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Slashdot
DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0229253

D4C5CE writes "The number of [0]European countries enacting their ignorance of the sad experiences from [1]Four Years under the DMCA has just risen to 5, as the Upper House ([2]Bundesrat, incidentally) of the German Parliament on Friday [3]failed to veto (sorry, some press releases are only available in heavily spin-doctored German Legalese at this point in time) and is hence [4]considered to have consented to the
[5]adoption by the Lower House ([6]Bundestag) of a [7]federal law
implementing the dreaded DMCA's European sibling known as [8]EU Copyright Directive [9]2001/29/EC." Read on for more on the copyright laws being considered around the EU. Links

    0. 
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
    1. 
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html
    2. 
http://www.bundesrat.de/Englisch/aktuell/TO-sitz.html
    3. 
http://www.bundesrat.de/pr/pr126_03.html
    4. 
http://eng.bundesregierung.de/dokument/The_Federal_Government/Function_and_constitutional_basis/Basic_Law/VII._Legislative_Powers_of_the_Federation/ix6102_.htm?script=0
    5. 
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/wissen/netzwerk/?cnt=243808
    6. 
http://www.bundestag.de/mdb15/wkmap/index.html
    7. 
http://privatkopie.net/files/pk_english.htm
    8. 
http://www.eucd.org/issues/eucd/
    9. 
http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32001L0029&model=guichett

Gaming Site Reviews.. Real Life?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0149250

jbp8 writes: "There's an article on GameSpot [0]reviewing the ultimate MMOG - real life!" The article gives real life an Editor's Choice award, focusing on issues such as leveling up ("Typically, a character will learn of the numerous viable career paths available by undergoing schooling. This can be a long and tedious process, equivalent to the sort of 'level treadmill' monotony that characterizes almost all MMORPGs") and player death ("..a serious issue in real life, and cause for continued debate among players, who often direct unanswerable questions on the subject to the game's developers.") Links

0. http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/071103minusworld/1.html

American Solar Challenge 2003 Starts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0056247

[0]Ryan Kingsbury writes "The world's longest solar car race kicked off
to a sunny start today in Chicago! The American Solar Challenge, which is only held every two years, runs 11 gruelling days along historic Route 66. Race updates can be found at [1]the official site. One big surprise was that last year's winner (University of Michigan) didn't make it through prerace qualifications. This will certainly give some lower budget teams a chance at gold. Details of [2]qualifications can be found here."
Links

    0. mailto:kingsbrw@rose-hulman.edu
    1. 
http://www.formulasun.org/asc/
    2. 
http://www.formulasun.org/asc/tech/asc2003regs03-03-13.pdf

Do you need help?

In Pursuit Of A Spammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0058238

[0]Kyle writes "Over at [1]DSL Reports, We are currently pursuing a
spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area. This wouldn't normally be news, but we think Slashdot readers may be interested in just how successful we have been. What's more interesting is that the spammer appears to be posting in [2]the thread." Links

    0. mailto:kylegame@dslr.net
    1. 
http://www.dslreports.com/
    2. 
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7369182~root=spam~mode=flat;start=0

Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1957243

letxa2000 writes "According to [0]this article at CBS, a trial Internet voting system will be made available to 100,000 voters in 2004--particularly military and overseas U.S. citizens. As an American living overseas I think this is a step in the right direction. But the article also says 'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make online voting secure?"
Links

0. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/12/politics/main562983.shtml

PeopleSoft Deflects Oracle Takeover, So Far http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/2031255

[0]SuperDuG send a link to this [1]Reuters report on the Oracle's
takeover bid for PeopleSoft, specifically questioning [2]Oracle's committment to [3]PeopleSoft. SuperDuG writes: "[4]A letter from CEO Craig Conway states 'Five days following our announcement we learned of a hostile bid by Oracle Corperation to acquire PeopleSoft. Incredibly, Oracle made it clear their intention was to discontinue all PeopleSoft products, ultimately forcing customers to convert to Oracle's application and database.' Seems the dirt is being slung by both sides and the SEC is about to takeover and decide if this is even legal under anti-trust laws."
Links

    0. 
http://www.dugnet.com
    1. 
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=3080623
    2. 
http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/index.html?0627_psftcust.html
    3. 
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/ent_strat/articles/jdedwards.jsp
    4. 
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/about/conwaysletter.jsp

Apple Tries to Patent Fast User Switching http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/194256

Do you need more help?

