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[osdn everything] January 13, 2003
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/0111216
Tangential writes "New [0]story on LinuxBusiness week says SCO is about
to mount an effort to get all Linux sites to pay a per cpu license for
so-called patent violations."SCO has been proposing to charge users $96
per CPU for a so-called one-time System 5 for Linux software license to
protect their systems from SCO-enforced patent issues if they ante up
as soon as demand is made." They've retained David Boies (DOJ
prosecutor of Microsoft) to handle the legal issues." Note: I've been
unable to substantiate this - which are fairly incendiary claims.
Further updates as more is heard.
Links
0. http://www.sys-con.com/linux/articlenews.cfm?id=381
Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1212253
[0]johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple
surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish
exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan
Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central
Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to
develop the browser. [1]Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an
ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone
line. " A number of people had submitted this over the weekend -
there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this,
so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500
lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true
for me.
Links
0. mailto:johnp@deathangel.removethis.net
Hardware Block
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2324200
[0]Zygo writes "The Swiftech MCX462+T at [1]3dGameMan, a very solid and
beautiful [2]Antec case over here, Coffee and maybe even some ram at
[3]OverclockerCafe, the [4]Logitech Cordless Optical MX700 over here,
the DFI AD77 Infinity KT400 mobo over at [5]PC stats, Coolermaster
ramsinks at [6]Mikhailtech, the [7]Canon S230 here, another [8]case
review, the [9]Tyan Tachyon 9700 Pro, [10]19" ViewSonic monitor,
Vantec's Nexus NXP-101 [11]A True Review, Freecom FX-1 USB-2 CD-RW at
[12]Blagged-HW, the Nexland Wireless ISB Router at [13]LanAddict and to
end the [14]Icemat."
Links
0.
http://no spam
1.
http://www.3dgameman.com/vr/swiftech/swiftech_mcx462_t/video_review.html
2.
http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=98
3.
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/OCZ_PC3200_DDR/index.html
4.
http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=14
5.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1318
6.
http://www.mikhailtech.com/modules.php?name=Articles&rop=showcontent&id=16
7.
http://www.techonomy.net/articles.php?articleId=9
8.
http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/cases/romeodx/
9.
http://www.deviantpc.com/reviews/tachyon/index.shtml
10.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1316
11.
http://www.atruereview.com/NXP101/index.php
12.
http://www.blagged-hardware.net/index.php?index=39
13.
http://www.lanaddict.com/review.php?ID=48
14.
http://www.ocwarehouse.com/reviews/icemat.htmMac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2320219
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Rob Galbraith posted a [1]comparison
among two Macs and two PCs. Both a high-end Mac and PC are included
with somewhat surprising results given the number of Mac zealots who
will claim otherwise... optimized for PC, Mac support second, Photoshop
is faster, yada, yada, yada."
Links
0. http://www.robgalbraith.com/
Finding Every Species
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2315245
Microsofts slave writes "A hugely ambitious project to [0]find and name every species on Earth within the next 25 years has been launched by scientists. The internet and the development of DNA sequencing technology make the goal achievable, they say." Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2642693.stm
Alpha Lives! But Who Will Market It?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2114245
chriton writes "[0]The Inquirer is running articles [1]about HP's and
[2]new "Marvel" server which will arrive Tuesday, Jan 14th and the
expectation that HP will try to keep it's performance quiet. Not
because it's bad like Itanic I, but because it's too good! It's built
on Alpha EV78 processors connected by a switched fabric and promises
blazing performance. "Marvel has, apparently some rollickingly good
benchmarks that HP wants to underplay, just in case people start
comparing the performance of the Alpha Marvel architecture with the
Itanium 2 it also sells, and perhaps more importantly, the SuperDome
machines." Alpha offers the kind of choice and competition the
processor market will sorely miss when it goes. The FTC was sleeping
when they allowed HP to acquire it."
