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[osdn everything] December 27, 2002
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Top 10 Unsolved Space Mysteries
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0412234
[0]Joe Jordan writes "[1]Space.com is advertising the [2]Top 10 Space Mysteries for 2003, and perhaps for all time, given the current rate of discovery." Some of them are obvious, like the origin of life, and the possibility of alien life forms, but the list is still a good compilation of space's greatest questions. Links
0.
http://www.ExtremeMessenger.com/
1.
http://www.space.com/
2.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/topmysteries_2003_021226-1.html
SGI launches R16000
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0327255
nkrgovic writes " SGI has just launched a new CPU - the long expected R16000. The new CPU works on 700MHz, has 4MB secondary cache and more goodies. For now the new CPU is only used in SGI's [0] Fuel workstations, but we should expect to see it pretty soon in SGI's Origin servers as well. With new high density compute nodes this should make the Origin's the fastest supercomputing server per square foot." Links
0. http://www.sgi.com/workstations/fuel/tech_info.html
The Age Interviews Linux Advocate Rick Moen http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0214238
An anonymous reader writes "The Age [0]interviews Rick Moen, a software generalist from the Linux community and an advocate for Open Source software." Rick's been a real catalyst for the Linux community over the years, helping organize the LINC Expo, Windows Refund Day, Linux birthday parties, and more. An entertaining read. Links
0. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/26/1040511127721.html
Deliberation of "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2319232
An anonymous reader writes "Per the [0]Federal Register the National
Infastructure Advisory Council will have a public meeting
(telephonically) from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST on 1/8/2003 to deliberate
on the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. 'Written comments may be
submitted at any time before or after the meeting.' Details can be
found in [1]text format or in [2]PDF."
Links
0.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
1.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.accessgpo.gov/2002/02-32435.htm
2.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.accessgpo.gov/2002/pdf/02-32435.pdf
Indian Government Moves to Let Linux In
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/238204
Webi writes "The government of India has started taking [0]precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India." India sure seems to be a [1]highly contested arena lately. Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through. Links
0. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=32354337
GNU Christmas Gift: Free Eclipse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2239203
[0]Mark Wielaard writes "Your friendly neighbourhood [1]GNU did it
again. A year ago IBM made much [2]noise about placing $40 million of
its software tools under a free software license. Technically these
tools, called [3]Eclipse, are great for developing (java) software.
There was only one catch, it was build on top of the proprietary java
platform. This made it useless for the Free Software community. Luckily
the GNU project has two projects that come to the rescue. [4]GNU
Classpath, core libraries for java, and [5]gcj, the GNU Compiler for
Java. We are now able to run Eclipse on a completely free platform! It
is not yet complete, but you can already edit, compile and browse CVS
with it. And since Eclipse uses GTK+ it also looks very nice. I setup a
[6]page with instructions on how to get this working so you can help us
make it work even better or just so you can view a couple of nice
[7]screenshots."
Links
0.
http://www.klomp.org/mark/
1.
http://www.gnu.org/
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/05/144221&tid=136
3.
http://www.eclipse.org/
4.
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
5.
http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
6.
http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/
7.
http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/hello.htmlDigital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1749230
[0]McDrewbie asks: "Has anyone discovered that the new CD's found under
the tree or in their stocking don't play on their brand new CD player?
My father got a [1]Brookstone Wafer-thin CD system and several new
CD's. Most play fine, however several ones from Sony (with [2]CDextra
software on them) and from [3]Columbia, either don't play or play with
some crackling and popping, yet play fine on our older CD player. Did
these companies decide to quietly unleash DRM on the public this
holiday season? Or is this just a problem with the new player (separate
from it not being DRM capable)? What are other Slashdot readers
experiencing today?"
Links
0. mailto:McDrewbie@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.brookstone.com/shop/product.asp?product_code=346114&world_code=100&category_code=61&subcategory_code=684&search_type=subcategory#
2.
http://usa.sonymusic.com/formats/cdextras.html
3.
http://www.columbiarecords.com/Fixing Wireless Security By Pulling The Plug http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2052239
An anonymous reader writes "It seems as though the Japanese government
is paying attention to some security concerns of wireless networks, and
rather than addressing the problem, taking a [0]more aggressive but
perhaps not as thorough approach to the issue at hand. Not very
technical, but at least its good to see governments actually doing
something about it."
