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[osdn everything] January 21, 2003
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/1324203
[0]Traicovn writes "The [1]NY Times (free registration, yadda yadda) is
carrying an [2]article about 11 digit dialing coming to the city of New
York for all phone calls, including inner city calls. Yes, that means
even to dial across the street you will have to dial 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Eventually as the phone number system fills up because of more people
having cellphones/pager/fax and a home/office phone line we may see
this happening in more cities across the nation or the [3]NANPA may
have to intervene by making phone numbers longer in general."
Links
0.
http://www.traicovn.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/nyregion/21DIAL.html
3.
http://www.nanpa.com/
Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/0332230
[0]malpern writes "I've written [1]a review of upcoming virtual
keyboards based on published reports. There are pictures, descriptions,
and details for each of the four major manufactures (Virtual Devices,
Developer VKB, Canesta, and Senseboard Technologies)."
Links
0. mailto:malpern@p r i n c eton.edu
Slackware Forums Alive Again!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/0324239
HappySlacker writes "Looks like the forums from [0]slackware.com that
Patrick Volkerding (Slackware's daddy) had to take down because of
massive trolling are [1]fully active again after 2 years of hibernation
as read-only at [2]userlocal.com."
Links
0.
http://www.slackware.com/
1.
http://www.userlocal.com/phorum/
2.
http://www.userlocal.com/
South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/2018243
fungai writes "The Business Day [0]reports that the South African government has decided to adopt open source software and develop support programs with local research institutes and universities. The CIO of the State IT Agency says: 'The logic for open-source is so compelling that after a year of debates we decided to stop talking and declare government an open-source zone.'" Links
0. http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1266306-6099-0,00.html
Bad News From Canada On NetTV And Media Levies http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/0059216
twilight30 writes "[0]Canadian regulators ruled Friday that it is
illegal to put broadcast TV signals onto the Internet without
permission, dashing the hopes of entrepreneurs hoping to create new Net
TV businesses. An alternate link to the original at CNet is [1]here."
And [2]Dr Caleb writes "In response to this [3] Slashdot story I
emailed my Member of Parlament. He responded to me today to say that
"Despite strong opposition by the Canadian Alliance to these and other
aspects of the bill, the Minister of Canadian Heritage won the day and
Bill C-32 Copyright Legislation is now law." And further to say "The
law assumes guilt that everyone who buys a blank tape or CD is pirating
music - but anyone who uses CDs for data storage, for instance, knows
that's not true!" Distressing that the bill has passed, but refreshing
that my MP 'gets it'!"
Links
0.
http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20030120/gtcan/Front/homeBN/breakingnews
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981254.html?tag=fd_top
2. mailto:thedarkknight@hu[ ]ail.com ['shm' in gap]
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0015247&tid=141Slashback: Bankruptcy, SUVdiving, Singalongs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2330242
Slashback updates tonight on sky-diving cars, Microsoft's new code Glasnost (guess who's signed up to see the code?), the fate of the PCI-SIG list, the SCO and Linux licensing brouhaha, music royalties in Finland, and more. Read on for the details.
Segway Banned In San Francisco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/2314205
[0]bhsurfer writes "The city of San Francisco has [1]banned the Segway
[CNN.com] from it's sidewalks before they've even arrived. Apparently
Santa Cruz, Oakland and San Mateo are considering a ban as well. What a
bunch of spoilsports...or are they? Any thoughts on this?" According to
the article, hiring high-powered lobbyists may have backfired. but the
city claims safety concerns are behind the decision.
Links
0. http://<ten.retrahc> <ta> <livets>
Publication Bans In A Borderless World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/2147238
slantyyz writes "Wired has a story on a [0]publication ban imposed by a
Canadian court on the Canadian media in a well-publicized serial murder
case. Now this ban doesn't apply to foreign media per se, but given the
borderless nature of the Internet, it leads one to wonder about the
efficacy of such a ban. Canadians clearly have access to the American
media channels online. The last major publication ban occurred in the
early nineties with another Canadian serial murder case involving
[1]Paul Bernardo. It was effective to the point that the Internet was
still a young medium, but even then, there were a few newsgroups
created that were dedicated to spreading rumours about the ongoing
trial."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57272,00.html
Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1950246
An anonymous reader points to this [0]Wall Street Journal article,
writing "According to the U.S. Court of International Trade, the X-Men
(along with other figures from the Marvel universe) aren't human. The
presiding judge subjected the figures to "comprehensive examinations"
which included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure."
