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[osdn business] August 18, 2003
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Carriers Might Profit From Cell Number Portability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/2240251
Makarand writes "Carriers that are adding cell-number portability fees to your monthly cell phone bills (while fighting against actually implementing the requirement) [0]may actually rake in profits from these levies as the total amounts collected will be more than the projected costs of meeting the FCC's number portability requirements. Although federal law requires that such fees be 'just and reasonable', it does not require reporting of their actual expenses. Consumer advocates feel that the number portability verification processes required are similar to those used by long-distance phone companies when a customer switches from one service provider to another and there is little reason to believe that expenses to meet portability requirements should vary widely among carriers and be so excessive as to bring profits for the carriers." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/08/17/keeping.cell.nos.ap/indexhtml
The State of the Game Console Wars
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/225225
An anonymous reader writes "Two years after the next-gen game consoles
hit the market, the verdict is in. What does the future hold for each
of the Big Three? Here is a [0]thoughtful but crude summary of the
X-Box vs. GC vs. PS2 ordeal."
Links
0. http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/consoleroundup.html
Power Electronics Help to Control Electrical Grids http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1840223
An anonymous reader writes: "[0]IEEE [1]Spectrum magazine has a
[2]timely article about how power electronics are proving necessary for
the widespread connection of wind turbines to the electric power grid.
It explains many issues that currently make it difficult to utilize
wind power. [3]Older [4]articles discuss other issues affecting the
nation's power grid."
Links
0.
http://www.ieee.org/
1.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/
2.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/aug03/wind.html
3.
http://a957.g.akamai.net/f/957/3680/1h/www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/newsinfo/thin-stretched-grid.pdf
4.
http://a957.g.akamai.net/f/957/3680/1h/www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/newsinfo/self-healing-systems.pdf
Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1829240
dook43 writes "[0]Samba 3.0.0 RC1 has been released as of 8/16. Probably the most important new feature is its Active Directory support, but the rest of the new features can be found at the website." Links
0. http://samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc1.html
Pirate Anime FAQ Updated
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/170203
[0]Joe Curzon writes "The [0]Pirate Anime FAQ has finally been updated,
after year of me being far to busy to do anything on the internet! The
FAQ would have been released sooner, but my [1]request on Slashdot.org
produced some "interesting" feedback via e-mail. This update includes a
new and improved Fansub section, which also covers Digisubs.
Scanlations have been added as a point of interest. Additionally the
Audio CD and DVD sections have been improved with more details on the
Pirate Companies and how to spot their "products". I would also like to
say that feedback from readers and the industry is critical for keeping
the FAQ up to date, and without their previous and continuing support
The Pirate Anime FAQ could not exist. Finally I would to remind people
to be extremely cautious when buying from on-line auction sites such as
eBay. The most common e-mail I get sent is from concerned fans who have
just found out that they have bought some pirate goods off a seller who
claimed what they were selling was legitimate."
Links
0. http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html
RMS on SCO, Distributions, DRM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1655243
[0]Letter writes "[1]Open for Business has an [2]interview with GNU
founder and free software zealot Richard M. Stallman (RMS) discussing
the SCO situation, the single RMS-approved free Linux distribution and
DRM in the Linux kernel. RMS also describes non-free software as a
'predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and
division.'"
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~Letter
1.
http://www.ofb.biz/
2.
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260
Is the Dean Campaign Spamming?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1624206
bluelark writes "A few days ago, a friend of mine fowarded to me some
spam apparently from the Howard Dean campaign. The sender's return
address, however, was dean@america.propulsive.net. In addition, this is
not the [0]Texas email we've all heard about. Being bored, I did some
research, and I found some intriguing results. If you are interested,
I've posted the [1]the technical details and the [2] the spam. Even
though the images in the email are being [3]served from Venezuela, the
links in the body of the spam are actually redirects from a marketing
partner called [4]eScriptions.net to a [5]Dean for America registration
page. It appears that the campaign is outsourcing their email with
[4]some dubious marketing partners who are then using [6] notorious
spamhauses to send out the actual email. Why does [7]a supposedly "net
savvy" campaign even think for one second that this approach is
acceptable?"
