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[osdn business] September 01, 2003
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Hacking the Actiontec 56k Modem/Gateway
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/0245257
william_lorenz writes "The [0]Actiontec Dual 56k External Modem is an inexpensive device with a built-in 56k modem and two Ethernet ports that can be used as an Internet gateway of sorts. What's great about it is that it runs some form of [1]uClinux, it's easily hackable, and Greg Boehnlein of the [2]Linux Users Group of Cleveland and [3]NOOSS fame recently contributed a [4]detailed report on his findings! Pictures of the board are also available [5]here, [6]here, and [7]here. Lots of specific details are included in [4]Greg's article, and there's been some further discussions about this on the LUGC mailing lists." Links
0.
http://www.actiontec.com/products/modems/dual_pcmodem/dpm_overview.html
1.
http://www.uclinux.org/
2.
http://www.clevelandlug.net/
3.
http://www.nooss.org/
4.
http://www.clevelandlug.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=26&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
5.
http://damin.umlcoop.net/~delink/actiontec.png
6.
http://damin.umlcoop.net/~delink/actiontec-arm.png
7.
http://damin.umlcoop.net/~delink/actiontec-jumpers.png
University Textbook Exchange Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/226208
[0]PageMap writes "With the textbook-buying season upon us, many universities and student organizations are attempting to combat the on-campus bookstore's overcharging by starting up their own grassroots book exchange efforts. The problem is the seeming lack of available web-based software to facilitate an efficient book exchange. Is there such a thing as free web-based software made for this type of use?" Links
0. mailto:briancarlson@m[ ]com ['ac.' in gap]
Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/223249
TacticalJack writes "Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders [0]surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports. It took the Segway riders two and half hours to complete the 7.6 mile endurance test. The team used six batteries, fought off 50 mph winds and battled bitter cold to reach the 6,288-foot mountain summit. All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?" Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/32548.html
Sunday Newspapers, Now With CDs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/2156241
[0]VirtualUK writes "The [1]BBC news site has a [2]story today about
The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass
that comes with its Sunday edition. They cite that one of the main
reasons is that Internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up
on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of
the CD."
Links
0.
http://newkinetics.com
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/3195727.stm
More on the Orbital Space Plane
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1853215
AP has a decent piece looking at NASA's [0]orbital space plane program,
and describing it as a sedan compared to a tractor-trailer. [1]National
polls show that public support for the space program continues to be
very strong.
Links
2003 Hugo Award Winners Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1826230
[0]securitas writes "For those that follow these sorts of things, the [1]2003 Hugo Award Winners list has been released ([2]PDF). [3]Robert Sawyer's 'Homonids' won Best Novel, fan favorite [4]Neil Gaiman won Best Novella for 'Coraline', [5]Geoffery A. Landis won Best Short Story for '[6]Falling Onto Mars', [7]Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Conversations with Dead People' won Best Short Form Dramatic Presentation and predictably '[8]The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' won Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation. You can get all the details at the [1]Torcon 2003 Hugo Awards section." Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.torcon3.org/ballots/index.html
2.
http://www.torcon3.org/ballots/HugoFirstPlaceWinners.pdf
3.
http://www.sfwriter.com/
4.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/
5.
http://powerweb.grc.nasa.gov/pvsee/publications/mars/landis.html
6.
http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/falling.html
7.
http://www.buffy.com/
8.
http://www.lordoftherings.net/Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/182228
An anonymous reader sent another piece by Marshall Brain. He continues
his examination of a [0]society where most manual labor is performed by
machines, idling a large fraction of the current workforce. See his
previous [1]piece for background.
Links
0. http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm
Software Customer Bill of Rights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1930224
Cem Kaner of Badsoftware.com has written up a [0]Software Customer Bill of Rights. Very appropriate considering our recent stories about Microsoft viruses, Dell's BIOS-clickwrap licensing agreement, etc. Links
0. http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/kaner/archives/000124.html
Aethera 1.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1655234
[0]gatch writes "theKompany.com released version 1.0 of their
cross-platform PIM suite [1]Aethera. KOrganizer is included as a
calendar and todo list component. Check out these [2]screenshots.
