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[osdn developer] June 03, 2003
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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June 03, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Gimp-Print 4.3.15 (development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281411
Gimp-Print 4.3.15, released June 1, 2003, is a development release of
this package. Like all development releases, this version is considered
unstable and should only be used by those individuals tolerant of the
likelihood of problems. Individuals desiring a stable release of
Gimp-Print should use the latest 4.2 release. Gimp-Print is a suite of
printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling
systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide
high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and
newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than
proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the
most demanding printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in
for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic
data. This package requires libxml2 2.5 or above. You may need to
install a package named "libxml2-devel" or the like on many
distributions. The Print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2
(later versions of the Gimp are not supported). You may need to install
a package named "gimp-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to install a
package named "cups-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
Foomatic data will work with either Foomatic 2.x or 3.x. Foomatic 3.x
has additional capabilities that this package detects and takes
advantage of. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU
Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL
GhostScript 7.04 or later. It also requires that glib 1.2 be installed.
You may need to install a package named "glib-devel" or the like on
many distributions. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this
package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by
Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5)
cannot use this package. Please read the README file for full
instructions on installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.15 contains the
following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.14: 1) The code for
handling ink shades and drop sizes has been extensively overhauled;
results should be much more consistent. In particular, the same balance
between ink shades is now used at all resolutions for a given printer,
and the driver always tries to use the smallest ink drop size it
usefully can. The result is that colors should be much more uniform
across different resolutions with the same printer (particularly with
variable drop size printers), and output should be smoother. It is
likely (although this has not been verified) that printing is faster,
too. There may still be some issues; please report any problems.
Internally, this is implemented by means of a new "channel"
architecture, which is responsible for conversions of this type. 2) A
long-standing build problem whereby the package will not build on
systems that already have Gimp-Print 4.2 or earlier versions of
Gimp-Print 4.3 installed has been fixed. 3) The existing Line Art image
optimization has been renamed to Uncorrected, which is a better
description of its effect. There is a new Threshold mode, which simply
computes a threshold value (either on or off for each color). 4) The
default image optimization mode is now Photographs (which has the best
color correction) rather than the old Line Art (which as noted above is
now called Uncorrected). 5) An experimental driver for the Olympus
P-300 has been added. This driver has significant limitations; the size
of an image much closely match the size of a print from this printer.
6) The Fast and Very Fast dither algorithms are significantly different
from before. The Fast dither algorithm now uses the same dither pattern
previously used by the Very Fast algorithm, and the Very Fast algorithm
only uses the largest drop size. The Ordered algorithm should now run
as fast as the Fast algorithm did before. 7) This package now uses
gettext 0.11 internally.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281435
The development team is pleased to present you version 2.5.1, which aims to stabilize the 2.5.x series. 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.
