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[osdn everything] January 09, 2003
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1228217
[0]Rhyas writes "Seems as though Lexmark has decided it [1]wants all
the pie when it comes to the printing world, as they are suing a
company that does reselling of chips that allow third party toner
cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. Cindy Cohn, an attorney at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, said she expected more cases like the
one brought by Lexmark. 'We have long said that the DMCA's potential
use as an anti-competitive tool has been great,' Cohn said. 'Now we're
seeing it happen.'" The European Union is [2]taking action against the
practice of embedding chips in printer cartridges which make it
difficult for third parties to sell refills.
Links
0. mailto:biteme@scream.com
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html
2.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2127877,00.html
Flaw Found iIn Ethernet Device Drivers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0213203
Licensed2Hack writes "Security researchers have discovered a serious
vulnerability that may be present in many Ethernet device drivers that
is causing the devices to broadcast sensitive information over
networks. Seems the device driver writers couldn't be bothered with a
memset() call. [0]Eweek has their typical (puffy, low on tech details)
take on it [1]here. Since they don't specify the OS, I'm assuming these
are drivers for Windows."
Links
Myst MMOG Details Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0113206
Ubi Soft and Cyan announced the title for their upcoming online game.
[0] Uru: Online Ages Beyond Myst , developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc., is
slated for release late this year. From the [1]press release, "Uru will
take advantage of broadband to deliver a continually updated, immersive
environment and storyline, with content that grows, changes and evolves
constantly. It will also be the first persistent world to support
real-time voice communication." Sounds like a different road than
online games like The Sims Online and Star Wars Galaxies are taking,
with the entertainment consisting in exploration and storyline rather
than in player status and achievement.
Links
The Alternative Party 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1848246
mkoskimi writes "The fourth consecutive [0]Alternative Party is
arranged this weekend (Friday to Sunday) in Helsinki, Finland. As
before, we expect up to 300 people joining this round-the-clock event,
bringing along all kinds of weird machines (previous times have seen a
[1] Magnavox Odyssey, [2] a M6800 Evaluation Kit II and the Vectrex).
It's not yet another retro computer show though; there will be [3]
Competitions, [4]artists and our guest of honour, [5]Jeff Minter! There
be llamas here..."
Links
0.
http://www.altparty.org/
1.
http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~ateras/party/altparty/odyssey.jpg
2.
http://pp.fishpool.com/~stibe/world/photos_events_demoparties_2alt_computers.html
3.
http://www.altparty.org/?p=competitions
4.
http://www.altparty.org/?p=artists
5.
http://www.altparty.org/?p=jeffminter
More 3D Printer News
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0050243
[0]tallackn writes "The [1]New Scientist website has an [2]article that
tells of a 3D gadget printer which will allow fully assembled electric
and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go. 'The trick is to print
layer upon layer of conducting and semiconducting polymers in such a
way that the circuitry the device requires is built up as part of the
bodywork.' When the technique is perfected, devices such as light
bulbs, radios, remote controls, mobile phones and toys will be spat out
as individual fully functional systems without expensive and
labour-intensive production on an assembly line."
Links
0. mailto:nathan@tallack.name
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993238Low Profile Satellite TV Antennas for Vehicles http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0046257
[0]Brian Mattis writes "CNN is [1]reporting a new antenna system that
allows SUV's, minivans and cars to receive DirecTV video and audio
programming on the road. Future plans call for internet access as well.
This could be a nail in the coffin of Sirius and XM radio."
Links
0. mailto:albermattis@hotmail.com
Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail & Telecoms http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2136254
sasha writes "[0]Here's a good article that describes how we, the
consumers, can play the role of competitors to the vendors of products
and services we buy. The author draws a parallel between FedEx's
ZapMail failure and current situation with VoIP and WiFi in regard to
the phone companies."
