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[osdn business] July 19, 2003
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Mutating Animations
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1826247
[0]Weird_one writes "Discover magazine's current issue has an
intriguing article involving [1]using genetic algorithims to evolve an
animation of a walking individual."
Links
0. mailto:morrolan_edrien@hotmail.com
Bad Testing Doomed NASA's Hypersonic X-43A http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1833258
[0]RobertB-DC writes "[1]Space.com got hold of NASA's
yet-to-be-released report on the June 2001 failure of the air-breathing
X-43A hypersonic research vehicle, and it doesn't look good for
'Faster, Better, Cheaper'. The report refuses to single out any one
contributing factor, but it cites ground testing 'inaccuracies' and
'misinterpretation' of wind tunnel data -- in particular, failure to
retest the vehicle after additional heat protection was added. As noted
in the [2]original Slashdot article, the craft went out of control when
the fins broke off just seconds into flight."
Links
0.
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
1.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/x43a_report_030718.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/02/2211206&tid=160
Build Your Own Gauss Pistol
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/163225
[0]BdosError writes "A Russion software developer has developed a
[1]homemade Gauss pistol. It's not very powerful yet, but as a proof of
concept, it's interesting. Nice, non-chemical slugthrower that should
appeal to fans of Science Fiction and related games, like [2]Traveller
and many others."
Links
0.
http://bdoserror&yahoo,com
1.
http://www.pskovinfo.ru/coilgun/
2.
http://www.travellerrpg.com/
United Nuclear
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1421253
goombah99 writes "Hey Mr. Science, need a [0]rocket pack for your
bicycle? Look no further than [1]United Nuclear scientific supply where
under their [2]dangerous products category you can purchase your own
[3]radioactive uranium ore, as well as a two million volt generator if
you need one. Or what mad scientist can do without his own particle
accelerator (which they advertise can mutate DNA in seed, explore the
atom, or simply transmute elements)"
Links
0.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/jetplans.htm
1.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
2.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/radex.htm
3.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/uranium.htm
Can .NET Really Scale?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/2056208
swordfish asks: "Does anyone have first hand experience with scaling .NET to support 100+ concurrent requests on a decent 2-4 CPU box with web services? I'm not talking a cluster of 10 dual CPU systems, but a single system. the obvious answer is 'buy more systems', but what if your customer says I only have 20K budgeted for the year. No matter what Slashdot readers say about buying more boxes, try telling that to your client, who can't afford anything more. I'm sure some of you will think, 'what are you smoking?' But the reality of current economics means 50K on a server for small companies is a huge investment. One could argue 5 cheap systems for 3K each could support that kind of load, but I haven't seen it, so inquiring minds want to know!"
Satellite Driven Farming Equipment
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1658227
[0]ravenousbugblatter writes "An article at CNN discusses how
Australian scientists are using GPS to [1]automatically drive tractors
and other farming equipment on predetermined tracks. The technology is
encouraged because it can prevent water loss associated with the
repeated compaction of soil from heavy farming equipment."
Links
0. mailto:ravenousbugblatter@yahoo.com
Seminar On Details Of The GPL And Related Licenses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1835252
[0]bkuhn writes "Given the recent confusion about LGPL on slashdot, and
the concern it raised for those convincing corporate legal departments
to adopt to Free Software, perhaps your readers might be interested in
[1]FSF's legal seminar on the GPL and related licenses. The first one
is in Silicon Valley, and if it is successful, we hope to hold others
in the next 8 months in New York City and Tokyo." Since the FSF and the
GNU project have long created and fought for software that's shareable,
Free, and [2]Not UNIX, what's taught at these seminars will probably
differ sharply from what you can hear at next Monday's [3]SCO
conference call on the "IBM lawsuit, UNIX Ownership and Copyrights."
Links
0.
http://member.fsf.org
1.
http://patron.fsf.org/course-offering.html
2.
http://www.gnu.org
3.
