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[osdn business] August 29, 2003
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Slashdot
Four Core Processor to Bring Tera Ops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0138205
panhandler writes "As reported at [0]CNet and the [1]Austin American
Statesman, researchers at UT are working with IBM on a new CPU
architecture called TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive
Processing System). According to IBM, 'at the heart of the TRIPS
architecture is a new concept called 'block-oriented execution"' which
will result in a processor capable of executing more than 1 trillion
operations per second."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5068435.html
SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0416253
cadfael writes "SCO is reported in [0]the Age as saying they '[1]Have
no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict [2]the
earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how
Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux
Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat
Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become
clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of
this mess.
Links
0.
http://www.theage.com.au/
1.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html
2.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-1017267.htmlComputer Game Improves Children's Hearing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/019241
[0]wiredbeat2000 writes "The BBC is running a story that claims
[1]children who play video games increase their hearing skills. There
have been several studies over the last few months extolling the
virtues of games and education. For example, Wired News ran a [2]
roundup of college programs, and USA Today published a recent story on
[3]Daphne Bavelier's findings that playing games could help children
develop hand-eye coordination, in addition to Professor James Gee's
Slashdot-covered [4]video transcript and [5]article on 'games that
teach'." Things have come a long way since the time when schoolkids
were dumped in front of a computer and left to play Oregon Trail.
Links
0.
http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3186243.stm
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html
3.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-08-04-video-games_x.htm
4.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/0519230&tid=127
5.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0548255&tid=127
Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0052217
An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the recent spate of
reverse engineering articles, there is an [0]interesting summary of the
reverse engineering of a binary only Linux driver. The driver is for
the integrated MPEG decoder on VIA's popular EPIA-M boards. At the
moment VIA has not publicly released the source code for the MPEG
chipset on these boards and will only make the code available under NDA
saying that "Typically, only requests from companies developing product
for sale will be approved." As a result this is holding back
development of open source tools (e.g. [1]xine, [2]mplayer, [3]vdr)
that would be able to make use of the interesting hardware on these
boards."
Links
0.
http://www.ivor.it/cle266/guide.html
1.
http://xinehq.de/
2.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
3.
http://www.linuxtv.org/Blocker Tags to Protect Privacy From RFID Tags http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2226204
geekee writes "According to an article at [0]CNET, [1]RSA Security is
[2]developing a 'blocker' tag that disrupts RFID tag transmissions,
protecting a person's privacy from those who would abuse RFID
technology. The blocker tag would be embedded in your watch, for
instance. This method has an advantage over destroying the RFID tags
after purchase because useful information on the tag could help
consumers (e.g. laundry instructions)." According to the RSA scientist
quoted in the article, privacy concerns regarding RFID have been
overblown, but it's still worth being proactive when finding ways to
defeat the tags.
Links
0.
http://www.news.com/
1.
http://www.rsasecurity.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5068910.html?tag=fd_topMirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2143208
Today's installment is a lengthy (but hopefully informative) piece on
mirroring controllers. Ever had weird problems with a FastTrack TX2000?
Are you curious how well HighPoints RocketRAID boards are really
supported? Ever wondered which controller gives you the best
performance for every dollar spent? In true Slashdot tradition, we're
taking the issue and throwing it out to you, the readers.
[0]Futurepower(R) is willing to start us off with a wealth of
information on his experiences, and I'm hoping a few of you are willing
to do the same.
Links
0. mailto:futurepower@NOTTHISmyrealbox.com
SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2149254
An anonymous reader writes "The SCO-IBM-Linux controversy has certainly caused quite a stir. Unfortunately the vigilantes conducting the DOS attacks against SCO are [0]harming innocent by-standers as described in this e-Week story. " Choice conspiracy theory quote: 'Given SCO's behavior recently, it's just as likely that they're attacking themselves in their continued attempt to pump up their stock price' Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1233231,00.asp
Auerbach on Internet Cruft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/171248
Captain Beefheart writes "[0]Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, [1]I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us." Links
0. http://www.circleid.com/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=29
DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832215
Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that
[0]drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are [1]battering
many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't
going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&tid=111
IBM Releases Compiler for Power4 and G5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1746213
[0]davids-world.com writes "IBM offers its optimized XLC compiler not
just for Intel CPUs, but also for its own G5 processor (article in
German at [1]Heise). Unlike gcc, it is optimized for the G5 and
achieves a major boost in speed, as first [2]results show. I guess we
will have to compare the new benchmark data (once available) with the
data we get with the optimized Intel compiler for Xeon. The compiler is
available for [3]download now."
