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[osdn everything] December 30, 2002
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Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Okko writes "The Finnish Road Administration announced it is going to [0]use cellphone location data to find out about traffic jams. They say they are using the location data available from the GSM base stations to determine the locations and speeds of vehicles carrying mobile phones. The information will be used to inform people about traffic jams and peaks in traffic trough public FM radio stations. Until now, the information about traffic has been gathered [1]using car sensors embedded in the roads. The spokesperson of FRA, interviewed in the evening news of [2]MTV3 Finland, seemed very pleased they can monitor cell phones even when no calls are made, it is enough the phone has power on. They said they are about to use the information anonymously and thought people approve it as long as it is done in an anonymous and "everyone-wins" way. It was told they do not currently tell the police about the data they discover as the current law forbids this. So, it is not, at least yet, possible to fine people carrying mobile phones in their cars too fast on public roads (exceeding the speed limit of the road). Unfortunately, probably because of vacations, [3]FRA has not updated their website accordingly yet. There does exist an annoucement about testing the technology from the summer. " Links
0.
http://www.tiehallinto.fi/tied/2002/matkapuhelimet.htm
1.
http://www.tiehallinto.fi/alk/frames/liikenne-frame.html
2.
http://www.mtv3.fi/
3.
http://www.tiehallinto.fi/eindex.htmNew Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/045233
radicalsubversiv writes "A new study from the [0]Pew Internet &
American Life Project reports on Americans' expectations about finding
information on the Internet. The (unsurprising) results reveal that
large portions of the public go to the net first for many kinds of
information. '16 percent of the nonusers say they would turn to the
Internet first the next time they need health care and government
information.' [1]AP story summarizing the results; and the [2]actual
report in PDF format."
0.
http://www.pewinternet.org/
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20021229/ap_on_hi_te/internet_expectations&e=1
2.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=80
H2O/IP
AltImage writes "This interesting project uses [0]water as an organic network between two computers. It analyzes the color of each pixel and 'prints' out pulses to the electronically controlled water valve - a different pulse pattern depending on the color of the pixel on screen." Links 0. http://www.coin-operated.com/projects
Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster
[0]GoneGaryT writes "Say chaps, this might be old hat, but there's a fab site for conspiracy theory aficionados at [1]portchicago.org ; it's a pdf book expounding the theory of Peter Vogel's that the Port Chicago magazine explosion (1944) was a nuclear weapons test. It's actually pretty thorough, like 20 years of research thorough. Would the US really blow up their own people for the sake of global military supremacy? Naaaah..." Chapter 9 of the book has a factual account of the disaster (which I'd never heard of before); if you're not interested in the rest of the theory, at least reading the historical account is informative and will give you an appreciation of the explosive power of several million pounds of military ordnance. Links 0. mailto:banjo996@hotmail.com
Tolkien and the Beowulf Saga
[0]jackalski sent in this story about a [1]translation of the Beowulf epic by J.R.R. Tolkien being discovered and which is now set to be published next year. Tolkien found Beowulf [2]inspirational. Links
0. mailto:jackal@irc.NOSPAM.pl
1.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5764569%255E13780,00html
2.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/13/166207&tid=99
Top Ten Shameful Games
[0]Ant writes "Not necessarily the worst, but the most wrong -- here
are 10 of the [1]most seriously flawed titles of all time according to
GameSpy."