Links
0.
http://www.theinquirer.net/
1.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7161
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7034
Case to Step Down from AOLTW
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/0017253
[0]squiggleslash writes "Reuters is [1]reporting that Steve Case, the
CEO of AOL Time Warner, is resigning, to be effective in May. He'll
still be part of AOLTW but as a director responsible for joint
strategy. There have been various moves afoot to oust the man who
masterminded AOL's takeover of the media giant: the Time Warner part of
the partnership wants control whereas Case came from the loss making
super-ISP. Case quitting could be bad news for technologists given the
current battles between content providers like Time Warner and the
Internet and computer industries."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~squiggleslash/
Ark Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1947238
An anonymous reader notes that [0]OFB has a short blurb about a new Linux distribution, [1]Ark Linux, based on Red Hat and chasing the ever-elusive goal of being "easy to use for the masses". Links
0. http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=191
2002 MP3 Winners and Losers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1938216
An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net is running their annual
[0]losers and [1]winners list in digital media. Each has 8 finalists
with the big winner KaZaa for becoming profitable and doubling
Napster's peak traffic despite setbacks like getting briefly booted
from Download.com. The big loser? No surprise, it's the RIAA who
despite several wins in court have failed in their quest to stem file
trading. Lawrence Lessig and Dmitry Skylarov also made the winners
list, though as the article points out it wasn't exactly a great year
for Dmitry."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/2002losers.html
Water Cooled Power Supply
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1618235
[0]lmd writes "[1]Digital-Explosion has an [2]article with step-by-step
instructions on how to cool a power supply with water (yes, water)
instead of fans/heatsinks to make it quieter. Please read the warning
and disclaimer (and buy insurance if you don't have any) if you decide
to try this at home."
Links
0.
http://www.serialaddiction.com/
1.
http://www.digital-explosion.co.uk/
2.
http://www.digital-explosion.co.uk/index.php?articleID=65
Freshmeat
adama's TV episode database 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109262/
adama's TV episode database is a Web-based database designed for cataloging a TV episode collection composed of XviD/MPEG/DivX files. The database was inspired by Wuff's movieDB, but is more suited to dealing with episodes and series than single movies.
Bakery 1.3.7 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109240/
Bakery is a C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications using gnomemm and gtkmm. It provides a Document/View architecture, but it doesn't force you to use the whole architecture. It makes it easy to start developing GNOME applications by inheriting and overriding.
batchelor 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109271/
Batchelor is home resource planning software aimed particularly at bachelors. It requires a barcode scanner to scan goods for which the user adds a description. If a product has been used, the barcode should be scanned before it is thrown out. This information is then used to produce a shopping list on demand.
Binc IMAP 1.0.15-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109247/
Binc IMAP is a simple IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
bison 1.875
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109280/
Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1). It should be upwardly compatible with input files designed for yacc.
BlueLava 0.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109241/
BlueLava is a Web and WAP (CGI-based) x10 interface. Using commandline-based x10 tools as its backend, it allows you to control x10 compliant electronics and x10 modules from within a Web browser or a WAP (WML)-enabled device. Uses of BlueLava include the remote control of lamps, appliances, and other electronics via the Internet. You will need one of the following supported backends: bottlerocket (CM17A, aka "firecracker"), HEYU (CM11A/CM12U), PPower (CM11A/CM12U), or x10d (CM11A/CM12U).
Bochs 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109282/
Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run DOS, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, and other OS's, all on your workstation.
Caffeine Monkey 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109234/
Caffeine Monkey is a collection of PHP4 scripts that wrap the ping, traceroute, nslookup, and whois utilities in a Web interface. It uses a central configuration file and CSS to make it easy to change the look and feel.
DCTC 0.84.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109225/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
DireqCafe 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109245/
DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
Disk ARchive 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109230/
dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of the "slices" of an existing archive. It can now run commands between slices, scramble archives, and retrieve individual files from differential and full backups.
Dive tools for Linux 0.1.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109265/
Divetools is a set of tools to read out a dive computer. In addition it includes a conversion program that makes UDCF files out of thet dump and a Plotting tool that produces nice PostScript pages for your loogbook. It supports the Suunto EON and Uwatec Aladin Series dive computers.
FELIP 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109278/
FELIP (File Editing and Listing In PHP) is a Web-based file editor. It was designed to allow remote editing and compiling of Java source files on a Linux server without the need for a terminal login, however, it can be used to edit any text file. It provides a directory browser to easily view files along with creating, uploading, copying, deleting, moving, renaming, and Java compiling features. All functions except Java compliation are completed in PHP to maintain standardization.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.6.0-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109258/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
FluxConf 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109244/
FluxConf is a set of 3 programs for configuring fluxbox. It's simple but you can configure almost everything.