Links
0. http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002122600287.html
Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1943230
MachineShedFred writes "CNN is reporting that [0]The Kroger Company is
testing the use of [1]fingerprinting as means for payment at grocery
stores. The article says that it has been well received by both college
students and seniors. I, for one would love to see this rolled out to
all of Kroger's stores, which include Fred Meyer, Ralph's, QFC, Fry's
Marketplace (not the electronics stores), and others; however I'm sure
some /.-ers will have privacy concerns as well as law enforcement
cooperation issues..."
Links
Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1734243
[0]8BitWimp writes "Today's edition of the Christian Science Monitor
has an interesting article discussing the current [1]plight of the U.S.
engineering profession. One 29-year-old engineer recently caught in
Nortel Network's layoffs said "I spent seven years in school, and it
resulted in a six-year career." The article goes on to say a California
computer science professor has statistics to show that a programmer's
career is not much longer than a pro-football player. What do other
Slash-Dot readers think of this situation as related to their
programming and engineering careers? Would you pursue the same career
path again?"
Links
0. mailto:dew@ieee.org
Freshmeat
AndromedeIRCd 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107622/
AndromedeIRCd is an ircd based on bahamut with many useful additional commands, including host encryption, the sethost command, etc.
Astaro Security Linux 3.380 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107633/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
cdrecord 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107625/
Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. Cdrecord 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, CD-RWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO and human-readable error messages. Cdrecord includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD-writers.
Cherokee 0.3.0 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107613/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is extremely fast and small.
Co-browse servlet 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107606/
The Co-browse servlet lets you open a session and start your Web surfing, and everyone who is running the same servlet and is joined to the same session will see your pages. As a session owner, you will see a list of users joined to your channel, and can chat with them.
E-CELL Simulation Environment 3.1.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107609/
The E-CELL Simulation Environment (E-CELL SE) is a software package for cellular and biochemical modeling and simulation. E-CELL attempts to provide a framework not only for analyzing metabolism, but also for higher-order cellular phenomena such as gene regulation networks, DNA replication, and other occurrences in the cell cycle.
FreeMarker 2.1.4 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107615/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
Genuts Breaker 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107623/
Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.
GL Interface Library 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107612/
libGLI is a multi-platform library for creating 3D user interfaces, based on OpenGL. With the help of this library, programmers can add in their own graphical application elements for the user interface and connect interface objects to their own programs with callbacks. In other words, GLI sits between the user and an OpenGL application.
glark 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107624/
glark offers grep-like searching of text files, with very powerful, complex regular expressions (e.g., "/foo\w+/ and /bar[^\d]*baz$/ within 4 lines of each other"). It also highlights the matches, displays context (preceding and succeeding lines), does case-insensitive matches, and automatic exclusion of non-text files. It supports most options from the GNU version of grep.
Kugel Lines 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107611/
Kugel is a game played by moving objects on a board. When you create
rows, columns, or diagonals containing the same objects
("kugels"), the score will increment by the number of objects
you manage to line up. At the same time, the lined up
"kugels" will disappear, so you can continue the game with
more maneuver space on the board. Any time you fail to create a line of
"kugels", new ones will appear on the board. Once the board
is full, the game is over.
Laarus Newsreel 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107626/
Laarus Newsreel is a CGI application for maintaining news articles on your Web site. It supports multiple authors (with attribution) and keeps everything in convenient, easy to back up Berkeley database files.
lamprop 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107627/
lamprop calculates some properties of fiber-reinforced composite laminates. It calculates engineering properties like Ex, Ey, Gxy, thermal properties CTE_x and CTE_y, physical properties like density and laminate thickness, and stiffness and compliance matrices.
Linux 2.2.24-rc2 (2.2-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107593/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
mvnForum 1.0.0.beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107601/
mvnForum is a powerful, easy to use bulletin board.
mysql_auth 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107607/
mysql_auth is a basic authenticator for Squid Proxy. You can configure all MySQL variables for your existing user/password database (dbhost, dbadmin, dbpasswd, dbname, tablename, columns name), or create a new database. It includes a utility called mypasswd that updates your database.
