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[osdn business] July 12, 2003
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Digital Domesday Defies Doom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/161229
[0]Hulver writes "The BBC Domesday project, originally completed in
1986 and under threat (as reported in [1]this old slashdot story) has
had its data recovered. The contents of the laserdiscs have been put on
DVD, and new programs written so that PCs can access the data.
Interestingly, most of the images and films were not recovered from the
laserdiscs, but were instead re-digitised from the original analog
films at a higher resolution than the laserdiscs contained. Full
details of the recovered data are at the [2]Public Record Office
website."
Links
0.
http://janes.demon.co.uk/
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/03/1821227&tid=126
2.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/domesday/default.htmOlmos Tells Fans: "Don't Watch Galactica" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1957210
[0]Obiwan Kenobi writes "Edward James Olmos, in a meeting with a group
of TV Critics, did something unbelievable: he pleaded with them to
[1]tell their readers not to watch the new Battlestar Gallactica remake
on the Sci-Fi Channel: 'I must say one thing and will say this very
clearly, if you are a person who really has a strict belief in the
original, I would not advise that you watch this program. It'll hurt
them.'"
Links
0. mailto:evan@m i s t e r o r a n g e.com
Quakeworld Physics Captured in Quake3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1942219
Rooked_One writes "For people, that to this day, swear by the
quakeworld physics where you could "bunnyhop" through huge maps in a
matter of seconds, but were lured away by better graphics, your day has
come. [0]Fortress Evolution has been announced with a couple of groovy
little movies to drool over until they have a release. Many of you will
remember Quake Team Fortress, well, this mod for Quake3 is made by
players primarily of Mega Team Fortress, which i'm sure some of you
will remember in poor regards. But we won't get into that. What is
needed to know is that you will be able to play QW in the quake3
engine."
Links
0. http://www.fortressevolution.net/
The Double Edge of Copyright Extensions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1921232
porkface writes "[0]The Morning News is running a simple, but eloquent
[1]editorial that plainly shows how Hollywood has routinely benefitted
from the expiration of copyright, despite their adamant pressure on
Capitol Hill to extend copyright almost indefinitely."
Links
0. http://www.themorningnews.org/
Record Labels Looking for a Cut of Tour Revenues http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1911253
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "As many a Slashdotter has pointed out,
musicians make their money not from selling records but from going on
tour. Now [1]record labels are trying to get a piece of the action.
'Now the music labels, hungry for revenue from any source, are mulling
over whether to make a grab for a piece of the tour biz. One company
already has: In October EMI Recorded Music signed a deal with Brit
singer Robbie Williams that gives the label a cut of the pop star's
merchandise, publishing, touring revenue and sponsorship.'"
Links
0. http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle
OSI Announces Open Source Awards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1855254
JohnGrahamCumming writes "There's a [0]story running on [1]ZDNet about
how [2]OSI is going to be giving Open Source Awards with cash prizes of
up to $10,000. The idea is to create the "Nobel Prizes" of Open Source.
Announcement was made yesterday as [3]OSCON with some big names backing
the awards (e.g. Sun, OSAF and (interestingly) a major venture capital
firm USVP)."
Links
0.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/specialreport/0,14622,6024946,00.html
1.
http://www.zdnet.com/
2.
http://www.opensource.org/
3.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/
Marriage May Tame Genius
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1834235
[0]theodp writes "Here's one to share with the wife and kids. Using a
database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, a psychologist at
the University of Canterbury in New Zealand has concluded that
[1]creative genius is turned off almost like a tap if a man gets
married and has children, regardless of age."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
Binary Package Formats Compared
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1735240
[0]jjaimon writes "There is a [1]document on different package formats
used in Linux/Unix systems. Worth reading." Another reader sends in
this [2]guide to creating Debian packages which seems apropos here.
