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[osdn everything] February 09, 2003
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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February 09, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Cashless Society
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2130219
roomisigloomis writes "France has released "en masse" a new card to replace money. No private information is stored on the card and anybody can use it. Just like cash: you lose it and someone else uses it. Do you think we could be [0]nearing the end of life of paper money?" Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/08/cash.smart.ap/index.html
Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0213249
[0]droopus writes "So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a
kinda weasly looking bald guy.) See Dan, Hank, Harry, Yeardley, Julie,
Nancy and the rest of the Simpsons cast this Sunday at 8PM (EST) on
Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo. According to the [1] website: "In
anticipation of the landmark 300th episode of The Simpsons, James
Lipton sat down with the series' accomplished ensemble to meet the
actors behind the voices in order to discover how they have managed to
create such a wealth of believable and beloved characters." I saw a
quick preview, and seeing that thin, weasly bald guy go "Aggggggh,
donut" was alsolutely hilarious. Watching [2]Nancy Cartwright morph
effortlessly from Bart, to Nelson, to Ralph is waaaaay cool. My TiVo is
set for this one. One hitch: it's on at the same time as the usual new
Sunday Simpsons episode, so Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at
midnight so fans can record both."
Links
0. mailto:droopus@droop.us
1.
http://www.bravotv.com/actorsstudio/archives/simpsons.php
2.
http://www.thenancyshow.com/performer.html
Pyromaniac Cosplay
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1743236
[0]mani writes "This is truly taking [1]cosplay to the next level. Not only are they dressing and acting out characters from [2]SNK/Playmore's [3]King of Fighters series, but [4]using actual fire to truly simulate the 2d fighting experience. Pictures and video included. Warning: site is most definately not in english." Links
0.
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~mghase
1.
http://www.cosplay.com/
2.
http://www.playmore.co.jp/
3.
http://www.snkneogeo.co.jp/official/kof2002/english/e_kof2002_top.html
4.
http://www.tanteifile.com/baka/2003/01/28_01_yamaki3_03/index.html
UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/203208
asobala writes "According to [0]this story at The Register, the UK
parliament is using the domain [1]www.parliament.uk. It's a top-level
domain because it was registered before August 1996, before Nominet
handled .uk domains. But since there is no registrar, they can't prove
that they own it."
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29241.html
California Considering More Internet Taxes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2127250
dcg writes "[0]San Francisco Chronicle is [1]reporting on how web taxes could help the states, especially California, with its budget woes. One particularly disconcerting comment is from California's Controller Steve Westly. 'In addition to sales taxes, Westly said he is considering a tax on Internet access like those that appear on telephone bills. He also is looking at a tax on software downloads.' Would this affect only purchased software, or could sourceforge.net become a source of revenue for the state..." Links
Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1931255
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]C|net reports that the [2]9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court has ruled in favor of [3]Alan Porter's website, Voteexchange2000.com, a site enabling Gore and Nader voters to swap their Gore votes in states where Bush was likely to win anyway for the Green party candidate Nader. In response to the court's decision, Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the [4]ACLU's Southern California office, said, "We're pleased that the court's ruling permits us to challenge the legality of the secretary of state's partisan attempt to silence political speech on the Internet during the 2000 election." (For a look at some of the legal issues behind "vote swapping," [5]visit Gigalaw)" Links
0.
http://.moc.emani. .ta. .aducabucs.
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983718.html
2.
http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/
3.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/5533.html
4.
http://www.aclu.org/
5.