PhpBaseClasses 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107610/
PHPBaseClasses is a multi-tier and fully Object Oriented set of base
classes written for and in PHP. Currently the storage tier is SQL only,
but supports multiple databases, including any ODBC database, MsSQL
(SyBase), MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It includes classes for drawing
graphs, creating forums (news, bulletin boards), links, users, and
authentication.
PQMM 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107549/
PQMM stands for "pq--". It is a simplified rewrite of the pq++ library. PQMM improves pq++ in many ways, including better Win32 support, fewer dependencies, a smaller size, the addition of public OpenConnection()/CloseConnection() methods, and fewer bugs.
pyDDR 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107603/
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.
PyTraffic 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107605/
PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour created by Binary Arts Coporation. The goal is to remove the red car out of the grid through the slot on the right. To do this you have to slide the other cars out of the way. PyTraffic comes with about 15,000 puzzles ranging from intermediate to expert, and has an extremely smart hint facility which is able to find the best move in every position.
RPG1 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107602/
RPG1 is a text-mode console role playing game written in Perl. It features ASCII graphics provided by the ANSI::Color module, an inventory, a magic system, food depletion, killing, getting killed, and a library system. It also features a top-down view orientation.
SMELT 0.2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107621/
SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email.
Sylpheed 0.8.8claws (Claws)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107614/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
The Fish 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107628/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
VDRadmin 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107616/
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
Video4Linux Grab 2002-12-26 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107636/
The v4lgrab project is real-time capturing software for a Video4Linux device.
WISP-Dist 2397
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107618/
WISP-Dist is a modular embedded Linux distribution for wireless routers, but can be used for other purposes as well. The entire system fits in 8 MB flash/16 MB RAM. Highlights include an easy-to-use menu interface, commandline access, an Access Point mode (on selected cards), OSPF/RIPv2, bandwidth shaping, NAT, Layer 3 (proxy arp) bridging, and other goodies. The goal is to create an open, customizable, and easy-to-use solution for wireless routers. WISP-Dist is part of the LEAF project.
XM 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107637/
XM (XSLT Make) is a simple and affordable Web- publishing content-management solution that takes advantage of XML and XSL. It is developped as part IBM developerWorks' column "Working XML."
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107619/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
Yet Another Free RAYtracer 0.0.2-9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107620/
yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - December 27th 2002
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/123255
By: Benjamin D. Thomas Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for bind, perl, canna, klisa, cyrus-imapd, wget, kde, and fetchmail. The distributors include Caldera, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE.
Asia will be the center of Linux development in 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/0259244
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - As most regular NewsForge readers know, I recently traveled to Amman, Jordan to advocate Linux and Open Source use there. This Spring I'll probably be doing the same thing in Mexico. And there are many other Open Source and Free Software advocates, most of them more effective and eloquent then I'll ever be, busily speaking at conferences and workshops all over the world. All these words are having a positive effect. ...
Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/2226214
- By Barbara French, Tekrati - Directions on Microsoft lists Linux among Microsoft's top ten challenges. Evans Data offers developers a chance at a cash prize, while Dravis Group offers newbies a chance to catch up. IDC Meridien sees Linux as a fringe element in capital markets. Once again, IDC server research found Linux the only operating system type to see positive growth last quarter, this time in Western Europe.
Newsforge Newsvac
Finding an opening
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1035249
Open-source databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, are marching into the enterprise via their inclusion in major Linux distributions, which are quickly growing in usage on middle-tier servers and back-end clusters.
Raising top-quality rabble
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1032227
Rick calls himself "a software generalist" in the Linux community, who answers technical questions on-line, concerning all aspects of Linux. He does this on the mailing lists of various Linux user groups (without respect to geographical boundaries - he is very active on the Linux Users of Victoria list), on Usenet newsgroups, and as a member of the answer gang of the monthly e-magazine Linux Gazette.
Availinux launches its Online Community
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1026238
Availinux writes "Availinux has launched its High Availability online web-portal, www.availinux.com geared towards professional users with mission critical needs."
Bluefish-gtk2-0.8 At-A-Glance
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1025257
LPH writes "Individuals wanting to learn a little more about Bluefish might be interested in this At-A-Glance written by the Tux Reports Team. Two screenshots are included to show the new file selector and the syntax highlighting by PCRE."
