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[osdn business] August 02, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
CAPPS II Guidelines Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/2012239
[0]W33dz writes "[1]WIRED magazine has released an [2]article detailing
the [3]Transportation Safety Administration's latest guidelines for the
second-generation Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or
CAPPS II. As outlined in a [4]notice to be published Friday in the
Federal Register, CAPPS II will rate every passenger by checking dates
of birth, home addresses and phone numbers against commercial databases
and the government's terrorist watch lists. This is a pullback from the
[5]original plan which called for wide dissemination of data including
financial and medical history."
Links
0. mailto:jntrea@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59860,00.html
3.
http://www.tsa.gov/public/
4.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0225.xml
5.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,57354,00.html
DNA Extraction From Fingerprints
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/204255
[0]Myriad writes "A Canadian scientist has [1]developed a new way of
gathering DNA evidence for analysis using fingerprints. The new test
can extract DNA in 15 minutes - even from a print stored for many years
and in varying conditions. The patented extraction technique
consistently produces ~10 nanograms of DNA. Analysis generally requires
5-10 nanograms, although it is possible with as little as 0.1
nanogram."
Links
The Biggest and Baddest Backyard Roller Coaster http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0110210
[0]BoomZilla writes "Following on the heels of previously reported
backyard roller coasters ([1]here and [2] here), I'd like to add
[3]Jeremy Reid's wondrous beast to the list. This behemoth certainly
takes the award for the largest, fastest (and most likely the most
expensive) labor of coaster love. Located in Newcastle, Oklahoma, it
has an initial drop of 20ft, pulls max positive G's of 3.5 and max
negative G's of -0.2. Overall it's a stunning 444 feet in length. Total
cost is estimated at $5.5k. Jeremy is, clearly, a man with too much
time and money on his hands!"
Links
0.
http://www.boomzilla.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/12/198202&tid=159
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1827245&tid=167
3.
http://www.jeremyreid.com/
ZigBee Low-Power Wireless Networking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1957244
[0]asmithmd1 writes "Do you you have a great idea for a wireless device
that really doesn't need the 1 Mbit/sec (and high power consumption) of
Bluetooth? Well you will have a new choice soon, [1]ZigBee. Zigbee is
the trademark for [2]IEEE 802.15 Personal Area network low data rate
standard. Designed to run in low power 8 bit devices at data rates of
20k bits/second, a ZigBee node will run for months if not years on one
set of batteries. With heavy hitters like [3]Motorola and Phillips
behind it and [4]chips available soon for half the cost of bluetooth,
it looks like it will become a reality."
Links
0.
http://www.gadgeteer.org
1.
http://www.zigbee.org/
2.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/
3.
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=02XPgQhHPRjdyB
4.
http://www.asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39125441,00.htm
In-Flight Reboot?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1953255
[0]steelem writes "The Washington Post is running a story about how the
F-22 Raptor's software requires [1]in-flight reboots. Apparently the 2
million line software project is 93% done. Knowing most projects I've
been on, it'll stay that way for another few years."
Links
0. mailto:matt_steele1@yahoo.com
XForms Becomes Proposed Recommendation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1922220
[0]leighklotz writes "The [1]W3C has announced that [2]XForms is now a
Proposed Recommendation, after certification of one full implementation
(open source Java [3]XSmiles from Finland) and two more implementations
of each feature (the Internet Explorer plug-in [4]FormsPlayer and the
Java standalone [5]Novell xPlorer). XForms is the next generation of
forms for the Web, and uses an XML-based three-layer model: data model,
data, and user interface. XForms uses CSS for device independencence
and is designed for integration into [6]XHTML 2, [7]SVG, and other
XML-based markup languages. A host of other [8]implementations are
available or in progress, but my pick for most interesting is [9]DENG,
which is an XForms to Flash compiler written in Flash. DENG supports
XForms, SVG, RSS, XHTML, and CSS. XForms is in consideration for other
standards as diverse as [10]Universal Remote Controls and the [11]UK
Government Interoperability Framework, and was developed with the
participation of IBM, Oracle, Xerox, Adobe, Novell, SAP, Cardiff,
PureEdge, and a host of [12]other companies, universities, and
invididuals."
Links
0.
http://graflex.org/klotz
1.
http://www.w3c.org/
2.
http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/Forms
3.
http://www.x-smiles.org/
4.
http://www.formsplayer.com/
5.
http://www.novell.com/xforms
6.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/
7.
http://www.w3.org/TR/svg
8.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/#implementations
9.
http://mozquito.markuplanguage.net/
10.
http://www.tracecenter.org/docs/2003-CHI-Unified-Remote-Console-Standard/
11.
