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[osdn everything] January 24, 2003
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 03:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Robin Gross and IP Justice
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0238232
ethereal writes "According to [0]this news.com article, former EFF attorney Robin Gross is starting up a new group called IP Justice in order to 'promote balance in global intellectual property law.' Her greatest fear? 'That we're too late.'" Links
0. http://news.com.com/2008-1082-981663.html
Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0231208
[0]rhwalker22 writes "Last November, the Streamlined Sales Tax Project
drafted a plan to make it easier for states to cooperate in collecting
sales taxes on products sold over the Internet. That plan is now headed
to governors and state legislatures for debate. While that debate
begins, the sales tax group is moving into new territory, debating how
to apply sales taxes to digital services, like music and software
downloads, and IP telephony. Most states participating in the sales tax
project have sent representatives to Tampa, Fla., this week to take up
this subject, according to [1]a report by washingtonpost.com."
Links
Tech Firms Fight Copy Protection Laws
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/026239
[0]buulu writes "CNET is [1]running an article about [2]Alliance For
Digital Progress going on the offensive against Hollywood over digital
copy protection. The alliance consists of some of the big names: Apple,
Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information Technology
Association of America, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, etc."
Links
0.
http://worldpress.org
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981882.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
2.
http://alliancefordigitalprogress.org/ADP/content/?p=CoalitionMembersMore Anime College and University Courses Being Offered http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0131214
[0]Ninja Master Gara writes "[1]Anime News Network reports [2]New York
University is offering a new courses on the anime [3]industry and
[4]culture. Anime is slowly expanding from University Clubs into
[5]mainstream college courses, many of which begin at the 'What is
anime?' level. Several [6]Universities and [7]Community Colleges
already offer [8]similar courses, or [9]incorporate anime into existing
studies." If any school decides to offer a course on the Gundam series,
I'd be happy to teach a class.
Links
0.
http://anime.oddball.net
1.
http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3076
2.
http://www.nyu.edu/
3.
http://www.nyu.edu/summer/courses/scps-digital.nyu#2
4.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/east.asian.studies/civ_descript.html#31
5.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/anime.html
6.
http://web.pdx.edu/~levia/hstxxxtop.html
7.
http://bannerweb.pima.edu/pls/pccp/az_tw_zipsched.p_course_popup?vsub=JPN&vcrse=198T3&vterm=200320&vcrn=
8.
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/bccweb/news/anime.stm
9.
http://utd500.utdallas.edu/~hairston/ah3300.htmlHow Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/018213
An anonymous reader writes "How much does the average new album cost to produce? I have seen this cost estimated between $500,000 and $1,000,000, but some quick figuring does not support a cost this high. According to various sources (Ok, Slashdot stories…), somewhere around 27,000 albums are produced each year and 906.6 million albums are shipped. I would guess that the album retail (about $15 per album) is based on a 100% markup, so that these 906.6 million albums are sold at wholesale for about $7.50 apiece, which means that the revenue from wholesale sales is about $6.8 billion. This means that the actual production cost has to be less than $250,000 per album, otherwise the record industry is losing money. I have left out the cost of actually printing and copying the albums as I think that the average cost is probably less than $0.25 per copy."
Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/238216
NerveGas writes "Sony is apparantly going to [0]stop producing 17- and
19-inch CRTs, in favor of LCDs. It seems a bit soon to drop CRTs
completely, seeing as how LCDs still have less than 30% of the market
share. Maybe since their patent on Trinitron screens expired, they're
not able to command ridiculous margins any more." Smaller CRTs? I've
got a couple 19" Sony monitors here, and I've always considered them to
be a good size.
Links
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,841366,00.asp
Slashback: Tableturkey, Stromlo, Mandrake http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2325201
Slashback tonight with followups on previous stories about tablet computers, the fire at Mt.Stromlo, and Mandrake Linux -- read below for the details. Update: 01/24 00:08 GMT by [0]T: One more update added below, regarding the post earlier this week on nVidia's new video card. Links
0. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
DTD vs. XML Schema
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/228230
[0]AShocka writes "The W3C XML Schema Working Group has released the
first public Working Draft of [1]Requirements for XML Schema 1.1.
