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[osdn business] September 27, 2003
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 01:30:29 EDT
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Slashdot
Yahoo Messenger Blocks Outside IM Clients
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2027253
jj00 writes "[0]CNET News is [1]reporting that Yahoo has started blocking 3rd party Messenger clients from their service. The article is about [2]Trillian, but I have noticed that my [3]gaim client hasn't been working for the past few days." As [4]reported earlier. Links
0. news.com.com
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5082812.html
2.
http://www.trillian.cc/
3.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/17/2358240&tid=18520th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1423205
An anonymous reader writes "Sep 27, 2003 is the 20th anniversary of
Stallman's [0] original Usenet post describing his vision of GNU. Good
time for reflecting over GNU's successes and failures, about how it has
changed our world."
Links
0. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=771%40mit-eddie.UUCP&output=gplain
Interview with Linus Torvalds from NYT Magazine http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2011202
aelfric35 writes "David Diamond drills Linus on topics from filesharing
(sharing is good) to SCO (trying to claim paternity on his child) to
his rivalry with Bill Gates (doesn't care enough to be a nemesis) in
[0]next week's New York Times Magazine."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/WLN104109.html
Bluetooth for Homebrew Robots?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/203259
MacGod asks: "As an extra-curricular for my university, I am working
some other engineers to try and design a [0]RoboSoccer Project (please
don't wipe out our server if possible), with the hopes of entering the
[1]RoboCup tournament in the near future. We are currently using some
low-frequency Abacom RF communication modules, but would like to able
to go to BlueTooth if possible. However, I have found it nearly
impossible to locate any suitable BlueTooth modules. We'd really like
something that could be put onto a breadboard, and that would come with
sufficiently detailed instructions that we'd be able to implement it
without being BlueTooth experts. Any suggestion on homebrew BlueTooth
solutions, Slashdot?"
Links
0. http://wolfman.eos.uoguelph.ca/~robosoccer/
Massachusetts Adopts Open Standards Strategy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1918200
[0]prostoalex writes "The state of [1]Massachusetts at a meeting of
state information officers [2]adopted a broad-based strategy to move to
open standards. The strategy does involve Linux among other open
standard solutions, while moving away from Microsoft-based platforms is
one of the decisions. State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric
Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds and had
nothing to do with antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the state of
Massachusetts."
Links
0.
http://www.itfacts.biz/
1.
http://mass.gov/portal/index.jsp
2.
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030926/D7TQ4MI00.html
Amazon to Take on Google?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/199222
KRck writes "Looks like Amazon is going to jump into the search engine business and try and [0]compete directly with Google, by building a new company A9 which they hope to launch in October." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/26/google.amazon.ap/index.html
States Push for Net Sales Taxes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/151231
Marnhinn writes "Lawmakers in several states are asking Congress for
the right to begin collecting sales tax on interstate internet
purchases. CNN has the [0]scoop."
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/25/net.taxes.ap/index.html
Sequence of Events During Columbia Mission http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1418229
applemasker writes "Today's NYT is reporting that [0]NASA managers
actively resisted requests from vehicle engineers for on-orbit imagery.
This should answer Administrator O'Keefe's question of why no engineers
'spoke up' during the flight. Seems they did; managers just ignored
them."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/national/nationalspecial/26ENGI.html?hp
Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/154251
[0]rootmon writes "The [1]interview focuses mostly on Ransom Love's
views of SCO Group's current dispute with IBM and the Free/Open Source
Software Community. It also provides some insights on why Caldera
purchased the UNIX business of SCO and their joint Monterey project
with IBM. In summary, Love's view is 'My belief is that Unix and Linux
should co-exist and should look and feel the same to application
developers. Fundamentally, I would not have pursued SCO's path. You
see, the challenge is building business. Litigation, no matter what
side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win.
Companies should focus their energies on building their businesses, not
on lawsuits. I don't see any positive outcomes.'"
