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[osdn everything] January 10, 2003
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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January 10, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
IBM's OS/2 Strategy for 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1747258
[0]Landreth writes "[1]OS2World.com reports that IBM has released their OS/2 strategy for 2003. They appear to be pushing the [2]WebSphere Software Platform as well as client and server upgrades to Warp 4. The report can be viewed at [3]IBM's website." Links
0. mailto:landreth@ykz.net
1.
http://www.os2world.com/
2.
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/#Header_3
3.
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0120249
[0]Les Gasser writes "Ahh, drag racing! If you've never experienced the
scent of nitro or the flashing flames of a top fueler running 320MPH+
in 4+ seconds in a standing-start quarter mile run at dusk, you're
missing world-class performance art. (See '[1]High Performance' for the
classic on drag racing history and culture). Now the NYTimes
(registration needed) has '[2]Gentlemen, Start Hacking Your Engines,'
an article on 're-engineering' engine control computers for maximum
performance, combining the drag racing and tech-geek traditions."
Having learned everything I know about racing from Gran Turismo, I'm
amazed to learn there's more than just buying a "racing chip".
Links
0.
http://gasser at uiuc.edu
1.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801866642/qid=1042127346/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-8555487-3531868?v=glance&s=books
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/technology/circuits/09rods.html?8hpib
Detailed Preview of Masters of Orion 3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2013242
garibald writes "Constantine, the head developer, promised that there would be a detailed preview of the game this week, and [0]here it is at [1]Apolyton. Constantine also said the game was in it's final regression testing. Here's hoping that the game will be out by the end of this month." Oh, Lordie, if I counted the hours I spent playing MOO and MOO2 - I'm really looking forward to this one. Links
0. http://apolyton.net/moo3/preview/part1_players.php
HP Unveils Its Digital Media Receiver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0035249
strictnein writes "Looks like HP is [0]getting into the media box
market. Today they introduced their new [1]HP Digital Media Receiver
5000 series. Some of the key specs are: Wireless networking support (on
the ew5000 model), S-Video and composite video output, and MP3 and WMA
support. The OS support is limited to Windows ME or XP. This is an
interesting addition to their Windows Media Center based 863N, 873N,
and 883N desktop models."
Links
0. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030109a.html
Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/189218
[0]Jason Scott writes "With the recent [1]story on slashdot about a big
demo party, it might be good to let everyone know about the absolutely
incredible [2]Mind Candy DVD, where a very dedicated group of people
from "the scene" have spent two years painstaking recovering demos from
obscurity, finding the old 286 and 386 hardware, installing the needed
(obsolete) cards, and capturing them perfectly in full digital glory.
They also have information on what exactly the "[3]scene" is, in case
you've missed this incredibly creative use of computers from the past
20 years. This whole process cost them thousands of dollars and untold
hours. Check it out, see what you missed... or never forgot."
Links
0. mailto:jason@textfiles.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1848246&tid=162
2.
http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
3.
http://www.mindcandydvd.com/scene
Tallest Roller Coaster in the World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1540230
[0]Coaster Art Guy writes "[1]Cedar Point amusement park unveiled the
tallest roller coaster in the world today. [2]Top Thrill Dragster
launches you from 0 to 120 MPH in 4 seconds via a hydraulic launch.
[3]The dragster looking like cars take you straight up a 420 foot
tower, into a top hat element, and twists you 270 degrees straight
down. All in about 20 seconds from start to finish. How about that one?
Also check out the POV video [4]here Quicktime or [5]here Windows Media
Player."
Links
0. mailto:ajcrim@attbi.com
1.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/
2.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/ttd
3.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/photo/train.cfm
4.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/video/videos/Dragster-Hi.mov
5.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/video/dragster.wmx
Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/005234
The Importance of writes "Back in October, SearchKing sued Google for
reducing SearchKing's pagerank, as [0]previously reported. Now, Google
has filed a [1]reply and a [2]motion to dismiss. [3]LawMeme has both
documents as well as [4]analysis."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1254221&tid=99
1.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=4
2.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=5
3.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
4.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807
Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/2151253
Slashback this evening brings you a few corrections, updates, amplifications and reversals -- read on for more on the Xbox key cracking project, the new version of FireWire, and more.
