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[osdn business] August 20, 2003
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/0138249
joel_archer writes "According [0]this article at the [1]DrudgeReport, a worm, apparently designed to patch MSBlaster infected Win2K and XP machines, brings various Canadian networks to a crawl. Hardest hit was the 411 system, Air Canada, and Ontario hydro electric operations. Apparently this is causing more problems than MSBlaster itself." Links
0. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
During Blackout, Ham Radio Shined
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2223242
[0]Mark Cantrell writes "An interesting bit on [1]AP through Yahoo
today. Seems that ham radio (which recently had a bit of [2]backlash
here on Slashdot from a few people thinking it was useless, outdated,
technology), really shined through during the blackouts. When the power
went, ham radio operators, using battery backup power, were able to
help coordinate emergency workers while the cell phone networks were
overloaded. For anyone wondering why [3]interference due to power line
broadband is considered a bad thing, well, there ya go."
Links
0.
http://www.nwinfo.net/~mcantrell/
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20030819/ap_on_hi_te/blackout_ham_radio
2.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=6651327&sid=74100&tid=193
3.
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
DNSSEC: Good Enough?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/0123255
[0]Phil Windley writes "[1]DNS Security Extension, or DNSSEC, is a set
of extensions to DNS, which provide end-to-end authenticity and
integrity. Paul Mockapetris, the [2]inventor of DNS believes DNSSEC is
the answer to many of the identity problems on the Internet. He wants
the IETF to get off the dime and approve the DNSSEC spec. A recent
[3]article in ZDNet TechUpdate interviews Mockapertis on DNSSEC
([4]summary)."
Links
0.
http://www.windley.com
1.
http://www.dnssec.net/
2.
http://www.windley.com/2003/06/27.html#a697
3.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914447,00.html
4.
http://www.windley.com/2003/08/19.html#a781
Watercooling Drifting Mainstream
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2330257
pacc writes "With Prescott said to dissipate [0]103 W and the dual
Apple G5 playing in the same league, air cooling seems less than
sensible. Nikkei Electronics has an article about [1]watercoolers
getting standardized by Hitachi. A technology pioneered by [2]a NEC
desktop last May."
Links
0.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11092
1.
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/fw/260967
2.
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/247756Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2229238
[0]rockville writes "Brutus, a FPGA add-in PCI card developed by
[1]ChessBase and Dr. Christian Donnegar, just dominated a strong field
of human players at a [2]tournament in Germany. It's the first serious
chess-playing FPGA architecture since Deep Blue was disassembled after
its victory over Kasparov in 1997. Pictures of the card and a short
description are [3]here."
Links
0. mailto:colonypod@go.com
1.
http://www.chessbase.com/
2.
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1131
3.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221
Network Blackout
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2021244
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Renesys put together a [1]special report
on the effects of the recent blackout on routing and network
reachability on the Internet. It includes a [2]cool animation of
networks dropping off the internet (presumably as a result of the power
outage). It is interesting to see how localized some of the outage
was--networks in New York state right up to the Vermont border go dark
while everything on the other side of the border is quiet. New York
City obviously gets clobbered."
Links
0.
http://www.renesys.com/
1.
http://www.renesys.com/news/
2.
http://www.renesys.com/news/2003-08-14/blackout.html
FCC Lifts AOL IM Limits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1953252
[0]TypoNAM writes "'The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to
[1]lift restrictions that have barred AOL Time Warner from offering
advanced instant messaging services including videoconferencing,
according to a source familiar with the decision.'" A couple of years
ago, the FCC made a big fuss about how it was [2]watching out for the
public interest in approving the AOL/TW merger.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~TypoNAM
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5065650.html
2.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Public_Notices/2001/fcc01011_fact.pdfMovie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1918243
cybercuzco writes "The movie industry is [0]blaming poor sales of such movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling them that the movie stinks. Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image. Expect texting to be banned by the MPAA in the near future." Links
0. http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778
Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1714226
[0]Chris Hoofnagle writes "The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and
others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will
track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and
mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can
gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a
[1]fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the [2]guidelines
until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being
accepted."
Links
0.
http://choof.org
1.
http://epic.org/privacy/poverty
2.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/hmis/index.cfm
A Fully Distributed Power Grid?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1650235
[0]rleyton writes "There's an interesting and [1]topical black-out
article on an "internet inspired" [2]hydrogen powered energy network.
