[osdn business] July 20, 2003

0. http://mobile.burn.com/review.jsp?Id=353

An anonymous reader writes "The [0]NEC e606 and 3's recently launched 3G network has been reviewed at [1]Mobileburn. They seem to be happy with the network, but the phone is buggy and unfinished. One cool thing is that you can download sample videos to see what 3G is really like." Links

http://mobile.burn.com/

Overture To A Patent War?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0018245

Shackleford writes "CNET has an article discussing [0]Yahoo's proposed $1.63 billion buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services on Monday. Yahoo would acquire 60-plus patents related to technology and processes for indexing the Web, as well as for pay-per-click and bidding systems to grant sites higher placement in search results. The search market is expected to be reap $4 billion in revenue by 2005, according to researchers. As the industry matures, the competition for a piece of that large pie could lead companies to bulk up their IP legal teams, much like in other industries such as online advertising sales during the dot-com bust. And Overture sued FindWhat.com in February 2002 after FindWhat filed a summary judgment request in a New York federal court in an attempt to fend off any potential infringement charge from Overture. Two months later Overture filed a second lawsuit, charging Google with patent infringement in its pay-for-performance ad system. So is this the way the search engine competition will be won? Through patents and lawsuits?"
Links

0. http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-1027084.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

California Microsoft Settlement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/2311231

[0]Lord Prox writes "From news.com.com: A California judge on Friday
gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which
[1]Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that
claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows. More Townsend and Townsend and Crew is [2]info from the law firm here. Also note... you get vouchers in settlement good for buying computer related items, not just Microsoft products and/or can be traded and converted to cash!" Links

    0. mailto:lordprox@western-alliance.net
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1027598.html?tag=fd_top
    2. 
http://www.townsend.com/media/microsoft.html

Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/216235

0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364

Pointing to this [0]Associated Press story carried by the Miami Herald,
[1]Jorkapp writes "Sony has announced that they will be using
Processors manufactured by themselves in their next generation of CLIE handhelds, which are due to ship this Semptember. This is only the first step though, as Sony is planning to use its own line of processors for the next generation of Playstation systems. This new processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!) and the ability to play video at a smooth 30fps." And [2]jake writes with a link to a story at mobilemag.com which also describes the new handhelds (the UX50 was [3]mentioned the other day), and says "both the CLIE UX50 and UX40 handhelds will be available through American retailers [4]in September for about $700 and $600, respectively, but can be pre-ordered now through Sony's website."
Links

    0. 
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/6334589.htm
    1. mailto:jorkapp2@netzero.net
    2. mailto:jake_313@hotmail.com
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/182209&tid=100
    4. 
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C1843/

Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1841238

[0]Gary Robinson writes "I'm in a fairly unique position with regard to
the [1]Pinpoint vs. Amazon case since I built a system in the mid-1980's which is commonly regarded as the first active service based on collaborative filtering. It was a voice-mail-based dating service called 212-ROMANCE. I still have the 8-inch CP/M source code disks as insurance against CF-related patent lawsuits. Today I've posted a
[2]discussion of the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case in the context of that
prior art as well other prior art from the 1980's." Links

    0. 
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1019-1027343.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
    2. 
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/stories/2003/07/19/aDiscussionOfThePinpointVs.html

Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1756215

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday, says [0]this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming Red Hat distributions, too."
Links

RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1728240

JakusMinimus writes "The developer of BitKeeper has [0]issued fighting words to RMS and he has responded on the LKML,. I remember the flap about this way back when Linus decided on BitKeeper, now it seems many of the non-free concerns were warranted." Links

0. http://lkml.org/archive/2003/7/18/260/index.html

dSVG - A New Kind of Programming?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/2229256

