[osdn business] June 13, 2003

[0]DM420 writes "On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the
world's first city to have its own Internet domain.Great to hear since one day I hope to be an owner of my own TLD and this is a step in the right direction. ;) The registry is located at [1]www.la and further details at [2]DMnews.com" Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the .la TLD. Looks to be on the pricier side of domains, though.
Links

    0. mailto:fag@home.com
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http://www.la/
    2. 
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=24139

Open Spectrum: Toward Ubiquitous Connectivity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1823257

[0]obiwan2u writes "[1]ACM's [2]Queue magazine has a moderately dense
article describing how [3]new intelligent radios may free up under-utilized spectrum bandwidth, possibly providing solutions to the
[4] last mile bottleneck."

Links

    0. mailto:PublicMailbox@nOspam.benslade.com
    1. 
http://www.acm.org/
    2. 
http://www.acmqueue.org/
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http://www.acmqueue.org/issue3/openspec1.cfm?client_no=NEW
    4. 
http://www.broadnetalliance.org/who_we_are_principles.html

Slashback: Mars, Linksys, Torrent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/0111209

Slashback tonight brings updates and followups on several recent Slashdot postings. Among other things, Linksys says they're not violating the GPL, and Tiger Direct says that Michael Robertson's claims about Microsoft targeting Lindows buyers are way off base. Speaking of which, Microsoft has decided it makes more sense to embrace schools than to alienate them with hard-nosed licensing policies on donated PCs. Also, a torrent file for the Red Hat 9 version of Ximian's latest desktop, and more. Read on for the details.

Philips Introduces Mirror TV
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/2226201

UnknowingFool writes "[0]PCWorld.com is reporting that [1] Philips is introducing mirror TV. It is a combination mirror with LCD monitor that will be rolling out to hotels. The screens will be 1280 x 768 resolution and come in 17, 23, and 30 inch sizes. It reminds me of TV PiP where the main part is the mirror and the smaller part is the monitor. [2]Philips hopes to install it in homes later." Links

    0. 
http://www.pcworld.com/
    1. 
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111100,00.asp
    2. 
http://www.philips.com/

Do We Still Need Telcos (and ISPs)?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1933247

0. http://www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/archives/000071.php

eraserewind asks: "Are telecom providers and ISPs going to continue to be necessary in the future? Why are we all paying subscriptions for communicating? What I want is a global extremely-high-speed ad-hoc wireless data & voice network, where the only entry cost is a mobile phone (or newtork card or whatever). Devices communicate peer to peer, or routed via other people's idle devices. Remember there is no subscriptions, so don't expect to piggy-back on someone's paid for DSL bandwidth. What are the technological barriers? What kind of protocols would you need? What hardware advances? How would you solve problems of geographic isolation? Are there theoretical, political or economic reasons it couldn't work?"

Bill Gates, Entertainment God?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1930257

[0]ppgreat sent in a wired story about the [1]home of the future sort
of story discussing A/V in a Microsoft Media Player 9 future. As seems to always be the case, there's a lot of cool stuff in there, but more than a few eyebrow raises.
Links

0. mailto:pgreatbatch@comcast.net

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/40gates.html

PPC 970 Powerbooks and Powermacs in Production? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1921217

Thadddius_Brinks writes "MacWispers.com is reporting [0]here that apple is currently in production of a redesigned single processor PowerPC 970 Powermac system and a 15.4 inch Powerbook. They (MacWhispers.com) are also standing by their earlier claims about the speed of the new processor." This article consolidates many of the major rumors surrounding WWDC including the rumor of a new case for the Powermacs, but it raises the ultimate question: 17" Powerbook, or PPC 970 Powerbook?
Links

Newsforge Reports
Real-time alerting with Snort, part 2 of 3 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1738243

by Jack Koziol - Last time we introduced some issues to consider when implementing real-time alerting with Snort. Once you've considered the issues, it's time to put your planning into practice. Today we'll talk about how to use swatch to handle alerts. Next time we'll cover setting up distributed three-tier alerting.

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Continental Airlines doesn't like Linux users http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/132234

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - In an article published June 3 by TechWeb under the title Microsoft Launches New Security Certification, a Continental Airlines employee had some nasty things to say about Linux users and developers.

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 ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/0214210

Derek Kraan writes "David Coursey explores the possibility of a Microsoft Linux distro in a letter to Steve Ballmer. He outlines a possible Microsoft takeover of Linux, and relates it directly to their takeover of the internet."

eZ publish 3.1 beta 2 release
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/0211238

eZ systems writes "eZ systems has released eZ publish 3.1 beta 2 which is the last of two beta releases for the eZ publish 3.1 content management system. This release includes bug fixing to the existing version of eZ publish 3.1 beta. Visit ez.no for more news about the 3.1 beta 1 release."

