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[osdn everything] February 12, 2003
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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February 12, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/026247
[0]bforsse writes "[1]The ML300 allows engineers to develop hardware
with HDL synthesis/simulation and software with standard GNU tools. The
entire system is implemented inside one FPGA with an integrated IBM PPC
processor. The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard
motherboard or laptop has and then some. It currently ships with
[2]MontaVista Linux, a number of other linux flavors and OSs are in the
pipeline. Maybe this new merging of the hardware and software worlds
will settle some of the [3]religious wars between hw and sw
engineers?...ok, maybe not."
Links
0. mailto:bforsse@xilinx.com
1.
http://www.xilinx.com/ml300
2.
http://www.mvista.com/news/2002/xilinx.html
3.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990218S0010
File-sharing and AOL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0147222
[0]Andrew Leonard writes "Farhad Manjoo's [1]cover story in Salon
today, on AOL's refusal to take a stand on the RIAA's (so far)
successful attempt to get subscriber information from Verizon, is a
detailed look at the most important battle in the file-sharing world
right now."
Links
0. mailto:aleonard@salon.com
Unreal Security Hole
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2159203
[0]Screaming Lunatic writes "There seems to be a big [1]security hole
in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects
servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux
(which accounts for [2]about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been
working on a [3] patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity
games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been
created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx, says that Marc Rein
of Epic [4]threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with
this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this
submission), however, contains no mention of legal action. Rein
[5]nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments"
in a followup message to Bugtraq.
Links
0.
http://www.sfu.ca/~pkaler
1.
http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3417248,00.html
2.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2863990
3.
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=39954
4.
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311405/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0
5.
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311443/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0
ACLU And Others Weigh In On CIPA Injunction http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0058247
A report on censorware.net has an update on the legal fight over the
Children's Internet Protection Act; yesterday the ACLU, ALA and others
[0]filed briefs supporting the injunction calling CIPA unconstitutional
[1]issued by a three-judge court last May. The [2]Supreme Court will
hear the case on March 5th. (A [3]search on "CIPA" is a good way to
catch up on this act, which is basically about installing mandatory
censorware on child-accessable publicly funded computers.)
Links
0.
http://censorware.net/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2043211&tid=1
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1423219&tid=123
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1810209&tid=123
3.
https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=CIPA
First Cosmological Results From MAP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2029259
[0]riptalon writes "The [1]Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a
[2]NASA Explorer mission has announced the first [3]results based on a
year of observations from the L2 Lagrangian point. MAP carries two
back-to-back microwave telescopes to study variations in the [4]cosmic
microwave background, to much greater accuracy than the [5]COBE
satellite. The excruciating details of the results on the age, geometry
and composition of the universe can be found in this [6]paper.
Executive summary: 13.7 billion years old, flat, 4.4% baryons, 22% dark
matter and 73% dark energy."
Links
0. mailto:riptalon@yahoo.com
1.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
2.
http://www.nasa.gov/
3.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html
4.
http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/microback.html
5.
http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/cobe/
6.
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/pub_papers/firstyear/basic/wmap_basic_results.pdf
IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2124229
[0]softsign writes "Reading this [1]story in this month's IEEE The
Institute, I found that IEEE-USA quietly published two [2]position
[3]papers asking the US Congress to re-examine and/or clarify sections
of the DMCA last year. The papers - developed by the organization's
Intellectual Property committee - specifically cite concerns over the
chilling effects and misuse of the DMCA against researchers and ISPs.
Initially, the IEEE was pretty [4]wishy-[5]washy about the DMCA, but it
seems that they've been listening to their members and have developed a
pretty strong [6]anti-DMCA, pro-innovation stance. Including an
enlightened view on [7]Fair Use rights!"
Links
0. mailto:28lbhl9lwhr001@sneakemail.com
1.
http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/inst_art.jsp?isno=02031&arnumber=02031_2w.featureDMCA§ion=4
2.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAnotice.html
3.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAencryption.html
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/166232&tid=103
5.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/05/1219207&tid=153
6.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/committees/IPC/index.html#positions
7.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/digitalcopyright.html
Spector, Garriott on Games
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/195222
[0]Warrior-GS writes "GameSpy has two interesting interviews up.
