[osdn everything] January 08, 2003

[0]Luiz Bucci writes "According to the company web site, [1]TurboPower
Software announces their immediate withdrawal from the retail component and developer tools market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces its intention to release their award winning component libraries as open source to the maximum extent possible. The resulting open source projects will be hosted on [2]SourceForge." (SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of VA Software). TurboPower's libraries cover "compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet communication, scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML manipulation." Links

    0. 
http://www.bucci.com.br
    1. 
http://www.turbopower.com/
    2. 
http://sourceforge.net/

2003 Japan Prize Winners Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1730255

[0]dpatil writes "The 2003 [1] Japan Prize winners have been announced.
[2] James Yorke (who named the field of chaos theory) and [3] Benoit
Mandelbrot (father of fractals) will share the prize for "Creation of Universal Concepts in Complex Systems--Chaos and Fractals". Here is the
[4] citation. The Japan Prize is right up there after the Nobel Prize
and the Fields Medal. A good article on Yorke and his research team at the [5] University of Maryland appeared in the [6] Washington Post" Links

    0. mailto:dpatil@yahoo.com
    1. 
http://www.japanprize.jp/English.htm
    2. 
http://www.ipst.umd.edu/~yorke/
    3. 
http://www.math.yale.edu/newsite/people/mandelbrot.htm
    4. 
http://www.japanprize.jp/e_2003_1.htm
    5. 
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/
    6. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15111-2003Jan5.html

The Speed Of Gravity Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/017222

[0]redwolfoz writes "[1]New Scientist is [2]reporting that the speed of
gravity has been measured for the first time. 'The landmark experiment shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying colours.' Researchers made the measurement of the fundamental physical constant with the help of the planet Jupiter. One important consequence of the result is that it will help constrain the number of possible dimensions in the Universe."
Links

    0. 
http://www.redwolf.com.au/fiction/
    1. 
http://www.newscientist.com/
    2. 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993232

160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2150243

MacAndrew writes "The Boston Globe [0]reported that over 160,000 people signed up since the first of the year for the state's new do-not-call list, which imposes penalties as high as $5,500 per violation. Nonprofit and political calls are exempt. This list is being implemented well in advance of the proposed FTC [1]national do-not-call list. Residents can sign up by mail, phone, or [2]online. Mass. officials [3]predict a third of the 3 million residential lines will enroll. Legal challenge from marketers appears likely, although the Direct Marketing Association helpfully [4]lists state do-not-call registries. Click [5]here for the DMA's side of the story." Links

    0. 
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/003/business/Over_140_000_join_list_to_block_telemarketers+.shtml
    1. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2043243&tid=158
    2. 
https://www.madonotcall.govconnect.com/Welcome.asp
    3. 
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/001/metro/Signup_begun_to_ward_off_telemarketers+.shtml
    4. 
http://www.the-dma.org/government/donotcalllists.shtml
    5. 
http://capwiz.com/aim/home/

Star Wars Action Figures
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2113245

0. http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0719/index.html

An anonymous reader writes "Star Wars nostalgia buffs: X-E just added a fairly long feature detailing some of the many [0]mail-away offers made by the Kenner company to keep kids interested in SW action figures in the 80s."
Links

100 Best Companies To Work For
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2051200

Misha writes "Fortune.com is publishing a list of [0]100 Best Companies to Work for. Quite a few tech companies, with a few semi-startups, like Xilinx, who 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'" Links

0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/bestcompanies

Making the HDTV Vision Quest?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/231217

[0]DumbSwede asks: "I have embarked on a do-it-yourself HDTV project
with a NEC 135LC quad-XGA projector purchased on eBay. But I have only found 2 HDTV tuner cards, [1]AccessDTV and [2]WinTV-HD, both far short of quad-XGA resolution (if I am reading the specs right, they max out at SXGA for VGA output). [3]ATI claims to support all DTV resolutions and has quad-XGA resolution with its All-In-Wonder 9700, but has only a standard analog tuner built in. A search of [3]ATI or [4]NVIDA web-sites, give no recommendations on DTV turners to use in conjunction with their products (perhaps either accessdtv or wintv-hd will work). Any details and insights would be appreciated, as two or three days of web searching seems not to have provided me with total solution answers."
Links

    0. mailto:slashdotbin@hotmail.com
    1. 
http://www.accessdtv.com/accessdtv/index.htm
    2. 
http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp#wintv_hd
    3. 
http://www.ati.com/
    4. 
http://www.nvidia.com/

Freshmeat
3Dwm 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108722/

Can't find what you're looking for?

