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[osdn business] July 03, 2003
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/232259
[0]ipandithurts writes "According to a report from Tokyo via IOL,
Japanese publishers [1]have launched a campaign to stop 'digital
shoplifters.' These 'digital shoplifters' are using cellphones to
photograph magazine pages in bookstores, rather than buying them.
'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped
mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving
greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine
Publishers Association. Will entry into a bookstore soon include a
'cell-phone patdown?'"
Links
0. mailto:patentdude@hotmail.com
Telemarketers Plan Counterattack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0038234
Chris Hoofnagle writes "CNN reports that companies who heavily use
telemarketing are [0]planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage
of spam and junk mail in October, when the new [1]do-not-call registry
goes into effect. Slashdotters should be aware that, as well as
[2]anti-spam email software, there are tools to avoid junk snail-mail,
such as Junkbusters' free [3]Declare, Private Citizen's [4]excellent
service and the Postal Service's Prohibitory Order service, which is
described at [5]the EPIC privacy page."
Links
0.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/02/news/companies/telemarketers/
1.
http://donotcall.gov/
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1942207&tid=111
3.
http://www.junkbusters.com/declare.html
4.
http://www.private-citizen.com/
5.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling
Are You Using 802.1X?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2330259
WirelessMan asks "I work for a certain university in the US, and our IT
department has just deployed IEEE 802.1x authentication for our
wireless network. One of the benefits is that all users' sessions are
encrypted using tumbling WEP keys. One of the (major) drawbacks is the
'newness' of 1x. As far as I can tell (Google, etc) there aren't a
whole lot of places out there who have taken the plunge. [0]Google it,
or check out [1]this brief description. Does the Slashdot community
have any experience with 1x?"
Links
0. http://www.google.com/search?q=802.1x
Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2235226
[0]jaime g. wong writes "[1]Scott McCloud's latest comic, 'The Right
Number', is finally [2]available online... for just 25 cents! McCloud
[3]has discussed the concept of micropayment for online comics before;
let's all hope this idea, using [4]BitPass technology, will succeed."
There's more info via a [5]a Comic Book Resources article, and Tycho
over at [6]Penny Arcade also has opinions on the micropayment route:
"..if you have enough readers who care about your work to go through
all that rigmarole, you could succeed with any business model... I see
it as a model for compensation, lined up with the other models for
compensation, like at the police station."
Links
0.
http://people.paperclip.com.pe/jaguar/
1.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/
2.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html
3.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-5/icst-5.html
4.
http://www.bitpass.com/learn/
5.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2421
6.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/227248
theoddball writes "HP just announced a new PC model (HP Compaq d220)
that's [0]available preloaded with Windows or Mandrake 9.1. The machine
appears to be targeted to business users, although it's on the
lower-end of the scale - [1]specs are here. Mandrake also has a
[2]press release announcing the deal, which will grow to include four
other HP models. Is this a sign that top tier manufacturers are taking
Linux more seriously, or at least seeing a profitable niche?" We
commented on [3]MandrakeSoft's status update yesterday.
Links
0.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030702a.html
1.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-64287-89301-321860-f9-337529.html
2.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2426
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/225223&tid=147
July 6th - Website Defacement Day?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2149226
[0]pabl0 writes "According to an article from SFGate.com (San Francisco
Chronicle), a challenge has been posted, inviting web-site defacers to
[1]alter the content of as many web sites as possible on July 6th, with
an apparent limit of 6,000 websites per contestant. Looks like this
would be a good time to make sure all those web-server security patches
are applied!"
Links
USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2126230
Zentalon writes "The United States Postal Service has [0]announced that
it will provide In-Person Proofing (pdf) to physically authenticate
individuals before a digital signature certificate is issued to that
person. This has a bunch of interesting ramifications; for instance, I
could create a simple spam filter that only accepts mail from
individuals and organizations that have an authenticated certificate.
It could also allow for more secure financial transactions. Anyone know
if any other national postal services are planning the same thing?"
