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[osdn business] September 24, 2003
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Is There An OS On My Hard Drive?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/0543245
[0]stm2 writes "Thanks to an [1]agreement between [2]Lindows and
[3]Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with
or without an Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak,
compares this to adding [4]"Fluoride in the water", because now you get
for free somethis you needed to go after (people used to go to dentist
to get their Fluoride). According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and
configure itself on the host machine."
Links
0.
http://sbassi AT bioinformatica DOT info
1.
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_seagate.php
2.
http://www.lindows.com/
3.
http://www.seagate.com/
4.
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=82Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1926256
I am Kobayashi writes "According to [0]CNN.com scientists at [1]Trinity
College in Dublin have created my [2]dream couch. And yes, I admit to
being a couch potato... Apparently the couch can be programmed with a
personal greeting (it recognizes you by weight), and the scientists
hope that it will one day be able to automatically tune to your
favorite television programs, order you take out food, and control
other household appliances."
Links
0.
http://www.cnn.com/
1.
http://www.tcd.ie/
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/22/smart.sofa/index.htmlPaul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/0134256
[0]chromatic writes "The [1]O'Reilly Network has just published [2]an
interview with Paul Vixie, chairman of the board of the [3]Internet
Software Consortium and a primary author of [4]BIND. Topics include the
recent VeriSign controversy, ISC's BIND patch in response, and other
potential issues that might come to light in the near future." On a
related note, [5]dmehus writes with a link to the [6]letter sent by
David Maher, chairman of the Public Interest Registry -- the .org
registrar, to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey. "The letter says
that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend
SiteFinder and the Internet Architecture Board preliminary position
paper. It goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS
wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its ground, but also
to implement a policy preventing registries from taking this kind of
unilateral action in the future." The letter is in .doc format, but
AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine.
Links
0.
http://wgz.org/chromatic/
1.
http://www.oreillynet.com/
2.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/22/vixie.html
3.
http://www.isc.org/
4.
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
5.
http://www.palacechat.us/
6.
http://members.shaw.ca/dmehus/assets/doc/letter-to-ICANN-re-SiteFinder-030921.doc
Mass Fatality Identification System
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/004241
[0]Shipud writes " Bio-IT World is running a story on how [1]Gene Codes
corporation [2]created the Mass Fatality Identification System
(M-FISys) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The story goes into the
details of processing large amounts of data, aiming for a 99.9%
accuracy rate, and [3] extreme programing."
Links
0. mailto:shipudi@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.genecodes.com/
2.
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/091103/soul.html
3.
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/California Protects Black-Box Data Privacy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2334251
Snowgen writes "According to a story at SFGate.com, California has recently passed a law [0]regulating the little black boxes found in many modern automobiles. The new law requires that manufacturers disclose the existence of such boxes in the vehicle's operators' manual. The law also prohibits the use of data from such boxes without a court order or the permission of the vehicle's owner, unless the data is used in such a way that it can not be traced back to the owner." Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/23/BA3674DTL
Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2016224
ninejaguar asks: "Slashdot did an [0]article on an Open Source product
called [1]Prevayler, which could theoretically resolve all the problems
associated with OO's rough courtship with Relational databases.
Slashdot [0]covered [2]Prevayler when it was still [3]1.x. Despite
[4]fear, [5]doubt, and [6]memory concerns, it has reached [7]2.0 alpha.
Is [8]anyone currently [9]using this [10]non-database solution in
production? If so, has it sped development because of the [11]lack of
OO-to-RDBMS complexity? Was there a significant [12]learning curve to
speak of? The [13]LGPL'd product could be incorporated into proprietary
commercial software, and few might know about it. Is anyone considering
using it in a transactional environment where [14]speed is the
paramount need? And, are there any objections to using Prevayler that
haven't been answered at the Prevayler [15]wiki? Would those who use
MySQL find Prevayler to be a better solution because it's tiny (less
than 100kb), 3000 times faster and is inherently [16]ACID compliant?"