LinuxQuestions.org adds a Review Section http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/0210236

linuxquestions writes "The review section allows you to quickly and easily compare and review your favorite Distributions. You can view pros, cons, price paid, rating and a short review. You can also add your own comments.

German Penguins Launch Successful Counter-Attack in SCO vs Linux War http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/014250

Reader writes "German penguins call SCO-Caldera' bluff. MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo discusses the German injunctions with Univention's Peter H. Ganten, first to enjoin SCO's anti-Linux FUD. Leading the Penguin counter-attack on SCO, Univention GmbH and Tarent GmbH obtained preliminary injunctions from the Bremen and Munich Regional Courts - prohibiting SCO-Caldera from circulating "the idea that the Linux ...

PowerBook, iBook nominated for Linux hardware award http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1837224

The PowerBook and iBook have been nominated in the Best Linux Hardware category of the UK LinuxUser & Developer Awards. They're competing against the SGI Altrix 3000 (a family of clusters and superclusters) and the Xinit Sharq SPS440 (an enterprise-class SCSI-based server).

Fujitsu Siemens: PC boom days are over
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1551241

Adrian von Hammerstein, head of Europe's largest PC maker, says the PC industry is maturing and will not return to its high-growth days anytime soon. However, there is a silver lining.

Mac G5: Too Little, Too Late
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1747242

Instead of a hot new model, Apple needs a new manufacturing process that will enable it to compete price-wise with Windows. Of course, the G5's release instantly lowers the price on the G4. And those G4 Titaniums are still looking good.

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AOL Connects AIM, ICQ Users
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1745221

Anonymous Reader writes "AOL has introduced a version of ICQ that can talk to AOL Instant Messenger users."

Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1729226

Users and resellers of RAV AntiVirus, popular especially on Linux platforms, are in limbo after Microsoft Corp. announced plans to buy the RAV technology from Romania's GeCAD Software Srl.

Linux: Catalyst for Server Consolidation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/1632255

"Linux on Intel is probably the optimal solution for server consolidation," said Ted Schadler of Forrester Research. "It can handle the workloads of Web servers, file and print, and database storage," he told NewsFactor.

Freshmeat
Aapl C++ Template Library 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125808/

Aapl is a C++ template library for generic programming. It contains Linked List, Avl Tree, Vector, Binary Search Table, Double Ended Queue, Finite State Machine Graph, String, and Sort. The library is designed to be versatile for the programmer. For example, the linked list utilizes both inheritance and templates to allow a single instance of a data structure to be an element in multiple lists. In general, Aapl data structures do not have private data members and are thus not abstracted away.

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Adamantix 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125822/

The Adamantix project (formerly known as Trusted Debian) aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. It brings together security solutions including kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs, and techniques.

AIOCP 1.0.016
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125864/

AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a professional platform-independent all-in-one solution to completely manage a Website through a user-friendly Web interface. It includes by default all needed modules for Website management and a long list of extra modules, including a CMS, WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, languages, forums, news, newsletter, links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners, search engine, e-commerce, e-business, statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding, custom modules, code libraries, images, and sounds. Each module is perfectly integrated into the system and has adequate management and control tools.

aquaBSD 0.60.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125758/

aquaBSD is a Aqua-like theme, made for BSD users. It is a modification of the aquaLinux theme (without Tux).

Astaro Security Linux 4.008 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125879/

Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.

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Atlantis 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125861/

Atlantis is a native Web browser for the GNOME desktop.

BIE 5.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125929/

BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft Biz Talk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.

Blocks 3D 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125852/

Blocks 3D is yet another 3D puzzle game that resembles Tetris a bit. The goal of the game is to fill planes of blocks so that they disappear. The game uses Crystal Space and is thus hardware accelerated using OpenGL.

Blue dot 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125833/

Blue dot is a CGI tracking and Web site activity measurement script which generates Apache combined style access log files. These log files can be analyzed with most standard log analysis tools to track a site's popularity, referrers, hosts, etc. The logging is based on inserting a small piece of JavaScript or SSI code into every Web page. This code requests a very small blue dot image from a server where the call is logged. Blue dot can also be configured to set and log session and persistent cookies. This can be used, for example, to track pay-per-click search engine ROI.

BomberClone 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125924/

BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs.

Borges Documents Management System 0.9.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125862/

Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD.