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001-all/morris-2001-01-all.html
Hardware and Software Art
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2011233
Lupulack writes "Worried about where your discarded obsolete technology ends up ? If it's lucky it might be at [0]electronic-ouroborus.com/, where broken - down electronics are transformed into eye pleasing sculpture. Recycling can be art." And [1]yaxu writes "The [2]runme software art repository is now open. Share your favourite piece of software art; whether it be an algorithm, an irc bot, a software app misappropriation, a virus or sendmail exploit..." Links
0.
http://www.electronic-ouroborus.com/
1.
http://slab.org
2.
http://runme.org/
Open Watcom 1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/196239
[0]JoshRendlesham writes "The [1]Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 compilers have been officially released. The [2]source, and binaries for [3]Win32 and [4]OS/2 systems, are available. This release also means that outside developers can join and contribute to the project." Or if you prefer, gcc is up to [5]3.2.2. Links
0.
http://www.rendlesham.tk
1.
http://www.openwatcom.org/
2.
http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_source.html
3.
http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_win_installer.html
4.
http://www.openwatcom.org/download/down_os2_installer.html
5.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/changes.htmlHumans Hold Off the Machines... For Now http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1731219
Murr writes "The six game [0]match between Gary Kasparov and the Deep Junior program ended in a draw today. Kasparov won game 1 and lost game 3 to a blunder, while the other 4 games were drawn. While the quality of play was not outstanding, after the recent matches of Kramnik and Kasparov against commercial programs running on (high end) commodity hardware, it's becoming apparent that chess programs are getting quite competitive with top human players." Links
0. http://www.kasparovchess.ru/
PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2217253
[0]Buck Mulligan writes "The Center for Public Integrity [1]reports that it has obtained a copy of PATRIOT II -- a huge law enforcement power grab that is intended to build on the USA PATRIOT Act. It's called the 'Domestic Security Enhancement Act.' CPI says it would increase domestic intelligence gathering and surveillance while reducing judicial review and public access to information. For more on the first PATRIOT Act, see the EPIC [2]page." Links
0.
http://choof.org
1.
http://publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/home.asp
2.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/
Freshmeat
Improving The Software Distribution and Deployment Process
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/720
A more defined process is needed for development, distribution, and deployment of software. Specifically, we need to revise the current process which makes the end product of software development an archive file (gzipped tarball, Debian package, zip file, etc.) which is distributed on a CDROM or downloaded through the Internet via FTP or the Web and finally installed and configured. Software development, distribution, and deployment is a group activity carried out through collaboration over the Internet; it should include application developers, component developers, software users, and software testers, auditors, and reviewers, among others.
AharTachatte 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112293/
Tachatte's Fluxbox theme is a theme inspired by tachatte.org.
Ally Baggett Brown 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112278/
Ally Baggett Brown is a theme based on a light Ally Baggett background.
ALSA Patch Bay 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112286/
ALSA Patch Bay is a small GUI patchbay for connecting ALSA MIDI ports or JACK audio ports.
asmail 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112316/
Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep look & feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf, execute program on incoming mail, execute program on mouseclick, show animations and more...
Binc IMAP 1.0.21-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112308/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
blinkperl 2003-02-08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112320/
blinkperl is a telnet server (written in Perl) which plays a random
(ASCII-Art) Blinkenlights-Movie if a telnet client connects. In a
properly configured system, you do not need a 'usual' telnet server
(because of the plaintext password transmission, ssh is better and uses
another port), so why not play ASCII-Art Movies on the telnet port?
Bochs-Tools 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112280/
Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs emulator. The main goal is to provide a more Unix-like interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk images from outside of Bochs. This project makes it very simple to copy an existing OS installation to a Bochs image (as long as Linux has write access to the relevant file system).
BottomFeeder 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112335/
BottomFeeder is an application that reads and displays RSS formatted feeds. RSS is a syndication format, used by a growing proportion of sites (including Slashdot).
BPhpWebmail Frontend 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112294/
BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book.
btcid 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112325/
btcid connects to a Bluetooth telephone and displays its status on the screen using xosd. It can also execute external programs on incoming calls.
Calamaris 2.57 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112340/
Calamaris parses the logfiles of a wide variety of Web proxy servers and generates reports about peak-usage, request-methods, status-report of incoming and outgoing requests, second and top-level destinations, content-types, and performance.
CalcChecksum 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112289/
CalcChecksum is a simple utility for calculating various checksums easily with a graphical user interface.
CdGet 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112341/
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.
