[osdn everything] February 01, 2003

0. http://home.online.no/~gremmem/engrish_ttt_captions/

Cyclometh writes "Someone has put together a set of [0]screengrabs from an Asian bootleg of LOTR:TTT, which are totally hysterical. The subtitles are apparently the genuine article, which definitely should bring the phrase caveat emptor to mind for anyone who buys bootleg DVDs. For a definition of Engrish, see [1]here (apparently it's a no-smorking zone.)"
Links

http://www.engrish.com/

Hardcore Waste Recycling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/167240

erf writes "Ok, recently we've had a story posted on [0]composting, followed by one on recycling [1]wastewater into snow. Enough with the amateur hour stuff, how about the real thing? Joseph Jenkins has been thermophilically composting all of his family's food waste and sewage into compost for his garden for 24 years. Yes, he eats the food out of that garden too. All you need is a bucket, some sawdust, and a compost bin. You can read all about it in the [2]Humanure Handbook. The squeamish might want to begin with the section on [3]fecophobia." Links

    0. 
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1241250&tid=134
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2352230&tid=126
    2. 
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
    3. 
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/chapter6_2.html

More Ways to Blow Things Up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1739207

pitabutter writes "Since the /. crowd seems to appreciate the exciting combination of amateur chemistry and fearlessness (what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?), [0]Sam Barros' site would be worth a look. Rail guns, high voltage, electromagnetic experiements-all there and with videos to boot. Unable to confirm if Sam still has appendages intact........" Links

0. http://www.powerlabs.org/

Dismal Console Failures
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1532246

0. http://www.shacknews.com/extras/lncex/lncex7.x

Anonymous Howard writes "Shacknews' jason bergman has written an article that looks at some of the [0]biggest failures in console gaming. It's a great read, and spotlights stuff like the Halcyon, a $2500 (!) laserdisc system with only two games and Nintendo's Virtual Boy, a stereoptic system that had red-on-black simulated 3D graphics." Links

Finland Drops EUCD For Now
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/213251

[0]replicant_deckard writes "[1]Electronic Frontier Finland just got a huge legal victory. They report the local DMCA-copy (based on EU copyright directive) was [2]dropped today at the parliament after heavy criticism. So far [3]just two EU nations have accepted the innovation threatening law. [4]Campaigns go on in different European states. They need your support!" cabra771 writes "The European Commission has put up a [5]new proposal dealing with online music piracy that appears to have slightly upset a few people."
Links

    0. 
http://www.effi.org/
    1. 
http://www.effi.org/index.en.html
    2. 
http://www.effi.org/julkaisut/tiedotteet/pressrelease-2003-01-31.html
    3. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1424213&tid=158
    4. 
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
    5. 
http://www.itworld.com/Net/4087/030131euantipiracy/

Battlefield Medkits Improve
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2057244

ApharmdB writes "CNN has an article on the US military's fielding of a [0]bandage containing clotting agents that can stop blood flow within two minutes. Obviously, the hope is that they will save a lot of lives. What's next straight from your favorite FPS? Who has an estimate on how long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel rocket launchers?" [1]Those have been around for quite a while. Links

0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/31/combat.medics/index.html

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smaw.htm

Giant Sucking Noise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1848201

0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=316

[0]bsharma writes "The [1]next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?" News.com has a [2]related story about outsourcing.
Links

    0. mailto:bsrsharma@yahoo.com
    1. 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm
    2. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982839.html

A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1832211

TweetZilla writes "Dennis Powell has a good [0]preview of Ximian's newest desktop. But does anybody care at this point? How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?" Links

Freshmeat
Alist 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111340/

Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a client portion that collects the information, a daemon that receives data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for information. Clients for Solaris, Linux, FreeBsd, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Irix, Windows, and Mac OS X are currently available.

Ampoliros 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111321/

Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.

Can't find what you're looking for?

ArX 1.0pre0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111342/

ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch.

Axualize 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111326/

Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow develpers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please.

