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[osdn everything] February 11, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Clamshell Sharp Zaurus Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2326216
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]The Gadgeteer has a review of the new
clamshell-style [2]Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 Linux-based PDA. This new
model, currently only officially available in Japan, sports a larger
keyboard than the SL-5500 we have in the US, as well as a full 640x480
screen and 400MHz XScale CPU. The review mostly compares it against the
HP200. The reviewer got his hands on an 'English version,' made
available by [3]Dynamism for a hefty pricetag of USD$700." (See [4]this
earlier story for more screenshots from the English conversion of this
device.)
Links
0.
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
1.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/
2.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/sharp-c700-review.html
3.
http://www.dynamism.com/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/22/1647236&tid=100
Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/0048208
Wojina writes "Microsoft has applied for a [0]comprehensive patent on
what appears to be the entire implementation of the .NET CLR (Common
Language Runtime) and the framework APIs. Microsoft's CLR is an
implementation of the CLI (submitted to ECMA for standardization). Does
this bode ill for the [1]Mono project? See the [2]CNET News story." And
a chaser: Nept points to this interesting Microsoft-funded [3].NET
obfuscation project.
Links
0.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
1.
http://www.go-mono.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html
3.
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/progtools/projects/dotnet.html
Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2336239
[0]Supa-Fly writes "I have a question about some conflicting results with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000. These have not changed and every person gets the same results each time. My question is what is up with the discrepancies on google's search results?" Since this question is hard to answer from the outside, Craig Silverstein of Google kindly supplies his best answer to this question, below. Links
0. mailto:andrew@nicozone.net
Slashback: Cooperation, Gravity, Petite
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1715224
Slashback with more (below) on KDE/GNOME cooperation (hint -- they're not renaming it "GNOMKDE"); the desert parachute nuts, a tiny P4 machine, and another chance to Ask Kevin Mitnick, at least if you're near Pittsburgh. Enjoy!
Mining Asteroids@Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1635208
An anonymous reader writes "Like the [0]lively discussion on mediation
strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is
[1]debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in
spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the
world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these
byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead
dinosaurs."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/1755211&tid=160
NASA: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Universe http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/222219
[0]Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a story here
about how [1]NASA is [2]expected to announce this week that it has
proved the existence of "dark energy," a cosmic force that counteracts
gravity and will keep the universe expanding forever. The announcement
will effectively demolish the theory that life will be wiped out in a
[3]"big crunch" when the universe collapses, and should end decades of
academic dispute. Scientists ranging from [4]Stephen Hawking, the
Cambridge University physicist, to Albert Einstein, have argued that
the universe eventually will stop expanding and then implode under the
force of gravity, destroying all life. The Chicago Sun Times has
[5]also got some info."
Links
0.
http://www.gondek.net
1.
http://www.nasa.gov/
2.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/10/1044725732451.html
3.
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/Cosmology/p00719c.html
4.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
5.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-energy09.htmlRIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2026248
openbear writes "A [0]story over at MSNBC talks about the Global
Release Indentifier (GRid). It is a code akin to the Universal Product
Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores. Each
track will be distributed online with an individual GRid serial number
and will be reported back to rights societies and collection agencies
sold or transferred."
Links
0. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/reuters02-10-055656.asp?sym=MSFT
California EULA Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/190242
[0]burgburgburg writes "[1]News.com has this story about a California woman [2]suing Microsoft, Symantec and others, seeking class-action status on behalf of all Californians who've bought software including Norton Antivirus 2002, Norton Systemworks and Windows XP Upgrade. She claims that the companies have devised a scheme to sell software licenses without allowing purchasers to review the license prior to sale. She also claims that people who reject the license cannot return the software to the store. She bases this on her rejecting the EULAs for the software mentioned above, going back to CompUSA and being told she couldn't return them because the boxes were opened." Links
0.
http://.moc.liame. .ta. .60neksilps.
1.
http://www.news.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html
Castle Denies GPL Breach
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1940225
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Castle Technology, who were accused of breaching the GPL in RISC OS 5, have made a press release denying the allegations. This story has been covered on [1]The Iconbar RISC OS news and resource site." We've given [2]Castle some [3]loving here on slashdot recently. Looks like this one isn't going away quietly. Links
0.
http://www.iconbar.com
1.
http://www.iconbar.com/
2.
http://www.castle.uk.co/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224&tid=106
Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1653239
jazdogg writes "Caught the [0]trailer last night on the [1] Sci-fi Channel for the new [2]Frank Herbert's Children of Dune mini-series. I only hope this series is better than the previous one." I dunno - I liked the last Dune series, and am looking forward to this one. Links
0.
http://www.scifi.com/dune/trailers/index.html
1.
http://www.scifi.com/
2.
http://www.scifi.com/dune
Freshmeat
AlsaPlayer 0.99.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112521/
AlsaPlayer is a new PCM player written with the ALSA sound system in mind. It also includes support for JACK, OSS, NAS, and ESD. It makes extensive use of multi-threading and supports OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA (CD Digital Audio), MOD, S3M, IT, and many other input types. Features include a real- time effects stream, variable speed/pitch control, multiple active visual scopes, command line mode, playlists, plugin architecture, low-latency mode, and more.