Class.Jabber.PHP 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112292/
Class.Jabber.PHP is a class which you can use to connect to the Jabber network. It allows you to easily connect to a server and interact with it. It supports all packet types (message, iq, and presence), is very flexible, and offers both high-level methods (registration, message sending, etc.) and low-level methods (packet sending, etc.).
Dwnl 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112329/
Dwnl is a download manager for the console to manage multiple downloads.
EzSDK 4.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112315/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
FLAT Assembler 1.45 Final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112302/
The flat assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for DOS, Windows and Linux. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE or COFF format. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size.
GrubConf 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112306/
GrubConf is a graphical GRUB configuration editor. It provides an easy to use interface allowing effortless modification of OSes and the flexibility to configure the most obscure options. It is designed to require minimal user interaction while providing tools for the most adventurous user.
iConquer 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112277/
iConquer is an addictive game of world conquest, played by 1 to 6 players. The object of the game is to conquer the world by occupying all 42 countries on the map. It features artificial intelligence algorithms to set the player up against formidable computer opponents with six AI "personalities" to choose from. It also supports network play, a powerful help system with detailed information on each stage of the game along with tips and strategies, customizable strategy play, and gorgeous graphics.
IDMS Firewall 0.7.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112314/
IDMS is a very powerfull firewall configuration script with support for basically any type of system. It features an easy to use configuration, traffic shaping/logging, spoof protection, and dynamic table reloading.
jGal D1 [2003-02-07]
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112297/
jGal is a Perl script that generates static XHTML image galleries, along with thumbnails and slides, from image files. It's derived from iGal.
KPortage 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112310/
KPortage a graphical frontend for the Gentoo Linux portage system.
libmswrite 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112323/
libmswrite is a portable library for reading and writing Microsoft Write documents.
LibTPT 1.13-beta (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112322/
TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast, focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include on-the-fly HTML and source code generation.
linuxTheTools 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112313/
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day management and system navigation. It is a companion package to slakbootIBS.
lithobiusforficatus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112244/
lithobiusforficatus is a port forwarding tool that allows you to relay connections through another machine. It does not need root privileges as long as ports above 1024 are used. It has a menu for easy use on a shell account.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112304/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and various client software.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (libmaitretarot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112303/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and various client software.
melancolic 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112330/
melancolic aims to be a simplistic, yet efficient and robust Ogg Vorbis audio streamer. It reads raw audio data on stdin and encodes it to one or more Ogg Vorbis streams at different bitrates, which it offers to clients through HSLP on a chosen TCP-port. HSLP (HTTP and Shoutcast Like Protocol) is a completely informal, unspecified protocol (defined as "the protocol which melancolic does") which tries to be as compatible as possible with existing HTTP/Shoutcast/Icecast-enabled audio players as well as HTTP/WWW-clients.
Mod10 and Type Validator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112097/
This Javascript 1.2-based program allows you to validate 15 different credit card types including logos, prefixes, and a description of the card type. The program will do a mod10 check on the credit card number entered and determine the credit card type of that number based upon the number prefix.
MörkGryning 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112263/
MörkGryning is a theme based on the cover of black metal band Mörk Gryning's album "Maelstrom Chaos". The main colors are red, black, and orange. The font used is aqui from the fluxbox artwiz font package.
ncpfs 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112319/
ncpfs allows you to mount volumes of NetWare servers under Linux and to print to NetWare print queues and spool NetWare print queues to the Linux printing system.
ogmencoder 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112334/
ogmencoder is a Perl script that uses MPlayer/Mencoder and Transcode to create an OGM (audio Vorbis) backup of your DVD, ready to be burned to a CD-R. OGG (but the usual extension for the video files is OGM) is the file format for multimedia developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. It is very similar to the common Microsoft AVI. The main difference between OGM and AVI is that the new format can store audio with the Ogg Vorbis codec. With this codec, you can decrease the bitrate of your movies (I use 64 kbps), saving space to increase the video bitrate. Ogmencoder is completely automatic. Basically, the only thing you have to do is to insert the DVD in the reader and launch the program.