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
Slashdot
Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0312249
An anonymous reader writes "Trepia has released an IM client that automatically populates itself with people who happen to be around you. Something that has been done before by Apple with iChat, but Trepia claims to be 'iChat on crack' in this [0]article featuring the software. This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..." Links
0. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/5987828.htm
Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0237230
[0]TonyStanco writes "Big news. DoD issued a policy statement leveling the playing field for Open Source. We have the memo on the Center of [1]Open Source & Government site." The requirements listed in this memo make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider." See this PDF for more information about [2]National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP) number 11. Links
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http://www.egovos.org
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http://www.egovos.org/
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http://niap.nist.gov/niap/library/nstissp_11.pdf
Jonathan Ive Named Designer of the Year
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0041202
no_demons writes "[0]Jonathan Ive, the man behind the [1]iMac and the [2]iPod, has won the first [3]Designer of the Year award from the [4]Design Museum in London. The Independent has the [5]scoop, and BBC2 has the documentary on Wednesday, June 11th." Links
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1768724.stm
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http://www.apple.com/imac/
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http://www.apple.com/ipod/
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http://www.designmuseum.org/designeroftheyear/html/detect.html
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http://www.designmuseum.org/
5.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=411956Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/0046227
An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes (sign up for free subscription) is reporting about a person who wrote about a prior relationship with a former Miss Vermont. He was [0]ordered to remove any reference to the former Miss Vermont or the relationship by court order. This ruling has obvious implications for the First Amendment if allowed to stand. I wonder if I can get the same court order applied to my ex-girlfriends' websites." Read on to see what this has to do with Barbra Streisand. Links
0. http://nytimes.com/2003/06/02/national/02INTE.html
Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2347224
[0]user555 writes "The RIAA and MPAA have seen Palladium as a way to prevent piracy. But this article argues that ironically Palladium [1]may actually make P2P piracy more widespread (PDF). They argue that the security features of Palladium could be used to create P2P networks that are more resistant to attacks from content owners." Links
0. mailto:drl7x@cs.virginia.edu
Archos Releases Portable Video/Image/MP3 Player http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2256202
[0]GregGardner writes "[1]Archos is about to release the [2]AV300
series, the next generation of portable video/image/MP3 player based
off of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia [3]discussed on Slashdot
previously. Features include a 3.8" LCD screen for viewing movies and
photos, FM tuner, MP3 playing and recording, 20GB or 40GB HD models,
USB2.0 (optional Firewire) connection, TV-out, MPEG-4 encoding from a
video/audio-in signal, digital photo (3.3 megapixel) and video camera,
and much more. Looks like some of the features require add-on modules.
I found a [4]brief review on SF Gate which states that the 20GB model
(AV320) will retail for $570."
Links
0.
http://bah.org/
1.
http://www.archos.com/
2.
http://www.archos.com/products/av300_series.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/235249&tid=100
4.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/02/BU204669.DTL&type=tech
North Korea's School For Hackers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/216245
Makoto writes "How do you launch a cyber-war with no IP infrastructure? South Korea [0]claims that North Korea is training about 100 "cybersoldiers" per year in electronic warfighting tools and techniques, including writing viruses and hacking. But according to a story at Wired News, North Korea can [1]barely keep its electrical grid up - not to mention feed its people. Even the Pentagon says North Korea's hacker academy is probably just propaganda by South Korea." Links
0. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5877291.htm
MIT Introductory EE Goes Hands-On
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2034234
[0]pioneer writes "MIT is looking to replace its introductory core EE
(electrical engineering) curriculum with more hands-on classes. MIT
Professors Abelson and Sussman discuss the [1]new class, which replaces
equations with actual circuit building, tours of electrical plants, and
classes taught by famous professors."
Links
0. http://web.mit.edu/droy/www
Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/203205
[0]Meshach writes "An article in the Globe and Mail is discussing a [1]possible change to the way postal codes are assigned over the world. NAC Geographic Products will be using Microsoft's [2]MapPoint to power their Mobile Location-Based Services Network, which could change all postal codes in the world to a simpler, more universal format." Links
0. mailto:{ten.emohtfos} {ta} {rehtaewc}
1.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030602.gtmapjune2/BNStory/Technology/
2.
http://mappoint.msn.com/Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1841239
[0]mesozoic writes "News.com is reporting that Kazaa and Altnet are unrolling a setup where [1]users are paid to distribute 'authorized content.' The article also mentions something about getting rid of unauthorized files, but is unclear on when and how. I'll be paying close attention to whether this P2P business model pans out; Sharman _has_ shown some shrewd business sense in the past." Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~mesozoic
Freshmeat
AcidRip 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124680/
AcidRip is an automated frontend for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk::Perl for a graphical interface. It makes encoding a DVD just a one-button click!
ADP 0.4.0 PR1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124806/
ADP is a set of PHP classes that facilitates the generation of a
front-end to a database, based on HTML templates. Using a modular
system, ADP provides support for most HTML constructs. This way, the
need for custom programming is reduced to almost nothing. The user only
needs basic understanding of SQL and XML and to be able to work with
HTML. You can use a WYSIWYG editor to create the HTML templates.