Broccoli18 PIC18F Programmer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125940/

Broccoli18 is a suite of programming tools for the PIC 18F series of microcontrollers made by Microchip. Features include ability to read and write code memory, data EEPROM, ID bytes, and configuration word. A simple circuit connecting the PIC to the PC parallel port is required.

BusyB 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125896/

BusyB is a simple system for automatically executing builds. If you have software that you want to build at certain times or when certain things happen, BusyB is the utility for you.

CaLStats 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125855/

CaLStats is a set scripts for monitoring computer availability. It creates images of the network structure, and marks active or inactive computers.

Camlserv 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125874/

Camlserv is a lightweight Web server written in Ocaml for highly interactive Web pages or even online browser-based games. The server can already be used as a fast frontend to a MySQL database.

Cerberus Intrusion Detection System 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125937/

cIDS is an intrusion detection system, not based on packets, but rather based on actual intrusion recognition (as in a remote login from root, etc). It also logs scanning attempts and all remote attempts. It is good for private users looking for some form of security on their box.

Comic Collection 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125902/

Comic Collection is a Java (AWT) application to allow automatic download, storage, categorisation, and search of Web comics.

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Current 1.4.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125890/

Current is a server implementation for Red Hat's up2date tools. It's designed for medium-sized departments to be able to set up and run their own up2date server, feeding new applications and security patches (RPMs) to workstations and servers.

Darkbot 7rc8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125810/

Darkbot is a very fast and small IRC bot written in C. Originally created as an aid for help channels to answer repeated questions from its virtually unlimited database, it has became a very popular talking robot in a generic sense, being used all over IRC networks for different purposes and in 18 languages. Data can be added to it and managed dynamically online or edited in its database files offline. An extensive but easy-to-understand list of commands and features, including some channel operation functions and levels of protection, makes Darkbot a very flexible but somehow powerful and complex robot, with almost human conversations and reactions.

DBG DEBUGGER AND PROFILER 2.11.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125928/

DBG is a PHP debugger and profiler. It makes it much easier to discover the origins of problems and bugs in PHP scripts. It's equipped with the ability to backtrace errors. It shows local and global variables as well as parameters which have been passed to all nested function calls at any point of execution. Among other things, it allows you to execute scripts in a step-by-step manner, set breakpoints (including conditional ones), evaluate expressions, and watch variables. The profiler allows you to find bottlenecks in PHP code at the functions level as well as the modules level and even the source lines level.

dbmjui 0.1.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125802/

DMBJUI is an attempt to clone DBMGUI, the database manager for SAPDB. It uses the Java programming language.

Device::SerialPort 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125838/

Device::SerialPort is a Perl interface to the POSIX serial and modem routines. Its functionality mirrors the Win32::SerialPort module so that serial routines can be written across platforms easily.

distcc 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125817/

distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.

Divine Intervention 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125831/

Divine Intervention consists of two programs. The first is a very accurate BPM measurement tool. The second is a player which can change the tempo of music. The player allows nudging, forward and backward movement by measures, and other nice things.

DrScheme 1.03 p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125841/

DrScheme is a graphical environment for developing programs using the Scheme, MzScheme, and MrEd programming languages. DrScheme runs under Windows 95/98/NT, MacOS, and Unix/X. DrScheme's features include source text highlighting of syntax and run-time errors, support for multiple levels of Scheme from beginner to advanced, an algebraic stepper for the beginner language, interactive and graphical static analysis, a graphical user interface (GUI) library, objects, threads, modules, exceptions, TCP/IP, regular expressions, and filesystem support.

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DSPAM 2.6.0.68
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125893/

DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives.

dvdrtools 0.1.5 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125913/

dvdrtools is a fork of cdrtools, with the primary goal of supporting writing to DVDs.

dvipng 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125858/

This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.

eDonkey2000 16.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125823/

eDonkey2000 A file-sharing system that works with any type of file. It doesn't rely on one central server, yet searches are quick, and your client doesn't get bogged down with endless search requests. You have the ability to search all the files being shared on the network, and to transfer any type of file. It automatically resumes interrupted transfers from alternate sources, and even introduces ways to share a whole collection of files (so you can get all the songs in an album etc.). Users are able to download a file from multiple sources at the same time, and files can be uploaded while being downloaded.

Confused? Frustrated?

Effort: Zero Franchise Manager 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125611/

The Effort: Zero Franchise Manager (EZFM) is a set of PHP files designed to minimize the effort needed to create a website for a Madden 2003 PC Franchise. One of the modes offered by Madden 2003 PC is the "Franchise" mode which allows you to play and manage a team over multiple seasons. This program aim to reduce some of the busywork by automatically generating Web pages to display the information contained in the Stat Files, and in a consistent and appealing manner.