Urban Exploration Walkware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1658244
[0]wilfriedhoujebek writes "The Dutch Group [1]Social Fiction has been
experimenting with walking on algorithms for [2]some time now. Under
the heading ".walk" they are taking the thing one step further by
introducing pseudo-software to determine the route of their walks. [3]
They explain how this works and how different .walk can be connected
together to form a 'pedestrian computer'. You might want to read the
[4]postscript first."
Links
0. mailto:wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.socialfiction.org/
2.
http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/newbies.html
3.
http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/dummies.html
4.
http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/walkpostcript.html
Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1649246
[0]dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at [1]Symantec's Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'" Links
0. http://{dipfan} {at} {yahoo.com}
Freshmeat
31337 recoder 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108980/
31337 recoder is versatile recoding program. Its purpose is encoding text and data to non-human-readable forms and decoding from these forms. It supports Base64, ROT, escaped hex, and octal. It can also recode single bytes to any numeric system from binary to 36-ary.
A Simple Hack 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108873/
A Simple Hack is a lightweight theme with a background made by the bsetroot -mod command and colors that imitate a well-known Artwiz theme. It is light and cool for your desktop.
A-A-P 0.116
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108982/
The goal for A-A-P is to make it easy to locate, download, and install software. Additionally, it supports making changes to a program and managing different versions that exist in the world, making it useful both for users and for developers. It uses a recipe that is similar to a Makefile, but with many enhancements, such as integrated Python script support, support for Internet access, and version control. An IDE will be provided that integrates your favorite editor, debugger, and other tools.
Amaya 7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108950/
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface. It lets users both browse and author valid Web pages, with standards including (X)HTML, native MathML, and SVG documents. It also includes a collaborative annotation application (RDF).
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3RC-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/108925/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection,
extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log
flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet
connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), and
much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It
additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall
log more readable.
AWStats 5.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108959/
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more. It works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek.
Bochs-Tools 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108926/
Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs emulator. The main goal is to provide a more Unix-like interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk images from outside of Bochs. This project makes it very simple to copy an existing OS installation to a Bochs image (as long as Linux has write access to the relevant file system).
cgiPop 0.9.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108968/
cgiPop is a Web-based POP e-mail reader written in C. It features the ability to read, reply, forward and delete e-mail as well as to view/download MIME parts using the POP protocol. It uses CSS and HTML 4.0 for the look and feel, and has no external dependencies beyond the GCGI library with which it is distributed.
curl and libcurl 7.10.3 pre-release 4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108938/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and environments.
CvsKnit 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108969/
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.
DOmain Tracking Made Easy 0.1.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108965/
Dotme allows you to easily configure domains at your site. It touches bind and sendmail config files and reloads them for the changes to take effect. It's written in C, has a MySQL DB backend, and a web interface written in PHP. By design Dotme should work in a multiuser environment. It lacks some things such as a configure script and some bells and whistles but it does its job.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108928/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
EmPy 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108933/
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. it processes source files using expansions, which are special signals that are set off by a special prefix (by default the @ sign). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements, as well as a variety of special forms. The remaining data is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used as a markup language. It also supports "hook" callbacks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
ftpcopy 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108951/
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
GXMame 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108937/
GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options.
HTTPeek 0.9.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108922/
HTTPeek is a proxy server that can be run locally to view the contents of both HTTP and HTTPS requests and their responses as they are sent between browsers and servers. It features a GUI and is useful for debugging HTTP-based applications.
IceWM Menu Config 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108960/
IceWM Menu Config is a GUI menu configuration program for IceWm. It is based on QT 3.1.0-free. Cut and paste is available.
Java+ Preprocessor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108952/
Java+ is a Java preprocessor that adds its features to any Java compiler. It has long, multi-line strings with executable inclusions like Perl or Ruby, optionally segregates Java+ strings into ResourceBundle files, eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their implied need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security concern), and adds absolutely no overhead in either space or time. There are graphical and command line interfaces, and a simple, general, and recursive string syntax.
Jconsole 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108944/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of JBoss.
Jigsaw 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108940/
Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation based on RFC2616 and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java. Jigsaw provides both client and server HTTP/1.1 implementations, is fast, easy to extend, flexible, and is also packaged as a ready-to-run HTTP/1.1 proxy-cache.
