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[osdn business] August 15, 2003
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Chemical Element 110 To Be Named
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/0544216
An anonymous reader writes "According to Nature Magazine, chemists will vote in Ottawa, Canada this week, and are [0]expected to approve the chemical element 110's informal moniker, 'darmstadtium', and give it the chemical symbol Ds. The title honors the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called [1]GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. It seems that 'disputes over claimed sightings of new elements have [previously] led to acrimonious and nationalistic battles over naming', but not in this case." Links
0. http://www.nature.com/nsu/030811/030811-8.html
Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/0347203
[0]nuke-alwin writes "[1]eWeek is reporting that [2]Los Alamos National
Laboratory announced it will use more than 3,300 Opteron chips in two
of its Linux clusters. According to the article 'The key to Opteron, as
it tries to gain traction not only against Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium
chip but also its 32-bit Xeon offerings, is its ability to run both
32-bit and 64-bit applications equally well.'"
Links
0.
http://www.karenalwin.f2s.com
1.
http://www.eweek.com/
2.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1220701,00.aspPulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1410246
noah_fense writes "[0]Popular Science is running an interesting article
about the race to replace the jet turbine with a more efficient source
of Mach-breaking airpower: the [1]pulse-detonation engine. It works by
detonating (instead of slow burning) fuel hundreds to thousands of
times a second. PDE technology is poised to make supersonic passenger
flights and space travel affordable. 'Pulse detonation is a hot topic
in combustion research,' says Gabriel Roy of the Office of Naval
Research. 'Compared with gas turbines, the PDE has a much simpler
configuration. It has the capability of going from subsonic to
supersonic using less fuel, and it's thermodynamically more efficient.
But there are big engineering issues--thermal fatigue, noise. It's very
challenging research.'"
Links
LovSan Clone Let Loose
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2241213
[0]JMullins writes "According to [1]Kaspersky Labs the LovSan virus has
been [2]re-released in a new form that has changed the appearance of
the worm. It looks like the outbreak continues to get worse and worse,
with no real end in sight until people can patch their systems. Net
slowdowns are expected over the weekend when both versions of the virus
start their attack."
Links
0. mailto:JonnyBaseball84@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.kasperskylabs.com/
2.
http://www.kasperskylabs.com/news.html?id=985370Deregulation and Niagara Mohawk - Is There a Story? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2213252
It's just a few hours after the Northeast U.S. power outage, and facts
are trickling in; as of right now, it looks like an accidental overload
knocked out a large part of the Niagara Mohawk power grid. A few years
ago, California went through rolling blackouts that were largely due to
a poorly-executed deregulation of that state's power industry. The
question that's probably occurring to many of us is, did late-'90s
deregulation play a role in today's power event? I don't know the
answer, so I'm turning it over to you -- moderators, please check links
and up-mod the most informative, pro or con. Here is some information
to get you started: "[0]We support deregulation 100 percent..." (N-M
spokesman, 1997; notes N-M wanted to sell generators and "concentrate
on the transmission and distribution of energy" -- did it?); N-M made
some bad investments and is [1]scheduled to request a rate hike (did
it?); and N-M's own website says: "[2]Deregulation [has] changed the
laws and regulations governing the electricity industry to promote
competition..." (how so?).
Links
0.
http://www.oswegocountybusiness.com/issue28/28SpecialReport2.html
1.
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:KtuZY2O9Bi4J:www.pulpny.org/html/power_choice_2.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
2.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:gLvoPPcSa4kJ:www.niagaramohawk.com/nimotod/quickfacts/dereg.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8OSDL Releases Q&A on SCO Legal Actions http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2146232
[0]craigoda writes "OSDL [1]released a Q&A today written by Lawrence
Rosen, noted expert on technology and intellectual property law. [2]The
Q&A points to serious flaws in SCO's claims that end-users have to pay
for Linux licenses." The press release is a little more diplomatic,
saying that the document only helps one determine whether or not one
should buy a license from SCO.
