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[osdn business] July 26, 2003
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Kroupware Komplete
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2140238
sorinm writes "The three companies behind the [0]Kroupware Project
(Erfrakon, Intevation and Klarälvdalens Datakonsult) [1]announced its
successful completion today. This new groupware approach using only
Free Software is now available in stable versions under the Kolab brand
name. Commercial support on an individual basis is already offered with
further support options to come."
Links
Big Blue to take on Pixar?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2053248
spareacct1 writes "USAToday is reporting that IBM is set to announce a strategic partnership with Threshold Digital Research Labs of Santa Monica, CA. TDRL now hopes it has the deep pockets and computing power to [0]take on Pixar as the undisputed leader in CG animated films. TDRL's [1]spartan website is showing off digital stills. Interesting sidebar at the end of the story, both Pixar and TDRL recently dumped Sun and MS, respectively, in favor of Linux." Links
0. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2003-07-24-ibm_x.htm
$50 Aerial Digital Photography from a Balloon http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1944236
jizmonkey writes "[0]This guy built a [1]balloon to take digital aerial photographs from thousands of feet up. It cost less than $50 altogether, including the image sensor, controller, and balloon. The circuit is surprisingly straightforward: just a hacked [2]Vivitar minicamera, a [3]555 timer chip driving a relay through a voltage regulator, and a one-meter party balloon like the ones you see at used car dealerships. It just so happens that the entire circuit, strapped to a piece of a pizza box and tied to a really long string, is light enough to be lifted by the balloon. What could low-cost aerial photography be used for? I'm sure [4]some people have some ideas...." Links
0.
http://www.stanford.edu/~lindholm/index.html
1.
http://www.stanford.edu/~lindholm/chpro_bal.html
2.
http://vivitar.com/Products/DigCams/VGAdsc.html#v5
3.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/555/555.html
4.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/16/wbr.00.htmlPKWare Files a Patent Application for Secure .zip http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1942214
[0]prostoalex writes "The [1]battle of ZIP formats might intensify as
[2]PKWare filed an application with USPTO to obtain a patent on its
Secure Zip technology, which pretty much involves archiving with strong
cryptography. If the patent gets granted, PKWare will license its
algorithms for other software manufacturers. A representative of
Aladdin Systems summed it up: "The good thing about the .zip file
format was that you knew you could send it to everyone. Now that's
getting broke.""
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1542216&tid=185
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=2&u=/pcworld/111758
Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1920251
cybercuzco writes "In an otherwise innocuous article at they NYT (FRRYYY) Bill Gates says that according to error reporting software in windows, [0]5% of all windows installations crash two or more times every day. Gates goes on to state that Microsoft is looking at charging for some of its software updates that it now distributes for free." Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html
Don't Waste Culture, Recycle Art
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/192210
[0]Eddan Katz writes "Stepping up the copyright battle on behalf of
artists, EFF is hosting an event tonight called [1]Digital Mix at the
[2]Black Box in Oakland. Between laptop music, hip hop, and illegal art
films, speakers will talk about the Creative Commons [3]sampling
license and EFF's [4]"Let the Music Play" campaign."
Links
0.
http://www.biplog.com/
1.
http://www.eff.org/events/digitalmix/
2.
http://www.oaklandbox.com/
3.
http://creativecommons.org/discuss#sampling
4.
http://eff.org/share/
Petri Dish Babies, 25 Years Later
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1839242
bl8n8r writes ""You [0]can't buy a baby in the United States," said Caplan. "... But you can buy the sperm, you can buy the egg and you can rent the uterus." So, what I want to know is if it's cheaper than my current apartment, and if utilities are included :D" See also a [1]good story about IVF in the Mercury News. Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/07/25/ivf.anniversary/indexhtml
Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1757205
An anonymous reader asks: "Corporations and management [0]resisted
[1]telecommuting for years, now [2]jobs [3]flow to distant nations. Did
[4]telecommuting become acceptable because of the greater distance?
Because some form of on-site management persists? Because labor laws
are favorable? Because a well paid middle class is a political
[5]threat? Is it [6]really as simple as [7]money? I'll work cheaper if
I can [8]choose where I live and work. Must I leave my country to do
so?"