Links
0.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Vn2V38at0ZMJ:deanfortexas.com/contactus/maxeyculpa.htm+howard+dean+texas+spam&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
1.
http://www.cleverhack.com/blog/archives/000785.html
2.
http://www.cleverhack.com/blog/archives/000787.html
3.
http://www.creative-server.com/mci/us/deanforamerica/08.11.03.jpg
4.
http://www.escriptions.net/
5.
http://www.deanforamerica.com/registrese
6.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=surfplex.net+&btnG=Google+Search
7.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001267.shtml#001267
Examining Benchmarking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1621211
[0]VL writes "Benchmarks exist to determine how a particular piece of
hardware performs in relation to itself, and to others. Question is,
are readers [1]getting the information they really need?"
Links
XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/160254
[0]Piethein Strengholt writes "Today the Xfree86 fork is a fact. A new
project has started and is located at: [1]xouvert.org. Xouvert has been
started due to the corporate structure and the slow development of
XFree86. They hope to reduce the risk to XFree86 of incorporating new
drivers and features."
Links
0. mailto:piethein.strengholt@iie.nl
One Worldwide Power Grid
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1511210
[0]randomned writes "A little ironic that [1] this article on a world
wide power grid was published in the September issue of [2]Wired. With
the recent outage on in the northeast, think of what could've happened
if the entire world was on one grid." As someone who spent 23 and a
half hours without power, I'm thinking this is a brilliant plan!
Links
0. mailto:bmaxwell@noSPAm.ml1.net
1.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/start.html?pg=17
2.
http://www.wired.com/
Newsforge Reports
Who is David and who is Goliath?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1724202
- by David "cdlu" Graham - The story of SCO versus IBM has been compared to a story of David versus Goliath, except that we all want Goliath to win. I put it to you that IBM is not, in fact, Goliath, but that Linux is. IBM is just Goliath's powerful right arm, and Goliath has been awoken from a peacful slumber.
Take this idea... please
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1223235
- by Jordi Carrasco-Munoz - Hanoi, Vietnam -- I would like to propose a pooling of ideas. The domain name, "UsemyGPLideas.com," (which is not yet registered as I write this) is my first contribution
Linux Advisory Watch - August 15th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1135217
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for lynx, zblast, perl, kernel, signal, iBCS2, ddskk, konquerer, man-db, xpcd, stunnel, postfix, and php. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Red Hat, SuSe, Trustix, and TurboLinux.
Newsforge Newsvac
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/2117210
DEAR SIR/MADAM: I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW. Note: This is a *parody* and should not be take seriously - Ed.
Linux On Laptops Manufacturer Report Card Updated http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/1344249
wehe writes "The Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card was updated. A matrix of Original Equipment Manufacturers - OEM relations was added together with tips and tricks how to identify the original laptop manufacturer. Also a list of Linux laptop and PDA resellers was added. Unfortunately even in our times of Linux success, support by laptop manufacturers is seldom, or if provided not much helpful. Though the marketing departments of some ...
(Linux Today) Editor's Note: The Sky is Not Falling http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/2322234
Much has been said about The SCO Group's recent exploration of attacking the GPL, which may have been little more than a trial balloon, if you'll pardon the pun, to see what tactics the open-source community might have up its sleeve.
Blackout a Boon for Backup Tools
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1210244
Among sellers of backup power supplies, it's an unfortunate fact of business that most people give little consideration to the potential for electrical disruptions until something bad actually happens. But when the lights are out, the computer's dead and the TV screen goes blank, consumers are ready to take action.
Cryptography locks down WAP and P2P transmissions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1136205
Anonymous Reader writes "No matter what protocol or architecture you're using to broadcast data through the air, encryption can make that data safer. In this article, we'll examine some places where encryption can help secure wireless applications and networks, with a particular focus on WAP and P2P architectures. We'll also look at a J2ME application that uses cutting-edge cryptographical libraries to encode its data."
Embedded Linux Powers the M-100 Mini-Box http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/125228
Mini-box.com, a subsidiary of Ituner Networks Corp released the Mini-Box M-100 general purpose computer (GPC) based on VIA's award wining Mini-ITX motherboard, shipping with a small embedded Linux distribution.
