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[osdn business] August 25, 2003
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
European Shuttle Program Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2227251
Rolo Tomasi writes "ESA's reusable launch vehicle demonstrator, Phoenix, was recently [0]wind tunnel tested to determine its low speed aerodynamics. A free flight for Phoenix is planned for early summer 2004. In case you haven't heard of it yet, here's an [1]article from last year, describing the Phoenix/HOPPER concept. Here's [2]another page at ESA, but it seems to be available only in German. What's interesting is the first sentence of the DLR press release, stating that (my translation) 'Europe's future and competitiveness in space substantially depend on an autonomous access to space and 'on a drastic decrease in the transport costs of getting there.'" Links
0.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/Presse/Presseinfo/phoenix
1.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/europe_phoenix_020621.html
2.
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMHYN2A6BD_Germany_0.htmlNZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0024204
[0]lump writes "A notorious spammer, based in New Zealand, who had his
name and other personal info released first in [1]a national newspaper,
and then on the web, has [2]shut down his operation, citing harassment.
What interests me about this case is that, in the 5 or 6 days since he
has supposedly stopped operating, I personally have had one (1) spam
email, to an address which had previously averaged around fifty per
day. Colleagues report a similar reduction in spam. All I can say is
'excellent.' Hate to say it, but in this case, vigilante type action
seems to have had the desired result. This needs to be publicised, as
anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing."
Links
0. mailto:alan_preston36@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=3518682
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2345211&tid=111How About A Cup Of The Answer To Everything? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0133237
[0]Reiner Schulz writes "Douglas Adams [1]admittedly was a big fan of
Earl Grey tea. Here's [2]his enlightening entry in H2G2 on the subject
(pretty much straight out of [3]The Salmon of Doubt). And those
familiar w/ the Hitchhiker's Guide will remember the drink dispenser
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe which, trying to figure
out how to brew the perfect cuppa, grabs all available computing
resources on board a certain starship. What a coincidence then that one
of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the
UK in particular is [4]Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No. ... 42 . It's a
plausible theory as to the origin of the answer to everything, isn't
it? Earl Grey addicts like myself will certainly agree (even though
Douglas liked his w/ milk; I prefer lemon). So, what would be the
question? Perhaps, how about a nice cup of tea?"
Links
0.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz
1.
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/stories/msnetwork.html
2.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A61345
3.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000492.html
4.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz/harrodsEarlGrey.jpgWindows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2255231
Circuit Breaker writes "A Washington Post article says [0]Microsoft
Windows is insecure by design. Quote: 'Between the Blaster worm and the
Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody
with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these
outbreaks -- just like in earlier "malware" epidemics. This is not a
coincidence.'"
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34978-2003Aug23.html
Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2128223
magellan writes "Sun has released [0]screenshots of its upcoming Mad
Hatter Linux desktop. Mad Hatter includes GNOME, StarOffice, Evolution,
and Mozilla. Sun has made minor modifications to Gnome to make it more
familiar to Windows users. Sun's Mad Hatter, along with SuSE's new push
on the desktop, could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a
bigger reality."
Links
0. http://www.sun.com/2003-0805/feature/
How Objective Is Microsoft's Search?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2028216
bot writes "There have been a number of [0]stories on Microsoft trying
to do a 'Netscape' on Google.. what would a world in which Microsoft
provides search look like? A [1]search for 'linux' on msn.com give
amazon and ebay as the top two results, and a [2]microsoft site
promoting migration from Linux to Windows as the fourth listing. A
[3]search on [4]MSN India is even more amusing -- the top result is a
dead link, and the second one is [5]Linuxsucks.com."
Links
0.
http://silicon.com/news/500019/1/5702.html
1.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux&FORM=SMCRT
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/migration/
3.
http://search.msn.co.in/results.aspx?cp=1252&PI=9574&DI=9&FORM=MSNH&q=linux
4.
http://www.msn.co.in/
5.
http://www.linuxsucks.com/E-Pass Can Resue Patent Case Against Palm http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1827207
[0]kisrael writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
has [1]ruled that a patent held by [2]E-Pass may have been infringed by
Palm and other PDA makers even though their devices are larger than
'credit-card sized.' The [3]1994 patent describes a 'multifunction,
credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a
multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other
data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and
similar personal documents.'"
