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[osdn everything] January 16, 2003
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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January 16, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/1311232
boijames writes "In the latest bit of DMCA lunacy, copyright guru David
Nimmer turned me onto a case that his firm is defending, where a garage
door opener company (The Chamberlain Group) has leveled a DMCA claim
(among other claims) [0]against the maker of universal garage door
remotes (Skylink)."
Links
0. http://www.politechbot.com/p-04319.html
Banana to be Sequenced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/028227
[0]GodsMadClown writes "New Scientist [1]reports that a global
consortium plans to sequence the genetic code of a wild banana from
east Asia. Because bananas are triploidal instead of diploidal, they
are only able to reproduce asexually, which means that it adapts slower
than organisms reproducing sexually. 'One rule of joining the
consortium is that any invention developed through the project and
protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a
royalty-free license,' says Emile Frison, director of the International
Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain."
Links
0. http://wfindl1 AT yahoo DOT com
Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/021202
[0]DeAshcroft writes "As [1]reported in [2]Technology Research News,
researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for
Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation have demonstrated a
prototype ferroelectric (as opposed to ferromagnetic) storage mechanism
with density of 1.5 trillion dots per square inch. No word on why
Japanese researchers are using square inches, but the new storage
benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over
20KiloDVD's per square cubit. Original paper appeared in the Applied
Physics Letters."
Links
0.
http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/
1.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/011503/Device_demos_terabit_storage_011503.html
2.
http://www.trnmag.com/Wireless Internet Launched on Lufthansa FRA - IAD http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0148236
[0]JpMaxMan writes "On flight LH 418 from Frankfurt, Germany, to
Washington, DC, Lufthansa AG began on Wednesday a three-month trial for
a new [1]onboard wireless broadband service that allows travelers to
connect to the Internet some 10,000 meters in the sky."
Links
0. mailto:Maxwell@DataTomato.com
Data Mining Used Hard Drives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2345217
linuxwrangler writes "One hopes the /. crowd knows the perils of discarding storage with sensitive data but [0]this article drives home the point. Two MIT grad students bought used drives from eBay and secondhand computer stores. Among the data found on the 158 drives were 5,000 credit-card numbers, porn, love-letters and medical information." Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/01/15/national1617EST0765.DTL
SMS Messaging Unreliable
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2154225
[0]Lovejoy writes "From a [1]Reuters story: [2]Keynote announced today
that in its two-week, 26,000 message test-period [3] 7.5% of its text
messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is
this report consistent with your experience?"
Links
0.
http://www.oc.edu/staff/dan.lovejoy
1.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2045841
2.
http://www.keynote.com/
3.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/15/telecoms.keynote.reut/indexhtmlSpeak & Spell Hacking For Fun And Profit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1959259
[0]Bowie J. Poag writes "Pete Casper has created a number of truly
bizarre [1]Speak & Spell hacks, and case mods (!) suitable for live
performances. The highly modified Speak & Spell can be controlled
either by the membrane keypad or using an Atari joystick of all things.
Tons of photographs and MP3 samples included.. I want one. Now."
Links
Taking Linux to New Heights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1829244
JimDog writes "Literally. I've created a web site documenting the
[0]construction and launch of a high altitude 'weather' balloon, with a
payload that runs Linux. The project was a great success, reached an
altitude of 80,000 feet, and took some really amazing aerial photos."
Links
0. http://speed.vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/
How Close is the Open Entertainment Center? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0258205
why-not-now asks: "Recently there's been a lot of talk about open
source/free software that enables your PC to act as a [0]DVR,
[1]all-purpose media player, DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, etc...
not to mention the ability to play [2]all [3]sorts [4]of [5]video
[6]games (if you know where to look). The idea of the [7]set top MAME
console is nice, but with a little TV/Audio out, a little know how and
the right software, are we currently able to put together a free
version of the big convergence media center others are [8]trying to
do?"