Schemas are technology for specifying and constraining the structure of
XML documents. The draft adds functionality and clarifies the XML
Schema Recommendation [2]Part 1 and [3]Part 2. The [4]XML Schema Valid
FAQ highlights development issues and resources using XML Schema. This
article at webmasterbase.com addresses the [5]XML DTDs Vs XML Schema
issue. Also see the [6]W3C Conversion Tool from DTD to XML Schema and
other [7]XML Schema/DTD Editors."
Links
0. mailto:ashocka@spamcop.net
1.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlschema-11-req-20030121/
2.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/
3.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
4.
http://www.schemavalid.com/faq/xml-schema.html
5.
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/931
6.
http://www.w3.org/2000/04/schema_hack/
7.
http://www.xml.com/pub/pt/2
EvDO High-Speed Wireless vs. 802.11
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2122216
willll writes "The Washington Post is running [0]a story about EvDO (Evolution Data Only), a high-speed wireless technology. It can work anywhere that a mobile phone can work, one of its main advantages over WiFi. Companies such as Verizon and Lucent are looking into the technology." From the article, I'm not sure that EvDO can be directly compared to WiFi connections (and the article does not mention current long-range 802.11 ISPs), but it's still interesting. Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30446-2003Jan22.html
Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2011255
An Anonymous reader points to this [0]Wired article, excerpting "Sprint
officials acknowledged that remote access to the administrative
software embedded in the ZyXel Prestige 642 and 645 modems is by
default protected with a password of '1234.' But the company said users
are responsible for securing the equipment, which stores login data,
including the user's e-mail address and password." Wired found that
more than 90% of the modems they polled were using that default
password.
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57342,00.html
Freshmeat
aifc2wav 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110410/
aifc2wav will save an AIFC IMA4 sound file as a WAV file.
Anagramarama 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110467/
Anagramarama is a word guessing game for Linux and Windows. The aim is to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the longest word and you'll advance to the next level. It uses SDL.
Astaro Security Linux 2.032 (Sun Cobalt) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110463/
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.
BASHISH DR7.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110483/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
Bazooka Board 2.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110435/
Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system with no big frills or fancy profiles. Its strong point is that it does not require any database whatsoever. Bazooka Board uses a flat text file to record all of its data. It allows a single Administrative login so that you can edit/delete posts on the board freely. Setting up Bazooka Board is very simple.
bemDB 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110440/
bemDB is a PostgreSQL database designed to store benefit and enrollment information for members of group health insurance plans. Its main feature is the ability to output HIPAA-compliant 834 Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance EDI transaction sets with all required segments and situational segments for which there is data.
Bugloo 0.1d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110482/
Bugloo is a commandline-based debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo. It aims to help programmers in debugging programs written for the JVM backend of Bigloo. It is written mostly in Java and uses JVMDI and JVMPI, the standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers. It can debug Scheme programs written for Bigloo, Java programs, or a mix of both by instrumenting their execution. It is based on the debugging model used in GDB and provides features that allow users to debug programs in a more practical manner than conventional debuggers. Users can control it by typing Scheme-like expressions into a prompt. For the sake of simplicity, it includes a debugging environment for GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Buildtool 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110469/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
clxmms 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110479/
clxmms is a client of xmms, working in command- line or batch mode. It lets users play/stop/skip songs, and generally manage a playlist.
CrossOver Plugin 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110480/
CrossOver Plugin lets you use Windows plugins directly in your Linux browser. With CrossOver you can watch QuickTime movies, play Shockwave Director games, and even view Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents using the Microsoft viewers.
Extended Modelling of Group Access 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110398/
This software makes it easier to define complex group membership structures. It also make it easier to let one group have read access and one other group to have write access to some specific data.
FreeCol 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110472/
FreeCol is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the New World.