China blocks foreign software use in gov't http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1148254
A new policy by China's governing body the State Council will rule that all ministries have to buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle.
Oracle Technology Day In Nigeria
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1146258
Global enterprising software company, Oracle, has chosen Nigeria for its first Oracle Technology Day in Africa. An official of Oracle in Nigeria, Mr. Harold Anumihe, said that the event would avail customers, partners and interested individuals an understanding of the firm's stategy to force down the cost of computing in the continent in general and particularly in Nigeria.
Microsoft Security Update -- Blaster Worm http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2123205
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has begun contacting community websites with urgent information regarding the Blaster Worm and has requested that we post the following message. Recognizing that many of our readers work in environments where there are Microsoft Windows based computers, or use Windows on their own systems, we bring you the following message from Microsoft . . ."
Debian Hits Double Digits on August 16th! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/177200
There has been a lot of disjointed talk about how to celebrate Debian's 10th birthday, so Debconf.org is running this page as a place to coordinate the various parties etc that are bound to be organised.
Freshmeat
10 years! 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132886/
10 Years! is a wallpaper made with The GIMP for the 10 year anniversary of the Debian project. The text on it is the email from Ian Murdock announcing the first release of Debian.
Amrita VPN 0.98-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132921/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
apt4rpm 0.65.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132948/
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
avidemux 2.0.14 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132890/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Backpack 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132963/
Backpack is a little script that performs a selective backup of selected directories and Debian package configurations, regularly adding support for more backup options such as MySQL, etc.
Binc IMAP 1.2.0b1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132944/
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.
Cantus 1.99.3-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132916/
Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.
CDDB / CDDB_get 2.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132903/
The CDDB/CDDB_get Perl module gets the CDDB info for an audio CD. The included script was intended as a demo for CDDB_get, but over time it has gained powerful features like the ability to write to a database, offline mode, HTTP mode (including proxy), saving in standard XMCD format, and writing 'lame' commands.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132930/
Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam. In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The target market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system but its value will be limited.
Courier 0.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132954/
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, and mailing list services within a single consistent framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the Webmail module.
Courier-IMAP 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132953/
Courier-IMAP is a lightweight server that provides IMAP access to maildir mailboxes. It supports folders, custom authentication modules, and virtual mailboxes. A compatible POP3 server is also provided. The source code is based on the IMAP module in the Courier Mail Server, but this build is independently repackaged to work with any other MTA that delivers to maildir format mailboxes.
CoverViewer 0.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132900/
CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name.
cvsd 0.9.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132940/
cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories.
cwISPy 1.2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132938/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
Darkbot 7rc9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132920/
Darkbot is a very fast and small IRC bot written in C. Originally created as an aid for help channels to answer repeated questions from its virtually unlimited database, it has became a very popular talking robot in a generic sense, being used all over IRC networks for different purposes and in 18 languages. Data can be added to it and managed dynamically online or edited in its database files offline. An extensive but easy-to-understand list of commands and features, including some channel operation functions and levels of protection, makes Darkbot a very flexible but somehow powerful and complex robot, with almost human conversations and reactions.
Dropbear SSH Server 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132967/
Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
Eternal Lands 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132968/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
Firebird Relational Database 1.5 RC5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132958/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
furious_tv 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132932/
furious_tv is a PVR backend that uses an SQLite database to hold XMLTV listings data. Using that data, it can automatically execute commands to record TV shows off of a capture device (multiple capture devices are supported). If Shuriken is installed, furious_tv can also automatically power the system on/off for recordings to save power.
General Applet Interface Library 0.5.0pre1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132895/
The goal of the General Applet Interface Library is to give programmers a simple yet powerful applet interface. This library supports both dockapps and GNOME 2 panel applets. The applet programmer doesn't have to care about if the applet will be used on the Gnome panel or in the dock. The library handles that. Over 50% of the code in a dockapp and a GNOME 2 Panel applet does only one thing, setting up the applet window. With GAI, this can be reduced to just a few lines of code.