Links
0.
http://www.davids-welt.de
1.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/as-28.08.03-000/
2.
http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP7/Presentations/Blainey-SciComp7_compiler_update.pdf
3.
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ccompilers/
Newsforge Reports
IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2349207
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM soon will announce that it is making available for free download a new version of Eclipse, its open-source development platform, for the Java-based Jikes Research Virtual Machine. All previous versions of Eclipse have been released for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and several versions of Windows.
Sun publishes new hardware compatibility list for Solaris 9 x86 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1830226
- by Chris Preimesberger - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems announced today that it has posted a new hardware compatibility list for its lower-end Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition operating system and has populated it with 100 new third-party systems and 100 components.
SCO: Inside the hurricane
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2323256
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols with additional reporting by Joe Barr Between hate mail from open source supporters and love notes from investors, life isn't easy inside SCO. There have been more hated technology companies; IBM and Microsoft immediately come to mind. But they weren't pounded earlier this week by a successful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack despite the efforts of open source leaders like Eric Raymond to stop it. And no ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Blocking Kazaa traffic with Linux/IPTables firewal,
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2320207
Chris Lowth writes "The "p2pwall" project has developed a GPL add-in for iptables based firewalls that allows blocking of traffic to and from "Fast-Track" software such as "Kazaa", Kazaa-lite, iMesh and grokster. The software is designed for use in "permissive" firewall configurations where home-net hosts are permitted more or less unlimited access to the public internet, but are protected from in-bound connections. Ftwall adds logic to such ...
Linux Moves Behind the Screen
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2032231
Linux, the fast growing and freely available operating system, looks like the software of choice for future televisions, set-top boxes and DVD recorders, consumer electronics executives and specialists said.
IBM Doubles Its Linux Reward
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1913236
IBM is upping the incentives to partners who sell Linux solutions. Last month, the company rolled out a program dubbed "Double Your Discount with Linux" as part of its Value Advantage Plus Initiative for ISVs and VARs. Participants in the program are now eligible for up to a 60 percent discount on IBM software (double the existing resales incentive) when they use that software to create Linux-based solutions for midsize companies. The program ...
Linux to make consumer-electronics buzz
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/198245
Linux, the fast-growing and freely available operating system, is set to be the software of choice for future televisions, set top boxes and DVD recorders, according to consumer-electronics executives and specialists on Thursday.
Of monkeys and penguins
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1840256
SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced "skoh", as in Scopes. Indeed "the SCO case" of 2003 sounds increasingly like the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted religious fundamentalists against progressives wanting to teach Darwin alongside the Bible in American classrooms.
Microsoft 'hiding behind Linux'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832247
gulker writes "ZDNet UK says that even Microsoft can't defend itself from massive DDoS and other problems resulting from security flaws its own products without relying on Linux - in the form of Akamai's distributed serving system."
Why use CIFS with Linux? Why not?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1824245
Michael S. Mimoso writes "In this interview, Samba Team member Chris Hertel explains the benefits and limitations of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) for an enterprise Linux shop."
Linux, Mac OS added to Federal Enterprise Architecture platforms http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1739230
The Office of Management and Budget added Linux and Mac OS to the list of supporting platforms under the Technical Reference Model of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
Get a free UML poster and CD from Rational http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1659258
Anonymous Reader writes "Learn how the Unified Modeling Language can help you build better software faster. This wall poster from IBM Rational is an eye-catching, instant reference guide to UML notation, with handy tips, techniques, and reminders of the most commonly used UML rules and guidelines. The IBM Rational software UML CD includes a tutorial on model-driven development with the UML. It's an excellent way to introduce yourself--and your ...
