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[osdn everything] January 01, 2003
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Success Despite College Rejection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2028257
selan writes "Are those who are rejected by prestigious schools
destined to lead mediocre lives? Or are great people more likely to
succeed if they were rejected by top universities? An inspirational
[0]column in the [1]Washington Post discusses the "Spielberg Effect", a
theory that it really doesn't matter where you went to school."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58951-2002Dec31.html
Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2256213
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Beeb reports, "The main organisation
working for the Nynorsk language got most of Norway's high schools to
threaten to boycott all Microsoft software if they didn't come up with
a New Norwegian version of Office." Which brings up questions for Open
Source developers: What's involved in translating programs? Is there a
process that can be followed to make the inevitable easier? Is there a
group providing guidelines for this already? -- Do you work in program
translation? Step up and do tell."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2615363.stm
Listen to Webpages While Driving
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2045257
[0]dimitril writes "Tired of sitting in your car for hours and
practically doing nothing but listening to the radio or the same CD for
the fifth time? You could use those hours by reading your websites with
[1]this little project. You will love those traffic jams!"
Links
0. mailto:dimitri.larmuseau@pandora.be
E ~ mc^2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2030246
[0]DrBlake writes "New York Times has an [1]article about a study of
Einsteins theory of relativity that I found very interesting. Not only
might the speed of light be relative under certain circumstances, the
famous equation E=mc2 might not be entirely correct."
Links
0. mailto:j...carlin@@@attbi...com
The 20th Anniversary of the Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/2044252
[0]Ross Finlayson writes "In [1]a message posted to the IETF general
mailing list, Bob Braden reminds us that, on January 1st, 2003, 20
years will have passed since "the most logical date of origin of the
Internet [...] when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP
protocol to TCP/IP". And the rest is history..."
Links
New Year's Eve Wrap-Up of Wrap-Ups
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1833244
spydink writes "The Radio Netherlands website [0]http://www.rnw.nl has a good [1]hour-by-hour listing of potential local time live webcasts from around the world. May be helpful for those who want to raise a glass to the New Year every hour on the hour." (And there's some good news about that, too.) Read on for a few more end-of-year items, which you'll no doubt be seeing more of besides. Links
Tai Chi Robots
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2056255
dknight writes "It seems that [0]Chinese scientists are currently
developing a robot which is capable of doing tai chi. The robot is
being developed by the Beijing University of Science and Engineering,
and is touted to be a great breakthrough in worker safety, as these
robots could be used to perform dangerous work. They are supposedly
able to sense changes in the slope of the earth around them (hills,
etc.) and balance themselves out."
Links
Going Through the Garbage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1938231
[0]frankejames writes "This is a very funny piece on how Portland
politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen's garbage
without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage
(and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play! Read
[1]Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we
grabbed theirs."
Links
0. mailto:franke@nerdheav e n .com
"Decasia": The Beauty of Film Decay
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1756229
[0]tregoweth writes "The New York Times has [1]a story about
'[2]Decasia,' a film created entirely from deteriorating nitrate film
footage. Ya can't beat analog for interesting disintegration."
Links
0.
http://tregoweth.com/
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/magazine/22DECAY.html
2.
http://www.decasia.com/
802.11g Hardware Arrives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1943224
DBordello writes "There's been quite a scramble as networking companies
the world over [0]rush to be the first to bring their 802.11g wireless
gear to market. Linksys missed their [1]early December launch date, and
a company named Buffalo Technology has risen to [2]steal their thunder.
The company today issued a [3]press release announcing their AirStation
G54 broadband router access point and wireless CardBus adapter, the
first 802.11g draft standard hardware to hit the market. More
information can be found at the [4]company's website." Update: 12/31
21:35 GMT by [5]M: The story submitter apparently found this blurb on
[6]broadbandreports.com. Hey people, give credit where it's due.
Update: 12/31 22:50 GMT by [7]T: Karen Sohl of Linksys writes to say
that despite the slip in dates, "Linksys is shipping our line of
Wireless-G products. We have been shipping since last week. Honestly
not large volume by any means-- but by the end of this week we'll have
shipped over 10,000 units to distribution -- Ingram Micro and Tech
Data." That's where even large retailers (think Amazon) buy their
stock.
Links
0.
http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=18220&Catid=5&subcat=48
1.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021121S0007
2.
http://www.e-insite.net/eb-mag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA268135&spacedesc=news
3.