Links
0.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/07/191237&tid=99
1.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/16/213232&tid=126
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1848201&tid=98
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1226232&tid=98
4.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/28/2358206&tid=126
5.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0154219&tid=158
6.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/1356250&tid=98
7.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/2159244&tid=98
8.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/01/1912255&tid=99
Your Own Linux Wireless Access Point
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1553223
[0]prostoalex writes "Peter Seebach [1]decided to build his own
Linux-based 802.11b wireless access point. The article on IBM
DeveloperWorks talks about the hardware and software requirements,
implementing the operating system on the CompactFlash card, loading
Apache and Perl onto the server. The build-it-yourself wireless point
is not going to be cheaper than commercially available products, but
its educational value is immense." And HaeMaker writes "We have all
seen the 802.11b/g booster made from a Pringles can. Well, [2]these
guys have taken the idea, put some math behind it to find the optimal
can size and have turned it in to a cool product."
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs/
1.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-wap.html?ca=dnt-429
2.
http://www.cantenna.com/The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1517236
[0]Bruce Perens writes "The Open Group hasn't always had the best
reputation in the Open Source community, mostly because of their
handling of Motif, which remained proprietary for much too long. But
there's no arguing with the success of our community, and now the Open
Group leadership understands that their organization must be fully
involved in Open Source... or it's time for them to change their name.
To that end, the Open Group contracted me to develop an Open Source
strategy for their organization. The [1]draft strategy has been
published and they are requesting comment. - Bruce"
Links
0. http://bruce AT perens DOT com
Newsforge Reports
Why governments should be allowed to specify Open Source software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1713232
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The idea of governments giving preference to Open Source over proprietary software angers short-sighted 'free market' advocates. But businesses that want to deal with governments have always been expected to meet special conditions, and requiring software vendors to make all code they sell to governments Open Source is no worse than many other government purchasing conditions. Let's start by talking about glue.
Linux Advisory Watch - July 25th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0344235
- by Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for apache, kernel, nfs-utils, cups, phpgroupware, fdclone, several, gnupg, phpgroupware, mpg123, mozilla, semi, ethereal, and xpdf. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Trustix, TurboLinux, and YellowDog Linux.
Gambling on Linux pays off in Nevada
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1646215
- by Karen D. Schwartz - When Churchill County School District in Fallon, Nev., asked Dan O'Barr to find a replacement for an aging and expensive PIX firewall in 2000, the technology manager for the school district learned it would cost $20,000 to upgrade the hardware and acquire additional licenses through Cisco Systems. O'Barr decided he had nothing to lose by trying to create a firewall with Linux. Even though he didn't have much experience ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Why Windows Isn't Hell Or Why Linux Isn't Bliss
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2046208
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow?
HP, IBM and Sun to unveil server security initiative http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1619243
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are allying with three security providers to announce an open-standards initiative for safe computing on Aug. 5.
Savage to support Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1616227
A Linux version of S2 Games' hybrid real-time strategy and first-person shooter will ship on the same CD as the PC version.
Ballmer takes on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1614246
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer took on Linux in a big way this week during the company's annual meeting with the financial analyst community, saying that "too much abuse has gone on for too long."
SCO's Linux challenge likely to backfire http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1522235
By targeting end users in its legal fight against Linux, SCO is making some very powerful enemies and should expect a legal backlash, according to analyst firm Datamonitor.
Red Hat Inc. to Host Annual Meeting of Stockholders http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1524218
Red Hat, Inc. , the world's premier open source and Linux provider, today announced that its 2003 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:00 am Eastern Time at its headquarters, 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Uncle Sam may need to pay for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1438210
The next target in SCO's Linux licensing hunt may well be the White House. Netcraft shows the White House Web site humming away on the very Linux servers that have come under SCO's watchful eye. White House staffers are big open soucre fans using both Linux and Apache - two of free software's finest products.
MandrakeSoft withdraws 'unsafe' Linux update http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1518204
The Linux distributor has advised users not to install a recent upate to the Mandrake Linux 9.1 kernel, after discovering a serious flaw.
Linux in your car?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1512220
So one has been able to stash a PC in the automobile of thier choice for a long time now. The formula has been pretty simple; small PC + power converter + small LCD + input device + audio cables = car computer. Many of these types of projects have evolved into MP3 players, movie players, and other multimedia applications. However, getting is all right and fitting it into one's auto is still a challenge requiring plenty of planning and ...
An Open Source Strategy for the Open Group http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1452207
The Open Group is faced with challenges and opportunities regarding Open Source software. Foremost is the organization's responsibility to guide its members in use of, and participation in, Open Source. Secondarily, as an organization we must catch up: we couldn't have known that Open Source would be this successful, and it brings profound changes to our main areas of practice: Open Systems and Standards. We must now fully integrate Open Source ...
Freshmeat
7 0.1 (Matrix)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130431/
7 is a theme built around the number 7 on a telephone keypad.
AbstractDB 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130450/
AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class methods to access the most important database functions. It contains classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions (MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for database access.