Funny, they don't seem to always know where to deliver so-called
first-class mail ...
Links
0. http://www.ribbs.usps.gov/files/fedreg/usps2003/03-15211.PDF
Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1940226
geekee writes "An article on CNET claims that a technique whereby a
user enters a code word displayed in an image in order to register for
a service such as an e-mail account [0]discriminates against the blind.
Advocacy groups for the blind are even hinting at lawsuits against
companies using this practice. A proposed audio workaround for the
blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where
most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing
the letters. Brings up some interesting issues surrounding the Turing
test."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1022814.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
Open Source Project Management Lessons
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1817220
[0]cpfeifer writes "Paul Baranowski [1]takes a moment to reflect on
Open Source Project Management in his blog. His reflections are based
on the first two years of the Peek-a-booty project." Interesting
comments on media coverage, choice of programming language, when to
release a project, and more.
Links
Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/170245
[0]Craig Newmark (craigslist) writes "In California, we had a pretty
good antispam bill proposed by Sen. Debra Bowen, which was killed
yesterday. A pro-spammer bill, backed by the big media sites including
Microsoft, passed through committee. [1] Here's a quick round up. We're
considering a big feedback campaign, based on conversation with
staffers on what works for them, since they want to hear from
constituents, as opposed to spam. More to come ..."
Links
0. mailto:craig@craigslist.org
Newsforge Reports
Using ACID and SnortSnarf with Snort
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1511233
- by Rafeeq Ur Rehman - Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) is a tool written in PHP used to analyze and present Snort data via a Web interface. It works with Snort and databases like MySQL, and makes information in the database available to users through a Web server.
Dyne:bolic: A broadcast studio on a Linux CD http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1318213
- by Russell Pavlicek - There are Linux distributions galore that target office, home, and server systems. But a new Linux distribution promises to provide a multimedia studio -- complete with the ability to transmit Webcasts worldwide -- without ever installing any software on your hard drive. Sound impossible? Not for a new Linux distribution called Dyne:bolic.
Selling Linux keeps getting easier
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/23/212208
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Teresa Spangler started marketing Linux-based products back in 1997 as co-founder of a small startup company in North Carolina. From there she went to Red Hat. Now she's the U.S. general manager for Trustix. Teresa says Linux is an easier corporate "sell" today than ever before, and is likely to be an even easier one in the future.
Newsforge Newsvac
Darl McBride interview
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1646217
Anonymous Reader writes "This is the first part of a three part interview with the SCO CEO. There are also a couple of news stories which came out of the interview (- SCO able to go in and audit AIX customers, SCO saying unchanged Unix System V code in Linux kernel)."
Unix code in Linux kernel a 'no-brainer' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1443232
SCO has given further details of the software code which it claims has been taken from its Unix System V operating system and added to Linux without consent.
Gates pushes security
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1441213
Strengthening cyber-security is one of Microsoft's chief goals, even if it means delaying a product launch, Bill Gates told senior business and government officials Wednesday.
HP and SuSE Linux Expand Global Alliance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1436249
HP and SuSE Linux today announced that HP will resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, powered by UnitedLinux, on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP's Itanium®-based servers. This relationship provides customers a single point of purchase, support and maintenance for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and makes SuSE Linux a preferred vendor for HP.
Linux-based employee workplace portal targets businesses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1432244
IBM announced the IBM Integrated Platform Express for Employee Workplace, a new Linux-based server portal solution that will enhance the productivity of midsized companies with 100 to 250 employees.
Wipro-Sistina to provide Linux services
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1431219
Wipro Infotech today announced a strategic alliance with the US based Sistina Software Inc., a storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions. Through this alliance, Wipro Infotech will provide support and implementation services to customers of Sistina in India, Asia Pac and the Middle East.
Flipping the Switch: Linux's new popularity may hurt Apple more than Microsoft http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1430200
In the latest of his legendary keynote stage shows, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this morning in San Francisco by showing off the company's speedy new aluminum G5 desktop Mac. But while listing the new machine's impressive specs, Jobs left out a related, eye-popping statistic: Business Week columnist Alex Salkever dropped the bomb last week that next year, "Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop ...