Links
0. developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1220222&mode=thread&tid=156
1.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=StartingPoints
2.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=GettingStarted
3. sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262
4.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=NoMorePorridge
5.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevalenceSkepticalFAQ
6.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=BreakthroughsInMemoryTechnology
7. ://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262
8.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerPioneers
9.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=OpenSourcePrevaylerProjects
10.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerIsNotADatabase
11.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=IsPrevaylerReliable
12. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/index.html
13.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=FreeSoftware
14.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=ScalabilityTestResults
15.
http://www.prevayler.org/
16.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=DontINeedTransactionsEuropean Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2249238
D4C5CE writes "The [0]European Parliament's Daily Notebook reports on
the turbulent final plenary debate this morning regarding a draft
[1]Directive to legalize [2]Software Patents (which are currently
[3]unlawful under [4]Art.52 (2) (c) of the European Patent Convention).
The Notebook quotes some truly bizarre views and arguments (which no
doubt you'll take the time to point out to [5]Members of the European
Parliament before [6]tomorrow's vote), with some MEPs even claiming to
feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous
concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as
usual."
Links
0.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=3&NAV=S&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030923-1+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN#SECTION1
1.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?L=EN&OBJID=30318&LEVEL=3&MODE=SIP&NAV=X&LSTDOC=N
2.
http://swpat.ffii.org/
3.
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/plen0309/index.en.html
4.
http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ar52.html#A52
5.
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/gwhosmymep.htm
6.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=2&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+AGENDA+20030923-LASTV+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
California Tries Spam Ban
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2035204
[0]Schlemphfer writes "Spammers have likely received their biggest
setback yet, when California governor Gray Davis today signed a bill
[1]outlawing all unsolicited email sent to and from the state. Two
things about this [2]new law stand out: first, it puts the burden on
senders to prove that they are sending solicited email. Second, it bans
the entire practice of spamming, with no loopholes at all like allowing
messages with ADV: in the subject. Keep in mind California has the
world's fifth largest economy, and they are planning to enforce the law
with fines amounting to $1000 per each piece of spam. This law could be
ruinous to spammers when it takes effect January 1st."
Links
0.
http://www.vegan.com/
1.
http://nytimes.com/2003/09/23/business/23CND-SPAM.html?hp
2.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_186_bill_20030911_enrolled.html
Free VoIP for Dartmouth Students
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1946258
[0]dtfusion writes "After upgrading their network infrastructure and
doing some testing over the summer, Dartmouth is making [1]free voice
over IP available to incoming freshman. It turns out it was costing
them more to bill the students for local and long distance than for the
calls themselves. What will the success/failure of VoIP on this scale
have on telecom?" There's an [2]older story and a [3]newer story from
the Dartmouth public affairs office; that second one probably spurred
the NYT article. The sysadmin-types are [4]planning to study usage
during the rollout.
Links
0. mailto:jcwmobile@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/technology/23DART.html
2.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/april/041803g.html
3.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/09/19b.html
4.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campus/
New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1736243
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]OpenSSH team has uncovered multiple
exploitable vulnerabilities in the days-old portable release of
OpenSSH. That's right folks: time to patch *again*. 3.7.1p2 is now
available. [1]Instructions and mirror list here. Please note that this
vulnerability only affects *portable* OpenSSH--so if you are running
[2]OpenBSD, you're safe. This vulnerability apparently has to do with
PAM, so you can use the 'UsePam no' option in your config file. Info on
the advisory [3]here and [4]here."
Links
0.
http://www.openssh.org/
1.
http://www.openssh.org/portable.html
2.
http://www.openbsd.org/
3.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338617
4.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338616
Newsforge Reports
IBM grids its teeth, adds new enterprise products
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2316232
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM today announced a series of grid computing product offerings and a slate of subsequent new projects worldwide. Grid computing is the latest marketing-speak trend in enterprise IT systems. Ostensibly, the advantage is that companies can save money immediately by using existing computers together with inexpensive newer computers in a fail-safe network powered by a high-end central database and application servers.
Lawyers ask: Can IT Be Human?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2120245
- by Chris Preimesberger - Part I in a three-part series on the new influences of IT in the developing world. SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawyers usually want to talk about torts, settlements, judges, and other lawyers. At the International Bar Association convention here this week in the still-summerlike Bay Area, they added to their usual agenda by talking about how IT (mainly wireless) and the Internet might be keys to helping rescue under-developed ...
Why does Sun call it the 'Java Desktop'? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1911219
- by Joe Barr - The question didn't enter my mind until I saw it raised on a local LUG mailing list. But a sharp-eyed Luggite noted that Sun's new desktop -- codenamed Mad Hatter but called the Sun Java Desktop in press releases -- runs on Linux, uses GNOME, and runs Evolution for mail. "Where," she asked, "does Java come into the picture?"