Encompass 0.5.99.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125931/

Encompass is a Web browser for GNOME. It uses the GtkHTML engine for speed and size, making it one of the smallest and fastest browsers available. It currently has few features.

ep 1.0pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125866/

Extended pipelining is an easy-to-use pipeline process (re)director. It has the main ability to run any number of subprocesses and redirect them basic filedescriptors. Basic filedescriptors are 0 (standart input), 1 (standart output) and 2 (standart errput). There is no restriction of pipe connection except that process outputs (output, errput) must be bound with one or more processes input.

ergologic 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125655/

ergologic is built to be simple, ergonomical, easy to understand (logical), and fit in an office environment. It should work on a standard distribution (tested with SuSE and Red Hat).

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Ethereal 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125813/

Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.

Fano 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125836/

Fano is a fast and powerful encoder and soft-decision sequential decoder for K=32, rate 1/2 convolutional codes. The algorithm it uses is many times faster than the Viterbi algorithm. It also includes support routines to generate metric tables that are optimized for Gaussian noise with a specified Eb/N0 ratio, and a test driver that exercises the encoder/decoder routines and keeps statistics.

Firestarter 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125898/

Firestarter is a firewall tool for Linux, and uses GNOME. You can use the wizard to create a basic firewall, then streamline it further using the dynamic rules. You can open and close ports with a few clicks, or stealth your services giving access only to a select few. It features a real-time hit monitor which you can watch as attackers probe your machine for open ports.

g3data 1.3.0rc1 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125851/

g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.

GStreamer 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125881/

GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.

GSwaret beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125511/

GSwaret is a friendly text mode user interface based on Dialog for Swaret, a package updating system for Slackware.

Haystack snapshot 0604
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125829/

Haystack is a powerful tool designed to enable each and every individual manage all of her information in the way that makes the most sense. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications that only handle certain information "types", and recording only a fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, users can define whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of information they find most effective. Such personalization of information management will dramatically improve your ability to find what you need when you need it.

High Level Assembly Language 1.49
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125827/

The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas.

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.6-20030612 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125868/

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'

Intensely Violet 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125695/

Intensely Violet is a theme with light shining through a violet-coloured flower. The background is by dolcevitas (Panda Gielen).

Ismo 0.0.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125899/

Ismo is a Web application framework and application suite written in PHP. It's easy to use but still powerful and flexible.

Jaffm 0.7.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125907/

Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.

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jCIFS 0.7.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125816/

jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.

Jife 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125826/

Jife is a spell checking IRC robot written in Java. It provides for a flexible suggestion architecture, including using a database interface for storing wordlists.

JPublish 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125892/

JPublish is a powerful Web publishing system designed to ensure a clean separation of developer roles. It includes support for multiple templating engines, including Jakarta Apache's Velocity, FreeMarker, and WebMacro. It supports numerous scripting languages including Python, BeanShell, and JavaScript. It is modular and provides for easy extensibility.

LaNewsFactory 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125847/

LaNewsFactory is a PHP news and forum engine for Web sites. It requires no database software, and uses XML files to store news. It provides forums, news system behaviors, topics, moderation, several authentication levels, threaded comments, search capacity, HTML template support, Web admin, and internationalization (11 languages).

libstldb4 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125886/

libstldb4 is a C++ wrapper for the sleepycat db4 database. It uses the STL in the API where sensible, allows standard IOStreams for data access where sensible, e.g. getting the value of a key should be able to use an istream interface to allow simple partial value retreival, and moves the transaction parameter to be the last optional parameter or provides two versions of the same method for trans/nontrans. The API has been modified to use more standard types. Operator overloading is used to allow quick and dirty coding (mydb[ "key" ] = "value";) to set and cerr.

Linux4Geeks 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125532/

Linux4Geeks is a LFS-based small distro which works around several problems and issues mainstream Linux distributions have. It offers different versions compiled for each architecture and has all the packages required for a slim installation including a firewall and network administration tools, amongst others.

Loopess 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125811/

Loopess is a small signal and select loop library for applications running on POSIX operating systems. It provides a convenient abstraction of signals, file descriptor events, and timeouts for single-threaded applications using a simple C++ class structure. Loopess properly handles the race condition introduced by mixing signals with the select system call.

