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[osdn developer] June 02, 2003
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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June 02, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
phpWebSite 0.9.2 Stable released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281285
Final version of phpWebSite 0.9.2. Includes many bug fixes, new control panel, categorized pages, and more. Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.4.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281289
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This release includes bug fixes. This HP Linux Inkjet Driver (HPIJS) release has the following changes. 1. Fixed a GCC 2.95 compile problem with debug.h. 2. Fixed a foomatic-install issue with gzip 1.3 in Makefile.am. Removed the gzip -r option. 3. Updated the foomatic PPD files for HPIJS. See hpinkjet.sourceforge.net and the hpijs_readme.html file for more information.
XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281026
The XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 point release source code is now available here on SourceForge.net. This release includes On-Screen Display (OSD), HDTV 720p & 1080i support, and support for a number of additional codecs. 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. What's new: - OSD (On Screen Display) with various of settings during video playback
- Audio Visualization (using Goom visual effects generator) -
Local/native SHOUTcast recording to the Xbox hard drive - Local/native
support for SHOUTcast & IceCast playlists (.sc & .pls) - HDTV 720p &
1080i support (multiple resolutions & progressive scan)* - TV-Guide (w.
IMDb) (XMLTV show listings, requires PC w. internet)* - Command line
option available when launch a XBE via shortcut (.cut) - DivX 5.03
(inc. 5.03 Pro) playback support* - AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264)
playback* - Real - RealAudio/RealVideo playback (Note! older versions only)* - QuickTime 6.0 video playback (video only & no audio yet)* - Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) video playback support* - Intel Indeo 3.1/3.2
(Indeo3) video playback support* - Matroska (.mkv) audio/video
multimedia container/file format* - NuppelVideo (.nuv) playback support* - Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation playback support* - AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-4 audio) support* - Updated picture library, now also support PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX - Support for compressed VobSub subtitles (rar) (Small files only!)* - Auto-launch Xbox game on insert (inc. enable/disable feature) - XBMSP - Xbox Media Streaming Protocol (version 1.0.12)* - Clock/date synchronization from external
(NT SNTP) Time Server - System info under Settings (build date, free
space, IP, temperature) - Ability to choose which categories show up in main menu - Support for separate local subtitle directory on HDD - Read support for MP3 ID3v1 and ID3v2 information tags - Support for MPEG & OGM files larger than 2GB (not OpenDML AVI's) - Auto clipping/cropping filter (for videos with black letter-boxes) - De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implemented* - Screen saver (black screen) on configurable timer - Auto-launch other xbe (application) on Audio-CD insert - Auto-launch other xbe (application) on DVD-movie insert - Extract IMBd URL & info from .nfo file (if selected in My Videos) - IMBd improvements (All genres, ratings, Top250, cast overview) - Integrated updated FFmpeg, XviD, XBFileZilla and MPlayer code ...and of course loads of bug fixes, and some new XBMP skins * = experimental, unstable, buggy or limited Our thanks go out to all developers & everyone who contribute & support this project, and a special BIG thanks goes to the MPlayer, FFmpeg and XviD developers/projects. We also welcome the Support Tech's from xbmp.de to the XboxMediaPlayer Team. Much more release information is available in the XBMP Forum thread on www.xboxmediaplayer.com. Note! We do not host or distribute any Xbox executable binaries, read the FAQ. Note! Do not e-mail any XBMP members asking for files or support, see the FAQ. PS! Unfortunate Shadow_Mx suffered a systemcrash so no new manual yet.