[0]Ashcrow writes "An [1]article from The Register points out Apple's
attempt to patent [2]fast user switching. It seems that [3]Steve Jobs admits that Microsoft beat them to the punch but believes [4]Panther's implementation is superior."
Links

    0. 
http://www.gnulinux.net
    1. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31702.html
    2. 
http://www.theeldergeek.com/fast_user_switching.htm
    3. 
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
    4. 
http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther

MP3 Creator On Sharing Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/178212

[0]EpsCylonB writes "The BBC has an article about [1]Karlheinz
Brandenburg, who is one of the creators of the MP3 music format. Interestingly he comments that he doesn't like Napster, he thinks that people should have easier access to music but that artists should get paid for what they do."
Links

0. mailto:epscylonb@hotmail.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3059775.stm

Linux-Controlled Segway Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1618240

[0]ptorrone writes "It was just a matter of time until the Segway
technology would be used as a robotics platform. [1]University of Southern California Robotics Lab's Segway RMP (Robotic Mobility Platform) has a lot of great information if you're looking to convert a Segway to a robot. [2]On the site there are videos as well as instruction on how to [3]build your own." Update: 07/13 21:30 GMT by
[4]T: Dr. Andrew Howard writes with an important clarification about
the project: "This is *not* a standard Segway HT that we have converted to robotics applications. Rather, this is a customized, limited production unit that has been specially modified by the manufacturer. The web-site does *not* show how to convert an existing Segway HT into a robotic platform."
Links

    0. mailto:pt@DEGASflashenabled.com minus painter
    1. 
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/
    2. 
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/player/segwayrmpvideos.html
    3. 
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/player/segwayrmphowto.html
    4. 
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/

Watch For A New Set Of CyberSecurity Laws http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1651215

[0]SuperDuG writes "According to a [1]story on PCWorld.com the
Congressional subcommittee dealing with cybersecurity will be researching and legislating new cybersecurity laws. The Chair, [2]Adam
[3] Putnam says 'We want to put something out there that makes sense,
that's balanced, that accomplishes the same goals, without it being this headlong rush to prove that we're doing something for our constituents because we were asleep at the switch when there was this digital Pearl Harbor.' Perhaps it wouldn't hurt if we all took a part and [4]Contacted Representative Putnam about how well thought out other cybersecurity laws like the DMCA have 'helped out' and were 'thought out.' At least they're actually thinking before they legislate, and it seems they're open for suggestions." Links

    0. 
http://www.dugnet.com
    1. 
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111535,00.asp
    2. 
http://www.house.gov/putnam/
    3. 
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00009618&cycle=2002
    4. 
http://putnam.smartlizard.com/pages/contact.html

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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
New site for open source & government http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/2249236

bart decrem writes "Opensector.org is a new site to track stories about Linux and open source adoption in the public sector, one of the areas of most rapid growth for Linux, especially on the desktop."

Lost Marble Dropping Linux Support for Moho? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1636242

Anonymous Reader writes "A few months ago, Moho by Lost Marble, an excellent cartoon-making software, got ported to Linux (screenshot). Now, a new major version is out for Windows and OSX, 4.5, but the Linux version is still stuck on v4.2. Has Lost Marble drop support for Linux already? I emailed them a few months ago and they told me that while the number of Linux Moho downloads were higher than the Mac OS X ones, Moho still sold better on Mac ...

New Linux-based Game Console
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1631255

Can't find what you're looking for?

Anonymous writes "There is a linux based game console called the N.M.E.S. Mezzaninein in the works. The release date is April,4 2004, 4.4.04. They claim it will have a Pentium 4 2.4GHZ, a 120GB hard drive, 512MB PC133 DDR RAM, an ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card and a Creative Labs Audigy 2 soundcard. They also say it will cost $240. Usualy, game consoles are sold at a loss to make them cheaper and profits are made in games and accessories.Go to ...

Best Aliens, Best Players, Best Bots
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1533210

Peter Olotka writes "Cosmic Encounter Online http://www.cosmicencounter.com has launched! It's fully in flash, compatible with just about any Linux machine as long as it can run the latest libflashplayer from Macromedia.

The Significance Of Open Source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1528221

RC Pavlicek writes "My new biweekly column has started at Processor.com."

PC sales up by 37% in 2002-03
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1547223

Beating expectations, sales of personal computers in India grew by 37 per cent in 2002-03 to touch 2.3 million as corporates and Governments went on an overdrive on computerisation.