[0]Gord Bowman writes "For anyone familiar with XML and, specifically,
with [1]SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), you may be aware that SVG is increasingly being used for the creation of data-driven Web applications. But everyone has been doing so by handcoding script and/or [2]XSLT, without the benefit of an IDE to help. Seeing such a need for a tool, my company (Corel) set about creating one." and 'lo, dSVG was born. Gord Bowman is the lead developer of dSVG and would like you to take a look at the dSVG specs (you can find the link, in the full article) and offer your comments. Links

    0. 
http://www.corel.com/smartgraphics
    1. 
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
    2. 
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

Newsforge Reports
Cluster filesystems for Linux?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1444241

Francesco M. Taurino writes: Do you know good cluster filesystems for Linux? Is available for Linux a filesystem with cache coherency across all the nodes in a cluster, efficient locking mechanism or with a distributed lock manager, with good scalability features and SAN (fibre channel) compatible?

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.

Newsforge Newsvac
SCO readies new Linux licensing program
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0343230

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Anonymous Reader writes "Per the article at Infoworld.com site: The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation. The program will be announced "within the next month or so," according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company will announce what he calls a "precursor" to this program in a press conference with SCO ...

Evolving the Wireless Robot
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1449217

Anonymous Reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins and outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and how they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks."

Red Hat to drop boxed retail distribution http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1446235

Anonymous Reader writes "Red Hat Software is expected to announce Monday that it is abaonding boxed retail sales and reorganizing its development to give project maintainers more control over what is included in Red Hat's distribution."

Do you prefer different Operating Systems on your desktop and server? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1454249

I intended to blog about the $800 TDV Vision Tablet PC reported by The Register and wonder outloud how it might be as a cheap Linux slate device. But, then it occured to me. Unless two fell from the sky free of charge, I would keep Windows XP on the box because most of my favorite office/home tools (vs. developer tools) run on the Windows XP side of my world. I just happen to have a preference for JASC PaintShop Pro, Microsoft PowerPoint, ...

Intel turns 35: Now what?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1452213

For many in the computer industry, the title of Intel Chairman Andy GroveÃƒÂ¢Ã‚Â€Ã‚Â™s 1996 book Only the Paranoid Survive came to symbolize the relentlessly competitive attitude that helped make Intel a dynastic success. Over three decades, IntelÃƒÂ¢Ã‚Â€Ã‚Â™s fanatical focus on design and manufacturing excellence, and its big bets on blockbuster products have enabled it to dominate the microprocessor business and become a Silicon Valley legend.

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

Confused? Frustrated?

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.

Freshmeat
acarsdclient 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129742/

acarsdclient is an X client for the acarsd server. It can simultaneously connect with up to 8 acarsd servers. You'll see live ACARS data from all over the world, and for every contact you'll see a thumbnail (if available on the server). You can see the aircrafts on a map, and you can create your own map if you want.

AIOCP 1.0.017
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129799/

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

Ajaqs 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129832/

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Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services.

Babeldoc 1.1.3-dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129825/

Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.

borZoi 0.8 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129858/

borZoi is an elliptic curve cryptography library for developers who want a simple means of adding privacy protection to their applications. Ease of use and a minimum risk of security problems due to incorrect use are its strong points.

bScribbles 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129843/

B-Scribbles strives to improve any PHP Web page. The transparent integration is painless to configure and install. Once in place, any visitor will be able to 'scribble' (post) to a board using a simple, non-obtrusive interface. It is designed to be extremely fast & scalable.

CacheMate 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129847/

CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.

CBQ.Init GUI 0.05b rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129813/

CBQ.Init GUI is a frontend to the CBQ.INIT script. It allows users to easily limit their bandwidth at the IP/port level.

Commandline Histogramming 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129833/

Commandline Histogramming provides commandline utilities to create histograms and calculate the moments of a distribution. They are easy-to-use and functional.

cpptools 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129820/

Cpptools is a set of C/C++ development tools. This package contains a C++ scanning class coded both in C++ and Python. CppFSMDoc.py is the Finite State Machine diagrammer which uses @FSM comment tags inside sourcefiles. CppClassHierarchy.py parses C/C++ sourcefiles and generates a graphical dependency tree using Graphviz, and CppColorize.py scans sourcefiles and generates a highlighted HTML version.