IBM Mulls Linux For Its PCs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/213223
Kolkata: International Business Machines (IBM) may soon start packing its PCs with the open-source Linux operating system (OS). IBM’s Linux initiative has so far been limited to its servers and workstations.
Axis Launches Complete Linux Computer on a Single Chip http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/210257
Chelmsford, Mass. - Axis Communications, a global leader in network technology, announced today the availability of the AXIS ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8, a new generation system-on-a-chip that integrates 2MB Flash, 8MB SDRAM and an Ethernet transceiver into a single chip with a 27mm x 27mm footprint. The chip, which is designed for networked devices such as wireless access points, digital video recorders and access control and security systems, enables ...
Supercharging the Supercomputer Race
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2055251
Japan has the speed and power lead right now, but IBM promises to put the U.S. back out front -- by far -- in 2005
RunTime: Context switching, Part 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2054221
An anonymous coward writes "This article looks at two behaviors of the scheduler. The first behavior is the reaction to adding more choices to the scheduler's switching decision. The second demonstrates fairness by performing a uniform workload in multiple threads. Source code is provided so you can experiment on your own. Last month's column looked at bare context switch times by using the best primitives on both Windows and Linux. According to ...
Stocking Stuffer Mini-Reviews: XSnow, Camorama, XQ http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2053251
GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit contributing editor Dan McCombs takes a look a few fun stocking stuffers for your GNU/Linux desktop. In this article, he takes a quick look at the open source multi-game browser XQF, the useful webcam utility Camorama, a collection of Really Slick Screensavers and for the feeling of the holiday season, Xsnow."
Tonight Live: Our 5Th Annual Year in Review Show http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2052221
Thursday, December 26th, 2002 - from Chicago IL, home of the Little Blue Box - We will return with our 5th Annual Year in Review Show.
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
Interests: Linux French
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bc4/
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/
Interests: Perl Gerl
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcb/
Interests: I dig Mac OS X
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcf/
Interests: Ninj4 Hooded Sweatshirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/altware/5c4e/
Interests: Megatokyo Blanket
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5b59/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5784/
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Electronics: Universal System Selector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5c1b/
Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/golfshirts/5b8f/
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek Monkey Hoodie http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/5b88/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5c6e/
Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5c73/
Electronics: Splinter Cell for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5c69/
Cube Goodies: Tiny R/C Digi Q Cars
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ad6/
Sourceforge
Furthur 1.7.1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238383
Furthur is a peer-to-peer cataloging and music sharing tool that
allows: fully enforcable legal sharing model, instant downloads with no
waiting lists, in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed
attribute searches. Upgrade to this version is recommended for all
existing users. This release includes fixes for known memory leaks,
high CPU usage issues, and an improved search system. Hello again, The
Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of: Furthurnet 1.7.1
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_id
=129955) A great deal of hard work has gone into this release. Due to
the nature of some of the bugs that are fixed here, we highly recommend
that everybody upgrade. Version Notes - Notable changes include: a)
Fixed the rest of the major memory leaks and high CPU usage bugs b)
Fixes free disk space display for Mac OS X c) Improved search d)
Improved connectivity Thanks again for your patience and ongoing
support. - The FurthurNet Team -
sylpheed-0.8.8claws released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238415
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client and newsreader. Supports POP3, APOP, IMAP, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, LDAP. Features multiple accounts, spell-checking, address book, SSL, GPG/PGP, filtering, scoring, and i18n. This is a bugfix release.