Links
IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1752212
[0]linuxjack55 writes "According to [1]Yahoo! Finance, IBM has filed
yet another counterclaim against SCO, this time claiming that SCO
'infringed IBM's copyrights by distributing IBM's contributions to
Linux after SCO had violated its Linux license by claiming a copyright
on parts of Linux.' Like it or not, it looks like the GPL is going to
get a full vetting in this case. It is, however, nice to know that
IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL."
Links
0. mailto:spaminacan@charter.net
Newsforge Reports
Sun's software revolution
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/168231
- by John O'Sullivan - I finally realized the revolution is on after reading about the Java Enterprise System in Fortune. I'd thought Sun's new software strategy was just the latest of the company's attempts at figuring out how to make money from Java. But there are three threads that together change the whole game. First is a practical, functional Linux desktop aimed at the business customer from a big and respected company. Second is a simple, ...
Strong reactions to CCIA security report give it added credibility http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/161219
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Ed Black, head of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) -- the group that released the infamous report titled CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (pdf download) -- says, "If it wasn't the truth, they wouldn't react so strongly." And one of the strongest reactions was from @Stake, a computer security company that fired its CTO , Dan Geer, who was one of the report's authors.
A sense of wonder at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/0026221
- by Lee Schlesinger - I hear frequent advertisements on my local radio station for brain supplements. I got the same effect without a pill by attending Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week. Speakers in various disciplines provided fascinating glimpses of future technology.
Newsforge Newsvac
Questions for Linus Torvalds
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/039218
An interesting interview with Linus in the NY Times: Q: You gave Linux, the operating system, to the world free, in effect jump-starting the open-source movement. Now this previously obscure company, SCO Group, claims ownership of some of the code and threatens to close the door on open source and Linux. I suppose it's to be expected that when you send your offspring out into the world, you have to be prepared for your kid to run with a crowd ...
Geer Says He Knew What Was @Stake
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/228218
Daniel Geer, the now-unemployed author of a report critical of monopolistic technologies, doesn't understand what all the hoopla is about.
Young People Are The Future of Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2057221
A Canadian college student joined #Office on EFNet IRC (Internet Relay Chat) recently and was asking some questions about MS Excel. So I suggested that he use the open-source comparables such as KOffice and OpenOffice -- also AbiWord for word processing. That naturally led to a discussion of using GNU/Linux, open-source software, and free software.
HP to SCO: Go Ahead, Make My Day
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1528228
sjvn writes "Hewlett-Packard takes up SCO's challenge to Linux users with indemnification against SCO lawsuits. It's not as bold a move as it looks."
UnitedLinux quietly marches on
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1945229
The UnitedLinux consortium - unveiled with much fanfare last year as a unified effort to create a standard Linux distribution - has been awfully quiet of late in an industry segment that has been anything but quiet.
Novell Is Turning Out for Linux Parade
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1935256
Through the 1980s, Novell Inc. was a software powerhouse, dominating the market for products that manage corporate networks and let individual computers share files and printers.
Time To Rethink Thailand's Open Source Motives http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/196259
When a project splits in two, this is what's called a fork. People who have been around for long enough, like myself, remember Unix. By and large, Linux is Unix (but do not ask SCO), in the same way that Xenix is Unix. So is Minix, Irix, Mach, Solaris and a dozen more that have fallen by the wayside.
Linux Clusters for the Mainstream Manager http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1828241
While many businesses keep clinging to existing Windows, NetWare, and OS/390 solutions, more and more are turning to Linux clusters for high performance computing (HPC), high availability (HA), and Web farm applications. To get the most out of Linux clusters, however, you need to know the ins-and-outs of installation and maintenance, as well as the best software and hardware configurations for specific types of clustering implementations.
Linux: 2.6 vs. 3.0; What's In A Name?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1743224
A recent lkml thread explored an interesting tangent when Jeff Garzik asked about what was to follow the 2.5 development kernel, "is it definitely to be named 2.6? Maybe it's just my impression from development speed, but it felt more like a 3.0 to me :)". Linux creator Linus Torvalds first suggested that there was no reason to skip from 2.5 to 3.0, qualifying it with, "But hey, it's just a number. I don't feel that strongly either way."