3Dwm is a three-dimensional user environment that can run on immersive Virtual Reality hardware (such as CAVEs and HMDs) as well as on desktop computers. It is a platform for the research and development of three-dimensional user interfaces, providing a means of exploring possible future user interfaces. 3Dwm is fully distributed using CORBA. Other planned and implemented features include OpenGL rendering, X11 (and other windowing system) bindings, CAVELib support, 3D TrueType fonts, general streaming movie support, a 3DUI widget kit, etc.

AJ's Internet Cafe for LTSP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108759/

AJ's Internet cafe is a full featured and complete open-source internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.

ASEM-51 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108726/

ASEM-51 is a macro assembler for the Intel MCS-51 family of microcontrollers. It is based on the standard Intel syntax, and implements conditional assembly, macros, and include file processing. The assembler can output object code in Intel-HEX or Intel OMF-51 format as well as a detailed list file. The package includes support for more than seventy 8051 derivatives, a bootstrap program for MCS-51 target boards, and documentation in ASCII and HTML format. It runs on MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux.

auto-autofs 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108737/

Auto-autofs is a Perl script which searches block- devices (via /proc) and disk partitions (via fdisk). It works as an automounter program (autofs) and generates an HTML file for easy access to the devices.

buildpkg 0.0.2r28-pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108731/

Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here.

ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.2 (Office) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108765/

ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities, and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.

curator 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108714/

Curator is a powerful script that allows one to generate Web page image galleries with the intent of displaying photographic images on the Web, or for a CD-ROM presentation and archiving. It generates static Web pages only - no special configuration or running scripts are required on the server. The script supports many file formats, hierarchical directories, thumbnail generation and update, per-image description file with many fields, and 'tracks' of images spanning multiple directories. The templates consist of HTML with embedded Python. Running this script only requires a recent Python interpreter and the ImageMagick tools.

Dustismo 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108752/

Dustismo is a standard sans-serif truetype font good for most applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 250 glyphs so far). The archive contains two font files, one designed for Windows which contains embedded bitmaps for point sizes 7-24, and one for Linux which contains no bitmaps.

Ekit 0.9f
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108708/

Don't know where to look next?

Ekit is a simple Java-based HTML editor with copy and paste, table, form, image, CSS, and spell checking support. Used as application it also allows for HTML to be loaded and saved, as well as serialized and saved as an RTF.

eL DAPo 1.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108711/

eL DAPo is a PHP-based application for managing and querying LDAP servers. It can rename, modify, and delete LDAP entries, as well as modify, add, and delete attributes associated with an entry. Search filters can be changed while a session is open, so users only have to bind with the LDAP server once. eL DAPo also includes a configuration file to make it fit well to your current schema.

ENodes 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108751/

ENodes is a reliable Web development and publishing framework written in Perl and geared on mod_perl. Working as a full layer on Apache, it allows you to manage multiple domains dispatched between multiple Web masters. It includes versioning, access locking, parallel version testing, fine granularity of permissions and version management, user workflow, import/export mechanisms, and a fully-integrated plugin interface.

Faq Administrator 1.5-Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108756/

The Faq Administrator is a PHP/MySQL message board.

flowprobe 1.0.pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108747/

Confused? Frustrated?

flowprobe is a libpcap-based tool that collect network traffic data and emit it as NetFlow flows towards the specified collector.

FSViewer 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108710/

FSViewer is a FileViewer lookalike for Window Maker. It is written in C using the WINGs library.

FUDforum 2.3.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108732/

FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.

Gringotts 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108739/

Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.

Gromit 0.20030106 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108682/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

Gromit is a system configuration tool that is designed to run in the most automated fashion possible. It allows you to place the correct config file in the right place on the right machine. Package and version dependencies allow you to sanely control machines that are not 100% identical.

GtkAtlantic 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108720/

GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers.

imgv 2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108741/

imgv is a platform independent, open source image viewer. It includes standard features (file/directory browser, slideshows, zoom in/out, flip/rotate, etc.) and unique features (multi-view, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, remote image loading, and more).

ircu 2.10.11.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108735/

ircu is Undernet's own version of the standard ircd, offering many enhancements including the P10 protocol, flood protection and code optimizations.

JavaReadline 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108721/

JavaReadline adds readline support to java console applications. Not every feature of the readline library has been implemented, but all basic features are available. It has only been tested under Linux, but should work everywhere readline is available.