CdGet 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111346/

CdGet is a smart downloading system used to retrieve the MP3 files of a CD. It uses freedb and Direct Connect, but is not a traditional Direct Connect client. Instead, it tries to do the work for you, searching for sources, matching the wanted album, automatically finding the best sources, and probing for new ones if the transfer is too slow or is interrupted. Finally, it saves the file to the right place, which is configurable, based on the artist, album, title of the song, and track number.

CGI-Shell 0.17a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111316/

CGI-Shell simulates a shell using CGI, so everyone who has a CGI directory on a Web server can also have a shell on it. It's comparable to telnet or SSH.

Don't know where to look next?

CoC Character Generator 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111323/

CoC is a character generator for Call of Cthulhu. It currently uses the 5th Edition of the rules.

Colorer Library take5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111261/

Colorer Library provides source text syntax highlighting and text parsing services for host applications. It colorizes source code on host editor systems in more than 100 formats. It uses the powerful HRC format (XML, regexp, context-free grammars), allowing it to support any language. The parser can search and build lists of special text tokens
(function lists, syntax errors) and search and indent programming
language constructions (brackets, paired tags).

Crystal Space 0.96r001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111325/

Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports a large number of 3D features.

evilbar 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111315/

evilbar is small ncurses-based bar which is designed to match the style of evilwm. evilbar sports a right-aligned clock and XMMS control.

Confused? Frustrated?

Evolvotron 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111339/

Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" software to evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps, and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software for you.

Filesystem Charset Converter 1.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111309/

Filesystem Charset Convertor (fcc) converts file and directory names from one character set to another.

Forrest 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111299/

Forrest is an XML project documentation framework built on Apache Cocoon. It provides XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images, and other resources and uses them to render XML source content into a Web site through the commandline, a robot, or a dynamic Web application. It is ideal for rapidly-developing sites like intranets.

Ghronos 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111307/

Ghronos is a gaming clock mostly intended for chess and go. Features include hard button control for that "real chess clock" feel, selectable timing styles including Fischer and delay timing for chess, Canadian and Japanese byo-yomi timing for go, a standard countdown style, "black moves first" and "white moves first" options, sequential and per-player move counting, optional sound, the ability to pause, an easy-to-read display (with big numbers), simple configuration, and protection against accidental misconfiguration during game play.

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Guikachu 1.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111324/

Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource files for PalmOS-based pocket computers.

Hardware Monitor applet 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111351/

The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.

JOELib 2003-01-31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111337/

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.

jTDS 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111310/

jTDS is a JDBC 2.0 type 4 driver for MS SQL Server.

libspopc pop3 client library 0.5beta (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111335/

libspopc is a simple-to-use POP3 client library. It's primary goal is to provide an easy and quick way to host a POP3 client within a program to C developers without exposing them to socket programming. However, the socket layer is also accessible. libspopc allows mail programs to connect to many POP accounts and manage email. It implements the client side of RFC 1939. The email client can download email headers before downloading the entire message.

mailpopup 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111345/

mailpopup checks one or more email accounts and notifies the owner by SMB (Winpopup/LinPopup) if new mail has arrived.

MEDICI 0.0.97 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111328/

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.

Modular Controller Architecture 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111322/

Modular Controller Architecture us a modular, network-transparent, realtime capable C/C++ framework for controlling robots and other kind of hardware. The main plattform is Linux/RTLinux, but support for Win32 and Solaris also exists.

monfarm 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111318/

Monfarm is an alarm-enabled monitoring system for server farms. It produces dynamically updated HTML status pages showing the availability of servers. Alarms are generated if servers become unavailable.

Orc 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111156/

Orc is a theme which celebrates Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the Orc race.

OSSP sa 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111350/

OSSP sa is an abstraction library for the Unix socket application programming interface (API). It features stream and datagram oriented communication over Unix Domain and Internet Domain (TCP and UDP) sockets. It provides the following key features: address abstraction
(local, IPv4, and IPv6), type abstraction, I/O timeouts, I/O stream
buffering, and convenience I/O functions.

phpQLAdmin 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111308/

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.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Pure FTP Server 1.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111314/

Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP server based on Troll-FTPd. It has no known buffer overflows, is trivial to set up, and is especially designed for modern kernels. Features include PAM support, IPv6, chroot()ed home directories, virtual domains, built-in 'ls', FXP protocol, anti-warez system, bandwidth throttling, bounded ports for passive downloads, an LDAP backend, XML output, and more.