Linux Netfilter NAT Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1646229
The Netfilter project maintains the packet filter component of the
Linux kernel. A fix for a denial of service vulnerability has been
reported by the Netfilter project. The vulnerability is present on
systems with the ip_nat_ftp or ip_nat_irc modules loaded or with a
kernel built supporting options CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP or
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC.
Freshmeat
AmigaShell 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137148/
AmigaShell makes your shell look just like an Amiga commandline. It won't run under X or over a remote shell. It has been tested successfully on i386 (textmode), Sparc (framebuffer), and PowerPC machines running Debian GNU/Linux.
AntiRight Desktop Environment 1.83
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137184/
AntiRight is optimized to work on all POSIX-compatible systems supporting the Motif API. The software consists of a text editor, a clock, a CD player, a sticky notes applet, an internet dialer interface, a filemanager, a calculator, a shell command launcher, a help system, an X backdrop editor, an X resource theme selector, a security control panel, an xhost controller, a disk settings panel, and a graphical pager.
ApacheTop 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137115/
A curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.
Audio File Library 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137108/
The Audio File Library provides a uniform and elegant API for accessing standard digital audio file formats, such as AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun .snd/.au.
AWStats 5.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137082/
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more. It works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek.
Ayam 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137159/
Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. It features good RIB export, CSG (all RenderMan primitives supported), and NURBS modelling. Features instancing, arbitrary number of modeling views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, n-level undo, console, and Tree-View with Drag-and-Drop support.
b2evolution 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137163/
b2evolution is a classy news and Weblog tool that runs on almost any Web hosting service that has PHP and MySQL. It features an integrated XHTML validator, supports recursive subcategories and cross posting, and has an integrated skinning system.
Bauk 1.86.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137122/
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.
bib2html 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137143/
bib2html is a converter from a BibTeX database to HTML files.
CBQ.Init GUI 0.05b rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137116/
CBQ.Init GUI is a frontend to the CBQ.INIT script. It allows users to easily limit their bandwidth at the IP/port level.
ccgo 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137141/
ccgo is a client program for the IGS Go server, an SGF viewer, and a front end to gnugo written in C++ using gtkmm. It has simple interfaces aimed to be fast and reliable for people who just want to play or observe games of Go.
chestnut-dialer 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137188/
chestnut-dialer is a PPP dialing program, written in Python. It does not require root permissions, but requires read and/or write access to some system files (including the modem device). It uses the standard pppd daemon for setting up network interfaces. Basic features include account manipulation, including importing from another programs, default accounts, a command line interface, and call-back configuration.
Cluster SSH 1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137107/
Cluster SSH opens xterm windows with connections to specified hosts and an administration console. Any text typed into the administration console is replicated to all other connected and active windows. This tool is intended for, but not limited to, cluster administration where the same configuration or commands must be run on each node within the cluster. Performing these commands all at once via this tool ensures all nodes are kept in sync. This tool works on Solaris and should work on other POSIX systems (e.g. Linux and OpenBSD).
CompaqArray Daemon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137133/
The CompaqArray Daemon polls and checks a SmartArray controller, and reports abnormal statuses to syslog or via SNMP traps to a several hosts at once.
cutmp3 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137094/
cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. It uses mpg123 for playback. It works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB.
CWirc 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137167/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder.
Dacco 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137125/
Dacco is a collaborative English-Catalan, Catalan-English dictionary project. It seeks to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive, bilingual dictionary that will be of benefit to learners of both languages. The dictionaries are downloadable and customizable (using XSLT) and contain audio files.
dark fagga 1.2 (LICQ)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137118/
dark fagga is a theme which tries to be not too dark but also not too bright.