Infernal Contractor II 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132964/
Take on the role of the Infernal Contractor and raise mayhem in this fast-moving 3D office simulation. This episode sees you racing round the office against the clock in an attempt to prove your fitness to the demanding recruiters. Slippery floors and dodgy ergonomics are all that stand between you and gainful employment. Hear encouraging phone calls from your agent, the harsh judgements of the recruiters, and the final countdown as you race for the finish line in this interactive simulation.
Java SQL Admin Tool 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132884/
Admin is entirely written in Java. It uses Swing GUI Components and JDBC to connect to databases. It has been succesfully tested with MySQL, InstantDB, Oracle, Empress, and PostgreSQL. You can have a tree view of the RDBMS or pick a single instance to have a look at its metadata. It allows you to create, modify, and drop tables and to create indices on a table. The dynamic form makes it easy to enter data into a certain table, and the guided query makes it easy to retrieve data from a table and to export it. Java developers will probably enjoy the code generator doing an OO relational wrapper and a swing GUI for them. You can also export and import data and transport it from one DBMS to another.
JavaDBF 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132914/
JavaDBF is a Java library for reading and writing Xbase files. It does not implement JDBC interfaces, but has a simple API of its own. It is useful if you need to communicate with a legacy application which can read and write only Xbase files.
JaxMeXS 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132923/
JaxMeXS is a parser for XML Schema, written in Java. Unlike Xerces or similar parsers, this one isn't written for validation of conforming instances, but for schema authors who like to use the schema information or extend the XML Schema language with private data. An excellent example is JAXB, the Java/XML binding specification.
JXMLPad 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132945/
JXMLPad is a Java component for editing XML document. It includes Java bean usage, syntax coloration (tags, name spaces, strings, entities, etc.), a syntax helper, a look-and-feel plugIn, a customized action toolbar, real time tree location, syntax correction, a template for fast creation, easy integration in your application, several standard actions for XML usage (parse, search, comment, etc.), a standard Swing EditorKit, real time tree text synchronization, auto tag closing, many actions (parsing, searching, adding comments, formatting), and real time text location. It is customizable with a property file
Kandid 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132927/
Kandid is a system to evolve graphics. Graphics, in Kandid, are not drawn by hand. Instead, new forms can be found using genetic algorithms. To achieve this aim Kandid simulates evolution using sexual reproduction and mutation. But there is no fitness function inside the program. Only the user can decide what images are interesting. Populations and genes can be stored in XML format. Image calculation is based on Iterated Function Systems, Linear Cellular Automata, and Voroni diagrams.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.1.2 (Linux 2.4 patch) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132934/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
lcab 1.0b9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132931/
lcab (formerly known as Cablinux) makes a Microsoft cabinet file from a set of input files.
libferris 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132888/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders.
libfgz 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132957/
libfgz is a small Fortran library to read gzipped files. It can read binary and ASCII files, and even unformatted, gzipped stream files.
librsync 0.9.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132915/
librsync makes the network-delta functions of the popular rsync file transfer tool available to other programs. librsync has a streaming interface similar to zlib, and is designed to be embedded into diverse network applications.
Lightweight C++ 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132898/
Lightweight C++ is a programming language that looks like C++ and is directly translated to readable C code. It supports function overloading, member functions, inheritance, polymorphism (virtual functions), multiple inheritance, virtual inheritance and pure virtual functions, constructors/destructors, new/delete, and simplistic templates.
LuaCheia alpha1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132936/
Lua is a great programming language that prides itself on ANSI C portability, small size, simplicity, and ease of embedding. Due to these goals, the official Lua distribution cannot provide features common to popular stand-alone scripting languages. The goal of the LuaCheia project is to make a full-featured language based on Lua that makes it more usable as a stand-alone language.
Lutel Firewall 0.70 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132892/
Lutel Firewall Script is a Linux iptables shell script written in bash for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade router for home networks or multiple subnet applications. It shares access to an Internet connection (DSL/ADSL/modem/other) from multiple workstations. Its main features are support for interface aliases, per subnet traffic definitions, UID and GID of packet owner restrictions, length of packet restrictions, SYN / flood protection, disabling routing between subnets, masquerading setups per subnet, transparent proxy support, port redirection, anti-spoof protection, TOS optimization, predefinied netfilter marking for 3rd party traffic shapers (such as tc), DHCP support, FTP active and passive mode support, ZorbipTraffic, and many others.