Links
0. mailto:jjaimon@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/
2.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01DebianLinux
The Red Queen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1859221
[0]XenonOfArcticus writes "I first came upon Matt Ridley when Slashdot
reviewed Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Parts ([1]here
and [2]here ). Ridley's finely-honed technical writing style could make
a treatise on the Boston White Pages intriguing and enlightening, and
his treatment of the human Genome was simply eye-opening. I had to have
more, and went out immediately to order every Ridley book I could find.
Luckily, The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue were already available
and his latest, Nature via Nurture was just hitting shelves. Prepare
yourself for my ongoing Overview of Ridley in Three Parts." Read on for
the rest of Xenon's review.
Links
0. mailto:xenon@arcticus.com
1.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/20/1243255&tid=134
2.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/12/1226230&tid=134
Cringely On Electronic Tapping
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1423206
[0]sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an
[1]editorial discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother
concerns. There isn't any new information in the article, but he does a
nice summation of the state of law enforcement today. This may be a
good article to show your family, friends and congressmen."
Links
0. mailto:steven.c.kienle@pfizer.com
Newsforge Reports
The Caribbean learns about Free and Open Software - Part Two (of Two)
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2356241
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This article is long overdue because I've been both overworked and sick since I wrote Part One. But here it is at last: A discussion of why Free/Open Source Software is the most appropriate IT technology base for developing countries.
Linux Advisory Watch - July 11th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1038254
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for xpdf, ml85p, openldap, imp, php, semi, x-face-el, liece, mozart, skk, unzip, xbl, phpsysinfo, and teapop. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and TurboLinux. Again, there were no particularly serious vulnerabilities this week. However, it is imperative that you make an effort to keep your servers up-to-date.
'Phantom' game console is really a copyright protection device http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/2042207
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Over the last few months computer and gaming-related publications) have gotten stacks of press releases from a company called Infinium Labs touting its upcoming Phantom game console. Some game industry insiders have derided the Phantom as vaporware, while others have laughed it off as "just another set-top box." The truth is, it is neither vaporware nor purely a set-top box, but part of an online PC game retailing ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Open-Source Groupware Aims at Exchange
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1611238
Anonymous Reader writes "In the spirit of the OpenOffice assault on Microsoft Office, a group of independent developers has begun an open-source groupware project intended to provide an alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server."
Attacks Exposed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1625226
Anonymous Reader writes "How serious a particular attack type is depends on two things: how the attack is carried out, and what damage is done to the compromised system. An attacker being able to run code on his machine is probably the most serious kind of attack for a home user. For an e-commerce company, a denial of service (DoS) attack or information leakage may be of more immediate concern. Each vulnerability that can lead to compromise can ...
Gael Duval Tells Why Mandrake Linux Is Better Than MS Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1547242
Simply put, you can boil Gaël Duval's statements down to Mandrake Linux is less expensive, more stable, and has more and better software included with the OS distribution than does MS Windows. Moreover, Mandrake Linux is virus-free. For as little as $39 you have a complete OS and software package with which you can do just about anything you need to do -- including office productivity tasks.
OpenOffice gets groupware boost
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1333248
The Open Office Group has announced the formation of the OpenGroupware.org project. The new software is said to be the final piece of the 'OpenStack' roadmap to develop open source versions of all the key components of modern office applications.
Linux Making Headway in Desktop Space
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1332226
Linux is not going to take over the desktop space anytime soon, but is making significant headway in vertical markets, Mitch Kapor, the chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) and founder of Lotus Development Corp., said here on Thursday.
Sun expands Unix deal with SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1330217
A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems. SCO's Unix licensing plan got a major boost of publicity in May when Microsoft announced its decision to license Unix from SCO, but Sun actually was the first company to sign on.
The State of Open Source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1328230
The night that divides the two days of tutorials from the three-day conference at the fifth annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention is reserved for the States of the Union addresses. Luminaries from the open source communities of Perl, Python, PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux each spoke for just under a half hour to present their take on the current state of their technology and where it is headed.
Security: Yes, It's Part of Your Job
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1325210
If evil doesn't get you, ignorance will. Learn what everyone needs to know about SE Linux and TCPA.