Links
0. http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html
You Can't Link Here
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2223214
An anonymous reader writes "Last year several news sources reported about the website [0]dontlink.com from David Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His website fights 'stupid linking policies' that attempt to impose restrictions on other sites that link to them. Now a German law student joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media attention in Germany. His list of [1]stupid German linking policies can be found at the website [2]Links & Law. Contrary to the model of dontlink.com, the German site refrains from linking to companies that prohibit linking without their consent. The site only states the URL of the websites with the linking policies. The page with the linking policies is in German, but the rest of the website is in English and covers many legal aspects of linking." Links
0.
http://www.dontlink.com
1.
http://www.linksandlaw.com/linkingcases-linkingpolicies-beispiele.htm
2.
http://www.linksandlaw.com/Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0323237
VernonNemitz asks: "Back in 1984 a patent was granted for [0]silicon
chip micro rectennas, which would convert visible photons into
electricity in the same way that ordinary rectennas convert microwaves
into electricity, at perhaps 70% or greater efficiency. Nobody could
make such solar cells back in 1984, but we certainly can today, with
sizes of antennas that would capture everything from infrared to the
edges of UV -- and the patent has expired. So, where are they?"
Currently the most popular type of [1]solar technology is
[2]photovoltaics, however PV technology only has an efficiency of about
[3]7-17%. With the potential gains claimed by the technology in the
cited patent, has anyone even tried to build one of these units to see
if it can live up to the given promise, or at least prove to be a
technology than we should be exploring?
Links
0.
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,445,050WKU.&OS=PN/4,445,050&RS=PN/4,445,050
1.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/solar.html
2.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/
3.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/pvmenu.cgi?site=pv&idx=1&body=aboutpv.html
Blogging With Camera Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2034213
Zastrossi writes "The Register [0]reports that [1]NewBay Software, "is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're selling to the telcos as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?" Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/28773.html
Freshmeat
Ampoliros 3.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108848/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.
Apple Safari 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108821/
Safari is Apple's Web browser based on the Konqueror rendering engine. It offers outstanding performance, rendering even the most complex of pages at high speed. It uses advanced Mac OS X interface technologies to offer an all-new, much easier view of the Web, and features an advanced bookmark manager, built-in Google search, seamless downloads, and a pop-up blocking mechanism.
BlockIt 1.2.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108824/
BlockIt monitors the Snort alert file and creates IPtables rules. This version is only for Linux (later versions will include FreeBSD and OpenBSD support). BlockIt has built-in CIDR support for multiple target IPs and whitelist support. Additional features include MySQL logging and email logging.
Calculating Pi 2002-01-07 (Archimedes)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108770/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi through various methods.
CDPlayer.app 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108865/
CDPlayer.app is a small CD Audio Player for GNUstep.
cgi-exec 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108877/
cgi-exec preprocesses data from an HTML form and redirects the data to a CGI script specified in a database located next to cgi-exec. It acquires the input from the browser, regardless of method; decodes the input into plain text; places that input into environmental variables corresponding to the fieldnames designated in the HTML form; searches a database to determine the name of the script to be executed to process the form data; spawns the script, after appropriate headers are emitted; and prints out footers after the return of the script. The environment is protected by disallowing the overwriting of existing variables.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2003-01-08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108825/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and foods to be filtered by 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.
dsync 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108817/
dsync synchronizes contents of two directories. It remembers state between invocations and tries to track and reconcile changes between successive runs and between independent synchronizations of multiple targets, such as local and backup, or local and remote.
fwanalog 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108869/
fwanalog is a shell script that parses and summarizes firewall logfiles. It understands logs from ipf (xBSD, Solaris), OpenBSD 3.x pf, Linux 2.2 ipchains, Linux 2.4 iptables, and some routers and firewalls (Linksys, Cisco). The excellent log analysis program, Analog (which is also free software), is used to create the reports.
Genuts Framework 0.4b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108844/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and collision detection.
gqueue 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108858/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It shows all jobs in printing queues and can remove jobs.
grafist 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108849/
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.
gtkmm 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108889/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.
Header and Envelope rewrite mini-HOWTO 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/108819/
The Header and Envelope rewrite mini-HOWTO explains how to rewrite your from address differently in the mail header and the mail envelope. This may be necessary, for example, if your ISP requires you to send mail with one address, but you are subscribed to mailing lists with a different address, or want others to see a forwarding address instead of your ISP's address.
