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[osdn business] August 05, 2003
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Slashdot
Opie GUI/PIM Project Reaches 1.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/227228
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment
(Opie) project [0]has announced its first 1.0 release. Having been
forked from TrollTech's Qtopia environment, Opie has evolved into the
most sophisticated free and open graphical user interface for Linux
based embedded devices and PDAs. Opie features a sophisticated personal
information (PIM) framework as well as several other productivity apps,
extended multimedia capabilities and document model, networking and
communication tools as well as multi language support for more than a
dozen languages. Based on common industry standards like XML, Obex,
IrDa et. al. Opie is capable of interacting with lots of devices
ranging from cell phones to server backends. Opie is highly optimzed
for mobile devices and tries to support the user with shortcuts and
ease of use."
Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5617687243.html
Writing with Elvish Fonts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2159215
dj_whitebread writes "Have you ever wanted to write in the Elvish script? Now's your chance to have your Elvish text look just like Tolkien's. [0]This page gives you all the instructions. The typographer in me has to respect these guy's efforts!" Links
0. http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/tengwartutorial.htm
Powered by Blood
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2224201
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Bringing us one step closer to becoming
centrally-controlled meatbots, [1]Japanese scientists have developed a
device that produces power from the glucose in human blood.
Theoretically, this technology (aka "Dracucell") could produce 100W of
power. Of course, it can't produce that much power in practice since
your body stupidly wastes glucose in maintaining homeostasis. The
scientists propose that this devices could be used to power implanted
devices. Now how many of you Slashdotters would it take to power my
laptop? I'll buy the cola!"
Links
0. mailto:gorky@mail.com
Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2319204
AstroDrabb writes "Linux, once viewed as an operating system that only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master [0]almost as easily as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP." Links
0. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,83708,00.html?nas=AM-83708
Smart Kindergarten
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2255208
A UCLA professor is working on set of sensors and data-capture
applications to [0]record a school classroom in intimate detail. The
[1]project webpage has more information; see also an [2]older story.
The professor apparently envisions actually deploying these sensors in
a classroom next spring, but doesn't mention what school is willing to
participate.
Links
0.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=25045
1.
http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/projects/smartkg
2.
http://www.seasalum.ucla.edu/magazine/ibadge.asp
Replacing SMTP?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2059227
[0]dousette asks: "In reading over one of the [1]RFC's governing the
SMTP protocol, and other RFC's as well, it's interesting to note that
you see some big names and big companies from time to time. With all
the loopholes in the current SMTP specification, is it possible for the
Slashdot collective to come up with another one? Would it stand a
chance in making it into a standard, or do they just listen to Cisco,
AT&T, etc? I realize that a lot of people have a lot of ideas how
things should be done (and they haven't been shy about posting them to
Slashdot), but has anyone tried to write the RFC for a replacement
protocol? As a side note (where I won't be shy about posting how things
should be done), if there were a replacement trusted protocol, one
could have mail received via that protocol bypass spam filtering, id
checking, or whatever checks might be in place (saving processor
cycles, etc). The regular checks could still be done on other mail
received via the 'older' SMTP protocol. If more and more ISP's make use
of this, SMTP could be gradually phased out... or if you are one for a
sudden cut-over, just cut to the new one at the same time as the IPv6
upgrade!"
Links
0. http://.dave. .at. .dousette.org.
Time For A Cray Comeback?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1752239
Boone^ writes "The New York Times has an [0]article (free reg. req.)
talking about [1]Cray Inc.'s recent resurgence in the realm of
supercomputing. It discusses a bit of Cray's decline when the Cold War
ended, "the occupation" under SGI, and the rebirth of the company after
the [2]Tera (now Cray Inc.) purchase. Recently Cray Inc. has been
shipping their vector-based Cray X1 machine, designing [3]ASCI Red
Storm, and recently was one of 3 (also Sun, IBM) to [4]win a large
DARPA contract (PDF link) to design and develop a PetaFlops machine by
2010. Could Cray Inc. be poised for a comeback? Wall Street [5]seems to
think so."
Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/technology/04SUPE.html
1.
http://www.cray.com/
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/04/118235&tid=139
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/19/0051250&tid=137
4.
http://www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/hpcs_phii_4.pdf
5.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRAY&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l
Trustic Anti-Spam Service To Close
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2018223
An anonymous reader writes "I recently received an email from the
anti-spam service [0]Trustic saying: "We have decided to close the
Trustic service. We have determined that the system as it currently is
designed will not achieve the level of accuracy that we require, and an
inaccurate system is worse than no system."" We covered Trustic's
anti-spam service, which billed itself as "a community-based block list
that prevents untrusted servers from sending spam", as recently as [1]a
couple of weeks ago.
Links
Holographic Keypads Float Into View
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1647233
[0]prostoalex writes "The New York Times [1]tells the story of a [2]Connecticut-based company called HoloTouch that is developing input devices that literally "float in the air". The technology [3]will be licensed for information kiosks in New York city. Some other [4]sample applications are available from the company's Web site. HoloTouch already managed to [5]secure the patent on its technology." Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/technology/04PATE.html?ex=1060660800&en=d3e167416c03ea75&ei=5062&partner=TECHDIRT
2.
http://www.holotouch.com/technology.htm
3.
http://www.holotouch.com/HoloT.pressrel.infoperks.071703.htm
4.
http://www.holotouch.com/pressroom.htm
5.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6377238'.WKU.&OS=PN/6377238&RS=PN/6377238
Red Hat Sues SCO, Sets Up Legal Fund
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1817247
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Red Hat has [1]released a PR Newswire article stating that it intends to sue [2]SCO Group to prove that it doesn't infringe any of SCO's intellectual property regarding the Red Hat Linux platform, and to hold it accountable for [3]its actions and smear campaign. They've also announced the creation of a legal fund, to which they've pledged $1M US dollars to fight complaints such as these, called the 'Open Source Now' fund." Links
0.
http://www.redhat.com/
1.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030804/45483_1.html
2.
http://www.sco.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1925259&tid=123
Newsforge Reports
Red Hat Fires Back (Updated)
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1813224
- by Joe Barr - Red Hat announced today a two-pronged attack against the SCO Group. Red Hat filed a claim for two declaratory judgements: that they had not infringed on SCO's copyright material and that they didn't misappropriate SCO trade secrets. The complaint also seeks a permanent injunction against SCO for their "campaign" against Linux and Linux customers.
Novell acquires Ximian
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1411220
- by Joe Barr - Novell and Ximian dropped the first bomb in the weeklong battle for headlines at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo with the announcement this morning that Novell has acquired Ximian.
'Scuse me, ma'am, do you have a license for that computer? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/184214
- by Lee Schlesinger - Should computer users be required to qualify for a license before they're allowed on the Internet?
Newsforge Newsvac
Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 1.3 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/2013243
Ralf S. Engelschall writes "The OpenPKG project released version 1.3 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility. Well known by vigilant Unix system administrators, OpenPKG is the world leading instrument for deployment and maintenance of Open Source software when administration crosses Unix platform boundaries.
New Linux Desktop site comes online
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/208259
Craig writes "This is the announcement from the Loscompanion site "Finally today, after intense work, www.loscompanion.com opens its doors!!!. It starts with just a handfull of applications, which I hope eventually will grow and can benefit all LindowsOS users. I will try to put in about 5 applications per week, and also hope to get help from LindowsOS users, and that they start sending me their work. almost every part of the site is already ...
MontaVista Software To Deliver Carrier Grade Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/205209
Annette Oevermann writes "SUNNYVALE Calif. -- August 4, 2003 --
MontaVista Software, the company powering the embedded revolution,
today announced that MontaVista® Linux® Carrier Grade Edition
(CGE) will support the IBM® PowerPC® 440GX, 440GP embedded
processors and the 750FX microp rocessor. These PowerPC processors are
being successfully deployed in telecommunications, networking and
network storage applications. Commercially available ...
Government, ICT and Open Source Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1934236
Kodek writes "One of the architects of South Africa's open source strategy and the current head of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's open source programme offers insight into some of the state departments that are already using open source as well as those that are considering OSS."
Microsoft puts the boot into competitor
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1915236
NZheretic writes "Microsoft's New Zealand branch seized the moment at an open-source conference for state-sector IT staff to make an all-out assault on its competitor, attacking "weaknesses' in the way open-source software is created."
Start here to learn about Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1846203
Anonymous Reader writes "This page will guide you to material that will help you get started using Linux. Linux is not UNIX, although it is intended to be very UNIX-like. This article offers an extensive introduction to the difference between Linux and Unix, why Linux is important, what Linux can do, how to use it, and much more."