Hackers say they have a right to unleash their Xbox's inner PC http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1544240

Don't know where to look next?

"The reality is that if you could bypass Microsoft's operating system you would end up with a fairly powerful computer for less than $200," the Manhattan financial executive said.

Schedule slips for second Sun blade
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1536233

When Sun announced its blade servers in February, it said the Intel processor-compatible system would arrive "midyear," according to Ashley Eikenberry, group manager of blades product marketing. At a meeting with reporters Friday, Sun gave itself more leeway.

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 ...

Freshmeat
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0beta-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129166/

Confused? Frustrated?

Aasm is an advanced modular assembler designed to support several target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended. Its global architecture takes advantages of dynamic libraries to provide input, assembler and output modules. The input module supports Intel syntax (like nasm, tasm, masm, etc.). The x86 assembler module supports all opcodes up to P6 including MMX, SSE and 3DNow! extensions. F-CPU and SPARC assembler modules are under development. Several output modules are available for ELF, COFF, IntelHex, and raw binary formats. Advanced features include symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big integer support, macro capability, and numerous and accurate warning messages (over 300).

Ark Linux 1.0-0.alpha8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129137/

Ark Linux is a desktop linux distribution that is aimed primarily at new Linux users. It is intended to be extremely easy to use while still being technically sound.

Aurea 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129107/

Aurea is a theme with a sculpted head. The background is by David Camp.

bash programmable completion 20030713 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129124/

Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.

Bontmia 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129127/

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Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed files take up space when generating snapshots because of the use of hard links. Remote access is secure by using SSH. Only changes are transferred, which makes for a fast backup.

buildpkg 0.0.2r28e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129139/

Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux, Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.

Coyote Linux 2.2.1 (GUI Disk Creator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129125/

Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.

Coyote Linux 2.01 (Floppy Firewall - Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129123/

CPSSkins 0.9pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129146/

Do you need help?

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.

CVS 1.11.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129120/

CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. Unlike the simpler systems, CVS does not just operate on one file at a time or one directory at a time, but operates on hierarchical collections of directories consisting of version controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control various operations and works well over a wide area network.

distccKNOPPIX 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129145/

distccKNOPPIX is a directly bootable and self- configuring Linux system on a small ISO running a distccd daemon. It is a simple remastering of Damn Small Linux running a distccd daemon and some general cleaning up/removal of unneeded packages/ apps.

DocTaur 0.88 (Small)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129153/

DocTaur is a searchable directory of reference manuals, which you can freely download, install, and administrate on your local Linux intranet server. It is based on the ht://Dig search engine and contains reference manuals for developers.

Download machine 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129142/

Do you need more help?

Download Machine is pure Java daemon that watches queue files for changes. If a new entry is available. DM will download it. Queue files are just URL lists.

File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 7 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129143/

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).

floppyfw 2.0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129131/

floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on the floppy.

gmorgan 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129165/

gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.

Hash Zip 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128909/

Can we help you?

Hash Zip is a compression algorithm that trades CPU time for compression ratio (emphasis on a lot of CPU time) using a hash and a few other interesting bits of data. Currently, sha1 is the hash algorithm.

HelpExplorer 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129133/

HelpExplorer is a full-featured help system for Linux. It is customizable and can be easily integrated into applications. It features full support of the WinHelp help file format and enables the use of the same help files to be used on Windows and Linux.

Highlight 2.0-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129156/

Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

JSecureTunneling 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129152/

JSecureTunneling is a Java SSH client that is entirely oriented toward the management of SSH tunnels, offering the ability to establish secure and permanent tunnels to a remote SSH server transparently, just like a simple network connection. The key features are: auto-reconnection, connection monitoring, connection triggers, tunneling changes on-the-fly, and profile management.

Kanatest 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129126/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.

lescegra 20030713
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129155/

Lescegra is an object-oriented 3D graphics engine based on OpenGL. It is written in strict ANSI C and brings no dependencies other than an OpenGL implementation.

Linux K8000 House Alarm 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129160/

Linux K8000 House Alarm is a complete house alarm driven by the Linux operating system and Velleman's K8000 board. The system can send alerts through email, SMS, or voice messages. It can also drive devices like an outside alert lamp or a siren.

LiquidIRCd Services 1.01 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129150/

LiquidIRCd Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. It was specially developed for the LiquidIRCd daemon, and includes features like channel management for special IRCd implemetations (such as Founder, Protect, HalfOP, and UOP). It also has MySQL support.