Developers can write their own modules to extend the functionality of
ADP.
akpop3d 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124809/
akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its small size, it offers a lot of features. It is completely RFC 1939 compliant.
arch revision control system 1.0pre25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124726/
arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.
AutoGen 5.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124707/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 19.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124708/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple option description file, it will process configuration files, environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically.
Batik 1.5 Beta 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124704/
Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation, or manipulation. It gives developers a set of core modules (parsers, generators, DOM implementation) which can be used together or individually, and be highly extensible. It comes with a full-fledged SVG viewer.
Big Medium 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124747/
Big medium is an affordable, full-featured content management system that makes it easy to manage dynamic, fast-changing Web sites. The browser-based interface allows even the most non-technical staff to add, edit and publish Web content without needing to learn HTML. Big Medium empowers writers, editors, and business users to update Web sites directly, freeing Web professionals to be more productive and creative. It is written in Perl to run on Web servers running a UNIX operating system.
bind 8.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124760/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
Byline 0.4beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124786/
Byline is a command-line multi-protocol Weblog client. It manipulates the content of weblogs using XML-RPC interfaces, and can be used with your favorite text editor. It supports Blogger, Movable Type, and Nucleus, and should work with any other CMS that uses the Blogger or MetaWeblog API. It also features category and template editing (when supported by the CMS), drafts, support for multiple accounts, and can be used as a Python library.
CCured 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124717/
CCured is a source-to-source translator for C. It analyzes the C program to determine the smallest number of run-time checks that must be inserted in the program to prevent all memory safety violations. The resulting program is memory safe, meaning that it will stop rather than overrun a buffer or scribble over memory that it shouldn't touch. Many programs can be made memory-safe this way while losing only 10-60% run-time performance. CCured can find more bugs that Purify misses but with much less run-time cost.
cdrtools 2.01a15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124724/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Cookmenus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124689/
Cookmenus is a tool for generating menus from definition files. It curently supports Debian and freedesktop.org input formats, and GNOME and freedesktop.org output formats. It is fully Unicode-aware and supports menu entry translations encoded in UTF-8.
Cornice 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124743/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL.
CRM114 Discriminator 2003-06-01-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124763/
CRM114 is a Controllable Regex Mutilator and Smart Filter, designed for easy creation of filters for things like incoming email redirection, spam filtering, system logs, or monitoring processes. Filtering rules can be either hard-coded (such as regexes), soft-coded (calculated at runtime or read from an external file or process), or learned dynamically by phrase matching (by SBPH hashing). This makes it possible to create very accurate filters with very little actual work. Accuracies over 99.9% are achievable.
Dark Commander 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124690/
Dark Commander is a Norton Commander clone that supports browse, copy, delete, rename, chmod, and viewing operations. It features a built-in image viewer that is capable of showing many popular image formats, and a small file editor. The view can be customized and files sorted in various ways.
Database Schema Designer 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124736/
Database Schema Designer creates/maintains schemas for databases stored in SQL servers. The schemas are stored in XML format. It supports the following database objects: tables, domains, views, triggers, procedures, and relations (links).
dcplusplusstats 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124815/
dcplusplusstats is a Java 1.2 command line tool that parses log files written by the DC++ file sharing application and creates HTML statistics pages. The information that is assembled includes the amount of data transferred, most active users, most popular files, communities, file types and formats, times of day, and days of the week.
DirectFB 0.9.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124794/
DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
DocPile 3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124692/
Docpile is a PHP-based document management system that allows multiple people to share documents and keep track of revisions. Users can upload and download documents, grant per-file, -user, or -folder access privileges, and send notification emails when documents are being updated. Administrators can create access groups, each responsible for a different set of folders and users.
Download Manager 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124685/
Download Manager (also known as downman) is a suite of programs that assist with downloading files. It features a GNOME 2 GUI.
