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[osdn business] September 03, 2003
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Halley's Comet Imaged As Transneptunian Object
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0050245
An anonymous reader writes "The European Space Observatory has
[0]imaged Halley's Comet at the farthest point (past Neptune) in which
such a 10-kilometer diameter iceball has ever been observed. To image a
comet as a raven-black object, without its bright [1]dust tail (coma),
is equivalent to seeing a lump of coal at the distance between the
Earth's poles and to do so in the evening twilight. The last gasp seen
from [2]Halley's Comet was 1991, when a [3]gigantic explosion happened,
providing it with an expanding, extensive cloud of dust for several
months. It is not known whether this event was caused by a collision
with an unknown piece of rock or by internal processes (a last 'sigh'
on the way out). Halley has an orbital period just over 76 years and
will return in 2062."
Links
0.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article579.html
1.
http://www.astronomysight.com/as/images/halley.gif
2.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/picsol/halleynuc.jpg
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2153650.stmReinventing The Transistor For Molecular Computing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0059232
unnique writes "MIT's [0] Technology Review, has an article on HP's research into finding [1]a new way to make transistors smaller, and further stretching Moore's law." The article has some nice illustrations of the nano-componentry they're working on, too. Links
Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0044242
[0]MikeCapone writes "According to an [1]article at Wired News,
spammers feel the need to be part of a community too. [2]The Bulk Club
is one such community. A [3]message on the site states that it offers,
for a $20 monthly fee, a variety of how-to articles, spamming software,
a members' message board area, and 300,000 FRESH e-mails/week.
Unsurprisingly, the 'Law & Ethics' section is 'Members Only.' The good
part is that, because of a glitch, the membership list of this charming
organization was left exposed on the website."
Links
0.
http://www.MusiqueMachine.com
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60224,00.html
2.
http://www.thebulkclub.com/
3.
http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp
How Do You Organize Your Data?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2321248
[0]kpellegr asks: "After returning from a well deserved holiday, I was
faced with an exploding inbox. While organizing and deleting my mail, I
realised I was having trouble classifying each mail into one specific
folder. I had the feeling I should be able to link to one email from
several folders (e.g. product information should be linked to from the
'vendor' folder, as well as from a specific project folder where this
product is used). The more I thought about this, the more I realised
that trees (such as the Windows filesystems) are not really ideally
suited for organizing data. On UNIX-like filesystems, symbolic links
allow the creation of simple graphs for organising data, but I have the
feeling data could be organized more efficiently. How does the Slashdot
crowd organize their data? How do you manage files, email, contacts,
meetings and all the relationships that might exist between them?"
Links
0. mailto:koen...pellegrims@@@telindus...be
Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2316205
[0]prostoalex writes "The overhyped fuel cells will finally be
delivered to the portable computing market. [1]Toshiba and NEC will
incorporate fuel cells into the laptops by 2004. Sony, Hitachi and
Casio are expected to follow the suit. The tests show a fuel cell
lasting 10 hours. With the form-factor of a Bic lighter, it allows the
laptop user to carry a few extra cells in the laptop bag all the time.
Battery prices are expected to run at about $200."
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2257253
[0]uninet writes "Our [1]last consideration of Mandrake Linux was early
this year when my colleague Eduardo Sanchez thoroughly reviewed
Mandrake 9.0. In that review, Sanchez noted the numerous advances made
in 9.0, but also reported some serious flaws that somewhat limited his
enthusiasm. With that considered, we were anxious to find out if 9.1
could again return Mandrake to the amazing quality achieved in release
8.2. [2]See what we found (including a look at features exclusive to
the ProSuite edition)."
Links
0.
http://www.ofb.biz
1.
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=189
2.
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=262The Business Case for Reusable Launch Vehicles http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2150207
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the failures of "shuttle
replacements" like [0]VentureStar? A [1]Space Review article argues
that even if VentureStar succeeded technically, it and other proposed
big RLVs would never have made it financially: they cost too much to
develop and wouldn't have made it up through increased launches. What's
the solution? The author says that suborbital RLVs, like what
[2]Carmack, [3]Rutan, and the other [4]X Prize contenders are working
on, will create a business cycle that will eventually lead to orbital
vehicles."