Newsforge Newsvac
Book Review: Moving to Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2021231
Moving to Linux is definitely a beginner's book. It's a big fluffy puppy of a book that will help ease new users into Linux without scaring them with tons of commands to know. In fact, the book is almost wholly devoted to life at the GUI, which means that Windows and Mac users should feel fairly comfortable with the switch.
Tonight Live: SCO at the Eye of a Hurricane http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/207248
Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: SCO at the Eye of a Hurricane and What Stinks? Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 from Chicago IL. Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
Computer Associates' Open Innovation Strategy takes Linux to Enterprise http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/195256
Anonymous Reader writes "Computer Associates (CA) has no doubts about open source Linux. In fact, the company has been involved with Linux as a founding member of OSDL, is active in a number of organizations to foster Linux acceptance, and CA uses Linux internally. Sam Greenblatt, SVP and Chief Architect, Linux Technology Group, says that his company has adopted an ecosystem that is in tune with the realities of migrating to Linux for customers ...
Towards Linux 2.6
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1857209
Anonymous Reader writes "The impending release of a new stable kernel promises greater adoption for Linux, as it becomes more reliable and scalable over a larger variety of processors. This article highlights some of the changes, both big and small, with some code samples."
Analyst firm urges caution on Sun's Linux strategy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1511252
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Aberdeen compares Sun's and Hewlett-Packard's Linux strategies and cautions that Sun's bias toward Solaris and the perception it isn't serious about Linux could hamper its movement into the enterprise Linux space."
KernelTrap Interviews Rusty Russell
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/157200
Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has interviewed Rusty Russell, a humorous and productive contributer to Linux Kernel development. Author of ipchains, netfilter/iptables, futexes, per-cpu counters, hot pluggable CPU support, and the new in-kernel module loading code, Rusty's efforts have had a significant impact on the upcoming 2.6 kernel. For a humorous sample of Rusty's wit, one only needs to look at his email signature which reads, "Anyone ...
Open Source Architecture To Create a Scalable Enterprise http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1439249
Red Hat sets direction with focus on integrated platform, infrastructure, and management technologies.
Open Source and the Yoke of Oppression
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/143240
Microsoft and Sun are afraid of open source. However, we in the open-source community are liberating ourselves from the yoke of oppression. If people who support Microsoft would simply realize that, they might understand the open-source community better.
Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1352222
This article records our experiences with packaging an application for many distributions and shows areas in which packagers, Linux distributions, and developers can improve coordination for better and easier distribution. We look at communication problems, packaging errors, package dependencies, menu entries, and bug tracking systems.
Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Reality Games
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1346207
Microsoft lost its recent case with Eolas Technologies - a patent dispute - at a possible cost of about $500 million. The patent in question relates programs calling software over the Internet and hence affects the downloading of music and video, among other things.
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.7.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136807/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Amaranth Icons .8 (Large)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136773/
Amaranth Icons is a smooth icon theme which was made with Adobe Illustrator 10. It will soon be released as SVG icons.
Animal Shelter Manager 0.02 (Web Interface) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136811/
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.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.22 PRE 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136809/
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.
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.8.1RC-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136784/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's (single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading (NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.
Bauk 1.86.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136772/
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.
BioMail 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136767/
BioMail is a Web-based application for medical researchers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database. Periodically BioMail does a user-customized Medline search and sends all matching articles recently added to Medline to the user's e-mail address.
Blend154 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136842/
Blend154 is a theme based on an abstract image from the artist XStreamGrl.
Bocazas Webchat 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136764/
Bocazas is an IRC chat applet that gives visitors to your Web page access to any chat network and the ability to have public and private conversations simultaneously and transfer files. It accepts all IRC commands but has an easy interface and supports English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, German, Catalan, and Galego.
borZoi/jBorZoi 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136769/
borZoi/jBorZoi are C++ and Java elliptic curve cryptography libraries for developers who want a simple means of adding privacy protection to their applications. Ease of use and a minimum risk of security problems due to incorrect use are their strong points.
byteHoard 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136853/
ByteHoard is aimed at a wide range of audiences, from people wanting a way to quickly access files from work/ school without carrying physical media, to communities wanting a solution to store files. It's an implementation of an online storage system whereby users can upload and download their files from anywhere with an Internet connection. It aims to be an easy solution, similar to projects like phpBB, where minimal configuration is required. It uses a directory listing to list files, which are all automatically compressed (gzipped) to save disk space. It's coded with a skin function, so the theme can be easily changed, and already has many useful features, including auto compression, integrated signup/delete, upload, download, password change, etc.