FUDforum 2.3.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110475/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
GRAN PM 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110473/
GRAN PM is one of the most powerful and scalable multi-platform defect tracking systems based on Java. GRAN PM includes a Web-based workflow manager and bug filter (AND, OR, NOT). It supports custom fields, multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database into projects and subprojects. It also supports server clustering and load balancing.
graphopt 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110447/
graphopt is a graph layout optimizer based on the iterative application of laws of physics instead of heuristics.
IPplan 2.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110450/
IPplan is a Web-based, multilingual IP address management and tracking tool based on PHP which simplifies the administration of your IP address space. It can handle a single network or multiple networks with overlapping address spaces. It features internationalization, importing of network definitions from routing tables, importing of definitions from TAB-delimited files and NMAP's XML format, support for multiple administrators with different access profiles (per group, per customer, per network etc.), definitions of address space authority boundaries per group, finding free address space across a range, display of overlapping address spaces between networks, search capabilities, an audit log, statistics, and tracking and sending SWIP/registrar information.
JedABC 1.10.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110452/
JedABC is an extension to the JED editor that turns it into a powerful and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files, with full integration with players, and previewers. It is similar in concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages. It works on Windows and Linux, and possibly other Unix variants.
KronoClass 0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110417/
KronoClass is a PHP class which performs various operations on dates and times. It is based on internal arrays instead of the LC_TIME setting of PHP. Its language support includes Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Indonesian.
LadyDragon 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110408/
LadyDragon is a theme featuring a picture of a dragon moving from 2D to 3D on the back of a quasi-nude Asian CG character.
MEDICI 0.0.96 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110441/
MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. ISO 9735 (EDIFACT) and TRADACOMS syntaxes are supported. MEDICI is a parser for EDI streams and provides functions to query system and message directories.
multicd 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110466/
multicd provides an easy way to backup a large number of files to multiple CDs. Give multicd the files/directories you want backed up and it will create as many CDs as it needs to, prompting the user to put in a new disc whenever needed. It can be configured to run in a multi-threading mode, where it will burn one image to a disc while it is copying files to another image. This feature can be disabled for slower machines.
NetBeans Java IDE 3.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110459/
NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in Java. It supports development in Java, and support for other languages can be added. The whole IDE is built around a core framework with APIs, and features are implemented in the form of plugin modules. This clean, modular architecture makes NetBeans a good platform for building development tools and custom IDEs.
Nikola Tesla Tribute 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110285/
Nikola Tesla Tribute is a theme based on the Snail Window Maker theme.
OpenEXR 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110456/
OpenEXR is a high dynamic range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. It includes support for 16-bit floating-point pixels (compatible with NVIDIA's Cg shader language "half" datatype), several lossless compression algorithms, and extensible image metadata attributes.
patchutils 0.2.19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110484/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree, and combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
Personal File Manager 1.87.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110476/
pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands are one- or two-key commands. It features colored filenames according to extension or type, a single-file and multiple-file mode, support for executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine library for friendly commandline editing.
PHP Dump Maker 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110461/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110465/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users, change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas, mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part) and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
PicoGUI 0.44 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110442/
PicoGUI aims to be a complete GUI environment for handheld computers and other embedded systems. It uses a client/server model, like the X window system, but while an X server is given raw drawing commands, the PicoGUI server integrates a widget set, making PicoGUI clients small and efficient. PicoGUI also has the goal of allowing client/server connections over a variety of mechanisms. It is most commonly used with Linux, but is designed to be portable to any OS. PicoGUI has a variety of video and input drivers which allow it to interface with the Linux framebuffer device, SDL, the X window system, and several other devices.
poBot 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110453/
poBot is an IRC Bot. It is written in object oriented design and is modular. All of the real features of poBot are provided by the modules.
PPR 1.50b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110496/
PPR is a Unix print spooler expressly designed for operating PostScript printers. Its features are numerous, and it supports printers connected to parallel or serial ports, or over the network through AppleTalk, LanManager, LPD, and TCP/IP protocols. It accepts jobs from Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix clients. If the input file is not PostScript, it can pipe the input through a filter. PPR has been designed to manage large numbers of printers with minimal operator attention. It has command line and Web interfaces.