############################################################# 26th
December 2002 Version: 0.8.8claws SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
<http://claws.sylpheed.org> This release of sylpheed-claws is based on
version 0.8.8 of the main Sylpheed branch. Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release fixes a bug which would run into
an infinite loop and eventual crash when invalid characters were
encountered in MIME header encoding. New features in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * add 'Locked' flag to possible filtering
/ matcher conditions * Bug fix: [bug #633443] 'Crash on deleting
messages' * updated translations Bulgarian and code reorganisation,
cleanups, and more. CLAWS' EXTRA FEATURES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * pop
before smtp authentication * Automatic saving of message when composing
- signature in the message view can be coloured * built-in gdb crash handler * Customisable toolbars * quick search function * Folder color setting * 'Dynamic' signatures * Font configuration * Icon theming * Spell checking (with aspell) * filtering/processing mechanism * automatic account selection * 'smart' wrapping * message scoring * hide read messages * mbox support * IMAP over SSH Tunnel * addressbook: import Mutt addressbook * addressbook: import Pine addressbook * addressbook copy and paste * harvest addresses for addressbook * Request Return-Receipt * extra Folder Properties: Return-Receipt, save messages, default To:, default address for replies, subject simplification, folder CHMOD, default account * revised compose window
- manual selection of MIME type and encoding for attachments * 'ignore thread' * improved clickable URL support * new mail notification * selective download * 7bit and 8bit encoding of attachments * NNTP: auto-mark cross-posted messages * configurable (non-)display of images
- online/offline modes * User-definable quotation characters * export addressbook to html file * display url in statusbar on single-click * message priority setting * new message cache system * new sort function
- controllable size of log text in log window * ability to select part
of a text mime-part to reply * reply flag gets set on sending of a
reply * sylpheed man page * allow user to 'Save all' attachments in a
mail with multi-attachments * GnuPG signatures can now be verified by
double-clicking [application/pgp-signature] in the text view * GnuPG
users are informed of expired signatures and keys. * save 2 or more
selected files to a single file * MH folder drag 'n' drop support * Cc
and Bcc Template definitions * --online and --offline command-line
switches * Automatic message drafting and cache saving on kill * SSL
certificate management * 'on-the-fly' changing of the type of GnuPG
encryption and/or signing used (MIME/ascii) * Logging can be stopped *
user-definable newsgroup names abbreviation length * Manual and FAQ
remote and local links * Powerful Extended Search * Indication of
unread answers to marked mails: '(!)' is appended to the folder name
when a marked message has a response * Customisable message view
toolbar * Actions: trailing ">" syntax to insert command's output
without replacing old text (in contrast to trailing "|"). * Address
book: 'Edit Group Details' dialog allows multiple selection in either
pane * Warning dialog is displayed when the user attempts to save
incomplete rules in scoring, filtering and processing. * .mh_sequences
file is created in new MH folders * 'tools' directory that contains
various scripts: calypso_convert.pl import mbox files exported by
calypso eud2gc.py convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
(GnomeCard) format filter_conv.pl convert sylpheed main's filter rules
into claws' filtering format gif2xface.pl convert a gif file to an xface google_msgid.pl Actions script to lookup selected message-id in google using mozilla. gpg-sign-syl GnuPG cleartext-signing script for use with Actions kmail2sylpheed.pl convert a Kmail addressbook to a Sylpheed addressbook kmail2sylpheed_v2.pl new version of the address book conversion script for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook newscache_clean clean up old files and directories in the newscache directory OOo2sylpheed.pl enable OpenOffice to send documents through sylpheed outlook2sylpheed.pl convert an Outlook contacts list to a Sylpheed addressbook sylpheed-switcher enable quick-switching between claws and main in a non-destructive way sylprint.pl process a Sylpheed mail and print it using enscript if available or lpr if not tb2sylpheed convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into a Sylpheed addressbook update-po translators' tool that eases the creation of *.po files uudec decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions ...and more.- See ChangeLog.claws and README.claws for full information regarding changes in this release. Also see ChangeLog[.jp] for changes synchronised from sylpheed main. Sylpheed-Claws GnuPG key: Sylpheed-Claws <twb@users.sourceforge.net> KeyID:D04C2EEF Fingerprint: 830D 8455 329F DD31 7ADA 71D7 7D22 7E77 D04C 2EEF
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238414