DbModeller 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137088/
DbModeller is a database schema modelling application for building physical database designs. This can connect to an existing database a pull down the schema or create from scratch. It currently allows modelling of tables and referential integrity constraints and generates SQL for the model. It saves the schema in open XML format.
Designer for Jasper 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137129/
Designer for Jasper is a visual report designer for Jasper Reports. The goal is to provide a highly capable end user friendly report design tool for Jasper Reports.
DHCP-locator 0.03.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137121/
DHCP-Locator is a pair of programs/scripts that log the switch IP address, port in switch, MAC address, and IP address when a host is getting an IP address from a DHCP server. It uses ISC DHCP server logs as input. It's excellent for abuse issues in large networks.
Diamond Wiki 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137078/
Diamond Wiki is an experimental wiki with an emphasis on metadata and faceted navigation.
Doulos Web Application Framework 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137147/
Doulos is a framework for rapidly developing object-oriented Web applications in PHP using the Model View Controller (MVC) paradigm. It elegantly reduces the total code that needs to be written to create an application, manages and validates form data, encapsulates SQL databases, and more.
DSPAM 2.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137135/
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.
Epylog 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137179/
Epylog is a log notifier and parser that periodically tails system logs on Unix systems, parses the output in order to present it in an easily readable format (parsing modules currently exist only for Linux), and mails the final report to the administrator. It can run daily or hourly. Epylog is written specifically for large clusters where many systems log to a single loghost using syslog or syslog-ng. Although Epylog can be used on standalone systems, other packages (like logwatch) are probably better suited for such purposes.
Fast IRC Stats Generator 0.3.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/137189/
Fast IRC Stats Generator (FISG) creates HTML pages with statistics about IRC logs. It has less features than some alternatives, but is much faster and can be run on low-end systems. It supports Irssi and Eggdrop log files.
FastParser 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137140/
Fast Parser is a high performance Java XML parser. Benchmarks measure it to be up to 100%+ faster than Xerces and the JDK1.4 integrated parser. It is ideal for Web services (SOAP) and XSL. The core parsing package (without DOM) is very compact. It features SAX Level 1 and 2 compliance, JAXP compatibility, namespace support, integration with JXMLPad for real time parsing, modular libraries, an embedded device mode (including minimal memory usage), optional XML Comment support, CDATA support, the ability to include any node type with a custom NodeFactory, and a walker for easily navigating through XML trees. Many API samples and benchmark tests are included. JDK1.1 or later is required.
fblogo 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137166/
fblogo will let you replace the penguin boot-logo you see when booting Linux kernels with framebuffer support. It takes a PNG image as input and generates an appropriate linux_logo.h, which can simply be included in the kernel. It will be displayed when the framebuffer device is enabled. You can also use it to generate full screen splash screens for the Linux Progress Patch.
Flava 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137156/
Flava is a personal video recording system which can be distributed over multiple nodes to perform the actions of recording, encoding, and storing television shows, as well as an adaptive management system, which can, among other things, track a series of programs and allow multiple users to make requests.
Fugu SSH 1.1.0 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137181/
Fugu SSH is a Mac OS X graphical frontend to OpenSSH's Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but, unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and it is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception. Fugu allows you to take advantage of SFTP's security without having to sacrifice the ease of use found in a GUI. Fugu also includes support for SCP files transfers, and the ability to create secure tunnels through SSH.
GCCP 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137084/
GCCP is a GURPS character creation program. It is a tool to help GURPS players generate characters. It calculates stats, advantages, skills, etc. It uses flat text databases that can be easily modified.
GeoToad 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137080/
GeoToad is a geocaching query tool to help speed up the boring part of geocaching: choosing the cache and collecting the data. It allows you to generate any kind of complex query you want, and the program will go and poll the Geocaching query, grab the data, and output it to any format you want. The Geocache info can be synced straight to your GPS, iPod, PDA, or cell phone in over 20 different formats.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137103/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
Green Night 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137092/
Green Night is a theme which was designed from generic to specific, instead of all specifics, so the whole theme is generally consistent with itself. The ideas come from some matrix themes and the standard Rancor theme.