Hydra 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108875/
Hydra is a high performance multi-threaded HTTP server. Unlike traditional multi-threaded Web servers, it uses a constant, configurable pool of threads, and each thread can handle several connections by multiplexing the connections. This is even better than non-blocking servers, since Hydra will use every available CPU in a multi-CPU system. It also has features such as host-based virtual hosting, HTTP 1.1 features, CGI 1.1, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and more.
IceDock 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108867/
IceDock provides dockapp support for IceWM and few other window managers.
IceWM 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108835/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
iftop 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108843/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.
iHook 0.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108874/
iHook is a graphical frontend for any command-line executable. It gives scripts a pleasant Aqua face, and allows script writers to provide graphical feedback without having to learn one of the higher APIs available for Mac OS X. iHook accomplishes this through its ability to understand a set of directives. When a script writes an iHook Directive to stdout, iHook will modify its own interface based on the content of the Directive. In this way, a simple shell script can have an Aqua interface, complete with a progress bar and drawer. When launched in the Finder, iHook prompts the user to choose a script to run; iHook also accepts file drops on its icon, and will attempt to run the dropped file. When no user is logged in, iHook tries to execute /etc/logout.hook. This makes iHook highly useful as an interface for Mac OS X LogoutHooks.
iiitAccessServer 1.0-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108831/
The iiitAccessServer is a rule-based enterprise authorization system written in Java. It works as a server and is usable with any programming language able to open a socket. The server fetches its data from LDAP and stores it in optimized form in one or more MySQL databases, used as a 2nd-level cache to achieve high performance. The entire system is designed to scalable and fault- tolerant.
imgSeek 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108815/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also create slideshows, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Ivy software bus 1.2.3 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108842/
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of libraries that allows applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a subscription mechanism based on regular expressions.
j 0.18.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108879/
J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions, multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may be used to customize the editor's appearance.
Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108880/
Java Parser is a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility. The generator builds parsers from straight EBNF notation files.
JChemPaint 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108861/
JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like those found in most chemistry textbooks.
Jecomputerisjelot.nl automated login script 1.3.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108757/
This script automates the login for the Web page jecomputerisjelot.nl. This is an online game from a dutch company to win 5000 Euro. The company draws 1 winner each day from the subscribed users. Every day you have to login to check if you are a winner. If you do not login and you are a winner that day you will recieve nothing. This script can be put in your crontab to do it for you. It's pretty straightforward, but you will have to register online to get the desired login credentials.
KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108851/
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and documentation.
KySMS 0.6pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108886/
KySMS is yet another graphical frontend for smssend. This one has a phonebook with groups.
libchipcard 0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108870/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
libexif 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108856/
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
Libxml 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108882/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress.
Lush 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108823/
Lush is an object-oriented Lisp interpreter and compiler with a seamless interface to C, a vector, matrix, and tensor engine, a huge numerical library, a GUI toolkit, and bindings to GSL, SDL, OpenGL, V4l, and others. It is an alternative to Matlab, Python, and Scheme, and allows Lisp and C to be mixed within a single function, providing a unique combination of flexibility and efficiency. Lush is an ideal programming language for researchers in AI, computer vision, audio, image, and video processing, machine learning, statistics, bio-informatics, as well as for interactive graphics and multimedia applications.
lvs-kiss 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108837/
lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should be possible without too much hassle.
Math::Gsl 0.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108857/
Math::Gsl is a Perl module that implements parts of the GNU Scientific Library.
MyClient 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108853/
MyClient is a simple and clean Web client interface for the MySQL database. It features multiple query windows, one button table descriptions, query save and load, and table data dumping. It is not a full featured administration tool, but rather a quick and easy query interface designed for those who are looking for a Web-based implementation of the command line interface.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108820/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
Netscape Address Book Recovery 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108871/
Netscape Address Book Recovery is a tool get your information out of a corrupted Netscape address book. This program attempts to get as much information out of the address book as is possible. But as with all programs of this type, it will always need to change to keep track of the different ways in which the address book can be corrupted. It can output .csv (Comma Separated Values) or .ldi (LDAP Date Interchange Format) files. If you output to .csv files you will lose all mailing list information.
