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[osdn developer] March 25, 2003
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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SoX 12.17.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262862
SoX is meant to be the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion. This release adds support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame; and a number of bugfixes. I'd like to announce the release of SoX 12.17.4. It is avaliable from http://sox.sourceforge.net/. The following things have changed since the release of SoX 12.17.3: o Peter Nyhlen fixed a problem with reading Comments in Ogg Vorbis files. o Added install target to allow installing libgsm from main Makefile. Leigh Smith. o Minor updates to sox.c to free unused memory and close all input files during failures. o Pieter Krul added a patch that makes play script look at AUDIODEV environment variable if it exists to find which device to use. This allows scripts to work with Solaris SunRays and is a good idea in general. o Updated config.sub to detect latest supported OS's. o Fabrizio Gennari added support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame. o Jens Henrik Goebbert sent in several bugfixes for integer overflows in the compand effect. o Dan Dickerman sent in patches for integer overflows in the resample effect. o Jimen Ching sent in a fix for multi-channel sound file processing using the avg effect. o Richards Bannister added patches to clean up prototypes and filter private sizes being to small. o Jimen Ching adds -d option to specify 64bit data size and changed Ulaw/Alaw encoding to default to 8bit data size if not specified. o David Singer pointed out that a MS program creates AIFF files with an invalid length of 0 in its header. Changed SoX to warn the user but continue instead of aborting since SoX can still read the file just fine. o Bert van Leeuwen added a file handler for Psion record.app used for System/Alarms in some Psion devices. o Richard Bannister sent in a patch to make writing vorbis files work with Vorbis 1.0 libraries. o Fixed configure scripts so that they can be ran with the --with-oss-dsp, --with-alsa, and --with-sun-audio options. Was causing compile time problems. Reported by Raul Coronado. o Change Ogg Vorbis support to use VBR encoding to match defaults of oggenc based on suggestion from Christian Weisgerber. o Prints error message now when a channel value of -1 is given. Reported by Pierre Fortin. o Fixed bug were memory could be trashed if a input WAV file contained a comment. Found by Rhys Chard. o Change command line to compile soxmix.o slightly to try and make Forte compiler happy. o Added support for ALSA 0.9 driver. Jimen Ching
FileZilla 2.1.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262828
FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. This release provides a number of new features and bugfixes. New features: - added statusbar to local and remote file list which shows the number of (selected) folders and files with their size - added remote group / owner column - sort settings of fileviews can be saved - Aborting file exists dialog now skips transfer - enlarged transfer buffer, high-speed FTP transfers should be slightly faster now. - renamed gssapi.dll into FzGSS.dll. If you have gssapi.dll from older version in your FileZilla folder, you can delete it. - improved exception handling - updated to OpenSSL version 0.9.7a Fixed bugs: - FTP over SSL no longer forces passive mode - remote column widths were not saved correctly - fixed download options page in installer - fixed crash if no data was sent/received during transfer for over 60 seconds and transfer did continue then - silent installer now working properly (use /S switch)
NAT Monitor (natmonitor) v 0.5 STABLE relased http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262854
A graphical monitor to keep tracks of hosts bandwidth usage in a Linux-NAT network. It autodetect hosts and has a nice summary statistic. Now critical parts are complete. Program will still remain in alpha state for a while, but seems stable and working. Next relase will probabily have a better UI (I'm thinking about adding some menus and a prefs windows) Download and test please, and summit me any problem/bug!
TM4J 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262842
This is the latest stable release of TM4J. Primarily this release is a bug-fix release. A number of bugs in the tolog query processing were fixed. TM4J is a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java. Topic maps are a standard paradigm for the interchange of knowledge structures. This project aims to produce a complete suite of tools for creating, processing and publishing topic map information. In addition, this release clears up the way that resourceLocator and id properties of objects interact when the topic map is exported to XTM files. For more details see the release notes. Thanks to all those who reported bugs with TM4J 0.8.1 and who provided patches and helpful comments.