[1]Richard Garriott of Ultima fame talks about leaving Origin, getting
bought out by NCSoft and becoming a pitchman for a popular Korean
MMORPG trying to make it in the states. He also mentions his new game,
Tabula Rasa. The other interview is with [2]Warren Spector, who opened
up a bit on the Deus Ex sequel Invisible War, while also commenting on
linear games, anime style games and what the future holds."
Links
0.
http://www.gamespy.com
1.
http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/british/
2.
http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/spectordx2/
Terahertz Imagery Progresses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1848247
[0]ke4roh writes "Since Slashdot last [1]discussed terahertz imaging,
the European Space Agency's Star Tiger project has [2] taken terahertz
images of a human hand. Some of the [3]pictures show just how useful
the imagery might be for peering through walls and such - one of the
images is through a 15mm pad of paper." The EE Times has [4]another
story.
Links
0.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~jimes
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/1226229&tid=126
2.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130267,00.html
3.
http://www.startiger.org/news.htm
4.
http://www.eetuk.com/tech/news/OEG20030211S0010
DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1831210
Luminous Coward writes "I first saw this on [0]The Register. Kevin
Murphy of Computerwire [1]reports: The US Department of Commerce last
week quietly published a document detailing its decision to
"sole-source" the contract for the so-called [2]IANA (Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority) function to ICANN, as opposed to opening the
contract for competitive bidding. ICANNWatch explains why this is a
[3]bad idea. They also report that [4]the ccTLDs and [5]the Internet
Multicasting Service have expressed interest in running IANA."
Links
0.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29259.html
1.
http://ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18926.html
2.
http://www.iana.org/
3.
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2251256
4.
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2153213
5.
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1429217
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Clay Shirky has written an [2]excellent article
entitled "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality." Simply put, diversity
plus freedom of choice creates inequality: "A new social system starts,
and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the
existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set
in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone
gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of
us, and so on." A must read for anyone interested in the statistics,
fairness, and power relations of blogging."
Links
0.
http://`scubacuda' `at' `iname.com'
1.
http://www.shirky.com/
2.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Freshmeat
Advanced Graph and Chart Services 3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112533/
The Advanced Graph and Chart Server allows you to quickly and easily add powerful dynamic graphing and charting functionality to your Web pages and applications. This service provides a range of chart types, including line graphs, pie charts, bar graphs, and more. The graph server can acquire data from almost any source, including files, databases, and server processes.
AlberT-EasySite 1.0.0-a4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112640/
AlberT-EasySite is a PHP-based site generation system that pays particular attention to graphics and to the complete separation of PHP and HTML code. It is a plugin based system. Template "objects" are handled by a plugin, making it very easy to add your own custom objects. Multiple themes and users support are included, as are the predefined HTML objects include, repeat, title, table, subDomain, counter, etc. It embeds AlberT-cache to speed up performance.
Apache::ASP 2.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112686/
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl as the host scripting language. Apache::ASP allows a developer to create dynamic Web applications with session management and embedded Perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API.
AutoUpdate 4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112670/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Axualize 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112680/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers 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.
CGI-Shell 0.18a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112664/
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.
DbVisualizer 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112693/
DbVisualizer is a cross-platform database visualization and management tool which entirely relies on the JDBC, Java Database Connectivity APIs. DbVisualizer enables simultaneous connections to many different databases through JDBC drivers. Just point and click to browse the structure of the database, characteristics of tables, etc. Arbitrary SQL statements can be executed and saved between sessions. DbVisualizer supports a variety of databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Informix, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloudscape, McKoi, SAP DB, and InstantDB.
Debt Minder 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112588/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
E-Cell System 3.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112655/
E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling, simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.
ego file manager 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112615/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
Fast Intelligent Software RAID1 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112692/
This is a Linux kernel driver that replaces the kernel's own software RAID1 (i.e. mirroring) driver. This driver tracks missed mirror updates on a faulted mirror component and when the component is repaired it updates only the missed blocks, if that is appropriate, not the whole device. This strategy is particularly suited to mirrors composed of remote components (see project ENBD), because faults are likely to be temporary network faults in this setting, not catastrophic failures of the remote media. This driver is the first of several which will add intelligence to the Linux kernels own software RAID drivers. It is compatible with the standard Linux raidtools2 software utilities package.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112648/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Beta 2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112574/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
firepoint 0.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112690/
Firepoint Management Server works with fwbuilder to make a more complete iptables-based Linux firewall system. fwbuilder is a great GUI for creating iptables-based policy scripts, but in a production environment, you also need management services. Firepoint handles tasks like user logins (only one r/w user can be logged in at a time) and policy promotion.