Links
0.
http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/rlvs/venturestar_sum.shtml
1.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/44/1
2.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
3.
http://www.scaled.com/
4.
http://www.xprize.org/
Games and the 'Geek Stereotype'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2056213
ChinoH81 writes "Video games are never going to be as popular as films
or music unless the people who make them [0]concentrate on making them
fun, says a leading game expert."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3197911.stm
Current Thoughts in String Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1918210
DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running a nice little synopsis of
the [0]current ideas in string theory. Apparently, there is still quite
a bit of disagreement about how to interpret the various theories, with
some string theorists supporting a semi-deterministic worldview a la
Einstein (God does not play dice), while others believe our universe is
just one possibility among many, with respect to various physical
parameters."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/science/space/02STRI.html
Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1849210
[0]bryan writes "Only a few weeks after cameras were found to be
ineffective in catching criminals in Tampa, FL, a test of a
facial-recognition system in Boston's Logan airport also [1]came up
disappointing. The cameras which were given photos of employees to
detect, were only successful in 153 out of 249 random tests over the
past year (about 61%). The article did not say how many false positives
the tests generated. The companies involved were Indentix and Visage."
Links
0. mailto:bryan_jj@hotmail.com
Newsforge Reports
Top 10 things to do with your SCO Linux invoice
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1918229
- by Joe Barr - The SCO Group has reportedly started invoicing commercial users of Linux, claiming the money is owed to them due to their unproven claims that Linux contains their IP. Given that their public attempts to substantiate these claims have been proven false, you may be wondering what you should do if you receive such an invoice. Wonder no more. As a public service for the Linux community, we at NewsForge have put our heads together ...
Open Asia: Open source in Burma, Cambodia, and China http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/1648256
- by Frederick Noronha - We continue our country-by-country survey of the availability of open source software across Asian countries with a look at developments in Burma (also known as Myanmar), Cambodia, and China.
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 ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Asian triad in deal to replace Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2049219
Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to codevelop an open-source operating system to replace Microsoft Windows, according to a Japanese news report.
Vector Capital completes Corel purchase
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1913229
The struggling applications software vendor has been acquired by Vector Capital Group for US$1.05 per share.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.95 AS Beta Preview http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1819234
Anonymous Reader writes "Red Hat released the beta for their upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) line recently (v2.95, Taroon) and OSNews sports a preview of this "high-end" Linux version of Red Hat. The article mentions the extra features you can find on this Enterprise version (e.g. the inclusion of the Eclipse IDE, Tomcat etc) and how it compares to its previous version."
MontaVista Linux at Core of Volvo Public Transport http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1817222
Annette Oevermann writes "SUNNYVALE, Calif., and GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Sept. 2, 2003 -- MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, and Volvo Mobility Systems, a telematics unit within the Volvo Group [Nasdaq:VOLVY; Other OTC: VOLVF.PK and VOLAFK.PK], tod ay announced that Volvo is using MontaVista® Linux® on its ITS4mobility product, an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) for public transportation organizations that ...
Cringely: Stupid Microsoft Tricks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1739227
tjhanson writes "Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat." Presented with this charge in court, Microsoft's attorneys acknowledged that the message gaps existed. The messages had been erased by the half-dozen Microsoft employees involved, both from their PCs and from the mail servers. There were no backup copies. The reason for this mass erasure, it was explained, is that Burst technology was unimpressive and not of interest to ...
SkyOS GUI Design Contest Underway
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1734207
Hexydes writes "The official SkyOS GUI ReDesign Contest is underway. Designers have been submitting their ideas for the past 12 days, and currently there are 29 different submissions. Open community voting will begin on September 9th to chip the entries down to 3, and a second round consisting of designers, coders, and community votes will decide on a winner. The winning design, along with OpenGL support for the graphics layer, will be ...
Moving To Linux: Kissing the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye by Marcel Gagn http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1730222
Anonymous Reader writes "Some time ago, I reviewed another excellent book by Marcel Gagne. His Linux System Administration was the best book I had read for someone technically inclined (ie. the curious and willing to learn) to get Linux up and running and then be able to do some interesting things with it."
Economist: Offshore IT Outsourcing Should Boost U.S. Economy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1612255
gulker writes "Politicians and labor leaders looking to block the export of IT jobs to low-wage countries such as India are 'the last surviving members of the flat earth society,' says the chief economist of a Big Five consulting firm that offers offshore outsourcing services."
Linux in the Enterprise: Now What?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/143202
Linux, the scarcely decade-old open-source operating system, looks to have reached a sort of critical mass and has entered into an awfully busy period in its development. There's a major kernel update around the corner, an audacious licensing challenge with which to contend, and a rush by virtually every major enterprise IT vendor not located at 1 Microsoft Way to jump on the Linux bandwagon or help take up the reins and drive its development.