According to Shawn Gordon, theKompany president, 'Actually we are about
2 weeks away from having Aethera work with Kolab [groupware server] -
at least that is our sense of it at the moment.' Interesting discussion
at [3]KDE.news."
Links
0. mailto:sgatchel@psltech.com
1.
http://www.thekompany.com/projects/aethera/chlog.php3
2.
http://www.thekompany.com/projects/aethera/screenshots.php3
3.
http://dot.kde.org/1062148358/
Scientists Crack Silk's Secret
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1531231
AEton writes "Researchers at Tufts University [0]have reportedly discovered the mechanism by which spidersilk is produced. Besides the obvious use as a Kevlar substitute in bulletproof vests, silk has applications in [1]microprocessor production, [2]nanoscale optical fiber, a and any other application requiring strength and flexbility. Scientists have long grappled with the issue of creating silk; artificial silk is inferior to the real stuff, and the spiders can't be farmed (when you put them too close together, they eat each other). The method these Tufts researchers have found makes "strong silk" production feasible; if they can make it economical, the impact on safety equipment alone makes this material a worthwhile investment." Links
0.
http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/082903Silk.htm
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/03/1428243&tid=136
2.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/20/015202&tid=126
Newsforge Reports
NewsForge takes the day off
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1429255
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, NewsForge Editor in Chief - Today is Labor Day in the USA, a holiday that celebrates working people and our contributions to the nation. This holiday may have had dark beginnings, but today no it's a happy time for picnics, family gatherings, and other outdoor activities; the last gasp of summer, you might say. We'll see you tomorrow, full-strength, as we get back into the post-summer "real world" and buckle down to ...
Linus Torvalds enters race for California Governor http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1910248
- by David "cdlu" Graham - In a surprise announcement this morning, Linux creator Linus Torvalds says he will enter the race to be the governor of California.
Maintaining SCO compatibility
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1433255
NixWarrior writes "NOTE: This report hereby placed in public domain, use it as you wish, at your own risk! Obviously it is a concern to GPL software authors that they maintain compatibility with the SCO platforms, while SCO publicly abuses them, tries to get the GPL declared invalid, and while SCO profits from selling their software and integrating it into future releases of the SCO product line.
Newsforge Newsvac
Explore cosmos with free software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1410243
For love nor money, there is no cooler software anywhere on the Net than Celestia. Flitting about the universe much the way Carl Sagan did in the Cosmos series on PBS years ago, you can explore the nine planets and stars beyond. Faster than Voyager slipped into the Delta Quadrant in the Star Trek series, you can hover around suns millions of light years away.
Japan, China, Korea plan Windows replacement http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/148258
TOKYO: Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows software, Japanese media reported on Sunday.
That really computes
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/147200
A house-sized supercomputer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland can perform 12 trillion operations simultaneously. Yes, it runs Linux.
The real cost of switching to Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/140245
The jury is in. After years of experimentation with Linux in the enterprise, customers, analysts, and vendors are starting to sing a consistent tune about where Linux makes financial sense and where it doesn’t.
MS Sued for Stealing Linux-compatible Streaming Technology http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/2115242
Anonymous Reader writes "Burst.com is reported to hold numerous technology patents for 'increasing the efficiency of video and audio streaming', according to Robert Cringely. A suit is pending against Microsoft for trying to 'steal' this technology from Burst. If Microsoft successfully beats the suit, Burst's multi-platform technology (which includes Linux) could give Microsoft a significant edge in 'streaming's' future, possibly at the expense ...
When License Keys Cost More Than You Ever Imagined http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/152204
"An interesting issue has occured with a client of North County Computers and we feel its NCC's duty to warn our clients of potential legal and financial issues of buying a PC from an OEM with a Windows operating system pre-installed. Our client has ordered over 200 Dell Optiplex and Dimension systems over the last three years. Financial issues have led to layoffs at the company in recent months. One of the recent layoffs included the systems ...