Local accounting package goes open source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1318258
Claiming to be the first local software publisher to take such a step, Pink Software has released a version of its TurboCASH accounting package for free download on the Internet.Pink Software says the move makes it the world's leading open source accounting program, with at least 15 000 users.TurboCASH.7 can be downloaded from the Internet or installed from 15 000 CDs to be given away with the latest issue of .Net software magazine.
Oracle hell-bent on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1315250
ORACLE Corp has been relentless in portraying itself as a serious Linux player -- one that "gets it" on Open Source Software (OSS).
Freshmeat
1000 years after... 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128842/
1000 years after... features a background proving that intelligent creatures once lived on Earth.
AbiWord 1.99.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128929/
AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean.
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128990/
Aegis Virus Scanner is a virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems with a simple and intuitive user interface. It uses the File:: Scan module for detecting viruses.
Amaya 8.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128981/
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface. It lets users both browse and author valid Web pages, with standards including (X)HTML, native MathML, and SVG documents. It also includes a collaborative annotation application (RDF).
Animal Shelter Manager 1.12 PRE (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128955/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
BIE 5.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128994/
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.
BlueBox for BlackBox 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128923/
BlueBox for BlackBox is a clean blue theme with wallpapers of various sizes and a startup sound.
braa 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129024/
Braa is a tool for making SNMP queries. It is able to query hundreds or thousands of hosts simultaneously, while being completely single-threaded. It does not need any SNMP libraries, as it is equipped with its own SNMP engine. However, it's good to have a complete SNMP package including "snmptranslate" installed somewhere, because for speed reasons, there is no ASN.1 parser in Braa, and all the SNMP OIDs need to be specified numerically.
btcid 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128967/
btcid connects to a Bluetooth telephone and displays its status on the screen using xosd. It can also execute external programs on incoming calls.
closedShop - Open Source Shopping 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128935/
closedShop - Open Source Shopping attempts to provide an easy to set up, manage, and utilize shopping cart. Based on Perl and MySQL, its aim will be to provide all the features a commercial shopping cart offers at no cost.
Cluster Infrastructure for Linux 0.9.8 (Cluster Infrastructure) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128941/
The Cluster Infrastructure (CI) for Linux extends the Cluster Membership and Internode Communication Subsystems from HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware code base. It also provides the basis for the SSI Clusters for Linux project.
Coin 2.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128961/
Coin is an implementation of Open Inventor. Open Inventor is the de facto standard API for retained-mode 3D graphics programming. Open Inventor has a highly extensible design, and has been designed to allow for rapid development of highly interactive 3D graphics applications in the fields of CAD, engineering, scientific computing, simulation, VRML, and visualization.
cricket modules 2003-07-11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129000/
cricket modules is collection of modules for cricket which use SSH to acquire data from remote hosts with minimal or no installation on the monitored host. It includes monitors for maillog, iptraf, disk space, BIND 9, NTP servers, HP OmniBack, PostgreSQL, and WiFi using the Linux hostap driver. It also includes a script to produce daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly overviews of all cricket graphs on one page with the ability to dynamically show or hide graphs to enable quick glance on important graphs only.
Danger Girl Heavenly Theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128819/
Danger Girl Heavenly Theme is another theme based on the Danger Girl comic book.
dotproject: Web Based Project Management Tool 1.0 Beta 1 Patched http://freshmeat.net/releases/128977/
dotproject is a PHP+MySQL beta level web based project management tool. It is about 50% there (there being a quality product, not some half-baked simple form-into-db pages). dotproject could be extremely useful for any sort of service agency that requires the ability to track a project to completion. Integration of a php/imap/web based email system (see basilix.org) into the system has been played with with.
DRT 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128937/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application.
E2tools 0.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128931/
E2tools is a simple set of utilities for reading, writing, and manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem. Similar in concept to mtools, they are designed for machines that don't have ext2 support, but can also be used on Linux machines to read or write to disk images and floppies without having to mount them.