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=26276&site=unstrung
4.
http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/products/wbr-g54/index.php
5. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
6.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/24808
7.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Freshmeat
Automated Password Agent 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108020/
Automated Password Agent is an Expect/Tcl program for changing the passwords of various services. It includes a Web interface.
bash programmable completion 20021231
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108027/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
Bonobo UI Library 2.0.3.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107923/
The Bonobo UI Library provides UI code for Bonobo, the Object Activation Framework for GNOME 2. Bonobo has a similar purpose to gnorba, the GNOME 1.x CORBA activation library, and will replace it for GNOME 2.0. It allows you to do much more powerful activation queries than gnorba. Each server is described by an XML file that defines its attributes. When querying or activating, you can specify complex requirements using the OAF query language.
Cherokee 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108002/
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.
Cow Outputs Waves 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108024/
Cow is something like a waveform editor in that it generates a wave file from one or more graphs for amplitude and frequency. A graphical user interface simplifies this process.
cvsknit 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107992/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe useful.
Dark Order 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108011/
Dark Order is a deep black and red theme.
Deep Blue 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108008/
Deep Blue is a theme built around an ocean background.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2002-12-31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107980/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and filtered into categories such as the food groups, raw only, no salt, or not dried. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and maximums, and using data from the USDA database of 6000 foods and 101 nutrients.
Dolphin SCI drivers 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108029/
SCI is a high-speed point-to-point networking technology, using SCI adaptors. The Dolphin SCI drivers in this package will work under Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, Lynx, and Windows NT/2000. They are aimed at Dolphin's SCI adaptor cards. The latency of the driver itself is around 1.4us. It's intended for use in clusters that need the extra performance. Note that the drivers are GPL, and the bundled libraries are LGPL.
Dragon Breath p_27_12_2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108007/
Dragon Breath is the name of a generic development and application framework that is heavily based on PostgreSQL and PHP. It contains different layers which wrap business logic, data, and any graphical interface. It opens up and eases development in the field of graphical user interfaces and data management. The interface layer is built upon XSLT rendering, which allows the rendering of displays for different interfaces like Web browsers, PDAs, mobile phones, and others. The database layer depends on PostgreSQL's features and allows a common exchange of data with any kind of data structure. It even contains built in sanity checks for data integrity.
FireHOL R5 v1.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108023/
FireHOL is an iptables stateful firewall configuration tool that allows you to configure your firewall the same way you think of it (e.g. client samba accept, server DNS accept). Its goal is to be completely abstracted so that you can configure any kind of firewall, but also easy to use, audit, and understand. It supports Linux hosts and routers with any number of network interfaces, it knows a large number of services, and you can configure it to support any additional service you like. It can turn any service into a server, a client, or a router and easily handles complex positive and negative expressions.
GCompris 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108019/
GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 3 to 10 years old. It is activity-based, and currently includes more than 30 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids which teach them how to use a mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, and words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, and much more.
GENDIST 1.4.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107989/
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.
getID3() 1.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108036/
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AVI, MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV), RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, VQF, MPEGplus / Musepack / SV7, AAC, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, BMP, PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, and OggVorbis tags.
GNOME Mime Data 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107921/
GNOME Mime Data is a module which contains the base MIME and Application database for GNOME. It is meant to be accessed through the MIME functions in GnomeVFS.
grafist 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108003/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 24 languages.
grepmail 4.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108037/
grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox (gzip, bzip2, or tzip) for a given regular expression and returns those emails that match the query. It also supports searches constrained by date and size.
grsecurity 1.9.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108026/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, and provides many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
Gtk-Perl Flash Cards 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107871/
GtK-Perl Flash Cards reads questions and answers from a text file called flash.dat and helps students prepare for exams. The odd lines contain the questions and the even lines contain the answers. Difficult questions start with a D, and easy question start with an E. A sample database file is included in the tgz file.
ImageMagick 5.5.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108031/
ImageMagick (TM) is a package for the automated and interative manipulation of images. It supports the display and interactive manipulation of images when used with the X Window System. Although the software is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio, it is available for free and can be redistributed without fee. ImageMagick may be used as a component of both open source and proprietary applications. ImageMagick compiles and runs under Unix, Linux, Windows '95 and later, Apple MacOS, and Compaq VMS. Binary packages are available for most operating systems. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided to support development of image processing applications in the C, C++, and Perl languages.
Ion 20021229 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108030/
Ion, based on PWM, is a keyboard-friendly window manager with a very text-editorish interface and no overlapping windows.
KSambaPlugin 0.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108034/
KSambaKonqiPlugin is a complete SAMBA configuration plugin for KDE 3. It consists of a KControl Center Module for configuring nearly every option on a SAMBA server and a Konqueror properties dialog plugin for quick sharing of single directories.