Python 2.2.3 (final)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281315
Python 2.2.3 final is released. The Python programming language is an object-oriented scripting and rapid application development language. See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-05-23 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281406
0. Intro 1. Improved Admin Interface 2. Project of the month: POPFile 3. New Irish download mirror. 4. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3 5. New RSS Feeds. 6. Stats and Top Projects
Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With seventy new projects being added to the site daily, sometimes the SF.NET team misses a few of the more intriguing ones as they fly through our registration queue. This was the case with BIE, a brand new project from WDI, a division of Brunswick, the bowling, billiard, and boating firm. We weren't aware of the project until the press release ended up in my inbox, with a URL pointing to the project on SourceForge.net. BIE is a Java based 'Business Integration Engine' that is designed to help organizations exchange data created in different applications on various platforms with partners, suppliers, and customers in order to streamline processes and improve efficiency. Brunswick essentially built the enterprise software in-house for their own needs to transfer data between themselves and their large installed base of dealers. Last week, they released the software under the GPL to not only give back to the community that has helped them a great deal but also to increase the level of development and usage of the software. Given that Brunswick is a large public company, it will be an interesting project to watch. It very well may prove to be an excellent success story for other corporations thinking about getting involved with the development of Open Source software. You can view the project here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bie
http://www.brunswickwdi.com/index.pl/bie In other news, this sitewide email has a number of tidbits that you'll find interesting, including a new download server in Europe, improved admin interface, and the project of the month. Read below for more details. As always, thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. If you have any feedback or issues regarding SourceForge.net, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net Pat@sf.net Improved Project Admin Interface
- In our continued efforts to improve the overall usability and functionality of the SourceForge.net site, the SourceForge.net team has produced a new Project Administration interface. The new Project Admin interface includes integrated documentation and tips for managing your project. A significant amount of new information (not available previously) is now provided via the Project Admin pages. A subset of the Project Admin pages are now accessible to project developers (non-admins) as that they may also take advantage of this new information. This interface change includes an updated menu layout, direct access to service-specific details, and links to relevant site documentation. SourceForge.net provides a number of services to each hosted project; historically it has been difficult for inexperienced developers and new project administrators to take full advantage of these services. The new Project Admin interface has been designed specifically to provide the information needed by new project administrators to begin using their SourceForge.net project resources immediately, and to help experienced administrators to use SourceForge.net more effectively. All project administrators are encouraged to explore the updated Project Admin pages for their project. The Project Admin interface may be accessed using the "Admin" link in the horizontal menu bar for your project, found on the Project Summary page. SourceForge.net's May 2003 Project of the month: POPFile.
- Email is the "killer app" of the Internet, but keeping up with the sheer volume of incoming email arriving in one's inbox, particularly with the avalanche of Spam, is a daunting task. POPFile is a powerful, learning, application designed to make sorting incoming email an automatic task. Simply teach POPFile how you want your email sorted into folders and POPFile does the rest. With users reporting automatic sorting as high as 98% accuracy, POPFile is truly a universal time saver. POPFile has only been on SourceForge.net for the past 6 months, but given the tremendous need for such a product on the net and it's ability to work on all major computing platforms, it has enjoyed a top ten SF.NET project ranking essentially since it's inception. POPFile Project of the month page: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-05.php POPFile Home Page: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ POPFile SF.NET Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile New Irish download server.
- SF.NET has a new download mirror. HEAnet is providing both the hardware and bandwidth to support a SourceForge.net mirror in Ireland. HEAnet is Ireland's National Education and Research Network, providing high quality Internet Services to over 130,000 students and staff in Irish Universities, Institutes of Technology and other educational and research organizations. The SF.NET team would like to thank HEAnet for their generosity. http://www.heanet.ie/ Currently SF.NET serves approximately 500,000 files daily and our network of download mirrors (and the organizations that support them) help a great deal in providing global accessibility to all of the software generated by our 60,000+ projects. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3
- VA Software, OSDN and SourceForge.net's parent company, this week released SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3. Designed for use behind corporate firewalls, SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3 integrates development, collaboration and management tools, and creates a central repository for all software development information and activity. The new release includes integration support for PVCS Version Manager, support for webDAV and LDAP, and significant enhancements to issue tracking and project administration. For more information, please visit: http://www.vasoftware.com/sf New RSS Feeds.
- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. 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 Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 62,136 Number of Registered Users: 627,367 Daily Stats for May 15th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,655,343 pages served SF.NET project web space : 3,511,853 pages served Total Pages: 5,167,196 CVS updates: 14,823 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 304,126 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1258170 Top 25 SourceForge.net Projects 1. 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. 2. Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. 3. 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. 4. Tiki http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is full featured content management system suited to many types of online communities. Features include news, topics, wiki, polls, trackers, image galleries, forums, blogs, webmail, and much more. Using PHP, MySQL and Smarty. 5. 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 an non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 6. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Window http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ Import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build native Windows applications; now with added extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. 7. 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. 8. PCGen http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java role-playing character generator and maintenance program. All data files are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 9. Singapore http://sourceforge.net/projects/singapore/ A flexible image gallery PHP web application that stores information in a CSV-file database (MySQL support planned soon). Has web-based admin and cached auto-generated thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). XHTML and CSS compatible output only. 10. MAMEoX (MAME on XBOX) http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goal of the project is to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 11. Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 12. dotproject http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/ PHP web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions and themes 13. 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. 14. FileZilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 15. Step Mania http://sourceforge.net/projects/stepmania/ Step Mania is a music/rhythm game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode, and more! 16. YahooPOPs! - POP3/SMTP Access to Yahoo http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/ YahooPOPs! is an application that emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail server. You can use a mail client of your choice! 17. 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. 18. MegaMek http://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek/ MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots on a hex-based map. 19. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity. 20. 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. 21. Bochs x86 PC emulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/ Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation. 22. icewm http://sourceforge.net/projects/icewm/ icewm is a nice window manager designed for speed, usability and consistency. It is able to emulate the look of Motif, OS/2, Windows and allows to have a customizable look using pixmaps. 23. XNap - java filesharing client http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnap/ XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. Currently it includes an OpenNap plugin, with multiple server support, automatic downloading, resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist and an advanced media library. Features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode. 24. 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. 25. MPlayer OS X http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/ MPlayer OS X is project based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) port to Mac OS X platform. It consist of compiled binaries of mplayer and mencoder, separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player application based on mplayer binaries.