Ironically, the X-Men, whose struggle for human acceptance has been a
key theme in the series, were more easily classified as non-human than
Kraven and Mole Man.
Links
Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/2318203
[0]Dukebytes asks: "I am looking for the new RAH/Piers Anthony/Roger
Zelazny/Weis & Hickman etc..., of the world. I have read just about
everything I could find on King Aurthur, all of the Dragon Lance stuff,
and all or most of the 'old school' hardcore. I don't know, I have
maybe 4000 books at home, most of them Scifi/SF. I am looking for some
new stuff. I haven't bought any kind of book other than techie for more
than 2 years. I just keep reading the ones that I have over and over
and over. What are you guys reading? If it is a series, please list ALL
of the books in it!"
Links
0. http://[dukebytes] [at] [yahoo.com]
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110105/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Alceri Multimedia Player 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110070/
Alceri Multimedia Player is a simple multimedia player which uses GTK+ 2. It currently supports audio CDs, MP3, wave, and mod files. Its goals include support for MPEG, AVI, and Ogg files.
Anti-Web httpd 2.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110171/
Anti-Web httpd is a single-process Web server that relies on its inherent simplicity to be robust and secure. It has its own type of primitive HTML preprocessor built in, which is useful for counters, QOTDs, etc.
Aqua Fusion 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110158/
Aqua Fusion is an extensive and elaborate icon theme designed for KDE. It contains icons in the "Aqua" style for devices, filesystems, mimetypes, actions, and applications in all standard sizes from 16x16 up to 64x64.
Arabeske 1.1.13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110177/
Arabeske is a repetitive and symmetric patterns design tool written in Java. It produces images looking like complex weaved straight line patterns which can commonly be found on Islamic art. It is suitable for tileable background images, and is particularly aimed at combined use with POV-Ray.
Astaro Security Linux 3.216 (Stable 3.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110130/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
cdrtools 2.01a01 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110128/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
centericq 4.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110122/
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features.
cgipaf 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110170/
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed to use cgipaf.
Clio Sport V6 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110132/
Clio Sport V6 is a black and silver theme featuring a picture of the Clio Sport V6.
CVSToys 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110095/
CVSToys is a collection of companion tools for the Concurrent Versions System, better known as CVS. It currently contains FreshCVS, which performs actions in response to a commit. Actions include notification by various methods, updating a working copy, and rsync'ing to backup. Another key feature of FreshCVS notifications is that you receive one per commit, not one for each directory of the commit as loginfo-triggered scripts are prone to do. FreshCVS is extensible with Python, and notifications may be published by a Perspective Broker network service, allowing 3rd party clients to listen in.
eboard 0.7.1pl1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110164/
eboard is a chess board interface for ICS (Internet Chess Servers, like FICS) and chess engines (like Crafty) based on the GTK+ toolkit. It provides a friendly user interface with input history, locked scroll back, and multiple board windows.
Effusia Business Messenger 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110150/
Effusia Business Messenger is a cross-platform (Linux and Windows), centrally managed, internal instant messaging and presence communication tool for small to medium enterprises. The system comprises a client, a server, and an administration tool. Effusia focuses on providing real-time business communication combined with simple deployment, easy administration, and a friendly end-user experience.
Ejen 1.1-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110086/
The Ejen program is a code and text generation system. It makes use of Java/XML/XSLT technologies and is implemented as an Ant task. It provides a complete generation, compilation, and deployment sequence, using XML "build" files and XSL filters and templates.
evilbar 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110118/
evilbar is small ncurses-based bar which is designed to match the style of evilwm. evilbar sports a right-aligned clock and XMMS control.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110137/
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
Firestorm NIDS 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110120/
Firestorm is an extremely high performance network intrusion detection system (NIDS). At the moment, it just a sensor but there are plans are to include real support for analysis, reporting, remote console, and on-the-fly sensor configuration. It is fully pluggable and hence extremely flexible.