SGI cuts another 600 jobs to help reduce costs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1758258
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) will cut another 600 jobs as part of its effort to cut costs and focus on products that show the most potential, the company said Wednesday. The layoffs bring the total number of cuts at the Mountain View, California, high-end computer company this year to 1,000. Total headcount at the company has been reduced by about 25 percent over a two-quarter period, SGI said in a statement.
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134118/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports recording user actions into a script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
Abeni 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134119/
Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython. It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool for syntax checking.
Advanced Web Ranking 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134079/
Advanced Web Ranking is a tool that will help you check your Web site position on all major search engines. It saves you hours of tedious work while monitoring your Web site's search engine position. It generates tabular and graphical reports that will help you check not just the position of your Web site, but the position of your competitors' Web sites as well.
Alambic 0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134081/
Alambic is an enterprise class solution for creating and distributing PDF documents in the home or corporate environment. Implemented as a CUPS backend, it is able to generate PDF documents and make them available by email or HTTP. It can use any PostScript to PDF converter, though Ghostscript is the converter of choice used during development. Alambic is free, but requires a license to operate.
Angry Sheriff 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134100/
Angry Sheriff is shell script that runs on UNIX and Linux computers. It downloads and processes realestate foreclosures in NJ (Sheriff's sales in New Jersey). It can be customized to work with any other region if an appropriate Web site (that publishes sheriff's sales legal advts) is known.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.21 PRE 2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134057/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
AnnotateIt! 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134101/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an assignments calendar.
b2evolution 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133641/
b2evolution is a classy news and Weblog tool that runs on almost any Web hosting service that has PHP and MySQL. It features an integrated XHTML validator, supports recursive subcategories and cross posting, and has an integrated skinning system.
Binc IMAP 1.2.0-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134132/
Binc IMAP is a modular IMAP4rev1 server for Maildir. It strives to be stable, fast, flexible, and RFC compliant. It is designed to be familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and it is very easy to set up.
Blassic 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134109/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.
Bugloo 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134102/
Bugloo is a source level debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo. It aims at helping to debug Bigloo programs compiled into JVM bytecode. It is implemented by means of the JVM Debugging Architecture, a set of standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers and profilers. Currently, Bugloo can debug Bigloo programs, Java programs, or a mix of both. It is based on the debugging model used in GDB and provides additional features like debug sessions, traces, memory debugging, programmable breakpoints and embeddable interpreters. It is a command-line debugger. For the sake of simplicity, it includes a graphical user environment for GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
cacti 0.8.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134147/
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
Cantus 1.99.5-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134047/
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.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134096/
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.
cx_Freeze 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134030/
cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables in a cross platform way, using many of the techniques found in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer, and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself.
Distributed Hardware Evolution 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134075/
This project allows the distribution of a genetic algorithm evolving hardware designs across the Internet by setting up an island on each clients' PC which will evolve during idle time. Individuals from these islands will migrate between each other as they compete for survival. All source code is available and is generalizable to any GA or distributed processing task.
Doulos Web Application Framework 0.1 Beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/134026/
Doulos is a framework for rapidly developing object-oriented Web applications in PHP using the Model View Controller (MVC) paradigm. It elegantly reduces the total code that needs to be written to create an application, manages and validates form data, encapsulates SQL databases, and more.
Evolvica 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134068/
Evolvica is an evolutionary computation framework written in Java. The aim of the project is to provide a toolkit that enables developers to create genetic/evolutionary algorithms with minimal programming effort. The toolkit has a modular architecture and is highly extensible. It includes a visual algorithm editor, a source code editor, and a debugger.
fix-mime-charset 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134086/
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.
floppyfw 2.0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134049/
floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on the floppy.
GAUL 0.1846
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134050/
The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) is a programming library for evolutionary algorithms. Both steady-state and generation-based evolution is supported, together with the island model. GAUL supports the Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Baldwininan evolutionary schemes. Standard mutation, crossover, and selection operators are provided, while code hooks additionally allow custom operators. It provides data structures and functions for handling and manipulation of the data required for a genetic algorithm. Additional stochastic algorithms are provided for comparison to the genetic algorithms. Much of the functionality is also available through a simple S-Lang interface.