Fluxspace 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109236/
Fluxspace seeks to add advanced desktop functionality to pure window managers, like Fluxbox. The approach is to leverage existing tools, like Rox Filer and Idesk, with a flexible and modular Python API. Existing modules support desktop icons, panels, dockapp startup and swapping, and wallpaper management. Current features allow each workspace to have its own unique panel, icons, wallpaper, and running applets. Creating new Python modules is easy.
Gallery Constructor 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109267/
Gallery Constructor is a Web/CD photo album constructor. It features templating support, watermark picture support, customizable looks for galleries, high-quality resampling when resizing images, compatibility with Exif-information from the camera, the ability to add selected tags to your gallery information, the ability to stamp a copyright text to pictures in order to prevent unauthorized use, support for unlimited depths of sub-folders, an FTP client with support for passive mode (for compatibility with firewalls and proxies), and transparent communication with the Through-the-lens.net directory service.
GKrellM giFT 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109239/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers by showing their progress.
GtkAtlantic 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109264/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers.
irCstats 0.04b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109235/
irCstats is an IRC statistics generator that currently only supports irssi logs.
IzPack 3.1.0 pre5 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109243/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
Java Client for Dict 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109238/
jcfd is a client for Dict servers (RFC 2229) written in Java.
Jecomputerisjelot.nl automated login script 1.4.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109242/
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.
KSocrat 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109227/
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary for the K Desktop Environment.
lgsp 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109284/
LGSP (the Little GNU Site Preparer) is an environment for creating the initial version of a site. You write your wishes into the LGSP configuration file, and you are not only able to determine the whole logical structure but also the outfit of your site. By evaluating this configuration file LGSP automatically generates all demanded files of your site, and these pages already respect the wished visual design. For generating and editing such configuration files, LGSP also offers a full elaborated WYSIWYHC HTML frontend (What You See Is What You Have Configured).
MailDooHicky 1.0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109226/
mdh (MailDooHicky) is a configurable GTK-Perl toolbar that can display the current date/time, mail read/total, overall CPU usage, memory usage, and network usage (memory and network usage are Linux only). It also features user-definable buttons, a run window and a scratch-pad.
Mango 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109275/
Mango is recipe management software. The main motivation of the project is to provide an open source Mealmaster compatible application.
MyPFXAdmin 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109228/
MyPFXAdmin is a set of Web-based PHP scripts that allow easy administration of a Postfix setup. It allows adding and editing of domains, aliases, and users, without direct manipulation of the database.
Nautilus WebGallery 0.1 (XML Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109259/
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.
Netacct-NetStat 3.04_1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109251/
Netacct-NetStat is a PHP Web interface for Netacct-MySQL, the popular traffic statistics daemon for Linux and BSD.
nProbe 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109279/
nProbe is a Netflow V5 probe characterized by portability to Unix and Windows environments, a small memory footprint (less than 2MB of memory regardless of the size of the network), and low CPU usage. It is designed for running in environments with limited resources.
Phorum 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109270/
Phorum is a threaded message board written in PHP whose goal is to be database and platform independent. It is used on many high-traffic/high-profile sites such as slackware.com, zend.com, and talk.thewb.com. Phorum is designed with high-availability and visitor ease of use in mind. Features such as mailing list integration, easy customization, and simple installation make Phorum a powerful add-in to any Web site.
PHP Layers Menu 2.3.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109252/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.
phpForm 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109222/
phpForm is a PHP3 script that allows you to easily create Web forms. It allows you to create, administer, preview, and log forms. It also includes a simple function for including a form into a Web page.
ProcMeter3 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109232/
ProcMeter3 is a program for monitoring the system status and other information and displaying it in a series of graphs or as text. Most of the information comes from the /proc filesystem (cpu usage, load average , processes information, memory usage, network traffic, interrupts etc.). Other information is available for other sources (date, time, email status, log file length, disk status etc.). The program is modular and highly configurable.
pymad 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109237/
pymad is a Python module that allows Python programs to use the MPEG Audio Decoder library. It provides a high-level API which makes reading from MPEG audio streams a piece of cake.