ECe 0.853
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128975/
ECe is another clone of the ncurses-based editor that comes with the Midnight Commander (cooledit). Its main feature is simplicity. You don't have to learn lots of key shortcuts; in order to write text, you just have to type it on the keyboard. While preserving all the original cooledit features (like syntax highlighting or gpm mouse support), ECe offers a few useful enhancements: the ability to work with many files, reconfigurable keys and menus, tab-completion in file dialogs, friendlier default color scheme, and more.
Effort: Zero Franchise Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128892/
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.
ES Class 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129009/
ES Class provides an easy to use interface to pdflib for creating Swiss deposit slips (German: Einzahlungsscheine). It was created for a debtor management tool and is now under the GPL. It uses dimension config files for each deposit slip, which makes it very simple to create a new one. At this time, there is only one deposit slip implemented (609), but there will be more soon (105, 110, and 303), and perhaps other deposit slips from other countries.
ESMTP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129026/
ESMTP is a user-configurable relay-only MTA with a sendmail-compatible syntax, based on libESMTP and supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and StartTLS SMTP extensions.
EyeBrow 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129015/
EyeBrow C++ Library is a tiny C++ toolkit which includes some useful classes to be used as an alternative to the STL. It is very simple, safe for multi-threaded programming, and includes functions for strings, lists, trees, maps, sockets++, and configuration files.
Fisterra 1.5.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128973/
Fisterra is a project that aims to provide a generic open-source ERP. It supports invoicing, stock, and payment management, POS (Point-Of-Sale), distributed work, and offline replication.
Fractint 20.2.05 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128950/
Fractint is a freeware fractal generator created for IBM PCs and compatible computers.
FreeMarker 2.3pre7 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128972/
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.
FreeMind 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128952/
FreeMind is Mind-Mapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. It features a modular design, and can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented as a Mind-Map, while data, behavior, node style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode. It features one-click fold, unfold, and "follow link" operations.
GONICUS System Administrator 1.99.97 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128956/
The GOnicus System Administrator (GOsa) is a PHP based administration tool for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. It administers users and groups, mail distribution lists, thin clients, and faxes. Users can retrieve informations about themselves, use LDAP telephone lists, change their password, view fax statistics, and are allowed to configure their mail account in a limited way.
Hunt for Gold 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128989/
Hunt for Gold is a real-time strategy game implemented in Java 1.4. The game takes place the in the 16th century Caribbean, where pirates controlled the sea.
hYPerSonic 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129030/
hYPerSonic allows you to build and manipulate signal processing pipelines from Python scripts. It is designed for real-time control. It includes objects for oscillators, filters, file IO, and soundcard and memory operations. It is low-level: every byte counts.
Info-Zip 5.50 (UnZip)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128958/
Info-Zip is a collection of high quality, standards compliant archiving and compression tools.
jCIFS 0.7.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128959/
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.
KAON 06302003 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128946/
KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are based on relational databases.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.75_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128978/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
Kernel TCP Virtual Server 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128982/
Kernel TCP Virtual Server is a Layer-7 switching software in the Linux Virtual Server framework. It can do application-level load balancing (such as content-based scheduling) inside the Linux kernel. The reason for implementing it inside the kernel is to avoid the overhead of context switching and memory copying between user-space and kernel-space. Although the its scalability is lower than that of IPVS (IP Virtual Server), it is flexible, because the content of the request is known before the request is redirected to the real server.
KnowledgeTree 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128962/
KnowledgeTree is a feature-rich document management system featuring knowledge management, document version control, hierarchical document management, support for common file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, TXT, HTML), extensible meta data, creation of custom document types, application managed document links that guarantees consistent data and eliminates emailing documents, easy publication of documents, subscription agents, archiving according to expiry date, expiry time period, or utilisation for enhanced speed, and much more.