GKrellM Dell Plugin 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134071/
i8krellm is a GKrellM plugin to control the fans on Dell Inspiron/Latitude notebook computers. It requires the Linux kernel module and i8kutils package found at http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/. It displays the current CPU temperature, mode indicator, and two animated fans. Temperature triggers can be set to cycle the fans off, low, or high speed.
gPhoto 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134060/
gphoto2 is a command line application which enables you to transfer digital photos from almost any serial-port or USB digital camera. It uses the programming interface provided by libgphoto2.
Grammatica 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134056/
Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It improves upon similar tools (like yacc and ANTLR) by creating well-commented and readable source code, by having automatic error recovery and detailed error messages, and by support for testing and debugging grammars without generating source code. Grammatica supports LL(k) grammars with an unlimited number of look-ahead tokens.
GTetrinet 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134144/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
Helma Object Publisher 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134083/
Helma (also called Hop, for Helma object publisher) is a scriptable web application server written in Java. It lets you define object prototypes and map them to relational database tables. These so-called HopObjects can be created, modified, and deleted using a comfortable object/container model. Hence, no manual fiddling around with database code is necessary. HopObjects are extended JavaScript objects which can be scripted using server-side JavaScript. Beyond the common JavaScript features, Helma provides comfortable skinning and templating functionalities which facilitate the rendering of objects via a web interface. It's also possible to use the skin-and-macro layer separately from the persistence layer, providing a nice scriptable presentation layer to arbitrary Java object models.
iftop 0.14pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134111/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.
ImageroReader 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134062/
ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.
Jaffm 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134069/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
jclasslib bytecode viewer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134055/
jclasslib bytecode viewer is a tool that visualizes all aspects of compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode. In addition, it contains a library that enables developers to read, modify, and write Java class files and bytecode.
JD4X 2003-08-27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134008/
JD4X (Java Desktop for X Window) is a completely Java-based desktop for X Window users running Linux. It is aimed at Java users and developers who desire a truly Java friendly desktop.
JHDL 0.3.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134122/
JHDL is a set of FPGA CAD tools which allows the user to design the structure and layout of a circuit, debug the circuit in simulation, netlist, and interface with backend tools for synthesis, etc. It is an exploratory attempt to identify the key features and functionality of good FPGA tools.
JOGI 0.0.1EA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134006/
JOGI is a Java interface for the OpenGroupware.org project. Starting out with a wrapper for the OpenGroupware.orgs XML-RPC interface, this is bound to become the standard means for Java code to access OpenGroupware.orgs functionality.
KDirStat 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134087/
KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for direcory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically. It is network transparent (i.e., you can use it to sum up FTP servers), and comes with predefined and user configurable cleanup actions. You can directly open a directory branch in Konqueror or the shell of your choice, compress it to a .tar.bz2 archive, or define your own cleanup actions.
Key Netplug 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134133/
Netplug is a Linux daemon that manages network interfaces in response to network cables being plugged in and out. If you're familiar with Windows XP, which just does the Right Thing when you plug an ethernet cable into a laptop, netplug will need no further explanation. Basically, netplug brings up an interface and runs a DHCP client when a cable is plugged into that interface, and it brings the interface down when the cable is unplugged. On a typical Linux system or laptop, you have to run a command (such as "/sbin/ifup") manually to handle these events, but netplug automates this for you.
KGuitar 0.4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134116/
KGuitar is a guitarist suite for KDE. It's based on MIDI concepts and includes tabulature editor, chord construction helpers, and importing and exporting song formats.
Koncert 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134089/
Koncert is a clone of an old C64 arcade game (Rootin Tootin), written for KDE/Qt. It's part of the K64 project.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-08-28 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134146/
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.
libgphoto 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134059/
libgphoto2 is a user space library which provides applications with camera independent access to almost 300 digital cameras. It contains more than 30 drivers to complement the drivers in your operating system kernel.
Linux 2.4.23-pre1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134058/
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.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 2.6 (CD distribution) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134051/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking.
logintop10 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134103/
LoginTop10 creates several "Top 10" lists from wtmp (usally in /var/log/) statistics. Lists include login frequency, login duration, busiest day of the week, busiest day of the month, and busiest month. It outputs a formatted HTML file.
masterplan 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134066/
masterplan is an EBNF parser generator that allows you to swiftly create to-XML convertors for arbitrarily-structured data. Several examples are provided, including Cobol and pl-sql.