Gemini Unified Datamining System 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112565/
The Gemini Unified Datamining System is a set of tools for performing automated searches on the Internet or an intranet using a customizable and extensible set of information sources, including private databases, subscription search services, and public search engines. It includes a flexible and open plugin architecture that can be used to analyze content for specialized searching, research, and information retrieval tasks.
Genuts Framework 0.6.1b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112636/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and collision detection.
Gifsicle 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112691/
Gifsicle is a powerful command-line program for manipulating GIF image files. It has good support for transparency and colormap manipulation, simple image transformations (cropping, flipping), and creating, deconstructing, and editing GIF animations. It can also optimize GIF animations for space. Also included is a GIF animation viewer and a program that checks whether two GIFs look the same.
Globus Toolkit 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112628/
Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that it is tuned to the needs of high-end machines.
gnetmd 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112684/
gnetmd is a GNOME frontend for libnetmd. It will interface over USB to a Sony NetMD product.
gnocl 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112679/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gob Online Chat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112626/
Gob Online Chat is a simple, lightweight online chat system that uses a Java applet to interface to a small Java chat server. It is much simpler to install and configure than other chat systems, and requires no backend.
GUNit 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112674/
GUNit is a C unit testing framework in the spirit of JUnit. The framework incorporates an easy-to-use GUI based on the GNOME libraries.
Hydrogen 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112662/
Hydrogen is a simple real-time Drum machine/sequencer. It features a graphical user interface based on Qt 3, a sample-based audio engine, OSS/Jack/Export to disk audio drivers, ALSA MIDI input, ability to import/export XML-based song files, 64 ticks per pattern, 16 voices with volume, mute, solo, and pan capabilities, and import of samples in wave, au, and aiff format.
IOzone 3.157
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112672/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
isp4you 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112488/
isp4you is a Webmin module that creates a virtual Apache Web server and a user (with a random password). It automatically creates DNS entries, up to 100 mail accounts, a MySQL database, quotas, etc. You can also create a new Webmin user that will only have access to its own new account. The supported languages are English, Dutch, Spanish, German, Turkish, and French.
JGraphpad 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112631/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
JSch 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112658/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.60_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112618/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
Konstruct 20030211
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112639/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example, "cd apps/koffice;make install").
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112651/
The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API provides a lightweight cryptography API in Java, a provider for the JCE and JCA, a clean room implementation of the JCE 1.2.1, generators for Version 1 and Version 3 X.509 certificates, PKCS12 support, and an API for dealing with S/MIME and CMS. Versions are provided for the J2ME, JDK 1.0, JDK 1.1, JDK 1.2, JDK 1.3, and JDK 1.4.
libferris 0.9.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112613/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders.
libGMUVision alpha-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112602/
libGMUVision is framework for realtime computer vision applications that is designed to allow easier access to Firewire IIDC digital video cameras. It provides a set of C++ bindings for libdc1394 and Qt widgets for building graphical applications that process video streams in real time. A small sample application (Koriander Lite, based on the Coriander project) is included.
Libxml 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112580/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for Relax-NG and W3C XML Schemas are in progress.
Linux 2.5.60 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112646/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
mailpopup 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112622/
mailpopup checks one or more email accounts and notifies the owner by SMB (Winpopup/LinPopup) if new mail has arrived.
Megamek.NET 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112663/
Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the 5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but will soon feature another campaign set in 3060.
Modeling Framework 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112675/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL.
MRX PPP 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112661/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of the Murix Linux distribution.
Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python 0.07 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112616/
This project is a full implementation of the Zeroconf Multicast DNS Service Discovery protocols for Python 2.2.
MultiSync 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112623/
MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, address books, and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. Currently MultiSync has plugins for Ximian Evolution and IrMC Mobile Client calendars (supported by the Sony Ericsson T68i, Siemens S45i/S55) via Bluetooth, IR, or a cable connection. It also includes Backup and Remote Synchronization plugin, which connect two MultiSyncs over the Internet.
MusicBrainz client library 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112627/
The MusicBrainz client library (also known as mb_client or libmusicbrainz) is a library for developers that wish to add MusicBrainz metadata lookup capabilities to their applications. It calculates CD Index IDs and Relatable's acoustic fingerprints, and looks up the metadata associated with the calculated IDs.
oocommon 0.65 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112560/
oocommon is a flexible object-oriented PHP engine with database support, sessions, session-based messaging, instant messaging, FTP, POP3, SMTP, a filesystem wrapper, output-buffering, and a growing number of features.