Libcroco 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128949/
Libcroco is a general CSS parsing and manipulation library written in C for the Gnome project. It provides a CSS2 parser, a CSS2 selection engine, and an XML/CSS rendering engine.
lin-seti 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129004/
lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache of work units for the Seti@Home client. It should run without any problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so you can share the same cache on dual boot systems.
LinPHA 0.9.0pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128964/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
Linstall Wizard 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128987/
Linstall is a full featured Linux installation wizard for X11. It allows Linux developers to distribute their programs in a easy to install and use interface.
Linux 2.5.75 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128940/
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 Test Project 20030710
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128984/
The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
linuxsms 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129005/
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.
madman 0.91.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128996/
madman is a music manager application in the vein of Apple's iTunes and its many clones. It serves as a tag editor, a media library, and a CD burning frontend, and is extensible through plugin scripts. Dynamic playlists and powerful search features allow you to listen to better music all the time.
Metastorage 2003.07.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128930/
Metastorage is a persistence layer generator application based on the persistence module of the MetaL compiler engine. It is capable of generating the necessary software components to implement a persistence layer API from a description in a format based on XML named Component Persistence Markup Language (CPML). A CPML definition describes classes of objects with the functions that will make the API to store and retrieve their objects from persistence storage containers like relational databases without requiring the developer to write SQL manually. The generated API may also contain a class to install the database schema. All code is generated without the need for the developer to write SQL code manually. Metastorage may also generate classes to create objects via Web forms decorated with themed skin templates. Additionally, it may generate UML Entity-Relationship graphs of the component class diagram.
MiddleMan 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128968/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
MLton 20030711
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129014/
MLton is a whole-program optimizing Standard ML compiler. It generates standalone executables with excellent runtime performance, supports the full SML 97 language, and has a complete basis library. It also has a fast C FFI, source-level time and allocation profiling, and many useful libraries.
mmixer 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129028/
mmixer is Perl-based audio mixer that features an easy-to-use interface.
mon modules 2003-07-11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129003/
mon modules is collection of modules for mon which include an advanced PostgreSQL monitor, a SAP R/3 monitor, a TCP connection and chat monitor which works through a SOCKS server, HTTP and FTP server for "bounce" testing, and a WAP cgi-bin client that lets you check the status of your servers using a WAP phone and SMS sending script which uses smstools.
Morphix 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128988/
Morphix is a modular LiveCD distribution. It is partly derived from KNOPPIX, and the rest comes directly from Debian.
NRH-up2date 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129002/
NRH-up2date provides a generic, easy-to-use server for the Red Hat up2date utility. It can be used to distribute updates to client systems without being dependent on the Red Hat network servers.
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2003071106
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129008/
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals.
ocre 0.009
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128957/
OCRE reads an image file and writes ascii characters.
Open Remote Collaboration Tool 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128995/
OpenRCT is a multidisciplinary effort to enhance collaboration between people who are not co-located in time and space. It is a platform independent multimedia tool that supports synchronous and/or asynchronous communication.
OpenGroupware.org b192
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129013/
OpenGroupware.org is a set of applications for contact, appointment, project, and content management. It is comparable to Exchange and SharePoint portal servers. It is accessible using Web interfaces and various native clients, including Outlook. Its servers run on almost any GNU/Linux system, can synchronize with Palm PDAs, and are completely scriptable using XML-RPC.
OpenSSI Clusters for Linux 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128942/
OpenSSI Clusters for Linux uses HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware and various open source technologies to provide a full, highly-available SSI (Single System Image) clustering environment for Linux. Goals include availability, scalability, and manageability from commodity servers.
pdnsd 1.1.8b1-par5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128884/
pdnsd is a Proxy DNS server for Linux and FreeBSD that is designed to cope with unreacheable nameservers (e.g. because the dial-in link is not up) in a graceful manner to prevent DNS-dependent applications like Netscape from hanging. It has a permanent disk cache and supports parallel query and a wide variety of link uptests. It also has the ability to serve some local records.
pf2x 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128928/
pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and convert it into various different output formats. These output formats include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD 3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF.