Artwork Eye 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112311/
Artwork Eye is a theme based on a Sandman-style image.
Ayam 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112512/
Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. It features good RIB export, CSG (all RenderMan primitives supported), and NURBS modelling. Features instancing, arbitrary number of modeling views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, n-level undo, console, and Tree-View with Drag-and-Drop support.
Babeldoc 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112551/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
Bluebend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112515/
Bluebend is an aromatic blend of the IceBlueCurve and microGUI themes. A handful of the Bluecurve PNG icons were converted to XPM icons for use in Icewm, but many of them did not convert very well into 16x16 or 32x32 XPM images. These icons, and a few of the author's other favorites (including the Qtopia icon), are in the icons folder. The Bluecurve folder_blue.png was used as the basis for the folder icon that appears in the menu. The default.theme options settings are minimal, allowing users to control most of their own settings from ~/.icewm/preferences. Both of the parent themes included the "TitleBarCentered" option, which was removed because it is obsolete.
Bonita Generic Version
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112503/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical tools for performing the process conception and definition, the instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the users and other applications.
CourseForum 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112514/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cvsdelta 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112505/
cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.
DAME 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112542/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) is a tool that generates C++ and Java code from SQL statements. When used with Java, it supports any database that can be accessed through JDBC. C++ libraries for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL are also included.
DataVision 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112528/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
Dataxi 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112510/
Dataxi is a database access system that uses a single form to query, view, and modify data spread to one or more tables in a true relational manner. In addition, Dataxi provides a platform to build database-oriented applications of any size that can be accessed through a Web interface.
DIBS 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112539/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it
does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own
computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out
your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers
(and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your
area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed
Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
Dump/Restore 0.4b33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112502/
The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups.
dvd::rip 0.50.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112506/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112573/
ESP Ghostscript is a customized version of GNU Ghostscript that includes an enhanced autoconf-based configuration script, the CUPS raster driver to support CUPS raster printer drivers, and additional patches and drivers from various Linux distributors.
Exmh 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112507/
Exmh is an X user interface for MH mail. MH provides a set of UNIX commands that manage folders and mail messages. MH has a zillion features as a result of several years of availability. Exmh provides a graphical interface to many of these features, as well as MIME, PGP/GPG support, NNTP, and more.
FormProc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112555/
FormProc is an open source Java library designed to make handling and validating forms (including Web forms) easy. Forms are represented as objects which manage a collection of form elements. Submitted data can be validated through several mechanisms including regular expressions, BSF-supported scripting languages, and custom Java classes.
Freecell Solver 2.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112519/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications.
FScript 1.11 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112530/
FScript is an extremely simple scripting language. Its intended use is as an embedded language in other Java programs. It is very simple to embed; it can be as simple as sub-classing one class to add your own functionality. However, it is not a complete programming language, as it has no library of standard functions (such as IO and string processing). FScript supplies base functionality (such as flow control, variable handling, and basic math operations) that can extended by the host application. The only requirement is a Java 2 runtime environment.
geektalkd 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112534/
geektalkd is a simple chat server designed for use with thin clients
(like telnet, netcat, or one of the avaliable Perl clients). It
features multiple channels, private whispers, and everything else you'd
expect from a chat server. Additionally, all of the parser code can be
rewritten and reread, so you can install new functions on the fly
without restarting the server or kicking users off.
Genius 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112541/
Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface.
getmail 3.0.0 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112527/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, and external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes.
GreenIcos Icons 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112454/
GreenIcos is a green-colored icon set for KDE 3.x.
grsecurity 1.9.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112518/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, and provides many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
hdup 1.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112562/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
JACK Rack 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112552/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the LADCCA session management system.
Java SOS 3.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112487/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JIGS 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112508/
JIGS (Java Interface for GnuStep) allows Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java, but it is more than a set of bindings for GNUstep from Java: it takes advantage of the fact that Objective-C and Java are very similar languages to make it possible to use Objective-C classes from Java using exactly the same API (and vice versa). Moreover, JIGS can generate automatically wrappers for your own Objective-C GNUstep libraries.
JPublish 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112558/
JPublish is an open source web publishing framework which merges the Velocity template engine from the Jakarta Apache group with a content repository and application control framework. It features flexible programmatic actions which can be written in Java or any Bean Scripting Framework-supported scripting language (such as Python or JavaScript), Velocity templates for layout, a repository abstraction layer, optional Velocity-parsed content, search engine friendly URLs, and more.