Gtk2-Perl 1.00rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137105/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
Gujin 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137100/
Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your filesystems. It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot. Because it understands the structure of Linux kernel images, Gujin does not need LILO and can even load very big kernels. There is no need to execute anything after making a new kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the "/boot" directory. Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible.
heatseeker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137128/
heatseeker is a Visual Java hprof performance analyzer. It helps to detect memory leaks and thread locks and features a very simple, but extensible analysis engine.
HotWayd 0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137134/
HotWayd is a POP3-HTTPMail gateway. HTTPMail is an undocumented WebDAV-based protocol used by hotmail. This gateway allows any Unix email clients to downlaod messages from hotmail.com and msn.com email accounts via POP3.
hyperTreeApplet 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137152/
hyperTreeApplet can make an applet that is usable in Web pages for navigation, etc. It's based on the original hypertree application by Christophe Bouthier. The applet loads XML data, and is highly customizable.
iBackup 2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137124/
iBackup simplifies the task of backing up the system configuration files (those under /etc) for Solaris, *BSD, and Linux systems. You can run it from any directory and it will, by default, save the (maybe compressed) tarball to /root. It is possible to encrypt the tarball, to upload the tarball to another host, and to run the backup automated in a cron job. You can also create a nice HTML summary of a system using the included sysconf.
icecream 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137190/
icecream is a non-interactive stream download utility. It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers and redirects all fetched content to an stdin-capable player or to media files on your disk. With an option turned on, it can save the stream into different files, each representing the played track. It is also possible to tee the input to both disk and stdout.
IMMS 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137154/
IMMS is an intelligent playlist plug-in for XMMS that tracks the user's listening patterns and dynamically adapts to his/her taste. It is incredibly unobtrusive and easy to use as it requires no direct user interaction.
Impact 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137145/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
iWare 3.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137165/
iWare is a Web-based Content Management System designed to make creating a professional Web presence easy without the associated hassles of learning to program or master a third-party application. Setup is made easy through an intuitive installation script and installation guide. Changes to the site's content are made in realtime through an easy-to-use browser-based control panel. The visual appearance and layout properties can be changed instantly at a global level by selecting from pre-installed skins. Uploading and managing files is done through a browser-based file management utility.
Jamon 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137139/
Jamon is a text template engine for Java that is useful for generating dynamic HTML, XML, or any text-based content. It has a rich feature set that supports encapsulation, parameterization, functional decomposition, and reuse of presentation logic. Because it is compiled to non-reflective Java code, and statically type-checked, Jamon is ideally suited to supporting refactoring of template-based UI applications. Templates declare the arguments they require for rendering, including dynamic template content ("fragments"), and are translated into Java classes with public methods whose signatures reflect the arguments declared in the templates. This provides compile-time type- checking as well as excellent performance.
Jatha 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137075/
Jatha is a macro preprocessor for Java. It's different from most macro systems because it doesn't just perform textual substituation the way C macros do; instead, in Jatha, each macro is processed by custom Java code that you write yourself. It allows you to have very smart macros. You can put Jatha macros inside any kind of file--Java source files, C++ source files, plain text, etc. Jatha is not intended for use in Web sites or HTML, because it is not designed to do macro expansions whenever a page is requested.
Java Serialization to XML 2 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137137/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
JFtp 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137120/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP using its own FTP API and various other protocols like SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and file I/O using third party APIs. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming and queueing, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin), but can also be started locally.
Jinzora 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137131/
Jinzora is a Web-based media streamer, primarily designed to stream MP3s (but can be used for any media file that can stream from HTTP). It can be integrated into a PostNuke site, run as a standalone application, or be integrated into any PHP Website.
Jump n Bump 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137127/
You, as a bunny, have to jump on your opponents to make them explode. It's a true multiplayer game which can't be played alone. It has network support. This program is a Unix port of the old DOS game by brainchilddesign.