Ulticom joins OSDL
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1822258
Craig Oda writes "SAN FRANCISCO - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - August, 4, 2003 - OSDL, a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced that Ulticom Inc. (NASDAQ: ULCM), a leading provider of telecommunications signaling software, has joined OSDL with a focus on Carrier Grade Linux (CGL).
SCO hits back at OSDL's Linux paper
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1642243
SCO has rejected claims in a position paper published by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) that Linux users cannot be subject to SCO licensing or copyright control.
LinuxWorld Opens Hunting Season
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1640219
Robots will be hunting penguins at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week. The robots aren't part of some nefarious plot to replace Linux's cuddly mascot, Tux, with a fiercer emblem. The bots will be conducting demonstration search-and-rescue missions.
Linux Earns User-Friendly Rating
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1637226
OS is almost as easy to use as Windows XP, study finds.
Freshmeat
Alvaro's Messenger 20030804 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131615/
Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl client for MSN Messenger. It has many features, including multi-language support, smileys, email notification, an alarm, sound, support for 'ñ', tildes, accents, dieresis, and other special characters, address book, group managing, and file transfers.
Alvaro's Messenger 0.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131613/
Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl client for MSN Messenger. It has many features, including multi-language support, smileys, email notification, an alarm, sound, support for 'ñ', tildes, accents, dieresis, and other special characters, address book, group managing, and file transfers.
Arping 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131500/
Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly. A rewrite that supports Libnet 1.1.x is included.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.8g
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131617/
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.
Audacity 1.2.0-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131577/
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. Audacity runs on Linux/*BSD, MacOS, and Windows.
Babeldoc 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131218/
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.
Bauk 1.81 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131515/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, virtual host aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility, and much more.
Beats By Design 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131571/
Beats By Design (bbd) is an artificially-intelligent drum machine/step sequencer. You can use it to compose and play beats, and train it to edit beats with you, responding appropriately to your changes. All of this can be done live.
Bugzero 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131526/
Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131540/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types along with threads, synchronization primitives, and IP sockets. It is portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
CaLStats 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131536/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks active or inactive computers.
CDlinux 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131522/
CDlinux is a Linux mini-distribution which runs from a CD-ROM. It aims to be an administration/rescue tool for Eastern Asian (CJK) users. It is also highly user configureable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA/SCSI/USB).
Code striker 1.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131553/
Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can view the proposed diff in colored-diff mode, and can also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS or Subversion. Comments are made on a per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety of ways.
CodeWorker 2.17.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131521/
CodeWorker is a scripting language for producing reusable, tailor-made, evolving, and reliable IT systems with a high level of automation. An extended BNF syntax allows the definition of new domain-specific languages or parsing existing formats. A template-based syntax like PHP and JSP allows the writing of patterns for generating code. The code generation knows how to preserve protected areas with hand-typed code and offers code expansion, source-to-source translation, and program transformation. These tasks are executed in a straightforward process, with no binding to an external programming language and with no translation of requirements specification in a constraining format.
DeskNow 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131618/
DeskNow is a free mail and collaboration server. In addition to standard SMTP and POP3, it offers Web-based collaboration tools such as advanced Webmail with spam filtering, document management to let users store and share documents online, unlimited Web calendars with sharing and combined views, message boards, and address books. All the services are tightly integrated to improve productivity and semplicity. DeskNow can integrate with an existing qmail, or run as a standalone SMTP and POP3 server.
Divmod Quotient 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131524/
Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon.
dnspython 1.1.0c1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131518/
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.
Dolibarr 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131574/
Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for company management.
dvipng 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131549/
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.
Eclipse Project 2.1.0-12 (Natively Compiled Eclipse) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131460/
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. The real value of Eclipse comes from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse how to work with things - java files, web content, graphics, video, etc. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools seamlessly.
ElyCA 0.34pre1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131582/
ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.
ErfurtWiki R1.01a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131503/
ErfurtWiki is a small Wiki engine implemented in PHP which can store
its pages in a MySQL, dba/dbm, ADOdb, or a flat file database. The Wiki
source parsing is rather complete but is very extensible. It stands out
from other Wikis in that it does not define the whole page layout
itself; instead it allows for very quick integration into an existing
Web site. The core "library" is fully contained in one script
file, but a collection of extension plugins is also available
(email_protect, imagegallery, calendar, spellcheck, pagediff, etc.).