Metadot Portal Server 5.6.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134094/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building portal software. It features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard 'My News Pages' like My Yahoo!'s. It is used by NASA, Berkeley, Schlumberger, MIT, and other leading organizations.
Moosic 1.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134117/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.10.1 for Linux 2.4.22 (Linux 2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134097/
MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration. In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.
MoviX 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134099/
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX.
Naken Chat 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134070/
Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded (like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging, squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32.
Natural Docs 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134088/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
Nicotine 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134107/
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.
PalmFontConv 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134078/
PalmFontConv is a collection of command-line utilities to manipulate Palm fonts in both v1 and v2 formats. Currently, there is a converter that converts between afnx, nfnt (low, high, or both densities), NFNT, and text editable formats, and another converter that converts Type 1/TrueType/BDF/PCF and other formats supported by FreeType2 into the text editable format. Eventually, there will be support for anti-aliased fonts too.
pam_smb 2.0.0-rc5 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134065/
pam_smb is a module which allows Linux users to be authenticated from Samba, NT or Windows 95/8 machines.
pam_smb 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134064/
pam_smb is a module which allows Linux users to be authenticated from Samba, NT or Windows 95/8 machines.
Perl Archive Toolkit 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134021/
PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. It can turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables, build and use PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts, turn CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions, or install/uninstall/sign/verify PAR distributions.
PHP Photogallery 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134093/
PHP Photogallery is a simple, easy-to-use photo gallery for your Web site. There is a separate thumbnail view. In the full-size view there are links for next/previous image. This photogallery also supports a simple text-file database for descriptions of images.
phpFriendlyAdmin 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134042/
phpFriendlyAdmin is a remote database management package made specifically for Web developers who want to ease an audience into the world of content management. It features support for 10 major databases (including MySQL), user management, and plugins for additional backend tasks.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134053/
phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP user database, but also has EZMLM and QmailLDAP/Controls management ability.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134108/
QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Quick Spam Filter 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134145/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam.
QuickFIX 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134115/
QuickFIX is a C++, Java, and .NET FIX (Financial Information eXchange) engine, helping financial institutions easily integrate with each other.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134129/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
Recovery Is Possible! 6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134105/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.
Redland RDF library 0.9.13 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134104/
Redland is a library providing high-level APIs for RDF (Resource Description Framework), allowing it to be stored, parsed, queried, and manipulated. Redland has an object-based, modular design and comes with detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs are provided in C, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Tcl.
semv 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134072/
semv is a tool for setting and viewing SVR4 semaphores. It is a little smarter than ipcs and is useful for debugging.
Sluice 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134090/
Sluice is a workflow engine Jabber component. Its goal is to allow users to create and configure an automated workflow or business process with ease. The clients should be very simple with all the work being done on the server/component end. The main component and modules are done in perl. The Web client is done in PHP.
Space Hulk 1.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134077/
Space Hulk is a board game which takes place in the world of Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player plays the 'Marine', and the other player plays the alien called 'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network, either in real time or asynchronously via email.
sscript 20030828
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134082/
SScript is an object oriented scripting language with weak typing. It's written in C++ and uses bytecode pre-compilation for speeder execution and cheaper memory costs. Its syntax is somewhat inspired from those found in Java or ADA. It has support for virtual functions, polymorphism, interfaces, exceptions, and more. As Java does, it also provides a garbage collector. One of the goals of this project is to provide a way for real time strategy games to separate the AI and game logic from the interface.
SWISH++ 5.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134048/
SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters, user-selectable stemming, and more.
Tonto 1.44 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133997/
Tonto is a developer-oriented companion to the popular Pronto line of programmable remotes made by Philips. Tonto provides both an IDE GUI and a Java API for editing CCF files.
UNFS3 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134110/
UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification. It is designed to be portable to different operating systems, with built-in Linux and Solaris support.
WCG 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134073/
WCG (Web Chess Game) is a Web-based chess game written in PHP. Text files are used for storing data and the installation is very easy.