KricketScoreboard 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137099/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.
Kroneko 0.3.19d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137113/
Kroneko is a KDE3 tool for configuring cron and anacron.
lavaps 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137157/
LavaPS is an interactive process-tracking program like "top", but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important information in a graphical analog form. The idea is that you can run it in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening to your system without devoting much concentration to the task. Lavaps was inspired the idea of calm computing from "The Coming Age of Calm Technology" by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown.
Leif 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137158/
Leif is a KDE tool for the SonyEricsson T68/T68i mobile phone. It supports phonebook editing, SMS management, and file uploading.
Liferea 0.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137186/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader which also supports CDF feeds, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds, and OCS directories. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse and search through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.
Lightweight Neural Network 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137077/
Lightweight Neural Network is a lightweight implementation in C of a backpropagation neural network. It is intended for use in programs that just happen to need a simple neural network and do not want to incorporate a needlessly complex neural network library. It features multilayer backpropagation neural network with settable momentum and learning rate, easy portability, and small size.
linuxsms 0.69
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137161/
Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions.
logilab common python libraries 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137149/
This package contains some modules used by different projects released by Logilab, including abstract syntax tree manipulation tools, database helper functions, HTML generation, command line argument parsing, logging, and process daemonization.
Lukkari 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137151/
Lukkari is a J2ME/MIDP application that allows you to view and edit your weekly course schedule. It can handle overlapping courses, run on a wide range of devices and screen resolutions, and import and export the schedule via HTTP or SMS.
MACCC 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137087/
MP3 Automagic CD Cover Creator (MACCC) creates printable CD covers for MP3 CDs (front and back for full-size cases, front-only for slimline). These covers are great for use with in-dash car MP3 CD players. The covers it outputs are in CDInsert format, CDRLabel format, HTML, and .txt format.
Mega Upload 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137132/
Mega Upload provides a progress monitor for PHP file uploads. It is simple to install and can be easily integrated with existing Web applications.
Memo 1.9.4 (GTK2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137142/
Memo displays the time as text (e.g. "It's just gone five to ten"), and your next appointments, memos, and alarms in a small window.
mnoGoSearch 3.2.15 (3.2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137114/
mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and external parsers support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support.
mod_cplusplus 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137083/
mod_cplusplus does for C++ programmers similar things to what mod_perl does for Perl. It not only cleans up the interface to Apache by wrapping common structures and functionality with objects and methods, but it also allows you to implement any type of handler simply by subclassing, instead of hooking functions.
Mod_scrmable 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137130/
Mod_scrmable is an Apache module which scrambles words, leaving only the first and last letters in place. It filters HTML tags and scrambles all other words.
MPlayer 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137126/
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.
nut 9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137146/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 16, which contains 6,661 foods
and 125 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins,
minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and
includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6.
Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the
familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can
be fully customized. Recipes can be added, and graphs drawn. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
osdchat 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137081/
osdchat allows users to send messages from a console client to the on-screen display on a remote machine. It uses the xosd library.
PBButtonsd 0.5.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137119/
PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on the Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. It controls the display brightness, the sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. It also provides basic power management features. An included client gives the user visual feedback about all actions with nice little popup windows.
PHP Doc System 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137095/
PHP Doc System allows developers to create modules for documentation elements (installation steps, buttons, screens, etc.) and then refer to them instead of having to copy/paste information they'd want to have in two or more places. It can run as dynamic PHP, including everything on the fly or it can output static HTML that can be included in a software distribution.
PHP Text File Database 0.2.2-beta-01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137104/
With the PHP Text File Interface (Txt-Db-API) you can access normal text files like an SQL Database. You don't need any special database software on the Web server, yet you can still use SQL calls. You can use the API to create, query, change, or delete SQL tables, and you don't have to bother with the text files themselves; almost everthing can be done with the supported API calls. The Txt-Db-API is object-oriented and very simple to use.
PPR 1.52