Pysite 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111288/

Pysite is a tool written in Python to generate Web sites based on the contents of files in a given directory tree. It crawls through a specified directory tree looking for files matching certain configurable patterns (like intro, title-fr, and this-is-another-page-body), building up an output Web page for each set of files found. It features valid XHTML output, support for multiple language output, simple hierarchical templates (just put a template in a directory and it will be used for all subdirectories), and basic plaintext to XHTML conversion.

QSpamDog 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111317/

QSpamDog is a PHP-based email filter which is intended to be used primarily in filtering spam email. It was designed for usage with QMail-based mail servers which use the Maildir format for storing users' emails.

RSSLibJ 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111319/

RSSLibJ is a Java class library designed primarily to generate RSS data in various formats, based on a simple object model. Either RSS or RDF can be generated, and custom generators can be supplied as well.

SAP DB 7.4.03.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111332/

SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL, JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects.

SAPRFC 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111311/

SAPRFC is the extension module for PHP4 that allows call ABAP functions in an SAP R/3 system from PHP scripts. It is also possible to write an RFC server program in PHP, and call PHP functions from ABAP. Other features include using the RFC (Remote Function Call) API to make a call, discovering the interface of a function module, and mapping all RFC types to PHP strings (delivered with a test script that has a similar function to the "Single Test" option in the SE37 transaction).

SendSNPP 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111344/

SendSNPP is a program for sending messages through an RFC1861-compliant SNPP server. SNPP stands for Simple Network Paging Protocol, and is used by a wide range of paging and cellphone providers for sending pages and text messages. SendSNPP requires no special modules, and has been tested on Linux and Windows systems. It has a straight-forward interface, making it very easy to use.

Spinner 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111338/

Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to inactivity. Many firewalls and some ISPs drop connections when they are perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. Spinner acts as a keep-alive. It displays a little "spinning" ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100-style escape codes. It also has a mode called "Ghost in the Machine" mode. In this mode you can use Spinner to write the spinner character to ANY tty, not just your own.

Don't know where to look next?

split2cds 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111347/

split2cds splits the subdirectories and files from one large directory to several small directories with a predefined size for each. This is especially useful for burning large amounts of data on CDs so that the CDs are filled with little space wasted.

Sympa 3.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111313/

Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, hu, cz, et, ro, and Chinese locales. A scripting language allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa provides S/MIME and HTTPS-based authentication and encryption.

TestMaker 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111334/

TestMaker tests Web services (HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, SMTP, POP3, IMAP) for functionality, scalability, and performance. It is used to develop intelligent agents which drive a Web service just like a real user to check system configuration and to simulate real-world environments where heavy load from users or virus attacks can potentially bring down a system. It pioneered the use of the Python
(Jython) scripting language and library of protocol handlers (TOOL) in
a friendly graphical environment (NetBeans) to build and automate intelligent test agents that act like real users on an Internet-enabled system. TestMaker comes with comprehensive documentation and a library of sample test agents.

TinyDYN 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111312/

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.

Confused? Frustrated?

Trackballs 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111341/

Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness. By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first.

Twisted 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111143/

Twisted is an event-based framework for Internet applications. It includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a telnet server, an SSH server, an IRC server, a DNS server, a multiplayer RPG engine, a generic client/server pair for remote object access, and APIs for creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+, Qt, Tkinter, wxPython, and Win32 event loops.

untarka 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111343/

Untarka extracts TAR (Unix Tape ARchive) files without calling any external programs. It supports and autodetects multiple compression methods (.tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .Z, .gz, and .bz2). Unix devices, sockets, hard links, symlinks, owners, and permissions are ignored during extraction.