Gentoo Linux Fork Announced
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1428226
Zach Welch annouced a fork of Gentoo Linux in a message to the gentoo-dev mailing list.
Beijing to promote Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1425228
The Beijing city government will increase its use of the open source Linux operating system (OS) in preparation for several major IT contracts in the second half of 2003, a government official said.
Running Linux with Office XP: Is it ready for business? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1424208
Linux has made a big impact in the server room, but usability issues and lock-in to Microsoft Office have conspired to hold it back on the desktop. That all just changed.
Freshmeat
2Pong 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127944/
2Pong is a pong clone that is played with two balls instead of one. The game features two modes of play - the regular pong game, and a time-based mode against an unbeatable AI opponent. Network support for 1-vs-1 games is planned.
absence 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128117/
absence is a calendar tool for keeping track of people (but could be adapted for any other object) on a daily basis. It is meant to replace that ubiquitous whiteboard in the office of the boss. You know the one, where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG).
Anagramarama 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128109/
Anagramarama is a word guessing game for Linux, Windows, and BeOS. The aim is to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the longest word and you'll advance to the next level. It uses SDL.
Another NBD distribution 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127986/
The Another NBD distribution provides both an NBD (network block device) client and server as well as SGML-based manual pages. It provides numerous additional features beyond the original NBD tools distribution, including a multi-threaded implementation, robustness enhancements, a server monitoring tool, and more detailed user messages. The tools are fully compatible with the existing Linux kernel NBD driver.
Astaro Security Linux 4.009 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128059/
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.
aww 0.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127922/
aww (administer wml websites) is a frontend for WML, the Website META Language. It does much more than the wmk tool that comes with WML, and easily be extended with modules.
BIE 5.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128110/
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 BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
bogofilter 0.13.7.2 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128101/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
bogofilter 0.13.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128100/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
BottomFeeder 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128003/
BottomFeeder is an application that reads and displays RSS formatted feeds. RSS is a syndication format, used by a growing proportion of sites (including Slashdot).
cgi-wrap.c 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128104/
cgi-wrap.c allows you to execute CGI scripts under a special UID/GID in a chroot environment. Unlike suexec, it does not execute arbitrary (user-)scripts but only programs which are installed and configured by the system administrator. This allows you to remove some restrictions of suexec without lowering security.
Chemical Development Kit 20030702 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128048/
The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures.
Columba 0.11.0 (unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128042/
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.
ConsultComm Project Timekeeper 3.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127932/
Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project.
Courier-IMAP 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128001/
Courier-IMAP is a lightweight server that provides IMAP access to maildir mailboxes. It supports folders, custom authentication modules, and virtual mailboxes. A compatible POP3 server is also provided. The source code is based on the IMAP module in the Courier Mail Server, but this build is independently repackaged to work with any other MTA that delivers to maildir format mailboxes.
CourseForum 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128039/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cpptools 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127916/
cpptools is a set of tools for C/C++ development. It includes a lint (lexical analyzer), a code beautifier, and many refactoring tools.
CPSSkins 0.9pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127929/
CPSSkings is an intuitive skin management system for the Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server. It can be configured through the Web, and every element can be selected among a list of visual previews. Over 250 stylesheet parameters are addressed individually, and all modifications are instantaneous. CSS level 2 is used extensively on browsers that support it, but older and text-based browsers are also supported through a simplified stylesheet generated on the fly.
Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.14 (2.1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128092/
The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language.
darcs 0.9.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128033/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
Darkbot 7rc8a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128002/
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.
DB_QueryTool 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127964/
DB_QueryTool is an object oriented abstraction for the SQL query language. It includes methods for limiting, ordering, grouping, and joining to easily build queries, and features a simple interface that interacts nicely with HTML forms using arrays that contain column data.