EFF email & fax campaign against SCO lawsuit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1435251
Anonymous Reader writes "The SCO Group, Inc. recently announced that it plans to sue individual Linux users if they refuse to pay the company a $700 licensing fee. This is an effort designed by SCO to bolster its licensing claims against IBM and Red Hat by beating up on people who can't afford a multimillion-dollar defense. SCO hasn't proven that it has a right to collect this money at all, so its attempt to hold end-users liable is a terrible ...
No plans to sue Linux users - SCO's Red Hat defense? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1431200
Anonymous Reader writes "According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald "The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court."
The tortoise and the hare
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1449251
Linux has long been seen as the IT industry’s country cousin: good enough to drive low-end PCs and web servers but not sophisticated enough to support high-end enterprise systems. However, the open source operating system has come a long way, and a growing number of IT directors are finding a role for Linux in the back office.
Lindows: A Real Linux Desktop Alternative to Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1429216
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews hosts a third party review regarding a Windows user who tried Lindows and liked it."
Freshmeat
antinat 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134418/
Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.
BG-Rescue Linux 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134405/
BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue
system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or
from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has
full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS
mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI,
USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are
ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS
(read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1,
4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional
included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo
22.5.4, devfsd 1.3.25, bzip2, cabextract, cramfs, dosfstools, fdisk,
gpart, hdparm, loadlin, lphdisk, mdadm, pcmcia-cardmgr, smbclient,
umsdos-utils and zip/unzip. The user can choose between the US English
and German keyboard layout at boot time. It is possible to include a
startup script on the CD-ROM which starts automatically at bootup. This
system has support for automatically loading the "free for
personal use" antivirus program F-Prot from CDROM.
BibleTime 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134411/
BibleTime is a Bible study tool with versions for KDE 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x. It is based on the Sword library, which provides the functions to access modules like bibles, lexicons, books, and commentaries. BibleTime provides an easy-to-use but powerful interface.
Buildtool 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134397/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
Burp proxy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134375/
Burp proxy is an interactive HTTP/S proxy server for attacking Web-enabled applications. It operates as a man-in-the-middle between the end browser and the target Web server, and allows the attacker to intercept, inspect, and modify the raw traffic passing in both directions. Key features include text and hex editing of intercepted traffic, so even binary data can be manipulated, a full history of all requests and modifications with the ability to reissue and re-modify individual requests, automatic updating of the Content-Length header in modified messages, support for SSL/HTTPS connections, and automatic handling of chunked transfer-encoding and compressed content-encoding.
Checkbot 1.73
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134386/
Checkbot is a tool to verify links on a set of HTML pages. Checkbot can check a single document, or a set of documents on one or more servers. Checkbot creates a report which summarizes all links which caused some kind of warning or error.
Chicken 1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134424/
Chicken is a Scheme compiler that translates most of R5RS Scheme into relatively portable C. It supports fully general tail-call optimization, first-class continuations, and multiple values. Numerous extensions are available, like support for various SRFIs, record structures, hash-tables, queues, custom I/O ports, extended string operations, regular expressions, Common LISP style `format', TCP sockets, lightweight threads, pattern matching macros, syntax-case macro systen, dynamic loading of compiled code, and a simple CLOS-like object-system with MOP.
Coil 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134322/
Coil is an MVC framework for Python. It is based largely on the ideas and design of Struts and allows you to cleanly separate models, views, and controllers via an XML configuration file. A very basic login example that demonstrates the basic work flow is included.
Crikey 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134408/
Crikey is a program to generate key events under X11 on a Linux/Unix system, in order to provide a "QuickKeys"-like way to bind strings to a function key or other window manager event.
CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134380/
CUTE is a text editor, based on Qt and Scintilla, which can be easily extended using Python. Its main purpose is to be a user-friendly source code editor with a common graphical user interface.
CVSGnome 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134324/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
DansGuardian 2.7.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134399/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).
DansGuardian 2.6.1-4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134398/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).
Debt Minder 1.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134423/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files.
Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134412/
Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.
