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[osdn everything] January 17, 2003
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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January 17, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Seagate Barracuda V Serial ATA Drive Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0310212
[0]Mike Parsons writes "Andrew and Adam over at [1]Explosive Labs have
a nice review up on the [2]Seagate Barracuda V, one of the first
production Serial ATA drives. Keep in mind, Generation 1 of Serial ATA
was not meant to be a 'incredible performance jump.' Rather, its
intended purpose was to make the industry transition seamless to allow
time to mature the future generations of SATA. Generation 2 and 3 of
SATA show more promise for those interested in performance, as white
papers behind them gives you the nice fuzzy feeling for speed!"
Links
0. mailto:m_pars@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.explosivelabs.com/
2.
http://www.explosivelabs.com/reviews/barracudav_sata/Intel Delays Dual-Core Processor, Plans New Server Chip http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0142244
[0]Kajakske writes "Intel said Thursday that it is [1]pushing back the
release of its first dual-core processor by a year to 2005 and adding a
new microprocessor for servers to its Itanium II lineup. On the other
hand, Intel is [2]moving forward in the area of new technologies."
Links
0. mailto:tom.van.wesemael@pandora.be
1.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4963676.htm
2.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jan/bch20030116018191.htm
APC Recalls 2.1 Million UPS Units
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0114216
Controlio writes "Check your cubicles. [0]APC has [1]recalled two of
its Back-UPS CS models, the Back-UPS CS 350 and Back-UPS CS 500, in
both the 120 volt and 230-volt flavors. The units were sold between
November of 2000 and December of 2002. The affected units have the
potential to overheat, melting the outer casing and causing a potential
fire hazard. Yikes."
Links
SAUNAAB
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/159246
An anonymous reader writes "This groups combined some people from CERN, an old SAAB 900 Classic 5-door and a common desire to have a [0]sauna." Links
0. http://mbjork.home.cern.ch/mbjork/gase/events/saunaab_test/saunaab_test.htm
Talk to the GNUWin II Team
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0034227
[0]imevil writes "[1]GNUWin II is a collection of Free Software for
Windows, and it also includes articles about Free Software and
explanation pages. It is multilingual (it was born as a Swiss product).
You can browse the CD online or [2]download the ISO from one of our
mirrors. The GNUWin II team is ready to answer to your questions, about
GNUWin II, and also about [3]GNU Generation, the student association at
the [4]Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne who gave birth
to the GNUWin project."
Links
0. mailto:evil@ratworld.com
1.
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/
2.
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/order.html
3.
http://gnugeneration.epfl.ch/
4.
http://www.epfl.ch/
UnitedLinux Pushes Into Telecom Market
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2126202
An anonymous reader writes "It would seem that UnitedLinux is
[0]pushing into the telecomms market according to this article at
ITWorld. Is this the first market they are trying to meander into? I
perticularly like this quote: 'Telecommunications grade servers must
meet specific standards regarding electromagnetic interference,
electrostatic discharge, corrosion, grounding and seismic durability.'
Hmmmm."
Links
0. http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2384/030116unitedlinux/
Slashback: Iridium, Synthesis, Drives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2131229
Slashback tonight with word on the (groan) fate of Iridium, more Speak n' Spell modding, examples of Serial ATA oozing to market, the RIAA versus mandatory DRM, and more. Read on for the updates.
Upgrading Training and Certification?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2123243
An un-named reader asks: "For various reasons, I've been out of the workforce and IT industry since 2000, before which I was employed as an NT-based sysadmin at a large Canadian company. After moving to NYC I found the market flat and got into other work for a while. Now I find myself wanting to get back into IT professionally, but my resume is getting no nibbles at all (over 800 resumes submitted in the last year or so). As a result, I decided to take some training courses to get me back up to speed not just in the W-Intel world, but give me some usable knowledge of Solaris, a CCNA and Checkpoint. Here's where things bogged down. Are there any decent schools out there who have good facilities, good instructors and do more than 'teach-to-the-exams?"