JSX2 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112561/
In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112564/
Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journal, autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux and Windows.
K3b 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112480/
K3b is a CD-burning program designed for people who are used to using Windows to burn CDs. It has a user interface similar to Ahead's Nero. It currently allows you to create filesystem trees via drag'n'drop, and to burn audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.
kbarcode 1.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112556/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Kile 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112497/
Kile is a LaTeX source editor, TeX shell, and gnuplot frontend for KDE 3.
KMyIRC 0.2.8 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112501/
KMyIRC is an attempt to provide an IRC client for KDE which is high-quality and easy to use, but not bloated. It was created because it was felt that the other KDE-based IRC clients were either not user-friendly or burdened with features that are not useful to the average IRC user.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112486/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
MagCon 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112489/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (mt_gtk_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112500/
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 (mt_ncurses_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112499/
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.
Markov Chain Random Name Generator 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112420/
Markov Chain Random Name Generator provides a simple example of how a Markov Chain (MC) can be used to capture the dynamics of a series. It shows how a single text file can be used to adapt the parameters of the MC so that it reflects the properties of the text. You can use it to create random words derived from a particular text. For example, to generate names for RPGs, you can create one file named "Dwarves" and another named "Elves" and place a number of appropriate names in each file, and MCRNG will create names similar to those given. The MC code is completely separate from the random name generation and can easily be used in other projects.
Maxima 5.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112524/
Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for computer based algebra. It features plotting over the network via netmath, computations over the network, extensive testing on a large array of problems, a source level debugger for maxima code, ease of extension in fundamentally new ways, access to Common Lisp and portability to many systems.
Meta-CVS 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112554/
Meta-CVS is version control system created around CVS. It retains most of the features of CVS while adding support for first class directory structure versioning, storage of symbolic links, and versioning of execute permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS greatly simplifies branching and merging by keeping track of what is merged where. It records file types and automatically assigns a CVS keyword expansion mode to newly added files whose suffixes match previously recorded types. Meta-CVS also has an importing feature that automatically figures out renames and moves, making it possible to easily keep up with patches from multiple sources in spite of directory structure changes.
Minimum Profit 3.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112547/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
mod_security 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112537/
Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects.
MPlayer 0.90-rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112532/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of
codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows
Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It
has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs,
but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and
Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality,
including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats
too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported.
It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI
(pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
nn Newsreader 6.6.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112522/
nn Newsreader is a curses-based USENET news reader. The motto of nn is its expanded name, "No News is good news, but nn is better". The nn newsreader is designed to let you minimize the amount of time you spend reading news (or, more realistically, to allow you to follow even more newsgroups). Nn allows you to quickly select articles of interest and skip the rest. It also supports efficient article killing and selection of articles by author and subject.
O-Kiraku Nikki 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112491/
'O-Kiraku Nikki' is Japanese for 'A Nice Calendar'. It is a simple PHP program that displays a calendar on a Web site, with the ability to add as many annotations as desired to any day, and have these annotations displayed on a Web page. It can be used as a diary, a Weblog, or a scheduler, etc. It comes with full multilanguage (Unicode) support, and includes by default English, Japanese, and Spanish translations. It has been designed with both security and simplicity in mind.
Open POSIX Test Suite 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112575/
The Open POSIX Test Suite is a test suite with the goal of performing conformance, functional, stress, and performance testing of the functions described in the IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 System Interfaces specification. Eventual testing of the full specification is desired.
pam_unix2 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112550/
The pam_unix2 PAM module is for traditional password authentication. The advantages of this particular version are full SecureRPC and NIS+ support, HP-UX password aging, and password encryption with DES, bigcrypt, MD5, or blowfish. It uses the /etc/login.defs configuration file of the shadow suite and allows the modification of user accounts in the source files for NIS maps on the NIS master server, if they are not the standard files in /etc.
Pan 0.13.3.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112538/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
Personal File Manager 1.87.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112568/
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 Documentation Generator 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112490/
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.
PHP upload class 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112484/
PHP upload class was created to make it easy to manage the uploading and storing of images and other files. It also creates thumbnails for images. It features a method which returns the full path to a file that it can be easily stored it in a DBMS like MySQL.
PostgreSQL 7.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112572/
PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS
(ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management
system. While PostgreSQL retains the powerful object-relational data
model, rich data types and easy extensibility of Postgres, it replaces
the PostQuel query language with an extended subset of SQL.
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112526/
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP is a custom session save handler for PHP4 that uses PostgreSQL as the session cache. This allows multiple Web servers to share a common session storage container, and is useful for allowing Web users to move between machines while maintaining their session state.
Pride 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112349/
Pride is a purple theme based on a tattooed woman.