Debt Minder 1.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128004/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
DOLPHIN SMASH 5.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128098/
Dolphin Smash is a mixed-signal, multi-language simulator for IC or PCB designs. It uses SPICE syntax for analog descriptions, Verilog-HDL and VHDL for digital, VHDL-AMS and ABCD (a combination of SPICE and C) for analog behavioral, and C for DSP algorithms.
dvipng 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128085/
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.
eFAQ 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128041/
eFAQ is a Web-based Frequently Asked Questions component written in server side Java. The eFAQ can be entered manually as well as fed by the eForum and HelpDesk systems.
eForum 3.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128038/
eForum is server side Java-based software that enables geographically distant participants to share ideas and enhance teamwork via the Web. It allows project moderators to manage feedback and project discussions, and can display interactive Q&A tools.
Enterprise Groupware System 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128027/
Enterprise Groupware System (EGS) is a comprehensive online CRM system offering advanced functionality and multi-layer logins. As a Web-based system, it allows employees to log in to the system even when away from the office. It includes contacts, project management, email ticketing, file sharing, and HR management.
FIBPlus 4.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127746/
FIBPlus is a fast, flexible and high-performance component library for Borland's Delphi 3-7, C++ Builder 3-6, and Kylix 3, intended for work with Borland InterBase and Firebird using the direct Interbase API. It allows the use of all Interbase features and benefits: array fields, BLOB fields, generators, and full control of transactions, support for all standard and third party visual data-aware components, special features for optimization of InterBase network traffic, and a set of special design-time experts.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 6 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128067/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
File::Scan 0.59 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128024/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
FMPP 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128116/
FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application.
GenoPix2D June_23_2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127953/
GenomePixelizer 2D plotter (or genoPix2D) generates images (actually interactive canvases) of genomic similarity dot plots in which each "dot" indicates similarity between a pair of genes. Diagonal runs of dots generally indicate collinearity (or synteny) in the genomic regions being compared. The program can compare large (chromosome-scale or even eukaryotic genome-scale) genomic regions, and can produce PostScript output of the dot plots. Images on a genoPix2D canvas are not static. They are interactive, and every dot (element) is associated with corresponding gene annotations that are searchable by gene ID or keyword.
ggcov 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128046/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
GNOME-DB 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128114/
GNOME-DB is a unified engine for accessing database systems from different database vendors by using a uniform and powerful API based entirely on CORBA.
GNU MP3 Daemon 2.5b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128094/
GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs.
GPdf 0.104
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128055/
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
GSwitchIt 2.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128099/
gswitchit is a simple keyboard state indicator for the GNOME panel. It supports up to 4 keyboard groups and has customizable images for each group.
Gv4l 2.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128115/
Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.
Happy Sliding Menus 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128017/
Happy Sliding Menus is a set of Java applets which provide a configurable menu of options. It is available in numerous themes and is suitable for sidebar navigation. It includes an easy-to-use online configuration tool. It features support for true-type fonts, multi-state user-defined icons, multiple event triggers, and more. Many different sliding styles are available, including stylish expanding slides with top level items that expand around the submenu.
Host Grapher 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127920/
Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide graphical information for CPU, memory, and processes. There are clients for Windows, Linux, and Tru64. No socket will be opened on the client, nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the data.
im-ja 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127979/
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).
InfoCentral 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128053/
InfoCentral is a PHP/MySQL application to track a church congreation (people, families, and groups) and allow Web-based administration of the database. Users can run reports, print labels, and query the database for specific information from any Web browser.
Infotrope ACAP Server 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127978/
The Infotrope ACAP Server is an implementation of RFC2244, complete with asynchronous notification of changes, stored search results, ACLs, and data inheritance, etc. It supports TLS and SASL encryption as well as almost the entire base standard, plus a few optional extensions. ACAP allows applications to store configuration data in a way that's standards based, fully interoperable, and easily managed by users, administrators, and technical support teams alike. Infotrope's key features include the ability to randomly crash the server without data loss, and backing up of data (even while it's being written) without losing integrity.