The GGI project is pleased to announce that new versions of LibGGI and LibGII have been released. LibGGI is a graphics API which focuses on portability between operating systems and graphics back-ends. LibGII is a stand-alone system for handling input devices which follows the same general design principles as LibGGI. Through a run-time modular system, a single application binary can be run on many different display systems. In addition, LibGGI and it's interchangeable run-time binary "targets" can be compiled on many architectures (like ia-32, ppc32, sparc, sparc64, arm, s390, etc.) and operating systems (like Linux, *BSD, Darwin, Solaris, etc.) and environments (like X11, fbdev, svgalib, aalib, etc.) The LibGGI core itself is a basic API meant for low level programming abstracting the simplest of primitives common to most display systems. When properly written, LibGGI applications can be made to work well in various bit-depths and to function on display systems that differ quite drastically in their implementations (e.g. backbuffered client/server systems like X11 versus direct hardware systems like linux framebuffer.) LibGGI includes an extension system which allows API sets to be added to the core LibGGI API. For example, two popular extensions are LibGGIWMH, allowing manipulation of parent window properties when a LibGGI program is running under a window based display system, and LibGGIMISC which supplements the LibGGI API with a few features like raytrace syncronization and VGA-style splitline which are familair to demo coders. Our team is working on future extensions which aim to bring the GGI philosphy of generic abstraction to graphics systems features such as Z/Alpha buffers, overlays, and ROP/BITBLT, allowing such features to be used by application developers without falling into the trap of writing code that is inextricably entangled to the display system used for development and testing. Like every Open Source project, we are always glad to receive help and new team members. This release represents a step forward not only in that several enhancements have been made but also in our release process. We now have a stable and developemnt tree system such that experimental features will no longer butt heads with bugfix releases. We expect this to improve our release interval for both development and stable projects. More detailed news, project contact information, online documentation, and much more is available at http://www.ggi-project.org/
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2002-12-18 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238394
0. Intro 1. SF.NET Support Update 2. DevChannel Launch 3. NNTP Beta Continues 4. WebSphere on Compile Farm 5. Site Statistics --- Sponsored by: Buy Holiday Geek Toys Now! Thinkgeek is the holiday shopping mecca for geeks, technophiles, and anybody who enjoys computers, gadgets, and just plain old fun stuff. Whether you're looking to shop for the new geek in your life, or if you're looking to finally get the gifts you actually WANT this year, Thinkgeek is your one-stop-shop. http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ ---- Hello SourceForge.net user, Happy Holidays! It's been quite a year. We just had our 3rd year anniversary of SF.NET's existence and in the past 12 months we've added 225,000 registered users and 22,000 new Open Source projects (525,000 Users and 52,000 projects total). It's great to see that the community continues to grow. We've moved. You may or may not have noticed, but we physically moved last month. SourceForge.net has migrated to a new Cable & Wireless facility in Santa Clara, California (formally Exodus). Besides the shinny new racks, power and bandwidth, we have consolidated all our OSDN sister sites under one roof (Slashdot.org, Freshmeat.net, Linux.com, OSDN.com, Thinkgeek.com, etc). This move makes it easier for our Sys Admins to get their hands around all 250+ servers (all of OSDN) which use to be spread out over two coasts in the United States. December 2002's SF.NET project of the month is phpMyAdmin. Please check out the interview we did with them. Good stuff. http://sourceforge.net/pom_1202.php Our IBM DB2 transition continues to move forward. We will have SF.NET fully converted to the database in early 2003. On a related note, today we are announcing 3 new IBM WebSphere application servers on the SF.NET compile farm. This will allow you to test out any J2EE applications you might have. Instructions to access the compile farm are below in this email. On behalf of the SF.NET team, I want to wish you and your family very Happy Holidays. We are looking forward to working with you to make SourceForge.net and the Open Source Community even more successful in 2003. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Thank you. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net email: pat@sf.net 1. SF.NET Support Update
- The SourceForge.net team has recently completed a set of planning sessions for 2003 goals. We have incorporated much of the feedback received during the 2002 year in to these goals, and are quite excited about the upcoming enhancements to the SourceForge.net site and services. We welcome your continued feedback. The SourceForge.net team may be contacted by submitting a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 All SourceForge.net-hosted projects which make use of our VHOST services must update their DNS configuration to reflect our new IP address range. A mailing was sent to all project administrators on VHOST-using projects on 2002-12-05. Instructions for proper VHOST configuration may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=777&group_id=1 A significant amount of effort has recently been directed to improvement of the SourceForge.net Site Documentation. Among the changes, we have completed a significant reorganization of the Site Docs (which are now separated by target audience and grouped by service). Second, significant formatting changes have been made to all existing document for cleaner appearance and more functional navigation (we have added a Table of Contents to most documents). Finally, plan has been established which will ensure documentation is written to cover all previously-identified gaps; in coming months, we will be working to complete the initial rewrite of older content and the generation of new