FluxConf 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110114/
FluxConf is a set of 3 programs for configuring fluxbox. It's simple but you can configure almost everything.
Foxtrot 2.0 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110134/
Foxtrot is a small and powerful API for using threads with the Java(TM) Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing). It is based on a new concept, the Synchronous Model, which greatly increases ease of use.
FSlint 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110107/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory blocks.
FTimes 3.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110174/
FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool. Its primary purpose is to gather and/or develop information about specified directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion analysis. It was designed to support the following initiatives: content integrity monitoring, incident response, intrusion analysis, and computer forensics.
Full Decent Camera Life 2.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110169/
FDCL is a self-maintaining photo gallery system. It catalogs photo descriptions which may be edited online with authentication. Photo galleries can be viewed in directory structure or queried by description and sorted into albums. FDCL also supports hiding photos from the public without writing to the photos directory, and other administrative options.
funct 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110111/
The program funct is devoted to the (numerical) study of real or complex functions f(x) of one real variable x. It can produce graphics on X11 windows, Postscript files, or PNG files. funct uses the command interpreter library interpcom.
GenDoc 1.0 beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110152/
GenDoc (formerly GenDiapo) is an XML Editor based on a existing project, MerlotXML. It can use two kinds of plugins (DTD and/or action). The DTD plugin can be used to customize the editor for a DTD, and an action plugin can be used to publish documents in HTML or PDF format. The editor is composed of 3 views: tree view, attribute view for current element, and a "styled view". The aim of styled view is to show the document with a visual aspect.
gmmusic 1.1.91 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110121/
gmmusic is a GNOME database frontend to handle your entire music collection, consisting of songs on CDs,CD- ROMs, MP3s (development tree only), LPs, Singles, Minidiscs, audio, and video tapes. For handling CDs, freedb is fully supported. Besides managing data, it can also print inventory lists and nice trays for CDs and CD-ROMs.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110097/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110144/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.
Grace 5.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110165/
Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for X Windows System and Motif (recent versions of Lesstif should be fine too). Grace is a descendant of ACE/gr, also known as Xmgr.
gtkgrepmail 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110115/
gtkgrepmail is a GTK frontend to grepmail, which provides you with a GUI interface to search through your sent and saved mail. Support is provided for both local mailboxes and remote mailboxes that are accessible using IMAP and SSH/RSH.
HelpViewer.app 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110103/
HelpViewer is an online help viewer for GNUstep applications. It uses XML files, and its goal is to be fast and easy to use.
Hydra 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110143/
Hydra is a high performance multi-threaded HTTP server. Unlike traditional multi-threaded Web servers, it uses a constant, configurable pool of threads, and each thread can handle several connections by multiplexing the connections. This is even better than non-blocking servers, since Hydra will use every available CPU in a multi-CPU system. It also has features such as host-based virtual hosting, HTTP 1.1 features, CGI 1.1, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and more.
interpcom 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110109/
interpcom is a command interpreter library in C that can be used to build scientific applications. It is very easy to add new commands. The library contains an expression evaluator that can be used to parse the arguments of the commands. It is possible to define "objects" which are arrays of numbers having a name, and structures. It is possible to use threads (several programs running simultaneously).
ioperm for Cygwin 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110135/
ioperm for Cygwin adds support for the ioperm() function to Cygwin. This support includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not included in Cygwin by default) with development and runtime libraries.
JDebugTool 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110146/
JDebugTool is a standalone Java debugger built on top of the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). It features a graphical and intuitive Java Swing GUI, and integrated Java Help.
Jecomputerisjelot.nl automated login script 1.4.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110102/
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.
JGraph 2.0 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110099/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
Jive Forums 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110155/
Jive Forums is flexible and extensible forum/BBS/community software that uses 100% Java technology. It features full threading, a powerful plugin architecture, user-defined WebSkins, keyword searching, and awesome speed. It also works with a large number of databases on a wide variety of platforms.
JOELib 2003-01-20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110149/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
K-Track 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110172/
KTrack is an Linux satellite program that runs under KDE 3. It is especially well-suited for ham radio operators who are working through linear transponders. It provides automatic doppler compensation, a nice map display, a satellite transponder database, and more.