NSCL SpecTcl 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108846/
SpecTcl is a framework for data analysis of nuclear physics event data. It is delivered both as a canned program and as a C++ class framework. It is run-time extensible via the Tcl/Tk scripting language. The class framework allows the program to be easily extended, and class wrappers for Tcl/Tk make it trivial to add to the SpecTcl command set as well as to expose Tcl/Tk variables to user code.
oRTP 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108863/
oRTP is a library implementing the Real-time Transport Protocol (RFC1889), written in C. Based on glib, it should be portable to all Unix species. It includes a packet scheduler, blocking and non blocking I/O, and multiplexing I/O so that several RTP sessions can be managed by a single thread.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/108845/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.
Perl webmail 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108816/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
phpOpenTracker 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108827/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
Renaissance 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108840/
GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.
RoboRally Board Editor 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108828/
RoboRally Board editor is a Java utility for creating boards för the board game, RoboRally.
Sablotron 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108834/
Sablotron is an XML toolkit which implements XSLT, DOM, and XPath. Sablotron is written in C++, and it can be used from C, Perl, Python, PHP, ObjectPascal, and via a command line interface. It supports the XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, and DOM Level 2 W3C specifications. It is designed to be as compact and portable as possible, and is maintained as an Open Source project by Ginger Alliance.
Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108807/
Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine is a simple GTK2 theme engine intended to be smooth, fast, and highly configurable, to the point that it could eventually be capable of mimicking most, if not all, major theme engines to high degree of acuracy, while still retaining a small footprint. It is in an early stage of development, so it is buggy, incomplete, and still missing many features.
Storypad 3.1.0b25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108860/
Storypad is a multiplatform tool for displaying and extracting text and images from PDF files. It includes a number of algorithms to preserve the text structure and to allow the user to group text objects together. Images are extracted in their raw and clipped forms and raw CMYK data can be extracted (or an RGB approximation). Thumbnails of pages can be generated. It includes a GUI client which displays the PDF and allows easy configuration. An option to export data to MySQL/Postgre is included. The free technology preview is fully functional and support options are available.
streamixer 1.19.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108864/
streamixer contains an audio stream mixer server, tools for monitoring and feeding the server, and a stream resampling tool with various different interpolation models.
SWFTools 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108878/
SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract), PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf, and wav2swf), a text parsing tool (swfstrings), an SWF parser (swfdump), and a library for writing and reading SWFs (rfxswflib).
Tanne 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108836/
tanne is a small, secure session-management solution for HTTP. It replaces common sessions with a system consisting of PIN and TANs, well known from online banking. It's main purpose is to enable programmers of Web applications to have real secure sessions without cookies or session-ids.
Tcpreplay 1.4.beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108822/
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
The Plastic File System 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108826/
The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules.
Typing Trainer 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108884/
Typing Trainer is designed for exercising typing speed and typing accuracy, by providing an environment to type in a copy of an original text within a specific time period. It also has the ability to store the results of such an exercise for exam purposes.
Webcpp 0.8.0 pre1 (Preview)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108839/
Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS, DOS Batch, EMF, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, and VHDL highlighting.
X File Explorer 0.39 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108868/
X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes, automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract compressed archives, and much more.
X Northern Captain 5.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108866/
X Northern Captain is a file manager for X Windows. XNC has the same ideology as Norton Commander but also many additional and specific functions including a Virtual File System with support for tar, zip, rar, rpm, deb, bzip2, and lha archives, FTP support, built-in xterminal, viewer for JPEG, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM formats, an editor, users menu, extensions association, bookmarks for frequently used directories, and more.
xfax 2.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108891/
xfax is a powerful X fax program, including a faxviewer, a faxprinter, and a faxconverter from various formats to fax G3 format. It supports front page generation in 3 modes (ASCII, Postscript, TeX/LaTeX), and enables users to forward a list of documents of various types (ASCII files, TeX/LateX files, PostScript or PDF documents, images, etc.). Xfax requires the Xforms library and works well in combination with the efix/efax tools.