Automakers and Crash Data Recorders
The New York Times has a decent story about [0]automakers not wanting to standardize car data recorders. There are a couple of nuances which the reporter mostly misses. The automakers want to avoid standardization because they can then sell access to the proprietary data format (NYT does cover this, but ignores the profit motive). The story mentions privacy issues but dismisses them as solved, yet notes that there are no privacy protections whatsoever for this data, and you can expect it to be used against you in any incident (and perhaps other times: wait until service under your warranty is refused because your car reported your bad driving habits to the dealer). That's not "solved" in my book (and I think the automakers realize that selling cars which report on their owners might backfire). Speculation about ambulance crews using crash data is just hype - no ambulance is equipped to do that, nor would I want an EMT to spend time decoding the crash data instead of, say, saving my life. The article repeatedly suggests that crash data would be used to enhance safety, without ever specifying how that is supposed to occur. Links 0. http://nytimes.com/2002/12/29/national/29CRAS.html
Putting A Lid On Chernobyl
slicer622 writes "Chernobyl is finally getting a [0]containment structure (Washington Post). Billed as the largest moveable structure ever built, its designed to help take apart the wreckage and keep most of the radioactive material from spreading. It will be 800 feet across, and 300 feet high and will cost $800 mil." Links 0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48331-2002Dec28.html
CDMA 2000 1x Comes to India
[0]nilesh writes "Yesterday, [1]Reliance Infocomm [2]launched one of
the largest CDMA networks in the world [[3]Google news]. This wireless
network will cover 90% of India's population on a backbone of 60,000
kms of optic fibre. They have dreams of providing an Internet-enabled
Java-powered [4]CDMA2000 1x phone to almost every Indian citizen for
around tariffs as low as 40 paise per minute or 0.8 cents per minute.
The Samsung/LG/Kyocera phones will be replete with [5]applications
ranging from internet banking to video on demand and online gaming. Now
all we need is Quake for Java and we'll have college kids playing
deathmatches with each other in classroom at 144kbps. The next game
revolution is in sight."
0. mailto:mail@NOsPAm.nilesh.org
1.
http://www.relianceinfo.com/
2.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/stories/2002122801491600.htm
3.
http://news.google.com/news?q=reliance%20infocomm%20cdma
4.
http://www.relianceinfo.com/webapp/Infocomm/html/individual/consumer_indiamobile_sleekhandsets.html
5.
http://www.relianceinfo.com/webapp/Infocomm/html/individual/consumer_indiamobile_applications.html
Biggest IP cases of 2002
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Law.com's article, [2]The Biggest IP Cases of 2002, has a nice summary of some of the intellectual property cases
that have caught our attention this last year. Of particular interest
to slashdotters: [3]Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. (regarding Arriba's
visual search engine), [4]Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc.
(regarding a gene patent being invalid because it did not meet the written description requirement), an Illinois federal court injunction against Aimster, [5]United States v. Elcom Ltd a/k/a Elcomsoft Co. Ltd. , and [6]Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Welles (regarding Playmate of the Year, [7]Terri Welles, using [8]Playboy's marks and metatags on her website)." Links
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http://.scubacuda. .at. .iname.com.
1.
http://www.law.com/
2.
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1039054489470&t=LawArticleIP
3.
http://netcopyrightlaw.com/kellyvarribasoft.asp
4.
http://www.patentcribsheet.com/Cases/enzo.html
5.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Elcomsoft
6.
http://www.merchant-gould.com/news/articles/gaarticle/gapart3.html
7.
http://www.terriwelles.com/
8.
http://www.playboy.com/
Freshmeat
31337 recoder is versatile recoding program. Its purpose is encoding text and data to non-human-readable forms and decoding from these forms. It supports Base64, ROT, escaped hex, and octal. It can also recode single bytes to any numeric system from binary to 36-ary.
Alfandega Firewall 2.0 (Stable)
Alfandega Firewall is a collection of Perl modules that helps users to implement iptables-based firewalls for two interfaces. It provides local and remote blacklists, spoofing checks, packet forwarding, ICMP control, service configuration, and more.
Checkbot 1.71
Checkbot is a tool to verify links on a set of HTML pages. Checkbot can check a single document, or a set of documents on one or more servers. Checkbot creates a report which summarizes all links which caused some kind of warning or error. CRM commercial tracking tool 1.7 stable 29122002 http://freshmeat.net/releases/107844/ The CRM commercial tracking tool is to be used in a commercial environment for logging and tracking customer requirements, complaints, etc. When a so-called 'entity' is logged, every edit to the entity is logged. Using the management information, you can find statistic information like average duration, stalling calls, etc. It is fully configurable and it comes with an easy install script.