Links
0. mailto:coda@pageonepr.com
1.
http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2003/2003_08_14_beaverton.html
2.
http://www.osdl.org/docs/qa_re_sco_vs_ibm.pdf
Power Outages Strike East Coast
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2050243
fordp writes "CNN, CNBC and others are reporting that major power
outages are happening just after 4:00PM EDT in New York, New Jersey,
Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, Toledo." There are reports of a Con Edison
transformer on fire on 14th Street in NYC, and lots of people stuck in
trains and elevators. [0]CNN is reporting that it is, according to
power officials, most likely not related to terrorism, because you know
you were wondering. The Niagra Mohawk power grid is overloaded, which
feeds electricity throughout the northeast U.S. and into Canada.
Update: 08/14 21:06 GMT by [1]P: The mayor said there was no fire, that
it was black smoke brought on by an automatic shutdown because of the
power grid failure.
Links
Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1745208
[0]securitas writes "In case you can't wait until September to find out
what it's like, [1]Walt Mossberg reviews the Sony Clie UX50 (as
previously [2]discussed). He likes it, but with reservations. The
keyboard lacks predictive text (unlike the [3]Handspring [4]Treo and
[5]RIM [6]BlackBerry) and the Clie Mail e-mail software can't read
graphical e-mails and has poor attachment support. The audio player
only reads files from a particular directory. He likes the 802.11b WiFi
and loves the 450x320 screen. The biggest problem? The $700 price tag
($600 for the non-wireless UX40 model) - equivalent to a low-end laptop
- especially since it doesn't come with a Memory Stick. If you can read
it, here's a [7]Japanese Clie UX50 review and [8]PalmInfocenter
[9]press release rewrite."
Links 0. http://geartest.com- http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20030807.html
- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/182209&tid=100
- http://www.handspring.com/
- http://www.handspring.com/treo600/
- http://www.rim.net/
- http://www.blackberry.net/
- http://pocketgames.jp/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=110
- http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5680
- http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK1.story&STORY=/www/story/07-18-2003/0001984842&EDATE=FRI+Jul+18+2003,+01:00+PM
Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1456210
[0]ExRex writes "[1]New Scientist is [2]reporting on a [3]USDOD project
to produce super explosives. 'An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being
developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical
distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also
raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the
next arms race.'"
Links
0. mailto:elliot@i n c h.com
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994049
3.
http://www.dod.gov/
SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256
chrullrich writes "According to [0]heise (German, fishbait), SCO's
chief counsel Mark Heise (unrelated) of [1]Boies, Schiller and Flexner
has declared that the GPL violates the US copyright law and is thus
null and void. SCO's legal position is actually a little too crazy to
believe: The GPL allows unlimited copies, the copyright law allows one.
Therefore, the GPL is invalid. Apparently, they try to argue that the
copyright law, in giving consumers the right to make one backup of
their software without any permission from the copyright holder,
outlaws any contractual agreement that allows users to make more than
one copy." There's an [2]Inquirer article in English. Apparently SCO is
now using the [3]Chewbacca Defense. Other SCO news: [4]SCO reports a
profit, examining [5]SCO's contributions to Linux, [6]an attorney
summarizes the case.
Links
0.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-14.08.03-000/
1.
http://www.boies-schiller.com/htm/flash.htm
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031
3.
http://www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html
4.
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5063633.html
5.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html
6.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914464,00.html
Newsforge Reports
Linux: Just what the doctor ordered
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1622242
- by Joe Barr - Ever wonder how the general public would cope with Linux on the desktop if they tried it?  Here is one small data point suggesting that the delta in ease of use between the Linux desktop and the monopoly desktop is not that great.  No, I'm not talking about the recently released usability study comparing the ease of use between Windows XP and Linux by relevantive in Germany.  I'm talking about a public waiting room in a ...
Switch to Linux, stay out of jail
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1258252
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - It's a scary thought, but Windows users may actually risk going to jail if they don't protect themselves well enough from the many worms, viruses and 'Trojans' that can infect their operating system. Don't believe me? Go read this story. Then come back and learn how to protect yourself against this problem.
Global IT firm predicts Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1424212
- by Chris Gulker - One of the world's largest IT companies is declaring that the Linux desktop will capture 20% of the market for desktop computers in large enterprises within 5 years.