JSch 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108957/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Konstruct 20030109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108947/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example, "cd apps/koffice;make install").
libxml++ 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108943/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml
(gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple
but complete API.
Linux 2.5.55 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108929/
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.
Loggerithim 6.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108979/
Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routine administration tasks.
Logrep 1.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108941/
Logrep is a secure multi-platform framework for the collection, extraction, and presentation of information from various log files. It features HTML reports, 2D analysis, overview pages, SSH communication, and graphs, and supports more than 10 popular systems including Snort, Squid, Postfix, Apache, syslog, iptables/ipchains, NT event logs, Firewall-1, and Pix.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108962/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
LyX 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108981/
LyX is an advanced document processor for Unix. It encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.
MiddleMan 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108946/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies to and from certain sites, redirect requests, forward requests through another proxy using NTLM or Basic authentication, block inappropiate content using a keyword scoring system, and manipulate the contents of files using either its builtin rewrite feature or an external program or script. It fully implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol, including persistent connections and gzip encoding.
Minimum Profit 3.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108976/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
Monokons Icons for KDE 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108907/
Monokons is a preview of a collection of icons for KDE. There are only a few icons included, but they should give you a feel for what to expect.
Nautilus WebGallery 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108956/
Nautilus WebGallery is a script for Nautilus that takes selected image files and generates a gallery from them. It uses Nautilus Metafile info for image comments and can use custom HTML files.
ncps 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108954/
ncps is an ncurses based process-killer inspired by gPS. It can sort processes according to certain criteria and display processes in tree format. This program is written for Linux.
No-install Unix Tools for Windows 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108754/
No-install Unix Tools for Windows is a collection of 18 of the most useful Cygwin tools packaged into a single 1.1MB (floppy sized) EXE file that runs without any installation process. Simply running the executable instantly creates a Unix environment for Windows, without making any persistent changes to the underlying system. It includes bash, less, gzip, grep, find, df, du, ls, cat, cp, mv, ps, rmdir, mkdir, rm, pwd, and tar.
obliquid 0.4.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108948/
obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web portals. Any data which is handled by any module is highly configurable. It has a core allowing to build pages using templates blocks, multilingual support and themes. It also has a users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting availabilities, calls, and meetings.
Openglad 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108923/
Openglad is an SDL port of an old DOS game called Gladiator, which was developed by FSGames in the mid 90's. It is a top-down gauntlet-style RPG in which you hire team mates, go on missions, and improve your team with the spoils you reap. It can be played by up to 4 players (using split-screen), and features many classes, special abilities, and a scenario editor.
PhpCommander 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108924/
PhpCommander is a Web-based file manager that manages Web accounts without FTP access. It can create directories, create files, copy, move, delete, and rename files and folders, upload files, download files, view and edit the contents of the files, and communicate in English and other languages.
pppcounter 0.2 (pppcounter, v0.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108963/
The pppcounter is subproject of the pppcost project. The general function of the pppcounter is to save the begin and finish times of the connection to a log file, and to act as a tool library for cost calculation. It includes a time logger, tool library, cost calculator, and a configuration file maker.
QMetro 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108881/
QMetro is a tiny application which helps musicians stay in rhythm while playing their instruments. It uses the internal PC speaker to generate tones and can switch between 4/4 and 3/4.
recoverdm 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108975/
recoverdm is a program that helps to recover disks with bad sectors. Files can be recovered as well as complete devices. If it finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the output file and continues, unlike cat (which would abort) or dd (which would skip a sector, making the output unusable).
Sauron 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108953/
Sauron is a free DNS/DHCP management system with Web and command line interfaces. It is able to manage multiple DNS/DHCP servers. Complete dhcpd and named configurations are generated from a central SQL database.
SILC 0.9.11 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108927/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Sulk 0.26-snapshot-20020109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108983/
Sulk aims to duplicate the gameplay of the first edition of the Space Hulk board game. It features support for two players.
SWH Plugins 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108970/
SWH Plugins are a set of audio plugins for the LADSPA plugin system.
vhost 3.04r1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108931/
vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most routine administration tasks. The latest version also offers a "clustering" capability.