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/e-GIF4Pt2_2002-04-25.pdf
12.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/sliceI.html#acks
Garmin iQue 3600
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1911221
[0]W33dz writes "Several sources are talking today about [1]Garmin's
new [2]iQue 3600. This lovely new gadget runs on [3]Palm's OS 5.2 and
features an onboard GPS system. Garmin has a long history of being a
top [4]GPS manufacturer and has created a neat little device that you
can see reviewed [5]here (MSNBC) and [6] here (InfoSync)."
Links
0. mailto:jntrea@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.garmin.com/
2.
http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/
3.
http://www.palm.com/
4.
http://www.trimble.com/gps/
5.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946440.asp?0cv=CB20
6.
http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/3903.htmliew
Is Louder Better?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1533235
GoodNicsTken writes "Rip Rowan over at [0]prorec.com did an [1]
analysis of 5 different Rush CD's released from 1984 to 2002. The
results show a definite trend in the recording/mastering style from
each album. Rip contends that louder is not necessarily better as the
record execs believe. The artist however, is often left with little
choice in the matter."
Links
Indie Games - Fast, Cheap and Everywhere http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1641209
[0]bios10h writes "MSNBC has an article about [1]indie game developers
and their businesses. 'INDEPENDENT COMPUTER GAMING: It's not always
pretty, but ask any one in the biz and they'll say that it represents
the purest form of game development. And sometimes the cheapest.'
Interesting read about the indie games scene... maybe we have indie
developers in the Slashdot crowd that would like to comment on this."
Links
0. mailto:bios10h@hotmail.com
Ian Murdock: Linux is a Process, Not a Product http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/138204
[0]securitas writes "[1]Debian founder Ian Murdock says that Linux is a
process, not a product. He also says that the product mentality 'misses
the entire point of Linux and the open-source development model.'
Because Linux is made up of many different components developed on
independent timeframes, Murdock posits, to refer to Linux as a product
is to strip it of its dynamism and closes its inherently open nature.
Instead, he says that Linux should be viewed as a shared platform and
infrastructure technology, and that business models should reflect that
or else Linux risks becoming proprietary, closed and just another
cookie-cutter piece of software."
Links
Newsforge Reports
Is my new portable music player safe to use?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2118255
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Portable MP3/Ogg players get better every year. The latest model managing editor Lee Schlesinger and I have received for review is a lovely little piece of engineering and we are happy to share our impressions of it with you. But is this device legal? Will those of us who use it bring the wrath of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) down on our heads like a corporate version of Maxwell's Silver ...
Linux Advisory Watch - August 1st 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/135213
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for mnogosearch, perl, sup, conq, gallery, xtokkaetama, kernel, stunnel, openssh, and kdelibs. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
Neuros HD: I dig that crazy beat
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2116227
- by Lee Schlesinger - The $399 Neuros HD 20GB is that rare product that actually exceeds expectations.
Newsforge Newsvac
LinuxWorld preview: New 2.6 kernel bringing new level of competition from Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1918254
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Now that the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel is in beta, enterprise Linux users are anxious to see how the next six months will play out with regard to the core of the operating system and how it expands enterprise adoption."
Interview with Asa Dotzler of Mozilla
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1916240
linuxquestions writes "In an interview with LinuxQuestions.org Asa discusses the formation of the the Mozilla Foundation, the direction Mozilla is headed, Microsoft's decision to no longer offer IE as a standalone product, acceptance of the browser as a client interface to applications and more."
IBM responds to SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1911236
Anonymous Reader writes "An IBM executive has commented on what he alleges are the forces behind SCO. More significantly for the case, IBM may be about to respond to SCO's amended complaint. Interesting commentary, including instructions on how to get copies of court documents, at GROKLAW. Non-IBM lawyers have also been looking at the issue too. Eben Moglen has written a position paper for the OSDL. Down under, a lawyer colorfully says, in that ...
Speakers for AUUG national open source conference announced http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/199208
Anonymous Reader writes "The Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) has released the program for its annual national technical conference, catering to open source software users, businesses, government agencies, developers and vendors. .... Among those confirmed to speak are Samba guru and IBM researcher Andrew Tridgell, National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) general manager Steve Alford, Sun chief technology officer ...
SCO's official Linux contributions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/197223
Anonymous Reader writes "Previous reports have covered how SCO employees (back when the company was called Caldera) helped add many of the Linux enterprises features that they need decry and claim as copyright or contractual infringements, for example: SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise. Some probably questioned whether these contributions were unauthorized activities, but it now seems evidence that these contributions were officially made by SCO."