Newsforge Newsvac
Knoppix as an MSBlaster work-around
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2127204
holtocow writes "For those frustrating situations where you can't keep your machine up long enough to get online and download a fix because of malicious app such as the recent MSBlaster worm, why not do what Dean Peters suggests and keep a copy of Knoppix duct-taped to the side of your computer? This Linux-based solution boots entirely from the CD and includes all the tools you need to get online and download appropriate patches. It can also be ...
OSDL releases Q&A about SCO's legal actions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2125222
BEAVERTON, OR, August 14, 2003 - The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today released a Q&A paper written by noted technology law and intellectual property expert Lawrence Rosen. The paper asks and answers key questions about SCO Group's current lawsuit against IBM and about its threatened litigation against users of Linux. The Q&A ...
Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1811250
One of the major roadblocks for Unix was the lack of one single standardized platform for applications. Linux seems to be following along the same line, although on a different parallel. To compete head-to-head with Microsoft, Linux advocates should standardize the platform.
Nab hackers with Snort
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1826234
Jan Stafford writes "One of the first tools you want to have in your Linux security toolbox is the Snort intrusion detection system. In this Q&A, Rafeeq Ur Rehman describes the tools needed to build an IDS and the advantages of using the open-source IDS system on Linux."
Boscov's turns to Linuxcare for help running Linux on IBM mainframe http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/178247
With a smaller IT staff and a flat IT budget because of corporate cutbacks, Reading, Pa.-based Boscov's Department Store wanted to more efficiently deploy Linux virtual servers on its underutilized IBM zSeries mainframe.
The other Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1648204
Richard Seibt once had the unenviable task of managing IBM's OS/2 business in an ultimately losing battle against Microsoft for the hearts and minds of computer users.
Lindows.com, Inc. Customers Able to Tap into Network of Experts Via the LindowsOS Consultants Pro http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1625227
Kraig writes "San Diego - August 13, 2003 -Lindows.com, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the LindowsOS Consultants Program www.lindows.com/consultants. LindowsOS Consultants are independent technical experts in LindowsOS, who offer their expertise to homes, businesses and schools, informing them how to set-up, use and maintain the LindowsOS product line. Customers seeking their services can simply visit ...
Tux Makes Orbitz Fly High
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1621256
As e-commece technology and business models mature, many companies are re-examining the tools they initially used to open their virtual storefronts. One such e-firm is the travel mogul Orbitz, which recently made a major migration to Linux systems.
Los Alamos to deploy new Linux Opteron supercomputer http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1458232
Another Linux supercomputer cluster with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron chip is in the works, this time for Los Alamos National Laboratory's nuclear weapons testing program.
Antenna to the East
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1456232
My old friend Stephen Lewis, a native of Manhattan's Lower East Side and a part-time resident of what he calls "The People's Republic of Brooklyn", has long made his primary home in Sofia, Bulgaria. A citizen of both the US and Holland, Steve is veteran of Europe's telecom industry (also a two-time Fulbright Scholar). Lately he has been interested in applying in Bulgaria what neighborhood wireless folks have been learning in New York City. So ...
Freshmeat
abcde 2.1.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132690/
abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.
AIBash 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132415/
AIBash is a project which aims to make Bash act more intelligently. It features typing error-correction and the ability to learn that certain file suffixes are associated with certain programs so that other programs are filtered out while pressing TAB. Other features are planned for the future.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132685/
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.
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132706/
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.
Armagetron 0.2.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132648/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
Astaro Security Linux 4.010 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132634/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
AstroFlowGuard Bandwidth & Security Management 1.001 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132659/
AstroFlowGuard is a Linux-based bandwidth manager, stateful firewall,
intrusion detection system, and VPN server. With its user-friendly
interface, automatic failover, and smart recovery system, it is the
complete tool for anyone wanting to manage bandwidth and network
security. It uses a hierarchical class-based system which provides a
logical, intuitive view of network classes along with their priorities.
It has the ability to manage P2P applications such as Kazaa and the
like, manage firewall and bandwidth by time of the day, precedence,
strings in any packet, and much more. Diagnose your network by powerful
reporting tools that drill down to IP, port, and protocol level with
graph and pie charts. It is a self-contained system that offers simple
installation by means of a bootable CD and ease of use via a Web based
GUI.