KISGB 5.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110091/
KISGB is an advanced PHP guestbook program that does not require sessions, cookies, or an rdbms. It can be public or private through HTTP authentication. Features include message editing by users, a theme builder, private messaging, flexible logging capability, a Web-based password protected admin section, email notification, IP logging, IP banning, a bad word filter, smileys, automatic link recognition, flood control and multi-language support.
Knights 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110175/
Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. Written for the K Desktop Environment, it's designed to be both friendly to new chess players and functional for Grand Masters. Knights supports play against yourself, against computer opponents, or against others over the Internet. It also supports custom, themable graphics and audio.
LinPHA 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110125/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
Linux K8000 House Alarm 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110112/
Linux K8000 House Alarm is a complete house alarm driven by the Linux operating system and Velleman's K8000 board. The system can send alerts through email, SMS, or voice messages. It can also drive devices like an outside alert lamp or a siren.
Loggerithim 6.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110160/
Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routine administration tasks.
Lotos+ 0.0.1.a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110101/
Lotos+ is a telnet-based chat server written in C++ for communicating with users in real time. It supports plugin modules, ANSI colors, rank accessing to more commands, authentication (finger, auth, ident), and much more.
Manauton 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110093/
Manauton is a manual and autonomous sound recorder. In autonomous mode it can start and stop recording based on sound characteristics. When in manual mode, recording can be paused and un-paused manually. Using a series of buffers, the effect of negative latency can be accomplished, this effect cancels out the effect of the human latency associated with hearing a sound and interpreting it.
moodss 16.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110100/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers, summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network, and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl, Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included. It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for later analysis or for presentation using common software.
MPlayer 0.90-rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110147/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
msnlib D4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110161/
msnlib is an MSN Messenger protocol library and text mode client written in Python.
MT2 Thumbnailer 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110167/
MT2 Thumbnailer (Make Thumbnails 2) is another program for generating HTML photo albums from pictures. It gives users a great deal of control over the comments shown alongside each picture, and the way the pictures are ordered and grouped. Having descriptions, reflections, quips, and quotes in a picture album makes it much more memorable and fun to write.
MTasker 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110116/
MTasker is a two-file C++ library designed to support very simple cooperative multitasking to facilitate writing code that would ordinarily require a state machine, for which the author does not consider himself smart enough.
obliquid 0.4.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110096/
Obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web portals. It is like Lego bricks for the Web. Each brick (called a slot) is a software component that may be composed with others to build an Internet application. It has a core allowing users to build pages using templates blocks, with full multilingual support and themes. It also has a users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting availabilities, calls, meetings, and accountancy entries.
openbechede 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110157/
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.
openMosixApplet 0.0.10-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110098/
The openMosixApplet allows users to see the real-time status of an openMosix cluster. It consists of a daemon which the applet connects to in order to grab the necessary info, and uses the Chart2D library.
PHPSambaExplorer 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110090/
PHPSambaExplorer is an easy to use file explorer for browsing SMB shares on your LAN from anywhere on the Web. It has added security and upload/download logging.
Pizza Business 1.0-beta6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110126/
Pizza Business is a platform-independent restaurant simulation game written in object-oriented C++. It utilizes the WxWindows library.
Poslib DNS library 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110148/
Poslib is a library which provides easy access to the Domain Name System. The client part can be used to create DNS client applications, while the server part lets you easily create a multi-threaded DNS server program, portable to many operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.
Pound 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110142/
Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests.
psycopg 1.0.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110119/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
PythonCard 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110106/
PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, using the Python language. It lets you develop graphical applications quickly and easily with a minimum of effort and coding.
Qastrocam 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110145/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
qconfirm 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110123/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
Quanta Plus 3.1-kde3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110117/
Quanta is a web editor for KDE supporting HTML and more. It has dynamic preview, project management, context tag editing and context tag reference docs, auto-completion, DTD management, templates, loadable toolbars, document structure tree, and much more.
rpmrebuild 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110104/
rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed. It can be used to easily build modified packages, and works on any Linux distribution that uses RPM.