Quality Assurance Tester 2.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110492/
QAT is a pure Java distributed test harness designed to distribute and run tests simultaneously over multiple target platforms. It is comprised of a GUI harness, which controls and sends tests to agents running remotely, and retrieves the results. It can be accessed via a browser interface if remote access to the harness is required.
radmind 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110415/
radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and a server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines. At its core, radmind operates as a tripwire. It is able to detect changes to any managed filesystem object, e.g. files, directories, links, etc. However, radmind goes further than just integrity checking: once a change is detected, radmind can optionally reverse the change. Each managed machine may have its own loadset composed of multiple, layered overloads. This allows, for example, the operating system to be described separately from applications. Loadsets are stored on a remote server. By updating a loadset on the server, changes can be pushed to managed machines.
S tar 1.5a10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110464/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Simkin for C++ 2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110481/
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++ applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such as XML or in databases.
SimpleAIM 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110457/
SimpleAIM is a miniature console-based AIM client written in pure Java. It implements the TOC protocol and provides a solid framework for understanding and writing your own IM clients or bots.
Space Hulk 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110455/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called 'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network, either in real time or asynchronously via email.
SupportTicket System 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110446/
The SupportTicket system provides a Web-based support ticket system designed to provide a helpdesk system for ISPs, though it is ready to go for other organizations. It is scalable from one email address (i.e. help@isp.net) to as many as you have to track. Any email sent to one of the tracked addresses is tagged and forwarded on to your admins or customer service representatives and an automatic reply may be sent if desired. All emails are stored in a MySQL database for lookup and comment.
Sybase module for Python 0.36pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110458/
The Sybase module for Python provides an interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API.
Tag Soup 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110414/
TagSoup is a SAX2 parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML. It is a parser, not a whole application; it isn't intended to permanently clean up bad HTML, as HTML Tidy does, only to parse it on the fly.
The Backup Shell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110428/
bksh is a simple program designed to be used as a shell by SSH. All it does it to copy its input to a given backup file. Its goal is to allow administrators to create backup-only accounts.
TinyDYN 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110437/
TinyDYN is a package of client and server software for operating dynamic DNS services. It enables anyone to run dynamic DNS services using strong authentication or to be a client of someone using TinyDYN as a dynamic IP management system. The clients can communicate directly by UDP with the server, by email, or by any other transport the admin can imagine, as the mechanism is quite straightforward.
TkSQL 0.8.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110454/
TkSQL allows you to edit the tables of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases. You can use it from the shell prompt, specifying the name of a table, or an SQL satement, or just the name of a database. It has filter capabilities which are very easy to use. Two views are possible (tables and form) and both views can coexist. TkSQL can edit a join of two tables (limited to the first of such tables). Totals and subtotals can be done quickly, and displayed inline with the data or in a separate window. Queries can be created in no time and all working conditions can be saved at once (comprising subtotals, relative time constraints, layout, etc.). It also provides basic tools for creating tables.
TriActive Java Data Objects 2.0 Beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110486/
TriActive Java Data Objects (TJDO) is an implementation of Sun's Java Data Objects (JDO) specification (JSR-12). It aims to provide a viable, spec-compliant JDO offering to complement other open source Java tools.
Turck MMCache 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110451/
Turck MMCache is a opcode cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1 and 4.2, and Apache 1.3 under Linux and Windows.
vshnu 1.0107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110495/
Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling. Written in Perl for portability and high configurability, it also provides the advantages of a Perl interpreter as part of your Unix shell environment.
Whiteboard Courseware System 1.0.1 (Whiteboard) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110444/
Whiteboard is a fully-featured integrated courseware system targeted toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple departments and courses including cross- listed courses, simple migration of courses to new semesters, grade storage, checking, and calculation, assignment submission, testing, and retrieval, documents, announcements, and discussion boards. It is written using PHP and MySQL, and is administrable through its Web interface.
X Resource Graph 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110397/
X Resource Graph (XRG) is a system monitor that shows graphs for CPU usage, memory usage, network usage, disk usage, and current weather. It is designed to use as little overhead possible while showing a lot of information about the resource usage in a nice interface.