Open WebMail 1.90 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112654/
Open WebMail is a webmail system written with Perl. It is designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory efficient way. It also provides a range of features to help users migrate smoothly from Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail. Open WebMail has the following features: multiple languages, multiple iconset/styles, strong MIME support, SMTP relaying, virtual hosting, user aliases, per user based capability, multiple authentication modules, PAM support, folder/message management, draft folder, confirm reading support, full content search, spellchecking, auto reply, mail filter, webdisk, calendar, event reminder, POP3 support, online password changing, message count preview, and user history.
PaulOS 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112682/
PaulOS is a low-latency, single-threaded embedded operating system for 16, 32, and 64-bit microprocessors. It is written to allow applications to be developed under GNU/Linux or FreeBSD and then recompiled for the target platform. It features POSIX file descriptors, a TCP stack (LwIP) with BSD socket API, an ANSI C library, and a DNS resolver library. A number of GNU/Linux network applications have already been ported.
pdfmodify 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112649/
pdfmodify allows you to modify existing PDF documents, adding data to a specific position on a specific page. It is easy to use as a batch application to fill every PDF form in a collection of documents. It is also easy to use it inside CGI scripts.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112642/
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC logfiles.
PHP Dump Maker 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112643/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
Plugger for Mozilla 4.0-nostream
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112295/
Plugger for Mozilla is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL.
poink 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112591/
poink is a TCP/IP-based ping implementation that does not require special privileges and is designed for multiuser shell systems. It is intended to be a secure replacement for the standard IPv4 network monitoring tool.
PyDonkey 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112659/
The aim of PyDonkey is to provide an implementation of the edonkey protocol, compatible with eDonkey, eMule, and cDonkey.
PyKota Print Quota System 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112688/
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.
python-utmp 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112667/
python-utmp provides modules for accessing utmp and wtmp records.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112645/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Simp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112603/
Simp is a single-player turn-based platform puzzle game written in Eiffel with simple SDL graphics. It is impossible to lose because there are unlimited undo levels, but some levels are nevertheless very challenging.
SMATCH 0.38 Test 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112633/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
Smilehouse Workspace 0.9.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112634/
Smilehouse Workspace is a Java servlet based application meant to ease product, order, and customer management. It currently runs and is tested and developed on Tomcat. It has two Web-based interfaces. The first is a themed interface visible to the public, and the second is a separate administration interface that allows the management of users, content, and the visual appearance for the public service. This makes completely browser-based creation and management of a service such as an e-business site and related CRM possible.
Statistics about SAP upgrades 2003-01-28 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112656/
Statistics about SAP upgrades is a simple and powerful Perl script useful to extract information about the duration time of each phase of a SAP upgrade.
syslog-ng 1.5.26 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112629/
syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful. Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it ideal for firewalled environments.
TA-Linux 0.2.0 beta 3 (i386)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112641/
TA-Linux is a Linux distribution that targets power users. It features a small base installation that end users can expand to include any required software. It also attempts to support as many different architectures as possible - at this time x86 is fully supported, with Alpha, SPARC, PPC, and PA-RISC around the corner.
TAMS 1.01a5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112650/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.
Thy 0.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112660/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.
Thy 0.4.88 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112632/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.
Timo's Rescue CD Set 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112619/
Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based on Debian's "woody" release. LILO, syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a whole Debian system on CD.
TM 4000M Linux Tools 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112647/
TM 4000M Linux tools is a package of Linux utilities for the TravelMate 4000M notebook by Texas Intruments. These are mainly utilities for power management. TM 4000M doesn't provide standard APM support, so normal Linux power management tools won't work.
Tunez 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112379/
Tunez is a MP3 jukebox that works with a voting system. You can vote for your favorite tracks via the Web interface, and the Tunez daemon will take care of the rest. Tunez features a 'smart' songs database update system, a top 10 list of most played songs, support for multiple users, and support for streaming via Icecast.
UTMP Jeber 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112638/
UTMP Jeber is a small tool which prints broken entries found in the UTMP database on Unix systems. It has several methods of process analysis which you can select using command line arguments. It optionally removes broken entries.
vcp 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112644/
vcp copies files and directories in a curses interface, and behaves much like cp.