Constant Data Plays Linux Card
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1821242
Storage management software startup Constant Data Inc. has launched a new version of its host-based replication software, claiming it's the only product of its kind aimed at Linux environments -- although that's a differentiator it probably won't be able to trade on for very long.
Oracle To Launch Linux Center, Keep Seeking "Gurus" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1819202
All the big vendors in the Linux arena are packing up to head for San Francisco next week, with Oracle one of the biggest. Today they've detailed some of their plans for the LinuxWorld Expo.
HARTR Master Driver Now Available for SIXNET Linux IPm Controller s and RTUs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1754228
HART(r) Master Driver Now Available for SIXNET Linux IPm Controllers and RTUs.
LynuxWorks Challenges Findings of Microsoft-sponsored Research Comparing Project-development Costs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1751222
Anonymous Reader writes "LynuxWorks issued a statement today challenging a recent study published earlier this month by Embedded Market Forecasters. The EMF report concluded that costs of embedded development on Microsoft Windows platforms were on average 68 percent less when compared to similar projects completed on a Linux embedded operating system. The statement in its entirety can be located here."
IBM "Close" to Answering SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1638245
IBM Corp is believed to be close to filing a response to SCO Group Inc's amended copyright legal action, which elevated the price tag of victory to more than $3bn.
Freshmeat
ALE 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131317/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing").
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20 PRE 2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131252/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
arch revision control system 1.1pre5 (tla Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131305/
arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.8d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131327/
Atanks is a multi-platform scorched earth clone similar to Worms. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It features a wide array of weapons, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.
BG-Rescue Linux 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131251/
BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI, USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS (read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1, 4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo 22.5.4, devfsd 1.3.25, dosfstools, cramfs, umsdos-utils, fdisk, gpart, mdadm, lphdisk, smbclient, bzip2, cabextract, zip/unzip, loadlin, and pcmcia-cardmgr. The user can choose between the US English and German keyboard layout at boot time. It is possible to include a startup script on the CD-ROM which starts automatically at bootup.
bib2html 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131292/
bib2html is a converter from a BibTeX database to HTML files.
BW whois 4.0-beta-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131306/
BW whois is a modern whois client that works as a commandline tool or as a full-featured Web application. The program is flexible and configurable with self-detecting CGI support, multiple security options in the CGI mode, a mature TLD table, database caching (using MySQL), and many more options and features.
BZFlag 1.7g2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131318/
BZFlag is a 3D multiplayer tank battle game that pits players against each other in a networked environment. It runs on Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Irix 5.3 or higher, and Solaris. An OpenGL accelerator is highly recommended, but it is playable with 3D in software.
C-Arbre 0.6PR1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131279/
C-Arbre is an integrated Web software suite. Some of its key features include a CMS, work flow processing, handling of collaborative work and editions, templates engineering, support for DocBook XML and Wiki style, online documents redaction, a search engine with indexing, a Webmail client, a cache system, groupware tools (calendar and Webmail), and internationalization and localization of the interface.
CMSimple 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131312/
CMSimple is a simple content management system for simple maintainance of small commercial or private sites. It has a simple installation, is easy to modify, and offers an unique combination of features. It uses an HTML-file for storing the entire site, which can be edited in your favorite editor. It has a dynamic TOC and document locator, a WYSIWYG editor (no plugin--functions in IE and Mozilla), a search function, link validation, image handling, and automatic backup. It is easy to set up your own layout; just edit the template and stylesheet.
Cream for Vim 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131269/
Cream is a configuration of the famous Vim text editor that makes it easier to use, like an Apple- or Windows-style text editor. It uses Vim's own extensibility to improve menus, keyboard shortcuts, and editing behavior. Cream seamlessly maintains Vim's insertmode to access all the power of the original Vim plus many custom Cream extensions.
DL Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131249/
DL Manager is a full featured download and license manager that allows users to administer free or licensed downloads on a Website. They can offer free downloads, paid downloads, or a mixture of both. There can be multiple license or subscription types and term lengths. You can view detailed reports of user logins, downloads, and subscriptions or licenses.
DocBook Doclet 0.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131264/
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF.
Download Manager 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131342/
Download Manager (also known as downman) is a suite of programs that assist with downloading files. It features a GNOME 2 GUI.
DRT 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131232/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application.
DSPAM 2.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131282/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
esound 0.2.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131297/
EsounD mixes multiple digitized audio streams and samples together for playback by a single audio device. It also allows monitoring of mixed output, and recording. Network connections to the daemon are supported as well.
Etherboot 5.0.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131267/
Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86 PCs over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. bootp/DHCP and tftp.
EVARISTO 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131275/
Evaristo is an ERP solution written in Java (2 tier), and only avaialable in Portuguese. It requires a database in order to store the data.