W3Perl 2.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108942/
W3Perl is a Web logfile analyser. All major Web stats are available
(referer, agent, session, error, etc.). Reports are fully customisable
via configuration files, and there is an administration interface
control available.
WebConference LiveHelp! 2.5-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108977/
WebConference LiveHelp! is a Web-enabled suite of customer care tools designed for use with Web sites and private intranets. The LiveHelp suite of tools includes a feature-rich one-on-one customer service chat environment, searchable chat transcript knowledge base, real-time Web site visitor tracking and pro-active invitation tool, a Web-enabled shared email system for answering customer service email, and a feedback collection and reporting tool. Advanced features include support for multiple "call queues", seamless redundancy and load balancing, direct uploads (from your desktop to the customer), and reporting tools.
WebWindow 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108939/
WebWindow is a Web browsing Java component and application. It allows a developer to directly display HTML in a Java application without the need to use a native Web browser.
Whoisdomaincheckup 3.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108934/
Whoisdomaincheckup is a Web-based (PHP) application that can check the registration status of a domain name. In particular, it can check whether a domain name is currently free for registration. It doesn't use any exec or system commands, but instead uses the fopen command to access the Whois servers.
Worm Warner 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108936/
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.
xmlenc 0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108935/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML output library, like JDOM.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108966/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without difficult commandline operations.
zengpan's mail system 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108955/
zengpan's mail system is a very tiny and simple mail system.
Zool Linux 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108945/
Zool Linux is a project whose goal is to assist in making Linux mini-distributions.
Newsforge Reports
inux Advisory Watch - January 10th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0927254
- 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.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Information Society Project Seeks Fellowship Applications
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0056243
Ernest_Miller writes "The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is accepting applications for a resident fellowship that will run from approximately August 2003 through July 2004. The fellowship is designed for recent law graduates who are interested in careers in teaching and public service in the following areas: telecommunications law, cyberspace law, media studies, first amendment, intellectual property, and law and technology. The ...
White Paper: Internet Public Policy in 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2247254
X-Nc writes "The US Internet Industry Association has released its first White Paper of 2003. Entitled "Internet Public Policy in 2003," the paper examines the policy environment for Internet issues as last year came to a close, and forecasts the environment, priority issues, global issues and other factors relevant to public policy for the Internet in the coming year. The White Paper is available for download from the USIIA web site here [MS ...
Google Replies to SearchKing Lawsuit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2239250
Ernest_Miller writes "Back in October, LawMeme reported that SearchKing had sued Google for reducing SearchKing's pagerank. Now, Google has filed a reply - a motion to dismiss. LawMeme has the document (which SearchKing is charging $20 in order to access) as well as analysis."
Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2238209
Slashdot discussion: Rhyas writes "Seems as though Lexmark has decided it wants all the pie when it comes to the printing world...
Originality in Free Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2237222
When we talk about user-supported software and business models, it's easy to forget that most use of Free Software is by or on behalf of businesses. Some businesses use it heavily enough to justify employing maintainers of Free Software. If you are employed by such a business, does that mean you have found a successful Free Software business model for yourself?
Review of SCO Linux 4 - Ready for the Big Time http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2233242
SCO have taken the lead in bringing UnitedLinux consortium's UnitedLinux server operating system to the reseller market. At first glance, SCO Linux 4, SCO's version of UnitedLinux 1.0, doesn't look that much different from OpenLinux. In fact, it really just looks like a typical-albeit stripped down to the vital server basics-Linux server distribution. And, that's as it should be.
The Usability of Open Source Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1928213
Open source communities have successfully developed a great deal of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited distribution. In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open source development influence usability. We describe how existing ...
Linux developer stokes smart phone OS war http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1925251
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As Microsoft and Symbian fight for dominance in the burgeoning smart-phone operating system (OS) market, U.S.-based Montavista Software has announced it is working with NEC to develop a Linux-based OS specifically targeted for use within cell phones.
Why we oppose intellectual property
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1922217
While open publishing is a well-known facet of the Independent Media Center, (2) its sister idea, copyleft - undermining copyrights, has received little attention.