phpMailBox 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128945/
phpMailBox is a POP3 mail fetching script that can easily be added to a Web site to allow users to check email, send new messages, maintain a address book, and connect to any number of POP3 servers to download email in one place.
picoSQL 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128965/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
pixelGDM 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128992/
pixelGDM is a theme with pixel icons.
ps-watcher 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128938/
ps-watcher periodically a gets a list of process names via ps. A configuration file specifies a list of Perl regular-expression patterns to match the processes against. For each match, a Perl expression specified for that pattern is evaluated. The evaluated expression can refer to variables which are set by ps and pertain to the matched process(es), including the amount memory consumed by the process, or the total elapsed time. If the Perl expression for a matched pattern evaluates true, then an action can be run such as killing the program, restarting it, or mailing an alert.
Python SAP RFC module 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128997/
The Python SAP RFC module enables programming remote function calls from SAP ERP systems. It enables SAP-compatible data definitions in Python (both simple and complex datatypes like structures and internal tables can be defined from within Python and manipulated like normal Python datatypes) and features transparent value conversion from SAP to Python and vice versa. It needs the SAP librfc shared library.
python-stablesort 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128954/
python-stablesort is an adaptive, stable, natural mergesort. It is a back-port of the new Python CVS (i.e., the upcoming version 2.3) stable listsort algorithm to all Python versions (tested with all versions from 1.5.2 to 2.2.3). It can also be regarded as some sort of forward-port in case the default Python list sort() method will change to a non-stable algorithm in the future again.
qmHandle 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128969/
qmHandle is a tool which can be used to manage the qmail message queue. It's written in Perl (so fully customizable) and much more powerful than qmail-qread and qmail-qstat. Key features are colored output and the ability to view and delete messages in the queue.
Really Slick XScreenSavers 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128979/
Really Slick XScreenSavers is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh. The screensavers can be installed as standalone programs or as XScreenSaver hacks.
Simple C Expat Wrapper 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128907/
The aim of SCEW is to provide an easy interface to the XML Expat library. Expat gives an API based on event handling mechanisms to load the XML tree structure. SCEW provides functions to load and access XML elements without the need to create the event handling routines and without the need to rewrite these functions each time a different XML tree needs to be loaded. It also lets developers access the internal Expat parser, which means they can still have all the functionality that Expat library provides. It has functions to create XML trees from scratch and save them to files.
smtpmail 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128936/
smtpmail is a little tool for users who have no local SMTP (mail) server on their machine. It enables these users to send their mail through a remote SMTP server.
Stone Three Foundation Classes 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128970/
Stone Three Foundation Classes (S3FC) is a software library which facilitates the rapid development of high-performance distributed computing applications. It is implemented as a number of C++ classes and functions that includes an efficient multi-threading framework built on top of POSIX threads, numerous efficient and lightweight queues, local (intraprocess) and network transports that provide object replication, secure network communications via OpenSSL, synchronization via mutexes, semaphores, or condition variables, periodic notification, an extensible and modular marshaling (serialization) system, a message passing system, an event dispatching and handling framework, local and remote event logging, and much more.
swbis 0.119
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128985/
Swbis is a free and from-scratch implementation of the POSIX packaging standard. Working utilities include swpackage and swverify which support GPG signing and verification of tar archives. swpackage is able to be used as a signing tool and signed archives can be verified without special tools.
The Powered Access Bible 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129019/
The Powered Access Bible is a CGI script designed to facilitate finding verses and reading them in context, minimizing the usual mousework. It divides the screen into a search frame and a reading frame, and clicking on a search reference will load its context in the reading frame. All original material is covered by the Perl license, and the translations used are all free for non-commercial use.
TR-IRCD 5.5-r
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129007/
TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, modules, threads, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and Web-based configuration, and includes a proxy scanner.
transcode 0.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128932/
transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to enable post-processing of AVI files.
UDS Collection 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128980/
The UDS (Useful Development Stuff) Collection is a C++ library that provides development and debugging facili