NewsNow says software patents will damage the European economy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1523253
The future of thousands of innovative IT companies is under threat. Even NewsNow may not be entirely immune.
Freshmeat
acpi4asus 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134662/
acpi4asus is a Linux kernel module and user-space daemon that handles special keys, LEDs, and extra ACPI features found on Asus laptops. It has been reported to work on Asus A1X/D1/L1X/L2X/L3X/M2X/S1X, but other models should also be supported.
Ammerum 0.5-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134615/
Ammerum is a PHP and MySQL based forum similar to the popular German newsticker "Heise Online". Neither cookie nor frames support is needed. It is fully CSS themeable but still works in any browser (even in those without CSS support) including text browsers. It features good quoting support.
Ampoliros 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134574/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.
Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134603/
Anthill Pro is a build management server for the enterprise. It makes the build and release process easy and efficient. Your entire team can be greeted each morning with build reports from the overnight build. The QA team can review the automated test runs, the development team can start using the new build artifacts, the documentation team can review the revision log listing newly implemented features, and the management team can measure progress more readily. It supports many reposistory adapters, including CVS, Visual Source Safe, Perforce, Clearcase, PVCS, StarTeam, MKSIntegrity, and FileSystem.
Apache Toolbox 1.5.67
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134601/
Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache (IPv4/6) SSL, PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support. It is fully customizable and menu-driven. Everything is compiled from source, and wget is used to download any missing modules. It can also check for RPMs that might cause problems and create an RPM with your selections.
Argus Monitoring System 20030902 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134624/
Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.
Astaro Security Linux 4.012 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134572/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
Bauk 1.83 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134575/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, virtual host aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility, and much more.
Bibkeeper 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134635/
Bibkeeper is a Java graphical interface for working with BibTeX (.bib) databases. The intention is to provide a user-friendly tool for accessing and editing your bibliographical databases.
Binc IMAP 1.2.1-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134629/
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.
C-Arbre 0.6 PR2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134611/
C-Arbre is an integrated Web software suite. Some of its key features include a CMS, work flow processing, handling of collaborative work and editions, templates engineering, support for DocBook XML and Wiki style, online documents redaction, a search engine with indexing, a Webmail client, a cache system, groupware tools (calendar and Webmail), and internationalization and localization of the interface.
CalcChecksum 1.5-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134602/
CalcChecksum is a simple utility for calculating various checksums easily with a graphical user interface.
CGIScripter 1.48
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134527/
CGIScripter automates the development of Perl CGI scripts for MySQL and Oracle databases. Perl CGI scripts are generated for each form specified within CGIScripter and include customized data entry and data validation for each Web form. The Perl CGI scripts generated by CGIScripter also provide support for insert/update/view/delete of GIF/JPEG images via a Web-based interface. Critical Web form processing parameters are hard-coded within each script instead of being accepted via POST or GET operations in order to prevent Web form hijacking.
Coldtags suite 1.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134559/
The Coldtags suite is a collection of custom JSP tags that provides 90+ custom JSP tags for common programming tasks faced by JSP developers. It also includes custom tags similar to the Web controls in the .NET framework.
Columba 0.12.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134576/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.
crackalaka 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134614/
Crackalaka is a small, standalone IRC server. It does not implement the inter-server portions of the IRC protocol, and is meant for use by a small workgroup, preferably behind a firewall.
daemon 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134578/
daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tedious tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process; daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other than C, C++, or Perl (e.g. sh, Java). If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions (e.g. C, C++), see libslack, which contains the core functionality of daemon.
DC Maintenance Management System 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134618/
DC Maintenence Management System is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints and repairs in water supply networks. It uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS.
Debt Minder 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134604/
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.
Divmod Quotient 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134560/
Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon.
DNS Flood Detector 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134640/
DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting (among other things) the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam. DNS Flood Detector uses libpcap (in non-promiscuous mode) to monitor incoming dns queries to a nameserver. The tool may be run in one of two modes, either daemon mode or "bindsnap" mode. In daemon mode, the tool will alarm via syslog. In bindsnap mode, the user is able to get near-real-time stats on usage to aid in more detailed troubleshooting.
Docco 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134553/
Docco is a personal document retrieval tool based on Apache's Lucene indexing engine. It allows you to create an index for files on your file system which you can then search for keywords. It is not only a lot faster than searching by recursing through your file system every time, it also offers you extended query options like wildcards and fuzzy search as well as a visualization of result set intersections.