Answers From a Successful Free Software Project Leader http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1917221
It's time to crank up the Slashdot Interviews for 2003, starting with answers to your questions for Nagios developer Ethan Galstad. He went far beyond and above the call of duty here to give you what amounts to a veritable "Free Software Project Leader's FAQ" that anyone who has ever thought about starting his or her own project ought to read...
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Sourceforge
Xplanner 0.3.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242282
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. Changes: This version of XPlanner adds an extensive SOAP interface for accessing data and functionality. SOAP usage examples in Perl and PHP are provided. This version also features additional languages and improved I18N support.
AntRunner 1.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242483
AntRunner is an OpenTool for JBuilder 4 to 8 to use Ant within the IDE. The 1.6 release contains feature enhancements and bug fixes. This release was coming earlier as I thought. AntRunner 1.5 was not running on JBuilder 8. Thus I had to make some changes to support this release of JBuilder. I had not much time to test this release. Hope it works fine, nevertheless. Main changes are: - support of spaces in target names - own action group for antrunner - refactoring of communication with ANT using sockets - own loggers are now possible - corrected typo in resources that caused a MessageFormatException - removed a trailing file string in the filename in a message
SnipSnap release 0.3.2a
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242504
Version 0.3.2a of SnipSnap has been released. SnipSnap is a Java-based personal content management system based on weblog and wiki technologies. It's intended for desktop use, but can be deployed on servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and wiki tools as it is focused on easy installation.
ircu2.10.11.04 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242387
Undernet's IRC daemon, verision 2.10.11.04 has been released. This is a stable release and fixes some minor presentation bugs, as well as adding a couple of minor features.
System Configurator 2.0.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242461
System Configurator 2.0.4 has been released. This is a minor feature
enhancement that also fixes time zone support. System Configurator is a
utility for automatically configuring networking and bootstrapping in a
Linux Distribution and Architecture agnostic way. For more info check
the release notes at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=24006&release_id
=132630
MH-E 7.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241722
MH-E is the GNU Emacs front end for MH. Version 7.1 includes the new
features of multiple identities and alias completion, and indexed
searching has been revamped. Various other features have been added and
a few bugs were fixed. Read on for more details. Project home page at:
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/. * Changes in MH-E 7.1 This release
includes the new features of multiple identities and alias completion.
In addition, indexed searching has been revamped. Various other
features have been added and a few bugs were fixed. ** New Features in
MH-E 7.1 *** Multiple Identities MH-E now supports multiple identities
(closes SF #628782). That means that you can have different From and
Organization header fields (or any other header field of your choice)
as well as different signatures depending on your context. Usually, the
contexts are home and work. Add your identities to the variable
`mh-identity-list' and set the default identity with the variable
`mh-identity-default'. Your identity can be switched on the fly by
using the Identity menu or by calling "M-x mh-insert-identity RET".
This functionality can be customized within the mh-identity group. ***
Alias Completion and Harvesting The contributed file mh-alias.el has
been rewritten and incorporated into MH-E. By default, aliases are
culled from the system files "/etc/nmh/MailAliases,"
"/usr/lib/mh/MailAliases," and "/etc/passwd" (see
`mh-alias-system-aliases') and from your "AliasFile" MH profile
component. These aliases are then used for completion in the minibuffer
when entering addresses. Within the header of the message draft, "M-TAB
(mh-letter-complete)" is used to do alias completion. The package also
provides for alias creation based upon the From header field of the
current message. Use the lasso button (mh-alias-grab-from-field). This
functionality can be customized within the mh-alias group. *** Index
Folder Updates The results of an index search "F i (mh-index-search)"
are now stored in a bona fide folder so that you can refile messages
and reply to messages directly from the result folder. This folder is a
sub-folder of +mhe-index and the name is based upon the search string
(closes SF #623321). If a prefix argument is given then the search in
the current index buffer is redone. The index folder lists the names of
the source folders as before. However, instead of using RET on the name
of the folder to visit the folder, use "v (mh-show-index-visit-folder)"
anywhere within the results to visit that folder narrowed to the
results of the search. Additional functions have been added to navigate
including "TAB (mh-index-next-folder)", and "SHIFT-TAB
(mh-index-previous-folder)." *** mh-visit-folder Interface Updated A
change was made to the prompting of the message range. In general, you
can use the same format for messages and sequences as you can in