More NerdCore Science Fiction From Cory Doctorow http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/1948255
[0]Andrew Leonard writes "Cory Doctorow has published a new [1]short
story in Salon. This time around, he's imagined a cyberpunk wi-fi
future, with spectrum cops, a mobile multinational startup, and
guerilla warfare on Indian reservations. Readers who liked his previous
story, [2]"0wnz0red" will undoubtedly savor this one." We've posted
[3]things [4]about [5]Cory before, but I personally enjoy his writing,
so here's more!
Links
0. mailto:aleonard@salon.com
1.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/16/liberation_spectrum/index.html
2.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/30/1159226&tid=96
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/13/1353249&tid=129
5.
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/13/1952253&tid=126MS Must Ship Java With Windows Within 120 Days http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/217212
[0]Suppafly writes "Cnet is reporting that a federal judge on Wednesday
[1]ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun Microsystems' Java with the
Windows operating system within 120 days, after the companies fought
over implementing a ruling he made last month."
Links
Freshmeat
Big Medium 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109741/
Big medium is an affordable, full-featured content management system that makes it easy to manage dynamic, fast-changing Web sites. The browser-based interface allows even the most non-technical staff to add, edit and publish Web content without needing to learn HTML. Big Medium empowers writers, editors, and business users to update Web sites directly, freeing Web professionals to be more productive and creative. It is written in Perl to run on Web servers running a UNIX operating system.
calc 2.11.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109712/
Calc is arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. It's useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototype, and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides a machine-independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.
CVSspam 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109731/
CVSspam sends email when a change is commited to the CVS repository. Syntax-highlighted diffs describe the changes made, and hyperlinks to Bugzilla and ViewCVS are generated where possible.
Directory administrator 1.3.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109715/
Directory administrator is a smart LDAP directory server manager. It can be used to manage UNIX users and groups, corporate address book information, host-based access control, and advanced mail routing. It's extremely easy to install and use, yet powerful at the same time.
dmi 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109740/
dmi is a Web photo album/image gallery written in PHP. The main difference between dmi and other similar scripts is that it requires little to no setup time. Just drop it in a directory containing image and/or video files, and adjust permissions. It also makes thumbnails of MPEG movies as animated GIF files.
Dolphin SCI drivers 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109751/
SCI is a high-speed point-to-point networking technology, using SCI adaptors. The Dolphin SCI drivers in this package will work under Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, Lynx, and Windows NT/2000. They are aimed at Dolphin's SCI adaptor cards. The latency of the driver itself is around 1.4us. It's intended for use in clusters that need the extra performance. Note that the drivers are GPL, and the bundled libraries are LGPL.
Firewall Tester 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109719/
The Firewall Tester is a tool designed for testing firewalls filtering policies. It includes an Intrusion Detection System testing feature, along with a packet generator tool and a sniffer. Unlike common firewall testing tools or packet generators ftester is capable of generating network traffic that will looks like real connections to the firewall or IDS system tested, which allows users to test stateful inspection firewalls (like netfilter or ipfilter) and IDS (like snort).
GImageView 0.2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109726/
GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing, thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.
GNU Libidn 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109723/
GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep (with the Nameprep and Kerberos 5 profiles), Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109724/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
jCIFS 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109738/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.
JFreeVote 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109745/
JFreeVote is a set of Java tools to manage a e-vote process. It provides authentication, vote unicity, vote secrecy (with extensive use of cryptography), deferred vote counting, an interventor module, atomic transtactions with failure recovery, proctection against direct database inspection, emission and validation of digital vote certificates, multiple simultaneous consults, and census. A chat and forum system are included. JFreeVote is oriented to domestic (Web) or presidential votes (via an electoral collage).
JGAP 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109717/
JGAP (pronounced "jay-gap") is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use "out of the box", but is highly modular and allows custom components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous.
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109737/
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import lets you import your Windows CE (or PocketPC) contacts into KDE's address book.
KMovisto 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109761/
KMovisto is a free molecule viewer which reads GAUSSIAN files, exports POV-Ray scripts for high quality presentations, and VRML files for creating 3D molecule sceneries for the Web.
Komplete 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109728/
Komplete is a content management system for small and medium sized enterprises that need to publish dynamic content on the Web, improve their interdepartmental communications, and transmit information to clients and partners. It is a publishing platform that provides an intuitive structure and allows content management by everyone, even non- programmers. Unlike dynamic Web sites that combine the logic and the presentation in a rigid approach, it offers a completely maintainable and extensible solution.