FindBugs 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131295/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
FOX 1.1.33 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131304/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
Gambas 0.63 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131334/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Gander 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131314/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object method-calls.
GatorMail 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131319/
GatorMail is a Java Servlet-based Webmail application built on the Jakarta Struts framework. It was originally developed to meet the needs of the University of Florida. Efficient interaction with the mail store along with a low support overhead and simple, user-friendly interface are the primary goals of the project.
Globespan-based USB ADSL modems driver 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131280/
This is a free Linux driver for USB ADSL modems with Globespan chipsets (ECI modems in France and many other modems in the world).
gluX 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131328/
GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions. It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program. At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or not.
GNATS 4.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131254/
GNATS is a portable incident/bug report/help request-tracking system which runs on UNIX-like operating systems. It easily handles thousands of problem reports, has been in wide use since the early 90s, and can do most of its operations over e-mail. Several front end interfaces exist, including command line, emacs, and Tcl/Tk interfaces. There are also a number of Web (CGI) interfaces written in scripting languages like Perl and Python.
Gtk2-Perl 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131316/
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.
IDL2Matlab 1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131265/
IDL2Matlab is a program for automatically translating a program from IDL into Matlab and Scilab. IDL and Matlab are two major numerical languages for scientists. Scilab is a free Matlab-like language. Many IDL programs have been developed in large facilities studying astrophysics, geology, medicine, and particle and nuclear physics. On the other hand, Matlab is widely used in smaller laboratories, such as universities and national scientific agencies. This program is designed to extend the portability of such IDL programs.
ImageViewer 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131301/
ImageViewer is a small application which displays images based on the GNUstep API. It handles all image types known to GNUstep (i.e., TIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, etc.).
JPluck 0.9.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131245/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
Kalpa 0.0.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131243/
Kalpa is a full-featured multi-user client-server cross- platform accounting, management, market support, and CRM system for Russian enterprises.
kbarcode 1.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131259/
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.
KPlayer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131341/
KPlayer is a KDE media player based on mplayer. It provides video, audio, and subtitle playback from files, URLs, DVDs, VCDs, and audio CDs, and features various player controls and a status display.
Landscape Themes for Window Maker 0.9 (Three Pillars) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131272/
Landscape Themes for Window Maker contains themes created with landscape paintings by the artist B. Kaemper.
Landscape Themes for Window Maker 0.9 (Part of a Lake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131271/
Landscape Themes for Window Maker contains themes created with landscape paintings by the artist B. Kaemper.
libcff 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131287/
libcff provides a kind of C++ continued fractions toolkit. It lets you easily create continued fractions and estimate truncation errors. It also offers reliable continued fraction evaluation and approximating functions using continued fractions.
libmplite 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131278/
libmplite is a library which provides a minimal C++ interface around the mpfr library for multi-precision floating point arithmetic.
libwebserver 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131266/
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
Linstall Wizard 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131281/
Linstall is a full featured Linux installation wizard for X11. It allows Linux developers to distribute their programs in a easy to install and use interface.
Linux 2.4.22-pre10 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131331/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 2.3 (CD distribution) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131230/
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.
LM-Solve 0.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131321/
LM-Solve is a solver for several types of the puzzles present on the Logic Mazes site. It currently supports Alice Mazes, Number Mazes, Plank Puzzles, Theseus and the Minotaur Mazes, and Tilt Mazes.
lwm 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131303/
lwm (Lightweight Window Manager) is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing. If you want all that, other programs can provide it.
m23 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131253/
m23 allows systems administrators to install and manage hundreds of clients. It can partition and format the clients and install and uninstall thousands of software packages over an existing network. All management is done with the administration Web interface.
MIB Smithy 2.3b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131270/
MIB Smithy is an application for SNMP developers, MIB designers, and Internet-draft authors. It provides a GUI-based environment for designing, editing, and compiling MIB modules according to the SMIv1 and SMIv2 standards. It accelerates the development process by providing an easy-to-use GUI environment for designing, editing, and compiling SNMP MIB specifications without the syntax and formatting concerns of designing MIBs by hand. It includes a number of built-in basic SNMP management tools, XML support, and (with MIB Smithy Professional) support for custom compiler output formats.
MPIO Project 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131332/
The MPIO Project provides support for using Digitalway/Adtec MPIO digital audio players (DMG, DMK, DME, etc.) under Linux. It provides a Linux kernel module driver, a user space library, and at the moment, one tool to access the MPIO player. Right now, the project is under heavy development and is making rapid progress.
NuSphere phpED 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131273/
NuSphere phpED is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that integrates a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, and deployment tools for the PHP scripting language that can decrease development time by up to 75 percent.