Dupseek 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124748/
Dupseek finds and interactively removes duplicate files. It aims at maximum efficiency by keeping file reads to a minimum and is much better than other similar programs when dealing with groups of large files of the same size.
EasyTAG 0.28 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124780/
EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, and Monkey's Audio files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.
EmPy 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124697/
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. It takes an EmPy source file, processes it, and produces output. This is accomplished via expansions, which are special signals to the EmPy system and are set off by a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements in this way, as well as a variety of special forms. Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used in effect as a markup language. Also supported are callbacks via hooks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
Erlang R9B-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124757/
Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson. It is being used by Ericsson as a systems programming language for large concurrent fault-tolerant distributed systems.
exilist 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124725/
Exilist is a mailing list manager for Exim. It supports a sophisticated, modern, and good-looking Web interface, browser-based administration (including list creation), and multiple domains. It uses VERP-style bounce detection and MySQL.
flowprobe 1.0.pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124816/
flowprobe is a libpcap-based tool that collect network traffic data and emit it as NetFlow flows towards the specified collector.
FreeMarker 2.3pre2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124766/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
Generic Security Service 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124710/
Generic Security Service (GSS) is an implementation of the Generic Security Service API (GSS-API), which is used by network servers to provide security services, such as authenticating SMTP/IMAP clients against SMTP/IMAP servers. It consists of a library and a manual, and has a Kerberos 5 mechanism that supports mutual authentication and the DES and 3DES ciphers.
genlop 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124739/
genlop is a small Perl script which shows you, in a nice colored output, useful information about your previously-emerged packages by looking at /var/log/emerge.log. genlop is for Gentoo/portage users only.
Genmake 2003_06_02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124777/
Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.).
GNU Simple Authentication and Security Layer 0.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124711/
GNU SASL is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6.1Build2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124737/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.
GPdf 0.101
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124712/
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
GRAMPS 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124798/
Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.
GSM SMS Download Daemon 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124734/
GSM SMS Download Daemon is a simple utility to query a GSM modem for received SMS and save them to a database.
Hardware Debugger 6.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124754/
Hardware Debugger is a graphical tool for detecting, diagnosing, and testing custom hardware. It is designed to meet the needs of the hardware developer by enabling quick and easy testing of hardware without writing any code. Hardware Debugger runs under Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
HTML Forms generation and validation 2003.05.31 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124676/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field. A plug-in filter is provided for composing forms with the Smarty template engine.
htmlrecode 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124787/
htmlrecode applies modifications to a HTML file. An example of these modifications is changing the character set. It does it without making any characters unreadable.
IaraJS 1.0preB
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124713/
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components.
iiitAccessServer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124805/
The iiitAccessServer is a rule-based enterprise authorization system written in Java. It works as a server and is usable with any programming language able to open a socket. The server fetches its data from LDAP and stores it in optimized form in one or more MySQL databases, used as a persistent 2nd-level cache to achieve high performance. The entire system is designed to be scalable and fault-tolerant.
Impact 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124769/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Interceptor 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124812/
Interceptor is a KDE 3.1 kicker applet for syslog monitoring and alerts management.
Intergif 6.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124700/
InterGif is a versatile utility that can be used for creating and manipulating GIF files. It can join GIFs together as animations, split animations apart, and optimize animations created by other programs.
Ismo 0.0.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124751/
Ismo is a Web application framework and application suite written in PHP. It's easy to use but still powerful and flexible.
Java iCal Group Scheduler 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124699/
Java iCal Group Scheduler enables several users to get together for a meeting, by using JICAL to translate their iCalendar files into their available free/busy time and post it automatically to your Web server. This project enables Ximian Evolution desktop users to book meetings with each other (and Outlook users) via a Web server storing their 'Free/Busy' information as specified in RFC2445. It works with Evolution, Korganiser, Apple iCal, and MS Outlook (for meetings), and enhances your workgroup and personal calendar views. Shell scripts for converting to various image formats are also included.
JFtp 1.30