementation of Jabber Server. Its purpose is to produce a fast, simple, and highly efficient server, with modularization/datasource features (especially on the users list repository), and high scalability using J2EE/JMS.
JBIG-KIT 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125769/
JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents. It provides a portable C library of compression and decompression functions with a documented interface that can easily be included into image or document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT provides ready-to-use compression and decompression programs with a simple command line interface (similar to the converters found in netpbm). It implements the specification ISO 11544 and ITU-T T.82, which is commonly referred to as the "JBIG1 standard".
Kahakai 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125688/
Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding scripting support for many languages through SWIG.
Koalog Code Coverage 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125750/
Koalog Code Coverage is a code coverage computation application written in the Java programming language. Its main features are in-process or remote coverage computation, the ability to work directly on Java binaries without recompilation, predefined (XML, HTML, LaTeX, CSV, TEXT) or custom report generation, session merging, portability, ease-of-use, and Ant integration.
konspire2b beta1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125716/
konspire2b is a content distribution system that takes the standard peer-to-peer model and turns it upside-down. Instead of downloaders broadcasting search requests, content sources send out announcements for the content that they have. This simple change gives the konspire2b network several nice properties, including log-bounded distribution times.
Krefty 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125737/
Krefty is an application that runs under KDE. It is designed to display short cuts, hot keys, and command lines in a "Quick Reference Sheet" fashion. The data is held in XML files and can thus be modified and added to as necessary. Display fonts and colors are controlled by a CSS stylesheet and can also be modified as necessary. It is hoped that over time other people can contribute their "Krefty Sheets" to the project and a set of files will be built up. NOTE: the data files come in a separate tarball available from the home page.
libcfgparse 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125780/
libcfgparse is a small library designed to parse configuration files. The configuration file is kept in a C-like syntax, with defined grammar. The variables defined in the file can be arranged in branches (like C structs) and lists (arrays). They can be accessed in a simple manner using a C or C++ API.
LinkBrowser 1.226
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125766/
LinkBrowser is a program for browsing the links in HTML documents and downloading the files that they reference. Basically, this program is like a normal Web browser, but instead of rendering the HTML it just shows a table of all the files that the html references. The files can be downloaded in batches.
Linux 2.4.21-rc8 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125696/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.6 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125682/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
linuxsms 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125755/
Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions.
Llucy 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125692/
Llucy is a theme with a landscape in blues and golds. The background is by Sebastian Marquez.
MAD 0.15.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125764/
MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder capable of 24-bit output. All computations are performed with fixed-point integer arithmetic, making it ideal for systems without a floating-point unit. The implementation is entirely new, based on the ISO/IEC standards.
MailListStat 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125726/
MailListStat generates useful statistics for email archives stored in the mbox format. It will show the top 10 authors, most successful subjects, and more. It also prints graphs showing the number of messages written during different hours of the day, days of the month, and days of the week. The output is in text format suitable for mailing. It also produces output in plain text or HTML format, includes a PHP wrapper, and supports cache files. It is mainly useful for mailing list archives, produces tables and graphs, and supports different output languages (English, Slovak, Italian, Francais, Deutsch, Spanish, Serbian, and more).
mkvtoolnix 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125795/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
Music Player Daemon 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125742/
Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis) and managing playlists. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it includes a Web interface, phpMp. The goals are to be easy to install/use, to have minimal resource requirements, stability, and flexibility.
Naamah 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125705/
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.
NFS Commander 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125659/
NFS Commander is a Mac OS X tool for managing NFS mounts and exports.
nldict 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125709/
nldict is a Ruby interface to the on-line Van Dale "Groot Woordenboek Hedendaags Nederlands", a renowned dictionary of the modern Dutch language. It can be used to obtain spelling, grammatical information, and the definition of all words in the dictionary.
Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server 2.2 beta3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125706/
Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow. Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format; versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g. mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies.
Ogg Theora Alpha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125686/
Ogg Theora is Xiph.Org's first publicly released video codec, intended for use within the Ogg's project's Ogg multimedia streaming system. Theora is derived directly from On2's VP3 codec and is a superset of VP3.
OpenInteract 1.99_00 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125685/
OpenInteract is an extensible Web application server written in pure Perl. It includes a robust system of components, object-oriented data access, a consistent security scheme for both tasks and data objects, a simple user and group management system, and a convenient packaging system that makes it easy to distribute custom applications, amongst other things. It is stable, and runs out of the box on five different databases.
oxygen XML editor 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125714/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
pdfcrypt 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125774/
pdfcrypt allows you to set permissions on a PDF file. For example, you can publish a document without permitting users to print it. The button to print the file will be disabled in the Acrobat Reader application. It can be used as a batch application to set permissions on a large group of PDF files, or as a filter in a Unix pipeline, or within a CGI application. Only binary executables are distributed, but the original Perl source code may be requested.
phpSANE 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125730/
phpSANE is a Web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP. Now you can scan with your Web browser, too.
Project Penguin Database 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125708/
Project Penguin Database (PPD) is a centralized databases of Linux boxes all around the world that is designed to report detailed statistics including processor information, software, network device statistics, filesystem information, uptime, load average, etc. This program is a client that uploads information to the server with statistics about the user's machine.
PyPov 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125784/
PyPov is a relatively simple Python framework for generating povray files. It allows the programmer to create objects and manipulate their attributes from within a Python script. It's good for creating structured/mathematical scenes and animations.
qpsmtpd 0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125710/
qpsmtpd is a plugin driven, object-oriented qmail-smtpd replacement written in Perl. Its features include tools to avoid accepting mails that have to bounce anyway, SpamAssassin integration, and a fancy object-oriented system for extension plugins. Most functionality is implemented in simple plugins.
Quantian 0.3-clusterKnoppix_2003-05-20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125679/
Quantian is a directly bootable and self-configuring Linux system on a single CD-ROM. It is based on Knoppix and adds about 500MB of software with a quantitative, numerical, or scientific focus such as R, Octave, GiNaC, GSL, Maxima, OpenDX, Pari, PSPP, QuantLib, Scilab, XLisp-Stat, and Yorick.
Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125683/
Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for any language that is regular.
RasterImageManipulator 1.028
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125768/
RasterImageManipulator is a free program for image processing and fractal exploration. It has many features for customizing the appearance of fractal images. These include special filters, a palette editor, gradient palette creator, and animated palette cycling.
rdiald 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125775/
rdiald allows users in your home network to initiate a dialup connection to one of a freely configurable set of internet service providers on the server rdiald is running on. Multiple users can be online at the same time, and the connection is only terminated once the last user goes offline. The users are allowed to execute any commands that have been defined previously on the server and to hang up as soon as these commands have finished.