WikiMl 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111320/

WikiMl is an attempt to support Wiki text as a markup language through parsers and writers. This approach is different from Wiki Web servers, which tend to be packaged and standalone applications. The aim of WikiMl is to use Wiki text in a chain of transformations.

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Newsforge Reports
Commentary: Hard for Open Source software to be mainstream in developing countries http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2152219

by Sebastian Bassi - There is a lot of fuss about government adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) around the world. One well-known case is the initiative in Peru, but there are several more in other third world countries like Argentina [1], Brazil, Paraguay and Chile.

Linux Advisory Watch - January 31st 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0927219

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 kdeutils, noffle, dhcp3, tomcat3, courier, mysql, fetchmail, vim, webalizer, postgresql, and cvs. The distributors include Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde ...

I'll tell you where you can put those patents (to good use) http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1956211

by Tina Gasperson - In these tough economic times, it pays to keep a finger in the air in case wind of a great new money-making idea comes along. Thanks, SBC! No more missed mortgage payments for me!

Newsforge Newsvac
GarageGames Launches Marble Blast for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/139229

Anonymous Reader writes "GarageGames announced today the release of the Linux version of their highly acclaimed 3D game, Marble Blast."

Why recordable DVDs wonÂ’t last
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/137227

The conventional wisdom has been that recordable DVDs would replace the VHS cassette as the media of choice for archiving TV shows and movies. But that vision seems pretty shortsighted.

Crossing the Desktop Linux Chasm in San Diego http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/133218

How can Lindows and the Desktop Linux Summit get past their bad PR?

SVLUG hosts "openMosix: Kernel-Level Linux Clu http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/132229

Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "Moshe Bar, project manager of the openMosix Project, will speak on openMosix at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group meeting Wednesday, February 5th, 2003."

National Weather Service forecast: Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2113216

Linux has moved into the everyday operations of the National Weather Service (NWS) and is now helping produce local forecasts across the nation and run the agency's Web sites. (Yes, NewsForge broke the story so you already knew this. - ED)

Missing in Action at LinuxWorld
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/216253

We promised in our coverage of LinuxWorld to follow up on the companies that were missing in action. Among the missing were Mandrake, Lindows and KDE. There was also one big company that everybody knows that wasn't there but should have been Ã‚Â– but we'll leave that for last.

Komodo 2.0 takes a bite out of development http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/213208

Recently, ActiveState released the latest version of its excellent Komodo integrated development environment (IDE). This new version, 2.0, which is available for both Linux and Windows, is a great advancement over the previous 1.2 series. A lot of hard work and care obviously went into this release, warranting the major upgrade in version and, of course, the upgrade fees that go with it.

Could IBM Be the Next Computer Chip King? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2055240

For a long time, IBM has been content to be a bridesmaid, never a bride, in the PC chip market. Although Big Blue produces integrated circuits and chips for mainframes, and has put its tremendous wealth and foundry expertise at the service of numerous CPU developers, including AMD and Cyrix, it has never entered the PC processor fray itself.

NASA takes Internet into space
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2051258

The Columbia space shuttle has become an Internet node, with a little help from Linux

PersonalWebtop Introduces New Account, Higher Speeds http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2043210

Linux-Ferret writes: A month after the launch of their PersonalWebtop service, Business IT Solutions World Wide (BITSWW) is proud to announce two innovations: a faster connection to the internet backbone and a less expensive account for beginning users or those with more modest storage needs.

Thinkgeek
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/

Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/

Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/

Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/

Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/

Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/

Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/

Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/

Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/

Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/

Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/

Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/

Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/

Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/

Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/

Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/

Don't know where to look next?

Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ce5/

Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/

Interests: QuickKill
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/5c45/

Sourceforge
Native win32 port of the qt library started http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248232

In December 2002 a native win32 port of the qt library has been started. The port is completly based on the gpl'ed qt/x11 sources in the kde-cygwin cvs. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt2-win32 for further details, screenshots and other project relating things. Ralf Habacker Project Leader KDE-CYGWIN

bogofilter-0.10.1.4 - a bugfix/beta release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248266

The 0.10.1.4 release includes bugfixes for MIME and HTML processing, code clean-ups, and additional spam scoring algorithms. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". bogofilter is written in C and is supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.

spamprobe-0.8b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248262

Confused? Frustrated?