Audacity sound editor 1.1.3 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261798
Audacity 1.1.3 is the latest development snapshot of Audacity, a multitrack sound editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows. Version 1.1.3 includes a mixer toolbar for directly controlling the hardware input and output levels and recording source, gain and pan controls in every track, improved audio I/O with lower latency, higher quality resampling, and more. Audacity's project files now use standard AU files, so they can be read by other programs, but unfortunately this version of Audacity cannot open project files written by previous versions of Audacity.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-03-18 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262061
0. Intro 1. New RSS Feeds 2. New SF.NET Download mirrors. 3. Project of the month 4. Work for SourceForge.net 5. Stats and Top Projects SF.NET Sitewide Update sponsored by IBM:
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Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With this sitewide update, I'm pleased to announce two new enhancements to SourceForge.net. First, we've implemented new RSS feeds that are accessible to all projects and developers to aid in the publishing of information and project status to other sites. Second, SF.NET has added two new download servers, including our first mirror in Australia. Details below. Progress on IBM DB2's deployment on SF.NET continues. We are in the final phases of testing before we rollout it out to SouceForge.net itself. Currently, only mailing list archives are being powered by DB2. As you might have noticed in recent weeks, SF.net's project search database has been overwhelmed at times. As we roll out DB2 to the rest of the site in April, we expect this issue, and other issues like it to be resolved. Finally, in this time of global political uncertainty, it is good to be reminded that Open Source software has no boundaries. The work you do on your Open Source project benefits countless individuals and nations in every corner of the globe. Regardless of location, faith, or race, developers are collaborating together to create software that will not only benefit themselves, but all of humanity. At a time when it's hard to see something positive in the news, remember in our own way, the Open Source community is making a difference. Thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source software movement. As always, if you have a question or want to share feedback regarding the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET pat@sf.net New RSS Feeds.
- A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 New SF.NET Download mirrors.
- SF.NET now has two additional download mirrors. The first, Flow Communications, is our first mirror in Australia. We know, from looking at statistics, that SF.NET has many enthusiastic developers 'down under'. We are very excited that SF.net now has a server in Australia to allow users in that part of the world acquire files faster. To learn more about Flow Communication, please visit their website at: http://www.flow.com.au/ Our second new mirror is Aleron, located in Virgina, USA. Aleron provides high-speed, high-performance Internet connectivity, data transmission and value-added network applications for it's customers. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.aleron.com/ The SF.NET team would like to thank Flow Communications, Aleron, and our other download partners, in helping distribute Open Source code and Open Source binaries around the world. Currently SF.NET serves approximately 500,000 files daily and these mirrors help a great deal in providing global accessibility to all of the software generated by our 60,000 projects. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the month.
- Keeping a team of people on task and well organized is a difficult chore. There are timelines to meet, information to organize, and the need to be more efficient. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the Month helps with all of these difficult issues. TUTOS, 'The ultimate team organization Software', is a broad focused Open Source Application targeted at making groups of individuals more successful when collaborating. Tutos Project of the month page: http://sourceforge.net/pom_0303.php Tutos Home Page: http://www.tutos.org Tutos SF.NET Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos Work for SourceForge.net
- We have a new position for a senior web developer available at SourceForge.net. We are looking for someone to help us maintain, upgrade, and add new features to SourceForge.net. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of development experience on high end, high volume websites (3+ million page views a day). He/she as a vast level of knowledge of Internet technologies: PHP, PostgreSQL, MYSQL, DB2, Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman. A flare for design / UI is a bonus. SourceForge is a unique site with unique challenges. We are looking for someone at the top of his/her game. Location of Job is in Fremont, California. Please send resume and URL's of sites you have worked on to jobs@sourceforge.net. Text resumes only. (No MSWORD files!) Stats and Top Projects.
- Number of Projects:
58,245 Number of Registered Users: 586,017 Daily Stats for March 12,
2003 SF.NET : 1,907,806 pages served SF.NET project web space :
3,211,337 pages served Total Pages: 5,119,143 CVS updates: 14,161 Open
Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 454,134 Outgoing Mailing list
emails: 1,362,151 Top 20 SourceForge.net Projects 1. Gaim
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client
that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC,
Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT
endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 2.
phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a
tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
the WWW. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 3. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/
The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to
play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported
video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia
jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 4. DC++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ This project is aimed at
producing a C++ version of the popular DirectConnect client, enhancing
functionality and performance. A hub (server) is planned. 5. JBoss.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading
Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server
implemented in 100% Pure Java. 6. eMule for Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmule/ This is a Linux port of eMule
client (see http://www.emule-project.net) using wxWindows class
library. 7 Miranda IM Client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/ A free Win32 instant
messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier. 8. zenTrack
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zentrack/ A complete project
management, bug tracking, ticket, and tech support/help desk/phone log
system. Tracker is configuable and adaptable; a simple design. Supports
most databases, including mySql, Oracle, postgres, others. Works on
Windows and Unix. 9. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for
Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas
from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M
revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier
functionality. 10. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email
classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a
web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.