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=114097
Instant Messaging Giveaway
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/158211
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is planning on [0]giving away $1000/hr randomly to users of the new MSN messenger. They are going to send instant messages to the winners. I can just see it now, 'You've won $1000 in the MSN Messenger giveaway, just go this website and enter your SS# and credit card info for verification.'" Where's Ed McMahon with the big check when you need him? Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/18/msn.giveaway.ap/index.html
Inkblot Passwords
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1452202
TechnoPope writes "Microsoft Research a new way to get users to not
only develop, but remember more secure passwords can be achieved
through [0]using inkblots. Because of how the human brain works, you
can show the same pictures to different people and almost always come
up with different passwords. What's even crazier, is that people
generally are able to remember the complex passwords. Sounds like a
major breakthrough in security."
Links
0. http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=417
Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1641253
GNUman writes "Cisco's IOS vulnerability, posted by [0]Slashdot and
[1]CERT, has now a [2]published exploit available, as reported recently
by [3]CERT. While there are some [4]some articles claiming that the
Internet survived a major flaw, maybe with a publicly available exploit
could script kiddies start creating havock?. [5]jerw134 wanted to
[6]start a pool to find out when the exploit would be publicly
available, here's the answer."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/0545242&tid=172
1.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-15.html
2.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-17.html
3.
http://www.cert.org/
4.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=82786
5.
http://slashdot.org/~jerw134
6.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=6458981&sid=71409&tid=172
Newsforge Reports
The IP wars
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1911226
- by John O'Sullivan - The first shot in the intellectual property wars was fired by no less than William H. Gates III on February 3, 1976. In a famous letter decrying the theft of his programs, Mr. Gates set out the philosophy that IP was essentially the same as traditional property, and that the same rights and laws should apply.
Linux Advisory Watch - July 18, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0327232
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for pam, gnupg, mpg123, ucd-snmp, phpgroupware, traceroute-nanog, nfs-utils, falconseye, php4, unzip, radius, gtksee, kernel, mozilla, xpdf, apache, and ypserv. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbo Linux.
A centralized server architecture could be the killer Unix app http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/1828218
- by Paul Murphy - If you're like me, you probably use Linux or Unix at home and then go to work and wonder why all the people struggling with Microsoft products don't just upgrade to Linux. Despite all the cost and security issues, business's commitment to Microsoft's Windows desktop products shows few signs of waning. The key to turning this situation around may be to place the user's perspective above that of the systems staff.
Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft Ranks Linux Second On Risk List
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1940203
Microsoft is taking the Linux threat seriously. So seriously, in fact, that open source software comes in at the number two spot on the company's top five list of risks.
Linux to Overtake Unix, Leapfrog Windows, Analyst Says http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1935234
Linux will soon overtake Unix as the operating system of choice for several major enterprise segments, including high-performance computing, carrier-grade and mission-critical systems, and database hosting. That's according to a paper published in June by research firm Aberdeen Group Inc.
ATX form-factor StrongARM SBC gains 30% speed, supports Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1842235
Simtec Electronics has announced a thirty percent speed increase for its ATX motherboard form-factor, StrongARM-based single-board computer (SBC). The SBC is intended to be used as a development platform for prototyping applications such as set-top boxes, routers, CD duplicators, MP3 juke boxes, and NAS appliances, and server devices, and is supplied together with a full Debian GNU/Linux operating system, the company said.
101 Reasons Not To Get A Tablet PC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1825237
Lora writes "Here is a list of reasons we've heard people say why they don't want to buy a Tablet PC. We came up with a list of 101. (Not listed in any particular order.) There are probably more. Maybe you've got a few?"
Mozilla.org forms new non-profit foundation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1810245
Mozilla.org, the venerable keeper of the open-source Web browser flame, last week gave itself a "legal identity" with the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit corporation the group hopes will better coordinate its efforts to expand its end-user community.