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.3-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130537/
Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile (with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130503/
The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to help stop unsolicited commercial email (UCE). Anti-spam tools should be adaptive to new spam and customized for each site’s email patterns. This easy to use tool works with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator intervention after the initial setup phase.
Author.CMS 3.3.5 (e-Commerce)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130461/
Author CMS is a flexible and scalable content management system. It has a usability-tested administration interface, a special installer that easily installs the system on your server, high-level functions that save considerable templates coding time, and a WYSIWYG editor.
Autogg 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130451/
Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independent of the catalog structure. It is using the tags to sort by album and artist. Music can be inserted into the playlist from a tree list.
Bourne Again IRC Client 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130463/
Bourne Again IRC Client is a single-file client written entirely in BASH. It supports basic commands and has a nice GUI.
Build it Fast 0.1.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130469/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130438/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.0.6 (PHP)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130475/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
CheckRDF 37.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130439/
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
Complex Grid-Type Logic Problem Solver 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130499/
Puzzled is a program which will ultimately help you solve complex grid-type logic problems by understanding pseudo-English translations of the clues provided with the problem. It can automatically reassess clues containing comparative information (or, more than, less than, next to), and it has the persistent software preferences characteristic. It comes with a pseudo-English language parser which supports the following relationships: is, is not, more than, less than, next to, not next to, and, or, and shorthand equivalents.
convmv 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130479/
convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale. It has some smart features: it automagically recognises if a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.
doxygen 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130508/
Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.
DrJava 20030724
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130517/
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is under active development by the JavaPLT research group at Rice University, but it is also stable and is currently being used by students, teachers and other developers. A Java 2 v1.3-compliant Java virtual machine is required.
fli4l 2.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130530/
fli4l is a single-floppy Linux-based ISDN/DSL/ethernet-router. It features configuration with some simple ASCII-files, several possible connection-flavors (in/out/callback, and raw IP/PPP), channel bundling (an extra channel can be added through a Windows/Unix-client), configuration of multiple networks, least-cost routing, automatic choice of provider, display/calculation of connection times and costs, and a Windows/Unix client to control dial/hangup, monitor traffic and monitor incoming calls on ISDN (see screenshot).
FluxAqua 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130501/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
Flyspray 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130452/
Originally developed for the Psi project, Flyspray is an easy to use bug tracking system for those who don't require all the complexities of something like Bugzilla. It supports multiple users, file attachments, and Jabber notifications.
gamem4 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130509/
gamem4 is a collection of autoconf/automake m4 files for facilitating game programming in an easier and more portable fashion.
GECO 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130507/
Geco is an ERP/e-commerce/e-procurement solution for Italian Small-Medium Enterprises (PMI), and is especially suited for accounting/financial purposes. Written in pure PHP (with extensive use of OOP), it can run both in ASP and in "Linux box" mode, and the look and feel is provided by the use of stylesheets for quick and easy personalization.
gperiodic 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130440/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.
gpsdrive 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130535/
Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available.
Gtk2-Perl 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130487/
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.
GtkAtlantic 0.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130488/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers.
Gtkboard 0.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130511/
Gtkboard is a board game architecture and implementation. It implements all the common aspects of board games, such as the user interface, move parsing code, AI (i.e., game tree search) and file format. It has a simple API which makes it very easy to write a new game. Games are fitted in as plugins. Currently more than 15 games have been fully or partially implemented.
GTKtalog 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130493/
GTKtalog is an archiver to store a CD file tree structure. It can be used to easily browse a CD-ROM database. Each disk, folder and file has a size, date, category, description, and content parameter and can be completely edited or deleted. The file search module can do searches on filename, foldername with name, category description, date, filesize, and content parameter. Each filetype has its own icon. It possible to use programs like tar, arj, zip, or scripts to extract information from files to include in the database. Gtktalog can mount, scan, umount, and eject a CD-ROM in the background.
hasciicam 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130489/
Hasciicam makes it possible to have live ASCII video on the Web. It captures video from a TV card and renders it into ASCII, formatting the output into an HTML page with a refresh tag or in a live ASCII window or in a simple text file as well, giving anyone that has a bttv card, a Linux box, and a cheap modem line the ability to show a live asciivideo feed that can be browsable without any need for a plugin, Java, etc.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 1979 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130492/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet is a German introduction to the technical aspects of the Internet. This book explains both the low-level protocols like IP, TCP, and UDP and the high-level protocols like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, and DNS.
Hotani Web Template 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130532/
Hotani Web Template is a Web page template with discussions, article posting ability, and polls. Once installed, it can be administered from the page itself to make new polls, post articles, and create discussion threads and new periodicals.
ion-cms 0.8.1_06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130356/
ion-cms is a Content Management System which uses J2EE and XML. It is compliant with J2EE standards and uses XML to define content structures, XSL to provide rendered contents in many formats (HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, etc.), and JSP with JSTL as a template system.