Additionally, it can cache referenced images. The simplicity of the
image uploading function makes it also a good choice as
"lite" CMS for private homepages.
ESO-MIDAS 03FEBpl1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131475/
ESO-MIDAS (European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System) provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with an emphasis on astronomical applications, including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. It also contains an applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics, and more.
Fast File Search 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131559/
Fast File Search crawls FTP servers and SMB shares (Windows shares and UNIX systems running Samba) and stores the information about files to a database. A Web interface is then used for searching files.
FCKeditor 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131534/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
File::Scan 0.61 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131621/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
FireDNS 0.9.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131588/
FireDNS is a C library for handling asynchronous DNS queries. It includes asynchronous functions and low-timeout blocking functions. In general, it completes DNS queries faster than standard libc resolver functions such as gethostbyname.
FireMake 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131589/
FireMake is a shell script designed to be packaged with a piece of software and run on each computer building that software. It creates a Makefile based on the architecture, the build environment, and the files in the directory from which it is run.
FirePay 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131590/
FirePay is an implementation of the HashCash/MIME
(application/postage-hashcash) specification. HashCash is an anti-spam,
anti-DoS system for email. The concept centers around the sender of the
mail completing a computationally expensive task (in this case,
generating hash collisions) that the recipient can verify very quickly.
This allows the sender to "pay" for transport in CPU cycles,
creating artificial scarcity. Programs are included to add payment to
messages (for the sender) and to verify message payment (for the
recipient).
FireRPC 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131591/
FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress.
FireString 0.9.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131597/
FireString is a library to make string handling easier in C. It provides replacements for some non-ANSI libc string functions, binary and length-safe string functions, and an interface for easy, intelligent configuration file parsing.
Freecell 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131539/
Freecell is a version of the classic solitaire card game that you can win almost every time, if you have the skill. It features full undo and redo, a game attempt history record, and a hint function.
FTOOLS 5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131477/
FTOOLS is a highly modular collection of over 200 utilities for processing and analyzing data in the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format. Each utility performs a single simple task such as the presentation of file contents, extraction of specific rows or columns, appending or merging tables, binning values in a column, or selecting subsets of rows based on a boolean expression. It provides both generic processing and analysis utilities and utilities specific to high energy astrophysics data sets used for the ASCA, EINSTEIN, ROSAT, GRO, VELA5B and XTE missions.
g3data 1.3.1 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131552/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
GDancer 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131602/
GDancer is a visualization plugin for XMMS which animates the lovable cartoon character Space Ghost to your favorite MP3s. You can also have other characters through themes.
GENPO 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131545/
GENPO (GENeric Pipe Organ) models the essential features of any pipe organ. It reads a description of an organ (a .org XML file) and presents a suitable user interface for operating that organ. There are a number of high quality organ "SoundFonts" freely available and the .org file maps the stop sounds to organ manuals and stops. Other facilities such and couplers and presets are available. You may connect one or more MIDI keyboards to GENPO to provide the organ manuals, and you can even assign one to be the 'pedalboard' if so desired.
gmodconfig 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131519/
gmodconfig provides a simple way for end- users to download, install, configure, and update Linux kernel modules through an easy- to-use graphic interface. The backend consists of XML files that contain module information and translations.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131568/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GNU-Monitor 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131204/
GNU-Monitor is a transaction monitor that allows client/server applications to be developed with minimal effort. It consists of modules for communication, controlling the integrity of transported data, and ensuring that data generated within a transaction can be recovered in the event of an error.
Gtk2Mp 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131542/
Gtk2Mp is a GTK2 front-end for Music Player Daemon.
GtkLP for CUPS 0.9p
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131529/
GTK LP for CUPS is a frontend for the lpr that comes with CUPS. It is written to make it easy to use nearly all the options from CUPS without knowing them by name. For print-admins, there is also an pretty simple queue tool implemented.
gURLChecker 0.6.0-pre2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131499/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Hatari 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131509/
Hatari is a portable Atari ST emulator using SDL based on WinSTon and UAE's CPU core.
Highlight 2.0-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131605/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
idlebeep 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131596/
idlebeep monitors the activity of your CPU and/or network device and starts an "alarm action" if your system goes idle. These "alarm actions" may be a beep signal or a call of an external program.
Imposter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131561/
Imposter is a standalone viewer for the presentations created by OpenOffice.org Impress software. The user interface uses GTK 2. The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines are followed, but GNOME libraries are not used to keep dependencies to a minimum.