LyxDogs 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125923/

LyxDogs lets you print a mail merge using a LyX letter and a text database that you create with an editor. A mail merge takes the name, address, and enclosures from the database and prints the letter, the envelope, an SASE if needed, and part or all of other LyX documents. LyxDogs also lets you simply print an envelope for a LyX letter, or print an SASE, or print part or all of any LyX document.

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Mamory 0.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125897/

Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.

MEDICI 0.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125856/

MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. EDIFACT (ISO 9735), ASC X.12, and TRADACOMS syntaxes are currently supported. MEDICI provides a parser for EDI streams and functions to query EDI guidelines for validation information, reference information, and design notes. MEDICI does not dictate how EDI guidelines should be implemented, but provides an interface which can be used to interrogate external implementations and an example guideline implementation for internal use.

MoviX 0.8.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125849/

MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX.

mvnForum 1.0.0 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125853/

mvnForum is a powerful, easy to use bulletin board.

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mysqltcl 2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125905/

mysqltcl is the Tcl interface to mysql realtional database. It is the next version of mysqltcl1.53 (new contributor) with many new futures: Tcl8.0-Object support, Unicode support, configure support, no connection limitation, nested queries, handling of binary files (containing null values), and many extra commands: seek on result block, escaping of string, last inserted id, introspection of connection and query state, and query metadata (schema).

NanoBlogger 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125814/

NanoBlogger is a simple blogger written in bash that's completely command-line driven. It features easy editing and managing of entries, automatically organizes and archives your entries, builds Web pages from templates and stylesheets for easy customization, and keeps a separate HTML file of all your entries for extra portability. It doesn't require any Javascript or server-side scripting; just upload the Web page to your server and NanoBlogger takes care of the rest.

ngetw 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125875/

ngetw is a user-friendly Web frontend to using nget. It will not get nget working for you, but it will work nget once you have it configured. It will download articles from USENET that you have queued. You can then search for articles, queue/dequeue groups of articles, subscribe/unsubscribe to newsgroups, etc. Header refreshes can be scheduled every n hours. The queue will warn you if you have queued too much (and the posts will expire before you have downloaded them).

NIST Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Driver 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125906/

The NIST Implementation of the Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector protocol is a kernel-level driver for the Linux 2.4.x operating system. It supports the ix86, ARM, and MIPS architectures. Ad-Hoc routing protocols support networks in which both end users and routers can move freely while retaining network connections.

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nullredir 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125839/

nullredir is a TCP traffic redirector that changes \0 into \r\n and vice versa. This is needed in order to talk to anything else besides other XMLSockets from flash. XMLSockets in flash use \0 (the ASCII NULL character) as the EOL ("end of line") character.

OZradio 0.9.6.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125837/

OZradio is a Linux FM radio player and CD Player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.

PDFGo 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125871/

The PDFGo.com PDF Java Library is a pure Java component for PDF file parsing and visualization, letting you view PDF files on the Web without the need of Acrobat Reader.

Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125904/

Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.

phpSysInv 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125805/

This is a set of scripts that maintain a database of file signatures and checks them on a regular basis to ensure that none of the files have been compromised on a server and will email the administrator when there are any discrepancies. The file signatures are stored in a PostgreSQL database and it is structured to allow for multiple servers to use the same remote backend database.

picoSQL 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125860/

picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.

PIMd 2.1.0-alpha29.18 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125909/

PIMd is a PIM-2 sparse-mode multicast router, ported to Linux; kernel patches are available for various BSD-based OSes that do not already support PIM multicasting. It can support native multicasting and/or tunnels.

POPFile 0.19.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125889/

POPFile is an automatic email classification tool using a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy, and a Web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.

Pro Forma 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125916/

Pro Forma is a GUI tool that lets you fill out forms on your computer like you would with a typewriter. It's clever in the way that it can look at a document, find blank spaces where you're likely to type, and put a textbox there for you to type in, sitting right on top of the line. It's quick to learn and easy to use, and produces nice looking output.

Pro Forma 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125824/

PyHtmlTable 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125880/

PyHtmlTable is a class for Python CGIs to generate HTML tables on the fly. It allows you to set individual row and cell attributes via arbitrary dictionaries, and span rows and columns. It autogrows the table if cells are set outside its initial range. It allows dynamic insertion of new rows and columns anywhere in the table, and allows bulk population of table data via arrays to arbitrary locations in the table. It also provides default cell attributes for tablewide uniformity and the ability to override these on a cell-by-cell basis. PyHtmlTable is intended to be a functional equivalent to Table.pm or Table.php.

Quark 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125815/

Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Gstreamer to play music. It features a front-end that sits in your system tray.