Red Hat releases Linux 2.6 update
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1623244
Red Hat has made good on a promise to let people try out Linus Torvalds' test version of the new 2.6 kernel, or heart, of Linux. The Linux seller said Monday that it would release 2.6.0-test1 RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) update files.
Making a pitch for OpenOffice.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1618217
Solveig Haugland writes "You'll sometimes encounter resistance to switching an organization to OpenOffice.org. The resistance can stem from simply not knowing about OpenOffice.org to not wanting to leave the known qualities of Microsoft Office or another suite. To help out the folks on the front lines of adoption, I've assembled a few strategies for the searchenterpriselinux.com site on how to go about convincing your IT or management team to go ...
IBM Servers to Pair Linux, New PowerPC Chips http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1614256
In a quest for a bigger piece of the entry-level server market, IBM Corp. has drawn up a three-year plan for producing and marketing systems that pair Linux and IBM's own 64-bit PowerPC family of processors, sources report.
Europe picks Penguin to link government IT http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1557211
A European Commission working paper on linking national government IT systems across Europe is recommending open source software.
Lindows Project Steers Open Source Faithful To 'Linux-Friendly' Retailers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1436220
Attention Linux shoppers: Lindows is launching a consumer web site, dubbed LFriendly.com. It's an effort to help buyers find sellers of computers pre-loaded with Linux, or are at least those that are Linux-friendly.
Freshmeat
AstroFlowGuard 1.000
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129705/
AstroFlowGuard is a Linux-based bandwidth managing stateful firewall, intrusion detection system, and VPN server. With its user-friendly interface, automatic failover and smart recovery system, it is the complete tool for anyone wanting to manage bandwidth and network security. It uses a hierarchical class-based system which provides a logical, intuitive view of network classes along with their priorities.
Atlantik 0.5.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129777/
Atlantik is a KDE client for playing the Atlantic and Monopoly boardgames with a monopd/atlanticd server.
AutoUpdate 5.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129754/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
BKchem 0.5.0-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129708/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
cereal emulation framework 0.93.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129670/
cereal is an emulation framework able to emulate 8051-compatible CPUs and connected devices, designed to allow easy addition of other (application-specific) devices to emulate.
Charles Web Debugging Tool 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129697/
Charles is a Web debugging tool, HTTP monitor, and reverse HTTP proxy for Web developers that includes plain text debugging of HTTPS/SSL. It is built in Java Swing, and runs on all Java platforms. It is an HTTP proxy server that displays requests and responses, complete with HTTP headers. This enables the developer to examine the exact content of HTTP exchanges, including cookies, caching, and redirects. It can also throttle your connection in order to simulate modem conditions.
DataVision 0.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129741/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
Divmod Quotient 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129683/
Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon.
DTDDoc 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129723/
DTDDoc (DTD Documentation) is designed to help document your DTDs efficiently. It is a straightforward extension of the javadoc concept, and a not so straightforward implementation of some of the concepts solidified by Donald E. Knuth.
eCos 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129734/
eCos (Embedded Configurable OS) is an open source, configurable, portable, and royalty-free embedded Real Time Operating System. It is written in C++, provides all the usual OS things. You configure the OS so that the parts you don't need aren't loaded to the embedded system. eCos is released under a modified GPL that allows for its use in embedded systems without having to GPL the embedded application.
Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.2-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129666/
Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, PCB, Front Plate, and Programmable Logic numbers. This is very useful when you have drawn some electronic schematics and PCBs in an EDA program such as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It is also useful if you've created a front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP, Corel Draw, or Photoshop.
evolvotron 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129699/
Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" application to evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps, and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software for you. It's implemented using Qt, and is multithreaded.
exifprobe 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129771/
Exifprobe examines and reports the contents and structure of JPEG and TIFF image files. It will recognize all standard JPEG markers (including APPn markers) and will report the contents of any properly structured TIFF IFD encountered, even when entry tags are not recognized. Recognized TIFF and TIFF/EP tags are expanded, including EXIF2.2 sections and camera MakerNotes which are found to be in TIFF IFD format. GPS and GeoTIFF tags are recognized and entries printed in "raw" form, but are not expanded. Location, size, and format of image data is reported.