MacXM 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132970/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
maildrop 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132952/
Maildrop is a powerful email filter/delivery agent. It supports mbox-style mailboxes and maildirs (a mail storage format used by Qmail). Its mail filtering language supports RFC822 parsing and GDBM/Berkeley DB database files. The maildrop package also includes a command-line tool to perform various operations on MIME messages.
Mash 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132973/
Mash is a software implementation of the pencil and paper game of Mash. It's an easy to learn game which can be played by anyone. Currently it is implemented using the FOX GUI toolkit, which allows it to be ported with ease to both X11 (over Linux, BSD, etc.) and Win32.
mooix 1.0rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132937/
Mooix is a multiuser object-oriented dimension (a MOO) layered over top of your favorite Unix system. To the user, mooix looks much like any other MOO. To the programmer, mooix objects look like directories full of files: executable methods, properties, and links to other objects. MOOs have historically had poor support for such things as real programming languages, encrypted logins, multitasking, and editors. Mooix inherits all of these things from the Unix system it is based on. At the same time, it's not wedded too tightly to Unix (e.g., it implements its own permissions system that is much more suited to a MOO environment than the historical Unix system).
mozplayerxp 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132913/
mozplayerxp is a scriptable Mozilla mplayer plugin. It supports stop, play, pause, fullscreen, and JavaScript calls.
msmtp 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132919/
msmtp is a simple program that works as an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods, TLS-encrypted connections, and IPv6 support.
Music Player Daemon 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132976/
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Flac) and managing playlists. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it includes a Web interface, phpMp, a GTK frontend, gtk2mp, a command line tool, mpc, and a dock app, WMmp. The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements, and to be stable and flexible.
MyOrgBook 2.5.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132918/
MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and MySQL. Its features include multi-user login, a lost password emailer, contacts, a to- do/scheduler, a calendar, and a profile changer. It allows you to edit, delete, and update contacts, and much more.
PBS 0.88
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132922/
PBS is a user-support call management system and call tracing system. It is based on intranet technologies, and it allows you to manage and account calls, inventory, projects, and performance. It features a knowledge base and reports for the manager.
PennMUSH 1.7.6p13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132950/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132893/
Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2, Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users.
PHPki 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132933/
PHPki is an Open Source Web application for managing a Public Key Infrastructure within a small organization. It provides a mechanism for the centralized creation and management of digital certificates for use with S/MIME-enabled email cilents. It will not create server, browser, or code signing certificates. PHPki was specifically designed to set up a multi-agency PKI for HIPAA compliance.
phpPgAdmin 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132969/
Based on phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin is a fully functional port for PostgreSQL. It has all the basic functionality you need to completely administer a PosgreSQL server and/or database, including the ability to administer views, sequences, stored procedures, and triggers. Features include the ability to create and drop databases; create, copy, drop, and alter tables/views/sequences/functions/triggers; edit and add fields (to the extent Postgres allows); execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries; manage keys on fields; create and read dumps of database and tables; and administer one single database, multiple servers, and Postgres users/groups.
PHPRecipeBook 2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132947/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar items so that duplication does not occur.
Pixory Beta 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132966/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners.
Project Steve Guttenberg 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132924/
Project Steve Guttenberg is a PHP-driven diary/journal/blogging application that integrates seamlessly into an existing Web site. It provides many of the core features (including comments, archives, searching, and an RDF feed) and administrative controls (all Web-based) of other, larger systems, but doesn't use a database, is XHTML 1.0-compliant and its look can be completely customised via CSS. It can easily be scaled to host several journal sites with a single installation.
PyQt 3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132941/
PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.
Python-SIP 3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132942/
SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
QHacc 2.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132908/
QHacc is a personal accounting program based on Qt. It features doubleor single-entry bookkeeping and a reconciliation window. It also provides support for memorized and split transactions, graphing, reporting, archiving, and scheduled transactions that can be based on the account balance.