DrJava 20030822
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134643/
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is under active development by the JavaPLT research group at Rice University, but it is also stable and is currently being used by students, teachers and other developers. A Java 2 v1.3-compliant Java virtual machine is required.
DSPAM 2.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134622/
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.
EAST 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134565/
EAST (Errand & Administration System Tool) is a Web-based errand and administration system for tracking errands from users to administrators. It allows users to post errands into the database to be handled and resolved by the administrators. Users and administrators can track and search through the errand database. Errands can be organized into different categories, with a default administrator for each category.
Eternal Lands 0.8.0 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134660/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
FireSite Alpha 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134583/
FireSite is a content management system in PHP targeted at web developers needing a fixed framework for handling information and access to that information. The access model is based on roles and users. The system has an API to access information stored, hiding the access management completely. Through modules it is easy to add handling of specific information needs.
flphoto 1.1rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134659/
flphoto is a basic image management and display program based on the FLTK toolkit. It can read, display, print, and export many image file formats, and supports EXIF information provided by digital cameras.
FreeMarker 2.3pre13 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134598/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
Fremtris 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134657/
Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA.
Gaim 0.68 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134631/
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Gaim is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.
ganttproject 1.9.8-rc2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134580/
Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It lets you easily breaks down a project into tasks, show dependencies, and manage resources. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images.
gnome-python 2.0.0 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134591/
gnome-python is a set of interfaces to gnome-libs. It also contains a copy of PyGTK, so you don't have to worry about gnome-python getting out of sync with your copy of PyGTK. The bindings cover almost all of the APIs in gnome-libs.
GNU 8085 Simulator 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134666/
GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator for the Intel 8085 microprocessor. It contains an inline assembler and a debugger.
GNU Anubis 3.9.93 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134556/
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy server.
Gnusto 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134544/
Gnusto is a Mozilla-based application which lets you play adventure games--specifically, the hundreds of games both modern and ancient available in the Z-machine format. It features a just-in-time interpreter which compiles Z-machine code to Javascript on the fly for speed.
Gorm 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134654/
Gorm is a clone of the NeXTstep `Interface Builder' application for GNUstep. Major features include drag-and-drop creation of GUI elements from palettes, run-time loading of additional palettes, direct on-screen manipulation of GUI elements, manipulation and examination of objects via inspectors, drag-and-drop creation of connections between objects, and saving data in a format loadable by GNUstep applications.
GProFTPD 8.0.8 (GNOME 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134606/
GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.
Guis widget server 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134593/
Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the Python or Ruby scripting languages), and emit replies or events in textual lines (e.g. Lispy, XML or plain token syntax). It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process.
Gv4l 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134609/
Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.
GWhere 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134547/
GWhere allows you to manage a database of your CDs and other removable media. GWhere makes it easy to browse your CDs or to quickly search without having to insert each of your CDs into the drive.
Hastymail 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134592/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
Helix DNA Producer 9.2 Milestone 6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134610/
The Helix DNA Producer is a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and downloadable audio video files. It supports RealAudio, RealVideo, and Ogg Vorbis, and includes many input and output filters, variable bitrate encoding support, option for two-pass encoding, audio gain control, and Firewire support.
HotViewer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134597/
HotViewer is a rich Hotmail client for Java-capable (J2ME) mobile devices with support for reading/sending from a Hotmail account, attachments, images, HTML and plain- text email, and more.
IMP 3.2.2 (3.x Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134663/
IMP allows universal, Web-based access to IMAP and POP3 servers and provides an addressbook, LDAP directory searches, full support for sending and receiving attachments, and many other features normally only found in desktop email clients. It is being actively developed.
Ion 20030814 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134558/
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
IRCG 4 Gamma 23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134623/
IRCG is a solution for delivering XML messages to huge numbers of clients in real-time. IRCG leverages the power of established IRC products and the PHP programming language for providing low-latency message streams over persistent HTTP connections. The use of time-proven technology and an easy-to-adapt scripting language is designed to reduce development time and to maximize the value of existing hardware investments. Typical applications of IRCG include online gaming communities and chat systems. IRCG is fully compatible with the ActionScript XMLSocket technology found in Flash-enabled clients.
Irrlicht Engine 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134545/
The Irrlicht Engine is a high performance cross platform 3D engine for creating realtime 3D applications. Its main aims are to be easy to use, extremely fast, extensible, and crash safe.