DocPile 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134374/
Docpile is a PHP-based document management system that allows multiple people to share documents and keep track of revisions. Users can upload and download documents, grant per-file, -user, or -folder access privileges, and send notification emails when documents are being updated. Administrators can create access groups, each responsible for a different set of folders and users.
Download4J 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134361/
Download4J is pure Java component (Servlet + JavaBean) that allows you
to download files. It can be integrated into any JSP/Servlet
application. You can download files from any folder, ZIP archive , or
Database (Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, etc.). You can count and set a
maximum limit for download hits, and HTTP authentication
(login/password) can be applied to each of the downloads. Configuration
is done through an XML file.
E-GADS! 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134420/
E-GADS! (Electronic Ground Search and rescue Administrative Database System) is a Web-based database that enables ground search and rescue teams to track membership, certifications, search reports, events, and training records. It is fully bilingual (English/French) and is currently based on Canadian geographic data and NSS (National Search and Rescue Secretariat) categorization codes. It is expected that the software will be adapted for other areas in the future. It requires PHP 4.x, MySQL 3.x+, MapServer, and Proj.
file2divx3pass 1.0b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134413/
file2divx3pass is a simple frontend to mencoder for converting any media-file to Divx, with features such as an automatic video bitrate calculator, an automatic bits per pixel calculator, and 1-pass, 2-pass, and 3-pass Divx encoding. It can encode any media file supported by mencoder, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, WMV, and even RM (buggy) and CUE/BIN. file2divx3pass is also equipped with batch encoding.
FreeMED 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134373/
FreeMED is a Web-based medical records and patient management system.
galculator 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134382/
galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic
mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus
precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions,
power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI),
and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number
bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases
(radiant, degree, and grad).
Generic Security Service 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134400/
Generic Security Service (GSS) is an implementation of the Generic Security Service API (GSSAPI). It is used by network applications to provide security services, such as authenticating SMTP/IMAP, via the GSSAPI SASL mechanism. It consists of a library and a manual, and a Kerberos 5 mechanism that supports mutual authentication and the DES and 3DES ciphers.
giFTcurs 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134402/
giFTcurs is the recommended frontend to giFT. It is feature rich, very fast, stable, and is being actively developed. It seems to bring out memories of lost BBS days, and it looks really good.
Glacier GTK 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134300/
Glacier GTK is a calm, simple greyscale theme inspired by Mac OS X.
gmorgan 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134416/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
gtk-acl 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134394/
gtk-acl is a GTK frontend that allow users to manage ACL permissions. ACL is a new kind of access that overrides Unix permissions to support more fine-grained permissions. You can add more users or groups to file or directory permissions.
HTML Sucks Completely 0.931
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134344/
HSC (HTML Sucks Completely) is a developer tool for HTML projects. It can be used on any HTML file and creates a new HTML file as output. In the input file, you may use an extended syntax based on HTML, which allows for things like macros, conditionals variables, expressions, etc. It is mainly intended for creating and maintaining larger HTML projects. As a commandline tool, it can be used together with make, and a dependency generator is included.
HTML2GreekTex 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134350/
html2grtex converts XML/HTML Unicode references in decimal format to a format the GreekTeX Babel package can use. Manual post-processing is necessary, but limited to some small things like numerals or Latin passages. The bulk part of Greek character references is already done.
KXParse 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134419/
KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does not require installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files.
LDAP Account Manager 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134393/
With LDAP Account Manager you can manage Unix and Samba user and group accounts in a openLDAP server. There is also an external script to manage quotas and home directories. The application is written in PHP4.
libds 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134417/
LibDS is a cross-platform library to support simple networking, threads, as well as data structures. It allows code reuse for common data structures, such as linked lists and hash tables, as well as support for complex entities such as config files.
libferris 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134331/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libferrisloki 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134327/
libferrisloki is a Loki library that has been adapted for Linux and contains extensions in Extensions.hh.
libstldb4 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134330/
libstldb4 is a C++ wrapper for the sleepycat db4 database. It uses the STL in the API where sensible, allows standard IOStreams for data access where sensible, e.g. getting the value of a key should be able to use an istream interface to allow simple partial value retreival, and moves the transaction parameter to be the last optional parameter or provides two versions of the same method for trans/nontrans. The API has been modified to use more standard types. Operator overloading is used to allow quick and dirty coding (mydb[ "key" ] = "value";) to set and cerr.