XMLTV 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108833/
XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. There are backends to download TV listings for Canada, the USA, Britain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and Finland. It also includes some filter tools to sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.
xmlwrapp 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108818/
xmlwrapp is a modern C++ library for working with XML data. It provides a simple and easy to use interface for the very powerful libxml2 XML parser.
XMMS Autoplay Plugin 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108847/
XMMS Autoplay Plugin is a small plugin for XMMS that starts playing on starting XMMS. It can start at the beginning of the playlist, at a random position, or at the position the last XMMS session stopped.
XName 2.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108854/
XName is an engine for providing modular Web-managed DNS hosting. It features a viewer for DNS server logs, a synthetic view of all of a user's zones, and much more. It supports both primary and secondary zones.
XPlanner 0.3.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108855/
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Yet Another Free RAYtracer 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108830/
yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.
Zorum 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108832/
Zorum is an easy-to-install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin board. It requires a MySQL database, and the PHP4 script module. Features include an easy Web-based install, embedded administration, a style manager, personalization, threaded and linear views, moderators, password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages, and much more.
Newsforge Reports
Training available for new commercial Security-Enhanced Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2134248
- by Tina Gasperson - The Open Source Development Group (OSDgroup) has developed courseware for Security Enhanced Linux, the National Security Agency's beefed-up Linux distribution that is also being developed as a commercial distribution by Westcam Consultants.
DVD Wars - Hollywood loses a round in an ongoing battle http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/176226
- By Jeff Elkins - The Hollywood Hegemony has lost a key battle in their ongoing effort to suppress the rights of consumers worldwide. Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen has been acquitted of charges that he committed a crime when he created the DeCSS program that allowed him to watch legally purchased DVDs on his Linux computer.
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 ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Yoper: 'Your Own Operating System' revealed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1037256
Anonymous Reader writes "DesktopLinux.com speaks with Andreas Girardet, Founder of Yoper, a New Zealand-based Linux distribution."
SystemImager 3.0 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1037226
Anonymous Reader writes "SystemImager is distribution independent and makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines."
Rewindable Desktop, part II
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1036248
Anonymous Reader writes "In the second installment of a continuing series, Bowie J. Poag describes the architecture involved in his conception of a "rewindable desktop" that would allow users to return to previous places and configurations."
IBM developerWorks Live!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1036205
An anonymous coward writes "IBM developerWorks Live! is the premier technical event of the year. It will be held April 9 - 12, 2003 in New Orleans."
samba eXPerience 2003 - call for papers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1035213
SerNet writes "On April 14th and 15th 2003 developers and users will meet again in Göttingen, Germany at the second international SAMBA conference, the "samba eXPerience 2003".
Red Hat Appoints Executive VP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2333244
Open source and Linux provider Red Hat Inc. (RedHat.com) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Tom Rabon as the company's executive vice president of corporate affairs.
Cell Phone Makers Call on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2330242
The Linux operating system has made the jump from computer servers to handheld computers, digital video recorders, and wristwatches and soon may find a home inside your cellular telephone.
Linux on government servers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1839215
Several national governments (e.g., Singapore, Taiwan, and Germany) have stated their intent to move their server architectures to Linux from Windows.
Linux gears up to challenge Windows on desktop http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1838215
Bought the latest whiz-bang personal computer, but don't know what to do with your older, fully functional PC? One option would be to try breathing new life into it with Linux, the software standard that is presenting itself as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Linux heads for cell phones
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1837214
NEC Corp. said today that it's working on the development of Linux-based cell phones with MontaVista Software Inc., and an executive of the Sunnyvale, Calif., software company said it's in talks with other major cellular handset makers on similar projects.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/2982/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
Interests: Linux French
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bc4/
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/
Interests: Perl Gerl
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcb/
Interests: I dig Mac OS X
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcf/
Interests: Ninj4 Hooded Sweatshirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/altware/5c4e/
Interests: Megatokyo Blanket
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5b59/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5784/
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Electronics: Universal System Selector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5c1b/
Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/golfshirts/5b8f/
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek Monkey Hoodie http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/5b88/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5c6e/
Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5c73/
Electronics: Splinter Cell for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5c69/
Sourceforge
First drop of operational IPoIB
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_