Links
0.
http://www.mythtv.org/
1.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
2.
http://x.mame.net/
3.
http://www.zsnes.com/
4.
http://www.epsxe.com/
5.
http://www.linuxgames.com/
6.
http://www.transgaming.com/
7.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1616252&tid=127
8.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/
New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1730256
[0]smartalix writes "[1]Sharp Microelectronics has recently developed a
new LCD substrate technology called Continuous-Grain Silicon
(CG-Silicon), that enables device integration on a scale previously
impossible. The technology enables the creation of System LCDs that
integrate all driver and operation circuitry -- including digital
logic, LCD driver, power supply, I/O interfaces, and signal-processing
circuitry -- onto the glass itself. Eventually even the device's CPU
will be included on the substrate. A key SLCD feature is the ability to
dynamically control the resolution and color depth, providing output in
multiple-resolution modes while lowering overall power consumption. A
3.7-in. SLCD created with CG-Silicon had a power consumption of 14 mW
for color VGA, 8 mW for color QVGA, and 2 mW for monochrome QVGA. The
first commercially available product that incorporates the System LCD
architecture is Sharp's Zaurus SL-C700 PDA, recently released in
Japan."
Links
0. mailto:smartalix@yahoo.com
Freshmeat
AccWhizz 0.0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109665/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x, and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be local or remote.
Autoconf Macro Archive 0.5.39 (SF-NET)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109621/
The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested macros that are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too specific to be included into autoconf itself.
BEJY 1.1.1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109678/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things.
CensorNet 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109620/
CensorNet is an Internet management tool that is designed to control and monitor individuals accessing Internet resources on a local area network. It features the ability to control users and machines, filter content on keyword, file extension, and MIME type, give audit trails and reports, schedule access, and limit bandwidth. It is compatible with NT/Active Directory user authentication, and can be adminstered using a Web interface. It is ideal for schools and businesses.
CLEX 3.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109600/
CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in C with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file status details) and provides features like command history, filename insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands). CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the on-line help.
DC-GUI 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109640/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
DebSync 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109609/
DebSync is a Python command line tool which helps to synchronize a bunch of Debian GNU/Linux machines with respect to the list of packages installed. DebSync retrieves the list of installed packages from a master host, and then installs or removes packages on any number of other hosts to make them have the very same installed packages list as the master host.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2003-01-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109596/
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.
DirectFB 0.9.16 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109669/
DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
Dr. Genius 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109617/
Dr. Genius is the GNOME Geometry Exploration and Numeric Intuitive User System, an Euclidian geometry application where geometry figures are interactively manipulated. It is Guile aware to allow user scriptability of the geometric figures.
ego file manager 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109602/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
Enterprise Object Broker 0.8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109598/
Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application server that transparently distributes Java objects via their interfaces. It makes no distinction between Local and Remote objects. Because of these features, it is not J2EE compliant. The developer builds beans that implement normal Java interfaces and the deployer decides where the beans are in a cluster of servers. Apache's AltRMI is used in place of RMI. It publishes plain interfaces locally and remotely. The interfaces do not have to extend the java.rmi.Remote interface. Methods do not have to throw RemoteException. AltRMI delivers remoting for Java. EOB sits on top of Apache's Avalon-Phoenix server platform.
evilwm 0.99.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109618/
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It maximises screen real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is currently based on aewm.
eXist 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109638/
eXist is an XML database with pluggable storage backends and support for fulltext search. XML is stored in the internal, native XML-DB or in an external RDBMS. The search engine has been designed to provide fast XPath queries, using indexes for all element, text, and attribute nodes. eXist is lightweight and well-suited for large document collections. The server is accessible through easy-to-use HTTP and XML-RPC interfaces and supports the XML:DB API for Java programming.
fetchmail 6.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109614/
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109637/
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.
FOX 1.1.22 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109645/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
gAlan 0.3.0-test1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109629/
gAlan is an audio-processing tool for X Windows and Win32. It allows you to build synthesizers, effects chains, mixers, sequencers, drum machines, etc. in a modular fashion by linking together icons representing primitive audio processing components.
GCC Introspector 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109661/
The GCC XML Tree Node Introspector project consists of a patch to the gcc compiler to output the internal compiler tree nodes in RDF/XML and programs to process that RDF/XML. The tree nodes are complex data structures which represent the source code inside the compiler. Through these tree nodes, users are able to extract information from their programs that would be otherwise very difficult to obtain. Modules exist to store these nodes in XML or in a PostgresSQL database. The long-term goal of the project is create a high-level API that will make the programmatic manipulation of programs easier than it is now.