- PCGen -- A Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 12. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 13. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 14. Newsfighter http://sourceforge.net/projects/newsfighter/ Newsfighter is a J2EE web portal designed and geared for indy media. It combines a skinnable template engine with a host of web-based content management features. Cross-site data sharing and trust modelling features are in the queue. 1.5 FreeCraft real-time strategy game engine http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently, only a W*rCr*ft II compatible theme is available. 16. Hibernate http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java. 17. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software; a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents, and your time spent with these things. 18. XMeeting http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmeeting/ The project goal is to produce a Mac OS X native application that does Internet VoIP and video conferencing. The application will base on protocol stack developed by openh323.org. 19. bitpim http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim/ BitPim allows synchronization of Phone Book, Calendar, WallPapers and RingTones with the LG VX4400 cell phone. 20. Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded, built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg.
New release lksctp-2_5_65-0_6_8 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262312
A new release of lksctp based on linux kernel 2.5.65 is available for download. This includes a kernel patch against 2.5.65 that includes sctp specific changes that didn't go into 2.5.65; and a lksctp tools tar ball that includes the user level library and test programs for sctp users and developers. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol. Developed by the IETF SIGTRAN working group to transport SS7 over IP, it is now the third general-purpose transport developed by the IETF. NOTE: Several users reported build/configure issues for the previous release of lksctp-tools. We are still investigating this issue, but have been unable to reproduce this issue locally. If you see the following error: ... checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try `ltconfig --help' for more information. configure: error: libtool configure failed make: *** [config.status] Error 1 we'd greatly appreciate any debugging/fix for the issue. Best Regards, Jon Grimm
SpamAssassin 2.51 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262344
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial email. Download at: http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html If you're running 2.50, this release is strongly recommended, since 2.50 cannot expire Bayes tokens from its databases. It's also no longer a beta release. Changes: - Bayes locking and concurrency issues fixed - Bayes expiration was not working; fixed - spamd was not enabling Bayes after auto-learning without restart; fixed - safer way to attach spams, for broken mail clients, using 'report_safe 2' - a few doco cleanups
EJBCA 2.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261721
EJBCA 2.0 is finally released after extensive development and testing. This is an important milestone for EJBCA and with all the new features it is ready for the enterprise. EJBCA is a fully functional certificate authority with a very flexible and powerful administration interface. Changes ------------- Added Hard Token funtionallity, EJBCA can now store store pin/puk data in database. Added email notification to added end entities. Added Key Recover funtionallity. Changed initial temporary super administrator from "CN=Walter" to "CN= SuperAdmin". Removed CA and ROOTCA types in "ra adduser" cmd, from now on use certificate profiles. Added allowOverrideKeyUsage in certificate profiles. New fields in DN, givenname, surname, initials. ExtendedKeyUsage extension (for use in OutLook). New servlet in adminweb, AdminCertReqServlet that creates users out of PKCS10- requests. Moved batch and deploy scripts into build.xml. Moved external jars into ear-file. Tested on Weblogic 7.1. Lots of bugfixes and cleanups. A copy of our latest release can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39716&release_id= 147439
XOOPS 1.3.9 released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261713
The XOOPS team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 1.3.9 If you
are already running XOOPS2 RC2 or a first time user, please read
http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=700 This release
includes a number of security based enhancements which fix possible
cross site script and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Therefore all
1.3.8 users are STRONGLY ADVISED to upgrade as soon as possible. It
also includes an upgrade script that will modify one of the database
tables to enhance performance of database access. - Full Package
http://www.xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=16 For new
users that would like to use XOOPS 1.3.x for some reason instead of
XOOPS2 ;-). This package contains entire XOOPS 1.3.9 source and a
several number of language packages. - Patch Files
http://www.xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=341 ->
[tar.gz]
http://www.xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=342 ->
[zip] For those who already have XOOPS 1.3.8 running. This package
contains only the files that have been modified from XOOPS 1.3.8. To
upgrade from 1.3.8, overwrite the old files with the new ones, then
point your browser to 138_to_139.php and follow the instruction
displayed. Don't forget to remove this file from the server after the
upgrade is complete.