Custom 0.3
Custom is an E-Commerce system providing Ordering and Invoicing, Stock, Supplier, and Catalogue Management. Easily customisable, it is written in Python for use as CGI scripts (under Apache or any other Web server) with a simple example site and example database. Custom is intended as a modern replacement for Sage.
dbacl 1.3
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
diary2002 1.0
diary2002 is an online journal or diary script. You may also call it a blogger or Weblog. You can write, read, search, and delete your own articles or stories from your browser. diary2002.cgi is designed for easy setup, use, and maintenance. Your articles will be stored in text file format, so no database is needed.
DisSpam 0.11b
DisSpam is a personal solution to combat spam (i.e. not for mail servers/ISPs). It is a Perl script that detects spam in POP3 mailboxes based on internal RBL checks or SpamAssassin. It runs through cron and uses a very simple yet versatile configuration file.
DnetStats 0.1
DnetStats is a Perl script that works from the command line or as a CGI to get some stats from stats.distributed.net.
dvd::rip 0.49.2 (Unstable)
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
Gaim 0.59.7 (Stable)
Gaim is a GTK-based messenger application. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL. It is actively being developed and supports many common features of other clients, including many unique features. It also supports multiple protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Napster, and Zephyr.
GENDIST 1.4.7 (Stable)
GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to easily create your own special distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging everything on media.
Gestalter 0.6.0
Gestalter is a free vector drawing program. The user interface is
loosely modeled after Adobe Illustrator. The central element is the
Bezier curve used as a base part for almost every other object. Complex
paths are possible, compound paths can be constructed, grouping of
elements is enabled, and everything can be screened by a mask. Adding
and deleting of nodes is implemented as well as transformations
HenPlus 0.9
HenPlus is a SQL shell written in Java that works for any database that has JDBC support. It provides commandline history, commandline completion, and can handle multiple connects to different databases at once. Database-independant table dumps, aliases, and variables are also supported.
Kismet 2.8.0a
Kismet is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files. Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20021229a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107828/ Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
libwebserver 0.3.4
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
open-realty 1.0.3
Open-Realty is a real estate listing manager intended to be both easy to install and easy to administer. It uses PHP to drive a MySQL backend. It has a flexible search, automatic thumbnail generation, automatic interfacing with Yahoo! maps, and many other features.
PowerMail 1.6
PowerMail is a redundant and distributed system for receiving mail via SMTP and storing it for users to access with POP. The way PowerMail works is quite unorthodox, and its design emphasizes speed and efficiency. Modified Maildir mailboxes allow PowerMail to employ hardlinks to save diskspace and deliver messages with thousands of recipients instantly. PowerMail can operate self-sufficiently or cooperate with a regular MTA to support mail forwarding.
PTHPasteboard 2.5.0
PTHPasteboard is a pasteboard buffer application. It keeps track of the last 20 (changeable in preferences) items that you copied/cut and allows you to paste them at any time. You should move this application to one of your Applications directories and set it to auto-launch on login.
RLPlot 0.96b
RLPlot is a scientific plotting, charting, and drawing program. Data is entered into a spreadsheet manually or by copy from a spreadsheet program (Excel, KSpread, etc.) and pasted to RLPlot. Plots are created and modified by a fully-interactive graphical user interface. RLPlot is fully vector-oriented, ensuring high-quality outputs.
RxLinux 1.2.4-w
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time. Simple TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.1.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107823/ Simple TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do).
The HT Editor 0.7.1
HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.4 (Stable)
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
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
Newsforge Newsvac
An upstart company, Lindows.com, is trying to persuade the Federal District Court in Seattle to invalidate Microsoft's trademark on Windows. (free registration required) Book Review: Linux Apache Web Server Administration http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/1027217 We review three out of the eight books in the Craig Hunt Linux Library series published by Sybex Inc.
Mandrake 9.0 Review
Today we are looking at Linux Mandrake, a relative newcomer but which has picked up a large user base through the years which keep its development alive and well. The first version of Mandrake was based on Red Hat which is a fine distro in itself. The makers wanted too keep all that was good with Red Hat and get rid of all the bad, such as using KDE instead of GNOME as default desktop. Over the years, though, it has changed from simply being Red ...