Qleuren 0.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112544/
Qleuren is a Qt-based MasterMind clone with a user-interface that tries to look and feel like a real-world board game.
Raptor 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112546/
Raptor is a 2d vertically scrolling shoot-em-up game. It uses the Allegro library.
RARS 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112517/
The Robot Auto Racing Simulator (RARS) consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. The goal of the game is to implement such a control program in order to compete against other programmers. An official formula one season is held every year.
RDFLib.net 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112545/
RDFLib is a Python library containing an RDF triple store and an RDF/XML parser/serializer.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112479/
RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface for querying DNS SRV resource records. The main goal is to promote deployment of SRV-cognizant programs. RULI aims to automatically perform all the SRV logic described by RFC 2782, and to comply with related specifications. As a side-effect, RULI also provides a general-purpose, event-driven, asynchronous, stub DNS resolver.
screen-scraper 0.8.5a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112509/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.
Silva Web Authoring System 0.9.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112553/
Silva is a Zope-based Web application designed for the creation and management of structured, textual content. It allows users to enter new documents as well as edit existing documents using a Web interface. It stores the content in a structured format (XML) and keeps a strict separation between the way the content is used and the way it is presented.
simplebox 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112307/
Simple is a colourful flux/blackbox theme.
Smack 1.0 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112570/
Smack is a Java client library for communicating with XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging servers. It provides an easy way to add serializable Java objects to any packet, and is easier to use than other APIs.
SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112516/
SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot, etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent packages such as those of KDE and GNOME.
sql++ 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112543/
sql++ is an easily configurable, feature-rich, portable command-line SQL tool. It can be used with many different databases and in place of other command-line tools such as MySQL's mysql-client and Oracle's sqlplus. It has features such as multiple connections, multi-database interfacing, subselects for all databases, regardless of whether the database has native subselects or not, and much more.
The Magic Notebook 1.3.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112504/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
Tiffany Point 4 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112312/
Tiffany Point 4 is a purple Tiffany Taylor theme.
TjMSN 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112536/
TjMSN is a MSN client written in Java designed to be platform depended. It supports file transfers, smilies, and multiple user chat sessions. It also has extra features such as IRC-style actions and a novel error correction message for those oh-so-regular typos.
TOra 1.3.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112493/
TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA management tools.
tvmet 0.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112531/
This Tiny Vector and Matrix template library uses Meta Templates and Expression Templates (ET) to evaluate results at compile time, thus making it fast for low-end systems. Temporaries are avoided because of this. The produced code is similar to hand-coded code, but the quality of the code still depends on the compiler and its version. The dimensions for vectors and matrices are static and bounded at compile time using template arguments.
VariCAD 9.0-0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112511/
VariCAD is a compact, fast, and easy to use 3D/2D CAD solution for mechanical engineering. It contains everything you need for mechanical engineering design.
xrdesktop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112571/
xrdesktop is a GTK-Perl frontend for the command-line terminal services client rdesktop. It saves and manages connection information for different Windows machines running terminal services.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112496/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
ZDM Utils 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112481/
ZDM Utils is a set of utilities for rendering shaded relief maps from USGS 250k Digital Elevation Models. It allows users to parse USGS DEM files and generate a custom shaded 3D relief using their own color blends (created with any image program, like the Gimp).
zExtranet Portal System 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112520/
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.
Zorp 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112495/
Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the administrator to fine-tune proxy decisions (with its built-in script language), and fully analyze complex protocols (such as SSL with an embedded POP3 or HTTP protocol). The FTP, HTTP, FINGER, WHOIS, TELNET, 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
Anger spews over Microsoft appearance at yet another Open Source event
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2138247
- by Tina Gasperson - Now that some people in the Free Software community have discovered Microsoft's Shared Source guru Jason Matusow is slated to speak at the Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S.and EU conference, they are gunning for the show's organizer.
>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, ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Europe threatens to invade ICANN
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2221212
In a letter sent to the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the US Department of Commerce, Nancy Victory, Dr Black has launched a scathing attack on ICANN and suggested European top-level registries take over the technical task of running the Internet if ICANN cannot be relied upon to do a proper job.
Sun Seeks StarOffice Beta Testers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2219259
Interested users will be able to preview new features while helping the company improve the quality of its software.
Picking up your marbles
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2219236
Shared Source sounds a little bit like Open Source, and looking at source code seems to be involved. People are becoming confused about the issue, and apparently that result is among Microsoft's fondest hopes. If you believe that the good is the enemy of the best2, then Shared Source is a non-starter, a step backwards, for that reason alone. However, most of us are a bit more pragmatic about these things. Let's take a guided tour of the ...
Open source knowledge base
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2217247
Anonymous Reader writes "Part technology, part academia, Wikipedia is taking the open source idea to new levels with an online, collaborative encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute. Ian Gilfillan takes a look &nbs