documentation. The SourceForge.net Site Documentation collection may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=1 In conjunction with our work to improve the Site Documentation of the SourceForge.net site, a command-line tool has been developed to automate DocManager (the documentation management feature of the SourceForge.net site) operations. This tool, adocman, is available from the 'sitedocs' project on SourceForge.net. At this time, a tool to automate retrieval of data via our XML data export facility (which requires authentication by a project administrator) is also included. These tools can be used by any project team to establish a comprehensive backup and recovery plan, as described at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6840&group_id=1 adocman (and the xml_export script included in the adocman release) may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sitedocs/ SourceForge.net now provides documentation regarding security and risk management as applied to the SourceForge.net site and services. We encourage all project administrators to review the documentation provided at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14267&group_id=1 Finally, as requested by many site users, the SourceForge.net team now provides a search facility for Site Documentation. Information about this search facility (and access to the Site Documentation search) is available at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14068&group_id=1 The SourceForge.net team is glad to respond to any issues you may encounter in using SourceForge.net, as a user, as a developer, or as a project administrator. To reach the SourceForge.net team, we ask that you submit a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 I welcome feedback regarding our support process and your experiences in using SourceForge.net. I may be reached via email at: moorman@sourceforge.net Jacob Moorman Quality of Service Manager, SourceForge.net 2. OSDN's Newsite DevChannel
- OSDN is adding to its
resources for developers with a new website, DevChannel
(http://devchannel.org). DevChannel is the central news and reference
resource for developers interested in core technology topics. With original feature articles and interviews, daily news updates, access to SourceForge projects, Freshmeat downloads, and Slashdot discussions, DevChannel opens a channel of communication to developers, organized by topics that matter. We've begun rolling out DevChannel gradually, with four channels featured at present: High Performance Computing
(http://hpc.devchannel.org) Web Services
(http://webservices.devchannel.org) Development Tools
(http://tools.devchannel.org) Hardware (http://hardware.devchannel.org)
While SourceForge.net remains the preeminent gathering place for developers on OSDN, you'll find some great content on DevChannel (like Steve DuChene's IPMI article), and some familiar faces (Brian Finley from the Clustering Foundry, and Eugene Kim from the Distributed Computing Foundry). So be sure to add DevChannel to your list of OSDN destinations; we look forward to seeing you there. If you have questions/comments please email Mark Stone at mstone@osdn.com 3. SF.NET NNTP Beta Test Continues ---------------------------------------- In October we launched an early beta release of a new feature on SourceForge.net. We are continuing this beta test, and here again are the details in case you missed it the first time: Our NNTP server makes it possible to view and post data to forums using a simple newsreader
(exactly like using USENET newsgroups). Here's the information to login
and try it out. The hostname of the NNTP server is 'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port NNTP is listening on is 563.
(nntps, SSL-protected NNTP) We allow only SSL connections. You need to
use your SourceForge user name and password to login. The currently supported clients are Mozilla and Outlook, however we've followed the NNTP RFC; any client that does NNTP over SSL /should/ work. Please let us know if you have problems with a specific client. (Please see below) Posting works, with one caveat: to limit SPAM we limit the amount of posts to 10 in a 5 minute period, after which we deny posting for some time for that user account. NOTE: This is real data. Posts will show up in your forums! Please keep this in mind. Here is an example of the NNTP naming we've chosen, it is much like the project web tree. "sf.a.al.alexandria.open_discussion" will get you the "Open Discussion" forum for project "alexandria". Mailing lists are currently _not_ available but will be available in the near future. If you would like to report bugs, ideas, or anything else please subscribe to the beta mailing list at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mcgoo-nttpbeta Please keep in mind that the server is beta and will more than likely crash. Please don't send 1000 emails to list saying the server is offline; we'll fix it as soon as we get a chance. Please send any bug reports, odd behavior, or problems to this list. Thank you. Issue reports regarding this new beta feature should not be submitted as Support Requests; please direct all inquiries to the list. 4. IBM WebSphere on Compile Farm ---------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net Compile Farm now features four systems running IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5. These systems let you freely deploy J2EE applications for testing and validation on the WebSphere platform. The SourceForge.net Compile Farm is available for use (on an opt-in basis) by developers on any active projects hosted on SourceForge.net. To access these systems, please see the Compile Farm Guide at: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 5. Statistics ---------------------------------------- Where do SF.NET users come from? The SF.NET team recently ran log files through an application that can translate countries by IP numbers, oppose to domain name extensions. IP numbers provide more accurate statistics. Below are the results. SourceForge.net truly is an International site. Percent / Country 34.0450% United States 09.2114% Germany 04.5754% Canada 04.1249% United Kingdom 04.0632% Sweden 04.0632% Poland 03.4010% France 03.1006% Japan 02.3787% Netherlands 02.2872% Italy 01.9262% Belgium 01.9262% Australia 01.6557% Brazil 01.6259% Spain 01.5951% Russian Federation 01.4449% Norway 01.3842% Switzerland 01.2341% Denmark 01.2341% Austria 01.2341% Argentina 01.0233% India 00.8428% Korea, Republic of 00.7529% Mexico 00.7225% Hong Kong 00.6922% New Zealand 00.6922% Finland 00.6629% Taiwan, Province of China 00.6023% Portugal 00.5718% Singapore 00.5113% Israel On Thursday December 12th, 2002, SourceForge.net served: 4,424,135 Million Page views [SF.NET and Sub-domains] 467,693 Open Source Applications [downloaded] 1,245,123 Emails [SF Mailing Lists] 10,234 CVS checkouts 7,753 CVS Checkins Top 20 projects: 1 POPFile - Automatic Email Classification http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification system that has a Naive Bayes text classifier and a POP3 proxy. It works with any mail client using POP3. 2 Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 3 PCGen -- A Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 4 BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag 5 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. 6 Tiki http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via Smarty. Many features added or planned 7 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. 8 Hibernate http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java 9 SquirrelMail http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/ SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc. 10 eMule http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/ eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client 11 Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg. 12 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for small-medium enterprises (SME) 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. 13 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. 14 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. 15 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. 16 AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerfull web server logfile analyzer (Perl script)
that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, etc... 17 Fluxbox http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluxbox/ Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility. 18 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. 19 MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ MinGW is a set of include files and import libraries that allow one to use GCC to build native Windows applications that use vendor-supplied runtime. 20 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.
Mailman 2.1 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238352
This is the release candidate for Mailman 2.1 final. This version is in production use at python.org. Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager. It provides standard list management features, integrated with a web interface. Barring unforseen problems, this is a snapshot of what will be released before the end of 2002.
Cayenne "Holiday Release": 1.0a5 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238027
A new release of Cayenne is out. It plugs a few gaps in the core functionality, fixes tons of bugs and provides a much improved documentation. Cayenne is an object-relational persistence framework written in Java. It provides tools and libraries to work with relational databases in an object-oriented way. Cayenne consists of class libraries and a GUI tool for O/R mapping and deployment. Release highlights are: * Added flattened relationships (direct many-to-many relationships). * Introduced type-safe queries using Java Class as a root * Project structure update. Project map and node files now have predefined extensions. An upgrade from the old format can be done via CayenneModeler. Old format is compatible with Cayenne runtime. * Significantly improved and updated "User Guide". Created "Developer Guide" for contributors. * Usual Bug fixes, code cleanup and refactoring. Downloads available at http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/
Chordcast 0.9.9b
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238235
Chordcast 0.9.9b has been released. This is probably going to be the last version before 1.0. This release contains mostly bug fixes and enhancements. ChordCast is a JAVA (swing) program for creating guitar chords in files called chord sheets. The software uses XML files to save the chord sheets. It also allows to export to HTML files using PNG images for chords. It requires J2RE 1.4 to run. See the changelog for more information. The roadmap was also updated.
e1000-4.4.19 stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238168
Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 ethernet devices and Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet devices. This project serves as a focal point for further driver development and discussion. e1000-4.4.19 stable release is available in .tar.gz format to compile against any 2.4 kernel.
DSpace 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238042
DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia publications). DSpace 1.0.1 is mostly a bug fix release. New documentation should be available in a couple of weeks.
The Bochs Project Releases v2.0