KSocrat 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108715/

KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary for the K Desktop Environment.

Linux 2.4.21-pre3 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108713/

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.

Mr Commander 0.1a-preview1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108734/

Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features SMB and FTP support.

MyODBC 3.51.05 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108743/

MyODBC provides an ODBC driver for the MySQL database server.

mysql_auth 0.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108634/

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.

nmaFPS 0.78 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108744/

nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter. The aim is to shoot down as many drones as you can. You lose if the number of drones flying around goes above 10.

OBM 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108755/

OBM is an Intranet application written to help manage a company. It can also be used as a contact and customer database or as a shared calendar. It is written with PHP and requires MySQL to work (although support for other databases is possible). It supports internationalization and themes, and it includes: sales force, help desk, time tracking, user, and administration modules.

openbechede 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108746/

Can't find what you're looking for?

openbechede is a fast and simple way to install OpenBSD packages and their dependencies. With openbechede you can keep your obsd packages updated. Also, you can install packages (and automatically, their dependencies), remove them, fetch new lists of packages. openbechede logs its activity to a file you can specify.

ora2html 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108727/

Ora2html generates HTML or plain ASCII reports of installed Oracle databases running on a server. It includes information about config-files, layout, objects, schemas, etc., and supports Oracle versions 8-9i, running on Linux, Solaris, and Tru64.

Phayoune Firewall 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108723/

Phayoune Firewall is a Thai Linux distribution that is intended to be used as a stateful inspection firewall. It runs directly from CD- ROM and does not require a hard drive. It supports port forwarding, an online monitor, Squid blocking for worms, virii, and adult content, and a menu-based setup that stores configuration details on a floppy.

PHPwebmail 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108709/

PHPwebmail is a Web-based IMAP and SMTP mail client. Often it is not possible to make outside mail connections from networks behind strict firewalls, or to configure a regular mail client (for example in an Internet cafe). With PHPwebmail a mail client only needs a WWW connection to the mailserver. Specifically it only needs a connection to the webserver hosting PHPwebmail. Most of the times the Web and mail server will be the same machine but PHPwebmail can connect to other mailservers as well as long as an IMAP connection between these two machines is allowed.

poweroff 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108728/

poweroff is a tool that allows you to power up or power down a PC system over serial line using a few pieces of additional hardware.

Red Hat Update 1.9 Beta (build 1.97) (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108766/

Red Hat Update lists and downloads (but does not install or upgrade) RedHat RPMs that are available as updates to your installed system.

RPGBoard 2.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108774/

RPGBoard is a WWWBoard-style message board script. It includes multiple forum support, thread modes, a message previewer/editor, message tags, selectable backgrounds, default options for the regulars, name detection via cookies, recent message date/time color coding, the ability for users/admins to (un)delete messages, top poster statistics, a hidden spoiler message box, the ability to ban IP addresses, a word filter to block cuss words, and much more.

Ruby/CorporateTime 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108716/

CorporateTime is a proprietary calendar server system produced by Steltor. Ruby/CorporateTime is a Ruby language extension that serves as an interface to the CorporateTime Calendar API (CAPI). Its purpose is to allow interaction with CorporateTime servers via the Ruby programming language.

ShowImg 0.8-Beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108712/

Don't know where to look next?

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated) and MNG. It consists of a tree view frame, a directory/preview frame, and a view frame. The (larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller) directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from multiple directories and search for identical images. ShowImg also features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, drag'n'drop with Konqueror, and support for images in compressed archives (.zip).

Siege 2.57b4 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108749/

Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.

stress 0.17pre14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108767/

stress is a tool to impose certain types of stress on a POSIX system, including CPU load, I/O subsystem load, RAM load, and HDD load.

SuperMarKeT 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108718/

SuperMarKeT is a very easy-to-use supermarket with VAT accounting. It uses frames to show the items in the supermarket department and the created customer bill.

Syscriptor 1.5.14 (C)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108736/

Confused? Frustrated?

Syscriptor is a little program that displays information about your hardware.

SystemImager 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108771/

SystemImager automates the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines. Software distribution, configuration, and operating system updates are made easy, including updates from one Linux release to another. It can also be used for content distribution on Web servers. It is most useful in environments with large numbers of identical machines. Some typical environments include Internet server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments where all workstations have the same basic hardware configuration.