Linux Firewall 2.0rc8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109750/
Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall is a robust, well-designed firewall for Linux 2.4 based on netfilter/iptables. It supports advanced features for both servers and routers such as port forwarding and connection logging. It has verbose success and failure messages, and is easy to install and configure.
Linux Kernel Module Builder 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109713/
LKMB is a Perl module that can be used to create a kernel module package, that can later be used to create a package that can be bootstrapped on any GNU machine. It is incomplete, but still partially usable. LKMB is part of the Comprehensive Linux Archive Network (CLAN) meta-project.
MacOS9 .3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109706/
MacOS9 is a theme resembling the operating system of the same name.
Millstone 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109733/
Millstone is a user interface library for development of Internet applications with Java. It provides a terminal independent component model that can be adapted to different terminal types and user interface themes. The development model of Millstone is closely related to traditional client side UI development: it has a continuous application lifecycle and an extensive event model. The Millstone library also provides an interface for directly connecting UI components to business logic and data storage.
NetCDF 3.5.1-beta10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109753/
NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2003011510
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109742/
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals.
NuxDocument 1.1alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109755/
NuxDocument is a Zope product that represents generic documents by using plugins to convert native productivity suite formats to HTML (for viewing or previewing in a regular browser) or to plain text (for indexing). With the appropriate external conversion programs, NuxDocument currently provides support for MSOffice (DOC, XLS, and PPT), OpenOffice (a.k.a. StarOffice 6), RTF,and PDF formats.
Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server 2.2 beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109714/
Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow. Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format; versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g. mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies.
openbechede 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109746/
openbechede is a fast and simple way to install OpenBSD packages and their dependencies. With openbechede you can keep your obsd packages updated. Also, you can install packages (and automatically, their dependencies), remove them, fetch new lists of packages. openbechede logs its activity to a file you can specify.
Pauker 20030116 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109734/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
PFinger 0.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109739/
PFinger is a highly configurable, secure and portable finger deamon. It is started by inetd but does not run as root. The service may be disabled for individual users by the administrator or by the users themselves. It offers configurable special files (e.g. a users PGP-Key could be retrieved with 'finger john.pgpkey@host), no printing of users home directory or shell and it also provides a graphical frontend that allows users to easily alter the output that will be sent, when they are fingerd.
PHAkt 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109725/
PHAkt is an open-source PHP extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, allowing PHP generation using the same techniques as when developing ASP/JSP/CF. PHAkt has a lot of improvements over the original PHP_MySQL server model of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, including support for multiple databases in a transparent way, support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MsSQL date locales, user authentication server behaviors, master/detail server behaviors, go to detail page server behaviors, improved code generation, and multiple and extensible recordset support. IIS and Apache 2 are supported by using absolute redirects.
phpBB 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109756/
phpBB is a UBB-style dissussion board written in PHP backended by a MySQL database. It includes features such as posting/replying/editing messages, private messages, private forums, user and anonymous posting, robust theming, user ranking by posts or by special, admin definable, ranks, and much more.
PJIRC 1.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109749/
PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel, privates, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's still quite light.
Pliant 81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109732/
Pliant is a new generation language, which is modular, reflexive, and dynamically-compiled. It looks like a merging of typed Lisp and C. The programming environment includes HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS servers and clients, a database engine, a multi-forum administration tool, etc. It runs on Linux, POSIX, and Windows platforms or as a standalone OS on top of the Linux kernel.
PostgreSQL Session Save Handler 0.4.1 (HEAD) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109722/
The PostgreSQL Session Save Handler is a C program that allows you to use a PostgreSQL database to store PHP session data. The session module that is included with PHP4 can accomplish the same thing via its 'user' save handler, but it is much slower than using this program. PostgreSQL Session Save Handler is more than 2 times faster than the equivalent session save handler written as a PHP script.
rip 1.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109752/
Rip is a commandline-based Perl script which rips Compact Disc tracks to either Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 (MP3) files, Ogg Vorbis files, or FLAC files without user intervention between the steps of ripping. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav for ripping, BladeEnc, LAME, notLAME, and GOGO for WAV to MP3 encoding, oggenc for WAV to Ogg Vorbis encoding/tagging, FLAC for WAV to flac encoding. In addition, it supports CDDB for automatic renaming of files and MP3::Info for MP3 tagging.