Links
0.
http://kisrael.com/
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32471.html
2.
http://www.e-pass.com/
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,276,311.WKU.&OS=PN/5,276,311&RS=PN/5,276,311
Dave Phillips' Linux Sound Updated
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1628239
[0]f-matic writes "Dave Phillips' [1]Linux Sound website has been
updated (for the first time in a while) with lots of new software links
and news from the recent [2]BYOL conference, plus links to some
interesting Linux multimedia articles. Seems like things are getting
pretty interesting in the linux audio world, with a [3]Supercollider
port in the works, not to mention February's [4]Linux article in the
prestigious Sound on Sound magazine."
Links
0. mailto:np@f-matic.net
1.
http://www.linux-sound.org/
2.
http://byol.agnula.org/main/index.php3
3.
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/articles/linuxaudio.aspBBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1530234
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is to [0]to put it's entire radio and television archive online, free for everyone, as the BBC Creative Archive." The article is a little thin on how far back these archives go, but regardless, this in a giantic amount of data, and to see it go online, and open to the public is very cool. Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm
HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/131254
-tji writes "A new company, [0]www.pchdtv.com, has just released the
first digital TV receiver card for Linux. Along with the Linux drivers,
they have also modified xine to support HD playback and add XvMC
support for MPEG2 hardware acceleration with some video cards. This has
great potential for integration into PVR apps, like [1]freevo and
[2]mythtv. There is also another [3]project to reverse engineer drivers
for the Teralogic TL880 based DTV cards. The one active developer has
done a great job, but could use some help."
Links
0.
http://www.pchdtv.com/
1.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
2.
http://www.mythtv.org/
3.
http://myhd.sourceforge.net/
Newsforge Reports
Open Asia: Open source in Afghanistan and Bangladesh
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/192235
- by Frederick Noronha - This week we begin a country-by-country survey of the availability of open source software across individual Asian countries at the top of the alphabet, with Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Let SCO hang itself
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1228211
- by Eric S. Raymond - The confrontation between SCO and the open-source community has now escalated to open war. I suppose, in retrospect, that this was inevitable once SCO announced its intention to sue on a theory that would make all open-source licenses invalid. And we all know who's lurking like Emperor Palpatine behind Darl Vader, funding his lawsuit to the tune of at least $6,000,000[1] even if not otherwise pulling his strings.
Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnish immigration http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1726241
- by David "cdlu" Graham - In his latest attempt to quell the Linux uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over $2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States, and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively punished for the un-American ways of one ...
Newsforge Newsvac
www.microsoft.com runs Linux? Up to a point ...
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1351242
Aug. 17 - On Friday Microsoft changed its DNS so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft’s own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux.
Versatility, cost spark Linux fever
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1338251
BART depends on it. So do scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From Wall Street brokerage firms to Hollywood animators, the Linux operating system, once a hobby for Microsoft foes, has evolved into a potent force in the high-tech industry.
U.S. Army Brings Internet to Saddam's Hometown http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2242231
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army opened the first unrestricted Internet access in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit Saturday in a bid to convince skeptical Iraqis their occupation will bring tangible benefits.
Dissection of the SCO Vegas presentation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1428254
Anonymous Reader writes "I would like to take a moment to bring to your attention some of the glaring problems with SCO's recent presentation in Las Vegas. Their case has always been thin and their story up until this point has been anything but straight and to the point. This is an attempt to point out some of the more obvious flaws."
Dennis Ritchie: I wrote the SCO code
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1426242
Anonymous Reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken Thompson wrote the code cited as "proof" by SCO. This seems to fit perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show, and undermine Blake Stowell's claim "At this point it's going to be his word against ours"."
WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1448237
Sure, everyone and their brother by now has noticed the striking similarity of SCOfflaw CEO Darl McBride to a certain other individual in the public relations field, generally more well-known but no less reality-challenged. But like his counterpart, "Baghdad McBride" proves himself beyond parody every time he opens his mouth, cramming both feet farther and further in, and until he eventually implodes will no doubt continue to offer up new pearls ...
Linux shows security superiority to Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1436244
Nine years ago this month, a student from the University of Helsinki in Finland released upon the world a piece of software code that would go on to revolutionize the way people think of computer software. When Linus Torvalds began working on his now famous Linux kernel in 1991, the idea of "free software" was unheard of. Today, Linux is installed on millions of PCs and is being embraced by hobbyists and professionals alike. Thanks to companies ...