Charles Web Debugging Tool 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136789/
Charles is a Web debugging tool, HTTP monitor, and reverse HTTP proxy for Web developers that includes plain text debugging of HTTPS/SSL. It is built in Java Swing, and runs on all Java platforms. It is an HTTP proxy server that displays requests and responses, complete with HTTP headers. This enables the developer to examine the exact content of HTTP exchanges, including cookies, caching, and redirects. It can also throttle your connection in order to simulate modem conditions.
chmod MoVIE DATABASE 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136844/
chmod MoVIE DATABASE lets you store information about your and your friends' movies in a database. It helps you keep track of who has borrowed movies from your personal library and lets you send messages to other users to request a movie or put it on your wishlist.
CodeGuide 6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136814/
CodeGuide is a lean and fast IDE for Java and JavaServerPages. It features on-the-fly error checking, incremental background ("instant") compilation, powerful refactoring capabilities, and support for generic types. A visual debugger with on-the-fly class replacement (HotSwap) is also included.
cprof 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136850/
Cprof is an enhanced performance profiler tool. Flat profiles and call graphs are produced, and multithreaded apps are handled well. It requires gcc version 2.95.x or later. Programs are compiled with -finstrument-functions and linked with -lcprof in order to generate profiling data.
CT Server 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136774/
CT Server is a Perl module that interfaces with Voicetronix computer telephony cards, giving developers a method of creating quick and creative computer telephony applications. A complete PBX is included as an example, which includes a Web interface for configuring and monitoring the PBX.
ctrlproxy 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136847/
ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else. It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client), password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected).
CVSspam 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136783/
CVSspam sends email when a change is committed to the CVS repository. Syntax-highlighted diffs describe the changes made, and links to Web frontends on CVS and bug tracking systems are generated where possible.
CWXML 3.3.0c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136768/
CWXML is an high-performance, open-source C-language library for parsing and generating XML and BXML formats with a straightforward API. Initial testing indicates that it is 3 or more times faster than other popular libraries such as expat and libxml2 at parsing XML and much faster again with BXML, which is a straightforward, open, patent-unencumbered binary-encoding format for XML data that is a stand-alone work-alike drop-in replacement for an XML file that mirrors the XML markup structures in a way that is similar to the in-memory representations of many parser libraries.
Daybodep 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136861/
Daybodep generates dependencies for C programs.
db4o 2.7 (Java Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136813/
db4o (database for objects) is a client/server object database, available in Java and in C#. It features transactions, automatic class recognition, query-by-example, callback methods, memory files, cascade-on-delete, multi-threaded access, and Java Webstart and servlet support.
Deskfinity Beta 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136826/
Deskfinity is designed to allow you to have more than one set of desktop icons available. If your desktop is cluttered with icons for various tasks, Deskfinity will allow you to create an infinite number of desktop icon sets for as many different sets of icons as you would like.
Digital Image Management 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136851/
Dim is a digital image management program. The project's goal is to implement an efficient tool for managing and organizing a large digital image collection. It is ideal for digital camera owners.
distcc 2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136781/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
Dolibarr 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136801/
Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for company management.
DSPAM 2.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136862/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for Unix email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and effectively filters spam using a combination of de-obfuscation techniques, token chains, and Bayesian analysis. The result is an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam tool. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.01% chance of false positives.
DVB Driver Project 2003-09-05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136827/
The DVB Driver Project has very good drivers for DVB cards by many manufacturers (e.g., Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s and WinTV Nova, Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis, and Technisat). It supports DVB-s, DVB-t, and DVB-c.
dvdprobe 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136787/
dvdprobe is a Python interface to the tcprobe program from transcode. It scans a DVD for useful information such as titles, chapters, playback time, audio tracks, and subtitles.
EnderUNIX Knowlan 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136810/
Knowlan is ARP-protocol-based LAN IP and MAC address extractor. Knowlan uses the libpcap and libnet libraries. Knowlan works by sending ARP REQUEST packets to the LAN and simultaneously receiving ARP REPLY packets from the machines that are up. This allows it to print out the IP and MAC addresses of online machines.