Binc IMAP 1.1.9-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132688/
Binc IMAP is a modular IMAP4rev1 server for Maildir. It strives to be stable, fast, flexible, and RFC compliant. It is designed to be familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and it is very easy to set up.
Blassic 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132675/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.
Blue Tiger 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132625/
Blue Tiger is a theme with a tiger splashing through water. The background is by 0viking0 (Vjekoslav Ranec).
Boot Scriptor 2.0.9b (CD Shell)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132622/
Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity when booting from a CD or DVD drive. It provides a set of commands that enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as provide interactive menus to choose boot options from. It provides similar functionality to Diskem1x, as well as new original features and interfaces to programs such as Isolinux/Memdisk and Ranish Partition Manager. All features can be commanded through a console interface or by constructing simple script files.
BrowserCRM 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132645/
BrowserCRM is a complete business solution designed for the small-to-medium business that features CRM, email, multi-person calendar, intranet, tasks, memos, mail-merge, conference chat, and admin. It is customisable and the source code can be purchased and modified. It also additionally provides an interface to the open source accounting program SQL-Ledger.
C++ XML Objects 1.0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132629/
C++ XML Objects is a framework for persisting hierarchies of C++ objects to and from XML. Boost, the STL, and patterns are used extensively.
Chocolate for XDoclet 0.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132693/
Chocolate for XDoclet is an EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for the Borland JBuilder IDE. It has been designed to simplify the development of Enterprise JavaBeans for various supported J2EE servers. It helps developers create and edit JavaBean source files that will be processed by the XDoclet code generation engine.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132670/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
CodeWorker 2.17.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132654/
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.
Colloquy Talker Server 1.20.427
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132681/
colloquy is an Internet talker server. It lets people all around the world talk to each other in real time. It is inspired by The Nilex Talker and Egham Hills, a popular "technical" talker in the UK. It is explicitly designed not to have "socials" and "custom rooms" and other bloat that just gets in the way of idle chat like many other talker servers.
CWcal 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132647/
CWcal is a Web interface for configuring Wcal. It features complete resource management, short and detailed configuration views, user and group management, access control management with templates, and direct wcal.conf file modification.
Cyberduck 2.1beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132707/
Cyberduck is an open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser, featuring the same intuitive interface for both. You can open connections to multiple servers thanks to its document based interface. A simple favorites manager allows you to store freuqently-used servers. Files and even directories can be uploaded easily by just dragging them from the Finder. Double-clicking a file will initiate a download. Files can be deleted and renamed, and a Finder-like Info panel allows the modification of permissions.
D Parser 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132686/
The DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.
DC Maintenance Management System 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132672/
DC Maintenence Management System is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints and repairs in water supply networks. It uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS.
DeskNow WebMessenger 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132619/
DeskNow WebMessenger is a Jabber/XMPP secure instant messaging server that includes a Web-based IM client. It can be accessed transparently across firewalls, proxies, and NAT, and supports 128-bit SSL encryption. Other features include the support for unlimited virtual domains, a Web-based administration console, and the ability to send broadcast messages and alerts to all users. It is compatible with the most popular Jabber clients, and can run on any OS.
dTemplate 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132700/
dTemplate is a Perl module which provides a flexible and very fast templating system. It is compiled into an internal form before use, and the parser function (which is highly optimized C code) use that for input. By nesting parse function calls, you can define a parse-tree that is similar to your page structure, which makes your code easily understandable. Advanced features include printf formatting of template variables (for statistic generation), transparent handling of multiple styles of a template (for multi-language sites or skinned web-pages), and encoders (uri_encoder and html_encoder).
Easyval 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132632/
Easyval is a very basic implementation of interval arithmetic, using hardware doubles as interval bounds. The first target of this library is that the interval arithmetic containment criterium is respected.
FWReport 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132616/
FWReport is a log parser and reporting tool for IPTables. It generates daily and monthy summaries of the log files, allowing the admin to free up substantial time, maintain better control over security of the network, and reduce unnoticed attacks.