Once Upon A Time 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112275/
Once Upon A Time is a light theme featuring an image composed by Minti.
OpenGUI 3.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112336/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP image file format. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86-DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32- bpp color modes.
orbitcpp 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112305/
orbitcpp is a C++ mapping for ORBit2.
Penggy 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112281/
Penggy is a project that aims to provide connection trough AOL. Its
goals are to support IP tunneling and other proprietary parts of the
AOL protocol like mail, newsgroups, billing info, etc. It includes
implementations of the P3 (i.e. old) and FLAP (i.e. new) protocols, and
permits connection with different media (e.g. PSTN, ISDN, Cable, DSL,
TCP/IP).
Poslib DNS library 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112324/
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.
PRepS 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112337/
PRepS is a problem reporting and tracking system similar to Gnats, only simpler to use. Currently, PRepS is best used with smaller projects or projects where all developers have access to the same network. For more "remote" projects, Gnats may be a better choice.
PyKota Print Quota System 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112321/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
QDBM 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112309/
QDBM (Quick DataBase Manager) is a library of routines for managing databases. The database is a simple data file containing records, each a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. A key must be unique within a database, so it is impossible to store two or more records with a key overlaps. The following access methods are provided to the database: storing a record with a key and a value, deleting a record by a key, retrieving a record by a key. Moreover, traversal access to every key are provided, but the order is arbitrary. These access methods are similar to ones of DBM (or its compatibles, NDBM and GDBM) library defined in the UNIX standard. QDBM is an alternative for DBM because of its higher performance.
quicktables 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112276/
quicktables is an iptables firewall/NAT (gateway) script generator. It was created to quickly provide a secure set of iptables rules. It will ask you to answer a small handful of questions, and generates your very own personalized firewall script. It supports NAT and no NAT (firewall only) options, default policy of DROP on INPUT and FORWARD chains (all packets dropped), TCP and UDP ACCEPTs on INPUT chain (open ports to the firewall machine), TCP and UPD port forwarding with NAT (forward ports to a single internal host--NAT only), multiple ICMP (ping) options, and multiple logging options (syslog - kern.info).
Remote Internet Connect 2.0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112288/
Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is online.
repgrep 0.942
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112041/
repgrep replaces and greps unstructured text data with a string pattern or patterns. Its emphasis is on the speed of processing for huge amounts of search patterns. It implements the fast Manber-Wu exact multiple string search algorithm. Patterns are defined in a simple list file separated by newlines. One pattern row can consist of several fields of patterns, used in the output in numerous ways. repgrep can "quess" the format of the pattern data file and index its contents, to be used for output with many formatting options given by the user.
Scribus 0.9.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112296/
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.
ShiFT 0.0.1 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112298/
ShiFT is a file transfer application which enables users to transfer files to/from remote computers by FTP, Samba, and SFTP.
TinyCOBOL 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112282/
TinyCOBOL is an effort to bring a free COBOL compiler to Linux. It generates GNU assembler for the i386 Linux platform. A executable binary is then created using the GNU assembler and linker. The project is approaching the first beta release with many statements already implemented.
Trackballs 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112285/
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.
upIRC 3.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112327/
upIRC (formerly apIRC) is a fully RFC-compliant client for Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers. It includes a full range of features, including DCC chat support, command shortcuts with variables, auto-completion of commands, and a one-tap shortcut for entering nicknames in channels.
wapding 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112299/
wapding is a simple and fast WAP interface to the DING dictionaries of Frank Richter.
Xerver 3.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112291/
Xerver is a fast, tiny Web server which allows you to run CGI scripts
(Perl, PHP, etc.), create aliases (virtual directories), allow/deny
directory listings, create your own error pages ("404 Not
Found"), allow/deny CGI scripts, password protect folders, choose
your own index file extensions, share/unshare hidden files or files
with certain file extensions, share unlimited folders, etc. It supports
HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and all HTTP methods (GET, POST and
HEAD).