Japha 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130433/
The Japha API is an attempt to port most of the major classes/packages in the Java 1.4.1 API to PHP for use in everyday applications. It includes, but is not limited to java.lang classes, HTTP, I/O, database abstraction, and a growing package for automated HTML creation called 'Phing'. PHP 5 is required.
Just4Log R0_4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130518/
Just4Log is a library to dynamically enhance the performance of various Java logging systems inside a Java application. The source code in Java is not modified, but the optimization occurs on the compiled bytecode files. It optimizes bytecode from Log4j, Apache Commons, and JDK 1.4 java.util.logging. It can also automatically add "enter" and "exit" logs at every exit and entry point of methods. An Ant task offers integration in Ant scripts.
Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.3.3pre16 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130476/
The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler is a multi-platform Occam 2.1 compiler that is designed to allow the Occam programming language to be used on non-Transputer platforms.
kses 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130459/
kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, no matter how malformed the HTML input you give it. It also does several checks on attribute values. It can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows, and Denial of Service attacks.
libASSA 3.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130485/
libASSA is an OO C++ UNIX networking library based on some of the design patterns such as Configurator, Reactor, Acceptor, and Connector collectively known as Adaptive Communication Patterns described in various papers published by Dr. D. C. Schmidt.
libexif 0.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130465/
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
liblohs 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130432/
liblohs is a library to control the LOHS family of Optical Mark Reader devices.
LibTomCrypt 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130498/
LibTomCrypt is a comprehensive, modular, and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo- random number generators, public key cryptography, and a plethora of other routines. It has been designed from the ground up to be very simple to use. It has a modular and standard API that allows new ciphers, hashes, and PRNGs to be added or removed without change to the overall end application. It features easy to use functions and a complete user manual which has many source snippet examples.
macstl 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130533/
MacSTL is a C++ source library designed to bring the Macintosh into the world of modern generic programming. It offers a new implementation of std::valarray optimized for the Altivec. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is almost 2x faster than gcc, due to the ruthless weeding out of redundant loads and stores. Much of the code base is cross-platform and the Altivec optimizations are encapsulated in a traits class, making it straightforward to target other vector processors like Intel SSE2, GPUs, etc. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result, std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without the same overheads.
MacXM 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130539/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
Maintain 2.1-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130528/
Maintain is a multi-user, Web-based management tool for managing host information for building DNS, DHCP, VMPS, and Radius configurations.
makepp 1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130434/
makepp is a syntax-compatible reimplementation of make designed for more reliable builds and simpler makefiles. It scans automatically for include files, handles builds involving multiple directories in a much simpler and more reliable fashion, supports transparently putting object files in a different directory, can automatically import files from a central repository, won't rebuild if only comments and indentation have changed, knows to rebuild if the build commands change, has wildcards which match files which don't exist yet but can be built, and can be extended by embedding Perl code in the makefile.
man-pages 1.58
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130490/
The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc.
Mango 0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130436/
Mango is recipe management software. The main motivation of the project is to provide an open source Mealmaster compatible application.
MegaPov 1.1.0 (Tree Generator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130442/
MegaPOV is a version of POV-Ray that features various custom and unofficial patches.
Mini-XML 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130468/
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program. It supports reading and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files, and provides a hierarchical view of the file via a linked-list tree structure of typed nodes and functions for managing, traversing, and searching the tree.
MP-MPICH 24-07-03 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130483/
MP-MICH is a Multi-platform uniform MPI implementation, based on MPICH and SCI-MPICH, resulting in a high performance, consistent MPI across both ethernet and SCI networks in a hybrid environment. There is a single, standardized source tree for all platforms. It is compliant with the MPI-1 standard.
MyDNS 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130456/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
mysqlBind 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130486/
myqslBind manages multiple DNS/BIND (8 and 9) name servers. It automates updates to multiple DNS servers, centralizes and stores all zone and resource records for sets of related name servers (ns0...nsN.yourisp.net), and even manages different name server sets from a single browser-based interface. Unlimited master and slave name servers update their zone information via a job queue system that uses MySQL socket connections. Advanced operations can use mySQL replication clusters for high availability and redundancy. Large ISPs and other organizations should note that they can easily add SQL functions to customize the program for their special needs. It supports authentication via SSL Unix password login, SSL personal certificate, or IP-based access with multiple permission levels and individual record ownership. It is also compatible with mysqlISP.