Take a Joint 20030107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108763/

Take a Joint has the goal to simplify the integration of Linux clients into Windows networks. Sharing a directory should be as easy as under Windows. Users should be able to share their directories even without being root or knowing the Samba configuration file smb.conf. To fulfill the high security demands, users who would like to share their directories have to be activated by root first. The same applies to directories or devices the user isn't allowed to access with his regular rights. Currently both console programs taja (admin program) and taju (user program) are usable.

Tiki 1.5 RC1 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108760/

Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites, and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners, file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments, and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and developers.

Tintware 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108707/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

Tint is a string substitution language; it is intended to be used as an extension language. Tint Emacs is an emacs clone for Win32, Mac OS X, and Darwin. It uses Tint as its extension language.

TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108729/

TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of information structures which can be used to represent ontologies, business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic maps.

txt2pdf 6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108740/

txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful Perl program that converts files from text to PDF format.

uCON64 1.9.8beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108733/

uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video game media (Cartridges and CDs). It supports most available backup units for cartridge-based consoles and uses cdrdao as a burn engine for CD-based consoles like the Dreamcast or Playstation (but has a lot more options, like diverse ROM modification). It can operate as an intelligent frontend for every emulator available.

white_dune 0.20beta160 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108724/

VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.

XNap 2.4-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108742/

XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. It currently includes an OpenNap plugin with multiple server support, automatic downloading, resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist, and an advanced media library. It features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode.

XZX-Pro 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108768/

XZX-Pro is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair), and Spectrum clones for machines running UNIX and the X Window system. It is completely written in C, and emulates Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Didaktik, Interface I with up to 8 microdrives, Multiface 128 and Multiface 3, Beta 128 by Technology Research Ltd. with 4 disk drives, +D by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives, and D80 with 2 disk drives, Kempston mouse, Kempston joystick, and built-in Z80 machine code monitor.

ZynAddSubFX 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108719/

ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.

Newsforge Reports
The business of making Linux easier to use http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1952245

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The comparative complexity of administering Linux servers is a huge adoption barrier for small companies that can't afford to hire their own sysadmins and don't want to rely on outside consultants for all configuration changes or routine server maintenance. NetMAX is building a business by -- as they put it
- "Simplifying Linux Servers." Their "underlying technologies" are Open Source, they say, but their GUI admin ...

Can Linux help save SGI?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1712243

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - One of Linux's supposed barriers in high performance computing is the "eight processor limit." SGI says their new Altix 3000 line, running a patched 2.4.19 kernel, handily breaks this barrier -- it can run up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessers -- and that "superclusters" built with SGI's Linux-based products can outperform generic Linux clusters in some applications by a large enough margin to justify their ...

Mandrake 9.0: It takes two, baby
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1357253

by Tina Gasperson - The first thing I noticed about Mandrake 9.0 Linux is that the goofy cross-eyed penguin is gone. Mandrake is pointing itself in a more sophisticated direction - it's not drab like Red Hat, but elegant and inviting. It looks expensive.

Newsforge Newsvac
Micosoft Challenges Linux On Price
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2143219

You'd think you couldn't get cheaper than free, yet Microsoft is working hard to compare the business value and total cost of ownership of Windows and Linux. And the new strategy may be working.

LinuxCertified announces "Linux Fundamentals" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2142246

Rajesh writes "LinuxCertified, Inc. announces "Linux Fundamentals" course in Boston - January 30 - 31st, 2003. All attendees get a free Linux laptop."

SDG Systems Announces Products for the Sharp Zaurus http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2141237

Todd Blumer writes "SDG Systems, LLC today announced bar code scanning and cellular phone connectivity products for the Sharp Zaurus. Both products are available for order now with delivery expected in about two weeks. The introduction of these products continues to validate the Linux handheld market and expand the usability of the Zaurus. Complete information is available at SDG Systems' website: http://sdgsystems.com."

Can't find what you're looking for?

Linux Orbit Launches the Linux Orbit Professional http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2141220

GonzoJohn writes "After much anticipation, Linux Orbit is proud to announce the launching of the Linux Orbit Professional web site and monthly journal publication. Be sure to check out our FREE 30-Day Trial Offer and what you'll receive when you subscribe!"

10 Linux predictions for 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2140250

Joe Barr writes "It's that time of year again. Luckily, playing the fool is not a new game for me so making predictions about the future isn't that bad. As has now become traditional, let's start with a look back at 2002 to see how I did. Or should I say, how I can best distance myself from some of those picks."