This release fixes a problem with crashes in the regex routines on RedHat 8 systems. SpamProbe is a fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham-style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required.

openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894

openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src. Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while.
(You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from
http://www.openMosix.org

Sodipodi 0.29 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247687

Sodipodi 0.29 is the first version based on Gtk+ 2.0 widget set and including limited support for Windows32 environment. The list of required libraries is much shorter than it was before, most notably both libgnome and libgnomeprint are not needed (although the latter can be used if present). It also support Xft font database in addition to gnome-print and privately specified fonts. Being platform port, it
(almost) does not add new user-visible functionality.

AviSynth 2.5.0 Beta Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247836

After a long testing and debugging period, we are now ready to present the AviSynth 2.5.0 beta. A big thanks to everyone here - the testers - the patient developers - and those spreading the word of AviSynth! We have some great features under the hood of the new AviSynth that hopefully will be able to bring non-linear video editing to a new level! (ok - enough with the rants). The summed up changes: * Native planar YV12 support. * Multiple audiochannels. Unlimited number of channels is now supported. * Float samples support. AviSynth is now capable of processing samples as floats. * Automatic sample conversion. If some filters doesn't support a specific sample type, they are converted to the format preserving most quality. * Optimizations. Many basic features has been optimized, and now performs much better than previous versions. * Temporalsoften has a significant speed improvement, scenechange detection and a new improved blend mode. * Limiter can limit the YUV ranges, to avoid invalid color values and improve compression. * ColorYUV makes it possible to do very exact color corrections. ColorYUV has built-in auto-whitebalance and auto-gain features. * Select separate planes using UToY, VToY and merge them together again, using YToUV. * Fliphorizontal. implemented. * SelectRangeEvery is now part of the core functions. * Blur, Sharpen, Resize optimized. * Fast XviD colorspace conversions. * Updated installer. * AviSynth icons. * See clip info using the info() command. See more info in the release notes!

PalmVNC 2.0 final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247845

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PalmVNC 2.0 is considered stable enough to deserve a "final" label. Development of version 2.1 is already on track. PalmVNC 2 is the latest evolution of PalmVNC, the VNC client for the Palm OS platform that allows remote control of a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, ...) over any TCP/IP connection. It supports high resolution on Cli and OS 5 devices.

Double Choco Latte 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247867

Double Choco Latte is a project to create a solution for managing some IT departments including software development and call center activity. It has a web interface and will also have a stand-alone Java client. Added ability to reassign in time cards, track reassignments when done via time cards, and fixed PHP notices when uploading files.

PyXML 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247639

Version 0.8.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It should be considered a beta release. The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. PyXML can be downloaded from the following URLs:

    
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.tar.gz
    
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.win32-py2.2.exe
    
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2-2.2.Suse81.i386.rp

m Changes in this version, compared to 0.8.1: * Updated to Expat 1.95.6
(almost; one last minute bugfix snuck into the Expat release after
PyXML 0.8.2 was released). * Support more DOM L3 features in minidom: isWhitespaceInElementContent, schemaType, isId, DOMImplementationSource

Various bug fixes, including - 609641: minidom nodes not pickleable - 618156: Use character references in XMLGenerator if necessary - 622286: marshal.wddx: 'recordset' element typo - 624420: Can't create 2nd Sax2.Reader - 665486: Implement SAX skippedEntity for Expat The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat
(Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). *
SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * Various utility modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send comments and questions to xml-sig@python.org. Bug reports may be filed on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=6473&atid=106473 For more information about Python and XML, see: http://www.python.org/topics/xml/

New Mailing List for Tcl Threads Discussion http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247015

There's now a new mailing list available for people wanting to talk about threading issues in Tcl and its extensions (especially the Thread extension, of course.) It's called Tcl-Threads, and to subscribe you should visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tcl-threads and follow the instructions there.

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