EzSDK 4.76
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129700/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
FatCatalog 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129774/
FatCatalog is a Perl script that goes through a specified directory and digs up all of the audio/video information, which is stored in a DB. There is a Web interface to the DB which alows you to find dupes based on either the file checksum or the file name.
FreeMarker 2.3pre8 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129719/
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.
Group-Office 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129712/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
Gtk2-Perl 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129755/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
HardInfo 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129725/
HardInfo displays informations about the system's hardware in a GTK window. Linux 2.4 is officially required, but it might work with 2.2.
HarvestMan 1.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129763/
HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser.It has many features for customizing offline browsing through URL filters, depth-fetching, fetch levels, domain filters, file limits, thread limits, download depth, directory checking, and robot exclusion protocol. It is useful to download an entire Web site or certain files from a Web site to the hard disk for offline browsing later. It features an XML project file, and support for the HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols. It works transparently across proxies and can also crawl intranets.
hhmalloc 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129692/
Hierarchical heap is an extension of the standard C malloc/free interface, which allows organizing memory blocks into naturally occurring hierarchies. HH can be used for a number of tasks including memory pooling, limited garbage collection, and simplified dynamic structure management.
jlo 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129605/
jLo is a logging framework for Java offering some unique features. It is a lightweight framework which is easy to integrate and easy to use.
kbarcode 1.3.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129715/
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.
kludge3d 2003-07-18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129753/
Kludge3d is a simple 3D model editor in the spirit of Worldcraft or Milkshape. It is the offspring of several other GTK-based editors, with the best features taken from each. As the name implies, kludge3d is a kludge.
KnokiiSync 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129701/
KnokiiSync is a KDE 3.1.x program that transfers entries from a Gnokii-compatible phone to KDE's Address Book and vice-versa. It can transfer all the entries as well as the entry types (home, work, mobile, URL, email, etc).
KnowledgeTree 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129727/
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.
Lazy Encryption Algorithm 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129688/
LEA is a simple algorithm for file encryption that uses boolean algebra and modular arithmetic to test the stream and generate numbers with a logical order. Using bytes as increments and decrements users can choose between normal encryption without a pseudo- random data generator or steganography with or without random data.
libksd 0.1.0-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129772/
libksd is a cross-platform (C++) game framework which is built on top of SDL and also uses libSigC++ for its signal system. It provides drawing functions, a simple widget set, multi-threading, plug-ins, collision detection, joysticks, image loading/saving, simple audio playing/loading/saving, true-type fonts, and some other stuff too.
libxml++ 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129775/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml (gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple but complete API.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129690/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking.
Log Tool 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129766/
Logtool is a syslog file parser, report generator, and monitoring utility. It takes logfiles from syslog, multilog, or other ASCII log generating sources as input from stdin, and depending on command line switches and/or config file settings, will parse and filter out unwanted messages from the logfile accordingly, and generate output in ANSI color, formatted ASCII, CSV (for spreadsheets), or HTML format. It is very handy for use in automated nightly reports, and online monitoring of logfile activity. It comes with some simple example scripts and documentation.