RxLinux 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110136/
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time.
sematree 0.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110108/
sematree is a long lived lock manipulation utility, which is useful when you need locks that are maintained even after a process exits.
Siege 2.57b6 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110138/
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.
SMELT 0.2.12a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110173/
SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email.
sql++ 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110151/
sql++ is an easily configurable, feature-rich, portable command-line SQL tool. It can be used with many different databases and in place of other command-line tools such as MySQL's mysql-client and Oracle's sqlplus. It has features such as multiple connections, multi-database interfacing, subselects for all databases, regardless of whether the database has native subselects or not, and much more.
synergy2 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110092/
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Just move the mouse off the edge of a screen to move to another screen; keyboard and mouse input is then redirected to the other screen. Synergy also lets you cut and paste between systems and it makes screen savers activate/deactivate in concert.
Tapestry 2.3-rc-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110140/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application.
The Tamber Project 1.2.pre2 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110139/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, and advanced session management.
TurboPrint 1.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110127/
TurboPrint is a high-quality printer driver system for Linux built on existing standards (e.g. ghostscript). It is designed to produce maximum quality photo printouts as well as high-speed text documents. It provides printer drivers for almost every inkjet printer, e.g. Canon BJC / S, Epson Stylus Color & Photo, HP DeskJet. All printer features are supported. TurboPrint comes with its own color matching system "TrueMatch". High quality color profiles ensure optimum color reproduction on all print media (glossy paper, inkjet paper, ...). A comfortable GUI configuration menu and a printer toolbox (head cleaning, alignment, ink quantity) are included. TurboPrint can be easily integrated into the CUPS printing system. The FreeEdition of TurboPrint can be obtained free of charge. It contains almost the full functionality.
Umbrello UML Modeller 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110168/
Umbrello UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language diagram tool for KDE. It is able to produce Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, and State diagrams. It uses an XMI-based file format.
X File Explorer 0.42 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110110/
X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes, automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract compressed archives, and much more.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 25a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110153/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
ywcmail 0.95 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110113/
ywcmail (aka YingWaMail) is a simple, fast, and secure Web mail client for POP3.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110159/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
Newsforge Reports
Intensive BSD sysadmin training is available, but no certs
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1628253
- by Tina Gasperson - If you're interested in learning more about the "other" Free Operating System, BSD, you can get training at a relatively low cost. You just might have to travel thousands of miles to get to it.
Run your power generating plant on Linux - securely http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1432234
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The "blue collar" side of computing is often overlooked by IT journalists, but it is huge. Industrial operations of all types, including refineries, power plants, railroads and other transporters, and all kinds of manufacturers, are almost entirely computer-controlled now. These are all "mission-critical environments." Many of them have extraordinary security requirements. And one of the most respected software ...
Commentary: A Double Whammy by Big Media http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/030222
- By Jeff Elkins - This is a bleak day for ordinary citizens. Big Media has landed two separate blows that in the end may prove just as deadly to American freedom as the Bush administration's assault on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux moving to the front
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/1025217
At a time of cost-cutting within the tech sector, resulting from the industry's meltdown, Linux is poised to move to the front of the shop. Linux isn't alone. Numerous companies are taking a leap of faith onto the open-source bandwagon. Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Intel last week opened a global solution centre in Shanghai focusing on Linux' application development, in anticipation of the growing popularity of the free software in the Asia-Pacific ...
Local Linux version outshines big boys
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/1023210
A New Zealand version of the Linux operating system aimed at supplanting Windows on desktop PCs is outpacing major versions such as Red Hat Linux and Mandrake on a download rating site.
Linux System Management Comes to Fore
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/1021232
As Linux continues to power its way into the enterprise, managing Linux-based systems is becoming a top priority for corporate customers. To help in that effort, Red Hat Inc., Ximian Inc. and IBM are each planning to make system management announcements at this week's LinuxWorld conference in New York.
“Pre-Modded” Linux systems
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/1018248
Qli Technologies writes "Qli Linux Computers is proud to announce our newest product, dubbed “Pre-Modded” Linux Computers.
Stallman, Marti at NYLXS fundraising dinner