IBM adds multithreading to Power 5
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1433233
Building on the technology it introduced with its Power 4 processor, IBM last week announced it will incorporate simultaneous multithreading into its upcoming 64-bit Power 5 processor. With its Power 4 chip, IBM was able to significantly improve performance by incorporating two microprocessor cores on the same dye. The Power 5 also packs two cores on a dye, but each chip will be able to handle two threads simultaneously, increasing performance ...
No purchase order required
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1225238
One of the best features of Free Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is that no purchase orders are required to test or deploy the software. You may, however, need a big fat pipe to the Internet to download some of the stuff. A quick list of some software that companies may find useful:
Editor's Note: What Is SuSE Waiting For? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/0426232
Since everyone has a theory on why SCO is doing what they are doing, I will instead talk about something else that has been weighing on my mind for the past few weeks. - SuSE.
Freshmeat
Advanced Strategic Command 1.13.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133645/
ASC is a turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle 2/3. It can be played against the computer or against other human players (either hotseat or by mail).
AutoGen 5.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133622/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 20.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133623/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple option description file, it will process configuration files, environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically.
BBStatus 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133646/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (allows you to design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and visualize various data (depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
cfv 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133649/
cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv (Simple File Verify), .csv, .crc, .md5(sfv style), md5sum, and BSD md5 checksum verification files. It also includes test-only support for .par and .par2 files. These files are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or storage of data.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133608/
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.
Cornice 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133616/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL.
CSV Utilities for Unix/Linux 20030824
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133607/
csvutils is a set of four shell (sh and bash) scripts to handle CSV files. Three are purpose-built tools to help manage file collections, but the fourth is a general-purpose script to parse CSV files.
ctrlproxy 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133651/
ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else. It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client), password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected).
CWirc 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133613/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder.
DCTC 0.85.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133624/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
DSPAM 2.6.5-beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133629/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
dvd::rip 0.50.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133638/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
Eros BBS Engine 20030824-0910-jam (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133612/
Eros is a modular, object-oriented BBS engine intended to be used as a library that builds upon proven open source software technology and W3 standards to implement and manage templates, permissions, membership, database access, etc. It is currently in heavy development, and new snapshots are released often.
fbv 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133648/
fbv is a very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console, capable of displaying GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP files using libungif, libjpeg, and libpng. The image can be shown either in fit-to-screen or panning mode in 8, 15/16, and 32bpp.
FindBugs 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133640/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
Group PHP Library 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133634/
Group PHP Library is a collection of PHP scripts to list books available for checkout. Data is held in a Postgres database. Available books can be listed by author's first or last name, by publisher, or by title.
GTK Cervi 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133650/
GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide into anything.
GTKSee 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133589/
GTKSee is a image viewer and image browser with slide show capability which aims to be an ACDSee clone.
GYR Penguins 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133598/
GYR Penguins consists of 8 penguin-related icons made with Blender3d and/or The Gimp. The Blender source files (.blend and .xcf.gz) are provided for those who would like to help.
International Ispell 3.2.06.epa6 (Unofficial 'epa') http://freshmeat.net/releases/133604/
International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix, which supports a large number of European languages (only English dictionaries are included in the source tarball). An emacs interface is available, as well as the standard command-line mode.
JESAS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133600/
JESAS is a multi-user, multi-exam simulation and authoring system. It is a tool used to assess candidate expertise in technical skills and to track candidate performance over a specified period. JESAS provides several different testing environments or modes: Learning, Mock, Adaptive, and Quick Drill. It supports more than 12 question types. It has a built-in secured database with a secured login facilty. It can easily beat the current leading Windows-only test engines, ExamGear and SelfTest, in terms of performance and functionality.
jMSN 0.5.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133627/
jMSN is an MSN client for the Linux console. It uses a BitchX-like interface, featuring multiple windows. It is written in Perl, and is not based on any existing MSN code.
JpGraph 1.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133631/
JpGraph is an OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above. Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes, spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive documentation (145 pages).
JXMLPad 1.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133625/
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
kdissert 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133626/
kdissert is an attempt to make a mindmapping-like tool to help students to write texts like dissertations, theses, and reports. It is meant to organize the ideas faster, not to actually write the documents themselves.