XML Indent 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112300/
XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent.
xpad 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112328/
xpad is a paperless substitute for leaving sticky notes, index cards, or "post-it" notes all over your desk. It opens small text boxes on the X display so that notes can be written and then left to be read later.
yappa-ng 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112333/
yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user selectable language support, and supports password protected albums, hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for each photo album.
ypserv 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112284/
The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same, only the name has changed. Its purpose is to provide information, that has to be known throughout the network, to all machines on the network.
zExtranet Portal System 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111801/
The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management, file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums, shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders, timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an authentication system.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112317/
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
>From selling Linux laptops to selling automated server security patches
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1629213
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - When we first met Graham Hine, he had just started Tuxtops, a company that sold rebranded laptops with Linux preloaded. Now he's running a new venture, Gibraltar Software, that provides automated security patch service for corporate servers. This is a growing market, and Graham seems to have found a happy niche in it. We interviewed Graham via IRC. This is not a "deep" story, just a little piece that shows you how ...
Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1147223
- 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 cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui, bladeenc, cim, mysql, kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, ...
E-Government Conference laden with Open (and Shared) Source goodies http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1512247
- by Tina Gasperson - The Center of Open Source & Government is sponsoring a conference that is designed to "raise awareness" and "share experiences among policy makers" from the U.S. and Europe. The event is jam-packed with speakers that Open Source advocates will find interesting. And Microsoft will be there too.
Newsforge Newsvac
Patent Holders Extort from Internet Companies
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0020257
Linux-Ferret writes "This is the current in a series of LA Times articles about the abuse of intellectual property and patents."
Larry Lessig receives FSF Award
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/0020223
Bradley M. Kuhn writes "Lawrence Lessig was awarded the annual Free
Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software today
(Saturday 2003-02-08) at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium.
The award was given to him for "promoting understanding of the
political dimension of free software". The other finalists were Bruno
Haible (known for GNU CLISP) and Theo de Raadt (known for OpenBSD)."
Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1416206
Slashdot: Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own ... "
RIAA Site Under Attack--Again
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1414253
If the RIAA's security experts can't keep its site up and running, who can?
Linux-based "wireless zone" puts websites http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1414232
Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles a Linux-based portable wireless server that was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month. Dubbed the Wireless Zone, IR Data's new gadget takes advantage of Linux, Apache, and other open source technologies to creates its own 802.11b wireless (WiFi) hot zone, within which it can deliver web pages, demonstrations, presentations, and other data to other ...
Broadband could cost AOL $1bn in revenue by 2005 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2234214
In its report Can AOL Bridge the Broadband Gap?Strategy argues that AOL will lose out financially as the dial-up market, which it dominates shrinks (as more and more people sign up to broadband). Even if punters sign up to AOL's "Bring Your Own Access" scheme, which lets users who get broadband from cable or telephone companies sign up to AOL's content service for $14.95 a month, Strategy estimates that it would cost AOL almost $9 a month per ...
Don't Underestimate Cyberterrorists, Experts Warn http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2233206
Greater network dependence boosts risk of damage by cybervandals who code with vengeance.
SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232239
Timothy R. Butler writes "SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more at OfB.biz."
Debian powers home entertainment gateway device http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232216
Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer, a recently introduced device which is said to represent the first instance of a new consumer device category -- the "networked entertainment gateway."
US ponders cyber war plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225230
The US may be making plans for attacking enemy computer networks but experts are divided on how effective a cyber war would be.
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Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
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Sourceforge
JFreeChart 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250290
JFreeChart version 0.9.5 has been posted. This release contains the much-requested dual axis charts, plus a host of other changes. JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts. Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots.
POPFile v0.18.0 Windows and Cross Platform Release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250488
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy
have I and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from
v0.17.9 and you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL
READING before you install it. POPFile is an email classification tool
with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It
runs on most platforms and with most email clients. This version is
backwards compatible with previous versions (even autofixing some
errors that the old versions created) but there are some differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional developers
(additional to me that is) really contributed a lot of code to POPFile.