SaveMyModem 0.14b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109735/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.
screen-scraper 0.8.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109743/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.
Senken 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109720/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.
Siag Office 3.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109744/
Siag Office is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple embedded interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other programs to run inside the main document. The supported interpreters are SIOD, Guile, Tcl, and Python.
Soya 3D 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109716/
Soya 3D is a high-level 3D engine for Python, designed with games in mind. The engine is fully object oriented, high level (even more than traditional "scene graphs"), and practical.
Station Location and Information 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109747/
The station-info program searches for and displays AM, FM, and TV station entries from databases supplied by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It provides many ways of selecting a collection of stations for display, and several criteria by which these stations can be sorted. Detailed information on each station is available, including an antenna radiation pattern, ownership information, and whatever else seems useful.
Vega Strike 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109721/
Vega Strike is a Linux action space simulator designed to bring 3d space combat to a whole new level of graphics, gameplay, and customizability.
VOCP 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109729/
VOCP is a complete messaging solution for voice modems, with voicemail, fax, email pager, DTMF command shell and Text-to-Speech support, 4 graphical interfaces, and a Web interface. Callers navigate the system using a touch-tone phone and may send and receive faxes, voice mail, and pager messages, listen to text/HTML email messages, or execute configured programs on the host and hear the resulting output.
WebMacro Servlet Framework 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109757/
WebMacro is a Java server-side web template engine and servlet development framework. It makes it easy to separate business logic from presentation, so that programmers need not worry about presentation, and designers need not worry about business logic. WebMacro lets programmers get back to programming in a standard language with standard objects while letting page designers spend more time on appearances and less time wading through program code they don't want to understand.
XOSD 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109759/
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109754/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - January 17th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0933238
- 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. This week, advisories were released for wget, xpdf, openldap, libmcrypt, impsql, bugzilla, mod_php, cups, dhcpd, kde, leafnode, libpng, postgresql, mysql, vim, and ethereal. The distributors include ...
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Review: Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta 1
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/129255
ladislav writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1, a GNU/Linux distribution in the making, is currently under intensive development. This review is an attempt to compare its first beta to Mandrake Linux 9.0, which I have been using for several months."
Rekonix introduces new version of the security STA http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/129229
Milan Gigel writes "The Rekonix LTD company have introduced today a new version of their popular strong authentication system STADRIN 1.1.5 targeting the Linux platform using PAM authentication schemes with a Vasco tokens backend. The new version makes the implementation process more easy and allows simple coexistence with current running authentication schemes for a simple switching to new one."
Open season: Red Hat strives to take on Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/129206
A.Guru prasadh writes "NEW DELHI: Red Hat, arguably the world's largest provider of open source technologies, including Linux, is now striving to achieve what one never credited Linux proponents with: -- penetrating the desktops."
ThamiZha! (Alpha version) - The Mozilla1.3a base http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/128251
Mugunth writes "ThamiZha! (alpha version) - A Mozilla1.3a based Tamil browser ready for testing."
GNU-Darwin revs up
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/128228
proclus writes "I've put the project in stable production status, and updated some key web pages. Our core asset, the packages and software distribution system, is now usable by anyone who is willing to learn the Unix command line, and we encourage everyone to do so."
WSIS: Delegates fail to agree on open-source 'support' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/221236
A three-day meeting that brought together Asian governments, organizations, companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ended Wednesday morning with the approval of a declaration that, among other things, calls for encouraging the development of open-source software. A draft of the declaration had called for open source to be "supported" but was changed after objections from the U.S. government delegation late Tuesday night.
Mixed results for US tech giants
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2153231
Profits are down at IBM but sales are up, on a big night for US technology results.
Corporate Networks
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UnitedLinux to make telecom market push
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2151218
UnitedLinux, a common Linux operating system from four vendors, will later this quarter be updated to make it suitable for telecommunications carrier-grade servers, the UnitedLinux group said Thursday.