Kydpdict 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108025/
Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and Polish-English/German dictionaries.
Lepton's Crack 20021231 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108005/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force (incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, and Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4) formats.
Logtalk 2.14.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108015/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog programming language. Integrating logic programming with object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible with most Prolog compilers.
muCommander 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108014/
muCommander is a cross-platform file manager. It features a Norton Commander-style interface and runs on any OS supporting the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition.
Nate Kohari's regular expression pipe 1.32 http://freshmeat.net/releases/108017/
RE is a simple utility designed to aid in the management of files. Given a directory name, a regular expression, and a regular shell command, it will parse the filenames in the specified directory, matching them against the regular expression, and then execute the command once for each matched file using the filename as a parameter. It was originally designed to mass-rename MP3 files based on part of the original filenames.
pfstats 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107996/
pfstats is a simple external script to MRTG, which generates statistics taken from the pfctl(8) logfile. The statistics represent the number of blocked incoming connections.
PgMarket 2.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108035/
PgMarket is an e-commerce solution built with PHP4 and PostgreSQL/MySQL. It features internationalization support, image and thumbnail handling, per-user and product discounts, delivery price calculation, order status management, elementary and advanced search, sorting of products and categories, comfortable category browsers, easy online and offline population of the catalog, importing of data from text files, and other useful features. Many features can be disabled through configuration parameters. A demo site is included.
PHPMySite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108032/
PHPMySite is a simple content management system for Web sites written in PHP and with all content (text and images) stored in MySQL. The system generates valid XHTML and CSS2, and allows content to be maintained from a Web browser (no FTP/telnet access is required).
portell 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108004/
portell is a program that allows FreeBSD users to view the description as givin in its pkg-descr file for a specific port. If you want to know what the program "Foo" is, then you can type "portell foo" and portell will find its pkg-descr file and dump it on your display.
PostScript Utilities p17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108033/
PSUtils is a collection of useful utilities for manipulating PostScript documents. Programs included are psnup (for placing out several logical pages on a single sheet of paper), psselect (for selecting pages from a document), pstops (for general imposition), psbook (for signature generation for booklet printing), and psresize (for adjusting page sizes).
Project Manager X 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107983/
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
PyDBDesigner 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107990/
PyDBDesigner is a relational database modeling tool that is planned to be able to design both logical and physical models similarly to Erwin and PowerDesigner, etc.
Rexx/Wrapper 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107993/
Rexx/Wrapper enables Rexx programs to be wrapped within a native executable program. The source is optionally encrypted and compressed, but can be recovered if the key that was used to wrap the original program is known. Rexx/Wrapper is not a Rexx compiler.
Ringtone Tools 2.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108010/
Ringtone Tools is a set of tools for creating ringtones and logos on mobile phones.
SCMxx 0.6.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108009/
SCMxx is a console program that allows you to exchange certain types of data with mobile phones made by Siemens. Some of the data types that can be exchanged are logos, ring tones, vCalendars, vCards, phonebook entries, and SMS messages. It works with the following phones: S25, C35i, M35i, S35i, ME45, S45, SL45, and probably some others, too. It basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some other additional resources).
slides.sh 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108028/
slides.sh is a shell script for generating simple HTML presentations from text. The software is intended to be able to fit on a single boot floppy. The source file is a text file with a simple format for easy data capture. It can be used on any system with a shell and Unix tools. You can use it to make an automatic slideshow.
sTaLMP3Box 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108000/
sTaLMP3Box is a complete control program for a stand-alone MP3 player jukebox computer running under Linux, which uses a HD44780-compatible LCD display connected to the parallel port instead of a monitor. Its main function is playing MP3s and/or Ogg Vorbis files. It features a playlist with full edition functions, has a integrated file manager to manage your songs, shows ID3 info and Ogg Vorbis info, disc statistics, mounts CD-ROMs, resuming, it has almost everything you need for building your own jukebox. On its Web site there are complete building instructions for the hardware part of the project and installation instructions for the software part.
TopologiLinux 2.0 Release Candidate 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107994/
TopologiLinux is an easy to install Linux distribution that is designed to be run from any Windows computer without requiring repartitioning. It mounts itself using a loop-back device and can be run from a DOS, Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP system with an NTFS or FAT partition. It is based on the upcoming Slackware 9 and contains some extra and some improved packages.
typespeed 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107997/
Typespeed is a tool to test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS. This is a clone of 'ztspeed', but without some of the estimating functions.