Linux 2.4.23-pre2 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134341/
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.
Local Area Security Knoppix 0.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134422/
Local Area Security Knoppix is a 'Live CD' distribution based on Knoppix but with a strong emphasis on security tools and small footprint. There are four different versions of L.A.S. Knoppix to fit three specific needs. These are a Firewall/IDS-centric version, a penetration testing/forensics version, a MiniCD-size version covering a full spectrum of tools, and a SECSERV secure mini-server that runs off CD.
Lodju 1.99.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134390/
Lodju creates indexes of digital images, such as photographs taken with a digital camera. It can also generate Web galleries of them. These indexes will help you to manage your image collection, making it easy to organize and search for images.
Look 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134360/
Look is a comms project designed to provide a call logging system for serial-based PABX systems. It reads from a standard serial port and logs all calls to a PostgreSQL database.
MailManager 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134345/
MailManager helps teams deal with large volumes of email by allocating
mail to the right person, providing tools to help answer it
(prioritisation, reply templates, and a knowledge base), and allowing
managers to set service levels for different types of mail and report
on performance against service levels and volumes received. MailManager
is based on Zope which is required to use it. It is cross-platform, but
most of the testing has been under Linux and Mac OS X.
MailScanner 4.23-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134347/
MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan, eTrust, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, BitDefender, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.
Matrix Orbital Daemon 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134377/
Matrix Orbital Daemon is a control daemon for the Matrix Orbital LCD screen that tries to give full power to the user without needlessly complex commands.
Meld 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134363/
Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy browsing, and it also features a tabbed interface that allows you to open many diffs at once.
mkxvcd.sh 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134356/
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.
mladmin 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134403/
mladmin automates some tasks of the administrators of the mailing lists managed by Mailman. For example, it can automatically discard the messages being held for approval.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134387/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Its main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Mserv 0.38 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134357/
Mserv is a jukebox-style music server designed to play MP3, Ogg, etc.
(configurable) files based on ratings of users who are logged in to the
system. It includes features such as searching, filtering, biased
random play, queuing, talking, online and off-line track editing, and a
standardised TCP protocol. This allows for a variety of interfaces
including a built-in telnet interface, a command line program for
scripting, a Perl-based Web client, and many 3rd-party GUI front ends.
mudsbuilder 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134392/
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.
NetHack 3.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134421/
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.
Newsan 0.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134353/
Newsan aims to be newsreader with a heavy bias towards binary posts. It currently features scheduling, security, multipart message support, on-the-fly image decoding, slideshow of messages, etc.
Outline Cold IceWm 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134329/
Outline Cold IceWm is a clone of the Outline Cold Metacity theme.
Pam_mount 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134339/
The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB
(Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login,
using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even
be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically
unmounted on logout.
PgMarket 2.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134388/
PgMarket is an e-commerce solution built with PHP4 and PostgreSQL/MySQL. It features internationalization support, image and thumbnail handling, per-user and product discounts, delivery price calculation, order status management, elementary and advanced search, sorting of products and categories, comfortable category browsers, easy online and offline population of the catalog, importing of data from text files, and other useful features. Many features can be disabled through configuration parameters. A demo site is included.
PHP Layers Menu 3.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134383/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among items on a Web page. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for pages with a very large number of entries. Its behavior is analogous to the GNOME, KDE, and MS Windows main menus. It also provides JavaScript-based Tree Menus whose look and behavior is analogous to the most commonly used file managers and to the Mozilla bookmarks management tool. Menus are dynamically generated using data retrieved from files, strings, and databases. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4, 6, and 7, Konqueror, Opera 5, 6, and 7, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides accessibility solutions for browsers that don't support JavaScript.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134342/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
phpSavant 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134316/
Savant is a PEAR-compliant template system for PHP. It is non-compiling, and uses PHP itself as its template language so you don't need to learn a new markup system. It accepts variables for parsing by a PHP-based template script via assign() methods (you can assign references and objects as well), allows you to display() and fetch() template scripts, and has a plugin system so you can call convenience methods from within your template scripts using $this->plugin().
phpwebtools 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134369/
phpwebtools is a full-featured Web toolkit, containing classes to aid in the development of Web-based applications using standard windowing conventions (such as the GTK notebook) and wrappers and tools for other commonly-used PHP functions.