Java Email Server 1.2.4 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134595/
Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java.
JaxMe 0.10-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134647/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).
JGraph 3.0 (For Java 1.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134551/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
JMP 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134620/
Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method.
Klicker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134566/
Klicker is a KDE/QT based metronome that supports from 30 to 240 beats per minute, duple, triple, and quartal time, and has DCOP interfaces for interprocess control.
Liferea 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134664/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134608/
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. It also comes with denial of service protection.
LTI-Lib 1.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134589/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition, sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real applications.
Lupy 0.1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134555/
Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware.
make_uninstall 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134621/
make_uninstall is used to monitor a command like 'make install', so a record of the install can be created, which will allow you to completely remove the package from your system later.
Mathomatic 10.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134667/
Mathomatic is a small, portable symbolic math program that can solve, simplify, combine, differentiate, and compare algebraic equations. Complex number and polynomial arithmetic are supported.
milkbone 0.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134585/
Milkbone is an instant messaging client. It is designed to be compact yet still offer all the features of a modern IM client. It currently supports communication over AOL's OSCAR protocol (AIM). Its internal design is extremely modular, so adding new features or building new modules should be a snap. It is also designed to be completely customizable.
MPlayer 1.0pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134634/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
neXtaW 0.15.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134569/
neXtaw is a modified version of the Athena Widgets with a N*XTSTEP appearance. It is based on the Xaw3d 1.5 library.
ObjectScript 1.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134637/
ObjectScript is a general purpose object-oriented programming language. It is designed to be simple to learn, easy to use, and powerful, combining the convenience of an interactive interpreter with many of the features of Java: a simple Java-like syntax, javadoc support, a class system (single inheritance), private vs. public fields and methods, exceptions, synchronization and threading, etc. Since it can be interactively interpreted, ObjectScript can be used to debug or learn Java systems. And since it supports extending Java classes and interfaces, it can add sophisticated scripting to an existing Java application.
p0f2 2.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134639/
p0f2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting utility, to be used for evidence or information gathering on servers, firewalls, IDSes, and honeypots, for pen-testing, or just for the fun of it. It is a complete rewrite of p0f version 1 by William Stearns, and until (if) both projects are merged, will be listed separately.
PDU / ASCII conversion functions 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134582/
PDU/ASCII conversion functions convert between an ISO-8859-1 ASCII string and a PDU-encoded array of bytes as described in ETSI GSM 03.38 and ETSI GSM 03.40. A PDU-encoded message is necessary for sending an SMS using a cell phone that does not support plain ASCII mode (like most phones from Ericsson).
PHPXref 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134607/
PHPXref is a Perl script that cross-references classes, functions, variables, and SQL tables used in a PHP-based Web site and generates simple HTML output designed to make browsing through code easy. In addition, it can extract phpdoc style comments from the PHP files to provide browsable documentation.
pkdump 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134570/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from foreign hosts over the Internet.
ppp 2.4.2b3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134616/
PPP Daemon for Linux, Solaris 2, *BSD, SunOS 4, Digital Unix, SVR4, NeXTStep, and Ultrix. This allows Unix machines to connect to the internet through dialup lines, using the PPP protocol, as a PPP server or client. Works with 'chat', 'dip', and 'diald', among (many) others. Supports IP, TCP, UDP and (for Linux) IPX (Novell).
prokyon3 0.9.2RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134552/
prokyon3 is a multithreaded MP3/Ogg Vorbis manager and tag editor. It was written in C++ using the Qt3 widget set and the MySQL database. prokyon3 can access MP3 files on harddisk, CDROM, SMB, and NFS. MP3 files can be played using XMMS, and can even be played when the files are on CD as prokyon3 identifies CDs by content. The files view is customizable and favorite artists are supported. prokyon3 also offers an editor for ID3 tags and has been designed to support tagging for multiple files en masse.
PyGTK 2.0.0 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134588/
PyGTK is a set of Python bindings for the GTK widget set. It provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than the C one. It automatically does all the type casting and reference counting that you normally would have to do with the C API.
PyORBit 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134590/
PyORBit is a Python binding for the ORBit2 CORBA ORB. It was developped to suit the needs of the bonobo bindings in GNOME-Python, but is usable for other purposes as well. It aims to follow the standard Python language mapping for CORBA. It can generate stubs at runtime from typelibs, IDL files, or by introspecting remote objects using ORBit2's IModule typelib capabilities.