The premise is homes, cars, factories and offices store up hydrogen
when energy is available, and supply it into the new energy network
when it's not. Certainly an intriguing idea, with some interesting
comments on future power management. Feasible in the next "three
decades"? Perhaps."
Links
0.
http://www.leyton.org
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2050243&tid=99
2.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1021298,00.html
Newsforge Reports
Promising Rosegarden almost ready for its musical debut
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1555203
- by Peter Fernando - Rosegarden is a free general-purpose music composition and editing application for Unix and Linux with a matrix editor and a fully-featured MIDI sequencer. Though it shows promise, bugs in this beta version make me recommend waiting for the 1.0 release.
Linus on McBride's latest claim
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1633233
- by Joe Barr - Darl McBride is at it again. According to a VNUNet.com story this morning, McBride claimed yesterday at the SCOForum Conference in Las Vegas that there are over a million lines of copyrighted SCO code in Linux. He added that they can't be removed because only SCO knows which lines they are.
Is Linux becoming closed to innovation?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1359229
- by Chris Gulker - Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalists, says that while he is optimistic about Open Source, he fears that Linux, as a few distributions become dominant, risks becoming "closed." If that happens, he says, innovation will cease and Linux will "no longer matter."
Newsforge Newsvac
3rd Annual East-Coast Linux/Debian Anniversary
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2114213
Anonymous Reader writes "This weekend August 22nd-24th, PLUG hosts it's Third Annual East-Coast Linux/OSS Celebration Weekend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previous events have drawn participants from over seven different States! This years' events include a bar night and a BBQ as bookends, with lots of spontaneous activities inbetween! This is in celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Linux Kernel as well as the 10th Anniversary of Debian, ...
Corporate Linux Lab opens in Mountain View, California http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2111214
A state-of-the-art "Corporate Linux Environment" (CLE) has launched in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Freedom Technology Center will feature desktop Linux systems, a Linux-based server infrastructure, modern teleconferencing, network and presentation facilities.
Tonight Live: SCO, SCO, SCO, and more SCO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/216256
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com: News from SCOforum in Las Vegas, where Jeff talked with Darl McBride in the flesh. The usual crowd will be there, plus Eric S. Raymond and Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Catch the Linux show at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et!
What is a wiki? Beginner's overview.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1828237
Matthew Revell writes "ContentPeople has a beginner's overview, explaining what a wiki is and what it does."
SCO code revealed - it's BSD
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825249
Anonymous Reader writes "SCO did a big dog and pony show yesterday at their conference. They also raised their claims, and according to them, there are "millions of lines" of offending code which they have identified by "rocket scientists" using "spectral recognition" and "pattern analysis". To convince SCOforum attendees of their case, SCO showed obscured slides which supposedly proved copying. Research reveals that the code fragment SCO showed ...
China blocks foreign software use in gov't http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825202
A new policy by China's governing body will rule that all ministries buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle.
IEEE and The Open Group to Extend POSIX Certification to the Latest POSIX Standard http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1717206
POSIX certification is about to take another step forward. The Open Group and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will offer a program to certify products to the 2003 edition of IEEE 1003.1(TM)-2001, "Standard for Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)," which incorporates the IEEE 1003.1 Corrigendum. The new program updates the existing one and will take effect early ...
CRN Interview: SCO CEO Darl McBride
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1619210
SCO CEO Darl McBride met Monday with CRN Senior Editor Paula Rooney to talk about the company's Unix crusade and product plans. The interview took place at the SCO Forum 2003 in Las Vegas. CRN is a sponsor of the conference.
WideXS Selects Vexira Antivirus To Protect Over 60,000 Customer Domains From Email Viruses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/159219
Anonymous Reader writes "Leading European Web hosting company selects Vexira™ Antivirus as best of breed in enterprise-class email virus scanning on Linux.
Damn Small Linux: Damn Nice Distro
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1453253
ladislav writes "Damn Small Linux is a Linux distribution with a difference. Although it is based on the Knoppix live CD, its size has been reduced drastically to fit on a 50MB business-card shape CD. Damn Small Linux is a general purpose distribution to carry around in one's wallet; it comes with XFree86 and the Fluxbox window manager, while other light-weight applications for email, web browsing, word processing, instant messaging and playing ...
Freshmeat
Alcea Fast BugTrack 3.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133158/
Alcea Fast BugTrack includes problem tracking with attachments, email notification, charts, history trails, reports, anonymous functionality, and customization. The free demo installs in 5 minutes. It is ideal for bug tracking, defect tracking, and customer requests.