XML Catalog Manager 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110471/
xmlcatmgr is a command line script used to manipulate SGML and XML catalogs. It is lightweight and simple, and was designed to be integrated within system package managers. Basically, it can add and remove entries from catalogs.
XmlConfig 2.0.0-b3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110485/
XmlConfig is a library for instantiating and configuring Java objects from an XML configuration file.
XmlRpc++ 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110436/
XmlRpc++ is an implementation of the XML-RPC protocol written in C++. It is designed to make it easy to incorporate XmlRpc client and server support into C++ applications. The library is easy to incorporate into C++ applications. Simple XML parsing and HTTP support are built in. All I/O is non-blocking, so a slow client or network will not slow down the server.
XPlanner 0.3.6 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110438/
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110474/
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.
Zorp 2.0rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110462/
Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the administrator to finetune proxy decisions (with its built-in script language), and fully analyze complex protocols (including SSH with several forwarded TCP connections, or SSL with an embedded POP3 protocol). FTP, HTTP, finger, whois, and SSL protocols are fully supported with an application-level gateway. Zorp aims for compliance with the Common Cirteria/Application-level Firewall Protection Profile for Medium Robustness Enviroment.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - January 24th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1030256
- 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 cups, canna, cvs, dhcp, libpng, kde, fnord, vim, printer-drivers, python, and susehelp. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red ...
LinuxWorld Day 2: Dancing with the dot-orgs, laptops on parade, Knoppix for kids http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2212240
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down on a Dance Dance Revolution device hooked to a Linux computer in the icculus.org booth in the dot-org pavilion in the back of the show hall. The dot-org pavilion was packed. And so was the whole show today, it seemed. Updated 10:55 p.m. - HP and SuSE show off Linux on laptops (and give me free booze); Knoppix for kids; ...
Voila! Workspot Linux is instant and portable "magic" http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1733244
- by Tina Gasperson - Workspot is an online Linux desktop. You go there in any browser (java-enabled is better), login, and start up Red Hat Linux within that browser. It is so cool, I really want it to be something that people go for. I want it to succeed.
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux Journal Press Releases “Linux in the Workplace"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1034207
John Mark writes "Linux Journal Press Releases "Linux in the Workplace" Under GNU FDL."
SuSE Linux Office Desktop Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1033203
pwhite writes "One of the main quests of SuSE Linux is to try to make it as easy to use for the end user and especially the inexperienced Linux user. The idea behind SuSE Office Desktop is to provide a simple, easy and cost effective Windows alternative for businesses."
New coalition to fight MIAA backed legislation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1032247
GatesPrettyF****d writes "Several tech companies including Apple Computer, Microsoft, Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Intel have joined together to oppose legislation backed by the movie industry that would compel manufacturers to implement government antipiracy standards on PCs and consumer-electronics devices."
Book Review: Apache Administrator's Handbook http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1847212
Mirko Zorz writes "Written by Apache experts, "Apache Administrator's Handbook" is a valuable book for Apache administrators and for people that want to go in-depth with knowledge about this powerful web server."
SCO says IP stance to enhance, not hinder Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1846232
Anonymous Reader writes "A new initiative to charge for use of SCO UNIX libraries under Linux aims to make Linux more convenient for SCO UNIX users, not to exploit a potential cash cow, according to the company."
Dell Wants Sun To Set On Costs, Moves to Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1846213
Anonymous Reader writes " Article on Dell moving from Sun backend to all Dell/Linux. They hope to be a model for their customers to follow."
KDE is no-show at LinuxWorld
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1845256
Anonymous Reader writes "The Xiph.org Foundation is there. Debian is there. GNOME is there. Even the Japan Linux Association is there. But nowhere in the .Org Pavilion at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City is there even a hint of KDE, a leading desktop project which for the last several years has been a fixture at the yearly event."
LinuxWorld: Baby It's Cold Inside
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1845232
The nippy New York weather isn't the only reason to bring a warm coat to LinuxWorld 2003. It's all business and very little play for the legions of open-source enthusiasts gathered at the Jacob Javitts Convention Center.