WebGUI 5.3
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279638
WebGUI 5.3 is here and packed with new goodies. It includes a new theme management system that will easily enable you to transport your designs and templates from one site to another with the click of a mouse. 5.3 also includes a new Data Form wobject that allows content managers to build simple data entry applications on the fly. The default rich editor has been upgraded to include direct integration with the collateral manager, spell checking, and emoticons. There is also a brand new trash and clipboard management system which makes it even easier to move your content around. Among dozens of other features there are also over 10 new macros to make your content mangement experience faster and easier. You can find our latest release here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51417
FreedroidRPG 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279673
Version 0.9.5 of Freedriod RPG has been released. Freedriod RPG is a graphical single player role playing game for Linux, featuring the Tux as the hero battling evil MS machines in a future universe. Version 0.9.5 now comes with map editor, dialog editor and item editor. Any new submissions for characters, dialogs, quests and other content welcome. You can find our latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521
YAM Amiga 2.4p1 bugfix release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279701
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce
the release of version 2.4p1 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client
(MUA). This release is a minor bugfix release which mainly fixes some
last-minute bugs that weren't fixed in the last full 2.4 release. YAM
(short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer
written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP,
TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders,
filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. You can find the latest
release here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13560
Columba 0.10.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280523
A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version fixes several bugs related to i18n and attachment issues. http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=news
par2cmdline v0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280247
PARv2.0 is a parity archive file format specification that uses
reed-soloman code to protect sets of files within your filesystem.
PARv2.0 allows for protection of files without having to archive them
first by operating on virtual "blocks" of data within those files. For
every N recovery blocks, you can recover N missing or corrupted blocks.
PARs main purpose is helping to insure binary usenet propigation, but
is by no means limited to that purpose. Announcement: Version 0.2 of
par2cmdline is now available for download in source code form from the
following URL:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/parchive/par2cmdline-0.2.tar.gz?down
load This version has been compiled and tested on the following
platforms (and you can download pre-compiled binaries for them from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30568&release_id=
161776): CPU OS Distribution --- -- ------------ Alpha Linux 2.2 Debian
3.0 Cerfcube SA1110 Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 J2EEE IBM Websphere PPC G4
MacOS X 10.2 Server Edition Sparc R220 Sun Solaris 8 Sparc Ultra 60
Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 x86 Cygwin 1.3.22 x86 Linux 2.4 Debian 2.2 x86
Linux 2.4 Red Hat 7.3 x86 Linux 2.4 Red Hat 9.0 x86 Windows The
following changes have been made since version 0.1 was released: *
Corrected a fault in the handling of filenames that have 8-bit
characters. * Reduced restrictions on permitted characters in filenames
on unix operating systems. * Added many portability enhancements
including the use of GNU Autoconf/Automake for configuration and
compiling on different cpu/os platforms. * Added support for verifying
and repairing using version 1.0 PAR files. Please report any problems
you encounter with this version of par2cmdline in the parchive tracker
at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=30568 Peter B Clements
(Author of par2cmdline and QuickPar) The Parchive Project
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/parchive
Slashdot
Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/208205
Makarand writes "Geckos have a remarkable ability to climb the most smooth surfaces and hang from glass ceilings with a single toe. Their feet are covered with millions of nanoscopic keratin hairs that can exert an intermolecular force - called van der Waals force - producing an adhesive effect on surfaces they walk on. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have been able to [0]mimic the adhesive ability of Gecko feet with a synthetic material that could find applications in new types of vehicle tires or allowing robots to climb walls. The material is made by using a mould created by a lithographic process and consists of a flexibile and strong substrate covered with 100 million nanoscopic hair each centimetre square. It might take several more years before Gecko tape is made commercially available to the wanna-be Spiderman, but he will have to thank the Gecko for that, not the spider." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993785
SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates* http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0020218
[0]Neuropol writes "In the most rescent [1]Seti@home news letter. Seti recieved (only!) 24 hours of telescope time at Arecibo to investigate interesting points in the sky where signals have not only shown up once but several times in data crunches in the last 4 years. The Planetary Society web site has an excellent [2]summary of the reobservations. The Seti web site lists the reobservation targets and the [3]7,000 users whose computations directly contributed to finding them." Links
0. mailto:mbyland@ioc(no!spam!)us.com
1.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.html
2.