WindowLab 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112587/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. As its name suggests, it's something of an experimental window manager and may not suit everyone. It will probably be most comfortable to Amiga users, seeing as its focus and window depth policies are the same. A few users may also notice that the window resizing/reshaping method is similar to that of Plan 9's (see 9wm for an approximation of it on X). WindowLab also believes in maintaining the illusion of direct manipulation at all times. For this reason, the pointer is constrained when appropriate, ie when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction.
WorDoG 0.6 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112671/
WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (it can use ADOdb).
X Automation Tools 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112683/
X Automation Tools is a set of tools that can be used to control input to X Windows from the command line, using the XTest extension. It also has some basic graphic screen scraping tools to find buttons, text, etc. from an image like a screen grab. Together they allow scripts to find things on the screen and click or type input in order to automate tasks in X Windows.
X-Chat 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112652/
X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.
XPaint 2.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112635/
XPaint is an image editor which supports most standard paint program options. It includes advanced features like image processing algorithms, simultaneous editing of multiple images, and support for a wide variety of image formats.
Newsforge Reports
Microsoft to Open Source: You guys are hypocrites!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2118256
- by Tony Stanco -Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look sympathetic. I heard from Microsoft yesterday on the chatter over their appearing at our Open Source in Government conference and they quickly proposed that they be uninvited. Not so fast.
Free Software Foundation Associate Members to meet with FSF Board http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2038222
- by Tina Gasperson - Around 700 people have already signed up to be associate members of the Free Software Foundation, and in March they're all invited to Boston to chat with Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and the gang.
Open Source in Mexico - Part One
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/0238202
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I spent most of last week attending CONSOL 2003 [English translation] in Mexico City. It was a lovely conference, heavy on technical and advocacy discussion and light on marketing hype. It reminded me of U.S. Linux gatherings back in 1997 and 1998. Indeed, the Open Source movement in Mexico in general seems to be five or six years behind the U.S. right now, but it's catching up fast.
Newsforge Newsvac
Lawsuit challenges software licensing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0533239
Vic writes "According to CNET News.com, 'A California woman is suing Microsoft, Symantec and some software retailers, claiming the companies "concocted a scheme" to mislead consumers by requiring them to consent to software licensing agreements they haven't read.'"
RoEduNet Second Conference
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/038204
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers - networking in Education and Research - RoEduNet Conference Second Edition - Iasi, Romania June 5-6 2003
Locutus: P2P with security
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/032256
Anonymous Reader writes "FreeNet's Ian Clarke has released the preview version of his latest P2P endeavor Locutus. Aimed at the corporate world, Locutus adds encryption to the mix - new for a P2P client - to secure files traded across the network as well as the ability to scan within text files to improve search results.
Fair Queuing Disk Schedulers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/031236
Jeremy Andrews writes "Following the recent release of an anticipatory IO scheduler, Andrea Arcangeli started a lengthy thread in which he proposed an SFQ (Stochastic Fair Queuing) disk scheduler. The idea was picked up by Jens Axboe who had evidently worked on a similar idea earlier. Jens quickly posted two different disk schedulers utilizing "fair queuing" algorithms, more commonly used in handling network traffic. When someone suggested he ...
The Shuttle XPC and Linux Revolution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0259203
Anonymous Reader writes "This is an excellent article on Codeweavers, Win4Lin and benchmarking Windows running natively versus running on Linux."
ActiveState Unveils PerlASPX 1.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0255226
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 11, 2003 -- ActiveState, the leader in applied open source, today announced the release of PerlASPX 1.0. ActiveState PerlASPX enables professional Perl programmers to use Perl for dynamic content generation on Microsoft ASP.NET Web servers. Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, PerlASPX adds Perl to the list of supported languages for ASP.NET enabled Web servers.
Review of Knoppix and KDE 3.1
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0252217
Vinod writes "Ammai.com has published a review on a Linux distribution called Knoppix KDE 3.1. This review is written by a beginner to Linux. This review shows off the great features of Knoppix and the eye candy of KDE 3.1 with many screenshots."
Hospital Software "Kills" Thousands
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0249259
Anonymous Reader writes "After some hospital software accidentally marked thousands of patients as dead, one of them said, "I was pretty sure I wasn't dead, but you never know. The hospital explained it was just a computer glitch, but I'm still waiting to see what this is going to mean for me.""
IBM Backs Off Linux Support for Itanium