Lyman 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129167/

Don't know where to look next?

Lyman is a program to manage your collection of song lyrics. You can search for songs by their title, artist, album, the release year, or parts of their lyrics.

mailbox_date_trimmer 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129130/

mailbox_date_trimmer is a tool that corrects messages' date headers in a mailbox archive if they have been corrupted.

MorphForm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129140/

MorphForm is a PHP class that allows for flexible, configurable form processing. It can handle any combination of email, file output, or browser output based on the configuration files supplied by the developer.

MPEG Menu System Version2 0.80rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128913/

MPEG Menu System Version2 is a menu system for easy movie and audio playback. It is controlled using a remote control or keyboard. It supports dxr3 output and framebuffer output.

oidentd 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129162/

Confused? Frustrated?

oidentd is an RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon which runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, OpenBSD, and Solaris. It can handle IP masqueraded/NAT connections on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and it has a flexible mechanism for specifying ident responses. Users can be granted permission to specify their own ident responses. Responses can be specified according to host and port pairs.

oplaty 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129141/

oplaty is a simple payment system for users in a LAN. It provides a Web-based interface that shows a user's charge and info about the user. It is currently only available in the Polish language.

PCRE++ 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129136/

PCRE++ is a C++ wrapper-class for PCRE library (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). It allows you to use Perl-alike regular expressions in your C++ applications. You can use it to search in strings, to split strings into parts using expressions, or to search and replace a part of a string with another part.

PieterPost 0.10.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129128/

PieterPost is a PHP interface to a POP3 mailbox. It is designed to be both small and easy to use. It's not extremely feature-rich, but it has all the features needed to quickly read your mail, download, or send an attachment.

pork 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129163/

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pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.

PQAdmin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129121/

PQAdmin is a frontend to configure Linux print quotas support using Webmin.

QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129161/

QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.

RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129135/

RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL. It supports German, English, French, and Dansk languages.

Spammer 0.3.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129148/

Do you need help?

Spammer is an anti-spam mail filter for sendmail. It uses libmilter to communicate with sendmail. Spammer checks client IP addresses as well as all IP addresses (and everything that looks like an IP address) in Received headers against a DNSBL database.

TEA 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129149/

Type Evaluating Algorithm (TEA) is a small, extendable, and strongly typed language written in C++.

Tiki 1.7 RC1 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129119/

Tiki is a powerful content management system that features articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, a tracker, a directory, poll/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner, Webmail, a calendar, and ACLs, etc.

Tutka 0.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129157/

Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems; only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.

txt2html 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129117/

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txt2html is a Perl program that uses the HTML::TextToHTML perl module to convert plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, hyperlinking and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout) and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.

UHUTV 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129151/

UHUTV is a Hungarian TV guide program. It uses the TV program database which is provided by tvfilm.hu for free. It is primarily for Hungarian users and the Hungarian-based distribution named UHU-Linux. It uses gtk2-perl, compress-bzip2, perl-libwww, and some other Perl modules. It includes a themeable GTK2 program and a small config dialog. The TV guide database is updated via the Internet.

VideoDB 2003-07-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129147/

VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.

Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129159/

Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables application developers to automate the design and development of infrastructure components for complex distributed cross-platform, cross-language systems applications. You can define messages and generate infrastructure support code for the IBM MQ information bus, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other JDBC compliant databases, XML with transformations that use tools like XSL, and J2EE. It also includes a fully functional Business Rules engine, along with a graphical programming environment.

Weather Plotter 2.0.6
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Weather Plotter is a program for anyone who likes to gather, track, and look at historical weather data. It uses PHP to gather weather information from the US National Weather Service Web site on an hourly basis, then allows you to view that weather data in several convenient graphical charts within your Web browser. Charts are generated in real-time using the PNG format, and can be easily customized. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Access, MSSQL, and others for data storage.

WebUtils 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129169/

WebUtils is a Java library and toolkit for making the development of Web portals much more rapid and routine. It provides generic styles of reporting and look-and-feel, database connectivity, and much more.

welofunc performer Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129138/

welofunc performer is a load test tool to support quality assurance of J2EE web applications. It features portability to all platforms with a Java virtual machine, an easy-to-use graphical user interface, the ability to record tests with a Web browser, and the ability to simulate an unlimited number of concurrent users. A rich set of test elements can be used to build your test plans, including HTTP requests, procedures and procedure calls, user think time, loops, and selectors.

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