They are Stanley Krute and Sam Schinke. Stan and Sam worked on many of
the changes to POPFile (which you can read all about in the CVS logs)
including massive changes to the mail parser, whole new skinning
system, HTML 4.01 compliance, tons of testing, lots of user interface
changes. Guys, *you* made a big difference to POPFile, and I want to
say a big "Thank you" in public. This version of POPFile supports
unlimited numbers of connections, multiple natural languages, has a
much improved UI, has many improvements to help catch spam, has a new
Quarantine feature that lets POPFile automatically hide all the mail in
a specific bucket (each mail is replaced with a new mail stating that
POPFile quarantined a message with an option to see the original), and
incorporates features and bug fixes submitted by users. ESSENTIAL
READING 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really
easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory somewhere. You can then
safely install POPFile v0.18.0 on top of your current installation; I
just think a back up is a sensible precaution. 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL
CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files used in this
version which means that the old History files will not be read by
POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. If you need to
do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.0 do them! POPFile
does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of this
version, just the History files. To refresh the History view click the
History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. 3.
IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken
magnets. If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly
changed to \[foo\] it should get magically fixed and start working. 4.
ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in
the mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop
initially and you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that
used to work. This is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even
more accurate than before and v0.18.0 incorporates changes that make
POPFile's classification accuracy better; however old corpuses might
need a little retraining. DOWNLOADING You can obtain the latest release
of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137 UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. But did
you read the ESSENTIAL READING above first? FAQ zonk3r has spent a
great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out as it covers
many questions that you might have:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=6313
7 THE GORY DETAILS 1. Total rearchitecture of the POPFile code into a
collection of loadable modules to allow for future expansion of POPFile
with different proxy services and different UIs. The major modules are
now: - popfile.pl: controlling process that loads the modules that
implement POPFile's main functionality; - Proxy::POP3 the original POP3
proxying code from POPFile separated into its own module. In future we
should expect to be able to have other Proxy:: modules such as
Proxy::IMAP. - UI::HTML contains the current HTML user interface. I
hope that we'll add other UI modules such as UI::XMLRPC or UI::SOAP in
future. - Classifier::Bayes is the module that does the Naive Bayes
classification. (Note this module also includes a method called
classify_and_modify that performs the classification and modification
of email messages that may be of use to other module writers) POPFile
now supports two process types: the top level process round robins
between the main modules listed above providing concurrent access to
the UI and POP3 proxy. The POP3 proxy itself (see below) forks to
provide multiple simultaneous connections. (That last part was
originally requested by sschinke) 2. Introduction of a scheme for
localization of the user interface using message catalogs stored in the
languages/ subfolder. Currently shipping with languages: English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Brazilian, and (for fun and for testing)
H4X0R. Translators can take the English.msg file and translate the
strings within to create their own language for the user interface.
POPFile detects available languages on start up and they are available
from the Configuration page. (Originally requested by pfaelzerchen) 3.
Rework of much of the user interface to make pages shorter and clearer.
This is mostly limited to look and feel and no items have changed tab
in the UI. 4. Total rewrite of the history caching code for clarity
with a change from multiple arrays to a single hash containing all the
cached information. 5. Automatic update checking now defaults to off
and there's a large explanation of what it does in the user interface
to allay the fears of many people concerning the possibility that
programs like POPFile are spying on them. (Requested by quite a few
people) 6. When creating the user interface password the password is
now hidden when typing it. (Requested by kraelen, pfaelzerchen) 7. The
Proxy::POP3 now forks after a new connection is accepted from a valid
client and calls a special child() method that handles the connection
between a client and mail server via POPFile for the life of the client
connection. This is the beginning of a version of POPFile that supports
a very large number of clients. (Requested by many people) 8. A new
command line parameter -test_language can be set to 1 for UI
translators. The UI will show the language identifiers used for each
element rather than the strings associated with the identifier. 9.
Rework of the History page to take into account ideas and suggestions
from many people: Search now operates on From and Subject, From and
Subject have popup windows to show the full text of each, you can sort
by ID, From, Subject or Classification, you can filter by magnet
classified mail, navigati