RateMyStuff 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109229/
RateMyStuff is a full Web site setup that allows users to upload their own picture and to rate others' pictures from 1 to 10. It includes scripts to display the 10 best, 10 worst, and 10 newest images, and is completely template-based for easy customization. It features an admin script to view images users have reported as offensive, delete any image, and generate a list of user emails.
Scribus 0.9.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109281/
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.
Sniffdet 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109277/
Sniffdet is an implementation of a set of tests for remote sniffers detection in TCP/IP network environments. It is composed of a flexible and easy to use library and a console application to run the tests. Major features include several tests for sniffers detection, config file support, output plugins, dropping of root privileges, and general documentation.
Speed Dragon Tools 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109255/
Speed Dragon Tools provides Linux tools for the Hagenuk Speed Dragon ISDN PBX and a C++ class library to create custom tools. It also works with the Hagenuk Speed Viper, Power Dragon, and Surf M.A.X.
struts-wml 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109233/
struts-wml is a WML taglib for WAP enabled devices, based on struts-html.
Stunnel 4.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109263/
The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server. It can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP2, POP3, and IMAP servers without any changes in the programs' code. It will negotiate an SSL connection using the OpenSSL or SSLeay libraries. It calls the underlying crypto libraries, so stunnel supports whatever cryptographic algorithms you compiled into your crypto package.
SyncPOD 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109260/
SyncPOD syncs a local directory with your iPod. If the directory is larger than the space on your iPod, you can sync this larger directory with a master playlist.
tlogsim 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109248/
tlogsim is an extensible graphical logic circuit simulator for GTK 2.
Torneo De Artes Marciales 20030109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109257/
Torneo De Artes Marciales is a fighting game for Linux/Win32 using the Allegro game library.
VideoDB 2003-01-12b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109268/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
Watchfolder 0.3.2 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109246/
Watchfolder watches specifed folders for incoming files and processes them with programs assigned to those folders. Afterwards, the files are removed from the inbound directory.
Webtop web-based email system 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109254/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
WMND 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109272/
WMND (Window Maker Network Devices) is a dockapp for monitoring multiple network interfaces simultaneously. Based on WMiFS 1.3b, WMND has been almost totally re-written and is more optimized, flexible, and consumes less CPU time than wmmon.
WWWOFFLE 2.7h
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109231/
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use intermittent (dialup) connections to the Internet. It is a simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up Internet links. It makes it possible to browse Web pages and read them without having to remain connected. There are too many features to mention, but they include privacy control, cookie/advert blocking, efficient bandwidth usage by specifying intervals between refreshes, options to monitor pages regularly, recursive fetching, HTML cleaning, highlighting of cached links, indexes of cached pages, searching of cached pages, and many more.
ZoneMinder 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109283/
ZoneMinder is a set of applications which support capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to a Linux system. It features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface.
Newsforge Reports
Review of Quanta+ and Quanta Gold
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1148231
- By Rev. Wesley T. Allen - A side-by-side comparison of (free GPL) Quanta+ and (commercial) Quanta Gold, two popular HTML editors from theKompany.
Libranet was my key to Debian
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/2058218
- By A J Ivanciw - I had given up on Debian a while back, but for all those out there like me (non geek and using Linux and don't really care to learn command line etc.) I have found a really easy and good distro
- Libranet.
Linux 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.
Newsforge Newsvac
AOL Time Warner chairman to step down
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/021238
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Steve Case will step down as chairman of AOL Time Warner in May. However, he will continue as a board member, the company said Sunday in a news release.
Wacky little Linux cartoon animations
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1639256
Anonymous Reader writes "Take a little break and look at these wacky little Linux cartoon animations. How cool is a Linux rebel with a cause, find your serenity with Linux meditation, the eerie Linux monster is alive, a little bit of Linux tenderness, mighty Linux crawl out of the muck, and finaly a dancing Linux fool" (These aren't new, but they're funny, and a lot of people haven't seen them -- and they're certainly not something you'd expect ...
Unintended Consequences: Four Years under the DMCA http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1445254
Since they were enacted in 1998, the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright pirates from defeating anti-piracy protections added to copyrighted works, and to ban “black box” devices intended for that purpose... In practice, the anti-circumvention provisions have been used to stifle ...