MörkGryning 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130399/
MörkGryning is a theme based on the cover of black metal band Mörk Gryning's album "Maelstrom Chaos". The main colors are red, black, and orange. The font used is aqui from the fluxbox artwiz font package.
naim 0.11.6 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130472/
naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.
nanoweb 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130506/
Nanoweb is a modular Web server written in PHP. It is designed to be small, secure, and extensible. It is HTTP/1.1 compliant and has decent performance, CGI and FastCGI support, a nice configuration system, name-based virtual hosts, server side includes, authentication, gzip content encoding support, Apache combined format and MySQL logging, and many advanced features.
Newts 0.11.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130496/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients.
ObjectBrowser Bean 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130448/
The ObjectBrowser Bean uses Java reflection to generate a file-explorer-like GUI automatically for any Java object or set of objects. It incorporates a number of features aimed at making the UI useable, such as special treatment of array-like members as child objects, and representation of bean getter and setter methods as properties. Scripting can be used to add in additional methods to manipulate the target object.
Objects Only Web Application Framework 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130200/
Objects only is a Web application framework. It is designed to enable people to build simple sites easily and quickly. It handles persistence, error checking, automatic mapping of form data to objects, and much more. Designed for smaller Web sites, it is perfect for such applications as news sites, blogs, photo sites, and simple database applications.
ocre 0.011
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130449/
OCRE reads an image file and writes ascii characters.
PackdDir utils 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130526/
PackdDir utils is a collection of utilities that can unpack PackdDir archives. PackdDir files are famous for being the archive format of Quake (I and II).
pam_usb 0.1-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130513/
pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using an USB-Storage device (such as an USB Pen) through PAM. It can work with any application using PAM such as your system login (login), your X login (XDM/KDM/GDM), your screensaver (xscreensaver), and many others. It supports multiple users for the same device, multiple passwords for the same user (based on the system's hostname), and serial numbers access list.
Pan 0.14.0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130522/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
patchutils 0.2.24 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130491/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree, combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
Performance Application Programming Interface 2.3.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130481/
PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors.
Petal 0.70.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130480/
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g. pulling system configurations from a change management system) from their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
phpSERA 0.2rc5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130437/
phpSERA is a tool for Search Engine Ranking Analysis (SERA). The rankings are based on parsing output of search engines, using simple regular expressions. Given one or more search engines, one or more keyphrases and a single URL to look for, it connects to the search engine(s), parses the result pages, and displays a ranking report.
POVRAY 1 (Mega)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130504/
POVray, the Persistence Of Vision Raytracing Toolkit, is a very powerful Raytracing software. It runs on MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Linux, Macintosh, SunOS, Unix and Amiga.
PPR 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130474/
PPR is a Unix print spooler expressly designed for operating PostScript printers. Its features are numerous, and it supports printers connected to parallel or serial ports, or over the network through AppleTalk, LanManager, LPD, and TCP/IP protocols. It accepts jobs from Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix clients. If the input file is not PostScript, it can pipe the input through a filter. PPR has been designed to manage large numbers of printers with minimal operator attention. It has command line and Web interfaces.
Q Engine 1.1.0 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130454/
Q Engine is a cross-platform development system for games and interactive 3D applications. Its design strengths include built-in streaming, outstanding visual quality, and high-productivity development tools for deployment on Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130519/
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.
Rate 0.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130477/
Rate is a Swiss-Army-knife bandwidth measurement tool. Its primary application is calculating the bandwidth used by packets matching a given BPF packet filter expression, which can really help a network administrator see what is happening at a software-based router at the moment. Administrators can measure the traffic generated by a single host or by a whole subnet, and measure HTTP traffic, broadcast traffic, quake traffic, etc. It can also be used for generating per-IP statistics and for determining nodes that generate highest traffic; it has a special operation mode for it. Additionally, it is able to extract strings from packets based on a POSIX regular expression.
RPL/2 4.00pre7b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130464/
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics.
Safari Bookmarks Extractor 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130500/
Safari Bookmarks Extractor is a simple application (Cocoa + AppleScript) to convert all your Safari bookmarks (XML-PList) into a HTML links file.
SafeClean 2.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130516/
SafeClean quickly removes Internet history files, caches, bookmarks, email, and conversation logs that can allow others to find out what you have been doing on the Internet, possibly revealing personal and potentially compromising information. It allows you to permanently destroy information about your Web browsing activities, private email messages, and even information on your use of Instant Messenger programs. It is easy to use, and provides a one-click method to protect your Internet privacy. For power users, SafeClean is completely configurable so that you can decide which types of information or which Internet applications you wish to clean for privacy purposes.
SafeShred 2.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130514/