Genuts Breaker 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109606/
Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.
gnocl 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109672/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gnome Display Manager 2.4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109641/
The Gnome Display Manager is a reimplementation of the well known xdm program. GDM consists of a daemon and a graphical login application which runs as an unpriviledged user. The login GUI features a face browser, an optional logo, and language/session type selection support. The daemon includes an XDMCP implementation for managing remote displays. Access control relies on TCPWrappers and PAM.
Goochi 1.2 beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109632/
Goochi is a peer-to-peer system written in Java for sharing files, and for chatting.
GraphThing 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109626/
GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate, and study graphs. These "graphs" are mathematical objects, that describe the relationships between sets; they are not 2D plots, charts, or any other sort of visual object.
Gringotts 1.3.0pre5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109607/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
hdup 1.5.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109612/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
HouseSpider 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109643/
HouseSpider is an Java applet that adds indexing and search capability to web sites. It can search by two methods: by spidering through the site, or by searching a cached index file. Spider-searching is slow, but very easy to set up and requires no maintenance. Cache-searching requires only a little more attention to set-up and is sometimes even faster than CGI programs. HouseSpider also supports compression (in zip-format) of the index file, and boolean searches.
Jess 6.1b5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109666/
Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial use.
Kadmos OCR/ICR engine 4.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109630/
The Kadmos OCR/ICR (handwriting) recognition engine has multiple languages support (it covers all Latin languages plus others, including Cyrillic). Application interfaces are available for C/C++/VB/Delphi, and Java upon request. It also has isolated character (REC), isolated line (REL), and paragraph (REP) recognition modules.
KCheckers 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109599/
KCheckers is a KDE version of the classic boardgame "checkers".
KMonodim 2.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109604/
KMonodim is a simple solver for monodimensional particle-in-a-box problems, written for QT/KDE. It current solves problems with various potentials such as square well, square well with a barrier, parabolic, and morse potential. It provides calculation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for a given system, Richardson extrapolation to achieve better precision, loads and saves in XML format, can do simultaneous work on multiple systems, and integral evaluation.
KnoppiXMAME 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109650/
KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame.
Krysalis 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109627/
Krysalis is an open-source PHP development platform, based on the XML/XSLT core. It features dynamic XML support, support for the creation of dynamic XML files with data taken from databases, PXP page caching, caching and storage of each generated PHP file from any PXP on disk (thus re-queries on the same page will not have to re-create it), allowing XHTML templates (simpler than XSL), SOAP support, multiple transformation pipelines, and allowing the site manager to describe multiple types of transformation pipelines (each type having assigned some XSLT's which transform the XML data). HTML or XML output are possible by default, and extensibility is very high.
libferris 0.9.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109601/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders.
libgeotiff 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109655/
libgeotiff is a library (normally built on top of libtiff) for reading and writing coordinate system information from/to GeoTIFF files. It includes CSV files for expanding projected coordinate system codes into full projections definitions and examples of transforming the definitions into a form that can be used with the PROJ.4 projections library. It also includes the sample applications listgeo (for dumping GeoTIFF information in readable form) and geotifcp (for applying geotiff tags to an existing TIFF or GeoTIFF file).
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.4.2 (Linux-2.4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109668/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts, C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
M.E.S.H. 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109608/
MESH (Measuring Error between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance) is a tool that measures distortion between two discrete surfaces (triangular meshes). It uses the Hausdorff distance to compute a maximum, mean, and root-mean-square errors between two given surfaces. Besides providing figures, MESH can also display the error values on the surface itself through a GUI (Qt-based).
MagicDraw UML 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109610/
MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. it was designed for business analysts, software analysts, programmers, QA engineers, and documentation writers. It facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases, and it provides the industry's best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for Java, C++, and CORBA IDL programming languages), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation, and reverse engineering facilities.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12 BETA 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109677/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, and much more.
Motiontrack 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109657/
Motiontrack is a set of tools that detect motion between two PNG or JPG images.
mysql_auth 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109662/
mysql_auth is a basic authenticator for Squid Proxy. You can configure all MySQL variables for your existing user/password database (dbhost, dbadmin, dbpasswd, dbname, tablename, columns name), or create a new database. It includes a utility called mypasswd that updates your database.
naim 0.11.5.2 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109659/
naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC and Lily CMC. For AIM, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.