GImageView 0.2.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132653/
GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing, thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.
gmorgan 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132638/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
HelpmeICT 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132660/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
Homestar Runner Icons 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132613/
Based on the Homestar Runner flash cartoons, this is an icon set currently consisting of 72 icons at 64x64 in the PNG format. As the set grows, the size or format may change or expand based on requests.
HTML::GenToc 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132705/
HTML::GenToc allows you to specify significant elements that will be hyperlinked to in a Table of Contents (ToC) for a given set of HTML documents. Also, it does not require said documents to be strict HTML; this makes it suitable for using with templates, included files, and meta-languages such as WML or PHP.
Ija 0.4.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132701/
Ija is an interactive commandline client to the Google Groups database of Usenet posts. Its features include saving articles and online mini-help.
imgv 2.8.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132621/
IMGV is a free Image Viewer that runs on all versions of MS-Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix-like systems running X window. It includes many standard and unique features such as a file/directory browser, slideshows, zooming, rotating, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once (and slideshow them), adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, view/save images from websites, movie playing, file searching/filtering, multiple-directory loading, customizable interface, and much more.
In the Stream of Things 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132624/
In the Stream of Things is a theme about a forest stream. The background is by suprax (Tim Perfetto).
iOta 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132615/
iOta (Image Organization Tool and Archiver) is a tool to manage, organize, index, archive, and Web-publish your digital photography collection. It is backed by a BerkeleyDB database. The KDE/QT based front-end is designed to be simple, yet powerful. iOta allows the user to generate, uniquely rename, and index images to an embedded database. The user can also caption and describe each image, generate thumbnails and browsable HTML indexes, archive directories of images onto CDR, and search and edit properties of each photograph in the user's collection. In addition, all this information also travels with the image itself in the thumbnail EXIF header.
JGraphT 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132676/
JGraphT is a free Java class library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms. It supports a rich gallery of graphs and is designed to be powerful, but at the same time easy to use.
JMP 0.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132641/
Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method.
Ki11egg 0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132697/
Ki11egg is a Xiangqi (Chinese chess) program, including an AI engine, a GUI, and an opening database.
LANforge FIRE & ICE 3.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132680/
The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped, duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user interface.
LaTrine 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132650/
LaTrine is a curses-based LAnguage TRaINEr. It takes a dictionary and asks you for a word or a phrase, and you try to give the correct answer. The direction is configurable. The selection of the words or phrases depends on how often you don't know the correct translation. It can be used with the Free Dictionaries Project, which provides dictionaries for about 50 language combinations.
lcd4linux 0.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132617/
LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal display.
Lestat 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132655/
Lestat is a simple system which is designed to allow trends in port scans to be identified and displayed in a simple manner. The system comprises a Perl agent which collects packets and logs them to a database, and a presentation layer which draws graphs and presents a GUI via PHP.
libsqlora8 2.2.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132668/
libsqlora8 is a library that makes Oracle access for C programmers much easier than using Oracle's OCI interface. The library is built on top of OCI8 and simplifies some common tasks.
Linbox Backup Server 20030811
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132631/
The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. Bootable installation CD-ROMs can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports ext2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems.
LON-CAPA 0.99.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132694/
LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It is similar to BlackBoard and WebCT in many respects, but with a focus on science and math in higher education.
Luxilla Beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132626/
Luxilla is a runtime/browser that presents XUL (XML User Interface Language) files as live windows, dialogs, menus, toolbars, and more without requiring a single line of Java code.
Magma 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132710/
Magma is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
Memoria 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132689/
Memoria is a version of the traditional game of memory. It was developed using OnBoardC. It supports one to four players, the ability to play with 16, 36, or 56 cards, 100 different images for the cards, English and Spanish support, and is compatible with monocromatic, grayscale, and color screens.
MIB Smithy SDK 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132636/
MIB Smithy SDK is a dynamic extension to Tcl/Tk (8.1+) that allows development of custom scripts for controlling SNMP agents, manipulating SMI definitions, doing conversions, and more. It is based on the core of Muonics' MIB Smithy, and the SDK supports SMIv1 and SMIv2, as well as SNMPv1/v2c/v3 with HMAC-SHA-96 and HMAC-MD5-96 authentication and CBC-DES privacy. It also provides complete read-write access to all elements of SMI/MIB Module definitions, unlike similar extensions that provide only read access to a limited subset. The SDK allows multiple discrete SMI databases and SNMP sessions, and provides all of the built-in validation and error recovery capabilites of the full product, without the visual MIB development environment.