Slashdot
Robots!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2342222
[0]i4u writes "Sony introduces at the [1]Robodex 2003 it's new version
of the humanoid Robot SDR-4X. The [2]Sony SDR-4X was introduced last
year. The new version [3]SDR-4X II has improved movement functions,
safety functions and conversation capabilities. The new speech
processor supports continuous speech recognition with about 20,000
words. The Sony SDR-4X II is about 580x190x270mm in size and weighs
about 7kg. [4]Sony Japanse Press-Release. See also the new robot
Toshiba announced - the [5]ApriAlpha."
Links
0.
http://www.i4u.com
1.
http://www.robodex.org/
2.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13
3.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255&mode=&order=0&thold=0
4.
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/200303/03-0324/
5.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Hacker Leaks Unreleased CERT Reports
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2339240
Call Me Black Cloud writes "A hacker calling himself "Hack4Life"
[0]swiped 3 unpublished vulnerability reports from a company working
with CERT and posted them to the Full Disclosure mailing list. A couple
of days later, he did it [1]again (while promising weekly leaks). Wired
also has a [2]story, including a [3]link to one of the postings."
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993375.html?tag=fd_ots
1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,962679,00.asp
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58106,00.html
3.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/004526.htmlDesigners - Are You Influenced By What You Read? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2346233
[0]Silent_E asks: "A student of mine is writing a paper on how
Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_ offers a good educational model for
distance learning. She has been asked by publishers to justify looking
at fiction as a way of talking about 'the real world.' That dialogue
made me wonder whether Slashdot folks currently or recently coding or
doing hardware design are, or have been, directly inspired by what
they've read in Science Fiction?"
Links
0. http://emrigsby AT yahoo DOT com
Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0032236
douglips writes "Yahoo News has [0]the story. He's best remembered for the blunder of announcing that his next version of the Osborne portable computer was so much better, that nobody bought the current version and the company died quickly. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon." Links
Watching Kids Via Mobile Phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2247201
Joe the Lesser writes "This BBC article says how parents could soon keep a much closer eye on what children are up to on their way to and from school thanks to a [0]mobile monitoring system. It will send text alerts to their mobile phone if the child deviates too far from that route or takes too long getting there." Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2869337.stm
Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2125236
An anonymous reader writes "According to an [0]article at The Inquirer, by May 30th [1]Office Depot will only be carrying computer products that have been certified by Microsoft and carry the 'Designed for Windows XP' logo. This may be an initial glimpse at how Microsoft could introduce Digital Restrictions Management by ensuring all retail hardware and software products are approved by Redmond." Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8472
Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1947249
[0]Garfunkel writes "Looks like Red Hat is breaking tradition and
skipping 8.1 and 8.2 and [1]jumping directly to 9.0 RHN subscribers get
it a week ahead on March 31st. Available to the rest the world a week
later (April 7)." The website refers to the upcoming release simply as
"9" -- which doesn't rule out future point releases, but could it be?
Links
0. mailto:jay@@@jayandcarissa...com
Building A Better Inbox (Updated)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/190256
vudujava writes "[0]c|net is reporting that a new free (Update: not
free, actually, read more for details.), [1]web based email service is
opening it's doors today. They promise to deliver "100% spam free"
email to their users by using a challenge-response system to all
incoming, first-time mail. Catch the entire story [2] here. Although
the idea isn't new, it shows that we are notching up the "war on
spam"." Alert reader George Hotelling points out this [3]post on
Politech which may give you pause when it comes to the new mail
service's Terms of Service. And [4]kraksmoka writes "As reported on
this [5]article on MSNBC : 'Hotmail subscribers are now limited to
sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from
using Hotmail to spread spam,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product
manager.'"
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/
1.
http://www.mailblocks.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-992911.html?tag=nl
3.
http://politechbot.com/p-04580.html
4. mailto:grantstern@@@mac...com
5.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/890012_asp.htm?0cv=CB20
Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1746219
medscaper writes "Authorities in China are using computers to [0]spam
mobile phones of law-breakers until they turn themselves in.