Linux 2.4.22-rc3 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133591/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
lyskom-server 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133602/
LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20 operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the server software itself.
MagCon 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133609/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices.
mboxgrep 0.7.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133655/
mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox and displays messages matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression. It supports mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml, and maildir folders.
Merchant of Venice 0.2 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133593/
Merchant of Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading, and experimental methods like genetic programming. It features a graphical user interface with online help and includes full documentation. It runs on UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows.
mkxvcd.sh 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133605/
mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates an PAL VCD MPEG1 stream that fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools from the mplayer and mjpegtools packages.
Mp3dings Alpha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133599/
Mp3dings is a small, powerful, and easy-to-use program that lets you to change the names and edit the meta-information of a large number of MP3 audio files at the same time.
mudsbuilder 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133647/
Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs. Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south, north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such as one-way exits.
netmap 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133621/
Netmap is a network weather map creator. It collects data from network devices using SNMP and 'prints' them on existing images creating traffic maps. It provides a Web-based interface and does not require any command-line interaction or text file editing to design the maps.
obliquid 0.6.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133644/
Obliquid is a PHP/XML framework for building groupware Web portals. It provides Lego bricks that may be composed to build an Internet application. It has multilingual support and themes. Modules include user management, calendar, news, CMS, and messaging.
pktstat 1.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133617/
pktstat listens to the network and shows the bandwidth being consumed by packets of various kinds in realtime. It understands some protocols (including FTP, HTTP, and X11) and adds a descriptive name next to the entry (e.g., 'RETR cd8.iso', 'GET http://slashdot.org/' or 'xclock -fg blue').
PMK 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133601/
PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers.
portmon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133596/
Portmon is a daemon that is able to monitor network services and send notification in the event that a server goes down. Portmon was designed to be able to monitor a large number of servers/workstations and give very configurable notification in the event of a network failure.
Ruby 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133592/
Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures.
sadlittlewebjournal 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133615/
sadlittlewebjournal is a Weblog written in Perl that utilizes PostgreSQL or MySQL and a straightforward ASCII interface. Site maintenance is done via an intuitive backend that allows one to add, delete, and modify previous entries. Other features include an integrated guestbook, a Web stat chart complete with ASCII bar graphs, and various other modularized features.
SerialBridge 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133639/
SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device. It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port on a Treo.
SkinLF 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133632/
Todays applications tend to be skinnable: cdplayers, email notifiers, even operating systems. SkinLF provides a skin system for Java programs.
Squid 3.0-PRE3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133635/
Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.
suPHP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133614/
suPHP is a combination of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and an executable which provides a wrapper for PHP. With both together, it is possible to execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owner without having to place a PHP binary in each user's cgi-bin directory. suPHP doesn't need Apache's suExec, and provides a logging function.
The Battle for Wesnoth 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133610/
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Train Scheduler for Palm Pilot 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133637/
trainsched displays train schedules in an easy-to- read format. The included converter converts the schedules from a CSV format to the PDB file format used in Palm OS.
Umix 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133595/
Umix is a program for adjusting sound card volumes and other features in sound card mixers. You can control your volumes, balances, and recording sources flexibly from the command line or with a ncurses user interface with familiar vi/emacs keybindings. Umix supports multiple mixer devices. All settings can be saved and loaded from a file.
VideoDB 2003-08-24a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133603/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
Womcat Bookmarks 2.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133597/
Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. It can output the bookmarks as an HTML page and as an RSS 2.0 file which can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps folder names into the "category" element. Womcat Bookmarks can download other RSS files, treating them as categorized bookmarks, to create a local database of web bookmarks that can be browsed by subject. It supports RSS discovery by allowing posting RSS file URL's as new items. It also acts as a basic RSS feed reader.
Workrave 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133654/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32).
Xfprot 0.23beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133633/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It was based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. Starting from version 0.20beta, it is based on the GTK+ 1.2 libraries.
xMule v2 0.1.6 (wx UI)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133611/
xMule v2 is a multi-platform file-sharing program, a fork of the original xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, has customizable user interface(s), features console and Web interfaces for local and remote controlling, and includes much more.
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Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/60e9/
Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/61f2/
Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3 http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Laser Widow
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/604c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/6270/
Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/624e/
PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6297/
Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/
Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/
Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/
Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/
Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/
Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/
Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/
Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/623c/
PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/
PC Mods: Bubble Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/620c/
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