New GNU/Linux Distribution Appears from Red Hat Veteran http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1410250
Former Red Hat employee Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer has resurfaced, after leaving Red Hat last fall, with a brand new GNU/Linux distribution meant for the average user.
LGP Announces Two More Titles
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/143208
Slashdot discussion: dolson writes "Earlier today Linux Game Publishing announced the next two titles that they will be porting to Linux."
InterfaceWM 0.2.1 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/142215
copal writes "InterfaceWM is a window manager written in Objective-C, using the GNUstep API. Major features of the 0.2.1 release include a new theme loading mechanism using bundles, endless bug fixes, and the beginings of the highly-anticipated WM-level bundle loading capabilities."
The X Factor: Apple Rolls Out New Version of X11 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/140259
Latest move for OS X is intended to bring parity with other UNIXes and deepen its Open Source community involvement.
RIAA defaced -again!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1225233
You hum it, I'll hack it.
Evolution of the data center OS
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1225207
During the next five to 10 years, tight budgets, better utilization, and more effective demand management will slow server growth and drive a dramatic shift in the data center's operating system capacity mix. Windows and Linux will be the big winners.
Existential Programming
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1224211
truc writes "Can programming be Existential? These and other questions confront the Accidental Programmer on his continued quest for the Lost Art of Computer Programming.
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Sourceforge
Quartz 1.0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242796
Quartz is an enterprise-class Job Scheduler for use in stand-alone and full-blown J2EE Applications. Quartz is very light-weight, highy scalable, easy to use within your own applications, and full of features. Aside from being a maintenance release of Quartz, version 1.0.3 contains several new features, and a complete re-write of the JDBC-based job store. Version 1.0.3 went through several "beta" releases, so it should be very solid. Existing users: please be sure to read the release notes / change list, as there are a few small hurdles to get over to move to this release. The users who have contributed code, bug reports, fixes, and feature suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Linux Test project ltp-20030110 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242667
The Linux Test Project is a group aimed at testing and improving Linux. The goal of the LTP is to deliver a suite of automated testing tools for Linux as well as publishing the results of tests we run. The ltp-20030110 release includes bug fixes and new tests. The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20030110.tgz has been released. Visit our website (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the testsuite, and for information on test results on pre-releases, release candidates & stable releases of the kernel. There is also a list of test cases that are expected to fail, please find the list at (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/expected-errors.php) The highlights of this release are: - Many new tests from Wipro. - Many SPIE tests ported. - More than 40 new tests. - LTP now has over 900 tests. - Many bug-fixes We encourage the community to post results, patches, or new tests on our mailing list, and to use the CVS bug tracking facility to report problems that you might encounter. More details available at our web-site.
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 MH with a single exception: a single number means to scan that many messages, rather than scan that message number. This turns out to be much more useful than visiting a single message and is consistent with Gnus and the MH-E speedbar (closes SF #655891). If mh-visit-folder is called non-interactively and RANGE is nil then all messages are displayed. This behavior is now documented and provides backwards compatibility. *** Threading Improvements After incorporating new mail into a threaded folder, unseen messages can be spread about. Two new functions have been added to make it easier to find them: these are "M-n (mh-next-unread-msg)" and "M-p (mh-previous-unread-msg)" (closes SF #630328) Two new functions were added to delete and refile threads. They are "T d (mh-thread-delete)" and "T o (mh-thread-refile)" respectively (closes SF #630493). In addition, the key "k" used to be bound to the function `mh-delete-subject': it is now bound to `mh-show-delete-subject-or-thread'. New functions to navigate threads include "T u (mh-thread-ancestor)", which can jump to the root message of the current thread given an optional argument, "T n (mh-thread-next-sibling)", and "T p (mh-thread-previous-sibling)" *** Refiling of Messages in Region If mark is active and `transient-mark-mode' is enabled then all the messages in the region are refiled. *** vCard Handling If a signature cannot be identified, but there is a vCard attachment, then that vCard will be presented as a signature (closes SF #649216). *** New Info Added to mh-version Information about Gnus versions available at both compile time and run time has been added. ** New Variables in MH-E 7.1 The defcustom groups were reorganized. Rather than iterate the specific changes here, yo