Bauk 1.82 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133121/
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.
BIAsed 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133139/
BIAsed is a partial implementation of RFC 3338: "Dual Stack Hosts Using BIA". This RFC specifies a mechanism of dual stack hosts using a technique called "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA) which allows for the hosts to communicate with other IPv6 hosts using existing IPv4 applications. The goal of this mechanism is the same as that of the Bump-in-the- stack mechanism, but this mechanism provides the translation method between the IPv4 APIs and IPv6 APIs. Thus, the goal is simply achieved without IP header translation.
Booby 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133194/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todos, notes, and news. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty). It is based on a generic MVC design pattern/framework that uses items with a potential hierarchical relationship as its base.
cc65 2.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133198/
An almost ISO C compatible C compiler which produces binaries for 6502-based computers. Targets that are supported out of the box are: Apple ][, Atari 8Bit machines, Commodore C64/C128/C16/C116, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 600/700, and GEOS for C64. The package includes a complete suite of assembler developement tools (assembler, linker, archiver) which allows mixing of C and assembler code.
Childsplay 0.68
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133196/
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like then gcompris.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133182/
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.
cmdftp 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133211/
cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet powerful.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133206/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform.
Coyote Linux 2.2.3 (GUI Disk Creator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133155/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
Coyote Linux 2.02 (Floppy Firewall - Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133154/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
cuckooo 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133138/
cuckooo is a KDE KPart which allows OpenOffice.org to be run inside a Konqueror window or as a standalone application with the KDE look and feel.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133166/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
Dr. Geo 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133128/
Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within their geometric constraints.
fake-tools 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133181/
fake-tools consists of various tiny utilities that help to make building of bigger projects easier. You can merge multiple data files into one, link data files into your executable, and convert from one format to another.
fix-mime-charset 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133212/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately, ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None but the Content- Type header is changed.
FreeMarker 2.3pre12 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133200/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
g4u 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133176/
g4u ("ghost for unix") is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. This is often done to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs. The floppy/CD offers two functions: it uploads the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, and then it can retrieve that image via FTP, uncompress it, and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processes as a image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.
GNUMail.app 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133180/
GNUMail.app is a clone of NeXT's excellent Mail.app application. It uses the GNUstep development framework, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT.
GPL Arcade Volleyball 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133136/
GAV (GPL Arcade Volleyball) is an object-oriented multi-platform Arcade Volleyball clone. It supports multiplayer and theme customization.
High Level Assembly Language 1.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133126/
The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas.
HyperSpell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133168/
HyperSpell is a convenient menu item that gives you instant access to Mac OS X's built-in spellchecker. All you do is click on HyperSpell's icon in the menu bar and enter the word, or words, that you want spellchecked. Words that are misspelled appear with a red underline. You can then control-click (or right-click) on the misspelled words to reveal a list of possible spellings.
ImageSpace 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133217/
ImageSpace creates 2D images by mutating syntax trees according to user input. The user acts as the fitness function and selects images by aesthetic criteria. Selected images can be rendered and saved in resolutions up to 2048x2048.
jGnash 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133140/
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4 or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to the program.
JHexDump 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133210/
JHexDump is a command-line driven hex dump program. It inputs a stream of data from a file and outputs the hexidecimal representation of every byte in the input data.
Jinzora 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133173/
Jinzora is a Web-based MP3 library and media streamer. It is a fork of the Zina project, adding many more end-user features to extend its functionality. The main goal is to build a very easy-to-use/highly functional Web interface to an MP3 collection.
JTAG Tools 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133178/
JTAG Tools is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices and boards through a JTAG adapter. This package has an open and modular architecture with the ability to write miscellaneous extensions like board testers, flash memory programmers, and so on.
Kronophobia 1.0-r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133094/
Kronophobia is a complete event-based school calendaring system that supports recurrence, transportation assignments, alerts, parent/public registration, custom reports, event tracking, and e-mail notification.
lambda 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133188/
Lambda is an interactive Lambda calculus interpreter. It reduces lambda expressions and converts them into the S, K, and I combinators (ext). It has the ability to associate names with lambda expressions (def), load definitions from a file (load), and list current definitions (list). Lambda expressions representing integers are automatically defined as needed. Many interesting combinators are provided in a definition file. Various settings are provided to influence the way reduction and extraction are performed (set). A short manual is provided showing how lambda works.
Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1g
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133147/
Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a splash screen, and a KFM background image.