Net-SNMP 5.0.7 (net-snmp)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109651/
The NET-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) package contains various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP and a Tk/perl mib browser. It was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation (version 2.1.2.1), but has been greatly enhanced, ported and fixed and barely resembles the original package anymore.
pam_login 3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109680/
pam_login is written specificly for PAM authentication. It is based on the version from the util-Linux package, from which all code for non-PAM support was removed. Instead, support for the most important features of the login program from the shadow suite was added.
PDF::API2 0.3a32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109631/
PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
picoSQL 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109611/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Postfix 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109667/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users.
ProFTPDTools 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109646/
ProFTPDTools provides a Web interface for managing users and groups in a setup of ProFTPd with mod_sql. It also provides an interface to view a formatted output of the ftpwho command.
Recount 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109634/
Recount was inspired by the United States election 2000 debacle. It is a polling application and library written in PHP, and released under the terms of the GPL. It allows you to quickly and easily create and manage poll based content in any format you like. It currently supports both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
ReViewer 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109605/
ReViewer is an image viewer in Rebol that lets you view and sort images, drag and drop thumbnails, and build a Web site with your images.
rubrica 0.9.9.85 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109615/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.
SDL_prim 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109663/
SDL_prim is a set of simple drawing primitives for use with the SDL Library. Currently supported are lines, circles, and triangles, with support for anti-aliasing and alpha-blending. Circles and Triangles also have support for filling.
Siege 2.57b5 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109652/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Simple Python Blogger 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109675/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.
Simple Python Blogger 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109639/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.
Spamcup 1.01 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109624/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline.
SQL Query Generator 0.8 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109597/
SQL Query Generator is a command-line program that will help you make INSERT INTO, DELETE, and UPDATE SQL queries. The queries created with this program are stored in a text file.
stardork 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109633/
Stardork is a console-based game where you move and shoot up/down/left/right and diagonally to hit a goal. When you hit a goal, more stars randomly appear. If you run into a star you lose power and eventually die.
TkVNC 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109625/
TkVNC is a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk. It is designed to be embedded inside other applications, but can be used as a standalone VNC viewer.
TM4J 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109603/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of information structures which can be used to represent ontologies, business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic maps.
TopicEngine 1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109628/
The TopicEngine is an advanced TCL script for eggdrop bots for managing the topic in one or more channels. It allows users to change or lock the channel topic through the use of public commands in the channel, with fine-grain permission controls available. Users do not have to be opped to change the topic (but the bot must be if the channel is +t). It can automatically refresh the topic after a netjoin, and allows command caching to avoid flooding the channel with topic changes. The topic can also be locked by appropriate people. TopicEngine will attempt to communicate with other TopicEngine bots in the channel to avoid a topic live-lock flood.
tower toppler 0.98.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109676/
Tower Toppler (aka Nebulous) is the reimplementation an old 'jump and run' game. In this game you have to climb to the top of a tower avoiding all kinds of creatures that want to push you down.
ttylinux 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109674/
ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or ISDN, surf the Web, and provide Web content to the world. The minimum hardware requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup.
WebSight Directory System 0.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109653/
The WebSight Directory System was originally developed for Electronic Music World (www.electronicmusicworld.com), to serve as an Internet portal related to electronic music. WebSight Directory System presents collected links in categories and subcategories. It supports link submission by visitors.
wysihtml 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109636/
wysihtml (What you see is HTML) is an almost-real-time previewing system HTML and DocBook XML that almost provides what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing in emacs. Implemented as a minor mode, wysihtml invokes mozilla to show the current text.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109642/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
yp-tools 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109679/
yp-tools is an implementation of the NIS client tools for Linux and should work with every Linux C Library. This implementation only provides NIS client tools. You must already have a ypbind daemon running on the same host, and a NIS server running somewhere in the net.