DesktopLinux.com drops support for Lindows Desktop Linux Summit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2146215
DesktopLinux.com is withdrawing our support for the Desktop Linux Summit originated by Lindows.com. We were approached by Lindows.com during the LinuxWorld conference last summer, with a request to provide a "platform" that could bring a vendor-neutral character to the conference. It was our impression that Lindows.com felt the conference was not drawing broad enough support from the Desktop Linux community and its vendors, and that they wanted ...
Eben Moglen to be interviewed on PBS
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/2131200
Brett Smith writes "Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, will appear in an interview on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, Friday 17 January. The show will discuss the impact of Wednesday's ruling in the Eldred case and its implications for the way copyright legislation will impact us in the future. More information is available on the show's page."
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Snap Digital Mini Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5c79/
Gadgets: LED Mini Headlamp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5c7d/
Cube Goodies: The Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/2982/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
Interests: Linux French
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bc4/
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
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JGAP 0.32 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244075
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use "out of the box," but is also designed to be highly modular to allow for custom components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous. JGAP 0.32 is a maintenance release that primarily includes optimizations to increase performance and reduce memory consumption. Minor enhancements and fixes, as well as additions to the documentation, are also included. Please see the Changelog for details. JGAP 0.32 is considered an alpha release and is therefore not feature-complete and may contain bugs.
EasySok 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244037
EasySok is a sokoban game for KDE. It is themeable, has a level editor and a solver, various import/export functions, a retro mode and other nice features. This is just a bugfix release for users of gcc 3.2. If you could compile EasySok 0.3.1, there is no need to switch to this new version.
KRadio 0.2.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244060
KRadio is a radio application for KDE3. It has support for video4linux
radio devices and lirc remote control. Changes in this release include:
the configuration dialog is now in KDE style; a configurable "good
signal" level has been added; and numerous bugs have been fixed. And
many fixes that can be read in the
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio/ChangeLog kradio can be
downloaded as usual from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45668 or from
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio.html And don't forget to
contribute your station preset file to our database ;) Have fun! Martin
drjava-20030115-2237 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244050
This development release includes a new approach for the communication between the main DrJava JVM and the JVM used by the Interactions Pane. It should resolve many of the Interactions Pane problems that users have recently encountered, and it needs to be tested on all platforms. DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. Download it by following the "more download options" link on our home page.
TurboPower Orpheus 4.06 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244023
Orpheus is an award-winning UI toolkit for Borland Delphi and C++Builder. It contains over 120 components covering everything from data entry to calendars and clocks. Other noteworthy components include an Object Inspector, LookOut bar, & report views. This is a source-code only release. TurboPower Orpheus project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tporpheus
MPman MP-F70 suite 0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243804
Version 0.3 of the kernel driver and utilities for the MPman MP-F70 portable MP3 player is up for download. The kernel driver provides a block device which you can then mount in read-write mode. The mpf70-utils allow you to extract MP3 information and queue tracks to the player in one command! http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpf70/
Chicken of the VNC 1.3.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243785
Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you. This release contains enhancements, including new encoding support, support for wheel mice, and performance improvements.
TM4J 0.8.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243768
The next milestone of TM4J is now available as a stable release. TM4J 0.8.0 adds a new persistent storage model for relational databases. This storage model uses the Hibernate O-R mapping tool and supports a wide range of databases (see the Developer's Guide appendix on the Hibernate back-end for details about which databases are supported). This back-end has been tested against MySQL, Oracle9i and Oracle 8. If you find any problems with any other databases, please report them. This release also clears up some of the confusing APIs for object creation and TopicMap management. Users of previous versions of TM4J should read the chapter "Changes since 0.7.0" for details about the changed methods. Methods deprecated in this release will remain deprecated for the next minor increment (0.9.0) and will be removed in the following release (0.10.0 or 1.0)
iScan release 2.0.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243493
A new release 2.0.8 has been made available, its a general bug fix to 2.0.5, see release notes for details. iScan is a mail manipulation system for exim, used for content filtering, virus scanning and spam blocking.
TOEJAM release 2.9.7
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243512
TOEJAM is a Java Answering Machine that uses a Voice Modem as the base of the IVR system. It has been running 24x7 at my home handling my phone calls and emailing me the messages. Currently supports US Robotics 56K Pro Msg, other modems very easily programmed for. TOEJAM is an acronym for Thoroughly Open Ended Java Answering Machine.
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