LaTeXDB 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133219/
LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-08-19 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133218/
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.
libhtmlTemplate 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133127/
libhtmlTemplate is a very simple and small library to aid you on developing CGI applications, by separating the output from the code.
libintl-perl 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133195/
libintl-perl is a library that supports message translation for Perl, written in pure Perl (version 5.004 or better). Its interface is very similar to the gettext family of functions in C, and it uses the same file formats as GNU gettext does, making it possible to use all tools available for gettext itself and to seamlessly integrate internationalized Perl code into mixed-language projects.
LON-CAPA 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133167/
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.
macstl 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133129/
MacSTL is a C++ source library which offers an implementation of std::valarray which is optimized for the Altivec instructions found on newer Macintosh computers. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is almost 2x faster than gcc's STL, due to the ruthless weeding out of redundant loads and stores. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result, std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without the same overheads.
Manim 0.1.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133170/
Manim is simple graphical tool to make stop motion animation. It uses mplayer, mencoder, and libavcodec to provide support functions.
Martian Memory 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133208/
Martian Memory is a simple memory game oriented to kids, featuring the Pachi el marciano's world characters. The goal of the game is to pick up two identical chips from a board that contains 32. The game contains very nice visual effects, sounds, and very nice music composed by Jonne Valtonen.
Morphon XML-Editor 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133130/
The Morphon XML-Editor is a validating WSYSIWYG XML editor that lets you create and modify XML documents in an intuitive manner. Using DTDs (Document Type Definitions) and CSS (Cascading StyleSheets), the editor guarantees the integrity of your XML documents and presents them in a consistent and user-friendly way. The XML editor is bundled with the Morphon CSS Editor that can be used to customize your CSS, allowing you to change every aspect of the way the XML editor presents your document while editing. The CSS editor can also be used stand-alone to directly create CSS for the Web.
MoviX2 0.3.1pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133152/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to use MoviX2.
MUSCLE 2.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133185/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
MyClient 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133171/
MyClient is a simple and clean Web client interface for the MySQL database. Features include multiple query windows, one-button table descriptions, one button database switching, query save and load, and query results saving. It is not a full featured administration tool, but rather a quick and easy query interface designed for those who are looking for a Web-based implementation of the command line interface.
myDVDs 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133183/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
NeoStats 2.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133164/
NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or "StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It also includes a number of "Fun" services, like "LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers. Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7, Bahamut, MysticIRCd, QuantumIRCd, and NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support being developed.
Nicotine 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133207/
Nicotine is a feature-complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing network. You can use it to upload, download, search, and chat. You can keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek client is supposed to do. If you are familiar with PySoulSeek, you'll probably notice a striking resemblance in appearance.
oxygen XML editor 2.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133133/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
p0f2 2.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133134/
p0f2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting utility, to be used for evidence or information gathering on servers, firewalls, IDSes, and honeypots, for pen-testing, or just for the fun of it. It is a complete rewrite of p0f version 1 by William Stearns, and until (if) both projects are merged, will be listed separately.
Pantomime 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133179/
Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system. It is fully written in Objective-C (some very small parts in C where performance is critical), and is part of GNUMail.app.
pdc 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133191/
PDC is a desktop calculator in the 'bc' style with features designed for programmers. It does not support floating point math, but does provide all the C operators (logical, bitwise, shifts, etc.) and implements ISO C operator precedence. Additionally, functions are available to assist with 'bit bashing' tasks such as byte swapping and bit scanning.
PhpDocumentor 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133184/
PHPDocumentor is a PHP script for creating javaDoc-style documentation from PHP code. It can document object-oriented and procedural code. It supports all javaDoc tags, including inline links, and also supports PHPdoc documentation in PEAR style.
PHPlist 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133202/
PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.
Poppassd-ceti 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133153/
Poppassd-ceti is a Qualcomm password changer daemon with PAM support and several other improvements. This program is intended to be a secure way to change system passwords via the Web. Methods that involve calling SUID programs directly from the Web are especially avoided. Poppassd strictly isolates the Web interface from actual password manipulations. The program contains no known security bugs that could be reported since it was released several years ago. This version uses PAM, which means you can do anything PAM can. Currently, there are PAM modules for almost all known authentication methods available.
Python Gutenberg E-text Project 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133190/
The PyGE project aims to provide free cross-platform desktop applications to make the growing collection of copyright-free literary works from Project Gutenberg more accessible to the typical computer user. The suite includes PyGETS, a program for searching and downloading available PG e-texts, PyGEMZ, a program for converting e-texts to a format suitable for both desktop and Palm PDA usage, and PyGERS, a program for comfortably viewing e-texts which includes basic text-to-speech capabilities.