INSERT 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131530/
INSERT (the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit) aims to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose disaster recovery and network analysis system. It boots from a credit card-sized CD-ROM and is basically a stripped-down version of Knoppix. It features good hardware detection, fluxbox, emelfm, links-hacked, clamav, airsnort, ssh, tcpdump, lcrzoex, chntpwd, and much more.
Internet Chess ToolKit 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131623/
Internet Chess ToolKit is a Java-based set of libraries and widgets
useful for performing common tasks such as reading SAN
(internationalized), FEN, PGN, and generating legal moves.
J2ME VNC Alpha 2.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131619/
J2ME VNC is a VNC client for J2ME devices, such as new mobile phones and the PalmOS (with J2ME runtime).
Java SOS 3.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131550/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
jConfigXML 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131584/
jConfigXML is a configuration manager written in Java that works with XML files and a URL or LDAP repository to read the configuration properties. It supports a two-level hierarchical structure which includes categories.
jEdit 4.2pre4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131514/
jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.
JGraphpad 2.2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131525/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
JOELib 2003-08-04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131557/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
JOnAS 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131560/
JOnAS is a pure Java implementation of the J2EE 1.3 specification, available in open source. It is useful to those building applications like e-commerce, eportal, management systems, intranet application, inventory systems, reservation systems, banking applications, etc.
JPim b1-r1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131528/
JPim is an email and contact management tool that offers auto-completion for recipient addresses, support for plain and HTML emails, the viewing of email headers, attachments, and full contact management features. It also has an easy to modify Quick Contact List.
JXP 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131598/
JXP is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like
event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document
evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser
lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function
libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with
DOM.
KBabel 1.2beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131586/
KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing PO files created by gettext. Its main component is a powerful and comfortable PO file editor which features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the ability to search for translations in different dictionaries, spell and syntax checking, showing diffs, and much more. It also includes a "Catalog Manager", which is a file manager view that provides an overview of PO files. Last but not least, it includes a standalone dictionary application which provides the additional capability of accessing KBabel's powerful dictionaries.
kbarcode 1.3.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131555/
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.
Klearllm 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131512/
Klearllm is a simple, transparent skin for Gkrellm that has 3 different text color schemes.
kMPIO 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131548/
kMPIO provides a GUI interface to access Digitalway/Adtec digital audio player MPIO (DMG, DMK, DME, ...) players under Linux. It depends on the mpio library to perform hardware access. kMPIO can upload and download files as different file types, create directories, format internal and external memory, and rename and delete files. ID3 tags are supported.
Kopete 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131614/
Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on.
LightWeightPoll 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131625/
LightWeightPoll is an easy to configure and use voting system. It provides a customizable frontend with graphical and text-based statistics.
mag2top/top2mag 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131544/
mag2top and top2mag are Perl scripts that translate between the Magellan GPS data format and the data export format used by the German, Swiss, and Austrian TOP50 topographical map software.
MarsDict 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131495/
MarsDict is a GTK dictionary frontend which uses plugins to get words from data sources. With the appropriate plugin, it can connect to MySQL, dict servers, or plain text files.
McData 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131505/
McData attempts to be the smallest, simplest, and cleanest blog around. It has almost no features, but is easy to hack to taste.
MilterQuota 0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131583/
MilterQuota is a milter (mail filter) for sendmail using libmilter. It implements quotas for inboxes without any influence of the amount of disk space the user can fill. There is one central configuration file where you can enter pairs of user/max.inboxsize and you can also enter a default value for all users. This makes a site-wide configuration easy. An additional feature is the override address: as an administrator you can still send important mail to users with full inboxes.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131510/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
Mindi Linux 0.86
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131490/
Mindi-Linux uses a skeleton ramdisk and your kernel, modules, and tools to build a boot/root disk set. The first floppy boots your kernel, then loads your modules and installs your tools from additional floppies. Mindi works for almost any Linux kernel or distribution.
mkvtoolnix 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131527/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
Mserv 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131606/
Mserv is a jukebox-style music server designed to play MP3, Ogg, etc.
(configurable) files based on ratings of users who are logged in to the
system. It includes features such as searching, filtering, biased
random play, queuing, talking, online and off-line track editing, and a
standardised TCP protocol. This allows for a variety of interfaces
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