Site Protests Telco Patent Claim
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1845208
An online educational products retailer is one of a couple dozen sites to receive a note from SBC Communications' intellectual property unit claiming a patent on its layout and offering a licensing deal. The site's proprietor isn't buying.
LINUXWORLD - Astaro releases new security software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1844229
Astaro AG this week at the LinuxWorld Expo announced its Security Linux V4 package for building Linux-based security devices on standard Intel server hardware.
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Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
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Interests: Perl Gerl
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Sourceforge
pmd-1.02 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246108
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release includes a number of new rules and bugfixes. ...with a slew of new rules (ImportFromSamePackageRule, SwitchDensityRule, NullAssignmentRule, UnusedModifierRule, ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule) and plenty o' bug fixes and new features. See the changelog - http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=135420 - for all the details. Thanks to the many folks who contributed, most of whom are listed here: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/credits.html Thanks, Tom
RCSoccerSim 9.2.2 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245751
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer (football). RoboCup Soccer Simulator is licensed under a combination of the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL. The latest stable release adds goal posts with "real" collision detection and modelling as well the remaining official changes requested for the new RoboCup World Cup. But that's not all, to make your life easier (and mine more difficult), the various rcsoccersim modules are now available as RPMs for i386. If anyone else is willing to provide RPMs for other architectures, let us (sserver-admin at users.sf.net) know and we'll tell you how.
tinyproxy 1.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246109
After a month of being in the "Release Candidate" state, tinyproxy 1.5.2 has been released. There have been a bunch of usability improvements since 1.5.1. Anyone using 1.5.1 or previous is recommended to upgrade. tinyproxy is a GPLed, lightweight HTTP proxy. Designed from the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for sites where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable.
JGraphpad 1.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246127
This release offers many new switches in the properties file, minor bug fixes and the following new features: pluggable layout algorithms with Sugiyama and Spring-embedder default implementations, scaled image cells, edge routing menu, plugin-architecture for adding new commands, and file extensions for open/save dialogs. JGraphpad is the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML and drag-and-drop capabilities.
Seahorse 0.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246142
Seahorse branches have been consolodated (this is the end of having a separate seahorse2 branch). Many code cleanups and packages updates have occured since seahorse2-0.4.4. This also marks the beginning of stable and development releases based on minor versions. 0.7.0 should be released in a week or 2.
SCons 0.10 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244414
SCons alpha release 0.10 is now available for download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.10 contains the following interface changes: - The meaning of the third argument passed to user-defined Scanner functions has changed. It was formerly the target node being built, and is now a list of directories (a path) which may be searched for files found during the scan. - The .sconsign files are no longer ASCII text, they are now a pickled (binary) Python data structure. This release adds the following features: - SCons now prints a description of Python functions being executed as actions to update a target. - Scanners now support a "recursive" attribute that specifies the Scanner will be re-applied to files found during the scan. - A new Clean() method supports removing user-specified files when using the -c option.
- New SetJobs() and GetJobs() method support setting or fetching the default number of jobs. - The MinGW tool chain is now supported. - A new --debug=includes option has been added. The following fixes have been added: - SCons now symlinks or copies files from Repositories on different file systems, when hard links won't work. - The Install() method prints something when the -n option is used. - When the -n option is used, SCons no longer creates duplicate source files in a BuildDir(). - The Program() Builder (and other multiple-step Builders) now work properly when only the source file is specified. - A bug when building a file whose basename matched the directory in which it lived has been fixed. - The -c options will now properly remove symlinks. - The Environment.get() now returns None by default. - Error messages now all start with "scons: ***". - Warning messages now all start with "scons: warning:". Performance has been improved as follows: - Scanners are now called once and only once per file. - Internal checks for whether a file has a Builder have been significantly sped up. - Unnecessary internal imports have been removed. The following changes have been made to the SCons packaging: - The scons-local packages no longer contain Python bytecode (*.pyc) files. The documentation has been improved: - The initial explanation of SConscript files has been improved. - A misformatted table in the StaticObject description has been fixed. - New features have been documented.
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