MiaouIRC 0.86
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129662/
MiaouIRC is an RFC 1459-compatible IRC client written in Java/Swing. It has some useful features like choosing your Look 'n Feel, customizing your nick friend list, highly verbose logging, searching a keyword in a channel, private message panels, etc. It supports multi-server connections, DCC CHAT, SEND, ACCEPT and RESUME, CTCP commands, nick autocompletions, mIRC colors, autoreconnects, and autojoins. A DCC queue list is available to tracing your leeching activities with IRC FServ.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129739/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129738/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
Modular Access Control System 0.7.1-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/129694/
Modular Access Control System (MACS) is a system for global authentication, authorization, user/group/resource management, and application services.
mod_ssl 2.8.15-1.3.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129752/
mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1). It is based on the SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL and supports all SSL/TLS related functionality, including RSA and DSA/DH cipher support, X.509 CRL checking, etc. Additionally it provides special Apache related facilities like DBM and shared memory based inter-process SSL session caching. per-URL SSL session renegotiations, DSO support, etc.
monopd 0.8.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129730/
monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for Monopoly-like board games. Clients such as Atlantik can connect and allow users to play various games with other users of the network.
MProjekt 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129691/
MProjekt is a PHP project management system that features a file repository and Unix-like permissions. It is intented for people that doesn't like CVS and project managers, who must have control over projects and their components.
netfilter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129722/
netfilter is a firewall, NAT, and transparent proxy solution for Server-optimized Linux. It can be used to secure your LAN and give clients in your LAN access to the Internet using a SoL gateway. Traffic from the local clients can be filtered by ports and IP addresses.
OBM 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129733/
OBM is an Intranet application written to help manage a company. It can also be used as a contact and customer database or as a shared calendar. It is written with PHP and requires MySQL to work (although support for other databases is possible). It supports internationalization and themes, and it includes: sales force, help desk, time tracking, user, and administration modules.
ocre 0.010
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129703/
OCRE reads an image file and writes ascii characters.
OfflineIMAP 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129760/
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify email reading. It allows you to read the same mailbox from multiple computers and ensures that your changes will be automatically reflected on all computers. You can use various mail clients to read a single box or read mail while offline with full synchronization when you reconnect. You can read IMAP mail with readers that lack IMAP support (same goes for SSL). OfflineIMAP's multithreaded synchronization algorithm performs between 10 and 60 times faster than many mail readers' internal IMAP support, and it can be used even with mail readers that support IMAP already. There are five available user interface modules, including scripted execution, an interactive terminal interface, and GUI interfaces.
Open Beat Box 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129778/
Open Beat Box (OBB) is an open-source beat box.
Pearlowis 0.4.1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129768/
Pearlowis allows customers to reconfigure items in a shopping cart on the fly without ruining your profit margins.
PHP Fedex Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129729/
PHP Fedex Class is a class for the Fedex XML Direct Shipping Manager
API.
pixelGDM 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129659/
pixelGDM is a theme with pixel icons.
PMK 0.5.1 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129743/
PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers.
Project LRNJ: Slime Forest Adventure (Tutelary) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129761/
The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG that teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the prototype line: a simple NES-like CRPG using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a training set of 1000 kanji. Its purposes are to attract interest and funding, and to gather data and feedback on compatibility and effectiveness.
pwdutils 2.3.92 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129776/
pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP. PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, chpasswd, and a daemon for changing the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of where they are stored.
PyTone 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129765/
PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal jukebox system for use at parties.
qconfirm 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129707/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
qpopper-mysql 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129728/
qpopper-mysql is a patch to Qualcomm's qpopper POP3 daemon to enable it to do user authentication via a MySQL database, support virtual domains, support Maildir-style mailboxes, and log logins into a MySQL database for possible MTA SMTP authentication relaying use.
Report Writer 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129735/
Report Writer produces nice-looking PostScript reports that are defined in an XML file and based on data that are extracted from a database. The extraction is performed with DBIx::Recordset, so the syntax is the same as the syntax used by that package. A sample XML file is included. This file (trialbal.xml) is a report for Trial Balance from the FreeMoney project. The XML file contains sections for database, extraction criteria (the "search" section), page header, breaks (which is where Report Writer will make a nice total for you), and fields.