FakeTime Preload Library 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136806/
FTPL (FakeTime Preload Library) intercepts various system library calls and tricks programs of your choice into seeing a faked system time, without having to change the time system-wide. This can be used for running legacy software with Y2K bugs, testing software for year-2038 compliance, debugging time-related issues, and using software which ceases to run outside a certain timeframe. The faked time can be specified either absolutely or relative to the real current time.
fix-mime-charset 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136805/
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.
Fontify Bundle for GNUMail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136771/
Fontify Bundle for GNUMail is a very simple bundle for GNUMail that automatically converts text surrounded by special characters such as '*' for bold, '/' for italic, and '_' for underline into the corresponding styles.
FUDforum 2.5.3RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136815/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
FXRuby 1.0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136833/
FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.
Geomorph 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136757/
Geomorph is a height field generator and editor for Linux. It features tools for generating height fields from subdivision and surface addition algorithms, with fine control of frequencies, output to 16-bit PNG files from 128x128 to 4096x4096 pixels, a pen for drawing height fields chunks or craters, and transform tools for eroding, stratifying, and smoothing the height fields. It offers a multiple window environment with OpenGL preview, undo/redo functions, and basic controls for Povray rendering. It is built with the Gtk toolkit.
getmail 3.2.0 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136854/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves email (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs or through external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes, including support for Demon's SPDS (*ENV) extension to the POP3 protocol for retrieving message envelopes.
GNU Solfege 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136780/
Solfege is an ear training program for GNOME 2, but can also run with only the GTK+ libs. It even runs in Windows.
gnuPod 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136823/
gnuPod is a collection of tools which allow you to use your iPod under Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems. HFS+ and FAT32 formatted iPods are supported.
Group-Office 1.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136855/
Group-Office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an email client, a file manager, a scheduler, project management, and Web site management.
HURL 0.6.3c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136843/
HURL Updates RedHat Linux. It attempts to download appropriate system updates from a specified FTP server. It features dependency checking, package exclusion with regular expressions, email notification when updates are ready to install, and Powertools updates. It has been tested on RedHat 5.1 through 9. It is written in Python but does not require the Python RPM bindings.
iReport Designer for JasperReports 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136790/
iReport is a visual reporting tool based on JasperReports and written in pure Java. You can manage charts, images, sub-reports, etc. Data can be retrieved using JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, and XML. It supports output in PDF, XML, XSL, CSV, HTML, and Java2D.
IzSite 2003.09.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136604/
IzSite is a very simple Web site content management system that makes use of XML, XSLT, and caching.
JavaBot TNG 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136864/
JavaBot TNG is an IRC bot. The aim of the project is to develop a bot that performs basic channel housekeeping functions, but that is extensible through plugins and a powerful scripting mechanism. It features robust connection handling, the complete RFC2812 defined in Java, an object-oriented approach, and efficient thread handling.
JFaceDbc 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136819/
JFaceDbc is a JDBC client application that functions as an Eclipse plugin.
JMP 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136849/
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.
JRxToolkit 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136852/
JRxToolkit is a GUI written in Java to test and write regular POSIX expressions.
jSyncManager 3.0 gamma 01 (Core Application Set) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136841/
jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes, including XML and CSV.
jSyncManager 3.0 gamma 01 (API)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136840/
jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes, including XML and CSV.
JSyntaxColor 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136795/
JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples for interesting API parts.
KSubtile 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136793/
KSubtile allows moving, stretching, and editing of SRT subtitle files and all other subtitle formats understood by MPlayer. It also provides an easy-to-use interface to MPlayer to easily sync the subtitles to a movie.
lcvs 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136818/
lcvs maintains a global log file for a CVS module and does automated tagging on each commit.
libgtk++ 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136792/
libgtk++ is a C++ wrapper for GTK 2.x that aims to create a GTK API similar to the API for Qt.
LiveJournal Image Tool 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136782/
LiveJournal Image Tool is a simple GUI-based tool to help LiveJournal users post images to their LiveJournals. It merely uploads images to a specified location and generates HTML code to be inserted to the LiveJournal entry. It can be used either from a LiveJournal client (such as LogJam) or separately. Its features include a GTK2 interface, the ability to upload images via FTP or SCP, resizing an image before uploading, creating an image thumbnail and a link to big-sized image, and instant image preview while resizing.