Qastrocam 3.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133209/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
QtTV 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133141/
QtTV is a TV guide that uses XMLTV as a backend to display TV listings on any QT enabled platform, although it has been primarily designed for the Sharp Zaurus.
RefDB 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133125/
RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents. This is an attempt to provide most of the functionality of commercial packages like Reference Manager or EndNote in a platform-independent tool, targeting markup languages rather than word processors.
rpm-analyzer 1.0 r8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133193/
rpm-analyzer is a graphical tool to help you analyze rpm dependencies. You can easily see what packages are required to install or remove a specific rpm. It may also help you to maintain a Red Hat-based distribution by providing hdlist and comps.xml analysis tools.
Samwise 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133177/
Samwise is a keyword-based link keeper that allows you to tag a given link with multiple keywords and generate listings on the intersection of sets of keywords. It supports multiple users, each with their own distinct set of keywords and bookmarks, and allows each user to have a set of private bookmarks visible only when they are fully logged in.
SecureServ 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133165/
SecureServ is an IRC trojan detector. It's much like a virus scanner, but aimed at IRC networks. Using several methods, including version checks, behavior analysis, and general pattern matching, it aims to detect trojans, viruses, and floodbots which connect to your IRC network. Its "brains" are based on a "Definition file" which contains information on how to detect trojans. To update detection for new trojans, you only have to download a new file.
Sentinel IRC Services 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133169/
Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet, and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud 1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions.
Server Status 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133192/
Server Status is a server monitor that simply displays a list of servers to monitor and displays whether they are alive on the network or not.
skill and snice 4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133186/
skill sends signals to processes given any combination of user names, ttys, commands, and pids. snice changes the priority of processes (given the same). They are similar to kill(1) and renice(8), but the commandline is order-independent. There are also verbose, search, and interactive modes of operation.
SourceStyler 1.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133160/
SourceStyler is a tool for C++ developers that provides complete control over the formatting and layout of C++ source code. SourceStyler features over 75 individual formatting options, 7 predefined formatting schemes, user-defined formatting schemes, complete support for ANSI C++, a convenient graphical interface, real time preview facilities, automated formatting on trigger events, and a command line interface for use in scripts.
SuperKaramba 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133215/
SuperKaramba is a tool that allows anyone to easily create and run little interactive widgets on a KDE desktop. Widgets are defined in a simple text file and can be augmented with Python code to make them interactive. Current widgets include everything from simple news headline displays to complete custom replacements for kicker, the KDE toolbar.
sybadmin 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133157/
Sybadmin is a set of bash scripts which could be useful for the administration of a Sybase ASE server. These scripts should help you perform such activities as backing up databases or transaction logs, saving vital server information (e.g. devices and logins), checking database consistency with dbcc commands, and checking database usage.
TAMS 2.23b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133162/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.
Thy 0.8.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133161/
Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size, it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression.
TPL Compiler 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133163/
TPL Compiler compiles a phpBB-style template into a Python module, which can be called with a data dictionary to apply that data to the template.
tropism 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132984/
tropism is a 3-in-1 theme; it has light, medium, and dark versions.
ViIndex 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133205/
ViIndex is an indexer program with a flexible and powerful indexer, a finder that allows you to use a combination of AND, OR, a regular expression, and the relative places of the keywords, and a powerful displayer with filter functionality.
Virtual Exim 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133144/
Virtual Exim is a PHP-enabled Web interface for managing multiple virtual mail domains with Exim and MySQL. POP/IMAP accounts, aliases, forwards, and permanent fail accounts can all be created and managed easily without the need for corresponding shell accounts. Virtual Exim also allows the server administrator to designate a SiteAdmin who can create and delete domains on the fly through the interface, so no editing of the Exim configuration file is required. Individual users can also log in to change their "Real Name" and passwords with ease.
WDX 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133132/
WDX is dedicated communication software for use between multi-vendor computers. It detects network failures and computer failures. It automates application failover for over 2 to 16 networked computer groups. It interoperates over Linux, Unix, NT, and VMS platforms, with simple nodes or clustered ones.
Xchangeboard 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133146/
Xchangeboard is forum software based on PHP and MySQL. It offers an easy way of administration to handle design and/or user-specific tasks. The look and feel resembles other well known boards