Newsforge Reports
Open Source Security: Better Protection at a Lower Cost
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1659246
Steve Schlesinger, Astaro Corp. At first glance, the idea of using open source software for a firewall or other security application seems counterintuitive, even absurd. Why would a corporation use code that's available to anyone - hackers, cyber-terrorists, disgruntled employees
- to protect their most vital information assets? Yet that's what's happening at places like Stanford University, EDS, and Los Alamos National Labs, to name but a few ...
MandrakeSoft in French Equivalent of Chapter 11 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1927220
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Despite the happy-talk statements made to NewsForge by Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval on January 14, it seems the company has gone, as our friends at The Register would put it, "tits up." Not only that, the filing was made on January 13, even though Mr. Duval told us on Jan 9 and Jan 10 that rumors that the company was bankrupt were just that: rumors.
OpenEMed helps detect epidemics -- and bioterrorism http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1550249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "OpenEmed is a distributed healthcare information system built around the OMG distributed object specifications and the HL7 (and other) data standards and is written in Java for platform portability," says the first sentence on the project's home page. Its objective is to aggregate data from clinics, emergency rooms, pharmacies, and individual physicians so that epidemics or bioterrorism attacks can be rapidly ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Desktop Dreams in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/100256
Timothy R. Butler writes "Linux's dreams for the desktop died today with Mandrake's bankruptcy filling. Yes, it was a worthy cause, and we fought hard, but now it is time to admit it -- it is over. No more. Finished. Done. Kaput. GNU/Linux's true place is on the server, and its time for everyone to recognize that. Is everyone with me?"
MS goes open in Sweden
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0959231
Mikael Pawlo writes Swedish Gnuheter today reveals that Thursday's issue of Dagens Industri will carry the following headline on its front page: "Microsoft Surrenders" ("Microsoft viker sig"). It appears that Microsoft has been under heavy pressure from several huge public offices. Microsoft will therefore relase the source code to Windows and other applications to the Swedish government."
NetBSD announces plans for merging branch implemen http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0958214
Jan Schaumann writes "A plan for the long anticipated merging of the nathanw_sa branch into NetBSD -current has been announced. The nathanw_sa branch implements scheduler activations and provides native support for pthreads. The vast majority of the work on this branch has been done by Nathan Williams. Please see Jason's mail to current-users for details."
HP sponsors GRIDWARS Championship - Prizes announced http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1935235
Anonymous Reader writes "Hewlett-Packard is sponsoring the GRIDWARS parallel programming challenge with prizes and systems. In GRIDWARS participating developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel processors. The GRID WARS Championship takes place in February on an HP Intel® Itanium® 2 cluster computing system running Linux. The battle programs are developed under Windows. The HP-sponsored prizes ...
Installgen 1.72 - automates Oracle 8.1.7 installs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1933251
David Simpson writes: Version 1.72 of Installgen generates the scripts required to automate the installation of Oracle 8.1.7 databases on 8 releases of Red Hat Linux.
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership – a case for Linux in http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1931223
Anonymous Reader writes "Amidst the brouhaha over the Microsoft sponsored study that reflected the act that “in the long run, the TCO for systems running Linux as OS would be considerably higher than ones running on MS platforms”, one item that got lost is the usage of the word TCO. TCO as defined by the above mentioned IDC study relates to the cost of ownership, however in this case the author would like to evaluate TCO as Total Cost of ...
Analysis of the "Truce" Between RIAA, BSA, http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1930210
Ernest_Miller writes "LawMeme analyzes the seven "policy principles" put forward by the RIAA, BSA and CSPP yesterday. The analysis shows that there is much less to the "principles" than claimed."
Supreme Court upholds retroactive extension of copyright http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1623200
Anonymous Reader writes "In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the Sonny Bono copyright act (aka - the Mickey Mouse Act b/c Disney was the primary advocate of the act)."
Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1621217
SGI recently debuted its new 64-bit, 64-processor, Linux system based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor--a significant announcement for the company and for Linux. This system marks the opening of a new frontier as scientists working on complex and demanding high-performance computing (HPC) problems can now use and deploy Linux in ways never before possible. HPC environments continually push the limits of the operating system by requiring larger ...
Dell boss still interested in Linux on the desktop http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1618202
Despite pulling out of the Linux desktop market, Dell boss Michael Dell appears to believe the Microsoft alternative could still have a chance at success, although it is unlikely to make much of an impact in the next few months.
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