Salvare 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129713/
Salvare (from the Latin "to rescue") is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. In addition to providing a rescue environment similart to tomsrtbt, it adds OpenSSH, a graphical and text mode Web browser (Links), security tools such as chkrootkit, nmap, and tcpdump, the ability to apt-get install additional software from Debian into tmpfs, the ability to run entirely from RAM, and much more to come It's also customisable using a simple source-code based package management system.
Samba 3.0.0 beta3 (3.0.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129767/
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
Scripting Plugin for Scribus 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129770/
This project adds Python scripting capabilities to Scribus.
SibylSQL 0.7.2.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129369/
SibylSQL is a portable, full-fledged, next-generation, client-server, multi-threaded, object-relational database system. The primary technical contribution to the database community is the inclusion of the SQL Dialect Interface (SDI), originally written for the NightStar NEXTGRES database. The SDI allows a DBA to grant users or applications the ability to translate vendor-specific SQL such as Oracle, SAP DB, MSSQL, and PostgreSQL, into a native SibylSQL parse tree via dynamically loadable objects at run-time.
Sigit 0.2.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129718/
Sigit is a customisable signature creator that can be run either as a daemon or as a normal foreground process. It allows you to have a changing signature. If it's configured correctly, it will also change the information displayed when someone fingers you. It also supports multiple signature files for different newsgroups, and NFS-mounted $HOME shares.
Snownews 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129732/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and 2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
SuxPanel 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129724/
SuxPanel is a GNOME panel clone written from scratch using plain GTK+ 2.
tsemgr 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129757/
tsemgr is a GTK+ application to manage the SonyEricsson T68 mobile phone. It allows you to read and send short messages (sms), view and edit the phonebook, upload files via IrDA and Bluetooth, and turn your phone into a remote control for your Linux box.
vb2py 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129693/
vb2py is a VB to Python tool for automatically converting VB projects to Python, including both the code and GUI elements.
Vertoo 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129706/
Vertoo is a tool that lightens a developer's burden to maintain up-to-date versioning information across project's files. Vertoo provides a simple interface to change the version of a project and distribute these changes through the project's files. A configuration file describes the versions used in a project (each in arbitrary, user-specified scheme) and the formats for each of the occurrences of the version's data in the project files.
viPlugin 0.1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129698/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
VLC 0.6.0 (Natalya)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129695/
VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multimedia player for Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, and QNX. It can play most audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, DV, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD and DVD (with menus), and can read streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for transcoding.
WeBSET 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129702/
WeBSET is a special education management system that operates within EzEnterprise, a cross platform middleware environment. It is a full-featured IEP reporting system and screening and evaluation system, and provides applications that automate all aspects of the IEP process using a forms builder, report builder, and data dictionary. It provides solutions specifically designed for teachers, administrators, and special education staff, can be accessed over the Web, and meets federal, state, and local reporting needs.
WebSight Directory System 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129720/
The WebSight Directory System was originally developed for Electronic Music World (www.electronicmusicworld.com), to serve as an Internet link directory related to electronic music. WebSight Directory System presents collected links in categories and subcategories. It supports link submission by visitors.
xStats 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129736/
xStats is a script generating statistics for xMule and also a dynamic graphic online signature. The design was taken from Blacklotus Online Sig.
ZapEdit 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129749/
ZapEdit is a site management tool that can be used to update Website content through a browser. It features a WYSIWYG HTML editor that provides an intuitive business user authoring environment, and works with any existing HTML Website and on shared hosting accounts. ASP and PHP versions are available, and both Apache and Microsoft IIS Web servers are supported.
Zina 0.9.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129773/
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded into an existing Web site, or be used as a Postnuke/PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the GPL.
Zoidberg 0.3c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129748/
Zoidberg provides a modular Perl shell written, configured, and operated entirely in Perl. It aspires to be a fully operational login shell with all the features one normally expects. But it also gives direct access to Perl objects and data structures from the command line, and allows you to run Perl code within the scope of your commandline.
Thinkgeek
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/
Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/