Apparently, lots of illegal advertisements as stickers with
mobile-phone numbers listed are placed around large cities and are
becoming an eyesore. So, the authorities call the cell phones
incessantly with recorded messages that demand the "businessmen" to
turn themselves in."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-993822.html
Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/170259
gcondon writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft is teaming up with the [0]University of Leeds [1]to teach students how to write secure code. Given the sheer number of programming errors that can lead to security vulnerabilities, it probably makes sense to learn from the company that has [2]tried them all." [3]UndercoverBrotha points out that University of Leeds is one of several venues: "Microsoft is planning to offer [4]11-week courses at Universities around the world." Links
0.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/
1.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/29899.html
2.
http://www.securityfocus.com/microsoft
3.
http://codemonkey2600 AT yahoo DOT com
4.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,79579,00.html
Freshmeat
Audacity 1.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117368/
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. Audacity runs on Linux/*BSD, MacOS, and Windows.
AutoUpdate 4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117356/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
BioCoRE 3.3.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117375/
BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features.
BKchem 0.4.2-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117343/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
ConvertAll 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117336/
ConvertAll is a unit conversion program in which units can be combined with multiplication and division operators and can be squared, cubed, etc. The interface is graphical, allowing the units to be selected from lists and the conversions to be made in both directions. Non-linear units (such as temperatures and gauge sizes) are supported. The unit data file can be easily modified to add additional units. ConvertAll is based on the PyQt library.
CRUX 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117392/
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries.
CVSspam 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117328/
CVSspam sends email when a change is commited to the CVS repository. Syntax-highlighted diffs describe the changes made, and hyperlinks to Bugzilla and ViewCVS/Chora are generated where possible.
dartool 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117396/
dartool effectively deals with the annoyance caused by recruiters reposting the same positions every day on DICE. Doing so renders the time period selection on the site nearly worthless, and makes job seekers lives much more difficult by forcing them to weed through all of the posts they've already seen. This program addresses the problem by building a cache of already seen posts, and creating a local Web page each time it is run that only lists positions that haven't been seen before. It was tested with MySQL, but should work out of the box with any DBI-compliant database.
DataVision 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117339/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
DCP-Portal 5.4 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117316/
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
Deep Saturated 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117334/
Deep Saturated is a theme with deep saturated colors and reliefed buttons. It looks smooth and mysterious.
execline 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117355/
execline is a very light, non-interactive scripting language, which is similar to a shell. Simple shell scripts can be easily rewritten in the execline language, improving performance and memory usage. execline was designed for use in embedded systems, but works on most Unix flavors.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117364/
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. It includes a Firewall Creation Wizard, edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities, support for IP aliases, custom protocols, user defined chains, limit matches, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.
FFTW 2.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117318/
FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).
FLP-i18n 1.051
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117389/
FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.
Free Realty 2.7 pre 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117366/
Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package, "... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the ultimate goal of this project.
Horst The Cyborg 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117330/
Horst The Cyborg is a single-server, single-channel IRC bot written in C.
HTTP-WebTest 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117377/
HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with third-party plugins.
Hydrogen 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117365/
Hydrogen is a simple real-time Drum machine/sequencer. It features a graphical user interface based on Qt 3, a sample-based audio engine, OSS/Jack/Export to disk audio drivers, ALSA MIDI input, ability to import/export XML-based song files, 64 ticks per pattern, 16 voices with volume, mute, solo, and pan capabilities, and import of samples in wave, au, and aiff format.
IP-Accounting Grapher 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117397/
IP-Accounting Grapher is a PHP script that outputs IP-Accounting information collected by Linux IP accounting on a hourly, daily, and monthly basis.
Issue Manager 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117376/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117363/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
Jess 6.1RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117358/
Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial use.
jMax 4.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117369/
jMax allows one to interactively design dataflow circuits. The basic data types that can go through are integers, symbols, lists, etc. It is an event-driven system and has been used for MIDI processing. A second part of the system (DSP) allows a continuous signal to flow through a circuit, which is most useful for PCM sound (ie. microphone, sound files, etc). The system is extensible by using shared libraries, you may add data processor types, data types, GUI elements, device types, and more. Data processors may also be designed as circuits and reused.
Kalyp 0.3.3-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117322/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together.
Languenet 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117324/
Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.
lanoche 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117333/
'lanoche' makes writing reports about Linux on different laptops a little easier. It generates a hardware report about laptop specific features in HTML. It is a small shell script, using programs like 'free', 'apm', and others to get hardware information. Currently no hardware libraries are used, but you may find a short survey of libraries and other hardware detection tools. The name LaNoChe is an acronym of "LAptop or NOtebook CHEck".
libquantum 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117342/
libquantum is a C library for the simulation of a quantum computer. It provides an interface for a quantum register and for all important quantum operations. An efficient model for decoherence allows an analysis of quantum computation under a realistic environment.