CWirc 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129838/

CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the soundcard.

dnspython 1.1.0b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129802/

dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.

dSVG markup test suite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129849/

dSVG is an XML markup language, implemented with a script (so as to work in any SVG viewer), which describes UI controls and behaviours to facilitate the creation of SVG-based Web applications.

EarlyBlue 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129808/

EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current builds without cutting any functionality.

epd2svg 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129842/

epd2svg is a program to convert from the EPD vector graphics format to SVG. File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 9 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129829/

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).

GCompris 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129857/

GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 2 to 10 years old. It includes more than 40 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more.

Greenwich 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129826/

Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl.

High Level Assembly Language 1.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129856/

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

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Issue Handler 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129837/

The Issue Handler is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.

jack 2.99.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129853/

Jack is a console based cd-ripper. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav (amongst others) for extraction and various MP3 and OGG/Vorbis encoders; you can even rip from a cdrdao-generated CD image. Emphasis is on failure-safeness and ease of use. Jack can encode multiple tracks at once, good on SMP systems. It can resume its work if interrupted and keeps an eye on available HD space. Freedb query is also supported, any time you like, even after encoding. Jack can try to query freedb for MP3s of which you do not know the CD anymore, provided you have a complete rip and know the track sequence.

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129852/

JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.

Krusader 1.21-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129831/

Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS. Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability, transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.

LCARStrek 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129810/

LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century.

libmspack 20030718
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129850/

libmspack is a library for compression and decompression of the Microsoft CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, SZDD, and KWAJ file formats.

LibTomMath 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129855/

LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).

LineControl Server 2.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129807/

LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems and ADSL devices.

Confused? Frustrated?

Linux 2.4.22-pre7 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129803/

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.

List of Mailing Lists Manager 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129731/

List of Mailing Lists Manager (LMLM) enables you to generate a site with detailed information about mailing lists of various kinds, including subscription, unsubscription, posting, archive, guidelines, description, and owner information. It supports Ezmlm, Listserv, Mailman, Majordomo, and Yahoo! Groups; other types can be added manually.

lm_sensors 2.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129841/

lm_sensors provides essential drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems containing devices such as the LM78 and LM75. It contains drivers for sensor chips and I2C and SMBus masters. It also contains text-based tools for sensor reporting, and a library for sensors access called 'libsensors'. It also contains tools for sensor hardware identification and I2C bus probing.

Mibble 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129818/

Mibble is an SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol) MIB (Manageable Information Base) parser library for Java. The library can be used to read SNMP MIB files as well as simple ASN.1 files. The library also contains classes for simple handling of the information contained in the MIB file, such as OID:s and types.

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Mimir 2.0-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129827/

Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.

Mimir 2.0-alpha2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129815/

Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.

Native SVG from Mozilla Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129846/

SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology: among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary paths, text, and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash is that it is a W3 recommendation (i.e., a standard for all intents and purposes) and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary format. It is explicitly designed to work with other W3C standards such as CSS, DOM, and SMIL. The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG implementation; it can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML, XHTML, XUL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.

neo2squirrel.pl 1.002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129812/

neo2squirrel is a Perl script to convert Neomail addressbook and preferences to SquirrelMail. This is a "run once" script, to help you convert many users on your server from Neomail to SquirrelMail.

NetGrave 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129834/

NetGrave allows NetHack users to share their bones files and high scores over the Internet. The uploads must be GPG-signed, and the server will only accept a file if it is signed by a key it has in its keyring. There is a Web interface that can be used to check/update the stats or download/upload the bones manually. One of its goals is to provide an alternative to hearse, another Nethack bones files server. The client and the server are included.