WorDoG 0.5 alpha5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108018/
WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (it can use ADOdb).
Worm Warner 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107991/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm. Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected host and sending an email to the postmaster.
XStow 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107995/
XStow is a replacement for GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions. XStow and GNU Stow are programs for managing the installation of software packages. It keeps each package in its own directory while making it appear that all packages are installed in the same place. Unlike GNU Stow, XStow does not depend on Perl, and can be compiled statically for such uses as rescue disks. XStow is fully compatible with GNU Stow, meaning that you can switch from one to the other at will.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108006/
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.
Newsforge Reports
Happy New Year
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/0250204
NewsForge/Linux.com staff is taking a short break Dec 31 and Jan 1. We'll do a few NewsVac updates these two days, but our next original article will appear on Jan 2, 2003. See you then!
The most popular Linux article ever?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/1856249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - You've seen a headline or two recently on NewsForge that said something like "Microsoft fights off Windows rival Linux." I say "headline or two" because we goofed up and and linked to this story at least twice, under different headlines. It was an easy mistake to make because this AP story has run in more newspapers and on more news Web sites than any other story I have ever seen with the word "Linux" in it.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Bootable Business Card nears 2.0 release
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0622229
Had this been an actual Linux emergency, you could really use the LNX-BBC rescue disk right now. Here's how to test the new release and make sure this mini-distribution has what it needs to rescue your system in the future.
MozillaZine Review of the Year 2002
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0620251
Anonymous Reader writes "From MozillaZine: 'With the release of Mozilla 1.0, the start of the Phoenix and Chimera projects and the launch of Gecko-based browsers from AOL, 2002 has been an exciting year for the Mozilla project. Join us as we take a look back at the past twelve months.'"
The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0618214
Timothy R. Butler writes "This year has proven most interesting for GNU/Linux. While there was not any amazing surprises, there were numerous events that are noteworthy for review. The upshot to all of this is that most of what happened was good overall for the Free Software community."
India: HP Bundles AMD-Linux For Presario http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0616236
NZheretic writes "Kolkata: Welcome to New Year’s Diwali sale — Hewlett-Packard is slashing the price of its Compaq Presario home PC using a combination of AMD processors and Linux operating system (OS), thus also striking another blow at the dominance of Wintel in the Indian market. For PC users, the savings are huge: a branded MNC PC for Rs 30,990 (USD $645) , against the current Presario price of Rs 39,990 (USD $833) based on Wintel or ...
The 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2124236
linuxquestions writes "The 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are now underway. The polls will be open for two months and topics include Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and much more. This is your chance to be heard."
DesktopLinux.com poll to close tomorrow
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1038233
Anonymous Reader writes "In the final month of the Desktop Linux distribution 'quick poll', Debian is leading the pack with 24% and Mandrake is in second place with 20.8% of the votes. Total number of votes cast is 9725."
Desktop Linux Application Tips
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1037234
Anonymous Reader writes "Walt Pennington authors this practical guide for using Desktop Linux applications. Pennington covers some essential areas for users getting started downloading Linux, creating .pdf files, disabling pop-up ads, and tips for secure online transactions in this article . . ."
McNealy: Sun won't go down on his company http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/168220
SAN FRANCISCO — While critics and rivals snipe that his company, Sun Microsystems, is sinking, Scott McNealy maintains his Captain Courageous demeanor.
Annual scorecard
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/160253
The year is drawing to a close, so now is a good time to evaluate my predictions for 2002.
Case Study: Open source packs free IP telephony http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/160212
Open source IP telephony software packages are helping users move away from the traditional world of proprietary office phone systems, PBXs with closed operating systems and expensive specialty components.
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/
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Sourceforge
PhpWiki developer release 1.3.4
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239495
PhpWiki is a WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP. A WikiWikiWeb is a site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. All pages are stored in a DBMS and hyperlinking is dynamic. It's for collaboration, conversation and documentation all at once. Featuring many new plugins, bug fixes, and lines of code.