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2003081307
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132644/
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals.
OSCAR 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132618/
OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Application and Resource) is a Web-based electronic patient record system developed by McMaster University for academic primary care clinics. It facilitates the delivery of evidence resources at the point of care.
P*Wcal 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132649/
P*Wcal is a process that allows you to synchronize the datebook and todos of Palm Pilot with Wcal. It has multiple Palm synchronization, user authentication to avoid illegal access to the calendars, the ability to synchronize events and todos, the ability to archive Palm events in Wcal, Network HotSync® support, quick sync report in the HotSync® journal of the Palm, and a complete sync report in Wcal.
packETH 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132657/
packETH is a Linux GUI packet generator tool for ethernet. It allows you to create and send any possible packet or sequence of packets on the ethernet.
Pauker 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132658/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
Peach Frequency 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132623/
Peach Frequency is a minimalist theme with speakers. The backround is by c345.
Perico 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132574/
Perico is a simple image editing program for pixel oriented pictures. You can rotate, change size, and more.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.5beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132663/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
PostArabic 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132673/
PostArabic adds Arabic shaping functionality to the PostgreSQL database. The module is written in C and adds the following functions to PL/SQL: shape_arabic(), unshape_arabic(), and utf8dump().
Radeox 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132651/
Radeox is a Wiki markup rendering engine written in Java. It is part of the weblog and Wiki tool, SnipSnap.
Remote Tea 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132661/
Remote Tea is a pure Java implementation of Sun's ONC/RPC protocol. Complete client and server functionality is available, as is client access to the portmapper. The package contains an rpcgen-like precompiler for converting .x files into Java classes. Also included is a Java-based portmapper.
rfc2mib 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132614/
This short Tcl script may be used to extract MIB or ASN.1 modules from an RFC document. Unlike most extractors, this script is smart enough to recognize ASN.1-style comments prior to or within the module header, use of the "TagDefaults" part of the module header (not used by MIB modules), module headers that are broken across multiple lines, and macro definitions.
RUNT 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132695/
RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off of a 128 MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive.
sbcd 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132703/
sbcd is a curses CD player for Linux/Unix based on the Creative Labs 'play' utility that was included with Sound Blasters for DOS.
SCREEM 0.7.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132677/
SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site.
Shuriken 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132628/
Shuriken is an XML-based tool for Linux system administrators to set up spans of time when the system should be up. Using the RTC daily alarm (requires BIOS, hardware, Linux support), the system will automatically power-on (if it is off) for these intervals. Automatic power-off is supported, but this feature is not recommended if users intend to log in to the system and not have it shut down on them.
SiteScope Personal Edition .7.8.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132696/
The SiteScope Personal Edition allows you to monitor your personal/home servers, plus keep track of page download times, errors per second, rejected requests, network availability, and more.
SNMP::Info 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132682/
SNMP::Info gives an object oriented interface to information obtained through SNMP. This module is geared towards network devices. Speciality sub-classes exist for a number of network devices and MIBs.
SuperTable 0.5 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132620/
SuperTable is an object-oriented JavaScript API for dynamically manipulating HTML tables. It features column sorting, row filtering, pattern-based cell/row styling, auto-numbering sequence columns, and auto-hyphenation. It supports IE5+, NS6+, Mozilla 1+, and Opera 7+.
tinc 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132679/
tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunneling and encryption to create a secure private network between multiple hosts on the Internet. This tunneling allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information.
tm4 1.4.3b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132669/
tm4 is a commandline application that can program 12- and 14-bit PIC parts using Newfound Electronics' WARP-13 programmer. It also works with programmers with the RX firmware.
Tux Commander 0.4.49
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132637/
Tux Commander is a GTK2 file manager with two side-by-side panels. Some of its functions are inspired by Total Commander. The main goal o