RH Linux Domain Controller Project 2.2.f http://freshmeat.net/releases/132960/
The Domain Server is designed to fulfill the role of a Windows NT domain controller, incorporating LDAP to server as a "Directory Server". The RH Linux Domain Controller Project is designed to function with its sister project, the RH Email Server. The goal of this series of projects is to develop 'meta-distributions' that bring together great OSS projects in an easy-to-install, easy-to-administrate manner, the desired end result being that Microsoft Administrators should be able to easily adapt and migrate to Linux without having to be a 'guru'. The collection of projects will aim to match specific Microsoft products (Exchange Server, etc.) in functionality. Current versions include user and group administration as well as migration tools.
SandWeb 1.0RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132965/
SandWeb is a Web-based Sandbox Management Client. Since we currently only support CVS, it could also be described as a Web-based CVS client. It can be used to check out modules from a VCS such as CVS, manage files, edit, commit, and much more.
SCons 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132911/
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects.
SeeBorg 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132926/
SeeBorg is a C++ version of PyBorg, the IRC chatbot. It was written completely from scratch and uses the botnet library for IRC interaction.
Shishi 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132906/
Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of Kerberos 5, which can be used to authenticate users in distributed systems. It contains a library that can be used by application developers, and a command line utility for users. Shishi supports Kerberos authenticated telnet client/server, IMAP client/server (via GSSAPI), SSH client/server (via GSSAPI), and a PAM module for host security.
Shuriken 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132929/
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.
SPASTIC 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132955/
SPASTIC is an easy-to-use, powerful set of email filters to deal with Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), a.k.a. spam, using procmail. Some of its features are filtering based on header and/or body contents, predefined sets of filters to get started quickly, a whitelist to bypass filters, options on where to send spam, and an optional script to rotate the spam file periodically.
Summersby 1.003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132889/
Summersby is a nicely designed, proportional OpenType font with partial Unicode support. The main goal is to have English, Danish, German, Russian, and Kana+Kanji glyphs that don't look ugly. Legibility is priority number one, and it's hinted for best results.
SunAngle 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132883/
SunAngle displays data about the Sun's rise time, set time, and its current bearing. By pointing your Palm Pilot at the Sun, this program will tell you which way North is. In addition, it draws pie slices on the compass face showing where the Sun will rise and set that day, during the summer solstice and winter solstice. This could be useful for architects, real estate agents, home buyers (does this balcony get any sun in the winter?), and solar installers.
telbook 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132962/
Telbook is a simple telephone book that can be used to manage a list of people and their home and mobile telephone numbers. It is not intended to be a fully-fledged address book, but rather a simple and efficient tool.
torrentutils 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132887/
torrentutils is a set of utilities for managing BitTorrent (`.torrent') files and interacting with BitTorrent trackers. torrenttool is a script that extracts and displays information from BitTorrent files, as well as testing and generating checksums for files listed in them.
TR-IRCD 5.5.1-r
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132905/
TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, modules, threads, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and Web-based configuration, and includes a proxy scanner.
Ultimate Boot CD 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132971/
Ultimate Boot CD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives.
Universala 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132902/
Universala is a real world and standards-compliant implementation of the Open Publishing concept.
WindowLab 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132899/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
Worker 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132961/
Worker is a file-manager exclusive for X based on the famous filemanager "DirectoryOpus" on the AmigaOS. It is configurable on the fly without restarting Worker. Any extern program can be easily integrated in the GUI, including a button and a hotkey. Worker uses real file-recognition on file-content AND/OR file-ending, where each file-type can get an own action.
Xapian and Omega 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132928/
Xapian is a Probabilistic Information Retrieval library. It's written in C++, with bindings to Perl, Python, and PHP. It's an adaptable toolkit to allow developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. Included is Omega, a Web site search app built with Xapian.
xinabse 2003-08-17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132901/
xinabse is a search engine for small to medium-sized sites. It consists of a HTTP spider written in Perl and a templatable frontend in PHP. Ke