http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/index.html
3.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/candidates.htmlOnline Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1958251
[0]theodp writes "It seems the [1]online auction industry is in a state
of limbo after last week's ruling that [2]eBay violated patents
belonging to MercExchange. MercExchange said it will file an injunction
against eBay to keep them from using the technology, eBay said it will
file motions to overturn the verdict, and MercExchange is ultimately
looking to sell its entire portfolio of auction-related patents. Names
being bandied about as possible acquirers include Amazon, Yahoo and
eBay itself. Whoever holds the patents may require other sites to pay
them licensing royalties."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y203/m06/abu0096/s01
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2351250&tid=155
Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/195246
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The Three Gorges Dam, the largest
hydroelectric project in the world, and one of the largest engineering
projects underway right now, has [1]begun accumulating water in the
reservoir."
Links
0. mailto:root_excavator@yahoo.com
PeltierBeer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0023219
[0]Helstein writes "Finishing a beer in the sun before it gets warm is usually not a problem, but what about those really hot days? Having some hardware lying around there is only one solution to keep the beer cool, that's to make a [1]PeltierBeer." Links
0. mailto:arnesen@ntnu.no
Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1835211
zoobaby writes "MTV has given the LoTR franchise credit for spectactular work with Gollum. After being snubbed by the Academy Awards, it is nice to see [0]recognition given to one of the most expressive and best acted roles in recent films." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/01/mtv.movie.awards.ap/index.html
Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1828201
An anonymous reader writes "The Rosetta mission planners have
[0]announced today that after an [1]indefinite launch delay earlier
this year, their goal of landing on a comet is back on track. Their new
baseline target is a rendezvous with the comet,
[2]Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in November 2014. En route to the comet,
Rosetta will inspect [3]two asteroids ([4]Otawara and Siwa) at close
quarters."
Links
0.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article483.html
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/155250&tid=160
2.
http://cometography.com/pcomets/067p.html
3.
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Rosetta/ESAFIF7708D_0.html
4.
http://www.minorplanets.de/rosetta/otawara.html
The Soldier is the Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1825223
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "This article from [1]InfoWorld says that "in the battle of the future, the helmet becomes a data retrieval device." It describes a scenario where soldiers are equipped with sensors and other networking equipment. "Each person is a network with routing capability to everyone else," says Peter Marcotullio, director of development at SRI International. This technology should be available in five years for the military, which probably means that we'll become networks ourselves ten years from now. Check [2]this column for a summary. Please note that this article is part of a special report called "[3]From the battlefield to the enterprise" which looks at why some key technologies -- deployed on a massive scale in Afghanistan and Iraq -- may hold promise for corporate IT." Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/30/22FEbattlefuture_1.html
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/06/01.html
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRbattle.htmlMedia Monopoly: Thomas Edison to Hillary Rosen http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1717224
An anonymous reader writes "George Ziemann has posted two excellent
articles that explore the early days of the recording and music
industry, how their attempts to monopolize their respective mediums in
the past failed, and how their attempts to do so strangely mirror those
presently being undertaken by contemporary media conglomerates to
control digital distribution over the Net. Seems the two industries
back at the turn of the century tried to pool their patents to block
out competition like the RIAA and the big media companies today pool
their copyrights. The first article "[0]The Dawn of Recorded Music and
the First Pirates" focuses on early collusion in the phonograph
industry. The second "[1]Music, Movies and Monopoly" on Thomas Edison's
failed attempts to restrain fair trade in the two new media he gave
commercial rise to."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly.html
The Mafia Everquest Connection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1519258
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the [0]2003 Melbourne Digital Arts And Culture Conference site, where a large selection of new academic papers about videogaming have been disseminated online. This includes [1]The Sopranos Meets Everquest - Social Networking In Massively Multiplayer Online Games (PDF file), which discusses why "instead of having Gandalf as a role model, [Everquest players] would be better off trying to think as Tony Soprano, a present day mafia boss in New Jersey from the American TV show The Sopranos." Links
0. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124647/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports recording user actions into a script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124679/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for specialized output.