nntp//rss v0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239506
nntp//rss is a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients, enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your existing NNTP-based newsreader. This first public release supports web-based administration, RSS versions 0.91 through to 2.0, and has been tested with popular NNTP newsreaders. nntp//rss is a Java application that can either be run locally on an end-user's machine, or on a group server. Administration is through an easy-to-use web-based interface, facilitating group/channel management, status monitoring, and channel configuration import/export. nntp//rss is *feed friendly* - utilizing the Last-Modified and ETag features of the HTTP protocol ensures that the bandwidth of content providers web servers isn't inconsiderately used during polling. Download nntp//rss v0.1 from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=68044&release_id= 130632 nntp//rss Home Page http://www.methodize.org/nntprss nntp//rss SourceForge Project Page http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nntprss
Panorama 0.18 now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239491
Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production. This will include modeling, rendering, animating, post-processing, etc. Animation is not currently supported, but will be added soon. It is officially part of the GNU project. Panorama 0.18 is now available for download. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7862 Before I get a lot of questions, I'll state here why I jumped some numbers in the versions. The ultimate goal of this project is to eventually end up stable, with version 1.0. As such, I believe that there was enough added and fixed as to further the number more than 1 notch. There is another version being developed in CVS (0.19), which is another large leap, but I don't want to end up with numbers which are prematurely high. As a potential roadmap, here's how I see the versions stacking up: 0.25 -- Time added, so that objects, textures, lights, etc. can vary over time. 0.50 -- Plugin system rewritten and functional for both *nix and Win32 (possibly other OSs), most objects verified. 0.75 -- Multiple SDLs (scene description languages), with at least one compatible to POV (http://www.povray.org). 0.90 -- Partially functioning GUIs for X (GTK--), Win32, and possibly other windowing systems. These will have full modeling capabilities. 1.00 -- Stable. Objects verfied to work, GUIs perform nicely, animation working correctly. These numbers are not fixed, and the order of completed features may be rearranged. It is, indeed, a very lofty goal. At the rate things have been progressing for the past 2 years, it will probably take me another 8 years for panorama to become stable, unless I can find some help. Questions or comments are welcomed.
Medi 0.1.93 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239378
A new version of Medi, 0.1.93, has been released. This is in fact (really this time...) the new 0.2.0 version. Configuration tables have been transferred into configuration local files, to reduce database rage. By running MediUpdater.jar, included in the package, the new version of the database will be installed. No data will be lost. Medi is a Java application useful to manage files in your CDs, floppies, etc. It can parse MP3 files, cataloguing them by author, genre and data, and can display (preview) some picture types. It uses a database (currently supported DBs are MySQL, Firebird and PostgreSQL) to store the data.
SecureDataManager 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239510
Secure Data Manager (SDM) is a full featured Java password manager application. Store logins and other private information for web sites, computers, credit cards, etc. This release is a patch to the 1.0 release -- fixes the 'save' disabled menu-item bug. This stable release contains many new features, including: searching, expiring dates, random password generator, CSV and XML import/export, Tree and Table views, printing, and more. Visit http://sdm.sourceforge.net to see screenshots. Installation is easy. Download, unzip, and run using Java 1.4.1. Comments are welcome. Please remember to monitor releases so you can be notified of future updates. -From the SecureDataManager Team
RubyCocoa 0.4 was released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238973
RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is possible. RubyCocoa 0.4.0 was released! http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/
http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/ Changes from 0.3.2 ------------------
- Ruby 1.8 supported * revive RubyCocoa.framework * rename the extended library and move the library The '.pkg' binary package is available for Mac OS X 10.2. All of framework, library, documents, samples and ProejctBuilder templates are contained in the package. These items will be installed into the appropriate place. It is available to start of RubyCocoa programming or use of RubyCocoa application immediately. What's RubyCocoa? ----------------- RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is possible. Some cases using RubyCocoa: * Exploration of a Cocoa object's feature with 'irb' interactively * Prototyping of a Cocoa application * Cocoa application that include good feature of Ruby and Objective-C * Wrapping Mac OS X native GUI for Ruby script
PHPEclipse 1.0.3 preAlpha released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238989
PHPEclipse is an open-source PHP IDE. Built as an Eclipse plugin, it takes advantage of a well-designed, robust and widely used application framework. Project Page: http://www.sf.net/projects/phpeclipse Homepage: http://www.phpeclipse.org ChangeLog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=57621&release_id= 130306
Hatari version 0.25
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239005
Version 0.25 of the Atari ST emulator Hatari has been released. In this version the support for big endian systems like PowerPC machines has been improved, especially the Spectrum 512 pictures are now working better there. Hatari now also compiles and runs on Mac OS X. Additionally the blitter chip is now beeing emulated, too, and there is also support for big VDI screen resolutions. And finally, you can now save YM and WAV sounds.
Bossogg v0.9.0 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238928
Bossogg is a client/server for creating an ogg vorbis player in your entertainment center. First client is done in SDL with Truetype fonts so it's easy to read. Uses PostgreSQL for lookups. MP3 and FLAC support is in and rewritten from scratch. This is the stepping stone to a lot of new features.
PHP Weather 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238931
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.
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