Open Source Portfolio Initiative 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131238/
An ePortfolio is a digital record of learning. It is a tool in which each learner can easily and effectively store, view and selectively share parts or all of a rapidly growing digital learning record with anyone, anytime. Digital learning records may consist of transcripts, scanned diplomas, resumes, photographs, videos, audio records, and other formats demonstrating learning outcomes. OSPI Portfolio is a Java Web application that uses Struts and JSTL. The system requires Tomcat 4.1+, JDK 1.4+, and a MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL database.
OpenIM 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131302/
OpenIM is a Java implementation of a Jabber server. It is a complete rewrite of the Jaba Server project, and it supports the Jabber server to server communication protocol. It also supports Presence, Message, and Roster. Persistant storage is done in an XML file, using the Apache cornerstone store class. It has been tested successfully with many clients such as Exodus, GAIM, Psi, Greenthumb, and the Kopete.
ORSA 0.3.0-rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131309/
Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis (ORSA) is a framework for Celestial Mechanics investigations. The main goals of the project are the implementation of state of the art orbit integration algorithms, with concerns on accuracy and performance, and the development of a number of analysis tools. Commandline and graphical interfaces are also provided.
pam_usb 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131262/
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.
PeerProtect 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131277/
PeerProtect is an addon for Jay's firewall that generates a file which contains all IP addresses from the RIAA and MPAA, etc. and will protect peer-to-peer programs from them.
PHP 4.3.3RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131250/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
php.MVC Web Application Framework Beta 0.3.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130980/
php.MVC is an open source framework for PHP Web applications. It implements the ModelView Controller (MVC) design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. The framework provides a single entry point Controller.
phpmypass 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131326/
phpmypass is an organizable encrypted password storage system. Based upon a salt generated from an authorization algorithm, passwords are encrypted and decrypted. Passwords can be organized by groups, and groups can be created or deleted.
psycopg 1.1.8 (StablePlus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131256/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
pwbuilder 0.6rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131199/
pwbuilder is a powerful tool for creating software packages for Slackware Linux. pwbuilder aims to be the easiest tool in its category. However, pwbuilder provides an advanced API that allows you to make packages exactly in the way you want.
rtkmerge 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131329/
rtkmerge is a GUI to the emerge command to handle packages under the Gentoo Linux Distrubution. It was initially written to help when running 'emerge world' to update the entire system. With rtkmerge you get all the outdated packages presented in a list and you can easily select which packages you want and don't want.
SakuraPlayer 2.1.0 (Stable KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131244/
SakuraPlayer is the KDE2/3 port of TFMXcess, which plays TFMX music files (a popular Amiga game music format) by using tfmx-play as a backend.
Server-side FileManager 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131268/
Server-side FileManager is a Java servlet which implements FileManager. You can use this servlet for remote site management: upload/download files, copy/move files, edit files, etc. Its main advantage is that it uses only the HTTP protocol for access to your host, which allows it to work through most firewalls.
SlackPkg 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131311/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux. It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide), and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
SURVIVOR 0.9.2c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131293/
SURVIVOR is yet another systems monitor. It consists of a POSIX-thread based scheduler written in C++ running arbitrary checks in a flexible, heterogeneous, bureaucratic, and convoluted environment. It maintains proper state, history, sanity, and attitude, and allows interaction via Web, command, and two-way messaging interfaces.
Sword 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131236/
Sword is a general-purpose C++ library which gives you high-quality classes for some very common tasks such as "logging", "time/date", "commandline parsing", etc.
Symbio 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131246/
Symbio is a fully themable commenting system for Web sites and blogs. Its features include polls, multi-language support, smileys, text styling, and statistics.
TAMS 2.18a3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131315/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.
tfmx-play 1.0 beta N
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131242/
tfmx-play is a player for TFMX (The Final Musicsystem eXtended) music modules. TFMX is an Amiga game music format developed by Chris Huelsbeck, which has been used for games like Turrican 1-3, R-Type, Z-Out, Apidya, M.U.D.S., The Oath and many more.
The Distributed Library Project 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131235/
The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and collaboritve filtering.
The Tamber Project 1.9.1 (Numenor)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131261/
The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums.
ThingamaBlog 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131276/
ThingamaBlog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application written in Java. Basic features include the ability to maintain multiple blogs, the ability to easily manage lots of entries, customizable templates, find, edit, and delete entries functions, 'Quick Tags' for on the fly HTML editing, customizable archiving options, the ability to organize entries by category, previewing of entries in HTML or in plain text, and one-click publishing.
Tiki 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131322/
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, We