Tonight Live: Hack Our Guest
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2140230

Jeff writes "from Chicago IL, home of The Billy Goat Tavern, curse of the Chicago Cubs. Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com, we begin our 6th year of broadcasting."

KDE-Look in Trouble
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2139252

Ban_Country_Music writes "KDE-Look is in trouble, and in danger of being shut down. This is from their site: "KDE-Look.org has serious problems."

Norway Teenager Found Not Guilty of DVD Piracy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1448200

A Norwegian teenager was cleared of DVD piracy charges on Tuesday in a landmark trial brought on behalf of major Hollywood studios.

GTK+OSX available for Mac OS X
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1447212

GTK+OSX is a native Mac OS X port of the Linux-based GTK+ open source graphical user interface library. GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is a widget library supporting graphical applications for Linux.

Questionable Linux business practice?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1435241

Anonymous Reader writes "In a Guest Essay, David A. Bandel describes a highly recommended, Linux-based product that, maddeningly, requires Windows to get much use from."

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Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
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The Cygwin GNOME project has started to port the GNOME desktop to Windows OS, using Cygwin as a porting tool and user environment. Currently GNOME 1.4 almost done. The gnome-python package contains the source packages for the Python bindings for GTK+ and GNOME (PyGTK and PyGNOME, respectively). PyGTK is an extension module for Python that provides access to the GTK+ widget set. Just about anything (within reason) you can write in C with GTK+, you can write in Python with PyGTK, but with all of Python's benefits. PyGNOME is an extension module for Python that provides access to the base GNOME libraries, so you have access to more widgets, a simple configuration interface, and metadata support. Go start your "Rapid application development using PyGTK " now. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/krishnakumar.html ChangeLog --------- 1.4.1-3 First Cygwin port. 1.4.1-4 Add GtkGlArea and GtkHTML module. You need cyggtkhtml.dll from gtkhtml package. Change libdir to /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-python rathan than /opt/gnome/lib/python2.2/site-packages.

Etherboot 5.1.4 (development) released
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Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information about free software related to network booting. Files rearranged due to Itanium support. .lz* targets are now .z* targets.

Tiki 1.5 -Regulus- RC1 released
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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. A beta version of the 1.5 release, many new features added including webmail, trackers, surveys and newsletters. Slideshows for the wiki quick image uploading and more. Please help us by testing this beta version before the official 1.5 release.

GStreamer 0.5.1 released
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GStreamer team is proud to announce our 0.5.1 release. This release features nice additions like a new ffmpeg based avi plugin and a much improved threadless scheduler. GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. You find details <A
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JML 3.6 released
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The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some elements of the refinement calculus. This is a bug fix release. The main fix is to the jmlrac.bat script, but it also improves several other small things.

Bossogg 0.9.1 release
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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. Release 0.9.1 added XML configuration files and reduced memory usage 60+%. Autoconf issues in Debian and several bugs in the import scripts have also been fixed.

doxymacs 1.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240732

Version 1.4.0 of doxymacs, the lisp package for {X}Emacs that makes creating/using Doxygen documentation easy, has been released. This is a major feature enhancement release. New features include: - Now uses autoconf for building. - Multiple tag files may be used. - User defined "void" types. - Better function argument parsing for inserting function comments. As well several bugs have been fixed.

Usermanager 0.60 released
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Usermanager is a LDAP User Management System that uses PHP to create an easy to use interface. Release 0.60 includes configuration system improvements.

Hibernate 1.2.2 released
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Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections framework. To support a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead runtime reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time. Hibernate supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, SAP DB, HypersonicSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Progress, Mckoi SQL, Pointbase and Interbase. Hibernate supports an ODMG 3 interface alongside a more expressive custom API. Of course, Hibernate integrates elegantly with J2EE application servers and with other popular open source solutions like XDoclet. Version 1.2.2 fixes a minor bug introduced in 1.2.1.

JGraph Valencia (v1.0.7) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240676

JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more. This release has a complete new website and contains bug fixes. Bug fixes include: DefaultGraphSelectionModel.CellPlaceHolder is now a protected inner class with public accessors, DefaultGraphCell's getChildren method never returns null, SizeHandle/RootHandle double buffer members are now protected, Dependency between isMoveable, isAutosize and isSizeable was removed, Focus argument and childrenSelected are handled separately by renderer, Focused cell's highlight color is different from other selected cells.

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