PingoS Tipptrainer 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134349/
PingoS Tipptrainer is a touch typing trainer that supports German and English keyboard layouts.
PortaBase 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134415/
PortaBase is a database program for creating, browsing, and editing single-table data files. Originally developed for the Sharp Zaurus PDAs, it can also be run as a Linux, Unix, and Windows application. Notable features include an ability to change the columns at any time, views of column subsets, multi-column sorting, multi-condition filtering, CSV import and export, XML import and export, and column summary statistics. Typical uses are media inventories, reference charts, shopping lists, TODO lists, etc.
ps-watcher 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134404/
ps-watcher periodically a gets a list of process names via ps. A configuration file specifies a list of Perl regular-expression patterns to match the processes against. For each match, a Perl expression specified for that pattern is evaluated. The evaluated expression can refer to variables which are set by ps and pertain to the matched process(es), including the amount memory consumed by the process, or the total elapsed time. If the Perl expression for a matched pattern evaluates true, then an action can be run such as killing the program, restarting it, or mailing an alert.
PTlink IRCd 6.15.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134376/
The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd. It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.
Python IRC library 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134371/
The Python IRC library is intended to encapsulate the IRC protocol at a quite low level. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP, and DCC connections.
Reverse Utils::TCP-over-HTTP/CGI 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134401/
Reverse Utils::TCP-over-HTTP/CGI is useful for connecting to hosts which are reachable by a Webserver you have access to, but not reachable by you. It allows you to use any host you have Web and CGI access to as a proxy for TCP connections.
ROCK Linux 2.0.0-rc1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134343/
ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit for creating Linux distributions. You can easily design and build your own distribution by choosing packages, compilers, and optimization options, and optionally enable the GCC Stack-Smashing Protector for enhanced security. It is also possible to choose custom configure options, cross-compile, and much more. Many specialized targets (customized distributions) have already been created, such as a Desktop, Router, or Minimal distribution. A variety of architectures are supported.
Roster 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134328/
Roster is a PHP/mySQL application that manages a team's roster, chain of command and battles. It manages awards, ranks, units, bio infomation, statistics, and much more for each member of your team. It has a protected administrative interface with an extensible permission system for delegation of tasks, and also supports the management and scheduling of battles and multi-battles via the Battle Center. Roster fully supports the tracking NetBattleTech league battles and can be configured to support a subset of battle properties for other leagues or just ad-hoc matches. Its Battle Center will also track tactical and statistical data for your opponents and maps. The look and feel of almost all aspects can be changed via a CSS file and Smarty templates.
rsnapshot 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134325/
rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. It makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. It uses hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required.
Runtime Java Class Editor Alpha 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134336/
RJCE enables the editing of any method at runtime, applying the changes
to any combination of objects, such as an array, or a complete class.
It consists of a compiler (javaprec) and an IDE Runtime Object Modifier
(ROM). javaprec is used to compile programs, enabling runtime editing.
It uses both sun.tools.javac and ANLTR for compilation. ROM is a JFrame
used for editing methods, browsing classes, and viewing variables at
runtime. It also includes an interpreter that runs Java scripts (which
circumvent normal language access control) and is run from within any
Java program.
Shishi 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134365/
Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of Kerberos 5, which can be used to authenticate users in distributed systems. It contains a library that can be used by application developers, and a command line utility for users. Shishi supports Kerberos authenticated telnet client/server, IMAP client/server (via GSSAPI), SSH client/server (via GSSAPI), rsh/rlogin client, and a PAM module for host security.