Interlink Jukebox 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127563/
Interlink Jukebox is a jukebox daemon that was inspired by mserv. It uses MySQL for data storage and relies on external tools such as mpg123 and ogg123 to play files. It includes an intelligent tag scanner and a PHP frontend.
iReport Designer for JasperReports 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127987/
iReport is a visual reporting tool based on JasperReports and written in pure Java. You can manage charts, images, sub-reports, etc. Data can be retrieved using JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, and XML. It supports output in PDF, XML, XSL, CSV, HTML, and Java2D.
ispbs 2.3b8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128078/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
IT++ 3.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128035/
IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing, and communication system routines and functions. Its is designed to be used in the simulation of communication systems, or for performing research in the area of communications.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127991/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, creating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
Java Email Server 1.2.3 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128058/
Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java.
Java SOS 3.45
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128020/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JPluck 2.0 pre8 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128069/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
jwhois 3.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128012/
jwhois is an Internet Whois client that contains an extensible configuration file, which defines its operation. The client supports queries to foreign hosts, either through the RFC 954 - NICNAME/WHOIS protocol, the RFC 2167 - Referral Whois 1.5 protocol, or HTTP using an external browser. Upon execution, it searches through its configuration to find the most specific whois server to query. Depending upon the reply from that whois server, it can assume the query was successfull and display the result to the user, or optionally redirect the query to another server to find more specific information.
JXP 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127660/
JXP is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like
event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document
evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser
lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function
libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with
DOM.
kbarcode 1.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128044/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
KricketScoreboard 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128019/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.
Lame Node System 0.6-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128072/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128045/
Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a splash screen, and a KFM background image.
LibXDiff 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128050/
The LibXDiff library implements basic and yet complete functionalities to create file differences/patches to both binary and text files. It uses memory files as file abstraction to achieve both performance and portability. For binary files, it implements (with some modification) the algorithm described in "File System Support for Delta Compression" by Joshua P. MacDonald. For text files, it follows directives described in "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations" by Eugene W. Myers. Memory files used by the library are basically a collection of buffers that store the file content.
LinRAR 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128051/
LinRAR is a Qt frontend for the command line rar program from RARLAB. It is inteded to be similar to WinRAR in appearance and functionality.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127997/
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP 1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, and JSP Servlets. It is easy to install and easy to configure or control through its Web interface.
Looking Glass 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128031/
LG is a Looking Glass written in Perl as a CGI script. It can execute almost all BGP-related commands and do ping and traceroute in routers or relay these queries to other looking glasses. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 commands, and is tested with Cisco, Zebra, and Juniper. It can connect to a router using SSH, telnet or rsh.
MacXM 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128070/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
MailScanner 4.22-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128032/
MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.
Meringue 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128029/
Meringue is used to track which links are clicked on your site. It is simple to set up and accurate, counting both internal and/or external links. It presents recorded data as a graph with information regarding the last time a particular link was clicked, while also providing the IP address of the last computer to follow that link. The statistics table is also fully configurable, allowing sorting of all columns.
MIMEDefang 2.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128077/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.
mmftpd 0.0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128081/
mmftpd is a secure FTP server that runs as a normal user, and supports virtual users only. Each user may have specific permissions, including the maximum home directory size limit and download/upload speeds. The daemon uses libpth for portable threads instead of fork(). It runs on both BSD and Linux systems, and is ideal for a setup with many Web virtual host customers. It was written from scratch, with no borrowed code.
mmmail suite 0.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128082/
mmmail provides SMTP and POP3 daemons using MySQL, running as a non-root user. It also supports bandwidth shaping. Relaying is not supported, although it has been designed to handle many users on many virtual hosts. It is fast and secure, uses threads, and has been written entirely from scratch and does not rely on mbox or Maildir formats.
mmstatd 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128084/
mmstatd consists of a C library and server for applications to easily update counters and administrators to maintain them. It supports a crash recovery system using internal logs.
MoviX 0.8.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128105/
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.
mpscan 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127940/
mpscan is a parallel network scanner that checks for open ports. It uses select() to increase its speed and was designed for rapidly scanning large networks, but also works with a single IP.