LinCVS 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117323/
LinCVS is an easy-to-use graphical frontend for the CVS-client. It supports CVS versions 1.9 and higher. It can check out a module from and import of a module to a repository, update or retrieve the status of a working directory or single files, and perform common operations like add, remove, commit, diff against the repository, or view the log messages in list form.
Log Watcher 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117387/
lwatch is a log parser/analyzer written in C with the PCRE library. It is small and efficient. You are able to define your own colors using regexp patterns. The biggest advantage compared to other tools written in Perl is its speed.
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117383/
The Login Anomaly Detection System (LADS) detects anomalies in logins and logouts and is able to perform various actions in response.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117354/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many "exotic" filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117362/
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, and more.
Moto 0.19.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117400/
Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion. The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining state in objects between page views is a snap.
MrPostman 1.0RC4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117348/
MrPostman is a Java program that acts as a POP mail server to interface your favorite mail client with Web Mail services like Yahoo! or Hotmail. It is designed so that new Webmail services can be written and used as plugins.
MyFTPAdmin 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117357/
MyFTP Admin is a Web-based GUI to easily view and administer users and groups for the ProFTPD server. It allows you to manage users and groups, view transfer logs (both uploads and downloads) and error logs, and view disk capacity.
network traffic volume capture to postgresql 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117337/
This is a Unix daemon that captures traffic packet size, source, destination, and times and saves this data into a postgres database in near real time, from which traffic reports may be made. It does not save the actual data or headers. Works on ethX or cooked devices like ppp0. It uses Postgres embedded SQL to insert the data, pcap to capture traffic, and pthreads to capure and write at the same time. It is written in C++ using STL. Pcap filters can be specified on the command line. Logs go to syslog.
nut 7.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117391/
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 15, which contains 6,220 foods. 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. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
nxtvepg 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117326/
nxtvepg is a decoder and browser for Nextview - a subscription-free electronic TV program guide in the analog domain. Nextview currently is broadcasted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France and covers the schedules of all major TV networks in these countries. nxtvepg is an X11 application with a GUI based on Tcl/Tk and uses the bttv driver for data acquisition through a TV tuner card.
OpenNA Linux RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117393/
OpenNA Linux is a full, professional quality Unix OS with rock-solid stability and industrial-strength networking. Highly secure, very fast, and modern Linux operating system, it is intended for those who want to install and run a Linux server for mission critical tasks in a high security environment.
OS X XWhois 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117345/
XWhois is an OS X whois client which automatically selects the appropriate server for most whois queries. It also returns the SOA information for the given domain and supports the new .com registration system and RIPE-based XXXX-RIPE requests.
Penguin Greetings 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117344/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl CGI application to implement Internet greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It is intended to make ecards more like email. Cards are sent as multipart MIME email. The text of the card is included and the Reply-to field contains the card sender's email so that recipients can reply to the card even with a text-only email client. The HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in templates so that users can easily customize the look of the program. Penguin Greetings incorporates Embperl so that full Perl expressions can be incorporated in to templates for server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file to avoid giving world wide access to your server. The emailing function and data storage are carried out by a separate daemon program which allows for cards to be mailed on specific dates and improves security and logging.
Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117370/
Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2, Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users.
PHP TroubleTicket 0.2.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117327/
PHP Trouble Ticket attempts to adress the need for a centralized means of problem reporting and tracking in multi-user environments (medium to large companies, development groups, etc.). It helps to direct problem reports to the responsible administrator(s), keep track of the status of a problem being worked on, and offers an up-to-date list of recent changes applied. PHP Trouble Ticket aims to be widely configurable, easy to use even for the not technically inclined and multi-language capable.
php-dbi 20030324
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117340/
php-dbi attempts to emulate the Perl database abstraction layer by implementing the methods provided by the object-oriented Perl DBI. It also allows the usage of placeholders, unlike most of the native PHP database functions.
phpExifRW 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117320/
phpExifRW is a pure PHP class to read, write, and transfer EXIF information that most digital cameras produce. This class overcomes the problem of most distributions that do not add Exif extensions in their default installation of PHP.
PHPlist 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117360/