Free Software at Rosenzweig and Maffia
A committee has been formed in NYLXS to try to take on first hand the task to driving sales for Free Software. We've dubbed this effort, 'The Free Software Chamber of Commerce'. The result of our efforts is bearing fruit, and we hope to be an anchor and a safe haven for both well trained consultants and businesses looking for innovative solutions to their business problems.
Life in the trenches: a sysadmin speaks
As recently a decade ago, a systems administrator wasn't really needed in every medium- or large-sized corporation. There were motley assemblages of computers which were used for this task and that and if one or two broke down, then the supplier came in and fixed them. Red Hat 8: A glimpse of the desktop future http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/0128220 Anonymous Reader writes "This article looks at Red Hat 8.0 and the direction that is sets for the future of the Linux desktop. It makes the case that Red Hat should produce the single best desktop environment that it can with its limited resources."
Open Source, Closed Documentation?
sunset asks: "Recently I was motivated to look at WebGUI which looks like a pretty cool open source project. However I was having trouble making it work..."
Interview with the Gnomemeeting Team
mangeli writes: We put the Gnomemeeting team in the Interview Chair to find out what, and who is behind the program.
A Peek at History, Piracy-Free
Media company British Pathe, which produced 3,500 newsreels between 1910 and 1970, puts its entire collection online. But rather than adding digital copyright protection, the company simply stamped its logo on each downloadable clip. Ex-Computer Hacker Granted Radio License http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1353213 The man the federal government once labeled ``the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history'' has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet.
Thinkgeek
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
Interests: Linux French
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
Interests: Perl Gerl
Interests: I dig Mac OS X
Interests: Ninj4 Hooded Sweatshirt
Interests: Megatokyo Blanket
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
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
Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
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
Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
Electronics: Splinter Cell for Xbox
Cube Goodies: Tiny R/C Digi Q Cars
Sourceforge
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your webpage. All you need is a local airport, that makes some special weather reports called METARs. The reports are updated once or twice an hour. This release contains five new translations (for a total of 11 translations) and fixes some bugs, including a bug that prevented the Configuration Builder from working when register_globals were turned off.
Benchw release 0.5b
Benchw provides a toolset to benchmark the capabilities of several different database engines for data warehouse type activities. It is designed to provide a simple way to test data loading, index creation plus query performance in the spirit of TPC-H. This release adds default index generation and sapdb load capability - so now Oracle, Mysql, Postgresql, DB2 and Sapdb are supported. The documentation has been brought closer to completion. The generated form of the queries has been finalized (it has changed from the alpha releases). A BSD style license file has been included.
Gallery v1.3.3 bugfix release
Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery (written in PHP) with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. This release includes a security fix and a number of small bugfixes. This release is primarily aimed at fixing a variety of small bugs that have existed in Gallery for a few releases, as well as a couple of fairly serious bugs (including a very serious SECURITY bug that can lead to a remote exploit) that were introduced in the version 1.3.2. If you are using the 1.3.2 release we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you upgrade to 1.3.3 as soon as possible to minimize the possibility of a web server compromise. Bugs fixed: - Fix SECURITY HOLE introduced in the Windows XP Publishing feature introduced in 1.3.2 (as of 1.3.2 build 27) See http://gallery.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=64 for specific details. - Hiding all elements in an album causes those elements to get permanently detached from the album (making it inconvenient to recover them). - Fixed minor bugs regarding supporting Nuke 6's user database - Fixed minor bugs in the slideshow code. Feature additions/changes: - The config wizard now allows you to select an option to print via Shutterfly without making a (very small) donation to the Gallery project. - Convenience function allows you to access a sub-album's permission dialog without opening the album. For more detailed information, you can read the Gallery changelog: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gallery/gallery/ChangeLo g?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup regards, The Gallery Dev Team
gwc 0.18-0 released
This release contains no new bug fixes, but has a much faster click detection algorithm, and up to 200 markers. Gnome Wave Cleaner is a digital audio restoration tool for CD quality audio wavefiles. Dehiss, declick and decrackle in a GUI environment. Have fun. Please let me know of any problems. jw (aka weltyj at yahoo.com)
Furthur 1.7.1 Released
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
sylpheed-0.8.8claws released
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
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
Mailman 2.1 rc 1
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/
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