Alana 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124648/
Alana is a highly responsive Turing Machine simulator. The documentation contains an introduction to Turing Machines as well as some interesting theoretical information (halting problem, busy beaver) and pointers to further literature.
Alleyoop 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124665/
Alleyoop is a GNOME frontend to the Valgrind memory checker. Its features include a right-click context menu to intelligently suppress errors or launch an editor on the source file, jumping to the exact line of the error condition. A searchbar at the top of the viewer can be used to limit the viewable errors to those that match the regex criteria entered. A fully functional Suppressions editor is also included.
Aquativo 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124642/
Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.
avidemux 2.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124623/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Bluecurve Oroborus 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124640/
Bluecurve Oroborus is a port of the Metacity theme Bluecurve.
Calendrian 0.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124672/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
calmth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124618/
calmth is a smooth theme. It goes especially well with the H2O GTK 2 theme.
Chronicle Lite 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124614/
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for Blogger.com. It also aims to satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a local copy of their journal, as well as the copy that is published on an external Website.
cwISPy 1.2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124671/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
DCTC 0.85.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124659/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
dnspython 1.0.0a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124610/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports all of the common record types, and will support all types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
Dustbowl Clan Tools 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124634/
Dustbowl Clan Tools is a community system for e-sport teams and gaming clans, providing an integrated forum, scheduler, voting system, and lots of other features. It is PHP/MySQL-based and supports multiple languages.
DVB Driver Project 2003-05-24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124652/
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.
gimp-print 4.3.15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124661/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GNU Lightning 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124646/
GNU Lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run time. It is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set (inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips).
Grutatxt 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124621/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124669/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
HTML::TextToHTML 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124629/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making it versatile and easy to use.
incident.pl 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124677/
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by snort or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that appear to be attempted security attacks, gather information on the remote host, and report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Jacob Oberon-2 Compiler 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124615/
Jacob is a stand-alone Oberon-2 compiler. It compiles a single Oberon-2 module together with its imported modules and links everything together to form an executable. It implements the full Oberon-2 language specifications. External modules allow developers to write library modules in other languages. Instead of an explicit dispose function a garbage collector is implemented using the mark-and-sweep algorithm. There are command line options for enabling and disabling NIL, index, range, and assertion checks.
jCIFS 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124695/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.
Joone 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124649/
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an artificial neural network Java framework. It is used to build and train neural networks with a powerful visual environment. It has a modular design and can be easily extended by writing new modules to implement new learning algorithms or architectures.
KnowIt 0.9alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124613/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported, as well as any character set.
Lame Node System 0.5-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124639/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124670/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and time of day controls can be set.
Luola 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124666/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
MailScanner 4.21-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124633/
MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124687/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some memory usage information.
MIMEViewer 2003.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124693/
MIMEViewer is a cross-platform GUI utility for viewing MIME message structure. It can find internal content in Microsoft TNEF (Microsoft Exchange), as well as extract text from RTF, PDF, and HTML, and perform expansion of ZIP files. Other features include extracting and decoding of message parts, a hexadecimal part viewer, and BeanShell support.
Moosic 1.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124691/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MRX PPP 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124632/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of the Murix Linux distribution.
netcat 2.0-alpha1 (IPv6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124645/
Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable backend tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124650/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.3-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124635/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
PTlink Services 2.23.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124658/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering.
pyDDR 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124617/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Python 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124663/
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and
isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very
high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many
system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems
(Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). Newbuilt-in modules are easily
written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for
applications that need a programmable interface.
Qixite 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124638/
Qixite is a program for creating Web sites. The user has to provide the information and structure of the site, while Qixite does the rest. It uses predefined templates for site generation, and it is possible to create or edit them using XSL.
Razor! Gaming Engine 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124620/
Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites, three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly code.
ROX-Filer 2.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124627/
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background.
SAROS 1.1.05 / 1.1.04-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124651/
SAROS enables you to find the date of any solar eclipse in between 2500 BC and 3500 AD. After entering a period of time, the program will output the dates of every solar eclipse for that period. You may then decide to get more detailed information about a specific solar eclipse and a graphical display of the central line drawn on a world map which can be saved as a JPEG or PNG image file. In addition, you can save a complete report about the solar eclipse as a PDF document. The program uses a GUI and should be very easy to use.
SCREEM 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124643/
SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site.
Screenhack 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124660/
screenhack lets you animate static RenderMan scenes (e.g., scenes created by programs such as Moonlight, AC3D, or Mops) using formulae. Currently you can move, rotate, and resize "actor" objects.
ServDoc 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/1246