Lore 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136845/
Lore is a knowledge base management system that allows users to easily create and maintain a FAQ, documentation system, or complete support knowledge base. It features unlimited articles, (sub)categories, file attachments, article comments, ratings, glossary, full- text search, related articles, WYSIWYG editor, and a completely customizable template/style system which is based on Smarty. A complete Web-based control panel is included, and an installation wizard allows for easy setup.
Mail Notification 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136791/
Mail Notification is an icon for the GNOME Notification Area that informs users if they have new mail. It handles multiple folders and multiple folder formats.
Martyr 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136866/
Martyr is a Java framework around the IRC protocol to allow application writers easy manipulation of the protocol and client state. Martyr can be used to write bots, end-user clients, or add IRC functionality to an existing Java application.
MCS PGA 64 Filter Amp Controller 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136836/
MCS PGA 64 Filter Amp Controller is a small program that uses Qt 3.x to control the MultiChannelSystems Programmable Gain Amp (http://www.multichannelsystems.com), 64 channel version. This filteramp is a custom piece of equipment typically used in neuronal electronics. This program uses the serial port to set the gains on this programmable amplifier. It is a clone of the Windows version of this program that MCS normally supplies with its filter amp. It is 100% compatible UI-wise with the Windows version.
MemAid 0.2.3.1 (KMemAid)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136799/
Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions (computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you remember.
Morphix 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136858/
Morphix is a modular LiveCD distribution. It is partly derived from KNOPPIX, and the rest comes directly from Debian.
msmtp 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136856/
msmtp is an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods, TLS-encrypted connections, support for multiple accounts, and IPv6 support.
nALFS 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136802/
nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and doing various things (like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from source.
Nasl 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136822/
Nasl (Not another scripting language) is a small, simple, yet full-featured language designed as extension language in situations where larger languages are simply to large or unwieldy to embed. It supports OOP syntax and functional programming, works on the traditional data realm of strings, vectors, and hashes, and does it all in less than 100k of ANSI C. Please note that this is not the NASL extension language from the Nessus project.
NuSphere PhpED 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136674/
NuSphere phpED is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that integrates a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, and deployment tools for the PHP scripting language that can decrease development time by up to 75 percent.
OMCSNet-WordNet 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136846/
The OMCSNet-WordNet project aims to improve the quality of the OMCSNet dataset by using automated processes to map WordNet synonym sets to OMCSNet concepts and import additional semantic linkage data from WordNet. It is based on OMCSNet 1.2, a semantic network and inference toolkit written in Python/Java. OMCSNet currently contains over 280,000 separate pieces of common sense information extracted from the raw OMCS dataset. This project is also based on WordNet, an online lexical reference system that in recent years has become a popular tool for AI researchers.
OSS 3.9.8a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136830/
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux, *BSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, AIX, HPUX, LynxOS, VxWorks, and Tru64. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio.
PGenie 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136775/
PGenie is a PHP4 templating engine written entirely in PHP4. Template and data files are stiched together in real time and the resulting text is processed by PHP. It does not require learning any new commands.
PHP GEN 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136734/
PHP GEN reads the list of tables in a database, lets you select one, then reads the structure of it, suggests a basic (modifiable) configuration, and generates good-style and easily maintainable PHP code capable of listing, adding, editing, and deleting records. Both the generated code and the engine itself use Pear::DB for the database-abstraction layer and Smarty for the presentation/interface layer.
Quantian 0.3.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136803/
Quantian is a directly bootable and self-configuring Linux system on a single CD-ROM. Based on Knoppix and clusterKnoppix, it provides out-of-the box support for openMosix as well as about 500MB of additional software with a quantitative, numerical, or scientific focus such as R (including many CRAN packages), Octave (including several add-on packages), Gambit, Gap, GiNaC, GMT, Grace, Gri, GSL, Maxima, OpenDX, Pari, PDL, PSPP, QuantLib, XLisp-Stat, Yacas, and Yorick.
ReciPants 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136824/
ReciPants is a Web-based recipe manager in Perl. It supports Postgres and MySQL. It has search, categories, export, scaling, email recipe, email authentication, password reminder, secure user cookies, and multilingual and fully customizable templated output.
RenderX XEP 3.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136867/