OfysUtils 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129814/

OfysUtils is a collection of tools to monitor and manage a Sicon Ofys UPS connected to the computer through a serial cable.

PHP SETI@home web monitor 0.1.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129805/

The PHP SETI@home web monitor is a very simple PHP script to monitor a single SETI@Home program running on a workstation or server via the local Web server. It displays general information of the user, the current work unit and the processing statistics. It also displays a skymap to show the source of the current data.

polyxmass 0.5.1 (polyxmassdata)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129793/

polyxmass is a mass spectrometry framework where users are able to define brand new polymer chemistries (with the polyxdef module), and use these definitions in order to make simple mass calculations (with the polyxcalc module) or perform complex simulations of polymer chemistry with related mass data computations (with the polyxedit module). The framework allows full customization of every aspect of the polymer chemistry being defined, and of the way the polymer sequences are graphically displayed. This program was formerly called "polyXmass".

pppusage 0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129844/

pppusage summarizes PPP transfer volumes, number of connections, and (on BSD systems) online time. The data is collected by reading the syslog files which contain the ppp[d] messages. A database file is used to store the relevant data. Certain time ranges (that is: a year, month, or day) may be specified on the commandline.

QuickDownloader 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129804/

QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.

rss2html 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129801/

rss2html will take RSS RDF files that any number of weblogs and other dynamic pages output and will turn them into HTML files. It is best suited for RSS versions pre-1.0.

SERanks 1-3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129836/

SERanks is a Java application that obtains the rankings of search expressions from search engines. It allows you to specify the search engines that are of relevance to you, offers lots of options for configuring the output and for governing the ranking process, and allows you to export the results to spreadsheet applications.

ShoutCastProxy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129816/

ShoutCastProxy is a system for saving bandwidth when multiple users in different rooms are listening to the same ShoutCast audio stream. ShoutCastProxy runs on a central server, and connects to whatever ShoutCast server that a client requests. If multiple clients request the same stream, the stream will be downloaded from the original source only once, but will still be sent to all the clients. Multiple proxies can be chained together.

Software Suspend 1.0.3 (2.4 Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129797/

swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.

SolarStats 1.0RC
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129848/

SolarStats is an advanced IRC statistics (StatServ) program for IRC networks. It offers features not available in other StatServ packages such as SQL output, SSL linking, multi-lingual support, and much more. It currently only functions with UnrealIRCd networks, but support for other IRCd software is planned.

The Nice programming language 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129779/

Nice is a new object-oriented programming language based on Java. It incorporates features from functional programming, and puts into practice state-of-the-art results from academic research. Among the advanced features: parametric types, anonymous functions, multi-methods, tuples, optional parameters to methods, design by contract, detection of many errors during compilation (in particular, concerning casts and null references). This results in more expressivity, modularity, and type safety.

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Tiki 1.7 RC2 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129824/

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.

TuxSaver 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129806/

TuxSaver is a 3D OpenGL screensaver for KDE. It shows Tux on an iceberg on the South Pole. It is possible to develop your own stories and 3D objects and add them to TuxSaver.

VDRadmin 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129622/

VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.

webcalng 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129822/

webcalng is a Web-based calendaring application for your Intranet or Internet site. You can use webcalng to publish calendars of events, manage group scheduling for your company, or just keep track of important dates in your personal life.

WeWiMo 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129817/

WeWiMo (Web WiFi Monitor) is a script for monitoring computers connected to access point running Linux and hostap WiFi card driver (ZCom XI-626).

When 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129828/

When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates. It's a very short and simple program, so you can easily tinker with it yourself. It doesn't depend on any libraries, so it's easy to install. You should be able to install it on any system where Perl is available, even if you don't have privileges for installing libraries. Its file format is a simple text file, which you can edit in your favorite editor.

wmfuzzy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129800/

wmfuzzy is a Window Maker dockapp clock that gives the time a textual approximation (instead of "21:17", the time is displayed as "Quarter Past Nine").

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